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But is it possible to pinpoint when a quake will strike?", "Uptick in coal use in China sees global CO2 emissions projected to rise after years of little or no growth.", "The convenience store chain has approved the £137m acquisition by the Co-operative Group.", "Ed Sheeran, Stormzy and Dua Lipa are among the British winners at the awards held in London.", "The region's civil service will start running out of money unless action is taken, says NI secretary.", "Enthusiasts across the UK share their photos of the two brightest planets appearing together.", "MPs and peers will be given a take-it-or-leave it say on agreement via an Act of Parliament, David Davis says.", "Police in England and Wales say many people hold firearms without knowing they are illegal.", "The Australian girl was on a \"test run\" to gain her junior racing licence, authorities say.", "Ann Maguire was murdered by pupil Will Cornick, 15, at a school in Leeds in April 2014.", "Four-time champions Italy fail to reach the World Cup for the first time since 1958 after a play-off defeat against Sweden.", "Provides an overview about Iran, including key facts and dates about this Middle Eastern country.", "A 19-year-old man and a 71-year-old woman are arrested over the disappearance of Gaia Pope.", "Nearly 50,000 videos by radical Islamist preacher Anwar al-Awlaki are purged from the video-sharing site.", "British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is serving five years for alleged security offences.", "The business lobby group's president will tell its annual conference a clearer Brexit strategy is needed.", "A note left on an ambulance windscreen told paramedics not to block a driveway.", "Ten suspects on five mopeds smashed their way into the central London store in the early hours.", "Former Celtic, Manchester United and Hibernian midfielder Liam Miller is having treatment for cancer.", "Hundreds have been killed in a 7.3 magnitude earthquake in the countries' border region.", "Emma Dent Coad labelled a Tory parliamentary candidate as a \"token ghetto boy\" in a 2010 blog piece.", "Priti Patel faces more questions about unofficial Israeli meetings - but No 10 says matter is closed.", "Longer tweets to be rolled out more widely as Twitter attempts to attract new users.", "It's very private and it's very big. But who uses it and should we try to stop them?", "A coalition backed by the former prime minister wins Sicily elections.", "The Labour leader says anyone avoiding tax, as revealed in leaked Paradise Papers, should apologise.", "Twenty-five complaints are being investigated - compared with five over the last three years.", "Ian Squire died after being held hostage in Nigeria alongside three others, who have been freed.", "A Greggs bakery employee is suspended for allegedly comparing Welsh speech to Tourette syndrome.", "Lilleth the Eurasian lynx has been missing from a Ceredigion zoo for more than a week.", "A woman in her late 70s was robbed and knocked to the ground in an Ipswich street attack.", "Britain's Andy Murray says he \"hopes\" to return from a hip injury in Australia in January but will only do so if fully fit.", "The impact of the church shooting has been felt in every corner of Sutherland Springs, Texas.", "Shamshad TV's news director says \"they cannot silence us\" after deadly attack claimed by IS.", "Residents are angry about the US Thaad missile system and have been holding protests.", "A century after the Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace, Russia still feels the effects of the revolution.", "The news channel could be shut if it hampers 21st Century Fox's acquisition of the broadcaster.", "Private estate had secret interest in offshore firm that would benefit from rule change, leaked documents show.", "Documents show travel firm reduced its bill after rule change introduced by the government in 2013.", "The Office for National Statistics report says it analysed mobile data in three London boroughs.", "Anne Robinson also says she is considering a permanent return to The Weakest Link.", "The Australian singer got back at attempts to sell naked pictures of her by posting one herself.", "David Moyes says he has a \"big job\" ahead to lift West Ham up the Premier League table after being appointed as the club's manager.", "Families choose days out over shopping, raising fears of a hard Christmas for retailers.", "The Education Committee speaks to children in care as part of its inquiry into fostering.", "Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman says Iran supplied a missile fired at Riyadh by Yemeni rebels.", "Prince Charles’s private estate secretly invested in an offshore company which lobbied to change climate agreements.", "Devin Kelley was \"attempting to carry out death threats\" against \"his military chain of command\".", "Users will be able to use the popular messaging app to send and receive money.", "Priti Patel was on holiday in Israel when she met the PM - but did not tell the Foreign Office.", "A fund set up to help a struggling African state has paid tens of millions in fees to a businessman.", "The Trade Bill is aimed at helping UK continue to access EU agreements and seek remedies in disputes.", "Carl Sargeant, who faced a party investigation into his conduct, is understood to have taken his own life.", "Australian police say they do not believe the crash, which injured others, was intentional.", "Demand for services is outstripping the rise in the number of people employed by the health service in England.", "Pollution levels in India's capital reach 30 times the recommended safe limit in some areas.", "Survey finds shoppers are spending more on essentials and avoiding more expensive items.", "Emily Hunt is seeking what is thought to be the UK's first crowdfunded private rape prosecution.", "Juli Briskman, 50, showed the president's motorcade the middle finger while cycling in Virginia.", "A man previously accused of corruption was asked to negotiate a mining deal in Africa, the Paradise Papers reveal.", "Rescued pet apes in Indonesia are being returned to the wild, but traders are still \"flouting the law\".", "Girls are half as likely as boys to be physically active - and lack of confidence is to blame.", "A massive leak exposes how the powerful and wealthy secretly invest vast amounts of cash offshore.", "Foreign secretary's comments could double Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's Iran jail term, says charity.", "The foreign secretary says remarks about a British-Iranian woman held in Iran \"could have been clearer\".", "", "US President Trump strikes a less strident tone in urging N Korea to give up its nuclear weapons.", "A merger would bring together two of the UK's \"big six\" gas and electricity suppliers.", "Philip Hammond is in a more positive mood after better-than-expected economic data. He tells the BBC now is not the time to borrow more.", "Documents show Blackstone avoided millions of pounds in taxes on property deals in Glasgow and London.", "Max Kelly squirted a bottle of cleaning solution at two men following a row near a pub.", "Kensington and Chelsea Council admitted it had \"huge\" amounts of work to do to rehouse victims.", "Asia Argento reacts to allegations Harvey Weinstein used investigators to try to hide abuse claims.", "F1 champion received a £3.3m refund after importing the red Challenger 605 into the Isle of Man.", "Get a Grip campaign tells parents to \"be more organised\" by preparing for school the night before.", "Accused Emile Cilliers tells court \"I didn't have anything to do with it but someone must have\".", "The birth family of 18-month-old Elsie say they are 'numb with pain' as her killer is locked up.", "Those killed in the Texas church shooting include an unborn baby and a 77-year-old.", "Firefighters say Wendy and Ted Bagshaw were lucky to get out early as the damage was extensive.", "Westminster's party leaders are to introduce a new grievance procedure, says Theresa May.", "He sang the Circle of Life at the end of a performance of The Lion King in New York, to mark 20 years of the musical on Broadway.", "Voters want more honesty and fewer meaningless phrases, former PM Sir John Major says.", "Scheme for Swiss bank clients was being proposed in 2005 to get around EU tax evasion clampdown.", "A commercial firework containing 200 tubes of explosives was let off in Anthony Nicholls' home.", "There have been small but significant improvements in people's happiness in the last year, say UK officials.", "The British edition of the magazine launches its first issue under new editor Edward Enninful.", "The foreign secretary says \"he could have been clearer\" with his remarks about a British-Iranian woman.", "Eight members of one family are feared dead in the Texas church shooting. The Holcombes' neighbour, Pauline Garza, tells the BBC she doesn't know what to tell her children.", "Teeth of the oldest mammals related to humans have been discovered on the Jurassic coast of Dorset.", "Conservative Party donor faces accusations of ignoring trustees despite rules on independence.", "Leo Varadkar says he does not want an election but will continue to back his under pressure deputy PM.", "D-Day veteran Jim Booth suffered a \"cowardly\" attack, but is \"a little stronger each day\", his family say.", "The ex-Blue Peter presenter is alleged to have put his hand up a woman's skirt at an Edinburgh club.", "Sixteen people are hurt amid panicked scenes at Oxford Circus, as police probe a fight on a platform.", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had been delayed by a security alert at nearby Oxford Circus Tube.", "But the EU says it will still be a \"huge challenge\" to move onto the next phase of talks next month.", "The men, aged 21 and 40, attended a police station voluntarily after a media appeal.", "The officer suffered serious injuries when a Transit van was driven at him in Liverpool.", "The agreement was reached two days before the dispute was due to go before the High Court.", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe thanked supporters by phone at a march urging her release from jail in Iran.", "Researchers looked at almost 4,000 prison suicides in 24 countries, including in England and Wales.", "The UK is warned of further frosty weather after temperatures plunged below freezing overnight.", "The US confirms making \"adjustments\" to support for Syrian groups, but does not name the YPG militia.", "Zimbabwe's new president paid tribute to his predecessor and promised to rebuild the country.", "The footage shows jets and helicopters taking off and strikes on \"terrorist targets\".", "England survive an amazing finish to reach a first World Cup final since 1995 as they see off Tonga in Auckland to set up a meeting with Australia.", "Profile of Sinai Province, a militant group that has pledged allegiance to Islamic State and has carried out a string of deadly attacks in Egypt's Sinai peninsula.", "In the past five years, there have been 19 near misses involving UK aircraft and US fighter planes.", "The trade minister says splitting quotas of food imports could leave other countries out of pocket.", "Sky Sports presenter Simon Thomas says his wife, Gemma, died three days after falling ill.", "DUP leader says Sinn Féin must choose between making a deal with them or having direct rule ministers.", "Glasgow Airport was closed temporarily as efforts were made to clear ice from stands and taxiways.", "Australia take hold of the first Ashes Test thanks to captain Steve Smith's superb century and two late England wickets.", "When fly-tipping occurs on private property, it can be very costly for landowners.", "Mars, Lidl and Adidas are among companies to act after inappropriate content found next to their ads.", "Her family say they have never known anything like the \"wave of love and solidarity\" shown.", "Two men in their 20s are arrested after three men were stabbed in north Belfast.", "Assistant Chief Constable Bernard Higgins is suspended as an investigation into criminal conduct begins.", "Security forces came under a hail of stones from Islamist protesters calling for a minister's sacking.", "It broke out at a 22-storey hotel and casino in the Black Sea city of Batumi.", "The driver had to be cut free from the wreckage after a car crashed into the Cinque Port Arms.", "The number of payment card sales is already up on last year, but some retailers have shunned the event.", "Vicky Chen wins best supporting actress at the Golden Horse awards for her role in a crime drama.", "In the aftermath of the bomb attack on a Sinai mosque, fake photos have been shared on social media.", "Footage shows the chaotic aftermath of an attack on a mosque in Egypt that left at least 235 dead.", "The Port of Felixstowe has changed dramatically since it first opened.", "Police want to trace two men, following panicked scenes at a London Tube station on Friday.", "A circus tiger escaped and briefly roamed an area near the Eiffel Tower in the French capital.", "Scotland ended their autumn internationals series with a record 53-24 hammering of 14-man Australia at Murrayfield.", "Paul Ashton was arrested after a Caldey Island visitor recognised him from a Crimestoppers wanted list.", "A series of deadly attacks has drawn media attention to Islamist groups in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.", "The Revillagigedo Archipelago is named a marine reserve, protecting hundreds of ocean species.", "Farhan Iqbal was arrested at Terminal 5 after cocaine with a street value of £700,000 was seized.", "The 10 disappeared after the boats they were travelling on sank on the Colombia-Venezuela border.", "The Metropolitan police say they are looking into a new allegation of sexual assault.", "Behzad Mesri is accused of leaking details of unaired episodes and demanding a $6m ransom from HBO.", "People dance in the streets as the resignation of Robert Mugabe as president of Zimbabwe is announced.", "Victims of Ratko Mladic say his life sentence will not change anything in divided Bosnia.", "Zimbabwean MPs erupt with cheers as the speaker reads out Robert Mugabe's resignation letter.", "Watchdog criticises professional body over website description of accreditation scheme for firms.", "The trial of the \"Butcher of Bosnia\" has come to an end after five years.", "The furniture retailer will trade until Christmas at least as administrators seek a buyer.", "The funding will go towards mental health services and regeneration in the area, the Chancellor says.", "Maurice Wrightson crashed into boulders to avoid the coach going off the road when the brakes failed.", "About 60 primary school children gathered in Desborough to show their support for the town's library.", "The Swedish furniture giant says its chests and dressers are safe if secured to a wall.", "Saad Hariri said President Michel Aoun had asked him to \"put it on hold\" to allow for talks.", "Activist and political candidate Vimbaishe Musvaburi cries as she describes her emotions following Robert Mugabe's resignation.", "The BBC's Budget quiz: See how much you know about the UK Budget's long and colourful history.", "The BBC's Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg gives her instant verdict on what came up in the chancellor's big speech.", "He raced across the border on foot, closely pursued by North Korean troops who shot at him several times.", "Sayfullo Saipov's mother says she can't believe her son deliberately killed eight people in New York.", "Anne Wafula-Strike ended up wetting herself on the train as the disabled toilet was not working.", "School leaders are \"extremely disappointed\" by the Budget, despite boost for maths A-level.", "Engineers from the majority of the UK's water firms still use divining rods to locate pipes, it emerges.", "A former aide to George Osborne says the chancellor must not change his strategy in the Budget.", "UK politicians react to the resignation of President Robert Mugabe after his 37-year rule.", "New diesel cars face a tax rise, but \"white van man\" will not be affected, chancellor says", "Zimbabwe's ruling party is intent on retaining power after the earthquake of Robert Mugabe's overthrow.", "England name Jake Ball in their side for the first Ashes Test, while Australia call up Glenn Maxwell as cover for David Warner.", "Wigan's Ryan Colclough scored twice and made it to his son's birth - in full kit - with 30 minutes to go.", "The new measures come a day after the US redesignated North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism.", "Ratko Mladic, the former Serbian army general, orchestrated the worst atrocities in post-war Europe.", "The BBC's business, political and economics editors on the announcements in Philip Hammond's Budget speech.", "The chancellor loosens the public finances envelope as the economy stutters.", "Two men jailed for road deaths want to launch appeals following forensic manipulation claims.", "Nevest Coleman left his prison cell near Chicago and was greeted by family members.", "First-time buyers get relief on home purchases while official predictions show the economy slowing.", "The former Bosnian Serb commander has been found guilty of genocide in the 1990s Bosnian war.", "People buying a first home worth up to £300,000 will pay no stamp duty, the Chancellor announces.", "Eight women had accused the veteran US television interviewer of inappropriate behaviour.", "Identifying credible journalism on the internet can be a confusing experience - this is why we are making greater efforts to explain what type of information you are reading or watching on our site.", "Matthew Birkinshaw was encouraged to end his own life by Natasha Gordon, a court hears.", "The measures needed to get the country's finances off life-support and into recovery mode.", "Wigan winger Ryan Colclough scores twice and is then substituted so he can attend the birth of his second child.", "President Donald Trump warns the NFL it must act on the take the knee protest as it is \"killing\" the league.", "A report claims that the cost of the nuclear power station will weigh on poorer households.", "The economic uncertainty around Brexit and the slender government majority may constrain his options.", "The actor who played Bob Ferris in the popular BBC sitcom has died aged 79, his agent confirms.", "The incoming leader hails a new era and praises the army for removing Robert Mugabe peacefully.", "The far-right leader says banks have closed her own personal account along with her party's.", "Rescuers raced to get to the plane which ditched in seas off the remote Japanese reef of Okinotori.", "Pundits and politicians like to set tests for Budgets - this time the one for Philip Hammond is simply to avoid messing up.", "Former Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale is introduced as a late-entry campmate on the reality TV show.", "Jeremy Corbyn predicts the Budget will \"unravel\", continuing the \"misery\" for people across the UK.", "A teenager arrested over Gaia's disappearance has been \"on the verge of a breakdown\", his mum says.", "Arlene Foster warns Leo Varadkar not to \"play around\" with Northern Ireland over Brexit.", "Instead of getting irate when their flight was delayed, these Canadian passengers had a singalong.", "Forecasts are slashed as the Office for Budget Responsibility downgrades its productivity outlook.", "Use our Budget calculator to find out how your pocket may be affected by the latest tax measures.", "The government will \"express its resolve to look forwards not backwards\", Philip Hammond says.", "Allegations of misconduct emerge about the man behind Toy Story and dozens of other classics.", "The chancellor may be trying to shake-off his 'Spreadsheet Phil' moniker with a few gags in his Budget speech.", "Scotland's finance secretary dismisses the chancellor's pledge of £2bn of funding for Holyrood as a \"con\".", "Zimbabweans are celebrating change, but is the old regime just getting a new face?", "Police think the supermarket car park where the suspected remains were found was a burial ground.", "Mr Justice Sweeney tells jurors to stay \"within the proper bounds of discussion\" while deliberating.", "There were scenes of celebration on the streets of the capital, Harare.", "A data breach affecting 57 million customers and drivers should not have been concealed, the information commissioner says.", "Spirits may make you angry or tearful, while red wine or beer may make you relax, research says.", "A look at the career of Robert Mugabe, who has resigned as Zimbabwe's president after 37 years in power.", "Large technology companies will have to pay tax on royalties made on sales in the UK.", "The man who took over from Robert Mugabe as Zimbabwe's president wants to legitimise his rule.", "Labour's Angela Rayner becomes the youngest grandmother in the House of Commons.", "The victims of the crash between a helicopter and light aircraft are formally identified.", "A profile of Zimbabwe's former President Robert Mugabe, accused of destroying a prosperous country for the sake of power, but still seen by some as a revolutionary hero.", "It wasn't a show stopper - but what Philip Hammond tried to do was to act on concerns expressed at the general election and by rebels on the Tory backbenches as well as the Labour opposition.", "Zimbabweans celebrate late into the night after Robert Mugabe resigns, ending 37-year rule.", "The PM says Russia is trying to \"undermine free societies\" in the West and \"sow discord\".", "The regulator says the bid for the UK's biggest wholesaler does not raise competition concerns.", "Arthur Collins threw acid over revellers in a packed east London nightclub in April.", "The UK's key inflation rate remained at 3% in October, even though food inflation hit a four year high.", "A Vietnamese cyber-security firm shows the BBC how a mask can be used to unlock Apple's new phone.", "Head teachers say schools need another £1.7bn in funding from next week's Budget.", "Daisy Goodwin, creator of ITV's Victoria, says a government official put his hand on her breast.", "It matters because the Brexit deal that shapes the future of the country will now be the subject of a specific new Act of Parliament that MPs and Lords will have to approve in early 2019, before we leave the EU.", "The soldier, who made the dramatic crossing at the heavily guarded DMZ, is in a critical condition.", "Sir Mohamed Farah receives knighthood.", "Aston Martin says it might have to stop production if the UK fails to get a deal with the EU after Brexit", "About 12,000 homes collapsed in the quake, the BBC learns, leaving thousands out in the cold.", "General Chiwenga had said the army could intervene to halt a purge within the governing party.", "The Republic of Ireland fail to reach the World Cup as Christian Eriksen's hat-trick gives Denmark victory in the play-off to reach Russia 2018.", "Daisy Goodwin, creator of ITV's Victoria, says a man touched her breast on a visit to Downing Street.", "The girl was arrested on suspicion of assisting a person to carry out an act of terrorism, police say.", "Deliveroo riders are self-employed finds labour law body the Central Arbitration Committee.", "The parents of a teenager shot dead in Liverpool make an emotional plea over gun violence.", "One in three optometrists say they know of patients who drive with vision below the legal standard.", "The UK PM said Russia was trying to \"undermine free societies\" in the West and \"sow discord\".", "Italy fail to qualify for the 2018 World Cup after a 0-0 draw against Sweden in Milan.", "Emma Dent Coad had labelled a Tory parliamentary candidate as a \"token ghetto boy\" in a 2010 blog piece.", "Parents are warned about the dangers of net-connected toys, by the Which? consumer group.", "Wikileaks published masses of leaked information on Hillary Clinton during the 2016 US election.", "One senator says they are concerned the \"volatile\" US president could launch a nuclear strike.", "Researchers say the test will help doctors identify which patients arriving in hospital need more intensive treatment.", "Gary Haggarty's evidence is to be used against an alleged UVF man accused of murdering two Catholics.", "Visiting the region, Iran's president finds private buildings fared better than state housing.", "MPs back ministers on the first day of EU Withdrawal Bill scrutiny, as some Tories signal future rebellions.", "A cleaner was fined and stopped from working for a London customer by a \"gig economy\" business.", "The schizophrenia tablets have an embedded sensor that tells doctors whether the patient has taken them.", "The island is one of the global hotspots most prone to the deadly disease.", "The two leaders agreed a statement after a brief meeting at the Asia-Pacific summit.", "Paul Edmunds supplied ammunition used in a bid to shoot down a police helicopter in the 2011 riots.", "The jewellery dealer's bag contained more than 40 gems including rubies, emeralds and sapphires.", "Labour's Dame Margaret Hodge says the issues raised by the Paradise Papers are \"a disgrace\".", "Republicans urge the Alabama Senate candidate to step aside amid new sex misconduct claims.", "The man says he thought about Mick Fanning's famous escape during his own ordeal in Australia.", "The 71-year-old woman and 19-year-old man were arrested following searches at two properties.", "The Kensington Conservatives branch asks residents to rate how important the disaster is to them.", "Several Tories also urge Theresa May to drop exit date plan as MPs begin marathon Brexit scrutiny.", "The man hoping to turn Flyboarding into a full-time job after finishing second in his first competition.", "The foreign secretary says dialogue with the Kremlin is important despite their \"deep differences\".", "A necklace featuring a huge 163-carat flawless diamond goes under the hammer in Geneva.", "MPs and peers will be given a take-it-or-leave it say on agreement via an Act of Parliament, David Davis says.", "A charity is “deeply troubled” that bailiffs are collecting unpaid council tax and parking fines.", "Europe needs to be a symbol of tolerance again, the French president tells the BBC.", "Families \"hard hit\" by the welfare changes, says Children's Commissioner Anne Longfield", "Record numbers of sick and abused puppies are being smuggled across the Channel into the UK.", "The foreign secretary's father, a footballer and some soap stars... it's I'm A Celebrity time again.", "A 19-year-old man and a 71-year-old woman are arrested over the disappearance of Gaia Pope.", "Grand champion Harumafuji is sorry for 'causing trouble' after allegation involving fellow wrestler.", "After four were shot dead in California, police praise school staff for saving \"countless\" lives.", "If you still have any, make sure you spend them before 1 March 2018, says the Bank of England.", "Gary Goldsmith appeared to knock his wife unconscious following a drunken argument, a court hears.", "MPs and peers debate universal credit, with Opposition MPs calling for a reduction to the initial wait for a first payment to one month.", "The image supposedly shows the US aiding IS, but instead it came from a smartphone game.", "Emma Dent Coad labelled a Tory parliamentary candidate as a \"token ghetto boy\" in a 2010 blog piece.", "Action was taken after the risk to public safety \"increased to severe\", the council says.", "The court heard Emile Cilliers was an \"easy target\" to the prosecution because he had been unfaithful to his wife.", "Rodrigo Duterte says he stabbed someone to death at 16 but a spokesman says his remarks are \"jest\".", "The magazine apologises after the actress says her image was edited to \"fit their notion of beautiful hair\".", "The actor played a snooty English butler in Tom Selleck's '80s TV series.", "The media giant says it has signed a deal to make three more Star Wars movies.", "A profile of the UK's first female defence secretary, who replaces Gavin Williamson after his sacking.", "Six fishermen were brought to shore by a lifeboat crew in a nine-and-a-half hour rescue in stormy seas.", "Production rises by more than expected, while the UK's trade deficit narrows.", "Seven police officers were affected by a chemical during a \"routine arrest\" in Oxford.", "Leaked documents identify more than 100 Britons as tax dodgers who hid wealth in Mauritius companies.", "Two species of seahorses are among the unexpected creatures found living in London.", "Doctors say giving further intensive care treatment to Isaiah Haastrup is not in his best interests.", "Attorney general says 201 people are being held for questioning, some of them reportedly at a luxury hotel.", "Emmanuel Macron holds unscheduled talks in Riyadh, as tensions between the kingdom and Lebanon grow.", "Householders will get £8 a day if broadband or landline faults are not fixed immediately.", "The first minister calls on the UK government to make sure devolved administrations have a \"genuine role\" in talks.", "Pope Francis orders sales of duty-free cigarettes to stop from next year, on health grounds.", "The \"savage and sustained\" attack ended with Barry slicing off the Kurdish refugee's penis.", "Penny Mordaunt says she is \"delighted\" to be named as the new international development secretary.", "The PM outlines plans to set the UK's EU departure date and time in law, ahead of a new round of talks.", "The EU says Britain has two weeks to say what it will pay when it leaves the bloc, among other issues.", "A police force's refusal to delete information from its database is being challenged in the High Court.", "Joe Fox went from being homeless to collaborating with A$AP Rocky alongside Kanye West, MIA and Future.", "Accusers level similar allegations against Emmy-winning Louis CK in a New York Times report.", "There is no suggestion of terrorism and the driver had previous drugs offences, police say.", "Five England players make their debuts as an inexperienced side hold world champions Germany to a draw in an entertaining contest at Wembley.", "Arrested Development star Portia de Rossi says the actor unzipped his trousers in an audition.", "British supermodel Naomi Campbell says she's saddened by stories of abuse within the fashion industry.", "Discover at the click of button exactly how the land is used in your local authority area.", "Once Donald Trump spoke of China \"raping\" the US. Now he gives it \"credit\" for \"taking advantage\".", "Industry body predicts record £6bn ad spend as John Lewis brings out its seasonal pitch", "The site will restrict videos aimed at children but contain adult themes, if they are reported.", "A man responsible for helping Facebook get off the ground now says he's deeply concerned about its impact on society.", "A major drama is removed from the Christmas schedule after actor Ed Westwick was accused of rape.", "Wales' first minister orders an independent inquiry into his decisions before the sacked minister's death.", "Laura Plummer says she feels \"stupid\" after being told she faces drug smuggling charges.", "A relative says the man and two women may have unintentionally consumed hallucinogenic tea.", "A Sydney man whose son died when a car hit a classroom on Tuesday says the crash was an accident.", "Northern Ireland's hopes of reaching a first World Cup in 32 years suffer a blow as a controversial penalty earns Switzerland victory in their play-off first leg.", "Gordon Brown tells the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg Leave voters might think again on Brexit next summer.", "Learning from past scandals will improve how we deal with the current situation, the Commons Speaker says.", "Two officers are sacked for the \"horrific\" message they left for a woman whose child had been missing.", "Wales' first minister defends the handling of allegations against Carl Sargeant who died this week.", "Patrice Evra leaves Marseille and is banned from Uefa competition for the rest of the season for kicking one of his own supporters.", "Gordon Brown tells BBC News the British public might be persuaded to stay in the EU next summer.", "The EU steps up pressure on Brexit secretary David Davis over divorce issues including how much UK will pay.", "The advertising watchdog is going to warn universities about using misleading claims in their marketing.", "The boy's mother fears that police keeping her son's name on file could \"hang over him\" for life.", "The US comedian say the \"stories are true\" in a frank statement addressing allegations against him.", "Satellite images of activity at a compound south of Damascus come amid worsening regional tensions.", "After \"frank discussions\" with EU negotiators, the Brexit secretary rejects idea of a new UK border.", "Social media responds with a mixture of joy and derision to this year's John Lewis Christmas advert.", "Laura Kuenssberg says the PM is not looking for more drama after eight days of turmoil.", "The party is investigating a formal complaint against the former shadow defence secretary.", "The victim was injured when a train struck him at Bayswater Underground station during rush hour.", "Robert Peters, 55, appeared before Wimbledon magistrates earlier charged with attempted murder.", "Would-be migrants who failed to make it to Europe are being helped to come home and tell others of the dangers of making the attempt.", "Tens of thousands of people share a dying mum's last words of wisdom to her daughter.", "The \"horrific and senseless\" killing took place as the victim walked home from the pub.", "David and Kat Woodruffe have shared their last BA flight together.", "He spoke to troops at a base in Japan at the start of his marathon Asian tour.", "Labour MP Harriet Harman says change is \"overdue\" following sexual abuse allegations in Westminster.", "Overzealous sheepdog puppy Rocky led a herd of sheep into his owners' home.", "Allegations of sexual misconduct in Westminster continue to dominate the front pages of the newspapers.", "Several cases of companies failing to comply with rules have emerged, risking customers losing out.", "Netflix hasn't been short of gripping dramas this year, but is the latest one any good?", "The Dover MP denies any wrongdoing after \"serious allegations\" are referred to police.", "Paula Williamson's fiancé is a notorious prisoner, but she says they are like \"any other couple\".", "Emile Cilliers told a court he hid financial problems from his wife out of fear she would leave him.", "Jesus Martin was killed at a clinic while he was having plastic surgery to disguise his identity.", "Saad al-Hariri resigns saying he fears an assassination plot, while also fiercely criticising Iran.", "A spokesman says climate is \"always changing\" after a report ties global warming to human activity.", "Conde Nast has announced the closure of the print edition.", "One charity puts youth workers alongside trauma doctors to take advantage of \"the teachable moment\".", "The move comes amid a number of sexual assault allegations against the House of Cards actor.", "Rick Cataldo has found success as part of The Fella Twins and opened doors for more LGBT people in the business.", "David Chazan regrets destroying a valuable work by the 'French Banksy' in favour of smooth, white walls.", "After months of resistance, major tech firms support a US bill designed to stop sex traffickers.", "A number of foreign countries are set to become key players in the country's future.", "The latest killing is thought by a charity to be the work of one killer travelling across the UK.", "Grime star replaces Gallagher, after the ex-Oasis frontman cancels on doctor's orders.", "Neneh Cherry's daughter Mabel wrote Finders Keepers in 45 minutes. Now it's lodged in the Top 10.", "Police forces admit many fixed speed cameras are off, with four areas having no active cameras.", "The respected professor and historian, famed for his role in one of the first UK civil partnerships, has died aged 89.", "Farmer Murray Graham created it for his wife after failing to pull his weight around the house.", "A year ago Donald Trump produced the biggest political upset in modern day USA, but were there historical clues that pointed to his unexpected victory?", "Labour's Kelvin Hopkins says he \"absolutely and categorically\" denies claims by a party activist.", "Laura Plummer is arrested after reportedly flying to Cairo with hundreds of painkiller pills.", "The African country has been battling the worst outbreak in recent times.", "Harriet Harman is urged to apologise for repeating on TV a Holocaust joke that she had found offensive.", "D-Day veteran Jim Booth suffered a \"cowardly\" attack, but is \"a little stronger each day\", his family say.", "The ex-Blue Peter presenter is alleged to have put his hand up a woman's skirt at an Edinburgh club.", "The two men were questioned over an altercation at London's Oxford Circus which caused panic on Friday.", "England are on the verge of losing the first Ashes Test after Australia dominate the fourth day in Brisbane.", "A draft bill proposes a number of new requirements for drone owners, while tackling illegal use.", "Why the process by which the UK will withdraw from the EU is complex and sometimes confusing.", "The officer suffered serious injuries when a Transit van was driven at him in Liverpool.", "The men, aged 21 and 40, attended a police station voluntarily after a media appeal.", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe thanked supporters by phone at a march urging her release from jail in Iran.", "The republic's EU commissioner says keeping the UK in the customs union would avoid a hard border.", "At least 31 migrants have died after their boat capsized off the coast of Libya.", "The footage shows jets and helicopters taking off and strikes on \"terrorist targets\".", "The 30-year-old actress has been arrested and charged with domestic violence against her husband Ryan Dorsey.", "The ECB says it has spoken to England wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow after claims about an incident involving Australia batsman Cameron Bancroft.", "Sky Sports presenter Simon Thomas says his wife, Gemma, died three days after falling ill.", "Farhan Iqbal was arrested at Terminal 5 after cocaine with a street value of £700,000 was seized.", "Manchester City come from a goal down against a resilient Huddersfield to win their 11th successive Premier League game.", "The Jesuit priest who brokered his resignation says he can’t confirm Mr Mugabe got a $10m pay-off.", "A 39-year-old has been charged with aggravated burglary and attempted murder of a D-Day veteran.", "The Irish government says it won't accept a hard border and that it could veto UK trade talks with the EU.", "Theresa May says the city will get the \"financial support it needs\" following the Arena bombing.", "At least two people have been killed in the Sunday morning blast in Ningbo, local authorities say.", "Is the issue really being used by the EU for wider political ends or is this an example of the conspiracy theories that often do the rounds in Westminster?", "The Archbishop of York cut up his dog collar and would not wear one until Robert Mugabe was deposed.", "A bronze plaque pays tribute to those at the 1989 football disaster who helped rescue supporters.", "Two men in their 20s are arrested after three men were stabbed in north Belfast.", "Security forces came under a hail of stones from Islamist protesters calling for a minister's sacking.", "Concerns about the tactics used by some protesters prompted the Home Office review.", "Vicky Chen wins best supporting actress at the Golden Horse awards for her role in a crime drama.", "Former Scotland international footballer Denis Law has received the Freedom of Aberdeen.", "It is understood Supt Kirk Kinnell and Chief Inspector Bob Glass are among six officers under investigation.", "A resignation mediator says he can't confirm reports that Zimbabwe's ex-leader was given $10m (£7.5m).", "The congenital heart disease surgery unit at Royal Brompton Hospital is earmarked for closure.", "A series of deadly attacks has drawn media attention to Islamist groups in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.", "Those hurt at the club include nationals of the UK, France, Belgium and Romania as well as Spain.", "It flags the danger of volcanic ash in the skies after Mount Agung emits a huge smoke plume.", "The rugby club party invite asked for \"flat caps, filth\" and a few \"working-class-beating-bobbies\".", "A horse dies and its mother is badly burned at the stables of Welsh Grand National-winning breeders.", "It is the first food aid shipment to get into Yemen since the Saudi-led coalition eased its blockade.", "Civil rights activist says he began to notice symptoms three years ago but was only recently tested.", "Gerry Adams tells delegates it will be his last ard fhéis (party conference) as Sinn Féin leader.", "The TV chef says some 13 to 14-year-olds share \"porno sort of\" photos which he finds \"frightening\".", "Researchers found a lower risk of cardiovascular disease in owners of dogs, especially hunting breeds.", "Sinn Féin's leader since 1983 is expected to set out a plan to step down from the head of the party.", "The jurist, who proclaimed to speak for \"all heterosexual males\", provokes a firestorm of ridicule.", "New leader of Scottish Labour says Kezia Dugdale may be suspended over I'm A Celebrity.", "Philip Hammond will use the Budget to \"attack problems\" that lost the Tories votes, a former minister tells Newsnight.", "Capt Mike Green was one of the victims in the mid-air crash, his employer confirms.", "The chancellor says the country must embrace new technologies in order to succeed.", "Daniel Hegarty died from his injuries before arriving at hospital in Macau, the BBC understands.", "Chris Coleman leaves his job with Wales after almost six years to take over at Championship club Sunderland.", "The US president's move comes a day after US hunters were told they could import elephant trophies.", "A touching moment said to be in the aftermath of the Iranian earthquake isn't what it seems.", "The victim, believed to be in her 50s, was found at a house in Muswell Hill, north London.", "The Australian's powerful rhythm guitar riffs helped propel the heavy rock group to stardom.", "The comedian announces a surprise finale to show what happened between John and Kayleigh.", "Theresa May is told to put more money on the table and address Irish border concerns within two weeks.", "The BBC's Anne Soy meets jubilant Zimbabweans hoping for change after the army takeover.", "Beauden Barrett denies Stuart Hogg with a brilliant tackle in the last minute as Scotland narrowly miss out on a first win over New Zealand.", "UK initiatives aim to get young people choosing a career in cyber-security to close a looming skills gap.", "The suspected meteor shook buildings when it raced through the sky in Lapland.", "The chancellor is expected to announce plans to examine the idea in Wednesday's Budget.", "Ninety MPs write to the PM, saying patients are being \"failed\" by strained NHS social care services.", "Aydin Önaç, head of St Olave's Grammar School in Orpington, will leave at Christmas.", "Police say an investigation has been launched into the cause of the crash over Buckinghamshire.", "Strictly and EastEnders featured in the fundraising show for disadvantaged children and young people.", "The fashion world mourns a designer whose clients included Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Michelle Obama.", "Police are \"confident\" the remains are that of the 19-year-old woman, who has been missing for 11 days.", "Here is what we already know about changes to your finances ahead of a second Budget of the year.", "A Nasa research plane joins the search for the vessel, now missing in the Atlantic for three days.", "The Office for Budget Responsibility is likely to downgrade growth – that will increase jitters at the Treasury.", "People who work and are paid weekly may miss out in December because of the way it is calculated.", "The president makes his first public appearance since Zimbabwe's army took over the country.", "Her sister says the family \"chooses to believe\" she is alive, despite the police murder inquiry.", "The Guardian newspaper reports Caldey Abbey paid compensation to six women who were abused as children.", "A helicopter and a plane crashed in Buckinghamshire, killing all four people in the two aircraft.", "Around 75,000 claimants were underpaid by mistakes made in assessing the main sickness benefit.", "Eight-year-old Mali has been given the Dickin Medal for serving in Afghanistan.", "The picture from the album King Ottokar's Sceptre was among items by Belgian artist Hergé", "The Queen and Prince Philip plan to spend the day with family and friends, Buckingham Palace says.", "Protests turn to celebrations on the streets of Zimbabwe's capital Harare.", "After meeting homeless families in Antigua, he described the devastation as \"heartbreaking\".", "The hybrid plane and airship comes down at its base a day after a successful test flight.", "Priti Patel faces more questions about unofficial Israeli meetings - but No 10 says matter is closed.", "A BBC reporter films his drive to work as pollution levels soar in India's capital.", "Longer tweets to be rolled out more widely as Twitter attempts to attract new users.", "The foreign secretary reacts to Priti Patel's resignation after controversy over her meetings with Israeli officials.", "Families normally spend £121 on toys for each child, but the income squeeze is hitting spending.", "Sir Andy Murray's wife Kim has given birth to a baby girl. The couple already have a daughter, Sophia, who was born in 2016.", "The Education Committee speaks to children in care as part of its inquiry into fostering.", "Gurtej Singh Randhawa tried to buy a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device \"with the potential to kill\".", "Prince Charles’s private estate secretly invested in an offshore company which lobbied to change climate agreements.", "Facebook will take digital fingerprints of intimate photos to prevent copies being uploaded.", "Devin Kelley was \"attempting to carry out death threats\" against \"his military chain of command\".", "A memorial is unveiled to mark the 30th anniversary of the bomb that killed 12 people and injured 60.", "The former UK international development secretary is filmed after meeting Prime Minister Theresa May.", "A child has been given a new genetically modified skin that covers 80% of his body, in a series of lifesaving operations.", "England and Germany players will wear black armbands bearing poppies for Friday's international match at Wembley.", "Ahmed's family got caught in the military offensive to drive out IS fighters from the Syrian city of Raqqa.", "Governor races in Virginia and New Jersey are the first statewide polls since Trump came to power.", "The retailer says \"hard-pressed\" consumers are being \"careful about premium choices\".", "Fire service did not deploy crews to Manchester Arena until nearly two hours after terror attack.", "International Development Secretary held meetings without telling the Foreign Office, the BBC has learned.", "The new museum in Abu Dhabi will hold 600 permanent artworks and 300 loaned from France.", "Astronomers discover the astronomical equivalent of a horror film villain: a star that wouldn't stay dead.", "Men and women allege the Hollywood actor groped or made advances towards them.", "More than 268,000 people are homeless in England, as many lose their private tenancies, Shelter says.", "Jurors see video interviews with acid attack victim Mark van Dongen, whose ex is accused of his murder.", "Priti Patel is summoned back from Africa by No 10 amid controversy over her Israeli meetings.", "The BBC's Diplomatic Correspondent James Landale explains the controversy that led to her resignation.", "Video-recording sunglasses by the company behind Snapchat failed to become a must-have gadget.", "His lawyers say there is overwhelming evidence against one of the alleged indecent assaults.", "Leo Varadkar appears with an Irish-themed red poppy to remember Irish soldiers in World War One.", "Energy company also announces big fall in pre-tax profits up to September 2017.", "The pontiff chastises bishops, priests and pilgrims for taking pictures during services.", "Britain's Andy Murray says he \"hopes\" to return from a hip injury in Australia in January but will only do so if fully fit.", "John Prescott's son David is suspended as Jeremy Corbyn's aide and is being investigated.", "The British edition of the magazine launches its first issue under new editor Edward Enninful.", "New research shows thousands of people with stage 4 cancer in England are living for two years or more.", "Judges lifted an order preventing the identification of Sophia Peters who died on Saturday.", "Priti Patel resigns as UK international development secretary after the row about meeting Israeli politicians.", "The prominent Brexiteer rose swiftly to the cabinet after being elected as an MP in 2010, and was appointed as home secretary in July last year.", "Documents show Blackstone avoided millions of pounds in taxes on property deals in Glasgow and London.", "A fund set up to help a struggling African state has paid tens of millions in fees to a businessman.", "Rail passengers deal with delays and reduced services across five firms due to a RMT strike.", "The foreign secretary says remarks about a British-Iranian woman held in Iran \"could have been clearer\".", "The firm says it is looking to redesign its app to make it easier to use.", "Former Toronto Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay dies after a plane he was flying crashes in the Gulf of Mexico.", "Dodgy shells and the politically exposed. The Paradise Papers show how clients are rejected.", "He was known for the Italian restaurant chain that carries his name and for his TV appearances.", "The news channel could be shut if it hampers 21st Century Fox's acquisition of the broadcaster.", "Private estate had secret interest in offshore firm that would benefit from rule change, leaked documents show.", "NHS England's Simon Stevens says the service needs the money that was promised in the referendum.", "Carl Sargeant, who faced a party investigation into his conduct, is understood to have taken his own life.", "Unions say Transport for London plans job cuts in engineering and London Underground by 2021.", "Family of sacked minister says Labour did not give him enough detail of allegations against him.", "Rolling updates as International Development Secretary Priti Patel resigns from her job.", "Edward Enninful says the magazine will show women of different ethnicities and with different shapes.", "The man, abused from the age of 13, originally had his compensation application rejected.", "The company has faced a backlash for revoking a newspaper's screening access because of an article.", "Theresa May needs to restore a sense of calm after a chaotic week.", "Monica Lennon tells a Sunday newspaper she was sexually assaulted in a room full of people in 2013.", "Yemen's Houthi rebels, who are battling a Saudi-led coalition, say they were behind the launch.", "Duchy of Lancaster put cash in Cayman Islands and Bermuda funds in 2004-2005, leaked documents show.", "It's very private and it's very big. But who uses it and should we try to stop them?", "MSP Mark McDonald steps down as childcare minister over behaviour seen as \"inappropriate\".", "The victim could lose his sight after being sprayed in the face by suspects who tried to steal his moped.", "The social media platform is criticised for failing to show any photos under the bisexual hashtag.", "US intelligence was not shared before the UK joined the fight, the former PM says in his memoir.", "About £10m of the Queen's private money was invested offshore, leaked documents show.", "Damian Green, a key ally of Theresa May, says claims by an ex-police officer are \"completely untrue\".", "Political parties do not have the right procedures in place to tackle sexual harassment, it is claimed.", "The former president voted for Hillary Clinton, while his son casts doubt on Mr Trump's ability.", "Robert Peters, 55, appeared before Wimbledon magistrates earlier charged with attempted murder.", "Broadcasters warn of adverse effects to their industry unless a Brexit trade deal is reached with the EU.", "Ex-Tory ministers Daniel Poulter and Stephen Crabb are the latest to be investigated over their conduct.", "A driver describes the scene as emergency services attend a Texas church shooting.", "A gunman opened fire at a church in Sutherland Springs in the worst mass shooting in state history.", "He spoke to troops at a base in Japan at the start of his marathon Asian tour.", "Lauren Culley, 22, spent a large part of her childhood at the hospital. Now she works there.", "Labour MP Harriet Harman says change is \"overdue\" following sexual abuse allegations in Westminster.", "Hotel in Amesbury apologises after display goes wrong and fireworks shoot into a crowd.", "A massive leak exposes how the powerful and wealthy secretly invest vast amounts of cash offshore.", "A key aide of Canada's PM is linked to schemes that may have cost the nation millions, the Paradise Papers show.", "One in 10 consultant roles is currently unfilled in England, says the Royal College of Psychiatrists.", "A court hears Annie-Laure Promonet \"made it her aim\" to obtain Marvyn Mulvey's DNA.", "Paedophiles are targeting gaming platforms used by children, Home Secretary Amber Rudd says.", "Non-league sides Oxford City, Maidstone and Boreham Wood knock out Football League opposition in the FA Cup.", "A ground invasion is the only way to destroy Pyongyang's nuclear arsenal, the Joint Chiefs say.", "Conservative Party donor faces questions over \"secret control\" of Bermuda fund.", "Saad al-Hariri resigns saying he fears an assassination plot, while also fiercely criticising Iran.", "An effigy of North Korea leader Kim Jong-un was paraded through the streets of Lewes.", "The 1902 Benz was in collision with three other cars while going from London to Brighton.", "What have been the major financial disclosures and what action has been taken?", "Laura Plummer, accused of drug trafficking in Egypt, 'doesn't know Tramadol from a Panadol'.", "Amber Rudd says a claim that pornography was found on Damian Green's computer will be investigated.", "The move comes amid a number of sexual assault allegations against the House of Cards actor.", "Conservative donor continued to retain status despite assurances by the party.", "Iran accuses the US and Saudi Arabia of being behind the resignation of Lebanon's Saad al-Hariri.", "Labour's Jasmin Beckett dismisses claims of generational differences on harassment", "The US president tweets Saudi Arabia, asking it to choose New York for the deal.", "Ex-US sanctions policy co-ordinator Daniel Fried on dealing with Russians.", "Watch Lord Ashcroft try to avoid Richard Bilton’s questions about his offshore trust.", "A display box malfunctioned sending projectiles towards the crowd at the event in Wiltshire.", "It was \"reasonable\" to give Kelvin Hopkins a job despite concerns about him, Labour's leader says.", "Beverley Thahane speaks out as new research shows at least 50 children a year in the UK get rickets.", "Manager Pep Guardiola praises Manchester City's \"amazing\" form after they outclass Arsenal to open up an eight-point lead at the top of the Premier League.", "Tottenham midfielder Dele Alli is ruled out of England's November friendly matches against Germany and Brazil with a hamstring injury.", "The current deal is scheduled to end in March 2018 when MeteoGroup is due to take over.", "A gunman opened fire at a church in Texas during Sunday services, killing many people.", "The British Beer and Pub Association said current tax rates were \"unsustainable\".", "The US commerce secretary has business ties with key Putin allies, the Paradise Papers show.", "Farmer Murray Graham created it for his wife after failing to pull his weight around the house.", "Police forces admit many fixed speed cameras are off, with four areas having no active cameras.", "Police in the US state of Texas say several people have been shot by a gunman at a church.", "The Paradise Papers leaks question whose money was used to buy into the Premier League club.", "The latest round of UN led climate talks have opened in Bonn with delegates from almost 200 countries in attendance.", "The 17-year-old is found guilty of plotting an attack on the day of a Justin Bieber concert in Cardiff.", "The two men were questioned over an altercation at London's Oxford Circus which caused panic on Friday.", "Arlene Foster tweeted her congratulations to Prince William after news of his brother's engagement.", "Survivors of the 1963 Bali volcano eruption find themselves waiting for it to erupt again.", "Plans to build new biotech research centres come as the government announces its industrial strategy.", "England's Jonny Bairstow \"bumped heads\" with Cameron Bancroft because it is \"something he does with his rugby mates\", says Andrew Strauss.", "In one day, more than 200,000 Americans requested a background check in order to legally buy a gun.", "The newly engaged couple spoke to the BBC's Mishal Husain on Monday afternoon.", "The firm is retesting forensic samples after a probe sparked a review of more than 10,000 cases.", "Production on the Netflix show was halted following the recent allegations against star Kevin Spacey.", "The Irish government says it won't accept a hard border and that it could veto UK trade talks with the EU.", "'More than 4,800 people' were threatened with jail last year for not paying a council tax debt.", "Five people were killed when a stolen Renault Clio crashed into a tree in Leeds on Saturday.", "Former Scotland international footballer Denis Law has received the Freedom of Aberdeen.", "Authorities warn there could be a major eruption within 24 hours at Bali's Mount Agung.", "More than 100,000 people have fled their homes as they wait for Bali's Mount Agung to erupt.", "The movie star has lost her licence after saying she needed to use the lane for a \"bladder break\".", "Police investigated claims electronic tags used to monitor offenders had been fitted too loosely.", "It is the third time in the town in three months a cat has been killed and dumped near its owner's home.", "Martin Stowell is accused of seriously injuring a Merseyside Police sergeant by dangerous driving.", "NHS bosses say children should be vaccinated, as they could put relatives at risk of getting the flu.", "Labour says Parliament is being kept \"in the dark\", because the impact assessments have been edited.", "Scriptwriters worked with Radio 4's consumer programme You and Yours on fraud plot.", "News of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle reached Albert Square.", "VAT fraud costs the UK more than £1bn a year and is making it hard for firms which pay the tax to compete.", "Consumers still struggle to end unwanted subscriptions such as gym memberships, says Citizens Advice.", "A horse dies and its mother is badly burned at the stables of Welsh Grand National-winning breeders.", "A volcano expert answers questions about what is happening at Mount Agung on Indonesia's Bali island.", "Twelve contenders are shortlisted for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2017 award, to be presented on 17 December.", "The newly engaged couple took part in a photo call at Kensington Palace on Monday afternoon.", "Why the indicator is so important in Philip Hammond's calculations.", "The army chief says there is no religious discrimination in the treatment of Rohingya Muslims.", "They blame over-fishing and pollution for severely damaged fish stocks in Africa's largest freshwater lake.", "It's a \"hip hip hooray\" from the US to the news that Prince Harry is to marry American Meghan Markle.", "Volcanic mud flows called lahars - also known as cold lava - have been seen near Bali's Mount Agung.", "Lorna Lynch is one of a growing number of parents educating a child with special needs at home.", "Forecasts are slashed as the Office for Budget Responsibility downgrades its productivity outlook.", "How Isaiah Acosta found his voice and became a rapper.", "Exams regulator Ofqual plans to pull this chunk of the qualification from the overall marks.", "The nation had a day off for the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, but may not for Prince Harry.", "Those hurt at the club include nationals of the UK, France, Belgium and Romania as well as Spain.", "The rugby club party invite asked for \"flat caps, filth\" and a few \"working-class-beating-bobbies\".", "The hackers will work in an operations centre that will look for threats before they hit hospitals.", "A woman who worked in the film industry is alleging a series of sexual assaults by the film producer.", "The controversial columnist parts company with the popular web publication \"by mutual consent\".", "Australia complete a 10-wicket victory over England in the first Ashes Test on the fifth morning in Brisbane.", "Two young brothers are among the five who died after a stolen car crashed into a tree in Leeds.", "The actress can now help modernise the monarchy alongside Prince Harry.", "Prince Harry, fifth in line to the throne, is to marry American actress Meghan Markle.", "Implants can cut into the vagina - and some women have been left in permanent pain, unable to walk.", "Theresa May says the city will get the \"financial support it needs\" following the Arena bombing.", "News of the forthcoming wedding between Prince Harry and Meghan Markle dominates the newspapers.", "This footage from West Midlands Police shows two men pulling up outside a victim's house and stealing a car without needing to see the owner's keys.", "Prince Harry says “this beautiful woman” fell into his life and he proposed over roast chicken.", "A resignation mediator says he can't confirm reports that Zimbabwe's ex-leader was given $10m (£7.5m).", "The England and Wales Cricket Board says all-rounder Ben Stokes is not on his way to join up with Ashes squad.", "The six former British soldiers were jailed on weapons charges in 2013.", "As Prince Harry and Ms Markle get married, look back at her career on screen.", "It is the first food aid shipment to get into Yemen since the Saudi-led coalition eased its blockade.", "Action was taken after the risk to public safety \"increased to severe\", the council says.", "Two stolen Mercedes cars had been spotted by police minutes before the fatal crash.", "Leaders from 11 Asia-Pacific nations are working towards a deal after the US pulled out.", "Six fishermen were brought to shore by a lifeboat crew in a nine-and-a-half hour rescue in stormy seas.", "Lilleth the lynx was \"humanely destroyed\" because of safety concerns, the council says.", "The actress complained to the film studio about the \"disgusting\" encounter with a male star.", "Lewis Hamilton says Formula 1 'needs to do more' after members of his Mercedes team were robbed at gunpoint in Sao Paulo on Friday night.", "Doctors say giving further intensive care treatment to Isaiah Haastrup is not in his best interests.", "Two alpha males meet - but who had the dominant handshake and who couldn't maintain eye contact?", "Big Ben chimed at 11:00 GMT for the first time since August to remember the war dead.", "Pictures shared on social media showed people grinning as they posed with the life-size model.", "Many parents are unaware of this vitamin supplement advice, a study finds.", "Kerry McCarthy claims she received \"upsetting\" correspondence from fellow Labour MP Kelvin Hopkins.", "The MP's comments came at her first appearance since quitting the cabinet over the Israel meetings row.", "Passengers are advised to plan ahead to avoid more than 200 sets of work from 23 December.", "Les Cherrington, 99, describes his tank coming under fire in north Africa - and his emotions over his friends who were killed.", "The EU says Britain has two weeks to say what it will pay when it leaves the bloc, among other issues.", "The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is to speak to the foreign secretary on Sunday, he tells the BBC.", "It was just like House of Cards. Or maybe Game of Thrones. Trump-Russia was the only drama that mattered.", "Adopted children are far more likely to be excluded from school than their peers, Adoption UK says.", "Five England players make their debuts as an inexperienced side hold world champions Germany to a draw in an entertaining contest at Wembley.", "There is no suggestion of terrorism and the driver had previous drugs offences, police say.", "Countries around the world have been marking 99 years since World War One.", "As Saudi-Iranian tensions soar, Lebanon finds itself at the centre of a dangerous power struggle.", "British supermodel Naomi Campbell says she's saddened by stories of abuse within the fashion industry.", "A major drama is removed from the Christmas schedule after actor Ed Westwick was accused of rape.", "Three events in Saudi Arabia's capital that were not directly linked signal another seismic shift.", "The two leaders agreed a statement after a brief meeting at the Asia-Pacific summit.", "Who the key players are and where they stand in the growing tension between the regional rivals", "President Aoun speaks out amid claims that Lebanon's prime minister is being held in Riyadh.", "Ellyse Perry becomes only the seventh woman to hit a Test double century as Australia take control of the Women's Ashes Test against England.", "A number of foreign countries are set to become key players in the country's future.", "US goalkeeper Hope Solo accuses former Fifa president Sepp Blatter of sexual harassment at the 2013 Ballon d'Or awards.", "Enthusiasts across the UK share their photos of the two brightest planets appearing together.", "Laura Plummer is being held on drug smuggling charges over what she says is an innocent mistake.", "The British foreign secretary had commented on Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who is in jail in Iran.", "A protest against Spain's detention of leading separatists drew 750,000 people, police say.", "The US comedian say the \"stories are true\" in a frank statement addressing allegations against him.", "The actress claims Brett Ratner outed her in public before she had fully realised she was gay.", "After \"frank discussions\" with EU negotiators, the Brexit secretary rejects idea of a new UK border.", "The shooting of a lynx has \"broken\" the owner of the zoo it escaped from.", "Satellite images of activity at a compound south of Damascus come amid worsening regional tensions.", "The boy's mother fears that police keeping her son's name on file could \"hang over him\" for life.", "Foreign Office mulls diplomatic protection for Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, after meeting with her husband.", "The star now has the best-selling record of 2017 in the US, overtaking Ed Sheeran.", "Private Conor McPherson died during a night-time \"live fire\" exercise at Otterburn, Northumberland.", "In different parts of Europe, rivers are flooding earlier or later because of rising temperatures, say scientists.", "The use of a controversial hormonal pregnancy test between the 1950s and 1970s did not damage unborn children, a scientific review has found.", "A man and a woman are stable in hospital after a fire broke out on the ninth floor of the building.", "Provides an overview of Zimbabwe, including key dates and facts about this southern African country.", "The engineering firm, founded by Sir James Dyson, is suing ex-boss Max Conze for alleged leaks.", "The image supposedly shows the US aiding IS, but instead it came from a smartphone game.", "Staff at the Cambodian hostel say the two women reported feeling unwell before being found dead.", "The victims include elderly people whose bodies were found inside their homes, reports say.", "Young children are becoming dependent on the drug, as the amount produced in Afghanistan hits a new high.", "Sir Bradley Wiggins says his life was \"a living hell\" during an investigation into allegations of wrongdoing at British Cycling and Team Sky.", "President Trump's climate adviser says that the US is looking to revive a Bush-era climate forum.", "MPs and peers debate universal credit, with Opposition MPs calling for a reduction to the initial wait for a first payment to one month.", "A cleaner was fined and stopped from working for a London customer by a \"gig economy\" business.", "The Republic of Ireland fail to reach the World Cup as Christian Eriksen's hat-trick gives Denmark victory in the play-off to reach Russia 2018.", "There will be no charges over a 'mystery' medical package delivered to Sir Bradley Wiggins at the Criterium du Dauphine in 2011, says UK Anti-Doping.", "Boris Johnson plans to visit Iran before the end of the year over the case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.", "Torrential rain overnight created fast-flowing torrents of red mud in towns near the capital Athens.", "Services to spot early signs of neglect and abuse are being closed as cuts bite, say charities.", "Salvator Mundi, reputedly painted by the artist, is sold by Christie's in New York for $450m.", "Housing associations say being reclassified as private bodies will allow them to build more homes.", "Two thirds of women held at an immigration centre are later released, a report finds.", "Sri Lanka's Supreme Court said Naomi Coleman's treatment was \"scandalous and horrifying\".", "Documentary footage shows missing explorer Benedict Allen describing an expedition to Papua New Guinea.", "Benedict Allen hasn't taken flights home from his lone expedition in Papua New Guinea, his family say.", "Reaction after Zimbabwe's military seizes power leaving the future of President Mugabe uncertain.", "The vlogger and influencer has now deleted the tweets from 2010.", "UK actor Keith Barron, who starred in Duty Free, has died aged 83 after a short illness", "One of Google's key cloud services went offline for many users on Wednesday.", "People's pay continues to lag inflation in the UK, while unemployment remains at a 42-year low.", "Ken Clarke tells MPs that he pays tribute to Nigel Farage's \"campaigning abilities\" over Brexit.", "Paul Edmunds supplied ammunition used in a bid to shoot down a police helicopter in the 2011 riots.", "France will host the 2023 Rugby World Cup after beating rival bids from South Africa and Ireland.", "Interim Scottish Labour leader Alex Rowley is suspended from the party at Holyrood amid claims about his conduct.", "One senator says they are concerned the \"volatile\" US president could launch a nuclear strike.", "A Vietnamese cyber-security firm shows the BBC how a mask can be used to unlock Apple's new phone.", "The Price of Football study finds the majority of ticket prices have frozen or fallen for a third year - but a poll suggests the cost is still putting off young adult fans.", "Shadow chancellor John McDonnell demands 'an emergency Budget for public services '.", "For most of the morning state TV just re-broadcast a statement saying the military had taken over.", "Deliveroo riders are self-employed finds labour law body the Central Arbitration Committee.", "Aston Martin says it might have to stop production if the UK fails to get a deal with the EU after Brexit", "People in Vunidogoloa had to move 2km (1.24m) inland, and say climate change is to blame.", "The key figures in the struggle for power in Zimbabwe.", "An unknown number are in prison, with some serving long sentences and others sentenced to death.", "After sex with some of the men, Daryll Rowe texted mocking messages, including \"I have HIV LOL. Oops!\"", "After four were shot dead in California, police praise school staff for saving \"countless\" lives.", "There have been eight \"official sightings\" in the Scottish loch, the most recorded since 1996.", "Musician Matthew Herbert hopes to tour Europe to heal \"huge divisions\" caused by Brexit - helped by a UK government grant.", "MPs back ministers on the first day of EU Withdrawal Bill scrutiny, as some Tories signal future rebellions.", "Boys and African-American children were most often the victims, researchers found.", "Regular \"treating\" and over-feeding is a common issue, according to a review of parents' opinions.", "The relationship between a former imperial power and its ex-colony is a complex one, says our diplomatic correspondent.", "General Chiwenga had said the army could intervene to halt a purge within the governing party.", "Weather-related deaths could surge by 2100 if nothing is done to curb climate change, scientists say.", "The army took over the national broadcaster, but denied it was staging a coup.", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband says she has found lumps in her breasts and is close to breakdown.", "The man hoping to turn Flyboarding into a full-time job after finishing second in his first competition.", "The bakery firm apologises for an image promoting an advent calendar which upset some Christians.", "Josh Rivers' old tweets have surfaced, which have been called transphobic, sexist and anti-Semitic.", "Zimbabwe's military could force President Mugabe to resign - but they won't want to humiliate him.", "Russia is accused of having attacked Britain's media, telecommunications and energy sectors.", "A necklace featuring a huge 163-carat flawless diamond goes under the hammer in Geneva.", "The Yemen crisis has displaced 1,000 people to a camp where people say: 'We have nothing.'", "The man who took over from Robert Mugabe as Zimbabwe's president wants to legitimise his rule.", "A profile of Zimbabwe's former President Robert Mugabe, accused of destroying a prosperous country for the sake of power, but still seen by some as a revolutionary hero.", "The Budget downgrades for economic growth and productivity mean we could see stagnant wages until 2025.", "The USA Olympics doctor was charged with molesting seven girls in his care.", "But the EU says it will still be a \"huge challenge\" to move onto the next phase of talks next month.", "The Labour leader says his father had a change of heart over his name.", "The singer, now 26, said she had the procedure done as she \"always wanted a big family\".", "Arsenal reach the knockout stage of the Europa League as Group H winners despite losing at Cologne.", "Labour says it takes sexual harassment claims \"extremely seriously\" and has launched an investigation.", "The number of new apprenticeships falls by 59% after the introduction of levy on big firms.", "The furniture retailer will trade until Christmas at least as administrators seek a buyer.", "The funding will go towards mental health services and regeneration in the area, the Chancellor says.", "Maurice Wrightson crashed into boulders to avoid the coach going off the road when the brakes failed.", "Five UK cities will no longer be able to compete for the European Capital of Culture 2023 title.", "Activist and political candidate Vimbaishe Musvaburi cries as she describes her emotions following Robert Mugabe's resignation.", "A regulator rules Trevor Kavanagh's column was capable of causing offence but did not breach the code.", "Anne Wafula-Strike ended up wetting herself on the train as the disabled toilet was not working.", "Watch out for fake Yeezy trainers, celebrity make-up and fitness watches, police warn.", "School leaders are \"extremely disappointed\" by the Budget, despite boost for maths A-level.", "Jon Venables, who killed toddler James Bulger in 1993, is suspected of having child abuse images.", "The search engine introduces tough restrictions on ticket resellers, in an effort to combat fraud.", "A radical shake-up of broadband advertising will change the way ISPs promote the speed of net services.", "Myanmar agrees to take back hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled violence for Bangladesh.", "New diesel cars face a tax rise, but \"white van man\" will not be affected, chancellor says", "Zimbabwe's ruling party is intent on retaining power after the earthquake of Robert Mugabe's overthrow.", "The jury in the case against Emile Cilliers, accused of trying to kill his wife, is discharged.", "The government plans to let commuters hail on-demand shuttles using their mobile phones.", "About 40 people are moved from a Manus Island centre, but more than 300 others are refusing to leave.", "About 7% of teenage males in England and Wales are also affected, official figures suggest.", "These bikers travel across Iraq, flying the flag for tolerance and love of bikes.", "The BBC's business, political and economics editors on the announcements in Philip Hammond's Budget speech.", "The chancellor loosens the public finances envelope as the economy stutters.", "A think tank says the squeeze on incomes will last longer than that which followed the post-2008 crash.", "The UK won't host the European Capital of Culture in 2023, disappointing five bidding cities.", "Nevest Coleman left his prison cell near Chicago and was greeted by family members.", "People buying a first home worth up to £300,000 will pay no stamp duty, the Chancellor announces.", "England's James Vince makes 83 and Mark Stoneman 53 before Australia fight back on the opening day of the first Ashes Test in Brisbane.", "Brazilian footballer Robinho is sentenced to nine years in prison for raping a woman with four other men in a Milan nightclub in 2013.", "A leaked internal Irish government paper documents EU figures' concerns about the Brexit process.", "The measures needed to get the country's finances off life-support and into recovery mode.", "An Indian minister's remark about the disease \"saddens\" patients and their family members.", "Try our calculator to see how wages for your job are performing, compared with inflation.", "Celebrity Big Brother star Jeremy McConnell had been carrying out community service in south Wales.", "How much is the chancellor's stamp duty policy really going to help the people at whom it is aimed?", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was told lumps in her breasts were non-cancerous, her husband says.", "Lancaster and Galgate were the worst affected places as bad weather hit the UK.", "The fatty acids released in cooking may help form clouds that cool the climate, say scientists.", "The incoming leader hails a new era and praises the army for removing Robert Mugabe peacefully.", "Former Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale is introduced as a late-entry campmate on the reality TV show.", "Jeremy Corbyn predicts the Budget will \"unravel\", continuing the \"misery\" for people across the UK.", "The outlook for the UK economy is one of the worst in living memory - four charts help explain why.", "The ex-I'm A Celebrity contestant apologised for tweeting some \"disgusting things\" in 2012.", "Use our Budget calculator to find out how your pocket may be affected by the latest tax measures.", "The BBC TV show is curtailed after an audience member collapses.", "The UK is in danger of losing almost 20 years of earnings growth, warns an independent economic think tank.", "Zimbabweans are celebrating change, but is the old regime just getting a new face?", "Max Trobe took his little sister Martha Lynch back to Manchester Arena for a Little Mix concert.", "The BBC's Lyse Doucet is the first journalist to visit the hotel where dozens of prominent Saudis are being held.", "The BBC has announced this year's guest editors, who will take over between Christmas and New Year.", "A long-awaited study into the links between heading a football and brain damage will start in January, the Football Association says.", "One man has been arrested and charged over the gruesome gang killing.", "Jamil was caught in a covert police operation offering to wear a suicide vest and \"press the button\" .", "Insect-eating is common in many parts of the world. In the West, it is perceived as a niche diet.", "Five members of a Derry family drowned after their car went off a slipway into Lough Swilly in March 2016.", "The Irish government could collapse over a no confidence motion tabled against the deputy PM.", "A population of finches on the Galapagos is discovered in the process of becoming a new species.", "More than 20 German nationals are among those held over a mass brawl in Liverpool city centre.", "Views on Wednesday's Budget after the sharp cut in the growth outlook, plus other news.", "The BBC asked a selection of young people for their reaction to measures announced in the Budget.", "Apple's main iPhone supplier has stopped illegal overtime by school age interns in a factory in China", "The man who took over from Robert Mugabe as Zimbabwe's president wants to legitimise his rule.", "It wasn't a show stopper - but what Philip Hammond tried to do was to act on concerns expressed at the general election and by rebels on the Tory backbenches as well as the Labour opposition.", "An investigation by a senior social worker said it did not accept allegations made in the media.", "A private member's bill to give 16 and 17-year-olds the vote has little chance of becoming law after running out of debating time in the Commons.", "Sir Michael Fallon has been known as a reliable minister, but also a sociable and approachable politician.", "One in three adults might dismiss potential symptoms of this all-too-often deadly disease, say experts.", "Police say the incident, which left one man seriously injured, is not terror-related.", "Visitors will not be allowed to scale the iconic monolith because of indigenous sensitivities.", "Mihaela Noroc has been around the world photographing women from all different walks of life.", "Knife and gun crimes are on the rise across England and Wales, with more offences being committed in London.", "The bikes, popular with tourist parties, are no longer allowed in the centre of the Dutch city.", "What happened when people tweet the wrong man who made headlines for the wrong reasons.", "At least eight people have been killed in New York after the driver of a truck mowed down people on a cycle path.", "The PM invites party leaders to discuss the recent allegations of sexual harassment at Westminster.", "What we know about the man accused of killing eight people in a New York truck attack.", "Former Royal Navy officer Mike Samwell died when Ryan Gibbons twice drove over him in his own car.", "A man tells the Victoria Derbyshire programme the Hollywood star groomed him in the mid-1980s.", "Senior minister Damian Green denies claims by a Tory activist that he acted inappropriately.", "How a small company in the Czech Republic became the world's biggest maker of vinyl records.", "Further claims of sexual misconduct in Wesminster and Prue Leith Bake Off \"gaffe\" are among the stories to lead the papers.", "Young men and women often fear the consequences of making a complaint.", "Carles Puigdemont and 13 former colleagues are summoned to appear in a Madrid court this week.", "Hugh Pym on the lively response to his report suggesting operating-theatre time is often unused.", "The vehicle was driven along a cycle path in Manhattan in what is being treated as a terror attack.", "A Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman says Osama Bin Laden was hosted at the White House.", "As a new report finds Muslim women are most vulnerable to Islamophobic attacks, Muna Ahmed describes the daily pressure they face.", "Raising rates will have less impact because more people are on fixed mortgages, says Nationwide.", "Labour supporter Bex Bailey says she was told that reporting the 2011 incident could \"damage\" her.", "Many fans feared that The Great British Bake Off would spoil - so success must taste sweet.", "At least 40 women have reported being attacked and having their hair chopped off.", "Facebook posts from Russian-sponsored accounts may have reached millions of Americans - but that doesn't mean they read them.", "The show, which already said it would end after its sixth season, is now suspending all production.", "Prosecutors want to bring the brother of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi from Libya to the UK.", "The driver's phone number was read out in a Shakib Khan film, causing him to be bombarded by fans.", "People including a former RAF member, offered a flight to keep quiet, share their experiences.", "Some viewers say they missed The Great British Bake Off as a consequence.", "The ad showed a \"red and bloody\" fake tattoo on a woman's shoulder in a game popular with children.", "Casks of Scotch whisky have been sold for more than £500,000. Why is interest so high in the spirit?", "James Greenhalgh says he felt violated in 2012 but was told he could not make an anonymous complaint.", "A start-up's artificial intelligence software beats lawyers at predicting the outcome of cases.", "Plans to shake-up the UK's ATM network may lead to a \"vast reduction\" in our free access to cash.", "The animal is seen hiding in bushes near Borth Wild Animal Kingdom where it escaped from.", "Crimes are being committed by patients, staff and contractors, a new anti-fraud body says as it promises a crackdown.", "Perpetrators of domestic violence are increasingly using technology to monitor and harass victims.", "Charissa Brown-Wellington pushed Philip Carter between two carriages of a moving tram in Manchester.", "Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon resigns, saying past personal behaviour is \"not acceptable now\".", "Whirlpool has been criticised by MPs for leaving millions of people at fire risk from faulty dryers.", "Can you get married, join the Army or work full-time at the age of 16?", "How a racially motivated attack left Dimitris Legakis fearing for the safety of his family.", "Both 14 year olds are charged with conspiracy to murder and one is also charged with aggravated burglary.", "The practice of swapping components is costing millions of pounds, the National Audit Office says.", "Millions watched the final despite Prue Leith accidentally tweeting the winner's name hours earlier.", "The Electoral Commission says it is looking at whether donation rules were broken.", "More people have come forward claiming they were sexually harassed by the actor.", "Police say traces of narcotics were found on belongings left on an airplane in January.", "Even a few nights of poor sleep can lead to \"repetitive negative thinking\", experts say.", "A BBC reporter films his drive to work as pollution levels soar in India's capital.", "The foreign secretary reacts to Priti Patel's resignation after controversy over her meetings with Israeli officials.", "An average 11-day difference in recovery rates for burns may be explained by the body clock, a study says.", "More than 2,000 children under 15 were referred to the Prevent programme in 2015-16.", "Families normally spend £121 on toys for each child, but the income squeeze is hitting spending.", "President Juan Manuel Santos said the find was the largest uncovered in a single police operation.", "A profile of the UK's first female defence secretary, who replaces Gavin Williamson after his sacking.", "The former UK international development secretary is filmed after meeting Prime Minister Theresa May.", "A child has been given a new genetically modified skin that covers 80% of his body, in a series of lifesaving operations.", "Attorney general says 201 people are being held for questioning, some of them reportedly at a luxury hotel.", "Andrew Cotton was surfing off the coast of Portugal when a huge wave crashed down on top of him.", "A Bangladeshi man is also found guilty of attempted murder during the West Bengal assault in 2015.", "Pope Francis orders sales of duty-free cigarettes to stop from next year, on health grounds.", "Mark van Dongen died 15 months after prosecutors allege his ex-girlfriend threw acid over him.", "Penny Mordaunt says she is \"delighted\" to be named as the new international development secretary.", "Astronomers discover the astronomical equivalent of a horror film villain: a star that wouldn't stay dead.", "He has long alleged Hollywood figures molested child stars including himself and Corey Haim.", "The PM outlines plans to set the UK's EU departure date and time in law, ahead of a new round of talks.", "Men and women allege the Hollywood actor groped or made advances towards them.", "Richard Browning crossed a lake in Reading at more than 30mph.", "Jurors see video interviews with acid attack victim Mark van Dongen, whose ex is accused of his murder.", "The BBC's Diplomatic Correspondent James Landale explains the controversy that led to her resignation.", "The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse reveals a victim's name on its website.", "The pontiff chastises bishops, priests and pilgrims for taking pictures during services.", "Arrested Development star Portia de Rossi says the actor unzipped his trousers in an audition.", "Discover at the click of button exactly how the land is used in your local authority area.", "Once Donald Trump spoke of China \"raping\" the US. Now he gives it \"credit\" for \"taking advantage\".", "Ridley Scott is to reshoot scenes with actor Christopher Plummer in time for a December release.", "Theresa May is urged to replace the international development secretary with another Brexiteer.", "Fresh charges are expected to be brought against the nurse already convicted of two murders.", "A man responsible for helping Facebook get off the ground now says he's deeply concerned about its impact on society.", "Priti Patel resigns as UK international development secretary after the row about meeting Israeli politicians.", "Abandoning planned cuts to local stations will help combat \"fake news\", BBC director general says.", "The prominent Brexiteer rose swiftly to the cabinet after being elected as an MP in 2010, and was appointed as home secretary in July last year.", "Judges lifted an order preventing the identification of Sophia Peters who died on Saturday.", "Northern Ireland's hopes of reaching a first World Cup in 32 years suffer a blow as a controversial penalty earns Switzerland victory in their play-off first leg.", "A three-storey section of an East London council estate, soon to be demolished, is to be preserved.", "For the first time in 113 years, live data is streaming from the top of the UK's tallest mountain.", "The group of six receive more than £4m each after winning last Friday's EuroMillions jackpot.", "Dover and Deal MP Charlie Elphicke was suspended by the Tories over \"serious allegations\".", "The site had faced complaints that white-supremacist accounts were being verified.", "Mike Coupe tells the BBC that food prices this Christmas will be \"about the same as two years ago\".", "Eniola Aluko is \"disappointed\" England players have not supported her stance after Mark Sampson was found to have used racially discriminatory remarks.", "He was known for the Italian restaurant chain that carries his name and for his TV appearances.", "Two officers are sacked for the \"horrific\" message they left for a woman whose child had been missing.", "Police are investigating the treatment of 43 residents at nine homes across West Sussex.", "Wales' first minister defends the handling of allegations against Carl Sargeant who died this week.", "In one case savers saw their rates cut on the very day base rates went up.", "An augmented reality smartphone game based on the young wizard's adventures is planned by Niantic.", "The human driver of another vehicle is blamed for colliding with the self-driving bus.", "The RICS survey suggests prices are still rising in Scotland and Wales, but by no means everywhere.", "Crowds turned out to see him, only for the judge to decide his services were no longer required.", "Family of sacked minister says Labour did not give him enough detail of allegations against him.", "Rolling updates as International Development Secretary Priti Patel resigns from her job.", "Penny Mordaunt is appointed as Priti Patel's replacement as International Development Secretary.", "Gordon Brown tells the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg Leave voters might think again on Brexit next summer.", "Laura Kuenssberg says the PM is not looking for more drama after eight days of turmoil.", "Theresa May needs to restore a sense of calm after a chaotic week.", "Gerry Adams tells delegates it will be his last ard fhéis (party conference) as Sinn Féin leader.", "The embattled president vows to stay on, despite widespread speculation that he would announce his resignation.", "Gaia Pope's sister and cousin pay tribute to the teenager after police reveal a body has been found.", "The 31-year-old used his service gun against his girlfriend, her family and passers-by near Paris.", "The Argentine naval submarine went missing on Wednesday with 44 crew on board", "New leader of Scottish Labour says Kezia Dugdale may be suspended over I'm A Celebrity.", "With Robert Mugabe's hopes of handing power to his wife over, which political dynasties are still going strong elsewhere in Africa?", "Capt Mike Green was one of the victims in the mid-air crash, his employer confirms.", "Work continues to recover wreckage of the helicopter and plane from a wooded area in Aylesbury.", "The chancellor says the country must embrace new technologies in order to succeed.", "Dorset Police say the teenager's death is being treated as \"unexplained\".", "President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe addresses the nation.", "The president defies demands to resign, triggering an avalanche of comments on social media.", "Chancellor Philip Hammond is being urged to go beyond marginal changes in next week's Budget as his party worries about electoral consequences of inaction.", "On Monday the bells at Westminster Abbey will ring to mark 70 years since the Queen's wedding.", "Clipper Round the World Race team says Simon Speirs was swept overboard during gale force winds.", "The incident occurred as a charity aid was distributing aid in the town of Sidi Boulaalam.", "The Australian's powerful rhythm guitar riffs helped propel the heavy rock group to stardom.", "The Songs of Praise presenter apologised for \"occasionally juvenile\" actions more than a decade ago.", "Roger Edwards said he felt something \"disastrous\" would happen and could not sleep before the race.", "Michelle O'Neill says she won't be replacing Gerry Adams as party leader as she has \"enough to do\".", "The victim, believed to be in her 50s, was found at a house in Muswell Hill, north London.", "The \"live\" footage was posted on the paper's Facebook page, but was actually recorded in 2015.", "The BBC's Anne Soy meets jubilant Zimbabweans hoping for change after the army takeover.", "Beauden Barrett denies Stuart Hogg with a brilliant tackle in the last minute as Scotland narrowly miss out on a first win over New Zealand.", "England beat Papua New Guinea despite another error-strewn performance to set-up a World Cup semi-final against Tonga.", "The fashion world mourns a designer whose clients included Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Michelle Obama.", "Police are \"confident\" the remains are that of the 19-year-old woman, who has been missing for 11 days.", "Conservative Anna Soubry was labelled a \"mutineer\" for planning to rebel on a key Brexit vote.", "Her family also praised the \"compassion and humanity\" of people who searched for the 19-year-old.", "The Guardian newspaper reports Caldey Abbey paid compensation to six women who were abused as children.", "He is reported to require a liver transplant and has kidney problems.", "Gen John Hyten says that instead he would work to agree a legal alternative with a president.", "People sing and celebrate as Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe is sacked as ruling party leader.", "The man who took over from Robert Mugabe as Zimbabwe's president wants to legitimise his rule.", "Katherine Brunt stars with bat and ball as England - with the Women's Ashes gone - win their second Twenty20 international against Australia.", "A profile of Zimbabwe's former President Robert Mugabe, accused of destroying a prosperous country for the sake of power, but still seen by some as a revolutionary hero.", "The Queen and Prince Philip plan to spend the day with family and friends, Buckingham Palace says.", "Five thousand barrels leaked from the Keystone pipeline.", "Nicole Fegan, 12, died after a beach buggy on which she was a passenger crashed with another vehicle in Newry.", "Protests turn to celebrations on the streets of Zimbabwe's capital Harare.", "After meeting homeless families in Antigua, he described the devastation as \"heartbreaking\".", "Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe fails to resign and faces impeachment.", "Ofsted's head says making very young Muslim girls wear headscarves could be seen as sexualisation.", "Zimbabwe's Zanu-PF removes Robert Mugabe and gives him a day to resign as president.", "It's very private and it's very big. But who uses it and should we try to stop them?", "The Labour leader says anyone avoiding tax, as revealed in leaked Paradise Papers, should apologise.", "Damian Green, a key ally of Theresa May, says claims by an ex-police officer are \"completely untrue\".", "Ian Squire died after being held hostage in Nigeria alongside three others, who have been freed.", "A gunman opened fire at a church in Sutherland Springs in the worst mass shooting in state history.", "Hotel in Amesbury apologises after display goes wrong and fireworks shoot into a crowd.", "The explorers were pictured at the South Pole after realising they were not the first to reach it.", "The impact of the church shooting has been felt in every corner of Sutherland Springs, Texas.", "What have been the major financial disclosures and what action has been taken?", "Laura Plummer, accused of drug trafficking in Egypt, 'doesn't know Tramadol from a Panadol'.", "Documents show travel firm reduced its bill after rule change introduced by the government in 2013.", "Ex-activist says she asked the Commons clerk to pass on concerns about the \"toxic\" Westminster culture to senior Tories.", "Richard Bilton asks Mrs Brown’s Boys star Fiona Delany about the offshore scheme.", "Prince Mansour bin Muqrin, son of a former crown prince, died in the crash near the Yemeni border.", "Duchy of Lancaster put cash in Cayman Islands and Bermuda funds in 2004-2005, leaked documents show.", "Scientists say that 2017 shows a continuing trend of high temperatures and extreme weather events.", "About £10m of the Queen's private money was invested offshore, leaked documents show.", "Users will be able to use the popular messaging app to send and receive money.", "Nicky Johns said she was \"numb\" when she heard that Kate Bushell, 14, had been murdered.", "Priti Patel was on holiday in Israel when she met the PM - but did not tell the Foreign Office.", "A derailed train has caused knock-on delays on London's transport routes.", "The PM says that people should know their complaints of abuse will be investigated properly.", "The Housing Executive has spent more than £7m re-housing people who fled under threat since 2012.", "A bogus version of the popular messaging app was available via the Google Play Store.", "A gunman opened fire at a church in Texas during Sunday services, killing many people.", "Trials will take place in London where 3.5 million patients will be able to have video consultations via smartphone.", "A draw ceremony in which a tennis player is asked to pull off a female model's glove with his teeth leads to accusations of sexism.", "The Paradise Papers leaks question whose money was used to buy into the Premier League club.", "Emily Hunt is seeking what is thought to be the UK's first crowdfunded private rape prosecution.", "Juli Briskman, 50, showed the president's motorcade the middle finger while cycling in Virginia.", "A man previously accused of corruption was asked to negotiate a mining deal in Africa, the Paradise Papers reveal.", "At least 26 people have been killed after a gunman opened fire at a Texas church during Sunday service.", "A driver describes the scene as emergency services attend a Texas church shooting.", "Nutritionist Libby Weaver recalls her latest book, which used a derogatory term for Down's syndrome.", "The Antrobus Hotel organised the event on Saturday where 14 people were injured.", "A massive leak exposes how the powerful and wealthy secretly invest vast amounts of cash offshore.", "Foreign secretary's comments could double Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's Iran jail term, says charity.", "A key aide of Canada's PM is linked to schemes that may have cost the nation millions, the Paradise Papers show.", "A court hears Annie-Laure Promonet \"made it her aim\" to obtain Marvyn Mulvey's DNA.", "A ground invasion is the only way to destroy Pyongyang's nuclear arsenal, the Joint Chiefs say.", "England's children's commissioner says the system must help children recover from traumatic upbringings.", "The pastor and his wife were away when a gunman killed 26 of the congregation including their daughter.", "Kensington and Chelsea Council admitted it had \"huge\" amounts of work to do to rehouse victims.", "F1 champion received a £3.3m refund after importing the red Challenger 605 into the Isle of Man.", "Get a Grip campaign tells parents to \"be more organised\" by preparing for school the night before.", "Accused Emile Cilliers tells court \"I didn't have anything to do with it but someone must have\".", "It was \"reasonable\" to give Kelvin Hopkins a job despite concerns about him, Labour's leader says.", "Manager Pep Guardiola praises Manchester City's \"amazing\" form after they outclass Arsenal to open up an eight-point lead at the top of the Premier League.", "Those killed in the Texas church shooting include an unborn baby and a 77-year-old.", "Firefighters say Wendy and Ted Bagshaw were lucky to get out early as the damage was extensive.", "Police in the US state of Texas say several people have been shot by a gunman at a church.", "Westminster's party leaders are to introduce a new grievance procedure, says Theresa May.", "Scheme for Swiss bank clients was being proposed in 2005 to get around EU tax evasion clampdown.", "The London shopping street may be transformed in time for the arrival of the Elizabeth Line.", "The prime minister wants new rules to make politicians disclose their place and date of birth.", "Police warn of a \"worrying upward trend\" and call for social networks to remove images faster.", "US leader Donald Trump says Japan could intercept North Korean missiles with US military equipment.", "Carles Puigdemont and four colleagues reported to police after Spain issued an EU arrest warrant.", "At least 27 people have died and more than 20 are missing.", "The 1902 Benz was in collision with three other cars while going from London to Brighton.", "Freeman Martin from the Texas Department of Public Safety has given details about the mass shooting in a Texas church.", "Witnesses say only three paramedics entered the Manchester Arena foyer where the bomb exploded.", "18-month-old Elsie died two weeks after being formally adopted by Matthew Scully-Hicks and his husband.", "Conservative donor continued to retain status despite assurances by the party.", "Eight members of one family are feared dead in the Texas church shooting. The Holcombes' neighbour, Pauline Garza, tells the BBC she doesn't know what to tell her children.", "The US president says Japan has been \"winning\" on trade but he will push for fairer economic ties.", "Paradise Papers documents suggest Alisher Usmanov may influence checks on his own firms.", "Watch Lord Ashcroft try to avoid Richard Bilton’s questions about his offshore trust.", "Conservative Party donor faces accusations of ignoring trustees despite rules on independence.", "The current deal is scheduled to end in March 2018 when MeteoGroup is due to take over.", "The US commerce secretary has business ties with key Putin allies, the Paradise Papers show.", "The voluntary rate, promoted by the Living Wage Foundation campaign, will rise by 30p an hour to £8.75.", "Leo Varadkar says he does not want an election but will continue to back his under pressure deputy PM.", "Mark Dixie was jailed in 2008 for raping and murdering teenage model Sally Anne Bowman.", "The Budget downgrades for economic growth and productivity mean we could see stagnant wages until 2025.", "Sixteen people are hurt amid panicked scenes at Oxford Circus, as police probe a fight on a platform.", "Numbers involved in the murder trial of Oscar Pistorius, sentenced to six years in prison for killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp in 2013.", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had been delayed by a security alert at nearby Oxford Circus Tube.", "Patients became less distressed and heard voices less often compared with those who had counselling.", "But the EU says it will still be a \"huge challenge\" to move onto the next phase of talks next month.", "Five members of a Derry family drowned after their car went off a slipway into Lough Swilly in March 2016.", "The Irish government could collapse over a no confidence motion tabled against the deputy PM.", "The US confirms making \"adjustments\" to support for Syrian groups, but does not name the YPG militia.", "Zimbabwe's new president paid tribute to his predecessor and promised to rebuild the country.", "The Liberal Democrat leader's novel Open Arms isn't shortlisted for the prize, despite \"many\" nominations.", "A population of finches on the Galapagos is discovered in the process of becoming a new species.", "How much is the chancellor's stamp duty policy really going to help the people at whom it is aimed?", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was told lumps in her breasts were non-cancerous, her husband says.", "Profile of Sinai Province, a militant group that has pledged allegiance to Islamic State and has carried out a string of deadly attacks in Egypt's Sinai peninsula.", "A \"lost\" episode of Doctor Who has been released 38 years after the story was left abandoned.", "BBC reporter Helen Bushby was walking towards Oxford Circus Tube when people started running towards her.", "Theresa May is told to put more money on the table and address Irish border concerns within two weeks.", "This video has been removed for rights reasons.", "The UK won't host the European Capital of Culture in 2023, disappointing five bidding cities.", "Glasgow Airport was closed temporarily as efforts were made to clear ice from stands and taxiways.", "Brazilian footballer Robinho is sentenced to nine years in prison for raping a woman with four other men in a Milan nightclub in 2013.", "The family of murdered girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp say the ruling means she can now rest in peace.", "Emmerson Mnangagwa is sworn in as Zimbabwe's new leader before huge crowds.", "The BBC asked a selection of young people for their reaction to measures announced in the Budget.", "The ex-I'm A Celebrity contestant apologised for tweeting some \"disgusting things\" in 2012.", "The outlook for the UK economy is one of the worst in living memory - four charts help explain why.", "Former England striker Michael Owen makes his debut as a jockey, finishing second in an amateur charity race at Ascot.", "A question posed in one school's diversity lesson prompts a parent to complain.", "How did one of the world's most successful sportsmen, an inspiration to millions, end up serving a prison sentence after killing his girlfriend?", "It has been more than a year since the tragic death of Reeva Steenkamp but her friends in the small town of Port Elizabeth are yet to accept that she is gone, writes the BBC's Pumza Fihlani.", "The UK is in danger of losing almost 20 years of earnings growth, warns an independent economic think tank.", "The BBC TV show is curtailed after an audience member collapses.", "Katie Rough was found with cuts to her neck and chest on a playing field in York.", "Russia hosts the 2018 Football World Cup; we've had exclusive access to England's preferred training base.", "Captain Steve Smith's unbeaten 64 helps Australia recover to 165-4, trailing England by 137 after two days of the first Ashes Test in Brisbane.", "The number of payment card sales is already up on last year, but some retailers have shunned the event.", "Latest updates after police say they are responding to reports of an incident at the station.", "The pound makes gains against the dollar - but loses ground against the euro; FTSE 100 ends lower.", "Footage shows the chaotic aftermath of an attack on a mosque in Egypt that left at least 235 dead.", "A circus tiger escaped and briefly roamed an area near the Eiffel Tower in the French capital.", "Michael Gove questions the role of \"raw and authentic\" Twitter voices in debates on animal welfare.", "Drink-driver Dominic O'Neill was handcuffed and placed in the back of the police car, but \"managed to drive off\".", "The measures needed to get the country's finances off life-support and into recovery mode.", "The BBC's Lyse Doucet is the first journalist to visit the hotel where dozens of prominent Saudis are being held.", "Try our calculator to see how wages for your job are performing, compared with inflation.", "A series of deadly attacks has drawn media attention to Islamist groups in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula.", "Several children were allegedly given injections and fed drugs in a case that has sparked an outcry.", "The actress wishes a happy Thanksgiving to all \"except you Harvey and all your wicked conspirators\".", "The actor makes a surprise return to complete an unfinished story 38 years after it was abandoned.", "Sir Paul Stephenson says he was told material was allegedly found on Damian Green's computer in 2008.", "The US president hits back at Kim Jong-un, then offers his services as mediator in an Asian dispute.", "The British-Iranian charity worker has been jailed under secret charges since last year.", "Mariano Rajoy makes a first trip after imposing direct rule in response to a push for independence.", "Chief negotiator Michel Barnier says \"everyone needs to plan\" in case Brexit talks fail.", "Canadian Millennials are the mostly likely generation to attend a Remembrance Day celebration.", "The actress complained to the film studio about the \"disgusting\" encounter with a male star.", "Lewis Hamilton says Formula 1 'needs to do more' after members of his Mercedes team were robbed at gunpoint in Sao Paulo on Friday night.", "The behaviour of some was \"pure poison\", claims a former adviser to Wales' first minister.", "Children with life-limiting illnesses are being denied out of hours care, according to a new report.", "Police appealed to the owner tweeting, \"if it's yours come and speak to us at Harrogate Police station\".", "Big Ben chimed at 11:00 GMT for the first time since August to remember the war dead.", "Marchers lit flares and carried Polish flags as they took part in an independence day rally in Warsaw.", "The husband of a British mother detained in Iran since April says the idea she was plotting to overthrow the regime is \"nonsense\".", "Labour MP Harriet Harman says change is \"overdue\" following sexual abuse allegations in Westminster.", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband says she has found lumps in her breasts and is close to breakdown.", "Captain Heather Knight leads a rearguard action as England force a draw against Australia to keep the Women's Ashes series alive.", "The MP's comments came at her first appearance since quitting the cabinet over the Israel meetings row.", "PSNI's Chief Constable says a strong line of enquiry is that dissident republicans are responsible.", "Lebanon's Saad Hariri says he is free in Saudi Arabia, and that he resigned to protect himself.", "England set up a World Cup quarter-final against Papua New Guinea next weekend by easing past France despite a mixed performance in Perth.", "The London mayor calls for the foreign secretary to resign over comments about a woman held in Iran.", "The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is to speak to the foreign secretary on Sunday, he tells the BBC.", "It was just like House of Cards. Or maybe Game of Thrones. Trump-Russia was the only drama that mattered.", "The case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is first and foremost a story of terrible personal suffering.", "Les Cherrington, 99, describes his tank coming under fire in north Africa - and his emotions over his friends who were killed.", "Some 1,400 people will be recruited to ring church bells on Armistice Day next year.", "Countries around the world have been marking 99 years since World War One.", "Damian Green denies allegations about his conduct and that pornography was found on his office computer.", "Undercover investigation reveals how a recruitment agent is helping bogus students cheat the student loan system.", "The teenagers, aged 14 and 17, take the total number charged with the murder of Michael Jonas to four.", "How what is potentially the largest group of WW1 shipwrecks in the world could become a nature sanctuary.", "Using a tranquiliser was \"not an option\", insists Ceredigion council.", "Six-time champion Roger Federer and third seed Alexander Zverev win the opening matches at the season-ending ATP Finals in London.", "The Queen has not laid a wreath at the annual Cenotaph ceremony in London but watched from a balcony.", "Football fans smash glass and loot shops after their team qualifies for the World Cup.", "Minister Michael Gove insists environmental standards won't be sacrificed.", "President Aoun speaks out amid claims that Lebanon's prime minister is being held in Riyadh.", "Michael Gove is criticised for saying he did not know what Iranian-British woman was doing in Iran.", "Enthusiasts across the UK share their photos of the two brightest planets appearing together.", "Nathan McSeveney, 20, from Ayrshire, died after falling in a stairwell at Celtic Park in November 2014.", "The procession marked the end of year-long City of Culture community arts projects in the city.", "British-Iranian Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is serving five years for alleged security offences.", "Laura Plummer is being held on drug smuggling charges over what she says is an innocent mistake.", "People across the UK, as well as soldiers deployed abroad, pay tribute to the nation's war dead.", "A protest against Spain's detention of leading separatists drew 750,000 people, police say.", "A note left on an ambulance windscreen told paramedics not to block a driveway.", "For the first time the Queen watched from a balcony during the Cenotaph service on Remembrance Sunday.", "The shooting of a lynx has \"broken\" the owner of the zoo it escaped from.", "An explosion ripped through the pipeline near the village of Buri in northern Bahrain.", "The man was found injured in High Road, Ilford, east London, in the early hours of Sunday morning.", "Politicians, members of the Royal Family and veterans attend the ceremony at the Cenotaph.", "Mr Trump takes aim at the Democratic senator but remains silent on allegations against Roy Moore.", "MPs urge the pharmacy to complete its roll-out of cheaper contraception across all of its stores.", "The 5.4 magnitude tremor hit the port city of Pohang, and was followed by dozens of aftershocks.", "Private Conor McPherson died during a night-time \"live fire\" exercise at Otterburn, Northumberland.", "Management on the Tsukuba Express line \"sincerely apologised for the inconvenience\" caused.", "The school in Theresa May's constituency says donations would help it through a \"funding crisis\".", "In different parts of Europe, rivers are flooding earlier or later because of rising temperatures, say scientists.", "The man is believed to be known to the teenager, who has been missing from Swanage since 7 November.", "A man and a woman are stable in hospital after a fire broke out on the ninth floor of the building.", "Brexit Secretary David Davis says the UK wants \"the freest possible trade\" with the EU.", "The victims include elderly people whose bodies were found inside their homes, reports say.", "Benedict Allen is seen near an airstrip in Papua New Guinea and has asked to be rescued.", "Young children are becoming dependent on the drug, as the amount produced in Afghanistan hits a new high.", "Inside one of Yemen's only prosthetic limb factories.", "Sir Bradley Wiggins says his life was \"a living hell\" during an investigation into allegations of wrongdoing at British Cycling and Team Sky.", "Government minister Christopher Pyne says he was not responsible for activity on his Twitter page.", "An inquest hears Kelly-Anne Carter killed herself two weeks after her son Lucas died in a house fire.", "Torrential rain overnight created fast-flowing torrents of red mud in towns near the capital Athens.", "Researchers find that two thirds of people in Scotland never stop to speak to homeless people.", "Two new treatments can slow cancer down and delay the need for chemotherapy, research shows.", "Mr Moore's lawyer questions an accuser's account as three more women come forward with more claims.", "Salvator Mundi, reputedly painted by the artist, is sold by Christie's in New York for $450m.", "Stephen Brien, who conceived the idea of the single benefit, calls for changes to how it is paid.", "Housing associations say being reclassified as private bodies will allow them to build more homes.", "Health officials say the wild boar, which the NZ family had hunted themselves, is one possible cause.", "The Metropolitan Police says it believes all those who died in the blaze have now been identified.", "In the depths of an economic abyss, the political crisis now offers hope to many Zimbabweans.", "The RMT union says union members at the rail firm voted 9-1 to take strike action over pay.", "Reaction after Zimbabwe's military seizes power leaving the future of President Mugabe uncertain.", "One of Google's key cloud services went offline for many users on Wednesday.", "The social network says it will remove the verified badge from accounts that break its rules.", "Lloyd Blankfein tweets that many want a \"confirming vote\" on a \"monumental and irreversible\" decision.", "Dorset Police said it was not clear who the clothes belong to but Gaia's family had been informed.", "But former entertainer Rolf Harris's other 11 indecent assault convictions still stand.", "The Price of Football study finds the majority of ticket prices have frozen or fallen for a third year - but a poll suggests the cost is still putting off young adult fans.", "Police say there is insufficient evidence to prosecute anyone after prisoners took over a jail wing.", "Shadow chancellor John McDonnell demands 'an emergency Budget for public services '.", "For most of the morning state TV just re-broadcast a statement saying the military had taken over.", "Various social media accounts claim to represent the ruling party of Zimbabwe. It is far from clear which do.", "Zimbabwe's first lady, or \"Gucci Grace\" to some, was tipped to be the country's next president.", "Josh Rivers says he is \"appalled\" at some of his old tweets, which have been labelled transphobic, sexist and anti-Semitic.", "The key figures in the struggle for power in Zimbabwe.", "After sex with some of the men, Daryll Rowe texted mocking messages, including \"I have HIV LOL. Oops!\"", "More patients and staff are being injured during incidents of restraint, according to new figures.", "Musician Matthew Herbert hopes to tour Europe to heal \"huge divisions\" caused by Brexit - helped by a UK government grant.", "The relationship between a former imperial power and its ex-colony is a complex one, says our diplomatic correspondent.", "TfL deemed Uber unfit to run a taxi service and refused to renew its licence in September.", "The trial is the first to come out of an investigation into child sexual exploitation in the town.", "Weather-related deaths could surge by 2100 if nothing is done to curb climate change, scientists say.", "A Russian boycott of the 2018 Winter Olympics would \"damage athletes wishing to compete\", says Wada president Sir Craig Reedie.", "The game sees images projected on to a table that residents and children can interact with.", "After a second day of debating the EU Withdrawal Bill, the government is yet to lose a vote.", "A painting of Christ believed to be by Leonardo da Vinci has been sold for a record $450m (£341m).", "The 94-year-old was one of the first female pilots to fly a Spitfire during World War Two.", "Josh Rivers' old tweets have surfaced, which have been called transphobic, sexist and anti-Semitic.", "Zimbabwe's military could force President Mugabe to resign - but they won't want to humiliate him.", "A forecasting tool reveals which cities will be affected as different portions of the ice sheet melt, say scientists.", "The man who took over from Robert Mugabe as Zimbabwe's president wants to legitimise his rule.", "The government potentially lost out on £107m from 755,000 unlicensed vehicles in the past year, data shows.", "The 31-year-old used his service gun against his girlfriend, her family and passers-by near Paris.", "Dorset Police say the teenager's death is being treated as \"unexplained\".", "The \"live\" footage was posted on the paper's Facebook page, but was actually recorded in 2015.", "The Magic Faraway Tree books are being adapted for the big screen for the first time.", "An open letter from the GMB union claims staff are \"struggling to maintain a crumbling service\".", "How much will we have to pay - and why? Norman Smith talks you through the Brexit divorce bill.", "Study reveals increasing diversity in young people's heterosexual practices.", "Work continues to recover wreckage of the helicopter and plane from a wooded area in Aylesbury.", "The army general who ruthlessly crushed the opposition in Zimbabwe is now being hailed as a political saviour.", "Mark Milsome was working on upcoming drama The Forgiving Earth in Ghana when the incident occurred.", "The link has been made to spiky scales of shark-like fish from millions of years ago, scientists say.", "The president defies demands to resign, triggering an avalanche of comments on social media.", "The incident occurred as a charity aid was distributing aid in the town of Sidi Boulaalam.", "Roger Edwards said he felt something \"disastrous\" would happen and could not sleep before the race.", "A Marine is under arrest for drink-driving after a deadly crash stokes resentment on Okinawa.", "Murderous 1960s cult leader Charles Manson has died, but the fascination with him continues. Why?", "Abuse victims told the BBC they were allegedly told by the church not to report the crimes.", "Ant McPartlin went to rehab in June after becoming addicted to painkillers following a knee operation.", "The German chancellor would opt for fresh elections over leading a minority government.", "A woman was filmed hitting a man during a hunt in Sussex.", "Three people who were held over the death of teenager Gaia Pope will face no further action, police say.", "The news that the head of Zimbabwe's military visited China days before it took power has sparked questions.", "Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe fails to resign and faces impeachment.", "The Women's Tennis Association says 1998 Wimbledon champion Jana Novotna, who had cancer, \"died peacefully, surrounded by her family\" aged 49.", "British Airways starts a boarding policy that means those in the cheapest seats will be called last.", "Laura Plummer is being held on drug smuggling charges over what she says is an innocent mistake.", "This video has been removed for rights reasons.", "Electoral Commission investigates why group gave £625,000 to a student just before the EU referendum.", "We look at some of the options for Zimbabwe, its president, and his wife after the military takeover", "The stationery company apologises after a social media backlash for its promotion in the newspaper.", "ITV has apologised after the live programme went off air for more than 12 minutes.", "Murderous 1960s cult leader Charles Manson has been granted a licence to marry, but what is it about him that continues to fascinate?", "Ofsted's head says making very young Muslim girls wear headscarves could be seen as sexualisation.", "Campaigners condemn Ofsted decision to ask girls in primary schools why they wear the headcsarf.", "The embattled president vows to stay on, despite widespread speculation that he would announce his resignation.", "The father of teenager Gaia Pope says she \"clearly couldn't cope\" with epilepsy and other issues.", "Four staff members are suspended from an Antrim hospital as police investigate claims of ill-treatment.", "On Monday the bells at Westminster Abbey will ring to mark 70 years since the Queen's wedding.", "The 30-year-old was part of a group from Newcastle who were on board the boat on Saturday night.", "The Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit to stop the media and telecoms tie-up.", "The cult leader sent his followers to commit a series of brutal murders in the late 1960s.", "The crash was caught on the dashcams of two police officers.", "Conservative Anna Soubry was labelled a \"mutineer\" for planning to rebel on a key Brexit vote.", "The chair of UK Sport, Dame Katherine Grainger, urges British sports to improve athlete welfare amid widespread bullying allegations.", "Cult leader whose so-called Family embarked on a series of high-profile murders that tarnished the 60s hippy dream.", "The man who took over from Robert Mugabe as Zimbabwe's president wants to legitimise his rule.", "Laura Kuenssberg looks ahead to talks on Monday, when the government may make key Brexit decisions.", "A profile of Zimbabwe's former President Robert Mugabe, accused of destroying a prosperous country for the sake of power, but still seen by some as a revolutionary hero.", "David Haye's heavyweight rematch with Tony Bellew is postponed after Haye slips on the stairs in a \"freak\" training accident.", "Around 5,000lb of explosives were used to bring down one of the biggest dome structures in the US.", "Endris Mohammed killed the children with a petrol-soaked rag and tried to kill his wife in a gas blast.", "Sir Michael Fallon has been known as a reliable minister, but also a sociable and approachable politician.", "A private member's bill to give 16 and 17-year-olds the vote has little chance of becoming law after running out of debating time in the Commons.", "Police say the incident, which left one man seriously injured, is not terror-related.", "The soldiers were taking part in a 16-mile SAS selection march on the hottest day of 2013.", "Knife and gun crimes are on the rise across England and Wales, with more offences being committed in London.", "Scanning technology suggests there is a large, previously unknown cavity in the ancient monument.", "What happened when people tweet the wrong man who made headlines for the wrong reasons.", "Economists and investors expect the Bank of England to raise rates for the first time in a decade.", "Rolling updates as Gavin Williamson succeeds Sir Michael Fallon as defence secretary.", "More than 3.5 million householders face increased payments, but 45 million savers could benefit.", "Here's why Theresa May's decision to make Gavin Williamson defence secretary is not such a cautious move.", "What we know about the man accused of killing eight people in a New York truck attack.", "The Tesco fraud trial hears of the chief executive's reaction on learning profits had been overstated.", "US police are seeking a hate crime charge against a white student after an apparent campaign against her black roommate.", "Reaction to US President Donald Trump nominating Fed insider Jerome Powell as chair.", "How 67 words by a British minister are still being fought over in the Middle East 100 years on.", "An armed gang tied up a couple and their young son after forcing their way into a house in South Lanarkshire.", "The rise of services like Netflix and Amazon could mean British shows face an \"uncertain future\".", "The apes in question were only reported to exist after an expedition into Sumatra mountains in 1997.", "Collins reveals its favourite phrase of the year and it is likely to make one president smile.", "Are two 14 year-olds the youngest to be charged with terrorism offences?", "The federal indictment against Paul Manafort alleges he was, among other things, an Airbnb host", "Trendy private members' clubs are taking off globally, but are they too exclusive for their own good?", "Prosecutors want to bring the brother of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi from Libya to the UK.", "The driver's phone number was read out in a Shakib Khan film, causing him to be bombarded by fans.", "Analysts in Scotland conclude that a £7,600 measure of whisky bought in a Swiss hotel was a fake.", "Savers set to gain from the rise in rates to 0.5%, but mortgage costs will increase for some borrowers.", "The Red Cross is urging countries to remember \"our shared humanity\" when dealing with captured IS fighters.", "The ex-defence secretary resigned saying his past behaviour is \"not acceptable now\".", "The allegations were sparked by women speaking out against Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein.", "The chief whip's promotion prompts criticism from some Conservative MPs.", "People including a former RAF member, offered a flight to keep quiet, share their experiences.", "American firework laws may seem strict - but have they got the right idea?", "Plans to shake-up the UK's ATM network may lead to a \"vast reduction\" in our free access to cash.", "A start-up's artificial intelligence software beats lawyers at predicting the outcome of cases.", "The decision to raise interest rates was well signalled by the Governor - but more significant rises still appear a long way off.", "Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon resigns, saying past personal behaviour is \"not acceptable now\".", "Can you get married, join the Army or work full-time at the age of 16?", "How a racially motivated attack left Dimitris Legakis fearing for the safety of his family.", "The actor is \"taking the time necessary\" to look for treatment in the wake of recent allegations.", "More people have come forward claiming they were sexually harassed by the actor.", "TSB, Nationwide and the Yorkshire Building Society are among the first to announce higher savings rates.", "Party activist says she was shocked Kelvin Hopkins got promoted after complaint made.", "Anh Nhu Nguyen pretended his wife 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Robert Mugabe would give up being president was to die in his bed.\n\nHe probably thought so too.\n\nIn fact the last of the old-style 1970s and 80s liberation leaders most untypically resigned in writing. Perhaps that says something about the way the world has changed in the 21st century.\n\nNo storming the presidential palace, no ugly end at the hands of a crowd like Colonel Gaddafi, no execution by firing squad like President Ceausescu of Romania, no hanging like Saddam Hussein.\n\nZimbabwe, in spite of everything Robert Mugabe visited upon it, is essentially a peaceable, gentle country. And despite all the immense crimes for which he was responsible, he is in some ways an intellectual, rather than a brutal thug.\n\nHe’ll be remembered for the massacres in Matabeleland in the 1980s, for the farm invasions of the 1990s and later, and for the brutal repression of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change when they seemed on course to win the 2008 presidential election.\n\nThe man who seems about to take his place, former vice-president Emmerson Mnangagwe, was deeply involved in most of those crimes, yet people in Zimbabwe - like the outside world - will be so relieved to see Mugabe go that they will be tempted to forget all that.\n\nThey’ll also forget the few unquestionably good things Robert Mugabe did. Zimbabwe, for instance, has an extraordinarily high literacy rate, because of him.\n\nBut that’s certainly not what he’ll be remembered for.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Cricket\n\nEngland (2pts) won by four wickets; Australia retain the Women's Ashes with multi-format series drawn 8-8\n\nDanni Wyatt scored England's first Twenty20 international century to help her side chase a record 179 and draw the multi-format Women's Ashes series.\n\nBeth Mooney hit an unbeaten 117, the second-highest score in women's T20s, as Australia posted an imposing total.\n\nWyatt hit two sixes and 13 boundaries in a 139-run stand with Heather Knight (51) to rescue England from 30-3 and win by four wickets in Canberra.\n\nAustralia had already retained the Women's Ashes but the series ended 8-8.\n\nPrior to this game, there had only been four centuries in women's Twenty20 international cricket - two of them struck by West Indies' Deandra Dottin.\n\nThe fifth was majestic, Mooney dispatching England's ragged bowling attack to all areas of Manuka Oval with exceptional power and guile, her 19 boundaries the most by a man or woman in Twenty20 internationals.\n\nThe 23-year-old smashed four in a row to finish the innings, taking Australia to 178-2 and seemingly on the cusp of victory.\n\nEngland floundered in response as Tammy Beaumont and Sarah Taylor were both caught trying to attack every delivery and a nervy Nat Sciver was run out by Elyse Villani's sharp throw.\n\nWyatt rode her luck - dropped on just 14 by wicketkeeper Alyssa Healy and 54 by Megan Schutt - but punished the increasingly panicked Australian bowlers with a series of hefty drives over cover.\n\nWith Knight proving perfect foil, Wyatt raced to 100 off just 56 balls and though she fell to Delissa Kimmince without adding to her century, the 26-year-old had done enough to steer England to a historic victory.\n\nThere have only been six T20 centuries in women's international cricket, and two of those were made within three hours of each other.\n• None Beth Mooney - 117 not out for Australia v England, November 2017\n• None Shandre Fritz - 116 not out for South Africa v Netherlands, October 2010\n• None Deandra Dottin - 112 not out for West Indies v South Africa, May 2010\n\nEngland were on 27-2 when Wyatt skied a leading edge off spinner Molly Strano straight up, only for Healy to misjudge the flight and drop a simple chance.\n\nEven then England looked far from capable of bettering their own record chase of 165 against Australia in 2009 to salvage a draw from an Ashes in which they were \"lacking in a few areas\", according to coach Mark Robinson.\n\nYet Healy's drop appeared to spread tension throughout the Australia fielders, the wicketkeeper spilling another easy opportunity with Knight on 24 - the fourth drop in the space of about 15 minutes after Strano and Schutt's mistakes.\n\nThey recovered to a degree to take three late wickets but Wilson's impudent ramp shot to the boundary for victory capped a disappointing end to an otherwise fine series from Rachael Haynes' team.\n\nAustralia won two of the three one-day internationals to take a 4-2 lead in the series before the solitary Test match was drawn, earning another two points for each side.\n\nThe home side then won the first of three T20 internationals to lead 8-4 and ensure they would at least retain the Women's Ashes but England won the last two to secure an 8-8 finish.\n\n'We're gutted we didn't win the Ashes' - reaction\n\nEngland's Danni Wyatt, speaking to Test Match Special: \"I tried a bit too hard in the first six overs, I lost my shape a little bit. But I backed myself and swung hard and it paid off. I was quite lucky, but you have to make it count when someone drops you, and I made it count.\n\n\"To contribute to a record chase is a special feeling. Heather batted really well - she backed herself and hit the ball in her areas. Outstanding by the skipper.\n\n\"It was hard sitting out for the ODIs and the Test match so I had to make the T20s count.\"\n\nEngland captain Heather Knight, speaking to Test Match Special: \"What a game it was. I thought they had too many, but there is a hell of a lot of fight in this team and to level at 8-8 makes me really proud.\n\n\"We lost a few early wickets but it was a belter of a pitch so boundaries were easy to come by. I was just trying to get Danni on strike.\n\n\"We're gutted we didn't win the Ashes but to draw the series is the next best thing. It was a great innings from Beth Mooney. It's tough for her to be on the losing side. What a game and what a spectacle for women's cricket.\"\n\nAustralia captain Rachael Haynes, speaking to BT Sport: \"I certainly thought it was well within our grasp to win the match. It was disappointing. I guess it's true, catches win matches, and we put a few down.\n\n\"Beth has been outstanding. She's been hitting everywhere. She's worked extremely hard on her game. For her to produce in international cricket is really exciting.\"", "There are about 700 breeding pairs of wandering albatrosses on Bird Island\n\nThe spectacular wandering albatrosses in Sunday's Blue Planet programme on the BBC have suffered a major decline in numbers over the past three decades.\n\nNew research suggests breeding pairs of this species are now little more than half what they were in the 1980s.\n\nScientists say the losses are the result of careless fishing practices and climate pressures.\n\nThe researchers are affiliated to the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), which organised the filming for the TV show.\n\nBAS has been running a long-term tagging and monitoring study on Bird Island, a 4km-long stretch of land on the western fringes of South Georgia in the South Atlantic.\n\nThe animals' global population is spread across only a handful of sub-Antarctic territories.\n\nThe wandering albatrosses are not the only species, though, to experience a slump.\n\nBlack-browed and grey-headed albatrosses have followed a similar trend.\n\n\"These populations have all declined over the period we've been monitoring them,\" said BAS expert Richard Phillips.\n\n\"There have been different phases, so for the wandering albatrosses there was a gradual decline and then it got really steep before things slowed up. Some of the variability is down to a changing environment; some of it is down to fishing effort.\"\n\nAlbatrosses will often try to take the bait on longline fishing gear. They get snagged on the hooks, are pulled under the water and are drowned.\n\nIn the immediate vicinity of South Georgia, toothfish trawlers have modified the way they put their lines out to limit this collateral damage, but the birds forage over thousands of square km and will often encounter vessels that still do not use the most sensitive fishing methods.\n\nAnd sometimes, shifts in climate can drive the birds towards this danger, says Dr Deborah Pardo, the lead author on the new research.\n\n\"We also found the grey-headed albatross population was particularly affected by the climatic event of El Niño, which coincided with increased fishing activity in their foraging areas.\n\n\"El Niño reduced the amount of food available so the birds probably switched to feeding on discards behind fishing vessels, increasing the number being hooked on longlines.\"\n\nNot all climate effects are negative. The recent increasing trend towards stronger poleward winds actually benefits the wandering albatrosses.\n\n\"Such winds make their flight more efficient,\" Dr Phillips told BBC News. \"They can fly faster. Essentially, these winds make the cost of travel cheaper for them.\"\n\nSunday's programme considered the breeding outcomes for elderly pairs of wandering albatrosses.\n\nSeparate BAS research has established that the very last chicks these senior albatrosses produce will often succeed and flourish.\n\nDr Phillips explained: \"There's a theoretical prediction that if a bird is about to die then it might put more effort into rearing the last chick, or the alternative is the very fact that it has reared that chick has a cost - there's a cost of reproduction - and subsequently the bird won't recover and it will die for that reason.\"\n\nCurrently on Bird Island there are roughly 700 pairs of wandering albatrosses, 3,000 pairs of grey-headed albatrosses and 7,000 pairs of black-browed albatrosses. The longterm study detailing the falls in population is published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.\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. There were scenes of celebration on the streets of the capital, Harare\n\nNews that Robert Mugabe has resigned as the president of Zimbabwe has spread quickly across the streets of Zimbabwe. This is how people are celebrating.\n\nThe celebrations started with MPs in parliament reacting to the resignation letter from Mr Mugabe being read out:\n\nWhere people couldn't get up on tables. they got up on cars:\n\nPeople waved down traffic with their flags:\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Zimbabwean reporter captures people partying between the traffic:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Mathanda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSinging broke out on the streets of Harare:\n\nSome dressed up in anticipation for the celebration:\n\nOn Whatsapp groups, people are sharing an old meme of Robert Mugabe falling at an event in 2015 photoshopped into him jumping Zimbabwe's border:\n\nA Zimbabwean news anchor highlights just how long Mr Mugabe has been in power:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Robyn Lee Kriel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn the same theme, another Zimbabwean posted on Instagram a photo of a young Mr Mugabe, adding: \"You started early and finished late\".\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 lovemorenyatsine This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne MP who was an ally of Mr Mugabe, described by some as his closest associate, paid tribute to him:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Prof Jonathan Moyo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome tweeters suggest the tribute could go even further - perhaps with a biopic of Mr Mugabe starring Don Cheadle. This mock-up film poster suggests all the details have already been carefully thought through:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Sukoluhle Nyathi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDon Cheadle retweeted the picture with no comment aside from three crying-with-laughter emojis.", "The allegations made against Charlie Rose span from the 1990s to 2011\n\nUS talk show host Charlie Rose has been suspended by several television networks following allegations of sexual harassment.\n\nEight women accused the veteran TV interviewer of inappropriate behaviour in a report by the Washington Post.\n\n\"These allegations are extremely disturbing and we take them very seriously,\" CBS News said. PBS and Bloomberg have also suspended him.\n\nMr Rose has apologised, but said not all the allegations were accurate.\n\nThey span from the 1990s to 2011 and include groping, lewd telephone calls and unwanted advances.\n\nTwo women who worked for Mr Rose said he walked naked in front of them, and another said she was groped by him at a party.\n\nMr Rose, 75, is one of America's most respected broadcasters.\n\nHe is known for conducting in-depth interviews, including with such high-profile guests as former President Barack Obama, talk show host Oprah Winfrey and billionaire Warren Buffett, on his eponymous television programme which first aired in 1991.\n\nMr Rose, whose show goes out on PBS and Bloomberg TV, also co-hosts CBS's This Morning and is a contributing correspondent for prestigious current affairs TV programme 60 Minutes.\n\nHis interviews have won him Emmy and Peabody awards, and he was named by Time magazine as one of its 100 most influential people in 2014.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Charlie Rose This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPBS quickly suspended distribution of the Charlie Rose programme following the allegations, which they described as \"deeply disturbing\".\n\nIn a statement posted to Twitter, he said: \"I deeply apologise for my inappropriate behavior. I am greatly embarrassed.\n\n\"I always felt that I was pursuing shared feelings, even though I now realize I was mistaken.\"\n\nBut he said that he did not believe \"all of these allegations are accurate\".\n\nNumerous high-profile figures, including Oscar-winning actors and a Hollywood filmmaker, have been accused of sexual harassment in recent weeks.\n\nThe accusations were sparked by multiple women speaking out against the Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, and a subsequent campaign encouraging victims to share their stories of sexual harassment under the #metoo hashtag.", "The Speaker of Parliament in Zimbabwe has read out a letter of resignation from President Robert Mugabe. Wild celebrations broke out among the members of parliament, at the news that his 37-year rule has come to an end.", "About 60 primary school children gathered to fight the possible closure of a library.\n\nDesborough Library, in Northamptonshire, could be shut as part of council cuts of £10m.", "Ikea has re-launched a recall of millions of chests and dressers in the US and Canada following the death of an eighth child.\n\nIt said items in its Malm range and other chests and dressers pose a \"serious tip-over and entrapment hazard\" if not secured to a wall,\n\nIkea first recalled the furniture in 2016 after four children had died.\n\nIt has no plans for a UK recall, stating that the chest of drawers \"meet all mandatory stability requirements\".\n\nJosef Dudek, a 2-year-old boy in California, died when he became trapped beneath a three-drawer Malm chest after he had been put down for a nap by his father.\n\nSince 2011, four other young children have been killed in connection with the Malm range.\n\nA further three children have died as a result of other Ikea chests and dressers tipping over, with the earliest death occurring in 1989.\n\nJozef Dudek died after an Ikea Malm dresser toppled over onto him\n\nWidespread criticism spurred the company to add China to the recall last year. However, it has not made announcements in other countries, including the UK.\n\nIkea said it meets \"mandatory stability standards\" in all markets and that the products remain safe if secured to a wall, as recommended.\n\nIt has a \"Secure It!\" campaign to raise awareness of the issue.\n\nA spokeswoman for Ikea said it was not aware of any tip-over fatalities outside the US and has no plans to expand the recall.\n\nShe said: \"Our priority is and has always been to ensure that our products are safe to use. That means securing the chest of drawers to the wall according to the assembly instructions, using the tip-over restraint provided with the product.\n\n\"We don't believe a global recall from IKEA would be the solution. Instead, we are convinced that we can make a difference by raising awareness among consumers of the tip-over risks and how to prevent them through the global Secure it! campaign.\"\n\nThe re-launched recall involves Ikea children's chests of drawers taller than 60 cm and adult chest of drawers taller than 75 cm, including those from the Malm line.\n\nIt follows reports of more than 300 tip-over incidents in the US and Canada since 1985, resulting in eight deaths and 144 injuries to children between the ages of 19 months and 10 years old.\n\nLawyer Alan Feldman, an attorney for the Dudek family whose son was killed in May, has said that the recall in 2016 was not effective.\n\nIkea said it had done \"extensive\" outreach to customers about the recall, including an email campaign.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"The most recent incident has indicated to us that there is more work to be done in spreading the message. However, we had to wait to confirm that the product is IKEA, which took some time.\"\n\nShe said Ikea said it has provided refunds or wall-anchoring help for more than one million dressers or chests since 2015, when it started offering free anchoring kits.\n\nIkea has stopped selling the products in the US and Canada that do not meet voluntary US standards.\n\nIt also reached a $50m settlement with the families of three toddlers killed previously.", "The mother of the man accused of killing eight people in a terror attack in New York has said she believes her son is innocent.\n\nThe BBC's Will Vernon tracked her down in Uzbekistan, the country that was home to terror suspect Sayfullo Saipov until 2010 when he moved to the US.\n\nIt's the first time the BBC has been allowed to report from the country in over a decade.", "Activist and political candidate Vimbaishe Musvaburi cries as she describes her emotions in the wake of Robert Mugabe's resignation.", "An open letter calls for chief executive of the South West Ambulance Service to resign\n\nAmbulance staff have called for their boss to quit as they \"struggle to maintain a crumbling service\".\n\nGMB union members from South West Ambulance Service (SWASFT) have written a letter \"apologising\" to the public for \"potentially putting them at risk\".\n\nThey have told chief executive Ken Wenman government cuts have led to \"despair and frustration\" among staff.\n\nMr Wenman said SWASFT was working to \"improve resource levels\" and \"urged\" GMB to \"re-engage and talk to us\".\n\nHe has not commented publicly on the call for him to resign.\n\nThe open letter was addressed as an \"apology to our families, friends and the community\".\n\nTo the public, they said they were \"sorry for not getting to you or your loved ones quick enough because there are just not enough of us\".\n\nThey also apologised to family and friends for times when they missed \"yet another family occasion\".\n\nThey also wrote that they felt \"unsupported\" by their employer SWASFT.\n\nThis dispute is all about changes to rotas as well as concern from members that they are having to work for longer than their usual 12-hour shift.\n\nBut it must be remembered the GMB is not recognised by SWASFT, and part of their mission is to recruit more members to take them above the 25% figure that would help that come about.\n\nHaving said that, the main union Unison is also concerned about work load, especially with the extra demands on their service due to problems with the out of hours service in Somerset, and closure at night of Weston A&E unit.\n\nBut Unison has not gone as far as to call for any heads to roll.\n\nGary Palmer, from the GMB, said: \"We felt this recent letter on behalf of a group of GMB members particularly summoned up the general despair and frustration many staff currently feel from working within a service and role they love.\"\n\nTony Fox, from SWASFT, said: \"We accept that there is always more to be done and we will continue to work closely with our colleagues and listen and respond to their needs.\"\n\nThe South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust covers Cornwall, Isles of Scilly, Devon, Dorset, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Bristol, Somerset and South Gloucestershire.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "How much will we have to pay - and why? And will the British public wear it?\n\nThe BBC's Norman Smith tells you all you need to know about the Brexit divorce bill.", "The process of using divining rod has been in use for hundreds of years\n\nWater companies are using divining rods to find underground pipes despite there being no scientific evidence they work, an Oxford University scientist found.\n\nSally Le Page said her parents were surprised when a technician used two \"bent tent pegs\" to find a mains pipe.\n\nShe contacted all the UK's water companies, and a majority confirmed engineers still use the centuries-old technique.\n\nHowever, a number said the equipment was not standard-issue equipment.\n\nThe process of using divining rods, also known as dowsing, has been in use for hundreds of years.\n\nA dowser will typically hold the rods, usually shaped like the letter Y, while walking over land and being alert for any movement to find water.\n\nEvolutionary biologist Ms Le Page, whose parents live in Stratford-upon-Avon, first contacted Severn Trent Water via Twitter.\n\nIt replied: \"We've found that some of the older methods are just as effective than the new ones, but we do use drones as well, and now satellites.\"\n\nOther companies which gave a similar response were:\n\nMs Le Page said: \"I can't state this enough: there is no scientifically rigorous, doubly blind evidence that divining rods work.\n\n\"Isn't it a bit silly that big companies are still using magic to do their jobs?\"\n\nIn a statement issued later, Severn Trent said: \"We don't issue divining rods but we believe some of our engineers use them.\"\n\nAll the companies emphasised they do not encourage the use of divining rods nor issue them to engineers, and said modern methods such as drones and listening devices were preferred.\n\nNorthern Ireland Water, Northumbrian Water, South West Water and Wessex Water said their engineers do not use them.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The resignation of Robert Mugabe comes after Zimbabwe's military took over the country and put him under house arrest\n\nTheresa May has welcomed the resignation of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, saying it offered an opportunity to \"rebuild the country's economy\".\n\nThe president stepped down after 37 years in power via a letter that was read out to the country's parliament.\n\nIt followed a takeover by the Zimbabwean military, who put Mr Mugabe under house arrest last week.\n\nBoris Johnson called the end of Mr Mugabe's reign a \"moment of hope.\"\n\nThe 93-year-old had resisted calls to step down, despite the intervention of the country's military and protests across the capital of Harare.\n\nHowever, on Tuesday, parliament speaker Jacob Mudenda read a letter from the former leader of Zanu-PF, which said his decision was \"voluntary\" and \"arising from my concern for the welfare of the people of Zimbabwe.\"\n\nResponding to the announcement, Mrs May said: \"In recent days we have seen the desire of the Zimbabwean people for free and fair elections and the opportunity to rebuild the country's economy under a legitimate government.\n\n\"As Zimbabwe's oldest friend, we will do all we can to support this, working with our international and regional partners to help the country achieve the brighter future it so deserves.\"\n\nThe foreign secretary also welcomed the announcement, but warned it should not mark \"the transition from one despotic rule to another\".\n\nMr Johnson said: \"I think it's very important at the moment that we don't focus too much on the personalities.\n\n\"Let's concentrate on the potential, the hope for Zimbabwe - an incredible country, a beautiful country, blessed with extraordinary physical and human potential.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson says Robert Mugabe's resignation as president is a \"moment of hope\" for Zimbabwe\n\nAsked about what he thought should happen to Mr Mugabe and his wife Grace - who the former leader had been priming as a successor - he added: \"[Mr Mugabe] played an important part in the birth of the independent nation of Zimbabwe.\n\n\"And yet, tragically, he allowed that legacy to be squandered and his country went to rack and ruin and in some cases his people were driven to the brink of starvation.\n\n\"It's time now for a new future and how Robert Mugabe spends the rest of his years is very much a matter for his countrymen.\"\n\nLabour MP and former Africa minister, Peter Hain, said the president's attempt to ensure Grace Mugabe would follow in his footsteps was his downfall.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"It was his determination to create a family dynasty and protect himself that finally meant his party gave up on him and the ruling elite gave up on him as well.\n\n\"The Zanu-PF party, that Mugabe had controlled with an iron fist, reacted against it and would not accept his wife being ushered in as his presidential replacement.\n\n\"The military said we have had enough and we are not going to put up with this, although they had ruled with him and supported him at times in murderous extermination of the opposition.\n\nLord Peter Hain met with Mr Mugabe when he was the minister for Africa in 1999\n\nLord Hain added that the people of Zimbabwe had the chance for a \"fresh start\", and called on former vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is expected to will be sworn in as president in the coming days, to take the country \"in a different direction\".\n\nSalil Shetty, secretary general of London-based Amnesty International, said Mr Mugabe's leadership had allowed \"grotesque crimes to thrive\", but his resignation was a turning point.\n\nShe said: \"After more than three decades of violent repression, the way forward for the country is to renounce the abuses of the past and transition into a new era where the rule of law is respected and those who are responsible for injustices are held to account.\"\n• None The army chief who took power from Mugabe", "Hollywood: 'I became the most hated man in the country'\n\nPaul Hollywood has accused former Bake Off presenters and fellow judge Mary Berry of \"abandoning\" the show.\n\nMary Berry, along with presenters Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins, left the programme when it was announced it was moving to Channel 4.\n\nSpeaking to the Radio Times, Hollywood said the criticism he received when he decided to stay was \"not fun\".\n\nThe 51-year old said: \"The girls abandoned it. But I was the one put under siege.\"\n\nHe said he \"became the most hated man in the country\".\n\nHollywood says he was 'put under siege' after deciding to stay with the Great British Bake Off\n\nHe said he did not like the limelight, adding: \"I didn't set out to be on the telly, I set out to be a good baker.\"\n\nIn the interview, Hollywood, who announced on Monday that he was separating from his wife of 20 years, also addressed Prue Leith's Twitter gaffe. She accidentally revealed the name of this year's Bake Off winner several hours early.\n\nHollywood said while he forgives his fellow judge, he thinks there could have been an even higher viewing figure than the 11 million people who watched the final.\n\n\"I think we could have had much more,\" he said. \"Everyone makes a mistake. It was a shame though.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "At least 50 people have been killed in a suicide bombing in the eastern Nigerian state of Adamawa, police say.\n\nA bomber struck inside a mosque packed with worshippers during morning prayers in the town of Mubi.\n\nWitness Abubakar Sule told AFP news agency that it appeared the bomber was part of the congregation.\n\nNo-one has said they were behind the bombing but the Islamist militants Boko Haram typically target crowded places in northern Nigeria.\n\nSome 20,000 people have been killed in Boko Haram's eight-year insurgency.\n\nThe BBC's Ishaq Khalid reports that Boko Haram militants have recently stepped up suicide bombings in Nigeria's north-east after the military recaptured territories previously controlled by the group.\n\nAt least 45 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack in the same state last December.\n\nIn that attack two female suicide bombers detonated their explosives in a busy market.", "Gen Constantino Chiwenga, 61, is being hailed as a political saviour after he led the military takeover in Zimbabwe, however he is under sanctions from the European Union and the US - for his role in a brutal crackdown on the opposition, and over the seizure of white-owned farms.\n\nZimbabweans took to the streets on Saturday to demand President Robert Mugabe's resignation, holding aloft placards which declared: \"Zimbabwe army - the voice of the people.\"\n\nPastor Patrick Mugadza, hounded by the police in January this year for predicting that the 93-year-old leader would die in nine months' time, went as far as to announce that he intended to name his son after the general.\n\n\"My wife is very, very pregnant. When the boy comes, I will be naming him after you, General Chiwenga,\" Zimbabwe's privately owned NewsDay newspaper quoted him as saying in an audio message.\n\nGen Chiwenga says he stepped in to end the economic suffering of Zimbabweans\n\nYet, Gen Chiwenga played a central role in keeping Mr Mugabe in power after he lost elections to his main rival, Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), in 2008, amid reports that Mr Mugabe was going to accept defeat.\n\n\"He told Mugabe: 'We can't lose elections. We can't hand power to the MDC. We are going to obliterate them,\" UK-based Africa confidential magazine editor Patrick Smith told the BBC, adding that he carried out the operation with Emmerson Mnangagwa, the man Gen Chiwenga is trying to install as Mr Mugabe's successor as president.\n\n\"They are joined at the hip, with Mnangagwa the senior partner,\" Mr Smith said.\n\nAfter a long delay, the official results were announced, saying that Mr Tsvangirai had not gained the 50% required for victory and so a second round was needed. Before the run-off, pro-Zanu-PF militias backed by the security forces attacked opposition supporters around the country, beating, raping and killing.\n\nMr Tsvangirai pulled out of the second round and Mr Mugabe remained in power.\n\nThis opposition supporter was one of thousands who said their homes were attacked by pro-Zanu-PF militias\n\nGen Chiwenga joined the guerrilla war against white minority rule in the then Rhodesia as a teenager and got military training in Mozambique and Tanzania.\n\nAfter independence, he received British training, as a new army, made up of ex-guerrillas and soldiers of the former white minority regime, was formed.\n\nPower in Zimbabwe is monopolised by those who fought the 1970s war of independence\n\nRecalling his ex-student in an interview with the UK-based Sunday Times newspaper, retired Lt-Col Zach Freeth, 76, said Gen Chiwenga was once caught cheating, and while he was deciding what to do with him the next morning, he received news that that the ex-guerrilla fighter, then in his 20s, had shot himself in the chest twice but had miraculously survived.\n\nLt-Col Freeth said the incident was forgotten, but when Gen Chiwenga was appointed defence chief in 2003 he invited him to his home.\n\n\"He gave me his card and said: 'If you ever need anything...' We both knew what he was referring to.\"\n\nLt-Col Freeth was quoted as saying: \"I knew him very well. I probably did too good a job.\"\n\nMany Zimbabweans are hoping that the army's intervention will lead to the downfall of Mr Mugabe\n\nA Zimbabwean lawyer, who has met Gen Chiwenga on several occasions, offered a different perspective of the army chief.\n\n\"He is fearless, and as tough as nails,\" the lawyer, who asked not to be identified, told the BBC.\n\n\"In terms of his political outlook, he is a Pan-Africanist at heart. He abhors the notion that Western values are superior. He believes in equal recognition, and that comes from the heart,\" the lawyer added.\n\nNow married to Mary Chiwenga - a former model and ex-wife of footballer Shingi Kazwondera - Gen Chiwenga was involved in a messy divorce about five years ago when he ended his marriage to his then-wife, Jocelyn.\n\nAt the time, the privately owned NewZimbabwe.com news site reported that it had seen court papers in which Gen Chiwenga alleged that his wife used to beat him up, and even thrashed his office at military headquarters.\n\nShe hit back, alleging that she was, in fact, the victim, and their marriage ran into trouble because he was having an affair with his current wife.\n\nPresident Mugabe's plan to anoint his wife, Grace, as his successor caused the crisis\n\nGen Chiwenga's messy divorce enhanced, rather than damaged, his reputation among his troops.\n\nAs one soldier told the BBC: \"The general is a very patient man. Look at how his relationship with Jocelyn was, but he waited for the right time to call it off.\"\n\nHis second wife obtained a degree from a university where Mr Mugabe is the chancellor just two days after the general took power.\n\nMr Mugabe conferred degrees on more than 3,000 students, in his first public appearance since being put under house arrest. However, Mrs Chiwenga failed to attend.\n\nPresident Robert Mugabe was to have conferred a degree on the general's wife\n\nThe veteran leader's appearance in public was intended to show that the general was treating him kindly.\n\nSaid the soldier: \"Gen Chiwenga is a man of the people, a hard-working person who stands for the truth. He is an achiever.... No matter what is happening, the president will never win.\"\n\nThe army chief put Mr Mugabe under house arrest after the president had sacked the general's close ally Vice-President Mnangagwa, in a move seen as an attempt to install the Mr Mugabe's wife, Grace, as his successor.\n\nDays earlier, Gen Chiwenga had warned that \"the current purging, which is clearly targeting members of the party with a liberation background, must stop forthwith\".\n\nGen Chiwenga then went to China, and Mr Mugabe's allies in the security forces planned to arrest him on his return, Mr Smith said.\n\nBut the general got wind of the plot, and a strong contingent of loyalist troops arrived at the airport, to prevent his detention.\n\nShortly afterwards, the army chief took power, but insisted that he was not staging a coup.\n\nThe army said it had intervened to arrest the \"criminals\" around Mr Mugabe, a reference to the political faction headed by Mrs Mugabe, and to end the economic suffering of Zimbabweans.\n\nHis intervention caught Zimbabweans by surprise but, as the lawyer who has observed his career closely, said: \"Once you cross a certain path, he does not hesitate to act. However, he respects Mugabe and will want him to go out in the most dignified way possible.\n\n\"He is genuinely worried about the economic crisis and sees it as a threat to national security. So, he wants the politicians to start dealing with it, and he did not think the G40 faction [headed by Mrs Mugabe] would,\" said the lawyer.\n\nGen Chiwenga flanked Mr Mugabe when he addressed the nation on Sunday night, vowing to remain in office despite the intense pressure on him to leave office.\n\nThe army chief helped the president with his papers, as he struggled to read his long speech, and his officers saluted Mr Mugabe, still their commander-in-chief.\n\n\"It was theatre intended to show that the military are not bully boys picking on a nonagenarian. They want this to be sorted out as amicably as possible,\" Africa Confidential's Mr Smith said.\n\nRead more about the Zimbabwe crisis:", "Mark Milsome was working on The Forgiving Earth when the incident occurred\n\nA British camera operator has died while shooting a stunt sequence for a BBC drama in Ghana.\n\nMark Milsome, whose credits include Saving Private Ryan and Sherlock, was working on upcoming drama The Forgiving Earth when the incident occurred.\n\nThe BBC said it was \"deeply shocked and saddened\" by the news, calling Milsome \"a much respected colleague\".\n\nHis agent said he would be \"greatly missed\" and that an investigation into Saturday's incident was under way.\n\n\"We all need answers to this dreadful tragedy,\" said Sarah Prince of PrinceStone.\n\nIt has been reported that Milsome, who was from Builth Wells, was taking part in a night shoot for a car stunt scene.\n\nMilsome's many credits include Game of Thrones, The Theory of Everything and Bond film Quantum of Solace.\n\nHis agent said he was \"an incredibly talented cameraman... a gentle gentleman [and a] genuinely loved member of the film industry family\".\n\nCinematographer Seamus McGarvey was among those to remember Milsome on Twitter, calling him \"one of the loveliest people [he had] ever met\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Seamus McGarvey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDirector Mark Herman, who worked with Milsome on such films as Brassed Off and Little Voice, also paid tribute, saying he was \"one of the nicest guys in the business\".\n\nMilsome started out in the 1990s as a clapper loader, working his way up the camera department to focus puller, camera operator and director of photography.\n\nThe 54-year-old leaves a wife and daughter, to whom his agent said he was devoted.\n\nFormerly known as Black Earth Rising, The Forgiving Earth is a BBC co-production with subscription service Netflix about the prosecution of international war crimes.\n\nWritten by Hugo Blick, who wrote and directed thriller The Honourable Woman, it is provisionally set for transmission in 2018.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Robert Mugabe: \"The congress is due... I will preside over its processes\"\n\nZimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has defied calls from the public, the army and his own party to resign, vowing to stay in power for several weeks.\n\nHis televised address on Sunday triggered an avalanche of comments across social media.\n\nResponding to another user's comments, constitutional lawyer and human rights activist Tendai Biti argued that Mr Mugabe, who has ruled Zimbabwe since 1980, would never quit.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by TENDAI BITI This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTau Moyo was one of many users who expressed shock and anger over Mr Mugabe's decision to stay 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 2 by Tau Moyo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTalent Machingura put it bluntly, saying that people's hopes were \"crushed\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Talent machingura This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAncillar Mangena thought it was Mr Mugabe's message to the world that \"he is in charge\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Ancillar Mangena This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 many users were left simply confused about what may happen next.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Raphael Goredema This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOthers are already looking forward to Tuesday, when impeachment proceedings might be launched in parliament.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by Tendayi Manyange This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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.", "RT has run a series of ad campaigns on the London Underground\n\nGoogle is to \"derank\" stories from Kremlin-owned publications Russia Today (RT) and Sputnik in response to allegations about election meddling by President Putin's government.\n\nAlphabet chairman Eric Schmidt said the search giant needed to deal with the spread of misinformation.\n\nRT has been described by US intelligence agencies as \"Russia's state-run propaganda machine\".\n\nThe publications said the move was a form of censorship.\n\nSpeaking at the Halifax International Security Forum, Mr Schmidt said: \"We're well aware of this one, and we're working on detecting this kind of scenario you're describing and deranking those kinds of sites.\"\n\nHe then named two of Russia's biggest media outlets: RT, a TV and online news organisation, and Sputnik, an online media network.\n\n\"I am strongly not in favour of censorship. I am very strongly in favour of ranking. It's what we do,\" he added. \"It's a very legitimate question as to how we rank, A or B, right? And we do the best we can in millions and millions of rankings every day,\" said Mr Schmidt.\n\nBut he added that it was a constant tug-of-war altering the search giant's algorithms to detect \"weaponised\" information because those seeking to manipulate the news agenda \"will get better tools too\".\n\nThe comments drew an angry response from the two publications, which have always defended themselves as legitimate news organisations.\n\n\"Good to have Google on record as defying all logic and reason: facts aren't allowed if they come from RT, 'because Russia' - even if we have Google on Congressional record saying they've found no manipulation of their platform or policy violations by RT,\" Sputnik and RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan said in a statement published on RT.\n\nIn October, Twitter announced that it would no longer allow advertisements from RT and Sputnik.\n\nAnd in November, RT was forced to register itself as a '\"foreign agent\" by the US Department of Justice. The broadcaster is fighting the order in court.\n\nRussia has repeatedly denied claims that it interfered in the 2016 presidential elections. US intelligence services accuse the country of trying to sway the vote in favour of Donald Trump by spreading fake news and hacking the Democratic National Committee (DNC) networks in order to undermine Hillary Clinton.", "Camelot, the operator of the National Lottery, is planning to introduce a new game which offers winners a monthly income for the rest of their lives.\n\nInstead of winning a lump sum, those taking part could win as much as £10,000 a month, providing them with a lifetime annuity.\n\nCamelot said it was one of the different options it was looking at as a way for it to attract new players.\n\nIt follows a poor performance, as the firm raised less money for good causes.\n\nA spokesperson for Camelot said binge spending was not a factor behind the idea.\n\nHe said it was for people who had \"a different dream\". It is likely to be introduced some time in 2019.\n\nIn the six months to the 23 September, National Lottery ticket sales fell by 3.2% compared to the same period last year.\n\nOver the same time it raised £746.6m for good causes, a 4.7% drop on 2016.\n\nCamelot UK has also appointed Nigel Railton as its permanent chief executive. He is charged with returning the National Lottery to growth.\n\nMr Railton is said to be keen on the annuity idea, having spent time in Chicago as boss of Camelot Global.\n\nIn the United States pay-outs of $10,000 a month for life are a regular feature of local lotteries.\n\nIn the UK a small number of lump-sum lottery winners have lost all their cash after spending it. Since 1994 it is thought that around ten millionaires have blown their winnings, out of 4,750 winners.\n\nPete Kyle, who reportedly spent most of his £5m winnings\n\nAmong them was Pete Kyle from Plymouth, who won over £5m in 2005.\n\nIn August this year The Sun reported that he was penniless, after blowing the cash on luxury cars and holidays.\n\nCamelot said it was also planning to re-design its Lotto game, following criticism by players.\n\nIn 2015 it added 10 extra balls to the draw, making it harder to win a jackpot.\n\nFrom next year it said it will offer a better game, with a jackpot being won more frequently.\n\nHowever it is going to keep the existing number of balls.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kendall Jenner has been named the world's highest paid model by Forbes Magazine, earning $22m (£16.6m) in 2017.\n\nJenner, who is part of the Kardashian family, beat Chrissy Teigen, Adriana Lima and Gigi Hadid to the top spot.\n\nIt was also the first time in 15 years that Gisele Bundchen did not claim the accolade after earning $17.5m (£13.2m).\n\nAshley Graham also made the top ten, making her the first plus-sized model to feature on the list.\n\nKendall Jenner at the Anna Sui New York Fashion Week show in February 2017\n\nAt just 22, Kendall Jenner takes the top spot, with her earnings more than doubling since last year from $10m (£7.5m) to $22m (£16.6m).\n\nJenner has walked for Alexander Wang, Fendi, Chanel, Marc Jacobs and many others this year along with taking part in advertising campaigns for Estee Lauder and Adidas.\n\nGisele Bundchen last took to the catwalk for Colcci in 2016 and is now retired\n\nDespite retiring from the catwalk last year, Bundchen still came second in the rankings for Forbes' highest earning model.\n\nShe has shot for Vogue Paris this year and in advertising campaigns for Arezzo, helping her bank $17.5m (£13.2m).\n\nThe Brazilian-born model has also been dedicating her time to campaigning for more sustainability in the fashion industry.\n\nTeigan appearing at the Revolve Awards in November 2017\n\nChrissy Teigen joins the highest paid list for the first time thanks to deals with McDonalds, Vita Coco and Smirnoff.\n\nShe earned $13.5m (£10.2m) in 2017 and is known for her appearances in Sports Illustrated and Cosmopolitan, plus has had editorials in Vogue and Glamour.\n\nLima is a Victoria's Secret angel and walked the runway at the 2017 Shanghai show\n\nAdriana Lima is one of four current Victoria's Secret Angels to make the list, but 9 out of 10 of this year's highest-paid models have walked for the lingerie company at some point in their career.\n\nShe took part in the Victoria's Secret show in Shanghai on Monday - the first time the show has taken place in China.\n\nThe Brazilian model earned $10.5m (£7.9m) this year, thanks to being an Angel and having campaigns with Maybelline and Desigual.\n\nHadid made $9.5m (£7.2m) this year thanks to a number of catwalk appearances at New York, Milan and Paris fashion weeks for Missoni, Balmain, Isabel Marant and Moschino.\n\nThe 22-year-old also launched her own make-up collection with Maybelline and collaborated with Tommy Hilfiger and Stuart Weitzman on fashion and shoe lines.\n\nDespite taking time out this year to have her first child, the 30-year-old still managed to come joint fifth place with Hadid, also earning $9.5m.\n\nThis is due to her continuing underwear collection with Marks and Spencer and ad campaigns for fashion brands Paige and Ugg.\n\nThe American model and computer programmer earned $9m (£6.8m) in 2017 due to modelling deals with Calvin Klein and Swarovski.\n\nKloss also appeared in Vogue and Harper's Bazaar and this year returned to the Victoria's Secret Show after a two year break.\n\nLiu Wen earned $6.5m (£5m) in 2017 and became the first Chinese model to appear on the front cover of American Vogue.\n\nThe 28-year-old walked for Michael Kors and Anna Sui at New York Fashion Week and also modelled for Chanel and Puma.\n\nFor the first time ever, the list includes both Hadid sisters - with Bella Hadid, the younger of the two, netting $6m (£4.5m)\n\nAt 21, newcomer Bella Hadid is the youngest model in the ranking.\n\nThis year she has walked for Chanel, Givenchy, Oscar de la Renta and Lanvin across New York, Paris, Milan and London Fashion Weeks.\n\nAshley Graham at the Michael Kors New York Fashion Week Show in September 2017\n\nAshley Graham is the first ever plus-sized model to make the highest-paid list after earning $5.5m (£4.1m) in 2017.\n\nThe 30-year-old has her own lingerie and swimsuit lines, plus has featured in advertising campaigns with the likes of Lane Bryant, Dressbarn and H&M.\n\nShe has also appeared on the front cover of Elle, Vogue and Glamour this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "When the only interaction is with a machine, shopping can be a \"miserable experience\"\n\nAutomated checkout machines put off about a quarter of older people from going shopping, a survey from a housing charity for the elderly suggests.\n\nThey can find the automated checkouts \"intimidating\" and \"unfriendly,\" according to the charity, Anchor.\n\nWithout someone to talk to at the tills, shopping can be a \"miserable experience,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThe British Retail Consortium said it was important for shops to be welcome destinations for all of the community.\n\nThe lack of seats in shopping centres or on High Streets can also make older people feel \"shut out\", according to the charity.\n\nIt also warned that automated checkouts could add to loneliness and isolation among the elderly.\n\n\"There was a time when people knew their shopkeepers and could pass the time of day. You can't do that with a machine,\" says Mario Ambrosi, a spokesman for the charity.\n\nThe report from the charity, produced by the Centre for Future Studies consultancy group, says there is a \"dire need for the High Street to re-invent itself\" if it is going to be accessible and attractive to older people.\n\nThe study suggests 24% of older people are deterred from shopping by automated checkouts and 60% are worried that there will be a lack of seating if they need to rest.\n\nThe report says older people can feel \"shut out\" from shopping\n\nWith rising numbers of older people, the charity says that by the end of the next decade retailers could be missing out on £4.5bn per year if pensioners stay away from the shops.\n\n\"The technology needs to have some human interaction, it's what gets people into the shops,\" says Mr Ambrosi.\n\nHe says there are still \"significant numbers\" of older people who are not online and depend on going to the shops - but who find the experience uncomfortable.\n\nFor the automated checkouts, he says people might feel under pressure \"if they don't respond quickly enough\" to the instructions.\n\nIt also might mean \"they can have gone shopping without having said 'hello' to a single person - and that's quite a miserable experience,\" he says.\n\nDaphne Guthrie, who is approaching her 93rd birthday, says across her lifetime she has seen a complete change in shopping culture - from small, privately owned stores, where shopkeepers knew their customers, to impersonal megastores.\n\n\"I wouldn't want everything to be automated,\" says Daphne Guthrie.\n\nMrs Guthrie, from Market Deeping, in Lincolnshire, says she would always choose a till with a human and has never tried the automatic checkouts.\n\nShe would like shops to be more welcoming to older customers and shopping centres to be less harsh environments for people who might want to stop and chat, particularly those who might not get to talk to many people.\n\n\"They should be more friendly - treat me as a person and not just someone who pays the bill.\n\n\"I wouldn't want everything to be automated,\" she says,\n\nThe Campaign to End Loneliness has warned of an estimated 1.2 million people in the UK who have \"chronic\" loneliness.\n\nThe campaign has highlighted that automated checkouts have shut down what might be some people's only chance to talk to someone during the day.\n\nAnchor is also promoting the Standing Up 4 Sitting Down campaign to improve seating in shops and the High Street.\n\nA spokeswoman for the British Retail Consortium said shops had been trying to incorporate more seating to \"ensure everyone can have an enjoyable shopping experience\".\n\n\"As high streets continue to evolve, it's increasingly important they are welcome destinations for people of all parts of the community.\"\n\nBut the increase in automation and self-checkout machines is about costs, the retailers' group said, reflecting the \"diverging costs of labour versus technology\".\n\nCaroline Abrahams of Age UK said: \"Clearly there is no single 'older consumer' - people in later life are incredibly diverse in terms of their interests, income and health.\n\n\"That's why it's vital that shops and companies do not stereotype their older customers, whilst also being aware of the ways in which some might need a bit of practical support.\"\n\nMartin Tett, the Local Government Association's environment spokesman, said councils understood how \"crucial it is that all members of our communities can play a role in our civic life, and that includes making sure our high streets are as accessible as possible\".\n\nHe said that councils could support partnerships to \"support dementia-friendly communities or age-friendly cities\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. German chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday said it was a day of \"deep reflection\" for Germany\n\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she would prefer new elections to leading a minority government, after a breakdown in coalition talks plunged the country into political crisis.\n\nShe also said she did not see any reason to resign from her post despite the failed negotiations.\n\nOn Sunday evening, the FDP liberals pulled out of talks with Mrs Merkel's CDU/CSU bloc and the Greens.\n\nGermany's president called on parties to \"reconsider their attitudes\".\n\nFrank-Walter Steinmeier urged them to make compromises for Germany's \"well-being\", amid a situation he said was unprecedented.\n\nMrs Merkel faces her biggest challenge in 12 years as chancellor.\n\n\"The path to the formation of a government is proving harder than any of us had wished for,\" she told broadcaster ARD.\n\nBut she said she was \"very sceptical\" about a minority government, adding that \"new elections would be the better path\".\n\nIn a separate interview with the ZDF broadcaster, she argued Germany needed stability and a government \"that does not need to seek a majority for every decision\".\n\nThe elections were held in late September.\n\nSome in Mrs Merkel's party still hope for another grand coalition with the Social Democrats (SPD), despite that party repeatedly ruling such an option out.\n\nEarlier on Monday, SPD leader Martin Schulz said his party was \"not afraid of new elections\".\n\nWhen asked about the prospect of another alliance with the SPD, Mrs Merkel told ZDF she would wait to see what came of upcoming talks between President Steinmeier and SPD leaders.\n\nHowever, she said a demand for her to resign would not make a positive start for a new coalition.\n\nIf fresh elections are to happen, they would need to be called by Mr Steinmeier, after a long drawn-out process that would take months.\n\nBut he appears to view new polls as a last resort. In a brief address earlier on Monday he told politicians they had a responsibility that could not just be handed back to voters.\n\n\"Inside our country, but also outside, in particular in our European neighbourhood, there would be concern and a lack of understanding if politicians in the biggest and economically strongest country [in Europe] did not live up to their responsibilities,\" he said in a statement.\n\nMrs Merkel's bloc won September's poll, but many voters deserted the mainstream parties.\n\nNegotiations between the pro-market FDP, the Greens and the conservative CDU/CSU bloc had gone on for four weeks before the FDP's surprise withdrawal late on Sunday.\n\nMrs Merkel blamed the FDP for the collapse, saying that the parties were on the \"home straight\" when the liberals pulled out.\n\nBut FDP leader Christian Lindner has defended his party, saying it \"did not take such a decision lightly\".\n\nDespite Mrs Merkel's words about a fresh poll, analysts say the new elections would be likely to benefit the anti-Islam, anti-immigrant AfD most, so other parties would probably try to avoid them.\n\nThe far-right AfD won 12.6% of the vote in the September elections, entering parliament for the first time with more than 90 seats.", "A woman was filmed repeatedly hitting a man with a riding crop during a hunt in Sussex.\n\nIt happened after the man, who appears to be a hunt saboteur, took hold of the horse's reins.", "Charlie Rose, 75, is one of America's most respected broadcasters\n\nUS TV host Charlie Rose has been fired by CBS News following sexual harassment allegations.\n\nAn email to staff said the presenter's employment had been \"terminated... effective immediately\".\n\nIt said the move followed the revelation of \"extremely disturbing and intolerable behaviour\" said to have taken place around his programme.\n\nEight women accused the veteran TV interviewer of inappropriate behaviour in a report by the Washington Post.\n\nFollowing the allegations he was suspended by CBS, PBS and Bloomberg. Rose co-hosted the CBS This Morning show and was a correspondent for its Sunday night news magazine 60 Minutes. He appeared on PBS and Bloomberg with the Charlie Rose show.\n\nRose apologised following the Washington Post story, but said not all the claims were accurate.\n\nThe allegations span from the 1990s to 2011 and include groping, lewd telephone calls and unwanted advances.\n\nThe internal email to staff from CBS News president David Rhodes read: \"Despite Charlie's important journalistic contribution to our news division, there is absolutely nothing more important, in this or any organisation, than ensuring a safe, professional workplace - a supportive environment where people feel they can do their best work. We need to be such a place.\n\n\"I've often heard that things used to be different. And no-one may be able to correct the past. But what may once have been accepted should not ever have been acceptable.\"\n\nRose, 75, is one of America's most respected broadcasters and his interviews have won him Emmy and Peabody awards. He was named by Time magazine as one of its 100 most influential people in 2014.\n\nHe is known for conducting in-depth interviews, including with such high-profile guests as former President Barack Obama, talk show host Oprah Winfrey and billionaire Warren Buffett, on his eponymous television programme which first aired in 1991.\n\nCharlie Rose's interviews have won him several awards\n\nIn recent weeks, numerous high-profile figures, including Oscar-winning actors and a Hollywood filmmaker, have been accused of sexual harassment.\n\nThe accusations were sparked by multiple women speaking out against the Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, and a subsequent campaign encouraging victims to share their stories of sexual harassment under the #metoo hashtag.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Benedict Allen said he made a video for his family in case he died whilst on expedition\n\nExplorer Benedict Allen encountered a tribal war, was caught in electrical storms and fell ill with malaria and dengue fever on an ill-fated jungle trek in Papua New Guinea, he has said.\n\nA search was mounted last week after Mr Allen missed planned flights. He was rescued by helicopter a few days later.\n\nSpeaking to his friend, the BBC's Frank Gardner, Mr Allen, 57, said he was weak from malaria but was \"bouncing back\".\n\nHis worst moment had been making a video will for his family, he said.\n\nMr Allen, a father of three young children, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme he never took satellite phones or GPS with him on expeditions, but might consider doing so in the future.\n\nHis family's distress at his apparent disappearance appeared across newspapers, TV and radio, and prompted the Daily Mail, a British newspaper, to send a helicopter into the jungle to rescue him.\n\nHe said he had spent two days under observation at a hospital in Papua New Guinea before the doctors gave him the all-clear.\n\nNow back in the UK, he said he was weak from malaria - the sixth time he has had it - and \"not that sharp mentally\".\n\nMr Allen denied the search and rescue was a publicity stunt to raise his profile.\n\n\"I videoed all of this and you can see me deteriorating with malaria,\" he told Today.\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 Allen, who has filmed a number of his adventures for BBC documentaries, said he had not got lost, but events had seemed to conspire against him.\n\n\"I always knew exactly where I was, things just began to go wrong,\" he said.\n\nThe trip had been hampered by a massive storm which swept away a vine bridge over a river.\n\nHe had also started to feel the symptoms of malaria and his tablets had become sodden in the wet.\n\nThe final straw, he said, was when he discovered there was a war going on ahead of him and he could not get out.\n\n\"I had to make my way to the nearest airstrip and try to get any local plane to come in,\" he said.\n\nHe filmed an appeal on his video camera asking for a message to his children, aged 10, seven and two, and wife, Lenka, to be taken to the British High Commission if he died.\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\nAsked if this latest venture had been part of a mid-life crisis, Mr Allen said he saw himself as a professional - \"a risk calculator, not a risk taker\".\n\n\"On the very day the helicopter came, I had been gearing up to do a last walk out.\n\n\"I thought I was 80-85% likely to be successful, so I hadn't given up,\" he said, in an interview from west London.\n\n\"I never asked to be rescued but when it came - for the sake of my family - I thought 'I've got to do this'.\"\n\nMr Allen set out in October for Papua New Guinea to try to find the reclusive Yaifo tribe, who he first met 30 years ago.\n\nThe rainforest was, he said, an \"extraordinary place that can work to pull you apart\" - the \"leeches, the constant rain, trees thumping down in the night, sleeping in a sort of swamp\".\n\nAmong his travelling companions, natives of the rainforest, he knew he was the weakest and, after three weeks, knew he was \"falling apart\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a recent documentary Benedict Allen described his experiences of living in Papua New Guinea\n\nExplaining his reasoning behind travelling alone without a phone, he said he tried to immerse himself in other people's worlds.\n\nHis back-up was the local people who were always friendly to him, he told BBC's Victoria Derbyshire, in his first TV interview.\n\n\"The forest to them is not a threat. It's their home and gives them their food, shelter, medicine, so I had a resource.\"\n\nHe also defended himself against accusations he was \"an imperialist going in to see a lost tribe\".\n\n\"It wasn't like that. I simply had the privilege 30 years ago to meet these people.\n\n\"I wanted to see that they were alive and well - and they were.\n\n\"It was magnificent - a great welcome.\"\n\nMr Allen has previously crossed the Amazon Basin on foot and in a dug-out canoe, and participated in a six-week male initiation ceremony during which crocodile marks were carved onto his body.\n\nFirst solo adventure: To the Amazon at 22, during which he was shot at by two hitmen\n\nTough time: An initiation into manhood in Papua New Guinea. He was kept in a \"crocodile nest\" with 20 others and repeatedly cut with bamboo blades to leave scars that looked like crocodile scales\n\nLow moment: Eating his own dog to survive\n\nTravel habit: Always keeps loo paper in a back pocket. \"You know how it is,\" he told the Lonely Planet\n\nPhilosophy: \"For me personally, exploration isn't about conquering nature, planting flags or leaving your mark. It's about the opposite: opening yourself up and allowing the place to leave its mark on you.\"\n\nCareer: Six TV series for the BBC, author, motivational speaker", "Brook House holds up to 508 adult male asylum seekers, illegal immigrants and foreign national offenders\n\nSecurity firm G4S has commissioned an independent inquiry to review the \"attitude and behaviour\" of staff at an immigration removal centre it runs.\n\nStaff at Brook House were allegedly caught \"mocking, abusing and assaulting\" people being held there in covert footage filmed for BBC Panorama.\n\nG4S has a government contract to run the centre near Gatwick Airport.\n\nIt has appointed an outside consultancy to conduct the inquiry but has not said whether the findings will be published.\n\nIn September, Panorama aired footage recorded by ex-custody officer Callum Tulley at Brook House, which holds detainees who are facing deportation from the UK.\n\nSecurity firm G4S has since dismissed six members of staff at the centre and a number of other staff have also been disciplined.\n\nBrandon Lewis, the immigration minister, is expected to be questioned by MPs today about whether his department had concerns about the centre before the programme was broadcast.\n\nBBC News has now seen a letter from G4S to the Commons Home Affairs Select Committee which says the firm has commissioned an independent review to understand the \"extent and root causes of the treatment of detainees\" at Brook House.\n\nIt has appointed investigators from consultancy organisation Verita, which carried out a review of practices at Yarl's Wood immigration centre in Bedfordshire.\n\nThe investigation into Brook House will examine G4S's \"operational policies and management\", the treatment of detainees by staff, and the failings of whistleblowing procedures.\n\nBBC's home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said the inquiry is an indication of how seriously G4S regards the alleged abuse at Brook House.\n\nHe added that the Home Office is still considering whether to renew the company's contract.\n\nCallum Tulley, 21, agreed to go undercover at Brook House\n\nThe Equality and Human Rights Commission last month urged ministers to set up a public inquiry into wider issues with immigration centres - including allowing private firms to run them - but it says it has so far had no response from the Home Office.\n\nHome Secretary Amber Rudd, when asked about the Brook House programme at the home affairs committee last month, said she had been \"disgusted\" by the footage.\n\n\"It is completely unacceptable, and they have put together a plan of implementation to correct it,\" she told the committee.\n\nBrook House was branded \"fundamentally unsafe\" in 2010 - a year after opening.\n\nThree years later inspectors said they saw sustained improvement.\n\nThe most recent report from HM Chief Inspector of Prisons, released in March this year, said some detainees had been held for excessive periods due to \"unreasonable delays in immigration decision making\".", "General Chiwenga was welcomed to China by military leaders\n\nA trip to Beijing by Zimbabwe's military chief was a \"normal military exchange\", China's foreign ministry said after the army seized power in Harare. How deep are relations between China and Zimbabwe really?\n\nThe news that General Constantino Chiwenga had visited China only a few days before the military takeover in Zimbabwe was a coincidence that did not go unnoticed.\n\nThere was also speculation after China said it was closely watching developments, but stopped short of condemning President Mugabe's apparent removal from power.\n\nChina is Zimbabwe's fourth largest trading partner and its largest source of investment - with stakes worth many billions of pounds in everything from agriculture to construction.\n\nZimbabwe is the dependent partner - with China providing the largest market for its exports and much needed support to its fragile economy.\n\nChina's relations with Zimbabwe are deep, starting during the Rhodesian Bush War.\n\nRobert Mugabe failed in 1979 to get Soviet backing, so turned to China, which provided his guerrilla fighters with weapons and training.\n\nBoth countries formally established diplomatic relations at Zimbabwean independence in 1980 and Robert Mugabe visited Beijing as prime minister the following year.\n\nHe has been a regular visitor since.\n\nFor years, Zimbabwe's officials have tried to play off China against the West, advocating the country's \"Look East\" strategy, particularly following the introduction of EU sanctions in 2002.\n\nIndeed, a decade ago, Mr Mugabe told a packed rally at the Chinese-built national sports stadium in Harare: 'We have turned east, where the sun rises, and given our back to the west, where the sun sets.\"\n\nChina's military engagement also deepened during Zimbabwe's \"Look East\" era.\n\nHowever, following a controversy about a shipment of arms in 2008, Beijing decided to list Zimbabwe for \"limited level\" military trading.\n\nDespite Zimbabwe's efforts, the \"Look East\" strategy did not bring the investment flood hoped for and a decade later, in August 2015, Mr Mugabe openly asked for Western re-engagement in his \"state of the nation\" address.\n\nNow, the reality is that increasingly Chinese and Western interests - particularly those of the UK - have become aligned.\n\nNot far from each other in the outer suburbs of Harare, two of the biggest embassies in Zimbabwe are the British and the Chinese.\n\nAs other embassies scaled down or closed, Beijing's expanded.\n\nWhereas British diplomats were well connected with business, civil society and opposition figures, the Chinese invested in \"technical support\" of the party of government Zanu-PF, including state security and the presidency.\n\nWhen it came to Zanu-PF politics and factionalism, Chinese diplomats were well connected and insightful and, like their Western colleagues, concerned about stability, a better investment climate and adherence to the rule of law.\n\nPresident Xi Jinping visited Zimbabwe in 2015 and President Mugabe visited Beijing in January 2017.\n\nIn public, the Chinese leader said his country is willing to encourage capable companies to invest in Zimbabwe.\n\nBut in private, the message was that there would be no more loans until Zimbabwe stabilised its economy.\n\nMaj Gen Sibusiso Moyo said the military was not staging a coup\n\nIn 2016 trade between the two countries amounted to $1.1bn (£0.8bn), with China the biggest buyer of Zimbabwean tobacco and also importing cotton and various minerals.\n\nIn return Zimbabwe imported electronics, clothing and other finished products.\n\nChinese state construction firms have also been active, building infrastructure including Zimbabwe's $100m (£75m) National Defence College.\n\nAnd last year China agreed to finance a new 650-seat parliament in Harare.\n\nBut Chinese diplomats and many businesses are waiting for better days in Zimbabwe.\n\nSome companies have found the investment climate challenging - being burned on diamonds, for example - and have looked for alternative markets.\n\nA couple of weeks ago I was in China, attending a meeting on China-Africa relations and Zimbabwe was not mentioned once.\n\nUnlike Ethiopia, Sudan, or Angola that are strategic partners, or big markets like Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa, Zimbabwe is far from being Beijing's new priority.\n\nSo, Beijing's interest is in a better investment climate in Zimbabwe.\n\nA clear transitional arrangement resulting in elections for a legitimate government in Harare is as much in Beijing's interest as London's.\n\nThe \"Look East\" and the \"Re-engagement with the West\" strategies have not brought about the confidence and investment that Zimbabwe needs.\n\nWhat Zimbabwe requires is stable and accountable government - then investors from Asia, America and Europe will seriously consider that Zimbabwe has an investment future.\n\nThis was the message that Mr Mugabe received in Beijing in January.\n\nAnd the one which Zimbabwe's military chief also was given last week.\n\nThis analysis piece was commissioned by the BBC from an expert working for an outside organisation.\n\nDr Alex Vines OBE is Head of Africa Programme, Chatham House, and a Senior Lecturer at Coventry University.\n\nChatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, describes itself as an independent policy institute helping to build a sustainably secure, prosperous and just world.", "Speaking to BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, DUP leader Arlene Foster accuses Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar of being \"reckless\" towards the future of Northern Ireland as Brexit talks enter a \"critical phase\".", "Conservative and unionist MPs want a \"statute of limitations\" to prevent security force members being prosecuted for offences early in the Troubles\n\nSinn Féin's Gerry Adams has expressed concern about a proposed \"amnesty for British crown forces\" allegedly involved in Troubles' offences.\n\nMr Adams said there had been a change to legacy arrangements envisaged under a previous political agreement.\n\nHe was speaking after meeting Prime Minister Theresa May.\n\nConservative and unionist MPs want a \"statute of limitations\" to prevent security force members being prosecuted for offences early in the Troubles.\n\nGerry Adams held talks with Theresa May on Tuesday\n\nMr Adams, the outgoing Sinn Féin leader, said he understood a new section had been added to the 2014 Stormont House Agreement and that it was \"about an amnesty for British crown forces\" - the term republicans to describe the Army and police.\n\n\"That is an act of bad faith, we weren't told this, we understand the Irish government weren't told this,\" Mr Adams said.\n\n\"So how on earth can a British prime minister hope to persuade anybody that there's a possibility of a new dispensation emerging when she takes up this position and her secretary of state takes up this position also?\"\n\nA government source told the BBC that their preferred approach remained the proposals set out under the Stormont House Agreement, but that the government wanted, in their consultation, to ask the public what they thought about a statute of limitations.\n\nThe Irish government said it would \"not look favourably\" on any amnesty measure in Northern Ireland.\n\n\"There are no amnesties from prosecution provided for in the Good Friday Agreement or any subsequent agreements including the Stormont House Agreement,\" a spokesman for the Department of Foreign Affairs said.\n\nEarlier, the DUP said Sinn Féin must stop glorifying the murders of innocent people.\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster said remarks made about IRA terrorism at Sinn Fein's annual gathering were 'quite disgraceful'\n\nSpeaking after a separate meeting with Mrs May, DUP leader Arlene Foster said remarks made about IRA terrorism at Sinn Féin's annual gathering were \"quite disgraceful\".\n\nShe said the DUP would continue to work towards the restoration of devolution.\n\nMr Adams, however, rejected Mrs Foster's allegations, saying they were an excuse not to strike a deal.\n\nThe Sinn Féin president was accompanied to the Downing Street talks by the party's leader north of the border, Michelle O'Neill, and its vice president, Mary-Lou McDonald.\n\nNorthern Ireland has been without a devolved administration since January, when the governing parties - the DUP and Sinn Féin - split in a bitter row over a botched green energy scheme.\n\nAt the Sinn Féin gathering (ard fheis) in Dublin at the weekend, tributes were paid to the late Martin McGuinness.\n\nSinn Féin was viewed as the political wing of the IRA during the Troubles. Party members regularly attend commemorations for IRA members.\n\nThe Provisional IRA killed almost 1,800 people during its campaign, about 650 of those were civilians.\n\nTributes were paid to the late Martin McGuinness at the Sinn Féin party conference at the weekend\n\nOne of the loudest cheers of the conference came when delegates were told that the former Stormont deputy first minister, Mr McGuinness, had been a \"proud member of the IRA\".\n\nMrs Foster said she had told Mrs May the glorification of terrorism made the restoration of power sharing in Northern Ireland more difficult.\n\nShe said the DUP was talking about a deal to restore power sharing that both unionism and nationalism could live with, but she accused Sinn Féin of only being concerned with nationalism.\n\nShe also criticised calls from Sinn Féin for more direct involvement by both the London and Dublin governments over the political stalemate at Stormont - saying the internal governance of Northern Ireland was a matter for the UK government.\n\nThe Sinn Féin delegation had been expected to tell Theresa May that instead of direct rule, the British and Irish governments should deliver on equality issues like same-sex marriage and an Irish Language Act.\n\nBut DUP MP Nigel Dodds was scathing about Sinn Féin's complaints about equal rights.\n\nMichelle O'Neill and Gerry Adams are expected to press the government on same-sex marriage and an Irish language act\n\n\"When Sinn Féin lectures everybody about rights, remember that the greatest right of all is the right to life,\" said Mr Dodds, who met the prime minister with Mrs Foster.\n\n\"It is not just that Sinn Féin have supported IRA terrorism in the past, and the murder of innocent people, but even at the weekend they were continuing to eulogise and glorify the murder of innocent people.\n\n\"In a rights-based society, that has got to stop,\" he added.\n\nMrs May said it was clear the issues dividing the parties are relatively small in number, focusing mainly around culture, legacy, identity and the future stability of the devolved institutions.\n\n\"While not in any way underestimating the challenges involved, I believe that a way forward can be found and an agreement reached,\" she said.\n\nSinn Féin has called for a British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference to be convened to consider a way forward, but Mrs Foster described that body as a \"talking shop which has not met since 2007\".\n\nShe said Northern Ireland must not be used as a pawn in ongoing Brexit negotiations, accusing some in Dublin and Brussels of trying to recklessly use Northern Ireland for their own objectives.\n\nSinn Féin said the confidence and supply arrangement between the DUP and the Conservative Party had \"compounded\" the problems the parties faced.", "The chancellor is known by some around Westminster as \"box office Phil\", an ironic nickname for a politician who favours caution and prudence over showmanship and headline-grabbing pyrotechnics. So this should be Philip Hammond's sort of Budget.\n\nThe government is sticking with its aim of plugging the deficit and balancing the books. Although borrowing has fallen to its lowest level in a decade, the expected slowdown in productivity growth is likely to push future borrowing numbers back up, shrinking Mr Hammond's room to spend.\n\nAdd in the economic uncertainty around Brexit, and Mr Hammond might be tempted to play safe and avoid any drama.\n\nThere are political reasons for caution too. The Tories have a precarious working majority in the Commons with the help of the DUP, which means any remotely controversial votes on tax rises or spending cuts could easily be lost.\n\nMr Hammond has already been burned from fumbling a Budget measure, when he had to scrap plans to raise National Insurance contributions for the self-employed within a week of announcing the policy in March.\n\nThe chancellor does not revel in the political chess games enjoyed by his predecessor, George Osborne, who delighted in trying to outfox his opponents with a mischievous surprise. Not always successfully.\n\nPhilip Hammond definitely does not need his own \"omnishambles\" Budget this week, and nor does the government.\n\nBadly wounded by the botched general election in June, hit by the departure of two cabinet ministers in a month, divided on Brexit, for the Tories this is a Budget that must not backfire.\n\nIronically, it was June's election that kept Philip Hammond in his job.\n\nThere has been evidence of real tensions between the prime minister and her chancellor\n\nHardly allowed out in public during the campaign, he was widely expected to be chopped after the expected victory - an impression Theresa May did nothing to dispel at a joint press conference with her chancellor in May.\n\nTensions between Number 10 and Number 11 were clear and the source of the agro was of course Brexit. A supporter of Remain during the referendum, Mr Hammond has found himself battling the Brexiteers in the cabinet.\n\nHe wants a two-year post-Brexit transition deal agreed with the EU as soon as possible to stop businesses moving out.\n\nHe is resisting calls to set aside billions of pounds now for a no-deal scenario. Mr Hammond wants to protect financial services as much as possible.\n\nIn October, the former Tory Chancellor Lord Lawson accused Mr Hammond of acting in a way that was \"close to sabotage\", because of his Brexit negativity, and urged Theresa May to sack him.\n\nBut the prime minister, an Oxford university contemporary of her chancellor, shows no sign of wanting to move him.\n\nFormer Chancellors can also be dangerous to a prime minister. Theresa May might recall the resignation speech of Geoffrey Howe in 1990 after he quit as Deputy Prime Minister, following a political career spent at the Treasury and the Foreign Office.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIf you haven't seen it, his quietly deadly resignation speech is worth a few minutes of your time.\n\nSo considering the constraints, what are Tory MPs hoping for from Wednesday's budget?\n\n\"Nobody is expecting much,\" one veteran of the Conservative back benches told me. While no fan of Philip Hammond, \"we don't want a bloodbath\", they said.\n\n\"We don't want him to screw it up,\" said another senior Tory, who is hoping for a sunnier message from the sometimes doleful Chancellor.\n\nThe Tory MP Nigel Evans also says he wants a bit of cheer from Mr Hammond.\n\n\"If he comes to the despatch box and starts hand-wringing, and saying, 'We've got no money,' but at the same time we know they are prepared to up the amount of money they don't necessarily have to give the EU, then we'll all think, 'What the heck's going on?'\"\n\nThe consistent view among Leave-supporting Tories is that they want him to sound upbeat about the possibilities of Brexit.\n\nBut the chancellor has strong admirers on the Tory benches too, relieved he is in the Treasury's driving seat while the government argues about the final destination of Brexit.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell has demanded \"an emergency Budget for our public services\", which he says are in crisis\n\nThe MP for Chelmsford, Vicky Ford, is a fan. \"I want a chancellor who's as boring as anything, but really understands the numbers and the finances. I think Philip Hammond's been doing an incredibly good, detailed analysis and that's exactly what we need at this time.\"\n\nTory MPs agree it is a very difficult Budget for Philip Hammond to pitch. It needs to try to prove the government has a purpose other than Brexit, while having very little cash to splash. Maybe the chancellor will surprise us.\n\nThe former schoolboy disco entrepreneur turned wealthy businessman took career risks long before he entered politics. But Wednesday will be one of his toughest challenges yet.", "Laura Plummer is in police custody in the resort of Hurghada\n\nThe sister of a British woman facing drug smuggling charges in Egypt has apologised to the country's officials.\n\nLaura Plummer, 33, faces a trial accused of entering the country with 300 Tramadol tablets, a painkiller legal in the UK but not in Egypt.\n\nShe is in police custody in Hurghada awaiting a hearing date.\n\nHer sister Rachel told officials she had \"unintentionally done wrong\" and apologised for \"bringing such trouble to your country\".\n\nIt is not clear whether the apology has been seen by the authorities, who have not commented.\n\nBut in response to the apology, Ms Plummer's MP Karl Turner, described her as a \"decent, law-abiding\" citizen who had \"done something really silly\".\n\nLaura Plummer said the prescription pills were for her partner Omar Caboo\n\nMs Plummer, a shop assistant from Hull, claims she was carrying the pills for her Egyptian partner, Omar Caboo, who suffers from back pain.\n\nShe has been held in a cell, which she has to share with 25 other women.\n\nRachel Plummer said her sister had carried out \"a totally innocent action\"\n\nIn a statement, Rachel said she \"would like to place on record our gratitude for the fairness and just manner the Egyptian justice system has shown towards Laura\".\n\n\"We realise Laura has unintentionally done wrong in the eyes of the Egyptian authorities; a totally innocent action that has resulted in her being held in custody by the police in Hurghada,\" she said.\n\n\"Laura, along with all of us, loves Egypt and upon visits to see Laura we have been happy with the professional and fair way the police officers have been with Laura and we would like to apologise for bringing such trouble to your country.\"\n\nOther family members have made no further comment.\n\nLaura Plummer said she had \"no idea\" the painkillers she was carrying were banned in the country\n\nHe said he met Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson last week and was reassured \"the government is doing all it can\" to support Laura and her family. The UK Foreign Office has not publicly commented.\n\nMs Plummer said earlier this month she had \"no idea\" the painkillers she was carrying were banned in the country.\n\nBut local police said ignorance of the law was no excuse.\n\nTramadol is the most abused drug in Egypt, according to Ghada Wali, the country's Minister of Social Solidarity.\n\nDrug smuggling can carry the death sentence in Egypt.", "Rodney Bewes has died aged 79, his agent has confirmed.\n\nThe actor had a career spanning six decades and is best known for playing Bob Ferris in sitcom The Likely Lads.\n\nHis agent issued a statement saying: \"It is with great sadness that we confirm that our dear client, the much-loved actor Rodney Bewes, passed away this morning.\"\n\nThe statement paid tribute to the actor, calling him a \"true one-off\" and a \"brilliant storyteller\".\n\n\"He had a funny anecdote for every occasion. Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this sad time. We will miss him terribly.\"\n\nBewes was originally from Bingley in Yorkshire but moved to Luton as a child.\n\nDespite childhood asthma keeping him house-bound until the age of 12, he achieved his first role at the age of 14 and went on to study drama at RADA.\n\nBewes starred alongside Peter Davison in the 21st series of Doctor Who\n\nHe gained fame in the 1960s and 1970s playing Bob Ferris in the BBC sitcom The Likely Lads, and in its sequel, Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? - which drew audiences of up to 27m.\n\nIn 1984, he became a member of the Doctor Who cast during Peter Davison's run as the Time Lord, portraying a humanoid named Stien in Resurrection Of The Daleks.\n\nHe died six days before he would have celebrated his 80th birthday.\n\nBewes is survived by his four children - Billy, Joe, Tom and Daisy - and his two grandchildren, Oscar and Eliza.\n\nOn Wednesday, his children released a joint statement saying they \"will always remember Dad as full of laughter and fun\".\n\n\"He will be much missed by his many friends in London, Henley, Edinburgh and Cornwall. We are very touched by all the warm messages people have left.\"\n\nShane Allen, controller BBC Comedy, said Bewes was \"beloved as one half of the great British sitcom partnerships of all time\".\n\nHe added: \"Audiences got to see him go from black and white to colour as the revival was a huge hit with audiences of all ages. It's one of the all-time great BBC sitcoms; timeless in its humour and will be enjoyed for decades to come.\"\n\nTributes have also been pouring in for the star 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 antanddec This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Jack Dee said The Likely Lads was one of the \"great\" sitcoms.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Jack Dee This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRadio presenter Danny Baker described The Likely Lads as \"the gold standard\" and \"envy of the comedic world\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Danny Baker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWriter and actor Julian Dutton described Bewes as \"a fine actor\".\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\nAnd Olympic rower Matthew Pinsent paid tribute to the actor, who he said used to cheer on crews at Henley.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by Matthew Pinsent This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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.", "Pairs of John Lennon's signature round glasses were also found\n\nGerman police have recovered more than 100 items stolen from John Lennon's estate, including three diaries.\n\nThe diaries were put on display at Berlin police headquarters with other items including a tape recording of a Beatles concert, two pairs of glasses, sheet music and a cigarette case.\n\nPolice said a 58-year-old man had been arrested on suspicion of handling stolen goods.\n\nThe items were stolen in New York in 2006 from Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono.\n\nDetectives said much of the haul was confiscated from an auction house in Berlin in July, sparking an investigation to find the rest of the stolen items.\n\nOno identified the objects from photos she was shown at the German consulate in New York, German media reported.\n\nThe diaries, along with other items, were displayed by police in Berlin\n\nThe suspect was arrested on Monday in Berlin after police searched his home and cars.\n\nMartin Steltner, a spokesman for the Berlin prosecutor's office, said another suspect, who lives in Turkey, \"is unattainable for us at the present time\".\n\nIt is understood the second suspect used to work as a chauffeur for Ono.\n\nMr Steltner said it was not clear when the recovered items could be returned to Lennon's estate.\n\nJohn Lennon, pictured here with Yoko Ono in 1969, was shot dead in New York in 1980\n\nMemorabilia connected to the Beatles can fetch huge prices at auction.\n\nIn February, a leather jacket believed to have been worn by Lennon sold for £10,400 at an auction in England.\n\nIn September, an original score for The Beatles' song Eleanor Rigby was removed from another auction in England amid claims it had been stolen.\n\nThe handwritten score, signed by Paul McCartney, was due to be sold with a guide price of £20,000.", "Paul Coppola was jailed for two years for faking the will of his relative Desiderio Coppola\n\nA man who faked a relative's will to prevent a charity benefitting from a multi-million pound legacy has been jailed.\n\nPaul Coppola, 65, admitted forging the signature of Desiderio Coppola just days before his death in October 2011.\n\nThe deceased had wanted his £7m estate to be divided between his family and the balance left to the charity, Medecins Sans Frontieres.\n\nCoppola was jailed for two years at Edinburgh Sheriff Court.\n\nThe court was told that Coppola had known his second cousin, Desiderio Coppola, all his life and that the accused had referred to him as \"uncle\".\n\nIn July 2010 Desiderio Coppola made a will bequeathing much of his estate to his friends and family, including £100,000 to Paul Coppola.\n\nIt also gave instructions that tenants of business premises that he owned were to be offered the chance to buy them.\n\nMr Coppola also stated that the residue of his estate was to go to Medecins Sans Frontieres, the charity that provides medical assistance in war torn regions and developing countries.\n\nHowever, days before his gravely ill relative's death, the court was told that Paul Coppola presented a new will to the family that made no mention of the charity.\n\nIt also made no reference to the business premises and instructed that the remainder of the estate be paid to Coppola, of Waverley Park Terrace, Edinburgh.\n\nCoppola was jailed for two years at Edinburgh Sheriff Court\n\nFiscal Ann MacNeill told the court that the day after Desiderio Coppola's death, the accused contacted his goddaughter, Elvira Fearn, to tell her about the content of the faked document.\n\nThe fiscal said: \"Although she had no knowledge of the wills or the deceased's intentions, she was suspicious of the will because she was aware that the deceased hated to pay tax and she did not believe that he would have omitted Medecins Sans Frontieres completely and left the residue to the accused as there would have been a large tax liability to pay.\"\n\nShe added: \"Elvira Fearn was of the opinion that the changes to the will reflected the accused's allegiances rather than the wishes of the deceased.\"\n\nSeveral days after the death, friends and family held a meeting with Coppola, where he was asked how the new will had come about.\n\nThe fiscal said: \"The accused explained that he found out that the deceased was due to leave the majority of his wealth to charity and that he had persuaded the deceased to change his will.\n\n\"He said the deceased had agreed to change the terms of his will.\"\n\nIn June 2012 confirmation of the will was granted and a total of £1.2m was paid to friends and family who had been bequeathed specific amounts.\n\nBy March 2013 Coppola had received a property from the estate in Edinburgh's Raeburn Place, which he sold for £290,000. He also received a further property in the city's Waterloo Place.\n\nCoppola also received more than £270,000 from the estate into his bank account in October 2013.\n\nHowever, weeks later lawyers went to the Court of Session in Edinburgh and successfully raised an action to have the will set aside.\n\nCoppola chose not to defend the action.\n\nThe police were informed and lawyers then took over administration of the estate and began trying to recover money that had been due to the charity.\n\nCoppola later admitted to officers that he had forged the signature of his relative.\n\nSheriff Frank Crowe told him: \"Your actions caused much grief, inconvenience and disappointment to the other legatees and your friends and uncertainty to the tenants of properties which were rented from the deceased.\"\n\nThe sheriff told Coppola he would have faced a three-year jail sentence if he had been convicted after trial, but it would be reduced in view of his early guilty plea.", "The Electoral Commission has reopened an investigation into Vote Leave's EU referendum spending.\n\nThe campaign paid £625,000 to clear bills allegedly run up by university student Darren Grimes with a digital agency days ahead of last June's vote.\n\nThe campaign denies attempting to get round spending limits - the Electoral Commission initially accepted this but now says it has new information.\n\nA group of campaigning lawyers, The Good Law Project, has started legal action against the commission over its original decision to drop the investigation, claiming the watchdog was not doing its job properly.\n\nJo Maugham QC, of the Good Law Project, said: \"We are 18 months after the referendum vote. It is extraordinary that only now is the Electoral Commission taking a serious look at whether the rules were complied with. And only in response to legal action.\"\n\nHe added: \"The Electoral Commission has urged us to agree to drop our High Court case. We will consider this question carefully in the coming days.\"\n\nA former senior Vote Leave source accused the watchdog of giving in to pressure from the Good Law project - something the watchdog has denied.\n\n\"The Electoral Commission is an utter joke,\" the source told BBC News.\n\n\"They investigated the last time there was a spurious complaint and found Vote Leave followed the rules and donations were within the law.\n\n\"Now they've given in to peer pressure from a bunch of die-hard Remainers who would rather believe in some vast conspiracy rather than respect the democratic vote of the British people.\n\n\"This is in contrast to the Electoral Commission's repeated failures to call out dodgy Remain behaviour, which exploited the full weight of the government during the campaign. It reeks of double standards.\"\n\nThe row centres around Darren Grimes, at the time a fashion student at the University of Brighton, who set up a group called BeLeave, to give young pro-Brexit campaigners a voice during last year's referendum.\n\nAs a registered campaigner, he was allowed to spend up to £700,000. He initially spent very little but in the 10 days leading up to the 23 June vote he ran up a £675,315 bill with AggregateIQ Data, a Canadian marketing firm that specialises in political campaigns.\n\nMoney to clear the bill was not given to Mr Grimes but sent directly to Aggregate IQ by Vote Leave, which separately spent £2.7m with the same firm, more than a third of its £6.8m budget.\n\nMr Grimes also received £50,000 from an individual Vote Leave donor in the final 10 days, making the previously obscure campaigner's group one of the best-funded at the referendum.\n\nVote Leave Campaign director Dominic Cummings was quoted on AggregateIQ's website as saying \"we couldn't have done it without them\".\n\nIn total, AIQ was given £3.5m by groups campaigning for Brexit, including Vote Leave, the Democratic Unionist Party and Veterans for Britain.\n\nVote Leave would have gone over its campaign spending limit if it had spent the money it donated on behalf of Mr Grimes itself.\n\nThe campaign group said it made the donation to Mr Grimes because it was coming up to its £7m spending limit and wanted a way of using £9.2m it had raised from individuals and companies on campaigning activities.\n\nThe Electoral Commission said in March this was an \"acceptable method of donating under the rules\" and after a \"detailed look\" at the case it did not find reasonable grounds to suspect an offence had been committed.\n\nThe new probe will look at whether the spending returns delivered by Mr Grimes, Veterans for Britain and Vote Leave were correct - and whether or not Vote Leave exceeded its spending limit.\n\nBob Posner, the Electoral Commission's director of political finance and regulation, said: \"There is significant public interest in being satisfied that the facts are known about Vote Leave's spending on the campaign, particularly as it was a lead campaigner with a greater spending limit than any other campaigners on the Leave side.\n\n\"Legitimate questions over the funding provided to campaigners risks causing harm to voters' confidence in the referendum and it is therefore right that we investigate.\"\n\nIn April, the Electoral Commission launched a separate investigation into spending during the referendum by Leave.EU, the campaign backed by then-UKIP leader Nigel Farage and donor Arron Banks.\n\nIt is also investigating spending by the anti-Brexit campaign Britain Stronger in Europe.", "Gaia Pope's body was found 11 days after she went missing\n\nA 19-year-old wrongly suspected of Gaia Pope's murder has been \"on the verge of a mental breakdown\", his mother has said.\n\nNathan Elsey was detained alongside his grandmother Rosemary Dinch, 71, six days after Miss Pope, 19, disappeared.\n\nDeborah Elsey said she had \"no idea\" why her son was a suspect and has called on Dorset Police to apologise.\n\nThe force, which has released the pair without charge, said officers would have had \"multiple grounds for arrest\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gaia Pope's father Richard Sutherland said the family would \"treasure her always\"\n\nMrs Elsey, a family friend of Miss Pope's, said her son's arrest was a \"horrendous shock\".\n\nHer brother Paul Elsey was also arrested on suspicion of murder and later released.\n\nMrs Elsey said she and the three arrested family members were staying with her father Greg.\n\n\"We're still not in our homes and still have none of our personal effects. At the very least I'd like an apology,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Family friend Rosemary Dinch was the last person to see Gaia Pope before she went missing\n\n\"We're going through every single emotion rolled into one - you don't know what you're feeling.\n\n\"One minute you want to cry for yourself, then you cry for Gaia and her family and then there's anger for police.\"\n\nMiss Pope was reported missing from Swanage, Dorset, on 7 November.\n\nHer body was found on Saturday 18 November in a field near the town.\n\nA post-mortem examination conducted the next day did not identify any injuries to suggest the involvement of other people, Dorset Police said.\n\nOn Monday, the force announced Paul Elsey, Ms Dinch, and Nathan Elsey were to face no action.\n\nIt is treating the death as \"unexplained\" pending toxicology results.\n\nIn a statement the force said: \"We appreciate our enquiries would have caused these individuals stress and anxiety, however we have an obligation in any missing person investigation to explore every possible line of enquiry.\"\n\nThe family say they have not been allowed back in their homes since the arrests\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\nIrish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar \"should know better\" than to \"play around\" with Northern Ireland over Brexit, the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party says.\n\nArlene Foster accused Mr Varadkar of being \"reckless\" as Brexit talks enter a \"critical phase\".\n\nShe was speaking after meeting Theresa May at Downing Street.\n\nThe Irish government says any hard border with Northern Ireland should be off the table.\n\nAnd an EU paper recently suggested Northern Ireland would have to continue to follow many EU rules after Brexit if a hard border was to be avoided. It hinted Northern Ireland may need to stay in the EU customs union if there were to be no checks at the border.\n\nThat is something which the UK Conservative government - which is supported in key votes by the DUP at Westminster - have said they cannot accept as it would effectively create a border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nThe Irish government has said it will veto the start of Brexit trade talks unless border issues are concerned\n\nWhile there are genuine and sincerely held logistical and understandable concerns about what happens to the Irish border after Brexit, there is a sense building that perhaps the Irish government is playing those concerns rather harder than is justified.\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster, using rather strong language, told off the Irish leader Leo Varadkar for doing just that today.\n\nBut the next step in what many would say is a conspiracy theory, borne out of Brexiteer desperation, is to ponder whether the EU as a whole is over-egging their true level of worry about what happens to the border.\n\nSpeaking to BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, Mrs Foster said: \"Some people are taking their moment in the sun, to try and get the maximum in relation to the negotiations - and I understand that but you shouldn't play about with Northern Ireland particularly at a time when we're trying to bring about devolved government again.\"\n\nShe said that suggesting leaving the EU would jeopardise the peace process was \"a very careless thing to say\", particularly with no devolved administration in place, and accused Ireland's government of being \"reckless\".\n\nMrs Foster said she recognised Brexit was a \"big shock\" for the Republic of Ireland - \"and they are trying to process all of that\".\n\n\"But they certainly shouldn't be using Northern Ireland to get the maximum deal for their citizens.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland is the only part of the UK that will share a land border with an EU state post-Brexit, and what happens to the border is one of the key subjects being debated between the EU and the UK.\n\nKey to this is how to avoid customs checks on the border when the UK leaves the EU's customs union - the arrangement that allows goods to flow freely between member states.\n\nNegotiations have yet to make a breakthrough so the EU says talks on future matters like trade and customs cannot begin yet.\n\nBut Mrs Foster said it was crucial to move on to the second phase now because the trade arrangement is linked to the border situation.\n\nThe DUP pledged in June to support Theresa May's minority government over Brexit and other core issues as part of a parliamentary pact due to last at least two years.\n\nBut Nigel Dodds, the party's deputy leader, has warned that any prospect of the border moving to the Irish Sea after Brexit - an idea suggested by some within the Irish government - would be \"gravely destabilising\" to the UK government.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by BBC Daily Politics and Sunday Politics\n\n\"They (the Conservatives) know that,\" he told the BBC's Daily Politics.\n\nGiven Northern Ireland's trade links with the rest of the UK, he said such a move would be \"madness economically, never mind the political consequences\".\n\nBut Ireland's foreign minister Simon Coveney said his government was right to seek more assurances about the border issue before agreeing to the next phase of Brexit talks.\n\n\"This is a much bigger issue than trade,\" he told the Evening Standard. \"This is about division on the island of Ireland.\"\n\nArguing Dublin had the support of the other 26 EU members, he added. \"I will not be an Irish foreign minister that presides over a negotiation which is not prioritising peace on the island of Ireland.\"", "ICJ judges sitting in the Hague in December 2015\n\nThe UK is to lose its seat on the International Court of Justice for the first time since the United Nations' principal legal body began in 1946.\n\nSir Christopher Greenwood was hoping to be elected for a second nine-year term on the bench of 15 judges in the Hague.\n\nThe government withdrew his candidacy after six rounds of votes with India's Dalveer Bhandari ended in a deadlock.\n\nSir Christopher was backed by the UN Security Council but his rival was chosen by the General Assembly.\n\nA successful candidate needs to gain a majority of support in both bodies.\n\nThe UK's move means Mr Bhandari will be able take up a position on the ICJ, alongside four other judges already elected.\n\nThe UK government had considered invoking a little-known arbitration process but in the end chose to take Sir Christopher out of the race.\n\nThe British ambassador to the UN, Matthew Rycroft, said he was \"naturally disappointed\".\n\nMr Rycroft said: \"The UK has concluded that it is wrong to continue to take up the valuable time of the Security Council and the UN General Assembly with further rounds of elections....\n\n\"If the UK could not win in this run-off, then we are pleased that it is a close friend like India that has done so instead. We will continue to cooperate closely with India, here in the UN and globally.\"\n\nHe said the UK would continue to support the work of the ICJ \"in line with our commitment to the importance of the rule of law in the UN system and in the international community more generally\".\n\nDowning Street refused to confirm that UK Prime Minister Theresa May was involved in lobbying for Sir Christopher to get the job, saying only that representations were made at the highest levels of government.\n\nHowever hard the government tries, this defeat at the UN will be seen as a significant diplomatic set back, a symbol of Britain's reduced status on the world stage.\n\nBritain tried to win an election but the community of nations backed the other side, no longer fearing any retribution from the traditional powers, no longer listening to what Britain had to say.\n\nSome will blame this on Brexit - that might be a little simplistic.\n\nFew countries are as obsessed with Brexit as the UK.\n\nBut what is clear is that many countries at the UN were willing to defy Britain and that would have been less likely a few years ago.\n\nThe government likes to talk of what it calls \"global Britain\", a vision of a buccaneering UK, independent of the EU, promoting its interests and values and trade around the world.\n\nThe problem is that many believe that vision has not yet been backed up with any policy substance.\n\nInstead, rightly or wrongly, many countries see the UK turning in on itself to sort out the complexity of Brexit.\n\nThey see it as a retreat from the international stage - whatever the Brexiteers argue to the contrary - and these countries are filling the vacuum accordingly.\n\nFrance and Russia, which along with the UK, US and China make up the permanent members of the UN Security Council, have also lost positions recently on UN bodies.\n\nThe UN security council is made up of five permanent and 10 non-permanent members\n\nMany members on the General Assembly, which contains representatives from all UN countries, are said to have come to resent the way the Security Council has so much power, particularly the five permanent members.\n\nThe so-called Group of 77 - which represent a coalition of mostly developing nations - has long been pushing for greater influence.", "Stationery company Paperchase has apologised for a promotional giveaway in the Daily Mail after it was criticised for working with the paper.\n\nThe chain offered two free rolls of wrapping paper in Saturday's newspaper.\n\nIt said it was \"truly sorry\" after hundreds of people - encouraged by campaign group Stop Funding Hate - urged the chain to end the partnership.\n\nA Daily Mail statement said it was \"deeply worrying\" Paperchase had let itself \"be bullied into apologising\".\n\nStop Funding Hate lobbies firms to stop advertising with certain newspapers which it claims promote divisive views.\n\nThe group has previously been involved in getting companies such as Lego to pull advertising.\n\nIt tweeted on Saturday: \"After a torrid few weeks of divisive stories about trans people, is a Daily Mail promotion what customers want to see from @FromPaperchase?\"\n\nPaperchase responded a few hours later by asking for customers' views and received hundreds of replies on Twitter.\n\nThe company later said it had \"listened\" to the responses about the weekend's newspaper promotion.\n\n\"We now know we were wrong to do this - we're truly sorry and we won't ever do it again.\n\n\"Thanks for telling us what you really think and we apologise if we have let you down on this one. Lesson learnt.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Paperchase This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 some people have criticised the apology, saying they will now shop elsewhere.\n\nJournalist Julia Hartley-Brewer said: \"I for one am happy to lead a boycott of Paperchase for making this absurd grovelling apology simply for advertising in a national newspaper.\"\n\nTV presenter Piers Morgan, who also writes for the Mail Online, tweeted: \"I hope Paperchase understand that British people don't like snivelling little cowards who let themselves get bullied... I'll buy my cards from Clintons in future.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Iain Martin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt said in a statement: \"The Mail has only run one promotion with Paperchase - who are not an advertiser - and had no plans for any more, so it is disingenuous of them to say it won't be repeated.\n\n\"However it is deeply worrying that Paperchase should have allowed itself to be bullied into apologising - on the back of a derisory 250 Facebook comments and 150 direct tweets - to internet trolls orchestrated by a small group of hard left Corbynist individuals seeking to suppress legitimate debate and impose their views on the media.\n\n\"Has the company considered what message they are sending to the four million people who read the Daily Mail on Saturday, many of whom will be their customers?\"", "The Scottish government has dismissed the chancellor's pledge of extra funding for Holyrood as a \"con\".\n\nPhilip Hammond said moves in his Autumn Budget would \"mean £2bn more for the Scottish government\".\n\nBut Scotland's finance secretary said Holyrood had been \"short changed\", and that funds for day to day spending would actually fall.\n\nMinisters have also traded barbs over plans to allow Scotland's police and fire services to claim VAT refunds.\n\nMr Hammond took aim at \"SNP obstinacy\" over the issue, while the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford accused the UK government of \"vindictiveness and nastiness\" for not having made the change sooner.\n\nThe disputed funds come in the form of Barnett consequentials, which are Scotland's share of additional spending in England which falls in areas of devolved competence - like health, education and housing.\n\nThe £2bn cited by Mr Hammond is spread over the period from the current financial year through to 2020-21, and includes more than £1.1bn in financial transaction funding.\n\nThis is capital funding for loan or equity initiatives, like \"help to buy\" schemes, meaning the government is constrained in how it is spent.\n\nScotland's finance secretary, Derek Mackay - who will unveil his own draft budget in December - said it was \"money with strings attached\" which could not be spent \"directly on frontline public services\" and would eventually have to be repaid to the Treasury.\n\nHe said the overall deal was \"disappointing\", telling the BBC's Politics Scotland programme that \"it's not a £2bn boost to Scotland, it's a con\".\n\nBut Scottish Secretary David Mundell told the same programme there would be a \"significant increase in Scottish government spending\".\n\nOn the capital funds, he said the Scottish government could \"use that money in innovative ways\", saying: \"The money is definitely available. It's for the Scottish government to come forward with the mechanisms that allow it to be used.\n\n\"Additional money is coming to Scotland and directly will benefit Scotland.\"\n\nDerek Mackay said the claims of extra funding for Scotland were a \"con\"\n\nMr Mackay also claimed the block grant for day to day spending was being cut in real terms, something refuted by the UK government.\n\nThe Fraser of Allander Institute, an economic think tank based at the University of Strathclyde, said the extra funding for the resource budget amounted to \"around £350m\", saying it \"remains on track to be squeezed in real terms over the next two years\".\n\nDirector Graeme Roy said: \"The challenge therefore remains for Derek Mackay as to how best to balance the resource budget with major commitments like additional support for the NHS, more money for childcare and public sector pay uplifts all to be paid for.\"\n\nThe other point of conflict between the governments is over VAT for the Scottish police and fire services, after Mr Hammond confirmed they would be eligible for refunds from April 2018.\n\nThis brings Police Scotland and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service into line with their counterparts elsewhere in the UK - but tax paid since the creation of the national forces will not be reimbursed.\n\nThe two services pay about £35m a year in VAT - bringing the total bill since they were set up four years ago to £140m.\n\nScottish ministers have repeatedly called on the UK government to end the \"glaring disparity\" in the way that VAT affects emergency services across the UK, pointing out that territorial police and fire services in England and Wales already get refunds on their VAT bills.\n\nScotland's police and fire services pay about £35m a year in VAT\n\nThe UK government says the Scottish government knew of the VAT implications before the police and fire service mergers were approved, but pressed on with them regardless.\n\nIn his budget speech, Mr Hammond said he had been persuaded by Scottish Conservative MPs to make the change.\n\nHe added: \"The SNP knew the rules, they knew the consequences of introducing these bodies, and they ploughed ahead anyway.\n\n\"But my Scottish Conservative colleagues have persuaded me that the Scottish people should not lose out just because of the obstinacy of the SNP government.\"\n\nOn spending, Mr Hammond trumpeted a \"boost\" for Scotland in the shape of £2bn extra. He said he had \"delivered for Scotland\".\n\nIn response, Derek Mackay said it was a \"con\". The money was over four years (the Chancellor never disguised that) - and more than half of the dosh was in the form of financial transactions.\n\nThese have caused contention in the past. They are, in essence, loan funds available for private projects such as housing, business or agriculture. They fall, thus, to be repaid.\n\nScottish ministers readily concede that such funds have proved valuable in the past - although they tend, discreetly, to cite their own deftness in finding useful vehicles. But they say it is cash with strings and it leaves day-to-day spending on the NHS, education and the like facing a real-terms cut.\n\nAt which point, Mr Mundell says that the total package going to Scotland will be helpful. At which point…..you get the concept.\n\nThe chancellor also said progress was being made on city deals for Tay Cities and Stirling, and for a growth deal for Borderlands.\n\nAnd he said the government would introduce transferable tax history for oil and gas fields in the North Sea - which he described as an \"innovative tax policy that will encourage new entrants to bring fresh investment to a basin that still holds up to 20 billion barrels of oil\".\n\nMany of the measures announced by Mr Hammond - such as homebuyers no longer having to pay stamp duty for properties of up to £300,000 - will not apply in Scotland, where the tax is devolved and known as Land and Buildings Transaction Tax.\n\nIt will be up to the Scottish government in its own forthcoming budget to decide whether to follow the chancellor's lead.\n\nIn a lengthy Twitter thread, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon welcomed the announcements on oil and gas, and on VAT.\n\nBut she said both were \"overdue\", and that it was \"disappointing and unfair to emergency services\" that VAT that had already been paid would not be refunded.\n\nThe chancellor said a freeze on spirit duty would benefit the Scotch whisky industry\n\nAmong the other budget measures which the Treasury said would impact on Scotland were:\n\nThe chancellor said the budget was proof that the Conservative government was \"giving power back to the people of Britain and driving prosperity and greater fairness across our United Kingdom\".\n\nBut he also said that the Office for Budget Responsibility had revised down forecasts for Britain's GDP to 1.5% in 2017, down from the 2% it had previously predicted.\n\nScottish Labour's new leader, Richard Leonard, said Mr Hammond had \"delivered a failing budget, on a failing economy from a failing government\".\n\nHe added: \"They are rudderless and without a plan to grow our economy, help our industries and create the work of the future. This Tory government is a driverless vehicle. This budget is insufficient, inadequate and insincere.\"", "If you're 26 and annoyed about paying the full fare for your train travel, the Budget may offer a reprieve.\n\nThe government has said people up to 30 years-old will now be able to buy a £30 railcard for discounted train travel.\n\nThe move - set to be announced in Wednesday's Budget - would be an extension of the current young person's railcard for those aged 16 to 25.\n\nThe so called millennials' card will be available from spring next year, and offer up to a third off non-peak fares.\n\nThis means the new railcard is unlikely to be much use for regular commuters, as railcard discounts are restricted at peak times, usually before 10am.\n\nReaction to the new card was mixed with some people saying it would have little impact on them and others welcoming the move.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRegular train user Jimmy Connaughton, 29, from St Albans said he was \"very excited\" about the new card which he reckons will save him up to £400 a year.\n\n\"It's been a long time since I lost the use of my 16-25 year rail card. I'm probably a bit more excited than I should be, but it is just before my 30th birthday,\" he said.\n\nThe keen Chelsea fan mainly uses trains for travelling to and from football games.\n\n\"I go to a lot of matches and I have a multitude of railcards to try to replicate the Student Railcard. I have a Network Railcard [for trains across the south east], a Two Together, for when I travel with my Dad, and a Friends and Family [discounts for up to four adults and children] for other occasions.\"\n\nHe has no truck with those who think the railcard is a meagre gesture to the hard-pressed Millennial:\n\n\"True, you can't use it on peak trains but that ship sailed a while ago - anyone used to using student rail cards are used to not travelling on peak trains.\"\n\nThe card is part of a series of Budget measures aimed to attract younger voters after a resurgence in 18 to 29-year-olds voting in June's general election favoured the Labour party.\n\nThe national roll-out of the card comes after a successful test of the discounted card in East Anglia.\n\nRailcards were introduced as a way for train companies to help fill seats during off-peak times. The card for 16 to 25-year-olds has existed in one form or another since 1974.\n\nOn average, I am told, people who have a rail card at the moment (16 to 25-year-olds) save £150 a year.\n\nAnd anything that cuts costs for younger people has got to be a good thing.\n\nBut there is one critical issue with this new scheme, you won't be able to use the card at peak times. So commuting to your job will be just as expensive... and it's about to get even more pricey.\n\nSeason tickets go up by 3.6% in January. The highest rise since 2013.\n\nThe Treasury said the move would help keep the cost of living down for more young people.\n\nHowever, Andy McDonald, Labour's shadow transport secretary, said: \"Any move that reduces the cost of travel is welcome but the Tories are tinkering around the edges of a broken system.\n\n\"Our railway should be run by and for passengers, not private shareholders and foreign governments.\"\n\nAlso on Wednesday, the chancellor is expected to announce a review, led by an independent chair, into airline insolvency arrangements.\n\nIf follows the recent collapse of Monarch, which left 110,000 passengers without a return flight home. It cost UK taxpayers about £60m to bring people back to Britain.\n• None The Budget: What we know already", "The fire damaged part of the first, second and third floors of the building\n\nA woman has died in a fire at a block of flats in north London.\n\nShe was rescued from the four-storey building in Daleham Garden, Hampstead, in the early hours of Tuesday but died at the scene.\n\nLondon Fire Brigade (LFB) said about 20 people managed to escape from the building before crews arrived.\n\nThe cause of the fire, which took 60 firefighters about three hours to get under control, is being investigated. The woman who died has not been named.\n\nThe fire took about three hours to get under control\n\nCrews in eight fire engines, along with an aerial appliance, attended the scene after the alarm was raised just before 02:00 GMT.\n\nRetired teacher Aura Romero, 72, was one of the residents who had to flee her home, but with no time to take any of her possessions.\n\nShe said: \"I was already asleep in bed when it happened.\n\n\"I heard all these people running and shouting, someone knocked on my door and said: 'Come out! Come out!'\n\n\"I was able to get dressed but there was no time for shoes, I was walking around in the street in my socks until a gentleman gave me a coat and some shoes.\n\n\"I'm OK physically, but I am obviously quite upset. I don't know where I'm going to live.\"\n\nAbout 20 people fled the building before firefighters arrived\n\nLFB said the fire had badly damaged the ground and first floors of the building, while the second and third floors and roof were all destroyed.\n\nRupert Barnes had been staying with his fiancée, who lived in the building.\n\nHe said: \"The fire brigade arrived within five minutes, but it was pretty clear this was going to be a serious fire just by the way it had taken hold quite quickly.\n\n\"It was pretty clear that we [needed to] act pretty quickly to evacuate the building.\n\n\"There was one lady who was very good at shouting at everybody, saying 'there was a fire' and to 'get out.'\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There were scenes of celebration on the streets of the capital, Harare.\n\nPresident Robert Mugabe has resigned after a 37-year rule as his party prepared to impeach him.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Borat arrives in London in 2006, for the premiere of his film\n\nSacha Baron Cohen has offered to pay fines for six Czech tourists who were arrested in Kazakhstan for wearing nothing but 'Borat'-inspired mankinis.\n\nThe group had posed for photos in the capital city of Astana.\n\nOn 14 November, local media reported the tourists had been fined 22,500 tenge ($67; £51) each for their \"indecent\" appearance.\n\nThe notorious one-piece was made famous by the English actor's character, Borat, a fictional Kazakh TV presenter.\n\n\"To my Czech mates who were arrested. Send me your details and proof that it was you, and I'll pay your fine,\" the comedian wrote on Facebook.\n\nThe Czech men were detained for \"minor hooliganism\" after posing in freezing temperatures\n\nThere has been a mixed response to the incident from Kazakh social media users.\n\n\"They [Czechs] should have been jailed for a year. Then others would have drawn lessons!!!\" Facebook user Bulat Sapargaliyevich said.\n\n\"Where are the men of Astana? This man [Baron Cohen] should be detained, his hands and legs should be tied up and then he should be dragged on the streets!\" Bek Zhanturin added.\n\nOthers were more sympathetic.\n\n\"Good job, Sacha Baron Cohen! He is alone doing more than our entire PR ragtag team does to promote the trademark of Kazakhstan,\" Kazakh blogger Askar Japarov said.\n\nBaron Cohen's comedy film Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, follows the character of Borat Sagdiyev as he travels to the US to make a documentary.\n\nThe film earned the actor a Golden Globe award but also attracted controversy.\n\nKazakhstan banned the film and sales of the DVD and the authorities threatened to sue him.\n\nBut in 2012, the Kazakh foreign minister publicly thanked Baron Cohen for boosting tourism in the central Asian state.\n\nMankinis could get you in trouble closer to home too.\n\nIn 2012, mankinis and other \"inappropriate clothing\" were banned in Newquay in a bid to reduce crime and shed the Cornish seaside town's stag party reputation.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Richard Sutherland said the family would 'treasure her always'\n\nTeenager Gaia Pope had \"struggled\" with health issues before her death, her father has said.\n\nPolice are treating the 19-year-old's death as \"unexplained\" after her body was found in a field near Swanage on Saturday.\n\nHer father Richard Sutherland, said his daughter had had \"a lot of issues\" and \"clearly just couldn't cope with that.\"\n\nThree people who were arrested on suspicion of her murder will face no further action, police said earlier.\n\nPaul Elsey, 49, his mother Rosemary Dinch, 71, and her 19-year-old grandson, Nathan Elsey, were all questioned about Ms Pope's disappearance.\n\nGaia Pope's body was found 11 days after she went missing\n\nMiss Pope's body was found close to where items of her clothing were discovered two days earlier\n\nHer body was found 11 days after she was reported missing in Swanage, on 7 November.\n\nA post-mortem examination did not identify any injuries to suggest the involvement of other people, Dorset Police said.\n\nThe force is awaiting the results of toxicology tests.\n\nPaul's father, Greg Elsey, said Ms Pope was clearly \"on the verge of a nervous breakdown\" when she visited Mrs Dinch in an agitated state on the day she disappeared.\n\nHe said her health problems included a previous breakdown as well as epilepsy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a statement, Ms Pope's mother Natasha described her daughter as \"a light that will radiate for all eternity\".\n\n\"A wise, magnificent soul that burns far too bright for this world,\" she said.\n\n\"Her spirit overflows with love and compassion for others. Gaia our free spirit, our wild pony.\"\n\nMr Sutherland thanked the emergency services and members of the public who joined searches for his daughter.\n\nHe said his daughter had \"happy moments... right up into the end of her life\", despite her health problems.\n\nHer cousin Marienna Pope-Weidemann said Ms Pope had been \"very, very vulnerable, but such an inspiration\".\n\nShe said she was determined that \"lessons will be learned\" from Ms Pope's death.\n\nVisibly upset, she said: \"It should not have taken 11 days to find her so close and we need to know why.\"\n\nGaia Pope's father Richard Sutherland thanked members of the public before a community search on Saturday\n\nFollowing her disappearance, searches by police, the coastguard and police helicopter - along with hundreds of volunteers - were carried out in the Swanage area.\n\nOn Thursday, police discovered clothing belonging to Ms Pope on open land outside the town.\n\nHer body was found two days later in the same area.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tony Blair pulled out of talks to fund Robert Mugabe's controversial land reforms in 1997\n\nBritain's relationship with Zimbabwe has always been complex.\n\nA former imperial power can feel torn between a responsibility towards its ex-colony and a reluctance to interfere in what is now an independent state. And a freshly minted nation can feel resentment towards its former ruler while also hoping to maintain longstanding trade and cultural links.\n\nThus it has been for London and Harare.\n\nTake, for example, President Mugabe. For years, he has railed against Britain and its political leaders as they opposed his disastrous land reforms, his persecution of white farmers and his calamitous management of Zimbabwe's economy.\n\nBut Mr Mugabe is also an Anglophile who loves cricket, the Royal Family and Savile Row suits.\n\nHe developed a surprising friendship with Lord Soames, the last British governor of what was then Rhodesia, whose son, Nicholas, the Conservative MP, he saw only a few weeks ago.\n\nAnd when Mr Mugabe's cabinet colleagues were celebrating the fall of Margaret Thatcher in 1990, he rebuked them, reportedly saying: \"Who organised our independence? Let me tell you - if it hadn't been for Mrs Thatcher none of you would be here today. I'm sorry she's gone.\"\n\nZimbabwe began life as a colony of the British South African Company in the late 19th Century, run by the British empire-builder, Cecil Rhodes.\n\nIn the 1920s, Southern Rhodesia, as it was then known, was annexed by the United Kingdom but with an element of self-government. The white minority ruled for decades, but were increasingly challenged by nationalist campaigners.\n\nEventually, in 1965, the government led by Ian Smith unilaterally declared independence from Britain. UDI, as it was known, prompted international outrage and sanctions.\n\nYears of guerrilla warfare in the bush led to pressure for a negotiated settlement in Rhodesia, and, in 1979, Britain hosted all-party talks at Lancaster House in London. And from this process emerged a peace agreement, a new constitution and a former guerrilla fighter and leader called Robert Mugabe - the first prime minister of a newly independent Zimbabwe.\n\nRobert Mugabe has said he trusted Margaret Thatcher - in contrast to Tony Blair\n\nEven then, Britain's relations with Mr Mugabe were ambiguous.\n\nPoliticians and diplomats at the time placed a huge amount of faith in him as exactly the kind of strong, pro-western leader that Zimbabwe would need to embed its new-found independence and democracy. But he nevertheless was still able to wind them up.\n\nLord Carrington, Britain's foreign secretary who chaired the Lancaster House talks, described him as \"devious and clever, he was the archetypal cold fish\". On a dull moment in the talks, Lord Carrington rejoiced with glee when he discovered that Mugabe reads backwards as \"E ba gum\".\n\nLord Hurd, another British foreign secretary, told The Africa Report that: \"Mugabe was one of those people the British Empire created who specialised in knowing how to twist the British government's tail. He was well-trained in the art of annoying the British if he needed to. He knew our ways.\"\n\nAt first, Britain was hopeful about Zimbabwe's prospects. And normal relations were maintained.\n\nThe Princess of Wales visited Mr Mugabe in Harare in 1993. The England cricket team, led by Michael Atherton, played Zimbabwe in Harare in 1996.\n\nBut over the decades of Mr Mugabe's rule, as the country slipped into greater autocracy and economic decline, relations deteriorated.\n\nIn 1997, Tony Blair's government pulled out of talks to fund Mr Mugabe's controversial land reforms. The Zimbabwean president accused the British of meddling in his country's affairs by funding his political opponents.\n\nBritain began to withdraw development aid and sanctions were imposed on the president and his inner circle.\n\nCampaigners such as Peter Tatchell would protest regularly against Mr Mugabe's homophobia outside the hotel in St James' where the president stayed on his frequent visits to London.\n\nYet through all this, Mr Mugabe still hoped Britain might help revive his country's ailing economy. As he told a crowd a few years ago when he was celebrating his 90th birthday: \"The British, we don't hate you, we only love our country better.\"", "A leading bicycle manufacturer is facing accusations of sexism and ageism in its adverts on social media.\n\nPinarello, who supply bicycles to Team Sky, recently launched its electronic road bike to much fanfare. The company said the e-bike was aimed at weekend riders and female riders who want to \"follow easily the men's pace\".\n\nThe Italian-based company posted a series of posts on its Instagram channel, promoting the new model.\n\nThe first advert featured a woman claiming she wanted to go cycling with her boyfriend but to keep up with him on the roads \"seemed impossible.\"\n\nIn its second advert, a 55-year-old man said he doesn't have the \"time to work out\" but wouldn't miss a \"Sunday ride with my friends.\"\n\nBoth adverts sparked criticism and complaints by cyclists on social media, including the hashtag #pinarellNO, a play on the company's name.\n\nThe company has withdrawn the adverts but criticism continues.\n\nChristine Majerus, Luxembourg's road race national champion, said she's happy to compete against male professional cyclists who ride Pinarello bikes.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Christine Majerus This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLucy Mannall, a keen cyclist and bicycle-fitting technician tweeted: \"Just seen that Pinarello advert. This is 2017. How did they think that would be okay?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Kathryn Bertine This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwitter user and cyclist @westy2206 said: \"I can't believe that anyone that designed that campaign thought it was a good idea!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Leah This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome people used parody to mock the company's attitude towards female cyclists.\n\nStef Wyman, a professional-cycling team manager, tweeted he might need the new e-bike in order to cycle with his wife, who happens to be the former British cyclo-cross champion.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Stefan Wyman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 the BBC, Sarah Connolly, a cycling writer, said the Instagram post was \"one in a depressingly long series of adverts that treat cycling as a male sport.\n\n\"We've seen adverts aimed at male cyclists featuring nude women, women as sex objects, so in the grand scheme of things, it's not the most outrageous.\n\n\"It does make Pinarello look backward - this idea a women only wants to ride because her boyfriend does is laughable!\n\n\"However, it's depressing that in 2017 we're still having this conversation,\" said Connolly. The adverts \"makes the brand look out of touch with the industry. The amount of professional women's cycling we can watch on TV and online has rocketed.\"\n\nCyclist Peter Sagan had to apologise in 2013 for pinching a hostess's bottom\n\nIt is not the first time that sexism in cycling has made headlines.\n\nIn 2013, Slovakian cyclist Peter Sagan, the current road race world champion, said sorry for pinching the bottom of a hostess at the end of the Tour of Flanders race.\n\nIn June, Belgian rider Jan Bakelants had to apologise after telling a newspaper he travels with a \"pack of condoms, because you never know where those podium chicks have been hanging out.\"\n\nAnd national governing body British Cycling has been accused of sexism against elite female cyclists.", "Outsourced workers are are often low paid staff, such as caterers and security guards\n\nA group of 75 workers, including porters and receptionists, are going to tribunal to gain more rights at work.\n\nAs outsourced employees, they are supplied to the University of London by a facilities company, but do not receive the same benefits as those employed directly.\n\nThe university does not accept it should be a \"joint employer\", which would allow for better entitlements.\n\nThe case could affect around 3.3 million outsourced workers in the UK.\n\nMany big organisations pay facilities companies to provide workers who are often low paid, such as cleaners or security guards.\n\nThis allows them them to control the way people work, determining their pay and conditions, whilst avoiding many of the legal responsibilities of being an employer.\n\nHenry Chango Lopez is an outsourced worker at the heart of the campaign, which could become a game-changing legal challenge for millions of people around the country.\n\nHe works as a porter at the university, but is employed by the business services company Cordant, and has two jobs to make ends meet.\n\n\"I start my day at 4am,\" he said.\n\n\"I travel from Hertfordshire to Southwark in London to do two hours' cleaning work.\n\n\"Then I go straight to my main job as a porter at the University of London, where I work from 8am to 3pm.\"\n\nMr Lopez wants the University of London to accept \"joint employer\" status\n\nMr Lopez is part of the group, which also includes security guards and post-room staff, seeking a tribunal ruling that the university is recognised along with Cordant as their \"joint employer\".\n\nThe concept has existed in various forms for decades in the US.\n\nIt allows outsourced or franchise employees in some circumstances to legally compel client companies or franchisors to enter into collective bargaining agreements.\n\nHowever, it has to be shown that these companies have sufficient \"control\" over the employees.\n\nIf established in the UK, unions could collectively bargain the pay, terms and conditions of outsourced workers with the \"joint employer\" - the employer that chooses to outsource.\n\nThat employer may find it difficult to then justify inferior terms and conditions for its outsourced workers.\n\nThe workers are being supported by the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain.\n\nIts general secretary, Dr Jason Moyer-Lee, said: \"For all intents and purposes, the outsourced workers at the University of London work for the university.\n\n\"It is the entity which essentially decides what their pay and terms and conditions are going to be.\n\n\"So, unless the workers can negotiate directly with the university, they can't really negotiate at all over their pay and terms and conditions.\"\n\nUK law has never recognised the concept of \"joint employers\" for the purpose of negotiating workers' terms and conditions.\n\nSpecialist employment lawyer Daphne Romney QC said that if it did, \"it would be enormous\".\n\nShe added: \"There would be about 3.3 million outsourced employees whose terms and conditions would improve, because they would be on the same terms and conditions as the people they work alongside everyday but who are directly employed.\n\n\"And for the employers, of course, there would also be an impact because it would be more expensive to improve those terms and conditions.\"\n\nMeanwhile, an employment lawyer with law firm CMS says if the case were to prevail it would \"almost make outsourcing pointless\".\n\nSarah Ozanne said: \"Employees supplied to a client by an outsourced service provider, and able to claim parity with that client's own employees' terms and conditions, would undermine one of the key principles of outsourcing, which is to protect the client from employee liabilities.\"\n\nMr Lopez said his life would \"change massively\" if the principle was recognised, stopping him having to work two jobs and seeing a big improvement to his pension.\n\nBut the university does not agree it is responsible.\n\nIn a statement, the University of London told the BBC: \"The university does not employ any of these workers and does not accept that the relevant legislation recognises the concept of joint employment.\n\n\"We have therefore not agreed to the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain's request for recognition.\"", "There he met Sally Hafron whom he married in 1961. She was actually more political than him before he was recruited by black nationalists. He was later imprisoned by the Rhodesian government, but was not allowed to attend the funeral of his son", "Time Warner owns HBO, the company behind Game of Thrones\n\nThe US Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit to block telecoms giant AT&T's acquisition of Time Warner, the owner of CNN and HBO.\n\nThe department said the merger would reduce competition and lead to higher consumer prices.\n\nAT&T vowed to fight the move, calling it a radical departure from US competition practice.\n\nUS President Donald Trump objected to the deal during his campaign last year, fuelling the controversy.\n\nAT&T chief executive Randall Stephenson said he thought the acquisition had been on a good path \"until recently\".\n\nHe referred to concerns about possible political influence as the \"elephant in the room\". President Trump is a vocal critic of CNN which is owned by Time Warner.\n\nMr Stephenson said: \"There's been a lot of reporting and speculation whether this is all about CNN. And frankly I don't know. Nobody should be surprised the question keeps coming up.\"\n\nIn its lawsuit, the Department of Justice claimed that the deal - valued at more than $85bn when it was announced last year - would harm American consumers.\n\nAssistant attorney general Makan Delrahim of the Department of Justice's antitrust division, said: \"It would mean higher monthly television bills and fewer of the new, emerging innovative options that consumers are beginning to enjoy.\"\n\nOf the 24 firms that were part of the nationwide landline telephone network Bell System, ten are a part of the current AT&T. The firm has also been on a buying spree in the past two decades.\n\nAT&T offshoot SBC Communications bought Pacific Telesis Group in 1997 and Ameritech in 1999. In 2005, SBC then bought out its parent group AT&T Corporation, creating the new AT&T Inc.\n\nIn 2006 AT&T bought BellSouth, which gave it total ownership of previous joint venture Cingular Wireless.\n\nIn 2013, it bought prepaid-wireless provider Cricket. In 2015, it completed the purchase of two Mexican wireless companies, Lusacell and Nextel Mexico, and also bought pay-TV firm DIRECTV. AT&T also owns approximately a 2% stake in Canadian-based entertainment company Lionsgate.\n\nMeanwhile, Time Warner comprises three divisions: pay television service Home Box Office behind the popular Game of Thrones series, multi-channel TV provider Turner Broadcasting System, and giant entertainment conglomerate Warner Bros.\n\nMr Delrahim said the combination would hurt the emergence of new online television options and give AT&T the power to force rival pay TV companies to pay \"hundreds of millions of dollars more\" for Time Warner content.\n\nThe department has also denied political interference.\n\nThe decision to take legal action sets up a high-profile fight over US anti-trust law, which has rarely been tested in cases involving companies that do not directly compete.\n\nGeorge Hay, a professor of law and economics at Cornell, said there was \"no question\" the merger's potential competitive impact merited serious review.\n\nHowever, he said the lawsuit was noteworthy given the president's comments during the presidential campaign.\n\n\"There would be nothing unusual if you didn't have all of this political background,\" he said.\n\nDuring his presidential campaign last October, Mr Trump said that the deal would not be approved \"in my administration because it's too much concentration of power in the hands of too few\".\n\nBut challenges of vertical mergers - when firms operating at different levels within an industry's supply chain combine - have been rare, since at least one of the parties involved must have a major market position to raise concerns, Professor Hay said.\n\nIn the past, competition officials have also been open to settlements in such cases, assuming the deals will create efficiencies that could benefit the consumer. In those cases, companies can merge but face restrictions on their behaviour.\n\nThat happened in 2011, when the department allowed a merger between Comcast and NBCUniversal.\n\nLast year, Mr Delrahim said he did not see major issues with the merger.\n\nBut he has also criticised so-called behavioural remedies used in the past to keep anti-competitive activity in check, saying they are overly intrusive and hard to enforce.\n\nAT&T called Monday's lawsuit \"a radical and inexplicable departure from decades of antitrust precedent\".\n\nThe company's general counsel, David McAtee, said: \"Vertical mergers like this one are routinely approved because they benefit consumers without removing any competitor from the market. We see no legitimate reason for our merger to be treated differently.\"\n\nAT&T also denied that the deal would lead to higher charges and said it had been willing to negotiate.\n\nPreviously, US media reported that the Department of Justice was pushing AT&T to sell some of its assets as a condition for approval. The options included Turner Broadcasting or its satellite network.\n\nMr Stephenson has said he is unwilling to sell CNN, which is part of Turner.\n\nProfessor Hay said it was not clear how the case would fare in court and it could still get resolved with a settlement.\n\nHe said it was surprising that the challenge was coming under a Republican administration, since Republicans and their appointees have historically been more business friendly.\n\nBut he was \"sceptical\" the decision to bring the case would turn out to be entirely political, given how much Department of Justice staff prize their independence. If it were, he said, it would harm the department's case.", "Those undertaking fruit-picking jobs received the lowest pay, the study found\n\nOne in three backpackers and a quarter of foreign students working in Australia are being paid about half the minimum wage or less, a study has said.\n\nThe study, billed as the most comprehensive of its kind, found that wage theft of temporary migrants is endemic in Australia.\n\nOverall, conditions are worst for those employed in food services and on farms, and for workers from Asian countries.\n\nAuthorities have urged foreign workers to report cases of exploitation.\n\nMore than 4,300 workers from 107 countries were surveyed in the \"Wage Theft in Australia\" report, conducted by law professors at University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) and University of New South Wales (UNSW).\n\nIt found a third of backpackers were paid A$12 (£6.80, $9) per hour or less, well below the legal minimum rate of A$22.13 for casual staff.\n\nOn average, Asian workers received lower wages than people from English-speaking countries.\n\nSurvey respondents also reported other violations that could amount to criminal forced labour, the authors said.\n\nMinister for Employment Michaelia Cash said the government had made \"several important reforms\" to address exploitation in the time since the survey began.\n\nTaiwanese backpacker Amy Chang, 33, said she was not paid in her first month as a slicer at a meatworks in regional New South Wales.\n\nShe said she was then paid A$16.86 per hour - less than the minimum wage and what Australian workers at the factory received.\n\n\"And you couldn't take sick leave or say no to working overtime, you were just worked like a machine,\" she said.\n\nAmy Chang said she found her job through a labour hire agency\n\nMs Chang said employees knew they were being mistreated, but they were reluctant to speak out.\n\n\"Everyone was so scared of losing the job or their visa. Some of the workers joined the unions in the factories, but if you wanted to report the issue, the manager would target you.\"\n\nThe study authors said underpayment remained rampant across all industries, but some fared particularly badly.\n\n\"For almost 40% of students and backpackers, their lowest paid job was in a cafe, restaurant or takeaway,\" said co-author Prof Bassina Farbenblum, from UNSW.\n\nThose paid the worst were undertaking fruit-picking and farm jobs, where one in seven received as little as A$5 per hour, and almost a third earned A$10 per hour or less.\n\nThe authors said some conditions could constitute forced labour:\n\nHalf of overseas workers reported either never or rarely ever receiving a pay slip, while almost half said they were paid in cash.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe report also found that a majority of workers knew they were being underpaid, but many did not expect to receive the legal minimum.\n\nThis contradicted a popular assumption that foreign workers were unaware of the minimum wage, the authors said.\n\nThe government urged workers with concerns to contact Australia's Fair Work Ombudsman.\n\n\"It is critical that all employers obey the law and pay the appropriate wage, regardless of the background or those employees,\" Ms Cash said in a statement.\n\nSince December last year, the government had given the ombudsman greater resources and passed legislation designed to assist vulnerable workers, Ms Cash said.\n\nThe Fair Work Ombudsman urged temporary migrants, who make 11% of Australia's workforce, to look up their rights online.", "The school said the forum would not be studying Mein Kampf but incorporating it within \"wider debate\"\n\nA school has defended plans encouraging students to debate controversial ideologies and texts such as Hitler's Mein Kampf.\n\nSimon Langton Grammar School in Canterbury said the optional course called The Unsafe Space would be \"the antidote to political correctness\".\n\nThe National Education Union (NEU) in Kent has urged caution and some students have expressed concern.\n\nBut the school said the negative reaction was \"scandal-mongering\".\n\nIn a letter to parents, the school said the seminars would be \"a vehicle for freedom of speech\".\n\nIt said they would challenge pupils to \"think oppositely\" and consider \"manifestos to change the world\".\n\nChristine Dickinson, secretary of the Kent section of the NEU (formerly the National Union of Teachers), said: \"There are many uncomfortable subjects that have to be discussed in school but the school must be very careful about the way that they approach it.\"\n\nDr James Soderholm, running the course, said: \"To examine a text is not to peddle its propaganda or fall in league with its message... it is to lay bare that ideology for inspection.\"\n\nHe branded the suggestion that a teacher might use Mein Kampf as a \"recipe book for anti-Semitism\" as \"scandal-mongering\".\n\nDr Soderholm added that anyone who did not understand was \"wilfully ignorant or doesn't understand the first thing about good teaching\".\n\nThe school has previously been criticised for inviting right-wing controversialist, and former pupil, Milo Yiannopoulos to speak.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, the man known as \"the crocodile\" because of his political cunning, achieved a long-held ambition to succeed Robert Mugabe as Zimbabwe's president in November last year.\n\nHe has now won a disputed presidential election to legitimise his rule, promising voters his efforts to woo foreign investors will bring back the economy from the brink of collapse.\n\nMr Mugabe resigned following a military takeover and mass demonstrations - all sparked by his sacking of Mr Mnangagwa as his vice-president.\n\n\"The crocodile\", who lived up to his name and snapped back, may have unseated Zimbabwe's only ruler, but he is also associated with some of the worst atrocities committed under the ruling Zanu-PF party since independence in 1980.\n\nOne veteran of the liberation struggle, who worked with him for many years, once put it simply: \"He's a very cruel man, very cruel.\"\n\nBut his children see him as a principled, if unemotional, man. His daughter, Farai Mlotshwa - a property developer and the eldest of his nine children by two wives - told BBC Radio 4 that he was a \"softie\".\n\nAs if to reinforce this softer image of the new leader, a cuddly crocodile soft toy was passed among the Zanu-PF supporters who welcomed him back to the country after Mr Mugabe's resignation.\n\nEmmerson Mnangagwa is known as \"Ngwena\", the Shona word for crocodile\n\nAnd what he lacks in charisma and oratory prowess, he makes up for in pragmatism, says close friend and Zanu-PF politician Josiah Hungwe.\n\n\"Mnangagwa is a practical person. He is a person who recognises that politics is politics but people must eat,\" he told the BBC, adding that reforming Zimbabwe's disastrous economy will be the focus of his leadership.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emmerson Mnangagwa: Who is the man known as the ‘crocodile’?\n\nThe exact year of Mr Mnangagwa's birth is not known - but he is thought to be 75, which would make him nearly 20 years younger than his predecessor who left power aged 93.\n\nBorn in the central region of Zvishavane, he is a Karanga - the largest clan of Zimbabwe's majority Shona community.\n\nSome Karangas felt it was their turn for power, following 37 years of domination by Mr Mugabe's Zezuru clan, though Mr Mnangagwa was accused of profiting while under Mr Mugabe.\n\nAccording to a United Nations report in 2001, he was seen as \"the architect of the commercial activities of Zanu-PF\".\n\nThis largely related to the operations of the Zimbabwean army and businessmen in the Democratic Republic of Congo.\n\nZimbabwean troops intervened in the DR Congo conflict on the side of the government and, like those of other countries, were accused of using the conflict to loot some of its rich natural resources such as diamonds, gold and other minerals.\n\nMore recently military officials - many behind his rise to power - have been accused of benefiting from the rich Marange diamond fields in eastern Zimbabwe, with reports of killings and human rights abuses there.\n\nDespite his money-raising role, Mr Mnangagwa, a lawyer who grew up in Zambia, was not always well-loved by the rank and file of his own party.\n\nA Zanu-PF official posed an interesting question when asked about Mr Mnangagwa's prospects: \"You think Mugabe is bad, but have you thought that whoever comes after him could be even worse?\"\n\nThe opposition candidate who defeated Mr Mnangagwa in the 2000 parliamentary campaign in Kwekwe Central, Blessing Chebundo, might agree.\n\nDuring a bitter campaign, Mr Chebundo escaped death by a whisker when the Zanu-PF youths who had abducted him and doused him with petrol were unable to light a match.\n\nThose who fought in Zimbabwe's war of independence have long monopolised power\n\nMr Mnangagwa's fearsome reputation was made during the civil war which broke out in the 1980s between Mr Mugabe's Zanu party and the Zapu party of Joshua Nkomo.\n\nAs national security minister, he was in charge of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), which worked hand in glove with the army to suppress Zapu.\n\nThousands of civilians - mainly ethnic Ndebeles, seen as Zapu supporters - were killed in a campaign known as Gukurahundi, before the two parties merged to form Zanu-PF.\n\nAmong countless other atrocities carried out by the North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade of the army, villagers were forced at gunpoint to dance on the freshly dug graves of their relatives and chant pro-Mugabe slogans.\n\nMr Mnangagwa has denied any role in the massacres, but the wounds are still painful and many party officials, not to mention voters, in Matabeleland might find it hard to back Mr Mnangagwa.\n\nHe does enjoy the support of many of the war veterans who led the campaign of violence against the white farmers and the opposition from 2000.\n\nThey remember him as one of the men who, following his military training in China and Egypt, directed the fight for independence in the 1960s and 1970s.\n\nHe also attended the Beijing School of Ideology, run by the Chinese Communist Party.\n\nMr Mnangagwa's official profile says he was the victim of state violence after being arrested by the white-minority government in the former Rhodesia in 1965, when the \"crocodile gang\" he led helped blow up a train near Fort Victoria (now Masvingo).\n\n\"He was tortured, severely resulting in him losing his sense of hearing in one ear,\" the profile says.\n\n\"Part of the torture techniques involved being hanged with his feet on the ceiling and the head down. The severity of the torture made him unconscious for days.\"\n\nAs he said he was under 21 at the time, he was not executed but instead sentenced to 10 years in prison.\n\n\"He has scars from that period. He was young and brave,\" a close friend of Mr Mnangagwa once said, asking not to be named.\n\n\"Perhaps that explains why he is indifferent. Horrible things happened to him when he was young.\"\n\nHis ruthlessness, which it could be argued he learnt from his Rhodesian torturers, is said to have been seen again in 2008 when he reportedly masterminded Zanu-PF's response to Mr Mugabe losing the first round of the president election to long-time rival Morgan Tsvangirai.\n\nThe military and state security organisations unleashed a campaign of violence against opposition supporters, leaving hundreds dead and forcing thousands from their homes.\n\nMr Tsvangirai then pulled out of the second round and Mr Mugabe was re-elected.\n\nMr Mnangagwa has not commented on allegations he was involved in planning the violence, but an insider in the party's security department later confirmed that he was the political link between the army, intelligence and Zanu-PF.\n\nHe was seen as Mr Mugabe's right-hand man - that is until the former first lady Grace Mugabe became politically ambitious and tried to edge him out.\n\nTheir rivalry took a bizarre turn when he fell ill in August 2017 at a political rally led by former President Mugabe and had to be airlifted to South Africa.\n\nGrace Mugabe (right) bit off more than she could chew by taking on Mr Mnangagwa\n\nHis supporters suggested that a rival group within Zanu-PF had poisoned him and appeared to blame ice cream from Mrs Mugabe's dairy firm.\n\nIn his first words to cheering supporters after Mr Mugabe's resignation, he spoke about this plot and another plan to \"eliminate\" him.\n\nHe has also blamed a group linked to the former first lady for an explosion in June at a Zanu-PF rally in Bulawayo in which two people died.\n\nBut in a BBC interview, he said the country was safe, told foreign investors not to worry and sought to dispel his ruthless reputation: \"I am as soft as wool. I am a very soft person in life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mnangagwa: Criminal will be hounded down, but Zimbabwe is safe\n\nHis youngest son, a Harare DJ known as St Emmo, blames his reticence for his fearsome reputation.\n\n\"He was a good father, very very strict. He doesn't say much and I think that's what frightens people - like: 'What is he thinking?'\"\n\nNick Mangwana, Zanu-PF representative in the UK, accepts that the Zimbabwe's new leader is \"not the most eloquent\".\n\n\"He's not pally-pally but more of a do-er, more of a technocrat.\"\n\nBut in his six months in power he has fully embraced Twitter and Facebook - after the Bulawayo blast he posted a message reiterating the strength his Christian faith gives him.\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 Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa 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\nFixing the economy is what is paramount now. Zimbabweans are on average 15% poorer now than they were in the 1980s.\n\nBritish journalist Martin Fletcher, who interviewed Mr Mnangagwa in 2016, does not see him a reborn democrat.\n\n\"He understands the need to rebuild the economy if only so that he can pay his security forces - and his survival depends on their loyalty,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRobert Mugabe, the man who became synonymous with Zimbabwe, has resigned as president after 37 years in power.\n\nFor some, he will always remain a hero who brought independence and an end to white-minority rule. Even those who forced him out blamed his wife and \"criminals\" around him.\n\nBut to his growing number of critics, this highly educated, wily politician became the caricature of an African dictator, who destroyed an entire country in order to keep his job.\n\nIn the end, it was the security forces, who had been instrumental in intimidating the opposition and keeping him in power, who made him go.\n\nThey were incensed when he sacked his long-time ally, Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, paving the way for his much younger wife Grace to succeed him, fearing it meant the end for them as the powers behind the throne.\n\nHe had survived numerous previous crises and predictions of his demise but with his powers failing at the age of 93, his former comrades-in-arms turned on him, favouring Mr Mnangagwa.\n\nBefore the 2008 elections, Mr Mugabe said: \"If you lose an election and are rejected by the people, it is time to leave politics.\"\n\nBut after coming second to Morgan Tsvangirai, Mr Mugabe displayed more characteristic defiance, swearing that \"only God\" could remove him from office.\n\nAnd just to be sure, violence was unleashed to preserve his grip on power.\n\nIn order to save the lives of his supporters, Mr Tsvangirai pulled out of the second round and although Mr Mugabe was forced to share power with his long-time rival for four years, he remained president.\n\nHe even won another election, in 2013, as Mr Tsvangirai had lost a lot of credibility during his years working with Mr Mugabe.\n\nThe key to understanding Mr Mugabe is the 1970s guerrilla war where he made his name.\n\nPresident Mugabe (L) has given his support to his wife Grace (R) for the vice-presidency\n\nEven after 37 years in power, Mr Mugabe still maintained the same worldview - the patriotic socialist forces of his Zanu-PF party were still fighting the twin evils of capitalism and colonialism.\n\nAny critics were dismissed as \"traitors and sell-outs\" - a throwback to the guerrilla war, when such labels could be a death sentence.\n\nRobert Mugabe (L), seen here in 1960, was greatly influenced by pan-Africanist ideals\n\nHe always blamed Zimbabwe's economic problems on a plot by Western countries, led by the UK, to oust him because of his seizure of white-owned farms.\n\nHis critics firmly blamed him, saying he had no understanding of how a modern economy worked.\n\nHe always concentrated on the question of how to share out the national cake, rather than how to make it grow.\n\nProtesters in 2016 burn worthless currency in a show of defiance against the introduction of new bond notes\n\nMr Mugabe once famously said that a country could never go bankrupt - with the world's fastest-shrinking economy and annual inflation of 231 million per cent in July 2008, it seemed as though he was determined to test his theory to the limit.\n\nProfessor Tony Hawkins of the University of Zimbabwe once observed that with Zimbabwe's former leader: \"Whenever economics gets in the way of politics, politics wins every time.\"\n\nIn 2000, faced with a strong opposition for the first time, he wrecked what was one of Africa's most diversified economies in a bid to retain political control.\n\nHe seized the white-owned farms which were the economy's backbone and scared off donors but in purely political terms, Mr Mugabe outsmarted his enemies - he remained in power for another 17 years.\n\nAnd the tactics he and his supporters used were straight from the guerrilla war.\n\nAfter he suffered the first electoral defeat of his career, in a 2000 referendum, Mr Mugabe unleashed his personal militia - the self-styled war veterans, backed by the security forces - who used violence and murder as an electoral strategy.\n\nMr Mugabe says he is fighting for the rights of black Zimbabweans\n\nEight years later, a similar pattern was followed after Mr Mugabe lost the first round of a presidential election to his long-time rival Morgan Tsvangirai.\n\nWhen needed, all the levers of state - the security forces, civil service, state-owned media - which are mostly controlled by Zanu-PF, were used in the service of the ruling party.\n\nThe man who fought for one-man, one-vote introduced a requirement that potential voters prove their residence with utility bills, which the young, unemployed opposition core electorate were unlikely to have.\n\nIn fact, the signs of his attitude to opposition were there from the early 1980s, when members of the North-Korea trained Fifth Brigade of the army were sent to Matabeleland, home to his then rival, Joshua Nkomo.\n\nThousands of civilians were killed before Mr Nkomo agreed to share power with Mr Mugabe - a precursor of what happened with Mr Tsvangirai.\n\nOne of the undoubted achievements of the former teacher's 33 years in power was the expansion of education. Zimbabwe still has one of the highest literacy rates in Africa, at 89% of the population.\n\nThe now deceased political scientist Masipula Sithole once said that by expanding education, the president was \"digging his own grave\".\n\nMr Mugabe has not been afraid to use violence to stay in power\n\nThe young beneficiaries were able to analyse Zimbabwe's problems for themselves and most blamed government corruption and mismanagement for the lack of jobs and rising prices.\n\nHe often claimed to be fighting on behalf of the rural poor but much of the land he confiscated ended up in the hands of his cronies.\n\nArchbishop Desmond Tutu once said that Zimbabwe's long-time president had become a cartoon figure of the archetypal African dictator.\n\nDuring the 2002 presidential campaign, he started wearing brightly coloured shirts emblazoned with his face - a style copied from many of Africa's authoritarian rulers.\n\nFor the preceding 20 years, this conservative man was only seen in public with either a stiff suit and tie or safari suit.\n\nHe professes to be a staunch Catholic, and worshippers at Harare's Catholic Cathedral were occasionally swamped by security guards when he turned up for Sunday Mass.\n\nHowever, Mr Mugabe's beliefs did not prevent him from having two children by Grace, then his secretary, while his popular Ghanaian first wife, Sally, was dying from cancer.\n\nBut it was his second wife Grace, 40 years his junior, who ultimately proved his downfall.\n\nAlthough Mr Mugabe outlived many predictions of his demise, the increasing strain of recent years took its toll and his once-impeccable presentation has begun to look rather worn at times.\n\nIn 2011, a US diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks suggested that he was suffering from prostate cancer.\n\nWife Grace said Mr Mugabe woke at 05:00 for his exercise\n\nBut he certainly led a healthy lifestyle.\n\nGrace once said that he woke up at 05:00 for his daily exercises, including yoga. He did not drink alcohol or coffee and was largely vegetarian.\n\nMr Mugabe was 73 when she gave birth to their third child, Chatunga.\n\nIf nothing else, Mr Mugabe has always been an extremely proud man.\n\nHe often said he would only step down when his \"revolution\" was complete.\n\nHe was referring to the redistribution of white-owned land but he also wanted to hand-pick his successor, who would of course have had to come from the ranks of Zanu-PF.\n\nDidymus Mutasa, once one of Mr Mugabe's closest associates but who has since fallen out with him, once told the BBC that in Zimbabwean culture, kings were only replaced when they die \"and Mugabe is our king\".\n\nBut even his closest allies were not ready for Zimbabwe to be turned into a monarchy, with power retained by a single family.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Environment Secretary Michael Gove and Business Secretary Greg Clark leave Downing Street after the meeting\n\nJust imagine if the PM had not managed to get the cabinet onside. If she had failed to get agreement that she can dangle many hypothetical extra billions to the rest of the EU, albeit with plenty of strings attached.\n\nThat would have been a very difficult political situation, the PM left in the lurch by her Brexiteer cabinet ministers, unwilling to let her carry on inching towards a deal.\n\nMuch though is not settled. Not the final numbers, nor the eventual role of the European courts, nor indeed the biggest question of all, what relationship does the cabinet want, from our longer term relationship with the rest of the continent.\n\nBut as Theresa May has found again and again, persuading her cabinet ministers to agree anything on Brexit is a painfully slow process. To get this far has already taken time and significant political energy.\n\nShe, and the firmness of the EU's position, has meant that Brexiteer ministers have moved over time, accepting the need for an implementation period, accepting that there will have to be a significant amount of cash to settle our accounts - tens of billions rather than a Brexit bonus of money coming quickly back.\n\nShe can however only put off the big conversation for so long. And it's not clear how she will answer the other questions the EU demanded responses to last week.\n\nFor the prime minister each agonising Brexit decision quickly gives way to the next set of demands.\n\nP.S. Over the coming hours a fuller picture of what really happened in the meeting may emerge. So far ministers are being tight-lipped but watch this space.", "Around 5,000lb of explosives were used to bring down one of the biggest dome structures in the US. The newly erected Mercedes-Benz Stadium next door opened earlier this year.", "Rodney Bewes, who has died aged 79, found fame as the aspirational Bob in the BBC sitcom The Likely Lads.\n\nTeaming Bewes with James Bolam, it regularly drew audiences of more than 20 million.\n\nDespite the success of a sequel, the two fell out in spectacular style - effectively ending the chance of the series being continued.\n\nIt turned out to be the peak of Bewes's career and he later found himself reduced to playing a series of less distinguished roles.\n\nRodney Bewes was born in Bingley, Yorkshire, on 27 November 1937.\n\nHis family later moved to Luton in Bedfordshire where his schooling was often interrupted by ill-health.\n\nHe answered a newspaper letter from a BBC producer asking for children to appear in the corporation's Children's Hour.\n\nHe appeared alongside his friend Tom Courtenay in Billy Liar\n\nBy the age of 14 he had appeared in a number of BBC TV productions including a role as Joe in a 1952 adaptation of The Pickwick Papers. He also secured a place at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art's preparatory school.\n\n\"All the kids were posh and they were the children of actors in the West End of London and I'm just this boy from Bingley, near Bradford, and broad Yorkshire,\" he later recalled.\n\nAfter completing his National Service in the RAF he returned to Rada.\n\nHe financed his studies by washing up in hotels at night, something that caused him to fall asleep during the day which culminated in him being asked to leave the academy.\n\nHe managed to secure some small stage roles, as well as parts in TV productions including Dixon of Dock Green, Emergency Ward 10 and Z-Cars.\n\nHe made his film debut in 1962 in Prize of Arms, a yarn about a gang that attempts to rob an army payroll convoy. The film is notable for early performances by a number of later well-known actors including Tom Bell, Jack May and Fulton Mackay.\n\nA year later he secured the role of Arthur Crabtree in Billy Liar, alongside his friend Tom Courtenay.\n\nIt was the age of British cinema's so-called new wave, when film-makers were turning their attention to gritty working-class dramas and desperate for actors with regional accents.\n\nThere was a brief spell as straight man for Basil Brush\n\nDespite Bewes hailing from Yorkshire, rather than Tyneside, he was cast as Bob Ferris in The Likely Lads, a sitcom conceived by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais.\n\nHis aspirational character was in direct contrast to that of his friend, Terry Collier, the workshy, cynical figure played by James Bolam. Much of the comedy revolved around Bob's attempts to become middle-class in the face of constant derision from Terry.\n\nThe final series ended in 1966 and Bewes played a number of TV parts and was also in films including Man in a Suitcase, Spring and Port Wine and a star-studded musical version of Alice in Wonderland in which he played the Knave of Hearts.\n\nHe spent a year as Mr Rodney, who was one of a series of stooges for the puppet Basil Brush, before creating and starring in the ITV sitcom Dear Mother... Love Albert. It showcased his skills as a scriptwriter and proved to be popular with audiences.\n\nIn 1973 he teamed up with James Bolam again for Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads, a sequel to the original series.\n\nThe series saw Bolam's character Terry return from his time away in the Army to discover that Bewes's Bob has bought his own house, secured a managerial job and is engaged to the boss's daughter.\n\n\"We were great friends,\" said Bewes.\n\n\"When my babies were born, his was the first house I went to.\"\n\nIn 1975 there was a film spin-off which proved to be the last time the pair worked together. Bolam was famous for guarding his privacy and was furious when Bewes let slip to a newspaper that Bolam's wife, the actress Susan Jameson, was pregnant.\n\nWhatever Happened to the Likely Lads was even more successful than the original series\n\nAfter a fraught phone call the two did not speak to each other again. Bolam was so incensed that he refused to appear on an edition of This Is Your Life, which featured his former acting partner.\n\n\"It's this actor's ego thing - he thinks he is important,\" Bewes once said.\n\n\"Actors aren't important. I'm not important; I have fun. I think Jimmy takes himself very seriously as an actor.\"\n\nBewes's acting career never again scaled the heights of Likely Lads. There were bit parts in the films Jabberwocky and The Wildcats of St Trinians and he was able to use his abilities as a serious actor in a 1980 TV adaptation of the Restoration play 'Tis Pity She's a Whore.\n\nEarlier in his career he had appeared in productions of She Stoops to Conquer and there was a role in a 1984 production of George Gascoigne's play Big in Brazil at the Old Vic Theatre in London, with Prunella Scales and Timothy West.\n\nIn the same year he also appeared in a Doctor Who story entitled Resurrection of the Daleks. It was one of his last significant appearances on the small screen.\n\nHe had some stage success with his one-man shows, Three Men in a Boat and Diary of a Nobody, which he toured for more than a decade. He won a Stella Artois Prize for the former at the 1997 Edinburgh Festival.\n\nHis role in Resurrection of the Daleks was one of his last TV appearances\n\nHis wife, the designer Daphne Black, whom he married in 1973, acted as his helper, setting up the stage and the props for his various performances.\n\nBewes never gave up on the idea of a revival of The Likely Lads, feeling that the characters were still relevant 40 years on.\n\n\"Instead of being the Likely Lads, we'd have been the Unlikeliest Granddads,\" he said.\n\n\"We would have been sitting on a park bench in a pair of grubby grey anoraks, feeding the pigeons and grumping about youngsters.\"", "For a short time visitors could only see a message that read: \"Sorry, that page doesn't exist!\"\n\nUS President Donald Trump's Twitter account briefly vanished on Thursday but has since been restored, the social media company said.\n\nA customer service employee deactivated the @realdonaldtrump account, it said, clarifying that it had been their last day in the job.\n\nThe account was down for 11 minutes and Twitter is now investigating.\n\nThe president brushed off the outage in a new tweet on Friday, suggesting it showed the impact he was having.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\nTweets from Mr Trump, who has 41.7 million followers, have frequently caused controversy.\n\nThe latest incident has sparked debate about the security of the president's account, given the potential consequences of posts falsely attributed to Mr Trump being published.\n\nHowever, @POTUS, the official account of the US president, was unaffected.\n\nOn Thursday evening, visitors to Mr Trump's page for a short time could only see a message that read \"Sorry, that page doesn't exist!\"\n\nDonald Trump has been actively using Twitter to promote his policies and attack his opponents\n\nAfter the account was restored, Mr Trump's first tweet was about the Republican Party's tax cuts plan.\n\nTwitter said it was investigating the problem and taking steps to avoid it happening again.\n\nOn Thursday evening, the @TwitterGov account wrote: \"Through our investigation we have learned that this was done by a Twitter customer support employee who did this on the employee's last day. We are conducting a full internal review.\"\n\nThen on Friday, the San Francisco-based company posted: \"We have implemented safeguards to prevent this from happening again.\n\n\"We won't be able to share all details about our internal investigation or updates to our security measures, but we take this seriously and our teams are on 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 Twitter Government This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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\nMr Trump joined Twitter in March 2009 and he has tweeted more than 36,000 times.\n\nHe has been actively using the social media platform to promote his policies and also attack his political opponents both during the presidential campaign in 2016 and since taking office in January.\n\nIn one interview he said that when someone said something about him, he was able to go \"bing, bing, bing on Twitter\" - and take care of it.\n\nAfter he appeared to directly threaten North Korea with destruction in a tweet in September, Twitter was forced to justify allowing the post to stand.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 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\nIt said that Mr Trump's tweet was \"newsworthy\".\n\nIn one of his other most controversial tweets, he taunted FBI chief James Comey days before sacking him in 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. Skip twitter post 5 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\nTweeting the following month, he admitted he had no such tapes of Mr Comey.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by Donald J. Trump This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Trump's allies have also got into hot water over their use of Twitter.\n\nRoger Stone, who advised him during his election campaign, was suspended from the network after he used abusive and homophobic language to target journalists, including a gay CNN presenter, Don Lemon.\n\nHe said he had been told by Twitter that he had violated its rules.\n\nMr Stone said he would sue Twitter for blocking his account.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Workers have taken nine weeks to remove the blockage\n\nA 250-metre long fatberg weighing 130 tonnes which was blocking an east London sewer has been cleared after a nine-week \"battle\".\n\nThe solid mass of congealed fat, wet wipes, nappies, oil and condoms was found in the Victorian-era tunnel in Whitechapel in September.\n\nThames Water said it had taken longer to clear than expected because of the damage it caused to the sewer.\n\nWaste network manager Alex Saunders said the \"beast is finally defeated\".\n\nThe fatberg was made up of congealed fat, wet wipes, nappies, oil and condoms\n\nA team of eight worked to clear the sewer with the final stretch having to be removed manually using shovels.\n\n\"It was some of the most gut-wrenching work many would have seen,\" Mr Saunders said.\n\nThames Water says fatbergs form when people put things they should not down sinks and toilets.\n\nThe company spends about £1m every month clearing blockages from the capital's sewers.\n\nThe final section of the sewer had to be cleared using shovels\n\nIt took nine weeks to clear the sewer", "Kevin Spacey is being investigated by UK police over an alleged sexual assault.\n\nThe Sun newspaper said a man, aged 23 at the time, made a complaint on Tuesday about the alleged incident in the London borough of Lambeth.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police confirmed that they are investigating an alleged assault on a man from 2008.\n\nThey would not confirm the allegation was made against House of Cards actor and double Oscar winner Spacey.\n\nSpacey said on Thursday that he is seeking treatment after facing allegations of sexual misconduct from a string of men.\n\nThe Sun reported that a British actor claimed he woke up to find Spacey performing a sex act on him in 2008.\n\nThe man is said to have run from the property after Spacey allegedly said: \"Don't tell anyone about this.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Met said it had no record of any arrests having been made in connection with the investigation and police declined to comment on The Sun's report, which says the complainant had been interviewed by police.\n\nIt has been claimed Kevin Spacey \"routinely preyed\" on young male actors while he was artistic director at the Old Vic\n\nIt comes after a number of allegations, including CNN reporting that Spacey made the set of Netflix's House of Cards into a \"toxic\" work environment through a pattern of sexual harassment.\n\nIt said allegations were made by eight people who currently work on the show, or worked on it in the past, with one former employee alleging the actor sexually assaulted him.\n\nNetflix suspended production on House of Cards on 31 October following allegations by Star Trek actor Anthony Rapp, who claimed Spacey tried to \"seduce\" him when he was 14.\n\nSpacey said he was \"beyond horrified\" to hear of the incident, which he does not remember.\n\nUS filmmaker Tony Montana also claimed he was groped by the actor in a Los Angeles bar in 2003.\n\nMontana said he was left with PTSD for six months after he claims Spacey \"forcefully\" grabbed his crotch.\n\nIncidents regarding Spacey are also alleged to have taken place in the UK while he was the artistic director at the Old Vic in London between 2004 and 2015.\n\nMexican actor Roberto Cavazos, who acted in several plays at the theatre, claimed the star \"routinely preyed\" on young male actors.\n\nEarlier this week, the Old Vic set up a confidential complaints process for anyone connected to the theatre to come forward.\n\nIt said in a statement: \"We aim to foster a safe and supportive environment without prejudice, harassment or bullying of any sort, at any level.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Lehner: \"A space that the builders left to protect the grand gallery?\"\n\nThe mysteries of the pyramids have deepened with the discovery of what appears to be a giant void within the Khufu, or Cheops, monument in Egypt.\n\nIt is not known why the cavity exists or indeed if it holds anything of value because it is not obviously accessible.\n\nJapanese and French scientists made the announcement after two years of study at the famous pyramid complex.\n\nThey have been using a technique called muography, which can sense density changes inside large rock structures.\n\nThe Great Pyramid, or Khufu's Pyramid, is thought to have been constructed during the reign of Pharaoh Khufu between 2509 and 2483 BC.\n\nAt 140m (460 feet) in height, it is the largest of the Egyptian pyramids located at Giza on the outskirts of Cairo.\n\nKhufu famously contains three large interior chambers and a series of passageways, the most striking of which is the 47m-long, 8m-high Grand Gallery.\n\nThe newly identified feature is said to sit directly above this and have similar dimensions.\n\n\"We don't know whether this big void is horizontal or inclined; we don't know if this void is made by one structure or several successive structures,\" explained Mehdi Tayoubi from the HIP Institute, Paris.\n\n\"What we are sure about is that this big void is there; that it is impressive; and that it was not expected as far as I know by any sort of theory.\"\n\nThe newly found void is directly above the Grand Gallery\n\nThe ScanPyramids team is being very careful not to describe the cavity as a \"chamber\".\n\nKhufu contains compartments that experts believe may have been incorporated by the builders to avoid collapse by relieving some of the stress of the overlying weight of stone.\n\nThe higher King's Chamber, for example, has five such spaces above it.\n\nHe says the muon science is sound but he is not yet convinced the discovery has significance.\n\n\"It could be a kind of space that the builders left to protect the very narrow roof of the Grand Gallery from the weight of the pyramid,\" he told the BBC's Science In Action programme.\n\n\"Right now it's just a big difference; it's an anomaly. But we need more of a focus on it especially in a day and age when we can no longer go blasting our way through the pyramid with gunpowder as [British] Egyptologist Howard Vyse did in the early 1800s.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mehdi Tayoubi: \"It's a big void, similar to the Grand Gallery, but what is it?\"\n\nOne of the team leaders, Hany Helal from Cairo University, believes the void is too big to have a pressure-relieving purpose, but concedes the experts will debate this.\n\n\"What we are doing is trying to understand the internal structure of the pyramids and how this pyramid has been built,\" he told reporters.\n\n\"Famous Egyptologists, archaeologists and architects - they have some hypotheses. And what we are doing is giving them data. It is they who have to tell us whether this is expected or not.\"\n\nMuch of the uncertainty comes down to the rather imprecise data gained from muography.\n\nThis non-invasive technique has been developed over the past 50 years to probe the interiors of phenomena as diverse as volcanoes and glaciers. It has even been used to investigate the failed nuclear reactors at Fukushima.\n\nMuography makes use of the shower of high-energy particles that rain down on the Earth's surface from space.\n\nWhen super-fast cosmic rays collide with air molecules, they produce a range of \"daughter\" particles, including muons.\n\nThese also move close to the speed of light and only weakly interact with matter. So when they reach the surface, they penetrate deeply into rock.\n\nBut some of the particles will be absorbed and deflected by the atoms in the rock's minerals, and if the muon detectors are placed under a region of interest then a picture of density anomalies can be obtained.\n\nThe muon detectors have to be placed under the region of interest\n\nThe ScanPyramids team used three different muography technologies and all three agreed on the position and scale of the void.\n\nSébastien Procureur, from CEA-IRFU, University of Paris-Saclay, emphasised that muography only sees large features, and that the team's scans were not just picking up a general porosity inside the pyramid.\n\n\"With muons you measure an integrated density,\" he explained. \"So, if there are holes everywhere then the integrated density will be the same, more or less, in all directions, because everything will be averaged. But if you see some excess of muons, it means that you have a bigger void.\n\n\"You don't get that in a Swiss cheese.\"\n\nThe question now arises as to how the void should be investigated further.\n\nJean-Baptiste Mouret, from the French national institute for computer science and applied mathematics (Inria), said the team had an idea how to do it, but that the Egyptian authorities would first have to approve it.\n\n\"Our concept is to drill a very small hole to potentially explore monuments like this. We aim to have a robot that could fit in a 3cm hole. Basically, we're working on flying robots,\" he said.\n\nThe muography investigation at Khufu's Pyramid is reported in this week's edition of Nature magazine.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "A teenager has shared a heartbreaking letter her mum wrote to her before she died, and the words are resonating with thousands of people across social media.\n\nPeggy Summers wrote letters for her 18-year-old daughter Hannah and each of her siblings before she passed away of stage 4 kidney cancer in Indiana.\n\nHannah's letter, which contains advice on school and relationships, has been shared on Twitter more than 90,000 times as the words reverberate with strangers across the globe.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 summers This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 emotional letter begins: \"Hannah, if you are reading this then the surgery did not go well. I'm sorry, I tried my best to beat this terrible disease but I guess God had other things for me to do.\"\n\nThe letter has advice for Hannah about school, boys, and her relationship with her dad: \"Be patient with dad, this is going to be hard on him and he will need time.\"\n\n\"You will both need to lean on each other and talk a lot which is not one of our strong points but try and don't give up.\"\n\nAt the end of the letter Peggy tells her daughter: \"Tell everyone you love them as often as you can.\n\n\"Enjoy life and live each day as if it is your last because none of us know if today will be the last. And most of all remember that I love you more than you will ever know.\"\n\nHannah told the BBC: \"Reading the letter was so hard. We all read them on the night that Mom passed, so it was a very emotional experience.\n\n\"Even though it was so hard, it also brought me a lot of comfort. Her words helped me realise that no matter how hard this whole situation is going to be, she will always be with me.\"\n\nThousands of people have reacted to Peggy's heartbreaking words of wisdom for her daughter.\n\nOne Facebook one user posted: \"I lost my dad around a year ago, he didn't leave behind any last words or letter but I'd like to imagine he would have written something like this.\"\n\nOn Twitter one user wrote: \"My mom passed also and she wrote me a letter exactly a year before just 'in case.' I treasure it daily. So sorry for your loss, stay strong.\"\n\nWhile another posted: \" I lost my mom 2004. This is the truth! Hug them love them while they are here.\"\n\nHannah posted a picture with her mum on Snapchat while she was undergoing treatment\n\nHannah says she has been overwhelmed by the response it has received: \"I didn't want to post it on social media at first, but the more I read the letter the more I felt the need to post it.\n\n\"There is so much good advice in the letter and it's very eye-opening for many people.\n\n\"I'm so happy Mom's words have been able to touch so many people.\n\n\"Life is precious and we should never take it or our loved ones for granted.\"", "Toyah Willcox is known for her chart hits and acting roles\n\nAfter playing a member of the anarchic and murderous girl gang in the 1978 punk film Jubilee, actress and singer Toyah Willcox is revisiting the story in its first stage version. Is she still punk, 40 years on?\n\n\"I can't live in a world of dullards,\" Toyah says. \"So I think on that level, I'm definitely punk.\"\n\nToyah, who forged an acting career while also making her name as a pop star, is still rebelling against the expectations of society - in her own way.\n\n\"For me, it's non-conformist,\" she says. \"I'm just not interested in the norm. The only example I can give you is I can't go to a hairdresser and talk about holidays. I just don't live in that world. It's not me.\"\n\nBeing punk means something different in 2017 compared with 1977. But the world's a different place now, and Toyah is almost 60.\n\nAs a 19-year-old, she played the orange-haired pyromaniac Mad in the original Jubilee. She's not returning to that role on stage - this time, she's playing Queen Elizabeth I, who travels forward 400 years to find her country falling apart.\n\nToyah in rehearsals for Jubilee at the Royal Exchange theatre\n\nIn the film, the semi-fictional Britain the queen visited was terrorised by punks who had overthrown the establishment and who revelled in murder and mayhem.\n\nIt has been brought up to date for the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester, with the mob now made up of gloriously outrageous modern youths who are at various points on the gender spectrum.\n\nWhile the world may be a different place, as another generation simmers with anger and resentment at the hand they've been dealt by the establishment, some things have stayed the same.\n\nIn the 70s, Toyah was pushing against being \"gender specific, which I certainly wasn't back then,\" she recalls.\n\n\"I had no interest in people telling me to be feminine, to be ladylike, to wear dresses - it just made me rebel completely.\n\n\"But in comparison to today, it was quite an innocent rebellion. Punk 40 years ago was rebelling against conservatism - well, wham, bam, here we are again.\"\n\nToyah on Top of the Pops in 1981\n\nDuring rehearsals, Toyah says she's been given a steep lesson by her fellow cast members in what it's like to be young today. She's decided things are more difficult and complicated in many ways.\n\n\"If I was given the choice to be 20 now, I would say, no, I'm happy with where I am. And having experienced that incredible revolution, it felt like a really successful participating revolution,\" she says.\n\n\"People today are fighting for their space on social media all the time. I just find social media such a robotic experience, whereas punk was right in your face.\"\n\nSociety is more fractured, too, meaning it's harder for cultural movements like punk to take hold. Whatever else it was responsible for, punk gave artists like Toyah a living through music and acting.\n\n\"There were people who wanted to come and see us perform in their 10s of thousands,\" she says. \"We didn't starve.\n\n\"Whereas I'm seeing for the first time in this generation the potential for well-educated people to starve, and my eyes are wide open about this and I'm finding it very frightening.\"\n\nDirector Derek Jarman gave up his fee so Toyah could be in the film\n\nToyah got the role in the original Jubilee after being introduced to director Derek Jarman by Chariots of Fire actor Ian Charleson, with whom she had acted at the National Theatre.\n\nGoing to Jarman's flat in Earls Court for the first time was an eye-opening experience. \"A naked man called Yves, his French boyfriend, answered the door,\" she recalls.\n\n\"Yves was the most extraordinarily languid, relaxed human being, who would drape himself over furniture completely naked. Two more naked men were in the kitchen cooking.\n\n\"Derek ushered us into a lounge and we sat on the sofa and we had tea and cake.\"\n\nSoon after offering her the role of Mad, Jarman faced funding problems and cut her character to save money. But he later reinstated her, instead deciding not to pay himself.\n\n\"So he gave up his fee,\" Toyah explains. \"He said, 'I could just tell I'd removed the earth from under your feet.' That was it. We were in love.\"\n\nThe film caused controversy when it came out in 1978 - mainly among punks themselves.\n\nToyah also narrated the opening and closing lines of Teletubbies\n\nIt prompted Vivienne Westwood to write an open letter to Jarman on a T-shirt, describing it as \"the most boring and therefore disgusting film I had ever seen\".\n\nWhen Jubilee came to be shown on Channel 4 eight years later, there was outrage that it was being beamed into millions of homes.\n\nThe outraged included Winston Churchill's grandson, also called Winston and also an MP, who wrote to The Times to complain about this \"corrosively vicious trash\".\n\nNow, the stage version has its own controversy. Lines describing Moors Murderer Myra Hindley as \"a true artist\" and a \"hero\" - which were in the film - have been cut from the theatre script for fear of offending the audience in Manchester, where Hindley and Ian Brady preyed on children.\n\nRose Wardlaw plays Crabs in the new version of Jubilee\n\nThe original film set out to shock and offend, as did many punks themselves. But Toyah says they came to realise they had taken some things too far.\n\n\"This is what punk was about at this time - it was about shocking,\" she says. \"And I think as punk grew, it intellectually grew as well, and it examined its roots.\n\n\"You can find pictures anywhere of punks in swastikas. We very quickly as a unified group policed that, because we knew the history was wrong.\"\n\nWith much of the film's sex and violence intact, the play is still hoping to shock - and to prove that punk lives on in 2017.\n\nJubilee runs at the Royal Exchange until 18 November and then at the Lyric, Hammersmith, from 15 February to 10 March 2018.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What exactly is the Bank of England interest rate?\n\nThe Bank of England has raised interest rates from 0.5% to 0.75% after much speculation.\n\nExpectations of a strengthening economy, solid employment levels, more consumer spending and the potential for wages to rise have all played a part in the decision.\n\nThe Bank's main priority is to keep the rising cost of living - known as inflation - under control. It uses its key interest rate, known as the Bank rate or base rate, which is the reference point for how much banks and building societies pay savers and charge borrowers in interest.\n\nGenerally, a rise in the Bank rate is good for the UK's 45 million savers and bad for borrowers - but the reality is a bit more nuanced.\n\nAcross the UK, 9.1 million households have a mortgage.\n\nOf these, more than 3.5 million are on a standard variable rate or a tracker rate.\n\nThese are the people who would be most affected, as their monthly payments would increase.\n\nThe relatively small rise will not be particularly painful for the vast majority of householders, although debt charities say that some squeezed families will find this extra burden a real challenge.\n\nThose on such variable rates tend to be older, and with relatively small outstanding mortgage balances.\n\nThe average outstanding balance is £112,000. For somebody with 20 years left on this mortgage, the monthly bill rise by about £14 a month.\n\nFor those with a larger balance, then clearly the rise in the mortgage bill will be greater.\n\nThe vast majority of new mortgage loans - 96% - are on fixed interest rates, typically for two or five years.\n\nCurrently half of all outstanding loans are on fixed rates, equating to about 4.7 million households.\n\nSome of these rates are expected to rise after the latest announcement.\n\nOf course, none of these borrowers would see an immediate rise.\n\nHowever, when such borrowers reach the end of their term, they may find they have to make higher monthly payments.\n\nThat said, they could - depending on when they took out their loan - end up on a cheaper deal. Lenders offering fixed rates tend to be especially competitive.\n\nSome rates may rise on other types of borrowing such as personal loans and credit cards.\n\nShould they rise, that would have relatively little impact on a credit card interest rate that is generally about 18%.\n\nWhen base rates rise, so do savings rates, in theory.\n\nBut it depends on the extent to which banks and building societies want to increase their deposits.\n\nSo after November's rate increase, banks were slow to pass on any rise to savers, or they typically passed on a fraction of the full increase.\n\nIn fact, half of all savings accounts did not move at all after the last Bank rate rise in November. Commentators say savers could probably expect something similar this time.\n\nAccording to the Bank of England, returns on longer-term cash Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs) were little changed in December.\n\nYet they jumped significantly in January, with average returns on cash ISAs going up from 0.36% to 0.94%.\n\nIn February and March they held steady at 0.86%, before falling subsequently to 0.63% by the end of June.\n\nFor the average cash Isa saver with £11,200 locked away, the latest rise - if passed on - could mean £28 more a year in interest.\n\nAny rate rise might also good for retirees buying an annuity - a financial product that provides an income for life.\n\nAnnuity rates follow the yields - or interest rates - on long-dated government bonds, otherwise known as gilts.\n\nThese yields could be expected to rise amid an environment of rising interest rates, giving retirees better value for money when they buy an annuity.\n\nBack in November 2011, a 65-year-old buying a joint annuity for £100,000 would have got an annual income of £5,404. Last year, that had dropped by £1,318 to £4,086.\n\nHowever, by now this has risen to about £4,670.\n\nDepending on how the market views the likelihood of further base rate rises, annuity rates may continue to creep up.\n\nAccording to Willliam Burrows, of Better Retirement, a 1% rise in gilt yields translates into an 8% rise in annuity rates - but this remains a long-term consideration.\n\n\"Annuity rates have been in the doldrums since the EU referendum in 2016, when gilt yields fell dramatically. Any increase in the bank rate should result in higher gilt yields, which will in turn lead to higher annuities,\" he said.\n\n\"However, don't hold your breath waiting for annuity rates to rise, because it is normally a slow process.\"\n\nBut we are still a long way from the heady days of the 1990s, when a £100,000 pension pot would have bought an annual income of about £15,000 a year.\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\nManchester United manager José Mourinho has denied owing money to the Spanish state in a tax fraud case relating to his time in charge of Real Madrid.\n\nHe had been accused of owing nearly €3.3m (£2.9m, $3.8m) in undeclared image rights revenue.\n\nAfter a brief hearing Mr Mourinho said he had paid everything he had been asked for and the case was now closed.\n\nHowever a court official said the Portuguese manager remained under official investigation.\n\nA judge will decide whether the case goes to trial.\n\n\"I left Spain in 2013 with the information and the conviction that my tax situation was perfectly legal,\" Mr Mourinho said after Friday's hearing.\n\n\"A couple of years later I was informed that an investigation had been opened and I was told that in order to regularise my situation I had to pay X amount of money.\n\n\"I did not answer, I did not argue. I paid and signed with the state that I am in compliance and the case is closed.\"\n\nThe hearing came two days before a Manchester United game against Chelsea.\n\nThe Spanish authorities began the image rights case against Mr Mourinho in June.\n\nMr Mourinho's representatives, Gestifute Media, said earlier that he had paid more than €26m in tax at an average rate of more than 41% while living in Spain from June 2010 until May 2013.\n\nIn 2015, Gestifute said, he accepted a settlement agreement regarding previous years.\n\nSeveral leading footballers have also recently faced tax investigations in Spain.\n\nArgentines Lionel Messi, Javier Mascherano and Ángel Di María have all been punished for tax evasion while a case against Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo continues. He denies wrongdoing.", "The new defence secretary is welcomed to the MoD\n\nGavin Williamson is a smart operator, a talented politician, who has proved himself loyal to Theresa May by running her leadership campaign and then getting through the nightmare of holding the Tories together with no majority, so far.\n\nThis very fragile government has not lost a vote on its own business.\n\nTheresa May's programme has been much curtailed by the political reality. But she has not, so far, been humiliated in Parliament in the way that, the morning after the election, it seemed quite feasible that she would be.\n\nThe restive right have been held back from making significant attacks. And ardent Remainers have been handled carefully enough not to blow up (so far). That is a kind of achievement, and it is in large part down to the capabilities of Gavin Williamson. So why not reward him?\n\nSecondly, the prime minister also wants to promote the next generation in the Tory party, to give the impression they aren't simply a busted flush. Promoting one of their number is a move in that direction. And Williamson is not from the Tory Home Counties either.\n\nAnd beyond keeping a tarantula as a pet - pictured here by his successor...\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\n...and suggesting that he is a fan of the \"sharpened carrot\", rather than the stick, there is not much that Gavin Williamson has said or done in his previous political career that is in the public domain that means any embarrassments or problems will be hung around his neck in his new job. (So far at least).\n\nFor all those reasons therefore, it is good logic to allocate the former chief whip, Yorkshireman and Staffordshire MP this hefty promotion. Sources within the MoD say it's a good appointment because he is regarded as a very good politician who has shown that \"he can get things done\".\n\nHere's the other theory though - the decision isn't smart, it's hugely risky.\n\nProblem one, Gavin Williamson has never worked in a government department, he's never been a minister before. Undoubtedly clever, but moving him into such a huge government job straight away is a gamble.\n\nAs the Tory MP Sarah Wollaston suggested in a gently cutting way, \"there are times when offered a job that it would be better to advise that another would be more experienced and suited to the role\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA former government insider who knows him well suggested the move shows Number 10's judgement is \"whacko\".\n\nSecond, when all the political parties are in the grip of allegations of sexual misdemeanours and trying to keep a lid on - shall we say - personnel issues, is it really a good time to be moving the man who is charge of party discipline?\n\nAnd third, while promotions are always going to make some people unhappy, some Tory MPs are furious, believing that Mr Williamson manoeuvred himself into the job, playing on the prime minister's vulnerability.\n\nOne minister told me it was \"appalling\": \"She is so weak she has let Gavin Williamson appoint himself\".\n\nAnother MP said: \"She is too weak and overwhelmed to spot his scheming\".\n\nA senior Tory said: \"MPs are deeply unhappy he has used the position of chief whip to benefit himself and has deserted his post at such a crucial time\".\n\nThere is no shortage of critics of the appointment, a former minister told me it was \"outrageous - we are in the grip of a bunch of boys, when we need serious big beasts leading us. Defence needs someone who is able to fill at least one of Fallon's shoes\".\n\nAnd while Mr Williamson would deny or laugh off any suggestion that he has leadership ambition, others in the Tory party see this move (perhaps inevitably) as part of his attempt to build a bigger power base for a run at the leadership after Theresa May.\n\nGavin Underwood doesn't have quite the same ring as Frank, but jokes and conspiracy theories are already doing the rounds about his secret plans for world domination, tracing the fictional footsteps of the main character in the American version of House of Cards. (Take with at least a sprinkle, if not a large pinch of salt.)\n\nDespite all the talk of Gavin Williamson's loyalty, this is not a safety first announcement.\n\nThe prime minister could have moved other ministers from the Ministry of Defence upwards. But for all the calculations today about whether it is a smart move or something she will come to regret, it is time to see what the new defence secretary is made of.\n\nHe has learnt as chief whip that being effective is not the same as being popular. That may well come in handy.\n\nAnd here's the irony, the man who was meant to make sure that Tory MPs behaved themselves has found himself a rather good new job - because one of them did not.", "Ferne McCann with ex-boyfriend Arthur Collins, the father of her newborn child\n\nReality TV star Ferne McCann has announced the birth of her daughter.\n\nThe 27-year-old broke the news on her Instagram page, revealing the girl arrived a week early.\n\nThe newborn's father, ex-boyfriend Arthur Collins, 25, is currently standing trial over an acid attack at a London nightclub in April.\n\nMcCann wrote: \"Welcome to the world my darling. Didn't expect to see you a week early. I'm so in love & bursting with pride. It's a girl.\"\n\nMcCann, who is yet to name her daughter, also posted her first baby photo, featuring her child's hand.\n\nThe former The Only Way Is Essex star, previously told OK! Magazine she was stuck between two names for a girl.\n\n\"I had a girl's name but I've just thought of another one I like so, if it's a girl, I'm going to see what the baby looks like and then decide between the two,\" she said.\n\nReacting to the news, one-time co-star Gemma Collins tweeted, \"So emotional right now congratulations @fernemccann on your beautiful little girl.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gemma Collins This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former Tesco executives Carl Rogberg (left), Christopher Bush (centre) and John Scouler (right), are on trial at Southwark Crown Court\n\nTesco's chief executive has told a court of his \"surprise and shock\" on learning the company's profits had been misstated by £246m.\n\nDavid Lewis was told about the issue just weeks after he took up the post in September 2014.\n\nMr Lewis has been giving evidence at the trial into alleged fraud at the supermarket giant.\n\nFormer Tesco executives Carl Rogberg, Christopher Bush and John Scouler are on trial. All deny the charges.\n\nThey are accused of fraud by abuse of position and false accounting between February and September 2014.\n\nMr Lewis told jurors at Southwark Crown Court that he took up his post at the beginning of September 2014.\n\nHe said he had had numerous meetings with Bush and one with Scouler, but he was not told of the accounting issue until 19 September.\n\nHe recalled he was called into a meeting with Adrian Morris, Tesco's chief counsel, at about lunchtime that day, and presented with a paper detailing the problem.\n\nAsked for his reaction to this, he told the court: \"One of surprise and one of shock, really.\n\n\"I think the thing that was unique to this paper was the indication that the numbers that had been declared had a potential misstatement within them.\n\n\"What was new was the proposition here that £246m of income had been included in the first half of the year that on that basis of this paper was deemed to be questionable.\"\n\nMr Lewis said: \"I had never experienced anything like this before, but it was quite clear that having read the paper, and the manner in which it was served, I felt that it had to be taken very seriously.\"\n\nHe said he called Tesco's chairman, Sir Richard Broadbent, and told him what the document said, and that a team of internal and external auditors was assembled to work through the weekend.\n\nMr Lewis went on to explain the company had spent a great deal of time between Tesco's public announcement on 22 September stating profits had been overestimated, and when the company was due to issue its interim results on 23 October.\n\nHe said: \"It was a very intensive amount of investigation of these numbers. It required a huge amount of review of paperwork, documentation between pretty much all of the suppliers to Tesco and the different categories in order to validate the number.\n\n\"So that was quite an extensive exercise.\"\n\nAt an earlier hearing, the court heard that two members of its finance department resigned in 2014 over concerns they may be compromising their professional integrity.\n\nThe two were unhappy about what they were being asked to do by bosses.\n\nCarl Rogberg, 50, Chris Bush, 51, and John Scouler, 49, are alleged to have failed to correct inaccurately recorded income figures.\n\nThe company's former UK finance head, UK managing director and UK food commercial boss deny charges of fraud by abuse of position and false accounting.\n\nThe court has heard the three men were accused of \"cooking the books\" by bringing forward income not yet earned to artificially inflate its figures.\n\nProblems with Tesco's accounts came to light in a regulatory announcement in September 2014, when Tesco shocked the market in admitting it had overstated profits forecast by about £250m.", "Labour has suspended an MP after it was alleged he sexually harassed a party activist three years ago.\n\nLuton North MP Kelvin Hopkins, 76, has not commented on the claims, which were published in the Telegraph shortly after his suspension was announced.\n\nThe woman involved, Ava Etemadzadeh, 27, said he had sent her inappropriate text messages and made inappropriate physical contact while hugging her.\n\nMr Hopkins has had the whip withdrawn while an investigation takes place.\n\nA party spokesman said Labour \"takes all such complaints extremely seriously and has robust procedures in place\".\n\nMs Etemadzadeh told the Telegraph that she met Mr Hopkins in 2013 and invited him to speak at a Labour event at Essex University in 2014, when she was 24, after which, she told the newspaper he had hugged her too tightly and made inappropriate contact.\n\nShe visited Parliament at his invitation in February 2015 but said later that month he sent a suggestive text message. Having taken advice from another Labour MP, she said she took a complaint about him to Labour's whips office in December 2015.\n\nIt is understood that at the time, Mr Hopkins was spoken to about why his behaviour was inappropriate and was reprimanded by the then chief whip Dame Rosie Winterton.\n\nBut he went on to be promoted, albeit briefly, to Labour's front bench in June 2016 - shortly after leader Jeremy Corbyn faced mass resignations following the EU referendum.\n\nSources suggested Labour whips advised the leader's office not to promote him because of what happened. The leader's office say that is not the case.\n\nMs Etmadzadeh said she was frustrated that he had been promoted but when she complained to the chief whip, she was told she could not take action while remaining anonymous.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"I was shocked to learn that he got promoted afterwards.\n\n\"I'm disillusioned by the party not just not doing anything, but then promoting him afterward. They ignored it.\"\n\nMr Hopkins has been MP for Luton North since 1997\n\nThe BBC has been told that Ms Etmadzadeh had a meeting with the chief whip on Thursday.\n\nThere has not yet been any comment from Mr Hopkins - who is married and has been Luton North MP for 20 years - despite repeated attempts to contact him.\n\nLabour MP Jess Phillips told BBC Radio 4's Today programme Mr Hopkins should probably not have been promoted.\n\nBut she added: \"I don't think that it was sort of political expediency; I think that people just didn't take it as seriously as it needed to be taken.\"\n\nLabour Leader Jeremy Corbyn declined to answer questions from reporters about Mr Hopkins's promotion on Friday morning.\n\nThe suspension comes amid various claims of sexual harassment and improper behaviour in Parliament.\n\nSir Michael Fallon quit as defence secretary on Wednesday night, saying his conduct may have \"fallen short\" of the standards expected by the UK military.\n\nIn another incident, Labour confirmed it had launched an independent inquiry into claims that activist Bex Bailey, 25, was discouraged by a party official from reporting an alleged rape at a Labour event in 2011. Party leaders have vowed to tackle discipline and grievance procedures.\n\nIn a letter to Commons Speaker John Bercow, Theresa May said disciplinary procedures needed to be reformed.", "The International Development Secretary held undisclosed meetings in Israel without telling the Foreign Office while accompanied by an influential pro-Israeli Conservative campaigner, the BBC has learned.\n\nPriti Patel met the leader of one of Israel's main political parties and made visits to several organisations where official departmental business was reportedly discussed.\n\nAccording to one source, at least one of the meetings was held at the suggestion of the Israeli ambassador to London.\n\nIn contrast, British diplomats in Israel were not informed about Ms Patel's plans.\n\nMinisters are by convention supposed to tell the Foreign Office when they are conducting official business overseas.\n\nDowning Street said Ms Patel was on a private holiday she had paid for herself, during which she took the opportunity to meet people.\n\nMs Patel told the Guardian: \"Boris [Johnson] knew about the visit. The point is that the Foreign Office did know about this, Boris knew about [the trip]. It is not on, it is not on at all.\n\n\"I went out there, I paid for it. And there is nothing else to this. It is quite extraordinary. It is for the Foreign Office to go away and explain themselves.\"\n\nBut Labour have called for an investigation to examine whether Ms Patel breached the ministerial code and rules on lobbying.\n\nThe meetings took place over two days in August while Ms Patel was on holiday in Israel.\n\nNo civil servants were present but Ms Patel was accompanied by Lord Polak, honorary president of Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI), an influential lobbying organisation that has access to wealthy party donors.\n\nSome ministers and MPs accused Ms Patel of trying to win favour with wealthy pro-Israeli Conservative donors who could fund a potential future leadership campaign.\n\nOthers accused her of conducting her own \"freelance foreign policy\" on Israel. Ms Patel is a long-standing supporter of Israel and a former vice-chairman of CFI.\n\nMinisters also said there was a potential risk that the meetings could have broken the ministerial code of conduct which states that \"ministers must ensure that no conflict arises, or could reasonably be perceived to arise, between their public duties and their private interests, financial or otherwise\".\n\nIsraeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has been in London this week\n\nOne minister said: \"This is outrageous. She is a Cabinet minister. She just cannot do this. This is about donors and influence.\"\n\nOne former minister said: \"What does it say to the rest of the Middle East if a senior Cabinet minister in charge of Britain's huge aid budget disappears for 48 hours from a family holiday in Israel and is under the wing of a pro-Israeli lobbyist?\"\n\nThe revelations risk embarrassing the government while the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is in London to mark the centenary of the Balfour Declaration, when Britain first gave its support for a national home for the Jewish people.\n\nA senior Downing Street source denied Ms Patel had done anything wrong. And a source at the Department for International Development said it was a private holiday paid for by the Secretary of State herself.\n\nForeign Office sources in London - and diplomatic sources in the region - confirmed that Ms Patel had not given them any warning of her visit.\n\nOne minister said: \"Yes, we did not know about the trip. We were unsighted on it.\" Another source said the British consulate in Jerusalem was \"blindsided\" and felt \"slightly bruised\".\n\nA third Foreign Office source said: \"We didn't know and would have expected to know, given the meetings she had.\"\n\nMs Patel took time out from her family holiday on 24 August to meet Yair Lapid, the leader of Israel's centrist Yesh Atid party, a former finance minister in Mr Netanyahu's coalition government.\n\nMr Lapid tweeted a picture of the meeting, saying it was \"great to meet Priti Patel\" whom he described as \"a true friend of Israel.\" Mr Lapid's spokesman confirmed that he had met Ms Patel but refused to say what they discussed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by יאיר לפיד This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Patel was accompanied by the Tory peer, Lord Polak. He is now honorary president of Conservative Friends of Israel but for more than 25 years, he was the director of the lobby group. And in that role he had a huge influence on Conservative thinking on the Middle East, including writing speeches for Tory party leaders.\n\nLord Polak told the BBC that he just happened to be on holiday at the same time as Ms Patel. \"We met up for one or two things,\" he said. \"It was the summer holidays. I just joined her for a couple of days, some drinks, some dinner, that kind of thing.\"\n\nThat included the meeting with Mr Lapid: \"He is just an old friend of mine, a personal friend. He is more a journalist than a politician. We just had coffee with him. It wasn't anything formal. It is all very innocent.\"\n\nConservative Friends of Israel regularly pays for MPs and peers to visit Israel. But Lord Polak said that Ms Patel paid for the holiday herself and the trip had nothing to do with CFI.\n\nThe peer said he organised for Ms Patel to visit Israeli firms and charities creating technologies that could be interesting to a Secretary of State for Development.\n\nMs Patel visited Beit Issie Shapiro (BIS), a leading Israeli disability charity and campaign group, where she reportedly discussed the possibility of her department forming a long-term partnership with the organisation.\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\nJean Judes, executive director of BIS, published a picture on Facebook of Ms Patel visiting her organisation.\n\nMrs Judes wrote: \"As the director of the DFID - UK Department for International Development, Ms Patel expressed interest in a long-term relationship with Beit Issie Shapiro, harnessing Israeli innovation to advance assistive technology for the benefit of people with disabilities in underdeveloped countries.\n\n\"We look forward to a strong, fruitful partnership with the DFID to enhance the quality of life of people with disabilities worldwide.\"\n\nMrs Judes told the BBC that the Israeli embassy in London had been involved in setting up the visit: \"We reached out.\n\n\"We met with the Israeli ambassador in London and he said this is something we should bring to the attention of Priti Patel.\" The Israeli embassy in London declined to respond to questions.\n\nLord Polak said Ms Patel also visited Innovation: Africa, an Israeli not-for-profit organisation developing new solar and water technologies for remote African communities.\n\nThe fear among some Tory MPs is that Ms Patel also used the trip to discuss reducing her department's support for Palestinian groups.\n\nThe UK currently sends about £68m a year to support the Palestinian territories, most of it from DFID's budget. Some of the money is given directly to the Palestinian Authority, the rest through the local UN agency or individual groups.\n\nCritics claim that instead of just supporting Palestinian refugees and institutions, the money has also been used to pay salaries to Palestinians jailed for terrorism-related offences.\n\nMs Patel has long been a critic of this funding. She tightened up the guidelines on Palestinian spending last year, focusing more on health and education, but one Foreign Office source said that she had recently tried to go further, presenting a paper to the prime minister and the foreign secretary for yet more restrictions on the funding.\n\n\"But they were not particularly impressed by her arguments,\" said one Foreign Office source. Another said: \"She has been trying this for some time. She has been pushing to get her hands on the PA aid budget and we have been pushing back.\"\n\nOthers suggested Ms Patel was getting close to CFI in preparation for a future leadership contest. One Whitehall source said: \"I have always understood it to be part of her leadership ambitions, if she has got people from CFI who are prepared to put money into her.\"\n\nThe BBC sent Ms Patel's office a list of questions concerning the visit to Israel which it declined to answer.", "\"Although I didn't want to do this, I am guilty\" - Ms. Huang confesses in court\n\nThe case of an elderly woman found guilty of killing her disabled son has provoked an outpouring of compassion from Chinese social media users.\n\nThe 83-year-old, identified only as Ms Huang, was found guilty of the manslaughter of her disabled son, Li.\n\nShe fed her 46-year-old son about 60 sleeping pills on 9 May and strangled him with a silk scarf as she used cotton pads to cover his nose.\n\nHuang was found guilty of manslaughter by the People's Intermediate Court of Guangzhou and received a three-year suspended prison sentence.\n\nShe said she took her son's life because she feared no one would care for him after she died.\n\nLi was born prematurely with severe mental and physical disabilities that left him unable to walk or talk.\n\nProsecutors asked Huang why she could not have arranged for Li to have been cared for by his elder brother, but she said she was not prepared to burden him.\n\n\"It was my fault to give birth to him and make him suffer. I'd rather commit murder than leave him to someone else,\" Huang told the court.\n\n\"[F]or the past two years my own health was too poor to take care of him any more,\" the 83-year-old said.\n\n\"I'm getting older and weaker and might die before him,\" she said. \"The idea of killing him occurred to me a week before and I had been struggling.\"\n\nHead judge Wan Yunfeng said: \"She deserves mercy even though she did break the law.\"\n\nThe case has gone viral on the Chinese popular social media microblogging platform Weibo.\n\nOne popular comment highlighted the difficulties that having a disability can have on a person and their families\n\nYuangungun DeXueqiu said: \"In this country, a mental illness or disability can make an ordinary family's lives disastrous. For such people, there is really not enough aid.\"\n\nThe case has also reopened the debate around euthanasia in China. One Sina Weibo user said: \"This happened because euthanasia has not been legalised.\"\n\nSome users disagreed with this statement, saying that \"This has nothing to do with euthanasia, but with current social welfare issues.\"\n\nAccording to the China Disabled Persons' Federation, there are 2.7m people with disabilities in the world's most populous country.\n\nHowever, there are only 6,740 registered disabled care support services, which can only provide some total care for about 204,000 people with any type of disability.\n\nThis means that the burden of care for disabled people in China often falls upon family members of people with disabilities. As one Weibo user put it: \"The problem lies in social welfare and the [social] security system is far from perfect.\"\n\nSome users expressed their sorrow for the defendant. Some saw the incident as \"inexplicably sad\", while one commenter said they felt \"drowned in sorrow\".\n\nThere was also empathy for her plight, with one user saying: \"No-one can understand this mother's love. After all, she personally took care of him for 46 years.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSouth African prosecutors are appealing for a longer sentence for Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius for murdering girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.\n\nThey told the Supreme Court of Appeal the six-year sentence was \"shockingly light\" and he should get 15 years.\n\nDefence lawyers say the sentence handed down by a lower court is appropriate.\n\nPistorius claimed he shot dead Ms Steenkamp on Valentine's Day in 2013 after mistaking her for a burglar at his home in the capital Pretoria.\n\nThe lower court justified deviating from the prescribed 15-year sentence by saying mitigating circumstances such as rehabilitation and remorse outweighed aggravating factors such as his failure to fire a warning shot.\n\nBut prosecutor Andrea Johnson said the sentence did not match the gravity of the crime.\n\nPistorius, 30, is not in the court in Bloemfontein. He is being held at the Atteridgeville Correctional Centre prison in Pretoria.\n\nHe was initially given a five-year term for manslaughter in 2014, but was found guilty of murder on appeal in 2015.\n\nPistorius shot Reeva Steenkamp four times through a locked toilet door in February 2013.\n\nPreviously, the six-time Paralympic gold medallist had made history by becoming the first amputee sprinter to compete at the Olympics, in 2012 in London, running on prosthetic \"blades\".\n\nHe had his legs amputated below the knee as a baby.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pistorius becomes the first amputee sprinter to compete at the Olympics", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The sheep left muck over the house before leaving through the front porch (from Fortitude Press)\n\nImagine coming home to find a flock of sheep in your kitchen? That is what happened to farmer Rosalyn Edwards.\n\nHer overzealous sheepdog pup Rocky guided a flock of sheep from their pen right into her kitchen.\n\nThe seven-month-old border collie took advantage of an open gate to lead nine sheep directly through the back door of his owners' home.\n\nMrs Edwards said: \"It was funny at the time, but then there was quite a lot of wee, poo and mud everywhere.\"\n\nShe posted a video filmed by her children to Facebook, showing the sheep in the kitchen of her smallholding in Devon.\n\nThe sheep caused havoc in the house before leaving through the front porch\n\nShe said: \"I was in the kitchen and heard a noise. I turned around and the sheep were just standing there. There were about nine of them.\n\n\"I took the children into another room and then tried to guide the sheep out. They went right around from the kitchen and left again through the porch.\"\n\nMrs Edwards says the flock took a good look around the house before finally leaving at the front of the house.\n\nRocky guided a flock from the pen into the kitchen\n\nDespite the mess she said it was funny, in part because of the eager little sheepdog's efforts.\n\nShe said: \"Rocky did look quite pleased with himself, but he's going to need more training.\n\n\"He brought a whole new meaning to 'bringing the sheep home'.\"", "An Army sergeant accused of sabotaging his wife's parachute in a bid to kill her hid his financial woes from her, a court has heard.\n\nAt Winchester Crown Court, South African Mr Cilliers said he secretively took out \"loans to cover other loans\" out of fear his wife would leave him.\n\n\"I was hiding from Victoria the financial situation I was in,\" he said.\n\n\"I was living above my means, taking out loans to cover other loans - all my money would go on repaying loans and I would get another loan to try and hide it.\n\n\"I would be embarrassed [if Victoria found out].\n\n\"I was afraid she would be disappointed in me, I was just scared.\"\n\nWhen asked by Elizabeth Marsh QC, defending, what he thought would happen if his wife had found found out he replied: \"Leave me.\"\n\nMr Cilliers took the stand at Winchester Crown Court for the first time on Friday\n\nThe jury heard that Mrs Cilliers later discovered her husband was struggling with money, and agreed to bail him out.\n\n\"I kept on blaming various things for money being missing or not appearing.\n\n\"I never told her the truth about the debt I was in or who I owed the money to and I think it came to the point where she had enough,\" he said.\n\nThe jury had previously been told about financial arrangements, including wills, a life insurance policy and a post-nuptial agreement between the couple.\n\nWhile giving her evidence, Mrs Cilliers told the court these arrangements would not have benefitted her husband in the event of her death.\n\nHe answers questions in a calm voice, with a faint South African accent.\n\nWhen asked by defence barrister Elizabeth Marsh QC where he lived when he first came to England, he says he tried Scotland but only lasted a few weeks.\n\nHe also told the court how he had planned on proposing on top of Table Mountain in South Africa after he and Victoria had climbed up.\n\nBut the proposal didn't happen then, he told the court, as \" Victoria had a meltdown half way through\".\n\nMrs Cilliers broke her vertebrae, ribs and pelvis in the fall at Netheravon Airfield in 2015.\n\nProsecutors allege Mr Cilliers, a sergeant with the Aldershot-based Royal Army Physical Training Corps, twisted the lines of his wife's main parachute and sabotaged a reserve chute the day before her jump.\n\nMr Cilliers also denies a second attempted murder charge and a third charge of tampering with a gas fitting at their home in Amesbury, Wiltshire.\n\nHe will continue to give evidence when the trial continues on Monday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MP Charlie Elphicke has been suspended by the Conservatives after \"serious allegations\" that have been referred to the police, the party has said.\n\nMr Elphicke, a former party whip who has been the MP for Dover since 2010, has denied any wrongdoing.\n\nIn a post on Twitter, the married 46-year-old wrote: \"The party tipped off the press before telling me of my suspension.\n\n\"I am not aware of what the alleged claims are and deny any wrongdoing.\"\n\nTwo days into his job as the party's new chief whip, Julian Smith issued a statement announcing Mr Elphicke's suspension.\n\nAccording to the BBC's political correspondent, Chris Mason, in practice this means Mr Elphicke remains in the Commons, but for the time being at least, is not a Tory MP.\n\nThe party has not provided any further detail about the nature of the allegations, and did not reveal who had made a complaint about him.\n\nThe Dover and Deal Conservative Association has backed their MP in a statement, saying that Mr Elphicke is \"professional and dedicated\" and innocent until proven guilty.\n\nHowever, it comes amid growing concern in Westminster over the conduct of politicians following a string of allegations of serious sexual abuse in Parliament.\n\nSir Michael Fallon resigned as defence secretary earlier this week following allegations about his conduct.\n\nLabour MPs Clive Lewis and Kelvin Hopkins are being investigated by the party over allegations about their behaviour.\n\nMr Hopkins has \"absolutely and categorically\" denied inappropriate conduct, while Mr Lewis has said: \"I don't, as a rule, grope people's bottoms\".\n\nSir Roger Gale, Conservative MP for North Thanet, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it would be wrong to \"rush to judgement\" before there is proof of wrongdoing, warning against a \"witch hunt\".\n\nHe said: \"We're in danger of getting into a situation where nobody half bright, half sensible, half decent, will want to go into the House of Commons - and that will not be good for democracy.\n\n\"We should look at the facts...by all means throw book at them, but don't throw the book at them until the case is proven.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour MP Rupa Huq says Westminster needs to \"get into line\".\n\nBut Rupa Huq, Labour MP for Ealing Central and Acton, told BBC Breakfast that the House of Commons has \"no real structure\" for complaints.\n\nShe said it is \"the most unusual workplace\" where the rules around sexual harassment are \"lax if not non-existent\".\n\n\"In this sense it needs to get into line, other big companies have a sexual harassment policy, they have a staff handbook. All those things do not exist for MPs\", she said.\n\nOn top of that, she added, \"you've got a whole political culture which has thrived on favours and bullying\" as well as partisan \"one-upmanship\" where people are \"incredibly loyal to their parties\".\n\nThe Conservatives have published a new code of conduct for MPs and other elected representatives, while Labour has introduced a new complaints procedure.\n\nA spokesman for the Liberal Democrats said the party has a \"robust and effective\" complaints procedure which was strengthened in 2014 and is constantly under review.\n\nThe Conservative party is immediately adopting a new complaints procedure with a hotline for reporting potential breaches and a more detailed investigatory process.\n\nFor the first time, there will be an independent figure on the body looking into grievances, the party said.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May is due to meet opposition party leaders, including Labour's Jeremy Corbyn and the Liberal Democrat's Vince Cable, on Monday to discuss proposals to bring forward a new grievance system for Westminster staff and MPs.\n\nMrs May said Parliament must do its bit as well as the individual parties - as it was not fair to expect potentially vulnerable people to \"navigate different grievance procedures according to political party\".\n\nLord Bew, chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, told the Today programme that the \"burning issue\" at stake is the reputation of parliament.\n\nHe said it was vital that cases were not dealt with internally by the parties, but by those outside parliament who could \"give some reassurance to the public that this is not just another cover-up\".", "Two 14-year-old boys from Northallerton have appeared in court charged with conspiracy to murder following a counter-terrorism investigation in North Yorkshire.\n\nAre they the youngest in the Britain to have been arrested and charged in such circumstances? Surprising though it may sound, they are not.\n\nIn 2015, a teenager from Blackburn was charged with inciting terrorism by encouraging another teenager in Australia to carry out an attack there.\n\n\"Boy S\" was 14 years and eight months old at the time of his arrest in March of that year and a month older when he was charged. By the time he had pleaded guilty and received the juvenile version of a life sentence, he had turned 15.\n\nThe two boys who appeared in court in Leeds, known as A and B, are a little older than Boy S. Assuming their case progresses, they will have turned 15 by the time they face trial.\n\nVery few of those arrested on suspicion of committing a terrorism-related offence are under 18 years old. In the year to June 2016 across England, Wales and Scotland, only 12 of the 222 arrested under counter-terrorism powers were younger than 18.\n\nSince 11 September 2001, more than 3,650 people have been arrested in counter-terrorism investigations in the Great Britain. Of those:\n\nThe rise of the so-called Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq prompted a slight shift in the age range of those coming under suspicion in the UK.\n\nThe group wanted to attract young people from across Europe to its cause - it wanted fit men to fight and young women willing to start families.\n\nThat led to more younger people trying to travel to Syria - and that was reflected to some extent in the corresponding arrests statistics.\n\nNot all of those who were arrested were investigated for links to jihadism. One significant investigation from 2016 was focused on the activities of a 17-year-old who had become a follower of the banned neo-Nazi group National Action.\n\nWhy is the media not naming the two boys who have appeared in court on Thursday? The law prohibits identifying anyone under the age of 18 who is charged or convicted of a criminal offence unless a judge gives permission.\n\nIt's very rare for such an anonymity restriction to be lifted, because judges tend to take the view that the very youngest offenders should be given the chance to be rehabilitated as they mature.\n\nThere are exceptions, including the decision to name in 1993 the 10-year-olds who murdered James Bulger.\n\nMore recently, a judge refused to lift a reporting restriction prohibiting the media from naming two teenage girls who tortured a vulnerable woman to death in Hartlepool.", "The controversial appointment of Gavin Williamson as the new defence secretary is the main story for most of Friday's newspapers.\n\n\"Tory anger at May reshuffle\" is the headline for the i, whilst the Times has: \"May under fire as key ally gets defence job\".\n\nThe Independent website says much of the dismay is focused on the fact that Mr Williamson has no experience in connection with the military, let alone running a major government department, whilst the Daily Telegraph says Theresa May overlooked several ministers with far more experience.\n\nAccording to the Financial Times, anger at Mr Williamson stems partly from the belief that as Chief Whip, he helped orchestrate the departure of his predecessor, Sir Michael Fallon, and then took advantage of it.\n\nThe man portrayed as Sir Michael's assassin - the i says - had looked at the vacancy, interviewed himself and declared himself up to the task.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph says some MPs suggest that the prime minister has brought one of her closest allies into the Cabinet so that he will be in a position to succeed her after Brexit.\n\nThe Spectator website says that even those who consider themselves his friends feel that moving a man with no departmental experience to one of the most senior jobs in government says much more about Mrs May's weakness as a leader than it does about Mr Williamson's suitability for the role.\n\nThe Sun quotes a \"livid\" minister as saying: \"She is so weak she has let Gavin Williamson appoint himself defence secretary. This is appalling. She has to go.\"\n\nThe Daily Mail and the Sun lead with a claim that Sir Michael Fallon was forced to resign after the Leader of the Commons, Andrea Leadsom, complained that he used vile language towards her at a meeting six years ago.\n\nAccording to the Sun, she had told him she had cold hands, to which he responded: \"I know where you can put them to warm them up.\"\n\nA source close to Sir Michael tells the paper he may have said something that Mrs Leadsom was offended by, but he categorically denies saying something as appalling as has been suggested.\n\nThe news that the Home Office has lost track of 56,000 foreign nationals - including convicted criminals and illegal immigrants - sparks incredulity.\n\nThe Home Office has come under fire in some of Friday's papers\n\nIt is the lead for the Daily Express, which describes the affair as another shambolic mess from the people who are supposed to be keeping this country safe.\n\nThe Sun says it is 11 years since the Labour Home Secretary, John Reid, declared the Home Office's immigration systems not fit for purpose - and it's clear nothing has changed.\n\nThe first rise in interest rates in more than a decade makes the lead for the Financial Times. But the paper suggests that fewer households will be immediately affected than was the case with previous rate increases.\n\nIt says fewer people now own their homes and those that do are more likely to own outright. Three-fifths of mortgages are now fixed rate rather than variable, it adds.\n\nBut the Daily Mail accuses the banks of \"hammering\" borrowers and doing nothing for \"long-suffering\" savers.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The puzzling message was spotted by a police helicopter near the M40\n\nA mystery \"Sue\" has left Twitter perplexed after the name was discovered etched into an Oxfordshire field.\n\nThe puzzling message was spotted by the National Police Air Service's Benson helicopter just south of Tetsworth, near Thame.\n\nIt posted the picture on Twitter and added: \"Let's see if we can use the power of social media to #FindSue!\"\n\nPeople suggested it could be an advert for a Suex underwater scooter, or an attempt to get on Google maps.\n\nTwitter user Pete‏ posted: \"You sure it's not an advert for a local law firm?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Pete This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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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\nSue can even be seen from space...\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Andy Ford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCould Sue Perkins have a superfan in Oxfordshire?\n\nWas it inspired by Johnny Cash's song \"A Boy Named Sue\"?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It's the weekly news quiz - have you been paying attention to what's been going on in the world over the past seven days?\n\nIf you missed last week's quiz, try it here\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter", "Bacteria living in the murky depths of the digestive system seem to influence whether tumours shrink during cancer therapy, say French and US researchers.\n\nThey tested the microbiome - the collection of microscopic species that live in us - in cancer patients.\n\nTwo studies, in the journal Science, linked specific species and the overall diversity of the microbiome to the effectiveness of immunotherapy drugs.\n\nExperts said the results were fascinating and held a lot of promise.\n\nOur bodies are home to trillions of micro-organisms and the relationship between \"us\" and \"them\" goes far beyond infectious diseases.\n\nThe microbiome is involved in digestion, protection from infection and regulating the immune system.\n\nBoth studies were on patients receiving immunotherapy, which boosts the body's own defences to fight tumours.\n\nIt does not work in every patient, but in some cases it can clear even terminal cancer.\n\nOne study, at the Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus in Paris, looked at 249 patients with lung or kidney cancer.\n\nThey showed those who had taken antibiotics, such as for dental infection, damaged their microbiome and were more likely to see tumours grow while on immunotherapy.\n\nOne species of bacteria in particular, Akkermansia muciniphila, was in 69% of patients that did respond compared with just a third of those who did not.\n\nBoosting levels of A. muciniphila in mice seemed to also boost their response to immunotherapy.\n\nMeanwhile, at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 112 patients with advanced melanoma had their microbiome analysed.\n\nThose that responded to therapy tended to have a richer, more diverse microbiome than those that did not.\n\nAnd they had different bacteria too. High levels of Faecalibacterium and Clostridiales appeared to be beneficial, while Bacteroidales species were bad news in the study.\n\nTissues samples showed there were more cancer-killing immune cells in the tumour of people with the beneficial bacteria.\n\nThe team then performed a trans-poo-sion, a transplant of faecal matter, from people to mice with melanoma.\n\nMice given bacteria from patients with the \"good\" mix of bacteria had slower-growing tumours than mice given \"bad\" bacteria.\n\nDr Jennifer Wargo, from Texas, told the BBC: \"If you disrupt a patient's microbiome you may impair their ability to respond to cancer treatment.\"\n\nShe is planning clinical trials aimed at altering the microbiome in tandem with cancer treatment.\n\nShe said: \"Our hypothesis is if we change to a more favourable microbiome, you just may be able to make patients respond better.\n\n\"The microbiome is game-changing, not just cancer but for overall health, it's definitely going to be a major player.\"\n\nMark Fielder, president of the Society for Applied Microbiology and professor of medical biology at Kingston University, said the study showed the importance of understanding the micro-organisms that call our bodies home.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"It's really interesting and holds a lot of promise, we need to do more work but there are exciting glimmers here in treating some difficult diseases.\n\n\"Some claim the microbiome is the answer to everything, I don't think that's the case.\n\n\"But once we understand more, it could be that microbiome manipulation is important in changing people's health.\"\n\nDr Emma Smith from Cancer Research UK, said: \"It's fascinating.\n\n\"One of the big challenges for using immunotherapies to treat cancer is understanding which patients will respond, and this research is a step towards helping doctors to identify these people.\"", "The Hospital Club is one of a new breed of trendy private members' clubs\n\nA new breed of fashionable private members clubs are growing in popularity around the world, promising to be more inclusive and diverse than their stuffy older counterparts.\n\nYet while the newer venues certainly have a far more youthful membership, and you certainly don't need to have gone to a posh school or university, they still have high joining fees and strict vetting processes.\n\nSo how less elitist are they? And what are the benefits of getting your name on the list?\n\n\"I like how organically relationships happen at Soho House,\" says tech entrepreneur Tyler McIntyre. \"You can't wear business suits, you can't hand out business cards, and you can't take phone calls.\"\n\nThe 26-year-old joined Soho Beach House in Miami two years ago, after visiting with friends who were members.\n\n\"It's a laidback place to network but it's also given me the opportunity to try things I typically wouldn't do by myself, like wine tastings or a jam-making class.\n\n\"And sometimes I'll go to the sunset DJ parties by the pool, which are loud and pretty crazy.\"\n\nWelcome to the new breed of private members' club, which claim to be less restrictive and more diverse than the stuffy gentlemen's clubs of the past.\n\nThese modern venues - with their co-working spaces, screening rooms and rooftop pools - are fast becoming the places where many of today's young creative class choose to work and play.\n\nMembership isn't cheap though, with some charging more than $2,000 (£1,500) per annum, along with joining fees of $300.\n\n\"In the past, members' clubs were seen as being elitist and populated by people who went to the same public schools and universities,\" says Richard Cope, a senior trends consultant at Mintel.\n\n\"But these places are more for entrepreneurs and self-made people. The only thing you have to be able to do is pay the fee, and it can be fairly expensive.\"\n\nWhile trendy members' clubs have been around for years, they became much more common after the launch of Soho House in London in 1995.\n\nThe trend has also gained a foothold in the US and other countries.\n\n\"We've see a huge jump in the number of the new types of club coming online, as compared to the traditional model,\" says Zack Bates of Private Club Marketing, a firm that promotes members' clubs.\n\n\"In Los Angeles, you can't get into Soho House. So others are being built, the Hospital Club, Griffin Club and Norwood, to keep up with the appetite for these spaces.\"\n\nSoho House itself now boasts 18 venues around the world, including in New York, Istanbul, Berlin, and soon Mumbai.\n\nGroup revenue rose 3% in 2016 to £293.4m, while global membership jumped from 56,000 to 70,000.\n\nHowever, you have to do more than just fill out an application to join its venues.\n\nMembership costs between £400 to £1,580 per annum, depending on the club, although there are discounts for under-27s.\n\nMore stories from the BBC's Business Brain series looking at interesting business topics from around the world:\n\nThe Hospital Club has a TV and music studio on site\n\nAnd there's a tough background check to ensure potential members are part of the creative class - Soho House frowns on those who work in financial services, for instance.\n\nOnce accepted, members enjoy a host of perks. Soho House Barcelona, for example, one of the chain's newest venues, boasts a retro-themed gym, pool and free classes like yoga.\n\nMembers pay full price for food and drink but get discounts on the club's hotel rooms.\n\nMr Cope says: \"These clubs offer people a discreet place to network and wind down, typically in cities where personal space is at a premium.\"\n\nHowever, they are also about \"showing off to a degree\".\n\n\"In an age of social media, people like to let others know where they hang out or which restaurants they eat at. So there's an element of satisfying those peacock tendencies.\"\n\nThe Hospital Club says it provides its members with networking opportunities\n\nThe newer clubs do serve more practical functions, though, such as offering young entrepreneurs a place to work.\n\nTake London's Hospital Club, based in Covent Garden, which offers its own meeting and conference rooms, and even an in-house TV and music recording studio. Standard membership costs £865 plus a £250 joining fee.\n\nWhile some might find such fees high, it's still cheaper than forking out for your own office space, says Mr Bates.\n\n\"It suits today's digital nomads, who work remotely via their laptops. Paying for an office can be prohibitively expensive, especially in a major city.\"\n\nMembers' clubs also offer vital networking opportunities that help further your career, says Zikki Munyao, 40.\n\nThe remote IT worker joined Common House, a private member's club in Charlottesville, USA, largely for this purpose.\n\n\"There are areas to socialise and meeting spaces where I can have privacy,\" he says of the club, where membership costs $150 (£113) a month, plus a $600 joining fee.\n\n\"I even met my estate agent over a game of pool.\"\n\nThe new breed of members' clubs does face challenges, though.\n\nSome warn that as clubs proliferate, their exclusivity is becoming diluted, and they struggle to attract the celebrities that once lent them cachet.\n\nThe social commentator Peter York tells the BBC: \"Traditionally private members' clubs have played on their exclusivity and being able to attract the 'magic people'.\n\n\"But as more and more of them pop up, you get blase. The magical people also can't be corralled in one place anymore.\"\n\nHe adds that as clubs like Soho House keep on expanding, they seem to be \"more about business\", which further dilutes their brand.\n\n\"The danger is that a new challenger, which looks younger and groovier, arrives and steals your limelight.\"\n\nBut Mr Cope believes the market for these new clubs is going to expand.\n\n\"Having somewhere where you can unwind and host friends in the centre of cities is useful. So there are a lot of practicalities around this.\n\n\"It is also about expressing your individuality, so I think the emotional need for this is only going to grow.\"", "The ashes of Moors Murderer Ian Brady have been disposed of at sea in the middle of the night after a cremation last week, it has been revealed.\n\nThe child killer, who died in May aged 79, was cremated without ceremony.\n\nIt comes after a court ruling to ensure the disposal of his body did not cause \"offence and distress\" to his victims' families.\n\nBrady, along with Myra Hindley, tortured and murdered five children in the 1960s. She died in prison in 2002.\n\nBrady's body was collected from Royal Liverpool Hospital's mortuary by a council official at about 21:00 BST on 25 October, documents show.\n\nUnder police escort, the corpse was taken to Southport Crematorium where the cremation began at 22:00 BST, with no music or flowers allowed.\n\nBrady's ashes were then placed in a weighted biodegradable urn, driven to Liverpool Marina and dispatched at sea at 02:30 BST.\n\nKeith Bennett, Lesley Ann Downey, Edward Evans, John Kilbride and Pauline Reade were killed in the Moors Murders\n\nIt was reported that Brady wished to have his remains burnt and ashes scattered in Glasgow, where he grew up. But the city's council said it would refuse any request for Brady to be cremated in the area.\n\nThere were also concerns his remains would be scattered on Saddleworth Moor in Greater Manchester - where the pair buried at least three of their victims.\n\nBrady's executor Robin Makin had said there was \"no likelihood\" of this happening, but the High Court ruled in October that the disposal of the body should be taken out of his hands.\n\nThe killer died at Ashworth High Security Hospital in Maghull, Merseyside, having been held there since 1985.\n\nHe and partner Hindley were convicted of luring children and teenagers to their deaths, with most of their victims buried on Saddleworth Moor, Oldham.\n\nHe was jailed in 1966 for murdering John Kilbride, aged 12, Lesley Ann Downey, 10, and Edward Evans, 17.\n\nIn 1985, he also admitted killing Pauline Reade, 16, and 12-year-old Keith Bennett, whose body is believed to be on the moor but has never been found.\n\nDespite pleas from Keith's mother Winnie Johnson, who died in 2012, Brady did not reveal where her son was buried.\n\nSaddleworth Moor has been the scene of several searches for the remains of Brady's victims\n\nJohn Kilbride's brother Terry said the victims' families knew the plans for Brady's remains in advance.\n\n\"The urn was made of salt and it disintegrated after about 10 or 15 minutes of being in the water,\" he said.\n\n\"I was originally under the impression he was just going to be burnt and put in the grounds of a prison but being put in the sea is the next best thing.\n\n\"This was the only way to really put the families at ease and the public as well.\"\n\nBrady's ashes were disposed of from a boat that set out from Liverpool Marina\n\nMr Kilbride described Brady as \"clever and manipulative\", saying he \"tormented\" families from his prison cell.\n\n\"[When] he always seemed to come up on TV or in the papers, it was always around an anniversary or Christmas.\n\n\"He actually died on John's birthday, May 15. You can imagine how that feels,\" he added.\n\nAn inquest into Brady's death heard he died of natural causes.\n\nMargaret Carney, chief executive of Sefton Council, said: \"The High Court ordered us to cremate the remains of Ian Brady because he died within the Sefton borough boundary.\"\n\nShe said it took place outside normal operating hours and no other services at the crematorium were affected.\n\n\"The coffin did not enter any public area and was cremated in a separate standby cremator which was professionally cleaned afterwards.\"\n\nIn a statement, Tameside and Oldham councils said: \"We are pleased that this matter is now concluded and we are grateful for the support and professionalism shown... to ensure Ian Stewart-Brady's body and remains were disposed of expediently at sea in a manner compatible with the public interest and those of the victim's relatives.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The dram was bought for £7,600\n\nA dram of vintage Scotch bought by a Chinese millionaire in a Swiss hotel bar for £7,600 was a fake, laboratory tests have concluded.\n\nAnalysts from Scotland were called in by the Waldhaus Am See hotel in St Moritz after experts questioned the authenticity of the 2cl shot.\n\nIt had been poured from an unopened bottle labelled as an 1878 Macallan single malt.\n\nIt is believed to be the largest sum ever paid for a poured dram of Scotch.\n\nBut analysis found that it was almost certainly not distilled before 1970.\n\nThe hotel said it had accepted the findings and reimbursed the customer in full.\n\nZhang Wei, 36, from Beijing - one of China's highest-earning online writers - had paid just under 10,000 Swiss francs (£7,600, $10,050) for the single shot while visiting the hotel's Devil's Place whisky bar in July.\n\nBut suspicions about the spirit's provenance surfaced soon after the purchase, when whisky industry experts spotted discrepancies in the bottle's cork and label from newspaper articles.\n\nMr Zhang was photographed with hotel manager Sandro Bernasconi after buying the dram\n\nThat prompted the Waldhaus to send a sample to Dunfermline-based specialists Rare Whisky 101 (RW101) for analysis.\n\nCarbon dating tests were then carried out by researchers from the University of Oxford, which suggested a 95% probability that the spirit was created between 1970 and 1972.\n\nFurther lab tests by Fife-based alcohol analysts Tatlock and Thomson indicated that it was probably a blended Scotch, comprising 60% malt and 40% grain - ruling it out as a single malt.\n\nRW101 said the tests had shown that the bottle was \"almost worthless as a collector's item\".\n\nHad the bottle been genuine, it would have carried a bar-value of about 300,000 Swiss francs (£227,000).\n\nThe dram was poured from an unopened bottle that purported to be an 1878 Macallan\n\nMr Zhang, who writes martial arts fantasy novels under the pen name Tang Jia San Shao, earned the equivalent of about $16.8m in 2015, according to China Daily.\n\nHe bought the dram while on holiday with his grandmother at the Swiss hotel, which stocks 2,500 different whiskies.\n\nWaldhaus manager Sandro Bernasconi told BBC Scotland that the hotel had no idea the bottle was a fake.\n\nHe said: \"My father bought the bottle of Macallan 25 years ago, when he was manager of this hotel, and it had not been opened.\n\n\"When Mr Zhang asked if he could try some, we told him it wasn't for sale. When he said he really wanted to try it, I called my father who told me we could wait another 20 years for a customer like that so we should sell it.\n\n\"Mr Zhang and I then opened the bottle together and drank some of it.\"\n\nMr Zhang wrote about his experience with the \"1878\" Macallan a few days after his visit to the Waldhaus hotel\n\nA few days after tasting the whisky, Mr Zhang posted a message on the Chinese micro-blogging platform Weibo about his experience.\n\nHe wrote in Mandarin: \"When I came across a fine spirit from over 100 years ago, there wasn't much struggle inside.\n\n\"My grandma who accompanied me on this trip was only 82, yet the alcohol was 139 years old - same age as my grandma's grandma.\n\n\"To answer you all, it had a good taste. It's not just the taste, but also history.\"\n\nThe dram was bought from the Devil's Place whisky bar in St Moritz\n\nMr Bernasconi broke the bad news to Mr Zhang when he flew out to China to reimburse him recently.\n\nHe added: \"When I showed him the results, he was not angry - he thanked me very much for the hotel's honesty and said his experience in Switzerland had been good.\n\n\"When it comes to selling our customers some of the world's rarest and oldest whiskies, we felt it was our duty to ensure that our stock is 100% authentic and the real deal.\n\n\"That's why we called in RW101.\n\n\"The result has been a big shock to the system, and we are delighted to have repaid our customer in full as a gesture of goodwill.\"\n\nRW101 co-founder David Robertson said: \"The Waldhaus team did exactly the right thing by trying to authenticate this whisky.\n\n\"We would implore that others in the market do what they can to identify any rogue bottles.\n\n\"The more intelligence we can provide, the greater the chance we have to defeat the fakers and fraudsters who seek to dupe the unsuspecting rare whisky consumer.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Bank of England may lift rates twice more over three years\n\nFor the first time in more than 10 years, the Bank of England has raised interest rates.\n\nThe official bank rate has been lifted from 0.25% to 0.5%, the first increase since July 2007.\n\nIt is likely to rise twice more over the next three years, according to Bank of England governor Mark Carney.\n\nThe move reverses the cut in August of last year, which was made in the wake of the vote to leave the European Union.\n\nAlmost four million households face higher mortgage interest payments after the rise, but it should give savers a modest lift in their returns.\n\nAs well as many of the country's 45 million savers, anyone considering buying an annuity for their pension will also see better deals.\n\nThe main losers will be households with a variable rate mortgage.\n\nMr Carney expects banks to pass on the rate rise to savers, but said many mortgages, loans and credit cards would not see an immediate impact.\n\nHe said that British households have been \"savvy\" with their finances and have mostly taken out fixed-rate mortgages, which means it will take some time before the rise has an impact on them.\n\nThe Bank estimates that almost two million mortgage holders have not experienced an interest rate rise since taking out a mortgage.\n\nOf the 8.1 million households with a mortgage, 3.7 million - or 46% - are on either a standard variable rate or a tracker rate - which generally move with the official bank rate.\n\nThe average outstanding balance is £89,000 which would see payments increase by about £12 a month, according to UK Finance.\n\nThe panel which sets interest rates, called the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), justified the rate increase by pointing to record-low unemployment, rising inflation and stronger global economic growth.\n\nSeven out of the nine members voted in favour of higher rates.\n\nMr Carney told the BBC that the Bank expected the UK economy to grow at about 1.7% for the next few years, which he said would require \"about two more interest rate increases over the next three years\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. We challenged some ten year olds to explain a system that baffles many adults…\n\nThe pound fell about 1% against the dollar and euro, as some investors had hoped to see hints of more rate rises. Sterling dropped more than a cent against the two currencies to $1.3130 and €1.1280 respectively.\n\nThe financial markets are indicating two more interest rate increases over the next three years, taking the official rate to 1%.\n\nHoward Archer, chief economic adviser to the EY Item Club consultancy, said: \"The Bank of England seemingly sees the hike to 0.50% as more likely to be a case of 'one and a little more to come' rather than 'one and done'.\"\n\nThe MPC also said that the decision to leave the European Union is having a \"noticeable impact\" on the economic outlook.\n\nMr Carney said \"Brexit-related constraints\" on investment and workers appeared to be holding back the potential growth of the economy.\n\nLooking ahead, he said: \"The biggest determinate of our outlook is going to be those negotiations ongoing on Brexit - both a transition deal to a new arrangement and what is the longer form arrangement with the European Union.\"\n\nThe Bank of England is tasked with keeping consumer price inflation at around 2%.\n\nHowever, inflation has been running higher than that since February, and in September it hit 3% - the highest rate since April 2012.\n\nMr Carney said inflation was unlikely to return to 2% without raising rates, because the economy was growing at levels \"above its speed limit\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Where were you when interest rates last went up?\n\nBusiness bodies said the rise was expected, but warned that companies could be hit if further increases came too soon.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses said some would struggle to \"absorb more hikes in the short term\", while the CBI said \"what's important is the pace of any future rises\".\n\nEconomists said the rise was unlikely to have a big effect on the economy, because rates are still at the lows seen since the financial crisis.\n\nLucy O'Carroll, chief economist at Aberdeen Standard Investments, said: \"The symbolism of this hike is more significant than its economic impact.\"\n\nThe Bank has been reluctant to raise interest rates until now, arguing that inflation had been boosted by the fall in the value of the pound since the Brexit vote in June of last year.\n\nThat weaker pound has driven up the costs of imported food, fuel and other goods. The Bank says this effect is probably at its peak at the moment.\n\nThe other issue holding back the Bank has been the weakness in wage growth. While inflation hit 3% in September, wage growth was only 2.1%.\n\nHowever, the Bank sees wage growth \"gradually\" increasing over the 2018 and says there are signs of that happening already.\n\nIn its Quarterly Inflation Report, released with the announcement on rates, the Bank estimated inflation was likely to peak this month at 3.2%.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Tom Symonds met the charity Redthread, that works with gang violence victims\n\nCan young people who've been injured in knife and gun crime be steered towards a safer future at the moment they're at their most vulnerable? The idea has been pioneered in four London hospitals by the charity Redthread, which places youth workers an the heart of accident and emergency alongside trauma medics.\n\nIt is early evening in \"resus\", part of accident and emergency at King's College Hospital in south London.\n\nOne of the city's four major trauma centres, if you are in a serious accident, or you are stabbed or shot, this is where you may end up.\n\nIt is an extraordinary place.\n\nGreen-overalled ambulance crews constantly arrive to be met by teams of medical staff in coloured scrubs. Sometimes there are wails of pain from patients. The public address system blares urgent announcements.\n\nA nurse at King's College Hospital takes details of an incoming patient\n\nThe ring of the \"red phone\" cuts through it all - warning the medics of an incoming patient.\n\nHe arrives, dressings marked with blood, on a trolley surrounded by paramedics and is handed over to a 10-strong team of waiting trauma specialists.\n\nSenior consultant Dr Emer Sutherland marshals her team. The patient is 16. He has been slashed four times with a large knife.\n\nA trauma team attends a patient in the resus unit at King's College Hospital\n\nIn the course of the next few hours, the resus team will ensure he lives. They're good at what they do. Only three young stabbing victims have died in the hospital this year.\n\nBut there's another specialist alongside them.\n\nLucy Knell-Taylor is 29, dressed in a T-shirt and leggings. She's not a doctor, but a youth worker with the charity Redthread.\n\nShe is there not to save a life, but to change one.\n\nWe spent four days at King's, during which time we saw a steady flow of patients with stab wounds - almost all of them under 18. The peak time for admission was not late at night, but at school going-home time.\n\nAfter a decade of falling levels of violent crime, they are now increasing again.\n\nReported knife crime rose 26% in the last year. In London, 21 teenagers have been murdered, 15 stabbed to death.\n\nRedthread is trying to help young people escape what for many is a life riven by violence. To achieve that, youth worker Lucy has to wait for the right time.\n\nWhen victims are able to talk, she moves in among the medical team and begins the task of building a relationship with someone she's never met, who may be traumatised and hostile, while they are having emergency treatment.\n\nSome respond well. One gestured to his wounds and said to Lucy: \"I want you to look at it and tell me what they are doing.\"\n\nOthers are more difficult. Many young men involved in criminal gangs who won't even tell her their \"government\" or real name. She's been called a \"pagan\", meaning \"you're not one of us\".\n\nShe is often told: \"I slipped on glass.\" In resus, they know that's usually code for \"I was stabbed.\"\n\nShe responds with reassurance, practical help and personal warmth. Forging a relationship is everything.\n\nRedthread calls this \"the teachable moment\". When someone is critically injured, they are suddenly removed from the streets. They are dependent on doctors for their survival. They may be in pain.\n\nThe aim is to teach them that this is a moment they should grasp. A junction in their lives where a choice can be made. To go back, or to move on.\n\nLucy Knell-Taylor says she seeks to form a bond with patients\n\n\"Getting to them now when they are here in the hospital,\" Lucy Knell-Taylor says, \"is my opportunity to say every single thing which has happened before this second, kind of doesn't matter.\n\n\"Right now you're in pain, you're away from your natural environment, your friends may or may not be here. This is an opportunity to think - does something need to be different?\n\n\"It's live, it's the moment it's most real to them. It's the perfect moment.\"\n\nWhen it works, a bond is formed between Ms Knell-Taylor and the victim. It means she can later say \"You can trust me. I've seen your pain face!\"\n\nBut it can be traumatic work. Ms Knell-Taylor describes one incident when, called to resus, she was confronted with a large group of \"road men\" - gang members. One turned, and a kitchen knife was sticking out of his eye.\n\nShe has seen patients die.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Special correspondent Ed Thomas has witnessed the reality of knife crime\n\nDr Emer Sutherland helped set up the project 13 years ago. \"I am a middle-aged mum,\" she says. \"I don't have the same experiences young people have.\n\n\"I can keep them alive, I can resuscitate them, but then my expert colleagues - the youth workers - come in to offer them what they want for the future.\"\n\nThe teachable moment is designed to open the door to potentially years of work aimed at extracting victims from a violent life.\n\nMs Knell-Taylor has argued for \"her people\" in court, fought battles with probation officers, sorted housing, and even organised transport for one patient who couldn't go to a certain hospital because he might be stabbed passing through a rival group's territory.\n\nJane - not her real name - is one of Redthread's successes.\n\n\"Jane\" (L) has had the support of Redthread's Becky Calnan for several years\n\nNow in her 20s, when she was a teenager, she became involved in a drugs gang and was forced to carry guns and knives around London. \"I saw a man get both of his legs broken,\" she tells me.\n\nShe was sexually abused and sent to be raped by rival gangs, as part of a bizarre arrangement used when her gang had done something which might otherwise result in its rivals retaliating violently.\n\n\"If your girl had to sleep with a guy from another gang, it was like they had one up on you. The girls were used as pawns,\" she says.\n\nUnwell, Jane came to King's. Hospital staff opened the door to the teachable moment by tipping off Redthread that she would be at a clinic the next morning.\n\n\"It was probably one of the lowest points in my life,\" she says. \"I wasn't feeling great, and in that moment Becky was there to help me.\"\n\nBecky Calnan has recently stopped working directly with Jane, a mark of her progress\n\nBecky is Becky Calnan, an experienced Redthread worker who has now been with Jane for years.\n\n\"I just felt an automatic connection that actually this was someone who - regardless of what I was involved in - was going to help me,\" Jane says.\n\n\"Since then, I've probably spoken to her every other day for years. She's helped me rebuild relationships with my family, get me back into a community.\"\n\n\"Ideally I'd like her to be in my life for… well, forever.\"\n\nBut in fact their work connection recently came to an end. Jane accepts that as \"a mark of how far I've come\".\n\nThe Redthread team is expanding its work into hospitals outside London\n\nLucy Knell-Taylor says success is measured by her services no longer being needed.\n\n\"I try and work on this Nanny McPhee principle of when you need me but don't want me I'll be there, but when you want me but no longer need me, I won't,\" she says.\n\nA recent report on the charity's work at St Mary's hospital suggested it had led to a 60% reduction in the number of young people coming back to the emergency department as victims of violent crime.\n\nHowever, it has proven tricky for Redthread to show wider evidence of its success, because of a lack of funding for studies of what happens to the young people it contacts.\n\nNow the project's being expanded to three hospitals in Birmingham and Nottingham which will provide an opportunity to measure the effect of the \"teachable moment\" both before and after Redthread gets to work.\n\nThe intensive one-to-one relationships with young people that Redthread believes can divert them from violent lifestyles don't come cheap. Scaling up the project could get very expensive.\n\nBut every case arriving in resus results in a bill to the NHS for hugely expensive specialist care. Policymakers will also have to consider the real cost of not cutting youth violence.\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. Ava Etemadzadeh: \"It made me feel extremely uncomfortable and it was a revolting act.\"\n\nLabour's former chief whip queried Jeremy Corbyn's decision to promote an MP, following allegations of sexual harassment, the BBC has learned.\n\nDame Rosie Winterton rang the Labour leader's office to ask why Kelvin Hopkins had been appointed to the shadow cabinet in July 2016.\n\nShe reminded them that Mr Hopkins had been reprimanded for harassing a young activist, a Labour source said.\n\nThe Labour Party has not officially commented on the claim.\n\nA party spokesman said an investigation is ongoing into the allegations about Mr Hopkins's conduct and it takes such complaints \"extremely seriously\".\n\nMr Hopkins, 76, was promoted to Jeremy Corbyn's frontbench team in July 2016 but asked to return to the backbenches four months later.\n\nHe has not commented on the allegations about his past conduct but has been suspended while the party investigates them.\n\nLabour activist Ava Etemadzadeh, 27, earlier told the BBC she had been left feeling \"very powerless and isolated\" after Mr Hopkins was promoted - the year after she complained about his behaviour.\n\nMs Etemadzadeh claims the Luton North MP made inappropriate physical contact while hugging her, after she had invited him to speak at a university event in 2014, which \"made me feel extremely uncomfortable\".\n\n\"The second incident was in Parliament when I went to have a conversation and he told me that 'let's not talk about politics, do you have a boyfriend?',\" she told BBC News.\n\n\"And he also said that if nobody was in his office he would've taken me there. I was absolutely shocked and I wasn't really expecting that.\"\n\nAfter refusing to respond to his phone calls, she claimed he sent her a message \"saying that I'm an attractive, lovely young woman and a man would be lucky to have me as a lover and if he was young ... but he's not\".\n\nSome months later she raised concerns about Mr Hopkins' conduct with another Labour MP and her complaint was passed to the party's then chief whip Dame Rosie Winterton, who responded to it.\n\nBut Ms Etemadzadeh said she was told she would have to waive her anonymity for action to be taken and the prospect of this \"scared\" her.\n\nIt is understood Mr Hopkins was verbally reprimanded about his alleged behaviour.\n\nBut he went on to be promoted, albeit briefly, to Labour's front bench in June 2016 - shortly after leader Jeremy Corbyn faced mass resignations following the EU referendum.\n\nMr Hopkins has been MP for Luton North since 1997\n\nMs Etemadzadeh told the BBC she believed that the Labour leader's office had been contacted about the complaint \"and it was ignored\".\n\n\"I'm very disillusioned because just a few months later I realised that Jeremy Corbyn promoted Kelvin Hopkins to the shadow cabinet, despite the fact that the leader's office was aware of this and they refused to act and that made me feel very powerless and isolated and alone.\"\n\nLabour MP Jess Phillips told the BBC earlier: \"I am a bit concerned about the fact that Kelvin was then promoted afterwards, that does seem wrong to me... I think that people just didn't take it as seriously as it needed to be taken.\"\n\nAsked about the story, Shadow Commons leader Valerie Vaz told BBC Radio 4's World at One: \"The issue has come to light and and the matter is being thoroughly investigated by the party.\"\n\nLast week Mr Corbyn said he would encourage any woman who had been abused or harassed by MPs to speak out, adding that the party's National Executive Committee (NEC) had adopted new \"robust\" procedures to deal with the issue in July.", "The wrestling industry isn't known for LGBT representation, but drag wrestler Rick Cataldo is hoping to change that.\n\nRick has been a professional wrestler since 2004 but his career took off in 2014 when he formed The Fella Twins.\n\nAs part of the duo, he says he was able to pay tribute to the female wrestlers who inspired him as a child.\n\n\"At an early age I was attracted because even in such a violent atmosphere there could be beauty and colour,\" he tells Newsbeat.\n\n\"Plus, the big boobs and the blonde hair? That wasn't so bad either.\"\n\nGrowing up idolising WWE Divas such as Sable, Terry Runnels and Dawn Marie, Rick started wrestling at 14 but struggled to find a place in the industry.\n\nHe never wanted to be like other male wrestlers and instead worked with female wrestlers.\n\n\"I was always the joke and the comedy relief,\" he says. \"I was trying to find my place and what would get me bookings.\"\n\nWarning: Third party videos may contain adverts\n\nHe says male wrestlers had pretended to be gay, but found that being open about his sexuality outside the ring proved to be a major hurdle.\n\n\"They'd throw my bags out of the locker room because they found out I was gay and it wasn't just a character [I was playing],\" he explains.\n\n\"To this day, independent companies won't book me because of a fear of what families might say.\"\n\nIn 2014 he started wrestling in drag, reinventing his act and finding the success he craved once he proved doubters wrong.\n\n\"I wanted to turn up at every show looking just as beautiful as the girl wrestlers on TV,\" he says.\n\n\"I've stuck with it for three years because it's working and finally people are like, 'OK, Rick is doing something here.'\"\n\nRick says other LGBT wrestlers have told him they are now compared to him\n\nRick, who lives in Los Angeles in the US, found more success and bookings with The Fella Twins and inspired other LGBT people to enter the industry.\n\n\"Over the last three years there have been a lot of LGBT wrestlers,\" he explains.\n\n\"A lot of them reached out to me and said how much I'd inspired them. I reach back to a lot of them because there was no-one before me to do that.\"\n\nHowever, after three years as part of The Fella Twins, Rick's next goal is to help promote LGBT wrestling helping others find a place in the mainstream.\n\n\"My main goal, overall, was to look back and have left a dent in the world of professional wrestling,\" he says.\n\nFind us on Instagram at BBCNewsbeat and follow us on Snapchat, search for bbc_newsbeat", "Bosses of the new Call of Duty game say they \"touch on some really dark subject matter\" in the new release.\n\nThe makers say creating a title based on a conflict that claimed about 60 million lives has been a challenge.\n\nIt's been 10 years since the Call of Duty franchise based a game during World War Two.\n\n\"In no way do you want to glorify violence, but at the same time you can't ignore it,\" says Sledgehammer Games co-founder Michael Condrey.\n\n\"We spent a lot of time working on the right balance.\"\n\nAfter a lukewarm reaction to last year's entry in the series, Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare, fans have been excited by a return to a historical setting\n\n\"When you talk about Nazi Germany and the atrocities committed by Hitler's regime, how do you honour the cause?\n\n\"How do you respect the loss of life that happened?\"\n\nThe answer, the team decided, was detailed research and a decision not to shy away from what was happening.\n\nTo do that historian Marty Morgan, who's worked on Band of Brothers, was asked to help advise the team.\n\n\"It would be insincere not to touch on what was really happening,\" Michael explains.\n\n\"From the politics at the time, segregation among the allies, the role of women, to the Holocaust.\n\n\"By turning away from them we would not have brought the right level of awareness or be able to honour what was really happening.\n\n\"We saw a chance to tell a story that hadn't been told in video games in almost a decade. It's the most profound and personal subject matter we've ever touched on.\"\n\nIt's particularly personal for Glen Schofield, another co-founder of Sledgehammer games, whose grandfather fought in WW2.\n\n\"He had a Purple Heart and Bronze Star,\" he tells Newsbeat.\n\n\"My father would tell his stories, and my dad died as we were making the game - so we named the main character after him.\n\n\"So for us getting the details right is important. We want people to walk away entertained and learn something at the same time.\"\n\nThat's something Michael agrees with.\n\n\"This is more important now than ever,\" he believes.\n\n\"Having this platform, which is entertainment but also has a chance to tell this story to millions and millions of people, is very rewarding.\"\n\nFind us on Instagram at BBCNewsbeat and follow us on Snapchat, search for bbc_newsbeat", "A former neo-Nazi had his swastika tattoos removed after forging an unlikely friendship with his black probation officer. Michael Kent tells the Victoria Derbyshire programme about the relationship that changed his life.\n\nFor 20 years, Michael was involved in a violent white supremacist movement in Arizona, committing hate crimes and recruiting young people.\n\nDuring that time he acquired two swastika tattoos on his chest and a large tattoo of \"white pride\", a motto used by white supremacists, on his back.\n\n\"Every letter I had of the white pride, I had to go on a mission and I had to hurt somebody to gain each letter of that,\" he says.\n\nMichael says his neo-Nazi views evolved from racial encounters while growing up in a mostly black neighbourhood, where they had to \"fight to survive as a family\".\n\nWhen he was 12, an African-American man broke into his house and tried to rape his mother, and on another occasion, the mother of a black friend said she didn't want \"that blue-eyed devil in this house\".\n\n\"That just fuelled my hate as they didn't like me so you know what, I'm going all out, and I started hating them more than anything,\" he explains. \"Just on how one person treated me, I thought everyone was like that. I became more and more hateful as time went on.\"\n\nSwastikas and Confederate flags were previously hung in Michael's home\n\nHis outlook started to change when he met Tiffany Whittier, who took over his case a year after he completed a prison term for drugs and weapons charges.\n\nShe was the first probation officer who had visited him alone, previously they had always come in pairs due to his violent record. She had seen photos of the tattoos in his file, so knew what she was letting herself in for. Michael was impressed.\n\n\"That day it sparked something. She had the audacity, the balls, the strength to come to me. From that day on, little by little, she just started transforming my life,\" he says.\n\nOn the next occasion Tiffany went inside his home where she found swastikas, Confederate flags and pictures of Hitler on display. Despite this, she strongly felt she wasn't there to judge him.\n\n\"I wanted to get to know him on face value. I just began to speak to Michael, find out where he's from, where his hate stemmed from,\" she explains.\n\n\"I just worked with him, wanted him to be successful on probation and slowly but surely he started to do that on his own. I didn't realise the impact I was having on his own life.\"\n\nMichael had to \"earn\" each letter of his tattoo by committing a violent act\n\nShe suggested he took down his Nazi paraphernalia, joking that he could replace it with positive influences like smiley faces - but he took it seriously.\n\nLittle by little, he got rid of his Nazi stuff and says he started feeling better, less aggressive. Meanwhile, his rapport with Tiffany grew as she supported him, meeting his colleagues and family.\n\n\"More and more she became involved in my life and the hate started drifting away and the love started building in my heart,\" he says. They used to call me \"cranky pants\" at work, but I began going to work happy and not aggressive,\" he says.\n\n\"As we got to know each other I showed her pictures of what I was like before and she said, 'Oh my God Michael, if I had known what you were like I would never have walked through your gate that day.'\"\n\nTo complete his transformation, Michael approached an organisation called Redemption Ink, a not-for-profit organisation in the US which removes hate-related tattoos. They referred him to a company in Colorado, where he now lives, which is covering the old pictures with new designs.\n\n\"They are turning all this ugliness into something beautiful. I am almost in tears every time,\" he says.\n\nMichael says having his tattoos removed has been an emotional process\n\nMichael now lives in the mountains, working on a chicken farm where he is the only white person. He has had to move far away from his children because of fear of reprisals from gang members.\n\nThe pair now hope to use their story to encourage others to engage with each other more to combat racism. They hope to write a book and will soon be launching a Facebook group \"so we can talk about race issues and unite all cultures together to become one\".\n\n\"I hurt a lot of people, I hurt children by recruiting them when they were young. I went from being a trailer trash racist to a good person,\" Michael says.\n\n\"She's a very courageous woman and I am so glad and very thankful that she's in my life.\"\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.", "A work by French street artist Invader on display at an exhibition in Los Angeles\n\nTo me, it looked like a child's crude attempt at a mosaic. About a dozen small square tiles of different colours. Glued to the wall in a geometric design vaguely resembling a face with two square eyes.\n\nIt stood out in the otherwise empty and dingy Paris flat. Once my home, I was moving back in, after nearly 20 years away. My tenants, three young single men, were showing me round before they left.\n\n\"What's that?\" I asked, pointing at the cluster of tiles.\n\n\"That's by Invader,\" my tenant replied. \"He's a street artist. He's like a French Banksy.\"\n\nI quite liked Banksy, but the young man must have seen that I didn't appear overly impressed by his French counterpart.\n\n\"You must leave this,\" he said earnestly. \"One day it will be worth a lot of money.\"\n\nThe tiled pieces such as this one in London are inspired by the 1978 video game Space Invaders\n\nBeing British, I nodded politely - but inwardly I chortled at the notion that a few tiles stuck on a bedroom wall could ever be considered a work of art.\n\nTrying to prove I wasn't too old to get it, I said: \"It reminds me of something.\" After struggling for a few seconds to recall exactly what, I exclaimed triumphantly: \"Tetris!\"\n\nNow it was his turn to look dubious, so I explained: \"You know, the video game from the 80s.\" \"Not Tetris,\" he said, mock-patiently. \"Space Invaders. The mother of modern video games.\"\n\nHe added: \"The artist came to one of our parties and ended up staying a few months. It was his way of saying thank you. Now we're leaving it for you.\"\n\nMy neighbours had complained over the years - with varying degrees of indignation and perhaps envy - that the three young men had thrown raucous parties nearly every weekend. The flat was such a wreck that my tenant admitted that, when he was working during the week as an up-and-coming executive, he stayed at his girlfriend's.\n\nNow he was getting married, while I was about to transform the bachelor party pad back into a respectable bourgeois home.\n\nI duly promised the young men that I would look after the artwork and thanked them for leaving it. But then the builders came to replaster and repaint the room.\n\n\"I might leave that,\" I told them.\n\nThey looked at me sceptically. \"Why do you want to keep it? It will look strange,\" the painter said.\n\nI hesitated, but only for a moment. The wall was stripped, replastered and painted a tasteful shade of blanc cassé - off-white, far more aesthetically pleasing than a bunch of multicoloured tiles.\n\nThat was nine years ago, when I was moving back to France.\n\nAs the years passed, I noticed more of the Space Invaders mosaics on buildings around Paris. Never did I feel a twinge of regret for destroying the one in my flat.\n\nThen, two years ago, it began to dawn on me what I'd done.\n\nI reported on how one of the distinctive mosaics of the French street artist known as Invader was about to be displayed - on board the International Space Station. The European Space Agency said it would - in their words - highlight the bridges between art and space.\n\nIt was bigger, but otherwise similar to the one I'd unceremoniously stripped out of my flat.\n\nArtwork by Invader has turned up on the International Space Station and European Space Agency ground installations\n\nInvader was a global phenomenon, famous in New York, Hong Kong, London, and of course Paris.\n\nThen came the real blow. To my horror, I learned that one of his works had sold for more than €200,000 (£178,000; $233,000).\n\nThe mosaics I'd once scoffed at are now so sought-after that thieves posing as municipal workers in high-visibility vests went around Paris this summer carefully removing them.\n\nTheft and vandalism have always been problems for Invader, a graduate of the Paris School of Fine Arts who was born in 1969, the year man landed on the Moon.\n\nBut there's a fightback: fans known as \"reactivators\" photograph his works and reconstruct those that get damaged or disappear.\n\nHad I taken a picture of the one in my flat, I could have called in the reactivators.\n\nNow, I'll just have to live with the fact that I tossed out a valuable work of art because I preferred a smooth, blank, white wall.\n\nPerhaps I could try to market a piece of that as a work of art. But hold on a minute - hasn't someone already come up with that concept?", "American firework laws may seem strict - but as the UK prepares for Bonfire Night, has the US got the right idea?\n\nIn Delaware, you don't need a licence to own a shotgun.\n\nYou don't need a permit to buy a shotgun or carry a shotgun.\n\nIf you're over 18, and you pass the background check, the state won't interfere with your shotgun.\n\nSparklers, however, are a different matter.\n\nUnless you have a permit for a public display, it is illegal to sell or possess fireworks in Delaware.\n\nThat includes sparklers - which the law specifically mentions.\n\nThe maximum fine is $100. Last year, 17 people were arrested in Delaware for fireworks offences.\n\nWhile the US constitution does uphold the right to bear arms, it doesn't uphold the right to bear roman candles.\n\nThe offices at Patriotic Fireworks in Maryland\n\nIn the US, firework laws vary from state to state, even town to town. Like Delaware, Massachusetts bans all consumer fireworks - including sparklers.\n\nIllinois, Ohio, and Vermont ban everything but sparklers and novelty items. Other states ban anything that flies.\n\nThe laws mean firework stores are often found on state lines, so customers from one state can take advantage of laws in another.\n\nPatriotic Fireworks is in Elkton, Maryland - six miles from the Delaware state line. It's a small, friendly store, found down a long, tree-lined track.\n\nA pig-tailed dog called Princess Sofia says hello to customers. A sign on the door says: \"Let freedom ring\".\n\nBut they take the law seriously.\n\nFirstly, they don't sell to people from Maryland. They could, but the state law is so complex, and so strict, it's not worth their time.\n\n\"I would have to dedicate a person to go round with each customer, to make sure they bought legal items,\" says owner April Frederici. \"It's just easier not to.\"\n\nThey do sell to Delaware residents - \"I can't be the world's policeman,\" says April - but every customer must sign a contract.\n\nIt states that fireworks will be used \"in accordance with all state and local laws\". It also says Patriotic will not be liable for any \"accident or injury\".\n\nAnd when it comes to fireworks, accidents do happen. Just ask American football player Jason Pierre-Paul.\n\nIn 2015, Pierre-Paul celebrated Independence Day in his home town of Deerfield Beach, Florida. At the end of the night, he decided to set off one last firework.\n\nHe tried seven times to light the fuse. Then it exploded in his hand.\n\nPierre-Paul lost his index finger and the tip of his thumb. His middle finger was badly damaged.\n\nHe still plays football, returning with his hand wrapped in a club. In 2016, he became the face of a fireworks safety campaign.\n\n\"Jason Pierre-Paul is a great example of the dangers of fireworks,\" says Michael Chionchio, the assistant state fire marshal in Delaware.\n\nMichael and the state fire marshal's office are based on the edge of the state capital, Dover.\n\nIn the car park, a sign keeps tally of the number of fire deaths in Delaware. Last year: nine. This year: seven (six without a smoke detector).\n\nMichael is proud of his state's fireworks law. \"I can sum it up in a few words,\" he says. \"Fireworks are unsafe.\"\n\nIn 2004, Republicans in the state legislature tried to legalise sparklers, but failed. This year, they are trying again.\n\nThe fire marshal opposes the change. Not only are sparklers a \"gateway\" to other fireworks, says Michael, but they are unsafe.\n\n\"A sparkler can burn up to 1,800 degrees (980 celsius),\" he says.\n\nMichael leans across the wooden table and points to the Consumer Product Safety Commission's 2016 report on firework safety.\n\nIt says fireworks were involved in 11,100 injuries treated in US hospitals in 2016 (92% of victims were seen at the emergency department then released).\n\nIn the 30 days around 4 July, sparklers caused 900 injuries, with 400 of those in children aged 0-4.\n\n\"We can't consciously tell you that we accept fireworks and sparklers being legalised,\" says Michael.\n\n\"We just can't do that. We're fire marshals. We protect people from fires. We can't support something that will hurt somebody.\"\n\nAlthough the constitution allows guns, the US has a safety-conscious streak. In the \"land of the free\", the following are banned:\n\nSlowly, though, firework laws are being liberalised.\n\nSince 2000, nine states have legalised sparklers - New Jersey was the most recent. Another seven states have relaxed laws on other fireworks.\n\nJulie Heckman from the American Pyrotechnics Association says legalising fireworks makes them safer.\n\n\"Everyone celebrates their pride and patriotism on 4 July with backyard fireworks,\" she says.\n\n\"If fireworks are banned, people are just breaking the law. And where there was complete prohibition there was no safety message.\"\n\nLike Michael Chionchio, she has statistics to make her case. The number of firework-related injuries is the same as in 1976 - 11,100.\n\nBut at the same time, the consumption of fireworks has increased massively. Pound for pound, says Julie, the injury rate has fallen \"dramatically\".\n\nThe association attributes the decline to better education and safer products. It also points out that other things are risky, too.\n\nIn 2016, it says baseball was linked to 10 times as many injuries as fireworks.\n\nPeter Schwartzkopf is the Speaker of the Delaware House of Representatives, and was a policeman in the state for 25 years.\n\n\"I don't want you to think we're a bunch of prudes,\" he says.\n\n\"We have fireworks on 4 July in my town, Rehoboth. It's permitted, it's a fantastic show.\n\n\"It's not like we don't do fireworks. But it's mostly commercialised, done by companies that are experts.\"\n\nWhile he says fireworks are \"very dangerous\", he \"doesn't see that much harm in a sparkler\". But he points out that Delaware has a \"very strong fire marshal and fire company lobby\".\n\nIs it not strange that a place that allows firearms should ban fireworks?\n\n\"It's two separate things, but I'd love to trade you on that one,\" he says.\n\n\"I believe in the right to carry a gun and the right to protect yourself. But I think somewhere along the line we've gone way too far.\n\n\"They make guns out there that have no legitimate reason, other than to kill people in war. I'm on the side of tightening it up.\"\n\nSo why hasn't it been tightened up?\n\n\"It's a difficult process,\" he says. \"And we have an extremely strong gun lobby in DC.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hollywood was quizzed about Leith's error by An Extra Slice host Jo Brand\n\nBake Off star Paul Hollywood has spoken of his horror after the winner of this year's series was accidentally revealed by fellow judge Prue Leith.\n\n\"What can you say? I was horrified,\" he said on Channel 4's spin-off show An Extra Slice. \"She's made a mistake.\"\n\n\"Unfortunately Prue can't be with us as she's too busy deleting her Twitter account,\" joked presenter Jo Brand.\n\nLeith revealed that Sophie Faldo had won on Tuesday morning, hours before the finale was aired.\n\nThe tweet was hastily deleted, but not before many people had noticed and circulated the gaffe.\n\nShe said she was in Bhutan and had been confused by the time difference between the UK and the South Asian country.\n\nSophie Faldo (centre) was named the winner of this year's Bake Off series\n\n\"She was in the Himalayas apparently,\" said Hollywood on Thursday's edition of Bake Off's sister programme.\n\nBrand made a second reference to Leith's error by pretending the writer and restaurateur had been in touch.\n\n\"I've had a text from Prue and apparently the winner [of next year's show] is somebody called Malcolm,\" she said.\n\nLeith's mistake did not stop 7.7 million watching the Bake Off final on Tuesday, earning Channel 4 its highest overnight ratings since 2012.\n\nThe series was the first to air on Channel 4 following the programme's high-profile switch from BBC One.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Reports claim Sir Michael Fallon made \"lewd\" remarks to Andrea Leadsom when they served on a Commons committee together.\n\nNo 10 has insisted Andrea Leadsom did not call for Sir Michael Fallon to be sacked from the cabinet amid reports she complained about his conduct.\n\nThe Sun and Daily Mail said the Commons leader complained about the ex-defence secretary making \"lewd\" remarks to her.\n\nSir Michael, who quit office on Wednesday saying his general conduct fell short of expected standards, has \"categorically denied\" the allegations.\n\nMrs Leadsom has led ministers' response to the Westminster misconduct claims.\n\nIn a statement to Parliament on Monday, she said Commons procedures for handling complaints about MPs needed to be overhauled as women working in Parliament had a right to feel safe.\n\nSir Michael became the first minister to resign since allegations of inappropriate behaviour by MPs from different parties first surfaced ten days ago.\n\nThe latest newspaper claims involving the veteran Tory date back to between 2010 and 2012 when he and Mrs Leadsom were members of the Treasury Select Committee.\n\nAccording to the Sun and the Daily Mail, Mrs Leadsom remarked to Sir Michael - who was not a minister at the time but was deputy chair of the Conservatives - that she had cold hands and he allegedly replied: \"I know where you can put them to warm them up\".\n\nThe newspapers claim Sir Michael was forced to quit as defence secretary after Mrs Leadsom complained to Prime Minister Theresa May about the alleged incident.\n\nA source close to Sir Michael said he \"categorically denies\" the newspapers' claims. Mrs Leadsom has not commented on them.\n\nBut No 10 issued a statement, saying: \"The Leader of the House did not, and has not, asked the prime minister to consider the position of Sir Michael Fallon when he was defence secretary.\"\n\nThe prime minister sat beside Andrea Leadsom as she gave her speech to Parliament\n\nSir Michael confirmed on Tuesday that he was once rebuked by a journalist, Julia Hartley-Brewer, for putting his hand on her knee during a dinner in 2002, and he apologised at the time.\n\nA day later, he resigned as defence secretary, telling the BBC: \"The culture has changed over the years, what might have been acceptable 15, 10 years ago is clearly not acceptable now.\n\n\"Parliament now has to look at itself and the prime minister has made very clear that conduct needs to be improved and we need to protect the staff of Westminster against any particular allegations of harassment.\"\n\nHe was replaced on Thursday by Chief Whip Gavin Williamson.\n\nMs Hartley-Brewer said that if he had gone because of her knee, it would be \"the most absurd reason for anyone to have lost their job in the history of the universe\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Michael Fallon: \"Not right for me to go on as defence secretary\".\n\nLabour is also facing new claims of sexual harassment and has suspended an MP whilst it carries out an investigation.\n\nKelvin Hopkins, who has represented Luton North for 20 years, has been accused of sexually harassing a party activist.\n\nA spokesman said Labour \"takes all such complaints extremely seriously and has robust procedures in place\".", "Police agreed with the elderly man that the vegetable looked like a bomb\n\nA German man feared a monster courgette he found in his garden was an unexploded World War Two bomb and called the police.\n\nThe 5kg (11-pound) courgette had probably been thrown over a hedge into the 81 year old's garden, police said.\n\nLuckily no evacuation was required in Bretten, a town near Karlsruhe in south-west Germany.\n\nThe 40cm (16-inch) vegetable - also called zucchini - \"really did look like a bomb\", police said.\n\nOnce police had reassured him following the early morning call-out, the pensioner disposed of the courgette himself.\n\nMany unexploded bombs dropped by the British RAF or US Air Force have been unearthed in Germany, usually during construction work.\n\nOn 3 September 65,000 people were evacuated from their homes in Frankfurt, so that a 1.4-tonne British bomb could be defused. It was the biggest evacuation in post-war German history for an unexploded bomb alert.", "Dizzee Rascal has stepped in as a last-minute replacement for Liam Gallagher on the BBC's new live music show Sounds Like Friday Night.\n\nThe former Oasis frontman, 44, pulled out of the live show after being told to rest his voice by doctors.\n\nGallagher - who released his first solo album last month - performed on BBC Radio 2 in concert on Thursday night.\n\nHe wrote on Twitter: \"Sorry I can't perform... as I've been told to rest my voice by my doctor. As you were.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Liam Gallagher This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA BBC spokeswoman reiterated that the singer had been advised to rest because of vocal issues.\n\n\"We wish him a speedy recovery,\" she added.\n\nFriday night's show saw former One Direction star Liam Payne join presenters Greg James and Dotty as a guest host.\n\nIntroduced as a grime superstar, Dizzee Rascal performed his new single Bop N Keep It Dippin' - taken from his latest album Raskit - in amongst the studio audience.\n\nDiscussing the record with James and Dotty, he described it as a \"a straight up rap album\".\n\n\"I want to give the people great bars\", he added, before teasing future collaborations.\n\nThe show also saw Payne, London Grammar and R&B newcomer Mabel perform live.", "The actor won Oscars in 1996 and 2000\n\nKevin Spacey has said he is seeking treatment after facing allegations of sexual misconduct from a string of men.\n\nA representative for the actor said he \"is taking the time necessary to seek evaluation and treatment\".\n\nThey did not give any information about what kind of treatment he wants.\n\nHe is one of several Hollywood figures who have been accused of sexual misconduct. Dustin Hoffman has issued an apology while director Brett Ratner has been accused by six women.\n\nA lawyer for Ratner, the director of the Rush Hour films and X-Men: The Last Stand, has \"categorically\" denied all of the accusations.\n\nThe allegations have been sparked by multiple women speaking out against the Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, and a subsequent campaign encouraging victims to share their stories of sexual harassment under the #metoo hashtag.\n\nSo who has been accused of misconduct?\n\nNew allegations have emerged from a number of men accusing Kevin Spacey of sexual misconduct.\n\nUS filmmaker Tony Montana claims he was groped by the actor in a Los Angeles bar in 2003. He says he was left with PTSD for six months after Spacey \"forcefully\" grabbed his crotch.\n\nMr Montana told Radar Online that he was in his 30s when the incident took place at the Coronet Bar in LA.\n\nIt follows an allegation made by Anthony Rapp that the House of Cards actor tried to \"seduce\" him when he was 14 years old.\n\nKevin Spacey says he has no recollection of that encounter, and was \"beyond horrified\".\n\nIncidents regarding Spacey are also alleged to have taken place in the UK while the two-time Oscar winner was the artistic director at the Old Vic in London between 2004 and 2015.\n\nMexican actor Roberto Cavazos, who acted in several plays at the theatre, claims Spacey \"routinely preyed\" on young male actors.\n\nOne man told the BBC about his experience of being invited to spend the weekend with Spacey in New York when he was a teenager in the 1980s.\n\nThe Old Vic has set up a confidential complaints process for anyone connected to the theatre, and said on Thursday that it is \"already seeing the great benefits of the new policy of openness and the safe sharing of information\".\n\nSix women have accused Hollywood filmmaker Brett Ratner of sexual harassment or misconduct.\n\nThe women, including The Newsroom actress Olivia Munn, made the allegations in the Los Angeles Times.\n\nNatasha Henstridge, who appeared in Species and The Whole Ten Yards, claimed she had been forced into a sex act with Ratner as a teenager.\n\nThe actress, now 43, was a 19-year-old model at the time she alleges Ratner stopped her from leaving a room at his New York apartment and then made her perform a sex act on him.\n\n\"He strong-armed me in a real way,\" she told the LA Times. \"He physically forced himself onto me.\"\n\nRatner's lawyer \"categorically\" denied all of the accusations on his behalf in response to the article.\n\nSeparately, Ratner has filed a libel case in Hawaii against a woman who accused him on Facebook of rape more than 10 years ago.\n\nRatner says he has stepped away from dealings with movie studio Warner Bros since the allegations came to light.\n\nDustin Hoffman has been accused of sexually harassing an intern on the set of one of his films in 1985.\n\nAnna Graham Hunter, a writer, says that when she was 17, the Oscar-winning actor groped her and made inappropriate comments about sex to her.\n\nShe told The Hollywood Reporter: \"He was openly flirtatious, he grabbed my ass, he talked about sex to me and in front of me.\"\n\nHoffman apologised, and said he was sorry if he \"put her in an uncomfortable situation\".\n\nIn a statement to the magazine, Hoffman said: \"I have the utmost respect for women and feel terrible that anything I might have done could have put her in an uncomfortable situation. I am sorry. It is not reflective of who I am.\"\n\nThe BBC has contacted representatives of Dustin Hoffman for his response to these allegations.\n\nSenior editor Michael Oreskes has resigned following accusations he kissed female colleagues without their consent during business meetings.\n\nThe 63-year-old was asked to step down by the National Public Radio (NPR) network in response to the allegations. He has previously worked for the Associated Press and the New York Times.\n\nTwo women spoke to the Washington Post on condition of anonymity, and reported stories of abrupt and unexpected kisses during business meetings. They said they were worried about career development if their names were made public.\n\nOne of the women said that while she met Mr Oreskes in the hope of getting a job with the New York Times, he suggested that they eat room service lunch in a hotel, before he unexpectedly kissed her and \"slipped his tongue into her mouth\".\n\nHe has not commented publicly on the allegations, and journalists at NPR report that they have tried to contact him for comment, without success.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Westminster has been rocked by a series of sexual harassment claims\n\nSuspended Labour MP Kelvin Hopkins has said he \"absolutely and categorically\" denies claims of sexual harassment.\n\nLabour activist Ava Etemadzadeh, 27, earlier told the BBC that Mr Hopkins had hugged her inappropriately after a student event in 2014.\n\nDenying the claims, Mr Hopkins said he had only \"put an arm around her\" and did not hold her tight.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour MP Clive Lewis has denied groping a woman at the party's annual conference this year.\n\nA party member told the Independent newspaper how Norwich South MP Mr Lewis allegedly groped her at the party conference last month.\n\nLabour said it was investigating a formal complaint against Mr Lewis.\n\nHowever, in a statement, the former shadow minister said: \"I know how I roll. I don't squeeze women's buttocks.\"\n\nHe told BBC News he was \"vigorously\" disputing the allegation, adding: \"I'm feeling pretty taken aback by it all.\"\n\n\"I'm a friendly person, I'm someone who enjoys the company of people and it saddens me that I will now have to think about standing back, about being more formal,\" he said.\n\nA Labour statement said the party was investigating a formal complaint made against Clive Lewis\n\nThe claims against Mr Lewis come after Luton North MP Mr Hopkins was suspended by the party on Thursday while an investigation takes place.\n\nMs Etemadzadeh alleges that Mr Hopkins said during a conversation in Parliament: \"Let's not talk about politics, do you have a boyfriend?\"\n\n\"He also said that if nobody was in his office he would've taken me there,\" she added. \"I was absolutely shocked and I wasn't really expecting that.\"\n\nAfter refusing to respond to his phone calls, she claimed he sent her a message saying \"that I'm an attractive, lovely young woman and a man would be lucky to have me as a lover and if he was young... but he's not\".\n\nMr Hopkins did not initially respond to the allegations.\n\nHowever, in a statement issued by his solicitors, the 76-year-old denied claims he had acted inappropriately at the student event in 2014.\n\nHe said: \"I simply put an arm around her shoulder to give her a brief, slight hug just before getting into my car.\n\n\"I did not hold her tight. I did not rub any part of my body, let alone my crotch, against Ava.\n\n\"She waved me off as I drove away and did not say anything whatsoever to suggest that anything had occurred that upset her, let alone revolted her.\"\n\nMr Hopkins said he did not recall asking her about her personal life, but said he did send a text message saying she was \"charming and sweet-natured\".\n\nHe admitted sending a message that said \"a nice young man would be lucky to have you as a girlfriend and lover... Were I to be young... but I am not...\".\n\nHe said she replied to the message.\n\nMs Etemadzadeh said she raised her concerns about Mr Hopkins' conduct with another Labour MP, saying her complaint was passed to the party's former chief whip Dame Rosie Winterton, who responded to it.\n\nBut Ms Etemadzadeh said she was told she would have to waive her anonymity for action to be taken and the prospect of that \"scared\" her.\n\nIt is understood Mr Hopkins was verbally reprimanded about his alleged behaviour.\n\nHe went on to be promoted, albeit briefly, to Labour's front bench in June 2016 - shortly after leader Jeremy Corbyn faced mass resignations following the EU referendum.\n\nIt has emerged that Dame Rosie rang the Labour leader's office to ask why Mr Hopkins had been appointed to the shadow cabinet in July 2016.\n\nA Labour source said she reminded them that Mr Hopkins had been reprimanded for harassing a young activist.\n\nThe Labour Party has not commented on the claim.\n\nOn Friday, it was announced that Labour will appoint an independent specialist organisation to offer advice and support to individuals affected by sexual harassment in the party.\n\nA statement said the party will announce the organisation will take on the role \"as soon as possible\".\n\nIt also said that independent legal expert, Karon Monaghan QC, will investigate Labour activist Bex Bailey's allegations.\n\nMs Bailey has said she was raped at a party event and a senior Labour official discouraged her from reporting the attack.\n\nShe said she was told reporting the alleged 2011 incident could \"damage\" her and that she was given no advice on what she should do next.", "A couple of months ago, R&B singer Mabel was trying to kill time while she waited to go to the gym.\n\n\"I'd booked some dumb exercise class at eight o'clock and it was six - so my brother was like, 'Just get on the piano and see what happens.'\"\n\nForty-five minutes later, the 21-year-old had written Finders Keepers, a song that's now firmly lodged in the Top 10.\n\n\"It's amazing,\" she tells the BBC. \"I just wanted to make something fun for me and my friends.\"\n\nMabel has been making waves since 2015, when she released the slinky, sensual Know Me Better, with its seductive refrain: \"I could go all day wearing nothing but your kiss\".\n\nBut she's been around music all her life. Her parents are hip-hop legend Neneh Cherry and Massive Attack producer Cameron McVey.\n\nBorn in the mountains of Malaga, she was raised between Spain, London and Stockholm, learning piano at the age of five and choreographing routines to Destiny's Child with her sister.\n\nMabel said she was initially intimidated by her mother's musical success\n\nShe's no stranger to the recording studio either, accompanying McVey when he produced the Sugababes' debut album, One Touch, in 2000.\n\nAt the tender age of four, she managed to sleep through the whole thing. \"Do you know what? It's still a problem!\" she laughs.\n\n\"The vibrations of the bass make me so cosy. The other day I had a blanket in the studio and my brother was like, 'You need to move. You're not writing, you're napping!'\"\n\nThe habit has earned her the nickname Lil' Bassy - and it's not just confined to the studio. \"It's concerts as well!\" she says. \"If I put earplugs in, the muffled sound of a gig gets me.\n\n\"Not at my own shows though,\" she clarifies. \"[There's] no sleeping if I'm on stage.\"\n\nMabel is currently working on her debut album\n\nGiven her background, Mabel's success might seem like a fait accompli. But for a long time, she avoided making music.\n\n\"I felt quite embarrassed by being my mum and dad's daughter,\" she once said. \"I thought, 'People will never take me seriously.'\"\n\nShe eventually overcame that fear and enrolled to study production and music theory in Stockholm. After graduating she moved to London.\n\nThere she was cast for a photo shoot in i-D magazine. That caught the attention of Skepta, who put her in his video for Shutdown.\n\nMabel's hip-hop tinged debut, Know Me Better, went viral soon afterwards, propelling Mabel onto the BBC's Sound of 2016 list.\n\nBut she's purposefully taken her time, touring with Years & Years and crafting an impressive catalogue of singles.\n\n\"These things take time,\" she says, noting that new artists need longer to nurture an audience in the slow-burn streaming era.\n\n\"It's more like America, where sometimes it takes years to break a record.\"\n\nThis is especially true of Finders Keepers, which first came out in March and later featured on Mabel's Bedroom EP - a 21st take on the '90s R&B of Brandy and Aaliyah.\n\nLyrically, the EP discusses control within relationships - \"how one minute you can be in the driving seat, then that flips and you're very much out of control.\"\n\nIt's also about balancing out the male-dominated narrative of R&B - which is where Finders Keepers comes in.\n\n\"There's so many R&B songs where guys are talking about a clingy girl, like: 'I don't want a girlfriend and this girl's so clingy and blah blah blah.'\n\n\"But I'm a woman and I've been in situations that have been the reverse of that, so I wanted to tell that story.\"\n\nMabel has toured with pop group Years & Years and Skepta's grime collective Boy Better Know\n\nFinders Keepers stands out even more because it's Mabel's first uptempo track. \"I really struggled with it before,\" she says.\n\n\"I'm really good at the '90s slow jams. I've got that down. But I love to dance, so why wouldn't I make something I could dance to?\"\n\nThe song's success, she says, \"surpassed everyone's expectations and every other song I've ever done\" - and it spurred her to write more in the same vein.\n\n\"I have like Finders Keepers fever now!\" the singer says.\n\n\"Sometimes I go in the studio and I'm like, 'That worked so well, and I wrote it in 45 minutes so if I try wearing the same outfit and playing on the same piano it'll happen again.'\n\n\"But you know what? That's why I love music - because I'm such a control freak and it's the only thing that I can't really control.\n\nMabel's Bedroom EP and her Ivy To Roses mixtape are out now.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Cherry on returning to the limelight", "Fraudsters are using junk mail in new and more sophisticated ways\n\nThe organisation at the frontline of UK consumer protection says it is seeing a pattern of \"old scams, new tricks\".\n\nNational Trading Standards (NTS) said that while online crime was a growing problem, time-honoured fraud methods would not disappear any time soon.\n\nIt said many people were still hounded by cold callers, scam mail and doorstep criminals.\n\nCriminals were also using smart TVs and voice-activated home devices to steal data, its Consumer Harm Report warned.\n\nNTS, which was set up by the government in 2012, said 2016-17 had been a record-breaking year, with 104 criminal convictions.\n\nHowever, it said criminals were using new tactics to avoid detection, such as mail arriving via third-party countries and the use of blank envelopes, so that people had to open them to find out what they contained.\n\nIn its annual report, it listed the potential emerging threats to consumers over the coming year, including:\n\n\"An evolving criminal landscape does not mean the more traditional scams will disappear,\" it said.\n\n\"Instead, National Trading Standards is seeing a trend of criminals diversifying and adapting their current schemes, evidenced in mass marketing mail scams.\n\n\"Additionally, more scams are originating abroad, with criminals concealing the payments they're receiving from their victims through payment processing companies,\" it said.\n\nBut it said its actions had prevented nearly £127m in losses to consumers and businesses during the year.\n\nLord Toby Harris, who chairs the NTS, said: \"Our teams are operating in an ever-evolving criminal environment. Consumer protection bodies are facing changing and challenging times.\"\n\nHe also praised the efforts of the public, who were \"pivotal\" in reporting crimes and supporting the NTS's work.\n\n\"So together, we continue to work to disrupt, investigate, prosecute and keep people safe.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A year ago Donald Trump produced the biggest political upset in modern-day America, but were there historical clues that pointed to his unexpected victory?\n\nFlying into Los Angeles, a descent that takes you from the desert, over the mountains, to the outer suburbs dotted with swimming pools shaped like kidneys, always brings on a near narcotic surge of nostalgia.\n\nThis was the flight path I followed more than 30 years ago, as I fulfilled a boyhood dream to make my first trip to the United States. America had always fired my imagination, both as a place and as an idea. So as I entered the immigration hall, under the winsome smile of America's movie star president, it was hardly a case of love at first sight.\n\nMy infatuation had started long before, with Westerns, cop shows, superhero comic strips, and movies such as West Side Story and Grease. Gotham exerted more of a pull than London. My 16-year-old self could quote more presidents than prime ministers. Like so many new arrivals, like so many of my compatriots, I felt an instant sense of belonging, a fealty borne of familiarity.\n\nEighties America lived up to its billing, from the multi-lane freeways to the cavernous fridges, from the drive-in movie theatres to the drive-through burger joints. I loved the bigness, the boldness, the brashness. Coming from a country where too many people were reconciled to their fate from too early an age, the animating force of the American Dream was not just seductive but unshackling.\n\nUpward mobility was not a given amongst my schoolmates. The absence of resentment was also striking: the belief success was something to emulate rather than envy. The sight of a Cadillac induced different feelings than the sight of a Rolls Royce.\n\nIt was 1984. Los Angeles was hosting the Olympics. The Soviet boycott meant US athletes dominated the medals table more so than usual. McDonald's had a scratch-card promotion, planned presumably before Eastern bloc countries decided to keep their distance, offering Big Macs, Cokes and fries if Americans won gold, silver or bronze in selected events. So for weeks I feasted on free fast food, a calorific accompaniment to chants of \"USA! USA!\"\n\nThis was the summertime of American resurgence. After the long national nightmare of Vietnam, Watergate and the Iranian hostage crisis, the country demonstrated its capacity for renewal. 1984, far from being the dystopian hell presaged by George Orwell, was a time of celebration and optimism. Uncle Sam - back then, nobody gave much thought to the country being given a male personification - seemed happy again in his own skin.\n\nFor millions, it really was \"Morning Again in America\", the slogan of Ronald Reagan's re-election campaign. In that year's presidential election, he buried his Democratic opponent Walter Mondale in a landslide, winning 49 out of 50 states and 58.8% of the popular vote.\n\nThe United States could hardly be described as politically harmonious. There was the usual divided government. Republicans retained control of the Senate, but the Democrats kept their stranglehold on the House of Representatives. Reagan's sunniness was sullied by the launch of his 1980 campaign with a call for \"states' rights\", which sounded to many like a dog-whistle for denial of civil rights.\n\nRonald Reagan on the campaign trail in 1979\n\nHis chosen venue was Philadelphia, but not the city of brotherly love, the cradle of the Declaration of Independence, but rather Philadelphia, Mississippi, a rural backwater close to where three civil rights workers had been murdered by white supremacists in 1964. Reagan, like Nixon, pursued the southern strategy, which exploited white fears about black advance.\n\nStill, the anthem of the hour was Lee Greenwood's God Bless the USA and politics was not nearly as polarised as it is today. Even though the Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill reviled Reagan's trickle-down economics - he called him a \"cheerleader for selfishness\" and \"Herbert Hoover with a smile\" - these two Irish-Americans found common ground as they sought to act in the national interest.\n\nBoth understood the Founding Fathers had hard-wired compromise into the governmental system, and that Washington, with its checks and balances, was unworkable without give and take. They worked together on tax reform and safeguarding Social Security.\n\nThe country was in the ascendant. Not so paranoid as it was in the 1950s, not so restive as it was in the 1960s, and nowhere near as demoralised as it had been in the 1970s.\n\nHistory is never neat or linear. Decades do not automatically have personalities, but it is possible to divide the period since 1984 into two distinct phases. The final 16 years of the 20th Century was a time of American hegemony. The first 16 years of the 21st Century has proven to be a period of dysfunction, discontent, disillusionment and decline. The America of today in many ways reflects the dissonance between the two.\n\nIn those twilight years of the last millennium, America enjoyed something akin to the dominance achieved at the Los Angeles Olympics. Just two years after Reagan demanded that Gorbachev tear down the Berlin Wall, that concrete and ideological barricade was gone. The United States won the Cold War. In the New World Order that emerged afterwards, it became the sole superpower in a unipolar world.\n\nA Berliner celebrates in front of the Berlin wall on 15 November 1989\n\nThe speed at which US-led forces won the first Gulf War in 1991 helped slay the ghosts of Vietnam. With a reformist leader, Boris Yeltsin, installed in the Kremlin, there was an expectation Russia would embrace democratic reform. Even after Tiananmen Square, there was a hope that China might follow suit, as it moved towards a more market-based economy.\n\nThis was the thrust of Francis Fukuyama's thesis in his landmark 1989 essay, The End of History, which spoke of \"the universalisation of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government\".\n\nFor all the forecasts Japan would become the world's largest economy, America refused to cede its financial and commercial dominance. Instead of Sony ruling the corporate world, Silicon Valley became the new high-tech workshop of business.\n\nBill Clinton's boast of building a bridge to the 21st Century rang true, although it was emergent tech giants such as Microsoft, Apple and Google that were the true architects and engineers. Thirty years after planting the Stars and Stripes on the Sea of Tranquillity, America not only dominated outer space but cyberspace too.\n\nThis phase of US dominance could never be described as untroubled. The Los Angeles riots in 1992, sparked by the beating of Rodney King and the acquittal of the police officers charged with his assault, highlighted deep racial divisions.\n\nIn Washington, Bill Clinton's impeachment exhibited the hyper-partisanship that was changing the tenor of Washington life. In the age of 24/7 cable news, politics was starting to double as soap opera.\n\nYet as we approached 31 December 1999, the assertion that the 20th Century had been The American Century was an axiom. I was in the capital as Bill Clinton presided over the midnight celebrations on the National Mall, and as the fireworks skipped from the Lincoln Memorial down the Reflecting Pool to illuminate the Washington monument, the mighty obelisk looked like a giant exclamation mark or a massive number one.\n\nThe national story changed dramatically and unexpectedly soon after. While doomsday predictions of a Y2K bug failed to materialise, it nonetheless felt as if the United States had been infected with a virus. 2000 saw the dot-com bubble explode. In November, the disputed presidential election between George W Bush and Al Gore badly damaged the reputation of US democracy.\n\nWhy, a Zimbabwean diplomat even suggested Africa send international observers to oversee the Florida recount. Beyond America's borders came harbingers of trouble. In Russia, 31 December 1999, as those fireworks were being primed, Vladimir Putin took over from Boris Yeltsin.\n\nThe year 2001 brought the horror of September 11th, an event more traumatic than Pearl Harbor. Post-9/11 America became less welcoming and more suspicious. The Bush administration's \"war on terror\" - open-ended conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq - drained the country of blood and treasure.\n\nThe collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, and the Great Recession that followed, arguably had a more lasting impact on the American psyche than the destruction of the Twin Towers. Just as 9/11 had undermined confidence in the country's national security, the financial collapse shattered confidence in its economic security.\n\nWith parents no longer certain their children would come to enjoy more abundant lives than they did, the American Dream felt like a chimera. The American compact, the bargain that if you worked hard and played by the rules your family would succeed, was no longer assumed. Between 2000 and 2011, the overall net wealth of US households fell. By 2014, the richest 1% of Americans had accrued more wealth than the bottom 90%.\n\nTo many in the watching world, and most of the 69 million Americans who voted for him, the election of the country's first black president again demonstrated America's capacity for regeneration.\n\nAlthough his presidency did much to rescue the economy, he couldn't repair a fractured country. The creation of a post-partisan nation, which Obama outlined in his breakthrough speech at the 2004 Democratic convention, proved just as illusory as the emergence of a post-racial society, which he always knew was beyond him.\n\nDuring the Obama years, Washington descended into a level of dysfunction unprecedented in post-war America.\n\n\"My number one priority is making sure President Obama's a one-term president,\" declared then-Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell, summing up the obstructionist mood of his Republican colleagues. It led to a crisis of governance, including the shutdown of 2013 and the repeated battles over raising the debt ceiling. The political map of America, rather than taking on a more purple hue, came to be rendered in deeper shades of red and blue.\n\nBeyond Capitol Hill, there was a whitelash to the first black president, seen in the rise of the Birther movement and in elements of the Tea Party movement. On the right, movement conservatives challenged establishment Republicans. On the left, identity politics displaced a more class-oriented politics as union influence waned. Both parties seemed to vacate the middle ground, relying instead on maximising support from their respective bases - African-Americans, evangelicals, the LGBT community, gun-owners - to win elections.\n\nThroughout his presidency, Barack Obama continued to talk about moving towards a more perfect union. But reality made a mockery of these lofty words. Sandy Hook. Orlando. The spate of police shootings. The gang-related mayhem in his adopted home of Chicago. The mess in Washington. The opioid crisis. The health indices even pointed to a sick nation, in which the death rate was rising. By 2016, life expectancy fell for the first time since 1993.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US election: Relive the wild ride in 170 seconds\n\nThis was the backdrop against which the 2016 election was fought, one of the most dispiriting campaigns in US political history. A battle between the two most unpopular major party candidates since polling began, ended with a victor who had higher negative ratings than his opponent and in the end, three million fewer votes.\n\nJust as I had been on the National Mall to ring in the new millennium in 2000, I was there again on 20 January 2017, for Donald Trump's inaugural celebrations. They included some Reagan-era flourishes. At the eve of the inauguration concert, Lee Greenwood reprised his Reaganite anthem God Bless the USA, albeit with a frailer voice.\n\nThere were chants of \"USA, USA,\" a staple of the billionaire's campaign rallies - usually triggered by his riff on building a wall along the Mexican border. There was also an 80s vibe about the telegenic first family, who looked fresh from a set of a primetime soap, like Dynasty or Falcon Crest.\n\nThe spectacle brought to mind what Norman Mailer once said of Reagan, that the 40th president understood \"the President of the United States was the leading soap opera figure in the great American drama, and one had better possess star value\". Trump understood this, and it explained much of his success, even if his star power came from reality TV rather than Hollywood B-movies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Cockerell: The parallels between Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump\n\nYet Trump is not Reagan. His politics of grievance, and the fist-shaking anger it fed off, struck a different tone than the Gipper's more positive pitch. It played on a shared sense of personal and national victimhood that would have been alien to Reagan.\n\nIn the space of just three decades, then, the United States had gone from \"It's morning in America again\" to something much darker: \"American Carnage\", the most memorable phrase from Trump's inaugural address.\n\nIt is tempting to see Trump's victory this time last year as an aberration. A historical mishap. The election all came down, after all, to just 77,744 votes in three key states: Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. But when you consider the boom-to-bust cycle of the period between 1984 and 2016, the Trump phenomenon doesn't look so accidental.\n\nIn many ways Trump's unexpected victory marked the culmination of a large number of trends in US politics, society and culture, many of which are rooted in that end-of-century period of American dominion.\n\nConsider how the fall of the Berlin Wall changed Washington, and how it ushered in an era of destructive and negative politics. In the post-war years, bipartisanship was routine, partly because of a shared determination to defeat communism. America's two-party system, adversarial though it was, benefited from the existence of a shared enemy. To pass laws, President Eisenhower regularly worked with Democratic chieftains such as House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson.\n\nReforms such as the 1958 National Defense Education Act, which improved science teaching in response to the launch of Sputnik, were framed precisely with defeating communism in mind.\n\nMuch of the impetus to pass landmark civil rights legislation in the mid-1960s came from the propaganda gift Jim Crow laws handed to the Soviet Union, especially as Moscow sought to expand its sphere of influence among newly decolonised African nations.\n\nPatriotic bipartisanship frayed and ripped after the end of the Cold War. It was in the 1990s the then-Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole started to use the filibuster more aggressively as a blocking device. Government shutdowns became politically weaponised.\n\nIn the 1994 congressional mid-terms, the Republican revolution brought a wave of fierce partisans to Washington, with an ideological aversion to government and thus little investment in making it work. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, the first Republican to occupy the post in 40 years, personified the kind of abrasive partisan that came to the fore on Capitol Hill.\n\nGrudging bipartisanship was still possible, as Clinton and Gingrich demonstrated over welfare and criminal justice reform in the mid-1990s. But this period witnessed the acidification of DC politics. The gerrymandering of the House of Representatives encouraged strict partisanship, because the threat to most lawmakers came from within their own parties. Moderates or pragmatists who strayed from the partisan path were punished with a primary challenge from more doctrinaire rivals.\n\nBy the 112th Congress in 2011-2012, there was no Democrat in the House more conservative than a Republican and no Republican more liberal than a Democrat. This was new. In the post-war years, there had been considerable ideological overlap between liberal Republicans and conservative Democrats. In this more polarised climate, bipartisanship became a dirty word. One leading conservative thinker and anti-tax campaigner, Grover Norquist, likened it to date rape.\n\nWould Congress have impeached Bill Clinton, ostensibly for having an affair with an intern, had America still been waging the Cold War? I sense not - it would have been seen, in those more serious times, as a frivolous distraction. When Congress moved towards impeaching Richard Nixon it did so because Watergate and its cover-up truly rose to the level of high crimes and misdemeanours.\n\nClinton's impeachment signalled the emergence of another new political trend: the delegitimisation of sitting presidents. And both parties played the game. The Democrats cast George W Bush as illegitimate because Al Gore won the popular vote and the Supreme Court controversially ruled in the Republican's favour during the Florida recount.\n\nThe Birther movement, led by Donald Trump, tried to delegitimise Barack Obama with specious and racist claims that he was not born in Hawaii. Most recently, the Democrats have cast aspersions on Trump's victory, partly because he lost the popular vote and partly because they allege he achieved a Kremlin-assisted victory.\n\nOver this period, the political discourse also became shriller. Rush Limbaugh, after getting his first radio show in 1984, rose to become the king of the right-wing shock jocks. Fox News was launched in 1996, the same year as MSNBC, which became its progressive counterpoint. The internet quickened the metabolism of the news industry and became the home for the kind of hateful commentary traditional news outlets rarely published.\n\nHome foreclosures skyrocketed at the end of the last decade\n\nMaybe the Jerry Springerisation of political news coverage can be traced to the moment the Drudge Report first published the name Monica Lewinsky, \"scooping\" Newsweek which hesitated before publishing such an explosive story. The success of the Drudge Report demonstrated how new outlets, which didn't share the same news values as the mainstream media, could establish brands literally overnight. This lesson was doubtless learnt by Andrew Breitbart, an editor at Drudge who founded the right-wing website Breitbart News.\n\nThe internet and social media, trumpeted initially as the ultimate tool for bringing people together, actually became a forum for cynicism, division and various outlandish conspiracy theories. America became more atomised.\n\nAs Robert D Putnam identified in his 1995 seminal essay, Bowling Alone, lower participation rates in organisations such as unions, parent teacher associations, the Boy Scouts and women's clubs had reduced person to person contacts and civil interaction.\n\nEconomically, this period saw the continuation of what's been called the \"Great Divergence\" which produced stark inequalities in wealth and income. Between 1979 and 2007, household income in the top 1% grew by 275% compared to just 18% growth in the bottom fifth of households.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Clinton-era was a period of financial deregulation, including the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, the landmark reform passed during the depression, as well as legislation exempting credit default swaps from regulation.\n\nDisruptive technologies changed the workplace and upended the labour market. Automation, more so than globalisation, was the big jobs killer during this phase. Between 1990 and 2007, machines killed off up to 670,000 US manufacturing jobs alone.\n\nThe Rust Belt rebellion that propelled Trump to the White House has been described as a revolt against robots, not that his supporters viewed it that way. Encouraged by the billionaire, many blamed increased foreign competition and the influx of foreign workers.\n\nThe opioid crisis can be traced back to the early 1990s with the over-prescription of powerful painkillers. Between 1991 and 2011, painkiller prescriptions tripled.\n\nAmerica seemed intoxicated by its own post-Cold War success. Then came the hangover of the past 16 years.\n\nOver the past few months, I've followed that same westward flight path to California on a number of occasions, and found myself asking what would an impressionable 16-year-old make of America now. Would she share my adolescent sense of wonder, or would she peer out over the Pacific at twilight and wonder if the sun was setting on America itself?\n\nWhat would she make of the gun violence, brought into grotesque relief again by the Las Vegas massacre? Multiple shootings are not new, of course. Just days before I arrived in the States in 1984, a gunman had walked into a McDonalds in a suburb of San Diego and shot dead 21 people. It was then the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.\n\nWhat's different between now and then, however, is the regularity of these massacres, and how the repetitiveness of the killings has normalised them. What was striking about Las Vegas was the muted nationwide response to a gunman killing 58 people and injuring hundreds more.\n\nOnce-shocking massacres no longer arouse intense emotions for those unconnected to the killings. A month on, and it is almost as if it didn't happen.\n\nWhat would she make of race relations? Back in 1984, black athletes such as Carl Lewis, Edwin Moses and Michael Jordan were unifying figures as they helped reap that Olympic golden harvest. Now some of America's leading black athletes are vilified by their president for taking a knee to protest, a right enshrined in the First Amendment. These athletes now find themselves combatants in the country's endless culture wars.\n\nWhat would she make of the confluence of gun violence and race, evident in the spate of police shootings of unarmed black men and in the online auction where the weapon that killed Trayvon Martin fetched more than $100,000?\n\nCharlottesville, with its torch-wielding and hate-spewing neo-Nazis, was another low point. So, too, were the president's remarks afterwards, when he described the crowd as including some \"very fine people\" and implied a moral equivalence between white supremacists and anti-racist protesters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Trump said versus what I saw - by the BBC's Joel Gunter\n\nI was at the news conference in Trump Tower that day. An African-American cameraman next to me yelled out \"What message does this send to our children?\" The question went unanswered, but concerned parents ask it everyday about Donald Trump's behaviour.\n\nWhat about the monuments debate? The last civil war veteran died in 1959, but the conflict rumbles on in various guises and upon various proxy battlefields, as America continues to grapple with the original sin of slavery.\n\nBut what if she landed in the American heartland, rather than flying over it? Coastal separateness can sometimes be exaggerated, but it would be a very different experience than Los Angeles. In the Rust Belt, stretches of riverway are crowded again with coal barges, and local business leaders believe in the Trump Bump because they see it in their order books and balance sheets.\n\nIn the Coal Belt, there's been delight at the rescinding of Obama's Clean Power Plan. In the Bible Belt, evangelicals behold Trump as a fellow victim of sneering liberal elites. In the Sun Belt, close to the Mexican border, there's wide support for his crackdown on illegal immigration.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn many football stadiums, she would hear the chorus of boos from fans who agree with the president that the take-the-knee protests denigrate the flag. In bars, union branches and American Legion halls, you'll find many who applaud Donald Trump for \"telling like it is\", refusing to be bound by norms of presidential behaviour or political correctness.\n\nThere are pointers of national success elsewhere. The New York Stock Exchange is still reaching record highs. Business confidence is on the up. Unemployment is at a 16-year low. Of the 62 million people who voted for Trump, a large number continue to regard him more as a national saviour than a national embarrassment.\n\nIn many red states, \"Make America Great Again\" echoes just as strongly as it did 12 months ago. Trump has a historically low approval rating of just 35%, but it's 78% among Republicans.\n\nIn the international realm, it's plausible foreign adversaries fear the United States more under Trump than Obama, and foreign allies no longer take the country for granted. The so-called Islamic State has been driven from Raqqa. Twenty-five Nato allies have pledged to increase defence spending. Beijing, under pressure from Washington, appears to be exerting more economic leverage over Pyongyang.\n\nHowever, America First increasingly means America alone, most notably on the Paris climate change accord and the Iranian nuclear deal. Trump has also Twitter-shamed longstanding allies, such as Germany and Australia, and infuriated its closest friend Britain, with rash tweets about crime rates and terror attacks.\n\nHis labelling of foes such as Kim Jong Un as Little Rocket Man seems juvenile and self-diminishing. It hardly reaches the Reagan standard of \"tear down this wall\". Indeed, with North Korea, there's the widespread fear that Trump's tweet tirades could spark a nuclear confrontation.\n\nFew countries look anymore to Trump's America as a global exemplar, the \"city upon a hill\" Reagan spoke of in his farewell address to the nation. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel is routinely described as the leader of the free world, the moniker bestowed on the US president since the days of FDR.\n\nThe Economist, which trolls Trump almost weekly, has described Chinese President Xi Jinping as the most powerful man in the world. American exceptionalism is now commonly viewed as a negative construct. \"Only in America\" is a term of derision.\n\nRonald Reagan used to talk of the 11th commandment - No Republican should speak ill of another Republican. So it is worth noting that some of Trump's most caustic and thoughtful critics have come from within his own party. Senator Jeff Flake called him \"a danger to democracy\".\n\nBob Corker described the White House as an \"adult day care centre\". John McCain, a frequent critic, has railed against \"spurious, half-baked nationalism\". George W Bush sounded the alarm about bigotry being emboldened and of how politics \"seems more vulnerable to conspiracy theories and outright fabrication\", without specifically naming the current president.\n\nTrump's determination to be an anti-president has arguably had a vandalising effect on the office of the presidency, and to civil society more broadly. Artists have boycotted the White House reception held ahead of the annual Kennedy Center Awards, a red letter night in the country's cultural calendar.\n\nThe Golden State Warriors were disinvited from appearing at the White House after their championship win because of the take-the-knee protest. It's new for these kinds of commemorations to become contested.\n\nTrump has even politicised one of the commander-in-chief's most solemn acts, offering condolences to the families of the fallen. It led to an indecorous row with a war widow. Small wonder long time Washington watchers, on both the right and left, consider this the nastiest and most graceless presidency of the modern era.\n\nThe corollary is the historical stock of his predecessors is rising. When the five living former presidents appeared together in Texas earlier this month they were greeted like a group of superheroes donning their capes for one final mission. It speaks of these unreal times that George W Bush is spoken of fondly, even wistfully, by long-time liberal foes.\n\nTrump's claim he could be just as presidential as Abraham Lincoln is one of the more comical boasts to come from the White House. Then there are the falsehoods, the \"alternative facts\" and attacks on the \"fake media\" - his label for news organisations such as the New York Times and Washington Post, whose reporting has rarely been better. Recently he has even threatened to revoke the licences of networks whose news divisions have published critical stories. To some it has shades of 1984, but Orwell's version.\n\nAs for Morning in America, it has a new connotation - checking Trump's Twitter for pre-dawn tweets. The president commonly starts the day by lashing out at opponents or mercilessly mocking them. The new normal, it is often called. But it seems more apt to call it the new abnormal.\n\nThere is an extent to which America is politics-proof and president-proof. However bad things got in Washington, my sense has long been that the US would be rescued by its other vital centres of power. New York, its financial and cultural capital. San Francisco, its tech hub. Boston, its academic first city. Hollywood, its entertainment centre.\n\nAdrienne Mccallister, director of Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality business development at Google, speaks during a launch event\n\nBut Los Angeles is reeling from the Harvey Weinstein revelations, the Uber scandal has shone a harsh light on corporate ethics in the tech sector and the Wells Fargo affair has once again shown Wall Street in a dismal light.\n\nUS universities dominate global rankings, but its top colleges could hardly be described as engines of intergenerational mobility. A study by the New York Times of 38 colleges, including Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth, showed that students from the top 1% income bracket occupied more places than the students from the bottom 60%. Of this year's intake at Harvard, almost a third were the sons and daughters of alumni.\n\nAutomation will also continue to be a jobs killer. One study this year predicted that nearly 40% of US jobs will be lost to computers and machines over the next 15 years. Spending time in the Rust Belt valleys around Pittsburgh last year I was struck by how many taxi and Uber drivers used to work in the steel industry. Now America's one-time Steel City is a centre of excellence for robotics and where Uber is road testing its driverless cars.\n\nThere's still truth in the adage that America is always going to hell, but it never quite gets there. But how that is being tested. Presently, it feels more like a continent than a country, with shared land occupied by warring tribes. Not a failing state but not a united states.\n\nAs I've travelled this country, I struggle to identify where Americans will find common political ground. Not in the guns debate. Not in the abortion debate. Not in the healthcare debate. Not even in the singing of the national anthem at American football games. Even a cataclysmic event on the scale of 9/11 failed to unify the country.\n\nIf anything it sowed the seeds of further division, especially over immigration. Some Americans agree with Donald Trump that arrivals from mainly Muslim countries need to be blocked. Others see that as an American anathema.\n\nWhen I made my first journey to the US all those years ago I witnessed a coming together. Those Olympic celebrations were in some ways an orgy of nationalism, but there was also a commonality of spirit and purpose. From Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue performed on 84 grand pianos to a polyglot team of athletes bedecked with medals.\n\nFrom the pilot who flew around the LA Coliseum in a jet pack to the customers who left McDonald's with free Big Macs. There was reason for rejoicing. The present was golden. America felt like America again.", "One of the victims was attacked in Walthamstow by two men who were trying to steal his moped\n\nA 14-year-old has been arrested over an acid attack which left a delivery driver \"fighting for his life\".\n\nThe 32-year-old could lose his sight after a substance was repeatedly thrown in his face in Walthamstow on Thursday evening, police said.\n\nIn a separate attack in Tottenham about 30 minutes later, another delivery driver, also 32, had a corrosive substance thrown at him.\n\nPolice \"strongly suspect\" the attacks are linked, the BBC's Danny Shaw said.\n\nThe home affairs correspondent added the victim in the first attack - during which two males tried to steal his moped - had injuries to his throat, face, oesophagus and eyes and was in an induced coma.\n\nThe first attack happened in Walpole Road, Walthamstow\n\nThe Met said the teenager has been arrested over the Walthamstow attack and is being held on suspicion of committing grievous bodily harm.\n\nDetectives said the victim was likely to lose sight in both eyes.\n\n\"This attack has left a man fighting for his life and with terrible eye injuries,\" Det Ch Insp Gordon Henderson said.\n\n\"This was an innocent man going about his work as a delivery driver, who may never see again.\"\n\nForensic teams are carrying out investigations in Walthamstow\n\nIn the second attack, two males approached the victim on Yarmouth Crescent, Tottenham, in a bid to steal his moped.\n\nHe was taken to hospital but his injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.\n\nThe second happened in Yarmouth Crescent in Tottenham\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Madagascar is facing the worst outbreak of plague in 50 years.\n\nThere have been more than 1,800 cases and 127 deaths since the start of August, according to new figures.\n\nThe island off the south-east coast of Africa is used to seeing about 400 cases of mostly bubonic plague in the same rural areas every year.\n\nBut this year it has developed into the deadlier pneumonic version and spread to much more populated areas, including the capital.\n\nThe WHO describes the plague as \"one of the oldest - and most feared - of all diseases\".\n\nHistorically, plague has been responsible for widespread pandemics with extremely high numbers of deaths.\n\nIt was known as the Black Death during the 14th Century, killing more than 50 million people across Europe.\n\nThe good news is that a simple short course of antibiotics can cure the plague, providing it is given early.\n\nThe current outbreak in Madagascar is also slowing down, with the number of cases falling in the past couple of weeks.\n\nBut the World Health Organization is warning further spikes could be on the way.\n\nIt says \"despite the relative ease of treatment, plague's association with the Black Death weighs heavily on the popular conscience - and is regularly cited in media reports and tabloid headlines about outbreaks\".\n\nSo how did this outbreak become the worst in recent times?\n\n\"An outbreak of plague no longer unfolds in the manner portrayed by our history books,\" said Dr Sylvie Briand, director of WHO's Infectious Hazard Management Department.\n\n\"Plague is an old disease, but the challenges it poses today are contemporary and fundamentally different from what we had even 40 years ago.\"\n\nThe medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres has been responding to the outbreak in one of the worst hit areas of Tamatave.\n\nDr Tim Jagatic told BBC News the outbreak had spread to populated areas when a man infected with bubonic plague had travelled from the highlands to the capital and then on to the coastal city of Tamatave by bus.\n\nTreatment centres have been set up\n\n\"He had the bubonic form of the plague and entered into one of the major cities, where the bubonic version of the disease had the potential of turning into the pneumonic form without treatment.\n\n\"He was in a closed environment with many people when he started to develop severe symptoms, and he started to transmit the pneumonic form of the disease to others.\"\n\nDr Jagatic said this had happened in late August, which is outside the normal plague season of September to April, in an area that never usually saw pneumonic plague.\n\nIt meant people weren't expecting the plague - and certainly not the type that could spread from person to person.\n\n\"So it wasn't recognised until later,\" he said, allowing the disease to \"proliferate over a period of time unabated\".\n\nThis index case infected 31 other people, according to the WHO, four of whom died.\n\nIt wasn't until a couple of weeks later that an outbreak of the plague was detected and officially confirmed.\n\nSince then, the country's Ministry of Health and other health agencies have swung into action, and cases have started to decline since mid-October.\n\nThe risk of this outbreak spreading globally is considered low, and the WHO has advised against any travel restrictions.\n\n\"Most people haven't experienced plague on this scale before… so it's putting a lot of anxiety and strain on the health system,\" said Olivier Le Polain, an epidemiologist from the UK's Rapid Support Team, which is helping the Madagascan government with its response.\n\n\"There's also fear in the population.\n\n\"There's an on-going risk going forward because the plague endemic season doesn't end until the end of April so, knowing it's in areas such as the capital, we need heightened vigilance.\"\n\nThe WHO describes the overall risk for the island as \"very high\".\n\nThere are also serious concerns about the potential spread of the disease beyond Madagascar.\n\nFrequent travel by air and sea to and from neighbouring countries means the risk of the disease spreading to places including Mozambique, the Seychelles, South Africa, and Tanzania is considered \"moderate\".\n\nThe WHO says it is helping those countries to step up surveillance and prepare for a potential outbreak.\n\nHowever, it says, the overall risk of the plague spreading globally is low.\n\nWHO official Tarik Jasarevic told BBC News the organisation \"advises against any restriction on travel or trade to Madagascar based on the current information available\".\n\n\"The evidence tells us that the risks associated with shutting borders are higher than keeping them open.\"\n\nBack at the MSF treatment centre in Tamatave, Dr Jagatic said the country was now much better prepared as the plague season continued.\n\n\"Outbreaks are always difficult to predict. Right now we're seeing a decrease in cases, but that doesn't mean this is over,\" he said.\n\n\"We're prepared for a spike, and want to make absolutely sure we won't be caught off guard again.\"", "Bergdahl was facing up to life in prison after he pleaded guilty last month to desertion\n\nUS Army soldier Bowe Bergdahl will be spared prison time after he was found guilty of deserting his Afghan outpost in 2009, a military judge has ruled.\n\nUnder the sentence in his court martial, the 31-year-old sergeant will be dishonourably discharged, reduced to private in rank and lose pay.\n\nProsecutors had argued Bergdahl should spend 14 years behind bars for endangering US troops in Afghanistan.\n\nHe spent five years in Taliban captivity after abandoning his post.\n\nUS President Donald Trump tweeted that the sentence was a \"total disgrace\".\n\nHe has repeatedly called Bergdahl \"a traitor\" and criticised the Obama-era prisoner exchange with the Taliban that led to the American soldier's release.\n\nThe judge, Army Col Jeffery R Nance, considered the president's attacks as a mitigating factor in sentencing Bergdahl, whose lawyers argued he could not receive a fair trial because of the comments.\n\nOn Friday, the judge said the Idaho native must forfeit pay equal to $1,000 (£765) per month for 10 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 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\nBergdahl had been facing up to life in prison after he pleaded guilty last month to desertion and misbehaviour before the enemy.\n\nHis lawyer Eugene Fidell told reporters: \"He has lost nearly a decade of his life.\n\nHe said Bergdahl is glad his \"terrible ordeal\" is now over.\n\nMajor Justin Oshana, for the prosecution, told the sentencing hearing that other US troops were injured in the hunt for Bergdahl.\n\nBut Captain Nina Banks, for the defence, said that when he deserted, Bergdahl had not yet been diagnosed with schizotypal personality disorder, which includes grandiose thinking.\n\nThe soldier said he had walked away from his outpost in Paktika province to report problems in his unit.\n\nThe military investigator who interrogated Bergdahl following his return from the US had told officials he did not believe he deserved further punishment.\n\nHe said Bergdahl had suffered the worst case of prisoner abuse against a US soldier in captivity since the Vietnam War.\n\nOn Monday, Bergdahl took the stand to apologise to the troops who were wounded in the search for him.\n\nShannon Allen's husband was shot in the head in the search for Bergdahl\n\n\"I made a horrible mistake,\" he said in the courtroom at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. \"Saying I'm sorry is not enough.\"\n\nMaster Sergeant Mark Allen was shot in the head during a July 2009 mission to find Bergdahl.\n\nHis wife, Shannon Allen, who was a witness for the prosecution this week, described the impact of her husband's debilitating brain injury.\n\n\"Instead of being his wife, I'm his caregiver,\" she said in an emotional testimony.\n\n\"Which doesn't mean I love him any less, but it's a very different dynamic.\n\n\"We can't even hold hands anymore without me prying open his hand and putting mine in.\"\n\nBergdahl testified that his Taliban captors had locked him in a cage after he briefly escaped.\n\nHe said he received little food, water or sleep and was forced to watch beheading videos.\n\nBergdahl was freed in a politically contentious 2014 Taliban prisoner swap brokered by former President Barack Obama's administration.", "Harriet Harman has been urged to apologise for repeating an offensive joke about the Holocaust on BBC TV.\n\nThe Labour MP read out the joke as an example of one she had complained about some years ago.\n\nThe Jewish Leadership Council said it was a \"staggering error of judgement\" to repeat it \"irrespective of the point she was trying to make\".\n\nMs Harman later tweeted that it was \"no laughing matter\" and such jokes \"perpetuate discrimination & hatred\".\n\nThe former Labour deputy leader appeared on BBC One's This Week programme and repeated the joke in a segment about humour which offends people.\n\nReferring to a story she recounts in her memoir A Woman's Work, she said: \"I've long been accused of being humourless, and a humourless feminist, and I'll give you two examples that I protested about, because they were offensive and hurtful.\"\n\nShe annoyed host Andrew Neil by saying: \"People like Andrew say that things like this are perfectly all right.\"\n\nShe was cut short by Mr Neil after telling the first joke - which she said was \"not funny\" - and the presenter reprimanded her for suggesting he would think it was OK.\n\nHe later told the Labour MP to \"be quiet\".\n\nThe chief executive of the Jewish Leadership Council Simon Johnson said: \"I cannot recall being so disappointed in a politician. Harriet Harman must surely know better than to repeat a vile Holocaust joke, irrespective of the point she was trying to make. She must apologise and do so quickly. It is a staggering error of judgment.\"\n\nMr Neil later tweeted that he was \"appalled and even a little bit upset by what she said\".\n\nHe said: \"What was wrong was 1) Even to tell that so called joke on live TV. 2) Claim I would like the joke. Appalling on both counts.\"\n\nMs Harman has not apologised but on Twitter she said that anti-Semitic jokes were \"no laughing matter\".\n\nShe tweeted a page from her book, in which she recounts two offensive jokes that appeared in a Guy's Hospital rag magazine years ago, which she went on to refer to the Director of Public Prosecutions.\n\nIn her book, she wrote that she had been condemned \"for overreacting and being humourless\".\n\nBut, she added, \"the Jewish community and local black and Asian organisations were deeply appreciative when the hospital apologised\".\n\nMs Harman was offered support by Labour shadow minister Chi Onwurah, who said: \"I remember those kind of jokes in 1980s Imperial College rag mag. Very isolating for minority/female students like me. Good on you, Harriet.\"", "The prosecution claims Emile Cilliers wanted to kill his wife and start a new life with his lover\n\nAn Army instructor accused of trying to murder his wife told police he would \"never, ever\" try to harm her, a court has heard.\n\nFormer Army officer Victoria Cilliers suffered multiple injuries in 2015 when her parachute failed to open and she fell 4,000ft (1,200m).\n\nEmile Cilliers is accused of tampering with the equipment to cause her death.\n\nBut in statements given to police in September last year, Mr Cilliers said he loved his wife and children.\n\nDuring a police interview, a transcript of which was read out at Winchester Crown Court, Mr Cilliers was asked: \"Did you try to kill your wife?\"\n\nHe was then asked: \"Did you try to kill your children?\"\n\nVictoria Cilliers suffered multiple injuries when her parachute failed to open\n\nThe jury has already heard that Mr Cilliers had been having an affair with another woman in the months before the parachute failed during a jump over Netheravon airfield in Wiltshire.\n\nMr Cilliers is also accused of trying to murder his wife a week before the fall by tampering with a gas fixture at their home in Amesbury.\n\nIn his interview, Mr Cilliers said traces of his blood found on the fixture may have been from when he tried to fix it.\n\nHe said he tried to release a nut on the pipe, but could not manage it.\n\nHe denies two counts of attempted murder and one of recklessly endangering life.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPresident Donald Trump has criticised Senator Al Franken on Twitter after the Democrat apologised for a photo of him appearing to grope a woman.\n\nMr Trump called him \"Al Frankenstien\" - a misspelled reference to the undead monster - and mocked his previous advocacy for women's' rights.\n\nMr Franken apologised to his accuser, but disputed \"forcibly\" kissing her.\n\nMr Trump has yet to publicly comment on sexual misconduct allegations against Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore.\n\nFranken said the photo \"was clearly intended to be funny but wasn't\"\n\n\"The Al Frankenstien picture is really bad, speaks a thousand words,\" Mr Trump wrote in a pair of tweets late on Thursday.\n\nLos Angeles radio host Leeann Tweeden claims the now-Minnesota senator \"aggressively\" kissed her while they rehearsed a scene during a 2006 tour to entertain US troops in the Middle East and Afghanistan.\n\nHe also had a photo taken of him appearing to touch her breasts while she slept onboard a military plane, she said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"And to think that just last week he was lecturing anyone who would listen about sexual harassment and respect for women\", Mr Trump said in a follow-up tweet.\n\nMr Trump has yet to comment on a string of sexual misconduct allegations against Republican US Senate candidate Roy Moore.\n\nThe former Alabama Supreme Court judge denies has repeatedly denied the allegations and has resisted calls from his own national party to quit the US Senate race.\n\nHours before the tweets, White House President Secretary Sarah Sanders said the president found the allegations against Mr Moore \"very troubling\" and that \"the people of Alabama should make the decision on who their next senator should be\".\n\nMr Trump has himself denied numerous allegations of sexual misconduct against him. During the second presidential debate, he was asked if he had ever grabbed anyone's genitals or kissed them without consent.\n\n\"Women have respect for me. And I will tell you: No, I have not,\" he replied.\n\nLater, when asked to explain the distinction between the allegations against Mr Trump and Mr Franken, Mrs Sanders said: \"Senator Franken has admitted wrongdoing, and the president hasn't. That's a very big distinction.\"\n\nIn an article for KABC, a Los Angeles radio station where Ms Tweeden now works, she recalled feeling victimised by Mr Franken during her ninth tour of the Middle East.\n\n\"You knew exactly what you were doing,\" she wrote. \"You forcibly kissed me without my consent, grabbed my breasts while I was sleeping and had someone take a photo of you doing it, knowing I would see it later, and be ashamed.\"\n\nThe former comedian issued an initial statement saying he did not recall the rehearsal, but sent his \"sincerest apologies to Leeann\".\n\n\"As to the photo, it was clearly intended to be funny but wasn't. I shouldn't have done it,\" he added.\n\nA Pentagon photo of the 2006 Hope & Freedom Tour in Kuwait show the two performing a skit\n\nMr Franken later issued a second, longer statement following a backlash from critics who accused him of a non-apology and demanded his resignation.\n\n\"I respect women. I don't respect men who don't. The fact that my own actions have given people a good reason to doubt that makes me feel ashamed,\" 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 3 by Sen. Al Franken This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 the photo, he added: \"I look at it now and I feel disgusted with myself... It's obvious how Leeann would feel violated by that picture.\"\n\nIn Mr Trump's tweets on Thursday night, he also mentioned the \"Lesley Stahl tape\", which refers to a New York magazine story about a Saturday Night Live writers discussion in which Mr Franken suggested a joke about raping the CBS 60 Minutes correspondent.\n\nMr Franken was quoted as saying: \"And, 'I give the pills to Lesley Stahl. Then, when Lesley's passed out, I take her to the closet and rape her.' Or, 'That's why you never see Lesley until February.' Or, 'When she passes out, I put her in various positions and take pictures of her.'\"\n\nAl Franken has been married to his wife, Franni (R), for more than 40 years and they have two adult children\n\nSenate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer called for the chamber's Ethics Committee to investigate Mr Franken, saying: \"Sexual harassment is never acceptable.\"\n\nThe Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell echoed the call and Mr Franken said he would \"gladly co-operate\".", "Sarah Clarke is championship director of the All England Lawn Tennis Club\n\nBlack Rod - a Parliamentary role that can trace its origins back 650 years - is to be a woman for the first time.\n\nSarah Clarke is currently in charge of organising the Wimbledon tennis championships.\n\nShe will be known as The Lady Usher of the Black Rod when she starts her new job early next year.\n\nBlack Rod is best known for the State Opening of Parliament, knocking on the door of the House of Commons to summon MPs for the Queen's Speech.\n\nAs well as organising ceremonial events, Black Rod, who can earn up to £93,000 a year, manages a team of 30 staff involved in the day-to-day running of the House of Lords.\n\nMs Clarke, who has previously worked in senior roles at four Olympic Games, the London Marathon and UK Sport, replaces current Black Rod, David Leakey, who is retiring.\n\nShe said: \"I am both deeply honoured and delighted to be invited to take up the role of Black Rod.\"\n\nBlack Rod is best known for summoning MPs to hear the Queen's Speech\n\nShe said the House of Lords was \"a place where the smallest detail is as important as the big picture and the depth of heritage and tradition is second to none,\" adding: \"I am truly looking forward to starting work.\"\n\nLord Fowler, who as the Speaker of the House of Lords advised the Queen on the appointment, said it was an \"historic moment\".\n\nHe said Black Rod played an important role behind the scenes \"in organising addresses to Parliament by visiting heads of state and other state events, as well as ensuring we have appropriate plans in place to keep the important work of the Lords going in a crisis\".\n\nHe added: \"Sarah's fantastic record at Wimbledon and elsewhere shows she is the right person for the task.\"\n\nBlack Rod summons MPs to the Lords to hear the Queen's Speech but has the door to the House of Commons slammed in his face, and has to knock three times to gain entry.\n\nHe is the monarch's representative in the House of Lords and the routine is symbolic of the House of Commons' independence from the Crown.\n\nThe earliest known reference to the role of Black Rod as the Usher to the Order of the Garter is in letters patent from 1361 - there are thought to have been 60 holders of the position since then, all men.", "Jesse Jackson has remained an activist in later life\n\nUS civil rights activist Jesse Jackson has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.\n\n\"My family and I began to notice changes about three years ago,\" Mr Jackson, aged 76, wrote in a statement.\n\n\"After a battery of tests, my physicians identified the issue as Parkinson's disease, a disease that bested my father.\"\n\nParkinson's is an incurable neurological disease that can cause tremors and affect coordination.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rev Jesse Jackson Sr This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"Recognition of the effects of this disease on me has been painful, and I have been slow to grasp the gravity of it,\" Mr Jackson said.\n\nHe said the diagnosis was \"not a stop sign but rather a signal that I must make lifestyle changes and dedicate myself to physical therapy in hopes of slowing the disease's progression\".\n\nMr Jackson fought for civil rights alongside Martin Luther King Jr in the 1960s. He was twice a candidate for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, in 1984 and 1988, and his son Jesse Jr is a former US congressman.\n\nHe has remained an activist into later life, and spoke up last year in the wake of a spate of police shootings of black men, saying they were just one expression of a \"mean-spirited division\" taking hold of the country.\n\nAbout 60,000 new Parkinson's diagnoses are made every year in the US, where the disease affects an estimated one million people.\n\n\"I am far from alone,\" Mr Jackson said.\n\n\"God continues to give me new opportunities to serve. This diagnosis is personal but it is more than that. It is an opportunity for me to use my voice to help in finding a cure for a disease that afflicts seven to 10 million worldwide.\"", "TV chef Jamie Oliver has said he has banned his 14-year-old daughter from sharing selfies, describing them as the unhealthy \"sugar of social media\".\n\n\"We ban Daisy from doing selfies and mainly she doesn't, but a couple slip up,\" the father-of-five told the Lifestyle News Hound podcast.\n\nOliver, 42, says he is among the first generation of parents learning to deal with children sharing photos online.\n\nHe and wife Jools regularly post family photos on their own Instagram pages.\n\nBut Oliver, a prominent campaigner for healthy eating, described teenage girls' use of Instagram as \"frightening\".\n\nHe said: \"I'm going to generalise massively here, but from my observation so far, at 13 to 14, the kind of pictures that girls are putting up, just from what I've seen, split off 50:50.\n\n\"[There's] normal young girl, and then this weird hybrid of - dare I say it - quite porno sort of luscious kind of pouty lips, sort of pushing boobs out.\"\n\nHe said he did not \"even want to look\" at photos of other girls that 14-year-old Daisy had shown him.\n\n\"I'm like really? Are their parents not over that like a rash?\"\n\nHowever, Jamie and Jools Oliver are not against Instagram itself - and frequently post snaps of family holidays and days out that they are happy to share with the public.\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 joolsoliver 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\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOliver added: \"Because of the 'like' thing, it's kind of almost the sugar of social media.\n\n\"It's a quick way to get some kind of pat on the back or love.\"\n\nThe NSPCC charity has told parents it is vital to spot inappropriate behaviour online - and has a Net Aware guide to social media sites young people are using.\n\nThe charity identified a number of risks for children using Instagram, including strangers following them and people taking screenshots and sharing photos without their permission.", "Saros and Leanor Endris were killed in October last year\n\nA father has been found guilty of murdering his two young children who he smothered with a petrol-soaked rag before setting fire to the family home.\n\nSaros Endris, eight, and his sister Leanor, six, were found dead at their house in Birmingham in October 2016.\n\nTheir father Endris Mohammed, 47, also tried to kill his wife by attempting to cause a gas explosion.\n\nPaying tribute to her children, Penil Teklehaimanot, Mohammed's wife, said they had brought joy to her life.\n\nShe said their deaths had \"had a profound effect and changed my life forever\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA two-week trial at Birmingham Crown Court was told Mohammed appeared normal in the run-up to the deaths.\n\nHe was found guilty of two counts of murder and one of attempted murder after the jury deliberated for under 30 minutes.\n\nMrs Teklehaimanot said in evidence that she was woken by a smoke alarm at her home in Holland Road, Great Barr and initially thought her children were asleep when she was unable to wake them.\n\nMohammed had denied the murders, claiming diminished responsibility allegedly caused by a depressive disorder.\n\nPolice said he was found sitting in his car in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, with severe burns after setting fire to himself (some may find the picture below distressing).\n\nThe court heard Mohammed told a psychiatrist he intended to take his own life and had smothered the children after becoming depressed and deciding they \"would be better off dead\".\n\nHowever, Det Insp Justin Spanner, of West Midlands Police, said there was no previous history of mental illness.\n\n\"As part of our investigation we spoke to people who were in his taxi on that day and they say he was happy, chatting and he seemed very normal,\" he said.\n\nMohammed will be sentenced on Monday.\n\nEndris Mohammed suffered burns when he set his car on fire\n\nTrial judge Mr Justice Gilbart, addressing the jurors after the verdicts, told them: \"You've just dealt with a very important case.\n\n\"It's an important public service. You've earned the thanks of the public for the vital work you've done.\"\n\nPaying tribute to the children, Mrs Teklehaimanot said: \"They seem too full of life and all the promise of things to come. Their futures stretched out before them - like a book waiting to be read.\"\n\nShe added that Saros \"was the most polite well-mannered child\", while Leanor \"was a wonderful, mature girl\".\n\nJurors were told Mohammed carried out the killings during a \"sleepover\" in the lounge\n\nMrs Teklehaimanot said the pair met in 2006 in Kent, after they both came to Britain from East Africa as asylum seekers.\n\nShe told the court he was a \"gentle, quiet man\" and his personality had not changed in any way since 2006.\n\nMohammed did not give evidence during his defence case but argued through his legal team that he was depressed about his future amid money worries.\n\nJurors heard Mohammed, who was an Uber driver, claimed he had decided to end his own life because his \"hopes for a good life in England\" had failed.\n\nHe told police in a statement handed to officers in January that he had no money.\n\nMrs Teklehaimanot told the court she was not in debt and that the couple's rent payments were not in arrears.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mrs May is holding bilateral meeting with EU leaders in Gothenburg\n\nFollowing the different reactions, interpretations and declared intentions of both the EU and the UK over the last months, I've become ever more convinced the two sides are wearing fantastically different opera glasses as this Brexit drama unfolds around them.\n\nHow else do you explain the wildly divergent expectations of Theresa May's bilateral meetings with EU leaders on the margins of talks in Sweden on Friday, or the (for the EU) eyebrow-raising assertions made by UK Brexit secretary David Davis during a speech in Berlin on Thursday?\n\nFirst to Theresa May, who firmly believes she's on a charm offensive ahead of the EU leaders' December summit. Her goal: to schmooze her European counterparts into agreeing that the never-specifically-defined-by-the-EU goal of \"sufficient progress\" on Brexit divorce issues has now been attained, so that negotiations should imminently widen to include the UK-favoured topics of trade and transitions deals.\n\nThis is not the view of Mr and Mrs European leader. They see these bilateral meetings as a way to impress - again - on the British prime minister that \"sufficient progress\" on the key issues of Ireland and, most of all, the Brexit bill is still a small universe away.\n\nThe Irish prime minister says he remains an optimist but, let's be honest, he was being polite.\n\nBehind the scenes, Ireland is frustrated beyond belief with the British government. It is particularly worried about the future of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which put an end to the Northern Ireland conflict, if a solution to avoid reintroducing a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland remains elusive in the long term.\n\nProtests have been held against a hard border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland\n\nDonald Tusk, the president of the European Council, who represents all EU leaders in Brussels, let his message be known even before his meeting with Mrs May: \"There's more work to be done and time is short,\" he said.\n\nNote that he didn't say time had run out to make the December summit deadline, but the UK government knows only the magic words \"yes, we'll pay\" will open the EU door to those widened negotiations.\n\nAnnoyed as it may make Ireland, the European Commission believes, as the UK does, that a solution to the border problem is more likely to be found in stage two of Brexit negotiations when future EU/UK relations including customs are discussed.\n\nThis means money remains the main sticking point. The third key divorce issue, citizens' rights, is not entirely sorted but good progress has been made.\n\nOn money, Brussels sees it as a long-awaited step forward that the British government is now planning to haggle down the final figure the EU insists the UK must pay to honour past financial commitments.\n\n\"We're used to smoke-filled rooms and horse-trading,\" one EU contact told me, \"But that hasn't been possible on [the Brexit issue of] money until now because the UK refused to discuss the individual sums involved.\"\n\nMr Tusk has said: \"There's more work to be done and time is short\"\n\nSo perhaps then we're inching towards the next act in the Brexit drama.\n\nMaybe it's still possible that a heady mixture of British charm and cash will galvanise EU hearts to opening talks of an EU/UK future as of mid-December. But my rather gloomy bet is that'll throw the differences between the two sides into even sharper relief.\n\nTake, as a taster, UK Brexit lead negotiator David Davis' speech on Thursday night to that group of mainly business leaders in Berlin.\n\nBritish frustration with what is viewed as EU intransigence when it comes to Brexit prompted Mr Davis to warn: \"Don't put politics above prosperity.\"\n\nThe German business leaders were too polite to snort but, in fact, that is how much of the EU sees Brexit and the decision to leave the European single market: as an obvious act (to them) of putting politics above prosperity.\n\nAnd when Mr Davis went on to insist that now, more than ever, was a time to fight \"in a co-ordinated manner\" for common values and interests, one German journalist piped up: \"So why are you leaving the EU?\"\n\nAnd here we come back to my different-lensed opera glasses in the EU and UK.\n\nI could go on, especially when it comes to Mr Davis. In an interview with my colleague Laura Kuenssberg he said that the UK had already made so many compromises that now it was surely the EU's turn.\n\nThis is to fundamentally misunderstand the EU perspective.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Davis: \"Nothing comes for nothing\" in negotiations\n\nThe EU insists that if the UK wants to leave the group yet maintain a relationship, it can only do so in accordance with club rules.\n\nThe heads of EU institutions, like Jean-Claude Juncker, like to repeat that the UK is the one who has decided to go. The EU club won't change its rules (such as single market regulations), so the EU argument goes, just to appease a departing party.\n\nIn his BBC interview on Friday, Mr Davis also had a parting shot at Germany and the other EU powerhouse France, identifying Denmark, the Netherlands, Italy and Spain among a cohort of countries keen to start talks on trade and transition while Berlin and Paris drag their respective Schuhe and chaussures (shoes).\n\nHowever, my talks with key representatives across EU countries suggest that, in the face of potential threats from North Korea and Russia, unsure of President Trump's US, following on from the EU migrant crisis and after the Brexit vote, European leaders are more convinced than ever that there is safety in numbers.\n\nIt's true that Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands have traditionally been the UK's closest EU allies and they are still very sad indeed to see Britain go, but this stagnant, bad-tempered Brexit process has worn friendships pretty thin.\n\nBefore Mr Davis next names the Netherlands as the UK's best buddy in the face of German and France stubbornness, he should perhaps bear in mind that the Dutch parliament's Committee on European Affairs has just warned MPs to prepare for what it called a chaotic Brexit.\n\nBlame was thrown squarely at the feet of the British government and what its Dutch neighbours described as the UK's \"unrealistic expectations\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stephen Hammond: Money in Budget 'for housing and health'\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond plans to use \"headroom\" in the public finances to target spending on housing and health, a close friend has told the BBC.\n\nStephen Hammond - a former transport minister - said the chancellor wants to use next Wednesday's Budget to \"attack problems\" that contributed to the Tories' poor election performance.\n\nThe chancellor said in March he had \"headroom\" - available cash - of £26bn.\n\nLabour says he needs to tackle what it calls the squeeze in living standards.\n\nThe chancellor will lay out the government's financial plans on 22 November.\n\nHe is also expected to call for evidence on whether a tax on the use of the most environmentally damaging single-use plastics, such as takeaway boxes and bubble wrap, would help tackle to problem of plastic waste.\n\nThe £26bn was dubbed a \"war chest\" - designed to help him navigate the economy through Brexit.\n\nStephen Hammond, who has known the chancellor for more than 20 years, told BBC Two's Newsnight that the chancellor was planning to use the Budget to reach out to voters who had abandoned the Tories.\n\nThe party lost its overall parliamentary majority in June's election, with voters in every age group up to their late 40s preferring Labour. Housing was cited as a key concern by younger voters.\n\nStephen Hammond told Newsnight: \"I think what the chancellor will be doing is saying, 'Look it would be silly to throw away all the good work we've done in getting down the deficit level, we're about to turn the corner on debt but yes of course I am listening.\n\n\"'In my autumn statement I created some headroom... and I will be looking at what... ways that headroom could be used to attack the problems that so many people have spoken to me about.'\"\n\nThe former transport minister predicted a strong focus on housing in the Budget.\n\n\"I am absolutely convinced that he'll be looking at some housing ideas.\n\n\"And there are some really creative ones about looking at loan guarantees for small builders and things in that sort of area. But also he knows that we need to build more social housing and affordable housing. I think he'll be looking at ways he can encourage that.\"\n\nNick Boles, a former housing minister, told Newsnight the Conservatives would be writing themselves out of the election script unless they do more to help people without mortgages.\n\nThe Financial Times reported last month that about two-thirds of the chancellor's \"war chest\" may have been wiped out in light of what Treasury officials described as a \"bloodbath\" in the public finances.\n\nThe warnings came on the eve of a report by the Office for Budget Responsibility highlighting poor productivity.\n\nAmid this background, Stephen Hammond predicted that the chancellor would not abandon his reputation as a cautious figure. He said the chancellor would not deviate from his fiscal rule which is to reduce the budget deficit to below 2% of national income by 2020-21.\n\nThe former minister said: \"It's a bit like running a marathon getting to the last half mile and saying, oh hell - I'll turn round and go back to the start. Philip isn't going to do that.\n\n\"It would be absolutely madness to give up on getting the economy and the finances back into a good shape.\"\n\nAnneliese Dodds, the shadow financial secretary to the Treasury, said the chancellor should outline ambitious plans to tackle income inequality. A government source said the chancellor would adopt a balanced approach on his Budget.\n• None The Budget: What we know already", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Davis: \"Nothing comes for nothing\" in negotiations\n\nDavid Davis has said the EU must be willing to give ground too if further progress in Brexit talks is to be made.\n\nHe told the BBC the UK has \"been offering some creative compromises and not always got them back\", insisting that \"nothing comes for nothing\".\n\nMany EU countries want to move on in the talks because they can see how important it is to their economies, he told political editor Laura Kuenssberg.\n\nBut he said this needed support from 27 nations, including Germany and France.\n\nThe EU says negotiations cannot move on to trade until questions about the UK \"divorce bill\", citizens' rights and Northern Ireland are resolved.\n\nTheresa May is set to discuss Brexit with EU Council president Donald Tusk later on the margins of a jobs summit in Sweden amid growing pressure for a breakthrough before the end of the year.\n\nDowning Street has insisted an earlier meeting with Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar had been \"constructive\" despite the two countries appearing to be no closer to bridging the differences between them.\n\nDublin wants binding guarantees there will be no return to a hard border with Northern Ireland after the UK's exit and Mr Varadkar has indicated he is prepared to \"wait for further concessions\".\n\nArriving for the event in Gothenburg, he said the UK's verbal assurances that there would be no physical infrastructure at the border were not sufficient.\n\nDespite the smiles, Leo Varadkar and Theresa May have real differences over the Irish border\n\n\"I think it would be in all of our interests that we proceed to phase two in December,\" he said. \"But...sometimes it doesn't seem like they've thought all of this through.\"\n\nUK Brexit secretary David Davis said he had already made concessions in areas such as the right of EU citizens to vote in local elections in the UK among other things.\n\nIn a speech in Berlin on Thursday, he warned against \"putting politics above prosperity\" in Britain's post-Brexit relationship with the EU.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said Mr Davis's speech was delivered politely but implied \"pretty significant frustrations on the UK side with the EU's attitude\".\n\nThe Brexit Secretary, she added, had not offered anything specific - including on what the EU regards as the vital issue of money - in his speech to \"move things on\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Davis: Other countries see the \"big benefit\" in future Brexit deal.\n\nAsked about reports Germany and France were standing in the way of the next phase of talks, Mr Davis said they clearly had the most influence but it was a decision for all 27 and \"many of them do want to move on\".\n\n\"It is very important to them, countries like Denmark, countries Holland, like Italy and Spain, countries like Poland can see there are big benefits in the future deal we are talking about.\"\n\nHe suggested there needed to be more give-and-take from the other side. \"I want them to compromise, surprise surprise, nothing comes for nothing in this world,\" he said. \"But so far, in this negotiation, we have made a lot of compromises. On the citizens' rights front, we have made all the running.\"\n\nAs he met his British counterpart Boris Johnson in Dublin, Irish foreign minister Simon Coveney said the two sides were \"not in place right now\" to begin talking about future relations.\n\nThe Dutch are among those who want trade talks to begin, the UK has said\n\nMr Coveney has floated the idea of a post-Brexit transition period of four or five years to allow both sides to adjust to the changes required.\n\nThis would be twice as long as that envisaged by the UK government - which wants an implementation phase of around two years.\n\nMr Johnson said while he understood the need to give maximum reassurance to businesses, he thought \"it was possible to do this within a much shorter timescale\", adding that \"we want to get on as fast as possible with the meat of the negotiations\".\n\nAfter a week dominated by talk of a potential Tory rebellion against attempts to fix the precise time of Brexit in the EU Withdrawal Bill, Mr Davis has suggested he will listen to concerns before it is voted on next month.\n\nUp to 20 Tory MPs are reported to be opposed to the move as they fear it could tie the hands of British negotiators if talks drag on to the last minute.\n\nMr Davis told the BBC that setting the exact moment of Brexit - 23.00 GMT on 29th March 2019 - in law was a \"good idea\" but he would not pre-empt what \"form\" this would take.\n\n\"The whole of this bill is going to be debated through the House,\" he said. \"And there are parts which will change as we go through, undoubtedly. We'll debate it, we'll see where we go.\"\n\nBut No 10 suggested it would not back down, urging all MPs to support a move which it said would \"provide certainty over our position that we are leaving the EU\".", "Sky Bet has extended its multi-million pound sponsorship deal with the English Football League until the summer of 2024.\n\nThe gambling operation is the headline sponsor for the Championship, League One and League Two football divisions.\n\nIt gets its logo on shirts, and rights for \"Bet and Watch\" for some matches.\n\nSky Bet says it will try to discourage problem gambling through messaging on shirts, and that clubs will benefit through more money.\n\nThe deal, which is worth tens of millions of pounds, has been in place since 2013.\n\nSky Bet said it would be paying 20% more than it has done so far to extend the agreement from 2019 to 2024.\n\nThis will make the 11-year deal one of the longest in professional sport, the firm said.\n\nThe Leeds-based operation, which includes sites such as Sky Vegas and Sky Bingo, is owned by private equity group CVC Capital Partners . Broadcaster Sky holds a 20% stake in the firm.\n\nThe betting industry has been under increasing scrutiny from the government, and from the regulator, the Gambling Commission.\n\nEarlier this year the Football Association, English football's governing body, announced it would end sponsorship deals with gambling firms.\n\nHowever, competition organisers, and the clubs themselves, are free to take sponsorship from gambling firms.\n\nThe money from the Sky Bet deal will be divided among the 72 clubs in the English Football League, which covers the three divisions below the Premier League.\n\nThe chief executive of Sky Bet, Richard Flint told the BBC's Wake up to Money podcast that the English Football League used the revenue generated to help them run their day-to-day operations.\n\nHe said: \"Without sponsorship from the betting industry there aren't a great number of sponsors willing to get involved in football.\"\n\nHowever, there are fears that increasing numbers of young fans are being exposed to gambling adverts.\n\nOne of the findings of the BBC's annual Price of Football survey was that more young football fans bet on games than play the sport.\n\nAbout 95% of TV ad breaks in live football matches feature at least one gambling advert, the BBC found in October.\n\nIn some matches, 40% of the adverts were for gambling.\n\nMr Flint told the BBC that Sky Bet and the English Football League were actively promoting awareness about problem gambling as part of the \"When the fun stops. Stop\" campaign.\n\n\"From the play offs and including next season every shirt will have a responsible gambling message on the shirt sleeve and we're tying that into a responsible gambling campaign starting today, which includes a TV advert and perimeter boards at EFL games,\" he said\n\nThe \"When the fun stops. Stop\" campaign is orchestrated by the Senet Group, which was established in 2014 by some of Britain's leading bookmakers in response to public concerns about gambling and gambling addiction.\n\nThe head of the GambleAware charity, Marc Etches, said that while it welcomed a commitment to do more to promote safer gambling, \"the messaging needs to be much more explicit about the risk involved than what the gambling industry currently proposes\".", "The number of unlicensed vehicles on the road has tripled since the paper tax disc was abolished, government figures show.\n\nThe data, published every two years, shows that the government potentially lost out on £107m from 755,000 unlicensed vehicles last year.\n\nThe RAC said the decision to get rid of the paper tax disc three years ago has proved \"costly\".\n\nThe measure was meant to have saved the Treasury £10m a year, the RAC said.\n\nFigures from the Department for Transport show that 1.8% of vehicles were unlicensed in 2017 compared with 0.6% on 2013.\n\n\"The principle of abolishing the tax disc to introduce greater efficiencies has, so far, evidently failed,\" said RAC public affairs manager Nicholas Lyes.\n\n\"It appears that having a visual reminder was an effective way to prompt drivers into renewing their car tax - arguably more drivers are now prepared to try their luck and see if they can get away with not paying any vehicle tax at all, or are simply forgetting to tax their vehicle when they are due to.\"\n\nWhen the abolition of the paper tax disc was announced by then-Chancellor, George Osborne, the Treasury said it showed government was moving \"into the modern age\".\n\nOfficials said the disc, introduced in 1921, was no longer needed with the DVLA and police relying on an electronic register.\n\nHowever, there is clear evidence that it has led to confusion, mistakes or open flouting of the rules by drivers.\n\nThe RAC said a third of untaxed vehicles had changed hands since September 2016, indicating that many drivers were not aware that tax does not carry over when ownership changes.\n\nThe DVLA also said that it was running a campaign warning the rising number of people still driving cars that had been declared as off the road to tax their vehicles.\n\nThe seller receives a refund of any full months of remaining tax while the new owner must tax the vehicle immediately.\n\nJust over half had been unlicensed for two months or less, suggesting some of these drivers had forgotten about their renewal date, although reminders are sent before the expiry date by the DVLA.\n\nThe highest levels of evasion were in the West Midlands (2.1% of vehicles) and the North West of England (2%).\n\nThe East of England had the lowest rate at 0.8%, with all other areas ranging between 1.6% and 1.8%.\n\nThese results are based on where vehicles were seen in traffic by enforcement officers or cameras, not where they are registered.", "The 5.4 magnitude tremor hit the south-eastern port city of Pohang in the afternoon, and dozens of aftershocks have occurred since.\n\nMore than 1,000 buildings, homes and vehicles have been destroyed or damaged.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Every minute we were away from Swanage was torture\"\n\nA 49-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder following the disappearance of teenager Gaia Pope has been released while inquiries continue.\n\nPaul Elsey, confirmed as the suspect to the BBC by his father, is from Swanage.\n\nMurder detectives are focusing their forensic investigations on homes, cars and an area near a coastal path where women's clothing was found.\n\nMiss Pope's family confirmed the clothing matched what she was believed to be wearing the day she went missing.\n\nGaia Pope was last seen in Swanage on 7 November\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Search teams have scoured land on the Dorset coast\n\nMr Elsey is the third person to be arrested in the inquiry.\n\nHe is believed to be known to 19-year-old Miss Pope, who went missing from Swanage on 7 November.\n\nMr Elsey lives with his mother Rosemary Dinch, 71, who, along with her 19-year-old grandson, Nathan Elsey, was arrested on suspicion of murder on Monday.\n\nThe pair were released on Tuesday while inquiries continue.\n\nForensic investigations are continuing at two properties in Manor Gardens, where those arrested are believed to live. Police have also seized three vehicles.\n\nLand close to where the items of clothing were found is being extensively searched\n\nA black jacket Miss Pope was wearing in CCTV images taken at St Michael's Garage, Swanage, on the last day she was seen was recovered from an address in Manor Gardens.\n\nSearch activity involving coastguard teams and Dorset and Wiltshire Fire and Rescue's Technical Rescue Unit is focused on several fields nearby.\n\nDet Supt Paul Kessell, of Dorset Police, said: \"The clothing located south of Priests Way appear to be Gaia's and her family have confirmed they match what she was believed to have been wearing the day she went missing.\"\n\nIn a statement posted on the Let's Find Gaia Facebook group, her mother Natasha Pope said she was \"holding on to hope\".\n\n\"I believe in this community and I believe miracles can happen,\" she said.\n\n\"My eternal thanks to everyone who is out there searching for my little girl. Please come out over the weekend and do what you can.\"\n\nA search is being carried out on land surrounding the coast path on the Purbeck coast\n\nMiss Pope's cousin, Marienna Pope-Weidemann said the family were \"desperate for answers\" and urged people to \"get out there looking for her\".\n\n\"It's been a profoundly shocking 24 hours. Obviously the discovery of those clothes was incredibly distressing for the whole family,\" she said.\n\nSearch volunteer Ian Messenger, who works at Swanage Dairy, said people were \"pulling together\".\n\n\"It's just been surreal,\" he said. \"The town seems sort of subdued at the moment, it's usually quite vibrant.\n\n\"Everyone's out searching at night, early in the mornings. We at the dairy, we've handed out over 1,000 leaflets to all of our customers with our milk.\"\n\nMarine teams have been searching the foot of the Purbeck cliffs\n\nNico Johnson, editor of the local Purbeck Gazette, said the search effort was \"phenomenal\".\n\n\"We've got people walking for miles and miles in teams, they've covered towns, rural areas, gone door-to-door in coordination with police. A lot of information has been brought forward,\" she said.\n\n\"Purbeck is a really strong community, when something happens they are fully behind each other. People are getting to the point of exhaustion - they just want to find Gaia now.\"\n\nMiss Pope, who is from Langton Matravers, has severe epilepsy and is thought to have gone missing without her medication.\n\nEarlier this week, her mother urged people to look in vans, garages and houses in case she was being kept against her will.\n\n7 November: Miss Pope is driven by a family member from Langton Matravers to Swanage. At 14:55, she is seen on CCTV inside St Michael's Garage buying ice cream and at 16:00 her last confirmed sighting is at an address in Manor Gardens on Morrison Road\n\n8 November: Her family make a personal plea through the police for her to get in contact. Ch Insp Steve White, of Dorset Police, says the force is \"becoming increasingly concerned\"\n\n9 November: Dorset Police renews its appeal to find the 19-year-old. Searches have been carried out in the Swanage area, with support from the coastguard and police helicopter. Miss Pope's family release a statement saying they are \"frantic with worry\"\n\n10 November: CCTV footage is released of Gaia on Morrison Road, Manor Gardens, at 15:39 on 7 November.\n\n13 November: Search warrants issued at two addresses in Swanage. Rosemary Dinch and Nathan Elsey are arrested on suspicion of murder and later released under investigation\n\n14 November: Searches continue with the coastguard and volunteers from Dorset Search and Rescue and Wessex 4x4\n\n15 November: CCTV images of Miss Pope at St Michael's Garage are released. Searches continue to concentrate inland, supported by neighbouring police forces\n\n16 November: Paul Elsey is arrested on suspicion of murder. Women's clothing is discovered in a field near Swanage and a police cordon is set up\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Navy aircraft involved was an EA-18G Growler\n\nUS Navy officials have said it was \"absolutely unacceptable\" that one of their pilots used a jet's contrail to draw a penis in the sky.\n\nThe phallic outline over Okanogan County in the western US state of Washington provoked much mirth online.\n\nBut commanders at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island did not see the funny side and have ordered an inquiry.\n\nA spokesman for the airbase confirmed that the aircraft involved was one of its Boeing EA-18G Growlers.\n\nWARNING: Some viewers may find images below offensive.\n\nThe jet specialises in electronic warfare and can travel at nearly twice the speed of sound.\n\nSpokesman Thomas Mills told the BBC: \"From a Navy standpoint, we do hold our aircrew to the highest standards and this is absolutely unacceptable.\n\n\"It has zero training value and the aircrew is being held accountable.\"\n\nThe Federal Aviation Administration, a government agency that regulates US airspace, told local TV station KREM 2 that the manoeuvre did not appear to pose a safety risk and they \"cannot police morality\".\n\nPlenty of onlookers on the ground were amused by Thursday afternoon's sky doodle.\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\nRamone Duran told the Seattle Times newspaper: \"After it made the circles at the bottom, I knew what it was and started laughing.\"\n\nBut one householder told KREM 2 she was upset about having to explain to her children what the vapour trail's shape represented.\n\nIt is not the first aircrew to pull such a stunt.\n\nIn August this year, an RAF fighter pilot drew a 35-mile penis on radars monitoring skies over Lincolnshire, England.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In full: My interview with David Davis\n\nNegotiations, compromise, give and take, mutual understanding and cooperation.\n\nThe Brexit secretary this morning seemed not to be up for much of that.\n\nSpeaking to us in Berlin, where much of the future of the talks between the whole EU and UK will be decided, David Davis warned the other side they will get \"nothing for nothing\", and said that the UK had already done much of \"the running\".\n\nAnd, for good measure, he hit out at Germany and France, the \"powerful players\", who have been taking a hardline approach, in contrast to countries like Denmark, and Holland who want to move the talks on to the next phase.\n\nDavis's message: It's not me that needs to compromise, it's you, now get on with it.\n\nIt is not without risk that to try to single out different countries in this way when the EU 27 have been extremely effective so far in maintaining public unity, and are absolutely determined to keep doing so.\n\nAt the same time Davis was speaking to us in Germany, other EU leaders were telling Theresa May the exact opposite, repeating what has been the solid consensus across the continent that unless the UK gives a firmer and more explicit commitment to put more cash on the table the prospects for the talks are grim.\n\nThe Irish PM even went as far as claiming of Brexiteers in Britain \"it's 18 months since the referendum, it's 10 years since people have wanted a referendum started agitating for one. Sometime it doesn't seem like they've thought all of this through\".\n\nWhile it might feel like the two sides are in completely parallel universes, as we discussed yesterday, there is an awareness in the UK that there are going to have to be further moves on the EU (Withdrawal) bill, whatever Boris Johnson may say.\n\nBut alongside that, at some point, particularly Germany, along with France, will have to take a political decision as to whether the UK appears sufficiently willing.\n\nWhat's less clear is whether David Davis playing the bad cop today will really help broker this stage of the talks.\n\nFor his critics it seems just that he is pointlessly digging in, refusing to listen to the every growing line-up of EU leaders who say it's Britain that has to budge.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a recent documentary Benedict Allen described his experiences of living in Papua New Guinea\n\nBritish explorer Benedict Allen has been flown out of the jungle in Papua New Guinea and is expected home on Sunday.\n\nMr Allen became disorientated with fever while trying to reach a remote tribe and missed his flight home, the BBC's Frank Gardner said.\n\nThe 57-year-old had taken no means of communication with him, prompting his family to mount a search on Monday.\n\nHe was spotted \"alive and well\" on Thursday near a remote airstrip.\n\nMr Allen, who had been looked after by Christian missionaries after trekking large distances, was flown by helicopter to the Papua New Guinea capital of Port Moresby on Friday.\n\nHis agent, Jo Sarsby, said he was feverish with suspected malaria.\n\n\"Benedict looks forward to being reunited with his family and friends but will need some time to get back to full health,\" the statement added.\n\n\"He would like to send thanks for all the kind messages he has received.\"\n\nMr Allen's wife, Lenka, told the Daily Mail: \"It is such a relief. I'm so happy, it's amazing.\"\n\nBBC correspondent Frank Gardner with Benedict Allen in Papua New Guinea last year\n\nThe father-of-three had been travelling on his own to try to find the reclusive Yaifo tribe, whom he first met 30 years ago.\n\nIn a blog post from September, he wrote: \"Just like the good old days, I won't be taking a sat phone, GPS or companion. Or anything else much. Because this is how I do my journeys of exploration.\"\n\nBefore setting off, Mr Allen told the BBC he was hoping to make contact with the tribe, who were high up in a cloud forest.\n\nHe said he was unsure how they would receive him this time. His last text message read: \"What could possibly go wrong?\".\n\nThe explorer, from London, has previously crossed the Amazon Basin on foot and in a dug-out canoe, and participated in a six-week male initiation ceremony in which crocodile marks were carved onto his body.\n\nHe has filmed a number of his adventures for BBC documentaries and written books on exploration.\n\nFirst solo adventure: To the Amazon at 22, during which he was shot at by two hitmen\n\nTough time: An initiation into manhood in Papua New Guinea. He was kept in a \"crocodile nest\" with 20 others, and repeatedly cut with bamboo blades to leave scars that looked like crocodile scales\n\nLow moment: Eating his own dog to survive\n\nTravel habit: Always keeps loo paper in a back pocket. \"You know how it is,\" he tells the Lonely Planet.\n\nPhilosophy: \"For me personally, exploration isn't about conquering nature, planting flags or leaving your mark. It's about the opposite: opening yourself up and allowing the place to leave its mark on you.\"\n\nCareer: Six TV series for the BBC, author, motivational speaker\n• None Search under way for missing UK explorer", "Serena Williams has married Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian in one of the biggest showbiz weddings of the year.\n\nA-listers including Beyonce, Kim Kardashian and Eva Longoria were at the star-studded bash which took place in New Orleans on Thursday.\n\nThe event had a Beauty and the Beast theme and included 200 people on the guestlist, according to media reports.\n\nAn entire block of the city was sealed off for the event which was held at the Contemporary Arts Center.\n\nThe roads were closed around the wedding venue in New Orleans\n\nThe wedding reportedly cost more than $1m (£760,000) and guests were asked not to bring their mobile phones because of an exclusive deal with Vogue.\n\nPhotos of the Tennis legends Beauty and the Beast themed wedding have since been shared on social media.\n\nThe couple announced their engagement in December last year after dating for 15 months.\n\nThey made the news public by sharing a poem on Reddit which was titled: \"I said Yes\".\n\nSerena gave birth to their daughter, Alexis Olympia, two months ago.\n\nFind us on Instagram at BBCNewsbeat and follow us on Snapchat, search for bbc_newsbeat", "Last updated on .From the section Wales\n\nChris Coleman has left his job as Wales manager to take over at Championship club Sunderland.\n\nColeman will succeed Simon Grayson, who was sacked after 18 games in charge.\n\nThe Football Association of Wales (FAW) confirmed: \"Regretfully, Chris Coleman has resigned from his position with immediate effect.\"\n\nEx-defender Coleman, 47, succeeded the late Gary Speed in 2012 and guided them to an historic appearance at Euro 2016, where they reached the semi-finals.\n\nDisappointment followed as Wales failed to reach the 2018 World Cup finals in Russia.\n\nColeman's assistant Kit Symons has also left his role of Wales coach.\n\nEx-Wales winger Ryan Giggs and West Bromwich Albion's Welsh manager Tony Pulis were among bookmakers' early favourites to succeed Coleman.\n• None Sunderland would be better off in League One - Jenas\n\nFAW chief executive Jonathan Ford said: \"We are extremely disappointed to see Chris' tenure as Wales manager come to an end.\n\n\"The FAW and Wales as a nation will be eternally grateful for the job he has done over the last six years as national team manager, from travelling the length and breadth of Wales outside of the media spotlight to talk to players and supporters, to guiding us to the semi-finals of the European Championships.\n\nIt is understood the Football Association of Wales made significant improvements in their offers to Coleman on Friday and were ready to accede to his demands over backroom staff\n\n\"We wish Chris the very best of luck for the future as he returns to club management, a desire for which he has always been honest and open about.\"\n\nAfter Wales' qualifying campaign for the 2018 tournament ended in defeat by the Republic of Ireland, Coleman's last two games in charge were a 2-0 loss to France and 1-1 home draw against Panama in November, 2017.\n\nNegotiations between Coleman and the FAW continued after the game against the Central Americans.\n\nThose talks ended with Coleman leaving. He had often spoken about hoping to return to the day-to-day demands of club management amid a career that has included being in charge of Fulham in the Premier League.\n\nEx-Wales defender Danny Gabbidon told BBC Sport Wales: \"I'm gutted, really disappointed. I know all the fans will be, the players will be as well.\n\n\"I know how much they thought of the manager - he was more than just a manager.\n\n\"There was a kind of player relationship between the squad and the manager so they'll be gutted hearing that news as well.\"\n\nColeman's reign began with Wales 48th in Fifa's world rankings and it ends with them in 14th place.\n\nHe will take over at Sunderland, who are bottom of the Championship with one win, seven draws and eight defeats so far this season.\n\nSunderland are aiming to confirm a deal with Coleman by Sunday.\n\nThere is an expectation at the Stadium of Light he will be in charge for their away game against Aston Villa on Tuesday night.\n\nDespite speculation over Northern Ireland boss Michael O'Neill, Coleman was the club's number one target and no offers were made to other candidates.\n\nColeman wanted the FAW to employ head of performance Ryland Morgans and psychologist Ian Mitchell on full-time contracts.\n\nThe FAW also offered to spend £500,000 on upgrading training facilities.", "Japan has one of the world's most reliable railways and is known for its Shinkansen bullet trains (pictured)\n\nA rail company in Japan has apologised after one of its trains departed 20 seconds early.\n\nManagement on the Tsukuba Express line between Tokyo and the city of Tsukuba say they \"sincerely apologise for the inconvenience\" caused.\n\nIn a statement, the company said the train had been scheduled to leave at 9:44:40 local time but left at 9:44:20.\n\nMany social media users reacted to the company's apology with surprise.\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 mistake happened because staff had not checked the timetable, the company statement said.\n\n\"The crew did not sufficiently check the departure time and performed the departure operation,\" it said.\n\nIt added that no customers had complained about the early departure from Minami Nagareyama Station, which is just north of Tokyo.\n\nThe Tsukuba Express line takes passengers from Akihabara in eastern Tokyo to Tsukuba in about 45 minutes.\n\nIt is rare for trains in Japan, which has one of the world's most reliable railways, to depart at a different time to the one scheduled.\n\nThe country's Tokaido line, which runs from Tokyo to the city of Kobe, is by far the world's busiest and carries nearly 150 million passengers a year.\n\nImpressed railway users worldwide tweeted the story to their local train operators - particularly in Britain, where rail services are often delayed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A woman whose eight-year-old son died in a house fire killed herself because she could not go on without him, an inquest has found.\n\nKelly-Anne Carter, 35, suffered serious burns in the fire at the family home in Sandbach, Cheshire, on 30 October 2016.\n\nLucas Carter died shortly after he was rescued from the blaze which was not treated as suspicious.\n\nMiss Carter's friend told the court the mother had described herself as a \"dead woman walking\".\n\nThe inquest at Crewe Municipal Buildings on Thursday heard Miss Carter's partner found her hanged at his home on 12 November 2016.\n\nSarah Blakey, Miss Carter's friend who was with her the night before she died, told the court: \"She didn't want to be here without Lucas, she couldn't forgive herself.\n\n\"He was her world. To her he was her greatest achievement and he was lovely, he was an absolute credit.\"\n\nA verdict of suicide was recorded by coroner Claire Welch.\n\nThe fire in Sandbach was not treated as suspicious by police\n\nMs Welch said: \"I can't imagine the distress and trauma that she must have been going through at this time, having gone through such a traumatic experience and lost her only child.\"\n\nThe coroner for Cheshire also paid tribute to the \"dignity and calmness\" showed by Miss Carter's sister Gemma Williams during the inquest.\n\n\"To have lost Lucas and then Kelly in such short succession is unimaginable from my point of view so my heartfelt condolences really do go out to you and all your family,\" she said.\n\nThe inquest heard medical notes recording Miss Carter's comments telling staff she would hang herself or overdose once she was home were not passed on when she was transferred to Macclesfield Hospital.\n\nBut Ms Welch said the mistake did not cause or contribute to her death.\n\nShe said she was satisfied that at the time of her discharge it was considered more appropriate to allow Miss Carter to be with her family and to plan Lucas's funeral.\n\nAn inquest into Lucas's death has not yet been held.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Group manager Harriet Pacey said their nurseries already avoid a lot of single-use items\n\nGlitter has been banned by a chain of children's nurseries because of the \"terrible damage\" it does to the environment.\n\nThe art material is washed into the water system and can end up in the food chain, Tops Day Nurseries insisted.\n\nIt added glitter was a microplastic which was \"almost impossible to remove from the environment\".\n\nThe Marine Conservation Society welcomed the nurseries' \"proactive approach\" towards reducing pollution.\n\nGlitter is \"almost impossible to remove from the environment\", the company said\n\nThe nursery chain said it had only recently become aware of the \"dangers\" of glitter.\n\nManaging director Cheryl Hadland said \"You can see when the children are taking their bits of craft home and there's glitter on the cardboard, it blows off and into the air.\n\n\"There are 22,000 nurseries in the country, so if we're all getting through kilos and kilos of glitter, we're doing terrible damage.\"\n\nMs Hadland, who runs nurseries in Dorset, Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Somerset and Wiltshire, said she \"loved glitter\" but was trying to source an alternative material from suppliers.\n\nPlastic waste in the oceans allows the material to enter the food chain, marine biologists say\n\nNursery group manager Harriet Pacey said most parents would back the change.\n\nShe said: \"I can imagine that, yes, initially it's going to be a bit of a 'what?' but I think they're going to be behind us.\"\n\nSue Kinsey from the Marine Conservation Society said most microplastics in the sea came from other products.\n\nShe said: \"While glitter is only a small part of the microplastic load getting into watercourses and the sea, steps like these will all add up to something greater.\"\n\nThe United Nations has estimated that there are 46,000 pieces of waste plastic per square mile of sea.\n\nThe international body's environment agency, UNEP, said plastic waste in the ocean was allowing the material to enter the food chain.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Will John (Peter Kay) and Kayleigh (Sian Gibson) finally have a happy ending?\n\nFans of Peter Kay's sitcom Car Share thought it had ended for good - but the comedian has announced there will be two more episodes.\n\nKay said he wanted to \"quit while you're ahead\" after series two ended earlier this year.\n\nBut he's announced a \"special finale\" to show what happened between John, his character, and Sian Gibson's Kayleigh.\n\nIt will follow Car Show Unscripted, an improvised episode. Both will be screened on BBC One next year.\n\nGibson and Kay revealed the plans on Children In Need\n\nThe second series ended in May with Kayleigh declaring her love for John but walking out of his car and his life when he refused to say how he felt.\n\nThe lack of a twist bringing the two characters together at last surprised and disappointed many viewers who had convinced themselves the show was building up to the perfect romantic finish.\n\n\"People have been very angry that the series ended in that way,\" Kay said.\n\n\"But [now] there is a series finale explaining what happened the next day, after the big argument.\n\n\"We've also done another episode called Car Share Unscripted, which is half an hour of us basically making the script up and improvising. It's nothing to do with the story - just us having a laugh.\"\n\nAfter the series ended, he said there would be no third series or Christmas specials because he was worried about running out of ideas.\n\n\"There's only so much you can do in a car and the last thing you want to do is ruin it, because I think it's a lovely thing,\" he said.\n\nKay announced the new episodes on Children In Need on BBC One on Friday.\n\nHe has long been a supporter of the charity, fronting a fund-raising single that went to number one in 2009. This year, he has raised more than £633,000 by auctioning 100 tickets to an intimate live show in Blackpool.\n\nCar Share won two Bafta TV Awards in 2016 - best scripted comedy and best male performance in a comedy programme for Kay.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A plane and helicopter have crashed in mid-air close to Woodesdon Manor, near to Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.", "Mr Tusk said progress on citizens' rights had not been mirrored in other areas\n\nTheresa May has been told she has two weeks to put more money on the table if the EU is to agree to begin Brexit trade talks before the end of the year.\n\nEU Council President Donald Tusk said he was \"ready\" to move onto the next phase of Brexit talks, covering future relations with the UK.\n\nBut he said the UK must show much more progress on the \"divorce bill\" and the Irish border by early next month.\n\nMrs May said \"good progress\" was being made but more needed to be done.\n\nThe talks are currently deadlocked over the UK's financial settlement, citizens' rights and Ireland with Irish PM Leo Varadkar accusing the UK of not \"thinking through\" the implications of Brexit for his country.\n\nA week ago, the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier informed his UK counterpart David Davis he had a fortnight to spell out in more detail what he was prepared to pay the EU to \"settle its accounts\" and to clarify how trade between the Republic and Northern Ireland and security across the 310 mile border would be preserved after the UK leaves the single market and customs union.\n\nAfter holding talks with Mrs May on the margins of a jobs summit in Sweden, Mr Tusk repeated the message, saying \"much more\" progress was needed on these two issues if he was to recommend to EU leaders at their next meeting on 14 December to give the green light to the next phase of talks.\n\nHe said he would meet Mrs May in a week's time to assess progress but warned time was running out for a breakthrough before the end of 2017.\n\n\"We will be ready to move on to the second phase already in December,\" he said.\n\n\"But in order to do that we need to see more progress from the UK side.\n\nThe UK needs the approval of all 27 EU nations if it is to begin the next phase of talks\n\n\"If there is not sufficient progress by then, I will be ... not be in a position to propose new guidelines on transition and the future relationship at the December European Council....I made it very clear to the Prime Minister May that this progress needs to happen at the beginning of December at the latest.\"\n\nBefore leaving the event in Gothenburg, Mrs May said that the two sides had to \"work together\" to reach a point where the EU believed sufficient progress had been made to open up trade discussions.\n\nShe rejected claims that the talks were in limbo and restated her priority was to talk as soon as possible about her goal of a future \"deep and special\" trade and economic partnership.\n\n\"We're clear and I'm clear that what we need to do is move forwards together,\" she said.\n\nThe UK has said it will honour its existing financial obligations by ensuring no EU nation is worse off during the current budgetary period ending in 2020, a sum reported to be in the region of £20bn.\n\nBut the EU wants the UK to go further and contribute to what they say are longer-term liabilities, such as regional development spending and pension payments for British officials working for the EU and retired staff.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Davis: \"Nothing comes for nothing\" in negotiations\n\nAsked whether Mrs May had to stump up more money to pave the way for trade talks, Swedish PM Stefan Lovren said Britain \"needs to clarify what they mean by their financial responsibility\".\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron said the unified position agreed by all 27 other EU members earlier this year had not changed and talks on future relations would not commence \"until the divorce has been settled\".\n\nMr Varadkar, who also held a bilateral meeting with his British counterpart, said he was prepared to wait until next year for \"further concessions\" from the UK in a number of areas.\n\nHe said he wanted binding guarantees that there would be no physical checks at the border after the UK leaves in March 2019, dismissing as inadequate verbal assurances that technological advances will help ensure the continued free and safe movement of people.\n\n\"What we want to take off the table before talking about trade is the idea that there would be any hard border, physical border, or border resembling the past in Ireland,\" said the Irish PM.\n\n\"I think it would be in all of our interests that we proceed to phase two in December,\" he added.\n\n\"But it's 18 months since the referendum. Sometimes it doesn't seem like they've thought all of this through.\"\n\nSome Tory MPs believe the UK should flex its muscles and walk away from the talks unless the EU is more accommodating, arguing the EU has as much to lose as the UK from not agreeing a trade deal.", "The UN said this week that hospitals in Yemen could run out of fuel in three weeks.\n\nThe Saudi-led coalition has imposed a blockade on Yemen's borders, ports and airports since 6 November in response to a missile attack by Houthi rebels that hit near Riyadh.\n\nClive Myrie reports from the city of Aden.\n\nWatch the full report on Yemen: The Plight of the Children", "Paloma Faith thinks parents should all be a lot more honest about the realities of childbirth and their experiences of looking after their babies.\n\nThat's why the singer and new mum is so keen to share her own \"terrible birth\" with Woman's Hour, along with some of the things that surprised her most in those early months.\n\nPaloma, -who's back this month with her first album since returning to work, The Architect - also revealed the best and worst parenting advice she's received so far.", "The suspected meteor was said to cause buildings to shake when it raced through the sky in Lapland.", "One of the key issues for the inquest is why none of the other children reported what they had been told\n\nA teenager winked and smiled at a fellow pupil before he stabbed a teacher to death in her classroom in Leeds, an inquest has heard.\n\nWill Cornick showed the boy a kitchen knife just before he killed Ann Maguire at Corpus Christi Catholic College, Wakefield Coroner's Court heard.\n\nMrs Maguire was stabbed seven times by the 15-year-old in April 2014.\n\nIn a statement the boy said Cornick asked if he wanted to touch the blade.\n\nHe said Cornick got the large knife out of his bag and asked \"if I wanted to see how sharp it was\".\n\nIn a statement, he said the 15-year-old tried to hide the knife up his sleeve but said it was \"too visible, too obvious\" and changed his mind.\n\nThe teenager explained that he and Cornick were working in the room next to Mrs Maguire just before the incident.\n\nWill Cornick was jailed for life for Ann Maguire's murder in April 2014 and was told he must serve a minimum of 20 years\n\nHe said then Cornick \"just winked and smiled at me as he left the room\".\n\nThe boy said he then heard noises next door but said he was \"in shock\" and did not immediately report that Cornick had a knife.\n\n\"I did not really know what to do,\" he said.\n\n\"I know I should have told someone, but in the room I was in there weren't any teachers supervising us.\"\n\nThe jury heard how Cornick told a number of children on the morning of the tragedy what he planned to do to Mrs Maguire and two other teachers.\n\nNick Armstrong, the barrister representing Mrs Maguire's husband and their four children, has said how one of the key issues for the inquest is why none of these children reported what they had been told.\n\nCornick, who was 15 years old at the time of the incident, admitted murdering Mrs Maguire.\n\nHe was jailed for life and ordered to serve a minimum of 20 years in custody.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Irish PM Leo Varadkar was speaking at an EU summit in Sweden\n\nThe Irish government has said Brexit trade deal talks should not proceed until there is a firm commitment to preventing a \"hard\" Irish border.\n\nTaoiseach (Irish Prime Minister) Leo Varadkar said the assurance must be written down before the talks move on.\n\n\"Before we move to phase two talks on trade, we want taken off the table any suggestion that there will be a physical border,\" Mr Varadkar said.\n\nHe was speaking at a European summit, attended by Prime Minister Theresa May.\n\nMrs May's spokesperson said both leaders had agreed to work together to find solutions ensuring there is \"no return to the borders of the past\".\n\nBut Sammy Wilson from the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) accused the Irish government of trying to \"keep the UK chained to the EU\".\n\nEarlier, Mr Varadkar's message was echoed by Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney, who held talks with his UK counterpart, Boris Johnson, in Dublin.\n\nMr Coveney said there was \"a sense of jumping into the dark\" for Ireland, as the future operation of its border with Northern Ireland had not been agreed.\n\nMr Coveney added: 'We simply don't see how we can avoid border infrastructure'\n\n\"Yes, we all want to move onto phase two of the Brexit negotiations, but we are not in a place right now that allows us to do that,\" the foreign minister said.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU in March 2019, but Mr Coveney suggested the exit process could take up to five years.\n\nIn response, DUP MP Sammy Wilson claimed the Irish government was \"fully signed up with the European establishment to thwart the referendum result in the UK to leave the EU.\"\n\nIn a statement, the MP accused Irish ministers of \"trying to block the UK moving on to substantive negotiations about leaving the EU, and then suggesting that an interim or transitional period of five years is going to be needed before we can leave\".\n\nSammy Wilson accused the Irish government of trying to thwart the UK referendum result\n\n\"The objective is quite clear; keep the UK chained to the EU until after the next election, when the Irish government hope that Corbyn's Brexit-breaking MPs might be in power,\" Mr Wilson added.\n\nHe said it seemed like the Irish government were content to involve themselves in the affairs of another state.\n\nThe MP for East Antrim said that the DUP will support the passing of legislation which would mean \"deal or no deal, the UK will exit the EU in March 2019\".\n\nDespite cordial exchanges between the two foreign ministers, one thing was clear: Ireland and the UK are still at odds about whether enough progress has been made in the EU-UK divorce talks to allow the two sides to move onto discussions about future relationships.\n\nDespite British assertions that there will be no hard border on the island of Ireland, Dublin doesn't see how that position can be married with the UK leaving the customs union and the single market.\n\nNor does Dublin think a two-year transitional deal for business to adjust to Brexit is long enough.\n\nWith Taoiseach Leo Varadkar delivering the same message to Theresa May in Sweden, there is a sense that \"make-your-mind-up time\" for all sides is fast approaching.\n\nDuring his talks in Dublin, Mr Johnson said it was necessary to move on to the second stage of negotiations, where issues raised by Mr Coveney would be thrashed out.\n\n\"Now is the time to make haste on that front,\" the UK foreign secretary said.\n\nMr Coveney said he understood the British \"aspiration\" to avoid a hard border, but more clarity was needed about the future.\n\nMr Coveney said: 'We simply don't see how we can avoid border infrastructure'\n\n\"We are in the heat of the negotiations right now and, of course, we want to move on to the negotiations on trade, but there are issues that need more clarity,\" he said.\n\n\"This is a very fundamental change in the relationship between Ireland and Britain and Britain and the EU and it will require significant adjustment.\n\n\"The appropriate timetable is closer to four or five years than it is to two.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Devenport This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Coveney added: \"We simply don't see how we can avoid border infrastructure.\n\n\"Once standards change it creates differences between the two jurisdictions and a different rule book.\n\n\"When you have a different rule book you are starting to go down the route of having to have checks.\"\n\nAsked whether the government was constrained by its confidence and supply arrangement with the Democratic Unionist Party, Mr Johnson said that was \"not at all an issue\".\n\nThe DUP agreed to support Theresa May's minority government after June's election in return for £1bn of extra funding for Northern Ireland.\n\nEuropean leaders say talks can only progress if enough progress has been made on the Irish border, citizens' rights and Britain's EU budget contributions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Davis: \"Nothing comes for nothing\" in negotiations\n\nMeanwhile, Ken Clarke has said the UK remaining in the single market and customs union is vital for peace and stability in Northern Ireland.\n\nIt is the obvious solution as no-one wants physical border controls, the former chancellor and now Conservative \"rebel\" told BBC NI's The View.\n\n\"The border problem in Northern Ireland, the supreme importance of keeping the settlement in place, retaining peace in Northern Ireland is probably the single biggest, most important reason why it would be preferable for the United Kingdom as a whole to stay in the single market and the customs union,\" he said.\n\n\"If the Brexiteers, these right-wing nationalists, won't allow us to do that then the best solution after that, I agree with the taoiseach actually, is to have a border down the Irish Sea.\"", "Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party is planning to support impeachment proceedings against Robert Mugabe, after he ignored a deadline to stand down as president.\n\nZimbabweans - and many watching around the world - were astounded on Sunday night when Mr Mugabe addressed the nation and said that far from stepping down, he was going to stay on and preside over the ruling party's congress in December.\n\nSo with Mr Mugabe defiant, and the army insisting that it has not carried out a a coup, what are the options for getting him to vacate his position?\n\nHere are five possible scenarios:\n\nZanu-PF members sang and danced as they sacked Mr Mugabe as leader\n\nZanu-PF says it will launch impeachment proceedings against Mr Mugabe when parliament convenes on Tuesday.\n\nImpeachment is the process of removing a president via parliament.\n\nBoth the National Assembly and the Senate can begin proceedings to remove the president if both pass simple majority votes against him.\n\nA two-thirds majority is needed in both houses in order for impeachment to succeed.\n\nZanu-PF has a two-thirds majority in the House of Assembly, but not the Senate.\n\nThe formal process is expected to start on Tuesday but it is not clear how long it would take.\n\nThe benefit of this process for the military is that it allows the generals to say the removal of the president was done in accordance with the constitution, in keeping with their statement that this is not a coup.\n\nThe downside for them is that it does not guarantee that the man widely thought to be their favourite for president will get the top job straight away.\n\nPeople in Harare celebrated Zanu-PF sacked Robert Mugabe as their leader\n\nEmmerson Mnangagwa, whose sacking prompted the military's action, could not immediately take over from Mr Mugabe, because constitutionally it is the current vice-president who should fill the vacancy.\n\nAt the moment that person is Phelekezela Mphoko - a man whose sympathies are known to lie with Grace Mugabe, and who was expelled by Zanu-PF on Sunday.\n\nWhether the army can persuade Mr Mugabe to appoint their preferred candidate as vice-president before stepping down remains to be seen.\n\nSome analysts have argued that this may be what the generals were discussing with him - and it may also be his trump card.\n\nBut given how difficult it has been to get Mr Mugabe to step down, the chances of getting him to concede further ground look increasingly slim.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Robert Mugabe: \"The congress is due... I will preside over its processes\"\n\nPresident Mugabe was defiant when he made his televised address on Sunday.\n\nDespite having been sacked by Zanu-PF, he said \"the party congress is due in a few weeks and I will preside over its processes\".\n\nHe suggested that he was willing to forgive the military action, and said \"whatever the pros and cons of how they [the army] went about their operation, I, as commander-in-chief, do acknowledge their concerns\".\n\nIt had been reported that Mr Mugabe had agreed to resign.\n\nIt is unclear whether he changed his mind, or if these reports were incorrect. But BBC Africa editor Fergal Keane says it makes the military look weak.\n\nSome suggest that there may be grounds within Zanu-PF's own rules which might allow Mr Mugabe to reject his sacking by the party.\n\nPresident Mugabe is known for both being shrewd and stubborn. So he may well have another ace up his sleeve.\n\nThere is growing speculation over the whereabouts of Grace Mugabe\n\nInitially it had been thought that the military was trying to reach a deal which would allow President Mugabe to stay in Zimbabwe once he had stood down.\n\nBut the current stalemate makes that look less likely.\n\nFrom the point of view of Mr Mugabe, and his wife, there is a fear that even if he were to be promised immunity from prosecution now, that could be removed by a future government.\n\nSo it might mean that Mr Mugabe is forced into exile.\n\nUntil recently, neighbouring South Africa would have been a natural place for him to go.\n\nMr Mugabe enjoys a high level of respect there, in large part because of his support for the fight against apartheid rule.\n\nIndeed, the opposition EFF party has called on the government to \"prepare to welcome President Mugabe for political asylum\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by EFF This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Mugabes are reported to have a number of properties in South Africa.\n\nThe sticking point would be what happens to Grace.\n\nShe was granted diplomatic immunity after allegedly assaulting a model in a hotel room in Johannesburg in August.\n\nBut model Gabriella Engels is trying to get the diplomatic immunity order set aside. If successful, it would mean Mrs Mugabe could face prosecution should she go to South Africa.\n\nSo if not South Africa, then where?\n\nOther possible options are Singapore and Malaysia, where the Mugabes also have properties.\n\nThe leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change-Tsvangirai (MDC-T) party is back in Harare after receiving treatment for cancer in South Africa, fuelling speculation about negotiations for a unity government.\n\nThis is the scenario that many in the West, and of course the opposition, would prefer.\n\nAnother opposition leader, Tendai Biti, has said that he would join a national unity government if Mr Tsvangirai was also in it.\n\nBut the military takeover was not a change of regime. It was an internal dispute within Zanu-PF, and that party is still very much in power.\n\nThe military is to a large extent the armed wing of Zanu-PF.\n\nAnd the man it supports as leader - Emmerson Mnangagwa - helped Robert Mugabe carry out some of his most controversial policies.\n\nEmmerson Mnangagwa is the man the military wants to take over\n\nHe is also, some say, more ruthless.\n\nSo it is far from clear that the ousting of Mr Mugabe would improve the lives of ordinary Zimbabweans.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Det Supt Paul Kessell said the 49-year-old is believed to be known to Gaia\n\nPolice investigating the disappearance of teenager Gaia Pope have arrested a 49-year-old man on suspicion of murder.\n\nPaul Elsey, confirmed as the suspect to the BBC by his father, is from the Swanage area of Dorset.\n\nMr Elsey, the third person to be held in the inquiry, is believed to be known to 19-year-old Gaia, who went missing from the town on Tuesday, 7 November.\n\nA search is continuing in an area where items of women's clothing were found earlier, Dorset Police said.\n\nMr Elsey lives at the same property as his mother Rosemary Dinch, 71, who along with her 19-year-old grandson, Nathan Elsey, were arrested on suspicion of murdering Ms Pope on Monday.\n\nThe pair were released on Tuesday while inquiries continue.\n\nGaia Pope was last seen in Swanage on 7 November\n\nDet Supt Paul Kessell said the clothing was found on land near the Dorset coast path and \"a number of vehicles\" had also been seized.\n\nThe officer said it was not clear who the clothes belonged to but they were \"similar\" to those which Gaia was wearing.\n\nForensic officers are working in the area where items of clothing were found\n\nHe added Gaia's family had been informed of the developments and were being supported.\n\nShe was last seen nine days ago by family friend Ms Dinch in Swanage.\n\nSince Gaia's disappearance, extensive searches have been carried out in and around the resort, involving police, coastguard teams and local volunteers.\n\nAsked why the latest suspect had been arrested on suspicion of murder, Mr Kessell said: \"As you would expect, we have been conducting this inquiry for two weeks and it is our responsibility to investigate every avenue of inquiry that's open to us.\n\n\"In doing that, we continue to investigate whether Gaia has come to harm through an act of crime or whether she is missing and we will continue to do so.\"\n\nHe appealed directly to the public to come forward if they have any information or have had any contact with Gaia since she went missing.\n\nPolice cordoned off an area of land, north of the coast path after items of women's clothing were found\n\nGaia, who has severe epilepsy, is thought to have gone missing without her medication.\n\nEarlier, her father Richard Sutherland told the BBC the support from the community in the search had been \"heart warming\".\n\n\"It's been beautiful, it keeps us going. To feel that strength of everyone helping us - every bit of help is gratefully received and she's worth every bit of it,\" he said.\n\nOn Wednesday police released CCTV images of Gaia at a petrol station shortly before she went missing.\n\nCCTV shows Gaia at a petrol station on the afternoon she went missing\n\nOfficers have also been searching Swanage for any signs of missing Gaia\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\nFour people have died after a plane and a helicopter crashed in mid-air over Buckinghamshire.\n\nTwo people were killed in each aircraft, Thames Valley Police said.\n\nPolice and the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said they have launched a joint investigation to establish the cause of the collision just after midday at Waddesdon Estate, near Aylesbury.\n\nA Wycombe Air Park spokesman said both aircraft came from the airfield.\n\nSupt Rebecca Mears, from Thames Valley Police, said she could not give any details of the identity or the genders of the victims at this stage and her \"first priority\" was the next of kin.\n\nShe said it was \"too early to tell\" what might have caused the crash.\n\nThe AAIB said the plane involved was a Cessna.\n\nEmergency services were called to Upper Winchendon, close to Waddesdon Manor, at 12:06 GMT.\n\nMitch Missen, an off-duty firefighter, witnessed the crash from his garden.\n\nHe said: \"I looked up and saw as both collided in mid-air, followed by a large bang and falling debris.\n\n\"I rushed in to get my car keys and en route called the emergency services, who I continued to give updates as to its whereabouts.\n\n\"Unfortunately, I wasn't able to locate the actual crash site but directed police, fire and ambulance as best I could. Once they were on the scene, I returned home.\"\n\nAndy Parry, a teacher in Aylesbury, said he was with students at Waddesdon Manor at the time of the crash.\n\nHe said they heard a \"massive bang\" and saw debris in the sky.\n\nRoads in the area were closed off for a number of hours\n\nThere were a number of road closures following the crash but they have since been lifted.\n\nSeven fire vehicles from Aylesbury, Haddenham, Oxfordshire and Berkshire were sent to the scene.\n\nA spokesman for Bucks Fire and Rescue Service said 30 members of staff in fire engines and urban search and rescue vehicles attended.\n\nHe added: \"I understand it is in a wooded area near the manor.\"\n\nThe Thames Valley air ambulance, two ambulance crews, two ambulance officers and a rapid response vehicle were also sent to the scene.\n\nThe crash happened close to Waddesdon Manor, near Aylesbury\n\nHayley O'Keefe, from The Bucks Herald, said on Twitter a \"plume of smoke\" could be seen close to Waddesdon Hill after the crash.\n\nThe Rev Mary Cruddas from St Mary Magdalene Church, Upper Winchendon, said she had been to the site to see if she could be of any help.\n\nShe said: \"The area where it happened is off road and difficult to get to.\"\n\nWhen I got to the scene it was frantic, as media across all outlets, local and national, assembled.\n\nYou cannot see the crash site as the woodland is so dense but as the light dimmed, you could see light coming from where the AAIB and police were standing.\n\nThe police presence has been very visible throughout the day, with a large cordon in place and roads closed.\n\nA spokesperson for the National Trust-owned Waddesdon Manor said the crash had not happened in its grounds, but staff helped direct the emergency services to the scene.\n\nWycombe Air Park, also known as Booker Airfield, is about 20 miles (32km) away from the site of the crash and offers flight training.\n\nThe crash site is in dense woodland\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The head of a grammar school at the centre of a row about pupils being forced to leave before their A-levels has resigned.\n\nAydin Önaç, headmaster of St Olave's Grammar School in Orpington, south-east London, will leave his post at Christmas, a letter to parents said.\n\nMr Önaç was suspended by the school's governing body last month.\n\nParents began legal action over the A-level exclusions but the school later backed down and let the pupils return.\n\nSt Olave's is one of England's top-performing grammar schools, with pupils selected on academic ability.\n\nIn September, a group of sixth-formers who did not get high enough grades at AS-level were told they would not be allowed to return to do their A-levels.\n\nIn the letter to parents, sent late on Friday afternoon, acting head Andrew Rees said the headmaster was departing for \"personal reasons\".\n\n\"He leaves, with great sadness, a school which is now regarded as one of the nation's most outstanding schools and one in which parents and pupils can have great pride and confidence.\n\n\"Mr Önaç would like to thank all those governors, staff, parents and students who have supported him over the last seven years and extends his very best wishes to them for the future.\"\n\nParent Andrew Gebbett, who has two sons at the school, expressed relief at Mr Önaç's decision to leave.\n\n\"The school can now move on,\" he said.\n\nSt Olave's was at the centre of a controversy over pupils being removed from the school before A-levels\n\nDebbie Hills, chair of the school's parents' association, who remained in post despite her son deciding to leave after being among those excluded, described the resignation as \"a first step to it being put right\".\n\nThe parents' association first sought Mr Önaç's resignation at a meeting in September.\n\nAnother parent in a similar position said: \"There will be a lot of people who will be breaking open bottles of champagne tonight.\"\n\nThe parent, who asked not to be named, said it was appropriate that the school's motto was \"'to right the wrong' - and that's what's been done\".\n\nTony Wright-Jones, a parent and former governor of the school, said: \"We want to know as parents and governors what exactly went on\".\n\nThis year's A-level results at St Olave's saw 75% of all grades being awarded at A* or A and 96% were at A* to B grades, far above the national average.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In 2015, Joy Lofthouse returned to the skies, taking control of a Spitfire 70 years after last flying in one\n\nVeteran pilot Joy Lofthouse, who flew Spitfires and bombers for the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) during World War Two, has died at the age of 94.\n\nMrs Lofthouse joined the ATA in 1943 after spotting a notice in a magazine calling for women to learn to fly.\n\nShe was one of only 164 female pilots, known as the Attagirls, who flew aircraft from factory to airfield.\n\nThe Royal International Air Tattoo said she was an \"amazing character with even more amazing stories\".\n\nThe ATA was formed in 1940 when, despite some male opposition, women were allowed to fly military trainer and communications aircraft.\n\nMrs Lofthouse, from Cirencester in Gloucestershire, learned to fly before she learned to drive.\n\nJoy Lofthouse was one of the first female pilots to fly a Spitfire during World War Two\n\nIn an interview last year, she said: \"I saw this caption in the Aeroplane magazine that said the ATA had run out of qualified pilots and were training. So I applied and I was in.\"\n\nTrained at Thame in Oxfordshire, she learnt to fly all types of single-seater aircraft but without a driving licence, she said she found \"taxiing much more difficult than flying\".\n\n\"We had nine days of technical training - it wasn't very technical - no navigation, just map reading,\" she said.\n\n\"After about 10 hours [of flying], they sent you off solo. My first solo flight I think you're only afraid if you're going to find the airfield again.\"\n\nLast summer, she was guest of honour in the Royal Box at Wimbledon, where she received an ovation from the centre court crowd\n\nIn 2015, she returned to the skies, taking control of a Spitfire 70 years after last flying in one\n\nThe auxiliary suffered 156 casualties, mostly due to bad weather, but Mrs Lofthouse said when you are young \"you don't think about the danger\".\n\n\"It was just part of the war effort. I felt very lucky that I was allowed to do something so rewarding,\" she said.\n\nIn 2015, she returned to the skies, taking control of a Spitfire 70 years after last flying in one.\n\nLast summer, she was guest of honour in the Royal Box at Wimbledon, where she received an ovation from the centre court crowd.\n\nAnd last November, she and fellow ATA pilot Mary Ellis were honoured in front of members of the Royal Family at the annual Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall in London.\n\nIn all, she flew 18 different types of aeroplane across her career but the \"wonderful\" Spitfire remained her favourite.\n\n\"It's the nearest thing to having wings of your own and flying,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nChildren in Need raised a record-breaking £50.1m during Friday's show, which featured a Blue Peter Strictly Come Dancing special.\n\nThe five-hour programme also included a Weakest Link celebrity special, a singing EastEnders cast, and a teaser of the Doctor Who Christmas edition.\n\nTess Daly, Graham Norton, Mel Giedroyc, and Ade Adepitan presented the show, which was broadcast on BBC One and Two.\n\nLeft-right: Mel Giedroyc, Rochelle and Marvin Humes, Graham Norton, Ade Adepitan and Tess Daly are the faces of Children in Need 2017\n\nThe show began on BBC One at 19:30 GMT with Daly and Adepitan hosting, and included some of the children and young people whose lives have been changed through support from Children in Need.\n\nDuring the evening, Car Share co-stars Peter Kay and Sian Gibson announced that the comedy series would return in 2018 with two new episodes.\n\n\"It's been a very tough secret to keep,\" said Kay.\n\nHosts Norton and Giedroyc took over presenting duties later on, followed by Marvin and Rochelle Humes.\n\nViewers were given a first look at this year's Doctor Who special, which included Peter Capaldi, in his last appearance as the 12th doctor, alongside a return from first doctor David Bradley and Mark Gatiss as a First World War officer.\n\nAnne Robinson presided over the Weakest Link special. with celebrities John Thomson, Love Island winner Kem Cetinay and actress Chizzy Akudolu - the eventual winner - facing her questions.\n\nSix current and former Blue Peter presenters are competing for the Strictly glitterball\n\nEastEnders stars sang their way around Albert Square\n\nFormer Blue Peter presenter Mark Curry lifted the Pudsey glitter ball trophy in the Children In Need Strictly Come Dancing special after impressing judges with his high kicks.\n\nFive other current and former Blue Peter presenters also donned Strictly's sequins - Diane-Louise Jordan, Anthea Turner, Tim Vincent, Konnie Huq and Radzi Chinyanganya.\n\nEastEnders fans saw their favourite characters sing popular numbers from classic West End musicals early in the show.\n\nThe cast of Countryfile also had a go at their own medley, opting for hit country tunes from John Denver, Dolly Parton and Nancy Sinatra.\n\nThere was also music from Rita Ora, The Vamps and Jason Derulo, while Joanna Lumley presented the Sir Terry Wogan Fundraiser of the Year award to people who \"go above and beyond to raise money\".\n\nChildren in Need is the BBC's UK corporate charity and raises money for disadvantaged children and young people around the country.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Seventy one victims of the Grenfell Tower fire have been formally identified and police believe that all those who died have now been recovered.\n\nThe number of victims includes baby Logan Gomes, who was stillborn in hospital on 14 June, the day the 24-storey blaze broke out.\n\nThe final two victims to be formally identified have been named as Victoria King and daughter Alexandra Atala.\n\nThe Met said it was providing \"every support we can\" to the bereaved.\n\nMetropolitan Police Commander Stuart Cundy said: \"I have been clear from the start that a priority for us was recovering all those who died, and identifying and returning them to their families.\n\n\"Specialist teams working inside Grenfell Tower and the mortuary have pushed the boundaries of what was scientifically possible to identify people.\n\n\"After the fire was finally put out, I entered Grenfell Tower and was genuinely concerned that due to the intensity and duration of the fire, that we may not find, recover and then identify all those who died.\n\nVictoria King, pictured, died in the flat alongside her daughter Alexandra Atala\n\n\"I know that each and every member of the team has done absolutely all they can to make this possible.\"\n\nIn June, the Met had a list of 400 missing people - some of whom were reported a number of times under different names or spellings, with one person in particular recorded 46 separate times.\n\nThe work to investigate and locate all those reported as missing was only concluded in the last few weeks, the Met said.\n\nThe family of Ms King, 71, and Ms Atala, 40, said they were \"devastated\" to learn of the pair's fate, adding that the mother and daughter were \"devoted to each other\".\n\nThe original missing persons list was also made higher by fraudulent cases, police said, with some individuals attempting to benefit financially from the tragedy.\n\nThere are a number of ongoing fraud investigations, and earlier this month one man pleaded guilty to fraud after claiming that his wife and son had both died in the fire.\n\nThe Met is also investigating alleged thefts from seven flats at Grenfell Tower, although no perpetrators have yet been identified, according to BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw.\n\nCommander Cundy told BBC News: \"There was only one way in and out of the tower and [CCTV] footage shows 223 people came out and survived.\"\n\nHe said not all 223 people were residents, some were visitors, and some residents were not in the tower at the time.\n\nWhile the final stage of the search operation is not expected to conclude until early December, the Met said in a statement: \"Based on all the work carried out so far and the expert advice, it is highly unlikely there is anyone who remains inside Grenfell Tower\".\n\nSpecially trained officers from the Met, City of London Police and British Transport Police have been involved in the search and recovery operation, thoroughly searching every single flat on every single floor.\n\nOfficers have examined 15.5 tonnes of debris on each floor, helped by forensic anthropologists, archaeologists and forensic dentists or odontologists.\n• None Grenfell Tower fire: Who were the victims?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: See the new Tesla Semi and Roadster\n\nTesla has unveiled its first electric articulated lorry, designed to challenge diesel trucks as king of the road.\n\nThe long-anticipated Tesla Semi has a range of 500 miles on a single charge.\n\nTesla says the vehicle - known in the US as a semi-trailer truck - will go into production in 2019.\n\nChief executive Elon Musk also unexpectedly revealed a new Roadster, which he said would be \"the fastest production car ever\" made.\n\nThe red sports car was driven out of the trailer of the electric lorry during Tesla's presentation on Thursday.\n\nThe Roadster will have a range of close to 1,000km (620 miles) on a single charge and will do 0-100mph in 4.2 seconds.\n\nMr Musk described it as \"a hardcore smackdown to gasoline cars\".\n\nHe said riding in traditional cars would be like driving \"a steam engine with a side of quiche\". The new Roadster becomes available in 2020.\n\nThe Tesla Semi will achieve 0-60mph in 20 seconds when pulling 36,287kgs (80,000lbs), the maximum allowed on US roads.\n\nSpeaking on stage at Tesla's facility in Los Angeles, chief executive Elon Musk said: \"It's not like any truck that you've ever driven.\"\n\nHowever, the charismatic Mr Musk faces continued pressure from investors and customers as the firm struggles to meet demand for its Model 3 car.\n\nThe Model 3 is behind schedule due to factory delays, a situation Mr Musk described recently as “production hell”.\n\nThe 46-year-old had been camping at Tesla’s Gigafactory in Reno, Nevada, to oversee battery production for the new cars. However, while the company had predicted it would make 1,500 Model 3 cars in the third quarter of 2017, in reality it only managed 260.\n\nTesla said it won't reach its production target of 5,000 Model 3 cars per week until 2018\n\nDepending on your opinion of Mr Musk, launching a new truck at this time is either a bold statement of belief in his technology, and business as usual, or a foolish distraction from Tesla’s main goal of making its Model 3 a mainstream, affordable car.\n\nThere are elements of the Model 3 in the Tesla Semi. Each of its wheels is powered by a Model 3 motor, and the cab features two of the touch screens displays found in the Model 3.\n\nWith Tesla Semi, Mr Musk enters a competitive, demanding market. There are an estimated 3.5 million truck drivers in the US, the vast majority of whom drive diesel-powered engines. Tesla will not be able to compete on diesel’s range, and battery specialists doubt Tesla can produce a powerful enough battery at a reasonable price.\n\n“Which is much higher than a diesel-powered semi-truck, which costs about $120,000, on average, for the entire vehicle.”\n\nMr Musk said the Tesla Semi would be able to travel 643km (400 miles) after 30 minutes of charge at one of Tesla's new mega-chargers.\n\nAs for cost, the company said that per mile the Tesla Semi would work out cheaper than a diesel equivalent when fuel and other maintenance is taken into consideration - but did not share the cost of an individual truck.\n\nThe Diesel Technology Forum, a non-profit trade group that promotes the use of diesel, said Tesla’s announcement needed to be \"evaluated in the context of reality”.\n\n\"Diesel is the most energy efficient internal combustion engine,” Allen Schaeffer, the forum's executive director.\n\n\"It has achieved dominance as the technology of choice in the trucking industry over many decades and challenges from many other fuel types.\n\n\"Still, today, diesel offers a unique combination of unmatched features: proven fuel efficiency, economical operation, power, reliability, durability, availability, easy access to fuelling and service facilities, and now near-zero emissions performance.\"\n\nAs well as coming up against diesel incumbents, Tesla also faces other electric rivals. Concept electric big rigs have been unveiled by Daimler, Volkswagen and Cummins - though all fall short on range, and none are currently on the roads.\n\nWhere Tesla believes it can bring an added advantage is with on-board safety and comfort.\n\nA statement from Tesla boasted that “jackknifing is prevented due to the Semi's onboard sensors that detect instability and react with positive or negative torque to each wheel while independently actuating all brakes\".\n\n\"The surround cameras aid object detection and minimise blind spots, automatically alerting the driver to safety hazards and obstacles.\n\n\"With Enhanced Autopilot, the Tesla Semi features Automatic Emergency Braking, Automatic Lane Keeping and Lane Departure Warning.”\n\nAutopilot is Tesla’s autonomous driving function that offers several self-driving features, most importantly guiding the vehicle to stay within the lines on the road, and slowing down in keeping with traffic up ahead.", "On social media there are several accounts claiming to be the mouthpiece of Zimbabwe's governing Zanu-PF party, but it's unclear which, if any, are official, and what links they have with those currently in charge.\n\nNews networks across the world have been reporting on the seizure of power by military generals in Zimbabwe.\n\nMany media outlets, including the BBC, reported posts by the unverified Twitter account @zanu_pf which claims to be \"the only official handle\" for the Zanu-PF party.\n\nBut it's far from clear who is in control of the account and what their connection to the party is.\n\nThe account was described as a fake by PRI in 2012, and has previously adopted a tone at odds with what might be expected from official accounts.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ZANU PF This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIts Twitter history is full of rants and proclamations about pornography, eggs Benedict and imperialism.\n\nSeveral journalists in Africa, or specialising on African issues, quickly derided the reporting on the Zanu PF account.\n\nMatina Stevis-Gridneff, Africa reporter at the Wall Street Journal referred to it as a \"parody account,\" but said she, too, had earlier mistakenly retweeted its content.\n\nAlastair Jamieson, from NBC News' London office, tweeted he was trying to establish whether the account was not to be trusted, but could not find the evidence.\n\nThe confusion about who's running the account isn't limited to outside observers. At times Zanu-PF officials have publicly wondered who is running the account.\n\nIn 2013 another account, reported to be that of a spokesman for the Zanu-PF party, tried to \"urgently\" establish contact with the person running the @zanu_pf handle.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Psychology Maziwisa This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not known what contact was made between the account @zanu_pf and the Zanu-PF party.\n\nIn a surreal turn of events, the unverified account was accused of being a fake in 2016 by a parody account mocking Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.\n\nIn the post the fake Mr Mugabe claimed the \"official party account\" was @ZANUPF_Official.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 H.E. Robert G Mugabe This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 3 by H.E. Robert G Mugabe\n\nThe @ZANUPF_Official account is another which has seen a popularity boost after recent events in the country.\n\nIt had slightly over a thousand followers in 2013, a few thousand on Wednesday morning, and over 10,000 by Thursday morning. Again, it's unclear what connection the account has, if any, with the party leadership.\n\nIt has tweeted infrequently - just 535 times since 2013. Unusually for a party account claiming to be official, it did not post at all during 2014 or the first half of 2017.\n\nThe account became active again in August with a post stating that it, and not the other account - @zanu_pf - was the real deal.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 ZANU PF This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPerhaps unsurprisingly, social media users replied expressing their confusion and questioning the legitimacy of both @zanu_pf and @ZANUPF_Official.\n\n\"Look at these jokers,\" posted one Harare resident. \"Both from the same tree.\"\n\n\"Get verified so we know which one is real,\" suggested a business analyst from East Zimbabwe.\n\nAnd \"now we don't know which one is the fake one,\" joked a third user from South Africa.\n\nThe lack of clarity over who is running these political accounts extends to another Twitter account, one claiming to be the youth wing of the party.\n\nPosting between 6 and 14 November, the account @YLZANUPF1 was highly critical of former vice-president Emmerson Mnangagwa and General Constantino Chiwenga, and supportive of Grace Mugabe's bid for the vice-presidency.\n\nHowever, since the military seized power on Wednesday morning the tone of their posts had radically changed. It sent out tweets praising the \"gallant Zimbabwean Army\" which was \"professionally and peacefully carrying out the National Democractic Project\". Some have been left questioning if control of this account has changed hands.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Ricardo Chitagu This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 why has there been such confusion over Twitter accounts? Some see it as a symptom of a wider problem in the representation of African users on social media.\n\nChipo Dendere took aim at Twitter for \"not verifying African accounts\", arguing a lack of verification causes confusion.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by Chipo Dendere, PhD This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nReplying to Sally Hayden, one of the first journalists to raise the alarm over the citing of the @zanu_pf account on Wednesday morning, fellow journalist Caelainn Hogan asked: \"If there was more credence and respect given to nameless 'journalists in Africa', or better yet Zimbabwean journalists and researchers, maybe this wouldn't be such an issue?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 7 by Caelainn Hogan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 online confusion reflected the foggy situation on Wednesday morning, with Zimbabwe's media not covering the takeover until the lunchtime news and organisations involved avoiding the term \"coup\".\n\nOther media outlets have run footage from September, believing it to be showing armoured vehicles approaching Harare on Tuesday.\n\nSeveral newspapers and websites claimed Emmerson Mnangagwe had returned to Harare from exile, using a still from a video filmed in August of the former vice-president arriving at Manyame Air Force Base to support this claim.\n\nThis image was tweeted by Fadzayi Mahere, advocate of the High Court and Supreme Court of Zimbabwe, of people being detained by the army\n\nMultiple accounts, some switching their messages, many accused of parody, international journalists uncertain which can be dismissed, local journalists hesitant, and a lack of verification on African Twitter: Who to believe on Zimbabwean social media remains unclear.\n\nYou can follow BBC Trending on Twitter @BBCtrending, and find us on Facebook. All our stories are at bbc.com/trending.", "President Mugabe's ties to the military date from the liberation struggle\n\nZimbabwe's military says its actions do not amount to a takeover. It still refers to Robert Mugabe as the commander-in-chief of the country's defence forces. But practically speaking, Mr Mugabe is not in charge if his forces can step in to usurp his authority.\n\nThis is not a coup d'état in name, but it appears to be in action.\n\nThe military takeover of the national broadcaster, the presence of troops on the streets and major access points, and even forced entry into the presidential palace are traits of a military takeover - at least as we have seen them in Africa.\n\nOne thing that is lacking is that the constitution has not been suspended.\n\nThe cementing of democracy across Africa has led to a general regional and continent-wide aversion to violent takeovers of government.\n\nEven in the past, coup-stagers often promised a quick handover to civilian government through elections or a negotiated transition.\n\nThe military says it has not taken control of the country\n\nSo far in Zimbabwe, the military is not showing any intention of assuming a governing role.\n\nHowever, it has someone it would prefer to do that. Emmerson Mnangagwa, the recently sacked vice-president, is held in high regard in Zimbabwean military circles.\n\nHe was involved in the struggle for independence, and in 1980 created the Zimbabwe National Army by fusing the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) and Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (Zanla) with the remnants of the former Rhodesian security forces.\n\nHe was seen as the natural successor for the top office.\n\nPresident Mugabe sacked Mr Mnangagwa last week at the prompting of the First Lady Grace Mugabe, who has political aspirations and has publicly opposed the former vice president, but does not have support within a military where the liberation legacy is held in high esteem.\n\nThe top military officials were part of the liberation struggle, like their comrade and president Mr Mugabe, so they have supported his government over the years because he has served their interests.\n\nThey did not act this way in 2014, when Mr Mugabe sacked his previous Vice President Joice Mujuru, a former independence fighter, in a similar power struggle.\n\nThis time though, there is a sense the president might have gone too far.\n\nGen Chiwenga said that the military would not allow the purging of leaders with a liberation background from the governing party\n\nEarlier this week, the commander of Zimbabwe's Defence Forces, General Constantino Chiwenga, warned the Zanu-PF governing party to stop the purge against independence war veterans.\n\nFollowing his dismissal and escape to South Africa, Mr Mnangagwa promised to return to regain control of the ruling party from the Mugabes.\n\nThis suggested his confidence in the support he had from the military.\n\nSo the next step would be to negotiate his return ahead of the party congress in December, where he could be affirmed as the president's successor.\n\nAt worst, the military will force Mr Mugabe to resign - but they will not want to humiliate him further because of the history they share.\n\nThey will also extend the courtesy to Grace Mugabe, in spite of her recent actions.\n\nPrior suggestions that the armed forces were divided have not been revealed so far this week.\n\nThe rise of an opposing faction would probably be bloody, and not something Zimbabweans would like to see, regardless of how tough life has been in recent years.\n\nThe end of the Mugabe era would be a relief to many, but Mr Mnangagwa is not necessarily popular in all parts of the country.\n\nUnder his tenure as security minister in the early 1980s, government forces crushed a rebellion in the Midlands and Matebeleland province, and allegedly killed thousands of civilians.\n\nThere is still bitter resentment among people from the affected regions.", "President Robert Mugabe has made his first public appearance since Zimbabwe's army took over the country on Wednesday.\n\nHe attended a graduation ceremony, wearing blue and yellow robes and a mortarboard hat.", "The Wurth family were told they might be evicted because their baby was crying\n\nA family renting in London have been threatened with eviction after complaints that their baby was crying.\n\nThey were warned by the management firm that if the noise went on they could be given \"two weeks' notice to vacate\".\n\nThe parents, with a 15-month-old daughter and a three-year-old son, say it is \"horrible discrimination\" against families renting with children.\n\nThe management firm said neighbours were being disturbed by noisy children and \"other noise nuisance\".\n\nNeighbours had complained \"on a daily basis\" and the other tenants had a right not to be troubled by noise, the company said.\n\nAttila and Ildiko Wurth, with their two young children, are living in a privately rented top-floor flat in a converted house in Hammersmith, west London.\n\nThey say they were shaken to receive an email from the managing agent, saying there had been a \"complaint stating that at 5.30am this morning a baby was crying and stamping and then further noise starting again at 6.45am, which woke one of the other tenants in the property\".\n\n\"We have subsequently liaised with your landlord and are instructed that we are to agree arrangements with you to vacate the property as soon as possible.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Attila Wurth says the family was shocked and upset by the idea of being evicted\n\nAttila says they were shocked by this \"heartless and harsh\" attitude and deeply upset by the idea of being thrown out of their home.\n\nAnother email said there had been further complaints and \"if this continues we will have no choice but to issue a Section 8 notice, which will give you two weeks' notice to vacate\".\n\nThe Wurths were told: \"Please ensure to keep all movement and noise to a minimum.\"\n\nUncertain about what to do next, they sought advice and were directed towards a housing helpline, which they said was always engaged.\n\nIn the end it was social media that got them some support, putting their problem on to Facebook.\n\n\"We felt so scared. We didn't know what happens next. Will we come home and find our things in the road?\"\n\nRising numbers of families are now living long-term in rented accommodation.\n\nWhile once couples with children might have bought their own place, more are renting into their 30s and 40s - and the case highlights the pressures facing \"generation rent\".\n\nAttila works as a vet, but says the couple can't afford to buy in London.\n\n\"We pay our own way, but we have no more to spare.\n\n\"You have to be extremely rich to have children in London,\" he says.\n\nThe local authority, Hammersmith and Fulham, says that about a third of the residents in the borough are private renters.\n\nThis year it extended a licensing scheme to try to give private renters more protection and to ensure their legal rights.\n\nThe email to the Wurths warns of a \"Section 8\" eviction - referring to the Housing Act of 1988, which would allow a landlord to remove tenants before the end of their tenancy agreement.\n\nThe housing charity Shelter says this would require grounds such as not paying rent, anti-social behaviour or a breach of the tenancy agreement.\n\nMore families like the Wurths are staying in rented accommodation\n\nThis could include being a \"nuisance\" to neighbours - but a court would have to decide whether such claims were reasonable.\n\n\"We have been very careful about noise,\" says Attila. But if landlords rent to a family with young children, he says, it is unrealistic to think that a baby won't cry sometimes.\n\n\"We don't even have a stereo or a TV to make noise with - and we have avoided making any noise with household activities,\" says Attila.\n\nThe managing agent, Sheraton Management Ltd, says the Wurths \"were in breach of contract as they were causing disturbance to the other occupants of the building... not only relating to noisy children, but also other noise nuisance\".\n\nThe agent says there had been \"banging, stamping, loud footsteps\".\n\n\"Reluctantly, as there was no remission in the problem, it was on this basis that we advised Mrs Wurth that we may be left with no alternative but to serve a notice for possession,\" it says.\n\nThe management company says it has a responsibility to other tenants in the building - and to claims \"that their contractual right to quiet enjoyment has been breached\".\n\nSheraton's statement says: \"We manage numerous properties lived in by families, some with very young children. Our policy is always to avoid the necessity for repossession proceedings.\"\n\nThe Wurths are waiting to hear what will happen next.", "John Lewis has been accused of copying a 1986 book by former Children's Laureate Chris Riddell in its latest Christmas advert.\n\nWriting on social media, the illustrator accused the retail giant of \"helping themselves\" to his book Mr Underbed in its festive campaign.\n\nBoth feature a small boy who discovers a giant cuddly monster under his bed.\n\nJohn Lewis responded by insisting \"the main thrust\" of its advert's story was \"utterly different to Chris Riddell's\".\n\nIt said: \"The story of a big hairy monster under the bed which keeps a child from sleeping is a universal tale which has been told many times over many years.\n\n\"Ours is a Christmas story of friendship and fun between Joe and Moz the Monster, in which Joe receives a night light which helps him get a good night's sleep.\"\n\nRiddell's story features a small boy whose attempts to find another place for Mr Underbed to sleep lead to the discovery that he shares his bedroom with various other hidden creatures.\n\nWriting on Tumblr on Thursday, Riddell said it was \"very generous of John Lewis to devote their Christmas advertising campaign to my 1986 picture book... in this age of shrinking publicity budgets\".\n\nThe author and illustrator said he was not interested in \"a protracted and arcane legal action\" but was merely concerned with having \"the issue of accreditation\" highlighted.\n\n\"Going forward, it's important that young creative people have their work credited in the proper way,\" he told BBC News.\n\nThe writer conceded that the advert's plot was \"different to the underlying story in Mr Underbed\" but still said he felt there were clear parallels.\n\n\"What piqued my interest was that the actual premise was remarkably similar,\" he said. \"There are similarities there and I was just pointing that up.\"\n\nHis accusations attracted support from fellow author Frank Cottrell-Boyce, who likened John Lewis to \"grinches [that] nick something from under the spreading tree of other people's creativity\".\n\nThe John Lewis advert was created by advertising agency adam&eveDDB, is directed by Michel Gondry and features a cover version of The Beatles' Golden Slumbers by Elbow.\n\nBrighton-based Riddell was the ninth Children's Laureate, holding the post between 2015 and 2017.\n\nThe 55-year-old is the creator of the award-winning Goth Girl novels, a three-time winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal for illustration and The Observer's political cartoonist.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "MPs said their inquiry should act as a \"wake-up call\" for the wider food industry\n\nProblems at a major UK chicken supplier forced to suspend operations over hygiene concerns were \"not a one-off\", MPs have claimed.\n\nA site run by the 2 Sisters Food Group in the West Midlands had a \"far from pristine\" past record, the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee said.\n\nIts month-long inquiry also raised concerns about how the production plant was being monitored by authorities.\n\n2 Sisters, which has 12 UK sites, said it took safety \"extremely seriously\".\n\nMarks & Spencer, Aldi, Lidl and The Co-op stopped taking chickens from the West Bromwich site after the Guardian and ITV News claimed workers were changing the slaughter dates to extend the shelf life of meat.\n\nUndercover reporters also alleged workers were repackaging chicken portions that had been returned by supermarkets - before sending them out to other retailers.\n\nMPs said their investigation looked at the \"apparently patchwork\" nature of the industry's accreditation process and how the 2 Sisters site had been checked for quality, rather than whether it breached food standards.\n\nMPs also looked at the role and performance of the Food Standards Agency (FSA), Sandwell Metropolitan Council and other bodies.\n\nCommittee chairman Neil Parish said the inquiry should act as a \"wake-up call\" for food accreditation firms to \"improve their processes\".\n\nHe said: \"Food supply chains are sensitive and easy to disrupt when retailers and consumers lose confidence in food quality or safety.\n\n\"Large producers and retailers have a responsibility to protect, rather than undermine, the UK's food producers.\"\n\nThe report said it was easy for processors to \"game the system and hide infractions\" from inspectors - for example by opting out of unannounced visits by accreditors.\n\nMPs said even unannounced visits were not truly a \"surprise\", because workers were given about 30 minutes and so they tend to be on their \"best behaviour\".\n\nThe inquiry found that Assured Food Standards, which licenses the Red Tractor quality mark, did not \"immediately and especially\" inform the FSA when it briefly suspended the 2 Sisters accreditation between 2 and 9 October.\n\nRanjit Singh Boparan, chief executive of 2 Sisters, gave evidence to MPs last month\n\nRanjit Singh Boparan, 2 Sisters' chief executive, wrote to MPs, promising that he would make a number of changes - including placing a full-time FSA inspector at all plants.\n\nHe also invited the committee to visit a 2 Sisters Food Group plant, unannounced if members wished.\n\nHe said he would install CCTV with complete coverage in all plants within 120 days, and put \"mystery workers\" into all factories by the end of January 2018.\n\nThe committee's report concluded: \"The problems identified at the 2 Sisters plant at West Bromwich were not a one-off.\"\n\nIt added: \"The past record of the 2 Sisters Food Group is far from pristine and there are valid questions to be asked of its corporate governance structure.\"\n\nThe FSA's own investigation into the firm has been widened to 2 Sisters' poultry operations across England and Wales, which process about six million chickens a week, with Food Standards Scotland looking at its Coupar Angus site.", "White House senior aide Jared Kushner failed to disclose emails he received about WikiLeaks and \"a Russian backdoor overture\" in 2016, senators have said.\n\nTwo senators sent Mr Kushner a letter demanding additional documents as part of an ongoing investigation into Russia's alleged election meddling.\n\nThe lawmakers said they became aware of the documents through other witnesses.\n\nA lawyer for Mr Kushner, Donald Trump's son-in-law, said he was \"open to responding to any additional requests\".\n\nSenate Judiciary committee chairman Senator Charles Grassley, a Republican, and Senator Diane Feinstein, top Democrat on the panel, wrote that the emails were omitted from documents Mr Kushner was asked to turn over last month.\n\n\"We appreciate your voluntary cooperation with the Committee's investigation, but the production appears to have been incomplete,\" they wrote in a letter on Thursday to his attorney, Abbe Lowell.\n\nMr Lowell said in a statement his client provided \"all relevant documents that had to do with Mr Kushner's calls, contacts or meetings with Russians during the campaign and transition, which was the request\".\n\nThe pair claim Mr Kushner, who is married to President Trump's daughter Ivanka, received emails concerning WikiLeaks as well as \"documents concerning a 'Russia back door overture and dinner invite'\", which he forwarded to other campaign officials.\n\nThe Senate panel said there are \"several documents that are known to exist\" because other witnesses provided documents which Mr Kushner was copied on, but did not disclose.\n\nThey claim Mr Kushner omitted some documents that mentioned individuals who were connected to the Russia inquiry. The senators are also are seeking his phone records.\n\n\"If, as you suggest, Mr Kushner was unaware of, for example, any attempts at Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, then presumably there would be few communications concerning many of the persons identified,\" the senators wrote.\n\nThe letter also asked for any communications between Mr Kushner and ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn, who was forced to resign in February after he admitted to lying to Vice-President Mike Pence about a meeting with a Russian envoy.\n\nThe two leaders discussed the Russian interference allegations at an Asia-Pacific summit in Vietnam\n\nMr Kushner's lawyer has until 27 November to fulfil their request.\n\nThe two senators said Mr Kushner has yet to hand over promised transcripts from his interviews with both the Senate and House intelligence committees, which are also investigating Russia's role in last year's election and allegations of collusion involving Mr Trump's campaign.\n\nUS intelligence agencies believe Russia tried to help Mr Trump win the presidency by hacking and releasing emails damaging to his opponent, Hillary Clinton. The Kremlin has repeatedly denied the charges.\n\nBut the letter comes after Donald Trump Jr revealed that he had direct communication with WikiLeaks through private Twitter messages during the campaign.\n\nSpecial counsel Robert Mueller is also leading an independent investigation into whether there were any links between Russia and the Trump campaign. Both deny there was any collusion.\n\nLast month, former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to having lied to the FBI about the timing of meetings with alleged go-betweens for Russia.\n\nMr Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, and an associate were also placed under house arrest on charges of money laundering as a result of the Mueller inquiry, but the charges do not relate to the election.", "Stallone's spokeswoman said the story was \"categorically false\"\n\nActor Sylvester Stallone has denied reports that he and a bodyguard sexually assaulted a 16-year-old fan in Las Vegas in the 1980s.\n\nThe Mail Online has published what it says is a police report dating from 1986, which detailed the allegations.\n\nThe young woman did not press charges, the report said, because she was \"humiliated and ashamed\", as well as being \"scared\". No action was taken.\n\nThe Rocky star's spokeswoman said the story was \"categorically false\".\n\nMichelle Bega described the allegation as \"ridiculous\", adding: \"No one was ever aware of this story until it was published today, including Mr Stallone.\n\n\"At no time was Mr Stallone ever contacted by any authorities or anyone else regarding this matter.\"\n\nThe alleged victim said she became intimidated and frightened when the star's bodyguard became involved in the incident in a hotel room, according to the 12-page police report.\n\nThe report says the girl alleged they met in July 1986 in what was then the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel when she got an autograph from Stallone, then 40.\n\nShe claimed a bodyguard gave her keys to a hotel room, where she later had sex with both men.\n\nThe officer wrote: \"She said that after she got dressed, Stallone made the comment to her that they were both married men and that she could not tell anybody about the incident and if she did, that they would have to beat her head in.\"\n\nA separate report from the sexual assault unit stated the men then laughed, \"and she took it as a joke also\", but after the alleged victim left the room she \"became very distraught and frightened, and wasn't sure that that threat had been a joke after all\".\n\nIt added that she said she was not physically forced to have intercourse but felt \"intimidated\".\n\nStallone was in Las Vegas at the time making the film Over the Top. His bodyguard, Mike de Luca, was shot dead by police in California four years ago.\n\nThe allegations were previously published by the Baltimore Post-Examiner last February. Ms Bega declined to comment further when asked if Stallone was aware of them.\n\nThe Mail said retired Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department detective sergeant John Samolovitch vouched that \"the copy of the police report is in fact a true copy of the original report\". The force is yet to comment.\n\nStallone's denial comes in the wake of allegations made against key Hollywood figures including Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey and Louis CK.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "A man sells watermelon in the capital a day after the military moved against Mr Mugabe\n\nDriving around Zimbabwe, one can hardly tell the country is in the middle of the biggest political crisis since independence.\n\nIn one town, a man in his 20s invites me to his shop and tries to convince me to buy a silver necklace. \"It costs $20 [£15],\" he says. \"But for you I can make that $15.\"\n\nHe offers the discount rather half-heartedly.\n\n\"You see, people don't want to spend money on thing like these; the economy is really doing badly.\"\n\nThe once-promising African country has sunk into an economic abyss.\n\nThe government was forced to abolish the country's currency in 2009 because of hyperinflation, and introduced more stable foreign currencies such as the US dollar.\n\nAnnual inflation reached 231 million per cent in central bank figures reported in July 2008 - officials gave up reporting monthly statistics when it peaked at just under 80 billion per cent in mid-November 2008.\n\nOn Wednesday this week, the government published the latest inflation rate showing a 2.24% year-on-year rise for the month of October. Some economists, however, say the new figures are a gross underestimate.\n\nIt is no surprise then that many Zimbabweans almost instantly warmed to the military's move to take control of the country, and confine President Robert Mugabe to his official residence.\n\n\"The military has done a good thing,\" says one bookseller. \"They will ensure we get a transitional government.\"\n\nHe is firmly convinced that Mr Mugabe's 37-year rule is coming to an end.\n\nThere has been a sudden change of tone in the country, and the sense is that many Zimbabweans have been yearning for change.\n\nAny change, it seems, would do.\n\nAt the market, traders hope this means their fortunes will change.\n\nMany of them passively watch shoppers walk past their shops, resigned to the idea that most people are struggling to make ends meet.\n\nSo when a middle-aged tourist buys souvenirs, the rest of the traders suddenly swarm around her as they invite her to view their merchandise. She thanks them, but politely declines the invitation and walks away.\n\nTraders working in a troubled economy hope that change will improve their fortunes\n\nThe traders believe their economic situation will improve once Mr Mugabe's rule ends.\n\nBut there is still political uncertainty surrounding the succession.\n\nThe once-vibrant opposition has begun to speak out, and the former Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, is now back in the country. He has demanded that President Mugabe steps down.\n\nWhat started as a split within the ruling Zanu-PF party could well develop into a broader crisis with politicians from across the divide angling to take over from Mr Mugabe.\n\nBut the president still commands a lot of respect as an independence icon.\n\nThe same respect does not seem to be extended to his wife, Grace, who was thought to be his preferred successor.\n\nHer openly extravagant lifestyle has been widely criticised.\n\nWhat is clear is that the events of this week have dented - if not ended - any chances she had of succeeding her husband.\n\nIn the midst of political uncertainty, Zimbabweans remain hopeful. Change is coming, in whatever form.", "Last updated on .From the section Women's Cricket\n\nAustralia retained the Women's Ashes with an emphatic six-wicket victory over England in the first Twenty20 international in Sydney.\n\nVictory gave the holders an 8-4 lead in the points-based series, meaning England can only draw 8-8 if they win the final two T20s.\n\nEngland lost Heather Knight second ball and were 16-4, but Dani Wyatt's maiden fifty helped them to 132-9.\n\nBeth Mooney hit 86 not as Australia raced home with 25 balls to spare.\n\nHaving won the 50-over World Cup in fine style at Lord's in July, England's preparations for the Ashes were hampered by the two warm-up matches being washed out and they found themselves 4-0 down in the series after losing the first two one-day internationals.\n\nA draw in the one-off Test kept the series alive into the T20s, but there was a bizarre start at the North Sydney Oval after Australia chose to field.\n• None Listen: Commentator sings about Bradman as Perry walks to crease\n\nKnight edged to wicketkeeper Alyssa Healy, who also took off the bails, but was temporarily reprieved as the umpires consulted, only to be sent to the pavilion again when the method of dismissal had been determined.\n\nKey batter Sarah Taylor was adjudged lbw in the next over, with no review process in place to question whether the ball might have gone over or missed leg stump.\n\nEllyse Perry, international footballer and double centurion in the Test, was on a hat-trick in the fifth over after two more catches from Healy, with one outstanding effort millimetres from the turf at full stretch.\n\nBut Wyatt gave the innings much-needed impetus with some clean hitting down the ground.\n\nHowever, the 26-year-old was halfway down the wicket when sent back by Fran Wilson in the 16th over and could not regain her ground.\n\nEngland mustered a further 32 runs after her dismissal, but Mooney set the tone for Australia's chase with a four and a six in an opening over from Katherine Brunt that cost 14.\n\nWyatt gave England a glimmer of hope when she raced around the mid-wicket boundary to pouch Healy's hook in the fifth over.\n\nBut Mooney continued to dominate with a second six off Brunt and the fluent left-hander made the highest score by an Australian on home soil in women's T20 matches, striking the winning runs in style with her 11th four.\n\nThe series concludes with two T20s at the Manuka Oval in Canberra, on Sunday at 03:35 GMT and Tuesday 21 November at 08:10.\n\n'We were always playing catch-up' - what they said\n\nEngland captain Heather Knight: \"We were always playing catch-up. I am really proud of Dani Wyatt and how she fought to get us back in the game.\n\n\"Credit to Australia. Beth Mooney played an outstanding innings and took the game away. Everything we tried we couldn't get her out.\"\n\nAustralia skipper Rachael Haynes: \"It was so nice for the team to come out and play like that. We started well with the ball but fell away. For Beth Mooney to come out and make a statement like that was fantastic.\n\n\"I couldn't watch. I was pretty nervous, the most nervous I have been watching cricket. There was a lot composure in the middle and Mooney took control of that.\"\n\nFormer England seamer Isa Guha on BBC 5 live sports extra: \"Australia have won the big moments - that's something England haven't been able to capitalise on when they've been on top.\"", "Ten-year-old Jessica Quachie grew up in a slum in the Liberian capital Monrovia.\n\nBut her life changed after she was spotted by a football academy.\n\nNow she's getting an education on and off the pitch, and has played international tournament football against boys.\n\nFor more special content linked to launch of this year’s BBC African Footballer of the Year award, head to bbc.com/africanfootball, where you can take part in the vote.", "Mr Davis laughed off a question about the UK being prepared to pay 60bn euros for financial obligations\n\nDavid Davis has warned against \"putting politics above prosperity\" in Britain's post-Brexit relationship with the EU.\n\nIn a speech in Berlin, the UK's Brexit Secretary outlined his hopes for a deal that \"allows for the freest possible trade in goods and services\".\n\nHe also said he thought it \"incredibly unlikely\" there would be no deal.\n\nThe EU says negotiations cannot move on to trade until questions about the UK \"divorce bill\", citizens' rights and Northern Ireland are resolved.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said Mr Davis's speech was delivered politely but implied \"pretty significant frustrations on the UK side with the EU's attitude\".\n\nIn a question and answer session following the speech, a German interviewer got a round of applause for suggesting the UK government looked to be \"in chaos\".\n\nMr Davis replied: \"One of the issues in modern politics is that all governments have periods of turbulence.\n\n\"This is a period of turbulence, it will pass.\"\n\nIn his speech to an economic conference organised by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, he said trade between Germany and the UK was worth 176bn euros a year or \"more than a thousand euros to every man, woman and child in each of our countries\".\n\nHe said the \"close economic ties\" with the EU \"should continue, if not strengthen\" after Brexit, and he warned: \"Putting politics above prosperity is never a smart choice\".\n\nThe UK was seeking a \"deep and comprehensive free trade agreement\" of a scope the EU had never seen before as well as \"continued close co-operation in highly regulated areas such as transport, energy and data\", he said.\n\nBritain would use an independent trade policy to lead a \"race to the top on quality and standards\" rather than engage in a \"race to the bottom\" that would mean lower standards, he told the audience.\n\nHe said the EU and UK needed to \"think creatively\" about their post-Brexit relationship but stressed the need for a \"time limited transition period\" to implement the new arrangements.\n\n\"And that would mean access to the UK and European markets would continue on current terms. Keeping both the rights of a European Union member and the obligations of one, such as the role of the European Court of Justice.\n\n\"That also means staying in all the EU regulators and agencies during that limited period. Which would be about two years.\"\n\nHe added that tariff-free trade should be maintained and there must be an \"effective dispute mechanism\" for any disputes that may arise, that should be neither the UK courts, nor the European Court of Justice.\n\n\"It must be appropriate for both sides so that it can give business the confidence it needs that this partnership will endure.\"\n\nIn a question and answer session following his speech, Mr Davis laughed off a question about whether the UK would be prepared to pay 60bn euros to settle its financial obligations.\n\nHe said the UK's aim was that \"nobody will have to pay more ... nobody will receive less\" but would not give a figure that the UK would be prepared to pay.\n\nAsked if he thought the Brexit negotiations would end in \"no deal\", he said: \"I think that's incredibly unlikely.\"\n\nWhile the UK government has not put a figure on the amount it is prepared to pay to settle the UK's obligations but it has been estimated at 20bn euros (about £18bn).\n\nThe Sun newspaper reported on Thursday that the prime minister was preparing to offer an additional £20bn to the EU to clear the way for talks about a transitional and future trade deal. Downing Street described that as \"yet more speculation\".\n\nEU sources told the BBC last week that the UK had only two weeks left to make progress on the so-called withdrawal issues, including the amount the UK will pay as it leaves and Mr Davis's EU counterpart Michel Barnier said \"time is pressing\" to get agreement on the bill.", "After reports emerged of the military seizing control in Zimbabwe, social media was full of stories about what was happening during a stunning 24 hours, but not all were accurate.\n\nRobert Mugabe, the country's leader for more than three decades, was put under house arrest, and he wasn't the only government figure to be swept up in the military's action.\n\nThe Finance Minister, Ignatius Chombo, had also been detained, a government source told the Reuters news agency.\n\nAnd it's been reported that one Zimbabwean MP told al-Jazeera that $10m (£7.5m) had been recovered from Mr Chombo's house.\n\nThis claim of a vast stash of cash in the home a politician in poverty-stricken Zimbabwe sparked anger in some corners of the online press, but it also led to the use of incorrect photos.\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 Zimbabwe Today 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\nWhile we do not have confirmation of whether the money was found at the home of Mr Chombo, the suitcases displayed in the Zimbabwe Today post definitely weren't.\n\nThat photo was taken after a police raid in Brazil earlier this year, as reported by Bloomberg.\n\nSome Twitter users found the incident quite amusing.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Moloto Mothapo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 second pile of money also featured in some of the news reporting of the raid, but that wasn't in Zimbabwe either.\n\nThe same photo appeared in a CNN story from April about a discovery made by an anti-corruption unit in Nigeria.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 RF News This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere was also a case of mistaken identity after one user wrongly identified Mr Chombo. The following photo isn't Mr Chombo, it's the former Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo, in 2011.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Prodigy♔ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, the British embassy in Harare was also flagging up \"fake news\" having noticed an image of a letter purportedly from the UK Border Agency circulating on some Zimbabwean WhatsApp groups.\n\nDespite containing spelling errors and inappropriate language for an official document, it has still been widely shared.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 UKinZimbabwe This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 British High Commission in Zimbabwe says this letter is \"fake news\" and should be ignored", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. ESA claimant Peter Cartwright: 'People need this money to live'\n\nMistakes in paying out benefits claims could cost up to £500m to put right, the BBC has learned.\n\nThe errors identified by the Department for Work and Pensions affect the main sickness benefit, the Employment and Support Allowance (ESA).\n\nThe BBC understands that assessors wrongly calculated the income of around 75,000 claimants.\n\nMinisters say that they are aware of the problem and that repayments have begun to be made.\n\nThe department, which says it discovered the mistakes last December, is understood to have contacted about 1,000 people so far.\n\nIt says it is still trying to understand the scale of the problems with ESA, which is paid to about 2.5 million people, and will contact anyone affected.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Field said people had been 'wrongly impoverished' as a result of the errors\n\nFrank Field, chairman of the Commons work and pensions select committee, said the problem was on a scale of \"historic proportions\".\n\nHe said: \"I'm still gobsmacked at the size and the nature and the extent and the coverage of people that have been wrongly impoverished by the department getting it wrong.\"\n\nThe BBC understands that the errors affected people who applied for ESA between 2011/12 and 2014/15 - claimants after that date are understood to have had their benefit correctly assessed.\n\nOn top of money to be paid back, the Treasury will have to pay for the staffing and processing of repayments.\n\nThis extraordinary error is the latest problem to beset a troubled benefit.\n\nWhen Labour introduced ESA in 2008, they claimed the change would move a million people off sickness benefit and save the Treasury £7bn.\n\nThe coalition embraced the benefit with open arms, again hoping to save money by moving people off incapacity benefit and onto ESA faster than planned.\n\nLittle has changed. Back in 2006/07, 2.7 million people were receiving the main sickness benefit at a cost of £12bn. In this financial year, ministers estimate 2.4 million people will get ESA - at a cost of £15bn.\n\nFor claimants, the changes have meant undergoing health assessments to prove their illnesses, which some say has created stress and anxiety.\n\nMistakes began in 2011 when the government started moving benefits recipients onto ESA - which is paid to those with long-term health conditions that are not going to improve.\n\nESA was introduced by the Labour government in 2008 to replace incapacity benefit.\n\nAt the time of that migration, an independent expert working for the Department for Work and Pensions, Professor Malcolm Harrington, urged ministers not to proceed until he was certain the system was robust.\n\nThe department said it only became aware of the problem in December 2016 after the Office for National Statistics published fraud and error figures for the social security system.\n\nPeter Cartwright, who was one of those moved from incapacity benefit to ESA due to mental and physical health problems, said the errors were \"disgusting\".\n\n\"People need this money to live,\" said Mr Cartwright, who does not yet know if he was underpaid.\n\n\"It's not as if you can go and get loads of luxuries when you're on this benefit.\"\n\nThe 54-year-old from County Durham said people on benefits often had to make the choice between food and heating, adding: \"If people are getting underpaid that means they're not getting through.\"\n\nThe DWP said it was \"currently reviewing the historical benefit payments of claimants\"\n\nMany of those eligible for ESA may also need to apply for universal credit - a benefit for people with a health condition or disability which prevents them from working.\n\nUniversal credit is already experiencing its own problems - with reports of IT issues, overspending and administrative errors.\n\nSuccessful applicants for ESA are paid the benefit either on the basis of having made enough National Insurance claims, or because they are on a low income.\n\nIn calculating how much income a claimant is entitled to, benefit assessors have to work through a variety of factors, such as what other benefits someone might be on, how much they earn from any work or whether there is any other income coming into the household.\n\nIn a statement, the Department for Work and Pensions, said it was aware of the issue and \"currently reviewing the historical benefit payments of claimants\".", "Eight-year-old Mali has been given the PDSA Dickin Medal for serving in Afghanistan.", "As we've been reporting, police say it is \"too early to tell\" what caused an air crash on the Waddesdon Estate in Buckinghamshire.\n\nSupt Rebecca Mears from Thames Valley Police said: \"Our priority has to be with the next-of-kin, speaking to them and letting them know.\n\n\"We anticipate being here until about Monday morning, potentially longer. We do not rush these things - it's really important we do a meticulous investigation and really thorough to get to the bottom of what's happened here.\"\n\nForensic tents (pictured) have been put up by police at the scene.\n\nThe Press Association reports that a Notice to Airmen had been issued to warn pilots the Wycombe Air Park's air traffic control services would be closed during three 30-minute periods on selected days between 7 - 30 November, due to a \"staff shortage\".\n\nThe crash occurred about half an hour after the latest closure was due to end, it said.", "More than a million credit card users who are struggling financially have had their credit limits increased without asking, a charity has said.\n\nSuch borrowing could make their financial problems worse, so Citizens Advice is calling for a ban on unsolicited increases in credit card limits.\n\nIt wants Chancellor Philip Hammond to include such a move in the Budget.\n\nBut providers say protection is being improved.\n\nCitizens Advice said its research, based on a sample of 1,300 people with credit cards, suggested as many as six million cardholders may have had their credit limits put up without their consent in the last year. Some 1.4 million of those would be struggling financially.\n\nProviders have agreed to a voluntary code being developed by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the City regulator, which would see restrictions and choice on credit limits.\n\nThey will start asking new customers for their consent before raising limits, and give them the option to carry on receiving uninvited increases. Existing customers will be given the option to ask their lender to require their consent.\n\nBut Citizens Advice is calling for the chancellor to impose a clear ban on increases which customers have not even requested.\n\nGillian Guy, chief executive of Citizens Advice, said: \"Rather than credit card holders seeking to take on more debts, lenders are actively pushing it on people without enough consideration as to who can afford to pay and who can't.\n\n\"Few consumers support unsolicited increases and our research shows that they make people's debt problems worse. The chancellor must step in.\"\n\nRichard Koch, head of cards at UK Finance, which represents card companies, said providers were \"thoroughly committed\" to the new agreement.\n\n\"All our members undertake a thorough risk and affordability assessment of a customer's finances whenever they apply for credit. This degree of rigour continues throughout the relationship, with ongoing monitoring of how the customer uses the credit product,\" he added.", "To get to President Robert Mugabe's rural home, you drive along the Robert Mugabe Highway.\n\nIt is probably one of the most well-maintained roads in Zimbabwe. It is like driving on a carpet.\n\nAlong the way you are greeted by a plaque erected in his honour.\n\nKutama Village is home to the 93-year-old. It is a small and tightly connected village where everyone knows each other.\n\nYou cannot really tell if they have been rattled by the current political crisis.\n\nAs we arrived, there was an air of uncertainty.\n\nMr Mugabe is respected here. To many, he is a father and a friend.\n\nSpeaking to me at his compound, a 65-year-old neighbour told me:\n\nQuote Message: He's kind, he's a good man and he understands people's plight.\"\n\nThe man goes to St Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church with Mr Mugabe, a devout Christian, whenever he visits.\n\nQuote Message: He never demands special treatment. He visits people to check on their welfare.\" He never demands special treatment. He visits people to check on their welfare.\"\n\nNevertheless, he supported the intervention by the army to remove Mr Mugabe from office, saying it is meant to correct a broken system:\n\nQuote Message: If his term goes out then there's nothing wrong.\" If his term goes out then there's nothing wrong.\"\n\nWhen I approached other villagers, I attracted immediate suspicion. They were not keen to talk.\n\nBut it seems to me that Mr Mugabe is seen as a hero in the village. It is easy to spot people wearing clothes emblazoned with his face.\n\nPolice officers are patrolling the area around Mr Mugabe's home.\n\nYou can't really peep inside the compound because of tight security.", "A rubber caricature of US President Donald Trump has been designed by one of the creators of satirical TV show Spitting Image.", "The Orthopaedic and Prosthetic Centre in Taiz offers hope for the seriously injured in Yemen’s war.\n\nThe BBC's Clive Myrie saw inside one of the few places in the country that can produce prosthetic limbs.", "Wide variations in the way police chiefs are paid have been revealed, as the pay, allowances and expenses of senior police officers in England and Wales are published for the first time.\n\nThe statistics, for 2015-16, show salary payments ranging from £7,622 to £278,563.\n\nMeanwhile, benefits range from none at all to £32,521 in one case.\n\nThe Home Office, which compiled the data, also set a limit on the amount of annual leave chief constables can take.\n\nSalaries for chief constables and deputy chief constables are determined by rank, the size of their force and the area's population.\n\nThe publication is part of an attempt to increase transparency across forces.\n\nThe figures show that some earned thousands of pounds in \"benefits in kind\", while a small number claimed large sums in expenses, and others received nothing but their salary.\n\nNick Gargan, who resigned from Avon and Somerset police following a misconduct inquiry, was given £39,000 for what is described as \"compensation for loss of office\".\n\nMick Creedon, who was in charge of Derbyshire police, received a \"retention\" payment and money for a medical scheme of almost £34,000 on top of his £142,000 salary, the data shows.\n\nAn assistant chief constable for Dyfed Powys received £30,139 for \"relocation expenses\".\n\nThere is no suggestion of any wrongdoing.\n\nNick Gargan resigned from Avon and Somerset police following a misconduct inquiry in 2015\n\nThe figures offer a snapshot for 2015-16, with some representing just a portion of an annual salary with staff only having been in post for part of the year.\n\nThe largest salary listed, of £278,563, was for the head of the Metropolitan police in London.\n\nIt may not be a coincidence that the Home Office has chosen to publish the figures just five days before the Budget.\n\nThe chancellor has faced growing calls from chief constables to inject extra money into the police service.\n\nAnd although senior officers' pay represents a fraction of overall costs, the release of the data is a subtle reminder, perhaps, that forces can still afford to reward senior brass handsomely.\n\nAll of the chief constables earn more than the policing minister, with some salaries dwarfing the home secretary's pay and even that of the prime minster, who takes home £150,402.\n\nNo doubt chiefs would say they're worth it: being in charge of a police force carries immense responsibility - when vacancies arise there are often not many candidates.\n\nNevertheless, the figures have exposed inconsistencies in the way senior officers are rewarded for their considerable efforts which the staff who work for them and members of the public may not be entirely comfortable with.\n\nIn an effort to iron out inconsistencies in holiday entitlement, senior officers will in future be able to take no more than 35 days' leave each year. The current model allows for 48 days a year, but with poorly defined rest days.\n\nWhen they leave their job they must notify their force if they are employed elsewhere.\n\nThe figures, for 261 of the most senior police officers up to the rank of chief constable, have been published on the Police UK website.\n\nIt is hoped that the overhaul could act as a blueprint for other sectors.\n\nPolicing Minister Nick Hurd said the figures would bring greater clarity and accountability to the public, as did Mark Polin, chair of the Chief Police Officers Staff Association.\n\nJulia Mulligan, who speaks on transparency and integrity for the Association of Police and Crime Commissioners, said they would bring greater transparency.\n\nThe data is available and searchable by postcode online.\n• None Pay cap to be lifted for police officers", "Delays on Southern services have disrupted commuters in the south east\n\nLondon's deputy mayor for transport struggles to get to early morning meetings because of disruption on Southern Rail, documents reveal.\n\nVal Shawcross's office said in an email that \"Val is a morning person but has to use Southern trains to get in to the office so we try not to have too many early starts\".\n\nThe train operator has been hit by repeated strikes and its owners fined over its poor performance.\n\nThe documents were revealed to the BBC under a Freedom of Information act request.\n\nVal Shawcross was unable to schedule early meetings due to Southern Rail disruptions\n\nA City Hall spokesman said: \"The deputy mayor for transport works her socks off to make the capital's transport network more affordable, reliable and accessible for all Londoners.\n\n\"Under Sadiq [Khan] and Val, TfL passengers have enjoyed frozen fares and seen a nearly 60 per cent reduction in the number of days lost to strikes.\n\n\"If the government shared their drive and gave TfL control of more suburban lines, rail passengers too would get the service they deserve.\"\n\nThe email was among correspondence sent in September from Ms Shawcross's office to public relations firm Newington Communications, which was arranging a meeting between the deputy mayor and Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association (LTDA) general secretary Steve McNamara.\n\nThe emails revealed that Sadiq Khan said he was too busy to meet Mr McNamara in June and arranged for him to meet Ms Shawcross instead.\n\nMs Shawcross told the LTDA that she was unable to discuss the Uber relicensing decision with it, which it had requested to do, because doing so with a third party would prejudice TfL's role as regulator.\n\nOn legal advice, she delayed the meeting until after the licensing decision.\n\nTfL took the decision to withhold a new licence from Uber earlier this year.", "Debbie McGee says newspaper reports about a falling out with Alexandra Burke are wrong\n\nDebbie McGee has rubbished rumours of a feud between her and fellow Strictly contestant Alexandra Burke, saying the pair are \"the closest of friends\".\n\nShe spoke as she prepared to take part in the show's Blackpool week, live from the Tower Ballroom.\n\nMcGee, whose late husband Paul Daniels danced on the BBC One show, said competing in the ballroom was going to be \"the most amazing experience\".\n\nThe only negative side of Strictly was dealing with tabloid stories, she said.\n\nSpeaking about the supposed row with singer and actress Burke, which has appeared in various newspapers, she added: \"All I would say is you can't believe anything you're reading in the paparazzi press.\n\n\"We have a really special friendship,\" she said, adding of the reports: \"It's absolute rubbish.\"\n\nMcGee, who was mid-way through a break between rehearsals with dance partner Giovanna Pernice. also said there had also been claims that she had fallen out with Luba Mushtuj, Pernice's professional partner.\n\nShe said the tabloid rumours were \"the only bit that's horrible about Strictly - and it's nothing to do with any of us, because there hasn't been any feuding with anyone\".\n\nMcGee, who's one of the favourites to win the dancing show, added: \"This year the producers have said they've never had a unit that all got on so well.\n\n\"We all adore each other. It's a competition, but we're all rooting for each other. We all want each other to do as well as we possibly can.\"\n\nShe is dancing a samba to a Spice Girls medley on Saturday night's show, and said that she \"hasn't stopped laughing\" since it started in September and that she feels \"proud to be able to stand up for the older woman\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The traffic lights will be on the link roads between the M6 and the eastbound M62\n\nTraffic lights are to be placed on two busy link roads between the M6 and the eastbound M62 under plans to ease motorway congestion.\n\nTesting has begun on the system, near Warrington in Cheshire, and it will be turned on fully in December, according to Highways England.\n\nA spokesman said if the £7m trial was successful, it could be rolled out on motorway link roads across the country.\n\nPreviously, traffic lights have only been installed on motorway slip roads.\n\nHighways England said electronic information signs and variable mandatory speed limits on the M62 will also be used to \"provide smoother traffic flows\".\n\nThe aim is to ease traffic at the Croft Interchange, where Junction 21A of the M6 meets Junction 10 of the M62.\n\nThe Highways England spokesman said it was \"an opportunity to combine existing technology and traffic management systems in a novel way\" to provide \"lower journey times during peak hours and smoother, more reliable journeys\".\n\nHe added the system would be monitored for a year before any national roll-out took place.\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. Russia 'tries to sow discord in the West'\n\nTheresa May has launched her strongest attack on Russia yet, accusing Moscow of meddling in elections and carrying out cyber espionage.\n\nAddressing leading business figures at a banquet in London, the prime minister said Vladimir Putin's government was trying to \"undermine free societies\".\n\nMrs May said it was \"planting fake stories\" to \"sow discord in the West\".\n\nWhile the UK did not want \"perpetual confrontation\" with Russia, it would protect its interests, she added.\n\nHer comments are in stark contrast to those of US President Donald Trump, who last week said he believed his Russian counterpart's denial of intervening in the 2016 presidential election.\n\nForeign Secretary Boris Johnson is due to visit Russia next month.\n\nIn a major foreign policy speech at the Lord Mayor's Banquet at London's Guildhall, which Mrs May described as a \"very simple message\" for President Putin, she said he must choose a very \"different path\" from the one that in recent years had seen Moscow annex Crimea, foment conflict in Ukraine and launch cyber attacks on governments and Parliaments across Europe.\n\nRussia could be a valuable partner of the West but only if it \"plays by the rules\", she argued.\n\n\"Russia has repeatedly violated the national airspace of several European countries and mounted a sustained campaign of cyber espionage and disruption.\n\n\"This has included meddling in elections and hacking the Danish Ministry of Defence and the Bundestag among many others.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Boris Johnson told MPs about Russian meddling in UK elections\n\n\"We know what you are doing and you will not succeed. Because you underestimate the resilience of our democracies, the enduring attraction of free and open societies and the commitment of Western nations to the alliances that bind us.\"\n\nShe said as the UK left the EU and charted a new course in the world, it remained absolutely committed to Nato and securing a Brexit deal which \"strengthens our liberal values\", adding that a strong economic partnership between the UK and EU would be a bulwark against Russian agitation in Europe.\n\nThere are some countries in Europe that believe the West should engage more closely with Russia.\n\nThey argue the European Union and the United States should better understand Russia's point of view, its belief that it is threatened from all sides.\n\nAnd that more should be done to accommodate this sense of vulnerability, by softening Nato's approach and reducing sanctions.\n\nWell, not Theresa May. In a speech in the US in February, the prime minister spoke of the need to \"engage but beware\" of Russia. She has now switched the order and the focus is very much on beware.\n\nShe believes that President Putin should be called out for the threat she believes he poses both internationally and in the UK.\n\nThe Electoral Commission is investigating claims that Russia used social media to meddle in the Brexit referendum.\n\nSo Mrs May is willing to engage with Russia - she is sending the foreign secretary to Moscow next month.\n\nBut she also wants Russia to know that Mr Johnson will come with a clear message that its destabilising activities will no longer be tolerated.\n\nMr Johnson, who will be making his first trip to Russia since becoming foreign secretary in December, has said the UK's policy towards Moscow must be one of \"beware but engage\" following a decade of strained relations.\n\nHe told MPs earlier this month that he had not seen any evidence of Russia trying to interfere in British elections or the 2016 Brexit vote, in which Moscow has insisted it remained neutral.\n\n\"We will take the necessary action to counter Russian activity,\" Mrs May added.\n\n\"But this is not where we want to be and not the relationship with Russia we want.\n\n\"We do not want to return to the Cold War or to be in a state of perpetual confrontation.\n\n\"As a permanent member of the UN Security Council, Russia has the reach and the responsibility to play a vital role in promoting international stability.\n\n\"Russia can, and I hope one day will, choose this different path. But for as long as Russia does not, we will act together to protect our interests and the international order on which they depend.\"\n\nResponding to Mrs May's speech, former Labour cabinet minister Ben Bradshaw - who has been raising the issue of Russian interference in UK elections for nearly a year - tweeted: \"Asking why May suddenly acknowledging Russian interference now having stonewalled for months.\"\n\n\"The international system of rules must be saved not from Russia but from the advocates of intervention, coups and regime change. Russia will not accept those 'rules',\" he tweeted.\n\n\"The world order that suits May, with the seizure of Iraq, war in Libya, the rise of IS and terrorism in Europe, has had its day. You can't save it by attacking Russia.\"\n\nIn Mrs May's speech, she also said the authorities in Myanmar - formerly known as Burma - must take \"full responsibility\" for what \"looked like ethnic cleansing\" of the Rohingya people in Rakhine province.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man has been found guilty of carrying out an acid attack in a packed London club which left 22 people injured.\n\nArthur Collins, the ex-boyfriend of reality TV star Ferne McCann, threw the corrosive substance at revellers in Mangle E8 in Dalston on 17 April.\n\nThe 25-year-old admitted throwing the liquid but had claimed he believed it was a date rape drug.\n\nHe was convicted at Wood Green Crown Court. Andre Phoenix, who was accused of helping him, was found not guilty.\n\nTwenty-two people were injured, 16 of those suffering serious burns, when Collins sprayed acid over revellers inside the busy east London venue at about 01:00 BST.\n\nOne man suffered third-degree chemical burns to the left side of the face and required a skin graft. Others had eye injuries.\n\nArthur Collins had denied knowing the substance he threw was acid\n\nPhoebe Georgiou, who had been celebrating her 23rd birthday in the club that night, said she still suffers from night terrors and anxiety about being in crowded places having been hit by the substance.\n\nWhen she was taken to hospital she said she \"saw my reflection in the shower hold, which was so shocking because my whole chest looked like it had been ripped apart and I could see the inside of my chest and my arm\".\n\n\"I have a life sentence to deal with, with scars and mental injuries,\" she said.\n\nA solicitor for two of the other victims said Collins' \"despicable crime\" had \"changed the lives of so many people in the club that night\".\n\nTwenty-two people were injured when acid was thrown in the Mangle E8 nightclub\n\nCCTV shown in court showed clubbers clutching their faces and running off the dancefloor as they were hit with the liquid.\n\nVictims told the jury their skin began \"blistering straight away\" and described a burning smell. The liquid was later found to have a rating of pH1, equal to strong acids such as those used in battery acid.\n\nCollins told the court during the trial he had been at the club celebrating the news of Ms McCann's pregnancy, which the couple had revealed to her family the previous day.\n\nHe was seen on CCTV getting into a confrontation with a group of men in the club before he sprayed liquid from a bottle over the crowd.\n\nAndre Phoenix (left) was acquitted earlier on Monday of helping Arthur Collins (right) carry out the attack\n\nFollowing the trial the Met said Collins had grabbed the bottle \"from the back pocket of an unidentified man\".\n\nCollins, of Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, had claimed in court he had taken the bottle from that group and thought it was a date rape drug.\n\nHowever, the jury found him guilty of five counts of GBH with intent, and nine counts of ABH against 14 people.\n\nCollins will be sentenced on 19 December.\n\nThe attack happened in Mangle E8 in Dalston on 17 April\n\nHe was not arrested for several days after the attack and was eventually detained when officers Tasered him after he tried to flee by jumping from an upstairs window of a house in Northamptonshire.\n\nScotland Yard said he answered no comment to all questions put to him after he was detained.\n\nDet Ch Supt Simon Laurence said Collins had intended to \"inflict serious harm\" on a large number of people in a \"barbaric and cowardly act\".\n\nCollins sent a message to his sister reading: \"Tell mum to mind that little hand wash in my car acid\"\n\nThe court heard Collins had sent a text to his sister a week before the attack, reading: \"Tell mum to mind that little hand wash in my car acid\".\n\nCollins claimed he was referring to hair-thickening shampoo which contained amino acid, which he needed for his hair after having two hair transplants.\n\nHe had said he kept the shampoo in his car so his girlfriend did not find out about his hair loss.\n\nLily Saw, London CPS reviewing lawyer, said the prosecution had \"proved this acid attack was no accident\".\n\n\"Acid can be as much of a weapon as a knife with equally damaging consequences,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The march was led by Tarana Burke, who started the #MeToo hashtag (centre)\n\nHundreds of people have marched in Hollywood in support of victims of sexual assault and harassment, inspired by the #MeToo social media campaign.\n\nThe march follows a torrent of assault and harassment allegations against public figures, set off by revelations about the movie mogul Harvey Weinstein.\n\nThe marchers started on Hollywood Boulevard and walked along the \"Walk of Fame\" to CNN's headquarters.\n\nThey were predominantly women but many men attended.\n\nTara McNamarra, 21, of Los Angeles, told Reuters news agency that the march felt cleansing after years of not being taken seriously about abuse.\n\n\"I've been sexually assaulted multiple times throughout my life,\" she said. \"It's affected me in every aspect of my life.\"\n\nMarchers hold placards on Hollywood's Walk of Fame on Sunday\n\nThe #MeToo hashtag was first used by social activist Tarana Burke and popularised by actress Alyssa Milano in the wake of the Weinstein allegations.\n\nMs Burke led Sunday's march. \"For every Harvey Weinstein, there's a hundred more men in the neighborhood who are doing the exact same thing,\" she wrote on Facebook ahead of the event.\n\n\"What we're seeing, at least for now, is a unity of survivors, a community of survivors that have grown out of this #MeToo viral moment, that I'm just hoping and praying that we can sustain.\"\n\nThe actor Kevin Spacey and comedian Louis CK are among the high-profile figures accused of sexual harassment over the past few weeks.\n\nLouis CK published an apology on Friday, admitting after years of denials that the allegations were true.\n\n\"The power I had over these women is that they admired me. And I wielded that power irresponsibly,\" he wrote.\n\nThe New York Times reported in October that Weinstein, 65, had settled out of court with eight women who had accused him of sexual harassment and unwanted physical contact.\n\nWeinstein has also been accused of rape, but said through a spokesperson that he \"unequivocally denied\" any allegations of non-consensual sex.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nTim Gudgin, formerly the voice of BBC television's Saturday tea-time football results, has died aged 87.\n\nGudgin retired in 2011, a week before his 82nd birthday, to end a career lasting more than 60 years.\n\nHe had joined Grandstand in 1976, reading out the horse racing and rugby results until 1995, when he became the second person - after Len Martin - to read out the football results.\n\nDuring his time at the BBC, he also worked for Radio 2 and Radio 4.\n\nBarbara Slater, director of BBC Sport, said: \"Tim was a much-loved member of the BBC Sport team for more than three decades and became one of the most familiar voices in the nation every Saturday afternoon. He was always the ultimate professional and will be remembered fondly by all those who worked with him.\"\n\nGudgin, known for his distinctive rising and falling intonation, started his broadcasting career while on National Service in Germany in 1949 at the age of 20.\n\nHe managed to beat 200 others to secure one of four newsreading jobs in Hamburg, before returning home and joining the BBC.\n\nWhen he retired, Gudgin said: \"It is a triple reason why I am going - age, distance - I am down on the south coast and the team is going to be up in Salford, and my granddaughter's wedding in Australia, which I have to be there for.\"\n\nGudgin died peacefully at his home on 8 November, his family said. His funeral will be held at Chichester Crematorium on Monday, 20 November.\n• 1950: Following a three-year period of National Service, Gudgin joined BFN Radio in Germany as a newsreader and occasional sports reviewer.\n• 1952: Moved back to the UK and became studio manager for BBC European Service, also working as newsreader. When his boss moved to network radio, Gudgin joined him on a six-month attachment - and stayed for 10 years.\n• 1965-71: Worked as a freelancer presenting shows such as Housewives' Choice, Midday, Out & About, Saturday Night on the Light, Treble Chance, Today, Late Night Extra, Home This Afternoon, Top of the Form, Listen on Saturday, Music Box, Family Favourites, Y.A.T.N.A.M, Friday Night is Music Night, Marching & Waltzing, Night Ride, Melody Hour and Swingalong.\n• 1973-76: Worked as a public relations consultant in the Isle of Man.\n• 1976: Returned to the UK and sports programme Grandstand, where he read out the horse racing and rugby results in the final score segment of the programme.\n• 1995: Following the death of Len Martin, he became only the second person to read out the football results for BBC television on Saturday afternoons.", "He returned his Freedom of the City of Dublin in protest against Aung San Suu Kyi.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tracy Tweedy, of Borth Wild Animal Kingdom, said staff were horrified by the death of the two lynx.\n\nA second lynx, belonging to a zoo where one escaped and was later shot, has died following a \"handling error\".\n\nThe news comes after Lilleth the lynx was \"humanely destroyed\" on Friday after escaping from Borth Wild Animal Kingdom, Ceredigion.\n\nIn a statement, the zoo confirmed an investigation was under way after the death of the second lynx, Nilly.\n\nThe Lynx UK Trust called for the zoo to be closed, saying the deaths were \"unacceptable\".\n\nCeredigion council said it was investigating this second death.\n\nOwner Tracy Tweedy said staff had given Nilly mouth to mouth after she became twisted in a catch-pole as staff tried to move her into a different enclosure ahead of a council inspection.\n\nShe said she also rubbed her heart and added staff were horrified by the deaths.\n\n\"I don't regret buying this place because I know that despite all this we will make it what it should be,\" she said.\n\n\"It is a sanctuary for animals and they should be here and be safe and the fact that we have let down two of our precious lynx is just horrific. There is no excuse.\"\n\nFlowers have been left outside the zoo in tribute to Lilleth\n\nPaul O'Donoghue, a scientific adviser at the Lynx UK Trust, which is trying to reintroduce them in the UK, said he had visited the zoo at the weekend.\n\n\"To have two die, it's unacceptable on every level. Serious questions need to be asked about the husbandry at this zoo,\" he said.\n\nThe trust has started a petition calling for the zoo's closure which has been signed by more than 1,400 people.\n\nThe zoo's owners said they had been \"working hard to make vast improvements\" over the summer and plans were in place to build a new lynx enclosure.\n\nCeredigion council said the death of Nilly was brought to its attention \"the day after the animal had been inadvertently killed\".\n\nThe council spokesman added: \"Due to an ongoing investigation, we are unable to provide further comment.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the council has defended its decision to have a marksman shoot Lilleth, prompting a backlash from the owners who had been trying to capture her with bait traps.\n\nThe council said despite \"exhaustive efforts\" to recapture her, it was necessary to act because she had strayed into a populated area and \"the safety of the public was paramount\".\n\nLilleth is believed to have escaped after making a \"giant leap\" over an electrified fence.\n\nAmong those to criticise the council's decision to shoot Lilleth was TV presenter Ben Fogle who tweeted that \"dogs cause more injury to sheep and people\".\n\nThe Farmers' Union of Wales said the killing \"was long overdue\" given the danger to people and livestock.\n\nDean and Tracy Tweedy took over Borth Wild Animal Kingdom less than six months ago.\n\nThey said the zoo would remain closed until further notice.", "Iraq, home to some of the earliest known civilisations, has been a battleground for competing forces since the US-led overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003.\n\nThe mainly Shia-led governments that have held power since have struggled to maintain order, and the country has enjoyed only brief periods of respite from high levels of sectarian violence.\n\nInstability and sabotage have hindered efforts to rebuild an economy shattered by decades of conflict and sanctions, even though Iraq has the world's second-largest reserves of crude oil.\n\nRashid was elected as president in October 2022, replacing Barham Salih. He can serve a maximum of two four-year terms in the largely ceremonial post.\n\nHe is opposed to the normalization of diplomatic relations with Turkey as long as there continue to be border violations.\n\nUnder an informal agreement between political parties, the presidency is reserved for Kurds, the premiership for Shia Arabs, and the post of speaker of parliament for Sunni Arabs.\n\nMohammed Shia al-Sudani became prime minister in October 2022 after more than a year of political paralysis, though critics say he is struggling to deliver on his promises.\n\nIn an interview with the Wall Street Journal in 2023, he defended the presence of United States troops in his country, saying they were needed to hep Iraq's security forces defeat ISIS.\n\nThis contradicts the stance of several Iran-aligned groups that in part make up the Shia-dominated Coordination Framework, the political bloc that nominated him as prime minister.\n\nThere are hundreds of publications and scores of radio and TV stations. But political and security crises have resulted in an increasingly fractured media scene.\n\nTelevision is the main medium for news. Many media outlets have political or religious affiliations.\n\nThe partly-reconstructed Ziggurat of Ur, which was first built over 4,000 years ago in what is now southern Iraq\n\nc.5500-2270BC - Sumerian civilisation flourishes in southern Iraq: Along with nearby Elam, Egypt, the Indus Valley, China, Caral-Supe, and Mesoamerica it is one of the cradles of civilization. The world's earliest known texts come from Uruk and Jemdet Nasr.\n\n2334-2154BC - Akkadian Empire under Sargon the Great and his successors exercises influence across Mesopotamia, the Levant and Anatolia, sending military expeditions as far south as the Arabian Peninsula.\n\nc.1792-1750BC - Hammurabi, ruler of Babylon, issues the Code of Hammurabi, a law code which is among the first to establish the presumption of innocence.\n\n911-609BC - Neo-Assyrian Empire based in northern Iraq dominates the Near East, most notably under Ashurnasirpal II and Shalmaneser III.\n\n620-539BC -Neo-Babylonian Empire dominates the Levant, Canaan, Arabia, Israel and Judah, and defeats Egypt under Nebuchadnezzar II.\n\n539BC - Persians under Cyrus the Great defeat the Babylonians and region becomes part of the Achaemenid Empire.\n\n330BC - Macedonians under Alexander the Great conquer the region.\n\n632-654 - Muslim conquest of what is now Iraq and Iran.\n\n750-1258 - Abbasid Caliphate founds the city of Baghdad - under the caliph Al-Mansur - which becomes a centre of science, culture and invention in what is known as the Golden Age of Islam.\n\n1257-58 - Mongol armies under Hulagu Khan sack and destroy Baghdad, burning its extensive library. Estimates of those killed range from 200,000 to a million.\n\n1508 - Iraq comes under control of Safavid Iran.\n\n1639 - Treaty of Zuhab sees Iraq become part of the Ottoman Empire.\n\n1914 - World War One. Ottoman Turkey sides with Germany and Austria-Hungary.\n\n1915-16 - British troops invade and initially suffer a major defeat at the hands of the Turkish army during the Siege of Kut.\n\n1920 - Following the end of World War One, the League of Nations approves the British mandate in Iraq, prompting nationwide revolt.\n\n1921 - Britain appoints Feisal, son of Hussein Bin Ali, the Sherif of Mecca, as king.\n\n1941 - Britain re-occupies Iraq after pro-Axis coup during World War Two.\n\n1958 - The monarchy is overthrown in a left-wing military coup led by Abd-al-Karim Qasim. Iraq leaves the pro-British Baghdad Pact.\n\n1963 - Prime Minister Qasim is ousted in a coup led by the pan-Arab Baath Party.\n\n1963 - The Baathist government is overthrown, but seizes power again five years later\n\n1990 - Iraq invades and annexes Kuwait, prompting what becomes known as the first Gulf War. A massive US-led military campaign forces Iraq to withdraw in February 1991.\n\n1998 - US and British Operation Desert Fox bombing campaign aims to destroy Iraq's nuclear, chemical and biological weapons programmes.\n\n2003 - US-led invasion topples Saddam Hussein's government, marks start of years of violent conflict with different groups competing for power.\n\n2006 - Saddam Hussein is executed for crimes against humanity.\n\n2022 - 2,500 US. troops remain in Iraq as part of anti-ISIS operations despite the formal end of the US combat mission there in 2021.\n\nUS marines toppled the statue of Saddam Hussein shortly after the invasion in 2003. Years of instability followed", "Four in ten Ford cars sold in the UK rely on financing supplied by Ford's financing arm.\n\nFord Credit Europe is essentially a bank offering loans to car buyers, and like other banks relies on its ability to operate throughout Europe on the UK's membership of the EU and the so-called \"passport\" to operate throughout the bloc.\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond has said the UK is aiming for a \"bespoke\" deal for banks and the finance sector in the EU.\n\nIf that did happen Ford would be able to keep its current structure offering finance across Europe from its base in the UK.\n\nFord Credit Europe recently opened a new headquarters in Manchester, serving eleven markets across Europe.\n\nBuried in written submissions to the Business Energy and Industrial Skills Select committee - released today - is the following from Ford:\n\n\"A loss of access to the single market would also affect our UK-headquartered captive finance arm, Ford Credit Europe.\n\n\"This currently operates a branch network across the single market on the basis of an EU Capital Requirements Directive passport for the provision of banking services.\n\n\"Outside the EU and the EEA, FCE as a UK-regulated bank will lose access to the passporting regime as currently designed.\n\n\"FCE's sole purpose is to finance the sale of Ford motor vehicles and Ford cannot afford any kind of disruption to FCE's continuity of financing.\"\n\nThe car industry has already been very clear that it would be super sensitive to any introduction of tariffs on cars or components as it relies on the frictionless, just-in-time delivery of components from around the EU.\n\nIn fact, cars produced in the UK are 25% to 42% \"made\" of UK components (it differs from manufacturer to manufacturer).\n\nOnce outside the EU, the UK would fail current \"rules of origin\" tests required to strike new trade deals with third parties - even those with whom we currently have deals by virtue of our membership of the EU.\n\nIn its own submissions, Honda makes it clear that any introduction the tariffs applicable in a no-deal scenario would render vehicle production in the UK \"uncompetitive\" thanks to additional costs (4.5% on components, 10% on finished vehicles) that Honda says it cannot afford to absorb.\n\nCar manufacturing executives have already been in to see the Chancellor and the Prime Minister in the last two weeks to press the urgency of their case.\n\nThey will face MPs on the BEIS Select Committee on Tuesday, and on this written evidence, will have plenty to say about the clear and present danger to UK car manufacturing if a preferential trade deal with the EU is not agreed.", "I know this doesn't sound that exciting unless you are as much of a nerd as I am. However, the Brexit secretary's announcement in the House of Commons in the last few minutes really matters.\n\nIt matters because the Brexit deal that shapes the future of the country will now be the subject of a specific new Act of Parliament that MPs and Lords will have to approve in early 2019, before we leave the EU.\n\nIt matters because Parliament will now be given specific votes, therefore, on the deal itself once the broad outlines have been agreed (Remember, the thrust of it is expected in about a year's time, although that feels hard to believe sometimes.)\n\nIt matters because the decision is a big concession to the Tory rebels and Labour MPs who were threatening to vote against the government, in part, because of ministers' refusal to promise a new set of laws.\n\nAnd it matters because it demonstrates that the government was unlikely to be able to persuade enough of their own side to vote with them to keep the show on the road this week.\n\nA confident government wouldn't have conceded like this the day before the Brexit debate was due to come back to the Commons in earnest.\n\nThis climbdown does not remotely mean that other grievances over the existing Brexit legislation will disappear.\n\nIt doesn't mean that the next few weeks will suddenly become plain sailing. And if there isn't a withdrawal deal with the rest of the EU, well, then there can't be a bill that covers the withdrawal bill.\n\nIt's only in the coming days that the government will know if they have done enough to get the existing plans through.\n\nAnd the move also of course adds to a massive load of complicated Parliamentary business that has to be cleared before we actually leave.\n\nP.S. The signs in the last few hours about David Davis' attempt at a concession have not been good.\n\nSources have told the BBC about a \"stormy\" meeting between the new Chief Whip Julian Smith and a group of Tory rebels this afternoon. In politics that's code for pretty grim and probably with shouting.\n\nMPs have said the offer was \"insulting\", \"disappointing\" and warned the \"government should be worried\" .\n\nBut remember, this is going to be a long process of Parliamentary moves. The concession may have not moved much sentiment tonight, but both sides of the Tory Party know they are in this for the long haul, and the most troublesome votes are further down the track.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband tells Today he doesn't think Boris Johnson should resign\n\nOffering a British-Iranian mother in prison in Iran diplomatic protection is \"one of the options\" being considered in the case, Downing Street has said.\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested during a visit to Iran in April 2016 and accused of trying to overthrow the regime there - a charge she denies.\n\nHer husband Richard Ratcliffe has criticised the UK's response and said it could offer diplomatic protection.\n\nNumber 10 said it was working to find the \"most beneficial\" course of action.\n\nIn a phone call, Mr Ratcliffe asked Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson to consider diplomatic protection for his wife, which under international law is a way for a state to take diplomatic action on behalf of a national.\n\nTaking such a measure would effectively escalate the case from an individual consular matter to a formal legal dispute between Britain and Iran, BBC diplomatic correspondent James Landale said.\n\nAsked about the possibility, Downing Street said it was an option, adding: \"I think what we need to look at is what will work best and what can be most beneficial in this case.\"\n\nThe government \"will look\" at Mr Ratcliffe's comments \"very closely\" and decide the \"best course of action to secure her release\", the Number 10 spokesman added.\n\nMr Johnson and fellow cabinet minister Michael Gove have been accused of bungling the UK's handling of the case.\n\nThe foreign secretary told MPs last week that he believed Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been teaching in Iran before she was arrested, while Mr Gove told the BBC he did not know what Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been doing in Iran.\n\nHer family have always maintained she was on holiday with her daughter.\n\nAsked about the government's official position, Downing Street said: \"The government's position on this is clear. She was there on holiday. It wasn't for any other purpose.\n\n\"The foreign secretary reiterated that in his conversation with the Iranian foreign minister last week.\"\n\nThe spokesman said Prime Minister Theresa May had been involved in Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's case \"from the outset\" and was treating it as \"a priority\".\n\nShe had raised it with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on at least two occasions, he added.\n\nWhen a British citizen is jailed overseas, they normally get basic consular help from the local embassy.\n\nThis could include anything from contacting family to legal support to medical help. But if the UK were assert its diplomatic protection over a British citizen, that would change things significantly.\n\nThis would be a signal that the UK is no longer treating the case as a consular matter but a formal, legal dispute between Britain and that country.\n\nThat's because diplomatic protection is a mechanism under international law that a state can use to help one its nationals whose rights have been breached in another country.\n\nThe broad legal principle is that British diplomats would no longer be representing the interests of a citizen but the interests of their state.\n\nSpeaking to Radio 4's Today programme earlier, Mr Ratcliffe said he had written to the Foreign Office following remarks made by Mr Gove.\n\nHe said Mr Johnson \"did promise to consider whether she'll be eligible for diplomatic protection\" which \"gives a different push\" to what the government can do for his wife.\n\n\"I'm reassured that it is the position of the government,\" Mr Ratcliffe said.\n\nAsked about his conversation with Mr Ratcliffe, Mr Johnson told the BBC Foreign Office officials were working \"very, very hard\" on the case.\n\n\"On Iran - and on consular cases generally - they are all very sensitive and I think the key thing to understand is that we are working very, very hard and intensively and impartially on all those cases,\" he added.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe - who has a three-year-old daughter, who is being cared for by family in Iran - was arrested and jailed in Iran in April 2016.\n\nThe full details of the allegations against her have never been made fully public.\n\nBut speaking in Westminster on 1 November, Mr Johnson appeared to contradict her own account when he wrongly said she had been training journalists.\n\nFour days later, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was recalled to court in Iran and Mr Johnson's remark cited as evidence against her, prompting fears that her five-year sentence could be extended.\n\nLabour have since called for the foreign secretary's resignation, but Mr Ratcliffe has said he believes it is not in his wife's interests for anyone to resign.\n\nThe UK government's policy for dual British nationals arrested abroad, is that UK authorities \"won't get involved if someone's arrested in a country for which they hold a valid passport, unless there's a special humanitarian reason to do so\".\n\nIran, however, does not recognise dual nationality, and so does not allow consular assistance from the foreign office or the British embassy.\n\nShould Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe be granted diplomatic protection, the UK government could make representations at a political and diplomatic level instead.\n\nMr Ratcliffe says a call for his wife's release from the United Nations last month had not been endorsed by government.\n\nIn October, José Antonio Guevara Bermúdez, chair-rapporteur of the UN's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, and Ms Asma Jahangir, special rapporteur on human rights for Iran, called for Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's immediate release.\n\nShe had been \"deprived of her liberty\", they said.\n\n\"The UK didn't endorse that call,\" Mr Ratcliffe said. \"It hasn't ever acknowledged a violation of her rights, which I find staggering.\"\n\nBut he still hopes his family will be reunited by the end of the year.\n\n\"I think the best chance Nazanin has of coming home this side of Christmas is all of the weight of the Foreign Office and the foreign secretary being focused on doing that,\" he said.", "Michel Barnier says \"everyone needs to plan\" for the possible collapse of Brexit negotiations\n\nThe EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, says he is planning for the possible collapse of Brexit negotiations with the UK.\n\nMr Barnier was talking to French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche days after giving the UK a two-week deadline to clarify key issues.\n\nFailing to reach an agreement was not his preferred option, he stressed.\n\nThe UK's Brexit Secretary David Davis has said it is time for both sides \"to work to find solutions\".\n\nOn Friday, Mr Davis insisted good progress was being made across the board, and that the negotiations had narrowed to a \"few outstanding, albeit important, issues\".\n\nDiscussing the likelihood of the talks collapsing, Mr Barnier said: \"It's not my option, but it's a possibility. Everyone needs to plan for it, member states and businesses alike. We too are preparing for it technically.\n\n\"A failure of the negotiations would have consequences on multiple domains.\"\n\nMr Barnier has asked the UK to clarify its stance on its financial obligations to the EU if future trade talks are to go ahead in December.\n\nBut Mr Davis has made conflicting remarks, suggesting the UK would not have to give a figure for a financial settlement before it could move on to talks about a future trading relationship.\n\nSpeaking to Sky News on Sunday, he said: \"In every negotiation, each side tries to control the timetable. The real deadline on this is, of course, December.\"\n\nMr Davis was referring to the next EU summit which will take place in Brussels in December.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Davis says there cannot be a new border within the UK\n\nHe said British taxpayers \"would not want me to just come along and just give away billions of pounds\".\n\nHe added: \"We've been very, very careful, and it's taking time and we will take our time to get to the right answer.\"\n\nHis comments followed a sixth round of talks between Mr Davis and Mr Barnier in Brussels.\n\nSpeaking after the talks on Friday, Mr Davis said any solution for the Irish border could not be at the expense of the constitutional integrity of the UK.", "CCTV captured the moment the earthquake in the Iran-Iraq border region shook the control room of the Darbandikhan Dam. A huge boulder could be seen crashing onto the road outside.\n\nAuthorities initially feared the dam might burst, but now say it has withstood the 7.3-magnitude earthquake without major cracks, AFP reports.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The CBI chief says business wants the UK and Europe to speed up Brexit negotiations\n\nEuropean and UK business leaders have told Prime Minister Theresa May of their Brexit concerns.\n\nAt a meeting in Downing Street on Monday, representatives from groups including the CBI and BusinessEurope pressed for a transitional deal that preserves the status quo after Brexit.\n\nThe CBI chief, Carolyn Fairbairn, said all those at the meeting reiterated the damage \"no deal\" would do to trade.\n\nA German lobby group also warned that no deal would cost their economy dear.\n\nThe head of the German chambers of commerce, Martin Wansleben, told a newspaper the car industry alone would face annual tariffs of more than €2bn if trade between the UK and the EU falls under World Trade Organisation rules.\n\nEmma Marcegaglia, president of BusinessEurope, said: \"Business is extremely concerned with the slow pace of negotiations and the lack of progress only one month before the decisive December European Council.\n\n\"Business aims to avoid a cliff edge and therefore asks for a 'status quo-like' transitional arrangement with the UK staying in the customs union and the single market, as this will best provide citizens and businesses with greater certainty.\"\n\nThe business groups met Mrs May at No 10, as well as Business Secretary Greg Clark, Brexit Secretary David Davis and the Economic Secretary to the Treasury, Stephen Barclay.\n\nThe CBI and the Institute of Directors were represented, along with business organisations from France, Germany, Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Ireland, Sweden, Poland, the Czech Republic and Belgium.\n\nThere are concerns that future trade talks could collapse ahead of December's EU summit.\n\nEU chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, has warned that the talks will only go ahead if the UK first clarifies its financial obligations to the EU.\n\nMr Davis has said the UK was \"ready and willing\" to engage with Brussels \"as often and as quickly as needed\".\n\nEarlier, Ms Fairbairn, CBI director-general, told the BBC a CBI survey found that 10% of companies had already activated their contingency plans.\n\nThe pace of planning by firms was picking up, she added, with about 60% of companies saying they would implement contingency plans by the end of next March.\n\nBernard Spitz, a director of Medef, France's biggest business lobby group, said agreement on a transition deal was important for both UK companies as well as those \"across the European Union\".\n\n\"We know that for us, especially for the French, the relationship with the UK is absolutely key, but if business continuity is important, what is even more important is the integrity of the European market,\" he said.\n\nMichel Barnier has warned of the possible collapse of Brexit talks\n\nProperty developer Richard Tice, co-founder of Leave Means Leave, said if a trade deal appeared unlikely, \"then actually we would be better to give certainty to everybody that actually we're going to do a different type of deal which is to go to WTO [World Trade Organization rules]\".\n\nBBC business editor Simon Jack says some UK business leaders in favour of Brexit are concerned that a transition period maintaining the current arrangements will delay and frustrate Britain's attempts to strike new independent deals.", "BBC pundit Trevor Sinclair, who was held on drink-driving charges, has been further arrested on suspicion of assaulting a police officer.\n\nPolice were called after a woman was hit by a car in Lytham, Lancashire, on Sunday, suffering minor injuries.\n\nThe former England footballer, 44, was arrested on suspicion of drink-driving, common assault and criminal damage.\n\nHe is also suspected of a public order offence and has been released while inquiries continue, police said.\n\nOfficers responded at 20:45 GMT to a disturbance at a home on Victory Boulevard in Lytham, said Lancashire Police.\n\nA man had already left the property in a car.\n\nA police spokesman added: \"A short time later, officers found the vehicle which had been involved in a collision with a woman pedestrian on Clifton Drive. She received minor injuries.\"\n\nThe London-born winger, who grew up in Manchester, played 12 times for England including four caps in the 2002 World Cup.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Harold Beechey was one of five brothers killed during World War One. He was blown up by a German shell on a French battlefield after surviving conflict in Gallipoli and Egypt.\n\nCrosses made of Lincoln limestone have been placed around the world to reunite Harold symbolically with his four brothers. His cross is at the Anglican Cathedral in Perth, Western Australia.", "The parents of a teenager shot dead in Liverpool have urged people to hand over their guns to police.\n\nYusuf Sonko was 18 when he died from a gunshot wound to the head in June last year.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband said \"she was just a mum on holiday\"\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman being held in Iran, has seen a specialist after finding lumps in her breasts, her husband has said.\n\nRichard Ratcliffe also expressed concern that his wife appeared to be \"on the verge of a nervous breakdown\".\n\nShe was arrested during a visit to Iran in April 2016, accused of trying to overthrow the regime, which she denies.\n\nCabinet ministers Boris Johnson and Michael Gove have been accused of bungling the UK's handling of the case.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's family have issued a statement about her condition, saying she had been \"complaining of sharp stabbing pains in her breasts\" for more than a year.\n\nThey said she had been given a mammogram by the prison's gynaecologist, which gave an inconclusive result.\n\nAfter insisting on seeing an outside specialist, the family said Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was then taken to hospital for an ultrasound on Saturday.\n\nThey said although the doctor thought the lumps were likely to be benign, he did note her family having a history of breast cancer.\n\nShe was given anti-inflammatory medication and vitamin pills and was to be seen by the specialist again next week to see whether there was any improvement or whether she might need surgery, the family said.\n\nThe full details of the allegations against Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe have never been made fully public.\n\nShe maintains the purpose of her trip to Iran was to visit family and for her daughter to meet her grandparents but speaking in Westminster on 1 November, UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson appeared to contradict her account when he wrongly said she had been training journalists there.\n\nFour days later, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was recalled to court in Iran and his remark cited as evidence against her, prompting fears her five-year sentence could be extended.\n\nHowever, her family say there have been no developments on new charges against her since her court appearance. Her lawyer also says he has not been contacted by the Iranian judiciary.\n\nIn the statement her husband, Richard Ratcliffe, describes his earlier phone conversation with Mr Johnson and says the minister is trying to find time to meet him \"in the next few days\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove says Richard Ratcliffe was the person who would know what his wife was doing in Iran\n\nIt came after Environment Secretary Michael Gove told the BBC he did not know what Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been doing in Iran when she was arrested.\n\nHe later said he would \"take her husband's assurance\" that she was on holiday.\n\nAmid calls for his resignation over the matter, the foreign secretary earlier this week clarified that the UK government had \"no doubt\" that a holiday was the sole purpose of her visit to Iran.\n\nMr Ratcliffe said his wife had been angered by Mr Johnson's initial remarks and Iranian media coverage of her case.\n\nBut he restated his belief that it was not in Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's interests for anyone to resign.", "Theresa May has outlined plans to set the UK's departure date and time from the EU in law, warning she will not \"tolerate\" any attempt to block Brexit.\n\nShe said the EU Withdrawal Bill would be amended to formally commit to Brexit at 23:00 GMT on Friday 29 March 2019.\n\nThe bill will be scrutinised by MPs next week - but the PM warned against attempts to stop it or slow it down.\n\nMrs May was writing in the Daily Telegraph as a fresh round of Brexit negotiations are due to begin later.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the European Union after 2016's referendum in which 51.9% of voters backed Brexit.\n\nThe prime minister said the decision to put the specific time of Brexit \"on the front page\" of the Brexit bill showed the government was determined to see the process through.\n\n\"Let no-one doubt our determination or question our resolve, Brexit is happening,\" she wrote.\n\n\"It will be there in black and white on the front page of this historic piece of legislation: the United Kingdom will be leaving the EU on March 29, 2019 at 11pm GMT.\"\n\nThe draft legislation has already passed its second reading, and now faces several attempts to amend it at the next part of its parliamentary journey - the committee stage.\n\nMrs May said most people wanted politicians to \"come together\" to negotiate a good Brexit deal, adding that MPs \"on all sides\" should help scrutinise the bill.\n\nShe said the government would listen to MPs if they had ideas for improving the bill, but warned against attempts to halt the process.\n\n\"We will not tolerate attempts from any quarter to use the process of amendments to this Bill as a mechanism to try to block the democratic wishes of the British people by attempting to slow down or stop our departure from the European Union.\"\n\nMPs have previously been told there have been 300 amendments and 54 new clauses proposed.\n\nDavid Davis is due to take part in a fresh round of Brexit negotiations\n\nThe PM said the \"historic\" bill was \"fundamental to delivering a smooth and orderly Brexit\" and would give \"the greatest possible clarity and certainty for all businesses and families across the country\".\n\nLabour MP and remain campaigner, Chuka Umunna, said many experts believed the March 2019 leaving date did not give much time for negotiations.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 live: \"Lord Bridges said he could not see the government being able to negotiate the transition arrangement, like the bridge to us leaving, and the divorce bill, by 2019. So we may actually need more time.\"\n\nLord Kerr, the former diplomat who helped draft Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty - the mechanism the UK has used to exit the EU - said putting the Brexit date on the bill did not mean the withdrawal process was irreversible.\n\nThe cross-bench peer told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that decisions such as these were being made in Westminster, and \"had nothing to do with the treaty, and they have nothing to do with the views of our partners in Brussels\".\n\nBut the Conservative MP and leave campaigner, Peter Bone, welcomed the decision to enshrine the leaving date in law, saying it was a \"really big, important step\".\n\nIt comes as a leaked account of a meeting of EU diplomats this week suggested that Northern Ireland may have to abide by the EU's rules on the customs union and single market after Brexit - in order to avoid the introduction of border checks.\n\nBoth Britain and the EU say they are committed to ensuring that Brexit does not undermine the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement or lead to the emergence of hard-border with the Republic of Ireland.\n\nHowever, BBC correspondent Adam Fleming said the commission's suggestion appeared to be at odds with comments made by the Northern Ireland Secretary, James Brokenshire, this week.\n\nMr Brokenshire said it was \"difficult to imagine\" Northern Ireland remaining in either the customs union or the single market after Brexit.", "Hariri's resignation has sent shockwaves through Lebanon and the region\n\nLebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri says he will return home \"in days\" to formally submit his resignation.\n\nMr Hariri spoke to Future TV from Riyadh, his first public remarks since he announced he was stepping down last week.\n\nHis cabinet allies say he is being held captive, but Mr Hariri denied this.\n\nHe has blamed the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement for his resignation, citing concerns over his and his family's safety.\n\nThe US and UK have warned other countries not to use Lebanon for proxy conflicts.\n\nMr Hariri, a Sunni leader and businessman, was nominated to form Lebanon's government in November 2016.\n\n\"I have resigned. I am going to Lebanon very soon and I will resign in the constitutional manner,\" he said in the TV interview.\n\nUnder Lebanese law the prime minister has to submit his resignation to the president, who must accept it for it to take effect.\n\nHowever, Mr Hariri also held out the prospect that he might reconsider resigning if Hezbollah stopped intervening in neighbouring countries.\n\n\"If we want to go back on the resignation, we have to return to the policy of distancing ourselves\" from regional conflicts,\" he said, according to the Associated Press.\n\n\"I am not against Hezbollah as a party, I have a problem with Hezbollah destroying the country,\" he said.\n\nThe main problem for the region, he said, was \"Iran interfering in Arab states\".\n\nA sombre Mr Hariri recognised that he did not resign in the \"usual way\" but said he wanted to give his country a \"positive shock\".\n\n\"My resignation came as a wake-up call for Lebanon,\" he said.\n\nPosters of Mr Hariri have appeared across Beirut. This one says: \"We are all Saad\"\n\nIran and Hezbollah have accused Saudi Arabia of holding Mr Hariri hostage.\n\nBut Mr Hariri insisted that he was free to travel as he pleased in the country. \"I am free here. If I want to travel tomorrow, I will,\" he said.\n\nObservers noted the journalist who interviewed Mr Hariri made an effort to demonstrate that the event was live, rather than pre-recorded, though there were several moments which raised suspicions about the conditions under which the interview was held, the Associated Press reported.", "A man has been found guilty of carrying out an acid attack in a packed London club which left 22 people injured.\n\nArthur Collins, the ex-boyfriend of reality TV star Ferne McCann, threw the corrosive substance at revellers in Mangle E8 in Dalston on 17 April.\n\nFootage released by police shows the moment Collins aimed the bottle of liquid at the crowd.", "An Army robot at the scene of the alert on Sunday\n\nA security alert that postponed a wreath-laying ceremony in Omagh earlier was caused by a viable pipe bomb type device, police have said.\n\nPolice Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Chief Constable George Hamilton said police were following a \"strong line of enquiry\" that dissident republicans were responsible.\n\nThe alert began after the discovery of a suspicious object on Drumragh Avenue.\n\nThe rest of the Remembrance Sunday service was able to go ahead.\n\nCordons were in place at Drumragh Avenue, Mountjoy Road, Sedan Avenue, George Street and High Street. The alert has now ended.\n\nThe PSNI Chief Constable said that the device was \"left to cause maximum disruption\" to the commemorations and described it as \"sickening and appalling\".\n\n\"This is the action of a small and callous group of violent people who have nothing to offer our communities other than fear and intimidation,\" he said.\n\n\"Whilst our investigation into the incident is at a very early stage, one strong line of enquiry is that violent dissident republicans are responsible.\n\n\"Their actions today have demonstrated the disregard and disrespect they have for this community, which has already suffered so much pain and hurt at the hands of terrorists.\"\n\nDUP MLA Tom Buchanan said he believed the planting of the pipe bomb was a \"re-run\" of the Enniskillen Poppy Day bomb 30 years ago that resulted in the deaths of 12 people.\n\n\"Innocent men, women and children's lives were taken and maimed with a similar type of device at that particular time,\" he said.\n\n\"And, again, I find it very difficult to get words strong enough to condemn those that are responsible for planning and pre-meditating such an attack.\"\n\nUlster Unionist councillor Chris Smyth said those responsible were cowards.\n\n\"It's always going to hurt an awful lot when people come to remember their dead and they come with wreaths, they come with a very clear idea of what they want to do,\" he said.\n\n\"Then, because of the actions of a few very sick and very cowardly individuals, they're stopped from doing that.\"\n\nThe Sinn Féin MP for the area, Barry McElduff, said everyone had the \"unfettered right\" to remember their dead.\n\n\"Whoever decided to leave a package in this area, a suspicious package, obviously has shown complete disregard for everyone in the community,\" he said.", "Primary schoolchildren should be free to dress up in a tiara or superhero cloak without comment from teachers or pupils, the Church of England has said.\n\nIn bullying guidance issued to its schools, the Church said pupils should be free to explore \"who they might be\".\n\nArchbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said the guidance would help schools spread the Christian message \"without exception or exclusion\".\n\nLGBT charity Stonewall said the advice would help to prevent bullying.\n\nThe advice comes as polling for the Anti-Bullying Alliance showed that two in five children \"hide aspects of themselves\" for fear of being bullied.\n\nOf 1,600 eight to 16-year-olds questioned for this week's Anti-Bullying Week:\n\nThe Church, which educates one million pupils in nearly 5,000 schools, first issued guidance about homophobic bullying three years ago, but it has now been updated to cover transphobic and biphobic bullying.\n\nIn his foreword to the advice, the Most Reverend Justin Welby said: \"We must avoid, at all costs, diminishing the dignity of any individual to a stereotype or a problem\".\n\nHe said sexual orientation should never be the grounds for bullying or prejudice, adding that \"significant progress\" had been made since homophobic bullying guidance was issued in 2014.\n\nThe report, Valuing All God's Children, said children should be able to play with \"the many cloaks of identity\" without being labelled or bullied - \"sometimes quite literally with the dressing-up box\".\n\nNursery and primary school in particular is a time of \"creative exploration\", it said, where young people should be able to pick a tutu, tiara and heels - or a helmet, tool belt and superhero cloak - \"without expectation or comment\".\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury said no one should be diminished to a \"stereotype or a problem\"\n\nThe guidance recognised there is a \"breadth of views\" among Christians and people of all beliefs towards same-sex marriage, sexual orientation and gender identity.\n\nBut it added: \"The aim of this guidance is to prevent pupils in Church of England schools and academies from having their self-worth diminished or their ability to achieve impeded by being bullied because of their perceived or actual sexual orientation or gender identity.\"\n\nStonewall, a lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) rights group, said the guidance gave \"clear advice\" to teachers on recognising and combating bullying in Church schools.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Our research shows that nearly half of lesbian, gay, bi and trans pupils are bullied for being LGBT at school: a situation that desperately needs to change.\"\n\nAnti-Bullying Alliance national co-ordinator Martha Evans said the guidance struck a chord during anti-bullying week, \"when we are shining a light on needing to celebrate what makes us all different and equal\".\n\n\"Schools have duties under law to ensure they do not discriminate against a pupil or prospective pupil by treating them less favourably because of their gender or sexual orientation.\n\n\"It is so important children are able to be themselves without fear of bullying.\"", "Sudden cardiac arrest is associated with sexual activity far more often in men than women, research suggests.\n\nBut sex is a rare trigger for sudden cardiac arrest.\n\nOnly 34 out of the 4,557 cardiac arrests examined occurred during or within one hour of sexual intercourse and 32 of those affected were men.\n\nSumeet Chugh, of the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, said his study is the first to evaluate sexual activity as a potential trigger of cardiac arrest.\n\nThe research was presented at a meeting of the American Heart Association.\n\nA cardiac arrest happens when the heart malfunctions and suddenly stops beating. It causes someone to fall unconscious and stop breathing and unless treated with CPR, it is fatal.\n\nThis differs from a heart attack, where blood flow to the heart is blocked.\n\nIt is known that sexual activity can trigger heart attacks, but the link with cardiac arrest was previously unknown.\n\nDr Chugh and his colleagues in California examined hospital records on cases of cardiac arrest in adults between 2002 and 2015 in Portland, Oregon.\n\nSexual activity was associated in fewer than 1% of the cases. The vast majority were male and were more likely to be middle-aged, African-American and have a history of cardiovascular disease.\n\nThe study also found CPR was performed in only one-third of the cases, despite them being witnessed by a partner.\n\nDr Chugh said: \"These findings highlight the importance of continued efforts to educate the public on the importance of bystander CPR for sudden cardiac arrest, irrespective of the circumstance.\"\n\nHe said it shows the need for people to be educated about how to administer CPR.\n\nAnother study presented at the conference showed children as young as six can learn it.\n\nAfter a heart attack or surgery, the British Heart Foundation suggests patients should typically wait four to six weeks before resuming sexual activity.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A Kurdish channel was live on air when Sunday night's earthquake hit the northern border regions of Iraq and Iran.\n\nAt least 200 people were killed and hundreds more injured in the 7.3-magnitude quake.", "The case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is first and foremost a story of terrible personal suffering for a young woman, her husband and their baby girl.\n\nEighteen months into a five-year sentence, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe faces the prospect of up to 16 years in an Iranian jail.\n\nIt is also, however, a story of an internal power struggle in Iran, as well as of the nation's deeply difficult relationship with the UK.\n\nTo understand how she fits into this, the first thing to examine is the timing of her arrest. Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was detained in April 2016, a few months ahead of the first anniversary of Iran's historic nuclear deal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe accord, on which President Hassan Rouhani had staked his reputation, was bitterly opposed by elements of the powerful Revolutionary Guards.\n\nThey had often benefited financially from the sanctions regime. They were adamant that the nuclear deal must be seen as a failure, that it had changed nothing and that compromise with the West was a fruitless exercise.\n\nArrests of a number of Iranians with dual nationality came about in this context:\n\nIran is in the grip of an ideological power-struggle, with two competing world views.\n\nPresident Rouhani came to power promising to open Iran up to the world; the supreme leader, the Revolutionary Guards and the judiciary have a far more hardline position, both in relation to how the country should be run as well as its foreign relations.\n\nAll the arrests were seen as an attempt by the Revolutionary Guards to undermine not just the president, but the very process of thawing relations with the West.\n\nOf the three dual-national prisoners arrested after the deal was agreed, only one has since been released: Ms Hoodfar was sent home a few months later on what the Iranians called \"humanitarian grounds\".\n\nThe only significant difference between her case and Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's was their nationalities: one was half-Canadian, the other half-British.\n\nTo Iranian minds, the UK is viewed with almost unique suspicion. Indeed, in 2009 the supreme leader said that of all the world's \"arrogant powers\", the UK was the \"most evil\".\n\nTo understand why, one must go back to the 1953 coup-d'état that overthrew nationalist Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, returning the autocratic Shah to power. Behind it were the British and American intelligence agencies.\n\nAlmost 300 people were killed in the streets of Tehran after protesting against the prime minister's removal in a US- and British-organised coup in 1953\n\nThis led to deep-rooted suspicions of the West's intentions; once the Shah was ousted by the Islamic Revolution of 1979, those suspicions became open hostilities. Relations have never really recovered.\n\nOver the years there have been a number of key points, notably the 1989 fatwah calling for the death of British author Salman Rushdie. His book, The Satanic Verses, was denounced as blasphemous by the supreme leader; he called on Muslims around the world to try and kill Rushdie. The controversy led to a severing of diplomatic ties, which were not repaired until 1998.\n\nIn 2007, 15 British Royal Navy personnel were detained off the South Coast of Iran. They were paraded on TV, a show of power by Tehran, but ultimately released under diplomatic pressure.\n\nThe 2009 re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was followed by peaceful street protests, which the supreme leader accused the West of encouraging. A number of staff at the British embassy were arrested and forced to sign confessions.\n\nIn November 2011, relations deteriorated further. After the UK increased sanctions on Iran, the parliament voted to expel the British ambassador. Before he could pack his bags, members of the hardline Basij militia ransacked the British embassy in Tehran. It did not re-open until 2014.\n\nBut, it is not just the British government that has been viewed with great hostility. Western media, most notably the BBC's Persian Service, has long been regarded with deep distrust, fear and often hatred by the hardline Iranian establishment.\n\nFor years Persian Service journalists have been harassed and intimidated by the Iranian authorities. Two months ago all the assets of 150 BBC staff, former staff and contributors were frozen for \"conspiracy against national security\".\n\nAnd here we come to the final part of the story of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. Many years ago, she worked for BBC Media Action, the charitable wing of the BBC. Although it has no direct connection to the BBC's Persian service, it has been used as evidence that she was in Iran for political reasons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt is, therefore, for this reason that the recent comments by Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson were so controversial, and potentially damaging.\n\nBy stating that she was involved in \"training journalists\", he has given ammunition to those elements of the establishment who view her as just another example what the supreme leader described as \"an infiltration project\" by the West.\n\nAll the while, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe languishes in Tehran's Evin jail. Her daughter, who has now forgotten how to speak English, can only see her for an hour-and-a-half a week. Meanwhile her husband Richard suffers in London.\n\nThe future of a family, half-British, half-Iranian, has been torn apart by the suspicion and distrust caused by their own countries' pasts.", "The number of High Street shops closing down has fallen to its lowest level in seven years, research suggests.\n\nThe Local Data Company, which studied the top 500 British town centres, said 2,564 outlets closed in the first half of 2017, equivalent to 14 a day.\n\nAt the same time, there were 2,342 store openings, meaning that a net total of 222 High Street shops disappeared.\n\nCharity shops, women's clothes shops and shoe shops were worst hit, it said.\n\nHowever, general fashion stores, banks and cheque cashing shops saw their lowest number of net closures in three years.\n\nSome sectors actually recorded growth, with tobacconists, coffee shops and beauty salons increasing in number.\n\nIce-cream parlours are also on the up, thanks to expansion by the Ben & Jerry's and Kaspa's chains.\n\nMike Jervis, a retail specialist at PwC which commissioned the research, said the \"relatively low\" number of closures over the period reflected a \"more stable environment\".\n\nHowever, he warned: \"The environment is, of course, uncertain, with recent data showing a more challenging retail environment. I expect net store closures to be an ongoing feature of the market.\n\n\"Retailers will choose specific closure stores very carefully and will aim to capitalise on leases expiring in the ordinary course of their businesses.\"\n\nThe store closures were unevenly spread across the country. Scotland fared worst, with a net loss of 42 shops, while eastern England lost 34.\n\nOnly two out of 11 British regions showed net gains: Yorkshire and the Humber, which added 12 shops, and the East Midlands, which now has eight more shops.", "A BBC Panorama investigation has uncovered evidence of abuse of the government's student loan system in one of the biggest private colleges in England.\n\nThe Greenwich School of Management (GSM) and its students receive around £66m a year in maintenance and tuition fee loans.\n\nPanorama sent undercover reporters into GSM to investigate.", "Twenty-five people were killed when a gunman opened fire at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.\n\nIt was the worst mass shooting in the state's history.", "Carl Sargeant was found dead after an investigation was launched into his conduct\n\nSacked Welsh Labour minister Carl Sargeant's provisional cause of death was hanging, an inquest has heard.\n\nThe 49-year-old married father-of-two, who had been Alyn and Deeside AM since 2003, was found dead at his home in Connah's Quay, Flintshire, on Tuesday.\n\nHe was found four days after being sacked from his job as cabinet secretary for communities and children.\n\nAt the opening of his inquest, coroner John Gittins said it was \"an apparent act of self harm\".\n\nMr Gittins added he would carefully examine \"the steps taken by the assembly to have regard to Mr Sargeant's mental welfare prior to his death\".\n\nThe inquest in Ruthin, Denbighshire, was told Mr Sargeant was found on the floor of the utility room by his wife Bernadette.\n\nFamily members attempted to resuscitate him before paramedics arrived and continued those efforts, but the former minister was pronounced dead about 30 minutes later.\n\nMr Sargeant was facing a party investigation into claims about inappropriate personal conduct and was suspended from the Welsh Labour Party prior to his death.\n\nHe was removed from his role amid allegations he had \"touched or groped\" a number of women.\n\nMr Gittins, coroner for North Wales East and Central, said the inquest would not consider the veracity of the allegations made against Mr Sargeant, nor would he be \"looking to Cardiff and the Welsh Assembly or the Labour Party\" about who was right or wrong and who could be trusted.\n\nHe said he would be seeking statements from First Minister Carwyn Jones and possibly others at the Welsh Assembly in the coming weeks, but was not in a position to say whether Mr Jones would be called to give evidence.\n\nNo date has been fixed for the full hearing as the coroner said a separate independent inquiry could have an impact on his responsibility to compile a prevention of future deaths report.\n\nHe ended by assuring Mr Sargeant's family, friends and colleagues that \"there will be a full and fair examination of the matters which are relevant to my investigation and that I shall not allow the inquest to be a trial by press, politics or personality\".\n\nNorth Wales Police was called to Mr Sargeant's home after he was found on the floor by his wife\n\nMr Sargeant's family called him \"the glue that bound us together\" and said they were \"devastated beyond words\".\n\nMr Jones said he was \"shocked and deeply saddened\" and paid tribute to \"a friend as well as a colleague\".\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said Mr Sargeant's death was \"deeply shocking news\" while Prime Minister Theresa May said her \"heart goes out to Carl Sargeant's friends and family\".\n\nMr Jones sacked Mr Sargeant from his frontbench after the first minister learned of a number of alleged incidents involving women.\n\nThere will be an independent inquiry into how Mr Jones handled the case.\n\nMeanwhile, fresh claims about bullying in the Welsh Government have been made by a former adviser to Mr Jones.\n\nSteve Jones said he agreed with former cabinet minister Leighton Andrews, who has described a \"toxic\" atmosphere at the top of the administration.\n\nFor support, Samaritans are available 24 hours a day on 116 123 in the UK and Republic of Ireland.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson has apologised for his remarks about a British-Iranian mother who is being held in prison in Iran.\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe says she was on holiday when she was arrested in 2016 - a claim the foreign secretary appeared to contradict this month.\n\nApologising in the Commons, Mr Johnson said he would meet her husband, Richard Ratcliffe, on Wednesday and will visit Iran \"before the end of the year\".\n\nHe retracted \"any suggestion she was there in a professional capacity\".\n\nThe row over the imprisonment of Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe - who has been held in Iran for more than 18 months - has intensified since Mr Johnson gave evidence before a Commons committee on 1 November.\n\nDuring the hearing, the foreign secretary said Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been teaching journalism in Iran - something her family and employer say is incorrect.\n\nCampaigners say she could face an increased prison sentence in Iran as a result of the comments.\n\nResponding to an urgent question in Parliament, Mr Johnson was asked to apologise for the remarks.\n\n\"Of course I apologise for the distress, for the suffering that has been caused by the impression I gave that I believed she was there in a professional capacity. She was there on holiday,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband tells Today he doesn't think Boris Johnson should resign\n\nMr Ratcliffe has called for his wife to be granted diplomatic protection, which under international law is a way for a state to take diplomatic action on behalf of a national.\n\nEarlier, Downing Street said it was \"one of the options\" it was considering in the case.\n\nAsked by Labour about the prospect, Mr Johnson told MPs that he would be answering the question \"in person\" and would meet Mr Ratcliffe this week.\n\nHe said he was also planning to visit Iran before the end of the year and would discuss the possibility of Mr Ratcliffe accompanying him.\n\nWhen a British citizen is jailed overseas, they normally get basic consular help from the local embassy.\n\nThis could include anything from contacting family to legal support to medical help. But if the UK were to assert its diplomatic protection over a British citizen, that would change things significantly.\n\nThis would be a signal that the UK is no longer treating the case as a consular matter but a formal, legal dispute between Britain and that country.\n\nThat's because diplomatic protection is a mechanism under international law that a state can use to help one of its nationals whose rights have been breached in another country.\n\nThe broad legal principle is that British diplomats would no longer be representing the interests of a citizen but the interests of their state.\n\nLast week, Mr Johnson said he was sorry if his remarks about Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had caused anxiety to her family.\n\nHowever, Labour's shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry pushed him to \"apologise properly\" for his comments.\n\n\"If it is a matter of pride that the foreign secretary is refusing to admit that simply he has made a mistake, well then I feel bound to say to him that his pride matters not one ounce compared to Nazanin's freedom,\" she said in the Commons.\n\n\"After a week of obfuscation and bluster, will he finally take the opportunity today to state simply and unequivocally for the removal of any doubt - either here or in Tehran - that he simply got it wrong?\"\n\nLabour MP Yvette Cooper told Mr Johnson that \"words matter\", saying Mr Johnson cannot keep \"shrugging off\" comments that are \"inaccurate\" or \"damaging\". She called for him to resign.\n\nIn reply, Mr Johnson said: \"It was my mistake. I should have been clearer.\"\n\nHe added: \"I apologise for the distress and anguish that has been caused to Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her family.\"\n\nSpeaking to Radio 4's Today programme earlier, Mr Ratcliffe said he had written to the Foreign Office following remarks made by Mr Johnson's Cabinet counterpart Michael Gove.\n\nMr Gove had told the BBC on Sunday he did not know what Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been doing in Iran.\n\nMr Ratcliffe said Mr Johnson \"did promise to consider\" whether Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe would be eligible for diplomatic protection, which he said \"gives a different push\" to what the government can do.\n\n\"I'm reassured that it is the position of the government,\" Mr Ratcliffe adding.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said diplomatic protection was one available option, adding: \"I think what we need to look at is what will work best and what can be most beneficial in this case.\"\n\nThe spokesman said Prime Minister Theresa May had been involved in Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's case \"from the outset\" and was treating it as \"a priority\".\n\nShe had raised it with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on at least two occasions, he added.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe - who has a three-year-old daughter, who is being cared for by family in Iran - was arrested and jailed in Iran in April 2016.\n\nThe full details of the allegations against her have never been made fully public.", "Both leaders are known for their controversial comments\n\nUS President Donald Trump said he has a \"great relationship\" with Philippine counterpart Rodrigo Duterte, after a highly anticipated meeting in Manila.\n\nIt was unclear whether Mr Trump raised human rights violations in the country, despite calls for him to do so.\n\nThe previous US administration had spoken out against Mr Duterte's war on drugs, which has killed almost 4,000 people.\n\nMr Trump is almost at the end of an extensive Asia tour.\n\nThe first meeting between Mr Trump and Mr Duterte, which took place at the Association of South-East Asian Nations (Asean) summit, was closely watched as both are known for striking a controversially outspoken and direct tone.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte was in fine voice during the Asean summit.\n\nAfter the private meeting, the US president did not respond to questions about whether he had raised the subject of human rights while a spokesman for Mr Duterte said the topic had not been discussed.\n\nWhite House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders later said the topic was mentioned briefly in their private meeting, in the context of the war on drugs, but did not give further details.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Duterte said he stabbed a person to death when he was a teenager. His spokesman later said the remark had been \"in jest\".\n\nSince coming into office in 2016, Mr Duterte has presided over a massive crackdown on crime in the Philippines, which critics allege undermines fundamental human rights.\n\nHe has encouraged extrajudicial killings of those involved in the drug trade, and said he would \"be happy to slaughter\" three million drug addicts in the country.\n\nPolice say they have killed almost 4,000 people in anti-drug operations since 2016. More than 2,000 others have been killed in connection with drug-related crimes.\n\nMr Trump has previously praised Mr Duterte's war on drugs, reportedly telling him: \"I just wanted to congratulate you because I am hearing of the unbelievable job on the drug problem. Many countries have the problem, we have a problem, but what a great job you are doing.\"\n\nA Philippine government transcript of the 29 April phone call was later leaked to US media.\n\nMr Trump and other leaders attending the Asean event had already met on Sunday evening at a gala in Manila ahead of the summit.\n\nDuring the evening, Mr Duterte took to the stage to sing a Filipino hit love song, afterwards saying it had been \"on the orders of the commander-in-chief of the United States\".\n\nPresidents Trump and Duterte amid the other Asean leaders\n\nDemonstrators took to the streets in Manila both on Sunday and Monday, protesting against Mr Trump's visit and carrying banners like \"Trump Go Home\" and \"Ban Trump #1 terrorist\".\n\nRiot police used water cannon and sonic alarms to repel the protesters.\n\nMr Trump's visit to the Philippines wraps up the US president's five-country trip to Asia which also had him visit Japan, South Korea, China and Vietnam.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "First responders carry a victim out of the disaster zone following the earthquake in Nepal in April 2015\n\nEarthquakes have claimed millions of lives in the last 100 years, and improvements in technology have only slightly reduced the death toll.\n\nA 6.1-magnitude earthquake in eastern Afghanistan has kills at least 1,000 people and injures more than 1,500.\n\nA 7.2-magnitude earthquake in Haiti kills more than 2,000 people and leaves more than 12,000 people injured. Haitian officials estimates that 600,000 people are in need of emergency assistance.\n\nIndonesia is hit by a 6.2 magnitude earthquake and at least 105 people die as a result. The country's Sulawesi island is at the epicentre.\n\nAlbania witnesses one of its most powerful earthquakes. At least 41 people are killed as a result of the 6.4-magnitude quake, which injures more than 3,000 people.\n\nMore than 460 people are killed after a 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit the Indonesian island of Lombok. It levelled homes, mosques and businesses, displacing some 350,000 people. An earlier 6.4 magnitude tremor on 29 July killed at least 16, and the region has suffered hundreds of aftershocks.\n\nA magnitude-7.3 earthquake, the fourth largest in 2017 up to that point, strikes the Iran-Iraq border. About 440 people are killed and another 10,000 injured as the quake is felt in Israel and across the Gulf.\n\nAt least 369 people die - most in and around Mexico City - during a magnitude 7.1 earthquake. It follows a more powerful but less deadly earthquake 12 days before; the 7 September quake was a magnitude 8.1, the most powerful to hit the country in a century, but its epicentre was offshore.\n\nAt least 298 people are killed when a magnitude 6 earthquake strikes central Italy. Worst hit is Amatrice, where many of the town's historic buildings collapse.\n\nA powerful 7.8 magnitude earthquake strikes Ecuador's coast, killing more than 650 people. More than 16,000 people are hurt and some 7,000 buildings destroyed.\n\nAlmost 400 people are killed when a magnitude 7.5 earthquake strikes north-eastern Afghanistan. Most of those killed are in Pakistan, but the quake is also felt in northern India and Tajikistan.\n\nA 7.8-magnitude earthquake kills more than 8,000 people and leaves hundreds of thousands homeless, in the worst natural disaster to strike Nepal since 1934. In some parts of the country, the quake flattens 98% of all homes in hillside villages.\n\nApproximately 600 people are killed in a 6.1-magnitude earthquake that strikes Yunnan province in China. Thousands of houses are destroyed and landslides are triggered. More than 2,400 people are injured.\n\nMore than 200 people are reported to have died after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake strikes centrally-located Bohol and Cebu in the Philippines.\n\nMore than 300 people are killed as a 7.7-magnitude quake flattens entire villages in Pakistan's remote south-western province of Balochistan, mainly in the district of Awaran.\n\nA powerful 6.6-magnitude earthquake kills at least 160 people and injured at least 5,700 in China's rural south-western Sichuan province.\n\nAt least 250 people are killed and more than 2,000 injured in north-west Iran by two powerful quakes which strikes within minutes of each other near the towns of Tabriz and Ahar.\n\nMore than 200 people are killed and 1,000 are injured in a powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake which hits south-eastern Turkey; many of the victims are in the town of Ercis, where dozens of buildings collapse.\n\nA devastating magnitude-8.9 quake strikes Japan, leaving more than 20,000 people dead or missing. The tremor generates a massive tsunami along the Japanese coast and triggers the world's biggest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986.\n\nA magnitude-6.3 earthquake shatters the New Zealand city of Christchurch, killing more than 160 people and damaging some 100,000 homes.\n\nAt least 400 people die after a magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes western China's Qinghai province.\n\nA magnitude-8.8 earthquake hits central Chile north-east of the second city, Concepcion, killing more than 700 people.\n\nAbout 230,000 people die in and around the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince as a 7.0-magnitude earthquake strikes the city.\n\nMore than 1,000 people die after an earthquake strikes the Indonesian island of Sumatra.\n\nAn earthquake hits the historic Italian city of L'Aquila, killing 309 people.\n\nUp to 300 people are killed in the Pakistani province of Balochistan after an earthquake of 6.4 magnitude strikes 45 miles (70km) north of Quetta.\n\nUp to 87,000 people are killed or missing and as many as 370,000 injured by an earthquake in just one county in China's south-western Sichuan province.\n\nThe tremor, measuring 7.8, struck 57 miles (92km) from the provincial capital Chengdu during the early afternoon.\n\nAt least 519 people are killed in Peru's coastal province of Ica, as a 7.9-magnitude undersea earthquake strikes about 90 miles (145km) south-east of the capital, Lima.\n\nA 7.7-magnitude undersea earthquake triggers a tsunami that strikes a 125-mile (200km) stretch of the southern coast of Java, killing more than 650 people on the Indonesian island.\n\nMore than 5,700 people die when a magnitude 6.2 quake hits the Indonesian island of Java, devastating the city of Yogyakarta and surrounding areas.\n\nAn earthquake measuring 7.6 strikes northern Pakistan and the disputed Kashmir region, killing more than 73,000 people and leaving millions homeless.\n\nAbout 1,300 people are killed in an 8.7-magnitude quake off the coast of the Indonesian island of Nias, west of Sumatra.\n\nHundreds die in a 6.4 magnitude quake centred in a remote area near Zarand in Iran's Kerman province.\n\nHundreds of thousands are killed across Asia when an earthquake measuring 9.2 triggers sea surges that spread across the region.\n\nAt least 500 people die in an earthquake which strikes towns on Morocco's Mediterranean coast.\n\nMore than 26,000 people are killed when an earthquake destroys the historic city of Bam in southern Iran.\n\nAlgeria suffers its worst earthquake in more than two decades. More than 2,000 people die and more than 8,000 are injured in a quake felt across the sea in Spain.\n\nMore than 160 people are killed, including 83 children in a collapsed dormitory, in south-eastern Turkey.\n\nMore than 260 people die and almost 10,000 homes are destroyed in Xinjiang region, in western China.\n\nItaly is traumatised by the loss of an entire class of children, killed in the southern village of San Giuliano di Puglia when their school building collapses on them.\n\nAn earthquake measuring magnitude 7.9 devastates much of Gujarat state in north-western India, killing nearly 20,000 people and making more than a million homeless. Bhuj and Ahmedabad are among the towns worst hit.\n\nAbout 400 people die when an earthquake measuring 7.2 on the Richter scale strikes Ducze, in north-west Turkey.\n\nTaiwan is hit by a quake measuring 7.6 that kills nearly 2,500 people and causes damage to every town on the island.\n\nA magnitude-7.4 earthquake rocks the Turkish cities of Izmit and Istanbul, leaving more than 17,000 dead and many more injured.\n\nMore than 1,600 are killed in Birjand, eastern Iran, in an earthquake of magnitude 7.1.\n\nThe far eastern island of Sakhalin is hit by a massive earthquake measuring 7.5, which claims the lives of 1,989 Russians.\n\nThe Hyogo quake hits the city of Kobe in Japan, killing 6,430 people.\n\nAbout 10,000 villagers are killed in western and southern India.\n\nAbout 40,000 people die in a tremor in the northern Iranian province of Gilan.\n\nAn earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale devastates north-west Armenia, killing 25,000 people.\n\nMexico City is shaken by a huge earthquake which razes buildings and kills 10,000 people.\n\nSome 1,500 people are killed in an earthquake that hit close to the Romanian capital, Bucharest.\n\nThe Chinese city of Tangshan is reduced to rubble in a quake that claims at least 250,000 lives.\n\nAn earthquake devastates a wide area around the town of Los Amates in eastern Guatemala, killing about 23,000 people.\n\nUp to 10,000 people are killed in the Nicaraguan capital Managua by an earthquake that measures 6.5 on the Richter scale. The devastation caused by the earthquake is blamed on badly built high-rise buildings that easily collapsed.\n\nAn earthquake high in the Peruvian Andes triggers a landslide, burying the town of Yungay and killing 66,000 people.\n\nAn earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale strikes the Macedonian capital of Skopje, killing 1,000 people and leaving 100,000 homeless.\n\nThe world's strongest recorded earthquake devastates Chile, with a reading of 9.5 on the Richter scale. A tsunami 30ft (10m) high eliminates entire villages. Death toll reports vary widely, but many settle on the 2,000 mark.\n\nThe Great Kanto earthquake, with its epicentre just outside Tokyo, claims the lives of 142,800 people in the Japanese capital.\n\nEarthquake about 7.1 magnitude and subsequent tsunami in Italy's Messina Strait, badly affecting the cities of Messina and Reggio Calabria. Deaths estimated at 70,000-80,000.\n\nSan Francisco is hit by a series of violent shocks which last up to a minute. Between 700 and 3,000 people die either from collapsing buildings or in the subsequent fire.", "Detectives have released CCTV images of a man they want to speak to\n\nA suitcase containing £1m of gems has been stolen from a train luggage rack.\n\nA jewellery dealer boarded the train at London's Euston station and realised his bag was missing when the train pulled into Rugby in Warwickshire.\n\nPolice believe his large black case, which had more than 40 gems - including rubies, emeralds and sapphires - was taken before the train left Euston last Wednesday.\n\nDetectives have released CCTV images of a man they want to speak to.\n\nThere were more than 40 gems inside the case, including this one\n\nThe dealer boarded the 19:03 Euston service at about 18:30. He was travelling to Birmingham New Street.\n\nDet Sgt Nick Thompson, from British Transport Police, said: \"I would like to speak to the man in the CCTV images about this extremely high value luggage theft.\n\n\"I'd also like to hear from anyone who was on board the train or at Euston station on Wednesday evening, who may have seen a man acting suspiciously.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jun Kimura (left) and Ian McCann (centre) made the underwater discovery shortly before their air was due to run out\n\nA team of underwater archaeologists believe they have found a cannonball from a Spanish ship that sank in a storm off Japan in 1609.\n\nThe San Francisco was travelling from the Philippines to Mexico when it sank.\n\nThe galleon was believed to be carrying valuable trade goods which could be worth millions today, researchers say.\n\nIts location has been a mystery - but the suspected cannonball, thought to be the first artefact ever found from the ship, offers clues about where it sank.\n\nDr Jun Kimura from Tokai University has been leading a team of maritime archaeologists, who have been searching for the San Francisco in waters off Iwawada in Chiba prefecture.\n\nRead more about shipwrecks in Asia:The Wreck Detectives\n\nThe cannonball was discovered by Ian McCann, an Australian researcher at the University of New England, during a deep dive nearly 40m (131 ft) below the surface.\n\n\"We were in dark, murky waters,\" Dr Kimura told the BBC. \"Ian just saw an unusual shape on the sandy bed - he recovered it but then we had to go back to the surface as our air had nearly run out.\"\n\nHe said the team, and archaeological experts they had consulted, were \"almost certain\" it was a cannonball from the San Francisco, as it was similar to cannonballs found in other Spanish trading ships in the Philippines. However, they will be carrying out a chemical analysis to confirm this.\n\nThe object was discovered during an underwater archaeological survey\n\nMr McCann told the BBC: \"A cannonball may not sound like much but it indicates the general vicinity where the vessel went down.\n\n\"It is the only Spanish Manila galleon that has not been plundered by treasure hunters,\" he added, and the trading vessels \"carried fabulously valuable cargo... by today's value the cargo may have had a value of around $80m\".\n\nMr McCann made the discovery earlier this month - and the find was revealed in Japanese media late last week.\n\nThe project, which is funded by the Japanese government, is the first scientific mission to search for the San Francisco shipwreck.\n\nResearchers also found a piece of timber underwater, which they believe is related to the shipwreck. They plan to conduct further expeditions in the area in early 2018.\n\nThe San Francisco shipwreck was of \"historical importance\", because it \"impacted the relationship between Spain, the Philippines, Mexico and Japan,\" Dr Kimura said.\n\nThe vessel had been transporting goods from the Philippines to Mexico - both were Spanish colonies at the time. Among its passengers was the governor of the Philippines Don Rodrigo de Vivero Velasco.\n\nOn 30 September 1609, a storm drove the boat into reefs off Chiba province.\n\nAccording to experts, Mr Velasco, who survived the sinking, detailed the incident in a book, writing: \"The ship was getting destroyed in pieces among some cliffs on the head of Japan... all of us survivors were over the riggings and ropes, because the galleon was getting broken piece by piece.\"\n\nThe team worked in conditions with poor visibility\n\nHundreds of people survived the shipwreck, and, thanks to Mr Velasco's good relations with the Japanese, were treated well.\n\nEventually, they successfully sailed back to Mexico, with a number of Japanese representatives, on the first western-style ship ever built in Japan.\n\n\"They were the first Japanese ever to cross the pacific,\" Dr Kimura said. \"The Spanish king highly appreciated what Japan had done for the survivors, so diplomatic exchanges between Japan and Spain started.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Charles lays Remembrance Sunday wreath as the Queen watches from a balcony\n\nPoliticians, members of the Royal Family and veterans are commemorating those who lost their lives in conflict as the UK marks Remembrance Sunday.\n\nA two-minute silence was held across the country and wreaths were laid at memorials.\n\nPrince Charles attended the annual ceremony at the Cenotaph in London and Big Ben chimed at 11:00 GMT.\n\nThe Queen did not lay a wreath but instead watched from the Foreign Office's balcony.\n\nThe only other occasions when she has not laid the wreath were when she was pregnant or abroad.\n\nAt the Cenotaph on Whitehall, the Last Post was played shortly before the Prince of Wales laid the wreath.\n\nThe royals were joined by Prime Minister Theresa May, other senior politicians, religious leaders and dignitaries from around the Commonwealth.\n\nTheresa May and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn also paid their respects\n\nThe Queen watched the ceremony with Prince Philip and the Duchess of Cornwall from a nearby balcony...\n\n...as did the Duchess of Cambridge and other royals\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry also laid wreaths\n\nAs part of services being held across Scotland, more than 100 wreaths were laid at Edinburgh's City Chambers. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon attended the service.\n\nIn Wales, a service was held at the Welsh National War Memorial and a field of remembrance at Cardiff Castle featured more than 10,000 crosses.\n\nAt the Cenotaph in Enniskillen in Northern Ireland, Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar laid a green laurel wreath, 30 years after an IRA bombing there killed 12 people.\n\nIn Omagh, a wreath-laying ceremony was postponed after a suspicious object was found.\n\nMeanwhile, bell ringers are being sought for 2018 to honour the 1,400 ringers who died in World War One.\n\nVeterans gathered for Remembrance Sunday at the Cenotaph in Whitehall\n\nSir Stuart Peach, chief of the defence staff, told the Andrew Marr show that the day was one of remembrance and reconciliation.\n\n\"Today we mark and remember over a million British and Commonwealth soldiers who died in both world wars. So it is about remembering the sacrifice they made so that we can enjoy the freedom and liberty that we have today,\" he said.\n\n\"It's also very important to understand that this is about reconciliation. That nations move on.\"\n\nThe new Defence Secretary, Gavin Williamson, said: \"We must not forget the continued sacrifices our armed services make, right across the globe serving in 30 countries, making sure that this country remains safe - and that the freedoms that we have today continue to be protected.\"\n\nOn Saturday, events were held around the UK to mark the 99th anniversary of Armistice Day with Big Ben chiming for the first time since August.\n\nThe evening saw a Festival of Remembrance held at Albert Hall. Members of the Royal Family watched as Emeli Sande, Tom Odell and other stars performed alongside the Queen's Colour Squadron and The Band of HM Royal Marines.\n\nThe event was held by the Royal British Legion and hosted by the BBC's Huw Edwards. It commemorated all the British military personnel killed in combat since World War One.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA fifth woman has accused Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual misconduct as Republicans increase calls for him to \"step aside\".\n\nBeverly Young Nelson said she was 16 years old when Mr Moore allegedly tried to force himself on her after offering a ride home from her job as a waitress.\n\n\"I tried fight him off while yelling at him to stop,\" she said, adding that he locked his car to prevent her escape.\n\nMr Moore, 70, denies the allegations, describing them as a \"witch hunt\".\n\nBut Senator Cory Gardner, the National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman, said on Monday he believes Mr Moore's accusers \"spoke with courage and truth\" and the former Alabama Supreme Court judge should be expelled if he is elected.\n\n\"If he refuses to withdraw and wins, the Senate should vote to expel him, because he does not meet the ethical and moral requirements of the United States Senate,\" he said.\n\nMrs Nelson's accusation comes after four other women detailed allegations of sexual misconduct by the conservative firebrand while they were teenagers in Alabama.\n\nThe 56-year-old said she met Mr Moore during the late 1970s at the Olde Hickory House restaurant in Gadsen, Alabama, where she worked as a waitress while she was a teenager.\n\nShe claimed Mr Moore, a 30-year-old deputy district attorney at the time, offered to sign her high school yearbook and wrote: \"To a sweeter more beautiful girl I could not say Merry Christmas.\"\n\nHe signed it \"Love, Roy Moore, DA\", according to a copy of the yearbook page provided to reporters by her attorney, Gloria Allred.\n\nAbout a week or two later, he allegedly offered to drive her home and instead drove to the back of the restaurant car park.\n\n\"I was terrified. He was also trying to pull my shirt off. I thought he was going to rape me,\" she told reporters at a news conference on Monday.\n\n\"At some point he gave up and he then looked at me and he told me, 'You're just a child,' and he said, 'I am the district attorney of Etowah County. If you tell anyone about this, no one will believe you\", Mrs Nelson said, adding that her neck was bruised in the struggle.\n\n\"He finally allowed me to open the door and I either fell out or he pushed me out.\"\n\nMoore Campaign Chairman Bill Armistead denied the charges, calling Mr Moore \"an innocent man\".\n\n\"This is a witch hunt against a man who has had an impeccable career for over 30 years and has always been known as a man of high character,\" he said.\n\nMr Moore's wife also vehemently denies the allegations, contending that her husband's accusers are being paid.\n\nEarlier on Monday US Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said that he believed the women accusing Mr Moore of inappropriate behaviour.\n\nMr McConnell told reporters in his home state of Kentucky that party officials have considered whether another Republican could challenge Mr Moore in next month's election, through a so-called write-in challenge.\n\nHe said Luther Strange, whom Mr Moore beat in the Republican primary earlier this year, was a possible option.\n\nRoy Moore said Mitch McConnell is the one who should step aside\n\nNo matter what happens between now and the 12 December election, Mr Moore's name will remain on the voters' ballot, the Alabama secretary of state has confirmed.\n\nAlabama law prohibits the replacement of a party candidate up to 76 days before the election.\n\nHowever, voters are free to \"write-in\" any name they choose and the party might encourage support for another Republican candidate.\n\nThe state Republican party could also disqualify Mr Moore's nomination, meaning that if he won the most votes he would still not be declared the winner.\n\nFailing that, if Mr Moore won the election, the US Senate could vote to expel him by arguing that he lacked fitness to serve.\n\nLast week's Washington Post story quoted four women by name, including one who alleged Mr Moore initiated sexual contact with her when she was 14 - beneath the legal age of consent in Alabama - while he was a prosecutor in his 30s.\n\nMr Moore has said the Washington Post story is a fabricated smear by his political opponents, calling it \"a prime example of fake news\".\n\nMr McConnell previously said Mr Moore should step aside only if the allegations were proven true.\n\nBut on Monday he said flatly: \"I believe the women. Yes.\"\n\nMr Moore hit back in a tweet: \"The person who should step aside is @SenateMajLdr Mitch McConnell. He has failed conservatives and must be replaced. #DrainTheSwamp\".\n\nMr Moore, an outspoken Christian conservative, had been a heavy favourite to win the 12 December election against Democrat Doug Jones.\n\nBut an opinion poll after the allegations surfaced suggested the race was tightening. Alabama has not elected a Democratic senator in a quarter of a century.", "More than 20 police officers were injured in Brussels when celebrations over Morocco's qualification for football's World Cup turned violent.\n\nThe Moroccan national side qualified for the 2018 tournament in Russia with a 2-0 victory away to Ivory Coast on Saturday, topping their group.\n\nBelgium has a large Moroccan community and fans hit the capital's streets after the game.\n\nOne witness posted video to Twitter of water cannon being used on a crowd. Police said it was used on a group of about 300 people, some of whom were throwing stones.\n\nCalm had returned by 21:30 local time (20:30 GMT), a reporter for the AFP news agency said.\n\nBelgium's Interior Minister Jan Jambon condemned the riots, tweeting (in French) that they constituted \"unacceptable aggression in the centre of Brussels\".\n\nHe added: \"Living together means respect, also for the police who are committed to our safety day and night.\"\n\nIn the Netherlands too, large groups of fans from Morocco or of Moroccan background celebrated in the streets. Some celebrations there turned violent, with the police in The Hague tweeting (in Dutch) that some people threw things at officers.\n\nIn Rotterdam, dancing fans set off flares in red and green, Morocco's colours.\n\nMeanwhile in Morocco itself thousands of fans celebrated in the streets of Marrakesh, Casablanca and other cities.\n\nOwners of businesses in the centre of Brussels woke on Sunday to damaged shop fronts\n\nExuberant fans hit the streets of Amsterdam too\n\nMost celebrations - like this one in Marrakesh - were peaceful", "In Italy, Asia and New Zealand, long-range earthquake predictions from self-taught forecasters have recently had people on edge. But is it possible to pinpoint when a quake will strike?\n\nIt's a quake prediction based on the movements of the moon, the sun and the planets, and made by a self-taught scientist who died in 1979.\n\nBut on 11 May 2011, many people planned to stay away from Rome, fearing a quake forecast by the late Raffaele Bendandi - even though his writings contained no geographical location, nor a day or month.\n\nIn New Zealand too, the quake predictions of a former magician who specialises in fishing weather forecasts have caused unease.\n\nAfter a 6.3 quake scored a direct hit on Christchurch in February, Ken Ring forecast another on 20 March, caused by a \"moon-shot straight through the centre of the earth\". Rattled residents fled the city.\n\nPredicting quakes is highly controversial, says Brian Baptie, head of seismology at the British Geological Survey. Many scientists believe it is impossible because of the quasi-random nature of earthquakes.\n\n\"Despite huge efforts and great advances in our understanding of earthquakes, there are no good examples of an earthquake being successfully predicted in terms of where, when and how big,\" he says.\n\nMany of the methods previously applied to earthquake prediction have been discredited, he says, adding that predictions such as that in Rome \"have little basis and merely cause public alarm\".\n\nSeismologists do monitor rock movements around fault lines to gauge where pressure is building up, and this can provide a last-minute warning in the literal sense, says BBC science correspondent Jonathan Amos.\n\n\"In Japan and California, there are scientists looking for pre-cursor signals in rocks. It is possible to get a warning up to 30 seconds before an earthquake strikes your location. That's enough time to get the doors open on a fire station, so the engines can get out as soon as it is over.\"\n\nBut any longer-range prediction is much harder.\n\n\"It's like pouring sand on to a pile, and trying to predict which grain of sand on which side of the pile will cause it to collapse. It is a classic non-linear system, and people have been trying to model it for centuries,\" says Amos.\n\nIn Japan, all eyes are on the faults that lace its shaky islands.\n\nOn Monday, Trade and Industry Minister Banri Kaieda urged that the Hamaoka nuclear plant near a fault line south-west of Tokyo be shut down, pending the construction of new tsunami defences.\n\nSeismologists have long warned that a major earthquake is overdue in this region.\n\nBut overdue earthquakes can be decades, if not centuries, in coming. And this makes it hard to prepare, beyond precautions such as construction standards and urging the populace to lay in emergency supplies that may never be needed.\n\nLater this year, a satellite is due to launch to test the as-yet unproven theory that there is a link between electrical disturbances on the edge of our atmosphere and impending quakes on the ground below.\n\nThen there are the hypotheses that animals may be able to sense impending earthquakes.\n\nLast year, the Journal of Zoology published a study into a population of toads that left their breeding colony three days before a 6.3 quake struck L'Aquila, Italy, in 2009. This was highly unusual behaviour.\n\nBut it is hard to objectively and quantifiably study how animals respond to seismic activity, in part because earthquakes are rare and strike without warning.\n\nCountries in the Pacific's \"Ring of Fire\", like New Zealand, are regularly shaken by quakes\n\n\"At the moment, we know the parts of the world where earthquakes happen and how often they happen on average in these areas,\" says Dr Baptie.\n\nThis allows seismologists to make statistical estimates of probable ground movements that can be use to plan for earthquakes and mitigate their effects. \"However, this is still a long way from earthquake prediction,\" he says.\n\nAnd what of the \"prophets\" who claim to predict these natural disasters?\n\n\"Many regions, such as Indonesia and Japan, experience large earthquakes on a regular basis, so vague predictions of earthquakes in these places requires no great skill.\"\n• None Collaboratory for the Study of Earthquake Predictability The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Consumption of coal has grown once again in China after three years of decline\n\nGlobal emissions of CO2 in 2017 are projected to rise for the first time in four years, dashing hopes that a peak might soon be reached.\n\nThe main cause of the expected growth has been greater use of coal in China as its economy expanded.\n\nResearchers are uncertain if the rise in emissions is a one-off or the start of a new period of CO2 build-up.\n\nScientists say that a global peak in CO2 before 2020 is needed to limit dangerous global warming this century.\n\nThe Global Carbon Project has been analysing and reporting on the scale of emissions of CO2 since 2006.\n\nCarbon output has grown by about 3% per year in that period, but growth essentially declined or remained flat between 2014 and 2016.Concern at first CO2 rise in four years\n\nThe latest figures indicate that in 2017, emissions of CO2 from all human activities grew by about 2% globally.\n\nThere is some uncertainty about the data but the researchers involved have concluded that emissions are on the rise again.\n\n\"Global CO2 emissions appear to be going up strongly once again after a three-year stable period. This is very disappointing,\" said the lead author of the study, Prof Corinne Le Quéré from the University of East Anglia.\n\n\"With global CO2 emissions from human activities estimated at 41 billion tonnes for 2017, time is running out on our ability to keep warming well below 2 degrees C, let alone 1.5C.\"\n\nThe most important element in causing this rise has been China, which is responsible for around 28% of the global total. Emissions there went up 3.5% in 2017, mainly because of increased coal use, driven in the main by a growing economy.\n\nUS coal production has increased slightly this year mainly due to export demand\n\nAnother important factor in China has been lower water levels in rivers which have seen a drop in the amount of electricity made from hydro-power, with utilities turning to coal and gas to make up the shortfall.\n\nUS emissions have continued to decline but the fall has been less than expected. Higher prices saw a drop in the use of natural gas for electricity - with renewables and hydro-power picking up the slack.\n\nCoal use has also grown slightly in the US this year, with consumption up about a half of one percent.\n\nIndia's emissions are projected to grow by about 2%, which is a considerable decrease from around 6% per year over the last decade.\n\nHowever, experts believe that this may be a temporary drop-off caused by a number of factors that have hampered the consumption of oil and cement.\n\nEurope also saw a smaller decline than expected, falling by 0.2% compared with 2.2% over the last 10 years.\n\nOne common theme around the world is continued use of gas and oil, says Prof Le Quéré.\n\n\"There have been lots of ups and downs in the use of coal but in the background there has been no weakening in the use of oil and gas. And that is quite worrisome.\"\n\nThe report has been launched in Bonn where UN negotiators are trying to move forward with the rules for the Paris climate agreement.\n\nResearchers involved with the study say they are not moving fast enough.\n\n\"Lots of diplomats are working out the rules but that is all a little bit meaningless unless they go back home to their countries and ratchet up climate action and that is where the gap is,\" said Dr Glen Peters, from the Centre for International Climate Research in Norway.\n\n\"These countries have to be pushing on with the policies, but everything keeps getting pushed back.\"\n\nDemonstrators at UN talks in Bonn demand faster cuts in carbon\n\nThe report is sure to increase tensions in Bonn between developed and developing nations.\n\nThere is increasing resentment about the fact that all the focus is on future commitments made under the Paris climate agreement but very little on the years before it becomes active.\n\nPoorer countries want the richer ones to increase their carbon-cutting actions over the next three years.\n\n\"The climate will not let us wait until 2020 when the Paris agreement comes into force,\" said Nicaragua's chief negotiator, Paul Oquist.\n\n\"Climate change is happening now and it's vital that immediate actions to cut emissions become a feature of this summit.\"", "Shareholders in the Nisa convenience store group have approved the chain's £137m takeover by the Co-operative Group.\n\nThe deal was backed by 75.79% of shareholders' votes at an emergency meeting, narrowly exceeding the 75% threshold required to approve the deal.\n\nNisa is a member-owned business that has more than 3,000 stores and operates a wholesale business.\n\nThe deal still needs to be approved by the Competition and Markets Authority.\n\nThe Nisa board said the deal was in the \"best interests\" of members.\n\nNisa chairman Peter Hartley said: \"The convenience store environment is changing rapidly, and is unrecognisable from that which existed when Nisa was founded more than 40 years ago.\n\n\"Co-op will add buying power and product range to our offering, while respecting our culture of independence.\"\n\nUnder the deal, Nisa members will still have the option of choosing not to buy goods through the Co-op.\n\nNisa shareholders will receive an equal initial payment of £20,000, plus deferred payments depending on how many shares they hold.\n\nHowever, there was opposition from some Nisa members who were unhappy about, among other things, the size of the initial payout.\n\n\"The threshold was only surpassed by a fraction, showing that there is still a large amount of discontent around the deal,\" said Molly Johnson-Jones, senior retail analyst at GlobalData.\n\n\"Many independent retailers are fearful of what the market consolidation will do to their autonomy, and there was dissidence around the idea of being owned by a large corporation.\"\n\nThe retail industry is undergoing a period of consolidation. A shift in shopping habits, fierce competition from the likes of Aldi and Lidl, and the arrival of Amazon has prompted retailers such as the Co-op to look to bolster their businesses by buying food wholesalers.\n\nEarlier this year Sainsbury's began talks with Nisa about a takeover, before pulling out.\n\nTesco is awaiting the results of an in-depth competition inquiry into its proposed £3.7bn takeover of wholesale giant Booker, which supplies goods to convenience stores, pubs and restaurants.\n\nNisa has nearly 1,200 members, who operate more than 3,200 stores among them, some under the Nisa brand and others under their own names.\n\nIn the year to 2 April, Nisa reported revenues of £1.25bn. with pre-tax profits of £2.8m.\n\n\"Nisa has futureproofed itself for the increasingly competitive and monopolised convenience market,\" said GlobalData's Ms Johnson-Jones.\n\n\"Tesco-Booker will operate at a larger scale than any food retail company in the past, and will fundamentally change the structure of the market.\n\n\"It is essential that symbol groups move to acquire greater buying power to avoid being pushed out of the market by the big four [supermarket chains] wielding their new-found convenience and wholesale capabilities.\n\nNisa would now be in a better position to protect its members, she added. However, she said rising costs and high demand for convenience store spaces mean that \"it's not going to be easy to be an independent retailer over the medium term, even with a partnership of this size\".", "Shawn Mendes beat Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran to scoop the best artist prize at this year's MTV Europe Music Awards.\n\nThe Canadian singer also won the best song and the biggest fans awards at the event held at The SSE Arena, Wembley.\n\nFlying the flag for Britain were Ed Sheeran who won best live act and Stormzy who won the best act for the UK and Ireland.\n\nThe awards returned to London on Sunday night for the first time in 21 years.\n\nStormzy performed Big For Your Boots on stage at the EMAs\n\nTaylor Swift had been nominated for six awards but left empty-handed after failing to win any.\n\nOther winners on the night were Dua Lipa who won best new act, Camila Cabello who scooped best pop and Eminem who won best hip-hop.\n\nThe awards were hosted by Rita Ora who turned up wearing a dressing gown - complete with a towel on her head.\n\nShe was given the first ever MTV EMAs power of music award to honour the charity efforts of musicians who performed on the Grenfell fire charity single.\n\nBest song: Shawn Mendes for There's Nothing Holdin' Me Back\n\nBest world stage: The Chainsmokers for Live from Isle of MTV Malta 2017\n\nFind us on Instagram at BBCNewsbeat and follow us on Snapchat, search for bbc_newsbeat", "A lack of devolution at Stormont means the budget will be passed into law using Westminister legislation\n\nNorthern Ireland's budget for 2017/18 has been published and shows an increase in health spending of 5.4%.\n\nThe bill has gone through the House of Commons, backed by all parties without a vote.\n\nIt will go to the House of Lords on Tuesday.\n\nNI Secretary James Brokenshire said that public services would begin to run out of money if a budget was not in place by the end of November.\n\nHe said he regretted having to bring a budget to Westminster but was hopeful an executive could be formed.\n\nNorthern Ireland has been without a Stormont executive for 10 months.\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons, Mr Brokenshire said the passing of budget legislation \"should not be a barrier to to negotiations to continue, but the ongoing lack of agreement has had tangible consequences for people and public services in Northern Ireland\".\n\nFaced by DUP calls for the immediate appointment of direct-rule ministers, the secretary of state said: \"That is a step that I do not intend to take while there is an opportunity for an executive to be formed.\"\n\nHe continued: \"This measure I am taking today with the utmost reluctance and only because there is no other option available.\"\n\nIt comes after the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Féin failed to reach a deal in political talks.\n\nOverall, the amount of money available for day-to-day spending is up by 3.2%, meaning no real increase when inflation is considered.\n\nBetter late than never, Northern Ireland finally has a budget for the 2017-18 financial year.\n\nIt means a cliff-edge of running out of cash has been avoided.\n\nCivil servants have been controlling the finances since the executive collapsed before a budget was set.\n\nOverall, the allocation for day-to-day spending is up by 3.2%, or about £330m, on 2016-17.\n\nHowever, because of inflation, the budget has really flat-lined in real terms.\n\nThe budget does not include any of the £1bn windfall that the DUP extracted for propping up the Conservative government; that is to come separately.\n\nIn April, indicative figures suggested the education budget would be cut, causing an outcry from teachers and parents.\n\nHowever, the education budget is up by 1.5% compared to last year, the justice budget is down by 0.4% and the agriculture and environment budget is down by 3%.\n\nHealth economists usually estimate that health service spending needs to rise by an annual rate of 3% - 5% to cope with rising demand.\n\nThe Department of Finance has cautioned that the budget is not fully comparable to the 2016/17 budget, due to timing differences.\n\nThe 2016/17 budget was published before the start of the financial year while this budget comes mid-year and includes in-year reallocations.\n\nIs this direct rule or not direct rule? It depends who you talk to.\n\nThe SDLP says it is direct rule, and blames the DUP and Sinn Féin.\n\nThe Alliance party says it is a \"slippery slope\" towards direct rule, but both James Brokenshire and Theresa May dismiss that.\n\nMr Brokenshire is fearful of \"full-fat\" direct rule because it would be very hard to get back out of it.\n\nHe might, therefore, try and get away with this halfway house solution, at least until the end of the year.\n\nDUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds welcomed the budget move as the \"right thing\" to do in the absence of a deal to restore devolution.\n\nHe said the decision by the secretary of state is \"not full blown direct rule\".\n\nThe North Belfast MP also said that if a deal is not forthcoming to restore devolution, direct rule ministers of \"some ilk will have to be appointed\".\n\nHe said the failure to restore power sharing rests with Sinn Féin and that the DUP and other parties were ready to set up an executive \"in the morning\".\n\nHe added that the £1bn promised by the government for Northern Ireland as part of the Tory-DUP confidence and supply arrangement would be \"detailed in the coming days\".\n\nNI Secretary James Brokenshire said a budget is needed in the absence of a devolved government\n\nHowever, Sinn Féin's Stormont leader said the reason for the budget was \"DUP opposition to a rights-based society\".\n\nMichelle O'Neill said that the UK government had been \"complicit in this, backing the DUP's refusal to honour the commitments previously made and blocking the delivery of equality.\"\n\nShe also said her party had told Prime Minister Theresa May that direct rule was \"not an option\".\n\n\"These issues aren't going away. It is now the responsibility of the two governments to look to the provisions of the Good Friday Agreement and for a British-Irish intergovernmental conference to meet as soon as possible.\n\n\"We have sought urgent meetings with both the taoiseach [Irish prime minister] and the British prime minister.\n\n\"The way forward now is for the two governments to fulfil their responsibility as co-guarantors of the Good Friday and St Andrews Agreements, to honour outstanding commitments, and to deliver rights enjoyed by everyone else on these islands to people here.\"\n\nMr Brokenshire has said he would be willing to withdraw the budget bill if an executive is formed before December.\n\nSDLP leader Colum Eastwood said it was a \"significant day\" with \"decisions being taken in London which should have been taken in Belfast\".\n\n\"This is British direct rule, delivered by the DUP and Sinn Féin,\" he added.\n\nUlster Unionist Steve Aiken said: \"We need to have executive ministers in place in January at the absolute latest because we need to get policy decisions made so we can shape the 18-19 budget for everybody in Northern Ireland - if we don't do that we're in real danger.\"\n\nAlliance Party leader Naomi Long said the budget \"doesn't redirect money to where it's needed now, it simply disperses the money on the basis of decisions that were taken by the last executive and that's now quite considerably out of date\".\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 call to the DUP and Sinn Féin on Friday, Prime Minister Theresa May told the parties that Monday's budget bill was \"absolutely not an indication of direct rule\".\n\nSinn Féin President Gerry Adams said he told the prime minister that direct rule was not an option and called for the establishment of an intergovernmental conference involving London and Dublin.", "Jupiter and Venus were photographed here above Brighton Pier\n\nJupiter and Venus - the two brightest planets - have appeared together in the morning sky.\n\nThe planetary conjunction was visible to the naked eye across much of the UK, with the time before dawn being the best to catch the spectacle.\n\nExperts said the planets were so close as to appear almost on top of each other.\n\nOne astronomer said it would probably be \"decades rather than years\" before they appeared as close together.\n\nWhile the planets have been visible to the unaided eye, viewers with a telescope have also been able to see Jupiter's four Galilean moons.\n\nPeople in the UK have taken to social media to share their photos of the planetary display.\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\nViewed from London, the planets began appearing shortly before 06:00 GMT with the conjunction occurring just after.\n\nThose on high ground with a clear view of the eastern horizon had the best chance of witnessing the planetary display.\n\nThis image of the planetary display was captured by Alexandra Palace in London\n\nThe planets were spotted here in the Merseyside skyline\n\nThe conjunction of the planets looks like a bright star\n\nIn 2004, the planet Venus could be seen crossing the Sun as a small black dot\n\nMark Thompson, an astronomer and former presenter on the BBC show Stargazing Live, said conjunctions occur when planets line up in such a way that they appear from Earth to be next to each other - despite in this case being hundreds of millions of miles apart.\n\nMr Thompson told the BBC the cloudy atmospheres of the two planets made them appear bright to the naked eye.\n\nHe said the event was not uncommon - Venus and Jupiter appeared together in 2015 and 2016, also on 13 November - but it was much rarer for them to appear so close to each other.\n\n\"There have certainly been cases where they've been close in the sky but they've not been this close in recent years, certainly the last couple of planetary conjunctions.\n\n\"This is actually quite a good conjunction because they're so close, and over the next few years they'll pass each other and be close but not this close…\n\n\"One as close as this, you're probably looking decades rather than years.\"\n\nThe conjunction can also be seen in countries in the mid-northern latitudes, including parts of the US.\n\nThose who missed the event will be able to see the two planets again on Tuesday morning, but they will not be as close together.\n\nAccording to Nasa, stargazers will be treated to another planetary pairing later this month, when Saturn will meet Mercury on the western horizon at dusk on 24 and 28 November.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Davis: Parliament will be given time to debate, scrutinise and vote on the final deal with the EU\n\nParliament is to be given a take-it-or leave-it vote on the final Brexit deal before the UK leaves the EU.\n\nBrexit Secretary David Davis said the terms of the UK's exit, such as money, citizen rights and any transition must become law via a new Act of Parliament.\n\nLabour welcomed a \"climbdown\" but some MPs warned of a \"sham\" if ministers could not be asked to renegotiate.\n\nSources have told the BBC some Tory rebels were unimpressed, with one saying the promise was \"meaningless\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the announcement was significant because it represented a big concession to potential Tory rebels and Labour MPs at a highly important moment in the Brexit process.\n\nIt comes as MPs prepare to debate key Brexit legislation later this week with the government facing possible defeat on aspects of the EU Withdrawal Bill, which will convert EU law into UK law.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU in March 2019, irrespective of whether MPs back or reject the terms of the deal negotiated by Theresa May's government.\n\nBut updating MPs on the sixth round of talks which concluded on Friday, Mr Davis told MPs they would still play a major role and \"there cannot be any doubt that Parliament will be intimately involved at every stage\".\n\nThe government had previously agreed to give MPs and peers a vote on a Commons motion relating to the final Brexit deal - before it has been voted upon by the European Parliament.\n\nA confident government wouldn't have conceded like this the day before the Brexit debate was due to come back to the Commons in earnest.\n\nThis climbdown does not remotely mean that other grievances over the existing Brexit legislation will disappear.\n\nIt doesn't mean that the next few weeks will suddenly become plain sailing. And if there isn't a withdrawal deal with the rest of the EU, well, then there can't be a bill that covers the withdrawal bill.\n\nIt's only in the coming days that the government will know if they have done enough to get the existing plans through.\n\nAnd the move also of course adds to a massive load of complicated Parliamentary business that has to be cleared before we actually leave.\n\nMr Davis said he still \"intended and expected\" this to happen but went further - agreeing to Labour and Tory MPs' demands for any vote to take place on substantive primary legislation, which would allow MPs and peers to amend the bill before it became law.\n\nThe bill, he told MPs, would contain the contents of the withdrawal agreement that the UK hopes to seal in time ahead of its scheduled departure and all key aspects of it - such as the financial settlement between the two sides, the future status of UK and EU citizens and the terms of any implementation period.\n\n\"This means that Parliament will be given time to scrutinise, debate and vote on the final deal we strike with the EU,\" he said, adding that it was not clear when such a bill would be published.\n\nLabour's Keir Starmer said it was a \"significant climbdown from a weak government on the verge of defeat\".\n\n\"With less than 24 hours before they had to defend their flawed bill to Parliament, they have finally backed down,\" the shadow Brexit secretary said.\n\n\"However, like everything with this government, the devil will be in the detail.\"\n\nLabour's Chris Leslie said what \"could have been a very welcome concession instead looks like a sham that pretends to respect the sovereignty of Parliament but falls well short of what is required\".\n\nThe Lib Dems reiterated their call for the final deal to be put to a referendum while several Tory MPs questioned what would happen if a deal was only agreed at the last minute before the 29 March deadline - a scenario Mr Davis has suggested was conceivable - and MPs could only vote after exit.\n\nDominic Grieve, the Conservative former Attorney General, said this would not be acceptable and if time ran out then negotiations with the EU should be extended \"so all parties are able to deal with it\".\n\nAnd Conservative MP Antoinette Sandbach pressed Mr Davis to reassure MPs how \"if the bill intended to ensure a meaningful vote only comes forward after that date, the vote is in any sense meaningful\".\n\nMr Davis responded by saying MPs would have the opportunity to say \"either you want the deal or you don't want it\" and if the UK and EU could not agree a deal, there would be no legislation.\n\nBut, in a meeting with the Conservative chief whip, a group of about a dozen Tory MPs expressed anger at the government's plans, sources have told the BBC.\n\nOne of the MPs, Anna Soubry, said the idea of a Brexit Act of Parliament was \"'insulting… it sounds in theory very good but there's no guarantee\".\n\nShe suggested that the promise was \"meaningless\" and that the government is in \"grave difficulty\" over passing its Brexit legislation in the coming months.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police have urged the public to surrender unwanted firearms\n\nPeople in England and Wales have two weeks to hand in guns, other weapons and ammunition to police stations without being punished for possession.\n\nPeople who surrender firearms will not automatically be charged, but will be if they are later connected to a crime.\n\nPolice say many firearms are held in ignorance of their illegality.\n\nThe parents of 18-year-old Yusuf Sonko, who was shot dead in Liverpool on 2 June, have called on people to hand in any firearms.\n\nPapa and Kajdijah Sonko spoke to BBC Breakfast about finding out that their son had been killed.\n\nMr Sonko said he was \"a bright boy who had finished his last exam to go to university\", and was \"in the wrong place at the wrong time\".\n\nKajdijah Sonko pleaded with anyone who owns a gun to give it into police.\n\nShe added: \"Every single day another family is crying.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Yusuf Sonka's grieving parents urge people to hand over their weapons\n\nThe National Ballistics Intelligence Service said that families sometimes do not know what to do with firearms left behind by elderly relatives.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Helen McMillan said police were \"realistic\" that they were \"not going to get hardened gang members\" surrendering their arms.\n\nBut she added: \"This is part of our response to try and make it as difficult as possible for those people to come into possession of any type of weapon at all.\n\n\"You don't have to give your name or address, we just want more guns out of harm's way.\"\n\nIllegally-held BB-guns, air weapons, rifles, shotguns or pistols are among the weapons police say should be handed in by the 26 November cut-off.\n\nPolice think some people come across weapons when clearing the houses of relatives and may not know what to do with them.\n\nMs McMillan said: \"It could be a trophy of war, it could be a starting pistol - please contact us on 101 and arrange to hand it in to your nearest police station.\"\n\nShe added: \"Each firearm we retrieve has the potential to save a life so do the right thing and surrender your weapon.\"\n\nAfter the last gun surrender in England and Wales in 2014, more than 6,000 weapons were handed in.\n\nDetective Chief Superintendent Jo Chilton, said: \"Surrendering unwanted or illegal firearms avoids the risk of them becoming involved in crime.\"\n\nFigures from the Office for National Statistics show that crime involving firearms in England and Wales increased by 27% in the year to June 2017.", "Anita had just turned eight, the minimum age for racing\n\nAn eight-year-old girl has died after crashing her junior drag racing car on a track in Western Australia.\n\nAnita Board was on a solo \"test run\" when her vehicle hit a concrete barrier at the Perth Motorplex, police said.\n\nParamedics treated her at the scene on Saturday before taking her to hospital, where she died a day later.\n\nThe girl had been attempting to gain her licence for junior dragster racing, the Australia National Drag Racing Association (Andra) said.\n\nShe had just turned eight - the minimum age required to race under official rules - and was driving a 210cc dragster, local media reported.\n\nAs a result of the accident, Western Australia has now suspended junior racing at the Perth Motorplex, the state's only drag racing arena.\n\nA statement from Sport and Recreation Minister Mick Murray said: \"The suspension of this category of motorsport activity allows for a full investigation to be carried out into the nature of the accident.\n\n\"The State Government will wait until the details of the accident are clear following the investigation before taking any further action\".\n\nDrag racers across Australia have posted tributes on social media\n\nMr Murray told reporters that he was unaware that children as young as Anita Board could take part in drag racing.\n\n\"I was very surprised... but in saying that, from my understanding, it was well controlled but an unfortunate accident,\" he said.\n\nThe girl's father, Ian Board, posted a message online saying \"my heart [is] in a million pieces\".\n\n\"We will need ... the love and support in the days weeks months ahead,\" he wrote in local community forum.\n\nMembers of the drag racing community have posted tributes online, including under the hashtag #HelmetsOutForAnita.\n\nAndra said in a statement: \"Anita was undergoing a licensing pass at the Perth Motorplex, as part of the process for her to receive her racing licence, when this tragic accident happened.\n\n\"Junior racers must adhere to stringent safety rules and regulations regarding safety equipment, and their dragsters must meet specific safety requirements. ANDRA regulations for junior competition are benchmarked against similar organisations internationally.\"\n\nMike Sprlyan, of Junior Dragster Australia, told news outlet Perth Now that beginners aged between eight and 17 reached top speeds of about 40-50km/h (25-30mph).\n\nPolice said they would prepare a report for a coroner.", "Ann Maguire had taught Spanish at Corpus Christi Catholic College for more than 40 years\n\nA 15-year-old pupil who stabbed his teacher to death told other pupils of his plan to attack her, an inquest has heard.\n\nAnn Maguire, 61, was murdered by Will Cornick at Corpus Christi Catholic College, Leeds, in April 2014.\n\nShe was stabbed seven times, including one blow which cut her jugular vein.\n\nCornick boasted to other pupils about attacking the teacher, but they did not believe him and did not report it, Wakefield Coroners Court heard.\n\nThe inquest heard Cornick had told at least 10 other pupils precisely what he was going to do, where he was going to do it and how he was going to do it.\n\nDet Supt Nick Wallen told the court: \"He was a young man who was prone to say things that weren't true.\"\n\nMessages on Facebook about attacking Mrs Maguire were also not taken seriously by his friends at the time.\n\nGiving evidence, Det Supt Wallen said the attack had come \"completely out of the blue\" and Mrs Maguire \"stood absolutely no chance whatsoever\".\n\nShe was ambushed by a \"strapping 15-year-old lad\", he said.\n\nWill Cornick is serving a life sentence for stabbing Ann Maguire\n\nThe inquest heard Cornick had stormed out of a meeting involving Mrs Maguire called to discuss his work in Spanish.\n\nHe later received a detention, but went off on a bowling trip instead.\n\nDet Supt Wallen said similar incidents happened in schools up and down the country.\n\n\"Is it a warning that this individual was about to kill his teacher? My answer to that would be 'no'.\n\n\"At no time did we have the impression of a disruptive, violent, angry individual who... was about to explode in a frenzy of violence such as his,\" he said.\n\nAnn Maguire's husband Don told the inquest the idea her killer had an \"irrational and historical hatred\" of his wife \"seems as strange now as it did then\".\n\nMr Maguire told the jury: \"This was a good lad. He was bright. He was doing well at school. He was from a good home. He had a bit of a dark sense of humour.\n\n\"He did this terrible thing. There's no explanation and no logic to it.\"\n\n\"I personally have always struggled a little bit with that narrative.\"\n\nMr Maguire also criticised what he called \"the poor quality\" of the review published by Leeds Safeguarding Children Board, saying there should have been a full Serious Case Review.\n\nAn earlier High Court hearing ruled that children should not be called to give evidence at the inquest. This followed an appeal by the family to have the evidence heard.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nFour-time champions Italy failed to reach the World Cup for the first time since 1958 after a play-off defeat against Sweden.\n\nIt means the Azzurri will not be present in the competition for only the second time in their history having declined to play at the inaugural tournament in 1930.\n\nMidfielder Jakob Johansson's deflected strike in the first leg was the difference as the second leg at Milan's San Siro stadium ended goalless.\n\nSweden sat back on their advantage and, despite the hosts enjoying 76% possession, they failed to find the breakthrough - Italy's best chance saw goalkeeper Robin Olsen palm away substitute Stephan El Shaarawy's thumping late volley.\n\nStriker Ciro Immobile missed a number of chances and his low effort in the first half was cleared off the line by centre-back Andreas Granqvist.\n\nThe result sees Jan Andersson's Sweden side reach the World Cup for the first time since 2006, when they were in the same group as England.\n• None Which teams have qualified for Russia?\n• None What you need to know about play-offs\n\nWhile Italy dominated the second leg and had 20 shots at goal, their exertions radiated a growing sense of desperation.\n\nGiampiero Ventura's side were unable to carve open a resolute Swedish defence which sat deep and often had a line of six defenders camped in their box, heading away each cross and set-piece into the box.\n\nIn all, the Swedes made a total of 56 clearances between them, plus 19 interceptions.\n\nBoth sides could have been awarded penalties: first Ludwig Augustinsson brought down Marco Parolo with a clumsy challenge while Manchester United's Matteo Darmian and Juventus veteran Andrea Barzagli were fortunate to escape with handballs for Italy.\n\nLazio striker Immobile, who has 14 club goals this season, hit the side-netting from a tight angle early on and struck a first-time shot wide from close range in the second half.\n\nAt the other end, Sweden keeper Olsen saved well from midfielders Jorginho and Alessandro Florenzi, who also clipped an acrobatic volley narrowly wide.\n\nMany of the Italy players fell to the ground at the full-time whistle, with strikers Andrea Belotti and Immobile reduced to tears, as the Swedes ran off to enthusiastically celebrate their qualification for next summer's tournament in Russia.\n\nEnd of an era as Buffon bows out\n\nItalian newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport described the loss as akin to the \"apocalypse\" in their headline for the match report.\n\nCaptain Gianluigi Buffon was earning his 175th cap for Italy and the 39-year-old goalkeeper confirmed it was his last international appearance, having announced his decision to retire from football at the end of the season.\n\nAC Milan's highly-rated 18-year-old Gianluigi Donnarumma was on the bench and the teenager, who already has four caps, is in line to take over the number one shirt for the next campaign - qualifying for the 2020 European Championship.\n\nWorld Cup winner Buffon, who was also tearful at the final whistle, said: \"I am not sorry for myself but all of Italian football. We failed at something which also means something on a social level.\"\n\nIt may also be the end for coach Ventura. The 69-year-old manager reportedly refused to give an interview to television after the match.\n\nHe received much criticism for his decision to play a 4-2-4 formation against Spain, when his side were heavily beaten 3-0, and will once again be asked questions why he refused to play Napoli's Lorenzo Insigne, who has six goals already this season for his club side.\n\nVentura was given a new contract until 2020 only in August, but the Italian football association could now turn to former AC Milan and Juventus manager Carlo Ancelotti who is available after leaving German champions Bayern Munich.\n\nFormer Wigan defender Granqvist, who was man of the match in the first leg, put in another colossal performance at the back for Sweden.\n\nThe 32-year-old said: \"For my part, this is the biggest thing that has happened to me and for those of us that are older this is probably the last chance to play at a World Cup so to succeed in those circumstances is an unbelievable joy.\"\n\nShortly after the match, skipper Granqvist was seen sporting a new haircut because of a promise made earlier in the qualifying campaign.\n\nHe added: \"I said to the lads in the dressing room that if we got to the World Cup they could shave it off. I thought they had forgotten it, but John Guidetti and Victor Lindelof shaved it off straight away,\"\n• None Offside, Italy. Federico Bernardeschi tries a through ball, but Giorgio Chiellini is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Federico Bernardeschi (Italy) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt blocked. Alessandro Florenzi (Italy) left footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. Jorginho (Italy) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left following a corner.\n• None Federico Bernardeschi (Italy) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt missed. Leonardo Bonucci (Italy) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Giorgio Chiellini with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Marco Parolo (Italy) header from the centre of the box misses to the left. Assisted by Alessandro Florenzi with a cross.\n• None Attempt saved. Stephan El Shaarawy (Italy) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Ciro Immobile with a headed pass.\n• None Attempt blocked. Federico Bernardeschi (Italy) header from the centre of the box is blocked. Assisted by Alessandro Florenzi with a cross.\n• None Attempt missed. Andrea Belotti (Italy) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Marco Parolo. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Iran became an Islamic republic in 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and clerics assumed political control under Ayatollah Khomeini.\n\nThe revolution put an end to the rule of the Shah, who had alienated powerful religious, political and popular forces with a programme of modernisation and Westernisation, coupled with heavy repression of dissent.\n\nIran was one of the greatest empires of the ancient world, and has long maintained a distinct cultural identity by retaining its own language and adhering to the Shia interpretation of Islam.\n\nThe Supreme Leader - the highest power in the land - appoints the heads of the judiciary, military and media. He also confirms the election of the president.\n\nAli Khamenei was appointed for life in June 1989, succeeding Ayatollah Khomeini. He previously served two consecutive terms as president in the 1980s.\n\nThis hardline cleric and Khamenei ally won the 2021 election against a slate of middle-ranking conservative candidates, as supporters of reform and prominent conservatives were barred from standing.\n\nHis main task was initially to try to rebuild the struggling economy - made more difficult by his hostility to the United States, which has imposed crippling sanctions on the country.\n\nBut late 2022 brought a new challenge in the form of nationwide protests following the death of a young woman, Mahsa Amini, in the custody of the so-called morality police, which enforces the Islamic dress code.\n\nAll broadcasting from Iranian soil is controlled by the state and reflects official ideology. A wider range of opinion may be found online and in the printed press.\n\nIran is one of the world's most repressive countries for journalists, says Reporters Without Borders.\n\nIran has a rich historical heritage which can be seen in places such as Persepolis\n\n1921 - Military commander Reza Khan seizes power and is later crowned Reza Shah Pahlavi.\n\n1941 - Britain and Russia occupy Iran during World War Two.\n\n1953 - Coup engineered by British and US intelligence services overthrows Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh.\n\n1989 - Ayatollah Khomeini, the supreme leader and founder of the Islamic Republic, dies and is replaced by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.\n\n2004 - US says Iran's nuclear programme is a growing threat and calls for international sanctions.\n\n2009 - Ahmadinejad is re-elected in a disputed election triggering months of mass protests known as the \"Green Movement\".\n\n2015 - Iran and major world powers reach agreement over its controversial nuclear activities. Tehran agrees to cut its nuclear programme in return for partial lifting of sanctions.\n\n2018 - US withdraws from the 2015 international deal on Iran's nuclear programme and imposes sanctions on Tehran.\n\n2020 - Qasem Soleimani, head of IRGC's external arm known as the Quds Force and arguably the most powerful figure in Iran after Ayatollah Khamenei, is assassinated by the US in Iraq.\n\n2022 - Mass nationwide protests after the death in police custody of Mahsa Amini.\n\nThe leader of the Iranian revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini, returned from exile in 1979\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gaia Pope was last seen in Swanage on 7 November\n\nA man and woman have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a teenager who has not been seen for nearly a week.\n\nDorset Police said a 19-year-old man and a 71-year-old woman were arrested in connection with the disappearance of Gaia Pope, 19, who has severe epilepsy.\n\nThe teenager, from Langton Matravers, was staying in Swanage when she disappeared on 7 November.\n\nSearches took place at two addresses in Swanage and the man and woman were arrested.\n\nPolice said they were both known to Gaia.\n\nThe last reported sighting of the teenager was by Rosemary Dinch at an address in Manor Gardens on Morrison Road in Swanage.\n\nRosemary Dinch, a friend of the family, is believed to be the last person to see Gaia on Tuesday 7 November\n\nThe family friend told the BBC Gaia \"pounded\" on her door and spent about 20 minutes at her house.\n\nShe said: \"She was very upset, she slid to the floor at one point, I gave her a cuddle and she responded to me - I have no idea where she is - she just seems to have disappeared.\"\n\nShe was said to be wearing a red checked shirt with white buttons, grey and white woven leggings and white trainers and she went missing without her medication.\n\nOn Saturday, Dorset Police released CCTV footage of what they believe was Gaia running past a house in Morrison Road at about 15:40.\n\nDet Ch Insp Neil Devoto, who is leading the investigation, said on Monday: \"It has been almost a week since Gaia's last confirmed sighting and she has not been seen or heard from since.\n\n\"We have looked through CCTV that covers the Swanage area, including transport hubs, and there is nothing to suggest she has left the area.\n\n\"Her disappearance is completely out of character and, following our extensive inquiries, we sadly now believe that she may have come to harm.\n\n\"We have not yet found Gaia and our searches will continue.\n\n\"Our specially-trained officers have updated Gaia's family and are supporting them at this very difficult time.\"\n• None Missing teen 'does not have medication'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The remaining videos about Awlaki are news items and documentaries, says YouTube\n\nYouTube has removed nearly 50,000 videos featuring radical Islamist preacher Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed in a drone strike in 2011.\n\nAwlaki was renowned for preaching violence as a religious duty, although at the time of his death his family denied he was a terrorist.\n\nThe remaining videos are mainly documentaries and news items, reports the New York Times.\n\nThe BBC understands this is a result of human review, not machine learning.\n\nTo help ensure that the videos stay off YouTube, once humans flag a video for removal it is run through a formatting system that creates a digital fingerprint or \"hash\".\n\nUploaded videos are compared to this hash to spot when people are trying to share copies of banned content.\n\nAwlaki posted many different types of videos to YouTube.\n\nSome were explicit calls to violence, but others were commentaries on Islam and its history.\n\nMost of these videos are believed to have been purged from the site.\n\nIf he were alive today, Awlaki would have been banned from owning a YouTube channel because he was named as a terrorist on UK and US government lists.\n\nAnti-extremism groups lodged their first complaints about Awlaki's videos in 2009, but until last year it was still possible to find copies of his most explicitly violent material on YouTube.\n\nA long series of complaints and reports from groups working to counter extremism detailed Awlaki's influence and called on YouTube to act.\n\nAlexander Meleagrou-Hitchens, from George Washington University's research programme on extremism, told the New York Times that YouTube \"deserved credit\" for removing the videos.\n\nYouTube's design often led people to discover Awlaki's content inadvertently, he said.\n\nHowever, he added, Awlaki's videos were still easy to find on other video sites and social networks.", "Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe has served 19 months of her five-year sentence\n\nA British-Iranian mother being held in Iran faces two more charges in relation to her alleged involvement in trying to overthrow the government.\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 38, has served 19 months of a five-year term for alleged security offences.\n\nThe charity worker was arrested at Tehran Airport in April 2016 while visiting family in Iran with her daughter.\n\nShe rejects the charges, which carry an extra 16 years in prison if proven.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has worked for the charity the Thomson Reuters Foundation and the BBC, lost her final appeal in April 2017.\n\nUnder the previous charges, which have not been made public, she was accused of plotting to topple the regime in Tehran.\n\nThe latest charges allege Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe joined organisations which specifically worked to overthrow the government.\n\nShe is also accused of attending a demonstration outside the Iranian Embassy in London - it is claimed a photo was found during a search of her private email account.\n\nHer family has paid bail to stop her being put back in solitary confinement and a date for the full trial has not been set.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaking to the BBC in January 2017, Richard Ratcliffe recalls the moment he realised his wife would not be returning to the UK\n\nIran does not recognise dual nationals and denies them access to consular assistance.\n\nThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office said it was seeking more information from the Iranian authorities and both the prime minister and foreign secretary had raised the case with Tehran and at the UN General Assembly.\n\nMiddle East minister Alistair Burt has met Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's family both in London and in Tehran to discuss her case, and hopes to meet with them again later this month.\n\nA spokesman for the FCO said: \"We continue to be concerned for the welfare for Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe and have repeatedly raised this with the Iranian authorities, urging them to provide all necessary medical assistance.\n\n\"We will continue to raise all our dual national detainees, including Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's case with the Iranian government at every available opportunity.\"\n\nRichard Radcliffe has said he believes his family is being used as a \"bargaining chip\" over UK-Iran politics\n\nSpeaking from the UK, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband, Richard, said the UK and Iran need to look after its citizens.\n\n\"The Iranian Ambassador and the UK government need to stand up, and say they will protect British Iranians.\n\n\"It is not enough just to focus in public on their business deals, and to keep a silent pretence. It looks like heads in the sands.\"\n\nMonique Villa, CEO at the Thomson Reuters Foundation, said the accusation Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was trying to overthrow the regime is a \"complete invention\".\n\n\"The Thomson Reuters Foundation doesn't work in Iran and has no programme or dealings with Iran.\n\n\"We continue to assert that she is 100% innocent and that these ludicrous charges must be dropped immediately.\"\n\nShe added the charity worker was subject to \"inhumane treatment\" which had already caused \"irreparable damage\".", "Current Brexit negotiations resemble \"a prime-time soap opera\", the president of the CBI will say on Monday.\n\nPaul Drechsler will tell the lobby group's annual conference it is time for government and business to unite behind \"a clear strategy\".\n\nThis new approach is needed to protect the UK's economy, he will say.\n\nResearch conducted by the CBI suggests 60% of firms will trigger contingency plans by the end of March 2018, if no transition deal is agreed by then.\n\n\"We need a single, clear strategy, a plan for what we want, and what kind of relationship we seek with the EU,\" Mr Drechsler is set to say.\n\n\"At the moment, I'm reminded of a prime-time soap opera, with a different episode each week. First Lancaster House, then Article 50, the European Council, two dinners with Juncker - and no doubt many exciting instalments to follow,\" he will say.\n\n\"Each one becomes the Big Story, until the next one rolls around.\"\n\nThe UK economy will grow more slowly in the short term if no deal for a future trade agreement with the EU is reached, the Bank of England governor has said. In an ITV interview he was asked if the economy would be adversely affected if there was no Brexit deal.\n\n\"The short answer is yes, in the short term... In the short term, without question, if we have materially less access (to the EU) than we have now, this economy is going to need to re-orient and during that period of time it will weigh on growth,\" he said.\n\nA third of firms will have begun to implement contingency plans by the end of January, if there is no further certainty before then.\n\nBusiness representatives have repeatedly called for faster progress and more clarity over what will happen in March 2019 when the UK is due to formally leave the European Union.\n\nThe government has proposed a transition or \"implementation\" period to allow businesses to adjust to new trading conditions, but the terms and length of the adjustment period have yet to be decided.\n\nLast month five business groups, including the CBI, wrote to the Brexit Secretary, David Davis, to warn that the UK risks losing jobs and investment unless a transition deal is agreed by the end of the year.\n\nHowever, formal discussions on transition arrangements and future trade relations cannot begin before the UK and the EU reach an agreement over a financial settlement.\n\nA survey of CBI members suggests that 13% of companies have not yet discussed Brexit at board level; those firms \"need to roll up their sleeves\" according to the CBI.\n\nThe CBI said smaller businesses are \"struggling\" and are less prepared than larger firms.\n\nOne in ten firms have already begun to move staff or slow recruitment as they await the outcome of Brexit negotiations, the CBI said.\n\nThe lobby group warned that the \"clock is ticking\", with Brexit 508 days away.\n\nMr Drechsler will also emphasise the need for government and business to focus on improving productivity in the UK, which lags significantly behind US, France and Germany.\n\nHe will call for the apprenticeship levy, introduced earlier this year to encourage large businesses to take on more apprentices, to be made more flexible, and for more investment in schools, including protection for \"per pupil\" funding.", "A paramedic says an incident in which a note was left on an ambulance windscreen criticising alleged blocking of a driveway is not uncommon.\n\nA handwritten message tweeted by West Midlands Ambulance Service telling paramedics not to park their \"van\" in a \"stupid place\" while seeing to a critically ill patient on Friday went viral.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA security guard at a central London Apple store was threatened with a hammer as he tried to stop a gang of raiders on mopeds.\n\nTen suspects on five mopeds smashed their way into the Regent Street shop at 00:45 GMT and escaped with iPhones, iPads and Apple Watches.\n\nTwo iPhone Xs were later recovered near Kings Cross.\n\nThe flagship store was fully operational with no visible damage later on Monday morning.\n\nMiah Mohammad Sheful, captured video of the raid when he was waiting for a bus nearby.\n\nThe Apple store on Regent Street was fully operational later on Monday morning\n\nThe 28-year-old said it took the suspects several attempts to break in the door of the tech giant's store.\n\nPassing cars started beeping their horns to prevent the burglary as they realised what was unfolding, he said.\n\nThe moped gang got away within seconds.\n\nThe suspects, described as wearing dark clothing, are said to have made off northbound along Regent Street.\n\nThe man who threatened the guard was described as black.\n\nThe raid comes one month after a gang riding mopeds attacked a jeweller's in the same street.\n\nThree suspects are believed to have used a hammer, axe and bats to break into Mappin & Webb on 9 October. They escaped with a high-value haul.\n\nOffences involving scooters and mopeds are on the rise in London.\n\nFigures suggest that in the year to September, there were more than 19,385 \"moped enabled\" crimes in the capital - an average of 53 a day - including thefts and robberies.\n\nLast month, a moped gang that robbed more than 100 people, including former Chancellor George Osborne, was jailed.\n\nAnyone with information about the latest raid is urged to contact the Metropolitan Police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Scottish\n\nFormer Celtic and Manchester United midfielder Liam Miller has cancer.\n\nThe Irishman, 36, is reportedly on his way back to Ireland from the United States, where he has been having chemotherapy treatment.\n\nMiller, who won 21 caps for Republic of Ireland between 2004 and 2009, started his career at Celtic before moving to Old Trafford.\n\n\"I hope he can get through this difficult time of his life,\" said former Celtic team-mate John Hartson.\n\n\"Obviously all our thoughts go out to him and his family,\" added Republic of Ireland manger Martin O'Neill.\n\nFormer Celtic and Aston Villa captain Stiliyan Petrov, who recovered from acute leukaemia, said : \"I'm saddened to hear the news about my old team-mate Liam Miller. Be strong buddy and remember a few of us have beaten it. YOU WILL too my friend. I'm thinking about you.\"\n\nMiller also played for Leeds United, Sunderland, QPR and Hibernian before heading to Australia.\n\nMiller played for three clubs down under - Perth Glory, Brisbane Roar and Melbourne City - before returning to his native Cork City.\n\nHe also played for semi-professional American team Wilmington Hammerheads in North Carolina last year.\n\nNews of Miller's condition has been met with messages of support.\n\nRepublic of Ireland international David Meyler said the squad are thinking about their compatriot ahead of their play-off match against Denmark.\n\n\"Obviously we heard the news,\" the Hull City midfielder said on Monday. \"We're unsure about the details, but our thoughts go out to his family and we're just thinking about him and we just hope he can pull through and he's strong. That's from the whole team and everyone.\"\n\nCeltic wrote on their official Twitter account: \"The thoughts and prayers of everyone at Celtic Football Club are with Liam Miller and his family at this time.\"\n\nAnd Manchester United tweeted: \"The thoughts of everyone at Manchester United go out to Liam Miller and his loved ones at this difficult time.\"", "The epicentre of the quake was in north-east Iraq, but neighbouring Iran saw the worst of the damage", "Emma Dent Coad has been accused of writing a \"racist\" article in a 2010 blog piece\n\nA Conservative London Assembly member has accused a Labour MP of writing a \"racist\" article about him before she entered Parliament.\n\nEmma Dent Coad wrote a blog piece in 2010 in which she labelled Shaun Bailey a \"token ghetto boy\".\n\nMr Bailey said the MP should apologise for the \"hate-filled, racist article\".\n\nA spokesman for Ms Dent Coat, who was elected to Kensington in June, said she had been quoting Mr Bailey's \"own comments about parts of the borough\".\n\nIn the article Ms Dent Coad called Shaun Bailey the \"'token ghetto boy' standing behind D Cameron\"\n\nIn the piece Ms Dent Coad claimed Mr Bailey, who was a parliamentary candidate for Hammersmith, had \"stigmatised\" the area he was born in by referring to it as a \"ghetto\".\n\n\"Who can say where this man will ever fit in, however hard he tries? One day he is the 'token ghetto boy' standing behind D Cameron, the next 'looking interested' beside G Osborne. Ever felt used?,\" she wrote.\n\nAfter the blog post was highlighted, Mr Bailey said he had never been \"labelled a 'token ghetto boy'\" before and was \"shocked and saddened\" by the article.\n\nHe said Ms Dent Coad's \"use of language should not be acceptable for an elected politician... and she should be ashamed\", he said.\n\n\"I am proud of where I am from and would certainly not use language like ghetto in a way to disparage the area I grew up in,\" the London Assembly member said.\n\nMs Dent Coad's spokesman said it was clear in the original post she had been quoting Mr Bailey's \"own comments... plus those of his Conservative colleagues on Kensington and Chelsea Council\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Priti Patel must be investigated for holding unofficial meetings during a holiday in Israel or \"do the decent thing and resign\", Labour has said.\n\nThe international development secretary apologised on Tuesday for holding 12 meetings, including one with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, on a private trip.\n\nIn the Commons, Labour's Kate Osamor said it was a \"black and white case\" of the ministerial code being broken.\n\nBut minister Alistair Burt said policy did not change as a result of the trip.\n\nMs Patel was not in the Commons to face an urgent question about her actions because she is on a pre-arranged visit to Africa, a situation which Labour said was \"simply not acceptable\".\n\nThe BBC understands Ms Patel suggested some of Britain's aid budget go to the Israeli army, after the visit in August.\n\nShe asked her officials to see if Britain could support humanitarian operations conducted by the Israeli army in the occupied Golan Heights area.\n\nThe BBC understands the Foreign Office advised that because Britain did not officially recognise Israel's annexation of the area, it would be hard for the Department for International Development to work there.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt defended Ms Patel's \"perfectly legitimate\" right to raise the matter - saying it was within the context of providing medical help for Syrian refugees who could not get assistance in their own country.\n\nBut he said the idea had been rejected because ministers did not think it would be \"appropriate\".\n\nHe told MPs that the Foreign Office learned of her visit on 24 August, while she was still in Israel, but after a number of key meetings had already taken place.\n\nHe said Ms Patel had been \"absolutely contrite\" for \"getting the sequencing wrong\" in terms of informing officials but Mrs May accepted her apology and now regarded the matter \"as closed\".\n\nBut Labour's Kate Osamor said Ms Patel's actions were covered by the existing code and demanded a probe into what she did during the trip and what action she sought upon her return.\n\nThe opposition says there are \"strong grounds\" to believe Ms Patel is responsible for \"multiple breaches\" include failing to act in an open and transparent manner, not abiding by the principle of collective responsibility and not being honest about the nature and number of meetings she attended.\n\n\"It is hard to think of a more black and white case of breaking the ministerial code,\" Ms Osamor said.\n\n\"It is time the secretary of state either faces a Cabinet Office investigation or does the decent thing and just resigns\".\n\nThe BBC's diplomatic correspondent James Landale said local UK diplomats in Israel probably first became aware of her visit on 24 August because that was when the opposition leader she met, Yair Lapid, first tweeted about their meeting.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by יאיר לפיד This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC revealed on Friday that Ms Patel held a number of undisclosed meetings with business and political figures, including Mr Lapid, the leader of Israel's centrist Yesh Atid party.\n\nNo diplomats were present at the meetings, at which the minister was accompanied by an influential pro-Israeli Conservative peer and campaigner, Lord Polak.\n\nMs Patel has admitted how the meetings were set up \"did not accord with the usual procedures\".\n\nFormer Conservative foreign secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that it was \"extremely unwise\" for Ms Patel to have held secret meetings with Israeli officials.\n\nMs Patel discussed Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to the UK, which took place last week\n\n\"Not only did she not tell the Foreign Office directly, so far as I'm aware the British Embassy in Israel wasn't aware that this was happening. Now that just shouldn't be done... it's not just a question of courtesy,\" he said.\n\nLord Ricketts, former head of the diplomatic service, told BBC Radio 4's World Tonight that he couldn't think of a precedent \"where a senior minister visits a country, has an extensive programme like this without the Foreign Office, the foreign secretary or even the ambassador in the country knowing about it\".\n\nHowever International Trade Secretary Liam Fox told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that it was not \"in any way forbidden\" to speak to the prime minister of another country without telling the foreign secretary.\n\nHe added: \"I find it utterly unsurprising that the international aid secretary would want to talk to charities while she's on holiday in a particular area about whether or not we can use the British aid budget to diminish the humanitarian problems there.\"\n\nMs Patel, who is a long-standing supporter of Israel and a former vice-chairman of Conservative Friends of Israel, has admitted a \"lack of precision\" for suggesting last week that Boris Johnson knew about the trip, and that only two meetings had taken place when she attended 12.\n\nDowning Street, which has called for the ministerial code to be clarified in this area, said Ms Patel had acknowledged she had behaved in an \"improper way\" and would not do so again.", "Twitter plans to increase the number of characters in tweets from 140 to 280 for the majority of users.\n\nThe new limit will not apply to tweets written in Japanese, Chinese and Korean which can convey more information in a single character.\n\nThe move follows a trial among a small group of users which started in September in response to criticism that it was not easy enough to tweet.\n\nThe change is part of Twitter's plan to attract new users and increase growth.\n\nDuring the test, only 5% of tweets sent were longer than 140 characters and only 2% more than 190, the social media site said in a blog post.\n\nBut those who did use the longer tweets, got more followers, more engagement and spent more time on the site, it added.\n\n\"During the first few days of the test, many people tweeted the full 280 limit because it was new and novel, but soon after behaviour normalised,\" wrote Aliza Rosen, Twitter's product manager.\n\n\"We saw when people needed to use more than 140 characters, they tweeted more easily and more often. But importantly, people tweeted below 140 most of the time and the brevity of Twitter remained.\"\n\nAccording to Twitter, 9% of tweets in English hit the character limits.\n\n\"This reflects the challenge of fitting a thought into a tweet, often resulting in lots of time spent editing and even at times abandoning tweets before sending,\" Ms Rosen said.\n\nIncreasing the character limit should not affect people's experience on the site, she added.\n\n\"We - and many of you - were concerned that timelines may fill up with 280-character tweets, and people with the new limit would always use up the whole space. But that didn't happen.\"\n\nWhen the change was announced, many criticised it, pointing out changes they would rather see, such as a crackdown on hate crime and bots, and the introduction of a chronological timeline and edit function.\n\nThe site currently has 330 million active users. This compares with 800 million for Instagram and more than 2 billion users for Facebook.", "Like the Cheshire Cat, it's hard to tame something that keeps disappearing and reappearing\n\nThe offshore finance industry puts trillions of dollars worldwide beyond the taxman's reach. Bringing it to heel is like taming a cat; not just a normal moggy - a thankless task in itself - but a Cheshire Cat: nebulous, hard to pin down, disappearing and reappearing when it likes.\n\nNo-one can actually agree on what a tax haven is. Or even on the name: one person's tax haven is another's \"offshore financial centre\". No-one can agree on how many there are. Nor on exactly how much money is stashed offshore. No statistics are fully reliable.\n\nAnd this suits those who operate in offshore finance, from the owner of the wealth to the lawyer or accountant middlemen who manage the funds, to the often sun-kissed beaches of the jurisdictions where they are secluded or pass through. The industry's key word is privacy. Or secrecy - a word it doesn't like so much.\n\nOne adage cited by the taxation author and expert Nicholas Shaxson sums it up: \"Those who know don't talk. And those who talk don't know.\"\n\nBut do we really not know how much is stashed offshore?\n\nA report this September, co-authored by the economist Gabriel Zucman, estimates about 10% of global GDP - the way we measure the size of the world's economy - is held offshore, about $7.8tn (£6tn). The Boston Consulting Group reported it last year at about $10tn.\n\nIf you are thinking, wow, that's bigger than Japan's economy, you'd be right. But if you want a real wow, try $36tn - the estimate offered by James Henry, author of the book Blood Bankers. That's twice as big as the US economy.\n\nAnd here's another wow. Remember the slogan \"we are the 99%\" coined by the Occupy movement to lambast the top 1% of the population for their disproportionate share of wealth? Well, the Zucman report says 80% of all offshore cash is owned by 0.1% of the richest households, with 50% held by the top 0.01%.\n\nSo if you read this and are thinking, if you can't beat them... quite frankly, it's unlikely you will ever join them. The management fees for the ordinary person will probably far outstrip the gains.\n\nAs Nicholas Shaxson told BBC Panorama: \"At the very lowest end you'll have the middle classes doing little bits and pieces. But the large majority of what's going on, this is a game for rich people.\"\n\nSurely we know some of how this works? The systems have a ring of familiarity - double taxation; tax inversion; trusts; shell companies etc. It's just we don't usually know who's in the schemes and what they are getting out of them.\n\nThe basic essence is rerouting money in one location where you don't like the taxation rules to another location - one that is stable and reliable - where there aren't as many, or any.\n\nFor example, if you want to protect your assets to stave off creditors, stick them in an offshore shell company. Hey presto, much harder to get at. Want to hide ownership of a property? Put it in a trust.\n\nThis is not illegal. There are many other schemes, legal, illegal and sometimes ethically debatable. But even within these categories there are many variables on what actually constitutes The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. After all, in the film with that name the ugly arguably wasn't as bad as the bad, and the good was hardly perfect.\n\nTrue to their Cheshire Cat-like origins, offshore financial centres (OFCs) do not always appear where one might expect them.\n\nThat's because offshore, sorry to confuse you, is also onshore. This makes it impossible to pin down the global number of OFCs. It could be 50, 70 or more and new ones come and go.\n\nThe US and UK are arguably two of the biggest OFCs.\n\nFor example, setting up shell firms is easy in some US states, like Delaware.\n\nAnd it's widely known that the City of London acts as the facilitating hub for Crown dependencies and overseas territories that channel trillions of offshore dollars.\n\nThe smaller, often island, nations are what Nicholas Shaxson calls \"captured states\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Investigative journalist Nicholas Shaxson on why tax havens are ‘like captured states’\n\nHe told Panorama: \"These places don't have a very deep pool of experienced people. They're just people who say, well we trust the accountants, we trust the lawyers to tell us what's best for our island and we'll do it.\"\n\nSo how does offshore defend itself?\n\nWell, the jurisdictions say it's wrong to think there are banks in OFCs sitting on pots of gold - the money is simply being reinvested by companies - and that if there were no OFCs there would be no constraint on the tax rates governments might levy.\n\nOFCs, they say, simply pump cash around the globe and the new transparency rules put in place over the past decade have severely limited tax evasion.\n\nIt's certainly wrong to lump all the OFCs together. Some are better regulated than others. Down at the murkier end, dealings in Panama were exposed by leaks last year.\n\nBut Bermuda's Bob Richards offered a stout defence of its financial services in an interview with Panorama carried out while he was still finance minister, citing a taxation system that had been in place for more than 100 years and adding that if other nations were losing out on tax they should sort their own systems out.\n\nBermuda, he says, has fully signed up to an international agreement that allows for the automatic transfer of tax information within governments and such a jurisdiction \"cannot be a tax haven\".\n\nAnd Appleby, the financial services firm involved in these latest leaks, made the case for OFCs back in 2009, in the wake of the global crash.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt said there was \"no evidence OFCs played any role in the economic crisis\", OFCs were \"neither the source of - nor the destination for - criminal proceeds\" and that OFCs \"protect people victimised by crime, corruption, or persecution by shielding them from venal governments\".\n\nOf the latest leaks, the company said: \"Many of the questions raise matters where - on any view - there is plainly no conceivable wrongdoing on the part of Appleby whatsoever.\"\n\nOFCs say there are no secrets, just privacy. But Gerard Ryle, of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which oversaw this huge leak of financial documents, known as the Paradise Papers, dismisses this.\n\n\"The only product that the offshore world sells is secrecy and when you take away secrecy they don't have a product anymore,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Where you have secrecy, you have the potential for wrongdoing.\"\n\nWhatever term you prefer, the elusive nature of offshore makes it hard to root out wrongdoing.\n\nYou could start an investigation into one firm or individual and be shuttled around from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, company to company, turning up a whole tranche of names on documents that are linked to no real owner, sometimes no real person, and lead absolutely nowhere.\n\nYou're probably also thinking, we've now had an awful lot of these financial leaks, haven't they changed anything?\n\nSpin backwards to April 2016. The Panama Papers have just come out. Iceland's PM Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson has resigned after the leaks showed he owned an offshore company with his wife.\n\nThousands are demonstrating in Reykjavik to vent anger at their politicians.\n\nSome estimates put the protest numbers at 6% of the whole Icelandic population. That's like if 19 million people turned up to a protest in the US today.\n\nBut then travel over to Elektrostal, two hours east of Moscow. Resident Nadezhda is haranguing BBC reporter Steve Rosenberg. \"All these 'investigations' are a waste of time and money. We know what you're up to. They're trying to rub Putin's face in the dirt,\" she says.\n\nIt kind of depends on where you are.\n\nIn the West, at least, people are questioning what high-net-worth individuals and multinationals can get away with.\n\nIs it right that they can use loopholes to keep more of their cash? Or should it go to governments to spend on their people?\n\nTo be fair, governments have been tracking stashed cash since the 2008 global meltdown, independent of any financial leaks, although their talk has usually been tougher than their action.\n\nSecrecy is now harder to achieve, transparency is greater. So-called country-by-country reporting, requiring multinationals to break down how they operate in different nations, has widened and public registries of companies have increased.\n\nEven Russia brought in a law requiring the disclosure of offshore assets. The result? Since the law came in three years ago, dozens of the super-rich have given up Russian residency to avoid it.\n\nThere are also OFC blacklists mooted but, as Nicholas Shaxson says, the big players will make sure their operations are not on it and it will weed out only the minnows.\n\nThe offshore firms will \"recalibrate\", he says. \"When legislation changes, you will have this ecosystem kind of readjusting and the money will shift to other places.\"\n\nAnd wealth holders will readjust too. Pump cash into diamonds and artworks maybe? Or just go and actually live somewhere that charges low tax.\n\nWhat makes this a vicious circle is that many governments are fully prepared to sanction offshore finance. Indeed, many people in government use it, as these leaks show.\n\nAnd there is one thing we do know. If the super wealthy don't pay the taxes, the money has to come from everyone else.\n\nWhich to many may sound a bit mad, but as the Cheshire Cat says: \"We're all mad here\".\n\nThe papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nThe 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Panorama has led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries. The BBC does not know the identity of the source.\n\nParadise Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #ParadisePapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"Paradise Papers\"\n\nWatch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "The 81-year-old's long political career has been plagued by scandals\n\nFormer Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi looks set for another political comeback after a coalition he backed won Sicily's regional elections.\n\nThe result adds momentum to the newly formed centre-right alliance.\n\nThe vote on the Italian island has been viewed as a crucial test ahead of next year's national election.\n\nThe 81-year-old billionaire businessman's career has been beset by scandals both in and out of government.\n\nThe four-time prime minister has been away from the political centre stage since he was expelled from parliament four years ago after being convicted of tax fraud.\n\nMr Berlusconi is seeking to overturn a ban that bars him from public office ahead of the spring 2018 vote. The European Court of Human Rights is set to review his case later this year.\n\nMr Berlusconi owned football club AC Milan for three decades, but sold it in 2017\n\n\"Sicily, just as I asked, has chosen the path of real, serious, constructive change, based on honesty, competence and experience,\" he said in a video posted on Facebook.\n\nThe newly formed coalition brings together Mr Berlusconi's Forza Italia party with right-wing parties Northern League and Brothers of Italy.\n\nThe Berlusconi-backed candidate Nello Musumeci beat the anti-establishment Five Star Movement candidate, with just under 40% of the vote.\n\nHowever, more than 50% of Sicilians did not cast a vote, according to Italian media.\n\nMr Musumeci said his first task was to try to reach non-voters.\n\nThe election result is a blow to the ruling centre-left government, which is already suffering politically from public anger over the country's migrant crisis.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJeremy Corbyn has suggested the Queen, among others, should apologise for using overseas tax havens if they were used to avoid taxation in the UK.\n\nThe Labour leader was asked at the CBI conference whether the Queen should say sorry for making overseas investments.\n\nHe said anyone putting money into tax havens for the purposes of avoidance should \"not just apologise for it, recognise what it does to our society\".\n\nThe BBC has revealed that the Queen's estate has used overseas tax havens.\n\nIt comes after a leak of confidential papers from Bermuda revealed the secret offshore investments of the rich and famous, including the Queen.\n\nMr Corbyn's spokesman later clarified his comments, saying the Labour leader did not specifically call on the Queen to apologise but thought \"anyone who puts money into a tax haven to avoid paying tax should acknowledge the damage it does to society\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Corbyn called for a full inquiry, public lists of company ownership, and a new tax enforcement unit to tackle tax evasion.\n\nOn Sunday, BBC Panorama broadcast the first results of its year-long investigation into the Paradise Papers, a massive leak of financial documents from Bermuda-based law firm Appleby.\n\nBuckingham Palace has not commented on the revelation that the Duchy of Lancaster, which handles the Queen's private wealth, used offshore investments.\n\nA spokesperson for the Duchy of Lancaster said: \"We operate a number of investments and a few of these are with overseas funds. All of our investments are fully audited and legitimate.\n\n\"The Queen voluntarily pays tax on any income she receives from the Duchy.\"\n\nHMRC chief executive Jon Thompson vowed to \"chase down\" anyone trying to hide money offshore and evade tax.\n\nHe told the Commons Public Accounts Committee that HMRC had asked to see the leaked Paradise Papers in order to \"look at every case of tax evasion very seriously\".\n\nMr Thompson said there were 66 ongoing criminal investigations into the Panama Papers, which in April 2016 exposed tax avoidance and evasion, saying £100m could be retrieved.\n\n\"That gives you some sense about how long quite complicated tax cases take to bring to some sort of fruition,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May: 'UK already acting' on offshore tax havens\n\nTheresa May insisted efforts were already under way to obtain revenue from offshore tax vehicles, adding: \"We want people to pay the tax that is due\".\n\nAt the CBI conference, the prime minister said HMRC had collected £160bn by tackling tax avoidance, evasion and non-compliance since 2010.\n\nMrs May's spokesperson said: \"It is important to point out that holding investments offshore is not an automatic sign of wrongdoing, but HMRC has requested to see the papers urgently so it can look into any allegations.\"\n\nBut when asked, Mrs May did not commit to a public inquiry into tax revenue lost through offshore tax avoidance schemes.\n\nAmong the Paradise Papers documents was evidence that Tory donor Lord Ashcroft remained a non-dom and continued to avoid tax despite attempts to make peers pay their full share.\n\nLord Ashcroft has insisted he did not ignore rules in relation to the Punta Gorda offshore trust and said his tax residency was \"publicly available information\".\n\nThe leaked documents show that between 2000 and 2010, Lord Ashcroft received payments of around $200m (£150m) from his offshore trust in Bermuda.\n\nResponding to the programme, Lord Ashcroft wrote: \"At no point has it been suggested directly to me, or through others, that I have taken any inappropriate action.\"\n\nHe also explained why he ran away from a Panorama reporter who approached him for comment, taking refuge in a toilet, saying he was \"determined\" not to \"fall victim to their ambush\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Lord Ashcroft try to avoid Richard Bilton’s questions about his offshore trust\n\nThe Paradise Papers puts into question the practice of using highly secretive offshore tax havens, which is legal.\n\nBermuda's premier David Burt said the territory has a \"robust regulatory regime\" with the same tax system in place since 1898. He added the UK's tax law allows the use of offshore tax havens.\n\nFormer Business Secretary, Sir Vince Cable, criticised the government for not clamping down on offshore tax havens trading under the British flag.\n\nHe said: \"The Paradise Papers suggest that a small number of wealthy individuals have been able, entirely legally, to put their money beyond the reach of the Exchequer.\"\n\nThe papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nThe 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Panorama has led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries. The BBC does not know the identity of the source.\n\nParadise Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #ParadisePapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"Paradise Papers\"\n\nWatch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "Not all cases are thought to relate to current BBC staff\n\nThe BBC has said it is dealing with a \"spike\" in complaints of sexual harassment.\n\nThe deputy director general told MPs there had been a recent increase in the number of cases after the BBC encouraged staff to come forward.\n\nAnne Bulford said the corporation is currently investigating 25 individuals for alleged sexual harassment.\n\nLast year only three cases were investigated, with just one case in each of the two years before that.\n\nIn a statement, the BBC said: \"Since the Harvey Weinstein revelations, we've been actively encouraging staff to come forward with any concerns.\n\n\"We hope other employers are doing the same, and when allegations are made, we have well-established processes to investigate.\"\n\nDirector general Tony Hall said there is a zero tolerance approach to sexual harassment\n\nAnne Bulford told the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee that the BBC is looking into \"25 live cases\".\n\nHowever, not all are thought to relate to current staff. A number of the allegations are believed to be historic, involving people who have worked for the BBC or for third parties associated with the BBC in the past.\n\nThe deputy director general said: \"We have to continue to encourage people to speak. Whether they're current or whether they're historic in relation to sexual harassment, the important thing is people come forward.\"\n\nMs Bulford also confirmed that issues raised by staff working with independent production companies and third party suppliers would be supported by the BBC's confidential helpline, which was set up in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal.\n\nDirector general Tony Hall commented: \"As far as harassment, bullying and... sexual harassment goes, we should have zero tolerance. That means making it as easy as possible to do the very difficult thing of coming forwards and calling out behaviour.\"\n\nAsked how many staff were currently suspended pending an investigation into sexual harassment, the BBC responded: \"We can't comment on individuals but treat any allegations seriously and have processes in place for investigating them.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Ian Squire was kidnapped in southern Nigeria in October\n\nA British aid worker kidnapped last month in southern Nigeria has been killed, while three other hostages have been freed, says the Foreign Office.\n\nIan Squire, an optician, was one of four Britons working for a medical charity in the Niger Delta when taken.\n\nSuspected militants stormed the rural community of Enekorogha on 13 October.\n\nUK and Nigerian authorities successfully negotiated the release of Alanna Carson, David Donovan and Shirley Donovan.\n\nBBC Lagos correspondent Stephanie Hegarty said there was little detail around Mr Squire's death, but that locals told her the kidnappers were a criminal gang who had been operating in the area for around a year.\n\nOur correspondent said: \"This is their first kidnapping of foreigners. They had kidnapped very recently the mother of a local politician, but before that they were just carrying out petty crime.\n\n\"We know that a ransom was demanded but we don't know if it was paid.\"\n\nAccording to reports, Dr and Mrs Donovan have lived in Nigeria for the past 14 years, running a Christian charity called New Foundations, which gives aid to remote villages in the Niger Delta.\n\nDr and Mrs Donovan (pictured) were released and are now home safely\n\nMr Squire normally ran a practice in Shepperton, Surrey, and locals told the BBC he travelled to Africa every year to carry out charity work.\n\nMr Squire's friend Paul Allan, who ran a neighbouring business, described him as a \"good friend\" and a \"very straight forward, nice, gentle guy\".\n\nHe described how Mr Squire fundraised in the community for his trips and even collected old glasses to take and reuse.\n\n\"I just can't believe what's happened,\" added Mr Allan. \"I find it shocking to believe for someone who has gone out to do good in the community overseas that the action has cost him dearly. It has cost him his life. It is beyond belief.\n\n\"It is a sign of this day and age, but he wasn't concerned about that. He just wanted to go out and help people in less fortunate situations than ours.\"\n\nMs Carson, a Specsavers optometrist, is now staying with her family in Northern Ireland, according to her employer in Leven, Fife.\n\nRelatives of the four said they were \"delighted and relieved\" that Ms Carson and Dr and Mrs Donovan had returned safely.\n\n\"Our thoughts are now with the family and friends of Ian as we come to terms with his sad death,\" they said in a statement issued on their behalf.\n\nThe Foreign Office currently advises against all but essential travel to much of Delta state, saying there is a \"high threat of criminal kidnap\".\n\nIt said Nigerian authorities were investigating the kidnapping, adding: \"Our staff will continue to do all we can to support the families.\"", "The shop is on Lampeter's High St\n\nA Greggs bakery worker has been suspended after he allegedly told a customer who ordered in Welsh the language sounded \"like Tourette's\".\n\nSioned Howells, 18, reported the incident in Lampeter, Ceredigion, on her Twitter account.\n\nShe tweeted the employee said: \"That was Welsh?? Sounded more like you had tourettes to me.\"\n\nGreggs said it was \"deeply sorry\" for any offence caused and was investigating further.\n\nThe company said in a statement: \"We take this matter very seriously and the member of staff has been suspended whilst we investigate further.\n\n\"This incident goes against our values and should never have happened. We are deeply sorry for any offence caused.\"\n\nOsian Rhys, vice chairman of the Welsh language campaign group, Cymdeithas yr Iaith, said the incident \"is terrible if true\".\n\n\"It's happened, not just because of the attitude of one member of staff, but also partly because the language legislation doesn't cover private businesses,\" he said.\n\nThe group has written to the chief executive of Greggs asking for a meeting to discuss Welsh language policy.\n\nIt is also calling on the government to impose language duties on high street stores so \"the use of Welsh is normalised in all parts of life\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by sioned This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The lynx usually lives at the zoo with her brother\n\nA heat-seeking drone is being used to hunt a lynx which went missing from a zoo more than a week ago.\n\nLilleth the Eurasian lynx escaped from her enclosure at Borth Wild Animal Kingdom near Aberystwyth.\n\nThe drone has a specialist night scope and thermal cameras which zoo staff searching for her hope will help pinpoint her location.\n\nSo far Lilleth has evaded police helicopters, tracking devices and traps.\n\nStaff said the lynx's brother Tyrion, who also lives at the zoo, has been pining for her every night and calling out to her.\n\nThe zoo will remain closed while the search continues.\n\nZoo owner Tracy Tweedy, 46, said: \"The hunt for Lilleth continues and every day we are getting closer and closer.\n\n\"We have been working day and night towards recovering her safely and we are building up an accurate map of her movements around the zoo.\n\n\"We have built lots of large bait traps in situ around the grounds and have spotters out looking for her at all times.\n\n\"She is very hard to follow as some of the terrain is almost impassable for people and it's quite easy for her to slip by unseen.\n\n\"We have even been following her after dark using night scopes and a thermal imaging camera on a high flying drone.\"\n\nA photograph taken by a night vision camera showed Lilleth standing next to a cage baited with food\n\nCeredigion council said it was working closely with the Welsh Government and Dyfed-Powys Police and that \"every possible measure is being considered in relation to the capture of the animal\".\n\n\"The emphasis has been on inciting it into one of a number of cages and professional advice will be sought to ensure that this is being done in such a manner so as to have maximum effect,\" a council spokesman said.\n\nWhen the animal is recaptured, he said advice will be sought as to \"the most appropriate measures for its future\".\n\nHe said the council will be carrying out an inspection of the zoo \"in the presence of an approved veterinary surgeon who specialises in the cat family\".\n\nDyfed-Powys Police has said the lynx could become aggressive if it is cornered and is urging the public to be vigilant.", "A woman in her late 70s was robbed and knocked to the ground in an Ipswich street attack.\n\nThe incident took place on Sunday at about 19:35 GMT in Victoria Street, near the Westgate Ward Social Club.\n\nDetectives are appealing for witnesses and would like to speak with the three people seen on the CCTV walking across the street just moments after the incident.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBritain's Andy Murray hopes to make his competitive return in Brisbane in January following a hip injury - but only if he is 100% fit.\n\nThe Scot lost 6-3 3-6 10-6 to world number two Roger Federer as part of a charity event in Glasgow on Tuesday.\n\nIt was the first time Murray, 30, had played in public since he lost to Sam Querrey at Wimbledon in July.\n\n\"I am in a significantly better place than at the end of Wimbledon and in the build-up to the US Open,\" said Murray.\n\n\"Walking was a big problem for me [at that time],\" he told BBC Sport.\n• None Federer dons kilt against Murray as tennis goes tartan for charity\n\nMurray, who slipped to 16th in the latest world rankings, said he was confident of getting back to full fitness, but admitted that it could take time for him to find his best form.\n\nHe will travel to Miami later in the year for his regular off-season training block and \"hopes\" to return to competition at the Brisbane International in January.\n\nThe tournament is held two weeks before the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of 2018, which gets under way on 15 January.\n\n\"When I get back on the court again my best form might not come immediately but there's nothing that's making me think I can't find it,\" Murray added.\n\n\"I'll come back when I'm ready and 100% fit. I believe I will get back to that.\"\n\nMurray also played a doubles match with brother Jamie against Tim Henman and Mansour Bahrami during Tuesday's 'Andy Murray Live' event in Glasgow.\n\nEight weeks before his hoped for return in Brisbane, Murray put down an encouraging marker as he was beaten 10-6 in a deciding tie-break in Glasgow.\n\nThere was time for Federer to hold serve in a kilt early in the second set (he was told to 'Get yer kilt back on' when he lost the first few points after dispensing with it), but there were also plenty of competitive rallies.\n\nWe are getting used to seeing Murray walk with a slight limp but for the most part he ran and moved well. He covered a lot of ground in rallies which frequently switched direction, and struck the ball soundly.\n\nHis serve is not yet back up to full speed, but that is only to be expected of someone rehabbing a serious hip problem.\n\nNext to Miami, where two weeks of pre-season training will give him a clearer picture of whether he will be celebrating the New Year in Australia.\n\nMurray endured a frustrating 2017 season in terms of both form and fitness. He was knocked out of the Australian Open in the fourth round and went on to miss a month with an elbow injury.\n\nHe fared better at the French Open, reaching the semi-finals, but lost in the first round at Queen's Club before visibly struggling with the hip as his Wimbledon title defence was ended by Querrey in the quarter-finals.\n\nStill ranked number one, Murray travelled to New York for the US Open but pulled out two days before the tournament began having failed to recover sufficiently.\n\n\"I made, probably, a bit of a mistake trying to get ready for the US Open but it was the last major of the year,\" said Murray.\n\n\"I've been training for a few weeks now. Some days I've felt great, some days I've felt not so good, but I'm getting there.\"\n\nFederer, who missed the latter half of the 2016 season with a knee injury before winning the Australian Open and Wimbledon this year, said it was \"wise and worthwhile\" to take time to recover.\n\n\"When you come back, you want to be at 100%. Otherwise you feel like you can't beat the best and can't win the major tournaments,\" said the 36-year-old Swiss.\n\n\"I'm sure Andy has a lot of years left. You need to have goals but sometimes they need to be postponed.\"\n\nMurray said his \"goals have changed\" after the second lengthy injury break of his career, following back surgery in 2013 that kept him out for several months.\n\n\"I just want to play tennis again. It's my life and my job, and that's my goal just now,\" he said.\n\nMurray became world number one for the first time at the end of 2016 but having not played since July, he has now dropped out of the top 10 for the first time since October 2014.\n\n\"Last year, I played a lot of tennis, especially at the end of the year. My goals have changed now,\" he said.\n\n\"When you're fit and healthy, you want to win every tournament and get to number one in the world. When you're not playing, it's like, I miss playing tennis.\n\n\"I just love to be back on a match court and competing again.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Our kids play together,' says a resident whose neighbours are feared dead\n\nWhen a mass shooting happens in a small town like Sutherland Springs, Texas, everyone knows a victim.\n\nPauline Garza was lazy on Sunday morning, and it might have saved her life.\n\nShe and her 11-year-old daughter were thinking about going to church. She isn't a regular, but her daughter was baptised there.\n\nThis time, they decided not to. \"Feeling lazy,\" she says, standing on her porch 24 hours later.\n\nSoon afterwards, they heard the gunfire.\n\nPauline's neighbours, the Holcombes, were also churchgoers.\n\nPauline thinks they were in church on Sunday morning. She hasn't seen them return.\n\nThe Holcombes' two dogs lie on the drive, waiting. The gate is still locked; the porch light is still on.\n\nThe families are close. Pauline's daughter stays over at the Holcombes' place.\n\n\"Very nice family,\" says Pauline, 47. \"They're always out in the yard.\n\n\"The kids will play with my daughter all the time. Very nice.\"\n\nWhen Pauline heard the shots, she thought it was a neighbour working on his house.\n\n\"I asked my daughter - 'What was that noise?' She said 'I don't know'.\n\n\"We came to the door. I saw my (other) neighbour standing there. You could still hear the shots being fired.\n\n\"I never thought it was gunshots. I never did.\"\n\nAnd when she found it was gunfire?\n\n\"I thought 'How can that happen here?' It's unreal.\"\n\nThe town will recover, says Julius\n\nAround 400 people live in Sutherland Springs, a small town in Texas, 30 miles (48km) east of San Antonio.\n\nIt isn't a wealthy place. There are neat, well-built houses, but there is decay, too.\n\nThe All Coin Laundry, long forgotten, hasn't washed a shirt in 10 years, at least. People work in \"nursing homes, hospitals, the convenience store,\" says Pauline.\n\nBut - while it isn't wealthy - it is friendly. Neighbours know each other. People say hello. The school bus driver waves at passers-by.\n\nIn one garden, a sign says: \"Cowboys make good points with spurs and barbed wire.\"\n\nThe next sign says: \"Welcome to Texas.\"\n\n\"I love it here,\" says Pauline. \"You don't have all that loud stuff like the big cities.\"\n\nJulius Kepper, 53, has lived in Sutherland Springs for seven years. At first, he thought Sunday's gunfire was building work.\n\nWhen he realised it wasn't, he grabbed his gun and ran out of the house.\n\nHe wasn't the only one. His neighbour, Stephen, had already shot the attacker and given chase.\n\nJulius didn't go to church, but he knew \"a bunch of people\" who did.\n\n\"Some of the young guys who went would cut my yard,\" he says.\n\n\"It's a small community. You can't help but know people.\"\n\nJulius is drinking a large Coke in the petrol station on the edge of town. Another customer sits at a table, drinking coffee.\n\nBehind the counter are rows of Texas caps. The San Antonio Express-News sits on the counter.\n\n\"Time for worship turns to horror,\" says the headline.\n\nJulius thinks the town will heal, but it will take time.\n\n\"For this to happen in a little country town with 300 people, it's inconceivable,\" he says.\n\n\"You kind of expect it in big cities. Not here.\"\n\nBack on her porch, Pauline Garza thinks the shooting means more people will carry guns.\n\n\"Even to church,\" she says. \"We would never think out here in the country you would need a gun to protect yourself. Now you're going to have to.\n\n\"Now you got crazy people walking around everywhere.\"\n\nPauline didn't sleep on Sunday night. The what-ifs were playing through her mind.\n\nAnd, though she and her daughter are safe, their suffering isn't over.\n\n\"How do I talk to my daughter about this?\" she asks. \"How can I do that?\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Afghan security used explosives to reach the TV station attackers\n\nAn Afghan television station has returned to air just hours after an attack by militants left at least one staff member dead.\n\nGunmen disguised as police officers stormed the Shamshad TV building in the Afghan capital Kabul.\n\nSo-called Islamic State later said it was behind the attack.\n\nBut soon after Afghan security forces brought the raid under control, a Shamshad anchor was back on the channel, reporting on the assault.\n\nAt least three attackers were involved, armed with guns and grenades. The station said one blew himself up at the entrance gate while another went up to the roof to fire at security forces.\n\nStaff were trapped inside, with some jumping out of windows and others escaping through a neighbouring building. Normal programmes were replaced with a still image.\n\nSpecial forces had to blast their way through a wall protecting the station to enter.\n\nA security guard has been confirmed killed and 20 people wounded.\n\nThe mother of a female journalist at the station told the BBC she had received no news of her daughter, hours after the attack.\n\nOne of the news presenters, with his hand bandaged from cutting himself on broken glass, gave details of the assault to viewers.\n\n\"We have all come back [to work], all our journalists and colleagues are back on duty,\" 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 Habib Khan Totakhil This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 an attack on freedom of media but they cannot silence us,\" the station's news director Abid Ehsas told another outlet, Tolo News.\n\nShamshad TV broadcasts a wide variety of programmes including news and current affairs in the Pashto language. It is one of the BBC's partner stations.\n\nKabul has been targeted repeatedly in recent months by the Taliban and IS.\n\nAfghanistan is one of the world's most dangerous countries for journalists and media workers.\n\nThe first six months of 2017 saw a surge in violence against journalists, with local monitor the Afghan Journalists Safety Committee recording 73 cases, an increase of 35% in comparison to the same period in 2016.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 UNAMA News This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "North Korea’s continuing weapons tests will be high on the agenda when Donald Trump arrives in South Korea.\n\nResidents of one village are angry about the US Thaad missile system and have been holding protests, some of which have turned violent.", "Exactly a century after the Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace, the effects of the Russian Revolution still reverberate.\n\nSteve Rosenberg reports from four Russian cities where its legacy is still felt.\n\nTo find out more, tap HERE:", "Sky has threatened to shut down Sky News if the news channel proves to be an obstacle in Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox bid.\n\nRegulators are investigating the deal amid concerns that Mr Murdoch's media empire could become too powerful.\n\nSky told the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) that the regulator should not assume \"the continued provision\" of Sky News.\n\nBBC media editor Amol Rajan said it was a \"credible threat\".\n\nFox owns 39% of Sky but wants full control of the satellite broadcaster.\n\nIn a submission made to the CMA last month, but published by the regulator on Tuesday, Sky said it \"would likely be prompted to review\" its position if \"the continued provision of Sky News in its current form unduly impeded merger and/or other corporate opportunities available in relation to Sky's broader business\".\n\nThis would particularly be the case if shareholders objected to the merger not happening, Sky said.\n\nClosing Sky News would only be an option of last resort, and the broadcaster would try to find a buyer for the media company before that eventuality, the BBC understands.\n\n\"The messaging coming through is alarming for supporters of Sky News but it runs completely counter to all the investment that there has been in the channel in all the recent months and years,\" said Joey Jones, a political correspondent at Sky News for 16 years and now head of public affairs at PR firm Weber Shandwick.\n\nBut he said the threat was a risky move by Sky: \"Inevitably this will be perceived by those who are already hostile to the proposed takeover, particularly in the political arena, as sabre rattling and as a perceived threat by the company\".\n\nMedia editor Mr Rajan said that Sky News lost \"an awful lot of money\".\n\n\"It loses tens of millions of pounds, and I think the independent directors of Sky are sending a very clear message... that if they had to choose, maybe they'd prefer for commercial reasons to do the deal with 21st Century Fox rather than continue to fund the losses at Sky News.\"\n\nThe submission comes a day after reports that Fox has discussed selling \"most\" of its business, including its Sky stake, to Disney.\n\nFox has faced a number of hurdles in its bid to buy Sky, including the CMA investigation and opposition from some politicians.\n\nSome fear the deal would give Rupert Murdoch's family too much control over the UK media.\n\nThe Murdoch family owns controlling stakes in both News Corporation, which owns UK newspapers such as the Sun and the Times, as well as Fox, which operates in film and TV.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrince Charles campaigned to alter climate-change agreements without disclosing his private estate had an offshore financial interest in what he was promoting, BBC Panorama has found.\n\nThe Paradise Papers show the Duchy of Cornwall in 2007 secretly bought shares worth $113,500 in a Bermuda company that would benefit from a rule change.\n\nThe prince was a friend of a director of Sustainable Forestry Management Ltd.\n\nThe Duchy of Cornwall says he has no direct involvement in its investments.\n\nA Clarence House spokesman said the Prince of Wales had \"certainly never chosen to speak out on a topic simply because of a company that it [the Duchy of Cornwall] may have invested in\".\n\nHe added: \"In the case of climate change his views are well-known, indeed he has been warning of the threat of global warming to our environment for over 30 years.\n\n\"Carbon markets are just one example that the prince has championed since the 1990s and which he continues to promote today.\"\n\nHe added Prince Charles was \"free to offer thoughts and suggestions on a wide range of topics\" and \"cares deeply\" about the issue of climate change but \"it is for others to decide whether to take the advice\".\n\nSir Alistair Graham, former chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, said Prince Charles's actions amounted to a serious conflict of interest.\n\nHe said: \"There's a conflict of interest between his own investments of the Duchy of Cornwall and what he's trying to achieve publicly.\n\n\"And I think it's unfortunate that somebody of his importance, of his influence, becomes involved in such a serious conflict.\"\n\nThe leaked documents held by law firm Appleby show the Duchy of Cornwall also made offshore investments totalling $3.9m in four funds in the Cayman Islands in 2007. This is legal and there is no suggestion of tax avoidance.\n\nA Duchy of Cornwall spokesman said Prince Charles voluntarily pays income tax on any revenue from his estate.\n\nHe added the estate's investments \"do not derive any tax advantage whatsoever based on their location or any other aspect of their structure and there is no loss of revenue to HMRC as a result\".\n\nThe prince began campaigning for changes to two important environmental agreements weeks after Sustainable Forestry Management (SFM) sent his office lobbying documents.\n\nPrince Charles's estate almost tripled its money in just over a year although it is not clear what caused the rise in the share value. Despite his high profile campaign, the environmental agreements were not changed.\n\nThe documents reveal the Duchy of Cornwall, an £896m private estate that provides Prince Charles with an income and which he is said to be \"actively involved\" in running, bought the shares in February 2007. At the time $113,500 was worth about £58,000.\n\nOne of SFM's directors was the late Hugh van Cutsem, a millionaire banker and conservationist who has been described as the one of the Prince's closest friends.\n\nThe minutes of a company board meeting that approved the Duchy's shareholding say: \"The Chairman thanked Mr van Cutsem for his introduction of the Duchy of Cornwall and the Board unanimously agreed that the subscription by the Duchy of Cornwall be kept confidential except in respect of any disclosure required by law.\"\n\nSFM traded in carbon credits, a market created by international treaties to tackle global warming.\n\nIt wanted to trade in credits from \"tropical and subtropical forests\" but was hampered by two important climate change agreements, the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) and the Kyoto Protocol, which largely excluded carbon credits from rainforests.\n\nWhen the Duchy bought its shares, SFM was lobbying for a \"change in policy\" on carbon credits, the documents show.\n\nIt had hired the US former lead negotiator on the Kyoto Protocol, Stuart Eizenstat \"to lobby for inclusion of forest carbon credits\" in new US and EU laws and regulations.\n\nBoard minutes from February 2007 show SFM was also taking \"steps to influence events to support forest credits\" ahead of Kyoto Protocol meetings at the end of the year.\n\nOn 6 June 2007, four months after the Duchy bought its shares, Mr van Cutsem asked SFM's chairman to send lobbying documents to the office of the prince.\n\nUnder the heading \"public policy and advocacy\", minutes of a board meeting held in Paris say \"the chairman referred the committee to the bundle of materials which had been prepared by the company for various policymakers... Mr van Cutsem... asked that a set of documents be prepared for the Prince of Wales office. The chairman undertook to do so\".\n\nFour weeks later, on 2 July, Prince Charles, made a speech that criticised the EU ETS and Kyoto Protocol for excluding carbon credits from rainforests, and called for change.\n\nSpeaking at the Business in the Community Awards Dinner, the prince said: \"As the Kyoto protocol now stands tropical rainforest nations have no way of earning credits from their standing forests other than by cutting them down and planting new ones,\" he said.\n\n\"The European Carbon Trading Scheme excludes carbon credits for forests from developing nations. This has got be wrong and we must urge the international community to work together to redress these failings urgently.\"\n\nThe campaigning was taking place ahead of meetings about the Kyoto Protocol\n\nIn October 2007, he launched the Prince's Rainforests Project, which aimed to \"increase global recognition of the contribution of tropical deforestation to climate change and to find ways to make the rainforests worth more alive than dead.\"\n\nIn a speech to mark the launch, he said: \"The Kyoto Protocol does not have a mechanism to protect standing rainforests.\n\n\"Credits are available for afforestation and reforestation projects, but not for maintaining an old growth forest. And the European Trading Scheme excludes carbon credits for forestry in developing nations altogether… surely we have to accept that the pressing urgency of climate change requires a response that embraces rather than excludes primary tropical forests?\"\n\nPanorama has been unable to find evidence of any speeches the prince made before 2008 about changing Kyoto and EU ETS to include carbon credits for rainforests. The programme asked the prince's office for any such speeches but they did not respond.\n\nOver the next six months, the future king made further speeches and videos about rainforests.\n\nIn a video released in January 2008, the prince said: \"The immediate priority, I believe, is the need to develop a new credit market which will give a true value to carbon and the ecosystem services the rainforests provide the rest of the world.\"\n\nIn February 2008, he reportedly discussed rainforests at a private meeting with the then Prime Minister Gordon Brown.\n\nDays later, he met with the then President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, and the EU's environment, energy, trade and agriculture commissioners.\n\nIn a speech to 150 MEPs, he said: \"I have great hopes that the next version of the European Emissions Trading scheme might extend the helping and very visible hand of a market approach to assist in keeping the rainforests standing… the lives of billions of people depend on your response and none of us will be forgiven by our children and grandchildren if we falter and fail.\"\n\nOn 18 June 2008, as the global financial crash was beginning, the Duchy sold its stake in SFM.\n\nThe documents show it was paid $325,000 for the 50 shares.\n\nSFM is no longer in existence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Alistair Graham says Prince Charles should be accountable to public scrutiny\n\nThe Duchy was established in 1337 and uses the income to fund the public, private and charitable activities of the Prince of Wales and his children. Its accounts are independently audited and put before Parliament.\n\nA Duchy of Cornwall spokesman said the estate followed a \"responsible investment policy which governs the sectors that it may invest in\".\n\nThe Paradise Papers documents also showed about £10m of the Queen's private money was invested offshore in 2004-2005 in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands.\n\nYour browser does not support this Lookup Your guide to financial jargon\n\nThe papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nThe 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Panorama has led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries. The BBC does not know the identity of the source.\n\nParadise Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #ParadisePapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"Paradise Papers\"\n\nWatch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "The UK company which owns the PGL children's holidays brand exploited an anti-tax avoidance law to actually save itself tax, the Paradise Papers show.\n\nAn amendment to rules introduced by the government in 2013 allowed Holidaybreak to legally avoid corporation tax by artificially shifting German profits to the Isle of Man.\n\nHolidaybreak says it follows all tax rules and disclosure requirements.\n\nThe UK Treasury denies its regulations can help multinationals avoid tax.\n\nBut the EU last month announced it is investigating whether the amendment to the Controlled Foreign Companies (CFC) rules amount to illegal state aid.\n\nDavid Cameron's coalition government had pledged to work with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and update tax rules to ensure \"these do not allow or encourage multinational enterprises to cut their tax bills by artificially shifting profits to low-tax jurisdictions\".\n\nThe CFC rules, first introduced in 1984, enabled HMRC to impose full corporation tax on foreign subsidiaries of UK companies if they considered them to be shifting profits into tax havens.\n\nBut the rules were reformed in 2013 and an \"exception\" was added to allow offshore subsidiaries of UK firms financing other group companies abroad to pay a quarter of the full rate.\n\nCampaigners including Action Aid have warned it would be open to exploitation and undermine the government's claims to support international efforts against tax avoidance.\n\nThe Paradise Papers documents held by offshore law firm Appleby and seen by BBC Panorama show how a finance company set up by Holidaybreak could use the CFC change to pay corporation tax in the UK at 5.25% in 2015. Company profits in Germany are taxed at around 30%.\n\nBy paying the reduced UK rate, Holidaybreak would be able to cut the amount of tax it paid on its German business by more than 1m euros (£900,000) a year, calculations suggest.\n\nThe documents show the tax structure put in place after Cheshire-based Holidaybreak acquired the German budget hotel group Meininger in 2013.\n\nAppleby set up Meininger Finance Company Limited in the Isle of Man and it loaned 134.6m euros (£110.8m) to the German hotel group.\n\nThe German company had to pay interest on the loan, which reduced both its profits and the amount of tax it had to pay in Germany.\n\nThe interest payments went to the Isle of Man. Under the old rules they would have been taxed by the UK government at the full rate of corporation tax, but under the new rules Holidaybreak was allowed to pay just a quarter of the rate.\n\nThe company would be able to shift between 6 and 7 million euros a year into the Isle of Man, according to the tax advice.\n\nOther documents show meetings of the finance company were held in Appleby's office in the island's capital, Douglas, to satisfy the UK tax authorities that the new company was being managed and controlled from the Isle of Man.\n\nHolidaybreak became part of Cox & Kings, an India-registered company and one of the world's longest established travel businesses, in 2011.\n\nA draft report in the Appleby documents outlines how the new company structure would work\n\nIn a statement, Holidaybreak said: \"All our business affairs are conducted within the tax regulations and disclosure requirements as set out in the law of the countries we operate in, including the UK where Holidaybreak is headquartered.\n\n\"Where appropriate, we seek advice from third party advisers in order to help ensure this compliance with local law and regulations.\"\n\nFabio De Masi sat on the European Parliament's Panama Papers committee as an MEP and is now a German MP.\n\nHe said: \"The Holidaybreak tax structure is exactly the sort of scheme the EU Commission will be looking at. The investigation could lead to the company being asked to pay some of the avoided tax back.\n\n\"The UK does have the option of objecting to the EU Commission's investigation through the European Court of Justice. However, this would mean the UK government doesn't want the money back,\" he added.\n\nLabour MP Margaret Hodge, the former chair of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, sees the CFC rule amendment in 2013 as evidence the coalition government \"were constantly introducing new rules to make Britain the tax haven of the world\".\n\nShe said: \"This was a deliberate change brought in by the government to help global companies do nothing other than avoid paying their fair share of tax.\"\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said: \"We do not believe these rules are incompatible with EU law but will co-operate with the European Commission's investigation.\n\n\"We are clear that all multinationals must pay tax ‎on any profits they make in the UK, and our rules prevent these profits from being artificially diverted overseas.\"\n\nIn a statement on the Paradise Papers leak, Appleby said it was a law firm which \"advises clients on legitimate and lawful ways to conduct their business. We operate in jurisdictions which are regulated to the highest international standards\".\n\nThe papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nThe 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Panorama has led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries. The BBC does not know the identity of the source.\n\nParadise Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #ParadisePapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"Paradise Papers\"\n\nWatch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "Mobile phone data could be used in place of census questions in the future, a report from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) suggests.\n\nThe information would allow the ONS to track where people live and work.\n\nThe ONS tested the idea as part of a government-backed project looking at other data sources for the census.\n\nThe report said it used commuter flow data from Vodafone users, collected over four weeks in March and April 2016, in three London boroughs.\n\nUsers can opt out of having their data processed through their network, the report said.\n\nThe UK census, which happens every 10 years, is a count of all people and households.\n\nThe census is carried out by the ONS in England and Wales. Elsewhere, it is carried out by the National Records of Scotland and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency.\n\nThe ONS said it was \"early research\" and said that any intention to use data within the future production of official statistics \"will involve extensive evaluation including privacy impacts\".\n\nNo personally-identifiable data was provided to the ONS, it said.\n\nCommuter flows starting or ending in the south London boroughs of Southwark, Croydon and Lambeth were analysed and compared to data from the last census in 2011.\n\nAn individual's home location was based on where the phone was located during the night or when switched on in the morning, while a work location was set to where a phone was found between standard working hours, Monday to Friday.\n\nThe report concluded that the two sets of data had \"good correlation\" and it suggested further research.\n\nIt said it was hard to detect home workers or commuters who travel very short distances and it could mistake other groups of people for workers. For example, students or people who visit a nearby shopping area twice a week.\n\nThe next census is in 2021.\n• None Is your smartphone listening to you?", "The Weakest Link host Anne Robinson says that older people have to be \"clever and thin\" to be on television.\n\nIn an interview with the Radio Times, Robinson revealed she is \"permanently on a diet\" and never eats breakfast.\n\nThe 73-year-old, who's hosting a one-off celebrity version of the quiz for Children in Need, said she is considering a permanent return as the \"queen of mean\" on the show.\n\n\"I have said I will do Children in Need and see how I feel,\" she said.\n\nIf The Weakest Link did return to TV screens on a regular basis, there would be more celebrities in the firing line, rather than members of the public.\n\nRobinson explained: \"They have asked whether I will consider doing celebrity shows, Saturday nights, next year.\"\n\nIn the interview, the presenter remarked that she severely restricts what she eats, and follows an exercise regime with a personal trainer.\n\nRobinson made the - possibly tongue-in-cheek - comments, saying: \"I'm like Victoria Beckham - you know, when she's really, really, really hungry, she has a piece of lettuce.\"\n\nAsked if you have to be a certain size to appear on television, Robinson replied: \"You don't necessarily, but in order to be on television when you're old, you have to be clever and thin.\"\n\nShe said she had cosmetic surgery on her face 14 years ago and now has \"a bit of Botox - not a lot\". She added: \"But to be fair, I don't drink or smoke. I run and do weights.\"\n\nRobinson recently fronted a BBC Two documentary, Abortion on Trial, and says she'd like to make more documentaries - including ones on sexual harassment and the 100th anniversary of women getting the vote.\n\nSeven celebrities are taking part in The Weakest Link special: Strictly star Chizzy Akudolu, Love Island winner Kem Cetinay, Cold Feet's John Thomson, chef Rosemary Shrager, writer and presenter Giles Coren, This Morning's Rylan Clark-Neal and Cannonball presenter Maya Jama.\n\nThe Weakest Link Celebrity Special for BBC Children in Need will be on BBC Two at 2200 GMT on 17 November.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The singer often obscures her appearance in public\n\nSia Furler has responded to an apparent attempt by paparazzi to sell naked pictures of her by posting one of them herself on Twitter.\n\nThe Australian singer-songwriter is known for being secretive about her life, including what she looks like.\n\nShe regularly hides her face under masks and wigs.\n\nSia tweeted a blurry photo of the back of a naked woman, accompanied by the words: \"Save your money, here it is for free. Every day is Christmas!\"\n\nThe picture has a watermark from a photo agency and a message saying there were an additional 14 photos of the singer.\n\nThe tweet also refers to her festive album called Everyday is Christmas.\n\nSia has had a string of solo hits and has collaborated with the likes of David Guetta and The Weeknd.\n\nShe is also one of the world's most successful songwriters, having written for Rihanna, Beyonce, Katy Perry and Adele.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nDavid Moyes said he has a point to prove and is \"hungry to get things right\" after being appointed as West Ham's new manager.\n\nThe former Everton and Manchester United boss replaces Slaven Bilic, who was sacked on Monday with the Hammers in the relegation zone.\n\nMoyes has been out of work since May, when he resigned as Sunderland manager after the club's relegation to the Championship.\n\nWest Ham joint chairman David Sullivan said the 54-year-old Scot is \"the right man to turn things around\".\n\nHe added: \"We need somebody with experience, knowledge of the Premier League and the players in it, and we believe David can get the best out of the players.\n\n\"He is highly regarded and respected within the game and will bring fresh ideas, organisation and enthusiasm.\n\n\"He proved with Everton that he has great qualities and we feel that West Ham United is a club that will give David the platform to display those qualities again.\"\n\nMoyes' first game in charge will be at Watford in the Premier League on 19 November.\n\nHe added: \"I've managed five clubs since starting out nearly 20 years ago at Preston and then going to Everton. My period at Manchester United is well documented and I then did something I have always wanted to do by experiencing management abroad, with Real Sociedad.\n\n\"It's only been the last job where I feel it wasn't a good move and I didn't enjoy the experience. So I'm hungry to make sure I get things right now.\n\n\"I don't know any manager who hasn't gone through negative periods, especially in the game today. I hope it gives me great strength and understanding of what is required.\"\n\nWhat does Moyes face at West Ham?\n\nThe Hammers are 18th, having won just two Premier League matches in 2017-18 - and lost their first three league games of the campaign.\n\nBilic spent a reported £42m on players in the summer - including forward Marko Arnautovic from Stoke City for a club record £20m and former Manchester United striker Javier Hernandez from Bayer Leverkusen for £16m.\n\nBut West Ham have taken just nine points from 11 league matches, conceding 23 goals.\n\nFollowing the Watford match, West Ham host Leicester City and go to Everton, before a difficult run in December which brings league games against leaders Manchester City, last season's champions Chelsea and Arsenal.\n\nLater in the month, the Hammers travel to face the Gunners in the Carabao Cup quarter-finals.\n\nMoyes, who started his managerial career at Preston North End, was voted LMA Manager of the Year three times during an 11-year spell at Everton from 2002 to 2013. In 11 full seasons, the Toffees finished in the top eight nine times.\n\nHe succeeded Sir Alex Ferguson as Manchester United boss on his fellow Scot's recommendation when he retired after a trophy-laden 26 years in charge at Old Trafford.\n\nBut despite signing a six-year deal with the then Premier League champions in 2013, he was sacked 10 months later with United seventh in the table.\n\nMoyes went on to manage Real Sociedad in Spain but was sacked by the La Liga club after a year in charge in November 2015.\n\nHe took over at Sunderland in July 2016 before quitting in May 2017 after the Blacks Cats were relegated, having finished bottom of the Premier League.\n\nFormer West Ham striker Dean Ashton told BBC Radio 5 live that Moyes was \"the safe option if you're thinking about grinding out until the end of the season and safety\".\n\nBut he added: \"As a player, David Moyes coming in wouldn't inspire me.\"\n\nDuring his time at Sunderland, Moyes attracted controversy for telling BBC reporter Vicki Sparks she might \"get a slap\" in March, leading to a Football Association charge for improper conduct and a £30,000 fine.\n\nHe said he \"deeply regrets\" making the comment and later apologised to Sparks, who did not make a complaint.\n\nWriting in her Sun column in April, West Ham's vice-chairman Karren Brady said Moyes' words were \"just another brilliant example of the pressure women are under to laugh off these everyday moments of sexism as a joke\".\n\nShe added: \"The threat to give someone a slap, no matter how you look at it, is aggressive. It is not banter. And it is not OK.\n\n\"I would like to think that any man who worked for me - no matter how wound up they feel by a reporter who is simply doing her job well - would not threaten to slap a woman.\n\n\"One of things I find most objectionable in this whole story is his reference to Sparks as being a 'girl', when he said he had apologised to her.\n\n\"She's not a girl. She is a woman and a professional. To call someone a girl is belittling, disrespectful and a real indication that you don't see her as an equal.\n\n\"Hopefully the penny has dropped for him that it's not OK to patronise, intimidate and threaten women and treat them as if they are imposters in a man's world.\"\n\nMoyes' arrival at West Ham has not been greeted with overwhelming enthusiasm by the club's support, something owners David Sullivan and David Gold are aware of.\n\nHowever, it is the Scot's diligence on the training ground that is understood to be the major attraction in the decision.\n\nWest Ham spent in excess of £40m in the summer to sign former Manchester United striker Javier Hernandez, Manchester City pair Pablo Zabaleta and Joe Hart, and Stoke's Marko Arnautovic, who cost a club record £20m.\n\nBut, as a collective, West Ham have badly underperformed.\n\nSullivan and Gold feel they need someone to galvanise the current group of players rather than spending more money on completely revamping the squad.\n\nWhat do the fans say?\n\nGraeme Howlett, editor of the West Ham fans' website Knees Up Mother Brown\n\nThe fans seem quite unanimous in that they are not particularly keen to see Moyes come in. They would prefer to see someone more progressive.\n\nI suspect there will be an awful lot of criticism for the board, who are already under intense pressure following the move to the Olympic Stadium, which has not gone down well.\n\nVarious reasons have been mentioned, including his record at Sunderland, where he came in at a similar position and failed to keep them in the Premier League. There was also the incident with the female reporter which has been mentioned a few times.\n\nIf you are viewing this page on the BBC News app please click here to vote.", "Sales of non-food items grew at the slowest pace since records began as families chose days out over shopping, the British Retail Consortium has said.\n\nNon-food sales rose by just 0.2% in the year to October, the weakest growth since the BRC began measuring the category in January 2011.\n\nThe retail body said the figures would give retailers \"cause for concern\" in the run up to Christmas.\n\nClothing sales were \"particularly hard hit\", it said.\n\nTotal retail sales, including food, rose just 0.2% last month, compared with 2.4% last year. On a like-for-like basis, which excludes new store openings, sales were down 1%.\n\nBRC chief executive Helen Dickinson said \"consumers appear to have opted for outdoor experiences and excursions during half term, over visits to the shops\".\n\nThe figures - which were compiled with accountancy firm KPMG - come just seven weeks before Christmas, the key trading period for most retailers.\n\nMs Dickinson said that the rise in inflation, which hit its highest for more than five years in September, was making shoppers \"ever more cautious in considering what purchases they can afford\".\n\nSeveral clothing chains have been struggling as the High Street faces tough competition from online retailers such as Asos.\n\nOn Tuesday, fashion chain New Look reported a loss of £10.4m for the six months to 23 September, a marked reversal from the profit of £59.3m seen in the same period last year. UK like-for-like sales at the retailer fell 8.4%.\n\nIt's been a pretty dismal month for non-food retailers, especially fashion. The warm weather won't have helped, but even so, these figures will be a concern as the all-important Christmas trading gets into gear.\n\nWith prices rising faster than wages, consumers have less money to spend on non-essential items. Retailers are also grappling with the effects of a weaker pound as well as other cost pressures. That's on top of all the structural challenges, with the continuing shift to online.\n\nIt's clear that the going's really challenging right now for a number of retailers. Next has already warned of \"extremely volatile\" trading. The first real clue on how Christmas is shaping up will be Black Friday at the end of this month. Are shoppers merely holding back for a splurge and will some retailers now be forced to join the fray in order to shift stock at a discount to generate much-needed sales?\n\n\"The results reflect another tough period of trading for the company amid a challenging retail environment on the UK High Street,\" said New Look executive chairman Alistair McGeorge, adding that \"the retailer is not anticipating a reversal in fortunes overnight.\"\n\nLast week, Next reported that sales at its High Street stores had fallen by 7.7% in the year to 29 October, noting that \"sales performance has remained extremely volatile and is highly dependent on the seasonality of the weather\".\n\nPaul Martin, head of retail at the accountancy firm KPMG, said that October marked a \"reversal of fortunes for retailers\".\n\nHe said: \"After a brief uptick, fashion sales reverted back to the dreary theme we have seen for a number of months this year. Unseasonably warm weather last month will not have helped, but this is unlikely to be the only reason the new ranges are proving unpopular.\"\n\nMr Martin said that retailers will be hoping that consumers are saving up for Black Friday, the post-Thanksgiving shopping bonanza in the US which has become a key date for retailers in the UK.\n\nThis year it falls on 24 November, two days after the Budget.\n\nMs Dickinson said that the Chancellor Philip Hammond should reflect on the \"disappointing state of play\" when he gives his speech on 22 November and \"deliver a Budget that allays the risks of a further slowdown in consumer spending, by keeping down the cost of living. In other words, a shoppers' Budget.\"", "Rachel is the eldest of four children\n\n\"I got separated from my siblings... I was told I was moved away from them because I was overprotective with them,\" 17-year-old Rachel told a committee of MPs on Tuesday.\n\nShe had come to Westminster to share her experiences of being in foster care, as part of the Education Committee's inquiry into fostering.\n\nThe MPs heard youngsters in care wanted more support to keep in touch with siblings and former friends, as well as more information about the foster families with whom they are placed.\n\nRachel told MPs it was very important to keep siblings together and when she looked back on her situation, she wondered if it could have been dealt with differently.\n\n\"I was told I was moved away from them because I was overprotective with them, which in my eyes, as a sister, and you're moving away from home, I feel like it's an instinct straightaway to be protective, because you're moving in with a stranger that you don't know and you have to protect your siblings.\n\n\"But then I feel that instead of separating me from them, they could have done some work with me to say, 'The foster carer can look after your siblings,' or like tell me I don't need to do everything for them and I don't have to put a barrier up - they could have given me time to settle in so then they didn't have to separate us.\n\n\"But they separated us and then I wasn't allowed to see them for a long period of time because they said that I was giving my little sister a lot of bad memories and bad thoughts, and I was thinking, 'Have you actually sat down to question her whether she's crying because she misses me or whether she's crying because of this or this?'\"\n\nRachel told the MPs that while she now had contact with her siblings, it was only once a month.\n\n\"We have a bond, but it's not as strong as I'd like it to be and that's quite hurtful towards me, because to lose a bond with your own siblings is sad, because you're by yourself in the world and your siblings are practically your best friends and now you're losing them - you've lost your parents and then your siblings, and it's like your whole world has crashed down really quite quickly.\"\n\nConnor, 14, told the committee of MPs that when he had been moved from one placement to another, he had been given no background information about his new home and had found this very stressful.\n\n\"I didn't get much info about about the carers I was going to be with, about what the household's like - is it comfortable, is it warm? and stuff,\" he said.\n\nAsked if he had had any choice in the matter, he said no.\n\nConnor, 14, travelled to Westminster to tell his story\n\n\"I just got told the carer's name, didn't get told what they like doing, I didn't get a booklet, a prepared booklet, from anyone.\n\n\"They said that it was 'on emergency'; the carer that I was with said to me she didn't get much info on me either - the only thing she got told by the local authority was 'Can you have a 12-year-old boy on emergency?'\n\n\"They said it would be for a couple of weeks until they could find a suitable placement, but I was there for nearly a year with nothing to nudge me on that I was going to be there for a long time.\n\n\"So it was very stressful, very upsetting for me, but I've learnt to expand beyond that now and cope with it and cope with the stress - it's been a bit of a rollercoaster for me.\"\n\nConnor said things could be improved if local authorities gave both child and foster carer more information about each other.\n\n\"So that I can feel more comfortable in a home with someone that I don't know, but have got info on, so I can know what they like doing, how they are, what they're like and stuff,\" he said, \"that's how I'd improve it.\"\n\nRachel added that her second placement had been a little easier, because she had met the foster carer in advance.\n\n\"I got to go out with her, go to lunch with her, go shopping with her, meet the house, meet other people in the house, so I liked the way they did that with me because they were setting up a full-time placement with me, so they let me settle in with her before I moved straight in, which I feel they should do with most individuals or young people before they just send them off.\n\n\"On that first day when I moved in with the new foster carer, it was quite unnerving because you don't know who they are, you don't know what to expect, you don't know what it's going to like, you don't know what they're like or anything like that.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC after the committee hearing, Connor and Rachel - who are both ambassadors for the charity Action for Children - said they felt sharing their stories with MPs at Westminster had made a real difference.\n\n\"I feel we've made a massive difference. I think we've put them on the back foot and made them realise foster care in England isn't going as planned,\" said Connor.\n\n\"This is the biggest experience of our lives, to put our points across to the people who can do something about it.\"\n\nRachel said the whole experience was \"amazing\" and had inspired her to think about a career in politics.\n\n\"I want to become an MP now and get there in my own steps. I could go into that - I've set my goal high.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A Yemeni TV station released footage of what it claimed was a Riyadh-bound missile\n\nSaudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has accused Iran of an act of \"direct military aggression\" by supplying missiles to rebels in Yemen.\n\nThis \"may be considered an act of war\", state media quoted the prince as telling UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson in a telephone conversation.\n\nOn Saturday, a ballistic missile was intercepted near the Saudi capital.\n\nIran denies arming the Houthi movement, which has fought a Saudi-led coalition backing Yemen's government since 2015.\n\nForeign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the prince's claim was \"dangerous\".\n\nHouthi-aligned media reported that the rebels had fired a Burkan H2 ballistic missile at King Khaled International Airport, which is 850km (530 miles) from the Yemeni border and 11km north-east of Riyadh. Saudi missile defences intercepted the missile in flight, but some fragments fell inside the airport area.\n\nHuman Rights Watch said the launch of an indiscriminate missile at a predominantly civilian airport was an apparent war crime.\n\nThe Houthi movement unveiled the Burkan 2 missile in February 2017\n\nThe official Saudi Press Agency reported on Tuesday that in his telephone call with Prince Mohammed, Mr Johnson had \"expressed his condemnation of launching a ballistic missile by Houthi coup militias\".\n\n\"For his part, the crown prince stressed that the involvement of the Iranian regime in supplying its Houthi militias with missiles is considered a direct military aggression by the Iranian regime and may be considered an act of war against the kingdom,\" it added.\n\nMr Zarif condemned Saudi Arabia's \"provocative actions\" in a telephone call with Mr Johnson later on Tuesday, foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi said.\n\n\"He dismissed false and dangerous claims made by Saudi officials, and said they are against international law and the UN Charter,\" Mr Qassemi added.\n\nIran and Saudi Arabia are engaged in a regional \"Cold War\"; a battle for influence and power. And just like the US-Soviet Cold War, while the two main protagonists are not directly involved in fighting each other, they or their proxies are engaged on a number of other battlefields.\n\nThe Saudis went into Yemen to counter alleged Iranian influence, but the campaign has proved a quagmire for the Saudi forces.\n\nIran is in the ascendant in Iraq, where it is a close ally of the Shia-dominated government. And it is \"winning\" in Syria too, helping to stabilise and consolidate the Assad regime. Saudi support for Syrian rebel factions has achieved nothing.\n\nNow the Saudis seem to be focusing on another country where Iran's allies - in this case, Hezbollah - are well entrenched - Lebanon. But tinkering with that country's fragile stability has huge risks - not least the danger of prompting a crisis that could lead to a full-scale war between Israel and Hezbollah.\n\nOn Monday, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told CNN that members of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, an Iranian proxy, launched the missile.\n\nHe said the missile was similar to one launched in July that was shot down close to the Saudi city of Mecca, and that it was manufactured in Iran, disassembled and smuggled into Yemen, then reassembled by \"operatives from the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and Hezbollah\".\n\nThe US permanent representative to the UN, Nikki Haley, said the missile fired in July was an \"Iranian Qaim\", which she described as a \"type of weapon that had not been present in Yemen before the conflict\". The missile shot down on Saturday \"may also be of Iranian origin\", 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 Javad Zarif This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Haley warned that by providing such weapons to the Houthis, the Revolutionary Guards were violating two UN Security Council resolutions.\n\nIran's foreign ministry has said the missile launch was \"an independent action\" by the Houthis in response to Saudi-led coalition \"aggression\".\n\nIn response to the attack, the coalition announced the \"temporary\" closure of all Yemeni land, sea and air ports, tightening an existing blockade, but said humanitarian aid could continue to enter Yemen under strict vetting procedures.\n\nHouthi-aligned media reported that the rebels had fired the ballistic missile\n\nThe United Nations said on Tuesday that all humanitarian flights to Yemen had been grounded and called on the coalition to re-open Yemen's borders.\n\n\"The situation is catastrophic in Yemen,\" Jens Laerke, a spokesman for the Office for the Co-ordination for Humanitarian Affairs, told reporters.\n\nMore than 8,670 people - 60% of them civilians - have been killed and 49,960 injured in air strikes and fighting on the ground since the coalition intervened in Yemen's civil war in March 2015, according to the UN.\n\nThe conflict has also left 20.7 million people in need of humanitarian assistance, created the world's largest food security emergency, and led to a cholera outbreak that is believed to have affected 902,000 people and caused 2,191 deaths.\n\nWarhead: 500kg; Range: 800km; in October 2016 a Burkan-1 was intercepted over King Fahd Air Base, near Taif, 525km from Saudi border with Yemen\n\nNo reported warhead size or range, but in November 2017 Burkan-2 was intercepted over Riyadh's King Khaled International Airport, 850km from border", "Prince Charles’s private estate, the Duchy of Cornwall, secretly invested in an offshore company which lobbied to change climate agreements, documents from the Paradise Papers have revealed.\n\nSustainable Forestry Ltd lobbied politicians to amend global agreements to allow ‘carbon credits’ from rainforests to be traded.\n\nThe Prince made speeches in support of this – and his estate, the Duchy of Cornwall, tripled its investment in Sustainable Forestry in the space of a year. It is not clear why this was.\n\nThe Duchy says the prince has no direct involvement in investment decisions.\n\nPrince Charles denies ever speaking on a topic simply because of a company the Duchy may have invested in.\n\nFind out more about the Paradise Papers.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe gunman who killed 26 churchgoers in Texas fled from a mental health clinic in 2012, according to a police report.\n\nEl Paso officers who detained Devin Kelley five years ago were told he was \"a danger to himself and others\".\n\nKelley had been sent to the hospital after he was court-martialled for assaulting his ex-wife and stepson during a stint in the US Air Force.\n\nHe was \"attempting to carry out death threats\" against \"his military chain of command\", the report states.\n\nOfficials say the assault charge should have legally barred him from owning guns.\n\nEl Paso police arrested Kelley at a bus terminal in downtown El Paso in June 2012, according to a police report first reported by KPRC in Houston.\n\nOfficers wrote that Kelley had fled Peak Behavioral Health Services in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, about 100 miles (160km) away.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe person who reported him missing from the facility told police Kelley \"suffered from mental disorders\".\n\nKelley \"had already been caught sneaking firearms onto Holloman Air Force Base\", the report adds.\n\nLater that year, Kelley pleaded guilty in a military court to repeatedly assaulting his wife and toddler stepson.\n\nHe was sentenced to one year in a US Navy prison.\n\nFBI investigators said on Tuesday they have been trying to unlock Kelley's mobile phone, to better understand what led him to carry out the mass shooting.\n\nAccording to the Houston Chronicle newspaper, the 26-year-old killer had shown up at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs with his children for an annual fall festival five days before the shooting.\n\nA friend of Kelley's former mother-in-law Michelle Shields, who officials believe he was targeting on Sunday, said she was glad to see him at last week's event with her grandchildren following past family troubles.\n\n\"They thought, 'oh this is good. This is progress,'\" said the woman.\n\nPhotos of the event on the church's Facebook page show children dressed in Halloween costumes and playing games.\n\nSeveral of the victims are also shown in the images.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnnie Langendorff: \"I'm just a guy who wanted to do the right thing\"\n\nSurvivors have been describing how Kelley went pew to pew in the church shooting crying children.\n\nIn an interview with San Antonio television station KSAT, Rosanne Solis described the terror among congregants.\n\nArmed with an assault rifle and 450 rounds of ammunition, the gunman began shooting into the small wooden building from outside.\n\nMs Solis, who was sitting near the entrance, said he stormed through the front of the church, shouting: \"Everybody die!\"\n\n\"Everybody was saying, 'Be quiet! it's him, it's him!'\" said Ms Solis.\n\nShe added: \"Everybody got down, crawling under wherever they could hide. He was shooting hard.\"\n\nWitnesses said the gunman walked up and down the aisles looking for survivors to shoot.\n\nMs Solis' husband, Joaquin Ramirez, told how he made eye contact with Annabelle Pomeroy - the 14-year-old daughter of the church's pastor.\n\nShe was crying for help, Mr Ramirez told KSAT.\n\nHe said he motioned with his finger for her to stay quiet. Annabelle was killed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Our kids play together,' says a resident whose neighbours are feared dead\n\nMr Ramirez said the gunman also killed young children who were crying, shooting them at point-blank range.\n\nHe and his wife survived by playing dead, though she was shot in the arm and he was hit by shrapnel.\n\nAnother survivor, Farida Brown, 73, had a narrow escape, her son David Brown told KENS-TV.\n\n\"The shooter was making his rounds, and he ended up there and started shooting this lady multiple times,\" Mr Brown told the station.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After the Las Vegas attack in October 2017 the BBC looked at how US mass shootings are getting worse\n\n\"And the lady looked at my mom the whole time, and my mom was looking at her and telling her, 'It's OK, you're going to go to heaven. You're going to go to heaven.'\n\n\"And then she knew it was her turn to be shot, and so she just started praying that God would take her soul to heaven.\"\n\nBut at that moment a neighbour, Stephen Willeford, entered the church and began shooting at Kelley.\n\nAs Kelley fled in his car, Mr Willeford flagged down a passing motorist, Johnnie Langendorff.\n\nThe two gave chase in Mr Langendorff's pickup truck until Kelley's vehicle crashed in a ditch.\n\nThe gunman was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, say police.", "Facebook has chosen the UK as the first country outside the US to get its Messenger payments service. Later on Monday, local users will be able to send each other money in a message.\n\nThe service was launched in the US in 2015. The social network says it has been widely used to split restaurant bills, pay babysitters and simply send gifts. It says most users send less than $50 (£38).\n\nThe company says the service is coming to the UK because it has so many \"mobile-savvy consumers\".\n\nFacebook is collaborating with all the major banks and credit card firms to launch Messenger payments, which will require both the sender and recipient of money to register their payment cards.\n\nBut three years ago, UK banks launched their own instant payments service - Paym - which has not made a huge impact on the way we pay. So, why should this be any different?\n\nFacebook claims Messenger payments will catch on because \"people are looking for simplicity and emotion\".\n\nI'm not sure about the emotion, but the Messenger app is certainly a very simple way to send money, especially compared with Paym where you have to log in to your own bank's app.\n\nSmartphones have helped to enable quick and easy contactless payments\n\nDavid Marcus, who runs Messenger, says it is obvious from our messages that we need this.\n\n\"More and more people are having conversations on Messenger about paying one another,\" he explains.\n\n\"As a result it's a very natural place for you to have the most frictionless and secure way of paying each other.\"\n\nFacebook is also introducing something called M suggestions, a virtual assistant that recognises when you are talking about payments. It will suggest the new service as a quick and easy solution. We'll see how users enjoy being nudged in this manner.\n\nBut with millions of Messenger users, who will not need to download a separate app to use the service, Facebook is well placed to become major player in the UK payments scene. That begs the question, how did UK banks let this happen?\n\nA spokesman for Paym insisted it was growing, with four million people having registered their mobile phone numbers to use the service. But with just £400m of payments in three and a half years, it is still a minnow.\n\nIn Sweden, by contrast, Swish - a peer-to-peer payments service in a single app - has taken the country by storm with the majority of adults now \"swishing\" money to each other and small businesses.\n\nThe UK payments industry decided against a Paym app, believing customers would be more likely to trust their own bank's online operation. But it looks as though the lesson from Sweden - and from Facebook - is that simplicity is vital to building the network effect needed to make a new service take off.\n\nBut perhaps we should be cautious before allowing Facebook into yet another part of our lives. While the Messenger service is free to use, the business model behind it is all about \"engagement\" - keeping users on the platform for longer so that they can be served more advertising.\n\nAt a time when there is growing alarm over the extraordinary power the social media giant has to mould the way we see the world, letting it peer into our wallets as well may be a step too far for some.", "Priti Patel has apologised for holding a series of undisclosed meetings with senior Israeli officials during a private holiday over the summer.\n\nThe international development secretary met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior figures without \"following the usual procedures\".\n\nMs Patel apologised for not informing the Foreign Office and suggesting Boris Johnson knew in advance of the visit.\n\nDowning Street said it welcomed Ms Patel's \"clarification\" and that at a meeting with Theresa May earlier, the prime minister had \"reminded her of the obligations which exist under the ministerial code\".\n\nNo 10 said it had not been aware of Ms Patel's meeting with Mr Netanyahu until Friday but insisted that Mrs May still had confidence in the minister.\n\nThe BBC's diplomatic correspondent James Landale said there were clear rules about what ministers could and could not do and \"in normal circumstances\" Ms Patel would be in \"serious trouble\".\n\nBut he said the fragility of Mrs May's government and the fact that the PM would not want to lose another cabinet minister after Sir Michael Fallon's recent resignation could help her.\n\nThe BBC revealed on Friday that Ms Patel held a number of undisclosed meetings with business and political figures during a family holiday in August, including Yair Lapid, the leader of Israel's centrist Yesh Atid party and Jean Judes, executive director of disability charity BIS.\n\nNo diplomats were present at the meetings, at which the minister was accompanied by an influential pro-Israeli Conservative peer and campaigner Lord Polak.\n\nMs Patel, who is a long-standing supporter of Israel and a former vice-chairman of Conservative Friends of Israel defended her actions, saying she had paid for the holiday herself and while in Israel had taken the opportunity to meet \"people and organisations\" for the purpose of building links between the two countries.\n\nShe also told the Guardian that \"Boris [Johnson] knew about the visit, the point is that the Foreign Office did know about this\".\n\nSuggesting that the reaction to her visit had been \"extraordinary\", she added that it was \"for the Foreign Office to go away and explain themselves\".\n\nBut in a statement \"clarifying her position\", Ms Patel said she had in fact attended 12 meetings, not just the handful previously reported, and that her earlier comments may have \"implied\" otherwise.\n\nAmong meetings that were not previously reported, she said that she had met Mr Netanyahu to discuss his forthcoming visit to the UK as well as the Israeli \"domestic political scene\" and UK-Israeli collaboration.\n\nShe said she had also met other senior figures in the Israeli government, including security minister Gilad Erdan and foreign ministry official Yuval Rotem.\n\nMs Patel has also set the record straight about when the government was informed about the trip.\n\nWhile the Foreign Office was aware of the visit \"while it was under way\", she said she was wrong to have given the impression that the department and Mr Johnson knew about it in advance.\n\nShe said she \"regretted the lack of precision in the wording\" of her previous statement about the trip.\n\n\"This summer I travelled to Israel, on a family holiday paid for myself,\" she said in a statement.\n\n\"While away I had the opportunity to meet a number of people and organisations...In hindsight, I can see how my enthusiasm to engage in this way could be mis-read, and how meetings were set up and reported in a way which did not accord with the usual procedures. I am sorry for this and I apologise for it.\n\n\"My first and only aim as the Secretary of State for International Development is to put the interests of British taxpayers and the world's poor at the front of our development work.\"\n\nIn her statement, Ms Patel also said the Foreign Office was clear that the UK's interests were \"not damaged or affected\" by her actions.\n\nLabour has called for an inquiry into whether Ms Patel broke the ministerial code or the rules on lobbying.\n\n\"Not only does it look like she has broken the ministerial code, she has now been caught misleading the British public,\" shadow international development secretary Kate Osamor said.\n\n\"If she does not now resign, then Theresa May must immediately refer the issue to the Cabinet Office for a full investigation.\"\n\nDowning Street said the ministerial code was \"not explicit\" in this area and Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heyward had been asked to see if it could be made clearer.", "An entrepreneur charged with managing the oil wealth of the struggling African state of Angola was paid more than $41m in just 20 months, leaked documents reveal.\n\nThe payments were made via a complex web of companies set up in the offshore jurisdiction of Mauritius.\n\nJean-Claude Bastos also used his position to help set up large investment deals he stands to further profit from, the Paradise Papers show.\n\nLike many oil rich countries, Angola set up a sovereign wealth fund to invest the proceeds of its natural resource wealth. Similar schemes have been used by other countries to help ensure a steady income for future generations.\n\nAngola is wracked by corruption, suffers extreme poverty and has one of the highest child mortality rates in the world.\n\nThe fund, Fundo Soberano De Angola (FSDEA), which began with $5bn (£3.75bn) in 2011, was mired in controversy from the start, after the then Angolan President Eduardo dos Santos' son, 39-year-old Jose Filomeno, was appointed to head it up.\n\nJean-Claude Bastos, sometimes also known as Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais, a Swiss-Angolan and close friend of the then president's son, was chosen as the fund's asset manager.\n\nTypically, a fund of this size would spread the risk of investment among several asset managers, along with the fees it pays, said one expert.\n\nHowever, Mr Bastos was given responsibility for investing almost all of the fund's money, and was paid accordingly. Today, his company Quantum Global Investments Africa Management, manages about 85% of it.\n\nOne expert described the situation as \"unusual\". Andrew Bauer, an authority on sovereign wealth funds, told the BBC: \"Funds want to hedge the risk. You don't want to put all your eggs in one basket.\"\n\nIn a statement, the FSDEA told the BBC the appointment of Mr Bastos' company to manage the fund followed \"an objective process\". The firm was selected, it said, because of its \"exemplary performance on previous mandates with the Angolan authorities\".\n\nThe fund also said giving near total control of investments to one asset manager was part of its policy for the first 18 months only.\n\nDocuments seen by the BBC as part of the Paradise Papers investigation show the fund paid management fees of more than $90m (£67.5m) to Mr Bastos' Mauritius-based QG Investments Africa Management. This occurred over a 20-month period between May 2014 and the end of 2015.\n\nThe leak offers an unprecedented view into what happened to the management fees after being paid into Mr Bastos' company.\n\nThis money was split into two main chunks - with $41m declared as dividends, or pure profit, and deposited in a company in the British Virgin Islands, itself owned by a series of secretive offshore companies ultimately owned by Mr Bastos. A further $34m was paid in advisory fees to a Swiss firm majority owned by Mr Bastos. The rest, after minor expenses, was retained in the management company run by Mr Bastos.\n\nThe BBC asked Mr Bastos whether secrecy was the reason for the series of companies registered offshore. He said it was entirely his personal choice how he receives dividends from his companies. He also said the dividends he receives \"pale in comparison to the long term positive impact my projects will have in Angola\".\n\nBoth the fund and Mr Bastos said the management fees paid to Quantum Global Investments Africa Management are in line with global industry standards.\n\nMr Bastos added that the level of work provided by the group is considerable to ensure projects are built for future success.\n\nWithin months of receiving the money, a company in which Mr Bastos is a director purchased a 14-seater jet that had been priced at $31.75m. Mr Bastos told the BBC his is one of \"many businesses that own an aircraft to more efficiently manage their travel requirements\" and that travelling on commercial flights is \"unproductive\".\n\nThe leaked documents also show Mr Bastos holds a personal stake in investments the fund made on his recommendation.\n\nIn one, tens of millions were committed to a deal with another of Mr Bastos' companies, Afrique Imo Corporation, to build a hotel, office and a retail complex in the Angolan capital, Luanda.\n\nThe deal represents a \"very strong conflict of interest\" according to Mr Bauer. \"This absolutely should not be happening.\"\n\nAt the time, it sounded alarm bells in the compliance department of Appleby - the law firm that handled the investment, according to internal emails seen by the BBC. In one, sent from a regional compliance manager, a team member charged with making sure the deal was above board noted: \"this poses issues of conflict of interest between the Manager, Fund and the Investee Company\".\n\nHowever, an email from Appleby's director back to the compliance team notes Mr Bastos had \"disclosed his interest\" and, in a board meeting convened to agree the hotel deal, had \"abstained from voting\". Crucially, though, the director notes Mr Bastos \"was still present in the meeting\", before adding: \"For the purpose of managing the conflict, Mr Bastos should refrain from attending any meeting.\"\n\nOn seeing the confidential emails of the exchange, Tom Keatinge, a specialist in financial crime, told the BBC he was \"sure they are going to come to a conclusion that this is not a transaction that they should be approving\".\n\nAppleby \"provide[d] the client with the answer that he wanted\", said Mr Keatinge. \"It's hard to believe that just because he abstained from the voting, his views were not well understood by the meeting. So it's a scurrilous approach in my view.\"\n\nAs well as the Luanda complex, two other investments made for the fund in that period carried similar apparent conflicts of interest for Mr Bastos, according to the Appleby documents.\n\nMr Bastos told the BBC that where he holds a stake in investments, he views these investments as \"having aligned interests\" and not being \"conflicted\".\n\nThe FSDEA said its investment policy for the first 18 months encourages \"close interrelation and synergies... to increase the speed of portfolio development and boost institutional reach\".\n\nThere are also questions about whether the hotel project represented a good investment for the fund. A former employee of Quantum Global with a direct knowledge of the Luanda deal said in 2016 the project was assessed as \"economically unviable\" because it would not bring good enough returns for the fund. The investment advisers' recommendation was to drop it.\n\nMr Bastos insisted the investment was viable and said that \"by developing what will become Angola's tallest building his group are demonstrating their belief in the long term potential of the Angolan economy\".\n\nIn Luanda in 2016, rubbish went uncollected after the refuse company was not paid\n\nThe web of companies run by Mr Bastos would appear to be designed to \"to enrich a particular individual or... group of people\", said Mr Keatinge.\n\n\"Whoever has oversight of this structure... the political elite within Angola, there is either massive incompetence or there is complicity here.\"\n\nAppleby, which is the focus of much of the Paradise Papers investigation, didn't respond to specific questions about Mr Bastos - citing client confidentiality. The firm which denies any wrongdoing says it \"advises clients on legitimate and lawful ways to conduct their business\".\n\nAnother document seen by the BBC raises questions for the authorities in Mauritius, after an internal report by another offshore regulator criticised Mr Bastos. The regulator in Jersey notified Mr Bastos that his application to run the asset management business was likely to be refused because it doubted his independence. It highlighted Mr Bastos' \"close association\" with the fund's chairman, Jose Filomeno Dos Santos, and a conviction in Switzerland for \"qualified cases of misappropriation\".\n\nMr Bastos told the BBC he withdrew the application before any formal decision was made by the Jersey regulator.\n\nA little more than a month later Mr Bastos applied successfully in Mauritius. He told the BBC he informed the Mauritian authorities about his conviction which in any case had expired and that his \"criminal record is completely clean\".\n\nThe BBC asked the Financial Services Commission in Mauritius how it satisfied itself Mr Bastos was a fit and proper person to be licensed.\n\nIt declined to comment on the case but said where there were \"adverse\" issues disclosed in an application, the handling law firm - in this case Appleby - would be responsible for checking.\n\nAgain, Appleby declined to comment on individual cases.\n\nListen to more on this story on File on 4, on Tuesday 7th November at 20:00 GMT on BBC Radio 4. Watch more on this story on Newsnight, BBC Two at 22:30 GMT\n\nYour browser does not support this Lookup Your guide to financial jargon\n\nThe papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nThe 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Panorama has led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries. The BBC does not know the identity of the source.\n\nParadise Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #ParadisePapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"Paradise Papers\"\n\nWatch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "Details of the government's post-Brexit trade policy have been published.\n\nMinisters say the Trade Bill includes provisions for the UK to implement existing EU trade agreements and help ensure firms can still access foreign government contracts worth £1.3tn.\n\nIt will also create a new trade remedies body to defend UK businesses against injurious trade practices.\n\nInternational Trade Secretary Liam Fox said firms needed \"as much stability as possible\" on the day the UK leaves.\n\nBut Labour questioned why the bill was being published on the day Parliament rises for a week-long recess, suggesting ministers wanted to \"minimise scrutiny\".\n\nAnd unions said workers' rights must not be sacrificed on the altar of doing \"dodgy deals\" with countries with insufficient employment protections.\n\nThe UK cannot sign or negotiate trade deals before its scheduled departure from the EU in March 2019. However, ministers say they can \"scope\" out future deals with key trade partners, such as the US, Australia and New Zealand.\n\nDespite its publication, the Trade Bill, one of nine pieces of new legislation in the pipeline to prepare the ground for Brexit, will not be debated by MPs until a later date.\n\nMr Fox said the point of the bill was to \"provide as much stability as possible\" for businesses on the day Britain leaves the EU and to prevent market instability.\n\nBut looking beyond that, the UK wanted to negotiate \"more liberal\" trade agreements to \"provide even better market access than we have through our EU membership\".\n\n\"One of our worries is that global trade is not opening up,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme, and the UK wanted to \"use its influence to get a more liberal global trading system\" once it had left the EU.\n\nBut TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said the \"ramshackle bill\" offered no protection for workers' rights and for public services like the NHS from foreign contractors.\n\n\"The Trade Bill must guarantee that the price of entry to a trade deal involving Britain is signing up to the strongest protections for workers and public services,\" she said.\n\nOn the eve of the bill's publication, one of Donald Trump's leading allies said he was optimistic that the UK and US will sign a free trade deal after Brexit.\n\nUS Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross told the BBC there had already been a \"joint scoping exercise\" in Washington in July on a free trade agreement and another similar meeting will be held in London next week.\n\n\"We're huge trading partners with each other and our economies are in many ways more similar to each other than either of us is to most of Europe,\" he said.\n\n\"So there's all the logic in the world for the US and the UK to be not only good trading partners, but FTA partners,\" he said.\n\nMr Ross, who met Theresa May and other senior ministers during a two-day visit, identified continued \"passporting\" of financial services, compliance with EU food standards on GM crops and chlorine-washed chicken and future trade tariffs as areas that could pose problems in negotiations between the nations.", "An ex-Welsh Labour minister who faced a party investigation into allegations about his personal conduct has taken his own life, it is understood.\n\nCarl Sargeant, 49, lost his job as cabinet secretary for communities and children last Friday.\n\nHe was suspended from Labour after the first minister learned of a number of alleged incidents involving women.\n\nA family statement said they were \"devastated beyond words\" at the loss of \"the glue that bound us together\".\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the death was \"deeply shocking news\".\n\nMr Sargeant, who was married and had two children, was found dead at his home in Connah's Quay, Flintshire, on Tuesday morning.\n\nHe was sacked from his Welsh Government job after allegations about his behaviour were passed to First Minister Carwyn Jones' office.\n\nMr Jones had said on Monday he felt he had no choice but to refer the matter to the party. Mr Sargeant had vowed to clear his name.\n\nThe Welsh Assembly's business for Tuesday was cancelled as a mark of respect following his death, and meetings on Wednesday and Thursday will also not take place.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a statement Mr Sargeant's family said: \"Carl was a much loved husband, father and friend.\n\n\"He wasn't simply a part of our family. He was the glue that bound us together.\n\n\"He was the most kind and caring husband, father, son and friend. We are devastated beyond words, and we know our grief will be shared by all those who knew and loved him.\"\n\nPolice were called to an address in Connah's Quay on Tuesday\n\nThe Senedd, in the wake of the death of former Welsh Government minister Carl Sargeant, is a place in shock.\n\nI do not remember an atmosphere anything like this.\n\nThere is, among some senior Labour figures, a growing sense of concern and anger at the process where the government or the Labour Party appear not to have exercised their duty of care over Mr Sargeant after he faced accusations about his behaviour.\n\nThere are people who spoke to Mr Sargeant on Tuesday morning who were told that he still did not know what the allegations were.\n\nCarwyn Jones's future could be on the line here. This is a trauma that could become a political crisis unless he comes up with the answers that Labour AMs in particular want to hear.\n\nPaying tribute, the first minister said: \"Carl was a friend as well as a colleague and I am shocked and deeply saddened by his death.\n\n\"He made a big contribution to Welsh public life and fought tirelessly for those he represented both as a minister and as a local assembly member.\"\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said in relation to the \"sad news\" about the death of Carl Sargeant, that Theresa May's \"heart goes out to Carl Sargeant's friends and family\".\n\nMr Corbyn said the AM was \"somebody who represented our party\" and \"worked hard to represent his communities\".\n\nThe Labour leader said that all allegations must be examined and pursued but added: \"There must also be great pastoral care and support given to everybody involved in these accusations, and also that we deal with them, all parties, as quickly as possible.\"\n\nSpeaking through tears, former local government minister Leighton Andrews told BBC Radio Wales: \"Carl Sargeant was loved. He was loved across the political divide. He was loved by the people in his own community.\n\n\"Carl was a unique politician. He arrived in the assembly from the factory floor. He grew up and still lived in the council estate that helped shape his roots in Connah's Quay - he was still very much part of that community.\n\n\"My understanding is that Carl was still not aware of the detail of the allegations against him even though, I'm told, this morning.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ex-Plaid AM Rhodri Glyn Thomas: \"Carl clearly felt he'd been found guilty\"\n\nFormer Plaid Cymru AM Rhodri Glyn Thomas said Mr Sargeant \"clearly felt he had been found guilty before he had a chance to defend himself.\n\n\"So I think we need to develop a system which is fair to everybody, which defends everybody, but doesn't place people in a position where they feel they have no opportunity whatsoever to fight their cause.\"\n\nTributes were paid across the political divide on Tuesday.\n\nConservative Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns said he was \"shocked and saddened\" by the news, adding: \"My heart goes out to his family, friends and colleagues.\"\n\nElin Jones, assembly presiding officer, said Mr Sargeant \"served the people of Alyn and Deeside with pride and determination\" and that he had made an \"enormous contribution to the development of this democratic institution\".\n\nWelsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said: \"Our Parliament has lost a stalwart and many of us have lost a friend.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood said: \"Carl Sargeant made a significant contribution to Welsh politics, both as an assembly member and a government minister.\"\n\nUKIP Wales leader Neil Hamilton described him as a \"gentle giant\" who would be \"missed across the party divide\".\n\nLiberal Democrat Kirsty Williams, who was a colleague of Mr Sargeant's in the Welsh Government, said: \"Not only was Carl a dedicated local AM, but he was an effective government minister who had a significant impact across political life at a national and community level.\"\n\nFC Nomads, the Connah's Quay football team that Mr Sargeant was president of, cancelled all games this weekend in a mark of respect.\n\nNorth Wales Police Supt Mark Pierce said police were called at about 11:30 GMT on Tuesday to a report that a man's body had been found at an address in Connah's Quay.\n\n\"The man has been formally identified as local AM Carl Sargeant. His next of kin have been informed and police are supporting the family,\" he said.\n\n\"North Wales Police are not treating his death as suspicious and the matter has been referred to HM Coroner.\"", "Police investigate the crash in the Sydney suburb of Greenacre\n\nTwo eight-year-old boys have died after a car crashed into a primary school classroom in Sydney, police have said.\n\nThe incident at Banksia Road Public School also left three girls in hospital with injuries.\n\nMost of the other 19 children in the classroom were assessed at the scene by paramedics, authorities said.\n\nThe driver of the car, a 52-year-old woman, was taken to a police station. Authorities say they do not believe the crash was intentional.\n\nThe incident happened at about 09:45 local time on Tuesday (22:45 GMT Monday) in the suburb of Greenacre.\n\nParamedics described the scene as \"pandemonium\".\n\n\"Obviously it was a scene of carnage,\" said Supt Stephanie Radnidge, from New South Wales (NSW) Ambulance.\n\n\"There were a number of distressed and overwhelmed children and teachers at the scene of a horrible accident.\"\n\nThe two boys were taken to a nearby hospital, where they died from their injuries. A girl, nine, remains in a serious condition, while the two others, both eight, were stable, authorities said.\n\nPolice said \"a number\" of other children received minor injuries and were treated at the scene.\n\nAuthorities described the scene as deeply distressing\n\n\"It is very, very hard because we are parents ourselves, we are human beings,\" said Supt Radnidge.\n\n\"But we are highly trained and the best care was delivered this morning to those injured at this site.\"\n\nPolice said the driver was undergoing mandatory blood and urine tests, and they were investigating how the crash happened.\n\n\"We do not believe this was an intentional act,\" said NSW Police Commander Stuart Smith.\n\nIt is not yet known if the woman had any connection with the school, authorities said.\n\nOne man at the scene, Khaled Arnaout, said he saw a \"big hole\" in the wall of the portable classroom after being drawn to it by screams.\n\n\"Teachers and everyone were just running around,\" he told the Sydney Morning Herald.\n\n\"There was blood and kids on the floor, just lying down and screaming.\"", "NHS staff in England are working on the \"edge of safety\" as rising demand is outstripping the increasing numbers being employed, health bosses say.\n\nThere are now 6% more staff than there were three years ago, but demand for services has risen by three times as much in some areas.\n\nNHS Providers, which represents health chiefs, said staff shortages was now the number one concern in the NHS.\n\nBut ministers insisted there were plans in place to tackle the problem.\n\nOver the past year, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced rises in the number of training places for both doctors and nurses.\n\nThe Department of Health said this represented the \"biggest ever expansion of training places\" and would help ensure the NHS had the staff it needed.\n\nCan't find your health trust? Browse the full list Rather search by typing? Back to search\n\nIf you can't see the NHS Tracker, click or tap here.\n\nBut Saffron Cordery, of NHS Providers, said there was no guarantee this would work as there was no over-arching \"coherent or credible\" strategy.\n\nShe said her members were really worried about the shortages on the front line, which was leaving staff with \"undoable\" jobs.\n\n\"They are now working on the edge of safe services. We are seeing so much pressure on the front line.\"\n\nShe added the prospect of Brexit was just making things worse, with EU staff facing \"much uncertainty\" about their jobs and future careers in the NHS.\n\nJust last week, figures from the Nursing and Midwifery Council showed the number of EU nurses and midwives registered to work in the UK had fallen by 2,700 in the past year, to just over 36,000.\n\nThe report by NHS Providers found the total number of staff working in the NHS had risen by 6%, to 1 million, between 2013-14 and 2016-17.\n\nBu the same period had also seen the following rises in demand for services:\n\nLabour shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth said: \"This is a damning report. The staffing crisis facing our NHS reflects a fundamental failure at national level on workforce strategy.\n\n\"In the upcoming Budget, the government must fully fund the scrapping of the pay cap for NHS staff and bring forward wider funding to put our NHS on a sustainable footing.\"\n\nRoyal College of Nursing general secretary Janet Davies said: \"Ministers can no longer dismiss warnings of this kind.\"", "Twitter user 'MaanviNarcisa' took this picture in Noida - a suburb of Delhi\n\nPanic has gripped the Indian capital, Delhi, as residents woke up to a blanket of thick grey smog on Tuesday.\n\nVisibility is poor as pollution levels reached 30 times the World Health Organization's recommended limit in some areas.\n\nThe Indian Medical Association (IMA) declared \"a state of medical emergency\" and urged the government to \"make every possible effort to curb this menace\".\n\nPeople have been posting dramatic pictures on social media showing the extent of the problem.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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Last year car rationing was trialled in an attempt to curb pollution.\n\nBut none of the measures seem to have had much impact.\n\nSome Twitter users believe that the problem needs a long-term solution instead of a \"piecemeal approach\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 8 by Rajat Vashishta This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Higher prices for food and clothing prices driven up by the weak pound fuelled retail sales growth last month.\n\nBritish Retail Consortium (BRC) and KPMG figures showed that like-for-like retail sales rose 1.9% in September\n\nThat was far higher than the 0.4% increase for the same month last year. Total sales climbed 2.3%.\n\nMuch of this growth was due to price rises filtering through, particularly in food and clothing, said BRC chief executive Helen Dickinson.\n\n\"Retailers have worked hard to keep a lid on price rises following the depreciation of the pound, but with a potent mix of more expensive imports and increasing business costs from various government policies, something had to give at some point,\" she said.\n\n\"Spending is still being focused towards essential purchases; with consumers buying their winter coats and back to school items, but shying away from big ticket items such as furniture and delaying the renewal of key household electrical goods.\"\n\nThe survey showed that food sales rose by 2.5% on a like-for-like basis over the three months to September and 3.5% in total, while non-food sales rose by just 0.5%, or by 0.9% on a total basis.\n\nNon-food sales in stores slumped 2% last month, and slid by 1.5% in total in the three months to September.\n\nYet online sales for non-food surged 10.7% in September - well above the three-month average of 10% - as shoppers responded well to online discounts.\n\nPaul Martin, KPMG UK's head of retail, said: \"With potential interest rate rises on the horizon, shaky consumer confidence and ever-increasing levels of household debt, uncertainty remains.\n\n\"We're now moving into the final quarter, which will ultimately define whether 2017 has been a good or bad year for retailers.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emily Hunt said she \"had a lightbulb moment\" that she was drugged\n\nA woman seeking what is thought to be the UK's first crowdfunded private rape prosecution says she hopes to lead the way for those \"let down\" by the courts.\n\nEmily Hunt from London, claims she was drugged and raped in 2015.\n\nPolice investigated, but the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) felt there was insufficient evidence to proceed with a case.\n\nMs Hunt has hired a barrister who believes there are grounds for a criminal prosecution.\n\nMs Hunt - who has waived her right to anonymity - told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on the day of the alleged rape she woke up \"completely naked\" at 22:00 in a hotel room next to a man she had \"never seen\".\n\nHer last memory of that day was between 16:00 and 17:00, she said, when she had been having a meal with her father.\n\nWhen she \"finally came to\", she added, she had a \"light-bulb moment\" that she had been drugged.\n\n\"I'd never felt like that before. I'd lost five hours of my life and wound up somewhere where I didn't know how I got there.\"\n\nShe said she hid in the bathroom and phoned a friend, who rang the police.\n\nWith no memory of the encounter Ms Hunt was not aware they had had sex until police informed her they had found used condoms in the hotel room.\n\nThe man told police they had had sex but insisted it was consensual.\n\nMs Hunt believes it was rape as she would not have been in a state to consent.\n\nPolice told her the man had also \"filmed her naked and unconscious on the bed\" and carried out a sex act over her body.\n\nThe police referred her case to the CPS, who upon reviewing CCTV footage and toxicology tests decided there was not enough evidence to proceed.\n\nCCTV footage of Ms Hunt and the man showed them kissing and holding hands as they walked to the hotel after leaving a bar.\n\nToxicology tests, taken almost nine hours after her last memory, showed Ms Hunt was at least two times over the drink drive limit, but came back negative for any signs of the date rape drug GHB.\n\nMs Hunt believes the toxicology report was \"flawed\", and that CCTV footage - which she said showed her unable to stand without support - demonstrated how she could not have been in a position to give consent.\n\nShe estimated the cost of a potential private rape prosecution to be £50,000 - a sum she is hoping to crowdfund.\n\n\"It is an amazing thing that we as individuals can bring a criminal charge in a case where the system has let us down, that can result in a rapist going to jail,\" she said.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it \"carried out a thorough investigation following [Ms Hunt's] allegations\" and \"will always provide support to anyone who reports a serious sexual offence\".\n\nMs Hunt's complaints over its investigation were \"independently reviewed by the IPCC and not upheld\", it continued.\n\nThe CPS said \"having looked carefully at all the available evidence, a specialist prosecutor decided there was insufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction in this case\".\n\nA further review - conducted at the request of Ms Hunt - \"upheld the original decision\", it added.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.", "Despite losing her job, the 50-year-old says she does not regret \"flipping off\" the motorcade\n\nA woman pictured raising her middle finger toward US President Donald Trump's motorcade has reportedly been fired from her job over the photograph.\n\nThe image went viral after it was taken on 28 October in Virginia, close to a Trump golf resort.\n\nJuli Briskman, who was identified as the cyclist in the image, alleges she was fired by employers Akima LLC after she posted it to her online profiles.\n\nThe company did not respond to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nMs Briskman told US media the firm had called her into a meeting a day after she informed their HR department she was the subject of the widely circulated image.\n\nShe told the Huffington Post news website that executives had told her they classified the image as \"lewd\" or \"obscene\", and therefore deemed that it violated their social media policies after she had posted it to her Twitter and Facebook accounts.\n\nHowever Ms Briskman said she had emphasised to management that she had not been in working hours when the photograph was taken and had not mentioned her employers on the social media pages.\n\nMs Briskman also alleges that a male colleague was allowed to keep his job after deleting a post deemed as offensive in a separate incident.\n\nShe therefore questions why she was immediately dismissed from her role.\n\nThe 50-year-old mother-of-two had reportedly been at the government contractor firm for six months working in communications.\n\nMotorcade protests are not uncommon: this was taken by press photographer Brendan Smialowski on the same day\n\nDespite losing her job, Ms Briskman said she did not regret making the gesture.\n\n\"In some ways, I'm doing better than ever,\" she told The Huffington Post\n\n\"I'm angry about where our country is right now. I am appalled. This was an opportunity for me to say something.\"\n\nThe press photographer, Brendan Smialowski, told the AFP website that it was common to see people protesting or making obscene gestures at presidents as they drove by.\n\nHe said that he had been struck by the \"tenacity\" of Ms Briskman after she made the gesture several times and made attempts to catch up with the motorcade.", "One of the world's largest firms loaned a businessman previously accused of corruption $45m and asked him to negotiate mining rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Paradise Papers reveal.\n\nAnglo-Swiss company Glencore made the loan available to Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler, a notorious middle man with a close relationship with senior figures in the DR Congo government, in 2009.\n\nMr Gertler was asked to negotiate a new deal for a mining company in which Glencore had a significant stake, which campaigners say cost DR Congo hundreds of millions of dollars.\n\nHe and Glencore deny any wrongdoing.\n\nGlencore agreed to pay Dan Gertler $534m (£407m) to buy him out of their shared mining interests in DR Congo in February this year.\n\nThe new details came to light in the Paradise Papers, a leak of more than 13.4 million documents, many from within Appleby, one of the world's leading offshore law firms.\n\nDR Congo has been mired in violence and corruption for decades, leaving more than half of its population living below the poverty line.\n\nBut the country's vast mineral resources are worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year for those that can access them.\n\nBy some measures it is the 16th largest company on the planet.\n\nFor many years Glencore has been involved in mining in DR Congo, in particular the production of copper.\n\nThe company says it has invested $50bn there. Ten years ago it had an 8.52% stake in a company called Katanga which had the rights to mine copper in the south of the country.\n\nIn June 2008 Katanga's board, which contained a senior Glencore figure, received some bad news.\n\nThe DRC government under President Joseph Kabila wanted to renegotiate the terms of its mining licences. Glencore had already invested $150m in Katanga but this could have been wasted if it was unable to mine.\n\nThe state-owned mining company Gécamines wanted $585m (£409m) in an \"access premium\" to allow the exploitation of copper and cobalt at the mine.\n\nThe previous agreement had been for $135m (£94.5m).\n\nDocuments contained within the Paradise Papers show Katanga's board felt the demands of the DRC authorities were \"quite unacceptable\". For the first time, it is possible to see that the directors decided to call for the help of an Israeli businessman called Dan Gertler.\n\n\"Dan Gertler, who had a substantial indirect interest in the company, should be given a mandate from the board to negotiate with the DRC authorities,\" Katanga's board minutes from June 2008 show.\n\n\"The board... should approach Mr Gertler to see whether he was prepared to act in this way.\"\n\nMr Gertler was asked to negotiate an agreement on Katanga's behalf.\n\nAt around the same time, Glencore agreed to lend a company in the British Virgin Islands called Lora Enterprise $45m (£31.5m).\n\nGlencore then loaned Katanga $265m (£185m). This was later converted into shares in the company, allowing Glencore to become its biggest shareholder. The loan to Lora Enterprises allowed Dan Gertler to maintain his stake in the mine. Although Mr Gertler says he did not benefit in any way from the loan.\n\nKatanga announced the larger of the loans to the Toronto Stock Exchange in February 2009, but the details around it were sparse until now.\n\nThe terms of the loan to Mr Gertler's company show that if he failed to deliver a new agreement for the rights within three months, Glencore would have been entitled to demand immediate repayment of the loan.\n\nThe Paradise Papers documents suggest Mr Gertler was quickly successful. Gécamines reduced the access premiums it was asking for from $585m to $140m, which was close to the original agreement, saving Katanga $445m.\n\nPete Jones from anti-corruption campaigners Global Witness said deals similar to the one Glencore was able to strike have had serious consequences for DR Congo.\n\n\"For a country that dependent on it natural resource wealth, deals like this which just suck money out of the economy have hugely negative consequences for DR Congo.\"\n\nMr Gertler disputes that it was a poor deal for the DRC and says \"Gécamines benefitted significantly from the new JVA including Katanga's release of copper and cobalt reserves to Gécamines worth $825m.\"\n\nGlencore told the BBC the $45m loan to Lora Enterprises was made \"on commercial terms and was negotiated at arm's length\".\n\nIt also said it was repaid in full by 2010. Lawyers for Mr Gertler said it's not unusual for a lender in a mining deal to demand repayment of a loan if a joint venture fails. They went on to say that \"neither Lora Enterprises nor Mr Gertler nor any company or person related to them received the loan funds directly\".\n\nMr Gertler's notoriety in DR Congo goes back almost two decades. In 2001 the UN produced a report that accused him of exchanging weapons and military training in part of a deal to secure a monopoly on diamond mining rights.\n\nIn 2013, a report by the Africa Progress Panel, led by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, suggested Dan Gertler's companies had won mining rights in DR Congo at well below their true value. Lawyers for the Israeli businessman deny the allegations made in the 2001 and 2013 reports.\n\nLast year, hedge fund Och-Ziff agreed to pay $412m to settle a case brought by US authorities accusing it of paying bribes in several African countries. Prosecutors described, but did not name, an Israeli businessman who they claimed paid \"together with others, more than $100m in bribes to obtain special access to, and preferential prices for, opportunities in Congo's mining sector\".\n\nDan Gertler denies that he did this. Perhaps most significantly, Mr Gertler was also known to be a close friend of a man called Katumba Mwanke, a key advisor to President Kabila before dying in 2012.\n\nDaniel Balint-Kurti from the NGO Global Witness, which has been investigating the relationship between Dan Gertler and Glencore for several years, says the company should have been wary of working with the businessman.\n\n\"By hiring someone close to the Congolese president and pumping him with cash and mandating him as their man in negotiations they were running an extremely high risk,\" he said.\n\nDan Gertler's lawyers told the BBC that \"[He] is a respectable businessman who contributes the vast majority of his wealth and time to the needy.\"\n\nFind out more about the words and phrases found in the Paradise Papers.\n\nYour browser does not support this Lookup Your guide to financial jargon\n\nThe papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nThe 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Panorama has led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries. The BBC does not know the identity of the source.\n\nParadise Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #ParadisePapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"Paradise Papers\"\n\nWatch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The arrival of the new baby gibbon provides hope for the future of this endangered species\n\nConservationists are celebrating the arrival of a baby Javan gibbon - the first of this species to be born in the wild to parents that were rescued from the pet trade.\n\nConservation International says the birth is a boost for the future of the apes on the Indonesian island of Java.\n\nBut illegal trade is still a threat, and is increasingly moving online.\n\nA UK-based investigation this year revealed that the law protecting these ape species was being openly \"flouted\".\n\nResearchers who carried out the investigation, who are based at Oxford Brookes University, also showed BBC News videos of protected species being advertised by pet traders on social media platforms.\n\nThe birth of the wild-born Javan gibbon - in a protected forest in West Java - is a breakthrough for a project that has now released 17 of the apes into the area.\n\nConservation International (CI) and the Javan Gibbon Foundation have rehabilitated the animals, and rangers now patrol the site at Mount Malabar daily, monitoring the animals and checking for any poaching activity.\n\nIt has taken almost 10 years to bring the two adults back to the forest.\n\n\"It's a long, long process,\" explained Anton Ario from CI. \"Because the poachers that take gibbons for the trade target the babies - because they're cute and easy to sell - when we find them, they're often living in a cage and cannot move around at all. They need to learn to live in the trees.\"\n\nTo ensure their rereleased animals are able to survive, they introduce them to potential mates while they are still in captivity - ultimately releasing pairs or family groups of the animals.\n\nThe new birth represents hope for a primate that is rapidly losing its habitat in Java, which has less than 5% of pristine forest left in its steep, tropical mountains.\n\nBut while programmes like this can get a few animals back to the wild every year, many more are being bought and sold as pets.\n\nYoung orangutans are targeted by the illegal pet trade\n\nA search on social media channels will reveal pet shops and sellers - many based in South East Asia - openly advertising pet baby gibbons for sale.\n\n\"They are flouting the law,\" says Prof Vincent Nijman, from Oxford Brookes University, who has carried out investigations of the illegal trade in endangered apes.\n\nResearchers monitoring the trade showed us pictures and videos of gibbons being advertised for sale on social media platforms, including Facebook and Instagram\n\n\"No-one is being punished.\n\n\"So if people [entering the forest] come across a baby gibbon and have the option to capture it, they are motivated to do it. It represents money and doesn't represent any risk.\"\n\nThe trade is not confined to gibbons. Critically endangered orangutans and slow lorises are also being \"plucked\" from the wild.\n\nProf Nijman's recently published investigation revealed that, while more than 400 illegal pet orangutans had been seized by law enforcement in Indonesia in the last two decades, those confiscations had led to only seven prosecutions.\n\nRescued apes have to be rehabilitated by conservationists, who help them learn to return to the trees after life in a cage\n\nBBC News reported a post to Facebook that advertised a baby gibbon for sale. In response, the company said it had removed the post and was \"investigating the page where it was posted\".\n\n\"We're committed to helping tackle the illegal online trade of protected wildlife and will remove any content that violates our community standards when it is reported to us,\" Facebook said in a statement.\n\nInstagram has also responded after the BBC alerted it to the sale of gibbons on the site. In a statement sent to BBC News, the company said that the accounts in question had been removed, adding that the illegal trade or sale of animals was \"prohibited on Instagram\".\n\nProf Nijman pointed out that the numerous threats to endangered apes in Indonesia were not all problems that people had the power to tackle.\n\n\"Orangutans in particular face threats left, right and centre,\" he said, \"But curbing the pet trade is within our control.\n\n\"It's in human hands to fix this.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gracie says learning to love PE has transformed her life\n\nGracie Rowe used to be terrified of PE.\n\n\"I was on the tubby side.\n\n\"My personal self-consciousness was like a devil on my shoulder telling me I couldn't do it.\n\n\"It was the fact that I had to move, be active and sweat.\n\n\"I would just stand and watch and mope.\"\n\nGracie says she had zero self-confidence when she started secondary school.\n\nShe was so nervous that she tried to persuade her mum she was sick most days and twice-weekly PE lessons were a particular source of stress.\n\n\"I was worried that people judged me. It was because I wasn't happy with myself.\"\n\nThe school's PE uniform didn't help: \"It was a 'skort' - sort of shorts and skirt in one - and it was quite tight and short.\n\n\"All my friends hated PE just as much as I did.\"\n\nHayley Wood-Thompson, Gracie's PE teacher at The John Warner School in Hertfordshire, says about half of the girls feel the same.\n\nThe school shares its site with a sports centre, so has the use of excellent facilities.\n\n\"We offer quite a broad spectrum of activities. There is a dance studio and swimming pool. But lots of the girls are still turned off by it.\"\n\nHayley Wood-Thompson is a PE teacher at The John Warner School\n\nThe UK's chief medical officer recommends school-age children do at least an hour of exercise each day.\n\nBut new research with 25,000 secondary students in England and Northern Ireland suggests that, at secondary level, only 8% of girls and 16% of boys manage this.\n\nOf the teenagers, surveyed by Youth Sport Trust and Women in Sport, more than 80% understood the importance of being active but almost half of boys and nearly two-thirds of girls were less than keen on taking part themselves.\n\nThe research suggests lack of confidence is key.\n\nAmong girls over 14, more than a third said they felt insecure, hated other people watching them and were self-conscious about their bodies.\n\nAlmost two-thirds said they disliked competitive PE lessons.\n\nGracie's mum and her teachers realised they had to boost her confidence to ensure she attended school.\n\nHer mum brought her in for meetings with the head of year - and the school enrolled her on to a healthy living project to improve her self-esteem.\n\nAt the same time, big reforms to the school's PE programme were under way, designed to encourage girls to engage with the subject.\n\nFirst off, skorts were out, replaced by black sports leggings.\n\n\"It's the sort of thing you might wear to the gym on a Saturday morning. It feels a bit more adult,\" says Ms Wood-Thompson.\n\nThe school also now divides its PE programme into pathways, allowing girls and boys to choose how much competitive and outdoors sport to do.\n\n\"The girls-only pathway is tailored to boosting levels of confidence.\n\n\"There will be a bit more aerobics, dance, being inside in the winter. So they're not turned off by being outside in the rain and cold.\n\n\"More sporty girls are offered a mixed programme with the less athletic boys - this might involve dodgeball, football and more competitive games.\n\nGracie's activities include field days and camps with the Combined Cadet Force\n\nGracie Rowe chose the girls-only pathway and liked it.\n\n\"It was just the fact that we didn't need to show off to anyone or act like someone we're not.\"\n\nGradually her confidence improved. She not only started to join in PE, but began to enjoy it and made friends.\n\n\"It helped me forget what other people thought of me and have confidence in myself.\"\n\nNow 14, she is no longer tubby, plays in the football team for her school year, takes dance classes and is in the gym \"all the time\".\n\nShe also joined the Combined Cadet Force run at a nearby private school, knows how a rifle works and takes part in field days and camps.\n\nLast year the school nominated her as a leader on the Youth Sport Trust's Girls' Active programme, which aims to tackle girls' negative body images, improve attitudes to physical activity and to make sport more relevant to them.\n\nGirls Active encourages girls who have overcome their fear of PE to help their classmates\n\n\"She has made the biggest improvement I have ever seen,\" says her PE teacher.\n\n\"I know that not every girl is going to have a fully positive experience in every PE lesson every day but I hope I can enthuse them enough to encourage them to take part. It's all about relationships.\"\n\nShe hopes the young leaders on the programme will help other girls overcome barriers to physical activity.\n\n\"They are very keen to improve the mental health and self-esteem of their peers.\n\n\"They really care about trying to remove the stigma of being active and getting sweaty and to foster a happy, supportive and relaxed environment for PE.\"\n\nGracie says a myriad of factors can stop girls being active \"but you realise you don't have to be like that or think like that\".\n\n\"I feel empowered now to influence other girls who were like me by showing them that there is no limit to what you can do.\n\n\"It doesn't matter on your size, age or ability level, start with what you are comfortable with and push those boundaries. Don't let anyone hold you back.\"\n• None Our Vision and Mission - Women In Sport The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "We are going to finish our coverage at the end of day three of the Paradise Papers revelations.\n\nThe huge trove of leaked documents has made headlines around the world on the offshore financial affairs of hundreds of politicians, multinationals, celebrities and high-net-worth individuals.\n\nHere are today's top stories so far:\n• Prince Charles campaigned to alter climate-change agreements without disclosing his private estate had an offshore financial interest in what he was promoting\n• An entrepreneur charged with managing the oil wealth of the struggling African state of Angola was paid more than $41m in just 20 months\n• The Isle of Man has rejected claims it is a tax haven, saying it doesn't welcome those \"seeking to evade or aggressively avoid taxes\"\n\nThey came after a wave of stories on Monday, including:\n• Apple has protected its low-tax regime by using the Channel Island of Jersey\n• Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton avoided tax on his £16.5m luxury jet, the papers suggest\n• A Lithuanian shopping mall partly owned by U2 star Bono is under investigation for potential tax evasion\n• How three stars of the hit BBC sitcom, Mrs Brown's Boys, diverted more than £2m into an offshore tax-avoidance scheme\n\nAnd the stories on day one revealed:\n• The Queen's private estate invested about £10m offshore including a small amount in the company behind BrightHouse, a chain accused of irresponsible lending\n• One of President Donald Trump's top administration officials kept a financial stake in a firm whose major partners include a Russian company part-owned by President Vladimir Putin's son-in-law\n• Lord Ashcroft, a former Conservative party deputy chairman, has denied allegations he ignored the rules around how his offshore investments were managed.", "A charity fears a British-Iranian woman held in Iran could have her prison sentence doubled following remarks made by the foreign secretary.\n\nBoris Johnson told a Commons committee that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was arrested at Tehran Airport in 2016, was \"teaching people journalism\".\n\nThe Thomson Reuters Foundation said she was seeing family and urged Mr Johnson to correct his \"serious mistake\".\n\nThe Foreign Office said the remarks could not justify new charges.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe is currently serving a five-year sentence after Iran tried her on charges of trying to overthrow the government. She denies all the allegations against her.\n\nShe lost her final appeal in April 2017 but has since faced two more charges relating to an accusation of plotting to topple the regime in Tehran.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe has worked for the Thomson Reuters Foundation and BBC Media Action (the corporation's international development charity), but insisted the 2016 visit was for her daughter to meet her grandparents.\n\nMr Johnson was appearing before MPs on the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee on 1 November, and criticised Iran over the case before saying: \"When I look at what Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was doing, she was simply teaching people journalism as I understand it.\n\n\"[Neither] Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe nor her family has been informed about what crime she has actually committed. And that I find extraordinary, incredible.\"\n\nFour days later, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was summoned to court where the foreign secretary's comments were cited as evidence against her.\n\nAt this hearing she was accused of engaging in \"propaganda against the regime\".\n\nThe Iranian judiciary's High Council for Human Rights said Mr Johnson's comments \"shed new light\" on the charity worker and proved Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe \"had visited the country for anything but a holiday\".\n\nMonique Villa, chief executive of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, called on Mr Johnson to \"immediately correct the serious mistake he made\".\n\nThomson Reuters Foundation says the comments \"can only worsen her sentence\"\n\nMs Villa said there was a \"direct correlation\" between Mr Johnson's comments and the unscheduled court appearance.\n\n\"This accusation from Judge Salavati can only worsen her sentence. She is obviously a bargaining chip between the UK government and Iran and this injustice must stop as soon as possible.\n\n\"Whatever is at stake should be paid attention to by the UK government.\"\n\nLabour's Tulip Siddiq, the MP for Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's constituency, said she is \"furious\" with Mr Johnson and called on him to \"urgently retract\" his remarks.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesman said the remarks \"provide no justifiable basis\" to bring further charges against Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.\n\n\"While criticising the Iranian case against Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the Foreign Secretary sought to explain that even the most extreme set of unproven Iranian allegations against her were insufficient reason for her detention and treatment.\n\n\"The UK will continue to do all it can to secure her release on humanitarian grounds and the foreign secretary will be calling the Iranian foreign minister to raise again his serious concerns about the case and ensure his remarks are not misrepresented.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband said \"she was just a mum on holiday\"\n\nBoris Johnson has said he is sorry if his remarks about a British-Iranian mother caused anxiety to her family.\n\nThe foreign secretary had been criticised for saying Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has been jailed in Iran, had been training journalists there.\n\nA charity said the remarks could worsen her sentence. She had been in Iran on holiday when she was arrested, it said.\n\nMr Johnson told MPs he was sorry if his words were \"so taken out of context\" as \"to cause any kind of anxiety\".\n\nThe UK government had \"no doubt\" she was on holiday when she was arrested, he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was detained at Tehran Airport in April 2016 and is serving a five-year sentence for allegedly plotting to topple the government in Tehran, although the official charges have never been made public.\n\nShe has worked for the Thomson Reuters Foundation and BBC Media Action (the corporation's international development charity), but has always said the 2016 visit was so her daughter Gabriella, who is three, could meet her grandparents.\n\nShe was summoned back to court on 4 November, where Mr Johnson's comment was cited as new evidence as to what she was doing in Iran.\n\nMr Johnson had told the Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee on 1 November: \"When I look at what Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was doing, she was simply teaching people journalism, as I understand it.\n\n\"[Neither] Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe nor her family has been informed about what crime she has actually committed. And that I find extraordinary, incredible.\"\n\nHer husband, Richard Ratcliffe, said Mr Johnson had done a \"good thing\" in clarifying his comments, and asked him to try to visit his wife in Iran.\n\n\"It's important that the judiciary understands that the British government thinks she is innocent,\" he said.\n\nHe said he hoped his wife and daughter, a British citizen - who is with her grandparents in Iran - can return home before Christmas.\n\nMonique Villa, chief executive of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, said she saw a \"direct correlation\" between Mr Johnson's original remarks and Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's treatment in Iran.\n\nShe said Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had \"never trained journalists\" at the charity.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson is asked if he will apologise to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's family\n\nMr Johnson told MPs his previous remarks to the foreign affairs committee \"could have been clearer\".\n\nHe said: \"My point was that I disagreed with the Iranian view that training journalists was a crime - not that I wanted to lend any credence to Iranian allegations that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been engaged in such activity.\n\n\"I accept that my remarks could have been clearer in that respect, and I'm glad to provide this clarification.\"\n\nLater, when MP Layla Moran asked him if he would apologise to Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's family, he said: \"Of course I am sorry if any words of mine have been so taken out of context and so misconstrued as to cause any kind of anxiety for the family.\"\n\nHe said he did not believe his comments had \"had any impact on the judicial process\" in Iran.\n\nBoris Johnson is in hot water again. It will not, however, result in his dismissal from the cabinet.\n\nIn an effort to hose the situation down and minimise any damage to Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's case, the foreign secretary told his Iranian counterpart that he accepted his remarks at the committee \"could have been clearer\".\n\nHe said he was seeking to condemn \"the Iranian view that training journalists was a crime.\"\n\nBut that is not what he said to the Commons committee last week - and Labour MPs are furious at this latest diplomatic fumble by the Foreign Secretary.\n\nThe foreign secretary said his comments had no impact on the case in Iran, a view echoed by his Iranian counterpart.\n\nThat certainly helps Mr Johnson weather this latest storm.\n\nBut more fundamentally, Theresa May does not have the political strength to dismiss one of the Cabinet's big Brexit-supporting beasts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Johnson had earlier called the Iranian foreign minister, Javad Zarif, to say his remarks provided \"no justifiable basis\" for further legal action and that he intended to visit Iran before the end of the year to discuss the case.\n\nMr Zarif told the foreign secretary the developments in the case over the weekend were \"unrelated\" to Mr Johnson's remarks, a Foreign Office statement added.\n\nThe Iranian judiciary's High Council for Human Rights said Mr Johnson's comments \"shed new light\" on the charity worker and proved Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe \"had visited the country for anything but a holiday\".\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe denies all the allegations against her, but lost her final appeal in April.\n\nShe has since faced two more charges relating to an accusation of plotting to topple the government in Tehran.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been eligible for parole under the early release scheme from 23 November.\n\nMr Ratcliffe told the Press Association that his wife could now face a fresh trial before that date to block her chance of freedom.\n\n\"I think the one thing the foreign secretary could do to make amends would be if he went to visit her in the next few weeks before her trial,\" he said.\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe says she was in Iran so her daughter could meet her grandparents\n\nThe case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is first and foremost a story of terrible personal suffering for a young woman, her husband and their baby girl.\n\nEighteen months into a five-year sentence, Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe faces the prospect of up to 16 years in an Iranian jail.\n\nIt is also, however, a story of an internal power struggle in Iran, as well as of the nation's deeply difficult relationship with the UK.", "In a building next to the Church on the Blood, I attend a children’s choir rehearsal. Looking down from the wall is Nicholas II. His portrait provides inspiration to the young choristers. “The tsar and his family set us a moral example that we try to follow,” Alexandra explains. “They believed in God so much, they suffered for it.” “I always think of him as the captain of a big ship called Russia,” says Anastasiya. “He was on this ship till the very end, till the country ended. He was so brave and I admire him.”\n\nAnastasiya: “[Tsar Nicholas] was so brave and I admire him.”\n\nIt is an idealised and somewhat distorted image of Russia’s last tsar. For, if Nicholas II was the captain, does he not bear some responsibility for the sinking of imperial Russia? It was the tsar’s soldiers who fired on peaceful protesters outside the Winter Palace in 1905. It was Nicholas who brought the mystic and faith-healer Grigory Rasputin into the royal court. As a private adviser to the Romanovs, the renegade monk interfered in matters of state and further damaged the prestige of the monarchy.\n\nIllustration portraying Bloody Sunday, January 1905, when tsarist soldiers fired upon unarmed marchers in St Petersburg\n\nNicholas’s decision to take personal command of the tsarist army in World War One proved disastrous. And ever the inflexible autocrat, the tsar was incapable of steering Russia clear of revolution. The Provisional Government that took over from him made mistakes, too. But ultimately, the Bolsheviks seized power in a country that had been weakened by years of imperial mismanagement. In post-communist Russia, it is not only the tsar who is enjoying a revival. So is the Church. In 1989, Russia had 6,000 Orthodox churches. Today there are more than 36,000.\n\nFormerly a pillar of tsarist autocracy, Orthodoxy once again enjoys a close connection to the state. As the Kremlin strives to shape a new national ideology around patriotism and ultra-conservative values, the Church is playing a key role. In a school playground on the edge of Yekaterinburg, I watch children practising traditional Cossack sword-spinning. The school, which has built its own church, is one of several in the area where education is centred on piety, patriotism and a glorious past.\n\n“We are rediscovering our culture of a century ago, not just with swords, but with songs and dances,” 14-year-old Nikolai tells me. “But for me, faith is the most important thing in life - it is the reason we are here.” I talk to the school director, Alexei Solovyov. He recalls that in Soviet times, when atheism was an official state doctrine, only one church was open in Yekaterinburg, or Sverdlovsk, as it was known under communism. It is a city of more than a million people. “Outside the church there were always police in civilian clothes,” recalls Alexei. “They didn’t harass the old people. But any young people that went up to the door were taken aside for a conversation.” Yet communism failed to replace God in Russians’ hearts.\n\n“My great-grandmother was a communist,” Alexei recalls. “She worked as a cook. She even cooked for Tsar Nikolai’s killers in the Ipatiev House. But in the 1930s she was a victim of Stalin’s purges. She spent five years in the gulag for being a ‘Trotskyite’. When she came out, she ditched all that revolutionary hype and turned to religion.” But if Russians are looking to the past to shape their future, might they decide to restore the monarchy? That is unlikely. “Monarchy is a good way of governing,” schoolteacher Olga tells me. “But times have changed. Anyway, our president is a man who kind of governs the way the tsar tried to govern. He is a real ruler, a real patriot. He doesn’t allow other countries to humiliate our citizens.”", "Mr Trump said he \"hoped to God\" he would not have to use the US' full military capabilities against Pyongyang\n\nUS President Donald Trump has urged North Korea to \"come to the table\" and discuss giving up its nuclear weapons.\n\nStriking a different tone from previous fiery rhetoric, he said he \"hoped to God\" he did not have to use the US military against Pyongyang.\n\nMr Trump was speaking at a press conference with his South Korean counterpart Moon Jae-in in Seoul, as part of his tour of Asia.\n\nThe US leader has previously threatened \"fire and fury\" against Pyongyang.\n\nHe is on a five-nation tour of Asia, where North Korea's nuclear ambitions have been high on his agenda.\n\nAt a press conference, Mr Trump and Mr Moon reiterated their call for the North to denuclearise, with Mr Trump saying it \"makes sense for North Korea to come to the table\", and to \"do the right thing, not only for North Korea but for humanity all over the world\".\n\nThough the US had deployed a significant military presence in the region, he said he \"hoped to God\" he would not have to use it against North Korea.\n\nThe two leaders also called on China and Russia to put pressure on Pyongyang, and said they were lifting the limit on South Korean missile payloads, which they had agreed to do in September.\n\nMr Trump and Mr Moon held talks on Tuesday on trade and North Korea's nuclear programme\n\nMr Trump also said that South Korea would be ordering \"billions of dollars\" in military equipment from the US, which he said would reduce their trade deficit.\n\nIt was unclear if a deal was already struck, but Mr Moon said they had agreed to \"begin consultations on acquisitions\" that would enhance South Korea's defence capabilities.\n\nJapan's leader Shinzo Abe said earlier that he was considering it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How could war with North Korea unfold?\n\nThough the US president will only spend about 24 hours in South Korea, it is perhaps the most symbolic stop in his Asian tour, says the BBC's Robin Brant in Seoul.\n\nThe trip is designed to bolster the military alliance that has long protected South Korea, and strength in unity is the message they want to send to North Korean leader Kim Jong-un just across the border, says our correspondent.\n\nBut the two leaders also have their differences. Mr Trump has previously accused Mr Moon's government of trying to appease the North.\n\nHe has also previously criticised the free trade agreement between the US and South Korea, and has made clear he wants to re-negotiate its terms.\n\nMr Trump, during the press conference, said the deal had been \"quite unsuccessful\" for the US, and that the two countries were going to \"pursue a much better deal\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nProtests against Mr Trump, as well as counter-rallies welcoming him, have been held in Seoul and elsewhere.\n\nMany in South Korea are hoping that Mr Trump will not repeat his strong rhetoric against North Korea, which many here regard as unnecessary and incendiary, says our correspondent.\n\nMr Trump will be going to China, Vietnam and the Philippines in the coming week.", "Energy supplier SSE says it has been in talks with the owner of rival Npower with a view to forming a new UK energy company.\n\nSSE said had been in discussions with Germany's Innogy about merging their UK gas and electricity supply businesses into an independent company.\n\nSuch a merger would bring together two of the UK's \"big six\" gas and electricity suppliers.\n\nSSE, the UK's second-largest supplier, said the talks were \"well-advanced\".\n\nSSE, formerly known as Scottish and Southern Energy, supplies energy to 7.77 million households while Npower serves 4.8 million.\n\nAny merger - if allowed - would see the new company nipping at the heels of the market leader British Gas, which currently has 27% of the gas and electricity supply market, according to energy consultancy Cornwall Insight.\n\nIt's well known that Npower has been struggling to make money.\n\nAnd that its German parent, Innogy, is looking for a way to offload the business.\n\nLike all the major suppliers, Npower and SSE face growing competition, with hundreds of thousands of people switching suppliers each month.\n\nPlus they now have the prospect of the government capping their most important prices, their standard variable tariffs.\n\nCombining the two would mean they could cut costs, so there's a danger of job losses.\n\nHowever it's highly likely that the competition watchdog, the CMA, would want to check the deal before letting it through.\n\nTogether they would have 22% of gas and electricity customers.\n\nAdd in British Gas and the two biggest suppliers would have nearly half the market.\n\nEven so shares in SSE rose by nearly 3%.\n\nA combined SSE-Npower company would have a market share of 22.5%, with Germany's E.On trailing on 12%.\n\nThe other members of the \"big six\" UK suppliers are Scottish Power - which is owned by Spain's Iberdrola - and France's EDF.\n\nThe merger talks take place against an intensifying debate about how well the big six companies are serving UK customers.\n\nDespite years of competition, many households do not switch supplier freely, leaving a large chunk on the most expensive Standard Variable Tariffs (SVTs).\n\nAbout 12 million households are on some form of default tariff, which can cost hundreds of pounds a year more than the cheapest deals.\n\nLast month, the government published draft legislation that would give energy regulator Ofgem the power to cap SVTs.\n\nBusiness Secretary Greg Clark has said Ofgem should use its powers to impose a wider cap on energy bills more quickly.\n\nBut the watchdog has warned it could be sued by gas and electricity firms if it capped SVTs without the backing of new legislation.\n\nSet against this, the established providers are losing market share to a growing band of small suppliers, with even local councils starting to sell their own energy packages.\n\nNeil Wilson, analyst at ETX Capital, said: \"The problem - and arguably the rationale - is that the big six are losing customers at a record pace to smaller suppliers. Smaller suppliers now account for more than 8% of market share, up from 1% just three years ago, according to Ofgem data.\"\n\nAny merger deal between SSE and Innogy's Npower would need approval from competition authorities and shareholders.\n\nIn a statement, SSE said: \"In discussions, SSE is mindful of the requirements of customers and the concerns of employees. It will disclose the outcome of the discussions as soon as they are concluded.\"\n\nInnogy confirmed the two were in \"advanced exclusive discussions\".\n\nSSE shares were 3% higher on news of the talks.\n\nEnergy regulator Ofgem said it would \"advise relevant authorities if we were concerned that a merger would not be in consumers' interests.\"", "They are not exactly hanging out the bunting at the Treasury, but today's better-than-expected economic growth figures have put a bit of a spring in the step of the chancellor.\n\nAnd that is not just for economic reasons.\n\nPhilip Hammond is under increasing political pressure from cabinet colleagues to loosen the purse strings in his Budget on 22 November.\n\nSajid Javid, the communities secretary, has gone public, suggesting that the government should borrow more for housebuilding.\n\nAnd another senior cabinet minister I spoke to, with excellent knowledge of the prime minister's thinking, also suggested to me that some fiscal largesse might be just what the country needs.\n\nPhilip Hammond is not of that view - and the better economic data will give him a little more headroom in the public finances without having to borrow more.\n\nHis hand has been strengthened.\n\nIn his interview with me, Mr Hammond made it clear that he remains a fiscal conservative, focused on \"balancing the books\" and bringing the deficit down to zero by the middle of the next decade.\n\nI asked him whether he saw any merit in delay.\n\n\"Well, we've already moved the target for balancing the books out from 2020 to 2025, but continuing to drive down the deficit in a measured and sensible way over a period of years, so that we are living within our means, and reducing the debt we are passing on to our children, has to be the right way to go,\" Mr Hammond told me.\n\nThere is certainly a robust argument going on in government.\n\nThere are those who believe that Mrs May's administration needs some eye-catching initiatives.\n\nAnd given that tax rises are difficult to push through Parliament (just remember what happened to those March plans to increase National Insurance contributions for the self-employed), borrowing more seems the easiest route to paying for popular policies.\n\nShould we borrow to build?\n\nMany economists believe that the present deficit of 2.6% is low enough to satisfy the markets that the government is fiscally competent and has public debts under a modicum of control.\n\nAnd Mr Javid said that \"taking advantage of record low interest rates can be the right thing if done sensibly\".\n\nThat does not appear to be the view of Mr Hammond.\n\n\"The government's borrowing costs are not at record low levels, they've risen over the last six or eight months,\" he said.\n\nThat's because higher inflation has increased the cost of servicing the government's debt.\n\n\"But the most important point here is that we still have a very large deficit and we have a debt which is 90% of our national income. That leaves us very exposed to any future shocks to the economy.\n\n\"So we want to continue to get the deficit down in a measured and sensible way over the medium term, giving ourselves room to support the economy, support our public services, invest in Britain's future through productivity-stimulating investment, but still moving over time to get that deficit down and starting to see our debt shrinking as a share of our GDP, so we don't simply pass on an unsupportable debt to the next generation.\"\n\nThe government's approach to borrowing will be a vital to the tone and feel of the Budget.\n\nAs far as Mr Hammond is concerned, \"living within our means\" is still the key message he wants to emanate from the Treasury.", "The St Enoch Centre is a large mall in the centre of Glasgow\n\nPrivate equity firm Blackstone avoided tens of millions of pounds in UK taxes on property deals in Glasgow and London, the Paradise Papers show.\n\nThe documents reveal it used offshore companies to purchase and operate the St Enoch Shopping Centre in Glasgow and Chiswick Business Park in London.\n\nThe papers show how accountancy firms mapped out strategies to minimise or avoid every significant tax.\n\nBlackstone said its investments were \"wholly compliant with UK tax laws\".\n\nBlackstone is one of the world's biggest private equity groups and its founder and chief executive Stephen Schwarzman is a close confidant of President Trump.\n\nLeaked documents from the offshore law firm Appleby, seen by BBC Scotland, show for the first time how the group structured two major UK property deals.\n\nTop accountancy firms issued long documents to Blackstone outlining how it could use trusts in the tax haven of Jersey and a complex structure of companies in Luxembourg for the purchase of both Chiswick Park and the St Enoch Centre.\n\nThere is no suggestion that the plans were illegal but campaigners the Tax Justice Network described the structures Blackstone used as an \"economic fiction\".\n\nThey told the BBC it was clear from the data in the papers that the principal purpose of the structures, which are virtually identical, was to avoid tax.\n\nThe leaked documents show the tax structure was designed to \"minimise\" taxes\n\nUS tax expert Reuven Avi-Yonah, from the University of Michigan law school, said the documents gave a \"rare\" insight into company structures that even tax authorities did not often see.\n\n\"If HMRC becomes aware of the fact that this is a common type of structuring then they are more likely to challenge it because they will be aware they are losing a lot of revenue,\" he said.\n\nChiswick Business Park in west London is host to dozens of companies\n\nBlackstone purchased Chiswick Park, a 33-acre office development in west London, in 2011 for £480m.\n\nThe majority of the site, which hosts the UK headquarters of companies such as Pokemon, Avon and shopping channel QVC, was sold to the Chinese government for £780m in 2014.\n\nThe data suggests Blackstone's tax structures allowed it to avoid about £19m in stamp duty on the purchase.\n\nThe tax structure also meant it could avoid tax of up to £30m annual rental income and capital gains tax on the sale of the business park, which could have been tens of millions of pounds.\n\nIn 2013, the private equity giant also bought the St Enoch Centre in Glasgow, a large city centre shopping complex housing almost 100 stores, for about £190m.\n\nDocuments show it would have avoided stamp duty of £7.6m and corporate tax on up to £10m annual rental income.\n\nThe documents show the Jersey trusts allowed no Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) to be paid on St Enoch\n\nBoth the St Enoch Centre, which Blackstone still owns, and Chiswick Park were already held in property trusts known as JPUTs, in the tax haven of Jersey, when it bought them.\n\nThis allowed the firm to purchase the properties without paying millions of pounds in UK stamp duty.\n\nGeorge Turner, from the Tax Justice Network, told the BBC: \"What they are doing is buying into the trust so when the original owners sold the property to Blackstone, then they weren't selling the property itself.\n\n\"They were selling an interest in the trust that owns the property and because that trust is owned offshore, they can avoid stamp duty.\"\n\nUnder the tax structure revealed in the leaked documents, the Jersey trusts were owned and funded by a series of companies that Blackstone registered in Luxembourg.\n\nMoney for the purchase of the properties was filtered through the Luxembourg companies from central Blackstone funds in the form of inter-company loans.\n\nThe interest payments on these loans, which were effectively passed from one Blackstone company to another, could be written off against the profits of the rental income, meaning that minimal tax was paid in Luxembourg.\n\nIn the case of Chiswick Park, a 33-page document was provided by accountancy firm PwC outlining the structure to be used.\n\nAnother of the \"Big Four\" accountancy firms, Deloitte, issued a 67-page document for a similar tax structure for the St Enoch Centre.\n\nThe job of law firm Appleby, who held the documents seen by the BBC, was to implement the structures outlined by the accountants.\n\nThe central purpose of which was to avoid:\n\nGeorge Turner, from the Tax Justice Network, said: \"The language really is quite shocking in places because it's so clear and blatant what the intention is.\n\n\"What you have here is a whole myriad of companies being set up, mostly in Luxembourg but also you have this trust structure in Jersey, and it seems to be to all intents and purposes an economic fiction.\"\n\nProfit from rental income at the St Enoch Centre had normally been about £10m a year.\n\nThe structure advised by Deloitte allowed Blackstone to turn that into tax free income, by writing it off against interest charges generated from the loans its companies had made to each other.\n\nIn some years, just a few thousand pounds appears to have been paid by the Blackstone Luxembourg companies owning St Enoch and Chiswick.\n\nMr Turner said: \"What appears to be happening is that the rental income which is coming in, the companies receiving that are then borrowing huge amounts of money from other companies which are part of the Blackstone Group.\n\n\"Now when they borrow that money, they need to pay interest on it and those interest payments destroy any profitability in those companies.\n\n\"They're borrowing money from themselves and they can claim a tax deduction on that.\"\n\nBlackstone said: \"Blackstone's investments are wholly compliant with UK and international tax laws and regulations.\n\n\"The property investment structures in question were acquired from institutional investors and are of a type commonly used for decades for investments in UK real estates, including by listed companies and a variety of institutional investors, and were adopted after appropriate advice was taken from leading tax and legal advisors.\"\n\nDeloitte, which advised on the St Enoch purchase, declined to comment.\n\nPwC, who advised on Chiswick Park, said \"The advice we provide is given in accordance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations, including proper disclosure to tax authorities.\"\n\nYour browser does not support this Lookup Your guide to financial jargon\n\nThe papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nThe 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Panorama has led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries. The BBC does not know the identity of the source.\n\nParadise Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #ParadisePapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"Paradise Papers\"\n\nWatch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "Max Kelly, 23, has been jailed for a total of six months\n\nA man has been jailed for a roadside \"acid\" attack when he squirted a bottle of cleaning solution at two others.\n\nMax Kelly was a passenger in a BMW being driven by his friend when a row broke out near a pub in Solihull.\n\nThe 23-year-old, now of Evesham, Worcestershire, got out of the car and shouted \"I've got acid\", before spraying the liquid at the men.\n\nHe was sentenced to a total of six months in jail and ordered to pay his victims £500 compensation.\n\nThe confrontation was sparked on 18 July after one of the men drinking outside the pub, Robert Robinson, told the driver of the BMW to slow down after he saw the vehicle being driven erratically.\n\nAt an earlier hearing, Benjamin Prentice admitted a public order offence in connection with the confrontation\n\nKelly, a father-of-one expecting his second child, then asked him: \"What did you say?\" before leaving the car and carrying out the attack.\n\nMr Robinson stripped off in the street after being hit by the liquid, such was his fear of injury after a spate of well-publicised attacks across the UK.\n\nThe other victim, David Hobson, an off-duty firefighter, described the liquid as smelling like \"ammonia\" and desperately tried to clean it off after he was hit.\n\nJailing Kelly at Birmingham Magistrates' Court, chairman of magistrates Ann Brown told him he had shown little remorse and added his actions \"could not be taken for granted\".\n\nKelly, who had been found guilty of two counts of common assault at an earlier trial, replied: \"I understand.\"\n\nThe car's driver, Benjamin Prentice, of Hexton Close, Solihull, was fined £140 at an earlier hearing after admitting a public order offence in connection with the incident.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 130 families left homeless by the Grenfell Tower fire are living in emergency housing, MPs have heard.\n\nCommunities Secretary Sajid Javid said Kensington and Chelsea Council's response in the aftermath of the fire had been \"sluggish and chaotic\".\n\nIt comes as the Grenfell taskforce produced a report into the fire, which said the council \"failed its community\" on 14 June.\n\nCouncil leader Elizabeth Campbell said it had \"huge\" amounts of work to do.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Mr Javid said residents had been \"failed by a system that allowed the fire to happen\" and then failed again in the aftermath.\n\nHe said efforts to rehouse victims had been \"painfully slow\" - with just 26 out of 204 Grenfell Tower and Grenfell Walk families given permanent accommodation so far.\n\nHe said 122 households had accepted an offer of temporary or permanent accommodation, and 73 had moved in to new homes.\n\nThe taskforce said residents were \"hesitating to accept rehousing offers\" because they did not want to lose benefits.\n\nCurrently, former residents of Grenfell Tower and Grenfell Walk have their rent, utility bills and council tax suspended for the first 12 months of moving into temporary or permanent accommodation.\n\nThe council said this created a \"financial cliff edge, which the tenants can avoid by remaining in their emergency accommodation\".\n\nSome residents see the rent-free period as wasted on temporary homes, it said.\n\nIt voted to extend the rent-free period until summer 2019 in a bid to remove \"unintended disincentives\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marcio and Andreia Gomes tell the story of how they managed to escape the fire\n\nThe Grenfell taskforce, set up in the aftermath of the fire, has spent nine weeks looking at the recovery process run by the council.\n\n\"The report pulls no punches about the fact that there is still significant room for improvement,\" Mr Javid said.\n\nIt said 320 families altogether - including not only former residents but also those living in Grenfell's vicinity - were still living in hotels.\n\nThe report, written by housing and local government experts appointed by the government, said the council needed to work more quickly, and cited accounts of \"poor treatment\" towards victims.\n\nIt said many staff did their best to help but there was a leadership vacuum and a distant council that did not know its residents.\n\nThe report's authors met survivors, concluding that many victims felt no-one was listening to their concerns.\n\nIt nevertheless praised Kensington and Chelsea for \"working hard to develop effective support and services to victims and survivors\".\n\nSince the fire, many of those at the top of the council have quit, including leader Nick Paget-Brown and chief executive Nicholas Holgate.\n\nThe Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea said it \"entirely\" accepted all the taskforce's recommendations and would offer new homes to \"all those who want to leave\" emergency accommodation by December.\n\nMrs Campbell said the local authority had \"huge amounts of work to do\" and understood the need to change.\n\nBut the report criticised its lack of urgency, saying: \"As the council tries to do everything at once, it is doing everything too slowly.\"\n\nIt accused council members of lacking a \"firm grasp\" of the true scale of the recovery operation - saying some believed that \"in a few months' time everything shall return to the way it used to be\".\n\nIt said it was \"disappointing\" that the tower, which is currently a crime scene, had not yet been covered, urging scaffold work to be completed with \"greater haste\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why did it take so long to get an aerial platform to the tower block? BBC Newsnight investigates\n\nIt said visible remains of the burnt-out tower \"cast a shadow\" over the entire area.\n\n\"Any extended delays will further add to the ongoing trauma that the community is living with,\" the report said.\n\nMr Javid suggested a number of ways the council could improve - including increasing the pace of their work and the need for \"greater empathy and emotional intelligence\" towards victims.", "Asia Argento alleges she was raped by Weinstein 20 years ago\n\nActress Asia Argento has described a report that Harvey Weinstein used ex-Israeli agents to spy on his accusers as \"terrifying\".\n\nThe New Yorker reporter Ronan Farrow has published a story claiming Weinstein used private investigators to try to cover up sexual abuse claims.\n\nThe Italian actress and director has accused Weinstein of rape.\n\nWeinstein's spokesperson denied that \"any individuals were targeted or suppressed at any time\".\n\nLeft-right: Annabella Sciorra, Rose McGowan and Rosanna Arquette were all allegedly on the radar of private investigators\n\nIn his New Yorker story, Ronan Farrow alleged that the film producer employed two intelligence companies, Kroll and Black Cube, to try to collect information on several women and on journalists trying to expose the allegations.\n\nBlack Cube advertises itself as \"a select group of veterans from the Israeli elite intelligence units\". The New Yorker said they included former members of Israeli spy agency Mossad.\n\nAfter the story was published, Argento tweeted: \"Why didn't I, @rosemcgowan, @RoArquette @AnnabellSciorra speak up earlier? We were followed by ex-Mossad agents. Isn't that terrifying? Very.\"\n\nItalian-American actress Annabella Sciorra, who starred in US TV series The Sopranos, and US actress Rose McGowan, have also accused Weinstein of rape. He has denied all allegations of non-consensual sex.\n\nFarrow's report alleges that two private investigators from Black Cube, using false identities, met McGowan to \"extract information\" from her in an effort to stop the publication of abuse allegations. One of the investigators is reported to have posed as a women's rights advocate.\n\nMcGowan praised Farrow for his investigation, writing on Twitter that \"your words will line the halls of justice\".\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 statement, Black Cube told the BBC it was its policy \"never to discuss its clients with any third party, and to never confirm or deny any speculation made with regard to the company's work\".\n\nBut the company said it \"does not get involved in family disputes or sexual harassment cases\" and \"applies high moral standards to its work, and operates in full compliance with the law of any jurisdiction in which it operates\".\n\nIt added: \"Black Cube supports the work of many leading law firms around the world, especially in the US, gathering evidence for complex legal processes, involving commercial disputes, among them uncovering negative campaigns.\"\n\nSciorra told the New Yorker that the alleged use of private investigators by Weinstein had scared her \"because I knew what it meant to be threatened by Harvey\", adding: \"I was in fear of him finding me.\"\n\nThe New Yorker also reported that one intelligence firm held a profile of actress Rosanna Arquette, who has also accused Weinstein of sexual harassment.\n\nWeinstein's spokeswoman Sallie Hofmeister dismissed the report, saying: \"It is a fiction to suggest that any individuals were targeted or suppressed at any time.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None How the Harvey Weinstein scandal has unfolded\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\nFormula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton avoided tax on his £16.5m luxury jet, according to Paradise Papers documents.\n\nThey show a £3.3m VAT refund was given after the Bombardier Challenger 605 was imported into the Isle of Man in 2013.\n\nIt appears a leasing deal set up by advisers was artificial and did not comply with an EU and UK ban on refunds for private use - although he may have been entitled to one for business.\n\nHamilton's lawyers say a tax barrister review found the structure was lawful.\n\nThey added it was not correct to say no VAT had been paid on any of the arrangements.\n\nA statement later issued by the racing driver's representative said: \"As a global sportsman who pays tax in a large number of countries, Lewis relies upon a team of professional advisers who manage his affairs.\n\n\"Those advisers have assured Lewis that everything is above board and the matter is now in the hands of his lawyers.\"\n\nAt 06:15 on 21 January 2013, Hamilton touched down at Ronaldsway airport on the Isle of Man in his new jet with his then-pop star girlfriend Nicole Scherzinger to finalise the paperwork with customs.\n\nWhile Hamilton's planned use of the jet was predominantly for business purposes, the BBC's Panorama programme has seen documents which suggest the 32-year-old F1 Mercedes driver intended to make private flights about a third of the time.\n\nHamilton's social media accounts provide evidence he has used the candy apple red Challenger for holidays and on other personal trips around the world.\n\nHe has posted a number of photographs of himself on the plane on Instagram - including one showing his bulldogs Roscoe and Coco on board.\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 lewishamilton This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"If private usage of the jet is being disguised as business usage of the jet, then what you essentially have is a tax avoidance scheme,\" says Rita De La Feria, professor of tax law at Leeds University.\n\n\"You're using it for your own private interests, you're going on holidays, meeting friends. You're supposed to pay the tax on private consumption.\"\n\nPrivate jets purchased outside the EU are subject to 20% VAT on importation in order to qualify for free circulation within the bloc.\n\nWhile the Isle of Man is not part of the EU, it is a British Crown Dependency and forms a common area with the UK for VAT purposes. Because of this link, an aircraft imported via the island is granted full access to the EU.\n\nTo try and get round EU and UK rules banning VAT refunds on aircraft used by private individuals, Hamilton's advisers formed a VAT-registered leasing business on the Isle of Man, the leaked documents held by offshore law firm Appleby suggest.\n\nThe new company, Stealth (IOM) Limited, leased the jet from Hamilton's British Virgin Islands company, Stealth Aviation Limited, and imported it into the Isle of Man.\n\nIt was then leased on to a UK jet management company that provided Hamilton with a crew and other services - and which leased it back to Hamilton and his Guernsey company, BRV Limited.\n\nHamilton is described in the documents as the jet's \"ultimate client\".\n\nThey also suggest he was being kept up to date.\n\nIn one email sent ahead of the final signing of the charter agreements and the jet's importation into the Isle of Man, an adviser states: \"I would like to email Lewis his agreement this evening and try to reach him on the phone to talk him through it.\"\n\nOther documents show the hourly rate of the plane's lease was increased from £2,000 to £5,500 overnight at one stage, so the Isle of Man company turned a profit as a \"commercial\" aircraft leasing business.\n\nOn the basis of the transactions, Hamilton's advisers were able to claim a 100% VAT refund on the £3.3m he was obliged to pay at the point of importation.\n\nBut the leasing agreements suggest Hamilton was going to be using the plane 80 hours per month, with his company using it for 160 hours.\n\nIf this estimate had been used for the basis of the VAT refund, under UK and EU VAT rules, only two thirds could have been considered for a refund in relation to business use. The artificiality of the structure raises questions about whether Hamilton should have received a refund at all.\n\nHamilton secured his fourth F1 title at last month's Mexico Grand Prix\n\nLawyers acting for Hamilton said the driver has a \"set of professionals in place who run most aspects of his business operations and that no subterfuge or improper levels of secrecy had been put in place\".\n\nIn a statement, they said Stealth (IOM) Limited was formed to run a leasing business and hire the aircraft on a long-term basis at a commercial rate.\n\nThey added that the company made all necessary disclosures to Isle of Man officials, who approved the approach.\n\nThe lawyers said that reducing taxes was not the motive, but even if it had been, it is lawful to lease rather than buy in order to reduce VAT.\n\nThere are 50 schemes like Hamilton's in the Paradise Papers.\n\nThe documents show that Appleby on the Isle of Man has imported luxury jets worth £1.25bn.\n\nIn total, the island has handed out more than £790m in VAT refunds to jet leasing companies, involving more than 230 planes.\n\nIn light of the Paradise Papers revelations, the Isle of Man government has invited the UK Treasury to conduct an assessment of the practice of importing aircraft into the EU through the island.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Isle of Man says since 2011 more than 30 assessments for under-declared or over-claimed VAT against businesses in the aircraft leasing sector, with a value of about £4.7m, have been raised.\n\nLabour Leader Jeremy Corbyn last week called on the Prime Minister Theresa May to launch an investigation into VAT avoidance allegations linked with business jets in the Isle of Man.\n\nIn a statement on the Paradise Papers leak, Appleby said it was a law firm which \"advises clients on legitimate and lawful ways to conduct their business. We operate in jurisdictions which are regulated to the highest international standards\".\n\nDecember 2012: Lewis Hamilton's company in the British Virgin Islands Stealth Aviation Limited pays $26.8m (£16.5m) to buy the Bombardier Challenger 605 and luxury additions\n\n24 December 2012: Hamilton flies his family and Nicole Sherzinger to Hawaii for Christmas in the jet\n\n15 January 2013: The new company is VAT registered by Isle of Man customs as a company engaged in \"renting and leasing of passenger air transport equipment\"\n\n17 January 2013: Hamilton's BVI company leases the plane to Stealth (IOM) Limited. Stealth (IOM) Limited leases it to a UK jet management company, which agrees to charter it to the driver and his Guernsey company BRV Limited\n\n21 January 2013: Hamilton and Nicole Scherzinger arrive at the Isle of Man's Ronaldsway airport. The £3.3m VAT bill is paid on his behalf by his an Isle of Man accountancy firm. A customs officer attends out of hours and stamps a VAT paid form to be kept on board the jet. The couple fly-off again at 08:10\n\nLewis Hamilton has amassed an estimated £131m fortune, according to the Sunday Times Rich List. Forbes reports his earnings and endorsements in 2016 were more than £30m.\n\nOne of Hamilton's first trips on the jet was for a Christmas 2012 holiday in Oahu, Hawaii, accompanied by members of his and then girlfriend Nicole Scherzinger's family.\n\nIn May 2015, just after competing in Monaco, he flew to Los Angeles. The Daily Mirror newspaper reported that he was \"having a break\" following the Grand Prix.\n\nOn 11 July 2017, he posted a photo of himself sitting with friends on its steps.\n\n\"To my loving fans, I can't wait to see you in Silverstone. Until then, I'm away on a two day break.\"\n\nSpeaking to US talk show Jimmy Kimmel in December 2015, Hamilton talked about the plane and how he decided to \"pimp it out\" in the red colour scheme.\n\n\"We travel a lot - I love cars and I love planes,\" he said. \"Every time I'm at the airport you see these really sad white planes old planes with the saddest stripe down the side.\"\n\nFind out more about the words and phrases found in the Paradise Papers.\n\nYour browser does not support this Lookup Your guide to financial jargon\n\nThe papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nThe 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Panorama has led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries. The BBC does not know the identity of the source.\n\nParadise Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #ParadisePapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"Paradise Papers\"\n\nWatch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)\n• None Paradise Papers: All you need to know", "The controversial campaign has been labelled \"disgusting\" and \"offensive\"\n\nA campaign telling parents to send children to school if they have colds has prompted more than 6,500 signatures to a petition against its \"aggressive, condescending and insulting\" message.\n\nLeaflets were sent in East Sussex County Council's Get a Grip drive to parents whose children missed at least three days of the current school year.\n\nThey also give advice on \"being more organised\" the night before school.\n\nThe council said it \"won't flinch from this extremely serious issue\".\n\nThe campaign features the slogan \"good reasons for missing school - there are none\".\n\nThe petition, set up by Ella Lewis of Seaford, calls for the council to withdraw the campaign and apologise for the \"disgusting and offensive\" alienation of parents, particularly those \"struggling with serious illnesses, traumas and ongoing disabilities and conditions\".\n\nMrs Lewis, 37, who has two children, received the leaflet after her six-year-old daughter had three days off for a chest infection and stomach bug. This equated to 91% attendance over the short autumn half term - below the council's 95% expectation.\n\nElla Lewis said the campaign was offensive rather than productive\n\nShe said: \"These are unattainable standards. The council says it expects a doctor's note, but even if you could get a GP appointment, people are told not to go to the doctor's with a sickness bug.\n\n\"Schools also tell you not to allow your child back to school until you're 48 hours clear of a vomiting bug. In taking that direction, you fall into the 'persistence absence' threshold and are potentially reported to the council by the school. It's nonsensical.\n\n\"As parents we need to be able to validate our own child's health and suitability to be in school.\"\n\nMrs Lewis, who works in a school, said: \"The council could have been more polite, engaging or creative.\n\n\"But they've just offended people who are trying to do their best every day for their children.\"\n\nThe council says headaches, coughs and colds are \"not reasons\" for school absence\n\nThe leaflet sent out to parents also warns them about fines for unauthorised absences, including holidays during term time, and says children should attend school if they have a cold, headache or minor illness.\n\nA council spokesman said the campaign was not aimed at parents of children who had genuine medical reasons for being absent, but for those who regularly have odd days off or holiday in term time.\n\nHe said: \"We appreciate this campaign has been controversial.\n\n\"Missing even one day of school has an impact not just on a child's education but on the rest of the class, as it means the teacher has to spend time helping them catch up - to the detriment of other pupils. Missing days of school reduces children's chances of achieving success.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emile Cilliers told the jury \"someone must have\" tampered with the kit, but denied any involvement\n\nAn Army sergeant accused of trying to kill his wife by tampering with her parachute told a court she may have been targeted by a stranger.\n\nEmile Cilliers, 37, said the idea a \"random killer\" had sabotaged the device was a \"possibility\" as he \"didn't have anything to do with it\".\n\nHe told jurors: \"I'm not trying to point the finger at anybody, I just want to get to the bottom of this.\"\n\nMs Cilliers suffered multiple injuries when her hired parachute malfunctioned and the reserve failed as she plummeted 4,000ft to the ground at Netheravon Airfield, Wiltshire.\n\nMichael Bowes QC, prosecuting, told Winchester Crown Court the notion of a \"complete stranger\" trying to sabotage a parachute with the \"sudden urge to kill someone\" without knowing their victim was \"ridiculous\".\n\nWhen Mr Cilliers replied it was a \"possibility\", to which Mr Bowes responded: \"It's a possibility a number of asteroids will strike the earth, isn't it?\"\n\nThe defendant denies tampering with his wife's hire kit in a toilet cubicle at the Army Parachute Association at the airfield camp, allegedly twisting the lines on the main chute and removing parts from the reserve.\n\nElizabeth Marsh QC, defending, asked the Army fitness instructor about how he came to take the parachute to the toilet with him.\n\n\"Why didn't you put it on a rack?\" she said, to which he said he had not paid much attention to the kit as it was \"not something that really bothered me\".\n\nThe court was told Mr Cilliers accompanied his wife to hospital while she was in a full body brace after the fall, and visited her the next day.\n\nThe jury earlier heard he had searched the internet for the term \"wet nurses\" - women who breastfeed babies when their mothers are unable.\n\nHis wife had given birth two months before the fall, the trial heard previously.\n\nAsked why he had done so, he could not recall. \"Maybe it was something to do with Princess Charlotte,\" the jury was told.\n\n\"It was just a subject of interest. We would often see something on TV and research it.\"\n\nIn response to his defence's questions, he said the jury should not read anything suspicious into the search.\n\nThe father of six also denies a second attempted murder charge relating to a gas leak at the family home in Amesbury, Wiltshire, and a third charge of damaging a gas valve, recklessly endangering life.\n\nHe told the court he had investigated the source of the leak with a tool.\n\nWhen asked by Ms Marsh how his blood came to be on a pipe next to the leak, he said: \"I might have cut my hand, I don't remember.\n\n\"I can't say exactly how it got there. It could have been from cooking, I could have brushed against it. These are all possibilities.\"\n\nHe denied tampering with the gas valve and rejected the notion he would want to harm his wife or their children.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A man who murdered his 18-month-old daughter just two weeks after formally adopting her has been handed a life sentence.\n\nMatthew Scully-Hicks, 31, of Delabole, Cornwall, was told he must serve at least 18 years in jail before being considered for release.\n\nThe killer inflicted a catalogue of injuries on Elsie at their Cardiff home in the eight months he had care of her.\n\nElsie's birth family said they had hoped one day to be reunited with her.\n\nIn a victim impact statement, they said they were \"numb with pain\" and that her birth grandmother had hoped to become her legal guardian before she was put up for adoption.\n\nBaby Elsie died four days after being violently shaken in May 2016.\n\nScully-Hicks had denied murder but was found guilty at Cardiff Crown Court on Monday.\n\nSentencing him, Judge Nicola Davies described the murder as a gross abuse of trust.\n\nShe said there had been a failure to identify an earlier injury by medical staff in November 2015, which meant child protection measures were not triggered.\n\n\"Tragically, it was an opportunity missed,\" said the judge.\n\nA child practice review is now expected to take place which will investigate the role of agencies in the case and look at whether lessons can be learned to prevent future tragedies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matthew Scully-Hicks made a 999 call two months before Elsie died claiming she fell down stairs\n\nJudge Davies told Scully-Hicks that his actions were aggravated by his daughter's vulnerability, age and the position of trust.\n\n\"You had, and were aware that you had, a predisposition to injure your adoptive daughter,\" she said.\n\n\"You took no steps to prevent a recurrence of the earlier incidents when Elsie suffered injuries as a result of your actions.\n\n\"No remorse has been shown.\n\nScully-Hicks said he did not know how Elsie sustained her fatal injuries\n\nJudge Davies, when sentencing Scully-Hicks, took into account a victim impact statement - which was not read in court - provided by Elsie's birth family.\n\nIn the statement, which can now be reported, they said they were \"numb with pain\".\n\nElsie was named Shayla O'Brien by her birth family when she was born in November 2014.\n\nSpeaking on behalf of the family, Elsie's birth grandmother Sian O'Brien said: \"I accept that at the time of giving birth my daughter was living a chaotic lifestyle and was not in a position to care for Shayla and she was removed from the hospital five days after birth by social services.\n\n\"As a family, we continued to have contact with Shayla whilst she was in the care of the foster family.\"\n\nMs O'Brien said all of Elsie's family were \"extremely attached to her and loved her very much\".\n\nShe said: \"In January 2015, I started proceedings in the family court to become the legal guardian for Shayla.\n\n\"I wanted to bring her up in a happy, healthy and warm family environment, that was all taken away from me when social services and the family court decided I would not be able to cope.\"\n\nA decision was made that Elsie, who was renamed by her future adoptive parents, would be put up for adoption in May 2015.\n\nMs O'Brien said the family had been devastated but hoped that one day the little girl would be reunited with them.\n\nHowever they were visited by social services in January 2017 and were told Elsie had died in May the previous year.\n\n\"In itself this was devastating news but to then be informed that one of the parents who had adopted her had been charged with murder and was allegedly responsible for her death was completely incomprehensible,\" Ms O'Brien added.\n\n\"A person who had been deemed by the authorities to be a fit and proper person to bring up my granddaughter was responsible for her death, and they took her from me telling me I would be unable to cope.\"\n\nShe added: \"We are numb with pain and hurt deep in the knowledge that Shayla was loved unconditionally by us all as a family and knowing that had she not been taken away from us, she would still be alive today.\"\n\nDuring his trial, Scully-Hicks claimed he never harmed Elsie and said she must have suffered her fatal injuries after he changed her for bed at home on May 25 last year.\n\nShe died at Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales on 29 May 2016 after doctors determined she could not be saved and her ventilator was switched off.\n\nA pathologist said her injuries were \"very typical\" of a shaken baby.\n\nA CT scan showed she had bleeding on the brain and a post-mortem examination revealed she had also suffered broken ribs, a fractured left femur and a fractured skull.\n\nThere was also haemorrhaging within both of Elsie's retinas - associated with inflicted trauma or injury.", "Pastor Frank Pomeroy and his wife Sherri who have lost a daughter\n\nHalf of the 26 victims of the worst mass shooting in Texas history are children, officials say, as a portrait of a small town Texas church emerges.\n\nA pregnant woman's unborn baby was named as the shooting's youngest victim. Another child killed was just one year old.\n\nThe oldest victim of the attack was a 77-year-old woman.\n\nTwenty more were wounded, 10 were in a critical condition. Authorities fear the death toll could rise.\n\nLocal law enforcement have not released the victim's identities, but the names of some of those gunned down are emerging.\n\nAccording to US media, the gunman's ex-wife's grandmother was among the dead.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Belle died with her church family,' her mother said\n\nThe first victim to be named was the 14-year-old daughter of First Baptist Church of Sutherland Spring's pastor, Frank Pomeroy.\n\nPastor Pomeroy, who was away in Oklahoma at the time, told ABC News she was \"one very beautiful, special child\".\n\n\"We lost more than Belle yesterday, and one thing that gives me a sliver of encouragement is the fact that Belle was surrounded yesterday by her church family that she loved fiercely,\" her mother Sherri said on Monday.\n\nEight members of the Holcombe family were among the dead. Bryan Holcombe was serving as the guest pastor in Pastor Pomeroy's absence.\n\nAn associate pastor at the church who also conducted prison ministry, he was about to lead the congregation in worship when he was shot dead, his parents Joe and Claryce told the Washington Post.\n\nBryan's wife of 25 years, Karla, died too. Their son Marc Daniel Holcombe, 36, died alongside his one-year-old daughter Noah.\n\nAnother son of Bryan and Karla, John, survived but his eight-month pregnant wife, Crystal Holcombe, was killed. They were expecting their first child together. The unborn child has been included in the death count.\n\nThe gunman killed three of Crystal's five children by a previous marriage - Emily, Megan and Greg. The two others are said to be in the hospital with their stepfather, according to CNN.\n\n\"She doesn't even drink, smoke or nothing,\" her brother Nick Uhlig told the Houston Chronicle.\n\n\"She just takes care of kids; she raises goats and makes homemade cheese... They don't go out dancing or anything like that. They're real old-fashioned, down-to-earth.\"\n\nThe Holcombe's close family friend was killed with her two children, who were wounded.\n\nShe reportedly lived with Bryan and Karla and called them Mom and Dad, according to local reports.\n\n\"This is a huge loss. Tara was very kind-hearted person, great employee,\" wrote Kevin Koenen, the owner of the Aumont Saloon where Ms McNulty worked.\n\nA 13-year-old girl was shot dead, the San Antonio Express-News reports. Amanda Mosel, 34, said the victim was her goddaughter.\n\nFamily members confirmed that Lula White, the gunman's ex-wife's grandmother, was also among the dead.\n\nWhite frequently volunteered at the church, according to her Facebook page.\n\nBrooke Ward, five, and Emily Garza, seven, were killed, along with their mother Joann Ward.\n\nHer son Ryland, also aged five, was seriously injured - but is expected to survive.\n\nMs Ward's friend, Vonda Greek Smith, paid tribute to the mother-of-four on Facebook, saying that she died \"shielding\" her children.\n\n\"Little Rihanna (9) was there at the shooting but mommy pushed her down when she saw the shooter open fire, so in her words, 'I didn't get shot because I was hiding, and momma covered Emily, Ryland & Brooke.'\"\n\nHaley Krueger, 16, was also killed, her mother Charlene Marie Uhl told US media.\n\n\"She was a vibrant 16-year-old that loved life,\" Mrs Uhl said, adding that she had hopes to become a nurse.\n\n\"She loved babies and always wanted to help.\"\n\nHaley had arrived at church early on Sunday to prepare breakfast, her mother told People magazine.\n\nRichard Rodriguez and his wife of 11 years, Therese Rodriguez, were killed.\n\nRichard's daughter told US media that her father and stepmother were active in the church community. She said they often took their grandchildren to church, but did not on the day of the shooting.\n\nRobert was a retired high-ranking member of the US air force and had served for 30 years. Their two children are also reportedly on active service.\n\n\"This is a huge tragedy, not only for the family, for this small town,\" said Renee Haley, director of Veterans Services for Clare County, Michigan.\n\nThis article will be updated as more information becomes available", "The firework hit the roof of the house in Haven Baulk Avenue in Littleover\n\nA woman has described how she \"lost everything\" when a stray firework set fire to her home and destroyed it.\n\nWendy Bagshaw said the firework sounded like \"an Exocet missile\" hitting the roof. The stress of the fire caused her husband to have an angina attack.\n\nMrs Bagshaw, from Littleover, Derby, said she had already gone through the \"worst year of her life\" and the pair are now temporarily homeless.\n\nShe expressed frustration at people who recklessly set off fireworks.\n\n\"I just can't believe what's happened to my house. It's all gone. I've got nothing,\" she said.\n\n\"I've lost everything that I've worked for 40 years for, and it's just so stupid that people don't realise what they're doing.\n\n\"If you don't understand what you're doing with fireworks, then don't use them.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaking to BBC Radio Derby, Wendy Bagshaw said the firework sounded 'like an Exocet missile'\n\nMrs Bagshaw was watching Strictly Come Dancing on Saturday when she heard a bang.\n\n\"I can only describe it as an Exocet missile, just came at the house,\" she said.\n\n\"It shook the foundations of the house, I felt it shake. My little dogs jumped off my knee and ran outside.\"\n\nWendy Bagshaw expressed frustration at people who recklessly set off fireworks\n\nShe and her husband Ted, who had been in the conservatory with their third dog, went outside to see what had happened.\n\nA man driving past shouted to say the roof was on fire, and the couple tried in vain to extinguish it using a hose.\n\nThe fire damaged the interior of the house, which will be uninhabitable for about six months\n\nThe fire service put out the fire but the house was severely damaged and many of the couple's possessions were destroyed.\n\nThe couple are staying at a nearby hotel until they can move into more permanent accommodation.\n\n\"The insurance assessors have given us somewhere to stay, but they have told us to find a house as it will be at least six months before ours will be habitable again,\" she said.\n\nMrs Bagshaw lost all her photos of her mother, who died earlier this year. Two aunts and two friends also died this year, she said.\n\nBoth her husband, who has a heart condition, and her father, who has prostate cancer, are ill.\n\n\"It's been the worst year of my life, and now this,\" she said.\n\nDerbyshire Fire Service said the occupants were lucky to get out early as the damage was extensive.\n\nMichael Haslam from Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service said: \"Our advice is that if you want to see fireworks, go to an organised display.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Westminster party leaders have agreed to introduce a new grievance procedure for staff to deal with misconduct allegations, Theresa May has said.\n\nThe prime minister said the measures, which will also include face-to-face human resources support, were an \"important step forward\".\n\nThey were backed by Labour's Jeremy Corbyn following cross-party talks.\n\nIt comes as several Conservative and Labour MPs are investigated over allegations of sexual misconduct.\n\nThe new grievance procedure should be in place next year, said Mrs May, with the new face-to-face support service, an upgrade of an existing complaints hotline, to be introduced by the end of the month.\n\nSpeaking after the meeting in her parliamentary office, Mrs May said: \"I think if this hasn't happened to you it's difficult to appreciate the impact that being a victim of this sort of behaviour can have, it simply has a lasting impact on people.\n\n\"We need to do more to stop these abuses of power and I'm pleased that having convened this meeting of party leaders today we have agreed a way forward,\" she added.\n\nMr Corbyn has called for training for MPs in managing their offices and a new independent body to support staff who suffer mistreatment.\n\nIn a letter to the prime minister ahead of the meeting, Mr Corbyn said MPs should undergo training after each general election in employment standards.\n\nHe said a new body should be set up to provide an \"independent route\" to counselling, reporting and representation through complaints procedures, and have powers to recommend reporting of criminal allegations to the police.\n\nHe said political parties should encourage all staff to join a trade union, as they can provide a \"vital mechanism\" for strengthening effective action and protection from sexual and other harassment and abuse at work.\n\nGreen Party co-leader Caroline Lucas, who last week called for MPs to be educated on consent, said any new training programme should come into force immediately, rather than after an election.\n\nThe SNP Ian Blackford said that although the proposal for a working group came from the prime minister there was \"cross-party consensus\" on the plan.\n\n\"This is about a working group that can work on a consensual basis, on a cross-party basis, to make sure we can have standards - first class standards, gold plated standards - that we can be proud of\", he said.\n\nBut Labour MPs who have led the campaign to crackdown on sexual abuse and harassment said the reforms did not go far enough.\n\nJess Phillips, the MP for Birmingham Yardley, said: \"Find this utterly disappointing. Great a grievance procedure, the victims will be thrilled. What if they don't work in Parliament?\n\n\"What about sanctions, what about specialist support from actual professionals who know what they are talking about on sexual violence/harassment.\"\n\nAnd Stella Creasy, the MP for Walthamstow, added: \"Still much work to do making parliament safe if this only comes into place in a year and only covers MP staff.\"", "He sang the Circle of Life at the end of a performance of The Lion King in New York, to mark 20 years of the musical on Broadway.", "Sir John Major has hit out at the use of \"puerile\" political slogans as he called for more honesty in government about the challenges facing the UK.\n\nThe ex-prime minister said political leaders should avoid \"deceitful\" sound bites and be more candid about the limitations of what government can do.\n\nIn a speech in London, he recounted how his use of the phrase \"back to basics\" in 1993 had ended up \"perverting a thoroughly worthwhile social policy\".\n\nSir John was PM between 1990 and 1997.\n\nAddressing an audience in Westminster Abbey, Sir John also warned about factionalism in his party and the British political system as a whole and of the risk that \"partisan\" voices \"appealing to the extremes\" posed to democracy.\n\n\"The anti-European right wish to control the Conservative Party,\" he said. \"The neo-Marxist left wish to dominate Labour. Both are making headway in a battle for the soul of their respective parties.\"\n\nIn a strong attack on what he suggested was the debasing of modern politics, he called for special advisers to be reined in, saying they were being used as \"attack dogs\", leaking material and usurping civil servants.\n\nHe suggested the language of politics was being corrupted by the tendency of politicians to fall back on pre-prepared and meaningless sound bites.\n\nSir John, who has called Brexit a historic blunder, cited the Leave campaign's promise during the EU referendum to \"take back control\" as a \"memorable example of pitch-perfect absurdity\".\n\nSuch slogans, he argued, \"convey nothing, explain nothing and are worth nothing\".\n\n\"As voters hear our elected representatives uttering puerile slogans instead of explaining policy, it is no wonder if respect for them melts away. Slogans and sound bites are a deceit.\n\n\"Electors deserve the truth in plain English, not in fairy tales.\"\n\nSir John conceded his own use of the phrase \"back to basics\" in his 1993 Tory conference speech - in which he called for more emphasis on personal responsibility, respect for law and order and a return to \"the old values of neighbourliness, decency and courtesy\" - was counter-productive.\n\nBecause it was followed by a string of sex and financial scandals involving ministers, the speech came to be associated with personal morality and probity.\n\n\"They [slogans] can mislead,\" he added. \"I once used the phrase back to basics and it was taken up to pervert a thoroughly worthwhile social policy.\"\n\nTheresa May was criticised for her frequent use of the phrase \"strong and stable\" during the election campaign while Jeremy Corbyn relied heavily on his claim to be \"for the many not the few\".\n\nIn his speech, Sir John warned that the massive task of extricating the UK from the EU was \"crowding\" out other vital issues and said his party needed to talk more about levels of income disparity and regional imbalances which \"surely cannot be permitted to continue as they are\".", "The law change was passed by the Isle of Man's Parliament in Douglas in May 2005\n\nThe Isle of Man passed a law that would help tax evaders, documents in the Paradise Papers show.\n\nLawyers promoting a scheme allowing Swiss bank clients to hide their cash offered to help the authorities amend rules in November 2004.\n\nThe law was changed seven months later, amid an EU clampdown on tax dodging.\n\nBBC Panorama has spoken to the man behind the scheme who claims an Isle of Man regulator was aware the new law would help tax evaders.\n\nMark Morris, a tax adviser and leading expert on tax loopholes, told the programme regulators in offshore territories used to regularly help financial institutions in this way.\n\n\"I think in those times, it was wrong, and there were regulators helping financial institutions,\" he said.\n\n\"But today, this would never be allowed.\"\n\nMr Morris devised the scheme to help wealthy clients avoid the European Union Savings Directive (EUSD).\n\nThe EUSD was introduced in 2005 to stop people from within one part of Europe putting assets in an account in another country without declaring it. Most of the people targeted by EUSD were therefore already evading tax.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Swiss-based adviser Mark Morris on how Isle of Man ‘tax dodge law’ came about\n\nThe idea was that EU-based banks and those in other nations including Switzerland would make automatic deductions for tax from interest payments.\n\nMr Morris's scheme was designed to be exempt from the reach of the EUSD. It involved Swiss bank deposits being moved into a redeemable insurance product sold by a new Isle of Man company, Minerva Assurance Ltd.\n\nThe draft of an agreement with an unnamed bank says of the proposals: \"Policy applications and surrenders are transacted expeditiously.... Confidentiality is maintained, as the individual client is not directly involved.\"\n\nA slide presentation illustrated how EUSD would be avoided at each stage of the investment\n\nThe leaked documents outline events in late 2004 when lawyers acting for Mr Morris held talks with the IoM insurance and pensions regulator, David Vick.\n\nAfter it became clear that the new insurance company would not be authorised to operate under existing laws, they appear to have offered to help Mr Vick draft new regulations.\n\nA letter they wrote to Mr Vick in November 2004 after their discussions asks him to get in touch \"if you believe it would be helpful for us to provide you with ideas as to how to improve the regulations to more readily accord with our client's proposal\".\n\nMr Vick then emailed them in March 2005 to say a consultation was to take place about proposed changes to the 1986 Insurance Act. He tells the lawyers he would \"be particularly interested in any comments that you… have in this regard\".\n\nOn 17 May 2005, amendments were approved by the IoM parliament, known as the Tynwald, and they took effect on 1 June 2005 - exactly a month before the EUSD began.\n\nMr Vick retired from the IoM's Insurance and Pension Authority in 2015. Approached about the events, he declined to answer any questions and referred the BBC to the Isle of Man authorities.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Vick refuses to comment on his role in law change that would have helped tax dodgers\n\nThe Isle of Man's Chief Minister, Howard Quayle, says the island is a \"responsible jurisdiction\" and complies with international regulations on tax transparency.\n\nHe said the events surrounding the insurance scheme would be investigated but he did not believe the regulator at the time would have knowingly helped to create a law to facilitate tax evasion.\n\nMr Quayle told Panorama: \"If it had happened I would be incredibly disappointed. Give me the opportunity to look at the evidence first and then we'll take action if it is proven.\"\n\nMark Morris said he had acted within the law and described the financial structure he devised as one of \"many loopholes\" available at the time. He said that \"nine times out of 10\" the investors would have been intending to evade tax.\n\nIn the end, the tax dodge was never used because Mark Morris was unable to recruit enough clients.\n\nHe said: \"Nobody utilised this plan because there were so many other solutions.\"\n\nMr Morris later gave evidence to the German parliament on EUSD and helped the European Commission with reform of the rules.\n\nThe papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nThe 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Panorama has led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries. The BBC does not know the identity of the source.\n\nParadise Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #ParadisePapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"Paradise Papers\"\n\nWatch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "The house in Tile Cross was gutted in the fire\n\nA man has died five days after a 200-shot commercial firework was let off inside his Birmingham home.\n\nAnthony Nicholls, 56, had been in an induced coma since the attack at 23:00 GMT on Thursday, police said.\n\nHis 50-year-old wife suffered lower leg fractures when she jumped from a first-floor window of their Tile Cross home. She remains in hospital.\n\nDetectives said Mr Nicholls' death \"means that we are now treating this as a murder inquiry\".\n\nPolice said a large \"commercial-sized firework\" was placed in the house on Birchtrees Drive and set alight.\n\nIt is thought to have contained 200 tubes of explosives and would have taken about two minutes to fully discharge.\n\nPolice said a large \"commercial-sized firework\" was placed in the property and set alight\n\nDet Insp Paul Joyce said: \"The impact would have been terrifying for the occupants and I would urge anyone who sold or is missing a firework of this size to get in touch.\n\n\"This would have been a large heavy firework that would have been difficult to carry some distance, so I would ask anyone who saw someone carrying a large box in the area last Thursday night to contact us.\"\n\nOfficers are also checking CCTV pictures and have asked people in the area who have home cameras to make their footage available.\n\nMr Nicholls' wife suffered leg fractures jumping from a first-floor window of the house\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In the year after the UK narrowly voted to exit the European Union, there was a small but significant increase in the population's feeling of wellbeing, official statistics show.\n\nThe improvements in areas such as life satisfaction and happiness were seen only in England, however. Elsewhere, the rates flatlined.\n\nPeople in Northern Ireland continued to report the highest levels of wellbeing.\n\nRates of anxiety increased slightly, but not significantly.\n\nTo obtain the Office for National Statistics data, more than 100,000 adult UK residents were asked to answer the following questions, on a scale of nought to 10, with nought being \"not at all\" and 10 being \"completely\":\n\nA higher proportion of people reported very high levels of life satisfaction, happiness and feelings that life was worthwhile in the year ending June 2017 compared with the previous year.\n\nThe average ratings at the end of June 2017 were:\n\nThe ONS statistical bulletin suggests possible social and economic factors that might help explain the results.\n\n\"Employment and job satisfaction, our health, the quality of our relationships and our financial situation are just some of the aspects of our lives shown to have an effect,\" it says.\n\nFor example, the employment rate is at its highest level since comparable records began in 1971 and the unemployment rate is at its joint lowest since 1975.\n\nThere have also been improvements is gross domestic product per head and net national disposable income per head. But the ONS points out that real household disposable income per head has fallen for the fourth quarter in a row.\n\nOver the year the data covers there have been \"various situations of uncertainty\", says the ONS - a new prime minister, a vote to leave the EU and several terror attacks.\n\n\"Considering this, it may be surprising that levels of personal wellbeing are increasing. However, it is important to note these figures are only reported at a country and national level, and are presented over the year. It is therefore possible that any sudden or individual change in personal wellbeing may not be seen in the data,\" it says.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The December 2017 edition features Adwoa Aboah on the front cover\n\nBritish Vogue has unveiled its December 2017 edition - the first since Edward Enninful took the title's helm.\n\nModel Adwoa Aboah is pictured on the fashion magazine's cover - styled by the new editor-in-chief - with the headline \"Great Britain\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Enninful said he wanted to create a more diverse magazine that was \"open and friendly\".\n\nSupermodel Naomi Campbell had backed his appointment after criticising previous editor Alexandra Shulman.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"My Vogue is about being inclusive,\" said Enninful.\n\n\"It is about diversity - showing different women, different body shapes, different races, different classes [and] tackling gender.\"\n\nBefore getting the job, he said, women had told him they did not feel represented by the magazine, and this was something he wanted to change.\n\n\"I wanted to create a magazine that was open and friendly; a bit like a shop you are not scared to walk into.\n\nEdward Enninful started his new job as editor in August and hired Naomi Campbell as a contributor\n\n\"You are going to see all different colours, shapes, ages, genders, religions.\n\n\"That I am very excited about.\"\n\nHe also said that readers would see \"less models that don't look so healthy\".\n\nNaomi Campbell, who had criticised former editor Shulman for a lack of diversity within her staff, and was hired by Enninful as contributing editor, tweeted her praise for the December cover.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Naomi Campbell This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nActor Jay Perry also tweeted that the cover was \"stunning\" and \"an instant classic\".\n\nColumnist and LGBT activist Paris Lees said the issue was \"everything a Vogue cover should be\".\n\n\"I'm so excited it's gonna be more diverse now,\" she tweeted.\n\nThe December edition, which goes on sale Friday, will feature a 14-page shoot with its cover star and include an interview with Enninful and Aboah, talking about diversity in fashion and how they define being black and British in 2017.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe husband of a British-Iranian woman, in prison in Iran, has urged Boris Johnson to retract his remark that she had been training journalists in Iran.\n\nRichard Ratcliffe said Iranian officials were using the foreign secretary's statement to justify extending his wife Nazanin's jail term.\n\nMr Johnson has called his Iranian counterpart to clarify the situation.\n\nLiam Fox said his cabinet colleague's comment was a \"slip of the tongue\" but Labour said it was \"unacceptable\".\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe is serving a five-year sentence for allegedly plotting to topple the government in Tehran, although the official charges were never made public.\n\nMr Ratcliffe maintains his wife's innocence, saying she was in Iran visiting family when she was arrested in 2016.\n\nShe was summoned to court on Saturday where Mr Johnson's comment was cited as new evidence as to what she was doing in Iran.\n\nThe Foreign Office said Mr Johnson now accepted he \"could have been clearer\" with his comments to the Foreign Affairs Committee.\n\nIn a phone call to Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif, Mr Johnson said that his remarks provided \"no justifiable basis\" for further legal action and he intended to visit Iran before the end of the year to discuss the case.\n\nMr Zarif told the foreign secretary that the developments in the case over the weekend \"were unrelated\" to Mr Johnson's remarks, a Foreign Office statement added.\n\nInternational Trade Secretary Liam Fox told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We all make slips of the tongue\", adding on Sky News that it wasn't \"a serious gaffe\".\n\nBut Labour's Tulip Siddiq, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's MP, said it was \"unacceptable\" for Mr Johnson to \"lack a basic grasp on this important situation\".\n\n\"A slip of the tongue in my books is swearing in front of your child by mistake - it's not condemning a British citizen to an extra five years in prison,\" she said.\n\nMr Ratcliffe told the BBC's Today programme that Mr Johnson should make a statement in the Commons, retracting what he said.\n\nHe added the \"worst thing\" Mr Johnson could do now was \"suddenly go quiet and to create this problem without making any clarifications\".\n\nHe said he still hoped his wife and young daughter would be back home in the UK for Christmas.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liam Fox tells BBC's Today that Boris Johnson's comment about Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was a \"slip of the tongue\"\n\nFormer Conservative foreign secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind told the BBC Mr Johnson needed \"to concentrate more\" and \"get the detail right\".\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was sentenced to jail following a court hearing into whether she was attempting to overthrow the government.\n\nShe denies all the allegations against her, but lost her final appeal in April.\n\nShe has since faced two more charges relating to an accusation of plotting to topple the regime in Tehran.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe has worked for the Thomson Reuters Foundation and the BBC, but insisted the 2016 visit was for her daughter to meet her grandparents.\n\nHowever, appearing before MPs on the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee last week, Mr Johnson appeared to contradict that.\n\nHe criticised Iran over the case before saying: \"When I look at what Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was doing, she was simply teaching people journalism, as I understand it.\n\n\"[Neither] Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe nor her family has been informed about what crime she has actually committed. And that I find extraordinary, incredible.\"\n\nFour days later, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was summoned to court where the foreign secretary's comments were cited as fresh evidence against her.\n\nAt the hearing, she was accused of engaging in \"propaganda against the regime\".\n\nThe Iranian judiciary's High Council for Human Rights said Mr Johnson's comments \"shed new light\" on the charity worker and proved Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe \"had visited the country for anything but a holiday\".\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been eligible for parole under the early release scheme from 23 November.\n\nHowever, Mr Ratcliffe told the Press Association that she could now face a fresh trial before that date to block her chance of freedom.\n\n\"I think the one thing the foreign secretary could do to make amends would be if he went to visit her in the next few weeks before her trial,\" he said.\n\n\"Careless talk has a cost and there's been a lot of careless talk.\"\n\nMonique Villa, chief executive of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, called on Mr Johnson to \"immediately correct the serious mistake he made\".", "Eight members of one family are feared dead in the Texas church shooting. The Holcombes' neighbour, Pauline Garza, tells the BBC she doesn't know what to tell her children.", "The mammals ventured out at night to hunt insects\n\nFossils of the oldest-known ancestors of most living mammals, including human beings, have been unearthed in southern England.\n\nTeeth belonging to the extinct shrew-like creatures, which scampered at the feet of dinosaurs, were discovered in cliffs on the Dorset coast.\n\nScientists who identified the specimens say they are the earliest undisputed fossils of mammals belonging to the line that led to humans.\n\n''Here we have discovered from the Jurassic coast a couple of shrew-like things that are to date unequivocally our earliest ancestors,'' said Dr Steve Sweetman of Portsmouth University, who examined the ancient teeth.\n\nThe mammals were tiny, furry creatures that probably emerged under the cover of night.\n\nOne, a possible burrower, dined on insects, while the larger may have eaten plants as well.\n\nTheir teeth were highly advanced, of a type that can pierce, cut and crush food.\n\n''They are also very worn which suggests the animals to which they belonged lived to a good age for their species,'' said Dr Sweetman.\n\n''No mean feat when you're sharing your habitat with predatory dinosaurs.\"\n\nThe fossils were discovered by Grant Smith, then an undergraduate student. He was sifting through rock samples collected at Durlston Bay near Swanage for his dissertation when he found teeth of a type never before seen in rocks of this age.\n\nResearchers from the University of Portsmouth made the discovery\n\n''The Jurassic Coast is always unveiling fresh secrets and I'd like to think that similar discoveries will continue to be made right on our doorstep,\" said Prof Dave Martill of Portsmouth University, who supervised the project.\n\nOne of the new species has been named Durlstotherium newmani after Charlie Newman, who is the landlord of a pub close to where the fossils were discovered, and is also a keen fossil collector.\n\nThe second has been named Dulstodon ensomi, after Paul Ensom, a local palaeontologist.\n\nThe findings, published in the Journal, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, add new evidence to a hotly-debated field.\n\nRecent fossil discoveries from China pushed back the date of the earliest mammals to 160 million years ago.\n\nHowever, this has been disputed, based on data from molecular studies.\n\nA separate study revealed this week suggests that the earliest mammals were night creatures that only switched to daytime living after the demise of the dinosaurs.\n\nThe research, published in the journal, Nature Ecology and Evolution, could explain why many mammals living today are nocturnal.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Lord Ashcroft try to avoid Richard Bilton’s questions about his offshore trust\n\nLord Ashcroft has denied allegations that he ignored rules around the management of his offshore investments.\n\nAccording to leaked documents, the Tory donor gave assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the Punta Gorda Trust in Bermuda in 2000.\n\nThe leaked Paradise Papers provoked questions as to whether he sometimes made decisions without consulting trust officials. Such action could see the trust challenged by HMRC.\n\nIn a statement, he said that he has never known the identity of any of the trustees or had any dealings with them.\n\n\"At no point has it been suggested directly to me, or through others, that I have taken any inappropriate action.\n\n\"No professional trustee has ever resigned because of anything I may have done,\" he added.\n\nPanorama approached Lord Ashcroft during last month's Conservative Party conference in Manchester but he declined to answer any questions about the trust.\n\nHe has described two previous Panorama investigations into his affairs as \"unashamedly one-sided\" and said he had informed BBC director general Tony Hall that he is \"simply not prepared to deal with\" the programme.\n\nThe 71-year-old former Conservative deputy chairman has given millions of pounds to the party.\n\nHe fell out with David Cameron in 2010 and later co-authored a controversial unauthorised biography of the then-prime minister but remains involved in UK politics through his polling and publishing interests.\n\nJournalist Peter Oborne said Lord Ashcroft has been a \"hugely significant figure\" in the Conservative Party over the last 20 years.\n\nHe said: \"Lord Ashcroft has been one of the most significant donors to the... party. But it's not just... that he's been a giver of money, he's also been very important organisationally. He's involved himself in the internal politics.\"\n\nOther documents in the Paradise Papers show Lord Ashcroft has secretly remained non-domiciled in the UK for tax purposes.\n\nAddressing this allegation, he said in his statement: \"My position was made public in a statement which I made in March 2010 and to which a link is provided here.\n\n\"Following the change in the law later that year, a change which my statement anticipated, for each of the remaining five years during which I sat in the House of Lords, I was deemed tax resident and domiciled.\n\n\"This is all publicly available information and nothing was produced yesterday by the BBC which suggests different.\"\n\nThe structure of a trust involves one entity legally entrusting a second to look after assets for a third, essentially removing ownership for tax purposes.\n\nWealthy people can legally avoid paying tax on assets that they have given to a trust because they can tell the authorities they no longer own or control the assets in them.\n\nBut for a trust to work as a tax break, decisions about its assets have to be taken independently by the trustees.\n\nDespite the warning, Lord Ashcroft appears to have continued to make decisions about the trust's assets.\n\nIn October 2000, one of the trustees said: \"I would like to emphasize at this point that it is imperative at all times that the trustees are aware of any and all transactions to be entered into prior to transactions occurring.\n\n\"To do otherwise, will only serve to undermine the integrity of the trust as the trustees are being advised of actions taken in connection with trust assets, which should be under their control, after the event.\"\n\nA review of the trust in 2009, discovered that significant payments out had been made that had not been properly recorded.\n\nIn an internal email, a lawyer representing the trust says: \"There have been very large sums of money involved and I am very concerned that there has been inadequate supervision of both transactions and distributions... to put it bluntly we seem to be told nothing whereas we carry the responsibility of acting as trustee.\"\n\nPaperwork then appears to have been put in place retrospectively \"to ensure that we have all the relevant trustee and company authorities in place for the transactions which have occured [sic]\".\n\nTrust experts say anybody who puts their money into a trust could face a challenge by tax authorities if it was felt rules had been abused.\n\nThis could include a challenge from HM Revenue and Customs if it was to take the view an overseas trust had been controlled from the UK.\n\nNicholas Shaxson, the author of Treasure Islands, an expose of the workings of tax havens, told Panorama: \"On the evidence I have seen, it looks like something that is abusive behaviour and an abusive structure. If the trustees are worried, the trustees are expressing alarm about that, that's a clear red flag.\"\n\nProf Brooke Harrington, the author of Capital Without Borders, said: \"It's important that trustees be independent because the whole concept of a trust is that a settlor gives over legal ownership of an asset to the trustee.\n\n\"That's why you get these tax benefits and other legal benefits from the trust structure.\"\n\nLord Ashcroft's spokesman, Alan Kilkenny, is quoted in the Guardian as saying the peer had never engaged in tax evasion, abusive tax avoidance or tax avoidance using artificial structures.\n\nThe papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nThe 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Panorama has led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries. The BBC does not know the identity of the source.\n\nParadise Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #ParadisePapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"Paradise Papers\"\n\nWatch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "Leo Varadkar said that if an election happened \"it would be better to have it done before Christmas\"\n\nIrish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has said he hopes talks can resolve a crisis that threatens to collapse the Irish government.\n\nThe crisis was sparked when the main opposition party, Fianna Fáil, tabled a motion of no confidence in the deputy prime minister.\n\nThe motion against Frances Fitzgerald comes over her handling of a police whistleblower controversy.\n\nMr Varadkar said he did not want a general election.\n\nHowever, the taoiseach (Irish prime minister) added that he will continue to back Ms Fitzgerald and that if an election was to happen \"it would be better to have it done before Christmas\".\n\nThe no confidence motion threatens the confidence-and-supply arrangement in which the Fine Gael-led minority government is supported by Fianna Fáil.\n\nFianna Fáil agreed after the 2016 general election not to vote against the minority government in confidence motions and to support it for three budgets, two of which are now past.\n\nThe two parties are now at loggerheads over the position of Ms Fitzgerald.\n\nFine Gael passed a motion to support her at an emergency party meeting on Thursday night.\n\nFianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin said the situation would be resolved if Ms Fitzgerald resigned\n\nFianna Fáil front bench members lodged the no confidence motion for debate next Tuesday.\n\nMr Varadkar said that talks between himself and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin on Friday had \"cleared the air somewhat\".\n\nHe said that Fianna Fáil motion was still going ahead but that there is still \"an opportunity over the next couple of days to resolve it\".\n\n\"I don't believe that the decapitation of the tánaiste (deputy prime minister), based on trumped-up charges, is fair,\" he told Irish national broadcaster RTÉ.\n\n\"So let's all calm down a bit, let's pause for reflection, let's perhaps withdraw these motions and allow the Charleton Tribunal, starting on 8 January, to do the work that we set it up to do.\"\n\nFrances Fitzgerald was Irish minister for justice during a police whistleblower controversy\n\nEarlier on Friday, Mr Martin said that his party did not want an election but that the issue could be resolved if Ms Fitzgerald resigned.\n\nMs Fitzgerald has faced questions in the Dáil (Irish parliament) about what she knew about what lawyers were going to put to a whistleblower at a commission of enquiry.\n\nIn particular, she has been questioned over her account of an email she received about the legal strategy of the former Garda (police) commissioner in the case of Sgt Maurice McCabe.\n\nMs Fitzgerald has recently admitted that she was made aware a year earlier than she had previously stated, that lawyers for the Garda were going to attempt to discredit Sgt McCabe.\n\nThe email was initially sent to Ms Fitzgerald in May 2015, but she told the Dáil earlier this week that she could not remember reading it.\n\nSinn Féin, the country's third largest party, had tabled their own no confidence motion against Ms Fitzgerald on Thursday.", "Jim Booth is growing \"a little stronger each day\", his family say\n\nA great-grandfather who was attacked with a claw hammer in a suspected distraction burglary is facing a \"long process of recovery\", his family says.\n\nD-Day veteran Jim Booth, 96, was left with \"serious injuries\" after he was attacked by a cold caller asking if he needed any work done to his house, in Taunton, Somerset.\n\nIn a statement, his family said they shared well-wishers' feelings of \"shock, incomprehension and outrage\".\n\nHe is being held by Avon and Somerset Police on suspicion of attempted murder and aggravated burglary.\n\nMr Booth was attacked on Wednesday after he told a cold caller, who had knocked on his front door, that he did not require any work on his house.\n\nIn a statement, his children said: \"Countless friends, neighbours, members of the community and even strangers, have expressed their shock, incomprehension and outrage.\n\n\"We acknowledge and share those feelings.\"\n\nHowever, they said Mr Booth was \"not easily defeated and he grows a little stronger each day\".\n\n\"Our father is an exceptional person of whom we are all immensely proud.\n\n\"He is the head of the family, a dearly loved father to his four children and adored by his grandchildren and great-grandchildren, to whom he's simply known as 'The Legend.'\n\n\"He is, and always has been, our own family hero.\"\n\nThey said Mr Booth had been the victim of a \"vicious and cowardly attack\" and paid tribute to police officers who have worked \"tirelessly\" on the case.\n\n\"We are all now focused on the long process of recovery, which will be helped by the love and support of all those around him,\" they added.\n\nMr Booth was part of a top-secret team of submariners who slipped into the waters off Normandy to scout the beaches, during World War Two.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said officers were treating the attack as part of a distraction burglary.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former television presenter John Leslie has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman in an Edinburgh nightclub.\n\nThe 52-year-old former Wheel of Fortune and Blue Peter star is alleged to have put his hand up the woman's skirt.\n\nThe 26-year-old woman was on a hen night when the alleged incident took place at Atik in the city's Tollcross area.\n\nIt is said to have occurred at an event to mark the club's re-opening in June.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesman said: \"Police in Edinburgh have charged a 52-year-old man following a report that a 26-year-old woman was the victim of a sexual assault at a nightclub in the Tollcross area on Sunday 25 June.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said: \"The Procurator Fiscal has received a report concerning a 52-year-old male, in connection with an alleged incident in Edinburgh on 25 June 2017.\n\n\"The report is currently under consideration by the Procurator Fiscal.\"", "Armed police have been stood down and two central London Underground stations have reopened following reports of gunshots being fired at Oxford Circus.\n\nPolice want to speak to two men after an altercation \"erupted\" on a platform at the station, but say there is no evidence any weapons had been fired.\n\nOfficers also want to speak to anyone who was at the station about the cause of the mass panic and evacuation.\n\nSixteen people were treated after they were injured fleeing the station.\n\nOxford Circus was closed and armed police were deployed following reports that gunshots had been heard inside the station.\n\nPolice initially treated the incident as potentially terrorism-related, while nearby Bond Street station was closed amid fears of overcrowding.\n\nThe British Transport Police (BTP) said officers believe there was an altercation between two men on the platform before the scare.\n\nThey have released CCTV images of two men they want to speak to.\n\nPolice want to speak to two men after an altercation \"erupted\" on a platform\n\nThe Met said it began receiving \"numerous\" 999 calls reporting gunshots in Oxford Street and at Oxford Circus station at 16:38 GMT.\n\nOxford Circus - where Oxford Street and Regent Street meet - was cordoned off, while shops and businesses were placed in lockdown.\n\nIn a statement, the Met Police said: \"Officers working with colleagues from British Transport Police carried out an urgent search of the area.\n\n\"No causalities, evidence of any shots fired or any suspects were located by police.\"\n\nHowever, the force said there had been \"significant\" panic at station.\n\nSixteen people were injured as passengers fled from Oxford Circus station, in what witnesses said was \"a stampede\".\n\nOne patient was transferred to a major trauma centre for leg injuries, while eight people were taken to central London hospitals for minor injuries.\n\nA further seven patients were treated at the scene, the London Ambulance Service added.\n\nScotland Yard said the operation had been stood down at 18:05 GMT.\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\nBritish Transport Police said it received reports of gunfire on the westbound Central Line platform at Oxford Circus.\n\n\"This caused a significant level of panic which resulted in numerous calls from members of the public reporting gunfire,\" the force said.\n\n\"A full and methodical search of the station and Oxford Street was conducted by our specially trained firearms officers.\n\n\"During the search officers did not find any evidence of gunfire at the station,\" it added.\n\nArmed police were deployed to the area, in central London\n\nEyewitnesses said it was \"a very panicked scene\"\n\nPolice said additional officers would remain on duty in the West End to reassure the public.\n\nIn a statement, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan praised the city's emergency services for a \"swift response\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have attended the Royal Variety Performance, at the nearby London Palladium theatre.\n\nHowever, their scheduled arrival was delayed by an hour, as a result of the incident.\n\nA Kensington Palace spokesman said the royal couple were in time for the start of the show, but the traditional pre-show meeting with some of the performers had to be dropped.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe scare happened on Black Friday, at a time when Oxford Street and the surrounding areas were filled with shoppers.\n\nBBC reporter Helen Bushby said she had seen a \"mass stampede\" of people running away from the station in the panic.\n\n\"They were crying, they were screaming, they were dropping their shopping bags. It was a very panicked scene,\" she added.\n\n\"People said they heard a gunshot and panic was just spreading.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe spoke to a group of young women at Topshop, in Oxford Street, who said people had dropped their shopping and ran as quickly as they could.\n\nGreg Owen, 37, from London, said he was at Oxford Circus station when people began running away.\n\n\"I was next to the Tube station and everyone started screaming and shouting and then a flood of people came up the stairs,\" he added.", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had been delayed for about an hour because of a security alert at nearby Oxford Circus Tube station.\n\nThe traditional pre-show line-up, in which the royals meet performers, had to be cancelled.\n\nCatherine, who is four months pregnant, wore a Jenny Packham dress.", "Theresa May met German's Angela Merkel and other EU leaders\n\nIssues still need to be resolved but progress is being made in Brexit negotiations, Theresa May has insisted.\n\nThe prime minister said there had been a \"very positive atmosphere\" in talks with several EU leaders in Brussels.\n\nThe UK, she said, would honour its financial commitments and shared the same desire as Ireland to stop barriers to trade or movement across the border.\n\nEU Council President Donald Tusk said talks could move to the next phase in December but it was a \"huge challenge\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt a security summit in Brussels, Mrs May had lunch with Angela Merkel and also met Mr Tusk, who told her last week that she has until the start of December to make an enhanced offer on money and provide guarantees on the Irish border after Brexit.\n\nMinisters have given her their backing to increase the UK's \"divorce bill\" but only if the EU shows movement on trade.\n\nThe government has refused to comment on reports it had agreed to pay about £40bn to pave the way for EU leaders to approve the next phase of talks on future relations at a summit on 14 December.\n\nSpeaking in Brussels, Mrs May did not answer specific questions about money and said there were \"still issues across the various matters that we're negotiating on to be resolved\".\n\nBut she added: \"There's been a very positive atmosphere in the talks and a genuine feeling that we want to move forward together.\"\n\nLast week, Mr Tusk said the EU was \"ready\" to move on to the next phase of talks - focused on a trade and security partnership after the UK leaves in March 2019 - but the UK must first show more progress on outstanding \"separation\" issues.\n\nThe BBC's Europe reporter Adam Fleming said that after holding talks with Mrs May, Danish PM Lars Lokke Rasmussen had told journalists in the Belgian capital that there had been \"movement\" on the issue of money.\n\n\"It seems to me that there is progress and so I have decided to be optimistic about this,\" Mr Rasmussen - one of the UK's closest allies - said.\n\nThe PM also said the UK was in continuing discussions with the Irish government about the solutions for avoiding a hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland.\n\nNo 10 earlier had to clarify its position after a spokesman appeared to suggest the possibility of Northern Ireland staying in the customs union may be up for negotiation.\n\nAsked about the issue at a lobby briefing, the spokesman said the UK must \"continue to negotiate to find an innovative way forward\".\n\nBut Downing Street later insisted that the UK's stated policy - that the whole of the UK is leaving the single market and customs union - remained in force.\n\nThe UK voted to leave the EU in June 2016, and served the EU with formal notice of Brexit in March 2017. This began a two-year countdown to the UK's departure day which will be in March 2019.", "Two men have been interviewed by detectives after an altercation at a central London Tube station created mass panic on Friday, police have said.\n\nThe men, aged 21 and 40, attended a police station voluntarily following an appeal, and the inquiry is continuing.\n\nSixteen people were treated after they were injured fleeing Oxford Circus station, following reports of gunshots being fired on a Central Line platform.\n\nThere was no evidence any weapons had been fired, police said.\n\nOfficers want to speak to anyone who was at Oxford Circus underground station at the time of the evacuation.\n\nShoppers were barricaded inside stores on Oxford Street and armed police were deployed after the alarm was raised during the evening rush hour.\n\nPolice initially treated the incident as potentially terrorism-related, before standing down.\n\nThe British Transport Police said it believed there had been an altercation between two men on the platform before the scare.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it began receiving \"numerous\" 999 calls reporting gunshots in Oxford Street and at Oxford Circus station at 16:38 GMT on Friday.\n\nThe first armed response vehicle was on the scene in less than a minute from receiving the first call, the force said.\n\nOxford Circus - where Oxford Street and Regent Street meet - was cordoned off, while shops and businesses were placed in lockdown.\n\nIn a statement, the Met Police said: \"No casualties, evidence of any shots fired or any suspects were located by police.\"\n\nBut 16 people were injured as passengers fled from Oxford Circus station, in what witnesses said was \"a stampede\".\n\nOne patient was transferred to a major trauma centre for leg injuries, while eight people were taken to central London hospitals for minor injuries.\n\nBy 18:05 GMT, the police operation had been stood down.\n\nIn a statement, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan praised the city's emergency services for a \"swift response\".", "Officers tried to stop a white van on Hasfield Road in Norris Green\n\nA police officer was seriously injured when he was hit by a van driven at him in Liverpool.\n\nPolice were trying to stop a white Transit van in Norris Green when it was driven onto the pavement and then at the officer at 19:25 GMT on Saturday.\n\nThe officer was taken to hospital following the \"despicable attack\" where he is being treated for injuries to his ribs and leg, Merseyside Police said.\n\nA man, from Everton, has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.\n\nThe 34-year-old, who is also being held on possession of cannabis and driving while under the influence of drink or drugs, remains in custody.\n\nThe van hit a police car and other parked vehicles on Hasfield Road before it was driven at the officer, detectives said.\n\nThe policeman's injuries are not thought to be life-threatening\n\nDet Ch Insp Martin Earl said: \"This was a despicable attack on a police officer who was simply doing his job, trying to protect the communities of Merseyside.\n\n\"The officer has sustained serious injuries for which he is receiving treatment. He has also been left extremely shaken by his ordeal.\"\n\nHe added that colleagues have been left \"shocked\" by the incident and are being provided with support.\n\nPeter Singleton, chair of the Merseyside branch of the Police Federation - which represents 120,000 officers across the UK - said it was \"another sobering reminder of how dangerous policing can be\".\n\n\"It's an incident that shows there are individuals out there who really just do not care, have no thoughts for other people - for the public or police officers - and their safety,\" he said.\n\nHe added it was an \"unnerving reminder\" of the death of Merseyside Police officer Dave Phillips, who was killed while trying to stop a stolen vehicle in 2015.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBin workers in Birmingham who were involved in a three-month strike have agreed a deal with the city council.\n\nUnite's Howard Beckett said it was a \"victory for common sense\" and meant the industrial action was over.\n\nThe row started in June when Unite claimed the council's bid to \"modernise\" the service and save £5m a year threatened more than 100 jobs.\n\nThe deal put forward by the council sees 106 staff remain on their current wages but in new recycling roles.\n\nThe strikes led to thousands of tonnes of rubbish left piled up on the city's streets.\n\nMr Beckett, Unite assistant general secretary, said it would no longer be taking the council to the High Court on Monday and a \"court order was expected to legally cement the agreement\".\n\nA judge granted an interim injunction against the council in September and a trial was to determine if the council acted unlawfully.\n\nThe council has agreed to pay Unite's legal costs, Mr Beckett said.\n\n\"This deal secures the grade three role and protects the pay of workers who faced losing thousands of pounds,\" he said.\n\nHe added it was also a \"victory\" for residents \"who no longer need worry about the disruption of industrial action\".\n\nIan Ward, leader of the Labour-run council, said the deal had been achieved through \"quiet, open and honest dialogue\", adding neither the council or Unite wanted things to escalate the way they did.\n\n\"This has always been about providing an efficient and effective refuse collection service for Birmingham, as that is what citizens rightly expect and deserve from us,\" he said.\n\nHis predecessor, John Clancy resigned in September after criticism of his handling of the dispute.\n\nMr Ward said the disruption had been \"completely unacceptable\" for residents\n\nThe deal creates new waste reduction and collection officer roles who will be on bin lorries, focusing on recycling to help \"engage and educate\" residents.\n\nSending less waste to landfill and increasing recycling by 10% is expected to save £1.6m a year.\n\nThe authority also estimates £3m a year can be saved by changing workers' hours from a four-day to a five-day week - meaning less reliance on overtime and agency staff.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe spoke to her husband and supporters on the phone during a march in London on Saturday, and thanked them for their help as they campaign for her release.", "There is no clear link between prison suicides and overcrowding behind bars, an international study has suggested.\n\nThe research, published in the Lancet Psychiatry journal, looked into almost 4,000 prison suicides in 24 countries, including England and Wales.\n\nIt found deaths between 2011-14 were highest in the countries with the lowest rates of imprisonment.\n\nPrison suicides could be cut by sending fewer people with mental illnesses to prison and with better care, it added.\n\nResearchers analysed 3,906 prison suicides across 20 European countries, as well as in the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.\n\nIt found rates of prison suicide varied considerably, ranging from 23 per 100,000 prisoners in the US, to 180 per 100,000 prisoners in Norway.\n\nThe research found no connection between suicides and prison overcrowding - except in low-income countries where extremely crowded cells might cause extra stress.\n\nIt found there were proportionately more self-inflicted deaths in prisons in Norway and Sweden, where custody was generally reserved for the most violent and dangerous offenders, including those with mental health problems.\n\nSuicide rates in UK prisons were called a \"national scandal\" after a record number of people killed themselves in prisons in England and Wales in 2016.\n\nThe Prison Reform Trust has said reducing jail populations is the way to make prisons safe.\n\nBut this latest report said prison suicides \"are likely to be the result of a complex interaction of different factors, and not merely due to the prison environment\".\n\n\"Overall, our findings suggest that there are no simple ecological explanations for prison suicide,\" the report said.\n\n\"Rather, it is likely to be due to complex interactions between individual-level and ecological factors.\"\n\nIt concluded that suicide prevention initiatives should draw on \"multidisciplinary approaches\" which look at individual and system-level risk.", "There has already been snow across parts of Scotland\n\nIcy conditions caused train delays of up to 90 minutes on Saturday, after temperatures dropped below freezing in parts of the country overnight.\n\nNetwork Rail said some Southern, Gatwick Express and Thameslink lines were forced to run at reduced speeds.\n\nSouth Western Railway also warned of delays due to ice, which came on top of planned weekend engineering works.\n\nTemperatures fell to lows of -5.2C in Yorkshire, as forecasters said the wintry weather looked set to continue.\n\nThe Met Office has issued a yellow warning for ice across Northern Ireland, north-west and south-west England and much of Scotland between 20:00 on Saturday and 10:00 GMT on Sunday.\n\nThe yellow warning advises people to \"be aware\" that conditions will turn icy again tonight, with rain, sleet and hail showers continuing.\n\nFollowing the frosty start to the day, BBC Weather forecasted a cold and bright day with wintry showers in the north and west of England.\n\nThe showers will fall as snow over the hills and to low levels in the north, and perhaps in some parts of the Midlands.\n\nDr Thomas Waite, from Public Health England, reminded people to take precautions.\n\n\"Those most at risk include older people, very young children and those with conditions like heart and lung disease,\" he said.\n\n\"Ask yourself if you could check on a neighbour to see if there's anything they need?\"\n\nFigures from the Office for National Statistics, showed an estimated 34,400 \"excess deaths\" occurred in England and Wales last winter.\n\nMeanwhile, councils in England and Wales have stockpiled 1.5 million tonnes of salt for roads this winter.\n\nNine out of 10 councils in England and Wales either have the same amount of salt as last year or even more, according to the Local Government Association (LGA).\n\nMore than half of councils are sharing salt stocks, while others share gritters and staff when required.\n\nWith temperatures falling, some local authorities have already deployed gritters on to roads.\n\nThere have already been heavy snowfalls in the Scottish Highlands this week, where icy conditions caused a number of road accidents.\n\nMeanwhile in Lancashire, more than 70 people had to be rescued from floods.", "The YPG played a key role in removing IS from Raqqa and other strongholds\n\nThe US is to stop supplying arms to the Syrian Kurdish militia the YPG, Turkey has said.\n\nForeign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said President Donald Trump had made the promise in a phone call to his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.\n\nThe White House said it was making \"adjustments\" to its support for partners inside Syria but did not explicitly name the YPG.\n\nTurkey has long complained about US support for the group.\n\nWashington has viewed the YPG as a key player in the fight against so-called Islamic State (IS), but Ankara brands the group's fighters as terrorists.\n\nTurkey says the YPG is as an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a group it has been fighting for decades in south-eastern Turkey.\n\nThe US, however, has seen the YPG as distinct from the PKK. In May it announced it would supply arms to the Kurdish elements of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which were poised to drive IS from its stronghold of Raqqa. It had previously armed only Arab elements of the SDF.\n\n\"President Trump instructed [his generals] in a very open way that the YPG will no longer be given weapons,\" Mr Cavusoglu was quoted as saying in the Turkish Hurriyet Daily News.\n\nHe said Mr Trump gave his assurances after President Erdogan reiterated his concern over the continued supply of weapons and armoured vehicles to the YPG.\n\nIf this is true, it would be a major shift in US policy. The Kurds have proved to be valuable partners in the fight against IS.\n\nIt is notable that Washington's account of the call does not mention taking away the arms that the Trump administration agreed to give the YPG earlier this year - something Ankara has called for. Turkey feared the weapons would end up in the hands of fighters intent on creating an independent Kurdish state.\n\nThe Pentagon is likely reassessing its needs in Syria as the fight against IS has waned in recent months. But whatever adjustments are being made, it is clear the US military has no plans to leave the war-torn country. It has been revealed that about 2,000 US troops are now based there - a significant increase since the Obama administration.\n\nThe White House confirmed the two leaders had spoken by phone and said Mr Trump \"reaffirmed the strategic partnership\" between the US and Turkey.\n\n\"Consistent with our previous policy, President Trump also informed President Erdogan of pending adjustments to the military support provided to our partners on the ground in Syria, now that the battle of Raqqa is complete,\" the statement said.\n\n\"We are progressing into a stabilisation phase to ensure that Isis [IS] cannot return. The leaders also discussed the purchase of military equipment from the United States.\"\n\nPro-Syrian government forces have also driven IS from land it once controlled\n\nThe SDF, an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias, has driven IS militants from much of the land it once controlled.\n\nThe YPG and its political arm, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), denies any direct links with the PKK, whose insurgency has left thousands dead.\n\nBut Mr Cavusoglu has previously said that every weapon obtained by the YPG constituted \"a threat to Turkey\".\n\nThe SDF declared victory in Raqqa last month after a four-month battle to retake the city from IS, which had ruled it for three years.", "Zimbabwe's new President Emmerson Mnangagwa has addressed a packed stadium, vowing to serve all citizens.\n\nHe paid tribute to his predecessor Robert Mugabe - to muted applause - calling him \"a father, mentor, comrade-in-arms and my leader\".", "The Egyptian ministry of defence released footage showing jets and helicopters taking off along with onboard footage of strikes on what it said were \"terrorist targets\".\n\nIt comes after the massacre of worshippers at a mosque in Sinai.\n\nAt least 305 people died in the assault, which was launched during Friday prayers and has not yet been claimed by any group.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby League\n\nEngland reached a first World Cup final since 1995 as they survived a late Tonga fightback in Auckland to set up a meeting with holders Australia.\n\nWayne Bennett's side were leading 20-0 with seven minutes remaining after tries from Jermaine McGillvary, Gareth Widdop and John Bateman.\n\nBut Tevita Pangai Junior, Siliva Havili and Tuimoala Lolohea crashed over at a sold-out Mount Smart Stadium.\n\nAnd Andrew Fifita had a try ruled out in the final seconds of the match.\n\nReferee Matt Cecchin ruled that the prop had earlier lost the ball - and to the ire of the Tongans did not refer it to the video referee.\n\nIt was an absolutely pulsating, nerve-shredding end to a match played in front of a passionate crowd who heavily favoured Tonga.\n\nEngland will face the Kangaroos, who thrashed Fiji 54-6 in the other semi-final, in the final in Brisbane next Saturday, 2 December - a match you can watch live on BBC One.\n\nEngland's last appearance in the final came 22 years ago with Denis Betts, now among the coaching staff, captaining the side in a 16-8 defeat by Australia at Wembley.\n\nEvery tournament since has ended in a semi-final defeat, each one by New Zealand, but it looked with seven minutes to go as though England were cruising into next Saturday's showpiece.\n\nAt 20-0 down, Tonga had other ideas.\n\nThe Pacific Islanders came from 16-2 down to beat New Zealand in the group stage and, backed by a vocal Tongan support in Auckland, almost engineered a comeback of even greater proportions.\n\nFirst, after 73 minutes, Junior edged his way over the England line to cross for a try that was eventually confirmed by the video referee - but it looked like nothing more than a well-deserved consolation.\n\nBut the nerves began to kick in for Bennett's side as Tonga kept the ball alive before Havili broke through several would-be tacklers to make the score 20-12.\n\nTwo minutes later and England's advantage was reduced to two points, Lolohea again breaching England's line to put Tonga within one score of their first World Cup final.\n\nEngland were in disarray and the crowd were absolutely roaring on Tonga.\n\nMcGillvary, one of England's best performers at this World Cup, stole a key intercept to win the ball back with England just needing to see out the final 90 seconds, but the winger lost the ball in a tackle to give Tonga one last attack.\n\nAnd when Fifita found a route through it looked like England's tournament was yet again going to end in semi-final heartbreak.\n\nElliott Whitehead's attempted tackle forced the prop to drop the ball but, with Tonga thinking Whitehead had ripped it in an attempted ball steal, Fifita re-gathered and touched down over the line.\n\nAustralian referee Cecchin deemed it as a loose carry from the Tonga prop, opting not to consult the video referee, and that was enough for England to hold on to reach a first final in 22 years.\n\nFor 70 minutes, England's scrambling defence had stood up to the Tongan threat while the forwards set the platform for Widdop to provide the spark from full-back.\n\nEngland began their World Cup campaign with Widdop in the halves, but head coach Bennett used the St George Illawarra Dragons man the number one shirt in the final group game against France.\n\nWiddop has kept that spot since and, while also allowing Kevin Brown to flourish at six, proved the inspiration against Tonga with a hand in all three of England's tries.\n\nIt was his superb break that set the field position for England to score their first, joining the line to send McGillvary in at the corner.\n\nThe full-back doubled England's advantage shortly after with a try of his own, gathering Whitehead's pass to roll over from close range for a score that was awarded by the video referee.\n\nWiddop then edged England further ahead with a penalty after the break, before teeing up Bateman with a well-timed pass for the centre to crash in for England's third.\n\nHe played with a positional nous and cunning that England will need if they are to threaten an unbeaten Kangaroos team next weekend.\n\nPapua New Guinea's matches in Port Moresby were all sold out but very few other matches have been at the World Cup and there were oceans of empty seats at Friday's other semi-final in Brisbane.\n\nBut England were met by a sea of red shirts and flags as the Tongan support poured into a sold-out Mount Smart Stadium which, at 30,003, witnessed its biggest crowd since home side Auckland Warriors joined the Australian Rugby League in 1995.\n\nThere is an estimated 80,000 people of Tongan descent in Auckland, leading the city to be dubbed 'Little Tonga' and it almost made the semi-final feel like a home game for the Pacific Islanders.\n\n\"I've played in some massive games and hostile atmospheres, but nothing like this before,\" said England prop James Graham.\n\nTonga's desire and belief they could get back into the semi-final was characterised by a rousing chorus of hymns from the red and white crowd, while they shared in the players' tears at the final whistle.\n\nTonga became the first Tier Two nation to beat a Tier One side for more than 20 years when they beat the Kiwis in the group stage, coming after the likes of Jason Taumalolo, Manu Vatuvei and Fifita turned down New Zealand and Australia to play for the countries from which their families descend.\n\nEngland did well to stem the initial tide of enthusiasm, looking solid defensively and enjoying a 100% success rate in their opening 10 sets.\n\nBennett's side were let off when the Pacific Islanders shifted a flowing move to the left that winger Daniel Tupou fumbled with a clear run of the line in front of him.\n\nBut with Brown and Luke Gale in the halves, England's game management was more controlled and considered - until a frantic final few minutes - and it was for large parts their most convincing performance of the tournament against undoubtedly their toughest test so far.\n\n\"For very long periods we were on top of that game but a little ill disciplined when we needed to be better,\" said Tonga coach Kristian Woolf.\n\n\"For whatever reason the sorts of opportunities we have taken in past games we weren't able to take.\"\n\nSo Australia, for the 14th successive time, await in the final in Brisbane next Saturday.\n\nThe clinical Kangaroos brushed aside a Fiji side in the semi-finals that had shocked co-hosts New Zealand in the last eight.\n\nValentine Holmes crossed for a record six tries, his 12th of the competition, and has already surpassed Wendell Sailor's record of 10 scores with one match left to play.\n\nBut Australia, unbeaten under coach Mal Meninga, are a threat right across the park with a settled back line, powerful forward pack and an in-form halves partnership led by Cooper Cronk.\n\nEngland will have to call on all that scrambling defence and ingenuity in attack if they are to shock the holders on their own turf.", "Sinai, including here in El-Arish, has seen multiple Islamist attacks in recent years\n\nThe militant group Sinai Province is the most active insurgent group in Egypt. It has been linked to a number of deadly attacks, mostly in North Sinai, but also in the capital, Cairo, and other provinces.\n\nThe Islamist group, initially known as Ansar Beit al-Maqdis (Supporters of Jerusalem), has been active in the Sinai Peninsula since 2011.\n\nIt changed its name after it pledged allegiance to the so-called Islamic State (IS) group in November 2014.\n\nIn 2015, Sinai Province staged a series of attacks against the army, whose scale and complexity indicated the possibility of closer coordination with the IS leadership in Syria.\n\nSinai Province is thought to be aiming to take control of the Sinai Peninsula in order to turn it into an Islamist province run by IS.\n\nThe number of active Sinai Province members is believed to be between 1,000 and 1,500.\n\nIt has expanded its operations outside Sinai by creating cells in some governorates, including Cairo and Giza.\n\nThese cells have claimed several attacks, including one on a security building in the northern province of Dakahliya in December 2013, which killed at least 15 people and injured over 100.\n\nThe group's operations have also reached the Western Desert, an area popular with tourists for its oases and rock formations, but which has also become a militant hideout due to its proximity to volatile Libya.\n\nSinai Province has been operating mainly in North Sinai, which has been under a state of emergency since October 2014 when 33 security personnel were killed in an attack claimed by the group.\n\nThe then Egyptian prime minister, Ibrahim Mehleb, described the army's confrontation with Sinai Province as a \"state of war\".\n\nNorth Sinai is thinly populated and broadly underdeveloped, with some of the local population feeling marginalised from the government's investment programme on the mainland.\n\nThe sense of disconnect is seen as helping fuel a level of support for the militants there.\n\nA buffer zone has been created along Egypt's border with Gaza\n\nThe border with Israel and the Gaza Strip has been a scene of tension over the past few years. The Egyptian authorities have created a buffer zone, demolishing houses and digging a trench to prevent smuggling between Egypt and Gaza - which they say is a source of weapons for the militants.\n\nIn September 2015, the Egyptian army launched a large-scale military campaign against militant groups in North Sinai.\n\nThe ongoing Operation The Martyr's Right targets sites mainly in Rafah, Arish and Sheikh Zuweid, all towns in northern areas of the peninsula.\n\nAs part of the offensive, the army pumped water from the Mediterranean Sea into the tunnels along the Gaza border.\n\nSinai Province started by attacking Israel with rockets, but after the removal of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in 2013 it focused on Egypt's security services, killing dozens of soldiers.\n\nIt has been involved in suicide bombings, drive-by shootings, assassinations and beheadings.\n\nIn July 2015, the group said it had attacked an Egyptian naval vessel in the Mediterranean with a missile fired from the shore - a worrying development for shipping in the region.\n\nAfter the launch of the military campaign in North Sinai in September 2015, the group changed its strategy again by carrying out frequent small-scale bombings and hit and run attacks rather than intermittent \"spectaculars\".\n\nA survey conducted by London-based Al-Araby al-Jadid news website said the group had carried out more than 31 attacks in various areas across Sinai within just a two-week period in March 2016.\n\nSinai Province has developed a media production operation, and has published a host of propaganda videos online.\n\nOne entitled The Soldiers' Harvest and released in September 2015 featured several attacks the group said it carried out against security personnel. These included shooting policemen in the street, sniping at army soldiers, and targeting military vehicles with explosive devices.\n\nAnother video released in March 2016 allegedly showed training camps in a desert area where members of the group received combat training.\n\nIn other videos, the group has urged citizens to avoid cooperating with the authorities, especially by joining the army and police.\n\nIn some of its films, the group has softened its tone towards the Muslim Brotherhood, who it previously criticized for adopting \"infidel democracy\" and joining the political process.\n\nIn a video released just few days before the fifth anniversary of the 25 January 2011 revolution, Sinai Province called on what it described as \"supporters of peacefulness\" - a reference to the Muslim Brotherhood - to rise up against President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi.\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.", "One case this year involved RAF Lakenheath-based F-15s which came within 50m (150ft) of an RAF Voyager\n\nThe US Air Force (USAF) has urged its UK-based pilots to keep cockpit windows clean to avoid mid-air collisions with civilian aircraft.\n\nRAF Lakenheath-based USAF F-15 jets were involved in 19 near-misses with UK aircraft in the past five years.\n\nAn F-15 pilot from the Suffolk base was recently praised after spotting a glider by eyesight rather than radar and avoiding a collision.\n\nThe USAF said its pilots were trained to fly in a \"vigilant state\".\n\nThe near-miss in April happened when a pair of low-flying F-15s came close to a glider over the Black Mountains near Hereford.\n\nThe UK Airprox Board found the glider, which was not picked up on radar, was spotted by one of the pilots and the F-15s manoeuvred out of the way.\n\nMore than 1,000 near-misses have been reported to the UK Airprox Board in the past five years, of which about 360 have involved UK or US military aircraft.\n\nOne of the most serious happened in January when two F-15s from RAF Lakenheath came within 50m (150ft) of an RAF tanker plane.\n\nThe USAF said not only was there \"increasing general aviation traffic\" but smaller civilian aircraft were not equipped with transponders, meaning they may not be picked up on radar.\n\nNearly all of the US aircraft based at RAF Lakenheath operate on ultra high frequency (UHF) radio and cannot hear civilian aircraft, which use very high frequency (VHF), the USAF says.\n\nThe reference sheets given to pilots at RAF Lakenheath outline a number of measures aimed at avoiding mid-air collisions\n\nAs a result, the USAF has urged its pilots to use what it describes as \"see and avoid\" - essentially to keep a look out.\n\nA reference sheet for USAF pilots at RAF Lakenheath, which is home to the US 48th Fighter Wing, urges them to keep their windscreens clean and to \"consciously note how much time you spend looking outside the cockpit\".\n\nA USAF spokesman said: \"Sometimes little things like keeping your screen clean can make the difference.\n\n\"Safety is always a priority for our pilots, who are trained to maintain a vigilant state of situational awareness at all times.\n\n\"The airspace above the United Kingdom remains busy and complex, but we are confident the risk of airprox (air proximity) events is minimized by our continuous training, consistent focus on flight safety and our direct communication with Royal Air Force and civilian air traffic control services.\"\n• None US jets and RAF plane in 'near miss'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Australia has criticised the UK's post-Brexit trade plans to split quotas of food imports from around the world.\n\nEU rules allow for a certain amount of goods to be brought in from countries outside of the Union without charging full tariffs.\n\nAfter Brexit, the UK and EU want to split these quotas, based on where the goods are mostly consumed.\n\nBut Australian trade minister Steven Ciobo said it would impose unacceptable restrictions on their exports.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The point is that you have a choice about where you place your quota at the moment.\n\n\"Therefore, given that you could put it in the UK or you could put it into continental Europe, why would we accept a proposition that would see a decline in the quota available because of the Brexit decision?\"\n\nDave Harrison, from Beef and Lamb New Zealand, agreed that its finances could be hit hard if they were not allowed to choose where to import more or less of their products.\n\nHe told Today: \"We understand that Brexit causes a lot of difficulties for the European governments, but we don't think third countries should have to take a hit in terms of their negotiated legal rights as a result of that.\"\n\nShanker Singham, of The Legatum Institute, said the UK should talk to other countries about trade directly.\n\nHe added: \"We should be going to them and saying we have the ability - once we take up our chair at the WTO [World Trade Organisation] - to do trade agreements with you that will include a certain amount of liberalisation, depending on what you are prepared to give us.\n\n\"But if you damage us on the way to reclaiming our seat on the WTO, we are not going to be able to do those deals with you.\"\n\nThe US, Brazil and Canada are also said to have their doubts about the new deal, believing it could hit them financially.\n\nA spokesman for the UK's Department of International Trade told Today the government wanted to minimise disruption to trading relationships and would engage with other members of the World Trade Organisation in an \"open, inclusive way\".\n\nMeanwhile, Tory MP Neil Parish, who chairs the environment, food and rural affairs committee in Parliament, raised concerns that if the UK's exports to the EU were hit post-Brexit and more imports were coming into the country from further afield, it could affect industries on our shores.\n\nShadow international secretary of trade, Barry Gardiner, also said the wider implications could see an impact on the British countryside.\n\n\"As you affect farming, so you affect the way our country looks,\" he said. \"That means you also affect the tourist trade.\n\n\"These are huge decisions that are being taken and we must protect our farmers to make sure that our countryside looks the way we want it to. \"", "Simon Thomas said his wife Gemma died 'surrounded by family and friends'\n\nThe wife of Sky Sports anchor and ex-Blue Peter presenter Simon Thomas has died, just three days after she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia.\n\nThomas tweeted that he was \"crushed with indescribable pain\" following the death of his 40-year-old wife, Gemma.\n\nHe said she died \"surrounded by her family and friends\" and that their son Ethan, eight, was \"in bits\".\n\nThomas presented Blue Peter for six years and left for Sky Sports in 2005.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon 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\n\"Today I am crushed with indescribable pain,\" he said in the post.\n\n\"Just three days after falling ill with Acute Myloid Leukaemia, my dear wife Gemma passed away yesterday evening surrounded by her family and friends.\n\n\"If you are a prayer - pray for my boy Ethan. 8yrs, precious and in bits. Thank you.\"\n\nA Sky Sports spokesman said: \"We are shocked and devastated to hear Simon's news. All our thoughts are with him and his family during this terribly sad time.\"\n\nFootballers, including England striker Jamie Vardy and England women's captain Steph Houghton, also tweeted their sympathy.\n\nNorwich City Football Club - the team Thomas supports - said the thoughts of everybody at the club were with the presenter and his family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Norwich City FC This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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\nMr Thomas has presented live Premier League coverage for Sky Sports and has worked as a Sky Sports News anchor.\n\nAbout 3,100 people a year in the UK are diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia - a type of blood cancer.", "Arlene Foster said that all parties need to be \"serious about obtaining a deal that is balanced\"\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster has said Sinn Féin must choose between making a deal with them or having direct rule ministers in place.\n\nSpeaking at the party's annual conference, she said \"time is short\".\n\nMrs Foster also spoke of the DUP's influence in Westminster and the party's commitment to Brexit.\n\nOn the failure of talks between the DUP and Sinn Féin, Mrs Foster said that \"some progress was made but that can only be built upon if all sides are genuinely serious about obtaining a deal that is balanced\".\n\nThe DUP-Sinn Féin power-sharing government fell apart in January following a row over a green energy scandal, which is now the subject of a public inquiry.\n\nA series of talks have failed to find agreement over issues including an Irish language act and same-sex marriage.\n\nArlene Foster told the DUP party conference that Sinn Féin needs to respect British culture\n\n\"I said back in the summer that this party was prepared to legislate for the Irish language in the context of legislating for the plurality of cultures that exist in Northern Ireland,\" Mrs Foster told the conference in Belfast.\n\n\"The Irish language is spoken and enjoyed by thousands of people in all parts of Northern Ireland, it does no damage to our unionism or the Union we cherish.\n\n\"I respect the Irish language and those who speak it, however, respect isn't a one-way street.\n\nMrs Foster said Sinn Féin needed to \"respect our British culture\".\n\n\"For too long they have shown nothing but disdain and disrespect for the national flag, the Royal Family, the Armed Forces, British symbols, the constitutional reality and the very name of this country.\n\n\"Time is short and those in Sinn Féin blocking the restoration of local decision making need to decide whether they want to do business with us or have direct rule ministers in place.\n\n\"I still believe that devolution is the best way to govern Northern Ireland, but to do that in a way that delivers for all of our people we need serious partners in government.\"\n\nOn Brexit, Mrs Foster said it was \"perhaps the most substantial and complex process the government and parliament had undertaken in the modern political era\".\n\nShe reiterated her desire to find a solution for Northern Ireland that would not harm the country's economic relationship with either the rest of the UK or the Republic of Ireland.\n\n\"As we joined the then European Community as one nation we will leave as one United Kingdom,\" she said.\n\nResponding to Mrs Foster's address, Sinn Féin's northern leader, Michelle O'Neill said she and her party \"remained committed to making the institutions work,\" but said: \"They must operate on the basis agreed 20 years ago.\"\n\n\"A majority of citizens in the north expect and are entitled to the same rights enjoyed by citizens across these islands; language and marriage equality rights, due process in all aspects of the legal and judicial system, including inquests.\"\n\nEarlier, the party's deputy leader Nigel Dodds told the conference that the deal with the Conservative Party was \"in the national interest\" and an opportunity for Northern Ireland.\n\n\"Our interests in the negotiations were not in seats for ourselves at the cabinet table but in jobs and investment for our people,\" he said.\n\n\"Our goal is not to push some narrow DUP agenda but to deliver for the whole community in Northern Ireland,\" he added.\n\nNigel Dodds said that the time is coming when direct rule will be \"the lesser of two evils\"\n\nThe Conservative Party are represented at the conference through senior minister Damian Green and chief whip Julian Smith, who is due to give a keynote speech on Saturday afternoon.\n\nMr Dodds also addressed the ongoing political deadlock at Stormont.\n\nMr Dodds said Northern Ireland Secretary James Brokenshire must soon consider implementing direct rule if no deal is struck.\n\n\"While we understand, because of the talks process and the absence of ministers, things have been more difficult, within a very short space of time that will not be a tenable excuse for not taking action,\" he said.\n\n\"None of us want to see direct rule introduced but we are fast approaching the moment when it will be the lesser of two evils.\"", "Glasgow Airport was closed temporarily after a towing vehicle hit a passenger plane getting ready for take-off.\n\nThe incident happened in \"freezing conditions\" at 20:45 and involved a British Airways plane.\n\nIt is thought the tug vehicle may have skidded on ice as the plane was being pushed back from the stand.\n\nThe Scottish Fire Service sent three pumps and an aerial unit to the scene as a precaution. No-one was injured and the airport has now reopened.\n\nA spokesman for Glasgow Airport said: \"We are currently open and operational. The airfield experienced flash freezing tonight along with multiple rain showers.\n\n\"A departing flight to Gatwick was cancelled following a minor incident on stand with a tug as a result of the freezing conditions.\n\n\"Emergency services attended the incident as part of our normal operating procedures for any incidents involving aircraft.\"\n\nHe added: \"Our priority remains the safety of the airfield and its operations and we apologise for any disruption caused. We will continue to carry out de-icing throughout the night.\"", "Ashes: England face battle after Steve Smith century gives Australia the edge Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nFirst Ashes Test, Gabba, Brisbane (day three of five) Australia took hold of the first Ashes Test thanks to captain Steve Smith's epic century and two late England wickets on day three in Brisbane. Smith, ranked as the number one batsman in the world, spent more than eight and a half hours at the crease for his chanceless 141 not out. With Pat Cummins, who made 42, Smith dragged the home side from 209-7 to 328 all out, a precious advantage of 26 runs. England took three wickets in the morning session to have the opportunity of a lead of their own, but were made to toil in the afternoon by the remorseless Smith. When they eventually came to bat, they lost Alastair Cook and James Vince, both to Josh Hazlewood to slip to 17-2. At the other end, Mitchell Starc and Cummins defied the slow surface to give Mark Stoneman and Joe Root a torrid time with sustained and vicious short bowling. Root was struck in the grille by Starc and needed two lots of treatment, but, despite numerous scares, England got through without further losses and remain in the contest at 33-2, a lead of seven. They may, however, have concern over the fitness of pace bowler James Anderson, who spent time off the field in the afternoon. Root received treatment after being hit on the helmet during a hostile spell of bowling This was another wonderful day in a fascinating Test that has delivered on the pre-match hype and shown that the series is likely to be highly competitive. England, the Ashes holders, still have the chance to inflict a first Brisbane defeat on Australia in 29 years, but it is the hosts who have the upper hand. It was not just the runs that Smith scored that had such an effect, but the way he ground England down in the afternoon heat. The Gabba erupted into a monstrous noise when he reached three figures and then demanded English casualties when the home side took the ball in the final session. Indeed, when Cook was caught hooking and Vince held at second slip, it had the hallmarks of the England collapses that characterised their 5-0 defeat four years ago. It is to the credit of Stoneman and Root that they made it to the close, especially after Root took such a sickening blow. And if the tourists can battle to a lead of 200 or more, that would be a difficult chase for Australia on a pitch that looks set to become harder to bat on. Smith withstood everything the England attack could throw at him The suspicion before this series was that Australia's batting depends heavily on Smith and David Warner. Here, the captain proved the theory with his patience, discipline and skill. Since the final Ashes Test in 2013, Smith has made 21 centuries. No-one in the England team has made more than Root's 11. This one, at 261 balls, was the slowest of his career, mainly because the sluggish nature of the pitch, England's tactics and the match situation demanded restraint. On Friday, after England lost their fifth wicket, they added only 56 more runs. Smith coaxed 153 out of Australia's final five thanks mainly to a 66-run stand with Cummins. The tourists tried everything to remove him, at one point having six fielders on the leg side, three of which were on the boundary, with no-one between gully and mid-on. Smith though, chugged on, leaving anything outside off stump, refusing to be rattled by an abundance of short bowling and shovelling runs through the leg side. When he brought up his century with a rare drive through mid-off from the bowling of Stuart Broad, he beat the Australia badge on his chest. He even added 30 runs with last man Nathan Lyon and was unmoved when Root had Lyon caught at leg slip. Anderson took 2-50 from 29 overs but did not bowl at the last-wicket pair England were superb in the morning session, giving them realistic hope of earning a first-innings lead at the Gabba for the first time since 1990. From 165-4 overnight, Australia lost three wickets for 34 runs as Anderson and Broad threatened to dismantle the lower order. Shaun Marsh moved from 44 to complete a half-century, but after he chipped Broad to mid-off, England exploited the second new ball. Tim Paine was caught behind one-handed by Jonny Bairstow off Anderson and Broad, who was hit for a straight six by Starc, had his revenge with a tumbling return catch. Cummins joined Smith to get Australia to lunch and, from there, England were subdued. Fears that Anderson may be injured were raised when he did not return immediately after the break, but England insisted there was no problem with their all-time leading wicket-taker. He returned and bowled again, but none of the last 16 overs of the Australia innings, after tea or at the last pair of Smith and Lyon. Anderson's importance, along with Broad, was highlighted by their combined figures. Between them they took 5-99 from 54 overs. The rest returned 5-228 from 76.3. Jake Ball was expensive, Chris Woakes disappointingly ineffective and Moeen Ali did not find as much turn as Australia counterpart Lyon. From what we have seen in terms of the hostility from Australia and the crowd, that was like four years ago and the way Mark Stoneman played was tremendous. Everything we had spoken about before the Test, that one and a half hours is what England would have expected going into it. It was brutal. Whether the pitch has quickened up or Australia were buoyed by their captain Steve Smith, we will find out tomorrow. Credit to Joe Root - that was a bad blow. The doctor went out there twice. It rattles you as a player. The courage he showed was tremendous. What they said - the players Australia captain Steve Smith: \"With the team in trouble at 70-4 I had to bat time and dig deep. I had to fight hard through difficult periods. They set defensive fields and boundaries were hard to come by. I had to get off strike, wait for balls in my area and be disciplined. \"I thought they were pretty defensive from the outset. It was as if they were waiting for batters to make mistakes.\" England bowler Stuart Broad: \"We had a fantastic morning and then Australia fought back. Today was the best day to bat so far. The spin had come out of the pitch and the ball wasn't doing very much. \"What is good for us is that it will be better to bat on tomorrow. It is such an even game so far and I've finished each day not knowing who is on top.\"\n• None This is the seventh consecutive Ashes Test in which Australia have gained a first-innings lead at the Gabba\n• None This was Steve Smith's fourth Test century of 2017. Only South Africa's Dean Elgar (5) has more\n• None Australia have never lost when Steve Smith has faced at least 220 balls in an innings (W7, D3). Tufnell averaged 5.10 with the bat in his 42 Test matches for England In the Test Match Special commentary box, former England spinner Phil Tufnell, a true tail-end batsman, was living every moment as Australia's pace bowlers fired down a succession of 90mph deliveries. \"It was edge of your seat stuff in that final session. It was amazing,\" said Tufnell. \"Fair play to England as they could have been four or five down and that's the game almost done. They've just managed to hang on.\" More on the Ashes series\n• None How to follow the Ashes on the BBC\n• None Get Ashes alerts sent to your phone", "Councils in England spend £58m a year on clearing rubbish that is dumped on the street illegally.\n\nBut when fly-tipping occurs on private property, it can be a huge cost to landowners.", "Videos uploaded by young children were targeted by predators found news organisations\n\nMars, Lidl, Adidas and others have pulled all advertisements from YouTube after some were found next to clips used by predators to target children.\n\nInvestigations by the BBC and the Times found tens of thousands of \"predatory\" accounts have been used to leave explicit comments on children's videos.\n\nProblems with the video-sharing site's reporting system have been blamed for letting the accounts persist.\n\nYouTube said it was \"working urgently\" to clean up the site.\n\nA Mars spokesman told the Guardian: \"We are shocked and appalled to see that our adverts have appeared alongside such exploitative and inappropriate content.\"\n\nIt said it had immediately suspended advertising globally on YouTube and Google. Adverts would not return until it was sure YouTube had put safeguards in place, it added.\n\nLidl, Deutsche Bank and Cadbury and many other big brands are also believed to have suspended advertising campaigns while the video-sharing site acts.\n\nA YouTube spokesman said: \"There shouldn't be any ads running on this content and we are working urgently to fix this.\"\n\nThe investigations found that clips posted innocently by young children on YouTube had attracted attention from predatory adults who left obscene comments and made sexually explicit requests.\n\nThe BBC was alerted to the scale of the problem by volunteer members of YouTube's Trusted Flagger programme who alert the site to potential violations of its guidelines.\n\nM&S paused its ads on Google in June after they were found next to extremist content\n\nTrusted Flaggers who talked to the BBC said there could be up to 100,000 active predatory accounts on the site, all of which were able to survive because the system to report them did not work well.\n\nYouTube has responded to the twin investigations by shutting accounts used to make predatory comments and by turning off comments on thousands of videos.\n\nThe ad suspensions come only days after YouTube unveiled new measures that were supposed to limit the spread of sexualised and violent content.\n\nIt promised to be tougher about applying its guidelines on what was appropriate, block inappropriate comments on videos featuring children and expunge adverts that target families with material that is offensive.\n\nThis is after YouTube was criticised about accounts that targeted children with videos that feature popular characters, such as Peppa Pig, in strange or disturbing situations.\n\nAlso, in June this year, YouTube was forced to act after major brands pulled adverts when they found their content was being linked to videos featuring hate speech and extremism.", "People brought flowers and candles to the vigil in Swanage\n\nA \"wave of love and solidarity\" was displayed by those attending a candlelit vigil in honour of Gaia Pope.\n\nThe 19-year-old from Langton Matravers, Dorset, was reported missing on 7 November. Her body was found 11 days later in a nearby field.\n\nHer family thanked the volunteers who searched for Gaia in the Swanage area.\n\nMiss Pope's cousin, Marienna Pope Weidemann, said: \"Gaia has done once again what she did so often in life - she has brought us all closer together.\n\n\"I've never known anything like the wave of love and solidarity that came from this community and that I see here today.\"\n\nScores of people brought flowers to the vigil at Swanage amphitheatre and many placed candles in glass jars near a floral tribute spelling GAIA below a framed picture of Miss Pope.\n\nGrieving friends and family members, including her father Richard Sutherland, addressed those gathered, who observed a minute's silence.\n\nMr Sutherland said: \"All that support you gave is tremendously heart-warming and something that at such a difficult time helps us very much.\n\n\"We will carry her memory for the rest of our lives.\"\n\nGaia Pope's body was found 11 days after she went missing\n\nScores of people attended the event at Swanage amphitheatre\n\nDorset Police is treating her death as \"unexplained\", pending toxicology results.\n\nA post-mortem examination did not identify any injuries to suggest the involvement of other people, police said.\n\nOn Monday, police announced the three people arrested on suspicion of murder, Paul Elsey, Rosemary Dinch, and Nathan Elsey, were to face no action.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The police said they received a report at about 00:45 GMT on Saturday morning\n\nTwo men in their 20s have been arrested after a triple stabbing in north Belfast.\n\nA 20-year-old woman, who was arrested earlier on suspicion of attempted murder, has been released on bail pending further enquiries.\n\nThree men, all in their 20s, were stabbed in north Belfast in the early hours of Saturday and are all in a stable condition in hospital.\n\nOne of the men was found with stab wounds to the head\n\nOne of the men was found with stab wounds to the head.\n\nAnother suffered a head injury and stab wounds to the neck.\n\nThe third underwent surgery for abdominal injuries.\n\nThe police said it had received reports of a disturbance at a property in the York Park area at about 00:45 GMT on Saturday morning.\n\nThe police found the man with stab wounds to his head inside the house.\n\nThe other two men were found a quarter of a mile away near a retail premises on the Shore Road.\n\nPolice have appealed for information and would like to hear from anyone who was in the York Park area between 00:15 and 01:15.", "A senior officer from Police Scotland has been suspended amid an investigation into criminal conduct.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Bernard Higgins was suspended with immediate effect by the Scottish Police Authority (SPA) on Friday afternoon.\n\nThree other officers have also been suspended and two have been placed on restricted duties.\n\nA spokesman for ACC Higgins said he \"denies and rejects\" any allegations of wrongdoing.\n\nThe independent police watchdog is investigating allegations of criminal conduct and gross misconduct.\n\nIn a statement, Deputy Chief Constable Iain Livingstone confirmed the suspension of ACC Higgins, who was responsible for operational support, custody and criminal justice.\n\nHe said: \"I can confirm that Assistant Chief Constable Bernard Higgins was suspended today by the Scottish Police Authority.\n\n\"In addition, three other officers have been suspended, and two others placed on restricted duties, by Deputy Chief Constable Rose Fitzpatrick.\n\n\"This is in connection with an investigation by the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (Pirc).\n\n\"At this time our focus must remain on continuing to meet the operational challenges that we face each day.\"\n\nHe added that Assistant Chief Constable Nelson Telfer would take responsibility for the operational support portfolio.\n\nHowever a spokesman for ACC Higgins said he denied wrongdoing.\n\n\"He will fully cooperate with the investigation. He intends to resume his duties as soon as this matter has been resolved,\" he added.\n\nBBC Scotland understands the allegations are connected to a wider criminal investigation.\n\nThey are not connected to the separate Pirc investigations into allegations of misconduct against Chief Constable Phil Gormley who is currently on \"special leave.\"\n\nNor are they connected to inquiries into allegations that officers in the former counter-corruption unit abused their position when attempting to find the source of a journalist's information.\n\nACC Higgins joined Strathclyde Police in 1988 and served in uniform posts across Glasgow and Lanarkshire.\n\nHe became a superintendent in 2006 and was then promoted to detective chief superintendent and head of the public protection unit in 2010.\n\nLater in 2010, he was made divisional commander in charge of Glasgow Central and West Division.\n\nHe was appointed Strathclyde Police Temporary Assistant Chief Constable (Territorial Policing) in March 2012.\n\nIn January 2013, he became assistant chief constable of Police Scotland with responsibility for operational support before assuming responsibility for the wider justice and support portfolio.\n\nIn his current role, which he was appointed to in September last year, he has responsibility for the operational support, custody and criminal justice divisions.\n\nThe decision to suspend Mr Higgins was taken by the SPA board after it was alerted to the criminal and misconduct allegations by the Pirc.\n\nIn a statement, the SPA said the suspension would be reviewed in four weeks or if there is a change in circumstances.\n\nThe Pirc said it initially referred the anonymous allegations to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service, as it is responsible for the prosecution of crime.\n\nThe Crown Office decided an independent investigation should be carried out by the Pirc and that is now under way.\n\nAs the complaint also included allegations of misconduct by a senior police officer, the commissioner referred the matters to the SPA on 18 October.\n\nThe SPA suspended Mr Higgins on Friday and referred allegations of gross misconduct to the Pirc\n\nThe commissioner is now carrying out an assessment to establish whether a misconduct investigation is required.\n\nA spokesman for the commissioner said: \"Following receipt of anonymous allegations of criminality by officers, including a senior officer, serving with Police Scotland, the Commissioner referred the allegations to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS).\n\n\"This was to allow the COPFS to consider whether the criminal allegations should be investigated by the Commissioner.\n\n\"The COPFS decided that an independent investigation should be carried out by the PIRC and this is now under way.\"\n\nThe Scottish government has issued a statement saying that as the matter was under investigation by the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner it was unable to comment further.\n\nHowever, Liam Kerr, the justice spokesman for the Conservative Party, called for Scotland's justice secretary to come \"out of the shadows\" on the difficulties faced by Police Scotland.\n\nHe told BBC Radio Scotland: \"The conspicuous absences of the justice secretary - my view would be that he's got to step out of the shadows and get a grip on this because it keeps happening on his watch.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPakistan's government has called for troops to be deployed in the capital, Islamabad, after violence broke out during protests by Islamists.\n\nAbout 200 people were injured when security forces tried to disperse an Islamist sit-in at the Faizabad Interchange - a key highway.\n\nSeveral deaths have been reported.\n\nThe protesters have been blocking the highway for several weeks, demanding the sacking of Law Minister Zahid Hamid whom they accuse of blasphemy.\n\nPakistani media report that demonstrators also broke into the minister's residence in Punjab province. Mr Hamid and his family were not in the building.\n\nThe protests have spread to other cities, including Lahore and the southern port of Karachi.\n\nAbout 200 people were injured in Saturday's clashes\n\nThe Pakistani government asked the army to deploy in Islamabad on Saturday evening.\n\nThe interior minister said the order was issued at the request of the city authorities, who were not able to clear the sit-in.\n\nThere was no immediate comment from the Pakistani military.\n\nProtesters want Pakistan's law minister to be sacked\n\nEarlier on Saturday, security forces used tear gas and rubber bullets to try to disperse the demonstrators, Pakistani media report, but were met with rocks and tear gas shells.\n\nAbout 8,500 elite police and paramilitary forces took part in the operation to clear the Faizabad Interchange. The crackdown was later suspended.\n\nProtesters said four of their activists were killed, but police said there were no deaths, Reuters reports.\n\nHowever, officials are quoted in other reports confirming that several people were killed. Many of those injured are security personnel.\n\nThe request for the military deployment came after hundreds more demonstrators turned up unexpectedly, forcing the police to retreat.\n\nAt one point, the authorities took all private television news channels off air, apparently out of concern that the live coverage of the police action could inflame religious sentiments.\n\nThe protesting Islamists, from the hardline Tehreek-i-Labaik Ya Rasool Allah Party, want the law minister to be sacked for omitting a reference to the Prophet Muhammad in a new version of the electoral oath.\n\nThe minister has since apologised saying it was a clerical error.", "Georgia's prime minister said an investigation into the fire's causes has started\n\nA fire at a hotel in Georgia's Black Sea resort has killed 11 people and injured 21 more, the Georgian interior ministry has said.\n\nThe victims all died from inhaling fumes at the 22-storey Leogrand Hotel and casino, regional health minister Zaal Mikeladze said.\n\nThe cause of the blaze, which took hours to extinguish, is not clear.\n\nMore than 100 people were evacuated from the hotel by emergency services.\n\nAmong those being treated are three Turks and an Israeli, a spokesman for the Batumi University Clinic said.\n\nFormal identification of the victims is said to be under way, but an interior ministry statement said one Iranian and 10 Georgians were killed in the blaze.\n\nThe statement also said that those injured were taken to hospital in a stable condition.\n\nThe hotel was due to host the Miss Georgia beauty pageant on Sunday. Officials said none of the 20 contestants, who were reportedly staying in the hotel, were injured.\n\nThe country's Prime Minister Georgi Kvirikashvili diverted to Batumi on the way back from an EU summit instead of travelling to the country's capital Tbilisi after he learned of the fire, according to a post on his official Facebook page.\n\nIn a later post he offered his condolences the families and promised an investigation to find the fire's causes.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Five people were hurt when the car crashed into the pub on Friday night\n\nFive people have been injured and a man arrested after a car hit a pub in Kent.\n\nFour of those hurt were customers at the Cinque Port Arms and police said the fifth was the vehicle driver.\n\nEmergency crews were called to the crash at the busy New Romney pub at about 22:00 GMT on Friday.\n\nPub owner Kevin Gibbons said a man had been escorted off the premises and subsequently got in his car which then crashed into the front of the building, injuring patrons and staff.\n\nMr Gibbons said the man, in his 20s, was unknown to pub staff.\n\nHe said customers and children upstairs had to be evacuated from the building.\n\n\"We have had builders working throughout the night to make the pub structurally safe and will be carrying on with business as usual sometime today,\" he said.\n\nMr Gibbons, describing the Cinque Port Arms as a community pub in the heart of New Romney, said it was a \"one-off\" incident.\n\nHe said he could not comment further because of the ongoing police investigation.\n\nCustomers and children upstairs were evacuated from the building\n\nOf those injured, three people who were at the pub - patrons and staff - and the driver, needed hospital treatment. None of their injuries were life-threatening.\n\nThe fourth person injured did not need hospital treatment.\n\nWork took place overnight to make the pub structurally safe\n\nKent Fire and Rescue Service said the driver of the car had to be cut free from the wreckage after the crash in the High Street.\n\nA 24-year-old man from New Romney has been arrested on suspicion of assault and remains in custody.", "The Black Friday sales bonanza was on course for a record with consumers set to spend almost £8bn during what has become a four-day shopping event.\n\nBarclaycard said transaction numbers were 32% up on last year, with Black Friday most likely behind the rise.\n\nRetail researchers said online sales would see the most growth on Friday.\n\nShoppers are expected to spend £1.15bn online - up 15% on the same day last year. On the High Street, sales were forecast to hit £1.45bn, up 4% on 2016.\n\nBarclaycard said the value of all transactions were up 8% on last year by mid afternoon.\n\nUsing Barclaycard data, it is not possible to split off what is everyday spending and what is spurred by Black Friday.\n\nHowever, average weekly spending online in the UK stands at about £1.2bn according to the Office of National Statistics, so sales on Friday alone will be close to matching those in a normal week.\n\nJohn Lewis, Game, Tesco and Argos have extended their high street opening hours and many retailers have already offered days of deals in a bid to maximise hype and spending around the event.\n\nBut many retailers have opted out, including Marks and Spencer. London's Harrods department store has also ignored Black Friday, saying that frenzied sales events \"cheapen the brand\".\n\nAnd clothing retailer Primark said in a blog: \"Black Friday? *Yawn* As if we'd make you wait all year for a flash sale, just to wow you with our totes increds prices.\"\n\nBlack Friday - which now includes weekend shopping promotions and Cyber Monday - has surged in popularity in the UK in recent years, and has become popular in mainland Europe.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Not everywhere was as busy as predicted on Black Friday\n\nAccording to predictions by VoucherCodes and the Centre for Retail Research, shoppers are expected to spend £7.8bn over the four-day period including Cyber Monday. That would be up 7% on the four days last year.\n\nBarclaycard, which processes nearly half of all debit and credit card transactions in the UK, said between 1pm and 2pm it had processed a record 998 transactions in one second, compared with last year's peak of 791. Meanwhile, spending was up by 8% on the same period last year.\n\nTopCashback's UK director Adam Bullock said \"Black Friday is shaping up to be the biggest shopping day we have ever seen\", with overall consumer spending increasing by 15% and £12,500 being spent per minute. The discount retailing site said it expects the figure to increase throughout the day.\n\nHowever, there was a lack of early morning queues on Oxford Street Friday morning, although John Lewis had attracted a line of about 12 bargain hunters who stood outside the department store shortly before opening time.\n\nLawrence Konadu and Jeremy Opoku at Uniqlo on Black Friday\n\nLawrence Konadu, 20, and Jeremy Opoku, 22, were heading to Japanese retailer Uniqlo to buy KAWS' second collection of the iconic comic strip Peanut, which launched on Friday.\n\n\"We still would have come out, but the release of this brand gave us more of a push,\" Mr. Opoku said.\n\nBut other shoppers said they didn't even realise it was Black Friday. Mark Norden said: \"I didn't know it was Black Friday. I had a meeting around the corner and thought I would return some boots.\"\n\nPeople are staying up later and waking up earlier for Black Friday deals. Online traffic between midnight and 6am rose 40% year-on-year, and was up 300% over a typical day, according to Katie Ward of Vouchercloud.\n\n\"We've increasingly discovered the trend of staying up later and waking up earlier for Black Friday deals is true and strong,\" Ms. Ward said.\n\nThe largest peak in spending was between 6am and 7am, with traffic rising more than 400%. Some 85% more shoppers checked deals before midnight.\n\nSales via smartphones may replace desktops on Black Friday this year, according to researcher PCA Predict, with more than 40% of transactions expected to be made on phones and tablets.\n\nDozens of retailers are offering a raft of deals online including Amazon, Currys PC World, Argos, Gap, Top Shop, Miss Selfridge and others.\n\nAlthough online transactions have increased, basket sizes are lower so far, according to Global Savings Group.\n\nThe average basket size of online spenders is £107.35 compared with a normal day's spend of £151.42. About 60% of online discount hunters are female, the group said.\n\nBlack Friday originated in the US, where it takes place the day after Thanksgiving, traditionally kick-starting the Christmas shopping period.", "A teenage newcomer has beaten established stars to win best supporting actress at the film awards dubbed the Chinese-language Oscars.\n\nVicky Chen, 14, was nominated at the Golden Horse Film Awards for her role in The Bold, The Corrupt and The Beautiful.\n\nHer co-star, Hong Kong veteran Kara Wai, won the best actress gong, which Chen was also nominated for.\n\nThe awards are held annually in Taiwan and are open to Chinese-language films.\n\nThe Bold, The Corrupt and The Beautiful, a crime drama centred around a wealthy family, was nominated in seven categories and won in three, including best film.\n\nChen was also nominated for best actress for her role in Angels Wear White. She plays a hotel maid who witnesses a sexual assault and grapples with the decision of reporting it.\n\nDespite losing to Wai in that prize, she beat two former best actress winners in the best supporting actress category.\n\nAlthough it missed out on best film, The Great Buddha+, by Taiwanese director Huang Hsin-Yao, was a big winner. It took five awards, including best adapted screenplay, best original film score and best cinematography.\n\nThe mostly black-and-white dark comedy focuses on two friends - Pickle, a night security guard at a factory making Buddha statues, and Belly Button, a collector of recyclables. The pair uncover footage of Pickle's wealthy boss that reveals his dark secrets.\n\nThe Bold, The Corrupt and the Beautiful came away with three awards\n\nAng Lee, the Taiwanese-American director, and US actress Jessica Chastain jointly presented the best actress prize.\n\nLee was the first Asian to win the best director at the Hollywood Oscars, taking it in 2006 for Brokeback Mountain. Chastain won best actress in a drama at the 2013 Golden Globes for Zero Dark Thirty.", "This photo is actually three years old and not from Friday's attack\n\nHow do you know if the photographs and video footage that you see on social media after an attack are real?\n\nIn the absence of concrete facts, many people - and news organisations - turn to social media for information.\n\nThe deadly attack on the al-Rawda mosque in Egypt's North Sinai province, which killed at least 235 people, was no different.\n\nIn its immediate aftermath, news site Al-Araby shared a dramatic image of crowds outside a smoking building.\n\nThe headline read: \"Sinai: 200 people killed and wounded in the bombing of a mosque\".\n\nThe ambulance shown is indeed Egyptian. However, this image does not show the 24 November attack in Sinai.\n\nBy conducting a reverse image search, we can see that the photo was actually taken by a photographer working for the news agency AFP in 2015.\n\nIt shows the aftermath of a bomb attack in another Egyptian town which killed eight people.\n\nThere are several ways of conducting a reverse image search.\n\nIf you're using Google Chrome, you can right click on an image and select \"search for image\".\n\nIf you're using a different browser, you can save the image and then re-upload it to a reverse image search tool.\n\nYou'll then see the other places on the internet where it appears.\n\nOther social media users shared a video supposedly taken \"during the bombing of al-Rawda Mosque\" in Sinai.\n\nBut this video was in fact first uploaded by Twitter user Mohammad Boland in early 2015, during an attack on a Shiite mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia.\n\nThe original version of the distressing video, which was shown on American news network CNN, is much higher quality.\n\nVideo quality can be degraded when it is downloaded and re-uploaded - which makes it harder to find the original when you carry out a reverse image search.\n\nAnother way of spotting a fake photo is to check the surroundings.\n\nSeveral users had shared a photo that showed a minaret collapsing during an explosion. But the minaret was not from the mosque in Sinai.\n\nIt was taken in Mosul in 2014.\n\nIf you come across that photo, compare it to the minaret from the mosque in Sinai, below. They clearly do not match.\n\nThis is the mosque near al-Arish targeted by the militants in Sinai.\n\nThere are plenty of genuine images of the devastating attack in Sinai and its aftermath. But there are fake photos in circulation - and by right clicking and carrying out your own reverse image search, you can check from where they really originate.", "Footage shows the chaotic aftermath of a bomb and gun attack on a mosque in Egypt that left at least 235 dead.\n\nMilitants opened fire on worshippers at the al-Rawda mosque in the town of Bir al-Abed during Friday prayers.", "The UK's biggest and busiest container port is marking a half century of handling cargo.\n\nThe Port of Felixstowe was the first of its kind in the country when it opened in 1967.\n\nIt currently employs 2,500 people and is linked to 32,500 jobs across Suffolk.", "Police want to speak to two men after an altercation \"erupted\" on a platform\n\nPolice have released images of two men they want to speak to, after an altercation at a central London Tube station created mass panic on Friday.\n\nOfficers want to speak to anyone who was at Oxford Circus underground station at the time of the evacuation.\n\nSixteen people were treated after they were injured fleeing the station, following reports of gunshots being fired on a Central Line platform.\n\nThere was no evidence any weapons had been fired, police said.\n\nShoppers were barricaded inside stores on Oxford Street and armed police were deployed after the alarm was raised during the evening rush hour on Black Friday.\n\nPolice initially treated the incident as potentially terrorism-related, before standing down.\n\nThe British Transport Police said it believed there had been an altercation between two men on the platform before the scare.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it began receiving \"numerous\" 999 calls reporting gunshots in Oxford Street and at Oxford Circus station at 16:38 GMT on Friday.\n\nThe first armed response vehicle was on the scene in less than a minute from receiving the first call, the force said.\n\nOxford Circus - where Oxford Street and Regent Street meet - was cordoned off, while shops and businesses were placed in lockdown.\n\nIn a statement, the Met Police said: \"No casualties, evidence of any shots fired or any suspects were located by police.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBut 16 people were injured as passengers fled from Oxford Circus station, in what witnesses said was \"a stampede\".\n\nOne patient was transferred to a major trauma centre for leg injuries, while eight people were taken to central London hospitals for minor injuries.\n\nBy 18:05 GMT, the police operation had been stood down.\n\nIn a statement, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan praised the city's emergency services for a \"swift response\".\n\nBBC reporter Helen Bushby said she had seen a \"mass stampede\" of people running away from Oxford Circus station.\n\n\"They were crying, they were screaming, they were dropping their shopping bags. It was a very panicked scene,\" she added.\n\n\"People said they heard a gunshot and panic was just spreading.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by BTP This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAccording to BBC correspondent Andy Moore, eyewitnesses reported being evacuated from the tube station on the instructions of a generic announcement.\n\nThey came up to street level in a state of confusion - some reporting loud bangs - spreading panic among shoppers which quickly passed down the street and onto social media.\n\nThe British Transport Police told those in the area to \"go into a building and stay inside until further notice\".\n\nPeople barricaded themselves into shops, many of which went into lockdown - including Selfridges, which is half a mile down Oxford Street from Oxford Circus.\n\nSinger Olly Murs, who was shopping in Selfridges, told his 7.8m followers on Twitter: \"Get out of Selfridges now gun shots!! I'm inside.\"\n\nHe added: \"Really not sure what's happened! I'm in the back office... but people screaming and running towards exits!\"\n\nMr Murs, who was later criticised for spreading panic, said afterwards: \"It's easy to say now it was nothing but in a state of shock and panic I was trying to make people aware of what was happening. Which I was led to believe by staff and customers that someone was shooting.\"\n\nSelfridges later said on Twitter that it was evacuated \"as a precautionary measure\".\n\nIt added: \"We have been working with @MetPoliceUK and can confirm that there were no reported incidents in store.\"\n\nArmed police were deployed to the area", "It is not yet clear how the tiger escaped from the circus (archive pic)\n\nA tiger broke out of a circus in central Paris and roamed streets just south of the Eiffel Tower before its circus handlers shot and killed it.\n\nPolice tweeted that the tiger had gone on the loose in the 15th district but \"the danger has been eliminated\".\n\nNobody was hurt by the 200kg (31-stone) tiger, according to local reports.\n\nTram traffic was suspended in the area. Residents called the emergency services when they spotted the animal on the run just before 18:00 (17:00 GMT).\n\n\"It was a very big tiger,\" a witness called Ralph told Le Parisien website. \"We heard two or three shots and saw police going down towards the tracks.\"\n\nThe tiger was killed in an alley, a fire service spokesman said.\n\nIts owner, who brought the animal down with a shotgun, has been taken into custody, AFP news agency reports citing a police source. Police have opened an investigation.\n\nThe Bormann Moreno circus recently set up in Paris and planned to start holding shows from 3 December.\n\nThe tiger was shot by its handler", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nScotland ended their autumn internationals series with a record thumping of 14-man Australia.\n\nThe Scots ran in eight tries, all but one coming after Wallabies prop Sekope Kepu was dismissed for a shoulder charge to the head of Hamish Watson.\n\nByron McGuigan, a late replacement for Stuart Hogg - injured in the warm-up - scored two on his first Test start.\n\nAli Price, Sean Maitland, Jonny Gray, Huw Jones, John Barclay and Stuart McInally also crossed for the Scots.\n\nHulking centre Tevita Kuridrani scored a first-half brace for Australia, with Kurtley Beale and then replacement Lopeti Timani touching down after the interval.\n\nThe points tally and margin of victory are both records for Scotland in this fixture, surpassing the previous benchmarks of 34 and nine respectively.\n\nIntrigue is guaranteed whenever these two nations meet, each recent Test going to the wire, lifting the spirits but weakening the heart at the same time.\n\nWith this one, the drama began even before a ball had been kicked, Hogg, the man the Wallabies would have feared the most, injuring a hip in the warm-up.\n\nIt looked like a colossal blow for the Scots who moved Maitland to full-back, brought McGuigan in on the wing for his first start and parachuted Ruaridh Jackson onto the bench. What happened over the course of the next 80 minutes took this rivalry to a new level.\n\nScotland began clumsily, with a host of attacking errors, but took the lead when Russell put over a penalty then McGuigan struck for the opening try.\n\nWhen the ball went loose off Bernard Foley, McGuigan jumped all over it. He put his boot to it once, then twice, then three times. Nobody could have mistaken McGuigan for Lionel Messi in those frenetic seconds, but he had enough control to get the job done. Try. Conversion. Scotland ahead by 10.\n\nBefore the points deluge, there were troubling moments for the hosts. Self-inflicted wounds let Australia back into it, Russell's missed touch leading, soon after, to Foley chipping through for Kuridrani to get his first.\n\nA Tommy Seymour spillage out wide gifted them another, Foley gathering, chipping ahead and then popping his pass to the Fijian to score again.\n\nThat put the Wallabies into the lead at 12-10, but the seismic moment of the match was about to play out.\n\nAt a breakdown just before the interval, Kepu went shoulder-first into Hamish Watson's head. Watson had been a spectacular nuisance to the visitors but attempting to remove his head was pretty unwise.\n\nReferee Pascal Gauzere was decisive and correct. Kepu was sent off. The question then was what could Scotland do with the one-man advantage. The answer was quick and emphatic.\n\nThey put their penalty to touch and drove it close enough for Price to reach out to score. Russell's conversion made it a five-point game in Scotland's favour.\n\nThere was one last act of defiance from Australia when, on the 20th phase, Beale went over to level it at 17-17, but from there, Scotland kicked on.\n\nThe Wallabies lost the ball on halfway and Maitland ran all the way, much to his relief. He was being chased not by the flying machines in the Australia defence, but by three forwards who never looked like they were getting there.\n\nZander Fagerson and Jamie Bhatti appeared off the bench and their broken field running was devastating. A Bhatti carry took Scotland into Australia's 22 and from there, Gray got outside Will Genia to score.\n\nA third try in a ruthless 10-minute burst arrived and again a Bhatti carry was important in its creation, Russell's tapped penalty was key and Jones' stepping of Samu Kerevi finished the job.\n\nJones has a sensational try-scoring record. That was his seventh in his 11 Tests. He's been a wondrous addition to the Scotland midfield.\n\nMcGuigan was pretty special as well. Scotland had their foot on Wallaby throats and more pressure brought another score, the forward pack creating the space and Maitland putting the wing over.\n\nAustralia were on their knees, no doubt cursing the madness of their prop. Timani's try made the score a little, but not a lot, more palatable, but Barclay wiped it out soon enough.\n\nThe sixth Scotland try came when the captain got ruck ball close to the Wallaby line. Karmichael Hunt, Lukhan Tui and Kuridrani all went to hit him, but he blasted his way through the three of them.\n\nRussell landed the conversion to make it a historic high of 46-24. Freakish stuff, but it got even more bizarre as Australia grew ever more weary at the end of a long season.\n\nBeale was sin-binned a minute before time for deliberating knocking the ball out play. Scotland put the penalty to touch, fired up their maul which carried them inexorably across the line.\n\nMcInally grounded the ball, Russell landed the conversion and Scotland were over the half-century.\n\nKepu would have been in a darkened room by then. He might have been joined by the faithful of Murrayfield. This was unforgettable stuff, a day to rubber-stamp Scotland's credentials as a fast-emerging force in European and world rugby.\n\nReplacements: Brown (for McInally, 55-69), Bhatti (for Marfo, 41), Fagerson (for Berghan, 40), Toolis (for Gilchrist, 53), Du Preez (for Watson, 67), Pyrgos (for Price, 67), Burleigh (for Horne, 62).\n\nReplacements: Polota-Nau (for Moore, 57), Faulkner (for Sio, 71), Tupou (for McCalman, 53), Tui (for Enever, 53), Timani (for Simmons, 67), Phipps (for Genia, 55), Hunt (for Kerevi, 61), Speight (for Koroibete, 67).", "A fugitive child sex offender fled to a Pembrokeshire island's abbey to evade justice and remained there for seven years, it has been revealed.\n\nPaul Ashton, from Sussex, went on the run in 2004 charged with possessing indecent images of children.\n\nWhen he was discovered at Caldey Island in 2011, more indecent images were found on his computer in the monastery.\n\nHe was arrested and brought to justice after a visitor recognised him from a Crimestoppers \"Most Wanted\" list.\n\nThe revelation comes after it emerged six women have been paid compensation by Caldey Abbey after they were abused by a monk on Caldey Island in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nSince that information came to light last week, a further five women have come forward accusing Father Thaddeus Kotik of abusing them.\n\nAllegations were made to the abbey in 1990 but complaints were not passed on to police.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Plaid Cymru AM Simon Thomas said the abbey \"got things wrong\" when it failed to report allegations to police\n\nDyfed Powys Police was eventually made aware of the allegations in 2014 but could not prosecute Kotik as he died in 1992.\n\nThe current abbot, Brother Daniel van Santvoort, has apologised the complaints were not referred to police sooner.\n\nAshton is understood to have arrived on Caldey Island as a guest in 2004, but stayed and moved into the clock tower which overlooks the island.\n\nPaul Ashton was jailed in 2012 for possessing indecent images of children\n\nHe was provided with accommodation and food by the monks, who knew him by his alias Robert Judd.\n\nA source said: \"When Robert arrived he offered to help and made himself indispensable.\n\n\"He operated the island's satellite internet and phone system, managed online accommodation bookings and the accounts and worked in the mail room.\n\n\"He put himself in an ideal position.\"\n\nAshton had absconded from his home in Bracklesham Bay, West Sussex after Sussex Police executed a search warrant and confiscated computers in 2004.\n\nIn July 2011, an anonymous call was made to Crimestoppers by someone who had seen Ashton's face on its \"Most Wanted\" list, and he was arrested on the island.\n\nSussex Police said: \"They recognised the picture as a man working in south Wales but under a different name… police were informed and local officers swiftly arrested him in relation to the Sussex inquiry.\n\n\"More computer equipment containing further images was also found.\"\n\nAshton, then aged 59, pleaded guilty at Chichester Crown Court to possessing more than 5,000 indecent images of children on his computers, hard drives and USB sticks.\n\nHe was jailed for 30 months in March 2012 and was placed on the Sex Offenders' Register for life.\n\nCaldey Abbey has been asked to comment.", "IS' Sinai Province, the most prominent jihadist group, posted video showcasing their weapons\n\nMore than 200 people have died in an unprecedented attack targeting a Sunni mosque in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula during Friday prayers, highlighting the alarming threat posed by jihadist militants in the region.\n\nSo far, no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, the deadliest of its kind in the country.\n\nSo-called Islamic State (IS) is the most prominent and violent of the militant groups in Sinai, with a record of targeting civilians in that area and in mainland Egypt.\n\nOther groups active in the country are mostly aligned with IS's arch jihadist rival, al-Qaeda.\n\nIS's Sinai affiliate, Sinai Province, has claimed responsibility for many deadly attacks, mostly targeting the army in Sinai. It also claimed the downing of a Russian airliner in October 2015.\n\nFormerly known as Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, the group first appeared in September 2011 and rebranded itself with an IS pledge of allegiance in November 2014.\n\nThe group generally targets Egyptian security forces in northern Sinai, but has also claimed an attack on a tourist site in southern Sinai in April.\n\nIn the first part of the year IS stepped up its rhetoric and attacks against Christians in Sinai and elsewhere in Egypt, claiming two deadly attacks on churches in Tanta and Alexandria on 9 April.\n\nIS started to scale up its attacks in Sinai since September, as it started losing territory in Iraq and Syria.\n\nOn 24 November, IS boasted about attacks it had carried out earlier in the week targeting policemen in western Arish, the area of the attacked mosque.\n\nIn addition to its attacks on Christians, IS has adopted a threatening tone against Sufi Muslims, whom it considers to be heretics.\n\nThe head of IS's religious police in Sinai had previously said that Sufis who did not \"repent\" would be killed. IS has beheaded a number of Sufi men whom it accused of \"sorcery\".\n\nScreen grab from the video posted by Jund al-Islam\n\nThe propaganda and rhetoric of this low-profile group suggests alignment with al-Qaeda.\n\nIts rivalry with IS in Sinai surfaced in November when Jund al-Islam issued a threat to IS militants.\n\nIn an audio message released on 11 November, Jund al-Islam claimed responsibility for an October attack on IS militants in Sinai, and vowed to crush the rival group \"for committing crimes against Muslims\" in the peninsula.\n\nA day later, Jund al-Islam issued another statement condemning the 9 November deadly attack on lorry drivers in northern Sinai, as well as blaming IS and the Egyptian government for the deaths.\n\nIn both its recent messages, Jund al-Islam stressed that it did not target \"innocent Muslims\".\n\nJund al-Islam's recent communiques follow a lengthy spell of media silence since 2015, and suggest the group is presenting itself as a challenger to IS in Sinai.\n\nThe group emerged in September 2013 with a claim of a double suicide attack on the Egyptian military intelligence HQ in the northern Sinai town of Rafah, which borders the Gaza Strip.\n\nIt stepped up its propaganda campaign in 2015, claiming rocket attacks on Israel and issuing a propaganda video that hinted at links with al-Qaeda in Yemen (AQAP).\n\nNot to be confused with the former Sahara-based jihadist group al-Mourabitoun, this Egyptian faction announced itself in 2015.\n\nHowever, since its formation, the group has not been observed to carry out any prominent attacks, and has mainly put out statements and threats.\n\nGiven its lack of visible activity, it remains unclear where exactly al-Mourabitoun operates in Egypt.\n\nIts propaganda suggests an al-Qaeda orientation, and veteran jihadist media operatives have linked it to an al-Qaeda attempt to check the rise of IS in Egypt.\n\nIts leader, Abu-Umar al-Muhajir, alias Hisham Ashmawi, is a former Egyptian army officer and a senior figure in Ansar Beit al-Maqdis before it pledged allegiance to IS.\n\nIn October 2015, Ashmawi called for the killing of Egyptian military officers, and for revenge in response to the deaths of Palestinians by Israel's security forces.\n\nAshmawi reiterated that message in March 2016, and urged Muslim clerics to play an active role in encouraging young people to embrace jihad.\n\nThis new group, not to be confused with the veteran Ansar al-Islam in Iraq, emerged in November, when it claimed responsibility for a high-profile attack in Egypt's Western Desert.\n\nAnsar al-Islam described the attack, in which more than 50 security personnel died, as \"the beginning of our jihad\".\n\nThe group's attack claim and its founding statement of 3 November was widely circulated by high-profile online supporters of al-Qaeda, which suggested a nod of approval.\n\nIts rhetoric and pledge to fight until the establishment of Islamic law suggest a jihadist orientation.\n\nAnsar al-Islam's statement urged Egyptians to join the jihad, or support the group through words or funds.\n\nMeaning \"Soldiers of Egypt\", this group appeared in January 2014, and carried out attacks in Cairo over the summer.\n\nIt has possible al-Qaeda associations, in that the Yemeni and African branches of that network posted eulogies on the death of its leader in April 2015.\n\nIt also coordinated attacks with Ansar Beit al-Maqdis before the latter joined IS.\n\nBut Ajnad Misr has repeatedly said that it tries to avoid civilian casualties in its attacks.\n\nMany of the group's members are now thought to be in prison.\n\nIn October 2017, the Egyptian authorities sought death sentences for 13 individuals with suspected links to the group.\n\nThe individuals are accused of killing soldiers, police officers and civilians, with a verdict expected in December.\n\nThe Hasm Movement surfaced in the summer of 2016 and has focused on attacking government and security personnel in Cairo and elsewhere in Egypt.\n\nThe Egyptian authorities and media have linked Hasm to the Muslim Brotherhood, which is outlawed in Egypt.\n\nThe group's rhetoric is more Islamist and \"pro-revolution\" than jihadist.\n\nOn 1 October Hasm targeted the Myanmar embassy in Cairo with an explosive device to express its solidarity with Rohingya Muslims, it said.\n\nHasm released its first propaganda video in January in which it showcased its training camps and boasted about the range of attacks it had carried out on the Egyptian authorities.\n\nSlick production and the group's claim of organisation and structure in the video were clearly meant to indicate that Hasm was not a shadowy group, but rather a sophisticated force to be reckoned with.\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.", "The island is best known for its species including manta rays - with spans of up to 7m (22ft)\n\nThe Mexican government has created a large marine reserve around a group of islands home to hundreds of species including rays, whales and sea turtles.\n\nThe Revillagigedo Archipelago is a group of volcanic islands off the country's south-west coast.\n\nWith a protection zone of 57,000 square miles (150,000km), it has become the largest ocean reserve in North America.\n\nThe move will mean all fishing activity will be banned, and the area will be patrolled by the navy.\n\nIt is hoped the move will help populations hit by commercial fishing operations in the area recover.\n\nThe park was designated by a decree signed by Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto. It will also forbid natural resources being extracted from the land or the building of new hotel infrastructure.\n\nThe area, which is about 250 miles (400km) south-west of the country's Baja California peninsula has been described as the Galapagos of North America, because of its volcanic nature and unique ecology.\n\nThe archipelago consists of San Benedicto, Socorro, Roca Partida and Clarion volcanic islands\n\nSitting on the convergence of two ocean currents, the islands are a hub for open water and migratory species.\n\nIt has hundreds of breeds of ocean wildlife, including humpback whales that use the shallow and coastal areas around the islands for breeding.\n\nLast year the Pacific Ocean site was named as a UNESCO world heritage area.\n\nMaría José Villanueva, the director of conservation of WWF in Mexico, described the move as an \"important precedent\" to the rest of the world, according to local media.\n\nIt follows a similar move by Chile, which created an even bigger ocean reserve in 2015.", "A Heathrow security worker has been charged with conspiring to import drugs after cocaine with a street value of £700,000 was seized.\n\nFarhan Iqbal, 30, was arrested alongside Colombian national, Camilo Alec Pulido Suarez, 37, in a toilet at Terminal 5 on Thursday.\n\nBoth were charged with conspiracy to import cocaine and appeared earlier at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court.\n\nThey were remanded in custody along with two other Colombian nationals.\n\nThe National Crime Agency (NCA) said Wilmer Salazar-Duarte, 43, was separately arrested in the arrivals area of the airport, while 46-year-old Alexander Salazar-Duarte, was arrested after a search at an address in east London. They too face charges of conspiracy to import cocaine.\n\nAll four are due to appear at Blackfriars Crown Court on December 22.\n\nThe NCA said about seven kilograms of cocaine were seized, said to have a value of about £250,000 but could fetch more than £700,000 if cut and sold on the street.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Colombian navy divers are searching for 10 people who disappeared on Tuesday after their boats capsized in the Orinoco river, which divides Colombia from Venezuela.\n\nA total of 18 people were on board the boats, eight of whom were rescued.\n\nWitnesses said one of the boats had a mechanical problem and was being towed by the other one when they hit a rock about 30m (100ft) from the shore.\n\nA local government official, Diego Zárate, said of the eight people rescued two were Colombians and six Venezuelans.\n\nAmong the missing are thought to be a number of children.\n\nWitnesses said the boat with mechanical problems was transporting watermelons while the one that came to its rescue was carrying passengers.\n\nBut a Colombian navy official said he did not know what the two vessels were doing navigating the fast-flowing river in the early hours of Tuesday when it was still dark.\n\nA search of the riverbanks has so far yielded no result.", "Scotland Yard is investigating a new allegation of sexual assault made against Kevin Spacey.\n\nThe claim was made on Friday and alleges an assault took place on a man in Lambeth in 2005.\n\nIt was made the same day the Old Vic released the results of an internal investigation - the theatre said it received 20 personal testimonies of alleged inappropriate behaviour.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Spacey's legal representatives for comment.\n\nThis new claim is in addition to a 2008 assault being investigated by the Met.\n\nScotland Yard confirmed officers from the Child Abuse and Sexual Offences Command are investigating the complaint.\n\nKevin Spacey was artistic director between 2004 and 2015 at the Old Vic, which is based in Lambeth.\n\nThe theatre said it \"truly apologises\" for not creating a culture where people felt able to speak freely after those affected said they \"felt unable to raise concerns\", and he that \"operated without sufficient accountability\".\n\nThe Old Vic's announcement follows recent allegations of sexual harassment and predatory behaviour made against the double Oscar winner and former House of Cards actor while at the theatre and elsewhere in the entertainment industry.", "The leaks were released prior to the broadcast of Game of Thrones series seven\n\nUS prosecutors have charged an Iranian man with hacking into HBO, leaking Game of Thrones scripts and demanding a $6m (£4.5m) ransom.\n\nBehzad Mesri is accused of computer fraud, wire fraud, extortion and identity theft.\n\nActing US attorney Joon Kim told a news conference in New York that Mr Mesri was in Iran.\n\nHe said that even though US authorities could not arrest him immediately, Mr Mesri would face consequences.\n\n\"He will never be able to travel outside of Iran without fear of being arrested and brought here,\" Mr Kim said.\n\nProsecutors allege Mr Mesri, who has been added to the FBI's most wanted list, had worked for Iran's military and been involved in a campaign to deface US websites.\n\nMr Kim said he was an \"experienced and sophisticated hacker who has been wreaking havoc on computer systems around the world for some time\".\n\nProsecutors say Mr Mesri began conducting online reconnaissance of HBO's computer networks and employees in May 2017.\n\n\"Over the next couple of months, he successfully compromised multiple user accounts in order to obtain access to the media giant's servers,\" court documents say.\n\n\"Through the course of the intrusions into HBO's systems, Mr Mesri was responsible for stealing confidential and proprietary data including... scripts and plot summaries for unaired programming, including but not limited to episodes of Game of Thrones.\"\n\nA few weeks later, the documents allege, Mr Mesri claimed to have stolen about 1.5TB of data and began an extortion campaign that included an email to HBO employees that read: \"Hi to All losers\" Yes it's true! HBO is hacked!\"\n\nIt is unclear whether any ransom money, demanded in Bitcoin according to the court documents, was ever paid.\n\nMr Mesri has not yet commented on the charges.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. There were scenes of celebration on the streets of the capital, Harare\n\nNews that Robert Mugabe has resigned as the president of Zimbabwe has spread quickly across the streets of Zimbabwe. This is how people are celebrating.\n\nThe celebrations started with MPs in parliament reacting to the resignation letter from Mr Mugabe being read out:\n\nWhere people couldn't get up on tables. they got up on cars:\n\nPeople waved down traffic with their flags:\n\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Instagram The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Zimbabwean reporter captures people partying between the traffic:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Mathanda This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSinging broke out on the streets of Harare:\n\nSome dressed up in anticipation for the celebration:\n\nOn Whatsapp groups, people are sharing an old meme of Robert Mugabe falling at an event in 2015 photoshopped into him jumping Zimbabwe's border:\n\nA Zimbabwean news anchor highlights just how long Mr Mugabe has been in power:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Robyn Lee Kriel This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn the same theme, another Zimbabwean posted on Instagram a photo of a young Mr Mugabe, adding: \"You started early and finished late\".\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 lovemorenyatsine This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOne MP who was an ally of Mr Mugabe, described by some as his closest associate, paid tribute to him:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Prof Jonathan Moyo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSome tweeters suggest the tribute could go even further - perhaps with a biopic of Mr Mugabe starring Don Cheadle. This mock-up film poster suggests all the details have already been carefully thought through:\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nDon Cheadle retweeted the picture with no comment aside from three crying-with-laughter emojis.", "Ratko Mladic terrorised the people of Sarajevo for almost four years, deliberately targeting civilians with snipers and mortar attacks.\n\nBut no cheers could be heard on the streets of the Bosnian capital when news broke that the commander of Bosnian Serb forces in the 1990s had been sentenced to life imprisonment by the UN tribunal in The Hague.\n\n\"The verdict won't make any changes,\" said Resad Trbonja, a native of Sarajevo who became a teenage soldier to defend the city during the siege, that left more than 10,000 people dead.\n\nNow he works for the UK-based campaign organisation Remember Srebrenica.\n\n\"What we need to fight now is the legacy of the war - we're still living it. The weapons are down but the war is still going on.\n\n\"The only people who gain from the situation we are stuck in are the local politicians - they keep the legacy of war alive to maintain their power.\"\n\nJuly 1992: Bosniak soldiers were outgunned by Serb forces in Sarajevo\n\nAt least Hasan Nuhanovic could take comfort that Mladic was found guilty of ordering genocide in his hometown, Srebrenica.\n\nMr Nuhanovic lost his father, mother and younger brother in the massacre - and designed the memorial centre opposite the cemetery, where thousands of victims are buried.\n\nMore than 7,000 Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) men and boys were murdered at sites around Srebrenica in 1995.\n\nWhile he welcomed the verdict, Mr Nuhanovic doubted it would reduce the enduring ethnic divisions which have crippled Bosnia since the end of the war.\n\n\"The question is: when will this politically-hostile environment change? I hope Bosnian Serbs and Serbs in the region will understand better now what Ratko Mladic did to us - to what extent it has disrupted our lives.\"\n\nGen Mladic (C) arriving in Sarajevo in August 1993\n\nThe reaction of Bosnia's ethnic-Serb politicians shows why reconciliation remains a remote prospect.\n\nThe current mayor of Srebrenica, Mladen Grujicic, said the verdict \"confirmed the tribunal was made to prosecute only Serbs,\" while Republika Srpska's president, Milorad Dodik, called Mladic \"a hero\".", "The Speaker of Parliament in Zimbabwe has read out a letter of resignation from President Robert Mugabe. Wild celebrations broke out among the members of parliament, at the news that his 37-year rule has come to an end.", "The Law Society misled the public over the expertise of solicitors in a scheme set up to help property buyers and sellers in England and Wales, the advertising watchdog has ruled.\n\nIts website had said firms covered by the Conveyancing Quality Scheme had taken rigorous examination and tests.\n\nBut the Advertising Standards Authority found they could be accepted before staff had been trained and assessed.\n\nThe professional body said there had been no intention to mislead.\n\nThe Law Society represents 170,000 solicitors in England and Wales.\n\nThe purpose of the Conveyancing Quality Scheme (CQS), the society said, was \"to provide a trusted community of solicitors within the residential conveyancing market that helped to deter fraud and improve 'best practice' standards\".\n\nSet up in 2011, it was said by the society to be a \"recognised quality standard\" for residential conveyancing practices.\n\nA page on its website in November 2016 claimed all members of CQS had demonstrated they have a high level of knowledge, skills, experience and practice.\n\nBut a solicitor, who was familiar with the requirements of joining the scheme, challenged the description.\n\nThe complaint was initially rejected by the ASA in June but it has now reversed its decision.\n\nThe CQS scheme was designed to help the buyers and sellers of property\n\nIn its ruling, the ASA said the advert had been unsubstantiated and misleading.\n\nThe ASA said from the description, consumers would understand the Law Society had conducted an in-depth assessment of each firm that applied for the scheme and \"would expect that all criteria would have been met prior to accreditation being granted\".\n\nHowever, the ASA said it had found all but two of the 293 firms who applied for the scheme were accepted - in some cases, before relevant staff had been properly trained.\n\nIt said: \"While we acknowledged that firms were granted CQS accreditation on the basis of independently-verified information attesting that they met an adequate standard... the ad exaggerated the level of knowledge, skills and experience possessed... and the extent of the checks that a firm had to undergo to receive its accreditation.\"\n\nThe BBC's legal correspondent Clive Coleman said the ruling was \"highly embarrassing\" for the Law Society, which has complied with the order to remove the offending words.", "The trial of the \"Butcher of Bosnia\" has come to an end after five years.", "British furniture retailer Multiyork has gone into administration\n\nMultiyork, the furniture retailer, has gone into administration, putting 550 jobs under threat.\n\nThe retailer will trade until Christmas at the earliest while administrators Duff & Phelps seek a buyer.\n\nMultiyork will honour all existing orders placed until 22 November and customers will be contacted by the retailer.\n\nThe chain employs 547 staff in 50 stores and a manufacturing site in Thetford, Norfolk.\n\nEmployees were told of the collapse on Wednesday afternoon and the management team will stay in place.\n\n\"Multiyork is still open for business, still trading - it's very early days for the administration,\" a spokesperson for Duff & Phelps told the BBC.\n\n\"We're really hopeful we can find a buyer.\"\n\nThe administrators said that the 39-year-old upholstered furniture retailer had been affected by difficult trading conditions.\n\n\"Trading conditions for UK retailers continue to be difficult due to a number of factors including economic uncertainty, rising commodity prices, increasing business rates and the fall in value of the pound which has increased the cost of importing raw materials and products,\" said Allan Graham, a joint administrator at Duff & Phelps.\n\n\"This appears to be leading to a sharp fall in consumer confidence and less money being spent on discretionary items.\"\n\nMultiyork has gone into receivership once before and was bought out by the Wade Group in 1995.", "An extra £28m is to go towards helping victims of the Grenfell Tower fire, Chancellor Philip Hammond has said in his Budget speech.\n\nThe funding for Kensington and Chelsea Council in London will pay for mental health services and regeneration.\n\nThe fire in June left 71 people dead, as well as hundreds of people homeless and many needing counselling.\n\nLabour welcomed the announcement but questioned whether the council should be responsible for spending the money.\n\nMr Hammond has called on local authorities across the UK to speed up efforts to ensure all high-rise towers were safe.\n\nIn his Budget speech, Mr Hammond said of the Grenfell fire: \"This tragedy should never have happened, and we must ensure that nothing like it ever happens again.\"\n\nKensington and Chelsea Council confirmed that the money would support mental health services in the area, alongside existing NHS agencies, as well as paying for a new community space and refurbishment of the Lancaster West estate in west London - where Grenfell Tower is based.\n\nLast month the Central and North West London NHS Trust said around 360 adults and children were undergoing treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder following the fire, while a number of survivors and witnesses were reported to have attempted suicide.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do witnesses and survivors of Grenfell Tower cope?\n\nLabour's Emma Dent Coad, the MP for Kensington, said the money was \"very welcome\" but added: \"Who will be in charge of these funds and decide where they are best spent?\"\n\nShe criticised the local council's spending priorities and suggested that the local community - \"that took over essential council services on the morning of the fire, and since then\" - be part of the decision-making.\n\nElizabeth Campbell, leader of Kensington and Chelsea Council, said the money would help secure \"a long-term future for the people of North Kensington\".\n\nPhilip Hammond says financial constraints should not get in the way of safety work to tower blocks\n\nFollowing the Grenfell disaster, fire safety flaws were discovered in hundreds of high-rise blocks around the country.\n\nIn his Budget speech, Mr Hammond said any local authority which does not have the funds to pay for fire safety work should contact central government.\n\nHe told the Commons: \"All local authorities and housing associations must carry out any identified, necessary safety works as soon as possible.\n\nHe added: \"I have said before, and I will say again today, we will not allow financial constraints to get in the way of any essential fire safety work.\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said councils, including Nottingham and Westminster, had contacted the government but \"nothing was offered to them\".\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan urged the government to act quickly to help councils fund retrofitting of buildings with sprinklers.\n\nBBC Radio London research found that about half of London's boroughs had asked for financial help, which the government had not yet agreed to.", "The coach quickly became a \"complete inferno\", the inquest heard\n\nA bus driver died when he deliberately crashed to save his passengers from plummeting off a road in the French Alps, an inquest has heard.\n\nMaurice Wrightson drove into boulders on the narrow mountain road when he realised his brakes had failed.\n\nMr Wrightson, 63, from Ashington, died in the April 2013 crash and four of the 50 passengers were seriously injured.\n\nFrench investigators said the driver \"undoubtedly prevented\" a more serious crash, Berwick Coroner's Court heard.\n\nThe coach, which was carrying British staff from the French ski resort Alpe d'Huez, was approaching the 21st hairpin bend on the D211 road.\n\nNathan Woodland, 39, the co-driver of the coach operated by County Durham-based Classic Coaches, told the inquest he felt the bus twitch and quickly became aware something was wrong.\n\nHe said: \"Suddenly Maurice looked at me with a very shocked look on his face.\n\n\"He said 'it's not stopping us'.\"\n\nHe said Mr Wrightson gripped the wheel very tightly and braced himself against his seat to apply more pressure to the brake.\n\nMr Woodland said: \"I stepped into the aisle and shouted, 'grab a hold, hold tight'.\"\n\nHe then described how the coach smashed into the boulders and he was thrown a number of rows back.\n\nAs he picked himself up he saw people desperately trying to escape and flames begin to engulf the coach, which quickly turned into a \"complete inferno\".\n\nHe said the clothing of one woman, who was sitting behind the driver, caught fire as she was pulled from the bus by another passenger.\n\nSpeaking at the time, French transport minister Frederic Cuvillier said Mr Wrightson \"showed remarkable courage\" and avoided a \"much heavier loss of life\".\n\nThe inquest jury heard the French report concluded the brake failed as the pad had been \"completely destroyed by excessive heating\" due to the \"poor condition of the hydraulic retarder\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "About 60 primary school children gathered to fight the possible closure of a library.\n\nDesborough Library, in Northamptonshire, could be shut as part of council cuts of £10m.", "Ikea has re-launched a recall of millions of chests and dressers in the US and Canada following the death of an eighth child.\n\nIt said items in its Malm range and other chests and dressers pose a \"serious tip-over and entrapment hazard\" if not secured to a wall,\n\nIkea first recalled the furniture in 2016 after four children had died.\n\nIt has no plans for a UK recall, stating that the chest of drawers \"meet all mandatory stability requirements\".\n\nJosef Dudek, a 2-year-old boy in California, died when he became trapped beneath a three-drawer Malm chest after he had been put down for a nap by his father.\n\nSince 2011, four other young children have been killed in connection with the Malm range.\n\nA further three children have died as a result of other Ikea chests and dressers tipping over, with the earliest death occurring in 1989.\n\nJozef Dudek died after an Ikea Malm dresser toppled over onto him\n\nWidespread criticism spurred the company to add China to the recall last year. However, it has not made announcements in other countries, including the UK.\n\nIkea said it meets \"mandatory stability standards\" in all markets and that the products remain safe if secured to a wall, as recommended.\n\nIt has a \"Secure It!\" campaign to raise awareness of the issue.\n\nA spokeswoman for Ikea said it was not aware of any tip-over fatalities outside the US and has no plans to expand the recall.\n\nShe said: \"Our priority is and has always been to ensure that our products are safe to use. That means securing the chest of drawers to the wall according to the assembly instructions, using the tip-over restraint provided with the product.\n\n\"We don't believe a global recall from IKEA would be the solution. Instead, we are convinced that we can make a difference by raising awareness among consumers of the tip-over risks and how to prevent them through the global Secure it! campaign.\"\n\nThe re-launched recall involves Ikea children's chests of drawers taller than 60 cm and adult chest of drawers taller than 75 cm, including those from the Malm line.\n\nIt follows reports of more than 300 tip-over incidents in the US and Canada since 1985, resulting in eight deaths and 144 injuries to children between the ages of 19 months and 10 years old.\n\nLawyer Alan Feldman, an attorney for the Dudek family whose son was killed in May, has said that the recall in 2016 was not effective.\n\nIkea said it had done \"extensive\" outreach to customers about the recall, including an email campaign.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"The most recent incident has indicated to us that there is more work to be done in spreading the message. However, we had to wait to confirm that the product is IKEA, which took some time.\"\n\nShe said Ikea said it has provided refunds or wall-anchoring help for more than one million dressers or chests since 2015, when it started offering free anchoring kits.\n\nIkea has stopped selling the products in the US and Canada that do not meet voluntary US standards.\n\nIt also reached a $50m settlement with the families of three toddlers killed previously.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri has \"suspended\" his resignation, which sparked a crisis when he announced it while in Saudi Arabia two weeks ago.\n\nMr Hariri said President Michel Aoun had asked him to \"put it on hold ahead of further consultations\".\n\nThe two men held talks a day after Mr Hariri flew back to Lebanon.\n\nMr Hariri has denied that Saudi Arabia forced him to resign and detained him in an attempt to curb the influence of Iran and its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah.\n\nHezbollah is part of a national unity government formed by Mr Hariri last year.\n\n\"Today I presented my resignation to his excellency the president, and he asked me to temporarily suspend submitting it and to put it on hold ahead of further consultations on the reasons for it,\" Mr Hariri said after Wednesday's meeting at the Baabda presidential palace.\n\n\"I expressed my agreement to this request, in the hope that it will form a serious basis for a responsible dialogue.\"\n\nMichel Aoun met Saad Hariri at the presidential palace a day after the prime minister's return\n\nMr Hariri said Lebanon required \"exceptional effort from everyone\" at this time in order to \"protect it in confronting dangers and challenges\".\n\nHe also reiterated the need to remain committed to Lebanon's state policy of \"dissociation regarding wars, external struggles, regional disputes and everything that harms internal stability\" - an apparent reference to the activities of Hezbollah.\n\nThe Shia Islamist movement acknowledges fighting alongside government forces in Syria and Iraq, and arming Palestinian militants. But it denies advising and sending weapons to rebel forces in Yemen's civil war and militants in Bahrain.\n\nThe fact that Saad Hariri's resignation has been delayed will be seen as a blow to Saudi Arabia. Many here believe Riyadh pressurised him to resign in order to bring about the Lebanese government's collapse.\n\nLebanon is now centre stage in the power struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran. There is likely to be days of backroom dealing in order resolve this crisis. But the solution will need to involve the regional powers and the international community.\n\nSignificantly, Mr Hariri has opened the possibility that he may stay in power if Hezbollah respects Lebanon's policy of staying out of regional conflicts.\n\nOn Monday, Hezbollah's leader denied sending arms to Yemen and a number of other Arab states, and said he could pull its fighters out of Iraq once so-called Islamic State was defeated there.\n\nBut that is unlikely to appease a wounded Saudi Arabia.\n\nEarlier on Wednesday, Mr Hariri was embraced by Mr Aoun as the two men attended an independence day military parade in Beirut. The president, a Maronite Christian former army commander and ally of Hezbollah who publicly accused Saudi Arabia of detaining the prime minister, appeared to tell him: \"Welcome back!\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Hariri left Riyadh for France at the weekend with his wife and one of his three children. He flew to Lebanon on Tuesday, stopping in Egypt and Cyprus en route.\n\nOn Monday, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said in a speech that he still considered Mr Hariri prime minister and that the militant Shia Islamist movement was \"open to any dialogue and any discussing that happens\" in Lebanon.\n\nMr Hariri announced his resignation in a televised address on 4 November from Riyadh, in which he accused Iran of sowing \"discord, devastation and destruction\" in the region and said he sensed there was an assassination plot against him.\n\nMr Hariri's supporters celebrated his return to Lebanon on Tuesday night\n\nHis father Rafik - himself a former prime minister - was killed in a car bombing in Beirut in 2005. Several members of Hezbollah are being tried in absentia at a UN-backed tribunal in connection with the attack, though the group denies any involvement.\n\nMr Hariri, a Sunni Muslim who became prime minister for the second time in late 2016 in a political compromise deal that also saw Mr Aoun elected president, has close ties to Saudi Arabia.\n\nHe holds both Lebanese and Saudi citizenship and has extensive business interests there. Riyadh also backs his political party, the Future Movement.", "Activist and political candidate Vimbaishe Musvaburi cries as she describes her emotions in the wake of Robert Mugabe's resignation.", "Could you live alone on an island?\n\nSimon traded normal life for the opportunity to become a warden on Flatholm Island, where he is the only human resident among thousand of gulls", "The BBC's Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg gives her instant take on what came up in the chancellor's big speech.", "Remarkable footage has been released showing the defection of a North Korea soldier across the border at the Panmunjom truce village on 13 November.\n\nHe is almost caught by North Korean troops, who shoot at him several times, before he is rescued by South Korean soldiers.\n\nA spokesman for the UN command, said the North Korean soldiers who shot at the defector had violated the armistice agreement that halted the Korean war.\n\nRead more: What we've learned from the dramatic footage", "The mother of the man accused of killing eight people in a terror attack in New York has said she believes her son is innocent.\n\nThe BBC's Will Vernon tracked her down in Uzbekistan, the country that was home to terror suspect Sayfullo Saipov until 2010 when he moved to the US.\n\nIt's the first time the BBC has been allowed to report from the country in over a decade.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Anne Wafula-Strike said it was \"vital\" it did not happen to other people\n\nA Paralympian has been compensated after wetting herself on a train when the disabled toilet was not working.\n\nAnne Wafula-Strike, 48, was on a three-hour CrossCountry train from Nuneaton to Stansted in December with an out-of-order accessible loo.\n\nThe wheelchair racer, from Harlow, said train staff knew she needed to use the toilet but when they reached a station it was too late.\n\nA CrossCountry spokesman said since what happened on 8 December, a \"thorough review\" had been undertaken.\n\nHe added: \"While we have apologised for the events that day, a lot of good has also resulted from this, with the whole rail industry looking at ways to make Britain's railways a more accessible environment, alongside the Department for Transport's ongoing consultation on an Accessibility Action Plan.\"\n\nWheelchair racer Mrs Wafula-Strike became a member of Paralympics GB in 2007\n\nThe deadline for the Accessibility Action Plan's consultation ends on Wednesday.\n\nKenya-born Mrs Wafula-Strike, who is a board member of UK Athletics and has an MBE for services to disability sport, has said disabled travellers need the \"support of the Government to hold transport companies to account\".\n\nMrs Wafula-Strike had been returning from a UK Athletics board meeting when she needed to use the toilet and asked the ticket master if they could let her off at the next stop after seeing the out-of-order sign.\n\nHowever, Mrs Wafula-Strike said there was nobody to help her at that station and on the way to the following station she \"ended up wetting\" herself, which was \"humiliating\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There will be extra funding to encourage more pupils to study maths A-level\n\nHead teachers' leaders are \"extremely disappointed\" by what they say is the Budget's failure to address \"urgent\" school funding shortages in England.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL heads' union, said extra cash for maths was a \"drop in the ocean\" and schools would still face real-terms cuts.\n\nMaths A-level will be encouraged, with £600 for schools for each pupil taking the subject above current numbers.\n\nThe Chancellor said maths skills were needed for \"cutting edge\" jobs.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn criticised the lack of movement on student debt and warned that schools in England would be \"5% worse off by 2019\".\n\nIn his Budget speech, Philip Hammond announced a £117m boost for maths, alongside plans to train 12,000 computer teachers and more support for adult re-training.\n\nBut school leaders were angered that there was no extra cash for core school spending.\n\nIt would now be \"impossible for many schools to avoid making redundancies\", said Paul Whiteman, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers.\n\nWest Sussex head teacher and funding campaigner, Jules White, said that representatives of 5,000 schools had visited Downing Street last week - calling for the return of £1.7bn which they say had been \"taken from school budgets\".\n\nBut Mr White said \"our reasonable request fell on deaf ears\".\n\nThe lack of movement on school funding would leave \"parents and teachers deeply disappointed,\" said the National Education Union.\n\nJo Yurky, a parent campaigner over school funding, said the spending plans were \"out of touch with the concerns of parents\" and that the maths announcement was \"tinkering around the edges with gimmicky ideas\".\n\nBut supporting an increased uptake of maths was welcomed by Professor Frank Kelly, chair of the Royal Society's advisory committee on mathematics education.\n\n\"Mathematics is essential for understanding the modern world and provides the foundations for economic prosperity,\" said Prof Kelly.\n\nThe Chancellor's Budget statement announced financial incentives to boost maths after the age of 16, after concerns that too many drop the subject after GCSEs.\n\n\"Knowledge of maths is key to the hi-tech, cutting-edge jobs in our digital economy,\" said Mr Hammond.\n\nThe Chancellor said he wanted \"highly talented young mathematicians\" to be able to \"release their potential wherever they live and whatever their background\".\n\nFrom 2019, schools will receive an extra £600 for every additional student taking maths or further maths A-level or core maths above current levels.\n\nUniversity lecturers said that student finance was a \"glaring omission\" from the Budget\n\nBut heads' leader, Geoff Barton, warned that the funding offer for maths could create a \"perverse incentive to enter students on to maths courses which might not necessarily be the best option for them\".\n\nHe also raised concerns that it would be \"unfair\" that schools that had already increased their number of maths A-levels students would miss out on extra funding.\n\nMr Hammond also invited proposals for new maths specialist schools.\n\nThere will be £42m over three years to provide extra training to \"improve the quality of teaching\" in a pilot project in some under-performing schools in England.\n\nIn the selected schools, each teacher will have access to £1,000 worth of training.\n\nSchools have struggled to recruit computer science teachers - and there will £84m over four years to train 12,000 more staff qualified to teach the subject, with the support of a new National Centre for Computing.\n\nThis was welcomed by Cindy Rose, the UK chief executive of Microsoft, who said: \"There is an urgent need for the UK to tackle its digital skills gap.\"\n\nThe Chancellor announced a national re-training scheme for adults, in partnership with the CBI and the TUC, with an initial £30m to teach digital skills.\n\nFurther education colleges were promised £20m to prepare for the so-called \"T-level\" qualifications, which will be for vocational subjects.\n\nAngela Rayner, Labour's shadow education secretary, said: \"The schemes announced today are a tiny fraction of the money he has cut from school budgets since 2015 and despite his spin, schools will be worse off by 2020.\"\n\nKevin Courtney, joint leader of the National Education Union, said: \"The Budget, with no significant new money for education, shows that the Government has chosen to ignore the anger of parents and the clear evidence of the problems being created by real terms cuts to education.\"\n\nThe UCU lecturers' union said the \"glaring omission\" from the Chancellor's speech was any reference to the promised review of university funding or support for students.", "The process of using divining rod has been in use for hundreds of years\n\nWater companies are using divining rods to find underground pipes despite there being no scientific evidence they work, an Oxford University scientist found.\n\nSally Le Page said her parents were surprised when a technician used two \"bent tent pegs\" to find a mains pipe.\n\nShe contacted all the UK's water companies, and a majority confirmed engineers still use the centuries-old technique.\n\nHowever, a number said the equipment was not standard-issue equipment.\n\nThe process of using divining rods, also known as dowsing, has been in use for hundreds of years.\n\nA dowser will typically hold the rods, usually shaped like the letter Y, while walking over land and being alert for any movement to find water.\n\nEvolutionary biologist Ms Le Page, whose parents live in Stratford-upon-Avon, first contacted Severn Trent Water via Twitter.\n\nIt replied: \"We've found that some of the older methods are just as effective than the new ones, but we do use drones as well, and now satellites.\"\n\nOther companies which gave a similar response were:\n\nMs Le Page said: \"I can't state this enough: there is no scientifically rigorous, doubly blind evidence that divining rods work.\n\n\"Isn't it a bit silly that big companies are still using magic to do their jobs?\"\n\nIn a statement issued later, Severn Trent said: \"We don't issue divining rods but we believe some of our engineers use them.\"\n\nAll the companies emphasised they do not encourage the use of divining rods nor issue them to engineers, and said modern methods such as drones and listening devices were preferred.\n\nNorthern Ireland Water, Northumbrian Water, South West Water and Wessex Water said their engineers do not use them.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The chancellor has been urged to deliver a \"cautious\" Budget or risk alienating investors.\n\nRupert Harrison, former chief of staff to George Osborne, said that Philip Hammond should not radically change strategy by increasing borrowing significantly.\n\nMr Hammond is under pressure to be \"big and bold\" in the Budget which he will deliver at 12.30pm.\n\nHe will say that he is \"optimistic\" about the future of the UK economy.\n\nBut with a major downgrade expected to productivity - the ability of the economy to create wealth - his room for spending giveaways will be limited.\n\nMr Harrison told the BBC that with Brexit uncertainty and nervousness about the direction the UK economy is heading, the markets would be keener on a \"steady as she goes\" message.\n\n\"You don't want to surprise the world by saying we're embarking on a new strategy, we're going to borrow lots of money, raise taxes,\" he said.\n\n\"I think in a moment when the world has got some question marks about the UK anyway, it's time for a bit of consistency and a bit of patience.\"\n\nRupert Harrison is now a senior figure at BlackRock, one of the largest investment firms in the world with over £4 trillion of funds under its control.\n\nThe government relies on international investors to fund its deficit, the difference between what it spends on services and receives in taxes.\n\nAnd the cost of servicing that debt is rising as inflation (a lot of government debt is linked to the rise in prices) and interest rates rise.\n\nMr Harrison said that the chancellor did have some limited wriggle room.\n\n\"If we look at the big picture, back in 2010, we had a budget deficit of 10% of GDP [the country's Gross Domestic Product, or national income],\" he said.\n\n\"That was very high and I think a risk to economic stability. It needed to be dealt with [and] that deficit is now just 3% of GDP.\"\n\nHe added: \"That means that it's not an urgent immediate issue - the chancellor has a little bit of wriggle room to maybe spend a little bit more on infrastructure, a little bit on housing.\n\n\"But I don't think he should abandon the longer-term ambition to keep the public finances under control and start getting our debt down, because in the end the UK is still vulnerable.\"\n\nIt is expected that the Office for Budget Responsibility - the official economic watchdog - will downgrade its forecasts for growth and productivity when it publishes its economic outlook report alongside the Budget.\n\nLower productivity means the economy expands less quickly and the government receives less in tax revenues and may have to borrow more.\n\nIt also means that people are less likely to receive higher wage increases.\n\nHe believes his \"fiscal rule\" - a promise to balance the government's public finances by 2025 - is vital to investor confidence in the UK economy.\n\nBut, with borrowing slightly lower than expected, Mr Hammond is expected to announce a major package of support for new housing as well as more spending on infrastructure such as digital broadband and 5G mobile.\n\nIt is possible he will also announce more spending on health, although it is unlikely to be the £4bn demanded by the chief executive of the NHS, Simon Stevens.\n\nThere have been calls to reverse corporation tax cuts, which are due to fall to 17% by 2020.\n\nBut that would appear to be a direct contradiction of a pledge in the Conservative election manifesto to \"stick to the plan\" to cut the tax.\n\nMr Harrison said that halting further cuts to business taxes might be possible: \"But I think you need to be careful about the signals you send if you put it up\".\n\n\"I think there's much more nervousness about the UK than there was around the world,\" Mr Harrison said.\n\n\"We used to be seen as a very predictable, reliable, business friendly place to come to do business and to invest, I think people are now starting to question that [and are asking] what is it the UK really wants?\"\n\nHe said that people do not really understand the whole Brexit process which he said has raised the level of uncertainty.\n\n\"So I think that puts a premium for the UK government on trying to signal as much certainty as it can, trying to reduce that uncertainty, set out a clear strategy,\" Mr Harrison said.\n\n\"The next time we have an economic downturn, with high levels of debt, a big banking system, it's a question of how much patience do we have to really put ourselves in the best possible position for the future.\"\n\nHe said: \"I think financial markets wouldn't punish the UK in the short term if there was a little bit more spending on infrastructure, if there were good projects that could be shown to produce good economic returns.\n\n\"I think where there would be more concern is if there was a sense that the UK government was essentially abandoning its ambitions to deal with the public finances longer term.\"", "The resignation of Robert Mugabe comes after Zimbabwe's military took over the country and put him under house arrest\n\nTheresa May has welcomed the resignation of Robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe, saying it offered an opportunity to \"rebuild the country's economy\".\n\nThe president stepped down after 37 years in power via a letter that was read out to the country's parliament.\n\nIt followed a takeover by the Zimbabwean military, who put Mr Mugabe under house arrest last week.\n\nBoris Johnson called the end of Mr Mugabe's reign a \"moment of hope.\"\n\nThe 93-year-old had resisted calls to step down, despite the intervention of the country's military and protests across the capital of Harare.\n\nHowever, on Tuesday, parliament speaker Jacob Mudenda read a letter from the former leader of Zanu-PF, which said his decision was \"voluntary\" and \"arising from my concern for the welfare of the people of Zimbabwe.\"\n\nResponding to the announcement, Mrs May said: \"In recent days we have seen the desire of the Zimbabwean people for free and fair elections and the opportunity to rebuild the country's economy under a legitimate government.\n\n\"As Zimbabwe's oldest friend, we will do all we can to support this, working with our international and regional partners to help the country achieve the brighter future it so deserves.\"\n\nThe foreign secretary also welcomed the announcement, but warned it should not mark \"the transition from one despotic rule to another\".\n\nMr Johnson said: \"I think it's very important at the moment that we don't focus too much on the personalities.\n\n\"Let's concentrate on the potential, the hope for Zimbabwe - an incredible country, a beautiful country, blessed with extraordinary physical and human potential.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson says Robert Mugabe's resignation as president is a \"moment of hope\" for Zimbabwe\n\nAsked about what he thought should happen to Mr Mugabe and his wife Grace - who the former leader had been priming as a successor - he added: \"[Mr Mugabe] played an important part in the birth of the independent nation of Zimbabwe.\n\n\"And yet, tragically, he allowed that legacy to be squandered and his country went to rack and ruin and in some cases his people were driven to the brink of starvation.\n\n\"It's time now for a new future and how Robert Mugabe spends the rest of his years is very much a matter for his countrymen.\"\n\nLabour MP and former Africa minister, Peter Hain, said the president's attempt to ensure Grace Mugabe would follow in his footsteps was his downfall.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"It was his determination to create a family dynasty and protect himself that finally meant his party gave up on him and the ruling elite gave up on him as well.\n\n\"The Zanu-PF party, that Mugabe had controlled with an iron fist, reacted against it and would not accept his wife being ushered in as his presidential replacement.\n\n\"The military said we have had enough and we are not going to put up with this, although they had ruled with him and supported him at times in murderous extermination of the opposition.\n\nLord Peter Hain met with Mr Mugabe when he was the minister for Africa in 1999\n\nLord Hain added that the people of Zimbabwe had the chance for a \"fresh start\", and called on former vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is expected to will be sworn in as president in the coming days, to take the country \"in a different direction\".\n\nSalil Shetty, secretary general of London-based Amnesty International, said Mr Mugabe's leadership had allowed \"grotesque crimes to thrive\", but his resignation was a turning point.\n\nShe said: \"After more than three decades of violent repression, the way forward for the country is to renounce the abuses of the past and transition into a new era where the rule of law is respected and those who are responsible for injustices are held to account.\"\n• None The army chief who took power from Mugabe", "The sale of new diesel cars that do not meet latest emissions standards will face a one-off tax increase in April.\n\nIt will be levied on all diesels that do not meet the Real Driving Emissions Step 2 standards on emissions for the first year of ownership.\n\nAccording to experts, it means that most new diesels would be subject to the rise.\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond said the tax change would apply only to cars, and \"white van man\" was unaffected.\n\nDifferent rates of Vehicle Excise Duty will be levied according to a car's CO2 emissions band.\n\nA Ford Fiesta or Vauxhall Astra would see a one-off £20 rise and a Land Rover Discovery a £400 increase. Cars in the top band, such as a Porsche Cayenne, would be hit with a £500 tax.\n\nThe chancellor said: \"Drivers buying a new car will be able to avoid this charge as soon as manufacturers bring forward the next-generation cleaner diesels that we all want to see.\n\nThe move was part of a series of Budget policies designed to improve air quality and promote electric vehicles.\n\nThe chancellor also unveiled a £220m Clean Air Fund, and £400m - split equally between the Treasury and motor industry - to improve the charging infrastructure for electric vehicles.\n\nThere will also be another £100m in subsidies to help persuade consumers to buy electric vehicles.\n\nThe key thing... if you've already got a diesel car, you won't pay more.\n\nThat's hardly a surprise, bearing in mind people were encouraged to buy diesels some years ago. The government wasn't about to slap a big tax on drivers who parted with lots of money in good faith.\n\nFrom April though, if you are buying a new diesel, you will probably pay more tax in the first year. It depends on the emissions test that it had to pass, so I'd ask the dealer before you buy.\n\nThe new tax rise will apply until around 2021, by which time all new cars have to meet the tighter pollution rules. And this only applies to cars, not vans, trucks, etc.\n\nSo, it's more of a soft, brushing nudge rather than a big push to persuade people away from polluting diesels.\n\nOf course, there is a danger that it convinces drivers to keep their old, dirtier diesels, rather than buy a new, cleaner one.\n\nThe UK's motor industry trade body, the SMMT, said the chancellor's diesel tax changes risked sending out mixed messages.\n\nChief executive Mike Hawes said: \"Diesel buyers will not face any additional taxation for the next six months, but thereafter, will face additional charges which will undermine fleet renewal efforts, which are the best and quickest way to address air quality concerns.\n\n\"Manufacturers are investing heavily in the latest low emission technology. However, it's unrealistic to think that we can fast-track the introduction of the next generation of clean diesel technology which takes years to develop.\"\n\nBut Peter Williams, of the motoring group RAC, said: \"The chancellor has chosen to be relatively light touch when it comes to taxing new diesel cars.\n\n\"Any new diesel car registered from 1st April 2018 will be hit with a higher first year tax rate unless they conform to the latest real world driving standards.\n\n\"So current beleaguered owners of diesel cars can breathe a sigh of relief that they will not be punished further by the Treasury - but they will need to keep their eyes on local authorities who may be introducing clean air zones in the near future.\"\n\nHowever, he added that a side effect of the Budget announcement might be a risk that drivers will be encouraged to keep their older diesel vehicles.", "Zimbabweans want a \"happy new Zimbabwe\" - and the long-time ruling party Zanu-PF is anxious to assure them it can be the one to deliver it\n\nIt's been a dramatic, inspiring, earthquake of a week in Zimbabwe. But if you're looking for evidence to show that what really happened was a ruthless reshuffle within the governing party, Zanu-PF, rather than any grander transformation in politics or society, it is worth having a chat with the local MP for Harare East.\n\nI met the Honourable Terence Mukupe in the garden of the Meikles Hotel in the city centre, as his new party boss, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was poised to return to the country, and a fellow Harare MP was busy being dragged off, in tears, by plain-clothed security agents in the hotel lobby.\n\n\"That's a signal to the public that we really mean business,\" said Mr Mukupe, drily, of his Zanu-PF colleague, Shadreck Mashayamombe - reportedly a former aide to Grace Mugabe.\n\n\"There are going to be over 500 high-profile people that are going to face the music, be taken to court, and that's what Zimbabweans want to see. No sacred cows,\" he continued.\n\nMr Mukupe, who says he worked for 10 years as an investment banker on Wall Street before winning his seat in parliament two years ago, is part of an ambitious younger generation of Zanu-PF MPs who have been at the heart of the internal power struggles that led to last week's military \"intervention.\"\n\nAlthough he briefly sided with the G40 group linked to Grace Mugabe, he quickly and - as it soon proved - presciently switched to endorse her bitter rival Mr Mnangagwa.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How news of Robert Mugabe's resignation was greeted across Zimbabwe\n\nNow Mr Mukupe foresees a Zanu-PF revival, with technocrats - like himself perhaps - brought in to the cabinet to fix the economy, and next year's national elections already a foregone conclusion.\n\n\"There's so much chaos within the opposition. Everyone is clear that Zanu-PF is going to win the election. It will be a landslide. So let's have change within Zanu-PF,\" he said. He mentioned Rwanda as an example to follow. \"People want to see technocrats. It should become a meritocracy.\"\n\n\"We have a cancer in this society,\" Mr Mukupe told the BBC\n\nBut what's most striking, to an outsider, about someone like Mr Mukupe is his skill in disassociating himself from the disastrous failings of Zanu-PF and President Mugabe, and the repression and misrule that damaged the lives of so many millions of Zimbabweans.\n\nHe readily admits there was \"violence perpetrated against opposition members and corrupt activities\", but insists that the blame lay squarely with President Mugabe. It's an argument that suits the party well these days, as it purges itself of \"cliques\" and \"cabals\".\n\n\"We have a cancer in this society. Our politics was about cults. Everyone was afraid of President Mugabe. Don't make it appear as if it's just the ordinary people, or people in opposition.\n\n\"Even people within Zanu-PF were afraid. He was the beginning and end of everything - he could hire you, fire you, imprison you, do all sorts of things to you. Not everyone could stand up and fight the beast,\" said Mr Mukupe.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"We should never have given him the sort of powers we gave him,\" he conceded, but insisted that no-one, including the opposition, had \"clean hands. \"It's a collective responsibility. Everybody played some role in the demise of this country.\"\n\nIt's easy to see now how Zanu-PF will run with that message in the months ahead, as the country heads towards elections.\n\nSome would argue that it is more spin than truth - a convenient re-writing of history by the winning team. But there is every chance that many Zimbabweans, still tied to Zanu-PF by history and familiarity, will choose to give it another opportunity to correct itself.", "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 and the BBC Sport website. Live text commentary on the BBC Sport website and app.\n\nEngland have named seamer Jake Ball ahead of Craig Overton in their side for the first Ashes Test against Australia in Brisbane.\n\nBall, 26, has recovered from the sprained ankle he suffered on 10 November and which kept him out of England's final warm-up game last week.\n\nAustralia have called up all-rounder Glenn Maxwell as cover for David Warner, who has a stiff neck, and Shaun Marsh, who has a sore back.\n\nThe opening Test at the Gabba starts at 00:00 GMT on Thursday.\n\nNottinghamshire's Ball has bowled only 15.4 overs on the tour, having fallen in his delivery stride during England's four-day tour match against a Cricket Australia XI in Adelaide.\n\nOverton, who has not played a Test, featured in all three of England's tour games, taking eight wickets.\n\n\"It wasn't an easy decision,\" said captain Joe Root. \"Craig has come into the squad and everything asked of him he's done really well.\n\n\"Jake has bowled well when he's had his opportunity on the tour and the way he goes about things on these surfaces could be really challenging for the Australians.\"\n• None What England must do to win the Ashes - Agnew's verdict\n• None How to follow the Ashes on the BBC\n• None Don't want to miss the action? Get Ashes alerts sent to your phone\n\nEngland will name their batting order on the morning of the game, with Moeen Ali thought to be line in to move above wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow to number six.\n\nOn Tuesday, all-rounder Moeen said he expected to bat at seven, but Root told reporters on Wednesday to \"wait and see\".\n\nWarner, 31, has had limited time in the nets in the final two days before the Test, but Australia captain Steve Smith said he expects him to be \"OK\".\n\n\"Warner is still a little bit stiff but he's feeling better and very confident,\" said Smith.\n\n\"He's a pretty talented guy and he finds a way no matter what's going on.\"\n\nLeft-handed Warner, who averages 47.94 from 66 Tests, is due to open with the uncapped Cameron Bancroft.\n\nWarner faced only two throw-downs in the nets on Tuesday but had a longer session on Wednesday, batting without a helmet.\n\n\"He was hitting them well in the nets,\" said Smith, who joked that Warner may be forced to copy the open-chested style of former West Indies batsman Shivnarine Chanderpaul.\n\n\"He had to open his body up a little more, but he's confident he'll be fine.\"\n\nRoot said: \"I don't think we need to change our plans. We'll be ready for him to play.\"\n\nSmith confirmed that seamers Jackson Bird and Chadd Sayers will miss out, meaning pace bowlers Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins and Josh Hazlewood will feature in the same Test side for the first time.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ryan Colclough's told BBC Radio Manchester he was 'overwhelmed' by his unique hat-trick\n\nA footballer who scored twice before being subbed to see the birth of his son says he got there \"just in the nick of time\".\n\nWigan Athletic's Ryan Colclough made a double strike against Doncaster before a nod from his father watching in the stands indicated his partner's waters had broken.\n\nHe said he raced down the tunnel and made it to the birth - in full kit - with 30 minutes to spare.\n\nHe said: \"It was a great feeling.\"\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\nBoth mother and his second son, Harley Thomas, whom he said weighed in at 8lbs 6ozs, are \"doing very well\".\n\nThe winger said he was \"overwhelmed\" with a great night \"both on and off the pitch\".\n\nColclough said he was not \"too worried\" going into the match as a scan earlier on Tuesday indicated it could be a \"couple of days\" before the arrival.\n\nHe said midwives had then told the couple the baby \"was still very much tucked up\".\n\nHowever, just before he scored his first goal his father indicated she had gone into labour.\n\nHe said his \"head was a little bit battered\" and when he was subbed he was \"straight down the tunnel... and got to hospital... as quickly as I could\".\n\nRyan Colclough's goal celebration was captured by Bernard Platt in the Latics' 3-0 win over Doncaster Rovers on Tuesday night\n\nAfter two hours sleep he said he was \"doing errands\" on Wednesday including \"taking my kit back with the kitman\" before visiting time.\n\nColclough, who is originally from Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, said he hopes to be back in action for Athletic against Rotherham on Saturday.\n\nLatics team mates Shaun MacDonald tweeted \"massive congratulations\" while Max Power tweeted: \"Great end to the night @ry_coco congrats mate.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "North Korea continues to test ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons in breach of UN resolutions\n\nThe US has unveiled fresh sanctions against North Korea which it says are designed to stop its funding of nuclear and ballistic missile programmes.\n\nThe measures target North Korean shipping operations and Chinese companies that trade with Pyongyang.\n\nIt comes a day after US President Donald Trump redesignated North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism.\n\nThe North is already subject to a raft of sanctions from the US, the UN and the EU.\n\nThe US has been imposing sanctions on Pyongyang since 2008, freezing the assets of individuals and companies linked to its nuclear programme and banning the exports of goods and services to the country.\n\n\"As North Korea continues to threaten international peace and security, we are steadfast in our determination to maximise economic pressure to isolate it from outside sources of trade and revenue while exposing its evasive tactics,\" said Treasury Secretary Steven T Mnuchin on Tuesday.\n\n\"These designations include companies that have engaged in trade with North Korea cumulatively worth hundreds of millions of dollars. We are also sanctioning the shipping and transportation companies, and their vessels, that facilitate North Korea's trade and its deceptive manoeuvres.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThree Chinese companies accused of trading with North Korea - Dandong Kehua Economy and Trade, Dandong Xianghe Trading and Dandong Hongda Trade - are added to the US Treasury's sanctions list.\n\nAlso targeted is the Korea South-South Co-operation Corporation which is alleged to have created revenue for the North by sending workers to countries including Russia, Poland, Cambodia and China.\n\nIn September, the US proposed a range of United Nations sanctions against North Korea, including an oil ban and a freeze on leader Kim Jong-un's assets.\n\nIt followed the North's sixth nuclear test and repeated missile launches.", "Ratko Mladic in Pale, Serbia, in May 1993\n\nRatko Mladic was the army general who became known as the \"Butcher of Bosnia\", who waged a brutal campaign during the Bosnian war and was jailed for life for directing his troops in the worst atrocities in post-war Europe.\n\nMore than 20 years after he was first indicted by an international war crimes tribunal, and a year after the closing arguments in his case, Mladic appeared in court at The Hague on Wednesday to hear the verdict against him.\n\nIn typical style, he railed against the judge and insulted the court and he was removed from the room. In his absence, he was convicted of genocide and crimes against humanity.\n\nSeemingly ever-present on the front lines and respected by his soldiers as a man of courage, Mladic oversaw an army of 180,000 men during the Bosnian war of the 1990s.\n\nIn 1992, Bosnian Muslims (Bosniaks) and Croats voted for independence in a referendum boycotted by Serbs. The country descended into war, Bosniaks and Croats on one side and Bosnian Serbs on the other.\n\nAlong with the Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic, Mladic came to symbolise a Serb campaign of ethnic cleansing that left tens of thousands dead and hundreds of thousands displaced.\n\nThe worst and most enduring crimes pinned on the former army chief and his men were an unrelenting three-year siege of Sarajevo that claimed more than 10,000 lives, and the massacre at Srebrenica, where more than 7,000 Bosniak men and boys were slaughtered and dumped in mass graves.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"The soil here is soaked with blood\" - survivor Mevludin Oric\n\nWhen the conflict came to an end in 1995, Mladic, facing an indictment for war crimes, went on the run.\n\nWith considerable help, he evaded capture for 16 years, until May 2011 when police descended on an unassuming yellow brick house in the village of Lazarevo, north of Belgrade.\n\nClad in black clothes and black masks, officers surrounded the house. Inside, Europe's most-wanted man - older in appearance than his 69 years and thinner than the bull-like general of his war days - was preparing to go for a walk in the garden.\n\nRatko Mladic was ferocious in pursuit of what he saw as the destiny of the Serb nation. He saw the war as an opportunity to avenge five centuries of occupation by Muslim Turks. He would refer to Bosniaks as \"Turks\" in order to insult them.\n\nThere may have also been an emotional root to his ruthlessness. In 1995, a year before the massacre at Srebrenica, his much-loved daughter Ana, a medical student, shot herself with his pistol - an act that, according to people close to him, hardened his character.\n\nSome believe she chose to die after learning of atrocities committed by forces under her father's command.\n\nMladic was born in the south Bosnian village of Kalinovik. On his second birthday, in 1945, his father died fighting pro-Nazi Croatian Ustasha troops.\n\nHe grew up in Tito's Yugoslavia and became a regular officer in the Yugoslav People's Army. A career soldier, he was said to inspire passionate devotion among his soldiers.\n\nWhen the country slid into war in 1991, Mladic was posted to lead the Yugoslav Army 9th Corps against Croatian forces at Knin. The following year he was appointed to lead a new Bosnian Serb army.\n\nAs his gunners pounded the city of Sarajevo in early 1992, mercilessly killing civilians, he would yell \"Burn their brains!\" to encourage them, and \"Shell them until they're on the edge of madness!\"\n\nThe siege laid waste to parts of central Sarajevo, hollowing out houses and charring cars. A long stretch of road leading into the city became known as \"sniper's alley\", after the Serb marksmen who would fire at anything that moved: car, man, woman or child.\n\nThe most horrific crime of which Mladic was convicted happened 80km (50 miles) north of Sarajevo, in a small salt-mining town whose name would become indelibly associated with the horror of that week.\n\nSrebrenica was a Bosniak enclave under UN protection, when in July 1995 Mladic's forces overran it and rounded up thousands of men and boys aged between 12 and 77.\n\nAs the men were detained, Mladic was seen handing out sweets to Bosniak children in the main square. Hours later, in a field outside the town, his men began shooting.\n\nOver the next five days, more than 7,000 men and boys were executed, reportedly machine-gunned in groups of 10 before being buried by bulldozer in mass graves. It was the worst mass execution since the crimes of the Nazis.\n\nA Bosnian Muslim woman mourns at the coffin of a relative killed at Srebrenica\n\nThe war ended later that year. Hundreds of thousands of non-Serbs had been driven from their homes in an attempt to create an ethnically pure Serb state in Croatia and Bosnia.\n\nIn late 1995, a UN war crimes tribunal indicted Mladic on two counts of genocide, for the Sarajevo siege and the Srebrenica massacre. Many other combatants, including Croats and Bosniaks, were also accused of war crimes. Mladic went on the run, but he didn't go far.\n\nAs a fugitive Mladic still enjoyed the open support and protection of the then-Yugoslav President, Slobodan Milosevic. He returned to Belgrade, where he went untroubled to busy restaurants, football matches and horse races, escorted by bodyguards.\n\nBut Milosevic's fall from power in 2000 and subsequent arrest put Mladic at risk. He spent the next decade moving through hideouts in Serbia, relying on a diminishing band of helpers.\n\nRatko Mladic after his arrest in May 2011\n\nIn October 2004, his former aides began surrendering to the war crimes tribunal, as Serbia came under intense international pressure to co-operate.\n\nWhen Karadzic was detained in Belgrade in July 2008, speculation grew that Mladic's arrest would follow. But it was not until 26 May 2011 that police units descended on Lazarevo and surrounded Mladic's yellow brick house.\n\nWhen the officers moved in, the man who had vowed to never be taken alive surrendered quietly, and the two loaded guns he kept for protection lay untouched. He was 69 and had already suffered a stroke, partly paralysing his right arm.\n\n\"I could have killed 10 of you if I wanted, but I didn't want to,\" he reportedly told the officers. \"You're just young men, doing your job.\"\n\nHe finally went on trial in 2012, at The Hague, facing 11 charges including genocide. The court, anxious that he should not die before the end of the proceedings, scaled back the case against him.\n\nHe was in poor health, and had difficulty moving, apparently due to a series of strokes. \"I'm very old. Every day I'm more infirm and weaker,\" he told the court.\n\nRatko Mladic was defiant at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague\n\nDespite his frailty, Mladic was defiant in court. He sarcastically applauded the judges as they entered, and argued vociferously with them. Catching the eye of a Bosnian woman who had gestured rudely to him, he drew his finger across his throat.\n\nHis 12-member defence team argued that their client was an honest, professional career soldier who successfully defended Bosnian Serbs from the threat of genocide.\n\nThey said he was in Belgrade for meetings with international officials when most of the killings in Srebrenica took place, and that he had no means of communication with the men there. The prosecution did not disagree, but contended that he met senior deputies before leaving the town, and gave them the order to kill.\n\nFanatical and fearless, Mladic became a folk hero to many of those he led, and he remains a hero to many in his home village of Bozanovici, where a sign nailed to tree still reads \"General Mladic Street\".\n\nTwo decades on from the war, in a courtroom at the Hague, he was diminished physically but not in temper. Just as in his other court appearances, he shouted and disrupted the court. But it did not matter. He was removed, and his sentence handed down in his absence.", "The BBC's business, political and economics editors on the announcements in Philip Hammond's Budget speech.\n\nAndrew Neil heard from Laura Kuenssberg, Kamal Ahmed and Simon Jack, straight after the chancellor and Labour leader spoke in the Commons.", "Much of the rest of the world is growing at a healthier clip.\n\nFor Britain it is a different story.\n\nToday the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) downgraded growth forecasts for the next four years.\n\nAnd it has been more aggressive with those downgrades than the Bank of England was in its Inflation Report earlier in the month.\n\nThe productivity problem is at the heart of that judgement.\n\nThe UK just hasn't been very good at producing wealth for every hour worked, and today the OBR lowered its expectations about how fast productivity will recover.\n\nWhich means that tax receipts will suffer, by up to £20bn a year by 2023.\n\nAdd to that the increase in inflation following the Brexit referendum and the squeeze in real incomes and the OBR is clear - the economy is not as strong as it thought it would be.\n\nThe chancellor's response has been two-fold.\n\nFirst, he has tried to paint a positive vision of Britain's future\n\nHe has talked of the good record on employment.\n\nAnd, in the short term, the news on borrowing is better as tax revenues have been higher and public spending lower.\n\nSecond, he has significantly loosened the fiscal tight belt he had thrown around the economy.\n\nIn March, Mr Hammond planned for two years of higher spending - giveaways - followed by three years of tax rises - takeaways.\n\nNow he has said that borrowing will be higher for every year of the five-year forecast, and higher spending will last until 2023.\n\nMany economists will welcome such a move, the government doing more to stimulate the economy.\n\nWhen the Bank of England raises rates, it increases the cost of the government's bills\n\nThe chancellor has pledged more money for health, a stamp duty tax cut and £3bn to prepare for leaving the European Union.\n\nBut debt will continue to rise, and that means the cost of servicing the amount the government borrows will increase.\n\nMuch of the government's debt is index linked - so its cost rises if inflation goes up.\n\nAnd every time the Bank of England increases interest rates, that also increases the cost of repaying the government's bills.\n\nThe worry in the Treasury is that they have used up a good deal of the public finances headroom Mr Hammond wanted to build up for the future in case Brexit uncertainty around the economy crystalizes into another growth downgrade.\n\nThe question now is what will happen if he needs to find more funding and still hit his target to balance the government's books by the middle of the next decade.\n\nAnd of course very little in this Budget will affect the key economic headwind everyone is facing.\n\nAnd that is the fall in real incomes.\n• None What the Budget means for you", "Matthew Bravender, left, and Anderson Ward were both jailed for driving offences resulting in fatalities\n\nTwo road death drug-drivers are trying to get their convictions quashed amid concerns forensic evidence in their cases had been manipulated.\n\nThe pair, from Greater Manchester and Powys, Wales, want to launch Court of Appeal proceedings.\n\nIt follows an investigation at Randox Testing Services in Manchester, where two scientists were arrested on suspicion of tampering with data.\n\nThe inquiry prompted a review of more than 10,000 criminal investigations.\n\nAbout 50 prosecutions have so far been dropped in what BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw described as \"the biggest forensic science scandal in the UK for decades\".\n\nMatthew Bravender is appealing against his conviction after pleading guilty to causing death by careless driving while over the legal limit for a prescribed drug.\n\nMost of the 10,000 cases that could be affected involved traffic offences\n\nThe 38-year-old, of Agecroft, Greater Manchester, was jailed for five years and four months at Manchester Crown Court after 52-year-old pedestrian Alan Strong was struck and killed in April 2016.\n\nAlso challenging his conviction is Anderson Ward, 39, who was jailed for causing the death of his girlfriend in a crash while he was high on drugs.\n\nMarie Hardes, 56, was killed after Ward lost control of a car on the M3 in Winchester in November 2014.\n\nHe was sentenced to six years in prison after being found guilty of causing death by driving without due care while unfit through drugs, causing death by driving a vehicle unlicensed and possession of Class B and Class C drugs.\n\nMore appeals could soon follow as thousands of toxicology tests are re-analysed.\n\nThree-quarters of the cases were traffic offences such as drug-driving, with the rest including violent crime, sexual offences and unexplained deaths, dating back to 2013.\n\nTwo men have been arrested and five interviewed under caution by Greater Manchester Police over the alleged manipulation by individuals working at the Randox site.\n\nRetests have so far found no impact on cases of sexual offences, violence or murder, the National Police Chiefs' Council said.\n\nPotential data manipulation at a separate facility, Trimega Laboratories, is also being investigated.", "Nevest Coleman left his prison cell near Chicago and was greeted by family members, two decades after being wrongfully imprisoned for murder.", "Disposable incomes are set to be £540 lower by 2023 than forecast in March and pay rates will not return to levels seen before the financial crash until the middle of the next decade, according to the Resolution Foundation.\n\nThe living standards think tank said annual pay was forecast to be £1,000 lower and consequently the UK faced a 17-year downturn before wages returned to 2008 levels.\n\nThe think tank warned that Philip Hammond has not taken sufficient action to ease the living standards squeeze, with welfare cuts over the coming years set to heap pressure on low-income families.\n\nResolution Foundation director Torsten Bell said: \"The chancellor has been handed a massive downgrade to expectations for how fast Britain's economy can grow, knocking a full quarter off the growth we can expect over the next five years. While the result for the public finances is grim, the chancellor has chosen to take the extra borrowing on the chin and indeed to borrow more, including welcome new action on housing.\"\n\nHe added: \"The chancellor has made the wrong call to press ahead with a damaging freeze on benefits. Welcome moves to reduce the waiting time for Universal Credit are also not matched by dealing with the much bigger challenge of planned cuts to the new benefit.\"", "Former Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic has been found guilty of genocide for some of the worst atrocities of the 1990s Bosnian war.\n\nThe 74-year-old shouted at the judges reading his verdict at the UN tribunal, before he was removed from the courtroom.\n\nHe was sentenced to life in prison.", "Stamp duty will be abolished immediately for first-time buyers buying a home of up to £300,000, Chancellor Philip Hammond has said.\n\nFor properties costing up to £500,000, no stamp duty will be paid on the first £300,000.\n\nMr Hammond said this meant 95% of first-time buyers would see stamp duty cut, while 80% would pay none at all.\n\nThe change will apply in England and Northern Ireland, and in Wales up until the end of March, but not in Scotland.\n\nScotland has an independent system of land tax. Stamp duty will be devolved to Wales from March 2018.\n\nIn the rest of the UK stamp duty is paid on all residential properties worth more than £125,000. The duty is levied at a staggered rate above that threshold, starting at 2% but increasing in line with the value of the property being bought.\n\nThe Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) said the main beneficiaries would be existing homeowners, rather than first-time buyers, because it expects all house prices to rise by 0.3% within a year as a result of the change.\n\nIt also estimates that it will result in only an additional 3,500 first-time buyer purchases.\n\nHowever, the chancellor insisted that young people will benefit.\n\n\"This is our plan to deliver on the pledge we have made to the next generation that the dream of home ownership will become a reality in this country once again,\" Mr Hammond said.\n\nThe policy will cost the Treasury £3.2bn over the next five years.\n\nAndrew Norfolk, who is saving to buy a property in Cambridge, said the Stamp Duty change was a start, but more could be done.\n\n\"As a 26-year-old, working in a well-paid professional job, I find it ridiculous how difficult it is to get on the ladder without help from mum and dad.\n\n\"If I'm struggling - and I consider my position more fortunate than most - how on earth do most people ever stand a chance at home ownership?\"\n\nEstate agent Savills estimates that the average stamp duty bill for first-time buyers is about £2,700.\n\nBut in many parts of the country, first-time buyers will see no - or very little - saving at all.\n\nIn the North of England, the average Stamp Duty charge is just £11.82, according to analysts at AJ Bell.\n\nThis is because average house prices in the region are only just above the English Stamp Duty threshold, at £125,000.\n\nHowever, buyers who spend £500,000 could save up to £5,000.\n\n\"The stamp duty relief for first time buyers announced in today's budget will be a welcome boost to people purchasing their first home but the impact will be felt disproportionately in the South of England,\" said Tom Selby, senior analyst at AJ Bell.\n\nFor all first-time buyers, the deposit is a bigger up-front cost than Stamp Duty. The average deposit across the UK is £32,899, according to the Halifax, compared to the average Stamp Duty charge of £1,654.What does the stamp duty change mean?\n\nTom Kibasi, of the centre-left think tank the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR), said: \"Unaffordable house prices are the problem, not Stamp Duty. For most young people, the stamp duty cut will make little difference. But it will help the beneficiaries of the bank of mum and dad.\"\n\nThe Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) pointed out a \"cliff edge\" situation in high-priced areas.\n\nA first-time buyer paying £500,001 for a home will pay £5,000 more in Stamp Duty than someone paying £500,000, it said.\n\nOther commentators agreed with the OBR that prices will rise as a result.\n\n\"Pouring financial fuel on house prices will only result in even higher house prices, just as Help to Buy has done and as previous Stamp Duty holidays have,\" said property expert Henry Pryor.", "Charlie Rose, 75, is one of America's most respected broadcasters\n\nUS TV host Charlie Rose has been fired by CBS News following sexual harassment allegations.\n\nAn email to staff said the presenter's employment had been \"terminated... effective immediately\".\n\nIt said the move followed the revelation of \"extremely disturbing and intolerable behaviour\" said to have taken place around his programme.\n\nEight women accused the veteran TV interviewer of inappropriate behaviour in a report by the Washington Post.\n\nFollowing the allegations he was suspended by CBS, PBS and Bloomberg. Rose co-hosted the CBS This Morning show and was a correspondent for its Sunday night news magazine 60 Minutes. He appeared on PBS and Bloomberg with the Charlie Rose show.\n\nRose apologised following the Washington Post story, but said not all the claims were accurate.\n\nThe allegations span from the 1990s to 2011 and include groping, lewd telephone calls and unwanted advances.\n\nThe internal email to staff from CBS News president David Rhodes read: \"Despite Charlie's important journalistic contribution to our news division, there is absolutely nothing more important, in this or any organisation, than ensuring a safe, professional workplace - a supportive environment where people feel they can do their best work. We need to be such a place.\n\n\"I've often heard that things used to be different. And no-one may be able to correct the past. But what may once have been accepted should not ever have been acceptable.\"\n\nRose, 75, is one of America's most respected broadcasters and his interviews have won him Emmy and Peabody awards. He was named by Time magazine as one of its 100 most influential people in 2014.\n\nHe is known for conducting in-depth interviews, including with such high-profile guests as former President Barack Obama, talk show host Oprah Winfrey and billionaire Warren Buffett, on his eponymous television programme which first aired in 1991.\n\nCharlie Rose's interviews have won him several awards\n\nIn recent weeks, numerous high-profile figures, including Oscar-winning actors and a Hollywood filmmaker, have been accused of sexual harassment.\n\nThe accusations were sparked by multiple women speaking out against the Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, and a subsequent campaign encouraging victims to share their stories of sexual harassment under the #metoo hashtag.", "The BBC is recognised by audiences in the UK and around the world as a provider of news that you can trust. Our website, like our TV and radio services, strives for journalism that is accurate, impartial, independent and fair.\n\nOur editorial values say: \"The trust that our audience has in all our content underpins everything that we do. We are independent, impartial and honest. We are committed to achieving the highest standards of accuracy and impartiality and strive to avoid knowingly or materially misleading our audiences.\n\n\"Our commitment to impartiality is at the heart of that relationship of trust. In all our output we will treat every subject with an impartiality that reflects the full range of views. We will consider all the relevant facts fairly and with an open mind.\"\n\nResearch shows that, compared to other broadcasters, newspapers and online sites, the BBC is seen as by far the most trusted and impartial news provider in the UK [PDF].\n\nEven so, we know that identifying credible journalism on the internet can be a confusing experience. 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We usually link to official reports, sets of statistics and other sources of information, to enable you to judge for yourself the underlying information that we are reporting on.\n\nWhenever appropriate, we also offer links to relevant third-party websites that provide additional information, source material or informed comment.\n\nFor in-depth pieces of work, such as complex investigations or data journalism projects, we will help you understand how we went about our work by showing the underlying data and by disclosing any caveats, assumptions or other methodological frameworks used - for example, the study-design; the sample size; representativeness; margins of error; how the data was collected; geographical relevance and time periods.", "Natasha Gordon denies assisting in the death of Matthew Birkinshaw\n\nA man took his own life after entering into a suicide pact with a woman who left him to die alone, a court heard.\n\nNatasha Gordon, 44, denies encouraging or assisting in the death of Matthew Birkinshaw, who was found dead in his car at Rutland Water.\n\nLeicester Crown Court heard they made contact on an internet forum where the 31-year-old spoke of ending his life.\n\nMs Gordon had attempted to encourage six others to commit suicide, the prosecutor said in court.\n\nDuring chats over the course of several days, Ms Gordon, of Paston, Peterborough, told postman Mr Birkinshaw she was prepared to be his \"suicide partner\", prosecutors said.\n\nIn a message to Mr Birkinshaw, Gordon said: \"I really can't wait to go tomorrow, I hope you do not change your mind.\"\n\nMr Birkinshaw travelled through the night from his home in Walsall, West Midlands, to the defendant's home on 17 December 2015.\n\nDuring the journey, he was spotted on CCTV at services near Rothwell, Northamptonshire.\n\nHe was found dead later the same day in his car near Rutland Water, the UK's largest reservoir. He died of carbon monoxide poisoning.\n\nNatasha Gordon is on trial at Leicester Crown Court\n\nThe court was told Ms Gordon had left the car and walked to the nearby Best Western Hotel because she \"couldn't go through with it\".\n\nProsecutor Tim Cray said the defendant had been active on a number of suicide forums in the year before she met Mr Birkinshaw.\n\nHe said she had been seeking a \"suicide partner\" and was \"uber interested, if there is such a thing, in suicide\".\n\nMr Cray said she was \"prepared to say to people she hardly knew\" that taking their own life \"was the right thing to do\".\n\n\"The evidence will show that within hours of meeting Matthew online, she was telling him she was prepared to be his suicide partner,\" he said.\n\n\"This is a million miles from a mercy killing. All the evidence shows she thought and talked about suicide and was prepared to tell people she'd just met that it was the right thing to do.\"\n\nThe court was told Mr Birkinshaw was in good health, part of a loving family and had a stable girlfriend.\n\nMatthew Birkinshaw was found dead at Rutland Water in December 2015\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Serious work on restoring Zimbabwe's finances need to begin once the celebrations over Robert Mugabe's departure have ended\n\nCurrent events in Zimbabwe show that while a week may be a long time in politics, it is really a very short blink of an eye in economics. Zimbabweans on the streets of Harare and Bulawayo may be hopeful for political change, but they are much more sanguine and realistic when it comes to improving the country's economy.\n\nPresidents can be impeached in days or weeks. It takes years to wreck economies and usually even longer to repair them.\n\nSo, will Emmerson Mnangagwa be able to take Zimbabwe's economy off life support and at least start to put it on the road to recovery? Analysts are very sceptical that a quick solution is even feasible. The euphoria that has gripped the nation has certainly raised hopes that the future will be brighter, but if that improved sentiment is to deliver economic dividends, the government needs to make some drastic reforms.\n\nThe first tool President Mnangagwa would need to even get a recovery kick-started is hard currency. Zimbabwe hasn't had a currency of its own since 2009, after hyperinflation killed off the old Zimbabwean dollar.\n\nZimbabwe 100 trillion and 500 thousand dollar banknotes, produced after the country experienced a period of hyperinflation\n\nZimbabwe has lost its status as the breadbasket of Africa\n\nSince then, the US dollar has been the main currency for transactions, as well as the South African rand. And in recent years a cash shortage has been slowly strangling the economy, which is half the size it was at the turn of the millennium.\n\nBut who would stump up the cash? Western donors will remain wary of a Zanu-PF government which simply sees Robert Mugabe replaced by Mr Mnangagwa.\n\nThe International Monetary Fund, which describes Zimbabwe's economy as one of the most fragile in the world, may be more willing - but only with many strings attached to any deal.\n\nChina is possibly the most likely cash benefactor in the initial stages of a Mnangagwa administration. In some circles, Mr Mnangagwa is seen as Zimbabwe's Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese leader who instigated a degree of market liberalisation.\n\nAssuming the cash is forthcoming, what then? Mr Mnangagwa would have to dump economic policies that are unpalatable to foreign investors.\n\nZimbabwe's agricultural production started to plunge after the government-sanctioned programme of farm seizures came into effect\n\nZimbabwe has a potential labour force that is one of the most skilled in Africa\n\nIn 2009, Mr Mugabe signed the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act (IEEA) into law, which aimed to place 51% of companies into the hands of Black Zimbabweans.\n\nEven some Chinese companies have been forced to close their operations in Zimbabwe in recent years, because the IEEA made it unprofitable to do business in the country.\n\nOnce considered the breadbasket of Africa, Zimbabwe saw its agricultural production start to plunge at the turn of the century after the government-sanctioned programme of farm seizures.\n\nSome sources claim that Mr Mnangagwa is keen to revitalise Zimbabwe's commercial farms, and may seek the help of white farmers to do it.\n\nCorruption has been a major restraint on economic growth in Zimbabwe for years. Much of the farmland that was seized from white farmers ended up in the hands of army generals and the political elite, who knew next to nothing about agriculture.\n\nThe farms simply fell into disarray. Likewise, businesses that ended up with people with more political connections than entrepreneurial flair more often than not went to the wall.\n\nThree million Zimbabweans are estimated to live outside the country, having fled the dire economic conditions that emerged over the past two decades\n\nNot that corruption is confined to Zimbabwe in the African context, but it is one of those places that it seems to trickle down from the top. Just ask any South African who has driven their car across the border and been stopped at a police roadblock.\n\nBut Mr Mnangagwa has not escaped the corruption criticism. It is alleged that he was at the top of corruption tree when the army effectively took over the Marange diamond fields in the east of the country in 2008. At the time, he was the defence minister.\n\nThat whole affair raised the eyebrows even of Mr Mugabe, who said last year that he felt at least $13bn of revenue had gone missing from the diamond bonanza.\n\nFor nearly 20 years, Zimbabwe has been in default on $9bn worth of international debt. That debt needs restructuring, probably with the assistance of the IMF and the World Bank.\n\nPerhaps a government that did not only include Zanu-PF could even get the debt (or some of it) wiped out. Mr Mnangagwa is thought to be open to a new deal with the IMF, but getting new financing and renegotiating old deals would probably be easier for a unity government which included opposition politicians, especially former Finance Minister Tendai Biti.\n\nFormal jobs in Zimbabwe are rare. Unemployment runs at more than 90%. Creating the conditions for investment and seeing that money flows in should have a dramatic short-term effect on unemployment.\n\nWestern governments will be wary of a Zanu-PF government which simply sees Robert Mugabe replaced by Emmerson Mnangagwa (above)\n\nOther conditions already exist: the country has an abundance of natural resources in both agriculture and mining, and a potential labour force that's one of the most skilled in Africa.\n\nAll it needs is the political will and the right economic conditions for Zimbabwe's unemployment statistics to become rather less stratospheric.\n\nMeanwhile, three million Zimbabweans are estimated to live outside the country, having fled the dire economic conditions that emerged over the past two decades. They too have skills which would be useful in the rebuilding of the economy.\n\nBut they will have to feel they would be landing on solid and stable ground - both financially and politically. Otherwise, why go back?\n\nIn addition, it could be argued that a Zanu-PF dominated government would not want them back this side of an election. The vast majority of the returning diaspora would be unlikely to vote for Mr Mnangagwa and his party.\n\nIn the longer term, Zimbabwe needs to have its own currency.\n\nUsing the US dollar was necessary after the old Zim dollar became worth less than the paper it was printed on and met its demise.\n\nBanks in Zimbabwe have been feeling the strain in recent months\n\nBut there is so much more to creating a viable currency than switching on a printing press. Confidence is key.\n\nLast year, the Reserve Bank introduced \"bond notes\" which were meant to alleviate the chronic shortage of US dollars in the system.\n\nHowever, many thought this was an attempt to re-introduce the Zim dollar via the back door.\n\nIn fact, the notes have done nothing to address the cash shortage and some analysts say they might have actually made the situation worse, by pushing up the demand for US dollars even further.\n\nFew people like using the bond notes, even though the amount in circulation is relatively low and the denominations are small.\n\nPutting money into a bank was no longer considered the soundest of options, because the cash could only be withdrawn in small amounts and there was always the fear that the Reserve Bank would come for your hard-earned dollars.\n\nSo, the stock market soared, ironically becoming one of the best performing bourses in the world. Indeed, the rise in the stock market has only been curtailed by the army intervention and the resignation of Mr Mugabe.\n\nPresident Mugabe was accused of preparing the presidency for his wife Grace\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Last updated on .From the section League One\n\nWigan winger Ryan Colclough had a night to remember as he scored two goals before being substituted in time to see the birth of his second child.\n\nColclough had already scored to put Wigan 2-0 up at half-time against Doncaster, when he found out his partner had gone into labour.\n\nHe scored again to wrap up the 3-0 win and was brought off three minutes later - making it to hospital still in his full kit - where he was pictured with his new son.\n\n\"At half-time we got the message that his missus' waters had broken, his second child,\" assistant boss Leam Richardson said.\n\n\"As soon as he got his second goal he was off the pitch, because his head was somewhere else.\n\n\"We're all men, we're all individuals - some of the players wouldn't have gone, they'd be still in the dressing room now!\n\n\"Others want to get straight out to support their partner, and you respect every individual in what they want to do.\"\n\nMichael Jacobs also scored as the Latics moved to within a point of League One leaders Shrewsbury.\n• None Attempt saved. Gavin Massey (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.\n• None Attempt blocked. Cheyenne Dunkley (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.\n• None Attempt missed. William Grigg (Wigan Athletic) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section American football\n\nThe NFL must \"get tough and smart\" over the national anthem protest because it is \"killing\" the league, says US president Donald Trump.\n\nTrump has criticised players who kneel for the anthem, a move started by Colin Kaepernick in 2016, to highlight racial injustice and police brutality.\n\nSome NFL owners reportedly believe players could soon be kept in locker rooms during the anthem as a result.\n\n\"That's almost as bad as kneeling,\" Trump wrote on Twitter.\n\n\"When will the highly paid Commissioner finally get tough and smart? This issue is killing your league!\"\n• None Colin Kaepernick: From one man kneeling to a movement dividing a country\n\nIn October, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell wrote to franchises stating the take the knee movement threatened \"to erode the game's unifying power\".\n\nKaepernick, 30, has been without a team since he opted out of his contract with the San Francisco 49ers in March and has filed a grievance against team owners.\n\nHe first protested by sitting during the anthem before opting to kneel.\n\nPresident Trump was critical when players followed suit, prompting the move to spread further.\n\nIn separate tweets, Trump branded the father of US basketball player LiAngelo Ball an \"ungrateful fool\" after he refused to thank the President for his role in securing his son's release from prison in China.\n\nUCLA basketball players Ball, Cody Riley and Jalen Hill were released from detention on shoplifting charges. The three thanked Trump during a news conference after their release but Ball's father - LaVar - played down the President's involvement.\n\nOn Wednesday Trump tweeted: \"It wasn't the White House, it wasn't the State Department, it wasn't father LaVar's so-called people on the ground in China that got his son out of a long term prison sentence - IT WAS ME. Too bad! LaVar is just a poor man's version of Don King, but without the hair.\n\n\"Just think LaVar, you could have spent the next 5 to 10 years during Thanksgiving with your son in China, but no NBA contract to support you. But remember LaVar, shoplifting is NOT a little thing. It's a really big deal, especially in China. Ungrateful fool!\"", "A group of MPs has said that the £18bn cost of the UK's new Hinkley Point C nuclear power station will hit the country's poorest the hardest.\n\nThe Public Accounts Committee said that households had been \"locked into an expensive deal lasting 35 years\".\n\nIn a report, it said there were no plans for Hinkley Point to provide wider benefits such as jobs and skills.\n\nBut EDF, the French firm funding two thirds of the project, said it would bring \"huge benefits\" to Britain.\n\nThe government gave the green light to Hinkley Point near Bridgwater in Somerset last year, in a deal which guarantees EDF a fixed price of £92.50 per megawatt hour for the electricity it produces for 35 years.\n\nIf it falls below that level, consumers will pay the difference.\n\nThe Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy estimates that top-up payments will cost consumers around £30bn.\n\nIn its report examining the deal, the Public Accounts Committee said: \"Over the life of the contract, consumers are left footing the bill and the poorest consumers will be hit hardest. Yet in all the negotiations no part of government was really championing the consumer interest.\"\n\nThe committee's chair Meg Hillier said: \"Bill-payers have been dealt a bad hand by the government in its approach to this project.\n\n\"Its blinkered determination to agree the Hinkley deal, regardless of changing circumstances, means that for years to come energy consumers will face costs running to many times the original estimate.\n\n\"It doesn't know what UK workers and business will gain from this project, and appears to have no coherent idea of what to do about it.\"\n\nThe committee has proposed that the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:\n\nEDF Energy said: \"The cost of Hinkley Point C for customers has not changed and they will pay nothing for its reliable, low carbon electricity until the station is completed.\n\n\"The agreed price is lower than 80% of other low carbon capacity contracted so far and the project has restarted UK nuclear construction after a quarter century. Construction is fully underway and is already delivering a huge benefit to British jobs, skills and industrial strategy.\n\nThe company said: \"It is drawing on firms from across Britain and the South-West with 2,400 employees at the site and is on track to meet its next milestones.\"\n\nThe Committee's proposals follow a report in June by the National Audit Office which called Hinkley Point C \"a risky and expensive project\" and said the costs and risks for consumers had not been sufficiently considered.", "The chancellor is known by some around Westminster as \"box office Phil\", an ironic nickname for a politician who favours caution and prudence over showmanship and headline-grabbing pyrotechnics. So this should be Philip Hammond's sort of Budget.\n\nThe government is sticking with its aim of plugging the deficit and balancing the books. Although borrowing has fallen to its lowest level in a decade, the expected slowdown in productivity growth is likely to push future borrowing numbers back up, shrinking Mr Hammond's room to spend.\n\nAdd in the economic uncertainty around Brexit, and Mr Hammond might be tempted to play safe and avoid any drama.\n\nThere are political reasons for caution too. The Tories have a precarious working majority in the Commons with the help of the DUP, which means any remotely controversial votes on tax rises or spending cuts could easily be lost.\n\nMr Hammond has already been burned from fumbling a Budget measure, when he had to scrap plans to raise National Insurance contributions for the self-employed within a week of announcing the policy in March.\n\nThe chancellor does not revel in the political chess games enjoyed by his predecessor, George Osborne, who delighted in trying to outfox his opponents with a mischievous surprise. Not always successfully.\n\nPhilip Hammond definitely does not need his own \"omnishambles\" Budget this week, and nor does the government.\n\nBadly wounded by the botched general election in June, hit by the departure of two cabinet ministers in a month, divided on Brexit, for the Tories this is a Budget that must not backfire.\n\nIronically, it was June's election that kept Philip Hammond in his job.\n\nThere has been evidence of real tensions between the prime minister and her chancellor\n\nHardly allowed out in public during the campaign, he was widely expected to be chopped after the expected victory - an impression Theresa May did nothing to dispel at a joint press conference with her chancellor in May.\n\nTensions between Number 10 and Number 11 were clear and the source of the agro was of course Brexit. A supporter of Remain during the referendum, Mr Hammond has found himself battling the Brexiteers in the cabinet.\n\nHe wants a two-year post-Brexit transition deal agreed with the EU as soon as possible to stop businesses moving out.\n\nHe is resisting calls to set aside billions of pounds now for a no-deal scenario. Mr Hammond wants to protect financial services as much as possible.\n\nIn October, the former Tory Chancellor Lord Lawson accused Mr Hammond of acting in a way that was \"close to sabotage\", because of his Brexit negativity, and urged Theresa May to sack him.\n\nBut the prime minister, an Oxford university contemporary of her chancellor, shows no sign of wanting to move him.\n\nFormer Chancellors can also be dangerous to a prime minister. Theresa May might recall the resignation speech of Geoffrey Howe in 1990 after he quit as Deputy Prime Minister, following a political career spent at the Treasury and the Foreign Office.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIf you haven't seen it, his quietly deadly resignation speech is worth a few minutes of your time.\n\nSo considering the constraints, what are Tory MPs hoping for from Wednesday's budget?\n\n\"Nobody is expecting much,\" one veteran of the Conservative back benches told me. While no fan of Philip Hammond, \"we don't want a bloodbath\", they said.\n\n\"We don't want him to screw it up,\" said another senior Tory, who is hoping for a sunnier message from the sometimes doleful Chancellor.\n\nThe Tory MP Nigel Evans also says he wants a bit of cheer from Mr Hammond.\n\n\"If he comes to the despatch box and starts hand-wringing, and saying, 'We've got no money,' but at the same time we know they are prepared to up the amount of money they don't necessarily have to give the EU, then we'll all think, 'What the heck's going on?'\"\n\nThe consistent view among Leave-supporting Tories is that they want him to sound upbeat about the possibilities of Brexit.\n\nBut the chancellor has strong admirers on the Tory benches too, relieved he is in the Treasury's driving seat while the government argues about the final destination of Brexit.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell has demanded \"an emergency Budget for our public services\", which he says are in crisis\n\nThe MP for Chelmsford, Vicky Ford, is a fan. \"I want a chancellor who's as boring as anything, but really understands the numbers and the finances. I think Philip Hammond's been doing an incredibly good, detailed analysis and that's exactly what we need at this time.\"\n\nTory MPs agree it is a very difficult Budget for Philip Hammond to pitch. It needs to try to prove the government has a purpose other than Brexit, while having very little cash to splash. Maybe the chancellor will surprise us.\n\nThe former schoolboy disco entrepreneur turned wealthy businessman took career risks long before he entered politics. But Wednesday will be one of his toughest challenges yet.", "Rodney Bewes has died aged 79, his agent has confirmed.\n\nThe actor had a career spanning six decades and is best known for playing Bob Ferris in sitcom The Likely Lads.\n\nHis agent issued a statement saying: \"It is with great sadness that we confirm that our dear client, the much-loved actor Rodney Bewes, passed away this morning.\"\n\nThe statement paid tribute to the actor, calling him a \"true one-off\" and a \"brilliant storyteller\".\n\n\"He had a funny anecdote for every occasion. Our thoughts are with his family and friends at this sad time. We will miss him terribly.\"\n\nBewes was originally from Bingley in Yorkshire but moved to Luton as a child.\n\nDespite childhood asthma keeping him house-bound until the age of 12, he achieved his first role at the age of 14 and went on to study drama at RADA.\n\nBewes starred alongside Peter Davison in the 21st series of Doctor Who\n\nHe gained fame in the 1960s and 1970s playing Bob Ferris in the BBC sitcom The Likely Lads, and in its sequel, Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? - which drew audiences of up to 27m.\n\nIn 1984, he became a member of the Doctor Who cast during Peter Davison's run as the Time Lord, portraying a humanoid named Stien in Resurrection Of The Daleks.\n\nHe died six days before he would have celebrated his 80th birthday.\n\nBewes is survived by his four children - Billy, Joe, Tom and Daisy - and his two grandchildren, Oscar and Eliza.\n\nOn Wednesday, his children released a joint statement saying they \"will always remember Dad as full of laughter and fun\".\n\n\"He will be much missed by his many friends in London, Henley, Edinburgh and Cornwall. We are very touched by all the warm messages people have left.\"\n\nShane Allen, controller BBC Comedy, said Bewes was \"beloved as one half of the great British sitcom partnerships of all time\".\n\nHe added: \"Audiences got to see him go from black and white to colour as the revival was a huge hit with audiences of all ages. It's one of the all-time great BBC sitcoms; timeless in its humour and will be enjoyed for decades to come.\"\n\nTributes have also been pouring in for the star 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 antanddec This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Jack Dee said The Likely Lads was one of the \"great\" sitcoms.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Jack Dee This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRadio presenter Danny Baker described The Likely Lads as \"the gold standard\" and \"envy of the comedic world\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Danny Baker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWriter and actor Julian Dutton described Bewes as \"a fine actor\".\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\nAnd Olympic rower Matthew Pinsent paid tribute to the actor, who he said used to cheer on crews at Henley.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by Matthew Pinsent This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nZimbabwe's incoming leader Emmerson Mnangagwa has hailed a \"new and unfolding democracy\" after returning from exile to replace Robert Mugabe.\n\nHe also vowed to create jobs in a country where some estimates say 90% of people are unemployed.\n\n\"We want to grow our economy, we want peace, we want jobs, jobs, jobs,\" he told a cheering crowd in Harare.\n\nMr Mnangagwa, who fled to South Africa two weeks ago, is to be made the new president on Friday, state TV said.\n\nHis dismissal led the ruling party and the military to intervene and force an end to Mr Mugabe's 37-year long rule.\n\nHe told supporters at the headquarters of the ruling Zanu-PF party that he had been the subject of several assassination plots and thanked the army for running the \"process\" of removing Mr Mugabe peacefully.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How news of Robert Mugabe's resignation was greeted across Zimbabwe\n\nThe news that 93-year-old Mr Mugabe was stepping down sparked wild celebrations across the country late into Tuesday night.\n\nIt came in the form of a letter read out in parliament on Tuesday, abruptly halting impeachment proceedings against him.\n\nIn it, Mr Mugabe said he was resigning to allow a smooth and peaceful transfer of power, and that his decision was voluntary.\n\nA spokesman for the ruling Zanu-PF party said Mr Mnangagwa, 71, would serve the remainder of Mr Mugabe's term until elections that are due to be held by September 2018.\n\nNicknamed the \"crocodile\" because of his political cunning, Mr Mnangagwa met South African President Jacob Zuma before leaving for Zimbabwe.\n\nThousands of party supporters waited for hours to welcome Mr Mnangagwa in his first public appearance since he emerged from hiding.\n\nDuring his 20-minute speech, he corrected himself at least once for referring to Mr Mugabe as president rather than former president. His message was largely conciliatory.\n\nBut he also relished his stunning return to power and successful removal of Mr Mugabe. He brought up Grace Mugabe's speech a fortnight ago, in which - meaning him - she said we must \"deal with the snake by crushing its head\". A day later he was fired.\n\n\"I wonder which snake's head was crushed?\" he said to loud cheers.\n\nMr Mnangagwa's firing by Mr Mugabe two weeks ago triggered an unprecedented political crisis in the country.\n\nIt had been seen by many as an attempt to clear the way for Grace Mugabe to succeed her husband as leader and riled the military leadership, which stepped in and put Mr Mugabe under house arrest.\n\nUnder the constitution, the role of successor would normally go to a serving vice-president, and one still remains in post - Phelekezela Mphoko.\n\nHowever, Mr Mphoko - a key ally of Mrs Mugabe - has just been fired by Zanu-PF and is not believed to be in the country. In his absence, the party has nominated Mr Mnangagwa, the speaker of parliament confirmed.\n\nSome have questioned whether the handover to Mr Mnangagwa will bring about real change in the country.\n\nHe was national security chief at a time when thousands of civilians died in post-independence conflict in the 1980s, though he denies having blood on his hands.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC correspondent Andrew Harding looks for Grace Mugabe in her heartland\n\nOpposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai told the BBC he hoped that Zimbabwe was on a \"new trajectory\" that would include free and fair elections.\n\nHe said Mr Mugabe should be allowed to \"go and rest for his last days\".\n\nProminent opposition politician David Coltart tweeted: \"We have removed a tyrant but not yet a tyranny.\"\n\nAfrican Union president Alpha Condé said he was \"truly delighted\" by the news, but expressed regret at the way Mr Mugabe's rule had ended.\n\n\"It is a shame that he is leaving through the back door and that he is forsaken by the parliament,\" he said.\n\nAt 93, Mr Mugabe was - until his resignation - the world's oldest leader. He once proclaimed that \"only God\" could remove him.\n\nLawmakers from the ruling party and opposition roared with glee when his resignation letter was read aloud in parliament on Wednesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Activist and political candidate Vimbaishe Musvaburi breaks down in tears of joy\n\nActivist and political candidate Vimbaishe Musvaburi broke down in tears of joy while speaking to the BBC.\n\n\"We are tired of this man, we are so glad he's gone. We don't want him anymore and yes, today, it's victory,\" she said.\n\nPresident Mugabe was accused of preparing the presidency for his wife Grace\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Ms Le Pen has been fighting for her political survival since losing France's presidential election to Emmanuel Macron\n\nMarine Le Pen has claimed her National Front party is the victim of a \"banking fatwa\" after banks closed its accounts as well as her own personal account.\n\nThe leader of the far-right party told a news conference she would be lodging complaints against Société Générale and HSBC.\n\nUnder French law, banks are allowed to close accounts unilaterally.\n\nBut Ms Le Pen accused \"financial oligarchies\" of trying to \"suffocate\" the political opposition and democracy.\n\n\"This is a political decision on the part of Société Générale and not a dispute between a customer and their bank,\" she was quoted as saying after insisting the party's finances were stable.\n\nMs Le Pen has been fighting for her political life since losing May's presidential election to Emmanuel Macron and performing poorly in subsequent legislative elections.\n\nHer party has been riven by feuds, she has been put under formal investigation over a European Parliament funding scandal, and earlier this month she was stripped of immunity from prosecution over a series of grisly images she published on Twitter.\n\nThis is not the first instance of antagonism between the National Front (FN) and the banks.\n\nIn 2014, it accepted Russian loans of €11m (then worth £9m or $15m) when French banks declined to lend it any money. It was also refused loans to fund its campaign for the presidency, and has subsequently appealed directly to supporters for loans.\n\nMs Le Pen said the FN would be filing a complaint against Société Générale and its subsidiary Crédit du Nord. She also vowed to complain to HSBC after, she said, it closed her own personal account.\n\nNone of the banks confirmed that they had taken these steps, citing rules on confidentiality.\n\nThe FN's banking relationship with Société Générale is said to go back 30 years.\n\nIn France, banks are allowed to close accounts without notice or explanation. However, access to a bank account is a right in France and the Bank of France can designate a bank which is then required to open an account.\n\nThe FN's complaint against Crédit du Nord is that when it was required to open an account it then refused to process cheque and credit card payments, reports Reuters news agency.", "The aircraft was ferrying passengers to the USS Ronald Reagan in the Philippine Sea\n\nEight people have been rescued after a US Navy aircraft carrying 11 crew and passengers crashed off the coast of Japan, the defence ministry has said.\n\nIt says that preliminary US military reports indicated that engine failure may have caused the crash.\n\nThe Navy did not say what kind of aircraft was involved, but Japan's Self-Defense Forces have said it was a C-2 transport aircraft.\n\nThe aircraft was travelling to a US aircraft carrier in the Philippine Sea.\n\nJapanese and American rescuers raced to get to the stricken plane, which ditched in seas off the remote Japanese reef of Okinotori.\n\nAn initial report suggests that the crashed plane may be a C-2 transport aircraft similar to the one photoed above\n\nThe crash follows a spate of US Navy accidents in East Asia in recent months, some fatal.\n\nTen personnel died in August, when the USS John McCain collided with a tanker near Singapore.\n\nTwo months earlier, in June, the USS Fitzgerald smashed into a cargo ship off the coast of Japan, killing seven.\n\nIn two other non-fatal incidents, the USS Antietam ran aground near its base in Japan in January, and in May USS Lake Champlain collided with a South Korean fishing vessel.\n\nJapanese Defence Minister Itsunori Onodera said that his department had received an initial US report that engine trouble might have caused Wednesday's accident.\n\nMore than 60 different types of planes and helicopters operate from the USS Ronald Reagan, according to the carrier group's website, including fighters, early warning aircraft, electronic attack planes, transports planes and multi-purpose helicopters.\n\nThe US military is strongly deployed in the western Pacific, with tens of thousands of troops and billions of dollars' worth of hardware in the region.\n\nThe Ronald Reagan is one of three US aircraft carriers operating in the region alongside Japanese and South Korean warships, as tensions rise between the US and North Korea.", "Pundits and politicians like to set tests for Budgets.\n\nThey like to say a chancellor \"has\" to do this or that, they must \"prove\" they have the ambition to do this, to \"deliver\" on a party's manifesto promises, the list goes on.\n\nBut what do you do if you're the chancellor and you have no majority to speak of, not much money to spend within the rules you have set for yourself, and you work for a prime minister who doesn't have very much authority?\n\nSimple, your biggest job is to avoid screwing up.\n\nThat won't be written on the first page of the chancellor's red book, or in the speech he'll carry in his red box.\n\nBut that clear and not necessarily very exciting goal will be hanging in the air in the Commons today.\n\nOf course Philip Hammond won't admit as much, he won't stand at the despatch box and tell the country \"listen, I am just for the next 40 minutes or so going to try to keep myself out of trouble\".\n\nAnd there will of course be decisions announced today that will have an impact on people's lives. There will be more money for the NHS, although not as much as they have asked for, there will be new policies to try to encourage house-building, there will probably be changes to universal credit, there will be measures that will make a difference to firms around the country.\n\nBut for the Treasury today there's no big bazooka - boring is good.\n\nIt is possible of course that the Treasury has simply been managing expectations. By leading people to believe there's not much to see, anything that seems a modest success might feel like a decent win.\n\nBut the first political responsibility of Number 11 today is to try to avoid mistakes. Inspiring? Perhaps not. Vital to the prospects for the government and Philip Hammond's career? Most definitely so.", "Kezia Dugdale is one of two late entries to the jungle camp\n\nKezia Dugdale has made her first jungle appearance on TV programme I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!.\n\nThe former leader of Scottish Labour was introduced as one of two late-entry campmates on Wednesday's live edition of the reality show.\n\nPresenters Ant and Dec ended the programme with a \"teaser\" that Ms Dugdale and comedian and broadcaster Iain Lee would be joining the line-up.\n\nThey are expected to be fully unveiled on Thursday's episode.\n\nMs Dugdale admitted some of her political colleagues will be \"shocked and angry\" at her stint in the Australian jungle.\n\nShe said: \"They will be angry because they will say I should be doing my day job and I am going to be away. I understand that anger.\n\n\"I've seen them be angry over similar things other people have done but I can't help but think that it is an amazing opportunity to talk to millions of people about the Labour Party, its values and how it is different.\n\n\"I am not going to talk about politics all the time but it is who I am, what I do and I can't help it.\"\n\nThe Edinburgh and Lothians MSP admitted she didn't reveal her reality show plans when she asked Labour party bosses for three weeks' off from Holyrood business.\n\nShe said: \"I quit as leader and so there was no obvious person to ask for permission.\n\n\"I went to the two people who were running for Scottish leader (eventual winner Richard Leonard and losing candidate Anas Sarwar) and told them I was going abroad for three weeks to work. They were both cool with that.\n\n\"I will be back for the budget in December.\"\n\nAnt (left) and Dec are again fronting the show from Australia\n\nThe Lothians MSP is expected to be paid tens of thousands of pounds, part of which she will donate to charity, along with her MSP's salary for the three weeks she is away.\n\nMs Dugdale poked fun at her political colleagues and rivals when she revealed what scared her most about the prospect of going into the jungle.\n\nShe said: \"I am used to dealing with rats and snakes but I've never had to deal with creepy crawlies before.\n\n\"I ran upstairs when I saw a spider the other day and I've got a big fear of birds that stems from when I saw a scary picture of a pigeon as a toddler. I was petrified and I've lived with that ever since.\n\n\"I know I am not totally useless but I will scream, shout and then get on with it.\"\n\nThis year's other contenders include boxer Amir Khan, ex-footballer Dennis Wise, Made in Chelsea's Georgia Toffolo and Stanley Johnson - father of Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.\n\nThey are joined by Coronation Street actress Jennie McAlpine and Hollyoaks actor Jamie Lomas, along with comedian Shappi Khorsandi, footballer Jamie Vardy's wife Rebekah, Saturdays singer Vanessa White.\n\nAn ITV spokesman said: \"Due to circumstances outside camp, Jack has had to withdraw from the show.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"So much for tackling injustices\"\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond's Budget will \"unravel\" within days, continuing the \"misery\" for people across the country, Jeremy Corbyn has predicted.\n\nThe Labour leader attacked the government's failure to reduce the deficit, a rise in rough sleeping and the fact 120,000 people will spend Christmas in temporary accommodation.\n\n\"It's a record of failure with a forecast of more to come,\" he said.\n\nMr Hammond ended stamp duty for first-time buyers on sales up to £300,000.\n\nIn his second Budget, the chancellor also announced measures to speed up the payment of universal credit benefits and a rise in the National Living Wage to £7.83 an hour.\n\nBut, responding in the Commons, the Labour leader said: \"The reality test of this Budget has to be how it affects ordinary people's lives.\n\n\"I believe as the days go ahead and this Budget unravels, the reality will be a lot of people will be no better off - and the misery many are in will be continuing.\"\n\nMr Corbyn claimed a plan for three new pilot schemes to help rough sleepers \"doesn't cut it\", stressing: \"It is a disaster for those people sleeping on our streets, forced to beg for the money for a night shelter.\n\n\"They're looking for action now from government to give them a roof over their heads.\"\n\nHe said one in six pensioners were living in poverty - \"the worst rate anywhere in western Europe\" - adding that the poorest tenth of households would lose 10% of their income by 2022, while the richest would lose just 1%.\n\nAnd he responded angrily to an MP who heckled him as he was noting that more than a million elderly people were not receiving the care they need.\n\n\"I hope you understand what it's like to wait for social care, stuck in a hospital bed, while other people have to give up their work to care for them,\" he said, adding: \"The uncaring, uncouth attitude of certain members opposite needs to be called out.\"\n\nThe Labour leader called for universal credit to be put \"on hold\" so it can be fixed to \"keep one million of our children out of poverty\". He also questioned why the chancellor thought it was \"OK to under pay, over stress and under appreciate all those that work within our NHS\".\n\n\"We were promised with lots of hype a revolutionary Budget - the reality is, nothing has changed,\" he said.\n\n\"People were looking for help from this Budget and they have been let down by a government that, like the economy they have presided over, is weak and unstable and in need of urgent change.\n\n\"They call this a Budget fit for the future - the reality is, this is a government no longer fit for office.\"", "Gaia Pope's body was found 11 days after she went missing\n\nA 19-year-old wrongly suspected of Gaia Pope's murder has been \"on the verge of a mental breakdown\", his mother has said.\n\nNathan Elsey was detained alongside his grandmother Rosemary Dinch, 71, six days after Miss Pope, 19, disappeared.\n\nDeborah Elsey said she had \"no idea\" why her son was a suspect and has called on Dorset Police to apologise.\n\nThe force, which has released the pair without charge, said officers would have had \"multiple grounds for arrest\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gaia Pope's father Richard Sutherland said the family would \"treasure her always\"\n\nMrs Elsey, a family friend of Miss Pope's, said her son's arrest was a \"horrendous shock\".\n\nHer brother Paul Elsey was also arrested on suspicion of murder and later released.\n\nMrs Elsey said she and the three arrested family members were staying with her father Greg.\n\n\"We're still not in our homes and still have none of our personal effects. At the very least I'd like an apology,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Family friend Rosemary Dinch was the last person to see Gaia Pope before she went missing\n\n\"We're going through every single emotion rolled into one - you don't know what you're feeling.\n\n\"One minute you want to cry for yourself, then you cry for Gaia and her family and then there's anger for police.\"\n\nMiss Pope was reported missing from Swanage, Dorset, on 7 November.\n\nHer body was found on Saturday 18 November in a field near the town.\n\nA post-mortem examination conducted the next day did not identify any injuries to suggest the involvement of other people, Dorset Police said.\n\nOn Monday, the force announced Paul Elsey, Ms Dinch, and Nathan Elsey were to face no action.\n\nIt is treating the death as \"unexplained\" pending toxicology results.\n\nIn a statement the force said: \"We appreciate our enquiries would have caused these individuals stress and anxiety, however we have an obligation in any missing person investigation to explore every possible line of enquiry.\"\n\nThe family say they have not been allowed back in their homes since the arrests\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\nIrish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar \"should know better\" than to \"play around\" with Northern Ireland over Brexit, the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party says.\n\nArlene Foster accused Mr Varadkar of being \"reckless\" as Brexit talks enter a \"critical phase\".\n\nShe was speaking after meeting Theresa May at Downing Street.\n\nThe Irish government says any hard border with Northern Ireland should be off the table.\n\nAnd an EU paper recently suggested Northern Ireland would have to continue to follow many EU rules after Brexit if a hard border was to be avoided. It hinted Northern Ireland may need to stay in the EU customs union if there were to be no checks at the border.\n\nThat is something which the UK Conservative government - which is supported in key votes by the DUP at Westminster - have said they cannot accept as it would effectively create a border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nThe Irish government has said it will veto the start of Brexit trade talks unless border issues are concerned\n\nWhile there are genuine and sincerely held logistical and understandable concerns about what happens to the Irish border after Brexit, there is a sense building that perhaps the Irish government is playing those concerns rather harder than is justified.\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster, using rather strong language, told off the Irish leader Leo Varadkar for doing just that today.\n\nBut the next step in what many would say is a conspiracy theory, borne out of Brexiteer desperation, is to ponder whether the EU as a whole is over-egging their true level of worry about what happens to the border.\n\nSpeaking to BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg, Mrs Foster said: \"Some people are taking their moment in the sun, to try and get the maximum in relation to the negotiations - and I understand that but you shouldn't play about with Northern Ireland particularly at a time when we're trying to bring about devolved government again.\"\n\nShe said that suggesting leaving the EU would jeopardise the peace process was \"a very careless thing to say\", particularly with no devolved administration in place, and accused Ireland's government of being \"reckless\".\n\nMrs Foster said she recognised Brexit was a \"big shock\" for the Republic of Ireland - \"and they are trying to process all of that\".\n\n\"But they certainly shouldn't be using Northern Ireland to get the maximum deal for their citizens.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland is the only part of the UK that will share a land border with an EU state post-Brexit, and what happens to the border is one of the key subjects being debated between the EU and the UK.\n\nKey to this is how to avoid customs checks on the border when the UK leaves the EU's customs union - the arrangement that allows goods to flow freely between member states.\n\nNegotiations have yet to make a breakthrough so the EU says talks on future matters like trade and customs cannot begin yet.\n\nBut Mrs Foster said it was crucial to move on to the second phase now because the trade arrangement is linked to the border situation.\n\nThe DUP pledged in June to support Theresa May's minority government over Brexit and other core issues as part of a parliamentary pact due to last at least two years.\n\nBut Nigel Dodds, the party's deputy leader, has warned that any prospect of the border moving to the Irish Sea after Brexit - an idea suggested by some within the Irish government - would be \"gravely destabilising\" to the UK government.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Daily Politics and Sunday Politics This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. End of twitter post by BBC Daily Politics and Sunday Politics\n\n\"They (the Conservatives) know that,\" he told the BBC's Daily Politics.\n\nGiven Northern Ireland's trade links with the rest of the UK, he said such a move would be \"madness economically, never mind the political consequences\".\n\nBut Ireland's foreign minister Simon Coveney said his government was right to seek more assurances about the border issue before agreeing to the next phase of Brexit talks.\n\n\"This is a much bigger issue than trade,\" he told the Evening Standard. \"This is about division on the island of Ireland.\"\n\nArguing Dublin had the support of the other 26 EU members, he added. \"I will not be an Irish foreign minister that presides over a negotiation which is not prioritising peace on the island of Ireland.\"", "Instead of getting irate when their flight was delayed, these Canadian passengers partied with a mass singalong.", "Growth forecasts for the UK economy have been cut sharply following changes to estimates of productivity and business investment.\n\nThe Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) now expects the economy to grow by 1.5% this year, down from the estimate of 2% it made in March.\n\nGrowth, it says, will drop to 1.3% by 2020 and then rise to 1.5% in 2021.\n\nThe lower growth means that by 2021-22 government tax receipts will be £20bn lower than the OBR's March forecast.\n\nThe OBR expects borrowing as a share of economic output will still fall, but not as fast as it predicted in March.\n\nIt forecasts that borrowing this year will be 2.4% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), rather than its previous prediction of 2.9%.\n\nBy 2021-22, it says that percentage will be down to 1.3%. However, in March, it had expected borrowing to have fallen to 0.7% of GDP by then.\n\nThe figures make it harder for the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, to hit his target of bringing borrowing down to less than 2% of GDP by 2020-21. In March, the OBR estimated borrowing would then be at 0.9% of GDP. Today's forecast is for it to be at 1.5%.\n\nIn his Budget speech, Mr Hammond said: \"Regrettably our productivity performance continues to disappoint. Today the OBR revised down the outlook for productivity growth, business investment and GDP growth.\"\n\nYael Selfin, chief economist at KPMG UK, said: \"The downgrade to UK GDP growth forecasts has totally overshadowed the generally good news on public finances so far this fiscal year, reducing the money available to the chancellor.\n\n\"However, the chancellor is sticking to his target of reducing public borrowing to less than 2% of national income by 2020-21, albeit with a reduced chest for any emergency spending in the event the economy requires an additional boost.\"\n\nJohn Hawksworth, chief economist at PwC, said: \"The headroom he used to have between his target and the forecast represented about £20-26bn. That's now been reduced to about £15bn because of less growth and more borrowing.\n\n\"He is trying to walk a tightrope of fiscal prudence and austerity.\"\n\nThe OBR says in its Economic and Fiscal Outlook report that the impact of lower productivity means that GDP will grow by 5.7% over the next five years rather than by the 7.5% as it estimated in March.\n\nIt added: \"We expect real GDP growth to slow from 1.5% this year to 1.4% in 2018 and 1.3% in 2019, as public spending cuts intensify and Brexit-related uncertainty continues to bear down on activity.\"\n\nHowever, it said that the revisions to productivity had nothing to do with Brexit, or with the latest economic figures, but simply because of what it called a \"repeated tendency throughout the post-crisis period for productivity growth to disappoint\".\n\nIan Stewart, chief economist at Deloitte, said: \"The OBR's view that weak productivity is here to stay, and is not just a lingering hangover from the financial crisis, means a longer haul to eliminate the deficit and slower wage growth.\"\n\nThe OBR has also cut its estimates for business investment. Its report said: \"We now expect business investment to rise by around 12% between the first quarter of 2017 and the first quarter of 2022, significantly lower than the 19% expected in March.\n\n\"This downward revision reflects the weaker outlook for productivity growth lowering the expected return on capital.\"\n\nOn unemployment, the OBR said it believed the rate was now as low as it is going to go.\n\n\"We expect the rate to trough at 4.3% of the labour force - its current rate - in the second half of this year, and then to edge up as GDP growth slows a little further and the National Living Wage prices some workers out of employment.\"", "The calculator on this page was part of the BBC's coverage of the 2020 Budget and is no longer available.", "The government will \"express its resolve to look forwards not backwards\", Philip Hammond said opening his Budget speech.\n\nHe spoke about the UK's future outside the EU, but said his speech was about \"much more than Brexit\",", "John Lasseter, the head of animation at Pixar and Disney, is taking a leave of absence after allegations of misconduct emerged about him.\n\nCurrent and former staff told The Hollywood Reporter that Mr Lasseter frequently gave unwanted hugs and invaded personal space.\n\nOther sources alleged he was known for \"grabbing, kissing, making comments\".\n\nIn a statement Mr Lasseter apologised \"to anyone who has ever been on the receiving end of an unwanted hug\".\n\nHe apologised for his \"missteps\" and \"any other gesture they felt crossed the line in any way, shape, or form\".\n\n\"Collectively, you mean the world to me, and I deeply apologise if I have let you down,\" he said.\n\n\"No matter how benign my intent, everyone has the right to set their own boundaries and have them respected.\"\n\nThe entertainment titan is credited on a vast array of animated features - including Inside Out\n\nMr Lasseter, a founding member of Pixar, said he would be taking a six-month leave of absence to \"start taking better care of myself\".\n\nThe chief creative officer at both Pixar and Walt Disney animation studios, he is one of the driving forces in the industry and has been behind some of the most successful children's films in the last two decades.\n\nHe was the director of Toy Story, A Bug's Life, and Cars; and has producer credits on dozens of major films including Finding Nemo, Wall-E, Up, and Frozen.\n\nDisney, in a statement quoted by Reuters news agency, said it appreciated his \"candor and sincere apology\" and supported his decision to take a leave of absence.\n\nPixar's latest movie, Coco - on which Mr Lasseter is credited as an executive producer - releases on 22 November in the United States, hours after his leave of absence was announced.\n\nThe fantasy adventure film is scheduled for release in UK theatres in January.\n\nMr Lasseter is the creative lead at both Disney and Pixar animation studios\n\nThe claims against Lasseter come after Pixar screenwriter Rashida Jones left the production of Toy Story 4.\n\nJones told the New York Times her departure was due the studio's poor treatment of women and BAME staff.\n\nShe also rebuffed media stories that the real reason for her stepping away was due directly to Lasseter's behaviour towards her.\n\nHer writing partner Will McCormack left along with her. In a joint statement to the NYT they said it was \"untrue\" they had left because of \"unwanted advances\".\n\n\"There is so much talent at Pixar, and we remain enormous fans of their films,\" they added.\n\n\"However, it is also a culture where women and people of colour do not have an equal creative voice.\"\n• None Should we go loco over Coco trailer?", "The chancellor may be trying to shake-off his 'Spreadsheet Phil' moniker with a few gags in his Budget speech.", "The Scottish government has dismissed the chancellor's pledge of extra funding for Holyrood as a \"con\".\n\nPhilip Hammond said moves in his Autumn Budget would \"mean £2bn more for the Scottish government\".\n\nBut Scotland's finance secretary said Holyrood had been \"short changed\", and that funds for day to day spending would actually fall.\n\nMinisters have also traded barbs over plans to allow Scotland's police and fire services to claim VAT refunds.\n\nMr Hammond took aim at \"SNP obstinacy\" over the issue, while the SNP's Westminster leader Ian Blackford accused the UK government of \"vindictiveness and nastiness\" for not having made the change sooner.\n\nThe disputed funds come in the form of Barnett consequentials, which are Scotland's share of additional spending in England which falls in areas of devolved competence - like health, education and housing.\n\nThe £2bn cited by Mr Hammond is spread over the period from the current financial year through to 2020-21, and includes more than £1.1bn in financial transaction funding.\n\nThis is capital funding for loan or equity initiatives, like \"help to buy\" schemes, meaning the government is constrained in how it is spent.\n\nScotland's finance secretary, Derek Mackay - who will unveil his own draft budget in December - said it was \"money with strings attached\" which could not be spent \"directly on frontline public services\" and would eventually have to be repaid to the Treasury.\n\nHe said the overall deal was \"disappointing\", telling the BBC's Politics Scotland programme that \"it's not a £2bn boost to Scotland, it's a con\".\n\nBut Scottish Secretary David Mundell told the same programme there would be a \"significant increase in Scottish government spending\".\n\nOn the capital funds, he said the Scottish government could \"use that money in innovative ways\", saying: \"The money is definitely available. It's for the Scottish government to come forward with the mechanisms that allow it to be used.\n\n\"Additional money is coming to Scotland and directly will benefit Scotland.\"\n\nDerek Mackay said the claims of extra funding for Scotland were a \"con\"\n\nMr Mackay also claimed the block grant for day to day spending was being cut in real terms, something refuted by the UK government.\n\nThe Fraser of Allander Institute, an economic think tank based at the University of Strathclyde, said the extra funding for the resource budget amounted to \"around £350m\", saying it \"remains on track to be squeezed in real terms over the next two years\".\n\nDirector Graeme Roy said: \"The challenge therefore remains for Derek Mackay as to how best to balance the resource budget with major commitments like additional support for the NHS, more money for childcare and public sector pay uplifts all to be paid for.\"\n\nThe other point of conflict between the governments is over VAT for the Scottish police and fire services, after Mr Hammond confirmed they would be eligible for refunds from April 2018.\n\nThis brings Police Scotland and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service into line with their counterparts elsewhere in the UK - but tax paid since the creation of the national forces will not be reimbursed.\n\nThe two services pay about £35m a year in VAT - bringing the total bill since they were set up four years ago to £140m.\n\nScottish ministers have repeatedly called on the UK government to end the \"glaring disparity\" in the way that VAT affects emergency services across the UK, pointing out that territorial police and fire services in England and Wales already get refunds on their VAT bills.\n\nScotland's police and fire services pay about £35m a year in VAT\n\nThe UK government says the Scottish government knew of the VAT implications before the police and fire service mergers were approved, but pressed on with them regardless.\n\nIn his budget speech, Mr Hammond said he had been persuaded by Scottish Conservative MPs to make the change.\n\nHe added: \"The SNP knew the rules, they knew the consequences of introducing these bodies, and they ploughed ahead anyway.\n\n\"But my Scottish Conservative colleagues have persuaded me that the Scottish people should not lose out just because of the obstinacy of the SNP government.\"\n\nOn spending, Mr Hammond trumpeted a \"boost\" for Scotland in the shape of £2bn extra. He said he had \"delivered for Scotland\".\n\nIn response, Derek Mackay said it was a \"con\". The money was over four years (the Chancellor never disguised that) - and more than half of the dosh was in the form of financial transactions.\n\nThese have caused contention in the past. They are, in essence, loan funds available for private projects such as housing, business or agriculture. They fall, thus, to be repaid.\n\nScottish ministers readily concede that such funds have proved valuable in the past - although they tend, discreetly, to cite their own deftness in finding useful vehicles. But they say it is cash with strings and it leaves day-to-day spending on the NHS, education and the like facing a real-terms cut.\n\nAt which point, Mr Mundell says that the total package going to Scotland will be helpful. At which point…..you get the concept.\n\nThe chancellor also said progress was being made on city deals for Tay Cities and Stirling, and for a growth deal for Borderlands.\n\nAnd he said the government would introduce transferable tax history for oil and gas fields in the North Sea - which he described as an \"innovative tax policy that will encourage new entrants to bring fresh investment to a basin that still holds up to 20 billion barrels of oil\".\n\nMany of the measures announced by Mr Hammond - such as homebuyers no longer having to pay stamp duty for properties of up to £300,000 - will not apply in Scotland, where the tax is devolved and known as Land and Buildings Transaction Tax.\n\nIt will be up to the Scottish government in its own forthcoming budget to decide whether to follow the chancellor's lead.\n\nIn a lengthy Twitter thread, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon welcomed the announcements on oil and gas, and on VAT.\n\nBut she said both were \"overdue\", and that it was \"disappointing and unfair to emergency services\" that VAT that had already been paid would not be refunded.\n\nThe chancellor said a freeze on spirit duty would benefit the Scotch whisky industry\n\nAmong the other budget measures which the Treasury said would impact on Scotland were:\n\nThe chancellor said the budget was proof that the Conservative government was \"giving power back to the people of Britain and driving prosperity and greater fairness across our United Kingdom\".\n\nBut he also said that the Office for Budget Responsibility had revised down forecasts for Britain's GDP to 1.5% in 2017, down from the 2% it had previously predicted.\n\nScottish Labour's new leader, Richard Leonard, said Mr Hammond had \"delivered a failing budget, on a failing economy from a failing government\".\n\nHe added: \"They are rudderless and without a plan to grow our economy, help our industries and create the work of the future. This Tory government is a driverless vehicle. This budget is insufficient, inadequate and insincere.\"", "Up to the moment itself the extraordinary session of parliament had proceeded along expected lines. Speaker after speaker rose to denounce the excesses of the president and his wife.\n\nA female MP was speaking of how her constituents were suffering when we saw the messengers approach the speaker. They handed him a letter.\n\nA jolt of energy swept the hall. At first there were cheers of anticipation. The speaker rose.\n\nThe next 10 minutes will remain engraved in my memory.\n\nWe strained to hear the speaker through the muffled public address system. But the words \"statement of resignation\" were clear. And the wild cheering, the thumping of tables, the dancing and singing told all of us who were present that the age of Robert Mugabe was over.\n\nFrom the corridors outside where Zanu-PF activists had gathered, the MPs could hear loud cheers and singing mingle with their own celebrations.\n\nOn the floor of parliament - a hotel ballroom specially converted for the session - I watched MPs and senators dance, arms around each other, as the solemn procession of mace bearers left the chamber.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. MPs cheered and celebrated as the resignation was announced\n\nAmong the more bizarre experiences was finding ruling-party legislators offering themselves for interview to the BBC. A week ago most foreign journalists were banned from the country.\n\nOne party stalwart, MP Keith Guzah, told me he believed real democracy would now take root in Zimbabwe. \"He has gone and I am happy, happy, happy for my country.\"\n\nAnother MP told me her greatest joy was that Zimbabwe had managed the transition \"without the shedding of blood.\" It was a comment that ignored the bloodshed and pain inflicted by her party during the decades of Robert Mugabe's rule.\n\nLeaving parliament I moved up through the city towards Africa Unity Square, the heart of Harare, pausing several times as I was enveloped by ecstatic crowds.\n\nA man fell to his knees and raised his arms to the sky. A young woman, wrapped in the national flag, shouted: \"Do you see this you guys? Do you see this? It is history in the making.\"\n\nOn the square I ran into Ben Freeth, a farmer who lost his land and whose family were brutally tortured during the land invasions. Like so many others he was struggling to believe that the moment of Mr Mugabe's departure had arrived.\n\n\"He was going, going, going and now he's finally gone,\" he said. As we spoke a group of revellers approached. Suddenly we were surrounded by embracing arms. \"And you can see,\" said Ben, \"we are in this together!\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How news of Robert Mugabe's resignation was greeted across Zimbabwe\n\nWill this spirit of unity, this freedom from fear, endure under a new dispensation? I cannot be at all certain.\n\nThe presumptive new leader, Emmerson Mnangagwa, is mired in the excesses of the Mugabe era. He was the deposed president's loyal henchman for decades and only struck against him to prevent Grace Mugabe from succeeding to the presidency.\n\nThis was not a revolution to bring liberal democratic principles into government. It was about power.\n\nThat said, there are significant pressures on the new leader to embark on a programme of meaningful change. The corruption and tyranny of the past will not attract the international financial aid and investment that is needed to rescue the nation's shattered economy.\n\nMr Mnangagwa will face a strong challenge if he tries to mire Zimbabwe in the despotism of the past. His instincts are authoritarian but he will not have the same scope for repression as Robert Mugabe.\n\nIt would be a mistake to regard Zanu-PF as a monolith. A party that turned on one leader can easily turn on another.\n\nPerhaps most important is the attitude of the people.\n\nThey have endured nearly 40 years of fear. For the first time they have been able to speak openly and demonstrate in the streets.\n\nThe opposition - for so long divided and beaten down - is rejuvenated.\n\nThese are the moments in which new leaders emerge and are tested. With elections set for next year, all parties are already in campaigning mode.\n\nTraditionally the polls have been times of chaos and crackdowns. Let us see if Mr Mnangagwa lives up to the promise of a more tolerant Zimbabwe.\n\nPresident Mugabe was accused of preparing the presidency for his wife Grace\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The bones were dug up on Tuesday afternoon in the car park at Aldi in Stalybridge\n\nSuspected human remains have been dug up in a supermarket car park.\n\nWorkmen unearthed the bones outside a branch of German discount giant Aldi in Stalybridge, Greater Manchester, on Tuesday afternoon.\n\nSpeculation has been rife among locals, but police believe the site may once have been a burial ground connected to a former chapel.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said tests were being carried out to confirm if the remains were human.\n\nA photograph shared on Facebook showed workmen and onlookers peering down a large hole surrounded by fencing.\n\nPolice are awaiting the results of tests following the discovery\n\nThe discovery prompted reaction on social media, with many making reference to the 2013 discovery of the remains of English king Richard III in a car park in Leicester.\n\nTwitter user Jane Browne posted: \"Wow, which king is it this time?\"\n\nA Facebook user speculated the remains could be related to a burial site connected to a former Methodist church in the town.\n\nEdyth O'Connor wrote: \"I remember the old cemetery around that area. It was all boarded up whilst they removed the remains.\"\n\nNorma Roberts said: \"Canal street methodist [church] was where Aldi is now, and yes it was boarded up while all graves were removed to new locations. Or should have been.\"\n\nGMP said a team of archaeologists and anthropologists were examining the findings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The judge in the trial of an Army sergeant accused of trying to murder his wife by tampering with her parachute has warned the jurors not to \"bully\" each other.\n\nNine women and three men have been deliberating since last Tuesday in the case of Emile Cilliers.\n\nTwo jurors fell ill and were discharged after Mr Justice Sweeney issued a majority direction.\n\nMr Cilliers denies two charges of attempting to murder his wife Victoria.\n\nMr Justice Sweeney gave the direction on Tuesday to jurors at Winchester Crown Court, saying that he would accept majority verdicts.\n\nNinety minutes after this, one of the jurors became ill.\n\nOn Wednesday, the forewoman also fell ill, with both jurors dismissed after the judge received medical certificates.\n\nEmile Cilliers is accused of two counts of attempted murder of Victoria\n\nHe told the jurors, who have now been deliberating for 23-and-a-half hours: \"Jury service is not easy; it never has been.\n\n\"By their very nature, some trials require jurors to address deeply sensitive human problems, and some discussions may be fierce or tempestuous, with powerful arguments and counter-arguments.\n\n\"In such cases, discussions by their nature will be exhausting.\n\n\"However, and obviously, all must remain within the proper bounds of discussion, and not amount to improper pressure or bullying.\"\n\nMr Cilliers, 37, is accused trying to kill Victoria, 40, who survived a 4,000ft fall on 5 April 2015.\n\nIt is alleged he tampered with her parachute before the jump, causing her to plummet to the ground.\n\nProsecutors also claim the defendant made another attempt to kill Mrs Cilliers by deliberately causing a gas leak in the family home days before the fall.\n\nMr Cilliers denies two counts of attempted murder and another criminal damage charge relating to the gas valve.\n\nThe jury will continue its deliberations on Thursday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There were scenes of celebration on the streets of the capital, Harare.\n\nPresident Robert Mugabe has resigned after a 37-year rule as his party prepared to impeach him.", "It is unclear whether UK citizens' data was breached as Uber has not said.\n\nThe UK's information commissioner has \"huge concerns about Uber's data policies and ethics\" following a breach that exposed the details of 57 million customers and drivers.\n\nUber did not tell anyone about the breach and paid a ransom to hackers to delete the data.\n\nDeputy commissioner James Dipple-Johnson said these actions were unacceptable.\n\nThe ride-sharing company has a resource page for those who may be affected.\n\n\"It's always the company's responsibility to identify when UK citizens have been affected as part of a data breach and take steps to reduce any harm to consumers. Deliberately concealing breaches from regulators and citizens could attract higher fines for companies,\" Mr Dipple-Johnson said.\n\n\"If UK citizens were affected, then we should have been notified so that we could assess and verify the impact on people whose data was exposed.\"\n\nHe said the Information Commissioner's Officer (ICO) would work with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to determine the scale of the breach and how it affected people in the UK, as well considering the next steps that Uber needed to take to comply \"with its data protection obligations\".\n\nNext year, EU countries will radically alter data protection laws to offer consumers greater control over the data they share with companies.\n\nThe General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) aims to impose huge fines on companies that conceal data breaches.\n\nUnder the new rules, companies have to notify data regulators about a breach within 72 hours of becoming aware of a hack.\n\nThey face fines of 4% of their global annual turnover or 20 million euros (£18m), whichever is higher, if they are found to be in breach of the regulations.\n\nDean Armstrong, a cyber-law barrister at Setfords Solicitors, said: \"As Uber hasn't released its figures, we can't speculate as to the potential final cost of the fine, but it is fair to say the regulator would come down hard and under the regulations it would likely be in the tens of millions.\n\n\"The greater cost to Uber however would and will be in terms of reputation, which although harder to quantify than a fine could far outstrip any penalty handed to them by a regulator.\"\n\nDavid Kennerly, director of threat research at security company Webroot, criticised Uber for paying a ransom to the hackers.\n\n\"Given the current climate around data security and breaches, it is astonishing that Uber paid off the hackers and kept this breach under wraps for a year.\n\n\"The fact is there is absolutely no guarantee the hackers didn't create multiple copies of the stolen data for future extortion or to sell on further down the line.\"\n\nRaj Samani, chief scientist at security company McAfee said, as a regular Uber user, the news made him \"incredibly angry\".\n\n\"Uber has treated its customers with a complete lack of respect,\" he said.\n\n\"Millions of people will now be worrying over what has happened to their personal data over the past 12 months, and Uber is directly responsible for this.\"\n\n\"In opting to not only cover up the breach, but actually pay the hackers, Uber has directly contributed to the growth of cybercrime and the company needs to be held accountable for this.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Do you know how alcohol changes your mood?\n\nDifferent types of alcoholic drink change and shape your mood in different ways, says a study into drinking and emotions.\n\nSpirits may make you feel angry, sexy or tearful, while red wine or beer may make you feel relaxed, say researchers.\n\nThey questioned nearly 30,000 people aged 18-34 from 21 different countries for the study in the journal BMJ Open.\n\nAll the respondents drank beer, wine and spirits, and many said each type of alcohol had a different effect on them.\n\nWhile having a few drinks can be enjoyable, researchers hope their findings will help highlight the dangers of dependent drinking.\n\nPeople build up tolerance to alcohol over time and can end up drinking more to feel the same \"positive\" effects that they enjoy.\n\nBut they also risk getting negative ones too, says researcher Prof Mark Bellis from Public Health Wales NHS Trust.\n\nThe anonymous online survey, which recruited respondents via newspaper and magazine adverts and social media, found:\n\nHowever, the findings show only an association and do not explain the reasons for changes.\n\nProf Bellis said the setting in which the alcohol was consumed was an important factor that the study tried to take into consideration by asking about drinking at home and outside of the home.\n\n\"Young people will often drink spirits on a night out, whereas wine might be drunk more at home, with a meal.\n\n\"There will be an element of expectation too. Someone who wants to relax might choose to have a beer or a glass of wine.\"\n\nHe said the way different drinks are marketed and promoted might encourage people to select certain drinks to suit different moods, but that this could backfire if it triggered negative emotions.\n\n\"People may rely on alcohol to help them feel a certain way. People might drink to feel more confident or relaxed but they also risk other negative emotional responses too.\"\n\nProf Bellis and his colleagues at King's College London said the findings suggested that dependent drinkers might rely on alcohol to generate the positive emotions they associated with drinking - they were five times more likely to feel energised than low-risk drinkers.\n\nHe also said the study revealed a difference between men and women's emotional relationship with different alcoholic drinks.\n\n\"We got stronger emotional relationships with women across pretty well every type of emotion, except for aggression.\" Aggression, he said, was more likely to be felt among men.\n\nDr John Larsen, from Drinkaware, said: \"This study highlights the importance of understanding why people choose to drink certain alcoholic drinks and what effect they expect these drinks will have on them.\n\n\"The UK chief medical officers' guideline for both men and women states that in order to keep health risks from alcohol to a low level it is safest not to be drinking more than 14 units a week on a regular basis.\"\n\nThat equates to 12 single measures of spirits, six pints of beer or six 175ml glasses of wine a week.\n\nExperts say setting a minimum unit price of 50 pence per unit would help cut alcohol-related deaths.\n\nA minimum price policy will come into force on 1 May 2018 in Scotland.\n\nLegislation to establish a minimum price is currently under active consideration by the Welsh Government and by the Irish Senate. There are no plans yet to do the same in England, although the Home Office says the policy is under review.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There he met Sally Hafron whom he married in 1961. She was actually more political than him before he was recruited by black nationalists. He was later imprisoned by the Rhodesian government, but was not allowed to attend the funeral of his son", "The government will take steps to increase the tax it collects from firms doing business online, Mr Hammond has announced.\n\nFrom April 2019, technology groups such as Google and Apple will pay a new withholding tax on the royalty payments they make to their subsidiaries in low-tax jurisdictions.\n\nThese moves are expected to bring in £200m a year on average.\n\nHMRC will hold online marketplaces such as eBay and Amazon responsible if sellers using their platforms fail to pay Value Added Tax on their sales.\n\nAll businesses operating on their sites will have to show a valid VAT number.\n\nThe increased tax income from multinationals should raise £285m in 2019-20, but that amount is expected to fall in each subsequent year to £130m in 2022-23.\n\nThe Budget statement said the payments would be due \"even if the group has no taxable UK presence under current rules\".\n\nIt added: \"It will prevent multinationals from gaining an unfair advantage by locating an IP [intellectual property] in low or no tax jurisdictions and so will level the playing field.\"\n\nThe move is expected to have raised £800m by March 2023.\n\nAlison Lobb, international tax partner at Deloitte, said: \"It will be necessary to be able to clearly distinguish 'digital' companies subject to the digital turnover tax from other businesses.\n\n\"Even harder will be determining the appropriate rate - left open in the position paper - so that it represents a reasonable proxy for tax on profits, and so that it doesn't deter cross-border trade.\n\n\"Any moves made by the UK are likely to be mirrored by other countries, so UK digital businesses operating overseas will be equally affected.\"\n\nTech giants and the taxman are playing a digital game of cat and mouse.\n\nAs the Paradise Papers showed recently, big, international companies use various means to move money out of the Treasury's reach. Cash earned from an online sale made in the UK may not be taxed in the UK, or anywhere.\n\nDigital firms' intellectual property is often owned by companies in tax havens, so large royalty payments are funnelled offshore.\n\nThe chancellor is trying to tax this flow of money, acknowledging \"digitalisation poses challenges for the sustainability and fairness of our tax system\".\n\nThe Treasury isn't clear how its new digital tax will be enforced - it admits some companies have \"no taxable UK presence\".\n\nThe forecast for falling income each year from the tax perhaps suggests the Treasury expects companies to find a way round the rule.\n\nThis isn't the complete answer, but it is a highly symbolic announcement - ministers have had enough of global companies sheltering profits from tax.\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond said: \"Multinational digital businesses pay billions of pounds in royalties to jurisdictions where they are not taxed and some of those relate to UK sales.\n\n\"This does not solve the problem, but it does send a signal of our determination and we will continue work in the international arena to find a sustainable and fair long-term solution.\"\n\nThe plan to ensure people and businesses selling through online marketplaces pay the correct tax comes after warnings issued to Amazon and eBay last month about them profiting from sellers who were not charging VAT.\n\nA report by MPs estimated that up to £1.5bn in tax had been lost from these third-party sellers.\n\nDigital platforms will be asked to play a \"wider role in ensuring that users are compliant with the tax rules\".\n\nThe government is set to ask for more evidence next spring to explore the action that digital platforms can take.", "Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, the man known as \"the crocodile\" because of his political cunning, achieved a long-held ambition to succeed Robert Mugabe as Zimbabwe's president in November last year.\n\nHe has now won a disputed presidential election to legitimise his rule, promising voters his efforts to woo foreign investors will bring back the economy from the brink of collapse.\n\nMr Mugabe resigned following a military takeover and mass demonstrations - all sparked by his sacking of Mr Mnangagwa as his vice-president.\n\n\"The crocodile\", who lived up to his name and snapped back, may have unseated Zimbabwe's only ruler, but he is also associated with some of the worst atrocities committed under the ruling Zanu-PF party since independence in 1980.\n\nOne veteran of the liberation struggle, who worked with him for many years, once put it simply: \"He's a very cruel man, very cruel.\"\n\nBut his children see him as a principled, if unemotional, man. His daughter, Farai Mlotshwa - a property developer and the eldest of his nine children by two wives - told BBC Radio 4 that he was a \"softie\".\n\nAs if to reinforce this softer image of the new leader, a cuddly crocodile soft toy was passed among the Zanu-PF supporters who welcomed him back to the country after Mr Mugabe's resignation.\n\nEmmerson Mnangagwa is known as \"Ngwena\", the Shona word for crocodile\n\nAnd what he lacks in charisma and oratory prowess, he makes up for in pragmatism, says close friend and Zanu-PF politician Josiah Hungwe.\n\n\"Mnangagwa is a practical person. He is a person who recognises that politics is politics but people must eat,\" he told the BBC, adding that reforming Zimbabwe's disastrous economy will be the focus of his leadership.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emmerson Mnangagwa: Who is the man known as the ‘crocodile’?\n\nThe exact year of Mr Mnangagwa's birth is not known - but he is thought to be 75, which would make him nearly 20 years younger than his predecessor who left power aged 93.\n\nBorn in the central region of Zvishavane, he is a Karanga - the largest clan of Zimbabwe's majority Shona community.\n\nSome Karangas felt it was their turn for power, following 37 years of domination by Mr Mugabe's Zezuru clan, though Mr Mnangagwa was accused of profiting while under Mr Mugabe.\n\nAccording to a United Nations report in 2001, he was seen as \"the architect of the commercial activities of Zanu-PF\".\n\nThis largely related to the operations of the Zimbabwean army and businessmen in the Democratic Republic of Congo.\n\nZimbabwean troops intervened in the DR Congo conflict on the side of the government and, like those of other countries, were accused of using the conflict to loot some of its rich natural resources such as diamonds, gold and other minerals.\n\nMore recently military officials - many behind his rise to power - have been accused of benefiting from the rich Marange diamond fields in eastern Zimbabwe, with reports of killings and human rights abuses there.\n\nDespite his money-raising role, Mr Mnangagwa, a lawyer who grew up in Zambia, was not always well-loved by the rank and file of his own party.\n\nA Zanu-PF official posed an interesting question when asked about Mr Mnangagwa's prospects: \"You think Mugabe is bad, but have you thought that whoever comes after him could be even worse?\"\n\nThe opposition candidate who defeated Mr Mnangagwa in the 2000 parliamentary campaign in Kwekwe Central, Blessing Chebundo, might agree.\n\nDuring a bitter campaign, Mr Chebundo escaped death by a whisker when the Zanu-PF youths who had abducted him and doused him with petrol were unable to light a match.\n\nThose who fought in Zimbabwe's war of independence have long monopolised power\n\nMr Mnangagwa's fearsome reputation was made during the civil war which broke out in the 1980s between Mr Mugabe's Zanu party and the Zapu party of Joshua Nkomo.\n\nAs national security minister, he was in charge of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), which worked hand in glove with the army to suppress Zapu.\n\nThousands of civilians - mainly ethnic Ndebeles, seen as Zapu supporters - were killed in a campaign known as Gukurahundi, before the two parties merged to form Zanu-PF.\n\nAmong countless other atrocities carried out by the North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade of the army, villagers were forced at gunpoint to dance on the freshly dug graves of their relatives and chant pro-Mugabe slogans.\n\nMr Mnangagwa has denied any role in the massacres, but the wounds are still painful and many party officials, not to mention voters, in Matabeleland might find it hard to back Mr Mnangagwa.\n\nHe does enjoy the support of many of the war veterans who led the campaign of violence against the white farmers and the opposition from 2000.\n\nThey remember him as one of the men who, following his military training in China and Egypt, directed the fight for independence in the 1960s and 1970s.\n\nHe also attended the Beijing School of Ideology, run by the Chinese Communist Party.\n\nMr Mnangagwa's official profile says he was the victim of state violence after being arrested by the white-minority government in the former Rhodesia in 1965, when the \"crocodile gang\" he led helped blow up a train near Fort Victoria (now Masvingo).\n\n\"He was tortured, severely resulting in him losing his sense of hearing in one ear,\" the profile says.\n\n\"Part of the torture techniques involved being hanged with his feet on the ceiling and the head down. The severity of the torture made him unconscious for days.\"\n\nAs he said he was under 21 at the time, he was not executed but instead sentenced to 10 years in prison.\n\n\"He has scars from that period. He was young and brave,\" a close friend of Mr Mnangagwa once said, asking not to be named.\n\n\"Perhaps that explains why he is indifferent. Horrible things happened to him when he was young.\"\n\nHis ruthlessness, which it could be argued he learnt from his Rhodesian torturers, is said to have been seen again in 2008 when he reportedly masterminded Zanu-PF's response to Mr Mugabe losing the first round of the president election to long-time rival Morgan Tsvangirai.\n\nThe military and state security organisations unleashed a campaign of violence against opposition supporters, leaving hundreds dead and forcing thousands from their homes.\n\nMr Tsvangirai then pulled out of the second round and Mr Mugabe was re-elected.\n\nMr Mnangagwa has not commented on allegations he was involved in planning the violence, but an insider in the party's security department later confirmed that he was the political link between the army, intelligence and Zanu-PF.\n\nHe was seen as Mr Mugabe's right-hand man - that is until the former first lady Grace Mugabe became politically ambitious and tried to edge him out.\n\nTheir rivalry took a bizarre turn when he fell ill in August 2017 at a political rally led by former President Mugabe and had to be airlifted to South Africa.\n\nGrace Mugabe (right) bit off more than she could chew by taking on Mr Mnangagwa\n\nHis supporters suggested that a rival group within Zanu-PF had poisoned him and appeared to blame ice cream from Mrs Mugabe's dairy firm.\n\nIn his first words to cheering supporters after Mr Mugabe's resignation, he spoke about this plot and another plan to \"eliminate\" him.\n\nHe has also blamed a group linked to the former first lady for an explosion in June at a Zanu-PF rally in Bulawayo in which two people died.\n\nBut in a BBC interview, he said the country was safe, told foreign investors not to worry and sought to dispel his ruthless reputation: \"I am as soft as wool. I am a very soft person in life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mnangagwa: Criminal will be hounded down, but Zimbabwe is safe\n\nHis youngest son, a Harare DJ known as St Emmo, blames his reticence for his fearsome reputation.\n\n\"He was a good father, very very strict. He doesn't say much and I think that's what frightens people - like: 'What is he thinking?'\"\n\nNick Mangwana, Zanu-PF representative in the UK, accepts that the Zimbabwe's new leader is \"not the most eloquent\".\n\n\"He's not pally-pally but more of a do-er, more of a technocrat.\"\n\nBut in his six months in power he has fully embraced Twitter and Facebook - after the Bulawayo blast he posted a message reiterating the strength his Christian faith gives him.\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 Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa 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\nFixing the economy is what is paramount now. Zimbabweans are on average 15% poorer now than they were in the 1980s.\n\nBritish journalist Martin Fletcher, who interviewed Mr Mnangagwa in 2016, does not see him a reborn democrat.\n\n\"He understands the need to rebuild the economy if only so that he can pay his security forces - and his survival depends on their loyalty,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Labour MP Angela Rayner has become a grandmother at the age of 37.\n\nThe shadow education secretary announced the birth of her first grandchild in an early-morning tweet in which she gave herself the new nickname, Grangela.\n\nThe Ashton-under-Lyne MP had her first son, Ryan, at the age of 16 and said being a teenage mother \"saved me\".\n\nMs Rayner, now the youngest grandmother in the House of Commons, said her grandchild was born just before 06:00.\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 mother-of-three thanked \"all the wonderful staff at NHS Tameside\", adding the hashtag #Grangela.\n\nEarlier this year, Ms Rayner recalled her experience of being a teenage mother on a council estate, saying the birth of her son \"actually saved me from where I could have been because I had a little person to look after\".\n\n\"I wanted to prove that I could be a good mum and somebody was finally going to love me as much as I deserved to be loved, and that's what pregnancy was for me.\"\n\nIn her maiden speech, after becoming MP in 2015, she recalled being told when she was 16 and pregnant that she would never amount to anything. \"If only they could see me now,\" she joked.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMs Rayner grew up on a Greater Manchester council estate with a brother and sister, and a mother who could not read or write.\n\nIn a profile on her official website, she says: \"For the most part, I was raised by my grandma who worked at three jobs to put food on the table and didn't stop until the day she died - three days before her 65th birthday. \"\n\nMrs Rayner, who left school without any qualifications has said that becoming a mother made her determined to prove that she was not the \"scumbag\" that people thought.\n\nNow a mother of three boys, Mrs Rayner is critical of politicians who think of teenage mums as \"just failures\" with \"nothing in their lives\". She has also hit back at attacks on her because of her northern accent.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Angela Rayner This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 working as a council care worker and being elected as a Unison representative, Ms Rayner was selected as the Labour candidate for Ashton-under-Lyne in 2015, increasing the party's majority in the constituency\n\nIn her maiden speech in the Commons, the avid Star Wars fan said she would do things in her \"own little northern way\".\n\nShe was appointed shadow education secretary in 2016 - becoming the youngest-ever holder of that position - and according to the New Statesman has been \"increasingly spoken of as a future Labour leader\".", "Capt Mike Green was described as a \"respected\" helicopter instructor\n\nFour men who were killed in a crash between a helicopter and a plane have been formally identified by police.\n\nNguyen Thanh Trung, 32, from Vietnam, was on a two-month training programme and was being instructed in the helicopter by Capt Mike Green.\n\nSavaan Mundae, 18, and Jaspal Bahra, 27, also died in the crash near Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire, on Friday.\n\nNguyen Thanh Trung was training to become a military flight instructor\n\nThames Valley Police said its \"thoughts remain with the families of those involved in the accident\".\n\nThe helicopter and Cessna 152 plane had both taken off from Wycombe Air Park, also known as Booker Airfield.\n\nThe Vietnamese Ministry of Defence said the crash was caused when the Cessna 152 suddenly dropped in height and hit the tail of the helicopter.\n\nBoth aircraft have been taken to the AAIB headquarters in Hampshire while it continues its investigation.\n\nEmergency services were called at 12:06 GMT on Friday\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\nRobert Mugabe, the man who became synonymous with Zimbabwe, has resigned as president after 37 years in power.\n\nFor some, he will always remain a hero who brought independence and an end to white-minority rule. Even those who forced him out blamed his wife and \"criminals\" around him.\n\nBut to his growing number of critics, this highly educated, wily politician became the caricature of an African dictator, who destroyed an entire country in order to keep his job.\n\nIn the end, it was the security forces, who had been instrumental in intimidating the opposition and keeping him in power, who made him go.\n\nThey were incensed when he sacked his long-time ally, Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, paving the way for his much younger wife Grace to succeed him, fearing it meant the end for them as the powers behind the throne.\n\nHe had survived numerous previous crises and predictions of his demise but with his powers failing at the age of 93, his former comrades-in-arms turned on him, favouring Mr Mnangagwa.\n\nBefore the 2008 elections, Mr Mugabe said: \"If you lose an election and are rejected by the people, it is time to leave politics.\"\n\nBut after coming second to Morgan Tsvangirai, Mr Mugabe displayed more characteristic defiance, swearing that \"only God\" could remove him from office.\n\nAnd just to be sure, violence was unleashed to preserve his grip on power.\n\nIn order to save the lives of his supporters, Mr Tsvangirai pulled out of the second round and although Mr Mugabe was forced to share power with his long-time rival for four years, he remained president.\n\nHe even won another election, in 2013, as Mr Tsvangirai had lost a lot of credibility during his years working with Mr Mugabe.\n\nThe key to understanding Mr Mugabe is the 1970s guerrilla war where he made his name.\n\nPresident Mugabe (L) has given his support to his wife Grace (R) for the vice-presidency\n\nEven after 37 years in power, Mr Mugabe still maintained the same worldview - the patriotic socialist forces of his Zanu-PF party were still fighting the twin evils of capitalism and colonialism.\n\nAny critics were dismissed as \"traitors and sell-outs\" - a throwback to the guerrilla war, when such labels could be a death sentence.\n\nRobert Mugabe (L), seen here in 1960, was greatly influenced by pan-Africanist ideals\n\nHe always blamed Zimbabwe's economic problems on a plot by Western countries, led by the UK, to oust him because of his seizure of white-owned farms.\n\nHis critics firmly blamed him, saying he had no understanding of how a modern economy worked.\n\nHe always concentrated on the question of how to share out the national cake, rather than how to make it grow.\n\nProtesters in 2016 burn worthless currency in a show of defiance against the introduction of new bond notes\n\nMr Mugabe once famously said that a country could never go bankrupt - with the world's fastest-shrinking economy and annual inflation of 231 million per cent in July 2008, it seemed as though he was determined to test his theory to the limit.\n\nProfessor Tony Hawkins of the University of Zimbabwe once observed that with Zimbabwe's former leader: \"Whenever economics gets in the way of politics, politics wins every time.\"\n\nIn 2000, faced with a strong opposition for the first time, he wrecked what was one of Africa's most diversified economies in a bid to retain political control.\n\nHe seized the white-owned farms which were the economy's backbone and scared off donors but in purely political terms, Mr Mugabe outsmarted his enemies - he remained in power for another 17 years.\n\nAnd the tactics he and his supporters used were straight from the guerrilla war.\n\nAfter he suffered the first electoral defeat of his career, in a 2000 referendum, Mr Mugabe unleashed his personal militia - the self-styled war veterans, backed by the security forces - who used violence and murder as an electoral strategy.\n\nMr Mugabe says he is fighting for the rights of black Zimbabweans\n\nEight years later, a similar pattern was followed after Mr Mugabe lost the first round of a presidential election to his long-time rival Morgan Tsvangirai.\n\nWhen needed, all the levers of state - the security forces, civil service, state-owned media - which are mostly controlled by Zanu-PF, were used in the service of the ruling party.\n\nThe man who fought for one-man, one-vote introduced a requirement that potential voters prove their residence with utility bills, which the young, unemployed opposition core electorate were unlikely to have.\n\nIn fact, the signs of his attitude to opposition were there from the early 1980s, when members of the North-Korea trained Fifth Brigade of the army were sent to Matabeleland, home to his then rival, Joshua Nkomo.\n\nThousands of civilians were killed before Mr Nkomo agreed to share power with Mr Mugabe - a precursor of what happened with Mr Tsvangirai.\n\nOne of the undoubted achievements of the former teacher's 33 years in power was the expansion of education. Zimbabwe still has one of the highest literacy rates in Africa, at 89% of the population.\n\nThe now deceased political scientist Masipula Sithole once said that by expanding education, the president was \"digging his own grave\".\n\nMr Mugabe has not been afraid to use violence to stay in power\n\nThe young beneficiaries were able to analyse Zimbabwe's problems for themselves and most blamed government corruption and mismanagement for the lack of jobs and rising prices.\n\nHe often claimed to be fighting on behalf of the rural poor but much of the land he confiscated ended up in the hands of his cronies.\n\nArchbishop Desmond Tutu once said that Zimbabwe's long-time president had become a cartoon figure of the archetypal African dictator.\n\nDuring the 2002 presidential campaign, he started wearing brightly coloured shirts emblazoned with his face - a style copied from many of Africa's authoritarian rulers.\n\nFor the preceding 20 years, this conservative man was only seen in public with either a stiff suit and tie or safari suit.\n\nHe professes to be a staunch Catholic, and worshippers at Harare's Catholic Cathedral were occasionally swamped by security guards when he turned up for Sunday Mass.\n\nHowever, Mr Mugabe's beliefs did not prevent him from having two children by Grace, then his secretary, while his popular Ghanaian first wife, Sally, was dying from cancer.\n\nBut it was his second wife Grace, 40 years his junior, who ultimately proved his downfall.\n\nAlthough Mr Mugabe outlived many predictions of his demise, the increasing strain of recent years took its toll and his once-impeccable presentation has begun to look rather worn at times.\n\nIn 2011, a US diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks suggested that he was suffering from prostate cancer.\n\nWife Grace said Mr Mugabe woke at 05:00 for his exercise\n\nBut he certainly led a healthy lifestyle.\n\nGrace once said that he woke up at 05:00 for his daily exercises, including yoga. He did not drink alcohol or coffee and was largely vegetarian.\n\nMr Mugabe was 73 when she gave birth to their third child, Chatunga.\n\nIf nothing else, Mr Mugabe has always been an extremely proud man.\n\nHe often said he would only step down when his \"revolution\" was complete.\n\nHe was referring to the redistribution of white-owned land but he also wanted to hand-pick his successor, who would of course have had to come from the ranks of Zanu-PF.\n\nDidymus Mutasa, once one of Mr Mugabe's closest associates but who has since fallen out with him, once told the BBC that in Zimbabwean culture, kings were only replaced when they die \"and Mugabe is our king\".\n\nBut even his closest allies were not ready for Zimbabwe to be turned into a monarchy, with power retained by a single family.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It wasn't a drama - it wasn't a Budget that would inspire queues at the Box Office.\n\nNo surprise. When \"Box Office Phil\" was given that nickname, it wasn't because he has a reputation for delivering political thrillers.\n\nWhat he tried to do was to act on concerns expressed at the general election and by rebels on the Tory backbenches as well as the Labour opposition.\n\nSo there were changes to the universal credit benefit, some, but certainly not all the money the NHS says it needs - and an enormous sounding figure of £44bn for housing over the next five years (although vital to wait for the detail of how much will go to getting spades in the ground, and how much will guarantee loans for the housing industry).\n\nBut he made a bigger-than-expected move to \"revive the home-owning dream\" by scrapping stamp duty on the first £300,000 of any property bought by a first-time buyer.\n\nThe prime minister has set her own personal reputation on fixing the housing crisis, so there is a lot riding on the mixture of moves that has been promised by Philip Hammond today.\n\nHe also responded to pressure from Brexit-backing colleagues in cabinet, by putting aside an extra £3bn to plan for a \"no deal\" scenario.\n\nWhat the chancellor also tried to do was to claim that somehow a corner has been turned in the long-term battle to sort out the country's books, with debt peaking and starting to fall as a share of national income.\n\nBut it will be tricky for the government to escape the overall picture: that the economy looks like it will be more sluggish, will grow more slowly and will be less productive than expected for some time to come.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJubilant Zimbabweans have celebrated late into the night after Robert Mugabe resigned as president.\n\nHe held power for 37 years and once said \"only God\" could remove him.\n\nHis ally turned rival, former Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, is expected to return from neighbouring South Africa and could be appointed as the new president within hours.\n\nMr Mugabe's shock resignation came in the form of a letter read out by the speaker of parliament.\n\nIn it, Mr Mugabe - who had so far resisted pressure from the public, the army and his own party to step aside - said he was resigning to allow a smooth and peaceful transfer of power, and that his decision was voluntary.\n\nThe announcement abruptly halted an impeachment hearing that had begun against him on Tuesday.\n\nLawmakers from the ruling party and opposition roared with glee, and spontaneous scenes of joy erupted in the streets with people dancing, singing, honking car horns and waving flags.\n\n\"I'm so happy, wonderful, feeling so much excited, this is the greatest moment for our country,\" Julian Mtukudzi told the AFP news agency.\n\n\"We have been having sleepless nights hoping and waiting and we are so happy. It's over and it's done.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Activist and political candidate Vimbaishe Musvaburi breaks down in tears of joy\n\nActivist and political candidate Vimbaishe Musvaburi broke down in tears of joy speaking to the BBC.\n\n\"We are tired of this man, we are so glad he's gone. We don't want him anymore and yes, today, it's victory,\" she said.\n\nThe ruling Zanu-PF party says former Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa will succeed Mr Mugabe.\n\nIt had been seen by many as an attempt to clear the way for Grace Mugabe to succeed her husband as leader and riled the military leadership, who stepped in and put Mr Mugabe under house arrest.\n\nMr Mugabe, 93, was until his resignation the world's oldest leader.\n\nAccording to the constitution his successor should be the current Vice-President, Phelekezela Mphoko, a supporter of Grace Mugabe.\n\nBut a ZANU-PF official Larry Mavhima told Reuters Mr Mnangagwa is to return home for 11:30 GMT, where he is later expected to be sworn-in.\n\nDriving through Harare, the cheers and the blaring of car horns signalled the end of the Mugabe era.\n\nThe man who dominated Zimbabwe for so long has already begun to fade into history here. It is a city singing with the noise of joy.\n\nExactly a week after the military first moved against President Mugabe, I was standing in parliament as legislators debated the motion to impeach him.\n\nAn usher approached the speaker and handed him a letter. He stood to speak and we strained to hear his words. They were muffled but momentous. Robert Mugabe had resigned.\n\nOn the floor of the parliament I met jubilant MPs. Some danced. Celebrations spilled into the hallways and out into the street.\n\nDespite welcoming the news, Zimbabwean opposition and civil society figures have warned that the political culture needs to change.\n\nOpposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai told the BBC he hoped that Zimbabwe was on a \"new trajectory\" that would include free and fair elections.\n\nHe said Mr Mugabe should be allowed to \"go and rest for his last days\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Morgan Tsvangirai told the BBC he hoped that Zimbabwe was on a \"new trajectory\"\n\nProminent Zimbabwean opposition politician David Coltart tweeted: \"We have removed a tyrant but not yet a tyranny.\"\n\nAfrican Union president Alpha Conde said he was \"truly delighted\" by the news, but expressed regret at the way Mr Mugabe's rule has ended.\n\n\"It is a shame that he is leaving through the back door and that he is forsaken by the parliament,\" he said.\n\nPresident Mugabe was accused of preparing the presidency for his wife Grace\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Russia 'tries to sow discord in the West'\n\nTheresa May has launched her strongest attack on Russia yet, accusing Moscow of meddling in elections and carrying out cyber espionage.\n\nAddressing leading business figures at a banquet in London, the prime minister said Vladimir Putin's government was trying to \"undermine free societies\".\n\nMrs May said it was \"planting fake stories\" to \"sow discord in the West\".\n\nWhile the UK did not want \"perpetual confrontation\" with Russia, it would protect its interests, she added.\n\nHer comments are in stark contrast to those of US President Donald Trump, who last week said he believed his Russian counterpart's denial of intervening in the 2016 presidential election.\n\nForeign Secretary Boris Johnson is due to visit Russia next month.\n\nIn a major foreign policy speech at the Lord Mayor's Banquet at London's Guildhall, which Mrs May described as a \"very simple message\" for President Putin, she said he must choose a very \"different path\" from the one that in recent years had seen Moscow annex Crimea, foment conflict in Ukraine and launch cyber attacks on governments and Parliaments across Europe.\n\nRussia could be a valuable partner of the West but only if it \"plays by the rules\", she argued.\n\n\"Russia has repeatedly violated the national airspace of several European countries and mounted a sustained campaign of cyber espionage and disruption.\n\n\"This has included meddling in elections and hacking the Danish Ministry of Defence and the Bundestag among many others.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Boris Johnson told MPs about Russian meddling in UK elections\n\n\"We know what you are doing and you will not succeed. Because you underestimate the resilience of our democracies, the enduring attraction of free and open societies and the commitment of Western nations to the alliances that bind us.\"\n\nShe said as the UK left the EU and charted a new course in the world, it remained absolutely committed to Nato and securing a Brexit deal which \"strengthens our liberal values\", adding that a strong economic partnership between the UK and EU would be a bulwark against Russian agitation in Europe.\n\nThere are some countries in Europe that believe the West should engage more closely with Russia.\n\nThey argue the European Union and the United States should better understand Russia's point of view, its belief that it is threatened from all sides.\n\nAnd that more should be done to accommodate this sense of vulnerability, by softening Nato's approach and reducing sanctions.\n\nWell, not Theresa May. In a speech in the US in February, the prime minister spoke of the need to \"engage but beware\" of Russia. She has now switched the order and the focus is very much on beware.\n\nShe believes that President Putin should be called out for the threat she believes he poses both internationally and in the UK.\n\nThe Electoral Commission is investigating claims that Russia used social media to meddle in the Brexit referendum.\n\nSo Mrs May is willing to engage with Russia - she is sending the foreign secretary to Moscow next month.\n\nBut she also wants Russia to know that Mr Johnson will come with a clear message that its destabilising activities will no longer be tolerated.\n\nMr Johnson, who will be making his first trip to Russia since becoming foreign secretary in December, has said the UK's policy towards Moscow must be one of \"beware but engage\" following a decade of strained relations.\n\nHe told MPs earlier this month that he had not seen any evidence of Russia trying to interfere in British elections or the 2016 Brexit vote, in which Moscow has insisted it remained neutral.\n\n\"We will take the necessary action to counter Russian activity,\" Mrs May added.\n\n\"But this is not where we want to be and not the relationship with Russia we want.\n\n\"We do not want to return to the Cold War or to be in a state of perpetual confrontation.\n\n\"As a permanent member of the UN Security Council, Russia has the reach and the responsibility to play a vital role in promoting international stability.\n\n\"Russia can, and I hope one day will, choose this different path. But for as long as Russia does not, we will act together to protect our interests and the international order on which they depend.\"\n\nResponding to Mrs May's speech, former Labour cabinet minister Ben Bradshaw - who has been raising the issue of Russian interference in UK elections for nearly a year - tweeted: \"Asking why May suddenly acknowledging Russian interference now having stonewalled for months.\"\n\n\"The international system of rules must be saved not from Russia but from the advocates of intervention, coups and regime change. Russia will not accept those 'rules',\" he tweeted.\n\n\"The world order that suits May, with the seizure of Iraq, war in Libya, the rise of IS and terrorism in Europe, has had its day. You can't save it by attacking Russia.\"\n\nIn Mrs May's speech, she also said the authorities in Myanmar - formerly known as Burma - must take \"full responsibility\" for what \"looked like ethnic cleansing\" of the Rohingya people in Rakhine province.", "Tesco's £3.7bn takeover of food wholesaler Booker has been provisionally cleared by the UK's competition regulator.\n\nThe Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the deal could even increase competition in the wholesale market and reduce prices for shoppers.\n\nTesco and Booker did not compete head-to-head in most activities, it added.\n\nBooker is the UK's largest food wholesaler, and also owns the Premier, Budgens and Londis store brands.\n\nMore than 30% of its sales are to the catering sector, which Tesco does not supply, although the supermarket is keen to get a foothold in the market.\n\nThe CMA concluded that the wholesale market would \"remain competitive in the longer term\", because Booker's share of the UK grocery wholesaling market, at less than 20%, \"was not sufficient to justify the longer-term concerns\".\n\nDespite losing market share in recent years, Tesco remains the UK's biggest supermarket with a share of about 28%.\n\nThe retail industry is undergoing a period of consolidation. A shift in shopping habits, fierce competition from the likes of Aldi and Lidl, and the arrival of Amazon has prompted retailers to look to bolster their businesses by buying food wholesalers.\n\nOn Monday, shareholders in the Nisa wholesaler and convenience store group approved the company's £137m takeover by the Co-operative Group.\n\nMorrisons also recently signed a deal to become the UK wholesale supplier to convenience store chain McColls and it has also formed a tie-up with Amazon\n\nChristmas has come early for Tesco.\n\nThe question in many minds was how many of its 1,700 convenience stores would it have to offload to get this deal through.\n\nIn other words, what would the trade off need to be to secure what Tesco sees as the bigger long term prize of a slice of the growing out of home market.\n\nAfter an in depth look, including countless submissions from all part of the grocery sector, the regulator has come to the provisional conclusion that no remedies are needed.\n\nTesco-Booker have won the argument that their stores don't directly compete with each other.\n\nThe creation of an immensely powerful new combined food business now looks unstoppable.\n\nIn reaching its conclusions, the CMA found that it was \"likely Booker would be able to negotiate better terms from a number of its suppliers for some of its groceries, and that it was likely to pass on some of the benefits of these savings to the shops that it supplies\".\n\n\"This might increase competition in the wholesale market, as well as reducing prices for shoppers.\"\n\nSimon Polito, chair of the CMA's inquiry group, said: \"Our investigation has found that existing competition is sufficiently strong in both the wholesale and retail grocery sectors to ensure that the merger between Tesco and Booker will not lead to higher prices or a reduced service for supermarket and convenience shoppers.\"\n\nTesco and Booker both welcomed the CMA's provisional decision and added that they would continue to work with the competition regulator, which is due to publish its final report by the end of the year.\n\nBooker said it was \"pleased that the CMA has provisionally concluded that this transaction does not lessen competition\".\n\nTesco said it anticipated the merger would be completed in early 2018.\n\nHowever, the CMA's findings were criticised by the managing director of wholesale group Landmark, John Mills.\n\n\"This move will not increase competition, it will destroy it,\" he said.\n\n\"The combined Tesco/Booker operation has sales of £60bn, the rest of the UK wholesale industry amounts to £25bn. Other wholesalers will not be able to compete with the buying and distribution power of Tesco/Booker.\n\n\"So Tesco, who account for £1 in every £8 spent in the High Street will now dominate the convenience and corner shop market. And will no doubt now dominate the food service/out of home market as well.\"\n\nFollowing the CMA announcement Tesco's shares rose by 5.7% and Booker's were up by 6.1%.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man has been found guilty of carrying out an acid attack in a packed London club which left 22 people injured.\n\nArthur Collins, the ex-boyfriend of reality TV star Ferne McCann, threw the corrosive substance at revellers in Mangle E8 in Dalston on 17 April.\n\nThe 25-year-old admitted throwing the liquid but had claimed he believed it was a date rape drug.\n\nHe was convicted at Wood Green Crown Court. Andre Phoenix, who was accused of helping him, was found not guilty.\n\nTwenty-two people were injured, 16 of those suffering serious burns, when Collins sprayed acid over revellers inside the busy east London venue at about 01:00 BST.\n\nOne man suffered third-degree chemical burns to the left side of the face and required a skin graft. Others had eye injuries.\n\nArthur Collins had denied knowing the substance he threw was acid\n\nPhoebe Georgiou, who had been celebrating her 23rd birthday in the club that night, said she still suffers from night terrors and anxiety about being in crowded places having been hit by the substance.\n\nWhen she was taken to hospital she said she \"saw my reflection in the shower hold, which was so shocking because my whole chest looked like it had been ripped apart and I could see the inside of my chest and my arm\".\n\n\"I have a life sentence to deal with, with scars and mental injuries,\" she said.\n\nA solicitor for two of the other victims said Collins' \"despicable crime\" had \"changed the lives of so many people in the club that night\".\n\nTwenty-two people were injured when acid was thrown in the Mangle E8 nightclub\n\nCCTV shown in court showed clubbers clutching their faces and running off the dancefloor as they were hit with the liquid.\n\nVictims told the jury their skin began \"blistering straight away\" and described a burning smell. The liquid was later found to have a rating of pH1, equal to strong acids such as those used in battery acid.\n\nCollins told the court during the trial he had been at the club celebrating the news of Ms McCann's pregnancy, which the couple had revealed to her family the previous day.\n\nHe was seen on CCTV getting into a confrontation with a group of men in the club before he sprayed liquid from a bottle over the crowd.\n\nAndre Phoenix (left) was acquitted earlier on Monday of helping Arthur Collins (right) carry out the attack\n\nFollowing the trial the Met said Collins had grabbed the bottle \"from the back pocket of an unidentified man\".\n\nCollins, of Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, had claimed in court he had taken the bottle from that group and thought it was a date rape drug.\n\nHowever, the jury found him guilty of five counts of GBH with intent, and nine counts of ABH against 14 people.\n\nCollins will be sentenced on 19 December.\n\nThe attack happened in Mangle E8 in Dalston on 17 April\n\nHe was not arrested for several days after the attack and was eventually detained when officers Tasered him after he tried to flee by jumping from an upstairs window of a house in Northamptonshire.\n\nScotland Yard said he answered no comment to all questions put to him after he was detained.\n\nDet Ch Supt Simon Laurence said Collins had intended to \"inflict serious harm\" on a large number of people in a \"barbaric and cowardly act\".\n\nCollins sent a message to his sister reading: \"Tell mum to mind that little hand wash in my car acid\"\n\nThe court heard Collins had sent a text to his sister a week before the attack, reading: \"Tell mum to mind that little hand wash in my car acid\".\n\nCollins claimed he was referring to hair-thickening shampoo which contained amino acid, which he needed for his hair after having two hair transplants.\n\nHe had said he kept the shampoo in his car so his girlfriend did not find out about his hair loss.\n\nLily Saw, London CPS reviewing lawyer, said the prosecution had \"proved this acid attack was no accident\".\n\n\"Acid can be as much of a weapon as a knife with equally damaging consequences,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The UK's key inflation rate remained steady in October at a five-and-a-half-year high of 3%, official figures show.\n\nHigher food prices were offset by lower fuel costs, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said.\n\nThe price of food and non-alcoholic drinks rose at an annual rate of 4.1%, the highest since September 2013.\n\nThe Consumer Prices Index (CPI) had been expected to rise, with the Bank of England forecasting it would peak at 3.2% this autumn.\n\nThe official target for the CPI is 2%.\n\nIf the CPI inflation rate had risen above 3%, Bank of England governor Mark Carney would have been forced to write to the chancellor explaining why it was so far above target.\n\nMaike Currie at Fidelity International said Mr Carney could \"breathe a sigh of relief this month\".\n\nHowever, she added: \"While the Bank of England raised interest rates at the beginning of this month given concerns over inflation, it will take some time for inflation to fall back nearer the 2% target.\n\n\"This means cash-strapped consumers will continue to feel the pinch as wages lag price rises.\"\n\nWhile food price inflation picked up last month, this was offset by the falling cost of motor fuel and lower furniture prices, the ONS said.\n\nThe fall in the value of the pound since last year's Brexit referendum has contributed to the recent rise in inflation, as it has increased the cost of imported goods and services.\n\nHowever, Chris Williamson, chief business economist at IHS Markit, said the latest inflation figures \"will add to the sense that the worst of this impact has already passed\".\n\n\"Data on company costs, which tend to change ahead of changes in consumer prices, are already shown signs of having peaked earlier in the year,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nEarlier this month, Sainsbury's chief executive Mike Coupe said the UK was \"probably through the worst\" of food price rises following the slide in the pound.\n\nYael Selfin, chief economist at KPMG said the \"relatively positive\" news on inflation could prompt the Bank to plan fewer rate rises in the next two to three years.\n\n\"That may help support a vulnerable UK economy in the process of leaving the EU, but at the same time it could put further strain on savers and significant sectors of the economy such as banks and insurers, while stoking potential pockets of over-exuberant asset prices,\" she said.\n\nOctober's Retail Prices Index (RPI), a separate measure of inflation, was 4%, up from 3.9% in September. Government index-linked savings products and some train ticket prices rise in line with RPI.\n\nThe ONS's preferred inflation measure of CPIH, which contains owner-occupiers' housing costs, was unchanged at 2.8%.", "A Vietnamese cyber-security firm has shown the BBC how a mask can be used to unlock Apple's new iPhone X.\n\nThe demo took place about a week after Bkav first claimed to have undermined the handset's security.\n\nBut other experts have cast doubt on what the \"hack\" amounts to.\n\nApple has not commented beyond referring the public to documents it had already published about its security system.", "Head teachers from the Worth Less? campaign brought their message to Downing St\n\nHead teachers representing more than 5,000 schools across England are supporting a protest letter to the chancellor over \"inadequate\" funding.\n\nThe letter, being delivered to Downing Street, warns of schools increasingly having to make \"desperate requests to parents for 'voluntary' donations\".\n\nHeads are calling for an extra £1.7bn per year for schools.\n\nThe government has already moved £1.3bn of education funding directly into school budgets.\n\nThe protest, ahead of next week's Budget, has been organised by regional groups of head teachers representing schools with 3.5 million pupils in 30 local authorities from Cornwall to Cumbria.\n\nIt follows a letter warning about funding cuts, sent to the parents of more than 2.5 million pupils in September.\n\nThis is the biggest collective protest so far from the school funding campaigners, who have been warning of an overall lack of investment and a failure to resolve differences in levels of per pupil spending.\n\n\"It is extraordinary that some English secondary schools will receive 60% less funding than others of the same size,\" says the letter to Chancellor Philip Hammond.\n\n\"The impact on class sizes, curriculum offer and staffing is obvious,\" the heads write. \"A school receiving over £4m more than another could, for example, afford 133 more teachers.\"\n\nThe government has recognised the regional anomalies in funding and published a new national funding formula.\n\nBut the heads argue that changes in how funding is allocated will depend on there being enough overall money in the system.\n\nDespite the promise to move £1.3bn from the Department for Education's budget directly into school spending, the heads say they will still have faced a real-terms cut of £1.7bn between 2015 and 2020.\n\nWithout this £1.7bn being restored, heads are warning the chancellor:\n\nLabour's shadow education secretary Angela Rayner said the government \"needs to start listening to head teachers and concerned parents\".\n\n\"Despite Tory spin, the new funding formula does nothing to reverse the cuts to budgets and every penny they have found just comes from cutting other education provision - it isn't fair, and it isn't funded.\"\n\nBut school standards minister, Nick Gibb, said the £1.3bn being put into school budgets \"will put an end to historic disparities in the system\".\n\n\"There are no cuts in funding - every school will see an increase in funding through the formula from 2018, with secondary schools set to receive at least £4,800 per pupil by 2019-20.\n\n\"As the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies has confirmed, overall schools funding is being protected at a national level in real terms per pupil over the next two years.\"", "A TV producer has said she was groped by a government official during a visit to 10 Downing Street.\n\nDaisy Goodwin, who created the ITV series Victoria, told the Radio Times the man put his hand on her breast after a meeting to discuss a proposed TV show when David Cameron was PM.\n\nMs Goodwin said she was \"cross\" at the time, but did not report the incident.\n\nDowning Street said it took allegations seriously and officials would look into a formal complaint, should one be made.\n\nMs Goodwin said the official - who has not been named - invited her into an office at Number 10 for the meeting.\n\nShe said she was surprised when the man put his feet up on her chair and remarked that her sunglasses \"made me look like a Bond Girl\".\n\nShe said she tried to steer the conversation back onto professional matters, but added: \"At the end of the meeting we both stood up and the official, to my astonishment, put his hand on my breast.\n\n\"I looked at the hand and then in my best Lady Bracknell voice said: 'Are you actually touching my breast?'\n\n\"He dropped his hand and laughed nervously.\"\n\nMs Goodwin said she left Downing Street in a state of \"high dudgeon\".\n\n\"I wasn't traumatised, I was cross. But by the next day it had become an anecdote, The Day I Was Groped In Number 10,\" she said.\n\nMr Cameron, who was prime minister between 2010 and 2016, said he was first made aware of this \"serious allegation\" on Monday.\n\nHis spokesman said he was \"alarmed, shocked and concerned\", and immediately informed the Cabinet Office.\n\nMs Goodwin said recent revelations of alleged abuses had made her question whether she was wrong not to have made a formal complaint.\n\n\"Now, in the light of all the really shocking stories that have come out about abusive behaviour by men in power from Hollywood to Westminster, I wonder if my Keep Calm and Carry on philosophy, inherited from my parents, was correct?\n\n\"The answer is, I am not sure.\"\n\nHollywood has been rocked by allegations against film mogul Harvey Weinstein and others.\n\nAt Westminster, several Conservative and Labour MPs are being investigated over claims of sexual misconduct.\n\nOn Ms Goodwin's case, a Downing Street spokesperson said: \"Allegations such as this are taken very seriously.\n\n\"The Cabinet Office would look into any formal complaint, should one be made.\"", "I know this doesn't sound that exciting unless you are as much of a nerd as I am. However, the Brexit secretary's announcement in the House of Commons in the last few minutes really matters.\n\nIt matters because the Brexit deal that shapes the future of the country will now be the subject of a specific new Act of Parliament that MPs and Lords will have to approve in early 2019, before we leave the EU.\n\nIt matters because Parliament will now be given specific votes, therefore, on the deal itself once the broad outlines have been agreed (Remember, the thrust of it is expected in about a year's time, although that feels hard to believe sometimes.)\n\nIt matters because the decision is a big concession to the Tory rebels and Labour MPs who were threatening to vote against the government, in part, because of ministers' refusal to promise a new set of laws.\n\nAnd it matters because it demonstrates that the government was unlikely to be able to persuade enough of their own side to vote with them to keep the show on the road this week.\n\nA confident government wouldn't have conceded like this the day before the Brexit debate was due to come back to the Commons in earnest.\n\nThis climbdown does not remotely mean that other grievances over the existing Brexit legislation will disappear.\n\nIt doesn't mean that the next few weeks will suddenly become plain sailing. And if there isn't a withdrawal deal with the rest of the EU, well, then there can't be a bill that covers the withdrawal bill.\n\nIt's only in the coming days that the government will know if they have done enough to get the existing plans through.\n\nAnd the move also of course adds to a massive load of complicated Parliamentary business that has to be cleared before we actually leave.\n\nP.S. The signs in the last few hours about David Davis' attempt at a concession have not been good.\n\nSources have told the BBC about a \"stormy\" meeting between the new Chief Whip Julian Smith and a group of Tory rebels this afternoon. In politics that's code for pretty grim and probably with shouting.\n\nMPs have said the offer was \"insulting\", \"disappointing\" and warned the \"government should be worried\" .\n\nBut remember, this is going to be a long process of Parliamentary moves. The concession may have not moved much sentiment tonight, but both sides of the Tory Party know they are in this for the long haul, and the most troublesome votes are further down the track.", "Doctors have removed five bullets from the soldier's body - but suspect there are two more bullets inside\n\nA North Korean who defected at the heavily guarded Demilitarised Zone was shot at least five times and is in a critical condition, South Korea says.\n\nThe soldier crossed to the South Korean side of the Joint Security Area (JSA) in the village of Panmunjom on Monday.\n\nHe had driven near the JSA, but had to finish his journey by foot when a wheel came loose, the South said.\n\nNorth Korean troops shot at him 40 times - but he made it across and was found under a pile of leaves, it added.\n\nAbout 1,000 people from the North flee to the South each year - but very few defect via the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ), which is one of the world's most heavily guarded strips of land.\n\nIt is even more unusual for North Koreans to cross at the JSA, which is a tourist attraction, and the only portion of the DMZ where both forces stand face-to-face.\n\nNorth and South Korea are technically still at war, since the conflict between them ended in 1953 with a truce and not a formal peace treaty.\n\nSouth Korea's military gave more details of the soldier's condition on Tuesday.\n\n\"Until this morning, we heard he had no consciousness and was unable to breathe on his own - but his life can be saved,\" military official Suh Uk told lawmakers.\n\nDoctors had extracted five bullets from his body, but suspected there were two more inside, he added.\n\nThe soldier had been spotted driving towards the JSA on Monday afternoon - but a wheel came off, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said.\n\n\"He then exited the vehicle and continued fleeing south across the line as he was fired upon by other soldiers from North Korea,\" the US-led United Nations Command said.\n\nThe defector took cover behind a building on the South Korea side - troops later found him collapsed under a pile of leaves, and crawled to the spot to recover him, the military added.\n\nThe JSA is the only part of the DMZ where North and South Korean troops face each other\n\nSouth Korea's defence minister Song Young-moo told lawmakers that it was the first time North Korean soldiers had shot into the South's side of the JSA.\n\nSome MPs questioned whether this meant North Korea had violated the terms of the armistice agreement between the two sides, Yonhap news agency reported.\n\nSeoul says more than 30,000 North Koreans have defected to the South since the end of the Korean War in 1953.\n\nThe majority of the defectors flee via China, which has the longest border with North Korea and is easier to cross than the heavily protected DMZ.\n\nChina though regards the defectors as illegal migrants rather than refugees and often forcibly repatriates them.\n\nOn Tuesday, the BBC's Korean service spoke to one man whose wife and four-year-old son are currently in detention in China, and are likely to be repatriated to the North.\n\nAddressing Chinese President Xi Jinping, the man, who asked to be identified only as Mr Lee, urged the Chinese leader to \"please keep them alive and send them to South Korea\".\n\nHe said his wife and son would either face execution or be put in a political prison camp if sent back to the North.\n\n\"My wife told me that the location of their safe house was revealed. After waiting an hour I called her again and she said she was arrested and cuffed. Then she hung up.\"\n\n\"I realise I'm useless as there's nothing I can do... I'm deeply regretful - I will live under guilt until we meet again,\" he added.\n\nSeparately, a US man was arrested after he tried to enter North Korea on Monday, Yonhap reported.\n\nThe 58-year-old crossed the Civilian Control Line, which marks an extra buffer zone beneath the DMZ, for political purposes, the news agency said.\n\nHe is currently being investigated by police.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Aston Martin has said it may have to halt production if the UK fails to strike a Brexit deal with the EU.\n\nAll new cars in the UK must have Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA) approval, which is valid in the EU.\n\nWithout a UK-EU deal, that validity would cease for new cars from March 2019.\n\nMark Wilson, Aston Martin's finance chief, said it would have the \"semi-catastrophic effect of having to stop production\".\n\n\"We're a British company. We produce our cars exclusively in Britain and will continue to do so,\" he said.\n\n\"Recertifying to a new type of approval, be that federal US, Chinese or even retrospectively applying to use the EU approval, would mean us stopping our production.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Wilson added: \"We suppose there will be a transitional arrangement. During that transition we would have to look to see how Aston Martin could recertify under a non-VCA approval structure.\"\n\nHonda imports two million components every day from Europe\n\nMr Wilson was giving evidence to the Business Select Committee along with Mike Hawes, Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders chief executive, and Patrick Keating, Honda Motor Europe's government affairs manager.\n\nAll three called for clarity on a transition deal with the EU.\n\nMr Keating told the MPs that Honda would take 18 months to get its systems ready for new customs procedures for exporting to Europe.\n\nHe said Honda imported two million components every day from Europe on 350 trucks and had just one hour of stock on its shelves.\n\nEvery 15 minutes of delay at customs would cost the company £850,000 a year, although Mr Keating admitted the figure was not \"scientific\".\n\n\"We're thinking about increasing the amount of warehousing and the amount of stock we would have to hold if friction entered the border,\" he said. \"March 2018 is where we would want clarity around transition.\"\n\nMr Hawes added that the UK motor industry's integration into European supply chains could make it harder to benefit from any free trade agreement with non-EU countries after Brexit.\n\nFree trade agreements require that about 60% of goods must originate from within the countries making the agreement.\n\nMr Hawes said: \"The average car made in the UK has 44% of its components from UK suppliers. How much of that 44% actually comes from the UK, bearing in mind those suppliers are buying in supply chains from all over the world? The figure is more like 25%, which is a long way from the 60% threshold you would need to qualify for a free trade agreement.\"\n\nThe problem could be overcome through a \"cumulation\" agreement with the EU, he said. That would allow EU content to count as being of UK origin and vice versa - but would need to be part of the Brexit trade deal.", "President Rouhani visited Sarpol-e Zahab on Tuesday - the buildings behind him highlight the difference in damage between privately-built and state-built homes\n\nIranians living outdoors in bitterly cold temperatures after an earthquake are making desperate pleas for help.\n\nAbout 540 people were killed and close to 8,000 injured when the quake hit near the Iran-Iraq border on Sunday.\n\nThe government is scrambling to get aid to the worst-hit Kermanshah province, where hundreds of homes were destroyed.\n\nPresident Hassan Rouhani, visiting the region, said state-built houses suffered more damage, and those responsible would be held accountable.\n\nNight-time temperatures in Kermanshah province fell close to freezing for the second night in succession.\n\nAli Gulani, 42, lives in the province's badly-hit town of Qasr-e-Shirin, and told BBC Persian people were burning crates to try to stay warm.\n\n\"We are living in a tent and we don't have enough food or water,\" he said. \"You can hear children crying, it's too cold. They are holding on to their parents to warm themselves - it's pretty bad.\"\n\nMr Gulani said there were an average of three strong aftershocks an hour, provoking panic.\n\nClose to 200 aftershocks have hit the region since the magnitude-7.3 earthquake on Sunday night. It was one of the strongest on earth this year, as well as the deadliest.\n\nMr Gulani said he understood aid had been despatched within the province, but that people in his town had not yet received help. Instead, people were having to trek to the other side of town to get water from a tank.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIranian state TV said thousands of survivors had spent another night in makeshift camps or in the open.\n\n\"It is a very cold night... we need help. We need everything. The authorities should speed up their help,\" one homeless young woman in Sarpol-e-Zahab, where most of the victims died, told Reuters news agency.\n\nOne aid agency said 70,000 people needed shelter and the UN said it was \"ready to assist if required\".\n\nWhile visiting the region on Tuesday, a national day of mourning, President Hassan Rouhani pointed out that many privately-built homes appeared to have been spared damage.\n\nIn Sarpol-e Zahab, he asked: \"Who is to be blamed for this? Our engineers?\" He said the government would hold accountable anyone found not to have upheld building standards.\n\nIranian state news agency Irna said 530 people had died in Iran alone. In the more sparsely populated areas across the border in Iraq, 10 people died and several hundred were injured.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A Kurdish TV channel was live on air during the earthquake\n\nMansoureh Bagheri, an Iran-based official with the Red Crescent Society, told the BBC about 12,000 residential buildings had \"totally collapsed\".\n\nShe said now that rescue operations had ended, the priority was getting people into shelters as quickly as possible, and that the delivery of aid was on track.\n\nMaj Gen Mohammad Ali Jafari, head of the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), said that the immediate needs were tents, water and food.\n\n\"Newly constructed buildings... held up well, but the old houses built with earth were totally destroyed,\" he told state TV while visiting the affected region.\n\nThe Iranian Red Crescent said many areas lacked water and electricity and that aid supplies were being hampered by roads blocked by landslides. Iranian army helicopters are taking part in the relief effort.\n\nAbout 30 Red Crescent teams are working in the earthquake zone, Irna reported.\n\nThe earthquake struck at 21:18 local time (18:18 GMT) on Sunday, about 30km (19 miles) south of Darbandikhan in Iraq, near the north-eastern border with Iran.\n\nTremors were felt as far away as Turkey, Israel and Kuwait.", "Zimbabwe's ruling party has accused the country's army chief of \"treasonable conduct\" after he warned of a possible military intervention in politics.\n\nGeneral Constantino Chiwenga had challenged President Robert Mugabe after he sacked the vice-president.\n\nGen Chiwenga said the army was prepared to act to end purges within Mr Mugabe's Zanu-PF party.\n\nThe party said the general's comments were \"calculated to disturb national peace... [and] incite insurrection\".\n\nIn a statement, the party said it would never succumb to military threats, and that it \"reaffirms the primacy of politics over the gun\".\n\nThe statement was signed by SK Moyo, the information secretary, on party letterheaded paper.\n\nThe US State Department urged all parties in Zimbabwe to resolve disputes \"calmly and peacefully\" and said it was \"closely monitoring\" the situation.\n\nMr Mnangagwa had previously been seen as an heir to the 93-year-old president, but First Lady Grace Mugabe is now the clear front-runner.\n\nOn Tuesday, BBC correspondents reported that a few armoured vehicles had been seen on a main public road outside the capital city, Harare, having left one of the country's main military barracks, Inkomo.\n\nIt is not clear where they were heading but they were not seen on the streets of the city itself. One of the vehicles had broken down on the side of the road.\n\nIt was not clear where the armoured vehicles near Harare were headed\n\nThe Zimbabwean ambassador to South Africa, Isaac Moyo, told Reuters that the government was \"intact\" and dismissed any talk of a possible coup as \"just social media claims\".\n\nGen Chiwenga's warning of possible military intervention came on Monday at a news conference at the army's headquarters.\n\nHe said the \"purging\" within Zanu-PF was \"clearly targeting members of the party with a liberation background\", referring to the country's struggle for independence.\n\n\"We must remind those behind the current treacherous shenanigans that when it comes to matters of protecting our revolution, the military will not hesitate to step in,\" he said.\n\nMr Mnangagwa is one such veteran of the 1970s war which led to independence.\n\nGrace Mugabe is seen as a potential successor to her elderly husband\n\nBut the leader of Zanu-PF's youth wing, Kudzai Chipanga, said the general did not have the full support of the entire military.\n\n\"We will not sit and fold hands while threats are made against a legitimately-elected government,\" he warned.\n\nThe youth wing supports President Mugabe's wife, Grace, as his successor - something which the former vice president had opposed.\n\nMr Mnangagwa had told Mr Mugabe that Zanu-PF is \"not personal property for you and your wife to do as you please\" before he was forced into exile.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThe Republic of Ireland failed to reach the World Cup as Christian Eriksen's hat-trick gave Denmark an emphatic victory in the play-off to reach Russia 2018.\n\nAfter a goalless first leg, the hosts made the perfect start by scoring after just six minutes as defender Shane Duffy nodded in his second international goal when the visitors failed to clear a free-kick.\n\nBut the Danes netted twice in the space of three first-half minutes, courtesy of Cyrus Christie's own goal and Eriksen's stunning strike.\n\nThat left the Republic - who could have gone further ahead after taking the lead, but saw striker Daryl Murphy flick an effort into the side netting and winger James McClean drive wide following a slick team move - needing to score twice more to qualify.\n\nBut in the second half Tottenham midfielder Eriksen curled in from the edge of the box and then thumped in from inside the area to secure his treble and seal the tie.\n\nFormer Arsenal striker Nicklas Bendtner came on with six minutes to go and slotted a late penalty after he was brought down as Denmark, who failed to qualify for Brazil 2014, booked their trip to Russia next year.\n\nHat-trick scorer Eriksen said: \"It's an incredible feeling. We've been fighting for so long to get to the World Cup. We are very much looking forward to it. It's not often I score any hat-trick so of course it is incredible.\n\n\"I know how nervous I was all day and night. We got the ball, we played better than the first game.\"\n• None Relive Denmark's victory over the Republic of Ireland\n• None Which teams have qualified for the World Cup?\n• None What you need to know about the World Cup\n\nMartin O'Neill's Ireland side had lost just one of their previous 11 competitive games at home and they were heading to a World Cup for the first time since 2002 when Brighton's Duffy nipped in ahead of Leicester goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel for the opener.\n\nHowever, having decided to sit back on their advantage and play on the counter-attack, individual errors saw the game turn in Denmark's favour.\n\nWhen the speedy Pione Sisto worked space on the left and played in Andreas Christensen, the Chelsea centre-back's effort came back off the post, but Christie was unable to react quickly enough to clear and only managed to send the ball into his own net.\n\nWith the Republic rattled, they conceded again just three minutes later. Burnley's Stephen Ward gave the ball away in his own half and the visitors constructed a swift attack that ended with Tottenham's Eriksen curling in via the crossbar.\n\nThe home side pushed forward in the second period, but Eriksen found space on the edge of the box to finish off a break for his second, before Ward's miss-control in his own area allowed the Spurs midfielder to slam home his side's fourth.\n\n\"The second one was the most technical one, better than the others,\" said the 25-year-old.\n\n\"Mentally I have grown up. I take the more clinical shot rather than passing. I am thinking more like a striker.\"\n\nEriksen now has 21 goals for his country, 11 of which came in this qualifying campaign.\n\nWith a minute remaining, there was still time for further disaster as McClean tripped Bendtner in the area and the striker stroked home the fifth Danish goal from the spot.\n\nO'Neill and assistant Roy Keane agreed new contracts with the Football Association of Ireland back in October but questions are now likely to be asked as to whether they are the right men to take the country forward.\n\nVeteran manager Age Hareide took over after Morten Olsen's failure to reach Euro 2016 and under his guidance the team end 2017 unbeaten, having claimed five victories and four draws.\n\nThey last suffered defeat over a year ago when they were beaten by Montenegro, but once they went ahead against the Republic they controlled the game, keeping possession and clinically taking their chances.\n\nThey could have had more than five, with former Wigan midfielder William Kvist forcing Darren Randolph into a stunning, full-stretch save low to his right, while the Middlesbrough goalkeeper also pushed away Sisto's drive.\n\n\"It was very good, especially when we came from behind,\" said Hareide. \"We didn't get stressed. We tried to play and we got the goals.\n\n\"I am very pleased with the team and the performance. This is a difficult place to play football - scoring five goals against the Republic of Ireland does not happen.\n\n\"I was surprised. They played with a diamond and that gave us lots of space and I just say thank you very much.\n\n\"Eriksen is a fantastic player. An inspiration for those around him. He is a world class player. The lads stuck together and gave a fantastic performance in a difficult game.\"\n\nDenmark, who have qualified for only the fifth time, will now wait to find out the result between Peru and New Zealand (Thursday, 02:15 GMT) to see whether they are in pot 2 or pot 3 for the tournament.\n\nThe first leg between the Peruvians and Kiwis ended goalless in New Zealand.\n\nIf the South Americans go out, Denmark will go into the higher pot as one of the second seeds alongside fellow European teams England, Spain and Switzerland.\n• None Republic of Ireland have failed to qualify for the last four World Cup finals.\n• None Ireland conceded five or more goals in a home game for the first time since October 2012 against Germany (6-1).\n• None Christian Eriksen has been directly involved in 14 goals in the World Cup 2018 qualification process (11 goals, three assists), 10 more than any other Denmark player.\n• None Eriksen has scored more goals in European 2018 World Cup qualifiers than any other midfielder.\n• None Cyrus Christie is the first player to score an own goal for Republic of Ireland since Ciaran Clark against Sweden in June 2016.\n• None Attempt missed. Shane Duffy (Republic of Ireland) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Robbie Brady with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. James McClean (Republic of Ireland) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Daryl Murphy with a headed pass.\n• None Goal! Republic of Ireland 1, Denmark 5. Nicklas Bendtner (Denmark) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.\n• None Penalty conceded by James McClean (Republic of Ireland) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt saved. Andreas Cornelius (Denmark) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Attempt missed. James McClean (Republic of Ireland) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Wes Hoolahan.\n• None Wes Hoolahan (Republic of Ireland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Attempt missed. Andreas Cornelius (Denmark) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Christian Eriksen with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Shane Long (Republic of Ireland) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Wes Hoolahan.\n• None Attempt missed. Pione Sisto (Denmark) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Christian Eriksen. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Daisy Goodwin says she was cross, not traumatised, after the incident\n\nDavid Cameron says he is \"alarmed and shocked\" by a TV producer's claim that she was groped by a government official at 10 Downing Street.\n\nDaisy Goodwin, who created the ITV series Victoria, told the Radio Times the man touched her breast after a meeting about a new TV show during Mr Cameron's time as PM.\n\nMs Goodwin said she was \"cross\" at the time, but did not report the incident.\n\nNo 10 said the Cabinet Office would look into any formal complaint made.\n\n\"Allegations such as this are taken very seriously,\" the Downing Street spokesman added.\n\nMs Goodwin said the official - who has not been named - invited her into an office at Number 10 for the meeting.\n\nShe said she was surprised when the man, who was a few years younger than her, put his feet up on her chair and remarked that her sunglasses made her \"look like a Bond Girl\".\n\nShe said she tried to steer the conversation back onto professional matters, but added: \"At the end of the meeting we both stood up and the official, to my astonishment, put his hand on my breast.\n\n\"I looked at the hand and then in my best Lady Bracknell voice said: 'Are you actually touching my breast?'\n\n\"He dropped his hand and laughed nervously.\"\n\nMs Goodwin said she left Downing Street in a state of \"high dudgeon\".\n\n\"I wasn't traumatised, I was cross. But by the next day it had become an anecdote, The Day I Was Groped In Number 10,\" she said.\n\nA spokesman for Mr Cameron - who was in office from 2010 to 2016 - said he was first made aware of this \"serious allegation\" on Monday.\n\n\"He was alarmed, shocked and concerned to learn of it and immediately informed the Cabinet Office,\" the spokesman added.\n\nTheresa May's official spokesman said: \"Of course this is something that we would be concerned about.\n\n\"We are looking at it, and as we have said, wherever an allegation has been made we will make sure it's treated with the utmost seriousness.\"\n\nMs Goodwin said recent revelations of alleged abuses had made her question whether she was wrong not to have made a formal complaint.\n\n\"Now, in the light of all the really shocking stories that have come out about abusive behaviour by men in power from Hollywood to Westminster, I wonder if my Keep Calm and Carry on philosophy, inherited from my parents, was correct?\n\n\"The answer is, I am not sure.\"\n\nHollywood has been rocked by allegations against film mogul Harvey Weinstein and others.\n\nAt Westminster, several Conservative and Labour MPs are being investigated over claims of sexual misconduct.\n\nA group established in the wake of the allegations to strengthen grievance procedures for those working in Parliament met for the first time on Tuesday.\n\nHouse of Commons leader Andrea Leadsom said she was determined the group - made up of representatives of different parties, MPs' staff and union officials - would listen to all those affected and devise an independent complaints process which was \"underpinned by evidence, fairness and transparency\".\n\nThe group, set up by Theresa May, aims to publish draft proposals following further meetings later this month.", "A 14-year-old girl has been arrested on suspicion of a terror offence.\n\nThe teenager was held at an address in south London on suspicion of assisting a person to carry out an act of terrorism.\n\nScotland Yard said she had been detained under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act (PACE) by the Met's counter terrorism command.\n\nThe girl is in custody at a south London police station as inquiries continue, the force said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Deliveroo riders have been ruled self-employed by labour law body the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC).\n\nThe test case was brought against the delivery company by the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) .\n\nThe IWGB said the ruling showed a majority of Deliveroo riders wanted workers' rights and union recognition.\n\nBut the CAC found they were self-employed because of their freedom to \"substitute\" - allowing other riders to take their place on a job.\n\nThe case follows a number of claims brought by workers in the \"gig\" economy demanding rights such as holiday pay, the minimum wage and pensions contributions.\n\nDrivers at Uber won a victory a week ago when the company lost an appeal at the Employment Appeal Tribunal against an earlier decision to grant them workers' rights.\n\nIWGB brought the case after it had asked Deliveroo to recognise it as a union representing drivers in Camden and Kentish Town and to start collective bargaining over workers' rights.\n\nDeliveroo refused and the case was taken to the CAC.\n\nThe company said its turquoise-and-grey clad \"Roomen\" and \"Roowomen\" wanted to keep flexibility of being self-employed.\n\nBut the IWGB said the ruling showed that Deliveroo riders were not satisfied with their current terms and conditions and wanted worker rights, including holiday pay and the minimum wage.\n\nIWGB General Secretary Dr Jason Moyer-Lee said: \"It seems that after a series of defeats, finally a so-called gig economy company has found a way to game the system.\"\n\n\"On the basis of a new contract introduced by Deliveroo's army of lawyers just weeks before the tribunal hearing, the CAC decided that because a rider can have a mate do a delivery for them, Deliveroo's low paid workers are not entitled to basic protections.\"\n\nCrowley Woodford, employment partner at law firm Ashurst said: \"This will be a significant blow to the unions who are trying to expand their membership within the gig economy by challenging the basis on which such employers engage and use their labour.\"\n\nA decision by the CAC can be challenged in the High Court on a point of law.\n\nDan Warne, Managing Director for Deliveroo in the UK and Ireland said: \"This is a victory for all riders who have continuously told us that flexibility is what they value most about working with Deliveroo.\n\n\"As we have consistently argued, our riders value the flexibility that self-employment provides. Riders enjoy being their own boss - having the freedom to choose when and where they work, and riding with other delivery companies at the same time.\"\n\nDeliveroo said it was pushing to have employment law to be changed so it could offer its self-employed riders injury pay and sick pay.", "The parents of a teenager shot dead in Liverpool have urged people to hand over their guns to police.\n\nYusuf Sonko was 18 when he died from a gunshot wound to the head in June last year.", "Drivers should have compulsory eye tests every 10 years, the Association of Optometrists has said.\n\nOne in three optometrists say they have seen patients in the last month who continue to drive with vision below the legal standard, their association said.\n\nMotorists must read a number plate from 20m (65ft) in the practical driving test, but there is no follow-up check.\n\nThe Department for Transport said changes to eyesight should be reported by motorists to the DVLA.\n\n\"All drivers are required by law to make sure their eyesight is good enough to drive,\" a spokeswoman said.\n\nData from the Department for Transport shows seven people were killed and 63 were seriously injured in accidents on Britain's roads last year when \"uncorrected, defective eyesight\" was a contributory factor.\n\nNine out of 10 optometrists believed the existing rule - that put the onus on motorists to report themselves to the DVLA if they develop eyesight problems - is insufficient.\n\nWhen drivers pass the age of 70, the emphasis changes a little. Drivers must actively make a declaration every three years that they are fit to drive. As part of that they must confirm that they meet the minimum eyesight requirement.\n\nBrenda Gutberlet, whose 28-year-old niece Natalie Wade was killed in 2006 by a 78-year-old driver who was blind in one eye, says she wants the \"outdated laws on drivers' medical fitness\" changed.\n\nMs Gutberlet, from Canvey Island, Essex, said her niece died just months before her wedding and that she does not want other families \"to go through what we have\".\n\nOptometrist Dr Julie Anne-Little said Britain \"falls behind many other countries\" because of the initial number plate test and the self-reporting of eyesight problems.\n\n\"Because sight changes can be gradual, often people won't realise that their vision has deteriorated over time,\" she said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Russia 'tries to sow discord in the West'\n\nSenior Russian politicians have dismissed accusations by Theresa May that Moscow has meddled in elections and carried out cyber-espionage.\n\nOn Monday night, Mrs May accused Moscow of \"planting fake stories\" to \"sow discord in the West\".\n\nShe said Vladimir Putin's government was trying to \"undermine free societies\".\n\nRussian senators accused the UK PM of \"making a fool of herself\" with a \"counterproductive\" speech.\n\nBut the top US diplomat in the UK, Woody Johnson, said countries engaging in such behaviour needed to be \"called out\".\n\nPresident Donald Trump's newly appointed ambassador to the UK told BBC News that Mrs May \"probably has evidence\" of Russian meddling and she had \"every right\" to draw attention to it.\n\nMrs May's comments, at the Lord Mayor's Banquet at London's Guildhall, were in contrast to those of US President Donald Trump, who last week said he believed President Putin's denial of intervening in the 2016 presidential election.\n\nThe Russian Embassy in the UK hit back at her criticism on Twitter and described her remarks as \"fake 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 by MFA Russia 🇷🇺 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlexei Pushkov, a Russian senator involved in media policy, said: \"The world order that suits May, with the seizure of Iraq, war in Libya, the rise of IS and terrorism in Europe, has had its day. You can't save it by attacking Russia.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Wood Johnson on Mrs May's comments: 'She probably has evidence to indicate that that was the case'\n\nLeonid Slutsky, the chairman of the foreign affairs committee in the lower house of Russia's Parliament, said: \"Russia, like the UK, is by no means striving to bring back the Cold War. We are ready to develop a mutual dialogue and partnership relations.\"\n\nHe added: \"In this case, I completely disagree with the statement that Russia is allegedly trying to undermine the international system of rules.\"\n\nAnd Frants Klintsevich, deputy chairman of the defence and security committee in the Parliament's upper house, said: \"May has done more damage to herself than to us, making a fool of herself in the eyes of the world community and once again raising Russia's profile.\"\n\nUK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson is due to visit Russia next month.\n\nIn what Mrs May described as a \"very simple message\" for President Putin, she said he must choose a very \"different path\" from the one that in recent years had seen Moscow annex Crimea, foment conflict in Ukraine and launch cyber-attacks on governments and parliaments across Europe.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Boris Johnson told MPs about Russian meddling in UK elections\n\nRussia could be a valuable partner of the West but only if it \"plays by the rules\", she argued.\n\n\"Russia has repeatedly violated the national airspace of several European countries and mounted a sustained campaign of cyber-espionage and disruption.\n\n\"This has included meddling in elections and hacking the Danish Ministry of Defence and the Bundestag among many others.\n\n\"We know what you are doing and you will not succeed. Because you underestimate the resilience of our democracies, the enduring attraction of free and open societies and the commitment of Western nations to the alliances that bind us.\"\n\nShe said that as the UK left the EU and charted a new course in the world, it remained absolutely committed to Nato and securing a Brexit deal which \"strengthens our liberal values\", adding that a strong economic partnership between the UK and EU would be a bulwark against Russian agitation in Europe.\n\nThere are some countries in Europe that believe the West should engage more closely with Russia.\n\nThey argue the European Union and the United States should better understand Russia's point of view, its belief that it is threatened from all sides.\n\nAnd that more should be done to accommodate this sense of vulnerability, by softening Nato's approach and reducing sanctions.\n\nWell, not Theresa May. In a speech in the US in February, the prime minister spoke of the need to \"engage but beware\" of Russia. She has now switched the order and the focus is very much on beware.\n\nShe believes that President Putin should be called out for the threat that she believes he poses both internationally and in the UK.\n\nThe Electoral Commission is investigating claims that Russia used social media to meddle in the Brexit referendum.\n\nSo Mrs May is willing to engage with Russia - she is sending the foreign secretary to Moscow next month.\n\nBut she also wants Russia to know that Mr Johnson will come with a clear message that its destabilising activities will no longer be tolerated.\n\nMr Johnson, who will be making his first trip to Russia as foreign secretary in December, has said the UK's policy to Russia must be one of \"beware but engage\" following a decade of strained relations.\n\nHe told MPs earlier this month that he had not seen any evidence of Russia trying to interfere in British elections or the 2016 Brexit vote, in which Moscow has insisted it remained neutral.\n\nIn her speech, Mrs May said the UK would \"take the necessary action to counter Russian activity\".\n\n\"We do not want to return to the Cold War or to be in a state of perpetual confrontation.\n\n\"As a permanent member of the UN Security Council, Russia has the reach and the responsibility to play a vital role in promoting international stability.\n\n\"Russia can, and I hope one day will, choose this different path. But for as long as Russia does not, we will act together to protect our interests and the international order on which they depend.\"", "A tearful Gianluigi Buffon said he was \"sorry for all of Italian football\" as he led a wave of international retirements after a World Cup play-off defeat by Sweden.\n\nItaly were held to a 0-0 draw in Milan and failed to qualify for the World Cup for the first time since 1958.\n\nBuffon, 39, said: \"It's a shame my last official game coincided with the failure to qualify for the World Cup.\n\n\"Blame is shared equally between everyone. There can't be scapegoats.\"\n\nBuffon's Juventus team-mate Andrea Barzagli and Roma midfielder Daniele de Rossi also ended their Italy careers, while Juve defender Giorgio Chiellini is expected to join them. The quartet have won 461 caps between them.\n\nGoalkeeper Buffon made 175 appearances for his country in a 20-year career - lifting the World Cup in 2006 - and believes the future could still be bright for the four-time world champions.\n\n\"There is certainly a future for Italian football because we have pride, ability, determination and after bad tumbles, we always find a way to get back on our feet,\" he said.\n\nItaly manager Giampiero Ventura did not speak to national television after the defeat but arrived at a news conference 90 minutes after full-time.\n\nThe Italian FA have said they will meet on Wednesday to discuss the future of the coach, who is under contract until 2020.\n\n\"I have not resigned because I haven't spoken to the president yet,\" Ventura, 69, said after the game.\n\n\"I'm sorry for being late, but every player I had the privilege of working with, I wanted to salute individually.\n\n\"Resignation? I have to evaluate an infinity of issues. We will meet with the federation and discuss it.\"\n\nBarzagli, 36, said it was \"painful\" to \"leave this group of lads\".\n\nHe added: \"I don't know what we missed. All I know is we're out of the World Cup. It's a unique disappointment.\n\n\"The era of four or five veterans comes to a close, the one of the hungry young players coming through begins and that's how it should be.\"\n\nThere was a bizarre moment late in the game when De Rossi was asked to warm up but pointed instead at Napoli forward Lorenzo Insigne, a player Ventura refused to call upon despite pressure from Italian media and supporters.\n\n\"I just said we were near the end and had to win, so send the strikers to warm up!\" said De Rossi. \"I pointed to Insigne too.\n\n\"I just thought perhaps it was better that Insigne come on instead.\"\n\nUltimately, De Rossi, 34, was not used either as Italy failed in their search for the goal that would have taken the tie to extra time.\n\nItaly's leading sports newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport said the result brought the arrival of the \"apocalypse\".\n\nThe article said: \"We will not be with you and you will not be with us. A love so great must be reserved for other things. Italy will not participate at the World Cup.\n\n\"It is time to start thinking about what else we can do in June: concerts, cinema, village festivals. Anything but watching Sweden play at the World Cup - that would be too painful.\"\n\nOn Buffon, former Spain goalkeeper Iker Casillas said: \"I don't like seeing you like this. I want to see you as you've always been, as what you are for so many - as a legend. I'm proud to have met you and to have faced you many times.\"\n\nWho next for Italy?\n\nGazzetta have outlined four candidates who could replace Ventura to \"rebuild from rubble and work for the 2020 Euros\".\n\nFormer AC Milan, Juventus and Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti is the \"most liked\" name to take over, having been sacked as Bayern Munich boss earlier this season. He also leads the poll on the Gazzetta website.\n\nChelsea boss Antonio Conte, who left the Italy job after Euro 2016, has also been mentioned as he is \"a bit tired of England\", while ex-Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini, now at Zenit St Petersburg, and Juventus manager Massimiliano Allegri have also been touted.\n\nIt is a national tragedy. It feels surreal that in a World Cup where so many nations take part, Italy will not be there.\n\nIt is a lot of mediocre players put together in the squad. The ones who do have talent have not been given the opportunity to show off their talents by Ventura. The oldest coach to take charge of Italy, it was amazing he did not have the room or tactics to bring in Lorenzo Insigne, considering how effective he has been for Serie A's best side Napoli.\n\nThe very good players for Italy are the experienced veterans who did so well and Ventura was largely put in charge to bring through the young talents to mix with old players and take Italy forward. He did not manage that.\n\nThis is not a great thing to happen to Italian football, but maybe it was needed and can look at it as a blessing in disguise. It may give an opportunity to rebuild and that means from the top, getting rid of the men who have been in power for so long.\n\nVentura is perhaps not the right age for someone to adapt to the national team. He is only a man who won the Serie C title with Lecce so this is not someone with great experience of winning trophies.\n\nThis is the chance to start afresh, bring in the right people at the top, on the pitch and those giving the strategies. It will no longer mask the deficiencies in Italian football.", "Emma Dent Coad has been accused of writing a \"racist\" article in a 2010 blog piece\n\nA Labour MP accused of writing a \"racist\" article about a London Assembly member has apologised for \"any offence caused\".\n\nEmma Dent Coad wrote a blog piece in 2010 in which she labelled Shaun Bailey a \"token ghetto boy\".\n\nMs Dent Coad told BBC Radio London she had been quoting \"an Afro-Carribean\" constituent in her blog.\n\nMr Bailey urged the Labour leadership \"to take the strongest disciplinary action possible\" against Ms Dent Coad.\n\nHowever, Jeremy Corbyn has said he will not withdraw the whip from the Kensington MP.\n\nHe said he would \"obviously ensure that people discuss the use of language\" and \"make sure that everyone treats others with respect.\"\n\nIn a letter to the Labour leader, Mr Bailey called the apology \"cowardly\".\n\nMr Bailey said: \"Despite her claims, she can provide no evidence that I or anyone else used the horrendous terms she advocated.\"\n\nIn the article Ms Dent Coad called Shaun Bailey the \"'token ghetto boy' standing behind D Cameron\"\n\nIn the piece Ms Dent Coad claimed Mr Bailey, who was a parliamentary candidate for Hammersmith, had \"stigmatised\" the area he was born in by referring to it as a \"ghetto\".\n\n\"Who can say where this man will ever fit in, however hard he tries? One day he is the 'token ghetto boy' standing behind D Cameron, the next 'looking interested' beside G Osborne. Ever felt used?\", she wrote.\n\nSpeaking on the Vanessa Feltz breakfast show on BBC London, Ms Dent Coad said: \"If [Mr Bailey] is offended, I apologise.\"\n\nIn another letter sent to Mr Corbyn, Conservative MPs Kemi Badenoch and James Cleverly called his \"failure to condemn her comments... disappointing and concerning\".\n\n\"It gives the impression that you are comfortable with the comments Ms Dent Coad made,\" they wrote.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The security services have warned about the dangers of toys being exploited by malicious hackers\n\nConsumer watchdog Which? has called on retailers to stop selling some popular toys it says have \"proven\" security issues.\n\nThose toys include Furby Connect, the i-Que robot, Cloudpets and Toy-fi Teddy.\n\nWhich? found that there was no authentication required between the toys and the devices they could link with via Bluetooth.\n\nTwo of the manufacturers said they took security very seriously.\n\nThe lack of authentication meant that, in theory, any device within physical range could link to the toy and take control or send messages, the watchdog said.\n\n\"Connected toys are becoming increasingly popular, but as our investigation shows, anyone considering buying one should apply a level of caution,\" said Alex Neill, managing director of home products and services at Which?\n\n\"Safety and security should be the absolute priority with any toy. If that can't be guaranteed, then the products should not be sold.\"\n\nHasbro, which makes the Furby Connect, said in a statement that it believed the results of the tests carried out for Which? had been achieved in very specific conditions.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rory Cellan-Jones sees how Cayla, a talking child's doll, can be hacked to say any number of offensive things.\n\n\"A tremendous amount of engineering would be required to reverse-engineer the product as well as to create new firmware,\" it said.\n\n\"We feel confident in the way we have designed both the toy and the app to deliver a secure play experience.\"\n\nI-Que maker Vivid Imagination said there had been \"no reports of these products being used in a malicious way\" but added that it would review Which?'s recommendations.\n\nSpiral Toys, which makes Cloudpets and Toy Fi, did not comment.\n\nOther toys tested by Which? included the Wowee Chip, Mattel Hello Barbie and Fisher Price Smart Toy Bear - but these were not found to have serious security concerns.\n\nCyber-security expert Prof Alan Woodward, from Surrey University, told the BBC it was a \"no brainer\" that toys with security issues should not be put on sale.\n\n\"Sadly, there have been many examples in the past two to three years of connected toys that have security flaws that put children at risk,\" he said.\n\n\"Whether it is sloppiness on the part of the manufacturer, or their rush to build a product down to a certain price, the consequences are the same.\n\n\"To produce these toys is bad enough, but to then stock them as a retailer knowing that they are potentially putting children at risk is quite unacceptable.\"", "Mr Trump Jr played down the story and his correspondence with the group\n\nDonald Trump Jr has released private Twitter correspondence with anti-secrecy website Wikileaks after a US magazine revealed they had communicated shortly before his father's election.\n\nThe Atlantic magazine revealed the organisation had asked Mr Trump Jr for co-operation and information.\n\nThe group published leaks of Clinton campaign emails during the election.\n\nThe congressional inquiry is one of several looking into allegations of Russian collusion and meddling in the US election.\n\nThe largely one-sided transcripts show the president's eldest son replied only a few times to a series of requests from Wikileaks.\n\nDonald Trump Jr also released emails about his meeting with a Russian lawyer\n\nIn a series of Monday night tweets, Mr Trump Jr played down his contact with the group, referring to his \"whopping 3 responses\" which he said one of the congressional committees \"has chosen to selectively leak. How ironic!\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Donald Trump Jr. This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMessages show Wikileaks appeared to have first contacted Mr Trump Jr on 20 September, asking if he knew the origin of an anti-Trump website.\n\nHe replied the next day saying: \"Off the record I don't know who that is, but I'll ask around. Thanks.\"\n\nThe Atlantic alleges he then emailed senior officials including Steve Bannon, Kellyanne Conway and Mr Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner to tell them Wikileaks had made contact.\n\nThe correspondence between September 2016 and July this year shows Wikileaks urging his father to share their Clinton files; asking him to supply his tax returns to Wikileaks and advising him to challenge the result if he lost the election.\n\nThe Atlantic piece points out that while Mr Trump Jr didn't reply to later messages, timestamps from tweets show instances where he and his father appear to have \"acted on its requests\" by mentioning or sharing Wikileaks stories shortly afterwards.\n\nHe accuses it of selecting messages that were \"edited\" and failing to show the full context of the conversations.\n\nMr Assange also said the messages were part of the group's promotional efforts. \"Wikileaks can be very effective at convincing even high-profile people that it is their interest to promote links to its publications,\" Mr Assange said in a tweet.\n\nWikileaks founder Julian Assange has been living in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London since claiming asylum in 2012\n\nDonald Trump Jr's lawyer Alan Futerfas told the magazine: \"Over the last several months, we have worked co-operatively with each of the committees and have voluntarily turned over thousands of documents in response to their requests.\"\n\n\"Putting aside the question as to why or by whom such documents, provided to Congress under promises of confidentiality, have been selectively leaked, we can say with confidence that we have no concerns about these documents and any questions raised about them have been easily answered in the appropriate forum.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Would the US military disobey a nuclear order from President Trump?\n\nFor the first time in over 40 years, Congress has examined a US president's authority to launch a nuclear attack.\n\nThe Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing was titled Authority to Order the Use of Nuclear Weapons.\n\nSome senators expressed concern that the president might irresponsibly order a nuclear strike; others said he must have the authority to act without meddling from lawyers.\n\nThe last time Congress debated this issue was in March 1976.\n\nIn August, Mr Trump vowed to unleash \"fire and fury like the world has never seen\" on North Korea if it continued to expand its atomic weapons programme.\n\nLast month, the Senate committee's Republican chairman, Senator Bob Corker, accused the president of setting the US \"on a path to World War 3\".\n\nSenator Ben Cardin set the tone at Tuesday morning's public hearing on Capitol Hill.\n\n\"This is not a hypothetical discussion,\" the Maryland Democrat said.\n\nSome senators present said they were troubled about the president's latitude to launch a nuclear strike.\n\nChris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut, said: \"We are concerned that the president is so unstable, is so volatile, has a decision-making process that is so quixotic, that he might order a nuclear-weapons strike that is wildly out of step with US national-security interests.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lashing out: What Bob Corker really thinks of President Trump\n\nOne of the experts, C Robert Kehler, who was commander of the US Strategic Command from 2011-13, said that in his former role he would have followed the president's order to carry out the strike - if it were legal.\n\nHe said if he were uncertain about its legality, he would have consulted with his own advisers.\n\nUnder certain circumstances, he explained: \"I would have said, 'I'm not ready to proceed.'\"\n\nOne senator, Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, asked: \"Then what happens?\"\n\nPeople in the room laughed. But it was a nervous laugh.\n\nThe Minot Air Force Base houses part of the US arsenal of Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles\n\nAnother expert, Duke University's Peter Feaver, a political science professor, explained that a presidential order \"requires personnel at all levels\" to sign off on it.\n\nIt would be vetted by lawyers, as well as by the secretary of defence and individuals serving in the military.\n\n\"The president cannot by himself push a button and cause missiles to fly,\" said Prof Feaver.\n\nAnother expert, Brian McKeon, a former under-secretary of defence for policy, said military officials would stop the president if they felt he was acting in a rash manner.\n\n\"Four-star generals are not shrinking violets,\" said Mr McKeon.\n\n\"I don't think we should be trusting the generals to be a check on the president,\" he said.\n\nOne of the key questions at the hearing was whether the senators - and Americans in general - had confidence in the president to make such a decision within minutes, or even seconds.\n\nAt that moment, the defence secretary, military officials and lawyers would have little time to review the president's decision.\n\nSome of the senators said the president needed to have the freedom to act fast and forcefully under those circumstances.\n\nSenator Marco Rubio explained that the US president \"has to have the capacity to respond if we are under attack\" - and not be circumvented by \"a bunch of bunker lawyers\".\n\nSenator James Risch, an Idaho Republican, reinforced Mr Rubio's message, explaining that officials in Pyongyang should not misinterpret their discussion.\n\n\"He will do what is necessary to defend this country,\" said Mr Risch.\n\nAt the end of the hearing, the lawmakers and experts agreed that the nuclear arsenal should be modernised - just in case.", "People who overdose on paracetamol could be helped by a blood test that shows immediately if they are going to suffer liver damage.\n\nResearchers in Edinburgh and Liverpool said the test would help doctors identify which patients arriving in hospital need more intensive treatment.\n\nThe blood test detects levels of specific molecules in blood associated with liver damage.\n\nThe three different molecules are called miR-122, HMGB1 and FL-K18.\n\nPrevious studies have shown that levels of these markers are elevated in patients with liver damage long before current tests can detect a problem.\n\nA team led by the Universities of Edinburgh and Liverpool measured levels of the three markers in more than 1,000 patients across the UK who needed hospital treatment for paracetamol overdose.\n\nThey found the test could accurately predict which patients are going to develop liver problems, and who may need to be treated for longer before they are discharged.\n\nThe test could also help identify patients who could be safely discharged after treatment, freeing up hospital beds.\n\nAbout 50,000 people are admitted to hospital each year in the UK due to paracetamol overdose.\n\nMany people unknowingly consume too much by taking paracetamol at the same time as cold and flu medications that also contain the drug.\n\nLiver injuries are a common complication of drug overdoses. In some cases the damage can be so severe the patient needs a transplant and, in rare instances, can be fatal.\n\nPatients with a life-threatening level of paracetamol in their blood can be treated with an antidote called acetylcysteine, given by intravenous drip.\n\nThe treatment is associated with side effects so doctors do not treat patients longer than necessary.\n\nThe researchers said the test could help to pinpoint patients who are unlikely to benefit from treatment.\n\nThe study, published in the Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology, was funded by the Edinburgh and Lothians Health Foundation and the Medical Research Council.\n\nDr James Dear, of the University of Edinburgh, said: \"Paracetamol overdose is very common and presents a large workload for already over-stretched emergency departments.\n\n\"These new blood tests can identify who will develop liver injury as soon as they first arrive at hospital. This could transform the care of this large, neglected, patient group.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gary Haggarty admitted a lengthy list of serious criminal charges in June\n\nEvidence from a so-called supergrass will be used against an alleged Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) man accused of murdering two men during the Troubles.\n\nCatholic workmen Gary Convie and Eamon Fox were shot dead at a building site in Belfast city centre in May 1994.\n\nIt is understood the man to be charged is James Smyth, from Forthriver Link in Belfast.\n\nFormer UVF commander Gary Haggarty, who has admitted 202 offences, including five murders, will be the star witness.\n\nThe police bristle at the very mention of the word supergrass, because of its association with a series of high-profile trials in the 1980s.\n\nHundreds of republicans and loyalists were convicted on the word of informers and suspects who agreed to give evidence in return for reduced sentences, new identities and lives outside Northern Ireland.\n\nThose deals were done at a political level, with the details kept secret.\n\nTechnically, those individuals were assisting offenders but they became known as \"touts\" and \"supergrasses\" in communities.\n\nThe system collapsed in 1985 because of concerns about the credibility of the evidence provided by the supergrasses.\n\nMembers of the judiciary complained that they were being used as political tools to implement government security policy.\n\nA change in law in 2005 implemented safeguards for trials of that kind.\n\nMr Smyth will be prosecuted for the two 1994 murders, one attempted murder, possession of a firearm and ammunition with intent to endanger life, and membership of the UVF.\n\nMr Smyth was previously charged with the murders and when he was brought to court in 2014, he denied all of the offences.\n\nThe charges were withdrawn two years ago.\n\nEamon Fox and Gary Convie were shot dead while eating their lunch at a building site in 1994\n\nDirector of Public Prosecutions, Barra McGrory QC, announced on Tuesday the decision to use Haggarty as what is known as an assisting offender.\n\n\"I am satisfied that there is independent evidence which is capable of supporting his identification of the subject,\" he said.\n\n\"This includes both eyewitness and forensic evidence.\n\n\"In these circumstances, I have concluded that there is a reasonable prospect of conviction and that the test for prosecution is met.\n\n\"I can confirm that we intend to use assisting offender Gary Haggarty as a witness in this prosecution.\"\n\nGary Haggarty was the commander of the Ulster Volunteer Force's north Belfast unit\n\nProsecutors had received files relating to four UVF murders based on information provided by Haggarty.\n\nIn June, he pleaded guilty to a lengthy list of serious changes, including murders, attempted murders, kidnappings and false imprisonments.\n\nHe was given five life sentences for the murders, but his agreement to act as an assisting offender will see those terms significantly reduced.\n\nAll of the killings, and the majority of the other offences, took place while Haggarty was working as a police informer.\n\nHaggarty signed an agreement to become an assisting offender under the Serious Organised Crime and Police Act.\n\nHe was interviewed by detectives more than 1,000 times and the information he gave them ran beyond 12,000 pages.", "Mr Rouhani said the government would give financial help to those left homeless after the quake\n\nIran's President Hassan Rouhani has vowed to \"find the culprits\" responsible for buildings collapsing in a 7.3-magnitude earthquake on Sunday.\n\nHe suggested that government-built buildings had collapsed while privately-built ones remained standing.\n\nAs he spoke in the worst-affected city, Sarpol-e Zahab, he gestured to two buildings, one of which had collapsed while the other had not.\n\nMore than 400 people were killed and close to 8,000 injured in the quake.\n\nAlthough an earlier report from the state news agency Irna said 530 people had died, the death toll was later revised downward, to 432. But many more people are thought to have died and been buried without death certificates, meaning they are not included in the official figures.\n\nThe government is scrambling to get aid to Kermanshah province in the west of the country, where hundreds of homes were destroyed and people have spent two nights outdoors in the cold.\n\nPresident Rouhani visited the region on Tuesday - a national day of mourning - and made an address that was broadcast live on TV.\n\nHe said the government would lend and give money to those left homeless, and hold accountable anyone found not to have upheld building standards.\n\n\"Who is to be blamed?\" he asked.\n\n\"These are the issues that we should follow, we should find the culprits and people are waiting for us to introduce the culprits.\n\n\"We will do that, we will do that.\"\n\nA photograph circulating on social media shows an unaffected private building next to a collapsed building that was part of the Mehr project, a scheme created by previous President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to build two million housing units for people on low incomes.\n\nSome buildings were much more damaged than others\n\nMehr is Farsi for kindness, and under the scheme hundreds of homes were built in Sarpol-e Zahab.\n\n\"Pay attention, please, that some of these houses are very new, some of them have been built by the government and they are not very old,\" Mr Rouhani said.\n\n\"However, you can see that some buildings collapsed. How could that happen?\"\n\nThe buildings behind President Rouhani highlight the difference in damage between privately-built and state-built homes in Sarpol-e Zahab\n\nBut Maj Gen Mohammad Ali Jafari, head of the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), told state TV: \"Newly constructed buildings... held up well, but the old houses built with earth were totally destroyed.\"\n\nMansoureh Bagheri, an Iran-based official with the Red Crescent Society, told the BBC about 12,000 residential buildings had \"totally collapsed\".\n\nOne aid agency said 70,000 people needed shelter after the quake, which struck at 21:18 local time (18:18 GMT) on Sunday, about 30km (19 miles) south of Darbandikhan in Iraq, near the north-eastern border with Iran.\n\nForty-eight hours after the earthquake, thousands of people complain that still they have no tents, food or water. They complain about the lack of co-ordination between security forces and aid agencies. Although many soldiers showed up, they didn't have enough ambulances or proper machinery to move rubble.\n\nMore than 1,900 Kurdish mountain villages have been affected. The villagers say no one from the government has come to their rescue but ordinary Iranians from neighbouring cities and provinces have started sending aid.\n\nMost of the government-sponsored affordable housing complexes for the poor were damaged severely, and many died inside. Even the newly-built hospital in Sarpol-e-Zahab was completely destroyed.\n\nPresident Rouhani brought attention to this, saying those responsible for the projects - initiated under his predecessor's presidency - must be held accountable. But his opponents claim Mr Rouhani's aim is to divert attention from his own government's slow response to the victims.\n\nTremors were felt as far away as Turkey, Israel and Kuwait. The earthquake was the deadliest of 2017, and one of the year's strongest.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A dam in Iraq has developed cracks following Sunday's earthquake, as BBC Arabic's Rami Ruhayem reports\n\nAlthough the quake hit both Iran and Iraq, the Iraqi side of the border is much more sparsely populated. Several hundred people were injured in Iraq, and 10 people died.", "Ministers have seen off challenges to their authority on the first of eight days of scrutiny of a key Brexit bill.\n\nMPs backed plans to repeal the 1972 European Communities Act, which will end the supremacy of EU law in the UK, by 318 votes to 68.\n\nCalls for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to have a veto over the process were rejected by 318 votes to 52.\n\nBut several Tories criticised plans to specify an exact date for Brexit and hinted they will rebel at a later date.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph reported that up to 15 Conservative MPs could join forces with Labour on the issue when it is voted on next month, threatening defeat for the government.\n\nThe MPs, including a number of former cabinet ministers, are angry at a government plan to enshrine in law the Brexit date and time - 23:00 GMT on 29 March 2019 - as announced by Theresa May last Friday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe newspaper described the group of Tories as \"Brexit mutineers\", but one of those named - ex-business minister Anna Soubry - told MPs the front page was a \"blatant piece of bullying that goes to the very heart of democracy\".\n\nShe said she regarded her inclusion as a badge of honour and insisted \"none of those people named want to delay or thwart Brexit\" but rather sought \"a good Brexit that works for everybody in our country\".\n\nResponding to the Telegraph story, Brexit minister Steve Baker said he regretted \"media attempts to divide the Conservative Party\".\n\nHe tweeted: \"My parliamentary colleagues have sincere suggestions to improve the bill which we are working through and I respect them for that.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlthough the issue was not formally debated on Tuesday, it dominated the early skirmishes in the Commons as MPs began considering the EU Withdrawal Bill in depth for the first time.\n\nFormer Conservative Attorney General Dominic Grieve said he could not support the \"mad\" proposal which he said would \"fetter\" the government's hands if the negotiations dragged on longer than expected and would prevent any extension to the talks to get a deal in both sides' interests.\n\nAnd former Chancellor Kenneth Clarke signalled he would be opposing the government when the matter came to a vote, telling MPs that - as a pro-European - \"he was the rebel now\" and Eurosceptics in his party now represented the \"orthodoxy\" within his party.\n\nUnder current EU laws, the UK will leave two years to the day after it triggered Article 50, which was on March 29 2017, unless the UK and all 27 other EU members agree to an extension.\n\nLabour said the amendment was therefore a \"desperate gimmick\" that was \"about party management not the national interest\", arguing it increased the chance of the UK crashing out of the bloc without an agreement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMinisters said being \"crystal clear\" about the precise moment of the UK's departure would maximise certainty for businesses and citizens and prevent the risk of \"legal chaos\".\n\nThe European Union (Withdrawal) Bill is a crucial piece of legislation paving the way for the UK's withdrawal by essentially copying all EU law into UK law.\n\nAfter a marathon eight-hour session, the government also won three votes on clauses and amendments relating to how British courts will interpret retained EU law after the UK leaves and the role of the European Court of Justice during a transition period expected to last about two years.\n\nMinisters did make one concession by agreeing to make a statement to the Commons about how compatible any new Brexit legislation is with existing equalities laws, before they introduce that legislation.\n\nDebate will resume on Wednesday, with MPs expected to consider Labour's calls for guarantees on workers' rights and the environment.\n\nMPs have tabled more than 470 amendments - running to 186 pages - for changes they want to see before the bill is passed into law by both the Commons and the Lords.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What's going on with the EU Withdrawal Bill?\n\nBrexit Secretary David Davis, who did not speak in Tuesday's debate, earlier told City executives that he hoped to get agreement on a time-limited Brexit implementation phase \"very early next year\".\n\nHe told an audience at the Swiss investment bank UBS that he envisaged a new partnership with the EU that protects the mobility of workers and professionals across the continent.\n\nThe BBC's business editor Simon Jack said his assurances may come too late for some companies which have already begun to trigger their contingency plans.", "When Polly Mackenzie heard her cleaner was ill and unable to work her normal day, she was hoping to reschedule through the Handy site that supplied her.\n\nBut that was not how the system worked. When her cleaner was unable to attend on her regular day, Handy offered to send a replacement.\n\nBut the app blocked the cleaner from working for her again.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Polly Mackenzie This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 story took a further turn the next day: the cleaner was reinstated - but was also docked £25.\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\nMs Mackenzie herself, from south London, was sent what she described to the BBC as \"a grovelling email - as if they'd killed my firstborn\", then found her account had been credited with £5 to compensate for the inconvenience.\n\nShe said that meant Handy had \"profited £20 from her illness, about twice as much as they'd make if she turned up\".\n\nNew York-based Handy told the BBC the cleaner was automatically blocked by its system as she had appeared as a \"no show\".\n\nHandy said at no point was the cleaner banned and that it was now \"reviewing its policy regarding waiving fees for emergencies such as this\".\n\nIt added that the fine was cancelled after the firm learned the reason for her not attending.\n\nThe cleaner has since been made available to Ms Mackenzie once more, but the incident has ignited a debate on social media about the use of app-based services and the gig economy.\n\nIn the gig economy, instead of a regular wage, workers get paid for each job, such as a food delivery or a car journey. One of the best-known examples is driving for Uber.\n\nProponents of the gig economy claim that people can benefit from flexible hours, with control over how much time they can work as they juggle other commitments. Those against say its simply another form of employment - without rights or in-work benefits.\n\nIt is not unheard of for gig economy workers to be charged for days they do not work.\n\nEarlier this year, the Guardian reported that Parcelforce couriers who make deliveries for Marks & Spencer, John Lewis and Hamleys could be charged up to £250 a day if they were off sick and could not find someone to cover their shift.\n\nThe debate also came to the boil last week when a tribunal ruled that Uber should give drivers the same rights as workers, rather than treat them as self-employed.\n\nHandy added: \"While there was initial confusion, any fees have been waived and the [cleaner] can continue to work for customers on the platform as a valued member of the Handy community.\n\n\"After reviewing the incident in question we can confirm that the professional was never banned from the platform and has completed bookings since the incident in question.\"\n• None What is the 'gig' economy?", "US regulators have approved the first pill that can be digitally tracked through the body.\n\nThe Abilify MyCite aripiprazole tablets - for treating schizophrenia and manic episodes - have an ingestible sensor embedded inside them that records that the medication has been taken.\n\nA patch worn by the patient transmits this information to their smartphone.\n\nThe information can also be sent to the prescribing doctor, if the patient consents to this.\n\nExperts hope it could improve medication compliance, although the company that makes the tablets says this has not been proved for their product.\n\nThe prescribing notes also stress that Abilify MyCite should not be used to track drug ingestion in \"real-time\" or during an emergency, because detection may be delayed or may not occur.\n\nThe pills are not licensed to be used in elderly patients with dementia-related psychosis.\n\nAbout the size of a grain of sand, the sensor activates when it comes into contact with stomach fluid.\n\nIt can take 30 minutes to two hours to detect ingestion of the tablet.\n\nMitchell Mathis, from the Food and Drug Administration, said: \"Being able to track ingestion of medications prescribed for mental illness may be useful for some patients.\n\n\"The FDA supports the development and use of new technology in prescription drugs and is committed to working with companies to understand how technology might benefit patients and prescribers.\"\n• None Did you know under-fives need vitamins?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The WHO describes the plague as \"one of the oldest - and most feared - of all diseases\".\n\nHistorically, plague has been responsible for widespread pandemics with extremely high numbers of deaths.\n\nThe good news is that a simple short course of antibiotics can cure the plague, providing it is given early.", "Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump had kept the world guessing about whether they would formally meet in Vietnam\n\nUS President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed to fight so-called Islamic State (IS) in Syria until its defeat.\n\nA statement was prepared by experts after the leaders met briefly on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific summit in Vietnam on Saturday.\n\nIn total, they had three encounters within 24 hours at the summit.\n\nDuring one conversation, Mr Trump said Mr Putin had denied allegations of meddling in the US 2016 election.\n\nQuestions over Mr Trump's ties to Moscow have dogged his presidency, with key former aides under investigation for alleged collusion with Russia.\n\nThe two stood side by side in matching shirts for a group photo on Friday\n\nA formal bilateral meeting between the two presidents had been widely expected at the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec) summit in the port city of Da Nang, but Mr Putin later said scheduling issues had got in the way.\n\nThe pair met for the first time in July at the G20 summit in the German city of Hamburg.\n\nA statement released by the Kremlin on Saturday said the leaders had \"agreed that the conflict in Syria has no military solution\".\n\nThey also confirmed their \"determination to defeat Isis [another term for IS]\" and called on all parties to take part in the Geneva peace process.\n\nAccording to Russia's Interfax news agency, they promised to maintain existing Russian-US military channels of communication to prevent \"serious incidents involving the forces of partners combating IS\".\n\nRussia has been the Syrian government's main ally in the six-year-long civil war. The US meanwhile has been backing Syrian Arab and Kurdish rebels on the ground, and since 2014 it has led a coalition carrying out air strikes against IS in Syria.\n\nThe jihadist group has been pushed out of its main strongholds in Syria in recent months by a combination of offensives involving the Syrian army and the Kurdish and Arab coalition.\n\nLast month the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) declared they were in full control of Raqqa, a city that became the headquarters of IS's self-styled \"caliphate\" in 2014.\n\nMr Trump and President Putin posed side by side for a photo in custom-made blue shirts for the summit on Friday. They also shook hands as leaders sat down for talks on Saturday morning and later exchanged a few words before a \"family photo\" of attendees.\n\nThe two men were seen chatting as they joined a larger group shot of attendees at the summit\n\nRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also met his US counterpart Rex Tillerson earlier the same day, a source from the Russian delegation told Interfax news agency. The Kremlin said the two had co-ordinated the statement on Syria especially for the meeting in Da Nang.\n\nQuestions over whether the two leaders would formally meet or not were raised after conflicting statements from the White House and the Kremlin on Friday.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA firearms dealer has been found guilty of supplying illegal handguns and home-made ammunition linked to more than 100 crime scenes, including three murders.\n\nPaul Edmunds, of Hardwicke, Gloucestershire, supplied ammunition used in an attempt to shoot down a police helicopter in the 2011 riots.\n\nThe 66-year-old was found guilty of conspiracy to supply firearms and ammunition by a jury at Birmingham Crown Court.\n\nHe will be sentenced on 20 December.\n\nThe court was told Edmunds, of Bristol Road, was arrested at his home in 2015, where he had three armouries he used to make ammunition to fit antique weapons.\n\nPaul Edmunds had denied conspiracy to supply firearms and ammunition\n\nDetectives discovered that a Colt pistol - imported on November 14 2013 - was used five weeks later in a Boxing Day fatal shooting at the Avalon nightclub in London.\n\nFour of Edmunds' rounds of ammunition were recovered from the victim's body.\n\nThe jury were told Edmunds' ammunition was also recovered following the Birmingham murders of Derek Myers in 2015 and 18-year-old Kenichi Phillips in 2016.\n\nFollowing his arrest, 100,000 live rounds were seized from the armoury inside Edmunds' garage, while seven wheelie bin-loads of gun and ammunition components were recovered from a bedroom and attic.\n\nFollowing Edmunds' arrest, 100,000 live rounds were seized from the armoury inside his garage\n\nOne of the seized guns which was examined by forensics officers\n\nIn all, 17 criminally-linked weapons recovered by police are known to have been imported by Edmunds, while around 1,000 rounds of ammunition connected to him have been recovered from crime scenes in nine different police force areas.\n\nIn police interviews, Edmunds said he was \"not responsible for the actions of somebody that buys some things\", adding his \"duty of care\" only extended to not selling to people who \"didn't look right\".\n\nHe told officers: \"Like me selling a knife and you take that knife and kill somebody and then the system blames me for selling you the knife.\n\n\"It's your problem, got nothing to do with me.\"\n\nDr Mohinder Surdhar admitted conspiracy to supply firearms and ammunition between 2009 and 2015\n\nThe two-month long re-trial heard Edmunds and middleman Dr Mohinder Surdhar - likened by police to the lead characters in the TV series Breaking Bad - acted together to supply antique revolvers and custom-made ammunition to criminal gangs.\n\nSurdhar, 56, from Grove Lane in Handsworth, Birmingham, admitted conspiracy to supply firearms and ammunition between 2009 and 2015 before Edmunds' trial.\n\nJurors also convicted Edmunds of possessing a prohibited air pistol and perverting the course of justice by filing down a bullet-making tool to destroy potential evidence.\n\nHis barrister acknowledged that the gun-dealer faces a sentence of at least 25 years when he is sentenced.\n\nDet Con Phil Rodgers, from West Midlands Police, said: \"They were like the Breaking Bad of the gun world - on the face of it, both decent men, but using their skills and expertise to provide deadly firearms.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Detectives have released CCTV images of a man they want to speak to\n\nA suitcase containing £1m of gems has been stolen from a train luggage rack.\n\nA jewellery dealer boarded the train at London's Euston station and realised his bag was missing when the train pulled into Rugby in Warwickshire.\n\nPolice believe his large black case, which had more than 40 gems - including rubies, emeralds and sapphires - was taken before the train left Euston last Wednesday.\n\nDetectives have released CCTV images of a man they want to speak to.\n\nThere were more than 40 gems inside the case, including this one\n\nThe dealer boarded the 19:03 Euston service at about 18:30. He was travelling to Birmingham New Street.\n\nDet Sgt Nick Thompson, from British Transport Police, said: \"I would like to speak to the man in the CCTV images about this extremely high value luggage theft.\n\n\"I'd also like to hear from anyone who was on board the train or at Euston station on Wednesday evening, who may have seen a man acting suspiciously.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Labour's Dame Margaret Hodge said tax avoidance was taking place on an \"industrial scale\"\n\nThe government should use next week's Budget to crack down on issues of tax avoidance raised by the release of the Paradise Papers, an ex-minister says.\n\nLabour MP Dame Margaret Hodge, who led an emergency debate on the leaked documents, said tax avoidance was \"a national and international disgrace\".\n\nShe called for new laws to force big firms to report profits more openly.\n\nTreasury Minister Mel Stride said the government had a \"very strong track record\" in tackling tax avoidance.\n\nThe leak, dubbed the Paradise Papers, contained 13.4m documents, mostly from one leading offshore finance firm.\n\nThe papers raised questions about how politicians, multinational companies, celebrities and other high-net-worth individuals use complex structures to protect their cash from higher taxes.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Dame Margaret - who was in the cabinet under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown and is also a former chairman of the Commons Public Accounts Committee - said tax avoidance was now a \"widely accepted behaviour of too many of those who are rich and influential\".\n\nThe practice is taking place on an \"industrial scale\", she told MPs.\n\nShe said the record of the last Labour government had not been \"as good as I would have wanted\", but added that the actions of the current government had been \"inadequate and somewhat hypocritical\".\n\nThe Paradise Papers show firms and individuals are using certain financial jurisdictions - viewed as tax havens by some, offshore finance centres by others - to lower their taxes on profits or assets.\n\nThey include a number of UK Crown Dependencies or Overseas Territories, such as the Isle of Man and Jersey.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Paradise Papers: How to hide your cash offshore\n\nDame Margaret called for legislation to force multinational firms to report their profits \"on a country-by-country basis, so that companies can be taxed where they make their profits\".\n\nAnd she called on the Treasury to introduce a new public register of property ownership and to help British tax havens \"in transforming their economies\".\n\n\"The government needs to grasp this moment to act. They have an opportunity to do so in next week's Budget,\" she said.\n\n\"Britain will never get rich on dirty money and our public services cannot function if the most wealthy individuals and the most powerful companies deliberately avoid paying their fair share.\"\n\nMr Stride said the government had raised £160bn as a consequence of clamping down on tax avoidance since 2010.\n\nHe told MPs: \"One of the problems is we have been so active in bringing in so many measures that unfortunately not all of them have been noticed.\"\n\nHowever, Labour's shadow chief secretary to the Treasury, Peter Dowd, called for the government to introduce a public register of offshore trusts.\n\n\"It should also stop cuts to HMRC [HM Revenue and Customs] and ensure HMRC has the staff and resources it needs to enable it to tackle avoidance at its core,\" he added.\n\nTory MP Andrew Mitchell, a former government chief whip, said the \"time has come\" to insist on the same levels of transparency for British overseas territories as the UK.\n\nHe echoed the call for tax havens to have a public register of investments, adding: \"Registers must be open to the media, to journalists, to NGOs and to those people who can join up the dots.\"\n\nThe leaked papers were also debated in the European Parliament, in Strasbourg, on Tuesday where the EU's tax commissioner said finance professionals who enable aggressive tax avoidance were \"vampires\" who \"fear the light\".\n\nPierre Moscovici said only greater transparency would work as a deterrent.\n\nHe called on EU members to agree \"in the next six months\" on proposals to force tax advisers to report avoidance schemes devised for clients.\n\nMr Moscovici also urged countries to agree on a blacklist of tax havens by the end of the year.\n\nThe papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nThe 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Panorama has led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries. The BBC does not know the identity of the source.\n\nParadise Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #ParadisePapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"Paradise Papers\"\n\nWatch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA fifth woman has accused Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore of sexual misconduct as Republicans increase calls for him to \"step aside\".\n\nBeverly Young Nelson said she was 16 years old when Mr Moore allegedly tried to force himself on her after offering a ride home from her job as a waitress.\n\n\"I tried fight him off while yelling at him to stop,\" she said, adding that he locked his car to prevent her escape.\n\nMr Moore, 70, denies the allegations, describing them as a \"witch hunt\".\n\nBut Senator Cory Gardner, the National Republican Senatorial Committee chairman, said on Monday he believes Mr Moore's accusers \"spoke with courage and truth\" and the former Alabama Supreme Court judge should be expelled if he is elected.\n\n\"If he refuses to withdraw and wins, the Senate should vote to expel him, because he does not meet the ethical and moral requirements of the United States Senate,\" he said.\n\nMrs Nelson's accusation comes after four other women detailed allegations of sexual misconduct by the conservative firebrand while they were teenagers in Alabama.\n\nThe 56-year-old said she met Mr Moore during the late 1970s at the Olde Hickory House restaurant in Gadsen, Alabama, where she worked as a waitress while she was a teenager.\n\nShe claimed Mr Moore, a 30-year-old deputy district attorney at the time, offered to sign her high school yearbook and wrote: \"To a sweeter more beautiful girl I could not say Merry Christmas.\"\n\nHe signed it \"Love, Roy Moore, DA\", according to a copy of the yearbook page provided to reporters by her attorney, Gloria Allred.\n\nAbout a week or two later, he allegedly offered to drive her home and instead drove to the back of the restaurant car park.\n\n\"I was terrified. He was also trying to pull my shirt off. I thought he was going to rape me,\" she told reporters at a news conference on Monday.\n\n\"At some point he gave up and he then looked at me and he told me, 'You're just a child,' and he said, 'I am the district attorney of Etowah County. If you tell anyone about this, no one will believe you\", Mrs Nelson said, adding that her neck was bruised in the struggle.\n\n\"He finally allowed me to open the door and I either fell out or he pushed me out.\"\n\nMoore Campaign Chairman Bill Armistead denied the charges, calling Mr Moore \"an innocent man\".\n\n\"This is a witch hunt against a man who has had an impeccable career for over 30 years and has always been known as a man of high character,\" he said.\n\nMr Moore's wife also vehemently denies the allegations, contending that her husband's accusers are being paid.\n\nEarlier on Monday US Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said that he believed the women accusing Mr Moore of inappropriate behaviour.\n\nMr McConnell told reporters in his home state of Kentucky that party officials have considered whether another Republican could challenge Mr Moore in next month's election, through a so-called write-in challenge.\n\nHe said Luther Strange, whom Mr Moore beat in the Republican primary earlier this year, was a possible option.\n\nRoy Moore said Mitch McConnell is the one who should step aside\n\nNo matter what happens between now and the 12 December election, Mr Moore's name will remain on the voters' ballot, the Alabama secretary of state has confirmed.\n\nAlabama law prohibits the replacement of a party candidate up to 76 days before the election.\n\nHowever, voters are free to \"write-in\" any name they choose and the party might encourage support for another Republican candidate.\n\nThe state Republican party could also disqualify Mr Moore's nomination, meaning that if he won the most votes he would still not be declared the winner.\n\nFailing that, if Mr Moore won the election, the US Senate could vote to expel him by arguing that he lacked fitness to serve.\n\nLast week's Washington Post story quoted four women by name, including one who alleged Mr Moore initiated sexual contact with her when she was 14 - beneath the legal age of consent in Alabama - while he was a prosecutor in his 30s.\n\nMr Moore has said the Washington Post story is a fabricated smear by his political opponents, calling it \"a prime example of fake news\".\n\nMr McConnell previously said Mr Moore should step aside only if the allegations were proven true.\n\nBut on Monday he said flatly: \"I believe the women. Yes.\"\n\nMr Moore hit back in a tweet: \"The person who should step aside is @SenateMajLdr Mitch McConnell. He has failed conservatives and must be replaced. #DrainTheSwamp\".\n\nMr Moore, an outspoken Christian conservative, had been a heavy favourite to win the 12 December election against Democrat Doug Jones.\n\nBut an opinion poll after the allegations surfaced suggested the race was tightening. Alabama has not elected a Democratic senator in a quarter of a century.", "Charlie Fry said he was \"blindsided\" by the shark\n\nA UK doctor says he escaped a shark by punching it in the face after the animal injured him in Australia.\n\nCharlie Fry, 25, was at a beach north of Sydney on Monday when the shark \"jumped out of the water and hit him in the right shoulder\", police said.\n\nDr Fry said he punched the shark while in the water before climbing back on his board and surfing to shore.\n\nHe said he had been inspired by surfer Mick Fanning, who famously fended off a shark during a competition in 2015.\n\nThe shark left scratches and a small puncture wound on Dr Fry's arm. Police said the animal was about 2m (6.5ft) long.\n\n\"I saw this shark come out of the water and breach its head and I punched it in the face with my left hand,\" Dr Fry told local Nine Network's Today programme on Tuesday.\n\n\"When it happened, I was like, 'just do what Mick did, just punch it in the nose,'\" he said.\n\nHe described the contact as \"a massive thud on my right-hand side, which completely blindsided me\". He said he feared for his life during the incident, which happened near shore at Avoca Beach.\n\nA helicopter rescue service photographed what it believed to be a bronze whaler shark\n\nDr Fry received treatment in hospital and has since been discharged.\n\nA helicopter rescue service photographed what is said was most likely a bronze whaler shark nearby shortly afterwards.\n\nDr Fry arrived in Australia two months ago and works in a hospital on the New South Wales coast, local media reported.\n\nThe beach was closed on Tuesday, council authorities said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Surfer Mick Fanning: \"I punched the shark in the back\"\n\nThere have been 18 shark attacks - including one fatal incident - in Australia this year, according to the Australian Shark Attack File.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Family friend Rosemary Dinch was the last person to see Gaia Pope before she went missing\n\nA woman and a man arrested on suspicion of murdering missing teenager Gaia Pope have been released by police while inquiries continue.\n\nGaia, 19, from Langton Matravers, Dorset, disappeared from nearby Swanage, where she had been staying, on 7 November.\n\nRosemary Dinch, 71, and her 19-year-old grandson, Nathan Elsey, both from Swanage, know Gaia.\n\nPolice made the arrests after searching two Swanage addresses on Monday.\n\nDorset Police said \"extensive searches\" would continue in the hope she was still alive.\n\nPolice said a search for Gaia with the coastguard, volunteers from Dorset Search and Rescue and Wessex 4x4, along with members of the local community, was carried out on Tuesday in the Swanage area.\n\nGaia Pope was last seen in Swanage, Dorset, on 7 November\n\nDet Supt Paul Kessler said: \"We still believe Gaia is somewhere in the Swanage area... I remain hopeful that we will find Gaia alive.\n\n\"If the public can help us - anyone who has had contact with her in the last seven days, please contact Dorset Police as you may have information that can help us locate her.\n\n\"However, we will continue to conduct every avenue of inquiry which is open.\"\n\nGaia was last seen by Ms Dinch, a family friend, at an address in Manor Gardens, Morrison Road, Swanage at about 16:00 GMT.\n\nBefore she was arrested she told BBC News Gaia had \"pounded\" on her door then spent 20 minutes with her.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Det Supt Int Paul Kessler said it is thought Gaia is \"somewhere in the Swanage area\"\n\n\"She was very upset, she slid to the floor at one point, I gave her a cuddle and she responded to me - I have no idea where she is - she just seems to have disappeared,\" she said.\n\nA statement released by police on behalf of Gaia's family said the continuing search had given them \"great comfort in what everyone will understand is a deeply worrying and scary experience for all who love Gaia so deeply\".\n\nThe family also appealed to social media users to focus on \"constructive and positive efforts to find Gaia and not to encourage uninformed speculation which can have a negative impact on the family and be a distraction\".\n\nIn a direct message to Gaia, the statement read: \"We all love you forever. We miss you beyond words. We will find you darling girl.\n\n\"The thought of seeing the sunshine of your smile again soon keeps us all going and hoping.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police release CCTV footage of what is believed to be missing Swanage teenager Gaia Pope\n\nGaia was said to be wearing a red checked shirt with white buttons, grey and white woven leggings and white trainers.\n\nShe has severe epilepsy and she went missing without her medication.\n\nOn Saturday, Dorset Police released CCTV footage of what they believe was Gaia running past a house in Morrison Road at about 15:40.\n\nThe force said Gaia's family were being supported by specially-trained officers.\n• None Missing teen 'does not have medication'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Grenfell Tower fire is thought to have killed about 80 people\n\nResidents have criticised a \"crass and offensive\" survey asking them to rate how important the Grenfell Tower tragedy was to them.\n\nThe questionnaire sent out by a Kensington branch of the Conservative Party asked for people's views on the fatal fire alongside issues such as parking and recycling.\n\nLabour MP David Lammy described the survey as \"deeply troubling\".\n\nThe Tory group have been contacted for comment.\n\nThe leaflet, which seeks to find out what kind of issues are important to residents ahead of the 2018 local elections, was sent out to households in the Courtfield ward - a wealthy neighbourhood in Kensington.\n\nThe questionnaire, which is also available online, asks people to rate \"how important to you and your family\" the disaster and other \"local issues\" were from \"0 - not important at all\" to \"10 - very important\".\n\nThe Kensington, Chelsea and Fulham Conservatives' survey is also available online\n\nCharlie Goodman, 34, who lives in the area, said the Tory group should apologise.\n\n\"I think they have acted in a very insensitive manner,\" he said.\n\n\"It's not something one would ever want to quantify, particularly when you consider the other items on the list.\n\n\"I would have to rank it at least 100 and make everything else one.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Francis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nLuke Francis, who lives near Grenfell Tower, posted a picture of the survey on Twitter and had his post re-tweeted more than 4,000 times.\n\nHe said: \"It went viral. It's been seen more than half a million times now.\n\n\"Everyone was equally staggered that anyone could be so crass and insensitive. It's just phenomenal.\n\n\"Someone needs to come out and apologise.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by James Caan CBE This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 MP David Lammy, who lost a close friend in the fire, said the survey was \"offensive and insensitive\".\n\nHe added: \"The Grenfell Inquiry has barely got under way and the same group of politicians who have been in charge of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea appear to be already brushing what happened under the carpet.\n\n\"There should be apologies and the individuals involved should certainly be considering their positions. I simply cannot understand how this was allowed to happen.\"\n\nThe Kensington, Chelsea and Fulham Conservatives are yet to respond to requests for comment.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What's going on with the EU Withdrawal Bill?\n\nSeveral Tory MPs have joined Labour in demanding Theresa May withdraw a key Brexit legislation amendment to set the exact time of EU departure in law.\n\nMinisters say being \"crystal clear\" about when the UK will leave on 29 March 2019 will give maximum certainty.\n\nBut ex-chancellor Ken Clarke said the move was \"silly\" while Dominic Grieve said it would \"fetter\" ministers' hands if talks dragged on to the last minute.\n\nLabour has branded it a \"gimmick\" and said it will vote against it.\n\nThe row came as MPs began debating the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill in depth for the first time, a crucial piece of legislation paving the way for the UK's withdrawal by essentially copying all EU law into UK law.\n\nTuesday's marathon eight-hour debate is the first of eight sessions over the next month in which MPs will pore over the details of the government's Brexit strategy and seek changes.\n\nThe government saw off the first challenge to the bill as Plaid Cymru's call for the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and Northern Ireland Assembly to give their consent before the 1972 European Communities Act - which paved the way for the UK to originally join the then European Economic Community - can be repealed was defeated by 318 to 52 votes.\n\nA government amendment to enshrine the Brexit date and time - 23:00 GMT on 29 March 2019 - in law, announced by Mrs May last Friday, will not be debated until the final day of the committee stage next month.\n\nBut it dominated the early skirmishes in the Commons as Labour's Sir Keir Starmer said setting a date in law was a \"desperate gimmick\" that was \"about party management not the national interest\".\n\nLabour says it is a question of how, not if, the UK leaves the EU that matters\n\n\"The government's amendments to their own Bill would stand in the way of an orderly transition and increase the chance of Britain crashing out of Europe without an agreement,\" the shadow Brexit secretary said.\n\n\"Theresa May should stop pandering to the 'no deal' enthusiasts in her own party and withdraw these amendments.\"\n\nWhat is happening on Tuesday:\n\nBut former Tory attorney general Dominic Grieve said that fixing the precise time of withdrawal at this stage would \"fetter\" the government's hands if negotiations dragged on longer than expected and the process needed to be extended in order to reach an agreement.\n\nDescribing it as a \"mad\" idea that had not been discussed by the cabinet, he said it had been \"accompanied by blood-curdling threats that anyone who might stand in its way was somehow betraying the country's destiny\".\n\n\"I am afraid I am just not prepared to go along with it,\" he told MPs.\n\nAnd former chancellor Ken Clarke, the only Tory to vote against triggering Brexit, condemned what he said were \"silly amendments thrown out\" solely to get positive coverage in Brexit-supporting newspapers.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLabour's Frank Field said he agreed with the need for a deadline, saying he had never taken on a job without a start date or bought a house without knowing when he would take possession.\n\nHe agreed to withdraw his own amendment, specifying a date but not a precise hour of departure, after Brexit minister Steve Baker warned of \"legal chaos\" if the issue of timing was not \"put to rest\".\n\n\"The government wants this bill to provide as much certainty as possible,\" Mr Baker added. \"We recognise the importance of being crystal clear on the setting of exit day.\"\n\nMinisters say the main aim of the EU (Withdrawal) Bill is to copy across EU rules into domestic UK law to ensure a smooth transition on the day after Brexit but critics say it is a power grab by the government which will allow ministers to change laws and regulations without going through Parliament first.\n\nMost MPs say they accept that Britain is leaving the EU but some are expected to use the debates to fight against what they call a \"hard Brexit\" where the UK leaves without a trade deal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Davis: Parliament will be given time to debate, scrutinise and vote on the final deal with the EU\n\nMPs have tabled more than 470 amendments - running to 186 pages - for changes they want to see before the Brexit bill is passed into law by both the Commons and the Lords.\n\nThe government is not thought to be facing the serious prospect of defeat until next month, with a small group of about 10 Conservative rebels reportedly plotting with Labour and other opposition parties.\n\nMPs were told on Monday they would be able to debate and vote on any agreement negotiated with the EU by the government as the Brexit deal would have to become law via an Act of Parliament.\n\nBut Brexit Secretary David Davis said the UK would still leave the EU on 29 March 2019, whether MPs backed or rejected the deal - making MPs' vote a take-it-or-leave-it one on the Brexit deal, rather than one which could either halt Brexit or have the deal renegotiated.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, the SNP's Stephen Gethins said MPs were being offered a choice between a \"really bad deal and a really, really bad deal\" which he said was \"no choice at all\".", "Flyboarder James Prestwood is able to soar above the water with the aid of a jet ski and a lengthy hose.\n\nHe recently finished second in his first Flyboarding competition in Italy and now he's hoping to turn his hobby into a full-time job.", "Boris Johnson is to visit Moscow later this year as part of efforts to build a more constructive dialogue with Russia on global security issues.\n\nThe foreign secretary has been invited by his counterpart Sergei Lavrov.\n\nItems on the agenda are likely to include North Korea, Iran and security for next year's football World Cup.\n\nThe Foreign Office said the UK had \"deep differences\" with Russia but the visit was part of a policy of \"sustained and robust engagement\".\n\nMr Johnson was due to visit Moscow in April, but the trip was cancelled following a deadly chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town in Syria.\n\nThe atrocity was blamed on President Assad's regime, which is backed by the Russians, although the Syrian government has denied using nerve gas.\n\nThe attack prompted a military response from the US, which bombed a Syrian air base it suspected of storing chemical weapons.\n\nThe UK's relations with Russia have been strained for several years but the two foreign ministers have met on several occasions this year, most recently at the UN General Assembly in September.\n\nThe Foreign Office said the bilateral visit, a date for which has not been set, did not mean a return \"to business as usual\" with Russia following its annexation of Crimea, which prompted EU sanctions, its wider actions in Ukraine and its continued support for the Assad regime.\n\nBut it said it was vital in the UK's national interest to keep \"channels of communication\" open.\n\n\"Russia is a fellow permanent member of the UN Security Council and there are global security issues we need to discuss from Iran to North Korea,\" Mr Johnson said.\n\n\"Of course we will continue to challenge Russia's approach where we disagree, whether that is Russia's actions in Syria or its aggression towards Ukraine. My visit will provide an opportunity to talk about these issues and more, face-to-face.\n\n\"Our relationship with Russia is not straightforward. That is all the more reason to be talking to Russia - to manage our differences and cooperate where possible for the security of both our nations and the international community.\"\n\nAs well as government meetings, the foreign secretary said he would also speak to figures from Russian society and the \"next generation\".\n• None Russia will 'respond harshly' to US", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The 163 carat diamond was the largest of its kind to go under the hammer\n\nA diamond necklace featuring a flawless 163-carat diamond - the largest of its kind to be auctioned - has fetched $33.7m (£25.6m) at a Christie's event in Geneva.\n\nThe colourless diamond was taken from a 404-carat stone found in Angola.\n\nThe finished piece is made from white gold, diamond and emeralds.\n\nThe necklace was designed by Swiss jewellery maker de Grisogono and took more than 1,700 hours to make, Christie's said.\n\nIt went under the hammer at Geneva's Four Seasons Hotel following a series of public viewings in Hong Kong, London, Dubai and New York.\n\nThe necklace, named The Art of de Grisogono, sold for $33.5m - $29.5m plus $4m premium - exceeding pre-sale predictions of $30m.\n\nThe buyer's identity has not been revealed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Davis: Parliament will be given time to debate, scrutinise and vote on the final deal with the EU\n\nParliament is to be given a take-it-or leave-it vote on the final Brexit deal before the UK leaves the EU.\n\nBrexit Secretary David Davis said the terms of the UK's exit, such as money, citizen rights and any transition must become law via a new Act of Parliament.\n\nLabour welcomed a \"climbdown\" but some MPs warned of a \"sham\" if ministers could not be asked to renegotiate.\n\nSources have told the BBC some Tory rebels were unimpressed, with one saying the promise was \"meaningless\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said the announcement was significant because it represented a big concession to potential Tory rebels and Labour MPs at a highly important moment in the Brexit process.\n\nIt comes as MPs prepare to debate key Brexit legislation later this week with the government facing possible defeat on aspects of the EU Withdrawal Bill, which will convert EU law into UK law.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU in March 2019, irrespective of whether MPs back or reject the terms of the deal negotiated by Theresa May's government.\n\nBut updating MPs on the sixth round of talks which concluded on Friday, Mr Davis told MPs they would still play a major role and \"there cannot be any doubt that Parliament will be intimately involved at every stage\".\n\nThe government had previously agreed to give MPs and peers a vote on a Commons motion relating to the final Brexit deal - before it has been voted upon by the European Parliament.\n\nA confident government wouldn't have conceded like this the day before the Brexit debate was due to come back to the Commons in earnest.\n\nThis climbdown does not remotely mean that other grievances over the existing Brexit legislation will disappear.\n\nIt doesn't mean that the next few weeks will suddenly become plain sailing. And if there isn't a withdrawal deal with the rest of the EU, well, then there can't be a bill that covers the withdrawal bill.\n\nIt's only in the coming days that the government will know if they have done enough to get the existing plans through.\n\nAnd the move also of course adds to a massive load of complicated Parliamentary business that has to be cleared before we actually leave.\n\nMr Davis said he still \"intended and expected\" this to happen but went further - agreeing to Labour and Tory MPs' demands for any vote to take place on substantive primary legislation, which would allow MPs and peers to amend the bill before it became law.\n\nThe bill, he told MPs, would contain the contents of the withdrawal agreement that the UK hopes to seal in time ahead of its scheduled departure and all key aspects of it - such as the financial settlement between the two sides, the future status of UK and EU citizens and the terms of any implementation period.\n\n\"This means that Parliament will be given time to scrutinise, debate and vote on the final deal we strike with the EU,\" he said, adding that it was not clear when such a bill would be published.\n\nLabour's Keir Starmer said it was a \"significant climbdown from a weak government on the verge of defeat\".\n\n\"With less than 24 hours before they had to defend their flawed bill to Parliament, they have finally backed down,\" the shadow Brexit secretary said.\n\n\"However, like everything with this government, the devil will be in the detail.\"\n\nLabour's Chris Leslie said what \"could have been a very welcome concession instead looks like a sham that pretends to respect the sovereignty of Parliament but falls well short of what is required\".\n\nThe Lib Dems reiterated their call for the final deal to be put to a referendum while several Tory MPs questioned what would happen if a deal was only agreed at the last minute before the 29 March deadline - a scenario Mr Davis has suggested was conceivable - and MPs could only vote after exit.\n\nDominic Grieve, the Conservative former Attorney General, said this would not be acceptable and if time ran out then negotiations with the EU should be extended \"so all parties are able to deal with it\".\n\nAnd Conservative MP Antoinette Sandbach pressed Mr Davis to reassure MPs how \"if the bill intended to ensure a meaningful vote only comes forward after that date, the vote is in any sense meaningful\".\n\nMr Davis responded by saying MPs would have the opportunity to say \"either you want the deal or you don't want it\" and if the UK and EU could not agree a deal, there would be no legislation.\n\nBut, in a meeting with the Conservative chief whip, a group of about a dozen Tory MPs expressed anger at the government's plans, sources have told the BBC.\n\nOne of the MPs, Anna Soubry, said the idea of a Brexit Act of Parliament was \"'insulting… it sounds in theory very good but there's no guarantee\".\n\nShe suggested that the promise was \"meaningless\" and that the government is in \"grave difficulty\" over passing its Brexit legislation in the coming months.", "Bailiffs were called in to collect debts by councils in England and Wales on more than two million occasions last year, a charity has discovered.\n\nCouncil tax arrears accounted for 60% of cases sent to bailiffs by local authorities in 2016-17, the Money Advice Trust said.\n\nThe Trust, which runs National Debtline, said more could be done for the vulnerable in debt.\n\nThe association representing councils said they had a duty to collect taxes.\n\nEnforcement agents, commonly known as bailiffs, were used to chase council tax arrears on 1.38 million occasions out of 2.3 million cases, the \"Stop the Knock\" report by the Money Advice Trust found.\n\nThey were also used on 810,000 occasions for unpaid parking fines, 86,000 times for unpaid business rates, and on 50,000 occasions to recover overpaid housing benefit, the report found.\n\nThe use of bailiffs has risen by 14% compared with two years ago when similar research was carried out by the charity.\n\nHowever, it said that there had been widespread improvement in the way councils used this last resort.\n\nIts concern was, primarily, in the use of bailiffs by smaller councils.\n\nJoanna Elson, chief executive of the Money Advice Trust, said: \"The growing use of bailiffs to collect debts by many local authorities is deeply troubling.\n\n\"Councils are under enormous financial pressure, and they of course need to recover what they are owed in order to fund vital services. However, many councils are far too quick to turn to bailiff action.\"\n\nShe said that, in doing so, people could be pushed even further into debt.\n\n\"Bailiff action should only ever be used as a last resort, and can be avoided by early intervention,\" she added.\n\nSome 50 councils had signed up to a protocol aimed at preventing those at risk from getting behind on key payments.\n\nThe Trust wanted more councils to sign up to an official policy on how to treat vulnerable residents, and to exempt the most vulnerable from bailiff action completely.\n\nThe Local Government Association, which represents councils, said people facing difficulties should contact their local authority to discuss options such as repayment plans.\n\nClaire Kober, who chairs the LGA's resources board, said: \"No council wants to ask people on the lowest incomes to pay more, but councils have a duty to their residents to collect taxes - these fund crucial services, such as caring for the elderly, protecting vulnerable children, keeping roads maintained and collecting bins.\n\n\"With councils facing a £5.8bn funding shortfall by 2020, it is essential that these funds are collected so these vital services can be protected.\"\n\nShe said that councils took steps, where possible, to ensure people in financial difficulty were supported.\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Communities and Local Government said: \"We expect councils to show sympathy for people in genuine hardship and only use bailiffs as a last resort. However, every penny of council tax that is not collected means a higher bill for those law-abiding citizens who do pay on time.\n\n\"To support those facing financial difficulties we have given councils the powers to establish their own council tax support schemes to best meet their local need.\"\n• None Councils 'too quick' to send in bailiffs", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Macron: 'It's very important to me to support those defending an open Islam'\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron says Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin are threatening Western values of openness and tolerance, but isolating them from Europe would be counterproductive.\n\n\"If you decide just to push them back from Europe and our values, saying 'you're betraying our values', you lose them,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMany see the US and Russian leaders as resistant to liberal \"elite\" values.\n\nMr Macron was speaking in Abu Dhabi, where he opened a new Louvre Museum.\n\nHe called it a symbol of tolerance and diversity in the region.\n\n\"We're at the epicentre of a series of conflicts and battles inside the Muslim world,\" he said in an interview at the weekend. \"It's very important to me to support those defending an open Islam.\"\n\nHe said the West had made a mistake in abandoning a \"grand narrative\" around its values and identity, and that France had a role in defending them abroad.\n\n\"You need a collective narrative, a common goal, common imagination,\" he said. \"It was the strength of Daesh [so-called Islamic State] - it was a promise of death.\n\n\"And I think one of the problems of Western society and Western countries during the past decade was to abandon imagination, ambition, vision.\n\n\"No one falls in love with the single market, the financial market, labour reforms or budget perspective,\" he continued. \"[People] are motivated because of a big narrative.\"\n\nHe said it was \"paranoia, their [sense of] threat, and their willingness to protect something\" that made leaders such as President Putin choose a different path, but that the Russian president was forgetting that part of his country's own civilisation was about openness, and that its future was directly linked to Europe.\n\nMr Macron took office six months ago, promising to transform France's economy, society, even its identity. Since then he has made 28 foreign trips and set out new proposals for the European Union, designed to give the bloc a collective vision and promote its benefits at home.\n\nI knew this trip would be different to most reporting gigs when they took my passport away on the flight out. I didn't see it again until I was flying back to Paris.\n\nBut then, being part of the presidential press corps is an unusual experience for a regular news correspondent. And there were times when it felt more like a school trip than a reporting gig: the press corps bussed en masse from location to location, fed and watered at appropriate times, and handed detailed information about the president's speeches and schedule.\n\nNot once did I order a meal, give a taxi driver directions, or speak to a local person who wasn't a member of the hotel staff.\n\nIn return, of course, was the rare chance to speak to Mr Macron one-to-one, and film him up-close in a way we've never done before - startling for a crew that's usually battling to get a decent shot of his face at all.\n\nAnd while there was a good deal of waiting around - the media has to be in place hours before the president arrives - it was made an awful lot easier by the food.\n\nWherever we went, the refreshments laid on for the presidential party were surprisingly good. Think perfect miniature French tarts and copious Bollinger champagne. As I say, not your usual reporting trip.", "The Children's Commissioner said the impact of the new benefit was not tested on families\n\nThe rollout of universal credit to families with children should be paused, the children's commissioner for England has told MPs.\n\nAnne Longfield told the Education Select Committee there was evidence families with children were being hit hard by the welfare changes.\n\nThe impact of universal credit had not been tested on families with children, said Ms Longfield.\n\nThe government says the change will make it easier to claim benefits.\n\nThe rollout of the new benefit across the UK accelerated last month - with about 50 job centres now being added each month.\n\nIt merges six benefits for working-age people into one new payment.\n\nThe system, with a built-in six-week wait, has been beset by controversy.\n\nThe benefit is paid in arrears, which means everyone has to wait at least four weeks for their money.\n\nThe rest of the wait is because of the way the scheme is administered.\n\nSo far, about a quarter of all claimants have had to wait more than six weeks to receive their first payments.\n\n\"I am worried about the rollout of welfare reforms,\" Ms Longfield said in her evidence to the committee.\n\n\"I am aware that, actually, families with children are being very hard hit, families with more than two children very hard hit, and, actually, lone parents.\n\n\"So, I do think we've got a set of families whose lives are quite precarious.\n\n\"Often they are the ones in work, and I am not sure that everyone has recognised that the new poor and the new insecure are those in insecure work.\"\n\nShe said the fact that the new system had not been tested on families with children meant \"we are moving into rollout not knowing what that means\".\n\n\"So, one of the things that I will be asking the chancellor to do is to pause universal credit rollout for families with children until we better understand what that means,\" Ms Longfield said.\n\nShe said the change was coming on top of \"welfare failures\" and families were now having to resort to using food banks.\n\n\"I am well aware of the impact of the rules around two children and also the benefits freeze,\" she said.\n\n\"There is cumulative impact and I think at this stage, with such a vulnerable group of children and families, it's the right thing to pause universal credit.\"\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions says universal credit will boost employment by about 250,000 once it is fully rolled out.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Under universal credit, people are moving into work faster and staying in work longer than the old system.\n\n\"The number of children growing up in homes where no-one works has fallen by half a million since 2010.\n\n\"Under UC, parents get tailored support to find work that fits with their caring responsibilities and, once in work, have 85% of their childcare costs refunded.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The rescued puppies have been quarantined\n\nRecord numbers of illegal puppies are being smuggled across the Channel into the UK ready for the \"Christmas trade\".\n\nIn three undercover operations the Dogs Trust seized 100 young dogs in just one week from Folkestone and Dover ports.\n\nBut the UK's largest dog welfare charity said the clampdown was \"just the tip of the iceberg\", and feared people looking for a cheap puppy would fuel the illegal trade.\n\nThe pups are found in \"shocking conditions\", with severe health issues.\n\nThis puppy has a skin infection from urine scalding\n\nThe Dogs Trust said it had come across seven Cane Corso pups with infected wounds after their ears and tails were cropped and docked, apparently using scissors and vodka.\n\nAccording to the trust, high demand for \"trendy\" breeds such as French bulldogs, English bulldogs, Chow Chows and Dachshunds helped to fuel the \"sickening trade\", which can net bootleg breeders tens of thousands of pounds.\n\nDogs Trust veterinary director Paula Boyden said: \"Buying an illegally imported puppy could potentially cost well-meaning but unsuspecting families thousands of pounds in quarantine and vet bills and emotional heartache for the family if the puppy falls ill or worse, dies.\n\n\"We continue to be astounded at the lengths these deceptive breeders and dealers will go to.\"\n\nUnder the Dogs Trust's \"Puppy Pilot\" scheme, 582 illegally smuggled puppies were rehomed between December 2015 and 18 October 2017. About 40 rescued puppies died from the poor conditions they suffered on the journey to the UK.\n\nIn 2016 officials found 688 \"illegally landed\" dogs, more than treble the recorded number in 2014.\n\nThe number of dogs entering the UK to be kept as pets in 2011 was 85,299, and this figure continues to increase year-on-year, with 275,876 entering in 2016.\n\nBetween 2011 and 2013 the number of dogs coming to the UK from central and eastern Europe in particular rocketed, with a 780% increase from Lithuania and a 663% increase from Hungary.\n\nIllegally imported puppies are often sick or have been mistreated\n\nKeith Taylor MEP, the Green Party's animals spokesperson and member of the European Parliament's Animal Welfare Intergroup, said the illegal trade is \"gruesome and reprehensible\".\n\n\"With more than 100,000 dogs in rescue centres across the UK looking for a home it is hugely upsetting to see the demand for puppies fuelling such a barbaric criminal enterprise.\n\n\"Puppy smuggling and the illegal puppy trade is big business with dealers getting rich while leaving a trail of dead puppies and heartbroken families.\"\n\nPeople have taken to Twitter to voice their frustration at the trade.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Louise Pennington This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Koby Gould This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPuppies found in the back of a van during an undercover operation\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "I'm A Celebrity... begins its run on ITV on Sunday\n\nBoris Johnson's father Stanley, former footballer Dennis Wise, boxer Amir Khan and Coronation Street's Jennie McAlpine are going to the jungle for this year's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here.\n\nTen personalities will try to last three weeks with each other, and the local wildlife, in the Australian camp.\n\nOther contestants include footballer Jamie Vardy's wife Rebekah, The Saturdays singer Vanessa White and Hollyoaks actor Jamie Lomas.\n\nStanley Johnson said Boris \"may never find out\"\n\nStanley Johnson admitted he had never watched the show, and said he had not told his son, the UK foreign secretary, because he had been instructed to keep his appearance secret.\n\n\"Don't tell me he's going to hear about it, it's very unlikely,\" he said, according to The Sun. \"Knowing Boris, he may never find out.\"\n\nAnt (left) and Dec will be back together after Ant's rehab\n\nAround 10 million people tune in to the show every night.\n\nThis year, Ant McPartlin will return to co-host after a stint in rehab for alcohol and prescription painkiller addictions.\n\nHere is the full line-up:\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here - ITV The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gaia Pope was last seen in Swanage on 7 November\n\nA man and woman have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a teenager who has not been seen for nearly a week.\n\nDorset Police said a 19-year-old man and a 71-year-old woman were arrested in connection with the disappearance of Gaia Pope, 19, who has severe epilepsy.\n\nThe teenager, from Langton Matravers, was staying in Swanage when she disappeared on 7 November.\n\nSearches took place at two addresses in Swanage and the man and woman were arrested.\n\nPolice said they were both known to Gaia.\n\nThe last reported sighting of the teenager was by Rosemary Dinch at an address in Manor Gardens on Morrison Road in Swanage.\n\nRosemary Dinch, a friend of the family, is believed to be the last person to see Gaia on Tuesday 7 November\n\nThe family friend told the BBC Gaia \"pounded\" on her door and spent about 20 minutes at her house.\n\nShe said: \"She was very upset, she slid to the floor at one point, I gave her a cuddle and she responded to me - I have no idea where she is - she just seems to have disappeared.\"\n\nShe was said to be wearing a red checked shirt with white buttons, grey and white woven leggings and white trainers and she went missing without her medication.\n\nOn Saturday, Dorset Police released CCTV footage of what they believe was Gaia running past a house in Morrison Road at about 15:40.\n\nDet Ch Insp Neil Devoto, who is leading the investigation, said on Monday: \"It has been almost a week since Gaia's last confirmed sighting and she has not been seen or heard from since.\n\n\"We have looked through CCTV that covers the Swanage area, including transport hubs, and there is nothing to suggest she has left the area.\n\n\"Her disappearance is completely out of character and, following our extensive inquiries, we sadly now believe that she may have come to harm.\n\n\"We have not yet found Gaia and our searches will continue.\n\n\"Our specially-trained officers have updated Gaia's family and are supporting them at this very difficult time.\"\n• None Missing teen 'does not have medication'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA sumo wrestling grand champion is alleged to have hit a fellow wrestler over the head with a beer bottle in a fresh scandal that has rocked the highly ceremonial sport.\n\nThe alleged victim, Takanoiwa, was hospitalised for several days, the Japan Sumo Association has said.\n\nSumo association officials told AFP news agency that exactly what happened remains unconfirmed.\n\nTakanoiwa, who is also Mongolian, is reported to have suffered a fractured skull. The 27-year-old is part of a so-called 'stable' led by Takanohana, a former grand champion who reported the incident to police, according to Kyodo news agency.\n\nHarumafuji and his stable master, Isegahama, were questioned by association executives on Tuesday.\n\nThe grand champion apologised publicly but did not confirm the circumstances of the incident.\n\n\"As for Takanoiwa's injuries, I apologise deeply for causing trouble for stable master Takanohana, people affiliated with Takanohana stable, the Sumo Association and my stable master,\" he told reporters.\n\nStable master Isegahama and Harumafuji were questioned by association executives on Tuesday\n\nWeighing in at 137kg (300lb), Harumafuji is considered a relatively small sumo wrestler, and is lauded for his technique in the ring.\n\nSumo's origins lie in Shinto rites performed in temples, and Japanese fans expect wrestlers competing in the ancient sport to live up to strict standards of good behaviour.\n\nWrestlers are expected to not show emotion after a victory and a rigid hierarchy exists.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Could the next sumo star come from Senegal?\n\nBut this case is far from the first time that the sumo world has been hit by scandal and reports of violence outside the ring.\n\nIn 2007, a teenage novice died after being beaten up by older wrestlers, with the stable master subsequently jailed for five years over the abuse.\n\nThat case exposed a culture of bullying and hazing within the ancient sport's strict hierarchy.\n\nIn 2016, a stable master and wrestler were made to pay nearly $300,000 (£230,000) to a wrestler allegedly abused so badly that he lost sight in one eye, according to reports.\n\nBack in 2010, the sport was rocked by alleged links between sumo wrestlers and yakuza crime syndicates. A match-fixing scandal followed in 2011.\n\nIn 2010, Mongolian grand champion Asashoryu retired from the sport after reports of a drunken fight in Tokyo.", "Police say a number of students had to be medically evacuated from the school\n\nA gunman who killed four people on Tuesday in rural California fired into an elementary school but was stopped from entering by teachers, police say.\n\nStaff at Rancho Tehama Reserve School went into lockdown, securing school doors after hearing nearby gunshots.\n\nAuthorities praised the teachers' actions as \"monumental\" in saving \"countless\" lives.\n\nPolice confirmed one child was shot at the school after the gunman fired into it. Others were hurt by broken glass.\n\nPolice later confronted the gunman in a stolen vehicle, shooting and killing him. He was named locally as 43-year-old Kevin Neal.\n\nIt is believed the shooting spree began after a domestic row with the gunman's neighbours in Rancho Tehama, a rural community about 120 miles (195km) from Sacramento, on Tuesday morning.\n\nPolice said they believed he went on a \"bizarre and murderous rampage\" after the dispute escalated and he killed a neighbour.\n\nOfficials confirmed the gunman had \"prior contacts with law enforcement\".\n\nThe Tehama district attorney told the Sacramento Bee he was being prosecuted on charges relating to a stabbing and assault in January in an incident involving two of his neighbours.\n\nHe had also reportedly been the subject of a domestic violence call on the eve of the gun spree.\n\nA semi-automatic rifle and two handguns were recovered from one of the crime scenes, police said. At least 10 people were injured in the shootings at multiple locations.\n\nPolice said he chose most of the victims at random, and reportedly shot into the school but became frustrated after the teachers locked the doors and left after six minutes.\n\nIt is believed the school was alerted after a mother was shot at in her car while driving her children to school. She was reportedly seriously wounded but not killed.\n\nThe child who was shot has undergone surgery after being struck in the leg and chest, reports say. Other children at the school were reportedly injured by broken glass, and some were evacuated from the school and transported to hospital by helicopter.\n\nPolice examine a vehicle that was involved in the string of shootings in Rancho Tehama\n\n\"This individual shooter was bent on engaging and killing people at random. I have to say this incident, as tragic and as bad as it is, could have been so much worse,\" Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston said.\n\nBrian Flint said his neighbour \"has been shooting a lot of bullets lately, hundreds of rounds, large magazines\".\n\n\"We made it aware [to police] that this guy is crazy and he's been threatening us,\" he told the newspaper.\n\nThe rampage is believed to have began at about 08:00 locally\n\nThe Associated Press spoke to a woman who identified herself as Neal's mother, who said he had told her: \"I'm on a cliff and there's nowhere to go.\"\n\nShe said Neal was in a long-running dispute with neighbours who he believed were cooking methamphetamine.\n\nShe added that Neal, who was raised in North Carolina, had been working as a cannabis farmer and had recently married his longtime girlfriend.\n\nHis sister, Sheridan Orr, told the Associated Press that she believed her brother was addicted to drugs, and had struggled with mental illness and a violent temper.\n\n\"We're stunned and we're appalled that this is a person who has no business with firearms whatsoever,\" Ms Orr said.\n\nShe added that she hopes this attack will \"make people realise there must be some gates on people like this from getting guns\".\n\n\"This is the same story we're hearing more and more.\"\n\nPolice have refused to officially confirm the gunman's identity until all his next-of-kin are notified.\n\nUS President Donald Trump was criticised online after he tweeted condolences to the wrong mass shooting.\n\n\"May God be with the people of Sutherland Springs, Texas,\" a post on his account said on Tuesday night, though that shooting happened on 5 November.\n\nThe tweet was deleted by Wednesday morning.", "The old £10 note is soon to go the way of the old pound coin\n\nIf you still have any old £10 notes, make sure you spend them before 1 March next year.\n\nThe Bank of England has announced that the old paper notes, featuring naturalist Charles Darwin, will no longer be legal tender after that date.\n\nIts days have been numbered since the new polymer tenner, depicting author Jane Austen, entered circulation in September.\n\nBut the old note can still be exchanged by the Bank after the cut-off date.\n\nThreadneedle Street says polymer, also now used for the £5 note featuring Winston Churchill, is more durable and cleaner than paper notes.\n\nIt has persevered with the material despite complaints from religious and vegan groups that the animal fat tallow is used in the production process.\n\nFollowing consultation, the Bank said in August that it would continue with the use of tallow in future banknotes - saying it \"has not taken this decision lightly\".\n\nThe Bank assessed whether palm oil or coconut oil should be used instead, but concluded that this might not be able to be sourced sustainably. Changing production would also involve considerable extra costs to taxpayers.\n\nThe old £10 notes have been in circulation since November 2000, but lost out to the new ones on grounds of security as well as durability.\n\nThe Jane Austen notes have a number of features built in that make them particularly hard to forge.\n\nThey also have an inscription in raised dots that helps blind and partially-sighted users to identify them.\n\nThe end of the old paper tenner follows the official withdrawal last month of the old round £1 coin, which has now been wholly replaced by the new 12-sided version.", "Gary Goldsmith pleaded guilty to one count of assault by beating\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge's uncle has admitted punching his wife in the face and knocking her to the ground after a drunken row.\n\nGary Goldsmith, 52, attacked Julie-Ann Goldsmith outside their home in Wimpole Street, central London, in the early hours of 13 October.\n\nWestminster Magistrates' Court heard the pair had argued in the back of a taxi before he threw a \"left hook\".\n\nGoldsmith pleaded guilty to one count of assault by beating.\n\nProsecutor Kate Shilton told the court the couple's taxi driver saw Mrs Goldsmith slap her husband in the face before he retaliated as they got home after a charity event.\n\nShe said Mrs Goldsmith had \"fallen backwards\" after the punch and the taxi driver believed she had been knocked unconscious.\n\nMrs Goldsmith remained on the floor with eyes closed for about 15 seconds before she woke and staggered to her feet and crying, the court heard.\n\nMs Shilton said Goldsmith appeared to be \"panicked\" and when the taxi driver challenged him over his actions, he became aggressive.\n\nThe court was told Mrs Goldsmith then asked the taxi driver to call the police.\n\nWhen at the police station Goldsmith said he had pushed his wife hard but denied hitting her. The court heard he was apologetic for his actions.\n\nAhead of sentencing, which will take place on 21 November, chief magistrate Emma Arbuthnot said she was \"excluding custody and looking at a community order\".\n\n\"But I am really looking at how to protect this lady from this man,\" she said.\n\nMr Goldsmith is the younger brother of Carole Middleton and attended the weddings of both her daughters - the Duchess of Cambridge and Pippa Middleton.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "As peers discuss the grievance procedure raised earlier in the Commons, Lib Dem Baroness Hamwee says when stories of abuse of power emerged she felt \"guilty\" because she asked herself \"why wasn't I providing support?\"\n\nShe says: \"It took a week to remember many years ago I was subject to a minor act of inappropriate behaviour in the House.\n\n\"I realised I hadn't put it out of my consciousness because it was trivial, but because I was so shocked I buried it. That's what our minds do.\n\n\"We need to recognise the way people act when they've been subject to something so shocking is not what we might expect.\"", "The game simulates the attack capabilities of an AC-130 gunship\n\nRussia's Ministry of Defence has posted what it called \"irrefutable proof\" of the US aiding so-called Islamic State - but one of the images was actually taken from a video game.\n\nThe ministry claimed the image showed an IS convoy leaving a Syrian town last week aided by US forces.\n\nInstead, it came from the smartphone game AC-130 Gunship Simulator: Special Ops Squadron.\n\nThe ministry said an employee had mistakenly attached the photo.\n\nThe Conflict Intelligence Team fact-checking group said the other four provided were also errors, taken from a June 2016 video which showed the Iraqi Air Force attacking IS in Iraq.\n\nThe video game image seems to be taken from a promotional video on the game's website and YouTube channel, closely cropped to omit the game controls and on-screen information.\n\nIn the corner of the image, however, a few letters of the developer's disclaimer can still be seen: \"Development footage. This is a work in progress. All content subject to change.\"\n\nThe gameplay video, left, with the Russian MoD photo, right\n\nHours later, the ministry published an updated statement with a different set of images, which it also said proved their claims.\n\nIt repeated the claim it was \"irrefutable evidence that US are actually covering Isis [IS] combat units to recover their combat capabilities, redeploy, and use them to promote the American interests in the Middle East\".\n\nRussia alleges the US is co-operating with so-called Islamic State by providing cover to fleeing IS militants. In a Facebook post, the ministry said it liberated the town of Abu Kamal last week alongside the Syrian army.\n\nIt said the US-led coalition refused requests to cooperate and \"eliminate fleeing Isis convoys\".\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\nIt also accused the US-led coalition of carrying out air operations in the area to interfere with possible Russian strikes, and alleged that IS forces were disguising themselves as US-backed SDF fighters.\n\n\"The US are actually covering the Isis combat units to recover their combat capabilities, redeploy, and use them to promote the American interests in the Middle East,\" the statement concluded.\n\nA later press release said it had launched a probe into the actions of a civilian employee of one of its subdivisions who \"mistakenly attached photos\" to the first version of its statement.\n\nResponding to Russia's allegations in remarks carried by Reuters, a spokesman for the US-led coalition Col Ryan Dillon said the Russian allegations were \"about as accurate as their air campaign\".\n\n\"I certainly can't verify, but I've seen the report that one of the pictures came from a video game. So, again that is pretty consistent with what we have seen come out of Russian MoD, as being baseless, inaccurate and you know, completely false,\" 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 2 by Maria Olson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emma Dent Coad has been accused of writing a \"racist\" article in a 2010 blog piece\n\nA Conservative London Assembly member has accused a Labour MP of writing a \"racist\" article about him before she entered Parliament.\n\nEmma Dent Coad wrote a blog piece in 2010 in which she labelled Shaun Bailey a \"token ghetto boy\".\n\nMr Bailey said the MP should apologise for the \"hate-filled, racist article\".\n\nA spokesman for Ms Dent Coat, who was elected to Kensington in June, said she had been quoting Mr Bailey's \"own comments about parts of the borough\".\n\nIn the article Ms Dent Coad called Shaun Bailey the \"'token ghetto boy' standing behind D Cameron\"\n\nIn the piece Ms Dent Coad claimed Mr Bailey, who was a parliamentary candidate for Hammersmith, had \"stigmatised\" the area he was born in by referring to it as a \"ghetto\".\n\n\"Who can say where this man will ever fit in, however hard he tries? One day he is the 'token ghetto boy' standing behind D Cameron, the next 'looking interested' beside G Osborne. Ever felt used?,\" she wrote.\n\nAfter the blog post was highlighted, Mr Bailey said he had never been \"labelled a 'token ghetto boy'\" before and was \"shocked and saddened\" by the article.\n\nHe said Ms Dent Coad's \"use of language should not be acceptable for an elected politician... and she should be ashamed\", he said.\n\n\"I am proud of where I am from and would certainly not use language like ghetto in a way to disparage the area I grew up in,\" the London Assembly member said.\n\nMs Dent Coad's spokesman said it was clear in the original post she had been quoting Mr Bailey's \"own comments... plus those of his Conservative colleagues on Kensington and Chelsea Council\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lilleth went missing some time in the last three weeks\n\nA wild cat which escaped from a Ceredigion zoo has been \"humanely destroyed\", the county council has confirmed.\n\nLilleth, the Eurasian lynx, escaped from Borth Wild Animal Kingdom at some point in the last three weeks.\n\nThe council said despite \"exhaustive efforts\" to recapture her, it received advice that the risk to public safety had \"increased to severe\".\n\nEarlier on Friday, the council said the zoo would be put under scrutiny.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lynx at Borth Wild Animal Kingdom similar to the one that has gone missing\n\nA statement released by the local authority on Friday evening said the lynx had strayed over to a populated area of the community and \"it was necessary to act decisively\".\n\n\"The safety of the the public was paramount,\" the statement added.\n\nStaff at the zoo, which has been closed since Lilleth's escape, had been attempting to catch her.\n\nShe is believed to have escaped after making a \"giant leap\" over an electrified fence.\n\nLilleth caught on camera near one of the baited traps\n\nThere had been a number of sightings but she evaded capture and was at one point thought to be hiding in bushes near the zoo.\n\nCeredigion council and Dyfed-Powys Police said they had tried a \"range of measures\" to capture the Lynx, including baited traps.\n\nA post-mortem examination of a sheep found dead on land near the zoo showed \"traumatic injury\" but experts have been unable to say if the missing lynx was responsible.\n\nThe council said it would carry out an inspection of the zoo later this month.", "An Army sergeant accused of trying to murder his wife may be a \"pantomime villain driven by lust\" but he had no motive to kill, a jury has been told.\n\nFormer Army officer Victoria Cilliers suffered multiple injuries in 2015 when her parachute failed to open and she fell 4,000ft (1,200m).\n\nEmile Cilliers is accused of tampering with the equipment to cause her death.\n\nThe court heard he was an \"easy target\" to the prosecution because he had been unfaithful to his wife.\n\nIn her closing statement at Winchester Crown Court, Mr Cilliers' defence barrister Elizabeth Marsh QC told the jury that the prosecution considered Cilliers a \"vile human being\" and treated him with \"scorn, sarcasm and theatricality\".\n\nShe asked jurors to remember he was \"innocent until they were sure he was guilty\".\n\nMs Marsh said: \"Mr Cilliers is an easy target, no Prince Charming, if anything the pantomime villain, unfaithful, lying to each of the women in his life, as one assumes 'needs must' if you are conducting any sort of affair.\"\n\nEmile Cilliers is being represented by defence barrister Elizabeth Marsh QC\n\nShe added that his dishonesty during his affairs had been \"driven by lust\" but did not mean he was lying in his account of what happened to his wife.\n\n\"Do not characterise lies to fan the flames of lust as someway a motive for a murder,\" she said.\n\nMs Marsh also said that the suggested motive that he expected to receive his wife's estate if she died was \"utterly rubbish\".\n\nShe explained that the couple had a pre-nuptial agreement which excluded the \"financially incontinent\" and \"penniless scoundrel\" from inheriting from his wife.\n\nJurors were told Victoria Cilliers' survival was a \"near miracle\"\n\nMs Cilliers suffered multiple injuries when her hired parachute malfunctioned and the reserve failed as she plummeted 4,000ft to the ground at Netheravon Airfield, Wiltshire on 5 April 2015.\n\nJurors were told her survival was a \"near miracle\".\n\nThe defendant denies tampering with his wife's hire kit in a toilet cubicle at the Army Parachute Association.\n\nThe father-of-six also denies a second attempted murder charge relating to a gas leak at the family home in Amesbury, Wiltshire, and a third charge of damaging a gas valve, recklessly endangering life.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mr Duterte made the claim in a speech to Filipino expatriates\n\nPhilippines President Rodrigo Duterte has said he stabbed a person to death when he was a teenager.\n\n\"At 16, I killed someone,\" he told Filipinos in the Vietnamese city of Da Nang, where he is attending a regional summit. He said he stabbed the person \"just over a look\".\n\nHis spokesman later said his remarks had been \"in jest\".\n\nMr Duterte has previously said he killed criminal suspects as mayor of the city of Davao.\n\nThe Filipino leader is attending the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) summit, alongside regional leaders and US President Donald Trump.\n\nHe has presided over a massive crackdown on crime in the Philippines, which critics allege undermines fundamental human rights.\n\nMr Duterte has encouraged extrajudicial killings of those involved in the drugs trade, and said he would \"be happy to slaughter\" three million drug addicts in the country.\n\nAddressing the Filipino community in Da Nang, he said he had killed a person during his violent teenage years, when he said he was in numerous fights and \"in and out of jail\".\n\nBut a spokesman for the president, Harry Roque, told the AFP news agency that the remarks were \"in jest\" and the Filipino leader often used \"colourful language\" when addressing Filipinos overseas.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Duterte said last year that he shot dead three men while mayor of Davao\n\nMr Duterte has previously said he possibly killed someone while a teenager. In 2015 he told the Philippines edition of Esquire magazine that during \"a tumultuous fight in the beach\" when he was 17, \"maybe I stabbed somebody to death\".\n\nIt is not clear if he was referring to the same incident in his speech.\n\nHe also claims to have thrown corrupt officials out of helicopters, warning officials he would do it again if they embezzled financial aid. His spokesman described that claim as an \"urban legend\".\n\nSpeaking about human rights during his Vietnam visit, Mr Duterte proposed a \"world summit\" on the issue - but not looking solely at human rights abuses in the Philippines.\n\n\"What makes the death of people in the Philippines more important than the rest of the children in the world that were massacred and killed?\" the Manila Bulletin quoted him as saying.\n\nSince he took office, police say they have killed almost 4,000 people in anti-drug operations. More than 2,000 others have been killed in connection with drug-related crimes.\n\nIn September, the proposed budget for the human rights commission investigating the deaths was cut to 1,000 pesos - the equivalent of $20 (£15). It had asked for 1.72bn pesos ($34m).\n\nMr Duterte is due to hold bilateral talks with US President Donald Trump in the Philippines in the coming days - the first meeting between the pair.\n\nThe Philippines president was adversarial towards Mr Trump's predecessor Barack Obama, labelling him a \"son of a whore.\"", "Lupita Nyong'o has accused Grazia magazine of removing part of her hair for the front cover of its November edition.\n\nShe said she was \"disappointed\" it changed her hairstyle to \"fit their notion of what beautiful hair looks like\".\n\nThe actress posted the original image on Instagram alongside the published version - which appears to show some of her hair missing.\n\nIn a lengthy Instagram post, the Oscar-winning actress said: \"I embrace my natural heritage and despite having grown up thinking light skin and straight, silky hair were the standards of beauty, I now know that my dark skin and kinky, coily hair are beautiful too.\"\n\nThe 12 Years a Slave star went on to say if she had been consulted she wouldn't have supported the \"omission of what is my native heritage\".\n\nLupita, who's from Kenya, added there was \"still a very long way to go to combat the unconscious prejudice against black women's complexion, hair style and texture\".\n\nThe magazine took to Instagram to apologise to Lupita\n\nIn a statement, Grazia said it was \"committed to representing diversity\" and apologised to the actress.\n\nIt also said it also wanted to make clear that it did not ask the photographer to alter the image or make the edit itself.\n\nLupita is the latest star to tell a UK magazine not to touch her hair.\n\nSolange Knowles hit out at the London Evening Standard magazine last month for digitally removing some of her braids on its front cover.\n\nFind us on Instagram at BBCNewsbeat and follow us on Snapchat, search for bbc_newsbeat", "John Hillerman, the US actor who shot to fame as snooty English caretaker Higgins in Tom Selleck's '80s TV series Magnum PI, has died at the age of 84.\n\nHillerman's publicist said he died of natural causes on Thursday at his home in Houston, Texas.\n\nBorn in 1932, Hillerman started out on stage before landing small roles in such '70s classics as The Last Picture Show, Blazing Saddles and Chinatown.\n\nBut he is best known for Magnum, which won him a Golden Globe and an Emmy.\n\nHillerman beat several British actors to the Higgins role, which he once called \"the best gig I've ever had\".\n\nHe proved so convincing that he once received a fan letter from the UK describing him as \"a credit to the Empire\".\n\n\"I hate to disappoint you, but I'm a hick from Texas,\" he would write back to fans who assumed he was British.\n\nThe actor was last seen on screen playing a doctor in 1996 comedy A Very Brady Sequel.\n\nLarry Manetti, who played bar owner Orville \"Rick\" Wright in Magnum, remembered Hillerman on Twitter as a \"good friend\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Larry Manetti This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOthers tweeted tributes using pictures of 'Higgins' with his loyal Doberman Pinschers, Zeus and Apollo.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Brian This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Walt Disney has announced a deal to make three new Star Wars movies.\n\nThe company said it had struck a deal with Rian Johnson, director of the upcoming \"Star Wars: The Last Jedi\", to create a new trilogy of the science fiction blockbuster.\n\nDisney is also working on a live-action Star Wars series for a new online streaming service.\n\nThe news overshadowed Disney's first drop in annual profits since 2009, amid steep competition from online rivals.\n\nProfits for the year to September fell 4% to $8.98bn (£6.8bn).\n\nDisney's shares fell initially in after-hours trading on the release of its results, but they then rallied to 1% higher on news of the new Star Wars movies.\n\nChief executive Bob Iger said: \"We remain optimistic about our future, in part because quality truly does matter.\"\n\nThe entertainment giant also plans to launch a sports-focused ESPN+ app in the spring, and a Disney streaming service in 2019.\n\nMr Iger said those investments, which add to an existing Disney subscription service in Europe, were \"vital\" to the firm's future.\n\n\"Our goal here is to be a viable player in the direct-to-consumer space, a space that we all know is a very compelling space to be in,\" he said.\n\nHe declined to address reports that the company had held talks with 21st Century Fox about acquiring parts of its business, but he did not rule out an acquisition.\n\n\"I don't think there's ever such a thing as having too much quality.\"\n\nDisney is grappling with a challenge from online video, which has won viewers of traditional television and movies and is driving a shift away from cable television.\n\nIn the fourth quarter of Disney's financial year, covering the three months to the end of September, profits dipped 1% to $1.7bn.\n\nQuarterly revenues fell 3% to $12.8bn as the impact of hurricanes, lower advertising revenue and a decline in cable subscriptions weighed on the results.\n\nRevenue in its movie division sank 21%, which Disney said was due to a tough comparison with last year, when a new Star Wars movie lifted results.\n\nDisney's parks and resorts business, which has steadied results in recent quarters, was the only division that reported year-on-year revenue growth in the quarter, rising 6%.\n\nBut even that unit was affected by the hurricanes that struck the US earlier this year. Disney said that accounted for a roughly 3% decline in US attendance.", "Penny Mordaunt has become the UK's first female defence secretary after Gavin Williamson was sacked.\n\nShe was previously international development secretary, in charge of a multi-billion pound annual budget.\n\nWith a background as a naval reservist, and having served as an armed forces minister under David Cameron, Ms Mordaunt seems well prepared for the role.\n\nShe was seen as a frontrunner for the defence secretary position in 2017 when Michael Fallon was forced to quit the post, but lost out to Mr Williamson.\n\nMs Mordaunt was a high-profile campaigner for the Leave campaign during the 2016 EU referendum and underlined her pro-Brexit credentials by backing Andrea Leadsom in the subsequent Conservative leadership contest.\n\nDuring the referendum campaign - while a defence minister - she prompted a row by telling the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that the UK could not veto Turkey joining the European Union. The then-prime minister contradicted her on ITV's Peston on Sunday an hour later.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Penny Mordaunt: \"We're not going to be consulted... they are going to join, it's a matter of when\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Cameron: \"Britain and every other country in the EU has a veto on another country joining. That is a fact\"\n\nThe daughter of a paratrooper and a special needs teacher, Ms Mordaunt has two brothers, Edward and James, who is her twin, and has lived in her home town of Portsmouth since the age of two.\n\nShe was educated at Oaklands RC Comprehensive School and was the first member of her family to go to university.\n\nBefore studying philosophy at Reading University, she worked as a magician's assistant for a member of the Portsmouth and District Magic Circle, Will Ayling, author of The Art of Illusion and Oriental Conjuring and Magic.\n\nShe says on her website that she first became interested in politics working in hospitals and orphanages in post-revolutionary Romania during her gap year.\n\nBut Ms Mordaunt, 46, is probably best known outside Westminster for her appearance on ITV's celebrity diving show Splash! to raise money for charity.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Penny Mordaunt relives her moment diving in to a swimming pool on TV and admits \"it hurt a bit\" as she hit the water\n\nShe exited the contest in January 2014 after twice mistiming her back somersault from the 7.5m board but earned praise from Tom Daley and the other judges for her have-a-go attitude.\n\nLater that year she was in the headlines again for a speech she gave in the Commons on poultry welfare, which turned out to be an excuse to slip some very un-parliamentary language into proceedings.\n\nShe admitted she had made the speech - with its liberal use of \"lay\", \"laid\" and \"cock welfare\" - as a bet.\n\n\"When I was at Dartmouth doing my reservist training, some of my marine training officers thought it would be a good idea to try and break the ladylike persona that I maintained throughout the whole of my course by getting me to yell particular rude words during the most gruelling part of our training, and I'm happy to say that they failed in that,\" she said.\n\n\"But during our mess dinner at the end of the course I was fined for a misdemeanour, and the fine was to say a particular word, the abbreviation of cockerel, several times during a speech on the floor of the House of Commons and mention all of the officers' names present.\"\n\nMP for Portsmouth North since 2010, Ms Mordaunt is a former head of the Conservative Party's youth wing and was a press officer for William Hague when he was party leader, during which time she was seconded to work on George W Bush's 2000 election campaign in Washington.\n\n\"I was amazed at the similarities of the issues and tactics,\" she told The Daily Telegraph.\n\nBefore entering the world of Westminster politics, she was a press officer for Kensington and Chelsea Council and the Freight Transport Association, when she supported British truckers during French blockades.\n\nShe has also worked in the charity sector as a director of the Big Lottery Fund and Diabetes UK, where she set up services in developing countries particularly prone to the condition. She was also involved in David Willetts' abortive campaign to be Conservative leader in 2005 as his chief of staff.\n\nOn Twitter, Ms Mordaunt describes her two main interests as \"freedom and cats\".\n\nAnd, in her maiden speech to Parliament in June 2010, she revealed that she had been named after the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Penelope.\n\n\"I point out to my critics,\" she added, \"that HMS Penelope latterly became known as HMS Pepperpot because of her ability to endure massive amounts of shelling and remain afloat and able to return fire.\"", "Six fishermen were brought to shore by a lifeboat crew in a nine-and-a-half hour rescue in stormy seas.\n\nThe men's creel boat, Sparkling Line, broke down off the north Sutherland coast on Thursday. Thurso lifeboat was launched to go to their aid.\n\nThe conditions included gale force eight winds and waves of up to 33ft (10m) in height.\n\nThe RNLI volunteers managed to get a towline to the fishing boat but the tow parted fives times during the rescue.", "The UK's industrial output grew at its fastest pace so far this year in September, according to official figures.\n\nProduction rose by 0.7% compared with the month before, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said, boosted by machinery and equipment output.\n\nSeparate data showed the UK's trade deficit in goods and services narrowed by more than expected in September.\n\nHowever, construction output fell by 1.6% in the month, the ONS said.\n\nThe increase in industrial production was better than analysts' forecasts, and the fastest growth seen since December last year.\n\nManufacturing output - a subset of industrial output - also rose by 0.7% in September.\n\n\"Industrial production has risen for six consecutive months, a feat last achieved 23 years ago,\" said Samuel Tombs, chief UK economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics.\n\nHowever, he added that the recovery in manufacturing output could be hit by recent rises in the oil price.\n\nHoward Archer, chief economic adviser to the EY Item Club, said the outlook for manufacturing appeared \"mixed\".\n\nDomestic conditions looked \"challenging despite recent decent demand\", he said.\n\n\"Increased prices for capital goods and big-ticket consumer durable goods, weakened consumer purchasing power, and economic and political uncertainty threaten to hamper manufacturers.\n\n\"On the export side, a very competitive pound and healthy global demand are helping UK manufacturers competing in foreign markets. The weakened pound also appears to be encouraging some companies to switch to domestic sources for supplies.\"\n\nThe UK's trade deficit in goods and services narrowed by £0.7bn between August and September 2017 to £2.75bn, mainly due to trade in goods exports increasing by £1.3bn.\n\nDespite this, the UK's trade performance during the third quarter as a whole worsened, according to the ONS data.\n\nIn the three months to September 2017, the total UK trade deficit widened by £3bn to £9.5bn, mainly due to a increased imports, including of machinery, non-monetary gold and fuels.\n\nThe construction output data was much weaker than expected. As well as the sharp fall in September from August, output was only up 1.1% from a year earlier - the weakest annual rate since March last year.\n\nThe ONS said the latest economic data did not suggest there would be any change to its initial estimate that the UK economy grew 0.4% in the third quarter of the year.", "Seven police officers were affected by a substance while making an arrest\n\nA man has been charged with administering a poison with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm after two police officers were injured during an arrest.\n\nThey were affected by a chemical at a flat in north Oxford on Thursday and kept in hospital overnight.\n\nHamad Nejad, 34, from Oxford, appeared at Oxford Magistrates' Court earlier and was remanded in custody.\n\nHe is also charged with one count of intimidating a witness.\n\nFive other officers also experienced \"minor irritation\" as a result of the substance at the flat on Elizabeth Jennings Way.\n\nSurrounding flats on the street were evacuated as a precaution but residents have been able to return after tests showed there was no risk.\n\nMr Nejad is due to appear at Oxford Crown Court on 8 December.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "More than 100 UK millionaires have been identified as tax dodgers after hiding their wealth using offshore schemes.\n\nDocuments in the Paradise Papers leak show the identities of taxpayers who moved assets worth tens of millions of pounds into companies in Mauritius.\n\nThe tax avoidance schemes involve them claiming to no longer own property, cash and investments in order to keep their fortunes out of reach of HMRC.\n\nIt appears many of them use the companies like personal bank accounts.\n\nThis allows them to continue to enjoy the benefit of their hidden riches.\n\nMark Faulkner and his partner Harriet Logan moved more than £28m in cash and assets to a Mauritian company called Babington PCC.\n\nOfficially they have given away their fortune, but the Paradise Papers documents show they could still control how cash was spent because they acted as \"investment advisers\" to Babington.\n\nThey have advised the offshore company to buy a £3.25m country mansion, properties in London, a brand new Aston Martin, an art collection, a collection of classic photographs and a cellar of vintage wines.\n\nIt also owned their holiday home in Florida, funded the upkeep of another holiday home in the south of France, paid for trips to New York and Miami, and spent more than £100,000 a year funding Mr Faulkner's hobby of classic yacht racing.\n\nMr Faulkner, a former banker, and ex-war photographer Ms Logan contributed £1.6m of the offshore money to the \"Education Purpose Trust\" - which would then fund their four children's entire private education.\n\nMr Faulkner initially denied putting any money into the Mauritian company, but his lawyers later told BBC Panorama that while they did not accept our assertions, they have \"now commenced dialogue with HMRC to review the arrangements that their previous advisers had recommended\".\n\nThe tax avoidance schemes were administered by Appleby, the law firm at the centre of the Paradise Papers leak.\n\nThe leaked documents show dozens of Britons have moved their wealth into companies based in Mauritius\n\nThey were set up by James O'Toole, a British lawyer who has made his own fortune by advising the wealthy how to dodge tax.\n\nThe documents show that Mr O'Toole has personally used a similar type of tax avoidance scheme to his clients.\n\nHe was an \"investment advisor\" to a Mauritian company which owns his mansion in Northumberland.\n\nHe has also not owned two Aston Martins, a BMW, a Range Rover, luxury watches including a Rolex, and a Harley Davidson motorbike - which were all kept at his home.\n\nMr O'Toole even advised his offshore company to use his tax-free cash to pay for his own personal shopper.\n\nShe was paid tens of thousands of dollars to buy his clothes, shop for groceries, pick up nappies, order limos and suggest Mother's Day presents.\n\nSome of the cash came from the huge fees he charges clients.\n\nOne British couple were charged £960,000 for tax advice by Mr O'Toole's company - £827,000 of that cash was paid straight into the offshore bank account connected to Mr O'Toole's company.\n\nPanorama asked Mr O'Toole whether he had declared this income to HMRC.\n\nMr O'Toole's lawyer said the allegations are \"ill-judged and unsupported by any relevant evidence\".\n\nHe said Mr O'Toole \"prepared a detailed and rigorous rebuttal\" but could not comment further.\n\nIn a statement on the Paradise Papers, Appleby said it was a law firm which operates in jurisdictions regulated to the highest international standards and \"advises clients on legitimate and lawful ways to conduct their business\".\n\nFind out more about the words and phrases found in the Paradise Papers.\n\nYour browser does not support this Lookup Your guide to financial jargon\n\nThe papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nThe 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Panorama has led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries. The BBC does not know the identity of the source.\n\nParadise Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #ParadisePapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"Paradise Papers\"\n\nWatch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "Two species of seahorses have made their home in the River Thames, conservation charity ZSL has found.\n\nThe creatures have been spotted six times in the last two months in the river between Greenwich and the South Bank.", "Isaiah, pictured with an aunt, has brain damage\n\nA mother and father are fighting a High Court battle to stop their eight-month-old son's life support machine being switched off.\n\nIsaiah Haastrup is brain damaged and dependent on a ventilator to keep him alive at King's College Hospital, London.\n\nDoctors said giving him further treatment was \"futile, burdensome and not in his best interests\".\n\nBut father Lanre Haastrup and mother Takesha Thomas want it to continue.\n\nThey also hope an independent assessor will be appointed to give a medical opinion.\n\nIsaiah was born with a severe brain injury believed to have been caused by oxygen deprivation.\n\nDoctors do not think there are any \"further investigations or forms of treatment\" which would benefit him, the hospital's barrister Fiona Paterson said.\n\nShe told Mr Justice MacDonald relations between hospital bosses and Isaiah's parents were \"difficult\".\n\nThe court heard that Mr Haastrup, of Peckham, south London, had been barred from visiting the hospital following an incident a few days ago.\n\nMr Haastrup sought a judicial review over the ban which has been refused by the High Court.\n\n\"I am not a saint but I am not a demon either,\" he said.\n\nHe told the court there had been a \"lack of care\" for Isaiah.\n\nMr Justice MacDonald created an order barring the media from identifying medical staff caring for Isaiah and said he hoped mediation could avoid a full trial.\n\nFailing that, the court case will formally begin on 15 January.\n\nA King's College Hospital spokeswoman said Mr Haastrup had already made a written application for permission to launch a judicial review but this was refused by a judge earlier this week.\n\nIn July, the High Court ruled Great Ormond Street Hospital doctors could stop providing life-support treatment to baby Charlie Gard, following a lengthy and high profile court case.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Those caught up in the anti-corruption drive are reportedly being held at Riyadh's Ritz-Carlton\n\nSaudi Arabia's attorney general says at least $100bn (£76bn) has been misused through systemic corruption and embezzlement in recent decades.\n\nSheikh Saud al-Mojeb said 201 people were being held for questioning as part of a sweeping anti-corruption drive that began on Saturday night.\n\nHe did not name any of them, but they reportedly include senior princes, ministers and influential businessmen.\n\n\"The evidence for this wrongdoing is very strong,\" Sheikh Mojeb said.\n\nHe also stressed that normal commercial activity in the kingdom had not been affected by the crackdown, and that only personal bank accounts had been frozen.\n\nSheikh Saud al-Mojeb said investigations by the newly-formed supreme anti-corruption committee, which is headed by 32-year-old Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, were \"progressing very quickly\".\n\nHe announced that 208 individuals had been called in for questioning so far, and that seven of them had been released without charge.\n\n\"The potential scale of corrupt practices which have been uncovered is very large,\" the attorney general said. \"Based on our investigations over the past three years, we estimate that at least $100bn has been misused through systematic corruption and embezzlement over several decades.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSheikh Mojeb said the committee had a clear legal mandate to move on to the next phase of its investigation and that it had suspended the bank accounts of \"persons of interest\" on Tuesday.\n\n\"There has been a great deal of speculation around the world regarding the identities of the individuals concerned and the details of the charges against them,\" he added. \"In order to ensure that the individuals continue to enjoy the full legal rights afforded to them under Saudi law, we will not be revealing any more personal details at this time.\"\n\nAmong those reportedly detained are the billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal; Prince Miteb bin Abdullah, a son of the late king who was also removed from his post as National Guard chief on Saturday; and his brother Prince Turki bin Abdullah, a former governor of Riyadh province.\n\nIt is the Saudi weekend now and the country is still reeling from the monumental changes taking place.\n\nSo far, so good, as far as the crown prince and his supporters are concerned. \"Phase One\", as the attorney-general calls it, is complete. Around 200 leading royal and business figures have been \"called in for questioning\" and there has been no visible resistance, no disaffected army hammering at the palace gates, no calls to arms on social media. Quite the opposite, in fact.\n\nSaudi Arabia's overwhelmingly young population has largely welcomed this clean-out of the kingdom's notoriously profligate elite. The more hardline Wahhabi religious clerics, still licking their wounds from the crown prince's recent announcement that the country needs to become more tolerant of other religions, will also be welcoming the purge.\n\nThe questions on everyone's mind though, are how far will it go and who will be next?\n\nOthers are said to include Alwalid al-Ibrahim, owner of the television network MBC; Amr al-Dabbagh, former head of the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority; Khalid al-Tuwaijri, former chief of the Royal Court; and Bakr Binladen, chairman of the Saudi Binladen Group.\n\nAt least some of them are believed to be held at the five-star Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh's diplomatic quarter. Paying guests were asked to vacate their rooms late on Saturday and the hotel's exterior gate has been shuttered since Sunday.\n\nOn Tuesday, the US said it had urged the Saudi government to handle any prosecutions stemming from the probe in a \"fair and transparent\" manner.\n\nHuman Rights Watch meanwhile called on Saudi officials to \"immediately reveal the legal and evidentiary basis for each person's detention and make certain that each person detained can exercise their due process rights\".\n\nThe detentions follow a wave of other recent arrests of clerics, human rights activists and intellectuals, for which the authorities have not given specific reasons.", "Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (left) and Emmanuel Macron met in Riyadh on Thursday\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron has paid an unscheduled visit to Saudi Arabia amid an escalating crisis between the kingdom and Lebanon.\n\nHis trip comes days after Lebanese PM Saad Hariri resigned while in Riyadh, saying he feared for his life.\n\nFoes Saudi Arabia and Iran have accused each other of fuelling instability in Lebanon and the wider region.\n\nMr Macron and Saudi officials also discussed the crisis in Yemen, where Riyadh is leading a war against rebels.\n\nFrance has historical ties with Lebanon, as it was given the mandate to run the country before Lebanese independence during World War Two.\n\nThe French president was in the United Arab Emirates on Thursday to open the Louvre Abu Dhabi, a spin-off of the famous Paris art museum.\n\nAhead of his two-hour visit to Riyadh, Mr Macron said all Lebanese officials should live freely, \"which means having a very demanding stance on those who could threaten any leader\".\n\nNo details of the alleged plot against Mr Hariri have been made public.\n\nUncertainty surrounds Mr Hariri's circumstances, amid rumours he was being held in Riyadh.\n\nMr Macron said on Thursday he had had informal contact with Mr Hariri, without giving details, while France's foreign minister said France believed Mr Hariri was able to move freely.\n\nMr Hariri said in a TV broadcast on Saturday that he was stepping down because of the unspecified threat to his life.\n\nIn the video statement, Mr Hariri also attacked Hezbollah, which is politically and militarily powerful in Lebanon, and Iran.\n\nThere are fears Lebanon could become embroiled in a wider regional confrontation between major Sunni power Saudi Arabia and Shia-dominated Iran.\n\nMr Macron is a keen supporter of the 2015 Iranian nuclear deal, which both the Saudis and the Trump administration have heavily criticised.\n\nBefore going to Saudi Arabia, Mr Macron said that he had heard \"very harsh opinions\" on Iran from Saudi Arabia, which did not match his own view. \"It is important to speak with everyone,\" he added.\n\nBut an official communiqué from his office following the visit did not say Iran was among the matters discussed, French newspaper Le Monde reported.\n\nTensions between Saudi Arabia, Iran and Lebanon have soared since Mr Hariri announced his resignation.\n\nOn Thursday, Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies told their citizens in Lebanon to leave the country immediately. It came after Riyadh accused Iran of \"direct military aggression\", saying it supplied a missile which it says was fired by Hezbollah at Riyadh from Yemen on Saturday.\n\nIran has dismissed the Saudi allegations as \"false and dangerous\".", "Householders who receive poor service from their telecoms provider are to get automatic compensation, the regulator Ofcom has announced.\n\nFrom 2019 they will get £8 a day if a fault is not fixed, paid as a refund through their bill.\n\nThis is less than the £10 that was proposed when Ofcom began its consultation earlier this year.\n\nProviders will also have to pay £5 a day if their broadband or landline is not working on the day it was promised.\n\nIf an engineer misses an appointment, they will have to give £25 in compensation.\n\nOfcom has estimated as many as 2.6 million people could benefit from the new rules.\n\nThe agreement covers consumers who have contracts with BT, Sky, Talk Talk, Virgin Media and Zen Internet - which make up around 90% of telecoms customers in the UK.\n\nPlusnet and EE are expected to join the scheme at a later date.\n\n\"Waiting too long for your landline or broadband to be fixed is frustrating enough, without having to fight for compensation,\" said Lindsey Fussell, Ofcom's consumer group director.\n\n\"So providers will have to pay money back automatically, whenever repairs or installations don't happen on time, or an engineer doesn't turn up.\n\n\"People will get the money they deserve, while providers will want to work harder to improve their service.\"\n\nOfcom said the scheme would not come in to operation until early 2019, because of the complexity of the changes.\n\nIt said that billing systems and online accounts would need to be altered, and staff would need to be re-trained.\n\nIn total, customers can expect to get £142m in pay-outs every year, according to Ofcom's estimates.\n\nAt the moment telecoms users can get compensation in theory, but only around 15% of those who complain manage to get a refund.\n\nEven then most only get small amounts, said Ofcom.\n\nAnyone wanting to obtain compensation under the current arrangements can find help on the Ofcom website.\n\nWhich? said that those providers who have not already joined the automatic compensation scheme should do so.", "Nicola Sturgeon has accused the UK government of leaving devolved administrations \"substantially in the dark\" on key Brexit talks.\n\nThe first minister's comments come ahead of a meeting of the British Irish Council in Jersey.\n\nShe called on the UK government to make good on its promise to give the devolved administrations a \"genuine role\" in discussions.\n\nThe UK government said there had been an unprecedented level of engagement.\n\nMs Sturgeon will attend the British Irish Council with Scottish Brexit minster Mike Russell and External Affairs Secretary Fiona Hyslop. The First Secretary of State Damien Green will represent the UK government.\n\nThe first minister is seeking urgent clarity on what kind of transition arrangements are planned for sectors like agriculture and fisheries.\n\nAhead of the meeting, she claimed the devolved administrations had been \"cut out\" of the talks.\n\nDamien Green will represent the UK government at the meeting\n\nShe said: \"In less than 18 months' time, the UK will be leaving the EU, but despite reassurances that all devolved administrations will be consulted on the withdrawal negotiations, we remain substantially in the dark.\n\n\"The UK government assured us that the Joint Ministerial Committee (JMC) would seek to agree UK positions and discuss issues stemming from the negotiations, respecting the devolved competencies, but the UK government then allowed that process to fall short of what is required.\"\n\nShe added that there had only been one meeting of the JMC on EU negotiations since talks began on 19 June.\n\n\"This is not an abstract debate about process,\" she said. \"Leaving the EU will have an enormous impact on Scottish jobs, our economy and our relationship with the world - indeed, Brexit's effects are already being felt.\n\n\"We know from businesses in Scotland that a hard Brexit will cause serious and long-term economic damage and it is crucial we stay in the single market and customs union.\n\n\"As has previously been said, the clock is ticking on Brexit and it is essential that the UK government live up to its promises to give devolved administrations a genuine role on what is by far the most important issue facing every corner of these islands.\"\n\nA UK government spokesman said: \"These comments come just weeks after an agreement was made at a Joint Ministerial Committee between the UK government and the devolved administrations, including the Scottish government, on the principles that will underpin the process for bringing back powers from the EU to the UK.\n\n\"There has been an unprecedented level of engagement between ministers and officials in devolved administrations which will continue. We are committed to securing a deal that works for the entire UK, including Scotland.\"", "The duty-free sales to staff and retired workers raise revenue for the Vatican\n\nPope Francis has ordered a ban on the sale of cigarettes inside the Vatican, beginning next year.\n\nVatican spokesman Greg Burke said the Holy See could not co-operate with a practice that clearly harmed people's health.\n\nAbout 5,000 employees and retired staff of the Vatican are currently allowed to buy discounted cigarettes.\n\nThe sales are estimated to bring in millions of euros every year to the Vatican.\n\nBut Mr Burke said no amount of profit could be legitimate if it was costing people their lives.\n\nHe cited World Health Organization figures that blame smoking for more than seven million deaths worldwide every year .\n\n\"I think many people enjoyed it as sort of a fringe benefit,\" he said.\n\n\"It comes as a bit of a sacrifice for the Holy See, this was a source of revenue, but it's obviously much more important to do what is right.\"\n\nPope Francis, who had a lung removed as a teenager, does not smoke.\n\nVatican staff and pensioners are permitted to buy five cartons of cigarettes every month from a duty-free shop, housed in a former railway station, which is only open to those with a special pass.\n\nCorrespondents say many non-smokers inside the Vatican are asked by friends outside to buy cigarettes for them because they are cheaper than in Italy where they are heavily taxed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA mental health patient who was found guilty of murdering his neighbour in a \"savage and sustained\" attack has been jailed for life.\n\nIt ended with Barry, 56, slicing off the Kurdish refugee's penis.\n\nSentencing, Mrs Justice May said the decision to release Barry had been \"nothing short of calamitous\".\n\nBarry had denied murder but admitted manslaughter by diminished responsibility at Bristol Crown Court.\n\n\"Once inside Mr Ahmad's flat, you subjected him to a frenzied attack, and the pathologist describes over 70 separate knife injuries,\" she said.\n\n\"Mr Ahmad bled to death. After he died, you cut off his penis and then you went downstairs and phoned the police.\"\n\nBarry was told he would serve at least 23 years.\n\nThe court was told Barry had stabbed his 49-year-old neighbour to death at his flat in Wells Road in Bristol at about 02:00 BST on 7 July 2016.\n\nLast month a jury unanimously convicted Barry, who is being held at Broadmoor Hospital, of murder following a two-week trial.\n\nThe jury was told he was racist towards Iraqi-born Mr Ahmad and had previously assaulted him.\n\nA post-mortem examination found injuries to Mr Ahmad included 25 stab wounds to his face and eyes.\n\nBarry had told a community psychiatric nurse he was \"criminally insane\" in a phone call he made minutes before the fatal attack.\n\nBut police discovered a note in his room reading: \"The fact is, I have acted out my entire psychiatric history. I'm very well. Sorry.\"\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\nPenny Mordaunt has been promoted to the cabinet as the new International Development Secretary, following the resignation of Priti Patel.\n\nLike Ms Patel, Ms Mordaunt was among Conservatives who backed Leave during the EU Referendum campaign.\n\nMs Mordaunt, 44, said she was \"delighted\" to take on the role, as she visited her new department.\n\nMs Patel quit on Wednesday, admitting unauthorised meetings with Israeli officials had \"lacked transparency\".\n\nIt was the second cabinet resignation in a week. Last week Gavin Williamson replaced Sir Michael Fallon as defence secretary, after he quit saying his conduct had \"fallen short\" of the required standards after allegations of inappropriate sexual behaviour.\n\nMs Mordaunt, MP for Portsmouth North, is a Royal Navy reservist and was appointed as the first female minister for the Armed Forces in 2015. It had been thought she was in the running to replace Sir Michael last week.\n\nSpeaking at the Department for International Development, Ms Mordaunt said: \"I'm delighted to have been appointed by the prime minister to be the new secretary of state for International Development.\n\n\"I'm looking forward to working with the team here to continue building a safer, more secure, more prosperous world for us all and really giving the British public pride in what we do.\"\n\nThere are good reasons why Penny Mordaunt has been promoted to the Department for International Development.\n\nShe has worked in humanitarian aid, she has been a minister in two different departments, former colleagues rate her abilities and she was tipped last week to be elevated to running the Ministry of Defence.\n\nBut there is a lot more to her than meets the eye, and a lot more that is interesting about her than going on TV in a swimsuit. She also has a different political qualification - she was prominent campaigning Brexiteer.\n\nFirst elected to the Commons in 2010 she had been minister for disabled people in the Department for Work and Pensions until her promotion. She is also known for appearing on the reality TV programme Splash! in 2014.\n\nBBC political correspondent Vicki Young said she thought Ms Mordaunt would be a popular appointment within the party. She said it would keep the balance within the cabinet when it came to Brexit - in terms of the numbers of ministers who supported Leave or Remain during the referendum - as well as preserving the gender balance, an issue which Theresa May was concerned about.\n\nAs International Development Secretary, Ms Mordaunt will be in charge of the UK's £13bn foreign aid budget.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Penny Mordaunt relives her moment diving in to a swimming pool on TV and admits \"it hurt a bit\" as she hit the water\n\nFormer Culture Secretary John Whittingdale told the BBC: \"I think it's a good appointment. Penny is somebody who has a lot of experience, she has worked in an international department before - as armed forces minister, I have no doubt she will do an excellent job.\"\n\nAid charities also welcomed the appointment. Referring to Ms Mordaunt's student work in Romanian orphanages, director of anti-poverty campaign One UK, Romilly Greenhill, said she was \"well suited for her new role\" while Oxfam chief executive Mark Goldring hoped Ms Mordaunt would be \"a champion for Britain ensuring that aid is spent where it is most needed, helping the world's poorest people\".\n\nHer Labour shadow Kate Osamor congratulated Ms Mordaunt on her appointment and said she \"faces an immediate challenge of restoring integrity to British international development policy after the actions of Priti Patel\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What went wrong for Priti Patel? The BBC's James Landale explains\n\nShe added: \"That means she must unequivocally commit to the spirit, as well as the letter, of Britain's pledge to spend 0.7 per cent of national income on international development, and face down those in her party who want to merge DFID into the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.\"\n\nMs Patel's difficulties began last week, when the BBC revealed she had arranged a number of meetings with business and political figures during a family holiday to Israel in August, without telling Downing Street or the Foreign Office.\n\nIt later emerged that after Ms Patel's visit to Israel, she asked her officials to look into whether Britain could support humanitarian operations conducted by the Israeli army in the occupied Golan Heights area.\n\nIn other appointments on Thursday, Sarah Newton has been made a minister in the Department for Work and Pensions while Victoria Atkins has become a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Home Office.", "Theresa May has outlined plans to set the UK's departure date and time from the EU in law, warning she will not \"tolerate\" any attempt to block Brexit.\n\nShe said the EU Withdrawal Bill would be amended to formally commit to Brexit at 23:00 GMT on Friday 29 March 2019.\n\nThe bill will be scrutinised by MPs next week - but the PM warned against attempts to stop it or slow it down.\n\nMrs May was writing in the Daily Telegraph as a fresh round of Brexit negotiations are due to begin later.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the European Union after 2016's referendum in which 51.9% of voters backed Brexit.\n\nThe prime minister said the decision to put the specific time of Brexit \"on the front page\" of the Brexit bill showed the government was determined to see the process through.\n\n\"Let no-one doubt our determination or question our resolve, Brexit is happening,\" she wrote.\n\n\"It will be there in black and white on the front page of this historic piece of legislation: the United Kingdom will be leaving the EU on March 29, 2019 at 11pm GMT.\"\n\nThe draft legislation has already passed its second reading, and now faces several attempts to amend it at the next part of its parliamentary journey - the committee stage.\n\nMrs May said most people wanted politicians to \"come together\" to negotiate a good Brexit deal, adding that MPs \"on all sides\" should help scrutinise the bill.\n\nShe said the government would listen to MPs if they had ideas for improving the bill, but warned against attempts to halt the process.\n\n\"We will not tolerate attempts from any quarter to use the process of amendments to this Bill as a mechanism to try to block the democratic wishes of the British people by attempting to slow down or stop our departure from the European Union.\"\n\nMPs have previously been told there have been 300 amendments and 54 new clauses proposed.\n\nDavid Davis is due to take part in a fresh round of Brexit negotiations\n\nThe PM said the \"historic\" bill was \"fundamental to delivering a smooth and orderly Brexit\" and would give \"the greatest possible clarity and certainty for all businesses and families across the country\".\n\nLabour MP and remain campaigner, Chuka Umunna, said many experts believed the March 2019 leaving date did not give much time for negotiations.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 live: \"Lord Bridges said he could not see the government being able to negotiate the transition arrangement, like the bridge to us leaving, and the divorce bill, by 2019. So we may actually need more time.\"\n\nLord Kerr, the former diplomat who helped draft Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty - the mechanism the UK has used to exit the EU - said putting the Brexit date on the bill did not mean the withdrawal process was irreversible.\n\nThe cross-bench peer told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that decisions such as these were being made in Westminster, and \"had nothing to do with the treaty, and they have nothing to do with the views of our partners in Brussels\".\n\nBut the Conservative MP and leave campaigner, Peter Bone, welcomed the decision to enshrine the leaving date in law, saying it was a \"really big, important step\".\n\nIt comes as a leaked account of a meeting of EU diplomats this week suggested that Northern Ireland may have to abide by the EU's rules on the customs union and single market after Brexit - in order to avoid the introduction of border checks.\n\nBoth Britain and the EU say they are committed to ensuring that Brexit does not undermine the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement or lead to the emergence of hard-border with the Republic of Ireland.\n\nHowever, BBC correspondent Adam Fleming said the commission's suggestion appeared to be at odds with comments made by the Northern Ireland Secretary, James Brokenshire, this week.\n\nMr Brokenshire said it was \"difficult to imagine\" Northern Ireland remaining in either the customs union or the single market after Brexit.", "The UK has two weeks to clarify key issues or make concessions if progress is to be made in Brexit talks, the bloc's chief negotiator has said.\n\nMichel Barnier was speaking after meeting the Brexit secretary for talks on citizens' rights, the Irish border, and the UK's \"divorce bill\".\n\nDavid Davis said it was time for both sides \"to work to find solutions\".\n\nBefore the talks, Theresa May said she wanted the UK's exit date set in law, and warned MPs not to block Brexit.\n\nSpeaking at a press conference in Brussels, Mr Barnier suggested Britain would have to clarify its position in the next fortnight on what it would pay to settle its obligations to the EU if the talks were to have achieved \"sufficient progress\" ahead of December's European Council meeting.\n\n\"It is just a matter of settling accounts as in any separation,\" Mr Barnier said.\n\nMr Barnier also said both sides had to work towards an \"objective interpretation\" of Prime Minister Theresa May's pledge that no member of the EU would lose out financially as a result of the Brexit vote.\n\nThe Brexit secretary insisted good progress was being made across the board, and that the negotiations had narrowed to a \"few outstanding, albeit important, issues\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Davis says there cannot be a new border within the UK\n\nMr Davis and Mr Barnier agreed there had been progress on the issue of settled status for EU citizens in the UK after Brexit.\n\nMr Barnier said the UK had provided \"useful clarifications\" on guaranteeing rights, although more work needed to be done on some points including rights of families and exporting welfare payments.\n\nFor the UK's part, Mr Davis said, the government had \"listened carefully\" to concerns and that there would be a \"streamlined and straightforward\" process for EU nationals to obtain settled status.\n\nBut Mr Davis rejected a suggestion that Northern Ireland could remain within the European customs union.\n\nHe was responding to a European Commission paper, which proposed that Northern Ireland may have to remain a member of the EU's single market or customs union, if a so-called \"hard border\" with the Irish Republic is to be avoided.\n\nSaying there had been \"frank discussions\" with Mr Barnier and his negotiators on the issue of the Irish border, Mr Davis insisted there could be \"no new border\" inside the UK.\n\n\"We respect the European Union desire to protect the legal order of the single market and the customs union, but that cannot come at cost to the constitutional and economic integrity of the United Kingdom,\" Mr Davis told reporters in Brussels.\n\n\"We recognise the need for specific solutions for the unique circumstances of Northern Ireland. But let me be clear - this cannot amount to creating a new border inside our United Kingdom,\" he added.\n\nMr Barnier said the \"unique situation\" on the island of Ireland required \"technical and regulatory solutions necessary to prevent a hard border\".\n\nMichel Barnier usually says at post-negotiation press conferences that the clock is ticking.\n\nHe didn't this time: he gave a specific timeframe. He wants the UK to provide more clarity in the next two weeks on its positions on the rights of EU citizens who wish to remain after Brexit, the plans for the Irish border and principles for calculating Britain's financial obligations.\n\nAlthough the EU doesn't want a precise figure, it wants the UK to clarify what it's willing to pay to live up to the financial commitments made as a member.\n\nOn Ireland, both sides have pledged to protect the peace process but the EU has suggested that might require Northern Ireland sticking to European rules on customs and the single market - rules that the rest of Britain might not follow in future. David Davis rejected that.\n\nUK sources agree it looks like they've been set a deadline but they feel it is a logical reading of the EU's timetable, under which their officials have to begin preparations for the next summit of EU leaders in December fairly soon.\n\nLooking ahead to December's EU summit, Mr Davis pledged the UK was \"ready and willing\" to engage with Brussels \"as often and as quickly as needed\".\n\n\"But we need to see flexibility, imagination and willingness to make progress on both sides if these negotiations are to succeed and we are able to realise our new deep and special partnership,\" he said.\n\nFriday's update came as Prime Minister Theresa May announced she wanted the date the UK leaves the EU - 29 March 2019 - enshrined in law.\n\nThe prime minister wrote in Friday's Daily Telegraph she would not tolerate attempts to \"block\" Brexit\n\nThe prime minister said the decision to put the specific time of Brexit \"on the front page\" of the Brexit bill showed the government was determined to see the process through.\n\n\"Let no-one doubt our determination or question our resolve, Brexit is happening,\" she wrote.\n\nThe draft legislation has already passed its second reading, and now faces several attempts to amend it at the next part of its parliamentary journey - the committee stage.\n\nMrs May said the government would listen to MPs if they had ideas for improving the bill, but warned against attempts to halt the process.\n\n\"We will not tolerate attempts from any quarter to use the process of amendments to this bill as a mechanism to try to block the democratic wishes of the British people by attempting to slow down or stop our departure from the European Union.\"", "A police force is facing a legal challenge against its refusal to delete the details of a teenager who sent a naked photograph of himself on social media to a girl at his school.\n\nThe boy, 14 at the time, was not arrested or prosecuted by Greater Manchester Police.\n\nBut his mother said she was concerned police could release the information to potential employers when he is older.\n\nThe High Court is due to consider the case this morning.\n\nThe boy used a messaging site to send a photo of his naked body to the girl, who then shared it with others, more than two years ago.\n\nHis mother said she was \"in complete shock\" when she heard what had happened, but \"this had all happened in the privacy of his own bedroom\".\n\nShe said even though \"he was young, he was naive, he was silly\" she believes the sharing of the photo was \"malicious\".\n\nPolice took no action against him other than to record on their database that he had taken and forwarded an \"indecent\" image of himself, logged under a section entitled \"Obscene Publications\".\n\nGreater Manchester Police has refused to delete the boy's name from its files, a decision his mother is contesting at the court, which is sitting in Manchester.\n\nShe said: \"It's going to be held there infinitum, so for all his adult life it hangs over him.\n\n\"I'm his parent and its my job to know when something needs to be dealt with and that's why I'm still pursuing proceedings to ultimately get his name removed.\n\n\"We are criminalising our children for something that if they did at the age of 18 is not a crime.\n\n\"The law hasn't kept up with technology. By giving our children smartphones in effect we're giving them a Pandora's Box.\"\n\nThe force is expected to argue it would pass on the details to an employer only after weighing up the risk he presented against the impact that disclosure would have on him.\n\nCampaign group Just for Kids Law, which is supporting his family, says it is aware of other so-called \"sexting\" cases where police have been criticised for being too heavy-handed.\n\nThe Home Office is an interested party in the proceedings. Its position is understood to be that although police have to record such incidents, it is at their discretion whether they include the name of the person.", "Joe Fox went from being homeless, to meeting A$AP Rocky whilst busking in London. He then became Rocky's main collaborator, featuring five times on his latest number one album.\n\nWe caught up with him before a \"Shelter from the Storm\" gig for the homeless.", "Louis CK's planned appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert has also been cancelled\n\nUS comedian Louis CK's movie premiere has been cancelled hours before the screening as five women levelled sexual misconduct allegations against him.\n\nFour of the accusers told the New York Times he had masturbated during interactions with them and a fifth said he had asked to do so.\n\nThe BBC has contacted the Emmy-winning comic's manager for a comment.\n\nThe distributor of his new film, I Love You, Daddy, said it was reviewing plans for its general release.\n\nFour comediennes - Dana Min Goodman, Julia Wolov, Rebecca Corry and Abby Schachner - and a fifth woman who spoke on condition of anonymity made allegations about the entertainer in Thursday's New York Times report.\n\nMs Goodman and Ms Wolov said Louis CK stripped naked and masturbated after inviting them to his hotel room during the US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado, in 2002.\n\nActresses Julia Wolov (L) and Dana Goodman in Hollywood in 2011\n\nMs Corry told the newspaper that the comic was a guest star on a TV pilot she was appearing on in 2005 when he asked if he could go to her dressing room so she could watch him perform a sex act on himself.\n\nShe said she rebuked him and pointed out that he had a daughter and a pregnant wife.\n\nMs Schachner said she called Louis CK in 2003 to invite him to one of her shows and was dumbfounded to realise during their phone conversation that he was masturbating.\n\n\"I felt very ashamed,\" she told the New York Times.\n\nA fifth woman, who did not want to be named, told the newspaper of alleged incidents involving the comic in the late 1990s while she was working in production on The Chris Rock Show.\n\nLouis CK, who was a writer and producer on the show, repeatedly asked her to watch him perform a sex act, she said.\n\nA question mark now hangs over the general release of the comedian's new film\n\nThe accuser told the New York Times she went along with his requests even though she knew it was wrong.\n\n\"He abused his power,\" she said.\n\nThe premiere of Louis CK's new movie in New York City on Thursday night was abruptly called off.\n\nI Love You, Daddy was written and directed by Louis CK, who also stars in the film as a father who tries to stop his 17-year-old daughter (Chloe Grace Moretz) from having a relationship with a seedy 68-year-old film director (John Malkovich).\n\nRebecca Corry said Louis CK asked if he could go to her dressing room so she could watch him perform a sex act\n\nThe movie's distributor, the Orchard, has not confirmed that it will go ahead with its release date in cinemas on 17 November.\n\n\"In light of the allegations considering Louis CK references in today's New York Times, we are cancelling tonight's premiere of I Love You, Daddy,\" the Orchard said in a statement to industry publications.\n\n\"There is never a place for the behaviour detailed in these allegations.\n\n\"As a result, we are giving careful consideration to the timing and release of the film and continuing to review the situation.\"\n\n\"I felt very ashamed,\" Abby Schachner told the New York Times\n\nLouis CK's planned appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert has also been cancelled.\n\nOn Thursday night, HBO announced it would purge Louis CK's past projects from its On Demand service.\n\nThe cable TV network also said the comic would no longer participate in a charity comedy special, Night of Too Many Stars, later this month.\n\nIn September at the Toronto film festival, where I Love You, Daddy, was shown, the New York Times said it had asked Louis CK about claims of sexual misconduct against him.\n\nThe divorced father of two daughters dismissed the reports as \"rumours\".\n\nLouis CK joins a growing list of Hollywood figures including Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Brett Ratner and James Toback who have been engulfed by such allegations.\n\nOn Thursday, a Los Angeles County district attorney Jackie Lacey announced a task force of veteran sex crimes prosecutors to address \"the widespread allegations of sexual abuse in entertainment industry\".", "The three victims have been taken to hospital\n\nA driver has ploughed into a group of pedestrians near the French city of Toulouse, injuring three Chinese exchange students.\n\nA 23-year-old woman was seriously injured, and two men aged 22 and 23 were also hurt, police said.\n\nThe incident occurred outside a college in the suburb of Blagnac.\n\nThe 28-year-old driver \"purposefully hit\" the group on a crosswalk, Toulouse prosecutor Pierre-Yves Couilleau said.\n\nThe victims are students at the ICD-Toulouse International Business School. The woman's life is not in danger, police said.\n\nThe driver was arrested immediately afterwards. Police said he had several previous minor convictions, some drugs-related.\n\nUnconfirmed reports say he had a history of mental illness including acute schizophrenia. La Dépêche du Midi newspaper quoted him as telling police he had heard voices telling him to harm someone.\n\nMr Couilleau visited the scene of the accident and said there was no suggestion the incident was an act of terrorism.\n\n\"What matters in this case is the psychiatric profile of the person,\" he said.\n\nThe man \"had been planning this act for a month\", Mr Couilleau added.\n\nToulouse Mayor Jean-Luc Moudenc tweeted (in French): \"Very shocked by the aggression towards the students in Blagnac. We offer all our support to them and their loved ones.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nDebutants Jordan Pickford and Ruben Loftus-Cheek excelled as England's most inexperienced side since 1980 played out an entertaining goalless draw with world champions Germany at Wembley.\n\nEverton goalkeeper Pickford, one of three debutants in the starting XI and five overall, kept his side in contention with two vital first-half saves from Timo Werner, while Loftus-Cheek, on loan at Crystal Palace from Chelsea, also impressed.\n\nEngland struggled to contain Germany in the first half but grew in confidence as the game progressed and it took a fine save from Marc-Andre ter Stegen to keep out Jamie Vardy's second-half header as Gareth Southgate's side pressed.\n\nThere was disappointment for Manchester United's Phil Jones, who was an early injury casualty, allowing Liverpool's Joe Gomez to make his debut. Burnley's Jack Cork also won his first cap as a late substitute.\n• None Football Daily podcast: Best international I've seen at Wembley in a long time - Jenas\n\nSouthgate raised eyebrows when he announced Joe Hart remained his first-choice goalkeeper despite a poor spell for his country and an exile from Manchester City that has led to loan spells at Torino and now West Ham United.\n\nThe 30-year-old has had a tough time with the Hammers this season - and there is now every chance he will face a serious fight to maintain his England status, despite Southgate's backing.\n\nSouthgate had planned to use Stoke's Jack Butland in these friendlies before a broken finger sidelined him - opening the door for Pickford.\n\nAnd how the 23-year-old took his chance, producing an outstanding display of such confidence and assuredness that he has now surely given Southgate food for thought.\n\nPickford was alert from the first minute, reacting quickly to clear a poor back-pass from Harry Maguire, then further distinguished himself with fine saves low to his left and right from Werner.\n\nHe commanded his area and also gave England an extra dimension with his superb distribution. It was a very good night for Pickford, who looked right at home on the international stage against the World Cup holders.\n\nEngland's central midfield has been open to justifiable accusations of a lack of creativity when Eric Dier, captain against Germany, and Jordan Henderson have been paired together.\n\nSo, with Liverpool captain Henderson injured, this was a real opportunity for Loftus-Cheek to make his mark and stake a serious claim for consideration for next summer's World Cup in Russia.\n\nAnd the 21-year-old did his chances no harm with a purposeful and powerful display, mixing subtle touches with surging runs from midfield.\n\nThis was only a friendly, of course, so will not be a truly accurate measure of Loftus-Cheek's suitability to play on that elite stage, but the signs were good and Southgate will surely have been impressed.\n\nThe midfielder grew in confidence as the game progressed and drew Wembley's approval on several occasions with his strong running and range of passing.\n\nHe, like Pickford, can be very pleased with his night's work.\n\nInformative night for Southgate - but disappointment for Jones\n\nThe currency of this game may have been devalued by so many England withdrawals and absentees - but there was still plenty for Southgate to draw from the meeting with the world champions.\n\nHis experimental side acquitted themselves well, although they were thankful to Pickford and a goal-line clearance from Jones to still be on level terms at the interval.\n\nEngland's new boys did not look overawed in the shirt and after the deadly dull conclusion to the successful World Cup qualifying campaign, this was a lively game to keep an excellent Wembley crowd of 81,381 entertained. It was certainly not a wasted exercise.\n\nThe only blot on England's night was the latest injury to luckless Manchester United defender Jones, who picked up a problem early on and was replaced by Liverpool's Gomez immediately after making a crucial block on the line from Leroy Sane.\n\nJones had played himself back into England contention after a spell off the scene and Southgate was keen to look at him in the three-man central defensive system he has started to employ.\n\nThis is another setback for the 25-year-old - now he and Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho will hope it is not a serious one.\n\nWhat they said\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate told ITV: \"In the first half we needed a couple of really goods saves from Jordan Pickford - we caused our own problems with a couple of those. But we posed our own questions and I thought we used the ball well.\n\n\"Ruben Loftus-Cheek did everything I know he can do. It took him 10 minutes to realise he is OK at this level. He is capable of anything. He has the physical attributes and can handle the ball. He will gain huge confidence from it. There will be harder tests as the likes of Germany will have another gear to go to.\"\n\nEngland captain Eric Dier: \"We did well. Against a well-oiled machine they will have periods in the game where they control possession but I didn't think they hurt us. And we had our periods, broke well at times and are actually disappointed we didn't score.\"\n\nDebutant Ruben Loftus-Cheek: \"If we won it would have been better but I'm really happy. It was a really tactical game. It was good for us young players and I certainly learned a lot.\n\n\"The manager has said 'do your best'. I had Gareth in charge for nearly three years at the Under-21s and the boys have been great. I've settled in really well and they gave me a platform to go out and play.\n\n\"To go to the World Cup? It's a long season and I still have to improve. I have to keep learning and getting better and hopefully there's a chance to get on the plane.\"\n\nThe stats you need to know\n• None England and Germany remain on 13 wins against each other in international competition, with the other six games ending in draws.\n• None This was the first goalless draw England have played out at Wembley since October 2010, when they drew 0-0 with Montenegro under Fabio Capello.\n• None It was also the first 0-0 between England and Germany since June 1982, when Ron Greenwood's side drew against West Germany at the World Cup in Spain.\n• None The Three Lions remain unbeaten at Wembley under Gareth Southgate (W5 D2), keeping five clean sheets in seven games.\n• None England handed starts to debutants Pickford, Loftus-Cheek and Abraham against Germany. The last time three England debutants started in the same game was against Chile in November 2013 (Fraser Forster, Adam Lallana and Jay Rodriguez).\n• None Five England players made their debut in this game (also Gomez and Cork) - their most in a single international fixture since November 2012 (six v Sweden - Osman, Caulker, Shawcross, Jenkinson, Sterling and Zaha).\n\nEngland host Brazil at Wembley on Tuesday, while Germany continue preparations for the defence of the World Cup they won in 2014 when they entertain France the same night.\n• None Attempt missed. Jesse Lingard (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Harry Maguire with a headed pass following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marcus Rashford (England) right footed shot from long range on the left is blocked. Assisted by Ryan Bertrand.\n• None Offside, England. Ryan Bertrand tries a through ball, but Jamie Vardy is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Emre Can (Germany) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The actress alleges Steven Seagal propositioned her while she auditioned for a role\n\nActress Portia de Rossi has accused actor and producer Steven Seagal of sexual harassment.\n\nThe Arrested Development actress, who is married to US talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, made the allegation in a tweet posted on Wednesday night.\n\nShe alleges that during a film audition Mr Seagal told her \"how important it was to have chemistry off-screen\" before unzipping his trousers.\n\nMr Seagal's manager told BBC News that the actor had no comment.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Portia de Rossi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 65-year-old is best known for his action roles during the 1980s and 1990s, including Under Siege and Flight of Fury. He was given Russian citizenship by President Vladimir Putin in 2016.\n\nSeveral other women have come forward to accuse Mr Seagal of inappropriate behaviour and harassment, including the Good Wife actress Julianna Margulies and model Jenny McCarthy.\n\nHe is the latest person in Hollywood to stand accused of sexual harassment or sexual assault after women began coming forward about producer Harvey Weinstein.\n\nHarvey Weinstein has denied all allegations of non-consensual sex made against him.\n\nSteven Seagal has bonded with the Russian president over martial arts\n\nIn the tweet, Ms de Rossi said her complaints about Mr Seagal's behaviour were dismissed at the time by her agent.\n\nShe did not specify which movie the audition was for, or in which year the incident allegedly happened.\n\nThe Australian-American actress has been married to television host Ellen DeGeneres for nine years.\n\nMs DeGeneres shared Ms de Rossi's tweet with her 75 million followers on Thursday with the caption: \"I am proud of my wife\".", "British supermodel Naomi Campbell has said she's saddened by stories of abuse within the fashion industry.\n\nShe told the BBC's Arts Editor Will Gompertz that it was \"just the beginning\" as \"the lid's now been opened\".", "For the first time, you can find out at the click of button exactly how the land is used in your local authority area.\n\nYour browser does not support this Lookup Enter your postcode to find out how land is used in your area The percentages above are estimates. For a detailed methodology see note at bottom of article page. Maps produced by Alasdair Rae from the University of Sheffield using data from Corine and Ordnance Survey.\n\nIf you can't see the area search, click or tap here.\n\nEvery council area in the UK has been analysed and individual maps produced showing how much of the area falls into four land categories:\n\nMore than half of the UK land area is farmland (fields, orchards etc), just over a third might be termed natural or semi-natural (moors, heathland, natural grassland etc), a little under 6% is built on (roads, buildings, airports, quarries etc) and 2.5% is green urban (parks, gardens, golf courses, sports pitches etc).\n\nThe four categories are drawn from 44 different land use codes used by the Co-ordination of Information on the Environment (Corine) project initiated by the European Commission in 1985.\n\nUsing high-definition satellite images and detailed local maps, Corine offers a comprehensive picture of every corner of the United Kingdom. Now that information is readily available to everyone.\n\nThe local authorities with the highest proportion of farmland are the Isles of Scilly (96%) and Mid Suffolk (95%). The council area with the greatest quantity of \"natural\" landscape is Highland (91%). The City of London has the highest amount of land that is built on (98%) and the local authority with the greatest proportion of green urban is Richmond upon Thames (58%).\n\nRead Mark's blog about the research findings here.\n\nThe data has been produced with the help of Dr Alasdair Rae from the Urban Studies and Planning Department at the University of Sheffield. All the original local authority data and maps are available in A Land Cover Atlas of the United Kingdom and can be found here and here.\n\nThe largest component of the \"built on\" category is \"discontinuous urban fabric\", within which 20-50% of the surface area may be green space. To account for this we have reassigned the minimum 20% of \"discontinuous urban fabric\" to \"green urban\", which in many cases may be an underestimate. The map uses building land cover data from Ordnance Survey.\n\nProduced by Will Dahlgreen. Design by Prina Shah. Development by Evisa Terziu.", "Once Donald Trump spoke of China \"raping\" the US – now he gives it \"credit\" for \"taking advantage\".\n\nSo how has the US president's attitude changed since he took office?", "The latest John Lewis campaign focuses on a little boy and his friendship with an imaginary monster\n\nBrands will be spending a record £6bn on Christmas advertising in 2017, according to an industry body forecast.\n\nThe Advertising Association says it is being driven by intense market competition, especially within the retail sector, and the rise of big-budget campaigns.\n\nIt believes spending on ads has jumped nearly 40% in just seven years.\n\nThe figures come as campaigns by major retailers such as John Lewis, M&S and Asda get under way.\n\n\"There have been so many blockbuster campaigns over the last 10 years,\" says Karen Fraser, director of Credos, a think tank which compiled the forecast with the Advertising Association.\n\nJohn Lewis' Christmas ads have become particularly anticipated by the public and advertisers in recent years.\n\nA recurring theme in John Lewis adverts has been to take out branding and centre on stories to grab people's attention.\n\nTheir latest campaign - launched this week - focuses on the tale of a little boy and his friendship with an imaginary monster living under his bed.\n\nRival Marks and Spencer has launched an advert featuring Paddington Bear stumbling across a burglar he mistakes for Father Christmas.\n\nMarks and Spencer's ad has Paddington handing out a marmalade sandwich\n\nMeanwhile, Asda's ad follows a girl and her grandfather visiting a festive food factory.\n\nAmong a survey of 1,000 Brits interviewed on behalf of the Advertising Association, nearly half said they had been moved to tears by Christmas ads they'd seen.\n\nOne in six also said they have changed plans to watch the premiere of their favourite Christmas ad.\n\n\"It's just upped the ante,\" adds Karen Fraser, \"and so many brands and retailers are looking to compete in that market but it means that everyone needs to work harder to get people's attention.\"\n\nLatest figures from the Office for National Statistics show that purchasing from retailers - traditionally the biggest investor in Christmas advertising - has increased.\n\nPrices of consumer goods have also undergone their highest year-on-year growth since March 2012 at 3.3%, meaning shops are facing an uphill struggle to attract consumers as real wages fall.\n\n\"A lot of businesses don't have much of an option other than to go for it,\" says Craig Mawdsley, chief strategy officer at advertising agency AMVBBDO.\n\n\"Some brands get to grow, but most are trying to offset the growth of others\".", "One unofficial cartoon shows Peppa Pig having teeth pulled at the dentist\n\nYouTube is to restrict the availability of videos showing children's characters in violent or sexual scenes if they are reported by viewers.\n\nLast week, a blog post by writer James Bridle highlighted how YouTube was still being swamped by bizarre and indecent videos aimed at children.\n\nThe site says it already stops such videos earning advertising revenue.\n\nYouTube said its team was \"made up of parents who are committed to improving our apps and getting this right\".\n\nBut critics say YouTube is not taking enough action by waiting for viewers to report inappropriate videos.\n\nThe problem of video-makers using popular characters such as Peppa Pig in violent or sexual videos, to frighten children, has been widely reported.\n\nHowever, Mr Bridle's blog post went deeper into what he called the rabbit hole of children's content on YouTube.\n\nHe gave examples of videos aimed at children that were not necessarily violent or sexual but were sinister, \"disturbing\" or otherwise inappropriate.\n\nOften it appeared that the videos had been algorithmically generated to capitalise on popular trends.\n\nIn one clip, Spiderman and Elsa, from Frozen, fire machine guns\n\n\"Stock animations, audio tracks, and lists of keywords being assembled in their thousands to produce an endless stream of videos,\" he said.\n\nMany used popular family entertainment characters such as Spiderman, and Elsa from Frozen, and had been viewed millions of times.\n\n\"Someone or something or some combination of people and things is using YouTube to systematically frighten, traumatise, and abuse children, automatically and at scale,\" he wrote.\n\nYouTube says it has already barred such videos from earning advertising money when they are reported by viewers, to try to remove the incentive to produce them.\n\nHowever, many of the videos do not get reported by viewers and continue to carry advertisements.\n\nYouTube has now said it will give such videos an age restriction if they are reported by viewers, so they cannot be viewed by people under 18.\n\nSome of the videos are not rude or violent but use Disney characters in odd situations\n\nAge-restricted videos are blocked from appearing in the YouTube Kids app, which is primarily curated by algorithms.\n\nThey also cannot be viewed on the YouTube website unless people are logged in with an adult's account.\n\nHowever, a report in the New York Times found that inappropriate videos have previously slipped through the net.\n\nYouTube says it uses human reviewers to evaluate whether flagged videos are appropriate for a family audience.\n\nIn his blog post, Mr Bridle said he did not know how YouTube could stamp out the problem.\n\n\"We have built a world which operates at scale, where human oversight is simply impossible, and no manner of inhuman oversight will counter most of the examples I've used in this essay,\" he said.\n• None The disturbing YouTube videos that are tricking children", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n“God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains.”\n\nA view on social media shared not by some uninformed luddite, but by one of the people responsible for building Facebook into the social media titan it is today.\n\nSean Parker, Facebook’s founding president, unloaded his worries and criticisms of the network, saying he had no idea what he was doing at the time of its creation.\n\nSpeaking on stage to Mike Allen from Axios, Mr Parker said: \"The thought process that went into building these applications, Facebook being the first of them, was all about: 'How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?’\"\n\n“That means that we need to sort of give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while, because someone liked or commented on a photo or a post or whatever.\n\n\"And that's going to get you to contribute more content, and that's going to get you... more likes and comments.”\n\nMr Parker first rose to tech prominence as the creator of pioneering file-sharing service Napster.\n\nIn the Facebook story, it was Mr Parker who steered the firm into Silicon Valley and put Mark Zuckerberg’s idea in front of big name investors.\n\nThose early days were reimagined in the film the Social Network. Mr Parker was played by Justin Timberlake.\n\n\"When Facebook was getting going,” Mr Parker said on Wednesday, \"I had these people who would come up to me and they would say, 'I'm not on social media.’\n\n\"And I would say, 'OK. You know, you will be.’”\n\nHe then added: \"I don't know if I really understood the consequences of what I was saying, because [of] the unintended consequences of a network when it grows to a billion or two billion people and, it literally changes your relationship with society, with each other.\n\n\"It probably interferes with productivity in weird ways. God only knows what it's doing to our children's brains.\"\n\nAs for his own habits, Mr Parker said he no longer used social media as it was “too much of a time sink”.\n\nHowever, he said he still had an account on Facebook. \"If Mark hears this he’s probably going to suspend my account,” he joked.\n\nFacebook did not respond to the BBC's request for reaction to the comments.\n\n“I use these platforms, I just don’t let these platforms use me,” Mr Parker concluded.\n\nYou can reach Dave securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "A BBC drama has been taken out of the Christmas schedule after Ed Westwick, one of its stars, was accused of rape.\n\nAgatha Christie's Ordeal by Innocence, which was due to be on BBC One, will not be broadcast \"until these matters are resolved\", the BBC said.\n\nAnd the former Gossip Girl star has \"paused\" filming on the second series of BBC Two comedy White Gold.\n\nWestwick has vehemently denied the allegations, which have been made by two women.\n\nOne of the accusers has made a complaint of sexual assault to the Los Angeles Police Department.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ed Westwick This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA BBC spokesperson said: \"These are serious allegations which Ed Westwick has strenuously denied.\n\n\"The BBC is not making any judgement but until these matters are resolved we will not include Ordeal by Innocence in the schedules.\n\n\"The independent production company making White Gold has informed us that Ed Westwick has paused from filming while he deals with these allegations.\"\n\nThe three-part Ordeal By Innocence, adapted from the Agatha Christie novel of the same name, also stars Bill Nighy, Eleanor Tomlinson and Anna Chancellor. It was expected to be one of the BBC's key festive dramas.\n\nBBC One tweeted a photo from the drama on Tuesday, before it was pulled from the schedule.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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 BBC One\n\nMeanwhile, filming had begun on the second series of White Gold, in which Westwick stars as an Essex double glazing salesman.\n\nThe actor wrote on Twitter on Tuesday: \"It is disheartening and sad to me that as a result of two unverified and provably untrue social media claims, there are some in this environment who could ever conclude that I have had anything to do with such vile and horrific conduct.\n\n\"I have absolutely not, and I am co-operating with the authorities so that they can clear my name as soon as possible.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Carl Sargeant died on Tuesday after an investigation was launched into his conduct\n\nAn inquiry will be held into how Wales' first minister handled Carl Sargeant's sacking, days before he was found dead.\n\nCarwyn Jones ordered the inquiry into his actions amid mounting pressure, and shortly after Mr Sargeant's family said a probe should start \"immediately\".\n\nThe former communities secretary was being investigated by the Labour party over claims of \"unwanted attention, inappropriate touching or groping\".\n\nHe is understood to have taken his own life on Tuesday.\n\nThe Welsh Government said the inquiry would be independent but this was disputed by Mr Sargeant's family, who criticised the announcement.\n\nMr Jones had faced criticism for suggesting on Thursday that an inquiry should only be held if it was not possible for the AM's family to get answers through an inquest.\n\nHis decision to hold an inquiry followed pressure from two north east Wales Labour MPs, Mark Tami and Ian Lucas, former local government minister Leighton Andrews and opposition parties.\n\nA spokesman for the first minister said Mr Jones believes a senior QC should lead the probe to examine his \"actions and decisions\".\n\nPermanent secretary Shan Morgan, the Welsh Government's most senior civil servant, is to contact the family to discuss who the senior QC will be and the inquiry's terms of reference.\n\nHowever, a statement from Mr Sargeant's family said the permanent secretary reports directly to the first minister and \"is therefore not independent\", adding they would prefer a senior civil servant from Whitehall.\n\n\"We believe that a truly independent body must also be responsible for agreeing the terms of reference and appointing the chair and secretariat for the inquiry,\" the family said.\n\nThe Welsh Government would not respond to the family's statement but a spokeswoman said: \"The impartiality of the civil service is a given.\"\n\nCarwyn Jones is certainly a man being led by events.\n\nThe fact that he failed yesterday to address any of the serious questions that have been raised over the past few days has only increased the pressure on him.\n\nHe clearly felt it was inappropriate to do so so close to the death with so many people still grieving for Mr Sargeant.\n\nBut the fact that Mr Sargeant's family and friends want answers, and more and more of them have been saying so publicly today, meant Mr Jones did not really have much choice but to announce the inquiry.\n\nThe first minister will certainly be hoping this will take at least some of the pressure away after a phenomenally intense week for him and his government.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Flintshire council's deputy leader Bernie Attridge wants the first minister to stand aside after announcing the inquiry\n\nMr Jones had been criticised for how allegations against Mr Sargeant, who was AM for Alyn and Deeside and had been suspended from the Labour party, were handled.\n\nHe was dismissed from his job as communities secretary on Friday 3 November and suspended by the Labour Party but said he had not been made aware of the full details of the allegations.\n\nBernie Attridge, deputy leader of Flintshire council and a lifelong friend of Mr Sargeant, called the announcement a \"major U-turn by Carwyn Jones, of which I welcome\".\n\n\"But I still feel, that now an independent inquiry has been set up, that he should step aside,\" he added.\n\nMr Andrews welcomed the announcement, saying: \"I am glad an independent inquiry is to address the multiple questions that remain.\"\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 Lucas also welcomed the inquiry, as did Cardiff Central AM Jenny Rathbone.\n\nWelsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said he was \"grateful\" for the announcement but said it was \"regrettable\" that it was not made in Thursday's statement.\n\n\"We need the answers to the questions that have rightly been asked of how a 49-year-old man felt so, so down at the beginning of this week that the only way out [was] that he could take his own life\", Mr Davies told BBC Radio Wales.\n\nMr Davies has also asked for an investigation into allegations made by Mr Andrews of a bullying culture in Welsh Government.\n\nThe first minister previously said he would be open to scrutiny over how he sacked Mr Sargeant from his Welsh Government cabinet job.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carwyn Jones said he had \"no alternative\" but to sack Carl Sargeant\n\nMr Sargeant had vowed to clear his name but following his death, his family claimed he did not receive \"natural justice\".\n\nThe inquest into his death is due to open and adjourn on Monday.\n\nThe first minister's spokesman added: \"It is our understanding that such an inquiry should not take place before the outcome of a coroner's inquest - but we will take further advice on this matter.\"\n\nThe announcement was released minutes after a solicitor for the family said they were \"deeply\" concerned the first minister suggested that the answers the family seek should be dealt with in a coroner's inquest.\n\n\"What a coroner's inquest cannot determine or appear to be determining is the civil or criminal liability,\" the statement read.\n\nIt added that an inquiry would determine the \"reasons for the complete abdication of responsibility and duty of care that was owed to Carl\".", "A British woman being held in Egypt on drug smuggling charges says she had \"no idea\" the prescription painkillers she was carrying were banned there.\n\nLaura Plummer, 33, is due in court on Saturday accused of smuggling 300 tablets of Tramadol, a painkiller that is legal in the UK but not in Egypt.\n\nThe shop assistant from Hull says they were given to her for her Egyptian boyfriend's \"back problems\".\n\nLocal police says that ignorance of the law is no excuse.\n\nMs Plummer's relatives hope the judge at her custody hearing in the Red Sea Resort of Hurghada on Saturday will believe she made an innocent mistake - drug smuggling can be punishable by death in Egypt.\n\nTramadol is legal in the UK with a prescription but banned in Egypt where many are addicted to the opiate.\n\nMs Plummer told the BBC that a colleague had given her the tablets in a chemist's bag that she put in her suitcase. \"I didn't even look in bag,\" she said. \"I can't tell you how stupid I feel.\"\n\nShe said her cell in a police station was the size of her bedroom in the UK, but she was having to share it with 25 other women.\n\nShe said her spirits were at rock bottom and she dreamt of coming home, catching up with her favourite soap opera Emmerdale, sleeping in her own bed, and having a cup of tea.\n\nShe added her shared cell was claustrophobic, that it was sometimes hard to breathe and that although her fellow prisoners were trying to look after her, none of them spoke English.", "Three Canadians who were involved in a bizarre car crash while naked have been charged with kidnapping and resisting arrest.\n\nThey were among five nude people detained after a two-vehicle collision on a rural highway last Monday about 30km (20 miles) south of Edmonton.\n\nThe man and two women appeared in court in Leduc, Alberta, on Thursday.\n\nThey allegedly kidnapped a man, a woman and a six-week-old baby from a home and forced them into a vehicle.\n\nThe abducted man, who was being held in the car boot, somehow managed to escape, police say.\n\nShortly after so did the woman with the baby.\n\nA man who was driving to work along the highway picked up the three victims after he saw them shoeless on the road.\n\nThe Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) says the BMW driven by the alleged kidnappers then apparently deliberately rammed the Good Samaritan's vehicle, before ending up in the ditch at the side of the road.\n\nThose allegedly kidnapped were not injured.\n\nThe three accused cannot be named due to a court publication ban. Two female minors who were also arrested at the scene were later released with no charges.\n\nDerek Scott, the employer of the man who picked up the three victims after their escape, witnessed the arrest.\n\nHe told the Canadian Press it was a \"wild fight\" to get the female suspect out of the car.\n\nHe also described the \"walk of shame\" taken by the nude kidnappers.\n\nThere has been no explanation as to why five people were not wearing any clothes on a Monday morning in subzero temperatures.\n\nPolice say they believe it was a \"targeted incident\" and that the kidnappers knew the three people they took from the home.\n\nThe RCMP has called the ongoing investigation \"convoluted\", adding that drugs or alcohol may have been a factor.\n\nA relative who spoke to CTV News and the Canadian Press said the whole incident was completely out of character for those involved.\n\nHe believes they unknowingly ingested a \"herbal tea\" brought back from an overseas trip that may have had hallucinogenic properties.\n\n\"It's a scary thought thinking, 'Oh, let's try this tea that we purchased,'\" the relative told the Canadian Press.\n\n\"And then all sit down thinking they're just going to have a nice morning and end up in that circumstance.\"", "The father's statement (left) was translated by undertaker Ahmad Hraichie\n\nA man whose son died when a car crashed into a classroom in Sydney has said he forgives the driver of the vehicle.\n\nThe child was one of two eight-year-old boys who were killed in the tragedy at a primary school on Tuesday.\n\nA 52-year-old woman, Maha al-Shennag, has been charged over the crash, which police believe was not intentional.\n\nThe father's message of forgiveness in Arabic was translated by an undertaker as the pair sat in a hearse on their way to the boy's funeral.\n\nThe video message, posted by Ahmad Hraichie, shows the boy's coffin in the background as he explains the father's view of the crash as an accident.\n\n\"They [the family] have forgiven. If anything, they want to sit with this lady and talk with her and tell her 'we forgive you',\" says Mr Hraichie in his translation.\n\n\"She is welcome to come and sit with the family to have a meal and to talk about how they can move forward.\"\n\nPolice investigate the crash in the Sydney suburb of Greenacre on Tuesday\n\nThe father also calls for the community to stop any abuse aimed at the driver and the school.\n\n\"The father says they are making it bigger than it is. They are telling everyone out there. Forget her. It was an honest mistake. It could have happened to any of us,\" Mr Hraichie says.\n\nOf the message, Mr Hraichie says: \"This is the way a proper Muslim acts in a time of calamity and tribulation.\"\n\nThe crash at Banksia Road Public School in the suburb of Greenacre has rocked what local lawmaker Jihad Dib described as a \"very close-knit community\".\n\nThree girls were taken to hospital with injuries after the crash.\n\nMs al-Shennag - also a parent at the school, according to Mr Dib - has been charged with dangerous driving occasioning death.", "Northern Ireland face an uphill struggle to reach a first World Cup since 1986 after losing to Switzerland in controversial circumstances in the first leg of their play-off at Windsor Park.\n\nRicardo Rodriguez scored with a penalty just before the hour mark after Corry Evans was deemed to have handled inside the area.\n\nThough that decision was harsh as the ball clearly struck the defender's shoulder, the visitors were dominant throughout and might have won by a greater margin had they converted a series of other chances.\n\nThey are now strong favourites to reach a fourth consecutive World Cup when the two sides meet again in the second leg in Basel on Sunday.\n\nThe result was a disappointment for Northern Ireland, who followed an impressive qualifying campaign with a below-par performance in their first major finals play-off.\n\nMichael O'Neill's side had finished second in Group C behind Germany. Six wins from their 10 matches was more than they had mustered in any previous World Cup qualifying campaign.\n\nSwitzerland led Group B throughout, having won nine fixtures in a row, but lost their last game 2-0 to Portugal to miss out on automatic qualification on goal difference.\n• None We must channel our anger for second leg - O'Neill\n\nIn front of a raucous crowd of more than 18,000, Northern Ireland posed little threat for most of the game in the country's biggest match at Windsor Park for 36 years.\n\nThe Northern Irish have only reached the World Cup three times - in 1958, 1982 and 1986 - but are aiming to take part in back-to-back major tournaments for the first time, having played at Euro 2016 in France.\n\nO'Neill's men boasted a formidable recent home record and had kept four clean sheets in their five qualifying games at Windsor Park, with last month's 3-1 defeat by Germany their first competitive home defeat for more than four years.\n\nThey had also won seven of their past 10 competitive matches in Belfast, but on this occasion they were never a match for three-time World Cup quarter-finalists Switzerland.\n\nKyle Lafferty headed over in the first half but the men in green's best chance fell to Josh Magennis, who headed off target from a Chris Brunt free-kick late in the game.\n\nRodriguez appeared to handle in the area soon after but referee Ovidiu Hategan waved play on, one of a number of baffling decisions made by the Romanian official.\n\nSwitzerland - who are 11th in the Fifa rankings, 12 places above their opponents - controlled proceedings, stamping their authority on the game from the outset and eventually securing the away goal to swing the tie firmly in their favour.\n\nAC Milan defender Rodriguez sent goalkeeper Michael McGovern the wrong way from the spot to put his side well on their way to an 11th World Cup finals and their fourth in succession.\n\nThe visitors made light of the absence of Udinese midfielder Valon Behrami and ex-Arsenal defender Johan Djourou, with Gunners midfielder Granit Xhaka a prominent figure throughout.\n\nHe volleyed over the bar in the first half, while Haris Seferovic saw his close-range effort brilliantly saved by McGovern.\n\nEarly in the second half, Shaqiri curled an effort just off target and Seferovic was unable to connect with a cross from three yards out with the goal gaping.\n\nBut it was the penalty award that had everyone talking.\n\n'Welcome to the dark ages'\n\nNorthern Ireland boss Michael O'Neill on Sky Sports: \"The referee has no-one in his line of sight. Corry's arm isn't in an unnatural position, it's by his side. The ball hits him on the back more than anything. I thought the referee had blown for a foul or an offside. Nobody had claimed for it.\n\n\"I'm staggered by the decision, staggered by the yellow card.\n\n\"It's such a defining moment in the match. The opening tackle by Fabian Schar was borderline. I thought it was a red card. The referee hasn't done us any favours.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland midfielder Evans: \"It's disgraceful. I clearly didn't put my hand up. I'm gutted. It's devastating.\"\n\nBBC Radio 5 live presenter (and ardent Northern Ireland fan) Colin Murray at Windsor Park: \"Feel free to take the mic out of my hands if I overstep the mark in the next 20 minutes. We talked about history and occasion and how football can be a catalyst for change and for heroes. Yet here we are talking about referees. It's the dark ages. Welcome to the dark ages.\n\n\"The Republic of Ireland had Thierry Henry's handball in 2009 in a play-off for the 2010 World Cup. It was such a baffling decision tonight. There is nobody in Wales, England or Scotland who thinks that was a penalty. Nobody in Switzerland thought it was a penalty. It was shocking. Here's a clue: if the opposing team do not appeal for a penalty and you're standing on the wrong side of the player, it's probably not a penalty.\n\n\"There's no point reading out texts or tweets. There are no shades of grey with that decision.\"\n\nFormer Northern Ireland defender John O'Neill: \"It was a terrible decision. It hit him on the top of the shoulder at best. You have to gauge the reaction of the players. They didn't think it was a penalty. The referee was awful through the whole game. He's the worst referee I've seen in a long time. It did spoil the night.\n\n\"I was disappointed with the Northern Ireland performance. In a game of this stature, we didn't perform. Switzerland were the better side by a mile. But if they didn't get the penalty, we'd have played awfully and might have got away with a 0-0 draw.\"\n\nA defining 90 minutes in store for NI and O'Neill\n\nNorthern Ireland now face a major battle to pull back their deficit at St Jakob's Park in Basel, a ground at which only England have beaten Switzerland in a 17-game run stretching back to 2001.\n\nO'Neill's men must plan for the game without Corry Evans, who received a second yellow card of the campaign for his alleged handling offence, which led to the penalty.\n\nEvans was one of eight Northern Ireland players who went into the game one booking away from being ruled out of the second leg, a list which included skipper Steven Davis, who won his 100th cap in the first leg.\n\nIf Northern Ireland fail to progress, the match in Switzerland may be the last in a Northern Ireland shirt for international veterans Gareth McAuley, Aaron Hughes and Chris Brunt.\n\nA defeat may also serve to increase speculation linking Edinburgh-based O'Neill with the Scotland managerial position left vacant by the recent departure of Gordon Strachan.\n\n'We have to channel the anger'\n\nNorthern Ireland boss Michael O'Neill on Sky Sports: \"We have to forget about the penalty. I thought the players' reaction to it was very good. We played much better in the second half, the game was even. We are still in the tie. Maybe a referee will give us a decision in the second leg.\n\n\"I'll have to pick the players up. There's anger in the dressing room. We're going to have to find a way to get a goal back. Stuart Dallas' injury is a blow. I thought the players who came on did well. We might look to freshen the team up on Sunday. We have to channel the anger.\"\n\nSwitzerland forward Xherdan Shaqiri on Sky Sports: \"I don't know if it was a penalty or not. I tried to get a shot on target and I don't know if he touched it with his hand or not. In the end the referee gave the penalty. That is football.\n\n\"We controlled the game over 90 minutes, had a lot of possession and created chances. We played much better than Northern Ireland and deserved to win.\n\n\"It is, for us, the best result to get. We knew it would be difficult. They have their own fans behind them. We are looking forward to Basel, the second leg and trying to win again to reach the World Cup.\"\n\nThe stats you need to know\n• None This is the first time Northern Ireland have lost back-to-back home games since February 2012 (a run of three).\n• None Indeed, they have now conceded in consecutive home games for the first time since October 2015, following a run of eight clean sheets in nine games at Windsor Park.\n• None The hosts failed to register a single shot on target for the first time since facing Poland at Euro 2016.\n• None All three of Ricardo Rodriguez's goals for Switzerland in this qualifying process have come away from home, making him the top Swiss away scorer in World Cup 2018 qualifying.\n• None Switzerland have now won 10 of their past 11 competitive games, with the exception being last month's loss to Portugal which forced them into the play-off.\n• None Offside, Switzerland. Admir Mehmedi tries a through ball, but Stephan Lichtsteiner is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Steven Zuber (Switzerland) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Fabian Frei. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Former prime minister Gordon Brown has warned that the UK may hit a \"crisis point next summer\" as the UK edges closer to Brexit and held out the possibility that the UK may not leave the EU.\n\nHe said that he was not now advocating a second referendum, but suggested that there \"may be scope for a reassessment\" as voters began to realise, he suggested, that the promises of the Leave side of the referendum campaign would not be fulfilled.\n\nHe suggested that there could be a \"game changer\" from the EU side that allowed the UK to rethink.", "Mr Bercow has previously called for \"zero tolerance\" of sexual harassment in Parliament\n\nFewer people will be caught up in the Westminster sex scandal than were exposed in the expenses row, Commons Speaker John Bercow has predicted.\n\nMr Bercow said he did not expect numbers \"anything like\" those found to be claiming fraudulently in 2009.\n\nHe added this would \"probably limit the damage\" but did not mean the current revelations were \"insignificant\".\n\nHis comments came as parliamentary leaders agreed a grievance procedure for handling allegations of misconduct.\n\nA number of MPs and officials from different parties are being investigated over their behaviour.\n\nLabour activist Bex Bailey has said she was raped at a party event and discouraged from reporting the 2011 incident by a party official.\n\nDefence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon was the first to resign over allegations against him. He stepped down after journalist Julia Hartley-Brewer told how a senior politician - named by others as Sir Michael - repeatedly touched her knee until she explained to him she would punch him in the face if he did it again.\n\nMeanwhile Labour MPs, Kelvin Hopkins and Clive Lewis, have also faced accusations but have issued firm denials.\n\nMr Bercow, who has previously called for zero tolerance of sexual harassment in Parliament, said he did not think the \"sheer numbers\" would be as great and that \"might and probably will limit, not remove, not render insignificant, but limit the damage\".\n\nAt an event at Queen Mary University in London, he said: \"I think that we will get to grips with it by acting speedily and effectively, both to ensure that people who are suspected of wrongdoing are investigated and, in particular, to ensure that a complaints mechanism is established which is characterised above all by independence.\"\n\nHe added: \"I am not diminishing the significance of this. It is a real and big challenge, but I think almost learning from past scandals will help us react to and deal with it better.\"", "The comments were inadvertently left on a family answerphone by officers who had been called out to deal with a \"vulnerable child\"\n\nTwo police officers have been sacked after they left a message on a woman's answer machine saying they hoped her child \"would get raped\".\n\nThe Avon and Somerset officers left the recording after being called to deal with a \"vulnerable child\", a misconduct hearing was told.\n\nPC Samuel Dexter and PC Hannah Mayo are heard laughing and saying they did not care what happened to the child.\n\nBoth officers admitted gross misconduct and were dismissed without notice.\n\nThe hearing on Tuesday at police headquarters was told the child had been reported missing before being found by PC Dexter and reunited with the family.\n\nBut a short while later, according to the hearing outcome notice, the child's mother called the police again to report the child was \"causing problems at the family home\".\n\nEn-route to the property, PC Dexter and PC Mayo phoned the mother for more information and inadvertently activated the answerphone.\n\nIn the recorded message the officers can be heard laughing and saying they had \"no interest whatsoever\" in the child and both then said they hoped the child would \"get raped\".\n\nIn his verdict at the hearing, Chief Constable Andy Marsh said the comments had \"broken the trust\" the child's family had in the police.\n\nHe said: \"[The comments] go way beyond the boundaries that could be described as dark humour.\n\n\"I cannot accept the comments were a mistake, they were far more serious than that, and the people we serve will be appalled to hear that police officers spoke in such a way about a child.\"\n\nCh Insp Mark Edgington, of the professional standards department, said the officers had \"failed to treat the child and their family with respect\".\n\n\"Both officers used appalling and horrific language about a vulnerable missing child and their family,\" he said.\n\n\"There are no excuses for their behaviour and their actions are not reflective of our force or the officers and staff who work extremely hard every day to safeguard and protect vulnerable people.\"\n\nBoth officers have offered \"fulsome apologies\" to the child and their family.\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. Carwyn Jones said he had \"no alternative\" but to sack Carl Sargeant\n\nFirst Minister Carwyn Jones has said he had no alternative but to sack Carl Sargeant following allegations about his conduct.\n\nMr Sargeant's body was found on Tuesday, four days after he was dismissed as communities minister and suspended from the Welsh Labour party.\n\nIt is understood he took his own life but Mr Jones said he had acted \"by the book\" over the matter.\n\nHe said he would try to provide answers which Mr Sargeant's family deserved.\n\nThere has been criticism of the way Mr Sargeant was treated and his family has called for an independent inquiry.\n\nEx-Welsh Government minister Leighton Andrews, Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies and Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood also want an inquiry, which Mr Jones suggested could take place in future.\n\nClaims about inappropriate behaviour were made to the first minister's office last week and following Friday's sacking, the Alyn and Deeside AM had vowed to clear his name even though he said he did not know the details of the allegations.\n\nAn inquest into Mr Sargeant's death will be opened and adjourned on Monday.\n\nMr Jones met Labour AMs on Thursday to explain how he handled the conduct allegations against Mr Sargeant.\n\nMr Jones then made a statement from Welsh Government headquarters in Cardiff on Thursday afternoon.\n\nHe called the situation \"the darkest days\" any of those at the assembly could remember, but said they were the \"darkest of all for the family\".\n\nA relentless drip-drip of disinformation had a strain on Mr Sargeant and others, Leighton Andrews says\n\nDespite speculation Mr Jones could have resigned on Thursday, the speech made no reference to his own political future.\n\nSpeaking publicly for the first time since Mr Sargeant's death, he said: \"There are a lot of inaccuracies in the press and many of you have questions to ask about what happened last week.\"\n\nHe said precise details \"will need to be properly disclosed\" at the inquest.\n\n\"I and my team will of course be cooperating fully with any questions that are raised there,\" he said.\n\n\"The family deserve to have their questions answered and if that isn't possible through the inquest then I will endeavour to make that happen through other means.\n\n\"I welcome any scrutiny of my actions in the future and it is appropriate for that to be done independently.\"\n\nPaying tribute to Mr Sargeant, he said: \"Carl was a true force of nature - he drove through more legislation than any other minister. Not just through force of argument, but through force of personality.\"\n\nWhen Carwyn Jones finally appeared in front of the cameras today to deliver a statement on the death of Carl Sargeant and the events that led up to it, there was an expectation that the first minister would attempt to answer at least some of the many questions that have been raised since the former secretary's death.\n\nInstead, while paying tribute to the man he described as a \"true force of nature\" he did little to answer the questions raised by Mr Sargeant's family and others.\n\nA reference to a possible independent inquiry seemed equivocal at best.\n\nThe first minister's reference to \"inaccuracies in the press\" again raises more questions than answers.\n\nIf reports are inaccurate - why not correct them and why refuse to answer questions from journalists who are trying their best to report the situation accurately?\n\nCarwyn Jones is human, of course, and I have no doubt that his grief and shock is genuine.\n\nThat may explain why a statement which would have been perfectly apt in the hours following Mr Sargeant's death seems insufficient and vague when delivered two and half days later.\n\nFollowing the news conference, opponents rounded on Mr Jones.\n\nMr Davies said the episode has \"significantly undermined public confidence in the first minister\", while Ms Wood said the statement \"was not adequate\".\n\nUKIP Wales said it would call for a motion of no confidence in the first minister.\n\nAnd Mr Sargeant's lifelong friend and Flintshire council's deputy leader Bernie Attridge, called for Mr Jones to resign saying he \"had not done the decent thing\".\n\nMr Andrews said a number of people were expecting a \"definite commitment to an independent inquiry\" from Mr Jones' statement.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, Mr Andrews alleged Mr Sargeant had been the target of bullying in the Welsh Government.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Leighton Andrews wants answers from the first minister\n\nFormer public services minister Mr Andrews - claimed there was \"minor bullying\" and \"mind games\" during his time in government - and said the atmosphere was \"toxic\" during the last assembly term.\n\n\"The undermining was of ministers, deputy ministers and special advisers,\" Mr Andrews said in a statement issued on Thursday.\n\nHe said Mr Sargeant \"was unquestionably the target of some of this behaviour. The relentless drip-drip of disinformation - and worse - had a strain on his and others' mental health.\"\n\nThe ex-Rhondda AM said he had raised one particular issue with Mr Jones, of which he had direct evidence, but claimed due process was not followed.\n\nThe Welsh Government has declined to respond to Mr Andrews' claims.", "Patrice Evra has left Marseille by mutual consent and been banned from Uefa competition for the rest of the season for kicking one of his own fans.\n\nThe former Monaco, Manchester United and Juventus full-back, 36, is banned by Uefa until June 2018, the same month his Marseille deal would have ended.\n\nHaving played in the Europa League group stage, Evra would not have been able to play for another side in Europe this season even without his ban.\n\nEvra aimed a kick at a fan next to the pitch before a Europa League game with Vitoria Guimaraes on 2 November.\n\nThe France defender joined Marseille in January 2017 from Juventus, where he had spent three seasons following his departure from Old Trafford.\n\n\"By mutual agreement, Marseille and Evra have decided to put an end to their partnership,\" said a club statement. \"The player's contract is officially terminated with immediate effect.\"\n\nFrench newspaper L'Equipe reported that Marseille supporters had been jeering Evra for about half an hour while the players prepared for the game with Vitoria Guimaraes, which the Ligue 1 side lost 1-0.\n\nThe player had gone over to the fans to talk to them, but the situation escalated.\n\nEvra, who was named as a substitute for the game, was dismissed before kick-off so Marseille were able to begin the match with 11 players.\n\nDuring their Ligue 1 win over Caen on 5 November, some Marseille fans unfurled a banner that read: \"You thought you were above the institution OM and its supporters. We don't want you wearing our colours. Evra get out.\"\n\nWhat has been Marseille's reaction?\n\nMarseille president Jacques-Henri Eyraud in a statement on the club's website:\n\nToday there is great sadness at the club, above all for Patrice Evra, who well understands the consequences of his actions and is no longer able to undertake his passion at Olympic Marseille, and for the Olympic Marseille supporters, who have been stigmatised by the irresponsible behaviour of a handful of fans.\n\nDespite this incident, we are determined more than ever to demonstrate on and off the field that we are driven by the highest individual and collective standards.\n• None Named as a substitute, Evra begins warming up with his team-mates before the game\n• None The former Manchester United left-back appears to be the target of songs and abuse from the crowd for about 30 minutes\n• None Evra approaches the Marseille fans, about 500 of whom had travelled to Guimaraes\n• None He volleys a ball towards the crowd, but some of his team-mates come over and look to calm the defender down\n• None Evra climbs over the billboards and looks to confront spectators who have come towards the front of the stand\n• None The 36-year-old returns to the pitch, but a group of fans approach the billboards and Evra appears to kick one of them\n• None Evra is led away to the substitutes' bench, but is sent off by the referee and watches the game from the stands\n\nThe original problem was when he went to Guimaraes for the match, 500 Marseille ultras were the first ones into the ground. You could hear everything they were saying, and they started chanting about him, saying he was rubbish, 'we don't want you at the club', because he has been poor recently.\n\nHe lost his place in the team and he took it badly as a former captain. Then they started to wind him up, saying 'stick to your Instagram videos' etc. There were no racist chants at all, a bit of abuse, but then Evra thought it was a good idea to kick a ball at the Ultras, which wound them up further.\n\nYou don't do 28 hours on a coach to Portugal to insult a former captain, it was stupid. But it was also stupid for him to respond in the way he did. He has been insulted throughout his whole career. For him to respond in the way he did was quite stupid even if you understand the anger and frustration.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe UK could remain in the EU if Leave voters could be offered a \"game-changing\" deal next summer, Gordon Brown has told BBC News.\n\nThe former Labour prime minister told Laura Kuenssberg he was not arguing for a second EU referendum \"at this stage\".\n\nBut he predicted a \"crisis point\", when Leave voters realised they were not going to get what they were promised.\n\nAnd they might be persuaded to change their mind if they were given \"new evidence\", he said.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the European Union at the end of March 2019, after 2016's referendum in which 51.9% of voters backed Brexit.\n\n\"Is there something that we didn't get right the last time that could persuade millions of Leave voters that it was worth going Remain?\" Mr Brown, who campaigned to remain in the EU, said.\n\nHe predicted it would become clear by next summer that the UK was not going to get \"proper control\" of its borders, trade and laws, saying: \"We will still be governed in many ways by the European Court of Justice.\"\n\nAnd he said the UK would not get its money back in the way the Leave campaign had claimed, \"including the £350m a week for the National Health Service\".\n\n\"I would not try to tell people that they were wrong,\" he said, stressing people had voted Leave for \"very real reasons\" that had to be \"respected\".\n\nBut, he said, there \"may be scope for a reassessment\" next summer.\n\nBrexit negotiations are continuing but EU sources told the BBC on Thursday that the UK had only two weeks left to make progress on so-called withdrawal issues such as the so-called \"divorce bill\" - the amount the UK will pay to settle its financial obligations. Other sticking points include the Northern Ireland border and citizens' rights.\n\nIf a deal is to be ratified by the various national and regional parliaments by March 2019 - EU negotiator Michel Barnier has suggested one will need to be agreed by October 2018.\n\nMr Brown was not specific about what a \"game-changing\" offer might entail, but he said the mood was changing in the EU, which would have to agree to any new offer.\n\n\"You'd have to be able to say something about migration, about the courts, about money - but I think that is the point at which the nation should be given new information about what is possible. So, I'm not advocating a referendum at this stage,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Brown, who is promoting his new memoir, My Life, Our Times, also warned that Scotland could become the next Catalonia, with two \"opposing extremes\" pulling the nation apart.\n\nHe argued for a \"middle way\" between the SNP's demand for full independence and what he said was the Conservative Party's belief in maintaining the \"status quo\".\n\nThe answer, he said, was to move to a \"federalist UK with maximum autonomy for Scotland\".\n\nMr Brown also called for more action on tax havens and hit back at claims he had agitated for then Prime Minister Tony Blair's removal when he was chancellor, insisting that any disagreements they had had been about policies rather than personalities.\n\nHe added he believed political leaders had a \"shelf life\" of about six years and it was an \"aberration\" that he had been able to survive at the top for 13 years, including his time at the Treasury and Number 10.", "EU negotiator Michel Barnier has told the UK \"time is pressing\" to get a deal on a divorce bill, as Brexit talks resumed in Brussels.\n\nMr Barnier said \"the moment for real clarity\" from the UK was approaching.\n\nEU sources have told the BBC the UK has only two weeks left to make progress on so-called withdrawal issues.\n\nA major stumbling block remains the amount the UK will pay as it leaves, as well as the rights of EU citizens in the UK, and UK citizens in the EU.\n\nWithout agreement in these areas, and the Northern Ireland border, EU leaders are unlikely to vote at their December summit to widen talks to include trade and transition deals as the UK wants, sources say.\n\nMr Barnier, who is in Rome to make a speech to Italian politicians, tweeted \"it's high time to clarify the essential principles\" of an exit deal with the UK.\n\nHe will meet UK Brexit Secretary David Davis for a sixth round of negotiations on Friday, with talks being conducted by their officials on Thursday.\n\nIt comes as European leaders are reportedly concerned about the instability of the UK government, as Theresa May lost a second cabinet minister in seven days.\n\nAccording to The Times, European Union leaders are preparing for the possible \"fall of Theresa May before the new year\" and either \"a change of leadership or elections leading to a Labour victory\".\n\nFormer Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith said it was \"a bit rich\" for EU leaders to suggest Mrs May's position was precarious, at a time when the Netherlands and Germany faced difficulties forming governments, there was \"chaos\" in Italy and arrests of Catalonian separatists in Spain.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the government's lack of a Parliamentary majority meant it would be \"a bit bumpy at times\" but Mrs May's position was secure.\n\n\"I think Theresa May is the one person that can actually still unite the cabinet, unite the party, and make sure that whilst we are leaving the European Union, the party itself stays at ease with her domestic agenda,\" he said.\n\nThe UK government has, meanwhile, published updated proposals on how the rights of EU citizens in the UK will be protected, as it claimed \"real progress\" had been made in this area.\n\nEU citizens would be granted a statutory right of appeal if their application to stay in the UK after Brexit is rejected - and the cost of applying for settled status would be kept to \"no more than that of a British passport\".\n\nBut the UK proposal was criticised by the European Parliament's Brexit negotiator Guy Verhofstadt, who said he wanted the application to be cost-free and near-unconditional.\n\n\"We don't recognise reports suggesting that a deal on citizens' rights is almost finalised. There are still major issues that have to be resolved,\" said Mr Verhofstadt on Wednesday.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the EU at the end of March 2019 after a referendum in which 51.9% of people voted in favour of Brexit.\n\nThe two sides have said they are in favour of a transitional phase lasting around two years to smooth the way to relations with the UK outside the EU, but they are also doing preparatory work in case no agreement is reached and the UK leaves without any deal in place.\n• None Brexit is 'getting dramatic', says EU", "Universities are going to be given tougher guidance on their advertising claims\n\nUniversities are going to face a crackdown on how they advertise and market courses to attract students.\n\nWith hundreds of thousands of young people in the process of applying, universities are going to be warned by the advertising watchdog that they need to prove the accuracy of their claims.\n\nIt is expected that universities will be told not to mislead or exaggerate in language used in adverts for students.\n\nThey will scrutinise claims such as being in the \"top 1%\".\n\nThe University of Reading has already had to take down its claim to be the top 1% of the world's universities, because it could not be objectively substantiated.\n\nNext week the Advertising Standards Authority is expected to identify up to six more universities which have breached the advertising code - along with issuing tougher guidelines on what is permissible language in marketing.\n\nThe University of Reading had to stop saying it was in the top 1% in the world\n\nIt has emerged that two universities have already agreed to clarify advertising.\n\nThe watchdog says the University of Bedfordshire faced a complaint about claiming to have \"gold standard\" teaching quality - when the university held a silver award in the new teaching excellence ratings.\n\nLiverpool John Moores University was challenged over being more specific about its claim to be \"university of the year\".\n\nIt won the title in this year's \"Educate North Awards\".\n\nUniversities are competing for students and their fee income and have been putting increasing efforts into how they appeal to potential applicants, selling marketing information on websites and on open days.\n\nThere has been a proliferation of league tables and rankings which are used to base claims about \"world class\" status for universities or individual degree courses.\n\nThe advertising watchdog has been considering whether university claims are justified by any \"objective substantiation\" - and without \"adequate substantiation\", can rule them to be \"misleading\".\n\nIf advertisers persistently refuse to accept rulings from the watchdog, they can be referred to trading standards officers, who could impose fines.\n\nBut the advertising watchdog says advertisers are more likely to comply rather than face \"bad publicity\".\n\nThe University of Reading was told in the summer that it could be \"materially misleading\" to market itself as being in the top 1% of all world universities - a claim made by several other UK universities.\n\nThe claim had been based on Reading's ranking in a number of international league tables - but without a clear agreement over how many universities there are in the world, such a claim was deemed as unacceptable.\n\nThe university agreed to remove the claim and the complaint was \"informally resolved\" without a formal investigation or ruling.\n\nBut it is understood that the issue was then raised with wider university representative groups - because many universities make such specific claims about their international reputations.", "Police logged details of the boy's action under the heading \"Obscene Publications\"\n\nThe mother of a schoolboy who sent a naked photo of himself to a girl has won the right to a judicial review over a police force's refusal to delete his name from its records.\n\nThe boy, aged 14 at the time, was not arrested or prosecuted by Greater Manchester Police.\n\nHis mother said she was concerned police could release the information to potential employers when he is older.\n\nThe boy sent the naked photograph over social media to a girl at his school.\n\nThe girl then shared the image, sent two years ago, with others.\n\nThe boy's mother said she was \"in complete shock\" when she heard what had happened, but \"this had all happened in the privacy of his own bedroom\".\n\nShe said even though \"he was young, he was naive, he was silly\" she believes the subsequent sharing of the photo by others was \"malicious\".\n\nPolice took no action against him other than to record on their database that he had taken and forwarded an \"indecent\" image of himself, logged under a section entitled \"Obscene Publications\".\n\nGreater Manchester Police has refused to delete the boy's name from its files, a decision his mother is contesting at the High Court.\n\nShe said: \"It's going to be held there infinitum, so for all his adult life it hangs over him.\"\n\nShauneen Lambe, chief executive of Just For Kids Law which is supporting the family, said a generation of children was being \"penalised\" by a law that was supposed to protect them.\n\nHome Office policy is understood to be that police have to record such incidents but whether their name is included is at the force's discretion, which may have implications for future job applications especially if working with children.\n\nMs Lambe said the real fear about discretion was that it creates uncertainty, as one chief officer might take one view while another might take the opposite.\n\nOlivia Pinkney, the chief constable of Hampshire who is lead officer on the National Police Chief's Council (NPCC), expressed concern two years ago that the policy was not consistently applied and said she was \"worried for today's young people\".", "Louis CK has won six Emmy Awards and had 39 nominations\n\nUS comedian Louis CK has admitted that sexual misconduct allegations made against him by five women are true.\n\nHe said he had \"wielded power irresponsibly\" and could hardly wrap his head around the \"scope of hurt\" he had caused them.\n\nFour of the accusers told the New York Times he masturbated during interactions with them and a fifth said he had asked to do so.\n\nThe allegations led to the release of his new movie being scrapped.\n\nI Love You Daddy - a comedy about an ageing film director, played by John Malkovich, who has a reputation for getting embroiled with young women - was due to have been released in the US on 17 November.\n\n\"These stories are true,\" Louis CK said in his statement, which is reproduced in full at the bottom of this article.\n\n\"The power I had over these women is that they admired me. And I wielded that power irresponsibly.\"\n\nThe comedian added that he regretted the hurt he had inflicted on people he worked with, including his manager Dave Becky, his family, his friends, his children and their mother.\n\nIn Thursday's New York Times report, four comediennes - Dana Min Goodman, Julia Wolov, Rebecca Corry and Abby Schachner - and a fifth woman, who spoke on condition of anonymity, made allegations about the entertainer.\n\nActresses Julia Wolov (left) and Dana Goodman in Hollywood in 2011\n\nGoodman and Wolov said Louis CK stripped naked and masturbated after inviting them to his hotel room during the US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado, in 2002.\n\nSchachner said she called Louis CK in 2003 to invite him to one of her shows and was dumbfounded to realise during their phone conversation that he was masturbating. \"I felt very ashamed,\" she told the New York Times.\n\nA fifth woman, who did not want to be named, told the newspaper of alleged incidents involving the comic in the late 1990s, while she was working in production on The Chris Rock Show.\n\nLouis CK, who was a writer and producer on the show, repeatedly asked her to watch him perform a sex act, she said. \"He abused his power,\" she said.\n\nAbby Schachner told the New York Times she felt \"very ashamed\"\n\nLouis CK's planned appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was cancelled and HBO announced it would purge Louis CK's past projects from its On Demand service.\n\nThe cable TV network also said the comic would no longer participate in a charity comedy special, Night of Too Many Stars, later this month.\n\nOn Thursday, a Los Angeles County district attorney Jackie Lacey announced a task force of veteran sex crimes prosecutors to address \"the widespread allegations of sexual abuse in entertainment industry\".\n\n\"I want to address the stories told to the New York Times by five women named Abby, Rebecca, Dana, Julia who felt able to name themselves and one who did not.\n\n\"These stories are true. At the time, I said to myself that what I did was okay because I never showed a woman my dick without asking first, which is also true. But what I learned later in life, too late, is that when you have power over another person, asking them to look at your dick isn't a question. It's a predicament for them. The power I had over these women is that they admired me. And I wielded that power irresponsibly.\n\n\"I have been remorseful of my actions. And I've tried to learn from them. And run from them. Now I'm aware of the extent of the impact of my actions. I learned yesterday the extent to which I left these women who admired me feeling badly about themselves and cautious around other men who would never have put them in that position.\n\n\"I also took advantage of the fact that I was widely admired in my and their community, which disabled them from sharing their story and brought hardship to them when they tried because people who look up to me didn't want to hear it. I didn't think that I was doing any of that because my position allowed me not to think about it.\n\n\"There is nothing about this that I forgive myself for. And I have to reconcile it with who I am. Which is nothing compared to the task I left them with.\n\n\"I wish I had reacted to their admiration of me by being a good example to them as a man and given them some guidance as a comedian, including because I admired their work.\n\n\"The hardest regret to live with is what you've done to hurt someone else. And I can hardly wrap my head around the scope of hurt I brought on them. I'd be remiss to exclude the hurt that I've brought on people who I work with and have worked with who's professional and personal lives have been impacted by all of this, including projects currently in production: the cast and crew of Better Things, Baskets, The Cops, One Mississippi, and I Love You Daddy. I deeply regret that this has brought negative attention to my manager Dave Becky who only tried to mediate a situation that I caused. I've brought anguish and hardship to the people at FX who have given me so much The Orchard who took a chance on my movie. and every other entity that has bet on me through the years.\n\n\"I've brought pain to my family, my friends, my children and their mother.\n\n\"I have spent my long and lucky career talking and saying anything I want. I will now step back and take a long time to listen.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Iran is establishing a permanent military base inside Syria, a Western intelligence source has told the BBC.\n\nThe Iranian military is said to have established a compound at a site used by the Syrian army outside El-Kiswah, 14 km (8 miles) south of Damascus.\n\nThe report comes amid growing tensions over Iranian influence in Syria and across the region.\n\nIsraeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu recently warned that Iran wanted to establish itself militarily in Syria.\n\n\"Israel will not let that happen,\" he said.\n\nSatellite images commissioned by the BBC seem to show construction activity at the site referenced by the intelligence source between January and October this year.\n\nThe images show a series of two dozen large low-rise buildings - likely for housing soldiers and vehicles.\n\nIn recent months, additional buildings have been added to the site. However, it is impossible to independently verify the purpose of the site and the presence of the Iranian military.\n\nAn official from another Western country told the BBC that ambitions for such a long-term presence in Syria would not be illogical for Iran.\n\nIts adversaries have accused Iran of seeking to establish not just an arc of influence but a logistical land supply line from Iran through to the Shia Hezbollah movement in Lebanon.\n\nWith so-called Islamic State (IS) suffering major defeats on the battlefield and losing its last strongholds, attention is increasingly turning to what comes next and the new map of power and influence in Syria.\n\nIran has been a consistent backer of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Photographs published on social media in the past few days also showed a senior Iranian general in Deir al-Zour shortly after IS was driven out of the town.\n\nThe photos show Maj Gen Qasem Soleimani, head of the Quds force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) alongside members of a militia.\n\nWith a significant number of IRGC fighting - and in some cases dying - in Syria, there has already been a significant presence in the country but the question is now whether they are preparing to remain in the long term.\n\nThe images of the base do not reveal any signs of large or unconventional weaponry which means if it was a base it would most likely be to house soldiers and vehicles. One source said it was possible that senior Iranian military officials may have visited the compound in recent weeks.\n\nIndependent analysis of the images commissioned by the BBC says the facility is military in nature. The analysis also suggests there are a series of garages that can hold six to eight vehicles each.\n\nThe analysis suggests new buildings have been constructed and other buildings renovated in the past six months although the exact role of the new structures cannot be determined.\n\nHowever, it is not clear whether the facility is currently occupied. Shia fighters from other countries - including Pakistan and Afghanistan - are also alleged to be operating in Syria under the control of the IRGC and it is possible the base could be used by them. Analysts estimate up to 500 troops could be based at the site.\n\nThe presence of Iranian forces in Syria has been reported for some time but the claim of a potentially more permanent Iranian base raises the possibility of military action by Israel which has repeatedly warned it will not tolerate such a development.\n\nThe Lebanon-based Shia group Hezbollah is backed by Iran\n\nThe base lies about 50 km (31 miles) from the Golan Heights - Syrian territory occupied and then annexed by Israel and where it now has a significant military presence.\n\n\"As Isis [IS] moves out, Iran moves in,\" Mr Netanyahu tweeted on Sunday.\n\n\"Iran wants to establish itself militarily in Syria, right next to Israel. Israel will not let that happen,\" he added.\n\nIn an interview on the BBC's Andrew Marr show on the same day he said Iran wanted to bring its air force and submarines as well as military divisions right next to Israel.\n\nIsrael has raised further concerns of Iran seeking to use Syrian ports and bases for its submarines. When asked whether Israel would use military force to stop such developments, Mr Netanyahu told the BBC: \"You know, the more we're prepared to stop it, the less likely we'll have to resort to much greater things. There is a principle I very much adhere to, which is to nip bad things in the bud.\"\n\nHowever, international pressure is likely to be the first avenue pursued by Israel. Other countries have also raised concerns over potential long-term Iranian presence in the region.\n\nThe issue of potential Iranian military bases is likely to have been raised by Israeli officials with Syria's ally Russia.\n\nIn October, Russia's defence minister was in Jerusalem and was told by Mr Netanyahu that Israel would not allow the Iranian military \"to gain a foothold in Syria\", according to reports at the time.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin visited Iran in the past week and Russian media suggested Syria - including Iran's influence in the country - would be on the agenda.\n\nIn recent years, the Israeli air force has struck targets in Syria a number of times which it has linked to Hezbollah.", "The future operation of the Irish border is one of the most sensitive Brexit issues\n\nThere were \"frank discussions\" about the Irish border in the latest round of Brexit talks, David Davis has said.\n\nThe Brexit Secretary was speaking in Brussels after a meeting with chief EU negotiator Michel Barnier.\n\nMr Davis said any solution for the border could not be at the expense of the constitutional integrity of the UK.\n\nThe EU tabled a paper which suggested Northern Ireland will have to continue to follow many EU rules after Brexit if a hard border is to be avoided.\n\nThe paper hinted that Northern Ireland may need to stay in the EU customs union if there are to be no checks at the border.\n\nThat is something which the Conservatives and DUP have said they cannot accept as it would effectively create a border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nBritain and the EU say they are committed to ensuring Brexit does not undermine the Good Friday agreement.\n\nNeither want Brexit to lead to the emergence of a hard border with the Republic of Ireland.\n\n\"Let me be clear, we cannot have anything resulting in a new border being set up with in the UK,\" said Mr Davis after the sixth round of UK-EU talks on citizens' rights, the Irish border, and the UK's \"divorce bill\".\n\n\"We remain firmly committed to avoiding any physical infrastructure.\n\n\"We respect the EU desires, but they cannot come at the constitutional integrity of the United Kingdom.\"\n\nMr Davis said the EU and UK teams had drafted joint positions on the common travel area, as well as joint principles and commitments for the second phase of talks.\n\nThe EU leaked paper stops short of saying a hard border can only be avoided by the UK or Northern Ireland staying in the single market or customs union.\n\nTaoiseach Leo Varadkar was attending the British-Irish Council in Jersey\n\nHowever, it brings the commission closer to the European Parliament position which \"presumes\" that the UK or Northern Ireland will have to stay in the internal market and customs union.\n\nIt is also the clearest indication that the commission has accepted the Irish position on Brexit and the border issue.\n\nIrish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has said the only way of avoiding a hard border in Ireland after Brexit is for the whole of the UK, or Northern Ireland, to follow the rules of the customs union and single market.\n\nSpeaking at a meeting of the British-Irish Council in Jersey, Mr Varadkar said his proposal would not mean the UK or Northern Ireland had to be members of the customs union and single market, but \"it would mean continuing to apply the rules\".\n\nEU chief negotiator Michel Barnier has given the UK two weeks to clarify what it will pay to leave the EU\n\nDUP Parliamentary leader and North Belfast MP Nigel Dodds rejected the suggestion that a hard border can only be avoided if the UK or Northern Ireland continue to abide by the rules of the single market and customs union after Brexit.\n\nHe said the paper shows the EU is unwilling to engage in negotiations on the border issue in a \"meaningful fashion\".\n\n\"Northern Ireland will not be separated from the rest of the UK as a result of Brexit,\" he said.\n\n\"Brussels must realise this and accept that progress will not be achieved through bully-boy tactics.\"\n\nThe DUP's Nigel Dodds said Brussels must accept progress will not be achieved through bully-boy tactics\n\nMeanwhile, Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney said talk of individual countries vetoing a move to the next stage of Brexit negotiations is \"unhelpful\", but progress still had to be made on the border issue.\n\n\"There is a way to go between the two negotiating teams to be able to provide credible answers and sufficient progress in the context of the Irish border before we can move on to Phase Two,\" he told Irish state broadcaster, RTE.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bertie Ahern tells BBC Newsnight a hard border would be a \"huge setback\" for the peace process\n\nFormer Irish Taoiseach and Good Friday Agreement signatory Bertie Ahern told BBC Newsnight that a hard border would be a \"huge setback\" for the peace process and that a physical border across the island of Ireland would give a \"huge incentive\" to those that want to cause mischief.", "A giant snoring monster called Moz has split critics online, after it was revealed as the star of this year's John Lewis Christmas advert.\n\nThe eagerly anticipated ad from the high street store tells the story of a little boy and his friendship with an imaginary monster living under his bed.\n\nIt features a cover of The Beatles song Golden Slumbers by Elbow.\n\nViewers cast their verdicts on Twitter: \"So ready to cry,\" said one. \"Lost their magic touch,\" said another.\n\nThe ad has appeared on the store's Youtube channel and will preview on television on Friday night.\n\nReviews so far have included \"heart-warming\" to \"disappointing\", with some questioning how \"Christmassy\" the story was.\n\nThe campaign follows the release of other big-budget festive ads from Marks and Spencer, Argos and Debenhams.\n\nJoe wakes up on Christmas morning to find a gift from his monster friend\n\nThe John Lewis advert is directed by Oscar-winning Michel Gondry, whose past work includes the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and music videos for the likes of The White Stripes, The Chemical Brothers and Björk.\n\n\"When I told my ex-girlfriend I was doing the next John Lewis Christmas film she said, 'You have big shoes to fill, this John Lewis commercial must make people cry, don't forget'. Last week I showed it to her and she cried. Phew,\" he said.\n\nBut there were no tears from one viewer, Claire Hyman, who wrote on Facebook: \"I actually wonder if this will give any children nightmares?\"\n\nOther viewers drew comparisons with the Disney Pixar 2001 film Monsters Inc, after spotting a small sock stuck to Moz's fur.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Soph This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPrevious John Lewis campaigns have included Buster the bouncing boxer, a man on the moon and Monty the penguin.\n\nA nightlight featured in the ad was sold out online on Friday morning and #MozTheMonster was the top trending topic worldwide on Twitter.\n\nA 10% donation will go to children's charity Barnardo's from the sale of Moz mugs and cuddly toys.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by John Lewis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMeanwhile, an American computer science teacher called John Lewis, has once again found himself at the centre of a social media frenzy despite previously stating that he is \"not a retail store\".\n\n\"Trust me, no one wants to know what's under my bed\", he posted.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 John Lewis This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 year, John Lewis the store sent Mr Lewis a personalised gift as a thank you for fielding misdirected tweets.\n\nMoz the monster already has its own Twitter account, tweeting that Joe has \"the comfiest under-bed I've ever slept under\".\n\nMarks and Spencer's advert sees Paddington Bear inadvertently saving Christmas for his neighbours\n\n'Paddington and the Christmas Visitor' sees Paddington Bear stumbling across a burglar he mistakes for Father Christmas.\n\nHowever the store has already been forced to respond to speculation that the burglar swears at Paddington.\n\nHe is in fact saying \"thank you little bear\", a spokesperson assured.\n\nMeanwhile, Asda's ad follows a girl and her grandfather visiting a festive food factory.\n\nAnd Kevin the carrot returns for a second year for Aldi's offering, this time with a love interest.\n\nThe Sainsbury's advert is set to premiere on Sunday on ITV.\n\nBrands are expected to spend a record £6bn on Christmas advertising this year, according to the Advertising Association.", "Choosing ministers is about more than just who is best for the job.\n\nThere are good reasons why Penny Mordaunt has been promoted to the Department for International Development.\n\nShe has worked in humanitarian aid, she has been a minister in two different departments, former colleagues rate her abilities and she was tipped last week to be elevated to running the Ministry of Defence.\n\nBut there is a lot more to her than meets the eye, and a lot more that is interesting about her than going on TV in a swimsuit, although no doubt, for many voters, that is the way they will have come across her before.\n\nShe also has a different political qualification - she was prominent campaigning Brexiteer.\n\nBy promoting her, rather than others, Theresa May has opted to preserve the precarious balance around the cabinet table.\n\nThere has been an almost equal split, not so much between those who were tagged as Leavers or Remainers in 2016, but the two sides of the argument now - those who want a future closely tied to the European Union and those who want a much looser arrangement.\n\nIn Whitehall's technical lingo it's now known as \"high or low alignment\".\n\nAnd by keeping the balance roughly 50-50, disregarding what one cabinet minister described as the \"swing voters\" - those like Sajid Javid, Liz Truss and Jeremy Hunt who are not considered to be dogmatic on the issue - it means that in effect, Theresa May has the decisive vote.\n\nIn theory that allows her, in a position with little authority, to be able to tip the balance relatively easily in either direction when the big Brexit decisions have to be made.\n\nTime for that is clearly pressing, with Brussels giving the UK only a couple of weeks to show movement, in particular on the Brexit bill.\n\nIt's not clear if the UK will feel able to move forward on the bill that soon - that is a difficult debate to come.\n\nThe very limited changes to government today however won't obstruct the path of those decisions.\n\nMs Mordaunt has a sense of humour, and is far from a political drone - but her appointment is also about Theresa May trying to quietly hold the current cabinet equilibrium together.\n\nWith this appointment, after the eight days of turmoil, the prime minister is not looking for drama.\n\nPS: It's worth noting too, that the first MP from the Tories' 2015 intake was brought into government today.\n\nVictoria Atkins so far has stood out in Westminster for saying that people thought President Trump was a \"wazzock\". Let's see what she has to say next!", "Clive Lewis said he was \"taken aback\" by the allegation\n\nLabour MP Clive Lewis has \"completely\" denied an allegation that he groped a woman at the party's annual conference.\n\nThe Labour Party is investigating after a formal complaint was made against the Norwich South MP on Friday.\n\nThe former shadow defence secretary is alleged by the woman to have hugged her and squeezed her bottom at a conference event in Brighton in September.\n\nMeanwhile, suspended Labour MP Kelvin Hopkins said he \"categorically\" denies claims of sexual harassment.\n\nIt comes as both Labour and the Conservatives set out measures to deal with sexual harassment following numerous allegations about the conduct of politicians in recent weeks.\n\nThis week Sir Michael Fallon resigned as defence secretary, saying his behaviour may have \"fallen short\" of the standards expected by the UK military.\n\nOn Friday the Conservatives suspended MP Charlie Elphicke after \"serious allegations\" were referred to the police, but the party has provided no further detail about the nature of the claims.\n\nThe Labour Party launched its investigation into Mr Lewis after a party member told the Independent newspaper that he had groped her.\n\nMr Lewis told the BBC he was \"vigorously\" disputing the allegation, which he said he had been \"pretty taken aback\" by.\n\n\"I don't as a rule at packed Labour party conferences grope people's bottoms when I greet them,\" he said.\n\n\"It's just not how I roll, it's not what I do.\n\n\"Is the person mistaken? Have I given them a hug and this has been misinterpreted? I don't know.\n\n\"All I know is that I would not deliberately do that, do what's alleged. I completely deny that.\"\n\nLuton North MP Mr Hopkins has also denied sexual harassment after party activist Ava Etemadzadeh, 27, told the BBC that he had hugged her inappropriately after a student event in 2014.\n\nMr Hopkins said he had given her a \"brief, slight hug just before getting into my car\".\n\nHe was suspended by the party on Thursday while an investigation takes place.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Westminster has been rocked by a series of sexual harassment claims\n\nAnd Labour's former foreign office minister, Ivan Lewis, has denied claims he made non-consensual sexual advances towards women.\n\nBuzzfeed News reported that a woman alleged he had touched her leg and invited her to his house at a Labour Party event in 2010 when she was 19.\n\nMr Lewis said in a statement to the website that he had \"never made non-consensual sexual comments or sexual advances to women\".\n\nHe added: \"However, I understand that a few women have claimed that my behaviour made them feel uncomfortable.\n\n\"I have on occasion asked women I work with out for drinks or dinner, or developed strong feelings for them, and I am genuinely sorry if this was unwelcome or inappropriate in the circumstances, and caused anyone to feel awkward.\"\n\nIvan Lewis said he had \"never made non-consensual sexual comments or sexual advances to women\"\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May is due to meet opposition party leaders, including Jeremy Corbyn, on Monday to discuss proposals to bring forward a new grievance system for Westminster staff and MPs.\n\nThe Conservatives have published a new code of conduct for their MPs and other elected representatives in the wake of sexual harassment allegations.\n\nDuring an interview with BBC News about his resignation, Sir Michael said that the culture had changed over the years. \"What might have been acceptable 15, 10 years ago, is clearly not acceptable now,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJasmin Beckett, a member of Labour's national executive committee and its equalities committee, said: \"We've got to be clear that sexual harassment was never acceptable. It was never fine.\"\n\n\"I think that's now why we are in a much better position to deal with this because actually society, and as we've seen Hollywood, knows that this type of behaviour is not acceptable. I hope that this whole scandal will make Westminster think that - I don't think in the past that Westminster has seen this as unacceptable.\"\n\nMeanwhile, it was announced that Labour would appoint an independent specialist organisation to offer advice and support to individuals affected by sexual harassment in the party.\n\nHowever, Ms Beckett told the BBC: \"One of the things I'm calling for... is for us to re-look at that sexual harassment policy and to create an independent body for all future complaints as well.\"\n\nLabour also said the independent legal expert, Karon Monaghan QC, would investigate party activist Bex Bailey's allegations.\n\nMs Bailey has said she was raped at a party event and a senior Labour official discouraged her from reporting the attack.\n\nShe said she was told reporting the alleged 2011 incident could \"damage\" her and that she was given no advice on what she should do next.", "A man has appeared in court charged with the attempted murder of a London Underground passenger who was allegedly pushed into the path of a train.\n\nThe victim was seriously injured when a District Line train struck him at Bayswater station during the evening rush hour on Thursday.\n\nAlan Alencar is alleged to have shoved him in the back as the Tube train pulled into the central London station.\n\nMr Alencar, 29, of Edinburgh, was remanded into custody.\n\nAt Westminster Magistrates' Court, District Judge Tan Ikram ordered Mr Alencar, of Northcote Street, to appear at Blackfriars Crown Court on 1 December.\n\nThe judge said there had been no bail application.\n\nThe victim, aged in his 50s, managed to crawl out from underneath the carriage and was taken to hospital with serious but non-life threatening injuries.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police were called to Blenheim Road in Wimbledon\n\nA seven-year-old girl who was found with serious injuries in a house has died in hospital.\n\nRobert Peters, 55, who is known to the child, appeared before Wimbledon magistrates earlier charged with attempted murder.\n\nEmergency services were called to Blenheim Road in Wimbledon, south-west London, on Friday morning where they found the girl\n\nShe was taken to hospital where she died on Saturday morning, police said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hassan Odjo says he is happy to be back in Senegal\n\nIt is 10 o'clock at night, and outside the arrivals hall of Dakar's main airport, two Senegalese men are taking a moment to get used to their freedom.\n\nHassan Odjo, 42 and Issa Ba, 23 have just stepped off a flight from Libya, where they had been trapped for months.\n\n\"I was praying every day to Allah to give me the chance to come home,\" says Hassan, a huge smile spread across his face.\n\n\"I saw people dying in front of my eyes. Every day I was praying to be back in my country. Today is the happiest day for me, it's like it's my birthday.\"\n\nBoth Hassan and Issa have returned home under a voluntary repatriation programme run by the International Organization for Migration (IOM).\n\nThey had travelled through Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger and ended up in Libya - where they became trapped, unable to go further.\n\nHassan had attempted to cross the Mediterranean, but after his boat got into trouble he was picked up by local militia and held in detention.\n\nIt can be hard for some to come back and say they failed to get to Europe, says Seydine Ken\n\nHassan tells me of the suffering facing economic migrants in Libya, and describes being held in a room with 300 people, being given only bread twice a day, and bad water.\n\n\"When they catch you they lock you in prison, beat you or maltreat you, ask you to call your parents to send money.\"\n\nIn Libya detaining migrants has become a business in itself, he says.\n\n\"They are selling black people like coffee, like a cup of coffee. Yes I'm telling you the truth!\"\n\nFaced with this reality, it isn't surprising that more migrants are opting to return home.\n\nThe International Organisation for Migration has access to the Libyan detention centres, and works with national consulates to offer people the choice to get out.\n\nSo far this year, the IOM in Senegal alone has helped more than 2,000 people return home. Most of them have either been flown in from Libya, or bussed back from Niger. Others have been brought back from Morocco and Tunisia.\n\nToo many migrants don't realise the dangers they'll face, says the IOM's Senegal boss Jo-Lind Roberts Sene\n\nSitting quietly next to Hassan is Issa Ba. He cuts a contrasting figure; he looks visibly shaken and for him the homecoming is bittersweet.\n\n\"I feel happy because I am going to see my parents again, but at the same time I'm very disappointed. It's a shame you know, it's a dishonour going back without getting to Europe.\"\n\nListening to all this is Seydine Ken, the IOM case-worker who is at the airport to meet the two. He's used to seeing these kind of reactions from returnees.\n\nSeydine says: \"The social pressure is really difficult because when they organise their trip, the family mobilises money, and sells their goods to pay for it.\n\n\"And it's very difficult for them to come back, and see what their family invested in the [failed] migration.\"\n\nSeydine is part of the government welcome party; and at the airport he provides pocket money and information to take care of immediate needs, and also questions the two about their migration experience.\n\nHe's a regular at the airport and says he can be there twice a week to welcome returnees.\n\n\"They have not met their dream. They are very disappointed, physically they are very tired and psychologically they are very weak. These people need help - financial help, health and personal development.\"\n\nThe IOM's chief of mission in Senegal is Jo-Lind Roberts Sene. Time and again she notices the serious lack of information about the realities of migrating.\n\n\"It's very frustrating when each time we have a charter flight, I get to the airport and have the same exchanges over and over again - they didn't have sufficient information, they knew the trip was dangerous but never knew to what extent.\"\n\nIn rural Senegal, a lack of jobs is one reason many choose to try and reach Europe\n\nJo-Lind says that around Dakar there is more awareness about the dangers, but that in the countryside and other areas - home to a lot of would-be migrants - there is not this awareness. Voluntary returnees like Hassan and Issa play a vital role in helping change people's views.\n\nOne of the regions where young men are being re-absorbed is Tambacounda in eastern Senegal, close to the border with Mali.\n\nBeing a poor, rural region, it is the lack of well-paying jobs for young people that encourages them to leave in the first place.\n\nSo attempts are being made to reintegrate returned migrants into the community - giving them something to do and a way of earning a living.\n\nOne project is a maize farm in the rural community of Jalakoto. It's run two European NGOs, Coopi and La Lumiere, along with the IOM, and helps around 100 young men in the surrounding villages.\n\nThe maize farm is designed to help people earn a living - and for them to meet returning migrants\n\nFor men like Mamadou Biagey, who came back from Libya three years ago, it's the only thing they have.\n\n\"Since I arrived I have lived in hardship because all the money I had I used to travel to Libya. For two years I stayed here without doing anything - it's only this year that I started doing something.\"\n\nThe Jalakoto project is also designed to give young men thinking of leaving for Europe a reason to stay - not just by providing an income and a purpose, but also by encouraging them to rub shoulders with people who can talk of their experiences travelling to Europe.\n\n\"Sometimes in our debates there are young men who ask, 'what did you do and how did you do it to get to Libya?',\" says Mamadou Biagey, \"but I try to discourage from going.\"\n\nA quick show of hands among the 15 men working in one field reveals one man who says he initially intended to leave.\n\n\"In the beginning I only wanted to go and I saved enough money,\" he explains.\n\n\"Later on they brought us the project and explained what it was about and they convinced me. That's how I decided not to go.\"\n\nIn Tambacounda and throughout Senegal there is a battle going on between two narratives of what migration to Europe actually entails.\n\nWarnings about the dangers of migrating are competing with individual success stories, says Issaga Cee\n\nBack in the town, Issaga Cee, a school principal for 13 years, explains how real-life accounts of the dangers of the journey compete for space with apparent success stories on social media.\n\n\"People communicate a lot through WhatsApp - its very easy to tell the story of someone who has succeeded,\" he explains.\n\n\"Most of those who return at least have an experience of all the difficulties in Libya, so they have become lecturers about that very difficult trip and its consequences.\"\n\nThe IOM's Jo-Lind Roberts Sene says returning migrants have a crucial role to play: \"If it's a message that comes from Europeans it won't go through.\n\n\"If it's someone who's tried it, and hasn't made it, and can really explain what it was they experienced along the way, then it will take time - but they really are the ones that can put the message across.\"\n\nA note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.", "A teenager has shared a heartbreaking letter her mum wrote to her before she died, and the words are resonating with thousands of people across social media.\n\nPeggy Summers wrote letters for her 18-year-old daughter Hannah and each of her siblings before she passed away of stage 4 kidney cancer in Indiana.\n\nHannah's letter, which contains advice on school and relationships, has been shared on Twitter more than 90,000 times as the words reverberate with strangers across the globe.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 summers This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 emotional letter begins: \"Hannah, if you are reading this then the surgery did not go well. I'm sorry, I tried my best to beat this terrible disease but I guess God had other things for me to do.\"\n\nThe letter has advice for Hannah about school, boys, and her relationship with her dad: \"Be patient with dad, this is going to be hard on him and he will need time.\"\n\n\"You will both need to lean on each other and talk a lot which is not one of our strong points but try and don't give up.\"\n\nAt the end of the letter Peggy tells her daughter: \"Tell everyone you love them as often as you can.\n\n\"Enjoy life and live each day as if it is your last because none of us know if today will be the last. And most of all remember that I love you more than you will ever know.\"\n\nHannah told the BBC: \"Reading the letter was so hard. We all read them on the night that Mom passed, so it was a very emotional experience.\n\n\"Even though it was so hard, it also brought me a lot of comfort. Her words helped me realise that no matter how hard this whole situation is going to be, she will always be with me.\"\n\nThousands of people have reacted to Peggy's heartbreaking words of wisdom for her daughter.\n\nOne Facebook one user posted: \"I lost my dad around a year ago, he didn't leave behind any last words or letter but I'd like to imagine he would have written something like this.\"\n\nOn Twitter one user wrote: \"My mom passed also and she wrote me a letter exactly a year before just 'in case.' I treasure it daily. So sorry for your loss, stay strong.\"\n\nWhile another posted: \" I lost my mom 2004. This is the truth! Hug them love them while they are here.\"\n\nHannah posted a picture with her mum on Snapchat while she was undergoing treatment\n\nHannah says she has been overwhelmed by the response it has received: \"I didn't want to post it on social media at first, but the more I read the letter the more I felt the need to post it.\n\n\"There is so much good advice in the letter and it's very eye-opening for many people.\n\n\"I'm so happy Mom's words have been able to touch so many people.\n\n\"Life is precious and we should never take it or our loved ones for granted.\"", "The victim was stabbed in a pedestrian area of Market Place\n\nA man has been stabbed to death during a row with some people on a scrambler-style motorcycle.\n\nMerseyside Police said he was with friends in a pedestrian area of Market Place in Prescot town centre when the argument started, at about 00:40 GMT.\n\nThe 29-year-old was stabbed in the neck with an unknown weapon, police said. The offenders fled, riding off in the direction of a Tesco store.\n\nThe victim was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead soon after.\n\nA murder investigation has been launched and police are appealing for witnesses.\n\nCh Insp Nick Gunatilleke said: \"This was a horrific and senseless attack on a young man who had been walking home from a night out in a local pub with his friends.\"\n\nHe called for the offenders to \"search their consciences... and hand themselves in now as we will catch them in the end\".\n\nPolice did not specify how many suspects they were looking for, saying only that the man was stabbed by \"the rider or riders of a motorbike\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Father and daughter pilot team David and Kat Woodruffe have shared their last British Airways flight together.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Donald Trump addresses US troops at the Yokota air base in Japan\n\nUS President Donald Trump said no nation should underestimate American resolve, as he arrived in Japan at the start of a marathon Asian tour.\n\nAddressing US troops at Yokota air base near Tokyo, he pledged to ensure the military had the resources needed to keep peace and defend freedom.\n\nHe later told the Japanese prime minister he thought the two countries had never been closer.\n\nIt will be the longest tour of Asia by a US president in 25 years.\n\nIt comes amid heightened tensions with North Korea over its nuclear programme and missile tests.\n\n\"No-one, no dictator, no regime... should underestimate American resolve,\" President Trump told cheering US and Japanese troops shortly after his arrival in Japan.\n\nBefore touching down, he told reporters on board Air Force One that he expected to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin during his trip.\n\n\"I think it's expected we'll meet with Putin,\" he said. \"We want Putin's help on North Korea.\"\n\nMr Abe met Mr Trump fresh from his re-election last month\n\nSpeaking after talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Mr Trump said: \"The relationship is really extraordinary.\n\n\"We like each other and our countries like each other, and I don't think we've ever been closer to Japan than we are right now.\"\n\nEarlier the two leaders played golf, when they were joined by Hideki Matsuyama, one of the world's top players - as the president mentioned 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 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 US First Lady, Melania Trump, spent time with Akie Abe, the Japanese prime minister's wife, who showed her Japanese cultured pearls at shop in Tokyo's Ginza district.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 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\nStops in South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines are also on the itinerary in the coming week.\n\nEn route to Japan, the president stopped in Hawaii where he visited the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor - the scene of the 1941 Japanese attack that drew the US into World War Two.\n\nHe also took part in a briefing at the US Pacific Command.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Japanese women think of Ivanka Trump\n\nMr Trump has previously exchanged some fiery rhetoric with North Korea over its ballistic missile tests but aides said earlier this week that he would not go to the heavily fortified demilitarised zone (DMZ) on the border between the South and North.\n\nHe is, however, to visit Camp Humphreys, a US military complex south of the capital, Seoul.\n\nIn Vietnam, Mr Trump will attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit in Da Nang and make a state visit to Hanoi.\n\nHis final engagement is scheduled to be a summit of South-East Asian nations in the Philippine capital, Manila, on 13 November but the trip has now been extended by an extra day so he can attend the East Asia Summit.\n\nThe last time a US president made such a marathon trip to Asia was when George HW Bush visited the region in late 1991 and early 1992.", "Labour MP Harriet Harman has told BBC News that the string of allegations of sexual abuse and harassment against MPs is not a witch hunt.\n\nShe said: \"There are a lot of men saying this has been blown out of all proportion, it's a witch hunt. No, it's not a witch hunt, it's long overdue.\"\n\nHer comments follow the suspensions of a Conservative and a Labour MP.\n\nMeanwhile, SNP MSP Mark McDonald has quit as a Scottish government minister over \"inappropriate\" behaviour.\n\nIn a statement he said it had been brought to his attention that some of his \"previous actions have been considered to be inappropriate\".\n\n\"I apologise unreservedly to anyone I have upset or who might have found my behaviour inappropriate,\" Mr McDonald, who represents Aberdeen Donside at Holyrood, said.\n\nConservative MP Charlie Elphicke and Labour's Kelvin Hopkins were suspended from their parties on Friday, while Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon resigned earlier this week.\n\nOn Saturday morning, Sir Roger Gale, Conservative MP for North Thanet, urged people \"not to rush to judgement\", telling BBC Radio 4's Today programme that he believes the scandal is turning into a \"witch hunt\".\n\n\"I don't think there's anybody who would seek to defend rape or sexual abuse in the context there's no proof that I can see yet of any wrongdoing. How does a member of Parliament refute that?\"\n\nOn Friday, the Conservatives published a new code of conduct and are immediately adopting a new complaints procedure.\n\nMrs May is also meeting opposition party leaders on Monday to discuss proposals to bring forward a new grievance system for Westminster staff and MPs.\n\nMs Harman, the former Labour deputy leader, said that she thought Prime Minister Theresa May took \"very bold action\" in relation to Sir Michael's resignation.\n\nSir Michael, who quit office on Wednesday saying his general conduct fell short of expected standards, has \"categorically denied\" allegations over his conduct.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The scandal is turning into a \"witch hunt\", says Tory MP\n\nMs Harman told BBC Radio 4's Week in Westminster that Mrs May's actions have made her \"hopeful\" that the parties can work together to change standards.\n\nShe said people were put off from making complaints for fear of being disloyal to their party and \"helping\" the other side. But now, she said, \"there's a bigger fight\".\n\n\"We're all tribal beasts, that's why we're there [in parliament] and that has dampened down any ability to speak out,\" she said. \"I think that's changed after this week.\"\n\nMs Harman said that Parliament has a \"sea change opportunity\" to address the issue - and to help those who speak out.\n\nShe added: \"If you point your finger at a powerful man, they won't just sit there, they will fight back. So there will be some backlash about this amongst the corridors [of Westminster].\"\n\nOn Friday, Charlie Elphicke, a former party whip who has been the Conservative MP for Dover since 2010, was suspended by the party after \"serious allegations\" were referred to the police.\n\nDenying any wrongdoing in a post on Twitter, the married 46-year-old wrote: \"The party tipped off the press before telling me of my suspension. I am not aware of what the alleged claims are.\"\n\nLabour MPs Clive Lewis and Kelvin Hopkins are being investigated by the party over allegations about their behaviour.\n\nBut Conservative MP Sir Roger Gale told BBC Radio 4: \"We're in danger of getting into a situation where nobody half bright, half sensible, half decent, will want to go into the House of Commons - and that will not be good for democracy.\n\n\"We should look at the facts...by all means throw book at them, but don't throw the book at them until the case is proven.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. I was groped and flashed at - Emily Thornberry\n\nRupa Huq, Labour MP for Ealing Central and Acton, told BBC Breakfast that the House of Commons has \"no real structure\" for complaints.\n\nShe said it is \"the most unusual workplace\" where the rules around sexual harassment are \"lax if not non-existent\".\n\n\"In this sense it needs to get into line. Other big companies have a sexual harassment policy, they have a staff handbook. All those things do not exist for MPs\", she said.\n\nOn top of that, she added, \"you've got a whole political culture which has thrived on favours and bullying\" as well as partisan \"one-upmanship\" where people are \"incredibly loyal to their parties\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour's shadow chancellor says Parliament must 'give women the confidence to work in safety'\n\nAlongside the new code of conduct and complaints procedure, the Conservatives have set up a a hotline for reporting potential breaches and a more detailed investigatory process.\n\nLabour has introduced a new complaints procedure, while the Liberal Democrats continue to review their complaints procedures.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, said any complaints system has to apply to all political parties, and must be \"fair and objective\".\n\n\"There should be an element of independence [in the system], particularly for support as well, so people can feel confident about where they can report these things and at the same time how it can be dealt with.\"\n\nMrs May said Parliament must do its bit as well as the individual parties - as it was not fair to expect potentially vulnerable people to \"navigate different grievance procedures according to political party\".\n\nLord Bew, chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, told the Today programme that the \"burning issue\" at stake is the reputation of parliament.\n\nHe said it was vital that cases were not dealt with internally by the parties, but by those outside parliament who could \"give some reassurance to the public that this is not just another cover-up\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The sheep left muck over the house before leaving through the front porch (from Fortitude Press)\n\nImagine coming home to find a flock of sheep in your kitchen? That is what happened to farmer Rosalyn Edwards.\n\nHer overzealous sheepdog pup Rocky guided a flock of sheep from their pen right into her kitchen.\n\nThe seven-month-old border collie took advantage of an open gate to lead nine sheep directly through the back door of his owners' home.\n\nMrs Edwards said: \"It was funny at the time, but then there was quite a lot of wee, poo and mud everywhere.\"\n\nShe posted a video filmed by her children to Facebook, showing the sheep in the kitchen of her smallholding in Devon.\n\nThe sheep caused havoc in the house before leaving through the front porch\n\nShe said: \"I was in the kitchen and heard a noise. I turned around and the sheep were just standing there. There were about nine of them.\n\n\"I took the children into another room and then tried to guide the sheep out. They went right around from the kitchen and left again through the porch.\"\n\nMrs Edwards says the flock took a good look around the house before finally leaving at the front of the house.\n\nRocky guided a flock from the pen into the kitchen\n\nDespite the mess she said it was funny, in part because of the eager little sheepdog's efforts.\n\nShe said: \"Rocky did look quite pleased with himself, but he's going to need more training.\n\n\"He brought a whole new meaning to 'bringing the sheep home'.\"", "Many papers show shoppers queuing for the new iPhone 10\n\nAs the allegations of harassment in Westminster continue to widen, many papers focus on political intrigue behind the scenes.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph says Sir Michael Fallon had been scheming to get Commons leader Andrea Leadsom sacked before she made what it calls \"a pre-emptive strike\" to force him out by alleging he made lewd remarks in a meeting.\n\nThe paper says he had suggested she was a \"dud\" who would have to be sacked to get Cabinet agreement on any Brexit deal.\n\nThe Daily Mail asks \"did Leadsom knife the minister to save her job?\" saying that by acting as a whistleblower she made herself unsackable.\n\nOn its front page, the Times says that separate claims against Sir Michael Fallon were presented to Downing Street on Wednesday, and he was asked about them hours before he resigned.\n\nSir Michael says the latest allegation is untrue and libellous.\n\nBut the Sun says it helped seal his fate as defence secretary.\n\nThe Financial Times says that although the problem affects all parties, it spells potential disaster for Theresa May, in the same way an unpredictable sleaze scandal undermined former prime minister John Major.\n\nThe Independent, which first reported the allegations against Labour MP Clive Lewis, warns of the dramatic repercussions of the scandal if it leads to resignations and by-elections.\n\nIt says: \"It is unknowable what may happen as we stagger towards Christmas, a good time for a bored nation to enjoy a political scandal.\"\n\nThe Guardian leads on new research which says households will face a £930 a year increase in their shopping bills if Britain leaves the EU without striking a new trade deal.\n\nIt says the cost of meat, vegetables and clothing will go up most, with poorer families disproportionately affected.\n\nThe Daily Mirror leads with what it calls shocking accusations of sexual harassment and bullying in the world of horseracing.\n\nGay Kelleway, a trainer and former jockey, says she suffered bullying and abuse and was once pinned against the wall by a fellow rider in the presence of officials who did nothing.\n\nThe paper says the intimidation she describes will be \"only too familiar to those coming forward in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal\" and that \"enough is enough\".\n\nThe British Horseracing Authority has said it is taking the allegations extremely seriously.\n\nMany papers show the queues of shoppers waiting for the new iPhone X, with headlines such as \"X marks the spot\" for the i, and \"The X-factor\" in the Guardian.\n\nThe Financial Times says demand has been far higher than for recent launches of Apple's new phones.\n\nThe Times's business section remarks acidly that proof of man's evolutionary heights are that its first $900bn company is the one which allows you to create an animated emoji of yourself.", "Some insurers are burying price rises in renewal notices, risking customers losing out financially.\n\nRules introduced in April require companies to \"clearly, accurately and prominently\" display a renewal premium and what was paid the year before.\n\nA message to encourage customers to shop around is also stipulated, under rules set by the regulator.\n\nThe trade body for insurers said there had been \"teething problems\" with implementing the new system.\n\nThe new rules were expected to collectively save consumers up to £103m a year - but the regulator has said some insurers and brokers are failing to follow the rules properly.\n\nThe rules, outlined by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), were designed to improve price transparency and tackle the issue of loyal customers paying more than new customers for the same insurance product, particularly when policies automatically renew.\n\nThey cover all general insurance products, such as home, motor, pet and travel cover.\n\nNow, in letters and emails about renewals, insurers and brokers are required to:\n\nSeven months into the new system, the regulator said there had been \"several examples of firms who have failed to comply fully with the rules\".\n\n\"Consumers may have lost out as a result. For example, some firms obscured the required information or did not place the information in a prominent position,\" it said.\n\nSteven Murdoch, from London, complained to John Lewis Insurance that there was not a like-for-like comparison on renewal documents for home insurance.\n\nIt gives last year's premium in bold after the extra cost of paying monthly direct debit is added, but the new quotation has the price in bold before the direct debit charge is added.\n\n\"It looks like the premium is about the same, when in fact it's an 8% increase,\" he said.\n\nThe extra charge is shown in less prominent type.\n\nHe and his wife felt they had lost trust in the insurer, and switched to a different provider, but others may have encountered the same issue.\n\nA spokeswoman for John Lewis Finance said: \"We acknowledge that the presentation could be improved and we are currently in the process of amending to ensure we are being as transparent and comprehensive as possible. We apologise for any confusion caused.\"\n\nTwo firms - Admiral and M&S Insurance have written to customers explaining their mistakes. Admiral - one of the largest insurers in the UK and a FTSE 100 company - gave last year's quoted premium, before discounts were applied, rather than the amount that the customer actually paid. M&S had not used the correct wording in its four-year renewal offer for some customers.\n\nThere are more cases and the regulator has said it will work with insurers, but could use its powers to fine and order compensation to be paid, if firms fail to comply.\n\nHowever, the FCA could have avoided some of the failures.\n\nDuring consultation prior to the new rules being implemented, it was suggested to the FCA that it should be more prescriptive in how and where the old premium and shop around message were displayed.\n\nThe FCA's own trial showed that frequently customers overlooked details in renewal notices.\n\nWith one insurer in the trial 28% of customers read the renewal letter in detail and 44% skim read, or read the first page. At a second insurer, 23% read the letter in detail and 39% skim read, or read the first page.\n\nAlthough the regulator pointed to this research, it did not stipulate precisely where the information should be put, nor the exact wording.\n\nIn some cases, the previous year's premium and shopping around information have been placed on pages three or four of renewal notices, with the new quotation on the front.\n\nDespite the shortcomings, there has been support for the new policy.\n\nIan Hughes, chief executive of research agency Consumer Intelligence said that, although implementation had been \"patchy\" there were signs of a rise in longstanding customers shopping around for a better deal in motor insurance.\n\nSwitching rates had changed little, suggesting that customers were being offered a more competitive deal from their original insurer or were haggling on price.\n\n\"If you like your insurer, and want to keep on doing business with them, go back to them and tell them what the cheaper price was [from competitors] and see if they can match it,\" he said.\n\nThe Association of British Insurers (ABI) said that there had been some teething problems with the new system, despite insurers being given an extra three months to prepare compared with the original planned start date of January 2017, and that individual firms were working with the FCA to get things right.\n\nYou can hear more on Money Box on BBC Radio 4 at 12:00 BST on Saturday 4 November, and again at 21:00 on Sunday 5 November", "Stranger Things. Riverdale. 13 Reasons Why. Netflix certainly hasn't been short of gripping dramas this year. But is their latest one, released this weekend, up to the same standard? Will Gompertz finds out.\n\nMargaret Atwood's books have been catnip for TV producers in 2017.\n\nFirst there was the sublime Handmaid's Tale on Hulu, then Wandering Wenda on CBC, and now Sarah Polley's small screen adaptation of Alias Grace for Netflix, directed by Mary Harron.\n\nWe're in dense, complex territory with this one. Alias Grace is one of those multi-layered, deeply textured stories that keep English professors in business.\n\nThere's symbolism aplenty, psychological game playing, shaggy dog stories, and a couple of contested Murders Most Horrid on which a lecturer can chew semester after semester.\n\nAnd that's before we get onto the main narrator, the eponymous Grace Marks, who is about as reliable as a 4G phone signal in rural Ireland (which also happens to be where her life started). Not that she had a smartphone - we're in mid-19th Century here.\n\nThe set-up is as clear as her story is opaque.\n\nWe meet Grace in her early thirties. For the past 15 years she has been an inmate at a penitentiary in Canada having been found guilty of taking part in a double killing. She is a \"celebrated murderess\", which she considers a notch up from being simply a celebrated murderer.\n\nThe vibe is gothic psychodrama - think Twin Peaks meets Jane Eyre. Grace tells us her tale through a series of fireside chats she has with Dr Simon Jordan.\n\nHe is a young, earnest psychiatrist hired by the local worthies (led by Reverend Verringer, played by a mutton-chopped David Cronenberg) to produce a favourable assessment of Grace's mental state so she can be pardoned and set free.\n\nHe is a decent man (up to a point), but boring. He is played with great restraint by Edward Holcroft who succeeds in communicating Jordan's intensity and professionalism in a performance so dialled down you fear he might nod off between sentences.\n\nEdward Holcroft, Rebecca Liddiard and Kerr Logan (pictured) also star in the show\n\nNot so the inscrutable Grace, played with assurance as both a naïve teenager and marked woman by Sarah Gadon.\n\nShe has the focus of a look-out on a street corner, playing mind games with her inquisitor whom she effortlessly wraps around her fingers like the thread she uses to endlessly stitch together quilts.\n\nTo be honest, she does bang on a bit, but then who can blame her when the alternative is a beating at the hands of the brutal prison guards who \"take pleasure in the distress of a fellow mortal\".\n\nAnd so, over the course of six slow-burn episodes, we hear how a quiet Irish girl found herself locked up behind bars in a brutal prison in Canada. Predatory men play a part, which is very topical of course, but only because some things never change.\n\nAs one female servant notes after the death of a jilted housemaid following a back-street abortion: \"It is the curse of Eve we [women] must all bear.\"\n\nAnna Paquin and Paul Gross as Nancy Montgomery and Thomas Kinnear\n\nSarah Polley's script of Atwood's masterful book is not so much a literal adaptation, as a literary one.\n\nI hope she was paid by the word, for she uses many (as one of her characters might say). Which is fine, it works, but there were moments when I wondered what exactly the show was adding by taking the text from page to screen.\n\nBut that would be to discount Mary Harron's painterly eye and the tonal harmony she creates in each scene, which is an added bonus.\n\nAs the show progresses you realise that Grace's predicament is not really the story at all. She is the story.\n\nThis is a portrait of a young woman who has a lot in common with Shakespeare's Ophelia or Tennyson's Lady of Shalott: A tortured soul whose outer beauty becomes sublime because of - not despite of - her tragic circumstances.\n\nRebecca Liddiard is terrific as Grace's mischievous mate Mary Whitney. She puts in the sort of screen-grabbing turn that suggests stardom is but a role or two away. Zachary Levi also delivers an eye-catching performance as Jeremiah Pontelli, a travelling salesman with a shaman's soul.\n\nAlias Grace is a solid, well-made piece of television that doesn't hide its intelligence under a bonnet, as costume dramas can do. Nor does it attempt to keep your attention with soap opera style cliff-hangers. It is better than that.\n\nBut is it better than simply reading the book? I'm not so sure.", "MP Charlie Elphicke has been suspended by the Conservatives after \"serious allegations\" that have been referred to the police, the party has said.\n\nMr Elphicke, a former party whip who has been the MP for Dover since 2010, has denied any wrongdoing.\n\nIn a post on Twitter, the married 46-year-old wrote: \"The party tipped off the press before telling me of my suspension.\n\n\"I am not aware of what the alleged claims are and deny any wrongdoing.\"\n\nTwo days into his job as the party's new chief whip, Julian Smith issued a statement announcing Mr Elphicke's suspension.\n\nAccording to the BBC's political correspondent, Chris Mason, in practice this means Mr Elphicke remains in the Commons, but for the time being at least, is not a Tory MP.\n\nThe party has not provided any further detail about the nature of the allegations, and did not reveal who had made a complaint about him.\n\nThe Dover and Deal Conservative Association has backed their MP in a statement, saying that Mr Elphicke is \"professional and dedicated\" and innocent until proven guilty.\n\nHowever, it comes amid growing concern in Westminster over the conduct of politicians following a string of allegations of serious sexual abuse in Parliament.\n\nSir Michael Fallon resigned as defence secretary earlier this week following allegations about his conduct.\n\nLabour MPs Clive Lewis and Kelvin Hopkins are being investigated by the party over allegations about their behaviour.\n\nMr Hopkins has \"absolutely and categorically\" denied inappropriate conduct, while Mr Lewis has said: \"I don't, as a rule, grope people's bottoms\".\n\nSir Roger Gale, Conservative MP for North Thanet, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme it would be wrong to \"rush to judgement\" before there is proof of wrongdoing, warning against a \"witch hunt\".\n\nHe said: \"We're in danger of getting into a situation where nobody half bright, half sensible, half decent, will want to go into the House of Commons - and that will not be good for democracy.\n\n\"We should look at the facts...by all means throw book at them, but don't throw the book at them until the case is proven.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour MP Rupa Huq says Westminster needs to \"get into line\".\n\nBut Rupa Huq, Labour MP for Ealing Central and Acton, told BBC Breakfast that the House of Commons has \"no real structure\" for complaints.\n\nShe said it is \"the most unusual workplace\" where the rules around sexual harassment are \"lax if not non-existent\".\n\n\"In this sense it needs to get into line, other big companies have a sexual harassment policy, they have a staff handbook. All those things do not exist for MPs\", she said.\n\nOn top of that, she added, \"you've got a whole political culture which has thrived on favours and bullying\" as well as partisan \"one-upmanship\" where people are \"incredibly loyal to their parties\".\n\nThe Conservatives have published a new code of conduct for MPs and other elected representatives, while Labour has introduced a new complaints procedure.\n\nA spokesman for the Liberal Democrats said the party has a \"robust and effective\" complaints procedure which was strengthened in 2014 and is constantly under review.\n\nThe Conservative party is immediately adopting a new complaints procedure with a hotline for reporting potential breaches and a more detailed investigatory process.\n\nFor the first time, there will be an independent figure on the body looking into grievances, the party said.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May is due to meet opposition party leaders, including Labour's Jeremy Corbyn and the Liberal Democrat's Vince Cable, on Monday to discuss proposals to bring forward a new grievance system for Westminster staff and MPs.\n\nMrs May said Parliament must do its bit as well as the individual parties - as it was not fair to expect potentially vulnerable people to \"navigate different grievance procedures according to political party\".\n\nLord Bew, chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, told the Today programme that the \"burning issue\" at stake is the reputation of parliament.\n\nHe said it was vital that cases were not dealt with internally by the parties, but by those outside parliament who could \"give some reassurance to the public that this is not just another cover-up\".", "Paula Williamson describes her fiancé as \"charismatic, witty and cheeky\" - a man who likes llamas and is passionate about his art.\n\nFor most, her soon-to-be-husband Charles Bronson - now called Charles Salvador - is one of the UK's most violent prisoners.\n\n\"It's a marvel we make it work,\" says Paula, 37, who marries Bronson, 64, in the confines of HMP Wakefield in Yorkshire next Tuesday.\n\nBronson, a former bare-knuckle boxer who was first jailed for armed robbery in 1974, will not be able to attend his own wedding reception.\n\nSo what brought the couple together and what will their nuptials be like?\n\nPaula, a former soap actress, first wrote to Bronson in 2013 after reading his book on living in Broadmoor psychiatric hospital.\n\n\"I wanted to thank him - it had hope, and really helped me mentally,\" she says.\n\nThey exchanged letters for the next three years, before he asked to meet - by which time he had changed his last name to Salvador and broken off an engagement with another woman, Lorraine.\n\n\"I never spoke to him about Lorraine, as that's his own business,\" Paula says.\n\nShe describes their first meeting at HMP Wakefield: \"I wasn't nervous until I heard the slamming of gates and went through security.\n\n\"Then I heard this booming cockney voice shouting out my name.\n\n\"He was in a segregation unit - a prison within a prison - and stood in the corner sparring in mid-air, I thought he seemed like a nervous boy.\n\n\"I said to him, 'Charlie, come here and give me a hug, it's bloody me'.\"\n\nShe has visited Bronson once a week since then. She says the \"hours fly by\" during their meetings, as they talk about the meals she plans to cook him and he makes her a cup of tea.\n\n\"A few weeks in I asked Charlie, 'What are we?' And he replied, 'Well you're my soulmate of course, we are in a relationship - I adore you.'\"\n\nBronson, who was jailed in 1974, will not be able to go to his wedding reception\n\nTo outsiders, it may seem an unlikely match.\n\nLuton-born Bronson, a petty criminal since his teens, had his original seven-year sentence increased after a string of violent outbursts, with his time inside dramatised in a 2009 film starring Tom Hardy.\n\nPaula, who lives in Stoke-on-Trent with her four cats, studied acting at university, before landing minor roles in Coronation Street and Emmerdale.\n\nBut she insists they are \"very similar creatures\", with a shared experience of mental health problems.\n\n\"I've suffered from awful depression and anxiety following a relationship breakup,\" she said.\n\nWhen Bronson proposed to Paula over the phone on Valentine's Day, he said they had \"both been to dark places\".\n\nFive friends will attend the wedding on 14 November, to be held in a parole hearing room.\n\nAfterwards, Bronson will go back into solitary confinement and the celebrations will continue at a nearby pub.\n\n\"We have a bit of time together after the wedding, then he goes back to his cell, which is heartbreaking,\" Paula says.\n\nBut the reception will be a less private affair.\n\nPaula has agreements with tabloid newspapers to write stories about the wedding - having previously invited the Daily Mirror to film the moment Bronson proposed.\n\n\"People say I've courted the media,\" says Paula, who insists she is a \"solitary person\".\n\n\"I want to show Charlie's not forgotten about.\"\n\nCharles Bronson in 1992 - that year, he spent 53 days outside prison before being arrested again\n\nOne important person will be avoiding the cameras: the mother of the bride.\n\n\"Mum's not coming to the wedding as she's a private person,\" Paula says, admitting her family have objected to the match.\n\n\"Mum was a bit concerned as he has this awful reputation, but she knows I'm a strong-willed character with my head screwed on,\" she adds.\n\nShe says the backlash from strangers is far worse - claiming she has lost acting jobs over the relationship and is trolled on social media.\n\n\"I've had a hell of a lot of hatred towards me for being with him,\" says Paula, who spends her time answering people's letters to Bronson and campaigning for him to be released.\n\n\"It's madness at the moment,\" she adds. \"I've said to Charlie, 'do you want to swap places for a bit'?\"\n\nBronson has a parole hearing on 7 November to determine whether it is safe for him to mix with other prisoners.\n\nThe couple can currently only kiss and hold hands between bars during Paula's visits to Wakefield - one of the most secure prisons in the UK and one that counts paedophiles and serial killers among its inmates.\n\n\"He's locked up for 22 hours a day,\" says Paula. \"If I thought he'd be in prison the rest of his life, it would be a strange thing to marry.\"\n\nDespite the separation, Paula insists they are like \"any other couple\".\n\n\"We have little fall outs and tiffs,\" Paula says. \"But after 10 minutes of seeing him I'll smile and say 'for goodness' sake Charlie, stop being such a stupid git!'\"\n\nShe adds: \"I know I'm not 19 any more, but we've also discussed having children one day.\"\n\nPaula is confident Bronson will be released one day, and is campaigning for his rehabilitation\n\nPaula admits living together would be \"very different\" from their current life of letters, phone calls and weekly visits.\n\n\"I've said to Charlie, when you get out, you will have a room, and that will be your sanctuary,\" she says.\n\nThey want to live in a cottage, keep llamas and go on cruise holidays, while Bronson does his art and gives talks to young offenders.\n\nIn the book Paula first read in 2013, Bronson said his troubles were behind him - and described himself as a \"prolific artist\".\n\n\"I'll carry on campaigning for him until we get that life,\" Paula says.", "An Army sergeant accused of sabotaging his wife's parachute in a bid to kill her hid his financial woes from her, a court has heard.\n\nAt Winchester Crown Court, South African Mr Cilliers said he secretively took out \"loans to cover other loans\" out of fear his wife would leave him.\n\n\"I was hiding from Victoria the financial situation I was in,\" he said.\n\n\"I was living above my means, taking out loans to cover other loans - all my money would go on repaying loans and I would get another loan to try and hide it.\n\n\"I would be embarrassed [if Victoria found out].\n\n\"I was afraid she would be disappointed in me, I was just scared.\"\n\nWhen asked by Elizabeth Marsh QC, defending, what he thought would happen if his wife had found found out he replied: \"Leave me.\"\n\nMr Cilliers took the stand at Winchester Crown Court for the first time on Friday\n\nThe jury heard that Mrs Cilliers later discovered her husband was struggling with money, and agreed to bail him out.\n\n\"I kept on blaming various things for money being missing or not appearing.\n\n\"I never told her the truth about the debt I was in or who I owed the money to and I think it came to the point where she had enough,\" he said.\n\nThe jury had previously been told about financial arrangements, including wills, a life insurance policy and a post-nuptial agreement between the couple.\n\nWhile giving her evidence, Mrs Cilliers told the court these arrangements would not have benefitted her husband in the event of her death.\n\nHe answers questions in a calm voice, with a faint South African accent.\n\nWhen asked by defence barrister Elizabeth Marsh QC where he lived when he first came to England, he says he tried Scotland but only lasted a few weeks.\n\nHe also told the court how he had planned on proposing on top of Table Mountain in South Africa after he and Victoria had climbed up.\n\nBut the proposal didn't happen then, he told the court, as \" Victoria had a meltdown half way through\".\n\nMrs Cilliers broke her vertebrae, ribs and pelvis in the fall at Netheravon Airfield in 2015.\n\nProsecutors allege Mr Cilliers, a sergeant with the Aldershot-based Royal Army Physical Training Corps, twisted the lines of his wife's main parachute and sabotaged a reserve chute the day before her jump.\n\nMr Cilliers also denies a second attempted murder charge and a third charge of tampering with a gas fitting at their home in Amesbury, Wiltshire.\n\nHe will continue to give evidence when the trial continues on Monday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jesus Martin was a gang leader for \"Huachicoleros\" who live from stealing fuel mostly from pipelines in Puebla state\n\nA gang leader in Mexico has been killed while undergoing plastic surgery to disguise his identity by changing his face and erasing his fingerprints.\n\nOfficials said gunmen burst into the clinic in the city of Puebla and killed Jesus Martin, known as El Kalimba, while he was on the operating table.\n\nPolice said the murder seemed to result from a dispute between rival gangs.\n\nThey said Martin had been running an operation illegally siphoning fuel from pipelines.\n\nThe business has become Mexico's second-biggest organised crime after drug trafficking.\n\nJesus Martin wasn't the first crime boss in Mexico to use plastic surgery to avoid death or arrest.\n\nOne feared Juarez drug cartel boss, Amado Carrillo, died from surgical complications in 1997.\n\nMexico's state oil company Pemex and local firefighters struggle to control a fire believed to have been started in a pipe due to fuel theft in Puebla earlier this year\n\nThe notorious Joaquim Guzmán, known as El Chapo, was captured in 2014 despite changing the shape of most of his features while on the run.\n\nJesus Martin was known as a \"Huachicolero\" or a \"chupaducto\" (pipesucker). He had been running an operation that illegally tapped pipelines, stealing fuel for cheap resale.\n\nThe \"Huachicoleros\" siphon off the fuel and then sell it on at half the market price on busy highroads, costing Mexico's oil company millions of dollars in lost revenue.\n\nThe gang bosses also donate fuel on special holidays to local communities to garner favour.\n\nThousands of families are now engaged in this illegal activity.\n\nThe new business has inspired its own subculture and saint, \"The Infant Huachicolero\", to whom locals pray and make offerings in the hope of receiving protection and prosperity.\n\nIt mostly takes place in an area of central Puebla state where pipelines carry 40% of the country's fuel and has begun to have a significant economic impact for Mexico's oil company, Pemex, and local governments.\n\nIn April, the Mexican Congress approved a bill to increase sentences for fuel stealing to up to 25 years in prison.", "Mr Hariri has been in charge for less than a year\n\nLebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri has resigned, saying in a televised broadcast from Saudi Arabia that he feared for his life, while also fiercely criticising Iran.\n\nHe accused Iran of sowing \"fear and destruction\" in several countries, including Lebanon.\n\nMr Hariri's father, former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, was assassinated in 2005.\n\nThe Hariri family is close to Saudi Arabia, Iran's regional competitor.\n\nMr Hariri has been prime minister since December 2016, after previously holding the position between 2009 and 2011.\n\n\"We are living in a climate similar to the atmosphere that prevailed before the assassination of martyr Rafik al-Hariri,\" he said in the broadcast from the Saudi capital Riyadh.\n\n\"I have sensed what is being plotted covertly to target my life.\"\n\nMr Hariri also attacked the Iran-backed Shia movement Hezbollah, which wields considerable power in Lebanon.\n\nAddressing \"Iran and its followers\" he said Lebanon would \"cut off the hands that wickedly extend into it\".\n\nIran said the resignation would create regional tensions and rejected Mr Hariri's accusations as \"unfounded\".\n\nMr Hariri has made several visits in the past few days to Saudi Arabia, whose leadership is strongly opposed to Iran.\n\nHis announcement came a day after a meeting in Beirut with Ali Akbar Velayati, an advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Kahmenei.\n\nTaking up the prime minister's office last year, Mr Hariri promised a \"new era for Lebanon\" after two years of political deadlock.\n\nThe coalition government he led brought together almost all of the main political parties in Lebanon, including Hezbollah.\n\nRafik al-Hariri was killed by a bomb in 2005 in an attack widely blamed on Hezbollah.\n\nThe prime minister's resignation has opened up a chasm of uncertainty in Lebanon.\n\nIt's still not clear why he announced his decision in Saudi Arabia - an extraordinary move that left even his own MPs bewildered.\n\nBut the move will be seen through the lens of the great Shia-Sunni divide that's fuelling much of the violence across the Middle East.\n\nIt's pitted the Sunni power, Saudi Arabia, against the Shia power, Iran - with both sides backing different players to wield influence.\n\nIn Lebanon, the Saudis support Mr Hariri while Iran backs the Shia movement, Hezbollah.\n\nIn recent years, Lebanon has largely been spared the violence seen elsewhere in the region.\n\nBut with this stunning resignation, many Lebanese will now fear that their country is firmly in the crosshairs of the two regional superpowers.", "Rising sea levels linked to climate change threaten coastal areas like the Marshall Islands\n\nThe White House has sought to downplay a major climate change report, which was compiled by 13 US federal agencies.\n\nThe study is at odds with assertions from President Donald Trump and several members of his administration.\n\nIt says it is \"extremely likely\" human activity is the \"dominant cause\" of global warming.\n\nA spokesman for the White House said it supported \"rigorous scientific analysis and debate\" but added that the climate was \"always changing\".\n\nWhite House principal deputy press secretary Raj Shah said it was not certain how sensitive the Earth's climate was to greenhouse gas emissions.\n\nMr Trump, who has embarked on a tour of Asia, once said the concept of global warming was created by the Chinese in order to make American manufacturing less competitive.\n\nIt argues that it is \"extremely likely\" that human activity is causing rapid global warming with dire consequences for the US and the world.\n\nRunning to nearly 500 pages, the report concludes that the current period is \"now the warmest in the history of modern civilisation\".\n\nIt is \"extremely likely that human activities, especially emissions of greenhouse gases, are the dominant cause\", it finds, adding that \"there is no convincing alternative explanation\".\n\nPresident Trump has made it easier for industry to pollute and he has appointed to key government positions men who are sceptical of their own scientists, the BBC's James Cook, in Los Angeles, says.\n\nOnly on Thursday, Mr Trump's Energy Secretary, Rick Perry, told US media that while he thought climate change was real and humans had an \"impact on it\", he still thought \"the science [was] out on\" whether humans cause 100% of it.\n\nThe researchers say there was no political interference in, or censorship of, their report.", "Clicks don't lie. And Teen Vogue gets a lot of them.\n\nA highly-successful website. Six million Facebook likes. A huge following on Snapchat. Three and a half million Twitter followers. There's no doubt Teen Vogue's digital game is strong.\n\nThe quarterly print magazine, however, hasn't been having quite the same impact recently. So they're closing it.\n\nParent company Conde Nast is planning to focus on Teen Vogue's digital content instead - which has been going from strength to strength.\n\nThe brand has increased its political coverage and social activism in recent years while still delivering its entertainment, fashion and beauty content.\n\nA visit to Teen Vogue's website gives you some idea about why the formula has been so successful. (Warning: Doing this can make you lose hours from your day).\n\nIts headlines are light and relatable, with many written in the first person.\n\nWhile the above headlines, all from this week, might make zero sense to anyone outside the target audience, they do a great job of making many of us go 'Ooh that sounds interesting' - *click*.\n\n\"They've got a fantastic product and content,\" says Sarah Penny, Fashion Monitor's head of content.\n\n\"For the demographic they are targeting, they really push the boundaries and provide something new that isn't just celebrity, fashion and beauty for teens.\"\n\nBut, she adds: \"They're also not ones to sit on the fence - you only have to look at any of their Trump commentary.\"\n\n\"They really came into their own during the election and the fact that they provide accessible current affairs for a young audience is really pioneering and exciting for a teen magazine, which in turn is alluring for their target audience.\"\n\nThis might explain the social media reaction to the news that the print magazine was closing:\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\nWe contacted Teen Vogue, who stressed the growth and expansion of the digital brand, adding that they'll likely still do the occasional print special.\n\n\"Though the quarterly print editions will cease publishing on a regular schedule, we will explore re-imagined special issues timed to specific moments, as we do in social,\" a spokesman told BBC News.\n\n\"As audiences continue to evolve around content consumption, we will modernise and calibrate how, where and when we produce and distribute our content to be in sync with the cultural moments and platforms most important to our audiences.\"\n\nThe closure of the print edition is likely to result in up to 80 job losses, according to Variety, and it's not the only changes Conde Nast announced this week.\n\nSome of their other titles like GQ, Allure and Glamour will drop from 12 to 11 print issues per year.\n\nGlamour has also announced this month that it will be going online only\n\nTeen Vogue's move to an exclusively online product follows in the footsteps of the British version of Glamour, which did the same thing earlier this year.\n\n\"Conde Nast is doing all of a sudden and dramatically what most major magazine publishers have been doing steadily and quietly for the last 10 years - cutting their cost base to match their reduced revenues,\" says David Hepworth, whose magazine career has included editing Smash Hits and launching Just Seventeen, Q, Empire and Heat.\n\nBut, he cautions: \"There are very few cases of magazines going digital-only and managing to retain the lustre on their brand. Once you let paper go you're just another website. You're just more space junk floating around out there.\"\n\nTeen Vogue has seen its online operation grow under Philip Picardi, who joined as digital editorial director in 2015.\n\nKaty Perry and Ariana Grande have both appeared on the cover of Teen Vogue\n\n\"Because of the amount of attention we've received in the press and I think on social, we are looked at as a brand that is safe to pitch for, if you have a story that's not been told before,\" Picardi told Business of Fashion this month about the brand's digital success.\n\n\"Now we feel empowered to be more activist and be bolder about the statements that we're making and the stances that we're taking. And so that's a completely different ballpark to be playing in.\"\n\nAnd bolder they have been. Teen Vogue, as BoF points out, has been taking strong stances on politics, LGBTQ issues, the gender pay gap and birth control.\n\nPretty good for a publication that was once dismissed has having little to offer beyond mascara reviews.\n\nBut while its digital operation is growing, Hepworth thinks Conde Nast may end up regretting closing the physical edition.\n\n\"All this talk about migrating from print to digital ignores the monetary facts,\" he says.\n\n\"Unless you've come up with a fundamentally different way of doing business - and the fact that this announcement comes so suddenly suggests Conde Nast haven't and are just hoping - you're exchanging pounds for pennies.\n\nTeen Vogue's content has become much more political in recent years\n\n\"If you give something away, the only revenue you make is from advertising and the value of online advertising has been falling for years.\"\n\nHe advises Teen Vogue readers: \"Remember, if you pay for something, you're the customer. If you get something for free you're the product.\"\n\nPenny thinks, though, that there was only so much money that could be made from print anyway, and points out the decline in physical sales of magazines in general.\n\n\"Print is a very difficult medium to sustain, particularly within this Generation-Z readership,\" she says.\n\n\"They're really the first demographic to have grown up with a digital presence from birth so naturally have an incredibly strong affinity with online consumption - even more so than millennials.\"\n\nTeen Vogue say they are \"aggressively investing in the brand\" and pointed to the \"tremendous audience growth across its digital, social and video platforms this past year\".\n\nConde Nast will be hoping they can keep that momentum going in the coming months.\n\nProvided readers of the print magazine are okay with swapping pages for clicks, the chances are Teen Vogue should be just fine.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None How print is surviving the digital age", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Tom Symonds met the charity Redthread, that works with gang violence victims\n\nCan young people who've been injured in knife and gun crime be steered towards a safer future at the moment they're at their most vulnerable? The idea has been pioneered in four London hospitals by the charity Redthread, which places youth workers an the heart of accident and emergency alongside trauma medics.\n\nIt is early evening in \"resus\", part of accident and emergency at King's College Hospital in south London.\n\nOne of the city's four major trauma centres, if you are in a serious accident, or you are stabbed or shot, this is where you may end up.\n\nIt is an extraordinary place.\n\nGreen-overalled ambulance crews constantly arrive to be met by teams of medical staff in coloured scrubs. Sometimes there are wails of pain from patients. The public address system blares urgent announcements.\n\nA nurse at King's College Hospital takes details of an incoming patient\n\nThe ring of the \"red phone\" cuts through it all - warning the medics of an incoming patient.\n\nHe arrives, dressings marked with blood, on a trolley surrounded by paramedics and is handed over to a 10-strong team of waiting trauma specialists.\n\nSenior consultant Dr Emer Sutherland marshals her team. The patient is 16. He has been slashed four times with a large knife.\n\nA trauma team attends a patient in the resus unit at King's College Hospital\n\nIn the course of the next few hours, the resus team will ensure he lives. They're good at what they do. Only three young stabbing victims have died in the hospital this year.\n\nBut there's another specialist alongside them.\n\nLucy Knell-Taylor is 29, dressed in a T-shirt and leggings. She's not a doctor, but a youth worker with the charity Redthread.\n\nShe is there not to save a life, but to change one.\n\nWe spent four days at King's, during which time we saw a steady flow of patients with stab wounds - almost all of them under 18. The peak time for admission was not late at night, but at school going-home time.\n\nAfter a decade of falling levels of violent crime, they are now increasing again.\n\nReported knife crime rose 26% in the last year. In London, 21 teenagers have been murdered, 15 stabbed to death.\n\nRedthread is trying to help young people escape what for many is a life riven by violence. To achieve that, youth worker Lucy has to wait for the right time.\n\nWhen victims are able to talk, she moves in among the medical team and begins the task of building a relationship with someone she's never met, who may be traumatised and hostile, while they are having emergency treatment.\n\nSome respond well. One gestured to his wounds and said to Lucy: \"I want you to look at it and tell me what they are doing.\"\n\nOthers are more difficult. Many young men involved in criminal gangs who won't even tell her their \"government\" or real name. She's been called a \"pagan\", meaning \"you're not one of us\".\n\nShe is often told: \"I slipped on glass.\" In resus, they know that's usually code for \"I was stabbed.\"\n\nShe responds with reassurance, practical help and personal warmth. Forging a relationship is everything.\n\nRedthread calls this \"the teachable moment\". When someone is critically injured, they are suddenly removed from the streets. They are dependent on doctors for their survival. They may be in pain.\n\nThe aim is to teach them that this is a moment they should grasp. A junction in their lives where a choice can be made. To go back, or to move on.\n\nLucy Knell-Taylor says she seeks to form a bond with patients\n\n\"Getting to them now when they are here in the hospital,\" Lucy Knell-Taylor says, \"is my opportunity to say every single thing which has happened before this second, kind of doesn't matter.\n\n\"Right now you're in pain, you're away from your natural environment, your friends may or may not be here. This is an opportunity to think - does something need to be different?\n\n\"It's live, it's the moment it's most real to them. It's the perfect moment.\"\n\nWhen it works, a bond is formed between Ms Knell-Taylor and the victim. It means she can later say \"You can trust me. I've seen your pain face!\"\n\nBut it can be traumatic work. Ms Knell-Taylor describes one incident when, called to resus, she was confronted with a large group of \"road men\" - gang members. One turned, and a kitchen knife was sticking out of his eye.\n\nShe has seen patients die.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Special correspondent Ed Thomas has witnessed the reality of knife crime\n\nDr Emer Sutherland helped set up the project 13 years ago. \"I am a middle-aged mum,\" she says. \"I don't have the same experiences young people have.\n\n\"I can keep them alive, I can resuscitate them, but then my expert colleagues - the youth workers - come in to offer them what they want for the future.\"\n\nThe teachable moment is designed to open the door to potentially years of work aimed at extracting victims from a violent life.\n\nMs Knell-Taylor has argued for \"her people\" in court, fought battles with probation officers, sorted housing, and even organised transport for one patient who couldn't go to a certain hospital because he might be stabbed passing through a rival group's territory.\n\nJane - not her real name - is one of Redthread's successes.\n\n\"Jane\" (L) has had the support of Redthread's Becky Calnan for several years\n\nNow in her 20s, when she was a teenager, she became involved in a drugs gang and was forced to carry guns and knives around London. \"I saw a man get both of his legs broken,\" she tells me.\n\nShe was sexually abused and sent to be raped by rival gangs, as part of a bizarre arrangement used when her gang had done something which might otherwise result in its rivals retaliating violently.\n\n\"If your girl had to sleep with a guy from another gang, it was like they had one up on you. The girls were used as pawns,\" she says.\n\nUnwell, Jane came to King's. Hospital staff opened the door to the teachable moment by tipping off Redthread that she would be at a clinic the next morning.\n\n\"It was probably one of the lowest points in my life,\" she says. \"I wasn't feeling great, and in that moment Becky was there to help me.\"\n\nBecky Calnan has recently stopped working directly with Jane, a mark of her progress\n\nBecky is Becky Calnan, an experienced Redthread worker who has now been with Jane for years.\n\n\"I just felt an automatic connection that actually this was someone who - regardless of what I was involved in - was going to help me,\" Jane says.\n\n\"Since then, I've probably spoken to her every other day for years. She's helped me rebuild relationships with my family, get me back into a community.\"\n\n\"Ideally I'd like her to be in my life for… well, forever.\"\n\nBut in fact their work connection recently came to an end. Jane accepts that as \"a mark of how far I've come\".\n\nThe Redthread team is expanding its work into hospitals outside London\n\nLucy Knell-Taylor says success is measured by her services no longer being needed.\n\n\"I try and work on this Nanny McPhee principle of when you need me but don't want me I'll be there, but when you want me but no longer need me, I won't,\" she says.\n\nA recent report on the charity's work at St Mary's hospital suggested it had led to a 60% reduction in the number of young people coming back to the emergency department as victims of violent crime.\n\nHowever, it has proven tricky for Redthread to show wider evidence of its success, because of a lack of funding for studies of what happens to the young people it contacts.\n\nNow the project's being expanded to three hospitals in Birmingham and Nottingham which will provide an opportunity to measure the effect of the \"teachable moment\" both before and after Redthread gets to work.\n\nThe intensive one-to-one relationships with young people that Redthread believes can divert them from violent lifestyles don't come cheap. Scaling up the project could get very expensive.\n\nBut every case arriving in resus results in a bill to the NHS for hugely expensive specialist care. Policymakers will also have to consider the real cost of not cutting youth violence.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Entertainment company Netflix has severed ties with Kevin Spacey, star of its House of Cards show, amid a number of sex assault allegations against him.\n\nNetflix said it would hold talks with the producers to see if production, which was suspended this week, could resume without Spacey.\n\nNetflix also said it would not release Spacey's film about writer Gore Vidal.\n\nMeanwhile, police in the UK have opened an investigation into the American actor over an alleged sexual assault.\n\nA British actor said he had woken up to find Spacey performing a sex act on him in 2008, the Sun newspaper reported. The man is said to have run from the property after Spacey allegedly said: \"Don't tell anyone about this.\"\n\nSpacey said on Thursday he was seeking treatment after facing allegations of sexual misconduct from a string of men.\n\nNetflix suspended production on House of Cards on 31 October following allegations by Star Trek actor Anthony Rapp, who said Spacey had tried to \"seduce\" him when he was 14.\n\nSpacey said he was \"beyond horrified\" to hear of the incident, which he said he did not remember.\n\nHouse of Cards, which is based on a BBC programme, was first broadcast in 2013.\n\nThe first season garnered nine Emmy nominations, becoming the first online streaming series to win such mainstream accolades.\n\n\"Netflix will not be involved with any further production of House of Cards that includes Kevin Spacey,\" a company spokesperson said in a statement.\n\n\"We will continue to work with MRC [series producer Media Rights Capital] during this hiatus time to evaluate our path forward as it relates to the show.\n\n\"We have also decided we will not be moving forward with the release of the film Gore, which was in post-production, starring and produced by Kevin Spacey.\"\n\nMRC said in a statement earlier that it was \"deeply troubled\" about the allegations against Spacey.\n\nIt said it had dealt with one incident in 2012 in which an unnamed crew member \"shared a complaint about a specific remark and gesture made by Kevin Spacey\", that immediate action had been taken and that the issue had been resolved.\n\nSpacey had \"willingly participated in a training process\", it added.", "The wrestling industry isn't known for LGBT representation, but drag wrestler Rick Cataldo is hoping to change that.\n\nRick has been a professional wrestler since 2004 but his career took off in 2014 when he formed The Fella Twins.\n\nAs part of the duo, he says he was able to pay tribute to the female wrestlers who inspired him as a child.\n\n\"At an early age I was attracted because even in such a violent atmosphere there could be beauty and colour,\" he tells Newsbeat.\n\n\"Plus, the big boobs and the blonde hair? That wasn't so bad either.\"\n\nGrowing up idolising WWE Divas such as Sable, Terry Runnels and Dawn Marie, Rick started wrestling at 14 but struggled to find a place in the industry.\n\nHe never wanted to be like other male wrestlers and instead worked with female wrestlers.\n\n\"I was always the joke and the comedy relief,\" he says. \"I was trying to find my place and what would get me bookings.\"\n\nWarning: Third party videos may contain adverts\n\nHe says male wrestlers had pretended to be gay, but found that being open about his sexuality outside the ring proved to be a major hurdle.\n\n\"They'd throw my bags out of the locker room because they found out I was gay and it wasn't just a character [I was playing],\" he explains.\n\n\"To this day, independent companies won't book me because of a fear of what families might say.\"\n\nIn 2014 he started wrestling in drag, reinventing his act and finding the success he craved once he proved doubters wrong.\n\n\"I wanted to turn up at every show looking just as beautiful as the girl wrestlers on TV,\" he says.\n\n\"I've stuck with it for three years because it's working and finally people are like, 'OK, Rick is doing something here.'\"\n\nRick says other LGBT wrestlers have told him they are now compared to him\n\nRick, who lives in Los Angeles in the US, found more success and bookings with The Fella Twins and inspired other LGBT people to enter the industry.\n\n\"Over the last three years there have been a lot of LGBT wrestlers,\" he explains.\n\n\"A lot of them reached out to me and said how much I'd inspired them. I reach back to a lot of them because there was no-one before me to do that.\"\n\nHowever, after three years as part of The Fella Twins, Rick's next goal is to help promote LGBT wrestling helping others find a place in the mainstream.\n\n\"My main goal, overall, was to look back and have left a dent in the world of professional wrestling,\" he says.\n\nFind us on Instagram at BBCNewsbeat and follow us on Snapchat, search for bbc_newsbeat", "A work by French street artist Invader on display at an exhibition in Los Angeles\n\nTo me, it looked like a child's crude attempt at a mosaic. About a dozen small square tiles of different colours. Glued to the wall in a geometric design vaguely resembling a face with two square eyes.\n\nIt stood out in the otherwise empty and dingy Paris flat. Once my home, I was moving back in, after nearly 20 years away. My tenants, three young single men, were showing me round before they left.\n\n\"What's that?\" I asked, pointing at the cluster of tiles.\n\n\"That's by Invader,\" my tenant replied. \"He's a street artist. He's like a French Banksy.\"\n\nI quite liked Banksy, but the young man must have seen that I didn't appear overly impressed by his French counterpart.\n\n\"You must leave this,\" he said earnestly. \"One day it will be worth a lot of money.\"\n\nThe tiled pieces such as this one in London are inspired by the 1978 video game Space Invaders\n\nBeing British, I nodded politely - but inwardly I chortled at the notion that a few tiles stuck on a bedroom wall could ever be considered a work of art.\n\nTrying to prove I wasn't too old to get it, I said: \"It reminds me of something.\" After struggling for a few seconds to recall exactly what, I exclaimed triumphantly: \"Tetris!\"\n\nNow it was his turn to look dubious, so I explained: \"You know, the video game from the 80s.\" \"Not Tetris,\" he said, mock-patiently. \"Space Invaders. The mother of modern video games.\"\n\nHe added: \"The artist came to one of our parties and ended up staying a few months. It was his way of saying thank you. Now we're leaving it for you.\"\n\nMy neighbours had complained over the years - with varying degrees of indignation and perhaps envy - that the three young men had thrown raucous parties nearly every weekend. The flat was such a wreck that my tenant admitted that, when he was working during the week as an up-and-coming executive, he stayed at his girlfriend's.\n\nNow he was getting married, while I was about to transform the bachelor party pad back into a respectable bourgeois home.\n\nI duly promised the young men that I would look after the artwork and thanked them for leaving it. But then the builders came to replaster and repaint the room.\n\n\"I might leave that,\" I told them.\n\nThey looked at me sceptically. \"Why do you want to keep it? It will look strange,\" the painter said.\n\nI hesitated, but only for a moment. The wall was stripped, replastered and painted a tasteful shade of blanc cassé - off-white, far more aesthetically pleasing than a bunch of multicoloured tiles.\n\nThat was nine years ago, when I was moving back to France.\n\nAs the years passed, I noticed more of the Space Invaders mosaics on buildings around Paris. Never did I feel a twinge of regret for destroying the one in my flat.\n\nThen, two years ago, it began to dawn on me what I'd done.\n\nI reported on how one of the distinctive mosaics of the French street artist known as Invader was about to be displayed - on board the International Space Station. The European Space Agency said it would - in their words - highlight the bridges between art and space.\n\nIt was bigger, but otherwise similar to the one I'd unceremoniously stripped out of my flat.\n\nArtwork by Invader has turned up on the International Space Station and European Space Agency ground installations\n\nInvader was a global phenomenon, famous in New York, Hong Kong, London, and of course Paris.\n\nThen came the real blow. To my horror, I learned that one of his works had sold for more than €200,000 (£178,000; $233,000).\n\nThe mosaics I'd once scoffed at are now so sought-after that thieves posing as municipal workers in high-visibility vests went around Paris this summer carefully removing them.\n\nTheft and vandalism have always been problems for Invader, a graduate of the Paris School of Fine Arts who was born in 1969, the year man landed on the Moon.\n\nBut there's a fightback: fans known as \"reactivators\" photograph his works and reconstruct those that get damaged or disappear.\n\nHad I taken a picture of the one in my flat, I could have called in the reactivators.\n\nNow, I'll just have to live with the fact that I tossed out a valuable work of art because I preferred a smooth, blank, white wall.\n\nPerhaps I could try to market a piece of that as a work of art. But hold on a minute - hasn't someone already come up with that concept?", "The bill seeks to prosecute websites that encourage ads selling sex\n\nThe internet’s most powerful companies say they will support new measures that seek to prevent online sex trafficking.\n\nThe Internet Association, which counts Facebook, Google and Amazon among its members, had at first said the proposed US law could hurt innovation.\n\nBut in a statement released on Friday the group said it was satisfied with “important changes” made to the bill.\n\nUS senators are expected to hold an initial vote on the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (Sesta) next week.\n\n\"This important bill will hold online sex traffickers accountable and help give trafficking survivors the justice they deserve,” said Senator Robert Portman of Ohio, one of the bill’s authors.\n\n“I’m pleased we’ve reached an agreement to further clarify the intent of the bill and advance this important legislation.”\n\nTechnology companies had been opposed to the bill because of changes it would have made to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, enacted in 1996.\n\nThe section represents a pillar of internet law - one which protects internet companies from the actions of its users. For example, if a person uses YouTube to break the law by showing something illegal, the user, and not YouTube, is held legally responsible. The Internet Association argued that this framework meant fledgling companies were not burdened by huge, perhaps insurmountable legal risk.\n\nThe compromise that finally got the technology companies on board, after going back-and-forth since August, relates to whether a site is “knowingly” aiding traffickers on their platform. The bill now clarifies that a site needs to be \"assisting, facilitating or supporting\" human trafficking in order to face prosecution.\n\n\"Internet Association is committed to combating sexual exploitation and sex trafficking online and supports Sesta,” said Internet Association President Michael Beckerman on Friday.\n\n\"Important changes made to Sesta will grant victims the ability to secure the justice they deserve, allow internet platforms to continue their work combating human trafficking, and protect good actors in the ecosystem.”\n\nAmanda Hightower, executive director at Seattle-based Real Escape from the Sex Trade (Rest), told the BBC she welcomed the news.\n\n\"With the bulk of trafficking happening over the internet, it's essential we have legislation and safeguards in place to protect victims and reduce the risk of people being sold online,\" she said.\n\n\"Knowing that internet giants are now joining forces with legislators to reduce the potential of trafficking gives me hope that we are heading in the right direction to stop this crime and that those who facilitate trafficking online will be held responsible.\"\n\nThe rewritten components will protect companies that take pro-active measures to remove advertisements that enable trafficking and the sale of sex, but will pave the way for prosecutors to more effectively go after sites that allegedly allow such activity to flourish.\n\nIn the crosshairs of US law enforcement is Backpage.com, a site described by California prosecutors as a “massive online brothel” that actively encourages the sale of sex through its listings website. Backpage.com did not return the BBC’s request for comment on Friday.\n\nDespite the changes, some corners of the technology community are still concerned about the bill’s effects. Engine, a non-profit group that pushes the interests of start-ups in Washington, said the new wording was still too vague.\n\n“While the bill sponsors have made improvements to some of the drafting problems in the original language, the changes do not address many of the startup community's concerns,” said Rachel Wolbers, Engine’s policy director.\n\n\"The bill still creates uncertainty for platforms regarding their obligations under the law and potentially penalises startups for content that they are unaware of and cannot control.\"\n\nYou can reach Dave securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "Civil wars that spread devastation and suffering across a whole country have no real victors. But one war in Syria - that against the Islamic State (IS) group's so-called caliphate - is well on the way to being won.\n\nEarlier this week IS's last urban bastion in eastern Syria, Deir al-Zour, hard up against the Iraqi border, fell to Assad government forces. IS will remain in some form or another as an insurgency and source of ideological inspiration but as a territorial entity or physical caliphate, it is finished.\n\nBut what of Syria's other war, the uprising against the Assad regime and its efforts - aided by Iran and Russia - to crush the opposition?\n\nThe current situation on the ground means that forces from the above countries will be in close proximity to United States troops, who are supporting some of the anti-Assad groups.\n\nJoshua Landis, a Syria expert and professor at Oklahoma University, summed it up in simple terms. \"Assad has won the Syria war militarily,\" he told me. \"He has defeated the original uprising or revolution. The rebel groups that remain have been pushed to the margins of Syria.\n\n\"The international community has all but abandoned them as a lost cause. The rebel militias,\" he argues, \"still have some teeth in defence, but cannot mount a credible offensive against Assad's military.\"\n\nCharles Lister, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, and another close watcher of Syria, has a slightly more cautious assessment. \"President Assad,\" he notes, \"sits more comfortably in Damascus than at any time since 2011.\"\n\nBut having said that, he argues that \"it would be inaccurate to suggest Assad had won the war. He's simply avoided losing it.\"\n\n\"The Assad regime has a stated intent to recapture every inch of Syria. If that goal is to ever be met, we're talking years at least,\" he explained.\n\nBut the crucial take-away from all this is that Syria is entering a new phase of conflict. The territorial defeat of IS, says Charles Lister, \"will throw an awful lot of potential sources of hostility up into the air and nobody really knows right now how they'll land\".\n\nWhat is emerging is a new strategic map with Syria divided into different zones: One controlled by the Assad regime (with the support of Russia and Iran), another controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (an amalgam of Kurdish, Arab and other groups supported by the US), and others run by various elements of the Syrian opposition, backed to varying degrees by Turkey and Jordan.\n\nHaving helped Assad restore his control over a significant part of the Syrian population, Moscow has also manoeuvred itself into holding the best cards in the putative diplomatic end-game.\n\nAs Joshua Landis told me, the Astana peace process, led by the Russians, \"is the only one worth anything at the moment.\n\n\"The Geneva process, led by the US,\" he notes, \"has been about grandstanding and sticking to talking points that no longer have any relevance on the ground, such as demanding that Assad step aside and that democratic elections be held in Syria. Everyone knows this will not happen.\"\n\nWith the demise of IS, Syria's future will continue to be determined by a variety of external players, fighting out their own strategic battles and seeking local advantage.\n\nThe four key actors are the US, Russia, Turkey and Iran.\n\nSpecial forces from Western countries, including the US, have supported Kurdish-Arab forces in Syria\n\nIts initial half-hearted efforts to galvanise a democratic opposition to defeat the Syrian regime failed dramatically. Its focus has largely been on the defeat of the IS caliphate.\n\nBut now, Joshua Landis says, Washington must make a decision: \"Will it stay in Northern Syria to defend the gains of the Syrian Democratic Forces that it has armed, trained and propelled to victory in Raqqa and the region north of the Euphrates River?\"\n\nThe difficulty, as Charles Lister told me, is that \"beyond fighting IS, it is sadly very hard to determine whether the US really has a Syria policy.\"\n\nAnd he says that what policy there is is full of contradictions. For example, Washington continues to say Assad must leave and that his days are numbered, and yet the US has ceased all support to anyone opposed to Assad.\n\nTurkish President Erdogan's main concern is with the Kurds\n\nIf US policy could be said to be in a mess, so too could that of Turkey.\n\nAnkara's goal, says Joshua Landis, is to retrench. \"It seriously overreached in Syria,\" he told me, \"almost to the point of destabilising Turkey.\"\n\nHe believes that President Erdogan \"must make sure that the Kurdish question in Turkey does not lurch toward civil war. He will increasingly normalise relations with Assad in order to contain the independence of Syria's Kurds.\" Turkish troops have moved a small way into northern Syria to achieve this goal.\n\nIndeed, after posing as a champion of the opposition against the Assad regime, Charles Lister says, that \"at times, Turkey has directly betrayed the opposition groups it had stood by for so long, merely to secure a more favourable position against the Kurdish YPG, which it views as a terrorist organisation.\n\nShia militias, backed by Tehran, have played a prominent role in the campaign against IS\n\nIn backing the Assad regime (and offering significant support to the Shia-dominated government in Iraq) Tehran has had one clear goal - to secure its hegemony in the northern Middle East: the lands stretching from Lebanon through Syria and Iraq, all the way to Iran's own borders.\n\n\"This,\" says Joshua Landis, \"is the new security architecture that Iran has fought so vigorously for and it is within its reach today. This means that Iran can counter-balance Israel. It means that Iran can establish oil pipelines running to the Mediterranean coast, trade routes, highways, and pilgrimage routes.\"\n\nThis, he says, means \"Iran is no longer cut out of the Middle East.\"\n\nAnd Tehran has troops to back up its position. Charles Lister notes that Iran \"commands tens of thousands of Shia militiamen inside Syria, which gives Tehran more influence than any other actor, bar none.\"\n\nRussian troops have been on the ground in Syria\n\nRussia, after Iran, is the other great winner from the Syrian conflict, reviving its role in the region, securing important military bases, and making itself a key diplomatic player.\n\nIt wants to \"solve\" Syria on its terms and with its favoured actors ending up the victors and it seems to be well on the way to achieving this goal.\n\nBut the growing proximity of Russian and Iranian-backed pro-regime forces and those backed by the US raises the possibility of some dangerous encounters. The US and Russia can agree on the need to defeat IS but on little else. Moscow's \"side\" has the military and diplomatic advantage on the ground.\n\nWill the US seek to bolster its position in Syria, perhaps as part of a broader policy to \"roll back\" Iranian influence, as US conservatives are hoping? This may be easier said than done and might require many more resources and boots-on-the-ground than the Trump administration is prepared to put in harm's way.\n• None What should happen to IS fighters?", "The mutilated body of lionhead rabbit Teddy was left in its hutch for its owner to find\n\nThe mutilation and death of a pet rabbit could be the latest work of the \"Croydon cat killer\", it is claimed.\n\nThe dismembered body of rabbit Teddy was found by his owner in his cage in her garden in Harpenden, Hertfordshire.\n\nAnimal charity Snarl, which is investigating hundreds of violent UK cat and rabbit deaths, said it thought the pet fell victim to the same killer.\n\nHertfordshire Police said officers were examining whether the death was linked to the wider inquiry.\n\nThe rabbit's owner, who wanted to remain anonymous, said it was \"beyond comprehension\" that \"someone, somehow, climbed into our high-walled garden, killed and mutilated him and left him next to my daughter's little pink Wendy house for us to find\".\n\nThe lionhead rabbit, whose body was found on Tuesday, was \"one of a kind, truly special\", she added.\n\nTeddy's owner has urged people to keep their pets indoors\n\nCharity Snarl (South Norwood Animal Rescue and Liberty) said it was \"currently investigating what seems to be a spate of attacks across the south east on cats and rabbits\".\n\nLast week, the Hertfordshire force confirmed officers were linking the death of a cat in Potter's Bar to the \"Croydon cat killer\".\n\nThe mutilated body of Taz was found by his owner her Potter's Bar garden\n\nTaz's injuries were consistent with those of other mutilated cats and small animals found across the UK, leading the force to believe the deaths are linked.\n\nThe Met Police began investigating a series of \"gruesome\" killings which initially began in the Croydon area in 2015, after Snarl raised concerns.\n\nThe suspect became known as the \"Croydon cat killer\".\n\nTony Jenkins, head of Snarl, said about 250 cats and a number of foxes and rabbits had been killed in similar circumstances since October 2015.\n\nHe believes the same person - referred to by the charity as the \"UK animal killer\" - is responsible for all the deaths.\n\nRusty, a one-year-old cat, was deliberately mutilated and left on the doorstep of its Northampton owner's home in August\n\n\"We see no evidence there's anyone else involved as the injuries are being replicated,\" he said.\n\n\"It is possible - both geographically and because of the timings - for one person to be doing this.\n\n\"This person is a very clever psychopath, he is forensically aware, avoids CCTV and might well travel as part of his job.\n\n\"It is most likely Teddy was killed by this same person.\"\n\nThe Met launched Operation Takahe to investigate the links between animal deaths and last month experts at a new forensic lab in Surrey began re-examining some of the corpses for new evidence.\n\nA £10,000 reward is being offered by Peta UK and Outpaced\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dizzee Rascal has stepped in as a last-minute replacement for Liam Gallagher on the BBC's new live music show Sounds Like Friday Night.\n\nThe former Oasis frontman, 44, pulled out of the live show after being told to rest his voice by doctors.\n\nGallagher - who released his first solo album last month - performed on BBC Radio 2 in concert on Thursday night.\n\nHe wrote on Twitter: \"Sorry I can't perform... as I've been told to rest my voice by my doctor. As you were.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Liam Gallagher This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA BBC spokeswoman reiterated that the singer had been advised to rest because of vocal issues.\n\n\"We wish him a speedy recovery,\" she added.\n\nFriday night's show saw former One Direction star Liam Payne join presenters Greg James and Dotty as a guest host.\n\nIntroduced as a grime superstar, Dizzee Rascal performed his new single Bop N Keep It Dippin' - taken from his latest album Raskit - in amongst the studio audience.\n\nDiscussing the record with James and Dotty, he described it as a \"a straight up rap album\".\n\n\"I want to give the people great bars\", he added, before teasing future collaborations.\n\nThe show also saw Payne, London Grammar and R&B newcomer Mabel perform live.", "A couple of months ago, R&B singer Mabel was trying to kill time while she waited to go to the gym.\n\n\"I'd booked some dumb exercise class at eight o'clock and it was six - so my brother was like, 'Just get on the piano and see what happens.'\"\n\nForty-five minutes later, the 21-year-old had written Finders Keepers, a song that's now firmly lodged in the Top 10.\n\n\"It's amazing,\" she tells the BBC. \"I just wanted to make something fun for me and my friends.\"\n\nMabel has been making waves since 2015, when she released the slinky, sensual Know Me Better, with its seductive refrain: \"I could go all day wearing nothing but your kiss\".\n\nBut she's been around music all her life. Her parents are hip-hop legend Neneh Cherry and Massive Attack producer Cameron McVey.\n\nBorn in the mountains of Malaga, she was raised between Spain, London and Stockholm, learning piano at the age of five and choreographing routines to Destiny's Child with her sister.\n\nMabel said she was initially intimidated by her mother's musical success\n\nShe's no stranger to the recording studio either, accompanying McVey when he produced the Sugababes' debut album, One Touch, in 2000.\n\nAt the tender age of four, she managed to sleep through the whole thing. \"Do you know what? It's still a problem!\" she laughs.\n\n\"The vibrations of the bass make me so cosy. The other day I had a blanket in the studio and my brother was like, 'You need to move. You're not writing, you're napping!'\"\n\nThe habit has earned her the nickname Lil' Bassy - and it's not just confined to the studio. \"It's concerts as well!\" she says. \"If I put earplugs in, the muffled sound of a gig gets me.\n\n\"Not at my own shows though,\" she clarifies. \"[There's] no sleeping if I'm on stage.\"\n\nMabel is currently working on her debut album\n\nGiven her background, Mabel's success might seem like a fait accompli. But for a long time, she avoided making music.\n\n\"I felt quite embarrassed by being my mum and dad's daughter,\" she once said. \"I thought, 'People will never take me seriously.'\"\n\nShe eventually overcame that fear and enrolled to study production and music theory in Stockholm. After graduating she moved to London.\n\nThere she was cast for a photo shoot in i-D magazine. That caught the attention of Skepta, who put her in his video for Shutdown.\n\nMabel's hip-hop tinged debut, Know Me Better, went viral soon afterwards, propelling Mabel onto the BBC's Sound of 2016 list.\n\nBut she's purposefully taken her time, touring with Years & Years and crafting an impressive catalogue of singles.\n\n\"These things take time,\" she says, noting that new artists need longer to nurture an audience in the slow-burn streaming era.\n\n\"It's more like America, where sometimes it takes years to break a record.\"\n\nThis is especially true of Finders Keepers, which first came out in March and later featured on Mabel's Bedroom EP - a 21st take on the '90s R&B of Brandy and Aaliyah.\n\nLyrically, the EP discusses control within relationships - \"how one minute you can be in the driving seat, then that flips and you're very much out of control.\"\n\nIt's also about balancing out the male-dominated narrative of R&B - which is where Finders Keepers comes in.\n\n\"There's so many R&B songs where guys are talking about a clingy girl, like: 'I don't want a girlfriend and this girl's so clingy and blah blah blah.'\n\n\"But I'm a woman and I've been in situations that have been the reverse of that, so I wanted to tell that story.\"\n\nMabel has toured with pop group Years & Years and Skepta's grime collective Boy Better Know\n\nFinders Keepers stands out even more because it's Mabel's first uptempo track. \"I really struggled with it before,\" she says.\n\n\"I'm really good at the '90s slow jams. I've got that down. But I love to dance, so why wouldn't I make something I could dance to?\"\n\nThe song's success, she says, \"surpassed everyone's expectations and every other song I've ever done\" - and it spurred her to write more in the same vein.\n\n\"I have like Finders Keepers fever now!\" the singer says.\n\n\"Sometimes I go in the studio and I'm like, 'That worked so well, and I wrote it in 45 minutes so if I try wearing the same outfit and playing on the same piano it'll happen again.'\n\n\"But you know what? That's why I love music - because I'm such a control freak and it's the only thing that I can't really control.\n\nMabel's Bedroom EP and her Ivy To Roses mixtape are out now.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None Cherry on returning to the limelight", "Only around half of fixed speed cameras on British roads are switched on, according to new data.\n\nFigures released by 36 police forces in the UK show that of a total 2,838 cameras, just 1,486 - or 52% - are active and catching law-breakers.\n\nSome forces have turned all their cameras off, according to information obtained by the Press Association (PA).\n\nNorthamptonshire police said its were shut off in 2011, but they left the structures in place to deter speeding.\n\nPA sent a freedom of information to all 45 police forces in the UK and their speed camera partnership, of which 36 responded with details of their fixed speed cameras. It did not include data on the mobile devices forces use to catch offenders.\n\nStaffordshire police said it has 272 cameras across its region but that only 14 are active. While Derbyshire said just 10 of its 112 cameras were active.\n\nIn common with Northamptonshire, Cleveland, Durham and North Yorkshire said that none of their fixed cameras were switched on.\n\nA spokeswoman for the National Police Chiefs' Council said the decision to use cameras was \"an operational matter\", adding that \"all forces have individual responsibility for their use of speed cameras\".\n\nEdmund King, president of the AA, said: \"Many of the empty yellow cases are due to cuts in road safety grants and the fact that digital cameras, although more effective, are very expensive.\"\n\nHe added: \"It has long been the case that cameras were moved between sites, depending on need. When it comes to the chances of being caught on camera, it is a postcode lottery. All cameras in City of London and Suffolk are working whereas only 5% are active in Staffordshire.\"\n\n\"However, drivers should remember that lack of a yellow fixed camera doesn't mean they are immune from mobile hidden cameras. Best advice is stick to the limits rather than gambling on the yellow boxes.\"\n\nClaire Armstrong, co-founder of the lobby group Safe Speed, which campaigns for more traffic police officers, said that fixed speed cameras \"are nothing to do with road safety\".\n\nShe claimed that \"average cameras have a 5% negative effect on road safety, Gatso [yellow box cameras] have a 13% negative effect and a policeman on the side of the road will have a 27% benefit, so why are we using policies that are not effective and that we know have a negative effect on road safety?\".\n\nHowever, Neil Greig, director of policy and research for the charity IAM Road Smart, said: \"There's clear evidence at locations where cameras are located, they are there for road safety reasons.\n\n\"They don't just appear out of nowhere. They have to go through a process involving looking at the road accident record at that location.\n\n\"Each of these locations is a site that has got some kind of accident problem and that's why we want to be sure that there's protection there all the time for the people who live around those sites.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWhen Roger Lockyer met his future husband Percy Steven on a blind date in 1966, their relationship made them criminals in the eyes of British law.\n\nBy the time the distinguished academic and author, a reader at Royal Holloway and Bedford Universities of London, died shortly before his 90th birthday, the pair lived as a legally married couple - having tied the knot in 2014.\n\nTheir remarkable journey drew worldwide press attention, when, in 2005, they became one of the first couples to enter into a UK civil partnership. Invites to Downing Street followed.\n\nTogether for 51 years, they proudly marched in this year's Pride in London parade waving rainbow flags.\n\nHowever, this was never the plan. Historians usually document history - they rarely walk into the pages themselves.\n\nThe couple had lived a quiet, cultured existence in an elegant flat in Marylebone, central London, until the modern era of LGBT rights came knocking and propelled them into the limelight.\n\nPictures of the pair in sharp suits saying their civil partnership vows, and later popping a magnum of champagne on the steps of the Westminster register office, appeared on TVs and in newspapers across Europe, the US and Canada.\n\nRoger Lockyer (R) with Percy Steven at Pride in London 2017\n\nEager journalists clamoured for their attention, aware of the rarity of their find; a couple whose relationship was unique, not just for its wit, passion and longevity, but also because it had survived half a century of seismic change in legal and social attitudes towards sexuality.\n\nRoger later remarked: \"We had these cameras following us down the street and neighbours leant out of windows to wave us off. Friends spotted us on television in France and Germany.\n\n\"After Elton John, we felt like the most famous gay men in the world.\"\n\nThey went on to feature in multiple interviews, including the BBC's recent docudrama Against the Law, marking the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act 1967, which partially decriminalised homosexuality in England and Wales.\n\nBorn in London in 1927, Roger completed National Service in the Royal Navy before reading history at Pembroke College, University of Cambridge.\n\nHe graduated with first-class honours, beginning an eminent career as an academic and author of nearly a dozen books on 15th and 16th Century history.\n\nHis seminal volume Tudor and Stuart Britain, first published in 1964, remains a core text for many undergraduates in the UK.\n\nBut Roger's private and professional lives remained separate by necessity.\n\nRoger (L) celebrates his civil partnership with Percy on the steps of Westminster register office in 2005\n\nHis stories of escapades as a young gay man in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s were as mischievous and comic as they were a window into an often hostile world, where as second-class citizens homosexual men had to tread carefully on the edges of society.\n\nNational Service was \"fantastic\" because it was filled with so many gay men.\n\nCambridge was equally \"very, very gay\", causing one heterosexual undergraduate to complain to him, through tears, that there was \"something wrong with him\" because he was attracted to women.\n\nBut those social bubbles did not conceal the potential danger of living in a country where men convicted of a being in a same-sex relationship risked jail, loss of their livelihoods, or even death.\n\nProf Lockyer, who once quipped that the passing of the 1967 act of parliament \"took the fun out of breaking the law\", equally emphasised its brutal impact.\n\n\"It was exciting in a way and almost an adventure. But looking back at it now one realises that potentially it could be awful.\n\n\"We know people who were sent to prison and their careers ruined.\n\n\"The friend who introduced us was killed and his murder was never solved. It was a deeply unpleasant society.\"\n\nDespite the dangers, a vibrant, closely guarded, gay community bubbled under the surface.\n\n\"There was this semi-secret, sub-rosa network of gay clubs we would go to,\" Prof Lockyer explained.\n\nOne bar-hopping friend and ex-lover was Jeremy Wolfenden, the gay son of Lord Wolfenden, whose radical report controversially recommended decriminalising homosexuality in 1957.\n\n\"Places like the Rockingham in Soho... was for well-to-do, sophisticated people - it had its own writing paper.\n\n\"You had to give your name at the door and I said: 'Jeremy, aren't you a little worried that you give your name 'Wolfenden'?\n\n\"He said: 'Oh don't worry my dear I always give your name.'\n\n\"So I'm recorded as having a much busier social life when it was in fact Jeremy capering about town while his father made these important recommendations to the government about 'queers'.\"\n\nPercy with Roger (R) on their wedding day in 2014\n\nThe historian met his future husband Percy Steven, a South African-born actor and lecturer, now 78, on that blind-date in London.\n\nThe meeting was an initial \"disaster\" but Roger, wilting daffodils in hand, had already fallen in love.\n\nHe said: \"The moment I set eyes on Percy I knew that even though he was being horrid, he was the person I was going to spend the rest of my life with, so I persisted.\"\n\nFor many gay men of their generation, the changes to the law that made them recognised spouses - thereby ensuring the right not to be kicked out of hospital rooms if they were ill, or lose their home due to unfair tax laws when one of them died - came too late.\n\nRoger and Percy's shot to fame late in life came as a pleasant surprise and they embraced opportunities to be as visible as they had previously been secretive.\n\nThey also enjoyed plenty of glasses of champagne.\n\nOn the night he died, with Percy by his side, Roger's appearance in BBC docudrama Against the Law received a standing ovation at the Barcelona International LGBT Festival.\n\nRoger and Percy enjoyed celebrating at Pride in London 2017\n\nSpeaking to the BBC in 2015, he said: \"I think that particularly being a historian… people do know a bit about their own history and what others went through and it makes for a richer and fuller life if they do.\n\n\"I remember distinctly walking down the street after the ceremony thinking: 'I am as legal a person as anybody else. I am a full citizen at last.' It was a wonderful feeling.\"\n\nProfessor Roger Lockyer, historian, author and activist, was born on November 27, 1927. He died on October 28, 2017 aged 89.\n\nHe leaves his husband Percy Steven and a niece.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe identity of a woman whose first name was emblazoned in huge letters in a farmer's field has been revealed.\n\nA frenzy was sparked on social media, spawning the hashtag #WhoIsSue, after the letters \"SUE x\" were spotted by a police pilot flying over Oxfordshire.\n\nIt turns out that farmer Murray Graham created the message for his wife as a way of apologising for being \"grumpy\".\n\nHis son George Graham said: \"I suppose Dad wanted to express his love in the most creative way he could.\"\n\nSue Graham's husband Murray created the message to make up for his grumpiness\n\nMr Graham's handiwork was spotted on Thursday by a helicopter pilot with the National Police Air Service (NPAS) flying just south of Tetsworth, near Thame.\n\nA photo of the message then posted on the NPAS Benson Twitter page was shared more than 650 times.\n\nThe Twitterati explored various theories, ranging from aliens accused of making crop circles wanting to \"sue\" for defamation to a PR stunt by the Field Museum, which houses a T-Rex skeleton called SUE.\n\nSomeone even found a satellite image of the message.\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 on Friday evening the crop conundrum was solved: it was a romantic gesture to appease a disgruntled farmer's wife.\n\nMr Graham told BBC Radio Oxford that he used his GPS-operated tractor to spray the crops in the shape of his wife's name.\n\nHe said he wanted to prove \"I'm not quite as grumpy and old as perhaps I make out occasionally.\"\n\nThe farmer added: \"As ever, everything has its ups and downs, so I thought I'd try and make a gesture at some point, and that was the one I chose.\"\n\nHe had intended for his son George, a pilot, to take a photo and show it to his wife as an apology, but the passing police helicopter beat him to it.\n\nGeorge Graham revealed his father had been \"in the doghouse\" after not \"pulling his weight\" at home.\n\nHe added: \"I don't know if what he's done is sufficient appeasement for Mum, but it certainly caused a stir on social media.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A year ago Donald Trump produced the biggest political upset in modern-day America, but were there historical clues that pointed to his unexpected victory?\n\nFlying into Los Angeles, a descent that takes you from the desert, over the mountains, to the outer suburbs dotted with swimming pools shaped like kidneys, always brings on a near narcotic surge of nostalgia.\n\nThis was the flight path I followed more than 30 years ago, as I fulfilled a boyhood dream to make my first trip to the United States. America had always fired my imagination, both as a place and as an idea. So as I entered the immigration hall, under the winsome smile of America's movie star president, it was hardly a case of love at first sight.\n\nMy infatuation had started long before, with Westerns, cop shows, superhero comic strips, and movies such as West Side Story and Grease. Gotham exerted more of a pull than London. My 16-year-old self could quote more presidents than prime ministers. Like so many new arrivals, like so many of my compatriots, I felt an instant sense of belonging, a fealty borne of familiarity.\n\nEighties America lived up to its billing, from the multi-lane freeways to the cavernous fridges, from the drive-in movie theatres to the drive-through burger joints. I loved the bigness, the boldness, the brashness. Coming from a country where too many people were reconciled to their fate from too early an age, the animating force of the American Dream was not just seductive but unshackling.\n\nUpward mobility was not a given amongst my schoolmates. The absence of resentment was also striking: the belief success was something to emulate rather than envy. The sight of a Cadillac induced different feelings than the sight of a Rolls Royce.\n\nIt was 1984. Los Angeles was hosting the Olympics. The Soviet boycott meant US athletes dominated the medals table more so than usual. McDonald's had a scratch-card promotion, planned presumably before Eastern bloc countries decided to keep their distance, offering Big Macs, Cokes and fries if Americans won gold, silver or bronze in selected events. So for weeks I feasted on free fast food, a calorific accompaniment to chants of \"USA! USA!\"\n\nThis was the summertime of American resurgence. After the long national nightmare of Vietnam, Watergate and the Iranian hostage crisis, the country demonstrated its capacity for renewal. 1984, far from being the dystopian hell presaged by George Orwell, was a time of celebration and optimism. Uncle Sam - back then, nobody gave much thought to the country being given a male personification - seemed happy again in his own skin.\n\nFor millions, it really was \"Morning Again in America\", the slogan of Ronald Reagan's re-election campaign. In that year's presidential election, he buried his Democratic opponent Walter Mondale in a landslide, winning 49 out of 50 states and 58.8% of the popular vote.\n\nThe United States could hardly be described as politically harmonious. There was the usual divided government. Republicans retained control of the Senate, but the Democrats kept their stranglehold on the House of Representatives. Reagan's sunniness was sullied by the launch of his 1980 campaign with a call for \"states' rights\", which sounded to many like a dog-whistle for denial of civil rights.\n\nRonald Reagan on the campaign trail in 1979\n\nHis chosen venue was Philadelphia, but not the city of brotherly love, the cradle of the Declaration of Independence, but rather Philadelphia, Mississippi, a rural backwater close to where three civil rights workers had been murdered by white supremacists in 1964. Reagan, like Nixon, pursued the southern strategy, which exploited white fears about black advance.\n\nStill, the anthem of the hour was Lee Greenwood's God Bless the USA and politics was not nearly as polarised as it is today. Even though the Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill reviled Reagan's trickle-down economics - he called him a \"cheerleader for selfishness\" and \"Herbert Hoover with a smile\" - these two Irish-Americans found common ground as they sought to act in the national interest.\n\nBoth understood the Founding Fathers had hard-wired compromise into the governmental system, and that Washington, with its checks and balances, was unworkable without give and take. They worked together on tax reform and safeguarding Social Security.\n\nThe country was in the ascendant. Not so paranoid as it was in the 1950s, not so restive as it was in the 1960s, and nowhere near as demoralised as it had been in the 1970s.\n\nHistory is never neat or linear. Decades do not automatically have personalities, but it is possible to divide the period since 1984 into two distinct phases. The final 16 years of the 20th Century was a time of American hegemony. The first 16 years of the 21st Century has proven to be a period of dysfunction, discontent, disillusionment and decline. The America of today in many ways reflects the dissonance between the two.\n\nIn those twilight years of the last millennium, America enjoyed something akin to the dominance achieved at the Los Angeles Olympics. Just two years after Reagan demanded that Gorbachev tear down the Berlin Wall, that concrete and ideological barricade was gone. The United States won the Cold War. In the New World Order that emerged afterwards, it became the sole superpower in a unipolar world.\n\nA Berliner celebrates in front of the Berlin wall on 15 November 1989\n\nThe speed at which US-led forces won the first Gulf War in 1991 helped slay the ghosts of Vietnam. With a reformist leader, Boris Yeltsin, installed in the Kremlin, there was an expectation Russia would embrace democratic reform. Even after Tiananmen Square, there was a hope that China might follow suit, as it moved towards a more market-based economy.\n\nThis was the thrust of Francis Fukuyama's thesis in his landmark 1989 essay, The End of History, which spoke of \"the universalisation of Western liberal democracy as the final form of human government\".\n\nFor all the forecasts Japan would become the world's largest economy, America refused to cede its financial and commercial dominance. Instead of Sony ruling the corporate world, Silicon Valley became the new high-tech workshop of business.\n\nBill Clinton's boast of building a bridge to the 21st Century rang true, although it was emergent tech giants such as Microsoft, Apple and Google that were the true architects and engineers. Thirty years after planting the Stars and Stripes on the Sea of Tranquillity, America not only dominated outer space but cyberspace too.\n\nThis phase of US dominance could never be described as untroubled. The Los Angeles riots in 1992, sparked by the beating of Rodney King and the acquittal of the police officers charged with his assault, highlighted deep racial divisions.\n\nIn Washington, Bill Clinton's impeachment exhibited the hyper-partisanship that was changing the tenor of Washington life. In the age of 24/7 cable news, politics was starting to double as soap opera.\n\nYet as we approached 31 December 1999, the assertion that the 20th Century had been The American Century was an axiom. I was in the capital as Bill Clinton presided over the midnight celebrations on the National Mall, and as the fireworks skipped from the Lincoln Memorial down the Reflecting Pool to illuminate the Washington monument, the mighty obelisk looked like a giant exclamation mark or a massive number one.\n\nThe national story changed dramatically and unexpectedly soon after. While doomsday predictions of a Y2K bug failed to materialise, it nonetheless felt as if the United States had been infected with a virus. 2000 saw the dot-com bubble explode. In November, the disputed presidential election between George W Bush and Al Gore badly damaged the reputation of US democracy.\n\nWhy, a Zimbabwean diplomat even suggested Africa send international observers to oversee the Florida recount. Beyond America's borders came harbingers of trouble. In Russia, 31 December 1999, as those fireworks were being primed, Vladimir Putin took over from Boris Yeltsin.\n\nThe year 2001 brought the horror of September 11th, an event more traumatic than Pearl Harbor. Post-9/11 America became less welcoming and more suspicious. The Bush administration's \"war on terror\" - open-ended conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq - drained the country of blood and treasure.\n\nThe collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, and the Great Recession that followed, arguably had a more lasting impact on the American psyche than the destruction of the Twin Towers. Just as 9/11 had undermined confidence in the country's national security, the financial collapse shattered confidence in its economic security.\n\nWith parents no longer certain their children would come to enjoy more abundant lives than they did, the American Dream felt like a chimera. The American compact, the bargain that if you worked hard and played by the rules your family would succeed, was no longer assumed. Between 2000 and 2011, the overall net wealth of US households fell. By 2014, the richest 1% of Americans had accrued more wealth than the bottom 90%.\n\nTo many in the watching world, and most of the 69 million Americans who voted for him, the election of the country's first black president again demonstrated America's capacity for regeneration.\n\nAlthough his presidency did much to rescue the economy, he couldn't repair a fractured country. The creation of a post-partisan nation, which Obama outlined in his breakthrough speech at the 2004 Democratic convention, proved just as illusory as the emergence of a post-racial society, which he always knew was beyond him.\n\nDuring the Obama years, Washington descended into a level of dysfunction unprecedented in post-war America.\n\n\"My number one priority is making sure President Obama's a one-term president,\" declared then-Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell, summing up the obstructionist mood of his Republican colleagues. It led to a crisis of governance, including the shutdown of 2013 and the repeated battles over raising the debt ceiling. The political map of America, rather than taking on a more purple hue, came to be rendered in deeper shades of red and blue.\n\nBeyond Capitol Hill, there was a whitelash to the first black president, seen in the rise of the Birther movement and in elements of the Tea Party movement. On the right, movement conservatives challenged establishment Republicans. On the left, identity politics displaced a more class-oriented politics as union influence waned. Both parties seemed to vacate the middle ground, relying instead on maximising support from their respective bases - African-Americans, evangelicals, the LGBT community, gun-owners - to win elections.\n\nThroughout his presidency, Barack Obama continued to talk about moving towards a more perfect union. But reality made a mockery of these lofty words. Sandy Hook. Orlando. The spate of police shootings. The gang-related mayhem in his adopted home of Chicago. The mess in Washington. The opioid crisis. The health indices even pointed to a sick nation, in which the death rate was rising. By 2016, life expectancy fell for the first time since 1993.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US election: Relive the wild ride in 170 seconds\n\nThis was the backdrop against which the 2016 election was fought, one of the most dispiriting campaigns in US political history. A battle between the two most unpopular major party candidates since polling began, ended with a victor who had higher negative ratings than his opponent and in the end, three million fewer votes.\n\nJust as I had been on the National Mall to ring in the new millennium in 2000, I was there again on 20 January 2017, for Donald Trump's inaugural celebrations. They included some Reagan-era flourishes. At the eve of the inauguration concert, Lee Greenwood reprised his Reaganite anthem God Bless the USA, albeit with a frailer voice.\n\nThere were chants of \"USA, USA,\" a staple of the billionaire's campaign rallies - usually triggered by his riff on building a wall along the Mexican border. There was also an 80s vibe about the telegenic first family, who looked fresh from a set of a primetime soap, like Dynasty or Falcon Crest.\n\nThe spectacle brought to mind what Norman Mailer once said of Reagan, that the 40th president understood \"the President of the United States was the leading soap opera figure in the great American drama, and one had better possess star value\". Trump understood this, and it explained much of his success, even if his star power came from reality TV rather than Hollywood B-movies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Cockerell: The parallels between Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump\n\nYet Trump is not Reagan. His politics of grievance, and the fist-shaking anger it fed off, struck a different tone than the Gipper's more positive pitch. It played on a shared sense of personal and national victimhood that would have been alien to Reagan.\n\nIn the space of just three decades, then, the United States had gone from \"It's morning in America again\" to something much darker: \"American Carnage\", the most memorable phrase from Trump's inaugural address.\n\nIt is tempting to see Trump's victory this time last year as an aberration. A historical mishap. The election all came down, after all, to just 77,744 votes in three key states: Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. But when you consider the boom-to-bust cycle of the period between 1984 and 2016, the Trump phenomenon doesn't look so accidental.\n\nIn many ways Trump's unexpected victory marked the culmination of a large number of trends in US politics, society and culture, many of which are rooted in that end-of-century period of American dominion.\n\nConsider how the fall of the Berlin Wall changed Washington, and how it ushered in an era of destructive and negative politics. In the post-war years, bipartisanship was routine, partly because of a shared determination to defeat communism. America's two-party system, adversarial though it was, benefited from the existence of a shared enemy. To pass laws, President Eisenhower regularly worked with Democratic chieftains such as House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson.\n\nReforms such as the 1958 National Defense Education Act, which improved science teaching in response to the launch of Sputnik, were framed precisely with defeating communism in mind.\n\nMuch of the impetus to pass landmark civil rights legislation in the mid-1960s came from the propaganda gift Jim Crow laws handed to the Soviet Union, especially as Moscow sought to expand its sphere of influence among newly decolonised African nations.\n\nPatriotic bipartisanship frayed and ripped after the end of the Cold War. It was in the 1990s the then-Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole started to use the filibuster more aggressively as a blocking device. Government shutdowns became politically weaponised.\n\nIn the 1994 congressional mid-terms, the Republican revolution brought a wave of fierce partisans to Washington, with an ideological aversion to government and thus little investment in making it work. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, the first Republican to occupy the post in 40 years, personified the kind of abrasive partisan that came to the fore on Capitol Hill.\n\nGrudging bipartisanship was still possible, as Clinton and Gingrich demonstrated over welfare and criminal justice reform in the mid-1990s. But this period witnessed the acidification of DC politics. The gerrymandering of the House of Representatives encouraged strict partisanship, because the threat to most lawmakers came from within their own parties. Moderates or pragmatists who strayed from the partisan path were punished with a primary challenge from more doctrinaire rivals.\n\nBy the 112th Congress in 2011-2012, there was no Democrat in the House more conservative than a Republican and no Republican more liberal than a Democrat. This was new. In the post-war years, there had been considerable ideological overlap between liberal Republicans and conservative Democrats. In this more polarised climate, bipartisanship became a dirty word. One leading conservative thinker and anti-tax campaigner, Grover Norquist, likened it to date rape.\n\nWould Congress have impeached Bill Clinton, ostensibly for having an affair with an intern, had America still been waging the Cold War? I sense not - it would have been seen, in those more serious times, as a frivolous distraction. When Congress moved towards impeaching Richard Nixon it did so because Watergate and its cover-up truly rose to the level of high crimes and misdemeanours.\n\nClinton's impeachment signalled the emergence of another new political trend: the delegitimisation of sitting presidents. And both parties played the game. The Democrats cast George W Bush as illegitimate because Al Gore won the popular vote and the Supreme Court controversially ruled in the Republican's favour during the Florida recount.\n\nThe Birther movement, led by Donald Trump, tried to delegitimise Barack Obama with specious and racist claims that he was not born in Hawaii. Most recently, the Democrats have cast aspersions on Trump's victory, partly because he lost the popular vote and partly because they allege he achieved a Kremlin-assisted victory.\n\nOver this period, the political discourse also became shriller. Rush Limbaugh, after getting his first radio show in 1984, rose to become the king of the right-wing shock jocks. Fox News was launched in 1996, the same year as MSNBC, which became its progressive counterpoint. The internet quickened the metabolism of the news industry and became the home for the kind of hateful commentary traditional news outlets rarely published.\n\nHome foreclosures skyrocketed at the end of the last decade\n\nMaybe the Jerry Springerisation of political news coverage can be traced to the moment the Drudge Report first published the name Monica Lewinsky, \"scooping\" Newsweek which hesitated before publishing such an explosive story. The success of the Drudge Report demonstrated how new outlets, which didn't share the same news values as the mainstream media, could establish brands literally overnight. This lesson was doubtless learnt by Andrew Breitbart, an editor at Drudge who founded the right-wing website Breitbart News.\n\nThe internet and social media, trumpeted initially as the ultimate tool for bringing people together, actually became a forum for cynicism, division and various outlandish conspiracy theories. America became more atomised.\n\nAs Robert D Putnam identified in his 1995 seminal essay, Bowling Alone, lower participation rates in organisations such as unions, parent teacher associations, the Boy Scouts and women's clubs had reduced person to person contacts and civil interaction.\n\nEconomically, this period saw the continuation of what's been called the \"Great Divergence\" which produced stark inequalities in wealth and income. Between 1979 and 2007, household income in the top 1% grew by 275% compared to just 18% growth in the bottom fifth of households.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Clinton-era was a period of financial deregulation, including the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act, the landmark reform passed during the depression, as well as legislation exempting credit default swaps from regulation.\n\nDisruptive technologies changed the workplace and upended the labour market. Automation, more so than globalisation, was the big jobs killer during this phase. Between 1990 and 2007, machines killed off up to 670,000 US manufacturing jobs alone.\n\nThe Rust Belt rebellion that propelled Trump to the White House has been described as a revolt against robots, not that his supporters viewed it that way. Encouraged by the billionaire, many blamed increased foreign competition and the influx of foreign workers.\n\nThe opioid crisis can be traced back to the early 1990s with the over-prescription of powerful painkillers. Between 1991 and 2011, painkiller prescriptions tripled.\n\nAmerica seemed intoxicated by its own post-Cold War success. Then came the hangover of the past 16 years.\n\nOver the past few months, I've followed that same westward flight path to California on a number of occasions, and found myself asking what would an impressionable 16-year-old make of America now. Would she share my adolescent sense of wonder, or would she peer out over the Pacific at twilight and wonder if the sun was setting on America itself?\n\nWhat would she make of the gun violence, brought into grotesque relief again by the Las Vegas massacre? Multiple shootings are not new, of course. Just days before I arrived in the States in 1984, a gunman had walked into a McDonalds in a suburb of San Diego and shot dead 21 people. It was then the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.\n\nWhat's different between now and then, however, is the regularity of these massacres, and how the repetitiveness of the killings has normalised them. What was striking about Las Vegas was the muted nationwide response to a gunman killing 58 people and injuring hundreds more.\n\nOnce-shocking massacres no longer arouse intense emotions for those unconnected to the killings. A month on, and it is almost as if it didn't happen.\n\nWhat would she make of race relations? Back in 1984, black athletes such as Carl Lewis, Edwin Moses and Michael Jordan were unifying figures as they helped reap that Olympic golden harvest. Now some of America's leading black athletes are vilified by their president for taking a knee to protest, a right enshrined in the First Amendment. These athletes now find themselves combatants in the country's endless culture wars.\n\nWhat would she make of the confluence of gun violence and race, evident in the spate of police shootings of unarmed black men and in the online auction where the weapon that killed Trayvon Martin fetched more than $100,000?\n\nCharlottesville, with its torch-wielding and hate-spewing neo-Nazis, was another low point. So, too, were the president's remarks afterwards, when he described the crowd as including some \"very fine people\" and implied a moral equivalence between white supremacists and anti-racist protesters.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Trump said versus what I saw - by the BBC's Joel Gunter\n\nI was at the news conference in Trump Tower that day. An African-American cameraman next to me yelled out \"What message does this send to our children?\" The question went unanswered, but concerned parents ask it everyday about Donald Trump's behaviour.\n\nWhat about the monuments debate? The last civil war veteran died in 1959, but the conflict rumbles on in various guises and upon various proxy battlefields, as America continues to grapple with the original sin of slavery.\n\nBut what if she landed in the American heartland, rather than flying over it? Coastal separateness can sometimes be exaggerated, but it would be a very different experience than Los Angeles. In the Rust Belt, stretches of riverway are crowded again with coal barges, and local business leaders believe in the Trump Bump because they see it in their order books and balance sheets.\n\nIn the Coal Belt, there's been delight at the rescinding of Obama's Clean Power Plan. In the Bible Belt, evangelicals behold Trump as a fellow victim of sneering liberal elites. In the Sun Belt, close to the Mexican border, there's wide support for his crackdown on illegal immigration.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn many football stadiums, she would hear the chorus of boos from fans who agree with the president that the take-the-knee protests denigrate the flag. In bars, union branches and American Legion halls, you'll find many who applaud Donald Trump for \"telling like it is\", refusing to be bound by norms of presidential behaviour or political correctness.\n\nThere are pointers of national success elsewhere. The New York Stock Exchange is still reaching record highs. Business confidence is on the up. Unemployment is at a 16-year low. Of the 62 million people who voted for Trump, a large number continue to regard him more as a national saviour than a national embarrassment.\n\nIn many red states, \"Make America Great Again\" echoes just as strongly as it did 12 months ago. Trump has a historically low approval rating of just 35%, but it's 78% among Republicans.\n\nIn the international realm, it's plausible foreign adversaries fear the United States more under Trump than Obama, and foreign allies no longer take the country for granted. The so-called Islamic State has been driven from Raqqa. Twenty-five Nato allies have pledged to increase defence spending. Beijing, under pressure from Washington, appears to be exerting more economic leverage over Pyongyang.\n\nHowever, America First increasingly means America alone, most notably on the Paris climate change accord and the Iranian nuclear deal. Trump has also Twitter-shamed longstanding allies, such as Germany and Australia, and infuriated its closest friend Britain, with rash tweets about crime rates and terror attacks.\n\nHis labelling of foes such as Kim Jong Un as Little Rocket Man seems juvenile and self-diminishing. It hardly reaches the Reagan standard of \"tear down this wall\". Indeed, with North Korea, there's the widespread fear that Trump's tweet tirades could spark a nuclear confrontation.\n\nFew countries look anymore to Trump's America as a global exemplar, the \"city upon a hill\" Reagan spoke of in his farewell address to the nation. The German Chancellor Angela Merkel is routinely described as the leader of the free world, the moniker bestowed on the US president since the days of FDR.\n\nThe Economist, which trolls Trump almost weekly, has described Chinese President Xi Jinping as the most powerful man in the world. American exceptionalism is now commonly viewed as a negative construct. \"Only in America\" is a term of derision.\n\nRonald Reagan used to talk of the 11th commandment - No Republican should speak ill of another Republican. So it is worth noting that some of Trump's most caustic and thoughtful critics have come from within his own party. Senator Jeff Flake called him \"a danger to democracy\".\n\nBob Corker described the White House as an \"adult day care centre\". John McCain, a frequent critic, has railed against \"spurious, half-baked nationalism\". George W Bush sounded the alarm about bigotry being emboldened and of how politics \"seems more vulnerable to conspiracy theories and outright fabrication\", without specifically naming the current president.\n\nTrump's determination to be an anti-president has arguably had a vandalising effect on the office of the presidency, and to civil society more broadly. Artists have boycotted the White House reception held ahead of the annual Kennedy Center Awards, a red letter night in the country's cultural calendar.\n\nThe Golden State Warriors were disinvited from appearing at the White House after their championship win because of the take-the-knee protest. It's new for these kinds of commemorations to become contested.\n\nTrump has even politicised one of the commander-in-chief's most solemn acts, offering condolences to the families of the fallen. It led to an indecorous row with a war widow. Small wonder long time Washington watchers, on both the right and left, consider this the nastiest and most graceless presidency of the modern era.\n\nThe corollary is the historical stock of his predecessors is rising. When the five living former presidents appeared together in Texas earlier this month they were greeted like a group of superheroes donning their capes for one final mission. It speaks of these unreal times that George W Bush is spoken of fondly, even wistfully, by long-time liberal foes.\n\nTrump's claim he could be just as presidential as Abraham Lincoln is one of the more comical boasts to come from the White House. Then there are the falsehoods, the \"alternative facts\" and attacks on the \"fake media\" - his label for news organisations such as the New York Times and Washington Post, whose reporting has rarely been better. Recently he has even threatened to revoke the licences of networks whose news divisions have published critical stories. To some it has shades of 1984, but Orwell's version.\n\nAs for Morning in America, it has a new connotation - checking Trump's Twitter for pre-dawn tweets. The president commonly starts the day by lashing out at opponents or mercilessly mocking them. The new normal, it is often called. But it seems more apt to call it the new abnormal.\n\nThere is an extent to which America is politics-proof and president-proof. However bad things got in Washington, my sense has long been that the US would be rescued by its other vital centres of power. New York, its financial and cultural capital. San Francisco, its tech hub. Boston, its academic first city. Hollywood, its entertainment centre.\n\nAdrienne Mccallister, director of Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality business development at Google, speaks during a launch event\n\nBut Los Angeles is reeling from the Harvey Weinstein revelations, the Uber scandal has shone a harsh light on corporate ethics in the tech sector and the Wells Fargo affair has once again shown Wall Street in a dismal light.\n\nUS universities dominate global rankings, but its top colleges could hardly be described as engines of intergenerational mobility. A study by the New York Times of 38 colleges, including Yale, Princeton and Dartmouth, showed that students from the top 1% income bracket occupied more places than the students from the bottom 60%. Of this year's intake at Harvard, almost a third were the sons and daughters of alumni.\n\nAutomation will also continue to be a jobs killer. One study this year predicted that nearly 40% of US jobs will be lost to computers and machines over the next 15 years. Spending time in the Rust Belt valleys around Pittsburgh last year I was struck by how many taxi and Uber drivers used to work in the steel industry. Now America's one-time Steel City is a centre of excellence for robotics and where Uber is road testing its driverless cars.\n\nThere's still truth in the adage that America is always going to hell, but it never quite gets there. But how that is being tested. Presently, it feels more like a continent than a country, with shared land occupied by warring tribes. Not a failing state but not a united states.\n\nAs I've travelled this country, I struggle to identify where Americans will find common political ground. Not in the guns debate. Not in the abortion debate. Not in the healthcare debate. Not even in the singing of the national anthem at American football games. Even a cataclysmic event on the scale of 9/11 failed to unify the country.\n\nIf anything it sowed the seeds of further division, especially over immigration. Some Americans agree with Donald Trump that arrivals from mainly Muslim countries need to be blocked. Others see that as an American anathema.\n\nWhen I made my first journey to the US all those years ago I witnessed a coming together. Those Olympic celebrations were in some ways an orgy of nationalism, but there was also a commonality of spirit and purpose. From Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue performed on 84 grand pianos to a polyglot team of athletes bedecked with medals.\n\nFrom the pilot who flew around the LA Coliseum in a jet pack to the customers who left McDonald's with free Big Macs. There was reason for rejoicing. The present was golden. America felt like America again.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Westminster has been rocked by a series of sexual harassment claims\n\nSuspended Labour MP Kelvin Hopkins has said he \"absolutely and categorically\" denies claims of sexual harassment.\n\nLabour activist Ava Etemadzadeh, 27, earlier told the BBC that Mr Hopkins had hugged her inappropriately after a student event in 2014.\n\nDenying the claims, Mr Hopkins said he had only \"put an arm around her\" and did not hold her tight.\n\nMeanwhile, Labour MP Clive Lewis has denied groping a woman at the party's annual conference this year.\n\nA party member told the Independent newspaper how Norwich South MP Mr Lewis allegedly groped her at the party conference last month.\n\nLabour said it was investigating a formal complaint against Mr Lewis.\n\nHowever, in a statement, the former shadow minister said: \"I know how I roll. I don't squeeze women's buttocks.\"\n\nHe told BBC News he was \"vigorously\" disputing the allegation, adding: \"I'm feeling pretty taken aback by it all.\"\n\n\"I'm a friendly person, I'm someone who enjoys the company of people and it saddens me that I will now have to think about standing back, about being more formal,\" he said.\n\nA Labour statement said the party was investigating a formal complaint made against Clive Lewis\n\nThe claims against Mr Lewis come after Luton North MP Mr Hopkins was suspended by the party on Thursday while an investigation takes place.\n\nMs Etemadzadeh alleges that Mr Hopkins said during a conversation in Parliament: \"Let's not talk about politics, do you have a boyfriend?\"\n\n\"He also said that if nobody was in his office he would've taken me there,\" she added. \"I was absolutely shocked and I wasn't really expecting that.\"\n\nAfter refusing to respond to his phone calls, she claimed he sent her a message saying \"that I'm an attractive, lovely young woman and a man would be lucky to have me as a lover and if he was young... but he's not\".\n\nMr Hopkins did not initially respond to the allegations.\n\nHowever, in a statement issued by his solicitors, the 76-year-old denied claims he had acted inappropriately at the student event in 2014.\n\nHe said: \"I simply put an arm around her shoulder to give her a brief, slight hug just before getting into my car.\n\n\"I did not hold her tight. I did not rub any part of my body, let alone my crotch, against Ava.\n\n\"She waved me off as I drove away and did not say anything whatsoever to suggest that anything had occurred that upset her, let alone revolted her.\"\n\nMr Hopkins said he did not recall asking her about her personal life, but said he did send a text message saying she was \"charming and sweet-natured\".\n\nHe admitted sending a message that said \"a nice young man would be lucky to have you as a girlfriend and lover... Were I to be young... but I am not...\".\n\nHe said she replied to the message.\n\nMs Etemadzadeh said she raised her concerns about Mr Hopkins' conduct with another Labour MP, saying her complaint was passed to the party's former chief whip Dame Rosie Winterton, who responded to it.\n\nBut Ms Etemadzadeh said she was told she would have to waive her anonymity for action to be taken and the prospect of that \"scared\" her.\n\nIt is understood Mr Hopkins was verbally reprimanded about his alleged behaviour.\n\nHe went on to be promoted, albeit briefly, to Labour's front bench in June 2016 - shortly after leader Jeremy Corbyn faced mass resignations following the EU referendum.\n\nIt has emerged that Dame Rosie rang the Labour leader's office to ask why Mr Hopkins had been appointed to the shadow cabinet in July 2016.\n\nA Labour source said she reminded them that Mr Hopkins had been reprimanded for harassing a young activist.\n\nThe Labour Party has not commented on the claim.\n\nOn Friday, it was announced that Labour will appoint an independent specialist organisation to offer advice and support to individuals affected by sexual harassment in the party.\n\nA statement said the party will announce the organisation will take on the role \"as soon as possible\".\n\nIt also said that independent legal expert, Karon Monaghan QC, will investigate Labour activist Bex Bailey's allegations.\n\nMs Bailey has said she was raped at a party event and a senior Labour official discouraged her from reporting the attack.\n\nShe said she was told reporting the alleged 2011 incident could \"damage\" her and that she was given no advice on what she should do next.", "Laura Plummer was reportedly arrested after flying into Cairo with hundreds of painkiller pills\n\nA British woman has been arrested in Egypt and accused of drug trafficking.\n\nLaura Plummer, from Hull, was arrested after flying into Cairo with nearly 300 tramadol tablets and some Naproxen in her suitcase, the Sun reported.\n\nHer family told the paper she brought the painkillers for her Egyptian husband, who she visits two to four times a year and who has a bad back.\n\nThe Foreign Office said it was supporting a British woman and her family after her detention in Egypt.\n\nFamily members told the Sun that Miss Plummer, 33, signed a 38-page statement in Arabic thinking it would lead to her release, but instead she has been kept in a cell with 25 other women for nearly a month.\n\nThey also say they have been told she could face up to 25 years in prison, or even the death penalty.\n\nMiss Plummer's brother, James, 31, told the Press Association his sister thought she was doing a \"good deed\" by bringing the medication over to her husband.\n\nMr Plummer said his mother and sisters had travelled to Egypt to visit Miss Plummer following her arrest on 9 October, adding: \"They say she's unrecognisable. When they seen her, she's like a zombie, they said.\"\n\nMr Plummer said the family feel \"helpless\" due to being in a different country.\n\nHe said his sister's hair was starting to fall out due to stress. \"I don't think she's tough enough to survive it,\" he added.\n\n\"She has a phobia of using anybody else's toilet, so let alone sharing a toilet and a floor with everybody else.\n\n\"That will be awful for her, it'll be traumatising.\"", "Madagascar is facing the worst outbreak of plague in 50 years.\n\nThere have been more than 1,800 cases and 127 deaths since the start of August, according to new figures.\n\nThe island off the south-east coast of Africa is used to seeing about 400 cases of mostly bubonic plague in the same rural areas every year.\n\nBut this year it has developed into the deadlier pneumonic version and spread to much more populated areas, including the capital.\n\nThe WHO describes the plague as \"one of the oldest - and most feared - of all diseases\".\n\nHistorically, plague has been responsible for widespread pandemics with extremely high numbers of deaths.\n\nIt was known as the Black Death during the 14th Century, killing more than 50 million people across Europe.\n\nThe good news is that a simple short course of antibiotics can cure the plague, providing it is given early.\n\nThe current outbreak in Madagascar is also slowing down, with the number of cases falling in the past couple of weeks.\n\nBut the World Health Organization is warning further spikes could be on the way.\n\nIt says \"despite the relative ease of treatment, plague's association with the Black Death weighs heavily on the popular conscience - and is regularly cited in media reports and tabloid headlines about outbreaks\".\n\nSo how did this outbreak become the worst in recent times?\n\n\"An outbreak of plague no longer unfolds in the manner portrayed by our history books,\" said Dr Sylvie Briand, director of WHO's Infectious Hazard Management Department.\n\n\"Plague is an old disease, but the challenges it poses today are contemporary and fundamentally different from what we had even 40 years ago.\"\n\nThe medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres has been responding to the outbreak in one of the worst hit areas of Tamatave.\n\nDr Tim Jagatic told BBC News the outbreak had spread to populated areas when a man infected with bubonic plague had travelled from the highlands to the capital and then on to the coastal city of Tamatave by bus.\n\nTreatment centres have been set up\n\n\"He had the bubonic form of the plague and entered into one of the major cities, where the bubonic version of the disease had the potential of turning into the pneumonic form without treatment.\n\n\"He was in a closed environment with many people when he started to develop severe symptoms, and he started to transmit the pneumonic form of the disease to others.\"\n\nDr Jagatic said this had happened in late August, which is outside the normal plague season of September to April, in an area that never usually saw pneumonic plague.\n\nIt meant people weren't expecting the plague - and certainly not the type that could spread from person to person.\n\n\"So it wasn't recognised until later,\" he said, allowing the disease to \"proliferate over a period of time unabated\".\n\nThis index case infected 31 other people, according to the WHO, four of whom died.\n\nIt wasn't until a couple of weeks later that an outbreak of the plague was detected and officially confirmed.\n\nSince then, the country's Ministry of Health and other health agencies have swung into action, and cases have started to decline since mid-October.\n\nThe risk of this outbreak spreading globally is considered low, and the WHO has advised against any travel restrictions.\n\n\"Most people haven't experienced plague on this scale before… so it's putting a lot of anxiety and strain on the health system,\" said Olivier Le Polain, an epidemiologist from the UK's Rapid Support Team, which is helping the Madagascan government with its response.\n\n\"There's also fear in the population.\n\n\"There's an on-going risk going forward because the plague endemic season doesn't end until the end of April so, knowing it's in areas such as the capital, we need heightened vigilance.\"\n\nThe WHO describes the overall risk for the island as \"very high\".\n\nThere are also serious concerns about the potential spread of the disease beyond Madagascar.\n\nFrequent travel by air and sea to and from neighbouring countries means the risk of the disease spreading to places including Mozambique, the Seychelles, South Africa, and Tanzania is considered \"moderate\".\n\nThe WHO says it is helping those countries to step up surveillance and prepare for a potential outbreak.\n\nHowever, it says, the overall risk of the plague spreading globally is low.\n\nWHO official Tarik Jasarevic told BBC News the organisation \"advises against any restriction on travel or trade to Madagascar based on the current information available\".\n\n\"The evidence tells us that the risks associated with shutting borders are higher than keeping them open.\"\n\nBack at the MSF treatment centre in Tamatave, Dr Jagatic said the country was now much better prepared as the plague season continued.\n\n\"Outbreaks are always difficult to predict. Right now we're seeing a decrease in cases, but that doesn't mean this is over,\" he said.\n\n\"We're prepared for a spike, and want to make absolutely sure we won't be caught off guard again.\"", "Harriet Harman has been urged to apologise for repeating an offensive joke about the Holocaust on BBC TV.\n\nThe Labour MP read out the joke as an example of one she had complained about some years ago.\n\nThe Jewish Leadership Council said it was a \"staggering error of judgement\" to repeat it \"irrespective of the point she was trying to make\".\n\nMs Harman later tweeted that it was \"no laughing matter\" and such jokes \"perpetuate discrimination & hatred\".\n\nThe former Labour deputy leader appeared on BBC One's This Week programme and repeated the joke in a segment about humour which offends people.\n\nReferring to a story she recounts in her memoir A Woman's Work, she said: \"I've long been accused of being humourless, and a humourless feminist, and I'll give you two examples that I protested about, because they were offensive and hurtful.\"\n\nShe annoyed host Andrew Neil by saying: \"People like Andrew say that things like this are perfectly all right.\"\n\nShe was cut short by Mr Neil after telling the first joke - which she said was \"not funny\" - and the presenter reprimanded her for suggesting he would think it was OK.\n\nHe later told the Labour MP to \"be quiet\".\n\nThe chief executive of the Jewish Leadership Council Simon Johnson said: \"I cannot recall being so disappointed in a politician. Harriet Harman must surely know better than to repeat a vile Holocaust joke, irrespective of the point she was trying to make. She must apologise and do so quickly. It is a staggering error of judgment.\"\n\nMr Neil later tweeted that he was \"appalled and even a little bit upset by what she said\".\n\nHe said: \"What was wrong was 1) Even to tell that so called joke on live TV. 2) Claim I would like the joke. Appalling on both counts.\"\n\nMs Harman has not apologised but on Twitter she said that anti-Semitic jokes were \"no laughing matter\".\n\nShe tweeted a page from her book, in which she recounts two offensive jokes that appeared in a Guy's Hospital rag magazine years ago, which she went on to refer to the Director of Public Prosecutions.\n\nIn her book, she wrote that she had been condemned \"for overreacting and being humourless\".\n\nBut, she added, \"the Jewish community and local black and Asian organisations were deeply appreciative when the hospital apologised\".\n\nMs Harman was offered support by Labour shadow minister Chi Onwurah, who said: \"I remember those kind of jokes in 1980s Imperial College rag mag. Very isolating for minority/female students like me. Good on you, Harriet.\"", "Jim Booth is growing \"a little stronger each day\", his family say\n\nA great-grandfather who was attacked with a claw hammer in a suspected distraction burglary is facing a \"long process of recovery\", his family says.\n\nD-Day veteran Jim Booth, 96, was left with \"serious injuries\" after he was attacked by a cold caller asking if he needed any work done to his house, in Taunton, Somerset.\n\nIn a statement, his family said they shared well-wishers' feelings of \"shock, incomprehension and outrage\".\n\nHe is being held by Avon and Somerset Police on suspicion of attempted murder and aggravated burglary.\n\nMr Booth was attacked on Wednesday after he told a cold caller, who had knocked on his front door, that he did not require any work on his house.\n\nIn a statement, his children said: \"Countless friends, neighbours, members of the community and even strangers, have expressed their shock, incomprehension and outrage.\n\n\"We acknowledge and share those feelings.\"\n\nHowever, they said Mr Booth was \"not easily defeated and he grows a little stronger each day\".\n\n\"Our father is an exceptional person of whom we are all immensely proud.\n\n\"He is the head of the family, a dearly loved father to his four children and adored by his grandchildren and great-grandchildren, to whom he's simply known as 'The Legend.'\n\n\"He is, and always has been, our own family hero.\"\n\nThey said Mr Booth had been the victim of a \"vicious and cowardly attack\" and paid tribute to police officers who have worked \"tirelessly\" on the case.\n\n\"We are all now focused on the long process of recovery, which will be helped by the love and support of all those around him,\" they added.\n\nMr Booth was part of a top-secret team of submariners who slipped into the waters off Normandy to scout the beaches, during World War Two.\n\nAvon and Somerset Police said officers were treating the attack as part of a distraction burglary.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former television presenter John Leslie has been charged with sexually assaulting a woman in an Edinburgh nightclub.\n\nThe 52-year-old former Wheel of Fortune and Blue Peter star is alleged to have put his hand up the woman's skirt.\n\nThe 26-year-old woman was on a hen night when the alleged incident took place at Atik in the city's Tollcross area.\n\nIt is said to have occurred at an event to mark the club's re-opening in June.\n\nA Police Scotland spokesman said: \"Police in Edinburgh have charged a 52-year-old man following a report that a 26-year-old woman was the victim of a sexual assault at a nightclub in the Tollcross area on Sunday 25 June.\"\n\nA spokesman for the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service said: \"The Procurator Fiscal has received a report concerning a 52-year-old male, in connection with an alleged incident in Edinburgh on 25 June 2017.\n\n\"The report is currently under consideration by the Procurator Fiscal.\"", "Armed police responded to the incident as if it was terror-related\n\nTwo men questioned over an altercation that sparked panic in London's Oxford Street on Friday have been released without charge, police have said.\n\nThe pair - aged 21 and 40 - were quizzed on Saturday after attending a police station voluntarily.\n\nA number of people were injured, with nine hospitalised, after people fled the station amid reports of shooting.\n\nArmed police were sent to the scene and initially treated the incident as potentially terror-related.\n\nHowever, officers said they had found no evidence that any gunshots were fired.\n\nPolice later said the incident - which resulted in the temporary closure of two Tube stations - may have been caused by an altercation between two men on a Central Line platform.\n\nThey released CCTV images of two men they wanted to speak to in connection with the incident.\n\nConfirming that two men had now been released, a spokeswoman for British Transport Police said: \"There are no criminal proceedings against them.\n\n\"They have not been arrested or charged.\"\n\nOfficers are still going through CCTV footage and speaking to witnesses, the force said.\n\nNo further suspects are being sought.\n\nOxford Circus - where Oxford Street and Regent Street meet - was cordoned off\n\nOxford Circus - where Oxford Street and Regent Street meet - was cordoned off during the incident, while shops and businesses were placed in lockdown.\n\nShoppers were barricaded inside stores in Oxford Street, as armed police were deployed.\n\nHowever, within 90 minutes the officers had been stood down.\n\nParamedics said people were injured in the rush to flee the station, described by eyewitnesses as a \"stampede\".", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nFirst Ashes Test, Gabba, Brisbane (day four of five)\n\nEngland are on the verge of losing the first Ashes Test after Australia dominated the fourth day in Brisbane.\n\nNeeding 170 to win, the home side require only 56 more on Monday, reaching the close on 114-0, with David Warner 60 not out and Cameron Bancroft unbeaten on 51.\n\nSuch a modest target was the result of the good work of their bowlers, who dismissed England for 195.\n\nThe tourists had opportunities to set Australia a more challenging chase, but Joe Root (51), Jonny Bairstow (42) and Moeen Ali (40) failed to make telling contributions following good starts.\n\nAfter Moeen was controversially stumped off the bowling of Nathan Lyon, England's tail was blown away by vicious fast bowling from Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins.\n\nThen, any hope that the visitors could make Australia uncomfortable was withdrawn by Warner and Bancroft, who blunted the new ball and punished the bowling later in their innings to raise the chances of a four-day finish.\n\nThey ran out of time, but on Monday Australia will go 1-0 up in their quest to regain the Ashes and preserve an unbeaten record at the Gabba that stretches back to 1988.\n• None England must fix problems or Ashes will be gone - Agnew\n\nAustralia's hold on an absorbing series opener only began to strengthen midway through the afternoon.\n\nBefore then, like the previous three days, the even nature of the contest was gripping, except this particular instalment was played out in front of a much emptier Gabba.\n\nWith Australia strangely reluctant to use the aggressive, short bowling that served them so well on a thrilling third evening, first Root, then Moeen and Bairstow looked to have the opportunity to bat England into a strong position.\n\nBut whereas home captain Steve Smith ground out 141 not out on day three, England have had seven innings of 38 or more in the match, but no individual score above 83.\n\nAnd with the tourists lacking the pace to prevent Australia's tail from adding 119 runs for their last three wickets in the first innings, England's lower order have twice been blown away in a style reminiscent of the 5-0 defeat down under four years ago.\n\nJames Anderson did at least take the new ball for England, allaying any fears that he was carrying an injury after he did little bowling on the third afternoon.\n\nMoeen and Bairstow's partnership of 42 was a counter-attack, the sixth-wicket pair particularly pressurising Lyon, who had earlier frozen Mark Stoneman and Dawid Malan.\n\nWhen Lyon turned an off-break past Moeen's forward defence, Tim Paine's lone appeal for a stumping looked innocuous but was still referred to the third umpire.\n\nAfter numerous close-up replays from different angles, Chris Gaffaney decided there was enough evidence to suggest Moeen had no part of his foot behind the crease line.\n\nIf that was debatable, what seemed more controversial was the line itself.\n\nRepainted numerous times throughout the match, the part of the crease where Moeen was batting had become thicker, meaning he had to be further back to be in his ground and giving more leeway to the wicketkeeper.\n\nFrom there, Starc and Cummins took over as England lost their last five wickets for 40 runs, their last four for 10 and their last three for one.\n\nChris Woakes fended a Starc short ball to second slip and Bairstow ramped the same bowler to third man.\n\nBroad, concerned about the bouncer, edged a Starc yorker behind and Ball could only flap a Cummins bumper to fly slip.\n\nAfter also losing their last six first-innings wickets for 56 runs, England's lower order can expect to be peppered for the rest of the series.\n\nApart from the charge that resulted in them taking England's last three wickets for just one run, Australia chipped away at, rather than dismantled the tourists.\n\nRoot and Stoneman had done well to take England to 33-2, a lead of seven, on the third evening and they arrived on Sunday morning with a greater intent to score.\n\nLyon, though, was excellent once more, finding turn and bounce to render both Stoneman and Malan shotless and having both left-handers caught at slip.\n\nCaptain Root registered a busy half-century and seemed to be carrying his team's hopes, only to play across the line to Josh Hazlewood to be lbw for the second time in the match.\n\nWhen Australia's chase began after tea, there was the prospect that Warner would look to complete victory with a day to spare.\n\nBut he and Bancroft were patient against the new-ball threat of Anderson and Broad, only opening their shoulders when England turned to the back-ups.\n\nMoeen was pummelled for almost six an over and had to be withdrawn, Woakes and Ball went at more than four an over.\n\nThe Australia openers shared a century stand in their first Test together, Bancroft making a maiden half-century on his debut.\n\nIt was only the returns of Anderson and Broad that prevented Australia from claiming the extra half an hour and ensured the game would reach a fifth day.\n\nThe top seven must get big scores - analysis\n\nCan England see the positives and do better in the next Test? Do I see this England line-up getting 400? No, I don't.\n\nIf England can only get 302 on this pitch - it will get difficult on quicker pitches.\n\nThe art of playing at this level is understanding that you can't allow bowlers to bowl - it's a learning curve for Stoneman and Malan.\n\nI can see the tail being blown away every time. The top seven of the order will have to get big scores.\n\nI also look at England's bowling attack - where are the 20 wickets going to come from?\n\nHowever, last time here it was ugly, but this time they competed.\n\nIt's not despair. I've played in a few Test matches where it has been that. You have to dust yourselves down and get ready to go again. Cook and Root will have to lead that being the experienced batsmen.\n\nI am little bit disappointed with Ball, Woakes and Moeen Ali. Broad and Anderson look like the only bowlers who will get wickets.\n\nEngland all-rounder Moeen Ali: \"We're very disappointed. Over the first three days we played well, but today we let ourselves down with the bat especially. A few players got in and never really got the big score that we needed.\n\n\"Regarding my wicket, you have to respect the umpires. One angle it looked out and another angle it looked not out. If I was bowling I'd want it out.\n\n\"I ripped my finger in the first innings after 15 overs. In the first innings I couldn't grip the ball that much, today was better but I was rubbish.\n\n\"To have no wickets today was disappointing.\"\n\nAustralia pace bowler Mitchell Starc: \"It's a great day for the team. To finish none down with 65 to go, that's a great feeling.\n\n\"The first Test is huge in the course of any series. If we can knock them off tomorrow, we're in a strong position heading to Adelaide. They have to chase us. There's a lot of cricket to be played but it's a great spot for us to be in.\n\n\"We have our plans to all their batters. We've spoken about their tail. The way that our boys bowled at them in the last home Ashes, we used that as a blueprint. They can expect more short stuff as the series goes on.\"\n• None This was the first time Moeen Ali had been stumped in international cricket.\n• None This would be Australia's second-highest successful Ashes chase at the Gabba (target of 188 achieved in 1982-83).\n• None James Anderson's bowling average in the fourth innings v Australia is only 65.57.\n• None David Warner played attacking shots to 36.0% of the deliveries he faced; Cameron Bancroft attacked 6.7% of the time.\n\nDo England have any chance on Monday?\n\nThere's the slimmest of slim hopes to cling on to, according to the computer model of cricket website CricViz.\n• None Get Ashes alerts sent to your phone", "Drone users in the UK may have to take safety awareness tests under legislation planned by the government.\n\nDrones weighing more than 250g could also be banned from flying near airports, or above 400 ft, in a crackdown on unsafe flying.\n\nPolice will also be given new powers to seize and ground drones which may have been used in criminal activity.\n\nThe bill has been welcomed by the pilots' union, which has warned of near misses involving drones and aircraft.\n\nBalpa said there had been 81 incidents so far this year - up from 71 in 2016 and 29 in 2015.\n\nThe union's general secretary, Brian Strutton, said: \"These proposals are a step towards the safe integration of drones, but until the new rules are in place the threat of a serious collision remains.\"\n\nIn July a drone flew directly over the wing of a large passenger jet as it came into land at London's Gatwick Airport, which a report said had put 130 lives at risk.\n\nThe proposed bill - to be published in spring 2018 - would ensure that owners of drones weighing more than 250g would need to register and sit a test.\n\nDrone pilot and trainer Elliott Corke, director of The Aerial Academy, said most recreationally and commercially-used drones in use weighed more than 250g, apart from the cheap toy versions.\n\nHe told BBC News that many new users were surprised by how many rules around drone usage already exist, under the Civil Aviation Authority's Drone Code.\n\nHe said there was a \"degree of frustration\" however that the rules were not being enforced effectively, allowing criminal activity to take place.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSerena Kennedy, Assistant Chief Constable of the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC), told BBC Breakfast: \"At the moment we're using other bits of legislation - the Civil Aviation Authority's - to enable us to take action.\n\n\"This draft legislation will give us the powers we need to tackle drones when they are being used for criminal purposes.\"\n\nShe said it would help police tackle the \"increasing problem\" of drones delivering items, such as drugs and mobile phones, to prisons.\n\nShe said the legislation could allow police to look at how they can protect prison establishments from criminal drone activity through geo-fencing, which programmes no-fly zones into drones using GPS co-ordinates.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Drones should be flown no higher than 400ft\n\nChristian Struwe, head of European public policy at drone maker DJI, warned that some of the proposals may be \"difficult to police\" - for example the height restriction.\n\nBut he told BBC Breakfast: \"The good thing is that as an industry we are already working on it. We can limit how high they can fly.\"\n\nMr Struwe pointed out that there was no \"hard limit\" on how close drones could fly to airports. \"The current wording is that you should stay well clear,\" he said.\n\nHe welcomed the proposals to limit the \"bad use\" of drones, adding that it was important people were aware there was regulation they needed to follow.\n\nMr Corke agreed that there was a \"lack of awareness\" of the Drone Code, and said he was frustrated by the lack of focus on practical training.\n\n\"Most people don't read the manual or learn the safety features before they use their drones\", he said, adding that many did not know what to do if something malfunctioned.\n\nAlongside the new laws, the government is also keen to develop technology allowing the greater use of drones for tasks including deliveries of everything from shopping to human organs.\n\nThe transport minster, Lady Sugg, said the government wanted to strike the right balance between harnessing drone potential and ensuring they are not misused.\n\n\"We're bringing forward this legislation in order to ensure that drones can be used safely, whilst also addressing some of the safety and privacy concerns that people have,\" she said.\n\nThe government is also working with drone manufacturers on technology which produces virtual barriers, to stop the machines operating in restricted areas.", "We're now halfway between the Brexit referendum and the day the UK is supposed to leave the EU, and the entire process seems to be clouded in confusion.\n\nDon't take my word for it. I've spent the last three weeks talking to a variety of people, from Irish thoroughbred breeders to chief executives of construction companies, from nuclear scientists to taxi drivers. And everyone wants to know where on earth all this is heading.\n\nI've seen it argued that Leavers and Remainers find it difficult to have a constructive debate because the Leave side tend to focus on broad political themes (Take Back Control, anyone?) while the Remain side focus on the detail.\n\nOn 29 March 2017, European Council President Donald Tusk received the letter which triggered the UK's withdrawal from the EU\n\nThat's why some advocates of Remain still have difficulty accepting the fact that a big political decision was made in the referendum.\n\nAt the same time a government that has committed itself to Brexit, but is divided about what that actually means, is trying to master the detail in record time.\n\nAnd if there's one thing about Brexit that does become clearer every week, it is that this is a process of unprecedented complexity. Like unstitching a blanket, or unbaking a cake: you can choose your own simile, but the inference is clear.\n\nNo advanced industrial economy has ever tried to do anything quite like this before - extricating itself in an astonishingly short space of time from more than 40 years of shared sovereignty and close economic co-ordination with its nearest neighbours..\n\nNo wonder we're still a wee bit perplexed. Explaining Brexit is a bit like stapling jelly.\n\nBut here, slightly at random and in no particular order, are a few things that emerged from our series, which may be worth keeping an eye on.\n\nIf a deal is to emerge soon on the issue of citizens' rights (for EU citizens here in the UK in particular) then the notion of \"direct effect\" is likely to loom large.\n\nIt is a really important principle of the European Court of Justice, because it means individuals can invoke European law before national courts.\n\nIn this case, the Brexit withdrawal agreement (with European law enshrined within it) could be written directly into UK law rather than relying on a separate piece of UK legislation to implement it.\n\nThe EU thought that the UK had conceded this point; if that turns out not to be so, it will cause problems.\n\nTheresa May met Ireland's Prime Minister Leo Varadkar in Downing Street in September 2017\n\nIt's not just about the border, and the effect on Northern Ireland, critically important though that is.\n\nA total of 80% of Irish exports go to or through the UK, which is also critical for Irish energy supplies, and no other country outside the UK has nearly as much at stake in the Brexit debate as the Republic of Ireland.\n\n\"There is hardly any area of Irish life that won't be affected in one way or another,\" says Tony Connelly, author of the book Brexit and Ireland.\n\nThat means Dublin needs a good deal with the UK after Brexit. But it doesn't mean Ireland won't play tough.\n\nIn the Brexit negotiations it is sticking with the mantra of the unity of the EU27, and exasperation with UK politics is mounting.\n\nAnna Wallace, the director of political relations at the professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, told the story of a manufacturing company in Wales that has decided to replace EU migrant workers with machines, rather than with a locally hired workforce.\n\n\"They knew they were probably going to do that in five years' time,\" she says. \"But good businesses are now thinking about all of those things together.\"\n\nIt is a reminder that Brexit is only one part of a much larger economic debate, as another technological revolution looms large.\n\nAutomation would be changing the working lives of many people come what may (in fact, it already is). But the effect of Brexit will probably speed up things.\n\nThe good thing about change? It always brings opportunity as well as risk.\n\nThe end of the free movement of people from the EU could well lead to some liberalisation of UK immigration policy for the rest of the world.\n\nThat may not come as a surprise to many economists who deal with immigration issues, but it may not have been what many Leave supporters thought they were voting for.\n\nThe UK will still need immigrant labour to keep its economy moving.\n\nEven the pressure group Migration Watch advocates the creation of new schemes for seasonal agricultural workers from the EU, and for young people between the ages of 18 and 30 to work in the UK for up to two years.\n\nBut immigration policy isn't just about the UK choosing whom it wants. They have to want to come to the UK too. The rest of the world beyond Europe may have to fill some gaps in the market.\n\nThe Joint European Torus in Oxfordshire can lay convincing claim to be the greatest scientific experiment in the UK. The long-term aim is to produce an unlimited supply of clean energy through nuclear fusion.\n\nBut Jet is run under the auspices of Euratom, the European Atomic Energy Community. And alongside the EU, we're leaving Euratom too.\n\nThe trouble is that funding for Jet runs out at the end of 2018. And until we know the future relationship between Euratom and the UK after Brexit, no one can say for certain that funding will be extended.\n\nSurely, you cry, they won't just pull the giant Torus plug?\n\n\"I work in fusion research so by definition I think I'm an optimist,\" says Ian Chapman, the chief executive of the UK Atomic Energy Authority.\n\n\"But everybody is anxious, and everybody wants a resolution to this as quickly as possible.\"\n\nYou probably know this one already, but it is worth repeating. When it comes to Brexit, no one has any idea what is going to happen next.\n\n\"I've been following British politics professionally for almost 50 years,\" says the pollster Peter Kellner.\n\n\"Never before have I been so uncertain as to where British politics has been heading.\n\n\"We're looking at a mountain ahead of us shrouded in fog. We can't see the pass and we don't know what's on the other side.\"\n\nThe battle for Brexit seems to have been around forever, but it may be that the critical phase is only just beginning. Stay tuned.\n\nChris Morris presents Brexit: A Guide for the Perplexed on BBC Radio 4. You can listen online, or download the programme podcast.", "Officers tried to stop a white van on Hasfield Road in Norris Green\n\nA police officer was seriously injured when he was hit by a van driven at him in Liverpool.\n\nPolice were trying to stop a white Transit van in Norris Green when it was driven onto the pavement and then at the officer at 19:25 GMT on Saturday.\n\nThe officer was taken to hospital following the \"despicable attack\" where he is being treated for injuries to his ribs and leg, Merseyside Police said.\n\nA man, from Everton, has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.\n\nThe 34-year-old, who is also being held on possession of cannabis and driving while under the influence of drink or drugs, remains in custody.\n\nThe van hit a police car and other parked vehicles on Hasfield Road before it was driven at the officer, detectives said.\n\nThe policeman's injuries are not thought to be life-threatening\n\nDet Ch Insp Martin Earl said: \"This was a despicable attack on a police officer who was simply doing his job, trying to protect the communities of Merseyside.\n\n\"The officer has sustained serious injuries for which he is receiving treatment. He has also been left extremely shaken by his ordeal.\"\n\nHe added that colleagues have been left \"shocked\" by the incident and are being provided with support.\n\nPeter Singleton, chair of the Merseyside branch of the Police Federation - which represents 120,000 officers across the UK - said it was \"another sobering reminder of how dangerous policing can be\".\n\n\"It's an incident that shows there are individuals out there who really just do not care, have no thoughts for other people - for the public or police officers - and their safety,\" he said.\n\nHe added it was an \"unnerving reminder\" of the death of Merseyside Police officer Dave Phillips, who was killed while trying to stop a stolen vehicle in 2015.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two men have been interviewed by detectives after an altercation at a central London Tube station created mass panic on Friday, police have said.\n\nThe men, aged 21 and 40, attended a police station voluntarily following an appeal, and the inquiry is continuing.\n\nSixteen people were treated after they were injured fleeing Oxford Circus station, following reports of gunshots being fired on a Central Line platform.\n\nThere was no evidence any weapons had been fired, police said.\n\nOfficers want to speak to anyone who was at Oxford Circus underground station at the time of the evacuation.\n\nShoppers were barricaded inside stores on Oxford Street and armed police were deployed after the alarm was raised during the evening rush hour.\n\nPolice initially treated the incident as potentially terrorism-related, before standing down.\n\nThe British Transport Police said it believed there had been an altercation between two men on the platform before the scare.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it began receiving \"numerous\" 999 calls reporting gunshots in Oxford Street and at Oxford Circus station at 16:38 GMT on Friday.\n\nThe first armed response vehicle was on the scene in less than a minute from receiving the first call, the force said.\n\nOxford Circus - where Oxford Street and Regent Street meet - was cordoned off, while shops and businesses were placed in lockdown.\n\nIn a statement, the Met Police said: \"No casualties, evidence of any shots fired or any suspects were located by police.\"\n\nBut 16 people were injured as passengers fled from Oxford Circus station, in what witnesses said was \"a stampede\".\n\nOne patient was transferred to a major trauma centre for leg injuries, while eight people were taken to central London hospitals for minor injuries.\n\nBy 18:05 GMT, the police operation had been stood down.\n\nIn a statement, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan praised the city's emergency services for a \"swift response\".", "Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe spoke to her husband and supporters on the phone during a march in London on Saturday, and thanked them for their help as they campaign for her release.", "The Irish Republic's EU commissioner has said Dublin will \"play tough to the end\" over its threat to veto Brexit talks moving on to discuss trade.\n\nThe European Union has said \"sufficient progress\" has to be made on the Irish border before negotiations on the UK and EU's future relationship can begin.\n\nPhil Hogan told the Observer staying in the customs union would avoid the need for a hard border on the island.\n\nThe DUP said Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK must not be different.\n\nArlene Foster, the leader of the Democratic Unionist Party, which is in a confidence-and-supply arrangement with the Conservative government, said she would not support \"any suggestion that Northern Ireland, unlike the rest of the UK, will have to mirror European regulations\".\n\nDowning Street has said the whole of the UK will leave both the customs union and the single market when it leaves the EU in 2019.\n\nLabour said nothing should be done that endangers the Good Friday Agreement in Northern Ireland, while the Liberal Democrats said Tory divisions over Brexit were \"stoking tensions\".\n\nThe EU has given Prime Minister Theresa May until 4 December to come up with further proposals on issues including the border, the Brexit divorce bill and citizens' rights, if European leaders are to agree to moving on to trade talks.\n\nBut Mr Hogan, the EU's agriculture commissioner, accused some in the British government of having what he called a \"blind faith\" about securing a comprehensive free trade deal after Brexit.\n\nHe said it was a \"very simple fact\" that \"if the UK or Northern Ireland remained in the EU customs union, or better still the single market, there would be no border issue\".\n\nIn these circumstances regulations either side of the border would remain the same, and so a near invisible border would be possible.\n\nTaoiseach Leo Varadkar has asked for assurances of no hard border\n\nThe Irish government has always insisted there must not be a hard border between the Republic and Northern Ireland, with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar saying he must have written assurance from the UK before Brexit talks can move on.\n\nIrish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney has also said the UK's desire for no hard-border on the island of Ireland was \"aspirational\".\n\nThere could be no movement to phase two \"on the basis of aspiration\", he said.\n\nBut in her speech in Florence, this September, Mrs May restated that both the UK and EU will not accept any physical infrastructure at the border.\n\nMeanwhile, International Trade Secretary Liam Fox told Sky News: \"We don't want there to be a hard border but the United Kingdom is going to be leaving the single market and customs union.\"\n\nHe said progress towards a deal must be quicker and accused EU negotiators of making the so-called \"divorce bill\" a sticking point, adding: \"We can't get a final answer to the Irish question until we get an idea of the end state.\"\n\nShadow international trade secretary Barry Gardiner told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that the Irish government was \"desperately worried\" about the possibility of a hard border.\n\nHe said Labour had not ruled out advocating membership of the single market or, if necessary, some form of customs union.\n\nBut he declined to commit to a preferred solution, arguing that Labour was not in government and therefore not involved in the Brexit talks.\n\n\"I'd be very happy if Theresa May wanted to move over and call that election and let us do that, but until we're round that table it's not sensible to say what you can get out of the negotiations,\" he said.\n\nLiberal Democrat Brexit spokesman Tom Brake said: \"Government divisions over what Brexit means are stoking tensions. The government and its Brextremists must swallow their pride and do the right thing for Ireland and the UK.\n\n\"Leaving the EU does not have to mean leaving the single market and customs union.\"\n\nSuggestions for alternate arrangements have included a new partnership that would \"align\" customs approaches between the UK and the EU, resulting in \"no customs border at all between the UK and Ireland\".", "At least 31 migrants have died after their boat capsized off the coast of Libya.\n\nThey had been trying to cross the Mediterranean along with another boat.", "The Egyptian ministry of defence released footage showing jets and helicopters taking off along with onboard footage of strikes on what it said were \"terrorist targets\".\n\nIt comes after the massacre of worshippers at a mosque in Sinai.\n\nAt least 305 people died in the assault, which was launched during Friday prayers and has not yet been claimed by any group.", "Glee star Naya Rivera has been charged with domestic violence against her husband.\n\nThe 30-year-old, who played Santana in the TV show, was arrested at a house in Kanawha County, West Virginia, America.\n\nAccording to the criminal complaint, police were called for a domestic situation.\n\nOfficers say they talked with Ryan Dorsey who told them his wife, Naya, had hit him in the head and face.\n\nRyan, 34, showed officers mobile phone footage that supported what he says happened.\n\nThey also say he had minor injuries.\n\nNaya was wearing a baggy hooded sweatshirt, leggings, sandals and handcuffs when officers walked her into a Kanawha County magistrate court just after midnight.\n\nA local reporter from TV station WSAZ filmed in the court office.\n\nIn the footage Naya Rivera is told she's being charged with \"misdemeanor domestic battery\" and asked if she knew what she was being charged with, to which she replies: \"Yes your honour\".\n\nA Kanawha County magistrate set her bond for release at $1000.\n\nShe then signs a document and leaves with her father-in-law.\n\nThe reporter asks her if she wants to say anything, but she doesn't respond.\n\nNewsbeat spoke to Corporal Lester at Kanawha County Sheriff's department who confirmed the arrest and charge.\n\nIn a statement police added: \"As is always the case in criminal matters, the charge against Mrs. Rivera is merely an accusation. She is presumed innocent unless and until proven guilty.\"\n\nNaya Rivera played cold-hearted high school cheerleader Santana in Glee from 2009 until 2015.\n\nIn August she revealed she'd had an abortion when she was pregnant with Ryan Dorsey's child in 2010 during a day off from filming Glee.\n\nThe pair weren't a couple at the time, but in 2014 they married.\n\nThey reportedly filed for divorce last year but recently decided to stay together.\n\nFind us on Instagram at BBCNewsbeat and follow us on Snapchat, search for bbc_newsbeat", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nThe England and Wales Cricket Board says it has spoken to England wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow after claims about an alleged incident involving Australia's Cameron Bancroft.\n\nReports in Australia suggested Bairstow headbutted batsman Bancroft on a night out in Perth four weeks ago.\n\nThe ECB said there was no report of any incident from the venue, security or police and no injury reported.\n\nIt will \"follow up\" with players after the conclusion of the first Ashes Test.\n\nCricket Australia told the BBC it was aware of the incident, adding that it was a matter for the ECB and not Australian cricket's governing body.\n• None England on brink of first Test defeat\n• None Podcast: Vaughan & Tuffers review the fourth day of the first Test\n\nIn a statement issued on Sunday, the ECB said: \"Following an initial conversation with Jonny Bairstow tonight, we understand the context and will follow up with England players and management after the Brisbane Test.\"\n\nThe BBC's cricket correspondent Jonathan Agnew said: \"I understand from the camp that Bairstow and Bancroft were having a drink together. Their heads met. They carried on drinking together.\n\n\"More ammo for accusations of a drink culture, but this will not help relations between the teams.\"\n\nBairstow, 28, and 25-year-old debutant Bancroft have both been involved in the opening Ashes Test in Brisbane, which Australia are set to win on Monday.\n\nThe hosts need just 56 runs on the final day at the Gabba to go 1-0 up in the five-Test series.\n\nThe reports follow the incident involving key England player Ben Stokes, who did not travel with the squad because he is awaiting the outcome of a police investigation into his involvement in a fight outside a Bristol nightclub on 25 September.\n\nYorkshire's Bairstow has played in 45 Test matches after making his debut in May 2012. He averages 39.77 with the bat and has taken 119 catches.\n\nHe was one of three players who were fined by the ECB last month and accepted formal written warnings for \"unprofessional conduct\" - unrelated to the Stokes investigation.", "Simon Thomas said his wife Gemma died 'surrounded by family and friends'\n\nThe wife of Sky Sports anchor and ex-Blue Peter presenter Simon Thomas has died, just three days after she was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia.\n\nThomas tweeted that he was \"crushed with indescribable pain\" following the death of his 40-year-old wife, Gemma.\n\nHe said she died \"surrounded by her family and friends\" and that their son Ethan, eight, was \"in bits\".\n\nThomas presented Blue Peter for six years and left for Sky Sports in 2005.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon 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\n\"Today I am crushed with indescribable pain,\" he said in the post.\n\n\"Just three days after falling ill with Acute Myloid Leukaemia, my dear wife Gemma passed away yesterday evening surrounded by her family and friends.\n\n\"If you are a prayer - pray for my boy Ethan. 8yrs, precious and in bits. Thank you.\"\n\nA Sky Sports spokesman said: \"We are shocked and devastated to hear Simon's news. All our thoughts are with him and his family during this terribly sad time.\"\n\nFootballers, including England striker Jamie Vardy and England women's captain Steph Houghton, also tweeted their sympathy.\n\nNorwich City Football Club - the team Thomas supports - said the thoughts of everybody at the club were with the presenter and his family.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Norwich City FC This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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\nMr Thomas has presented live Premier League coverage for Sky Sports and has worked as a Sky Sports News anchor.\n\nAbout 3,100 people a year in the UK are diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia - a type of blood cancer.", "A Heathrow security worker has been charged with conspiring to import drugs after cocaine with a street value of £700,000 was seized.\n\nFarhan Iqbal, 30, was arrested alongside Colombian national, Camilo Alec Pulido Suarez, 37, in a toilet at Terminal 5 on Thursday.\n\nBoth were charged with conspiracy to import cocaine and appeared earlier at Uxbridge Magistrates' Court.\n\nThey were remanded in custody along with two other Colombian nationals.\n\nThe National Crime Agency (NCA) said Wilmer Salazar-Duarte, 43, was separately arrested in the arrivals area of the airport, while 46-year-old Alexander Salazar-Duarte, was arrested after a search at an address in east London. They too face charges of conspiracy to import cocaine.\n\nAll four are due to appear at Blackfriars Crown Court on December 22.\n\nThe NCA said about seven kilograms of cocaine were seized, said to have a value of about £250,000 but could fetch more than £700,000 if cut and sold on the street.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Premier League\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola said his side \"competed amazingly\" as they fought back from 1-0 down to win at Huddersfield.\n\nThe league leaders equalled a club record - set in 2015 - by securing an 11th successive Premier League victory, despite falling behind through a Nicolas Otamendi own goal.\n\nSergio Aguero's penalty early in the second half drew City level, and Raheem Sterling struck the winner with only six minutes to go.\n\n\"If you want to win the title you cannot expect easy games,\" said Guardiola. \"We have to live these kinds of situations and we spoke at half-time about how we are going to react.\"\n\nThis was the first time City have come from behind at half-time to win a Premier League away match since April 1995.\n\nTempers frayed at the final whistle, with Huddersfield forward Rajiv van la Parra sent off following a clash with Leroy Sane.\n\nVictory meant City re-established an eight-point lead over second-placed Manchester United. Since being held 1-1 by Everton on 21 August they have won 18 consecutive games in all competitions.\n\n\"We are going to lose,\" said Guardiola. \"That is going to happen - definitely. Today was so close - it's going to happen.\n\n\"The 18 games in a row is amazing, and we have 11 in the Premier League in a row so that's good. We have a good moment and with the spirit we can go further.\"\n\nDefeat - Huddersfield's second at home in their first Premier League campaign - leaves the Terriers 11th in the table.\n\nCity's total of 37 points after 13 games is a Premier League record - and the last time a team led the top flight by eight or more points at the same stage was in 1993-94. Then, Manchester United were 11 points clear and on course to win their second consecutive title.\n\nGuardiola's men arrived here with 40 goals from their 12 previous league matches, but they lacked their usual ruthlessness in front goal against resilient hosts.\n\nHome goalkeeper Jonas Lossl denied Aguero on several occasions, while Sane hit the crossbar with a free-kick after his side had drawn level.\n\nThe league leaders wore the home side down, making 336 successful passes after the break compared to Huddersfield's 37, with Sterling's winner looping agonisingly over Lossl after he had saved from Gabriel Jesus.\n\nThree more wins and City will draw level with Arsenal's run of 14 straight league victories from February-August 2002. The potential record-equalling fixture? At Manchester United's Old Trafford on 10 December.\n\nHuddersfield were brave and bold at times in front of a passionate home crowd, and defender Mathias Jorgensen went close to opening the scoring from close range in the first half.\n\nBut they have scored just nine league goals this season, with Laurent Depoitre, Aaron Mooy and club record signing Steven Mounie the joint-leading scorers on two goals apiece.\n\nMounie has failed to score since the opening day of the season, and the Benin international only appeared off the bench in the 86th minute against City.\n\nDavid Wagner's side face trips to Arsenal and Everton this week and, after Huddersfield failed to manage a shot on target against City, the German will be hoping for more threat in front of goal to end a run of two straight defeats.\n\nWhat the managers said\n\nTerriers boss David Wagner: \"I think the players have done everything to get a draw, they were solid and focused. Unfortunately we were not able to get over the line. Manchester City is a top team.\n\n\"I saw everything I wanted to see from my team apart from the loss. The first goal was very good for us and the crowd, who played a huge part. I think it was a penalty to City, it was holding in the box.\n\n\"We were then unlucky with the second goal.\n\n\"We have played 13 games in the Premier League and have proved we are competitive. I take a lot of positives, it is unfortunate about the result.\n\nOn van La Parra's red card: \"I've not seen the video, I only hear the barging and gripping in the face. The referee has seen it and decided it was a red card.\"\n\nCity manager Pep Guardiola: \"We spoke at half-time about how to react, we had enough chances to score and the first time Huddersfield had a chance they scored. We spoke about not giving up, to keep going.\n\n\"It was a brilliant move to win the penalty.\n\n\"It is impossible to win every game easily, this league is so tough. The guys competed amazingly, which is why we won.\"\n\nNo away-day blues for City - the stats\n• None Manchester City have won their past 11 away matches in all competitions - a record for a top-flight club in English football history.\n• None Huddersfield have lost five of their past seven Premier League games (W2), after losing just one of their first six.\n• None Sergio Aguero has scored against 31 of the 32 opponents he has faced in the Premier League, only failing to do so in one match against Bolton.\n• None Aguero has scored more penalties than any other Premier League player this season, converting all three of the spot-kicks he has taken - all three penalties were won by Raheem Sterling.\n• None Two out of eight of the goals Manchester City have conceded this season have been own goals (Kyle Walker against Stoke and Nicolas Otamendi at Huddersfield).\n• None Huddersfield were the first Premier League side since Crystal Palace against Watford in March to register a goal without having a shot on target in the match.\n\nHuddersfield travel to Arsenal on Wednesday at 19:45 GMT, while City host Southampton on the same night at 20:00.\n• None Rajiv van La Parra (Huddersfield Town) is shown the red card for violent conduct.\n• None Raheem Sterling (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Nicolás Otamendi (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Attempt missed. Aaron Mooy (Huddersfield Town) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right from a direct free kick.\n• None David Silva (Manchester City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Attempt blocked. Danny Williams (Huddersfield Town) 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. Father Fidelis Mukonori says he can't confirm reports that Robert Mugabe was given $10m (£7.5m)\n\nRobert Mugabe will continue to have a role to play in Zimbabwean politics, the Jesuit priest who helped negotiate his resignation has told the BBC.\n\nFather Fidelis Mukonori said he would provide \"advice\" as an elder statesman, including to the new president.\n\nMr Mugabe, 93, resigned on Tuesday after a military intervention and days of mass protests.\n\nMr Mukonori said he could not confirm reports that the ex-leader was granted $10m (£7.5m) to ease him out of office.\n\nEmmerson Mnangagwa was sworn in to replace Mr Mugabe as president on Friday.\n\nMr Mnangagwa, long a close ally of Mr Mugabe, was sacked earlier this month, triggering the political crisis that eventually saw his boss's downfall.\n\nFather Mukonori, 70, who is close to Robert Mugabe and acted as a mediator between him and the military, said the new president would go to his predecessor for political counsel.\n\n\"In the African world, senior citizens are there for advice,\" he told the BBC's Richard Galpin at a church outside the capital, Harare, after leading a service that included prayers giving thanks for the peaceful transfer of power.\n\nHe referred to what Mr Mnangagwa said about his predecessor at his inauguration.\n\n\"When he says 'he's my father, he's my leader, he's my mentor', you tell me he's going to stay off from his father, from his mentor, from his leader? I don't think so.\"\n\nThe priest said that Mr Mugabe and his wife Grace remained at their house in Harare and had no plans to leave the country.\n\nThe military takeover came in response to Mr Mugabe's decision to position Grace as his successor and sack Mr Mnangagwa from the vice-presidency.\n\nFather Mukonori said he could not confirm reports that the ex-president was granted millions of dollars and promised that his assets would not be touched to persuade him to step down.\n\n\"We didn't offer him anything... He resigned for the good of Zimbabwe,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"What I have read in the newspapers is about immunity [from prosecution], and that he will be looked after like any other former head of state.\"\n\nMr Mugabe leaving power, he added, was the best thing he had ever done.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSeparately on Sunday, Robert Mugabe was described as being \"quite jovial\" by a nephew in an interview with the French news agency AFP.\n\n\"He is actually looking forward to his new life - farming and staying at the rural home. He has taken it well,\" Leo Mugabe said.\n\nHe said that Grace wanted to focus on already announced plans to build the controversial $1bn Robert Mugabe University in Mazowe, near Harare.\n\nThere are fears that President Mnangagwa, who is associated with some of worst atrocities committed under the ruling Zanu-PF party since independence in 1980, will not usher in the democratic reforms that many in Zimbabwe are hoping for.\n\nBut Father Mukonori said he believed the former spymaster knows that democracy is \"crucial\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Archbishop of York ends his protest over Robert Mugabe", "Jim Booth remains in hospital after the alleged attack on Wednesday\n\nA man has been charged with aggravated burglary and the attempted murder of a great-grandfather seriously injured in a suspected claw hammer attack.\n\nD-Day veteran, Jim Booth, 96, was attacked at his home in Gipsy Lane, Taunton, on Wednesday, and remains in hospital.\n\nJoseph Isaacs, 39, of no fixed address, has been charged, Avon and Somerset Police said.\n\nMr Isaacs is due to appear at Taunton Deane Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nMr Booth was part of a top-secret team of submariners who slipped into the waters off Normandy to scout the beaches during World War Two.\n\nHis family described him as an \"exceptional person\" and a \"legend\", adding: \"He is, and always has been, our own family hero.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There can be no final decisions on the future of the Irish border until the UK and the EU have reached a trade agreement, Liam Fox has said.\n\nThe UK's international trade secretary also blamed the EU for Brexit delays.\n\nThe comments came after the Irish Republic's EU commissioner said Dublin could veto Brexit trade talks.\n\nThe EU has said \"sufficient progress\" has to be made on the Irish border before negotiations on a future relationship can begin.\n\nDowning Street has said the whole of the UK will leave both the customs union and the single market when it leaves the EU in 2019.\n\n\"We don't want there to be a hard border but the UK is going to be leaving the customs union and the single market,\" Mr Fox told Sky News.\n\nHe added: \"We can't come to a final answer to the Irish question until we get an idea of the end state. And until we get into discussions with the EU on the end state that will be very difficult - so the quicker we can do that the better, and we are still in a position where the EU doesn't want to do that.\"\n\nMr Fox accused the European Commission of having an \"obsession\" with ever-closer union between EU member states, which was delaying progress in Brexit talks.\n\nPhil Hogan, the EU's agriculture commissioner, told the Observer that staying in the customs union would negate the need for a hard border - with customs posts and possible passport checks - on the island.\n\nHe said Dublin would \"play tough to the end\" over its threat to veto trade talks until it had guarantees over the border.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell said he was \"worried\" by Mr Fox's comments, adding that Labour would not take continued membership of the single market and the customs union off the table.\n\n\"I think the one thing that we don't want to do is jeopardise any movement quickly, because we need movement to enable us to get into the proper trade negotiations,\" Mr McDonnell told ITV's Peston on Sunday.\n\n\"So I'm hoping that isn't a Downing Street-sanctioned statement that's he's made.\"\n\nIt's 310 miles (499km) long - a squiggle on the map that meanders from Carlingford Lough in the east to Lough Foyle in the west.\n\nThe border between Northern Ireland and the Republic is the soon-to-be frontier between the UK and the European Union.\n\nAnd right now it is the most troublesome frontier between Brexit negotiations stalling or progressing.\n\nLondon and Dublin each say they are committed to maintaining an open border. But Ireland wonders how that will be possible.\n\nOh and one other thing to throw into the mix - after all the talk of how wobbly Theresa May's government is, so is Ireland's.\n\nThere could be a general election there before Christmas.\n\nThe EU has given Prime Minister Theresa May until 4 December to come up with further proposals on issues including the border, the Brexit divorce bill and citizens' rights, if European leaders are to agree to moving on to trade talks.\n\nBut Mr Hogan accused some in the British government of having what he called \"blind faith\" about securing a comprehensive free-trade deal after Brexit.\n\nHe said it was a \"very simple fact\" that \"if the UK or Northern Ireland remained in the EU customs union, or better still the single market, there would be no border issue\".\n\nIn these circumstances regulations on either side of the border would remain the same, and so a near-invisible border would be possible.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK and Irish politicians clashed over Brexit and the Irish border on BBC One's the Sunday Politics\n\nThe Irish government has always insisted there must not be a hard border between the Republic and Northern Ireland, with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar saying he must have written assurance from the UK before Brexit talks can move on.\n\nIrish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney has said the UK's desire for no hard border on the island of Ireland was \"aspirational\".\n\nIt comes as Ireland's deputy prime minister faces a motion of no confidence over her handling of a case involving a whistle-blower alleging corruption within the police.\n\nThe issue could see Prime Minister (Taoiseach) Leo Varadkar's coalition government fall and an election held before Christmas.\n\nIn her speech in Florence, this September, Mrs May restated that both the UK and EU would not accept any physical infrastructure at the border.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party said Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK must not be different.\n\nArlene Foster, the leader of the DUP, which is in a confidence-and-supply arrangement with the Conservative government, said she would not support \"any suggestion that Northern Ireland, unlike the rest of the UK, will have to mirror European regulations\".\n\nSuggestions for alternate arrangements have included a new partnership that would \"align\" customs approaches between the UK and the EU, resulting in \"no customs border at all between the UK and Ireland\".", "Twenty-two people died in the attack at Manchester Arena on 22 May\n\nThe government will fully fund the costs of dealing with the Manchester Arena attack, Prime Minister Theresa May has said.\n\nIt comes after Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham said an initial offer was \"not good enough\".\n\nBut the PM told the Manchester Evening News: \"Be in no doubt, Manchester will get the financial support it needs.\"\n\nShe added in a statement that a Cabinet Office task force had been set up to oversee meeting the costs.\n\nSuicide bomber Salman Abedi detonated a device that killed 22 people and injured 512 in the foyer of the venue at an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May.\n\nAndy Burnham said an initial government offer was \"not good enough\"\n\nThe government had previously said Manchester would receive £12m to help cover the \"exceptional costs\" of the attack, with £3m being made available immediately.\n\nBut Mr Burnham said more than £17.5m had already been spent and suggested at least £10.4m more could be needed, including for the inquests into the 22 deaths and an inquiry.\n\nThe £12m figure would have meant local authorities being forced to cut services to make up the £5m shortfall on what had already been spent, he warned.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Burnham outlined £10.5m projected costs to add to the £17.5m already spent.\n\nMrs May said the government would meet the \"unexpected and exceptional costs\"\n\nMrs May told the Manchester Evening News: \"Be in no doubt, Manchester will get the financial support it needs - and if that costs £28m, as Andy Burnham has estimated, then that is what we will make available.\"\n\nShe added in a statement that the attack was \"one of the darkest moments in the city's history\".\n\n\"I promised in the wake of that appalling atrocity this government would do all it could to help victims recover and the city to heal. I repeat that commitment today,\" she said.\n\n\"Where your public services have had to bear, or will bear, unexpected and exceptional costs in coping with this terrible attack, these will be met by the government.\n\n\"The process of making those payments is ongoing and I understand the frustration felt at the pace of delivery.\n\n\"So I have taken steps to speed up our response. Over the weekend a taskforce has been established within the Cabinet Office to oversee progress and expedite payments when necessary.\"\n\nMrs May added that not all the funding would be needed immediately.\n\n\"For example the inquests, opened and adjourned this month, will not begin until next June,\" she said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Chinese city of Ningbo is rocked by a deadly blast\n\nAt least two people have been killed and dozens more injured in an explosion in the eastern Chinese port city of Ningbo, local officials say.\n\nThe blast is said to have occurred at a factory at about 09:00 (01:00 GMT) in the city's Jiangbei District, causing some nearby buildings to collapse.\n\nState media reported that at least 30 people had been taken to local hospitals amid rescue operations.\n\nFootage showed rescuers carrying people away from an area surrounded by debris.\n\nIndustrial accidents are common in China, and have prompted growing calls for better safety standards.\n\nThe government says it has been tightening site inspections and toughening punishments for safety lapses.\n\nBut while the number of workplace deaths in 2017 is reported to have fallen by more than 25% on 2016 - industrial fatalities still number at least 29,000 in the year to date.\n\nPictures from the scene showed the power of the blast, which destroyed cars and buildings\n\nPolice said on social media that an investigation was under way to determine the cause of the latest explosion.\n\nNingbo has a large international shipping port and is best known for its auto-manufacturing industry, it is home to Geely - the Chinese owner of Volvo.\n\nChinese media said the explosion happened in an industrial area, and residential buildings damaged nearby were already empty ahead of planned demolition.\n\nSome local reports suggested gas canisters could have been to blame for the blast.\n\nShattered windows were reported in businesses up to 1km away from the site of the explosion itself.", "Sometimes in politics people see conspiracies where none exist.\n\nBut when it comes to tough political negotiations, both sides may from time to time indulge in a little bit of conspiracy theory which, becomes on occasion, perhaps a bit of paranoia here and there which could reveal some of your opponents' tactics.\n\nThere may be nothing in it, but just in case, well, you've thought through what might be the true extent of your rivals' plotting.\n\nAnd as you know every now and then it is worth exploring one or two of those conspiracy theories that circulate in SW1.\n\nSo, bear with me. While there are genuine and sincerely held logistical and understandable concerns about what happens to the Irish border after Brexit, there is a sense building that perhaps the Irish government is playing those concerns rather harder than is justified.\n\nThe DUP leader, Arlene Foster, using rather strong language, told off the Irish leader Leo Varadkar for doing just that today.\n\nBut the next step in what many would say is a conspiracy theory, borne out of Brexiteer desperation, is to ponder whether the EU as a whole is over-egging their true level of worry about what happens to the border.\n\nThe issue has in fact, so the theory goes, become the perfect \"anti-UK\" issue that can be waved around in the talks every now and then.\n\nOf course not a single soul involved would want Northern Ireland to go back to the era when there was a hard border for very different reasons than those that are pondered today. So again, so the theory goes, it is politically awkward to shout down those who are outlining concerns.\n\nBut according to these arguments, the border issue could be exploited by the EU side so they can later drop their concerns as a public concession to the UK, in return for a genuine concession from the British side.\n\nThere are whispers too that the previous government in Ireland had been discussing some potential solutions to the problem but after the change in political circumstances those conversations came to an end.\n\nNo one on any side of the talks at the moment would concede or publicly acknowledge any of the kinds of tactics outlined above.\n\nAn excellent and very different account of how pressure has been building on this issue has been written by one of my counterparts, the excellent Tony Connolly at RTE.\n\nBut in any negotiation both sides are looking for leverage. And in something as tense as this deal-making process, both sides' positions are not exactly as they outwardly appear.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Archbishop of York put his dog collar back on during the show\n\nThe Archbishop of York has put on a dog collar for the first time in almost 10 years, ending his symbolic protest over Robert Mugabe's leadership of Zimbabwe.\n\nIn December 2007, Dr John Sentamu cut up his dog collar live on BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, promising not to wear one until Mr Mugabe left office.\n\nHe said Zimbabwe's leader had \"taken people's identity\" and \"cut it to pieces\", prompting him to do the same.\n\nOn Sunday, he returned to the Marr Show and reinstated his collar as promised.\n\nMr Mugabe left office dramatically on Tuesday after 37 years of authoritarian rule.\n\nDr Sentamu said: \"Normally I [would] tie the top button and put on my collar, but for nearly 10 years I haven't be able to. It has meant every morning I think of the people of Zimbabwe.\"\n\nAfter Andrew Marr presented him with an envelope containing the cut up pieces of his collar, Dr Sentamu said: \"You've been a very faithful friend, you've kept them - that's lovely.\n\n\"I could attempt to put this one back together using superglue, but it would be a pretty ropey collar. And I actually think the message for Zimbabwe is the same. They just can't try and stitch it up. Something more radical, something new needs to happen.\"\n\nHe said Mr Mugabe may have gone, but the new President Emmerson Mnangagwa - who was sworn in on Friday - was \"still implicated in a lot of things\".\n\nAlthough Mr Mnangagwa has unseated Zimbabwe's long-time ruler, he is still associated by many with some of the worst atrocities committed under the ruling Zanu-PF party since the country gained independence in 1980.\n\nZimbabwe's new President Emmerson Mnangagwa \"can't bury the past\", said Dr Sentamu\n\nDr Sentamu added: \"It's quite possible that Mnangagwa could be a very, very good president. But he can't simply bury the past - it won't go away.\"\n\nHe also said it could be possible for Zimbabweans to forgive Mr Mugabe.\n\n\"Mugabe needs to say at some point to Zimbabweans: 'Forgive me'. He's a very, very intelligent man and I think he is capable of doing it.\"", "Some football fans used pitch-side hoardings as stretchers at the Hillsborough stadium\n\nA plaque paying tribute to survivors of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster who helped rescue fans has been unveiled as a last wish of a victim's mother.\n\nNinety-six fans died and many were hurt after a crush at Liverpool's FA Cup semi-final against Nottingham Forest.\n\nThe plaque is the final wish of the late Hillsborough justice campaigner Anne Williams, who wanted to credit those who tried to save her son Kevin.\n\nIt was unveiled at Liverpool Central Station in front of a large crowd.\n\nMany fans gave first aid and used pitch-side advertising hoardings as makeshift stretchers after the crush at Sheffield Wednesday's stadium on 15 April 1989.\n\nAnne Williams asked her brother Danny (top) to set up a tribute\n\nBefore her death in 2013, Mrs Williams asked her brother Danny Gordon to set up a tribute to the disaster's survivors.\n\nMr Gordon said it was \"her last legacy\".\n\n\"Being from Formby, she regularly got the train to Liverpool Central to attend her meetings for justice in town, so it's really special to have it there,\" he added.\n\nThe plaque pays tribute to survivors who helped\n\nMr Gordon commissioned it after many of the survivors and families \"gave their approval and expressed how much it would mean to them\", a spokeswoman for the event said.\n\nMerseyrail agreed to put up the plaque at Liverpool Central after Mr Gordon struggled to find a permanent home for it.\n\nJan Chaudhry-van der Velde, managing director at Merseyrail, added: \"It will be seen by hundreds of thousands of passengers, who will be able to pay tribute to the survivors, which is exactly what she would have wanted.\"\n\nIn 2016, new inquests concluded the fans had been unlawfully killed.\n\nEarlier this year, it was announced that former Ch Supt David Duckenfield faces 95 charges of manslaughter while five other senior figures will be prosecuted over the disaster.", "The police said they received a report at about 00:45 GMT on Saturday morning\n\nTwo men in their 20s have been arrested after a triple stabbing in north Belfast.\n\nA 20-year-old woman, who was arrested earlier on suspicion of attempted murder, has been released on bail pending further enquiries.\n\nThree men, all in their 20s, were stabbed in north Belfast in the early hours of Saturday and are all in a stable condition in hospital.\n\nOne of the men was found with stab wounds to the head\n\nOne of the men was found with stab wounds to the head.\n\nAnother suffered a head injury and stab wounds to the neck.\n\nThe third underwent surgery for abdominal injuries.\n\nThe police said it had received reports of a disturbance at a property in the York Park area at about 00:45 GMT on Saturday morning.\n\nThe police found the man with stab wounds to his head inside the house.\n\nThe other two men were found a quarter of a mile away near a retail premises on the Shore Road.\n\nPolice have appealed for information and would like to hear from anyone who was in the York Park area between 00:15 and 01:15.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPakistan's government has called for troops to be deployed in the capital, Islamabad, after violence broke out during protests by Islamists.\n\nAbout 200 people were injured when security forces tried to disperse an Islamist sit-in at the Faizabad Interchange - a key highway.\n\nSeveral deaths have been reported.\n\nThe protesters have been blocking the highway for several weeks, demanding the sacking of Law Minister Zahid Hamid whom they accuse of blasphemy.\n\nPakistani media report that demonstrators also broke into the minister's residence in Punjab province. Mr Hamid and his family were not in the building.\n\nThe protests have spread to other cities, including Lahore and the southern port of Karachi.\n\nAbout 200 people were injured in Saturday's clashes\n\nThe Pakistani government asked the army to deploy in Islamabad on Saturday evening.\n\nThe interior minister said the order was issued at the request of the city authorities, who were not able to clear the sit-in.\n\nThere was no immediate comment from the Pakistani military.\n\nProtesters want Pakistan's law minister to be sacked\n\nEarlier on Saturday, security forces used tear gas and rubber bullets to try to disperse the demonstrators, Pakistani media report, but were met with rocks and tear gas shells.\n\nAbout 8,500 elite police and paramilitary forces took part in the operation to clear the Faizabad Interchange. The crackdown was later suspended.\n\nProtesters said four of their activists were killed, but police said there were no deaths, Reuters reports.\n\nHowever, officials are quoted in other reports confirming that several people were killed. Many of those injured are security personnel.\n\nThe request for the military deployment came after hundreds more demonstrators turned up unexpectedly, forcing the police to retreat.\n\nAt one point, the authorities took all private television news channels off air, apparently out of concern that the live coverage of the police action could inflame religious sentiments.\n\nThe protesting Islamists, from the hardline Tehreek-i-Labaik Ya Rasool Allah Party, want the law minister to be sacked for omitting a reference to the Prophet Muhammad in a new version of the electoral oath.\n\nThe minister has since apologised saying it was a clerical error.", "In October, Ealing councillors voted in favour of banning protesters from gathering outside an abortion clinic\n\nNew laws could be introduced to protect women from harassment outside abortion clinics, the Home Office has said.\n\nAn assessment of protests held outside clinics has been ordered by the home secretary, following concerns about the tactics used by some protesters.\n\nAmber Rudd said it was \"unacceptable\" that anyone should feel intimidated for accessing healthcare.\n\nBut anti-abortion campaigners said it was \"ludicrous\" to suggest new powers, because women were not being harassed.\n\nThe Home Office review will hear from police forces, healthcare providers and local authorities to understand the scale and nature of anti-abortion protests.\n\nIt will then consider what further action the government could take to protect those using or working in abortion clinics.\n\nThis could include bolstering existing, or creating new, police and civil powers, the Home Office said.\n\nMs Rudd said: \"While everyone has a right to peaceful protest, it is completely unacceptable that anyone should feel harassed or intimidated simply for exercising their legal right to healthcare advice and treatment.\n\n\"The decision to have an abortion is already an incredibly personal one, without women being further pressured by aggressive protesters.\"\n\nShe said the review would provide \"firm recommendations\" on action to tackle the problem.\n\nThe police already have a range of powers to manage protests, with the law providing protection against harassment and intimidation.\n\nThe Home Office said protesters were subject to the law and all suspected offences \"will be robustly investigated\".\n\nAmber Rudd said it was \"unacceptable\" that anyone should feel intimidated for accessing healthcare\n\nLabour MP Rupa Huq, who has campaigned for a law change, welcomed the review with \"cautious optimism\".\n\nIn her Ealing Central and Acton constituency, the council backed a proposal in October that would ban protesters from gathering outside an abortion clinic.\n\nThe demonstrators, who hold daily vigils outside the clinic, deny harassing women.\n\nMs Huq said a radial zone to exclude protests within 150m was needed, banning silent praying, singing hymns, displaying foetus images and leaflet distribution.\n\n\"The complete anonymity of women seeking terminations should be protected as one would expect with any other NHS procedure,\" she said.\n\nBut Antonia Tully, director of campaigns at the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, said: \"It is completely ludicrous to suggest introducing new powers to stop small numbers of peaceful people praying outside abortion clinics and offering leaflets to women.\n\n\"Women are not being harassed.\n\n\"Pro-life counsellors cannot force a woman not to have an abortion.\"\n\nShe said the presence of vigils can be a \"lifesaver\" for women under pressure to abort.\n\nPolicing minister Nick Hurd has written to the national policing lead for protest, Deputy Chief Constable Rachel Swann to begin the work.\n\nThe review will be conducted by Home Office officials and will also consider international comparisons in Australia, France and the US.", "A teenage newcomer has beaten established stars to win best supporting actress at the film awards dubbed the Chinese-language Oscars.\n\nVicky Chen, 14, was nominated at the Golden Horse Film Awards for her role in The Bold, The Corrupt and The Beautiful.\n\nHer co-star, Hong Kong veteran Kara Wai, won the best actress gong, which Chen was also nominated for.\n\nThe awards are held annually in Taiwan and are open to Chinese-language films.\n\nThe Bold, The Corrupt and The Beautiful, a crime drama centred around a wealthy family, was nominated in seven categories and won in three, including best film.\n\nChen was also nominated for best actress for her role in Angels Wear White. She plays a hotel maid who witnesses a sexual assault and grapples with the decision of reporting it.\n\nDespite losing to Wai in that prize, she beat two former best actress winners in the best supporting actress category.\n\nAlthough it missed out on best film, The Great Buddha+, by Taiwanese director Huang Hsin-Yao, was a big winner. It took five awards, including best adapted screenplay, best original film score and best cinematography.\n\nThe mostly black-and-white dark comedy focuses on two friends - Pickle, a night security guard at a factory making Buddha statues, and Belly Button, a collector of recyclables. The pair uncover footage of Pickle's wealthy boss that reveals his dark secrets.\n\nThe Bold, The Corrupt and the Beautiful came away with three awards\n\nAng Lee, the Taiwanese-American director, and US actress Jessica Chastain jointly presented the best actress prize.\n\nLee was the first Asian to win the best director at the Hollywood Oscars, taking it in 2006 for Brokeback Mountain. Chastain won best actress in a drama at the 2013 Golden Globes for Zero Dark Thirty.", "Former Scotland international footballer Denis Law has received the Freedom of Aberdeen.\n\nThe 77-year-old, who was born and raised in the Granite City, has described the honour as \"one of the highlights of my life\".\n\nHe was made a freeman during a special ceremony on Saturday evening. Then, on Sunday evening, he took part in a parade along Union Street.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Matheson confirmed the men were from the armed unit\n\nThe head of armed policing and his deputy are understood to be among those suspended by Police Scotland amid allegations of criminal conduct and gross misconduct.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Bernard Higgins was suspended on Friday by the Scottish Police Authority.\n\nIt is understood Supt Kirk Kinnell and his deputy, Chief Inspector Bob Glass, are among the other officers under investigation.\n\nOne other officer has been suspended.\n\nA further two have been placed on restricted duties.\n\nChief Inspector Glass was head of Strathclyde Police's armed response unit at the time of the 2007 terror attack on Glasgow Airport.\n\nJustice Secretary Michael Matheson confirmed to BBC Scotland that two officers named in a Sunday Mail story, Supt Kinnell and Chief Inspector Glass, were under investigation.\n\nHe told the Sunday Politics Scotland programme: \"I think at this stage it wouldn't be appropriate for me to start mentioning names of those particular officers.\n\n\"But the two which I know have been suggested are individuals who were involved in the investigation.\n\n\"As far as I am aware, they are two of those who are part of the complaint that has been received by the Pirc (the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner) that is being investigated by the Crown Office.\n\n\"The individuals involved in this are related to those involved in the firearms unit at Police Scotland in the training facility that we have at Jackton.\"\n\nHe added: \"I don't want to get drawn into it (what the allegations relate to) too much because it is a live investigation being directed by the Crown. But, as far as I'm aware, it relates to issues of misconduct and gross misconduct.\n\n\"The exact detail of that is for the Crown to determine because it is now a live, potentially criminal, investigation.\n\n\"Like any investigation that could be criminal in nature, it is important that we recognise there is due process to be gone through here.\n\n\"And also for the individuals who have the complaints lodged against them, (it is important) that we allow that process to take its course.\"\n\nThe Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (Pirc) is also looking into allegations of misconduct against Chief Constable Phil Gormley, who is currently on \"special leave\".\n\nThat investigation is unrelated to inquiries into allegations that officers in the former counter-corruption unit abused their position when attempting to find the source of a journalist's information.\n\nBoth Mr Gormley and Mr Higgins have denied wrongdoing.\n\nA Crown Office spokesman said: \"We can confirm that the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) has instructed the Police Investigations & Review Commissioner (PIRC) to undertake an investigation into allegations of a criminal nature against officers serving with the Police Service of Scotland.\n\n\"A report will be submitted to COPFS following the investigation by PIRC.\"\n\nWillie Rennie said the new SPA chief Susan Deacon should appear before MSPs\n\nThe Scottish Police Authority confirmed the suspensions on Friday after \"a number of criminal and misconduct allegations were brought to the Authority's attention by the Police Investigations and Review Commissioner (PIRC)\".\n\nA spokesman for the SPA said on Sunday: \"The Authority will not provide any further detail in relation to the allegations.\"\n\nThe Scottish Liberal Democrat leader, Willie Rennie said Michael Matheson needed to address the issue at Holyrood.\n\nHe said: \"The justice secretary needs to make a statement to Parliament to set out how leadership of Police Scotland will be secured while the months of investigation take place into senior officers.\n\n\"The public and all ranks of the police service deserve to hear the means by which effective force management will be provided.\"\n\nMr Rennie said the SPA's new chairwoman Susan Deacon should also appear before MSPs.\n• None Minister urged to 'get a grip' of police", "Father Fidelis Mukonori said he could not confirm reports that Zimbabwe's ex-leader was granted $10m (£7.5m) to ease him out of office.", "Royal Brompton is the largest specialist heart and lung medical centre in the UK\n\nTwo of Britain's top surgeons have called on NHS England to save a world-leading heart unit in London.\n\nHeart transplant pioneer Sir Magdi Yacoub and cancer surgeon Lord Darzi said ending congenital heart disease (CHD) surgery at Royal Brompton Hospital would be a \"disaster\".\n\nThe decision \"has been guided\" by medical experts, NHS England said.\n\nIn an open letter, Lord Darzi, Sir Magdi and Baroness Boothroyd, a former patient of the hospital, said if Royal Brompton's CHD unit went it would render the whole hospital \"unviable\".\n\nIn an open letter former health minister Lord Darzi claimed NHS England \"deliberately\" defined new guidelines to dismantle CHD services at the Royal Brompton\n\nRoyal Brompton is the largest specialist heart and lung medical centre in the UK and works with the children's unit at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital, less than half-a-mile away.\n\nBut the hospital fails to meet new national guidelines for paediatric heart surgery, which require all children's services to be \"co-located\" on a single site.\n\nIf paediatric heart surgery was removed, the hospital may struggle to meet its targets of having at least three heart surgeons, each carrying out a minimum of 125 operations a year, which would put the whole CHD surgery unit under threat.\n\nThe letter claims that the new guidelines have been \"defined in such as way as to deliberately result in the dismantling of the services at the Brompton\".\n\n\"You shouldn't kill a centre of excellence just for planning reasons,\" Sir Magdi said.\n\n\"Closing the Royal Brompton heart surgery unit would be a disaster.\"\n\nHe added: \"Anything that comes after won't be as good treating patients and making medical advancements.\"\n\nA spokesman for NHS England said \"isolated children's services are unacceptable; children's cardiac services must be co-located within a hospital providing a broad range of paediatric specialties and services\".\n\nThe guidelines are supported by medical experts from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, British Congenital Cardiac Association, British Heart Foundation and the Royal College of Anaesthetists.\n\nA decision will be announced on 30 November.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "IS' Sinai Province, the most prominent jihadist group, posted video showcasing their weapons\n\nMore than 200 people have died in an unprecedented attack targeting a Sunni mosque in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula during Friday prayers, highlighting the alarming threat posed by jihadist militants in the region.\n\nSo far, no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, the deadliest of its kind in the country.\n\nSo-called Islamic State (IS) is the most prominent and violent of the militant groups in Sinai, with a record of targeting civilians in that area and in mainland Egypt.\n\nOther groups active in the country are mostly aligned with IS's arch jihadist rival, al-Qaeda.\n\nIS's Sinai affiliate, Sinai Province, has claimed responsibility for many deadly attacks, mostly targeting the army in Sinai. It also claimed the downing of a Russian airliner in October 2015.\n\nFormerly known as Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, the group first appeared in September 2011 and rebranded itself with an IS pledge of allegiance in November 2014.\n\nThe group generally targets Egyptian security forces in northern Sinai, but has also claimed an attack on a tourist site in southern Sinai in April.\n\nIn the first part of the year IS stepped up its rhetoric and attacks against Christians in Sinai and elsewhere in Egypt, claiming two deadly attacks on churches in Tanta and Alexandria on 9 April.\n\nIS started to scale up its attacks in Sinai since September, as it started losing territory in Iraq and Syria.\n\nOn 24 November, IS boasted about attacks it had carried out earlier in the week targeting policemen in western Arish, the area of the attacked mosque.\n\nIn addition to its attacks on Christians, IS has adopted a threatening tone against Sufi Muslims, whom it considers to be heretics.\n\nThe head of IS's religious police in Sinai had previously said that Sufis who did not \"repent\" would be killed. IS has beheaded a number of Sufi men whom it accused of \"sorcery\".\n\nScreen grab from the video posted by Jund al-Islam\n\nThe propaganda and rhetoric of this low-profile group suggests alignment with al-Qaeda.\n\nIts rivalry with IS in Sinai surfaced in November when Jund al-Islam issued a threat to IS militants.\n\nIn an audio message released on 11 November, Jund al-Islam claimed responsibility for an October attack on IS militants in Sinai, and vowed to crush the rival group \"for committing crimes against Muslims\" in the peninsula.\n\nA day later, Jund al-Islam issued another statement condemning the 9 November deadly attack on lorry drivers in northern Sinai, as well as blaming IS and the Egyptian government for the deaths.\n\nIn both its recent messages, Jund al-Islam stressed that it did not target \"innocent Muslims\".\n\nJund al-Islam's recent communiques follow a lengthy spell of media silence since 2015, and suggest the group is presenting itself as a challenger to IS in Sinai.\n\nThe group emerged in September 2013 with a claim of a double suicide attack on the Egyptian military intelligence HQ in the northern Sinai town of Rafah, which borders the Gaza Strip.\n\nIt stepped up its propaganda campaign in 2015, claiming rocket attacks on Israel and issuing a propaganda video that hinted at links with al-Qaeda in Yemen (AQAP).\n\nNot to be confused with the former Sahara-based jihadist group al-Mourabitoun, this Egyptian faction announced itself in 2015.\n\nHowever, since its formation, the group has not been observed to carry out any prominent attacks, and has mainly put out statements and threats.\n\nGiven its lack of visible activity, it remains unclear where exactly al-Mourabitoun operates in Egypt.\n\nIts propaganda suggests an al-Qaeda orientation, and veteran jihadist media operatives have linked it to an al-Qaeda attempt to check the rise of IS in Egypt.\n\nIts leader, Abu-Umar al-Muhajir, alias Hisham Ashmawi, is a former Egyptian army officer and a senior figure in Ansar Beit al-Maqdis before it pledged allegiance to IS.\n\nIn October 2015, Ashmawi called for the killing of Egyptian military officers, and for revenge in response to the deaths of Palestinians by Israel's security forces.\n\nAshmawi reiterated that message in March 2016, and urged Muslim clerics to play an active role in encouraging young people to embrace jihad.\n\nThis new group, not to be confused with the veteran Ansar al-Islam in Iraq, emerged in November, when it claimed responsibility for a high-profile attack in Egypt's Western Desert.\n\nAnsar al-Islam described the attack, in which more than 50 security personnel died, as \"the beginning of our jihad\".\n\nThe group's attack claim and its founding statement of 3 November was widely circulated by high-profile online supporters of al-Qaeda, which suggested a nod of approval.\n\nIts rhetoric and pledge to fight until the establishment of Islamic law suggest a jihadist orientation.\n\nAnsar al-Islam's statement urged Egyptians to join the jihad, or support the group through words or funds.\n\nMeaning \"Soldiers of Egypt\", this group appeared in January 2014, and carried out attacks in Cairo over the summer.\n\nIt has possible al-Qaeda associations, in that the Yemeni and African branches of that network posted eulogies on the death of its leader in April 2015.\n\nIt also coordinated attacks with Ansar Beit al-Maqdis before the latter joined IS.\n\nBut Ajnad Misr has repeatedly said that it tries to avoid civilian casualties in its attacks.\n\nMany of the group's members are now thought to be in prison.\n\nIn October 2017, the Egyptian authorities sought death sentences for 13 individuals with suspected links to the group.\n\nThe individuals are accused of killing soldiers, police officers and civilians, with a verdict expected in December.\n\nThe Hasm Movement surfaced in the summer of 2016 and has focused on attacking government and security personnel in Cairo and elsewhere in Egypt.\n\nThe Egyptian authorities and media have linked Hasm to the Muslim Brotherhood, which is outlawed in Egypt.\n\nThe group's rhetoric is more Islamist and \"pro-revolution\" than jihadist.\n\nOn 1 October Hasm targeted the Myanmar embassy in Cairo with an explosive device to express its solidarity with Rohingya Muslims, it said.\n\nHasm released its first propaganda video in January in which it showcased its training camps and boasted about the range of attacks it had carried out on the Egyptian authorities.\n\nSlick production and the group's claim of organisation and structure in the video were clearly meant to indicate that Hasm was not a shadowy group, but rather a sophisticated force to be reckoned with.\n\nBBC Monitoring reports and analyses news from TV, radio, web and print media around the world. You can follow BBC Monitoring on Twitter and Facebook.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Firefighters in Tenerife have released footage of the aftermath of the collapse\n\nThe dancefloor of a nightclub in Tenerife has collapsed, injuring 40 people.\n\nClubbers fell through the floor to the basement of the Butterfly Disco Pub at about 02:30 local time (02:30 GMT) on Sunday morning.\n\nThe club is in a shopping centre in Playa de las Americas, a clubbing hotspot in the south of the Spanish island popular with tourists.\n\nThose injured are said to be from a number of different countries, including Spain, France, the UK, Belgium and Romania.\n\nThe number of casualties rose from 22 to 40 as it emerged that 18 had made their own way to hospitals.\n\nThe extent of the damage can be seen when viewed from the basement\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwo of those injured were seriously hurt, suffering fractures to the femur, or thigh bone, reported the local government. The remainder are believed to have suffered moderate to light injuries.\n\nThe club is in a shopping centre in Playa de las Americas\n\nEmergency services scrambled to the scene after a large section of the dancefloor gave way, and spent the next few hours evacuating the wounded.\n\n\"After the floor collapsed, the people who were inside fell to the basement from the height of approximately one floor,\" said the regional government in a statement quoted by AFP news agency.\n\nHave you witnessed these events? E-mail us at haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nYou can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAirlines have been issued a \"red warning\" about the danger of volcanic ash in the skies close to Bali after Mount Agung emitted a thick plume of smoke reaching 4,000m (13,100 feet).\n\nIt is the second major emission from the Indonesian island volcano this week, and flights have been disrupted.\n\nThe red warning means an eruption is forecast to be imminent, with significant emission of ash likely.\n\nAuthorities have begun distributing masks in some areas as ash falls.\n\nBali is a major tourist destination, although the main resorts of Kuta and Seminyak are about 70km (43 miles) from the volcano.\n\nThe island's main airport is for now operating normally, but some airlines have cancelled flights. Volcanic ash can damage plane engines.\n\nTravellers to and from the region are being urged to contact their airline or travel agent to find out the status of their flight.\n\nAsh from the eruption coated roads, cars and buildings near the volcano in the north-east of Bali and emergency officials said hundreds of thousands of masks had been distributed\n\nThe ash cloud is said to be moving eastward from Bali towards the island of Lombok, and the main international airport there has been closed entirely.\n\nThe information director of Indonesia's Disaster Mitigation Agency tweeted that volcanic ash rain had fallen on the Lombok city of Mataram.\n\n\"Tourism in Bali is still safe, except in the danger (zone) around Mount Agung,\" the agency said in a statement.\n\nIt told people within a 7.5km exclusion zone to \"immediately evacuate\" in an \"orderly and calm manner\".\n\nMagma - molten rock - has now been detected close to the volcano's surface, said officials and volcanologists.\n\nAbout 25,000 people are thought to still be in temporary shelters after more than 140,000 people fled earlier this year. Increased volcanic activity had prompted fears a major eruption was imminent.\n\nMost of the islanders outside the immediate exclusion zone were ordered to return home at the end of September, and the mountain has been intermittently rumbling since.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Evacuees from near Mount Agung brought their birds, chickens and dogs with them in September\n\nAccording to official estimates, the holiday island lost at least $110m (£83m) in tourism and productivity during the major evacuation.\n\nIndonesia sits on the Pacific \"Ring of Fire\" where tectonic plates collide, causing frequent seismic and volcanic activity.\n\nIt is home to more than 130 active volcanoes. The last time Mount Agung erupted, in 1963, more than 1,000 people died.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Survivors of the 1963 eruption on the last time Mount Agung erupted\n\nAre you in the area? What are conditions like currently? If it is safe to do so, email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nYou can also contact us in the following ways:", "The organisers said to expect \"a confrontation bigger than the Battle of Orgreave\"\n\nA miners' strike-themed student rugby club event has been criticised as \"disgraceful\" and swiftly cancelled.\n\nGuests had been asked to come dressed as miners or members of Margaret Thatcher's government.\n\nThe Facebook invitation said: \"We want flat caps, filth... a few working-class-beating-bobbies wouldn't go amiss.\"\n\nDurham University said the event was \"wholly unacceptable\". The organisers have been approached for comment.\n\nPro-vice chancellor Owen Adams said: \"Durham University and Trevelyan College utterly deplore this event.\"\n\nIt had been cancelled by the students concerned, he said.\n\n\"We are speaking to those students and we are considering what further action to take in due course,\" he added.\n\nOrganisers of the event, who appeared to be associated with the rugby team at Trevelyan College, asked those playing different positions in the game to take the opposing sides in the 1984 dispute.\n\nForwards were asked to come as miners and to \"think pickaxes... think headlamps... think 12% unemployment in 1984\".\n\nBacks were asked to elect one member to be \"the Iron Lady herself\" with others coming as her government, police officers or Falklands War heroes.\n\nGuests were told to \"expect a confrontation bigger than the Battle of Orgreave\".\n\nTrevelyan College authorities said they deplored the proposed event\n\nCounty Durham has a rich mining history with, at its height, tens of thousands of miners working in pits across the area.\n\nThe strike saw arrests and clashes between miners and police in villages such as Easington Colliery.\n\nThe Durham Miners' Association said it was \"appalled\" to hear about the event and pleased the university and college had taken \"swift and appropriate action\".\n\nThey said the organisers had a \"complete lack of respect for local history\" and \"ought to be ashamed\".\n\nMr Adams said: \"Regrettably, there are occasions where student behaviour falls short of the standards we expect.\n\n\"The university reserves the right to take appropriate action against those who fall short of these standards.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rodney (here as a foal) was almost three years old and his mother Juwireya is nine\n\nArsonists killed one horse and injured another in an attack on the stable of Welsh Grand National-winning breeders.\n\nJanet and Brian Vokes were told about the fire in Cefn Fforest, Caerphilly county, at about 06:30 GMT on Sunday.\n\nTwo-year-old gelding Rodney died and his mother, Juwireya, nine, was injured. The stable was destroyed.\n\nMrs Vokes said: \"We're absolutely devastated. They're scum - you can't imagine why anyone would do such a thing.\"\n\nMr and Mrs Vokes owned the Welsh Grand National-winning Dream Alliance, whose unlikely victory was turned into a film.\n\nVets are treating Juwireya but it is not yet known how badly injured she was after suffering burns to her face, back and legs.\n\nThe cost of the damage to the stable is about £3,000.\n\nJanet and Brian Vokes said they have been left \"devastated\"\n\nDream Alliance was funded by a syndicate of friends and drinkers from the local working men's club who paid £10 a week for the horse to be trained.\n\nRodney, known affectionately as Rodders, was due to follow in Dream Alliance's footsteps and race under the name Impossible Dream.\n\nRodney had only been back in the stables for about three weeks after staying in a field in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, over the summer.\n\nMrs Vokes, 64, said: \"We've got no enemies, we keep ourselves to ourselves - we've only got our horses here.\n\n\"There's no clues up there, it was dark, no lights. We haven't got a clue - we hope someone locally will have the heart to inform the police if they know anything.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jennie Griffiths 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service sent five crews to tackle the blaze after getting the call just after 06:40.\n\nHead of control at South Wales Fire and Rescue Service, Jennie Griffiths, tweeted that the blaze was deliberate.\n\nBoth the fire service and Gwent Police are carrying out an investigation.\n\nA vet is assessing the extent of Juwireya's injuries", "Millions are on the brink of famine in Yemen, the UN says\n\nA UN aid ship carrying food supplies has been allowed to dock at a rebel-held port in Yemen, after the Saudi-led coalition eased a blockade that has lasted for nearly three weeks.\n\nThe blockade worsened the plight of millions at risk of starvation.\n\nPlanes carrying medical supplies were allowed to land in the capital, Sanaa, on Saturday but this is the first shipment of food aid to be let in.\n\nThe blockade was imposed on 6 November after a missile attack on Saudi Arabia.\n\nThe coalition blocked off land, sea and air routes two days after the Houthi rebels they are fighting in Yemen fired the missile at the Saudi capital, Riyadh. It was intercepted over the international airport.\n\nThe UN ship, loaded with thousands of tonnes of desperately-needed wheat, has arrived at the port of Saleef.\n\nIt is carrying enough food to feed 1.8m people in northern Yemen for a month, World Food Programme country director Stephen Anderson told the BBC.\n\nHe said the ship had been forced to \"hover off the coast\" for two weeks waiting for permission to enter.\n\nA commercial ship carrying 5,500 tonnes of wheat flour earlier docked at the key port of Hudaydah, south of Saleef and also controlled by the Houthi rebels.\n\n\"This is also a positive development because humanitarian aid alone will not address the full needs of the people who are in northern Yemen, particularly those who we are not able to assist, those who are slightly better off and who depend on markets,\" Mr Anderson said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Clive Myrie reports from one hospital on the brink of running out of fuel\n\nEarlier this week, the Saudi-led coalition announced it would reopen access to the Hudaydah port for urgent humanitarian aid and Sanaa's airport to UN aid and relief flights.\n\nBut on Friday, the UN's humanitarian affairs office said access to Hudaydah remained blocked.\n\nThe easing of the Saudi-led blockade followed a review by the coalition to ensure weapons do not reach the rebels. Saudi Arabia accuses Iran of supplying arms to the Houthis, which Tehran denies.\n\nPlanes that arrived in Sanaa on Saturday carried 1.9m doses of vaccines, but the UN's agency for children, Unicef, says that is just a small fraction of what is needed.\n\n\"I reiterate my plea to everyone with a heart for children, indeed not to prevent us from delivering what is urgently needed and massively needed,\" Unicef Middle East Director Geert Cappelaere told Reuters news agency. \"Yesterday was just a very small step.\"\n\nMore than 20 million people in Yemen are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance. Eleven million of those are children and 400,000 are affected by severe acute malnutrition.\n\nThe coalition intervened in the war between forces loyal to President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and the Houthis in 2015. Since then ground fighting and air strikes have killed more than 8,670 people, according to UN figures.", "Jesse Jackson has remained an activist in later life\n\nUS civil rights activist Jesse Jackson has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.\n\n\"My family and I began to notice changes about three years ago,\" Mr Jackson, aged 76, wrote in a statement.\n\n\"After a battery of tests, my physicians identified the issue as Parkinson's disease, a disease that bested my father.\"\n\nParkinson's is an incurable neurological disease that can cause tremors and affect coordination.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rev Jesse Jackson Sr This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"Recognition of the effects of this disease on me has been painful, and I have been slow to grasp the gravity of it,\" Mr Jackson said.\n\nHe said the diagnosis was \"not a stop sign but rather a signal that I must make lifestyle changes and dedicate myself to physical therapy in hopes of slowing the disease's progression\".\n\nMr Jackson fought for civil rights alongside Martin Luther King Jr in the 1960s. He was twice a candidate for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, in 1984 and 1988, and his son Jesse Jr is a former US congressman.\n\nHe has remained an activist into later life, and spoke up last year in the wake of a spate of police shootings of black men, saying they were just one expression of a \"mean-spirited division\" taking hold of the country.\n\nAbout 60,000 new Parkinson's diagnoses are made every year in the US, where the disease affects an estimated one million people.\n\n\"I am far from alone,\" Mr Jackson said.\n\n\"God continues to give me new opportunities to serve. This diagnosis is personal but it is more than that. It is an opportunity for me to use my voice to help in finding a cure for a disease that afflicts seven to 10 million worldwide.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Adams said leadership means knowing when it's time for change\n\nSinn Féin president Gerry Adams has revealed he plans to stand down as leader of the party next year.\n\nMr Adams also said he will not stand for election to the Irish parliament (Dail) at the next election.\n\nSpeaking at the Sinn Féin ard fhéis (party conference) in Dublin, Mr Adams said it would be his last as leader.\n\n\"Leadership means knowing when it's time for change and that time is now,\" the 69-year-old, who has been party president since 1983, said.\n\nSo the build-up was justified - to paraphrase one of Gerry Adams' most famous phrases, he is going away you know.\n\nThe precise date will depend on the party's ard comhairle or ruling executive which is expected to meet within the next fortnight - they will in turn call an extraordinary ard fheis where a new leader will be elected.\n\nSinn Féin may hope that Mr Adams' decision not to stand in the next Irish election will make any talks about a future coalition in Dublin more straightforward.\n\nBut the Fianna Fáil Leader Micheal Martin has repeated his view that Sinn Fein remains unacceptable as a partner in government.\n\nWhatever the future brings, though, there's no doubt Gerry Adams' move marks an historic change as a leader who oversaw the republican movement's journey between violence and peace gives way to another politician who will pursue Irish unity through more conventional parliamentary politics.\n\nMr Adams, the TD (member of the Irish parliament) for County Louth, said he would be asking the party leadership to agree a date in 2018 for a special party conference to elect a new leader.\n\n\"I have always seen myself as a team player, as a team builder,\" he said.\n\n\"I have complete confidence in the leaders we elected this weekend and in the next generation of leaders.\"\n\nMr Adams is surrounded by party colleagues after his announcement\n\nMr Adams said the move was formulated along with party colleague Martin McGuinness before his death earlier this year.\n\nIt has already seen Michelle O'Neill, 40, take the role of Sinn Fein's leader at Stormont.\n\nEarlier, delegates at the conference voted in favour of a motion to hold a special ard fhéis three months after the departure of the party president.\n\nThe motion will allow for a leadership contest once the vacancy arises.\n\nDelegates also voted to liberalise the party's policy on abortion.\n\nParty members voted in favour of allowing abortions where a pregnancy poses a risk to a woman's health, including mental health.\n\nThe ard fhéis (party conference) has been taking place in Dublin\n\nThere will be a referendum on abortion law in the Republic of Ireland in May or June of next year.\n\nSinn Féin's previous position supported allowing terminations when a baby is expected to die in the womb or shortly after birth, and in cases of rape or incest.\n\nCurrently, the law in the Republic of Ireland only permits abortion when there is a real and substantial risk to a woman's life. In Northern Ireland, terminations are only legal when continuing with a pregnancy poses a serious or permanent risk to a woman's health.\n\nMeanwhile, Sinn Féin's Stormont leader has called on the Irish government to appoint a minister with responsibility for advancing Irish unity.\n\nMichelle O'Neill told the party conference that a parliamentary committee in the Republic of Ireland should also be formed to look at a united Ireland.", "TV chef Jamie Oliver has said he has banned his 14-year-old daughter from sharing selfies, describing them as the unhealthy \"sugar of social media\".\n\n\"We ban Daisy from doing selfies and mainly she doesn't, but a couple slip up,\" the father-of-five told the Lifestyle News Hound podcast.\n\nOliver, 42, says he is among the first generation of parents learning to deal with children sharing photos online.\n\nHe and wife Jools regularly post family photos on their own Instagram pages.\n\nBut Oliver, a prominent campaigner for healthy eating, described teenage girls' use of Instagram as \"frightening\".\n\nHe said: \"I'm going to generalise massively here, but from my observation so far, at 13 to 14, the kind of pictures that girls are putting up, just from what I've seen, split off 50:50.\n\n\"[There's] normal young girl, and then this weird hybrid of - dare I say it - quite porno sort of luscious kind of pouty lips, sort of pushing boobs out.\"\n\nHe said he did not \"even want to look\" at photos of other girls that 14-year-old Daisy had shown him.\n\n\"I'm like really? Are their parents not over that like a rash?\"\n\nHowever, Jamie and Jools Oliver are not against Instagram itself - and frequently post snaps of family holidays and days out that they are happy to share with the public.\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 joolsoliver 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\nThis Instagram post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\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 4 by joolsoliver 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\nOliver added: \"Because of the 'like' thing, it's kind of almost the sugar of social media.\n\n\"It's a quick way to get some kind of pat on the back or love.\"\n\nThe NSPCC charity has told parents it is vital to spot inappropriate behaviour online - and has a Net Aware guide to social media sites young people are using.\n\nThe charity identified a number of risks for children using Instagram, including strangers following them and people taking screenshots and sharing photos without their permission.", "Dog owners have a lower risk of death from cardiovascular disease or other causes, a study of 3.4 million Swedes has found.\n\nThe team analysed national registries for people aged 40 to 80, and compared them to dog ownership registers.\n\nThey found there was a lower risk of cardiovascular disease in owners of dogs, particularly of hunting breeds.\n\nWhile owning a dog may help physical activity, researchers said it may be active people who choose to own dogs.\n\nThey also said owning a dog may protect people from cardiovascular disease by increasing their social contact or wellbeing, or by changing the owner's bacterial microbiome.\n\nThe microbiome is the collection of microscopic species that live in the gut. It's thought a dog may influence its owner's microbiomes as dogs change the dirt in home environments, exposing people to bacteria they may not have encountered otherwise.\n\nThe researchers said dogs had a particularly protective effect for those who live alone.\n\n\"The results showed that single dog owners had a 33% reduction in risk of death and 11% reduction in risk of heart attack,\" compared to single non-owners, said lead study author Mwenya Mubanga of Uppsala University.\n\nPeople who live alone have been shown previously to be at a higher risk of cardiovascular death.\n\nDr Mubanga said: \"Perhaps a dog may stand in as an important family member in the single households.\"\n\nFor their study, published in Scientific Reports, the team looked at data from 2001 to 2012. In Sweden, every visit to a hospital is recorded in national databases - while dog ownership registration has been mandatory since 2001.\n\nOwning a dog from breeds originally bred for hunting, such as terriers, retrievers and scent hounds, was associated with the lowest risk of cardiovascular disorder.\n\nDr Mike Knapton of the British Heart Foundation, said: \"Owning a dog is associated with reduced mortality and risk of having heart disease. Previous studies have shown this association but have not been as conclusive - largely due to the population size studied here.\n\n\"Dog ownership has many benefits, and we may now be able to count better heart health as one of them.\n\n\"However, as many dog owners may agree, the main reason for owning a dog is the sheer joy.\n\n\"Whether you're a dog owner or not, keeping active is a great way to help improve your heart health.\"\n\nTove Fall, senior author of the study, said there were some limitations: \"These kind of epidemiological studies look for associations in large populations but do not provide answers on whether and how dogs could protect from cardiovascular disease.\n\n\"There might also be differences between owners and non-owners already before buying a dog, which could have influenced our results, such as those people choosing to get a dog tending to be more active and of better health.\"", "Gerry Adams said the party had a plan for \"orderly leadership change\"\n\nSinn Féin president Gerry Adams is expected to set out a plan to step down from party leadership later.\n\nMr Adams, who has led Sinn Féin since 1983, will speak at the party's ard fhéis (annual conference) in Dublin.\n\nIt is expected that Mr Adams will not step down immediately but will outline his transition from leadership.\n\nDelegates at the conference have voted in favour of a motion to hold a special ard fhéis three months after the departure of the party president.\n\nThe motion will allow for a leadership contest once a vacancy arises.\n\nDelegates also voted to liberalise the party's policy on abortion.\n\nParty members voted in favour of allowing abortions where a pregnancy poses a risk to a woman's health, including mental health.\n\nThere will be a referendum on abortion law in the Republic of Ireland in May or June of next year.\n\nSinn Féin's previous position supported allowing terminations when a baby is expected to die in the womb or shortly after birth, and in cases of rape or incest.\n\nCurrently, the law in the Republic of Ireland only permits abortion when there is a real and substantial risk to a woman's life. In Northern Ireland, terminations are only legal when continuing with a pregnancy poses a serious or permanent risk to a woman's health.\n\nMeanwhile, Sinn Féin's Stormont leader has called on the Irish government to appoint a minister with responsibility for advancing Irish unity.\n\nMichelle O'Neill told the party conference that a parliamentary committee in the Republic of Ireland should also be formed to look at a united Ireland.\n\nMr Adams also said that a 10-year plan for \"orderly leadership change\" was being finalised.\n\nHe said the plan had previously been outlined by former deputy party leader Martin McGuinness, who died earlier this year.\n\nCatalonian MEP Jordi Solé and Sinn Féin deputy leader Mary Lou McDonald addressed the conference on Saturday morning\n\nBrexit and the ongoing political deadlock over power-sharing in Northern Ireland are expected to be major topics of discussion.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) and Sinn Féin have failed to reach agreement in restore a power-sharing government at Stormont despite numerous rounds of talks since March's assembly elections.\n\nGerry Adams has been one of the most significant and divisive figures in Irish politics for almost half a century.\n\nSecurity sources believe he was senior IRA member during the Troubles but Mr Adams has always denied being in the organisation.\n\nHe became known worldwide as the face of the republican movement during its transition from violence to peace.\n\nHis leadership won't be ending straight away but he has said he'll reveal more about a plan for change he'd agreed with his long-term ally Martin McGuinness, before Mr McGuinness' death earlier this year.\n\nPart of that plan has already been put in place with the appointment of Michelle O'Neill to lead the party at Stormont.\n\nOpening proceedings on Saturday morning, the party's deputy leader Mary Lou McDonald said that \"agreement can only be secured and institutions re-established on a sustainable basis when agreements previously agreed to are honoured by all\".\n\nLater, Mrs O'Neill told the conference that the \"Irish government has a clear responsibility\" regarding a united Ireland.\n\n\"It needs to bring forward a political plan to unite and reinvent the country in the modern era,\" she said.\n\n\"The government should publish a green paper on Irish unity, which indentifies the steps and measures that are for a successful transition to a United Ireland.\"\n\nShe added that the government should establish a government committee on Irish reunification and a government minister with the \"dedicated and specific responsibility of developing strategies to advance Irish unity\".\n\nMrs O'Neill also told the conference that Brexit was \"an act of political vandalism\" that would be a \"disaster\" for Northern Ireland.\n\nThe conference also heard from Jordi Solé, a Catalan MEP, who spoke about the region's independence movement.\n\nMichelle O'Neill told the conference that Brexit was an \"act of political vandalism\"\n\nLater on Saturday, party members could vote to liberalise Sinn Féin's policy on abortion.\n\nA motion will be put to allow abortions in cases when \"a woman's life, health or mental health is at serious risk or in grave danger, fatal foetal abnormality and rape or sexual abuse\".\n\nMrs O'Neill has said she will support the motion, which will set the party policy for both Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland.", "Judge O'Neill said the number 50 could be incorrect as he \"doesn't keep count\"\n\nOhio voters are in shock after a top judge boasted of having been \"sexually intimate\" with \"approximately 50 very attractive females\".\n\nState Supreme Court Judge Bill O'Neill, who is a Democratic candidate for state governor, made the claim on Facebook on Friday afternoon.\n\nIn a follow-up interview he defended his post and a senator who was pictured apparently groping a sleeping woman.\n\nHis post began: \"Now that the dogs of war are calling for the head of Senator Al Franken I believe it is time to speak up on behalf of all heterosexual males.\"\n\nJudge O'Neill noted that as a candidate for governor, his admission would \"save my opponents some research time\".\n\n\"In the last fifty years I was sexually intimate with approximately 50 very attractive females,\" wrote the Chagrin Falls, Ohio, native.\n\nThe 70-year-old Democrat went on to describe two of the women and his alleged encounters with them.\n\n\"It ranged from a gorgeous personal secretary to Senator Bob Taft (Senior) who was my first true love and we made passionate love in the hayloft of her parents barn.\"\n\nHe later edited the post to clarify it was the secretary - not Senator Taft - with whom he purportedly had sexual relations.\n\nIn an interview with Cleveland.com after the post was published, Judge O'Neill confirmed he had written it.\n\nThe judge with his dog Lucky\n\nHe told the publication the number \"50\" could be incorrect since he \"doesn't keep count\".\n\nJudge O'Neill also said he did not think it improper for a Supreme Court justice to divulge particulars of his sex life.\n\nAccording to Ohio media, Judge O'Neill must retire from the bench when his current term ends in 2019 due to age restrictions.\n\nHe is the only Democrat not just on the state Supreme Court, but to hold state-wide office in Ohio.\n\nThe over-sharing jurist launched his campaign for governor in late October on a platform of expanding mental care access, tax incentives for solar power, and legalising cannabis - the last of which he mentioned in his Facebook tell-all.\n\nThe post provoked an avalanche of responses on social media ranging from baffled to admiring to derisive.\n\nOne woman wrote: \"YOU ARE TRASH.\"\n\nMany pointed out the judge's encounters appeared to be consensual in contrast to Senator Al Franken, who along with Senate hopeful Roy Moore, is accused of non-consensual sexual contact.\n\n\"No words can convey my shock,\" she said.\n\n\"This gross disrespect for women shakes the public's confidence in the integrity of the judiciary.\"\n\nCincinnati City Councilman Chris Seelbach wrote to Judge O'Neill on Twitter: \"Not only have you lost any glimpse of support from me, (you've) also lost my respect.\"\n\nMary Taylor, Republican lieutenant governor of Ohio, posted on Twitter: \"There's a very serious conversation going on right now in this country about sexual harassment and @BillForOhio's crass post is ill-timed and dismissive at best.\"\n\n\"We have to be better than this,\" she added.\n\nBut Judge O'Neill doubled down on his comments in a subsequent Facebook post.\n\n\"Lighten up folks,\" he scolded his critics.\n\n\"This is how Democrats remain in the minority.\"", "Scottish Labour's new leader Richard Leonard has said the party's MSPs will consider suspension for his predecessor Kezia Dugdale.\n\nMs Dugdale, still an MSP, has been revealed as a surprise contestant in ITV's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! programme.\n\nMr Leonard said he was a \"bit disappointed\" by her participation.\n\nMs Dugdale is understood to be donating her parliamentary salary to charity while she is on the show.\n\nMr Leonard said of a possible suspension for the former leader: \"I awoke as many other people did this morning to the news that Kezia is going into that programme.\n\n\"I think that is something the [parliamentary] group is going to have to consider over the next few days and I think we will consider.\"\n\nHowever, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he does not believe Ms Dugdale should be suspended from the party over her appearance on the programme.\n\nMr Leonard was answering questions about his predecessor shortly after his election to the position of Scottish leader.\n\nHe secured 56.7% of votes in the contest to beat his rival Anas Sarwar.\n\nFollowing his election, Mr Leonard said: \"With this new movement for real change, energised with this new generation helping to lead it. But founded on our old and enduring idealism too.\n\n\"That is the unity we can rally around, not simply a call for unity but around a renewed unity of purpose.\"\n\nHe added: \"So that our purpose today is not just elected a leader. My aim is to be the next Labour first minister of Scotland.\"\n\nMs Dugdale's decision to take part in the show has also been criticised by Scottish Labour MSP Jenny Marra, who tweeted: \"Election to parliament is a privilege to serve and represent people. It's not a shortcut to celebrity.\"\n\nMs Marra, the MSP for North-East Scotland, also questioned whether the announcement was an \"April Fool in November\".\n\nThe ITV show launches this weekend, with other contestants including Boris Johnson's father Stanley and former footballer Dennis Wise.\n\nAll the other celebrities heading for the jungle were announced on 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 Jenny Marra This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBoxer Amir Khan, Coronation Street's Jennie McAlpine footballer Jamie Vardy's wife Rebekah, The Saturdays singer Vanessa White and Hollyoaks actor Jamie Lomas will also be taking part.\n\nThe personalities will try to last three weeks with each other, and the local wildlife, in the camp.\n\nEarlier, Scottish Labour said it was not officially commenting on Ms Dugdale's last minute inclusion in the line-up, but a party source said it would be a \"fantastic opportunity\" for the MSP to talk about policies and Labour values on a widely watched show.\n\n\"She puts other politicians to shame with her work ethic and I'm sure there will be huge support for her from Scottish viewers while she's in the jungle.\n\n\"She'll be back in time for the budget and will get straight down to work once again for the people of the Lothians,\" the source added.\n\nThe rest of the contestants were announced earlier in the week\n\nAbout 10 million people tune in to the show every night.\n\nMs Dugdale stood down as Scottish Labour leader in August. Richard Leonard was appointed as her successor on Saturday.\n• None I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! 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. Stephen Hammond: Money in Budget 'for housing and health'\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond plans to use \"headroom\" in the public finances to target spending on housing and health, a close friend has told the BBC.\n\nStephen Hammond - a former transport minister - said the chancellor wants to use next Wednesday's Budget to \"attack problems\" that contributed to the Tories' poor election performance.\n\nThe chancellor said in March he had \"headroom\" - available cash - of £26bn.\n\nLabour says he needs to tackle what it calls the squeeze in living standards.\n\nThe chancellor will lay out the government's financial plans on 22 November.\n\nHe is also expected to call for evidence on whether a tax on the use of the most environmentally damaging single-use plastics, such as takeaway boxes and bubble wrap, would help tackle to problem of plastic waste.\n\nThe £26bn was dubbed a \"war chest\" - designed to help him navigate the economy through Brexit.\n\nStephen Hammond, who has known the chancellor for more than 20 years, told BBC Two's Newsnight that the chancellor was planning to use the Budget to reach out to voters who had abandoned the Tories.\n\nThe party lost its overall parliamentary majority in June's election, with voters in every age group up to their late 40s preferring Labour. Housing was cited as a key concern by younger voters.\n\nStephen Hammond told Newsnight: \"I think what the chancellor will be doing is saying, 'Look it would be silly to throw away all the good work we've done in getting down the deficit level, we're about to turn the corner on debt but yes of course I am listening.\n\n\"'In my autumn statement I created some headroom... and I will be looking at what... ways that headroom could be used to attack the problems that so many people have spoken to me about.'\"\n\nThe former transport minister predicted a strong focus on housing in the Budget.\n\n\"I am absolutely convinced that he'll be looking at some housing ideas.\n\n\"And there are some really creative ones about looking at loan guarantees for small builders and things in that sort of area. But also he knows that we need to build more social housing and affordable housing. I think he'll be looking at ways he can encourage that.\"\n\nNick Boles, a former housing minister, told Newsnight the Conservatives would be writing themselves out of the election script unless they do more to help people without mortgages.\n\nThe Financial Times reported last month that about two-thirds of the chancellor's \"war chest\" may have been wiped out in light of what Treasury officials described as a \"bloodbath\" in the public finances.\n\nThe warnings came on the eve of a report by the Office for Budget Responsibility highlighting poor productivity.\n\nAmid this background, Stephen Hammond predicted that the chancellor would not abandon his reputation as a cautious figure. He said the chancellor would not deviate from his fiscal rule which is to reduce the budget deficit to below 2% of national income by 2020-21.\n\nThe former minister said: \"It's a bit like running a marathon getting to the last half mile and saying, oh hell - I'll turn round and go back to the start. Philip isn't going to do that.\n\n\"It would be absolutely madness to give up on getting the economy and the finances back into a good shape.\"\n\nAnneliese Dodds, the shadow financial secretary to the Treasury, said the chancellor should outline ambitious plans to tackle income inequality. A government source said the chancellor would adopt a balanced approach on his Budget.\n• None The Budget: What we know already", "Capt Mike Green was described as a 'respected' helicopter instructor\n\nOne of the victims of a mid-air crash between a helicopter and a plane was Capt Mike Green, his employer has confirmed.\n\nFour men were killed in Friday's crash at Waddesdon Estate, near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire. There were no survivors.\n\nCapt Mike Green was conducting a flight instructor course with a student when they both died, Helicopter Services said on Facebook.\n\nThe firm said it was \"devastated\".\n\nIt added: \"We have received many messages of support and kind words about our friend who, as a senior instructor and examiner, helped and mentored so many pilots throughout the industry during his distinguished career.\n\n\"It was an honour to work with you. Captain Green, you will be greatly missed.\"\n\nCapt Green's friend, Capt Phil Croucher, said he was a \"respected helicopter instructor who will be remembered with affection\".\n\n\"It's a sad loss. We have lost somebody with a vast amount of experience that could have been passed on to younger people, apart from him being a nice guy generally,\" he told the Press Association.\n\nThree of the victims' families visited the site of the wreckage scattered across a wooded area, on Saturday, Thames Valley Police said.\n\nInvestigations at the site, conducted by police and the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) are expected to continue for several days.\n\nSupt Rebecca Mears said it was \"too early to tell\" what might have caused the crash.\n\n\"With the ongoing support of emergency services, work is continuing to recover the men's bodies. We anticipate that this will happen by the end of the day,\" she added.\n\nBoth aircraft involved in the crash were from Wycombe Air Park\n\nThe helicopter and the Cessna plane both took off from Wycombe Air Park, also known as Booker Airfield, which offers flight training.\n\nIt is about 20 miles (30km) from the site of the crash. Emergency services were called shortly after midday on Friday.\n\nPolice said the priority was giving information to the victims' next of kin.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Critics say the tech behind driverless cars still needs a lot of work\n\nDriverless cars could be on UK roads within four years under government plans to invest in the sector.\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond told the BBC the objective was to have \"fully driverless cars\" without a safety attendant on board in use by 2021.\n\n\"Some would say that's a bold move, but we have to embrace these technologies if we want the UK to lead the next industrial revolution,\" he said.\n\nHowever, the chancellor admitted he had yet to use a driverless car himself.\n\n\"I'm promised to go in one when we visit the West Midlands tomorrow,\" he told the BBC's Andrew Marr show.\n\nMr Hammond is due to announce regulation changes in Wednesday's Budget which will allow developers to apply to test driverless vehicles on UK roads.\n\nAsked about the potential loss of jobs for drivers, he said the country could not \"hide from change\" and the government had to equip people with the skills \"to take up new careers\".\n\nThe chancellor admitted he had yet to experience a driverless car himself\n\nThe chancellor is also expected to detail proposals to build 300,000 new homes in the UK a year, as well as extra money for NHS nurses' pay.\n\nMr Hammond's announcement comes after the UK's biggest car manufacturer, Jaguar Land Rover, began testing driverless cars on public roads.\n\nThe trials, which rely on sensors that allow the cars to detect traffic, pedestrians and signals, took place in Coventry city centre over several weeks.\n\nJaguar said a human was on board to react to emergencies.\n\nThe government said the industry would be worth £28bn to the UK economy by 2035 and will support 27,000 jobs.\n\nLabour quipped that under the Tories it would not only be the cars with no-one in the driving seat.\n\nCritics have warned the technology necessary for driverless cars to succeed is a long way from being ready.\n\nFormer Top Gear host and now Grand Tour presenter Jeremy Clarkson said he was recently in a self-driving car which made two mistakes which could have killed him in just 50miles.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Times magazine, Mr Clarkson said the incidents convinced him the technology was still \"a very long way off\", adding: \"For now, we're miles away from it.\"\n\nIn the Budget, Mr Hammond is also expected to announce:\n\nFunding for 5G technology will go towards the National Cyber Security Centre to ensure the security of the mobile network, as well as testing on roads to help provide the network needed for driverless cars.\n\nA further £35m will be used to give rail passengers reliable mobile connections and \"lightning-speed\" internet during journeys. Trials are due to begin on the Trans-Pennine route, which connects Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool.\n\nLabour shadow chancellor John McDonnell said the Budget needed to show a \"genuine, decisive change of course\" and not \"empty promises\".", "The girlfriend of a British motorcyclist killed in a crash at the Macau Grand Prix in China has said she has been left heartbroken by his death.\n\nDaniel Hegarty, 31, from Nottingham, died from his injuries before arriving at hospital.\n\nThe Macau Grand Prix committee said the accident happened at Fishermen's Bend on Saturday morning and shared its \"deepest sympathies\" with his family.\n\nLucy Draycott said on Facebook that Mr Hegarty was the \"love of my life\".\n\nThe motorcyclist, who raced for Top Gun Racing Honda, came off his bike at a sharp bend during the sixth lap and was flung into barriers, losing his helmet and sustaining fatal injuries.\n\nTributes have been paid to the rider from Nottingham\n\nThe race was red flagged and did not restart while the rider was treated.\n\nMiss Draycott, from East Bridgford, posted on social media: \"It is with a broken heart to tell you that the love of my life passed away this morning.\n\n\"I just need time to take in what has happened and would appreciate if people could just be patient with me and wait for contact.\"\n\nJoe Hegarty, the motorcyclist's brother, thanked people on Twitter for their \"nice comments\" following news of his death.\n\nFormula 3 motor racing champion Lando Norris tweeted: \"Awful news. Rest In Peace Daniel Hegarty. Thoughts and prayers with your family and friends in this tough time...\"\n\nDaniel Hegarty had raced at North West 200 and Ulster Grand Prix\n\nMotorcycling photographer Alastair McCook tweeted that Mr Hegarty was a \"fantastic talent\" and \"all round nice guy\".\n\nHe said: \"He was a rider I always admired and enjoyed watching. My sincere sympathies to his family, friends & team.\"\n\nBroadcaster TDM said the last time a rider died at the Macau race was in 2012 when Portuguese Luis Carreira crashed at the same bend.\n\nIt said Mr Hegarty was the 16th person to die on the Circuito da Gula since the Macau race's debut in 1954.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Wales\n\nChris Coleman has left his job as Wales manager to take over at Championship club Sunderland.\n\nColeman will succeed Simon Grayson, who was sacked after 18 games in charge.\n\nThe Football Association of Wales (FAW) confirmed: \"Regretfully, Chris Coleman has resigned from his position with immediate effect.\"\n\nEx-defender Coleman, 47, succeeded the late Gary Speed in 2012 and guided them to an historic appearance at Euro 2016, where they reached the semi-finals.\n\nDisappointment followed as Wales failed to reach the 2018 World Cup finals in Russia.\n\nColeman's assistant Kit Symons has also left his role of Wales coach.\n\nEx-Wales winger Ryan Giggs and West Bromwich Albion's Welsh manager Tony Pulis were among bookmakers' early favourites to succeed Coleman.\n• None Sunderland would be better off in League One - Jenas\n\nFAW chief executive Jonathan Ford said: \"We are extremely disappointed to see Chris' tenure as Wales manager come to an end.\n\n\"The FAW and Wales as a nation will be eternally grateful for the job he has done over the last six years as national team manager, from travelling the length and breadth of Wales outside of the media spotlight to talk to players and supporters, to guiding us to the semi-finals of the European Championships.\n\nIt is understood the Football Association of Wales made significant improvements in their offers to Coleman on Friday and were ready to accede to his demands over backroom staff\n\n\"We wish Chris the very best of luck for the future as he returns to club management, a desire for which he has always been honest and open about.\"\n\nAfter Wales' qualifying campaign for the 2018 tournament ended in defeat by the Republic of Ireland, Coleman's last two games in charge were a 2-0 loss to France and 1-1 home draw against Panama in November, 2017.\n\nNegotiations between Coleman and the FAW continued after the game against the Central Americans.\n\nThose talks ended with Coleman leaving. He had often spoken about hoping to return to the day-to-day demands of club management amid a career that has included being in charge of Fulham in the Premier League.\n\nEx-Wales defender Danny Gabbidon told BBC Sport Wales: \"I'm gutted, really disappointed. I know all the fans will be, the players will be as well.\n\n\"I know how much they thought of the manager - he was more than just a manager.\n\n\"There was a kind of player relationship between the squad and the manager so they'll be gutted hearing that news as well.\"\n\nColeman's reign began with Wales 48th in Fifa's world rankings and it ends with them in 14th place.\n\nHe will take over at Sunderland, who are bottom of the Championship with one win, seven draws and eight defeats so far this season.\n\nSunderland are aiming to confirm a deal with Coleman by Sunday.\n\nThere is an expectation at the Stadium of Light he will be in charge for their away game against Aston Villa on Tuesday night.\n\nDespite speculation over Northern Ireland boss Michael O'Neill, Coleman was the club's number one target and no offers were made to other candidates.\n\nColeman wanted the FAW to employ head of performance Ryland Morgans and psychologist Ian Mitchell on full-time contracts.\n\nThe FAW also offered to spend £500,000 on upgrading training facilities.", "The US Fish and Wildlife Service argues hunting \"will enhance the survival of the African elephant\"\n\nPresident Donald Trump has suspended the import of elephant hunting trophies, only a day after a ban was relaxed by his administration.\n\nImports of trophies from elephants legally hunted in Zambia and Zimbabwe had been set to resume, reversing a 2014 Obama-era ban.\n\nBut late on Friday, President Trump tweeted the change was on hold until he could \"review all conservation facts\".\n\nThe move to relax the ban had sparked immediate anger from animal activists.\n\n\"Your shameful actions confirm the rumours that you are unfit for office,\" said French actress and animal-rights activist Brigitte Bardot in a letter to President Trump.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 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\nProtests spread on social media with many sharing images of President Trump's sons posing with dead animals during their hunting trips in Africa.\n\nOne photo of Donald Trump Jr shows him holding the amputated tail of a dead elephant.\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 US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) had argued that hunting fees could aid conservation of the endangered animals.\n\nExperts say that populations of African elephants are plummeting.\n\nTheir numbers dropped by about 30% from 2007-14, according to the 2016 Great Elephant Census.\n\nThe non-profit group's report found a population drop of 6% in Zimbabwe alone.\n\nDespite their listing under the Endangered Species Act, there is a provision in US law that allows permits to import animal parts if there is sufficient evidence that the fees generated will actually benefit species conservation.\n\nIn 2015 a US dentist from Minnesota killed a famous lion named Cecil in Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park.\n\nCecil's death triggered an outrage in the US and Zimbabwe, and briefly forced the hunter into hiding.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Rebecca Morelle: \"The black market is growing and growing\"", "A video purporting to show a touching moment in the aftermath of the Iranian earthquake seemingly isn't what it seems.", "The woman was found dead in a house on Hill Road, Muswell Hill\n\nA woman has been found stabbed to death in north London, sparking a murder investigation.\n\nThe woman, who is believed to be aged in her 50s, was discovered inside the property on Hill Road in Muswell Hill on Thursday evening.\n\nScotland Yard said they had visited the address after concerns were raised about her wellbeing.\n\nA post-mortem examination found she died of stab wounds. No-one has been arrested and witnesses are sought.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Malcolm Young (right) and his brother Angus (left) were driving forces behind the international success of AC/DC\n\nAustralian guitarist and AC/DC co-founder Malcolm Young has died aged 64 after a long battle with dementia.\n\nHe died peacefully on Saturday with his family nearby, a statement said.\n\nYoung will be remembered for his powerful rhythm guitar riffs that were instrumental in propelling the Sydney heavy rock group to stardom.\n\nThree Young brothers have been part of AC/DC's history, including lead guitarist Angus. Producer George Young died in October.\n\n\"Renowned for his musical prowess, Malcolm was a songwriter, guitarist, performer, producer and visionary who inspired many,\" the statement read.\n\n\"From the outset, he knew what he wanted to achieve and, along with his younger brother, took to the world stage giving their all at every show. Nothing less would do for their fans.\"\n\nAC/DC are one of the biggest heavy rock bands in the world\n\nFans and friends of Young have been posting their tributes to the popular musician on social media.\n\nTom Morello, of the US band Rage Against the Machine, tweeted his thanks to the \"#1 greatest rhythm guitarist\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tom Morello This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEnglish rock star David Coverdale, a member of the band Whitesnake and former lead singer of Deep Purple, also offered his \"thoughts and prayers\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by David Coverdale This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 forming AC/DC in 1973, Angus and Malcolm Young were credited as co-writers on every song the band recorded between their 1975 debut High Voltage through to 2014's Rock or Bust.\n\nMalcolm was born in 1953 in Glasgow before his family emigrated to Australia when he was 10.\n\nHis family confirmed he was suffering from dementia in 2014.\n\nHe wrote much of the material that enabled AC/DC to become one of the biggest heavy rock bands and singer Brian Johnson has described him as the band's \"spiritual leader, our spitfire\".\n\nTheir biggest hits include Back in Black, Highway to Hell, and You Shook Me All Night Long. The group is estimated to have sold more than 200 million records worldwide, including 71.5 million albums in the US.\n\nA statement by Angus Young on the AC/DC website praises Malcolm's \"enormous dedication and commitment\" which made him \"the driving force behind the band\" who \"always stuck to his guns and did and said exactly what he wanted\".\n\n\"As his brother it is hard to express in words what he has meant to me during my life, the bond we had was unique and very special. He leaves behind an enormous legacy that will live on forever.\n\nMalcolm Young was never the star attraction of AC/DC's live shows. That honour went to his younger brother, Angus, dressed like a schoolboy and duck-walking across the stage like Chuck Berry.\n\nBut Malcolm gave the band their backbone. He wrote brutally efficient riffs and played them with concentrated ferocity, proving you don't need to rifle through 127 notes to be effective. And, while AC/DC rarely strayed from the template they set on Highway To Hell and Back in Black, those guitar lines inspired generations, from Metallica's James Hetfield to Guns N' Roses' Izzy Stradlin.\n\nOne of the reasons for Malcolm's songwriting economy was that he didn't much enjoy the process of making records. \"Being in the studio is like being in prison,\" he said in 1988.\n\nYet he took great care over AC/DC's sound, stripping out unnecessary flourishes and, unusually, playing with his amp turned down so the microphone could pick out the details.\n\nStill, it was concerts that got his blood racing. \"There's nothing like playing on stage,\" he said. \"If it's a good night, it's just like the first night. Same buzz. Same excitement.\"\n\nThat made his final tour with AC/DC all the more tragic. As his dementia progressed, the guitarist found himself unable to remember the riffs to songs like Hell's Bells and You Shook Me All Night Long, having to relearn them for every show.", "Will John (Peter Kay) and Kayleigh (Sian Gibson) finally have a happy ending?\n\nFans of Peter Kay's sitcom Car Share thought it had ended for good - but the comedian has announced there will be two more episodes.\n\nKay said he wanted to \"quit while you're ahead\" after series two ended earlier this year.\n\nBut he's announced a \"special finale\" to show what happened between John, his character, and Sian Gibson's Kayleigh.\n\nIt will follow Car Show Unscripted, an improvised episode. Both will be screened on BBC One next year.\n\nGibson and Kay revealed the plans on Children In Need\n\nThe second series ended in May with Kayleigh declaring her love for John but walking out of his car and his life when he refused to say how he felt.\n\nThe lack of a twist bringing the two characters together at last surprised and disappointed many viewers who had convinced themselves the show was building up to the perfect romantic finish.\n\n\"People have been very angry that the series ended in that way,\" Kay said.\n\n\"But [now] there is a series finale explaining what happened the next day, after the big argument.\n\n\"We've also done another episode called Car Share Unscripted, which is half an hour of us basically making the script up and improvising. It's nothing to do with the story - just us having a laugh.\"\n\nAfter the series ended, he said there would be no third series or Christmas specials because he was worried about running out of ideas.\n\n\"There's only so much you can do in a car and the last thing you want to do is ruin it, because I think it's a lovely thing,\" he said.\n\nKay announced the new episodes on Children In Need on BBC One on Friday.\n\nHe has long been a supporter of the charity, fronting a fund-raising single that went to number one in 2009. This year, he has raised more than £633,000 by auctioning 100 tickets to an intimate live show in Blackpool.\n\nCar Share won two Bafta TV Awards in 2016 - best scripted comedy and best male performance in a comedy programme for Kay.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Mr Tusk said progress on citizens' rights had not been mirrored in other areas\n\nTheresa May has been told she has two weeks to put more money on the table if the EU is to agree to begin Brexit trade talks before the end of the year.\n\nEU Council President Donald Tusk said he was \"ready\" to move onto the next phase of Brexit talks, covering future relations with the UK.\n\nBut he said the UK must show much more progress on the \"divorce bill\" and the Irish border by early next month.\n\nMrs May said \"good progress\" was being made but more needed to be done.\n\nThe talks are currently deadlocked over the UK's financial settlement, citizens' rights and Ireland with Irish PM Leo Varadkar accusing the UK of not \"thinking through\" the implications of Brexit for his country.\n\nA week ago, the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier informed his UK counterpart David Davis he had a fortnight to spell out in more detail what he was prepared to pay the EU to \"settle its accounts\" and to clarify how trade between the Republic and Northern Ireland and security across the 310 mile border would be preserved after the UK leaves the single market and customs union.\n\nAfter holding talks with Mrs May on the margins of a jobs summit in Sweden, Mr Tusk repeated the message, saying \"much more\" progress was needed on these two issues if he was to recommend to EU leaders at their next meeting on 14 December to give the green light to the next phase of talks.\n\nHe said he would meet Mrs May in a week's time to assess progress but warned time was running out for a breakthrough before the end of 2017.\n\n\"We will be ready to move on to the second phase already in December,\" he said.\n\n\"But in order to do that we need to see more progress from the UK side.\n\nThe UK needs the approval of all 27 EU nations if it is to begin the next phase of talks\n\n\"If there is not sufficient progress by then, I will be ... not be in a position to propose new guidelines on transition and the future relationship at the December European Council....I made it very clear to the Prime Minister May that this progress needs to happen at the beginning of December at the latest.\"\n\nBefore leaving the event in Gothenburg, Mrs May said that the two sides had to \"work together\" to reach a point where the EU believed sufficient progress had been made to open up trade discussions.\n\nShe rejected claims that the talks were in limbo and restated her priority was to talk as soon as possible about her goal of a future \"deep and special\" trade and economic partnership.\n\n\"We're clear and I'm clear that what we need to do is move forwards together,\" she said.\n\nThe UK has said it will honour its existing financial obligations by ensuring no EU nation is worse off during the current budgetary period ending in 2020, a sum reported to be in the region of £20bn.\n\nBut the EU wants the UK to go further and contribute to what they say are longer-term liabilities, such as regional development spending and pension payments for British officials working for the EU and retired staff.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Davis: \"Nothing comes for nothing\" in negotiations\n\nAsked whether Mrs May had to stump up more money to pave the way for trade talks, Swedish PM Stefan Lovren said Britain \"needs to clarify what they mean by their financial responsibility\".\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron said the unified position agreed by all 27 other EU members earlier this year had not changed and talks on future relations would not commence \"until the divorce has been settled\".\n\nMr Varadkar, who also held a bilateral meeting with his British counterpart, said he was prepared to wait until next year for \"further concessions\" from the UK in a number of areas.\n\nHe said he wanted binding guarantees that there would be no physical checks at the border after the UK leaves in March 2019, dismissing as inadequate verbal assurances that technological advances will help ensure the continued free and safe movement of people.\n\n\"What we want to take off the table before talking about trade is the idea that there would be any hard border, physical border, or border resembling the past in Ireland,\" said the Irish PM.\n\n\"I think it would be in all of our interests that we proceed to phase two in December,\" he added.\n\n\"But it's 18 months since the referendum. Sometimes it doesn't seem like they've thought all of this through.\"\n\nSome Tory MPs believe the UK should flex its muscles and walk away from the talks unless the EU is more accommodating, arguing the EU has as much to lose as the UK from not agreeing a trade deal.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA carnival mood has engulfed Zimbabwe's capital, Harare. Zimbabweans poured out to the streets carrying flags and placards to celebrate Wednesday's military takeover.\n\nPresident Robert Mugabe is under intense pressure to resign. But nothing has been heard from the 93-year-old since he appeared at a university graduation on Friday.\n\n\"We want to tell President Mugabe, it is time to rest,\" Chipo tells us as she continues celebrating with her friends near Freedom Square. \"This is a new Zimbabwe, and freedom has finally come,\" she adds.\n\nSuch a public display of defiance against the president would have been unthinkable before the military intervention.\n\nZimbabweans have been queuing to take pictures with the soldiers\n\nCrowds erupt into celebration at the sight of military vehicles and soldiers.\n\n\"They have given us our second independence,\" shouts a man from a crowd surging towards an armoured personnel carrier.\n\nThe crowds sing songs praising the military and its chief, Gen Constantino Chiwenga. Some carry placards featuring the general's portrait and that of the former Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who was fired last week after a feud with First Lady Grace Mugabe.\n\nNegotiations are going on behind the scenes to persuade President Mugabe to step down.\n\nIt is understood that he has insisted that he cannot do so and legitimise a coup.\n\nThe military maintains this is not a coup and there is international pressure to use constitutional means to resolve the political crisis. Negotiators are poring through Zimbabwe's laws to find a legal way out.\n\nMugabe's name and pictures have been taken down, stamped upon, torn\n\nSaturday's call for civilians to take to the streets looks choreographed to lend some legitimacy to the transition process being discussed.\n\nPresident Mugabe's support base has continued to crumble. Independence war veterans who fought alongside him against colonial rule have also been meeting in Harare. They, too, have called on their former leader to leave.\n\nBut the biggest blow yet to Mr Mugabe could be delivered by the central committee of the ruling Zanu-PF on Sunday.\n\nState television, ZBC, reported that eight out of 10 provinces of the party have passed a vote of no confidence in the president. Sunday's meeting is expected to ratify their decision, a move that could see Robert Mugabe dismissed as party leader.\n\nBack on the streets in the capital, car horns have been blaring all day as a few daring drivers attempt stunts amid cheers from spectators.\n\nThe feeling of freedom is palpable. There is a sense that Mr Mugabe's 37-year rule is coming to an end.\n\nThe majority of those in the streets are young people who have only ever known him as their leader, like 31-year-old Rachel, who took her children aged nine months and four years to Freedom Square. \"I'm happy that she (pointing at the younger child strapped on her back) will grow up knowing a new president, not the one I've known all my life.\"\n\n\"We want change,\" says another young woman. \"It doesn't matter what change, we just want it.\"\n\nAs celebrations continue into the night, it appears not much thought has been given to life after Robert Mugabe.\n\nBut there is growing consensus that the 93-year-old man has overstayed his welcome.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why is Zimbabwe in such a bad way?", "Scotland are still awaiting a first win over New Zealand after a dramatic 22-17 loss at Murrayfield.\n\nTries from Codie Taylor and Damian McKenzie early in the second half put the world champions in command.\n\nJonny Gray thundered over for Scotland, but Beauden Barrett scampered away to stretch the All Blacks' lead.\n\nHuw Jones raced clear for a converted try and in the last minute Stuart Hogg was denied by a superb cover tackle from Barrett when heading for the line.\n\nThe outstanding Hogg was racing towards the left corner for a try that would have tied the scores with a conversion attempt to come, but Barrett caught the full-back, who lost the ball forward as he attempted an offload.\n\nThe five-point defeat is the closest Scotland have come to beating New Zealand since the sides drew 25-25 at Murrayfield in 1983.\n\nThis was always going to be a momentous occasion but the emotion was ratcheted up further when former Scotland lock Doddie Weir and his three sons brought out the match ball before kick-off, Murrayfield rising as one to greet the former Lion, who has motor neurone disease.\n\nIt was a searing moment and it lent Murrayfield a power that Scotland fed off. There was a ferocity about Gregor Townsend's team, an accuracy in possession and a tempo that denied New Zealand the kind of easy ball they've been used to when they come here.\n\nThe visitors conceded five penalties in the first 20 minutes and seven in the first 30. Scotland competed brilliantly at the breakdown, Hamish Watson and John Barclay frustrating the All Blacks and refusing to let them to settle into their murderous rhythm.\n\nFinn Russell put Scotland ahead with the boot and that lead stayed intact through two dangerous bouts of New Zealand pressure, the first ending not with the breakthrough try that looked as if it was imminent but with a Barrett forward pass to Ryan Crotty, and the second when Scotland survived a New Zealand scrum five metres from their line.\n\nBy then, flanker Watson - who had been playing outstandingly - had become the first of the casualties and was replaced by Luke Hamilton on debut.\n\nJust before the half-hour, Waisake Naholo took Hogg out in the air but the officials decided it merited no more than a penalty.\n\nJust when it seemed Scotland might become for the first side to keep New Zealand scoreless in an opening half of a Test since England did it five years ago, Barrett levelled with a penalty. The injuries were now mounting for the hosts, Zander Fagerson joining Watson in the treatment room, and the replacement Hamilton following too.\n\nThe All Blacks had the lead at that point, Rieko Ioane and Taylor starting and then finishing a move that made it 8-3. Two minutes later, a Sonny Bill Williams grubber put McKenzie in for New Zealand's second score, converted by Barrett. That stretched the lead to 15-3.\n\nGeorge Turner, the hooker, had come on for Hamilton, with Stuart McInally reverting to his old position in the back row, as Townsend patched his team together in the hope of keeping the game alive. They were immense against the odds.\n\nSam Cane was sin-binned as Scotland piled on the pressure, Gray barging over from close range for a try that electrified Murrayfield. When Russell put over the conversion, it was a five-point game again.\n\nRemarkably, with a makeshift front-row of Jamie Bhatti, George Turner and Simon Berghan, and a hooker playing open-side, Scotland were still alive.\n\nThe hope appeared to die when the All Blacks kicked for home, Williams delivering a magnificent offload to McKenzie, who cut a beautiful angle and put Barrett away to touch down.\n\nThe gap was 12 points with the conversion but still Scotland came again, New Zealand cynically killing ball in their own 22 and getting a second yellow for their trouble, Wyatt Crockett the culprit.\n\nThe thunder carried on to the death with New Zealand unable to shake off the Scots. Hogg, magnificent all day, put through a gorgeously weighted grubber up the right wing and Tommy Seymour got to it first to unload to centre Jones, who ran away to score.\n\nThere were three minutes left when Russell walloped over the conversion to put Scotland within a converted try of one of the greatest days in their rugby history.\n\nHogg then went on an arcing run into the New Zealand 22 and in that moment you believed, for a second, that the miracle was about to happen.\n\nBut Barrett had sensed the danger and had the pace to cover across. Hogg's attempted pass bobbled forward in was the final play of a brilliant but agonising day.\n\nReplacements: 16-George Turner (for Hamilton, 50), 17-Jamie Bhatti (for Marfo, 59), 18-Simon Berghan (for Fagerson, 41), 19-Grant Gilchrist (for Toolis, 59), 20-Luke Hamilton (for Watson, 27), 21-Henry Pyrgos (for Price, 76), 22-Pete Horne (for Dunbar, 47), 23-Byron McGuigan (for L Jones, 69).\n\nReplacements: 16-Nathan Harris (for Taylor, 75), 17-Wyatt Crockett (for Hames, 52), 18-Ofa Tu'ungafasi (for Laulala, 59), 19-Liam Squire (on for Romano, 47), 20-Matt Todd (for Cane, 75), 21-TJ Perenara (for Smith, 65), 22-Lima Sopoaga (for Naholo, 75), 23-Anton Lienert-Brown (for Williams, 69).", "Bletchley Park is host to a centre developing cyber-based lessons for school pupils\n\nA £20m initiative to get schoolchildren interested in cyber-security has been launched by the UK government.\n\nThe Cyber Discovery programme is aimed at 14 to 18-year-olds and involves online and offline challenges themed around battling hackers.\n\nIt is one of several programmes trying to build interest in security work and help fill a looming skills gap.\n\nOne industry expert said a broad strategy would be needed to address the widening gap.\n\nThe free Cyber Discovery programme aims to \"encourage the best young minds into cyber-security\", said Karen Bradley, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, in a statement.\n\nYoung people interested will be asked to enrol via an online assessment and the best performers in that test will then be put through a \"comprehensive curriculum\" that helps familiarise them with cyber-security work.\n\nIt mixes online challenges with face-to-face learning, role-playing and real-world technical challenges, said James Lyne, head of research and development at the Sans Institute, who helped draw up the programme. Extracurricular clubs will also be set up as part of the project that will be run by mentors who help participants take the skills they learn further.\n\nWork needs to be done to remove the stigma from hackers, say experts\n\nIt is one of several UK initiatives aimed at galvanising interest in security work among young people.\n\nThe organisation behind the Cyber Security Challenge, which runs lots of programmes seeking adult security workers, has one that is specifically aimed at schools. Called the Cyber Games, it is a series of competitions held around the UK that puts pupils through a variety of cyber-themed challenges and activities.\n\nAnother developed by Qufaro, a cyber-training college at Bletchley Park, is an add-on to the existing ICT curriculum that is centred on computer security.\n\nBudgie Dhanda, head of Qufaro, said the lessons and projects it has drawn up form an Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) that pupils can study alongside their A/S levels. EPQs are available in many subjects, said Mr Dhanda, and let pupils explore a subject in greater detail than they would in the classroom.\n\n\"There are a lot of different modules in it that cover the spectrum of cyber-functions and capabilities the industry requires,\" he said.\n\nProfessional services firm Deloitte has pledged to pay the fees of any students who take on the cyber EPQ in 2017-18.\n\nPhil Everson, head of cyber-risk at Deloitte, said it had decided to back Qufaro entrants in a bid to help plug the skills gap.\n\n\"There's already significant global demand for cyber-talent across the world,\" he said. \"And there are not enough skilled people to meet that demand.\"\n\nOne industry estimate suggests there will be more than 3 million unfilled jobs in the cyber-security industry by 2021.\n\n\"We want to try to give the younger generation who have grown up with the internet an awareness of security and its implications,\" he said. \"The course is about foundational skills and abilities.\"\n\nThe UK's National Crime Agency has sought to divert young cyber-offenders into security jobs\n\nFilling the growing skills gap in the cyber-security industry needed a three-pronged approach, said industry veteran Ian Glover who heads the Crest organisation that certifies people who carry out security work.\n\nMore could be done to tap into the \"latent pool\" of technical expertise among people who already work with computers, he said, but currently handle lower-level administrative functions rather than coding or forensics.\n\n\"There are a lot of people who have 50% of the core skills they would need to work in cyber-security,\" he said. \"Short conversion courses could quickly help them add to their skill set and swap that admin job for one on a security team,\" said Mr Glover.\n\nIn addition, he said, there were plenty of other graduates that could quickly put expertise in other areas, such as international studies, to use in roles such as threat intelligence.\n\nThe final, and most long-term element involved getting school pupils interested in the field, he said, but it had to be sure to give them a rounded view of the industry.\n\n\"If you can get them interested in technology that's great,\" he said, \"but you need to be able to describe the range of roles there are in cyber-security and the benefits of being in the industry because it's an awesome place to be.\"\n\nJust as important, he said, was changing the negative associations with the word \"hacker\".\n\n\"The perception is there that hacking is bad,\" he said. \"We need to change the language around it and provide guidance to young people to articulate what is meant by a job or career in this space.\"", "The suspected meteor was said to cause buildings to shake when it raced through the sky in Lapland.", "A tax on takeaway boxes is to be considered in an attempt to tackle the problem of plastic waste.\n\nIn Wednesday's Budget, Chancellor Philip Hammond is expected to call for evidence on whether a tax on the use of the most environmentally damaging single-use plastics would help.\n\nMeanwhile, Stephen Hammond, a close friend of the chancellor, has told the BBC the chancellor wants to use the Budget to \"attack problems\" that contributed to the Tories' poor election performance.\n\nHe plans to use \"headroom\" in the public finances to target spending on housing and health, the former transport minister told Newsnight.\n\nThe Treasury said the work on a potential plastic tax would examine the lifecycle of single-use plastics.\n\nIt did not suggest the investigation would include plastic bottles, which can be recycled, although in practice many also end up in land-fill or the sea.\n\nHowever, the government has already said it would consider whether to introduce a \"reward and return\" scheme for plastic bottles to try to improve recycling rates.\n\nThe Treasury said the amount of single-use plastic wasted every year in the UK would fill London's Royal Albert Hall 1,000 times, and cited the success of the 5p charge on plastic bags to illustrate the feasibility of a levy.\n\nBirds, sea mammals and turtles die from consuming or becoming tangled in plastic waste.\n\nSir David Attenborough recently described the \"heartbreaking\" sight of an albatross feeding plastic to its young chick instead of fish.\n\nSue Kinsey, senior pollution policy officer at the Marine Conservation Society, said plastic was a \"complete menace\" in the marine environment.\n\n\"It takes a long time to break down and it's almost indigestible if animals eat it.\n\n\"The real danger is that animals are starving to death with stomachs full of plastic.\"\n\nTisha Brown, oceans campaigner for Greenpeace UK, said the move \"recognises the significance of the problem and the urgent need for a solution.\"\n\nBut shadow environment secretary Sue Hayman criticised the government for \"warm words\" on the environment while underfunding services and failing to enshrine EU protections in UK law.\n\nShe said: \"While we support initiatives to decrease the use of non-recyclable materials, the slump in recycling figures and significant increase in litter and dumped rubbish under this government requires a far more strategic approach.\"\n\nThe call for evidence is expected to be launched in early 2018.", "The MPs argue that only a cross-party approach can deliver a sustainable settlement\n\nNinety MPs have signed a letter calling on the prime minister to set up a cross-party convention on the future of the NHS and social care in England.\n\nThey say a non-partisan debate is needed to deliver a \"sustainable settlement\".\n\nThe letter to Theresa May and Chancellor Philip Hammond said patients were being \"failed\" by the system.\n\nA government spokesperson said it was \"committed\" to making the sector sustainable.\n\nThe government had already provided an additional £2bn to social care over the next three years, the spokesperson added.\n\nOne-third of the MPs who have signed the letter are Conservative.\n\nThey include Sarah Wollaston, chair of the health select committee, former education secretary Nicky Morgan and Andrew Mitchell, a minister under the last government.\n\nTories George Freeman, former policy adviser to Mrs May and Sir Nicholas Soames, are other signatories.\n\nAmong the Liberal Democrats to have signed are Sir Vince Cable, Sir Ed Davey, Tim Farron and Norman Lamb.\n\nA similar initiative with a much smaller group of MPs, including Ms Wollaston and Mr Lamb, was launched earlier in the year. The heads of three commons select committees also demanded \"swift\" action. This resulted in a meeting with Downing Street officials.\n\nThe latest letter, now backed by a broader range of senior parliamentarians, said the general election had interrupted these plans.\n\n\"The need for action is greater now than ever,\" it said.\n\nMPs told Mr Hammond and Mrs May that people needing care were \"too often failed\"\n\nThe letter argued that only a cross-party NHS and social care convention - a forum for non-partisan debate - could deliver a sustainable settlement for these services where conventional politics had failed to do so.\n\n\"We understand that fixing this is immensely challenging and involves difficult choices,\" the MPs said.\n\n\"We all recognise, though, that patients and those needing care are too often failed by a system under considerable strain.\"\n\nThe letter urges the government to address short-term pressure in the health system in next week's Budget - and to establish a cross-party process to work out longer term solutions.\n\nCouncils have complained that the government has not given them enough money to plug shortfalls in social care funding.\n\nA growing older population, and greater demand for care and nursing homes, has put pressure on local authorities.\n\nThe government said MPs were already going to be consulted on social care, ahead of it publishing a green paper policy statement next year.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"We have announced a cross-government green paper on care and support for older people with input from a group of independent experts.\n\n\"We recognise that there is broad agreement across parliament that reform for social care is a priority and look forward to hearing a range of views.\"\n\nBut Niall Dickson, chief executive of the NHS Confederation, which represents organisations across the healthcare system, said promises to reform funding were being \"kicked down the road\".\n\nHe said: \"The government promised reform before the election, then said there would be a green paper before Christmas.\n\n\"Now it has been put off until summer next year - and even then we are not being promised firm commitments.\"", "The head of a grammar school at the centre of a row about pupils being forced to leave before their A-levels has resigned.\n\nAydin Önaç, headmaster of St Olave's Grammar School in Orpington, south-east London, will leave his post at Christmas, a letter to parents said.\n\nMr Önaç was suspended by the school's governing body last month.\n\nParents began legal action over the A-level exclusions but the school later backed down and let the pupils return.\n\nSt Olave's is one of England's top-performing grammar schools, with pupils selected on academic ability.\n\nIn September, a group of sixth-formers who did not get high enough grades at AS-level were told they would not be allowed to return to do their A-levels.\n\nIn the letter to parents, sent late on Friday afternoon, acting head Andrew Rees said the headmaster was departing for \"personal reasons\".\n\n\"He leaves, with great sadness, a school which is now regarded as one of the nation's most outstanding schools and one in which parents and pupils can have great pride and confidence.\n\n\"Mr Önaç would like to thank all those governors, staff, parents and students who have supported him over the last seven years and extends his very best wishes to them for the future.\"\n\nParent Andrew Gebbett, who has two sons at the school, expressed relief at Mr Önaç's decision to leave.\n\n\"The school can now move on,\" he said.\n\nSt Olave's was at the centre of a controversy over pupils being removed from the school before A-levels\n\nDebbie Hills, chair of the school's parents' association, who remained in post despite her son deciding to leave after being among those excluded, described the resignation as \"a first step to it being put right\".\n\nThe parents' association first sought Mr Önaç's resignation at a meeting in September.\n\nAnother parent in a similar position said: \"There will be a lot of people who will be breaking open bottles of champagne tonight.\"\n\nThe parent, who asked not to be named, said it was appropriate that the school's motto was \"'to right the wrong' - and that's what's been done\".\n\nTony Wright-Jones, a parent and former governor of the school, said: \"We want to know as parents and governors what exactly went on\".\n\nThis year's A-level results at St Olave's saw 75% of all grades being awarded at A* or A and 96% were at A* to B grades, far above the national average.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFour people have died after a plane and a helicopter crashed in mid-air over Buckinghamshire.\n\nTwo people were killed in each aircraft, Thames Valley Police said.\n\nPolice and the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said they have launched a joint investigation to establish the cause of the collision just after midday at Waddesdon Estate, near Aylesbury.\n\nA Wycombe Air Park spokesman said both aircraft came from the airfield.\n\nSupt Rebecca Mears, from Thames Valley Police, said she could not give any details of the identity or the genders of the victims at this stage and her \"first priority\" was the next of kin.\n\nShe said it was \"too early to tell\" what might have caused the crash.\n\nThe AAIB said the plane involved was a Cessna.\n\nEmergency services were called to Upper Winchendon, close to Waddesdon Manor, at 12:06 GMT.\n\nMitch Missen, an off-duty firefighter, witnessed the crash from his garden.\n\nHe said: \"I looked up and saw as both collided in mid-air, followed by a large bang and falling debris.\n\n\"I rushed in to get my car keys and en route called the emergency services, who I continued to give updates as to its whereabouts.\n\n\"Unfortunately, I wasn't able to locate the actual crash site but directed police, fire and ambulance as best I could. Once they were on the scene, I returned home.\"\n\nAndy Parry, a teacher in Aylesbury, said he was with students at Waddesdon Manor at the time of the crash.\n\nHe said they heard a \"massive bang\" and saw debris in the sky.\n\nRoads in the area were closed off for a number of hours\n\nThere were a number of road closures following the crash but they have since been lifted.\n\nSeven fire vehicles from Aylesbury, Haddenham, Oxfordshire and Berkshire were sent to the scene.\n\nA spokesman for Bucks Fire and Rescue Service said 30 members of staff in fire engines and urban search and rescue vehicles attended.\n\nHe added: \"I understand it is in a wooded area near the manor.\"\n\nThe Thames Valley air ambulance, two ambulance crews, two ambulance officers and a rapid response vehicle were also sent to the scene.\n\nThe crash happened close to Waddesdon Manor, near Aylesbury\n\nHayley O'Keefe, from The Bucks Herald, said on Twitter a \"plume of smoke\" could be seen close to Waddesdon Hill after the crash.\n\nThe Rev Mary Cruddas from St Mary Magdalene Church, Upper Winchendon, said she had been to the site to see if she could be of any help.\n\nShe said: \"The area where it happened is off road and difficult to get to.\"\n\nWhen I got to the scene it was frantic, as media across all outlets, local and national, assembled.\n\nYou cannot see the crash site as the woodland is so dense but as the light dimmed, you could see light coming from where the AAIB and police were standing.\n\nThe police presence has been very visible throughout the day, with a large cordon in place and roads closed.\n\nA spokesperson for the National Trust-owned Waddesdon Manor said the crash had not happened in its grounds, but staff helped direct the emergency services to the scene.\n\nWycombe Air Park, also known as Booker Airfield, is about 20 miles (32km) away from the site of the crash and offers flight training.\n\nThe crash site is in dense woodland\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\nChildren in Need raised a record-breaking £50.1m during Friday's show, which featured a Blue Peter Strictly Come Dancing special.\n\nThe five-hour programme also included a Weakest Link celebrity special, a singing EastEnders cast, and a teaser of the Doctor Who Christmas edition.\n\nTess Daly, Graham Norton, Mel Giedroyc, and Ade Adepitan presented the show, which was broadcast on BBC One and Two.\n\nLeft-right: Mel Giedroyc, Rochelle and Marvin Humes, Graham Norton, Ade Adepitan and Tess Daly are the faces of Children in Need 2017\n\nThe show began on BBC One at 19:30 GMT with Daly and Adepitan hosting, and included some of the children and young people whose lives have been changed through support from Children in Need.\n\nDuring the evening, Car Share co-stars Peter Kay and Sian Gibson announced that the comedy series would return in 2018 with two new episodes.\n\n\"It's been a very tough secret to keep,\" said Kay.\n\nHosts Norton and Giedroyc took over presenting duties later on, followed by Marvin and Rochelle Humes.\n\nViewers were given a first look at this year's Doctor Who special, which included Peter Capaldi, in his last appearance as the 12th doctor, alongside a return from first doctor David Bradley and Mark Gatiss as a First World War officer.\n\nAnne Robinson presided over the Weakest Link special. with celebrities John Thomson, Love Island winner Kem Cetinay and actress Chizzy Akudolu - the eventual winner - facing her questions.\n\nSix current and former Blue Peter presenters are competing for the Strictly glitterball\n\nEastEnders stars sang their way around Albert Square\n\nFormer Blue Peter presenter Mark Curry lifted the Pudsey glitter ball trophy in the Children In Need Strictly Come Dancing special after impressing judges with his high kicks.\n\nFive other current and former Blue Peter presenters also donned Strictly's sequins - Diane-Louise Jordan, Anthea Turner, Tim Vincent, Konnie Huq and Radzi Chinyanganya.\n\nEastEnders fans saw their favourite characters sing popular numbers from classic West End musicals early in the show.\n\nThe cast of Countryfile also had a go at their own medley, opting for hit country tunes from John Denver, Dolly Parton and Nancy Sinatra.\n\nThere was also music from Rita Ora, The Vamps and Jason Derulo, while Joanna Lumley presented the Sir Terry Wogan Fundraiser of the Year award to people who \"go above and beyond to raise money\".\n\nChildren in Need is the BBC's UK corporate charity and raises money for disadvantaged children and young people around the country.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Alaïa was fascinated by the human form and his designs were often close-fitting\n\nThe celebrated Tunisian fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa has died at the age of 77, French media report.\n\nAlaïa, whose close-fitting designs earned him the nickname \"king of cling\", achieved fame in the 1980s.\n\nAlaïa was known for his uncompromising attitude to exhibit his designs to his own schedule and was uninterested in the publicity of fashion weeks.\n\nBarbadian singer Rihanna in a dress designed by Alaïa at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles in 2013\n\nMichelle Obama wore an Alaïa dress at the Nato summit in Germany in 2009\n\nLady Gaga in an Alaïa creation at the Academy Awards in Hollywood in 2015\n\nTributes were being paid to the couturier on social media on Saturday.\n\nLady Gaga said that Alaïa was a \"genius in not only fashion but in his heart\". In a statement posted on Twitter, the singer said the designer \"should be celebrated as one of the greatest,\" adding: \"I love you.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lady Gaga This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSinger Mariah Carey also thanked Alaïa in a tweet, adding that he was an \"incredibly kind man\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Mariah Carey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier said that Alaïa was \"brilliant\" at combining traditional techniques and knowledge to create timeless items.\n\nAlaïa, who was born in 1940, trained as a sculptor in his native Tunisia and remained fascinated by the human form throughout his career.\n\nHe moved to Paris in the late 1950s, working briefly for Christian Dior and Guy Laroche before becoming an independent couturier.\n\nThe Paris-based couturier's exhibitions were displayed throughout Europe\n\nFashions by Alaïa on display in Duesseldorf, western Germany, in 2013", "Gaia Pope was last seen in Swanage on 7 November\n\nA body has been found in the hunt for missing teenager Gaia Pope.\n\nDorset Police said they were \"confident\" that the remains on land near Swanage were those of the 19-year-old, who has been missing for 11 days.\n\nOfficers made the discovery at 15:00 GMT on Saturday near a coastal path and field where items of her clothing were found on Thursday.\n\nIn a statement Gaia's sister, Clara Pope, described her as the \"light of my life\".\n\nMs Pope told ITV News that her sister was \"so beautiful, so emotionally wise and intelligent and so passionate and artistic and creative and understanding\".\n\nAddressing those people who had searched for Gaia, she added: \"I just want to tell everybody that every minute of your hard work has been absolutely worth it.\"\n\nGaia's cousin, Marienna Pope-Weidemann, said: \"We are absolutely devastated and unable to put those feelings of loss into words.\n\n\"Our little bird has flown, but she will always be with us.\"\n\nMs Pope-Weidemann added: \"We want to thank each and every one of you for everything you've done.\n\n\"If there is one ray of light in this nightmare it is the compassion, humanity and community spirit that you've shown over the last 10 days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Your dedication and selflessness for a girl that many of you don't even know has been staggering and one of the few things that kept us going.\"\n\nThree people have previously been arrested on suspicion of murder and released under investigation.\n\nDetectives detained 71-year-old Rosemary Dinch; her 49-year-old son Paul Elsey; and her 19-year-old grandson Nathan Elsey - all of whom were known to Miss Pope.\n\nDet Supt Paul Kessell, of Dorset Police, said: \"Although the body has yet to be formally identified, we are confident that we have found Gaia.\n\n\"Her family has been informed and are being supported by specially-trained officers. Our thoughts remain with all of her family and friends at this very traumatic time.\n\n\"They have requested privacy and that we make no further media releases at this point.\"\n\nLand close to where the items of clothing were found was searched\n\nExtensive searches took place to locate the teenager, who was last seen at about 16:00 GMT on 7 November in Manor Gardens, Swanage.\n\nAn hour earlier she had been captured on CCTV buying an ice cream inside St Michael's Garage, having been driven there by a relative.\n\nHundreds of missing person posters were distributed across the county and volunteers helped to scour the town.\n\nDet Supt Kessell, of Dorset Police's major crime investigation team, said the Dorset coroner had been informed and a post-mortem examination would take place.\n\nHe said that forensic examinations would continue.\n\n\"This will guide the investigation in respect of the circumstances of the death which at this time remains unexplained,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"I can confirm that we have recovered all the clothing we believe Gaia was wearing when she disappeared and, with thanks, we no longer require the public to assist with searches.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two Budgets in one year means the prospect of significant upheaval for your finances - adding to changes we already know about.\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond will probably want his sequel to be less dramatic in political terms than his March Budget.\n\nPrevious Budgets and government policy mean we need not wait until Wednesday to know of some key changes ahead.\n\nThey include promises to increase the amount of earnings free from income tax and alterations to student loans.\n\nSome predict there will be further help for young people and there will be keen interest in any changes to public sector pay and benefits.\n\n\"We're expecting the over-45s to shoulder most of the pain in this year's Budget,\" said Clive Relf, partner at adviser Kreston Reeves.\n\nThere are predictions of a focus on financial assistance for the pressed younger generation in part owing to a political calculation of lost voters at the last general election.\n\nThis has already begun with a promise to change the threshold at which student loans are repaid. Students will pay back when they earn £25,000 per year, rather than £21,000, Prime Minister Theresa May has said.\n\nAt the Conservative party conference, Mrs May also announced that the government was cancelling an increase in tuition fees which would have taken them above £9,500.\n\nHigh deposit demands from mortgage lenders to first-time buyers have prevented many people from buying a home.\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that it was \"not acceptable\" that young people find it so hard to buy a home, and said the Budget would detail plans to build 300,000 new homes a year in England.\n\nThe chancellor said the government would focus on speeding up developments where planning permission has been granted and would use the \"powers of state\" to get \"missing homes built\".\n\nThe government also plans to pay to clean up polluted industrial sites for house building, get town hall bosses to allocate small pockets of land to small developers and guarantee loans by banks to small house builders.\n\nChanges already earmarked for next April and subsequent financial years include:\n\nOne thing that was set to change, but will no longer happen in April is the abolition of class 2 National Insurance contributions.\n\nThis flat rate paid by self-employed workers making a profit of more than £6,025 a year was expected to be abolished in April 2018 but this has been deferred by the government for a year pending a further review.\n\nAlso in the world of work, from April of next year public sector employers will have to decide whether freelancers are really self-employed or should be staff - a move many believe could be extended to the private sector.\n\nReports suggest nurses are in line for a pay rise in the Budget\n\nThe cap on public sector pay rises in England and Wales has been in place in some form since 2010.\n\nHowever, the government has already announced that ministers will now get \"flexibility\" to breach the 1% limit.\n\nPolice officers have already been offered a 1% rise plus a 1% bonus, with prison officers offered a 1.7% rise - both funded from existing budgets.\n\nPublic sector pay was frozen for two years in 2010, except for those earning less than £21,000 a year, and since 2013, rises have been capped at 1% - below the rate of inflation, which currently stands at 3%.", "The vessel is the newest of the three submarines in the Argentine navy's fleet\n\nThe Argentine navy is stepping up its search in the South Atlantic for a 44-crew submarine that has been out of radio contact for three days.\n\nPresident Mauricio Macri said all national and international resources were being deployed to help find the San Juan as quickly as possible.\n\nA Nasa research plane has joined the search for the vessel.\n\nBritain and countries in the region have offered help after it disappeared 430km (267 miles) off the coast.\n\n\"We have not been able to find, or have visual or radar communication with the submarine,\" navy spokesman Enrique Balbi told a news conference.\n\nArgentine navy protocol dictates that a submarine must come to the surface if communication is lost\n\nThe government says it will do everything necessary to ensure the safety of the crew and the recovery of the submarine\n\nThe diesel-electric submarine was returning from a routine mission to Ushuaia, near the southern-most tip of South America, to its base at Mar del Plata, south of Buenos Aires.\n\nIts last contact with the navy command was on Wednesday morning.\n\nAn Argentine destroyer and two corvettes are conducting a search around the area of the sub's last known position off the south-eastern Valdez peninsula.\n\nBut so far there are no clues about its whereabouts.\n\nThe rescue operation has been formally upgraded to a search-and-rescue procedure after no visual or radar contact was made with the submarine, Mr Balbi said.\n\n\"Detection has been difficult despite the quantity of boats and aircraft involved in the search\", he said.\n\nThe task of the rescuers has been further complicated by heavy winds and high waves.\n\nMr Balbi said that the number of hours that had passed since there had been any communication with the vessel was of concern.\n\nThe San Juan has had numerous repairs and upgrades since coming into service\n\nIt is thought that the submarine may have had communication difficulties caused by a power cut.\n\nNavy protocol dictates that a vessel should come to the surface if communication has been lost.\n\n\"We expect that it is on the surface,\" Mr Balbi said.\n\nThe German-built submarine was inaugurated in 1983, the newest of the three submarines in the Argentine navy's fleet.\n\nPresident Macri said the government was in regular contact with the crew's families.\n\n\"We share their concern and that of all Argentines,\" he wrote on Twitter. \"We are committed to using all national and international resources necessary to find the ARA San Juan submarine as soon as possible.\"\n\nA US Nasa P-3 explorer aircraft - capable of long-duration flights - is preparing to take part in the search, Mr Balbi said, in addition to a Hercules C-130 from the Argentine Air Force.\n\nBrazil, Chile, Uruguay, Peru, and South Africa have all formally offered assistance in the search.", "Budget Day for the Chancellor just became a little more tricky.\n\nThe announcement by the government's official economic watchdog that it expects to downgrade productivity growth over the next five years is likely to mean lower tax revenues for the government.\n\nAnd lower tax revenues mean that reducing the deficit becomes harder.\n\nLow levels of productivity are a demonstration of an economy that is not very good at creating wealth.\n\nFor seven of the last 10 years, people have suffered falling real incomes, where earnings growth lags behind price increases (inflation).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis is not a comfortable position for any government to find itself and negatively affects consumer confidence and spending power - the key drivers of the UK economy.\n\nIf house price growth also continues to soften, or even turn negative in some areas like London, then consumer confidence is likely to decline further.\n\nThe analysis by the Office for Budget Responsibility comes after some more positive news on increased tax revenues had given Philip Hammond about £26bn of headroom as he approached November 22, when he will lay out the government's financial plans.\n\nBut after today's announcement, the government's target to \"balance the books\" by the middle of the next decade looks increasingly difficult to hit.\n\nA growth downgrade could mean that the government will either have to raise taxes or find further cuts if it is to hit that fiscal target.\n\nOr Mr Hammond could simply extend the length of time the government gives itself to hit its own Holy Grail - eliminating the deficit.\n\nWhich some might say - after repeated misses - is now looking like \"sometime never\".\n\nThe difficulty for Mr Hammond is that an administration without a majority finds it harder to pass difficult legislation.\n\nRemember the U-turn the Chancellor had to execute over plans to raise taxes for the self-employed he announced in March. That was when Theresa May had a working majority.\n\nMr Hammond might want to change his fiscal approach but it only needs a rebellion of a handful of Conservative MPs to threaten derailment.\n\nWhat are the keys to increased productivity?\n\nThey are numerous and complex - education, skills, infrastructure investment and businesses investment.\n\nEach has faced the headwinds of austerity (public service cuts), controversy (Heathrow's extra runway, the Hinkley Point nuclear plant) and uncertainty (the Brexit referendum).\n\nTake one example, Matthew Taylor's report on how to improve the way we work. He has provided a detailed plan for Number 10 but what are the chances of any legislation being passed, for example, on reforming zero hours contracts?\n\nMany believe minimal as Theresa May grapples with the complexities of leaving the European Union and challenges to her authority.\n\nAn economy that is poor at producing wealth is an economy that many will see as not working for them.\n\nThe fact that employment levels are high is an important economic good. That people have jobs is the first stage of economic well-being.\n\nBut Mr Hammond knows that moving on from \"jobs\" to \"well paid, productive jobs\" is the next, tough part, of the journey.", "The Department of Work and Pensions has confirmed that around 25,000 universal credit claimants could see their entitlement reduced over Christmas.\n\nMost will get some benefit but some will lose their entitlement altogether.\n\nIt's an issue which affects some universal credit claimants who are paid weekly.\n\nThose that have five pay packets within their Christmas income assessment period, will see their benefit entitlement reduced.\n\nMinisters say this is how universal credit is meant to work - with benefit levels reducing as earnings rise and increasing as earnings fall. In this way it is designed to \"make work pay.\"\n\nBut debt charities say this variability makes budgeting difficult for families with little financial security.\n\nThe effect is caused because universal credit levels are based on monthly earnings. The so-called income assessment is calculated over 30 or 31 days - meaning that in four of those periods each year, claimants will have five pay-days. Exactly when will depend on when they first applied for the benefit.\n\nThe DWP has confirmed, up to 25,000 could be affected by this over Christmas.\n\nUniversal credit merges six benefits for working-age people into one new payment, which is reduced gradually as you earn more.\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions warns on its website that people who are paid five times in a month may have an income that is too high to qualify for the benefit in that period.\n\nIt says people will be notified if this happens and told to reapply for the benefit the following month.\n\nOther people who are paid fives times in a month but do not earn enough for universal credit to end will have their benefit reduced.\n\nKayley Hignell, from Citizens Advice, said the way universal credit was calculated brought some benefits but also \"significant budget challenges\".\n\nShe said: \"The key thing here is about communication.\n\n\"People need to know that if they're getting extra income in one month... it may stop their universal credit payment, and that they then subsequently need to put in a new claim to make sure that they continue to get those payments.\n\n\"If you've got extra money in the month, don't necessarily bank on the fact that your universal credit is going to stay the same, because it could change it either in this month or the next.\"\n\nThe Department for Work and Pensions said not all those paid weekly would get a reduced payment in December because it would depend on the date on which a claimant's universal credit was paid.\n\nIt also said the payments balanced out, because claimants entitled to more would receive it in the following month.\n\nIt said those who reapplied for the benefits would not have to submit new forms and would have their current claims restarted.\n\nThe DWP said: \"For the vast majority of people in work, they will continue to get paid universal credit in a five-week month.\n\n\"When someone's wages take them over the UC threshold, they can get universal credit the next month, and this process is working.\"\n\nUniversal credit is being rolled out across the UK in stages, but its implementation, particularly the six-week wait to receive the benefit, has caused controversy.\n\nThis week Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn told Prime Minister's Questions that hundreds of families have been issued with eviction notices by a landlord concerned about the impact of universal credit.\n\nCorrection and update 1 December 2017: This article has been amended to give the correct number of Universal Credit claimants who could see their entitlement reduced over Christmas and updated to add that this figure has been confirmed by the Department of Work and Pensions.", "President Robert Mugabe has made his first public appearance since Zimbabwe's army took over the country on Wednesday.\n\nHe attended a graduation ceremony, wearing blue and yellow robes and a mortarboard hat.", "Gaia Pope was last seen in Swanage on 7 November\n\nMass searches for missing teenager Gaia Pope are under way on the 11th day of her disappearance.\n\nVolunteers have scoured three locations around Swanage, where the 19-year-old went missing on 7 November.\n\nIt follows the release of a third murder suspect on Friday.\n\nThe teenager's sister Clara Pope-Sutherland said: \"We are choosing to believe the murder investigation is just a formality and that she is alive.\"\n\nLand close to where the items of clothing were found is being extensively searched\n\nOn Thursday, police discovered clothing belonging to Miss Pope on open land outside Swanage.\n\nThe case is being treated as a murder inquiry, but her sister said the missing person investigation had not been dropped either.\n\nShe described the discovery of the clothes as \"positive\" as police now had \"some kind of lead\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Volunteers explain why they have joined the search for missing Gaia\n\nHundreds of volunteers have joined the searches, which departed from three car parks at about midday to comb rural areas for possible clues.\n\nMiss Pope-Sutherland said the response from people in the town had been amazing and she was \"beyond grateful\".\n\nForensic officers have also been working in the area where items of clothing were found\n\nSo far three people have been arrested on suspicion of murder, including Paul Elsey, 49, who was released under investigation on Friday afternoon.\n\nHe lives with his mother Rosemary Dinch, 71, who was arrested on the same charge on Monday, along with her 19-year-old grandson, Nathan Elsey.\n\nThey have both been released while inquiries continue.\n\nDetectives have been focusing forensic investigations on homes, cars and an area near the coast path where the clothing was found.\n\nBBC reporter Laurence Herdman said the town was covered with missing posters.\n\nGaia Pope's sister, Clara Pope-Sutherland (centre), joined one of the community searches which set off from Swanage earlier\n\nMiss Pope-Sutherland said community searches had visited \"pretty much every house\" in Swanage to hand out posters and ask people to search their properties.\n\nEarlier this week, her mother urged people to look in vans, garages and houses in case she was being kept against her will.\n\n7 November: Miss Pope is driven by a family member from Langton Matravers to Swanage. At 14:55, she is caught on CCTV at St Michael's Garage buying ice cream. The last confirmed sighting is at 16:00 at an address in Manor Gardens on Morrison Road\n\n8 November: Her family makes a plea through police for her to make contact. Dorset Police says it is \"becoming increasingly concerned\"\n\n9 November: Searches by police, the coastguard and force helicopter are carried out in the Swanage area. Miss Pope's relatives release a statement saying they are \"frantic with worry\"\n\n10 November: CCTV footage shows Miss Pope on Morrison Road, Manor Gardens, at 15:39 on 7 November\n\n13 November: Rosemary Dinch and Nathan Elsey are arrested on suspicion of murder and released under investigation\n\n14 November: Searches continue with the coastguard and volunteers from Dorset Search and Rescue and Wessex 4x4\n\n15 November: CCTV images of Miss Pope at St Michael's Garage are released. Searches continue to concentrate inland\n\n16 November: Paul Elsey is arrested on suspicion of murder. Miss Pope's clothing is discovered in a field near Swanage and a police cordon is set up\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dyfed-Powys Police has told BBC Wales it received reports of historical sexual abuse perpetrated by a monk on Caldey Island in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nThe force investigated in 2014 and 2016 but could not prosecute as the monk, Father Thaddeus Kotik, died in 1992.\n\nThe Guardian newspaper has reported that Caldey Abbey has paid compensation to six women who were abused as children.\n\nBBC Wales has attempted to contact Caldey Abbey in Pembrokeshire.\n\nCourt papers seen by The Guardian said Kotik carried out the abuse between 1972 and 1987 and the women, who were on holiday at the time, believe there may be many more victims.\n\nKotik worked in the abbey's dairy and befriended families who regularly visited the island.\n\nAfter gaining the trust of parents he would babysit the children and sexually abuse them, the papers suggest.\n\nThe women, who are not identified, said the abbey knew about the offences and failed to report Kotik to the police.\n\nIn civil proceedings against the abbey, they said it was liable for the alleged assaults which occurred on its property by Kotik who was charged with the safekeeping and care of the children.\n\nThe women said that Kotik \"terrified them into silence\" and said if they told anyone their parents would not want them and leave them on the island with him.\n\nIn 2014, one of the women e-mailed the current abbot of Caldey Abbey, Brother Daniel van Santvoort, and told him that the effect of the abuse had been catastrophic.\n\nShe said: \"Father Thaddeus' perversion has left me with ongoing feelings and experience of severe anxiety, fear, guilt and sadness.\n\n\"I have lived my life feeling a deep and misunderstood level of self-hatred and an inability to trust and believe in another person truly loving me.\"\n\nThe Guardian reports Brother Daniel had heard allegations previously about Kotik and in response he wrote: \"I have heard occasionally about this serious matter as regards Father Thaddeus.\"\n\nHe told her that the monastery knew about his offences and that he had been banned from contact with islanders and visitors in the 1980s but it had not been reported to the police.\n\n\"I am fully aware now of this terrible criminal offence and Father Thaddeus should have... been handed over to the police - something that never happened,\" he added.\n\nBrother Daniel forwarded the e-mails to Dyfed-Powys Police who asked for a formal statement which she submitted.\n\nIn response, a Dyfed-Powys Police spokesman said: \"We can confirm that in 2014 and 2016 we received reports of non-recent sexual abuse that occurred at Caldey Island with the named offender being the deceased Thaddeus Kotik.\n\n\"These reports were recorded as crimes and victims contacted by police.\n\n\"During the investigation, information was obtained to confirm that the perpetrator was deceased and therefore a prosecution was not possible.\n\nAppropriate professional support was offered and the matter was drawn to a close.\n\n\"Dyfed-Powys Police always encourages anyone who has suffered abuse to come forward and report it by calling 101.\"\n\nBrother Daniel apologised to the woman but, according to the Guardian, during the legal proceedings the abbey claimed it had no knowledge of the abuse.\n\nThe Guardian reported it also argued there was an \"evidential disadvantage\" in that none of the monks at the abbey during the time of the allegations were still alive and claimed it was not liable as the priest was not employed by the abbey to provide care for children.\n\nThe defence therefore required the claimants to prove each offence.\n\nAccording to the Guardian, it also argued that the victims were out of time to sue for damages and it was not possible for the abbey to have a fair trial.\n\nIt is also reported that the abbey asked the court not to allow the claim because the seriousness of the allegations was likely to attract attention that may threaten the continued existence of the abbey.\n\nThe women accepted what the Guardian describes as \"meagre\" compensation payments and received no apology.\n\nThe solicitor representing the women, Tracey Emmott, told The Guardian: \"It took the issuing of court proceedings before the out of court settlements were offered and even then my client's request for a formal apology as part of the settlement package was never forthcoming.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAir crash investigators and police are resuming efforts to establish the cause of a collision between a helicopter and aeroplane that left four people dead.\n\nTwo people were killed in each aircraft in Friday's crash in Buckinghamshire. There were no survivors.\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) and police are to continue their work at the site of the crash at Waddesdon Estate, near Aylesbury.\n\nThe wreckage of the aircraft is scattered in a wooded area.\n\nInvestigations at the site are expected to continue for several days.\n\nThe helicopter and the Cessna plane both took off from Wycombe Air Park, also known as Booker Airfield, which offers flight training.\n\nIt is about 20 miles (30km) from the site of the crash.\n\nNo details of the crash victims have yet been released by police.\n\nThames Valley Police said the priority was giving information to the next of kin.\n\nEmergency services were called to Upper Winchendon, close to Waddesdon Manor, at 12:06 GMT.\n\nMitch Missen, an off-duty firefighter, witnessed the crash from his garden.\n\nHe said: \"I looked up and saw as both collided in mid-air, followed by a large bang and falling debris.\n\n\"I rushed in to get my car keys and en route called the emergency services, who I continued to give updates as to its whereabouts.\"\n\nAndy Parry, a teacher in Aylesbury, said he was with students at Waddesdon Manor at the time of the crash.\n\nHe said they heard a \"massive bang\" and saw debris in the sky.\n\nRoads in the area were closed off for a number of hours\n\nThe crash happened close to Waddesdon Manor, near Aylesbury\n\nA spokesperson for the National Trust-owned Waddesdon Manor said the crash had not happened in its grounds, but staff helped direct the emergency services to the scene.\n\nThe crash site is in dense woodland\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. ESA claimant Peter Cartwright: 'People need this money to live'\n\nMistakes in paying out benefits claims could cost up to £500m to put right, the BBC has learned.\n\nThe errors identified by the Department for Work and Pensions affect the main sickness benefit, the Employment and Support Allowance (ESA).\n\nThe BBC understands that assessors wrongly calculated the income of around 75,000 claimants.\n\nMinisters say that they are aware of the problem and that repayments have begun to be made.\n\nThe department, which says it discovered the mistakes last December, is understood to have contacted about 1,000 people so far.\n\nIt says it is still trying to understand the scale of the problems with ESA, which is paid to about 2.5 million people, and will contact anyone affected.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Field said people had been 'wrongly impoverished' as a result of the errors\n\nFrank Field, chairman of the Commons work and pensions select committee, said the problem was on a scale of \"historic proportions\".\n\nHe said: \"I'm still gobsmacked at the size and the nature and the extent and the coverage of people that have been wrongly impoverished by the department getting it wrong.\"\n\nThe BBC understands that the errors affected people who applied for ESA between 2011/12 and 2014/15 - claimants after that date are understood to have had their benefit correctly assessed.\n\nOn top of money to be paid back, the Treasury will have to pay for the staffing and processing of repayments.\n\nThis extraordinary error is the latest problem to beset a troubled benefit.\n\nWhen Labour introduced ESA in 2008, they claimed the change would move a million people off sickness benefit and save the Treasury £7bn.\n\nThe coalition embraced the benefit with open arms, again hoping to save money by moving people off incapacity benefit and onto ESA faster than planned.\n\nLittle has changed. Back in 2006/07, 2.7 million people were receiving the main sickness benefit at a cost of £12bn. In this financial year, ministers estimate 2.4 million people will get ESA - at a cost of £15bn.\n\nFor claimants, the changes have meant undergoing health assessments to prove their illnesses, which some say has created stress and anxiety.\n\nMistakes began in 2011 when the government started moving benefits recipients onto ESA - which is paid to those with long-term health conditions that are not going to improve.\n\nESA was introduced by the Labour government in 2008 to replace incapacity benefit.\n\nAt the time of that migration, an independent expert working for the Department for Work and Pensions, Professor Malcolm Harrington, urged ministers not to proceed until he was certain the system was robust.\n\nThe department said it only became aware of the problem in December 2016 after the Office for National Statistics published fraud and error figures for the social security system.\n\nPeter Cartwright, who was one of those moved from incapacity benefit to ESA due to mental and physical health problems, said the errors were \"disgusting\".\n\n\"People need this money to live,\" said Mr Cartwright, who does not yet know if he was underpaid.\n\n\"It's not as if you can go and get loads of luxuries when you're on this benefit.\"\n\nThe 54-year-old from County Durham said people on benefits often had to make the choice between food and heating, adding: \"If people are getting underpaid that means they're not getting through.\"\n\nThe DWP said it was \"currently reviewing the historical benefit payments of claimants\"\n\nMany of those eligible for ESA may also need to apply for universal credit - a benefit for people with a health condition or disability which prevents them from working.\n\nUniversal credit is already experiencing its own problems - with reports of IT issues, overspending and administrative errors.\n\nSuccessful applicants for ESA are paid the benefit either on the basis of having made enough National Insurance claims, or because they are on a low income.\n\nIn calculating how much income a claimant is entitled to, benefit assessors have to work through a variety of factors, such as what other benefits someone might be on, how much they earn from any work or whether there is any other income coming into the household.\n\nIn a statement, the Department for Work and Pensions, said it was aware of the issue and \"currently reviewing the historical benefit payments of claimants\".", "Eight-year-old Mali has been given the PDSA Dickin Medal for serving in Afghanistan.", "A rare India ink drawing of young reporter Tintin and his faithful dog Snowy has been sold for almost $500,000 (£380,000) at auction in Paris.\n\nThe picture from the 1939 comic album King Ottokar's Sceptre was among items by Hergé, the Belgian artist who created Tintin, to go under the hammer.\n\nAn original strip from the book The Shooting Star fetched $350,000.\n\nBut a copy of Tintin adventure Destination Moon, signed by US astronauts, failed to find a buyer.\n\nOther items by Hergé on sale at the Paris auction included books, sketches and drawings.\n\nTintin is one of the most recognisable comic-book characters ever created.\n\nTranslated into 90 languages and selling in excess of 200m copies, the cartoons remain popular to this day.\n\nLast year a comic strip from the Tintin book Explorers on the Moon sold for a record $1.64m in Paris.\n\nThe same year, a rare drawing of Tintin in Shanghai from the book The Blue Lotus sold for $1.2m at auction in Hong Kong.", "A new portrait of the Queen and Prince Philip has been released to mark their 70th wedding anniversary.\n\nThe royal couple will mark Monday's platinum anniversary with a private dinner with family and friends at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe bells of Westminster Abbey, where they married in 1947, will ring to mark the occasion.\n\nRoyal Mail has issued a set of six commemorative stamps, featuring the couple's engagement and wedding.\n\nCommemorative stamps from the Royal Mail feature the royal couple's engagement and wedding photos\n\nThe Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are the first royal couple to celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary.\n\nWhen they married, the then Princess Elizabeth was 21-years-old while her groom, Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, was 26.\n\nThe new image, by celebrity photographer Matt Holyoak, shows the pair flanked by Thomas Gainsborough's paintings of George III and Queen Charlotte from 1781.\n\nIn the photograph, the Queen is wearing a cream day dress designed by Angela Kelly, her personal assistant and dressmaker since 2002.\n\nShe also wears a \"Scarab\" brooch in yellow gold, carved ruby and diamond, designed by Andrew Grima and given to the Queen as a gift in 1966.", "Jubilant scenes are unfolding on the streets of Zimbabwe's capital Harare, as protests demanding the resignation of President Robert Mugabe have turned to a celebration of the army's role in ending his grip on power.", "The Prince of Wales has described the destruction caused by Caribbean hurricanes as \"utterly heartbreaking\".\n\nAfter meeting homeless families in Antigua, he said it was \"painful beyond words to see the devastation\".\n\nPrince Charles is on three-day tour to see the damage caused by hurricanes Irma and Maria in September.\n\nHis visit came as the government announced a further £15m support for overseas territories affected by the hurricane, bringing the total to £92m.\n\nPrince Charles met residents of Barbuda whose homes had been destroyed and who were being temporarily housed in Antigua.\n\nLater, the heir to the throne visited Barbuda itself, flying over houses where the roofs had been torn off and replaced by blue tarpaulin. His first stop was to a primary school that was visited last year by Prince Harry. It is now partly ruined and abandoned.\n\nThe Barbuda affairs minister Arthur Nibbs told the prince that the force of the hurricane was \"unprecedented\" in 200 years.\n\nPrince Charles highlighted the belief of climate experts that global warming is already intensifying tropical storms. \"This will get worse with continuous warming,\" he said.\n\nOnly about 100 of the island's 1,700 residents remain. The prince stopped at the home of one of them, Evans Thomas, 50, who had turned his house into a makeshift bar after the nearby pub was destroyed.\n\nThe final stop on the royal tour will be the British Virgin Islands, where the prince is due to meet Red Cross staff who are supporting families left homeless.\n\nPrince Charles said: \"It was painful beyond words to see the devastation that was so cruelly wrought across the Caribbean by Hurricanes Irma and Maria in those few, terrible weeks in September.\"\n\nHe said that across the Caribbean \"the loss of life and property and the damage to the natural environment have been utterly heartbreaking\".\n\nNew International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt, who is set to join the Prince of Wales on his Caribbean visit, announced additional financial support of £12m for Dominica and £3m for Antigua and Barbuda.\n\nAdded to £15m recently allocated to the British Overseas Territories of Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands and Turks and Caicos, it brings the total UK support for reconstructing the region to £92m.\n\nPrince Charles said his aim in making the visit was to show the Commonwealth's support for people who had suffered in the hurricanes and to thank the aid and rescue workers who were supporting them.\n\nHe said: \"The recent events in the Caribbean have helped to underline the importance of the Commonwealth as a family, whose members care deeply for each other in times of need.\"", "The airlander collapsed at Cardington Airfield, where it is based\n\nThe world's longest aircraft has collapsed to the ground less than 24 hours after a successful test flight.\n\nThe Airlander 10 - a combination of a plane and an airship - was seen to \"break in two\" at an airfield in Bedfordshire, an eyewitness said.\n\nOwner Hybrid Air Vehicles Ltd said it appeared the Airlander broke free from its mooring mast, triggering a safety system which deflates the aircraft.\n\nTwo people on the ground suffered minor injuries.\n\nIt was not flying and was not due to fly, Hybrid Air Vehicles said.\n\nNo one was on board, but a female member of staff suffered minor injuries and was taken to hospital as a precaution.\n\nA colleague also sustained minor injuries while dealing with the incident.\n\n\"The safety feature is to ensure our aircraft minimises any potential damage to its surroundings in these circumstances,\" Hybrid Air Vehicles added.\n\n\"The aircraft is now deflated and secure on the edge of the airfield. The fuel and helium inside the Airlander have been made safe.\n\n\"We are testing a brand new type of aircraft and incidents of this nature can occur during this phase of development.\n\n\"We will assess the cause of the incident and the extent of repairs needed to the aircraft in the next few weeks.\"\n\nThe company that owns the Airlander said it was not flying at the time\n\nOn Friday, the Airlander took off at 15:11 GMT and landed at 16:18 GMT at Cardington Airfield.\n\nHybrid Air Vehicles Ltd had said it was now in the \"next phase of extended test flights\".\n\nIt will soon \"fly higher, faster, further and longer\", the company said.\n\nThe Airlander is the longest aircraft in the world at 302ft (92m)\n\nIn August 2016 the aircraft crash-landed after climbing to an excessive height because its mooring line became caught on power cables.\n\nThe 302ft (92m) long aircraft nosedived after the test flight at Cardington. No one was injured.\n\nThe Air Accidents Investigation Branch said the line was hanging free after a first landing attempt had failed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Priti Patel must be investigated for holding unofficial meetings during a holiday in Israel or \"do the decent thing and resign\", Labour has said.\n\nThe international development secretary apologised on Tuesday for holding 12 meetings, including one with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, on a private trip.\n\nIn the Commons, Labour's Kate Osamor said it was a \"black and white case\" of the ministerial code being broken.\n\nBut minister Alistair Burt said policy did not change as a result of the trip.\n\nMs Patel was not in the Commons to face an urgent question about her actions because she is on a pre-arranged visit to Africa, a situation which Labour said was \"simply not acceptable\".\n\nThe BBC understands Ms Patel suggested some of Britain's aid budget go to the Israeli army, after the visit in August.\n\nShe asked her officials to see if Britain could support humanitarian operations conducted by the Israeli army in the occupied Golan Heights area.\n\nThe BBC understands the Foreign Office advised that because Britain did not officially recognise Israel's annexation of the area, it would be hard for the Department for International Development to work there.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Foreign Office minister Alistair Burt defended Ms Patel's \"perfectly legitimate\" right to raise the matter - saying it was within the context of providing medical help for Syrian refugees who could not get assistance in their own country.\n\nBut he said the idea had been rejected because ministers did not think it would be \"appropriate\".\n\nHe told MPs that the Foreign Office learned of her visit on 24 August, while she was still in Israel, but after a number of key meetings had already taken place.\n\nHe said Ms Patel had been \"absolutely contrite\" for \"getting the sequencing wrong\" in terms of informing officials but Mrs May accepted her apology and now regarded the matter \"as closed\".\n\nBut Labour's Kate Osamor said Ms Patel's actions were covered by the existing code and demanded a probe into what she did during the trip and what action she sought upon her return.\n\nThe opposition says there are \"strong grounds\" to believe Ms Patel is responsible for \"multiple breaches\" include failing to act in an open and transparent manner, not abiding by the principle of collective responsibility and not being honest about the nature and number of meetings she attended.\n\n\"It is hard to think of a more black and white case of breaking the ministerial code,\" Ms Osamor said.\n\n\"It is time the secretary of state either faces a Cabinet Office investigation or does the decent thing and just resigns\".\n\nThe BBC's diplomatic correspondent James Landale said local UK diplomats in Israel probably first became aware of her visit on 24 August because that was when the opposition leader she met, Yair Lapid, first tweeted about their meeting.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC revealed on Friday that Ms Patel held a number of undisclosed meetings with business and political figures, including Mr Lapid, the leader of Israel's centrist Yesh Atid party.\n\nNo diplomats were present at the meetings, at which the minister was accompanied by an influential pro-Israeli Conservative peer and campaigner, Lord Polak.\n\nMs Patel has admitted how the meetings were set up \"did not accord with the usual procedures\".\n\nFormer Conservative foreign secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that it was \"extremely unwise\" for Ms Patel to have held secret meetings with Israeli officials.\n\nMs Patel discussed Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to the UK, which took place last week\n\n\"Not only did she not tell the Foreign Office directly, so far as I'm aware the British Embassy in Israel wasn't aware that this was happening. Now that just shouldn't be done... it's not just a question of courtesy,\" he said.\n\nLord Ricketts, former head of the diplomatic service, told BBC Radio 4's World Tonight that he couldn't think of a precedent \"where a senior minister visits a country, has an extensive programme like this without the Foreign Office, the foreign secretary or even the ambassador in the country knowing about it\".\n\nHowever International Trade Secretary Liam Fox told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that it was not \"in any way forbidden\" to speak to the prime minister of another country without telling the foreign secretary.\n\nHe added: \"I find it utterly unsurprising that the international aid secretary would want to talk to charities while she's on holiday in a particular area about whether or not we can use the British aid budget to diminish the humanitarian problems there.\"\n\nMs Patel, who is a long-standing supporter of Israel and a former vice-chairman of Conservative Friends of Israel, has admitted a \"lack of precision\" for suggesting last week that Boris Johnson knew about the trip, and that only two meetings had taken place when she attended 12.\n\nDowning Street, which has called for the ministerial code to be clarified in this area, said Ms Patel had acknowledged she had behaved in an \"improper way\" and would not do so again.", "A BBC reporter films his drive to work as pollution levels soar in India's capital.\n\nAll schools in Delhi have been closed for the rest of the week.", "Twitter plans to increase the number of characters in tweets from 140 to 280 for the majority of users.\n\nThe new limit will not apply to tweets written in Japanese, Chinese and Korean which can convey more information in a single character.\n\nThe move follows a trial among a small group of users which started in September in response to criticism that it was not easy enough to tweet.\n\nThe change is part of Twitter's plan to attract new users and increase growth.\n\nDuring the test, only 5% of tweets sent were longer than 140 characters and only 2% more than 190, the social media site said in a blog post.\n\nBut those who did use the longer tweets, got more followers, more engagement and spent more time on the site, it added.\n\n\"During the first few days of the test, many people tweeted the full 280 limit because it was new and novel, but soon after behaviour normalised,\" wrote Aliza Rosen, Twitter's product manager.\n\n\"We saw when people needed to use more than 140 characters, they tweeted more easily and more often. But importantly, people tweeted below 140 most of the time and the brevity of Twitter remained.\"\n\nAccording to Twitter, 9% of tweets in English hit the character limits.\n\n\"This reflects the challenge of fitting a thought into a tweet, often resulting in lots of time spent editing and even at times abandoning tweets before sending,\" Ms Rosen said.\n\nIncreasing the character limit should not affect people's experience on the site, she added.\n\n\"We - and many of you - were concerned that timelines may fill up with 280-character tweets, and people with the new limit would always use up the whole space. But that didn't happen.\"\n\nWhen the change was announced, many criticised it, pointing out changes they would rather see, such as a crackdown on hate crime and bots, and the introduction of a chronological timeline and edit function.\n\nThe site currently has 330 million active users. This compares with 800 million for Instagram and more than 2 billion users for Facebook.", "The foreign secretary reacts to Priti Patel's resignation as international development secretary, following controversy over her meetings with Israeli officials.", "UK toy retailers are holding out for a busy Christmas after sales fell by 2% in the first nine months of the year.\n\nAnalysts and retailers expect a flat full year at best for the industry following two consecutive years of rapid growth.\n\nSpending on toys totals £121 per child up to the age of 11, according to analysts NPD, with lower-income families cutting their spending.\n\nThe industry has unveiled its list of \"must-have\" toys.\n\nCheaper collectables feature prominently on the list, alongside more traditional games and film and TV tie-ups.\n\nFrederique Tutt, global industry analyst for the NPD Group's toy division, said that sales had been \"sluggish\" in the year so far, whereas activity had risen in the other major toy markets in Europe, the US and Russia.\n\nShe pointed to a correction following two years of 7% growth in the UK, which had outstripped other markets and had been driven in part by the success of the Star Wars franchise.\n\nFrederique Tutt with one of the Toy Retailers' Association's top toys\n\nSeven of the 10 best-selling toys of the year so far have had a price tag of less than £10, she said.\n\nAlan Simpson, chairman of the Toy Retailers' Association, which compiles the Dream Toys list, said the weakness of the pound had pushed up prices in the UK as most toys were imported.\n\nThe toy market was suffering from the income squeeze of customers as much as other sectors, he added.\n\n\"However, the rule book gets thrown away at Christmas, no matter how tough things are [for parents],\" he said.\n\nA drone is one toy mirroring the advance of technology\n\nMs Tutt said that this year's list of top toys was relatively low-tech, with traditional games playing a more \"dynamic\" part in the market.\n\n\"Parents are saying that too much screen time is not good,\" she said.\n\nOnly 1% of toys were \"connected\" via the internet, yet the influence of the web - and particularly social media - was clear from the design of new toys.\n\nOne of the expected best-sellers at Christmas is the L.O.L. Surprise - a heavily wrapped toy inspired by \"unboxing\" videos on YouTube and other social media channels.\n\nMarketing for other toys had been launched on social media rather than TV adverts, she said. and manufacturers were counting on shared videos of youngsters playing with their new toys as another form of advertising.", "Sir Andy Murray's wife Kim has given birth to a baby girl.\n\nThe couple, who married in 2015, already have a daughter, Sophia, who was born in 2016.\n\nThe news emerged less than 24 hours after Andy Murray attended a charity tennis event at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow.\n\nThe match against Roger Federer was the first time Murray had played in public since suffering a hip injury at Wimbledon.\n\nThe couple's second girl is understood to have been born in England a \"couple of weeks ago\".\n\nBoth Kim and the new baby are believed to be doing well.\n\nSir Andy's grandmother, Shirley Erskine, told the BBC that she was \"delighted\" and was \"looking forward to a cuddle\".\n\nSpeaking ahead of a trip to London to meet her new great-granddaughter, she said: \"All's well, which is the main thing.\n\n\"She's a little playmate for Sophia, who I'm sure will be equally thrilled.\"\n\nMrs Erskine of Dunblane remained tight-lipped on the question of a name for the newest addition to the Murray household.\n\nShe said: \"I'm sure they've got that all worked out.\n\n\"We'll find out this weekend. I don't really know much at the moment because we haven't seen her. But we're looking forward to having a little cuddle and a little play with Sophia, who is running about all over the place and chattering.\"\n\nWhen asked if her great-granddaughters would be future Wimbledon partners, Mrs Erskine laughed and said: \"Not in our lifetime unfortunately - but we'd like to think so.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe news was also welcomed by Scotland's first minister.\n\nNicola Sturgeon tweeted: \"Congratulations to Kim and Andy (and to granny @JudyMurray too).\"\n\nThe couple announced in July that Kim was expecting a second child.\n\nAt the time Murray spoke about how his family were the most important thing in his life and how becoming a husband and father had helped his tennis.\n\nAbout 11,000 fans packed into the Hydro in Glasgow for the Andy Murray Live exhibition match on Tuesday night, which the Scot lost to Federer - the current world number two - 6-3 3-6 10-6.", "Rachel is the eldest of four children\n\n\"I got separated from my siblings... I was told I was moved away from them because I was overprotective with them,\" 17-year-old Rachel told a committee of MPs on Tuesday.\n\nShe had come to Westminster to share her experiences of being in foster care, as part of the Education Committee's inquiry into fostering.\n\nThe MPs heard youngsters in care wanted more support to keep in touch with siblings and former friends, as well as more information about the foster families with whom they are placed.\n\nRachel told MPs it was very important to keep siblings together and when she looked back on her situation, she wondered if it could have been dealt with differently.\n\n\"I was told I was moved away from them because I was overprotective with them, which in my eyes, as a sister, and you're moving away from home, I feel like it's an instinct straightaway to be protective, because you're moving in with a stranger that you don't know and you have to protect your siblings.\n\n\"But then I feel that instead of separating me from them, they could have done some work with me to say, 'The foster carer can look after your siblings,' or like tell me I don't need to do everything for them and I don't have to put a barrier up - they could have given me time to settle in so then they didn't have to separate us.\n\n\"But they separated us and then I wasn't allowed to see them for a long period of time because they said that I was giving my little sister a lot of bad memories and bad thoughts, and I was thinking, 'Have you actually sat down to question her whether she's crying because she misses me or whether she's crying because of this or this?'\"\n\nRachel told the MPs that while she now had contact with her siblings, it was only once a month.\n\n\"We have a bond, but it's not as strong as I'd like it to be and that's quite hurtful towards me, because to lose a bond with your own siblings is sad, because you're by yourself in the world and your siblings are practically your best friends and now you're losing them - you've lost your parents and then your siblings, and it's like your whole world has crashed down really quite quickly.\"\n\nConnor, 14, told the committee of MPs that when he had been moved from one placement to another, he had been given no background information about his new home and had found this very stressful.\n\n\"I didn't get much info about about the carers I was going to be with, about what the household's like - is it comfortable, is it warm? and stuff,\" he said.\n\nAsked if he had had any choice in the matter, he said no.\n\nConnor, 14, travelled to Westminster to tell his story\n\n\"I just got told the carer's name, didn't get told what they like doing, I didn't get a booklet, a prepared booklet, from anyone.\n\n\"They said that it was 'on emergency'; the carer that I was with said to me she didn't get much info on me either - the only thing she got told by the local authority was 'Can you have a 12-year-old boy on emergency?'\n\n\"They said it would be for a couple of weeks until they could find a suitable placement, but I was there for nearly a year with nothing to nudge me on that I was going to be there for a long time.\n\n\"So it was very stressful, very upsetting for me, but I've learnt to expand beyond that now and cope with it and cope with the stress - it's been a bit of a rollercoaster for me.\"\n\nConnor said things could be improved if local authorities gave both child and foster carer more information about each other.\n\n\"So that I can feel more comfortable in a home with someone that I don't know, but have got info on, so I can know what they like doing, how they are, what they're like and stuff,\" he said, \"that's how I'd improve it.\"\n\nRachel added that her second placement had been a little easier, because she had met the foster carer in advance.\n\n\"I got to go out with her, go to lunch with her, go shopping with her, meet the house, meet other people in the house, so I liked the way they did that with me because they were setting up a full-time placement with me, so they let me settle in with her before I moved straight in, which I feel they should do with most individuals or young people before they just send them off.\n\n\"On that first day when I moved in with the new foster carer, it was quite unnerving because you don't know who they are, you don't know what to expect, you don't know what it's going to like, you don't know what they're like or anything like that.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC after the committee hearing, Connor and Rachel - who are both ambassadors for the charity Action for Children - said they felt sharing their stories with MPs at Westminster had made a real difference.\n\n\"I feel we've made a massive difference. I think we've put them on the back foot and made them realise foster care in England isn't going as planned,\" said Connor.\n\n\"This is the biggest experience of our lives, to put our points across to the people who can do something about it.\"\n\nRachel said the whole experience was \"amazing\" and had inspired her to think about a career in politics.\n\n\"I want to become an MP now and get there in my own steps. I could go into that - I've set my goal high.\"", "Randhawa was arrested after the NCA replaced his intended package with a dummy device\n\nA teenager has been convicted of trying to import explosives from the dark web with intent to endanger life.\n\nGurtej Singh Randhawa, from Wolverhampton, attempted to buy a vehicle-borne improvised explosive device, which would be sent to him.\n\nThe 19-year old was arrested in May 2017 after the National Crime Agency (NCA) replaced the package with a dummy device before it was delivered.\n\nHe was found guilty on Tuesday after a trial at Birmingham Crown Court.\n\nRandhawa, of Grove Lane, Tettenhall, who had previously pleaded guilty to attempting to import explosives, was remanded in custody and is due to be sentenced on 12 January.\n\nHe was convicted of maliciously possessing an explosive substance with intent to endanger life or cause serious injury.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Technology explained: What is the dark web?\n\nTwo women, aged 45 and 18, were also arrested at the same time but were released without charge.\n\nTim Gregory, from the NCA's armed operations unit, said: \"The explosive device Randhawa sought to purchase online had the potential to cause serious damage and kill many people if he had been successful in using it.\n\n\"He was not involved in an organised crime group or linked to terrorism, but is clearly an individual who poses a significant risk to the community.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Prince Charles’s private estate, the Duchy of Cornwall, secretly invested in an offshore company which lobbied to change climate agreements, documents from the Paradise Papers have revealed.\n\nSustainable Forestry Ltd lobbied politicians to amend global agreements to allow ‘carbon credits’ from rainforests to be traded.\n\nThe Prince made speeches in support of this – and his estate, the Duchy of Cornwall, tripled its investment in Sustainable Forestry in the space of a year. It is not clear why this was.\n\nThe Duchy says the prince has no direct involvement in investment decisions.\n\nPrince Charles denies ever speaking on a topic simply because of a company the Duchy may have invested in.\n\nFind out more about the Paradise Papers.", "Revenge porn has affected up to one in five Australian women, according to one study\n\nFacebook is testing a system that allows users to message themselves their nude photos in an effort to combat so-called revenge porn.\n\nIt will store a \"fingerprint\" of images to prevent any copies of them being shared by disgruntled ex-lovers.\n\nThe trial is in Australia, where studies suggest one in five women aged 18-45 may have had image-based abuse.\n\nBut one expert says there will still be problems outside Facebook and related sites such as WhatsApp and Instagram.\n\nFacebook said it looked forward \"to getting feedback and learning\" from the trial.\n\nRevenge porn is a growing issue in Australia, according to e-safety commissioner Julie Inman Grant, who is working with Facebook on the trial.\n\n\"We see many scenarios where maybe photos or videos were taken consensually at one point, but there was not any sort of consent to send the images or videos more broadly,\" she told ABC News.\n\nShe sought to reassure potential victims who might be concerned about proactively sending themselves intimate photos.\n\n\"It would be like sending yourself your image in email, but obviously this is a much safer, secure end-to-end way of sending the image without sending it through the ether,\" she said.\n\n\"They're not storing the image, they're storing the link and using artificial intelligence and other photo-matching technologies.\"\n\nUsers wanting to take part in the trial must first file a report with the commissioner, who will in turn share it with Facebook.\n\nProf Clare McGlynn, an expert from Durham Law School, described it as \"an innovative experiment\".\n\n\"I welcome Facebook taking steps to tackle this issue, as it has often been very slow to act in the past. However, this approach is only ever going to work for a few people and when we think of the vast number of nudes taken and shared each day, this clearly isn't a solution,\" she told the BBC.\n\nGraham Cluley, a security consultant, said that security would be the priority.\n\n\"Facebook knows that there will be many people concerned about how it handles such sensitive content, and I imagine they have put a good deal of thought into minimising the chances that anything goes wrong.\"\n\nIn March, Facebook was embroiled in a scandal when it emerged that a 30,000-strong private members group, Marine United, was routinely sharing images of nude women.\n\nThe group - made up of US marines - shared photographs of naked and semi-naked female colleagues.\n\nIn response to the revelations, Facebook introduced a feature that tagged pictures reported to it as revenge porn using photo-matching technology. It used this to prevent the image spreading and closed down the majority of accounts reported to it as hosting such images.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe gunman who killed 26 churchgoers in Texas fled from a mental health clinic in 2012, according to a police report.\n\nEl Paso officers who detained Devin Kelley five years ago were told he was \"a danger to himself and others\".\n\nKelley had been sent to the hospital after he was court-martialled for assaulting his ex-wife and stepson during a stint in the US Air Force.\n\nHe was \"attempting to carry out death threats\" against \"his military chain of command\", the report states.\n\nOfficials say the assault charge should have legally barred him from owning guns.\n\nEl Paso police arrested Kelley at a bus terminal in downtown El Paso in June 2012, according to a police report first reported by KPRC in Houston.\n\nOfficers wrote that Kelley had fled Peak Behavioral Health Services in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, about 100 miles (160km) away.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe person who reported him missing from the facility told police Kelley \"suffered from mental disorders\".\n\nKelley \"had already been caught sneaking firearms onto Holloman Air Force Base\", the report adds.\n\nLater that year, Kelley pleaded guilty in a military court to repeatedly assaulting his wife and toddler stepson.\n\nHe was sentenced to one year in a US Navy prison.\n\nFBI investigators said on Tuesday they have been trying to unlock Kelley's mobile phone, to better understand what led him to carry out the mass shooting.\n\nAccording to the Houston Chronicle newspaper, the 26-year-old killer had shown up at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs with his children for an annual fall festival five days before the shooting.\n\nA friend of Kelley's former mother-in-law Michelle Shields, who officials believe he was targeting on Sunday, said she was glad to see him at last week's event with her grandchildren following past family troubles.\n\n\"They thought, 'oh this is good. This is progress,'\" said the woman.\n\nPhotos of the event on the church's Facebook page show children dressed in Halloween costumes and playing games.\n\nSeveral of the victims are also shown in the images.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Johnnie Langendorff: \"I'm just a guy who wanted to do the right thing\"\n\nSurvivors have been describing how Kelley went pew to pew in the church shooting crying children.\n\nIn an interview with San Antonio television station KSAT, Rosanne Solis described the terror among congregants.\n\nArmed with an assault rifle and 450 rounds of ammunition, the gunman began shooting into the small wooden building from outside.\n\nMs Solis, who was sitting near the entrance, said he stormed through the front of the church, shouting: \"Everybody die!\"\n\n\"Everybody was saying, 'Be quiet! it's him, it's him!'\" said Ms Solis.\n\nShe added: \"Everybody got down, crawling under wherever they could hide. He was shooting hard.\"\n\nWitnesses said the gunman walked up and down the aisles looking for survivors to shoot.\n\nMs Solis' husband, Joaquin Ramirez, told how he made eye contact with Annabelle Pomeroy - the 14-year-old daughter of the church's pastor.\n\nShe was crying for help, Mr Ramirez told KSAT.\n\nHe said he motioned with his finger for her to stay quiet. Annabelle was killed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Our kids play together,' says a resident whose neighbours are feared dead\n\nMr Ramirez said the gunman also killed young children who were crying, shooting them at point-blank range.\n\nHe and his wife survived by playing dead, though she was shot in the arm and he was hit by shrapnel.\n\nAnother survivor, Farida Brown, 73, had a narrow escape, her son David Brown told KENS-TV.\n\n\"The shooter was making his rounds, and he ended up there and started shooting this lady multiple times,\" Mr Brown told the station.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After the Las Vegas attack in October 2017 the BBC looked at how US mass shootings are getting worse\n\n\"And the lady looked at my mom the whole time, and my mom was looking at her and telling her, 'It's OK, you're going to go to heaven. You're going to go to heaven.'\n\n\"And then she knew it was her turn to be shot, and so she just started praying that God would take her soul to heaven.\"\n\nBut at that moment a neighbour, Stephen Willeford, entered the church and began shooting at Kelley.\n\nAs Kelley fled in his car, Mr Willeford flagged down a passing motorist, Johnnie Langendorff.\n\nThe two gave chase in Mr Langendorff's pickup truck until Kelley's vehicle crashed in a ditch.\n\nThe gunman was found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, say police.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Twelve people were killed and dozens more injured in the 1987 bomb attack\n\nA memorial to 12 people killed in an IRA bomb in Enniskillen has been unveiled in an event marking 30 years since the attack.\n\nThe bomb exploded at the town's cenotaph on 8 November 1987 during a Remembrance Sunday ceremony,\n\nEleven people were killed in the bombing. A twelfth victim, Ronnie Hill, slipped into a coma two days afterwards and died 13 years later.\n\nThe Queen sent a message to those gathered at the anniversary ceremony.\n\nShe said the memorial was a poignant reminder of a terrible event.\n\nThe Enniskillen Poppy Day Bomb memorial was unveiled during the ceremony\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster, PSNI Chief Constable George Hamilton and NI Secretary James Brokenshire were among those who attended Wednesday's ceremony at the cenotaph, along with families and relatives of those killed and injured.\n\nThe head of the Police Service of Northern Ireland, George Hamilton, said it was \"a huge regret to me that no one has ever been brought to justice\" for the Enniskillen bombing.\n\nHe added: \"My heart goes out to the families today\".\n\nAfter a two-minute silence, the names of the dead were read and 12 bells tolled.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who were the victims of the Enniskillen bombing?\n\nFamily members and dignitaries laid wreaths at the new memorial.\n\nThe Ballyreagh Silver Band, who played at the 1987 Remembrance Sunday ceremony, provided music for the ceremony.\n\nThe service was led by the Reverend David Cupples and the main address was delivered by the Reverend Michael Davidson, whose father was killed in an IRA attack in Belfast in 1979.\n\n\"I believe we need more than justice,\" Mr Davidson told those gathered at the memorial service.\n\n\"I believe that even if we were to receive the justice we deserve in a legal sense tomorrow, while it might bring some satisfaction, I do not believe it would bring peace or closure.\n\n\"We need more than justice - we need healing.\"\n\nThe former first minister Arlene Foster described the atmosphere at Wednesday's service as \"very eerie\".\n\n\"There was a lot of silence and people were being very reflective, and, I think, people are being very reflective of the horrific nature of what happened on that day,\" she said.\n\nThere is controversy over where the memorial will be eventually be placed. In the meantime, it has gone into storage.\n\nRemembrance Sunday 1987 was a day that the people of Enniskillen would never forget.\n\nThe bomb blew out walls, showering the area with debris and burying some people in several feet of rubble.\n\nFast forward 30 years and on Wednesday, families will gather at the new Presbyterian Church hall to remember the horror that brought them together and to reflect on how times have changed for Northern Ireland.\n\nShortly after 10:00 GMT, they made their way just a few yards up the road to the area around the war memorial, remembering those who made that fateful journey in 1987.\n\nPeople were buried in several feet of rubble\n\nOne of those who set the tone after the bombing was Gordon Wilson, whose daughter Marie was killed and who was himself injured in the attack.\n\nHe repeated his 20-year-old daughter's final words to him as they both lay in the rubble of the bombing.\n\n\"Daddy, I love you very much,\" she said.\n\nMr Wilson said: \"I bear no ill will. Dirty sort of talk is not going to bring her back to life. She was a great wee lassie.\"\n\nA group called Enniskillen Together was set up to further the cause of reconciliation in the area.\n\nThe IRA lost support worldwide after the bombing.\n\nOn Remembrance Day 1997, the leader of the IRA's political wing, Sinn Féin's Gerry Adams, formally apologised for the bombing.\n\nThe bomb exploded at 10:45 GMT on 8 November 1987. There was no warning given.\n\nThose who died in the attack were all Protestant and included three married couples, a reserve police officer and several pensioners.\n\nDUP leader Arlene Foster and NI Secretary James Brokenshire were among those who gathered for Wednesday's ceremony\n\nFollowing the attack, the Queen sent her \"heartfelt sympathy\" to the people of Enniskillen and the then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, called it \"utterly barbaric\" and \"a blot on mankind\".\n\nThere were 10 arrests in connection with the bombing, but no-one has ever been convicted of the attack.", "The former UK international development secretary is filmed leaving 10 Downing Street's back entrance after meeting Prime Minister Theresa May.\n\nMs Patel has resigned following controversy over her meetings with Israeli officials.", "A child has been given a new genetically modified skin that covers 80% of his body, in a series of lifesaving operations.", "Last updated on .From the section England\n\nEngland and Germany players will wear black armbands bearing poppies for Friday's friendly at Wembley.\n\nThe tribute is in remembrance of members of the armed forces, said the Football Association (FA) and German Football Association (DFB).\n\nFA chief executive Martin Glenn called it \"a show of solidarity and unity\".\n\nIt comes after rules were changed last month, allowing the home nations to wear a poppy if opposing teams and the competition organiser agree to it.\n\nWales will also wear black armbands bearing poppies for Friday's friendly football international against France in Paris.\n\nEngland, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland were all fined for displaying poppies during games in November 2016 as Fifa deemed it to be a political symbol.\n\nBut all four teams said they would request permission to wear poppies during November's international matches after the rules were revised.\n\nDFB president Reinhard Grindel said poppy armbands were not \"political propaganda\".\n\n\"They're about remembering the kind of values that were kicked to the ground in two World Wars but are cherished by football: respect, tolerance, and humanity,\" he said.\n\nA replica of 'The Truce' statue, which depicts the historic World War I ceasefire where peace and games of football broke out between British and German troops on Christmas Day in 1914, will be on temporary display beside the Bobby Moore statue at Wembley Stadium.\n\nThe FA and DFB also plan to commemorate Armistice Day on 11 November in a number of other ways:\n• None RAF, Army and Navy representatives will lay wreaths before kick-off.\n• None A period of silence will be held before kick-off and after the national anthems.\n• None During the silence, the Wembley Stadium arch will be lit in red and 'Football Remembers' will be displayed on the stadium screen.\n• None A banner parade, involving representatives from the military, will take place inside the stadium before kick-off.\n• None There will be poppy and St George's flag T-shirt layouts for fans in the east and west stands.\n• None Poppy sellers will be at Wembley Stadium in the fanzone, concourses and on Olympic Way.\n\nNorthern Ireland host Switzerland in the first leg of their play-off for the 2018 World Cup while Scotland face the Netherlands at Pittodrie in a friendly on Thursday.", "Ahmed is just one of nearly 250,000 people who fled Raqqa during the military offensive to drive out the Islamic State group from the city.\n\nProduced by Nader Ibrahim, BBC Arabic and Coda Studio; Animation by Alessandra Cugno; Illustrations by Sofiya Voznaya", "Democrats have scored two significant victories in the US - in the first statewide elections since President Donald Trump came to power in January.\n\nIn Virginia, Ralph Northam defeated Republican Ed Gillespie in a governorship race marked by tussles on immigration and Confederate statues.\n\nPhil Murphy, who beat Kim Guadagno, will be New Jersey governor.\n\nThe results could give an early indication of how next year's midterm congressional elections will turn out.\n\nNew York City's Democrat mayor was also comfortably re-elected.\n\nMeanwhile, Virginia voters also made history by electing their first openly transgender state legislator.\n\nDemocrats have been craving something to celebrate after defeat in four congressional special elections this year, despite a groundswell of grassroots opposition to President Trump.\n\nWith nearly all the votes countered in Virginia, Mr Northam had 53.9% against 44.9% for Mr Gillespie.\n\nMr Northam, the lieutenant governor of Virginia, will now replace popular Governor Terry McAuliffe, a Democrat.\n\nMr Northam won despite a series of flip-flops during the campaign.\n\nProgressive supporters were outraged after Mr Northam reversed stance to say he would oppose any attempt by a Virginia city to provide sanctuary to illegal immigrants.\n\nThe Democrat offered to work with President Trump after previously calling him \"a narcissistic maniac\".\n\nMr Northam also vowed to lead efforts to remove Confederate statues, only to say later that he would leave the decision to local authorities.\n\nAnd his camp was further embarrassed by a racially charged advert, released by a group supporting his candidacy.\n\nMr Gillespie, a Washington lobbyist and former Republican party chairman, had accused Mr Northam of failing to curb gang violence and seeking to tear down statues honouring Civil War, pro-slavery secessionists.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Gillespie's style was combative - but he distanced himself from President Trump.\n\nResponding to the election result, Mr Trump tweeted that Mr Gillespie \"did not embrace me or what I stand for\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\nMeanwhile, Virginia voters elected their first openly transgender state legislator in Danica Roem.\n\nThe 32-year-old journalist and stepmother ousted a long-time, pro-Trump, incumbent Republican in a race that focused on traffic issues.\n\nHer rival, Bob Marshall, described himself earlier this year as Virginia's \"chief homophobe\".\n\nVirginia voters also made history by electing their first transgender candidate\n\nIn New Jersey, Mr Murphy was comfortably leading the race with 55.5%. His Republican rival Ms Guadagno has 42.6%, with about 90% of the votes counted.\n\nMr Murphy will replace Republican Chris Christie, who was in office for eight years.\n\nDemocrats finally have a victory of the non-moral kind. After coming up short in a handful of special elections across the US, they went to the polls in a battleground state and posted a huge win.\n\nHow the Democrats, from governor candidate Ralph Northam on down, swept through election night in Virginia should be particularly concerning to Republicans across the US.\n\nTurnout from Democratic supporters surged. They ran up huge margins with college-educated voters and residents in the wealthy Northern Virginia suburbs. The legions of rural voters who turned out for Donald Trump in 2016 were a non-factor.\n\nDemocrats won legislative races that were considered to be in play only in the rosiest of Democratic wave scenarios. Exit polls show a plurality of Virginians went to the polls to send a message to Mr Trump. Their top issue was healthcare. At least in Virginia, the president's dismal approval ratings translated into ballot-box poison.\n\nThe stage is now set for the midterm elections in 2018. Republicans will have a year to brace for what could be an anti-Trump tsunami forming on the horizon. What they - and Mr Trump - do next could decide their fate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. They gambled on Trump - did it pay off?", "Marks and Spencer will open fewer Simply Food shops than expected after same store food sales fell in the first six months of its financial year.\n\nChief executive Steve Rowe said last year the retailer would open 200 Simply Food shops over the next five years.\n\nHowever, M&S said it would \"reposition our food business including slowing our Simply Food store opening plan\".\n\nLike-for-like food sales, which exclude new store trade, fell 0.1% with Marks saying it faced \"stronger headwinds\".\n\nHowever, total food sales for the period rose 4.4% driven by new shop openings.\n\nM&S said that \"hard-pressed\" consumers were more aware of value and were being \"careful about premium choices\". It added that \"headwinds facing our food business have intensified as competitors have encroached on some of our space with the rapid growth of convenience\".\n\nIt also said that its profit margins on food had been hit because of rising producer costs, as well as its policy of not passing on price increases to its customers.\n\nM&S had planned for 90 new Simply Food shops this year, half of which M&S would open itself, while the rest would be operated by franchisees.\n\nIt will now open 80 stores, split equally between M&S and its franchise partners. It also expected to open a further 90 Simply Food stores in 2018, but this will also now be reduced.\n\nShares in M&S fell by 1.8% to 321.9p.\n\nCommenting on M&S's performance in food, Patrick O'Brien, UK research director at GlobalData Retail, said: \"When you compare that to the likes of Tesco, Sainsbury's and Morrisons, whose recent like-for-likes have been around 2% plus, that's a pretty bad performance.\"\n\nHe said that food had been \"a banker\" for M&S in the past. \"For it to be losing ground at a time of inflation is really quite damaging,\" he said.\n\nFor the group, overall total sales rose by 2.6% to £5.1bn, but pre-tax profit fell by 5.3% to £219.1m.\n\nLike-for-like sales in clothing and homeware fell 0.7%, while total same-store sales declined 0.3%.\n\nThese figures aren't as bad as some had expected. An increase in full-price clothing and home sales is an encouraging sign.\n\nBut there are also now challenges in its upmarket food business, which in recent years has been a huge success story for M&S.\n\nIt had been planning to open around 200 new Simply Food stores by 2019. This is now being scaled back, which seems a sensible move.\n\nMarks is now focusing on speeding up its existing store restructuring plans, which involve 105 \"legacy stores\".\n\nSix stores, out of 30 earmarked for closure, have already ceased trading and a further two have been relocated this year. Marks says the transfer of customers to alternative stores has been much higher than expected, giving them the confidence to accelerate their plans.\n\nChief executive Steve Rowe wouldn't be drawn on whether this was now just the start of a much bigger store reduction plan.\n\nA lot of retail experts think he needs to go much further than today's update, given the huge structural challenges facing the business.\n\nThe company will also speed up plans to close or reposition 105 of its stores. Mr Rowe said it would accelerate the closure of 30 M&S shops, convert 40 to Simply Food shops and relocate the remaining sites.\n\nMr Rowe said: \"We have made good progress in remedying the immediate and burning issues at M&S I outlined last year.\n\n\"In clothing and home, early results are encouraging, and in International we now have a profitable and robust business.\n\n\"We recognise now that we face stronger headwinds in food, which will be addressed in the year ahead.\"\n\nM&S also announced that its chief financial officer, Helen Weir, will step down. She will stay on until a successor is found.\n\nThe retailer declined to comment on current trading, but Ms Weir said the wider market view that trading in October had been difficult was \"valid\".\n\nMr Rowe said that warmer weather had affected demand for coats and jumpers, but he added: \"We will trade Christmas as we always do and we're looking forward to giving our customers a treat.\"", "Two women wrapped in thermal blankets stand near the Manchester Arena after the attack\n\nA breakdown in communication led to a near two-hour delay in sending fire crews to the scene of the Manchester Arena attack, the BBC understands.\n\nThey were deployed to the Ariana Grande gig on 22 May one hour 47 minutes after Salman Abedi killed 22 and injured 512.\n\nA report leaked to the Manchester Evening News claims the fire service waited until it knew there was no further terror threat.\n\nGreater Manchester fire service said it will not be commenting on the leak.\n\nThe leaked report is an internal investigation by the Fire Brigades Union and Greater Manchester fire service for Lord Kerslake's inquiry examining how the emergency services responded to the attack.\n\nOnly three paramedics ever entered the cordoned-off foyer area at the centre of the blast, the BBC has been told\n\nA firefighter who was on duty on the night has told the BBC they wanted to help but senior management from the fire service did not send them to the scene.\n\n\"I don't want people - the public - to think that we didn't want to go or we were scared to go. We were held back by the senior management,\" the firefighter, who wants to remain anonymous, said.\n\nThe fire service said it would not comment on the findings until Lord Kerslake had delivered his official inquiry.\n\nIt earlier said it had conducted a \"debrief\" of its response, but it would be inappropriate to comment further given the fact it was co-operating with an ongoing review by Lord Kerslake into the Manchester attack, commissioned by Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emergency services outside the Manchester Arena after this year's bomb attack.\n\nEight days after the bombing, Greater Manchester Police Chief Constable Ian Hopkins said the fire and ambulance services initially went to a rendezvous point as per standard practice.\n\nHe said his force had been on the scene \"within seconds\" and had contacted North West Ambulance Service within three minutes of the incident being declared.\n\nMany of the most seriously injured victims did not get expert medical help for more than an hour, witnesses have said.\n\nOnly three paramedics ever entered the cordoned-off foyer area at the centre of the blast, the BBC has been told.\n\nThere was also a delay with the response during a counter-terrorism training exercise at the Trafford Centre 12 months before the Arena bomb, according to a retired former senior member of the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service.\n\nKirk Cornwall, who was an official assessor at the exercise, said: \"I ran an exercise at the Trafford Centre.\n\n\"I was there as one of the observers/assessors, and a similar thing occurred there where the pre-organised exercise started at midnight and it was around about 02:00 to 02:30 before emergency services personnel laid hands on a casualty purely through a breakdown in communication.\n\n\"In relation to debriefs for the majority of incidents - not just by the fire service but the emergency services - one term that keeps coming up every time is communication.\"", "The International Development Secretary held undisclosed meetings in Israel without telling the Foreign Office while accompanied by an influential pro-Israeli Conservative campaigner, the BBC has learned.\n\nPriti Patel met the leader of one of Israel's main political parties and made visits to several organisations where official departmental business was reportedly discussed.\n\nAccording to one source, at least one of the meetings was held at the suggestion of the Israeli ambassador to London.\n\nIn contrast, British diplomats in Israel were not informed about Ms Patel's plans.\n\nMinisters are by convention supposed to tell the Foreign Office when they are conducting official business overseas.\n\nDowning Street said Ms Patel was on a private holiday she had paid for herself, during which she took the opportunity to meet people.\n\nMs Patel told the Guardian: \"Boris [Johnson] knew about the visit. The point is that the Foreign Office did know about this, Boris knew about [the trip]. It is not on, it is not on at all.\n\n\"I went out there, I paid for it. And there is nothing else to this. It is quite extraordinary. It is for the Foreign Office to go away and explain themselves.\"\n\nBut Labour have called for an investigation to examine whether Ms Patel breached the ministerial code and rules on lobbying.\n\nThe meetings took place over two days in August while Ms Patel was on holiday in Israel.\n\nNo civil servants were present but Ms Patel was accompanied by Lord Polak, honorary president of Conservative Friends of Israel (CFI), an influential lobbying organisation that has access to wealthy party donors.\n\nSome ministers and MPs accused Ms Patel of trying to win favour with wealthy pro-Israeli Conservative donors who could fund a potential future leadership campaign.\n\nOthers accused her of conducting her own \"freelance foreign policy\" on Israel. Ms Patel is a long-standing supporter of Israel and a former vice-chairman of CFI.\n\nMinisters also said there was a potential risk that the meetings could have broken the ministerial code of conduct which states that \"ministers must ensure that no conflict arises, or could reasonably be perceived to arise, between their public duties and their private interests, financial or otherwise\".\n\nIsraeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu has been in London this week\n\nOne minister said: \"This is outrageous. She is a Cabinet minister. She just cannot do this. This is about donors and influence.\"\n\nOne former minister said: \"What does it say to the rest of the Middle East if a senior Cabinet minister in charge of Britain's huge aid budget disappears for 48 hours from a family holiday in Israel and is under the wing of a pro-Israeli lobbyist?\"\n\nThe revelations risk embarrassing the government while the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, is in London to mark the centenary of the Balfour Declaration, when Britain first gave its support for a national home for the Jewish people.\n\nA senior Downing Street source denied Ms Patel had done anything wrong. And a source at the Department for International Development said it was a private holiday paid for by the Secretary of State herself.\n\nForeign Office sources in London - and diplomatic sources in the region - confirmed that Ms Patel had not given them any warning of her visit.\n\nOne minister said: \"Yes, we did not know about the trip. We were unsighted on it.\" Another source said the British consulate in Jerusalem was \"blindsided\" and felt \"slightly bruised\".\n\nA third Foreign Office source said: \"We didn't know and would have expected to know, given the meetings she had.\"\n\nMs Patel took time out from her family holiday on 24 August to meet Yair Lapid, the leader of Israel's centrist Yesh Atid party, a former finance minister in Mr Netanyahu's coalition government.\n\nMr Lapid tweeted a picture of the meeting, saying it was \"great to meet Priti Patel\" whom he described as \"a true friend of Israel.\" Mr Lapid's spokesman confirmed that he had met Ms Patel but refused to say what they discussed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by יאיר לפיד This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Patel was accompanied by the Tory peer, Lord Polak. He is now honorary president of Conservative Friends of Israel but for more than 25 years, he was the director of the lobby group. And in that role he had a huge influence on Conservative thinking on the Middle East, including writing speeches for Tory party leaders.\n\nLord Polak told the BBC that he just happened to be on holiday at the same time as Ms Patel. \"We met up for one or two things,\" he said. \"It was the summer holidays. I just joined her for a couple of days, some drinks, some dinner, that kind of thing.\"\n\nThat included the meeting with Mr Lapid: \"He is just an old friend of mine, a personal friend. He is more a journalist than a politician. We just had coffee with him. It wasn't anything formal. It is all very innocent.\"\n\nConservative Friends of Israel regularly pays for MPs and peers to visit Israel. But Lord Polak said that Ms Patel paid for the holiday herself and the trip had nothing to do with CFI.\n\nThe peer said he organised for Ms Patel to visit Israeli firms and charities creating technologies that could be interesting to a Secretary of State for Development.\n\nMs Patel visited Beit Issie Shapiro (BIS), a leading Israeli disability charity and campaign group, where she reportedly discussed the possibility of her department forming a long-term partnership with the organisation.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 pablo kaplan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJean Judes, executive director of BIS, published a picture on Facebook of Ms Patel visiting her organisation.\n\nMrs Judes wrote: \"As the director of the DFID - UK Department for International Development, Ms Patel expressed interest in a long-term relationship with Beit Issie Shapiro, harnessing Israeli innovation to advance assistive technology for the benefit of people with disabilities in underdeveloped countries.\n\n\"We look forward to a strong, fruitful partnership with the DFID to enhance the quality of life of people with disabilities worldwide.\"\n\nMrs Judes told the BBC that the Israeli embassy in London had been involved in setting up the visit: \"We reached out.\n\n\"We met with the Israeli ambassador in London and he said this is something we should bring to the attention of Priti Patel.\" The Israeli embassy in London declined to respond to questions.\n\nLord Polak said Ms Patel also visited Innovation: Africa, an Israeli not-for-profit organisation developing new solar and water technologies for remote African communities.\n\nThe fear among some Tory MPs is that Ms Patel also used the trip to discuss reducing her department's support for Palestinian groups.\n\nThe UK currently sends about £68m a year to support the Palestinian territories, most of it from DFID's budget. Some of the money is given directly to the Palestinian Authority, the rest through the local UN agency or individual groups.\n\nCritics claim that instead of just supporting Palestinian refugees and institutions, the money has also been used to pay salaries to Palestinians jailed for terrorism-related offences.\n\nMs Patel has long been a critic of this funding. She tightened up the guidelines on Palestinian spending last year, focusing more on health and education, but one Foreign Office source said that she had recently tried to go further, presenting a paper to the prime minister and the foreign secretary for yet more restrictions on the funding.\n\n\"But they were not particularly impressed by her arguments,\" said one Foreign Office source. Another said: \"She has been trying this for some time. She has been pushing to get her hands on the PA aid budget and we have been pushing back.\"\n\nOthers suggested Ms Patel was getting close to CFI in preparation for a future leadership contest. One Whitehall source said: \"I have always understood it to be part of her leadership ambitions, if she has got people from CFI who are prepared to put money into her.\"\n\nThe BBC sent Ms Patel's office a list of questions concerning the visit to Israel which it declined to answer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe new Louvre, built over the past 10 years, holds 600 artworks permanently and 300 loaned from France.\n\nPraised by critics, the building boasts a latticed dome designed to allow the desert sun to filter through.\n\nIt holds art and items related to history and religion from around the world and Mr Macron called it a \"bridge between civilisations\".\n\nHe said: \"Those who seek to say Islam is the destruction of other religions are liars.\"\n\nThe project, agreed between France and Abu Dhabi in 2007, was initially intended to open in 2012 but was delayed by the global financial crisis and plummeting oil prices, sending the final cost soaring over its original $654m (then £340m) budget.\n\nThe Louvre Abu Dhabi is the first project to open in a series which the United Arab Emirates hope will put the city on the cultural map\n\nIn addition, the museum is paying France hundreds of millions of dollars for the use of the Louvre name and for loans of artworks and managerial advice.\n\nThe museum has attracted its share of controversy over concerns about the welfare of the workers constructing the building.\n\nBut critics have declared the finished building - the first to open in a series of projects conceived by UAE authorities at creating a cultural oasis on the Abu Dhabi island of Saadiyat - a \"mesmerising\" success, if with a \"touch of bling\".\n\nThe Paris Louvre is a landmark in the French capital and the world's largest art museum, with millions of visitors a year.\n\nThe Abu Dhabi building, designed by French architect Jean Nouvel, brings to mind an Arab medina (an ancient quarter of a city).\n\nNone of its 55 rooms, including 23 permanent galleries, is alike.\n\nThe latticed dome protects visitors from the scalding heat, while allowing the rooms to glow with natural light.\n\nOn show are works from around the world - from established European masters including Van Gogh, Gaugin and Picasso, to Americans such as James Abbott McNeill Whistler (his painting Whistler's Mother, above) and the modern Chinese artist Ai Weiwei.\n\nThe museum has also joined force with Arab institutions who have loaned 28 prized works.\n\nAmong the priceless artefacts on show are a statue of a sphinx dating back to the 6th Century BC and a frieze depicting figures from the Koran.\n\nThe museum's doors open to the public on Saturday - with all entrance tickets, priced 60 dirhams ($16.80), sold out.\n\nEmirati officials will hope the magnificence of the building will put concerns about the wellbeing of its workers and controversy about delays and overrunning costs in the shade.", "Artwork: The \"zombie\" star kept erupting for nearly two years\n\nIt's the astronomical equivalent of a horror film adversary: a star that just wouldn't stay dead.\n\nWhen most stars go supernova, they die in a single blast, but astronomers have found a star that survived not one, but five separate explosions.\n\nThe \"zombie\" star kept erupting for nearly two years - six times longer than the duration of a typical supernova.\n\nAn international team details their results in the academic journal Nature.\n\n\"This supernova breaks everything we thought we knew about how they work. It's the biggest puzzle I've encountered in almost a decade of studying stellar explosions,\" said co-author Iair Arcavi, a postdoctoral fellow at Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) who is based in California.\n\nThe mysterious object, iPTF14hls, was picked up in September 2014 by a wide-field camera astronomy survey.\n\nAstronomers identified it as an exploding star in January 2015; everything about the discovery seemed normal at first.\n\nIn common types of supernova, a blast at the centre of the star ejects material at high speed into surrounding space. The expansion of this material releases energy, causing the object to shine brightly for up to 100 days (about four months) before it finally fades.\n\nIt soon became clear this exploding star wasn't conforming to expectations. For one thing, it didn't fade, but shone brightly for 600 days - nearly two years.\n\nWhat's more, the astronomers found that its brightness varied by as much as 50% on an irregular timescale, as if it was exploding over and over again.\n\nAnd, rather than cooling down as expected, the object maintained a near-constant temperature of about 5,700C.\n\nIntriguingly, by combing through archived data, scientists discovered an explosion that occurred in 1954 in exactly the same location. This could suggest that the star somehow survived that explosion, only to detonate again in 2014.\n\nThe object may be the first known example of a Pulsational Pair Instability Supernova.\n\n\"According to this theory, it is possible that this was the result of a star so massive and hot that it generated antimatter in its core,\" said co-author Daniel Kasen, from the University of California, Berkeley.\n\n\"That would cause the star to go violently unstable, and undergo repeated bright eruptions over periods of years.\"\n\nThat process could even repeat itself over decades before the star's final explosion and collapse to a black hole.\n\nThe discovery was made by the Intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF) wide-field camera survey\n\nKate Maguire, from Queen's University Belfast, who was not involved with the study, told BBC News: \"It's a theoretical idea that people have put forward, but this is the first time that an object has been identified that matches this quite well.\n\nWriting in a news and views article published in Nature, Prof Stan Woosley, from the University of California, Santa Cruz, said that in the Pulsational Pair Instability theory, a massive star may lose about half its mass before the series of violent pulses begins.\n\nNot everything we know about the \"zombie\" matches this theory, Prof Woosley added, and many uncertainties remain.\n\n\"As of now, no detailed model has been published that can explain the observed emission and constant temperature of iPTF14hls, let alone the possible eruption 60 years ago,\" he wrote.\n\n\"For now, the supernova offers astronomers their greatest thrill: something they do not understand.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'To Kevin Spacey: Shame on you for what you did to my son'\n\nNew allegations of sexual harassment and predatory behaviour towards men and women by Kevin Spacey have emerged.\n\nThe claims, spanning from the mid-1980s to 2016, raise further questions about the US actor's conduct in the decades he worked in Hollywood and as artistic director at London's Old Vic theatre.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Mr Spacey for comment.\n\nOn Wednesday, the journalist whose October tweet triggered a series of accusations about Mr Spacey spoke 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 Heather Unruh This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 television news anchor Heather Unruh told a press conference in Boston that her son had been sexually assaulted by Mr Spacey, at the age of 18 in a bar in Nantucket, Massachusetts, in July 2016.\n\nShe said Mr Spacey had bought her son alcohol - the drinking age in Massachusetts is 21. After getting him drunk, Mr Spacey had \"stuck his hand inside my son's pants and grabbed his genitals\", she said.\n\nShe said Mr Spacey had invited her son to a party, but he had run away from the bar when Mr Spacey had gone to the lavatory.\n\nA criminal investigation was now under way, Mrs Unruh said.\n\n\"Shame on you for what you did to my son. Your actions are criminal,\" Mrs Unruh said through her tears.\n\nSince the first allegation of sexual advances were made by actor Anthony Rapp on 30 October, US network Netflix axed further production of Mr Spacey's House of Cards drama, the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced it will no longer give the actor a special Emmy award, and his agent and publicist dropped him as a client.\n\nIn response to Mr Rapp's claims, Mr Spacey said he has no memory of the incident and offered an apology.\n\nMr Spacey said he was seeking treatment after facing the allegations but did not give information about the type.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former London barman Kris Nixon says he was groped by Kevin Spacey\n\nSince then more men have come forward.\n\nBarman Kris Nixon, from Belfast, Northern Ireland, said he had been working near the Old Vic in 2007 when Mr Spacey groped him at a party.\n\n\"Kevin Spacey sat down next to me on a sofa, then reached over and grabbed my penis,\" he said.\n\nThe actor had then suggested he perform a sexual act on Mr Nixon, according to the barman, who then left the party.\n\nTwo weeks later, Mr Nixon was in the basement of the bar he had been working in, when, he said, he realised Spacey was two feet (60cm) behind him.\n\nThe actor grabbed Mr Nixon's waistband and offered to \"make it up\" to him, he said.\n\n\"I didn't want to make a scene about it - he was a customer. I didn't want to get fired.\n\n\"Until Anthony Rapp spoke out, I never felt able to tell anyone.\"\n\nSpacey was dropped from his House of Cards series after new allegations\n\nMeanwhile, an American film-maker has told the BBC that he was groped and sexually harassed by Mr Spacey as a 22-year-old junior crew member.\n\nThe man, now 44, who does not want to be identified, said the \"powerful\" director had made advances towards him on the shoot of Albino Alligator in 1995.\n\n\"He was very affable and nice to everybody. We shook hands and he took an interest in me. He offered to watch one of my student films, which I was very flattered by,\" he said.\n\nBut, he said, Mr Spacey had quickly become \"creepy\" and one day insisted he sit in his director's chair.\n\n\"He started massaging my neck and my shoulders, and I felt incredibly uncomfortable.\"\n\nThe film-maker, from California, said he had been singled out as a target because of his youth and inexperience.\n\n\"On one of the last days of shooting… he sat down next to me and put his thigh against mine and put his hand on my thigh and moved it towards my inner thigh,\" he said.\n\nHe told the BBC he had decided to come forward after hearing the allegations by actor Anthony Rapp but felt nervous about revealing his identity because of the influential position Mr Spacey continued to hold in the industry.\n\nAt the time, Mr Spacey's powerful position had made him feel conflicted about his encounters with the director, he said.\n\n\"I was getting the attention of the most powerful person on the movie set, and I wanted to work in Hollywood,\" he said.\n\n\"But it was an interest that made me feel totally uneasy, uncomfortable, confused. I didn't know what to do, I felt trapped. I felt harassed, sexually harassed.\"\n\nThe film-maker said he hoped coming forward would encourage others.\n\n\"I hope it makes those people who come forward feel less alone if they are feeling alone and confused, like I was when I was 22.\"\n\nOne woman told the BBC that she suffered depression after an encounter with Mr Spacey.\n\nKate Edwards, now a performing arts teacher in London, claims Mr Spacey made advances towards her when she had been a production assistant on Broadway show Long Day's Journey Into Night in 1986.\n\nMs Edwards, who was 17 at the time, said she had been alone in a lift with the 27-year-old Mr Spacey when he had invited her to a \"James Dean birthday party\" in his flat.\n\nKate Edwards (second left, back row) with the cast and crew of Long Day's Journey Into Night, starring Kevin Spacey, in 1986\n\nWhen she had arrived, she said, there had been no-one else there.\n\nMs Edwards said she had consensually kissed Mr Spacey, but then had started to feel uncomfortable and asked when others would arrive..\n\n\"I said I want to go home and change. I felt pressured, and it became quite clear that his intention was to have sex with me.\n\n\"He became cold and said, 'Find your own way.'\n\nShe said the actor had \"cut her dead\" after the encounter, she had become depressed, had gained weight, and had eventually been unable to continue working on the show.\n\nMs Edwards said her message to Mr Spacey today would be: \"I would like you to know that what you did hurt me, it affected me for years afterwards.\n\n\"What you did to me and what you did to other young people was unacceptable.\"", "Around 4,500 people are rough sleeping in the UK, according to the new survey\n\nAs many as one in 25 people are classed as homeless in the worst-affected areas of England, a new study has shown.\n\nHomeless charity Shelter said more than 268,000 people across England are homeless, although the number is a \"conservative estimate\", with many more expected to be going unrecorded.\n\nIt said the leading cause was the loss of a private tenancy, with three in 10 cases coming as a result.\n\nThe government said it was \"determined to tackle all forms of homelessness\".\n\nShelter has launched an urgent appeal to raise money for front-line services.\n\nThe definition of homelessness under law includes rough sleepers, single people in hostels and those in temporary accommodation.\n\nUnder these criteria, say Shelter, at least one in 206 people in England is classed as being homeless.\n\nBroken down, this results in around 4,100 people sleeping on the streets and at least 242,000 in temporary accommodation.\n\nA further 21,000 are either in hostels or being housed temporarily by social services.\n\nLondon has the highest proportion of homelessness in the country, accounting for 31 of the worst hotspots - with the borough of Newham recording one in 25 people as homeless.\n\nBut other pressure points have also been identified:\n\nThe number of temporary accommodation households has risen from 48,330 in 2011 to 78,810 at the start of 2017. Shelter believes at least 35% of those households will still be in unreliable homes in a year's time, showing little end in sight for many.\n\nThis is partly down to the number of people losing private tenancies, which the charity says has soared since cuts to housing benefits started in 2011.\n\nPolly Neate, chief executive of Shelter, is calling for an \"ambitious new direction\" from the government to tackle the issue, saying: \"On a daily basis, we speak to hundreds of people and families who are desperately trying to escape the devastating trap of homelessness.\n\n\"[It is] a trap that is tightening thanks to decades of failure to build enough affordable homes and the impact of welfare cuts.\"\n\nVictoria says she just wants \"a safe place to call home\"\n\nAt 72 years old, Victoria is homeless after her landlord decided to sell her privately-rented flat and she could not find anywhere to live.\n\nThe pensioner from London - whose surname we have not used - said that, despite always paying her rent on time, landlords did not want to rent to someone on housing benefit, and many properties in the capital were too expensive for her.\n\n\"Presenting myself as homeless was in itself humiliating and scary,\" she said. \"You're left sitting around for hours, waiting to find out if you'll have a place to stay that night.\"\n\nVictoria is now living in temporary accommodation, but is desperate to find somewhere permanent and \"a safe place to call home\".\n\n\"The whole thing makes me feel like there is something wrong with me,\" she said. \"I've moved around a lot, and yet for the first time in my life I feel like I have no control over my situation.\n\n\"I'm not easily scared, but the fear is terrible - you just don't know where you are going to end up. I'm in a constant state of anxiety and stress.\"\n\nDan Wilson Craw, director of campaign group Generation Rent, said it was \"incredibly easy\" for private tenants to find themselves homeless, as landlords do not need a reason to evict, and called for more restrictions to be put in place.\n\nThe Local Government Association said homelessness was causing a \"huge challenge\" for councils, with its housing spokesman, Martin Tett, calling for more resources from the government to tackle the issue.\n\nBut the Department for Communities and Local Government said it was investing £950m into supporting efforts to tackle homelessness by 2020, and it had already given more powers to local authorities.\n\nA spokesman said: \"We are determined to tackle all forms of homelessness, which includes making sure people in temporary accommodation are getting support to keep a roof over their heads.\"\n\nHomelessness has been rising rapidly since 2010, but it's difficult to know exactly how many people don't have anywhere to live.\n\nEstimates of rough sleepers are calculated by counting people on a single night, and potentially millions of \"sofa surfers\" go under the radar.\n\nThe charity, Shelter, has pieced together various data sources to arrive at its figure.\n\nIt used official data on how many households were living in temporary accommodation to calculate how many individual people that equated to.\n\nIt looked at hostel bed occupancy to include people who turn up without being referred by the council, often paying a fee to stay, who don't appear in official figures.\n\nAnd it asked councils how many homeless families they were accommodating, giving a much higher figure than the 78,180 homeless households usually quoted.", "Mark van Dongen died 15 months after being attacked in Bristol\n\nAn acid attack victim has told jurors, in testimony recorded before his death, how the \"jealous\" ex accused of his murder laughed as she doused him in a corrosive liquid.\n\nIn video evidence, Mark van Dongen, 29, said Berlinah Wallace, 48, shouted \"if I can't have you, no-one else can\" as she threw sulphuric acid at him.\n\nBristol Crown Court heard he ended his life in a euthanasia clinic due to unbearable pain from his injuries.\n\nThe court heard Dutch national Mr van Dongen was left paralysed from the neck down and lost his left leg, the sight in his left eye and most of the sight in his right eye, after the September 2015 attack in Bristol.\n\nHe was later told he would require a \"lifetime of constant and dedicated care\".\n\nIn January this year, he travelled to Belgium where he ended his life in a euthanasia clinic.\n\nA picture of Mark van Dongen taken before the attack\n\nJurors were shown the video interview with Mr van Dongen, filmed in hospital in July 2016, where he gave his account of the attack,\n\nTrial judge Mrs Justice May warned them they may find the footage, which showed the extent of the scarring to the victim's body, \"shocking and disturbing\".\n\nIn the video, Mr van Dongen struggles to speak as he describes Ms Wallace waking him up and laughing as she threw acid over him, saying \"if I can't have you, no one else can\".\n\nWhen the interviewer asks if he knew why she had attacked him, he says it was because she was jealous.\n\nIn a second video shown to the court, Mr van Dongen tells police Ms Wallace threw boiling water over him after an argument in 2014.\n\nHe also says Ms Wallace hit herself in the face, and told him she would tell police he had caused her injuries if he left her.\n\nAt the time of the attack, prosecutor Adam Vaitilingam QC told jurors, Mr van Dongen had begun seeing another woman and moved into a hotel.\n\nThe victim visited the defendant at her flat in Ladysmith Road, Bristol, because he was concerned that she was \"in a bad way and self-harming\", the court was told.\n\nHe fell asleep, jurors heard, and Ms Wallace laughed as she threw a glass of sulphuric acid over him.\n\nThe court heard Mr van Dongen ran into the street \"screaming for help\", where neighbours tried to help him, and he was taken to a specialist burns unit at Southmead Hospital.\n\nMr Vaitilingam said: \"The physical and mental suffering that he sustained from that calculated acid attack were what drove him to euthanasia.\n\n\"Put simply, he could not bear to live in that condition.\n\n\"If that is right, we say, then she is guilty of murder.\"\n\nMs Wallace wept in the dock as the jury were told Mr van Dongen was \"genuinely frightened\" of her, and the couple's relationship had become \"volatile\".\n\nThe jury heard computer records showed Ms Wallace had bought the acid online on 2 September.\n\nShe also carried out internet searches, including \"can I die drinking sulphuric acid?\", and browsed news stories on acid attack victims.\n\nMs Wallace admits throwing a substance over Mr van Dongen but denies any intent to cause him harm.\n\nShe claims she believed that she was throwing a glass of water over him.\n\nRichard Smith QC, defending, told the jury \"to keep an open mind\".\n\n\"Yes, she threw the glass over him, but defence claims Mr van Dongen put the acid in the cup without her knowledge, and encouraged her to drink it resulting in a mirror image of what we now have.\"\n\nHe said the couple had a \"turbulent and complicated relationship\" and Ms Wallace was going to blackmail Mr van Dongen with personal information, which was why he put the acid in the glass and encouraged her to drink it.\n\nMs Wallace wiped away tears as jurors heard details of the couple's \"volatile\" relationship\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Priti Patel has left No 10 via the back door after talks with the PM to find out if she will be sacked amid controversy over meetings with Israeli ministers.\n\nThe international development secretary was ordered by the PM to cut short an African trip to fly back to the UK.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said a source told her that Ms Patel would rather resign than be sacked.\n\nMs Patel apologised about meetings with Israeli politicians in August.\n\nBut there are now questions about further meetings held in September.\n\nMs Patel arrived via the back door of Number 10 for her meeting with the prime minister after flying back to London Heathrow from Uganda.\n\nThe BBC's diplomatic correspondent James Landale said that by holding the secret meetings with Israeli officials, Ms Patel had broken \"one of the cardinal principles of government, namely collective responsibility, the idea that government speaks and acts as one once a policy has been agreed\".\n\nHe said this was about practicalities - so part of Whitehall knows what the other part is doing - and it also ensures ministers remain accountable.\n\nPriti Patel, top right, got into a ministerial car after arriving at Heathrow\n\nMs Patel was formally reprimanded in Downing Street on Monday, where she was asked to give details about a dozen meetings she had with Israeli officials while on holiday, which were not sanctioned by the Foreign Office.\n\nIt has also now emerged that Ms Patel conducted two further meetings in September without government officials present.\n\nIt is thought Lord Polak, honorary president of the Conservative Friends of Israel, was present at both meetings.\n\nHe later tweeted about their meeting.\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 18 September she met foreign ministry official Yuval Rotem in New York.\n\nIt is not yet clear whether Ms Patel had informed the prime minister about these meetings or of her plans to look into giving tax-payers' money to the Israeli military to treat wounded Syrian refugees in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights region - a request that was turned down as \"inappropriate\" by officials.\n\nIn a further development on Wednesday the Israeli Haaretz newspaper reported that during August she visited an Israeli military field hospital in the Golan Heights - the UK, like other members of the international community, has never recognised Israeli control of the area seized from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War.\n\nThere was no immediate comment from the Department for International Development on the report.\n\nMs Patel was forced to correct the record earlier this week about the number of meetings that she had attended and when the Foreign Office had been notified about them.\n\nThe MP said she had been wrong to suggest to the Guardian that Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson knew of the trip in advance when he had only learnt about it while it was under way.\n\nMs Patel, who has been an MP since 2010, is a long-standing supporter of Israel and a former vice-chairman of Conservative Friends of Israel.\n\nFormer Labour lord chancellor Lord Falconer told BBC Radio 4's Today: \"She should not be colluding with a foreign government - it doesn't matter if it's an ally or not... to do it in that secretive way makes her look like she's much more the emissary of the Israeli government than a member of the British government.\"\n\nFormer Conservative international development minister Sir Desmond Swayne said that even if Ms Patel was forced to quit, just a week after Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon resigned for inappropriate behaviour, it would not be a \"catastrophe\".\n\n\"There are 22 Cabinet ministers and there are plenty of people who are talented to step into their shoes,\" he told BBC's Victoria Derbyshire. \"It will not be a huge destabilisation.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Conservative Crispin Blunt tells Today it would have been alright if Patel had told Foreign Office about meetings\n\nIn a letter to Mrs May, Labour's shadow Cabinet Office minister Jon Trickett called on the prime minister to either call in her independent adviser on ministerial standards to investigate, or \"state publicly and explain your full reasons for why Priti Patel retains your confidence\".\n\nHowever, Conservative MP Nadhim Zahawi - a member of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee - told BBC Two's Newsnight that he believed some of the criticism facing Ms Patel was down to the fact she was a pro-Brexit campaigner during the EU referendum.\n\nHe said Ms Patel was not having \"clandestine\" meetings with \"an enemy state\" and that the Foreign Office was made aware of the meetings while she was in Israel.", "Priti Patel has resigned as international development secretary following controversy over her meetings with Israeli officials.\n\nThe BBC's Diplomatic Correspondent, James Landale, explains how a family holiday went terribly wrong for her.", "The company behind Snapchat has taken a $40m (£30m) hit to its finances after its video-recording sunglasses failed to sell as well as hoped.\n\nSnap launched Spectacles in September 2016, originally selling them only through pop-up vending machines.\n\nPressing a button on the glasses records a short video that can be shared on the Snapchat messaging app.\n\nBut on Tuesday the company revealed costs of $40m (£30m) due to \"excess inventory\" and cancelled orders.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChief executive Evan Spiegel has previously said 150,000 units have been sold.\n\nThe company's latest earnings report pinned the cost on \"excess inventory reserves and inventory purchase commitment cancellation charges\".\n\nCritics said the $129 glasses were too expensive and the picture quality of recorded videos was poor.\n\nSnap Spectacles were sold in vending machines and online\n\n\"They were a fun gimmick for some people, but not compelling enough for a lot of people to get involved,\" said Stuart Miles from technology news website Pocket-lint.\n\n\"Snap is a social-media company that is experimenting with merchandise and hardware. They're new to manufacturing, and they must have got their projections wrong.\n\n\"It never caught on in the way they were hoping.\"", "Former entertainer Rolf Harris has renewed his application to have his convictions for indecent assault quashed at the Court of Appeal.\n\nHis lawyers said there was overwhelming evidence to show he wasn't in an area where one of the alleged indecent assaults took place.\n\nThe 87-year-old is hoping to overturn the 12 indecent assault convictions he was jailed for in 2014.\n\nHis two-day appeal hearing was heard by three judges at the High Court.\n\nThe Australian-born TV presenter was sentenced to nearly six years in prison in 2014. He was released in May.\n\nHe was convicted of 12 indecent assaults against four girls, including one aged eight, which took place between 1968 and 1986.\n\nHis defence team have put forward new evidence which they claim shows he wasn't at Leigh Park community centre in Hampshire where one girl said she was assaulted in the 1960s.\n\nThe court heard from two former police officers and the father of one of the victims - who all said Harris was not in that part of Hampshire at the time of the alleged assault.\n\nStephen Vullo QC, representing Harris, said: \"We only need to show one count was unsafe in order to have a retrial.\"\n\nThe prosecution argued that despite these new claims, the force of evidence against him is still there.\n\nThe three judges will now reach their conclusion which is expected to take two weeks.", "Taoiseach Leo Varadkar appeared with the \"Shamrock Poppy\" in parliament\n\nThe prime minister of the Republic of Ireland has worn an Irish-themed red poppy badge to remember Irish soldiers who fought in World War One.\n\nTaoiseach Leo Varadkar appeared with the \"shamrock poppy\" in the Dáil - the parliament in the capital, Dublin.\n\nHe is the first leader of the Fine Gael political party to do this.\n\nThe move has triggered debate about how more than 200,000 Irish soldiers who served in the British Army are remembered.\n\nBetween 1914 and 1918, some 35,000 of them died.\n\n\"The Shamrock Poppy recognises Irish soldiers who fought in World War One,\" a spokesman for Mr Varadkar said.\n\n\"It was commissioned to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Great War by the Irish branch of the Royal British Legion.\n\n\"Proceeds from the Shamrock Poppy go to Irish veterans and their families, and towards the upkeep to memorials to Irish soldiers in Ireland. All money stays in Ireland,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe Shamrock Poppy worn by the Irish PM\n\nA green shamrock is traditionally used as a symbol of the Irish people.\n\nA red poppy - known as the remembrance poppy - has been used in the UK and several other countries to commemorate servicemen and women killed in all conflicts.\n\nIn April 1916, Irish republicans led an armed insurrection to end British rule.\n\nThe Anglo-Irish war in 1919-21 led to the partition of Ireland and the creation of the Irish Free State. The Republic of Ireland was declared in 1949.", "SSE has confirmed it is merging its British domestic business with Npower to form a new energy company.\n\nSSE, the UK's second-largest energy supplier, which also reported a big fall in its adjusted pre-tax profits of 13.9% in the six months to September, revealed the merger talks on Tuesday.\n\nThe deal knocks the country's \"Big Six\" energy firms down to five.\n\n\"We are very proud of what we've delivered over many years,\" said chief executive Alistair Phillips-Davies.\n\nHe said the merger would allow both to \"focus more acutely on pursuing their own dedicated strategies\".\n\nThe new firm is expected to be roughly the size of market leader British Gas and to serve about 11.5 million customers.\n\nThe news comes less than a month after the government published draft legislation to lower the cost of energy bills.\n\nHowever, SSE retail's chief operating officer, Tony Keeling, denied that was the reason for the merger.\n\n\"We've been looking for well over a year about what we should do,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. \"We've listened to government regulators and customers and understand that the market needs to transform and we're absolutely committed to doing that.\n\n\"By merging SSE's retail business with Npower's retail business to form a new organisation, we think we can be more efficient, more agile and more innovative for customers.\"\n\nThe deal could fall under the jurisdiction of the Competition and Markets Authority if it progresses beyond its current stage, but Mr Keeling added: \"We think it is very good for competition and customers. There are over 60 people competing in the market and if you look back to 2011, there were only eight.\"\n\nInnogy's chief executive officer, Peter Terium, agreed the price cap was not the reason for the merger but did concede it may \"have pushed it a bit quicker\".\n\nHe added that while \"great progress\" had been made in restructuring Npower over the past two years, \"it is clear that Npower would be better placed to offer value to our customers and our shareholders as part of a new company\".\n\nSSE's shareholders will hold 65.6% of the new company, with Innogy, which owns Npower, holding the rest.\n\nInnogy will also receive a break fee of £60m if SSE's shareholders fail to approve the deal by 31 July 2018.\n\nIn a statement, SSE said the new firm was expected \"to deliver enhanced value\" and that savings in costs and combined IT platforms would \"ultimately enable the company to be an efficient competitor in its markets\".\n\nIt added that no final decision on the implications for employees would be taken without talks with their representative bodies.\n\nMr Keeling added: \"We're proud of our track record in customer service and have plenty to build on.\n\n\"But there is a huge amount of competition and we need to do more than ever to compete by providing value for money and excellent experiences for customers.\n\n\"We have an exciting opportunity to create a major new independent supplier with a single-minded focus on customers.\"\n\nMeanwhile, regulator Ofgem has welcomed SSE's announcement that its electricity networks division will make a voluntary contribution of £65.1m to consumers.", "Many pilgrims try to get pictures of the Pope at his audiences\n\nPope Francis has chided the Catholic faithful for using their mobile phones during Mass.\n\nHe said it made him sad when many phones were held up, and even priests and bishops were taking photos.\n\nThe pontiff is not known to have used a mobile phone in public since his election and once asked young people to carry Bibles instead of phones.\n\nHowever, he is an avid user of social media and regularly allows himself to be snapped with pilgrims for selfies.\n\nHe has millions of followers on Twitter.\n\nSpeaking at his weekly audience in St Peter's Square in Rome, Pope Francis said that Mass was a time for prayer and not a show.\n\n\"At a certain point the priest leading the ceremony says 'lift up our hearts'. He doesn't say 'lift up our mobile phones to take photographs' - it's a very ugly thing,\" he said.\n\n\"It's so sad when I'm celebrating mass here or inside the basilica and I see lots of phones held up - not just by the faithful, but also by priests and bishops! Please!\"", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nBritain's Andy Murray hopes to make his competitive return in Brisbane in January following a hip injury - but only if he is 100% fit.\n\nThe Scot lost 6-3 3-6 10-6 to world number two Roger Federer as part of a charity event in Glasgow on Tuesday.\n\nIt was the first time Murray, 30, had played in public since he lost to Sam Querrey at Wimbledon in July.\n\n\"I am in a significantly better place than at the end of Wimbledon and in the build-up to the US Open,\" said Murray.\n\n\"Walking was a big problem for me [at that time],\" he told BBC Sport.\n• None Federer dons kilt against Murray as tennis goes tartan for charity\n\nMurray, who slipped to 16th in the latest world rankings, said he was confident of getting back to full fitness, but admitted that it could take time for him to find his best form.\n\nHe will travel to Miami later in the year for his regular off-season training block and \"hopes\" to return to competition at the Brisbane International in January.\n\nThe tournament is held two weeks before the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of 2018, which gets under way on 15 January.\n\n\"When I get back on the court again my best form might not come immediately but there's nothing that's making me think I can't find it,\" Murray added.\n\n\"I'll come back when I'm ready and 100% fit. I believe I will get back to that.\"\n\nMurray also played a doubles match with brother Jamie against Tim Henman and Mansour Bahrami during Tuesday's 'Andy Murray Live' event in Glasgow.\n\nEight weeks before his hoped for return in Brisbane, Murray put down an encouraging marker as he was beaten 10-6 in a deciding tie-break in Glasgow.\n\nThere was time for Federer to hold serve in a kilt early in the second set (he was told to 'Get yer kilt back on' when he lost the first few points after dispensing with it), but there were also plenty of competitive rallies.\n\nWe are getting used to seeing Murray walk with a slight limp but for the most part he ran and moved well. He covered a lot of ground in rallies which frequently switched direction, and struck the ball soundly.\n\nHis serve is not yet back up to full speed, but that is only to be expected of someone rehabbing a serious hip problem.\n\nNext to Miami, where two weeks of pre-season training will give him a clearer picture of whether he will be celebrating the New Year in Australia.\n\nMurray endured a frustrating 2017 season in terms of both form and fitness. He was knocked out of the Australian Open in the fourth round and went on to miss a month with an elbow injury.\n\nHe fared better at the French Open, reaching the semi-finals, but lost in the first round at Queen's Club before visibly struggling with the hip as his Wimbledon title defence was ended by Querrey in the quarter-finals.\n\nStill ranked number one, Murray travelled to New York for the US Open but pulled out two days before the tournament began having failed to recover sufficiently.\n\n\"I made, probably, a bit of a mistake trying to get ready for the US Open but it was the last major of the year,\" said Murray.\n\n\"I've been training for a few weeks now. Some days I've felt great, some days I've felt not so good, but I'm getting there.\"\n\nFederer, who missed the latter half of the 2016 season with a knee injury before winning the Australian Open and Wimbledon this year, said it was \"wise and worthwhile\" to take time to recover.\n\n\"When you come back, you want to be at 100%. Otherwise you feel like you can't beat the best and can't win the major tournaments,\" said the 36-year-old Swiss.\n\n\"I'm sure Andy has a lot of years left. You need to have goals but sometimes they need to be postponed.\"\n\nMurray said his \"goals have changed\" after the second lengthy injury break of his career, following back surgery in 2013 that kept him out for several months.\n\n\"I just want to play tennis again. It's my life and my job, and that's my goal just now,\" he said.\n\nMurray became world number one for the first time at the end of 2016 but having not played since July, he has now dropped out of the top 10 for the first time since October 2014.\n\n\"Last year, I played a lot of tennis, especially at the end of the year. My goals have changed now,\" he said.\n\n\"When you're fit and healthy, you want to win every tournament and get to number one in the world. When you're not playing, it's like, I miss playing tennis.\n\n\"I just love to be back on a match court and competing again.\"", "David Prescott joined Jeremy Corbyn's office as an aide over a year ago\n\nA key aide to Jeremy Corbyn, and the son of former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott, has been suspended from his job.\n\nDavid Prescott is being investigated by the Labour leader's office after he was suspended a few days ago, the BBC understands.\n\nIt comes amid widespread allegations of misconduct at Westminster.\n\nNo formal complaint has been made to the Labour Party, which declined to give a reason for the suspension.\n\nA Labour Party spokesperson said: \"We do not comment on staffing matters.\"\n\nThe BBC has been told his suspension relates to his \"employment\" after an allegation was received by Mr Corbyn's office.\n\nThe nature of the claim has not been disclosed.\n\nA former BBC TV senior producer, Mr Prescott joined the Labour leader's office over a year ago, initially as a speechwriter before becoming a communications manager to the shadow cabinet.\n\nHe stood as Labour's candidate in Gainsborough in the 2015 election, but lost to Conservative's Sir Edward Leigh.\n\nEarlier this year, Mr Prescott failed to become an MP for Hull West and Hessle after former home secretary Alan Johnson announced he was standing down in June's election.\n\nMr Prescott has been approached by the BBC for a comment.", "The December 2017 edition features Adwoa Aboah on the front cover\n\nBritish Vogue has unveiled its December 2017 edition - the first since Edward Enninful took the title's helm.\n\nModel Adwoa Aboah is pictured on the fashion magazine's cover - styled by the new editor-in-chief - with the headline \"Great Britain\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Enninful said he wanted to create a more diverse magazine that was \"open and friendly\".\n\nSupermodel Naomi Campbell had backed his appointment after criticising previous editor Alexandra Shulman.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"My Vogue is about being inclusive,\" said Enninful.\n\n\"It is about diversity - showing different women, different body shapes, different races, different classes [and] tackling gender.\"\n\nBefore getting the job, he said, women had told him they did not feel represented by the magazine, and this was something he wanted to change.\n\n\"I wanted to create a magazine that was open and friendly; a bit like a shop you are not scared to walk into.\n\nEdward Enninful started his new job as editor in August and hired Naomi Campbell as a contributor\n\n\"You are going to see all different colours, shapes, ages, genders, religions.\n\n\"That I am very excited about.\"\n\nHe also said that readers would see \"less models that don't look so healthy\".\n\nNaomi Campbell, who had criticised former editor Shulman for a lack of diversity within her staff, and was hired by Enninful as contributing editor, tweeted her praise for the December cover.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Naomi Campbell This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nActor Jay Perry also tweeted that the cover was \"stunning\" and \"an instant classic\".\n\nColumnist and LGBT activist Paris Lees said the issue was \"everything a Vogue cover should be\".\n\n\"I'm so excited it's gonna be more diverse now,\" she tweeted.\n\nThe December edition, which goes on sale Friday, will feature a 14-page shoot with its cover star and include an interview with Enninful and Aboah, talking about diversity in fashion and how they define being black and British in 2017.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Emma Young lives in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire and has three children\n\nThousands of people in England who have the most advanced cancers are surviving for several years after diagnosis, according to new research.\n\nMacmillan Cancer Support said it was down to new treatments but warned that living longer with advanced cancer can bring its own difficulties.\n\nEmma Young, 39, was diagnosed with breast and bone cancer at 35.\n\n\"The not-knowing is the hardest, from scan to scan you don't know how it will be,\" she says.\n\n\"From the time you have the scan until you get the results is really hard - 'scanziety' is what we call it.\"\n\nHer diagnosis in May 2014 was delayed after doctors misdiagnosed her symptoms. Days after being told she had breast cancer she was told it had spread to her bones.\n\nStage 4 cancer is where the disease has already spread to at least one other part of the body - which in many cases cannot be cured.\n\nPreviously, stage 4 cancer patients often had limited options but Macmillan Cancer Support said the new data showed that new and improved treatments mean it can be \"more 'treatable' and manageable, like other chronic illnesses\".\n\nBut living longer with stage 4 cancer can bring other issues for patients, says Adrienne Betteley, the charity's specialist adviser for end-of-life care.\n\n\"This is really positive news, but living with advanced cancer can be a difficult situation to be in.\n\n\"As well as dealing with the physical symptoms of cancer, having multiple hospital appointments, scans and treatment options to contend with, there's also the emotional and psychological impact of having an uncertain future.\"\n\nCan't find your health trust? Browse the full list Rather search by typing? Back to search\n\nIf you can't see the NHS Tracker, click or tap here.\n\nThe way Emma chose to cope was by refusing to let doctors give her a prognosis.\n\n\"I said I didn't want to know. If you're given one, you count down to that day and what happens when you get to zero?\n\n\"I thought I'd carry on regardless without that hanging over me.\"\n\nLiving longer with stage 4 cancer often means juggling hospital appointments and treatments\n\nEmma acknowledges such an approach won't suit everyone but for her, not being given a timescale for her illness meant she could \"carry on as usual\" for her three children.\n\n\"My youngest is 10 and I want to live as long as possible - I want to keep life normal for them.\n\n\"Our life is completely normal - I still do everything with them regardless of my diagnosis. Even though there are times when I could easily sleep in and it's a struggle to get out of bed every day.\"\n\nEmma's cancer is monitored by scans, and bone-strengthening and hormone treatment.\n\nShe suffers from fatigue and bone pain, struggles to stand for long, and has had to leave her job as a teaching assistant. She receives personal independence payments (PIPs) which were arranged by a nurse at her hospice when she was first diagnosed although they ran out in the summer.\n\n\"I had an absolute nightmare with the PIP forms - they took my car away from me - so I had to walk a half-hour walk to school four times a day.\"\n\nIt took four months to sort out and they have now been awarded indefinitely - something Emma believes should be the case for everyone with stage 4 cancer.\n\nShe has help from cognitive behavioural therapy sessions at her local hospice \"which has been invaluable\" and she credits really good friends for their constant support.\n\n\"You can never get away from the fact you've got cancer but you have to shove it to the back of your mind. It's like a demon that will pop up sometimes - you learn to deal with it and put it back in the box.\n\n\"You have to ride the waves of emotion - if you want to have a cry you do that.\"\n• None Cancer diagnosis- 'Looking for needle in a haystack' - BBC News", "Police were called to Blenheim Road in Wimbledon on Friday morning\n\nA seven-year-old girl who died in hospital after an attack can now be identified as the daughter of the man charged over it.\n\nSophia Peters was found with serious injuries in a property in Wimbledon on Friday morning, but died on Saturday.\n\nHer father, Robert Peters, 55, of Blenheim Road, Raynes Park, is charged with her attempted murder.\n\nA court order put in place preventing the victim from being identified was overturned on Wednesday.\n\nThe order was put in place while the girl was fighting for her life in hospital.\n\nIt was later overturned at the Old Bailey by Judge Mark Lucraft QC.\n\nIt is believed Mr Peters runs an antiques firm with his brother in Kensington, west London, specialising in oriental ceramics and artworks.\n\nMr Peters is due to appear at the Old Bailey on Friday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel is filmed leaving the back entrance of 10 Downing Street\n\nPriti Patel has resigned as UK international development secretary amid controversy over her unauthorised meetings with Israeli officials.\n\nShe was ordered back from an official trip in Africa by the PM and summoned to Downing Street over the row.\n\nIn her resignation letter, Ms Patel said her actions \"fell below the standards of transparency and openness that I have promoted and advocated\".\n\nThe PM said her decision was \"right\" as \"further details have come to light\".\n\nMs Patel had apologised to Theresa May on Monday after unauthorised meetings in August with Israeli politicians - including prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu - came to light.\n\nBut it later emerged she had two further meetings without government officials present in September.\n\nMs Patel arrived at 10 Downing Street via the back door - after earlier flying back to the UK from Africa for her meeting with Mrs May - and she left some 45 minutes later.\n\nShe was accused of breaching the ministerial code, which sets out the standards of conduct expected of government ministers.\n\nHer resignation from the cabinet is the second in seven days, after Sir Michael Fallon quit as defence secretary on Wednesday last week amid allegations about his behaviour.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What went wrong for Priti Patel? The BBC's James Landale explains\n\nIn her letter to the PM, Ms Patel said: \"While my actions were meant with the best of intentions, my actions also fell below the standards of transparency and openness that I have promoted and advocated.\n\n\"I offer a fulsome apology to you and to the government for what has happened and offer my resignation.\"\n\nIn her reply, Mrs May said: \"Now that further details have come to light, it is right that you have decided to resign and adhere to the high standards of transparency and openness that you have advocated.\"\n\nShe added that Ms Patel should \"take pride\" in what had been achieved during her time as secretary of state.\n\nThe BBC's chief political correspondent Vicki Young said Theresa May \"decided to give her colleague the dignity of resigning\".\n\nBut she said the response from Mrs May was \"interesting\", saying: \"It was clear from Theresa May that if she hadn't resigned, she would have been sacked.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nForeign Secretary Boris Johnson told the BBC: \"Priti Patel has been a very good colleague and friend for a long time and a first class secretary of state for international development.\n\n\"It's been a real pleasure working with her and I'm sure she has a great future ahead of her.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson has written to Mrs May over claims passed to him that Ms Patel met Foreign Office officials in Jerusalem, which he says makes it \"impossible to sustain the claim that the FCO was not aware of Ms Patel's presence in Israel\".\n\nMr Watson said he was \"pleased\" that Ms Patel had resigned as her undisclosed meetings were \"a clear breach of the ministerial code, and of diplomatic protocol\".\n\nIt was precisely a week ago that I was summoned to the Ministry of Defence to ask Sir Michael Fallon why he was resigning.\n\nSeven days on, for an unconnected reason, Theresa May has just lost another one of her ministers.\n\nThat time the resignation was rather differently handled - some private speculation through the day, then a discreet summoning to a quiet room in the department until one of the minister's team came to say: \"Be ready, the secretary of state is resigning, we are finalising the letters between us and Number 10 right now.\"\n\nThis time, the process has been more like a pantomime, with speculation rife for nearly 24 hours that she was on her way out, no-one in government moving to quash it, leaving journalists, on the first day of parliament's recess, free to track Priti Patel's plane online then her journey back to Westminster.\n\nGoodness knows what Ms Patel's Ugandan hosts, who were expecting her to visit today, make of it all.\n\nBeyond today's palaver, though, her exit throws up problems for Mrs May.\n\nIt is never as simple as one out, one in.\n\nMs Patel was formally reprimanded in Downing Street on Monday, where she was asked to give details about a dozen meetings she had with Israeli officials while on holiday, which were not sanctioned by the Foreign Office.\n\nShe was then forced to correct the record earlier this week about the number of meetings that she had attended and when the Foreign Office had been notified about them.\n\nThe MP admitted she had been wrong to suggest to the Guardian that Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson knew of the trip in advance when he had only learnt about it while it was under way.\n\nThen, details of two other meetings emerged. Ms Patel met Israeli public security minister Gilad Erdan in Westminster on 7 September.\n\nAnd on 18 September she met foreign ministry official Yuval Rotem in New York.\n\nIt is thought Lord Polak, honorary president of the Conservative Friends of Israel, was present at both meetings.\n\nIt is not yet clear whether or when Ms Patel had informed the prime minister about these meetings or of her plans to look into giving tax-payers' money to the Israeli military to treat wounded Syrian refugees in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights region - a request that was turned down as \"inappropriate\" by officials.\n\nIn a further development on Wednesday the Israeli Haaretz newspaper reported that during August she visited an Israeli military field hospital in the Golan Heights - the UK, like other members of the international community, has never recognised Israeli control of the area seized from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War.\n\nIn her letter to Ms Patel, the prime minister wrote: ''As you know the UK and Israel are close allies, and it is right that we should work closely together. But that must be done formally, and through official channels.\n\n''That is why, when we met on Monday I was glad to accept your apology and welcomed your clarification about your trip to Israel over the summer. Now that further details have come to light it is right you have decided to resign.''\n• None Patel's exit will pose problems for May", "A high-profile figure in Prime Minister Boris Johnson's cabinet, Priti Patel was appointed home secretary in July last year.\n\nA Eurosceptic, she was a leading figure in the Vote Leave campaign during the EU referendum.\n\nShortly after taking up the post of home secretary, she said she wanted criminals to \"literally feel terror\" at the thought of breaking the law.\n\nA Cabinet Office inquiry into her conduct found that Ms Patel had \"unintentionally\" breached the ministerial code in her behaviour towards civil servants.\n\nHer \"approach on occasions has amounted to behaviour that can be described as bullying,\" the government's independent advisor on standards said.\n\nMr Johnson decided Ms Patel had not broken the ministerial code and could remain in her post as home secretary. Ms Patel said \"I am direct and have at times got frustrated\", but added: \"It has never been my intention to cause upset to anyone.\"\n\nThe inquiry was launched in March 2020 after the resignation of the top civil servant at the Home Office, Sir Philip Rutnam. Sir Philip - who is suing for constructive dismissal - alleged staff felt that Ms Patel had \"created fear\".\n\nAs home secretary she has had to deal with several crises, including the London Bridge and Streatham stabbing attacks - later deemed by police to be terrorist incidents - and the deaths of 39 migrants in the back of a lorry in Essex.\n\nShe has also played a key role in drawing up a new points-based immigration system for after the UK's Brexit transition period, saying she wants firms to invest more in British workers \"rather than simply relying on labour from abroad\".\n\nDuring the summer and autumn of 2020, she also took a leading role in negotiations with France over preventing a rising number of migrants crossing the English Channel.\n\nPriti Patel has asked French authorities to intercept and return migrant boats trying to cross the Channel.\n\nMs Patel, who is 48, also served in Theresa May's cabinet as secretary of state for international development.\n\nHer appointment was greeted with concern by some in the aid community, who recalled that she had previously suggested that the department should be abolished and subsumed into a new trade department.\n\nIn post, she said she wanted the UK's aid budget to provide greater value for money. The aid department has since been merged with the Foreign Office.\n\nShe resigned from the role in 2017 after it emerged she had held undisclosed meetings with Israeli officials while on holiday. She acknowledged that her actions \"fell below the high standards\" expected.\n\nBorn in London to Gujarati parents who left Uganda in the 1960s, she was educated at Watford Grammar School for Girls.\n\nShe went on to study at Keele and Essex universities before getting a job at Conservative Central Office, which she left to head up the press office for the Referendum Party, founded by Eurosceptic billionaire Sir James Goldsmith, from 1995 to 1997.\n\nAfter William Hague became Conservative leader, she returned to the party to be his deputy press secretary, from 1997 to 2000.\n\nShe went on to spend a number of years working with the Weber Shandwick public affairs consultancy - reportedly advising Ikea, the Meat & Livestock Commission and British American Tobacco, among others.\n\nShe also had a spell as international public policy adviser for drinks giant Diageo.\n\nMs Patel sought to get elected to Parliament in 2005 but lost out in Nottingham North. A year later, she was one of those selected for new leader David Cameron's A-list of candidates and went on to become MP for Witham, Essex, in 2010.\n\nMs Patel achieved ministerial rank four years later as exchequer secretary to the Treasury, before promotion to employment minister following David Cameron's 2015 general election victory.\n\nShe is positioned on the right of the party - she voted against gay marriage, campaigned against the smoking ban, and previously advocated bringing back the death penalty, before later saying she did not support it.\n\nMs Patel, whose father stood as a UKIP councillor in 2013, names Margaret Thatcher as her political hero.", "The St Enoch Centre is a large mall in the centre of Glasgow\n\nPrivate equity firm Blackstone avoided tens of millions of pounds in UK taxes on property deals in Glasgow and London, the Paradise Papers show.\n\nThe documents reveal it used offshore companies to purchase and operate the St Enoch Shopping Centre in Glasgow and Chiswick Business Park in London.\n\nThe papers show how accountancy firms mapped out strategies to minimise or avoid every significant tax.\n\nBlackstone said its investments were \"wholly compliant with UK tax laws\".\n\nBlackstone is one of the world's biggest private equity groups and its founder and chief executive Stephen Schwarzman is a close confidant of President Trump.\n\nLeaked documents from the offshore law firm Appleby, seen by BBC Scotland, show for the first time how the group structured two major UK property deals.\n\nTop accountancy firms issued long documents to Blackstone outlining how it could use trusts in the tax haven of Jersey and a complex structure of companies in Luxembourg for the purchase of both Chiswick Park and the St Enoch Centre.\n\nThere is no suggestion that the plans were illegal but campaigners the Tax Justice Network described the structures Blackstone used as an \"economic fiction\".\n\nThey told the BBC it was clear from the data in the papers that the principal purpose of the structures, which are virtually identical, was to avoid tax.\n\nThe leaked documents show the tax structure was designed to \"minimise\" taxes\n\nUS tax expert Reuven Avi-Yonah, from the University of Michigan law school, said the documents gave a \"rare\" insight into company structures that even tax authorities did not often see.\n\n\"If HMRC becomes aware of the fact that this is a common type of structuring then they are more likely to challenge it because they will be aware they are losing a lot of revenue,\" he said.\n\nChiswick Business Park in west London is host to dozens of companies\n\nBlackstone purchased Chiswick Park, a 33-acre office development in west London, in 2011 for £480m.\n\nThe majority of the site, which hosts the UK headquarters of companies such as Pokemon, Avon and shopping channel QVC, was sold to the Chinese government for £780m in 2014.\n\nThe data suggests Blackstone's tax structures allowed it to avoid about £19m in stamp duty on the purchase.\n\nThe tax structure also meant it could avoid tax of up to £30m annual rental income and capital gains tax on the sale of the business park, which could have been tens of millions of pounds.\n\nIn 2013, the private equity giant also bought the St Enoch Centre in Glasgow, a large city centre shopping complex housing almost 100 stores, for about £190m.\n\nDocuments show it would have avoided stamp duty of £7.6m and corporate tax on up to £10m annual rental income.\n\nThe documents show the Jersey trusts allowed no Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) to be paid on St Enoch\n\nBoth the St Enoch Centre, which Blackstone still owns, and Chiswick Park were already held in property trusts known as JPUTs, in the tax haven of Jersey, when it bought them.\n\nThis allowed the firm to purchase the properties without paying millions of pounds in UK stamp duty.\n\nGeorge Turner, from the Tax Justice Network, told the BBC: \"What they are doing is buying into the trust so when the original owners sold the property to Blackstone, then they weren't selling the property itself.\n\n\"They were selling an interest in the trust that owns the property and because that trust is owned offshore, they can avoid stamp duty.\"\n\nUnder the tax structure revealed in the leaked documents, the Jersey trusts were owned and funded by a series of companies that Blackstone registered in Luxembourg.\n\nMoney for the purchase of the properties was filtered through the Luxembourg companies from central Blackstone funds in the form of inter-company loans.\n\nThe interest payments on these loans, which were effectively passed from one Blackstone company to another, could be written off against the profits of the rental income, meaning that minimal tax was paid in Luxembourg.\n\nIn the case of Chiswick Park, a 33-page document was provided by accountancy firm PwC outlining the structure to be used.\n\nAnother of the \"Big Four\" accountancy firms, Deloitte, issued a 67-page document for a similar tax structure for the St Enoch Centre.\n\nThe job of law firm Appleby, who held the documents seen by the BBC, was to implement the structures outlined by the accountants.\n\nThe central purpose of which was to avoid:\n\nGeorge Turner, from the Tax Justice Network, said: \"The language really is quite shocking in places because it's so clear and blatant what the intention is.\n\n\"What you have here is a whole myriad of companies being set up, mostly in Luxembourg but also you have this trust structure in Jersey, and it seems to be to all intents and purposes an economic fiction.\"\n\nProfit from rental income at the St Enoch Centre had normally been about £10m a year.\n\nThe structure advised by Deloitte allowed Blackstone to turn that into tax free income, by writing it off against interest charges generated from the loans its companies had made to each other.\n\nIn some years, just a few thousand pounds appears to have been paid by the Blackstone Luxembourg companies owning St Enoch and Chiswick.\n\nMr Turner said: \"What appears to be happening is that the rental income which is coming in, the companies receiving that are then borrowing huge amounts of money from other companies which are part of the Blackstone Group.\n\n\"Now when they borrow that money, they need to pay interest on it and those interest payments destroy any profitability in those companies.\n\n\"They're borrowing money from themselves and they can claim a tax deduction on that.\"\n\nBlackstone said: \"Blackstone's investments are wholly compliant with UK and international tax laws and regulations.\n\n\"The property investment structures in question were acquired from institutional investors and are of a type commonly used for decades for investments in UK real estates, including by listed companies and a variety of institutional investors, and were adopted after appropriate advice was taken from leading tax and legal advisors.\"\n\nDeloitte, which advised on the St Enoch purchase, declined to comment.\n\nPwC, who advised on Chiswick Park, said \"The advice we provide is given in accordance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations, including proper disclosure to tax authorities.\"\n\nYour browser does not support this Lookup Your guide to financial jargon\n\nThe papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nThe 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Panorama has led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries. The BBC does not know the identity of the source.\n\nParadise Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #ParadisePapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"Paradise Papers\"\n\nWatch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "An entrepreneur charged with managing the oil wealth of the struggling African state of Angola was paid more than $41m in just 20 months, leaked documents reveal.\n\nThe payments were made via a complex web of companies set up in the offshore jurisdiction of Mauritius.\n\nJean-Claude Bastos also used his position to help set up large investment deals he stands to further profit from, the Paradise Papers show.\n\nLike many oil rich countries, Angola set up a sovereign wealth fund to invest the proceeds of its natural resource wealth. Similar schemes have been used by other countries to help ensure a steady income for future generations.\n\nAngola is wracked by corruption, suffers extreme poverty and has one of the highest child mortality rates in the world.\n\nThe fund, Fundo Soberano De Angola (FSDEA), which began with $5bn (£3.75bn) in 2011, was mired in controversy from the start, after the then Angolan President Eduardo dos Santos' son, 39-year-old Jose Filomeno, was appointed to head it up.\n\nJean-Claude Bastos, sometimes also known as Jean-Claude Bastos de Morais, a Swiss-Angolan and close friend of the then president's son, was chosen as the fund's asset manager.\n\nTypically, a fund of this size would spread the risk of investment among several asset managers, along with the fees it pays, said one expert.\n\nHowever, Mr Bastos was given responsibility for investing almost all of the fund's money, and was paid accordingly. Today, his company Quantum Global Investments Africa Management, manages about 85% of it.\n\nOne expert described the situation as \"unusual\". Andrew Bauer, an authority on sovereign wealth funds, told the BBC: \"Funds want to hedge the risk. You don't want to put all your eggs in one basket.\"\n\nIn a statement, the FSDEA told the BBC the appointment of Mr Bastos' company to manage the fund followed \"an objective process\". The firm was selected, it said, because of its \"exemplary performance on previous mandates with the Angolan authorities\".\n\nThe fund also said giving near total control of investments to one asset manager was part of its policy for the first 18 months only.\n\nDocuments seen by the BBC as part of the Paradise Papers investigation show the fund paid management fees of more than $90m (£67.5m) to Mr Bastos' Mauritius-based QG Investments Africa Management. This occurred over a 20-month period between May 2014 and the end of 2015.\n\nThe leak offers an unprecedented view into what happened to the management fees after being paid into Mr Bastos' company.\n\nThis money was split into two main chunks - with $41m declared as dividends, or pure profit, and deposited in a company in the British Virgin Islands, itself owned by a series of secretive offshore companies ultimately owned by Mr Bastos. A further $34m was paid in advisory fees to a Swiss firm majority owned by Mr Bastos. The rest, after minor expenses, was retained in the management company run by Mr Bastos.\n\nThe BBC asked Mr Bastos whether secrecy was the reason for the series of companies registered offshore. He said it was entirely his personal choice how he receives dividends from his companies. He also said the dividends he receives \"pale in comparison to the long term positive impact my projects will have in Angola\".\n\nBoth the fund and Mr Bastos said the management fees paid to Quantum Global Investments Africa Management are in line with global industry standards.\n\nMr Bastos added that the level of work provided by the group is considerable to ensure projects are built for future success.\n\nWithin months of receiving the money, a company in which Mr Bastos is a director purchased a 14-seater jet that had been priced at $31.75m. Mr Bastos told the BBC his is one of \"many businesses that own an aircraft to more efficiently manage their travel requirements\" and that travelling on commercial flights is \"unproductive\".\n\nThe leaked documents also show Mr Bastos holds a personal stake in investments the fund made on his recommendation.\n\nIn one, tens of millions were committed to a deal with another of Mr Bastos' companies, Afrique Imo Corporation, to build a hotel, office and a retail complex in the Angolan capital, Luanda.\n\nThe deal represents a \"very strong conflict of interest\" according to Mr Bauer. \"This absolutely should not be happening.\"\n\nAt the time, it sounded alarm bells in the compliance department of Appleby - the law firm that handled the investment, according to internal emails seen by the BBC. In one, sent from a regional compliance manager, a team member charged with making sure the deal was above board noted: \"this poses issues of conflict of interest between the Manager, Fund and the Investee Company\".\n\nHowever, an email from Appleby's director back to the compliance team notes Mr Bastos had \"disclosed his interest\" and, in a board meeting convened to agree the hotel deal, had \"abstained from voting\". Crucially, though, the director notes Mr Bastos \"was still present in the meeting\", before adding: \"For the purpose of managing the conflict, Mr Bastos should refrain from attending any meeting.\"\n\nOn seeing the confidential emails of the exchange, Tom Keatinge, a specialist in financial crime, told the BBC he was \"sure they are going to come to a conclusion that this is not a transaction that they should be approving\".\n\nAppleby \"provide[d] the client with the answer that he wanted\", said Mr Keatinge. \"It's hard to believe that just because he abstained from the voting, his views were not well understood by the meeting. So it's a scurrilous approach in my view.\"\n\nAs well as the Luanda complex, two other investments made for the fund in that period carried similar apparent conflicts of interest for Mr Bastos, according to the Appleby documents.\n\nMr Bastos told the BBC that where he holds a stake in investments, he views these investments as \"having aligned interests\" and not being \"conflicted\".\n\nThe FSDEA said its investment policy for the first 18 months encourages \"close interrelation and synergies... to increase the speed of portfolio development and boost institutional reach\".\n\nThere are also questions about whether the hotel project represented a good investment for the fund. A former employee of Quantum Global with a direct knowledge of the Luanda deal said in 2016 the project was assessed as \"economically unviable\" because it would not bring good enough returns for the fund. The investment advisers' recommendation was to drop it.\n\nMr Bastos insisted the investment was viable and said that \"by developing what will become Angola's tallest building his group are demonstrating their belief in the long term potential of the Angolan economy\".\n\nIn Luanda in 2016, rubbish went uncollected after the refuse company was not paid\n\nThe web of companies run by Mr Bastos would appear to be designed to \"to enrich a particular individual or... group of people\", said Mr Keatinge.\n\n\"Whoever has oversight of this structure... the political elite within Angola, there is either massive incompetence or there is complicity here.\"\n\nAppleby, which is the focus of much of the Paradise Papers investigation, didn't respond to specific questions about Mr Bastos - citing client confidentiality. The firm which denies any wrongdoing says it \"advises clients on legitimate and lawful ways to conduct their business\".\n\nAnother document seen by the BBC raises questions for the authorities in Mauritius, after an internal report by another offshore regulator criticised Mr Bastos. The regulator in Jersey notified Mr Bastos that his application to run the asset management business was likely to be refused because it doubted his independence. It highlighted Mr Bastos' \"close association\" with the fund's chairman, Jose Filomeno Dos Santos, and a conviction in Switzerland for \"qualified cases of misappropriation\".\n\nMr Bastos told the BBC he withdrew the application before any formal decision was made by the Jersey regulator.\n\nA little more than a month later Mr Bastos applied successfully in Mauritius. He told the BBC he informed the Mauritian authorities about his conviction which in any case had expired and that his \"criminal record is completely clean\".\n\nThe BBC asked the Financial Services Commission in Mauritius how it satisfied itself Mr Bastos was a fit and proper person to be licensed.\n\nIt declined to comment on the case but said where there were \"adverse\" issues disclosed in an application, the handling law firm - in this case Appleby - would be responsible for checking.\n\nAgain, Appleby declined to comment on individual cases.\n\nListen to more on this story on File on 4, on Tuesday 7th November at 20:00 GMT on BBC Radio 4. Watch more on this story on Newsnight, BBC Two at 22:30 GMT\n\nYour browser does not support this Lookup Your guide to financial jargon\n\nThe papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nThe 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Panorama has led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries. The BBC does not know the identity of the source.\n\nParadise Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #ParadisePapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"Paradise Papers\"\n\nWatch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "Passengers queue to get on to a Greater Anglia service train\n\nFive rail operators have experienced disruption due to strike action by the Rail, Maritime and Transport union.\n\nWorkers on Southern, Greater Anglia and South Western Railway are striking for 48 hours, while staff on Merseyrail and Northern walked out for 24 hours.\n\nThe union is in dispute over driver-only operated (DOO) trains, also known as driver-controlled operated (DCO).\n\nAslef, which has also been in dispute with Southern, announced on Wednesday that train drivers had accepted a deal.\n\nIt means there will be a second safety-trained person on every DOO train, except in exceptional circumstances, gives drivers a five-year pay deal worth 28.5%, and confirms the terms and conditions under which members are employed.\n\nThe executive committee of the train drivers' union had recommended its members accept the deal, which has no impact on the RMT's continuing industrial action.\n\nThe RMT described Aslef's deal with Southern as \"shoddy\".\n\nCommuters ride a crowded South Western Railway train on the Portsmouth to London line\n\nMembers of the RMT union, who are mostly conductors, have held a series of strikes on Southern since April 2016 amid concerns over safety and job losses.\n\nChanges were introduced on Southern in January making conductors \"on-board supervisors\" and passing responsibility for closing doors to drivers.\n\nIndustrial action by RMT members has only recently spread to other routes across England.\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\nSouthern had said services on most of its routes would operate normally during the 48-hour strike although there would be some alterations.\n\nHowever, signalling problems exacerbated changes and led to delays and cancellations during people's commute on Wednesday morning.\n\nThere were also delays due to trespassers on the line between East Croyden and Clapham and lines between Worthing and Bright were blocked during the evening after a person was hit by a train.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Daniel Malins This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGreater Anglia had said it would run a full service during the industrial action, using other trained staff in place of conductors.\n\nIts plan was approved on Tuesday by the Office of Rail and Road (ORR), which criticised the company's contingency arrangements during a strike last month following an incident in which the doors on the wrong side of a train were opened at Ipswich station.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Maria Compadre This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 spokeswoman said only \"a handful\" of services had been disrupted due to the strike.\n\nSouth Western Railway (SWR), which only took over the franchise from South West Trains in August, cancelled about 40% of its services. It published a contingency timetable including replacement buses on some routes.\n\nHowever, the RMT has voiced its concerns about the various plans.\n\nGeneral Secretary Mick Cash said: \"The only way that Greater Anglia can be running these services is through taking serious risks with public safety just as they did during the last phase of strike action.\n\n\"Rail companies are training up rail staff who have previously had no rail operational experience to stand in as highly trained guards.\n\n\"In some cases staff are being bussed in by other train companies not involved in the dispute, paid a bounty and put up overnight in hotels.\"\n\nThe RMT union is in dispute over driver-only operated trains, also known as driver-controlled operated trains\n\nBut Richard Dean, Greater Anglia's train service delivery director, stressed that the ORR was satisfied with its arrangements, and that an independent rail safety expert had concluded that its stand-in conductor training was \"industry best practice\".\n\n\"We will never compromise the safety of our customers,\" Mr Dean added.\n\nMerseyrail ran a reduced train service across its network during the 24-hour strike, while Northern ran its lessened service, mostly between 07:00 and 19:00 GMT.\n\nA spokesman for the Department for Transport said: \"This dispute is not about jobs or safety - employees have been guaranteed jobs and salaries. In fact at Southern Rail, where these changes have already been introduced, there are now more staff on trains.\n\n\"The independent rail regulator has said driver-controlled trains, which have been used in this country for more than 30 years, are safe.\"\n\nHas your journey been affected by the dispute? Let us know about your experiences. Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk with your stories.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband said \"she was just a mum on holiday\"\n\nBoris Johnson has said he is sorry if his remarks about a British-Iranian mother caused anxiety to her family.\n\nThe foreign secretary had been criticised for saying Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has been jailed in Iran, had been training journalists there.\n\nA charity said the remarks could worsen her sentence. She had been in Iran on holiday when she was arrested, it said.\n\nMr Johnson told MPs he was sorry if his words were \"so taken out of context\" as \"to cause any kind of anxiety\".\n\nThe UK government had \"no doubt\" she was on holiday when she was arrested, he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was detained at Tehran Airport in April 2016 and is serving a five-year sentence for allegedly plotting to topple the government in Tehran, although the official charges have never been made public.\n\nShe has worked for the Thomson Reuters Foundation and BBC Media Action (the corporation's international development charity), but has always said the 2016 visit was so her daughter Gabriella, who is three, could meet her grandparents.\n\nShe was summoned back to court on 4 November, where Mr Johnson's comment was cited as new evidence as to what she was doing in Iran.\n\nMr Johnson had told the Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee on 1 November: \"When I look at what Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was doing, she was simply teaching people journalism, as I understand it.\n\n\"[Neither] Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe nor her family has been informed about what crime she has actually committed. And that I find extraordinary, incredible.\"\n\nHer husband, Richard Ratcliffe, said Mr Johnson had done a \"good thing\" in clarifying his comments, and asked him to try to visit his wife in Iran.\n\n\"It's important that the judiciary understands that the British government thinks she is innocent,\" he said.\n\nHe said he hoped his wife and daughter, a British citizen - who is with her grandparents in Iran - can return home before Christmas.\n\nMonique Villa, chief executive of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, said she saw a \"direct correlation\" between Mr Johnson's original remarks and Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's treatment in Iran.\n\nShe said Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had \"never trained journalists\" at the charity.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson is asked if he will apologise to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's family\n\nMr Johnson told MPs his previous remarks to the foreign affairs committee \"could have been clearer\".\n\nHe said: \"My point was that I disagreed with the Iranian view that training journalists was a crime - not that I wanted to lend any credence to Iranian allegations that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been engaged in such activity.\n\n\"I accept that my remarks could have been clearer in that respect, and I'm glad to provide this clarification.\"\n\nLater, when MP Layla Moran asked him if he would apologise to Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's family, he said: \"Of course I am sorry if any words of mine have been so taken out of context and so misconstrued as to cause any kind of anxiety for the family.\"\n\nHe said he did not believe his comments had \"had any impact on the judicial process\" in Iran.\n\nBoris Johnson is in hot water again. It will not, however, result in his dismissal from the cabinet.\n\nIn an effort to hose the situation down and minimise any damage to Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's case, the foreign secretary told his Iranian counterpart that he accepted his remarks at the committee \"could have been clearer\".\n\nHe said he was seeking to condemn \"the Iranian view that training journalists was a crime.\"\n\nBut that is not what he said to the Commons committee last week - and Labour MPs are furious at this latest diplomatic fumble by the Foreign Secretary.\n\nThe foreign secretary said his comments had no impact on the case in Iran, a view echoed by his Iranian counterpart.\n\nThat certainly helps Mr Johnson weather this latest storm.\n\nBut more fundamentally, Theresa May does not have the political strength to dismiss one of the Cabinet's big Brexit-supporting beasts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Johnson had earlier called the Iranian foreign minister, Javad Zarif, to say his remarks provided \"no justifiable basis\" for further legal action and that he intended to visit Iran before the end of the year to discuss the case.\n\nMr Zarif told the foreign secretary the developments in the case over the weekend were \"unrelated\" to Mr Johnson's remarks, a Foreign Office statement added.\n\nThe Iranian judiciary's High Council for Human Rights said Mr Johnson's comments \"shed new light\" on the charity worker and proved Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe \"had visited the country for anything but a holiday\".\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe denies all the allegations against her, but lost her final appeal in April.\n\nShe has since faced two more charges relating to an accusation of plotting to topple the government in Tehran.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been eligible for parole under the early release scheme from 23 November.\n\nMr Ratcliffe told the Press Association that his wife could now face a fresh trial before that date to block her chance of freedom.\n\n\"I think the one thing the foreign secretary could do to make amends would be if he went to visit her in the next few weeks before her trial,\" he said.\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe says she was in Iran so her daughter could meet her grandparents\n\nThe case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is first and foremost a story of terrible personal suffering for a young woman, her husband and their baby girl.\n\nEighteen months into a five-year sentence, Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe faces the prospect of up to 16 years in an Iranian jail.\n\nIt is also, however, a story of an internal power struggle in Iran, as well as of the nation's deeply difficult relationship with the UK.", "Snapchat owner Snap says it is working to overhaul its signature messaging app, as it struggles to attract users and turn a profit.\n\nShares in the firm plunged after hours on Tuesday, after the firm reported losses of more than $400m (£337m) in the quarter.\n\nIt also had lower-than-expected revenue and user growth.\n\nSnapchat said the changes would make the app easier to use and more compatible with Android phones.\n\nHowever, it warned the transition could be rocky.\n\n\"We're willing to take that risk for what we believe are substantial long-term benefits to our business,\" said 27-year-old chief executive Evan Spiegel.\n\nSnapchat pioneered the craze for disappearing messages among teens.\n\nWhen you have to put out a statement denying rumours you're shutting down within a year… that's when you know things aren't going particularly well.\n\nAs well as denying it was going bust, in the past few months Snap has had to admit supplies of its Spectacles product, once the talk of the town, are piled high in warehouses.\n\nRevenues have been harder to come by than investors had hoped as the company struggles to turn around intense advertisers' interest - these are teenagers, after all - into a system that runs seamlessly and reliable ways to measure success.\n\nAnd just this week the network suffered a widespread outage.\n\nSome of Snap's problems are self-inflicted, others are inflicted by Facebook - a company that once tried to buy Snapchat, and which now relentlessly copies its best features.\n\nBut it faces fierce competition from larger rival Facebook and Facebook's image-sharing network Instagram, which have introduced similar features.\n\nSnap said it had 178 million daily active users on average over the quarter, up 3% over the previous three months.\n\nSnapchat founder Evan Spiegel, pictured left with his wife, model Miranda Kerr, became the youngest billionaire in the world two years ago\n\nThe firm told investors it made almost $208m in revenue in the quarter, up 62% year-on-year.\n\nThat represents about $1.17 in revenue per user, compared to Facebook's more than $5 in revenue per user.\n\nBut Snapchat's ad prices have fallen. The firm also reported a nearly $40m loss stemming from excess inventory of its Spectacles product, sunglasses with recording capabilities, which proved less popular than hoped.\n\n\"We're learning from it and plan on avoiding a similar mistake in the future,\" Mr Spiegel said.\n\nSnapchat shares plunged more than 17% in after-hours trade, falling below $13.\n\nThat extended the losses that started soon after Snapchat became a publicly traded company in March, when shares debuted at $17.\n\nThe earnings report came less than a day after an outage on the service. Snapchat also had to address rumours it was shutting down.", "Last updated on .From the section Baseball\n\nFormer Toronto Blue Jays and Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay has died after his plane crashed in the Gulf of Mexico.\n\nThe 40-year-old, who retired in 2013, was the only person on board when the plane went down.\n\nThe two-time Cy Young Award winner spent 12 seasons with the Toronto Blue Jays and four with the Phillies.\n\n\"We are numb over the very tragic news about Roy Halladay's untimely death,\" the Phillies said on Tuesday.\n\n\"There are no words to describe the sadness that the entire Phillies family is feeling over the loss of one of the most respected human beings to ever play the game.\"\n\nThe Pasco County Sheriff's Department said its marine unit found Halladay's body, but no survivors.\n\n\"Halladay was flying his two-person plane when it went down into the water about a quarter-mile west of Ben Pilot Point in New Port Richey,\" the office said.\n\n\"No may day calls were made to Tampa air traffic control. The 911 came in about 12:06 (local time).\"\n\nHalladay was selected on the All-Star team on eight occasions but never won a World Series. He threw a perfect game during the 2010 season and a no-hitter in the post-season.\n\nLast month he tweeted pictures of himself standing next to his Icon A5 plane. \"I have dreamed about owning a A5 since I retired,\" he said.", "Appleby decided against a shelf company to be owned by Isabel dos Santos, the daughter of Angola's ex-president\n\nAppleby is the main source of the leaked Paradise Papers documents and, like all providers of offshore financial services, has to check certain things with its prospective clients in order to prevent money laundering, corruption and other illegal activity.\n\nDifferent countries have different requirements, but most expect the service provider to know who its client is, where the client's money has come from and the purpose of the company it is setting up.\n\nAmong the applications, there are often some questionable individuals and companies trying to set up shell companies. Then there are the PEPs, or politically exposed persons. They may or may not have genuine applications but the risk they would bring has to be fully vetted.\n\nThe examples below reflect decisions made at the time; it is unclear whether further requests were made. Some are shown in their original document format:\n\n15 Feb 2012: Proposed shareholders/directors of funds, both principals produced passport copies issued by the \"World Government of World citizens\". This was deemed to be outside of ACSL's (Appleby Corporate Services Limited) risk parameters and these potential clients were therefore declined.\n\n23 Apr 2012: Potential client wishes to acquire a \"shelf\" company in Mauritius or BVI (British Virgin Islands). The shelf company would be owned by Isabel José dos Santos, who is the daughter of the then Angolan President, José Eduardo dos Santos. The company was to be used for investment purposes. ACSL does not provide shelf companies to clients. Furthermore World-Check searches indicate both Isabel and José are PEPS. Other internet searches revealed adverse findings for both Isabel José dos Santos and José Eduardo dos Santos.\n\n29 May 2013: Potential client wishes to set up BVI company. Details of the proposed transaction regarding citizenship and residence and activities of company is risky. Client may want to use precision guided bombs to communicate.\n\n20 Jun 2013: Proposed engagement presented as very high risk. The High Risk Committee declined to take on the business due in part to the clients' ties to the Rwandan military thus would be PEPs and Rwanda may be on various sanctions lists, and bribery and corruption are of concern. The company proposed business will be conducted in a non-recognized jurisdiction.\n\n20 Jan 2014: Proposed engagement presented as high risk as the proposed business dealings are concentrated in the Middle East and Iran. Iran remains the subject of several sanctions and we could not mitigate against bribery and corruption risks and the payments to escrow could be illicit.\n\n10 Mar 2014: Potential engagement requested our service to incorporate a company which will be a holding company providing instant exchange between Bitcoin* and Kenyan Shillings for their investors. (virtual currency related business).\n\n*NOTE: The reasons for this decline are not known, but other documents show internal discussions within Appleby about the risk of Bitcoin being used to fund terrorism or the drug trade.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pro-Russian fighters have been searching the site for useable ammunition, as David Stern reports\n\n16 Jun 2014 Business for President of Ukraine: Potential engagement for companies controlled by President of Ukraine who is obviously a PEP. Without any details presented, the latest news involving Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko regarding retaliation after pro-Russia separatists shot down a military plane in the East, killing 49, this presents an inherent reputational risk of becoming involved.\n\nFind out more about the words and phrases found in the Paradise Papers.\n\nYour browser does not support this Lookup Your guide to financial jargon\n\nThe papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nThe 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Panorama has led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries. The BBC does not know the identity of the source.\n\nParadise Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #ParadisePapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"Paradise Papers\"\n\nWatch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "Celebrity chef and restaurateur Antonio Carluccio has died at the age of 80, his agent has said.\n\nHe was known for the Italian restaurant chain that carries his surname and for appearing on TV programmes, including the BBC Two hit Two Greedy Italians, alongside chef Gennaro Contaldo.\n\nHe wrote more than a dozen best-selling books and in 2012 launched his memoirs.\n\nThe restaurant chain has called him the \"Godfather of Italian cooking\" and said he will be \"greatly missed\".\n\n\"It isn't just Antonio's name above our doors, but his heart and soul lives and breathes throughout our restaurants,\" a statement from the Carluccio's restaurant chain said.\n\nJamie Oliver paid tribute to his \"first London boss\", working with the Italian at Carluccio's Neal Street Restaurant in Covent Garden 25 years ago.\n\n\"He was such a charismatic charming don of all things Italian,\" Oliver wrote on Instagram.\n\n\"Always hanging out the front door of the restaurant with a big fat cigar, a glass of something splendid and his amazing fuzzy white hair.\n\n\"Viva Antonio Carluccio... Cook a feast up there mate,\" he added.\n\nFriend and colleague, Russell Grant, said he was \"just the kindest and loveliest man to be with.\"\n\n\"He was so passionate about his cookery and where he came from,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Every mouthful would bring another story.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gino D'Acampo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Great British Bake Off winner, Candice Brown, said Carluccio was \"a true gent and honest man\".\n\nTV chef James Martin called him \"one of the true greats of TV chefs\".\n\n\"His passion and commitment to both the restaurant business and to television was lifelong,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"He was a giant in the food world and he helped bring Italian food to the masses around the world.\"\n\nCelebrity chef Gino D'Acampo also paid tribute to his \"good friend\", while Nigella Lawson wrote: \"Riposi in pace\".\n\nFrom the north-west Italian region of Piedmont, Carluccio worked as a journalist in Turin before moving to Vienna and Germany, and finally London.\n\nIn 2007, he received an OBE from the Queen for his services to the catering industry and in 2012, he was awarded the AA hospitality lifetime achievement award.\n\nHe received the Commendatore, the equivalent of a British knighthood, from the Italian government in 1998 for services to Italy.\n\nCarluccio's television career began with his first appearance on BBC2 in 1983. He later appeared on MasterChef in 1991, before a three-year stint on Saturday Kitchen from 2006 and Two Greedy Italians in 2011.\n\nHis kitchen motto was simple - \"minimum of fuss, maximum of flavour\".\n\nHe also created more than 20 books, which included titles dedicated to pasta, vegetables and mushrooms.\n\nIn the months before his death, he had worked on a children's book, centred on two mushrooms.\n\nIn 2016, Carluccio told the Press Association about his secret to a happy life.\n\n\"My philosophy is to be happy and to make people happy,\" he said.\n\n\"And by result, if you make people happy they make you happy. I like to have money, because money is good. But it's not too good, you know?\"", "Sky has threatened to shut down Sky News if the news channel proves to be an obstacle in Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox bid.\n\nRegulators are investigating the deal amid concerns that Mr Murdoch's media empire could become too powerful.\n\nSky told the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) that the regulator should not assume \"the continued provision\" of Sky News.\n\nBBC media editor Amol Rajan said it was a \"credible threat\".\n\nFox owns 39% of Sky but wants full control of the satellite broadcaster.\n\nIn a submission made to the CMA last month, but published by the regulator on Tuesday, Sky said it \"would likely be prompted to review\" its position if \"the continued provision of Sky News in its current form unduly impeded merger and/or other corporate opportunities available in relation to Sky's broader business\".\n\nThis would particularly be the case if shareholders objected to the merger not happening, Sky said.\n\nClosing Sky News would only be an option of last resort, and the broadcaster would try to find a buyer for the media company before that eventuality, the BBC understands.\n\n\"The messaging coming through is alarming for supporters of Sky News but it runs completely counter to all the investment that there has been in the channel in all the recent months and years,\" said Joey Jones, a political correspondent at Sky News for 16 years and now head of public affairs at PR firm Weber Shandwick.\n\nBut he said the threat was a risky move by Sky: \"Inevitably this will be perceived by those who are already hostile to the proposed takeover, particularly in the political arena, as sabre rattling and as a perceived threat by the company\".\n\nMedia editor Mr Rajan said that Sky News lost \"an awful lot of money\".\n\n\"It loses tens of millions of pounds, and I think the independent directors of Sky are sending a very clear message... that if they had to choose, maybe they'd prefer for commercial reasons to do the deal with 21st Century Fox rather than continue to fund the losses at Sky News.\"\n\nThe submission comes a day after reports that Fox has discussed selling \"most\" of its business, including its Sky stake, to Disney.\n\nFox has faced a number of hurdles in its bid to buy Sky, including the CMA investigation and opposition from some politicians.\n\nSome fear the deal would give Rupert Murdoch's family too much control over the UK media.\n\nThe Murdoch family owns controlling stakes in both News Corporation, which owns UK newspapers such as the Sun and the Times, as well as Fox, which operates in film and TV.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPrince Charles campaigned to alter climate-change agreements without disclosing his private estate had an offshore financial interest in what he was promoting, BBC Panorama has found.\n\nThe Paradise Papers show the Duchy of Cornwall in 2007 secretly bought shares worth $113,500 in a Bermuda company that would benefit from a rule change.\n\nThe prince was a friend of a director of Sustainable Forestry Management Ltd.\n\nThe Duchy of Cornwall says he has no direct involvement in its investments.\n\nA Clarence House spokesman said the Prince of Wales had \"certainly never chosen to speak out on a topic simply because of a company that it [the Duchy of Cornwall] may have invested in\".\n\nHe added: \"In the case of climate change his views are well-known, indeed he has been warning of the threat of global warming to our environment for over 30 years.\n\n\"Carbon markets are just one example that the prince has championed since the 1990s and which he continues to promote today.\"\n\nHe added Prince Charles was \"free to offer thoughts and suggestions on a wide range of topics\" and \"cares deeply\" about the issue of climate change but \"it is for others to decide whether to take the advice\".\n\nSir Alistair Graham, former chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, said Prince Charles's actions amounted to a serious conflict of interest.\n\nHe said: \"There's a conflict of interest between his own investments of the Duchy of Cornwall and what he's trying to achieve publicly.\n\n\"And I think it's unfortunate that somebody of his importance, of his influence, becomes involved in such a serious conflict.\"\n\nThe leaked documents held by law firm Appleby show the Duchy of Cornwall also made offshore investments totalling $3.9m in four funds in the Cayman Islands in 2007. This is legal and there is no suggestion of tax avoidance.\n\nA Duchy of Cornwall spokesman said Prince Charles voluntarily pays income tax on any revenue from his estate.\n\nHe added the estate's investments \"do not derive any tax advantage whatsoever based on their location or any other aspect of their structure and there is no loss of revenue to HMRC as a result\".\n\nThe prince began campaigning for changes to two important environmental agreements weeks after Sustainable Forestry Management (SFM) sent his office lobbying documents.\n\nPrince Charles's estate almost tripled its money in just over a year although it is not clear what caused the rise in the share value. Despite his high profile campaign, the environmental agreements were not changed.\n\nThe documents reveal the Duchy of Cornwall, an £896m private estate that provides Prince Charles with an income and which he is said to be \"actively involved\" in running, bought the shares in February 2007. At the time $113,500 was worth about £58,000.\n\nOne of SFM's directors was the late Hugh van Cutsem, a millionaire banker and conservationist who has been described as the one of the Prince's closest friends.\n\nThe minutes of a company board meeting that approved the Duchy's shareholding say: \"The Chairman thanked Mr van Cutsem for his introduction of the Duchy of Cornwall and the Board unanimously agreed that the subscription by the Duchy of Cornwall be kept confidential except in respect of any disclosure required by law.\"\n\nSFM traded in carbon credits, a market created by international treaties to tackle global warming.\n\nIt wanted to trade in credits from \"tropical and subtropical forests\" but was hampered by two important climate change agreements, the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS) and the Kyoto Protocol, which largely excluded carbon credits from rainforests.\n\nWhen the Duchy bought its shares, SFM was lobbying for a \"change in policy\" on carbon credits, the documents show.\n\nIt had hired the US former lead negotiator on the Kyoto Protocol, Stuart Eizenstat \"to lobby for inclusion of forest carbon credits\" in new US and EU laws and regulations.\n\nBoard minutes from February 2007 show SFM was also taking \"steps to influence events to support forest credits\" ahead of Kyoto Protocol meetings at the end of the year.\n\nOn 6 June 2007, four months after the Duchy bought its shares, Mr van Cutsem asked SFM's chairman to send lobbying documents to the office of the prince.\n\nUnder the heading \"public policy and advocacy\", minutes of a board meeting held in Paris say \"the chairman referred the committee to the bundle of materials which had been prepared by the company for various policymakers... Mr van Cutsem... asked that a set of documents be prepared for the Prince of Wales office. The chairman undertook to do so\".\n\nFour weeks later, on 2 July, Prince Charles, made a speech that criticised the EU ETS and Kyoto Protocol for excluding carbon credits from rainforests, and called for change.\n\nSpeaking at the Business in the Community Awards Dinner, the prince said: \"As the Kyoto protocol now stands tropical rainforest nations have no way of earning credits from their standing forests other than by cutting them down and planting new ones,\" he said.\n\n\"The European Carbon Trading Scheme excludes carbon credits for forests from developing nations. This has got be wrong and we must urge the international community to work together to redress these failings urgently.\"\n\nThe campaigning was taking place ahead of meetings about the Kyoto Protocol\n\nIn October 2007, he launched the Prince's Rainforests Project, which aimed to \"increase global recognition of the contribution of tropical deforestation to climate change and to find ways to make the rainforests worth more alive than dead.\"\n\nIn a speech to mark the launch, he said: \"The Kyoto Protocol does not have a mechanism to protect standing rainforests.\n\n\"Credits are available for afforestation and reforestation projects, but not for maintaining an old growth forest. And the European Trading Scheme excludes carbon credits for forestry in developing nations altogether… surely we have to accept that the pressing urgency of climate change requires a response that embraces rather than excludes primary tropical forests?\"\n\nPanorama has been unable to find evidence of any speeches the prince made before 2008 about changing Kyoto and EU ETS to include carbon credits for rainforests. The programme asked the prince's office for any such speeches but they did not respond.\n\nOver the next six months, the future king made further speeches and videos about rainforests.\n\nIn a video released in January 2008, the prince said: \"The immediate priority, I believe, is the need to develop a new credit market which will give a true value to carbon and the ecosystem services the rainforests provide the rest of the world.\"\n\nIn February 2008, he reportedly discussed rainforests at a private meeting with the then Prime Minister Gordon Brown.\n\nDays later, he met with the then President of the European Commission, Jose Manuel Barroso, and the EU's environment, energy, trade and agriculture commissioners.\n\nIn a speech to 150 MEPs, he said: \"I have great hopes that the next version of the European Emissions Trading scheme might extend the helping and very visible hand of a market approach to assist in keeping the rainforests standing… the lives of billions of people depend on your response and none of us will be forgiven by our children and grandchildren if we falter and fail.\"\n\nOn 18 June 2008, as the global financial crash was beginning, the Duchy sold its stake in SFM.\n\nThe documents show it was paid $325,000 for the 50 shares.\n\nSFM is no longer in existence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Alistair Graham says Prince Charles should be accountable to public scrutiny\n\nThe Duchy was established in 1337 and uses the income to fund the public, private and charitable activities of the Prince of Wales and his children. Its accounts are independently audited and put before Parliament.\n\nA Duchy of Cornwall spokesman said the estate followed a \"responsible investment policy which governs the sectors that it may invest in\".\n\nThe Paradise Papers documents also showed about £10m of the Queen's private money was invested offshore in 2004-2005 in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands.\n\nYour browser does not support this Lookup Your guide to financial jargon\n\nThe papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nThe 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Panorama has led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries. The BBC does not know the identity of the source.\n\nParadise Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #ParadisePapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"Paradise Papers\"\n\nWatch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "NHS England's boss said trust in politics would be damaged if the NHS did not get more\n\nThe health service should get the cash boost it was promised during the EU referendum, NHS England's boss says.\n\nSimon Stevens used controversial claims used by Vote Leave - that the NHS could benefit by £350m a week - to put the case for more money in a major speech.\n\nWith waiting times worsening, he said trust in politics would be damaged if the NHS did not get more.\n\nHe said the budget had grown modestly in recent years, but those rises would \"nose-dive\" in the next few years.\n\nHe said if action was not taken the NHS would really start to struggle, predicting hospital waiting lists could grow by a quarter to five million by 2021.\n\nThe speech by Mr Stevens at the NHS Providers' annual conference of health managers is highly political, coming just a fortnight before the Budget.\n\nCan't find your health trust? Browse the full list Rather search by typing? Back to search\n\nIf you can't see the NHS Tracker, click or tap here.\n\nDuring the referendum it was claimed £350m a week was sent to the EU and that would be better spent on the NHS.\n\nThe claim was widely contested at the time and ever since - it did not take into account the rebate the UK had nor the fact the UK benefited from investment from the EU.\n\nSome argued it proved highly influential in the referendum result.\n\nMr Stevens refused to be drawn on just how much money he was after - sources close to him said he was not specifically asking for an extra £350m a week, which would work out at an extra £18bn a year.\n\nInstead, they said it just needed to be significantly more than had been promised to date if waiting times were not to worsen.\n\nIt comes as three highly influential health think-tanks - the King's Fund, the Nuffield Trust and the Health Foundation - published a joint report calling for an extra £4bn to be given to health next year.\n\nThat amounts to eight times more than health spending is due to rise by.\n\nHe told delegates in Birmingham: \"The NHS wasn't on the ballot paper, but it was on the ballot bus, 'Vote Leave for a better funded health service, £350m a week.'\n\n\"Rather than our criticising these clear Brexit funding commitments to NHS patients - promises entered into by cabinet ministers and by MPs - the public want to see them honoured.\n\n\"Trust in democratic politics will not be strengthened if anyone now tries to argue, 'You voted Brexit, partly for a better funded health service. But precisely because of Brexit, you now can't have one.'\"\n\nHe said the \"modest\" rises seen in recent years were set to \"nose-drive\" in the next two, with the budget growing by 0.4% next year and by less than 1% the year after once inflation was taken into account.\n\nMr Stevens said if that continued \"choking\" of investment happened the NHS would have to \"turn back a decade of progress\".\n\nHe warned a hospital waiting list of five million by 2021 was likely - meaning a 10th of the population would be waiting for treatment.\n\nCurrently, just under four million people are.\n\nNHS Providers chief executive Chris Hopson has also given his backing to extra money.\n\nHe pointed out key targets for A&E, routine operations and cancer care were already being widely missed.\n\n\"The Budget is an important opportunity, at the beginning of this Parliament, to protect care quality for patients and service users and help the NHS break out of the downward spiral in which it is currently trapped.\n\n\"There isn't enough funding to cope.\"\n\nThe government has promised the NHS front-line budget will be £8bn a year higher by 2022 - once inflation is taken into account - than it is now.\n\nBut that does not take into account the whole health budget - which also includes spending on things such as training and healthy lifestyle services, like stop smoking services.\n\nOnce that is factored in, the current average annual increase are running at less than 1%, but that dips in the coming years.\n\nHistorically, the service has enjoyed annual rises of about 4% to cover the cost of the ageing population and new drugs.\n\nA Department of Health spokesman said: \"Research shows spending on the NHS is in line with most other European countries, and the public can be reassured that the government is committed to continued investment in the health service.\"", "An ex-Welsh Labour minister who faced a party investigation into allegations about his personal conduct has taken his own life, it is understood.\n\nCarl Sargeant, 49, lost his job as cabinet secretary for communities and children last Friday.\n\nHe was suspended from Labour after the first minister learned of a number of alleged incidents involving women.\n\nA family statement said they were \"devastated beyond words\" at the loss of \"the glue that bound us together\".\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said the death was \"deeply shocking news\".\n\nMr Sargeant, who was married and had two children, was found dead at his home in Connah's Quay, Flintshire, on Tuesday morning.\n\nHe was sacked from his Welsh Government job after allegations about his behaviour were passed to First Minister Carwyn Jones' office.\n\nMr Jones had said on Monday he felt he had no choice but to refer the matter to the party. Mr Sargeant had vowed to clear his name.\n\nThe Welsh Assembly's business for Tuesday was cancelled as a mark of respect following his death, and meetings on Wednesday and Thursday will also not take place.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a statement Mr Sargeant's family said: \"Carl was a much loved husband, father and friend.\n\n\"He wasn't simply a part of our family. He was the glue that bound us together.\n\n\"He was the most kind and caring husband, father, son and friend. We are devastated beyond words, and we know our grief will be shared by all those who knew and loved him.\"\n\nPolice were called to an address in Connah's Quay on Tuesday\n\nThe Senedd, in the wake of the death of former Welsh Government minister Carl Sargeant, is a place in shock.\n\nI do not remember an atmosphere anything like this.\n\nThere is, among some senior Labour figures, a growing sense of concern and anger at the process where the government or the Labour Party appear not to have exercised their duty of care over Mr Sargeant after he faced accusations about his behaviour.\n\nThere are people who spoke to Mr Sargeant on Tuesday morning who were told that he still did not know what the allegations were.\n\nCarwyn Jones's future could be on the line here. This is a trauma that could become a political crisis unless he comes up with the answers that Labour AMs in particular want to hear.\n\nPaying tribute, the first minister said: \"Carl was a friend as well as a colleague and I am shocked and deeply saddened by his death.\n\n\"He made a big contribution to Welsh public life and fought tirelessly for those he represented both as a minister and as a local assembly member.\"\n\nThe prime minister's spokesman said in relation to the \"sad news\" about the death of Carl Sargeant, that Theresa May's \"heart goes out to Carl Sargeant's friends and family\".\n\nMr Corbyn said the AM was \"somebody who represented our party\" and \"worked hard to represent his communities\".\n\nThe Labour leader said that all allegations must be examined and pursued but added: \"There must also be great pastoral care and support given to everybody involved in these accusations, and also that we deal with them, all parties, as quickly as possible.\"\n\nSpeaking through tears, former local government minister Leighton Andrews told BBC Radio Wales: \"Carl Sargeant was loved. He was loved across the political divide. He was loved by the people in his own community.\n\n\"Carl was a unique politician. He arrived in the assembly from the factory floor. He grew up and still lived in the council estate that helped shape his roots in Connah's Quay - he was still very much part of that community.\n\n\"My understanding is that Carl was still not aware of the detail of the allegations against him even though, I'm told, this morning.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ex-Plaid AM Rhodri Glyn Thomas: \"Carl clearly felt he'd been found guilty\"\n\nFormer Plaid Cymru AM Rhodri Glyn Thomas said Mr Sargeant \"clearly felt he had been found guilty before he had a chance to defend himself.\n\n\"So I think we need to develop a system which is fair to everybody, which defends everybody, but doesn't place people in a position where they feel they have no opportunity whatsoever to fight their cause.\"\n\nTributes were paid across the political divide on Tuesday.\n\nConservative Welsh Secretary Alun Cairns said he was \"shocked and saddened\" by the news, adding: \"My heart goes out to his family, friends and colleagues.\"\n\nElin Jones, assembly presiding officer, said Mr Sargeant \"served the people of Alyn and Deeside with pride and determination\" and that he had made an \"enormous contribution to the development of this democratic institution\".\n\nWelsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies said: \"Our Parliament has lost a stalwart and many of us have lost a friend.\"\n\nPlaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood said: \"Carl Sargeant made a significant contribution to Welsh politics, both as an assembly member and a government minister.\"\n\nUKIP Wales leader Neil Hamilton described him as a \"gentle giant\" who would be \"missed across the party divide\".\n\nLiberal Democrat Kirsty Williams, who was a colleague of Mr Sargeant's in the Welsh Government, said: \"Not only was Carl a dedicated local AM, but he was an effective government minister who had a significant impact across political life at a national and community level.\"\n\nFC Nomads, the Connah's Quay football team that Mr Sargeant was president of, cancelled all games this weekend in a mark of respect.\n\nNorth Wales Police Supt Mark Pierce said police were called at about 11:30 GMT on Tuesday to a report that a man's body had been found at an address in Connah's Quay.\n\n\"The man has been formally identified as local AM Carl Sargeant. His next of kin have been informed and police are supporting the family,\" he said.\n\n\"North Wales Police are not treating his death as suspicious and the matter has been referred to HM Coroner.\"", "The cuts would affect engineering and parts of London Underground\n\nTransport for London (TfL) is cutting 1,400 jobs as part of plans to save £5.5bn by 2021, according to unions.\n\nThe cuts will affect engineering and parts of London Underground (LU), said the Rail, Maritime and Transport (RMT) union.\n\nIt said the figure emerged at a meeting on Tuesday, but TfL said it did not recognise the RMT's number.\n\nThe RMT criticised the move on the eve of the 30th anniversary of the King's Cross fire in which 31 people died.\n\nTfL said: \"Over the next few months we will be consulting on further plans in a number of other managerial, support and other non front-line areas across TfL and London Underground (LU).\n\n\"None of this will compromise safety, which will always remain our top priority.\"\n\nA meeting between union leaders and TfL revealed plans to cut spending by 2021\n\nDuring Mayor Sadiq Khan's election campaign he called Transport for London \"flabby\".\n\nHe said it could cope with a fares freeze that in effect reduced its income and engineering functions could be merged to save money.\n\nThose policies are now coming home to roost and TfL is now having to make efficiencies.\n\nThe unions say TfL is trying to save £5.5bn by 2021. TfL has previously said the figure is £4bn.\n\nEither way, that is partly the fares freeze, which costs £640m, and partly the Government £591m operational grant being phased out.\n\nInsiders say there has already been considerable belt tightening and trawls for redundancies. Forty-nine managers have left and there have been savings in duplication and agency staff.\n\nThe big question is will more redundancies affect front-line staff and how Transport for London operates. And how will the Unions react?\n\nThese policies come with a cost - now we will see if the Mayor was right.\n\nRMT general secretary Mick Cash said: \"As part of the Mayor's efforts to slash spending by £5.5bn by 2021 we are now being told that the company plans to cut up to 1,400 jobs in engineering in TfL and in some areas of LU.\n\n\"RMT demands that no cuts take place, so close to the King's Cross fire anniversary.\n\n\"It would be appalling if there was any hacking back on safety.\n\n\"The Mayor needs to stand up for TfL and demand restoration of the full capital grant and proper central government funding for the Tube.\"\n\nTfL said it was \"undertaking the largest ever overhaul of our organisation to provide the most efficient and cost effective transport service for Londoners\".\n\n\"We have already reduced management layers and bureaucracy and merged functions in other areas to eliminate duplication and reliance on expensive agency staff\", it said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carl Sargeant \"wasn't dealt with fairly\", says Labour AM Jenny Rathbone\n\nThe family of sacked Welsh Labour minister Carl Sargeant has said he was deprived of \"natural justice\".\n\nHe was found dead on Tuesday after being sacked from the cabinet and suspended from Labour.\n\nHe faced allegations of \"unwanted attention, inappropriate touching or groping\".\n\nLeighton Andrews, a former key ally of Carwyn Jones, said he is \"angry\" the first minister did TV interviews commenting on allegations.\n\nThe former AM and cabinet minister said Mr Jones had not followed \"due process\" by speaking to the media on Monday.\n\nOn Thursday Labour AMs will meet for the first time since Mr Sargeant died.\n\nFirst Minister Carwyn Jones's spokesman said: \"Like everyone in the Welsh Labour family Carwyn is deeply upset by the death of his friend.\n\n\"Tomorrow Welsh Labour AMs will meet in the assembly to remember Carl and discuss the tragic events of the past week. Carwyn will make a further statement following the meeting.\"\n\nOn Monday Mr Jones told the BBC and ITV there were \"a number\" of allegations made by women against Mr Sargeant.\n\nBut Mr Andrews told BBC One's Wales Live programme that he felt the first minister should not have made any public comments after the matter was referred to the Labour Party on Friday.\n\n\"Having passed this over on Friday to the Labour party, on Monday the first minister is doing interviews with the BBC and I think with ITV as well in which he is elaborating on the story and commenting on the story,\" he said.\n\n\"Well, that is not due process.\n\n\"I'm very angry at those interviews on Monday and the anger within the Labour Party across Wales and beyond the Labour Party in Carl's local community, people in other political parties, people in no political party.\n\n\"People do not think Carl Sargeant has been treated fairly.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Leighton Andrews said the allegations should have been dealt with \"behind closed doors\"\n\nHis comments came after Mr Sargeant's family released correspondence between his solicitor and Labour to highlight their concern over his treatment.\n\nIt shows Mr Sargeant pushed for more specific details on the claims, and that his mental well-being was being affected.\n\nRelatives said he was distressed at being unable to defend himself.\n\nThe Labour Party said that, in line with agreed procedure, the nature of the allegations was outlined to Mr Sargeant.\n\nThe Alyn and Deeside AM had vowed to clear his name after being sacked as communities secretary by Mr Jones on Friday, but said he did not know the details of the allegations.\n\nIt is understood he took his own life.\n\nA family spokesman said on Wednesday they were publishing the correspondence \"in light of the continued unwillingness\" of the Labour Party \"to clarify the nature of the allegations made against Carl\".\n\n\"Up to the point of his tragic death on Tuesday morning Carl was not informed of any of the detail of the allegations against him, despite requests and warnings regarding his mental welfare,\" the spokesman said.\n\n\"The correspondence also discloses the solicitor's concern that media appearances by the first minister on Monday were prejudicing the inquiry.\n\n\"The family wish to disclose the fact that Carl maintained his innocence and he categorically denied any wrongdoing.\n\n\"The distress of not being able to defend himself properly against these unspecified allegations meant he was not afforded common courtesy, decency or natural justice.\"\n\nIn a statement through solicitors later, the family added that they hope \"there will be a full investigation and scrutiny of the way that the relevant parties concerned dealt with the allegations, Mr Sargeant personally and the statements that have been made in the press and media\".\n\n\"Those that owed a clear duty of care to Carl and to his family will, no doubt in due course, need to provide clarity on their respective positions in this tragedy,\" they added.\n\n\"No support was offered to Mr Sargeant other than that personally offered by close friends and family,\" the family added.\n\nCarl Sargeant's family have released two emails and a letter sent between his solicitor and Welsh Labour. It includes:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. MP Mark Tami says if procedures were followed in the run-up to Carl Sargeant's death something had gone \"badly wrong\"\n\nMr Sargeant's Westminster constituency colleague, Labour MP Mark Tami, said Mr Sargeant's family were \"angry\" because \"they obviously have questions about the process and how it has ended up with this\".\n\n\"I think they need some space to try as best they can to come to terms with what has happened to Carl,\" he said.\n\n\"If the procedure's been followed then we need to look at the procedure because something's gone badly wrong.\"\n\nThe first minister is facing questions from within his own party about how the situation was handled, after finding out about the allegations early last week.\n\nStaff from his office, but not civil servants, spoke to the women involved and referred their complaints to Welsh Labour, which was investigating, and suspended Mr Sargeant.\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\nJenny Rathbone, Labour AM for Cardiff Central, said she felt Mr Sargeant \"wasn't dealt with fairly\".\n\n\"If allegations are made against you, you must know what they are so that you can respond to them,\" she said on BBC Radio Wales' Good Morning Wales programme.\n\nUKIP Wales leader Neil Hamilton called on Mr Jones to resign, saying he \"failed to fulfil his duty of care\" to Mr Sargeant.\n\nBrecon and Radnorshire Conservative MP Chris Davies also called on the first minister to resign, saying the way he had handled the matter was \"terrible\".\n\nWhat did Carwyn Jones know about allegations of misconduct against Carl Sargeant - and when?\n\nIn a television interview two days ago, the day before the death of the ex-cabinet secretary, Carwyn Jones insisted that the first time he heard of the allegations was last week.\n\nBut multiple sources from more than one party have told me that Carwyn Jones had discussed allegations of misconduct with Carl Sargeant once before, and had received an explanation of the incident.\n\nAre the sources right? The simple answer is I do not know.\n\nBut Carwyn Jones knows the truth and he should answer the question as soon as possible.\n\nA book of condolence for Mr Sargeant was opened in the assembly on Wednesday\n\nA Labour Party spokesman said: \"Following allegations brought to the attention of Welsh Labour by Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones, an investigation was launched by the UK party.\n\n\"The Labour Party Governance and Legal Unit spoke with Carl Sargeant and, in line with agreed procedure, outlined the nature of the allegations that had been received and how the complaints process works.\"\n\nA book of condolence for Mr Sargeant was opened in the assembly on Wednesday.", "Kate Osamor MP, Labour's shadow international development secretary, said Priti Patel appeared to have breached the Ministerial Code and \"gone behind the government's back and misled the British public.\"\n\nShe continued: \"After initially denying the allegations, then repeatedly changing her story and failing to disclose all of her meetings, it is right that she has now resigned.\n\n\"But we still need to know what was discussed in these meetings and what Number 10 and the Foreign Office knew and when.\"\n\nShe said Theresa May needed to \"get control of her chaotic cabinet\".", "The new editor of Vogue, Edward Enninful, tells the BBC why the magazine will be more diverse.", "A child sexual abuse victim has been given an apology from the government's victim compensation agency after it previously ruled he had consented.\n\nTwenty-one men were convicted of abusing the man from the age of 13.\n\nThe man has now been told he is eligible for compensation after his application had originally been rejected by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (Cica).\n\nThe Ministry of Justice says similar cases are now being reviewed.\n\nThe man - known as HND - had applied to Cica for compensation but Human rights charity Liberty said that was rejected in November 2015, after it was ruled he had consented to the sexual assaults.\n\nThis case was highlighted in a special edition of File on 4 in July.\n\nHND's appeal against that decision was due to be heard later this month but Cica chief executive Carole Oatway has now written to him to apologise for the way his case was handled.\n\nIn the letter, she said: \"I am firmly of the view that you are eligible for compensation.\n\n\"It is clear that advantage was taken of your age and vulnerability for the purpose of sexual abuse.\"\n\nHND's father welcomed the decision but said \"it should never have come to this\".\n\nHe added: \"Having spent years coming to terms with what happened to him and that it was not his fault, my son was told by a state body that it was\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The boy's story is told by an actor in this short film\n\nThe decision comes after Cica issued new guidelines to its staff on grooming cases.\n\nDebaleena Dasgupta, Liberty's lawyer who represented HND, said her client: \"Should be extremely proud of having triggered changes that will hopefully stop other children and young people going through this.\n\n\"None of this would have been possible without his tenacity and strength.\"\n\nIn July, the government promised an urgent review of cases where Cica had rejected claims as victims were deemed to have consented.\n\nA coalition of charities, including Barnardos, Victim Support and Liberty, said a Freedom of Information request had revealed that since the Criminal Injuries Compensation Scheme was launched in November 2012, nearly 700 child victims of sexual abuse had been refused payments.\n\nSammy Woodhouse was among those child sex abuse victims initially denied compensation\n\nThe Ministry of Justice estimates around 30 cases per year have been refused compensation on consent grounds.\n\nCica said Ms Woodhouse, who was 14 when the grooming started, said she \"consented\". But it later overturned its decision.\n\nIt is illegal to have sexual activity with anyone under 16 but the authority does not automatically make payments to all victims.\n\nCica said its new guidance was developed to ensure young sexual abuse survivors get the support they are entitled to \"even where sexual activity appears consensual\".\n\nThe charities said the new guidelines will help to protect victims' rights but they can \"only interpret a broken scheme\" and want the whole system to be reviewed.", "The company took offence to a piece the newspaper wrote about its park in Anaheim, California\n\nThe Walt Disney company has ended its ban of the Los Angeles Times newspaper after a backlash from US media.\n\nLast week it emerged Disney had stopped inviting the newspaper to press screenings because it disagreed with an article published in September.\n\nThe New York Times and Washington Post vowed to boycott Disney screenings in solidarity with the banned newspaper.\n\nThe LA Times went public about its ban in a \"note to readers\" on Friday, saying it could only review Disney's Christmas movies after they had been released publicly because the company \"declined to offer The Times advance screenings\".\n\nDisney responded with a statement explaining its decision. It alleged the LA-based newspaper had \"showed a complete disregard for basic journalistic standards\" in a two-part piece it wrote about the company's California park and its relationship with the town of Anaheim, where it is based.\n\nBut a backlash against Disney's decision built over the weekend and on Tuesday a band of critics associations voted to disqualify Disney movies from award consideration until the ban was \"publicly rescinded\".\n\nThe New York Times had also issued a statement saying: \"A powerful company punishing a news organization for a story they do not like is meant to have a chilling effect.\n\n\"This is a dangerous precedent and not at all in the public interest.\"\n\nBut by Tuesday afternoon Disney had confirmed it had changed its mind and revoked the restrictions after \"productive discussions with the newly installed leadership at The Los Angeles Times regarding our specific concerns\".", "It was precisely a week ago that I was summoned to the Ministry of Defence to ask Sir Michael Fallon why he was resigning.\n\nSeven days on, for an unconnected reason, Theresa May has just lost another one of her ministers.\n\nThat time the resignation was rather differently handled - some private speculation through the day, then a discreet summoning to a quiet room in the department until one of the minister's team came to say: \"Be ready, the secretary of state is resigning, we are finalising the letters between us and Number 10 right now.\"\n\nThis time, the process has been more like a pantomime, with speculation rife for nearly 24 hours that she was on her way out, no-one in government moving to quash it, leaving journalists, on the first day of parliament's recess, free to track Priti Patel's plane online then her journey back to Westminster.\n\nGoodness knows what Ms Patel's Ugandan hosts, who were expecting her to visit today, make of it all.\n\nBeyond today's palaver, though, her exit throws up problems for Mrs May.\n\nIt is never as simple as one out, one in.\n\nMrs May, who hoped to earn her authority back through competence, and orderly government, needs to restore a sense of calm after a chaotic week.\n\nTo convey even a limp grip on power, misbehaving ministers need to be brought in line, and a restive Tory party needs to be able to believe Number 10 has some capability left.\n\nBut with Ms Patel's departure, the prime minister must try most importantly to preserve the delicate balance around the cabinet table.\n\nMinisters' make up is finely tuned between those who desire a loose arrangement with the European Union after Brexit and those who want to stay tightly bound.\n\nWith the balance more or less equal between those factions, it's as if the prime minister has the casting vote.\n\nFor as long as that formula is preserved, both sides will preserve her.\n\nUpset that equilibrium with the wrong choices in a reshuffle, even of one, and the way through the most challenging decisions the government faces becomes more complicated, and the prime minister's own position more precarious still.", "Monica Lennon believes \"at least half a dozen\" people witnessed the alleged sexual assault\n\nA Labour MSP has said she was sexually assaulted by a senior male colleague at a party.\n\nMonica Lennon told the Sunday Mail that she was groped at a social event in 2013 in front of several witnesses.\n\nShe said she made an initial complaint to Scottish Labour but decided not to progress it because she felt she would not be believed.\n\nLabour said it was working to improve the way it deals with sexual harassment complaints and safeguarding issues.\n\nMs Lennon, 36, told the paper: \"It happened at a Labour Party social event in 2013, before I was an MSP. It was a private function, a room full of people.\n\n\"A man, who was a senior figure in the party, touched me in a manner that some would say is 'handsy'. He was sitting next to me when he groped me, in full view of other people.\n\n\"I don't want to go into the full details but he touched my body, in an intimate way, without invitation or permission. This shouldn't happen to anyone.\n\n\"It's possible at least half a dozen people saw exactly what happened.\n\n\"One man, who at the time was a Labour politician, joked to everyone in earshot, 'That's your fault for coming over here and getting him all excited'.\"\n\nMs Lennon, who was a South Lanarkshire councillor at the time, said the experience left her feeling humiliated, though she knew she was not at fault.\n\nThe MSP added: \"A few days later I ran into another man who had seen what happened and he made a jokey reference to it.\n\n\"The underlying message was clear, the whole thing was to be treated as a joke. I felt disappointed, hurt, embarrassed and let down.\"\n\nAnother newspaper, the Sunday Post, reports that the SNP MSP, Willie Coffey was reported to Holyrood authorities six months ago after a civil servant complained about \"inappropriate language\" and \"unsolicited attention\".\n\nThe Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley MSP denies the allegation and says he does not recognise the claims about his behaviour.\n\nMs Lennon was elected to Holyrood in 2016 and is now Scottish Labour's spokeswoman on inequalities\n\nMs Lennon is the most senior UK politician to say she has been the victim of sexual assault since the harassment scandal began to emerge in the last fortnight.\n\nShe is the third member of Labour to claim she was not given enough support by the party.\n\nLabour activist Bex Bailey said she was raped at a party event and a senior Labour official discouraged her from reporting the attack.\n\nAva Etemadzadeh, another Labour activist, claimed MP Kelvin Hopkins hugged her inappropriately after a student event in 2014. Mr Hopkins denies wrongdoing.\n\nMs Lennon, who was elected to Holyrood in 2016, said she phoned Scottish Labour to report her alleged attacker's behaviour some time later.\n\nShe added: \"I was asked if I wanted to make an official written complaint. I just felt like that wasn't really an option. I didn't feel I would be believed.\"\n\nA Labour party spokesman said: \"The party takes all complaints of sexual harassment, abuse and discrimination extremely seriously.\n\n\"We ask that anyone with a complaint comes forward so that allegations can be properly investigated. When evidence of misconduct comes to light, all appropriate disciplinary action is taken in line with the party's rule book and procedures.\n\n\"The party has been working with its affiliates to develop procedures specifically designed to deal with complaints of sexual harassment and safeguarding issues in order to improve internal processes and make it easier to report concerns.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A Yemeni TV station released footage of what it claimed was a Riyadh-bound missile\n\nSaudi Arabia says it has intercepted a ballistic missile fired from Yemen, after a loud explosion was heard near Riyadh airport on Saturday evening.\n\nThe missile was destroyed over the capital and fragments landed in the airport area, officials quoted by the official Saudi Press Agency said.\n\nA TV channel linked to Houthi rebels in Yemen said the missile was fired at the King Khalid International Airport.\n\nThe civil aviation authority said that air traffic was not disrupted.\n\nSaudi forces have reported shooting down Houthi missiles in the past , though none has come so close to a major population centre.\n\n\"The missile was launched indiscriminately to target the civilian and populated areas,\" said Turki al-Maliki, a spokesman for the Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen.\n\n\"Shattered fragments from the intercepted missile landed in an uninhabited area of the airport and there were no injuries.\"\n\nWitnesses reported seeing parts of the missile in the airport's car park, Saudi broadcaster Al-Arabiya reported.\n\nResidents in the north of Riyadh said their windows were rattled by a loud blast on Saturday evening that was followed by the roar of low-flying aircraft.\n\nThe Houthi-run Saba News in Yemen said the missile had been a Burkan H2.\n\nThe rebel group is believed to have access to a stockpile of Scud ballistic missiles and home-grown variants. Saudi forces have previously brought them down with Patriot surface-to-air missiles bought from the US.\n\nThe Houthis fired a missile towards Riyadh in May, a day before US President Donald Trump was due to arrive in the city for a visit, but it was shot down 200km (120 miles) from the capital.\n\nYemen has been devastated by a war between forces loyal to the internationally recognised government of President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and those allied to the Houthi rebel movement.\n\nSaudi Arabia is leading a campaign to defeat the Houthis, and is the biggest power in an international air coalition that has bombed the rebel group since 2015.\n\nOn Wednesday a suspected strike by the Saudi-led coalition killed at least 26 people at a hotel and market in northern Yemen, medics and local officials said.\n\nThe coalition, which rights groups say has bombed schools, hospitals, markets and residential areas, said it struck a \"legitimate military target\".\n\nUN-brokered talks have failed to bring an end to the bloodshed in Yemen, which has claimed more than 8,600 lives and injured nearly 50,000 since the Saudi-led campaign began.\n\nThe conflict has also left 20.7 million people in need of humanitarian assistance, created the world's largest food security emergency, and led to a cholera outbreak that is believed to have affected 884,000 people and caused 2,184 deaths.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAbout £10m of the Queen's private money was invested offshore, leaked documents show.\n\nThe Duchy of Lancaster, which provides the Queen with an income, held funds in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda.\n\nA small amount ended up in the company behind BrightHouse, a chain accused of irresponsible lending, and Threshers, which went bust owing £17.5m in UK tax.\n\nThe Duchy said the BrightHouse holding now equates to £3,208 and it was not involved in fund investment decisions.\n\nIt added it had been unaware the stores featured in the investments.\n\nThe chief finance officer of the £500m estate, Chris Adcock, told the BBC: \"Our investment strategy is based on advice and recommendation from our investment consultants and appropriate asset allocation...\n\n\"The Duchy has only invested in highly regarded private equity funds following a strong recommendation from our investment consultants.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Duchy of Lancaster added: \"We operate a number of investments and a few of these are with overseas funds. All of our investments are fully audited and legitimate.\n\n\"The Queen voluntarily pays tax on any income she receives from the Duchy.\"\n\nDetails about the Duchy's investments came to light in the Paradise Papers - a leak of 13.4m documents from companies including Appleby, one of the world's leading offshore law firms.\n\nThe two funds were based in British overseas territories with no corporation tax and at the centre of the offshore financial industry.\n\nBut the Duchy said it was not aware there were tax advantages to it from investing in offshore funds, adding that tax strategy was not a part of the estate's investment policy.\n\nThe documents show the Duchy of Lancaster put £5m in the Jubilee Absolute Return Fund Limited in Bermuda in 2004, with the investment coming to an end in 2010.\n\nIn 2005 the Duchy agreed to put $7.5m (£5.7m) in the Dover Street VI Cayman Fund LP.\n\nDocuments show the fund invested in medical and technology companies.\n\nThe connection to rent-to-buy firm BrightHouse began in 2007 when the US company running the fund asked the Duchy to contribute $450,000 to five projects, including the purchase of the two UK High Street retailers.\n\nThis included an interest in London-based private equity firm Vision Capital, the company which acquired 100% of BrightHouse and 75% of the owners of Threshers off licence chain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour MP Dame Margaret Hodge says she is furious with those who advise the Queen\n\nUnder its new owners, Threshers' balance sheet was loaded with debt and it paid no corporation tax for two years. When the drinks retailer went bust in October 2009, almost 6,000 people lost their jobs.\n\nThe majority of Vision Capital's BrightHouse investment later ended up in a company based in Luxembourg and it began paying less corporation tax in the UK.\n\nLast month, the UK's financial regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority, said BrightHouse, which sells electrical goods and furniture predominantly to people on lower incomes via weekly installments, had not acted as a \"responsible lender\" and ordered it to pay £14.8m compensation to 249,000 customers.\n\nThe Duchy said its investment in the Cayman Islands fund is due to continue until 2019 or 2020 and amounts to 0.3% of the total value of the estate, while its interest in BrightHouse now equates to just 0.0006% of its wealth. The Duchy did not provide a figure for its interest in Threshers.\n\nVision Capital said it \"complies with all laws and regulations and pays its tax in full and on time. Any suggestion to the contrary is wrong\".\n\nThe Paradise Papers' revelations over the Queen's finances are certainly embarrassing.\n\nMany will also view the Duchy of Lancaster's offshore investments in BrightHouse and Threshers as dubious and inappropriate.\n\nHowever, it is not a question of tax avoidance, but of judgement on behalf of her advisers.\n\nThe Queen is officially exempt from UK tax laws, but voluntarily pays her share of income tax on her £500m estate.\n\nIt is extraordinary and puzzling that her advisers could have felt that it was appropriate - for somebody whose reputation is based so much on setting a good example - to invest in these offshore funds.\n\nThere will be meetings and questions being asked within Buckingham Palace this morning as the monarchy finds its reputation tarnished by association.\n\nThe Duchy's 2017 annual report says it \"gives ongoing consideration regarding any of its acts or omissions that could adversely impact the reputation of the Duchy or Her Majesty The Queen\".\n\nLabour MP Margaret Hodge, the former chair of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, said she was \"pretty furious\" with the Queen's investment advisers, saying they were bringing her reputation into disrepute.\n\n\"It is so obvious that if you're looking after the money of the monarchy, you've got to be actually cleaner than clean and you must never go near the dirty world of money laundering, tax avoidance, tax evasion or actually making money in dubious ways,\" she said.\n\nThe business model of BrightHouse has long come under the spotlight.\n\nA parliamentary report in 2015 said the company was charging interest rates of up to 94%. One in five customers were in arrears and one in 10 purchases ended in repossession. In one case examined by MPs and Lords, a Samsung freezer cost £644 to buy in John Lewis but £1,716 under a five-year plan from the chain.\n\nBrightHouse was attracting attention at the time of the Duchy's investment - with the Financial Times challenging its chief executive in November 2008 to respond to accusations that the chain was \"preying on the vulnerable\".\n\nThe company maintains it is a responsible lender and through its 300 stores provides a services to millions of Britons who are unable to access up traditional lines of credit.\n\nBrightHouse told the Guardian newspaper it follows all relevant tax regulations and pays its tax in full and on time.\n\nVision Capital announced it was acquiring the stakes in BrightHouse and Threshers in June 2007.\n\nThe offshore leaked documents show the Duchy of Lancaster was among 46 investors in the $312m Dover Street VI Cayman Fund LP.\n\nIn September 2007, investors were asked to pay 6% of their financial commitment into five investments, including \"Project Bertie\".\n\nThe investors were told Project Bertie was formed to take an interest in a company set up by Vision Capital to \"acquire a portfolio of two retailers in the United Kingdom\".\n\nThe Duchy of Lancaster's $450,000 commitment to the \"capital call\" is listed in the documents.\n\nAnother document shows the investment in Jubilee Absolute Return Fund.\n\nEstablished more than 700 years ago, the Duchy of Lancaster has a commercial and residential property portfolio and financial investments.\n\nIts main purpose is to provide income for the Queen, who is known as the \"Duke of Lancaster\".\n\nAlthough the Duchy is not subject to tax, since 1993 the Queen has voluntarily paid tax on any income she receives.\n\nThe Duchy's annual report and accounts include a summary of its holdings and financial performance and are put before Parliament. The offshore investments were not referenced in the reports but there is no requirement for specific details of the Duchy's holdings to be disclosed.\n\nDave McClure, the author of a book about the wealth of the Royal Family, told the BBC \"pressure will grow on the Duchy to open up to proper parliamentary scrutiny by the National Audit Office, which they've resisted for decades.\n\n\"The solution to the problem might be just full disclosure, so everyone knows what investments they're investing in.\"\n\nThe Duchy said the Queen \"takes a keen interest in the Duchy's estates and tenants\" but \"appoints a chancellor and the Duchy Council to administer the affairs of Her Duchy. The chancellor delegates the oversight to the Duchy to the Council\".\n\nInvestors in the Dover Street VI Cayman Fund LP made a commitment for a \"given period\" and are \"not party to its ongoing investment decisions\" or where money is \"ultimately invested\", it added.\n\nAsked whether the Duchy had other investments in offshore funds, it said it \"currently invests in a fund domiciled in Ireland\".\n\nThe Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is a government minister and sits in the cabinet, but plays a nominal role in running the estate. The current chancellor is Sir Patrick McLoughlin MP, the Chairman of the Conservative Party.\n\nAt the time the Duchy initially invested in the Dover Street VI Cayman Fund LP in September 2005, its chancellor was Labour MP John Hutton.\n\nEd Miliband was the chancellor of the Duchy at the time the call came to invest in the company taking over BrightHouse and Threshers. Coincidentally in 2016, the former Labour leader called for better regulation on buy-to-rent firms such as BrightHouse in a film for the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\nThe papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nThe 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Panorama has led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries. The BBC does not know the identity of the source.\n\nParadise Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #ParadisePapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"Paradise Papers\"\n\nWatch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "Like the Cheshire Cat, it's hard to tame something that keeps disappearing and reappearing\n\nThe offshore finance industry puts trillions of dollars worldwide beyond the taxman's reach. Bringing it to heel is like taming a cat; not just a normal moggy - a thankless task in itself - but a Cheshire Cat: nebulous, hard to pin down, disappearing and reappearing when it likes.\n\nNo-one can actually agree on what a tax haven is. Or even on the name: one person's tax haven is another's \"offshore financial centre\". No-one can agree on how many there are. Nor on exactly how much money is stashed offshore. No statistics are fully reliable.\n\nAnd this suits those who operate in offshore finance, from the owner of the wealth to the lawyer or accountant middlemen who manage the funds, to the often sun-kissed beaches of the jurisdictions where they are secluded or pass through. The industry's key word is privacy. Or secrecy - a word it doesn't like so much.\n\nOne adage cited by the taxation author and expert Nicholas Shaxson sums it up: \"Those who know don't talk. And those who talk don't know.\"\n\nBut do we really not know how much is stashed offshore?\n\nA report this September, co-authored by the economist Gabriel Zucman, estimates about 10% of global GDP - the way we measure the size of the world's economy - is held offshore, about $7.8tn (£6tn). The Boston Consulting Group reported it last year at about $10tn.\n\nIf you are thinking, wow, that's bigger than Japan's economy, you'd be right. But if you want a real wow, try $36tn - the estimate offered by James Henry, author of the book Blood Bankers. That's twice as big as the US economy.\n\nAnd here's another wow. Remember the slogan \"we are the 99%\" coined by the Occupy movement to lambast the top 1% of the population for their disproportionate share of wealth? Well, the Zucman report says 80% of all offshore cash is owned by 0.1% of the richest households, with 50% held by the top 0.01%.\n\nSo if you read this and are thinking, if you can't beat them... quite frankly, it's unlikely you will ever join them. The management fees for the ordinary person will probably far outstrip the gains.\n\nAs Nicholas Shaxson told BBC Panorama: \"At the very lowest end you'll have the middle classes doing little bits and pieces. But the large majority of what's going on, this is a game for rich people.\"\n\nSurely we know some of how this works? The systems have a ring of familiarity - double taxation; tax inversion; trusts; shell companies etc. It's just we don't usually know who's in the schemes and what they are getting out of them.\n\nThe basic essence is rerouting money in one location where you don't like the taxation rules to another location - one that is stable and reliable - where there aren't as many, or any.\n\nFor example, if you want to protect your assets to stave off creditors, stick them in an offshore shell company. Hey presto, much harder to get at. Want to hide ownership of a property? Put it in a trust.\n\nThis is not illegal. There are many other schemes, legal, illegal and sometimes ethically debatable. But even within these categories there are many variables on what actually constitutes The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. After all, in the film with that name the ugly arguably wasn't as bad as the bad, and the good was hardly perfect.\n\nTrue to their Cheshire Cat-like origins, offshore financial centres (OFCs) do not always appear where one might expect them.\n\nThat's because offshore, sorry to confuse you, is also onshore. This makes it impossible to pin down the global number of OFCs. It could be 50, 70 or more and new ones come and go.\n\nThe US and UK are arguably two of the biggest OFCs.\n\nFor example, setting up shell firms is easy in some US states, like Delaware.\n\nAnd it's widely known that the City of London acts as the facilitating hub for Crown dependencies and overseas territories that channel trillions of offshore dollars.\n\nThe smaller, often island, nations are what Nicholas Shaxson calls \"captured states\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Investigative journalist Nicholas Shaxson on why tax havens are ‘like captured states’\n\nHe told Panorama: \"These places don't have a very deep pool of experienced people. They're just people who say, well we trust the accountants, we trust the lawyers to tell us what's best for our island and we'll do it.\"\n\nSo how does offshore defend itself?\n\nWell, the jurisdictions say it's wrong to think there are banks in OFCs sitting on pots of gold - the money is simply being reinvested by companies - and that if there were no OFCs there would be no constraint on the tax rates governments might levy.\n\nOFCs, they say, simply pump cash around the globe and the new transparency rules put in place over the past decade have severely limited tax evasion.\n\nIt's certainly wrong to lump all the OFCs together. Some are better regulated than others. Down at the murkier end, dealings in Panama were exposed by leaks last year.\n\nBut Bermuda's Bob Richards offered a stout defence of its financial services in an interview with Panorama carried out while he was still finance minister, citing a taxation system that had been in place for more than 100 years and adding that if other nations were losing out on tax they should sort their own systems out.\n\nBermuda, he says, has fully signed up to an international agreement that allows for the automatic transfer of tax information within governments and such a jurisdiction \"cannot be a tax haven\".\n\nAnd Appleby, the financial services firm involved in these latest leaks, made the case for OFCs back in 2009, in the wake of the global crash.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt said there was \"no evidence OFCs played any role in the economic crisis\", OFCs were \"neither the source of - nor the destination for - criminal proceeds\" and that OFCs \"protect people victimised by crime, corruption, or persecution by shielding them from venal governments\".\n\nOf the latest leaks, the company said: \"Many of the questions raise matters where - on any view - there is plainly no conceivable wrongdoing on the part of Appleby whatsoever.\"\n\nOFCs say there are no secrets, just privacy. But Gerard Ryle, of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which oversaw this huge leak of financial documents, known as the Paradise Papers, dismisses this.\n\n\"The only product that the offshore world sells is secrecy and when you take away secrecy they don't have a product anymore,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Where you have secrecy, you have the potential for wrongdoing.\"\n\nWhatever term you prefer, the elusive nature of offshore makes it hard to root out wrongdoing.\n\nYou could start an investigation into one firm or individual and be shuttled around from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, company to company, turning up a whole tranche of names on documents that are linked to no real owner, sometimes no real person, and lead absolutely nowhere.\n\nYou're probably also thinking, we've now had an awful lot of these financial leaks, haven't they changed anything?\n\nSpin backwards to April 2016. The Panama Papers have just come out. Iceland's PM Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson has resigned after the leaks showed he owned an offshore company with his wife.\n\nThousands are demonstrating in Reykjavik to vent anger at their politicians.\n\nSome estimates put the protest numbers at 6% of the whole Icelandic population. That's like if 19 million people turned up to a protest in the US today.\n\nBut then travel over to Elektrostal, two hours east of Moscow. Resident Nadezhda is haranguing BBC reporter Steve Rosenberg. \"All these 'investigations' are a waste of time and money. We know what you're up to. They're trying to rub Putin's face in the dirt,\" she says.\n\nIt kind of depends on where you are.\n\nIn the West, at least, people are questioning what high-net-worth individuals and multinationals can get away with.\n\nIs it right that they can use loopholes to keep more of their cash? Or should it go to governments to spend on their people?\n\nTo be fair, governments have been tracking stashed cash since the 2008 global meltdown, independent of any financial leaks, although their talk has usually been tougher than their action.\n\nSecrecy is now harder to achieve, transparency is greater. So-called country-by-country reporting, requiring multinationals to break down how they operate in different nations, has widened and public registries of companies have increased.\n\nEven Russia brought in a law requiring the disclosure of offshore assets. The result? Since the law came in three years ago, dozens of the super-rich have given up Russian residency to avoid it.\n\nThere are also OFC blacklists mooted but, as Nicholas Shaxson says, the big players will make sure their operations are not on it and it will weed out only the minnows.\n\nThe offshore firms will \"recalibrate\", he says. \"When legislation changes, you will have this ecosystem kind of readjusting and the money will shift to other places.\"\n\nAnd wealth holders will readjust too. Pump cash into diamonds and artworks maybe? Or just go and actually live somewhere that charges low tax.\n\nWhat makes this a vicious circle is that many governments are fully prepared to sanction offshore finance. Indeed, many people in government use it, as these leaks show.\n\nAnd there is one thing we do know. If the super wealthy don't pay the taxes, the money has to come from everyone else.\n\nWhich to many may sound a bit mad, but as the Cheshire Cat says: \"We're all mad here\".\n\nThe papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nThe 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Panorama has led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries. The BBC does not know the identity of the source.\n\nParadise Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #ParadisePapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"Paradise Papers\"\n\nWatch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "A Scottish government minister has resigned over previous actions which he said were considered \"inappropriate\".\n\nMark McDonald, the SNP MSP for Aberdeen Donside, said he was stepping down from his role as childcare and early years minister.\n\nHe apologised and said his attempts to be \"humourous\" or \"friendly\" may have led others to become uncomfortable.\n\nHe is one of two SNP members currently being investigated by the party over possible misconduct.\n\nIt is understood the allegations against him are not criminal in nature. The other complaint being investigated by the SNP does not relate to a parliamentarian.\n\nIn a statement he said: \"It has been brought to my attention that some of my previous actions have been considered to be inappropriate - where I have believed myself to have been merely humorous or attempting to be friendly, my behaviour might have made others uncomfortable or led them to question my intentions.\n\n\"My behaviour is entirely my responsibility and I apologise unreservedly to anyone I have upset or who might have found my behaviour inappropriate.\n\n\"In light of my position in government, I believe it would not be appropriate for me to continue to serve in my role in the Scottish government at this time and I have tendered my resignation as a minister.\n\n\"I hope that in taking this step neither any particular woman or my family will be the focus of undue and unwarranted scrutiny.\n\n\"It has been an honour to serve in the Scottish government and I will continue to serve my constituents in Aberdeen Donside to the best of my ability.\"\n\nA cross party meeting has been held at Holyrood to discuss improved ways of tackling sexual harassment\n\nA former Aberdeen City councillor, Mark McDonald was elected as a list MSP at Holyrood in 2011 and became a constituency MSP when he won the Aberdeen Donside by-election in 2013, following the death of Brian Adam.\n\nThe 37-year-old was responsible for a members bill on high hedge disputes, which passed unanimously at Holyrood. He was appointed a minister in May 2016.\n\nEarlier this week First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Deputy First Minister John Swinney both warned men - including those in the SNP - to reflect on their behaviour as allegations of sexual harassment reached Holyrood.\n\nA spokesperson for the first minister said: \"Mark has taken the right action in apologising and recognising that in his current role it would be inappropriate for him to remain in government.\n\n\"He will continue to make a valuable contribution to parliament as the MSP for Aberdeen Donside.\n\n\"As the deputy first minister told parliament earlier in the week it is right that men take responsibility for their behaviour and it is to Mark's credit that he has done so.\"\n\nA confidential phone line has been launched and an anonymised survey is to be carried out to determine the extent of sexual harassment at the Scottish Parliament.\n\nThe measure was announced after Presiding Officer Ken Macintosh held an urgent meeting with representatives from each party including Nicola Sturgeon.\n\nA Scottish government spokesperson said Mr McDonald tendered his resignation to the first minister on Saturday.\n\n\"The education secretary is responsible for all aspects of the education portfolio including those led by the minister for childcare and early years. The first minister will appoint a new minister in due course,\" the spokesperson added.", "A delivery driver was attacked in Walthamstow by two males who were trying to steal his moped\n\nA second teenager has been arrested over an acid attack that left a delivery driver critically injured.\n\nThe 32-year-old could lose his sight following the assault in Walthamstow, east London, on Thursday evening.\n\nA 16-year-old was arrested on Saturday night on suspicion of grievous bodily harm. A 14-year-old held on Friday has been released under investigation.\n\nIn another attack in Tottenham on Thursday, a second delivery driver had a corrosive substance thrown at him.\n\nPolice \"strongly suspect\" the attacks are linked, the BBC's home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said.\n\nHe added that the victim in the first attack - who was injured as two males tried to steal his moped - had injuries to his throat, face, oesophagus and eyes and had been in an induced coma.\n\nThe first attack happened in Walpole Road, Walthamstow\n\nPolice said the suspects demanded he hand over his keys, and when he refused a struggle followed.\n\n\"This attack has left a man fighting for his life and with terrible eye injuries,\" Det Ch Insp Gordon Henderson said.\n\n\"This was an innocent man going about his work as a delivery driver, who may never see again.\"\n\nIn the second attack, two males approached a delivery driver on Yarmouth Crescent in Tottenham, north London, in a bid to steal his moped.\n\nHe was taken to hospital but his injuries are not thought to be life-threatening.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Twitter is being criticised for failing to show any photos under the bisexual hashtag.\n\nSome are calling it bi-erasure, as photo results for \"lesbian\" and \"gay\" still exist.\n\nUsers are pointing out that when you search #bisexual, a message appears on the photos tab stating: \"The term you entered did not bring up any results.\"\n\nTwitter says there was no \"erasure\" and that there was an \"error with the system that has been resolved\".\n\nThe message a user gets when you type bisexual into the photo search field\n\nKate Harrad, of campaign group The Bisexual Index, tells Newsbeat that bisexual people have \"historically been hypersexualised and associated with porn and promiscuity\".\n\n\"Every bi-activist knows the problems of trying to search for bi-content on the web and some public wi-fi systems block it altogether, even when it's nothing to do with sex, because bisexual is seen as a dodgy word in itself.\n\n\"This is why Twitter needs to be very sensitive to any filtering that reduces access to bi content, and very aware of the problem of bisexual erasure.\"\n\nIt's not known whether the omission is connected to recent changes made to Twitter's rules around potentially sensitive material.\n\nAn update on 3 November listed new ways it was dealing with issues such as spam, graphic violence, adult content and abusive behaviour.\n\nCurrently, no photos show up regardless of whether the \"hide sensitive content\" button is checked or unchecked.\n\nFind us on Instagram at BBCNewsbeat and follow us on Snapchat, search for bbc_newsbeat", "The UK was misled over former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's access to weapons of mass destruction, former Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said.\n\nMr Brown says US intelligence, which challenged the extent of Iraq's WMD stockpile, was not shared with the UK before it joined the Iraq War.\n\nIn an extract from his memoir, the ex-Labour leader says \"we were not just misinformed, but misled\".\n\nMr Brown says he became aware of the \"crucial\" paper after leaving office.\n\nThe Iraq War - which divided British public opinion - began in March 2003, with the conflict and its aftermath claiming the lives of 179 UK troops.\n\nThe UK joined the US-led invasion after both countries jointly accused Saddam Hussein of possessing weapons of mass destruction and having links to terrorism.\n\nBritish intelligence from 2002, seen at the time by the then-Prime Minister Tony Blair and Mr Brown, suggested the country was capable of having such weapons.\n\n\"I was told they knew where the weapons were,\" Mr Brown writes.\n\n\"I remember thinking at the time that it was almost as if they could give me the street name and number where they were located.\"\n\nBut, Mr Brown says a report commissioned at the time by the then-US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld \"forcibly challenged\" this view.\n\nHe said it suggested other intelligence had relied \"heavily on analytic assumptions\" rather than hard evidence, and disproved Iraq's capability to make weapons of mass destruction.\n\n\"If I am right that somewhere within the American system the truth about Iraq's lack of weapons was known, then we were not just misinformed but misled on the critical issue,\" he writes in My Life, Our Times.\n\nA seven-year inquiry into the UK's involvement in the Iraq War found Saddam Hussein posed \"no imminent threat\" when the US and UK invaded.\n\nThe Chilcot report also concluded that \"flawed\" intelligence started the war.\n\nAccording to Mr Brown, the UK may never have agreed to take part if the information had been shared.\n\n\"Given that Iraq had no usable chemical, biological or nuclear weapons that it could deploy and was not about to attack the coalition, then two tests of a just war were not met: war could not be justified.\"\n\nDespite this, he did say some action was required due to the failure of Saddam Hussein complying with UN resolutions.", "About £10m of the Queen's private money was invested offshore, leaked documents show.\n\nThe Duchy of Lancaster, which provides the Queen with an income, held funds in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda.\n\nFind out more about the Paradise Papers.", "Damian Green said the allegations were from a \"tainted and untrustworthy source\"\n\nTheresa May's most senior minister has denied a claim that police found pornography on a computer in his office during a raid in 2008.\n\nFirst Secretary of State Damian Green said ex-police chief Bob Quick's claims in the Sunday Times were \"completely untrue\" and \"political smears\".\n\nAnd he said police had never told him that any improper material had been found on a parliamentary computer.\n\nMr Quick said he \"stood\" by the claim and would take part in an inquiry.\n\nMeanwhile, Conservative MP Chris Pincher has resigned as a government whip and referred himself to police following newspaper allegations about his conduct made by a party activist.\n\nThe revelations are the latest in a growing sexual misconduct scandal in Westminster.\n\nChris Pincher is the MP for Tamworth in Staffordshire\n\nOn Sunday, further details emerged about allegations against Sir Michael Fallon, who this week resigned as defence secretary over his behaviour.\n\nThe Observer reported that he quit shortly after journalist Jane Merrick told Downing Street he had lunged at her and attempted to kiss her on the lips in 2003 after they had lunch together.\n\nAnd Tory MPs Daniel Poulter, Stephen Crabb and Daniel Kawczynski have been referred to the Conservative Party disciplinary committee after media allegations about their conduct.\n\nThe allegation regarding Mr Green, who is effectively the prime minister's deputy, relates to an inquiry into Home Office leaks which briefly led to his arrest in 2008.\n\nDaniel Poulter, Stephen Crabb and Daniel Kawczynski have faced questions about their professional conduct\n\nFormer Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Bob Quick said on Sunday that his officers had found pornographic material on a computer in Mr Green's Commons office after they searched it as part of their controversial investigation - which resulted in no charges.\n\nThe ex-anti-terror chief said he had made an appointment to speak to a senior official in the Cabinet Office, which last week launched an inquiry into an unrelated allegation against Mr Green, to discuss the matter.\n\n\"I bear no malice to Damian Green,\" he told BBC News.\n\nMr Quick, who quit his role in 2009 after inadvertently revealing secret documents, accepted he had not asked officers to report the matter at the time, saying they \"didn't expect to find the material\" and were in the midst of a \"very difficult inquiry with a lot of pressure to drop the case\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andrew Marr asked Home Secretary Amber Rudd whether the centre of government was close to collapse\n\nBut Mr Green said \"the allegations about the material and computer, now nine years old, are false, disreputable political smears\", adding that they \"amount to little more than an unscrupulous character assassination\".\n\nThe Cabinet Office inquiry was triggered after journalist Kate Maltby, who is three decades younger than Mr Green, told the Times he \"fleetingly\" touched her knee during a meeting in a pub in 2015 and a year later sent her a \"suggestive\" text message after she was pictured wearing a corset in the newspaper.\n\nMr Green said any allegation that he made sexual advances to Ms Maltby was \"untrue (and) deeply hurtful\".\n\nTwo Tory MPs, Anna Soubry and Heidi Allen, have urged Mr Green to step aside pending the outcome of the investigation but Home Secretary Amber Rudd said her cabinet colleague had the right to defend himself.\n\n\"I do think that we shouldn't rush to allege anything until that inquiry has taken place,\" she told the BBC's Andrew Marr.\n\nMore generally, she said abuse of power could not be tolerated and there needed to be a \"clearing out\" of Westminster to get rid of any such behaviour.\n\nMeanwhile, Conservative MP Anna Soubry has said former Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon was \"responsible for his own downfall\" amid fresh claims about his past behaviour.\n\nMs Merrick told the Observer she \"shrank away in horror\" when Sir Michael tried to kiss her when she was a 29-year-old reporter at the Daily Mail.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn says there must be change following recent revelations of sexual harassment\n\n\"I felt humiliated, ashamed. Was I even guilty that maybe I had led him on in some way by drinking with him?\" she said. \"After years of having a drink with so many other MPs who have not acted inappropriately towards me, I now know I was not.\"\n\nFriends of Sir Michael have not denied the allegation, but the BBC understands that his ministerial career ended because he could not guarantee there would be no further revelations after he admitted repeatedly touching another journalist's knee at a conference dinner 15 years ago.\n\nMs Soubry praised the journalist's \"outstanding bravery\" in coming forward and said she had put her in touch with Downing Street after Ms Merrick had confided in her and Labour's Harriet Harman.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jane Merrick \"outstandingly brave\" for speaking out about Sir Michael Fallon - Conservative MP Anna Soubry\n\nTheresa May, she added, must ensure an independent complaints system immediately so victims of harassment and those accused of misconduct did not have to undergo \"trial by newspapers\".\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said this must be a \"turning point\" for how the whole political class behaves, telling activists that his party - under fire for how it has handled harassment and rape allegations - was not afraid to \"shine a spotlight\" on itself.\n\n\"We must say, no more. We must no longer allow women, or anyone else for that matter, to be abused in the workplace or anywhere else,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cathy Owens says a male politician once tried to get into bed with her\n\nThe harassment of women in Welsh politics has gone on for some years, a former government advisor has said.\n\nCathy Owens, who runs political consultancy agency Deryn, spoke out about the issue and said a politician once tried to get into bed with her while staying overnight at her house.\n\nShe was speaking to Sunday Politics Wales about the sexual misconduct scandal engulfing Westminster.\n\nWelsh party leaders will discuss the issue at the Senedd on Tuesday.\n\nMs Owens said party leaders had been told about inappropriate behaviour but no action had been taken, adding some male politicians were \"sexual predators\".\n\nShe said: \"I was very early on in my career, this was an elected representative, I made clear that nothing was going to happen, he was staying in the spare room, and sometime later [I remember him] coming into my bedroom and trying to get into my bed.\n\n\"In another situation someone has come into the taxi that I'm going home in.\"\n\nMs Owens said action needed to be taken to tackle the harassment faced by women in Welsh politics, saying the parties did not have the right procedures in place.\n\n\"These aren't random men flirting with women,\" she said.\n\n\"Thankfully we are talking about a small number of men who have used their positions and are sexual predators, they have used their position in politics knowing that the parties will protect them.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Drakeford said sexual harassment at the assembly \"must not be tolerated\"\n\nIt comes as former AMs have also said the sexual harassment of women \"goes on all the time\" at the Welsh assembly.\n\nEx-politicians raised concerns about \"a lack of procedures\" and of colleagues \"turning a blind eye to appalling behaviour\".\n\nThe assembly said no formal sexual harassment allegations had been made against an AM.\n\nOne former AM spoke of a researcher who claimed she had woken up to find a male former assembly member undressing her.\n\nThe ex-AM also said they had to step in to physically stop a colleague from harassing another woman researcher.\n\nAnother former AM said it was difficult to report inappropriate behaviour in the assembly because it is such a small organisation.\n\n\"When you see someone behaving inappropriately, you're likely to know that person,\" they said.\n\n\"We tolerated things we shouldn't and turned a blind eye... but there wasn't a clear procedure for dealing with problems.\"\n\nFinance Secretary Mark Drakeford said any allegations of sexual harassment at the assembly should be taken seriously and systems must be put in place to make sure such behaviour is not tolerated.\n\nFinance Secretary Mark Drakeford said Ms Owens' experience made him \"sick to the pit of his stomach\" and such actions must \"not be tolerated\" in the future.\n\nLabour said it had written to constituency secretaries and women's officers with specific guidance about reporting complaints of sexual harassment.\n\nPlaid Cymru said it had put new infrastructure in place to deal with complaints more quickly and was reviewing its internal protocols and considering how it could strengthen them.\n\nThe Conservatives said they were \"actively working with colleagues across the party to ensure that all the appropriate safeguards are in place to protect staff from harassment in all its forms\".\n\nA Liberal Democrat spokesman said: \"There are clear guidelines on how to make a complaint and in cases where the complainant doesn't wish to disclose their identity the pastoral care officer can act as the de facto complainant\".\n\nUKIP said it was reviewing its safeguarding procedures to ensure the protection of all who work with the party.", "Both men, highly critical of Mr Trump, served as Republican presidents\n\nFormer US Republican President George Bush Sr has confirmed he voted for Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, labelling Donald Trump a \"blowhard\".\n\nHis son, George W Bush, said he worries that \"I will be the last Republican president\", even though President Trump is a Republican.\n\n\"This guy doesn't know what it means to be president,\" the younger man said.\n\nThe pair's comments come from a new book, titled The Last Republicans.\n\nPreview excerpts from the book were published by US media outlets.\n\n\"Blowhard\" is a casual term for a person who is boastful or blustering, the Oxford English Dictionary says, and it is usually meant as an insult.\n\n\"I don't like him. I don't know much about him, but I know he's a blowhard. And I'm not too excited about him being a leader,\" said George Bush Sr, who was president between 1989 and 1993.\n\nHe also told the author of the book, Mark Updegrove, that he felt Mr Trump ran for the presidency because he had \"a certain ego\", in remarks reported by US media outlets including CNN and the New York Times.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nGeorge W Bush, adding to his remarks that Mr Trump \"doesn't know what it means to be president,\" said \"you can either exploit the anger, incite it, or you can come up with ideas to deal with it.\"\n\nThe younger Bush's comments are in keeping with a speech he gave in late October widely seen as a critique of the new president, though it did not name him.\n\nDuring the 2016 presidential campaign, neither former president endorsed Donald Trump.\n\nBut in the new book, George Bush Sr confirmed that he voted for the rival party's candidate in Hillary Clinton.\n\nGeorge W Bush, however, said he simply left his presidential ballot blank.\n\nGeorge W Bush - pictured with Mrs Clinton at Mr Trump's inauguration - left his ballot blank\n\nThe book's title, Mr Updegrove told CNN, came from a remark made by George W Bush during the presidential election.\n\nAs the previous Republican president before Barack Obama took office, he told the author: \"You know, I fear that I will be the last Republican president.\"\n\n\"And it wasn't just about Hillary Clinton becoming president, as the Republican Party was having a difficult time finding itself. It was because Donald Trump represented everything that the Bushes abhorred,\" Mr Updegrove told CNN.\n\nWhite House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders hit back at the former presidents in a statement.\n\n\"The American people voted to elect an outsider who is capable of implementing real, positive, and needed change - instead of a lifelong politician beholden to special interests,\" she said.\n\n\"If they were interested in continuing decades of costly mistakes, another establishment politician more concerned with putting politics over people would have won.\"\n\nMeanwhile, former head of the Democratic National Committee, Donna Brazile, has claimed she seriously considered replacing Hillary Clinton with Vice-President Joe Biden as the party's presidential candidate during the campaign.\n\nIn extracts from her own book published by the Washington Post, she said Mrs Clinton's campaign had \"the odour of failure\" and alleges a huge array of failures and incidents of mismanagement within the party.\n\nMs Brazile was herself at the centre of a controversy when she fed the Clinton campaign a question in advance of a debate against Bernie Sanders during the race for the Democratic nomination.", "Police were called to Blenheim Road in Wimbledon\n\nA seven-year-old girl who was found with serious injuries in a house has died in hospital.\n\nRobert Peters, 55, who is known to the child, appeared before Wimbledon magistrates earlier charged with attempted murder.\n\nEmergency services were called to Blenheim Road in Wimbledon, south-west London, on Friday morning where they found the girl\n\nShe was taken to hospital where she died on Saturday morning, police said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "TV firms may have to move some operations abroad if there is no Brexit trade deal, the body for international broadcasters in the UK has warned.\n\nIt says thousands of jobs could potentially be at stake in the event of a \"hard \" Brexit, where the UK leaves the EU with no formal trade agreement.\n\nThe Commercial Broadcasters Association (COBA) speaks for media networks such as Eurosport, Disney and Discovery.\n\nThe government says it \"will work to get the right deal for broadcasters\".\n\nThe UK dominates Europe's broadcasting sector, due to the availability of skilled employees and English being the dominant language in the industry.\n\nThanks to the country of origin principle, hundreds of international media organisations based in the UK can broadcast to anywhere in the EU.\n\nAdam Minns, executive director of COBA, estimates that one in four jobs in the UK broadcasting sector is working exclusively, or in part, on an international channel.\n\nHe also says there is more than £500m a year invested in wages, overheads and technology.\n\n\"No [trade] deal would jeopardise the UK's status as Europe's leading international broadcasting hub,\" says COBA.\n\n\"International broadcasters based here would, reluctantly, be forced to restructure their European operations. No deal would put at risk thousands of jobs in the UK broadcasting sector, hundreds of millions of pounds of investment every year, and would undermine the sector's long-term global competitiveness.\n\n\"Like many sectors, broadcasters cannot wait until the cliff edge of March 2019 to make decisions about the future of their European businesses.\"\n\nMedia watchdog Ofcom recently said that Brexit was now one of the biggest challenges facing the sector.\n\nMeanwhile, Amsterdam and Dublin are just two of the cities hoping to attract broadcasters.\n\nHowever, the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said: \"The UK is currently the EU's biggest broadcasting hub, and the sector makes an important contribution to our thriving creative industries.\n\n\"During our negotiations with the EU we will work to get the right deal for broadcasters and will support their continued growth in the UK.\"", "A number of MPs are being investigated over allegations about their past conduct towards women.\n\nEx-ministers Daniel Poulter and Stephen Crabb are among Tory MPs to be referred to internal party inquiries.\n\nOne cabinet minister, Sir Michael Fallon, has already resigned while others have denied claims against them and remain in office.\n\nLabour has suspended two MPs and is separately investigating an ex-official's allegation of rape.\n\nThe parties have begun a series of investigations under newly constituted procedures into alleged inappropriate behaviour in response to a series of press reports in the last week.\n\nOther cases have been referred to the Cabinet Office and, in one case so far, to the police.\n\nThe First Secretary of State, who is Theresa May's effective deputy, is being investigated by the Cabinet Office over claims he \"fleetingly\" touched a female journalist's knee during a meeting in a pub in 2015 and a year later sent her a \"suggestive\" text message after she was pictured wearing a corset in a newspaper.\n\nMr Green said any allegation that he made sexual advances to Kate Maltby was \"untrue (and) deeply hurtful\".\n\nIt has also been claimed that pornography was found on the Ashford MP's computer during a 2008 police investigation into Home Office leaks which led the police to search Mr Green's Commons office.\n\nThe ex-police officer who led the inquiry, Bob Quick, has said he will co-operate with the Cabinet Office probe.\n\nMr Green said the allegations were \"false\", describing them as \"disreputable political smears\" and \"amount to little more than an unscrupulous character assassination\".\n\nThe MP for Dover has been suspended by his party after \"serious allegations\" against him were referred to the police. He says he is not aware of what the alleged claims are and denies any wrongdoing. He has said it is a \"a denial of justice when people who have had allegations made against them, lose their job or their party whip without knowing what those allegations are\".\n\nThe international trade minister is being investigated by the Cabinet Office for a potential breach of ministerial rules after he admitted asking his secretary to buy sex toys. The MP for Wyre Forest also confirmed he called her \"sugar tits\", but said it did not amount to harassment. He has since apologised to his constituents but told the Kidderminster Shuttle that the remarks were reported out of context and did not amount to harassment.\n\nThe MP, who represents Central Suffolk and North Ipswich, has been referred to the Conservative Party disciplinary committee after allegations in the Sunday Times.\n\nHe said he \"denied all allegations of misconduct or inappropriate behaviour and will vigorously defend himself against any such claims\".\n\nThe Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen told the BBC that he had made a formal complaint to party officials about Mr Poulter in 2010 which was not acted upon.\n\nThe veteran Tory MP resigned as defence secretary on 1 November, saying his conduct \"fell short\" of the standards expected by the UK military.\n\nIt followed a claim that he put his hand on female journalist Julia Hartley-Brewer's knee back in 2003.\n\nAfter his resignation, other claims have since emerged about his conduct, with journalist Jane Merrick disclosing that he tried to kiss her following a lunch in 2003.\n\nAnd Andrea Leadsom, the leader of the House of Commons, is reported to have complained to Downing Street about \"lewd\" comments that Sir Michael is alleged to have made, which he denies, while they were both members of the Treasury select committee.\n\nAfter he quit, Sir Michael - who is not under formal investigation - told the BBC that behaviour which had been \"acceptable 15, 10 years ago is clearly not acceptable now\".\n\nThe BBC understands Sir Michael did not feel that he could necessarily account for every encounter in a long ministerial career without being able to guarantee no more revelations would emerge.\n\nThe former Welsh secretary is being investigated by the Conservative Party over newspaper claims that he sent \"explicit\" text messages to a 19-year-old woman after he interviewed her for a job in 2013.\n\nThe MP for Preseli Pembrokeshire, who resigned from government last year amid reports that he had \"sexted\" another woman, has been referred to the party's disciplinary panel under the terms of its new code of conduct.\n\nThe MP for Shrewsbury and Atcham has been referred to the party's internal disciplinary committee following media reports, first broadcast by Channel 4 News, that he tried to set up a date between a visitor and a Commons researcher.\n\nThe MP told BBC Radio Shropshire there was no impropriety, saying he asked the woman to have coffee with a friend, she said no and that was the end of it. He has accused the media of a \"febrile witch hunt\".\n\nChris Pincher is the MP for Tamworth in Staffordshire\n\nThe MP for Tamworth has stepped down as a government whip and referred himself to police following allegations about his conduct in 2001 made by a party activist and reported by a Sunday newspaper.\n\nThe Luton North MP, 76, has been suspended after Labour activist Ava Etemadzadeh, 27, said he sent her inappropriate text messages and made inappropriate physical contact at a student event in 2014.\n\nHe says he \"absolutely and categorically\" denies the claims, describing instead what he said was a \"brief, slight hug just before getting into my car\".\n\nLabour says Mr Hopkins was informally reprimanded about his behaviour in 2015 but the party faces questions about how he was briefly promoted in 2016 to the role of shadow culture secretary.\n\nThe Sheffield Hallam MP has had the party whip withdrawn and is being investigated for allegedly posting a series of misogynistic and homophobic messages on social media.\n\nThe 35-year-old apologised to Labour MPs for online remarks between 2002 and 2004, saying he had been on a \"journey\" since then.\n\nHe has denied some more recent claims, including making offensive remarks to a woman he met on a dating app in a bar in Sheffield.\n\nA formal complaint has been made against the Norwich South MP by a woman who says he groped her at the party's annual conference.\n\nThe former shadow defence secretary is alleged to have hugged her and squeezed her bottom. Mr Lewis is \"vigorously\" disputing the allegation, telling the BBC \"it's just not how I roll, it's not what I do\".\n\nHe suggested the encounter may have been \"misinterpreted\" and he would never have \"deliberately\" done what was alleged.\n\nIvan Lewis said he had \"never made non-consensual sexual comments or sexual advances to women\"\n\nLabour is investigating a complaint made against the Bury South MP, who has been suspended by the party. Mr Lewis said he was \"deeply saddened\" by the move and \"strongly disputes\" the allegation. He had previously denied making any \"non-consensual sexual comments or sexual advances towards women\" after Buzzfeed News reported allegations that he had touched a woman's leg and invited her to his house at a Labour Party event in 2010. He has said he was sorry if his behaviour towards women he worked with had made anyone feel \"awkward\".\n\nCarl Sargeant was found dead four days after being sacked\n\nThe Welsh Assembly member quit as secretary for communities and children in the Welsh government after allegations about his conduct. He urged a full inquiry to \"clear his name\" but was found dead four days after he was sacked. It is understood he took his own life. An inquiry will look into how Wales's First Minister Carwyn Jones handled the allegations.\n\nAn independent investigation is under way after Labour activist Bex Bailey said that she had been raped at a party event in 2011 and discouraged by a senior official from reporting the attack.\n\nMs Bailey, who was 19 at the time, said she had been told reporting the matter might \"damage\" her career.\n\nLabour's response to the incident, which did not involve an MP, is the subject of an investigation by the QC Karon Monaghan.\n\nThe MSP said she was sexually assaulted by a senior male colleague at a party in 2013.\n\nShe told the Sunday Mail she was groped at a social event in front of several witnesses. She said she made an initial complaint to Scottish Labour but decided not to progress with it because she felt she would not be believed.\n\nMark McDonald MSP has quit as childcare and early years minister over previous actions which he said were considered \"inappropriate\".\n\nHe is being investigated by the SNP for possible misconduct. It is understood the allegations are not criminal in nature.", "Driver Jordan Steubing describes the scene as emergency services attend a mass shooting in Texas.\n\nA gunman is believed to have opened fire at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs.\n\nPolice told the outlet there were \"multiple victims\" and the gunman had been killed in the aftermath.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least 26 people have been killed and 20 others wounded after a gunman opened fire at a Texas church during a Sunday service.\n\nThe attack happened at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, a small town in Wilson County. The victims' ages ranged from five to 72.\n\nThe suspected gunman was later found dead in his vehicle some miles away.\n\nPolice identified him only as a \"young, white male\" but US media named him as Devin Patrick Kelley, 26.\n\nKelley is reported to have been discharged from the US air force in 2014 following a court martial for assaulting his wife and child.\n\nThe motive for the killings was not immediately clear.\n\nA candlelit vigil was held for victims of the shooting in Sutherland Springs\n\nTexas Department of Public Safety regional director Freeman Martin said the attacker, dressed all in black and wearing a bulletproof vest, opened fire with a Ruger assault rifle outside the church at around 11:30 local time (17:30 GMT) and then went inside.\n\nAs the gunman left the church, a local citizen grabbed his own rifle and began shooting at the suspect, who then dropped his weapon and fled in a vehicle.\n\nThe citizen pursued the suspect, who eventually drove off the road and crashed his car at the Guadalupe County line.\n\nAt 01:30, Chris Speer was still sitting on his porch, sucking his cigarette in the dark. Fourteen hours earlier he was in the same place, with his 11-month-old son, when he heard \"close to 30 shots\".\n\n\"Your first instinct, you're out in the country, you think someone is shooting, practising,\" he says. \"But it was too close. I knew something wasn't right.\"\n\nHe took his son inside. \"If I could have got my gun, I would have,\" he says. \"But when you've got a kid in your hands, I'm not risking it. He wouldn't let go.\"\n\nMr Speer didn't know the attacker but he knew \"a lot\" of the victims. \"We're a small community. We band together. But what doesn't kill us makes us stronger.\"\n\nPolice found the man dead in his car but it is unclear if he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound or from injuries received when fired on by the local citizen. The car contained several weapons.\n\nMr Martin added: \"We have multiple crime scenes. We have the church, outside the church. We have where the suspect's vehicle was located.\n\n\"We have been following up on the suspect and where he's from. We have Texas Rangers at all the hospitals locating those and interviewing those who were injured.\"\n\nOne man has told how he chased the gunman after seeing \"two men exchanging gunfire\" outside the church. Speaking to local TV station Ksat.com, Johnnie Langendorff said a \"gentleman came and said we need to pursue him. And that's what I did, I just acted\".\n\nMr Langendorff said the pair were driving at speeds of up to 95mph (153km/h) until the gunman lost control of his car and crashed.\n\nGovernor Greg Abbott, confirming the death toll, said it was the worst mass shooting in the history of Texas.\n\n\"This will be a long, suffering mourning for those in pain,\" he said at a news conference on Sunday.\n\nThe First Baptist Church's pastor, Frank Pomeroy, told ABC News his 14-year-old daughter, Annabelle, was among those killed.\n\nMr Pomeroy, who was in Oklahoma at the time of the attack, described her as \"one very beautiful, special child\" in a phone call to the television outlet.\n\nAt least 10 victims, including four children, were being treated at the University Health System in nearby San Antonio, the hospital said in a tweet.\n\nThe authorities could not confirm the names of any victims as they continued to work through the crime scene, Sheriff Joe Tackitt said.\n\nOfficials said 23 people were found dead inside the church while two people were fatally shot outside. Another died in hospital, the authorities say.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After the Las Vegas attack in October 2017 the BBC looked at how US mass shootings are getting worse\n\nOne witness, Carrie Matula, told NBC News: \"We heard semi-automatic gunfire… we're only about 50 yards away from this church.\n\n\"This is a very small community, so everyone was very curious as to what was going on.\"\n\nSutherland Springs, which has a population of about 400, lies about 30 miles (50km) south-east of the city of San Antonio.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A guide to the weapons available in the US and the rate at which they fire\n\nPresident Donald Trump, on a tour of Asia, said the gunman was \"a very deranged individual\" and denied that guns were to blame for the shooting.\n\n\"We have a lot of mental health problems in our country, but this isn't a guns situation,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump: 'We cannot begin to imagine the suffering'\n\nThe shooting comes just a month after a gunman in Las Vegas opened fire on an outdoor music festival, killing 58 people and wounding hundreds in the deadliest mass shooting in recent US history.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. President Donald Trump addresses US troops at the Yokota air base in Japan\n\nUS President Donald Trump said no nation should underestimate American resolve, as he arrived in Japan at the start of a marathon Asian tour.\n\nAddressing US troops at Yokota air base near Tokyo, he pledged to ensure the military had the resources needed to keep peace and defend freedom.\n\nHe later told the Japanese prime minister he thought the two countries had never been closer.\n\nIt will be the longest tour of Asia by a US president in 25 years.\n\nIt comes amid heightened tensions with North Korea over its nuclear programme and missile tests.\n\n\"No-one, no dictator, no regime... should underestimate American resolve,\" President Trump told cheering US and Japanese troops shortly after his arrival in Japan.\n\nBefore touching down, he told reporters on board Air Force One that he expected to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin during his trip.\n\n\"I think it's expected we'll meet with Putin,\" he said. \"We want Putin's help on North Korea.\"\n\nMr Abe met Mr Trump fresh from his re-election last month\n\nSpeaking after talks with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Mr Trump said: \"The relationship is really extraordinary.\n\n\"We like each other and our countries like each other, and I don't think we've ever been closer to Japan than we are right now.\"\n\nEarlier the two leaders played golf, when they were joined by Hideki Matsuyama, one of the world's top players - as the president mentioned 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 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 US First Lady, Melania Trump, spent time with Akie Abe, the Japanese prime minister's wife, who showed her Japanese cultured pearls at shop in Tokyo's Ginza district.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 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\nStops in South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines are also on the itinerary in the coming week.\n\nEn route to Japan, the president stopped in Hawaii where he visited the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor - the scene of the 1941 Japanese attack that drew the US into World War Two.\n\nHe also took part in a briefing at the US Pacific Command.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What Japanese women think of Ivanka Trump\n\nMr Trump has previously exchanged some fiery rhetoric with North Korea over its ballistic missile tests but aides said earlier this week that he would not go to the heavily fortified demilitarised zone (DMZ) on the border between the South and North.\n\nHe is, however, to visit Camp Humphreys, a US military complex south of the capital, Seoul.\n\nIn Vietnam, Mr Trump will attend the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation summit in Da Nang and make a state visit to Hanoi.\n\nHis final engagement is scheduled to be a summit of South-East Asian nations in the Philippine capital, Manila, on 13 November but the trip has now been extended by an extra day so he can attend the East Asia Summit.\n\nThe last time a US president made such a marathon trip to Asia was when George HW Bush visited the region in late 1991 and early 1992.", "A physio has returned to hospital where she was treated as a child.\n\nLauren Culley, 22, spent a large part of her childhood at Ipswich Hospital after being diagnosed with congenital dislocation of the hip, aged two, and then juvenile arthritis, aged seven.\n\nThe former University of Hertfordshire student has now returned to the hospital as a child's physio to give others the \"positive experience\" she received.", "Labour MP Harriet Harman has told BBC News that the string of allegations of sexual abuse and harassment against MPs is not a witch hunt.\n\nShe said: \"There are a lot of men saying this has been blown out of all proportion, it's a witch hunt. No, it's not a witch hunt, it's long overdue.\"\n\nHer comments follow the suspensions of a Conservative and a Labour MP.\n\nMeanwhile, SNP MSP Mark McDonald has quit as a Scottish government minister over \"inappropriate\" behaviour.\n\nIn a statement he said it had been brought to his attention that some of his \"previous actions have been considered to be inappropriate\".\n\n\"I apologise unreservedly to anyone I have upset or who might have found my behaviour inappropriate,\" Mr McDonald, who represents Aberdeen Donside at Holyrood, said.\n\nConservative MP Charlie Elphicke and Labour's Kelvin Hopkins were suspended from their parties on Friday, while Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon resigned earlier this week.\n\nOn Saturday morning, Sir Roger Gale, Conservative MP for North Thanet, urged people \"not to rush to judgement\", telling BBC Radio 4's Today programme that he believes the scandal is turning into a \"witch hunt\".\n\n\"I don't think there's anybody who would seek to defend rape or sexual abuse in the context there's no proof that I can see yet of any wrongdoing. How does a member of Parliament refute that?\"\n\nOn Friday, the Conservatives published a new code of conduct and are immediately adopting a new complaints procedure.\n\nMrs May is also meeting opposition party leaders on Monday to discuss proposals to bring forward a new grievance system for Westminster staff and MPs.\n\nMs Harman, the former Labour deputy leader, said that she thought Prime Minister Theresa May took \"very bold action\" in relation to Sir Michael's resignation.\n\nSir Michael, who quit office on Wednesday saying his general conduct fell short of expected standards, has \"categorically denied\" allegations over his conduct.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The scandal is turning into a \"witch hunt\", says Tory MP\n\nMs Harman told BBC Radio 4's Week in Westminster that Mrs May's actions have made her \"hopeful\" that the parties can work together to change standards.\n\nShe said people were put off from making complaints for fear of being disloyal to their party and \"helping\" the other side. But now, she said, \"there's a bigger fight\".\n\n\"We're all tribal beasts, that's why we're there [in parliament] and that has dampened down any ability to speak out,\" she said. \"I think that's changed after this week.\"\n\nMs Harman said that Parliament has a \"sea change opportunity\" to address the issue - and to help those who speak out.\n\nShe added: \"If you point your finger at a powerful man, they won't just sit there, they will fight back. So there will be some backlash about this amongst the corridors [of Westminster].\"\n\nOn Friday, Charlie Elphicke, a former party whip who has been the Conservative MP for Dover since 2010, was suspended by the party after \"serious allegations\" were referred to the police.\n\nDenying any wrongdoing in a post on Twitter, the married 46-year-old wrote: \"The party tipped off the press before telling me of my suspension. I am not aware of what the alleged claims are.\"\n\nLabour MPs Clive Lewis and Kelvin Hopkins are being investigated by the party over allegations about their behaviour.\n\nBut Conservative MP Sir Roger Gale told BBC Radio 4: \"We're in danger of getting into a situation where nobody half bright, half sensible, half decent, will want to go into the House of Commons - and that will not be good for democracy.\n\n\"We should look at the facts...by all means throw book at them, but don't throw the book at them until the case is proven.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. I was groped and flashed at - Emily Thornberry\n\nRupa Huq, Labour MP for Ealing Central and Acton, told BBC Breakfast that the House of Commons has \"no real structure\" for complaints.\n\nShe said it is \"the most unusual workplace\" where the rules around sexual harassment are \"lax if not non-existent\".\n\n\"In this sense it needs to get into line. Other big companies have a sexual harassment policy, they have a staff handbook. All those things do not exist for MPs\", she said.\n\nOn top of that, she added, \"you've got a whole political culture which has thrived on favours and bullying\" as well as partisan \"one-upmanship\" where people are \"incredibly loyal to their parties\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour's shadow chancellor says Parliament must 'give women the confidence to work in safety'\n\nAlongside the new code of conduct and complaints procedure, the Conservatives have set up a a hotline for reporting potential breaches and a more detailed investigatory process.\n\nLabour has introduced a new complaints procedure, while the Liberal Democrats continue to review their complaints procedures.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, said any complaints system has to apply to all political parties, and must be \"fair and objective\".\n\n\"There should be an element of independence [in the system], particularly for support as well, so people can feel confident about where they can report these things and at the same time how it can be dealt with.\"\n\nMrs May said Parliament must do its bit as well as the individual parties - as it was not fair to expect potentially vulnerable people to \"navigate different grievance procedures according to political party\".\n\nLord Bew, chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, told the Today programme that the \"burning issue\" at stake is the reputation of parliament.\n\nHe said it was vital that cases were not dealt with internally by the parties, but by those outside parliament who could \"give some reassurance to the public that this is not just another cover-up\".", "A display box at a fireworks event in Wiltshire malfunctioned sending projectiles towards the crowd.\n\nAmbulance crews treated 14 people for minor injuries after the display at the Antrobus Arms in Amesbury.", "We are going to finish our coverage at the end of day three of the Paradise Papers revelations.\n\nThe huge trove of leaked documents has made headlines around the world on the offshore financial affairs of hundreds of politicians, multinationals, celebrities and high-net-worth individuals.\n\nHere are today's top stories so far:\n• Prince Charles campaigned to alter climate-change agreements without disclosing his private estate had an offshore financial interest in what he was promoting\n• An entrepreneur charged with managing the oil wealth of the struggling African state of Angola was paid more than $41m in just 20 months\n• The Isle of Man has rejected claims it is a tax haven, saying it doesn't welcome those \"seeking to evade or aggressively avoid taxes\"\n\nThey came after a wave of stories on Monday, including:\n• Apple has protected its low-tax regime by using the Channel Island of Jersey\n• Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton avoided tax on his £16.5m luxury jet, the papers suggest\n• A Lithuanian shopping mall partly owned by U2 star Bono is under investigation for potential tax evasion\n• How three stars of the hit BBC sitcom, Mrs Brown's Boys, diverted more than £2m into an offshore tax-avoidance scheme\n\nAnd the stories on day one revealed:\n• The Queen's private estate invested about £10m offshore including a small amount in the company behind BrightHouse, a chain accused of irresponsible lending\n• One of President Donald Trump's top administration officials kept a financial stake in a firm whose major partners include a Russian company part-owned by President Vladimir Putin's son-in-law\n• Lord Ashcroft, a former Conservative party deputy chairman, has denied allegations he ignored the rules around how his offshore investments were managed.", "A key aide of Canada's PM is linked to offshore schemes that may have cost the nation millions of dollars in taxes, the Paradise Papers show.\n\nThe revelations may embarrass Justin Trudeau, who has campaigned against tax havens.\n\nThe leaks pose questions about the actions of Stephen Bronfman, chief fundraiser for Mr Trudeau's Liberal Party as well as ex-senator Leo Kolber.\n\nLawyers for them said no deals had tried to evade tax and all were legal.\n\nCanadian broadcaster, CBC, and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) have been spearheading this investigation as part of the Paradise Papers leaks.\n\nThey said a trove of documents found in the files of Appleby, the offshore law firm that is the main source of the leaks, suggested that Mr Bronfman's investment firm, Claridge, had for more than 20 years moved millions offshore for the Kolber family.\n\nStephen Bronfman is not only a key aide to Mr Trudeau, he is a close friend and was central to his rise to power.\n\nHe helped raise cash for Mr Trudeau's party leadership battle in 2013 and was then asked to turn around the Liberal Party's financial fortunes.\n\nThe key revelations in the Paradise Papers concern a Cayman Islands trust which Claridge runs for Leo Kolber.\n\nMr Kolber, a retired senator originally appointed by Mr Trudeau's father, Pierre, was the chief Liberal Party fundraiser for many years, earning the nickname \"Bagman\". He has had longstanding links with the Bronfman family - one of Canada's most illustrious - and is Stephen's godfather.\n\nMr Kolber's home was used in September last year for a Liberal Party fundraising event co-hosted by Stephen Bronfman.\n\nStephen Bronfman (right) with his father Charles\n\nThe Bronfmans are one of Canada's most illustrious families.\n\nSamuel Bronfman, Stephen's grandfather, founded Seagram, once the largest alcohol distiller in the world.\n\nSamuel's son Charles - Stephen's father - is worth an estimated $2.3bn, while Stephen's cousin Edgar Jr engineered the disastrous sale of Seagram to Vivendi in 2000, losing the family billions.\n\nStephen, born in 1963, took over the private equity firm Claridge, of which he is still executive chairman, in 1997 and initially kept a lower profile.\n\nIn 2013, Justin Trudeau turned to him to raise money for his Liberal Party leadership bid. After winning, Mr Trudeau asked him to turn around the party's financial fortunes. Mr Bronfman has said Mr Trudeau is \"very, very saleable\".\n\nIn March 2016, he joined Mr Trudeau on his first state visit as PM - to President Barack Obama.\n\nThe Liberal Party told CBC and the ICIJ that Mr Bronfman's role was as a volunteer on its National Board and that although it was grateful for his contribution, his role was non-voting and did not involve policy decisions.\n\nThe document trail raises significant questions about activities surrounding the Kolber Trust, which was set up in 1991 in the Cayman Islands, with Mr Kolber's son, Jonathan, and his \"legitimate issue\" as its beneficiaries.\n\nMillions of dollars were transferred into the Claridge-run trust, much of it in loans from the Bronfman family.\n\nThe leaked documents show some of the Bronfman loans were made without interest, which many tax officials see as a red flag suggesting possible tax avoidance.\n\nIn one case, the ICIJ found a C$4.1m ($3.1m) loan from a US-based Bronfman trust to the Kolber Trust that it says would appear to have required interest payment under US law.\n\nLeo Kolber was a former Liberal Party fundraiser who earned the nickname \"Bagman\"\n\nJonathan Kolber's investment adviser tells Mr Kolber that if he pays the interest, Claridge will find a way to \"make him whole\", suggesting Mr Kolber send the company an invoice for unspecified \"services rendered\" in exactly the same amount.\n\nTax expert Marwah Rizqy told CBC this was the \"smoking gun\" because, if true, \"that means it's not a real debt\".\n\nHowever, lawyers for Mr Kolber and Mr Bronfman told the ICIJ that \"non-interest bearing loans by a US person do not violate US law. Rather, in certain circumstances, there is a deemed interest concept\".\n\nThis is a complex concept that deals with interest on a loan that is deemed to have been received even though it has not. It usually involves a profits adjustment made by tax authorities in the lender's country.\n\nAnother question that was raised concerns the nature of trusts. One fundamental rule is that decisions about them are made by trustees offshore.\n\nTax experts told CBC that if too many decisions were being made in Canada, tax authorities there would question the offshore nature of the trust and it could be liable for taxes dating back to its foundation.\n\nCBC said it had found a number of instances of attempts to reduce the Canada link.\n\nOne document says an invoice to Montreal-based investment adviser Don Chazan \"should be treated as personal expenses and not expenses of the trusts... This results in one less formal link between the trusts and entities outside Cayman\".\n\nWhen earlier interviewed by CBC about who ran the Kolber Trust, Jonathan Kolber had said that Mr Chazan was \"the adviser. He's the guy who made the decisions\".\n\nHowever, the Kolber and Bronfman lawyers told the ICIJ that the Kolber Trust was run from the Cayman islands and that Mr Chazan \"was certainly never the directing mind of the Trust\".\n\nAnother trail concerns Lynn Kolber Halliday, Jonathan's sister and another Kolber Trust beneficiary.\n\nAs a US citizen the money sent to her could trigger taxes. Her name was later taken off the trust.\n\nShe would \"be taken care of in other ways than through the trust\", one document reads.\n\nThe Israel-based Jonathan \"will arrange to make gifts to her instead of the trust making the present distributions to her\".\n\nThe Kolber and Bronfman lawyers told the ICIJ: \"Personal gifts are a customary mode of financial assistance.\"\n\nThey added that \"none of the transactions or entities at issue were effected or established to evade or even avoid taxation\" and that they \"were always in full conformity with all applicable laws and requirements\".\n\nAny tax avoidance would reflect badly on a party that has set out its stall on preventing it and on fair taxation.\n\nBack in March, Mr Trudeau had vowed to do a \"better job of getting tax avoiders\".\n\nHe was responding to a CBC/Radio-Canada investigation that showed a number of wealthy Canadians were apparently linked to shell companies on the Isle of Man.\n\n\"It is absolutely unacceptable that there be people not paying their fair share of taxes,\" he said. \"It's something we continue to take very, very seriously.\"\n\nThe papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nThe 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Panorama has led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries. The BBC does not know the identity of the source.\n\nParadise Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #ParadisePapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"Paradise Papers\"\n\nWatch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "Mental health is becoming more of a priority on the health agenda\n\nOne in 10 consultant psychiatrist roles is currently unfilled in NHS organisations in England, says a report by the Royal College of Psychiatrists.\n\nIt says the number of unfilled posts has doubled in the past four years.\n\nWales is also struggling to fill posts, with vacancies of 9%, while Scotland and Northern Ireland have vacancy rates of 6% and 2% respectively.\n\nThe college called the vacancies \"frankly alarming\" and said they increased waiting times for patients.\n\nProf Wendy Burn, from the Royal College of Psychiatrists, said the current situation meant patients might be waiting months to see a psychiatrist, during which time they could be getting worse.\n\nShe said it was \"a scandal\" because if you had cancer you would expect to see a cancer specialist.\n\n\"Patients won't get the care they need. Some will have been plucking up the courage to go to their GP, and then there is no-one to see them when they are referred,\" she said.\n\nProf Burn said the rise in vacancies was down to the difficulty in recruiting psychiatrists.\n\nAt the same time, more posts were being created for consultant psychiatrists as mental illness moved up the health agenda, but there were no specialists to fill them, she said.\n\nShe said medical schools need to broaden their pool of applicants in order to get more psychiatrists into the workplace.\n\n\"We are keen that medical schools should take in people studying psychology A-level - because they will be more likely to end up as psychiatrists.\"\n\nIt takes 13 years to train as a consultant psychiatrist.\n\nThe report found the situation was worst for psychiatrists in England who specialise in treating children or older people.\n\nIn both specialities, the vacancy rates doubled from roughly 6% in 2013 to 12% in 2017.\n\nThe findings are supported by a recent review by the Care Quality Commission which found young people are facing long waiting times and unequal access to mental health services.\n\nSaffron Cordery, from NHS Providers, said the shortages were \"deeply worrying\".\n\n\"The government's laudable ambition to improve mental health services will only be realised if we have the right workforce with the right skills in the right place.\"\n\nThe Welsh Government said there was a need for more doctors to choose psychiatry as a specialty.\n\nIt said it was spending more on mental health services than any other part of the NHS.\n• None 'Not enough psychiatrists across UK'", "Annie-Laure Promonet managed to hang on to her laptop during the burglary\n\nA woman said she deliberately scratched a burglar while he was trying to steal her laptop in order to get his DNA.\n\nAnnie-Laure Promonet, 42, found a man in her home in Watford, Hertfordshire, on 22 July and attempted to stop him.\n\nPolice were able to take scrapings from under her fingernails and found traces of tissue from Marvyn Mulvey, 40.\n\nMulvey admitted burglary and assault occasioning actual bodily harm and was jailed for seven and a half years at St Albans Crown Court on Friday.\n\nProsecutor Richard Jones told the court Ms Promonet had \"made it her aim\" to scratch Mulvey to obtain his DNA.\n\nAfter the hearing, Ms Promonet said: \"I thought I had to see his face, see if I could get his DNA, while all the time trying to memorise the clothes he was wearing.\n\n\"I didn't have time to panic. Maybe if I'd had a few more seconds then I would have realised it was a dangerous thing to do.\"\n\nMarvyn Mulvey was jailed for seven and a half years\n\nDuring the burglary, Mulvey used a wine bottle to beat Ms Promonet to the floor, leaving her with bruising to her body and head injuries.\n\nShe managed to hold on to her laptop, but Mulvey took a key to her flat and left.\n\nHe was later traced through his DNA and was arrested.\n\nJudge Graham Arran said Ms Promonet had shown a \"very cool head\" during the burglary.\n\n\"She did what was was necessary to bring this defendant to justice and showed enormous bravery in preventing him escaping from her flat,\" he said.\n\nAt a crown court ceremony, Ms Promonet will be given an award of £350 out of public funds for her bravery.\n\nIn a letter to the judge, Mulvey apologised and said: \"What I have put her though, no-one should have to go through.\"\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\nTech companies need to do more to combat the \"exponential\" growth in child sexual exploitation online, Home Secretary Amber Rudd has said.\n\nMs Rudd said internet giants have a \"moral duty\" to act and need to work with smaller platforms used by child gamers where paedophiles operate.\n\nShe is to meet counterparts in the US government to discuss the issue.\n\nThe tech companies have said they are doing their utmost to keep their young users safe.\n\nDuring Ms Rudd's trip she will attend a roundtable discussion joined by tech companies including Google, Facebook and Microsoft.\n\nThe home secretary will welcome work that has been done to tackle online child sexual abuse, but will also say that more needs to be done at a \"far greater pace\" across the technology industry.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Andrew Marr on Sunday, Ms Rudd said: \"We've seen the real growth of child sexual exploitation internationally, and we're going to make sure that we work with the Americans to take action against it.\n\n\"We need to make sure [tech companies] put their technical know how into addressing it.\n\n\"Particularly working with smaller platforms where children go to game online, to meet each other; there are paedophiles working there.\n\n\"We need to make sure that internet companies work with us, in partnership, to change this.\"\n\nMs Rudd's comments come as new government figures show there was a 700% increase in the number of indecent images identified on technology company servers and flagged to law enforcement agencies between 2013 and 2017.\n\nEach month there are more than 400 arrests for indecent images of children offences in the UK and some 500 children are being protected from online sexual exploitation, the government said.\n\nMs Rudd will also raise concerns about the use of messaging websites and apps, as well as video and image apps and websites, during her trip.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nOxford City, Maidstone United and Boreham Wood caused the biggest upsets in Saturday's FA Cup first round.\n\nOxford, who are one place off the bottom of the National League South, were 1-0 winners at League Two side Colchester United as they ended a 48-year wait to reach round two for a second time.\n\nFifth-tier Maidstone pulled off a famous 4-2 win at League Two side Cheltenham Town, while their National League counterparts Boreham Wood came from a goal down to beat League One Blackpool 2-1 - their first win over an EFL side.\n\nThe lowest-ranked side guaranteed a second-round tie are seventh-tier Hereford FC after they beat AFC Telford United 1-0 in front of a capacity crowd at Edgar Street.\n\nTheir Southern Premier League rivals Slough Town, who are two places above the Bulls in their league, had an impressive 6-0 win at National League North side Gainsborough Trinity thanks in part to a Matthew Lench hat-trick.\n\nMeanwhile, four League Two sides got the better of League One opposition, National League Tranmere Rovers earned a replay after a 1-1 draw at League One Peterborough United and their fifth-tier counterparts AFC Fylde made the second round for the first time in their history following a 4-1 win over sixth-tier Kidderminster Harriers.\n\nIf you had been popping out of the Ashmolean museum and sauntering down Magdalen Street on Friday morning, you probably would have expected the better-known of Oxford's two clubs to be the one to progress into round two.\n\nLeague One United famously won the League Cup in 1986 and once made the FA Cup quarter-finals - but they were sent packing at League Two Port Vale on Friday night, leaving City to carry the ancient seat of learning's FA Cup hopes.\n\nThe task looked daunting for a side without a league win since the middle of August as they travelled to a Colchester side in mid-table in League Two.\n• None Watch all of the latest FA Cup highlights and reaction here\n\nBut step-up journeyman striker Matt Paterson - the 28-year-old has had spells at nine other clubs including Southampton, Southend, Stockport County and Burton Albion - to score the only goal and earn his side a place in round two for the first time since 1969, and temporary bragging rights over their cross-town rivals.\n\nSo near, but oh so far\n\nFor every FA Cup dream story there is also one of heartbreak.\n\nAnd was any side more gutted on Saturday than Ebbsfleet United?\n\nGoing into first-half stoppage time they were 2-0 up at home to League One Doncaster Rovers. But Matty Blair and John Marquis scored in three first-half stoppage-time minutes to bring Doncaster level and four more after the break ensured an emphatic 6-2 scoreline.\n\nHarry Kewell, meanwhile, won the cup in 2006 with Liverpool - the famous 'Gerrard final' - but his managerial debut at Crawley Town has proved tough with the side just two points above the League Two relegation zone.\n\nCrawley, who famously made the fifth round in 2011 and lost to the other Red Devils - Manchester United - have a decent cup pedigree.\n\nThey travelled to 2013 winners Wigan Athletic and took a 20th-minute lead, but nine minutes later the Latics levelled and Lee Evans added a winner for Wigan with 19 minutes to go.\n\nBarnet also had a giant-killing in their eyes after going 1-0 up at Blackburn Rovers. But three goals in the final half hour ensured the 1995 Premier League champions and six-time FA Cup winners made Monday's second-round draw.\n\nWest Ham fans may remember Zavon Hines, and so will Cheltenham supporters after they were humbled 4-2 at home by his current National League club Maidstone United.\n\nA contemporary of players such as Mark Noble, Junior Stanislas and James Tomkins - who have all gone on to successful top-flight careers - Hines never really made the grade with the Hammers.\n\nDespite playing for England Under-21s and scoring on his Hammers debut as a 19-year-old in the League Cup, the forward never managed to establish himself and has toured a host of clubs in the top four divisions.\n\nBefore this season he had only scored 14 goals in more than nine and a half years, but since moving to Maidstone the Jamaica-born striker, who is now 28, has been a changed man.\n\nHe has scored eight times in his past 11 games, including his first and second FA Cup goals - the second in Maidstone's famous win on Saturday.\n\nThe victory put them into the second round for the second time in four seasons.\n\nWhile the rest of Mansfield's squad got on the bus for the 40-mile trip from Field Mill to Barnsley-based Shaw Lane, Danny Rose's journey was a lot shorter.\n\nBarnsley-born Rose, who began his career with the town's Championship side, lives just five minutes away from the Northern Premier League club and made his own way to the ground.\n\nAnd it was a short journey to success for the striker, who scored two excellent goals to help Mansfield to a 3-1 win, including a spectacular scissor kick.\n\nIn fact, he scored twice as many FA Cup goals in a five-minute period at Shaw Lane than he managed during his three-year spell at Oakwell.\n\nHis one Barnsley cup goal was a winner when the Tykes beat Burnley 1-0 in 2013.\n\nYou cannot mention the FA Cup and Hereford without mentioning Ronnie Radford.\n\nSign up for the 2017 FA People's Cup and take your chance to win tickets to the FA Cup final and achieve national five-a-side glory.\n\nAnd you cannot mention Telford and the FA Cup without mentioning 1985 when they reached the fifth round before losing to an Everton side that had Kevin Sheedy, Peter Reid and Andy Gray wearing blue.\n\nBut since those heady times, both clubs have gone bust and been reformed.\n\nAFC Telford United are in National League North after being reborn in 2004, while Hereford FC started out in 2015 after the original Bulls went bust.\n\nThe only sell-out crowd of the round so far - more than 4,700 - saw Southern Premier League Hereford overcome 10-man Telford thanks to John Mills' solitary goal.\n\nCould we have a new Radford in the making?", "US soldiers take part in \"Warrior Strike\" exercises in South Korea in September\n\nA Pentagon assessment has declared the only way to completely destroy all parts of North Korea's nuclear weapons programme is through a ground invasion.\n\nRear Admiral Michael Dumont expressed the opinion on behalf of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in a letter to Congressman Ted Lieu.\n\nMr Dumont said calculating \"even the roughest\" potential casualty figures would be extremely difficult.\n\nHe also gave some detail on what the first hours of a war would involve.\n\n\"The only way to 'locate and destroy - with complete certainty - all components of North Korea's nuclear weapons programs' is through a ground invasion,\" he wrote in response to Congressman Lieu's questions about a potential conflict.\n\nThe risks involved included a potential nuclear counter-attack by North Korea while US forces attempted to disable its \"deeply buried, underground facilities\", he said.\n\n\"A classified briefing is the best venue for a detailed discussion,\" he added.\n\nThe Joint Chiefs of Staff directly advise the president of the United States on military matters.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ted Lieu This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a statement with more than a dozen other military veterans turned congressmen, Mr Lieu, a Democrat, said the assessment was \"deeply disturbing\" and warned that a conflict \"could result in hundreds of thousands, or even millions of deaths in just the first few days of fighting.\"\n\n\"Their assessment underscores what we've known all along: there are no good military options for North Korea,\" the statement said.\n\nThe letter was published as Donald Trump begins his mammoth tour of Asia, during which the North Korean threat is expected to be a major topic of discussion.\n\nThe president has previously said that if forced to defend the US or its allies, he \"will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea.\"\n\n\"The President needs to stop making provocative statements that hinder diplomatic options and put American troops further at risk,\" Mr Lieu's joint statement said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRear Admiral Dumont opened his letter with a clear indication that his office supported economic and diplomatic solutions ahead of any military action.\n\nPotential casualties from a conflict depended heavily on the intensity of any attack on South Korea's capital, Seoul, which lies just 35 miles (56 km) from the border, as well as how much advance warning the US and its allies had, he said.\n\nHe said a counter-offensive from artillery battery fire and air strikes might help limit casualties.\n\nThe Joint Chiefs also fear that Pyongyang would use biological weapons in a conflict, despite international conventions banning their use, as well as chemical weapons - which it has never agreed to abandon.\n\n\"It likely possesses a [chemical weapons] stockpile,\" the letter said.\n\nThe assessment by military chiefs follows the release of a report from the non-partisan Congressional Research Service, which warned that even a brief conflict without the use of banned weapons could cost tens of thousands of lives.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Lord Ashcroft try to avoid Richard Bilton’s questions about his offshore trust\n\nTory donor Lord Ashcroft ignored rules around the management of his offshore investments, leaked documents suggest.\n\nThe peer gave assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the Punta Gorda Trust in Bermuda in 2000.\n\nThe Paradise Papers suggests he sometimes made decisions without consulting trust officials. Such action could see the trust challenged by HMRC.\n\nLord Ashcroft said he would not respond because of the way he has been treated by BBC Panorama in the past.\n\nPanorama approached Lord Ashcroft during last month's Conservative Party conference in Manchester but he declined to answer any questions about the trust.\n\nThe 71-year-old former party deputy chairman has given millions of pounds to the Tories.\n\nHe fell out with David Cameron in 2010 and later he co-authored a controversial unauthorised biography of the then prime minister but remains involved in UK politics through his polling and publishing interests.\n\nJournalist Peter Oborne says Lord Ashcroft has been a \"hugely significant figure\" in the Conservative Party over the last 20 years.\n\nHe said: \"Lord Ashcroft has been one of the most significant donors to the... party. But it's not just... that he's been a giver of money, he's also been very important organisationally. He's involved himself in the internal politics.\"\n\nOther documents in the Paradise Papers show Lord Ashcroft has secretly remained non-domiciled in the UK for tax purposes.\n\nThe structure of a trust involves one entity legally entrusting a second to look after assets for a third, essentially removing ownership for tax purposes.\n\nWealthy people can legally avoid paying tax on assets that they have given to a trust because they can tell the authorities they no longer own or control the assets in them.\n\nBut for a trust to work as a tax break, decisions about its assets have to be taken independently by the trustees.\n\nA series of leaked emails between trustees and Lord Ashcroft's advisers suggest he was was willing to ignore the rules.\n\nDespite the warning, Lord Ashcroft appears to have continued to make decisions about the Trust's assets.\n\nIn October 2000, one of the trustees says: \"I would like to emphasize at this point that it is imperative at all times that the Trustees are aware of any and all transactions to be entered into prior to transactions occurring.\n\n\"To do otherwise, will only serve to undermine the integrity of the Trust as the Trustees are being advised of actions taken in connection with trust assets, which should be under their control, after the event.\"\n\nA review of the trust in 2009, discovered that significant payments out had been made that had not been properly recorded.\n\nIn an internal email, a lawyer representing the trust says: \"There have been very large sums of money involved and I am very concerned that there has been inadequate supervision of both transactions and distributions... to put it bluntly we seem to be told nothing whereas we carry the responsibility of acting as trustee.\"\n\nPaperwork then appears to have been put in place retrospectively \"to ensure that we have all the relevant trustee and company authorities in place for the transactions which have occured [sic]\".\n\nTrust experts say anybody who puts their money into a trust could face a challenge by tax authorities if it was felt rules had been abused.\n\nThis could include a challenge from HM Revenue & Customs if it was to take the view an overseas trust had been controlled from the UK.\n\nNicholas Shaxson, the author of Treasure Islands, an expose of the workings of tax havens, told Panorama: \"On the evidence I have seen, it looks like something that is abusive behaviour and an abusive structure. If the trustees are worried, the trustees are expressing alarm about that, that's a clear red flag.\"\n\nProfessor Brooke Harrington, the author of Capital Without Borders, said: \"It's important that trustees be independent because the whole concept of a trust is that a settlor gives over legal ownership of an asset to the trustee.\n\n\"That's why you get these tax benefits and other legal benefits from the trust structure.\"\n\nLord Ashcroft's spokesman, Alan Kilkenny, is quoted in the Guardian newspaper as saying the peer had never engaged in tax evasion, abusive tax avoidance or tax avoidance using artificial structures.\n\nThe papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nThe 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Panorama has led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries. The BBC does not know the identity of the source.\n\nParadise Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #ParadisePapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"Paradise Papers\"\n\nWatch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "Mr Hariri has been in charge for less than a year\n\nLebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri has resigned, saying in a televised broadcast from Saudi Arabia that he feared for his life, while also fiercely criticising Iran.\n\nHe accused Iran of sowing \"fear and destruction\" in several countries, including Lebanon.\n\nMr Hariri's father, former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, was assassinated in 2005.\n\nThe Hariri family is close to Saudi Arabia, Iran's regional competitor.\n\nMr Hariri has been prime minister since December 2016, after previously holding the position between 2009 and 2011.\n\n\"We are living in a climate similar to the atmosphere that prevailed before the assassination of martyr Rafik al-Hariri,\" he said in the broadcast from the Saudi capital Riyadh.\n\n\"I have sensed what is being plotted covertly to target my life.\"\n\nMr Hariri also attacked the Iran-backed Shia movement Hezbollah, which wields considerable power in Lebanon.\n\nAddressing \"Iran and its followers\" he said Lebanon would \"cut off the hands that wickedly extend into it\".\n\nIran said the resignation would create regional tensions and rejected Mr Hariri's accusations as \"unfounded\".\n\nMr Hariri has made several visits in the past few days to Saudi Arabia, whose leadership is strongly opposed to Iran.\n\nHis announcement came a day after a meeting in Beirut with Ali Akbar Velayati, an advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Kahmenei.\n\nTaking up the prime minister's office last year, Mr Hariri promised a \"new era for Lebanon\" after two years of political deadlock.\n\nThe coalition government he led brought together almost all of the main political parties in Lebanon, including Hezbollah.\n\nRafik al-Hariri was killed by a bomb in 2005 in an attack widely blamed on Hezbollah.\n\nThe prime minister's resignation has opened up a chasm of uncertainty in Lebanon.\n\nIt's still not clear why he announced his decision in Saudi Arabia - an extraordinary move that left even his own MPs bewildered.\n\nBut the move will be seen through the lens of the great Shia-Sunni divide that's fuelling much of the violence across the Middle East.\n\nIt's pitted the Sunni power, Saudi Arabia, against the Shia power, Iran - with both sides backing different players to wield influence.\n\nIn Lebanon, the Saudis support Mr Hariri while Iran backs the Shia movement, Hezbollah.\n\nIn recent years, Lebanon has largely been spared the violence seen elsewhere in the region.\n\nBut with this stunning resignation, many Lebanese will now fear that their country is firmly in the crosshairs of the two regional superpowers.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The annual celebration is one of the largest in the UK\n\nTens of thousands of people joined bonfire celebrations in the East Sussex town of Lewes, despite measures to lower attendance.\n\nPeople had been warned by police not to go unless they were from the town.\n\nRoads were closed hours before the start of event, and train services were suspended within a five-mile radius.\n\nSussex Police said about 80 people were treated for injuries, mostly minor. Officers made five arrests and issued three dispersal orders by 01:30 GMT.\n\nCh Supt Neil Honnor said the arrests were for drink-driving, failing to comply with a dispersal order, possession of a knife and an assault.\n\nPolice said it was thought about 60,000 people had attended the event.\n\nThe force did say crowd numbers were an estimate because there was no official count.\n\nBut Ch Supt Honnor said: \"That's far too many for crowd safety purposes.\"\n\nAn effigy of North Korea leader Kim Jong-un was paraded through the streets\n\nMembers of Lewes' bonfire societies marched the town's narrow streets as the fireworks went off\n\nThe annual celebration is one of the largest of its type in the UK\n\nBefore the event, one of the groups involved agreed to tone down its costumes, after the leader of dance troupe Zulu Tradition, booked to perform at this year's event, said they were \"incredibly offensive\".\n\nMembers of Lewes Borough Bonfire Society traditionally wear black face paint and extravagant accessories for the parade.\n\nSome locals have backed the group, commenting the tradition of painting faces had been going on for years.\n\nA Zulu costume used in previous years at the Lewes Bonfire\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The wreckage of the 1902 Benz can be seen on the bonnet of the Ford C-Max\n\nSix people were injured in a crash during the annual London to Brighton Veteran Car Run.\n\nThe 1902 Benz was involved in a collision with three other cars at about 11:35 GMT at Reigate Hill, Surrey.\n\nIt had been taking part in the annual parade of vehicles dating back to the early 20th Century.\n\nTwo people from the Benz were taken to hospital with serious injuries.\n\nTwo other people travelling in the car were taken to hospital with minor injuries, said Surrey Police.\n\nA Ford C-Max, a Mercedes-Benz GLE and a Fiat Fiorino were also involved in the crash.\n\nTwo passengers from the Ford were taken to hospital with minor injuries.\n\nThe Royal Automobile Club, which stages the veteran run, previously said it was the world's oldest motoring event.\n\nIt commemorates the Emancipation Run in 1896, celebrating the Locomotives on the Highway Act which raised the speed limit from 4mph to 14mph and abolished the requirement for vehicles to be preceded by a man on foot.\n\nThe Royal Automobile Club said it would be \"conducting a thorough review to identify any lessons which can be learnt from this accident\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The financial secrets of hundreds of world leaders, politicians and celebrities has been exposed in another huge leak of financial documents.\n\nDubbed the Pandora Papers it features almost 12 million files from companies providing offshore services in tax havens around the world.\n\nThe data was obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in Washington DC, which has organised the biggest ever global investigation, spanning 117 countries and involving more than 600 journalists. In the UK the investigation has been led by BBC Panorama and the Guardian.\n\nThe files are the latest in a series of whistleblower-led investigations that have rocked the world of finance in recent years.\n\nSo let's round up the other major leaks of the past decade.\n\nIn September 2020 the FinCEN Files exposed the failure of major global banks to stop money laundering and financial crime. They also revealed how the UK is often the weak link in the financial system and how London is awash with Russian cash.\n\nThe files included more than 2,000 suspicious activity reports (SARs), filed by financial institutions to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Agency, or FinCEN, a part of the US Treasury Department. They also include 17,641 records obtained through Freedom of Information (FOI) requests and other sources.\n\nThey were obtained by BuzzFeed News which shared them with the ICIJ and 400 journalists around the world, including BBC Panorama, which led the investigation in the UK.\n\nA huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which revealed the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nWho leaked the data? The BBC does not know the identity of the source. The 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the ICIJ. Panorama led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries.\n\nA confidential settlement was later reached between the BBC, the Guardian and Appleby over the reporting of the leaked documents, which Appleby said were taken by hackers. The Guardian and BBC said the reports were in the public interest but did not give more detail about the settlement.\n\nUntil Pandora this leak was seen as the daddy of them all in data size. If you thought the Wikileaks dump of sensitive diplomatic cables in 2010 was a big deal, this carried 1,500 times more data.\n\nSüddeutsche Zeitung's \"brothers\". Despite surnames that sound exactly the same, these two leading lights of the Panama Papers investigation, Frederik Obermaier (L) and Bastian Obermayer, are not related\n\nThe Panama Papers came about after an anonymous source contacted reporters at German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung in 2015 and supplied encrypted documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca. It sells anonymous offshore companies that help the owners hide their business dealings.\n\nOverwhelmed by the scale of the dump, which eventually grew to 2.6 terabytes of data, the Süddeutsche Zeitung called in the ICIJ, which led to the involvement of about 100 other partner news organisations, including the BBC's Panorama.\n\nAfter more than a year of scrutiny, the ICIJ and its partners jointly published the Panama Papers on 3 April 2016, with the database of documents going online a month later.\n\nWho was named? Where do we start? A few of the news partners focused on how associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin shuffled cash around the globe. Not that the Russians cared much. The prime ministers of Iceland and Pakistan came to far stickier ends, the former quitting and the latter being thrown out of office by the Supreme Court. Overall the financial dealings of a dozen current and former world leaders, more than 120 politicians and public officials and countless billionaires, celebrities and sports stars were exposed.\n\nWho leaked the data? John Doe. Yes, we know. It's not a real name. In US crime series it is mostly used to label anonymous victims but Mr (or Ms) Doe's manifesto, released a month after publication, reveals a self-styled revolutionary. The real identity is still unknown.\n\nFive months after the Panama Papers, the ICIJ published revelations from the Bahamas corporate registry. The 38GB cache revealed the offshore activities of \"prime ministers, ministers, princes and convicted felons\", it said. Former EU competition commissioner Neelie Kroes admitted an \"oversight\" in failing to disclose her interest in an offshore company.\n\nThis ICIJ investigation, involving hundreds of journalists from 45 countries, including BBC Panorama, went public in February 2015.\n\nIt focused on HSBC Private Bank (Suisse), a subsidiary of the banking giant, and so lifted the lid on dealings in a country where banking secrecy is taken for granted.\n\nThe leaked files covered accounts up to the year 2007, linked with more than 100,000 individuals and legal entities from more than 200 countries.\n\nThe ICIJ said the subsidiary had served \"those close to discredited regimes\" and \"clients who had been unfavourably named by the United Nations\".\n\nHSBC admitted that the \"compliance culture and standards of due diligence\" at the subsidiary at the time were \"lower than they are today\".\n\nWho was named? The ICIJ said HSBC had profited from \"arms dealers, bag men for Third World dictators, traffickers in blood diamonds and other international outlaws\".\n\nIt also cited those close to the regimes of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, former Tunisian President Ben Ali and Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.\n\nWho leaked the data? Actually, we know this one. The ICIJ investigation was based on data originally leaked by the French-Italian software engineer and whistleblower Hervé Falciani, though the ICIJ got it later from another source. From 2008 onwards he passed information on HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) to French authorities, who in turn passed them to other relevant governments. Mr Falciani was indicted in Switzerland. He was held in detention in Spain but was later released and now lives in France.\n\nOr LuxLeaks for short. Another extensive ICIJ investigation, which revealed its findings in November 2014.\n\nIt centred on how professional services company PricewaterhouseCoopers helped multinational companies gain hundreds of favourable tax rulings in Luxembourg between 2002 and 2010.\n\nThe ICIJ said multinationals had saved billions by channelling money through Luxembourg, sometimes at tax rates of less than 1%. One address in Luxembourg was home to more than 1,600 companies, it said.\n\nThe leak of documents was first exposed in 2012 after a joint investigation between Panorama and France2 which lifted the lid on the tax agreements of UK pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline and media company Northern & Shell.\n\nWho was named? Pepsi, IKEA, AIG and Deutsche Bank were among those named.\n\nA second tranche of leaked documents said the Walt Disney Co and Skype had funnelled hundreds of millions of dollars in profits through Luxembourg subsidiaries. They and the other firms denied any wrongdoing.\n\nJean-Claude Juncker had been PM of Luxembourg when it enacted many of its tax avoidance rules. He had been appointed president of the European Commission just a few days before the leak came out. He said he had not encouraged avoidance.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jean-Claude Juncker says he is \"politically responsible for what happened\"\n\nEurosceptics went to town and pushed a censure motion against him and his commission. It was rejected. But the EU did investigate, and by 2016 had proposed a yet-to-be realised common tax scheme for the EU.\n\nWho leaked the data? Frenchman Antoine Deltour, a former PricewaterhouseCoopers employee, was the main man, saying he had acted in the public interest. Another PwC employee, Raphael Halet, helped him.\n\nThe pair, along with journalist Edouard Perrin, were all charged in Luxembourg after a PwC complaint. A first verdict was later revisited, watering down sentences, with Deltour given a six-month suspended jail term which was later quashed. Halet received a small fine and Mr Perrin was acquitted.\n\nThis was about a tenth of the size of the Panama Papers but was seen as the biggest exposé of international tax fraud ever when the ICIJ and its news partners went public in November 2012 and April 2013.\n\nSome 2.5 million files revealed the names of more than 120,000 companies and trusts in hideaways such as the British Virgin Islands and the Cook Islands.\n\nBBC Panorama exposed a flourishing tax evasion industry in the UK in an undercover investigation based on the files.\n\nWho was named? The usual suspects. A mix of politicians, government officials and their families, with the Russians notable, but also those in China, Azerbaijan, Canada, Thailand, Mongolia and Pakistan. The Philippines - in the form of the family of late strongman Ferdinand Marcos - get a dishonourable mention. To be fair, the ICIJ does point out that the leaks are not necessarily evidence of illegal actions.\n\nWho leaked the data? The ICIJ cites \"two financial service providers, a private bank in Jersey and the Bahamas corporate registry\" as the sources, but says nothing more other than it was \"data obtained\".\n\nThe Pandora Papers is a leak of almost 12 million documents and files exposing the secret wealth and dealings of world leaders, politicians and billionaires. The data was obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in Washington DC and has led to one of the biggest ever global investigations.\n\nMore than 600 journalists from 117 countries have looked at the hidden fortunes of some of the most powerful people on the planet. BBC Panorama and the Guardian have led the investigation in the UK.\n\nPandora Papers coverage: follow reaction on Twitter using #PandoraPapers, in the BBC News app, or watch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "A British woman who has been detained in Egypt for bringing nearly 300 Tramadol tablets into the country made \"an innocent, honest mistake\", according to her brother.\n\nLaura Plummer, from Hull, was transporting the pills for her Egyptian partner who suffers from back pain.\n\nIt is illegal to supply prescription drugs and Ms Plummer, 33, could face up to 25 years in jail.\n\nHer local MP Karl Turner said the Foreign Office was now involved.\n\nHe said the British Embassy has provided a lawyer - Ms Plummer's third since she was detained at Hurghada International Airport on suspicion of drug trafficking on 9 October.\n\nMs Plummer's family has been told she could face up to 25 years in prison, or even the death penalty.\n\nHer brother James Plummer told BBC Radio 5 live that Ms Plummer was visiting her husband of 18 months on \"just a routine holiday\". She reportedly sees him between two and four times a year.\n\nIt is not clear, however, whether the marriage is official.\n\nMs Plummer's brother said she had taken some Tramadol with her to treat her husband's back pain\n\nHe said that Laura, a shop assistant, had told a colleague about her partner's back pain and the work colleague replied that she could get some tablets from her GP. \"They were prescribed to a friend of hers,\" he said.\n\n\"So she took those over with her,\" Mr Plummer said. \"Laura didn't even check what they were, she didn't even know there was Tramadol in the bag. There was also Naproxen as well.\"\n\nMr Turner said Ms Plummer had brought the tablets to Egypt along with a number of other goods.\n\n\"It is difficult to get certain things in Egypt apparently so she'd taken talcum powder, shaving gel and razor blades and all sorts of things,\" he said. \"Clearly, [she was] very, very naïve.\"\n\nTramadol is the most abused drug in Egypt, according to Ghada Wali, the country's Minister of Social Solidarity.\n\nIn August, she said that the Drug Control Fund, which she chairs, received the most calls about Tramadol on its free helpline - which overall received 48,000 calls between January and June.\n\nMs Plummer is now being held in jail where Mr Turner said she is sharing a cell with between 20 to 30 other women.\n\nMr Turner said: \"The family describe Laura to me as somebody who is very naïve.\n\n\"Her father said to me 'look, the truth is she wouldn't know Tramadol from a Panadol. She wouldn't have a clue that she was doing something unlawful'.\"\n\nHe said that a British Embassy representative has been visiting Ms Plummer regularly and has been in touch with her family.\n\nDespite the severe overcrowding in Egyptian jails, Mr Turner said: \"Her family said to some extent it is better that she's with lots of people in a cell than in a cell on her own because people are around her.\n\n\"But the conditions are going to be extremely basic and I'm sure she's petrified by what is unfolding before her.\"", "The home secretary says a claim that pornography was found on First Secretary of State Damian Green's computer in 2008 will be investigated.", "Entertainment company Netflix has severed ties with Kevin Spacey, star of its House of Cards show, amid a number of sex assault allegations against him.\n\nNetflix said it would hold talks with the producers to see if production, which was suspended this week, could resume without Spacey.\n\nNetflix also said it would not release Spacey's film about writer Gore Vidal.\n\nMeanwhile, police in the UK have opened an investigation into the American actor over an alleged sexual assault.\n\nA British actor said he had woken up to find Spacey performing a sex act on him in 2008, the Sun newspaper reported. The man is said to have run from the property after Spacey allegedly said: \"Don't tell anyone about this.\"\n\nSpacey said on Thursday he was seeking treatment after facing allegations of sexual misconduct from a string of men.\n\nNetflix suspended production on House of Cards on 31 October following allegations by Star Trek actor Anthony Rapp, who said Spacey had tried to \"seduce\" him when he was 14.\n\nSpacey said he was \"beyond horrified\" to hear of the incident, which he said he did not remember.\n\nHouse of Cards, which is based on a BBC programme, was first broadcast in 2013.\n\nThe first season garnered nine Emmy nominations, becoming the first online streaming series to win such mainstream accolades.\n\n\"Netflix will not be involved with any further production of House of Cards that includes Kevin Spacey,\" a company spokesperson said in a statement.\n\n\"We will continue to work with MRC [series producer Media Rights Capital] during this hiatus time to evaluate our path forward as it relates to the show.\n\n\"We have also decided we will not be moving forward with the release of the film Gore, which was in post-production, starring and produced by Kevin Spacey.\"\n\nMRC said in a statement earlier that it was \"deeply troubled\" about the allegations against Spacey.\n\nIt said it had dealt with one incident in 2012 in which an unnamed crew member \"shared a complaint about a specific remark and gesture made by Kevin Spacey\", that immediate action had been taken and that the issue had been resolved.\n\nSpacey had \"willingly participated in a training process\", it added.", "Lord Ashcroft remained a non-dom, and continued to avoid tax despite attempts by Parliament to make peers pay their full share, leaked documents reveal.\n\nThe peer was domiciled for tax purposes in Belize at a time when it was widely believed he had given up the status, the Paradise Papers show.\n\nWhile ordinary Britons have to pay tax on everything they earn, non-doms are only taxed on their UK income.\n\nLord Ashcroft, who donated millions to the Tories, said he would not comment.\n\nHe said it was because of the way he had been treated by BBC Panorama in the past.\n\nBut his spokesman, Alan Kilkenny, is quoted in the Guardian newspaper as saying the peer had never engaged in tax evasion, abusive tax avoidance or tax avoidance using artificial structures.\n\nWhen questions were raised about the peer's non-dom status in 2010, he denied any \"impropriety or wrongdoing\".\n\nA former party treasurer and deputy chairman, Lord Ashcroft fell out with David Cameron in 2010 and later co-authored a controversial unauthorised biography of the then prime minister.\n\nBut the 71-year-old remains involved in UK politics through his polling and publishing interests and last year said he would start donating \"smaller sums\" to the party again.\n\nParliament tried to force the controversial peer to pay full British tax when he entered the House of Lords in 2000.\n\nLord Ashcroft promised to become a permanent resident in the UK - a change that would have meant giving up his status as a UK resident whose permanent home, or domicile, is outside of the country.\n\nThe then leader of the Conservative Party William Hague told Parliament that becoming a peer would \"cost him [Lord Ashcroft] and benefit the Treasury tens of millions of pounds a year in tax\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Lord Ashcroft try to avoid Richard Bilton’s questions about his offshore trust\n\nThe tax was never paid because Lord Ashcroft, who was once Belize's ambassador to the United Nations and maintains links to the central American country, persuaded officials that he should be allowed to become a long term resident of the UK rather than a permanent one. A distinction that allowed him to retain his non-dom status.\n\nThe leaked documents show that between 2000 and 2010, Lord Ashcroft received payments of around $200m (£150m) from his offshore trust in the Bermuda.\n\nThe Tory Peer continued to sit in the House of Lords and as a non-dom he did not have to pay tax on these payments.\n\nLord Ashcroft's admission in 2010 that he was still a non-dom led to a major political controversy and the introduction of legislation designed to force anybody who sits in Parliament to pay full British tax.\n\nAfter Lord Ashcroft told the BBC in May 2010 he was going to become \"a fully taxed person in Britain\", it was widely reported he had given up his non-dom status.\n\nThe Conservative Party also gave such an indication on 7 July that same year.\n\nHowever, documents seen by the BBC's Panorama, reveal \"his true domicile is Belize\".\n\nThe new law, the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act, had not specified that non-dom MPs and peers would have to give up the status - only that they be \"treated as domiciled in the UK\" by the tax authorities.\n\nIt meant Lord Ashcroft had to pay full British tax while he sat in Parliament, but as soon as he resigned from the House of Lords in March 2015 he was also a non-dom again in the eyes of UK revenue inspectors.\n\nThe Paradise Papers suggest Lord Ashcroft worked around the new law to continue avoiding tax on his worldwide income between 2010 and 2015.\n\nOn the 31 March 2010, the day before the new law came into effect, Lord Ashcroft's offshore trust bought shares worth £33.9m from one of his companies.\n\nHis advisers note that the deal has \"capital gains tax implications\" but they point out he is \"not domiciled in the UK at the moment\".\n\nIf the deal had happened the following day, he would have been treated differently and could have been liable for capital gains tax.\n\nLord Ashcroft with William Hague and Ffion Hague in 2006\n\nWhile he was sitting in the Lords as a full British taxpayer between 2010 and 2015, Lord Ashcroft appears to have stopped taking payments from his offshore trust.\n\nOne of his advisers notes \"that there is no applicable tax as there is no distributable income\".\n\nThe accounts for the trust show Lord Ashcroft didn't receive any payments in 2011, 2012 or 2013. The accounts for 2014 and 2015 were not in the leaked documents.\n\nLord Ashcroft announced his resignation from the House of Lords in March 2015.\n\nIf he had still been sitting in Parliament, he would have been liable for capital gains tax on any profits from the sale. But Lord Ashcroft was being treated as a non-dom again and could legally avoid the tax.\n\nJournalist Peter Oborne says Lord Ashcroft's non-dom status was a \"huge issue\" at the time he started to sit in the Lords and there was \"fresh controversy\" when the Tories entered power in 2010.\n\nThe revelations in the Paradise Papers could cause a \"major political explosion,\" he said. \"The Labour Party... will turn it into a first class political row. It will raise huge questions about not just the Conservatives [but] also the House of Lords.\"\n\nThe Conservative Party did not respond to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nThe papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nThe 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Panorama has led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries. The BBC does not know the identity of the source.\n\nParadise Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #ParadisePapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"Paradise Papers\"\n\nWatch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "Iran says the surprise resignation of Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri is part of a plot to stoke tensions in the region.\n\nAn adviser to Iran's supreme leader accused the US and Saudi Arabia of being behind the move.\n\nMr Hariri, in a televised broadcast from Saudi Arabia, accused Iran of sowing \"fear and destruction\" in several countries, including Lebanon.\n\nHe said he was stepping down because he feared for his life.\n\nMr Hariri's father, former Prime Minister Rafik al-Hariri, was assassinated in 2005.\n\nCorrespondents say his sudden departure plunges Lebanon into a new political crisis and raises fears that it may be at the forefront of the regional rivalry between Shia power Iran and Sunni stronghold Saudi Arabia.\n\nFollowing the statement on Saturday, Iranian politicians lined up to denounce Mr Hariri's assertions.\n\n\"Hariri's resignation was done with planning by [US President] Donald Trump and Mohammed bin Salman, the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia,\" said Hussein Sheikh al-Islam, adviser to Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Kahmenei.\n\nIranian foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi, quoted by the official Irna news agency, said Mr Hariri's departure was aimed at creating tension in Lebanon and the region.\n\nHe said Mr Hariri had repeated \"unrealistic and unfounded accusations\" and had aligned himself with \"those who want ill for the region\", singling out Israel, Saudi Arabia and the US.\n\nMr Hariri, whose family is close to Saudi Arabia, has been prime minister since December 2016, after previously holding the position between 2009 and 2011.\n\n\"We are living in a climate similar to the atmosphere that prevailed before the assassination of martyr Rafik al-Hariri,\" he said in the broadcast from the Saudi capital Riyadh.\n\n\"I have sensed what is being plotted covertly to target my life.\"\n\nRafik al-Hariri was killed by a bomb in 2005 in an attack widely blamed on the Iran-backed Shia movement Hezbollah, which wields considerable power in Lebanon.\n\nAddressing \"Iran and its followers\" he said Lebanon would \"cut off the hands that wickedly extend into it\".\n\nMr Hariri has made several recent visits to Saudi Arabia. His announcement came a day after a meeting in Beirut with Ali Akbar Velayati, an adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.\n\nAfter taking office last year, Mr Hariri promised a \"new era for Lebanon\" after two years of political deadlock.\n\nThe coalition government he led brought together almost all of the main political parties in Lebanon, including Hezbollah.", "Jasmin Beckett, a member of Labour's national executive committee and its equalities committee, said: \"We've got to be clear that sexual harassment was never acceptable. It was never fine.\"\n\n\"I think that's now why we are in a much better position to deal with this because actually society, and as we've seen Hollywood, knows that this type of behaviour is not acceptable.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May is due to meet opposition party leaders, including Jeremy Corbyn, on Monday to discuss proposals to bring forward a new grievance system for Westminster staff and MPs.", "President Donald Trump has made a pitch to Saudi Arabia to float the world's biggest oil company in the US.\n\nHe tweeted: \"Would very much appreciate Saudi Arabia doing their IPO of Aramco with the New York Stock Exchange. Important to the United States!\"\n\nThe proposed share flotation will see 5% of the state-owned company sold in an Initial Public Offering next year.\n\nIt is expected to list domestically and on at least one foreign exchange with New York and London vying for the deal.\n\nThe Aramco IPO is expected to be the largest in history, raising around $100bn in revenue for the Saudi kingdom.\n\nIf listed in London, it could be worth up to £56bn for the London Stock Exchange.\n\nMr Trump was tweeting at the beginning of an 11-day trip to Asia which will take the president and First Lady Melania Trump to Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May met the boss of Saudi Aramco earlier this year.\n\nDuring a trip to Saudi Arabia in April, Mrs May held talks with chairman Khalid Al-Falih, who is also Saudi Arabia's energy minister.\n\nShe was joined at the meeting by Xavier Rolet, chief executive of the London Stock Exchange.\n\nThe Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the UK City watchdog, is currently consulting on whether to create a new category for sovereign-controlled companies who wish to list on the London Stock Exchange.\n\nThe proposal has prompted questions from both the Commons Treasury Select Committee and the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee over whether the FCA was politically influenced to alter the rules to help lure Saudi Aramco to London.\n\nIn a letter to both committees, FCA chief executive Andrew Bailey admitted that discussions with the world's biggest oil firm were held early this year.\n\nBut he said: \"We do not think protections for investors will be weakened.\"\n\nUnder existing UK listing rules, every time a company does a deal with an investor who controls a stake of 10% or more in the business, the company must get shareholder approval.\n\nRelaxing this rule would mean Saudi Aramco could do deals with the Saudi government without shareholder approval.\n\nThe Treasury and the FCA declined to comment; The London Stock Exchange was unavailable.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Watch Lord Ashcroft try to avoid Richard Bilton’s questions about his offshore trust.\n\nFind out more about the Paradise Papers.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fireworks shot towards the crowd at the display\n\nFourteen people were injured at a bonfire event when fireworks malfunctioned and shot into the crowd.\n\nThe display at the Antrobus Hotel in Amesbury, Wiltshire, on Saturday night was cancelled soon afterwards.\n\nA number of young children were among the 14 people injured, who were all treated at the scene.\n\nWiltshire Council said the authority was investigating what happened at the display and would be liaising with the hotel.\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive said it would only investigate if the council decided it was appropriate.\n\nThe hotel said \"a single display box, containing multiple fireworks, malfunctioned\" and said it called an end to the display as soon as it happened.\n\nIn a statement, it added: \"Regrettably, despite the safety cordon exceeding the manufacturer's guidelines, some projectiles ejected towards the crowd line.\n\n\"We are mortified about what has occurred today and would like to apologise to all those affected, please rest assured that a full investigation will take place.\"\n\nA display box containing multiple fireworks malfunctioned at the Antrobus Hotel\n\nLewis Foote, who was at the event with his wife and sons, aged one and three, said: \"I saw on the right hand side there was a picnic bench and people were sitting there having a drink and a firework went off on the bench right in front of them.\n\n\"I thought that ain't right and then another one flew straight into the crowd.\"\n\nMr Foote said it had felt overcrowded and nobody was counting numbers on the door.\n\n\"There was a lot of panic and kids crying, it was quite scary,\" he added.\n\n\"We were crammed in and all we could do was turn our backs and shield our faces.\"\n\nRachael Tomlinson said she was hit in the face by a firework\n\nRachael Tomlinson, who was at the front with her daughter, said she was hit in the face by a firework.\n\nShe said: \"I was a bit shaken as it was really close to my eye. The ambulance crews put ice on it.\n\n\"I saw a lady in the toilet whose hat was black where it had been burnt and another lady had to put her hat out because it caught fire.\n\n\"I saw a little boy with five burns on his face and he was really shaken up.\"\n\nMany of those who attended have taken to Facebook to voice concerns over how the display was handled and to complain that videos they had posted on the event's page had been deleted by organisers.\n\nNatalie Morris said: \"After things went bad there was no shelter and no safety exits so we were sitting ducks, fireworks coming over the top of us and exploding at our feet, sheltering kids with ourselves.\n\n\"We are all traumatised but safe, my daughter plucked up courage to try and enjoy fireworks and has now been scarred for life.\"\n\nThe hotel has been asked to comment further.\n\nA spokesman for Wiltshire Police said they were called to the scene at about 20:10 GMT, to reports of fireworks in the crowd.\n\nThe force said no arrests have been made.\n\nFire crews and ambulances were also in attendance, and South Western Ambulance Service said it treated 14 people at the scene.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJeremy Corbyn has defended his decision to appoint an MP to his shadow cabinet who had been reprimanded for allegations of inappropriate behaviour.\n\nThe Labour leader said he was aware Kelvin Hopkins had been rebuked by the party's chief whip in 2015 after concerns raised by a young activist.\n\nBut he said he thought the case had been \"closed\" and the promotion to his ministerial team was \"reasonable\".\n\nMr Hopkins was suspended last week but denies claims of sexual harassment.\n\nThe 76-year old MP has been accused by Ava Etemadzadeh of hugging her inappropriately after a student event in 2014 and subsequently making offensive comments during a visit to Parliament.\n\nThe 27-year-old activist, who said she later received an over-familiar message from the MP, did not make a formal complaint at the time after being told she would have to waive her anonymity to do so.\n\nBut she reported the matter to an MP, who then informed the then chief whip Rosie Winterton, resulting in Mr Hopkins receiving a verbal reprimand in 2015.\n\nLabour's handling of the case has come in for criticism after it emerged that Ms Winterton expressed her reservations to the leadership about Mr Hopkins' appointment as shadow culture secretary in July 2016.\n\nAlthough he only served in the position for three months, at a time when Mr Corbyn was struggling to rebuild his frontbench after a mass walkout over his leadership, several MPs have suggested the move was a mistake.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ava Etemadzadeh said she felt ignored by the party\n\nAsked on Sunday whether it was appropriate to promote Mr Hopkins, Mr Corbyn said he could not \"discuss hindsight\" but he stood by his decision at the time.\n\n\"He had been reprimanded, the case had been closed... I thought it was reasonable to appoint him, albeit for a very short time, to shadow cabinet... All I can say is I took a decision based on what I knew at the time and he made a good contribution to the shadow cabinet during the short time he was there.\"\n\nThe whole matter must now be \"investigated and resolved,\" Mr Corbyn insisted.\n\n\"Now the case has been reopened and it will be looked at again. He has been suspended from party membership, which is the decision I took immediately I heard about the later revelations.\"\n\nMs Etemadzadeh has said she believed the party leadership had basically \"ignored\" her concerns and, in promoting Mr Hopkins, had effectively condoned his alleged behaviour - leaving her feeling disillusioned.\n\nCategorically denying any claims of harassment, Mr Hopkins said he had only \"put an arm around\" Ms Etemadzadeh at their first meeting and did not rub any part of his body against hers.\n\nThe activist, he maintained, had given no indication at the time she was in any way upset.\n\nThe Luton North MP, who has been in Parliament since 1997, said he did not recall subsequently asking her about her personal life, but said he did send a text message saying she was \"charming and sweet-natured\".", "A mother whose baby son died after developing rickets has expressed her shock at the diagnosis.\n\nBeverley Thahane had taken her child Noah to the GP and hospital on numerous occasions because he was ill, but he was not diagnosed until just before his death in January 2017.\n\nRickets, which affects bone development and in some cases the heart and brain, was thought to be largely eradicated.\n\nBut a new two-year study has found at least 50 children a year are getting the disease.\n\nSee the full story on Inside Out West Midlands on Monday 6 November at 19:30 GMT on BBC One and on iPlayer afterwards", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola praised his side's \"amazing\" run of form after they outclassed Arsenal to open up an eight-point lead at the top of the Premier League.\n\nCity have won nine consecutive league matches, a club record for a single season, have progressed to the knockout stage of the Champions League and are through to the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup.\n\n\"We cannot deny the last two months have been amazing,\" Guardiola said. \"We knew how important this game was and we prepared well. The players gave an amazing performance.\"\n\nKevin de Bruyne's driven finish and a Sergio Aguero penalty put City in command and, even though substitute Alexandre Lacazette pulled one back for Arsenal, Gabriel Jesus sealed victory for the home side from close range.\n\nArsenal were aggrieved at the penalty awarded for Nacho Monreal's challenge on Raheem Sterling and both Jesus and David Silva appeared to be offside for the third goal, but the visitors did not deserve to take anything from the game.\n\n\"It is unfortunate that the game finished the way it finished,\" Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said. \"You can accept it if City win in a normal way, but this is unacceptable.\"\n\nStill, the Gunners would have been beaten by more had it not been for the saves of goalkeeper Petr Cech and the wastefulness of the hosts.\n\nCity go into the two-week international break with an extended advantage over second-placed Manchester United, who were beaten 1-0 at Chelsea.\n\nThe eight-point gap between the top two is the largest after 11 games in the Premier League era.\n\nArsenal slip to sixth, 12 points behind City, and face a battle to regain a place in the Champions League.\n• None Re-live Manchester City's victory over Arsenal and Manchester United's defeat by Chelsea\n\nCity have now won 15 consecutive matches in all competitions, including an EFL Cup victory over Wolverhampton Wanderers on penalties.\n\nTheir 11-game haul of 31 points and +31 goal difference is a Premier League record, built on some breathtaking attacking play. This win was no different, even if they were hampered by their lack of ruthlessness in front of goal.\n\nCity were particularly dangerous on the counter-attack, their pace, movement and precision passing a constant threat. Just behind the front three of Aguero, Sterling and Leroy Sane, De Bruyne was the orchestrator.\n\nAguero and Sterling could have both scored before De Bruyne broke the deadlock, the Belgian playing a one-two with Fernandinho and angling the ball inside the far post via Cech's fingertips.\n\nCity could have been further ahead by the break, a Silva ball across goal should have been finished, while Sterling was unable to feed Sane when Arsenal were outnumbered at the back.\n\nOnly when Aguero converted a penalty off the post, early in the second half, was the result beyond doubt.\n\nThe visitors complained that Monreal's tangle with Sterling should not have penalised, but the Arsenal defender hauled down the England forward without winning the ball.\n\nSome sloppiness crept into City's play - home keeper Ederson almost dropped Alex Iwobi's long-range shot into his own net and they were carved open for Lacazette's goal.\n\nBut substitute Jesus' tap-in, fed by Silva from the right when both men could have been flagged offside, was no more than Guardiola's side deserved.\n\nIt was to Arsenal's credit that they did not capitulate - as they have done so often in the past - but this was a stark reminder of how far they lag behind the Premier League's top clubs.\n\nIn away league matches against the rest of the 'big six' since the start of the 2014-15 season, Wenger's side have won only once (a 2-0 win at City in January 2015), losing 10 and drawing seven.\n\nThough they started brightly, the Gunners were soon pushed back by wave after wave of City attacks, a central defensive trio that included Francis Coquelin continually stretched.\n\nGoing forward, they lacked the incision and creativity of their opponents. Alexis Sanchez, pursued by City in the summer, was tireless in his efforts as a lone striker, but an isolated figure.\n\nSanchez was preferred up front to Lacazatte, the £46.5m pre-season arrival, and it was only when the France striker was introduced that Arsenal looked like taking anything from the game.\n\nThe visitors came down the inside-right channel, good work from Iwobi and Aaron Ramsey fed Lacazette, whose shot went through the legs of Ederson.\n\nEven then, though, the prospect of Arsenal earning a point seemed unlikely and they needed Cech to deny Jesus and De Bruyne before the third City goal made the scoreline a fair reflection of the game.\n\n'It will be difficult to stop City' - what they said\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola: \"The only regret is the chances in the first half that we did not take, or when we didn't make the right pass. My wish is that the players come back healthy from the international break.\n\n\"We deserved to win it. We were so, so tired after the Champions League game and against Arsenal it is never won because they are able to make changes.\n\n\"We have 12 more points than Arsenal and Liverpool, eight more than Tottenham. That is a lot in November.\"\n\nArsenal manager Arsene Wenger: \"Can anyone stop them? With the way they have started and the quality they have it will be difficult, but you never know. If on top of that they have decisions like they have had today, they will be unstoppable.\n\n\"Sanchez did very well. He was up front on his own in the first half but did not have enough support. Overall, I think he has done everything. He is focused and wants to win. He put in a good performance.\n\n\"[Per] Mertesacker came in sick yesterday morning. [Fellow defender Rob] Holding had a thigh strain and [Mathieu] Debuchy has just come back from a long-term absence. I don't see that big problem for Coquelin to play in the middle of the two defenders or as the defensive midfielder.\"\n• None Manchester City's 31 points and a +31 goal difference is the best start to a Premier League season after 11 games.\n• None Arsenal have registered just one win away to the 'big six' in the Premier League since the start of 2014-15, drawing seven and losing 10.\n• None Manchester City's haul of 52 goals is a record for a Premier League club after 17 games in all competitions (since 1992-93).\n• None City midfielder Fernandinho has been directly involved in four goals in his last four Premier League appearances (two goals, two assists), as many as in his previous 64.\n• None Since the start of last season, Arsenal have conceded 12 goals from the penalty spot, more than any other Premier League side.\n• None City forward Sergio Aguero has had a hand in 10 goals in his last five Premier League games (seven goals, three assists).\n• None Petr Cech has saved none of the 13 penalties he has faced with Arsenal in all competitions.\n• None City forward Gabriel Jesus' rate of a goal every 89.6 minutes in the Premier League is the best record of any player to score more than 10 goals in the competition.\n\nManchester City travel to Leicester on Saturday, 18 November, following the international break (15:00 GMT). Earlier that day, Arsenal host biggest rivals Tottenham in the north London derby (12:30).\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Fabian Delph (Manchester City) because of an injury.\n• None Offside, Manchester City. Ederson tries a through ball, but Gabriel Jesus is caught offside.\n• None David Silva (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nTottenham midfielder Dele Alli has been ruled out of England's friendly matches against Germany and Brazil in November with a hamstring injury.\n\nAlli, 21, missed Sunday's Premier League victory over Crystal Palace with the injury, which boss Mauricio Pochettino described as \"minor\".\n\nThe national team have not announced a replacement in the squad.\n\nAlli's England and Spurs team-mates Harry Winks and Harry Kane required treatment during their side's 1-0 win.\n\nPochettino said 21-year-old midfielder Winks, who went off at half-time at Wembley, had twisted his ankle.\n\n\"It's a bit painful now. We must assess him with the national team medical staff,\" he said.\n\n\"He's so excited to make the national team. It's up to our medical staff and the national team medical staff to make a decision.\"\n\nStriker Kane, 24, received treatment on his knee in the first half and was substituted on 77 minutes for \"protection\" according to the Spurs boss.\n\n\"It's better to avoid risk. I think he's OK and I'm sure he's going to make the national team,\" Pochettino added.\n\nEngland host Germany at Wembley on Friday, 10 November and play Brazil at the same venue the following Tuesday.\n\nTottenham's next game after the international break is the north London derby at Arsenal on Saturday, 18 November (kick-off 12:30 GMT).\n\n\"Dele felt his tendon after the Manchester United game and played 90 minutes against Real Madrid,\" Pochettino said.\n\n\"It's a very small thing. We think he can make Arsenal.\"\n\nAlli has scored seven goals in 16 appearances for Spurs this season, including four in his last four games, and has two goals in 22 games for England since making his debut in 2015.", "The BBC has extended its contract with the Met Office to supply weather information after its replacement provider failed to be ready in time.\n\nMeteogroup was expected to take over providing meteorological data for TV, radio and online in spring 2017.\n\nBut delays mean the Met Office's contract will now end in March 2018.\n\nIn August 2015, the BBC announced it was changing weather forecasting provider to \"secure the best value for money for licence fee payers\".\n\nAt the time, it said the contract change would save the corporation \"millions of pounds\".\n\nThe previous deal with the Met Office, which has provided the data used for BBC forecasts since the corporation's first radio weather bulletin in 1922, ended on 30 September 2017.\n\nA Met Office spokeswoman said: \"As the UK's national weather service we will always ensure the UK public have the weather information they need so they can make informed decisions.\n\n\"We are continuing to provide the BBC with their weather services, having signed a contract out to March 2018.\"\n\nWhen Meteogroup takes over the service, the BBC will continue to show all national severe weather warnings as agreed with the Exeter-based Met Office.\n\nUnder the terms of the deal, the BBC will also be supported by the UK's national meteorological service at times of severe weather.\n\nA BBC spokesman told the Guardian: \"As is well known, we're changing our weather services provider and it's only right we take the time to make sure the new and improved service and graphics provide audiences with the best possible service.\n\n\"BBC Weather will continue to give people reliable forecasts on television, radio, online and our app.\"", "Sutherland Springs: What we know so far\n\nAt least 26 people were killed and 20 injured when a gunman opened fire at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, on Sunday morning. It is the worst mass shooting in the state's history. Children are reported among the victims. The suspect, described as a white male, wore a bulletproof vest and black combat gear. Police say that after leaving the church he was shot at by a local resident and dropped his assault rifle and fled the scene. He was later found dead in his vehicle. Police have not confirmed the suspect's identity but US media have named him as Devin P Kelley, 26. The motive is still not clear.", "Beer duty should be cut by a penny in this month's Budget to help save pubs from closing, the British Beer and Pub Association (BPA) has said.\n\nIt comes as sales of beer in the UK's pubs, bars and restaurants have fallen by the biggest margin for five years.\n\nThe BPA said 35 million fewer pints of beer were sold in British pubs, bars and restaurants in the three months to September, compared with a year ago.\n\nIn March, beer duty increased by 2p a pint, the first rise in five years.\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond will deliver his next Budget on Wednesday 22 November.\n\nThe BPA warned that pubs will continue to close if the trend continues, blaming \"sky high\" business rates - particularly in London and the South East, where prices are higher still.\n\nChief executive Brigid Simmonds said: \"When the government was cutting or freezing beer duty from 2013-15, sales of British beer stabilised, after years of steep decline.\n\n\"Beer has had a 39% tax rise in the past decade. With tax rates 14 times higher than in Germany, these levels are unsustainable.\"\n\nWhile the number of breweries in Britain is up almost two-thirds in the past five years, the number of pubs continues to fall and is down 17% since 1996.\n\nMany are preferring to drink at home, with sales in supermarkets having overtaken those in pubs.\n\nThe average price of a pint in the UK is now £3.60 - up by 13p on 2016 - according to the Good Pub Guide.\n\n\"We need fair taxes for British beer, so that brewers and pub operators can invest in thriving pubs, and take advantage of new opportunities to export more beer around the world as we leave the EU,\" Mr Simmonds added.", "Wilbur Ross has played a key part in Donald Trump's business and political careers\n\nA top member of Donald Trump's administration has business links with Russian allies of President Vladimir Putin who are under US sanctions, the Paradise Papers have revealed.\n\nCommerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has an interest in Navigator Holdings, which earns millions a year transporting gas for Russian energy firm Sibur.\n\nTwo major Sibur shareholders are under some form of US sanctions.\n\nA commerce department spokesman did not dispute the revelations.\n\n\"Secretary Ross recuses himself from any matters focused on transoceanic shipping vessels,\" the spokesman told BBC Panorama, adding that the secretary \"works closely with Commerce Department ethics officials to ensure the highest ethical standards\".\n\nAnother Sibur shareholder is President Putin's son in law, Kirill Shamalov.\n\nHe holds a 3.9% stake in the firm. Gennady Timchenko, who has been individually sanctioned by the United States, has at least 12 companies connected to him, and Leonid Mikhelson, whose main company, Novatek, is also sanctioned, are major shareholders.\n\nSibur itself and Mr Shamalov are not under sanctions, although Mr Shamalov's father, Nikolai, is.\n\nThe commerce department spokesman said Mr Ross had never met the three Russian shareholders.\n\nThe US imposed some sanctions after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014. Others were imposed last year for alleged interference in the US presidential election.\n\nThe revelations will again raise questions about the Russian connections of Donald Trump's team. His presidency has been dogged by allegations that Russians colluded to try to influence the outcome of the election. He has called the allegations \"fake news\". A special counsel is investigating the matter.\n\nWilbur Ross and Donald Trump have known each other for more than a quarter of a century. Mr Ross played a key part in a prepackaged bankruptcy deal - deal agreed between a company and its creditors - for Mr Trump's Atlantic City casino, the Taj Mahal, in the 1990s.\n\nTrump biographer David Cay Johnston told BBC Panorama: \"If it hadn't been for Wilbur Ross, Donald Trump would not be in the White House.\n\nWL Ross & Co, which was founded by Wilbur Ross, first invested in Navigator Holdings in 2011.\n\nAn investigation has revealed details of how Mr Ross retains a financial interest in Navigator Holdings via a number of companies in the Cayman Islands.\n\nSome of these Cayman companies were disclosed by Mr Ross when he became commerce secretary, but under the disclosure rules he did not have to declare his interest in Navigator Holdings.\n\nIts annual report in 2016 showed 31.5% was still held by entities in which Mr Ross has a stake, although the value of Mr Ross's personal holding remains unclear.\n\nDonald Trump at the Taj Mahal casino in 1990\n\nBack in 1990, after a high-profile financial battle, Donald Trump opened his third casino in Atlantic City - the Taj Mahal, dubbed the \"eighth wonder of the world\".\n\nIt didn't go well. Mr Trump financed it with $675m raised through junk bonds at an interest rate of 14%. He struggled to make the payments.\n\nStep in Wilbur Ross. Then at Rothschild Inc, he was representing the angry bondholders but liked Donald Trump's style.\n\nTrump biographer David Cay Johnston said: \"Wilbur Ross was a key negotiator in Donald Trump not having to go through bankruptcy and not being swept into the dustbin of history because he saw the value in the Trump name.\"\n\nMr Ross said at this year's Concordia Annual Summit: \"When you meet people who are under tremendous financial pressure... you really get to see what they are made of, and he was made of much stronger stuff than a lot of owners of troubled businesses.\"\n\nOne prepackaged bankruptcy later and The Donald was on his way out of debt and heading up the Forbes rich list.\n\nWilbur Ross became a board member of Navigator in 2012 but the commerce department said he was not on the board when Navigator signed its charter deal with Sibur that year.\n\nBut Mr Ross was still a board member during the period from March to November 2014, when the US was sanctioning Russians over the annexation of Crimea, including Mr Timchenko and Mr Mikhelson's company, Novatek.\n\nDuring that period Navigator continued to increase its business with Sibur. The energy firm accounted for 9.1% of Navigator's total revenues in 2015, compared with 5.3% in 2014, Navigator's own filings show.\n\nMr Ross left Navigator's board in November 2014 but his seat was taken by Ross group partner Wendy Teramoto, who served on it until 2017.\n\nFigures from 2016 showed Sibur was still among Navigator's top five clients, predominantly exporting Russian gas to Europe and potentially providing significant income to sanctioned Putin allies.\n\nThis year, Navigator doubled the fleet it is using on Sibur exports to four. Sibur has provided Navigator with $68m (£49m) in revenue since 2014.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere is no suggestion Mr Ross has violated any rules.\n\nBut Daniel Fried, who oversaw the introduction of US sanctions against Russia under President Barack Obama, told Panorama that it would be a mistake for any American official to do business with Sibur.\n\n\"I would advise any client who came to me to stay well away from Sibur or anybody else who has been sanctioned or has a relationship with sanctioned individuals... on the grounds, at least, of reputational risk.\"\n\nBut Mr Ross appears to have maintained a close relationship with the shipping company.\n\nOn the night that he was nominated as commerce secretary by President Trump, Mr Ross went to a restaurant in New York where he was congratulated on his promotion by the senior management of Navigator Holdings, Bloomberg reported.\n\nMr Ross reportedly told the CEO of Navigator: \"Your interest is aligned to mine. The US economy will grow, and Navigator will be a beneficiary.\"\n\nAnother key Navigator customer has been PDVSA, the Venezuelan state oil company. It was targeted by US sanctions this year.\n\nThe commerce department said Mr Ross had \"been generally supportive of the Administration's sanctions of Russian and other entities\".\n\nThe papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nThe 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Panorama has led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries. The BBC does not know the identity of the source.\n\nParadise Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #ParadisePapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"Paradise Papers\"\n\nWatch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe identity of a woman whose first name was emblazoned in huge letters in a farmer's field has been revealed.\n\nA frenzy was sparked on social media, spawning the hashtag #WhoIsSue, after the letters \"SUE x\" were spotted by a police pilot flying over Oxfordshire.\n\nIt turns out that farmer Murray Graham created the message for his wife as a way of apologising for being \"grumpy\".\n\nHis son George Graham said: \"I suppose Dad wanted to express his love in the most creative way he could.\"\n\nSue Graham's husband Murray created the message to make up for his grumpiness\n\nMr Graham's handiwork was spotted on Thursday by a helicopter pilot with the National Police Air Service (NPAS) flying just south of Tetsworth, near Thame.\n\nA photo of the message then posted on the NPAS Benson Twitter page was shared more than 650 times.\n\nThe Twitterati explored various theories, ranging from aliens accused of making crop circles wanting to \"sue\" for defamation to a PR stunt by the Field Museum, which houses a T-Rex skeleton called SUE.\n\nSomeone even found a satellite image of the message.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Andy Ford This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 on Friday evening the crop conundrum was solved: it was a romantic gesture to appease a disgruntled farmer's wife.\n\nMr Graham told BBC Radio Oxford that he used his GPS-operated tractor to spray the crops in the shape of his wife's name.\n\nHe said he wanted to prove \"I'm not quite as grumpy and old as perhaps I make out occasionally.\"\n\nThe farmer added: \"As ever, everything has its ups and downs, so I thought I'd try and make a gesture at some point, and that was the one I chose.\"\n\nHe had intended for his son George, a pilot, to take a photo and show it to his wife as an apology, but the passing police helicopter beat him to it.\n\nGeorge Graham revealed his father had been \"in the doghouse\" after not \"pulling his weight\" at home.\n\nHe added: \"I don't know if what he's done is sufficient appeasement for Mum, but it certainly caused a stir on social media.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Only around half of fixed speed cameras on British roads are switched on, according to new data.\n\nFigures released by 36 police forces in the UK show that of a total 2,838 cameras, just 1,486 - or 52% - are active and catching law-breakers.\n\nSome forces have turned all their cameras off, according to information obtained by the Press Association (PA).\n\nNorthamptonshire police said its were shut off in 2011, but they left the structures in place to deter speeding.\n\nPA sent a freedom of information to all 45 police forces in the UK and their speed camera partnership, of which 36 responded with details of their fixed speed cameras. It did not include data on the mobile devices forces use to catch offenders.\n\nStaffordshire police said it has 272 cameras across its region but that only 14 are active. While Derbyshire said just 10 of its 112 cameras were active.\n\nIn common with Northamptonshire, Cleveland, Durham and North Yorkshire said that none of their fixed cameras were switched on.\n\nA spokeswoman for the National Police Chiefs' Council said the decision to use cameras was \"an operational matter\", adding that \"all forces have individual responsibility for their use of speed cameras\".\n\nEdmund King, president of the AA, said: \"Many of the empty yellow cases are due to cuts in road safety grants and the fact that digital cameras, although more effective, are very expensive.\"\n\nHe added: \"It has long been the case that cameras were moved between sites, depending on need. When it comes to the chances of being caught on camera, it is a postcode lottery. All cameras in City of London and Suffolk are working whereas only 5% are active in Staffordshire.\"\n\n\"However, drivers should remember that lack of a yellow fixed camera doesn't mean they are immune from mobile hidden cameras. Best advice is stick to the limits rather than gambling on the yellow boxes.\"\n\nClaire Armstrong, co-founder of the lobby group Safe Speed, which campaigns for more traffic police officers, said that fixed speed cameras \"are nothing to do with road safety\".\n\nShe claimed that \"average cameras have a 5% negative effect on road safety, Gatso [yellow box cameras] have a 13% negative effect and a policeman on the side of the road will have a 27% benefit, so why are we using policies that are not effective and that we know have a negative effect on road safety?\".\n\nHowever, Neil Greig, director of policy and research for the charity IAM Road Smart, said: \"There's clear evidence at locations where cameras are located, they are there for road safety reasons.\n\n\"They don't just appear out of nowhere. They have to go through a process involving looking at the road accident record at that location.\n\n\"Each of these locations is a site that has got some kind of accident problem and that's why we want to be sure that there's protection there all the time for the people who live around those sites.\"", "Police in the US state of Texas say several people have been shot by a gunman at a church.\n\nThe attack happened at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs in Wilson County.\n\nLocal ABC affiliate KSAT 12 reported the gunman entered the church at around 11:30 local time and began shooting.\n\nPolice told the outlet there were \"multiple victims\" and the gunman had been killed in the aftermath.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Paradise Papers: Who is in control of Everton?\n\nQuestions have been raised in the leaked Paradise Papers about who controls Everton FC and whether Premier League rules have been broken.\n\nFarhad Moshiri sold his Arsenal stake in 2016 to buy nearly 50% of Everton.\n\nBut the leaks suggest his original Arsenal stake was funded by a \"gift\" from oligarch Alisher Usmanov, who owns 30.4% of Arsenal, raising the question of whether his money is now in Everton.\n\nLawyers acting for him in the Everton deal said any allegation Premier League rules had been violated were wholly false.\n\nThey say Mr Moshiri is independently wealthy and funded the football investments himself.\n\nMr Usmanov's legal representatives said there were errors in the allegations and that the investigation was a gross intrusion into their client's privacy.\n\nPremier League rules state an individual who owns a stake of 10% or more in one club cannot hold a single share in another, to avoid any conflict of interest, including in games between the clubs and in transfers.\n\nOfficially Mr Usmanov and Mr Moshiri, the oligarch's former accountant, bought a 14.58% stake in Arsenal together in 2007 through an offshore company called Red and White Holdings.\n\nBut the documents show that all the funds for the purchase of the Arsenal shares came from a firm called Epion Holdings, a company wholly owned by Mr Usmanov, who is currently said to be worth about $15.8bn (£12bn).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOne document reads: \"Dividend from Gallagher Holdings to Alisher Usmanov who will then gift the monies to Moshiri who will in turn invest in the company. Funding for Red and White has come from Epion Holdings Limited\".\n\nGallagher Holdings is also an Usmanov company.\n\nLawyers acting for Mr Moshiri originally denied that the money had come from Epion.\n\nThey later admitted the initial funding had come from Epion, but said Mr Moshiri had subsequently paid Mr Usmanov back.\n\nRed and White Holdings continued to raise its stake in Arsenal, reaching 30.4%.\n\nIn February 2016, Mr Moshiri sold his half of the Arsenal shares to the Russian oligarch.\n\nA document in the Paradise Papers from Appleby, the firm overseeing due diligence on the deal, confirms the sale was used to raise funds to buy a 49.9% stake in Everton. The reported price was £87.5m.\n\nA Russian media company with close links to Mr Usmanov initially reported the Everton deal as \"Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov has become the new owner of Everton\". The report was soon taken down but suspicions were aroused.\n\nThe suspicions rose further this January when it was announced Everton's training ground, Finch Farm, was now being sponsored by Mr Usmanov's company, USM Holdings. The training ground has been renamed USM Finch Farm.\n\nWhen BBC Panorama approached Mr Moshiri and asked him whether Mr Usmanov was in control of Everton, he asked: \"Are you crazy? Have you seen a psychiatrist?\"\n\nHe said: \"If it is a loan, you owe the money back to him. If it is a gift, it is yours. It is neither of them because I paid for it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ex-FA chairman Greg Dyke on how the Premier League may respond\n\nMr Moshiri later said that all the documents that mentioned a gift were \"a mistake\".\n\nMr Moshiri's legal representatives said the Premier League had carried out checks, including on its funding, and was satisfied that he had complied with its Owners' and Directors' Test.\n\nThey also said that Mr Moshiri, who is said by Forbes magazine to be worth $2.4bn, had subsequently provided considerably more finance to Everton.\n\nFormer FA chairman Greg Dyke told Panorama that a gift \"sounds unusual\", adding: \"If these papers say what you say they say, I feel sure that the Premier League will want to do their own investigations.\"\n\nAnd shadow culture minister Tom Watson has said he will be writing to the Premier League to urge them to investigate.\n\nThe outcome of any investigation would depend on what the two men did and what the clubs knew.\n\nWhen asked about the matter, the Premier League said it \"would not disclose confidential information about clubs or individuals\".\n\nThe Everton deal was administered by Isle of Man company Bridgewaters Limited.\n\nOther documents in the Paradise Papers suggest that Bridgewaters was secretly taken over by Mr Usmanov in 2011. This is strongly denied by Bridgewaters and Mr Usmanov.\n\nBlue Heaven Holdings, the company that owns Everton, has its registered office at Bridgewaters and its two directors are an employee of Bridgewaters and an employee of Mr Usmanov's company, USM Holdings.\n\nLawyers for Mr Usmanov said there were \"errors of fact and interpretation\" in the allegations but gave no further details.\n\nThey said: \"Our client is not obliged at all to assist you in your enquiries. It is not for him to do your journalists' research which on its face appears to be biased.\"\n\nIn May, Mr Usmanov failed in a £1bn bid to buy out major Arsenal shareholder Stan Kroenke, a move that would have left him with about 97% of Arsenal shares.\n\nMr Usmanov is known to be frustrated at his inability to influence Arsenal and has no seat on the board.\n\nBoth clubs have had their problems on the pitch. Many Arsenal fans have questioned whether manager Arsene Wenger should continue given the recent lack of league titles, while Everton sacked boss Ronald Koeman after a poor start to the season.\n\nThe teams met at Goodison Park on 22 October, with Arsenal running out 5-2 winners.\n\nThe papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nThe 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Panorama has led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries. The BBC does not know the identity of the source.\n\nParadise Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #ParadisePapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"Paradise Papers\"\n\nWatch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "Representatives of US coal companies are due to present at this year's climate talks\n\nThe latest round of UN led climate talks have opened in Bonn with delegates from almost 200 countries in attendance.\n\nOver the next two weeks, negotiators hope to clarify the rulebook of the Paris climate agreement.\n\nIt is the first major meeting since President Trump announced plans to take the US out of the Paris pact last June.\n\nMany delegates are unhappy with White House plans to promote fossil fuels here as a \"solution\" to climate change.\n\nAn adviser to the president is expected to take part in a pro-coal presentation in the second week of this conference, which is officially known as COP23,\n\nSeparately, a group of governors will say that the US is still committed to climate action despite Mr Trump's rejection of the Paris agreement.\n\nUnder the rules, the US cannot leave the agreement until 2020 so they have sent a team of negotiators to this meeting.\n\nPresident Trump declared in June that the US would withdraw from the \"unfair\" Paris pact\n\nThe official US delegation, mainly career civil servants, may well be overshadowed, though, by other groups with very different visions for how the US should combat climate change.\n\nAccording to reports, members of the Trump administration will lend their support to an event to promote fossil fuels and nuclear power as solutions to climate change.\n\nSpeakers from coal giant Peabody Energy, among others, will make a presentation to highlight the role that coal and other fuels can play in curbing the impacts of rising temperatures.\n\nA White House spokesman said in a statement that the discussion aimed to build on the administration's efforts to promote fossil fuels at the G20 meeting this year.\n\n\"It is undeniable that fossil fuels will be used for the foreseeable future, and it is in everyone's interest that they be efficient and clean,\" the spokesman said.\n\nThe prospect of fossil fuel industries making their case at this meeting has angered some who will be attending.\n\n\"Fossil fuels having any role in tackling climate change is beyond absurd. It is dangerous,\" said Andrew Norton, director of the International Institute for Environment and Development.\n\n\"These talks are no place for pushing the fossil fuel agenda. The US needs to come back to the table and help with the rapid cuts in emissions that the situation demands.\"\n\nLong-time talks participant Alden Meyer from the Union of Concerned Scientists added: \"It's not a credible solution, but that doesn't seem to bother them.\n\n\"They might even welcome some of the reaction to show to their base that they are fighting for America's interest and not this globalist malarkey.\"\n\nEnvironmentalists point to the contradiction of the Trump administration championing fossil fuels while an authoritative National Climate Assessment report, released on the eve of COP23, is clear that CO2 from these fuels is the key cause of climate change.\n\nThe report says: \"It is extremely likely that human activities, especially emissions of greenhouse gases, are the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century. For the warming over the last century, there is no convincing alternative explanation supported by the extent of the observational evidence.\"\n\nOther groups opposed to the Trump perspective will also be paying for a large pavilion at the talks.\n\nFiji, which is chairing this year's talks, has experienced the impacts of extreme weather\n\nDelegations of US governors, mayors and business people, under the We Are Still In coalition umbrella, will be in Bonn to tell negotiators that below the Federal level, much of America still supports the Paris agreement.\n\nThe US Climate Alliance, which represents 14 states and one territory, says that it speaks for around 36% of the US population and if it were a nation state would be the third biggest economy in the world.\n\nOne of the governors who will be on the ground in Bonn is Washington's Jay Inslee.\n\n\"We need to make sure that the world maintains confidence in our ability to move forward,\" he told reporters.\n\n\"So far, not one single nation state, city or county, municipality or school district have followed Donald Trump into the ranks of surrendering to climate change since he pulled out of Paris - his decision has energised our efforts.\"\n\nThis determination to remain part of Paris is also being reflected at city level in many parts of the US.\n\n\"Whatever 'America first' is supposed to mean, it absolutely does not mean America alone,\" said Mayor Lionel Johnson from the city of St Gabriel in Louisiana.\n\n\"My fellow mayors and I stand united and we stand with the international community to pursue solutions to the dramatic climate challenges we are facing together. Count us in!\"\n\nApart from the confusion over who is speaking for the US, the talks will focus on establishing rules and guidelines for the Paris pact. These need to be agreed by the end of 2018.\n\nThe talks are being chaired by Fiji, which is the first time a small island developing state has taken this role. As such, questions of climate impacts are likely to be in the spotlight, including the tricky question of loss and damage.\n\nThis is a potential area of significant disagreement as the richer countries are strongly opposed to any implied legal liability for the damages caused by climate related extreme weather events.\n\nAround 20,000 delegates and visitors will attend the meeting over two weeks.\n\nFollow Matt on Twitter and on Facebook", "The trial heard he searched the internet for details of security at a Justin Bieber concert\n\nA teenager from south Wales has been found guilty of plotting a terror attack in Cardiff.\n\nThe boy, from Rhondda Cynon Taff, who cannot be named, was arrested on the day of a Justin Bieber concert at the Principality Stadium on 30 June.\n\nThe 17-year-old has been found guilty of five terror-related charges at Birmingham Crown Court.\n\nThe trial heard he was found with a \"martyrdom letter\" when arrested, which revealed details of his planned attack.\n\nThe court heard the A-level student, who is white and British, had set up an Instagram account encouraging jihad and supporting al-Qaeda. Police found the password for the account was \"truck attack\".\n\nOne post read: \"May Allah bring terrorism to Cardiff on 30th June.\"\n\nA claw hammer and a gutting knife were found in the boy's school rucksack\n\nPolice also found he had conducted numerous online searches into how to carry out a vehicle ramming attack and how to stab and kill.\n\nOther targets he researched included Cardiff Castle, the New Theatre, the Capitol shopping centre, the Central Library and Bridgend's McArthur Glen shopping outlet.\n\nHis internet history included searches for \"Isis beheading video\", \"how to create a terror attack\" and \"what does getting shot feel like\".\n\nThe court heard he also researched the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby and information on how to steal a car. His mobile phone contained images of the truck attacks in Nice and Berlin.\n\nWhen arrested, the boy was found with a gutting knife and a hammer in his school rucksack, and the \"martyrdom letter\" said he was a \"soldier of the Islamic state\" and \"more attacks will follow\".\n\nHe had also told police in an interview he had been talking to someone called \"Al Baghdadi\" online, who had told the boy he would go to hell as he did not believe in Islam.\n\nBut his defence barrister Delroy Henry argued he was not planning an attack but had a \"stupid interest in the gory\".\n\nThe boy told the jury he wanted to see how easy it was to research terror-related topics online.\n\nThe boy was found guilty of one charge of engaging in the preparation of a terrorist act, two charges of encouraging terrorism, and a further two charges of possessing terrorist information.\n\nSentencing will take place on 10 January.\n\nThe court heard the teenager posted a picture of Cardiff Castle online\n\nSue Hemming, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said: \"This teenager's behaviour over many months leaves no doubt that he intended to kill and maim as many people as possible in an attack reminiscent of the incident on Westminster Bridge.\n\n\"He was also posting extremist content online that could have encouraged others to commit terrorist acts and downloading instructions on how to carry out 'lone wolf' attacks.\n\n\"He will now rightly face the prospect of a substantial prison sentence.\"\n\nDet Supt Lee Porter, of Wales Extremism Counter Terrorism Unit, said the investigation \"prevented further offences being committed\" and warned the public to be \"vigilant\".\n\nHe added: \"This case has highlighted the ongoing concerns with young people gaining access to extremist material on the internet and how quickly that can lead to radicalisation.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Armed police responded to the incident as if it was terror-related\n\nTwo men questioned over an altercation that sparked panic in London's Oxford Street on Friday have been released without charge, police have said.\n\nThe pair - aged 21 and 40 - were quizzed on Saturday after attending a police station voluntarily.\n\nA number of people were injured, with nine hospitalised, after people fled the station amid reports of shooting.\n\nArmed police were sent to the scene and initially treated the incident as potentially terror-related.\n\nHowever, officers said they had found no evidence that any gunshots were fired.\n\nPolice later said the incident - which resulted in the temporary closure of two Tube stations - may have been caused by an altercation between two men on a Central Line platform.\n\nThey released CCTV images of two men they wanted to speak to in connection with the incident.\n\nConfirming that two men had now been released, a spokeswoman for British Transport Police said: \"There are no criminal proceedings against them.\n\n\"They have not been arrested or charged.\"\n\nOfficers are still going through CCTV footage and speaking to witnesses, the force said.\n\nNo further suspects are being sought.\n\nOxford Circus - where Oxford Street and Regent Street meet - was cordoned off\n\nOxford Circus - where Oxford Street and Regent Street meet - was cordoned off during the incident, while shops and businesses were placed in lockdown.\n\nShoppers were barricaded inside stores in Oxford Street, as armed police were deployed.\n\nHowever, within 90 minutes the officers had been stood down.\n\nParamedics said people were injured in the rush to flee the station, described by eyewitnesses as a \"stampede\".", "Meghan Markle and Prince Harry will marry next year and will live in London\n\nDemocratic Unionist Party (DUP) leader Arlene Foster has apologised for congratulating the wrong prince after Prince Harry announced his engagement.\n\nThe prince said on Monday that he would marry his US actress fiancee Meghan Markle next spring.\n\nBut in a post on Mrs Foster's Twitter account, she mistakenly sent her best wishes to his already-married brother.\n\n\"Congratulations to HRH Prince William on his engagement to Megan (sic) Markle,\" she posted.\n\nThe tweet was quickly deleted, with Mrs Foster correcting her error.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\nShe later tweeted her apologies to the princes, joking that the mistake had ended her \"chance of an invite\".\n\nShe said the tweet had been sent by a member of her staff, who had been \"guilty of tweeting too fast\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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.", "Indonesia has warned that the active volcano on the tourist island of Bali is entering a \"critical phase\", amid fears of an imminent eruption.\n\nMore than 75,000 people have been evacuated from their homes.\n\nMount Agung last erupted in 1963, and people had just minutes to flee.\n\nThe BBC found survivors of that eruption at a shelter, reliving their past experience.", "A scientist at the Francis Crick Institute one of the UK's leading research centres\n\nThe government has said two deals to invest in the UK's biotech industry illustrate confidence in its industrial strategy, which it published on Monday.\n\nMSD, known as Merck in North America, will support a new research centre in London creating around 950 new posts.\n\nGermany's Qiagen will expand its investment in a genomics and diagnostics campus in Manchester.\n\nBusiness Secretary Greg Clark said it represented \"a huge vote of confidence\" in the government's approach.\n\n\"People don't make the investments of this scale that are for the long term if they don't have the confidence that we are building in this country a very attractive base,\" he said.\n\nThe industrial strategy white paper outlines the government's plans to support more research and development, encourage firms to embrace new technology and boost the economy.\n\nThe industrial strategy comes just days after official forecasting body the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) announced an aggressive downgrade of its UK growth forecast.\n\nThe OBR concluded that a slowdown in the growth of productivity - or the value that each worker produces - since the financial crisis will persist for several more years.\n\nMSD's managing director in the UK and Ireland, Louise Houson, linked the company's investment to the government's approach to the economy: \"This investment presents a major opportunity for us to work in collaboration with the UK government to build on the forward thinking and ambitious industrial strategy white paper being published.\"\n\nQiagen expects to sign a deal early next year to expand its presence in Manchester where it works on DNA-based diagnostics for personalised healthcare. The firm said it would add to its current staff of 270.\n\nThe government said the investment had the potential to create 800 skilled job overall in the Manchester life sciences hub at Qiagen and other firms.\n\nThe chief executive of Qiagen, Peer Schatz, said the involvement of the University of Manchester, the NHS Trust and the UK government were \"essential\" to the partnership they are investing in.\n\nMr Clark said the UK's decision to leave the EU meant the strategy was \"even more important\" and he said political commitments to limit immigration would not hamper the development of research related industries. He said the government would \"make it easier for more scientists to come and work in the UK\".\n\nHere's the idiot's guide to how it's supposed to work.\n\nPick an industry that the UK is already good at and needs investment.\n\nChuck in a bit of government money, cluster the right institutions around it, commit to provide the skills base and give them somewhere to try their new stuff.\n\nThat could mean faster trials for drugs in the NHS or using public roads to test driverless cars.\n\nSome will see this as another example of government's dodgy track record in \"picking winners\" - the government insists it is backing excellence.\n\nOf course, all of these new initiatives are being born under the star sign of Brexit which makes them children of uncertainty.\n\nCarolyn Fairbairn, director-general of the Confederation of British Industry, welcomed the industrial strategy, saying it showed the government \"has its eye firmly on the horizon, not just the next few yards\".\n\nBut she added: \"Today's announcement must be the beginning of a strategic race, not a tactical sprint. And it needs to last. This is a time for consistency and determination, not perpetual change with the political winds.\"\n\nShe commended the creation of an independent council to monitor progress.\n\nHowever Rebecca Long-Bailey MP, Labour's shadow secretary for business, said the white paper contained \"re-announced policies and old spending commitments\", and failed to provide certainty.\n\n\"What detail there is concentrates on a few elite industries in which Britain already has an advantage, and will do nothing to help the millions of people who work in low productivity and low wage sectors such as retail, hospitality and social care, or those based outside the \"Golden Triangle\" made up by London, Oxford and Cambridge.\"\n\nThe government has already pledged to invest an additional £80bn in R&D over the next decade.\n\nThe white paper lists some of the government's previously announced pledges to improve productivity including technical education and training, investment in electric vehicle infrastructure and faster broadband.\n\nIt also outlined four global trends which it believes the UK needs to take advantage of.\n\nThe government describes these as \"grand challenges\" and is inviting business, academia and civil society to work with the government to tackle them.\n\n\"More decisions about our economic future will be in our own hands and it is vital that we take them,\" Mr Clark said.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland's Jonny Bairstow \"bumped heads\" with Australia's Cameron Bancroft in a bar because it is \"something he does with his rugby mates\", according to director of cricket Andrew Strauss.\n\nThe squad are effectively grounded after the incident in Perth in October - and Strauss said they are not \"using their intelligence in the right way\".\n\nBen Stokes was arrested on suspicion of actual bodily harm in September.\n\n\"Quite frankly, we need to sharpen up our act,\" Strauss told BBC Sport.\n\nAll-rounder Stokes, 26, is not part of England's Ashes tour as he awaits the result of a police investigation.\n\nAfter England's 10-wicket defeat by Australia in the first Test on Monday, Bairstow said the incident with Bancroft - which took place on the first night of the tour - was \"blown out of all proportion\".\n\nBancroft, 25, laughed off the incident, while he and Bairstow said there was \"no malice\" intended.\n• None It has been completely blown out of proportion - Bairstow\n\nWhy would Bairstow 'bump heads' with someone?\n\nStrauss said he had \"no idea\" why Bairstow, 28, would make such a gesture.\n\n\"It's something he does with his rugby mates,\" said former England captain Strauss.\n\n\"It was a jest, a joke. It's just a little bump of heads. It's not a headbutt. I don't think it's been reported accurately.\n\n\"When people mention a headbutt, there's a connotation around aggression, malicious behaviour, intent to hurt. It was anything but this.\n\n\"He was completely baffled, surprised and shocked that this was a massive issue.\"\n\nStrauss said Bairstow, who made nine and 42 at the Gabba, was \"embarrassed and shocked\".\n\n\"He's pretty contrite right now. He understands that it wasn't the most sensible thing for him to,\" Strauss said.\n\n\"As we've seen from the way Cameron Bancroft has reacted, there was no offence taken.\n\n\"It's a minor issue but it highlights the fact that minor issues can become major issues.\"\n\nThe Stokes incident took place outside a Bristol nightclub, while the Bairstow episode took place in a bar in Perth as Bancroft and his Western Australia team-mates celebrated victory over Tasmania in the Sheffield Shield, Australia's domestic competition.\n\nStrauss denied that there is a drinking culture within the England team, but said players must be \"smarter\" with the situations they place themselves in.\n\n\"What might have been acceptable in the old days is no longer acceptable,\" he said.\n\n\"They are adults - intelligent adults - and sometimes they are not using that intelligence in the right way.\n\n\"The last thing any of us want is to be in the news for the wrong reasons and I will be reminding the players of their obligations.\"\n\n'These guys are not thugs'\n\nMichael Vaughan, an Ashes-winning captain like Strauss, said the public perception of the England team has been damaged.\n\n\"They train as hard as any other England team I've seen,\" Vaughan told BBC Radio 5 live. \"They are professional at the right times.\n\n\"What surprised me is that, after what happened with Stokes, they arrived in Australia and were allowed to go straight out to a bar.\"\n\nStrauss said: \"These guys are not thugs. These are good, honest, hard-working cricketers who sacrifice a lot to play for England.\n\n\"The perception of the players and the reality of who I know them to be is different at the moment.\n\n\"Their job now is to ensure that people look at them for what they really are rather than what they are perceived to be.\"\n\nThe second Test of the five-match series - a day-night encounter at the Adelaide Oval - starts on Saturday at 04:00 GMT.\n• None Listen to the Tuffers & Vaughan Cricket Show on 5 live - 21:30 GMT, 27 November\n\n28 Oct - Joe Root tells a pre-Ashes news conference that England do not have a drinking culture.\n\n29 Oct - England land in Perth, Australia. Players go to a local pub in the evening.\n\n29 Oct - Bancroft and team-mates celebrate a win for Western Australia against Tasmania in a domestic game, and end up in the same pub as England players. Bairstow greets Bancroft with a 'headbutt'.\n\n1 Nov - Bayliss (unaware of the incident) tells BBC's Test Match Special that England players have come up with their own \"sensible\" rules around drinking, but there will not be a curfew in place on tour.\n\n21 Nov - Australia spinner Nathan Lyon says his side will \"headbutt the line, but we won't go over it\" when asked about sledging on the eve of the first Test.\n\n26 Nov - Bairstow is sledged during the fourth day of the first Test. ECB says it will investigate reports of a headbutt.\n\n27 Nov - Bairstow, Bancroft and England coach Trevor Bayliss address the media, all playing down the incident.", "The FBI received over 200,000 requests for background checks to own a gun on Black Friday, overtaking last year's single-day record by nearly 10%.\n\nBlack Friday, the day after the US Thanksgiving holiday, had previously set records for the most instant FBI background checks in 2015 and 2016.\n\nThe database is meant to prevent criminals and other Americans barred from owning guns from purchasing them.\n\nLast week the US Justice Department ordered a full review of the database.\n\nThe FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check (NICS) database system said they fielded 203,086 background checks on Black Friday, a day when US retailers mark down prices on their products to kick off the annual holiday gift-shopping period.\n\nThe previous record of 185,713 background checks was set on Black Friday a year earlier, according to figures provided by the FBI.\n\nThe FBI cautions that \"a one-to-one correlation cannot be made\" between checks and actual sales, since one background check may yield several gun sales.\n\nThey did not indicate what may have caused the uptick in sales.\n\nGun sales have generally risen during periods when lawmakers have indicated that they may take action to restrict gun ownership.\n\nSales rose after former President Barack Obama's election - due to fears he would restrict them - and have fallen since Donald Trump became US president.\n\nMr Obama had previously told BBC News that his biggest regret as president was not passing \"meaningful\" gun reform during his time in office.\n\nLast week the Department of Justice ordered a review of the background check system to determine whether law enforcement agencies are properly reporting crimes to the FBI.\n\nThe review was ordered by Attorney General Jeff Sessions following revelations that a gun rampage at a Texas church which left 26 people dead was committed by a former US airman who had been legally stripped of his right to own weapons.\n\nDevin P Kelley was convicted of assault and discharged from the military. The US Air Force later admitted that they had failed to notify the FBI's NICS of the gunman's conviction, allowing him to purchase several weapons from legal distributers.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Most of the 10,000 cases that could be affected involved traffic offences\n\nPolice have suspended all contracts with a drug-testing company amid allegations of data manipulation.\n\nRandox Testing Services (RTS) in Manchester was investigated after two scientists were arrested on suspicion of tampering with data.\n\nPolice minister Nick Hurd understands the RTS is no longer working for the National Police Chiefs' Council.\n\nHe said the firm was \"co-operating\" in retesting samples after the probe led to a review of more than 10,000 cases.\n\nThe council said forensic tests across 42 police forces, including rapes and murders, were being considered possibly unreliable and needed re-examining.\n\nMr Hurd told MPs: \"The police have suspended all contracts as I understand it with Randox.\n\n\"Randox are co-operating with us fully on the priority, which is to identify the priority cases [and] get the retesting done as quickly as possible.\"\n\nA data anomaly in a drug-driving case was reported to RTS earlier this year\n\nHe also said the cases of alleged wrongdoing could go back to 2010.\n\nFive people have also been interviewed under caution by Greater Manchester Police over the alleged manipulation by individuals working at an RTS site.\n\nThe alleged misconduct emerged earlier this year when a data anomaly in a drug-driving case was reported to RTS.\n\nPotential data manipulation at a separate facility, Trimega Laboratories, is also being investigated.\n\nShadow home secretary Diane Abbott claimed the \"scandal\" \"flowed directly\" from the decision to privatise the industry.\n\nMr Hurd accused Ms Abbott of \"trying to squeeze\" the issue into a Labour narrative of \"public good, private bad\".", "Spacey is having treatment following the allegations\n\nHouse of Cards could be soon returning to production following the sexual harassment and assault allegations made against its star, Kevin Spacey.\n\nThe hit Netflix show was forced to take a break following the claims and Spacey has now been dropped from the show.\n\nPauline Micelli, senior vice president at the show's studio, Media Rights Capital, recently wrote to staff to say its hiatus was being extended.\n\n\"We continue to work with Netflix with the hope of resuming production soon.\"\n\nCrew on the show will be paid until 8 December \"as we continue these discussions,\" her letter went on.\n\nNetflix previously announced it \"will not be involved with any further production of House of Cards that includes Kevin Spacey\".\n\nMs Micelli's letter addressed how stressful a period it had been for everyone working on the show.\n\n\"These last two months have tested and tried all of us in ways none of us could have foreseen,\" she wrote.\n\n\"The one thing we have learned throughout this process is that this production is bigger than just one person and we could not be more proud to be associated with one of the most loyal and talented production cast and crews in this business.\"\n\nSpacey was at the Old Vic between 2004 and 2015\n\nIn the letter, published in the Hollywood Reporter, she added: \"Our hope is that the entire crew will be able to reconvene when production resumes.\n\n\"But we want you to know that we will certainly understand if crew members need to find other work in the interim, which will prevent them from re-joining us. We sincerely appreciate all you have done\".\n\nShe said that the writers would be continuing their work during the hiatus - presumably working on how to write Spacey out.\n\nSpacey, who was artistic director at London's Old Vic theatre, is currently being investigated by Scotland Yard over two allegations of sexual assault.\n\nHe also faces claims of \"on-set sexual misconduct\" by members of the House of Cards production crew.\n\nInitial allegations about Spacey were made by actor Anthony Rapp in October.\n\nRapp said he was 14 when Spacey allegedly harassed him following a party in 1986.\n\nSpacey claimed to have no memory of the alleged incident while offering an apology to Rapp \"for what would have been deeply inappropriate drunken behaviour\".\n\nThe Old Vic has said that an internal investigation found 20 people claimed they had been the victims of inappropriate behaviour by Spacey, who was at the theatre between 2004 and 2015.\n\nA spokesperson for Spacey said the Oscar-winning actor has been \"taking the time necessary to seek evaluation and treatment\" since the allegations surfaced.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There can be no final decisions on the future of the Irish border until the UK and the EU have reached a trade agreement, Liam Fox has said.\n\nThe UK's international trade secretary also blamed the EU for Brexit delays.\n\nThe comments came after the Irish Republic's EU commissioner said Dublin could veto Brexit trade talks.\n\nThe EU has said \"sufficient progress\" has to be made on the Irish border before negotiations on a future relationship can begin.\n\nDowning Street has said the whole of the UK will leave both the customs union and the single market when it leaves the EU in 2019.\n\n\"We don't want there to be a hard border but the UK is going to be leaving the customs union and the single market,\" Mr Fox told Sky News.\n\nHe added: \"We can't come to a final answer to the Irish question until we get an idea of the end state. And until we get into discussions with the EU on the end state that will be very difficult - so the quicker we can do that the better, and we are still in a position where the EU doesn't want to do that.\"\n\nMr Fox accused the European Commission of having an \"obsession\" with ever-closer union between EU member states, which was delaying progress in Brexit talks.\n\nPhil Hogan, the EU's agriculture commissioner, told the Observer that staying in the customs union would negate the need for a hard border - with customs posts and possible passport checks - on the island.\n\nHe said Dublin would \"play tough to the end\" over its threat to veto trade talks until it had guarantees over the border.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell said he was \"worried\" by Mr Fox's comments, adding that Labour would not take continued membership of the single market and the customs union off the table.\n\n\"I think the one thing that we don't want to do is jeopardise any movement quickly, because we need movement to enable us to get into the proper trade negotiations,\" Mr McDonnell told ITV's Peston on Sunday.\n\n\"So I'm hoping that isn't a Downing Street-sanctioned statement that's he's made.\"\n\nIt's 310 miles (499km) long - a squiggle on the map that meanders from Carlingford Lough in the east to Lough Foyle in the west.\n\nThe border between Northern Ireland and the Republic is the soon-to-be frontier between the UK and the European Union.\n\nAnd right now it is the most troublesome frontier between Brexit negotiations stalling or progressing.\n\nLondon and Dublin each say they are committed to maintaining an open border. But Ireland wonders how that will be possible.\n\nOh and one other thing to throw into the mix - after all the talk of how wobbly Theresa May's government is, so is Ireland's.\n\nThere could be a general election there before Christmas.\n\nThe EU has given Prime Minister Theresa May until 4 December to come up with further proposals on issues including the border, the Brexit divorce bill and citizens' rights, if European leaders are to agree to moving on to trade talks.\n\nBut Mr Hogan accused some in the British government of having what he called \"blind faith\" about securing a comprehensive free-trade deal after Brexit.\n\nHe said it was a \"very simple fact\" that \"if the UK or Northern Ireland remained in the EU customs union, or better still the single market, there would be no border issue\".\n\nIn these circumstances regulations on either side of the border would remain the same, and so a near-invisible border would be possible.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. UK and Irish politicians clashed over Brexit and the Irish border on BBC One's the Sunday Politics\n\nThe Irish government has always insisted there must not be a hard border between the Republic and Northern Ireland, with Taoiseach Leo Varadkar saying he must have written assurance from the UK before Brexit talks can move on.\n\nIrish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney has said the UK's desire for no hard border on the island of Ireland was \"aspirational\".\n\nIt comes as Ireland's deputy prime minister faces a motion of no confidence over her handling of a case involving a whistle-blower alleging corruption within the police.\n\nThe issue could see Prime Minister (Taoiseach) Leo Varadkar's coalition government fall and an election held before Christmas.\n\nIn her speech in Florence, this September, Mrs May restated that both the UK and EU would not accept any physical infrastructure at the border.\n\nThe Democratic Unionist Party said Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK must not be different.\n\nArlene Foster, the leader of the DUP, which is in a confidence-and-supply arrangement with the Conservative government, said she would not support \"any suggestion that Northern Ireland, unlike the rest of the UK, will have to mirror European regulations\".\n\nSuggestions for alternate arrangements have included a new partnership that would \"align\" customs approaches between the UK and the EU, resulting in \"no customs border at all between the UK and Ireland\".", "More than 4,800 people were taken to court and threatened with prison for not paying a council tax debt in 2016-17, data seen by the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme suggests.\n\nThe figure has risen 11% in four years, despite 2013 government guidance saying court action should be a \"last resort\", the Institute of Money Advisers said.\n\nAt least 62 people were locked up in England and Wales in 2016-17.\n\nThe Local Government Association said it was \"essential\" to collect funds.\n\n\"It is not fair for the overwhelming majority of citizens that pay their council tax to let those who don't pay their fair share continue to do so,\" it said.\n\nCouncil tax is spent on services such as care for vulnerable adults, looking after children, and road repairs.\n\nThe majority of people formally threatened with prison cleared their debt, managed to negotiate a payment plan with their local authority or received a suspended sentence.\n\nIn Scotland and Northern Ireland, people cannot be imprisoned for non-payment of council tax.\n\nThe IMA's findings - seen by the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme - are based on the replies of 279 of 348 local \"billing\" authorities in England and Wales to a Freedom of Information request.\n\nThe report's author, Alistair Chisholm from the debt advice firm PayPlan, said the approach to council tax debts was \"completely out of step with the way other debts can be recovered\".\n\n\"You can't go to prison for failing to pay an electricity bill or your rent,\" he added.\n\n\"It's time the law was changed in England and Wales so that council tax debt collection focuses on the circumstances, income and assets of a person and is not used to threaten their liberty.\"\n\nThe average council tax debt in the cases cited in the report was £2,213.\n\nA magistrate can impose up to three months in jail for non-payment of council tax.\n\nBefore imprisonment can be considered, the council should try to recover the debt using bailiffs and must \"enquire\" into the defendant's means to pay.\n\nBut the IMA claims courts do not always interpret the law correctly and there is strong evidence that miscarriages of justice have occurred.\n\nIn January 2017, London's High Court found that Melanie Woolcock from Bridgend in South Wales had been unlawfully imprisoned for failing to pay £10-a-week towards her council tax debt.\n\nAfter she failed to keep up with her payments, bailiffs were called, and although she had paid £100 towards the debt she was told it was \"too late\" and arrested.\n\nShe spent 40 days of an 81-day sentence in prison, eventually being released on bail after lawyers launched emergency proceedings.\n\nGovernment guidance urges councils to explore other enforcement actions, like direct deductions from benefits or earnings.\n\nThe Local Government Association said \"councils face a £5.8bn funding shortfall by 2020, which is why it's essential councils collect these funds.\n\n\"Councils offer a variety of support to people on low incomes, or who are struggling with financial difficulties.\"\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.\n• None Concerns over councils’ use of bailiffs", "Clockwise from top left: Ellis and Elliott Thornton, Darnell Harte, Anthoney Armour and Robbie Meerun\n\nAll five people killed in a fatal car crash in Leeds were in the vehicle, police have said.\n\nBrothers Ellis, 12, and Elliott Thornton, 14, died along with Darnell Harte, 15, father-of-two Anthoney Armour and Robbie Meerun, both 24.\n\nTwo 15-year-old boys were arrested in connection with Saturday's crash. One has since been released under investigation.\n\nPolice previously mistakenly said all seven people were in the vehicle.\n\nBut they have since confirmed that the five victims and one of the arrested boys were in the stolen black Renault Clio when it crashed into a tree in Stonegate Road, Meanwood, at 21:54 GMT.\n\nPeople hug as they look at flowers and messages left near the scene of the crash\n\nDet Ch Insp Jim Griffiths said the car was stolen in the Headingley area at about 18:30 on Saturday and \"is believed to have been driven around the Leeds area during that time\".\n\nHe added: \"We are particularly keen to hear from anyone who has seen the Clio and the manner of its driving in the time leading up to the collision.\n\n\"We would be interested in anyone who has dashcam footage relating to the vehicle's movements.\"\n\nPolice have also appealed to the local community to support the investigation\n\nSupt Matt Davison said: \"Clearly the families have suffered a devastating loss and we appreciate that emotions will be running high in the community.\n\n\"We would ask that people focus on supporting each other and on supporting the police investigation which will ensure that the circumstances of this incident are fully explored and that the criminal justice process is satisfied.\"\n\nDozens of people took part in a vigil near to the crash scene on Sunday night and floral tributes have been left nearby.\n\nOne message read: \"Elliot and Ellis. Two beautiful boys taken too soon. We will never forget you both and love you both forever and always sleep tight boys.\"\n\nJulie, a former neighbour of the brothers, told BBC Radio Leeds: \"It's devastating, they were funny, cheeky lads, always a smile on their faces.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former Scotland international footballer Denis Law has received the Freedom of Aberdeen.\n\nThe 77-year-old, who was born and raised in the Granite City, has described the honour as \"one of the highlights of my life\".\n\nHe was made a freeman during a special ceremony on Saturday evening. Then, on Sunday evening, he took part in a parade along Union Street.", "Dark gas has been seen rising up to 3,400m (11,150ft) above Mount Agung on the Indonesian island of Bali, with explosions being heard as far as 12km (7 miles) away.", "Experts think Bali's Mount Agung could erupt for the first time since 1963\n\nThe lifespan of a volcano can be measured in millennia, and so waiting a few days for it to erupt may not sound too stressful.\n\nBut for the tens of thousands of Balinese people forced from their homes, the \"imminent\" danger that they have been living with for more than a week feels very real.\n\nKetut Seri says she has already lost track of time since arriving at one of the emergency shelters.\n\nSat surrounded by thin plastic bags stuffed with her children's clothes, she says she can't help but worry about what she's left behind.\n\n\"I wish I had brought my cooking utensils,\" she tells me, a sign that she expects to be here for the long haul.\n\nMore than 140,000 people like Ketut Seri and her family are in temporary shelters\n\n\"I'm tired, I'm sad because I cannot work,\" she explains, \"I cannot find any solution.\"\n\nHer children chase a football around the concrete hall they have been living in alongside another 100 evacuees.\n\nBut Ketut's husband is absent after venturing back to their empty village to check on the animals. He is not the only one taking that risk.\n\nThe fate of the cattle and chickens many had to leave behind in the hills weighs heavily on people's minds, and so some are crossing back and forth into the danger area every day to check on their well-being.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Surivivors of the 1963 eruption on the last time Mount Agung erupted\n\nAccording to the volcanologists monitoring Mount Agung, this situation could continue for weeks, maybe even months.\n\nAn eruption may not even happen, they simply don't know.\n\nAt the government observation base, senior seismologist Devy Kamil remains patient - despite the long queue of journalists who have been knocking on his door all week, hoping for some news.\n\n\"There are some examples where you have swarms of activity for as long as six years,\" he explains, \"and it is not always ended by an eruption.\"\n\nHundreds of tremors have been detected since August\n\nWhen lava last flowed from Mount Agung in 1963, the measuring instruments they use today were not in place, and so it is impossible to know the signature behaviour of that shows an eruption is coming.\n\nBut while some here scrutinise every little piece of scientific data, others are waiting for spiritual signs.\n\nAt the Goa Lawah Hindu temple, daily prayers continue at the site of a cave that many Balinese believe is connected to the volcano's energy.\n\nWhen I ask Iputi Juliad, one of the temple officials, what people are praying for, he says most just want good luck.\n\nHe sees the wait for news from Mount Agung as part of a much longer process. \"There is a circle of life, a circle of sacrifice\" he explains.\n\nThe majority of Balinese people practise a distinct type of Hinduism associated with the island\n\nWhen I ask if the seismic activity is seen as a sign that the gods are angry, he is very careful in his reply.\n\n\"It is not a punishment, not a punishment,\" Mr Juliad repeats, anxious to move on from a sensitive subject.\n\nInstead his focus is on the need to accept fate.\n\n\"Maybe an eruption, maybe not, nobody knows.\"\n\nThe uncertainty is having an impact on everyone on Bali, even if they haven't been evacuated.\n\nThe village of Rendang sits just outside the exclusion zone, and normally the market place would be bustling with the traders selling fruit, flowers and rice.\n\nBusiness at Rendang market has plummeted since the volcano warnings were issued\n\nBut according to stallholder Ketut Astiningsih, most people have stopped coming and her income has taken a massive hit.\n\n\"No one is shopping. Before I could get 400,000 Rupiah ($30 USD) a day, now I can only earn 50,000 Rupiah ($3.7USD)\" she explains.\n\nSo far the economic consequences for Bali's tourism industry have not been so grave.\n\nAt the hotels, the busloads of holidaymakers keep on coming, reassured it seems by the government's message that they will be kept well out of harm's way.\n\nTourism at most resorts has not been affected\n\nOf course every tourist has heard or read about the volcano, and many have been contacted by worried relatives back home.\n\nBut for most the only concern is whether an eruption would mean they could be marooned here.\n\nAs he sipped a beer on the beach at Sanur, Mathew Hunter from Cairns in Australia seemed pretty relaxed by that prospect.\n\n\"I could definitely do with a few more weeks here,\" he chuckles, before adding that he is far more concerned about the fate of the tens of thousands of evacuees in emergency shelters.\n\nLike most people on Bali, he says he would like to see this waiting game with Mount Agung come to a swift but peaceful conclusion.\n\n\"I just hope it has a few little belly rumbles and then life goes on.\"", "Ms Lopez has been accused by the authorities of bragging out her act on social media\n\nActress Maria Isabel Lopez has had her driving licence revoked in the Philippines after she used a driving lane reserved for dignitaries attending a key summit in Manila, officials say.\n\nThe Filipina movie star has been fined and barred from reacquiring a driver's licence for the next two years.\n\nMs Lopez is reported to have said she had to use the lane reserved for summit officials to have a \"bladder break\".\n\nThe former beauty pageant winner has starred in several hit films.\n\nThe award-winning actress, 55, said on Facebook that she needed \"a bladder break\" because she had been travelling by road for hours.\n\nBut the country's transport department accused her of dangerously removing orange cones that cordoned off a lane in the road for officials attending the Association of South East Asian Nations (Asean) meeting earlier this month.\n\nMs Lopez posted a video online, in which she could be heard shouting \"Yeeeeeo! Asean, here I come!\", as her vehicle entered the VIP lane.\n\nMs Lopez described her actions on Facebook\n\nTransport officials accused her of endangering her own life, and the lives of dignitaries and commuters.\n\nMs Lopez has been fined 8,000 pesos (£120; $160) for ignoring traffic signs, reckless driving and violating the Anti-Distracted Driving Act.\n\nManila is renowned for having some of the worst traffic jams in the world\n\nThe Transportation Office said that she had \"expressly admitted her failure to meet the conditions concomitant with the grant of her licence\", and that the defence she proffered was \"considered lame and self-serving\".\n\nIt added: \"Worse, she showed no remorse and even publicised with gusto her improper and illegal acts on social media, which betrays her utter lack of responsibility as a licensed driver, thus making her an improper person to operate a motor vehicle.\"\n\nMs Lopez wrote on Facebook that she had deceived traffic enforcers into believing she was an official Asean delegate.\n\n\"If you can't beat them, you join them,\" she wrote, alongside her video. \"I removed the divider cones!! Then all the other motorists behind me followed!\"\n\nShe later apologised to those who were \"hurt and affected\" by her actions and has urged the authorities to treat her leniently.\n\nManila is known for having some of the worst traffic jams in the world.", "Two former staff at the Electronic Monitoring Service (EMS) are among 29 people charged after an inquiry into the misuse of tags fitted on offenders.\n\nIt is alleged the employees took money to fit tags loosely so they could be removed. The tags help ensure curfews and court orders are obeyed.\n\nThe police investigation began when an offender was arrested when they should have been under curfew.\n\nThe two men are accused of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice.\n\nThe investigation, called Operation Glen Falls, was centred on the east London borough of Newham and began in February this year.\n\nThe former employees are Martin Crean, of Romford, east London, and Jason Gundry, of Barking, east London, both 46.\n\nThe other 27, who are from either east London or Essex, are believed to be offenders who allegedly took advantage of the scam.\n\nAll of them will appear at Thames Magistrates' Court next month.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The animal was found on a car in Mendip Road, Northampton\n\nA cat was \"deliberately mutilated\" and its body placed on top of a car near the pet owner's home, police have said.\n\nThe animal was found in Mendip Road, Northampton, on Sunday 19 November. The killing happened between 20:00 GMT on 18 November and 08:00 the next day.\n\nIt is the third time in three months that a cat has been killed in the town and dumped near its owner's home.\n\nNorthamptonshire Police said the attacks were all being linked to the \"Croydon cat killer\" investigation.\n\nIn one case in August, a 14-year-old girl found the mutilated body of her pet dumped on her doorstep.\n\nThe head, limbs and ears of the ginger cat had been cut off and put into a bag before it was left outside the property in Betjeman Court, Northampton.\n\nThe family's other cat was deliberately set on fire a few days earlier but survived.\n\nRusty, a one-year-old cat, was mutilated and left on the doorstep of its owner's home in August\n\nThe Met Police began investigating a series of pet killings, which started in the Croydon area in 2015, after an animal charity raised concerns.\n\nTony Jenkins, head of the South Norwood Animal Rescue and Liberty, said about 250 cats had been killed in similar circumstances since October 2015 and 50 foxes were found with \"identical injuries to the cats\".\n\nHe is also investigating the deaths of five rabbits and two decapitated swans to see whether they might be linked.\n\nIn September experts at a forensic lab in Surrey began re-examining some of the corpses for new evidence.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Officers tried to stop a white van on Hasfield Road in Norris Green\n\nA man has appeared in court charged with seriously injuring a police officer who was knocked down by a van.\n\nMartin Stowell, 34, appeared at Liverpool Magistrates' Court charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent to resist arrest.\n\nMr Stowell, of Queens Road, Everton was also charged with causing serious injury to Sgt James Morgan by dangerous driving at about 19:20 GMT on Saturday.\n\nThe police officer suffered injuries to his ribs and leg in the incident.\n\nHe was hit by a white Transit van in Hasfield Road, Norris Green.\n\nMerseyside Police said the incident happened after officers attempted to stop the van.\n\nAfter mounting the pavement, it collided with a police vehicle, other parked vehicles, and the officer.\n\nStowell, who wore a grey tracksuit, was also charged with aggravated vehicle taking and dangerous driving, driving while disqualified, and possession of cannabis.\n\nGeorge White, defending, said no bail application would be made on behalf of Stowell, who was remanded in custody to appear at Liverpool Crown Court on 2 January.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Children should have the flu vaccine before Christmas to prevent them putting relatives at risk of infection, NHS bosses in England have warned.\n\nDoctors say the virus can spread more easily in schools and nurseries, which puts grandparents and others at risk of getting ill over the festive season.\n\nThose with heart or lung conditions and pregnant family members can be especially vulnerable, officials said.\n\nDr Paul Cosford said the vaccine was \"quick, easy and painless\".\n\nThe children's flu vaccine is offered as a yearly nasal spray to young children to help protect them against flu.\n\nIn England, children aged two and three are able to get the vaccine free on the NHS, via GP practices.\n\nAn expansion of the scheme means children in reception class and primary school years one, two, three and four are also all eligible for the vaccine.\n\nIn Scotland, the flu vaccine is offered to all primary school children, as well as children aged two to five years of age who are not yet in primary school.\n\nHowever, children of all ages with a health condition will still be offered the flu vaccine from six months.\n\nIn Wales, the vaccine is recommended for children from six months of age.\n\nAll children aged two to eight on 31 August 2017 will be offered the nasal spray flu vaccine routinely this year.\n\nAnd in Northern Ireland, children are offered the flu vaccine if they were born between 2 July 2013 and 1 September 2015. Children at primary school are also offered the immunisation if they were born between 2 July 2006 and 1 July 2013.\n\nAccording to the latest NHS England figures, just 18% of school-age children have had the nasal spray immunisation.\n\nDr Cosford, Public Health England's medical director, said flu causes 8,000 deaths a year in England and Wales.\n\n\"The vaccine is the best protection there is against flu,\" he added.\n\nDr Cosford said the nasal spray vaccine last year substantially reduced children's risk of flu, \"meaning they were less likely to spread it to relatives and others they come into close contact with\".\n\nHe called for parents to give consent for eligible school-aged children to receive the vaccine in school.\n\nProf Keith Willett, NHS England's medical director for acute care, said children were \"super-spreaders\" and the flu season \"traditionally reaches its peak\" at Christmas.\n\nUpdate 6 December 2017: This story now includes details of the situations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.", "The government has handed over its analysis of the impact of Brexit on parts of the economy - but the reports are not complete.\n\nThere has been a long-running row over the studies of 58 sectors. MPs voted on 1 November for them to be released.\n\nLabour and some Conservative MPs have demanded their publication, saying they were being kept in the dark about the impact Brexit might have.\n\nDocuments have now been sent to the Brexit Committee of MPs.\n\nBut BBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg says she now expects a \"big row\" because Brexit Secretary David Davis has admitted the reports are incomplete.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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’. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn his letter to Brexit Committee chairman Hilary Benn, Mr Davis said the papers had been redacted because there was no guarantee the committee would keep them secret.\n\nHe said: \"Given that we have received no assurances from the committee regarding how any information passed will be used, we have sought not to include commercially, market and negotiation sensitive information.\n\n\"Delivering a successful outcome to our EU exit negotiations for the whole country requires keeping some information confidential for the purposes of the negotiations.\"\n\nUnderstanding the possible economic impact of Britain's decision to leave the European Union is a difficult business.\n\nIt is likely to become easier when the Department for Exiting the European Union makes available its \"sector analyses\" on relations with our biggest trading partner.\n\nI am told in no uncertain terms that the reports - which will run to hundreds of pages - are not \"impact assessments\".\n\nThat is, they will not put a figure on the possible costs if there is a sharp dislocation between the free trading arrangements we have with the EU now and what might follow after we leave.\n\nRather, I understand the reports will show the size of each of the sectors and their worth to the UK economy and then detail how the sectors work at present within the EU single market and customs union.\n\nRead more of Kamal's blog here.\n\nThe government said it had satisfied the Commons motion passed by MPs - in which Conservatives abstained - with the release of the documents to the committee.\n\n\"We have always been clear that our analysis does not exist in the form Parliament requested,\" a spokesman said.\n\nBut Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer said \"serious questions\" would be raised if the full reports were not handed to the Brexit Select Committee.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"It was a decision of the House of Commons that was binding.\n\n\"It was clear that these reports, unredacted [and] in full should be handed over.\n\n\"The government didn't vote against that decision and they have accepted that decision, so if they are changing their position now, they are going to have to explain that.\n\n\"We in the Labour party will raise this in parliament when we know the full picture, but ultimately, it could be a question of contempt of Parliament.\"\n\nKeir Starmer said \"serious questions\" will be raised if the reports are not handed over in full\n\nLabour committee member Seema Malhotra said it appeared the government had \"already decided what should and should not be seen\" by editing the studies.\n\nShe added: \"The select committee must be given the full analyses which were completed, and nothing less.\n\n\"We cannot and should not be short-changed. This will not be in the national interest. The public and Parliament must no longer be kept in the dark.\"", "Anti-fraud campaigners have praised a partnership between two BBC Radio 4 programmes for drawing attention to one of the UK's fastest growing crimes.\n\nFor months a number of The Archers' characters have been caught up in an elaborate investment fraud.\n\nArchers editor Huw Kennair-Jones has now revealed that the station's consumer programme You and Yours worked closely with scriptwriters on the plot.\n\nAction Fraud said the storyline had raised vital awareness of the issue.\n\n\"We would like to thank The Archers and You and Yours for bringing attention to this important subject,\" said a spokesperson.\n\nThe last Archers' storyline to draw praise from campaigners was the domestic abuse of Helen Archer by former husband Rob Titchener.\n\nThis year the soap has tackled another rapidly rising crime.\n\nThe fraud revolves around the relationship between conman, Matt Crawford (played by Kim Durham) and Lilian Bellamy (Sunny Ormonde)\n\nAccording to the annual Crime Survey for England and Wales there were an estimated 3.6 million cases of fraud last year, making it the most commonly experienced offence.\n\nPolice say investment scams are a costly and often under reported form of fraud.\n\nEarlier this year several of the soap's unsuspecting residents were given a presentation by fraudsters, Melling Equestrian Investments.\n\nThe scam involved a love-triangle between husband and wife-to-be Justin Elliott and Lilian Bellamy, and old flame and conman Matt Crawford.\n\nAmong the scam's victims were widowed pensioner Christine Barford, who was revealed on Friday to have invested more than £300,000.\n\nShe had been persuaded to invest by the promise of 12% returns on a fictitious racecourse development in Costa Rica.\n\nIn an interview with You and Yours, Huw Kennair-Jones, explained how the partnership with the consumer programme evolved.\n\nThe fictional scam unravels when the location of the promised Costa Rican racecourse is discovered to be in a National Park\n\n\"We needed to hear Matt Crawford again because he's such a good character,\" he said.\n\n\"We were thinking about what he would be doing and then producer, Jenny Thompson, had the idea of getting in touch with You and Yours.\"\n\nFortunately, the consumer programme's award-winning fraud reporter, Shari Vahl, was a life-long Archers fan, and scriptwriters worked closely with her for months.\n\n\"Half of all reported crime is fraud so I knew this was important,\" she said.\n\nSworn to secrecy, she told no one about her assignment.\n\nShe explained how she helped create the plot: \"The producers wanted to make this fraud as real as possible,\" she said.\n\n\"I've just taken the experience of You and Yours listeners and what's happened to thousands of people, many of whom have contacted us.\n\nThere were an estimated 3.6 million cases of fraud last year, making it the most commonly experienced offence\n\n\"They have been convinced enough to invest their pensions, large amounts of money, into what seem like really brilliant schemes,\" she added.\n\nHuw Kennair-Jones agrees: \"This is not an uncommon thing.\n\n\"It's about people who are not stupid at all who are taken in by the promise of this incredible return that just doesn't exist,\" he said.\n\nShari Vahl says modern investment fraud can be highly believable.\n\n\"Victims are given really fantastic brochures with wonderful pictures and graphs pointing skywards, all run by extremely charming and very credible people.\n\nShari explained the lengths she and Archers scriptwriters went to to create a convincing plot.\n\n\"At one point we decided it would be a good thing to actually call up the Costa Rican horse racing authorities to get a list of their courses - so that's what we did,\" she said.\n\nThe scheme unravels when Lilian Bellamy begins to investigate the details and finds they don't add up.\n\nAction Fraud, which works closely with City of London Police, told the BBC that people need to be on their guard.\n\n\"Never take up offers of investments on the spot from cold calls,\" a spokesperson told You and Yours.\n\n\"To make safe investments you should first look at the Financial Conduct Authority's ScamSmart warning list.\n\n\"If you have been affected by fraud or would like to know more about how to report or prevent fraud, go to our website,\" they added.\n\nYou and Yours is on BBC Radio 4 weekdays 12:15-13:00\n\nThe Archers is broadcast 19:00-19:15 Sunday-Friday, repeated at 13:00", "News of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle reached Albert Square in EastEnders.\n\nShaki Kazemi (Shaheen Jafargholi) broke the news to Kathy Beale (Gillian Taylforth) in the café.\n\nYou can watch the full episode here.", "Panorama presenter Richard Bilton set up Bilton's Bargains to show how VAT fraud works\n\nA BBC Panorama team has smuggled goods into Britain and then sold them on eBay and Amazon to highlight a fraud costing the country a billion pounds a year.\n\nThe undercover team imported goods from China and didn't pay VAT at the border.\n\nAmazon and eBay told the BBC that they take VAT fraud seriously and they work closely with HMRC to stop it happening.\n\nThe fraud costs the UK more than £1bn a year and puts UK firms out of business because they cannot compete with sellers who have evaded VAT.\n\nBritish traders Roni and Neven Juretic sell phone and tablet covers online, but their sales fell by 60 per cent because they were undercut by fraudulent sellers.\n\nRoni Juretic said: \"If they're selling it 20% cheaper because they're not charging VAT, then it's impossible for us to reach those prices. That's why a lot of the other UK competitors have dropped away.\"\n\nImporters should pay VAT when they bring goods into the UK, and charge it when they sell them to customers. But evidence suggests thousands of traders don't do either.\n\nPanorama set up a British company to show how the fraud works and imported bluetooth speakers and mobile phone cases from China.\n\nThe company evaded more than £500 of import VAT and was not challenged by the tax authorities. And Amazon and Ebay profited by charging fees for the sales of the illegal goods.\n\nMeg Hillier, the chair of the parliamentary spending watchdog, told Panorama: \"It's pretty shocking that you can do it so easily and so openly, so blatantly. We need to make sure that there are systems in place to stop that happening.\"\n\nHMRC says it has new powers and is tackling the problem.\n\nTax Commissioner Jim Harra told Panorama: \"It's something that you should not have done. But do I believe it is completely impossible to smuggle goods into the UK without paying duties if you're determined to do so? Of course, it's not.\"\n\nThe BBC has now repaid the evaded tax to HMRC.\n\nPanorama's company, Bilton's Bargains, evaded VAT on two separate orders. The first was a consignment of Bluetooth speakers from Shenzhen in China.\n\nA local shipping agent told an undercover reporter the company could avoid VAT by sending the goods to the UK through Holland, with the speakers hidden inside a bigger order.\n\nThe agent said it was: \"The special way, you don't need to have VAT.\" The speakers were shipped to the UK and VAT of £312 was evaded.\n\nThe illegally imported goods were then sent to an Amazon warehouse, before Panorama bought them back. Amazon stored, sold and delivered the fraudulent goods.\n\nAmazon says it now has VAT numbers that cover 95% of sales from foreign sellers who use an Amazon warehouse\n\nAmazon says that no VAT fraud took place on its marketplace: \"We have multiple methods for checking the legitimacy of seller accounts and Bilton's Bargains has been suspended.\"\n\nAmazon says Bilton's Bargains was not asked for a VAT number because it is a British company and might be exempt.\n\nBut Amazon doesn't always ask foreign companies to provide a VAT number either. Research carried out for Panorama in September suggested 60% of the top Chinese sellers in Europe listed on Amazon did not display a valid VAT number.\n\nAmazon says it now has VAT numbers that cover 95% of sales from foreign sellers who use an Amazon warehouse.\n\nBoth eBay and Amazon say fraud is bad for business\n\nFor the second crime, Bilton's Bargains was registered as a Chinese seller on eBay. Panorama imported 270 mobile phone covers without paying VAT and listed them for sale.\n\nThe programme was able to buy one of the phone covers back, before eBay limited the account because Bilton's Bargains was a new seller.\n\nEBay says the seller limit is one of a range of anti-fraud measures and that it was largely effective in this case: \"By inserting a velocity limit on new accounts, eBay is able to reduce the risk of all fraud.\"\n\nBoth eBay and Amazon say fraud is bad for business and that they want fair play for all sellers on their sites.\n\nIn last week's budget, the government announced the laws surrounding online VAT fraud would be tightened.", "Many consumers still struggle to get out of unwanted subscriptions such as gym memberships and online streaming services, according to Citizens Advice.\n\nAnalysis of almost 600 problems reported to the service found that in just three months consumers paid an average of £160 on unwanted services.\n\nSometimes, consumers misunderstood terms and conditions, while some companies made cancellation difficult.\n\nThe head of the consumer group, Gillian Guy, said firms must \"act responsibly\".\n\n\"Subscriptions are very easy to sign up to but can be difficult for consumers to get out of. We know people are wasting time and energy trying to cancel subscriptions while paying out of pocket,\" she said.\n\nCompanies refused cancellations by asking for more notice - stretching to six months in some cases - or told people they needed to cancel through a specific route, such as phone or email.\n\nCA said one person who contacted the service said they tried to cancel a subscription after they were made redundant, and were asked for proof from their employer - including a P45.\n\nMost payments are thought to be through a Continuous Payment Authority, where companies can change the date or amount of a payment without giving advance notice.\n\nFrequently, consumers said they felt it was unclear they were being signed up to a recurring payment or that the contract may continue on an auto renewal basis.\n\nUnder the Consumer Rights Act 2015, businesses can't enforce terms on consumers that are unfair.\n\nConsumer Minister Margot James said the UK's consumer protection regime was one of the strongest in the world, but there was always more to do.\n\nShe said: \"With 40 million people in the UK now subscribing to at least one product or service, this campaign from Citizens Advice will help ensure consumers can shop with confidence and know what their rights are should things go wrong.\"\n\nLeon Livermore, chief executive of the Chartered Trading Standards Institute said consumers should remember that if an offer \"sounds too good to be true, it generally is\".\n\nHe added: \"We're also eagerly awaiting the government's upcoming green paper that sets out their vision for consumer protection in a post-Brexit landscape.\n\n\"We will continue to work actively with our partners... to build a safer future for UK consumers.\"", "Rodney (here as a foal) was almost three years old and his mother Juwireya is nine\n\nArsonists killed one horse and injured another in an attack on the stable of Welsh Grand National-winning breeders.\n\nJanet and Brian Vokes were told about the fire in Cefn Fforest, Caerphilly county, at about 06:30 GMT on Sunday.\n\nTwo-year-old gelding Rodney died and his mother, Juwireya, nine, was injured. The stable was destroyed.\n\nMrs Vokes said: \"We're absolutely devastated. They're scum - you can't imagine why anyone would do such a thing.\"\n\nMr and Mrs Vokes owned the Welsh Grand National-winning Dream Alliance, whose unlikely victory was turned into a film.\n\nVets are treating Juwireya but it is not yet known how badly injured she was after suffering burns to her face, back and legs.\n\nThe cost of the damage to the stable is about £3,000.\n\nJanet and Brian Vokes said they have been left \"devastated\"\n\nDream Alliance was funded by a syndicate of friends and drinkers from the local working men's club who paid £10 a week for the horse to be trained.\n\nRodney, known affectionately as Rodders, was due to follow in Dream Alliance's footsteps and race under the name Impossible Dream.\n\nRodney had only been back in the stables for about three weeks after staying in a field in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, over the summer.\n\nMrs Vokes, 64, said: \"We've got no enemies, we keep ourselves to ourselves - we've only got our horses here.\n\n\"There's no clues up there, it was dark, no lights. We haven't got a clue - we hope someone locally will have the heart to inform the police if they know anything.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jennie Griffiths 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSouth Wales Fire and Rescue Service sent five crews to tackle the blaze after getting the call just after 06:40.\n\nHead of control at South Wales Fire and Rescue Service, Jennie Griffiths, tweeted that the blaze was deliberate.\n\nBoth the fire service and Gwent Police are carrying out an investigation.\n\nA vet is assessing the extent of Juwireya's injuries", "Dr Mark Tingay, a volcano expert with the University of Adelaide, answers key questions about what is happening at Mount Agung on the Indonesian island of Bali.", "Last updated on .From the section Sports Personality\n\nA shortlist of 12 contenders has been announced for the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2017 award.\n\nThey will go forward to a public vote on the night of the live show in Liverpool on Sunday, 17 December. The nominees are:\n\nHow do you vote?\n\nThe public will vote for their favourite by phone and online during the live show.\n\nVoting details, including phone numbers for each nominee, are announced during the programme and online. There is no voting via email, Red Button or by text.\n\nThis year's event will take place in front of an audience of nearly 11,000 people at the Echo Arena in Liverpool.\n• None How to cast your vote online\n\nWhat are the other awards?\n\nIn addition to the main prize, there will also be seven other awards:\n• None Overseas Sports Personality of the Year (Vote for your Overseas winner\n• None Helen Rollason Award for outstanding achievement in the face of adversity\n\nThe shortlist was compiled by a 12-member panel:\n• None Representatives from BBC Sport: Barbara Slater (director, BBC Sport), Philip Bernie (head of TV sport) and Carl Doran (executive editor, BBC Sports Personality of the Year)\n\nAndy Murray was voted 2016 Sports Personality for a record third time after winning his second Wimbledon title.\n\nThe Scot finished ahead of triathlete Alistair Brownlee in second, with showjumper Nick Skelton third.\n\nLeicester City won team of the year after their Premier League triumph, with Claudio Ranieri picking up the coach award.\n\nAmerican gymnast Simone Biles was overseas personality, while swimmers Michael Phelps (lifetime achievement) and Ellie Robinson (young personality) were also honoured.\n\nCharity runner Ben Smith received the Helen Rollason Award and the unsung hero trophy went to boxing club founder Marcellus Baz.", "The newly-engaged couple took part in a photo call at Kensington Palace on Monday afternoon.", "At this Wednesday's Budget, the man whose pronouncements will be most carefully watched may not, for once, be the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond.\n\nInstead it will be the former journalist, economist and now director of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), Robert Chote.\n\nWhy? Because it's down to him to arrive at a new, much more realistic view of a long, drawn-out economic calamity whose impact the government is only now accepting in full: a decade of flat productivity.\n\nUntil 10 years ago, productivity was the motor that drove economic growth. Its definition is nothing more complicated than the value we produce per worker (or per hour).\n\nIf you're a coffee shop worker, it's the value added in the sales of coffees, tea and food. On a pie-making production line, it's the pies you turn out. If you're a lorry driver, it's how much you deliver.\n\nNow think of that lorry driver stuck in a traffic jam. With too little investment in new roads and too many cars and lorries using them, his trips are slower. However hard he works, he can't keep delivering more than before. His productivity stalls.\n\nThat flat productivity has knock-on effects. The driver's employer used to get a little more output from each worker each year - so they each made the company a bit more revenue. That made it possible to afford pay rises above inflation each year.\n\nIn turn that meant the driver could afford to buy more, boosting spending, and therefore growth, in the rest of the economy. And the chancellor of exchequer also benefited when the driver was paid, collecting higher income tax and national insurance, and when the driver spent money, because more VAT came in.\n\nUntil very recently the OBR was assuming that happy state of affairs would return. The 2008 crash had done its damage. But all being well the economy would recover - and with it the tax revenues that would enable the chancellor to close the gap between his income and his spending (also known as the Budget deficit).\n\nNow have a look at the chart. The OBR's been assuming at each Budget for years that output per worker would get back to its pre-crisis rate of growth - where we each produce about 2.1% more each year.\n\nInstead, the typical rate of growth in the past five years has been 0.2%. As Robert Chote said last month: \"Our assumption that productivity growth would return to a more normal rate within a few years reflected a judgement that whatever factors were depressing it in the wake of the financial crisis would fade as it receded further into the past.\n\n\"But as the period of weak performance gets longer, the explanations that people pointed to immediately after the crisis look less convincing and others seem more plausible.\"\n\nHope of a recovery has been replaced by acceptance of weaker productivity growth - itself a large part of the reason why wages too are no higher in real terms than they were 11 years ago.\n\nOn Wednesday Mr Chote will publish his revised, more realistic assumption, accepting that something profound has changed. Accepting weaker productivity growth in the years to come means accepting lower tax revenue for the chancellor, which in turn means less scope for spending more, cutting taxes or reducing the deficit.\n\nBut hold on: it's not as if we've been in recession all that time. Haven't we had economic growth?\n\nThe answer is - yes. But not the sort we used to have. From one angle, an economy is simply people and their economic activity. If you add hundreds of thousands of people to the workforce each year, through people working into retirement and through immigration, then the economy will grow larger.\n\nBut GDP per capita - the amount we produce per person - has grown far more slowly.\n\nIt's not just the UK that has suffered from weak productivity growth, it's across all advanced countries. But in the UK, the weakness is worse. A period of weak productivity and weak wages this long hasn't happened since the 1860s.\n\nThe words of the OBR's Robert Chote may be significant on Budget day\n\nOne reason is weak business investment. A company trying to meet an expanding order book can try one of two methods: hire a few more people, or make its existing workforce more productive by investing in new, more efficient technology. As long as its cheaper and less risky to hire cheap labour, the business may hold off investment.\n\nBut weaker private investment - and private investment has in any case been growing recently - can't account for the whole effect.\n\nAnother attempted explanation is weak training and poor infrastructure, another is weak spending on research and development - all of which play a role but none of which can explain in full the breakdown of what is normally the engine of economic growth.\n\nThe government hopes to address some of those weaknesses in a new industrial strategy, originally due to be published before the Budget but now postponed until next week.\n\nMichael Jacobs, former Downing Street economic adviser and now director of the Institute for Public Policy Research, says the real problem isn't the obvious industries, such as engineering or pharmaceuticals, where growth relies on big investment and high skills.\n\n\"The UK's productivity problem lies in the vast majority of ordinary firms, in sectors such as retail, light manufacturing, tourism, hospitality and social care,\" he says.\n\n\"Unless the White Paper includes a plan to raise productivity in these sectors, it will still not be addressing the real 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.\n\nPope Francis has met Myanmar's military chief, as he begins the first papal visit to a country widely accused of ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims.\n\nGen Min Aung Hlaing denied any \"religious discrimination\" in a military campaign in Rakhine state.\n\nOfficials in the Buddhist-majority country are watching closely to see how the Pope responds to the crisis.\n\nHe has been urged by governments and rights groups to pressure them over their treatment of the Rohingyas.\n\nMore than 600,000 Rohingya have fled Myanmar (also called Burma) for neighbouring Bangladesh since August when deadly attacks on police posts by Rohingya militants prompted a military crackdown in Rakhine state.\n\nThousands gathered in Yangon for the first papal trip to the Buddhist-majority country\n\nAs part of his visit to the region, the Pope is also due to meet de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi.\n\nAfter Myanmar, he will move on to Bangladesh to meet a small group of Rohingya refugees in a symbolic gesture. The 80-year-old pontiff has become known for his moderate views and willingness to denounce global injustice.\n\nThe Pope met military chief Gen Min Aung Hlaing within hours of arriving in Myanmar.\n\nGen Hlaing said he had told the pontiff that \"there's no religious discrimination in Myanmar and there's the freedom of religion\", according to his latest Facebook post. It is not known how the Pope responded.\n\nHe has previously used the term \"our Rohingya brothers and sisters\" while denouncing the violence, but Myanmar's sole Catholic cardinal has asked him to avoid using it on the trip, to avoid inflaming local feelings.\n\nVatican spokesman Greg Burke told reporters on Monday that Pope Francis was taking advice he had been given about using the term \"Rohingya\" seriously, adding: \"We will find out together during the trip... it is not a forbidden word.\"\n\nHis motorcade was welcomed by hundreds as it swept through central Yangon\n\nMyanmar officials do not use the term, instead labelling Rohingya as \"Bengalis\", and say they migrated illegally from Bangladesh so should not be listed as one of the country's ethnic groups. Bangladesh denies they are its citizens.\n\nMyanmar says the crackdown in Rakhine is to root out violent insurgents there, but the UN has described the violence as a \"textbook example of ethnic cleansing\" - a sentiment echoed by international critics.\n\nLast week Myanmar and Bangladesh signed a deal to return hundreds of thousands who have fled across the border, but aid agencies have raised concerns about any forcible return.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Who are the Rohingya?", "Scientists are warning that Lake Victoria, Africa's largest freshwater lake, is under threat of dying.\n\nThey blame overfishing and pollution for severely damaged fish stocks.", "There had been intense speculation about the pair since they were pictured at the Invictus Games in September\n\nThe American love affair with the British Royal Family is an enduring, long-distance relationship, spiced up every now and then by a birth or a marriage.\n\nThe latest development has a distinctly American twist: Prince Harry has announced his engagement to the US actress Meghan Markle.\n\nUS networks are breathlessly covering the news. CBS gave it a \"hip hip and a hooray\".\n\nMany on the other side of the pond have focused not just on Ms Markle's nationality but the fact that she is mixed race.\n\n\"Prince Harry's future mother-in-law is a black woman with dreadlocks. There are no words for this kind of joy,\" tweeted journalist Samara Linton.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by S. This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Maya Earls This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Markle will now find herself rubbing shoulders with the great and good of British high society.\n\nIt is an experience familiar to the American nutritionist and author, and now Viscountess Hinchingbrooke, Julie Montagu.\n\nMs Montagu, from Sugar Grove, Illinois, married John Montagu, the 11th Earl of Sandwich.\n\n\"It's about being respectful of the history, the history Megan is marrying into is older than America itself,\" she told the BBC.\n\n\"At the same time, you don't want to lose who you are as a person and as an American.\"\n\nMs Markle has been dating Prince Harry since summer 2016\n\nShe said Ms Markle might face a steep learning curve when it came to pronunciation (\"My first lesson was that 'viscount' doesn't rhyme with 'discount'\") and setting a table (\"All those forks and knives and spoons... I had to have my husband show me how to set a table\").\n\nIt would however be \"such a breath of fresh air to have an American\", she said.\n\nUK social media site Joe.co.uk won some fans for taking a slightly different perspective to most, by making the successful bride-to-be the focus of the news.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 7 by JOE.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’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwitchy.com editor Greg Pollowitz also speculated that it might be part of an elaborate ploy to take back America.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 8 by Greg Pollowitz This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOn another note, Twitter-shy US president Donald Trump has yet to offer his congratulations to the couple. His predecessor has...\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 9 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\nAs has his counterpart to the north...\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 10 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\nNatasha Bird, digital editor at Elle Magazine, which has published two essays by Ms Markle, speculated that the American actress might help Her Majesty's subjects \"lose a bit of our British cynicism and adopt more of the we-can-do-anything attitude they have in America\".", "Volcanic mud flows called lahars - also known as cold lava - have been seen near Bali's Mount Agung.\n\nFears of an imminent major eruption have increased and an evacuation zone around the volcano has been widened.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lorna Lynch has decided to home-educate her daughter Emily who has a form of autism\n\nLorna Lynch is one of a growing number of parents home-educating a child with special needs.\n\nIn the last five years, their numbers have grown by 57% across England, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nAlmost a thousand children with recognised needs are waiting for a school place.\n\nMinisters in England say they're investing to improve the system.\n\nFor the past year, 11-year-old Emily has been educated at home, with extra educational activities arranged by her mother Lorna.\n\nEmily has been diagnosed with autism and ADHD, and is now on medication to manage anxiety.\n\nHome-schooling was a decision Lorna Lynch reached reluctantly after her daughter struggled to understand both lessons and other children's behaviour.\n\n\"I couldn't cope with her going to school and then coming back with her so stressed out, so angry at me.\"\n\n\"I want to learn things that I'm interested in - but it's like I can't learn anything because I don't know how and they don't tell me how.\"\n\nShe would become angry and lash out at other children.\n\n\"The meltdowns were horrendous,\" says Lorna, who tried three different schools before deciding to home-educate.\n\nWhile she now feels it is the right decision, she also thinks if more support had been available, it is a step she would not have had to take.\n\nLorna is currently appealing against a decision to refuse Emily an Education and Health Care Plan which is the official recognition of special needs.\n\nAn investigation by BBC Breakfast suggests her case is part of a growing trend.\n\nAcross England, Wales and Northern Ireland, 106 councils were able to provide information stretching back five years.\n\nIt revealed a 57% increase in children with a statement, or equivalent, being educated at home.\n\nThere has also been a rise in the number of children with recognised needs, but without a school place.\n\nAlmost 1,000 children with this highest level of special needs are waiting for a place.\n\nDr Adam Boddison, the chief executive of the special needs charity Nasen, said schools are finding it hard to remain inclusive because of performance measures and pressure on their budgets.\n\n\"If word gets round that a school is meeting needs, it becomes a magnet.\n\n\"The school is overwhelmed, they can't meet the needs.\n\n\"All schools are judged on the same criteria.\n\n\"So some are very inclusive, others are not.\"\n\nThe data revealed by the BBC investigation is part of a trend that he has noticed with one important change.\n\n\"Now too many families don't think they have another option, and have to resort to home education, and that can't be right.\"\n\nIn England, where the increase in home education is highest, at 64% over the last five years, the government said it is creating more places at special schools, and is spending £222m over four years on reforms of special educational needs and disability support.\n\nChildren and Families Minister Robert Goodwill said: \"We recognise the importance of ensuring that schools have the necessary resources to meet a wide range of special educational needs.\"\n\nMr Goodwill pointed out that all schools have a duty to admit children with special educational needs and are eligible for local authority top-up funding to provide additional support.", "Growth forecasts for the UK economy have been cut sharply following changes to estimates of productivity and business investment.\n\nThe Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) now expects the economy to grow by 1.5% this year, down from the estimate of 2% it made in March.\n\nGrowth, it says, will drop to 1.3% by 2020 and then rise to 1.5% in 2021.\n\nThe lower growth means that by 2021-22 government tax receipts will be £20bn lower than the OBR's March forecast.\n\nThe OBR expects borrowing as a share of economic output will still fall, but not as fast as it predicted in March.\n\nIt forecasts that borrowing this year will be 2.4% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), rather than its previous prediction of 2.9%.\n\nBy 2021-22, it says that percentage will be down to 1.3%. However, in March, it had expected borrowing to have fallen to 0.7% of GDP by then.\n\nThe figures make it harder for the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, to hit his target of bringing borrowing down to less than 2% of GDP by 2020-21. In March, the OBR estimated borrowing would then be at 0.9% of GDP. Today's forecast is for it to be at 1.5%.\n\nIn his Budget speech, Mr Hammond said: \"Regrettably our productivity performance continues to disappoint. Today the OBR revised down the outlook for productivity growth, business investment and GDP growth.\"\n\nYael Selfin, chief economist at KPMG UK, said: \"The downgrade to UK GDP growth forecasts has totally overshadowed the generally good news on public finances so far this fiscal year, reducing the money available to the chancellor.\n\n\"However, the chancellor is sticking to his target of reducing public borrowing to less than 2% of national income by 2020-21, albeit with a reduced chest for any emergency spending in the event the economy requires an additional boost.\"\n\nJohn Hawksworth, chief economist at PwC, said: \"The headroom he used to have between his target and the forecast represented about £20-26bn. That's now been reduced to about £15bn because of less growth and more borrowing.\n\n\"He is trying to walk a tightrope of fiscal prudence and austerity.\"\n\nThe OBR says in its Economic and Fiscal Outlook report that the impact of lower productivity means that GDP will grow by 5.7% over the next five years rather than by the 7.5% as it estimated in March.\n\nIt added: \"We expect real GDP growth to slow from 1.5% this year to 1.4% in 2018 and 1.3% in 2019, as public spending cuts intensify and Brexit-related uncertainty continues to bear down on activity.\"\n\nHowever, it said that the revisions to productivity had nothing to do with Brexit, or with the latest economic figures, but simply because of what it called a \"repeated tendency throughout the post-crisis period for productivity growth to disappoint\".\n\nIan Stewart, chief economist at Deloitte, said: \"The OBR's view that weak productivity is here to stay, and is not just a lingering hangover from the financial crisis, means a longer haul to eliminate the deficit and slower wage growth.\"\n\nThe OBR has also cut its estimates for business investment. Its report said: \"We now expect business investment to rise by around 12% between the first quarter of 2017 and the first quarter of 2022, significantly lower than the 19% expected in March.\n\n\"This downward revision reflects the weaker outlook for productivity growth lowering the expected return on capital.\"\n\nOn unemployment, the OBR said it believed the rate was now as low as it is going to go.\n\n\"We expect the rate to trough at 4.3% of the labour force - its current rate - in the second half of this year, and then to edge up as GDP growth slows a little further and the National Living Wage prices some workers out of employment.\"", "Isaiah Acosta was born with situs inversus, which meant all his major organs were in the wrong place, and he hadn't developed a jaw bone. His mother Tarah Acosta was told his life expectancy would be limited and he'd be \"bed-bound\".\n\nDespite doctors' predictions, Isaiah survived and is able to walk. He uses medical machinery to get food and oxygen and is unable to speak but he's gone on to fulfil his dream of becoming a rapper, with the help of the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals and musician Trap House.\n\nFind more amazing video from Outlook on BBC World Service.", "The new computer science GCSE has been thrown into disarray after programming tasks worth a fifth of the total marks were leaked repeatedly online.\n\nExams regulator Ofqual plans to pull this chunk of the qualification from the overall marks as it has been seen by thousands of people.\n\nOfqual said the non-exam assessment may have been leaked by teachers as well as students who had completed the task.\n\nThe breach affects two year groups. The first will sit the exam in summer 2018.\n\nLast year 70,000 students were entered for computer science GCSE.\n\nA quick internet search reveals numerous posts about the the non-exam assessment, with questions and potential answers.\n\nThere are even posts from one of the exam boards reminding students that they are monitoring certain websites.\n\nA statement from the regulator said: \"Non-exam assessment in computer science is intended to test students' programming skills and is worth 20% of the overall nine to one grade.\n\n\"However, there is evidence that some of this year's tasks have been posted to online forums and collaborative programming sites, contrary to exam board rules.\n\n\"Detailed solutions have been provided in many cases, and some of these posts have been viewed thousands of times.\"\n\nThis is against the rules and changes would be needed so grades could be awarded fairly next summer, Ofqual added.\n\nThe regulator is running a short consultation on how to proceed.\n\nIts preferred option would keep the non-exam assessment task, but to change it so it no longer contributes to the overall mark.\n\nJulie Swan, executive director for general qualifications, said: \"It is with great reluctance that we are proposing to change a qualification for which students are already studying.\n\n\"However, we must take immediate action to address these issues and the potential impact on public confidence in relation to this qualification.\n\n\"Subject to the consultation responses, we believe our preferred solution will deliver fairer and more reliable results than would otherwise be the case.\n\n\"It will also allow us to be confident that standards will be set appropriately.\"\n\nGeoff Barton, of the Association of School and College Leaders, said the integrity of the assessment had been compromised by the \"widespread availability of solutions online\".\n\nHe added that of all the subjects, computer science was the one where students were most likely to be aware of \"online opportunities\".\n\n\"It is an enormously frustrating situation for all concerned but we recognise that Ofqual has no option other than to consult on alternative arrangements,\" he said.\n\nHe added that other options would be needed in the longer term as \"the ubiquity of online information\" made this form of assessment extremely vulnerable.", "Street parties were held across the UK to mark the Cambridges' wedding in 2011\n\nThere are \"no plans\" for a bank holiday to mark the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, Downing Street has said.\n\nThe possibility of an extra day off had dominated social media reaction to news of their engagement.\n\nBut the decision lies with the government, which said there \"isn't a precedent in this area\".\n\nA bank holiday was declared throughout the UK in 2011 for the wedding of Harry's elder brother Prince William to Kate Middleton.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Laurie Hughes This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 day saw huge celebrations, with people lining the streets of London to see the royal couple on their way to Westminster Abbey.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Peter Ranger This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAcross the country, people held street parties and crowded into parks to watch the occasion on big screens.\n\nA bank holiday was also held for the wedding of Prince William's father Prince Charles to Lady Diana Spencer in 1981.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Razia Iqbal reports on the street parties held across the UK\n\nThis attracted an estimated global TV audience of 750 million.\n\nAfter the ceremony, thousands of people cheered the couple as they waved from the balcony of Buckingham Palace.\n\nWilliam is second in line to the throne after his father, while Prince Harry is not directly in line to the throne.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May's spokesman pointed out there had been no bank holiday to mark the weddings of Charles's younger brothers Prince Andrew in 1986 or Prince Edward in 1999.\n\nHowever, a bank holiday was declared for the wedding of Princess Anne in 1973.\n\nAn estimated 500 million people around the world watched the wedding of the Queen's eldest daughter to Captain Mark Phillips.\n\nPrince Andrew's wedding in 1986 was not a bank holiday", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Firefighters in Tenerife have released footage of the aftermath of the collapse\n\nThe dancefloor of a nightclub in Tenerife has collapsed, injuring 40 people.\n\nClubbers fell through the floor to the basement of the Butterfly Disco Pub at about 02:30 local time (02:30 GMT) on Sunday morning.\n\nThe club is in a shopping centre in Playa de las Americas, a clubbing hotspot in the south of the Spanish island popular with tourists.\n\nThose injured are said to be from a number of different countries, including Spain, France, the UK, Belgium and Romania.\n\nThe number of casualties rose from 22 to 40 as it emerged that 18 had made their own way to hospitals.\n\nThe extent of the damage can be seen when viewed from the basement\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTwo of those injured were seriously hurt, suffering fractures to the femur, or thigh bone, reported the local government. The remainder are believed to have suffered moderate to light injuries.\n\nThe club is in a shopping centre in Playa de las Americas\n\nEmergency services scrambled to the scene after a large section of the dancefloor gave way, and spent the next few hours evacuating the wounded.\n\n\"After the floor collapsed, the people who were inside fell to the basement from the height of approximately one floor,\" said the regional government in a statement quoted by AFP news agency.\n\nHave you witnessed these events? E-mail us at haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk\n\nYou can also contact us in the following ways:", "The organisers said to expect \"a confrontation bigger than the Battle of Orgreave\"\n\nA miners' strike-themed student rugby club event has been criticised as \"disgraceful\" and swiftly cancelled.\n\nGuests had been asked to come dressed as miners or members of Margaret Thatcher's government.\n\nThe Facebook invitation said: \"We want flat caps, filth... a few working-class-beating-bobbies wouldn't go amiss.\"\n\nDurham University said the event was \"wholly unacceptable\". The organisers have been approached for comment.\n\nPro-vice chancellor Owen Adams said: \"Durham University and Trevelyan College utterly deplore this event.\"\n\nIt had been cancelled by the students concerned, he said.\n\n\"We are speaking to those students and we are considering what further action to take in due course,\" he added.\n\nOrganisers of the event, who appeared to be associated with the rugby team at Trevelyan College, asked those playing different positions in the game to take the opposing sides in the 1984 dispute.\n\nForwards were asked to come as miners and to \"think pickaxes... think headlamps... think 12% unemployment in 1984\".\n\nBacks were asked to elect one member to be \"the Iron Lady herself\" with others coming as her government, police officers or Falklands War heroes.\n\nGuests were told to \"expect a confrontation bigger than the Battle of Orgreave\".\n\nTrevelyan College authorities said they deplored the proposed event\n\nCounty Durham has a rich mining history with, at its height, tens of thousands of miners working in pits across the area.\n\nThe strike saw arrests and clashes between miners and police in villages such as Easington Colliery.\n\nThe Durham Miners' Association said it was \"appalled\" to hear about the event and pleased the university and college had taken \"swift and appropriate action\".\n\nThey said the organisers had a \"complete lack of respect for local history\" and \"ought to be ashamed\".\n\nMr Adams said: \"Regrettably, there are occasions where student behaviour falls short of the standards we expect.\n\n\"The university reserves the right to take appropriate action against those who fall short of these standards.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "About one-third of UK health trusts were caught out by the WannaCry ransomware worm\n\nThe NHS is spending £20m to set up a security operations centre that will oversee the health service's digital defences.\n\nIt will employ \"ethical hackers\" to look for weaknesses in health computer networks, not just react to breaches.\n\nSuch hackers use the same tactics seen in cyber-attacks to help organisations spot weak points.\n\nIn May, one-third of UK health trusts were hit by the WannaCry worm, which demanded cash to unlock infected PCs.\n\nIn a statement, Dan Taylor, head of the data security centre at NHS Digital, said the centre would create and run a \"near-real-time monitoring and alerting service that covers the whole health and care system\".\n\nThe centre would also help the NHS improve its \"ability to anticipate future vulnerabilities while supporting health and care in remediating current known threats\", he said.\n\nAnd operations centre guidance would complement the existing teams the NHS used to defend itself against cyber-threats.\n\nNHS Digital, the IT arm of the health service, has issued an invitation to tender to find a partner to help run the project and advise it about the mix of expertise it required.\n\nKevin Beaumont, a security vulnerability manager, welcomed the plan to set up the centre.\n\n\"This is a really positive move,\" he told the BBC.\n\nMany private sector organisations already have similar central teams that use threat intelligence and analysis to keep networks secure.\n\n\"Having a function like this is essential in modern-day organisations,\" Mr Beaumont said.\n\n\"In an event like WannaCry, the centre could help hospitals know where they are getting infected from in real time, which was a big issue at the time, organisations were unsure how they were being infected\".\n\nIn October, the UK's National Audit Office said NHS trusts had been caught out by the WannaCry worm because they had failed to follow recommended cyber-security policies.\n\nThe NAO report said NHS trusts had not acted on critical alerts from NHS Digital or on warnings from 2014 that had urged users to patch or migrate away from vulnerable older software.", "The first UK civil claim against Harvey Weinstein has been issued in the High Court.\n\nA woman, who worked in the film industry and wishes to remain anonymous, is alleging a series of sexual assaults by the film producer.\n\nThe claim, which was lodged by personal injury lawyer Jill Greenfield on the woman's behalf, is expected to exceed £300,000.\n\nThe claim form, which has been seen by the BBC, states the woman is seeking damages for personal injury, expenses, and consequential loss.\n\nIt also includes a claim against the Weinstein Company UK Ltd and the Weinstein Company LLC in the US, who are liable as employers of Weinstein.\n\nIt's understood the woman has not yet submitted an official complaint to Scotland Yard, but Ms Greenfield confirmed to the BBC she expects a criminal case to run at the same time as the civil claim.\n\nUK police investigating the movie mogul confirmed last month they are now looking at sexual assault allegations from seven women.\n\nMeanwhile, an actress named Kadian Noble has accused Weinstein of luring her into a hotel room in the south of France and assaulting her in 2014.\n\nIn a civil action filed in New York on Monday, she claims a violation of US federal sex trafficking laws by Weinstein, his brother Bob and The Weinstein Company.\n\nAs well as denying allegations of non-consensual sex, Weinstein has said - in a statement issued on his behalf - that \"there were never any acts of retaliation against any women for refusing his advances\".\n\nBob Weinstein has yet to respond to the suit, but has denied any knowledge in his brother Harvey's alleged misconduct.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None How the Harvey Weinstein scandal has unfolded", "Katie Hopkins appeared on The Apprentice in 2007\n\nBroadcaster Katie Hopkins has left MailOnline after two years as a columnist for the website.\n\nThe presenter, who first rose to prominence as a contestant on The Apprentice in 2007, joined MailOnline in November 2015.\n\nHopkins is known for her controversial opinions and regularly attracts criticism for her views.\n\nA MailOnline spokesperson said: \"Katie's contract was not renewed by mutual consent.\"\n\nNo reason has been given for Hopkins leaving the website. The BBC has contacted Hopkins' management for comment.\n\nKatie Hopkins finished second in Celebrity Big Brother in 2015\n\nIt also appears that Hopkins' tweets are currently being deleted from her Twitter account.\n\nShe tweeted on Monday that she had registered to a website that deletes tweets - although that message then disappeared.\n\nThe writer and broadcaster also parted company with radio station LBC in May, where she had a regular show.\n\nShe caused anger just before she left the station when she tweeted that there must be a \"final solution\" in dealing with terrorists following the Manchester terror attack.\n\nSome followers questioned her use of the phrase \"final solution\" - a term used by the Nazis to refer to the Holocaust - but later Hopkins altered it to \"true solution\", describing the earlier version as a \"mis-type\".\n\nHopkins is now deleting her tweets\n\nEarlier this year, food writer Jack Monroe won £24,000 in damages, plus £107,000 in legal costs, in a libel action against Hopkins after a row over two tweets, which Monroe said caused \"serious harm\" to her reputation.\n\nHopkins was later told by the High Court she could not appeal against the ruling, but she has applied to the Court of Appeal in an attempt to have that decision reconsidered.\n\nLast December, she apologised to a Muslim family she accused of being extremists after they were refused entry to the US for a Disneyland trip.\n\nMailOnline, which published her claim, also paid £150,000 in libel damages to the Mahmood family.\n\nHopkins has gradually built up her reputation as a controversial figure since 2013, when she appeared on This Morning during a discussion about children's names.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nFirst Ashes Test, Gabba, Brisbane (day five of five)\n\nAustralia completed a 10-wicket victory over England in the first Ashes Test on the fifth morning in Brisbane.\n\nChasing a target of 170, the hosts got the 56 runs they required in little more than an hour, with David Warner 87 not out and debutant Cameron Bancroft unbeaten on 82.\n\nOn just two previous occasions have England lost the first Test in Australia and gone on to win the Ashes, but Joe Root's men need only draw the series to retain the urn.\n\nThe next Test, a day-nighter in Adelaide, begins on Saturday, so the tourists must re-group quickly both on and off the field.\n\nNews of an investigation into an alleged headbutt by wicketkeeper Jonny Bairstow on Australia's Bancroft in a Perth bar four weeks ago emerged on Sunday.\n\nBoth men were on the field throughout Monday's play and shook hands at the conclusion of the match.\n\nIt was Bancroft who offered the only semblance of a chance, edging Jake Ball past lone slip Alastair Cook when on 60.\n\nHe hit the winning runs off Chris Woakes as Australia preserved their 29-year unbeaten record at the Gabba on the third anniversary of the death of Phillip Hughes.\n• None A silly act that has left the ECB furious - Agnew\n• None Listen to the Tuffers & Vaughan Cricket Show on 5 live - 21:30 GMT, 27 November\n\nThis was England's sixth successive Test defeat in Australia following a 5-0 whitewash in 2013-14.\n\nDespite the margin of victory, this match was even for the majority of the contest and offers some suggestion the series could be keenly fought.\n\nUltimately, it was decided by some key moments going the way of the home side, partly through Australian excellence and partly through England mistakes.\n\nOn the first day, with England 127-1, James Vince was run out for 83 by a brilliant direct hit from Nathan Lyon.\n\nVince was one of seven England batsmen to reach 38, but his was the tourists' highest score of the match.\n\nIn contrast, Australia captain Steve Smith ground out an unbeaten 141 to rescue his side from 76-4 and 209-7, the latter when England were strangely reluctant to employ all-time leading wicket-taker James Anderson.\n\nAustralia's final three wickets ultimately added 119 runs, whereas in the first innings England's last five managed 56 and in their second the last four just 10.\n\nAnd although the home side coasted the chase, by the time Warner and Bancroft negotiated the new ball, the contest was as good as over.\n\nIn a Test that was in the balance for so long, England's defeat further highlighted the effect of Ben Stokes' absence.\n\nThe all-rounder was arrested on suspicion of actual bodily harm in September following an incident outside a Bristol nightclub.\n\nHe remains in the UK awaiting the outcome of a police investigation.\n\nWithout Stokes batting at number six, Moeen Ali and Woakes moved up the batting order and an elongated tail was twice blown away by the aggressive Australia pace attack.\n\nStokes' replacement in the side, pace bowler Ball, returned match figures of 1-115.\n\nDid the scoreline flatter Australia? - what they said\n\nEngland captain Joe Root, speaking to TMS: \"It doesn't really feel like a 10-wicket defeat. We came here fully confident we could get the win.\n\n\"For three days we were excellent but missed a couple of chances with bat and ball in the first two innings.\n\n\"Mark and Vincey played outstandingly well. To show that composure, character and skill in their first Ashes Test was exceptional.\n\n\"The wicket got better as the match went on. Steve Smith's knock was incredible - take it out and we would've bowled them out for 150.\"\n\nAustralia captain Steve Smith: \"It's great we've been able to keep our Gabba record. We played some really good cricket after losing the toss on what was a really good wicket.\n\n\"Nathan Lyon is bowling as well as I've seen him bowl. He went wicketless in the first innings then got the reward in the second. Davey [Warner] and Cameron were magnificent.\n\n\"I think England have a few newish players that haven't experienced an Ashes series before. The first Test is important and it's nice to get it out of the way but we've got a big ask on our hands at Adelaide.\"\n• None Get Ashes alerts sent to your phone", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The crash happened on Stonegate Road in the Meanwood area of Leeds\n\nThe five victims of a crash that saw a stolen car smash into a tree in a Leeds suburb have been named locally.\n\nBrothers Ellis and Elliott Thornton, aged 12 and 15, died along with 15-year-old Darnell Harte and 24-year-old Robbie Meerun.\n\nFather-of-two Anthoney Armour, 28, whose partner is pregnant with a third child, also died.\n\nPolice were called to Stonegate Road in the Meanwood area of the city at 21:54 GMT on Saturday.\n\nTwo 15-year-old boys are being held in custody on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving.\n\nClockwise from top left: Ellis and Elliott Thornton, Darnell Harte, Anthoney Armour and Robbie Meerun\n\nA vigil was held opposite the crash scene late on Sunday night and floral tributes are being left.\n\nOne message read: \"Elliot and Ellis. Two beautiful boys taken too soon. We will never forget you both and love you both forever and always sleep tight boys.\"\n\nJulie, a former neighbour of the brothers, told BBC Radio Leeds: \"It's devastating, they were funny, cheeky lads, always a smile on their faces.\"\n\nSome of those involved in the crash are understood to have gone to the nearby Carr Manor Community School.\n\nIn a message posted on its website, the school said: \"We are aware of the tragic road accident in our local community and send our condolences and sympathies to the families and all those affected by this shocking and upsetting incident.\n\n\"Until the police confirm relevant details we are unable to comment further and we will continue to offer support and help to all our pupils who may be affected by this distressing event.\"\n\nPeople hug as they look at flowers and messages left near the scene of the crash\n\nA police spokesman said officers were confronted by a scene of \"complete carnage\" when they arrived.\n\nTwo victims were pronounced dead at the scene and three died a short time later at hospital, West Yorkshire Police added.\n\nTheir families have been informed.\n\nAbout 60 people held a vigil on Stonegate Road on Sunday evening\n\nLouise Thornton, 34, described as Ellis and Elliot's \"godmother/aunty Lou\", told the Yorkshire Evening Post the family was \"devastated\".\n\nShe said: \"We were so proud of the boys. They will be hugely missed by the family. It will leave a huge devastating void.\n\n\"They were very well-loved. We just can't describe how much these little boys have left a big void in our family.\"\n\nOfficers continued to gather evidence at the scene on Monday\n\nDet Ch Insp Jim Griffiths said: \"This is clearly a tragic incident in which five young people have lost their lives.\"\n\nEarlier, police said they were working on the assumption all seven were in the same vehicle - a Renault Clio.\n\nHowever, the force has since said: \"Whether they were all in the car or whether some of [the victims] were pedestrians we can't say at this point in time.\"\n\nWest Yorkshire Police described the crash as a \"tragic incident\"\n\nStonegate Road is about three miles north of Leeds city centre and has semi-detached houses and wide grass verges between the houses and the road.\n\nInvestigators were back at the scene on Monday morning, with anyone with information asked to contact West Yorkshire Police.\n\nCouncillor Judith Blake, leader of Leeds City Council, said: \"This is a truly terrible tragedy, and our thoughts and deepest condolences are with the families and friends of those that have lost loved ones.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This is no ordinary royal engagement.\n\nMeghan Markle brings something different to the British Royal Family.\n\nShe is American, divorced, an actress and mixed race.\n\nShe is also a campaigner with a variety of humanitarian interests and won't want her marriage to limit her ability to speak out and support various causes - particularly those of gender equality.\n\nAs an advocate for UN Women, Ms Markle has worked on helping young girls reach their leadership potential. When she was first approached about working with the United Nations the Suits star insisted on undertaking a period of \"work experience\" first.\n\nIn her own time she shadowed Elizabeth Nyamayaro, a senior advisor at UN Women. Elizabeth was impressed by the intelligence, commitment and curiosity of the actress.\n\nThe pair have since worked together closely on a number of UN missions and Elizabeth has no doubt that her friend and colleague will thrive in her new royal role.\n\n\"Her ability to listen, her passion for other people, wanting to create social change with that level of platform can only be a positive thing. She'll be fine, she'll be great in fact.\"\n\nMs Markle addressed gender issues at the One Young World forum in Canada\n\nBut the media coverage of the relationship in its early days unsettled sections of the British press and its readers.\n\nPrince Harry even took the unprecedented step of issuing a public statement asking for privacy and describing some of the coverage as having \"racial undertones\".\n\nMuch was made of his fiancée's upbringing in Los Angeles, with the area described as gang-infested and a place riddled with racial tension.\n\nHowever, Ms Markle actually grew up in a very middle class neighbourhood of Los Angeles and attended a private Catholic school.\n\nBut in many ways she is an outsider.\n\nPrince Harry isn't following a traditional path - he's not marrying the daughter of a grand aristocratic family.\n\nHis wife-to-be now has to negotiate her way through the British aristocracy, in a similar vein to her future sister-in-law, the Duchess of Cambridge.\n\nIt is an experience American nutritionist and author Julie Montagu knows well, as the future Countess of Sandwich.\n\nBorn and brought up in Illinois, she married the son of the Earl of Sandwich and is now Viscountess Hinchingbrooke.\n\nShe splits her time between London and the family estate, Mapperton, in Dorset.\n\n\"Even now I still get things wrong,\" she told me. \"The British upper classes have their own way of doing things. But as an American I bring my optimism, positivity and work ethic into the mix which I believe is hugely important.\"\n\nMs Markle is joining a family and entering a world unlike anything she has previously experienced. Yes it brings with it great privilege. But it also means a lack of privacy and the acceptance of a public life. As an actress she may find herself well equipped to deal with the scrutiny ahead.", "We're going to close our live coverage here, with a final recap for you.\n\nPrince Harry, the fifth in line to the throne, is to marry to the American actress Meghan Markle.\n\nThe couple got engaged earlier this month, when Harry proposed during a night in at his Kensington Palace cottage.\n\nThey will tie the knot in Spring 2018.\n\nRead our full story here: Stars were aligned when I met Meghan, says Harry\n\nAnd watch some of the BBC's interview with the couple below. We'll have a full version up on the site as soon as possible.", "The mesh is made of polypropylene - the same material used to make certain drinks bottles\n\nThe health watchdog NICE is to recommend that vaginal mesh operations should be banned from treating organ prolapse in England, the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire show has learned.\n\nDraft guidelines from NICE say the implants should only be used for research - and not routine operations.\n\nSome implants can cut into the vagina and women have been left in permanent pain, unable to walk, work or have sex.\n\nOne expert said it is highly likely the NHS will take up the recommendation.\n\nHowever, the organisation is not compelled to act on findings it receives from NICE.\n\nBoth NHS England and NICE declined to comment.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Stephanie and Peter Williams say it's made it \"impossible\" for them to be intimate\n\nIn the documents - to be published after consultation in December - NICE said there were \"serious but well-recognised safety concerns\" and that \"evidence of long-term efficacy [for implants treating organ prolapse] is inadequate in quality and quantity\".\n\nIt added that \"when complications occur, these can be serious and have life-changing consequences\", but said \"most commentaries received from patients reported satisfaction with the procedure\".\n\nOne woman, Margie Maguire, 41 - told the Victoria Derbyshire programme she cannot have any more children or walk unaided because of the damage caused by the mesh.\n\n\"I have chronic pelvic pain on a daily basis and I'm on nine different medications when I have a pain attack.\n\n\"These can last from two to six hours at a time and is like having a heart attack,\" she said.\n\nKate Langley told the programme in April she had been admitted to hospital 53 times to try to end the pain, but - like many women - the mesh was so near the nerve it could not be fully removed.\n\nShe has been left with nerve damage and in permanent pain by the implants, giving up her business as a childminder because the pain was so intense.\n\nThe surgeon who first examined her, she explained, \"could see the [mesh] tape had come through my vagina - protruding through\".\n\nKate Langley has been left in permanent pain by her vaginal mesh implant\n\nThe plastic meshes are made of polypropylene - the same material used to make certain drinks bottles - and manufactured by many different companies.\n\nThey are used to support organs such as the vagina, uterus, bowel, bladder or urethra which have prolapsed after childbirth.\n\nThe University of Oxford's Prof Carl Heneghan, an expert in the subject, said the draft guidelines were an admission that health services had \"got this wrong\" - calling the use of mesh a \"catastrophe\".\n\nHe described the draft guidelines as a \"backdoor ban\" on implants that would effectively end their use.\n\nBut he said it had come too late.\n\nProf Heneghan says the use of the implants has been \"absolutely farcical\"\n\n\"Seven years I have been watching this emerge - it is absolutely farcical how bad it is. Either they're burying their heads in the sand or they don't know what they're doing.\"\n\nHe called for a registry to be created for everyone who had been treated with the implants so that their effects could be fully understood.\n\nIn April, the BBC learned more than 800 UK women are taking legal action against the NHS and the makers of vaginal mesh implants.\n\nThe NICE documents suggest \"randomised controlled trial data showed no added benefit of using mesh compared with native tissue repair\".\n\nMesh implants are used to treat organ prolapse and urinary incontinence\n\nBetween April 2007 and March 2015, more than 92,000 women had vaginal mesh implants in England, according to NHS data from the Hospital Episodes Statistics.\n\nAbout one in 11 women has experienced problems, the data suggests.\n\nThe use of vaginal mesh to treat urinary incontinence is not mentioned in the draft NICE guidelines.\n\nIn Scotland, former Scottish Health Secretary Alex Neil requested a suspension of mesh implants by the NHS in 2014, but figures obtained by the BBC in December 2016 showed hundreds of operations have been performed since.\n\nA number of Scottish health boards have stopped using mesh implants altogether.\n\nThe mesh is also used routinely in hernia repair despite concerns it is leaving many patients in chronic pain.\n\nThe Department of Health declined to comment.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.", "Twenty-two people died in the attack at Manchester Arena on 22 May\n\nThe government will fully fund the costs of dealing with the Manchester Arena attack, Prime Minister Theresa May has said.\n\nIt comes after Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham said an initial offer was \"not good enough\".\n\nBut the PM told the Manchester Evening News: \"Be in no doubt, Manchester will get the financial support it needs.\"\n\nShe added in a statement that a Cabinet Office task force had been set up to oversee meeting the costs.\n\nSuicide bomber Salman Abedi detonated a device that killed 22 people and injured 512 in the foyer of the venue at an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May.\n\nAndy Burnham said an initial government offer was \"not good enough\"\n\nThe government had previously said Manchester would receive £12m to help cover the \"exceptional costs\" of the attack, with £3m being made available immediately.\n\nBut Mr Burnham said more than £17.5m had already been spent and suggested at least £10.4m more could be needed, including for the inquests into the 22 deaths and an inquiry.\n\nThe £12m figure would have meant local authorities being forced to cut services to make up the £5m shortfall on what had already been spent, he warned.\n\nOn Friday, Mr Burnham outlined £10.5m projected costs to add to the £17.5m already spent.\n\nMrs May said the government would meet the \"unexpected and exceptional costs\"\n\nMrs May told the Manchester Evening News: \"Be in no doubt, Manchester will get the financial support it needs - and if that costs £28m, as Andy Burnham has estimated, then that is what we will make available.\"\n\nShe added in a statement that the attack was \"one of the darkest moments in the city's history\".\n\n\"I promised in the wake of that appalling atrocity this government would do all it could to help victims recover and the city to heal. I repeat that commitment today,\" she said.\n\n\"Where your public services have had to bear, or will bear, unexpected and exceptional costs in coping with this terrible attack, these will be met by the government.\n\n\"The process of making those payments is ongoing and I understand the frustration felt at the pace of delivery.\n\n\"So I have taken steps to speed up our response. Over the weekend a taskforce has been established within the Cabinet Office to oversee progress and expedite payments when necessary.\"\n\nMrs May added that not all the funding would be needed immediately.\n\n\"For example the inquests, opened and adjourned this month, will not begin until next June,\" she said.", "The front pages are dominated by pictures of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle after their royal engagement, many taking up their full length. The Sun has a picture of the couple gazing at each other during their appearance outside Kensington Palace, and the headline: \"She's the one.\"\n\nA similar picture in the Express has the headline: \"The look of love.\" Other headlines use quotes from the couple's television interview. The Telegraph has: \"The corgis took to her straightaway.\"\n\nThe Times says the interview displayed the emotional openness of the Royal Family's younger generation.\n\nIn Toronto - where Ms Markle has been living and working as an actress for the past seven years - the Toronto Star says the fact the couple's love story has a distinct touch of Toronto makes the occasion all the happier locally.\n\nThe royal bride-to-be went to Northwestern University in Illinios, and the Chicago Tribune runs the headline: \"2003 graduate accepts government post in London.\"\n\nIt describes her as a television actress who's moving to London to pursue an exciting career that combines diplomacy and charity work. The position comes with the title Her Royal Highness, it adds.\n\nThe Times reports that Jeremy Corbyn's left-wing supporters have been accused of carrying out an \"aggressive purge\" of centrist councillors to put up their own candidates in local elections next year.\n\nIt says councillors across the country have been deselected in a vote of local members or have faced pressure not to contest their seats, in favour of candidates more closely aligned to the cause of the Labour leader and the Momentum campaign that supports him.\n\nThe release of six former British soldiers detained in India on weapons charges since 2013 is widely reported, but there's criticism of the Indian justice system.\n\nIn the Sun's view, it was outrageous and a mark of the \"chaotic\" Indian legal system that the men were locked up at all, let alone for so long.\n\nThe Mirror thinks the legal and diplomatic systems clearly failed the \"Chennai Six\". After initial charges were quashed, then re-instated by a lower court, followed by convictions in January last year, before Monday's acquittal, something went badly wrong.", "This footage from West Midlands Police shows two men pulling up outside a victim's house in the Elmdon area of Solihull.\n\nThe pair steal the car without needing to see the owner's keys.\n\nMark Silvester, from the West Midlands Police crime reduction team, said: \"To protect against this type of theft, owners can use an additional tested and Thatcham-approved steering lock to cover the entire steering wheel\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Meghan Markle has revealed that Prince Harry proposed on a Sunday night at home\n\nPrince Harry says he and US actress girlfriend Meghan Markle fell in love \"so incredibly quickly\" and it seemed proof that the \"stars were aligned\".\n\nThe fifth in line to the throne was speaking after the couple announced their engagement and plans to marry in spring 2018.\n\nThe couple told the BBC's Mishal Husain they met on a blind date and neither had known much about each other.\n\nPrince Harry said \"beautiful\" Ms Markle \"just tripped and fell into my life\".\n\nHe believed Ms Markle and his late mother, Diana, Princess of Wales, would have been \"thick as thieves... best friends\".\n\nPrince Harry revealed he proposed earlier this month during a \"standard, typical night for us\" at his home in Kensington Palace as the couple were making roast chicken.\n\n\"It was just an amazing surprise. It was so sweet, and natural and very romantic. He got on one knee,\" Ms Markle said.\n\nPrince Harry said: \"She didn't even let me finish. She said 'Can I say yes'.\n\n\"Then there were hugs and I had the ring in my finger.\n\n\"I said 'Can I give you the ring?'. She said: 'Oh, yes, the ring'. It was a really nice moment. Just the two of us.\"\n\nTurning to Ms Markle, Prince Harry said: \"And I think I managed to catch you by surprise as well.\"\n\nThe 36-year-old star of US legal drama Suits confirmed she would be giving up acting and with her new role focus even more energy on the causes that are important to her.\n\nShe is already involved with humanitarian work and is a women's advocate with the UN.\n\nMs Markle said: \"I don't see it as giving anything up. I see it as a change. It's a new chapter.\"\n\nTurning to Prince Harry, she said: \"Now it's time to work as a team with you.\"\n\nThe prince, 33, added: \"I know that she will be unbelievably good at the job part of it as well.\"\n\nThe couple described how they were set up on their blind date by a mutual friend, and then met once more before going camping together in Botswana.\n\n\"I think about three, maybe four weeks later I managed to persuade her to come and join me...\n\n\"And we camped out with each other under the stars... she came and joined me for five days out there, which was absolutely fantastic.\"\n\nPrince Harry said \"both of us have passions for wanting to make change for good\".\n\nMs Markle said \"one of the first things we started taking about when we met was just the different things we wanted to do in the world and how passionate we were about seeing change\".\n\nShe said it was \"disheartening\" there had been a focus on the fact her father is white and her mother is African-American.\n\n\"At the end of the day I am proud of who I am and where I come from... we've just focused on who we are as a couple.\"\n\nThe couple declined to reveal the name of the mutual female friend who introduced them in July 2016.\n\nBut Ms Markle said she \"didn't know much\" about Prince Harry before meeting him.\n\n\"The only thing I had asked her when she said she wanted to set us up, was 'was he nice?' If he wasn't kind, it didn't seem like it would make sense\".\n\nThe prince said he had not been aware of Ms Markle before their first meeting in London as he had never watched her TV show.\n\nEarlier, the couple posed for photographs outside Kensington Palace in London, where they will live.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle posed for the cameras in the garden at Kensington Palace\n\nPrince Harry said he was \"thrilled\", while Ms Markle said she was \"so very happy\".\n\nMs Markle, wearing a white belted coat, held Harry's hand as they appeared briefly for the press at the palace's Sunken Garden, and showed off her diamond engagement ring.\n\nAsked by a reporter when he knew Suits star Ms Markle \"was the one\", Prince Harry said: \"The very first time we met\".\n\nThe announcement of their engagement was issued by Clarence House on Twitter, the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall's official residence, and said details about the wedding day would be unveiled \"in due course\".\n\nDowning Street said there are \"no plans\" for a bank holiday on the day.\n\nMs Markle's engagement ring was designed by Prince Harry and features two diamonds which belonged to his mother.\n\nThe band is made from yellow gold and at the centre is a diamond from Botswana.\n\nMs Markle said it was a sign of \"Harry's thoughtfulness\".\n\nShe had obviously not been able to meet his mother, she said, but it was \"so important to me... to know that she's a part of this with us\".\n\nMs Markle said she had met the Queen a couple of times and described her as an \"incredible woman\".\n\nThe Queen's corgis are said to have taken to her \"straight away\".\n\nAsked about having children, Prince Harry said: \"One step at a time and hopefully we'll start a family in the near future.\"\n\nMs Markle grew up in Los Angeles and attended a private primary school before studying at a girls' Roman Catholic college. She graduated from Northwestern University School of Communication in Illinois, as her acting career was beginning.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury said he was \"absolutely delighted\" at the engagement announcement and indicated the couple would have a church wedding.\n\nShe was previously married, but the Church of England agreed in 2002 that divorced people could be allowed to remarry in church.", "Father Fidelis Mukonori said he could not confirm reports that Zimbabwe's ex-leader was granted $10m (£7.5m) to ease him out of office.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland all-rounder Ben Stokes is not flying out to join up with the squad in Australia despite widespread speculation on social media, says the England and Wales Cricket Board.\n\nStokes, 26, was arrested in September on suspicion of actual bodily harm after an incident outside a nightclub.\n\nA picture was posted on Twitter on Monday which it was claimed showed him at Heathrow Airport.\n\nThe ECB said Stokes was flying to New Zealand to spend time with his family.\n\nIt added it had not taken care of his travel arrangements.\n\nStokes was released without charge after the incident outside Bristol's Mbargo nightclub in the early hours of on 26 September, but remains under investigation.\n\nTwo men subsequently claimed Stokes was defending them from homophobic abuse.\n\nThe Durham player was initially named in England's squad for the Ashes but did not travel out with the rest of squad.\n\nIt is understood there no legal restrictions preventing him from leaving the country, but he is still part of an ongoing enquiry by Avon and Somerset Police.\n\nEngland lost the first Ashes Test in Brisbane by 10 wickets. The next Test in the five-match series, a day-nighter in Adelaide, begins on Saturday.\n• None More from the Ashes: 'England wheels in danger of coming off'\n\n'We are waiting for the police to make a charging decision'\n\nSpeaking on Sunday, England director of cricket Andrew Strauss said there had been no change with regard to Stokes' availability.\n\n\"We're waiting for the police to make a charging decision and, until that happens, nothing has changed,\" he said.\n\n\"We're in the same situation as we have been for quite a long time now.\n\n\"There are certain procedural things that have taken place but there is a process that can only kick in once we've heard a charging decision from the police.\"", "Six British former soldiers who have been held on weapons charges in India since 2013 are to be released.\n\nThey were arrested while working as guards on a ship to combat piracy in the Indian Ocean.\n\nThe so-called Chennai Six always denied the charges, which were initially quashed but later reinstated. They were sentenced to five years in 2016.\n\nThe former soldiers appealed, and a judge has just ruled that they be acquitted.\n\nGet more updates on this story on BBC Local Live.\n\nThe men, who were working on the anti-piracy ship MV Seaman Guard Ohio, are:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Family of Nick Dunn react to news of release\n\nThey were arrested on board a ship owned by an American company which offered armed protection services to vessels sailing through an area known as \"pirates' alley\" between the Indian Ocean and the Red Sea.\n\nCustoms officials and police found 35 guns, including semi-automatic weapons, and almost 6,000 rounds of ammunition on board the ship.\n\nIndian authorities said the weapons and ammunition had not been properly declared\n\nInitially charges were quashed when the men argued that the weapons were lawfully held for anti-piracy purposes and the paperwork, issued by the UK government, was in order.\n\nBut a lower court reinstated the prosecution and they were convicted in January last year.\n\nSince then there has been a series of appeals.\n\nThe families have long campaigned for the men's release, and took a petition to Downing Street\n\nThe latest news has been welcomed by the men's families.\n\nYvonne MacHugh, the partner of Billy Irving, said he had missed the birth of their son, William.\n\nShe said: \"I just feel sheer relief - finally we're getting our family back together.\n\n\"Finally all the men are going to be home with their families. They've been acquitted of all charges, so they have done no wrongdoing and finally we've proven that.\"\n\nLisa Dunn, the sister of Nick Dunn, described it as \"the best news ever\".\n\nShe said: \"The longer it went on, as much as you still have an element of hope, it does dwindle after having so many delays and setbacks.\n\n\"It will make all of our Christmases - all of our dreams have come true today.\"\n\nIndian authorities said weapons and ammunition found on board MV Seaman Guard Ohio had not been properly declared\n\nThe judge ruled that all charges against the men - and 29 others arrested with them - be dropped with immediate effect, and the fines they were ordered to pay be refunded.\n\nHowever, it is not yet known when they will be able to return home, as the authorities could appeal against the decision.\n\nJohn Armstrong's sister, Joanne Tomlinson, said: \"They still need to get police clearance before they can come home, so there are steps being taken to try to ensure that everything's in place.\n\n\"That they can come back as quickly as possible, but we don't have a time-frame for that yet.\"\n\nTheresa May's official spokesman said: \"We are now working with the Indian authorities to discuss the next steps.\n\n\"We will continue to offer the men and their families consular assistance for as long as it is needed.\"\n\nForeign Secretary Boris Johnson described the verdict as \"fantastic news\" and said the case \"has been a top priority for everybody\" at the Foreign Office (FCO).\n\n\"The FCO has worked tirelessly behind the scenes to reunite these men with their families,\" he added.\n\n\"I share their delight and I hope they can return home as soon as possible.\"", "Prince Harry and Ms Markle announced their engagement in November\n\nMeghan Markle was no stranger to the spotlight before getting engaged to Prince Harry - she was a familiar face on screens and red carpets thanks to her acting roles, appearances at fashion shows and charity work.\n\nBefore joining the Royal Family, she was best known for her role in legal drama Suits, and had small roles in films including Get Him to the Greek and Horrible Bosses.\n\nThe LA-born star is also a Global Ambassador for World Vision and has campaigned for the UN.\n\nHer character was seen getting married to Mike Ross (played by Patrick J Adams) in her final appearance on the show in April\n\nMs Markle had a small role as an FBI Special Agent in Fox's sci-fi series Fringe alongside Jasika Nicole, Joshua Jackson and John Noble\n\nShe's seen here alongside Christopher Jacot in the Hallmark Channel's 2014 romance film When Sparks Fly\n\nMs Markle volunteered as a fundraiser at Cantor Fitzgerald and BGC's Annual Charity Day in 2013\n\nThe actress walked the red carpet at the 2013 MuchMusic Video Awards in Toronto\n\nHer interest in politics and humanitarian issues led her to speak at the One Young World conference in 2014, which gathers young leaders to develop solutions to world problems\n\nShe joined Nina Agdal, Shay Mitchell and Chrissy Teigen to take part in the DirecTV Beach Bowl, an all-star flag football game, in New York\n\nShe also tried her hand at mixing cocktails at the event\n\nMs Markle set up a website called The Tig, which covered food, travel, fashion and beauty, but closed her \"passion project\" last year with a message telling readers: \"Don't ever forget your worth\"\n\nMs Markle spoke at the Reebok #HonorYourDays event in Massachusetts in 2016\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Millions are on the brink of famine in Yemen, the UN says\n\nA UN aid ship carrying food supplies has been allowed to dock at a rebel-held port in Yemen, after the Saudi-led coalition eased a blockade that has lasted for nearly three weeks.\n\nThe blockade worsened the plight of millions at risk of starvation.\n\nPlanes carrying medical supplies were allowed to land in the capital, Sanaa, on Saturday but this is the first shipment of food aid to be let in.\n\nThe blockade was imposed on 6 November after a missile attack on Saudi Arabia.\n\nThe coalition blocked off land, sea and air routes two days after the Houthi rebels they are fighting in Yemen fired the missile at the Saudi capital, Riyadh. It was intercepted over the international airport.\n\nThe UN ship, loaded with thousands of tonnes of desperately-needed wheat, has arrived at the port of Saleef.\n\nIt is carrying enough food to feed 1.8m people in northern Yemen for a month, World Food Programme country director Stephen Anderson told the BBC.\n\nHe said the ship had been forced to \"hover off the coast\" for two weeks waiting for permission to enter.\n\nA commercial ship carrying 5,500 tonnes of wheat flour earlier docked at the key port of Hudaydah, south of Saleef and also controlled by the Houthi rebels.\n\n\"This is also a positive development because humanitarian aid alone will not address the full needs of the people who are in northern Yemen, particularly those who we are not able to assist, those who are slightly better off and who depend on markets,\" Mr Anderson said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Clive Myrie reports from one hospital on the brink of running out of fuel\n\nEarlier this week, the Saudi-led coalition announced it would reopen access to the Hudaydah port for urgent humanitarian aid and Sanaa's airport to UN aid and relief flights.\n\nBut on Friday, the UN's humanitarian affairs office said access to Hudaydah remained blocked.\n\nThe easing of the Saudi-led blockade followed a review by the coalition to ensure weapons do not reach the rebels. Saudi Arabia accuses Iran of supplying arms to the Houthis, which Tehran denies.\n\nPlanes that arrived in Sanaa on Saturday carried 1.9m doses of vaccines, but the UN's agency for children, Unicef, says that is just a small fraction of what is needed.\n\n\"I reiterate my plea to everyone with a heart for children, indeed not to prevent us from delivering what is urgently needed and massively needed,\" Unicef Middle East Director Geert Cappelaere told Reuters news agency. \"Yesterday was just a very small step.\"\n\nMore than 20 million people in Yemen are in need of urgent humanitarian assistance. Eleven million of those are children and 400,000 are affected by severe acute malnutrition.\n\nThe coalition intervened in the war between forces loyal to President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi and the Houthis in 2015. Since then ground fighting and air strikes have killed more than 8,670 people, according to UN figures.", "Lilleth went missing some time in the last three weeks\n\nA wild cat which escaped from a Ceredigion zoo has been \"humanely destroyed\", the county council has confirmed.\n\nLilleth, the Eurasian lynx, escaped from Borth Wild Animal Kingdom at some point in the last three weeks.\n\nThe council said despite \"exhaustive efforts\" to recapture her, it received advice that the risk to public safety had \"increased to severe\".\n\nEarlier on Friday, the council said the zoo would be put under scrutiny.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lynx at Borth Wild Animal Kingdom similar to the one that has gone missing\n\nA statement released by the local authority on Friday evening said the lynx had strayed over to a populated area of the community and \"it was necessary to act decisively\".\n\n\"The safety of the the public was paramount,\" the statement added.\n\nStaff at the zoo, which has been closed since Lilleth's escape, had been attempting to catch her.\n\nShe is believed to have escaped after making a \"giant leap\" over an electrified fence.\n\nLilleth caught on camera near one of the baited traps\n\nThere had been a number of sightings but she evaded capture and was at one point thought to be hiding in bushes near the zoo.\n\nCeredigion council and Dyfed-Powys Police said they had tried a \"range of measures\" to capture the Lynx, including baited traps.\n\nA post-mortem examination of a sheep found dead on land near the zoo showed \"traumatic injury\" but experts have been unable to say if the missing lynx was responsible.\n\nThe council said it would carry out an inspection of the zoo later this month.", "The driver of a Ford Fiesta died at the scene and her passenger suffered minor injuries\n\nA 70-year-old woman has been killed in a hit-and-run crash with a stolen car which had failed to stop for police moments earlier.\n\nThe woman was driving a Ford Fiesta on the A24 in Horsham, West Sussex.\n\nAnother 70-year-old woman, who was a passenger, was injured in the crash at the Farthing Hill roundabout, just before 14:30 GMT on Friday.\n\nThe driver of the Fiesta died at the scene, police said.\n\nA black Mercedes AMG was believed to have been taken during a burglary in Goring-by-Sea, and was seen leaving the services on the A24 along with another stolen car - an A Class Mercedes.\n\nBoth cars failed to stop for police, and at 14:23 the A Class car crashed into a hedge. The driver ran off and was caught by officers shortly after.\n\nThe other Mercedes carried on, but was not being followed by police when it crashed with the Fiesta about 10 minutes later, a Sussex Police spokesman said.\n\nOfficers with dogs, and a police helicopter failed to find the missing driver of the Mercedes, who escaped on foot.\n\nEmergency services remained at the scene of the crash into the evening\n\nDet Insp Will Rolis said: \"Enquiries are ongoing to identify the driver who ran from the scene after crashing in to the Ford Fiesta. We believe he tried to flag down a lift from near the fatal crash scene minutes later.\"\n\nAn 18-year-old man from Feltham in West London has been arrested on suspicion of burglary.\n\nThe Independent Police Complaints Commission has been informed and any witnesses are asked to come forward.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The meeting was held during the Apec summit in Da Nang, Vietnam\n\nMembers of the Trans-Pacific Partnership have agreed a new framework to revive the proposed trade deal, following the US withdrawal earlier this year.\n\nMeeting on the sidelines of the Apec summit in Vietnam, the remaining eleven nations released a joint statement saying they were committed to free and open trade.\n\nCanada had been accused of stalling.\n\nHowever its trade minister said good progress has now been made.\n\nFrançois-Philippe Champagne also denied that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had deliberately skipped a leaders' meeting on the TPP on Friday and blamed his no-show on a scheduling mix-up.\n\n\"There was never an intention not to show up at any meeting,\" he said.\n\nMr Trudeau said earlier in the week that Canada would not be rushed into a renewed TPP deal.\n\nThe country's delegation said labour and environmental rights would be crucial pillars of a new agreement, but added that a lot of work still needs to be done.\n\nCanadian officials said Canada was not the only country that wanted more time to work through the agreement.\n\nThe other countries working towards an agreement are Australia, Chile, New Zealand, Brunei, Singapore, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru and Vietnam.\n\nPresident Donald Trump withdrew the US from the original 12-nation TPP agreement in January.\n\nThe bid to revive the TPP, which would have covered 40% of the global economy, was led by trade ministers from Japan, Australia and New Zealand.\n\nWhen President Trump abandoned the TPP it was widely expected that the deal would collapse.\n\nIt had originally been championed by President Obama, partly as a way of maintaining US influence in the Asia-Pacific region, and the US economy was bigger than that all of the other members combined.\n\nThe remaining countries are now having to renegotiate the terms of the deal, as access to the huge US market was the prize that persuaded less developed countries, including Vietnam and Peru, to sign up to tough conditions on issues such as labour rights and protection of intellectual property.\n\nCanada remains concerned that commitments made could affect any renegotiation of the huge North American Free Trade Agreement, which may be needed if President Trump keeps up his threats to pull out of that deal as well.\n\nBut the 11 TPP members now say they have enough agreement on what they call the core elements of the trade pact to move ahead, although it is still not clear when it will be finalised.", "Six fishermen were brought to shore by a lifeboat crew in a nine-and-a-half hour rescue in stormy seas.\n\nThe men's creel boat, Sparkling Line, broke down off the north Sutherland coast on Thursday. Thurso lifeboat was launched to go to their aid.\n\nThe conditions included gale force eight winds and waves of up to 33ft (10m) in height.\n\nThe RNLI volunteers managed to get a towline to the fishing boat but the tow parted fives times during the rescue.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The zoo's co-owner Dean Tweedy has been \"broken emotionally and physically\" over the lynx killing\n\nA Welsh zoo is \"truly devastated and outraged\" that an escaped wild cat has been killed.\n\nLilleth, the Eurasian lynx, had escaped from Borth Wild Animal Kingdom but Ceredigion council said on Friday that she had been \"humanely destroyed\".\n\nThe council said despite \"exhaustive efforts\" to recapture her, it received advice that the risk to public safety had \"increased to severe\".\n\nBut the zoo owners have condemned the \"hunting and killing\" of Lilleth.\n\nCeredigion councillor Ceredig Davies has called for \"a full investigation\" and for a report to be presented to councillors \"on how this unfortunate animal met its end in this way\".\n\nA statement on Borth Wild Animal Kingdom's Facebook page said: \"The decision to kill her was not ours and we in no way agreed to or participated in the shooting of our baby lynx.\n\n\"We are truly devastated and outraged that this happened.\"\n\nBorth zoo added that \"for the past three weeks we have been tracking and attempting to catch her in a safe way\" and employed 24-hour on-site help from \"expert trackers and animal recovery specialists\".\n\nThey said they \"spared no expense or effort\" in the search and sighted the lynx underneath a caravan at a nearby caravan park, which is closed for the winter, on Thursday.\n\n\"All we had to do was sling a net across the back and we would have had her trapped,\" the statement said.\n\n\"Unfortunately, one of the officials insisted that he needed to photograph her and make a positive ID before we were allowed close.\n\n\"He slipped and fell going up the bank which startled her causing her to run past him and off across the fields.\n\n\"After a fruitless search we were informed that due to her being in a heavily populated area they would be issuing a shoot to kill order and we had run out of time.\"\n\nThey said a marksmen with \"state-of-the-art night scopes and thermal imaging cameras\" was called in \"to hunt her down and shoot her dead\".\n\nLilleth went missing some time in the last three weeks\n\nDean Tweedy, co-owner of the zoo, told BBC Wales he wanted to see Lilleth darted but was told there were \"issues\" with the terrain and licensing of the guns.\n\nHe said he was \"absolutely responsible\" for the escape and that they had been building new enclosures over the summer having taken over the zoo six months ago, as it was in \"a real state of disrepair\".\n\n\"Ironically the next project on the list was building a new lynx enclosure,\" he added.\n\nThe Farmer's Union of Wales (FUW) said it had raised concerns the escaped lynx was not being taken seriously enough.\n\nGlyn Roberts, FUW president, wrote to Dyfed-Powys Police's crime commissioner on 9 November, urging officers to make a statement about the potential danger to livestock, after the \"suspected killing\" of seven sheep by the lynx.\n\n\"It is a great concern that proactive action has not been taken by the police and other authorities to warn people or capture the escaped animal,\" he wrote.\n\n\"Many of our members feel that the issue is being treated by the authorities with indifference.\"\n\nFlowers have been left outside the zoo in tribute to Lilleth\n\nCeredigion council said the lynx had strayed over to a populated area of the community and \"it was necessary to act decisively\".\n\nIt said that, because the lynx had been used to being near people, it \"presented an even greater danger to the general public once it had strayed into a populated area\".\n\n\"The safety of the public was paramount,\" the council statement said, adding it could not return the lynx's body to the zoo because a post mortem examination would be carried out.\n\nLilleth was caught on camera near one of the baited traps\n\nStaff at the zoo, which has been closed since Lilleth's escape, had been attempting to catch her.\n\nShe is believed to have escaped after making a \"giant leap\" over an electrified fence.\n\nThere had been a number of sightings but she evaded capture and was at one point thought to be hiding in bushes near the zoo.\n\nCeredigion council and Dyfed-Powys Police said they had tried a \"range of measures\" to capture the Lynx, including baited traps.\n\nCeredigion council has said it would carry out an inspection of the zoo later this month.", "Rebel Wilson says a male star repeatedly asked her to perform an obscene act\n\nAustralian actress Rebel Wilson is the latest Hollywood star to reveal her experience of sexual harassment in the entertainment industry.\n\nIn a series of tweets, she alleged that \"a male star in a position of power\" had repeatedly asked her to perform an obscene act.\n\n\"I refused. The whole thing was disgusting,\" she said.\n\nWilson said the unnamed star's male friends had attempted to film the incident before she left the room.\n\nShe complained to the film studio about the encounter, but says she was later \"threatened by one of the star's representatives\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rebel Wilson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Pitch Perfect actress also recounted a second incident which she described as a \"hotel room encounter with a top director\".\n\n\"Nothing physical happened because the guy's wife called and started abusing him over the phone for sleeping with actresses... I bolted out of there immediately,\" she said.\n\nWilson added: \"If I witness this behaviour, whether it happens to me or someone I know, I will no longer be polite.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Rebel Wilson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA growing number of sexual misconduct allegations have been made against public figures in recent weeks.\n\nThe allegations have been sparked by multiple women speaking out against the Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, and a subsequent campaign encouraging victims to share their stories of sexual harassment under the #metoo hashtag..\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Margot Robbie wants \"something positive\" to come out of the Harvey Weinstein allegations", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nLewis Hamilton says he was \"upset\" by news that personnel from his Mercedes team were robbed at gunpoint in Sao Paulo on Friday night.\n\nA van of Mercedes workers was held up on the road away from the Interlagos track. No-one was hurt in the incident.\n\nHamilton said: \"Gun shots fired, gun held at one's head. This is so upsetting to hear.\n\n\"It happens every single year here. F1 and the teams need to do more. No excuse.\"\n• None Hamilton starts from back after crash as Bottas takes pole\n\nHamilton added: \"Please say a prayer for my guys, who are here as professionals today even if shaken.\"\n\nA Mercedes spokesman said: \"Valuables were stolen but most importantly everybody is safe and uninjured.\"\n\nOther F1 personnel had near-misses on the same road, which is notorious for robberies.\n\nA gunman approached a car containing officials from governing body the FIA and tapped his weapon on the window, but the vehicle was armoured with bulletproof glass and they escaped.\n\nA car containing Williams team members was behind the FIA car and was approached by a gunman but managed to leave the scene safely.\n\nThey are the latest in a series of incidents affecting F1 personnel at the Brazilian Grand Prix in recent years.\n\nFormer F1 driver Jenson Button escaped a similar attempted robbery in 2010 when his driver, again in an armoured car, charged through stationary traffic to get away.", "Isaiah, pictured with an aunt, has brain damage\n\nA mother and father are fighting a High Court battle to stop their eight-month-old son's life support machine being switched off.\n\nIsaiah Haastrup is brain damaged and dependent on a ventilator to keep him alive at King's College Hospital, London.\n\nDoctors said giving him further treatment was \"futile, burdensome and not in his best interests\".\n\nBut father Lanre Haastrup and mother Takesha Thomas want it to continue.\n\nThey also hope an independent assessor will be appointed to give a medical opinion.\n\nIsaiah was born with a severe brain injury believed to have been caused by oxygen deprivation.\n\nDoctors do not think there are any \"further investigations or forms of treatment\" which would benefit him, the hospital's barrister Fiona Paterson said.\n\nShe told Mr Justice MacDonald relations between hospital bosses and Isaiah's parents were \"difficult\".\n\nThe court heard that Mr Haastrup, of Peckham, south London, had been barred from visiting the hospital following an incident a few days ago.\n\nMr Haastrup sought a judicial review over the ban which has been refused by the High Court.\n\n\"I am not a saint but I am not a demon either,\" he said.\n\nHe told the court there had been a \"lack of care\" for Isaiah.\n\nMr Justice MacDonald created an order barring the media from identifying medical staff caring for Isaiah and said he hoped mediation could avoid a full trial.\n\nFailing that, the court case will formally begin on 15 January.\n\nA King's College Hospital spokeswoman said Mr Haastrup had already made a written application for permission to launch a judicial review but this was refused by a judge earlier this week.\n\nIn July, the High Court ruled Great Ormond Street Hospital doctors could stop providing life-support treatment to baby Charlie Gard, following a lengthy and high profile court case.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It's the first time the two presidents have met - so what did their body language tell us about how it went? Expert Mary Civiello breaks down three key moves.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMillions of people have fallen silent to remember the nation's war dead, as the UK marked Armistice Day.\n\nBig Ben, which has been silent since August while repair work is carried out, chimed at 11:00 GMT.\n\nEvents have been held around the country to mark the 99th anniversary of the end of World War One.\n\nAnd the Queen and other members of the Royal Family have taken part in a Royal Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall in London.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cambridge were among those at the event, run by the British Legion and featuring performances from Emeli Sande, Tom Odell, Melanie C, Alfie Boe and the Band of HM Royal Marines.\n\nThe service marked the centenaries of the women's service in the regular Armed Forces, the Battle of Passchendaele, the creation of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and the 100th birthday of Dame Vera Lynn.\n\nThere was also praise for service personnel and civilian services who came to the aid of the injured in this year's terrorist attacks in London and Manchester.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Les Cherrington said thinking about his fallen comrades made him very emotional\n\nEarlier, the Western Front Association held its annual service of remembrance at the Cenotaph, in Whitehall, central London, where a two-minute silence was observed.\n\nAnd the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire hosted an outdoor service of remembrance within the walls of the Armed Forces Memorial.\n\nPeople observe a two minute silence at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire\n\nThe Western Front Association's annual service of remembrance at the Cenotaph, Whitehall\n\nThe Duke of York and Duchess of Cambridge were among those attending the Royal Festival of Remembrance\n\nThey were joined by the Queen and Prince Philip\n\nIn Brighton, the world's tallest moving observation tower, the British Airways i360, is turning red to mark the event.\n\nThe Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey\n\nOn Sunday, Prince Charles will lay a wreath at the Cenotaph on his mother's behalf.\n\nIt will be the first time, as head of state, that the Queen will observe the ceremony from a nearby balcony, where she will be joined by the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nPeople gathered at the Cenotaph on Whitehall to observe a two minute silence\n\nA service of remembrance was held at the Edinburgh Garden of Remembrance\n\nElsewhere, Australians have observed a minute's silence to remember their war dead.\n\nThe country's Sydney Opera House was lit up with red poppies.\n\nThe sails of the Sydney Opera House are seen illuminated with red poppies\n\nAustralian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull joined his New Zealand counterpart, Jacinda Ardern, in Vietnam - where the Apec summit is taking place - to attend a service of remembrance.\n\n\"We remember every ANZAC serviceman and woman who has made the supreme sacrifice to keep our two countries free,\" he said.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron lays a wreath in front of the statue of Georges Clemenceau in Paris\n\nArmistice Day is a national holiday in France and Belgium. French president Emmanuel Macron has laid a wreath in front of the statue of Georges Clemenceau - the prime minister of France during World War One.\n\nPrincess Anne paid tribute during the Last Post ceremony at Ypres Memorial in Belgium\n\nArmistice Day falls each year on 11 November to mark the day in 1918 when the fighting in World War One was stopped.\n\nThe Allies and Germany signed an armistice in a railway carriage in the Forest of Compiegne in France at 05:00. Six hours later, at 11:00, the conflict ceased.\n\nKing George V announced that a two-minute silence would be observed in 1919, four days before the first anniversary of Armistice Day. The silence continues to be observed every year on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.\n\nWatch the Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance on BBC One on Saturday at 21:00 GMT.", "Pictures like these have provoked outrage across the globe\n\nA life-size model of Adolf Hitler used for \"selfies\" by visitors to an Indonesian museum has been removed.\n\nPictures shared on social media show people grinning as they pose with the Nazi leader in front of an image of the gates of Auschwitz concentration camp.\n\nIt was only when the international community reacted with outrage that the De ARCA Statue Art Museum realised it had caused any offence.\n\nThe museum, in Jogjakarta, Java, said it had only wanted to educate.\n\n\"We don't want to attract outrage,\" the museum's operations manager, Jamie Misbah, told news agency AFP.\n\nPictures on social media show numerous people posing with the fibreglass statue, including a group of young boys dressed in orange uniforms performing a Nazi salute.\n\nIt has left many around the world sickened - even if, as the museum originally said, no visitor had actually complained.\n\nRabbi Abraham Cooper, of Jewish human rights organisation The Simon Wiesenthal Center, told news agency AP: \"Everything about it is wrong. It's hard to find words for how contemptible it is.\n\n\"The background is disgusting. It mocks the victims who went in and never came out.\"\n\nAn estimated 1.1 million people, mainly European Jews, but also groups including Roma gypsies and Soviet prisoners-of-war, died at Auschwitz during the Holocaust.\n\nSome people have blamed a lack of education about the Holocaust on the lack of sensitivity, but Human Rights Watch researcher Andreas Harsono suggested it revealed anti-Jewish feeling in the world's most populous Muslim nation.\n\nThe display, one of about 80 in the museum, came less than a year after a Nazi-themed cafe was shut down in Bandung, Java.", "Children between the age of six months and five years should take vitamin A, C and D supplements, government advice says - do you find this surprising?\n\nIf you do, it seems you're not alone.\n\nResearchers in Wales found only 30% of parents and carers said they had ever been given advice by a health professional about giving young children vitamin supplements.\n\nAnd nearly two-thirds (64%) of those asked said they didn't give their children vitamin supplements.\n\nThe Department for Health (DoH) recommends all children aged six months to five years should be given supplements containing vitamins A, C and D every day.\n\nThis advice has been in existence since the early 1990s, when it was endorsed by the then committee on medical aspects of food policy.\n\nThe DoH also says breastfed babies should be given a daily vitamin D supplement from birth.\n\nThe Welsh researchers wanted to find out how well known this advice was among parents and carers.\n\nThey surveyed adults accompanying children at paediatric out-patient clinics in two hospitals in Swansea.\n\nA total of 101 filled out questionnaires designed to test their knowledge of the guidelines.\n\nThe researchers said the most common reasons given by parents for not giving their children vitamin supplements were:\n\n\"We are concerned that the majority of carers participating in our survey do not follow guidance around vitamin supplementation for their young children,\" the report says.\n\n\"Many seem unaware of recommendations, suggesting that health professionals are not providing them with information.\n\n\"We feel that action needs to be taken to raise carers' awareness and encourage a much wider use of vitamin supplements in the under-fives, with health professionals adopting a more proactive approach.\"\n\nDr Bethan McMinn, paediatric registrar at the Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board, said the complexity of the guidelines could be a barrier for effective information sharing between professionals and parents.\n\nShe said that while the DoH recommends all children aged six months to five years take a daily supplement, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence has recently updated its advice.\n\nIt now says that all babies from birth to one year should take a daily Vitamin D supplement - but this does not apply for infants having 500ml a day of formula milk.\n\nDr McMinn acknowledges her research is small scale, but says it could well reflect the situation across the UK.\n\n\"Our project was conducted in Swansea, Wales so it is difficult to comment on whether our findings reflect the situation across the UK in general.\n\n\"However it would not surprise me if this were the case.\"\n\nProf Mary Fewtrell, nutrition lead at the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said the Swansea research suggested healthcare professionals were not routinely sharing the information with new parents.\n\n\"I suspect in large part this is due to the complex and conditional nature of the guidelines leading to confusion and that we would be likely to see a similar picture in other parts of the country.\n\n\"Further research is needed to establish if this is the case and, if so, how to best overcome these challenges so that our children can receive the best possible nutrition.\"\n\nProf Louis Levy, head of nutrition science at Public Health England, said: \"All children aged six months to five years should take a supplement containing vitamins A, C and D.\n\n\"This is a sensible step because growing children may not get enough of these vitamins - especially those not eating a varied diet.\"\n\nThe research was presented at the Welsh Paediatric Society autumn clinical meeting.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kerry McCarthy will hand over the letters to Labour officials on Monday\n\nLabour's Kerry McCarthy is to submit letters to the party which she says show she received \"unwanted attention\" from a fellow MP, the BBC understands.\n\nThe member for Bristol East claims she was sent \"upsetting\" correspondence from Kelvin Hopkins, the MP for Luton North, over a period of about 20 years.\n\nMr Hopkins 76, said the complaint had caused him \"unbearable\" stress.\n\nHe is currently suspended from the party in connection with a separate allegation, which he denies.\n\nMs McCarthy, 52, a former shadow environment secretary, will hand the file to Labour party officials on Monday, the BBC has learned.\n\nShe alleges Mr Hopkins sent her a series of letters and cards commenting on her appearance, including one in which he described having a dream about her.\n\nMr Hopkins said the allegations caused him \"immense personal hurt\"\n\nThe former Labour frontbencher said she believed Mr Hopkins, who urged her in two of the notes to \"dispose\" of them, knew his actions were wrong.\n\n\"I never responded in any way, I never gave him any encouragement in any way, I tried to keep my distance as much as possible,\" she said.\n\n\"I absolutely believe he knew this behaviour was unacceptable. It made me feel uncomfortable in his presence and was quite upsetting.\"\n\nMs McCarthy says Mr Hopkins told her he dreamt about her in a letter written of House of Commons notepaper\n\nIn a statement, Mr Hopkins said her complaint had caused him \"immense personal hurt and utter dismay\" from someone he regarded as a friend.\n\n\"I cannot understand why a parliamentarian of such experience and standing, who is also such a long-term friend, would not have told me that she was unhappy with any aspect of our friendship rather than going straight to the national press,\" he said.\n\n\"At a minimum I would have expected a parliamentary colleague to raise any complaint through normal channels, allowing me due process and a fair chance to defend myself, if necessary.\n\n\"I do ask, on my behalf and on behalf of all other individuals and their families dealing with allegations, that these matters are dealt with by proper due process and not by unfair, humiliating one-sided trial by media.\n\n\"I am a 76-year old man and the stress this has caused me and my family is unbearable.\"\n\nThe note Kerry McCarthy says she was sent in the run up to the 1997 general election\n\nThe MPs first met when Ms McCarthy was in her late 20s and they were both involved in Labour politics in Luton.\n\nAfter a lunch in 1994, the purpose of which she believed was to discuss politics she said, he sent her a card saying he had invited her \"because you are attractive, intelligent and charming\".\n\nMore notes and cards followed over the next three years, she claimed, but they then stopped until her 50th birthday.\n\nA final letter, sent some time in 2015/16, said Mr Hopkins had a dream about Ms McCarthy and she remained a \"very attractive woman\".\n\nShe said she decided to go public after the \"bravery\" of a young activist, Ava Etemadzadeh, who complained last week about the behaviour of Mr Hopkins.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel says she has been \"inundated\" with support since resigning over unofficial meetings in Israel\n\nPriti Patel has made her first public appearance since resigning as UK international development secretary after a row over unauthorised meetings.\n\nMs Patel, 45, attended the Armistice Day service in her Witham constituency in Essex on Saturday.\n\nEarlier this week, she was summoned to Downing Street and quit her cabinet post over her meetings with Israeli officials.\n\nAfter the service, she said she had been \"inundated\" with support.\n\nMs Patel quit her post on Wednesday, admitting unauthorised meetings with Israeli officials had \"lacked transparency\".\n\nMs Patel said she had been \"overwhelmed\" by people's support\n\nLast week the BBC revealed how she had arranged a number of meetings with business and political figures during a family holiday to Israel in August, without telling Downing Street or the Foreign Office.\n\nIt later emerged that after Ms Patel's visit to Israel she asked her officials to look into whether Britain could support humanitarian operations conducted by the Israeli army in the occupied Golan Heights area.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel left the back entrance of 10 Downing Street after quitting\n\nThe Conservative MP did not take any questions during her visit to Saturday's service, but told the BBC: \"I've been overwhelmed with support from colleagues across the political divide.\n\n\"Of course, nothing is more humbling than the support I've received from my constituents.\n\n\"I look forward to returning to Parliament on Monday where I will continue to be a strong voice for Witham and Britain.\"\n\nThe Conservative MP for Portsmouth North Penny Mordaunt has taken over Ms Patel's post.\n\nLike her predecessor, she had also backed Brexit in last year's referendum.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rail passengers are being advised to travel earlier to avoid disruption over the Christmas period, with more than 200 sets of engineering works planned.\n\nRoutes across London, Kent, East Sussex, Lancashire, Essex and Glasgow are among the lines to be shut.\n\nNetwork Rail, which controls the UK's railways, says 95% of the network will be unaffected and it is the least disruptive time to do this work.\n\nBus replacements are planned but journey times are likely to increase.\n\nLondon Paddington will be closed for four days between Christmas Eve and 27 December with Great Western Railway advising passengers to travel by 23 December \"at the latest\".\n\nBetween 23 December and 1 January, there will be no Greater Anglia trains between London Liverpool Street and Ingatestone or Billericay.\n\nElsewhere, buses will replace trains between Preston and Lancaster from Christmas Eve until 27 December.\n\nOver this period, those travelling between London and Glasgow will also face longer journey times as passengers are advised to go via Edinburgh.\n\nSoutheastern trains will not be running to London Bridge, Charing Cross or Cannon Street from 23 December to 1 January.\n\nNetwork Rail's chief executive Mark Carne said most of the network is open for \"business as usual\" but some routes will be \"heavily affected\".\n\nHe strongly advised passengers to plan ahead this Christmas.\n\n\"We know that our railway is up to 50% quieter than usual during the festive period, so taking on and delivering these huge transformational schemes at this time of year minimises our impact on passengers.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Millions of people have fallen silent to remember the nation's war dead, as the UK marks Armistice Day.\n\nAmong those paying tribute at the National Memorial Arboretum was 99-year-old World War Two veteran Les Cherrington.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Phil Mackie, he described his tank coming under fire in north Africa - and his emotions over his friends who were killed.", "The UK has two weeks to clarify key issues or make concessions if progress is to be made in Brexit talks, the bloc's chief negotiator has said.\n\nMichel Barnier was speaking after meeting the Brexit secretary for talks on citizens' rights, the Irish border, and the UK's \"divorce bill\".\n\nDavid Davis said it was time for both sides \"to work to find solutions\".\n\nBefore the talks, Theresa May said she wanted the UK's exit date set in law, and warned MPs not to block Brexit.\n\nSpeaking at a press conference in Brussels, Mr Barnier suggested Britain would have to clarify its position in the next fortnight on what it would pay to settle its obligations to the EU if the talks were to have achieved \"sufficient progress\" ahead of December's European Council meeting.\n\n\"It is just a matter of settling accounts as in any separation,\" Mr Barnier said.\n\nMr Barnier also said both sides had to work towards an \"objective interpretation\" of Prime Minister Theresa May's pledge that no member of the EU would lose out financially as a result of the Brexit vote.\n\nThe Brexit secretary insisted good progress was being made across the board, and that the negotiations had narrowed to a \"few outstanding, albeit important, issues\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Davis says there cannot be a new border within the UK\n\nMr Davis and Mr Barnier agreed there had been progress on the issue of settled status for EU citizens in the UK after Brexit.\n\nMr Barnier said the UK had provided \"useful clarifications\" on guaranteeing rights, although more work needed to be done on some points including rights of families and exporting welfare payments.\n\nFor the UK's part, Mr Davis said, the government had \"listened carefully\" to concerns and that there would be a \"streamlined and straightforward\" process for EU nationals to obtain settled status.\n\nBut Mr Davis rejected a suggestion that Northern Ireland could remain within the European customs union.\n\nHe was responding to a European Commission paper, which proposed that Northern Ireland may have to remain a member of the EU's single market or customs union, if a so-called \"hard border\" with the Irish Republic is to be avoided.\n\nSaying there had been \"frank discussions\" with Mr Barnier and his negotiators on the issue of the Irish border, Mr Davis insisted there could be \"no new border\" inside the UK.\n\n\"We respect the European Union desire to protect the legal order of the single market and the customs union, but that cannot come at cost to the constitutional and economic integrity of the United Kingdom,\" Mr Davis told reporters in Brussels.\n\n\"We recognise the need for specific solutions for the unique circumstances of Northern Ireland. But let me be clear - this cannot amount to creating a new border inside our United Kingdom,\" he added.\n\nMr Barnier said the \"unique situation\" on the island of Ireland required \"technical and regulatory solutions necessary to prevent a hard border\".\n\nMichel Barnier usually says at post-negotiation press conferences that the clock is ticking.\n\nHe didn't this time: he gave a specific timeframe. He wants the UK to provide more clarity in the next two weeks on its positions on the rights of EU citizens who wish to remain after Brexit, the plans for the Irish border and principles for calculating Britain's financial obligations.\n\nAlthough the EU doesn't want a precise figure, it wants the UK to clarify what it's willing to pay to live up to the financial commitments made as a member.\n\nOn Ireland, both sides have pledged to protect the peace process but the EU has suggested that might require Northern Ireland sticking to European rules on customs and the single market - rules that the rest of Britain might not follow in future. David Davis rejected that.\n\nUK sources agree it looks like they've been set a deadline but they feel it is a logical reading of the EU's timetable, under which their officials have to begin preparations for the next summit of EU leaders in December fairly soon.\n\nLooking ahead to December's EU summit, Mr Davis pledged the UK was \"ready and willing\" to engage with Brussels \"as often and as quickly as needed\".\n\n\"But we need to see flexibility, imagination and willingness to make progress on both sides if these negotiations are to succeed and we are able to realise our new deep and special partnership,\" he said.\n\nFriday's update came as Prime Minister Theresa May announced she wanted the date the UK leaves the EU - 29 March 2019 - enshrined in law.\n\nThe prime minister wrote in Friday's Daily Telegraph she would not tolerate attempts to \"block\" Brexit\n\nThe prime minister said the decision to put the specific time of Brexit \"on the front page\" of the Brexit bill showed the government was determined to see the process through.\n\n\"Let no-one doubt our determination or question our resolve, Brexit is happening,\" she wrote.\n\nThe draft legislation has already passed its second reading, and now faces several attempts to amend it at the next part of its parliamentary journey - the committee stage.\n\nMrs May said the government would listen to MPs if they had ideas for improving the bill, but warned against attempts to halt the process.\n\n\"We will not tolerate attempts from any quarter to use the process of amendments to this bill as a mechanism to try to block the democratic wishes of the British people by attempting to slow down or stop our departure from the European Union.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Richard Ratcliffe, whose wife is in jail in Iran, wants to go there with Boris Johnson\n\nThe husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman being held in Iran, will speak to Boris Johnson tomorrow, he has told the BBC.\n\nHe also wants to meet the foreign secretary in the coming days, he said.\n\nThe BBC understands the Foreign Office agreed Mr Ratcliffe would meet Mr Johnson the week after next at a meeting with families involved in dual nationality cases.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was in Iran visiting family, is accused of spying.\n\nIt is also understood the Foreign Office is reviewing Mr Radcliffe's latest request, made this morning on BBC Breakfast, to meet next week.\n\nHe has also asked to join Mr Johnson on his next visit to Iran, which he says will hopefully be in the coming weeks.\n\nThe foreign secretary caused consternation earlier this week when he told a group of MPs that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been \"training journalists\" in Iran.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This is how Iranian media reported Boris Johnson's remarks about Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe\n\nSoon after those comments, Iran moved to double her prison sentence.", "It was more gripping than any box set we could get our hands on.\n\nOver two years, the investigations into Russian interference in the US election, and whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin, delivered daily developments and drama worthy of anything seen in House of Cards.\n\nIn the end, 35 people and three companies were charged by Robert Mueller, the special counsel who investigated Russian interference in the 2016 election.\n\nHere's our guide to the main characters in the four seasons of the only political drama that mattered.\n\nThis was the season in which Donald Trump, the reality TV star, took centre stage in his own political drama by launching a presidential campaign. He was supported by his family and got the attention of the Russians. The season ended with a cliffhanger - could Trump the outsider actually win?!\n\nIt's been a while since all of this happened, so let's remind you of the key players in this season.\n\nWho was he? Donald Trump, the billionaire candidate (who by Season Three is the 45th president of the United States). If you really need a refresher, here's his life story.\n\nKey plot line As Donald Trump was busy traversing the country canvassing for votes in Season One, Russia hacked into the emails of his Democratic rivals, investigators later said.\n\nThe question is why? Was the Kremlin trying to alter the outcome of the election, and what did Trump and his campaign know?\n\nSkip forward to the end of Season Four and Mr Trump stood triumphant before reporters in a Florida airport, celebrating what he called \"a complete and total exoneration\".\n\nBut in between, there was no shortage of drama or tension.\n\nWho was he? He was Trump's campaign chairman before being forced to quit over his ties to Russian oligarchs and Ukraine.\n\nKey plot line He was one of the biggest dominoes to fall. When he ended up being arrested, it was a big season-ending shocker.\n\nManafort hung around a bit in Season One, but then disappeared from view for a while.\n\nHe quit the campaign after being accused of having links to pro-Russian groups in Ukraine. He also sat in on a crucial meeting with a Russian lawyer who may have been trying to feed the Trump team classified information (more on that later).\n\nAfter an FBI raid on his home in Season Three, Manafort was found guilty on eight charges of tax fraud, bank fraud, and failing to disclose foreign banks accounts and is sentenced to 47 months in prison.\n\nIn Season Four, he agreed to co-operate with a special counsel inquiry in exchange for a reduced prison term. But then, in a twist - prosecutors claimed he breached his plea bargain by repeatedly lying to the FBI.\n\nRead more: The man who helped Trump win\n\nWho was he? The president's eldest child, who it emerged met some questionable Russians.\n\nKey plot line Donald Trump Jr's role in this unfolding saga all came down to a meeting he had with a Russian lawyer, which was set up by a music publicist (the full details of which come out in Season Three). If it sounds random, then in many ways it is.\n\nThe publicist, Rob Goldstone, offered Trump Jr a meeting with lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, promising him dirt on Hillary Clinton.\n\nThis meeting was the key to much of our plot line because it raised several key questions. Did this amount to the campaign colluding with a foreign government? Why did he agree to the meeting?\n\nWhat happened at the meeting was the scene investigators played over and over again as they tried to work out if there was any impropriety. In the end, no collusion charges were brought.\n\nDonald Trump confounded his critics by winning the presidency. But the transition was as gripping as the season before it as Trump picked his cabinet, introducing key characters to the mix.\n\nThe season ended with Trump taking the oath of office on a cold January morning - but there were more twists to come.\n\nWho was he? The granite-faced former general who later became the shortest-serving member of Donald Trump's cabinet. He resigned after not being honest about his contact with a Russian official - and was later charged with making false statements to the FBI.\n\nKey plot line Flynn was appointed national security adviser just days after the election, against the advice of then-President Obama, who warned Trump not to hire him. Flynn's starring role came in December 2016, just before Trump was sworn in, when he spoke to the Russian ambassador, Sergei Kislyak.\n\nThe Washington Post and New York Times said the men discussed Russian sanctions, and that Flynn later lied to the Vice President Mike Pence about the conversation (Mr Kislyak says the men discussed only \"simple things\").\n\nThe substance of those talks eventually led to Flynn being prosecuted as part of the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller.\n\nAt the end of Season Three, in December 2017, Flynn pleaded guilty to making \"false, fictitious and fraudulent statements\" to the FBI about what he and Kislyak discussed.\n\nWith that, the investigation reached Trump's inner circle.\n\nRead more: Out after 23 days - who is Michael Flynn?\n\nWho was he? Many roads in this drama led back to Sergei Kislyak, the jolly and charismatic figure, who up until July 2017 was the Russian ambassador to Washington.\n\nKey plot line Kislyak's role in this drama remained unclear up to the end - but many of the players in this drama had meetings with him, and that put them in awkward spots.\n\nThe key questions for investigators were: why were they drawn to him, and what was said? The Russian ambassador spoke to both Flynn and Attorney-General Jeff Sessions - meetings which both Trump officials didn't initially acknowledge took place.\n\nAnything else we should know? Well, Russia fiercely fought back against claims on CNN that Kislyak was a \"top spy and recruiter of spies\".\n\nWho was he? Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III hovered in the background during Season One, when he was an Alabama senator and a trusted Trump adviser, but we really got to know him during Season Two, when he became Trump's nominee for attorney general, a job he kept for almost two years.\n\nKey plot line Sessions was one of several Trump aides to meet Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak, and question marks emerged over the nature of those meetings.\n\nWhen the FBI investigation focused on the Trump campaign, Sessions stood down from the inquiry, much to Trump's irritation.\n\nThat decision to step down dogged him to the end, and he was written out of the series close to the end of Season Four, when Trump forced him to resign.\n\nThat move put control of the Mueller investigation into the hands of a Trump loyalist.\n\nRead more: An attorney general dogged by scandal\n\nThis was where the drama really picked up and all the plot lines came together. A lot of the background characters we saw in Season One came back with a vengeance and the infighting got nasty - and this is when the police started circling.\n\nWho was she? A Russian lawyer with a fearsome reputation who fought against US restrictions on Russia. But was she a Kremlin stooge?\n\nDespite earlier denials, she admitted in April 2018 to being an \"informant\" for Russia's prosecutor general.\n\nKey plot line Hers was a small but crucial role - she's the one who Manafort, Trump Jr and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner met in June 2016, the details of which begin trickling out a year later in a flashback sequence.\n\nShe said the meeting was to discuss adoptions - but those who helped set it up said she was offering dirt on the Democrats and Hillary Clinton's campaign.\n\nWhile the meeting became a central plot point, whatever happened inside never actually led to any charges.\n\nThat meeting would never have happened without...\n\nWho were they? Emin Agalarov is Azerbaijan's biggest pop star, of course. Have you not heard Love is a Deadly Game? Emin helped bring Donald Trump's Miss Universe competition to Russia and the two are close enough to send each other birthday messages. His dad, Aras, is a billionaire who mixes in the highest circles of influence in Moscow.\n\nKey plot line Again in a flashback scene, we met Emin as he set the wheels in motion on that Trump Jr meeting.\n\nAn email sent to Trump Jr suggested Emin was offering information on the Democrats (Emin said he wasn't). The email also said Aras Agalarov had apparently met the \"crown prosecutor\" of Russia - a role that weirdly didn't exist - and got information on Hillary Clinton.\n\nWho was he? He became deputy attorney general under Jeff Sessions. In the TV drama of the Russia scandal, this is the sort of role that would go to a solid Broadway actor you recognise but can't put a name to.\n\nKey plot line When Sessions stood down from leading the main investigation into the Trump-Russia ties, it fell to Rosenstein to do that job. In a major plot development, he appointed a special investigator - not a popular move with the White House.\n\nRead more: Who is Rod Rosenstein?\n\nWho was he? Married to Trump's daughter, Ivanka, Kushner was the character who was seen but very rarely heard.\n\nKey plot line Amid cries of nepotism, he was given a plum White House job as senior adviser to the president with a wide-ranging portfolio. It was his contacts with the Russians during the election campaign and beyond that led investigators to circle him.\n\nIn June 2016, Kushner attended THAT meeting with Donald Trump Jr and the Russian lawyer. He said he was so bored he messaged his assistant to call him so he could leave.\n\nKushner was also another character who had repeated contact with Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak - contact that he initially failed to disclose.\n\nRead more: The son-in-law with Trump's ear\n\nWho was he? A British former tabloid journalist, with a penchant for selfies in silly hats, was perhaps an unlikely addition to the cast, but in most good dramas there's always room for the slightly out-of-place eccentric.\n\nKey plot line Rob Goldstone found his way into Donald Trump's circle of trust thanks to his connections with Russian pop star Emin Agalarov.\n\nGoldstone managed the pop star, and it was he who contacted Donald Trump Jr on behalf of his client to set up that now-infamous meeting at Trump Tower in June 2016. Goldstone sent an email to Trump Jr promising dirt on Hillary Clinton.\n\nRead more: The Music Man with a love for hats\n\nWho was he? At 6ft 8in, James Comey was a towering figure, the character who gave little away about himself personally but had a huge role in this story.\n\nKey plot line He first entered this drama in Season One, when as head of the FBI he reopened the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails - just weeks before the election. Democrats blamed him for her loss, Republicans hailed him a hero. That, we thought, was the last we'd seen of him.\n\nJump ahead to Season Three, when months into the Trump presidency, Comey was fired by the new president. In true television drama style, he learned of his sacking as he was watching TV news during a trip to LA. Up to then, Comey was heading up an investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.\n\nEven by the end of the series, whether this amounted to obstruction of justice by the president remained an unresolved plot point.\n\nComey's testimony to the Senate was one of the most set-pieces in the series up to this point, as - under oath - he told politicians he was asked to pledge loyalty to the president, but refused.\n\nRead more: The FBI director who took centre stage\n\nWho was he? A former election adviser to Trump, although you'd be forgiven if you didn't remember the face. He was in only a few scenes in Season Two, but he had a massive role to play in Season Three, becoming the first person to plead guilty as part of the investigation.\n\nKey plot line In late October 2017, court documents emerged showing Papadopoulos had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about the timing of meetings with alleged go-betweens for Russia.\n\nAfter lying to the FBI, he deleted an incriminating Facebook account and destroyed a phone.\n\nHis guilty plea and co-operation with the investigation had the potential to damage the US leader because it related directly to his campaign - but in the end, it didn't do so.\n\nWho was he? The man who held the fate of the Trump presidency in his hands.\n\nKey plot line Some characters wielded a lot of power, but didn't have a starring role, such as Robert Mueller, the tall chiselled figure who was appointed as \"special counsel\" to take over the Russia investigation after the dismissal of James Comey. Mueller came from the same stock as Comey - both were former heads of the FBI.\n\nThere were no showboating scenes and powerhouses speeches from Mueller in this series - we only ever saw him studiously working in his office.\n\nThere were reports that the president considered firing Mueller at one point - but Mueller stayed in the background doing his job until the very end of the series.\n\nAfter Season Three ended with the first charges being laid down by Robert Mueller, things really sped up in Season Four. The president's fury with the special counsel investigation increased and he fired his Attorney-General. But the series ended with no charges laid against the president and a sense of victory in the White House. Might we see a spin-off series...?\n\nWho was he? OK, he wasn't Putin's chef by this point, but he once was. In Season Four, he was the man accused of spearheading Russia's attempts to interfere in the 2016 election.\n\nKey plot line A little out of the blue, Mueller announced charges against Prigozhin and 12 other Russians, accusing them of tampering with the US election by (among other things) organising and promoting political rallies in the US.\n\nIn one surreal flashback sequence, we even see the Russians trying to buy a cage large enough to hold an actress dressed as Hillary Clinton in a prison costume.\n\nRead more: Seven key takeaways from indictment\n\nWho was he? The man who once said he would take a bullet for Donald Trump - but who instead turned against him.\n\nKey plot line Cohen, as Trump's long-time personal lawyer, lingered around the edges of the plot for the first three seasons, but became the big player of the fourth.\n\nWhen Mueller's team began looking into Cohen's finances, they passed on their concerns to investigators in New York.\n\nThen the plot took an unexpected new turn: Cohen, a long-time Trump loyalist, flipped and began co-operating with investigators. Not only that, but he ended up giving them a lot of help in exchange for a lighter sentence.\n\nCohen ended up admitting violating campaign finance laws, committing tax evasion and lying to Congress.\n\nThe last shot of the entire series was a mournful Cohen being locked into his jail cell.\n\nWho was he? A long-time Washington political operative who acted as an informal adviser to the Trump campaign. He called himself an agent provocateur, and once defended his actions by saying: \"One man's dirty trick is another man's political, civic action.\"\n\nKey plot line Stone was one of those memorable bit-part characters in Seasons One and Two - a colourful character known for his fiery tongue, sharp suits and the Richard Nixon tattoo spread across his back.\n\nTowards the end of Season One, he appeared to let the cat out of the bag, hinting on Twitter that there was damaging information coming out on Hillary Clinton. Soon after, that information (that we later learned was found by Russia) was made public.\n\nAfter a bit of a lull in the middle of Season Four, investigators indicted Stone on seven counts of witness tampering, obstruction and false statements, although he wasn't charged with co-ordinating with Russia.\n\nAll the way through, he denied any wrongdoing. He, like the president, called the investigation a \"witch-hunt\" and once said the accusations of collusion with Russia were \"a steaming plate of bull\".\n\nText by Rajini Vaidyanathan and Roland Hughes; illustrations by Gerry Fletcher", "\"Being permanently excluded was the ultimate rejection for him,\" says Faye, mother of 15-year-old Joe.\n\nFaye says since he was excluded from secondary school, Joe's behaviour has deteriorated, with a devastating knock-on effect for the rest of the family.\n\nBut this family's experience is not unusual, according to a report by the charity Adoption UK.\n\nIts research estimates adopted children can be up to 20 times more likely to be permanently excluded than their peers.\n\nThe charity surveyed 2,084 of its members and found that of those with adopted children at school in 2015-16, 12% had had a fixed-term and 1.63% a permanent exclusion.\n\nThis compares with a rate of 4.29% for fixed and 0.08% for permanent exclusions across all state schools in England.\n\nAdoption UK says that while its survey is indicative rather than scientific, it raises serious concerns.\n\nIts report says adopted children often experience challenges in education, with the \"effects of early loss, trauma, abuse and neglect\" accounting for much of this.\n\n\"Our survey revealed that many adoptive families have struggled in their search for a school that can understand and cater for their child's needs,\" it says.\n\nFaye says her son had coped fairly well in his small, nurturing primary school but struggled when he made the transition to secondary school.\n\n\"They put him in isolation when he did something wrong, which wasn't good for him,\" she says.\n\n\"They didn't understand the huge sense of shame and rejection that adopted children feel.\n\n\"The other major thing is organisation. Adopted children are on another level - we have to remind them to clean their teeth, but their teachers expect them to remember various different textbooks each day.\n\n\"I've got a file full of negative letters about him from the school.\"\n\nJoe was temporarily excluded on a number of occasions and then was permanently excluded earlier this year.\n\n\"That has been the ultimate rejection for him. He was sorting his head out about his own rejection, but now he's in a pupil referral unit,\" says Faye.\n\n\"His behaviour has gone drastically downhill, and his behaviour has become increasingly unmanageable, dangerous and aggressive.\n\n\"He's now got dreadful anxiety about learning and school.\"\n\nFaye believes adopted children need a small, nurturing school with staff who understand the sorts of issues children with a history of care often have.\n\n\"But these schools don't seem to exist,\" she says.\n\n\"One of the main things is the size of the school, because they get lost and they feel like a very small fish.\"\n\nAdoption UK is calling for school staff to have better training around the needs of adopted children and for better support for these children throughout their schooling.\n\nThe charity's schools development officer, Becky White, says: \"The true extent of this problem is being masked because schools are regularly asking adoptive parents to take their children home and keep them out of school, without recording them as exclusions.\n\n\"We need to find better ways of improving the situation for children and teachers rather than relying on exclusions.\n\n\"The challenge for us now is in convincing education professionals that extra support is needed for adopted children from the start - instead of waiting until they are at crisis point.\"\n\nChildren and Families Minister Robert Goodwill said there was a \"range of measures in place\" to help adopted children in England, as well as priority admission to schools that best met their needs.\n\n\"From April 2018, a network of 'virtual school heads' and designated teachers will be responsible for ensuring adopted children are getting the support that they need,\" he said.\n\n\"Alongside this, we are reviewing exclusions in schools to look at how we can improve practices and focus on the experiences of those groups who are disproportionately likely to be excluded.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nDebutants Jordan Pickford and Ruben Loftus-Cheek excelled as England's most inexperienced side since 1980 played out an entertaining goalless draw with world champions Germany at Wembley.\n\nEverton goalkeeper Pickford, one of three debutants in the starting XI and five overall, kept his side in contention with two vital first-half saves from Timo Werner, while Loftus-Cheek, on loan at Crystal Palace from Chelsea, also impressed.\n\nEngland struggled to contain Germany in the first half but grew in confidence as the game progressed and it took a fine save from Marc-Andre ter Stegen to keep out Jamie Vardy's second-half header as Gareth Southgate's side pressed.\n\nThere was disappointment for Manchester United's Phil Jones, who was an early injury casualty, allowing Liverpool's Joe Gomez to make his debut. Burnley's Jack Cork also won his first cap as a late substitute.\n• None Football Daily podcast: Best international I've seen at Wembley in a long time - Jenas\n\nSouthgate raised eyebrows when he announced Joe Hart remained his first-choice goalkeeper despite a poor spell for his country and an exile from Manchester City that has led to loan spells at Torino and now West Ham United.\n\nThe 30-year-old has had a tough time with the Hammers this season - and there is now every chance he will face a serious fight to maintain his England status, despite Southgate's backing.\n\nSouthgate had planned to use Stoke's Jack Butland in these friendlies before a broken finger sidelined him - opening the door for Pickford.\n\nAnd how the 23-year-old took his chance, producing an outstanding display of such confidence and assuredness that he has now surely given Southgate food for thought.\n\nPickford was alert from the first minute, reacting quickly to clear a poor back-pass from Harry Maguire, then further distinguished himself with fine saves low to his left and right from Werner.\n\nHe commanded his area and also gave England an extra dimension with his superb distribution. It was a very good night for Pickford, who looked right at home on the international stage against the World Cup holders.\n\nEngland's central midfield has been open to justifiable accusations of a lack of creativity when Eric Dier, captain against Germany, and Jordan Henderson have been paired together.\n\nSo, with Liverpool captain Henderson injured, this was a real opportunity for Loftus-Cheek to make his mark and stake a serious claim for consideration for next summer's World Cup in Russia.\n\nAnd the 21-year-old did his chances no harm with a purposeful and powerful display, mixing subtle touches with surging runs from midfield.\n\nThis was only a friendly, of course, so will not be a truly accurate measure of Loftus-Cheek's suitability to play on that elite stage, but the signs were good and Southgate will surely have been impressed.\n\nThe midfielder grew in confidence as the game progressed and drew Wembley's approval on several occasions with his strong running and range of passing.\n\nHe, like Pickford, can be very pleased with his night's work.\n\nInformative night for Southgate - but disappointment for Jones\n\nThe currency of this game may have been devalued by so many England withdrawals and absentees - but there was still plenty for Southgate to draw from the meeting with the world champions.\n\nHis experimental side acquitted themselves well, although they were thankful to Pickford and a goal-line clearance from Jones to still be on level terms at the interval.\n\nEngland's new boys did not look overawed in the shirt and after the deadly dull conclusion to the successful World Cup qualifying campaign, this was a lively game to keep an excellent Wembley crowd of 81,381 entertained. It was certainly not a wasted exercise.\n\nThe only blot on England's night was the latest injury to luckless Manchester United defender Jones, who picked up a problem early on and was replaced by Liverpool's Gomez immediately after making a crucial block on the line from Leroy Sane.\n\nJones had played himself back into England contention after a spell off the scene and Southgate was keen to look at him in the three-man central defensive system he has started to employ.\n\nThis is another setback for the 25-year-old - now he and Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho will hope it is not a serious one.\n\nWhat they said\n\nEngland manager Gareth Southgate told ITV: \"In the first half we needed a couple of really goods saves from Jordan Pickford - we caused our own problems with a couple of those. But we posed our own questions and I thought we used the ball well.\n\n\"Ruben Loftus-Cheek did everything I know he can do. It took him 10 minutes to realise he is OK at this level. He is capable of anything. He has the physical attributes and can handle the ball. He will gain huge confidence from it. There will be harder tests as the likes of Germany will have another gear to go to.\"\n\nEngland captain Eric Dier: \"We did well. Against a well-oiled machine they will have periods in the game where they control possession but I didn't think they hurt us. And we had our periods, broke well at times and are actually disappointed we didn't score.\"\n\nDebutant Ruben Loftus-Cheek: \"If we won it would have been better but I'm really happy. It was a really tactical game. It was good for us young players and I certainly learned a lot.\n\n\"The manager has said 'do your best'. I had Gareth in charge for nearly three years at the Under-21s and the boys have been great. I've settled in really well and they gave me a platform to go out and play.\n\n\"To go to the World Cup? It's a long season and I still have to improve. I have to keep learning and getting better and hopefully there's a chance to get on the plane.\"\n\nThe stats you need to know\n• None England and Germany remain on 13 wins against each other in international competition, with the other six games ending in draws.\n• None This was the first goalless draw England have played out at Wembley since October 2010, when they drew 0-0 with Montenegro under Fabio Capello.\n• None It was also the first 0-0 between England and Germany since June 1982, when Ron Greenwood's side drew against West Germany at the World Cup in Spain.\n• None The Three Lions remain unbeaten at Wembley under Gareth Southgate (W5 D2), keeping five clean sheets in seven games.\n• None England handed starts to debutants Pickford, Loftus-Cheek and Abraham against Germany. The last time three England debutants started in the same game was against Chile in November 2013 (Fraser Forster, Adam Lallana and Jay Rodriguez).\n• None Five England players made their debut in this game (also Gomez and Cork) - their most in a single international fixture since November 2012 (six v Sweden - Osman, Caulker, Shawcross, Jenkinson, Sterling and Zaha).\n\nEngland host Brazil at Wembley on Tuesday, while Germany continue preparations for the defence of the World Cup they won in 2014 when they entertain France the same night.\n• None Attempt missed. Jesse Lingard (England) right footed shot from the centre of the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Harry Maguire with a headed pass following a set piece situation.\n• None Attempt blocked. Marcus Rashford (England) right footed shot from long range on the left is blocked. Assisted by Ryan Bertrand.\n• None Offside, England. Ryan Bertrand tries a through ball, but Jamie Vardy is caught offside.\n• None Attempt missed. Emre Can (Germany) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right. Assisted by Ilkay Gündogan following a corner. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The three victims have been taken to hospital\n\nA driver has ploughed into a group of pedestrians near the French city of Toulouse, injuring three Chinese exchange students.\n\nA 23-year-old woman was seriously injured, and two men aged 22 and 23 were also hurt, police said.\n\nThe incident occurred outside a college in the suburb of Blagnac.\n\nThe 28-year-old driver \"purposefully hit\" the group on a crosswalk, Toulouse prosecutor Pierre-Yves Couilleau said.\n\nThe victims are students at the ICD-Toulouse International Business School. The woman's life is not in danger, police said.\n\nThe driver was arrested immediately afterwards. Police said he had several previous minor convictions, some drugs-related.\n\nUnconfirmed reports say he had a history of mental illness including acute schizophrenia. La Dépêche du Midi newspaper quoted him as telling police he had heard voices telling him to harm someone.\n\nMr Couilleau visited the scene of the accident and said there was no suggestion the incident was an act of terrorism.\n\n\"What matters in this case is the psychiatric profile of the person,\" he said.\n\nThe man \"had been planning this act for a month\", Mr Couilleau added.\n\nToulouse Mayor Jean-Luc Moudenc tweeted (in French): \"Very shocked by the aggression towards the students in Blagnac. We offer all our support to them and their loved ones.\"", "In France, one town was not only remembering the end of World War One, but the loss of one of its citizens, Chloe Boissinot, killed in the jihadist attacks on Paris two years ago. The Treaty of Versailles was signed in France in 1919, imposing harsh terms on Germany.", "There is heightened anxiety in Lebanon after the prime minister's resignation\n\nThe Middle East is entering what many analysts see as a dangerous new phase. With the Islamic State group on the brink of defeat, the long-simmering rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran threatens to boil over, with Lebanon in the crosshairs.\n\nIt was a resignation like no other and it is still sending shockwaves through the region.\n\nHe made his announcement not from Lebanon but in Saudi Arabia, the country that acts as his political backer. Many Lebanese believe he was pushed into the decision by Riyadh.\n\nIt is still not clear when, or if, Mr Hariri will return home.\n\nThe spectacle of the missing prime minister is being seen as part of the wider regional struggle between Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia and Shia-dominated Iran.\n\nFor now, Lebanon is uncomfortably centre stage - it is after all where proxy wars have been fought in the past.\n\nIran backs the Shia movement Hezbollah here. Its supporters believe Mr Hariri's resignation was orchestrated by the Saudis in order to weaken their influence in the country.\n\nHezbollah has been accused of operating a \"state within a state\". Its armed wing is more powerful than the Lebanese army and it leads a bloc which dominates the cabinet.\n\nOn Thursday, Saudi Arabia and its Gulf allies further ratcheted up the pressure by urging their citizens to leave Lebanon, sending a clear signal of a toughening up of its policy towards the country.\n\n\"The Americans, the Saudis, the Israelis are all trying to prevent Hezbollah from maximising its gains from the wars in Syria and Iraq,\" says Hassan Ileik, an editor at the pro-Hezbollah newspaper, Al Akhbar.\n\n\"What is happening in Yemen is also related to the Lebanon situation. Hezbollah and its allies have achieved enormous success. But they're now facing huge pressure because of this.\"\n\nSaudi Arabia has accused Hezbollah of firing an Iranian-made missile at it from Yemen, where Riyadh says Iran is also equipping Shia rebels it is leading a long war against. Iran denies the claim.\n\nBasem Shabb is a Lebanese parliamentarian from Mr Hariri's political bloc. He says that the influence of Iran and its allies need to be checked.\n\n\"As the situation in Syria comes to an end the regime has the upper hand,\" he says. \"Iran and Hezbollah are seeking dividends in Lebanon for the role they played in Syria.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Saudi Arabia accuses Hezbollah of firing a missile at Riyadh from Yemen\n\n\"Because this has a regional dimension the solution is not going to come from within Lebanon. The more powerful actors who are interested in stability will need to intervene with the local players to help us maintain stability.\"\n\nMeddling in Lebanon's affairs by great powers is nothing new. But the fear is a misstep now could trigger something far graver.\n\n\"In the last few decades, we've never been so close to the precipice,\" warns Maha Yahya, director of the Carnegie Middle East Center think-tank.\n\n\"The threat of a regional war has never been this real where a conflict would involve a variety of different countries.\"\n\nAnd that is why what happens in Lebanon matters to us all.\n\nThe so-called Islamic State group is all but defeated. What is happening now though - the growing rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran - could be even more dangerous for the region and beyond.", "British supermodel Naomi Campbell has said she's saddened by stories of abuse within the fashion industry.\n\nShe told the BBC's Arts Editor Will Gompertz that it was \"just the beginning\" as \"the lid's now been opened\".", "A BBC drama has been taken out of the Christmas schedule after Ed Westwick, one of its stars, was accused of rape.\n\nAgatha Christie's Ordeal by Innocence, which was due to be on BBC One, will not be broadcast \"until these matters are resolved\", the BBC said.\n\nAnd the former Gossip Girl star has \"paused\" filming on the second series of BBC Two comedy White Gold.\n\nWestwick has vehemently denied the allegations, which have been made by two women.\n\nOne of the accusers has made a complaint of sexual assault to the Los Angeles Police Department.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ed Westwick This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA BBC spokesperson said: \"These are serious allegations which Ed Westwick has strenuously denied.\n\n\"The BBC is not making any judgement but until these matters are resolved we will not include Ordeal by Innocence in the schedules.\n\n\"The independent production company making White Gold has informed us that Ed Westwick has paused from filming while he deals with these allegations.\"\n\nThe three-part Ordeal By Innocence, adapted from the Agatha Christie novel of the same name, also stars Bill Nighy, Eleanor Tomlinson and Anna Chancellor. It was expected to be one of the BBC's key festive dramas.\n\nBBC One tweeted a photo from the drama on Tuesday, before it was pulled from the schedule.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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 BBC One\n\nMeanwhile, filming had begun on the second series of White Gold, in which Westwick stars as an Essex double glazing salesman.\n\nThe actor wrote on Twitter on Tuesday: \"It is disheartening and sad to me that as a result of two unverified and provably untrue social media claims, there are some in this environment who could ever conclude that I have had anything to do with such vile and horrific conduct.\n\n\"I have absolutely not, and I am co-operating with the authorities so that they can clear my name as soon as possible.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Saad Hariri said he feared an assassination plot, accusing Iran and Hezbollah of breeding strife\n\nA night of long knives and long-range missiles in Riyadh has provoked another seismic shift across a volatile Middle East and nervous uncertainty over what salvos will follow next.\n\nThree events that happened suddenly on Saturday in the Saudi capital were not directly linked. But, all told, they pack a powerful punch at a time when Saudi Arabia and its key partners, including the United States, are showing ever greater resolve to confront their arch rival, Iran.\n\nThe first, and potentially most explosive, salvo for the region was Saad al-Hariri's shock announcement from Riyadh that he was stepping down as Lebanon's prime minister. Informed observers say he was summoned from Beirut, then \"sacked\" by his Saudi allies.\n\n\"It wasn't his own language,\" was how an Arab government minister described Mr Hariri's televised address to me.\n\nLooking visibly distressed, Hariri spoke of fears for his life in his own country. He pointed an accusing finger at Iran for spreading \"disorder and destruction\". And he charged that its Lebanese ally Hezbollah, a major Shia militia and powerful political force, with building a \"state within a state\".\n\n\"Saudi Arabia launched a 'fire-and forget-missile,'\" said Yezid Sayigh, a senior associate at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. Its main target was not Lebanon but what Riyadh and its allies view as Tehran's deeply destabilising actions across the region.\n\nThe political projectile jolted Lebanon first. A finely balanced government of national unity, which includes Hezbollah and Hariri's Sunni faction, collapsed.\n\nHezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah accused Saudi Arabia of forcing Mr Hariri to step down\n\nHours after Mr Hariri's declaration, a real long-range missile fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels was intercepted near Riyadh's King Khalid International Airport. It heightened pronounced Saudi fears of what it sees as Iran's reach to its border, and now beyond.\n\n\"That missile is just the beginning,\" insisted Ali Shihabi, executive director of the Arabia Foundation, who shared his views with me in the margins of a forum in the United Arab Emirates last weekend. \"If this situation is left as it is for another five years, there'll be 40,000 missiles to hit Riyadh.\"\n\nAs a political buzz sizzled across the region and far beyond on Saturday night, a third astonishing bombshell dropped just as midnight approached: dozens of princes, billionaires, and former ministers were rounded up, and some sacked, in a spectacular anti-corruption purge.\n\nIt was the boldest signal yet of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's drive to consolidate his control over a new course for the kingdom at home and abroad.\n\n\"It was a message that no one is above the law, or more precisely above his law,\" said one senior Arab official in the region as he explained the lightening sweep by the 32-year-old future king.\n\nA meeting between Mr Hariri and Ali Akbar Velayati (C) reportedly angered Saudi Arabia\n\nSaudi sources said Riyadh had grown increasingly impatient with Saad Hariri over the past year as he struggled to contain Hezbollah's sway over Lebanon's fragile unity government.\n\nLast year's hard-fought deal on the creation of a 30-member cabinet had broken years of political deadlock. It was meant to help ease tensions magnified by the war in neighbouring Syria where Iran and Saudi Arabia, and their allies, back opposing sides.\n\n\"By his actions, Hariri created a veneer of respectability for a state which in reality is captured by Hezbollah,\" said Ali Shihabi.\n\nThe final straw appears to have been Mr Hariri's meeting in Beirut on Friday with Ali Akbar Velayati, a senior advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.\n\nLebanese and Iranian media highlighted Mr Velayati's praise for the \"great success\" of the Lebanon's coalition government. Shortly afterwards, according to accounts by Hariri's close aides, he was a harried man in a hurry.\n\n\"He told us to cancel his appointments on Friday and Saturday and then he left,\" one of them said.\n\nThere's been intense speculation since then as to whether Hariri, who holds Lebanese and Saudi citizenship, has also been caught up in the anti-corruption purge.\n\nMr Hariri met Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Monday, a day after announcing his resignation\n\nThe big question now is: \"What next?\"\n\n\"Saudi Arabia has started something in Lebanon but it doesn't control all the levers of power there,\" said Yezid Sayigh.\n\nOne Western diplomat with long experience in the region highlighted possible next moves: withdrawal of major Saudi bank deposits; trade embargo; action by the Lebanese military, which the US and UK has long helped train and build in an effort to provide a national counterweight to Hezbollah's military might.\n\nJust last month, the US House of Representatives endorsed the imposition of new sanctions against Hezbollah as part of the Trump administration's drive to exert greater pressure on Iran.\n\nThe measures, which have yet to become law, include a resolution urging the European Union to designate Hezbollah's political wing, and not just its military wing, as a terrorist organisation.\n\nEyes too are on Israel, which shares Riyadh and Washington's fixation with Tehran.\n\nPrime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was on an official visit to London last week, immediately called it a \"wake-up call for the international community to take action against Iran's aggression that is trying to turn Syria into Lebanon 2.\"\n\nHezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, seeking to calm nerves in a shaky Lebanon, urged \"patience and calm\" after what he described as a Saudi decision \"imposed\" on Hariri.\n\nFrom Iran also came accusations of plots to create tensions in the region.\n\nAs always in a volatile neighbourhood beset by all too many crises, the greatest worry is not just the risk of war, but an accidental tumbling toward a confrontation.\n\n\"Hezbollah knows its red lines, and every Israeli general will caution against military action,\" said Jean-Marie Guenhenno of the International Crisis Group. But, he added: \"You can't be sure what politicians will do.\"\n\nLebanon's president said he was waiting to hear from Mr Hariri on his return to Beirut\n\nFor now, every move is being watched carefully after this sudden crescendo.\n\n\"The crown prince should have postponed the arrests inside Saudi Arabia once the Lebanon crisis blew up,\" commented an Arab government minister. \"There are too many balls in the air now.\"\n\n\"Better to do it all in one night and then it's done with,\" said a Saudi observer. \"There's just been a constant drip, drip, drip.\"\n\nAnd, like the events of that decisive day last week, they all add up to something much bigger.", "Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump had kept the world guessing about whether they would formally meet in Vietnam\n\nUS President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed to fight so-called Islamic State (IS) in Syria until its defeat.\n\nA statement was prepared by experts after the leaders met briefly on the sidelines of an Asia-Pacific summit in Vietnam on Saturday.\n\nIn total, they had three encounters within 24 hours at the summit.\n\nDuring one conversation, Mr Trump said Mr Putin had denied allegations of meddling in the US 2016 election.\n\nQuestions over Mr Trump's ties to Moscow have dogged his presidency, with key former aides under investigation for alleged collusion with Russia.\n\nThe two stood side by side in matching shirts for a group photo on Friday\n\nA formal bilateral meeting between the two presidents had been widely expected at the Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation (Apec) summit in the port city of Da Nang, but Mr Putin later said scheduling issues had got in the way.\n\nThe pair met for the first time in July at the G20 summit in the German city of Hamburg.\n\nA statement released by the Kremlin on Saturday said the leaders had \"agreed that the conflict in Syria has no military solution\".\n\nThey also confirmed their \"determination to defeat Isis [another term for IS]\" and called on all parties to take part in the Geneva peace process.\n\nAccording to Russia's Interfax news agency, they promised to maintain existing Russian-US military channels of communication to prevent \"serious incidents involving the forces of partners combating IS\".\n\nRussia has been the Syrian government's main ally in the six-year-long civil war. The US meanwhile has been backing Syrian Arab and Kurdish rebels on the ground, and since 2014 it has led a coalition carrying out air strikes against IS in Syria.\n\nThe jihadist group has been pushed out of its main strongholds in Syria in recent months by a combination of offensives involving the Syrian army and the Kurdish and Arab coalition.\n\nLast month the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) declared they were in full control of Raqqa, a city that became the headquarters of IS's self-styled \"caliphate\" in 2014.\n\nMr Trump and President Putin posed side by side for a photo in custom-made blue shirts for the summit on Friday. They also shook hands as leaders sat down for talks on Saturday morning and later exchanged a few words before a \"family photo\" of attendees.\n\nThe two men were seen chatting as they joined a larger group shot of attendees at the summit\n\nRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also met his US counterpart Rex Tillerson earlier the same day, a source from the Russian delegation told Interfax news agency. The Kremlin said the two had co-ordinated the statement on Syria especially for the meeting in Da Nang.\n\nQuestions over whether the two leaders would formally meet or not were raised after conflicting statements from the White House and the Kremlin on Friday.", "Iran and Saudi Arabia have long been regional rivals, but tensions between the two have recently soared.\n\nEach has its own powerful allies, and enemies, in the region. Here is where the key players stand:\n\nThe Sunni-dominated kingdom is home to the birthplace of Islam and contains the most important sites in the Islamic world. It is one of the world's top oil exporters and among its wealthiest countries.\n\nSaudi Arabia fears Iran wants to dominate the Middle East and is opposed to the Shia-led power's growing involvement and influence in the region.\n\nIts belligerence towards Iran appears to have been emboldened by US President Donald Trump's equally tough position.\n\nThe young and increasingly powerful Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is waging a long war against Houthi rebels in neighbouring Yemen. The Saudis say the rebels are materially supported by Iran, a claim Tehran denies.\n\nSaudi Arabia leads a coalition that has attacked the Houthis in Yemen and blockaded the country\n\nSaudi Arabia also backs rebels in Syria and wants to remove its president, Bashar al-Assad, who is a key ally of Iran.\n\nSaudi Arabia has one of the best-equipped militaries in the region and is among the biggest arms importers in the world. It has an estimated 227,000 troops.\n\nIran became an Islamic republic in 1979, when the monarchy was overthrown and clerics assumed political control under supreme leader Ayatollah Khomeini.\n\nThe vast majority of Iran's 80m-strong population are Shia Muslims, and the country is the leading Shia power in the region. Current leader Ali Khamenei has the final say on major foreign and domestic policy issues.\n\nIran's influence has grown considerably in the past decade, especially after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.\n\nIran has supported Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in his fight against opposition groups and the so-called Islamic State (IS). Its elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has been instrumental in advances against Sunni jihadists in Syria as well as in Iraq.\n\nIran also believes Saudi Arabia is trying to destabilise Lebanon, where the Iran-backed Shia movement Hezbollah is part of the government.\n\nIran considers the US its main adversary.\n\nThe IRGC is a major military, political and economic force in Iran\n\nIran is reported to have some of the most advanced missile systems in the region.\n\nIt has over 534,000 personnel in active service, which includes the regular army and the IRGC.\n\nUS-Iran relations have been strained to say the least. Key events affecting them have included the CIA-orchestrated overthrow of Iran's prime minister in 1953, the Islamic revolution in Iran, and the taking of hostages at the US embassy in Tehran in the 1980s.\n\nSaudi Arabia, on the other hand, has always been a US ally, though relations were strained under Barack Obama's administration, particularly given its engagement policy with Iran.\n\nPresident Trump vowed to take a harder line on Iran - and he has, disavowing the landmark nuclear deal Iran signed under the Obama administration.\n\nIn contrast, the White House and Saudi royals have rolled out the red carpet for each other.\n\nThe US has long been a key backer of Saudi Arabia\n\nNeither Mr Trump nor his administration have criticised radical Islam in the Kingdom in the same way they link Iran to terrorism. Nor are Saudis on the list of foreign nationals on his controversial travel ban.\n\nDonald Trump's first trip abroad as president was to the Middle East, where he met Saudi and Israeli leaders, who have a common desire to stem Iran's regional influence.\n\nSaudi Arabia is the primary destination for US arms sales.\n\nRussia is an ally of both Saudi Arabia and Iran, having close economic ties with each. It has also sold advanced weaponry to both countries.\n\nRussia appears not to have taken a particular side in the crisis between Tehran and Riyadh, indicating instead that it is ready to act as a mediator.\n\nMoscow's involvement in the Middle East goes back to the Cold War times, when the Soviet Union provided arms and training for Syria's military officers.\n\nIts influence in Syria and in the region in general subsided after the fall of the Soviet Union but Moscow has striven to increase it of late.\n\nRussia's air offensive in the Syrian war helped turn the tide in Bashar al-Assad's favour, and the Iran-backed fighters supporting him.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin has said that Syrian and Russian forces have liberated over 90 per cent of the country's territory\n\nTurkey has trod a fine line between Iran and Saudi Arabia in the fast-moving military and political developments in the Middle East.\n\nAnkara has become more involved in regional matters since the Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party came to power in 2002.\n\nTurkey, a Sunni power, has established strong ties with Saudi Arabia over their sectarian kinship and mutual opposition toward the Syrian government.\n\nDespite a deep mistrust of Iran, Turkey also recently forged an alliance with it against the growing Kurdish influence in the region, which both countries perceive as a threat.\n\nTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has also backed Qatar in its row with Saudi Arabia\n\nThe state of Israel was declared in 1948 with a majority Jewish population but, in the Arab world, only has diplomatic relations with Egypt and Jordan.\n\nIran and Israel are arch-foes. Iran rejects Israel's right to exist and calls for it to be eradicated.\n\nIsrael's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has strongly urged the international community to prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and has also called for the annulment of Iran's landmark nuclear deal to curb what he calls its \"aggressive\" policy in the region.\n\nHe has said there is a level of co-operation with some Arab countries in the region to counter Iran's growing influence. Saudi Arabia has denied reports in Israeli media that a high-level Saudi prince secretly visited Israel for talks in September.\n\nEgypt has often played a central role in Middle East politics and has historically had better relations with Saudi Arabia than Iran, particularly after the Islamic revolution.\n\nSaudi Arabia also supported the Egyptian army's removal of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in 2013.\n\nHowever, there have been occasions of rapprochement between Egypt and Iran, such as when Iran sponsored an Egyptian-Iraqi oil deal after Saudi Aramco halted its oil exports to Egypt in October 2016.\n\nAmid recent heightened tension between Saudi Arabia and Iran, Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi called for \"avoiding escalation of tension in the region, but not at the expense of the Gulf's security and stability\".\n\n\"Gulf national security is Egyptian national security. I have faith in the wise and firm leadership of Saudi Arabia,\" Mr Sisi has said.\n\nThe Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad strongly sides with Iran in its standoff with Saudi Arabia.\n\nIran has traditionally backed the Syrian leadership and has been providing military and personnel support to the Syrian army in its fight against rebels and jihadist groups.\n\nIran sees Mr Assad, a member of the heterodox Shia Alawite sect, as its closest Arab ally. Syria is also the main transit point for Iranian weapons shipments to the Shia group Hezbollah in Lebanon.\n\nHezbollah has sent thousands of fighters to back the Syrian government. Correspondents say that due to its training and equipment, the group is now viewed as a fully-fledged army rather than a semi-amateur militia.\n\nThe Syrian government often accuses Saudi Arabia of adopting subversive policies in the Middle East.\n\nSyrian forces have slowly but surely been recapturing territory from IS\n\nLebanon's stance on the Saudi-Iran standoff is mixed.\n\nLebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri, who announced his resignation from Saudi Arabia a few days ago, has very good relations with the Saudi government and sides with it against Iran.\n\nThe Lebanese prime minister resigned recently, while on a visit to Saudi Arabia\n\nOn the other hand, Lebanese Hezbollah is an ally of Iran, which provides it with considerable support. Its leader Hassan Nasrallah has often attacked the Saudi government.\n\nThe Gulf States of Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait have had friendlier ties with Saudi Arabia than Iran in the past.\n\nBut Qatari-Saudi ties have suffered since Qatar defied a demand from Saudi Arabia for it to curb ties with Iran earlier this year.\n\nSaudi Arabia says it wants Qatar to do more to combat extremism and terrorism\n\nAfter Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt and Bahrain imposed a blockade on Qatar in July, Iran sent five planeloads of food to Qatar to help it over food shortages.\n\nIn August, Qatar and Iran restored full diplomatic relations which had previously been dropped over attacks on two Saudi diplomatic facilities in Iran.\n\nBahrain and Kuwait lean toward Saudi Arabia though.\n\nBahrain's Sunni king and his family hold the main political and military posts there but about 70% of the country is Shia.\n\nBahrain has accused Iran of training \"terrorist cells\" to operate inside the country to overthrow its government. It also accuses the Shia opposition of maintaining links with Iran.\n\nThe government said in October that \"it is one of the countries most affected by the expansionist policy of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards\".\n\nAlthough Kuwait is not imposing a blockade on Qatar, its government has shifted from an earlier stance of siding with Iran, to siding with Saudi Arabia.\n\nIn February, it called for improving Arab-Iranian relations and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani visited for the first time since he was elected in 2013 to discuss Iran-GCC tensions.\n\nKuwait's emir also offered to mediate in talks between Doha and Riyadh\n\nFollowing the Saudi-Qatar crisis, however, Kuwait expelled 15 Iranian diplomats and shut down related military, cultural and trade missions in the country.\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.", "President Michel Aoun (L) has expressed concern over the well-being of Saad al-Hariri (R)\n\nThe Lebanese president has asked Saudi Arabia to clarify the situation of Prime Minister Saad Hariri, who announced his resignation in Riyadh.\n\nMichel Aoun has not accepted the shock resignation of a week ago, suggesting words attributed to Mr Hariri should be treated with caution.\n\nIran and its Lebanese ally, the militant group Hezbollah, accuse Saudi Arabia of holding Mr Hariri hostage.\n\nThe US has warned other countries not to use Lebanon for proxy conflicts.\n\nThere is growing concern that Lebanon is becoming drawn into spiralling sectarian tensions between the region's biggest Shia Muslim power, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, which is mainly Sunni Muslim.\n\nMr Hariri, a Sunni leader and businessman, was nominated to form Lebanon's government by Mr Aoun in November 2016.\n\nThe announcement of his resignation on 4 November sent shockwaves through the region.\n\n\"The obscurity surrounding the condition of Prime Minister Saad Hariri since his resignation a week ago means that all positions and actions declared by him or attributed to him do not reflect the truth,\" President Aoun said.\n\nAn unnamed senior Lebanese official, quoted by Reuters news agency, said President Aoun had told a group of foreign ambassadors on Friday that Mr Hariri had been \"kidnapped\" and should have immunity.\n\nHowever, the remarks have not been officially confirmed. French Foreign Minister Yves Le Drian said on Friday that \"we think he's free to move and he has to make his own choices\".\n\nIn his televised remarks from Riyadh a week ago, Mr Hariri said that he was stepping down because of an unspecified threat to his life.\n\nHe accused Iran and Hezbollah, a Shia group, of taking over Lebanon and destabilising the wider region.\n\nHe has not spoken publicly since then.\n\n\"We are all Saad,\" posters of the missing prime minister have appeared across Beirut\n\nOn Friday, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said he had received assurances that Mr Hariri was free and he encouraged him to return to Lebanon.\n\nHe expressed concern about how the crisis might affect the stability of Lebanon's fragile coalition, and warned countries in the region against using Lebanon as a \"venue for proxy conflicts\".\n\nMeanwhile, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah accused Saudi Arabia of declaring war on Lebanon.\n\nThe international community has also weighed in on Mr Hariri's absence, with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warning that a new conflict in the region would have \"devastating consequences\".\n\nOn Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron paid an unscheduled visit to Saudi Arabia, to emphasise to Saudi leaders the importance of stability in Lebanon. He spoke to Mr Aoun by phone on Saturday.\n\nMr Hariri (R) was seen meeting the Saudi king on Monday\n\nFrance has historical ties with Lebanon, as the former mandate power before independence.\n\nSaudi Arabia and its Gulf allies ordered their citizens in Lebanon on Thursday to leave the country immediately.\n\nRiyadh accused Iran of \"direct military aggression\", saying it had supplied a missile which it says was fired by Hezbollah at Riyadh from Yemen the same day as Mr Hariri's resignation.\n\nIran dismissed the Saudi allegations as \"false and dangerous\".", "Women's Ashes Test, North Sydney Oval (day three of four):\n\nEllyse Perry became only the seventh woman to hit a Test double century as Australia took control of the day-night Women's Ashes Test against England on day three at the North Sydney Oval.\n\nThe 27-year-old, also a football international, made an unbeaten 213 as Australia declared on 448-9, taking a first-innings lead of 168.\n\nEngland's openers survived to finish on 40-0 at close of play.\n\nAustralia will retain the Ashes if they can force victory on the final day.\n\nBut a draw may be the likeliest outcome after only four wickets fell on a day when bat dominated ball,\n\nIt would take an almighty turnaround for England, who trail 4-2 in the points-based multi-format series, to find a winning position, given that their first target would be the 168 they need to make Australia bat again.\n\nHowever, a more positive approach from openers Tammy Beaumont and Lauren Winfield in the final hour may encourage them to believe they can save the game.\n\nA draw would keep the series alive with Australia leading 6-4 - but barring washouts, England would still need to win all three Twenty20 internationals to regain the trophy.\n• None Relive the third day of the Test\n\nPerry goes large - at last\n\nWhile Perry's chanceless innings will rightly take its place in the pantheon of women's cricket, it was all the more remarkable - given her undoubted talent - that 10 years after her international debut, it was the first time she had reached three figures in Australian colours.\n\nA sporting prodigy, Perry had made her full debut for Australia at both cricket and football while only 16 - and attempted to have a dual career for a while, featuring at World Cups in both sports, although cricket has taken precedence in recent years.\n\nSince the start of 2014, she has passed 50 in 23 of her 35 one-day international innings, averaging a shade under 80 - but had not converted any of them to a century.\n\nBut while she was trending worldwide on Twitter by the end of the day's play - no mean achievement given the profile of women's Test cricket, which averages one match every two years - she was indebted to century stands with Alyssa Healy (45) and Tahlia McGrath (47).\n\nAustralia had resumed on 177-5, with Perry unbeaten on 70, but it was Healy who showed more attacking intent in the early stages, and was the first player in the match to clear the ropes, hoisting Anya Shrubsole over mid-wicket just before the drinks break at the end of the first hour.\n\nFormer England captain Charlotte Edwards, now a BBC Test Match Special summariser, has watched Perry's rise through the international game - and was confident enough to pledge before play that she would eat her hat if Perry did not hit a century.\n\nAnd Edwards' faith was repaid soon after that opening hour as Perry helped Laura Marsh down the leg side before removing her helmet and jumping for joy.\n\nAfter Healy was caught at mid-on for 45, McGrath survived being dropped by Heather Knight off her first ball and showed no signs of debutant nerves as she took the lead in their century stand.\n\nPerry seemed to adopt a safety-first approach between 100 and 150 - going more than two hours without hitting a boundary, but racking up the singles.\n\nMcGrath was out just before the dinner interval, but after Jess Jonassen and Amanda-Jade Wellington fell in quick succession, Perry was seven runs short of her double ton and running out of partners when number 11 Megan Schutt arrived.\n\nSchutt was nearly out twice before Perry, on 194, launched Laura Marsh high into the night sky - and with the crowd cheering a six, Perry ran to celebrate her achievement, only for the third umpire to rule that the ball had bounced just in front of the rope.\n\nThankfully for Perry, she drove Sophie Ecclestone for four next over to pass the landmark, and had time to launch another six before Rachael Haynes declared.\n\nConsidering England do not play any multi-innings cricket at domestic level, it would have tested their stamina, both physical and mental, to be out in the field for a mammoth 166 overs.\n\nGiven that the second new ball was only five overs old at the start of the day, it was a surprise the tourists did not begin with their regular pace duo Katherine Brunt and Anya Shrubsole - instead using Sophie Ecclestone's left-arm spin in the early stages.\n\nBut while they had been able to strangle Australia with spin on day two, England were unable to exert the same level of control on Saturday, serving up too many loose deliveries.\n\nHealy and Perry served early notice of their intentions by hitting Ecclestone for three fours in her first two overs, while fellow spinner Laura Marsh had only conceded 28 runs in 23 overs on Friday, but day three saw her plundered for 81 in 21.\n\nBrunt (1-44 from 22 overs) was their most economical bowler, while Knight gave McGrath a life when she hit her first ball from Georgia Elwiss straight to extra cover, only for the England skipper to shell the chance.\n\nBy mid-evening, the pink ball appeared increasingly ragged - giving the appearance that it had been chewed by a dog between overs - but although England were in the field long enough to have the option of a third new ball after 160 overs, it was not taken, for fear that a new ball might disappear to the boundary even quicker.\n\nEven one of the three wickets they did take came from a full toss from Elwiss, which McGrath obligingly chipped to mid-wicket.\n\nHaving played conservatively and got bogged down in the first innings, England's openers can take credit for the way they batted in the final hour, Beaumont in particular showing some of the fluency with which she batted in the World Cup.\n\nBut England will need to draw on all their reserves of grit and determination on the final day, with leg-spinner Wellington already showing glimpses of the occasional sharply turning delivery like the one which dismissed Beaumont in the first innings.\n\n'Why not celebrate twice?' - what they said\n\nAustralia wicketkeeper Alyssa Healy on Perry's innings: \"England bowled really well yesterday but fortunately Ellyse did brilliantly. It was very special for me to be there, I was fist pumping more than her when we were running down the wicket!\n\n\"She went up another gear when we needed and full credit to her. She is a very special player. She was very embarrassed about [celebrating early] but it's not often you get to celebrate a double century, so why not do it twice!\"\n\nPerry on the premature celebration: \"That's the second most embarrassing thing I've done in this match, after taking that catch after the ball hit me - the crowd tricked me as they were cheering as though it went for six. Their support was just incredible.\"\n\nEngland pace bowler Anya Shrubsole told BBC Test Match Special: \"We came up against someone who played a sublime innings. I don't remember her giving a chance. She's obviously got a really good technique and she batted brilliantly. We really stuck at it, but sometimes you have to hold your hands up and say 'well batted'.\"\n\nEx-England captain Charlotte Edwards on TMS, on Australia's chances of victory: \"It's going to be really difficult. The ball's not moving off the straight - it depends on whether Amanda-Jade Wellington can get any turn. England can just bat and bat. But you wouldn't put anything past Ellyse Perry at the moment.\"", "Civil wars that spread devastation and suffering across a whole country have no real victors. But one war in Syria - that against the Islamic State (IS) group's so-called caliphate - is well on the way to being won.\n\nEarlier this week IS's last urban bastion in eastern Syria, Deir al-Zour, hard up against the Iraqi border, fell to Assad government forces. IS will remain in some form or another as an insurgency and source of ideological inspiration but as a territorial entity or physical caliphate, it is finished.\n\nBut what of Syria's other war, the uprising against the Assad regime and its efforts - aided by Iran and Russia - to crush the opposition?\n\nThe current situation on the ground means that forces from the above countries will be in close proximity to United States troops, who are supporting some of the anti-Assad groups.\n\nJoshua Landis, a Syria expert and professor at Oklahoma University, summed it up in simple terms. \"Assad has won the Syria war militarily,\" he told me. \"He has defeated the original uprising or revolution. The rebel groups that remain have been pushed to the margins of Syria.\n\n\"The international community has all but abandoned them as a lost cause. The rebel militias,\" he argues, \"still have some teeth in defence, but cannot mount a credible offensive against Assad's military.\"\n\nCharles Lister, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute, and another close watcher of Syria, has a slightly more cautious assessment. \"President Assad,\" he notes, \"sits more comfortably in Damascus than at any time since 2011.\"\n\nBut having said that, he argues that \"it would be inaccurate to suggest Assad had won the war. He's simply avoided losing it.\"\n\n\"The Assad regime has a stated intent to recapture every inch of Syria. If that goal is to ever be met, we're talking years at least,\" he explained.\n\nBut the crucial take-away from all this is that Syria is entering a new phase of conflict. The territorial defeat of IS, says Charles Lister, \"will throw an awful lot of potential sources of hostility up into the air and nobody really knows right now how they'll land\".\n\nWhat is emerging is a new strategic map with Syria divided into different zones: One controlled by the Assad regime (with the support of Russia and Iran), another controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (an amalgam of Kurdish, Arab and other groups supported by the US), and others run by various elements of the Syrian opposition, backed to varying degrees by Turkey and Jordan.\n\nHaving helped Assad restore his control over a significant part of the Syrian population, Moscow has also manoeuvred itself into holding the best cards in the putative diplomatic end-game.\n\nAs Joshua Landis told me, the Astana peace process, led by the Russians, \"is the only one worth anything at the moment.\n\n\"The Geneva process, led by the US,\" he notes, \"has been about grandstanding and sticking to talking points that no longer have any relevance on the ground, such as demanding that Assad step aside and that democratic elections be held in Syria. Everyone knows this will not happen.\"\n\nWith the demise of IS, Syria's future will continue to be determined by a variety of external players, fighting out their own strategic battles and seeking local advantage.\n\nThe four key actors are the US, Russia, Turkey and Iran.\n\nSpecial forces from Western countries, including the US, have supported Kurdish-Arab forces in Syria\n\nIts initial half-hearted efforts to galvanise a democratic opposition to defeat the Syrian regime failed dramatically. Its focus has largely been on the defeat of the IS caliphate.\n\nBut now, Joshua Landis says, Washington must make a decision: \"Will it stay in Northern Syria to defend the gains of the Syrian Democratic Forces that it has armed, trained and propelled to victory in Raqqa and the region north of the Euphrates River?\"\n\nThe difficulty, as Charles Lister told me, is that \"beyond fighting IS, it is sadly very hard to determine whether the US really has a Syria policy.\"\n\nAnd he says that what policy there is is full of contradictions. For example, Washington continues to say Assad must leave and that his days are numbered, and yet the US has ceased all support to anyone opposed to Assad.\n\nTurkish President Erdogan's main concern is with the Kurds\n\nIf US policy could be said to be in a mess, so too could that of Turkey.\n\nAnkara's goal, says Joshua Landis, is to retrench. \"It seriously overreached in Syria,\" he told me, \"almost to the point of destabilising Turkey.\"\n\nHe believes that President Erdogan \"must make sure that the Kurdish question in Turkey does not lurch toward civil war. He will increasingly normalise relations with Assad in order to contain the independence of Syria's Kurds.\" Turkish troops have moved a small way into northern Syria to achieve this goal.\n\nIndeed, after posing as a champion of the opposition against the Assad regime, Charles Lister says, that \"at times, Turkey has directly betrayed the opposition groups it had stood by for so long, merely to secure a more favourable position against the Kurdish YPG, which it views as a terrorist organisation.\n\nShia militias, backed by Tehran, have played a prominent role in the campaign against IS\n\nIn backing the Assad regime (and offering significant support to the Shia-dominated government in Iraq) Tehran has had one clear goal - to secure its hegemony in the northern Middle East: the lands stretching from Lebanon through Syria and Iraq, all the way to Iran's own borders.\n\n\"This,\" says Joshua Landis, \"is the new security architecture that Iran has fought so vigorously for and it is within its reach today. This means that Iran can counter-balance Israel. It means that Iran can establish oil pipelines running to the Mediterranean coast, trade routes, highways, and pilgrimage routes.\"\n\nThis, he says, means \"Iran is no longer cut out of the Middle East.\"\n\nAnd Tehran has troops to back up its position. Charles Lister notes that Iran \"commands tens of thousands of Shia militiamen inside Syria, which gives Tehran more influence than any other actor, bar none.\"\n\nRussian troops have been on the ground in Syria\n\nRussia, after Iran, is the other great winner from the Syrian conflict, reviving its role in the region, securing important military bases, and making itself a key diplomatic player.\n\nIt wants to \"solve\" Syria on its terms and with its favoured actors ending up the victors and it seems to be well on the way to achieving this goal.\n\nBut the growing proximity of Russian and Iranian-backed pro-regime forces and those backed by the US raises the possibility of some dangerous encounters. The US and Russia can agree on the need to defeat IS but on little else. Moscow's \"side\" has the military and diplomatic advantage on the ground.\n\nWill the US seek to bolster its position in Syria, perhaps as part of a broader policy to \"roll back\" Iranian influence, as US conservatives are hoping? This may be easier said than done and might require many more resources and boots-on-the-ground than the Trump administration is prepared to put in harm's way.\n• None What should happen to IS fighters?", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nUS goalkeeper Hope Solo has accused former Fifa president Sepp Blatter of sexual harassment.\n\nThe World Cup winner, 36, says the incident happened at the 2013 Ballon d'Or awards, before she went on stage to present an award.\n\nIn an interview with Portugal newspaper Expresso, Solo - who has 202 caps - said: \"I had Sepp Blatter grab my ass.\"\n\nBlatter, 81, denied the incident took place, with his spokesman telling BBC Sport: \"This allegation is ridiculous.\"\n\nSolo, when asked why she has not spoken out on the incident before, added: \"I was nervous for the presentation. It was the Ballon d'Or I was presenting.\n\n\"After that I didn't see him and that was kind of bad. I didn't get to tell him directly 'don't ever touch me'. That's the way I've always handled things - directly.\"\n\nA growing number of public figures have been accused of sexual harassment in recent weeks, sparked by multiple women speaking out against the Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein.\n\nSolo, a two-time Olympic gold medallist, says the issue is \"rampant\" in women's football.\n\n\"I've seen it throughout my entire career,\" she said. \"It's not just in Hollywood.\n\n\"For years, in the past, female players date and end up marrying their college coaches, which obviously a coach should not be doing, especially with a young player.\n\n\"I've seen it not just with coaches, I've seen it with trainers, doctors, and our press officers. I've seen it among players in the locker room. I don't know why more players don't speak out against it.\"\n\nBlatter was head of the world football's governing body for 17 years, until a corruption scandal in 2015.\n\nFifa subsequently banned the Swiss official from the sport for eight years, a term later reduced to six years after appeal.", "Jupiter and Venus were photographed here above Brighton Pier\n\nJupiter and Venus - the two brightest planets - have appeared together in the morning sky.\n\nThe planetary conjunction was visible to the naked eye across much of the UK, with the time before dawn being the best to catch the spectacle.\n\nExperts said the planets were so close as to appear almost on top of each other.\n\nOne astronomer said it would probably be \"decades rather than years\" before they appeared as close together.\n\nWhile the planets have been visible to the unaided eye, viewers with a telescope have also been able to see Jupiter's four Galilean moons.\n\nPeople in the UK have taken to social media to share their photos of the planetary display.\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\nViewed from London, the planets began appearing shortly before 06:00 GMT with the conjunction occurring just after.\n\nThose on high ground with a clear view of the eastern horizon had the best chance of witnessing the planetary display.\n\nThis image of the planetary display was captured by Alexandra Palace in London\n\nThe planets were spotted here in the Merseyside skyline\n\nThe conjunction of the planets looks like a bright star\n\nIn 2004, the planet Venus could be seen crossing the Sun as a small black dot\n\nMark Thompson, an astronomer and former presenter on the BBC show Stargazing Live, said conjunctions occur when planets line up in such a way that they appear from Earth to be next to each other - despite in this case being hundreds of millions of miles apart.\n\nMr Thompson told the BBC the cloudy atmospheres of the two planets made them appear bright to the naked eye.\n\nHe said the event was not uncommon - Venus and Jupiter appeared together in 2015 and 2016, also on 13 November - but it was much rarer for them to appear so close to each other.\n\n\"There have certainly been cases where they've been close in the sky but they've not been this close in recent years, certainly the last couple of planetary conjunctions.\n\n\"This is actually quite a good conjunction because they're so close, and over the next few years they'll pass each other and be close but not this close…\n\n\"One as close as this, you're probably looking decades rather than years.\"\n\nThe conjunction can also be seen in countries in the mid-northern latitudes, including parts of the US.\n\nThose who missed the event will be able to see the two planets again on Tuesday morning, but they will not be as close together.\n\nAccording to Nasa, stargazers will be treated to another planetary pairing later this month, when Saturn will meet Mercury on the western horizon at dusk on 24 and 28 November.", "A British woman held in Egypt on drug smuggling charges has been referred to a criminal court for trial.\n\nLaura Plummer, 33, was arrested last month accused of entering the country with 300 Tramadol tablets, a painkiller legal in the UK but not in Egypt.\n\nShe will remain in custody at a police station in the resort of Hurghada.\n\nThe shop assistant from Hull told the BBC she had \"no idea\" the painkillers she was carrying were banned in the country.\n\nBut local police said that ignorance of the law is no excuse.\n\nHer lawyers had hoped to apply for bail on Saturday, but a custody hearing was cancelled.\n\nLaura Plummer said the prescription pills were for her partner Omar Caboo\n\nMs Plummer's mother, Roberta Synclair, had waited at the courthouse in the Red Sea resort hoping to see her daughter granted bail on Saturday.\n\nShe told the BBC Ms Plummer was in \"very bad spirits\" when she last saw her a few days ago.\n\n\"It's absolutely heart-breaking because your daughter's there and you can't bring her home with you,\" Ms Synclair said.\n\nIt is unclear when the first hearing for the trial will be.\n\nThis is a blow for Laura Plummer and her lawyers. Instead of being granted bail - as they had hoped - she has now been referred to a criminal court.\n\nBeing sent for trial was always a possibility after the shop assistant was charged with the serious offence of drug smuggling.\n\nPolice investigating the case have stressed that she had a large quantity of the banned drug Tramadol - about 300 tablets.\n\nLaura Plummer insists she had no idea that the painkiller is banned here and that she brought it for her Egyptian boyfriend, who has a bad back. Her lawyers say he has medical certificates which could help her case.\n\nThis could be the beginning of a lengthy legal process. In Egypt, defendants can be kept in custody for up to two years before a trial.\n\nFor now she remains in an overcrowded cell at a police station in Hurghada.\n\nDrug smuggling can carry the death sentence in Egypt.\n\nTramadol is legal in the UK with a prescription but banned in Egypt, where many are addicted to the opiate.\n\nIn a phone call from her cell, Ms Plummer told the BBC she was given the tablets by a colleague for her Egyptian partner, Omar Caboo, who she says has back problems.\n\nShe said the colleague put them in a chemist's bag, which she put in her suitcase.\n\n\"I didn't even look in the bag,\" she said. \"I can't tell you how stupid I feel.\"\n\nMs Plummer is being held in the Red Sea beach resort of Hurghada\n\nMs Plummer told the BBC her cell in a police station was the size of her bedroom in the UK, but she was having to share it with 25 other women.\n\nHer shared cell was claustrophobic, she said, and it was sometimes hard to breathe. Although her fellow prisoners were trying to look after her, none of them spoke English.\n\nHer family have said Ms Plummer was \"unrecognisable\" after four weeks in custody in Egypt.\n\nMs Plummer's local MP, Karl Turner, says she has never been in trouble at home.\n\n\"She's never had so much as a parking ticket in the UK,\" he said.\n\n\"This is a woman who's definitely, clearly, done wrong, but she, in my view, absolutely had no knowledge of what she was doing to be illegal, and we need to be mindful of that.\"", "This is how Iran's media reported comments made by the British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson about Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.\n\nMr Johnson said the British-Iranian charity worker had been training journalists in Iran, where she has been imprisoned.\n\nHe has since said the government has \"no doubt\" she was on holiday \"and that was the sole purpose of her visit\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThree-quarters of a million people have rallied in Barcelona to protest against Spain's detention of Catalan independence leaders, police estimate.\n\nThey shone phone torches in unison at sunset as calls were made to free eight regional ministers and two grassroots campaign leaders being held on remand.\n\nSome of the detainees will be included on the list of a Catalan separatist party at next month's snap election.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is to visit the city on Sunday.\n\nIn another development, Barcelona's mayoress has condemned pro-independence leaders.\n\nThe Catalan parliament declared independence last month following an unrecognised referendum on independence from Spain.\n\nMadrid responded by dissolving the parliament and calling a regional election on 21 December.\n\nSince the crackdown by Madrid, Catalonia's sacked President Carles Puigdemont has gone into self-imposed exile in Belgium, and his top allies have been prosecuted.\n\nThe pro-independence movement has proven its ability to mobilise large numbers of demonstrators. Many came to this latest protest from small towns and villages in Catalonia - a sign of the movement's reach.\n\nTheir immediate aim is to call for the release of the eight politicians and two activists remanded in custody on charges of sedition and rebellion. The authorities in Madrid insist that the case is purely a matter for the courts, but the detention of politicians and activists does have a political impact. Imprisonment may have served to increase their popularity. It may galvanise the pro-independence movement as the regional election approaches.\n\nThe pro-independence camp wants to win a clear parliamentary majority. That would allow their side to have another go at trying to break away from Spain. But the pro-union camp, which represents the other half of Catalan society, will also campaign vigorously.\n\nProtesters marched behind a banner declaring \"We are a republic\" and carried placards declaring the 10 detainees political prisoners.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Here's what protesters in Catalonia are singing about\n\nThe sacked former ministers are being investigated for alleged rebellion and sedition, while the two activists were arrested over a mass protest before the referendum.\n\nThere were performances and speeches to the crowd. Protesters chanted \"Puigdemont for president\" and a cellist played a traditional Christmas carol, The Song of the Birds, which is associated with Catalans driven into political exile.\n\nThe left-wing ERC party, a key ally of Mr Puigdemont, has announced that some of the prisoners, including party leader Oriol Junqueras, as well as some of the sacked ministers who also went to Belgium, will stand on its electoral list.\n\nHowever, the ERC has rejected a call from Mr Puigdemont to fight the election as part of a single pro-independence bloc with other parties - as they did in 2015.\n\nMr Rajoy was mocked as the Devil on this recent placard in Barcelona\n\nThe Spanish prime minister is to make his first appearance in Catalonia since implementing direct rule two weeks ago.\n\nHe is expected to address a meeting of supporters of his centre-right Popular Party, who firmly want Catalonia to remain a part of Spain.\n\nAda Colau, who was elected mayoress in 2015 on an anti-capitalist platform and whose party (a merger of left-wing parties) is standing in the regional parliamentary election for the first time, said leaders of the independence movement had \"tricked the population for their own interests\".\n\nMs Colau, seen here kissing her baby, has kept her distance from both separatists and unionists\n\n\"They've provoked tensions and carried out a unilateral independence declaration which the majority do not want,\" she told a meeting of her Catalunya en Comú (English: Catalonia in Common) party.", "Louis CK has won six Emmy Awards and had 39 nominations\n\nUS comedian Louis CK has admitted that sexual misconduct allegations made against him by five women are true.\n\nHe said he had \"wielded power irresponsibly\" and could hardly wrap his head around the \"scope of hurt\" he had caused them.\n\nFour of the accusers told the New York Times he masturbated during interactions with them and a fifth said he had asked to do so.\n\nThe allegations led to the release of his new movie being scrapped.\n\nI Love You Daddy - a comedy about an ageing film director, played by John Malkovich, who has a reputation for getting embroiled with young women - was due to have been released in the US on 17 November.\n\n\"These stories are true,\" Louis CK said in his statement, which is reproduced in full at the bottom of this article.\n\n\"The power I had over these women is that they admired me. And I wielded that power irresponsibly.\"\n\nThe comedian added that he regretted the hurt he had inflicted on people he worked with, including his manager Dave Becky, his family, his friends, his children and their mother.\n\nIn Thursday's New York Times report, four comediennes - Dana Min Goodman, Julia Wolov, Rebecca Corry and Abby Schachner - and a fifth woman, who spoke on condition of anonymity, made allegations about the entertainer.\n\nActresses Julia Wolov (left) and Dana Goodman in Hollywood in 2011\n\nGoodman and Wolov said Louis CK stripped naked and masturbated after inviting them to his hotel room during the US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado, in 2002.\n\nSchachner said she called Louis CK in 2003 to invite him to one of her shows and was dumbfounded to realise during their phone conversation that he was masturbating. \"I felt very ashamed,\" she told the New York Times.\n\nA fifth woman, who did not want to be named, told the newspaper of alleged incidents involving the comic in the late 1990s, while she was working in production on The Chris Rock Show.\n\nLouis CK, who was a writer and producer on the show, repeatedly asked her to watch him perform a sex act, she said. \"He abused his power,\" she said.\n\nAbby Schachner told the New York Times she felt \"very ashamed\"\n\nLouis CK's planned appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert was cancelled and HBO announced it would purge Louis CK's past projects from its On Demand service.\n\nThe cable TV network also said the comic would no longer participate in a charity comedy special, Night of Too Many Stars, later this month.\n\nOn Thursday, a Los Angeles County district attorney Jackie Lacey announced a task force of veteran sex crimes prosecutors to address \"the widespread allegations of sexual abuse in entertainment industry\".\n\n\"I want to address the stories told to the New York Times by five women named Abby, Rebecca, Dana, Julia who felt able to name themselves and one who did not.\n\n\"These stories are true. At the time, I said to myself that what I did was okay because I never showed a woman my dick without asking first, which is also true. But what I learned later in life, too late, is that when you have power over another person, asking them to look at your dick isn't a question. It's a predicament for them. The power I had over these women is that they admired me. And I wielded that power irresponsibly.\n\n\"I have been remorseful of my actions. And I've tried to learn from them. And run from them. Now I'm aware of the extent of the impact of my actions. I learned yesterday the extent to which I left these women who admired me feeling badly about themselves and cautious around other men who would never have put them in that position.\n\n\"I also took advantage of the fact that I was widely admired in my and their community, which disabled them from sharing their story and brought hardship to them when they tried because people who look up to me didn't want to hear it. I didn't think that I was doing any of that because my position allowed me not to think about it.\n\n\"There is nothing about this that I forgive myself for. And I have to reconcile it with who I am. Which is nothing compared to the task I left them with.\n\n\"I wish I had reacted to their admiration of me by being a good example to them as a man and given them some guidance as a comedian, including because I admired their work.\n\n\"The hardest regret to live with is what you've done to hurt someone else. And I can hardly wrap my head around the scope of hurt I brought on them. I'd be remiss to exclude the hurt that I've brought on people who I work with and have worked with who's professional and personal lives have been impacted by all of this, including projects currently in production: the cast and crew of Better Things, Baskets, The Cops, One Mississippi, and I Love You Daddy. I deeply regret that this has brought negative attention to my manager Dave Becky who only tried to mediate a situation that I caused. I've brought anguish and hardship to the people at FX who have given me so much The Orchard who took a chance on my movie. and every other entity that has bet on me through the years.\n\n\"I've brought pain to my family, my friends, my children and their mother.\n\n\"I have spent my long and lucky career talking and saying anything I want. I will now step back and take a long time to listen.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Ellen Page says Brett Ratner was homophobic and abusive\n\nEllen Page is the latest actress to speak out against director and producer Brett Ratner.\n\nShe claims he outed her in public before she herself had fully realised she was gay.\n\nShe says it happened on the set of X Men: The Last Stand when she was 18 years old.\n\nThe director has yet to respond to Ms Page's accusation. He has recently been accused of harassment, assault and rape - claims he denies.\n\nHe is suing a former employee who says he forced himself on her.\n\nEllen Page was 18 when she made X Men: The Last Stand\n\nMs Page has written a lengthy Facebook post, which contains explicit language, describing what she says happened when the cast and crew met before filming started.\n\nShe describes how the director pointed at her and told another woman she should sleep with her \"to make her realise she's gay\".\n\nThe actress explains that she had not come out to herself at the stage: \"I knew I was gay, but did not know, so to speak.\"\n\nShe says she felt \"violated\" and that no-one spoke out to defend her.\n\nShe describes it as a \"public, aggressive outing\" that left her feeling ashamed.\n\nOlivia Munn describes Brett Ratner is the \"bully at school who just won't quit\"\n\nBrett Ratner is one of the most successful film-makers in Hollywood and has produced or directed The Revenant, Jersey Boys and the Horrible Bosses movies.\n\nSix women including Natasha Henstridge and Olivia Munn have accused him of harassing them.\n\nHis lawyer Martin Singer said: \"I have represented Mr Ratner for two decades, and no woman has ever made a claim against him for sexual misconduct or sexual harassment.\n\n\"No woman has ever requested or received any financial settlement from my client.\"\n\nNewsbeat has tried to contact Mr Singer, but he has not replied.\n\nBut Ms Page's account has been supported by one of her X Men co-stars, Anna Paquin.\n\nShe tweeted: \"I was there when that comment was made. I stand with you.\"\n\nMs Page's post tells how she has been working since she was 10. She says she has met \"respectful collaborators\" during her career.\n\nBut she also talks about abusers who \"want you to feel small, to make you insecure, to make you feel like you are indebted to them, or that your actions are to blame for their unwelcome advances\".\n\nShe describes another director fondling her leg when she was 16 and telling her to \"make the move\" on him.\n\nShe adds: \"I was sexually assaulted by a grip months later. I was asked by a director to sleep with a man in his late 20s and to tell them about it. I did not.\"\n\nShe also criticises people in Hollywood who know that people are being harassed and \"choose to look the other way\".\n\nNow she says there must be \"a long awaited reckoning\".\n\nShe explains: \"I want to see these men have to face what they have done. I want them to not have power anymore.\n\n\"I want them to sit and think about who they are without their lawyers, their millions, their fancy cars, houses upon houses, their 'playboy' status and swagger.\"\n\nShe calls for other people to speak out, saying: \"You are breaking the silence. You are the revolution.\"\n\nFind us on Instagram at BBCNewsbeat and follow us on Snapchat, search for bbc_newsbeat", "The future operation of the Irish border is one of the most sensitive Brexit issues\n\nThere were \"frank discussions\" about the Irish border in the latest round of Brexit talks, David Davis has said.\n\nThe Brexit Secretary was speaking in Brussels after a meeting with chief EU negotiator Michel Barnier.\n\nMr Davis said any solution for the border could not be at the expense of the constitutional integrity of the UK.\n\nThe EU tabled a paper which suggested Northern Ireland will have to continue to follow many EU rules after Brexit if a hard border is to be avoided.\n\nThe paper hinted that Northern Ireland may need to stay in the EU customs union if there are to be no checks at the border.\n\nThat is something which the Conservatives and DUP have said they cannot accept as it would effectively create a border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nBritain and the EU say they are committed to ensuring Brexit does not undermine the Good Friday agreement.\n\nNeither want Brexit to lead to the emergence of a hard border with the Republic of Ireland.\n\n\"Let me be clear, we cannot have anything resulting in a new border being set up with in the UK,\" said Mr Davis after the sixth round of UK-EU talks on citizens' rights, the Irish border, and the UK's \"divorce bill\".\n\n\"We remain firmly committed to avoiding any physical infrastructure.\n\n\"We respect the EU desires, but they cannot come at the constitutional integrity of the United Kingdom.\"\n\nMr Davis said the EU and UK teams had drafted joint positions on the common travel area, as well as joint principles and commitments for the second phase of talks.\n\nThe EU leaked paper stops short of saying a hard border can only be avoided by the UK or Northern Ireland staying in the single market or customs union.\n\nTaoiseach Leo Varadkar was attending the British-Irish Council in Jersey\n\nHowever, it brings the commission closer to the European Parliament position which \"presumes\" that the UK or Northern Ireland will have to stay in the internal market and customs union.\n\nIt is also the clearest indication that the commission has accepted the Irish position on Brexit and the border issue.\n\nIrish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has said the only way of avoiding a hard border in Ireland after Brexit is for the whole of the UK, or Northern Ireland, to follow the rules of the customs union and single market.\n\nSpeaking at a meeting of the British-Irish Council in Jersey, Mr Varadkar said his proposal would not mean the UK or Northern Ireland had to be members of the customs union and single market, but \"it would mean continuing to apply the rules\".\n\nEU chief negotiator Michel Barnier has given the UK two weeks to clarify what it will pay to leave the EU\n\nDUP Parliamentary leader and North Belfast MP Nigel Dodds rejected the suggestion that a hard border can only be avoided if the UK or Northern Ireland continue to abide by the rules of the single market and customs union after Brexit.\n\nHe said the paper shows the EU is unwilling to engage in negotiations on the border issue in a \"meaningful fashion\".\n\n\"Northern Ireland will not be separated from the rest of the UK as a result of Brexit,\" he said.\n\n\"Brussels must realise this and accept that progress will not be achieved through bully-boy tactics.\"\n\nThe DUP's Nigel Dodds said Brussels must accept progress will not be achieved through bully-boy tactics\n\nMeanwhile, Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Simon Coveney said talk of individual countries vetoing a move to the next stage of Brexit negotiations is \"unhelpful\", but progress still had to be made on the border issue.\n\n\"There is a way to go between the two negotiating teams to be able to provide credible answers and sufficient progress in the context of the Irish border before we can move on to Phase Two,\" he told Irish state broadcaster, RTE.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bertie Ahern tells BBC Newsnight a hard border would be a \"huge setback\" for the peace process\n\nFormer Irish Taoiseach and Good Friday Agreement signatory Bertie Ahern told BBC Newsnight that a hard border would be a \"huge setback\" for the peace process and that a physical border across the island of Ireland would give a \"huge incentive\" to those that want to cause mischief.", "The shooting of a lynx has \"broken emotionally and physically\" the owner of the zoo it escaped from.\n\nLilleth, the Eurasian lynx, had escaped from Borth Wild Animal Kingdom but Ceredigion council said on Friday that she had been \"humanely destroyed\".\n\nThe council said despite \"exhaustive efforts\" to recapture her, it received advice that the risk to public safety had \"increased to severe\".\n\nThe zoo's co-owner Dean Tweedy has condemned the killing, saying he wanted to see her darted instead.\n\nCeredigion council said it would carry out an inspection of the zoo, which has been closed since Lilleth's escape, later this month.", "Iran is establishing a permanent military base inside Syria, a Western intelligence source has told the BBC.\n\nThe Iranian military is said to have established a compound at a site used by the Syrian army outside El-Kiswah, 14 km (8 miles) south of Damascus.\n\nThe report comes amid growing tensions over Iranian influence in Syria and across the region.\n\nIsraeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu recently warned that Iran wanted to establish itself militarily in Syria.\n\n\"Israel will not let that happen,\" he said.\n\nSatellite images commissioned by the BBC seem to show construction activity at the site referenced by the intelligence source between January and October this year.\n\nThe images show a series of two dozen large low-rise buildings - likely for housing soldiers and vehicles.\n\nIn recent months, additional buildings have been added to the site. However, it is impossible to independently verify the purpose of the site and the presence of the Iranian military.\n\nAn official from another Western country told the BBC that ambitions for such a long-term presence in Syria would not be illogical for Iran.\n\nIts adversaries have accused Iran of seeking to establish not just an arc of influence but a logistical land supply line from Iran through to the Shia Hezbollah movement in Lebanon.\n\nWith so-called Islamic State (IS) suffering major defeats on the battlefield and losing its last strongholds, attention is increasingly turning to what comes next and the new map of power and influence in Syria.\n\nIran has been a consistent backer of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. Photographs published on social media in the past few days also showed a senior Iranian general in Deir al-Zour shortly after IS was driven out of the town.\n\nThe photos show Maj Gen Qasem Soleimani, head of the Quds force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) alongside members of a militia.\n\nWith a significant number of IRGC fighting - and in some cases dying - in Syria, there has already been a significant presence in the country but the question is now whether they are preparing to remain in the long term.\n\nThe images of the base do not reveal any signs of large or unconventional weaponry which means if it was a base it would most likely be to house soldiers and vehicles. One source said it was possible that senior Iranian military officials may have visited the compound in recent weeks.\n\nIndependent analysis of the images commissioned by the BBC says the facility is military in nature. The analysis also suggests there are a series of garages that can hold six to eight vehicles each.\n\nThe analysis suggests new buildings have been constructed and other buildings renovated in the past six months although the exact role of the new structures cannot be determined.\n\nHowever, it is not clear whether the facility is currently occupied. Shia fighters from other countries - including Pakistan and Afghanistan - are also alleged to be operating in Syria under the control of the IRGC and it is possible the base could be used by them. Analysts estimate up to 500 troops could be based at the site.\n\nThe presence of Iranian forces in Syria has been reported for some time but the claim of a potentially more permanent Iranian base raises the possibility of military action by Israel which has repeatedly warned it will not tolerate such a development.\n\nThe Lebanon-based Shia group Hezbollah is backed by Iran\n\nThe base lies about 50 km (31 miles) from the Golan Heights - Syrian territory occupied and then annexed by Israel and where it now has a significant military presence.\n\n\"As Isis [IS] moves out, Iran moves in,\" Mr Netanyahu tweeted on Sunday.\n\n\"Iran wants to establish itself militarily in Syria, right next to Israel. Israel will not let that happen,\" he added.\n\nIn an interview on the BBC's Andrew Marr show on the same day he said Iran wanted to bring its air force and submarines as well as military divisions right next to Israel.\n\nIsrael has raised further concerns of Iran seeking to use Syrian ports and bases for its submarines. When asked whether Israel would use military force to stop such developments, Mr Netanyahu told the BBC: \"You know, the more we're prepared to stop it, the less likely we'll have to resort to much greater things. There is a principle I very much adhere to, which is to nip bad things in the bud.\"\n\nHowever, international pressure is likely to be the first avenue pursued by Israel. Other countries have also raised concerns over potential long-term Iranian presence in the region.\n\nThe issue of potential Iranian military bases is likely to have been raised by Israeli officials with Syria's ally Russia.\n\nIn October, Russia's defence minister was in Jerusalem and was told by Mr Netanyahu that Israel would not allow the Iranian military \"to gain a foothold in Syria\", according to reports at the time.\n\nRussian President Vladimir Putin visited Iran in the past week and Russian media suggested Syria - including Iran's influence in the country - would be on the agenda.\n\nIn recent years, the Israeli air force has struck targets in Syria a number of times which it has linked to Hezbollah.", "Police logged details of the boy's action under the heading \"Obscene Publications\"\n\nThe mother of a schoolboy who sent a naked photo of himself to a girl has won the right to a judicial review over a police force's refusal to delete his name from its records.\n\nThe boy, aged 14 at the time, was not arrested or prosecuted by Greater Manchester Police.\n\nHis mother said she was concerned police could release the information to potential employers when he is older.\n\nThe boy sent the naked photograph over social media to a girl at his school.\n\nThe girl then shared the image, sent two years ago, with others.\n\nThe boy's mother said she was \"in complete shock\" when she heard what had happened, but \"this had all happened in the privacy of his own bedroom\".\n\nShe said even though \"he was young, he was naive, he was silly\" she believes the subsequent sharing of the photo by others was \"malicious\".\n\nPolice took no action against him other than to record on their database that he had taken and forwarded an \"indecent\" image of himself, logged under a section entitled \"Obscene Publications\".\n\nGreater Manchester Police has refused to delete the boy's name from its files, a decision his mother is contesting at the High Court.\n\nShe said: \"It's going to be held there infinitum, so for all his adult life it hangs over him.\"\n\nShauneen Lambe, chief executive of Just For Kids Law which is supporting the family, said a generation of children was being \"penalised\" by a law that was supposed to protect them.\n\nHome Office policy is understood to be that police have to record such incidents but whether their name is included is at the force's discretion, which may have implications for future job applications especially if working with children.\n\nMs Lambe said the real fear about discretion was that it creates uncertainty, as one chief officer might take one view while another might take the opposite.\n\nOlivia Pinkney, the chief constable of Hampshire who is lead officer on the National Police Chief's Council (NPCC), expressed concern two years ago that the policy was not consistently applied and said she was \"worried for today's young people\".", "Richard Ratcliffe told a press conference he raised the issue of diplomatic protection for his wife\n\nThe Foreign Office is still considering whether it will give diplomatic protection to a British-Iranian woman jailed in Iran.\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe has been held by Tehran since April 2016 after being accused of spying - charges she denies.\n\nHer husband raised the issue of her being given diplomatic protection in a meeting with the foreign secretary.\n\nThe Foreign Office said lawyers would discuss the issue but said the question was whether it would help her case.\n\nRichard Ratcliffe met with Boris Johnson after the foreign secretary said during a Commons committee hearing that Mrs Zhagari-Ratcliffe was in Iran to \"train journalists\" - which could lead to her five-year jail term being doubled.\n\nHe has since apologised for the remarks - made on 1 November - and retracted \"any suggestion she was there in a professional capacity\".\n\nHer family have always maintained she was on holiday with her daughter.\n\nMr Ratcliffe told a press conference after the meeting that diplomatic protection - which allows a state to take diplomatic action on behalf of a national - would be \"important and helpful\".\n\nThe protection would signal that the UK is treating the case as a formal, legal dispute between the UK and Iran.\n\nBut he said the Foreign Office expressed reservations about whether the protection would help his wife's case.\n\n\"They have agreed to answer the questions and then for the lawyers to sit down and talk it through. Both legally and then also practically.\n\n\"But certainly, I think it is an important thing for us to be pushing for.\"\n\nThe Foreign Office said its lawyers would meet in the coming fortnight to discuss the issue further.\n\nWhen a British citizen is jailed overseas they normally get basic consular help from the local embassy, including contacting family, legal support and medical help.\n\nConferring diplomatic protection on the citizen would ratchet up their status, so that diplomats working on the case would no longer treat it as a consular matter but a formal, legal dispute between Britain and that country, conducted under the rules of international law.\n\nThe citizen's interests would be taken as those of the state.\n\nDiplomatic protection is very different from diplomatic immunity. The latter is something given to diplomats to ensure their safe passage and protection from prosecution.\n\nRichard Ratcliffe and Boris Johnson met at the Commonwealth office\n\nMr Ratcliffe said he discussed with the foreign secretary the possibility of a joint trip to Iran before the end of the year.\n\nHe said Mr Johnson had no fixed date for his planned visit to Iran, but the foreign secretary was \"keen\" for him to travel with him.\n\nHe also spoke about the health of Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who he said had found lumps in her breasts.\n\n\"She talks about being on the verge of a nervous breakdown. I absolutely believe that's true.\n\n\"I think it's important I don't exaggerate anything in the media and I'm not melodramatic, but she is in a difficult place.\"\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been visiting Iran with her daughter Gabriella when she was arrested\n\nMr Ratcliffe's MP, Tulip Siddiq, who joined him in the meeting, said he had failed to obtain a visa to visit Iran over the last 19 months and had not seen his daughter Gabriella, who is living in the country with her maternal grandparents, during that time.\n\nShe said they had communicated over Skype but his daughter had lost the ability to speak English.\n\n\"So, if he gets to go with the foreign secretary, he gets to see his daughter for the first time in 19 months. And if he's there, he has the right to visit Nazanin in prison as her relative,\" she said.\n\nMs Siddiq added that Mr Johnson had made clear he would \"certainly\" push to see Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe himself in prison if he goes to Iran.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Ratcliffe previously rejected suggestions that Boris Johnson should resign over his comments\n\nThe Foreign Office said the meeting had been \"positive\".\n\nIt said the British ambassador in Iran had raised the case with the country again, urging for consular access, appropriate medical treatment, a decision on Mr Ratcliffe's visa application and access for him to visit his wife if a trip takes place.\n\n\"The foreign secretary concluded the meeting by saying that no stone would be left unturned in the case of Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, and that of our other dual nationals detained in Iran,\" the Foreign Office added.", "Since 2012, only Swift and Adele have sold a million copies of an album in a single week\n\nAfter just four days, Taylor Swift has sold more albums in the US than any other artist this year.\n\nThe star's sixth album, Reputation, has sold 1.04 million copies in the US since Friday, says Billboard magazine.\n\nThat puts her ahead of 2017's previous biggest-seller, Ed Sheeran's ÷, which has shifted 919,000 copies to date.\n\nReputation also becomes Swift's fourth album to sell a million copies in the space of a week, following 1989, Red and Speak Now.\n\nIn fact, only she and Adele have sold a million copies of any album in a seven-day frame since 2012.\n\nNotably, both artists withheld their records from streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music - a move which drives committed fans to buy or download the album.\n\nIt has been rumoured that Reputation will be made available on those services later this week.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. First impressions of Taylor Swift's new album\n\nReputation, which sees the star delve deeper than ever before into the realms of pop and hip-hop, has received largely positive reviews from critics.\n\nThe Telegraph called it \"a big, brash, all-guns-blazing blast of weaponised pop that grapples with the vulnerability of the human heart as it is pummelled by 21st-century fame.\n\nNPR's critic Ann Powers noted that Swift's lyrics had matured, describing the stand-out track Getaway Car as: \"A sure-footed step forward into the vagaries of grown up life.\"\n\nBBC Music's Mark Savage said it was \"her most sonically adventurous album yet\", while noting that moments where she lashes out at her detractors \"don't really lend themselves to big, singalong choruses\".\n\nHowever, the New York Times' writer Jon Caramanica questioned whether Swift had diluted her appeal by borrowing so heavily from other genres.\n\n\"In making her most modern album - one in which she steadily visits hostile territory and comes out largely unscathed - Ms Swift has actually delivered a brainteaser: If you're using other people's parts, can you ever really recreate your self?\"\n\nEd Sheeran is on course to have the year's biggest-selling album in the UK\n\nReputation is set to debut at number one in the UK, after selling 65,437 copies over the weekend. However, she is unlikely to beat Sheeran in his home territory.\n\nDivide sold 672,000 copies in its first week this March - making it the third-fastest seller in chart history, behind Adele's 25 (800,000 sales) and Oasis' Be Here Now (696,000).\n\nSheeran's album, of course, was available on streaming services - which accounted for 12% of its sales.\n\nEarlier this week, Spotify's Troy Carter criticised Swift's decision to hold her album back, saying it would encourage piracy.\n\n\"It kind of sets the industry back a little bit,\" he said, while adding: \"Taylor is super smart. We are not mad at her for the decision she made.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A soldier killed in a training exercise was shot by a colleague who mistook him for a target, a report has found.\n\nPrivate Conor McPherson was critically injured during a night-time \"live fire\" exercise at Otterburn, Northumberland.\n\nThe Defence Safety Authority's Service Inquiry report identified a number of Army failings in the run-up to the incident.\n\nThe Army has said it \"deeply regrets\" the death the young soldier, which was \"a terrible, terrible tragedy\".\n\nPrivate McPherson, 24, from The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion, the Royal Regiment of Scotland, was pronounced dead at the scene on 22 August last year.\n\nThe report stated that soldiers using live rounds had been stumbling about in the dark.\n\nLieutenant General Richard Felton, director general of the Defence Safety Authority, said he could not understand why the trainees were subjected to an 18-hour plus day.\n\nIt also emerged the opening day of Exercise Wessex Storm at the Heely Dod Range featured nine different shooting sequences.\n\nBut Lieutenant General Felton said the safety risk present that night \"was neither recognised - nor the potential consequences understood - by the Fire Team, supervising staff or Battalion leadership\".\n\nWhile it was \"highly likely\" Private McPherson, from Paisley, Renfrewshire, was shot by one of his colleagues, another soldier did not fire a single round because he found it impossible to identify any targets in the gloom.\n\nLieutenant General Felton said: \"The tragic death of Pte Conor McPherson serves as a reminder of the dangers inherent in Military training.\"\n\nBut he added:\" Military training must continue to test and challenge, with progression through a unit's training cycle correctly adding complexity and greater levels of Safety Risk.\n\n\"To not do so would reduce the value of training and the preparedness of our soldiers to fight and win in future conflicts.\"\n\nPrivate McPherson had already trained in France and Kenya by the time he joined the fatal exercise with colleagues from 3 Platoon A Company 3 Scots.\n\nTheir final mission that day was to negotiate a firing range, using live ammo as the infantrymen moved towards rigid targets, without any fixed illumination.\n\nA reconstruction ordered by the inquiry found that the LUCIE Universal night vision goggles and ear plugs worn by Pte McPherson were not cleared for use in this type of exercise.\n\nThe probe into the incident has identified eight \"contributory factors\" that made the accident more likely to happen that night, including a lack of effective supervision of the soldier who fired the shot.\n\nThe investigating panel said it is highly likely a solder named only as \"firer 2\" - a private who had been in the military for five and a half years - misidentified Private McPherson as a target and fired the fatal round.\n\nColonel Jim Taylor of HQ Field Army, Training branch welcomed the inquiry's findings, saying: \"It has done outstanding work to identify what went wrong.\n\n\"In particular, their reconstruction of the events that night has been invaluable in helping us identify what caused the accident and the factors which contributed to it. We are now carefully considering its recommendations.\n\n\"We care about our soldiers above all else and we do everything we can to reduce the risks to them as they conduct the essential training required to prepare them for combat operations.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for Northumbria Police said:\"The death is still being investigated and Northumbria Police is working with the Health and Safety Executive and the Coroner.\"", "A summertime flood in the Austrian Tyrol in 2005\n\nClimate change has had a significant impact on the timing of river floods across Europe over the past 50 years, according to a new study.\n\nIn some regions, such as southern England, floods are now occurring 15 days earlier than they did half a century ago.\n\nBut the changes aren't uniform, with rivers around the North Sea seeing floods delayed by around eight days.\n\nThe study has been published in the journal Science.\n\nFloods caused by rivers impact more people than any other natural hazard, and the estimated global damages run to over a $100bn a year.\n\nResearchers have long predicted that a warming world would have direct impacts on these events but until now the evidence has been hard to establish.\n\nFloods are affected by many different factors in addition to rainfall, such as the amount of moisture already in the soil and other questions such as changes in land-use that can speed up water run-off from hillsides.\n\nThis new study looks at this issue in some depth, by creating a Europe-wide database of observations from 4,262 hydrometric stations in 38 countries, dating back to 1960.\n\nThe analysis finds a clear but complex impact of climate change on river flooding.\n\nThe blue arrows indicate earlier flooding due to changes in the soil moisture levels. The yellow and green indicate earlier floods due to earlier snow melt\n\nThe most consistent changes are in north-eastern Europe around Scandinavia where earlier snow melt due to warmer temperatures is leading to earlier spring floods. Around 50% of monitoring stations are seeing floods eight days earlier than they did 50 years ago.\n\nThe biggest changes are seen along the western edge of Europe, from Portugal up to Southern England. Half the stations recorded floods at least 15 days earlier than previously. A quarter of the stations saw flooding more than 36 days earlier than in 1960.\n\nIn these regions, the issue isn't snow melt - it's more about saturated soils. Maximum rainfall tends to occur in the autumn and gets stored in the soils. Heavier and earlier rain means that the groundwater reaches capacity earlier.\n\n\"It's the interplay between extreme rainfall and the abundance of rainfall,\" lead author Prof Günter Blöschl, from the Technical University of Vienna, told BBC News.\n\n\"In southern England, it has been raining more, longer and more intensely than in the past. This has created a rising groundwater table and higher soil moisture than usual and combined with intense rainfall this produces earlier river floods.\"\n\nHowever, around the North Sea, in the Netherlands, Denmark and Scotland, the trend is towards later floods.\n\nThe scientists believe this is due to changes in the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), the weather phenomenon that pushes storms across the ocean into Europe.\n\nAcross Europe, regions experienced different shifts in the timing of floods, both earlier and later\n\nThe NAO is driven by differences in atmospheric pressure between the North Pole and the Equator. Recent, rapid changes in temperatures in the Arctic are interfering with these pressure levels and changing the track of the oscillation and storms as well.\n\nAccording to this study, the storms are arriving later and as a result some river flooding happens later too.\n\nProf Blöschl says that this study shows clear evidence of the impact of human-induced climate change in many regions - but there are still some areas of uncertainty.\n\n\"Where the human imprint is obvious is in the northeast of Europe. It is quite a direct link, with a warming climate and earlier snow melt,\" he said.\n\n\"However, the areas impacted by the NAO are more difficult to attribute to anthropogenic global warming. The jury is still out on that aspect.\"\n\nThe study foresees subtle but significant impacts that could arise from the change in flood timing. There could be effects on river ecosystems with salmon spawning later in the year. There could also be implications for hydropower stations, and for agriculture if fields stay wetter for longer.\n\nThe UK has experienced severe flooding on many rivers in recent years, including on the Thames\n\n\"The more serious concern is that if warming impacts the seasonality it may also impact the scale of flooding,\" said Prof Blöschl.\n\n\"You could think of timing changes as the harbinger of future changes of flood magnitude. That is the more serious concern. If that happens, flood risk management will have to adapt and that will be different in different parts of Europe.\"\n\nOther experts believe that the changes in flood timing identified by this study have significant implications for how we understand the risk of river floods and how we deal with them.\n\n\"Nearly every major city and town in Europe is built on a river and we protect this urban infrastructure by using past floods as a gauge of the potential risk,\" said Mark Maslin, Professor of Climatology at University College London.\n\n\"The study shows that this approach underestimates the risk, as climate change has made European floods occur earlier in the year, increasing their potential impact.\n\n\"This means all the infrastructure that we have built to protect our cities needs to be reviewed as much of it will be inadequate to protect us from future climate change-induced extreme flooding.\"\n\nFollow Matt on Twitter and on Facebook.", "Women who took the drug will be offered genetic testing\n\nThe use of a controversial hormonal pregnancy test from the 1950s to the 1970s did not damage unborn children, a scientific review has found.\n\nThe Commission on Human Medicines said the evidence did not support a \"causal link\".\n\nThe inquiry was set up by the UK government amid concerns the drug may have caused defects and miscarriages.\n\nIt was used in Britain between 1953 and 1975 - other countries stopped sooner.\n\nHowever, the commission said that women who used the test and subsequently had babies born with defects would be offered genetic testing to see if any cause could be identified.\n\nAn electronic system for reporting side-effects during pregnancy will also be introduced to help identify problems with medicines that may occur in the future.\n\nIt is estimated that over one million women used the drug to test for pregnancies.\n\nIt worked by triggering a period if a woman was not pregnant.\n\nCampaigners claim it caused birth defects in their children, such as blindness, deafness, spina bifida and heart and limb defects as well as cleft palates.\n\nA previous report by independent experts in 2014 also found inconclusive evidence of harm, but this new review was ordered by ministers after fresh concerns came to light.\n\nLegal action against Schering - the original manufacturer of Primodos - was halted in 1982 because of a lack of evidence.\n\nSchering was subsequently taken over by Bayer.\n\nDr Alisa Gebbie, chair of the working group which oversaw the inquiry, said many thousands of pieces of evidence were examined during the review, and detailed testimonies had been gathered from families affected.\n\nBut she said there was simply not the evidence to suggest the drug caused defects or miscarriages.\n\nShe also said the findings should reassure women who still use the hormones - progestogen and oestrogen - that were used in the drug.\n\n\"Many women use these same hormones on a daily basis for contraception and heavy periods who may experience an unintended pregnancy. So our findings are also reassuring for them.\"\n\nMarie Lyon, who is chair of the Association for Children Damaged by Hormone Pregnancy Tests, was prescribed Primodos and later gave birth to a daughter whose limbs were not fully formed. She said she was very angry with the findings.\n\n\"They have ignored some of the evidence. It's a cover-up. We had high hopes this inquiry would get to the truth but it hasn't.\"\n\nShe said she would like to see a judicial review of the whole issue.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOne person was rescued from a burning tower block and a number of residents were led to safety after a fire broke out at high-rise flats outside Belfast.\n\nFirefighters were called to Coolmoyne House in Dunmurry at about 17:30 GMT as flames and smoke hit multiple floors.\n\nOn arrival, crews were faced with \"a well-developed fire on the ninth floor\" the NI Fire and Rescue Service said.\n\nThe flats were evacuated, and four people were treated by paramedics. The fire was extinguished by 18:10 GMT.\n\nPictures posted on social media showed flames and smoke at Coolmoyne House\n\nLagan Valley Hospital said that two people - a man and a woman - were stable after being admitted following the fire.\n\nGeoff Somerville, group commander with the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service, said firefighters rescued a man from the flat in which the fire started.\n\nHe said they believed the fire was \"accidental\" and that the man \"was making toast at the time\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Geoff Somerville from NIFRS says it's believed the fire was accidental\n\n\"He had moved into his bedroom and then heard his smoke detectors operate in his flat and that alerted him to the fire,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm very relieved there's been no loss of life and that's only because of the courageous actions of our firefighters here today.\"\n\nTower block residents told a BBC reporter at the scene that they felt shocked but \"lucky to be alive\".\n\nThey added that all they could think about was the Grenfell Tower tragedy in London during the summer.\n\nSusanne Berrill said she lived in the flat above where the fire had started\n\nSusanne Berrill, another tower block resident, told the BBC that she had lost everything in the blaze.\n\n\"I've literally only started life again after a big trauma and this has happened,\" she said, speaking from a local community centre.\n\nThe fire started in a flat on the ninth floor of the tower block\n\nSome residents expressed anger and said that they had not heard fire alarms on their floors.\n\nOne told the BBC: \"The alarms went off on the floor where the fire was but why didn't it go off on all the floors with such a big fire?\"\n\nHowever, Group Commander Somerville said that the fire alarms had worked \"as expected\".\n\n\"The residents should not have concerns about that (the fire alarms),\" he said.\n\n\"The alarm in the gentleman's flat operated and sounded and that is the correct configuration.\n\n\"There is a communal fire alarm system in the hallway that is to operate and automatically open vents to the common hallway and that also successfully operated.\n\nEmergency vehicles were sent to the scene of the fire on Wednesday evening\n\n\"There would be no sounders in the common hallway nor should their be.\n\n\"It is important of course to emphasise to everybody that each flat would have a self-contained fire alarm system, this individual flat itself had three smoke detectors and they operated and worked.\n\n\"Their (other residents) alarms should not go off unless they detected smoke.\"\n\nHe added that the fire service would now assess whether residents can return to their homes but that \"some flats and all flats may not be safe to enter tonight\".\n\nThe blaze damaged flats on the ninth and tenth floors before it was brought under control, according to local community worker Julie Ann Jackson.\n\n\"They got everybody out,\" she told the BBC's Evening Extra programme.\n\nMs Jackson said safety drills had been carried out at the block, following the Grenfell fire in June.\n\nSome of the flats on the upper floors have been damaged\n\nA total of eleven fire appliances and four ambulances were sent to Coolmoyne House.\n\nThe tower block on the Seymour Hill housing estate is owned and operated by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive.\n\n\"Staff have been on site following the fire in a flat this evening and are on hand to offer emergency accommodation to any resident who requires it,\" it said in a statement,\n\n\"The cause of the fire is now under investigation by the NIFRS and we will be co-operating with them fully.\n\n\"We would like to commend the Northern Ireland Fire And Rescue Service, the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service and the Police Service of Northern Ireland for their immediate response.\"\n\nDunmurry resident Sam Waide was driving past Coolmoyne House when he saw what he first believed was steam coming from the top of the building.\n\nHe pulled his car over and realised the tower block was on fire.\n\n\"It was sort of frightening,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"After what happened in England, you think to yourself, is this another one?\"\n\nMr Waide said emergency vehicles were at the scene \"very, very quickly\".\n\nA cordon was put in place around the tower block\n\nRobert Cullen was driving towards his sister's house in Seymour Hill when he saw \"lots and lots of smoke\".\n\n\"One side of the flats was all in flames, from about half way up,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\nHe said within minutes, fire appliances started to arrive \"left, right and centre\".\n\n\"As far as I'm aware, everybody got out,\" Mr Cullen added.\n\nHe said that after about 20 minutes, firefighters had doused all the flames and \"there was just smoke\".", "The struggle for independence, land and power runs throughout Zimbabwe's modern history. Veteran President Robert Mugabe dominated the country's political scene for almost four decades after independence from Britain in 1980.\n\nOnce the bread basket of the region, since 2000 Zimbabwe has struggled to feed its own people due to severe droughts and the effects of a land reform programme that saw white-owned farms redistributed to landless Zimbabweans, with sharp falls in production.\n\nThe fall of Robert Mugabe in 2017 freed up politics and the media, but the country remains cash-strapped and impoverished.\n\nEmmerson Mnangagwa became president in November 2017 following a dramatic week in which the military took charge and Robert Mugabe resigned after 37 years in office.\n\nHe was re-elected as president in 2018. Mr Mnangagwa was again re-elected in August 2023 in a poll that observers said did not meet local laws and global standards, gaining 52.6% of the valid votes cast while his opponent Nelson Chamisa came second with 44%. Mr Chamisa rejected the results.\n\nWhen he first became president, Mr Mnangagwa - known as \"The Crocodile\" for his ruthlessness - promised a new start for his country's people.\n\nBut Zimbabwe is still struggling with high inflation and unemployment also remains rife. Mr Mnangagwa's vow to guarantee human rights also appears hollow, with little changing in this regard since Mr Mugabe's departure.\n\nAll broadcasters in Zimbabwe, and many of the main newspapers, toe the government line.\n\nRadio is the main source of information. The state-run Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) operates TV and radio networks and two national private radio stations are licensed.\n\nThe name \"Zimbabwe\" stems from a Shona term for Great Zimbabwe, the medieval city in the country's south-east\n\n1200-1600s - Rise and decline of the Monomotapa domain, thought to have been associated with Great Zimbabwe and to have been involved in gold mining and international trade.\n\n1830s - Ndebele people fleeing Zulu violence and Boer migration in present-day South Africa move north and settle in what becomes known as Matabeleland.\n\n1830-1890s - European hunters, traders and missionaries explore the region from the south. They include Cecil John Rhodes.\n\n1889 - Rhodes' British South Africa Company obtains a British mandate to colonise what becomes Southern Rhodesia.\n\n1930 - Land Apportionment Act restricts black access to land, forcing many into wage labour.\n\n1930-1960s - Black opposition to colonial rule grows. Emergence in the 1960s of nationalist groups - the Zimbabwe African People's Union (Zapu) and the Zimbabwe African National Union (Zanu).\n\n1953 - Britain creates the Central African Federation, made up of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), Northern Rhodesia (Zambia) and Nyasaland (Malawi).\n\n1963 - Federation breaks up when Zambia and Malawi gain independence.\n\n1965 - Prime Minister Ian Smith unilaterally declares independence from Britain under white-minority rule, leading to international isolation.\n\n1972 - Guerrilla war against white rule intensifies, with rivals Zanu and Zapu operating out of Zambia and Mozambique.\n\n1978 - Smith yields to pressure for negotiated settlement. Zanu and Zapu boycott transitional legislature elections. New state of Zimbabwe Rhodesia, led by Bishop Abel Muzorewa, fails to gain international recognition.\n\n1979 - British-brokered all-party talks lead to a peace agreement and new constitution guaranteeing minority rights.\n\n1982 - Prime Minister Mugabe sacks Zapu leader Joshua Nkomo from the cabinet, accusing him of plotting to overthrow the government.\n\n1983-87 - Gukurahundi campaign, in which 20,000 are thought to have been killed in Matabeleland by Mugabe's Fifth Brigade. The violence ends following a unity accord, when the Zapu party is absorbed into the renamed governing Zanu-PF party.\n\n2008 - Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai beats Mugabe in the presidential election but is forced to withdraw from a run-off after his supporters become the target of increased violence.\n\n2009 - Mugabe's Zanu-PF loses parliamentary majority forcing power-sharing deal with Tsvangirai's MDC which lasts until 2013.\n\n2017 - Mugabe resigns after 37 years in power. He is succeeded by Emmerson Mnangagwa.\n\n2022 - Increasing power shortages as a result of decades of under-investment.", "Sir James Dyson thanked Mr Conze when he stepped down last month\n\nElectrical firm Dyson is suing former chief executive Max Conze for allegedly leaking company secrets and using company resources for his own benefit.\n\nMax Conze stepped down in October and was thanked by the British firm's founder, Sir James Dyson.\n\nBut the BBC has learned that, according to the company, Mr Conze was sacked for an alleged series of breaches.\n\nMr Conze denied the allegations and said it would cause an \"unnecessary distraction\" for Dyson staff.\n\nThe allegations include \"the disclosure of confidential information, and a breach of his fiduciary duties\".\n\nA spokesman for the company said: \"The Dyson board has decided to bring a claim against Max Conze at the High Court of Justice in London in relation to his actions while chief executive.\"\n\nMr Conze was appointed to the role in 2011 after a stint running Dyson's US business.\n\nHis period as chief executive coincided with a huge increase in sales of Dyson's products. Profits at the vacuum cleaner and air purifier maker rose 41% last year to £631m.\n\nThe breaches are said to include: \"Disclosing confidential product information to third parties, breaching Dyson's confidentiality rules.\n\n\"Using Dyson resources and information to evaluate an investment opportunity for his own benefit and/or for the benefit of a venture capital firm, rather than for Dyson's benefit - breaching his fiduciary duties.\n\n\"Failing to follow lawful and reasonable instructions regarding his conduct and focus of attention.\"\n\nIn response, Mr Conze said: \"I did nothing of the sort. During my six years as CEO of Dyson, the sales and profits will have tripled with the company growing from 2,500 to 10,000 staff.\"\n\nHe said Dyson sold 13 million machines last year, up from five million in 2010. \"This couldn't have happened without my total commitment to the business and its people,\" he said.\n\nMr Conze added: \"This ridiculous allegation is merely trying to distract attention from the claims that Dyson know I am about to issue.\"\n\nDyson would not comment on whether the breaches were in connection with its project to build a new electric car, which had been long under wraps and only recently revealed.\n\nThe action will be lodged in the High Court on Wednesday.", "The game simulates the attack capabilities of an AC-130 gunship\n\nRussia's Ministry of Defence has posted what it called \"irrefutable proof\" of the US aiding so-called Islamic State - but one of the images was actually taken from a video game.\n\nThe ministry claimed the image showed an IS convoy leaving a Syrian town last week aided by US forces.\n\nInstead, it came from the smartphone game AC-130 Gunship Simulator: Special Ops Squadron.\n\nThe ministry said an employee had mistakenly attached the photo.\n\nThe Conflict Intelligence Team fact-checking group said the other four provided were also errors, taken from a June 2016 video which showed the Iraqi Air Force attacking IS in Iraq.\n\nThe video game image seems to be taken from a promotional video on the game's website and YouTube channel, closely cropped to omit the game controls and on-screen information.\n\nIn the corner of the image, however, a few letters of the developer's disclaimer can still be seen: \"Development footage. This is a work in progress. All content subject to change.\"\n\nThe gameplay video, left, with the Russian MoD photo, right\n\nHours later, the ministry published an updated statement with a different set of images, which it also said proved their claims.\n\nIt repeated the claim it was \"irrefutable evidence that US are actually covering Isis [IS] combat units to recover their combat capabilities, redeploy, and use them to promote the American interests in the Middle East\".\n\nRussia alleges the US is co-operating with so-called Islamic State by providing cover to fleeing IS militants. In a Facebook post, the ministry said it liberated the town of Abu Kamal last week alongside the Syrian army.\n\nIt said the US-led coalition refused requests to cooperate and \"eliminate fleeing Isis convoys\".\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\nIt also accused the US-led coalition of carrying out air operations in the area to interfere with possible Russian strikes, and alleged that IS forces were disguising themselves as US-backed SDF fighters.\n\n\"The US are actually covering the Isis combat units to recover their combat capabilities, redeploy, and use them to promote the American interests in the Middle East,\" the statement concluded.\n\nA later press release said it had launched a probe into the actions of a civilian employee of one of its subdivisions who \"mistakenly attached photos\" to the first version of its statement.\n\nResponding to Russia's allegations in remarks carried by Reuters, a spokesman for the US-led coalition Col Ryan Dillon said the Russian allegations were \"about as accurate as their air campaign\".\n\n\"I certainly can't verify, but I've seen the report that one of the pictures came from a video game. So, again that is pretty consistent with what we have seen come out of Russian MoD, as being baseless, inaccurate and you know, completely false,\" 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 2 by Maria Olson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Natalie Seymour was described as a \"lively and positive young lady with bags of energy\"\n\nA British tourist and her Canadian friend have been found dead at a backpackers' hostel in Cambodia.\n\nNatalie Seymour, 22, from Bedfordshire, and 27-year-old Canadian Abbey Gail Amisola are understood to have been feeling unwell in the city of Kampot.\n\nStaff at the Monkey Republic Hostel say the pair had been to a pharmacy but were found dead on Monday.\n\nMiss Seymour's family, from Shefford, were told of her death on Tuesday and are receiving Foreign Office support.\n\nMiss Seymour had been posting pictures of her travels in south east Asia\n\nDave Goode, vice principal at Samuel Whitbread Academy where Miss Seymour went to school, said: \"I remember Natalie as a lively and positive young lady with bags of energy.\n\n\"She had a passion for sport and was a key part of the mixed hockey team.\n\n\"Natalie got on well with others and played an important role in working with pupils from our middle schools in a research project into attitudes to learning.\n\n\"This is terribly sad news and our thoughts and condolences go to all her family and friends.\"\n\nStaff at the hostel are said to be \"devastated by the tragic deaths\"\n\nA spokesman for the hostel said: \"The staff at Monkey Republic are devastated by the tragic deaths of the two young women on Monday morning.\n\n\"They had been feeling unwell and had visited a pharmacy to get medication.\n\n\"The local police are investigating possible causes, and we're respecting the privacy of the women's families, who are in contact with the British and Canadian embassies.\"\n\nMiss Seymour, who studied for a City and Guilds in beauty therapy at Bedford College, had held a number of jobs in recent years including for BT and as an account manager for Mayflex in St Neots.\n\nMore recently she worked as a freelance make-up artist.\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\nFlash floods caused by heavy overnight rain have killed at least 15 people and caused destruction in central Greece.\n\nThe industrial towns of Mandra, Nea Peramos and Megara, west of the capital Athens, were the most affected.\n\nMany of the dead were elderly people whose bodies were found inside their homes, reports say. Fast-flowing torrents of red mud flooded roads.\n\nPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras declared a period of national mourning in the wake of the tragedy.\n\n\"Everything is lost. The disaster is biblical,\" Mandra Mayor Yianna Krikouki told state broadcaster ERT.\n\nAt least 37 people have been taken to hospital, the broadcaster said, and some are still missing.\n\nBad weather has hit parts of Greece for about a week, but particularly heavy rain overnight caused the sudden flooding, for which locals said they were unprepared.\n\nThe force of the water moved vehicles, damaged walls and roofing, and left many homeless as their homes flooded to a life-threatening level.\n\nBy Wednesday afternoon, Greece's fire service said it had received over 600 calls for help and dispatched almost 200 firefighters in 55 vehicles to the towns, which have a combined population in the tens of thousands.\n\n\"The water came down the mountain, millions of tonnes,\" Stavros Fotiou, the deputy mayor of Nea Peramos, told ERT.\n\n\"Our roads are completely destroyed... 1,000 homes have been flooded, that's a third of the town,\" he added.\n\nSome roads were inundated by more than 1m (3ft) of water\n\nThe region's deputy governor, Yiannis Vassileiou, told the broadcaster that emergency services had been prepared for poor weather, but then \"the Niagara Falls came down and could not be stopped\".\n\nPrime Minister Tsipras said that declaring a period of national mourning was \"the least we can do\".\n\nHe also vowed to provide aid to the victims and ensure they were housed safely.\n\nA state of emergency has been declared in some of the affected areas\n\nThe fire service said there were more than 300 calls for help\n\nEmergency teams have been deployed to the region", "Children as young as nine as becoming opium addicts in Afghanistan as the amount of the drug produced in the country hits record levels.\n\nFindings suggest that the area of land used to cultivate opium poppies grew dramatically and fewer provinces are now seen as \"poppy free\".", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nSir Bradley Wiggins said his life was \"a living hell\" during an investigation into allegations of wrongdoing at British Cycling and Team Sky.\n\nOn Wednesday, UK Anti-Doping said there would be no charges over a \"mystery\" medical package delivered for Wiggins at the Criterium du Dauphine in 2011.\n\nWiggins, 37, said the investigation \"felt nothing less than a witch hunt\".\n\nHe added: \"Being accused of any doping indiscretion is the worst possible thing for any professional sportsman.\"\n\nWiggins won five Olympic gold medals and the 2012 Tour de France before retiring from cycling in December 2016.\n\nIt was alleged that the package that was the focus of the investigation contained a banned substance - but the doctor involved, Dr Richard Freeman, said it was a legal decongestant, Fluimucil.\n\nThe 14-month investigation has been closed and a Ukad statement said it would only \"revisit matters if new and material information were to come to light\".\n\nUkad said it was unable to \"definitively confirm the contents of the package\" because of a \"lack of contemporaneous evidence\".\n\nIts chief executive Nicole Sapstead said the investigation was hindered by the \"lack of accurate medical records\" held by British Cycling.\n\nWiggins, British Cycling and Team Sky have always denied any wrongdoing.\n\n'It has felt nothing less than a malicious witch hunt'\n\nWiggins said in a statement: \"I welcome Ukad's confirmation that no anti-doping charges are to be brought regarding the so-called 'jiffy-bag' allegations.\n\n\"It has always been the case that no such charges could be brought against me as no anti-doping violations took place. I am pleased this has finally been confirmed publicly.\n\n\"This period of time has been a living hell for me and my family, full of innuendo and speculation. At times it has felt nothing less than a malicious witch hunt.\"\n\nWiggins, who said he would assess potential legal options, was unhappy with Ukad's statement and questioned the body's decision to begin an investigation.\n\n\"To say I am disappointed by some of the comments made by Ukad this morning is an understatement,\" added Wiggins. \"No evidence exists to prove a case against me and in all other circumstances this would be an unqualified finding of innocence.\n\n\"Where did the information come from to launch the investigation?\n\n\"Who was the source? What exactly did that person say and to whom?\n\n\"Why did Ukad deem it appropriate to treat it as a credible allegation?\"\n\nWith no clarity over what was in the now-infamous jiffy bag delivered to Team Sky in 2011, this represents a wholly unsatisfactory end to a saga that has tainted some of the biggest reputations in British sport, and exposed Ukad's lack of power.\n\nIts statement is deliberately nuanced, falling short of an exoneration of those involved, much to Sir Bradley Wiggins' dismay in a blistering statement, despite Britain's most decorated Olympian facing no charges.\n\nBut while the end of the investigation will come as a relief to many in the sport, the lack of medical records, the inaccuracies in Team Sky's initial explanations for the mystery delivery, the unavailability of key witness Dr Richard Freeman to Ukad investigators, the theft of his laptop, and the medical exemptions that Wiggins had before major races, all mean that suspicion will linger. The close relationship between Team Sky and the governing body (who still share headquarters in Manchester) is also again under scrutiny.\n\nAnd at best, the attention to detail that was once the mantra of Team Sky and British Cycling has been exposed as hollow.\n\nHow did this issue arise?\n\nIn October 2016, the Daily Mail reported that Team Sky's Dr Richard Freeman had received a package from Simon Cope, then working as a coach for British Cycling's women's teams, on the final day of the 2011 Criterium du Dauphine. The package was alleged to be for Sir Bradley Wiggins, who won the race.\n\nUkad then began an investigation into the contents of the package.\n\nWhat was in the package?\n\nAt a Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) select committee hearing in December 2016, Team Sky boss Sir Dave Brailsford - already facing questions after hackers had revealed Wiggins had received a therapeutic use exemption (TUE) to take banned anti-inflammatory drug triamcinolone for allergies and respiratory issues before key races - said that he had been told by Dr Freeman that the package contained Fluimucil.\n\nFreeman, who was simultaneously employed by British Cycling and Team Sky between 2009 and 2015, missed the hearing through ill health but the DCMS committee was told that in 2014 he had a laptop containing medical records stolen while he was on holiday.\n\nFreeman was off work from British Cycling with a stress-related illness before resigning last month.\n\nBrailsford's testimony was widely questioned. Cope was alleged to have flown into Geneva Airport and driven for two hours to France to deliver the package, but 2008 Olympic champion Nicole Cooke pointed out that Fluimucil is available freely over the counter in France, and that there were eight pharmacies located within five kilometres of where the team received the package.\n\nDavid Kenworthy, the previous chairman of Ukad, told the BBC in January the answers given by figures within British Cycling and Team Sky to the DCMS committee were \"very disappointing\".\n\nIn an interview with the BBC in January, Brailsford refused to confirm or deny whether he or anyone else at Team Sky had been able to provide paperwork to prove the package contained Fluimucil.\n\n\"I will give what I have got to Ukad,\" he said. \"I said what I had to say in the DCMS and I am leaving it there.\"\n\nTeam Sky subsequently said that they were \"confident\" no wrongdoing would be found when the inquiry was concluded.", "Mr Banks says there is a need to involve economic and energy advisers in talks\n\nPresident Trump's special adviser on climate says that the US is seeking ways of continuing to be part of international climate discussions.\n\nGeorge David Banks said the US was considering reviving the Major Economies Meeting (MEM).\n\nThe Bush-era forum allowed the US to remain in climate discussions even when outside the formal process.\n\nThe leaders of France and Germany will address the talks today amid concern over slow progress in cutting carbon.\n\nThe group first met in September 2007 and featured delegations from the US, China, the EU, the UK and other countries with high levels of carbon emissions.\n\nAt the time the US was outside the formal UN climate negotiating process, having signed but not ratified the Kyoto Protocol, which limited the emissions of richer nations only.\n\nWhen President Obama came into office, the MEM became the Major Emitters Forum, which helped shape the approach of larger economies in the run up to the Copenhagen climate summit in 2009.\n\nThe forum continued, in a much-reduced form until 2015.\n\nNow, President Trump's key climate change adviser thinks it might be a way forward for discussions.\n\n\"We are looking into the possibility of having a major economies meeting, it is being discussed,\" he told reporters on the sidelines of this meeting in the former German capital.\n\n\"The only way you are going to have a rational discussion about climate mitigation and policy in general is if you bring in the economic and energy advisers, you are not going to have kind of conversation as long as it dominated by environment ministries.\"\n\nWarriors dressed in traditional costume at the talks\n\nFiji, whose pavilion is shown here, is presiding over this year's climate talks\n\nMr Banks described the annual UN led talks here as an \"echo chamber\".\n\nHowever, the idea of reviving the Bush-era approach to tackling climate change was given short shrift by some observers here.\n\n\"This notion of creating a new institution is just a dodge by the Trump clique because they are not on pace to reduce emissions,\" said Paul Bledsoe, from the American University in Washington and a former Clinton White House climate adviser.\n\n\"I think almost every country in the world has had enough of Donald Trump's obfuscations particularly on climate change, I don't think they are going to be fooled.\"\n\nSenior ministers from dozens of countries are arriving in Bonn for the high level segment of this meeting.\n\nThey will hear from UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres who will be attending his first Conference of the Parties.\n\nMr Guterres will tell the meeting that a broader coalition is needed if the temperature targets agreed in Paris are to be met.\n\nHis climate adviser told reporters that the UN was also looking to the future, and a new generation of political leaders, perhaps including a new occupant in the White House.\n\n\"By 2020 when those national decisions are being made, the group of leaders who will be making those decisions are almost entirely different to the leaders who agreed to the Paris agreement in 2015,\" Robert Orr said.\n\n\"The Secretary General is very conscious of that, we need to renew and rebuild the coalition of leaders day by day with all the new leaders.\"\n\nMinisters from richer countries are likely get a cool reception at the high level segment of this meeting from developing countries. They are angry about the lack of carbon cutting action being taken by the developed world in the years before the Paris agreement comes into force in 2020.\n\n\"They are shirking their responsibilities,\" said Mohamed Adow from Christian Aid.\n\n\"They are postponing actions to post 2020 and that won't actually help deliver the kind of actions and ambitions that are needed.\"\n\nFollow Matt on Twitter and on Facebook", "As peers discuss the grievance procedure raised earlier in the Commons, Lib Dem Baroness Hamwee says when stories of abuse of power emerged she felt \"guilty\" because she asked herself \"why wasn't I providing support?\"\n\nShe says: \"It took a week to remember many years ago I was subject to a minor act of inappropriate behaviour in the House.\n\n\"I realised I hadn't put it out of my consciousness because it was trivial, but because I was so shocked I buried it. That's what our minds do.\n\n\"We need to recognise the way people act when they've been subject to something so shocking is not what we might expect.\"", "When Polly Mackenzie heard her cleaner was ill and unable to work her normal day, she was hoping to reschedule through the Handy site that supplied her.\n\nBut that was not how the system worked. When her cleaner was unable to attend on her regular day, Handy offered to send a replacement.\n\nBut the app blocked the cleaner from working for her again.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Polly Mackenzie This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 story took a further turn the next day: the cleaner was reinstated - but was also docked £25.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Polly Mackenzie This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Mackenzie herself, from south London, was sent what she described to the BBC as \"a grovelling email - as if they'd killed my firstborn\", then found her account had been credited with £5 to compensate for the inconvenience.\n\nShe said that meant Handy had \"profited £20 from her illness, about twice as much as they'd make if she turned up\".\n\nNew York-based Handy told the BBC the cleaner was automatically blocked by its system as she had appeared as a \"no show\".\n\nHandy said at no point was the cleaner banned and that it was now \"reviewing its policy regarding waiving fees for emergencies such as this\".\n\nIt added that the fine was cancelled after the firm learned the reason for her not attending.\n\nThe cleaner has since been made available to Ms Mackenzie once more, but the incident has ignited a debate on social media about the use of app-based services and the gig economy.\n\nIn the gig economy, instead of a regular wage, workers get paid for each job, such as a food delivery or a car journey. One of the best-known examples is driving for Uber.\n\nProponents of the gig economy claim that people can benefit from flexible hours, with control over how much time they can work as they juggle other commitments. Those against say its simply another form of employment - without rights or in-work benefits.\n\nIt is not unheard of for gig economy workers to be charged for days they do not work.\n\nEarlier this year, the Guardian reported that Parcelforce couriers who make deliveries for Marks & Spencer, John Lewis and Hamleys could be charged up to £250 a day if they were off sick and could not find someone to cover their shift.\n\nThe debate also came to the boil last week when a tribunal ruled that Uber should give drivers the same rights as workers, rather than treat them as self-employed.\n\nHandy added: \"While there was initial confusion, any fees have been waived and the [cleaner] can continue to work for customers on the platform as a valued member of the Handy community.\n\n\"After reviewing the incident in question we can confirm that the professional was never banned from the platform and has completed bookings since the incident in question.\"\n• None What is the 'gig' economy?", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nThe Republic of Ireland failed to reach the World Cup as Christian Eriksen's hat-trick gave Denmark an emphatic victory in the play-off to reach Russia 2018.\n\nAfter a goalless first leg, the hosts made the perfect start by scoring after just six minutes as defender Shane Duffy nodded in his second international goal when the visitors failed to clear a free-kick.\n\nBut the Danes netted twice in the space of three first-half minutes, courtesy of Cyrus Christie's own goal and Eriksen's stunning strike.\n\nThat left the Republic - who could have gone further ahead after taking the lead, but saw striker Daryl Murphy flick an effort into the side netting and winger James McClean drive wide following a slick team move - needing to score twice more to qualify.\n\nBut in the second half Tottenham midfielder Eriksen curled in from the edge of the box and then thumped in from inside the area to secure his treble and seal the tie.\n\nFormer Arsenal striker Nicklas Bendtner came on with six minutes to go and slotted a late penalty after he was brought down as Denmark, who failed to qualify for Brazil 2014, booked their trip to Russia next year.\n\nHat-trick scorer Eriksen said: \"It's an incredible feeling. We've been fighting for so long to get to the World Cup. We are very much looking forward to it. It's not often I score any hat-trick so of course it is incredible.\n\n\"I know how nervous I was all day and night. We got the ball, we played better than the first game.\"\n• None Relive Denmark's victory over the Republic of Ireland\n• None Which teams have qualified for the World Cup?\n• None What you need to know about the World Cup\n\nMartin O'Neill's Ireland side had lost just one of their previous 11 competitive games at home and they were heading to a World Cup for the first time since 2002 when Brighton's Duffy nipped in ahead of Leicester goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel for the opener.\n\nHowever, having decided to sit back on their advantage and play on the counter-attack, individual errors saw the game turn in Denmark's favour.\n\nWhen the speedy Pione Sisto worked space on the left and played in Andreas Christensen, the Chelsea centre-back's effort came back off the post, but Christie was unable to react quickly enough to clear and only managed to send the ball into his own net.\n\nWith the Republic rattled, they conceded again just three minutes later. Burnley's Stephen Ward gave the ball away in his own half and the visitors constructed a swift attack that ended with Tottenham's Eriksen curling in via the crossbar.\n\nThe home side pushed forward in the second period, but Eriksen found space on the edge of the box to finish off a break for his second, before Ward's miss-control in his own area allowed the Spurs midfielder to slam home his side's fourth.\n\n\"The second one was the most technical one, better than the others,\" said the 25-year-old.\n\n\"Mentally I have grown up. I take the more clinical shot rather than passing. I am thinking more like a striker.\"\n\nEriksen now has 21 goals for his country, 11 of which came in this qualifying campaign.\n\nWith a minute remaining, there was still time for further disaster as McClean tripped Bendtner in the area and the striker stroked home the fifth Danish goal from the spot.\n\nO'Neill and assistant Roy Keane agreed new contracts with the Football Association of Ireland back in October but questions are now likely to be asked as to whether they are the right men to take the country forward.\n\nVeteran manager Age Hareide took over after Morten Olsen's failure to reach Euro 2016 and under his guidance the team end 2017 unbeaten, having claimed five victories and four draws.\n\nThey last suffered defeat over a year ago when they were beaten by Montenegro, but once they went ahead against the Republic they controlled the game, keeping possession and clinically taking their chances.\n\nThey could have had more than five, with former Wigan midfielder William Kvist forcing Darren Randolph into a stunning, full-stretch save low to his right, while the Middlesbrough goalkeeper also pushed away Sisto's drive.\n\n\"It was very good, especially when we came from behind,\" said Hareide. \"We didn't get stressed. We tried to play and we got the goals.\n\n\"I am very pleased with the team and the performance. This is a difficult place to play football - scoring five goals against the Republic of Ireland does not happen.\n\n\"I was surprised. They played with a diamond and that gave us lots of space and I just say thank you very much.\n\n\"Eriksen is a fantastic player. An inspiration for those around him. He is a world class player. The lads stuck together and gave a fantastic performance in a difficult game.\"\n\nDenmark, who have qualified for only the fifth time, will now wait to find out the result between Peru and New Zealand (Thursday, 02:15 GMT) to see whether they are in pot 2 or pot 3 for the tournament.\n\nThe first leg between the Peruvians and Kiwis ended goalless in New Zealand.\n\nIf the South Americans go out, Denmark will go into the higher pot as one of the second seeds alongside fellow European teams England, Spain and Switzerland.\n• None Republic of Ireland have failed to qualify for the last four World Cup finals.\n• None Ireland conceded five or more goals in a home game for the first time since October 2012 against Germany (6-1).\n• None Christian Eriksen has been directly involved in 14 goals in the World Cup 2018 qualification process (11 goals, three assists), 10 more than any other Denmark player.\n• None Eriksen has scored more goals in European 2018 World Cup qualifiers than any other midfielder.\n• None Cyrus Christie is the first player to score an own goal for Republic of Ireland since Ciaran Clark against Sweden in June 2016.\n• None Attempt missed. Shane Duffy (Republic of Ireland) header from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Robbie Brady with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt blocked. James McClean (Republic of Ireland) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Daryl Murphy with a headed pass.\n• None Goal! Republic of Ireland 1, Denmark 5. Nicklas Bendtner (Denmark) converts the penalty with a right footed shot to the high centre of the goal.\n• None Penalty conceded by James McClean (Republic of Ireland) after a foul in the penalty area.\n• None Attempt saved. Andreas Cornelius (Denmark) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the bottom left corner.\n• None Attempt missed. James McClean (Republic of Ireland) left footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the left. Assisted by Wes Hoolahan.\n• None Wes Hoolahan (Republic of Ireland) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Attempt missed. Andreas Cornelius (Denmark) header from the centre of the box misses to the right. Assisted by Christian Eriksen with a cross following a corner.\n• None Attempt missed. Shane Long (Republic of Ireland) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high. Assisted by Wes Hoolahan.\n• None Attempt missed. Pione Sisto (Denmark) left footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the right. Assisted by Christian Eriksen. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nThere will be no charges over a 'mystery' medical package delivered for Sir Bradley Wiggins at the Criterium du Dauphine in 2011, says UK Anti-Doping.\n\nThe ruling follows an investigation into allegations of wrongdoing at British Cycling and Team Sky.\n\nIt was alleged the package contained a banned substance but the doctor involved, Dr Richard Freeman, said it was a legal decongestant - fluimucil.\n\nUkad said it had been \"unable\" to prove the package contained Fluimucil.\n\nHowever, the organisation has shared information from its investigations with the General Medical Council (GMC).\n\nFive-time Olympic champion Wiggins won the Criterium du Dauphine stage race in France that year and went on to become the first Briton to win the Tour de France in 2012.\n\nThe 14-month investigation has been closed and a Ukad statement said it would only \"revisit matters if new and material information were to come to light\".\n\nA statement on the organisation's website added: \"Put simply, due to the lack of contemporaneous evidence, Ukad has been unable to definitively confirm the contents of the package.\n\n\"The significant likelihood is that it is now impossible to do so.\"\n\nUkad chief executive Nicole Sapstead said the investigation was hindered by the \"lack of accurate medical records\" held by British Cycling.\n\n\"This is a serious concern,\" she said. \"As part of their conditions to receive public funding, all sports governing bodies must comply with the UK National Anti-Doping Policy.\n\n\"In this case the matter was further complicated by the cross over between personnel at British Cycling and Team Sky.\"\n\nHow did it get to this point?\n\nTeam Sky boss Sir Dave Brailsford was questioned by a Culture, Media and Sport Committee last December and said he had been told by then-team doctor Freeman that \"it was Fluimucil for a nebuliser\".\n\nFreeman, who was simultaneously employed by British Cycling and Team Sky between 2009 and 2015, missed the hearing through ill health but the DCMS committee was told that in 2014 he had a laptop containing medical records stolen.\n\nAs part of the investigation, Ukad interviewed 37 individuals, including current and former British Cycling and Team Sky riders, medical professionals and other staff.\n\nFrom that, Ukad have established that:\n• None At some point during the race, a request was made by Dr Freeman for a package to be delivered to him.\n• None Coach Shane Sutton arranged for British Cycling employee Simon Cope to pick up that package and to bring it over to France.\n• None Cope said it was left for him on a desk at the British Cycling offices sealed in a Jiffy bag. There was a post-it note on the package that said \"To Simon, for Dr Richard Freeman\".\n• None Cope travelled to Manchester to pick up that package, took a flight to Geneva, hired a car and took it to the end stage of the race on 12 June and passed the sealed Jiffy bag over to Dr Freeman.\n\nWhen Ukad started its investigation into the 'mystery' package, Wiggins and Brailsford were already under scrutiny over the cyclist's use of a banned steroid before races was leaked by hackers Fancy Bears.\n\nWiggins had sought therapeutic use exemptions (TUEs) to use banned anti-inflammatory drug triamcinoclone for allergies and respiratory issues before the 2011 Tour de France, his 2012 Tour win and the 2013 Giro d'Italia.\n\nWiggins, British Cycling and Team Sky have always denied any wrongdoing.\n\nThe chairman of the DCMS committee - MP Damian Collins - said after December's hearing that the \"credibility of Team Sky and British Cycling is in tatters\".\n\nBrailsford has previously admitted he handled the situation \"badly\" but has consistently defended Team Sky's stance against performance-enhancing drugs, stating that the British-based team can be \"trusted \"100%\".\n\nFreeman was off work from British Cycling with a stress-related illness before resigning earlier this year.\n\nWith no clarity over what was in the now-infamous jiffy bag delivered to Team Sky in 2011, this represents a wholly unsatisfactory end to a saga that has tainted some of the biggest reputations in British sport, and exposed Ukad's lack of power.\n\nBut, while this case may not have resulted in any anti-doping charges, the lack of medical records, the inaccuracies in Team Sky's initial explanations for the mystery delivery, the unavailability of key witness Dr Richard Freeman to Ukad investigators, and the theft of his laptop, all means that suspicion will linger.\n\nAnd at best, the attention to detail that was once the mantra of Team Sky and British Cycling has been exposed as hollow.\n\nWhat they said\n\nTeam Sky: \"We have always maintained that there was no wrongdoing and we have co-operated fully with UK Anti-Doping over the last year.\n\n\"Since our inception as a new pro cycling team in 2010 we have continually strengthened our systems and processes so they best support our strong commitment to anti-doping.\"\n\nBritish Cycling chief executive Julie Harrington: \"Ukad's findings represent an organisation and culture that, despite delivering on the world stage, did not meet the high standards that British Cycling today holds itself to.\n\n\"We accept that the relationship between British Cycling and Team Sky developed rapidly and as a result, at times, resulted in the blurring of the boundaries between the two. This led to some failings in the way that processes and people were managed.\n\n\"Today, based on our learning together, there are clear boundaries and distinctions between our two organisations: no one is simultaneously employed by British Cycling and Team Sky; and we each have our own practices in place for managing athlete records.\n\n\"We are intent on ensuring that the integrity of our record keeping is never called into question again.\"\n\nGMC spokesperson: \"Ukad have made us aware of these concerns and we are looking into these. However, we are not able to comment further on this matter.\"\n\nDCMS select committee chair Damian Collins MP: \"The evidence that the committee has received during its inquiry points to serious and worrying structural problems within sport, both in terms of anti-doping and governance.\n\n\"The committee will be publishing its report on doping in sport shortly. This will be followed by a second report focusing on sports governance in the New Year.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoris Johnson has apologised for his remarks about a British-Iranian mother who is being held in prison in Iran.\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe says she was on holiday when she was arrested in 2016 - a claim the foreign secretary appeared to contradict this month.\n\nApologising in the Commons, Mr Johnson said he would meet her husband, Richard Ratcliffe, on Wednesday and will visit Iran \"before the end of the year\".\n\nHe retracted \"any suggestion she was there in a professional capacity\".\n\nThe row over the imprisonment of Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe - who has been held in Iran for more than 18 months - has intensified since Mr Johnson gave evidence before a Commons committee on 1 November.\n\nDuring the hearing, the foreign secretary said Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been teaching journalism in Iran - something her family and employer say is incorrect.\n\nCampaigners say she could face an increased prison sentence in Iran as a result of the comments.\n\nResponding to an urgent question in Parliament, Mr Johnson was asked to apologise for the remarks.\n\n\"Of course I apologise for the distress, for the suffering that has been caused by the impression I gave that I believed she was there in a professional capacity. She was there on holiday,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband tells Today he doesn't think Boris Johnson should resign\n\nMr Ratcliffe has called for his wife to be granted diplomatic protection, which under international law is a way for a state to take diplomatic action on behalf of a national.\n\nEarlier, Downing Street said it was \"one of the options\" it was considering in the case.\n\nAsked by Labour about the prospect, Mr Johnson told MPs that he would be answering the question \"in person\" and would meet Mr Ratcliffe this week.\n\nHe said he was also planning to visit Iran before the end of the year and would discuss the possibility of Mr Ratcliffe accompanying him.\n\nWhen a British citizen is jailed overseas, they normally get basic consular help from the local embassy.\n\nThis could include anything from contacting family to legal support to medical help. But if the UK were to assert its diplomatic protection over a British citizen, that would change things significantly.\n\nThis would be a signal that the UK is no longer treating the case as a consular matter but a formal, legal dispute between Britain and that country.\n\nThat's because diplomatic protection is a mechanism under international law that a state can use to help one of its nationals whose rights have been breached in another country.\n\nThe broad legal principle is that British diplomats would no longer be representing the interests of a citizen but the interests of their state.\n\nLast week, Mr Johnson said he was sorry if his remarks about Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had caused anxiety to her family.\n\nHowever, Labour's shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry pushed him to \"apologise properly\" for his comments.\n\n\"If it is a matter of pride that the foreign secretary is refusing to admit that simply he has made a mistake, well then I feel bound to say to him that his pride matters not one ounce compared to Nazanin's freedom,\" she said in the Commons.\n\n\"After a week of obfuscation and bluster, will he finally take the opportunity today to state simply and unequivocally for the removal of any doubt - either here or in Tehran - that he simply got it wrong?\"\n\nLabour MP Yvette Cooper told Mr Johnson that \"words matter\", saying Mr Johnson cannot keep \"shrugging off\" comments that are \"inaccurate\" or \"damaging\". She called for him to resign.\n\nIn reply, Mr Johnson said: \"It was my mistake. I should have been clearer.\"\n\nHe added: \"I apologise for the distress and anguish that has been caused to Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe and her family.\"\n\nSpeaking to Radio 4's Today programme earlier, Mr Ratcliffe said he had written to the Foreign Office following remarks made by Mr Johnson's Cabinet counterpart Michael Gove.\n\nMr Gove had told the BBC on Sunday he did not know what Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been doing in Iran.\n\nMr Ratcliffe said Mr Johnson \"did promise to consider\" whether Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe would be eligible for diplomatic protection, which he said \"gives a different push\" to what the government can do.\n\n\"I'm reassured that it is the position of the government,\" Mr Ratcliffe adding.\n\nA Downing Street spokesman said diplomatic protection was one available option, adding: \"I think what we need to look at is what will work best and what can be most beneficial in this case.\"\n\nThe spokesman said Prime Minister Theresa May had been involved in Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's case \"from the outset\" and was treating it as \"a priority\".\n\nShe had raised it with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on at least two occasions, he added.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe - who has a three-year-old daughter, who is being cared for by family in Iran - was arrested and jailed in Iran in April 2016.\n\nThe full details of the allegations against her have never been made fully public.", "Flash flooding west of the Greek capital, Athens, has killed at least 14 people, officials say.\n\nTorrential rain overnight created fast-flowing torrents of red mud, with a mayor calling it a \"biblical\" disaster.", "Children's Centres are among the services to be cut\n\nChildren facing abuse and neglect in England increasingly get help from local councils only when their problems reach a crisis, say leading charities.\n\nServices which intervene early to help families in difficulties are bearing the brunt of cuts, says their report.\n\nRelying on crisis intervention incurs a \"devastating cost\" both socially and financially, they add.\n\nThe government says that providing help as early as possible is the best way to keep children safe.\n\nBut the analysis by the Children's Society, Action for Children and the National Children's Bureau finds that councils are slashing preventative services \"under the pressure of £2.4bn of central government funding cuts\".\n\nSpecifically, it says, central government funding for early intervention has fallen by £1.7bn since 2010.\n\nOver the same period, the number of child protection investigations has more than doubled, with spending on crisis support up 7%, at £6.1bn, says the report.\n\nMatthew Reed, chief executive of the Children's Society, called the cuts \"nothing short of devastating\".\n\n\"Services that could intervene early to stop problems escalating have been the hardest hit.\n\n\"All too often central government shrugs off responsibility for council spending decisions but the figures are stark and undeniable.\n\n\"Councils are being denied the funding they need to provide safe, effective children's services and spending on vital support is collapsing as a result.\n\n\"We are at a tipping point with more cuts yet to come. The government must step up and give councils the funds they need to protect our children.\"\n\nSir Tony Hawkhead, chief executive of Action for Children, said council children's services were reduced to \"a crisis fire-fighting model\".\n\nWhile Anna Feuchtwang, chief executive of the National Children's Bureau, asked: \"Do we really want a system that can only help children and young people at immediate risk of harm, but can't step in to help families before problems deteriorate?\"\n\nThe report urges central government to address the funding gap as a matter or urgency, working with local authorities to ensure additional funds go to early intervention services.\n\nThe Local Government Association which represents councils in England warned of a further £2bn in central government funding cuts over the next three years.\n\nRichard Watts, chairman of the LGA's Children and Young People Board, said councils were \"working hard\" to minimise the impact of cuts, with savings including reductions to \"other valuable services such as parks, libraries and street lighting\".\n\n\"Last year saw the biggest annual increase in children in care since 2010 and councils simply cannot continue to provide the level of support that these children and young people need without urgent action to provide the funding necessary to do so,\" said Mr Watts.\n\nHe urged the government to use the forthcoming budget \"to commit to fully funding children's services\".\n\nAnne Longfield, children's commissioner for England, said the government should earmark funding to enable councils \"to help children earlier when problems first start, rather than waiting until children are in crisis\".\n\nA government spokeswoman said more than £200bn had been made available to councils for local services, including children's services, up to 2019-20.\n\n\"Councils have a duty to provide appropriate care for the children in their area, including responding to referrals. We are supporting them to deliver efficient services by investing £200m in the Children's Social Care Innovation Programme - this includes projects providing targeted support for children in need.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The painting has been cleaned and restored from the image on the left to the one on the right\n\nA 500-year-old painting of Christ believed to have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci has been sold in New York for a record $450m (£341m).\n\nThe painting is known as Salvator Mundi (Saviour of the World).\n\nIt is the highest auction price for any work of art and brought cheers and applause at the packed Christie's auction room.\n\nLeonardo da Vinci died in 1519 and there are fewer than 20 of his paintings in existence.\n\nSalvator Mundi, believed to have been painted sometime after 1505, is the only work thought to be in private hands.\n\nBidding began at $100m and the final bid for the work was $400m, with fees bringing the full price up to $450.3m. The unidentified buyer was involved in a bidding contest, via telephone, that lasted nearly 20 minutes.\n\nExcitement in the auction room rose as the bids by telephone came in\n\nThe painting shows Christ with one hand raised, the other holding a glass sphere.\n\nIn 1958 it was sold at auction in London for a mere £45.\n\nBy then the painting was generally reckoned to be the work of a follower of Leonardo and not the work of Leonardo himself.\n\nIt apparently was part of King Charles I of England's collection in the 1600s and got lost, but was \"rediscovered\" in 2005.\n\n$450m for Salvator Mundi is an astonishing price to have realised, given both its condition and authenticity have been questioned.\n\nIt shows that ultimately art comes down to belief.\n\nAnd there were plenty of bidders last night who were suitably convinced by its Leonardo da Vinci attribution to drive the price up to such stratospheric heights.\n\nAs yet, the new owner is unknown.\n\nSpeculation will be rife. Which I will contribute to, by noting the newly opened Louvre Abu Dhabi will have a Leonardo shaped hole in its displays when the decade-long loan deal with the French museums comes to an end.\n\nWherever it ends up, you've got to hand it to Christie's for its masterclass in the art of selling art.\n\nArt agents celebrated when the sale was completed\n\nIn a bold move, without a hint of irony, the painting was sold in its Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale alongside a Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol.\n\nWhy not in the Old Masters Sale? Because that's not where the elephant bucks are.\n\nThe big money comes into the room nowadays when Pollocks and Twomblys are on the block, and promptly leaves when the Reynolds and Winterhalters arrive.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Salvator Mundi was discovered hidden under layers of paint\n\nDr Tim Hunter, who is an expert in Old Master and 19th Century art, told the BBC the painting is \"the most important discovery in the 21st Century\".\n\n\"It completely smashes the record for the last Old Masters painting to sell - Van Gogh's Sunflowers in 1988. Records get broken from time to time but not in this way.\n\n\"Da Vinci painted less than 20 oil paintings and many are unfinished so it's incredibly rare and we love that in art.\"\n\nBefore the auction it was owned by Russian billionaire collector Dmitry E Rybolovlev, who is reported to have bought it in a private sale in May 2013 for $127.5m (£98m).\n\nThe painting has had major cosmetic surgery - its walnut panel base has been described as \"worm-tunnelled\" and at some point it seems to have been split in half - and efforts to restore it resulted in abrasions.\n\nBBC arts correspondent Vincent Dowd said that even now attribution to Leonardo is not universally accepted.\n\nOne critic has described the surface of the painting to be \"inert, varnished, lurid, scrubbed over and repainted so many times that it looks simultaneously new and old\".\n\n\"Any private collector who gets suckered into buying this picture and places it in their apartment or storage, it serves them right,\" Jerry Saltz wrote on Vulture.com.\n\nBut Christie's has insisted the painting is authentic and billed it as \"the greatest artistic rediscovery of the 20th Century\".\n\nGeorgina Adam, who is an Art Market specialist, told the BBC the price of the piece is \"fuelled by the sheer amount of money that billionaires have.\"\n\n\"This is the last Leonardo painting you can buy. This isn't as a store of value, it's the ultimate trophy - only one person in the world can own this.\n\n\"If you think of the wealth of some billionaires, Bill Gates is worth 87 billion, and I'm not saying it's him, but near to half a billion would not be a colossal chunk out of his income for example.\"\n\nThe auction house has not revealed who purchased the picture, but Hunter speculates it could be a buyer from Asia or even be on the way to the new Louvre in Abu Dhabi.\n\nCould the painting be headed for Abu Dhabi's new Louvre Museum?\n\n\"It's the sort of painting you can imagine as a star piece in a private collection and as billionaire collectors like to set up their own museums, it could be a good piece for them,\" Hunter said.\n\nAdam also thinks the piece could have gone to an Asian market.\n\n\"We don't know who bought it, I went to the Louvre in Abu Dhabi and I did wonder whether the Gulf could be responsible.\n\n\"People are thinking the Far East, the picture was taken to Hong Kong before it was put up for sale to show to possible buyers there so that is possible. \"\n\nPaul Gauguin's 'When Will You marry?' broke price records in 2015\n\nThe 79 x 69 inch (2 x 1.75m) expressionist piece was painted in 1955. It was sold to hedge-fund founder Kenneth C Griffin, who spent about $500m in total in 2016 on a Pollock piece too.\n\n2. Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?) by Paul Gauguin - $300m (£230m)\n\nHis post-impressionist painting of Tahiti women was sold in February 2015 to a mystery buyer, rumoured to be a Qatari museum, and is thought to share the top spot with a piece by William de Kooning.\n\nThis sale to Qatar broke records in 2011. The piece was painted at the end of the 19th Century and was part of a five-part series. The others in the series are at some of the world's most prestigious art museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.\n\nThis abstract expressionist piece was also sold in 2016 to Kenneth C Griffin from American businessman David Geffen.\n\nMr Griffin, 49, founded global investment firm Citadel and is considered one of the world's most active art buyers\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "New powers to fund house-building have been announced, as ministers promised more measures in next week's Budget.\n\nHousing associations will be reclassified as private bodies allowing their £70bn debt to be removed from the government's balance sheet.\n\nThey said the technical change would allow them to build more affordable homes.\n\nBut Labour said the government had no coherent plan to address the \"housing crisis\".\n\nLatest figures show 217,350 \"additional dwellings\" in England last year, which includes new builds, conversions and changes of use. This was up by 27,700 up on 2015-16.\n\nLabour said any increase was welcome but that house-building had still not returned to the level it reached before the global financial crisis.\n\nVisiting a north London housing estate, Prime Minister Theresa May pledged to take \"personal charge\" of the government's strategy to address what is widely regarded as the chronic shortage of new affordable homes being built, particularly for rent.\n\nThere have been reports of tensions within the cabinet about whether the government should be borrowing tens of billions to directly fund more schemes.\n\nIn a speech in Bristol, Communities Secretary Sajid Javid said the decision by the Office for National Statistics to remove housing association debt from the UK balance sheet would help create a more \"stable investment environment\" for the thousands of providers.\n\nHousing associations were classified as public bodies in 2015 because of the way they were funded - a move that led to warnings it would hamper their ability to fund new house-building.\n\nIn 2015, the Office for National Statistics shocked the government by announcing that ministerial control of housing associations had become so intrusive they could no longer be seen as charities or private businesses.\n\nOvernight, all their borrowing was added to the public debt.\n\nNow, after the drafting of new regulations currently going through Parliament, the ONS has agreed the government has become hands-off enough again to take all that debt away.\n\nThe announcement of the change, before the new regulations have come into law, appears to be part of a move to encourage Philip Hammond to offer more help to the housing sector.\n\nWhether such pressure will move the Treasury to loosen the purse strings remains to be seen.\n\nThe National Housing Federation, which represents housing associations, said it strongly supported the reclassification.\n\nIt said housing associations built nearly 50,000 new homes last year, including social and affordable rental properties.\n\nThe federation added: \"This change will allow them to build on their strong track record and secure the long-term finance needed to build even more affordable homes.\"\n\nMr Javid said the rethink would help \"lay the foundation\" for thousands and thousands of new homes.\n\nBut he warned new thinking is required to stop \"a rootless generation\" of tenants drifting from one short-term tenancy to another.\n\n\"There are many, many faults in our housing market, dating back many many years. If you only fix one you will make some progress but not enough. This is a big problem and we have to think big.\"\n\nHe also said the government would be intervening in the case of 15 local authorities which have failed to produce a local plan for housing development in their area.\n\nMore than 1.2 million families in England are currently on the waiting for council accommodation while in 2015-6 only 6,800 social rented homes were completed.\n\nThe Local Government Association said councils should be given the same freedom to borrow to build.", "The assessment was carried out by by HM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) in June\n\nTwo-thirds of women held at an immigration removal centre are later released into the community, a watchdog report has revealed.\n\nInspectors said the finding raised concerns about whether the women should have been detained at Yarl's Wood, Bedfordshire, in the first place.\n\nThe assessment was carried out by by HM Inspectorate of Prisons (HMIP) in June.\n\nThe Home Office said: \"Detention and removal are essential parts of effective immigration controls.\"\n\nA report on the inspection in June found during the previous six months, excluding men, 542 (21%) detainees had been removed from the centre, 295 (12%) had been transferred to other places of detention and 1,721 (67%) had been released.\n\nInspectors said the high percentage of women released \"raised questions about the justification for detention in the first place\".\n\nThe 2017 inspection found there had been \"significant improvements\" at the centre, which is operated by Serco\n\nFewer detainees than at the previous inspection were being held for long periods, the watchdog noted.\n\nNone had been held for over a year, although 14 had been held for between six and 12 months.\n\nThe inspectorate also said the handling of cases by the Home Office was a \"principal area of concern\".\n\nIt found that delays and uncertainty in the outcome of immigration casework were still a cause of frustration and anxiety for detainees.\n\nHowever, the report said there had been \"significant improvements\" at the centre, which is operated by Serco.\n\nA Home Office spokeswoman said it took \"the welfare of our detainees very seriously\" and action was being taken to address the report's recommendations.\n\nSerco, which is not responsible for determining policy on immigration detention or individual decisions regarding the length of detention, welcomed the recognition of progress made since the last inspection.\n\nThe facility near Bedford houses adult women and family groups, as well as a small number of men who arrived in Britain as \"clandestine migrants\" on freight lorries.", "A woman who was deported from Sri Lanka for having a tattoo of the Buddha on her arm has won compensation.\n\nNaomi Coleman, from Coventry, was detained for four days in April 2014.\n\nGranting her compensation of 800,000 Sri Lankan rupees - about £4,000 - the country's Supreme Court said her treatment was \"scandalous and horrifying\" and ruled her rights had been violated.\n\nMs Coleman told the BBC Sinhala Service she was \"overwhelmed\" by the ruling.\n\nOfficers involved in her arrest were also ordered to pay her compensation.\n\nMs Coleman, a mental health nurse, took legal action against the Sri Lankan authorities after her return to the UK.\n\nThe court ruled there was \"no legal basis\" for her arrest and said she had been subject to \"degrading treatment\" by some officers and a prison guard.\n\nIn particular, one guard had \"made several lewd, obscene and disparaging remarks of a sexually-explicit nature\" towards Ms Coleman, while some police officers had forced her to give them money.\n\nHer lawyer JC Weliamuna told the BBC her deportation had been \"contrary to the law governing immigration and emigration\".\n\nMs Coleman, who was arrested at Bandaranaike International Airport in the Sri Lankan capital Colombo, said previously the detention had left her \"really frightened\".\n\nShe told the BBC on Wednesday she was \"shocked\" and \"emotional\" on hearing the news.\n\n\"Finally the court has actually seen it that I didn't do anything wrong,\" Ms Coleman said.\n\nAsked whether she would go back to Sri Lanka, she replied: \"I'm not sure, I don't know. Probably not.\n\n\"I'm very happy. I just wouldn't want it to happen to anybody else.\"\n\nAfter an order was made to have her deported, Ms Coleman spent a night in prison in Negombo and two nights in a detention centre while security checks were carried out.\n\nShe said she told police she practised Buddhism and had attended meditation retreats and workshops in Thailand, India, Cambodia and Nepal.\n\nSri Lankan authorities take strict action against perceived insults to Buddhism, which is the religion of most of the island's Sinhalese population.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "British explorer Benedict Allen has gone missing on an expedition to Papua New Guinea, his family have said.\n\nThe 57-year-old was travelling on his own - without a satellite phone - to find the reclusive Yaifo people, whom he met 30 years ago.\n\nHe recently went on a daring expedition to the Oceanian country with BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner, which was documented in Birds of Paradise on BBC Two.\n\nHe spoke about his experiences on the island as a man in his early 20s, and his initiation into one of the tribes.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a recent documentary Benedict Allen described his experiences of living in Papua New Guinea\n\nA search has been mounted for British explorer Benedict Allen, whose family say has gone missing during an expedition to Papua New Guinea.\n\nThe 57-year-old was travelling on his own to try to find the reclusive Yaifo tribe, whom he first met 30 years ago.\n\nHis sister says she was expecting to hear from him by Monday - and he hasn't taken planned flights home.\n\nA helicopter pilot, who dropped Mr Allen off several weeks ago, is trying to find him, the BBC has learned.\n\nOur security correspondent Frank Gardner, who recently travelled through Papua New Guinea with Mr Allen for a BBC documentary, said he understood the pilot was tracking Benedict's route from his starting point in a remote place called Bisorio.\n\nThey have spoken to local police chiefs, and were looking to locate him by helicopter and get him out, our correspondent said.\n\nHe added that the former UK high commissioner to Papua New Guinea, David Gordon-Macleod, said \"huge areas of the country have no mobile coverage\", meaning that even if Mr Allen had reached a village, he is likely to still be out of contact with the outside world.\n\nMr Allen's older sister, Katie Pestille, said it was \"out of character\" for him to miss his scheduled flight out of Papua New Guinea to Hong Kong.\n\n\"For everybody else, it's very exciting - all the expeditions and all the things he does, but for his sister and his wife, it's more of a worry,\" she explained.\n\nFirst solo adventure: To the Amazon at 22, during which he was shot at by two hitmen\n\nTough time: An initiation into manhood in Papua New Guinea. He was kept in a \"crocodile nest\" with 20 others, and repeatedly cut with bamboo blades to leave scars that looked like crocodile scales\n\nLow moment: Eating his own dog to survive\n\nTravel habit: Always keeps loo paper in a back pocket. \"You know how it is,\" he tells the Lonely Planet.\n\nPhilosophy: \"For me personally, exploration isn't about conquering nature, planting flags or leaving your mark. It's about the opposite: opening yourself up and allowing the place to leave its mark on you.\"\n\nCareer: Six TV series for the BBC, author, motivational speaker\n\nMr Allen, from London, has previously crossed the Amazon Basin on foot and in a dug out canoe, and participated in a six-week male initiation ceremony in which crocodile marks were carved onto his body.\n\nHe has filmed a number of his adventures for BBC documentaries and written books on exploration.\n\nThe Foreign Office said its staff were assisting family members and were in contact with local authorities.\n\nTravelling in Papua New Guinea is hugely unpredictable and normal schedules don't apply, so there is a good chance that Benedict Allen has been detained by natural causes.\n\nLandslides, torrential downpours and sometimes an eruption of fighting between local tribes can all throw itineraries off-course.\n\nForeign travellers though, are rarely targeted outside the main towns.\n\nKnowing Benedict, it is also quite possible that he has accepted an invitation to stay on longer for a tribal ceremony - it can also be considered an insult to refuse.\n\nThe Yaifo tribe who Benedict visited in the 1980s initially greeted him with suspicion and hostility but then accepted him.\n\nHe told me last month, just before he set off, that he had no idea how they would receive him, or even if he would be able to find them in such a remote part of the country.\n\nIn a blog posted in September, Mr Allen described his plan to assemble a group at an abandoned mission station in Bisorio before heading into the remote jungle.\n\nHis aim, he said, was to create a brief record of the lives of the Yaifo and track down some of those he met on his last visit.\n\n\"Last time, the Yaifo 'greeted' me with a terrifying show of strength, an energetic dance featuring their bows and arrows,\" he said.\n\n\"On this occasion who knows if the Yaifo will do the same, or run off, or be wearing jeans and T shirts traded eons ago from the old mission station.\n\n\"But of course I may not even make it there - even aged 26, it was a very hard hike up through rather treacherous terrain.\"\n\nHe said his journey out of the jungle was unplanned. \"Either I must paddle down river for a week or so - or enlist the help of the Yaifo, as I did last time,\" he said.\n\nHe added that he would be travelling without a satellite phone, GPS or companion, \"because this is how I do my journeys of exploration\".\n\nIn his last tweet from 11 October, Mr Allen wrote: \"Marching off to Heathrow. I may be some time.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Benedict ALLEN This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "To get to President Robert Mugabe's rural home, you drive along the Robert Mugabe Highway.\n\nIt is probably one of the most well-maintained roads in Zimbabwe. It is like driving on a carpet.\n\nAlong the way you are greeted by a plaque erected in his honour.\n\nKutama Village is home to the 93-year-old. It is a small and tightly connected village where everyone knows each other.\n\nYou cannot really tell if they have been rattled by the current political crisis.\n\nAs we arrived, there was an air of uncertainty.\n\nMr Mugabe is respected here. To many, he is a father and a friend.\n\nSpeaking to me at his compound, a 65-year-old neighbour told me:\n\nQuote Message: He's kind, he's a good man and he understands people's plight.\"\n\nThe man goes to St Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church with Mr Mugabe, a devout Christian, whenever he visits.\n\nQuote Message: He never demands special treatment. He visits people to check on their welfare.\" He never demands special treatment. He visits people to check on their welfare.\"\n\nNevertheless, he supported the intervention by the army to remove Mr Mugabe from office, saying it is meant to correct a broken system:\n\nQuote Message: If his term goes out then there's nothing wrong.\" If his term goes out then there's nothing wrong.\"\n\nWhen I approached other villagers, I attracted immediate suspicion. They were not keen to talk.\n\nBut it seems to me that Mr Mugabe is seen as a hero in the village. It is easy to spot people wearing clothes emblazoned with his face.\n\nPolice officers are patrolling the area around Mr Mugabe's home.\n\nYou can't really peep inside the compound because of tight security.", "Zoella published her first novel in 2014 and has her own cosmetics line\n\nYouTuber and blogger Zoella has apologised for a number of old tweets about gay people and \"chavs\".\n\nThe posts, from 2009-12, which have now been deleted, have been called out for \"fat shaming\" and being homophobic.\n\n\"Fat chav\", \"skank\" and \"tramp\" are some of the phrases she posted on her Twitter account, which now has 11 million followers.\n\nZoella apologised on Wednesday, adding she \"would never say those things now\".\n\nThe statement, posted on Twitter said: \"I've seen a few of my old tweets from 7/8 years ago floating around (which I have now deleted) using words like 'chav', 'skank' and other words I wouldn't use now as part of my language.\n\n\"Obviously that is not who I am today and I'd like to think I'm a little older and wiser! I'm not perfect and I've never claimed to be, I'm only human!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by taylor This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 vlogger, whose real name is Zoe Sugg, claims several of the statements were taken out of context as they were commenting on TV shows like the X Factor and I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here.\n\nTwo tweets, saying: \"I find it funny when gay men spit... it's like they're trying to be a bit macho,\" and \"How many straight men do you know, who whip out a compact mirror to do their hair before an abseil,\" have been criticised by Twitter users for being homophobic.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Joshua Fox This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOthers, saying \"Who do these parents insist on beefing up their obese children, just give them water and some veg and tell them that's all they're getting,\" and phrases \"fat chav\" and \"close up of a fatty eating a big mac\" have also been seen as fat-shaming.\n\nAshleigh Hamman tweeted: \"Absolutely disgusting Zoella calling people fat. Especially when she claims to get upset when people would call her 'skinny' in the past. How hypocritical can you get.\"\n\nZoella, who lives in Brighton, has built up a strong social media following in recent years thanks to her lifestyle and beauty vlogs.\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 zoella 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\nZoella has already come under fire this week for her 12 Days of Christmas Advent Calendar. The product has seen its price slashed from £50 to £25 by retailer Boots, after it was criticised for being bad value for money by customers.\n\nSome fans said the re-emergence of Zoella's old tweets was a response to criticism of the Advent Calendar.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Holly Jolly Hayley🎄 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 not everyone has criticised Zoella, who has her own beauty range and a series of novels, with followers saying she should not be judged for things she said a long time ago.\n\nHer work on anxiety and mental health has been mentioned as an example of how Sugg has matured and developed a positive persona on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None 8 things to know about YouTuber Joe Sugg", "UK actor Keith Barron, who starred in sitcom Duty Free, has died aged 83 after a short illness.\n\nBarron, who was from South Yorkshire, rose to fame in the 1960s as Detective Sergeant Swift in The Odd Man.\n\nHe also appeared in Coronation Street, Doctor Who, Benidorm and Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased).\n\nBarron is best-remembered for his role in Yorkshire Television sitcom, Duty Free, where he played David Pearce.\n\nA statement from his agent said Barron enjoyed \"a long and varied career, of which he was immensely proud.\n\n\"He is survived by his wife Mary to whom he was married for 58 years and his son, Jamie, also an actor.\"\n\nSet in Spain, Duty Free ran for three series from 1984 until 1986 with Barron starring as a lead character.\n\nThe show was about two couples - David and Amy Pearce and Robert and Linda Cochran, who meet on holiday in the same hotel in Marbella.\n\nMuch of the show's humour came from David and Linda's attempts to conceal their affair.\n\nBarron learnt his craft at the former Sheffield Playhouse, where he also met his wife, stage designer Mary Pickard.\n\nIn a long career, he starred in Hollywood film The Land That Time Forgot and had a number of appearances in landmark British shows including Doctors, A Touch of Frost and Casualty.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Google Docs was inaccessible for a \"significant subset” of users on Wednesday.\n\nThe company confirmed the issue on its status page but did not offer more information.\n\nA spokeswoman for Google would not confirm to the BBC how many users encountered the problem, but said she did not believe any customers who paid for extra storage were affected.\n\nProblems were reported by users trying to access the programs across the world.\n\nDowndetector.com, which tracks outages around the world, suggested US users were having the most significant issues - though there were some reports in Europe, where the outage occurred at a time that was outside of typical hours for most business.\n\nThe down time lasted for between 30 minutes and an hour, during which many people used Twitter to complain.\n\nAt 2209 GMT the Twitter account for Google Docs said: \"Docs is back up for most users, and we expect a full resolution for all users shortly.\n\n\"Sorry for this disruption and thanks again for your patience with us.”\n\nIt is the second time in recent weeks that Google Docs users have been left frustrated by glitches in the system.\n\nIn October some users were locked out of a files after they were wrongly tagged as being “inappropriate” content. The company apologised for the disruption.\n\nCloud computing - where files are stored and edited on the internet rather than locally on your computer - is a major part of the technology sector.\n\nThose services remaining stable and reliable is crucial for businesses that rely on the software for day-to-day work.\n\nAmazon Web Services (AWS) is the market leader by revenue, but it is not immune to down time - an incident at the start of this year saw more than 150,000 websites taken offline due to an Amazon fault.\n\nGoogle's service status page said the problem had now been resolved.\n\n\"We apologise for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued support,\" it added.\n\n\"Please rest assured that system reliability is a top priority at Google, and we are making continuous improvements to make our systems better.\"", "Wages continue to lag behind the cost of living in the UK, while unemployment remains at a 42-year low.\n\nWorkers' earnings, excluding bonuses, rose 2.2% in the three months to September compared with a year ago, the Office for National Statistics said.\n\nBut they fell 0.5% in real terms when accounting for inflation, marking seven months of negative pay growth.\n\nThe number of jobless - people not in work but seeking a job - fell 59,000 to 1.42 million during the period.\n\nWith inflation at a five-and-a-half-year high of 3% in October, pay is failing to keep up with higher prices.\n\nThe unemployment rate remained steady at 4.3% - its lowest rate since 1975 - and down from 4.8% a year earlier.\n\nMinister for Employment Damian Hinds said the unemployment figures showed the \"strength of the economy\".\n\n\"A near-record number of people are now in work,\" he said. \"Everyone should be given the opportunity to find work and enjoy the stability of a regular pay packet.\"\n\nAt the same time, the number of people in work dropped to 32 million, down 14,000 from the last quarter, according to ONS data.\n\nLabour MP Debbie Abrahams, shadow work and pensions secretary, said the figures were further evidence of \"Tory economic failure\".\n\nShe said: \"Both employment and real wages are falling while the price of household essentials balloons, leaving millions of people worse off than they were in 2010.\"\n\nMatt Hughes, a senior ONS statistician, said employment had declined after two years of \"almost uninterrupted growth\", but was still higher than last year.\n\nThe last time there was a bigger fall in employment was in April to June 2015, when the number of people in work dropped by 45,000, according to the ONS.\n\nThe simultaneous drop in the number of workers and unemployed people is due to the rise in people who are classed as \"economically inactive\" - those not working and not seeking or available to work.\n\nThis includes people studying, retirees, the long-term sick, or those looking after family, and rose by 117,000 to 8.8 million over the quarter.\n\nMr Hughes said: \"There was a rise in the number of people who were neither working nor looking for a job - so-called economically inactive people.\"\n\nSeparate ONS data showed a bright spot for productivity, which increased by 0.9% in the latest three months - the strongest growth rate for six years.\n\nBut this follows a prolonged period of weak productivity since the financial crisis.\n\nAny port in a storm, but it is sensible to put today's leap in productivity in context.\n\nAfter six months of negative figures (-0.5% January to March, -0.1% April to June), today's +0.9% jump in productivity is undoubtedly better news.\n\nBut it would need at least two more quarters of similarly positive numbers to discern whether this is just normal quarter-by-quarter volatility or the first signs that the productivity slump might be starting to turn.\n\nThe ONS measures productivity by dividing the number of hours worked by what is called Gross Value Added, the value of goods and services produced by the UK economy.\n\nIt has leapt this quarter because working hours have fallen slightly and economic growth is higher.\n\nWhether we are actually producing more per hour worked - the key to wealth creation and better wages - will only become clear over the next six months.\n\nONS head of productivity Philip Wales said: \"The medium-term picture continues to be one of productivity growing - but at a much slower rate than seen before the financial crisis.\"\n\nThe CBI's head of employment, Matthew Percival, thought the rise in productivity was \"encouraging\".\n\nHe said: \"Businesses will be looking for the chancellor to cement progress in next week's Budget and maintain flexibility in the labour market, which remains a mainstay of the UK economy.\"\n\nHow can unemployment and the number of people in work drop at the same time?\n\nThe unemployment rate is a measure of those people who want to work - and cannot - but the employment rate is a measure of everyone in work.\n\nSo you could have a large number of people retiring and only some of them being replaced by unemployed people who are recruited to do their jobs.\n\nEmployment will fall, and so will unemployment.\n\nIn today's figures, the fall in employment seems to be concentrated amongst the 18-24 year olds, suggesting that part of the reason is that they are returning to education, although the figures are supposed to take such seasonal factors into account.", "Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage is the \"most successful politician of my generation\", Tory MP Ken Clarke has told the Commons.\n\nRemain-supporting Mr Clarke told MPs that he paid tribute to Mr Farage's \"campaigning abilities\" as the Brexiteer had persuaded a \"high proportion of the population\" over Brexit.\n\nIn response, Mr Farage thanked Mr Clarke and offered to buy him a beer.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA firearms dealer has been found guilty of supplying illegal handguns and home-made ammunition linked to more than 100 crime scenes, including three murders.\n\nPaul Edmunds, of Hardwicke, Gloucestershire, supplied ammunition used in an attempt to shoot down a police helicopter in the 2011 riots.\n\nThe 66-year-old was found guilty of conspiracy to supply firearms and ammunition by a jury at Birmingham Crown Court.\n\nHe will be sentenced on 20 December.\n\nThe court was told Edmunds, of Bristol Road, was arrested at his home in 2015, where he had three armouries he used to make ammunition to fit antique weapons.\n\nPaul Edmunds had denied conspiracy to supply firearms and ammunition\n\nDetectives discovered that a Colt pistol - imported on November 14 2013 - was used five weeks later in a Boxing Day fatal shooting at the Avalon nightclub in London.\n\nFour of Edmunds' rounds of ammunition were recovered from the victim's body.\n\nThe jury were told Edmunds' ammunition was also recovered following the Birmingham murders of Derek Myers in 2015 and 18-year-old Kenichi Phillips in 2016.\n\nFollowing his arrest, 100,000 live rounds were seized from the armoury inside Edmunds' garage, while seven wheelie bin-loads of gun and ammunition components were recovered from a bedroom and attic.\n\nFollowing Edmunds' arrest, 100,000 live rounds were seized from the armoury inside his garage\n\nOne of the seized guns which was examined by forensics officers\n\nIn all, 17 criminally-linked weapons recovered by police are known to have been imported by Edmunds, while around 1,000 rounds of ammunition connected to him have been recovered from crime scenes in nine different police force areas.\n\nIn police interviews, Edmunds said he was \"not responsible for the actions of somebody that buys some things\", adding his \"duty of care\" only extended to not selling to people who \"didn't look right\".\n\nHe told officers: \"Like me selling a knife and you take that knife and kill somebody and then the system blames me for selling you the knife.\n\n\"It's your problem, got nothing to do with me.\"\n\nDr Mohinder Surdhar admitted conspiracy to supply firearms and ammunition between 2009 and 2015\n\nThe two-month long re-trial heard Edmunds and middleman Dr Mohinder Surdhar - likened by police to the lead characters in the TV series Breaking Bad - acted together to supply antique revolvers and custom-made ammunition to criminal gangs.\n\nSurdhar, 56, from Grove Lane in Handsworth, Birmingham, admitted conspiracy to supply firearms and ammunition between 2009 and 2015 before Edmunds' trial.\n\nJurors also convicted Edmunds of possessing a prohibited air pistol and perverting the course of justice by filing down a bullet-making tool to destroy potential evidence.\n\nHis barrister acknowledged that the gun-dealer faces a sentence of at least 25 years when he is sentenced.\n\nDet Con Phil Rodgers, from West Midlands Police, said: \"They were like the Breaking Bad of the gun world - on the face of it, both decent men, but using their skills and expertise to provide deadly firearms.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby Union\n\nFrance will host the 2023 Rugby World Cup after beating rival bids from South Africa and Ireland.\n\nSouth Africa had been expected to win the vote after an independent review recommended they stage the tournament.\n\nHowever, at a World Rugby Council meeting in London on Wednesday, France was chosen to hold the 10th event.\n\nFrance - the main host of the competition in 2007 - won in the second round of voting, with 24 votes compared to 15 for South Africa.\n• None Irish 'very disappointed' not to get Scotland & Wales RWC votes\n\nIreland, which staged matches in 1991 and 1999, was eliminated after getting eight of the 39 votes in the first round - France picked up 18 and South Africa 13.\n\nSouth Africa hosted the World Cup in 1995, when the Springboks beat New Zealand 15-12 in the final.\n\nEngland backed the Irish bid but Wales supported South Africa and Scotland went with France. The head of the Irish Rugby Union Philip Browne said he was \"very disappointed\" with that.\n\nWorld Rugby chairman Bill Beaumont described the selection process as the \"most transparent and comprehensive\" in the organisation's history.\n\n\"I am delighted for France. They have run a World Cup before and I think it will be an exciting World Cup,\" he said\n\n\"We feel for the first time that within World Rugby we have put the results of our evaluation out to the general public.\"\n\nLast month, South Africa had ranked highest in the independent review after the three bids were judged on five categories...\n\nFrom the above criteria, South Africa scored 78.97%, France was second with 75.88% and Ireland was third with 72.25% - but members of the World Rugby Council voted to select France.\n\nBernard Laporte, president of the French Rugby Federation (FFR), had criticised the original report, saying it contained a \"certain amount of incompetence\" and was \"laughable\".\n\n\"We are not rated as well over doping because they tell us we are too strict,\" Laporte told AFP in an interview last week.\n\n\"On security, we have the same number of points even though there are 52 murders a day in South Africa - it's crazy.\"\n\nAfter the decision to award France the 2023 World Cup, Laporte said: \"This World Cup is for all of French rugby. The economic impact will be for them. With the reforms that we have committed, we needed this World Cup.\"\n\nFrance President Emmanuel Macron tweeted: \"We will again host the Rugby World Cup in 2023. Wonderful news for rugby, for sport and for France.\"\n\n'We cannot hide our desolation' - South Africa reaction\n\nSouth Africa said they were \"bitterly disappointed\" at the decision, but would not appeal against the verdict.\n\n\"We would like to apologise to the people and government of South Africa for raising their hopes,\" added Mark Alexander, president of South Africa Rugby.\n\n\"We did everything in our power to bring the tournament to South Africa and we expected to have that right confirmed.\n\n\"We produced a compelling bid document that earned the unanimous recommendation of the Rugby World Cup Ltd board. That recommendation was questioned last week by rivals, but endorsed a second time by World Rugby last week.\n\n\"However, the view of the experts and World Rugby's leadership was overturned by World Rugby Council members, who may have had other factors to take into account.\n\n\"We cannot hide our desolation but, for the sake of rugby we wish the 2023 tournament hosts every success.\"\n\nJurie Roux, chief executive of South Africa Rugby, said: \"World Rugby ran an exhaustive, transparent process for 15 months to identify the best host nation, only for the process to go entirely opaque for the past two weeks.\n\n\"The view of the experts and World Rugby's leadership was overturned by World Rugby Council members.\"\n\nChester Williams, who helped South Africa win the World Cup when they hosted the event in 1995, told BBC World Service the decision was \"disappointing and sad\".\n\nHe added: \"It is a much needed event that we wanted here in South Africa and this could have been another opportunity for us as South Africa to reunite as a nation.\n\n\"It would have been an amazing opportunity to host the Rugby World Cup and the French have won it and we have to deal with it accordingly.\n\n\"We were about 90% certain that we would be hosting the World Cup. The whole of South Africa is going to be disappointed.\n\n\"We thought the biggest opposition would be the Irish.\"\n\nIrish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said Ireland could bid again to host the tournament in the future.\n\n\"I am of course deeply disappointed by this result but I wish France the very best in their preparations for Rugby World Cup 2023. World Rugby had a choice of three excellent contenders,\" he said.\n\n\"As someone who has been involved in the bid from the beginning, I had hoped Ireland would be selected. But we were beaten by another excellent candidate and I know that France will host a superb tournament in 2023.\n\n\"I have no regrets about bidding for the tournament and I want to thank everyone who was involved in it.\n\n\"We should never forget that the technical report found that Ireland would be excellent hosts for Rugby World Cup 2023, and there may be other occasions for Ireland to show the world what we are capable of.\"\n\nJapan will host the next World Cup in 2019.", "Alex Rowley has been absent from Holyrood in recent weeks because of a chest infection\n\nScottish Labour has suspended MSP Alex Rowley from the party at Holyrood amid claims about his conduct.\n\nThe Fife MSP stepped aside from his roles as interim and deputy leader after allegations he had sent abusive text messages to a former partner.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Rowley rejected the allegations and said he would work to clear his name.\n\nThe party subsequently announced it would be removing the whip from him for the duration of the investigation.\n\nMr Rowley referred himself to the party's investigation unit and announced he would step aside from the leadership after claims were published in The Scottish Sun.\n\nHe had been absent from the Scottish Parliament for the past two weeks, with party bosses citing a chest infection. Fellow MSP Jackie Baillie, who had been filling in for him at first minister's questions, has now been appointed interim leader.\n\nAfter former leader Kezia Dugdale said she would have suspended Mr Rowley had she still been in charge, both leadership candidates - Anas Sarwar and Richard Leonard - said he should be suspended.\n\nParty business manager James Kelly subsequently announced that the MSP would have the whip withdrawn in the Scottish Parliament throughout the probe.\n\nIn a statement Mr Rowley said: \"I totally refute these allegations and will take all steps necessary to clear my name.\n\n\"These allegations must be properly and thoroughly investigated in line with our party's procedures - and I will refer myself to the party so such an investigation can take place.\n\n\"While that investigation is carried out, I will step aside as deputy leader, as well as interim leader, of the Scottish Labour party.\"\n\nLeadership candidates Richard Leonard and Anas Sarwar - in background - both called for Mr Rowley to be suspended\n\nMr Rowley, who previously served as election agent for former prime minister Gordon Brown, has been standing in as the Scottish Labour leader since Ms Dugdale stood down in August.\n\nIn a statement, Ms Dugdale said that had she remained in charge, she would have suspended Mr Rowley from the party while the \"serious and deeply concerning\" allegations were investigated.\n\nThis was subsequently echoed by both candidates to replace her as leader. Mr Leonard said suspension would be \"appropriate\", while Mr Sarwar said there were \"clear procedures\" which meant he should be suspended \"while a robust, fair and thorough investigation is carried out\".\n\nThe party then announced he would be suspended from the Labour whip in the Scottish Parliament.\n\nMr Kelly said: \"It is important that the investigation into these allegations is fair and transparent, and the matter will be thoroughly investigated using the Labour Party's internal complaints procedure.\n\n\"However, in light of the serious nature of the allegations, Labour at Holyrood has taken the decision to remove the whip from Alex Rowley for the period of this investigation.\"\n\nThe winner of the party's leadership contest is due to be announced this weekend.\n\nMr Rowley's position as interim leader had previously been questioned when he was caught on tape backing Mr Leonard as the \"best candidate\".\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. Would the US military disobey a nuclear order from President Trump?\n\nFor the first time in over 40 years, Congress has examined a US president's authority to launch a nuclear attack.\n\nThe Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing was titled Authority to Order the Use of Nuclear Weapons.\n\nSome senators expressed concern that the president might irresponsibly order a nuclear strike; others said he must have the authority to act without meddling from lawyers.\n\nThe last time Congress debated this issue was in March 1976.\n\nIn August, Mr Trump vowed to unleash \"fire and fury like the world has never seen\" on North Korea if it continued to expand its atomic weapons programme.\n\nLast month, the Senate committee's Republican chairman, Senator Bob Corker, accused the president of setting the US \"on a path to World War 3\".\n\nSenator Ben Cardin set the tone at Tuesday morning's public hearing on Capitol Hill.\n\n\"This is not a hypothetical discussion,\" the Maryland Democrat said.\n\nSome senators present said they were troubled about the president's latitude to launch a nuclear strike.\n\nChris Murphy, a Democrat from Connecticut, said: \"We are concerned that the president is so unstable, is so volatile, has a decision-making process that is so quixotic, that he might order a nuclear-weapons strike that is wildly out of step with US national-security interests.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lashing out: What Bob Corker really thinks of President Trump\n\nOne of the experts, C Robert Kehler, who was commander of the US Strategic Command from 2011-13, said that in his former role he would have followed the president's order to carry out the strike - if it were legal.\n\nHe said if he were uncertain about its legality, he would have consulted with his own advisers.\n\nUnder certain circumstances, he explained: \"I would have said, 'I'm not ready to proceed.'\"\n\nOne senator, Ron Johnson, a Wisconsin Republican, asked: \"Then what happens?\"\n\nPeople in the room laughed. But it was a nervous laugh.\n\nThe Minot Air Force Base houses part of the US arsenal of Minuteman Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles\n\nAnother expert, Duke University's Peter Feaver, a political science professor, explained that a presidential order \"requires personnel at all levels\" to sign off on it.\n\nIt would be vetted by lawyers, as well as by the secretary of defence and individuals serving in the military.\n\n\"The president cannot by himself push a button and cause missiles to fly,\" said Prof Feaver.\n\nAnother expert, Brian McKeon, a former under-secretary of defence for policy, said military officials would stop the president if they felt he was acting in a rash manner.\n\n\"Four-star generals are not shrinking violets,\" said Mr McKeon.\n\n\"I don't think we should be trusting the generals to be a check on the president,\" he said.\n\nOne of the key questions at the hearing was whether the senators - and Americans in general - had confidence in the president to make such a decision within minutes, or even seconds.\n\nAt that moment, the defence secretary, military officials and lawyers would have little time to review the president's decision.\n\nSome of the senators said the president needed to have the freedom to act fast and forcefully under those circumstances.\n\nSenator Marco Rubio explained that the US president \"has to have the capacity to respond if we are under attack\" - and not be circumvented by \"a bunch of bunker lawyers\".\n\nSenator James Risch, an Idaho Republican, reinforced Mr Rubio's message, explaining that officials in Pyongyang should not misinterpret their discussion.\n\n\"He will do what is necessary to defend this country,\" said Mr Risch.\n\nAt the end of the hearing, the lawmakers and experts agreed that the nuclear arsenal should be modernised - just in case.", "A Vietnamese cyber-security firm has shown the BBC how a mask can be used to unlock Apple's new iPhone X.\n\nThe demo took place about a week after Bkav first claimed to have undermined the handset's security.\n\nBut other experts have cast doubt on what the \"hack\" amounts to.\n\nApple has not commented beyond referring the public to documents it had already published about its security system.", "The BBC Price of Football study has found the majority of ticket prices have been frozen or have fallen for a third year - yet a poll of young adult football fans suggests the cost is still putting them off.\n\nThis year BBC Sport asked more than 200 clubs across the United Kingdom for information on ticket prices and found almost two thirds of price categories have been reduced or remained the same across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn a separate poll, we asked 1,000 18- to 24-year-old fans living in Britain how they engage with football, and four in five (82%) said the cost of tickets was an obstacle to them going to more matches.\n\nThe annual study found 135 clubs out of 190 in England, Scotland and Wales offer reduced prices for teenagers and young adults - separate from any student concessions - but 55% of the fans we polled said they had stopped going completely or go to fewer games because it was too expensive.\n\nYoung adult fans can save, on average, £146.94 on season tickets in the English Premier League and Football League, while in the top four divisions in Scotland the average saving on a season ticket is £143.66.\n• None How much could you pay? Enter your team in the calculator\n• None Analysis: What does it mean for clubs and fans?\n• None Take the Price of Football quiz\n\nAccording to figures from the Premier League, young adult fans bought 4% of all season tickets this year. A report in 2015 suggested the average age of an adult supporter in the Premier League was 41.\n\nRob Wilson, football finance expert at Sheffield Hallam University, says top clubs need to do more to attract young adults.\n\n\"These fans are the next generation of season ticket holders but they have been brought up in a sanitised and expensive environment,\" he told BBC Sport.\n\n\"With this in mind, they are reluctant to pay so much to watch their teams play and these findings should act as a warning to the Premier League elite - they ignore this group of fans at their peril.\"\n\nArsenal manager Arsene Wenger admitted he was worried by the findings.\n\n\"I think nothing is better than to share the experience of a stadium,\" he said. \"There are many ingredients in the modern game that stopped people going. The lifestyle is different, they play less, they play more computers.\n\n\"The security of gathering people is a problem. Can you afford to go when you are young? There are many ingredients we have to take care of in the game.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Premier League said: \"Clubs engage with their fans in many ways and hugely appreciate their loyal and passionate support.\n\nThe online poll, conducted by ComRes, also showed young fans are more likely to engage with football by playing games on a console or PC (61%) than in a football team (37%).\n\nMore young football fans bet on the sport (44%) than play in a team (37%), but more fans play in a team than have a fantasy football team (33%).\n\nOnly one in four fans (26%) said they go to watch football live more than once a month.\n• None Are young people being priced out of football? Watch our live debate\n• None Two thirds (65%) of young football fans said the cost of travel was an obstacle to attending more matches.\n• None Three quarters (74%) of young fans said they get their football news from social media - 24% from print newspapers.\n• None Three in five fans aged 18-24 go to a sport app or mobile site (59%) for football news while at least half access it via a TV results service (53%).\n• None 70% of supporters agreed football clubs did value their fans, but more than half of the teenagers and young adults (56%) said professional football was not run with them in mind.\n• None Similar numbers of football fans asked said they go to a football match at least once a week (11%), two to three times a month (15%) or five to 10 times a season (14%).\n• None One in six (16%) male football fans aged 18-24 said they go to a match at least once a week, compared to 7% of women in this group.\n\nOf the top four leagues in England, 92% of clubs offer special prices for young adults, separate from any student concessions. The age ranges vary from 16-24 years old, with most targeting the 18-21 bracket.\n\nThe biggest discounts come in the Premier League, where an Arsenal member aged 16-19 can purchase a season ticket for £384 compared to the cheapest adult season ticket at £891 - a saving of £507.\n\nChelsea offer the biggest discount on single matchday tickets for their under 20s, who can pay £15.50 instead of £47 - a saving of £31.50.\n\nBut despite these discounts, 81% of the young adult football fans living in England who were polled say they feel the cost of tickets is stopping them from going to more matches.\n\nIn Scotland, 27 of the 42 clubs offer young adult discounts.\n\nIn the poll, 79% of fans say cost is an obstacle to them attending football matches.\n\nA third of the clubs in the Welsh Premier League offer special discounts for young adults.\n\nOf the young adults asked in Wales, 90% say the cost of tickets puts them off going to watch football.\n• None The Price of Football: Results in full\n• None How we produced the Price of Football 2017\n\nE-sports are becoming big business and this is the next key challenge for clubs. How do you convert e-sport players into terrace-goers? Can you link the e-game to the actual one? How can mobile technologies support this at half-time, for example? Moreover, the way young fans consume information is changing - clubs need to engage fans much more effectively when it comes to social media.\n\nWe've seen big reductions in subscriptions to the pay TV platforms so it's unsurprising young people think twice about live football. There are also lots of options for young people to spend their leisure pound (the cinema, gym, university, cars etc) so football clubs need to work much harder to engage them. There is no magic bullet but they need to do more and communicate that more effectively. The long-term impact of young fans feeling priced out is yet to be truly felt.\n\nWhat we are seeing, especially with young people, is that incomes are being squeezed in real terms and this will lead to a decrease in demand, particularly as there are alternative leisure opportunities. The number of fans attending football will also respond to rise and fall in prices because of the price elasticity of demand for tickets.\n\nSupport for a team is often a matter of loyalty and hence lower prices may not attract many new fans. If young people find their finances are stretched, they may make a rational choice to follow a team by other means such as screened matches.\n\nYoung people tend to be in work but with the very slow growth in wages in the past 10 years, their income is lagging behind living costs. Real wages are not rising and young people are also saddled with student debt. Rent and utility bills have to be paid and they are rising faster than other prices.\n\nThen, when you have to pay for food on top, it means things like sport and paying to watch football are not a priority.\n\nThere are a number of different, interacting factors that play a part in young people's decision making. These factors are relevant to decisions made about leisure (and in particular football). These include factors such as: 1) temperament and personality and 2) past history - including childhood memories, parents' interests & values, and past teachers or peer influence.\n\nHowever, there are some interesting trends around leisure also. Young people are drinking less. Young people are more thoughtful about what they want to do with their time and money. Superficially it looks like they have increased choice about what they may do, but in reality they also have less money and less time.\n\nAs a young person gets older, it often becomes more important to make decisions that will not alienate them from a social group of friends when compared to decisions that their parents may not like or may be unhealthy.\n\nI am not surprised young people are engaging with football online through videos/fantasy football and probably through social media & apps too - as this is a trend we are seeing across the board with leisure.\n\nI feel sad and disappointed that young people are playing less football as there are so many physical and mental health benefits to this. It is sad that the big drive to increase football in schools is not having a long-term effect once children leave school.\n\nDo you go to games?\n\nDo you attend football matches regularly? If so, what keeps you coming back? Or if you don't, what stops you from going? Get in touch using this link.", "Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has demanded \"an emergency Budget for our public services\", which he says are in crisis.\n\nHe is promising to spend about £17bn a year extra on the NHS, social care, schools and local government.\n\nThe extra spending would be paid for by tax rises for companies and \"the rich\", while tackling tax avoidance.\n\nThe government said Labour's plans would lead to more debt, higher taxes and fewer jobs.\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond is due to give his Budget speech next Wednesday afternoon.\n\nIn a speech at Church House in Westminster, Mr McDonnell called for an end to austerity by the government and set out five main proposals:\n\nHe said the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, was out of touch with the lives of ordinary people and there was growing anger after seven years of austerity.\n\n\"They were told austerity was the solution to the economic crisis,\" he said.\n\n\"So it's understandable that after seven years of the austerity solution, they are angry when they queue for hours at A&E, see their school laying off teaching assistants, their Surestart centre closing and the local neighbourhood police withdrawn from their streets.\n\n\"Especially, while at the same time, they learn about the Paradise Papers and the tax avoidance of the super-rich.\"\n\nMr McDonnell said the Conservatives were giving away about £76bn in cuts to corporation tax, capital gains tax and \"the rich\" during the life of this Parliament.\n\nHe said Labour had already calculated £6.5bn could be raised from clamping down on tax avoidance, but he believed that could be significantly higher after the leaking of the Paradise Papers.\n\nA global investigation looked at 13.4 million previously secret documents that revealed offshore investments made by companies, politicians and wealthy individuals.\n\nJohn McDonnell wants to create a clear red line between him and the present incumbent of Number 11, Philip Hammond.\n\nA week ahead of the Budget, the shadow chancellor has said that more should be spent on health, education and housing and that the public sector pay cap of 1% should be lifted.\n\nThe controversial introduction of the new benefits system - the universal credit - should also be delayed after evidence that some recipients were being left without payments for several weeks.\n\nTo pay for the new policies, Mr McDonnell will say he is willing to borrow more to invest in infrastructure, arguing it is a good time to do so as interest rates are at historic lows.\n\nIt is a position rejected by the Conservatives, with Mr Hammond saying that more borrowing now simply means more debts to be repaid in the future.\n\nIt is expected that he will focus any new spending on health and housing in the Budget, next Wednesday.\n\nMr McDonnell said more action was needed to tackle what he called the \"housing crisis\".\n\nThe government is to wipe about £70bn worth of debt from housing associations' balance sheets, allowing them to raise money more cheaply.\n\nBut Mr McDonnell described it as \"accountancy tricks\" and called for more funding.\n\n\"The scale of the crisis demands action on an equal scale. We need at least 100,000 new social homes a-year funded and built by this government, to even begin to address the problem.\"\n\nHe said Mr Hammond could do far more.\n\n\"He wants to pretend he cannot invest on the scale needed, yet he has already borrowed more in his first year as chancellor than any of his predecessors in their first year at the Treasury.\"\n\nResponding to Mr McDonnell's proposals, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss said: \"The shadow chancellor has today admitted Labour would borrow billions more and hike up taxes to record levels.\n\n\"The costs would rack up and up - putting economic growth at risk and hitting ordinary working people in the pocket.\n\n\"Only the Conservatives can build a country that is fit for the future.\"", "Zimbabwe's The Herald newspaper ran a special edition later on Wednesday\n\nZimbabwean media have been slow to keep their audiences up to date on developments after the military took control earlier today.\n\nState TV and radios were re-broadcasting the statement by Major-General Sibusiso Moyo announcing that the military had taken over but offered little by way of updates to the situation.\n\nFor most of the morning the TV played patriotic songs from the independence period of the 1980s before resuming normal programming.\n\nThe lunchtime news featured the army takeover as the main story.\n\nThe print edition of the government-owned daily The Herald appeared on the streets on Wednesday morning with Tuesday's stories which downplayed the importance of the warning by the head of the armed forces Constantino Chiwenga that the military would take over if necessary.\n\nThe paper's online edition took a few hours to update, and has been carrying coverage of the unfolding events, under the headline Live and developing: No Military Takeover in Zim.\n\nApart from carrying the military statement the paper said: \"The situation in Harare's central business district is calm with people going about their business.\"\n\nSocial media users have been trying to make up for the lack of news by posting their own observations and pictures of street scenes in the capital Harare, including some of troops and police being made to sit in a line outside parliament and people going about their daily lives.\n\nMany have dismissed suggestions by the military that their actions don't amount to a coup.\n\nMaj Gen Sibusiso Moyo read out a statement on national TV early on Wednesday\n\nUsing the Twitter hashtag #ZimbabweCoup, many users welcomed the developments. The hashtag had been used more than 13,000 times in the 24 hours up until noon on Wednesday, many of the users appearing to be in the country.\n\nOne widely shared and liked tweet with a sarcastic overtone read: \"The coup going on in Zimbabwe is the smoothest I've ever seen.. It started like we just wanna talk then went to it's cute you think you [sic] still president.\"\n\n\"When you see the army commanders take over the state broadcaster airwaves then that's the confirmation it's a COUP. End of an era,\" another tweet read. (bit.ly/2hyoy64)\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Chipo Dendere, PhD This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, another user provided a different interpretation: \"It's a Zanu PF internal putsch backed by the army - very different from a military takeover - the statement issued is so very unique - you can feel the restraint.\" (bit.ly/2mt6oEl)\n\nMufti Ismail Menk of Zimbabwe tweeted: \"#Zimbabwe is calm and life goes on for most ordinary citizens. Streets are safe and most children are in school.\"\n\nSome users made fun of the fact that this morning's print editions were way out of date.\n\n\"News editors in Zim slept through the revolution. You need night shifts comrades,\" said @drDendere.\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.", "Deliveroo riders have been ruled self-employed by labour law body the Central Arbitration Committee (CAC).\n\nThe test case was brought against the delivery company by the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) .\n\nThe IWGB said the ruling showed a majority of Deliveroo riders wanted workers' rights and union recognition.\n\nBut the CAC found they were self-employed because of their freedom to \"substitute\" - allowing other riders to take their place on a job.\n\nThe case follows a number of claims brought by workers in the \"gig\" economy demanding rights such as holiday pay, the minimum wage and pensions contributions.\n\nDrivers at Uber won a victory a week ago when the company lost an appeal at the Employment Appeal Tribunal against an earlier decision to grant them workers' rights.\n\nIWGB brought the case after it had asked Deliveroo to recognise it as a union representing drivers in Camden and Kentish Town and to start collective bargaining over workers' rights.\n\nDeliveroo refused and the case was taken to the CAC.\n\nThe company said its turquoise-and-grey clad \"Roomen\" and \"Roowomen\" wanted to keep flexibility of being self-employed.\n\nBut the IWGB said the ruling showed that Deliveroo riders were not satisfied with their current terms and conditions and wanted worker rights, including holiday pay and the minimum wage.\n\nIWGB General Secretary Dr Jason Moyer-Lee said: \"It seems that after a series of defeats, finally a so-called gig economy company has found a way to game the system.\"\n\n\"On the basis of a new contract introduced by Deliveroo's army of lawyers just weeks before the tribunal hearing, the CAC decided that because a rider can have a mate do a delivery for them, Deliveroo's low paid workers are not entitled to basic protections.\"\n\nCrowley Woodford, employment partner at law firm Ashurst said: \"This will be a significant blow to the unions who are trying to expand their membership within the gig economy by challenging the basis on which such employers engage and use their labour.\"\n\nA decision by the CAC can be challenged in the High Court on a point of law.\n\nDan Warne, Managing Director for Deliveroo in the UK and Ireland said: \"This is a victory for all riders who have continuously told us that flexibility is what they value most about working with Deliveroo.\n\n\"As we have consistently argued, our riders value the flexibility that self-employment provides. Riders enjoy being their own boss - having the freedom to choose when and where they work, and riding with other delivery companies at the same time.\"\n\nDeliveroo said it was pushing to have employment law to be changed so it could offer its self-employed riders injury pay and sick pay.", "Aston Martin has said it may have to halt production if the UK fails to strike a Brexit deal with the EU.\n\nAll new cars in the UK must have Vehicle Certification Agency (VCA) approval, which is valid in the EU.\n\nWithout a UK-EU deal, that validity would cease for new cars from March 2019.\n\nMark Wilson, Aston Martin's finance chief, said it would have the \"semi-catastrophic effect of having to stop production\".\n\n\"We're a British company. We produce our cars exclusively in Britain and will continue to do so,\" he said.\n\n\"Recertifying to a new type of approval, be that federal US, Chinese or even retrospectively applying to use the EU approval, would mean us stopping our production.\"\n\nHowever, Mr Wilson added: \"We suppose there will be a transitional arrangement. During that transition we would have to look to see how Aston Martin could recertify under a non-VCA approval structure.\"\n\nHonda imports two million components every day from Europe\n\nMr Wilson was giving evidence to the Business Select Committee along with Mike Hawes, Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders chief executive, and Patrick Keating, Honda Motor Europe's government affairs manager.\n\nAll three called for clarity on a transition deal with the EU.\n\nMr Keating told the MPs that Honda would take 18 months to get its systems ready for new customs procedures for exporting to Europe.\n\nHe said Honda imported two million components every day from Europe on 350 trucks and had just one hour of stock on its shelves.\n\nEvery 15 minutes of delay at customs would cost the company £850,000 a year, although Mr Keating admitted the figure was not \"scientific\".\n\n\"We're thinking about increasing the amount of warehousing and the amount of stock we would have to hold if friction entered the border,\" he said. \"March 2018 is where we would want clarity around transition.\"\n\nMr Hawes added that the UK motor industry's integration into European supply chains could make it harder to benefit from any free trade agreement with non-EU countries after Brexit.\n\nFree trade agreements require that about 60% of goods must originate from within the countries making the agreement.\n\nMr Hawes said: \"The average car made in the UK has 44% of its components from UK suppliers. How much of that 44% actually comes from the UK, bearing in mind those suppliers are buying in supply chains from all over the world? The figure is more like 25%, which is a long way from the 60% threshold you would need to qualify for a free trade agreement.\"\n\nThe problem could be overcome through a \"cumulation\" agreement with the EU, he said. That would allow EU content to count as being of UK origin and vice versa - but would need to be part of the Brexit trade deal.", "Fiji is relocating low-lying coastal villages due to the impact of rising sea levels.\n\nThe country is hosting the UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, Germany, which will attempt to agree the fine print on the 2015 Paris climate accord.", "The Mugabes have clashed with recently sacked Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa (second from right) and armed forces chief Gen Constantino Chiwenga\n\nZimbabwean generals say they have seized control to take power away from \"criminals\" around President Robert Mugabe.\n\nThe crisis came a week after Mr Mugabe sacked his deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, in favour of his wife, Grace.\n\nArmy chief Gen Constantino Chiwenga warned on Monday that the military would step in and take action if such \"purges\" in the ruling Zanu-PF party did not stop.\n\nWho are the key players in this crisis?\n\nA revolutionary hero who spent years in jail for the \"liberation\" struggle, he came to power in elections after independence was declared in 1980.\n\nThis is why, even today, many African leaders remain reluctant to criticise him - unlike a large number of his compatriots who experience his rule first-hand.\n\nMost of the world has moved on from the anti-colonial struggles but Mr Mugabe's outlook and tactics for retaining political control remain the same. He is best-known for his land reform programme in the 1990s that involved the seizure of white-owned farms for redistribution to black peasants.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAfter decades of authoritarian rule, his country is in political and economic turmoil, and allegations of government corruption are rife. He is viewed globally with derision.\n\nThe proud 93-year-old is reluctant to relinquish power but as his physical powers have visibly deteriorated, the battle over his succession has come to the fore.\n\nThe independence-era old guard represented by sacked Vice-President Mnangagwa is rivalling the younger \"Generation-40\" faction fronted by Mrs Mugabe.\n\nRobert Mugabe's second wife, who is more than 40 years his junior, has risen from presidential typist to the most powerful woman in Zimbabwe.\n\nThey met and had their first two of three children while Mr Mugabe's first wife, Sally, was terminally ill with cancer, though they only married after her death.\n\nHer alleged appetite for extravagant shopping earned her the moniker Gucci Grace.\n\nWhile her supporters point to her charitable and philanthropic work and refer to her as \"Dr Amai\", meaning \"mother\", her critics accuse her of pursuing a ruthless campaign for wealth and power.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAs a notable political figure close to the president, Grace has been subject to the same targeted EU and US sanctions as her husband, which include a travel ban and asset freeze.\n\nShe accompanies the president on trips abroad, often visiting the Far East where they own property. Her many domestic business interests also include a dairy farm estate outside Harare, which she claimed as part of the national land reforms implemented starting in 2001.\n\nMrs Mugabe has a sharp tongue and last week she described her rival, Vice President Mnangagwa, as a \"snake\" which \"must be hit on the head\". The next day President Mugabe sacked him.\n\nUntil Mrs Mugabe's rise, he had been viewed for several years as President Mugabe's anointed successor.\n\nFollowing military training in Egypt and China, he helped direct the \"liberation\" struggles prior to independence in 1980, spending time in jail where he was allegedly tortured. He has been in government ever since.\n\nThousands of civilians died in a brutal post-independence conflict in which he played a key role as National Security minister, though he denies having blood on his hands.\n\nHe is known in Zimbabwe as ngwena (English: crocodile) (and his supporters as \"Lacoste\") because of his political cunning, biding his time in the 1990s to reclaim a position of power after falling foul of Mr Mugabe and being cast into political oblivion. But his fearsome reputation means he is little loved in the rank-and-file of the Zanu-PF party.\n\nAs a former defence and national security minister, he was a key link between the ruling party and Zimbabwe's military and intelligence agencies. He is also chair of the Joint Operations Command, in charge of state security.\n\nAt 61, he is a close ally of Mr Mnangagwa and has led the army since 1994.\n\nGen Chiwenga was also a product of the country's independence struggles, training with the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army in Mozambique and later rising through its ranks.\n\nIn 2002, he and 18 other close associates of President Mugabe were sanctioned by the European Union, United States and New Zealand, including a travel ban and freeze on his foreign assets, which has been repeatedly extended. In 2003, he was promoted to commander general of the Zimbabwe combined armed forces.\n\nHe shocked Zimbabweans on Monday when he issued an open warning against those responsible for \"purging\" the ruling party of those who shared his roots in the country's struggles against colonialism, saying the military could step in.\n\nA former mine worker and union chief, the 65-year-old became the symbol of resistance to Mr Mugabe's government during the mid-2000s.\n\nThe charismatic public speaker founded the Movement for Democratic Change in 2000 and stood for president in 2008, gaining the most votes but, according to official results, not enough to win outright. He withdrew from the second round after a campaign of violence by Mr Mugabe's security forces.\n\nHe was later sworn in as prime minister and in 2013 challenged Mr Mugabe for the presidency again but lost heavily.\n\nMr Tsvangirai has been brutally assaulted, charged with treason and labelled a traitor and has reportedly survived three assassination attempts, including one in 1997 in which he was nearly forced out of the window of his 10th-storey office.\n\nHe has been receiving treatment for cancer in South Africa but returned to Zimbabwe after the army took control and has called for Mr Mugabe to resign.", "The plight of British-Iranian woman Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was detained for almost six years in Iran on spying charges, focused attention on Iranians with dual nationality or foreign permanent residency being held in the Islamic Republic's prisons.\n\nIran does not recognise dual nationality, and there are no exact figures on the number of such detainees given the sensitive nature of the information. Some of the most prominent are:\n\nMorad Tahbaz and fellow conservationists were using cameras to track endangered species when they were arrested\n\nThe 67-year-old businessman and wildlife conservationist, who also holds American and British citizenship, was arrested during a crackdown on environmental activists in January 2018. His Canadian-Iranian colleague, Kavous Seyed-Emami, died in custody a few weeks later in unexplained circumstances.\n\nThe authorities accused Tahbaz and seven other conservationists of collecting classified information about Iran's strategic areas under the pretext of carrying out environmental and scientific projects.\n\nThe conservationists - members of the Persian Wildlife Heritage Foundation - had been using cameras to track endangered species including the Asiatic cheetah and Persian leopard, according to Amnesty International.\n\nUN human rights experts said it was \"hard to fathom how working to preserve the Iranian flora and fauna can possibly be linked to conducting espionage against Iranian interests\", while a government committee concluded that there was no evidence to suggest they were spies.\n\nBut in October 2018, Tahbaz and three of his fellow conservationists were charged with \"corruption on earth\", which carries the death penalty. The charge was later changed to \"co-operating with the hostile state of the US\". Three others were charged with espionage, and a fourth was accused of acting against national security.\n\nAll eight denied the charges and Amnesty International said there was evidence that they had been subjected to torture in order to extract forced \"confessions\".\n\nIn November 2019, they were sentenced to prison terms ranging from four to 10 years and ordered to return allegedly \"illicit income\".\n\nHuman Rights Watch denounced what it said was an unfair trial, during which the defendants were apparently unable to see the full dossier of evidence against them.\n\nThe Court of Appeals reportedly upheld Tahbaz's convictions in February 2020.\n\nUN human rights experts warned in January 2021 that Tahbaz's health had continuously deteriorated during his imprisonment and that he had been denied access to proper treatment.\n\nIn March 2022, then-UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said Tahbaz had been released from Evin prison on furlough.\n\nThe announcement came on the same day that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe and fellow British national Anoosheh Ashoori were released by Iran and allowed to return to the UK.\n\nHowever, Tahbaz was returned to Evin just two days later. The UK Foreign Office said the Iranians had told them it was so that he could be fitted with an electronic ankle tag.\n\nHe was not allowed to resume his furlough and subsequently went on hunger strike for nine days to protest against his continued detention.\n\nHis daughter Roxanne said in April 2022 that he had \"made it very clear that he feels abandoned\" by the UK government.\n\nThe Foreign Office said Iran \"committed to releasing Morad from prison on an indefinite furlough\", but had \"failed to honour that commitment\".\n\nIn August 2023, Tahbaz was taken out of Evin and moved to house arrest along with three other Americans - including Siamak Namazi and Emad Shargi - after the US and Iran agreed a prisoner exchange.\n\nIn return for allowing them and a fifth American already under home confinement to leave, the US will reportedly release five Iranians jailed there and allow Iran to access $6bn (£4.7bn) of assets frozen in South Korea.\n\nSiamak Namazi was arrested in 2015 and later sentenced to 10 years in prison on spying charges\n\nSiamak Namazi, 51, worked as head of strategic planning at Dubai-based Crescent Petroleum.\n\nHe was arrested by the Revolutionary Guards in October 2015, while his father Baquer, 86, was arrested in February 2016 after Iranian officials granted him permission to visit his son in prison.\n\nThat October, they were both sentenced to 10 years in prison by a Revolutionary Court for \"co-operating with a foreign enemy state\". An appeals court upheld their sentence in August 2017.\n\nTheir lawyer said they denied the charges against them. He also complained that they had been held in solitary confinement and denied access to legal representation, and had suffered health problems. Siamak is also alleged to have been tortured.\n\nBaquer was released to house arrest on medical grounds in 2018, but his health continued to deteriorate. His sentence was commuted to time served in early 2020, but he was only allowed to leave Iran for medical treatment in October 2022.\n\nIn January 2023, Siamak went on a week-long hunger strike to protest against the failure of the US to free him and other dual nationals despite President Joe Biden's promise to make bringing them home a top priority.\n\nSeven months later, Siamak was again released to house arrest in anticipation of a prisoner exchange agreed by the US and Iran.\n\nHis brother, Babak, said in response: \"While this is a positive change, we will not rest until Siamak and others are back home; we continue to count the days until this can happen.\"\n\nThe Iranian-American businessman and his wife moved to Iran from the US in 2017.\n\nShargi, who is 58, was initially detained by the Revolutionary Guards in April 2018, when he was working in sales for Sarava, an Iranian venture capital fund. He was released on bail that December, when officials told him that a court had cleared him of spying charges that he had denied. However, authorities refused to return his passport.\n\nIn November 2020, Shargi was summoned by a Revolutionary Court and told that he had been convicted of espionage in absentia and sentenced to 10 years in prison, his family said. He was not imprisoned immediately and was released on bail ahead of an appeal.\n\nIn January 2021, Iran's judiciary spokesman said an unnamed \"defendant\" facing spying charges had been arrested as he attempted to leave the country while on bail. It came a week after a state-backed news agency reported that Shargi had been detained while trying to cross Iran's western border illegally.\n\nHis daughters wrote in the Washington Post in April 2021 that he was \"trapped in terrible conditions\" in prison and that he had only been allowed a couple of short, monitored phone calls.\n\nIn August 2023, Shargi was released to house arrest in anticipation of a prisoner exchange between the US and Iran.\n\nHis sister, Neda, said in a statement: \"My family has faith in the work that President Biden and government officials have undertaken to bring our families home and hope to receive that news soon.\"\n\nAhmadreza Djalali was sentenced to death in October 2017\n\nThe 51-year-old specialist in emergency medicine was arrested in April 2016 while on a business trip from Sweden.\n\nAmnesty International said Djalali was held at Evin prison by intelligence ministry officials for seven months, three of them in solitary confinement, before he was given access to a lawyer.\n\nHe alleged that he was subjected to torture and other ill-treatment during that period, including threats to kill or otherwise harm his children, who live in Sweden, and his mother, who lives in Iran.\n\nIn October 2017, a Revolutionary Court in Tehran convicted Djalali of \"spreading corruption on Earth\" and sentenced him to death. His lawyers said the court relied primarily on evidence obtained under duress and alleged that he was prosecuted solely because of his refusal to use his academic ties in European institutions to spy for Iran.\n\nTwo months later, Iranian state television also aired what it said was footage of Djalali confessing that he had spied on Iran's nuclear programme for Israel. It suggested he was responsible for identifying two Iranian nuclear scientists who were killed in bomb attacks in 2010.\n\nIn February 2018, Sweden confirmed that it had given Djalali citizenship and demanded that his death sentence not be carried out. He had previously been a permanent resident.\n\nIn November 2021, Djalali's wife, Vida Mehran-Nia, said he had been informed by prison authorities that he faced imminent execution. He spent five months in solitary confinement, awaiting execution, until April 2021, when he reportedly was moved to a multi-occupancy cell.\n\nJust over a year later, an Iranian judiciary spokesman said Djalali's death sentence was \"final\" and was \"on the agenda\" of authorities.\n\nHe also insisted that the case was not linked to the war crimes trial in Sweden of former Iranian judiciary official Hamid Nouri, who was sentenced to life in prison over what prosecutors said was his leading role in the mass executions of Iranian opposition supporters in 1988.\n\nDjalali's wife and human rights groups have said Djalali is a \"hostage\" who Iran is threatening to execute in an attempt to negotiate a swap for Mr Nouri.\n\nNahid Taghavi was an advocate for women's rights in Iran\n\nThe 68-year-old retired architect, who is a German-Iranian dual national, was arrested at her apartment in Tehran in October 2020 and accused of \"endangering security\".\n\nShe was placed in solitary confinement at Evin prison and not given access to lawyers, German diplomats or members of her family, according to her daughter Mariam Claren.\n\nTaghavi was repeatedly subjected to coercive questioning without the presence of lawyers, according to Amnesty International. Interrogators reportedly asked her about meeting people to discuss women's and labour rights, and possessing literature about those issues.\n\nIn August 2021, she was convicted by a Revolutionary Court in Tehran of \"forming a group composed of more than two people with the purpose of disrupting national security\" and \"spreading propaganda against the system\". She was sentenced to 10 years and eight months in prison.\n\nTaghavi had denied the charges, the first of which was apparently related to a social media account about women's rights, and Amnesty said the trial was \"grossly unfair\".\n\nMs Claren wrote on Twitter that her mother \"did not commit any crime. Unless freedom of speech, freedom of thought are illegal\".\n\nShe has said her mother has been denied adequate healthcare by prison and prosecution authorities, despite doctors saying in September 2021 that she needed surgery on her spinal column.\n\nIn July 2022, Taghavi was granted urgent medical leave from prison for treatment for back and neck problems. She was sent back to Evin four months later.\n\nA fellow inmate in the prison warned in June 2023 that Taghavi's life was \"in danger\" following a further 220 days in solitary confinement.\n\n\"The pain is so severe that it can be clearly seen on her face. She can barely get out of her bed,\" a message posted on human rights activist Narges Mohammadi's Instagram account said.\n\nThe 64-year-old researcher at Sciences-Po university in Paris is a specialist in social anthropology and the political anthropology of post-revolutionary Iran, and has written a number of books.\n\nAt the time of her arrest in Tehran in June 2019, she was examining the movement of Shia clerics between Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq, and had spent time in the holy city of Qom.\n\nAdelkhah was accused of espionage and other security-related offences.\n\nShe protested her innocence and after going on hunger strike, she was admitted to hospital for treatment for severe kidney damage.\n\nProsecutors dropped the espionage charge before her trial began at the Revolutionary Court in April 2020. The following month, the court sentenced Adelkhah to five years in prison for conspiring against national security and an additional year for propaganda against the establishment.\n\nFrench Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian condemned the sentence and demanded her release.\n\nIn October 2020, due to what Sciences-Po called her \"health circumstances\", Adelkhah was released on bail and allowed to return to her home in Tehran.\n\nHowever, Iran's judiciary announced in January 2022 that it had returned Adelkhah to prison, accusing her of \"knowingly violating the limits of house arrest dozens of times\". French President Emmanuel Macron called the decision \"entirely arbitrary\".\n\nIn February 2023, Adelkhah Adelkhah was released from Evin prison after three and a half years in detention.\n\nHowever, Iranian authorities refused to return her identity papers, making it impossible for her to leave the country or resume her work as a researcher.\n\nJamshid Sharmahd with his wife (L) and daughter, Gazelle\n\nSharmahd, 68, who lived in the US, arrived in the United Arab Emirates in July 2020 and was awaiting a connecting flight to India when he disappeared. It is believed that he was kidnapped by Iranian agents in Dubai and then forcibly taken to Iran via Oman.\n\nThe following month, Iran's intelligence ministry announced that it had arrested Sharmahd following a \"complex operation\", without providing any details. It also published a video in which he appeared blindfolded and confessed to various crimes.\n\nIn February 2023, Iran's judiciary said Sharmahd had been sentenced to death by a Revolutionary Court in Tehran after being found guilty of \"spreading corruption on Earth through planning and leading terror operations\".\n\nIt alleged that he was the leader of a terrorist group known as Tondar and that he had \"planned 23 terror attacks\", of which \"five were successful\", including the 2008 bombing of a mosque in Shiraz in that killed 14 people.\n\nTondar - which means \"thunder\" in Persian - is another name of the Kingdom Assembly of Iran (KAI), a little-known US-based opposition group that seeks to restore the monarchy overthrown in the 1979 Islamic Revolution.\n\nAccording to Amnesty International, Sharmahd created a website to publish statements from the KAI, including claims of explosions inside Iran.\n\nHe also read out statements in radio and video broadcasts.\n\nHowever, he denied his involvement in the attacks, saying he was only a spokesman, and rejected all accusations during his trial.\n\nAmnesty said Sharmahd told his family that he had been tortured and subjected to other ill-treatment in detention, including by being held in prolonged solitary confinement.\n\nHe also told them that he had been denied adequate healthcare, with access to medications required for his Parkinson's disease delayed routinely.\n\nIn July, Sharmahd's daughter Gazelle told the BBC that he could be executed at any time.\n\n\"They're killing him softly in solitary confinement in this death cell. But even if he survives that, they're killing him by hanging him from a crane in public,\" she said.\n\nThe accountant was an adviser to the governor of Iran's central bank and was a member of the Iranian negotiating team for the country's 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, in charge of financial issues.\n\nHe was arrested by the Revolutionary Guards in August 2016 just before he was due to board a flight to Canada, and was accused of \"selling the country's economic details to foreigners\".\n\nIn May 2017, a Revolutionary Court in Tehran convicted Dorri Esfahani of espionage charges, including \"collaborating with the British secret service\", and sentenced him to five years in prison.\n\nThat October an appeals court upheld Dorri Esfahani's sentence, despite then-Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi insisting that he was innocent.\n\nDorri Esfahani was due to complete his sentence in 2022, but there were no reports of his release.\n\nDalili is a retired Iranian merchant navy captain who is a US permanent resident.\n\nHe has been detained in Iran since April 2016, when he visited Tehran to attend his father's funeral. He was later convicted of \"collaborating with a hostile state\" and sentenced to 10 years in prison.\n\nIn August 2023, his son, Darian, said he was not part of the prisoner exchange deal between the US and Iran.\n\n\"He feels betrayed. He is demoralized. He believes that the US would bring back anyone that they want to bring back,\" Darian told Reuters news agency.\n\nA US state department spokesman declined to tell reporters why Dalili was not included, but did reveal he had not yet been declared \"wrongfully detained\" - a designation that would mean the department dedicated more resources to their case and assigned it to a presidential envoy.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Darryll Rowe told one of his victims 'I got you. Burn, you have it'\n\nA man has been convicted of trying to infect 10 men with HIV in a \"campaign\" to infect as many as possible.\n\nDaryll Rowe infected five men he had unprotected sex with and sabotaged the condoms of another five in Brighton and Northumberland.\n\nAfter sex with some of the men he texted mocking messages, including \"I have HIV LOL. Oops!\" and \"I'm riddled\".\n\nDuring the trial hairdresser Rowe, 27, claimed to believe months of drinking his own urine cured him of the virus.\n\nHe was convicted at Lewes Crown Court of five counts of causing grievous bodily harm (GBH) and five of attempted GBH.\n\nDaryll Rowe met his partners on dating app Grindr, jurors at Lewes Crown Court were told\n\nDuring the six-week trial the prosecution described Rowe's actions as a \"campaign\" to infect as many men as possible over a four-month period starting in October 2015 across the Brighton area.\n\nHe had relations with eight men he met on dating app Grindr, before moving to Northumberland and having unprotected sex with another two men later in 2016.\n\nSpeaking after the verdict, Nigel Pilkington, deputy chief crown prosecutor in the South East, said he believed there \"may well be more men out there\" who had fallen victim to Rowe, of no fixed address.\n\nThroughout the case Rowe was described as a \"control freak\" who would shift between being charming and \"jealous\".\n\nMr Pilkington said he was a \"cruel and callous man\" whose crimes were \"akin to stabbing or shooting somebody\".\n\nMr Pilkington added: \"The absolute deliberate infection of other men by a man, is not something I've ever come across in 25 years as a prosecutor and I don't expect to ever come across a case like it again.\n\n\"This is a man who, after the event, having known what was he was doing, sent mocking and abusive texts to some of his victims. It must have been traumatic.\"\n\nDeborah Gold, chief executive of the National Aids Trust (NAT), said Rowe's behaviour was \"utterly exceptional and vanishingly rare\".\n\nShe added that the majority of HIV transmissions are by people who are unaware they have the virus.\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, one of Rowe's victims, whose biological parents both had HIV and later died, said the news of his condition drove him to a suicide attempt.\n\n\"I was always so careful,\" he said.\n\n\"My dad was a junkie and she was a very young mother. I was always trying to run away from that lifestyle, That's why I always insisted on condoms.\"\n\nHe added it was a \"reminder of my past\".\n\n\"I feel it's come full-circle, and has made this my new life, which is very unfair,\" he added.\n\n\"[Rowe] called me over and over. He admitted to ripping the condom.\n\n\"He said, 'I got you. Burn, you have it' and he was laughing at me. There was menace in his voice, it was an insane conversation. It was horrific to hear. I was in a dark place.\n\n\"It's a violation. I could only describe it as feeling like you've been raped, not the physical side of it, but the mental side.\"\n\nRowe will be sentenced on 29 January.\n\nDet Insp Andy Wolstenholme of Sussex Police said: \"Daryll Rowe was consistent in lying to his victims about having HIV, he was persistent and aggressive in wanting unprotected sex in order to infect people, and when he didn't get what he wanted, he deliberately damaged condoms to achieve his aim.\n\nAt the end of the trial it emerged two dock officers were sacked after falling asleep while evidence was being given.\n\nLoud snoring disturbed the hearing on 5 October and they were both removed from the proceedings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police say a number of students had to be medically evacuated from the school\n\nA gunman who killed four people on Tuesday in rural California fired into an elementary school but was stopped from entering by teachers, police say.\n\nStaff at Rancho Tehama Reserve School went into lockdown, securing school doors after hearing nearby gunshots.\n\nAuthorities praised the teachers' actions as \"monumental\" in saving \"countless\" lives.\n\nPolice confirmed one child was shot at the school after the gunman fired into it. Others were hurt by broken glass.\n\nPolice later confronted the gunman in a stolen vehicle, shooting and killing him. He was named locally as 43-year-old Kevin Neal.\n\nIt is believed the shooting spree began after a domestic row with the gunman's neighbours in Rancho Tehama, a rural community about 120 miles (195km) from Sacramento, on Tuesday morning.\n\nPolice said they believed he went on a \"bizarre and murderous rampage\" after the dispute escalated and he killed a neighbour.\n\nOfficials confirmed the gunman had \"prior contacts with law enforcement\".\n\nThe Tehama district attorney told the Sacramento Bee he was being prosecuted on charges relating to a stabbing and assault in January in an incident involving two of his neighbours.\n\nHe had also reportedly been the subject of a domestic violence call on the eve of the gun spree.\n\nA semi-automatic rifle and two handguns were recovered from one of the crime scenes, police said. At least 10 people were injured in the shootings at multiple locations.\n\nPolice said he chose most of the victims at random, and reportedly shot into the school but became frustrated after the teachers locked the doors and left after six minutes.\n\nIt is believed the school was alerted after a mother was shot at in her car while driving her children to school. She was reportedly seriously wounded but not killed.\n\nThe child who was shot has undergone surgery after being struck in the leg and chest, reports say. Other children at the school were reportedly injured by broken glass, and some were evacuated from the school and transported to hospital by helicopter.\n\nPolice examine a vehicle that was involved in the string of shootings in Rancho Tehama\n\n\"This individual shooter was bent on engaging and killing people at random. I have to say this incident, as tragic and as bad as it is, could have been so much worse,\" Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston said.\n\nBrian Flint said his neighbour \"has been shooting a lot of bullets lately, hundreds of rounds, large magazines\".\n\n\"We made it aware [to police] that this guy is crazy and he's been threatening us,\" he told the newspaper.\n\nThe rampage is believed to have began at about 08:00 locally\n\nThe Associated Press spoke to a woman who identified herself as Neal's mother, who said he had told her: \"I'm on a cliff and there's nowhere to go.\"\n\nShe said Neal was in a long-running dispute with neighbours who he believed were cooking methamphetamine.\n\nShe added that Neal, who was raised in North Carolina, had been working as a cannabis farmer and had recently married his longtime girlfriend.\n\nHis sister, Sheridan Orr, told the Associated Press that she believed her brother was addicted to drugs, and had struggled with mental illness and a violent temper.\n\n\"We're stunned and we're appalled that this is a person who has no business with firearms whatsoever,\" Ms Orr said.\n\nShe added that she hopes this attack will \"make people realise there must be some gates on people like this from getting guns\".\n\n\"This is the same story we're hearing more and more.\"\n\nPolice have refused to officially confirm the gunman's identity until all his next-of-kin are notified.\n\nUS President Donald Trump was criticised online after he tweeted condolences to the wrong mass shooting.\n\n\"May God be with the people of Sutherland Springs, Texas,\" a post on his account said on Tuesday night, though that shooting happened on 5 November.\n\nThe tweet was deleted by Wednesday morning.", "The Loch Ness monster has had a busy 2017, with more \"official\" sightings than any other year this century.\n\nAdmittedly, the number of official sightings logged is eight, but that's a lot for a mythical beast.\n\nThe eighth sighting is a photo of a strange \"fin\" in the water, taken by Dr Jo Knight from Lancaster University, after a recent visit to the loch.\n\nShe had taken her nine-year-old son to visit Loch Ness because of his interest in the monster.\n\n\"My son is interested in all sorts of 'possible' creatures like yetis and Tasmanian tigers,\" Jo tells Newsbeat.\n\n\"Scotland is slightly easier to get to than the places he wanted to go to look for yetis.\"\n\nBut she doesn't think they spotted a pre-historic animal.\n\n\"There aren't enough fish available for a large creature to be eating,\" she says.\n\n\"However, there is a possibility there might be some kind of eel or sturgeon which is causing the sightings, that's maybe grown bigger than they usually do.\n\n\"I think there's some kind of creature but possibly not a monster.\"\n\nThis famous 1924 \"photo\" of the Loch Ness monster was revealed as a hoax by one of the people who staged it\n\nA woman on her honeymoon in October spotted a creature moving in the water, while a group of friends holidaying in August spotted \"something huge\" in the water which apparently \"arched out of the water\".\n\nThere were three sightings in June, one in May and one in April which were all deemed \"official\" sightings.\n\nThe myth of the Loch Ness Monster has captured the imagination for decades\n\nThese sightings, and many more, are recorded by Gary Campbell who assesses and logs sightings of the Loch Ness monster.\n\n\"This is the most we have had this century,\" he told The Express newspaper this week.\n\nHe says that his team was \"50/50\" on the photo taken by Dr Knight, but they decided to give her snap \"the benefit of the doubt\".\n\n\"In recent years the most sightings in a year we have had is 17 - and that was in 1996.\n\n\"Before that the 1960s and 1930s were the times that had most sightings - sometimes more than 20 in a year.\"\n\nA 9m model of the Loch Ness Monster built in 1969 for a Sherlock Holmes movie was found almost 50 years after it sank in the loch last year.\n\nLoch Ness expert Adrian Shine said the shape, measurements and location pointed to the object being the prop.\n\nFind us on Instagram at BBCNewsbeat and follow us on Snapchat, search for bbc_newsbeat", "Matthew Herbert destroyed some instruments on BBC Radio 3's Between the Ears\n\nA musician who wants to tour Europe to heal the \"huge divisions\" caused by Brexit has been given a grant by the UK Department for International Trade.\n\nMatthew Herbert said he wanted to correct the impression created by Leave campaigners that the UK was \"retreating into an absurd little enclave\".\n\nHe said he wanted to get the message out: \"We are still listening, we want to be friends, we want to collaborate.\"\n\nHerbert has also set Article 50 to music and plans Brexit-themed concerts.\n\nThe experimental musician, who also gets funding from the British Council, is one of 12 artists sharing £181,944 grant money from the department headed by Liam Fox, who was one of the key campaigners for a Leave vote in the UK's 2016 EU referendum.\n\nSo far the department - which aims to promote international trade and is seeking to agree free trade agreements after Brexit - has handed out £2.4m to support British acts in their bid to \"become the next Adele or Ed Sheeran\".\n\nAs well as Matthew Herbert, the twice Mercury prize-nominated Ghostpoet and Public Service Broadcasting have also been named as the latest recipients of the grants under the Music Export Growth Scheme, although the department would not say how much each has received.\n\nHerbert, who was last year commissioned by BBC Radio 3 to deconstruct Beethoven - see the tweet below for how he did it - is known for his use of sampled sounds. On one previous album he chronicled the life cycle of a pig through the noises it made.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 3 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a recent performance at The Barbican, in London, the percussion for one song was provided by ripping up copies of the Daily Mail, according to the Politico website.\n\nHe told the website: \"I want to create something that's the opposite of Brexit - about collaboration, about creativity, about love rather than hate.\"\n\nHe launched his Brexit Big Band project earlier this year with a website that allows anyone to upload three seconds of Brexit-themed noise to form part of a \"sonic petition\".\n\nHe has also set Article 50, the treaty clause taking Britain out of the EU, to music and plans a series of Brexit-themed concerts and workshops culminating in the release of an album at the same moment Britain leaves the EU in March 2019.\n\nWriting on the Brexit Big Band website, Herbert said: \"The message from parts of the Brexit campaign were that as a nation we are better off alone.\n\n\"I refute that idea entirely and wanted to create a project that embodies the idea of collaboration from start to finish.\"\n\nGhostpoet is among the 12 artists to be awarded grant money\n\nGrants under the Music Export Growth Scheme are decided by a panel of music industry executives.\n\nEach artist receives least £5,000, according to the criteria set out by the BPI, which administers the scheme.\n\nApplications are judged on their individual merits, \"not political views\", the department says, and must \"show traction in the UK and their target market as well as having a robust plan for making a success of the international activity\".\n\nTrade and export minister Baroness Fairhead, a former chair of the BBC Trust, said: \"The UK is a world leader in music exports and recognised for its exceptional home-grown talent around the globe.\n\n\"Through the music exports scheme, we help to nurture the talent of the future to explore new global markets.\"", "Ministers have seen off challenges to their authority on the first of eight days of scrutiny of a key Brexit bill.\n\nMPs backed plans to repeal the 1972 European Communities Act, which will end the supremacy of EU law in the UK, by 318 votes to 68.\n\nCalls for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to have a veto over the process were rejected by 318 votes to 52.\n\nBut several Tories criticised plans to specify an exact date for Brexit and hinted they will rebel at a later date.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph reported that up to 15 Conservative MPs could join forces with Labour on the issue when it is voted on next month, threatening defeat for the government.\n\nThe MPs, including a number of former cabinet ministers, are angry at a government plan to enshrine in law the Brexit date and time - 23:00 GMT on 29 March 2019 - as announced by Theresa May last Friday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe newspaper described the group of Tories as \"Brexit mutineers\", but one of those named - ex-business minister Anna Soubry - told MPs the front page was a \"blatant piece of bullying that goes to the very heart of democracy\".\n\nShe said she regarded her inclusion as a badge of honour and insisted \"none of those people named want to delay or thwart Brexit\" but rather sought \"a good Brexit that works for everybody in our country\".\n\nResponding to the Telegraph story, Brexit minister Steve Baker said he regretted \"media attempts to divide the Conservative Party\".\n\nHe tweeted: \"My parliamentary colleagues have sincere suggestions to improve the bill which we are working through and I respect them for that.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAlthough the issue was not formally debated on Tuesday, it dominated the early skirmishes in the Commons as MPs began considering the EU Withdrawal Bill in depth for the first time.\n\nFormer Conservative Attorney General Dominic Grieve said he could not support the \"mad\" proposal which he said would \"fetter\" the government's hands if the negotiations dragged on longer than expected and would prevent any extension to the talks to get a deal in both sides' interests.\n\nAnd former Chancellor Kenneth Clarke signalled he would be opposing the government when the matter came to a vote, telling MPs that - as a pro-European - \"he was the rebel now\" and Eurosceptics in his party now represented the \"orthodoxy\" within his party.\n\nUnder current EU laws, the UK will leave two years to the day after it triggered Article 50, which was on March 29 2017, unless the UK and all 27 other EU members agree to an extension.\n\nLabour said the amendment was therefore a \"desperate gimmick\" that was \"about party management not the national interest\", arguing it increased the chance of the UK crashing out of the bloc without an agreement.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMinisters said being \"crystal clear\" about the precise moment of the UK's departure would maximise certainty for businesses and citizens and prevent the risk of \"legal chaos\".\n\nThe European Union (Withdrawal) Bill is a crucial piece of legislation paving the way for the UK's withdrawal by essentially copying all EU law into UK law.\n\nAfter a marathon eight-hour session, the government also won three votes on clauses and amendments relating to how British courts will interpret retained EU law after the UK leaves and the role of the European Court of Justice during a transition period expected to last about two years.\n\nMinisters did make one concession by agreeing to make a statement to the Commons about how compatible any new Brexit legislation is with existing equalities laws, before they introduce that legislation.\n\nDebate will resume on Wednesday, with MPs expected to consider Labour's calls for guarantees on workers' rights and the environment.\n\nMPs have tabled more than 470 amendments - running to 186 pages - for changes they want to see before the bill is passed into law by both the Commons and the Lords.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What's going on with the EU Withdrawal Bill?\n\nBrexit Secretary David Davis, who did not speak in Tuesday's debate, earlier told City executives that he hoped to get agreement on a time-limited Brexit implementation phase \"very early next year\".\n\nHe told an audience at the Swiss investment bank UBS that he envisaged a new partnership with the EU that protects the mobility of workers and professionals across the continent.\n\nThe BBC's business editor Simon Jack said his assurances may come too late for some companies which have already begun to trigger their contingency plans.", "Anti-gun violence demonstrators outside the the National Rifle Association in Washington DC\n\nAbout 1,300 US children under the age of 17 die from gun-related injuries per year, a government study has found.\n\nResearchers at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) also found that guns seriously wounded about 5,800 children each year.\n\nBoys accounted for 82% of all child firearm deaths while black children were 10 times more likely to be killed by a gun, according to the study.\n\nMore than half of these deaths were homicides while 38% were ruled suicide.\n\nThe study, published in Pediatrics on Monday, also found 6% of firearm-related deaths were fatalities from accidental gun injuries.\n\n\"Firearm injuries are a leading cause of death among US children aged one to 17 years and contribute substantially each year to premature death, illness and disability of children,\" said CDC's Katherine Fowler, who led the study.\n\n\"About 19 children a day die or are medically treated in an emergency department for a gunshot wound in the US,\" she told Reuters.\n\nCDC researchers examined national data in what they describe as \"the most comprehensive examination of current firearm-related deaths and injuries among children in the United States to date\".\n\nThe study found a 60% increase in gun suicides from 2007-15, according an analysis of national injury records.\n\nSuicide was most likely to occur when children were dealing with stressful circumstances or relationship problems with a boyfriend, girlfriend or family member, the study revealed.\n\nWhite children and Native American children were four to five times more likely to die by firearm suicide.\n\nAccidental gun deaths appeared to happen most frequently among children playing with firearms.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Obama told the BBC that gun control was his biggest frustration\n\nThe study comes as a four-year-old Pennsylvania boy shot himself in the face and died on Sunday.\n\nPolice in Monroe County have not charged anyone in the boy's death.\n\nLexie Antonini, the boy's 21-year-old mother and volunteer firefighter, said she didn't \"know how to feel\".\n\n\"I never thought I would see the day i would get the news my only son has passed away...my poor baby,\" she wrote in a Facebook post.\n\n\"I don't know how to feel. I don't know what to do. I lost my everything,\"\n\nThe CDC analysis also looked at deaths on a state level and found District of Columbia and Louisiana to have the highest rates of child firearm deaths.\n\nDelaware, Hawaii, Maine and New Hampshire had 20 or fewer child gun-related deaths, according to the study.\n\nResearchers also pointed out that children were rarely injured or killed by guns in other developed countries.\n\nIn fact, more than 90% of all children ages 14 and up who were killed by guns in high-income countries resided in the US.", "Indulgent grandparents may be having an adverse impact on their grandchildren's health, say researchers.\n\nThe University of Glasgow study, published in PLOS One journal, suggests grandparents are often inclined to treat and overfeed children.\n\nThe study also found some were smoking in front of their grandchildren and not giving them sufficient exercise.\n\nBut Maureen Lipman, a grandmother of two, said: \"The grandparents' job is always definitely to indulge.\"\n\nThe researchers looked at 56 studies with data from 18 countries, including the UK, US, China and Japan.\n\nThe report focused on the potential influence of grandparents who were significant - but not primary - caregivers in a child's early years.\n\nThe review considered three key areas of influence:\n\nIn terms of both diet and weight, the report concluded that grandparents' behaviour had an adverse effect.\n\nGrandparents were characterised by parents as \"indulgent\" and \"misinformed\", and accused of using food as an emotional tool.\n\nMany studies found they were inclined to feed grandchildren high-sugar or high-fat foods - often in the guise of a treat.\n\nParents felt unable to interfere because they were reliant on grandparents helping them out.\n\nThe study also found that grandchildren were perceived to be getting too little exercise while under the care of their grandparents.\n\nPhysical activity levels appeared to be related to whether grandparents were active themselves, or whether there was appropriate space where children could be active.\n\nBut actress Maureen Lipman said there was a big difference between grandparents who looked after their grandchildren everyday compared to those who see them at the weekends.\n\n\"If you're seeing them once a week you're going to overindulge but if you work with them every day, you're going to treat them as your own children,\" she said.\n\nShe keeps turkey dinosaurs in the freezer for her grandchildren Ava and Sacha and likes giving them ice cream with jelly.\n\n\"I try with the vegetables and fail,\" she said. \"You can't train other people's children.\"\n\n\"The grandparents' job is kind of to be in cahoots with the grandchildren against the parents.\"\n\nShe said being a mother could be \"quite challenging\", but being a grandmother was \"just pure pleasure\".\n\nMs Lipman said: \"It's a walking miracle that you've brought something into the world that's brought something into the world.\"\n\nShe's also conscious of an \"unspoken rivalry\".\n\n\"There are two sets of grandparents - and you don't want to be the one that isn't giving them the nice piece of cake.\"\n\nIn the study, smoking around the children, even when they had been asked not to, became an area of conflict between grandparents and parents.\n\nConversely, in certain cases, the birth of a grandchild became a catalyst to a grandparent giving up smoking - or changing their habits.\n\nLead researcher Dr Stephanie Chambers said: \"From the studies we looked at, it appears that parents often find it difficult to discuss the issues of passive smoking and over-treating grandchildren.\n\n\"While the results of this review are clear that behaviour such as exposure to smoking and regularly treating children increases cancer risks as children grow into adulthood, it is also clear from the evidence that these risks are unintentional.\n\n\"Given that many parents now rely on grandparents for care, the mixed messages about health that children might be getting is perhaps an important discussion that needs to be had.\"\n\nAccording to Grandparents Plus, grandparents are \"the largest provider of informal childcare\" in the UK and they need to be \"better recognised and supported\".\n\nThe charity's chief executive, Lucy Peake, said: \"Grandparents want the best for their grandchildren, and the more they're informed and enabled to play a positive role in their grandchildren's lives the better things will be.\n\n\"We know that children benefit enormously from having close relationships with their grandparents right through childhood into adolescence.\n\n\"What this study shows is that the role they're playing in children's lives needs to be better recognised and supported.\n\n\"We'd like to see more focus on ensuring that information available to parents about children's health reaches grandparents too.\"\n\nProf Linda Bauld, from Cancer Research UK, which part-funded the study, said: \"With both smoking and obesity being the two biggest preventable causes of cancer in the UK, it's important for the whole family to work together.\n\n\"If healthy habits begin early in life, it's much easier to continue them as an adult.\"", "Tony Blair pulled out of talks to fund Robert Mugabe's controversial land reforms in 1997\n\nBritain's relationship with Zimbabwe has always been complex.\n\nA former imperial power can feel torn between a responsibility towards its ex-colony and a reluctance to interfere in what is now an independent state. And a freshly minted nation can feel resentment towards its former ruler while also hoping to maintain longstanding trade and cultural links.\n\nThus it has been for London and Harare.\n\nTake, for example, President Mugabe. For years, he has railed against Britain and its political leaders as they opposed his disastrous land reforms, his persecution of white farmers and his calamitous management of Zimbabwe's economy.\n\nBut Mr Mugabe is also an Anglophile who loves cricket, the Royal Family and Savile Row suits.\n\nHe developed a surprising friendship with Lord Soames, the last British governor of what was then Rhodesia, whose son, Nicholas, the Conservative MP, he saw only a few weeks ago.\n\nAnd when Mr Mugabe's cabinet colleagues were celebrating the fall of Margaret Thatcher in 1990, he rebuked them, reportedly saying: \"Who organised our independence? Let me tell you - if it hadn't been for Mrs Thatcher none of you would be here today. I'm sorry she's gone.\"\n\nZimbabwe began life as a colony of the British South African Company in the late 19th Century, run by the British empire-builder, Cecil Rhodes.\n\nIn the 1920s, Southern Rhodesia, as it was then known, was annexed by the United Kingdom but with an element of self-government. The white minority ruled for decades, but were increasingly challenged by nationalist campaigners.\n\nEventually, in 1965, the government led by Ian Smith unilaterally declared independence from Britain. UDI, as it was known, prompted international outrage and sanctions.\n\nYears of guerrilla warfare in the bush led to pressure for a negotiated settlement in Rhodesia, and, in 1979, Britain hosted all-party talks at Lancaster House in London. And from this process emerged a peace agreement, a new constitution and a former guerrilla fighter and leader called Robert Mugabe - the first prime minister of a newly independent Zimbabwe.\n\nRobert Mugabe has said he trusted Margaret Thatcher - in contrast to Tony Blair\n\nEven then, Britain's relations with Mr Mugabe were ambiguous.\n\nPoliticians and diplomats at the time placed a huge amount of faith in him as exactly the kind of strong, pro-western leader that Zimbabwe would need to embed its new-found independence and democracy. But he nevertheless was still able to wind them up.\n\nLord Carrington, Britain's foreign secretary who chaired the Lancaster House talks, described him as \"devious and clever, he was the archetypal cold fish\". On a dull moment in the talks, Lord Carrington rejoiced with glee when he discovered that Mugabe reads backwards as \"E ba gum\".\n\nLord Hurd, another British foreign secretary, told The Africa Report that: \"Mugabe was one of those people the British Empire created who specialised in knowing how to twist the British government's tail. He was well-trained in the art of annoying the British if he needed to. He knew our ways.\"\n\nAt first, Britain was hopeful about Zimbabwe's prospects. And normal relations were maintained.\n\nThe Princess of Wales visited Mr Mugabe in Harare in 1993. The England cricket team, led by Michael Atherton, played Zimbabwe in Harare in 1996.\n\nBut over the decades of Mr Mugabe's rule, as the country slipped into greater autocracy and economic decline, relations deteriorated.\n\nIn 1997, Tony Blair's government pulled out of talks to fund Mr Mugabe's controversial land reforms. The Zimbabwean president accused the British of meddling in his country's affairs by funding his political opponents.\n\nBritain began to withdraw development aid and sanctions were imposed on the president and his inner circle.\n\nCampaigners such as Peter Tatchell would protest regularly against Mr Mugabe's homophobia outside the hotel in St James' where the president stayed on his frequent visits to London.\n\nYet through all this, Mr Mugabe still hoped Britain might help revive his country's ailing economy. As he told a crowd a few years ago when he was celebrating his 90th birthday: \"The British, we don't hate you, we only love our country better.\"", "Zimbabwe's ruling party has accused the country's army chief of \"treasonable conduct\" after he warned of a possible military intervention in politics.\n\nGeneral Constantino Chiwenga had challenged President Robert Mugabe after he sacked the vice-president.\n\nGen Chiwenga said the army was prepared to act to end purges within Mr Mugabe's Zanu-PF party.\n\nThe party said the general's comments were \"calculated to disturb national peace... [and] incite insurrection\".\n\nIn a statement, the party said it would never succumb to military threats, and that it \"reaffirms the primacy of politics over the gun\".\n\nThe statement was signed by SK Moyo, the information secretary, on party letterheaded paper.\n\nThe US State Department urged all parties in Zimbabwe to resolve disputes \"calmly and peacefully\" and said it was \"closely monitoring\" the situation.\n\nMr Mnangagwa had previously been seen as an heir to the 93-year-old president, but First Lady Grace Mugabe is now the clear front-runner.\n\nOn Tuesday, BBC correspondents reported that a few armoured vehicles had been seen on a main public road outside the capital city, Harare, having left one of the country's main military barracks, Inkomo.\n\nIt is not clear where they were heading but they were not seen on the streets of the city itself. One of the vehicles had broken down on the side of the road.\n\nIt was not clear where the armoured vehicles near Harare were headed\n\nThe Zimbabwean ambassador to South Africa, Isaac Moyo, told Reuters that the government was \"intact\" and dismissed any talk of a possible coup as \"just social media claims\".\n\nGen Chiwenga's warning of possible military intervention came on Monday at a news conference at the army's headquarters.\n\nHe said the \"purging\" within Zanu-PF was \"clearly targeting members of the party with a liberation background\", referring to the country's struggle for independence.\n\n\"We must remind those behind the current treacherous shenanigans that when it comes to matters of protecting our revolution, the military will not hesitate to step in,\" he said.\n\nMr Mnangagwa is one such veteran of the 1970s war which led to independence.\n\nGrace Mugabe is seen as a potential successor to her elderly husband\n\nBut the leader of Zanu-PF's youth wing, Kudzai Chipanga, said the general did not have the full support of the entire military.\n\n\"We will not sit and fold hands while threats are made against a legitimately-elected government,\" he warned.\n\nThe youth wing supports President Mugabe's wife, Grace, as his successor - something which the former vice president had opposed.\n\nMr Mnangagwa had told Mr Mugabe that Zanu-PF is \"not personal property for you and your wife to do as you please\" before he was forced into exile.", "Heat waves will cause most weather-related deaths if measures are not taken, the study says\n\nExtreme weather could kill up to 152,000 people yearly in Europe by 2100 if nothing is done to curb the effects of climate change, scientists say.\n\nThe number is 50 times more deaths than reported now, the study in The Lancet Planetary Health journal said.\n\nHeat waves would cause 99% of all weather-related deaths, it added, with southern Europe being worst affected.\n\nExperts said the findings were worrying but some warned the projections could be overestimated.\n\nIf nothing is done to cut greenhouse gas emissions and to improve policies to reduce the impact against extreme weather events, the study by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre says:\n\nThe research analysed the effects of the seven most dangerous types of weather-related events - heat waves, cold snaps, wildfires, droughts, river and coastal floods and windstorms - in the 28 EU countries as well as Switzerland, Norway and Iceland.\n\nThe team looked at disaster records from 1981 to 2010 to estimate population vulnerability, and combined this information with predictions of how climate change might progress and how populations might increase and migrate.\n\nThey assumed a rate of greenhouse gas emissions that would lead to average global warming of 3C (5.4F) by the end of the century from levels in 1990, a pessimistic forecast well above targets set by the Paris Agreement on tackling climate change.\n\nLow levels of the Po River near Pavia in northern Italy\n\n\"Climate change is one of the biggest global threats to human health of the 21st century, and its peril to society will be increasingly connected to weather-driven hazards,\" said Giovanni Forzieri, one of the authors of the study.\n\n\"Unless global warming is curbed as a matter of urgency and appropriate measures are taken, about 350 million Europeans could be exposed to harmful climate extremes on an annual basis by the end of the century.\"\n\nFlooding near the Bavarian village of Deggendorf in southern Germany in 2013\n\nFire rages through an area of woodland in Artigues in south-eastern France\n\nOn Friday, the United States issued its first written notification to the UN of its intention to withdraw from the 2015 Paris climate agreement.\n\nUS President Donald Trump drew international condemnation in June when he first announced his decision, saying the deal would cost millions of American jobs.\n\nThe Paris Agreement saw nearly 200 countries agree to keep warming \"well below\" the level of 2C (3.6F) above pre-industrial times and \"endeavour to limit\" them even more, to 1.5C\n\nExperts from South Korea's Seoul National University warned that the study's results \"could be overestimated\".\n\n\"People are known to adapt and become less vulnerable than previously to extreme weather conditions because of advances in medical technology, air conditioning, and thermal insulation in houses,\" they wrote in a comment piece published in the same journal.\n\nPaul Wilkinson, a professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who was not involved in the study, said the findings were \"yet another reminder of the exposures to extreme weather and possible human impacts that might occur if emissions of greenhouse gases continue unabated.\n\n\"It adds further weight to the powerful argument for accelerating mitigation actions to protect population health.\"", "The army took over the national broadcaster, but denied it was staging a coup.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband said \"she was just a mum on holiday\"\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman being held in Iran, has seen a specialist after finding lumps in her breasts, her husband has said.\n\nRichard Ratcliffe also expressed concern that his wife appeared to be \"on the verge of a nervous breakdown\".\n\nShe was arrested during a visit to Iran in April 2016, accused of trying to overthrow the regime, which she denies.\n\nCabinet ministers Boris Johnson and Michael Gove have been accused of bungling the UK's handling of the case.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's family have issued a statement about her condition, saying she had been \"complaining of sharp stabbing pains in her breasts\" for more than a year.\n\nThey said she had been given a mammogram by the prison's gynaecologist, which gave an inconclusive result.\n\nAfter insisting on seeing an outside specialist, the family said Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was then taken to hospital for an ultrasound on Saturday.\n\nThey said although the doctor thought the lumps were likely to be benign, he did note her family having a history of breast cancer.\n\nShe was given anti-inflammatory medication and vitamin pills and was to be seen by the specialist again next week to see whether there was any improvement or whether she might need surgery, the family said.\n\nThe full details of the allegations against Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe have never been made fully public.\n\nShe maintains the purpose of her trip to Iran was to visit family and for her daughter to meet her grandparents but speaking in Westminster on 1 November, UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson appeared to contradict her account when he wrongly said she had been training journalists there.\n\nFour days later, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was recalled to court in Iran and his remark cited as evidence against her, prompting fears her five-year sentence could be extended.\n\nHowever, her family say there have been no developments on new charges against her since her court appearance. Her lawyer also says he has not been contacted by the Iranian judiciary.\n\nIn the statement her husband, Richard Ratcliffe, describes his earlier phone conversation with Mr Johnson and says the minister is trying to find time to meet him \"in the next few days\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove says Richard Ratcliffe was the person who would know what his wife was doing in Iran\n\nIt came after Environment Secretary Michael Gove told the BBC he did not know what Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been doing in Iran when she was arrested.\n\nHe later said he would \"take her husband's assurance\" that she was on holiday.\n\nAmid calls for his resignation over the matter, the foreign secretary earlier this week clarified that the UK government had \"no doubt\" that a holiday was the sole purpose of her visit to Iran.\n\nMr Ratcliffe said his wife had been angered by Mr Johnson's initial remarks and Iranian media coverage of her case.\n\nBut he restated his belief that it was not in Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's interests for anyone to resign.", "Flyboarder James Prestwood is able to soar above the water with the aid of a jet ski and a lengthy hose.\n\nHe recently finished second in his first Flyboarding competition in Italy and now he's hoping to turn his hobby into a full-time job.", "Greggs the bakers has apologised for swapping Jesus for a sausage roll in a promotional image for its advent calendar.\n\nIt shows a nativity scene with three wise men gathered around a pastry instead of Christ.\n\nChristian Twitter users said the advert was disrespectful to their religion.\n\n\"I'm glad Christians kicked off and Greggs apologised,\" wrote one Twitter user. \"No other religion would stand for that nonsense.\"\n\nOther people joined in calls for organisations to \"respect all faiths equally\".\n\nGreggs has apologised for the image, saying it hadn't planned to upset anyone.\n\n\"We're really sorry to have caused any offence, this was never our intention,\" the firm said in a statement.\n\nThe image was issued to promote a £24 advent calendar which has vouchers to spend in its stores behind each door.\n\nThe Greggs advent calendar celebrates 24 days of pasties, pies and other baked goods\n\nThe UK Evangelical Alliance tell Newsbeat it is \"not too outraged\" about the Greggs nativity scene, but that it does raise issues of companies using the Bible story to sell products.\n\n\"Every year some company creates a Christmas controversy for commercial gain. It seems to get earlier each year,\" says Daniel Webster, spokesperson for the organisation.\n\nHe says Jesus is what should be the focus of Christmas celebrations, not advent calendars and marketing to sell sausage rolls.\n\n\"That's the scandal that should be talked about this Christmas, not processed outrage to sell processed food.\"\n\nFind us on Instagram at BBCNewsbeat and follow us on Snapchat, search for bbc_newsbeat", "The newly appointed Gay Times editor Josh Rivers has been suspended over offensive tweets he posted in the past.\n\nThe tweets, some of which have now been deleted, have been described as racist, transphobic, homophobic and anti-Semitic.\n\nMr Rivers, who has since apologised, also made remarks about obese people and children with disabilities.\n\nThe magazine said the tweets \"do not align with the values of Gay Times, or any of our employees\".\n\nIt added: \"Josh has been suspended with immediate effect while we investigate the facts. Appropriate action will be taken in due course.\"\n\nRivers was appointed editor in October. In a statement he said: \"I have long taken steps to address the issues that prevented me from treating people with the respect and kindness I value so dearly now.\n\n\"It is because of my past and my own awakening that I've since pivoted everything in my life towards supporting and empowering our community.\"\n\nHe expressed sadness that \"the damage I caused before has now resurfaced to cause more pain\".\n\nBenjamin Cohen, Chief Executive of LGBT news organisation PinkNews, told the BBC: \"I am frankly appalled at the litany of offensive Twitter posts that Josh Rivers made over a number of years.\n\n\"It is beyond surprising that the level of inappropriate and hurtful comments were not uncovered by Gay Times during the recruitment process for the appointment of the key role of editor.\n\n\"As someone who for many years wrote a column for Gay Times, I'm saddened that what was a great institution has had its brand so recklessly damaged by someone who was in office for just a few weeks.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "President Mugabe's ties to the military date from the liberation struggle\n\nZimbabwe's military says its actions do not amount to a takeover. It still refers to Robert Mugabe as the commander-in-chief of the country's defence forces. But practically speaking, Mr Mugabe is not in charge if his forces can step in to usurp his authority.\n\nThis is not a coup d'état in name, but it appears to be in action.\n\nThe military takeover of the national broadcaster, the presence of troops on the streets and major access points, and even forced entry into the presidential palace are traits of a military takeover - at least as we have seen them in Africa.\n\nOne thing that is lacking is that the constitution has not been suspended.\n\nThe cementing of democracy across Africa has led to a general regional and continent-wide aversion to violent takeovers of government.\n\nEven in the past, coup-stagers often promised a quick handover to civilian government through elections or a negotiated transition.\n\nThe military says it has not taken control of the country\n\nSo far in Zimbabwe, the military is not showing any intention of assuming a governing role.\n\nHowever, it has someone it would prefer to do that. Emmerson Mnangagwa, the recently sacked vice-president, is held in high regard in Zimbabwean military circles.\n\nHe was involved in the struggle for independence, and in 1980 created the Zimbabwe National Army by fusing the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) and Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (Zanla) with the remnants of the former Rhodesian security forces.\n\nHe was seen as the natural successor for the top office.\n\nPresident Mugabe sacked Mr Mnangagwa last week at the prompting of the First Lady Grace Mugabe, who has political aspirations and has publicly opposed the former vice president, but does not have support within a military where the liberation legacy is held in high esteem.\n\nThe top military officials were part of the liberation struggle, like their comrade and president Mr Mugabe, so they have supported his government over the years because he has served their interests.\n\nThey did not act this way in 2014, when Mr Mugabe sacked his previous Vice President Joice Mujuru, a former independence fighter, in a similar power struggle.\n\nThis time though, there is a sense the president might have gone too far.\n\nGen Chiwenga said that the military would not allow the purging of leaders with a liberation background from the governing party\n\nEarlier this week, the commander of Zimbabwe's Defence Forces, General Constantino Chiwenga, warned the Zanu-PF governing party to stop the purge against independence war veterans.\n\nFollowing his dismissal and escape to South Africa, Mr Mnangagwa promised to return to regain control of the ruling party from the Mugabes.\n\nThis suggested his confidence in the support he had from the military.\n\nSo the next step would be to negotiate his return ahead of the party congress in December, where he could be affirmed as the president's successor.\n\nAt worst, the military will force Mr Mugabe to resign - but they will not want to humiliate him further because of the history they share.\n\nThey will also extend the courtesy to Grace Mugabe, in spite of her recent actions.\n\nPrior suggestions that the armed forces were divided have not been revealed so far this week.\n\nThe rise of an opposing faction would probably be bloody, and not something Zimbabweans would like to see, regardless of how tough life has been in recent years.\n\nThe end of the Mugabe era would be a relief to many, but Mr Mnangagwa is not necessarily popular in all parts of the country.\n\nUnder his tenure as security minister in the early 1980s, government forces crushed a rebellion in the Midlands and Matebeleland province, and allegedly killed thousands of civilians.\n\nThere is still bitter resentment among people from the affected regions.", "The National Cyber Security Centre said the UK's energy sector had been targeted\n\nOne of the UK's cyber-defence chiefs has accused Russia of having attacked Britain's media, telecommunications and energy sectors over the past year.\n\nCiaran Martin, chief executive of GCHQ's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), added that Russia was \"seeking to undermine the international system\".\n\nHis comments were made at an event organised by the Times newspaper.\n\nAhead of the speech, the paper reported that one of the attacks had targeted the UK's power supply on election day.\n\nThe Russian Embassy in London said it was concerned the assertions were misleading.\n\nThe NCSC was established about a year ago. Last month, it revealed that it had already classed a total of 590 attacks - from a variety of perpetrators - as being \"significant\", and that more than 30 incidents had been judged serious enough to require a cross-government response.\n\nMr Martin's accusations follow Prime Minister Theresa May's own claim that Russia had \"mounted a sustained campaign of cyber-espionage and disruption\".\n\nThe NCSC chief referenced this in his own speech.\n\n\"The prime minister made the point on Monday night - international order as we know it is in danger of being eroded,\" he said.\n\n\"This is clearly a cause for concern and the NCSC is actively engaging with international partners, industry and civil society to tackle this threat.\"\n\nHowever, Russia has suggested the accusations are \"non-transparent and biased\".\n\n\"We would be interested in finding out the details and seeing the original findings on which the statements are based,\" the country's London embassy said.\n\n\"It would be most unfortunate to see [Britain] informed by wrong intelligence.\"\n\nThe London-based National Cyber Security Centre was launched in October 2016\n\nTo coincide with its event, the Times also published details of a new study into how Russia used Twitter to influence 2016's Brexit referendum.\n\nThe research indicates that more than 156,000 Russia-based accounts - many of them automated bots - mentioned #Brexit in original posts or retweets in the days surrounding the vote.\n\nMany were in favour of the UK leaving the European Union, but a minority were pro-Remain. The academics involved believed the posts were seen hundreds of millions of times.\n\nOne of the researchers told the BBC that social media was providing Russia with a relatively cheap way to spread its propaganda.\n\n\"Ukraine experienced [a similar] information war in 2014 - and if it worked in Ukraine it can also work in Western democracies,\" said Prof Sasha Talavera from Swansea University.\n\n\"One can use it to split society and marginalise groups. Social media nowadays is a powerful tool.\"\n\nHe added that some form of regulation of the large social media firms might now be required.\n\nThe Guardian reports details of a separate University of Edinburgh study that also presents evidence of Russia using Twitter to sway opinion in the lead-up to the Brexit vote.\n\nThe Kremlin has previously denied trying to meddle in the referendum.\n\nBut the chairman of the Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee, Damian Collins, said he now wanted Twitter to share examples of tweets linked to a Russian \"troll factory\", known as the Internet Research Agency, about British politics.\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 163 carat diamond was the largest of its kind to go under the hammer\n\nA diamond necklace featuring a flawless 163-carat diamond - the largest of its kind to be auctioned - has fetched $33.7m (£25.6m) at a Christie's event in Geneva.\n\nThe colourless diamond was taken from a 404-carat stone found in Angola.\n\nThe finished piece is made from white gold, diamond and emeralds.\n\nThe necklace was designed by Swiss jewellery maker de Grisogono and took more than 1,700 hours to make, Christie's said.\n\nIt went under the hammer at Geneva's Four Seasons Hotel following a series of public viewings in Hong Kong, London, Dubai and New York.\n\nThe necklace, named The Art of de Grisogono, sold for $33.5m - $29.5m plus $4m premium - exceeding pre-sale predictions of $30m.\n\nThe buyer's identity has not been revealed.", "A look inside Yemen's internally displaced persons camp. Mansaya, a mother who travelled 24 hours to reach the camp describes the conditions, telling the BBC that: \"We have nothing\".", "Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, the man known as \"the crocodile\" because of his political cunning, achieved a long-held ambition to succeed Robert Mugabe as Zimbabwe's president in November last year.\n\nHe has now won a disputed presidential election to legitimise his rule, promising voters his efforts to woo foreign investors will bring back the economy from the brink of collapse.\n\nMr Mugabe resigned following a military takeover and mass demonstrations - all sparked by his sacking of Mr Mnangagwa as his vice-president.\n\n\"The crocodile\", who lived up to his name and snapped back, may have unseated Zimbabwe's only ruler, but he is also associated with some of the worst atrocities committed under the ruling Zanu-PF party since independence in 1980.\n\nOne veteran of the liberation struggle, who worked with him for many years, once put it simply: \"He's a very cruel man, very cruel.\"\n\nBut his children see him as a principled, if unemotional, man. His daughter, Farai Mlotshwa - a property developer and the eldest of his nine children by two wives - told BBC Radio 4 that he was a \"softie\".\n\nAs if to reinforce this softer image of the new leader, a cuddly crocodile soft toy was passed among the Zanu-PF supporters who welcomed him back to the country after Mr Mugabe's resignation.\n\nEmmerson Mnangagwa is known as \"Ngwena\", the Shona word for crocodile\n\nAnd what he lacks in charisma and oratory prowess, he makes up for in pragmatism, says close friend and Zanu-PF politician Josiah Hungwe.\n\n\"Mnangagwa is a practical person. He is a person who recognises that politics is politics but people must eat,\" he told the BBC, adding that reforming Zimbabwe's disastrous economy will be the focus of his leadership.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emmerson Mnangagwa: Who is the man known as the ‘crocodile’?\n\nThe exact year of Mr Mnangagwa's birth is not known - but he is thought to be 75, which would make him nearly 20 years younger than his predecessor who left power aged 93.\n\nBorn in the central region of Zvishavane, he is a Karanga - the largest clan of Zimbabwe's majority Shona community.\n\nSome Karangas felt it was their turn for power, following 37 years of domination by Mr Mugabe's Zezuru clan, though Mr Mnangagwa was accused of profiting while under Mr Mugabe.\n\nAccording to a United Nations report in 2001, he was seen as \"the architect of the commercial activities of Zanu-PF\".\n\nThis largely related to the operations of the Zimbabwean army and businessmen in the Democratic Republic of Congo.\n\nZimbabwean troops intervened in the DR Congo conflict on the side of the government and, like those of other countries, were accused of using the conflict to loot some of its rich natural resources such as diamonds, gold and other minerals.\n\nMore recently military officials - many behind his rise to power - have been accused of benefiting from the rich Marange diamond fields in eastern Zimbabwe, with reports of killings and human rights abuses there.\n\nDespite his money-raising role, Mr Mnangagwa, a lawyer who grew up in Zambia, was not always well-loved by the rank and file of his own party.\n\nA Zanu-PF official posed an interesting question when asked about Mr Mnangagwa's prospects: \"You think Mugabe is bad, but have you thought that whoever comes after him could be even worse?\"\n\nThe opposition candidate who defeated Mr Mnangagwa in the 2000 parliamentary campaign in Kwekwe Central, Blessing Chebundo, might agree.\n\nDuring a bitter campaign, Mr Chebundo escaped death by a whisker when the Zanu-PF youths who had abducted him and doused him with petrol were unable to light a match.\n\nThose who fought in Zimbabwe's war of independence have long monopolised power\n\nMr Mnangagwa's fearsome reputation was made during the civil war which broke out in the 1980s between Mr Mugabe's Zanu party and the Zapu party of Joshua Nkomo.\n\nAs national security minister, he was in charge of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), which worked hand in glove with the army to suppress Zapu.\n\nThousands of civilians - mainly ethnic Ndebeles, seen as Zapu supporters - were killed in a campaign known as Gukurahundi, before the two parties merged to form Zanu-PF.\n\nAmong countless other atrocities carried out by the North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade of the army, villagers were forced at gunpoint to dance on the freshly dug graves of their relatives and chant pro-Mugabe slogans.\n\nMr Mnangagwa has denied any role in the massacres, but the wounds are still painful and many party officials, not to mention voters, in Matabeleland might find it hard to back Mr Mnangagwa.\n\nHe does enjoy the support of many of the war veterans who led the campaign of violence against the white farmers and the opposition from 2000.\n\nThey remember him as one of the men who, following his military training in China and Egypt, directed the fight for independence in the 1960s and 1970s.\n\nHe also attended the Beijing School of Ideology, run by the Chinese Communist Party.\n\nMr Mnangagwa's official profile says he was the victim of state violence after being arrested by the white-minority government in the former Rhodesia in 1965, when the \"crocodile gang\" he led helped blow up a train near Fort Victoria (now Masvingo).\n\n\"He was tortured, severely resulting in him losing his sense of hearing in one ear,\" the profile says.\n\n\"Part of the torture techniques involved being hanged with his feet on the ceiling and the head down. The severity of the torture made him unconscious for days.\"\n\nAs he said he was under 21 at the time, he was not executed but instead sentenced to 10 years in prison.\n\n\"He has scars from that period. He was young and brave,\" a close friend of Mr Mnangagwa once said, asking not to be named.\n\n\"Perhaps that explains why he is indifferent. Horrible things happened to him when he was young.\"\n\nHis ruthlessness, which it could be argued he learnt from his Rhodesian torturers, is said to have been seen again in 2008 when he reportedly masterminded Zanu-PF's response to Mr Mugabe losing the first round of the president election to long-time rival Morgan Tsvangirai.\n\nThe military and state security organisations unleashed a campaign of violence against opposition supporters, leaving hundreds dead and forcing thousands from their homes.\n\nMr Tsvangirai then pulled out of the second round and Mr Mugabe was re-elected.\n\nMr Mnangagwa has not commented on allegations he was involved in planning the violence, but an insider in the party's security department later confirmed that he was the political link between the army, intelligence and Zanu-PF.\n\nHe was seen as Mr Mugabe's right-hand man - that is until the former first lady Grace Mugabe became politically ambitious and tried to edge him out.\n\nTheir rivalry took a bizarre turn when he fell ill in August 2017 at a political rally led by former President Mugabe and had to be airlifted to South Africa.\n\nGrace Mugabe (right) bit off more than she could chew by taking on Mr Mnangagwa\n\nHis supporters suggested that a rival group within Zanu-PF had poisoned him and appeared to blame ice cream from Mrs Mugabe's dairy firm.\n\nIn his first words to cheering supporters after Mr Mugabe's resignation, he spoke about this plot and another plan to \"eliminate\" him.\n\nHe has also blamed a group linked to the former first lady for an explosion in June at a Zanu-PF rally in Bulawayo in which two people died.\n\nBut in a BBC interview, he said the country was safe, told foreign investors not to worry and sought to dispel his ruthless reputation: \"I am as soft as wool. I am a very soft person in life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mnangagwa: Criminal will be hounded down, but Zimbabwe is safe\n\nHis youngest son, a Harare DJ known as St Emmo, blames his reticence for his fearsome reputation.\n\n\"He was a good father, very very strict. He doesn't say much and I think that's what frightens people - like: 'What is he thinking?'\"\n\nNick Mangwana, Zanu-PF representative in the UK, accepts that the Zimbabwe's new leader is \"not the most eloquent\".\n\n\"He's not pally-pally but more of a do-er, more of a technocrat.\"\n\nBut in his six months in power he has fully embraced Twitter and Facebook - after the Bulawayo blast he posted a message reiterating the strength his Christian faith gives him.\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 Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa 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\nFixing the economy is what is paramount now. Zimbabweans are on average 15% poorer now than they were in the 1980s.\n\nBritish journalist Martin Fletcher, who interviewed Mr Mnangagwa in 2016, does not see him a reborn democrat.\n\n\"He understands the need to rebuild the economy if only so that he can pay his security forces - and his survival depends on their loyalty,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRobert Mugabe, the man who became synonymous with Zimbabwe, has resigned as president after 37 years in power.\n\nFor some, he will always remain a hero who brought independence and an end to white-minority rule. Even those who forced him out blamed his wife and \"criminals\" around him.\n\nBut to his growing number of critics, this highly educated, wily politician became the caricature of an African dictator, who destroyed an entire country in order to keep his job.\n\nIn the end, it was the security forces, who had been instrumental in intimidating the opposition and keeping him in power, who made him go.\n\nThey were incensed when he sacked his long-time ally, Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, paving the way for his much younger wife Grace to succeed him, fearing it meant the end for them as the powers behind the throne.\n\nHe had survived numerous previous crises and predictions of his demise but with his powers failing at the age of 93, his former comrades-in-arms turned on him, favouring Mr Mnangagwa.\n\nBefore the 2008 elections, Mr Mugabe said: \"If you lose an election and are rejected by the people, it is time to leave politics.\"\n\nBut after coming second to Morgan Tsvangirai, Mr Mugabe displayed more characteristic defiance, swearing that \"only God\" could remove him from office.\n\nAnd just to be sure, violence was unleashed to preserve his grip on power.\n\nIn order to save the lives of his supporters, Mr Tsvangirai pulled out of the second round and although Mr Mugabe was forced to share power with his long-time rival for four years, he remained president.\n\nHe even won another election, in 2013, as Mr Tsvangirai had lost a lot of credibility during his years working with Mr Mugabe.\n\nThe key to understanding Mr Mugabe is the 1970s guerrilla war where he made his name.\n\nPresident Mugabe (L) has given his support to his wife Grace (R) for the vice-presidency\n\nEven after 37 years in power, Mr Mugabe still maintained the same worldview - the patriotic socialist forces of his Zanu-PF party were still fighting the twin evils of capitalism and colonialism.\n\nAny critics were dismissed as \"traitors and sell-outs\" - a throwback to the guerrilla war, when such labels could be a death sentence.\n\nRobert Mugabe (L), seen here in 1960, was greatly influenced by pan-Africanist ideals\n\nHe always blamed Zimbabwe's economic problems on a plot by Western countries, led by the UK, to oust him because of his seizure of white-owned farms.\n\nHis critics firmly blamed him, saying he had no understanding of how a modern economy worked.\n\nHe always concentrated on the question of how to share out the national cake, rather than how to make it grow.\n\nProtesters in 2016 burn worthless currency in a show of defiance against the introduction of new bond notes\n\nMr Mugabe once famously said that a country could never go bankrupt - with the world's fastest-shrinking economy and annual inflation of 231 million per cent in July 2008, it seemed as though he was determined to test his theory to the limit.\n\nProfessor Tony Hawkins of the University of Zimbabwe once observed that with Zimbabwe's former leader: \"Whenever economics gets in the way of politics, politics wins every time.\"\n\nIn 2000, faced with a strong opposition for the first time, he wrecked what was one of Africa's most diversified economies in a bid to retain political control.\n\nHe seized the white-owned farms which were the economy's backbone and scared off donors but in purely political terms, Mr Mugabe outsmarted his enemies - he remained in power for another 17 years.\n\nAnd the tactics he and his supporters used were straight from the guerrilla war.\n\nAfter he suffered the first electoral defeat of his career, in a 2000 referendum, Mr Mugabe unleashed his personal militia - the self-styled war veterans, backed by the security forces - who used violence and murder as an electoral strategy.\n\nMr Mugabe says he is fighting for the rights of black Zimbabweans\n\nEight years later, a similar pattern was followed after Mr Mugabe lost the first round of a presidential election to his long-time rival Morgan Tsvangirai.\n\nWhen needed, all the levers of state - the security forces, civil service, state-owned media - which are mostly controlled by Zanu-PF, were used in the service of the ruling party.\n\nThe man who fought for one-man, one-vote introduced a requirement that potential voters prove their residence with utility bills, which the young, unemployed opposition core electorate were unlikely to have.\n\nIn fact, the signs of his attitude to opposition were there from the early 1980s, when members of the North-Korea trained Fifth Brigade of the army were sent to Matabeleland, home to his then rival, Joshua Nkomo.\n\nThousands of civilians were killed before Mr Nkomo agreed to share power with Mr Mugabe - a precursor of what happened with Mr Tsvangirai.\n\nOne of the undoubted achievements of the former teacher's 33 years in power was the expansion of education. Zimbabwe still has one of the highest literacy rates in Africa, at 89% of the population.\n\nThe now deceased political scientist Masipula Sithole once said that by expanding education, the president was \"digging his own grave\".\n\nMr Mugabe has not been afraid to use violence to stay in power\n\nThe young beneficiaries were able to analyse Zimbabwe's problems for themselves and most blamed government corruption and mismanagement for the lack of jobs and rising prices.\n\nHe often claimed to be fighting on behalf of the rural poor but much of the land he confiscated ended up in the hands of his cronies.\n\nArchbishop Desmond Tutu once said that Zimbabwe's long-time president had become a cartoon figure of the archetypal African dictator.\n\nDuring the 2002 presidential campaign, he started wearing brightly coloured shirts emblazoned with his face - a style copied from many of Africa's authoritarian rulers.\n\nFor the preceding 20 years, this conservative man was only seen in public with either a stiff suit and tie or safari suit.\n\nHe professes to be a staunch Catholic, and worshippers at Harare's Catholic Cathedral were occasionally swamped by security guards when he turned up for Sunday Mass.\n\nHowever, Mr Mugabe's beliefs did not prevent him from having two children by Grace, then his secretary, while his popular Ghanaian first wife, Sally, was dying from cancer.\n\nBut it was his second wife Grace, 40 years his junior, who ultimately proved his downfall.\n\nAlthough Mr Mugabe outlived many predictions of his demise, the increasing strain of recent years took its toll and his once-impeccable presentation has begun to look rather worn at times.\n\nIn 2011, a US diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks suggested that he was suffering from prostate cancer.\n\nWife Grace said Mr Mugabe woke at 05:00 for his exercise\n\nBut he certainly led a healthy lifestyle.\n\nGrace once said that he woke up at 05:00 for his daily exercises, including yoga. He did not drink alcohol or coffee and was largely vegetarian.\n\nMr Mugabe was 73 when she gave birth to their third child, Chatunga.\n\nIf nothing else, Mr Mugabe has always been an extremely proud man.\n\nHe often said he would only step down when his \"revolution\" was complete.\n\nHe was referring to the redistribution of white-owned land but he also wanted to hand-pick his successor, who would of course have had to come from the ranks of Zanu-PF.\n\nDidymus Mutasa, once one of Mr Mugabe's closest associates but who has since fallen out with him, once told the BBC that in Zimbabwean culture, kings were only replaced when they die \"and Mugabe is our king\".\n\nBut even his closest allies were not ready for Zimbabwe to be turned into a monarchy, with power retained by a single family.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "What is the point of capitalism?\n\nThat might seem like a pretty big question, but one answer could be \"to provide people the opportunity through work to become richer\".\n\nWhat, though, if the economy fails in that endeavour?\n\nIf the system leaves you - despite all your efforts - worse off in December than you were the previous January?\n\nOr worse off now than you were a decade ago?\n\nIt was Lord Adair Turner, the former head of the Low Pay Commission, who put it succinctly.\n\n\"The UK over the last 10 years has created a lot of jobs, but today real wages are below where they were in 2007,\" he told me earlier this year.\n\n\"That is not the capitalist system delivering its promise that over a decade or so it will raise all boats, and it is a very fundamental issue.\"\n\nYesterday the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) announced an aggressive downgrade of both its growth and productivity forecasts.\n\nThose big, macro-economic announcements have a significant effect on all of us as well as on the state of the public finances.\n\nIt means the economy is forecast to be weaker at producing wealth for every hour that we work.\n\nWhich makes the chances of a pay rise for everyone recede.\n\nToday, two pieces of chunky analysis of the OBR's judgements reveal why those downgrades are so important.\n\nThe social justice think tank, the Resolution Foundation, said that \"lower productivity feeds directly through to pay, which is now forecast to be £1,000 a year lower on average than the OBR thought back in March\".\n\nThe Foundation says that the fall in real incomes people are experiencing could now become the longest since records began.\n\nAnd that wages will not recover to their pre-financial crisis levels until 2025 - that's 17 years during which people have been experiencing an incomes squeeze.\n\nThe tax and economy think tank, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, agrees.\n\n\"Real earnings are falling this year as inflation has risen to 3%,\" Paul Johnson, the Institute's director, said.\n\n\"The nascent recovery in earnings, which were growing through 2014 to the first half of 2016, has been choked off.\n\n\"That they even might still be below their 2008 level in 2022 as the OBR forecasts is truly astonishing. Let's hope this forecast turns out to be too pessimistic.\"\n\nGovernment ministers will be similarly keeping their fingers crossed.\n\nAnd hoping that with strong employment levels and plans to boost investment in the type of infrastructure that boosts productivity - transport, scientific and technology research - the real incomes squeeze can be alleviated.\n\nBecause if a system does not deliver increasing wealth - even if it is a modest increase - then people, quite naturally, begin to wonder what is the point.\n• None What the Budget means for you", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Judge to Nassar: 'Position of trust used to abuse children'\n\nFormer USA Olympic gymnastics sports doctor Larry Nassar has pleaded guilty to seven charges of sexual assault against women and girls in his care.\n\nHe was charged with molesting seven girls, many of whom are gymnasts, while working for USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University.\n\nAs part of the plea deal, Nassar, 54, could face at least 25 years in prison.\n\nThe hearing comes after a third former US Olympian, Gabby Douglas, accused him of sexual abuse.\n\nIn a statement to the court on Wednesday, Nassar said he was pleading guilty to \"move the community forward and stop the hurting\".\n\n\"I'm so sorry that this was like a match that turned into a forest fire, out of control,\" he said.\n\n\"I want them to heal. I want this community to heal. I have no animosity toward any one. I just want healing. It's time.\"\n\n\"You used that position of trust that you had in the most vile way - to abuse children,\" Ingham County Court Judge Rosemarie Aquilina said, noting that sex abuse is a nationwide \"epidemic\".\n\nAt least 140 women are suing former USA Olympic gymnastics sports doctor Larry Nassar\n\n\"You violated the oath that you took, which is to do no harm, and you harmed them. Selfishly.\"\n\nMany of his accusers testified that they were abused while he was examining the young athletes, and sometimes while their parents were nearby.\n\nHe has been accused of abusing more than 130 women - including Olympic gold medalists Ms Douglas, Aly Raisman and McKayla Maroney - during his time as team doctor for the US women's gymnastics team.\n\nMs Douglas, who was one of the so-called Fierce Five that won gold medals at the London Olympics in 2012, revealed her accusation on Instagram.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Gymnast Aly Raisman speaks up against former team doctor\n\n\"I didn't publicly share my experiences as well as many other things because for years we were conditioned to stay silent and some things were extremely painful,\" she wrote.\n\nDuring the hearing Ms Raisman, a member of the 2012 and 2016 Olympic teams, tweeted that she was \"disgusted\" that Nassar, who lost his licence, was referred to as a doctor.\n\nNassar's case was part of a scandal which saw USA Gymnastics president Steve Penny resign last year. Mr Penny was accused by victims of failing to quickly notify authorities about abuse allegations.\n\nIn a statement after the plea deal was announced, USA Gymnastics - the organisation which determines the US Olympic team - said it is \"very sorry that any athlete was harmed\" by their former doctor.\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\nThey added that it was \"important\" that he acknowledged \"his appalling and devious conduct\" in court and said the deal \"permits punishment without further victimisation of survivors\".\n\nNassar has already pleaded guilty to multiple charges of child pornography in federal court and could face a maximum sentence of life in prison.\n\nBefore accepting the plea, Judge Aquilina asked him to confirm that he did not wear gloves when abusing his victims between 1998 and 2015, when he was fired.\n\nThe alleged examinations were \"not for any medical purposes is that right? It was for your own purpose, is that right?\", the judge asked. Nassar responded: \"Yes.\"\n\nHe is due to be sentenced on 12 January.", "Theresa May met German's Angela Merkel and other EU leaders\n\nIssues still need to be resolved but progress is being made in Brexit negotiations, Theresa May has insisted.\n\nThe prime minister said there had been a \"very positive atmosphere\" in talks with several EU leaders in Brussels.\n\nThe UK, she said, would honour its financial commitments and shared the same desire as Ireland to stop barriers to trade or movement across the border.\n\nEU Council President Donald Tusk said talks could move to the next phase in December but it was a \"huge challenge\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Tusk This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt a security summit in Brussels, Mrs May had lunch with Angela Merkel and also met Mr Tusk, who told her last week that she has until the start of December to make an enhanced offer on money and provide guarantees on the Irish border after Brexit.\n\nMinisters have given her their backing to increase the UK's \"divorce bill\" but only if the EU shows movement on trade.\n\nThe government has refused to comment on reports it had agreed to pay about £40bn to pave the way for EU leaders to approve the next phase of talks on future relations at a summit on 14 December.\n\nSpeaking in Brussels, Mrs May did not answer specific questions about money and said there were \"still issues across the various matters that we're negotiating on to be resolved\".\n\nBut she added: \"There's been a very positive atmosphere in the talks and a genuine feeling that we want to move forward together.\"\n\nLast week, Mr Tusk said the EU was \"ready\" to move on to the next phase of talks - focused on a trade and security partnership after the UK leaves in March 2019 - but the UK must first show more progress on outstanding \"separation\" issues.\n\nThe BBC's Europe reporter Adam Fleming said that after holding talks with Mrs May, Danish PM Lars Lokke Rasmussen had told journalists in the Belgian capital that there had been \"movement\" on the issue of money.\n\n\"It seems to me that there is progress and so I have decided to be optimistic about this,\" Mr Rasmussen - one of the UK's closest allies - said.\n\nThe PM also said the UK was in continuing discussions with the Irish government about the solutions for avoiding a hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland.\n\nNo 10 earlier had to clarify its position after a spokesman appeared to suggest the possibility of Northern Ireland staying in the customs union may be up for negotiation.\n\nAsked about the issue at a lobby briefing, the spokesman said the UK must \"continue to negotiate to find an innovative way forward\".\n\nBut Downing Street later insisted that the UK's stated policy - that the whole of the UK is leaving the single market and customs union - remained in force.\n\nThe UK voted to leave the EU in June 2016, and served the EU with formal notice of Brexit in March 2017. This began a two-year countdown to the UK's departure day which will be in March 2019.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Labour leader was introduced on stage by Glastonbury Festival founder Michael Eavis\n\nHis name was chanted by crowds at Glastonbury and emblazoned on T-shirts - but Jeremy Corbyn says he was never meant to be called \"Jeremy\" at all.\n\nThe Labour leader said his parents had agreed a name for him shortly after his birth, in 1949 - only for his father to change his mind on the way to having it registered, without telling his mother.\n\n\"I was supposed to be called something else,\" he told comedian John Bishop.\n\nMr Corbyn said his parents had never revealed their first choice of name.\n\nThe MP made the disclosure during TV channel W's John Bishop: In Conversation with Jeremy Corbyn programme, which airs at 21:00 GMT.\n\nAsked if his father, David, made the name-swap without consulting his wife, Mr Corbyn replied: \"Yes. To her dying day, she would never tell me what it was.\n\n\"I said, 'Can't you tell me what it was going to be?' She said, 'I can't tell you.' So we can only speculate.\"\n\nThe chant \"Oh, Jeremy Corbyn\" - to the tune of the White Stripes' hit Seven Nation Army - became a bit of an anthem for his supporters over the past year and greeted the Labour leader's appearance at Glastonbury. His supporters have also chanted \"Jez we can\" during his leadership campaign rallies.\n\nDescribing his family life in the interview, Mr Corbyn said he felt he had \"fallen by the wayside\" by going into politics while his three older brothers - Edward, Andrew and Piers - all became engineers and scientists.\n\nHe spoke of his devastation at the death of his geologist brother, Andrew, from a brain haemorrhage while on an expedition to Papua New Guinea, saying that going there to collect his body was \"one of the most horrifying and horrific things\" he had ever done.\n\nMr Corbyn also revealed that a neighbour had placed a bet on him to win the Labour leadership at a time when the odds were 200-1.\n\n\"Every day I go out on that campaign, he said, 'Are you going to win?'\" said Mr Corbyn. \"I said, 'I don't know'.\n\n\"He said, 'Look, I've put a lot of money on this - you've got to win.' No pressure, like. I was like, 'I've got to win this for him, now.'\"", "Rita Ora has revealed on an Australian television show that she had her eggs frozen in her early 20s.\n\nThe British singer, now 26, said her doctor recommended the procedure as she had \"always wanted a big family\".\n\n\"He said 'you are healthy now and it would be great, why not put them away and then you never have to worry about it again?',\" she said.\n\nDr Helen O'Neill, of University College London, said: \"The earlier you freeze your eggs the better.\"\n\nBut it's not an \"absolute guarantee\" for pregnancy and many young people can't afford the cost of £5,000 per cycle.\n\nDr O'Neill said: \"The benefits (of egg freezing) are that you are taking your fertility into your own hands. If you're checked and you have a low fertility, it's best to act early.\"\n\nShe said there is a huge decline in the quality of eggs after a woman reaches the age of 30 - and that it continues to decline.\n\n\"Unfortunately the prime age people start to freeze their eggs is 35, which is a little bit too late,\" she explained.\n\nIn the UK, the number of women storing their eggs has increased substantially.\n\nIn 2014, 816 women froze some eggs for in vitro fertilisation (IVF) later, up 25% on 2013, according to the latest figures from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), which regulates the industry.\n\nLondon Women's Clinic in Harley Street recently reported that the number of women attending its fertility clinics has tripled in the past three years.\n\nThe birth rate for using frozen eggs was about 14% in 2013, according to the HFEA. The rate was lower for women over 38.\n\nDr O'Neill said there are comparable success rates between fresh and frozen eggs.\n\n\"Our most recent freezing really is excellent,\" she said. \"It should be promoted a lot more.\"\n\nProf Adam Balen, chairman of the British Fertility Society, told the BBC: \"Young women are freezing eggs in order to preserve fertility for the future, but have to understand not all eggs will survive the freezing process and be able to be fertilised.\n\n\"So it's not an absolute guarantee for pregnancy in the future.\n\n\"But the younger you freeze eggs the more fertile they are.\"\n\nMs Ora said she was already aware the process may not mean she would have a baby in the future and said: \"I know people might say, 'wow, that's so young'. I just wanted to really be safe.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nManager Arsene Wenger said Arsenal \"had got the job done\" by advancing to the Europa League knockout stage as Group H winners despite losing at Cologne.\n\nA penalty by Sehrou Guirassy, after Mathieu Debuchy was harshly adjudged to have fouled the French striker, earned Cologne only their second win in 17 Bundesliga and Europa League games this season.\n\nThe closest the Gunners came to scoring was when Francis Coquelin hit the post when the game was goalless in the first half.\n\nWith one match remaining, Arsenal have 10 points from five games, four ahead of Cologne and Red Star Belgrade, who were held to a goalless draw by Bate Borisov.\n\n\"You feel you have done the job to finish top of the group,\" said Wenger. \"We now play our final game at home against Bate Borisov without much at stake, other than the fact that we want to win the game. It's what we wanted.\"\n\nA second successive Europa League win for Cologne means they could qualify for the knockout stage after losing their first three matches.\n\nMore pain in Germany for the Gunners\n\nOf the five defeats Wenger's side have suffered this season, this was the least damaging after qualifying for the last-32 stage with two games to spare.\n\nYet a much-changed Gunners line-up failed to build on the afterglow of victory over neighbours Tottenham on Saturday as they were beaten again in Germany.\n\nThey were hammered 5-1 by Bayern Munich in the Champions League in February 2017 and November 2015, as well as losing 2-0 to Borussia Dortmund in September 2014.\n\nWenger changed the entire starting XI from the north London derby, forward Danny Welbeck returning from a groin injury after missing the past seven games.\n\nArsenal's side, which featured Olivier Giroud and Jack Wilshere, had only 16 Premier League starts between them this season, and it was a lacklustre performance against the Bundesliga's bottom club.\n\nCoquelin twice went close to scoring his first goal for four years, the French midfielder fizzing a shot narrowly wide from 20 yards before another effort bounced off the foot of the Cologne post.\n\nWelbeck lasted 45 minutes before he was replaced at the start of the second half by Alex Iwobi.\n\n\"Medically, the risk was too great to play him for longer than that,\" added Wenger. \"He was ready to stay on and frustrated to come off, but he's in good shape.\n\n\"Welbeck, Giroud and Wilshere all looked dangerous, but we were lacking the accuracy and finishing.\"\n\nOne of the few positives for Arsenal was another eye-catching display by Reiss Nelson.\n\nThe 17-year-old has impressed in the Europa League and Carabao Cup this season, and again caught the eye after replacing Calum Chambers midway through the second half.\n\nIn one sublime move, Nelson danced his way around three defenders before forcing a save from Timo Horn, who also stopped a long distance effort by Wilshere in the closing stages.\n• None Arsenal have conceded three penalties in their past five away games in all competitions (Watford, Manchester City and Cologne).\n• None This was the 11th away game that Arsenal have lost in all competitions in 2017 - their most in a calendar year since 2010 (also 11).\n• None Arsene Wenger's side failed to score in a European away game for the first time since September 2014 (0-2 v Borussia Dortmund), ending a run of scoring in 13 consecutive games.\n• None Indeed, Arsenal have failed to net in consecutive games in European competition for the first time since the 2013-14 campaign (0-2 defeats v Napoli and Bayern Munich in the Champions League).\n\nArsenal have three Premier League games - starting with Burnley away on Sunday (14:00 GMT) - to negotiate before they round off their Group H campaign at home to Bate Borisov on 7 December (20:05 GMT).\n• None Attempt saved. Jack Wilshere (Arsenal) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Eddie Nketiah.\n• None Attempt saved. Reiss Nelson (Arsenal) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Jack Wilshere.\n• None Sehrou Guirassy (1. FC Köln) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.\n• None Per Mertesacker (Arsenal) wins a free kick in the defensive half.\n• None Offside, 1. FC Köln. Konstantin Rausch tries a through ball, but Sehrou Guirassy is caught offside.\n• None Reiss Nelson (Arsenal) wins a free kick on the right wing.\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Jannes Horn (1. FC Köln) because of an injury. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Labour MP Ivan Lewis has been suspended by the party over accusations of sexual harassment.\n\nThe Bury South MP was already under investigation by the party because of allegations of inappropriate behaviour.\n\nOn Thursday the party said it \"takes all allegations of sexual harassment extremely seriously\" and had suspended Mr Lewis pending an investigation.\n\nMr Lewis said: \"I am deeply saddened to hear of my suspension ... I strongly dispute the allegations.\"\n\nHe added that he intended to \"co-operate fully\" with the party's investigation.\n\nIt follows allegations reported by Buzzfeed News that Mr Lewis had touched a woman's leg and invited her to his house at a Labour Party event in 2010.\n\nIn a statement issued after the report earlier this month, Mr Lewis said he had never sexually harassed anyone but was sorry if his behaviour towards women he worked with had made anyone feel \"awkward\".\n\nHe is one of a number of MPs who are being investigated over allegations about past conduct towards women.\n\nThe MP has represented Bury South since 1997 and has served in various roles in the shadow cabinet, most recently as shadow Northern Ireland secretary until September 2015. He served as a minister in Tony Blair and Gordon Brown's governments.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May has met other party leaders to discuss the recent range of allegations about the conduct of some people at Westminster and called for a \"new culture of respect at the centre of our public life\".", "There has been a big fall in the number of workers starting apprenticeships in England since the introduction of the government's levy scheme earlier this year.\n\nThe levy was supposed to increase the number of people training at work.\n\nBut according to Department for Education figures, at the end of this academic year, between May and July, 48,000 people began an apprenticeship.\n\nThat was less than half the 117,000 for the same period last year.\n\nThe levy was introduced to raise £2.5bn a year for training and is payable by any organisation with a wage bill over £3m. The government estimated that it would affect 2% of businesses.\n\nThe levy applies to all UK employers; however Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland manage their own apprenticeship schemes.\n\nThe aim is to fund up to three million new apprenticeships and the government has said it will \"support productivity growth through the increase in training\".\n\nMost firms are not large enough to be liable for the levy.\n\nHowever medium-sized firms with wage bills under £3m, that employ between 50 and 200 staff, are also faced with new responsibilities.\n\nThey include releasing apprentices for one day a week for off-site training and contributing some of the training costs, which has made apprenticeships less popular.\n\nThe DfE says it had expected there would be an initial drop-off in the number of people starting apprenticeships following the introduction of the levy.\n\nEmployers paying the levy have 24 months to spend funds earmarked for apprenticeships, the DfE said, so they are taking time to formulate new schemes.\n\nRobert Halfon, who was apprenticeships and skills minister at the Department for Education until the reshuffle in June, said: \"Initially the number of starts has gone down, but I suspect over the coming year they will go back up again.\"\n\nHowever, many industry experts say the scheme has been badly organised.\n\n\"The policy intent was great, the implementation has been diabolical,\" says Mark Dawe, chief executive of the Association of Employment and Learning Providers (AELP), whose members include independent trainers, employers and further education colleges.\n\nThe Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development's (CIPD) skills adviser Lizzie Crowley, said 98% of firms were not large enough to be liable for the levy.\n\nBut she said these companies were being put off offering more apprenticeships by the cost of releasing the trainees for one day a week and having to shoulder 10% of their off-site training fees \"whereas previously the vast majority would have received this free of charge\".\n\nThe AELP said it had already made clear to the government what needed to be done to increase the number of apprenticeships.\n\n\"There needs to be appropriate flexibility of off-the-job training. In addition, employers without levy funding should not be charged for training 16-24 year old apprentices,\" said Mr Dawe.\n\n\"Without these actions, we do not believe the government will reach their manifesto commitment.\"\n\nVerity Davidge, head of education and skills policy at the manufacturers' organisation the EEF, said some members had been \"left frustrated that the introduction of the levy has in, some cases, resulted in them being unable to offer and deliver apprenticeships\".\n\nMs Davidge described the 59% drop in apprenticeships as \"shocking\" but added that it was \"frankly unsurprising as we continue to hear stories from companies who have hit a brick wall in trying to get levy-supported apprenticeships off the ground\".\n\n\"Accessing the funding has proven complex and difficult to unlock in time, and employers have struggled to get their heads around the complex rules and restrictions in accessing funds,\" she said.\n\n\"As a result some apprentices have been told that their apprenticeship has been put on hold for now, which is clearly a huge disappointment for young people who had effectively been offered a job - only to have their hopes dashed.\"", "British furniture retailer Multiyork has gone into administration\n\nMultiyork, the furniture retailer, has gone into administration, putting 550 jobs under threat.\n\nThe retailer will trade until Christmas at the earliest while administrators Duff & Phelps seek a buyer.\n\nMultiyork will honour all existing orders placed until 22 November and customers will be contacted by the retailer.\n\nThe chain employs 547 staff in 50 stores and a manufacturing site in Thetford, Norfolk.\n\nEmployees were told of the collapse on Wednesday afternoon and the management team will stay in place.\n\n\"Multiyork is still open for business, still trading - it's very early days for the administration,\" a spokesperson for Duff & Phelps told the BBC.\n\n\"We're really hopeful we can find a buyer.\"\n\nThe administrators said that the 39-year-old upholstered furniture retailer had been affected by difficult trading conditions.\n\n\"Trading conditions for UK retailers continue to be difficult due to a number of factors including economic uncertainty, rising commodity prices, increasing business rates and the fall in value of the pound which has increased the cost of importing raw materials and products,\" said Allan Graham, a joint administrator at Duff & Phelps.\n\n\"This appears to be leading to a sharp fall in consumer confidence and less money being spent on discretionary items.\"\n\nMultiyork has gone into receivership once before and was bought out by the Wade Group in 1995.", "An extra £28m is to go towards helping victims of the Grenfell Tower fire, Chancellor Philip Hammond has said in his Budget speech.\n\nThe funding for Kensington and Chelsea Council in London will pay for mental health services and regeneration.\n\nThe fire in June left 71 people dead, as well as hundreds of people homeless and many needing counselling.\n\nLabour welcomed the announcement but questioned whether the council should be responsible for spending the money.\n\nMr Hammond has called on local authorities across the UK to speed up efforts to ensure all high-rise towers were safe.\n\nIn his Budget speech, Mr Hammond said of the Grenfell fire: \"This tragedy should never have happened, and we must ensure that nothing like it ever happens again.\"\n\nKensington and Chelsea Council confirmed that the money would support mental health services in the area, alongside existing NHS agencies, as well as paying for a new community space and refurbishment of the Lancaster West estate in west London - where Grenfell Tower is based.\n\nLast month the Central and North West London NHS Trust said around 360 adults and children were undergoing treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder following the fire, while a number of survivors and witnesses were reported to have attempted suicide.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How do witnesses and survivors of Grenfell Tower cope?\n\nLabour's Emma Dent Coad, the MP for Kensington, said the money was \"very welcome\" but added: \"Who will be in charge of these funds and decide where they are best spent?\"\n\nShe criticised the local council's spending priorities and suggested that the local community - \"that took over essential council services on the morning of the fire, and since then\" - be part of the decision-making.\n\nElizabeth Campbell, leader of Kensington and Chelsea Council, said the money would help secure \"a long-term future for the people of North Kensington\".\n\nPhilip Hammond says financial constraints should not get in the way of safety work to tower blocks\n\nFollowing the Grenfell disaster, fire safety flaws were discovered in hundreds of high-rise blocks around the country.\n\nIn his Budget speech, Mr Hammond said any local authority which does not have the funds to pay for fire safety work should contact central government.\n\nHe told the Commons: \"All local authorities and housing associations must carry out any identified, necessary safety works as soon as possible.\n\nHe added: \"I have said before, and I will say again today, we will not allow financial constraints to get in the way of any essential fire safety work.\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said councils, including Nottingham and Westminster, had contacted the government but \"nothing was offered to them\".\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan urged the government to act quickly to help councils fund retrofitting of buildings with sprinklers.\n\nBBC Radio London research found that about half of London's boroughs had asked for financial help, which the government had not yet agreed to.", "The coach quickly became a \"complete inferno\", the inquest heard\n\nA bus driver died when he deliberately crashed to save his passengers from plummeting off a road in the French Alps, an inquest has heard.\n\nMaurice Wrightson drove into boulders on the narrow mountain road when he realised his brakes had failed.\n\nMr Wrightson, 63, from Ashington, died in the April 2013 crash and four of the 50 passengers were seriously injured.\n\nFrench investigators said the driver \"undoubtedly prevented\" a more serious crash, Berwick Coroner's Court heard.\n\nThe coach, which was carrying British staff from the French ski resort Alpe d'Huez, was approaching the 21st hairpin bend on the D211 road.\n\nNathan Woodland, 39, the co-driver of the coach operated by County Durham-based Classic Coaches, told the inquest he felt the bus twitch and quickly became aware something was wrong.\n\nHe said: \"Suddenly Maurice looked at me with a very shocked look on his face.\n\n\"He said 'it's not stopping us'.\"\n\nHe said Mr Wrightson gripped the wheel very tightly and braced himself against his seat to apply more pressure to the brake.\n\nMr Woodland said: \"I stepped into the aisle and shouted, 'grab a hold, hold tight'.\"\n\nHe then described how the coach smashed into the boulders and he was thrown a number of rows back.\n\nAs he picked himself up he saw people desperately trying to escape and flames begin to engulf the coach, which quickly turned into a \"complete inferno\".\n\nHe said the clothing of one woman, who was sitting behind the driver, caught fire as she was pulled from the bus by another passenger.\n\nSpeaking at the time, French transport minister Frederic Cuvillier said Mr Wrightson \"showed remarkable courage\" and avoided a \"much heavier loss of life\".\n\nThe inquest jury heard the French report concluded the brake failed as the pad had been \"completely destroyed by excessive heating\" due to the \"poor condition of the hydraulic retarder\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dundee was one of five UK cities hoping to host the title in 2023\n\nDundee will not be able to compete in the European Capital of Culture 2023 competition due to Brexit, the European Commission has confirmed.\n\nFive UK cities were bidding to host the title, with the winner expected to be announced next week.\n\nA letter from the European Commission to the Department of Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) said UK participation \"would not be possible\".\n\nIt said the UK's selection process should \"immediately be discontinued\".\n\nDundee's bid team were due to make their final presentation to the competition judges next week.\n\nBBC Scotland understands that the DCMS only received the Commission's letter on Wednesday.\n\nA Dundee 2023 spokesman said that the team was \"hugely disappointed\" at the European Commission's late decision.\n\nHe said: \"The timing is disrespectful not only to the citizens of Dundee, but to people from all five bidding cities who have devoted so much time, effort and energy so far in this competition.\n\n\"It's a sad irony that one of the key drivers of our bid was a desire to further enhance our cultural links with Europe.\"\n\nThe UK's five final bid proposals were submitted at the end of October.\n\nThey were Dundee, Nottingham, Leeds, Milton Keynes, and a joint proposal from Belfast, Londonderry and Strabane.\n\nDundee's 80-page bid document was understood to include 110 new projects across the city.\n\nScotland's culture secretary Fiona Hyslop said: \"It is now deeply concerning that the amount of time, effort and expense Dundee have put into scoping out their bid could be wasted thanks to the Brexit policy of the UK government .\n\n\"We are in urgent contact with the UK government and Dundee to understand the potential implications of this situation and to establish what action the UK Government is going to take to address it.\"\n\nThe DCMS said it \"disagreed\" with the European Commission's stance and was \"deeply disappointed\" that the Commission had waited until the UK cities had submitted their bids before \"communicating this new position to us\".\n\nThe UK government said previously that the title was \"part of our plan for a dynamic, outward-looking and global Britain\" post-Brexit.\n\nHowever, it had warned bidders that the contest \"may be subject to the outcome of those exit negotiations\".", "Activist and political candidate Vimbaishe Musvaburi cries as she describes her emotions in the wake of Robert Mugabe's resignation.", "The former political editor of the Sun wrote the article in August\n\nThe UK's press regulator has dismissed a complaint against the Sun for a column that referred to \"the Muslim Problem\".\n\nThe Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO) ruled Trevor Kavanagh's column was \"capable of causing serious offence\" but did not breach the Editors' Code.\n\nMr Kavanagh said it was \"acceptable to say Muslims are a specific rather than a cultural problem\".\n\nThe Sun said he had already apologised.\n\nThe regulator said the comment could be compared to language used at the time of the Holocaust.\n\nBut a spokesman for The Sun said: \"[He] didn't realise that his words could be compared to the phrase 'the Jewish Problem'.\"\n\nIPSO said the former political editor, who is also a member of the regulatory board, played no part in the adjudication.\n\nIt said the article had not discriminated against an individual and could not be mistaken for fact.\n\nMr Kavanagh's column was published after the conviction, in August, of 18 people in Newcastle for being involved in a child sex abuse network.\n\nHe said there was \"one unspoken fear, gagged by political correctness,\" adding that \"the common denominator, almost unsayable until last week's furore over Pakistani sex gangs, is Islam\".\n\nIPSO noted \"it was inaccurate to refer to female genital mutilation and 'honour' killings as examples of 'Muslim sex crimes'.\n\nThe regulator said despite many being offended by the article, there was no clause in the code which \"prohibits publication of offensive content\".\n\nWhen it was published, the article was condemned in an open letter signed by more than 100 MPs.\n\nThe ruling comes after former Labour minister Sarah Champion quit the party's front bench following the publication of an article which appeared in the same edition as Mr Kavanagh's comments.\n\nMiqdaad Versi, assistant general secretary of the Muslim Council of Britain said the decision was \"deeply disappointing, albeit not unexpected\".\n\n\"What is truly astonishing is that regardless of the specifics of the Code, IPSO does not seem to have any concern that one of its board members used this Nazi-like phrase about Muslims.\"\n\nThe Board of Deputies of British Jews said the decision suggested IPSO was \"unfit for purpose\" and called for a review of the code.\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. Anne Wafula-Strike said it was \"vital\" it did not happen to other people\n\nA Paralympian has been compensated after wetting herself on a train when the disabled toilet was not working.\n\nAnne Wafula-Strike, 48, was on a three-hour CrossCountry train from Nuneaton to Stansted in December with an out-of-order accessible loo.\n\nThe wheelchair racer, from Harlow, said train staff knew she needed to use the toilet but when they reached a station it was too late.\n\nA CrossCountry spokesman said since what happened on 8 December, a \"thorough review\" had been undertaken.\n\nHe added: \"While we have apologised for the events that day, a lot of good has also resulted from this, with the whole rail industry looking at ways to make Britain's railways a more accessible environment, alongside the Department for Transport's ongoing consultation on an Accessibility Action Plan.\"\n\nWheelchair racer Mrs Wafula-Strike became a member of Paralympics GB in 2007\n\nThe deadline for the Accessibility Action Plan's consultation ends on Wednesday.\n\nKenya-born Mrs Wafula-Strike, who is a board member of UK Athletics and has an MBE for services to disability sport, has said disabled travellers need the \"support of the Government to hold transport companies to account\".\n\nMrs Wafula-Strike had been returning from a UK Athletics board meeting when she needed to use the toilet and asked the ticket master if they could let her off at the next stop after seeing the out-of-order sign.\n\nHowever, Mrs Wafula-Strike said there was nobody to help her at that station and on the way to the following station she \"ended up wetting\" herself, which was \"humiliating\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People are being urged to beware of fake products and websites in the run-up to Christmas.\n\nOffers for mobile phones, clothes, shoes and jewellery are the most likely to be fraudulent, according to the Action Fraud group.\n\nAlong with City of London police, it is appealing to people to give more thought to where they source presents.\n\nIn 2016, it is estimated that nearly £16 million was lost to Christmas shopping fraud.\n\nCommon items reported to the agency include fake Yeezy trainers, Kylie Jenner make-up, hair dryers, drones and Fitbit watches.\n\nLatest figures suggest that Christmas fraud increased by 25% between 2015 and 2016. Analysis of last year's crimes also suggests that 65% of crimes at Christmas were linked to online auctions.\n\nThe #ThoughtThatCounts campaign is encouraging gift-buyers to pause during the festive rush to consider the source of their goods.\n\nIt is releasing a series of videos aimed at illustrating that one small mistake can mean that a thoughtful gift never turns up.\n\nCommander Dave Clark, national co-ordinator for economic crime said: \"Fraudsters see the Christmas rush as an ideal opportunity to take advantage of people's generosity without a single care about the consequences this may cause for the victim.\n\n\"With a sharp rise in fraud reporting at Christmas time it is more important than ever that people do everything they can to protect themselves from fraudsters, stopping them from enjoying the holiday season at the expense of others.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "There will be extra funding to encourage more pupils to study maths A-level\n\nHead teachers' leaders are \"extremely disappointed\" by what they say is the Budget's failure to address \"urgent\" school funding shortages in England.\n\nGeoff Barton, leader of the ASCL heads' union, said extra cash for maths was a \"drop in the ocean\" and schools would still face real-terms cuts.\n\nMaths A-level will be encouraged, with £600 for schools for each pupil taking the subject above current numbers.\n\nThe Chancellor said maths skills were needed for \"cutting edge\" jobs.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn criticised the lack of movement on student debt and warned that schools in England would be \"5% worse off by 2019\".\n\nIn his Budget speech, Philip Hammond announced a £117m boost for maths, alongside plans to train 12,000 computer teachers and more support for adult re-training.\n\nBut school leaders were angered that there was no extra cash for core school spending.\n\nIt would now be \"impossible for many schools to avoid making redundancies\", said Paul Whiteman, leader of the National Association of Head Teachers.\n\nWest Sussex head teacher and funding campaigner, Jules White, said that representatives of 5,000 schools had visited Downing Street last week - calling for the return of £1.7bn which they say had been \"taken from school budgets\".\n\nBut Mr White said \"our reasonable request fell on deaf ears\".\n\nThe lack of movement on school funding would leave \"parents and teachers deeply disappointed,\" said the National Education Union.\n\nJo Yurky, a parent campaigner over school funding, said the spending plans were \"out of touch with the concerns of parents\" and that the maths announcement was \"tinkering around the edges with gimmicky ideas\".\n\nBut supporting an increased uptake of maths was welcomed by Professor Frank Kelly, chair of the Royal Society's advisory committee on mathematics education.\n\n\"Mathematics is essential for understanding the modern world and provides the foundations for economic prosperity,\" said Prof Kelly.\n\nThe Chancellor's Budget statement announced financial incentives to boost maths after the age of 16, after concerns that too many drop the subject after GCSEs.\n\n\"Knowledge of maths is key to the hi-tech, cutting-edge jobs in our digital economy,\" said Mr Hammond.\n\nThe Chancellor said he wanted \"highly talented young mathematicians\" to be able to \"release their potential wherever they live and whatever their background\".\n\nFrom 2019, schools will receive an extra £600 for every additional student taking maths or further maths A-level or core maths above current levels.\n\nUniversity lecturers said that student finance was a \"glaring omission\" from the Budget\n\nBut heads' leader, Geoff Barton, warned that the funding offer for maths could create a \"perverse incentive to enter students on to maths courses which might not necessarily be the best option for them\".\n\nHe also raised concerns that it would be \"unfair\" that schools that had already increased their number of maths A-levels students would miss out on extra funding.\n\nMr Hammond also invited proposals for new maths specialist schools.\n\nThere will be £42m over three years to provide extra training to \"improve the quality of teaching\" in a pilot project in some under-performing schools in England.\n\nIn the selected schools, each teacher will have access to £1,000 worth of training.\n\nSchools have struggled to recruit computer science teachers - and there will £84m over four years to train 12,000 more staff qualified to teach the subject, with the support of a new National Centre for Computing.\n\nThis was welcomed by Cindy Rose, the UK chief executive of Microsoft, who said: \"There is an urgent need for the UK to tackle its digital skills gap.\"\n\nThe Chancellor announced a national re-training scheme for adults, in partnership with the CBI and the TUC, with an initial £30m to teach digital skills.\n\nFurther education colleges were promised £20m to prepare for the so-called \"T-level\" qualifications, which will be for vocational subjects.\n\nAngela Rayner, Labour's shadow education secretary, said: \"The schemes announced today are a tiny fraction of the money he has cut from school budgets since 2015 and despite his spin, schools will be worse off by 2020.\"\n\nKevin Courtney, joint leader of the National Education Union, said: \"The Budget, with no significant new money for education, shows that the Government has chosen to ignore the anger of parents and the clear evidence of the problems being created by real terms cuts to education.\"\n\nThe UCU lecturers' union said the \"glaring omission\" from the Chancellor's speech was any reference to the promised review of university funding or support for students.", "Jon Venables was 10 when he and Robert Thompson killed James Bulger\n\nOne of the killers of toddler James Bulger has been recalled to prison suspected of having child abuse images on his computer.\n\nIt is the second time Jon Venables has been sent back to jail for the same suspected offence.\n\nIn a statement, James's mother Denise Fergus said: \"Venables has now proved beyond any doubt what a vile, perverted psychopath he has always been.\"\n\nThe 35-year-old was recalled last week but has not yet been charged.\n\nHe was first recalled in 2010, following his release in 2001 after serving eight years for the murder of James, aged two, in 1993.\n\nJames Bulger was two when he was abducted and killed in 1993\n\nMs Fergus went on to say: \"I predicted Venables would re-offend unless they kept a very tight rein on him and I pray that now, someone from the UK government will finally listen to me.\"\n\nShe said \"what hurts me most is the way the probation service has tried to cover this up\", adding she was only told on Wednesday night that Venables was taken back into custody a week ago.\n\nMrs Fergus said it was \"clear that they were trying to keep this quiet, until they got a call from the media\".\n\nShe said she received \"a hurried call\" from the probation service at 20:40 GMT with \"few details given, just that he had breached his terms of the licence and returned to prison\", which left her \"extremely upset, angry and feeling insulted\".\n\nShe said she would consider making a formal complaint to the probation service.\n\nA Ministry of Justice (MoJ) spokeswoman said it takes the duty of updating victims' families \"extremely seriously\".\n\n\"A dedicated victim liaison officer contacts families as soon as the offender is charged, but we regret the additional distress this has caused in this case.\n\n\"We want to reassure Mrs Fergus and Mr Bulger [James's father] that a liaison officer will continue to stay in regular contact with them as the case progresses.\"\n\nOn 12 February 1993, James - just a few weeks short of his third birthday - was reported missing by his mother from outside a butcher's shop in the New Strand Shopping Centre in Bootle, Merseyside.\n\nCCTV images showed James Bulger being led away by the two boys in a shopping centre\n\nCCTV images revealed he had been lured away by Venables and Robert Thompson, both then aged 10.\n\nHis body was found two days later on a railway line. He had been stripped from the waist down, paint had been thrown in his eyes and he had been beaten to death with bricks and a metal bar.\n\nThompson and Venables were arrested and charged within days. They were both convicted at Preston Crown Court of James's murder, in November 1993.\n\nIn 2001, the pair were released - with new identities - from secure children's homes on life licence, meaning they can be recalled at any time.\n\nWhat appear to be images of child abuse were found on a computer linked to Jon Venables last week, during a routine visit.\n\nHe was recalled to prison immediately.\n\nThe police force investigating him has not been named, as it might reveal where he has been living under a second new identity.\n\nVenables was jailed for life in 1993 for murdering and torturing two-year-old James Bulger.\n\nHe was first released - on licence - in 2001, but jailed again in 2010 for possession of child abuse images.\n\nHe was released a second time in 2013, at which point James Bulger's parents said they were \"filled with terror\".\n\nThe parole board will now have to decide whether - or when - it is safe to release him again, and will take into account if he appears to be re-offending in a similar vein.\n\nVenables was recalled to prison in 2010 after accessing images of child abuse and breaching his parole conditions by visiting Merseyside.\n\nHe had developed drug and drink problems, started behaving anti-socially and had revealed his real identity to friends.\n\nVenables was released again in 2013 with a second new identity.\n\nRobert Thompson was also convicted for James Bulger's murder\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Google says it will apply the new policy globally\n\nGoogle has announced tough new restrictions on ticket resellers, in an effort to combat fraud.\n\nFrom January resellers will need to be certified by Google before they use its AdWords service, which allows people to pay for prominent listings in its search results.\n\nThe sellers must also disclose that the prices they charge may be higher than the face value.\n\nGoogle said the changes were intended \"to protect customers from scams\".\n\nThey will target fraudsters who set up temporary websites selling non-existent tickets and who pay for a prominent slot on Google before disappearing with fans' money.\n\nBut the rules also tighten up restrictions on secondary ticketing websites - who are often listed on Google ahead of official sellers, even when the original event isn't sold out.\n\nThis has often caused confusion for consumers, with Swiss-based firm Viagogo coming in for particular criticism after posing as an \"official\" outlet in search listings - despite selling second-hand tickets.\n\nGoogle's updated policy says sites like Viagogo, as well as StubHub, Get Me In and Seatwave, must make it clear they are resellers, rather than primary agents.\n\nFrom March 2018, the company will also require certified resellers to post the face value of the tickets along with the reseller's price.\n\nIn the UK, this is currently a requirement under the Consumer Rights Act - but many companies have struggled, or been unwilling, to comply with the rules.\n\nCampaign group FanFair Alliance, which calls for greater regulation of the secondary ticketing market, welcomed Google's clampdown.\n\nEd Sheeran fans were targeted by secondary ticketing sites when his tour went on sale\n\n\"This is a hugely welcome move, with potential to make the ticket-buying process far less complex for consumers,\" it said in a statement.\n\nThe group said recent research showed \"a significant proportion of would-be ticket buyers use Google to find tickets\", a fact that secondary ticketing sites exploit by paying for higher search rankings.\n\n\"At best, such marketing practices could be construed as misleading - with music fans systematically directed towards dedicated ticket touts listing above-face value tickets, even when primary inventory is still available from authorised sellers.\"\n\nGoogle's move comes three months after MPs criticised the search engine for promoting touts through its AdWords services.\n\n\"This throws up an important issue for Google - they are making money out of this process,\" said Damian Collins, chair of the culture, media and sport committee.\n\n\"They must act against ticket touts, it's a clear breach of their guidelines.\"\n\nEd Sheeran's tour promoter also criticised Google after adverts pointed fans towards Viagogo, where tickets for the singer's tour were being sold at inflated prices.\n\n\"Google needs to bow to pressure and stop taking money for tickets which are sold on the secondary market,\" he told Radio 4 earlier this year.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "ISPs will no longer be able to use the term 'up to' about speeds of service\n\nBroadband firms will no longer be able to advertise their fast net services based on the speeds just a few customers get, from May next year.\n\nCurrently ISPs are allowed to use headline speeds that only 10% of customers will actually receive.\n\nIn future, adverts must be based on what is available to at least half of customers at peak times.\n\nIt follows research that suggested broadband advertising can be misleading for consumers.\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) looked into consumers' understanding of broadband speed claims and found that many were confused by headline speeds that they would never actually get in their own homes.\n\nThe concerns were passed on to the Committees of Advertising Practice (Cap) which consulted with ISPs, consumer groups and Ofcom to find a better way to advertise fast net services.\n\nMost argued that the fairest and clearest way would be to use the average speeds achieved at peak time by 50% of customers.\n\nAs well as insisting ISPs use \"average\" instead of \"up to\" speeds, Cap also urged ISPs to promote speed-checking facilities in their adverts so that users could test out the speeds they were likely to get from any given service.\n\nDirector of the Committees of Advertising Practice, Shahriar Coupal, said: \"There are a lot of factors that affect the broadband speed a customer is going to get in their own home; from technology to geography, to how a household uses broadband.\n\n\"Our new standards will give consumers a better understanding of the broadband speeds offered by different providers when deciding to switch providers.\"\n\nThe UK's minister for digital Matt Hancock welcomed the change, describing it as a \"victory for consumers\".\n\n\"I'm delighted to see that Cap is finally changing the way broadband speeds are advertised. Headline 'up to' speeds that only need to be available to 10% of consumers are incredibly misleading - customers need clear, concise and accurate information in order to make an informed choice.\"\n\nThe ASA also considered whether the use of \"fibre\" in broadband advertising was misleading for ISPs that only use fibre to the road-side phone cabinet, relying on a copper connection for the so-called last mile to a consumer's home.\n\nIt found that most people saw the use of fibre as a \"shorthand buzzword\" to describe fast broadband and concluded that it was not misleading for ISPs the use the term.\n\nAlex Neill from consumer group Which? said millions of households were currently experiencing broadband speeds that do not meet expectations.\n\nShe said: \"It is good to see people may finally see the speeds they could achieve before they sign up to a deal.\"\n\nAndrew Ferguson, editor of broadband news website ThinkBroadband said packages previously advertised as up to 38Mbps (megabits per second) will drop to speeds of between 24 and 30Mbps.\n\nServices currently marketed at up to 76Mbps are likely to be in the 45 to 55Mbps region, he added, while those advertised as up to 17Mbps could fall as low as 6Mbps under the new rules.\n\n\"People shouldn't expect adverts to change overnight, as most changes are likely to emerge in April just ahead of the deadline,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"However, consumers may start to see a much wider variety of speeds in adverts, and with the addition of the peak time period (defined as 8pm to 10pm) there is likely to be more variation between providers.\n\n\"As a result, some providers may elect to refuse service to customers likely to get speeds at the slower end of the scale, which restricts provider choice. Others may not sell the advertised service but instead push customers to a technically identical service marketed under a different name.\"", "Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya people are now living in refugee camps like this one in Bangladesh\n\nBangladesh has signed a deal with Myanmar to return hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims who fled a recent army crackdown.\n\nA statement from the Bangladesh foreign ministry said displaced people could begin to return within two months.\n\nThe two sides say they are working on the details. The crisis has been called ethnic cleansing by the UN and the US.\n\nAid agencies have raised concerns about the forcible return of the Rohingya unless their safety can be guaranteed.\n\nThe Rohingya are a stateless minority who have long experienced persecution in Myanmar, also known as Burma.\n\nMore than 600,000 have fled to neighbouring Bangladesh since deadly Rohingya attacks on police posts prompted a military crackdown in Rakhine state in late August.\n\nOn Wednesday, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Myanmar's military action against the minority Rohingya population constituted ethnic cleansing.\n\n\"The 'Arrangement' stipulates that the return shall commence within two months,\" a press release from the Bangladeshi government said.\n\nFew other details were released following the signing of the memorandum in Myanmar's capital Nay Pyi Taw.\n\nBangladesh Foreign Minister Mahmood Ali said it was a \"first step\". Senior Myanmar official Myint Kyaing said it was ready to receive the Rohingya \"as soon as possible\".\n\nMyanmar's conditions of return remain unclear, and many Rohingya are terrified of being sent back. Refugees at Kutupalong Camp in Bangladesh said they want guarantees of citizenship and their land returned.\n\n\"We will go back if they don't harass us and if we can live life like the Buddhists and other ethnic minorities,\" one man, Sayed Hussein, told Reuters.\n\n\"I don't trust the Myanmar government. My husband left three times and this is my second time to leave. The Myanmar government is always like this,\" a woman, Narusha, said.\n\nLast week Myanmar's powerful military head, Min Aung Hlaing, told Mr Tillerson that Rohingyas could return to Myanmar only if \"real citizens\" accepted them, referring to ethnic Rakhine members of the country's Buddhist majority.\n\nBoth countries are under pressure on the issue, for different reasons.\n\nBangladesh wants to show its population that the Rohingya will not be permanent residents - it was already hosting about 400,000 before the latest influx.\n\nThe Burmese authorities - and particularly de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi - are responding to international calls to do more to resolve the crisis.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rohingya Muslims displaced from Tula Toli village in Rakhine State gave disturbing accounts to BBC Newsnight\n\nThe UN refugee agency hoped any agreement would \"respect the right of refugees to return to Myanmar in a safe, voluntary, dignified and sustainable way\".\n\n\"As the UN agency mandated to assist, protect and seek solutions for refugees, we stand ready to assist in the process to ensure that returns take place in line with international standards,\" a spokesperson said.\n\nAmnesty International said it doubted there could be safe or dignified returns of Rohingya to Myanmar \"while a system of apartheid remains\" and added that it \"hoped those who do not want to go home are not forced to do so\".\n\n\"It is completely premature to be talking about returns when hundreds of Rohingya continue to flee persecution and arrive in Bangladesh on an almost daily basis,\" a spokesperson said.\n\n\"We're also concerned that the UN... have been completely sidelined from this process. This does not bode well for ensuring a really robust voluntary repatriation agreement that meets international standards.\"\n\nLast week the Burmese army exonerated itself of blame regarding the Rohingya crisis.\n\nIt denied killing any Rohingya people, burning their villages, raping women and girls, and stealing possessions.\n\nThe assertions contradict evidence seen by BBC correspondents.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Who are the Rohingya?\n\nPope Francis is due to arrive in Myanmar on 26 November. His visit will include meetings with Myanmar's army chief and Aung San Suu Kyi, the Vatican has said.\n\nThe pontiff will later travel to the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, where he will meet Rohingya refugees.\n\nHuman Rights Watch says most damage occurred in Maungdaw Township, between 25 August and 25 September - with many villages destroyed after 5 September.", "The sale of new diesel cars that do not meet latest emissions standards will face a one-off tax increase in April.\n\nIt will be levied on all diesels that do not meet the Real Driving Emissions Step 2 standards on emissions for the first year of ownership.\n\nAccording to experts, it means that most new diesels would be subject to the rise.\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond said the tax change would apply only to cars, and \"white van man\" was unaffected.\n\nDifferent rates of Vehicle Excise Duty will be levied according to a car's CO2 emissions band.\n\nA Ford Fiesta or Vauxhall Astra would see a one-off £20 rise and a Land Rover Discovery a £400 increase. Cars in the top band, such as a Porsche Cayenne, would be hit with a £500 tax.\n\nThe chancellor said: \"Drivers buying a new car will be able to avoid this charge as soon as manufacturers bring forward the next-generation cleaner diesels that we all want to see.\n\nThe move was part of a series of Budget policies designed to improve air quality and promote electric vehicles.\n\nThe chancellor also unveiled a £220m Clean Air Fund, and £400m - split equally between the Treasury and motor industry - to improve the charging infrastructure for electric vehicles.\n\nThere will also be another £100m in subsidies to help persuade consumers to buy electric vehicles.\n\nThe key thing... if you've already got a diesel car, you won't pay more.\n\nThat's hardly a surprise, bearing in mind people were encouraged to buy diesels some years ago. The government wasn't about to slap a big tax on drivers who parted with lots of money in good faith.\n\nFrom April though, if you are buying a new diesel, you will probably pay more tax in the first year. It depends on the emissions test that it had to pass, so I'd ask the dealer before you buy.\n\nThe new tax rise will apply until around 2021, by which time all new cars have to meet the tighter pollution rules. And this only applies to cars, not vans, trucks, etc.\n\nSo, it's more of a soft, brushing nudge rather than a big push to persuade people away from polluting diesels.\n\nOf course, there is a danger that it convinces drivers to keep their old, dirtier diesels, rather than buy a new, cleaner one.\n\nThe UK's motor industry trade body, the SMMT, said the chancellor's diesel tax changes risked sending out mixed messages.\n\nChief executive Mike Hawes said: \"Diesel buyers will not face any additional taxation for the next six months, but thereafter, will face additional charges which will undermine fleet renewal efforts, which are the best and quickest way to address air quality concerns.\n\n\"Manufacturers are investing heavily in the latest low emission technology. However, it's unrealistic to think that we can fast-track the introduction of the next generation of clean diesel technology which takes years to develop.\"\n\nBut Peter Williams, of the motoring group RAC, said: \"The chancellor has chosen to be relatively light touch when it comes to taxing new diesel cars.\n\n\"Any new diesel car registered from 1st April 2018 will be hit with a higher first year tax rate unless they conform to the latest real world driving standards.\n\n\"So current beleaguered owners of diesel cars can breathe a sigh of relief that they will not be punished further by the Treasury - but they will need to keep their eyes on local authorities who may be introducing clean air zones in the near future.\"\n\nHowever, he added that a side effect of the Budget announcement might be a risk that drivers will be encouraged to keep their older diesel vehicles.", "Zimbabweans want a \"happy new Zimbabwe\" - and the long-time ruling party Zanu-PF is anxious to assure them it can be the one to deliver it\n\nIt's been a dramatic, inspiring, earthquake of a week in Zimbabwe. But if you're looking for evidence to show that what really happened was a ruthless reshuffle within the governing party, Zanu-PF, rather than any grander transformation in politics or society, it is worth having a chat with the local MP for Harare East.\n\nI met the Honourable Terence Mukupe in the garden of the Meikles Hotel in the city centre, as his new party boss, Emmerson Mnangagwa, was poised to return to the country, and a fellow Harare MP was busy being dragged off, in tears, by plain-clothed security agents in the hotel lobby.\n\n\"That's a signal to the public that we really mean business,\" said Mr Mukupe, drily, of his Zanu-PF colleague, Shadreck Mashayamombe - reportedly a former aide to Grace Mugabe.\n\n\"There are going to be over 500 high-profile people that are going to face the music, be taken to court, and that's what Zimbabweans want to see. No sacred cows,\" he continued.\n\nMr Mukupe, who says he worked for 10 years as an investment banker on Wall Street before winning his seat in parliament two years ago, is part of an ambitious younger generation of Zanu-PF MPs who have been at the heart of the internal power struggles that led to last week's military \"intervention.\"\n\nAlthough he briefly sided with the G40 group linked to Grace Mugabe, he quickly and - as it soon proved - presciently switched to endorse her bitter rival Mr Mnangagwa.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How news of Robert Mugabe's resignation was greeted across Zimbabwe\n\nNow Mr Mukupe foresees a Zanu-PF revival, with technocrats - like himself perhaps - brought in to the cabinet to fix the economy, and next year's national elections already a foregone conclusion.\n\n\"There's so much chaos within the opposition. Everyone is clear that Zanu-PF is going to win the election. It will be a landslide. So let's have change within Zanu-PF,\" he said. He mentioned Rwanda as an example to follow. \"People want to see technocrats. It should become a meritocracy.\"\n\n\"We have a cancer in this society,\" Mr Mukupe told the BBC\n\nBut what's most striking, to an outsider, about someone like Mr Mukupe is his skill in disassociating himself from the disastrous failings of Zanu-PF and President Mugabe, and the repression and misrule that damaged the lives of so many millions of Zimbabweans.\n\nHe readily admits there was \"violence perpetrated against opposition members and corrupt activities\", but insists that the blame lay squarely with President Mugabe. It's an argument that suits the party well these days, as it purges itself of \"cliques\" and \"cabals\".\n\n\"We have a cancer in this society. Our politics was about cults. Everyone was afraid of President Mugabe. Don't make it appear as if it's just the ordinary people, or people in opposition.\n\n\"Even people within Zanu-PF were afraid. He was the beginning and end of everything - he could hire you, fire you, imprison you, do all sorts of things to you. Not everyone could stand up and fight the beast,\" said Mr Mukupe.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"We should never have given him the sort of powers we gave him,\" he conceded, but insisted that no-one, including the opposition, had \"clean hands. \"It's a collective responsibility. Everybody played some role in the demise of this country.\"\n\nIt's easy to see now how Zanu-PF will run with that message in the months ahead, as the country heads towards elections.\n\nSome would argue that it is more spin than truth - a convenient re-writing of history by the winning team. But there is every chance that many Zimbabweans, still tied to Zanu-PF by history and familiarity, will choose to give it another opportunity to correct itself.", "An Army sergeant accused of trying to kill his wife is set to face a retrial after a jury failed to reach a verdict.\n\nEmile Cilliers denied tampering with Victoria Cilliers' parachute at Netheravon Airfield, Wiltshire, where she suffered near-fatal injuries in 2015.\n\nMr Cilliers, 37, faced two charges of attempted murder and another of criminal damage.\n\nJurors were discharged after a seven-week trial at Winchester Crown Court.\n\nParachuting instructor Mrs Cilliers, 40, survived a 4,000ft fall on Easter Sunday when both her main and reserve parachutes failed.\n\nProsecutors also claimed the defendant made another attempt to kill her by deliberately causing a gas leak in the family home days before the fall.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service has said it will seek a retrial on all three charges.\n\nA week later, after they had discussed the case for more than 23 hours, judge Mr Justice Sweeney told them he would accept a majority verdict.\n\nTwo jurors, including the forewoman, fell ill and were released after the judge issued the direction.\n\nAfter the remaining jurors had deliberated for about 30 hours, the judge thanked them for their hard work.\n\nHe told them: \"It has been a long case which you have been required to work very hard on over a long period.\"\n\nMr Cilliers was released on conditional bail until the retrial.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Nanyang Technological University in Singapore already uses driverless shuttles at its campus\n\nSingapore plans to introduce driverless buses on its public roads by 2022.\n\nThe government says they will be piloted in three new neighbourhoods which will have less-crowded roads designed to accommodate the buses.\n\nThe buses will be used to help residents travel in their communities, and to nearby train and bus stations.\n\nDensely-populated Singapore hopes driverless technology will help the country manage its land constraints and manpower shortages.\n\n\"The autonomous vehicles will greatly enhance the accessibility and connectivity of our public transport system, particularly for the elderly, families with young children and the less mobile,\" the Transport Minister Khaw Boon Wan said.\n\nThe autonomous buses are expected to complement existing manned bus services, and will initially operate during off-peak hours.\n\nAdditionally, the government plans to let commuters hail on-demand shuttles using their mobile phones.\n\nSingapore has less traffic congestion compared to many other cities in Southeast Asia, due to road tolls and policies that promote public transport.\n\nThe country also hopes to become a leader in driverless technologies.\n\nDriverless taxis are already being trialled in Singapore.\n\n\"Our land transport constraints may help us become a global player in urban mobility solutions. What works here is likely to also work in other cities,\" said Mr Khaw, who was speaking at the launch of a test centre for self-driving vehicles on Wednesday.\n\nThe new centre will allow driverless developers to test how their cars and buses would handle pedestrians, heavy rain, aggressive drivers, cyclists, scooters and other road scenarios.\n\nAt least 10 companies are currently testing driverless car technology in Singapore, Mr Khaw added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'They are destroying everything'\n\nPolice in Papua New Guinea (PNG) have moved about 40 refugees and asylum seekers from a former Australian-run detention centre on Manus Island.\n\nBut more than 300 others remain. They have been refusing to leave since the camp was shut on 31 October, saying they fear attacks from local people.\n\nPolice moved in on Thursday and ordered the men to leave the camp. One refugee, a journalist, was briefly detained.\n\nAustralia said it was a PNG operation.\n\nThe PNG authorities have cut food, water and electricity and have told the remaining men they are squatters on defence force property.\n\nMeanwhile, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) called on both Papua New Guinea and Australia to \"engage in constructive dialogue, to de-escalate the tensions\", according to Reuters.\n\nUnder a controversial policy, Australia has detained asylum seekers who arrive by boat in camps on Manus Island and Nauru, a small Pacific nation.\n\nAustralia shut down the Manus Island centre after a PNG court ruled it was unconstitutional, urging asylum seekers to move to transit centres elsewhere on the island.\n\nAustralia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said his nation would \"not be pressured\" into accepting the men, reiterating a long-held policy that such a move would encourage human trafficking.\n\n\"They should obey the law and the lawful authorities of Papua New Guinea,\" Mr Turnbull said.\n\nOne refugee, Abdul Aziz Adam, said about 420 asylum seekers were in the centre early on Thursday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Behrouz Boochani This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Sudanese refugee told the BBC a large number of police officers had entered the compound.\n\n\"They had a really big microphone in their hands and started telling people 'you have to move'. They are taking all the phones away, destroying all the rooms and belongings and everything,\" he said.\n\nAnother refugee, Iranian reporter Behrouz Boochani, was briefly detained. His arrest was described by Australia's journalism union, the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, as an \"egregious attack on press freedom\".\n\nA video and a separate photo appeared to show Mr Boochani being led away by officers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Abdul Aziz Adam This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 journalist, a prominent voice within the centre, later tweeted that he had been \"handcuffed\" for more than two hours and had his belongings broken.\n\nIn another tweet, he wrote that \"police beat up some of the refugees and forced them to the new prison camp in East Lorengau, Hillside Haus and West Haus\".\n\nMany of the asylum seekers have refused to leave because of safety fears on the island, where there is tension between them and the local community. Asylum seekers have been attacked in the past, rights groups say.\n\nThis is the most direct action so far by the PNG authorities, but it doesn't mean the stand-off is ending.\n\nIn the last three weeks deadlines have come and gone, water supplies have been repeatedly disrupted, food has dwindled, and parts of the centre have been dismantled.\n\nWith each step the resolve of the men who want to remain there seems only to have increased.\n\nThey are anxious to try and keep the spotlight on Manus Island, and are likely to resist removal for as long as physically possible.\n\nEarlier, Mr Boochani tweeted that an Australian police officer appeared to be \"guiding\" some local officers. This was denied by Australian Federal Police, who said they had no involvement in the operation.\n\nAustralia has repeatedly said that alternative accommodation for the asylum seekers is ready.\n\nHowever, the UN's refugee agency said on Tuesday that housing remained \"under construction\", was inadequately secured, and lacked \"the most basic services\" such as medical care.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"We were there and saw for ourselves that they are trying to complete the site as quickly as possible,\" said deputy regional representative Nai Jit Lam.\n\nThe UN has said a majority of the men have refugee status.\n\nCanberra has steadfastly ruled out allowing the men into Australia, arguing it would prompt further human trafficking and lead to deaths at sea.\n\nRefugees had been given the option of permanent resettlement in PNG, applying to live in Cambodia, or requesting a transfer to Nauru. Advocates say few have taken up these options.\n\nThe former detainees say authorities have destroyed items in the centre\n\nThe US has agreed to take up to 1,250 refugees from Manus Island and Nauru under a resettlement deal. However, it may ultimately accept fewer than that.\n\nNew Zealand has offered to take 150 refugees from the PNG centre, but Canberra has resisted this proposal - arguing it would effectively be a \"back door\" to Australia.", "More than 10% of women aged between 16 and 19 in England and Wales say they have experienced domestic abuse in the past year, research suggests.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics' annual report on domestic abuse says they are the group most likely to be victims of it.\n\nWomen in their 20s and early 40s are also vulnerable, figures suggest.\n\nAbout 7% of men who are still in their teens have also experienced it, according to the data.\n\nDomestic abuse includes non-physical abuse, threats, force, sexual assault or stalking by a partner or family member - the most common of which is abuse by a partner.\n\nThe report pulls together data from the police, the government and victim support groups.\n\nThe latest Crime Survey for England and Wales for the year ending in March shows about 1.2 million women and 713,000 men reported being victims of some form of domestic abuse.\n\nHowever, a large proportion would not have gone to the police.\n\nThe police, meanwhile, recorded 1.1 million reports of domestic abuse over the same period, which probably includes repeated instances of abuse against the same victim.\n\nOf these reports, 488,000 were recorded as crimes and fewer than half resulted in an arrest.\n\nOf the domestic abuse cases referred to the Crown Prosecution Service by police, just under three quarters (72%) resulted in a decision to charge.\n\nAnd of the cases that went to court, 76% led to convictions.\n\nThe CPS says victims failing to turn up to court and retracting their statements were behind about half of all the unsuccessful prosecutions.\n\nKatie Ghose, of Women's Aid, said involving official bodies took great courage because many victims were worried they would not be believed, were not given the space to make the call or feared repercussions from their abuser.\n\nShe said criminal cases should not rely solely on a victim's evidence to see it through to prosecution.\n\nInstead, police officers should gather evidence from the scene, as they do with fraud, burglary and traffic offences.\n\nThe policing areas which saw the highest number of domestic abuse incidents and crimes last year were Durham, Cleveland, Gwent, South Wales and London.\n\nCheshire, Dyfed-Powys, Surrey, North Yorkshire and Thames Valley saw the least, the report found.\n\nIt also looked at the number of refuge beds available for victims, which Women's Aid said had become a \"postcode lottery\" because of local authority funding cuts and poor commissioning practices.\n\nWales has the most with 10 bed spaces for every 1,000 domestic abuse victims. South-west England has the fewest with two per 1,000 victims.\n\nThe ONS says its analysis of the figures indicates a gradual downward trend in levels of domestic abuse.\n\nAlexa Bradley, from the ONS, said: \"Domestic abuse is a particularly difficult problem to tackle, not least because victims may be reluctant to report abuse or to support action against their abusers.\"", "These bikers travel across Iraq, flying the flag for tolerance and a love of motorbikes.\n\nFilmed by Kermanj Hoshyar. Produced by Nafiseh Kohnavard and Joe Inwood", "The BBC's business, political and economics editors on the announcements in Philip Hammond's Budget speech.\n\nAndrew Neil heard from Laura Kuenssberg, Kamal Ahmed and Simon Jack, straight after the chancellor and Labour leader spoke in the Commons.", "Much of the rest of the world is growing at a healthier clip.\n\nFor Britain it is a different story.\n\nToday the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) downgraded growth forecasts for the next four years.\n\nAnd it has been more aggressive with those downgrades than the Bank of England was in its Inflation Report earlier in the month.\n\nThe productivity problem is at the heart of that judgement.\n\nThe UK just hasn't been very good at producing wealth for every hour worked, and today the OBR lowered its expectations about how fast productivity will recover.\n\nWhich means that tax receipts will suffer, by up to £20bn a year by 2023.\n\nAdd to that the increase in inflation following the Brexit referendum and the squeeze in real incomes and the OBR is clear - the economy is not as strong as it thought it would be.\n\nThe chancellor's response has been two-fold.\n\nFirst, he has tried to paint a positive vision of Britain's future\n\nHe has talked of the good record on employment.\n\nAnd, in the short term, the news on borrowing is better as tax revenues have been higher and public spending lower.\n\nSecond, he has significantly loosened the fiscal tight belt he had thrown around the economy.\n\nIn March, Mr Hammond planned for two years of higher spending - giveaways - followed by three years of tax rises - takeaways.\n\nNow he has said that borrowing will be higher for every year of the five-year forecast, and higher spending will last until 2023.\n\nMany economists will welcome such a move, the government doing more to stimulate the economy.\n\nWhen the Bank of England raises rates, it increases the cost of the government's bills\n\nThe chancellor has pledged more money for health, a stamp duty tax cut and £3bn to prepare for leaving the European Union.\n\nBut debt will continue to rise, and that means the cost of servicing the amount the government borrows will increase.\n\nMuch of the government's debt is index linked - so its cost rises if inflation goes up.\n\nAnd every time the Bank of England increases interest rates, that also increases the cost of repaying the government's bills.\n\nThe worry in the Treasury is that they have used up a good deal of the public finances headroom Mr Hammond wanted to build up for the future in case Brexit uncertainty around the economy crystalizes into another growth downgrade.\n\nThe question now is what will happen if he needs to find more funding and still hit his target to balance the government's books by the middle of the next decade.\n\nAnd of course very little in this Budget will affect the key economic headwind everyone is facing.\n\nAnd that is the fall in real incomes.\n• None What the Budget means for you", "The UK is on course for its longest fall in living standards since records began over 60 years ago, the Resolution Foundation think tank has said.\n\nIts post-Budget analysis says the squeeze on incomes is set to last longer than that which followed the post-2008 crash.\n\nIt says real disposable incomes are now set to fall for 19 successive quarters.\n\nThe think tank was critical of the abolition of Stamp Duty for many first-time buyers.\n\nThe Resolution Foundation is a not-for-profit research and policy organisation, which says its goal is to improve outcomes for people on low and modest incomes.\n\nIn its Autumn Budget response, it said the £3bn cost of the Stamp Duty measure broke down to a subsidy of £160,000 per extra home owner.\n\nThe Foundation said this meant Chancellor Phillip Hammond could have simply bought people typically priced properties in over a quarter of local authorities, or built around 140,000 homes.\n\nIn his Budget speech, Mr Hammond said young people would benefit from the move: \"This is our plan to deliver on the pledge we have made to the next generation that the dream of home ownership will become a reality in this country once again.\"\n\nThe Resolution Foundation's main focus was on the growth downgrade, which it said put the economy on course to be £42bn smaller in 2022 than previously expected.\n\nOn Wednesday, the independent Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) cut its growth forecast sharply for 2017, from 2% to 1.5%, with growth for the next five years forecast to come in well under 2%.\n\nThe Foundation said that tax and benefit policies were set to put downward pressure on living standards and upward pressure on inequality, and would take an average of £715 away from the poorest third of households a year, while giving £185 to the richest third.\n\nHowever, it welcomed the action taken by the government on Universal Credit. The chancellor announced a £1.5bn package to \"address concerns\" about the delivery of the benefit, and promised to scrap the initial seven-day waiting period for processing of claims.\n\nTorsten Bell, director of the Resolution Foundation, said: \"Faced with a grim economic backdrop, the chancellor will see this Budget as a political success. But that would be cold comfort for Britain's families given the bleak outlook it paints for their living standards.\n\n\"Hopefully the OBR's forecasts will prove to be wrong because, while the first sentence of the Budget document reads 'the United Kingdom has a bright future', the brutal truth is: not on these forecasts it doesn't.\"\n\nOne of the key issues holding back incomes is the slow pace of productivity growth, which was revised down by an average of 0.7% a year up to 2023.\n\nThe Chancellor, Phillip Hammond, tried to address the productivity problem in Wednesday's Budget by expanding the National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF).\n\nThis was launched last year to provide additional investment in housing, infrastructure, and research and development. The Budget increases the size of the NPIF from £23bn to £31bn.\n\nHe also is increasing the Research and Development (R&D) Expenditure Credit, effectively tax relief for companies doing R&D.\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said: \"Over three million more people are in work, and we are helping everyone earn more and keep more of what they earn.\n\n\"We are increasing the National Living Wage by an inflation-busting 4.4%, freezing fuel duty and taking millions of people out of income tax altogether. The only way to increase pay in the long term is to improve our productivity, so we are investing over £30bn across the country to boost digital connectivity, improve skills and training, and build an economy that is fit for the future.\"\n\nMr Hammond, who was under pressure from sections of his party in the run-up to Wednesday's speech, won praise for his Budget from Tory backbenchers. MPs told the BBC it was \"very solid\".", "The Leeds bid has cost £1m over the past four years\n\nThe European Commission has cancelled the UK's turn to host the European Capital of Culture after Brexit, disappointing the bidding cities.\n\nFive places have already bid to hold the title in 2023 - Dundee, Nottingham, Leeds, Milton Keynes and Belfast/Derry.\n\nBut the commission has said the UK will no longer be eligible to have a host city after it leaves the EU in 2019.\n\nThe Creative Industries Federation said it was \"gutted\", while arts minister John Glen called it a \"crazy decision\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by John Glen 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\nPlans for the UK to host a Capital of Culture in 2023 were announced in 2014 - before the EU referendum.\n\nIn December 2016, the UK government said the competition would \"run as normal\", but did warn bidders that it \"may be subject to\" the Brexit negotiations.\n\nLiverpool was the last British city to be a European Capital of Culture, in 2008, following Glasgow in 1990.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Rosie Millard This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe title of European Capital of Culture rotates around eligible countries.\n\nCities from non-EU countries have held the title before - but if a country isn't in the EU, it must be a candidate to join or must be in the European Free Trade Association or European Economic Area.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said the government was in \"urgent discussions\" with the commission about the decision.\n\n\"We disagree with the European Commission's stance and are deeply disappointed that it has waited until after UK cities have submitted their final bids before communicating this new position to us,\" a statement said.\n\n\"The prime minister has been clear that while we are leaving the EU, we are not leaving Europe and this has been welcomed by EU leaders.\"\n\nDundee's bid team called it \"a bombshell for all of us\"\n\nThe statement said the government wants the UK to continue \"working with our friends in Europe\", including in cultural programmes, and will work with the bidders to \"help them realise their cultural ambitions\".\n\nThe Creative Industries Federation, which represents the arts sector, said: \"We are gutted to learn that the UK will not be allowed to host the European Capital of Culture as planned in 2023 after Brexit.\n\n\"This is despite the fact that cities in Europe that are outside the European Union have participated in the scheme historically.\"\n\nIt added that people were \"working feverishly behind the scenes to reverse this decision\".\n\nDanish chorus girls launched Aarhus as a European Capital of Culture in 2017\n\nThe federation's deputy chief executive Rosie Millard, who was to be among the contest's judges, wrote on Twitter: \"Very sad for the 5 bidding cities. I am on the judging panel & have seen all their hard work. #Brexitfallout\"\n\nDundee's bid team called it \"a bombshell for all of us\", saying they were \"hugely disappointed\" that the decision had come days before they were due to make their pitch in London.\n\n\"The timing is disrespectful not only to the citizens of Dundee, but to people from all five bidding cities who have devoted so much time, effort and energy so far in this competition,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"It's a sad irony that one of the key drivers of our bid was a desire to further enhance our cultural links with Europe.\"\n\nA statement from the Nottingham bid said they hoped the situation \"can be resolved positively\"\n\nThe Leeds bid has cost £1m over the past four years - £200,000 from the city council and £800,000 from private funders.\n\nHilary Benn, MP for Leeds Central and head of the House of Commons Select Committee for leaving the EU, said: \"This is a terrible blow and has come completely out of the blue.\n\n\"It's particularly extraordinary especially as the bids have just gone in.\n\n\"And to wait until all the work had gone in and turn around and say, 'You can't do this' - it's shoddy treatment of Leeds and the other cities have worked so hard.\"\n\nA Belfast City Council spokesman said they were \"deeply disappointed\" but wanted to make sure \"the time, energy, enthusiasm, ideas and resources put into our bid are carried forward regardless\".\n\nA statement from the Nottingham bid team said they hoped the situation \"can be resolved positively\" and Milton Keynes council leader Pete Marland said he remains \"hopeful that a compromise may be found in the future\".\n\nThree non-EU cities have previously held the title - Istanbul in 2010, Stavanger in Norway in 2008, and Reykjavik, Iceland, in 2000.\n\nExplaining the decision, a spokesman for the European Commission said: \"As one of the many concrete consequences of its decision to leave the European Union by 29 March 2019, the UK cannot host the European Capital of Culture in 2023.\n\n\"According to the rules adopted by the European Parliament and the Council (Decision 445/2014), this action is not open to third countries except candidate countries and European Free Trade Association/European Economic Area countries.\n\n\"Given that the UK will have left the EU by 29 March 2019, and therefore be unable to host the European Capital of Culture in 2023, we believe it makes common sense to discontinue the selection process now.\"\n\nThe European Capital of Culture is separate from the UK City of Culture title, which is currently held by Hull.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Nevest Coleman left his prison cell near Chicago and was greeted by family members, two decades after being wrongfully imprisoned for murder.", "Stamp duty will be abolished immediately for first-time buyers buying a home of up to £300,000, Chancellor Philip Hammond has said.\n\nFor properties costing up to £500,000, no stamp duty will be paid on the first £300,000.\n\nMr Hammond said this meant 95% of first-time buyers would see stamp duty cut, while 80% would pay none at all.\n\nThe change will apply in England and Northern Ireland, and in Wales up until the end of March, but not in Scotland.\n\nScotland has an independent system of land tax. Stamp duty will be devolved to Wales from March 2018.\n\nIn the rest of the UK stamp duty is paid on all residential properties worth more than £125,000. The duty is levied at a staggered rate above that threshold, starting at 2% but increasing in line with the value of the property being bought.\n\nThe Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) said the main beneficiaries would be existing homeowners, rather than first-time buyers, because it expects all house prices to rise by 0.3% within a year as a result of the change.\n\nIt also estimates that it will result in only an additional 3,500 first-time buyer purchases.\n\nHowever, the chancellor insisted that young people will benefit.\n\n\"This is our plan to deliver on the pledge we have made to the next generation that the dream of home ownership will become a reality in this country once again,\" Mr Hammond said.\n\nThe policy will cost the Treasury £3.2bn over the next five years.\n\nAndrew Norfolk, who is saving to buy a property in Cambridge, said the Stamp Duty change was a start, but more could be done.\n\n\"As a 26-year-old, working in a well-paid professional job, I find it ridiculous how difficult it is to get on the ladder without help from mum and dad.\n\n\"If I'm struggling - and I consider my position more fortunate than most - how on earth do most people ever stand a chance at home ownership?\"\n\nEstate agent Savills estimates that the average stamp duty bill for first-time buyers is about £2,700.\n\nBut in many parts of the country, first-time buyers will see no - or very little - saving at all.\n\nIn the North of England, the average Stamp Duty charge is just £11.82, according to analysts at AJ Bell.\n\nThis is because average house prices in the region are only just above the English Stamp Duty threshold, at £125,000.\n\nHowever, buyers who spend £500,000 could save up to £5,000.\n\n\"The stamp duty relief for first time buyers announced in today's budget will be a welcome boost to people purchasing their first home but the impact will be felt disproportionately in the South of England,\" said Tom Selby, senior analyst at AJ Bell.\n\nFor all first-time buyers, the deposit is a bigger up-front cost than Stamp Duty. The average deposit across the UK is £32,899, according to the Halifax, compared to the average Stamp Duty charge of £1,654.What does the stamp duty change mean?\n\nTom Kibasi, of the centre-left think tank the Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR), said: \"Unaffordable house prices are the problem, not Stamp Duty. For most young people, the stamp duty cut will make little difference. But it will help the beneficiaries of the bank of mum and dad.\"\n\nThe Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) pointed out a \"cliff edge\" situation in high-priced areas.\n\nA first-time buyer paying £500,001 for a home will pay £5,000 more in Stamp Duty than someone paying £500,000, it said.\n\nOther commentators agreed with the OBR that prices will rise as a result.\n\n\"Pouring financial fuel on house prices will only result in even higher house prices, just as Help to Buy has done and as previous Stamp Duty holidays have,\" said property expert Henry Pryor.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nEngland's Ashes debutant James Vince made 83 before Australia fought back on day one of the first Test in Brisbane.\n\nVince added 125 for the second wicket with Mark Stoneman either side of a 95-minute delay for rain at the Gabba.\n\nBut Vince was run out by Nathan Lyon's superb direct hit, in between Pat Cummins bowling Stoneman for 53 and trapping captain Joe Root lbw for 15.\n\nEngland, the Ashes holders, closed on 196-4, with Dawid Malan 28 not out and Moeen Ali unbeaten on 13.\n• None Australians know who we are now - Vince\n\nThe tourists battled hard after winning the toss and losing Alastair Cook in the third over, perhaps determined not to be blown away in the manner that saw them defeated 5-0 in Australia four years ago.\n\nBut on a slow pitch, Vince and Stoneman - both of whom were playing their first Ashes Test - were kept in check by a home attack that rarely offered anything loose and will have use of a ball that is only three deliveries old on the second morning.\n\nIf the surface does harden up over the next few days, Australia could get the best of the batting conditions and more pace for their bowlers in England's second innings.\n\nThe visitors, therefore, are likely to require their lower and middle order to get them to at least 350 and, ideally, beyond.\n\nPlay will start half an hour earlier than scheduled at 23:30 GMT on Thursday to make up for the 9.3 overs lost to the weather.\n• None How to follow the Ashes on the BBC\n• None Don't want to miss the action? Get Ashes alerts sent to your phone\n\nAustralia's proud record at the Gabba - they are unbeaten since 1988 - and an often hostile crowd has led to the 42,000-capacity ground being nicknamed 'the Gabbatoir'.\n\nHowever, England did not have to deal with Brisbane at its most raucous on Thursday.\n\nThere was a massive roar when Cook was dismissed, but not until late in the day did the home fans have a real reason to get behind their team.\n\nOn the contrary, England's travelling support sang Jersualem before play began and were lively deep into the final session.\n\nSome spectators relaxed in a swimming pool on the boundary edge, adding to an atmosphere that was more subdued than many expected for the opening skirmishes of this much-hyped contest.\n\nOff-spinner Lyon attracted much attention with his pre-match comments, saying he hoped Australia could end the careers of some England players during this series.\n\nNot only was he excellent with the ball, but in the field he produced the most decisive moment of the day.\n\nWith Vince looking set for a century, he pushed the ball into the off side and set off for a single.\n\nLyon moved from point, swooped and threw at the non-striker's end, a direct hit beating Vince's lunge for the crease.\n\nSoon after, Cummins got Root to play across a full ball, the initial not-out decision overturned on review.\n\nHampshire's Vince averaged only 19 when he played seven Tests in 2016, so was something of a surprise selection when recalled for this tour to fill England's problem number three position.\n\nWhile Cook and Root - the two most established members of England's batting line-up - managed 17 runs between them, Vince and Stoneman showed commendable composure on their Ashes debuts.\n\nArriving with England 2-1, 26-year-old Vince looked much more assured than in his previous attempt at Test cricket, showing the good judgement that has previously eluded him.\n\nWhenever Australia's pace bowlers went too full, he played his trademark drives, scoring heavily through the covers and point.\n\nAfter Vince registered his maiden half-century, the runs dried up, particularly against Lyon.\n\nIndeed, Vince was dropped by recalled Australia wicketkeeper Tim Paine on 68 when Lyon found the outside edge.\n\nStill, he was on course for a memorable hundred when he was stopped by Lyon's brilliance.\n\nStoneman has been England's form batsman of the tour, passing 50 in each of his previous four innings and registering their first century in the final warm-up game last week.\n\nHere the 30-year-old left-hander showed patience and concentration, leaving well outside off stump and mainly scoring on the leg side.\n\nHis second-wicket partnership with Vince was bigger than anything England managed on their previous Ashes tour.\n\nAlthough Stoneman accumulated slowly - his half-century came from 150 balls - he looked solid and it was a surprise when Cummins nipped one between bat and pad to take the top of the stumps.\n\nMuch of the talk in the build-up had been of Australia's three-pronged pace attack and its potential to emulate Mitchell Johnson's efforts of four years ago.\n\nAnd when Mitchell Starc had a flat-footed Cook caught at first slip from the 10th delivery he bowled, it was hard not to feel a sense of deja vu.\n\nBut, hampered by the pitch and repelled by England's grit, Starc, Cummins and Josh Hazlewood had to settle for control.\n\nIndeed, Lyon was the pick of the bowlers, finding turn and conceding only 40 runs from 24 overs.\n\nMoeen and 30-year-old Ashes debutant Malan, who applied himself well to survive for an hour and a half, had nervous moments, a failed review for a Starc lbw appeal against Malan the last act before the umpires ended play because of bad light.\n• None Joe Root is only the sixth England captain to win the toss in the 21 Tests they have played at the Gabba\n• None Alastair Cook failed to reach 25 for the fifth successive Test innings\n• None Mark Stoneman and James Vince's second-wicket stand of 125 was higher than any England partnership managed in the entire 2013-14 Ashes\n• None It was England's first century partnership for the second wicket since Alastair Cook and Root's alliance against Pakistan at Old Trafford in 2016\n• None Vince's 83 and Stoneman's 53 are their highest Test scores\n• None Australia have played 78 Tests since Tim Paine's previous appearance, a joint Australia record with Brad Hogg\n• None In reaching nine, Root passed 1,000 Test runs against Australia\n• None Pat Cummins is playing only his sixth Test in six years, and his first in Australia", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nBrazilian footballer Robinho has been sentenced to nine years in prison for taking part in the gang rape of a woman in Milan in 2013.\n\nAn Italian court ruled the 33-year-old and five other Brazilians assaulted the Albanian woman, who was 22, after plying her with alcohol in a nightclub.\n\nThe forward, who left AC Milan in 2015 after five years, was not in court but pleaded not guilty via his lawyer.\n\nThe sentence will be put on hold until the appeals process is completed.\n\nRobinho, capped 100 times by his country, spent two years at Manchester City and currently plays for Atletico Mineiro in Brazil.\n\nA post on Robinho's Instagram page said he had \"already defended himself against the accusations, affirming that he did not participate in the episode\" and that \"all legal measures are being taken\".\n\nAfter starting his career at Santos, Robinho won two La Liga titles in four seasons at Real Madrid, before joining City for a then British record fee of £32.5m in the summer of 2008.\n\nHis arrival, on the final day of the transfer window, came on Sheikh Mansour's first day as owner of the Premier League club.\n\nThe playmaker struggled to make an impact in England and was loaned back to Santos in January 2010.\n\nHe won Serie A during his subsequent spell at Milan, but returned to Santos for another loan spell in August 2014 before joining Chinese side Guangzhou Evergrande in July 2015.\n\nWhen his sixth-month deal expired, he moved back to Brazil, joining Atletico Mineiro on a two-year deal.", "The government has refused to comment on a leaked report branding its approach to Brexit as \"chaotic\".\n\nThe internal Irish government paper, obtained by RTÉ, documents EU figures' scathing assessments of cabinet members such as Brexit Secretary David Davis.\n\nA Czech minister is quoted as describing Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson as \"unimpressive\".\n\nThe minister also warns of \"political confusion\" about the UK Government's approach to leaving the EU.\n\nDowning Street said the government was working hard on its preparations for Brexit.\n\nIt had \"a good and constructive\" relationship with the Irish government, said a spokesperson.\n\nSome in Europe have long been frustrated about the British government's approach to Brexit. But what was private has now become more public.\n\nThe Irish government refused to comment on the leak.\n\nBut some British MPs and officials suspect the Irish are using this moment of maximum leverage before a crucial EU summit next month to harden their position and put more pressure on the UK.\n\nAnd some believe the leak should be seen in that context.\n\nDowning Street insisted there was a good and constructive relationship between London and Dublin. But right now it is a relationship that is being tested.\n\nThe Irish government refused to comment on the leaked document, which was published by the country's national broadcaster RTÉ on Thursday.\n\n\"A core part of the work of our embassies and other missions abroad is to report on the views of our partners on what is a strategically vital issue for Ireland,\" said an Irish government spokesperson.\n\n\"These routine reports are internal and confidential and are not intended for the public domain.\"\n\nRTE's Europe Editor, Tony Connelly, who got hold of the leaked report, said it reflected \"private, anxious conversations that are being held in chancelleries and ministries around Europe when Irish officials are present\".\n\n\"But in a sense we've all known - and this has been articulated in public by people like Jean Claude Juncker and Donald Tusk - that there is essentially disarray within the Tory party, within the cabinet on Brexit and that is reflected in the way people view the British strategy,\" he told the BBC's Brexitcast podcast.\n\nThe leaked document is based on a compilation of political reports from Irish embassies across Europe, dated between 6 and 10 November.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. RTÉ's Europe Editor Tony Connelly assesses what EU ministers think of the UK's Brexit negotiating team\n\nIt claims that Brexit was barely mentioned during a meeting on 23 October between Mr Davis and French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian and French Minister for European Affairs Nathalie Loiseau - something which was viewed as a wasted opportunity.\n\n\"Despite having billed this in the media in advance as a meeting to 'unblock' French resistance, Mr Davis hardly mentioned Brexit at all during the meeting, much to French surprise, focusing instead on foreign policy issues,\" the paper states.\n\nThe Czech deputy minister for foreign affairs, Jakub Durr, told officials he felt \"sorry for British ambassadors around the EU trying to communicate a coherent message when there is political confusion at home\".\n\nMeanwhile, during a meeting in Luxembourg, a British judge at the European Court of Justice is quoted bemoaning \"the quality of politicians in Westminster\".\n\nThe judge, Ian Forrester, also wondered if the British public would view Brexit as \"a great mistake\" when they realised what leaving the EU entailed, according to the leaked paper.\n\nThe report highlights the significant concerns that will make it difficult to progress negotiations to a second phase at next month's summit.\n\nOverall, the various ministries across the EU expressed doubt that the UK would be permitted to move to the second phase of talks unless it brought forward solutions to the issue of the UK's financial liabilities on leaving the EU.\n\nThey noted that the EU remained united at 27 countries, and that Michel Barnier, the EU's chief negotiator, had appeared far from optimistic that a breakthrough would happen at the December summit.\n\nThe future management of the Irish border is one of three main priorities in UK-EU Brexit talks\n\nOn Thursday, Irish Foreign Minister Simon Coveney said he was hopeful agreement could be reached on Irish-related issues by mid-December to move Brexit talks to the next phase, but that \"it is by no means pre-determined\".\n\nEarlier this month, Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said it was likely\" EU leaders would give the green light for Brexit talks to focus on trade, at their meeting in December.\n\nMr Varadkar said this was his own belief rather than a forecast of any European Council decision.\n\nMr Varadkar \"should know better\" than to \"play around\" with Northern Ireland over Brexit, DUP leader Arlene Foster said after the Taoiseach suggested leaving the EU could jeopardise the peace process.\n\nThe Irish government says any hard border with Northern Ireland should be off the table.\n\nAnd an EU paper recently suggested Northern Ireland would have to continue to follow many EU rules after Brexit, if a hard border was to be avoided.\n\nIt hinted Northern Ireland may need to stay in the EU customs union if there were to be no checks at the border.\n\nThat is something the UK Conservative government - supported in key votes by the DUP at Westminster - has said it can not accept as it would effectively create a border between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK.\n\nThe leaked report was compiled just weeks after the EU summit in Brussels during which EU leaders told Theresa May that Britain needed to do more on the three key issues: citizens' rights, the UK's financial obligation and the Irish border.", "Serious work on restoring Zimbabwe's finances need to begin once the celebrations over Robert Mugabe's departure have ended\n\nCurrent events in Zimbabwe show that while a week may be a long time in politics, it is really a very short blink of an eye in economics. Zimbabweans on the streets of Harare and Bulawayo may be hopeful for political change, but they are much more sanguine and realistic when it comes to improving the country's economy.\n\nPresidents can be impeached in days or weeks. It takes years to wreck economies and usually even longer to repair them.\n\nSo, will Emmerson Mnangagwa be able to take Zimbabwe's economy off life support and at least start to put it on the road to recovery? Analysts are very sceptical that a quick solution is even feasible. The euphoria that has gripped the nation has certainly raised hopes that the future will be brighter, but if that improved sentiment is to deliver economic dividends, the government needs to make some drastic reforms.\n\nThe first tool President Mnangagwa would need to even get a recovery kick-started is hard currency. Zimbabwe hasn't had a currency of its own since 2009, after hyperinflation killed off the old Zimbabwean dollar.\n\nZimbabwe 100 trillion and 500 thousand dollar banknotes, produced after the country experienced a period of hyperinflation\n\nZimbabwe has lost its status as the breadbasket of Africa\n\nSince then, the US dollar has been the main currency for transactions, as well as the South African rand. And in recent years a cash shortage has been slowly strangling the economy, which is half the size it was at the turn of the millennium.\n\nBut who would stump up the cash? Western donors will remain wary of a Zanu-PF government which simply sees Robert Mugabe replaced by Mr Mnangagwa.\n\nThe International Monetary Fund, which describes Zimbabwe's economy as one of the most fragile in the world, may be more willing - but only with many strings attached to any deal.\n\nChina is possibly the most likely cash benefactor in the initial stages of a Mnangagwa administration. In some circles, Mr Mnangagwa is seen as Zimbabwe's Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese leader who instigated a degree of market liberalisation.\n\nAssuming the cash is forthcoming, what then? Mr Mnangagwa would have to dump economic policies that are unpalatable to foreign investors.\n\nZimbabwe's agricultural production started to plunge after the government-sanctioned programme of farm seizures came into effect\n\nZimbabwe has a potential labour force that is one of the most skilled in Africa\n\nIn 2009, Mr Mugabe signed the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act (IEEA) into law, which aimed to place 51% of companies into the hands of Black Zimbabweans.\n\nEven some Chinese companies have been forced to close their operations in Zimbabwe in recent years, because the IEEA made it unprofitable to do business in the country.\n\nOnce considered the breadbasket of Africa, Zimbabwe saw its agricultural production start to plunge at the turn of the century after the government-sanctioned programme of farm seizures.\n\nSome sources claim that Mr Mnangagwa is keen to revitalise Zimbabwe's commercial farms, and may seek the help of white farmers to do it.\n\nCorruption has been a major restraint on economic growth in Zimbabwe for years. Much of the farmland that was seized from white farmers ended up in the hands of army generals and the political elite, who knew next to nothing about agriculture.\n\nThe farms simply fell into disarray. Likewise, businesses that ended up with people with more political connections than entrepreneurial flair more often than not went to the wall.\n\nThree million Zimbabweans are estimated to live outside the country, having fled the dire economic conditions that emerged over the past two decades\n\nNot that corruption is confined to Zimbabwe in the African context, but it is one of those places that it seems to trickle down from the top. Just ask any South African who has driven their car across the border and been stopped at a police roadblock.\n\nBut Mr Mnangagwa has not escaped the corruption criticism. It is alleged that he was at the top of corruption tree when the army effectively took over the Marange diamond fields in the east of the country in 2008. At the time, he was the defence minister.\n\nThat whole affair raised the eyebrows even of Mr Mugabe, who said last year that he felt at least $13bn of revenue had gone missing from the diamond bonanza.\n\nFor nearly 20 years, Zimbabwe has been in default on $9bn worth of international debt. That debt needs restructuring, probably with the assistance of the IMF and the World Bank.\n\nPerhaps a government that did not only include Zanu-PF could even get the debt (or some of it) wiped out. Mr Mnangagwa is thought to be open to a new deal with the IMF, but getting new financing and renegotiating old deals would probably be easier for a unity government which included opposition politicians, especially former Finance Minister Tendai Biti.\n\nFormal jobs in Zimbabwe are rare. Unemployment runs at more than 90%. Creating the conditions for investment and seeing that money flows in should have a dramatic short-term effect on unemployment.\n\nWestern governments will be wary of a Zanu-PF government which simply sees Robert Mugabe replaced by Emmerson Mnangagwa (above)\n\nOther conditions already exist: the country has an abundance of natural resources in both agriculture and mining, and a potential labour force that's one of the most skilled in Africa.\n\nAll it needs is the political will and the right economic conditions for Zimbabwe's unemployment statistics to become rather less stratospheric.\n\nMeanwhile, three million Zimbabweans are estimated to live outside the country, having fled the dire economic conditions that emerged over the past two decades. They too have skills which would be useful in the rebuilding of the economy.\n\nBut they will have to feel they would be landing on solid and stable ground - both financially and politically. Otherwise, why go back?\n\nIn addition, it could be argued that a Zanu-PF dominated government would not want them back this side of an election. The vast majority of the returning diaspora would be unlikely to vote for Mr Mnangagwa and his party.\n\nIn the longer term, Zimbabwe needs to have its own currency.\n\nUsing the US dollar was necessary after the old Zim dollar became worth less than the paper it was printed on and met its demise.\n\nBanks in Zimbabwe have been feeling the strain in recent months\n\nBut there is so much more to creating a viable currency than switching on a printing press. Confidence is key.\n\nLast year, the Reserve Bank introduced \"bond notes\" which were meant to alleviate the chronic shortage of US dollars in the system.\n\nHowever, many thought this was an attempt to re-introduce the Zim dollar via the back door.\n\nIn fact, the notes have done nothing to address the cash shortage and some analysts say they might have actually made the situation worse, by pushing up the demand for US dollars even further.\n\nFew people like using the bond notes, even though the amount in circulation is relatively low and the denominations are small.\n\nPutting money into a bank was no longer considered the soundest of options, because the cash could only be withdrawn in small amounts and there was always the fear that the Reserve Bank would come for your hard-earned dollars.\n\nSo, the stock market soared, ironically becoming one of the best performing bourses in the world. Indeed, the rise in the stock market has only been curtailed by the army intervention and the resignation of Mr Mugabe.\n\nPresident Mugabe was accused of preparing the presidency for his wife Grace\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Indians have reacted angrily after the health minister from Assam state said cancer \"is divine justice\" caused by \"past sins of a person\".\n\nHimanta Biswa Sarma said that people could also get diseases like cancer \"because of the sins of their parents\".\n\nCancer patients and their relatives said they were saddened by the minister's statement.\n\nOpposition parties have described his comments as \"unfortunate\", and demanded a public apology.\n\nState opposition party the All India United Democratic Front said Mr Sarma had made the statement to \"cover his failure to control the spread of cancer in the state\".\n\nHe had made the remark while speaking at a public event in Guwahati on Wednesday.\n\n\"God makes us suffer when we sin. Sometimes we come across young men getting inflicted with cancer or young men meeting with accidents. If you observe the background you will come to know that it's divine justice. Nothing else. We have to suffer that divine justice,\" The Times of India quoted him as saying.\n\nHis statement has angered many 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 Smita Sharma This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Sharma, who is a member of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), later tweeted a defiant clarification, which has only angered people further.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Himanta Biswa Sarma This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nResearch by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) says that lack of awareness and testing means that only 12.5% of patients come for treatment in the early stages of the disease.\n\nIt is estimated that the number of new cancer cases or its incidence in the country will grow by 25% by 2020, the report added.", "If you feel a little poorer now than you did a few years ago, you may not be alone as full-time workers earn a little less in real terms than they did a year ago, despite low unemployment levels.\n\nTo find out what the average wage is for your job and to see if it has increased since 2011 use the calculator below.\n\nYou can search by typing, or explore our list of 332 different roles, as classified by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nPlease enable JavaScript to view the salary calculator. I am a… Enter text to look for your job The BBC will not record your salary information. Please enter an amount between 1 and 100000\n\nIf you cannot see the calculator, click here.\n\nAll data used on this page is compiled and made available by the ONS's Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) - the most recent release was 26 October, 2017. The survey doesn't include self-employed workers or bonuses. We have chosen to use data for full-time workers only.\n\nThe BBC has examined figures from 2011 to 2017, inclusive. We excluded jobs entirely if there was no figure for 2017. Other sections may be hidden for certain jobs due to missing data.\n\nThe only sheets we used are those referring to \"Gross annual pay\" and \"Hourly pay- excluding overtime\". We used hourly pay to work out the gender pay gap and annual pay for all other figures. We selected the median figure rather than the mean, as per ONS advice.\n\nWe used the CPI measure of inflation to make real-term adjustments, comparing the indices for April 2017 with April 2011 and April 2016. The survey is completed in April at the end of each financial year.", "Jeremy McConnell struck up a relationship with former Hollyoaks actor Stephanie Davis in the Celebrity Big Brother house\n\nReality TV personality Jeremy McConnell has been jailed for 18 weeks for missing community service to get a hair and beard transplant.\n\nThe Celebrity Big Brother star was given a suspended sentence after being convicted of assaulting his partner.\n\nMcConnell, 27, had been staying with a friend in south Wales but Cardiff Magistrates heard he missed eight work appointments in the 200-hour order.\n\nThe court activated the sentence for failing to comply with his punishment.\n\nDublin-born model McConnell attacked former Hollyoaks actress Stephanie Davis at her home in Rainhill, Merseyside, while she was holding their baby son, Liverpool Magistrates' Court heard.\n\nThe pair met while starring on Celebrity Big Brother together, but rowed during the trial in August and proceedings were stopped at one point.\n\nMiss Davis said of the incident in March she thought that \"psychotic\" McConnell was \"going to kill\" her after taking cocaine.\n\nAfter being found guilty and having his sentence suspended, McConnell was carrying out the community service in south Wales as he stayed with the family of a friend.\n\nProbation Service officers recommended he be given extra hours of unpaid work, however this was overruled by district judge Wendy Lloyd.\n\nAppearing via video link from Liverpool, she described the \"vicious alcohol-fuelled attack\" that left Miss Davis with injuries and damaged property.\n\nShe said: \"Your enthusiasm for co-operation has been short-lived and there's nothing to show in the future things will change.\"\n\nMcConnell was given some credit for completing part of the work and was sentenced to 18 instead of 20 weeks.\n\nBefore arriving at court, McConnell posted on his Snapchat account: \"If I don't see yas have a good Christmas.\"", "The claim: Changes to stamp duty will save an average of £1,700 to first-time buyers.\n\nReality Check verdict: The average first-time buyer would indeed save about £1,700 in stamp duty, but for some people it's likely that would be more than offset by increased house prices, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), which provides independent assessments of the Budget. It's likely to be better news for potential first-time buyers struggling to get together a deposit than for those unable to borrow enough as a result of their earnings.\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond has abolished stamp duty on homes costing less than £300,000, with reduced rates up to £500,000.\n\nYou can read about the full details of the policy with the variations around the UK here.\n\nA first-time buyer purchasing a £500,000 property, who would previously have paid £15,000 in stamp duty, will now pay £10,000, while someone buying a property for £300,000, who would previously have faced a stamp duty bill of £5,000, will now not pay anything.\n\nThe chancellor told BBC News that the average saving for first-time buyers would be £1,700 - that is the amount of stamp duty that would previously have been payable on the average property bought by first-time buyers, according to the Halifax.\n\nBut forecasts from the judgement of the OBR suggest that the benefits would come to existing homeowners and not first-time buyers because house prices are likely to rise by 0.3%.\n\nThis policy is part of a package of measures designed to help first-time buyers to access the housing market. To understand whether it is a good thing, it is useful to think about two key reasons why people might be struggling to buy houses.\n\nOne possibility is that people are struggling to raise enough money for a deposit. Most mortgages require the borrower to put up a minimum proportion of the purchase price - 5% or 10% for example.\n\nIf somebody is struggling to get together a deposit, then being able to spend the £5,000 they had earmarked for stamp duty on the deposit instead, for example, will be useful and also may increase the amount they can borrow, which will mean they can buy a property they may not have been able to in other circumstances.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) stressed that while house prices might have risen, this sort of buyer would end up with a more valuable asset, even if only as a result of the new stamp duty policy.\n\n\"The price goes up, but the other impact it has is that it allows first-time buyers the ability to purchase properties that they otherwise wouldn't have been able to afford,\" OBR chairman Robert Chote told the BBC's Daily Politics.\n\nAnother possibility is that people have saved up their deposit but their earnings are not high enough for a mortgage provider to be prepared to lend them enough money to buy a suitable property.\n\nThis policy will not be good for them if house prices rise as the OBR suggested. It said that house prices could go up by twice as much as the stamp duty saving because of the extra borrowing made possible for some people by having a bigger deposit.\n\nThe OBR also quoted HMRC's verdict on the similar stamp duty holiday after the financial crisis, which was that it \"has not had a significant impact in terms of improving the affordability of residential property for first-time buyers\".\n\nThis point about rising prices was put to the chancellor on the Today programme, but he said this was looking at the stamp duty change in isolation without the effect on the market of the 300,000 net homes per year that the government plans to build in England by the middle of the next decade.\n\nThere has been some doubt about the government's ability to achieve this target, not least from the OBR, which has not made any adjustments to its forecasts for housing starts. It said: \"Governments have announced a number of initiatives aimed at overcoming housing supply constraints,\" referring for example to the National Planning Policy Framework from 2012.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It was a \"great relief\" to find out that jailed Briton Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe did not have cancer, her husband has said.\n\nRichard Ratcliffe, whose wife has been held in Iran since April 2016, told BBC London that doctors in Iran will see Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe again in three months.\n\nThe full details of the allegations against Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe have never been made fully public.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It was bucket versus river - and the river won,\" says Maggie Wild.\n\nMore than 70 people and 20 horses had to be rescued from floods in Lancashire as bad weather hit the UK.\n\nEmergency crews received more than 500 calls, with Lancaster and Galgate the worst affected places.\n\nRoads were shut and rail services suspended by floods in north Wales and snow is forecast across Scotland.\n\nThere are currently five flood warnings in place in the north west, which forced rail services to run at a reduced speed.\n\nEmergency crews received up to 500 calls with Lancaster and Galgate the areas worst affected\n\nMore than 30 properties were pumped out and a number of people rescued from vehicles in parts of North Yorkshire.\n\nThe Met Office said around 1.7in (4.3cm) of rain had fallen in 24 hours in parts of Lancashire, with United Utilities saying rainfall had reached \"unprecedented levels\".\n\nLancaster University's weather station said it has recorded its highest ever rainfall total.\n\nIn the 24 hours from 09:00 GMT Wednesday the station at Hazelrigg said 73.6mm of rain had fallen - the highest level in more than 50 years since the centre started weather observations.\n\nThe levels were higher than Storm Desmond in December 2015 when about 5,200 homes were flooded in Cumbria and Lancashire and 42,000 homes in the Lancaster area lost power after an electricity sub-station flooded.\n\nOne lane on the M6 motorway southbound remains closed, between junctions 35 and 36 but the A6 at Galgate has been reopened.\n\nRail users in Carnforth, Lancashire, had to take evasive action when the station flooded\n\nThe main route through Galgate was closed\n\nFive hundred properties mainly in Blackpool, Thornton-Cleveleys and Poulton on the Fylde coast, are without power due to the weather, Electricity North West confirmed.\n\nRail lines that were shut between Preston and Lancaster have reopened, according to Virgin Trains, and have now resumed normal service.\n\nA number of schools were shut for the day because of the weather, including Ellel Primary School in Galgate, Moor Park Primary School in Bispham, Royal Brook Primary in Thornton-Cleveleys and Cardinal Allen High School in Fleetwood.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMs Wild said her cooker, washer, dishwasher boiler were \"all gone\"\n\nPeople had to abandon their cars and homes were flooded when the River Conder in Galgate burst its banks on Wednesday evening.\n\nLancaster resident Maggie Wild, whose cellar was flooded, said: \"[I] came home and thought it is pretty high and it is still going to rain all night so I better start moving stuff out of the way.\n\n\"It just came in faster and faster... and there came a point when we were bucketing it out and we had pumps going on it.\"\n\nThe River Conder in Galgate burst its banks\n\nShe said: \"It was bucket versus river and the river won.\"\n\nShe added her cooker, washer, dishwasher boiler were \"all gone\".\n\nStudent Henry Wilson from Galgate said water got up to the top of his thigh - reaching the third step of the stairs in his house.\n\nHe said water started seeping in the front door… but then \"flew into the house\" once it got through the back door.\n\n\"We couldn't believe how quickly it happened.\"\n\nHe said it felt like a film with \"furniture floating about\".\n\nHenry Wilson has spent the morning clearing up his home\n\nZak Burnell said the water was waist deep in Limerick Road, Bispham, Blackpool and residents used sandbags from the nearby roadworks.\n\nElectricity North West said the weather had caused \"intermittent power cuts\" in Preston and Ulverston.\n\nThe Environment Agency said its staff had been on the ground overnight and will be checking flood defences.\n\n\"Our actions have protected more than 6,000 properties,\" said Sheena Engineer, national flood duty manager.\n\nFlooding has also affected the Devonshire Road area of Blackpool, which is currently a diversion route for traffic because the Promenade is shut while tram network extension work is under way.\n\nDevonshire Road is closed between Mansfield Road and Warley Road.\n\nThe A583 in Kirkham was also closed in both directions between Ribby Road and Fox Lane Ends.\n\nLancaster City Council tweeted it has teams in the worst-hit areas, clearing debris from roads and pavements.\n\nAccording to BBC Weather, blustery showers will ease off later and many places will have a dry night.\n\nIn Wales, people were rescued from flooded vehicles in Bethesda, firefighters pumped out water from homes at Bethel and there have been landslips.\n\nLlangefni town centre was flooded by 3ft (90cm) of water overnight.\n\nNorth Wales Fire and Rescue Service said it took more than 250 flood-related calls overnight.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The University of Reading say molecules from burning fat could counteract global warming.\n\nFatty acids released into the air from cooking may contribute to the formation of clouds that cool the climate, say scientists.\n\nFatty acid molecules comprise about 10% of fine particulates over London, and such particles help seed clouds.\n\nBut researchers dismiss the idea that cooking fats could be used as a geo-engineering tool to reduce warming.\n\nInstead, the research is designed to help reduce uncertainties about the role of cooking fats on climate.\n\nResearchers believe the fatty molecules arrange themselves into complex 3-D structures in atmospheric droplets.\n\nThese aerosols persist for longer than normal and can seed the formation of clouds which experts say can have a cooling effect on the climate.\n\nThe authors say the study will shed new light on the long term role of aerosols on temperatures.\n\nAtmospheric aerosols are one of the areas of climate science where there are considerable uncertainties.\n\nMolecules from deep fat frying may have a cooling effect on the climate\n\nThe description covers tiny particles that can be either solid or liquid, ranging from the dusts of the Saharan desert to soot to aerosols formed by chemical reaction.\n\nThese can have a variety of impacts, while most aerosols reflect sunlight back into space others absorb it.\n\nAerosols and the clouds seeded by them, are said to reflect about a quarter of the Sun's energy back into space.\n\nResearchers have known for some time that the emissions of fatty acid molecules from chip pans and cookers may coat aerosol particles in the atmosphere - but this is the first time that scientists have looked at their role inside the droplets.\n\nUsing ultrasonic levitation to hold individual droplets of brine and oleic acid in position, the research team was able to make them float so they could analyse them with a laser beam and X-rays.\n\nFatty acid molecules were levitated so researchers could probe their interior structures\n\nThe X-rays proved crucial in revealing the inner structure.\n\n\"We found these drops could form these self-assembled phases which means these molecules can stay much longer in the atmosphere,\" said lead author Dr Christian Pfrang, from the University of Reading.\n\n\"These self-assembled structures are highly viscous so instead of having a water droplet you have something that behaves much more like honey, so processes inside the droplet will slow down,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"They are resistant to oxidation so they stay around longer, so cloud formation will be easier.\"\n\nScientists believe that the number of fatty acid molecules in the air is relatively high, comprising about 10% of the fine particulate matter over London, according to research published last year.\n\nThis could be having an impact on the number of clouds and the amount of heat they reflect back into space.\n\n\"If you want to establish emissions control measures for McDonalds for example, you could assume that instead of two hours the molecules can last more than one day,\" said Dr Pfrang.\n\n\"Then this air parcel that comes from McDonalds will travel 10 times further, this is important for local air pollution but also to determine the effect of clouds which is the largest uncertainty.\"\n\n\"We know that the complex structures we saw are formed by similar fatty acid molecules like soap in water,\" said co-lead author, Dr Adam Squires, from the University of Bath,\n\n\"There, they dramatically affect whether the mixture is cloudy or transparent, solid or liquid, and how much it absorbs moisture from the atmosphere in a lab.\n\n\"The idea that this may also be happening in the air above our heads is exciting, and raises challenges in understanding what these cooking fats are really doing to the world around us.\"\n\nThe researchers say that current large-scale atmospheric models do not account for the role of 3-D structures in aerosols at all, according to the research team.\n\nBut they are dismissive of the idea that cooking fats could somehow be used as a form of geo-engineering to limit the impacts of global warming.\n\nMuch more important they say, is to collect molecules from the atmosphere and bring them back for further study.\n\n\"If it does have an impact, it is likely to be a cooling one,\" said Dr Pfrang.\n\n\"And the extent urgently needs further research.\"\n\nThe study has been published in the journal Nature Communications.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nZimbabwe's incoming leader Emmerson Mnangagwa has hailed a \"new and unfolding democracy\" after returning from exile to replace Robert Mugabe.\n\nHe also vowed to create jobs in a country where some estimates say 90% of people are unemployed.\n\n\"We want to grow our economy, we want peace, we want jobs, jobs, jobs,\" he told a cheering crowd in Harare.\n\nMr Mnangagwa, who fled to South Africa two weeks ago, is to be made the new president on Friday, state TV said.\n\nHis dismissal led the ruling party and the military to intervene and force an end to Mr Mugabe's 37-year long rule.\n\nHe told supporters at the headquarters of the ruling Zanu-PF party that he had been the subject of several assassination plots and thanked the army for running the \"process\" of removing Mr Mugabe peacefully.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How news of Robert Mugabe's resignation was greeted across Zimbabwe\n\nThe news that 93-year-old Mr Mugabe was stepping down sparked wild celebrations across the country late into Tuesday night.\n\nIt came in the form of a letter read out in parliament on Tuesday, abruptly halting impeachment proceedings against him.\n\nIn it, Mr Mugabe said he was resigning to allow a smooth and peaceful transfer of power, and that his decision was voluntary.\n\nA spokesman for the ruling Zanu-PF party said Mr Mnangagwa, 71, would serve the remainder of Mr Mugabe's term until elections that are due to be held by September 2018.\n\nNicknamed the \"crocodile\" because of his political cunning, Mr Mnangagwa met South African President Jacob Zuma before leaving for Zimbabwe.\n\nThousands of party supporters waited for hours to welcome Mr Mnangagwa in his first public appearance since he emerged from hiding.\n\nDuring his 20-minute speech, he corrected himself at least once for referring to Mr Mugabe as president rather than former president. His message was largely conciliatory.\n\nBut he also relished his stunning return to power and successful removal of Mr Mugabe. He brought up Grace Mugabe's speech a fortnight ago, in which - meaning him - she said we must \"deal with the snake by crushing its head\". A day later he was fired.\n\n\"I wonder which snake's head was crushed?\" he said to loud cheers.\n\nMr Mnangagwa's firing by Mr Mugabe two weeks ago triggered an unprecedented political crisis in the country.\n\nIt had been seen by many as an attempt to clear the way for Grace Mugabe to succeed her husband as leader and riled the military leadership, which stepped in and put Mr Mugabe under house arrest.\n\nUnder the constitution, the role of successor would normally go to a serving vice-president, and one still remains in post - Phelekezela Mphoko.\n\nHowever, Mr Mphoko - a key ally of Mrs Mugabe - has just been fired by Zanu-PF and is not believed to be in the country. In his absence, the party has nominated Mr Mnangagwa, the speaker of parliament confirmed.\n\nSome have questioned whether the handover to Mr Mnangagwa will bring about real change in the country.\n\nHe was national security chief at a time when thousands of civilians died in post-independence conflict in the 1980s, though he denies having blood on his hands.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC correspondent Andrew Harding looks for Grace Mugabe in her heartland\n\nOpposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai told the BBC he hoped that Zimbabwe was on a \"new trajectory\" that would include free and fair elections.\n\nHe said Mr Mugabe should be allowed to \"go and rest for his last days\".\n\nProminent opposition politician David Coltart tweeted: \"We have removed a tyrant but not yet a tyranny.\"\n\nAfrican Union president Alpha Condé said he was \"truly delighted\" by the news, but expressed regret at the way Mr Mugabe's rule had ended.\n\n\"It is a shame that he is leaving through the back door and that he is forsaken by the parliament,\" he said.\n\nAt 93, Mr Mugabe was - until his resignation - the world's oldest leader. He once proclaimed that \"only God\" could remove him.\n\nLawmakers from the ruling party and opposition roared with glee when his resignation letter was read aloud in parliament on Wednesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Activist and political candidate Vimbaishe Musvaburi breaks down in tears of joy\n\nActivist and political candidate Vimbaishe Musvaburi broke down in tears of joy while speaking to the BBC.\n\n\"We are tired of this man, we are so glad he's gone. We don't want him anymore and yes, today, it's victory,\" she said.\n\nPresident Mugabe was accused of preparing the presidency for his wife Grace\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Kezia Dugdale is one of two late entries to the jungle camp\n\nKezia Dugdale has made her first jungle appearance on TV programme I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!.\n\nThe former leader of Scottish Labour was introduced as one of two late-entry campmates on Wednesday's live edition of the reality show.\n\nPresenters Ant and Dec ended the programme with a \"teaser\" that Ms Dugdale and comedian and broadcaster Iain Lee would be joining the line-up.\n\nThey are expected to be fully unveiled on Thursday's episode.\n\nMs Dugdale admitted some of her political colleagues will be \"shocked and angry\" at her stint in the Australian jungle.\n\nShe said: \"They will be angry because they will say I should be doing my day job and I am going to be away. I understand that anger.\n\n\"I've seen them be angry over similar things other people have done but I can't help but think that it is an amazing opportunity to talk to millions of people about the Labour Party, its values and how it is different.\n\n\"I am not going to talk about politics all the time but it is who I am, what I do and I can't help it.\"\n\nThe Edinburgh and Lothians MSP admitted she didn't reveal her reality show plans when she asked Labour party bosses for three weeks' off from Holyrood business.\n\nShe said: \"I quit as leader and so there was no obvious person to ask for permission.\n\n\"I went to the two people who were running for Scottish leader (eventual winner Richard Leonard and losing candidate Anas Sarwar) and told them I was going abroad for three weeks to work. They were both cool with that.\n\n\"I will be back for the budget in December.\"\n\nAnt (left) and Dec are again fronting the show from Australia\n\nThe Lothians MSP is expected to be paid tens of thousands of pounds, part of which she will donate to charity, along with her MSP's salary for the three weeks she is away.\n\nMs Dugdale poked fun at her political colleagues and rivals when she revealed what scared her most about the prospect of going into the jungle.\n\nShe said: \"I am used to dealing with rats and snakes but I've never had to deal with creepy crawlies before.\n\n\"I ran upstairs when I saw a spider the other day and I've got a big fear of birds that stems from when I saw a scary picture of a pigeon as a toddler. I was petrified and I've lived with that ever since.\n\n\"I know I am not totally useless but I will scream, shout and then get on with it.\"\n\nThis year's other contenders include boxer Amir Khan, ex-footballer Dennis Wise, Made in Chelsea's Georgia Toffolo and Stanley Johnson - father of Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.\n\nThey are joined by Coronation Street actress Jennie McAlpine and Hollyoaks actor Jamie Lomas, along with comedian Shappi Khorsandi, footballer Jamie Vardy's wife Rebekah, Saturdays singer Vanessa White.\n\nAn ITV spokesman said: \"Due to circumstances outside camp, Jack has had to withdraw from the show.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn: \"So much for tackling injustices\"\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond's Budget will \"unravel\" within days, continuing the \"misery\" for people across the country, Jeremy Corbyn has predicted.\n\nThe Labour leader attacked the government's failure to reduce the deficit, a rise in rough sleeping and the fact 120,000 people will spend Christmas in temporary accommodation.\n\n\"It's a record of failure with a forecast of more to come,\" he said.\n\nMr Hammond ended stamp duty for first-time buyers on sales up to £300,000.\n\nIn his second Budget, the chancellor also announced measures to speed up the payment of universal credit benefits and a rise in the National Living Wage to £7.83 an hour.\n\nBut, responding in the Commons, the Labour leader said: \"The reality test of this Budget has to be how it affects ordinary people's lives.\n\n\"I believe as the days go ahead and this Budget unravels, the reality will be a lot of people will be no better off - and the misery many are in will be continuing.\"\n\nMr Corbyn claimed a plan for three new pilot schemes to help rough sleepers \"doesn't cut it\", stressing: \"It is a disaster for those people sleeping on our streets, forced to beg for the money for a night shelter.\n\n\"They're looking for action now from government to give them a roof over their heads.\"\n\nHe said one in six pensioners were living in poverty - \"the worst rate anywhere in western Europe\" - adding that the poorest tenth of households would lose 10% of their income by 2022, while the richest would lose just 1%.\n\nAnd he responded angrily to an MP who heckled him as he was noting that more than a million elderly people were not receiving the care they need.\n\n\"I hope you understand what it's like to wait for social care, stuck in a hospital bed, while other people have to give up their work to care for them,\" he said, adding: \"The uncaring, uncouth attitude of certain members opposite needs to be called out.\"\n\nThe Labour leader called for universal credit to be put \"on hold\" so it can be fixed to \"keep one million of our children out of poverty\". He also questioned why the chancellor thought it was \"OK to under pay, over stress and under appreciate all those that work within our NHS\".\n\n\"We were promised with lots of hype a revolutionary Budget - the reality is, nothing has changed,\" he said.\n\n\"People were looking for help from this Budget and they have been let down by a government that, like the economy they have presided over, is weak and unstable and in need of urgent change.\n\n\"They call this a Budget fit for the future - the reality is, this is a government no longer fit for office.\"", "If the economy is a cruise liner then the chancellor made the cabins more affordable for some passengers on Wednesday.\n\nPhilip Hammond said first-time buyers buying a home of up to £300,000 would pay no stamp duty.\n\nWhile that will make some passengers happy, the weather for their trip could turn stormy in the coming years.\n\nThat is because the body which assembles economic data is forecasting a dramatic deterioration in conditions.\n\nThe Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), which prepares the figures that the chancellor bases his Budget on, predicts that annual economic growth will be below 2% for five years - one of the worst forecasts in living memory.\n\nWhy has the situation turned so gloomy? After all, the UK was one of the fastest growing of the major economies in 2016.\n\nThe answer hinges on productivity. If we return to our cruise ship, for years the crew were able to make it go significantly faster every year. But since the storm that was the financial crisis of 2007, that improved performance has not been repeated.\n\nIt's not clear why productivity has been so disappointing. Experts have several theories, including poor management and a lack of investment.\n\nWhatever the reason, the official forecasters have conceded that productivity is unlikely to recover and that translates into slower economic growth. You can see how that outlook has deteriorated in the chart below.\n\nThe government's income is closely linked to growth. The faster the economy grows, the greater the receipts from VAT, income tax, corporation tax and other revenue-raising measures.\n\nThe government is already borrowing to fund spending on government departments and servicing the nation's debt. It plans to reduce that borrowing, to zero, but the downgrades to growth means that will be harder to do.\n\nThe chart below shows how the deficit (the difference between government income and expenditure) is forecast to fall over the next five years, but not as fast as the OBR predicted in the spring.", "YouTuber Jack Maynard - who left I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! when offensive tweets he posted in 2012 emerged - has apologised for saying some \"pretty disgusting things\".\n\nThe tweets, which prompted allegations of racism and homophobia, were published in the Sun newspaper while Maynard, 23, was in Australia.\n\nHe said he was \"young\" and \"careless\" when he posted them.\n\nIn an online video, Maynard added: \"I've been really stupid in the past.\"\n\nThe show told viewers Maynard - who has more than 1.2m subscribers to his YouTube channel and is the younger brother of singer Conor Maynard - had left the jungle on Tuesday.\n\nA spokesman said he had departed \"due to circumstances outside camp\".\n\nIn a video posted on his YouTube channel, Maynard confirmed he was back in London.\n\n\"The least you deserved was for me to come home and sit down and talk to you and explain everything that has been going on,\" he told his subscribers.\n\n\"I'm so sorry to anyone that I offended, anyone that I upset, anyone I made feel uncomfortable.\"\n\nHe said he had \"messed up\" adding: \"I've tweeted some bad things, some horrible things, some pretty disgusting things that I'm just ashamed of.\"\n\n\"I was young I was careless, I just wasn't thinking, this was back when I had just left school and I didn't know what I was doing.\"\n\nThe social media star, who revealed it was his 23rd birthday, added: \"All I can do is beg and encourage that you guys don't make the same mistake as well.\n\n\"Don't put anything online you wouldn't say to your mum.\"\n\nMaynard appeared on Tuesday night's show, but presenters Ant and Dec confirmed his removal half-way through the programme.\n\nHis representative later said the star realised the language used in the now-deleted tweets was \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nThey said Maynard agreed with the decision to leave the show, which was \"made by his representatives and ITV\".\n\nHe had been one of 10 contestants taking part in the programme, which started on Sunday.", "The calculator on this page was part of the BBC's coverage of the 2020 Budget and is no longer available.", "The BBC's Question Time was cut short on Thursday when an audience member was taken ill during the recording.\n\nThe BBC One show, from Colchester Town Hall, in Essex, was suspended while the woman was given first aid.\n\nHost David Dimbleby said later they had to end the recording as the woman \"could not be safely moved\".\n\nThe hour-long programme, featuring Conservative Greg Clark, Labour's Diane Abbott and others was about 40 minutes in when it was halted.\n\nThe panel had already been asked \"what is the point of capitalism?\" and whether the Budget could fix the broken housing market.\n\nThe programme was broadcast in a shortened form, while Andrew Neil's political show This Week was moved forward.\n\nA tweet from Question Time later read: \"With regards to last night's #bbcqt - the audience member is now out of hospital and thanks everyone for their concern.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe prediction that average UK earnings in 2022 could still be less than in 2008 is \"astonishing\", according to an independent economic think tank.\n\nPaul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, added that the economic forecasts published in the Budget made for \"pretty grim reading\".\n\nHe highlighted that since 2014 growth in earnings has been \"choked off\".\n\n\"We are in danger of losing not just one but getting on for two decades of earnings growth,\" he said.\n\n\"Let's hope this forecast turns out to be too pessimistic.\"\n\nMr Johnson was reacting to the productivity, earnings and economic growth forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), which were released on Wednesday.\n\nThe Chancellor, Philip Hammond, has said he hopes to prove the bleak economic forecasts released in the Budget wrong.\n\nThe chancellor said clarity around Brexit would increase consumer confidence and lead to higher growth in the economy.\n\nWhat is the point of capitalism?\n\nThat might seem like a pretty big question, but one answer could be \"to provide people the opportunity through work to become richer\".\n\nWhat, though, if the economy fails in that endeavour?\n\nIf the system leaves you - despite all your efforts - worse off in December than you were the previous January?\n\nOr worse off now than you were a decade ago?\n\nIt was Lord Adair Turner, the former head of the Low Pay Commission, who put it succinctly.\n\n\"The UK over the last 10 years has created a lot of jobs, but today real wages are below where they were in 2007,\" he told me earlier this year.\n\n\"That is not the capitalist system delivering its promise that over a decade or so it will raise all boats, and it is a very fundamental issue.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, the OBR cut its growth forecast for the UK economy sharply, following changes to estimates of productivity and business investment.\n\nIt now expects the economy to grow by 1.5% this year, down from its previous forecast of 2%. It also said growth would be weaker than previously thought in each of the subsequent four years.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell said the hit to the economy would \"hit all of society\".\n\nHe said more government intervention and extra spending would \"pay for itself\" and alleviate the UK's productivity problem.\n\nAlso on Thursday, another think tank, the Resolution Foundation, said that disposable incomes are now expected to be £540 lower by 2023 than forecast in March, largely as a result of weaker pay growth.\n\nThe Foundation said that the UK is on course for its longest fall in living standards since records began more than 60 years ago, with real disposable incomes now set to fall for 19 successive quarters.\n\nDespite high levels of employment in the UK, wage growth has remained stubbornly low.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Philip Hammond explains how the UK can get its economic forecast upgraded\n\nThe latest official figures showed workers' earnings, excluding bonuses, rose 2.2% in the three months to September compared with a year ago.\n\nBut they fell 0.5% in real terms when accounting for inflation, marking seven months of negative pay growth, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nThe lower forecasts for growth are also jeopardising the government's plan to balance the books by the mid 2020s.\n\nThe IFS said it was highly unlikely Mr Hammond will meet that target.\n\n\"To get there we would have to have another round of spending cuts,\" IFS director Paul Johnson told the BBC. \"Given how hard it has been to get where we are, I think that is going to be pretty tough.\"", "Up to the moment itself the extraordinary session of parliament had proceeded along expected lines. Speaker after speaker rose to denounce the excesses of the president and his wife.\n\nA female MP was speaking of how her constituents were suffering when we saw the messengers approach the speaker. They handed him a letter.\n\nA jolt of energy swept the hall. At first there were cheers of anticipation. The speaker rose.\n\nThe next 10 minutes will remain engraved in my memory.\n\nWe strained to hear the speaker through the muffled public address system. But the words \"statement of resignation\" were clear. And the wild cheering, the thumping of tables, the dancing and singing told all of us who were present that the age of Robert Mugabe was over.\n\nFrom the corridors outside where Zanu-PF activists had gathered, the MPs could hear loud cheers and singing mingle with their own celebrations.\n\nOn the floor of parliament - a hotel ballroom specially converted for the session - I watched MPs and senators dance, arms around each other, as the solemn procession of mace bearers left the chamber.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. MPs cheered and celebrated as the resignation was announced\n\nAmong the more bizarre experiences was finding ruling-party legislators offering themselves for interview to the BBC. A week ago most foreign journalists were banned from the country.\n\nOne party stalwart, MP Keith Guzah, told me he believed real democracy would now take root in Zimbabwe. \"He has gone and I am happy, happy, happy for my country.\"\n\nAnother MP told me her greatest joy was that Zimbabwe had managed the transition \"without the shedding of blood.\" It was a comment that ignored the bloodshed and pain inflicted by her party during the decades of Robert Mugabe's rule.\n\nLeaving parliament I moved up through the city towards Africa Unity Square, the heart of Harare, pausing several times as I was enveloped by ecstatic crowds.\n\nA man fell to his knees and raised his arms to the sky. A young woman, wrapped in the national flag, shouted: \"Do you see this you guys? Do you see this? It is history in the making.\"\n\nOn the square I ran into Ben Freeth, a farmer who lost his land and whose family were brutally tortured during the land invasions. Like so many others he was struggling to believe that the moment of Mr Mugabe's departure had arrived.\n\n\"He was going, going, going and now he's finally gone,\" he said. As we spoke a group of revellers approached. Suddenly we were surrounded by embracing arms. \"And you can see,\" said Ben, \"we are in this together!\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How news of Robert Mugabe's resignation was greeted across Zimbabwe\n\nWill this spirit of unity, this freedom from fear, endure under a new dispensation? I cannot be at all certain.\n\nThe presumptive new leader, Emmerson Mnangagwa, is mired in the excesses of the Mugabe era. He was the deposed president's loyal henchman for decades and only struck against him to prevent Grace Mugabe from succeeding to the presidency.\n\nThis was not a revolution to bring liberal democratic principles into government. It was about power.\n\nThat said, there are significant pressures on the new leader to embark on a programme of meaningful change. The corruption and tyranny of the past will not attract the international financial aid and investment that is needed to rescue the nation's shattered economy.\n\nMr Mnangagwa will face a strong challenge if he tries to mire Zimbabwe in the despotism of the past. His instincts are authoritarian but he will not have the same scope for repression as Robert Mugabe.\n\nIt would be a mistake to regard Zanu-PF as a monolith. A party that turned on one leader can easily turn on another.\n\nPerhaps most important is the attitude of the people.\n\nThey have endured nearly 40 years of fear. For the first time they have been able to speak openly and demonstrate in the streets.\n\nThe opposition - for so long divided and beaten down - is rejuvenated.\n\nThese are the moments in which new leaders emerge and are tested. With elections set for next year, all parties are already in campaigning mode.\n\nTraditionally the polls have been times of chaos and crackdowns. Let us see if Mr Mnangagwa lives up to the promise of a more tolerant Zimbabwe.\n\nPresident Mugabe was accused of preparing the presidency for his wife Grace\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Max Trobe and his sister Martha Lynch returned to Manchester Arena for the first time since the 22 May bombing\n\nA photo of a brother and sister's return to Manchester Arena after they survived the attack there has gone viral.\n\nMax Trobe, 18, posted the picture of himself and his sister Martha Lynch, 10, at Tuesday's Little Mix show.\n\nHis Twitter post attracted hundreds of comments praising the pair's courage.\n\nMax said they will take away good memories of the venue after the \"constant happiness\" of the Little Mix gig.\n\nReturning to the venue \"was scary, but I'm glad we did it\", he said.\n\nThe pair, of Darwen, Lancashire, were not physically injured but witnessed the aftermath of the suicide bombing which killed 22 people.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"I wasn't going to go, but then I thought: 'I will not let the senseless actions of one individual ruin my enjoyment, why should I?'\n\n\"My sister's still very naive to the situation, she fell straight asleep on the night of the attack because she thought it was a balloon, but to me, going back was a big deal and a tough decision.\n\n\"She really wanted to go, and I thought, if Martha can do it, I can do it.\n\n\"I felt very safe as there were metal detectors, all belongings had to be scanned, and there were plenty of security staff.\"\n\nRecalling the events at the Ariane Grande concert six months ago, Max said he was caught in a stampede as people scrambled to leave.\n\nHe said: \"I started to panic, thinking I was going to become separated from my sister as I was having to lift her over seats to get to the exit.\n\n\"We went past the corridor and I saw bodies covered in blood on the floor. I covered my sister's eyes so she couldn't see.\"\n\nMax and his older sister Megan attended the One Love Manchester concert in June\n\nMax said the atmosphere at the Little Mix concert was \"amazing\", and similar to the Ariana Grande concert before the explosion.\n\nHe said: \"I still look back on that night and try to see it as the great evening it was before the bomb happened, but the Little Mix concert was constant happiness.\n\n\"The memories of the night of the attack are still there, but they're now in the back of my mind, and the memories of the Little Mix concert on Tuesday night are what I think of first when I think of the arena.\n\n\"The bad memories have been replaced with good ones.\"", "Dozens of prominent Saudi figures are being held in the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh. Many names are still secret, but the list is said to comprise at least 11 princes. It is part of an anti-corruption drive by the young Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman.\n\nThe BBC's Lyse Doucet was the first journalist to be allowed inside the hotel. She was given access by Saudi authorities.", "Prince Harry and a robot have been announced as two guest editors on Radio 4's Today Programme.\n\nTheir fellow editors will be Baroness Trumpington, Tamara Rojo and Ben Okri.\n\nThis is the 14th year control has been handed over to public figures between Christmas and New Year.\n\nKensington Palace said Prince Harry would use the opportunity to \"shine a spotlight on issues that are close to his heart\".\n\nThe palace added: \"He is working closely with Today's team to produce segments on a range of topics, including youth violence, conservation and mental health.\"\n\nThe robot edition of the show will use Artificial Intelligence to conduct an interview through a journalist modelled on current presenter Mishal Husain.\n\nThat edition of the programme will also ask experts whether AI has become commonplace at work and in the home, and whether it can replicate human characteristics.\n\nOther editors are 95-year-old Conservative peer Baroness Trumpington, who was a Land Girl and worked in code-breaking at Bletchley Park during World War Two.\n\nBaroness Trumpington retired from the House of Lords last month\n\nPoet and novelist Ben Okri will also guest edit the programme\n\nTamara Rojo will focus on funding the arts and diversity in ballet\n\nThe show will also be guest edited by Booker Prize winning Nigerian poet and novelist Benjamin Okri, whose Grenfell Tower poem helped raise funds for victims earlier in the year.\n\nTamara Rojo is the artistic director and lead principal dancer of the English National Ballet and will focus on funding the arts and diversity in ballet.\n\nSarah Sands, editor of Today, said: \"We are delighted by the range of guest editors this year.\n\n\"This Christmas tradition allows our listeners to benefit from the experiences and perspectives of remarkable public figures.\n\n\"We finish with a programme dedicated to AI which gives a glimpse of the future of Today.\"\n\nThe exact dates of the special Today editions have not yet been confirmed.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nA long-awaited study into the links between heading a football and brain damage will start in January, the Football Association has announced.\n\nThe doctor who claimed former striker Jeff Astle died because of repeated head trauma is to lead the study.\n\nDr Willie Stewart said his report would aim to \"provide some understanding of the long-term health impact of football within the next two to three years\".\n\n\"This is a huge day for football,\" said former England captain Alan Shearer.\n\nIn the recent BBC documentary Alan Shearer: Dementia, Football and Me, the ex-Newcastle United striker highlighted the case of Astle.\n\nA former England international, Astle developed dementia and died in 2002 at the age of 59.\n\nThe inquest into his death found repeatedly heading heavy leather footballs had contributed to trauma to his brain.\n\nAfter the inquest, research was commissioned by the FA and the Professional Footballers' Association (PFA) but it was later dropped because of what were said to be technical flaws.\n\nAstle's family has campaigned for the football authorities to launch a comprehensive research programme.\n\nHis daughter Dawn said she was \"relieved\" the study was now going ahead.\n\n\"I hope we can get some closure,\" she told BBC Sport.\n\n\"I am still angry and upset. It will be 2018 when the study starts, it's 16 lost and wasted years, and in the meantime players are dying.\"\n\nDr Stewart was appointed by the FA and PFA, who had invited applications for independent research in March.\n\nHis study will be titled 'Football's Influence on Lifelong Health and Dementia Risk'.\n\nDr Stewart said: \"In the past decade there have been growing concerns around perceived increased risk of dementia through participation in contact sports, however, research data to support and quantify this risk have been lacking.\"\n\nPFA chief executive Gordon Taylor added: \"Neurological problems in later life which may be connected to concussion, head injuries and heading the ball have been on our agenda for the last 20 years.\"\n\nShearer told BBC Sport: \"When you consider what the coroner said in 2002, and nothing has been done until now, then it is a big day.\n\n\"It has been a long time coming and I am delighted the FA and PFA have have now backed it and we can now get the answer that football needs.\"\n\nFA chief executive Martin Glenn said the new research \"will be one the most comprehensive studies ever commissioned into the long-term health of former footballers\".\n\nHe added: \"Dementia can have a devastating effect and, as the governing body of English football, we felt compelled to commission a significant new study in order to fully understand if there are any potential risks associated with playing the game.\"", "Miguel Angel Lopez-Abrego, 19, has been charged with murder\n\nMembers of an El Salvadorian street gang stabbed a man 100 times, beheaded him and cut out his heart in a park near Washington DC, police say.\n\nUp to 10 members of MS-13 communicated on walkie talkies as they closed in on their victim at a recreational area in Wheaton, Maryland, say officials.\n\nThe victim's \"heart had been excised from his chest and thrown into the grave\", according to court records.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has vowed to wipe out MS-13.\n\nOne of the suspects, 19-year-old Miguel Angel Lopez-Abrego, appeared in court on Wednesday, according to Montgomery Community Media.\n\nHe has been charged with first-degree murder and remanded in custody.\n\nHe was arrested in North Carolina on 11 November and extradited to Montgomery County, Maryland.\n\nAccording to the Washington Post, the victim was murdered in early spring, but police only became aware of the killing after a tip-off.\n\nThe body was discovered in Wheaton Regional Park on 5 September.\n\nThe victim had been buried in a woodland grave prepared before his murder, officials said.\n\nInvestigators are still trying to identify the victim, but he is thought to be a Hispanic male.\n\nA post-mortem examination ruled it a homicide from \"sharp force injuries\", said police.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nisa Mickens, 15, was killed by an MS-13 gang including undocumented immigrants.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA terror plotter who offered to wear a suicide vest and \"press the button on the same day\" has been jailed.\n\nMubashir Jamil, 22, was convicted of preparing acts of terrorism after being caught in a covert police operation.\n\nDuring his trial, the Old Bailey heard he wanted to join so-called Islamic State (IS) to rid himself of \"evil spirits\".\n\nJamil, from Luton, was jailed for six years, part of which will be served in a secure hospital.\n\nThe defendant, an Amazon warehouse worker and former Challney High School for Boys pupil, became obsessed with the idea of martyrdom after surfing the internet for IS propaganda, the court had heard.\n\nA former grade-A student, he was caught after talking to an undercover officer using encrypted messages on an online app.\n\nMubashir Jamil had surfed the web for propaganda put out by the so-called Islamic State group, the court heard\n\nHe had told the officer he would blow himself up in Britain if he could not fight for so-called Islamic State in Syria.\n\nJamil told the officer: \"If you or some brother you know can put an explosive belt on me and tell me how to press, as soon as possible for security reasons, I can do something in the UK even tomorrow after I find a good target.\"\n\nThe accused, who has suffered bouts of mental illness, was arrested by counter-terrorism officers in April 2016, a few days before a planned flight to Turkey.\n\nDuring his trial the court heard Jamil had planned his trip carefully, and \"deliberately\" changed his appearance, shaving off his beard after reading guidance online about how to be a \"secret agent\" in a non-Muslim country.\n\nThe defendant, who was born in Pakistan but brought up in Britain, denied one count of preparing for terrorist acts but was found guilty after a retrial.\n\nJamil shaved off his beard after reading guidance about how to be a \"secret agent\" in a non-Muslim country\n\nSentencing him to six years, Judge Peter Rook QC said his crime was only \"in part\" explained by his mental health disorder and said he was a \"dangerous\" offender.\n\nHe handed Jamil a \"hybrid order\" meaning he will continue to be treated in a secure hospital until he is well enough to be transferred to prison.\n\nJamil will serve a further five years on extended licence on his release.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Finland recently lifted a ban on the use of insects in food\n\nA Finnish bakery is to offer bread made from crushed crickets in a move that is hoped will help tackle world hunger.\n\nFazer Bakery in Finland said the product, available in its stores from Friday, was the first of its kind.\n\nEach loaf produced will contain about 70 crickets that have been dried and ground, and then mixed with flour, wheat and other seeds.\n\nIn 2013, the United Nations estimated that at least 2 billion people eat insects worldwide.\n\nAccording to the UN, more than 1,900 species of insect are used for food.\n\nThe UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) began a programme in 2013 to encourage the breeding and consumption of insects.\n\nJuhani Sibakov, head of innovation at Fazer, said the concept had been in development since last summer, but it could not be launched until approved by Finnish authorities.\n\nEarlier this month Finland lifted a ban on the sale of insects raised and marketed for food use.\n\nFive other European countries - the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Denmark - already allow this.\n\nEach loaf of bread contains about 70 crickets, which have been imported from the Netherlands\n\nMr Sibakov said the bread contains more protein than normal wheat bread.\n\n\"It offers consumers a good protein source and also gives them an easy way to familiarise themselves with insect-based food,\" he said.\n\nThe bread will be rolled out initially in stores in the Finnish capital, Helsinki. Sara Koivisto, a student there, said she \"couldn't taste the difference\", adding: \"It tastes like bread.\"\n\nFazer, which imports the cricket ingredients from the Netherlands, only has a limited supply. However it said it was working to find a local supplier.\n\nIn many parts of the world, insect-eating is common.\n\nIn the West, edible bugs are becoming more popular with those who want a gluten-free diet or to protect the environment. Farming insects may use less resources than farming animals.", "The victims were, from left, Mark McGrotty, 12, and Evan McGrotty, 8, Sean McGrotty, 49, Ruth Daniels, 57, and Jodie Lee Daniels, 14\n\nFive members of a Londonderry family whose car went into Lough Swilly from a slipway drowned due to misadventure, a coroner inquest jury has found.\n\nThe Buncrana pier tragedy took the lives of Sean McGrotty, his sons Mark and Evan, his partner's mother, Ruth Daniels and her daughter, Jodie Lee.\n\nMr McGrotty handed his baby daughter to a rescuer moments before the Audi Q7 sank in March 2016.\n\nFamily member Louise James said it was an \"accident waiting to happen\".\n\nThe gate on the slipway \"should have been closed\", said Ms James, who was Mr McGrotty's partner, Mark and Evan's mother, Mrs Daniel's daughter and Jodie-Lee's sister.\n\nThe couple's four-month-old daughter Rionaghac-Ann was the sole survivor.\n\nMs James said there were \"no words capable of expressing my pain, my disbelief and indeed my anger over what happened on that fateful day\".\n\nShe said her heart was \"shattered\".\n\nDavitt Walsh, a former footballer who rescued the infant after swimming out to help the family, \"was an ordinary man who did an extraordinary thing\", the inquest heard on Thursday.\n\nMr Walsh tried to save another child but said he appeared to \"get stuck\" on something.\n\nIrish police inspector David Murphy also paid tribute to gardaí rescuers who arrived on the scene within minutes.\n\nHe hoped the conclusion of the inquest would go some way to aiding the grieving process for the relatives of those who died, added Insp Murphy.\n\nA pathologist told the inquest Sean McGrotty had a blood alcohol level of 159mg - three times over the Republic of Ireland's drink-drive limit.\n\nOn Thursday, an RNLI volunteer diver told the inquest that he could not open the doors of the vehicle when it was under the water.\n\nJohn O'Raw said the water was about three metres deep and visibility was an issue.\n\nThe incident was one of the worst family tragedies along the Irish coastline, the coroner says\n\nMr O'Raw told the inquest he entered the water about 40 minutes after the alarm was raised.\n\nOn the second day of the inquest in Buncrana, Mr O'Raw recalled how his pager beeped at 19:13 GMT that day.\n\nWhen he got to the scene 17 minutes later, he saw colleagues performing CPR on a woman.\n\nHe returned home to get snorkelling equipment and entered the water at 19:55.\n\nThe RNLI volunteer said he tried to open the rear passenger door and the handle came freely, but the mechanism to open the door was not working.\n\n\"I couldn't get the door open,\" he said.\n\n\"I went to the passenger side front door and it was exactly the same. I told recovery I couldn't get the doors open.\"\n\nHe added: \"I tried the rear driver's side door, and then tried front driver's door but neither would open. The driver's window was half intact and was bowed facing inwards, into the car.\n\n\"I couldn't understand what I was seeing. The tailgate at the back of the vehicle was open.\"\n\nMr O'Raw said he could get his \"head in through the window and could see there was no one in the two front seats\".\n\nHe said, it was his opinion, that because the window was broken and the tailgate was open, the water pressure would have been the same inside and outside the vehicle so the doors should have been able to open.\n\nThe coroner said there would be some resistance, akin to opening a door into wind.\n\nLouise James (centre) was present on the opening day of the inquest\n\nGarda Seamus Callaghan told the inquest when he arrived at the scene the RNLI were performing CPR on Ruth Daniels.\n\nHe said four bodies were recovered in a relatively short space of time and a local priest said prayers over each of the victims.\n\nGarda Callaghan told the inquest the slipway was \"extremely slippery with thick algae\".\n\nGarda Damien Mulcairns told the inquest he inspected the car, an Audi Q7, the following day at a garage in Letterkenny.\n\nHe said the car was in road-worthy condition before the incident and he had no issue with opening all the doors in the car from the outside and from the inside.\n\nGarda Mulcairns said the driver's side window was shattered, but intact with lamination, which is a common safety aspect in modern vehicles.\n\nHe said it would have taken considerable force to break the glass.\n\nGarda Mulcairns said central locking was operated both mechanically and electronically.\n\nIn his opinion, any electrical component submerged in water would not react in the same way, he said.\n\nOn the first day of the inquest, Dr Catriona Dillon, the pathologist who carried out the post-mortem examination on Mr McGrotty, told the inquest his blood-alcohol reading \"may indicate a level of intoxication\".", "Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin could fight a fresh election in the coming months\n\nThe Republic of Ireland could face a general election after the country's second largest party tabled a motion of no confidence in the deputy prime minister.\n\nThe Fianna Fáil motion against Frances Fitzgerald comes over her handling of a police whistleblower controversy.\n\nHer party, Fine Gael, passed a motion to support her at an emergency party meeting on Thursday night.\n\nFianna Fáil front bench members lodged the motion for debate next Tuesday.\n\nFine Gael lead the minority government with the support of Fianna Fáil.\n\nFianna Fáil, the main opposition party, agreed to back a Fine Gael minority government after the 2016 general election did not return a majority government.\n\nUnder the terms of the confidence and supply arrangement, Fianna Fáil agreed not to vote against the minority government in confidence motions and to support it for three budgets, two of which are now past.\n\nNow, the government looks likely to collapse, forcing a snap election next month, unless Ms Fitzgerald resigns before the no confidence motion is debated.\n\nFrances Fitzgerald was Irish minister for justice during a police whistleblower controversy\n\nSinn Féin, the country's third largest party, had tabled their own no confidence motion on Thursday.\n\nIt is due to be debated and voted on next week.\n\nMs Fitzgerald has been under pressure over her handling of an ongoing controversy around a Garda (police) whistleblower when she was Irish justice minister.\n\nWhat we are witnessing is a game of call my bluff, involving three political parties.\n\nThe decision by Sinn Féin to put down a motion of no confidence in Frances Fitzgerald was aimed at calling Fianna Fáil's bluff.\n\nThat's because Fianna Fáil has an agreement with the minority-led Fine Gael government whereby they were prepared to support them in a confidence-and-supply arrangement.\n\nBut Fianna Fáil called Sinn Féin's bluff by deciding to put down their motion of no confidence which will take precedence over the Sinn Féin one - at a time when Sinn Féin is undergoing generational change.\n\nFine Gael is now calling Fianna Fáil's bluff by saying they are prepared to go to the country over this issue.\n\nOnce TDs go back into their constituencies they will face questions from the public: How can you bring down a government over a missing or forgotten email by Frances Fitzgerald during key Brexit talks, when many thousands of people are homeless and there are huge hospital waiting lists?\n\nFine Gael normally prides itself on putting the country before the party.\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if, in the coming days, Frances Fitzgerald fell on her sword.\n\nMs Fitzgerald has faced questions in the Dáil (Irish parliament) about what she knew about what lawyers were going to put to a whistleblower at a commission of enquiry.\n\nIn particular, she has been questioned over her account of an email she received about the legal strategy of the former Garda commissioner in the case of Sgt Maurice McCabe.\n\nMs Fitzgerald has recently admitted that she was made aware a year earlier than she had previously stated, that lawyers for the Garda were going to attempt to discredit Sgt McCabe.\n\nThe email was initially sent to Ms Fitzgerald in May 2015, but she told the Dáil earlier this week that she could not remember reading it.\n\nSpeaking to Irish national broadcaster RTÉ, Fianna Fáil justice spokesperson Jim O'Callaghan said that Ms Fitzgerald \"should go\".\n\nHe said that party leader Micheál Martin had expressed this view to Taoiseach (prime minister) Leo Varadkar.\n\nIrish foreign minister Simon Coveney told RTÉ that the government would continue to support Ms Fitzgerald and that calls for her resignation were \"built on sand\".", "This is an image of the Big Bird lineage, which arose through the breeding of two distinct parent species: G. fortis and G. conirostris\n\nA population of finches on the Galapagos has been discovered in the process of becoming a new species.\n\nThis is the first example of speciation that scientists have been able to observe directly in the field.\n\nResearchers followed the entire population of finches on a tiny Galapagos island called Daphne Major, for many years, and so they were able to watch the speciation in progress.\n\nThe research was published in the journal Science.\n\nThe group of finch species to which the Big Bird population belongs are collectively known as Darwin's finches and helped Charles Darwin to uncover the process of evolution by natural selection.\n\nIn 1981, the researchers noticed the arrival of a male of a non-native species, the large cactus finch.\n\nProfessors Rosemary and Peter Grant noticed that this male proceeded to mate with a female of one of the local species, a medium ground finch, producing fertile young.\n\nAlmost 40 years later, the progeny of that original mating are still being observed, and number around 30 individuals.\n\n\"It's an extreme case of something we're coming to realise more generally over the years. Evolution in general can happen very quickly,\" said Prof Roger Butlin, a speciation expert who wasn't involved in the study.\n\nThis new finch population is sufficiently different in form and habits to the native birds, as to be marked out as a new species, and individuals from the different populations don't interbreed.\n\nProf Butlin told the BBC that people working on speciation credit the Grant professors with altering our understanding of rapid evolutionary change in the field.\n\nIn the past, it was thought that two different species must be unable to produce fertile offspring in order to be defined as such. But in more recent years, it has been established that many birds and other animals that we consider to be unique species are in fact able to interbreed with others to produce fertile young.\n\n\"We tend not to argue about what defines a species anymore, because that doesn't get you anywhere,\" said Prof Butlin. What he says is more interesting is understanding the role that hybridisation can have in the process of creating new species, which is why this observation of Galapagos finches is so important.\n\nThe researchers think that the original male must have flown 65 miles from the large cactus finches' home island of Española. That's a very long way for a small finch to fly, and so it would be very unlikely for the bird to make a successful return flight.\n\nA member of the G. fortis species, one of two that interbred to give rise to the Big Bird lineage\n\nA finch belonging to the G. conirostris species. It's the other half of the pairing that gave rise to the Big Bird population\n\nBy identifying one way that new species can arise, and following the entire population, the researchers state this as an example of speciation occurring in a timescale we can observe.\n\nIn most cases, the offspring of cross-species matings are poorly adapted to their environment. But in this instance, the new finches on Daphne Major are larger than other species on the island, and have taken hold of new and unexploited food.\n\nFor this reason, the researchers are calling the animals the \"Big Bird population\".\n\nTo scientifically test whether the Big Bird population was genetically distinct from the three species of finch native to the island, Peter and Rosemary Grant collaborated with Prof Leif Andersson of Sweden's Uppsala University who analysed the population genetically for the new study.\n\nProf Andersson told BBC News: \"The surprise was that we would expect the hybrid would start to breed with one of the other species on the island and be absorbed… we have confirmed that they are a closed breeding group.\"\n\nDue to an inability to recognise the songs of the new males, native females won't pair with this new species.\n\nThe finches led Darwin to his theory of natural selection, as outlined in On The Origin of Species\n\nAnd in this paper, new genetic evidence shows that after two generations, there was complete reproductive isolation from the native birds. As a result, they are now reproductively - and genetically - isolated. So they have been breeding exclusively with each other over the years.\n\n\"What we are saying is that this group of birds behave as a distinct species. If you didn't know anything about [Daphne Major's] history and a taxonomist arrived on this island they would say there are four species on this island,\" said Prof Andersson.\n\nThere is no evidence that they will breed again with the native medium ground finch, but even if they did, they now have a larger size and can exploit new opportunities. Those advantageous traits may be maintained by natural selection.\n\nSo hybridisation can lead to speciation, simply through the addition of one individual to a population. It may therefore be a way for new traits to evolve quickly.\n\n\"If you just wait for mutations causing one change at a time, then it would make it more difficult to raise a new species that way. But hybridisation may be more effective than mutation,\" said Prof Butlin.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than 20 people were arrested over the fight in Liverpool\n\nMore than 20 German men have been arrested over a mass street brawl.\n\nMobile phone footage showed a large group of men fighting outside the Soho bar in Liverpool's Concert Square at about 23:20 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nPunches were thrown and chairs appeared to be used as weapons as the fight escalated and move away from the venue.\n\nThe men, including two from the local area, were arrested on suspicion of public order offences, Merseyside Police said.\n\nOne man suffered a head injury in the disturbance, which happened at about 23:20 GMT on Wednesday.\n\nThe fight happened near Soho bar in Concert Square\n\nPolice said the German nationals were aged between 25 and 50 and all the arrested men were being held at police stations on Merseyside for questioning.\n\nMembers of the public and door staff were involved in the brawl, police said.\n\nThe injured man remains in hospital in a stable condition.\n\nA police spokesman added that the violence had led the force to bolster the number of officers in the city centre ahead of the Europa League football match between Everton and Atalanta, from Bergamo, Italy.\n\nSupt Mark Morgan said Merseyside Police's \"primary aim is to protect the public and ensure they have a night out in a safe environment\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Black Friday is almost upon us, and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has compiled some interesting stats on how much we spend on this American-born promotional event.\n\nThe FCA found that over £5.3bn was spent over Black Friday weekend last year.\n\nWhile not everyone is interested in taking part, 15% of UK consumers tent to spend at least £100 more on Black Friday compared to an average weekend.\n\nMobile usage also spikes. A fifth of the UK is expected to be online and logged into retail sites tomorrow.", "Nikki Entwistle, 33, said stamp-duty changes would not help her afford a deposit\n\nWhat do the measures introduced in the Budget mean to young people in the UK?\n\nThe Chancellor Philip Hammond, announced the immediate abolition of stamp duty for properties up to £300,000 in England, Northern Ireland and, for a time, Wales.\n\nThe average first-time buyer pays about £1,600 in stamp duty, according to Halifax Building Society.\n\nThe BBC spoke to a number of young people to find out if they thought the chancellor had gone far enough.\n\nThe stamp-duty reform was welcomed by some first-time buyers, but some worried it was not enough to enable young people to get their foot on the ladder\n\nHollie Croft, 31, is buying a house in London with her husband.\n\n\"Our stamp duty would have been £9,000,\" she said.\n\n\"Now, we can afford to redo the bathroom straight away instead of living with the rundown one until we'd saved up.\n\n\"Saving for a deposit whilst paying London rent has meant no holidays, no new clothes and very few nights out.\n\n\"I still think current house prices are disproportionate to wages and I don't know if this change will help in the long term, but for us right now? We're very happy.\"\n\nMadeleine van Oss, a 25-year-old law student in Oxford, told the BBC the stamp-duty cut reflected the difficulty many young people faced accessing the housing market.\n\n\"If I get a good job and I can buy a house, the stamp-duty [cut] will help me,\" she said.\n\n\"It's good to see an acknowledgement that things are harder for us now than it was for them back in the day.\n\n\"Personally, I do well out of [this Budget],\" she added.\n\nOthers were more circumspect. Nick, 19, said: \"A lot of [this Budget], I felt, was just empty promises and things to attempt to win over voters.\"\n\nHe added: \"I'm not sure how much of an impact the stamp-duty change will make to first-time buyers.\n\n\"With property prices rising, especially in London, £300,000 in house terms isn't a lot, in my opinion.\"\n\nNikki Entwistle, 33, agrees. After being made redundant from her job at British Gas in 2016, she decided to go back to college, where she is now studying animal management.\n\n\"I've never been able to afford my own home,\" she said.\n\n\"I've rented property since I was about 19.\n\n\"It seemed expensive then, but prices have gone up a lot.\n\n\"I don't know how the government expects us to be able to afford to save.\n\n\"With council tax, energy bills, rent and food, there's not enough left.\n\n\"I think there needs to be a cap on rent.\n\nJames Furniss-Rees welcomed the cut in stamp duty but thinks that measures could be introduced to address student debt\n\nJames Furniss-Rees, who graduated from university in July with £58,000 of debt, said there had been \"not enough\" in the Budget for him.\n\n\"There was no real talk about debt, where there will be changes to timeframes, when to pay back and how,\" he said.\n\n\"The government should revise whether we pay tuition fees at all, because it's unrealistic for us to pay that all back.\"", "Foxconn has faced several claims of poor treatment of workers at its Chinese factories\n\nFoxconn, a main supplier for Apple's iPhone, says it has stopped interns from working illegal overtime at its factory in China.\n\nIt comes after a Financial Times report found at least six students worked 11-hour days at its iPhone X plant in Henan province.\n\nThe practice breached Chinese laws preventing children from working more than 40 hours per week.\n\nAbout 3,000 students were reportedly hired to work at the Zhengzhou plant.\n\nApple said the secondary school students worked voluntarily but they \"should not have been allowed to work overtime\".\n\nBoth the tech giant and Foxconn have said the interns were \"compensated and provided benefits\".\n\n\"Apple is dedicated to ensuring everyone in our supply chain is treated with the dignity and respect they deserve,\" the firm said in a statement.\n\n\"We know our work is never done and we'll continue to do all we can to make a positive impact and protect workers in our supply chain.\"\n\nThe Foxconn Technology Group, which operates an internship programme at the Chinese factory, told the BBC in a statement that it took \"immediate action to ensure that no interns are carrying out any overtime work\".\n\nIt added that \"interns represent a very small percentage\" of its workforce in China and that the breach of labour laws was inconsistent with its own policies.\n\nThe Taiwanese firm reportedly hired the students in September to keep up with demand for the new iPhone X, which Apple has described as being \"off the charts\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Dave Lee gets hands on with the new iPhone X\n\nThe iPhone is critical to Apple's product line and makes up more than half of its revenue, with more than 46.6 million phones sold between July and September this year.\n\nIts latest model, the iPhone X, was launched on the 10 year anniversary of the iconic smartphone and is Apple's most expensive handset yet, retailing for £999.\n\nApple and its suppliers have come under fire several times in recent years amid accusations that they have failed to protect workers at Chinese manufacturing facilities, where some allegedly lived in overcrowded factory dorms and worked excessive hours.", "Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, the man known as \"the crocodile\" because of his political cunning, achieved a long-held ambition to succeed Robert Mugabe as Zimbabwe's president in November last year.\n\nHe has now won a disputed presidential election to legitimise his rule, promising voters his efforts to woo foreign investors will bring back the economy from the brink of collapse.\n\nMr Mugabe resigned following a military takeover and mass demonstrations - all sparked by his sacking of Mr Mnangagwa as his vice-president.\n\n\"The crocodile\", who lived up to his name and snapped back, may have unseated Zimbabwe's only ruler, but he is also associated with some of the worst atrocities committed under the ruling Zanu-PF party since independence in 1980.\n\nOne veteran of the liberation struggle, who worked with him for many years, once put it simply: \"He's a very cruel man, very cruel.\"\n\nBut his children see him as a principled, if unemotional, man. His daughter, Farai Mlotshwa - a property developer and the eldest of his nine children by two wives - told BBC Radio 4 that he was a \"softie\".\n\nAs if to reinforce this softer image of the new leader, a cuddly crocodile soft toy was passed among the Zanu-PF supporters who welcomed him back to the country after Mr Mugabe's resignation.\n\nEmmerson Mnangagwa is known as \"Ngwena\", the Shona word for crocodile\n\nAnd what he lacks in charisma and oratory prowess, he makes up for in pragmatism, says close friend and Zanu-PF politician Josiah Hungwe.\n\n\"Mnangagwa is a practical person. He is a person who recognises that politics is politics but people must eat,\" he told the BBC, adding that reforming Zimbabwe's disastrous economy will be the focus of his leadership.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emmerson Mnangagwa: Who is the man known as the ‘crocodile’?\n\nThe exact year of Mr Mnangagwa's birth is not known - but he is thought to be 75, which would make him nearly 20 years younger than his predecessor who left power aged 93.\n\nBorn in the central region of Zvishavane, he is a Karanga - the largest clan of Zimbabwe's majority Shona community.\n\nSome Karangas felt it was their turn for power, following 37 years of domination by Mr Mugabe's Zezuru clan, though Mr Mnangagwa was accused of profiting while under Mr Mugabe.\n\nAccording to a United Nations report in 2001, he was seen as \"the architect of the commercial activities of Zanu-PF\".\n\nThis largely related to the operations of the Zimbabwean army and businessmen in the Democratic Republic of Congo.\n\nZimbabwean troops intervened in the DR Congo conflict on the side of the government and, like those of other countries, were accused of using the conflict to loot some of its rich natural resources such as diamonds, gold and other minerals.\n\nMore recently military officials - many behind his rise to power - have been accused of benefiting from the rich Marange diamond fields in eastern Zimbabwe, with reports of killings and human rights abuses there.\n\nDespite his money-raising role, Mr Mnangagwa, a lawyer who grew up in Zambia, was not always well-loved by the rank and file of his own party.\n\nA Zanu-PF official posed an interesting question when asked about Mr Mnangagwa's prospects: \"You think Mugabe is bad, but have you thought that whoever comes after him could be even worse?\"\n\nThe opposition candidate who defeated Mr Mnangagwa in the 2000 parliamentary campaign in Kwekwe Central, Blessing Chebundo, might agree.\n\nDuring a bitter campaign, Mr Chebundo escaped death by a whisker when the Zanu-PF youths who had abducted him and doused him with petrol were unable to light a match.\n\nThose who fought in Zimbabwe's war of independence have long monopolised power\n\nMr Mnangagwa's fearsome reputation was made during the civil war which broke out in the 1980s between Mr Mugabe's Zanu party and the Zapu party of Joshua Nkomo.\n\nAs national security minister, he was in charge of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), which worked hand in glove with the army to suppress Zapu.\n\nThousands of civilians - mainly ethnic Ndebeles, seen as Zapu supporters - were killed in a campaign known as Gukurahundi, before the two parties merged to form Zanu-PF.\n\nAmong countless other atrocities carried out by the North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade of the army, villagers were forced at gunpoint to dance on the freshly dug graves of their relatives and chant pro-Mugabe slogans.\n\nMr Mnangagwa has denied any role in the massacres, but the wounds are still painful and many party officials, not to mention voters, in Matabeleland might find it hard to back Mr Mnangagwa.\n\nHe does enjoy the support of many of the war veterans who led the campaign of violence against the white farmers and the opposition from 2000.\n\nThey remember him as one of the men who, following his military training in China and Egypt, directed the fight for independence in the 1960s and 1970s.\n\nHe also attended the Beijing School of Ideology, run by the Chinese Communist Party.\n\nMr Mnangagwa's official profile says he was the victim of state violence after being arrested by the white-minority government in the former Rhodesia in 1965, when the \"crocodile gang\" he led helped blow up a train near Fort Victoria (now Masvingo).\n\n\"He was tortured, severely resulting in him losing his sense of hearing in one ear,\" the profile says.\n\n\"Part of the torture techniques involved being hanged with his feet on the ceiling and the head down. The severity of the torture made him unconscious for days.\"\n\nAs he said he was under 21 at the time, he was not executed but instead sentenced to 10 years in prison.\n\n\"He has scars from that period. He was young and brave,\" a close friend of Mr Mnangagwa once said, asking not to be named.\n\n\"Perhaps that explains why he is indifferent. Horrible things happened to him when he was young.\"\n\nHis ruthlessness, which it could be argued he learnt from his Rhodesian torturers, is said to have been seen again in 2008 when he reportedly masterminded Zanu-PF's response to Mr Mugabe losing the first round of the president election to long-time rival Morgan Tsvangirai.\n\nThe military and state security organisations unleashed a campaign of violence against opposition supporters, leaving hundreds dead and forcing thousands from their homes.\n\nMr Tsvangirai then pulled out of the second round and Mr Mugabe was re-elected.\n\nMr Mnangagwa has not commented on allegations he was involved in planning the violence, but an insider in the party's security department later confirmed that he was the political link between the army, intelligence and Zanu-PF.\n\nHe was seen as Mr Mugabe's right-hand man - that is until the former first lady Grace Mugabe became politically ambitious and tried to edge him out.\n\nTheir rivalry took a bizarre turn when he fell ill in August 2017 at a political rally led by former President Mugabe and had to be airlifted to South Africa.\n\nGrace Mugabe (right) bit off more than she could chew by taking on Mr Mnangagwa\n\nHis supporters suggested that a rival group within Zanu-PF had poisoned him and appeared to blame ice cream from Mrs Mugabe's dairy firm.\n\nIn his first words to cheering supporters after Mr Mugabe's resignation, he spoke about this plot and another plan to \"eliminate\" him.\n\nHe has also blamed a group linked to the former first lady for an explosion in June at a Zanu-PF rally in Bulawayo in which two people died.\n\nBut in a BBC interview, he said the country was safe, told foreign investors not to worry and sought to dispel his ruthless reputation: \"I am as soft as wool. I am a very soft person in life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mnangagwa: Criminal will be hounded down, but Zimbabwe is safe\n\nHis youngest son, a Harare DJ known as St Emmo, blames his reticence for his fearsome reputation.\n\n\"He was a good father, very very strict. He doesn't say much and I think that's what frightens people - like: 'What is he thinking?'\"\n\nNick Mangwana, Zanu-PF representative in the UK, accepts that the Zimbabwe's new leader is \"not the most eloquent\".\n\n\"He's not pally-pally but more of a do-er, more of a technocrat.\"\n\nBut in his six months in power he has fully embraced Twitter and Facebook - after the Bulawayo blast he posted a message reiterating the strength his Christian faith gives him.\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 Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa 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\nFixing the economy is what is paramount now. Zimbabweans are on average 15% poorer now than they were in the 1980s.\n\nBritish journalist Martin Fletcher, who interviewed Mr Mnangagwa in 2016, does not see him a reborn democrat.\n\n\"He understands the need to rebuild the economy if only so that he can pay his security forces - and his survival depends on their loyalty,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It wasn't a drama - it wasn't a Budget that would inspire queues at the Box Office.\n\nNo surprise. When \"Box Office Phil\" was given that nickname, it wasn't because he has a reputation for delivering political thrillers.\n\nWhat he tried to do was to act on concerns expressed at the general election and by rebels on the Tory backbenches as well as the Labour opposition.\n\nSo there were changes to the universal credit benefit, some, but certainly not all the money the NHS says it needs - and an enormous sounding figure of £44bn for housing over the next five years (although vital to wait for the detail of how much will go to getting spades in the ground, and how much will guarantee loans for the housing industry).\n\nBut he made a bigger-than-expected move to \"revive the home-owning dream\" by scrapping stamp duty on the first £300,000 of any property bought by a first-time buyer.\n\nThe prime minister has set her own personal reputation on fixing the housing crisis, so there is a lot riding on the mixture of moves that has been promised by Philip Hammond today.\n\nHe also responded to pressure from Brexit-backing colleagues in cabinet, by putting aside an extra £3bn to plan for a \"no deal\" scenario.\n\nWhat the chancellor also tried to do was to claim that somehow a corner has been turned in the long-term battle to sort out the country's books, with debt peaking and starting to fall as a share of national income.\n\nBut it will be tricky for the government to escape the overall picture: that the economy looks like it will be more sluggish, will grow more slowly and will be less productive than expected for some time to come.", "The council responsible for the care of a five-year-old girl who was placed with Muslim foster family has rejected concerns about her treatment.\n\nThe Times alleged the Christian girl's foster carers stopped her from eating bacon, told her to learn Arabic and removed a crucifix necklace from her.\n\nTower Hamlets Council has rejected the allegations following an investigation.\n\nA spokesperson for The Times said it reported concerns raised by the child's mother and a social care worker.\n\nThe child, who was put into care due to concerns about her biological mother's welfare, now lives with a grandmother.\n\nShe was placed into the Muslim foster family's care in March by the London Borough of Tower Hamlets.\n\nIn August, the Times newspaper published a story claiming she had been \"forced to live with a niqab-wearing foster carer\".\n\nThe paper reported the girl had \"sobbed and begged\" not to return to the family because \"they don't speak English\".\n\nShe also allegedly told her biological mother that \"Christmas and Easter are stupid\" and \"European women are stupid and alcoholic\".\n\nHowever, Tower Hamlets Council - which investigated the claims - said the allegations were unsubstantiated and the girl did not know what Europe was.\n\nA spokesperson for The Times said: \"The Times reported concerns about the suitability of this foster placement raised by the child's mother and a social care worker who supervised regular meetings between the girl and her birth family\n\n\"Tower Hamlets was ordered to investigate the allegations and invited by the judge to publish an 'alternative narrative' in respect of them.\n\n\"Its report today rejects the allegations but records that the mother disputes the findings.\"\n\nA report by a senior social worker said the child had \"expressed no negative views about Christmas, Easter or any religious festival\" when questioned.\n\nThe five-year-old is currently living with her maternal grandmother, who the council said was \"distressed and angered\" by the \"false\" allegations against the foster carers.\n\n\"She has a good relationship with the carers and is grateful for the excellent care she says that they have provided to the child,\" the report added.\n\nLawyers for the child's mother agreed the social worker's findings were \"an accurate representation of the outcome of the council's investigation,\" a Tower Hamlets spokesman added.\n\nAccording to the report, the girl's grandmother wants to take the child to her country of origin, which cannot be named for legal reasons.\n\nEast London family court previously heard the girl had a \"warm and appropriate\" relationship with her foster carers, and missed them after she went to live with her grandmother.\n\nJudge Khatun Sapnara said: \"The local authority has satisfied itself that the foster carer has not behaved in any way which is inconsistent with their provision of warm and appropriate care for the child.\"\n\nThe judge will decide after a further hearing next month whether the child stays with her maternal grandmother.", "A private member's bill to give 16 and 17-year-olds the vote now has little chance of becoming law after running out of debating time in the House of Commons, before it could be put to a vote.\n\nThe Representation of the People (Young People's Enfranchisement) Bill, proposed by the Labour MP Jim McMahon, was debated for a little less than an hour and a half.\n\nAnd the Deputy Speaker Eleanor Laing ruled that was not long enough for her to allow it to be put to a vote.\n\nIn theory the debate will resume on a Friday in December, but in practice the bill will be so low on the agenda, it's unlikely to get any debating time.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Michael Fallon: \"Not right for me to go on as defence secretary\".\n\n\"What might have been acceptable 15, 10 years ago is clearly not acceptable now,\" Sir Michael Fallon told me tonight as he quit the government.\n\nClear to him now, and his departure will make clear to any other politicians in Westminster that behaviour they might have laughed off or treated as part and parcel of the rumbustious life is not acceptable and is not, it seems, acceptable to Number 10.\n\nIt has plainly for him been a very painful discovery to make.\n\nSources close to him don't believe that he is some kind of predator.\n\nHe has been known as a reliable minister, but also a sociable and approachable politician.\n\nWhile sources close to him want to underline that they had not been told of any more allegations to come, or anything more serious, they were clearly aware that there could be more to come.\n\nHe did not feel that he could necessarily account for every event, every encounter in a long ministerial career without being able to guarantee that no more would emerge.\n\nBut it's also been suggested to the BBC that Number 10 was approached directly by several women with concerns about Sir Michael just this afternoon.\n\nAnd within hours he had therefore taken the decision to go.\n\nNumber 10 won't deny or confirm what led to the resignation - they won't engage at all in any discussion of the whys and wherefores of the decision making process.\n\nAnd as above, Sir Michael's team say they know of nothing else that was about to break.\n\nBut some Tory MPs are looking to what happened as potential evidence that when the prime minister said that she would take this harassment scandal seriously, she really meant it.\n\nP.S. It also leaves Mrs May with a huge headache about reshaping her Cabinet at a time of political weakness. More of that tomorrow.", "Nikki is having chemotherapy to help prevent the cancer from returning\n\nOne in three adults might ignore potential symptoms of pancreatic cancer, according to a charity.\n\nStomach ache, indigestion, unexplained weight loss and faeces that float rather than sink in the lavatory can be warning signs of the potentially deadly disease, says Pancreatic Cancer UK.\n\nEarly detection and treatment are vital to save lives.\n\nNikki Davies was diagnosed in March, aged 51. Her tumour was caught early, meaning a surgeon could remove it.\n\n\"I have been incredibly lucky that mine could be operated on and hadn't spread, as far as we can tell.\n\n\"My message to others would be that no-one knows your body like you do.\n\n\"Know what the symptoms are and talk to your GP if you notice anything that's unusual for you.\n\n\"Deep down, I think you know something is wrong.\n\n\"For me, it was the pain. It felt like an animal was eating me from the inside. It was in my back too, between my shoulder blades. And I'd lost a lot of weight very quickly.\n\n\"I didn't know anything about pancreatic cancer before my diagnosis, and I certainly wouldn't have known what the symptoms were.\"\n\nCurrently, about one in 10 people diagnosed with the condition survives beyond five years.\n\nThis is in large part due to most patients being diagnosed at a late stage, when treatment options are very limited, says Pancreatic Cancer UK.\n\nIts survey of 4,000 UK adults suggests awareness of the symptoms is still too low.\n\nAlex Ford, chief executive at Pancreatic Cancer UK, said: \"We do not want people to panic if they have some or all of these symptoms, because most people who have them will not have pancreatic cancer.\n\n\"But it is vital that people know more about this disease, and talk to their GP if they have any concerns.\n\n\"The earlier people are diagnosed, the more likely they are to be able to have surgery, which is the one treatment which can save lives.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police were called after a taxi mounted a pavement in Covent Garden, London\n\nFour people have been injured, including one seriously, after a taxi mounted a pavement in London.\n\nThe incident, in Southampton Street, Covent Garden, is not believed to be terror-related, police have said.\n\nA man has been transferred to a major trauma centre with a serious leg injury. Two others were taken to hospital with minor injuries and a fourth was treated by paramedics.\n\nThe driver of the taxi was detained at the scene.\n\nPolice believe two vehicles were involved in the collision, which took place just after 17:00 GMT.\n\nAn eyewitness described seeing a person trapped under the taxi and \"hearing screams\" as pedestrians were struck.\n\nPolice say two cars are thought to have been involved\n\nAnother onlooker said he initially thought the incident was terror-related.\n\n\"Everyone was running, panicking and screaming\", he said.", "Climbing on Australia's iconic Uluru landmark will be banned from October 2019, local authorities have confirmed.\n\nThe board of the Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park voted unanimously to end the climb because of indigenous sensitivities.\n\nThe giant red monolith in the Northern Territory is a sacred site for Aboriginal Australians.\n\nLocal people have long asked visitors not to climb the outcrop, which was known for many years as Ayers Rock.\n\nSigns at the start of the climb ask people to abstain from going up in respect to the traditional law of the Anangu Aboriginal people, the custodians of the land.\n\n\"It is an extremely important place, not a playground or theme park like Disneyland,\" board chairman and Anangu man Sammy Wilson said on Wednesday.\n\n\"If I travel to another country and there is a sacred site, an area of restricted access, I don't enter or climb it, I respect it. \"\n\nHe said the Anangu people had felt intimidation over the years to keep the climb open because it was a top tourist attraction.\n\nHowever the group had consistently wanted to close the site, a sacred men's area, because of its cultural significance.\n\n\"Closing the climb is not something to feel upset about but a cause for celebration. Let's come together; let's close it together,\" he said.\n\nThe board was made up of eight traditional owners as well as four government officials.\n\nOnly 16% of visitors made the climb between 2011 to 2015, according to the board's data.\n\nThe Unesco World Heritage-listed monolith was handed back to its traditional owners in 1985. The ban will commence on 26 October, 2019 - the 34th anniversary of the handover.\n\nTourism Central Australia said it supported the decision, pointing out that the public could still access much of the site respectfully.\n\nHowever, not all have supported the idea of a ban.\n\nLast year, Northern Territory Chief Minister Adam Giles sparked debate when he described the suggestion as \"ludicrous.\n\n\"We should explore the idea of creating a climb with stringent safety conditions and rules enforcing spiritual respect,\" said Mr Giles, who is Aboriginal.\n\nHowever weather and safety concerns have also led to the climb being frequently closed over the past 12 months. Since the 1950s, at least 35 people have died on the trek.\n\nThis recent push for the climb's ban was outlined in the park's 2010-2020 management plan, where it was proposed the climb be closed if attendance numbers dropped under 20% and other visitor activities were successfully established.\n\nMore than 250,000 people visit Uluru each year, according to the national park's website.", "Mihaela took these photographs in Kathmandu in Nepal (left) and Reykjavik, Iceland\n\n\"Go to Google Images right now,\" says photographer Mihaela Noroc, \"and search 'beautiful women'.\"\n\nI do as she tells me. Millions of results come back.\n\n\"What do you see?\" she asks. \"Very sexualised images, right?\"\n\nYes. Many of the women in the top pictures are wearing high heels and revealing clothes, and most fit into the same physical mould - young, slim, blonde, perfect skin.\n\n\"So beauty all the time is like that,\" Mihaela says. \"Objectifying women, treating them in a very sexualised way, which is unfortunate.\n\nL-R: Portraits taken in Germany, Italy and France\n\n\"Women are not like that. We have our stories, our struggles, our power, but we just need to be represented, because young women, they see only images like this every day, so they need to have more confidence that they can look the way they look and be considered beautiful.\n\n\"But,\" she adds, \"Google is us, because we are all influencing these images.\"\n\nMihaela has just released her first photography book, Atlas of Beauty, which features 500 of her own portraits of women.\n\nPushkar, India: \"I was happy to see women have joined public forces all over the world\"\n\nMihaela took these photographs in Colombia (left) and Milan, Italy\n\nThe Romanian photographer's definition of beauty, however, appears to be that there is no definition. The women are a variety of ages, professions and backgrounds.\n\n\"People are interested in my pictures because they portray people around us, everyday people around the street,\" Mihaela explains.\n\n\"Usually when we talk about beauty and women, we have this very high, unachievable way of portraying them.\n\n\"So my pictures are very natural and simple. And this is, weirdly, a surprise. Because usually we are not seen like that.\"\n\nEach of the book's 500 portraits has a caption with information about where it was taken, and, in many cases, the subject.\n\nThe locations are varied, to put it mildly. They include Nepal, Tibet, Ethiopia, Italy, North Korea, Germany, Mexico, India, Afghanistan, the UK, the US, and the Amazon rainforest.\n\nSisters Abby and Angela were photographed in New York\n\nCaptain Berenice Torres is a helicopter pilot for the Mexican Federal Police\n\nSome locations, however, proved more problematic than others.\n\n\"I approach women I want to photograph on the street. I explain what my project is about. Sometimes I get yes as an answer, sometimes I get no, that really depends on the country I'm in,\" she explains.\n\n\"When you go to a more conservative society, a woman is going to have a lot of pressure from society to be a certain way, and her day-to-day life is carefully watched by somebody else.\n\n\"So she's not going to accept being photographed very easily, maybe she's going to need permission from the male part of her family.\n\n\"In other parts of the world they are extremely careful because there might be issues concerning their safety, like in Colombia. Because they had Pablo Escobar and the mafia for so many years.\n\n\"So they say 'OK, so you're going to take my picture but I'm probably going to be kidnapped after that because you're part of the mafia and you're not who you're saying you are'.\"\n\nShe adds: \"If somebody were to start this project just with men, it would be much easier, because they don't have to ask permission from their wives, sisters or mothers.\"\n\nLeft: Pokhara, Nepal. Right: \"This is what shopping looks like for many people around the world,\" Mihaela says of her portrait taken in Nampan, Myanmar\n\nMihaela says she occasionally puts pictures through Photoshop, but not for the reasons you might think.\n\n\"When you take a picture, it's usually raw, and that means it's very blank, like a painting, you don't have the colours you had in the reality.\n\n\"So I try to make it as vibrant and colourful as it was in the original place. But I'm not making anyone skinnier or anything like that, never, because that's very painful.\n\n\"Because I also suffered as a woman growing up from all kinds of difficulties, I wanted to be skinnier, look a certain way, and that was also related to the fake images I saw in day-to-day life.\"\n\nIdomeni Refugee Camp, Greece: This woman and her daughters fled the war in Syria\n\nIt's safe to say Mihaela's photography book is quite different tonally to, say, Kim Kardashian's 2015 book of selfies.\n\n\"These days, the bloggers, the famous people of our planet have set this unachievable and fake beauty standard, and it's very difficult for us as women to relate to that,\" she says.\n\n\"Kim Kardashian has 100 million followers on her Instagram page and I have 200,000, so imagine the difference - it's astonishing. But slowly, slowly, I think the message of natural and simple beauty will be spread around the world.\"\n\nL-R: Portraits taken at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, Omo Valley in Ethiopia and Delphi, Greece\n\nSo what's the best piece of advice Mihaela could give to anyone keen to get into photography? Buy a good quality camera? Learn about lenses and angles?\n\n\"Buy good shoes,\" she laughs, \"because you're going to walk and explore a lot.\"\n\nLisa was backpacking through Berlin when Mihaela met her\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Special correspondent Ed Thomas has witnessed the reality of knife crime\n\nDelivery rider Abla's life changed in an instant in July on his way through Tottenham, north London.\n\nAfter stopping at traffic lights, his moped was surrounded by five other motorbikes, two riding on the road, three on the pavement.\n\nWith the lights on red, he was pushed off his scooter while being threatened with a knife. In a matter of seconds the bike was gone.\n\n\"My money has gone, my bike has gone, my job, everything,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't know what I'm going to do.\"\n\nWith only third party insurance, he estimates he's had £2,500 stolen from him.\n\nHe is far from being alone.\n\nAcross England and Wales an incident involving a blade or sharp object takes place, on average, every 14 minutes. Of the 37,000 incidents in the past 12 months, more than 13,000 offences were committed in London.\n\nWe filmed Abla's bike being stolen. What is striking looking back at the footage is how small the robbers look on their mopeds.\n\nBut the police say this is not a surprise, with the average age of moped criminals at just 15.\n\nJust weeks later we encounter the aftermath of another attack - this time a woman in a wheelchair assaulted in her local park after a man tried to steal her bag.\n\nHer head and arms covered in blood, she is confused and distressed.\n\n\"I couldn't see anything\", she said. \"He just said 'give me your bag'... I just don't know why people have to do these things.\"\n\nThe violent robbery was witnessed by a group of teenagers. One of them told us he saw violence every day and now felt hopeless.\n\n\"It's scaring people because things are happening so often, to the point where people are fearing for their lives every single day.\"\n\nThe capital has seen a staggering 34% rise in knife crime over the last year.\n\nPaul McKenzie has spent all his life in Tottenham.\n\nWhen he was 15 years old he was stabbed in the hand with a machete.\n\nShortly afterwards he decided to start carrying a knife to protect himself.\n\nBut just months later police caught him with the weapon, and he was sent to a young offender's institute.\n\nPaul McKenzie is committed to getting knives off the streets, after police caught him with a weapon\n\nSince then he has spent 20 years working with young people to educate them about the dangers of drugs, gangs, knives and guns.\n\nHe said most of the young people he speaks to in his workshops carry knives for protection.\n\n\"What you're finding is - and this has come out of the mouth of a few young people I've spoken to - that teenagers actually know people who can stitch [their wounds] up.\"\n\n\"A lot of the knife crimes are not reported because nobody wants to be involved with the police.\"\n\nMr McKenzie said that as well as the fear of 'snitching' there is a lack of faith that an investigation will lead to a prosecution.\n\nThe BBC has learnt that police forces across England and Wales are charging fewer people for knife crimes at the same time as offences are rising.\n\nFreedom of Information (FOI) responses from 30 out of 43 police forces showed that the number of knife crime offences that led to offenders being charged or summoned to court had fallen by eight per cent between 2015 and 2016.\n\nBut in Northern Ireland, knife crime is down for the second successive year.\n\nPolice in Scotland only began collating comprehensive knife crime figures in April. Prior to this, statistics were kept for possession of a knife - this has remained stable for the last few years.\n\nMr McKenzie regularly gets tip-offs about the public places where knives are hidden by people to use when they might need them at short notice.\n\nAs he walks around a park in Enfield, north London, it takes him just minutes to find what he is looking for.\n\n\"That could be the difference between someone living and dying right there, because now I know that's not going to go into somebody's chest.\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police say people carry knives for many reasons - for some it's because they mistakenly believe it offers them protection.\n\nOne man the BBC spoke to, who carries a Rambo-style knife and does not want to be identified, said he felt safer when carrying a blade.\n\nHe admitted to seeing multiple friends injured from knife crime - some of them have died.\n\nHe added: \"It makes you know that you have to keep a knife with you, because it's a part of life now.\"\n\nPerhaps the most striking feature of the increase in extreme violence is the number of young people involved.\n\nStatistics show a third of all those accused of offences where a gun was fired (237 out of 668) in London since 2012 were aged 19 or under.\n\nForty-five of the offences were committed by people aged under 14.\n\nThe increase in violent crime does not only involve knives.\n\nGun crime offences still remain below historic highs of March 2007 - when they were 31% higher than today - but the increase over the last three years is marked.\n\nGun crime across England and Wales has increased by 27% over the last year and in London is 42% higher.\n\nOne-in-six of the victims of gun crime in London in the first eight months of this year was aged 17 or under.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police is trying to tackle the issue using stop-and-search. In a statement the Met said it regards it as an \"invaluable tool\" that takes several thousand weapons off the streets each year, and has been backed by Commissioner Cressida Dick.\n\nThe force says it has changed the way they use stop-and-search and complaints have fallen by over 60%.\n\nBut the tactic can cause tension.\n\nFriends of Jordan Malutshi, a 17-year-old stabbed to death in 2012, were stopped and searched at a memorial barbecue at Patmore Estate in Wandsworth, south London.\n\nAn officer told us there had been three murders locally within a matter of weeks as a result of knife crime.\n\nBut one of Jordan's friends, calling himself Abs, claimed the search amounted to racial profiling.\n\nA stop-and-search was used on a Wandsworth estate for the first time in three years as people began arriving to Jordan Malutshi's memorial\n\nHe said he thought the group was stopped because the police saw \"four black youths in a car, in a nice car\".\n\nThe BBC has learned that 65% of all people who face criminal proceedings for knife crime in London are from ethnic minorities, and 42% are black.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Cressida Dick, said tackling violent crime is her priority.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, she expressed her \"anger\" at \"the apparent perception amongst some criminals that they could operate with near impunity\".", "Amsterdam has banned beer bikes amid complaints about rowdy tourists being drunk and disorderly.\n\nA court ruling on Tuesday allowed officials to prohibit their use in the centre of the Dutch city, calling the contraptions a \"public order problem\".\n\nThe bicycles are a popular way for tourists celebrating group events, such as stag parties, to travel around Amsterdam.\n\nCritics say they have become an example of the problems caused by mass tourism.\n\nThe beer bikes are small carts that have been modified with bicycle seats arranged around a bar table.\n\nPatrons power the bike as they pedal beside the city's famous canals, while drinking beer.\n\nThe ban came into force on Wednesday. A spokesman for the City Hall said operators were no longer allowed to rent out the bikes.\n\nIt comes after the Amsterdam District Court said \"the beer bicycle may be banned from the city centre to stop it from being a nuisance\".\n\nLast year, about 6,000 locals signed a petition calling on the council to ban the bikes, calling them a \"terrible phenomenon\".\n\nAt the time, one resident told NOS news: \"Our city has become a giant attraction park.\"\n\nYou normally hear them before you see them.\n\nFor some tourists these cumbersome contraptions offer the perfect way to see the city. Combining two of its attractions - alcohol and cycling.\n\nThey're especially popular with stag dos. Drunken men spilling beer while trying to navigate the narrow streets on wheels have become a familiar sight in the historic heart of the city.\n\nFor many residents they've become a symbol of the trouble associated with 'the wrong type of tourism'. The council recently announced plans to increase hotel taxes to try to reduce the number of budget travellers.\n\nThe Dutch are famous for their cycling culture but few will miss the inebriated foreigners who commandeer these novelty vehicles, sometimes at the expense of those who use bikes as a practical and sensible way to get on with life.\n\nAmsterdam's late mayor, Eberhard van der Laan - who died last month - agreed with the residents and instituted a ban on the bikes.\n\nThis was challenged in court last year by four beer bike operators, who said that the city was \"imposing on people's freedom\".\n\nJudges struck down the mayor's ban at the time, saying that it was not properly motivated.\n\nIn a ruling on Tuesday, however, the judges at the Amsterdam District Court agreed with the ban.\n\n\"The combination of traffic disruptions, anti-social behaviour and the busy city centre justifies a ban,\" they said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHave you taken a ride on a beer bike? Or do you live in Amsterdam? E-mail us at haveyoursay@bbc.co.ukwith your experiences.\n\nYou can also contact us in the following ways:", "When George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI many people tweeted him, and many of them were angry. But many people tweeted the wrong man.\n\nGeorge Papadopoulos, an American financial planner and accountant and nothing to do with alleged meetings between the Trump campaign and Russia, has had an interesting social media experience since news broke regarding his namesake on Monday.\n\nHe has, however, greeted the attention with good humour.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by George Papadopoulos This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 George Papadopoulos This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 people mistaken for celebrities have tweeted him to express their support. Michael Bolton, who happens to share the same name as the balladeer, commiserated.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Michael Bolton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, James Taylor, not the former England cricketer but sometimes confused with the singer-songwriter, chipped in with the idea of forming a bootleg band.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 James Taylor This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"So... when do we go on tour?\" asked Mr Papadopoulos, the accountant.\n\n\"Let's go,\" replied Mr Taylor, not the singer-songwriter.\n\nSimilarly, other Twitter accounts which happen to share a name with the well-known have had their share of attention, positive and negative.\n\nWhile John Lewis, not the retail store, ended up with a series of personalised gifts, Joe Hart the comedian took a lot of criticism aimed at the England goalkeeper after his performances at Euro 2016.\n\nEdward Snowden's Twitter experience changed when his namesake, a former US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor, leaked secret data to Wikileaks and the media.\n\nThe Edward Snowden who made headlines in 2013\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mr Snowden recounted: \"Some people had their conspiracy theories about me being him, some people were probably naive on how to use Twitter and tagged me unnecessarily and others probably wanted the banter or engagement.\n\n\"It was a whirlwind as I had no idea who he was and there was a lot of interaction from people. There were a lot of people who thought he was a hero and a lot thought he was a traitor.\n\n\"The communication was contrasting and varied. Twitter remains a good source of information and humour and I would say it's enhanced my enjoyment.\"\n\nMr Snowden said the NSA whistle-blower has not been in touch with him. He said it is a \"shame\" and would have been \"interesting\" to talk with him.\n\nDoes he have any advice for George Papadopoulos and victims of mistaken identities?\n\n\"Enjoy it,\" says Mr Snowden. \"Engage with people in a light hearted way and there is good humorous conversation to be had. Don't worry about threatening comments - they're not aimed at you directly or so, you hope!\"\n\nHowever, the final word should go to George.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 George Papadopoulos This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. George Papadopoulos: The Trump adviser who lied to the FBI", "First death in a terrorist attack in New York since 9/11\n\nThis is the first death in a terrorist attack in New York since 9/11, Karen J Greenberg of Fordham University School of Law’s Center on National Security told the BBC's Tara McKelvey. This is also the first truck attack by a terrorist in New York. “This is not a trend,” she added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The prime minister said all staff at Westminster should be \"treated with respect\".\n\nTheresa May said any allegations about serious sexual abuse in Parliament should go to the police, as she promised a new \"independent\" process to handle complaints.\n\nThe PM said she was \"deeply concerned\" by recent reports about alleged harassment and abuse at Westminster.\n\nShe invited Labour's Jeremy Corbyn and other party leaders to a meeting to agree a new grievance procedure.\n\nMr Corbyn said trade unions should be involved to support staff.\n\nTwo ministers, meanwhile, have denied claims on a list, thought to have been drawn up by Westminster staff and researchers, detailing a range of mostly unproven allegations about 40 Conservative MPs.\n\nFollowing a range of recent allegations, including claims of a lack of support for those making complaints, Mrs May has written to party leaders calling for the \"serious, swift, cross-party response this issue demands\".\n\nThe PM said a \"common, transparent independent grievance procedure\" for all those who work in Parliament was needed and that it \"cannot be right\" for policies to vary between parties.\n\nA dedicated support team should be available to all staff, she said, and it should recommend all criminal allegations be reported to the police.\n\nSpeaking at Prime Minister's Questions, Mr Corbyn said he was happy to meet the PM to discuss it, with a meeting scheduled for Monday evening.\n\nThe SNP's Ian Blackford said his party would also work with the government \"to ensure that we have a system we can be proud of\".\n\nDuring PMQs, Labour's Lisa Nandy said that three years ago she had raised concerns with Mrs May that party whips' offices - whose job is to keep the party's MPs in line and voting a certain way - had used sexual abuse allegations to demand loyalty from MPs.\n\nShe later tweeted the exchange in question, which related to events in the 1970s and was raised at the time the inquiry into historical child abuse was being launched.\n\nResponding at the time in 2014 Mrs May, who was home secretary, said political parties would be included in the inquiry and that \"every area where it is possible that people have been guilty of abuse\" would be looked at.\n\nResponding to Ms Nandy in PMQs, she said she would look back at the questions raised, adding: \"I will say to her that I am very clear, that the whips' office - I hope this goes for all whips' offices across this House - should make clear to people that where there are any sexual abuse allegations that could be of a criminal nature that people should go to the police.\n\n\"It is not appropriate for those to be dealt with by whips' offices; those should go to the police - that continues to be the case.\"\n\nAhead of PMQs, Mrs May's deputy, Damian Green, said allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards a female activist were \"completely false\" and he said he had instructed libel lawyers.\n\nTory activist Kate Maltby had written in the Times that he \"fleetingly\" touched her knee in a pub in 2015, and in 2016 sent her a \"suggestive\" text message.\n\nFormer Conservative minister Anna Soubry said Mr Green should stand down while the allegations are investigated, but Small Business Minister Margot James told BBC 5 live: \"I've read the article in the Times today, and I certainly don't think that it warrants anyone's resignation, temporary or otherwise, in my opinion.\"\n\nTwo other ministers, Dominic Raab and Rory Stewart, hit out at the list of unproven allegations about Tory MPs.\n\nJustice minister Mr Raab said he had sought legal advice over the \"false allegations\", which he described as a \"form of harassment\".\n\nIn an article on his website, he added: \"I appreciate the Westminster list will encourage a further media feeding frenzy against MPs. I also recognise that there are undoubtedly some very disturbing allegations out there, which need to be taken seriously.\n\n\"At the same time, for anonymous individuals to compile and publish, or allow to be published, a list of vague, unsubstantiated and - in my case - false allegations is wrong.\n\n\"It is also a form of harassment and intimidation, although of course I am not suggesting it is the same or equivalent. Still, accountability should mean properly investigating any reports of abuse, without irresponsibly smearing those who have done nothing wrong.\"\n\nMr Stewart said claims about his behaviour towards a female member of staff were \"completely untrue\".\n\nThe researcher publicly backed this up, saying the aid minister was \"never anything other than completely professional and an excellent employer\".\n\nLabour, meanwhile, has launched an independent investigation into an activist's claim that she was discouraged by a party official from reporting an alleged rape at a party event in 2011.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. New York truck attack: Who is Sayfullo Saipov?\n\nSayfullo Saipov, the main suspect in Tuesday's New York truck attack that killed eight people and injured 12, arrived in the US from Uzbekistan in 2010 and is married with three children.\n\nHe became a legal permanent resident of the US through a lottery programme that grants green cards annually to foreign nationals, in an effort to diversify the country's immigrant population.\n\nA day after the attack, Mr Saipov admitted to investigators that he had been inspired by propaganda from so-called Islamic State (IS).\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, US-based Uzbek religious activist and blogger Mirrakhmat Muminov, who met Mr Saipov in Ohio soon after he arrived in the US, said the suspect was radicalised online and had become increasingly aggressive.\n\n\"He was not well educated and had no knowledge of the Koran before arriving in the US,\" he said.\n\n\"At the beginning of his time here he was a normal sort of person.\"\n\nBut Mr Muminov said that Mr Saipov had become depressed, separated from his community and more resentful and angry after failing to find work as a driver.\n\n\"Because of his radical views he frequently used to argue with other Uzbeks and moved to Florida,\" Mr Muminov said. \"From then onwards I lost contact with him.\"\n\nHe had never been the subject of an NYPD or FBI intelligence investigation, according to John Miller, deputy commissioner for the New York Police Department.\n\nHowever, the New York Times, citing three officials, said the suspect had previously come to the attention of federal authorities via an unrelated probe.\n\nThe back patio of the apartment building in Florida where Sayfullo Saipov was a resident\n\nBorn in Uzbekistan in February 1988, Mr Saipov emigrated to the US in 2010 after winning a green card via the lottery and is believed to have lived in Ohio, Florida, and New Jersey since.\n\nMr Muminov said there were about 70,000 people from Uzbekistan now living in the US, with the overwhelming majority in New York City but also smaller populations in Florida - mostly in Orlando - and in Chicago and Ohio.\n\nAccording to the New York Times, Mr Saipov arrived in the country with a poor command of English and sought work as a truck and Uber taxi driver.\n\n\"He was a very good person when I knew him,\" Uzbek immigrant Kobiljon Matkarov - who met Mr Saipov in Florida several years ago - told the newspaper.\n\n\"He liked the US. He seemed very lucky and all the time he was happy and talking like everything is OK. He did not seem like a terrorist, but I did not know him from the inside.\"\n\nMr Saipov was shot and injured by a police officer and appeared in court in a wheelchair a day after the attack.\n\nHe told investigators he had been planning the attack for a year, and intentionally chose Halloween because he believed there would be more people in the streets.\n\nAuthorities found 90 graphic and violent propaganda videos on his phone - one that showed IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi talking about Muslims avenging deaths in Iraq.\n\nOfficials say a note was found in the truck that referred to IS, but New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said it was likely the suspect had acted alone and there was no evidence to suggest a wider plot.\n\nWitnesses said they heard the attacker shout \"Allahu Akbar\" - Arabic for \"God is greatest\" - when he emerged from his vehicle after the killings.\n\nFederal prosecutors charged Mr Saipov on two counts: providing material support and resources to IS and violence and destruction of motor vehicles.\n\nPresident Donald Trump has denounced him as \"very sick\" and a \"deranged person\".\n\nHe is reported to have been living most recently in Paterson, New Jersey, about 40km (25 miles) north-west of the scene of the attack. The truck involved was rented from nearby Passaic, a former industrial hub just south of Paterson.\n\nAbout 25,000 to 30,000 Muslims live in the city, the New York Times reported, giving it one of the highest concentrations of Muslims in the New York City area.\n\nUzbekistan has over the last 20 years taken a hard line against Islamic extremism.\n\nMr Saipov is not be the first person from the Central Asian country to be accused of plotting terror attacks in the US. Last month a Brooklyn man of Uzbek origin was sentenced to 15 years in prison for plotting terrorist attacks, including threats to kill Barack Obama.", "Ryan Gibbons (left) was earlier convicted of murder and Raymond Davies was found guilty of manslaughter\n\nA burglar who killed a former Royal Navy officer by running him over with his own car has been ordered to serve a minimum of 27 years in prison.\n\nRyan Gibbons, 29, was found guilty of murdering Mike Samwell, 35, after breaking into his home in Chorlton, Manchester and stealing his car.\n\nGibbons admitted the theft but denied deliberately driving over Mr Samwell.\n\nMr Samwell's wife said the image of her husband injured and in pain will stay with her forever.\n\nMike Samwell, who was a nuclear engineer, was woken by the sound of a burglary\n\nRaymond Davies, 21, of Castlefield Walk, Manchester, who collected Gibbons, of Steven Court, after he crashed and dumped the Audi S3 sports car was sentenced to eight years after being found guilty of manslaughter.\n\nIn a victim statement read in court, Mr Samwell's wife Jessica said: \"He was a loving and caring husband. Patient and kind.\"\n\nThe image of her husband lying injured and groaning with pain will be with her for the rest of her life, she said.\n\nThe couple's house was meant to be their \"forever home\" but she said should could not bear to go back there.\n\n\"I feel overwhelming grief for the future we will never have,\" she added.\n\nThe stolen car was later found dumped\n\nThe court had earlier heard Mr Samwell, a nuclear engineer, and his wife woke to the sound of burglars breaking into their home on Cranbourne Road, on 23 April, taking the keys to the car from the kitchen table.\n\nMr Samwell ran downstairs in his boxer shorts to confront Gibbons as he was driving off, shouting \"Get out of the car\" but was run over.\n\nHis wife followed him out of the house and found her husband on his back with tyre marks on his chest and \"blood coming out of his head\".\n\nShe held his hand and told him she loved him as he lay dying from \"catastrophic\" chest and heart injuries.\n\nMr Samwell's wife Jessica said he was a \"caring husband\"\n\nPassing sentence at Manchester Crown Court Mr Justice William Davis said: \"You knew you were running over Mr Samwell, you did it deliberately.\n\n\"You are a dangerous young man, you are a regular burglar and on this occasion, to get what you wanted, you quite ruthlessly killed a man.\"\n\nGibbons gave no reaction to his sentence but there were gasps from his family in the public gallery and one said \"You're joking\", before his father shouted \"Love you, son\".\n\nDet Ch Insp Lewis Hughes said: \"How many of us would have done the same thing in Mike's position, protecting our home and our loved ones from people like Gibbons and Davies?\"\n\nHe said the thieves \"actively chose to evade police\".\n\n\"The word tragedy is used too often these days, but no other word seems right to describe the utter devastation this pair left behind in their determination to steal from the Samwells,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The man, who did not want to be identified, says he woke up with Spacey's head on his stomach\n\nA man has said he was left traumatised after waking up to find Hollywood star Kevin Spacey lying on him when he was a teenager in the 1980s.\n\nThe man told Victoria Derbyshire Spacey invited him to spend the weekend in New York but it became clear he was interested in \"a way I wasn't\".\n\nHe said Spacey asked him to share his bed, but he slept on the sofa and woke up with the actor's arms around him.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Spacey for a comment.\n\nJohn, not his real name, added he didn't believe anything sexual took place, but said: \"I was uncomfortable at best, traumatised at worst.\"\n\nKevin Spacey is a double Oscar winner and was artistic director at London's Old Vic for 11 years\n\nThe latest allegation follows Spacey's apology after US actor Anthony Rapp accused him of making a sexual advance towards him when he was 14.\n\nRapp told how Spacey laid down on top of him in a bedroom during a party at the older man's flat in 1986.\n\nThe Double Oscar-winner said he was \"beyond horrified\" to hear the story and did not remember the encounter.\n\nOther men have now come forward, accusing Spacey of sexual harassment.\n\nUS filmmaker Tony Montana told Radar Online he suffered from PTSD for six months after Spacey allegedly grabbed his crotch in a Los Angeles bar in 2003.\n\nAnd Mexican actor Roberto Cavazos, who acted in several plays at the Old Vic, claimed in a Facebook post Spacey \"routinely preyed\" on young male actors.\n\nSpeaking to the programme, John said he first met the Broadway actor in 1984 at a summer theatre when he was 16.\n\nThe pair exchanged letters and, a year later, when John was 17, Spacey invited him to spend a weekend at his home in New York City.\n\nJohn told how a \"charming and brotherly\" Spacey showed him around the city, took him out for dinner and introduced him to famous friends on their weekend together.\n\nOn the first evening, Spacey talked a lot about his work and became affectionate \"in a way I certainly wasn't interested in\", he said.\n\nHe put his hand on John's thigh, an arm around his shoulder and rubbed his arm.\n\nAt bedtime, John said Spacey asked him to share his bed, but John insisted on sleeping on the sofa.\n\n\"It was an icy 'goodnight' with the lights off. I thought I was going to be kicked out in the morning,\" he said.\n\n\"As we went to sleep, he was sobbing from his bed,\" said John.\n\nHe said he felt it was attention-seeking behaviour in an attempt to get him to respond.\n\nThe following morning, John said he woke up with Spacey's head on his stomach and his arms wrapped around him.\n\n\"He was in his underwear, I was fully clothed. I supposed it was some sort of New York theatre actor 'good morning,'\" he said.\n\nAfter a second day enjoying New York, John said once back at the flat, Spacey became affectionate again and told him he felt \"misunderstood\".\n\n\"I burst into tears because I couldn't articulate any more what was happening to me. I was scared,\" said John.\n\n\"To his credit, he backed off and we went to sleep.\"\n\nJohn said he is telling his story now after reading about Rapp's similar experience and he wants young people to know they should be vigilant and speak out.\n\n\"It seems he was grooming me,\" John said.\n\n\"For me, I never let on that that's what I was interested in. I never discussed it, nor did I want it.\n\n\"I was uncomfortable at best, traumatised at worst.\n\n\"He was either very stupid or predatory - or maybe a little of both.\"\n\nJohn points out that neither of them drank any alcohol that weekend.\n\nHe said he didn't tell his parents or the authorities at the time because he thought Spacey's behaviour might have been \"permissible\" and worried he might have \"given off a vibe\" that he was interested in Spacey.\n\nThe BBC is seeking a response from Spacey.\n\nIn light of Rapp's allegations, Netflix has suspended production of political drama, House of Cards, in which Spacey stars.\n\nMeanwhile, the Old Vic, a London theatre where Spacey worked for 11 years, has set up a confidential complaints process for people involved with the theatre.", "Prime Minister Theresa May's deputy, Damian Green, has said allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards a female activist are \"completely false\".\n\nMr Green has instructed libel lawyers over the claims, the BBC understands.\n\nTory activist Kate Maltby wrote in the Times that he \"fleetingly\" touched her knee in a pub in 2015, and in 2016 sent her a \"suggestive\" text message.\n\nThe cabinet secretary is to investigate whether Mr Green broke the ministerial code.\n\nMs Maltby, 31, a writer and academic, said Mr Green, 61, said he had sent her the text message after she posed in a corset for the Times.\n\nAccording to her article in the paper, it read: \"Long time no see. But having admired you in a corset in my favourite tabloid I felt impelled to ask if you are free for a drink anytime?\"\n\nThe encounters left her feeling \"awkward, embarrassed and professionally compromised\", she wrote.\n\nMr Green, now first secretary of state, and Theresa May's effective deputy, said he had known Ms Maltby since 2014 and the pair \"had a drink as friends twice-yearly\".\n\n\"The text I sent after she appeared in a newspaper article was sent in that spirit - as two friends agreeing to meet for a regular catch up - and nothing more,\" he said.\n\n\"This untrue allegation has come as a complete shock and is deeply hurtful, especially from someone I considered a personal friend.\"\n\nHe also denied the claim he put his hand on Ms Maltby's knee.\n\nAsked about the claims in the Times as he left his home on Wednesday morning, Mr Green told reporters: \"All these allegations are completely false.\"\n\nThe ministerial code requires ministers to \"behave in a way that upholds the highest standards of propriety\".\n\nSpeaking on BBC Radio 5 live, Small Business Minister Margot James said there was no need for Mr Green to resign during the cabinet secretary's investigation.\n\n\"I've read the article in the Times today, and I certainly don't think that it warrants anyone's resignation, temporary or otherwise, in my opinion,\" she said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. William Hague tells Today he hopes Westminster is entering an era of greater accountability\n\nIt comes as allegations and rumours relating to sexual harassment and abuse by MPs swirl around Westminster.\n\nOn Tuesday, Labour confirmed it had launched an independent inquiry into claims that activist Bex Bailey, 25, was discouraged by a party official from reporting an alleged rape at a Labour event in 2011.\n\nShe told the BBC she had waived her anonymity to urge changes to the way such cases are handled.\n\nIn a separate case, an anonymous woman who claims she was sexually assaulted by an MP on a foreign work trip last year told the Guardian her allegations were not taken seriously.\n\nEarlier this week, a spokesman for Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon confirmed he was once rebuked by a journalist for putting his hand on her knee during dinner.\n\nMeanwhile, the BBC has seen a list, thought to have been compiled by staff and researchers at Westminster, detailing a range of mostly unproven allegations about 40 Conservative MPs and ministers.\n\nAmong the claims are a number of serious allegations of inappropriate behaviour with junior members of staff, the use of prostitutes and affairs between MPs.\n\nThe government has promised urgent action to improve the handling of complaints about the way MPs' staff are treated.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How a small company in the Czech Republic became the world's largest maker of vinyl records\n\nWhether gathering dust in your loft or currently spinning on your turntable, it's a fair bet that at least some of your vinyl records came from a small factory in the Czech Republic.\n\nThe facility in question is the headquarters of GZ Media, based in the small town of Lodenice, 25km (16 miles) west of the Czech capital, Prague.\n\nGZ is today the world's largest producer of vinyl records, of which it expects to press 30 million this year, for everyone from the Rolling Stones and U2, to Lady Gaga and Madonna.\n\nThe success of the company is a far cry from the early 1990s, when vinyl records appeared to be on the way out, with music fans having switched en masse to compact discs.\n\nBack in the early 1970s more than three-quarters of album sales were on vinyl, but by the 1990s that had plunged to just 1.5%.\n\n\"In 1993 our output was at its lowest, vinyl was almost dead,\" says GZ's chief executive Michal Sterba.\n\n\"If we'd have stayed as a vinyl-only producer in the 90s, GZ would be no more.\"\n\nThe operation had only become a private company two years earlier after the fall of communism.\n\nPrior to that it had been a state-run enterprise called Gramofonove Zavody (Gramophone Record Factory) which had started in 1951, and had pressed records for the world's largest music companies.\n\nWith demand for vinyl having dwindled, GZ realised that it had to diversify to survive, so it branched out into printing and making packaging for consumer goods.\n\nMichal Sterba is now expanding GZ, with new sister factories in the US and Canada\n\nCrucially though, it kept pressing vinyl to satisfy what little demand there was. At the lowest point in 1993 it made just 350,000 discs.\n\n\"We wanted to be the last company standing in the field of vinyl record production,\" says Mr Sterba.\n\nSo when the resurgence of vinyl began around 2010, GZ was in a position to take advantage of it.\n\nUnlike most rivals, GZ still had the vinyl-making equipment and the expertise. Its successful diversification also gave it the cash to invest.\n\nThe company has also seen a rising demand for picture discs\n\nMr Sterba says: \"Our competitors could buy machinery and materials, but the know-how is very hard to acquire.\"\n\nThe firm's printing and packing capabilities give it another advantage over its rivals, he adds: \"As well as producing the actual vinyl discs, GZ also makes the packaging, prints the artwork and any extras such as posters or booklet.\"\n\nOne particularly tough job, he recalls, was producing a real metal zip on the cover of the reissued Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers album.\n\nTo keep up with demand, GZ Media's Czech factory now runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and employs 1,600 permanent workers.\n\nIt's a fast-paced operation at every stage of the production process; from the initial stamping to the high-speed ballet of forklifts loading trucks for delivery.\n\nThe company has invested $20m in equipment, building 12 new presses, but the old still runs alongside the new.\n\nGZ's Czech factory has a permanent workforce of 1,600 plus 400 seasonal workers\n\nBright white, computer-controlled stations sit next to their huge, pale-green iron counterparts, still dripping oil into trays and buckets.\n\nGZ's revenues this year are expected to total $110m (£83m), and are growing by 9-10% per year. Meanwhile, its vinyl output has tripled since 2010.\n\nWith most of its customers in North America, GZ recently bought a vinyl plant in Memphis, Tennessee, to supplement its Czech production. It has also opened a production facility in Ontario, Canada.\n\nStaff at the factory listen to the records to test them\n\nGZ still makes albums for small indie bands - the punk and metal bands that kept the company going in the 1990s, but now it also works with massive global stars.\n\n\"We'll still press 100 records for a small metal band,\" says Mr Sterba, \"but we're also pressing 100,000 for U2.\"\n\n\"As for the future,\" he says, \"we're concentrating on making a success of our plants in North America. But in the longer term, we think manufacturing in Asia and preferably Japan [as well], is the right thing to do.\"\n\nYet, while vinyl sales are growing, some who buy the records don't actually play them. Last year a BBC/ICM poll found 48% of those questioned said they'd never played the vinyl they'd bought and 7% said they didn't even own a turntable.\n\nThese fans buy a vinyl album for the \"feel\" of owning a physical object and for the artwork that often comes with it - but they never actually play it.\n\nStaff at GZ had to add a real metal zip to the cover of the Rolling Stones album Sticky Fingers\n\nWhile vinyl sales are growing, they remain tiny compared with their 1980s heyday, says Paul Lee, a music industry expert at accountancy group Deloitte.\n\n\"Vinyl's first and biggest peak was back in the 80s when a billion records, just albums were sold per year. This year we're expecting about 40 million, so it's about one 25th... so it is nothing like that we had back in the 80s.\"\n\nThe company can make vinyl records in any colour\n\nMr Lee adds: \"The reality is vinyl is a lovely product, it's also very difficult to consume compared to just tapping in the name of a song on a smart phone... so we would expect the market to be approaching a peak.\"\n\nYet with music giant Sony announcing earlier this year that it was to re-open its vinyl manufacturing plant in Japan for the first time since 1989, it doesn't look like the vinyl revival is coming to an end any time soon.", "Tuesday night's events in New York feature widely in the newspapers.\n\nBoth the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail report that the fake guns wielded by the attacker led many at the scene to think they were watching a Halloween prank.\n\nThe Daily Express describes it as \"Horror in Manhattan\".\n\nThe New York Times reports that five of the eight people killed were Argentine tourists who had travelled to the city for a high school reunion; another victim was from Belgium.\n\nThe Times here notes that while New York has been the target of multiple bomb plots, until Tuesday night it had not suffered a fatal terrorist attack since jets struck the twin towers of the World Trade Center 16 years ago.\n\nThe claims by the Labour activist Bex Bailey that party officials \"hushed up\" her rape at a Labour event six years ago provide the lead for several papers.\n\nThe Guardian quotes the party's leader in 2011, Ed Miliband, as saying he was \"shocked by the horrific allegations\".\n\nLabour MP Stella Creasy tells the Huffington Post UK website that allegations involving party members or staff should be investigated by an independent body. \"You should not be getting a careers advice session if you come forward to report a sexual assault,\" she says.\n\nMs Creasy also calls for political parties to train their staff in safeguarding.\n\nThe i speaks of ministers' \"panic\" after an unredacted list of unverified claims against Conservative MPs - including consensual relationships alongside claims of sexual harassment - was leaked online.\n\nAccording to the paper, the list includes seven Cabinet ministers, eight former ministers and 25 other MPs.\n\nHowever, the Times reports that some Conservatives MPs say they have been wrongly named on the spreadsheet - and are considering legal action against its authors, if they can identify them.\n\nThe Telegraph reports that a former adviser to Donald Trump, who has admitted giving misleading statements about his Russian contacts, may have recently worn a wire to discuss Russia with campaign colleagues, as part of a deal to reduce his sentence.\n\nWith the special counsel, Robert Mueller, investigating claims of collusion between the Trump election team and Moscow - strongly denied by the president - court documents are said to describe George Papadopoulos as a \"pro-active co-operator\".\n\nThe paper suggests that he may have been \"flipped\" - a well-known technique in which a junior figure in a scandal is charged and then agrees to pass on information about more senior figures, to reduce his or her punishment.\n\nThe Daily Mirror says a judge has sparked fury by insisting that the killer of the soldier, Lee Rigby, should be given legal aid to sue the Ministry of Justice after losing two front teeth while being restrained in Belmarsh prison four years ago.\n\nThe paper notes that Mr Justice Brian Langstaff also warned that Michael Adebolajo had developed a network of terrorist sympathisers by preaching Islamic extremism behind bars.\n\nFinally, the story of a boss who snapped.\n\nThe Mail tells how the managing director of the Nippy Bus company in Yeovil shut it down, sacking his entire staff of 27 drivers.\n\nA frank email from 57-year-old Sydney Hardy told them: \"I've had enough. I cannot work with you a moment longer. I am quitting to pursue my dream of not having to work here.\"", "In the last few days there has been a frenzy in Westminster about a dodgy dossier, a list, all manner of claims about ministers' and MPs' bad behaviour.\n\n(For what it's worth, the list which we have seen contains both a mixture of unsavoury allegations, reports of well-known relationships, and some claims that are furiously denied. There is just no way of knowing frankly, how much of it is true).\n\nBut until now, there hasn't been anyone willing to come forward to speak candidly about their own experiences to illustrate the culture in some corners of politics that is the root of the problem.\n\nThat might just have changed. Bex Bailey, a well-known and well-respected Labour activist, has had the courage to tell her story, to waive her anonymity as an alleged rape victim. What stands out from her claims is sadly not the suggestion that a teenage political activist was the target of an older senior party member.\n\nBut that when she tried to seek help and advice, she says she was told that it would be better for her to keep quiet, and not risk the damage of making such an allegation.\n\nShe told the BBC, \"It took me a while to summon up the courage to tell anyone in the party. But when I did, I told a senior member of staff who told me - or it was suggested to me that I not report it. I was told that if I did it might damage me and that might be their genuine view… in which case that shows that we have a serious problem in politics with this issue.\"\n\nWe have no way of independently verifying her story. But it identifies precisely the problem heard time and time again at Westminster. Young men and women, who care about their political parties and quite understandably also their own careers, often fear the consequences of making a complaint, or being seen as a troublemaker.\n\nLoyalty is a precious commodity in Westminster, but it has also for many been a trap, or a tool that's used against them. It is one of the powerful elements of culture here that has allowed some cases of harassment, bullying or sexual abuse to go unreported. That's also why it has been so hard to ascertain accurately how widespread the problem truly is.\n\nFor Ms Bailey, who has pressed the Labour Party for years to improve its processes, to make it possible for people to report abuse independently, it is however now time to speak up.\n\nAcknowledging how hard it may have been for others she says: \"You're just as brave if you don't speak out. And I know that there are a lot of women who will be struggling with all of this that's going on at the moment. But for me it was the right thing to do.\"\n\nThe question that will be asked across Westminster tonight is whether others are brave enough to follow.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSpain's high court has summoned sacked Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont and 13 other members of his dismissed government to appear later this week.\n\nIt also gave them three days to pay a deposit of €6.2m ($7.2m) to cover potential liabilities.\n\nThe summons comes after Spain's chief prosecutor on Monday said he would press charges including rebellion.\n\nMr Puigdemont is in Belgium with several former ministers. He earlier said he was not there to seek asylum.\n\nCarles Puigdemont triggered a crisis in Spain by holding an independence referendum in early October in the semi-autonomous region despite Madrid's opposition and the Constitutional Court declaring the vote illegal.\n\nSpain's central government has now taken direct control of Catalonia.\n\nMr Puigdemont turned up in Brussels on Monday as Spanish Attorney-General José Manuel Maza called for Catalan leaders to face charges of rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds.\n\nThe Audiencia National has now summoned the sacked Catalan officials - who are yet to be formally charged - to testify on Thursday and Friday. If they do not appear, prosecutors could order their arrest.\n\nMeanwhile, the speaker of Catalan's dissolved parliament Carme Forcadell and other former lawmakers have been summoned to the Supreme Court because they still have parliamentary immunity.\n\nMr Puigdemont earlier said he would return to Spain if guaranteed a fair hearing.\n\nSeveral of Mr Puigdemont's former colleagues who remain inside the country may decide to accept the summons and appear in court, reports the BBC's James Reynolds from Barcelona.\n\nProsecutors' arguments against the group were \"serious, rational and logical\", Judge Carmen Lamela said in a ruling, according to the AFP news agency.\n\nSpeaking at a press conference earlier on Tuesday, Mr Puigdemont said he was not trying to escape justice by travelling to Belgium but wanted to be able to speak freely.\n\nHis comments came as Spain's constitutional court suspended the declaration of independence made by the Catalan parliament on Friday.\n\nMr Puigdemont also said he would accept the result of snap elections in Catalonia on 21 December, which were called by Spain's central government after it invoked Article 155 of the constitution, temporarily suspending the region's autonomy.\n\n\"I want a clear commitment from the state. Will the state respect the results that could give separatist forces a majority?\" Mr Puigdemont asked reporters.\n\nProtesters from both sides turned up outside the Press Club in Brussels were Mr Puigdemont spoke\n\nThe Spanish government has previously said he is welcome to take part in the fresh polls.\n\nIn a separate development on Tuesday, Spain's Guardia Civil - a paramilitary force charged with police duties - raided the offices of the Catalan police force.\n\nAccording to media reports, they searched eight offices for communications relating to the referendum on 1 October.", "The BBC story about wasted time in operating theatres has generated a lively debate.\n\nWe reported that analysis by the regulator NHS Improvement showed there could have been 280,000 more non-emergency operations, at 100 English hospital trusts, last year.\n\nThere were said to be 140 minutes of unused time per operating list.\n\nSo, is it simply a case of improving efficiency, or are there wider problems that need to be addressed across the NHS?\n\nAre the solutions to be found in the way operating theatres are managed or are theatre staff having to stand idle because of logjams elsewhere in the system?\n\nCan't find your health trust? Browse the full list Rather search by typing? Back to search\n\nIt is a highly topical debate because demands for more money for the NHS are growing ahead of the Budget.\n\nThe Treasury, for its part, will want to be assured that the service is continuing to improve efficiency and make the best use of existing resources.\n\nThe most obvious factor highlighted in response to our story was the acute shortage of beds in most hospitals.\n\nMedically fit patients are often unable to leave because of delays in arranging social care in the community.\n\nAll this can leave frustrated surgeons and their colleagues unable to operate.\n\nProf Derek Alderson, president of the Royal College of Surgeons, put it thus: \"There's this constant backlog all the way through - so the new patient cannot get into hospital because the last patient is still in the intensive care unit and as yet cannot get back to the ward because the ward patient cannot go home.\"\n\nNHS Improvement's analysis allowed for 5% of time on an operating list to be lost because of last-minute cancellations.\n\nIt also excluded any periods of unused time of less than 60 minutes as no procedure could be carried out in that time.\n\nSo, in effect, it tried to take account of the likelihood that lists may be disrupted each day because of issues such as bed shortages.\n\nSome hospitals will argue these assumptions underestimate the problem.\n\nA consultant anaesthetist, Mark Alexander Price, made the point that operations, and the process before patients were taken to theatres, took longer than they used to - so it was harder to embark on them with finite time slots.\n\nPatients are older and and, thanks to medical advances, are being considered suitable for surgery that would not have happened 20 years ago.\n\nObese patients need longer for the anaesthetic process and are more vulnerable to complications during surgery.\n\nOn the other hand, one observer recalled the observations of the business leader Sir Gerry Robinson in his BBC TV series on the NHS a decade ago.\n\nSir Gerry told the Telegraph in January 2007: \"The biggest single surprise for me was seeing how under-utilised the operating theatres were.\n\n\"I thought they'd be packed - and that this was the reason there was a problem with waiting lists. But it really wasn't like that.\n\n\"The theatres simply weren't being managed in any way that I would recognise as being appropriate for an important and expensive resource.\"\n\nThe NHS in England has embarked on two major national efficiency programmes since then.\n\nAs reported, Croydon University Hospital has reduced last-minute cancellations of operations by better handling of pre-surgery assessments.\n\nLists are carefully managed to try to iron out late starts and early finishes.\n\nThe number of cases dealt with each year has increased by 1,200.\n\nThe new thinking was driven by surgeons and other clinical staff, including a matron.\n\nPA Consulting has worked with Hillingdon Hospital to increase theatre utilisation from 75% to 82%, which is an additional 20 hours per week operating capacity. The aim is to get to 90%.\n\nSome have accused the BBC of running down the NHS by implying it could be more efficient and that resources could be better deployed.\n\nHighlighting Croydon's achievements, however, suggests that dedicated NHS staff are driving improvements with the aim of improving the levels of care they can offer.\n\nUnused operating theatre time does nothing to help doctors and nurses achieve their goal of helping more patients.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. New York terror attack: How the events unfolded\n\nAt least eight people have been killed and 11 seriously hurt in New York after the driver of a truck mowed down people on a cycle path in Lower Manhattan.\n\nA 29-year-old man who emerged from the white pick-up truck was shot by a police officer and arrested. Officials later said it was a terror attack.\n\nMedia named him as Sayfullo Saipov, an immigrant who came to the US in 2010.\n\nA note was found in the truck that referred to so-called Islamic State, a law enforcement source told CBS News.\n\nUS media identified the suspect as Sayfullo Saipov seen in this 2016 photo\n\nThe suspect - who had apparently settled in Florida - was taken to hospital.\n\nNew York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said it was a \"cowardly act of terror aimed at innocent civilians\".\n\nHe added: \"We know that this action was intended to break our spirit. But we also know that New Yorkers are strong, New Yorkers are resilient and our spirit will never be moved by an act of violence and an act meant to intimidate us.\"\n\nPresident Donald Trump tweeted: \"My thoughts, condolences and prayers to the victims and families of the New York City terrorist attack. God and your country are with you!\"\n\nNew York Police Department (NYPD) Commissioner James O'Neill said the injured had \"serious but non-life threatening injuries\".\n\nHe described what had occurred, based on the latest information he had received:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We will be undeterred' by the attack says NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio\n\n\"The dead and injured were just going about their days, heading home from work or from school or enjoying the afternoon sun on their bicycles,\" the commissioner said.\n\n\"This is a tragedy of the greatest magnitude for many people, for many families here in New York and beyond today.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMangled bicycles littered the scene of the attack, which occurred as much of the city was celebrating Halloween.\n\nOne witness, identified as Eugene, told ABC Channel 7 that he saw the white pick-up truck driving fast down the cycle path alongside the West Side Highway, near Stuyvesant High School, at full speed and hitting a number of people.\n\nHe also reported hearing about nine or 10 shots.\n\nAnother witness, who gave his name as Frank, told local TV network NY1 that he had seen a man running around an intersection and heard five to six gunshots.\n\n\"I saw he had something in his hand, but I couldn't tell what it was. But they said that it was a gun...\n\n\"When the cops shot him, everybody started running away and it got a little bit crazy right there. So when I tried to look again, the guy was already down.\"\n\nPresident Donald Trump had been briefed on the incident, the White House said.\n\nIn separate tweets, he said:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emergency services on the scene of the attack\n\nAt the moment the New York authorities are saying that it was a lone wolf, that the attack wasn't part of a wider conspiracy or plot.\n\nBut this is an active crime scene at the moment and they are still trying to piece together precisely what happened.\n\nThe attack happened on Halloween, one of the most festive days in the New York calendar.\n\nThe pavements were crowded with kids in costumes and there are still children trick-or-treating just yards away - it's a bizarre scene.\n\nBut it shows how New York absorbs this kind of thing.\n\nWe are just yards from Ground Zero, a site which reminds all New Yorkers of that awful day back in 2001. It didn't take police long to confirm that the city had once again been the target of terror.", "The claim: Photographs show Osama Bin Laden was hosted in the White House.\n\nReality Check verdict: An image that has been shared on social media in Russia is fake. There are no known photographs of Osama Bin Laden at the White House and no evidence such an extraordinary event ever occurred.\n\nMaria Zakharova, a Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman, was on a chat show on Russian state television on Monday, talking about the US government and its lobbying activities.\n\n\"Recall these fantastic, mind-boggling photographs of how Bin Laden was hosted in the White House,\" she said.\n\nThis photo was doing the rounds on Russian Twitter accounts. last year.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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\nIt is definitely a fake - Bin Laden has been superimposed on a photo of Mrs Clinton meeting musician Shubhashish Mukherjee at an event in 2004.\n\nAt the time, President George W Bush was in the White House and Hillary Clinton was a New York senator.\n\nThis is the original photo.\n\nAnalysis by the US fact-checking site Snopes found that the image had been produced as part of a Photoshop contest from a website called FreakingNews.com.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This year has seen a spike in anti-Muslim hate crimes, and a new survey shows women are suffering the most - so what's it like to be a black British Muslim woman at the moment? Not great, says Muna Ahmed.\n\nA man mimed shooting Linda with a rifle as he crossed the road. A man spent an entire train journey staring aggressively at Sonya, his face inches from hers.\n\nThese are the kind of incidents Muslim women face every day.\n\nOne young woman told me she has stopped listening to music so she can hear if someone is following her. Another has considered taking off her headscarf because she doesn't feel safe.\n\nMany women worry about being attacked or singled out because of their faith. Most have experienced verbal abuse. They worry about being out after dark, and drive with their windows closed.\n\n\"The thought of being attacked crosses my mind now more than ever,\" says Natasha, a Muslim convert from Sheffield.\n\n\"I've always felt safe here in England, but post-Brexit, post the [terror] attacks, it's getting worse and worse.\"\n\nThe charity Tell MAMA will publish its latest report this week\n\nIt wasn't always like this. Growing up in Sheffield, I was just like every other kid I played with - I may have been a tad cheekier, but nobody treated me differently because of my race or faith.\n\nAt the weekends I would see people pouring out of the church and the mosque at either end of our street. I don't remember any hostility and I certainly didn't see any conflict between the faiths. It was just normal.\n\nEverybody on my road knew each other. My friends Gemma and Tracy lived at the top of my street and we would walk to school together every day. When we got home we would eat fish-fingers and go straight out to play. Weekends were the best because we would get up early to watch cartoons and mum would make us pancakes.\n\nI enjoyed all the religious holidays because there were always treats involved.\n\nAt Easter we would get chocolate eggs. During Ramadan we tried to fast so we could take part in the evening feast, but Mum knew that we would be starving by 4pm so she would leave a plate of food out, which my friends and I would sneak into the house and eat.\n\nI loved the Christmas holidays because I would go and visit my grandmother and she would spoil me rotten. And on Eid I would get whatever I wanted.\n\nThinking about it now, I had the best of both worlds. But 9/11 changed everything.\n\nI went from being a carefree teenager who had never been asked about my religion to having people constantly ask me questions about Islam - questions that I didn't have the answers to.\n\nI asked my parents about al-Qaeda, and where Islam stood on terrorism. Every day I would come home with a different question, because the Islam that had become \"the enemy\" was not the religion I knew.\n\nEver since then, my country has not been a positive place to be a Muslim woman - and it seems to be getting worse.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Listen: Muna Ahmed on what she feels it's like to a Muslim woman in Britain today\n\nThe other day I saw a big crowd of people listening to a man with a megaphone shouting: \"We need to get these Muslims out of our country, we need to stand united against Islam.\"\n\nA lot of people seemed to be agreeing with him.\n\nA few days after that I posted a video on Facebook about how the tabloids portray Muslims and the first person to comment was one of my childhood friends, a girl I used to play with all the time. She reeled off a list of radical preachers - as if they represent Islam. The conversation went on for a while, while I tried to educate her about Islam. But she was having none of it.\n\nAt one point she said: \"You're welcome in this country but your religion isn't.\"\n\nIt got worse - the final thing she said to me was: \"Muna, you have blood on your hands too.\"\n\nI felt physically sick when I saw those words on my screen.\n\nBut Muslim women often experience abuse on social media these days.\n\nSonya is a 23-year-old British Asian Muslim. We sat and talked about our experiences, laughing at the silly assumptions people have about Islam - for example, that she'll have to have an arranged marriage. But it was less funny when she told me about the death threats she had received on social media.\n\n\"I was quite popular on Twitter, I used to put up information about Islam and things like that. But all of a sudden dozens of people started commenting and saying all sorts of horrible things, like: 'Go back to your country,' 'We're going to come and kill you,' 'We will hunt you down,' 'You are disgusting to look at.'\"\n\nI don't have any children but whenever I'm back home in Sheffield I always take my two nieces, 10-year-old Aaliyah and seven-year-old Amanie, out for ice cream.\n\nAs we approached the restaurant last time we heard police sirens - they had been called to the scene because a white man was yelling obscene Islamophobic language at two Muslim waitresses. I grabbed my two nieces and told them we'd come back later. As we walked off, Amanie looked at me and said: \"Why is that man saying bad things about Muslims?\"\n\nHow do you tell a seven-year-old that some people in this country will treat you unfairly because of your race and religion?\n\nThe first time I wore a headscarf to work, a woman who works in our building said I like looked like a North African kidnapper, in front of my entire team. I laughed it off, but I felt isolated and different from everyone in the room at that moment.\n\nIt's like people don't know how to react to us any more - why are people so anxious around Muslim women? We're not creatures from outer space, we're just women, and some of us choose to cover our hair. Why is it such a big deal?\n\nSaadiya is a young British Asian woman who works in the City. Like me, the only time she wears a headscarf is when she is going to the mosque - but on those occasions she gets weird looks - looks I know all too well.\n\n\"When our family moved to this country they faced a lot of that, and it was a real struggle for them,\" Saadiya tells me. That was 30, 40, 50 years ago - we've come a long way since then, and yet it feels as if we are now going 10 steps back.\n\nEven though I have a thick Yorkshire accent, I'm often made to feel like I don't belong. One minute I'm fighting off racists and then a second later I'm back in the ring defending my faith. It feels like I'm constantly justifying my own existence.\n\nWe are at risk of terror attacks like everybody else, but we also have to deal with the backlash. After major attacks we have to endure intimidating comments and fear personal attacks, all because of the actions of a terrorist. Being held accountable for the actions of extremists is a massive burden.\n\nSome days I want to scream at the top of my voice that I have nothing to do with terrorism but it doesn't matter how loud I scream, I will always be tarred with the same brush.\n\nAll we want is to feel safe in our own country and to be accepted for who we are - because we are British and this is our home.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "The impact of a small rise in interest rates is likely to be modest for most UK households, according to mortgage lender Nationwide.\n\nThe Bank of England has been widely tipped to increase rates for the first time in a decade on Thursday.\n\nIf rates do go up from 0.25% to 0.5%, the effect will be smaller than in the past because more homeowners are on fixed mortgages, Nationwide said.\n\nIt comes as house prices rose by 0.2% in October, according to Nationwide.\n\nThe average price of a house in the UK rose by £284 to £211,085. Annual house price growth edged up to 2.5% from 2.3% in September.\n\nNationwide chief economist Robert Gardner said the share of mortgages on variable rates - and so likely to see higher payments if the Bank Rate is increased - has fallen to a record low of about 40%, down from a peak of 70% in 2001.\n\n\"Moreover, a 0.25% increase in rates is likely to have a modest impact on most borrowers who are on variable rates,\" Mr Gardner said.\n\nHe estimated such a rate rise would increase monthly payments by £15 to £665 for the average mortgage, or an extra £180 a year.\n\nHoward Archer, chief economic adviser to the EY Item Club consultancy, said a rate rise could weigh on the housing market.\n\n\"Housing market activity remains under pressure from squeezed consumer purchasing power, fragile confidence and appreciable caution over engaging in major transactions,\" he said.\n\nIn its latest update on the housing market, the Nationwide also said the UK's departure from the European Union could affect demand.\n\n\"With the ongoing uncertainty around Brexit and the rights of EU citizens once the UK leaves the EU, we may see a slowing in housing demand (and particularly rental demand) in the years ahead,\" Mr Gardner said.\n\nPopulation growth has fuelled housing demand in recent years, the building society said, with international migration accounting for almost two-thirds of the 11% increase in England's population rise between 2001 and 2015.\n\nThat has affected the number of residents privately renting properties. \"Recent migrants are more likely to privately rent than live in social housing or their own home,\" said Mr Gardner.\n\nThe biggest impact has been in London. \"There is a regional dynamic, with migrants accounting for a much higher proportion of the private renting population in London than elsewhere in England,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA Labour activist has said she was raped at a party event and that a senior Labour official discouraged her from reporting the attack.\n\nBex Bailey said she was told reporting the 2011 incident could \"damage\" her and that she was given no advice on what she should do next.\n\nShe told the BBC she had waived her anonymity to urge changes to the way such cases are handled.\n\nLabour said it had launched an independent investigation.\n\nThis will look at \"claims that a party employee acted improperly over these 2011 allegations\", the party said.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said Ms Bailey had shown \"incredible bravery\" in speaking out and said she had his \"full support and solidarity\".\n\nThe issue of sexual abuse within politics and the parties' response has come under the microscope after recent allegations about sexual harassment in Parliament.\n\nLabour has said \"robust procedures\" both \"inside as well as outside Parliament\" are needed and Jeremy Corbyn has written to members urging anyone with a complaint to come forward using \"confidential party procedures\".\n\nMs Bailey, who is calling for an independent body free from political \"bias\", said there was now a recognition that \"it's a problem in every party at every level\".\n\nThe 25-year-old is a former member of Labour's ruling National Executive Committee.\n\nIn an interview with PM on BBC Radio 4, she said she had been 19 when she was raped by someone senior to her within the Labour Party who was not an MP.\n\nShe said she had \"tried to pretend it hadn't happened\" and did not report the attack to the police at the time.\n\n\"I was scared, I felt ashamed, I know that the Labour Party, like any family, loves a good gossip - and I didn't want people to know and I also was worried that I wouldn't be believed if I did,\" she said.\n\nTwo years later, she did confide in a party official.\n\n\"It took me a while to summon up the courage to tell anyone in the party,\" she said.\n\n\"But when I did, I told a senior member of staff, who told me... or it was suggested to me that I not report it, I was told that if I did it might damage me - and that might be their genuine view, it might be that that was the case in which case that shows that we have a serious problem in politics with this issue anyway.\"\n\nMs Bailey said she was not given good advice and was \"not signposted to anyone else that could\", and there seemed to be no procedure to report the incident.\n\n\"I don't think I was even given a cup of tea at the time,\" she said.\n\n\"It was quite a horrible experience and this is why I've been fighting so hard for changes to the way that we do this.\"\n\nShe is calling for an independent agency, like a charity, so allegations are dealt with free from \"political bias\" and complainants do not feel they will be \"penalised\".\n\nThis body should provide advice on taking the matter to the police or, anonymously, to the party, she said.\n\nLabour's process relies on people reporting an attack to someone within the party - who is \"inclined to be loyal to the Labour Party\", she said.\n\n\"It's important that we need to make sure that this results in actual change in our parties as well as in Parliament, rather than letting it all blow over,\" she said.\n\nMs Bailey said she had seen \"a lot of brave women\" speak out in recent days and weeks, and had chosen to do so to secure the changes she has campaigned for.\n\n\"I just really hope that all the horrible things that we're seeing will at least result in some sort of change in our parties as well as in Parliament.\"\n\nA Labour Party spokesman said: \"The Labour Party takes these allegations extremely seriously. It takes great courage for victims of rape to come forward - and all support must and will be made available to them.\n\n\"We would strongly recommend that the police investigate the allegations of criminal actions that Bex Bailey has made.\n\n\"Labour will also launch an independent investigation into claims that a party employee acted improperly over these 2011 allegations.\"\n\nMr Corbyn added: \"There will be no tolerance in the Labour Party for sexism, harassment or abuse.\n\n\"Whatever it takes, we are absolutely committed to rooting it out.\"\n\nEd Miliband, who was Labour leader in 2011, said he was \"shocked\" by Ms Bailey's \"horrific allegations\".\n\nHe added: \"She is showing great bravery and courage in speaking out. Victims must be supported when they come forward. These allegations must be properly investigated by the police and the Labour Party.\"\n\nMeanwhile, the BBC has seen a list, thought to have been compiled by staff and researchers at Westminster, detailing a range of mostly unproven allegations about 40 Conservative MPs and ministers.\n\nAmong the claims are a number of serious allegations of inappropriate behaviour with junior members of staff, the use of prostitutes and affairs between MPs.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg described the list as \"both a mixture of unsavoury allegations, reports of well-known relationships, and some claims that are furiously denied\".", "The new line-up has wide appeal and good chemistry\n\nMany fans feared that The Great British Bake Off might spoil when it went to Channel 4. So the success of this series must taste particularly sweet.\n\nThere were some funny moments at Jay Hunt and David Abraham's leaving party at Channel 4 a few weeks ago.\n\nThe chief creative officer and chief executive had gathered journalists, colleagues, friends and programme makers for a boozy farewell.\n\nThree members of boy band Blue turned up and sang. A video of tributes and thank yous featuring famous people associated with Channel 4 was played, to ringing applause. Then the stars of Bake Off turned up.\n\nPaul Hollywood wasn't there, but Prue Leith, Sandi Toksvig and Noel Fielding were. Leith said she'd never been paid so much to eat cake. Everything Toksvig said was funny.\n\nThen Fielding produced the most memorable line of the evening, when he addressed the crowd and said (I paraphrase slightly): \"Be honest, you thought we were gonna flop! Didn't you?!\"\n\nEveryone laughed, because everyone knew he was right.\n\nSandi Toksvig and Noel Fielding have formed an unlikely double act\n\nThe decision by Channel 4 to bid for Bake Off was widely interpreted in the industry as reckless, naive, hubristic - or some combination of all three.\n\nDozens of industry people I spoke to used the same line - without the \"talent\" (Sue Perkins, Mel Giedroyc and Mary Berry all declined to move across), Channel 4 had basically just paid for a tent. This was the conventional thinking.\n\nConventional thinking has a habit of being wrong. It also has a seductive appeal. It is absolutely true that Channel 4 was taking a huge punt in buying the show without three quarters of its stars. That is why the reward they are now getting must taste particularly good.\n\nThe numbers are, to those in Horseferry Road, where Channel 4 is still headquartered, the stuff of dreams.\n\nTV viewing figures now come in at least two groups - mainly the overnights and consolidated. In overnights, the show is getting around six million viewers. In terms of consolidated reach - the number of people who see a particular episode over a seven-day period - this rises to 8.9 million.\n\nStacey was eliminated in the semi-final\n\nTrue, this is down from the 13 million the show reached on BBC One. But bearing in mind that BBC One generally gets the biggest audiences in the land, Channel 4 will be chuffed.\n\nAnd especially because in the prized 16-34 demographic (those who apparently are running away from conventional TV), they are scoring 2.5 million viewers - or a whopping 54% of market share.\n\nFielding, Toksvig, Leith and Hollywood are earning their meringues - and Channel 4 appears to agree as all four are back for next year's series.\n\nAs digital giants like Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook and Netflix move into television, conventional broadcasters like Channel 4 are having to fight much, much harder for eyeballs and advertising revenue.\n\nThat means they rely ever more heavily on superstar shows such as Bake Off, which bring in the revenues to fund other expensive programming that - in Channel 4 and the BBC's case - meets a public service remit.\n\nThe irony, of course, is that Jay Hunt and David Abraham are off to new ventures just as Bake Off brings in the cash. The latter is probably going to set up his own company, but remains tight-lipped.\n\nFor Hunt, a former BBC and Channel 5 executive who missed out on the top job at Channel 4, and is now moving to Apple, this is in effect a parting gift to her colleagues.\n\nThough Abraham was her superior, it was Hunt who was most closely associated with the Bake Off transfer, and who made the ultimate decision on the new line-up.\n\nThat line-up was carefully selected to combine an appeal to various demographics - Fielding brings a following from his Never Mind the Buzzcocks days; Toksvig is a Radio 4 giant; Leith has real pedigree in the world of food - with on-screen chemistry, which is undoubtedly there.\n\nTheir current success may not last, but it is worth bearing in mind that most shows take time to build an audience in a new place, as critics of former Fox anchor Megyn Kelly's new show on NBC should remember.\n\nAnd it is in the nature of Bake Off, which is a competition, that as it builds towards a thrilling finale, its ratings could rise. So the best may be yet to come.\n\nI suspect that when she met Apple, Hunt will have pointed to the success of Bake Off as an indication of her eye for talent and preparedness to take creative risks that are later vindicated.\n\nThe show was never going to achieve the same audience it did on BBC One. For now, it looks a canny investment. But when the show is put out to tender again in a couple of years, might Channel 4 find itself bidding against Apple?\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Tasleema Rouf, 35, was on the top storey of her house in Srinagar, the capital of Indian-administered Kashmir, when she says she saw a man's shadow.\n\nBefore she could react, she says, she was attacked. When she tried to scream for help, he tried to strangle her. She fell unconscious.\n\nThat's how her husband found her - lying on the floor, with some of her hair chopped off.\n\nAt least 40 instances of hair chopping have been reported in the state of Jammu and Kashmir since 6 September, sparking off hysteria and protests. The situation is so volatile that even schools and colleges were shut briefly.\n\nThis isn't the first time that \"braid chopping\" attacks have made headlines in India. More than 50 women in the northern states of Haryana and Rajasthan had reported in August that their braids were chopped off while they were unconscious.\n\nBut given Kashmir's volatile relationship with India's federal government, the attacks here have led to violence, vigilantism and allegations against both Indian security forces and separatists.\n\nTasleema Rouf is seen crying after she was attacked and her hair chopped off\n\nLittle is known about who is behind the attacks. Most of the women said they were knocked unconscious and woke up to find that their hair had been cut. Some said their attackers wore masks. None of the women saw the culprits.\n\nThis woman, who didn't want to be identified, agreed to be photographed for this article lying next to her cut hair.\n\nShe says she was attacked outside her home early in the morning. Her gold chain was snatched, but the attacker did not take the braid that had been cut - as in every other incident, it was left behind.\n\nThe so-called \"braid chopping\" has set off panic in the state, sparking several protests. India's ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which shares power with the People's Democratic Party (PDP) in Jammu and Kashmir, has alleged that the \"braid chopping\" attacks are being used as a \"new tool by separatists and anti-nationals to vitiate peace\". It has demanded a judicial inquiry.\n\nActivist Ahsan Antoo protested against the attacks, which are being seen as a \"humiliation\" of Kashmiri women. The opposition National Conference party accused the state government of failing to protect the \"dignity\" of their \"mothers, daughters and sisters.\" Even militant group Hizbul Mujahideen has weighed in, alleging that this is a \"ploy\" by the Indian government to \"counter militant attacks\" as paranoid locals are now more likely to report militants passing through their village.\n\nProtests have often ended in clashes between security forces and civilians. Amid the increasing pressure, Kashmir police have created a \"special investigative team\" to catch the attackers. They also announced a 600,000 rupee ($9,228; £7,000) award. But separatists accuse Indian security forces of planning these attacks to \"intimidate\" Kashmiris who are demanding independence from India.\n\nYoung men across the state have also formed vigilante groups, with sometimes tragic results. Vigilantes killed a 70-year-old man who they mistook for a \"braid chopper\". Six foreign tourists, including a British national, were also threatened by a mob in Srinagar.\n\nWaseem Ahmad was brutally beaten by a vigilante mob in north Kashmir because they suspected him of being a \"braid chopper\". He says they tried to burn him alive but he was rescued by the police.\n\nThis elderly man, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, installed a CCTV camera in his home after he says his daughter-in-law's hair was chopped off on two different occasions over three days.", "It sounds like a lot of people.\n\nThat's nearly half of the 270 million Americans who are old enough to be allowed a Facebook profile.\n\nThe figure comes from the social network itself, which along with Google and Twitter, is preparing for a Senate hearing where it will explain Russia's impact on the popular sites.\n\nBut how many people have actually seen those posts?\n\nThat very big number, 126 million, is the \"reach\" of some 80,000 posts published between June 2015 and August 2017.\n\nFacebook defines a post's \"reach\" as those people who may have come across the content (text story/video/image/ad) in their News Feed.\n\nA post counts as reaching someone when it's shown in their News Feed.\n\nSo this figure takes no account of the number of people who may or may not have stopped to actually read the post.\n\nFigures are for the first 365 days after a post was created and include people viewing the post on desktop and mobile.\n\nThe reach may be organic or paid. Organic reach is the total number of unique people who were shown your post through unpaid distribution.\n\nPaid reach is the total number of unique people who were shown your post as a result of ads.\n\n126 million users were \"reached\" by the posts - but how many actually saw them?\n\nCrucially, therefore, when Facebook says that about 80,000 posts \"reached\" 126 million people in the US over two years, we don't know how many of those people actually stopped to read the content.\n\nAs a result, we don't know how many of these thousands of posts had any impact at all on swaying US voters ahead of the 2016 election.\n\nClearly, a mass targeting of posts can have a subliminal impact on people but it's hard to evaluate with any certainty based on the data we've seen so far.\n\nFacebook goes on to explain that the number of Americans who saw those posts directly is 29 million - a much smaller number.\n\nIt is unclear what Facebook means by \"seen directly\".\n\nThe first thing to say is that we don't know what relationship those 29 million users had to these Russian-sponsored posts.\n\nDoes it mean the content was shared with them by a friend or relative? Does it mean they engaged with it, that is, reacted to it, commented on it, shared it?\n\nSecondly - we don't actually know whether each of those 29 million users represents an individual American.\n\nSome might be fake profiles. Some individuals set up multiple profiles (one for work, one for play).\n\nAnd of course, some may belong to children under the voting age - another way in which they would fail to influence an election.\n\nSome Facebook users were fooled by this fake story which wrongly claimed Denzel Washington backed Donald Trump for president\n\nThird - it's worth putting this in context.\n\nFacebook says those 80,000 posts were \"seen directly\" by 29 million people over a two-year period.\n\nIn January 2017, there were estimated to be more than 214 million active monthly Facebook users in the US alone. An active monthly user is someone who has logged in over the last 30 days.\n\nGiven how much stuff those 214 million active Facebook users post and see, those 80,000 posts are likely to be a drop in the ocean.", "Spacey plays the US president for much of the series\n\nProduction of the sixth season of Netflix series House of Cards has been suspended following sexual assault allegations against actor Kevin Spacey.\n\nSpacey, who stars in the political drama, has been accused of making sexual advances to a 14-year-old boy.\n\nThe show was already due to end after this season, but production is now suspended \"until further notice\".\n\nThe Old Vic theatre in London, where Spacey worked for 11 years, said it was \"deeply dismayed\" by the allegations.\n\nThe 200-year-old theatre has set up a confidential complaints process for anyone connected to the Old Vic to come forward.\n\nThe Old Vic said in a statement: \"We aim to foster a safe and supportive environment without prejudice, harassment or bullying of any sort, at any level.\"\n\nThe decision to end House of Cards was announced in a joint statement by Netflix and Media Rights Capital (MRC), a production company that makes the series.\n\n\"MRC and Netflix have decided to suspend production on House of Cards season six, until further notice, to give us time to review the current situation and to address any concerns of our cast and crew.\"\n\nThe announcement comes after Star Trek: Discovery actor Anthony Rapp on Sunday accused Spacey of inappropriately touching him when he was 14 years old.\n\nSpacey, who is also executive director of House of Cards, said he owed Rapp, now 46, a \"sincere apology\" for what he said would have been \"deeply inappropriate drunken behaviour\".\n\nSpacey also announced that he was now living \"as a gay man\", but the Oscar-winning actor has been widely criticised for choosing this moment to come out.\n\nOn Monday, producers said the show would end after its sixth season, which they recently began filming at a studio near Baltimore.\n\nA Netflix representative said the decision to end the series in 2018 had been made months ago.\n\nAccording to Variety magazine, producers are considering a spin-off series.\n\nHouse of Cards, which is based on a BBC programme, was first broadcast in 2013.\n\nThe first season garnered nine Emmy nominations, becoming the first online streaming series to win such mainstream accolades.", "Libya's interior ministry issued this photo of Hashem Abedi in May\n\nThe brother of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi faces arrest in the UK after prosecutors asked for him to be extradited from Libya.\n\nHashem Abedi was arrested in the country shortly after the suicide attack that killed 22 people.\n\nThe Libyan authorities are considering the UK's formal request, Greater Manchester Police said.\n\nPolice also revealed 512 people are now known to have been injured in the blast at an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May.\n\nSalman Abedi was born in Manchester on New Year's Eve 1994\n\nBoth brothers travelled to Libya in April, before Salman returned alone, carrying out the attack.\n\nHashem Abedi is understood to be currently held by a militia group in Libya.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said it had \"applied for and been granted a warrant for the arrest of Hashem Abedi\".\n\nThe arrest warrant relates to the \"murder of 22 people, the attempted murder of others who were injured and conspiracy to cause an explosion,\" police said.\n\nThe then 20-year-old was arrested in Tripoli by members of the Rada Special Deterrence Force a day after the attack.\n\nThe North West Counter Terrorism Unit applied for the warrant at Westminster Magistrates' Court within the last two weeks, GMP said.\n\nThe force said it was \"grateful\" to the Libyan authorities for considering the extradition request.\n\nTop (left to right): Lisa Lees, Alison Howe, Georgina Callender, Kelly Brewster, John Atkinson, Jane Tweddle, Marcin Klis - Middle (left to right): Angelika Klis, Courtney Boyle, Saffie Roussos, Olivia Campbell-Hardy, Martyn Hett, Michelle Kiss, Philip Tron, Elaine McIver - Bottom (left to right): Eilidh MacLeod, Wendy Fawell, Chloe Rutherford, Liam Allen-Curry, Sorrell Leczkowski, Megan Hurley, Nell Jones\n\nThose who were injured suffered both physical and psychological injuries, a GMP spokeswoman said.\n\nA total of 112 people needed hospital treatment after the attack, with 64 suffering \"very serious\" injuries.\n\nPhysical injuries include paralysis, loss of limbs, internal injuries and very serious facial injuries. Many have had complicated plastic surgery.\n\nTwo people remain in hospital more than five months later.\n\nThe force also revealed that:\n\nOfficers are looking for the blue suitcase that was used by bomber Salman Abedi\n\nThe investigation into the UK's worst terrorist atrocity since the 7 July 2005 attacks on the London transport system is \"still running a very fast pace\" with 100 officers working on it full time, GMP said.\n\nPreviously, GMP said Salman Abedi built the device packed with nuts and bolts alone.\n\nDetectives are still looking for a blue suitcase that he was seen using in the days before the attack.\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said he was \"encouraged\" by the development but said \"there may well be further challenges ahead\".\n\nImages released by police showed Salman Abedi on CCTV in Manchester\n\nSecurity Minister Ben Wallace said: \"We have been clear from the outset that we are determined to do everything in our power to ensure that those suspected of being responsible for the Manchester attack are brought to justice in the UK.\n\n\"That is why the Home Secretary agreed to request the extradition of Hashem Abedi, who has been named as a suspect by Greater Manchester Police, and we continue to work closely with the CPS, police and Libyan authorities to return him to the UK.\n\n\"This was a callous and evil act and the victims and their families deserve and demand justice. They must remain our priority and we will therefore not be commenting further so as not to jeopardise the investigation.\"", "Shakib Khan is one of the best known actors of his generation in Bangladesh\n\nA Bangladeshi auto-rickshaw driver is suing one of the country's best-known film stars, who used his phone number in a movie.\n\nThe blunder led to Ijajul Mia being deluged with calls from admiring female fans of film star Shakib Khan.\n\n\"The use of my number... made my life completely miserable,\" Mr Mia said.\n\nHe is seeking more than $60,000 (£45,000) for the distress caused by the calls, which he argues has nearly ruined his marriage.\n\nMr Mia is estimated to have received nearly 500 calls over a five-day period in July from women hoping to meet Mr Khan.\n\nThere has been no comment from the actor to the claims.\n\nCycle rickshaws and auto-rickshaws jostle for space and custom in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka - and Mr Mia says his mobile phone is vital for his business\n\nMr Khan is one of the famous and successful actors in Bangladesh, winning numerous awards.\n\nThe incident involving Mr Mia's mobile phone number took place in the film Rajniti - released in June and produced and directed by Mr Khan.\n\nIn the film, the movie star is seen and heard reciting Mr Mia's number to his onscreen girlfriend.\n\n\"Every day I got hundreds of calls, mostly from female fans of Shakib Khan,\" a frustrated Mr Mia told the AFP news agency.\n\n\"They would say 'Hello Shakib, I am your fan. Do you have two minutes to talk to me?'\"\n\nMr Mia said the anxiety caused by the calls had left him questioning whether to sell his family home, and led to his new wife threatening to leave him.\n\nHe explained that he could not afford to get a different number because he would lose business from long-established clients if he did so.\n\n\"I am a newly-married man with one daughter,\" he said. \"When these calls started coming, my wife thought that I was having an affair.\"\n\nOne fan was reported by AFP to have been so enamoured with the idea of meeting Mr Khan that she travelled 500km (300 miles) to see him.\n\nMr Mia's case was filed this week before a district judge, who initially was reported to have been reluctant to hear it.\n\nBut the judge is reported to have changed his mind after lawyers acting on his behalf submitted evidence showing the personal angst experienced by him because of the phone calls.\n\nAnother hearing in the case has been fixed for 18 December, local media reported.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPeople have been sharing their stories of sexual harassment at work against a backdrop of claims against high profile figures.\n\nAllegations including rape, sexual assault and unwanted touching of minors have come to light.\n\nSpeaking to the Victoria Derbyshire programme Rebecca Crookshank, who used to be in the RAF, described her deployment to the Falkland Islands aged 20.\n\nShe said it had taken her 15 years to talk about her harassment.\n\nAs the only woman sent to a base in the mountains, Rebecca describes how she was \"moonied\" when her flight came in and the initiation ceremony to which she was subjected.\n\nShe describes how her complaint was met with an \"offer of a flight\" to secure her silence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Told to touch myself at a casting\"\n\nModel Aaron Lesta Lopez has been harassed by a casting director several times - he said he is slapped on the bottom when he sees him.\n\nHe was called to a shoot - without being told it was being held at the director's home - and told he could \"touch yourself\" on camera.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I didn't tell this man not to do that - I froze\"\n\nMichelle Russell has been a nurse for 30 years but unable to work for the last two after being subjected to a sexual assault.\n\nShe says it escalated from being asked for a phone number to physical touching.\n\nShe describes how she has lost her pay and been banned from talking to colleagues.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"He said this is the room where we have sex with employees\"\n\nAt 18, Becka Hudson says she was subjected to a torrent of harassment from her manager.\n\nWorking a zero-hour contract as a waitress, she described how he slapped her bum and called her names.\n\nIt reached a tipping point when on one shift she was taken to a private room and told \"this is the room where we have sex with employees\".", "Freeview says viewers will have to wait until the high pressure passes\n\nFreeview has said that high air pressure is the cause of disruption being experienced by some of its users in England and Wales.\n\nThe service provides access to digital TV channels through aerials, making it possible to watch programmes without a satellite or cable subscription.\n\nThe Downdetector website indicates the issue began on Tuesday evening.\n\nSome viewers have complained they missed The Great British Bake Off final as a consequence.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Trevor This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFreeview said it was unable to remedy the problem until weather conditions changed.\n\n\"We recommend that you do not retune your equipment, as reception will return to normal once the weather changes,\" the platform posted on its website.\n\n\"TV and radio signals can be affected by atmospheric conditions, including high air pressure (which brings fine weather), heavy rain or snow.\"\n\nA spokesman for the service told the BBC that the situation was \"uncommon but unpredictable\".\n\n\"It's impossible for us to say [how many people have been affected] but it's clear the disruption has been widespread across England and Wales,\" he added.\n\n\"The good news is that during the course of the day the issue has lessened as the weather front moves through.\"\n\nWeather forecasts suggest the problem will continue for some into the evening, but a weak weather front is set to move in from the north on Thursday morning that should be more favourable for transmissions.", "The UK's advertising watchdog has intervened after an adult advert was shown within a video game app popular with children.\n\nThe pop-up ad featured a \"temporary tattoo\" that looked like a deep bite mark, placed on a woman's shoulder.\n\nThe imagery appeared in the match-puzzle title Simon's Cat Crunch Time in July.\n\nWish.com, the retailer responsible for creating the ad, failed to respond to the complaint.\n\nThe Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) said it was concerned by the San Francisco-based company's lack of response and ordered the business to ensure its adverts were properly targeted in the future.\n\nAlthough the body does not have the power to impose fines itself, it can refer repeat offenders to Trading Standards, which can take further action.\n\nThe game's publisher has also banned Wish.com from serving ads to its products in the future.\n\nThe Simon's Cat game has a Pegi 3 rating - meaning it has been judged to be suitable for anyone above the age of three - and has been installed more than one million times on Android and iOS devices.\n\nAs with many titles, adverts are automatically placed within the software by algorithms, which are supposed to screen out adult content.\n\nThis Wish.com ad was spotted within the game app on 24 July\n\nThe publisher, Strawdog Studios, told the ASA that it also had the power to remove ads manually.\n\nBut it added that it relied on customer reports to flag unsuitable content, and had not been alerted to the tattoo image before the watchdog had become involved.\n\n\"We considered the app was likely to have strong appeal to children and therefore children were likely to have seen the ad,\" said the ASA in its ruling.\n\n\"We noted that it was not clear from the ad that the product shown was a fake tattoo and we considered that the image... which was red and bloody, might cause distress.\"\n\nThe authority added that Wish.com was obliged to ensure the ad was not promoted again in an untargeted manner.\n\nThe company - which describes itself as the world's sixth biggest e-commerce business - sent an automated response to the BBC when asked for comment but has yet to address the problem.\n\n\"The ASA has a growing problem with non-UK online businesses, who will sometimes take the view that a self-regulatory body can be ignored,\" said Andy Milmore, a partner at the law firm Harbottle & Lewis.\n\n\"This is especially so where the complaints relate to 'inappropriate' marketing, where the ultimate backstop of enforcement action under criminal statute is unlikely to apply.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Just how much would you pay for a cask of rare Scotch whisky?\n\nFor some, it seems, the sky is the limit when it comes to liquid gold.\n\nEarlier this month, an anonymous buyer in Hong Kong paid an auction-record £285,000 for a sherry cask filled with a 30-year-old Macallan single malt.\n\nIts contents, if emptied, would work out at a neat £1,000 per 70cl bottle.\n\nOthers have paid even more for a cask of the hard stuff, with one Scotch whisky brokerage reporting a sale in excess of £500,000.\n\nSome industry experts believe there are £1m casks out there waiting to be found.\n\nA 30-year-old Macallan single malt sherry cask was sold recently at auction for £285,000\n\nSo why are people willing to spend such eye-watering amounts of money on the spirit?\n\nFor some, casks are merely an investment. For others, such as connoisseurs and collectors, there's more emphasis on the experience - tasting a spirit that has been ageing in oak casks for decades.\n\nBut rarity is also highly prized.\n\nThat may sound strange when an estimated three billion litres of the spirit is busy maturing in storage - enough to fill 1,200 Olympic-sized swimming pools.\n\nBut in reality much of it is relatively new - bearing in mind that it requires three years of maturation before a spirit can legally take on the name Scotch.\n\nThose operating at the top end of the market - the really rare stuff - say there is no shortage of interest from potential buyers.\n\nAnalyst and broker Rare Whisky 101 (RW101) has noted increased demand for \"quality casks\" from connoisseurs, collectors and investors.\n\nThe Dunfermline-based firm, co-founded in 2014 by Andy Simpson and David Robertson, says its past deals with brands such as Ardbeg, Laphroaig, Macallan and Springbank have achieved an average cask price of more than £130,000.\n\nRW101 was co-founded by Andy Simpson (left) and David Robertson\n\nMr Simpson says buyers are drawn by \"rarity and uniqueness\".\n\nHe explains: \"The vast majority of distillers will not part with aged stock as it's too important for them to maintain the brand.\n\n\"If they do allow cask sales, as with Diageo's Casks of Distinction programme, these are, again, exceptionally rare.\n\n\"It's also about the unique factor of cask ownership - no two casks are the same - so they're truly unique.\n\n\"We've tried many concurrently numbered casks, distilled on the same day, filled into (theoretically) identical casks and the samples are hugely different.\"\n\nBut Mr Simpson also makes the point that while older casks can bring greater rewards - they also bring bigger risks.\n\nHe explains: \"With older casks, there's a risk they drop to below 40% ABV (alcohol by volume), the legal minimum for spirit to be called Scotch.\n\n\"If that happens then the cask becomes worth a fraction of its former price.\n\n\"A couple of years ago we got excited by a 49-year-old sample coming through. On paper it should have been the oldest ever expression from the distillery of origin.\n\n\"When the sample arrived it was like Castrol GTX - thick, viscous, green gloop. And with an ABV of just 28%, it was worthless.\"\n\nHe adds: \"Casks do also evaporate, so the longer it's left, the fewer bottles will be yielded upon bottling.\n\n\"The first rule of buying Scotch as an investment is to make sure it's exemplary quality.\n\n\"One person's investment today could be - and frequently is - another's favourite drinks cupboard dram tomorrow.\"\n\nAlthough rare casks are highly prized by collectors, connoisseurs and investors alike, the marketplace for people with less deep pockets also appears to be thriving.\n\nOne whisky specialist has been tapping into the market by appealing to investors who don't feel the need to touch, smell or even taste the product.\n\nWhisky Invest Direct launched an online trading platform for Scotch two years ago.\n\nDescribing itself as a \"stock exchange for whisky\", the company allows private investors to buy and sell Scotch whiskies early in their maturation process.\n\nThe firm now has 4,500 whisky accounts with more than £12m invested in 3.5 million litres of spirit.\n\nChief executive Rupert Patrick, a former director of whisky giant Diageo, says: \"Buying maturing stocks of whisky on our platform has allowed investors to enjoy net returns of over 7% per year since we launched two years ago.\n\n\"Two of the key benefits that we offer investors are that we give them access to an un-inflated tangible asset, and our market place is very liquid - a 24/7 trading exchange.\"\n\nStrathearn Distillery founder Tony Reeman-Clark says customers \"want something that is unique\"\n\nAlthough the big whisky firms hold the lion's share of the 20 million or so casks currently stored around Scotland, smaller craft distilleries are now eyeing what they see as a gap in the market.\n\nThey include Perth-based Strathearn Distillery, which prides itself as being \"probably Scotland's smallest distillery\" with a capacity of just 10,000 litres.\n\nFounder and owner Tony Reeman-Clark argues that small is beautiful when it comes to meeting customers' tastes.\n\nHe says: \"We have found that people want a strong provenance, something that is unique, and there is no better way to do that than buy your own cask of whisky from a craft distillery.\n\n\"If you buy a hogshead cask, you will end up with 300 bottles and they are all the same.\n\n\"But because we are a small distillery, we generally offer casks with only 40 or 50 litres of whisky in them.\n\n\"We have had customers buying two or three of them at one go - casks with different finishes, such as sherry or brandy, so they can experience different tastes.\"\n\nMr Reeman-Clark says the firm has attracted customers from as far as Germany, Sweden and the Far East.\n\nHe adds: \"People buy our casks for a wide range of reasons - for example, for their children, for investment purposes and even for weddings.\n\n\"We had a group of oil workers here recently who refilled their cask with peated spirit after finishing the first batch.\n\n\"They know they are welcome back anytime to taste the spirit so they have a good idea of what it will be like when they are ready to bottle it.\"\n• None Whisky that's yours for £30,000 a bottle", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA former parliamentary intern has told the BBC that he was sexually assaulted by a former MP in 2012.\n\nJames Greenhalgh, who didn't know the MP, said he felt violated.\n\nHe said when he tried to report the assault a couple of months later, he was told by the MP's party that he couldn't make a complaint anonymously so did not proceed.\n\nThe party concerned said it took \"any allegation of this nature extremely seriously\".\n\nMr Greenhalgh told the BBC he was approached outside one of the bars in the House of Commons by the man who put his arm around him and then went on to assault him.\n\n\"He literally put his arm around me, very close, stinking of alcohol I remember and pointing out different things on the canvas [painting],\" he said.\n\n\"I was interested to hear what he had to say, but I was thinking, 'This is very, this is very touchy-feely here - what's he doing?'\n\n\"And suddenly his arm slipped down towards my buttocks, and he had a good feel round there and went a bit further in between my legs.\n\n\"It wasn't very pleasant at all. I just didn't know what to do, I didn't know what to do at all.\"\n\nThe disclosure follows a range of recent allegations in Westminster, including claims of a lack of support for those making complaints.\n\nEarlier, at Prime Minister's Questions, Theresa May said any allegations about serious sexual abuse in Parliament should go to the police, as she promised a new \"independent\" process to handle complaints.\n\nThe PM said she was \"deeply concerned\" by recent reports about alleged harassment and abuse at Westminster.\n\nLabour's Jeremy Corbyn said trade unions should be involved to support staff.\n\nMr Corbyn said he was happy to meet the PM to discuss it, with a meeting scheduled for Monday evening.\n\nThe PM said a \"common, transparent independent grievance procedure\" for all those who work in Parliament was needed and that it \"cannot be right\" for policies to vary between parties.\n\nA dedicated support team should be available to all staff, she said, and it should recommend all criminal allegations be reported to the police.", "Amid the dire - and somewhat overhyped - predictions of occupations that will be decimated by artificial intelligence and automation, there is one crumb of comfort. Yes, lorry drivers, translators and shop assistants are all under threat from the rise of the robots, but at least the lawyers are doomed too. (Some of my best friends are lawyers, honest.)\n\nThat at least may be your conclusion when you hear about a fascinating contest that took place last month. It pitched over 100 lawyers from many of London's ritziest firms against an artificial intelligence program called Case Cruncher Alpha.\n\nBoth the humans and the AI were given the basic facts of hundreds of PPI (payment protection insurance) mis-selling cases and asked to predict whether the Financial Ombudsman would allow a claim.\n\nIn all, they submitted 775 predictions and the computer won hands down, with Case Cruncher getting an accuracy rate of 86.6%, compared with 66.3% for the lawyers.\n\nQuite a triumph then for a tiny start-up business. For Case Cruncher is not the product of a tech giant but the brainchild of four Cambridge law students. They started out with a simple chatbot that answered legal questions - a bit of a gimmick but it caught on.\n\nJozef Maruscak, Rebecca Agliolo and Ludwig Bull are three of the law students involved\n\nThen they turned to something more sophisticated - a program that could predict the outcome of cases. I was surprised to hear that none of the team had a background in computer science, though it seems the chief executive Ludwig Bull has taught himself about AI during his legal studies.\n\nTwo judges oversaw the competition, Cambridge law lecturer Felix Steffek and Ian Dodd from a company called Premonition, which runs the world's biggest database of legal cases. He says the youthful Case Cruncher team chose the subject for the contest well.\n\n\"There's a lot of these cases and the information isn't too complicated,\" he explained.\n\n\"For certain things like this you can ask a machine and it will do it far more speedily and efficiently than a human.\"\n\nSo, should lawyers now fear for their jobs? Felix Steffek is cautious about reading too much into this competition.\n\n\"Both sides could have achieved better or worse results under different conditions,\" he said.\n\n\"The artificial intelligence might have benefited from more computing power. The lawyers' results might have improved if only experts in PPI claims as opposed to commercial lawyers generally participated.\"\n\nHe says the question at this early stage of AI development is whether it will \"remain limited to descriptive analysis or whether it will be capable of evaluating rules and events\", and then whether it will be a tool for junior lawyers to use or something which replaces them.\n\nThe results of the week-long competition were announced on Friday\n\nIan Dodd thinks AI may replace some of the grunt work done by junior lawyers and paralegals but no machine can talk to a client or argue in front of a High Court judge. He puts it simply: \"The knowledge jobs will go, the wisdom jobs will stay.\"\n\nAnd maybe the smartest, wisest lawyers will do what the Case Cruncher team have done - develop new uses for AI in the law.", "Plans to shake-up the UK's ATM network may lead to a \"vast reduction\" in the number of free-access cash machines.\n\nLink, the UK's largest ATM network with 70,000 machines, is proposing to overhaul the operation.\n\nUnder the change, Link would reduce the amount it charges card issuers to allow customers to use the machines.\n\nBut the move will leave \"ATM deserts\" where communities have no access to cash, warned the ATM Industry Association.\n\nOn Wednesday, Link published a range of proposals, including a cut in the fees it charges card companies from around 25p to 20p per withdrawal.\n\nIt said the changes - which would come into effect next April - would help protect the network, which currently includes 55,000 free-to-use machines.\n\nLink said it was committed to maintaining an extensive network of free-to-use machines\n\nBut the ATM Industry Association criticised the plans.\n\nThe trade body warned that unprofitable machines would be shut down, leaving \"ATM deserts\" where communities have no access to cash and other financial services.\n\n\"A unwarranted shake-up of Link will hit the most hard-up the heaviest - particularly the millions of people who rely on cash for day-to-day budgeting,\" said Ron Delnevo, of the association.\n\nBut Link chief executive John Howells said: \"Free access to cash is vital for UK consumers and Link intends to maintain this for many years to come.\"\n\nHe said Link's financial inclusion programme will help maintain \"extensive free access to cash for all in the UK\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The lynx has been monitored over the past 24 hours\n\nAn escaped lynx has evaded capture overnight but the owners of the zoo it broke free from are hopeful the hunt will end soon.\n\nLilleth, the Eurasian lynx, about twice the size of a domestic cat, escaped from Borth Wild Animal Kingdom, near Aberystwyth, during the past week.\n\nThe zoo has been closed while members of staff try to capture her.\n\nIn a Facebook post, it said she is being tracked and looked in \"good health and relaxed\" but avoided traps.\n\n\"We are asking all people to stay away from the area if possible to allow our specialised tracking team to follow her movements,\" the post added.\n\n\"She remains close to the zoo and we hope we can capture her safely and soon.\"\n\nIt is believed Lilleth escaped after making a \"giant leap\" over an electrified fence to get out of the zoo.\n\nThere have been sightings since Sunday night.\n\nDyfed-Powys Police said the lynx could become aggressive if it was cornered and urged the public to be vigilant.", "More will be done to protect the NHS in England from \"despicable\" acts of fraud, the head of the health service's new anti-fraud body has said.\n\nSue Frith promised a crackdown as she released figures suggesting the yearly bill for fraud in the NHS topped £1bn.\n\nCases include patients falsely claiming for exemptions on dental and prescription fees, and dentists charging for work they had not done.\n\nMs Frith said the fraud takes vital funds from front line care.\n\nMs Frith, the chief executive of the NHS Counter Fraud Authority, said it would be looking at new ways to fight the crime.\n\nThe analysis by her team estimated that £1.25bn of fraud is being committed each year by patients, staff and contractors - the first time the health service has put a figure on total fraud committed itself.\n\nThe sum represents about 1% of the NHS budget.\n\nCan't find your health trust? Browse the full list Rather search by typing? Back to search\n\nIf you can't see the NHS Tracker, click or tap here.\n\nThe two biggest single areas of fraud were related to patients and procurement of good and services, both of which was likely to cost the NHS in excess of £200m a year each, according to Ms Frith.\n\nShe said patient fraud included cases where people wrongly claimed for exemptions for the cost of things like prescriptions and dental fees.\n\nMeanwhile, payroll fraud was thought to be costing £90m a year, while dentists were said to be claiming around £70m in work on NHS patients that has not been done.\n\nMs Frith said: \"People may think it is just a small amount, but in large volumes it adds up and has an impact. It is criminal behaviour.\n\n\"It is despicable people would even claim things they are not entitled to. This is money that should be spent on front line patient care.\"\n\nShe acknowledged the NHS must do better at detecting and preventing fraud.\n\nLast year investigators successfully pursued cases worth £9.6m, although another £30m of cases are pending.\n\nBut this is only a small fraction of what she suspects is out there.\n\nMs Frith said the £1.25bn was probably on the conservative side - previous estimates by experts have put it even higher.\n\nShe believes the new organisation, which is officially formed on Wednesday, will be able to improve on this detection rate.\n\nIt has been given independent status and allowed to focus solely on fraud.\n\nResponsibility for security has now been devolved down to local NHS trusts and the budget for tackling fraud increased by over 10%.\n\nThis will also mean more field officers to be appointed to gather evidence, as well as a greater effort on fraud prevention by reviewing contracts and systems put in place to safeguard against fraud, she said.", "Beth Ashley and Euleen Hope both experienced technological abuse by former partners\n\nWomen's charity Refuge is warning about the rise of \"tech abuse\" - the use of technology to spy on or harass a partner.\n\nMany victims of domestic violence report being either being harassed via online messages or having their activity monitored via their phones.\n\nHowever, many do not report it to the police, the charity said.\n\nEuleen Hope was a technophobe who escaped the control of her tech-savvy abusive ex-partner after 10 years.\n\nHe set up her email and social media accounts for her, which meant he had full access to them.\n\nHe also replaced her flip-phone with an iPhone which he then set up to be mirrored on to the pair's iPad so he could monitor her calls and messages, and activated the phone's location-tracker saying it would help her to get the bus.\n\n\"You wouldn't think he was doing anything bad, he showed you what he was doing,\" she said.\n\n\"I didn't realise it was going to be part of my entrapment.\"\n\nWhen she noticed things such as the iPad ringing when her phone rang, her ex told her he was just testing a new app.\n\nEuleen Hope's ex-partner set up cameras in the couple's house\n\nHe also installed cameras around the house under the guise of security.\n\n\"My twin sister came round one day to visit. Normally if my friends or family came over he would sit in the room with us,\" she recalled.\n\n\"This time he said he would leave us to catch up and said he would use his computer in the kitchen upstairs.\n\n\"I moved behind the camera and told my sister to keep talking, I went up the stairs and saw him listening to what he thought was our conversation.\"\n\nMs Hope's former partner was also physically and emotionally abusive and eventually served a prison sentence for assault and GBH.\n\nRefuge is teaming up with Google to train its staff to better support victims who contact it as part of a new programme.\n\n\"Domestic violence is the biggest issue which impacts on the police,\" said Dame Vera Baird, police and crime commissioner for Northumbria, speaking at the project launch.\n\n\"Every 30 seconds there is a domestic violence call. Two years ago, it was every minute.\n\n\"Northumbria's police force gets 32,000 calls a year and that's maybe a fifth or a quarter of what is actually going on.\"\n\nDame Vera said the Northumbria Police force receives 32,000 domestic violence calls per year\n\nA 2016 survey by Comic Relief found that four out of five women who experienced abuse said their partner monitored their activity.\n\nTwenty-year-old blogger Beth Ashley said a former boyfriend had no interest in tech until she tried to end their relationship because he was controlling and sexually abusive.\n\n\"When I got with him he didn't even have a phone,\" she said.\n\n\"I thought he was a massive technophobe until we broke up. Suddenly he started all these social media accounts and used them as a harassment tool.\"\n\nBeth Ashley said her work as a blogger meant she could not delete her online presence to hide from her ex-boyfriend\n\nShe says he also sent her a suicide note via Facebook Messenger along with graphic images of self-harm, which she later discovered he had found online.\n\n\"I went round the next day and he was just sitting there on his Xbox,\" she said.\n\nShe says he would regularly turn up where she worked and she would end her shift to find 50 messages from him on her phone.\n\nMs Ashley was very active on social media because of her work as a blogger and online writer.\n\n\"There were times when I wanted to delete the blog, the magazines,\" she said.\n\n\"I have these random moments of wanting to be invisible. Considering my job, that would be awful.\"\n\nMs Ashley says that she had to block old friends on social media in case one of them accidentally gave him information about her activities.\n\nAfter reporting him to the police, the online harassment stopped, she said.\n\n\"But the paranoia stayed for a long time,\" she added.\n\nSandra Horley, chief executive of Refuge, said the charity had seen a case where a man had hacked the CCTV at the pub where his wife worked so he could monitor her, and another who put a tracker on his partner's car, moved it and then accused her of losing it.\n\n\"She thought she was losing her mind,\" she said.\n\n\"Technological abuse is part of a broader pattern of domestic violence.\n\n\"This project was born out of our clients' experiences of technology-related abuse, and we will continue to make sure their needs and experiences shape our work in the years ahead.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Charissa Brown-Wellington was sentenced to five years in prison\n\nA woman who killed a stranger by pushing him into the path of a tram during a drunken row has been jailed.\n\nCharissa Brown-Wellington, 31, shoved Philip Carter, 30, between two carriages at Manchester Victoria station on 11 June.\n\nMr Carter, from Blackley, was crushed by the tram and died at the scene.\n\nBrown-Wellington, from Chadderton, pleaded guilty to manslaughter and was given a five-year prison term at Manchester Crown Court.\n\nThe court heard that Brown-Wellington was drunk and under the influence of drugs when she became involved in an argument with Mr Carter, who had also been drinking, at the station.\n\nShe admitted pushing him but denied intending to cause him serious harm.\n\nThe court heard she had a lengthy criminal record of 65 offences, many of which involved violence.\n\nIn sentencing, Mr Justice William Davis told Brown-Wellington that although her actions were not unprovoked they were \"completely unnecessary\" and \"aggressive\".\n\n\"There was more than one victim in this case because the effect of what you did was so dreadful.\n\n\"It is merely yet another example of you reacting violently when faced with something you did not like very much,\" he said.\n\nPhilip Carter was crushed to death by a tram\n\nMr Carter's family said he was \"missed every minute of every day\".\n\n\"We can try to repair our heartache although no matter how long the sentence is, it will not bring Phil back or make our loss any easier,\" they said.\n\nOn her release, Brown-Wellington will be subject to an extended licence period of three years as a dangerous offender.\n\nBob Tonge, senior investigating officer at Greater Manchester Police, said Mr Carter died in \"the most horrific circumstances\".\n\n\"He suffered a brutal death all because she lost her temper and she will now have to live with that as she carries out her prison sentence,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDefence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon has resigned, saying his behaviour may have \"fallen short\" of the standards expected by the UK military.\n\nHe told the BBC that what had been \"acceptable 15, 10 years ago is clearly not acceptable now\".\n\nHe is the first politician to quit following recently revealed claims of serious sexual abuse in Parliament.\n\nThe BBC understands fresh claims about his behaviour were raised on Wednesday, but Downing Street refused to comment.\n\nPolitical editor Laura Kuenssberg said that sources close to him do not believe he is \"some kind of predator\", but that he had not felt that he could guarantee that he would be able to account for every encounter in his long ministerial career.\n\nTheresa May said she appreciated the \"serious manner\" in which Sir Michael had considered his Cabinet role.\n\nShe also praised the \"particular example you wish to set servicemen and women and others\".\n\nIn his resignation letter, Sir Michael said: \"A number of allegations have surfaced about MPs in recent days, including some about my previous conduct.\n\n\"Many of these have been false but I accept that in the past I have fallen below the high standards that we require of the Armed Forces that I have the honour to represent.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Michael Fallon: \"Not right for me to go on as defence secretary\".\n\nSir Michael told the BBC it \"was right\" for him to resign and said: \"The culture has changed over the years, what might have been acceptable 15, 10 years ago is clearly not acceptable now.\n\n\"Parliament now has to look at itself and the prime minister has made very clear that conduct needs to be improved and we need to protect the staff of Westminster against any particular allegations of harassment.\"\n\nWhen asked if he thought he should apologise, Mr Fallon said: \"I think we've all got to look back now at the past, there are always things you regret, you would have done differently.\"\n\nHe added that it had been a \"privilege\" to have been defence secretary over the past three and a half years.\n\nIn response Mrs May accepted his resignation and paid tribute to \"a long and impressive ministerial career - serving in four Departments of State under four prime ministers\".\n\nSir Michael Fallon had an interrupted parliamentary career that spanned four decades and two constituencies.\n\nIn March 1983, he lost the Darlington by-election to Labour's Oswald O'Brien, only to win it 77 days later after Margaret Thatcher called a general election.\n\nBut in 1992 his career in government stalled after he lost his Darlington seat to Labour's Alan Milburn in the General Election.\n\nHe returned to Westminster in 1997 after being selected as the Conservative candidate for Sevenoaks when MP Mark Wolfson retired.\n\nDuring the coalition government he was appointed minister for business and enterprise, and then minister for energy.\n\nHe was then appointed minister for Portsmouth in 2014 by David Cameron - a post which was created after the loss of jobs in the local shipyard at arms manufacturer BAE Systems.\n\nIn the same year he succeeded Philip Hammond as defence secretary.\n\nThe resignation comes a day after a spokesman for Sir Michael confirmed that he was once rebuked by a journalist, Julia Hartley-Brewer, for putting his hand on her knee during a dinner in 2002.\n\nThe spokesman said Sir Michael apologised when it happened.\n\nMs Hartley-Brewer, a former political editor of the Sunday Express and regular political commentator, told BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight: \"If he has gone because he touched my knee 15 years ago, that is genuinely the most absurd reason for anyone to have lost their job in the history of the universe, so I hope it is not because of that.\"\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\nFormer Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith said he was sorry to see Sir Michael go, but it showed leadership from the prime minister who \"read the riot act\" to her cabinet.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight: \"Theresa May made it very, very clear… that it was simply unacceptable that people in positions of power over others should then abuse that position to solicit things that otherwise would not be granted to them.\"\n\nLabour MP Ruth Smeeth told the BBC: \"I think we're all very shocked this evening, however we've got to look at what happens next. For me, it's who is going to replace him, how quickly.\n\n\"There's a lot going on and this is not the time for instability at the top of the Ministry of Defence.\"\n\nGeneral Sir Mike Jackson, former head of the British Army, said members of the armed forces would be \"sad\" to see Sir Michael go.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"It's clearly a personal decision he's come to, and so be 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 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’. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFollowing a range of recent allegations, including claims of a lack of support for those making complaints, Mrs May has written to party leaders calling for the \"serious, swift, cross-party response this issue demands\".\n\nThe prime minister said a \"common, transparent independent grievance procedure\" for all those who work in Parliament was needed and that it \"cannot be right\" for policies to vary between parties.\n\nLabour, meanwhile, has launched an independent investigation into an activist's claim that she was discouraged by a party official from reporting an alleged rape at a party event in 2011.\n• None Take sex abuse claims to police, May urges", "A million potentially deadly tumble dryers could still be being used in British homes, Whirlpool has admitted.\n\nThe manufacturer told a government committee that it had repaired only about half of the unsafe appliances since the scandal broke in 2015.\n\nIt also admitted to the committee that it actually continued making them for three years after being notified that the appliances were faulty in 2012.\n\nBut Whirlpool said it had acted in consultation with Trading Standards.\n\nThe tumble dryers, sold under the Hotpoint, Creda and Indesit brands, have been blamed for a number of UK fires, including one in a London tower block and a blaze in Wales where two men died.\n\nOne tumble dryer led to a tower block fire that left families homeless\n\nMPs on the Business committee accused the firm of failing to act quickly when it knew that the appliances were faulty.\n\nThey particularly criticised the firm for failing to recall the faulty machines, with committee chair Rachel Reeves asking: \"How many fires are needed for a proper recall of these tumble dryers? We have already seen a number of fires and deaths, yet in many of our homes we still have these appliances.\"\n\nPete Moorey, head of campaigns at consumer group Which?, said Whirlpool had \"ducked their responsibilities to customers\".\n\nIan Moverley, communications director of Whirlpool UK, said the company had \"worked proactively to identify the safety issue and worked closely with Trading Standards to determine what action would be taken\".\n\nHe came under fire after being unable to answer some of the MPs' questions.\n\nMs Reeve said: \"Why hasn't someone at a more senior level come in front of us to answer our reasonable questions and take responsibility for the actions of your firm?\"\n\nThe scandal broke in 2015 after it became clear that Whirlpool manufactured some 5.4 million faulty machines over an 11-year period.\n\nLast month a fire that killed two men in Llanrwst, Conwy county, in October 2014 was linked to the faulty appliances.\n\nAssistant coroner David Lewis said \"on the balance of probabilities, the fire was caused by an electrical fault in the tumble dryer in the laundry room of the flat\".\n\nIn August 2016 the dryers were blamed for a huge fire in a West London tower block, with more than 50 people forced to flee their homes.\n\nDespite that incident the company continued to state the machines were safe to use as long as someone was in the property.\n\nWhich? threatened to bring judicial review proceedings against Trading Standards over the advice being given. Trading Standards instructed Whirlpool to issue new guidance earlier this year that the dryers should be unplugged and not be used until they had been repaired.\n\nWhirlpool freephone helplines: 0800 151 0905 in the UK and 1800 804320 in the Irish Republic\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The claim: You're 16. Now you can get married, join the Army, work full-time.\n\nReality Check verdict: You can only join the Army aged 16 or 17 with your parents' permission. At that age you also need your parents' permission to get married unless you do so in Scotland. Since 2013, 16- and 17-year-olds cannot work full-time in England, but can in the other three home nations with some restrictions.\n\nThe Labour Party is distributing a video as part of its campaign to give 16-year-olds across the UK the right to vote.\n\nIn Scotland, 16- and 17-year-olds were allowed to vote in the independence referendum and are allowed to vote in local elections and elections to the Scottish Parliament but Labour wants this right to be universal.\n\nIt argues that they should be allowed to vote because they can get married, join the Army or work full-time.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Labour Party This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Labour Party\n\nLet's start with marriage - you need your parents' permission to get married at the age of 16 or 17 in England, Wales or Northern Ireland.\n\nIn Scotland you do not need permission, even if you come from one of the other nations.\n\nYou need your parents' permission to join the British army as a regular soldier at the age of 16 - you can actually start the application process when you're younger than 16 if you have parental consent. You can't apply to be an officer until you're 18.\n\nThe regulations for full-time work vary across the United Kingdom.\n\nIn England, you can leave full-time education on the last Friday in June if you will be 16 by the end of the summer holidays.\n\nBut until you are 18, the only way you can be working full-time is if it is part of an apprenticeship, which usually involves having one day a week to study skills relating to your role.\n\nYou could also take up a traineeship, which is an unpaid course that involves work experience, which can last up to six months.\n\nIn Wales, under-18s are allowed to work full-time up to a maximum of 40 hours a week once they have reached the minimum school-leaving age of 16.\n\nYou can work full-time in Scotland if you are 16 or 17, but your employer must conduct a health and safety assessment taking into account your youth and lack of experience and that must be shown to your parents.\n\nYou are also not allowed to work more than eight hours a day or 40 hours a week and you are entitled to reasonable, paid time off work for education or training.\n\nThere are various restrictions around selling alcohol or cigarettes and working at night.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, 16- and 17-year-olds are also allowed to work full-time.\n\nThey are limited to eight hours a day and 40 hours a week and there are restrictions around working night shifts.\n\nSo while 16-year-olds can do all the things the Labour Party video says, there are various restrictions on all of them depending on where you live.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn tweeted a separate video on the subject in which he stresses that \"at 16 you can pay tax\".\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\nHe's probably talking about direct taxes such as income tax and National Insurance.\n\nYou'd have to be earning more than £11,500 a year to pay income tax (at any age) and £8,160 to be paying National Insurance (if you're over 16).\n\nUnder-18s do not have to pay council tax while people of all ages regularly pay VAT.\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. Dimitris Legakis recorded the moment he was attacked while calling 999\n\nGreek-born Dimitris Legakis has lived and worked in Wales for 17 years and considers the UK his home. But since he was hurt in a racially motivated attack last year, he fears for the safety of his family.\n\nHe spoke to BBC Wales after South Wales Police said hate crime was still drastically under-reported.\n\nIt follows official figures released in October showing the number of hate crimes across England and Wales rose by 29% in 2016-17.\n\nA Home Office report said the biggest rise was in disability and transgender hate crimes, but said the increase was mainly due to better crime recording.\n\nSouth Wales Police said it was \"more important than ever\" that communities reported issues.\n\nMr Legakis explained what happened to him.\n\nDimitris Legakis is a familiar face to the fans and the players at Swansea City Football Club.\n\nAs their official photographer he is a regular on the touchline at the Premier League team's home and away matches.\n\nHis photographs regularly feature in the pages of the national newspapers and, trusted by the players and management, he travels with the team to matches.\n\nLast December he was with the team for their away trip to Middlesbrough for the Swans' match at the Riverside Stadium.\n\nThe night before the match when he was in the city centre he saw a man smash a car window.\n\nMr Legakis, 41, called 999. The man heard his Greek accent and turned on him calling him a \"smelly foreigner\".\n\nDimitris' arms were broken in the attack\n\nMr Legakis was able to photograph the man before he launched a vicious attack which he also recorded on his mobile phone.\n\n\"I ended up with two broken arms, my right forearm, the left one a little bone called the scaphoid which hasn't healed yet,\" Mr Legakis said.\n\n\"I couldn't work for two months - I calculated it was over £10,000 of work that I lost out on.\"\n\nDuring the five-minute call to police Mr Legakis can be heard screaming for help as his attacker Daniel Skelton kicked and punched him to the ground.\n\nAs well as broken bones, Mr Legakis suffered facial injuries, cuts, serious bruising and was left traumatised by the attack. His camera kit was also badly damaged.\n\nSkelton was jailed for 28 months for the attack\n\nSkelton, 29, from Redcar, Teesside was jailed for 28 months in June after admitting racially aggravated grievous bodily harm, two charges of racially aggravated damage and damaging property, at Teesside Crown Court.\n\nThe judge described it as a \"sustained and vicious attack\".\n\nIn a letter to Mr Legakis after the assault, Skelton apologised for his actions.\n\nHe wrote: \"I am truly sorry. I had no right to touch you or your belongings - I was in a very bad place.\n\n\"If I could take it back I would. I hate myself for my actions that night.\"\n\nMr Legakis said: \"He said he had separated from his girlfriend and he was trying to have a few drinks to forget about it.\"\n\nA year on, Mr Legakis said it had changed the way he thinks and feels about other people.\n\n\"I'm a bit more concerned, I've always been very open to people, very friendly, I want to believe I am at least, and it's knocked me down a bit in that people may make a comment or say or do something just because of a foreign accent,\" he said.\n\nFollowing the attack and since a reported spike in the number of recorded hate crimes after the Brexit vote, Mr Legakis said he was concerned not just for his safety but for that of his family.\n\n\"They do carry a foreign surname with them which at some point may cause some problems for them,\" he said.", "Police searched this disused garage in Northallerton after the arrests on Saturday\n\nTwo 14-year-old boys who were arrested by counter-terror police have been charged with conspiracy to murder.\n\nThe teenagers were initially arrested on suspicion of preparing an act of terrorism in Northallerton, North Yorkshire, on Saturday.\n\nSearches were carried out at a number of properties in the market town.\n\nOne of the boys is also charged with aggravated burglary. The pair are due to appear before magistrates in Leeds on Thursday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The building of third Astute submarine, HMS Artful, was delayed because parts were taken during its construction\n\nA shortage of spares for Royal Navy warships and submarines has forced the Ministry of Defence (MoD) to strip parts from the rest of the fleet, the National Audit Office (NAO) has found.\n\nAn NAO investigation found equipment \"cannibalisation\" had increased by 49% over the past five years.\n\nThe spending watchdog warned that the practice was costing the MoD millions of pounds and delayed construction.\n\nThe MoD said components were only swapped when \"absolutely necessary\".\n\nCurrently, the Navy has 19 frigates and destroyers and seven attack submarines - but at times they lack the spare parts they need to go to sea.\n\nThe NAO said building the third Astute class submarine, HMS Artful, was delayed by 42 days because parts were taken during its construction - adding nearly £5m to the overall cost.\n\nThe vessel, built in Barrow in Cumbria, completed its maiden dive in 2014.\n\nThe NAO found that, last year, there were 795 instances when spare parts had to be removed from one vessel and given to another - the equivalent of 66 a month, up from 30 a month in 2005.\n\nBetween April 2012 and March 2017, there were 3,230 instances involving 6,378 parts, their investigation found.\n\nThe NAO report noted that in some circumstances, such as during high-intensity operations, cannibalisation could be the most effective way to keep vessels at sea.\n\nBut it said it also increased costs. The NAO said the MoD itself had identified that cannibalisation had affected submarines currently in production \"leading to an estimated £40m cost increase\".\n\nThe watchdog said cuts to the maritime support budget, along with the MoD's failure to monitor the practice, had exacerbated the problem.\n\n\"In the past two years, the Navy has removed an estimated £92m from its maritime support in-year budgets,\" the report said.\n\nA Ministry of Defence spokesman said: \"Less than 0.5% of parts we use come from swapping components, and we only do this when it's absolutely necessary to get ships out of port and back on to operations more quickly.\n\n\"We continue to make improvements to how we manage this long-established practice.\"", "The Great British Bake Off finale was seen by a live audience of 7.3 million, overnight viewing figures show.\n\nThat rose to 7.7 million when including those watching on Channel 4 +1.\n\nThe viewing figures come in spite of Prue Leith accidentally tweeting the name of the winner 10 hours early.\n\nIt's Channel 4's highest overnight ratings since the Paralympics Opening Ceremony in 2012.\n\nThat saw an average 7.7 million tune in to see the events from the London Games.\n\nBut the Bake Off ratings are lower than the 14 million who tuned in to BBC One in 2016 to see Candice Brown crowned champion. That figure rose to 15.9 million when those watching on catch up services were included.\n\nFormer Army officer Sophie Faldo was crowned the 2017 winner\n\nThe final saw Sophie Faldo crowned the winner and handed that all-important glass cakestand.\n\nShe beat Kate Lyon and Steven Carter-Bailey to the title, with her multilayered honey-bee cake showstopper proving too sweet for the judges to resist.\n\nThis was the first series of Bake Off on Channel 4, after it moved there from BBC One.\n\nAlex Mahon, chief executive at Channel 4, said Prue, fellow judge Paul Hollywood and presenters Noel Fielding and Sandi Toksvig had \"served up a showstopper of a series\".\n\n\"I'm delighted that they'll all be back in the tent on Channel 4 next year,\" she added.\n\nSophie Faldo said it was \"surreal\" to be crowned the winner\n\nThere was a peak audience of 8.3 million just before 2100 on Tuesday - when the final three had finished their showstopper bakes, but before the judges had tried them.\n\nChannel 4 said the final was seen by an average of 2 million in the 16-34 age group, with a 57.5% share of that audience - adding that it was the biggest series for young audiences on any UK channel this year.\n\nThey added that the overnight series average of 6.2 million is the largest Channel 4 has seen since Big Fat Gypsy Weddings in 2011.\n\nThe viewing figures rise to about 8.9 million when counting everyone who saw an episode of Bake Off over a seven-day period.\n\nApplications for the next series of Bake Off are already open.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Electoral Commission says it is investigating whether ex-UKIP donor Arron Banks broke donation rules during the EU referendum.\n\nThe probe will look at whether the Leave.EU chairman broke the rules over donations or loans made to campaigners.\n\nIt will also look at Better for the Country Ltd, a company of which Mr Banks is a registered director.\n\nMr Banks said that a judge-led inquiry was needed \"to clear this nonsense up once and for all\".\n\nThe commission said it launched investigations where there were \"reasonable grounds\" to believe offences had been committed. It is already carrying out separate probes into the spending returns submitted by the official Remain and Leave campaigns.\n\nAnnouncing the latest investigation, the commission said Better for the Country Ltd (BFTC) had made donations totalling £2.3m to campaigners in June 2016's referendum, while Mr Banks had given Leave.EU loans totalling £6m.\n\nThe commission said its investigation would look at:\n\nBob Posner of the Electoral Commission said: \"Interest in the funding of the EU referendum campaigns remains widespread.\n\n\"Questions over the legitimacy of funding provided to campaigners at the referendum risks causing harm to voters' confidence.\n\n\"It is therefore in the public interest that the Electoral Commission seeks to ascertain whether or not impermissible donations were given to referendum campaigners and if any other related offences have taken place.\"\n\nIn a statement issued by Leave.EU, Mr Banks said: \"We believe that a judge-led inquiry reporting to Parliament that investigates the main campaign groups, Vote Leave, Britain Stronger In Europe and Leave.EU would be the best way to clear this nonsense up once and for all.\"\n\nHe said it should also cover why the Electoral Commission allowed a leaflet to be sent by the government to each home in the UK just before the referendum spending cut-off date.\n\nMr Banks added: \"The 'Remain' Electoral Commission isn't up to the job and consists of political placemen from all main parties.\n\n\"This is the Remain establishment once again trying to discredit the result and it's all starting to get rather boring.\"", "New allegations have emerged from a number of men accusing Kevin Spacey of sexual misconduct.\n\nUS filmmaker Tony Montana claims he was groped by the actor in a Los Angeles bar in 2003.\n\nMontana says he was left with PTSD for six months after he claims Spacey \"forcefully\" grabbed his crotch.\n\nIt follows an allegation made by Anthony Rapp that the House of Cards actor tried to \"seduce\" him when he was 14 years old.\n\nKevin Spacey says he has no recollection of that encounter, and was \"beyond horrified\".\n\nIt's claimed Kevin Spacey \"routinely preyed\" on young male actors while he was artistic director at the Old Vic\n\nFilm director Montana told Radar Online that he was in his thirties when the incident took place at the Coronet Bar in LA.\n\nHe says he removed Spacey's hand from his crotch and walked away, but claims the actor later followed him into the men's toilets.\n\nIncidents regarding Spacey are also alleged to have taken place in the UK while the two-time Oscar winner was the artistic director at the Old Vic in London between 2004 and 2015.\n\nMexican actor Roberto Cavazos, who acted in several plays at the theatre, claims Spacey \"routinely preyed\" on young male actors.\n\n\"It seems the only requirement was to be a male under the age of 30 for Mr Spacey to feel free to touch us,\" he wrote in a Facebook post.\n\nHe said he fended off two \"unpleasant\" advances from Spacey that \"bordered on harassment,\" but that others were afraid to do so.\n\n\"There are a lot of us who have a 'Kevin Spacey story',\" says Cavazos.\n\nThe Old Vic has set up a confidential complaints process for anyone connected to the 200-year-old theatre to come forward.\n\nIt said in a statement: \"We aim to foster a safe and supportive environment without prejudice, harassment or bullying of any sort, at any level.\"\n\nSeparately, a British man claims Kevin Spacey exposed himself to him in 2010, when he was working at a hotel in West Sussex.\n\nSpeaking to the Sun, Daniel Beal alleges the Usual Suspects star flashed his private parts, saying: \"It's big, isn't it?\" and tried to get the then 19-year-old to touch him.\n\nThe former bartender claims Spacey also invited him up to his room, but he rejected the star's advances.\n\nBeal says Spacey gave him his £5,000 watch later that same evening, and a few weeks later called him asking to meet up.\n\nHe told the Sun: \"In hindsight, that must have been grooming. He was just like his character in House Of Cards - seedy and a bit weird.\"\n\nThe BBC has also uncovered allegations of sexual misconduct against Spacey by a man who claims he was harassed by the star in the mid-1980s.\n\nThe man, who wanted to remain anonymous, says he met the star at theatre school before being invited to New York by him, when he was 17 years old.\n\nKevin Spacey holds his Oscar for Best Actor for his role in American Beauty in 2000.\n\nSpeaking to the Victoria Derbyshire programme, the man (who they've called John), says despite sleeping on the star's sofa he woke up fully clothed with Spacey lying on him, in his underwear.\n\nJohn, who still works in the entertainment industry, said Spacey again became \"affectionate\" the second night he was in the city.\n\n\"I burst into tears because I couldn't articulate any more what was happening to me. I was scared... To his credit, he backed off and we went to sleep.\"\n\nReflecting on his experience, John says: \"It seems he was grooming me. For me, I never let on that that's what I was interested in. I never discussed it, nor did I want it.\n\nJohn points out neither of them drank any alcohol that weekend.\n\n\"He was either very stupid or he was predatory - or maybe a little of both. I was uncomfortable at best, traumatised at worst, emotionally.\n\nJohn says he didn't tell the authorities or his parents at the time, although he has since told friends.\n\nRobin Wright and Kevin Spacey in Netflix drama House of Cards\n\nThe BBC has contacted representatives of Kevin Spacey for his response to these allegations.\n\nMeanwhile, production of the sixth season of Netflix series House of Cards has been suspended following the sexual assault allegations against the actor.\n\nThe show was already due to end after this season, but production is now suspended \"until further notice\".\n\nSpacey has also been dropped as the recipient of a special Emmy award he was due to receive next month.\n\nThe International TV Academy said in a statement that it was withdrawing the International Emmy Founders Award \"in light of recent events\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. US actress Rose McGowan: 'It's time to rise'\n\nAn arrest warrant has been issued in the US for the actress Rose McGowan for possession of a controlled substance.\n\nIt follows an investigation into belongings left on a United Airlines flight from LA to Washington Dulles airport in January.\n\nThe belongings reportedly belonged to McGowan and had traces of a controlled substance.\n\nWashington police obtained the warrant on 1 February, spokesman Rob Yingling said.\n\nThe authorities say they have been trying to contact McGowan so she can appear in court in Virginia.\n\nMcGowan, 44, is among the most prominent accusers of Harvey Weinstein, the Hollywood mogul facing multiple allegations of sexual assault and harassment.\n\nWriting on Twitter on Monday, Ms McGowan hit out at the arrest warrant, asking \"Are they trying to silence me?\"\n\nMcGowan has accused Weinstein of raping her at the Sundance Film Festival in 1997. She received a $100,000 (£76,000) settlement after the incident, according to a New York Times report.\n\nThrough a spokesperson, Weinstein has denied any non-consensual sexual acts.\n\nAccording to the New York Times, someone approached Ms McGowan's lawyer in September to offer $1 million in exchange for her signature on a nondisclosure agreement regarding Weinstein's conduct.\n\nShe told the Times she countered with a request for $6 million, but withdrew the counter-offer when the newspaper published allegations against Weinstein from several women.\n\nUK police said on Tuesday they were investigating sexual assault allegations against Weinstein from seven women between the 1980s and 2015.\n\nNew York police are also investigating claims against the 65-year-old, including rape and sexual assault.\n\nNumerous allegations have been made against the movie mogul by women including actresses Angelina Jolie, Mira Sorvino and Gwyneth Paltrow.", "Thanks to the clocks going back, many of us managed to grab a little bit of extra shut-eye over the weekend.\n\nAnd that's no bad thing because, as a country, we seem to be chronically sleep-deprived. According to the Sleep Council, the average Briton gets six-and-a-half hours sleep a night, which for most people is not enough.\n\nLots of studies have shown that cutting back on sleep, deliberately or otherwise, can have a serious impact on our bodies.\n\nA few nights of bad sleep can really mess with our blood sugar control and encourage us to overeat. It even messes with our DNA.\n\nA few years ago, Trust Me I'm a Doctor did an experiment with Surrey University, asking volunteers to cut down on their sleep by an hour a night for a week.\n\nDr Simon Archer, who helped run the experiment, found that getting an hour's less sleep a night affected the activity of a wide range of our volunteers' genes (around 500 in all) including some which are associated with inflammation and diabetes.\n\nSo the negative effects on our bodies of sleep deprivation are clear. But what effect does lack of sleep have on our mental health?\n\nTo find out Trust Me teamed up with sleep scientists at the University of Oxford to run a small experiment.\n\nThis time, we recruited four volunteers who normally sleep soundly. We fitted them with devices to accurately monitor their sleep and then, for the first three nights of our study, let them get a full, undisturbed eight hours.\n\nFor the next three nights, however, we restricted their sleep to just four hours.\n\nEach day our volunteers filled in a psychological questionnaire designed to reveal any changes in their mood or emotions. They also kept video diaries. So what happened?\n\nSarah Reeve, a doctoral student who ran the experiment for us was surprised by how quickly their mood changed.\n\n\"There were increases in anxiety, depression and stress, also increases in paranoia and feelings of mistrust about other people\", she said.\n\n\"Given that this happened after only three nights of sleep deprivation, that is pretty impressive.\"\n\nThree of our four volunteers found the experience unpleasant, but one of them - Josh - claimed to be largely unaffected.\n\n\"This week probably hasn't taken as much of a toll as I thought it would on me,\" he said. \"I feel perfectly fine - not happy, sad, stressed or anything.\"\n\nYet the tests we did on him showed something very different.\n\nHis positive emotions fell sharply after two nights of disturbed sleep, while negative emotions began to rise.\n\nSo even though he felt OK there were signs that he was, mentally, beginning to suffer.\n\nThe outcome of our small test reflects the results of a much bigger study looking at the impact of sleep deprivation on the mental health of students.\n\nResearchers recruited more than 3,700 university students from across the UK who had reported problems sleeping and randomised them into two groups.\n\nOne group received six sessions of online CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) aimed at improving their sleep; the other group got standard advice.\n\nTen weeks into the study, the students who received CBT reported a halving in rates of insomnia, accompanied by significant improvements in scores for depression and anxiety, plus big reductions in paranoia and hallucinations.\n\nThis is thought to be the largest ever randomised controlled trial of a psychological treatment for mental health, and it strongly suggests that insomnia can cause mental health problems rather than simply be a consequence of them.\n\nDaniel Freeman, professor of clinical psychology at Oxford University, who led that study thinks one of the reasons why sleep deprivation is so bad for our brains is because it encourages repetitive negative thinking.\n\n\"We have more negative thoughts when we're sleep-deprived and we get stuck in them,\" he said.\n\nReassuringly he doesn't think a few nights of bad sleep means you will become mentally ill. But he does think it increases the risk.\n\n\"It's certainly not inevitable,\" he said. \"In any one night, one in three people is having difficulty sleeping, perhaps 5% to 10% of the general population has insomnia, and many people get on with their lives and they cope with it. But it does raise the risk of a whole range of mental health difficulties.\"\n\nThe positive side of this research is it implies that helping people get a good night's sleep will go a long way to helping improve our sense of well-being.\n\nNorbert Schwarz, a professor of psychology at the University of Southern California, has even put a figure on it.\n\nHe claims: \"Making $60,000 (£48,400) more in annual income has less of an effect on your daily happiness than getting one extra hour of sleep a night.\"\n\nTrust Me I'm a Doctor - Mental Health Special is on BBC2 at 21:00 GMT on Wednesday 1 November .\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A BBC reporter films his drive to work as pollution levels soar in India's capital.\n\nAll schools in Delhi have been closed for the rest of the week.", "The foreign secretary reacts to Priti Patel's resignation as international development secretary, following controversy over her meetings with Israeli officials.", "Wounds heal more quickly if they occur during the day rather than after dark, a study suggests.\n\nIt found burns sustained at night took an average of 28 days to heal, but just 17 for those that happened in daytime.\n\nThe team, at the UK's MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, said they were astounded by the difference they saw in 118 burns patients they studied.\n\nThe effect was explained by the way body clock ticks inside nearly every human cell across a 24-hour cycle.\n\nThe research, published in Science Translational Medicine, examined 118 patients at NHS burns units.\n\nIt showed the average 11-day difference in healing times between people hurt at night and during the day.\n\nDetailed lab work showed skin cells called fibroblasts were changing their abilities in a 24-hour pattern.\n\nFibroblasts are the body's first responders, rushing to the site of injury to close a wound.\n\nDuring the day they are primed to react, but they lose this ability at night.\n\nDr John O'Neill, one of the researchers, told the BBC: \"It is like the 100m. The sprinter down on the blocks, poised and ready to go, is always going to beat the guy going from a standing start.\"\n\nThe researchers think they could use this knowledge to improve surgery.\n\nSome drugs, such as the steroid cortisol, can reset an individual cell's body clock and may be helpful in night-time procedures.\n\nAnd everybody's body clock runs to a slightly different pattern or \"chronotype\".\n\nSo, it might make sense to schedule operations to keep in time with the patients' 24-hour \"circadian rhythms\".\n\nBoth ideas are still untested, though.\n\nDr John Blaikley, a clinician scientist at the University of Manchester, said: \"Treatment of wounds costs the NHS around £5bn, which is partly due to a lack of effective therapies targeting wound closure.\n\n\"By taking these [circadian factors] into account, not only could novel drug targets be identified, but also the effectiveness of established therapies might be increased through changing what time of day they are given.\"", "Thousands of children and teenagers were referred to the government's anti-terror programme in England and Wales last year, Home Office figures show.\n\nThe Prevent programme aims to stop people being drawn into terrorism.\n\nThere were 7,631 referrals in 2015-16, a quarter of which were of under-15s, but only 381 required specialist help.\n\nLabour's Naz Shah said the figures reinforced her concerns about the scheme, but security minister Ben Wallace said it had got \"real results\".\n\nChief Constable Simon Cole, the national policing lead for Prevent, said the number of referrals showed that \"trust and support is growing\" for the programme.\n\nIn one case a nine-year-old boy was helped by the Prevent programme after he stood up in class and said he supported so-called Islamic state.\n\nHe found their propaganda online after searching for news coverage of the Paris attacks, the Home Office said, but received support from the government's intensive de-radicalisation scheme, known as Channel.\n\nIt is the first time the government has published detailed figures on the initiative, created in 2003.\n\nThey reveal that 2,127 of those referred to the scheme in 2015-16 were under 15, including more than 500 girls.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rahmaan Mohammadi was referred to Prevent aged 14, describing it as \"toxic\"\n\nAnother 2,147 people reported were aged between 15 and 20 - meaning more than half of the 7,631 people referred in the 12 months to March 2016 were aged 20 or under.\n\nThe figures suggest there has been an increase in cases involving under-15s, but officials believe this could be due to a greater awareness among teachers of the potential warning signs - a third of the referrals came from the education sector.\n\nHome Office officials said academic research indicated that while there had been some initial concerns about \"over-zealous\" referrals by teachers, they now had a good grasp of which young people needed help.\n\nEvery time a case is referred to a local Prevent panel, experts consider the evidence - such as a report from a teacher - and decide whether the individual needs to be steered away from extremist ideology.\n\nThe latest figures show that the vast majority of people referred to Prevent required either no official support, or were given help with a problem unrelated to violent extremism.\n\nBut 1,072 individuals caused such alarm they were assessed for inclusion in Channel, the government's intensive de-radicalisation programme, which is voluntary and provides tailored support to individuals in England and Wales.\n\nOf those cases, 381 went on to receive specialist help in an attempt to change their thinking - and 302 were later given the all-clear.\n\nSixteen of those were still in the process at the time the figures were collated, but a further 63 people withdrew from the scheme - meaning they stopped co-operating with expert mentors altogether.\n\nAll the indications are that the number of Prevent referrals for 2017, when they are eventually collated and published, is likely to be considerably higher than this historical data.\n\nHaving said that, we have learnt a lot today about the character of those causing the most concern.\n\nFor a start, 2016 wasn't all about Syria. The figures show how the emergence of new far-right groups is causing concern.\n\nIn Wales, for example, the ratio of far-right referrals to Islamist was the highest of anywhere in the UK.\n\nAcross England and Wales, only a small number of all Prevent referrals cases ended up requiring intensive de-radicalisation, but a sixth of all those who were offered this specialist counselling - 63 people - refused to take part and withdrew.\n\nWhat we don't know for sure is what happens next to those people. Ministers suggest they are neither abandoned nor forgotten.\n\nAnd that means there will be someone watching - and some of these people will end up in court.\n\nApproximately 65% of the Prevent referrals related to Islamist/jihadist extremism and 10% concerned right-wing extremism.\n\nThe remaining cases were either impossible to initially categorise, because the individual was flitting between ideologies, or involved smaller threats relating to Northern Ireland, or Sikh extremism.\n\nThe highest number of cases came from London - 1,915 individuals - followed by 1,273 the North East, an area covering Yorkshire to the Scottish border.\n\nSecurity minister Ben Wallace said the Channel scheme was helping to \"save lives\" and had seen \"real results\" in helping divert people away from terrorism.\n\nLabour's Naz Shah, who sits on the Commons Home Affairs committee, said the fact the majority of Islamic extremism referrals required no further action reinforced suggested problems with the scheme.\n\nShe said: \"If you've referred a child, a young person, and there turns out to be actually nothing that they're doing that's wrong - that's really worrying for me and it's very alarming.\"\n\nBut Dr Usama Hasan, head of Islamic Studies at the counter-extremism organisation Quilliam, said it was not surprising there had been lots of \"false\" referrals.\n\nShe said: \"This is a new duty on schools and a lot of teachers are worried that if they miss somebody, they could lose their job for missing a potential terrorist.\"", "UK toy retailers are holding out for a busy Christmas after sales fell by 2% in the first nine months of the year.\n\nAnalysts and retailers expect a flat full year at best for the industry following two consecutive years of rapid growth.\n\nSpending on toys totals £121 per child up to the age of 11, according to analysts NPD, with lower-income families cutting their spending.\n\nThe industry has unveiled its list of \"must-have\" toys.\n\nCheaper collectables feature prominently on the list, alongside more traditional games and film and TV tie-ups.\n\nFrederique Tutt, global industry analyst for the NPD Group's toy division, said that sales had been \"sluggish\" in the year so far, whereas activity had risen in the other major toy markets in Europe, the US and Russia.\n\nShe pointed to a correction following two years of 7% growth in the UK, which had outstripped other markets and had been driven in part by the success of the Star Wars franchise.\n\nFrederique Tutt with one of the Toy Retailers' Association's top toys\n\nSeven of the 10 best-selling toys of the year so far have had a price tag of less than £10, she said.\n\nAlan Simpson, chairman of the Toy Retailers' Association, which compiles the Dream Toys list, said the weakness of the pound had pushed up prices in the UK as most toys were imported.\n\nThe toy market was suffering from the income squeeze of customers as much as other sectors, he added.\n\n\"However, the rule book gets thrown away at Christmas, no matter how tough things are [for parents],\" he said.\n\nA drone is one toy mirroring the advance of technology\n\nMs Tutt said that this year's list of top toys was relatively low-tech, with traditional games playing a more \"dynamic\" part in the market.\n\n\"Parents are saying that too much screen time is not good,\" she said.\n\nOnly 1% of toys were \"connected\" via the internet, yet the influence of the web - and particularly social media - was clear from the design of new toys.\n\nOne of the expected best-sellers at Christmas is the L.O.L. Surprise - a heavily wrapped toy inspired by \"unboxing\" videos on YouTube and other social media channels.\n\nMarketing for other toys had been launched on social media rather than TV adverts, she said. and manufacturers were counting on shared videos of youngsters playing with their new toys as another form of advertising.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The seizure was the largest in Colombia's history\n\nColombian police have discovered 12 tonnes of cocaine in the largest single drug seizure in the country's history.\n\nThe drugs were found buried in four banana plantations in the north of the country, close to the routes used to smuggle cocaine to the US.\n\nPresident Juan Manuel Santos said it was the largest drugs haul in a single police operation.\n\nThe operation is part of an offensive against the powerful Gulf Clan, a drug trafficking gang.\n\nPolice said the drug stash belonged to Dairo Úsuga, also known as Otoniel, leader of the Gulf Clan, one of Colombia's most dangerous criminal organisations.\n\nThe security forces have been trying to capture Otoniel for years.\n\nPolice said they had also arrested four people and estimated that the value of the haul was around $360m (£275m).\n\nIn the last two months the security forces have seized 20 tonnes of cocaine in Antioquia.\n\nThe Gulf Clan emerged from the remnants of right-wing paramilitary groups that demobilized in 2006 following a government peace deal.\n\nThe government says more than 1,500 members of the gang have been arrested this year and its second-in-command has been killed.", "Penny Mordaunt has become the UK's first female defence secretary after Gavin Williamson was sacked.\n\nShe was previously international development secretary, in charge of a multi-billion pound annual budget.\n\nWith a background as a naval reservist, and having served as an armed forces minister under David Cameron, Ms Mordaunt seems well prepared for the role.\n\nShe was seen as a frontrunner for the defence secretary position in 2017 when Michael Fallon was forced to quit the post, but lost out to Mr Williamson.\n\nMs Mordaunt was a high-profile campaigner for the Leave campaign during the 2016 EU referendum and underlined her pro-Brexit credentials by backing Andrea Leadsom in the subsequent Conservative leadership contest.\n\nDuring the referendum campaign - while a defence minister - she prompted a row by telling the BBC's Andrew Marr Show that the UK could not veto Turkey joining the European Union. The then-prime minister contradicted her on ITV's Peston on Sunday an hour later.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Penny Mordaunt: \"We're not going to be consulted... they are going to join, it's a matter of when\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Cameron: \"Britain and every other country in the EU has a veto on another country joining. That is a fact\"\n\nThe daughter of a paratrooper and a special needs teacher, Ms Mordaunt has two brothers, Edward and James, who is her twin, and has lived in her home town of Portsmouth since the age of two.\n\nShe was educated at Oaklands RC Comprehensive School and was the first member of her family to go to university.\n\nBefore studying philosophy at Reading University, she worked as a magician's assistant for a member of the Portsmouth and District Magic Circle, Will Ayling, author of The Art of Illusion and Oriental Conjuring and Magic.\n\nShe says on her website that she first became interested in politics working in hospitals and orphanages in post-revolutionary Romania during her gap year.\n\nBut Ms Mordaunt, 46, is probably best known outside Westminster for her appearance on ITV's celebrity diving show Splash! to raise money for charity.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Penny Mordaunt relives her moment diving in to a swimming pool on TV and admits \"it hurt a bit\" as she hit the water\n\nShe exited the contest in January 2014 after twice mistiming her back somersault from the 7.5m board but earned praise from Tom Daley and the other judges for her have-a-go attitude.\n\nLater that year she was in the headlines again for a speech she gave in the Commons on poultry welfare, which turned out to be an excuse to slip some very un-parliamentary language into proceedings.\n\nShe admitted she had made the speech - with its liberal use of \"lay\", \"laid\" and \"cock welfare\" - as a bet.\n\n\"When I was at Dartmouth doing my reservist training, some of my marine training officers thought it would be a good idea to try and break the ladylike persona that I maintained throughout the whole of my course by getting me to yell particular rude words during the most gruelling part of our training, and I'm happy to say that they failed in that,\" she said.\n\n\"But during our mess dinner at the end of the course I was fined for a misdemeanour, and the fine was to say a particular word, the abbreviation of cockerel, several times during a speech on the floor of the House of Commons and mention all of the officers' names present.\"\n\nMP for Portsmouth North since 2010, Ms Mordaunt is a former head of the Conservative Party's youth wing and was a press officer for William Hague when he was party leader, during which time she was seconded to work on George W Bush's 2000 election campaign in Washington.\n\n\"I was amazed at the similarities of the issues and tactics,\" she told The Daily Telegraph.\n\nBefore entering the world of Westminster politics, she was a press officer for Kensington and Chelsea Council and the Freight Transport Association, when she supported British truckers during French blockades.\n\nShe has also worked in the charity sector as a director of the Big Lottery Fund and Diabetes UK, where she set up services in developing countries particularly prone to the condition. She was also involved in David Willetts' abortive campaign to be Conservative leader in 2005 as his chief of staff.\n\nOn Twitter, Ms Mordaunt describes her two main interests as \"freedom and cats\".\n\nAnd, in her maiden speech to Parliament in June 2010, she revealed that she had been named after the Royal Navy cruiser HMS Penelope.\n\n\"I point out to my critics,\" she added, \"that HMS Penelope latterly became known as HMS Pepperpot because of her ability to endure massive amounts of shelling and remain afloat and able to return fire.\"", "The former UK international development secretary is filmed leaving 10 Downing Street's back entrance after meeting Prime Minister Theresa May.\n\nMs Patel has resigned following controversy over her meetings with Israeli officials.", "A child has been given a new genetically modified skin that covers 80% of his body, in a series of lifesaving operations.", "Those caught up in the anti-corruption drive are reportedly being held at Riyadh's Ritz-Carlton\n\nSaudi Arabia's attorney general says at least $100bn (£76bn) has been misused through systemic corruption and embezzlement in recent decades.\n\nSheikh Saud al-Mojeb said 201 people were being held for questioning as part of a sweeping anti-corruption drive that began on Saturday night.\n\nHe did not name any of them, but they reportedly include senior princes, ministers and influential businessmen.\n\n\"The evidence for this wrongdoing is very strong,\" Sheikh Mojeb said.\n\nHe also stressed that normal commercial activity in the kingdom had not been affected by the crackdown, and that only personal bank accounts had been frozen.\n\nSheikh Saud al-Mojeb said investigations by the newly-formed supreme anti-corruption committee, which is headed by 32-year-old Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, were \"progressing very quickly\".\n\nHe announced that 208 individuals had been called in for questioning so far, and that seven of them had been released without charge.\n\n\"The potential scale of corrupt practices which have been uncovered is very large,\" the attorney general said. \"Based on our investigations over the past three years, we estimate that at least $100bn has been misused through systematic corruption and embezzlement over several decades.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSheikh Mojeb said the committee had a clear legal mandate to move on to the next phase of its investigation and that it had suspended the bank accounts of \"persons of interest\" on Tuesday.\n\n\"There has been a great deal of speculation around the world regarding the identities of the individuals concerned and the details of the charges against them,\" he added. \"In order to ensure that the individuals continue to enjoy the full legal rights afforded to them under Saudi law, we will not be revealing any more personal details at this time.\"\n\nAmong those reportedly detained are the billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal; Prince Miteb bin Abdullah, a son of the late king who was also removed from his post as National Guard chief on Saturday; and his brother Prince Turki bin Abdullah, a former governor of Riyadh province.\n\nIt is the Saudi weekend now and the country is still reeling from the monumental changes taking place.\n\nSo far, so good, as far as the crown prince and his supporters are concerned. \"Phase One\", as the attorney-general calls it, is complete. Around 200 leading royal and business figures have been \"called in for questioning\" and there has been no visible resistance, no disaffected army hammering at the palace gates, no calls to arms on social media. Quite the opposite, in fact.\n\nSaudi Arabia's overwhelmingly young population has largely welcomed this clean-out of the kingdom's notoriously profligate elite. The more hardline Wahhabi religious clerics, still licking their wounds from the crown prince's recent announcement that the country needs to become more tolerant of other religions, will also be welcoming the purge.\n\nThe questions on everyone's mind though, are how far will it go and who will be next?\n\nOthers are said to include Alwalid al-Ibrahim, owner of the television network MBC; Amr al-Dabbagh, former head of the Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority; Khalid al-Tuwaijri, former chief of the Royal Court; and Bakr Binladen, chairman of the Saudi Binladen Group.\n\nAt least some of them are believed to be held at the five-star Ritz-Carlton hotel in Riyadh's diplomatic quarter. Paying guests were asked to vacate their rooms late on Saturday and the hotel's exterior gate has been shuttered since Sunday.\n\nOn Tuesday, the US said it had urged the Saudi government to handle any prosecutions stemming from the probe in a \"fair and transparent\" manner.\n\nHuman Rights Watch meanwhile called on Saudi officials to \"immediately reveal the legal and evidentiary basis for each person's detention and make certain that each person detained can exercise their due process rights\".\n\nThe detentions follow a wave of other recent arrests of clerics, human rights activists and intellectuals, for which the authorities have not given specific reasons.", "A British surfer has broken his back after falling off while riding a huge wave.\n\nAndrew Cotton, from Devon, suffered the wipeout in Nazare, Portugal and was rescued by a team including local lifeguards.\n\nHe posted on social media from his hospital bed: \"Thanks to everyone who helped this morning\n\n\"Everyone was really calm, you guys really saved my back, which unfortunately is broken but definitely could be worse, so thank you.\"\n\nMore on this story, and other Devon and Cornwall news", "The assault triggered protests by the students of the convent in Ranaghat\n\nA court in eastern India has sentenced a Bangladeshi man to life in prison for raping an elderly nun in March 2015.\n\nThe court in Kolkata (Calcutta) found Nazrul Islam guilty of rape and attempted murder.\n\nFive other men were jailed for 10 years for robbery during the assault in Ranaghat, West Bengal state. A sixth men was handed a seven-year term for harbouring the attackers.\n\nThe 71-year-old nun was attacked after the robbers ransacked her convent.\n\nThe gang also stole cash and other items during the attack that sent shockwaves across India and triggered mass protests.\n\n\"What happened to the elderly nun is a blot on West Bengal's legacy where Mother Teresa worked for the poor,\" Judge Kumkum Singha told a packed court on Wednesday.\n\nThe nun - who has not been named for legal reasons - underwent surgery after the assault in the Convent of Jesus and Mary. She later moved out of West Bengal.\n\nIndia has in recent years seen a number of attacks on churches of the country's small Christian community.\n\nThe authorities have also strengthened its laws on sexual violence following a fatal gang-rape of a student in the capital Delhi in 2012.\n\nHowever, campaigners say such assaults remain widespread.", "The duty-free sales to staff and retired workers raise revenue for the Vatican\n\nPope Francis has ordered a ban on the sale of cigarettes inside the Vatican, beginning next year.\n\nVatican spokesman Greg Burke said the Holy See could not co-operate with a practice that clearly harmed people's health.\n\nAbout 5,000 employees and retired staff of the Vatican are currently allowed to buy discounted cigarettes.\n\nThe sales are estimated to bring in millions of euros every year to the Vatican.\n\nBut Mr Burke said no amount of profit could be legitimate if it was costing people their lives.\n\nHe cited World Health Organization figures that blame smoking for more than seven million deaths worldwide every year .\n\n\"I think many people enjoyed it as sort of a fringe benefit,\" he said.\n\n\"It comes as a bit of a sacrifice for the Holy See, this was a source of revenue, but it's obviously much more important to do what is right.\"\n\nPope Francis, who had a lung removed as a teenager, does not smoke.\n\nVatican staff and pensioners are permitted to buy five cartons of cigarettes every month from a duty-free shop, housed in a former railway station, which is only open to those with a special pass.\n\nCorrespondents say many non-smokers inside the Vatican are asked by friends outside to buy cigarettes for them because they are cheaper than in Italy where they are heavily taxed.", "Mark van Dongen died 15 months after being attacked in Bristol\n\nAn acid attack victim shouted \"I want to die\" as he could not bear to live with his injuries, his father has told a court.\n\nMark van Dongen, 29, was left paralysed from the neck down and lost his left leg, ear and eye following the attack.\n\nBristol Crown Court heard the Dutch national ended his life in a Belgian euthanasia clinic 15 months later.\n\nHis ex-girlfriend, Berlinah Wallace, 48, of Bristol, denies murdering him.\n\nSpeaking through an interpreter, Mr van Dongen's father Cornelius told the court that after suffering his injuries his son had to communicate by using an alphabet board to spell out words.\n\nMr van Dongen said he asked Mark who had attacked him and his son spelled out his former girlfriend's name on the board.\n\nProsecutors allege Ms Wallace became upset when the couple's five-year relationship ended and threw a corrosive substance over Mr van Dongen as he was lying in bed.\n\nMr van Dongen told the jury his son was scared of Ms Wallace and had called the police \"several times\" about her but \"received no support\".\n\nIn the weeks before he died he said his son developed an acute lung infection and was unable to move his arms.\n\nIt was \"the straw that broke the camel's back\" that led him to apply for euthanasia, Mr van Dongen said.\n\nHe said Mark told him: \"My life has come to nothing and there is nothing left\".\n\nHe died at the clinic in Belgium on 2 January this year.\n\nThe court heard Thomas Sweet, who lived near Ms Wallace's flat in Ladysmith Road, found Mr van Dongen in the street in September 2015.\n\nHe said he heard what sounded like \"foxes fighting\" and then realised it was someone shouting \"help me\" in an \"agonised\" way.\n\nMr van Dongen was wearing just his boxer shorts and said he had \"acid chucked on him\", Mr Sweet said.\n\nHe told the court Mr van Dongen said: \"This bitch, this bitch did it to me. My ex did it\".\n\nMr Sweet then called an ambulance and took Mr van Dongen to a neighbour's flat and helped him shower.\n\nMr Sweet said he asked him: \"Do you want the police here?\" and Mr van Dongen replied: \"They need to be here, she needs to pay.\"\n\nThe attack happened on Ladysmith Road in Westbury Park, Bristol\n\nAnother neighbour, Dr Nicola White, told the court she was woken up by \"the sound of a gentleman outside in the street screaming\".\n\nDr White said she went out and saw Mr van Dongen, who was \"grey from his head to his chest\".\n\nShe helped Mr Sweet take Mr van Dongen in to shower him and said he turned to her, pointed to an open door and screamed: \"She did it to me in there. She did it to me.\"\n\nDr White said as they passed the door, she looked in and saw \"a lady sitting on the sofa on her mobile phone appearing to talk. She looked sullen and serious\".\n\nPolice officers told the court Mr van Dongen had \"significant injuries\" from a \"substance poured over his body\".\n\nPC Thomas Green travelled in the ambulance to hospital and said the victim was \"clearly in a lot of pain and screaming in agony\".\n\n\"I asked him who the offender was, he said Berlinah and pointed to a tattoo [of her name] near his belly button.\n\n\"He said he was concerned for V's [his then girlfriend] safety and concerned she would target her as well.\"\n\nPC Daniel Fortune described a \"chemical acrid smell, which was quite strong\" in the flat.\n\nHe told the jury Ms Wallace was sat on the sofa, \"calm and collected\".\n\nMs Wallace admits throwing a substance over Mr van Dongen but denies any intent to cause him harm.\n\nShe says she believed she was throwing a glass of water over him and denies murder and applying a corrosive substance.\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\nPenny Mordaunt has been promoted to the cabinet as the new International Development Secretary, following the resignation of Priti Patel.\n\nLike Ms Patel, Ms Mordaunt was among Conservatives who backed Leave during the EU Referendum campaign.\n\nMs Mordaunt, 44, said she was \"delighted\" to take on the role, as she visited her new department.\n\nMs Patel quit on Wednesday, admitting unauthorised meetings with Israeli officials had \"lacked transparency\".\n\nIt was the second cabinet resignation in a week. Last week Gavin Williamson replaced Sir Michael Fallon as defence secretary, after he quit saying his conduct had \"fallen short\" of the required standards after allegations of inappropriate sexual behaviour.\n\nMs Mordaunt, MP for Portsmouth North, is a Royal Navy reservist and was appointed as the first female minister for the Armed Forces in 2015. It had been thought she was in the running to replace Sir Michael last week.\n\nSpeaking at the Department for International Development, Ms Mordaunt said: \"I'm delighted to have been appointed by the prime minister to be the new secretary of state for International Development.\n\n\"I'm looking forward to working with the team here to continue building a safer, more secure, more prosperous world for us all and really giving the British public pride in what we do.\"\n\nThere are good reasons why Penny Mordaunt has been promoted to the Department for International Development.\n\nShe has worked in humanitarian aid, she has been a minister in two different departments, former colleagues rate her abilities and she was tipped last week to be elevated to running the Ministry of Defence.\n\nBut there is a lot more to her than meets the eye, and a lot more that is interesting about her than going on TV in a swimsuit. She also has a different political qualification - she was prominent campaigning Brexiteer.\n\nFirst elected to the Commons in 2010 she had been minister for disabled people in the Department for Work and Pensions until her promotion. She is also known for appearing on the reality TV programme Splash! in 2014.\n\nBBC political correspondent Vicki Young said she thought Ms Mordaunt would be a popular appointment within the party. She said it would keep the balance within the cabinet when it came to Brexit - in terms of the numbers of ministers who supported Leave or Remain during the referendum - as well as preserving the gender balance, an issue which Theresa May was concerned about.\n\nAs International Development Secretary, Ms Mordaunt will be in charge of the UK's £13bn foreign aid budget.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Penny Mordaunt relives her moment diving in to a swimming pool on TV and admits \"it hurt a bit\" as she hit the water\n\nFormer Culture Secretary John Whittingdale told the BBC: \"I think it's a good appointment. Penny is somebody who has a lot of experience, she has worked in an international department before - as armed forces minister, I have no doubt she will do an excellent job.\"\n\nAid charities also welcomed the appointment. Referring to Ms Mordaunt's student work in Romanian orphanages, director of anti-poverty campaign One UK, Romilly Greenhill, said she was \"well suited for her new role\" while Oxfam chief executive Mark Goldring hoped Ms Mordaunt would be \"a champion for Britain ensuring that aid is spent where it is most needed, helping the world's poorest people\".\n\nHer Labour shadow Kate Osamor congratulated Ms Mordaunt on her appointment and said she \"faces an immediate challenge of restoring integrity to British international development policy after the actions of Priti Patel\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What went wrong for Priti Patel? The BBC's James Landale explains\n\nShe added: \"That means she must unequivocally commit to the spirit, as well as the letter, of Britain's pledge to spend 0.7 per cent of national income on international development, and face down those in her party who want to merge DFID into the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.\"\n\nMs Patel's difficulties began last week, when the BBC revealed she had arranged a number of meetings with business and political figures during a family holiday to Israel in August, without telling Downing Street or the Foreign Office.\n\nIt later emerged that after Ms Patel's visit to Israel, she asked her officials to look into whether Britain could support humanitarian operations conducted by the Israeli army in the occupied Golan Heights area.\n\nIn other appointments on Thursday, Sarah Newton has been made a minister in the Department for Work and Pensions while Victoria Atkins has become a Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Home Office.", "Artwork: The \"zombie\" star kept erupting for nearly two years\n\nIt's the astronomical equivalent of a horror film adversary: a star that just wouldn't stay dead.\n\nWhen most stars go supernova, they die in a single blast, but astronomers have found a star that survived not one, but five separate explosions.\n\nThe \"zombie\" star kept erupting for nearly two years - six times longer than the duration of a typical supernova.\n\nAn international team details their results in the academic journal Nature.\n\n\"This supernova breaks everything we thought we knew about how they work. It's the biggest puzzle I've encountered in almost a decade of studying stellar explosions,\" said co-author Iair Arcavi, a postdoctoral fellow at Las Cumbres Observatory (LCO) who is based in California.\n\nThe mysterious object, iPTF14hls, was picked up in September 2014 by a wide-field camera astronomy survey.\n\nAstronomers identified it as an exploding star in January 2015; everything about the discovery seemed normal at first.\n\nIn common types of supernova, a blast at the centre of the star ejects material at high speed into surrounding space. The expansion of this material releases energy, causing the object to shine brightly for up to 100 days (about four months) before it finally fades.\n\nIt soon became clear this exploding star wasn't conforming to expectations. For one thing, it didn't fade, but shone brightly for 600 days - nearly two years.\n\nWhat's more, the astronomers found that its brightness varied by as much as 50% on an irregular timescale, as if it was exploding over and over again.\n\nAnd, rather than cooling down as expected, the object maintained a near-constant temperature of about 5,700C.\n\nIntriguingly, by combing through archived data, scientists discovered an explosion that occurred in 1954 in exactly the same location. This could suggest that the star somehow survived that explosion, only to detonate again in 2014.\n\nThe object may be the first known example of a Pulsational Pair Instability Supernova.\n\n\"According to this theory, it is possible that this was the result of a star so massive and hot that it generated antimatter in its core,\" said co-author Daniel Kasen, from the University of California, Berkeley.\n\n\"That would cause the star to go violently unstable, and undergo repeated bright eruptions over periods of years.\"\n\nThat process could even repeat itself over decades before the star's final explosion and collapse to a black hole.\n\nThe discovery was made by the Intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF) wide-field camera survey\n\nKate Maguire, from Queen's University Belfast, who was not involved with the study, told BBC News: \"It's a theoretical idea that people have put forward, but this is the first time that an object has been identified that matches this quite well.\n\nWriting in a news and views article published in Nature, Prof Stan Woosley, from the University of California, Santa Cruz, said that in the Pulsational Pair Instability theory, a massive star may lose about half its mass before the series of violent pulses begins.\n\nNot everything we know about the \"zombie\" matches this theory, Prof Woosley added, and many uncertainties remain.\n\n\"As of now, no detailed model has been published that can explain the observed emission and constant temperature of iPTF14hls, let alone the possible eruption 60 years ago,\" he wrote.\n\n\"For now, the supernova offers astronomers their greatest thrill: something they do not understand.\"", "\"I can name six names, one of them who is still very powerful today,\" Feldman said recently\n\nEighties child star Corey Feldman has filed a report with police after vowing to expose an alleged paedophile ring in Hollywood.\n\nLos Angeles Police Department confirmed they are launching an investigation after receiving the actor's report.\n\nLAPD did not confirm the nature of the allegations. Feldman's spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment.\n\nFeldman, now 46, has long alleged Hollywood figures molested young actors including himself and Corey Haim.\n\nHe appeared last week on The Dr Oz Show, announcing a $10m (£7.6m) fundraising campaign for a film he wants to produce about the alleged abuse scandal.\n\n\"Right off the bat, I can name six names, one of them who is still very powerful today,\" Feldman 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 Corey Feldman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn his 2013 autobiography, Coreyography, Feldman detailed abuse he says he and Haim suffered in Hollywood.\n\nHe blamed it for Haim's drug problems and untimely death in 2010 at the age of 38.\n\nFeldman told ABC's Nightline in 2011: \"There is one person to blame in the death of Corey Haim, and that person happens to be a Hollywood mogul.\n\n\"And that person needs to be exposed but unfortunately I can't be the one to do it.\"\n\nFeldman and Haim (R) were known as the Two Coreys\n\nFeldman has always declined to reveal names, citing fears of lawsuits.\n\nBut he said he had been emboldened to speak out by revelations of Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein's alleged serial sexual abuse.\n\nIt is not clear if there could be a statute of limitations on prosecutions for offences alleged by Feldman.\n\nWhile he has attracted much support online, Haim's mother, Judy Haim, is among those who doubt Feldman's claims.\n\nShe told the Hollywood Reporter: \"If he was serious about this, he'd share the information he has with the police.\"\n\nFeldman posted an essay rebutting Ms Haim's allegation that his movie project plan is a \"long con\".\n\nHe and Haim starred in several films together between 1987-96, including The Lost Boys and Dream a Little Dream.", "Theresa May has outlined plans to set the UK's departure date and time from the EU in law, warning she will not \"tolerate\" any attempt to block Brexit.\n\nShe said the EU Withdrawal Bill would be amended to formally commit to Brexit at 23:00 GMT on Friday 29 March 2019.\n\nThe bill will be scrutinised by MPs next week - but the PM warned against attempts to stop it or slow it down.\n\nMrs May was writing in the Daily Telegraph as a fresh round of Brexit negotiations are due to begin later.\n\nThe UK is due to leave the European Union after 2016's referendum in which 51.9% of voters backed Brexit.\n\nThe prime minister said the decision to put the specific time of Brexit \"on the front page\" of the Brexit bill showed the government was determined to see the process through.\n\n\"Let no-one doubt our determination or question our resolve, Brexit is happening,\" she wrote.\n\n\"It will be there in black and white on the front page of this historic piece of legislation: the United Kingdom will be leaving the EU on March 29, 2019 at 11pm GMT.\"\n\nThe draft legislation has already passed its second reading, and now faces several attempts to amend it at the next part of its parliamentary journey - the committee stage.\n\nMrs May said most people wanted politicians to \"come together\" to negotiate a good Brexit deal, adding that MPs \"on all sides\" should help scrutinise the bill.\n\nShe said the government would listen to MPs if they had ideas for improving the bill, but warned against attempts to halt the process.\n\n\"We will not tolerate attempts from any quarter to use the process of amendments to this Bill as a mechanism to try to block the democratic wishes of the British people by attempting to slow down or stop our departure from the European Union.\"\n\nMPs have previously been told there have been 300 amendments and 54 new clauses proposed.\n\nDavid Davis is due to take part in a fresh round of Brexit negotiations\n\nThe PM said the \"historic\" bill was \"fundamental to delivering a smooth and orderly Brexit\" and would give \"the greatest possible clarity and certainty for all businesses and families across the country\".\n\nLabour MP and remain campaigner, Chuka Umunna, said many experts believed the March 2019 leaving date did not give much time for negotiations.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 5 live: \"Lord Bridges said he could not see the government being able to negotiate the transition arrangement, like the bridge to us leaving, and the divorce bill, by 2019. So we may actually need more time.\"\n\nLord Kerr, the former diplomat who helped draft Article 50 of the Lisbon Treaty - the mechanism the UK has used to exit the EU - said putting the Brexit date on the bill did not mean the withdrawal process was irreversible.\n\nThe cross-bench peer told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that decisions such as these were being made in Westminster, and \"had nothing to do with the treaty, and they have nothing to do with the views of our partners in Brussels\".\n\nBut the Conservative MP and leave campaigner, Peter Bone, welcomed the decision to enshrine the leaving date in law, saying it was a \"really big, important step\".\n\nIt comes as a leaked account of a meeting of EU diplomats this week suggested that Northern Ireland may have to abide by the EU's rules on the customs union and single market after Brexit - in order to avoid the introduction of border checks.\n\nBoth Britain and the EU say they are committed to ensuring that Brexit does not undermine the 1998 Good Friday peace agreement or lead to the emergence of hard-border with the Republic of Ireland.\n\nHowever, BBC correspondent Adam Fleming said the commission's suggestion appeared to be at odds with comments made by the Northern Ireland Secretary, James Brokenshire, this week.\n\nMr Brokenshire said it was \"difficult to imagine\" Northern Ireland remaining in either the customs union or the single market after Brexit.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'To Kevin Spacey: Shame on you for what you did to my son'\n\nNew allegations of sexual harassment and predatory behaviour towards men and women by Kevin Spacey have emerged.\n\nThe claims, spanning from the mid-1980s to 2016, raise further questions about the US actor's conduct in the decades he worked in Hollywood and as artistic director at London's Old Vic theatre.\n\nThe BBC has contacted Mr Spacey for comment.\n\nOn Wednesday, the journalist whose October tweet triggered a series of accusations about Mr Spacey spoke 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 Heather Unruh This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 television news anchor Heather Unruh told a press conference in Boston that her son had been sexually assaulted by Mr Spacey, at the age of 18 in a bar in Nantucket, Massachusetts, in July 2016.\n\nShe said Mr Spacey had bought her son alcohol - the drinking age in Massachusetts is 21. After getting him drunk, Mr Spacey had \"stuck his hand inside my son's pants and grabbed his genitals\", she said.\n\nShe said Mr Spacey had invited her son to a party, but he had run away from the bar when Mr Spacey had gone to the lavatory.\n\nA criminal investigation was now under way, Mrs Unruh said.\n\n\"Shame on you for what you did to my son. Your actions are criminal,\" Mrs Unruh said through her tears.\n\nSince the first allegation of sexual advances were made by actor Anthony Rapp on 30 October, US network Netflix axed further production of Mr Spacey's House of Cards drama, the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced it will no longer give the actor a special Emmy award, and his agent and publicist dropped him as a client.\n\nIn response to Mr Rapp's claims, Mr Spacey said he has no memory of the incident and offered an apology.\n\nMr Spacey said he was seeking treatment after facing the allegations but did not give information about the type.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former London barman Kris Nixon says he was groped by Kevin Spacey\n\nSince then more men have come forward.\n\nBarman Kris Nixon, from Belfast, Northern Ireland, said he had been working near the Old Vic in 2007 when Mr Spacey groped him at a party.\n\n\"Kevin Spacey sat down next to me on a sofa, then reached over and grabbed my penis,\" he said.\n\nThe actor had then suggested he perform a sexual act on Mr Nixon, according to the barman, who then left the party.\n\nTwo weeks later, Mr Nixon was in the basement of the bar he had been working in, when, he said, he realised Spacey was two feet (60cm) behind him.\n\nThe actor grabbed Mr Nixon's waistband and offered to \"make it up\" to him, he said.\n\n\"I didn't want to make a scene about it - he was a customer. I didn't want to get fired.\n\n\"Until Anthony Rapp spoke out, I never felt able to tell anyone.\"\n\nSpacey was dropped from his House of Cards series after new allegations\n\nMeanwhile, an American film-maker has told the BBC that he was groped and sexually harassed by Mr Spacey as a 22-year-old junior crew member.\n\nThe man, now 44, who does not want to be identified, said the \"powerful\" director had made advances towards him on the shoot of Albino Alligator in 1995.\n\n\"He was very affable and nice to everybody. We shook hands and he took an interest in me. He offered to watch one of my student films, which I was very flattered by,\" he said.\n\nBut, he said, Mr Spacey had quickly become \"creepy\" and one day insisted he sit in his director's chair.\n\n\"He started massaging my neck and my shoulders, and I felt incredibly uncomfortable.\"\n\nThe film-maker, from California, said he had been singled out as a target because of his youth and inexperience.\n\n\"On one of the last days of shooting… he sat down next to me and put his thigh against mine and put his hand on my thigh and moved it towards my inner thigh,\" he said.\n\nHe told the BBC he had decided to come forward after hearing the allegations by actor Anthony Rapp but felt nervous about revealing his identity because of the influential position Mr Spacey continued to hold in the industry.\n\nAt the time, Mr Spacey's powerful position had made him feel conflicted about his encounters with the director, he said.\n\n\"I was getting the attention of the most powerful person on the movie set, and I wanted to work in Hollywood,\" he said.\n\n\"But it was an interest that made me feel totally uneasy, uncomfortable, confused. I didn't know what to do, I felt trapped. I felt harassed, sexually harassed.\"\n\nThe film-maker said he hoped coming forward would encourage others.\n\n\"I hope it makes those people who come forward feel less alone if they are feeling alone and confused, like I was when I was 22.\"\n\nOne woman told the BBC that she suffered depression after an encounter with Mr Spacey.\n\nKate Edwards, now a performing arts teacher in London, claims Mr Spacey made advances towards her when she had been a production assistant on Broadway show Long Day's Journey Into Night in 1986.\n\nMs Edwards, who was 17 at the time, said she had been alone in a lift with the 27-year-old Mr Spacey when he had invited her to a \"James Dean birthday party\" in his flat.\n\nKate Edwards (second left, back row) with the cast and crew of Long Day's Journey Into Night, starring Kevin Spacey, in 1986\n\nWhen she had arrived, she said, there had been no-one else there.\n\nMs Edwards said she had consensually kissed Mr Spacey, but then had started to feel uncomfortable and asked when others would arrive..\n\n\"I said I want to go home and change. I felt pressured, and it became quite clear that his intention was to have sex with me.\n\n\"He became cold and said, 'Find your own way.'\n\nShe said the actor had \"cut her dead\" after the encounter, she had become depressed, had gained weight, and had eventually been unable to continue working on the show.\n\nMs Edwards said her message to Mr Spacey today would be: \"I would like you to know that what you did hurt me, it affected me for years afterwards.\n\n\"What you did to me and what you did to other young people was unacceptable.\"", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Mark van Dongen died 15 months after being attacked in Bristol\n\nAn acid attack victim has told jurors, in testimony recorded before his death, how the \"jealous\" ex accused of his murder laughed as she doused him in a corrosive liquid.\n\nIn video evidence, Mark van Dongen, 29, said Berlinah Wallace, 48, shouted \"if I can't have you, no-one else can\" as she threw sulphuric acid at him.\n\nBristol Crown Court heard he ended his life in a euthanasia clinic due to unbearable pain from his injuries.\n\nThe court heard Dutch national Mr van Dongen was left paralysed from the neck down and lost his left leg, the sight in his left eye and most of the sight in his right eye, after the September 2015 attack in Bristol.\n\nHe was later told he would require a \"lifetime of constant and dedicated care\".\n\nIn January this year, he travelled to Belgium where he ended his life in a euthanasia clinic.\n\nA picture of Mark van Dongen taken before the attack\n\nJurors were shown the video interview with Mr van Dongen, filmed in hospital in July 2016, where he gave his account of the attack,\n\nTrial judge Mrs Justice May warned them they may find the footage, which showed the extent of the scarring to the victim's body, \"shocking and disturbing\".\n\nIn the video, Mr van Dongen struggles to speak as he describes Ms Wallace waking him up and laughing as she threw acid over him, saying \"if I can't have you, no one else can\".\n\nWhen the interviewer asks if he knew why she had attacked him, he says it was because she was jealous.\n\nIn a second video shown to the court, Mr van Dongen tells police Ms Wallace threw boiling water over him after an argument in 2014.\n\nHe also says Ms Wallace hit herself in the face, and told him she would tell police he had caused her injuries if he left her.\n\nAt the time of the attack, prosecutor Adam Vaitilingam QC told jurors, Mr van Dongen had begun seeing another woman and moved into a hotel.\n\nThe victim visited the defendant at her flat in Ladysmith Road, Bristol, because he was concerned that she was \"in a bad way and self-harming\", the court was told.\n\nHe fell asleep, jurors heard, and Ms Wallace laughed as she threw a glass of sulphuric acid over him.\n\nThe court heard Mr van Dongen ran into the street \"screaming for help\", where neighbours tried to help him, and he was taken to a specialist burns unit at Southmead Hospital.\n\nMr Vaitilingam said: \"The physical and mental suffering that he sustained from that calculated acid attack were what drove him to euthanasia.\n\n\"Put simply, he could not bear to live in that condition.\n\n\"If that is right, we say, then she is guilty of murder.\"\n\nMs Wallace wept in the dock as the jury were told Mr van Dongen was \"genuinely frightened\" of her, and the couple's relationship had become \"volatile\".\n\nThe jury heard computer records showed Ms Wallace had bought the acid online on 2 September.\n\nShe also carried out internet searches, including \"can I die drinking sulphuric acid?\", and browsed news stories on acid attack victims.\n\nMs Wallace admits throwing a substance over Mr van Dongen but denies any intent to cause him harm.\n\nShe claims she believed that she was throwing a glass of water over him.\n\nRichard Smith QC, defending, told the jury \"to keep an open mind\".\n\n\"Yes, she threw the glass over him, but defence claims Mr van Dongen put the acid in the cup without her knowledge, and encouraged her to drink it resulting in a mirror image of what we now have.\"\n\nHe said the couple had a \"turbulent and complicated relationship\" and Ms Wallace was going to blackmail Mr van Dongen with personal information, which was why he put the acid in the glass and encouraged her to drink it.\n\nMs Wallace wiped away tears as jurors heard details of the couple's \"volatile\" relationship\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Priti Patel has resigned as international development secretary following controversy over her meetings with Israeli officials.\n\nThe BBC's Diplomatic Correspondent, James Landale, explains how a family holiday went terribly wrong for her.", "The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse has admitted breaching its own procedures by publishing a victim's name despite his right to anonymity.\n\nThe man's name appeared on its website in the title of a document. The inquiry said it removed the name as soon as it was brought to its attention.\n\nIt was the seventh time the inquiry had been alerted to such a breach.\n\nIt notified the privacy watchdog - the Information Commissioner - and said it was reviewing its practices.\n\nThe inquiry, which was set up in the aftermath of the Jimmy Savile scandal, aims to investigate claims against local authorities, religious organisations, the armed forces and public and private institutions - as well as people in the public eye.\n\nThe inquiry (IICSA) is protecting the identities of more than 1,000 children or victims of child sexual abuse.\n\nThe life-long anonymity of victims of sexual offences is protected by law.\n\nThursday's breach was spotted by a BBC journalist who alerted the inquiry to the fact that it had named a man who was applying for so-called \"core participation\" status at the inquiry.\n\nThe name was given in the title of a document, published for about a day, but had redacted that information elsewhere.\n\nThe inquiry said: \"We understand that the document was viewed five times during that period.\n\n\"It was removed as soon as it was brought to our attention and the individual is being contacted and will be offered support.\"\n\nSince the inquiry began in March 2015, it has been alerted to seven breaches of anonymity and on four occasions, including this one, it reported itself to the Information Commissioner.\n\nThere are 1,150 people taking part in the inquiry who have had their identities hidden through the use of code numbers - this includes 200 core participants who have the right to take part directly in inquiry hearings.\n\nThe names of another 575 people are also protected because they are alleged perpetrators in cases where there has been no conviction or findings suggesting their guilt.\n\nRichard Scorer, specialist abuse lawyer at Slater & Gordon solicitors who acts for many core participants at the inquiry, said: \"This breach is totally unacceptable and it is extremely worrying that such a serious breach could occur.\n\n\"Such a breach would constitute contempt of court under the inquiry's own rules.\n\n\"They need to review their procedures very urgently and ensure there is absolutely no repetition.\"", "Many pilgrims try to get pictures of the Pope at his audiences\n\nPope Francis has chided the Catholic faithful for using their mobile phones during Mass.\n\nHe said it made him sad when many phones were held up, and even priests and bishops were taking photos.\n\nThe pontiff is not known to have used a mobile phone in public since his election and once asked young people to carry Bibles instead of phones.\n\nHowever, he is an avid user of social media and regularly allows himself to be snapped with pilgrims for selfies.\n\nHe has millions of followers on Twitter.\n\nSpeaking at his weekly audience in St Peter's Square in Rome, Pope Francis said that Mass was a time for prayer and not a show.\n\n\"At a certain point the priest leading the ceremony says 'lift up our hearts'. He doesn't say 'lift up our mobile phones to take photographs' - it's a very ugly thing,\" he said.\n\n\"It's so sad when I'm celebrating mass here or inside the basilica and I see lots of phones held up - not just by the faithful, but also by priests and bishops! Please!\"", "The actress alleges Steven Seagal propositioned her while she auditioned for a role\n\nActress Portia de Rossi has accused actor and producer Steven Seagal of sexual harassment.\n\nThe Arrested Development actress, who is married to US talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, made the allegation in a tweet posted on Wednesday night.\n\nShe alleges that during a film audition Mr Seagal told her \"how important it was to have chemistry off-screen\" before unzipping his trousers.\n\nMr Seagal's manager told BBC News that the actor had no comment.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Portia de Rossi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 65-year-old is best known for his action roles during the 1980s and 1990s, including Under Siege and Flight of Fury. He was given Russian citizenship by President Vladimir Putin in 2016.\n\nSeveral other women have come forward to accuse Mr Seagal of inappropriate behaviour and harassment, including the Good Wife actress Julianna Margulies and model Jenny McCarthy.\n\nHe is the latest person in Hollywood to stand accused of sexual harassment or sexual assault after women began coming forward about producer Harvey Weinstein.\n\nHarvey Weinstein has denied all allegations of non-consensual sex made against him.\n\nSteven Seagal has bonded with the Russian president over martial arts\n\nIn the tweet, Ms de Rossi said her complaints about Mr Seagal's behaviour were dismissed at the time by her agent.\n\nShe did not specify which movie the audition was for, or in which year the incident allegedly happened.\n\nThe Australian-American actress has been married to television host Ellen DeGeneres for nine years.\n\nMs DeGeneres shared Ms de Rossi's tweet with her 75 million followers on Thursday with the caption: \"I am proud of my wife\".", "For the first time, you can find out at the click of button exactly how the land is used in your local authority area.\n\nYour browser does not support this Lookup Enter your postcode to find out how land is used in your area The percentages above are estimates. For a detailed methodology see note at bottom of article page. Maps produced by Alasdair Rae from the University of Sheffield using data from Corine and Ordnance Survey.\n\nIf you can't see the area search, click or tap here.\n\nEvery council area in the UK has been analysed and individual maps produced showing how much of the area falls into four land categories:\n\nMore than half of the UK land area is farmland (fields, orchards etc), just over a third might be termed natural or semi-natural (moors, heathland, natural grassland etc), a little under 6% is built on (roads, buildings, airports, quarries etc) and 2.5% is green urban (parks, gardens, golf courses, sports pitches etc).\n\nThe four categories are drawn from 44 different land use codes used by the Co-ordination of Information on the Environment (Corine) project initiated by the European Commission in 1985.\n\nUsing high-definition satellite images and detailed local maps, Corine offers a comprehensive picture of every corner of the United Kingdom. Now that information is readily available to everyone.\n\nThe local authorities with the highest proportion of farmland are the Isles of Scilly (96%) and Mid Suffolk (95%). The council area with the greatest quantity of \"natural\" landscape is Highland (91%). The City of London has the highest amount of land that is built on (98%) and the local authority with the greatest proportion of green urban is Richmond upon Thames (58%).\n\nRead Mark's blog about the research findings here.\n\nThe data has been produced with the help of Dr Alasdair Rae from the Urban Studies and Planning Department at the University of Sheffield. All the original local authority data and maps are available in A Land Cover Atlas of the United Kingdom and can be found here and here.\n\nThe largest component of the \"built on\" category is \"discontinuous urban fabric\", within which 20-50% of the surface area may be green space. To account for this we have reassigned the minimum 20% of \"discontinuous urban fabric\" to \"green urban\", which in many cases may be an underestimate. The map uses building land cover data from Ordnance Survey.\n\nProduced by Will Dahlgreen. Design by Prina Shah. Development by Evisa Terziu.", "Once Donald Trump spoke of China \"raping\" the US – now he gives it \"credit\" for \"taking advantage\".\n\nSo how has the US president's attitude changed since he took office?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A trailer for All the Money in the World, featuring Spacey as Jean Paul Getty, had already been released\n\nUS actor Kevin Spacey is to be erased from a completed Hollywood film following the allegations of predatory sexual behaviour against him.\n\nHis role in All the Money in the World is to be recast and his scenes reshot. The release is expected to go ahead as planned on 22 December.\n\nSpacey, who was late oil tycoon Jean Paul Getty in the film, will be replaced by Christopher Plummer.\n\nThe claims against Spacey span from the mid-1980s to last year.\n\nAll the Money in the World, directed by Ridley Scott, is about the 1973 kidnapping of Getty's teenage grandson.\n\nVariety said that Spacey had shot about two weeks of footage and there were many scenes in the film where he was the only actor on screen.\n\nHe already appears in the film's trailer, which was released in September.\n\nVeteran actor Christopher Plummer (left) will replace Spacey in the film\n\nMark Wahlberg and Michelle Williams, who also star in the film, are expected to take part in the reshooting.\n\nThe movie has also been withdrawn from the American Film Institute's (AFI) annual festival in Los Angeles later this month.\n\nActress Valentina Violo, who plays a secretary in Ridley Scott's film, said she had met Spacey at a party held at the end of shooting this summer.\n\n\"He was very nice and kind and very human,\" she told BBC News. \"He was enjoying himself drinking, eating, speaking with people.\"\n\nSpacey's career has nosedived since the first allegation of sexual advances were made by actor Anthony Rapp on 30 October.\n\nUS network Netflix has axed further production of Mr Spacey's House of Cards drama, the International Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced it would no longer give the actor a special Emmy award, and his agent and publicist dropped him as a client.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'To Kevin Spacey: Shame on you for what you did to my son'\n\nRapp accused Spacey of trying to seduce him when he was aged 14.\n\nIn response to Mr Rapp's claims, Mr Spacey said he had no memory of the incident and offered an apology.\n\nSince then several others have come forward accusing him of predatory behaviour, including a woman who said Spacey had sexually assaulted her 18-year-old son last year.\n\nSpacey's representatives say he is seeking unspecified treatment.\n\nIt is not uncommon for actors to have their roles recast or their performances adjusted in the case of death, illness and other unavoidable circumstances.\n\nNor is it rare for actors to be replaced before or during production, for a whole range of reasons.\n\nYet it is virtually unprecedented for a living performer to be removed from a completed film and have their character recreated by another actor.\n\nIt is even rarer for that decision to be made so close to a film's release, or in a film whose trailer contains copious footage of the actor concerned.\n\nYes, Woody Allen once reshot an entire film - 1987's September - with some recast actors.\n\nWoody Allen once reshot an entire film from scratch\n\nBut that was because he was dissatisfied with the first version and not all of the original cast were available for reshoots.\n\nSpacey spent just two weeks working on All the Money in the World, so it is possible reshoots may be relatively straightforward.\n\nYet they are likely to be costly and include more than one actor. One scene in the trailer, for example, sees Spacey's Getty striding away from a horde of news reporters.\n\nWith or without Spacey, Scott's film has already achieved a notoriety that is sure to make it a constant source of fascination.\n\nThe fact that it already concerns a famous cause celebre - the 1973 kidnapping of John Paul Getty III - adds yet another twist to the tale.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Theresa May is embarking on a second cabinet reshuffle in a week after Priti Patel resigned over her unauthorised meetings with Israeli officials.\n\nThe international development secretary - who was in charge of the UK's foreign aid budget - admitted her actions \"lacked transparency\".\n\nMrs May is facing calls to replace her with another MP who voted for Brexit.\n\nEx-Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith said the PM would want to keep a \"balance\" of views on the EU in her top team.\n\nHe predicted she would not make \"big changes\" to the cabinet line-up and although Ms Patel's replacement would have to be \"capable\", their views on Britain's future relationship with the EU would also be a factor.\n\n\"We are all Brexiteers now,\" the leading Leave campaigner told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\n\"So the question is to what degree do you want someone in that job to be in support of (Brexit Secretary) David Davis and others, and I think therefore the balance on having strong Brexit views is one that in all probability the prime minister will certainly look for.\"\n\nMs Patel is the second cabinet minister to quit in the space of seven days, after Sir Michael Fallon resigned as defence secretary last week. He was replaced by one of Mrs May's closest allies, Gavin Williamson.\n\nAccording to The Times, European Union leaders are preparing for the possible \"fall of Theresa May before the new year\" and either \"a change of leadership or elections leading to a Labour victory\".\n\nMr Duncan Smith said it was \"a bit rich\" for EU leaders to suggest Mrs May's position was precarious, at a time when the Netherlands and Germany faced difficulties forming governments, there was \"chaos\" in Italy and arrests of Catalonian separatists in Spain.\n\nPriti Patel's difficulties began last week, when the BBC revealed Ms Patel arranged a number of private meetings with business and political figures during a family holiday to Israel in August.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What went wrong for Priti Patel? The BBC's James Landale explains\n\nIt later emerged that after Ms Patel's visit to Israel, she asked her officials to look into whether Britain could support humanitarian operations conducted by the Israeli army in the occupied Golan Heights area.\n\nBut Foreign Office officials strongly advised against this as the need for humanitarian aid was greater elsewhere and giving aid to the military broke aid rules, BBC diplomatic correspondent James Landale said.\n\nMs Patel, who has served as the Tory MP for Witham in Essex since 2010, was formally reprimanded in Downing Street on Monday and had to correct her initial media statements about the August meetings.\n\nBut on Wednesday two further meetings arranged without government officials present came to light, one with Israeli public security minister Gilad Erdan in Westminster early in September and one with Israeli foreign ministry official Yuval Rotem in New York.\n\nAsked if Ms Patel had been foolish or had made a concerted attempt at freelance foreign policy, the BBC's James Landale told the Today programme: \"I think it's pretty clear that the view within the government is there was an attempt to try to shape British policy within the Middle East.\"\n\nMs Patel was accused of breaching the ministerial code - which sets out the standards of conduct expected of government ministers.\n\nIn her resignation letter, she said: \"While my actions were meant with the best of intentions, my actions also fell below the standards of transparency and openness that I have promoted and advocated.\"\n\nIn her reply, Mrs May said: ''As you know the UK and Israel are close allies, and it is right that we should work closely together. But that must be done formally, and through official channels.\n\n''That is why, when we met on Monday I was glad to accept your apology and welcomed your clarification about your trip to Israel over the summer.\n\n\"Now that further details have come to light it is right you have decided to resign.''\n\nConservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg suggested disgruntled Remainers could be behind the leak that led to the downfall of Ms Patel.\n\nHe told BBC's Newsnight that some people were \"still very bitter\" about the referendum result and \"inevitably that colours their behaviour\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour deputy leader Tom Watson has suggested there were more questions to answer: \"I have been informed that while she was in Israel, Ms Patel met officials from the British consulate general Jerusalem, but that the fact of this meeting has not been made public.\n\n\"If this were the case, then it would surely be impossible to sustain the claim that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office was not aware of Ms Patel's presence in Israel.\"", "Niels H hid behind a folder as he awaited sentence at his 2015 trial\n\nToxicology tests suggest a German former nurse murdered at least 100 people at two hospitals where he worked, prosecutors say.\n\nDetectives believe Niels Hoegel, who is already serving a life sentence for two murders, systematically administered fatal doses of heart medication to people in his care.\n\nHe wanted to impress colleagues by resuscitating them but many died.\n\nFresh charges against him are expected next year.\n\nHoegel is now said to have killed 38 patients in Oldenburg and 62 in Delmenhorst, both in northern Germany, between 1999 and 2005.\n\nInvestigators say he may have killed more but potential victims have been cremated.\n\nIf found guilty of all the deaths, he would become one of Germany's worst post-war serial killers.\n\nThe investigation into Hoegel was widened when he admitted killing up to 30 people during his 2015 trial, when he was convicted of two murders, two attempted murders and harming patients.\n\nInvestigators exhumed 130 former patients, looking for traces of medication that could have shut down their cardiovascular systems. They also pored over records in the hospitals he worked at.\n\nYet he received a good reference and went on to work at a hospital in nearby Delmenhorst, where an unusual number of patients began dying while he was on shift.\n\nHoegl was caught when a nurse saw that a patient previously stable had developed an irregular heartbeat. He was already in the room when the patient had to be resuscitated and the nurse found empty medication containers in the waste bin, Der Spiegel says.\n\nDuring his trial in 2015 he said he was \"honestly sorry\" and hoped families would find peace. He said the decisions to carry out his crimes had been \"relatively spontaneous\".\n\nHoegl said that each time someone had died, he had resolved never to do it again but his determination would then slowly fade.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n“God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains.”\n\nA view on social media shared not by some uninformed luddite, but by one of the people responsible for building Facebook into the social media titan it is today.\n\nSean Parker, Facebook’s founding president, unloaded his worries and criticisms of the network, saying he had no idea what he was doing at the time of its creation.\n\nSpeaking on stage to Mike Allen from Axios, Mr Parker said: \"The thought process that went into building these applications, Facebook being the first of them, was all about: 'How do we consume as much of your time and conscious attention as possible?’\"\n\n“That means that we need to sort of give you a little dopamine hit every once in a while, because someone liked or commented on a photo or a post or whatever.\n\n\"And that's going to get you to contribute more content, and that's going to get you... more likes and comments.”\n\nMr Parker first rose to tech prominence as the creator of pioneering file-sharing service Napster.\n\nIn the Facebook story, it was Mr Parker who steered the firm into Silicon Valley and put Mark Zuckerberg’s idea in front of big name investors.\n\nThose early days were reimagined in the film the Social Network. Mr Parker was played by Justin Timberlake.\n\n\"When Facebook was getting going,” Mr Parker said on Wednesday, \"I had these people who would come up to me and they would say, 'I'm not on social media.’\n\n\"And I would say, 'OK. You know, you will be.’”\n\nHe then added: \"I don't know if I really understood the consequences of what I was saying, because [of] the unintended consequences of a network when it grows to a billion or two billion people and, it literally changes your relationship with society, with each other.\n\n\"It probably interferes with productivity in weird ways. God only knows what it's doing to our children's brains.\"\n\nAs for his own habits, Mr Parker said he no longer used social media as it was “too much of a time sink”.\n\nHowever, he said he still had an account on Facebook. \"If Mark hears this he’s probably going to suspend my account,” he joked.\n\nFacebook did not respond to the BBC's request for reaction to the comments.\n\n“I use these platforms, I just don’t let these platforms use me,” Mr Parker concluded.\n\nYou can reach Dave securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel is filmed leaving the back entrance of 10 Downing Street\n\nPriti Patel has resigned as UK international development secretary amid controversy over her unauthorised meetings with Israeli officials.\n\nShe was ordered back from an official trip in Africa by the PM and summoned to Downing Street over the row.\n\nIn her resignation letter, Ms Patel said her actions \"fell below the standards of transparency and openness that I have promoted and advocated\".\n\nThe PM said her decision was \"right\" as \"further details have come to light\".\n\nMs Patel had apologised to Theresa May on Monday after unauthorised meetings in August with Israeli politicians - including prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu - came to light.\n\nBut it later emerged she had two further meetings without government officials present in September.\n\nMs Patel arrived at 10 Downing Street via the back door - after earlier flying back to the UK from Africa for her meeting with Mrs May - and she left some 45 minutes later.\n\nShe was accused of breaching the ministerial code, which sets out the standards of conduct expected of government ministers.\n\nHer resignation from the cabinet is the second in seven days, after Sir Michael Fallon quit as defence secretary on Wednesday last week amid allegations about his behaviour.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What went wrong for Priti Patel? The BBC's James Landale explains\n\nIn her letter to the PM, Ms Patel said: \"While my actions were meant with the best of intentions, my actions also fell below the standards of transparency and openness that I have promoted and advocated.\n\n\"I offer a fulsome apology to you and to the government for what has happened and offer my resignation.\"\n\nIn her reply, Mrs May said: \"Now that further details have come to light, it is right that you have decided to resign and adhere to the high standards of transparency and openness that you have advocated.\"\n\nShe added that Ms Patel should \"take pride\" in what had been achieved during her time as secretary of state.\n\nThe BBC's chief political correspondent Vicki Young said Theresa May \"decided to give her colleague the dignity of resigning\".\n\nBut she said the response from Mrs May was \"interesting\", saying: \"It was clear from Theresa May that if she hadn't resigned, she would have been sacked.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nForeign Secretary Boris Johnson told the BBC: \"Priti Patel has been a very good colleague and friend for a long time and a first class secretary of state for international development.\n\n\"It's been a real pleasure working with her and I'm sure she has a great future ahead of her.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson has written to Mrs May over claims passed to him that Ms Patel met Foreign Office officials in Jerusalem, which he says makes it \"impossible to sustain the claim that the FCO was not aware of Ms Patel's presence in Israel\".\n\nMr Watson said he was \"pleased\" that Ms Patel had resigned as her undisclosed meetings were \"a clear breach of the ministerial code, and of diplomatic protocol\".\n\nIt was precisely a week ago that I was summoned to the Ministry of Defence to ask Sir Michael Fallon why he was resigning.\n\nSeven days on, for an unconnected reason, Theresa May has just lost another one of her ministers.\n\nThat time the resignation was rather differently handled - some private speculation through the day, then a discreet summoning to a quiet room in the department until one of the minister's team came to say: \"Be ready, the secretary of state is resigning, we are finalising the letters between us and Number 10 right now.\"\n\nThis time, the process has been more like a pantomime, with speculation rife for nearly 24 hours that she was on her way out, no-one in government moving to quash it, leaving journalists, on the first day of parliament's recess, free to track Priti Patel's plane online then her journey back to Westminster.\n\nGoodness knows what Ms Patel's Ugandan hosts, who were expecting her to visit today, make of it all.\n\nBeyond today's palaver, though, her exit throws up problems for Mrs May.\n\nIt is never as simple as one out, one in.\n\nMs Patel was formally reprimanded in Downing Street on Monday, where she was asked to give details about a dozen meetings she had with Israeli officials while on holiday, which were not sanctioned by the Foreign Office.\n\nShe was then forced to correct the record earlier this week about the number of meetings that she had attended and when the Foreign Office had been notified about them.\n\nThe MP admitted she had been wrong to suggest to the Guardian that Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson knew of the trip in advance when he had only learnt about it while it was under way.\n\nThen, details of two other meetings emerged. Ms Patel met Israeli public security minister Gilad Erdan in Westminster on 7 September.\n\nAnd on 18 September she met foreign ministry official Yuval Rotem in New York.\n\nIt is thought Lord Polak, honorary president of the Conservative Friends of Israel, was present at both meetings.\n\nIt is not yet clear whether or when Ms Patel had informed the prime minister about these meetings or of her plans to look into giving tax-payers' money to the Israeli military to treat wounded Syrian refugees in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights region - a request that was turned down as \"inappropriate\" by officials.\n\nIn a further development on Wednesday the Israeli Haaretz newspaper reported that during August she visited an Israeli military field hospital in the Golan Heights - the UK, like other members of the international community, has never recognised Israeli control of the area seized from Syria in the 1967 Six-Day War.\n\nIn her letter to Ms Patel, the prime minister wrote: ''As you know the UK and Israel are close allies, and it is right that we should work closely together. But that must be done formally, and through official channels.\n\n''That is why, when we met on Monday I was glad to accept your apology and welcomed your clarification about your trip to Israel over the summer. Now that further details have come to light it is right you have decided to resign.''\n• None Patel's exit will pose problems for May", "The BBC is to scrap its plan to cut £10m from its local radio budget, in a bid to become \"more local\", director general Lord Hall has said.\n\nSpeaking at an event marking the 50th birthday of BBC local radio, he promised a \"renaissance\" for the broadcaster's 39 regional stations.\n\nHe said the savings target - previously announced after a review of the BBC's local services - had been cancelled.\n\nThe BBC will instead invest in local radio to boost creativity, he added.\n\nSpeaking at the event in Coventry, Lord Hall said local radio was becoming \"more important, not less\" and held a key role in battling fake news.\n\n\"I'm a director general who believes in local radio,\" he said.\n\n\"For many years the BBC has been reducing its investment in local radio.\n\n\"The development of new technology and the growth of smartphones has seen many people getting their local news, weather and traffic information digitally.\"\n\nWith many of the radio stations operating on reduced budgets over the past decade, a number of distinctive local shows and presenters were dropped from their evening slots and replaced by a \"shared broadcast\" across all of England's stations.\n\nA BBC statement said this show, currently presented by Georgey Spanswick, would be ending and there would be a return to \"local programming\".\n\nLord Hall said: \"Local Radio is in the DNA of our communities. I think that is more important than ever.\n\n\"England's changing. It's always been a patchwork of communities, with quite distinct identities.\n\n\"While Newcastle's population is getting older, Bradford's is getting younger and Birmingham is becoming one of the most diverse cities in Europe.\"\n\nHe pointed out that with political decision-making increasingly being devolved to councils and directly elected mayors, it was important that the BBC was ready to assess the impact this was having.\n\n\"I want to hear the sound of England as it changes. So while other media are becoming creatively less local, I want us to become even more so and to connect with our audiences in new ways.\"\n\nLord Hall stressed the BBC had a duty to reach out to the so-called smartphone generation.\n\n\"That's why the role of BBC local radio is actually becoming more important - not less,\" he said.\n\n\"Local radio should be for everybody. It's there to serve the Facebook generation every bit as much as the rest of us.\"\n\nThe BBC will instead rely on savings elsewhere to protect the local radio budgets.\n\nDetailed plans will be set out next year, it said.\n\nEarlier in the day, Lord Hall was in Leicester to mark the launch of the first BBC local radio station, BBC Radio Leicester, which went live on 8 November, 1967.", "A high-profile figure in Prime Minister Boris Johnson's cabinet, Priti Patel was appointed home secretary in July last year.\n\nA Eurosceptic, she was a leading figure in the Vote Leave campaign during the EU referendum.\n\nShortly after taking up the post of home secretary, she said she wanted criminals to \"literally feel terror\" at the thought of breaking the law.\n\nA Cabinet Office inquiry into her conduct found that Ms Patel had \"unintentionally\" breached the ministerial code in her behaviour towards civil servants.\n\nHer \"approach on occasions has amounted to behaviour that can be described as bullying,\" the government's independent advisor on standards said.\n\nMr Johnson decided Ms Patel had not broken the ministerial code and could remain in her post as home secretary. Ms Patel said \"I am direct and have at times got frustrated\", but added: \"It has never been my intention to cause upset to anyone.\"\n\nThe inquiry was launched in March 2020 after the resignation of the top civil servant at the Home Office, Sir Philip Rutnam. Sir Philip - who is suing for constructive dismissal - alleged staff felt that Ms Patel had \"created fear\".\n\nAs home secretary she has had to deal with several crises, including the London Bridge and Streatham stabbing attacks - later deemed by police to be terrorist incidents - and the deaths of 39 migrants in the back of a lorry in Essex.\n\nShe has also played a key role in drawing up a new points-based immigration system for after the UK's Brexit transition period, saying she wants firms to invest more in British workers \"rather than simply relying on labour from abroad\".\n\nDuring the summer and autumn of 2020, she also took a leading role in negotiations with France over preventing a rising number of migrants crossing the English Channel.\n\nPriti Patel has asked French authorities to intercept and return migrant boats trying to cross the Channel.\n\nMs Patel, who is 48, also served in Theresa May's cabinet as secretary of state for international development.\n\nHer appointment was greeted with concern by some in the aid community, who recalled that she had previously suggested that the department should be abolished and subsumed into a new trade department.\n\nIn post, she said she wanted the UK's aid budget to provide greater value for money. The aid department has since been merged with the Foreign Office.\n\nShe resigned from the role in 2017 after it emerged she had held undisclosed meetings with Israeli officials while on holiday. She acknowledged that her actions \"fell below the high standards\" expected.\n\nBorn in London to Gujarati parents who left Uganda in the 1960s, she was educated at Watford Grammar School for Girls.\n\nShe went on to study at Keele and Essex universities before getting a job at Conservative Central Office, which she left to head up the press office for the Referendum Party, founded by Eurosceptic billionaire Sir James Goldsmith, from 1995 to 1997.\n\nAfter William Hague became Conservative leader, she returned to the party to be his deputy press secretary, from 1997 to 2000.\n\nShe went on to spend a number of years working with the Weber Shandwick public affairs consultancy - reportedly advising Ikea, the Meat & Livestock Commission and British American Tobacco, among others.\n\nShe also had a spell as international public policy adviser for drinks giant Diageo.\n\nMs Patel sought to get elected to Parliament in 2005 but lost out in Nottingham North. A year later, she was one of those selected for new leader David Cameron's A-list of candidates and went on to become MP for Witham, Essex, in 2010.\n\nMs Patel achieved ministerial rank four years later as exchequer secretary to the Treasury, before promotion to employment minister following David Cameron's 2015 general election victory.\n\nShe is positioned on the right of the party - she voted against gay marriage, campaigned against the smoking ban, and previously advocated bringing back the death penalty, before later saying she did not support it.\n\nMs Patel, whose father stood as a UKIP councillor in 2013, names Margaret Thatcher as her political hero.", "Police were called to Blenheim Road in Wimbledon on Friday morning\n\nA seven-year-old girl who died in hospital after an attack can now be identified as the daughter of the man charged over it.\n\nSophia Peters was found with serious injuries in a property in Wimbledon on Friday morning, but died on Saturday.\n\nHer father, Robert Peters, 55, of Blenheim Road, Raynes Park, is charged with her attempted murder.\n\nA court order put in place preventing the victim from being identified was overturned on Wednesday.\n\nThe order was put in place while the girl was fighting for her life in hospital.\n\nIt was later overturned at the Old Bailey by Judge Mark Lucraft QC.\n\nIt is believed Mr Peters runs an antiques firm with his brother in Kensington, west London, specialising in oriental ceramics and artworks.\n\nMr Peters is due to appear at the Old Bailey on Friday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Northern Ireland face an uphill struggle to reach a first World Cup since 1986 after losing to Switzerland in controversial circumstances in the first leg of their play-off at Windsor Park.\n\nRicardo Rodriguez scored with a penalty just before the hour mark after Corry Evans was deemed to have handled inside the area.\n\nThough that decision was harsh as the ball clearly struck the defender's shoulder, the visitors were dominant throughout and might have won by a greater margin had they converted a series of other chances.\n\nThey are now strong favourites to reach a fourth consecutive World Cup when the two sides meet again in the second leg in Basel on Sunday.\n\nThe result was a disappointment for Northern Ireland, who followed an impressive qualifying campaign with a below-par performance in their first major finals play-off.\n\nMichael O'Neill's side had finished second in Group C behind Germany. Six wins from their 10 matches was more than they had mustered in any previous World Cup qualifying campaign.\n\nSwitzerland led Group B throughout, having won nine fixtures in a row, but lost their last game 2-0 to Portugal to miss out on automatic qualification on goal difference.\n• None We must channel our anger for second leg - O'Neill\n\nIn front of a raucous crowd of more than 18,000, Northern Ireland posed little threat for most of the game in the country's biggest match at Windsor Park for 36 years.\n\nThe Northern Irish have only reached the World Cup three times - in 1958, 1982 and 1986 - but are aiming to take part in back-to-back major tournaments for the first time, having played at Euro 2016 in France.\n\nO'Neill's men boasted a formidable recent home record and had kept four clean sheets in their five qualifying games at Windsor Park, with last month's 3-1 defeat by Germany their first competitive home defeat for more than four years.\n\nThey had also won seven of their past 10 competitive matches in Belfast, but on this occasion they were never a match for three-time World Cup quarter-finalists Switzerland.\n\nKyle Lafferty headed over in the first half but the men in green's best chance fell to Josh Magennis, who headed off target from a Chris Brunt free-kick late in the game.\n\nRodriguez appeared to handle in the area soon after but referee Ovidiu Hategan waved play on, one of a number of baffling decisions made by the Romanian official.\n\nSwitzerland - who are 11th in the Fifa rankings, 12 places above their opponents - controlled proceedings, stamping their authority on the game from the outset and eventually securing the away goal to swing the tie firmly in their favour.\n\nAC Milan defender Rodriguez sent goalkeeper Michael McGovern the wrong way from the spot to put his side well on their way to an 11th World Cup finals and their fourth in succession.\n\nThe visitors made light of the absence of Udinese midfielder Valon Behrami and ex-Arsenal defender Johan Djourou, with Gunners midfielder Granit Xhaka a prominent figure throughout.\n\nHe volleyed over the bar in the first half, while Haris Seferovic saw his close-range effort brilliantly saved by McGovern.\n\nEarly in the second half, Shaqiri curled an effort just off target and Seferovic was unable to connect with a cross from three yards out with the goal gaping.\n\nBut it was the penalty award that had everyone talking.\n\n'Welcome to the dark ages'\n\nNorthern Ireland boss Michael O'Neill on Sky Sports: \"The referee has no-one in his line of sight. Corry's arm isn't in an unnatural position, it's by his side. The ball hits him on the back more than anything. I thought the referee had blown for a foul or an offside. Nobody had claimed for it.\n\n\"I'm staggered by the decision, staggered by the yellow card.\n\n\"It's such a defining moment in the match. The opening tackle by Fabian Schar was borderline. I thought it was a red card. The referee hasn't done us any favours.\"\n\nNorthern Ireland midfielder Evans: \"It's disgraceful. I clearly didn't put my hand up. I'm gutted. It's devastating.\"\n\nBBC Radio 5 live presenter (and ardent Northern Ireland fan) Colin Murray at Windsor Park: \"Feel free to take the mic out of my hands if I overstep the mark in the next 20 minutes. We talked about history and occasion and how football can be a catalyst for change and for heroes. Yet here we are talking about referees. It's the dark ages. Welcome to the dark ages.\n\n\"The Republic of Ireland had Thierry Henry's handball in 2009 in a play-off for the 2010 World Cup. It was such a baffling decision tonight. There is nobody in Wales, England or Scotland who thinks that was a penalty. Nobody in Switzerland thought it was a penalty. It was shocking. Here's a clue: if the opposing team do not appeal for a penalty and you're standing on the wrong side of the player, it's probably not a penalty.\n\n\"There's no point reading out texts or tweets. There are no shades of grey with that decision.\"\n\nFormer Northern Ireland defender John O'Neill: \"It was a terrible decision. It hit him on the top of the shoulder at best. You have to gauge the reaction of the players. They didn't think it was a penalty. The referee was awful through the whole game. He's the worst referee I've seen in a long time. It did spoil the night.\n\n\"I was disappointed with the Northern Ireland performance. In a game of this stature, we didn't perform. Switzerland were the better side by a mile. But if they didn't get the penalty, we'd have played awfully and might have got away with a 0-0 draw.\"\n\nA defining 90 minutes in store for NI and O'Neill\n\nNorthern Ireland now face a major battle to pull back their deficit at St Jakob's Park in Basel, a ground at which only England have beaten Switzerland in a 17-game run stretching back to 2001.\n\nO'Neill's men must plan for the game without Corry Evans, who received a second yellow card of the campaign for his alleged handling offence, which led to the penalty.\n\nEvans was one of eight Northern Ireland players who went into the game one booking away from being ruled out of the second leg, a list which included skipper Steven Davis, who won his 100th cap in the first leg.\n\nIf Northern Ireland fail to progress, the match in Switzerland may be the last in a Northern Ireland shirt for international veterans Gareth McAuley, Aaron Hughes and Chris Brunt.\n\nA defeat may also serve to increase speculation linking Edinburgh-based O'Neill with the Scotland managerial position left vacant by the recent departure of Gordon Strachan.\n\n'We have to channel the anger'\n\nNorthern Ireland boss Michael O'Neill on Sky Sports: \"We have to forget about the penalty. I thought the players' reaction to it was very good. We played much better in the second half, the game was even. We are still in the tie. Maybe a referee will give us a decision in the second leg.\n\n\"I'll have to pick the players up. There's anger in the dressing room. We're going to have to find a way to get a goal back. Stuart Dallas' injury is a blow. I thought the players who came on did well. We might look to freshen the team up on Sunday. We have to channel the anger.\"\n\nSwitzerland forward Xherdan Shaqiri on Sky Sports: \"I don't know if it was a penalty or not. I tried to get a shot on target and I don't know if he touched it with his hand or not. In the end the referee gave the penalty. That is football.\n\n\"We controlled the game over 90 minutes, had a lot of possession and created chances. We played much better than Northern Ireland and deserved to win.\n\n\"It is, for us, the best result to get. We knew it would be difficult. They have their own fans behind them. We are looking forward to Basel, the second leg and trying to win again to reach the World Cup.\"\n\nThe stats you need to know\n• None This is the first time Northern Ireland have lost back-to-back home games since February 2012 (a run of three).\n• None Indeed, they have now conceded in consecutive home games for the first time since October 2015, following a run of eight clean sheets in nine games at Windsor Park.\n• None The hosts failed to register a single shot on target for the first time since facing Poland at Euro 2016.\n• None All three of Ricardo Rodriguez's goals for Switzerland in this qualifying process have come away from home, making him the top Swiss away scorer in World Cup 2018 qualifying.\n• None Switzerland have now won 10 of their past 11 competitive games, with the exception being last month's loss to Portugal which forced them into the play-off.\n• None Offside, Switzerland. Admir Mehmedi tries a through ball, but Stephan Lichtsteiner is caught offside.\n• None Attempt blocked. Steven Zuber (Switzerland) right footed shot from the left side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Fabian Frei. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "The Victoria & Albert Museum is to display a three-storey section of an east London council estate as an example of Brutalist architecture.\n\nThe section, which includes two flats, exterior facades and two interior staircases, has been acquired from Robin Hood Gardens in Poplar.\n\nDesigned by renowned British architects Alison and Peter Smithson, the block is due to be demolished and redeveloped.\n\nThe V&A has called it a \"significant example of the Brutalist movement\".\n\nBrutalism, a movement characterised by exposed concrete in geometric patterns, arose in the 1950s.\n\nIt is regarded as a reaction to modernism, which consisted of elegant glass and steel structures.\n\nRobin Hood Gardens was built in 1972 by the Greater London Council (GLC) and was later transferred to the local authority of Tower Hamlets.\n\nThe choice of Alison and Peter Smithson as architects gave the husband and wife team their only opportunity to create a council estate.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by V&A This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRobin Hood Gardens was the result of their research in and vision for social housing.\n\nIt is distinctive for its noise-reducing features, like exterior concrete fins, and its elevated walkways, known as \"streets in the sky\".\n\nThe Smithsons said they regarded Robin Hood Gardens as \"a demonstration of a more enjoyable way of living [and] a model, an exemplar, of a new mode of urban organisation.\"\n\nA V&A spokesman said no decisions had yet been made on where and how the structure would be displayed.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The station is temporary and will be taken down in December\n\nLive weather data is being recorded again at the top of Ben Nevis, the UK's highest peak, after a 113-year gap.\n\nResearchers have installed an automatic meteorological station that digitally collects information on temperatures, wind speeds and rainfall levels.\n\nUntil 1904, the same measurements were gathered by men who lived in a shelter at the summit.\n\nThe weather station was carried up the mountain, in the Scottish Highlands, by a team of researchers on Tuesday.\n\nThe new station means visitors to the UnEarthed exhibition in Edinburgh next week will be able to take a look in real-time at weather conditions on the mountain, something that was not possible previously.\n\nDr Barbara Brooks and her team from the NERC National Centre for Atmospheric Science carried the equipment up the mountain on Tuesday - and were able to be precise in their observations on the weather they encountered.\n\n\"We had some blue sky and then as we crested the summit the cloud banks rolled in and we got some light snow flurries. The temperature was -3.6C with a wind chill of -12C,\" she told BBC News.\n\nEscorted by local guide Ron Walker, the team of five set up a solar-and battery-powered Vaisala WXT536 station to record wind speed and direction, pressure, temperature, humidity, and precipitation - specifically rain and sleet.\n\nThese are the measurements that the famous \"Weathermen of Ben Nevis\" would take by hand on the hour, every hour, during the period from 1883 to 1904.\n\nThey lived in a small shelter and telegraphed their observations to the town of Fort William down below.\n\nTheir original logs are now being digitised by volunteers for the Operation Weather Rescue: Ben Nevis project.\n\nThe Ben Nevis weather observatory was manned from 1883 to 1904\n\nThe NCAS team got all types of weather as they went up Ben Nevis\n\nThe old information is still useful because it can shed light on past storms in the Scottish Highlands as well as providing ongoing insights into how weather systems evolve as they pass over Scotland's largest mountains.\n\nIn addition, scientists say, it is all part of the broader archive of data that is needed to inform our understanding of Britain's climate.\n\n\"Next year, the UKCP18 report will be released and it will contain very detailed projections of how the UK climate could change,\" explained NCAS scientist Prof Ed Hawkins from the University of Reading.\n\n\"As part of that there are updated observations and these will include a gridded daily rainfall data-set back to 1891. That's brand new and it will include the recovered Ben Nevis information.\"\n\nA 4G modem is used to send the weather data to NCAS at Leeds University\n\nThe newly installed weather station on the peak of Ben Nevis will only be in place until December, when it will be taken away again.\n\nIt has been bolted to some old metal caging about 15m from the pillar that in the past was used to measure the height of the mountain's summit (1,345m/4,411ft) and the surrounding peaks. A permanently installed weather station would require a more secure footing.\n\nThe scientists, however, are hopeful the interest around the digitisation project will inspire a successful long-term funding proposal.\n\nThis would enable a bigger installation to be flown up by helicopter. Additional instruments such as snow-depth sensors could be included.\n\nDr Brooks' team left a webcam in position on Tuesday, but a permanent station could have several looking out in all directions.\n\nThe \"Ulysses storm\": This is now much better understood\n\n\"The weather data would be useful for scientists but of course for the local community it would be more than that - not to be too dramatic about it, it could save lives,\" the Leeds University-based researcher said.\n\n\"They would be able to point and say to walkers, 'it may be the middle of August but it really is that cold at the top of Ben Nevis'.\"\n\nVolunteers are still needed for Operation Weather Rescue.\n\nProf Ed Hawkins, who oversees the project, said it was 90% complete but some of the earliest rainfall, pressure and temperature data had yet to be digitised.\n\nPhotos of tables containing these measurements, which were gathered by the Victorian meteorologists between 1883 and 1887, are now online for citizen scientists to examine in detail.\n\n\"There is so much great information in these data-sets. There was a famous storm for example in 1903 that was mentioned in James Joyce's Ulysses because it knocked down loads of trees in Ireland.\n\n\"We can now reconstruct this storm much better because it also went right over the top of Ben Nevis and Fort William,\" Prof Hawkins said.\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\nFive catering staff at Neath Port Talbot Hospital have handed in their notice after winning more than £25m on the National Lottery's EuroMillions.\n\nThe women each scooped more than £4m with a sixth member of the syndicate already retired.\n\nThey have played for the past six years but one member, Louise Ward only joined in October 2016, and it was her numbers that won the jackpot.\n\nShe admitted she had almost quit the syndicate.\n\n\"I was actually thinking about stopping playing earlier in the year as I have been saving up for my wedding in March and needed the extra cash,\" she said.\n\n\"Imagine if I'd stopped, we'd never have won.\"\n\nThe group won £25,476,778.30 from the draw on 3 November - amounting to more than £4.2m each.\n\nThe five colleagues still working at the hospital all decided to retire from work after learning of their win.\n\nSyndicate leader Julie Saunders, 56, said: \"I've enjoyed working there for many years along with the rest of the syndicate, but now it is someone else's turn to take on those roles.\n\n\"We will miss many of our colleagues as we have all worked there a long time but it is the start of something new for us all.\"\n\nThe women said their jobs had been \"hard but enjoyable\", with early shifts starting at 07:00, afternoon shifts and weekend working.\n\nThey decided to tell colleagues together and said everyone at the hospital had been \"brilliant\" about their news.\n\n\"Being able to give up work is something we've always talked about - this has just made our dreams come true,\" added Sian Jones, who worked at the hospital for 14 years.\n\nThey have all yet to buy anything with their winnings, apart from takeaways to celebrate.\n\nDoreen Thomson said she had gone to Tesco with her husband for him to buy a pair of jeans and a nice top.\n\n\"He picked a pair of jeans up and said 'I'm not paying £35 for a pair of jeans' and he put them back,\" she laughed.\n\n\"My daughter was there and said 'dad, dad, do you know what you are?'\n\nThe women said being millionaires would not change them but they were looking forward to a trip to Las Vegas.\n\n\"We're still trying to digest it,\" added Mrs Jones.\n\n\"It's a vast amount of money. It's going to change my life and my children's lives forever.\"", "A Conservative MP suspended by his party after \"serious allegations\" were made against him says he still does not know what he is accused of.\n\nCharlie Elphicke, a former party whip who has been the MP for Dover and Deal since 2010, has denied any \"criminal wrongdoing\".\n\nIn a statement, the married 46-year-old said: \"So what then is [the] explanation for what I am accused of?\"\n\nThe Conservative Party has not yet commented on his statement.\n\nReferring to an explanation for his suspension, Mr Elphicke said: \"I cannot give one. Because I do not know what I am accused of.\"\n\nHe claimed the process being followed by the party was \"fundamentally wrong\".\n\nThe Conservatives have recently published a new code of conduct for MPs and other elected representatives.\n\nMr Elphicke, who was suspended last Friday, added: \"The fact is that this whole area of reporting misconduct and managing allegations of misconduct is a mess.\"\n\nHe said he had received no further information since being told by the chief whip that serious allegations made against him had been passed to the police.\n\n\"I asked what the allegations were and he would not tell me,\" he said.\n\n\"He only said that he and the prime minister had decided the whip should be suspended from me.\n\n\"So extraordinary as it may seem, I am no wiser now than I was on Friday evening.\"\n\nIt is not clear which police force is dealing with the allegations, but when asked for a statement the Metropolitan Police said: \"The Met does not identify any person who may, or may not be, subject to an investigation.\n\n\"Following the receipt of any allegation, investigating officers will only make contact with potential suspects if and when it is operationally appropriate to do so.\"\n\nMr Elphicke said it was \"a denial of justice when people who have had allegations made against them, lose their job or their party whip without knowing what those allegations are\".\n\nHe said this was \"fundamentally wrong\" and an \"injustice to those who stand accused\".\n\nEveryone should be \"equal before the law\", and was \"innocent until proven otherwise\".\n\nMr Elphicke concluded: \"Whatever it turns out I stand accused of, I deny any criminal wrongdoing.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Twitter has suspended its verified-profile scheme and described it as \"broken\", following complaints over the type of accounts being verified.\n\nTypically, prominent people, including musicians, journalists and company executives, get a blue icon on their profile after proving their identity.\n\nHowever, some far-right and white-supremacist accounts have now also been verified.\n\nTwitter founder Jack Dorsey said the scheme would now be \"reconsidered\".\n\nVerified profiles display a blue badge next to their name\n\nIn a statement, the company said: \"Verification was meant to authenticate identity and voice, but it is interpreted as an endorsement or an indicator of importance.\n\n\"We recognise that we have created this confusion and need to resolve it.\"\n\nThe company said no further \"general\" accounts would be verified, while it worked on a fix.\n\nTwitter has been making a series of changes to address abuse and harassment on the social network.\n\nLast week, it published a rewritten version of its rules, which it said would make them easier to understand.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sainsbury's chief executive Mike Coupe says Christmas food prices are no higher than 2015\n\nThe boss of Sainsbury's has said the UK is \"probably through the worst\" of a weaker pound fuelling food inflation.\n\nAfter years of deflation, Brexit currency movements meant there had been a \"little bit of food price inflation\" this year, chief executive Mike Coupe told the BBC.\n\nBut he said food prices this Christmas would still be \"about the same as they were two years ago\".\n\nHis comments came as the retailer reported a 9% fall in interim profits.\n\nHowever, the decline was not as bad as expected and sales rose.\n\nThe UK's second largest supermarket chain said profits came in at £251m in the 28 weeks to the 23 September, while like-for-like sales excluding fuel went up by 1.6%.\n\nIt said the fall in profits was due to price cutting, wage cost inflation and the consolidation of Argos.\n\nChief executive Mike Coupe said he was \"very pleased with progress\".\n\nThe value of sterling has fallen sharply since last year's Brexit referendum, pushing up the cost of imports.\n\nInitially, retailers were protected against those increased costs because they buy in advance, but more recently they have felt the effects of the currency devaluation.\n\nHowever, Mr Coupe said the \"impact on customers had been relatively limited\".\n\nHe said the retailer was aiming to limit price rises, despite the recent pick-up in inflation.\n\n\"Food price inflation as measured by the government is around 2% and inevitably the things that we import - so they tend to be things like fresh foods - get a little bit more expensive on the back of that,\" Mr Coupe said.\n\n\"But we're probably through the worst, if the truth be told, and actually even today's prices are about the same as they were two years ago, so we as a business have done a very good job of protecting our customers from the more extreme challenges of inflation and the currency movements.\"\n\nThe supermarket chain took over catalogue retailer Argos and Habitat last year in a £1.4bn deal.\n\nIn the past six months, Sainsbury's has opened a further 73 Argos concessions in its stores, bringing the total to 112. It plans to have 165 by Christmas.\n\nMr Coupe said: \"We have delivered a good performance across the group in the last six months.\n\n\"We are now three years into delivering our differentiated strategy and are seeing clear results.\"\n\nSainsbury's is looking to make cost savings amid fierce competition from discounters and rising food costs.\n\nIt says it has exceeded its cost savings target and will have managed to have saved £540m over the three years to the end of the current financial year. It also plans to make a further £500m of savings during the next three years.\n\nMr Coupe said the chain was continuing to \"focus on offering our customers great value, supported by our removal of multibuys\".\n\nHe was also asked whether discounters such as Aldi and Lidl were still making inroads into Sainsbury's customer base.\n\n\"We have always worked on the assumption that the discounters will continue to grow... but we have planned our business on that basis and the way our customers are shopping is changing.\n\n\"They're shopping with us more frequently and you can see that in our convenience store business - it's grown at 8%, they're shopping online, that's grown at 7% and increasingly they're shopping non-food with Sainsbury's, so for instance, our clothing business grew by 7%.\"\n\nThe company said its full-year profit forecast remained \"in line\" with market expectations.\n\nHowever, Sainsbury's share price fell more than 3% following the release of the results. It subsequently recovered some ground and closed 2.1% lower.\n\nMolly Johnson-Jones, senior Retail Analyst at GlobalData, said Sainsbury's \"momentum\" from the first quarter had not been maintained.\n\n\"Of all of the grocers, Sainsbury's improvement seems the most muted, and a focus on profitability must be maintained in order to prevent further investor discontent.\"", "Eniola Aluko says she has had no support from most of her England team-mates since her racial abuse case and questioned whether the squad's 'togetherness' was \"just a hashtag on Twitter\".\n\nAfter three inquiries, former England manager Mark Sampson was found to have used discriminatory language to two players - Aluko and Drew Spence.\n\nThe Football Association has since apologised for its handling of the case, adding there was \"much to learn from this episode\".\n\nBut England striker Aluko, who has won 102 caps and lost her place in the team after making unproven allegations of bullying in a 2016 FA cultural review, says she has had no communication from her international team-mates, except for those she plays with at Chelsea.\n\nThis is despite the 30-year-old believing England players may \"benefit\" from improvements to the Football Association's grievance process resulting from the case.\n\nAluko has previously criticised the England players for running over to celebrate a goal with Sampson during their World Cup qualifier against Russia, which proved to be the 35-year-old's last game in charge.\n\nShe believes they need to adopt the policy of other international teams, who have fought equality issues as a \"collective voice\".\n\nIn her first interview since contributing to the Digital, Cultural, Media and Sport inquiry into FA governance at Westminster last month, Aluko told BBC Sport she was \"proud the truth has been corroborated\", but is keen to draw a line under a \"stormy\" episode and is open to helping the FA to improve its culture and grievance process.\n\nShe also said:\n• None Players might have reacted differently if homophobic comments were made.\n• None England players need to learn the meaning of real \"togetherness\" from their international peers.\n• None They should elaborate on suggestions she is not a team player.\n• None She is sorry for some of her tweets directed at England players when they celebrated with Sampson.\n• None The \"time has come\" for Sampson to show humility - but she does not need an apology from him.\n• None Playing for England is \"not a priority\" right now.\n\n'Would there have been a different response if homophobic statements were made?'\n\nEngland players have largely been silent in public since the FA apologised to Aluko.\n\nShe told BBC Sport: \"Would there have been a different response if homophobic statements were made to players? I think there would be.\n\n\"Some of this is just a lack of appreciation of what racism is. A lot of this is, 'it hasn't happened to me, I can't relate to that, so I'm not going to comment'. That, to me, can't be a team.\n\n\"I've got to be able to put myself in your shoes and say, 'even though I can't understand what it may feel like, I'm going to try and understand and I'm going to support you regardless'. That is a team.\n\n\"So a lot of the stuff moving forward needs to be perhaps diversity training, collective conversations, difficult conversations. A lot has to happen, but we can look at other examples around the world and say we can do much better.\"\n\nAluko's case, which first came to light when details of her grievance and settlement were leaked to a newspaper in August, has asked many questions of the FA, and chairman Greg Clarke admitted the organisation had \"lost the trust of the public\".\n\nIt has come at a time when many women's teams are pushing for equality - European Championship runners-up Denmark went on strike in order to get a pay rise, while Norway's players are now paid the same as their male counterparts.\n\nAluko, who has been supported by fellow England players Anita Asante and Lianne Sanderson, says she has been \"inspired\" by those teams, and believes the Lionesses need to learn \"true togetherness\".\n\nShe said: \"I've had a lot of support from other countries: Norway, Sweden, France, particularly the United States girls. In their case they have Megan Rapinoe taking a knee in protest at the treatment of black people in America, while others sing the national anthem.\n\n\"That was discussed among the team, and while some players didn't agree with her stance, they still respected it. That's what we need to learn from. I should not be sat here saying I haven't had any communication from my team-mates, bar the Chelsea girls.\n\n\"We need to look at other examples and ask why this isn't happening with a team ranked third in the world. Is the togetherness we keep banging on about actually being put into action or is it just a hashtag on Twitter?\n\n\"Unless we do that, I don't think we can achieve what we really want to.\"\n\n'Players need to elaborate if they think I'm disruptive'\n\nIn a newspaper interview last week, England right-back Lucy Bronze suggested Aluko needed to be more of a team player if she was to represent England again.\n\nBut Aluko, who has \"huge respect\" for Bronze, says having played for England for 11 years, she \"passed the test for the conditions required for an England player\".\n\nAsked if she was disruptive or a nuisance, she replied: \"If there are any examples, then players need to come out and elaborate what they mean. If there were, I think they would have been raised by now.\n\n\"I'm not encouraging further discord between me and the players, not that I think there is any discord. As far as I'm concerned, last time I was in the team, everything was fine and nobody had any issues.\n\n\"So if anybody has any issues, they need to have specific examples, because what I'm not going to have are insinuations or stereotypes or perceptions to almost excuse what I've been through, because it doesn't excuse it.\"\n\nAluko has regrets about things she has said throughout the process, and apologised for criticising the players on Twitter when they ran over to celebrate with Sampson during the game against Russia.\n\n\"I think [the celebration] was naive and perhaps wasn't the best thing to do for the players,\" she said. \"Some of them may have a special relationship with Mark Sampson and they have every right [to celebrate with him], but I think about the sensitivity at that time, and it wasn't respectful.\n\n\"Saying that, I did upset a few players at the time, and I apologise, I didn't mean to upset the players in doing that. There are things that, looking back, I maybe should have said or done but ultimately I'm just happy we are clear about the truth and I had no agenda to lie and no interest in lying.\n\n\"I didn't want this to be a public episode. I tried to avoid it as much as I could. One of the reasons I tried to settle in the first place was to avoid it being public and getting players involved.\"\n\nSampson was sacked by the FA less than 24 hours after his last game in charge for \"inappropriate and unacceptable behaviour\" during his previous job at Bristol Academy.\n\nHis departure was a surprise to the players, and came at a time when new evidence was presented to the independent barrister who was investigating Aluko's racial discrimination claims - evidence which proved decisive.\n\nThe Welshman has always denied Aluko's claim he told her to make sure her Nigerian family did not bring Ebola to the UK, and Chelsea and England midfielder Spence's allegation he asked her if she had been arrested four times.\n\nNow those claims have been found to be true, Aluko says it is time for Sampson to \"show humility\" although she said she \"didn't need\" an apology from him.\n\n\"Whenever somebody messes up, whether it's me or the other person, I've always been taught that humility is one of the most important things to move forward, to be able to apologise; to say actually I was wrong,\" she said.\n\n\"I have empathy and sympathy with people who can do that. I find it hard to have empathy with people who can't.\n\n\"There has been a lot of denial, deflection, but ultimately there have been proven facts and I hope, if he goes through that process of humility, his future is bright.\"\n\n'Playing for England not a priority right now'\n\nSampson has been replaced by interim boss Mo Marley, who has said she is open to Aluko rejoining the England team.\n\nAluko said \"playing for England again is not my priority right now\" but added she was \"open\" to being part of the reform process at the FA.\n\n\"My happiness is my priority. Playing well and scoring for Chelsea is my priority right now. Judging by the current situation and the sort of division of opinion in it, [the England squad] would be an uncomfortable environment, not just for me but a few other players.\n\n\"I've achieved a lot and I've not retired yet, the door is still open, but I have to be honest and say that it's not something that would make me comfortable right now. Playing for England is an honour, but it's not an honour if you are miserable doing it.\"\n\nFA chief executive Martin Glenn told the BBC on Sunday that a new grievance and whistle-blowing procedure would be in place by Christmas.\n\nAluko added: \"It would be inconsistent of me to sit here and say I want to be part of the conversation to move things forward and not say I'd be open to that.\"", "Celebrity chef and restaurateur Antonio Carluccio has died at the age of 80, his agent has said.\n\nHe was known for the Italian restaurant chain that carries his surname and for appearing on TV programmes, including the BBC Two hit Two Greedy Italians, alongside chef Gennaro Contaldo.\n\nHe wrote more than a dozen best-selling books and in 2012 launched his memoirs.\n\nThe restaurant chain has called him the \"Godfather of Italian cooking\" and said he will be \"greatly missed\".\n\n\"It isn't just Antonio's name above our doors, but his heart and soul lives and breathes throughout our restaurants,\" a statement from the Carluccio's restaurant chain said.\n\nJamie Oliver paid tribute to his \"first London boss\", working with the Italian at Carluccio's Neal Street Restaurant in Covent Garden 25 years ago.\n\n\"He was such a charismatic charming don of all things Italian,\" Oliver wrote on Instagram.\n\n\"Always hanging out the front door of the restaurant with a big fat cigar, a glass of something splendid and his amazing fuzzy white hair.\n\n\"Viva Antonio Carluccio... Cook a feast up there mate,\" he added.\n\nFriend and colleague, Russell Grant, said he was \"just the kindest and loveliest man to be with.\"\n\n\"He was so passionate about his cookery and where he came from,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Every mouthful would bring another story.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Gino D'Acampo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Great British Bake Off winner, Candice Brown, said Carluccio was \"a true gent and honest man\".\n\nTV chef James Martin called him \"one of the true greats of TV chefs\".\n\n\"His passion and commitment to both the restaurant business and to television was lifelong,\" he said in a statement.\n\n\"He was a giant in the food world and he helped bring Italian food to the masses around the world.\"\n\nCelebrity chef Gino D'Acampo also paid tribute to his \"good friend\", while Nigella Lawson wrote: \"Riposi in pace\".\n\nFrom the north-west Italian region of Piedmont, Carluccio worked as a journalist in Turin before moving to Vienna and Germany, and finally London.\n\nIn 2007, he received an OBE from the Queen for his services to the catering industry and in 2012, he was awarded the AA hospitality lifetime achievement award.\n\nHe received the Commendatore, the equivalent of a British knighthood, from the Italian government in 1998 for services to Italy.\n\nCarluccio's television career began with his first appearance on BBC2 in 1983. He later appeared on MasterChef in 1991, before a three-year stint on Saturday Kitchen from 2006 and Two Greedy Italians in 2011.\n\nHis kitchen motto was simple - \"minimum of fuss, maximum of flavour\".\n\nHe also created more than 20 books, which included titles dedicated to pasta, vegetables and mushrooms.\n\nIn the months before his death, he had worked on a children's book, centred on two mushrooms.\n\nIn 2016, Carluccio told the Press Association about his secret to a happy life.\n\n\"My philosophy is to be happy and to make people happy,\" he said.\n\n\"And by result, if you make people happy they make you happy. I like to have money, because money is good. But it's not too good, you know?\"", "The comments were inadvertently left on a family answerphone by officers who had been called out to deal with a \"vulnerable child\"\n\nTwo police officers have been sacked after they left a message on a woman's answer machine saying they hoped her child \"would get raped\".\n\nThe Avon and Somerset officers left the recording after being called to deal with a \"vulnerable child\", a misconduct hearing was told.\n\nPC Samuel Dexter and PC Hannah Mayo are heard laughing and saying they did not care what happened to the child.\n\nBoth officers admitted gross misconduct and were dismissed without notice.\n\nThe hearing on Tuesday at police headquarters was told the child had been reported missing before being found by PC Dexter and reunited with the family.\n\nBut a short while later, according to the hearing outcome notice, the child's mother called the police again to report the child was \"causing problems at the family home\".\n\nEn-route to the property, PC Dexter and PC Mayo phoned the mother for more information and inadvertently activated the answerphone.\n\nIn the recorded message the officers can be heard laughing and saying they had \"no interest whatsoever\" in the child and both then said they hoped the child would \"get raped\".\n\nIn his verdict at the hearing, Chief Constable Andy Marsh said the comments had \"broken the trust\" the child's family had in the police.\n\nHe said: \"[The comments] go way beyond the boundaries that could be described as dark humour.\n\n\"I cannot accept the comments were a mistake, they were far more serious than that, and the people we serve will be appalled to hear that police officers spoke in such a way about a child.\"\n\nCh Insp Mark Edgington, of the professional standards department, said the officers had \"failed to treat the child and their family with respect\".\n\n\"Both officers used appalling and horrific language about a vulnerable missing child and their family,\" he said.\n\n\"There are no excuses for their behaviour and their actions are not reflective of our force or the officers and staff who work extremely hard every day to safeguard and protect vulnerable people.\"\n\nBoth officers have offered \"fulsome apologies\" to the child and their family.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Orchard Lodge is one of nine homes being investigated by Sussex Police\n\nA woman has been arrested on suspicion of neglect and fraud by police investigating the deaths of 12 care home residents.\n\nSussex Police are looking into the treatment of 43 residents at nine homes run by Sussex Health Care.\n\nThe force said the woman, from West Sussex, was currently in custody.\n\nIn a statement, Sussex Health Care said it would \"continue to co-operate fully with the police in their investigation\".\n\nA spokesman confirmed it was aware of the arrest but said it was \"not able to comment further at this stage\".\n\nPolice are investigating allegations of a lack of care and safeguarding for 43 residents, of whom 12 have since died, at nine of the private firm's homes around the county.\n\nThe BBC understands that the 12 who have died include at least two young adults.\n\nLast week, West Sussex County Council moved four residents out of one of the homes, Orchard Lodge, near Horsham, following a \"further risk assessment\".\n\nSussex Health Care said the move was unwarranted.\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. Carwyn Jones said he had \"no alternative\" but to sack Carl Sargeant\n\nFirst Minister Carwyn Jones has said he had no alternative but to sack Carl Sargeant following allegations about his conduct.\n\nMr Sargeant's body was found on Tuesday, four days after he was dismissed as communities minister and suspended from the Welsh Labour party.\n\nIt is understood he took his own life but Mr Jones said he had acted \"by the book\" over the matter.\n\nHe said he would try to provide answers which Mr Sargeant's family deserved.\n\nThere has been criticism of the way Mr Sargeant was treated and his family has called for an independent inquiry.\n\nEx-Welsh Government minister Leighton Andrews, Welsh Conservative leader Andrew RT Davies and Plaid Cymru leader Leanne Wood also want an inquiry, which Mr Jones suggested could take place in future.\n\nClaims about inappropriate behaviour were made to the first minister's office last week and following Friday's sacking, the Alyn and Deeside AM had vowed to clear his name even though he said he did not know the details of the allegations.\n\nAn inquest into Mr Sargeant's death will be opened and adjourned on Monday.\n\nMr Jones met Labour AMs on Thursday to explain how he handled the conduct allegations against Mr Sargeant.\n\nMr Jones then made a statement from Welsh Government headquarters in Cardiff on Thursday afternoon.\n\nHe called the situation \"the darkest days\" any of those at the assembly could remember, but said they were the \"darkest of all for the family\".\n\nA relentless drip-drip of disinformation had a strain on Mr Sargeant and others, Leighton Andrews says\n\nDespite speculation Mr Jones could have resigned on Thursday, the speech made no reference to his own political future.\n\nSpeaking publicly for the first time since Mr Sargeant's death, he said: \"There are a lot of inaccuracies in the press and many of you have questions to ask about what happened last week.\"\n\nHe said precise details \"will need to be properly disclosed\" at the inquest.\n\n\"I and my team will of course be cooperating fully with any questions that are raised there,\" he said.\n\n\"The family deserve to have their questions answered and if that isn't possible through the inquest then I will endeavour to make that happen through other means.\n\n\"I welcome any scrutiny of my actions in the future and it is appropriate for that to be done independently.\"\n\nPaying tribute to Mr Sargeant, he said: \"Carl was a true force of nature - he drove through more legislation than any other minister. Not just through force of argument, but through force of personality.\"\n\nWhen Carwyn Jones finally appeared in front of the cameras today to deliver a statement on the death of Carl Sargeant and the events that led up to it, there was an expectation that the first minister would attempt to answer at least some of the many questions that have been raised since the former secretary's death.\n\nInstead, while paying tribute to the man he described as a \"true force of nature\" he did little to answer the questions raised by Mr Sargeant's family and others.\n\nA reference to a possible independent inquiry seemed equivocal at best.\n\nThe first minister's reference to \"inaccuracies in the press\" again raises more questions than answers.\n\nIf reports are inaccurate - why not correct them and why refuse to answer questions from journalists who are trying their best to report the situation accurately?\n\nCarwyn Jones is human, of course, and I have no doubt that his grief and shock is genuine.\n\nThat may explain why a statement which would have been perfectly apt in the hours following Mr Sargeant's death seems insufficient and vague when delivered two and half days later.\n\nFollowing the news conference, opponents rounded on Mr Jones.\n\nMr Davies said the episode has \"significantly undermined public confidence in the first minister\", while Ms Wood said the statement \"was not adequate\".\n\nUKIP Wales said it would call for a motion of no confidence in the first minister.\n\nAnd Mr Sargeant's lifelong friend and Flintshire council's deputy leader Bernie Attridge, called for Mr Jones to resign saying he \"had not done the decent thing\".\n\nMr Andrews said a number of people were expecting a \"definite commitment to an independent inquiry\" from Mr Jones' statement.\n\nEarlier on Thursday, Mr Andrews alleged Mr Sargeant had been the target of bullying in the Welsh Government.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Leighton Andrews wants answers from the first minister\n\nFormer public services minister Mr Andrews - claimed there was \"minor bullying\" and \"mind games\" during his time in government - and said the atmosphere was \"toxic\" during the last assembly term.\n\n\"The undermining was of ministers, deputy ministers and special advisers,\" Mr Andrews said in a statement issued on Thursday.\n\nHe said Mr Sargeant \"was unquestionably the target of some of this behaviour. The relentless drip-drip of disinformation - and worse - had a strain on his and others' mental health.\"\n\nThe ex-Rhondda AM said he had raised one particular issue with Mr Jones, of which he had direct evidence, but claimed due process was not followed.\n\nThe Welsh Government has declined to respond to Mr Andrews' claims.", "Seven days after the rise in base rates, just 17 out of 150 providers have passed on improved returns to their savers.\n\nThe Bank of England raised rates by 0.25% to 0.5% last Thursday, the first rise in a decade.\n\nMany banks are still considering whether to pass on the benefits.\n\nBut even if their provider does choose to increase rates in full, some savers will still find themselves worse off than when rates were last at 0.5%.\n\nNS&I is among the providers that have announced an increase. The returns on all its variable rate products, including premium bonds, will rise by 0.25% from 1 December.\n\nHowever Virgin Money actually cut savings rates on one of its ISAs on the same day that the Bank of England was raising rates.\n\nThose with Virgin's ISA Saver saw rates reduced to 0.75% last Thursday.\n\nThat compares to an interest rate of 1.3% when base rates were last at 0.5% in August 2016, leaving savers worse off.\n\nAnother Virgin ISA, the Defined Access E- ISA, now pays just 0.51%, compared to 1.56% last August.\n\n\"Some people could be worse off than before the base rate was cut last year,\" said Tom Adams of consumer website Savings Champion.\n\nIt comes in spite of a plea by the governor of the Bank of England for banks to pass on the benefits of the rise.\n\nAccording to Savings Champion, Virgin Money is not the only provider whose rates have fallen since August 2016.\n\nSavers with the Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks currently receive as little as 0.2% a year on a Flexi Cash ISA.\n\nEven if those banks do pass on the rise in full, savers will only get 0.45%, less than the 0.7% return they were getting 15 months ago.\n\nNationwide has promised to pass on the 0.25% rise to all savers whose rates were cut by 0.25% in 2016.\n\nNevertheless customers who had a Flexclusive ISA Issue 10 will now expect to get a 1% return, compared to 1.5% last year.\n\nSantander has announced that it will not raise the 1.5% credit savings rate on its popular 123 account.\n\nIt will raise rates on some of its savings products from 4 December, but most adults will not see the 0.25% passed on in full.\n\nLloyds has also announced that it will increase savings rates, but most of its customers will see a rise of just 0.15%.\n\nVirgin Money said customers were warned about last Thursday's ISA rate cut back in July. Because it is a 120 day notice account, savers had to be told four months in advance.\n\nVirgin also said it had paid rates that were above the market average over the last few years.\n\nBy contrast, lenders have been quick to raise the cost of mortgages.\n\nMost customers with tracker mortgages have seen an immediate rise of 0.25%.\n\nSo far 20 banks have announced increases to their Standard Variable Rate (SVR) mortgages, including Barclays, Halifax, Lloyds, Nationwide, Santander and TSB.\n\nHSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest are still considering their plans.\n\n\"Although not all are increasing their rates that may well be because they didn't pass on the last cut, so borrowers should still be considering whether they could be getting a better deal by shopping around,\" said David Hollingworth, associate communications director at London and Country Mortgages.\n\n\"Those that have been eyeing a fixed rate will also have begun to notice that fixed deals have already been nudging up.\"\n\nTSB, Metro, Tesco and Atom Bank are among those whose fixed rate products have gone up, although this will only affect new customers.", "A logo but no footage has been released for the new game\n\nThe maker of Pokemon Go has revealed it is working on a Harry Potter-themed follow-up that will also include augmented reality features.\n\nNiantic said players would find and fight fantasy beasts in real-world neighbourhoods in the smartphone game, which has yet to get a release date.\n\nOne expert said the Harry Potter brand had the potential for similar success.\n\nPublisher Warner Bros Interactive owns the video game rights to the Harry Potter series. It has previously developed Lego-branded tie-in titles via its TT Games subsidiary as well partnering with Electronic Arts to create action-adventures that launched alongside the movies.\n\nWarner said Niantic's Harry Potter: Wizards Unite was just one of several new games based on JK Rowling's characters that are planned. They will all be released under a new label - Portkey Games - so-named because Portkeys transport wizards from place to place in the books.\n\nNiantic continues to add features and characters to Pokemon Go\n\nClaims that Niantic would make a Harry Potter-themed game were first reported in July 2016 but were dismissed as a hoax, not least because the San Francisco-based developer was still rolling out Pokemon Go at the time.\n\nThe Pokemon title became the first mainstream hit for augmented reality, in which real-world views captured via a camera are mixed together with computer graphics on the screen.\n\nNiantic had previously attempted to popularise AR with Ingress, a location-based sci-fi game released in 2012. But it was only after it took on an established brand that it caught the wider public's attention.\n\nLego-themed Harry Potter titles have already proved to be highly popular on games consoles\n\n\"I think the Harry Potter game is a huge deal,\" commented Piers Harding-Rolls from the IHS Markit consultancy.\n\n\"If you look at the different major franchises out there, I don't think there are many that could do Pokemon Go justice as a follow-up.\"\n\nRelatively few details have been provided at this point about the forthcoming game, except that it will involve players learning spells before exploring their neighbourhoods to search for mysterious artefacts and fight \"legendary beasts\" with the option to team up with others to \"take down powerful enemies\".\n\nPotter fans have been told they will have to wait until next year to discover more.\n\nThe title is likely to take advantage of enhanced augmented reality features provided by Apple and Google via their ARKit and ARCore developer tools, which were not available when Pokemon Go launched.\n\nBut Niantic may be mindful that many of Pokemon Go's remaining fans play it with its AR features switched off because it makes the game easier to play and helps save battery life.\n\n\"I expect the Harry Potter augmented reality experiences will be more robust and complex than they were in Pokemon Go, which should make the game more dynamic and the experience more engaging,\" Mr Harding-Rolls predicted.\n\n\"But I still don't think they will be essential to the experience.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The technology was first tested in Vegas at the start of this year\n\nA self-driving shuttle bus in Las Vegas was involved in a crash on its first day of service.\n\nThe vehicle - carrying “several” passengers - was hit by a lorry driving at slow speed.\n\nNobody was injured in the incident which city officials say was the fault of the human driver of the lorry. The man was subsequently given a ticket by police.\n\nThe shuttle is the first of its kind to be used on public roads in the US.\n\nThe collision comes a day after Waymo - owned by Google's parent company Alphabet - announced it is launching a fully self-driving fleet of taxis in Phoenix, Arizona.\n\nThe Las Vegas shuttle, designed to ferry passengers to the famous strip, uses a system developed by Navya, a French company also testing its technology in London.\n\nThe shuttle carries up to 15 people and has a maximum speed of 30 mph (48km/h), but typically travels at around 15 mph (24km/h).\n\nA spokesman for the City of Las Vegas told the BBC the crash was a “fender bender” - a minor collision - and that the shuttle would likely be back out on the road on Thursday after some routine diagnostics tests.\n\n“A delivery truck was coming out of an alley,” public information officer Jace Radke said.\n\n\"The shuttle did what it was supposed to do and stopped. Unfortunately the human element, the driver of the truck, didn’t stop.”\n\nSelf-driving technology has been involved in crashes before, but almost all reported incidents have been due to human error.\n\nEarlier this year an autonomous vehicle being tested by ride-sharing company Uber in Arizona rolled over after another driver on the road failed to give way.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Powered by electricity the new buses are on trial around the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.\n\nAn incident involving a Tesla Model S, which has some autonomous functions, killed a man in 2016. An investigation ruled that computer failings were partly to blame. Tesla was instructed to make the limitations of its technology clearer to drivers.\n\nExperts have said that even with these incidents, self-driving technology could still make our roads significantly safer. A study from the RAND Corporation, published this week, argued that self-driving technology should be rolled out despite its imperfections.\n\n“Waiting for highly autonomous vehicles that are many times safer than human drivers misses opportunities to save lives,” the report said.\n\n\"It is the very definition of allowing perfect to be the enemy of good.”\n\nYou can reach Dave securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "Houses in Norfolk are among those falling in value, according to the RICS survey\n\nHouse prices are now falling in four areas of the country, according to the latest report from chartered surveyors.\n\nThe Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has said that prices are declining in London, the South East, East Anglia and north-east England.\n\nHowever, other parts of the UK are seeing an improvement in activity.\n\nScotland, Wales, north-west England and Northern Ireland have continued to see rising prices, according to RICS.\n\nAt the same time the UK's largest estate agent reported a 7% fall in revenues in the three months to the end of September.\n\nThe RICS report on the housing market is gloomy overall, citing fewer buyers and sellers, as well as falling sales.\n\nAcross the country as a whole, it said prices were flat, with just 1% more surveyors reporting rises in October than those reporting falls.\n\nThe survey appears to contrast with data from the Halifax, which said earlier this week that house price growth had risen to 4.5% in the year to October.\n\nThe surveyors thought the short-term outlook for prices was even more negative.\n\nWhen asked what they thought would happen to house prices over the next three months, a majority reported falling values in London, the South East, East Anglia, the South West, the North East and the West Midlands.\n\nRICS said that last week's rise in base rates was one factor behind the \"stuttering\" market.\n\nAround four million mortgage holders will see a rise in interest rates as a result of the Bank of England's decision to increase rates by 0.25% to 0.5%.\n\n\"The combination of the increased cost of moving, a lack of fresh stock coming to the market, uncertainly over the political climate and now an interest rate hike appears to be taking its toll on activity in the housing market,\" said Simon Rubinsohn, RICS' chief economist.\n\n\"A stagnant second-hand market is bad news for the wider economy, not just in terms of spending, but also because it restricts mobility.\"\n\nCountrywide, which owns 600 branches of estate agents, said its full year results were likely to be at the lower end of market expectations.\n\n\"The market for housing transactions remains challenging,\" said chief executive Alison Platt.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Barack Obama excited a few potential jurors when he reported for jury duty in Chicago\n\nFormer US President Barack Obama has turned up for jury duty at a Chicago courthouse, but was dismissed by the judge without being called on to serve.\n\nCrowds thronged the Daley Center municipal building to catch a glimpse of the 44th US president.\n\nThere was no official explanation for his dismissal, but it is not uncommon for people called to perform jury service not to be assigned a case.\n\nMr Obama arrived at court on Wednesday morning and left around midday.\n\nThe former president, who was once a law professor, has a house in Chicago.\n\nEach potential juror is paid about $17.20 (£13.11) from the county.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Alyssa This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nNews helicopters filmed Mr Obama's motorcade as it moved from his home in the Kenwood neighbourhood to an indoor car park downtown.\n\nObama was greeted by crowds of supporters\n\nWearing a jacket but no tie, Mr Obama took a lift to the 17th floor, where he was met by other jurors as well as journalists, court staffers and lawyers.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Angel Martinez 𓅓 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 ACoyGirl 🎧✌🏼 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 was not there for long. Mr Obama was randomly selected for dismissal and was told his services were not required by Cook County Chief Judge Timothy Evan.\n\nEarlier the former president watched an \"introduction to jury duty\" video.\n\nBefore leaving Mr Obama thanked everyone who turned up for being willing to serve on a jury.\n\nSome of his fellow Americans brought copies of Mr Obama's books for him to sign. Others, including courthouse staff, just wanted a photo.\n\nOne potential juror told a local newspaper she felt like a \"piece of melting butter\" as she shook the former president's hand.\n\nLater in the day, Mr Obama delivered a paid speech to investment firm GCM Grosvenor, the Chicago Sun-Times reports.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Lauren Petty This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nKatie Hill, communications director for Mr Obama, said in a statement that the former Democratic president \"believes the most important office in our democracy is that of citizen, and he considers jury duty a core obligation of citizenship\".\n\nMr Obama had previously been summoned in 2010, during his first four-year term as US president, but he managed to get a postponement from the court.\n\nHis reason was that he had a previously scheduled meeting with the president of the Kurdistan region of Iraq.\n\nIn 2015 former President George W Bush was called to jury duty in Dallas, Texas.\n\nAfter posing for photos with other jurors, he was also dismissed.\n\nIn 2013, Bill Clinton was also dismissed from serving on a New York City jury hearing a gang shooting case.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Carl Sargeant \"wasn't dealt with fairly\", says Labour AM Jenny Rathbone\n\nThe family of sacked Welsh Labour minister Carl Sargeant has said he was deprived of \"natural justice\".\n\nHe was found dead on Tuesday after being sacked from the cabinet and suspended from Labour.\n\nHe faced allegations of \"unwanted attention, inappropriate touching or groping\".\n\nLeighton Andrews, a former key ally of Carwyn Jones, said he is \"angry\" the first minister did TV interviews commenting on allegations.\n\nThe former AM and cabinet minister said Mr Jones had not followed \"due process\" by speaking to the media on Monday.\n\nOn Thursday Labour AMs will meet for the first time since Mr Sargeant died.\n\nFirst Minister Carwyn Jones's spokesman said: \"Like everyone in the Welsh Labour family Carwyn is deeply upset by the death of his friend.\n\n\"Tomorrow Welsh Labour AMs will meet in the assembly to remember Carl and discuss the tragic events of the past week. Carwyn will make a further statement following the meeting.\"\n\nOn Monday Mr Jones told the BBC and ITV there were \"a number\" of allegations made by women against Mr Sargeant.\n\nBut Mr Andrews told BBC One's Wales Live programme that he felt the first minister should not have made any public comments after the matter was referred to the Labour Party on Friday.\n\n\"Having passed this over on Friday to the Labour party, on Monday the first minister is doing interviews with the BBC and I think with ITV as well in which he is elaborating on the story and commenting on the story,\" he said.\n\n\"Well, that is not due process.\n\n\"I'm very angry at those interviews on Monday and the anger within the Labour Party across Wales and beyond the Labour Party in Carl's local community, people in other political parties, people in no political party.\n\n\"People do not think Carl Sargeant has been treated fairly.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Leighton Andrews said the allegations should have been dealt with \"behind closed doors\"\n\nHis comments came after Mr Sargeant's family released correspondence between his solicitor and Labour to highlight their concern over his treatment.\n\nIt shows Mr Sargeant pushed for more specific details on the claims, and that his mental well-being was being affected.\n\nRelatives said he was distressed at being unable to defend himself.\n\nThe Labour Party said that, in line with agreed procedure, the nature of the allegations was outlined to Mr Sargeant.\n\nThe Alyn and Deeside AM had vowed to clear his name after being sacked as communities secretary by Mr Jones on Friday, but said he did not know the details of the allegations.\n\nIt is understood he took his own life.\n\nA family spokesman said on Wednesday they were publishing the correspondence \"in light of the continued unwillingness\" of the Labour Party \"to clarify the nature of the allegations made against Carl\".\n\n\"Up to the point of his tragic death on Tuesday morning Carl was not informed of any of the detail of the allegations against him, despite requests and warnings regarding his mental welfare,\" the spokesman said.\n\n\"The correspondence also discloses the solicitor's concern that media appearances by the first minister on Monday were prejudicing the inquiry.\n\n\"The family wish to disclose the fact that Carl maintained his innocence and he categorically denied any wrongdoing.\n\n\"The distress of not being able to defend himself properly against these unspecified allegations meant he was not afforded common courtesy, decency or natural justice.\"\n\nIn a statement through solicitors later, the family added that they hope \"there will be a full investigation and scrutiny of the way that the relevant parties concerned dealt with the allegations, Mr Sargeant personally and the statements that have been made in the press and media\".\n\n\"Those that owed a clear duty of care to Carl and to his family will, no doubt in due course, need to provide clarity on their respective positions in this tragedy,\" they added.\n\n\"No support was offered to Mr Sargeant other than that personally offered by close friends and family,\" the family added.\n\nCarl Sargeant's family have released two emails and a letter sent between his solicitor and Welsh Labour. It includes:\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. MP Mark Tami says if procedures were followed in the run-up to Carl Sargeant's death something had gone \"badly wrong\"\n\nMr Sargeant's Westminster constituency colleague, Labour MP Mark Tami, said Mr Sargeant's family were \"angry\" because \"they obviously have questions about the process and how it has ended up with this\".\n\n\"I think they need some space to try as best they can to come to terms with what has happened to Carl,\" he said.\n\n\"If the procedure's been followed then we need to look at the procedure because something's gone badly wrong.\"\n\nThe first minister is facing questions from within his own party about how the situation was handled, after finding out about the allegations early last week.\n\nStaff from his office, but not civil servants, spoke to the women involved and referred their complaints to Welsh Labour, which was investigating, and suspended Mr Sargeant.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Chris Bryant This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nJenny Rathbone, Labour AM for Cardiff Central, said she felt Mr Sargeant \"wasn't dealt with fairly\".\n\n\"If allegations are made against you, you must know what they are so that you can respond to them,\" she said on BBC Radio Wales' Good Morning Wales programme.\n\nUKIP Wales leader Neil Hamilton called on Mr Jones to resign, saying he \"failed to fulfil his duty of care\" to Mr Sargeant.\n\nBrecon and Radnorshire Conservative MP Chris Davies also called on the first minister to resign, saying the way he had handled the matter was \"terrible\".\n\nWhat did Carwyn Jones know about allegations of misconduct against Carl Sargeant - and when?\n\nIn a television interview two days ago, the day before the death of the ex-cabinet secretary, Carwyn Jones insisted that the first time he heard of the allegations was last week.\n\nBut multiple sources from more than one party have told me that Carwyn Jones had discussed allegations of misconduct with Carl Sargeant once before, and had received an explanation of the incident.\n\nAre the sources right? The simple answer is I do not know.\n\nBut Carwyn Jones knows the truth and he should answer the question as soon as possible.\n\nA book of condolence for Mr Sargeant was opened in the assembly on Wednesday\n\nA Labour Party spokesman said: \"Following allegations brought to the attention of Welsh Labour by Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones, an investigation was launched by the UK party.\n\n\"The Labour Party Governance and Legal Unit spoke with Carl Sargeant and, in line with agreed procedure, outlined the nature of the allegations that had been received and how the complaints process works.\"\n\nA book of condolence for Mr Sargeant was opened in the assembly on Wednesday.", "Kate Osamor MP, Labour's shadow international development secretary, said Priti Patel appeared to have breached the Ministerial Code and \"gone behind the government's back and misled the British public.\"\n\nShe continued: \"After initially denying the allegations, then repeatedly changing her story and failing to disclose all of her meetings, it is right that she has now resigned.\n\n\"But we still need to know what was discussed in these meetings and what Number 10 and the Foreign Office knew and when.\"\n\nShe said Theresa May needed to \"get control of her chaotic cabinet\".", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Former prime minister Gordon Brown has warned that the UK may hit a \"crisis point next summer\" as the UK edges closer to Brexit and held out the possibility that the UK may not leave the EU.\n\nHe said that he was not now advocating a second referendum, but suggested that there \"may be scope for a reassessment\" as voters began to realise, he suggested, that the promises of the Leave side of the referendum campaign would not be fulfilled.\n\nHe suggested that there could be a \"game changer\" from the EU side that allowed the UK to rethink.", "Choosing ministers is about more than just who is best for the job.\n\nThere are good reasons why Penny Mordaunt has been promoted to the Department for International Development.\n\nShe has worked in humanitarian aid, she has been a minister in two different departments, former colleagues rate her abilities and she was tipped last week to be elevated to running the Ministry of Defence.\n\nBut there is a lot more to her than meets the eye, and a lot more that is interesting about her than going on TV in a swimsuit, although no doubt, for many voters, that is the way they will have come across her before.\n\nShe also has a different political qualification - she was prominent campaigning Brexiteer.\n\nBy promoting her, rather than others, Theresa May has opted to preserve the precarious balance around the cabinet table.\n\nThere has been an almost equal split, not so much between those who were tagged as Leavers or Remainers in 2016, but the two sides of the argument now - those who want a future closely tied to the European Union and those who want a much looser arrangement.\n\nIn Whitehall's technical lingo it's now known as \"high or low alignment\".\n\nAnd by keeping the balance roughly 50-50, disregarding what one cabinet minister described as the \"swing voters\" - those like Sajid Javid, Liz Truss and Jeremy Hunt who are not considered to be dogmatic on the issue - it means that in effect, Theresa May has the decisive vote.\n\nIn theory that allows her, in a position with little authority, to be able to tip the balance relatively easily in either direction when the big Brexit decisions have to be made.\n\nTime for that is clearly pressing, with Brussels giving the UK only a couple of weeks to show movement, in particular on the Brexit bill.\n\nIt's not clear if the UK will feel able to move forward on the bill that soon - that is a difficult debate to come.\n\nThe very limited changes to government today however won't obstruct the path of those decisions.\n\nMs Mordaunt has a sense of humour, and is far from a political drone - but her appointment is also about Theresa May trying to quietly hold the current cabinet equilibrium together.\n\nWith this appointment, after the eight days of turmoil, the prime minister is not looking for drama.\n\nPS: It's worth noting too, that the first MP from the Tories' 2015 intake was brought into government today.\n\nVictoria Atkins so far has stood out in Westminster for saying that people thought President Trump was a \"wazzock\". Let's see what she has to say next!", "It was precisely a week ago that I was summoned to the Ministry of Defence to ask Sir Michael Fallon why he was resigning.\n\nSeven days on, for an unconnected reason, Theresa May has just lost another one of her ministers.\n\nThat time the resignation was rather differently handled - some private speculation through the day, then a discreet summoning to a quiet room in the department until one of the minister's team came to say: \"Be ready, the secretary of state is resigning, we are finalising the letters between us and Number 10 right now.\"\n\nThis time, the process has been more like a pantomime, with speculation rife for nearly 24 hours that she was on her way out, no-one in government moving to quash it, leaving journalists, on the first day of parliament's recess, free to track Priti Patel's plane online then her journey back to Westminster.\n\nGoodness knows what Ms Patel's Ugandan hosts, who were expecting her to visit today, make of it all.\n\nBeyond today's palaver, though, her exit throws up problems for Mrs May.\n\nIt is never as simple as one out, one in.\n\nMrs May, who hoped to earn her authority back through competence, and orderly government, needs to restore a sense of calm after a chaotic week.\n\nTo convey even a limp grip on power, misbehaving ministers need to be brought in line, and a restive Tory party needs to be able to believe Number 10 has some capability left.\n\nBut with Ms Patel's departure, the prime minister must try most importantly to preserve the delicate balance around the cabinet table.\n\nMinisters' make up is finely tuned between those who desire a loose arrangement with the European Union after Brexit and those who want to stay tightly bound.\n\nWith the balance more or less equal between those factions, it's as if the prime minister has the casting vote.\n\nFor as long as that formula is preserved, both sides will preserve her.\n\nUpset that equilibrium with the wrong choices in a reshuffle, even of one, and the way through the most challenging decisions the government faces becomes more complicated, and the prime minister's own position more precarious still.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Adams said leadership means knowing when it's time for change\n\nSinn Féin president Gerry Adams has revealed he plans to stand down as leader of the party next year.\n\nMr Adams also said he will not stand for election to the Irish parliament (Dail) at the next election.\n\nSpeaking at the Sinn Féin ard fhéis (party conference) in Dublin, Mr Adams said it would be his last as leader.\n\n\"Leadership means knowing when it's time for change and that time is now,\" the 69-year-old, who has been party president since 1983, said.\n\nSo the build-up was justified - to paraphrase one of Gerry Adams' most famous phrases, he is going away you know.\n\nThe precise date will depend on the party's ard comhairle or ruling executive which is expected to meet within the next fortnight - they will in turn call an extraordinary ard fheis where a new leader will be elected.\n\nSinn Féin may hope that Mr Adams' decision not to stand in the next Irish election will make any talks about a future coalition in Dublin more straightforward.\n\nBut the Fianna Fáil Leader Micheal Martin has repeated his view that Sinn Fein remains unacceptable as a partner in government.\n\nWhatever the future brings, though, there's no doubt Gerry Adams' move marks an historic change as a leader who oversaw the republican movement's journey between violence and peace gives way to another politician who will pursue Irish unity through more conventional parliamentary politics.\n\nMr Adams, the TD (member of the Irish parliament) for County Louth, said he would be asking the party leadership to agree a date in 2018 for a special party conference to elect a new leader.\n\n\"I have always seen myself as a team player, as a team builder,\" he said.\n\n\"I have complete confidence in the leaders we elected this weekend and in the next generation of leaders.\"\n\nMr Adams is surrounded by party colleagues after his announcement\n\nMr Adams said the move was formulated along with party colleague Martin McGuinness before his death earlier this year.\n\nIt has already seen Michelle O'Neill, 40, take the role of Sinn Fein's leader at Stormont.\n\nEarlier, delegates at the conference voted in favour of a motion to hold a special ard fhéis three months after the departure of the party president.\n\nThe motion will allow for a leadership contest once the vacancy arises.\n\nDelegates also voted to liberalise the party's policy on abortion.\n\nParty members voted in favour of allowing abortions where a pregnancy poses a risk to a woman's health, including mental health.\n\nThe ard fhéis (party conference) has been taking place in Dublin\n\nThere will be a referendum on abortion law in the Republic of Ireland in May or June of next year.\n\nSinn Féin's previous position supported allowing terminations when a baby is expected to die in the womb or shortly after birth, and in cases of rape or incest.\n\nCurrently, the law in the Republic of Ireland only permits abortion when there is a real and substantial risk to a woman's life. In Northern Ireland, terminations are only legal when continuing with a pregnancy poses a serious or permanent risk to a woman's health.\n\nMeanwhile, Sinn Féin's Stormont leader has called on the Irish government to appoint a minister with responsibility for advancing Irish unity.\n\nMichelle O'Neill told the party conference that a parliamentary committee in the Republic of Ireland should also be formed to look at a united Ireland.", "Zimbabwe's embattled leader Robert Mugabe has vowed to stay in power for several weeks, despite intensifying pressure on him to stand down.\n\nMr Mugabe said he would preside over the ruling Zanu-PF party's congress in December.", "A body has been found in the hunt for missing teenager Gaia Pope.\n\nHer cousin and sister paid tribute to her, telling reporters: \"Our little bird has flown.\"", "The unnamed police officer was reportedly stationed in Paris\n\nA French policeman shot three people dead on a street near Paris in an apparent domestic dispute, before killing himself, media reports say.\n\nHis girlfriend, as well as her mother and her sister, were wounded in the incident, which occurred late on Saturday in the town of Sarcelles.\n\nThose killed are said to be the girlfriend's father and two passers-by.\n\nThe mayor of Sarcelles, north of Paris, said the woman had recently told the policeman she was breaking up with him.\n\nThe officer first killed two people with his service weapon on the street, Le Monde newspaper says.\n\n\"They were local residents - I knew them well because I lived on this street for 10 years,\" Sarcelles Mayor François Pupponi told AFP new agency, adding that they had no connection with the policeman.\n\nThe 31-year-old then shot his girlfriend in the face as she was sitting in a car, the reports say. He also fired on her mother, father and sister, before turning the gun on himself.\n\nHis body was found in the front garden of a nearby house.", "The vessel is the newest of the three submarines in the Argentine navy's fleet\n\nSignals have been detected that are thought to have come from an Argentine submarine that went missing with 44 crew on board, officials say.\n\nThe defence ministry is now trying to trace the location of the seven failed satellite calls received on Saturday.\n\nArgentina has stepped up the search in the South Atlantic for the ARA San Juan submarine, with a Nasa research plane joining in.\n\nThe diesel-electric vessel disappeared 430km (267 miles) off the coast.\n\nBritain and countries in the region have offered assistance. The US Navy is flying deep water rescue modules to Argentina to be deployed if the submarine is found on the sea floor.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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End of twitter post by U.S. Navy\n\nThe task of the rescuers has been complicated by heavy winds and high waves.\n\nThe ARA San Juan was returning from a routine mission to Ushuaia, near the southern-most tip of South America, to its base at Mar del Plata, south of Buenos Aires.\n\nIts last contact with the navy command was on Wednesday morning.\n\nAn Argentine destroyer and two corvettes are conducting a search around the area of the sub's last known position off the south-eastern Valdez peninsula.\n\nBut so far there are no clues about its whereabouts.\n\nIt is thought that the submarine may have had communication difficulties caused by a power cut.\n\nNavy protocol dictates that a vessel should come to the surface if communication has been lost.", "Scottish Labour's new leader Richard Leonard has said the party's MSPs will consider suspension for his predecessor Kezia Dugdale.\n\nMs Dugdale, still an MSP, has been revealed as a surprise contestant in ITV's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! programme.\n\nMr Leonard said he was a \"bit disappointed\" by her participation.\n\nMs Dugdale is understood to be donating her parliamentary salary to charity while she is on the show.\n\nMr Leonard said of a possible suspension for the former leader: \"I awoke as many other people did this morning to the news that Kezia is going into that programme.\n\n\"I think that is something the [parliamentary] group is going to have to consider over the next few days and I think we will consider.\"\n\nHowever, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said he does not believe Ms Dugdale should be suspended from the party over her appearance on the programme.\n\nMr Leonard was answering questions about his predecessor shortly after his election to the position of Scottish leader.\n\nHe secured 56.7% of votes in the contest to beat his rival Anas Sarwar.\n\nFollowing his election, Mr Leonard said: \"With this new movement for real change, energised with this new generation helping to lead it. But founded on our old and enduring idealism too.\n\n\"That is the unity we can rally around, not simply a call for unity but around a renewed unity of purpose.\"\n\nHe added: \"So that our purpose today is not just elected a leader. My aim is to be the next Labour first minister of Scotland.\"\n\nMs Dugdale's decision to take part in the show has also been criticised by Scottish Labour MSP Jenny Marra, who tweeted: \"Election to parliament is a privilege to serve and represent people. It's not a shortcut to celebrity.\"\n\nMs Marra, the MSP for North-East Scotland, also questioned whether the announcement was an \"April Fool in November\".\n\nThe ITV show launches this weekend, with other contestants including Boris Johnson's father Stanley and former footballer Dennis Wise.\n\nAll the other celebrities heading for the jungle were announced on Tuesday.\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\nBoxer Amir Khan, Coronation Street's Jennie McAlpine footballer Jamie Vardy's wife Rebekah, The Saturdays singer Vanessa White and Hollyoaks actor Jamie Lomas will also be taking part.\n\nThe personalities will try to last three weeks with each other, and the local wildlife, in the camp.\n\nEarlier, Scottish Labour said it was not officially commenting on Ms Dugdale's last minute inclusion in the line-up, but a party source said it would be a \"fantastic opportunity\" for the MSP to talk about policies and Labour values on a widely watched show.\n\n\"She puts other politicians to shame with her work ethic and I'm sure there will be huge support for her from Scottish viewers while she's in the jungle.\n\n\"She'll be back in time for the budget and will get straight down to work once again for the people of the Lothians,\" the source added.\n\nThe rest of the contestants were announced earlier in the week\n\nAbout 10 million people tune in to the show every night.\n\nMs Dugdale stood down as Scottish Labour leader in August. Richard Leonard was appointed as her successor on Saturday.\n• None I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "With Robert Mugabe's hopes of handing power to his wife in Zimbabwe over, which political dynasties are still going strong elsewhere in Africa?\n\nSince the 1990s, multi-party elections and peaceful transfers of power have become far more common on the continent but quite a few current leaders have succeeded their fathers, or are planning to hand power to their sons. (Daughters seem to be less favoured.)\n\nSome dynasties have established themselves through assassinations, coups, and rebellions, while in Zimbabwe's neighbour, South Africa, President Jacob Zuma is hoping to hand power to his ex-wife in the coming years.\n\nMost Togolese have lived under only one family's rule\n\nA former French colony, it has been ruled by the Eyadema family for the last 50 years, making it the dynasty that has been in power for the longest period.\n\nAnd of all the governments currently in power in Africa, it is under the greatest threat of being overthrown in a mass uprising. Crowds of up to 800,000 have repeatedly taken to the streets since August, demanding an end to dynastic rule in the country of 6.6 million.\n\nProtesters accuse the government of tinkering with the constitution so that President Faure Gnassingbé can remain in power until 2030. The government denies this, insisting that it will introduce a two-term presidential limit ahead of elections in 2020.\n\nWith the backing of the military, Mr Gnassingbé became president in 2005 after the unexpected death of his father, Gnassingbé Eyadema, at the age of 69. Later, he won two elections, which were denounced by the opposition as a sham.\n\nFaure has shared, or has tried to share, the spoils of power with his family. He appointed his half-brother, Kpatcha, to the all-important post of defence minster after taking office.\n\nHowever, the two fell-out, and Kpatcha was sacked as defence minister in 2007.\n\nVoters have returned President Faure Gnassingbé to power in two elections\n\nFaure accused him of trying to dethrone him. Kpatcha, in turn, accused the president of plotting to assassinate him. Faure won the power-struggle, had his half-brother arrested, and sentenced to 20 years in prison.\n\nBut his reputation for ruthlessness is nothing compared to that of his late father.\n\nAs a 28-year-old army sergeant, Eyadema was widely suspected to have fired the shots which killed Togo's first post-independence president. Then, on 13 January 1967, the third anniversary of the assassination, Eyadema himself seized power in a bloodless coup.\n\nWhen he died, he held the title of Africa's longest-serving ruler. He had been on the political throne for 38 years.\n\nAlso a former French colony, it has Africa's second oldest political dynasty. A Christian convert to Islam, Omar Bongo took power 11 months after Eyadema, and ruled for nearly 42 years until his death in 2009.\n\nHe left his son Ali Bongo Ondimba, a fortune worth millions of dollars, and the country. He did win an election, although the opposition said it was rigged.\n\nAfter France launched a corruption investigation against the family, the president of the oil-rich nation announced in 2015 that he would spend his entire inheritance on development projects, including starting a university and a youth foundation.\n\nFrench police investigations identified that Bongo family assets included 39 properties in France, located in affluent areas of Paris and on the French Riviera, as well as nine luxury cars, including Ferraris and Mercedes.\n\nRights groups say the Bongos have turned Gabon into a \"kleptocratic regime\", which loots its natural resources, oil wealth and rainforests - an allegation the family strongly denies.\n\nIn 2015 Argentinean football star Lionel Messi came under heavy criticism for visiting the Central African state.\n\nHe laid the first stone at the construction site of a football stadium for the 2017 Africa Cup of Nations.\n\nBongo denied giving Messi money to visit Gabon, saying: \"When I was in Barcelona a few years ago, I met Messi who had told me that he would come to visit me in Libreville,\" he said.\n\n\"It's a promise he made me. He is a man of honour who just kept his word.\"\n\nThe president's son, Teodorin Obiang, has been convicted of embezzlement in France\n\nA former Spanish colony, it currently has Africa's longest-serving ruler, Theodoro Obiang Nguema.\n\nSaid to be one of Africa's most brutal leaders, he seized power in 1979 after overthrowing independence leader President Francisco Macias Nguema, his uncle, and having him executed.\n\nAccording to campaign group Human Rights Watch, the ''dictatorship under President Obiang has used an oil boom to entrench and enrich itself further at the expense of the country's people''.\n\nThe president's 48-year-old son, Teodorin Obiang, is his deputy, putting him in pole position to inherit power.\n\nKnown for his flamboyant lifestyle, Teodorin is a fugitive from justice. In October, a French court convicted him in absentia of embezzlement.\n\nIt ordered the seizure of his assets in France, including a $29m (£22m) mansion.\n\nHe also boasted 18 luxury cars in France, artworks, jewellery and expensive designer fashions,\n\nThe Paris judge found that the president's son had used his position as agriculture and forestry minister to siphon off payments from timber firms who were exporting from Equatorial Guinea.\n\nIn November, Swiss prosecutors seized 11 luxury cars belonging to Mr Obiang junior. They said he had plundered his country's oil wealth to buy luxuries, including a private jet and Michael Jackson memorabilia.\n\nPresident Yoweri Museveni is accused of wanting to be life president\n\nA former British colony, it is ruled by ex-rebel leader Yoweri Museveni. He seized power in 1986, won a fifth term in 2016, may run for a sixth term and could eventually hand power to his son.\n\nIn January, the speculation gained impetus when Mr Museveni promoted Maj Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, his eldest son, to become a special presidential adviser in a reshuffle of army commanders.\n\nHaving graduated from British Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 2000, Maj Gen Kainerugaba rose rapidly within the military. Last year, he was promoted from brigadier to major general.\n\nOthers believe that Mrs Museveni's wife also harbours presidential ambitions. Having served in government since 2009, she is currently the minister of education and sports in her husband's cabinet.\n\nFor now though, there is a push to give Mr Museveni, 76, another term.\n\nUganda's ruling party wants parliament to scrap the presidential age limit of 75, a move that could allow Mr Museveni to stand for re-election in 2021. It has led to ruling and opposition MPs brawling in parliament, as emotions rise over the plan.\n\nThe move has not come as a surprise. In 2013, renegade army General David Sejusa accused Mr Museveni of \"playing God\" in Uganda.\n\n\"The central issue is a political monarchy - a life presidency and then transiting [to] a political monarchy,\" he said.\n\n\"It is a terribly common African story. There is nothing strange about it,\" the renegade general added at the time.\n\nAfter just four years in power, Laurent Kabila handed power to his son\n\nA former Belgian colony, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been ruled by the Kabila family since 1997, when Laurent Kabila stormed the capital, Kinshasa, with the backing of regional armies, ending the 32-year rule of Mobutu Sese Seko.\n\nKabila was assassinated in 2001 by his bodyguards, resulting in the military installing his son, Joseph, as president.\n\nAfter serving two elected terms, Joseph was supposed to step down in 2016 as the constitution bars the president from running for a third term.\n\nHowever, the electoral commission says it will be ready to hold an election only next year, leaving Mr Kabila in power until then, despite massive opposition protests and international condemnation.\n\nHis sister, Jaynet, and brother, Zoe, are MPs,\n\nThe family has built a huge business empire, with a stake in banks, farms, airline operators, a road builder, hotels, a pharmaceutical supplier, travel agencies, boutiques and nightclubs, according to Bloomberg news agency.\n\nSouth African President Jacob Zuma (L) is backing his ex-wife, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma (C), over his deputy, Cyril Rampahosa (R)\n\nA beacon of hope in Africa during anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela's rule, it could be the next African country to have a dynastic succession, of sorts.\n\nIts polygamous President Jacob Zuma is campaigning for his ex-wife, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, to succeed him as leader of the governing African National Congress (ANC) at its conference next month, and as president in 2019.\n\nMs Dlamini-Zuma deeply resents being described as President Zuma's ex-wife, and has complained about such headlines.\n\nShe insists that she is a politician in her own right who took part in the anti-apartheid struggle, served in various ministerial posts since the advent of democracy in 1994, and became the chairwoman of the African Union (AU) commission before joining the presidential race.\n\nHer critics say this may well be the case, but Mr Zuma has chosen her as his political heir because she is unlikely to put him - the father of their children - in jail.\n\nMr Zuma has been accused of widespread corruption, with the Supreme Court of Appeal ruling that he should be tried on 18 counts of corruption, racketeering, money laundering and bribery - all of which he denies.\n\nHis critics say he also needs his ex-wife in power so that his favourite son from another wife, Duduzane Zuma, is safe from prosecution.\n\nCritics allege that he is abusing his relationship with his father to win government contracts for himself, and his business partners, the wealthy Gupta family. They all deny the allegations, insisting that they are not corrupt.\n\nMs Dlamini-Zuma's main challenger is Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, a former business tycoon and trade unionist. His supporters are hoping that the Zimbabwean crisis will boost his chances of winning, as ANC members grasp the dangers of a dynastic rule.", "Capt Mike Green was described as a 'respected' helicopter instructor\n\nOne of the victims of a mid-air crash between a helicopter and a plane was Capt Mike Green, his employer has confirmed.\n\nFour men were killed in Friday's crash at Waddesdon Estate, near Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire. There were no survivors.\n\nCapt Mike Green was conducting a flight instructor course with a student when they both died, Helicopter Services said on Facebook.\n\nThe firm said it was \"devastated\".\n\nIt added: \"We have received many messages of support and kind words about our friend who, as a senior instructor and examiner, helped and mentored so many pilots throughout the industry during his distinguished career.\n\n\"It was an honour to work with you. Captain Green, you will be greatly missed.\"\n\nCapt Green's friend, Capt Phil Croucher, said he was a \"respected helicopter instructor who will be remembered with affection\".\n\n\"It's a sad loss. We have lost somebody with a vast amount of experience that could have been passed on to younger people, apart from him being a nice guy generally,\" he told the Press Association.\n\nThree of the victims' families visited the site of the wreckage scattered across a wooded area, on Saturday, Thames Valley Police said.\n\nInvestigations at the site, conducted by police and the Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) are expected to continue for several days.\n\nSupt Rebecca Mears said it was \"too early to tell\" what might have caused the crash.\n\n\"With the ongoing support of emergency services, work is continuing to recover the men's bodies. We anticipate that this will happen by the end of the day,\" she added.\n\nBoth aircraft involved in the crash were from Wycombe Air Park\n\nThe helicopter and the Cessna plane both took off from Wycombe Air Park, also known as Booker Airfield, which offers flight training.\n\nIt is about 20 miles (30km) from the site of the crash. Emergency services were called shortly after midday on Friday.\n\nPolice said the priority was giving information to the victims' next of kin.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rescue teams are removing the wreckage from the site\n\nThe bodies of four men killed in a crash between a helicopter and plane have been recovered from the site.\n\nThe aircraft collided over Waddesdon Estate, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, on Friday. One of the victims was Capt Mike Green.\n\nThames Valley Police said it would not confirm the other men's identities but said one was a Vietnamese national.\n\nPost-mortem examinations, due to begin later, are expected to last several days, a spokesman said.\n\nHe added the force was working with \"military support\" to remove the wreckage.\n\nAn investigation by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch into the cause of the crash is ongoing.\n\nCapt Mike Green was described as a 'respected' helicopter instructor\n\nThe bodies of all four men have now been recovered\n\nSupt Rebecca Mears said: \"Our thoughts remain with the families of the men who have tragically lost their lives.\n\n\"Specially-trained officers are continuing to offer their support to the families of the victims affected, three of whom we understand to be British nationals, one of whom is a Vietnamese national.\n\n\"Work will today focus on removing the aircraft from the scene.\"\n\nInvestigations at the site are expected to last several days\n\nCapt Green was conducting a flight instructor course with a student when they both died, his employer Helicopter Services said on Facebook.\n\nThe firm said it was \"devastated\" by his death.\n\nThe helicopter and the Cessna plane both took off from Wycombe Air Park, also known as Booker Airfield, which offers flight training.\n\nIt is about 20 miles (30km) from the site of the crash.\n\nThree of the victims' families visited the site of the wreckage, which is scattered across a wooded area, on Saturday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Critics say the tech behind driverless cars still needs a lot of work\n\nDriverless cars could be on UK roads within four years under government plans to invest in the sector.\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond told the BBC the objective was to have \"fully driverless cars\" without a safety attendant on board in use by 2021.\n\n\"Some would say that's a bold move, but we have to embrace these technologies if we want the UK to lead the next industrial revolution,\" he said.\n\nHowever, the chancellor admitted he had yet to use a driverless car himself.\n\n\"I'm promised to go in one when we visit the West Midlands tomorrow,\" he told the BBC's Andrew Marr show.\n\nMr Hammond is due to announce regulation changes in Wednesday's Budget which will allow developers to apply to test driverless vehicles on UK roads.\n\nAsked about the potential loss of jobs for drivers, he said the country could not \"hide from change\" and the government had to equip people with the skills \"to take up new careers\".\n\nThe chancellor admitted he had yet to experience a driverless car himself\n\nThe chancellor is also expected to detail proposals to build 300,000 new homes in the UK a year, as well as extra money for NHS nurses' pay.\n\nMr Hammond's announcement comes after the UK's biggest car manufacturer, Jaguar Land Rover, began testing driverless cars on public roads.\n\nThe trials, which rely on sensors that allow the cars to detect traffic, pedestrians and signals, took place in Coventry city centre over several weeks.\n\nJaguar said a human was on board to react to emergencies.\n\nThe government said the industry would be worth £28bn to the UK economy by 2035 and will support 27,000 jobs.\n\nLabour quipped that under the Tories it would not only be the cars with no-one in the driving seat.\n\nCritics have warned the technology necessary for driverless cars to succeed is a long way from being ready.\n\nFormer Top Gear host and now Grand Tour presenter Jeremy Clarkson said he was recently in a self-driving car which made two mistakes which could have killed him in just 50miles.\n\nWriting in the Sunday Times magazine, Mr Clarkson said the incidents convinced him the technology was still \"a very long way off\", adding: \"For now, we're miles away from it.\"\n\nIn the Budget, Mr Hammond is also expected to announce:\n\nFunding for 5G technology will go towards the National Cyber Security Centre to ensure the security of the mobile network, as well as testing on roads to help provide the network needed for driverless cars.\n\nA further £35m will be used to give rail passengers reliable mobile connections and \"lightning-speed\" internet during journeys. Trials are due to begin on the Trans-Pennine route, which connects Leeds, Manchester and Liverpool.\n\nLabour shadow chancellor John McDonnell said the Budget needed to show a \"genuine, decisive change of course\" and not \"empty promises\".", "Gaia Pope was last seen in Swanage on 7 November\n\nThere were no injuries to suggest \"any other person was involved\" in the death of missing teenager Gaia Pope, police have said.\n\nThe 19-year-old's body was found on Saturday in a field near Swanage, 11 days after she was last seen.\n\nDorset Police is treating her death as \"unexplained\" pending toxicology results.\n\nThree people were arrested on suspicion of murder as part of the investigation and released under investigation.\n\nDet Supt Paul Kessell said: \"The post-mortem examination has not identified any injuries to suggest any other person was involved in her death.\n\n\"The cause of death is undetermined, pending toxicology. The coroner is involved in the oversight of these examinations but at this time this remains an investigation into an unexplained death.\"\n\nSome items of clothing that Miss Pope was wearing on the day she went missing were found on Thursday\n\nMiss Pope, who had severe epilepsy, had not been seen since 7 November.\n\nHer disappearance prompted a massive campaign from family and friends who spent days scouring the town.\n\nItems of clothing she was wearing on the day she went missing were found on Thursday, close to where her remains were found near a coastal path.\n\nPolice thanked volunteers for their help in searching for the teenager, but have asked people to stay away from the site due to safety concerns.\n\nDet Supt Kessell added: \"I reiterate this area is steep and slippery in an exposed area close to sea cliffs. The area is covered in dense undergrowth and gorse and can present a hazard.\n\n\"The area where the body was located is likely to remain cordoned off for some time while forensic examinations and searches are concluded.\"\n\nMiss Pope went missing in Swanage on 7 November\n\nFlowers have been left in Miss Pope's memory at a Swanage monument\n\nEarlier, Miss Pope's twin sister, Maya, spoke of her heartbreak and vowed to \"make her [sister] so proud\".\n\nOn Facebook, she added: \"Can't find any words right now. Gaia is my everything and I am heartbroken. I thank everyone who was involved in searching for my beautiful twin.\"\n\nHer elder sister, Clara Pope-Sutherland, said the 19-year-old was the \"light of my life\" and \"intelligent, beautiful and emotionally wise\".\n\nPeople in the town came together at the church to say prayers and light candles on Sunday night\n\nA church service was held at St Mary's Church in Swanage with candles lit in memory of Miss Pope on Sunday night.\n\nTeam rector, the Very Reverend John Mann, said: \"When you see the candles together it brings that sense of unity.\n\n\"There were police and people who had been out searching at the service - that added to the sense this was a community together, we were there together.\"\n\nFloral tributes have begun to be left on the Alfred Monument, next to the sea front.\n\nFamily friend Sheri Carr, who organised the Find Gaia social media campaign thanked the public for its support.\n\n\"We are absolutely devastated, and unable to put into words our feeling of loss,\" she wrote on social media.\n\nThe public has been asked to stay away from the site due to safety concerns\n\nOn the day she went missing, Miss Pope was seen at about 15:00 GMT buying an ice cream at St Michael's Garage, having been driven there by a relative.\n\nShe was then spotted an hour later on CCTV in Manor Gardens, off Morrison Road.\n\nRosemary Dinch, 71; her 49-year-old son Paul Elsey; and 19-year-old grandson Nathan Elsey - all of whom were known to Miss Pope - were questioned by detectives and released under investigation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Robert Mugabe: \"The congress is due... I will preside over its processes\"\n\nZimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has defied calls from the public, the army and his own party to resign, vowing to stay in power for several weeks.\n\nHis televised address on Sunday triggered an avalanche of comments across social media.\n\nResponding to another user's comments, constitutional lawyer and human rights activist Tendai Biti argued that Mr Mugabe, who has ruled Zimbabwe since 1980, would never quit.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by TENDAI BITI This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTau Moyo was one of many users who expressed shock and anger over Mr Mugabe's decision to stay 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 2 by Tau Moyo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTalent Machingura put it bluntly, saying that people's hopes were \"crushed\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Talent machingura This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAncillar Mangena thought it was Mr Mugabe's message to the world that \"he is in charge\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Ancillar Mangena This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 many users were left simply confused about what may happen next.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Raphael Goredema This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOthers are already looking forward to Tuesday, when impeachment proceedings might be launched in parliament.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by Tendayi Manyange This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd there were those who just poked fun at the latest developments.\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.", "It feels a very long time since George Osborne made that claim for the Conservative Party and the record of the government since then has not really borne that out.\n\nBut right now, in some parts of the Tories there is a definite sense that unless they come up with an effective offer - politicians' term, not mine - on housing, they are on course to lose the next election.\n\nThere is tangible pressure then, not just on the Communities Secretary, Sajid Javid, but more to the point, the chancellor.\n\nNext week the political expectation is that Philip Hammond's Budget will provide at least part of the answer to that political quandary.\n\nLater today, there will be a tentative step in that direction, with Prime Minister Theresa May and Mr Javid donning hard hats to try to show they care, and announcing that housing associations' financial status will change.\n\nBut beyond what is announced this week there is, insiders suggest, a wider three-way fight going on over the best way to proceed.\n\nThe Department for Communities and Local Government, which Mr Javid heads, is said to be pushing not just for more money to build new houses, but also for more loosening up of the planning rules and more power to get building going on publicly-owned land.\n\nThe chancellor, sources suggest, is more focused on marginal changes to the market, as a traditional Conservative, to make the conditions more conducive for business to get building, rather than any bold intervention.\n\nBut inside No 10, it is not just the prime minister who is all too aware of the political pressure on housing, but her chief of staff Gavin Barwell- a former housing minister - who I'm told is \"beating up on Hammond\" to go further than he is willing so far to move.\n\nRight now in the immediate run-up to the announcement no minister or government official would acknowledge on the record exactly what's going on.\n\nBut these pre-Budget announcements, while important, are far from the end of the story.\n\nThere is a live argument, that relates to the kind of government Theresa May really wants to run - intervene in markets significantly with all the opportunity and the risk that presents, or tweak round the edges and hope to influence the wider economy's instincts.\n\nIn housing, as in much of her decision making, it just isn't clear which direction Theresa May really wants to go.", "Winston Churchill described the royal couple's wedding in 1947 as 'a flash of colour on the hard road we travel'\n\nThree more portraits of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have been released to commemorate their platinum wedding anniversary.\n\nOn Monday it will be 70 years since their marriage at Westminster Abbey. The church's bells will ring for more than three hours to mark the occasion.\n\nThe couple will celebrate at a private dinner in Windsor Castle.\n\nQueen Elizabeth is the first British monarch to celebrate a platinum wedding anniversary.\n\nThe images are part of a series by celebrity photographer Matt Holyoak, whose first portrait of them was revealed on Saturday.\n\nThe Queen wears a cream dress designed by Angela Kelly, her dressmaker for the last 15 years.\n\nHer golden \"Scarab\" brooch was a gift from Prince Philip in 1966.\n\nThe Queen and Duke of Edinburgh are the first royal couple to celebrate the milestone\n\nWhen they married, the monarch was 21 and the Duke a 26-year-old sailor who had served in the Royal Navy.\n\nWinston Churchill summed up the occasion in 1947 as \"a flash of colour on the hard road we travel\".\n\nPrince Philip is the nation's longest serving consort and the Queen its most enduring monarch.\n\nThe pair will welcome their sixth great-grandchild in April.\n\nAlthough the Queen continues with many of her duties as head of state, Prince Philip, 96, has retired from royal duties.\n\nThe Royal Mail has issued a set of six commemorative stamps for the occasion that feature the couple's engagement and wedding.", "Simon Speirs is believed to have drowned after he was swept overboard during rough seas.\n\nA sailor has died after being swept overboard in a \"tragic\" accident during an international yacht race.\n\nSimon Speirs, 60, from Bristol, was taking part in the Clipper Round the World Race leg from South Africa to Australia.\n\nOrganisers said the retired solicitor, who was wearing a life jacket, was washed over the side during gale force winds on Saturday.\n\nMr Speirs, described a sensible and popular chap, has been buried at sea.\n\nRace co-founder Sir Robin Knox-Johnston described him as an experienced sailor and said that \"it is absolutely tragic to lose someone like this\".\n\n\"I just feel for his family. Here he was fulfilling his dream and then it has turned into a nightmare for them,\" he added.\n\nAccording to a statement from Clipper, Mr Speirs was sailing for Great Britain on board the CV30, which was in sixth place and had reached the Indian Ocean.\n\nThe sailor, who had more than 40 years' dinghy experience, was washed off the deck by the wind.\n\nMr Speirs then became separated from the boat which was in the Southern Ocean, in what were rough seas with 20 knots of wind and gusts at 40.\n\nThe rest of the crew is believed to be safe and heading for Fremantle in Australia. Clipper said an investigation would be carried out.\n\nThe 12 racing yachts set off from Liverpool in August. The death of Mr Speirs is the third in the 21-year history of the Clipper race.\n\nDuring the last race in 2015, Andrew Ashman, 49, from Kent, died from a fatal neck injury. His death was the first in the race's history.\n\nIt was followed in April last year by the death of Sarah Young, 40, from London, who was un-tethered and washed off the deck.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Most of the victims were women and elderly people\n\nAt least 15 people have been killed and five others wounded in a stampede in Morocco while food aid was distributed.\n\nThe incident occurred in the town of Sidi Boulaalam in Essaouira province. The aid was being handed out by a private local charity.\n\nSome reports indicate that up to 40 people were injured in the crush. Local media reported that most of the victims were women and elderly people.\n\nPictures on social media showed bodies of women laid out on the ground.\n\nWitnesses told local media that this year's annual food aid distribution at a local market in Sidi Boulaalam, an impoverished town with just over 8,000 inhabitants, attracted a larger crowd than usual.\n\n\"This year there were lots of people, several hundred people,\" a witness who asked to remain anonymous told AFP news agency.\n\n\"People shoved, they broke down the barriers,\" he said, adding that the injured had been evacuated to a hospital in Marrakesh.\n\nMorocco's interior ministry said that King Muhammed VI had instructed the local authorities to help those affected, adding that he would personally cover all medical and funeral costs.\n\nAn unverified video shot by a bystander before the incident showed a large crowd gathered at the open-air market, waiting for the food distribution.\n\nIt is not clear what triggered the stampede, and an investigation is now under way.", "Malcolm Young (right) and his brother Angus (left) were driving forces behind the international success of AC/DC\n\nAustralian guitarist and AC/DC co-founder Malcolm Young has died aged 64 after a long battle with dementia.\n\nHe died peacefully on Saturday with his family nearby, a statement said.\n\nYoung will be remembered for his powerful rhythm guitar riffs that were instrumental in propelling the Sydney heavy rock group to stardom.\n\nThree Young brothers have been part of AC/DC's history, including lead guitarist Angus. Producer George Young died in October.\n\n\"Renowned for his musical prowess, Malcolm was a songwriter, guitarist, performer, producer and visionary who inspired many,\" the statement read.\n\n\"From the outset, he knew what he wanted to achieve and, along with his younger brother, took to the world stage giving their all at every show. Nothing less would do for their fans.\"\n\nAC/DC are one of the biggest heavy rock bands in the world\n\nFans and friends of Young have been posting their tributes to the popular musician on social media.\n\nTom Morello, of the US band Rage Against the Machine, tweeted his thanks to the \"#1 greatest rhythm guitarist\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Tom Morello This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEnglish rock star David Coverdale, a member of the band Whitesnake and former lead singer of Deep Purple, also offered his \"thoughts and prayers\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by David Coverdale This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 forming AC/DC in 1973, Angus and Malcolm Young were credited as co-writers on every song the band recorded between their 1975 debut High Voltage through to 2014's Rock or Bust.\n\nMalcolm was born in 1953 in Glasgow before his family emigrated to Australia when he was 10.\n\nHis family confirmed he was suffering from dementia in 2014.\n\nHe wrote much of the material that enabled AC/DC to become one of the biggest heavy rock bands and singer Brian Johnson has described him as the band's \"spiritual leader, our spitfire\".\n\nTheir biggest hits include Back in Black, Highway to Hell, and You Shook Me All Night Long. The group is estimated to have sold more than 200 million records worldwide, including 71.5 million albums in the US.\n\nA statement by Angus Young on the AC/DC website praises Malcolm's \"enormous dedication and commitment\" which made him \"the driving force behind the band\" who \"always stuck to his guns and did and said exactly what he wanted\".\n\n\"As his brother it is hard to express in words what he has meant to me during my life, the bond we had was unique and very special. He leaves behind an enormous legacy that will live on forever.\n\nMalcolm Young was never the star attraction of AC/DC's live shows. That honour went to his younger brother, Angus, dressed like a schoolboy and duck-walking across the stage like Chuck Berry.\n\nBut Malcolm gave the band their backbone. He wrote brutally efficient riffs and played them with concentrated ferocity, proving you don't need to rifle through 127 notes to be effective. And, while AC/DC rarely strayed from the template they set on Highway To Hell and Back in Black, those guitar lines inspired generations, from Metallica's James Hetfield to Guns N' Roses' Izzy Stradlin.\n\nOne of the reasons for Malcolm's songwriting economy was that he didn't much enjoy the process of making records. \"Being in the studio is like being in prison,\" he said in 1988.\n\nYet he took great care over AC/DC's sound, stripping out unnecessary flourishes and, unusually, playing with his amp turned down so the microphone could pick out the details.\n\nStill, it was concerts that got his blood racing. \"There's nothing like playing on stage,\" he said. \"If it's a good night, it's just like the first night. Same buzz. Same excitement.\"\n\nThat made his final tour with AC/DC all the more tragic. As his dementia progressed, the guitarist found himself unable to remember the riffs to songs like Hell's Bells and You Shook Me All Night Long, having to relearn them for every show.", "Singer Aled Jones has said he is \"deeply sorry\" for any upset caused after allegations about his behaviour, but denied any \"inappropriate contact\".\n\nResponding to newspaper claims of inappropriate \"messages\", his spokesman said the Songs of Praise star accepted his behaviour more than a decade ago had been \"occasionally juvenile\".\n\nThe spokesman said he had \"voluntarily agreed not to go on the BBC whilst the matter is investigated\".\n\nThe BBC is not commenting on the story.\n\nMr Jones's spokesman added that the allegations from a single female complainant of inappropriate messages and contact, reported in the Sun, did not relate to any broadcast work, and related to a matter more than 10 years ago.\n\nThe 46-year-old father-of-two continues to present his Sunday morning show on Classic FM.\n\nThe statement said: \"Whilst he accepts that his behaviour over a decade ago was occasionally juvenile, as was that of others, he never intended to harass or distress and he strongly denies any inappropriate contact.\n\n\"He is, however, deeply sorry for any upset caused and hopes this matter is resolved soon.\"\n\nAled Jones rose to fame with his re-recording of Walking In The Air\n\nMr Jones first found fame at the age of 12 when his re-recording of Walking In The Air, from animated Christmas film The Snowman, reached the top five of the UK charts in 1985.\n\nThe Welsh former choirboy received an MBE in 2013 for his services to music and broadcasting.\n\nHe was a contestant on Strictly Come Dancing in 2004 and has also appeared on TV shows including Daybreak, Escape To The Country and Cash In The Attic.\n• None Why Walking in the Air wasn't No.1", "Daniel Hegarty was flung into barriers during lap six and suffered fatal injuries\n\nA friend of a motorcyclist killed in a crash at the Macau Grand Prix said he had a strong feeling something \"disastrous\" was going to happen.\n\nDaniel Hegarty, 31, from Nottingham, suffered fatal injuries when he came off his bike on a sharp bend.\n\nRoger Edwards, who helped the father-of-two with his motorbike charity, said he had troubling sleeping before the race in China and feared for the rider.\n\nMr Edwards said the sportsman was \"magical\" and a great friend.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Hegarty, who raced for Top Gun Racing Honda, was flung into barriers during lap six and suffered fatal injuries. He died on the way to hospital.\n\n\"Motorcycling is a dangerous sport,\" said Mr Edwards. \"The risk is always there and premonition can foretell an awful lot and I didn't sleep last night or the night before.\n\n\"The premonition proved, sadly, correct. I knew something disastrous was going to happen and my thoughts were with Daniel being overseas.\n\n\"The following morning I was woken by a phone call from Daniel's mother with the bad news. I feel exceedingly sad, I couldn't be sadder [that those fears came true].\"\n\nMr Hegarty ran Rev and Go, a charity which aimed to tackle anti-social behaviour by getting youngsters involved in motorcycling sport.\n\nMr Edwards said he was a \"great role model\" to the teenagers who came to the charity.\n\n\"[He was] a magical fella who influenced an awful lot of people for the good,\" he said.\n\nMany tributes were paid to Mr Hegarty including from his girlfriend Lucy Draycott, who described him as the \"love of my life\".", "Michelle O'Neill said it was an \"emotional but exciting time\" for republicanism\n\nSinn Féin's Stormont leader Michelle O'Neill has ruled herself out of replacing Gerry Adams as party leader.\n\nMrs O'Neill told BBC's Sunday Politics programme that she had \"enough to do\" in her current role.\n\nMr Adams announced at Sinn Féin's ard fhéis (party conference) on Saturday that he would stand down as the party's leader next year.\n\n\"Leadership means knowing when it's time for change and that time is now,\" said the 69-year-old.\n\nMr Adams has been party president since 1983, but told the conference it would be his last as leader.\n\nSinn Féin may hope that Mr Adams' decision not to stand in the next Irish election will make any talks about a future coalition in Dublin more straightforward.\n\nBut Fianna Fáil Leader Micheal Martin has repeated his view that Sinn Fein remains unacceptable as a partner in government.\n\nWhatever the future brings, there's no doubt Gerry Adams' move marks an historic change as a leader who oversaw the republican movement's journey between violence and peace gives way to another politician who will pursue Irish unity through more conventional parliamentary politics.\n\nSinn Féin deputy leader Mary Lou McDonald is the front-runner to replace him.\n\nIt is expected that a special party conference will be held next year to elect a new president.\n\nMrs O'Neill was appointed Sinn Féin's Stormont leader in January, after former deputy first minister Martin McGuinness retired.\n\nShe said she would not be entering the Sinn Féin leadership race and would be concentrating on dealing \"with the problems in the north\".\n\nShe added that it was an \"emotional, but also an exciting, time for republican politics\".\n\n\"We will see who puts their name forward and then I will obviously make my decision on who I'd support that time.\"\n\nShe added that the election of a new president will be a \"very health process\".\n\nMeanwhile, Mrs O'Neill has called on both government to take a bigger role in breaking the ongoing political deadlock in Northern Ireland.\n\nGerry Adams at Sinn Féin's party conference, with Michelle O'Neill (right)\n\nThe power-sharing government at Stormont collapsed in January and several rounds of talks to restore the institutions between Sinn Féin and the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) have failed.\n\nMrs O'Neill said that she was sure the parties would return to a \"talks process of some description but it has to be meaningful - we can't keep going around the hamster wheel\".\n\nShe added that she will tell Prime Minister Theresa May when they meet on Tuesday that the Conservative Party have not sufficiently encouraged the DUP to strike a deal because of their Westminster pact.\n\nOn Saturday, she called on the Irish government to appoint a minister with responsibility for advancing Irish unity.\n\nAt Sinn Féin's party conference, she said that a parliamentary committee in the Republic of Ireland should also be formed to look at a united Ireland.\n\nOn Saturday, delegates at the ard fhéis voted to liberalise the party's policy on abortion.\n\nParty members voted in favour of allowing abortions where a pregnancy poses a risk to a woman's health, including mental health.\n\nThere will be a referendum on abortion law in the Republic of Ireland next May or June.\n\nSinn Féin's previous position supported allowing terminations when a baby is expected to die in the womb or shortly after birth, and in cases of rape or incest.\n\nCurrently, the law in the Republic of Ireland only permits abortion when there is a real and substantial risk to a woman's life. In Northern Ireland, terminations are only legal when continuing with a pregnancy poses a serious or permanent risk to a woman's health.", "The woman was found dead in a house on Hill Road, Muswell Hill\n\nA woman has been found stabbed to death in north London, sparking a murder investigation.\n\nThe woman, who is believed to be aged in her 50s, was discovered inside the property on Hill Road in Muswell Hill on Thursday evening.\n\nScotland Yard said they had visited the address after concerns were raised about her wellbeing.\n\nA post-mortem examination found she died of stab wounds. No-one has been arrested and witnesses are sought.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Independent online newspaper has streamed a video it described as \"live from space\" on its Facebook page - but the footage was recorded in 2015.\n\nMore than 180,000 people viewed the video during the \"live\" broadcast, with at least 2,000 sharing the post.\n\nThe stream was ended shortly after the BBC contacted the paper and it has since been deleted.\n\nA spokesman for the Independent said it regretted \"the human error that led to the mistake\".\n\nThe original footage was recorded by astronaut Terry Virts during a spacewalk in February 2015.\n\nAn hour-long recording of the spacewalk was posted to YouTube in April that year.\n\nAbove: The Independent, Below: YouTube footage\n\nIt is not the first time this specific recording from space has been shared on social media and wrongly said to be live.\n\nIn 2015, some 26m people watched the exact same footage on the Viral USA Facebook page.\n\nWhile in 2016 the hugely popular Facebook page Unilad shared a similar \"live\" stream. This video appears to show Russian cosmonauts at the International Space Station.\n\nAbove: The Independent, Below: Youtube footage\n\nThe Independent asked viewers of the video to comment on it with where they were watching from.\n\nIt is not clear where the paper sourced it from, or why it chose to stream it on Sunday.\n\nIts spokesman told the BBC: \"The Independent removed a social media post this afternoon after it was brought to our attention that a video stream we believed to be - and which we described as - live was in fact footage from some time ago.\"\n\nNasa has previously advised people to check its official social media accounts to see if a \"live\" broadcast is taking place.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA carnival mood has engulfed Zimbabwe's capital, Harare. Zimbabweans poured out to the streets carrying flags and placards to celebrate Wednesday's military takeover.\n\nPresident Robert Mugabe is under intense pressure to resign. But nothing has been heard from the 93-year-old since he appeared at a university graduation on Friday.\n\n\"We want to tell President Mugabe, it is time to rest,\" Chipo tells us as she continues celebrating with her friends near Freedom Square. \"This is a new Zimbabwe, and freedom has finally come,\" she adds.\n\nSuch a public display of defiance against the president would have been unthinkable before the military intervention.\n\nZimbabweans have been queuing to take pictures with the soldiers\n\nCrowds erupt into celebration at the sight of military vehicles and soldiers.\n\n\"They have given us our second independence,\" shouts a man from a crowd surging towards an armoured personnel carrier.\n\nThe crowds sing songs praising the military and its chief, Gen Constantino Chiwenga. Some carry placards featuring the general's portrait and that of the former Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who was fired last week after a feud with First Lady Grace Mugabe.\n\nNegotiations are going on behind the scenes to persuade President Mugabe to step down.\n\nIt is understood that he has insisted that he cannot do so and legitimise a coup.\n\nThe military maintains this is not a coup and there is international pressure to use constitutional means to resolve the political crisis. Negotiators are poring through Zimbabwe's laws to find a legal way out.\n\nMugabe's name and pictures have been taken down, stamped upon, torn\n\nSaturday's call for civilians to take to the streets looks choreographed to lend some legitimacy to the transition process being discussed.\n\nPresident Mugabe's support base has continued to crumble. Independence war veterans who fought alongside him against colonial rule have also been meeting in Harare. They, too, have called on their former leader to leave.\n\nBut the biggest blow yet to Mr Mugabe could be delivered by the central committee of the ruling Zanu-PF on Sunday.\n\nState television, ZBC, reported that eight out of 10 provinces of the party have passed a vote of no confidence in the president. Sunday's meeting is expected to ratify their decision, a move that could see Robert Mugabe dismissed as party leader.\n\nBack on the streets in the capital, car horns have been blaring all day as a few daring drivers attempt stunts amid cheers from spectators.\n\nThe feeling of freedom is palpable. There is a sense that Mr Mugabe's 37-year rule is coming to an end.\n\nThe majority of those in the streets are young people who have only ever known him as their leader, like 31-year-old Rachel, who took her children aged nine months and four years to Freedom Square. \"I'm happy that she (pointing at the younger child strapped on her back) will grow up knowing a new president, not the one I've known all my life.\"\n\n\"We want change,\" says another young woman. \"It doesn't matter what change, we just want it.\"\n\nAs celebrations continue into the night, it appears not much thought has been given to life after Robert Mugabe.\n\nBut there is growing consensus that the 93-year-old man has overstayed his welcome.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why is Zimbabwe in such a bad way?", "Scotland are still awaiting a first win over New Zealand after a dramatic 22-17 loss at Murrayfield.\n\nTries from Codie Taylor and Damian McKenzie early in the second half put the world champions in command.\n\nJonny Gray thundered over for Scotland, but Beauden Barrett scampered away to stretch the All Blacks' lead.\n\nHuw Jones raced clear for a converted try and in the last minute Stuart Hogg was denied by a superb cover tackle from Barrett when heading for the line.\n\nThe outstanding Hogg was racing towards the left corner for a try that would have tied the scores with a conversion attempt to come, but Barrett caught the full-back, who lost the ball forward as he attempted an offload.\n\nThe five-point defeat is the closest Scotland have come to beating New Zealand since the sides drew 25-25 at Murrayfield in 1983.\n\nThis was always going to be a momentous occasion but the emotion was ratcheted up further when former Scotland lock Doddie Weir and his three sons brought out the match ball before kick-off, Murrayfield rising as one to greet the former Lion, who has motor neurone disease.\n\nIt was a searing moment and it lent Murrayfield a power that Scotland fed off. There was a ferocity about Gregor Townsend's team, an accuracy in possession and a tempo that denied New Zealand the kind of easy ball they've been used to when they come here.\n\nThe visitors conceded five penalties in the first 20 minutes and seven in the first 30. Scotland competed brilliantly at the breakdown, Hamish Watson and John Barclay frustrating the All Blacks and refusing to let them to settle into their murderous rhythm.\n\nFinn Russell put Scotland ahead with the boot and that lead stayed intact through two dangerous bouts of New Zealand pressure, the first ending not with the breakthrough try that looked as if it was imminent but with a Barrett forward pass to Ryan Crotty, and the second when Scotland survived a New Zealand scrum five metres from their line.\n\nBy then, flanker Watson - who had been playing outstandingly - had become the first of the casualties and was replaced by Luke Hamilton on debut.\n\nJust before the half-hour, Waisake Naholo took Hogg out in the air but the officials decided it merited no more than a penalty.\n\nJust when it seemed Scotland might become for the first side to keep New Zealand scoreless in an opening half of a Test since England did it five years ago, Barrett levelled with a penalty. The injuries were now mounting for the hosts, Zander Fagerson joining Watson in the treatment room, and the replacement Hamilton following too.\n\nThe All Blacks had the lead at that point, Rieko Ioane and Taylor starting and then finishing a move that made it 8-3. Two minutes later, a Sonny Bill Williams grubber put McKenzie in for New Zealand's second score, converted by Barrett. That stretched the lead to 15-3.\n\nGeorge Turner, the hooker, had come on for Hamilton, with Stuart McInally reverting to his old position in the back row, as Townsend patched his team together in the hope of keeping the game alive. They were immense against the odds.\n\nSam Cane was sin-binned as Scotland piled on the pressure, Gray barging over from close range for a try that electrified Murrayfield. When Russell put over the conversion, it was a five-point game again.\n\nRemarkably, with a makeshift front-row of Jamie Bhatti, George Turner and Simon Berghan, and a hooker playing open-side, Scotland were still alive.\n\nThe hope appeared to die when the All Blacks kicked for home, Williams delivering a magnificent offload to McKenzie, who cut a beautiful angle and put Barrett away to touch down.\n\nThe gap was 12 points with the conversion but still Scotland came again, New Zealand cynically killing ball in their own 22 and getting a second yellow for their trouble, Wyatt Crockett the culprit.\n\nThe thunder carried on to the death with New Zealand unable to shake off the Scots. Hogg, magnificent all day, put through a gorgeously weighted grubber up the right wing and Tommy Seymour got to it first to unload to centre Jones, who ran away to score.\n\nThere were three minutes left when Russell walloped over the conversion to put Scotland within a converted try of one of the greatest days in their rugby history.\n\nHogg then went on an arcing run into the New Zealand 22 and in that moment you believed, for a second, that the miracle was about to happen.\n\nBut Barrett had sensed the danger and had the pace to cover across. Hogg's attempted pass bobbled forward in was the final play of a brilliant but agonising day.\n\nReplacements: 16-George Turner (for Hamilton, 50), 17-Jamie Bhatti (for Marfo, 59), 18-Simon Berghan (for Fagerson, 41), 19-Grant Gilchrist (for Toolis, 59), 20-Luke Hamilton (for Watson, 27), 21-Henry Pyrgos (for Price, 76), 22-Pete Horne (for Dunbar, 47), 23-Byron McGuigan (for L Jones, 69).\n\nReplacements: 16-Nathan Harris (for Taylor, 75), 17-Wyatt Crockett (for Hames, 52), 18-Ofa Tu'ungafasi (for Laulala, 59), 19-Liam Squire (on for Romano, 47), 20-Matt Todd (for Cane, 75), 21-TJ Perenara (for Smith, 65), 22-Lima Sopoaga (for Naholo, 75), 23-Anton Lienert-Brown (for Williams, 69).", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby League\n\nEngland beat Papua New Guinea to set up a World Cup semi-final against Tonga despite an error-strewn performance.\n\nEngland built a healthy half-time lead after a double from winger Jermaine McGillvary and Alex Walmsley's score.\n\nBen Currie crossed after the break as Garry Lo got PNG on the board, but two tries from Kallum Watkins and a late try from Ryan Hall sealed the victory.\n\nBut the winning margin masked a 56% completion rate and an error count of 20 from Wayne Bennett's side.\n\nMcGillvary was one of the bright points in Melbourne - the 29-year-old crossed for two almost identical scores as England found space down the right, taking his tally to six tries for the tournament.\n\nKato Ottio had PNG's best chance of the first half but was denied on the hooter for a push on England's Gareth Widdop.\n\nThe full-back, who was commanding at the back, then slipped through a delightful kick which was collected by Currie as England extended their lead in the second period.\n\nWhen PNG scored through Castleford Tigers-bound Lo, a nervous wave rippled through the stadium, but McGillvary turned provider to set up centre Watkins before his diving effort and Hall's finish out wide brought up seven tries for England.\n\nDespite the flattering scoreline, coach Bennett is still waiting for an 80-minute performance from his side.\n\nEngland's inconsistency in attack has been a theme of the tournament, with wins against Lebanon and France in the group stage overshadowed by periods of sloppy play.\n\nAgainst the French they made 13 handling errors, and managed 12 in the first half alone against PNG.\n\nEngland half-back Luke Gale should have opened the scoring after two minutes when captain Sean O'Loughlin popped out a delicious offload in the tackle, but he failed to offload to the two men outside him.\n\nA host of loose carries and spilled ball from forwards Sam Burgess and Chris Hill added to the error count, which increased further after the break.\n\nJames Graham carved open the PNG defence but a forward pass from interchange James Roby squandered another attacking set.\n\nThat was a rare mistake from Roby who otherwise put in a controlled performance from the bench and will be pushing for a starting berth ahead of Josh Hodgson against Tonga next weekend.\n\n\"I'm very pleased with the win,\" Widdop told BBC Sport. \"But we need to fix up a lot of areas of ball control - at the moment that is not good enough.\"\n\nAnd Bennett will also be keen to see how stand-off Kevin Brown is after he appeared to be briefly knocked out during the first half - an incident that led to his withdrawal at the break.\n\n'The best winger in the world'\n\nMcGillvary has caused quite a storm in Australia. The 29-year-old former warehouse worker has had a remarkable rise in the sport after packing in his job when he was persuaded to join the Huddersfield academy by his cousin, club captain Leroy Cudjoe.\n\nEngland's player of the tournament so far, his World Cup looked to be in doubt when he was alleged to have bitten Lebanon captain Robbie Farah during the group game in Sydney.\n\nHowever, he was cleared and went on to score two tries in England's final pool match against France.\n\nAnother clinical performance followed against Papua New Guinea, and he has now scored 11 tries in his past 10 games. He has also made more metres than any other player in the tournament.\n\nFormer England international Jon Wilkin told BBC Sport: \"He's the best winger, for me, in the world at the moment.\n\n\"I can tell you from personal experience, he's probably the most difficult player to handle. I think if he was missing it would genuinely affect how England play.\"\n\nWiddop was another highlight for Bennett's side and despite having few chances to stretch his legs in attack, he was in control at the back, making several telling tackles.\n\nThe St George Illawarra Dragon covered all of PNG's testing grubbers, including anticipating a bounce off the posts and dominating the aerial battle.\n\nWith Jonny Lomax now fit after returning from injury, Bennett will have a few selection headaches for the semi-final.\n\nThe Kumuls have been one of the most entertaining sides of the tournament.\n\nThey were unbeaten in the group stages, scoring 24 tries in their opening three matches and conceding just two in reply.\n\nBut against England they were rocked by an early injury to influential captain David Mead who looked to have been knocked out while tackling Gale and was unable to return to the field.\n• None PNG - the country where rugby league is a religion\n\nPlaying outside of PNG capital city Port Moresby for the first time in the tournament, they were unable to unleash their attacking potential against a well-drilled England defence.\n\nThey were denied a try at the death for crossing but for the country where rugby league is practically a religion, their impressive run to the quarters will have further fuelled their obsession.", "Alaïa was fascinated by the human form and his designs were often close-fitting\n\nThe celebrated Tunisian fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa has died at the age of 77, French media report.\n\nAlaïa, whose close-fitting designs earned him the nickname \"king of cling\", achieved fame in the 1980s.\n\nAlaïa was known for his uncompromising attitude to exhibit his designs to his own schedule and was uninterested in the publicity of fashion weeks.\n\nBarbadian singer Rihanna in a dress designed by Alaïa at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles in 2013\n\nMichelle Obama wore an Alaïa dress at the Nato summit in Germany in 2009\n\nLady Gaga in an Alaïa creation at the Academy Awards in Hollywood in 2015\n\nTributes were being paid to the couturier on social media on Saturday.\n\nLady Gaga said that Alaïa was a \"genius in not only fashion but in his heart\". In a statement posted on Twitter, the singer said the designer \"should be celebrated as one of the greatest,\" adding: \"I love you.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lady Gaga This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSinger Mariah Carey also thanked Alaïa in a tweet, adding that he was an \"incredibly kind man\".\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\nFellow fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier said that Alaïa was \"brilliant\" at combining traditional techniques and knowledge to create timeless items.\n\nAlaïa, who was born in 1940, trained as a sculptor in his native Tunisia and remained fascinated by the human form throughout his career.\n\nHe moved to Paris in the late 1950s, working briefly for Christian Dior and Guy Laroche before becoming an independent couturier.\n\nThe Paris-based couturier's exhibitions were displayed throughout Europe\n\nFashions by Alaïa on display in Duesseldorf, western Germany, in 2013", "Gaia Pope was last seen in Swanage on 7 November\n\nA body has been found in the hunt for missing teenager Gaia Pope.\n\nDorset Police said they were \"confident\" that the remains on land near Swanage were those of the 19-year-old, who has been missing for 11 days.\n\nOfficers made the discovery at 15:00 GMT on Saturday near a coastal path and field where items of her clothing were found on Thursday.\n\nIn a statement Gaia's sister, Clara Pope, described her as the \"light of my life\".\n\nMs Pope told ITV News that her sister was \"so beautiful, so emotionally wise and intelligent and so passionate and artistic and creative and understanding\".\n\nAddressing those people who had searched for Gaia, she added: \"I just want to tell everybody that every minute of your hard work has been absolutely worth it.\"\n\nGaia's cousin, Marienna Pope-Weidemann, said: \"We are absolutely devastated and unable to put those feelings of loss into words.\n\n\"Our little bird has flown, but she will always be with us.\"\n\nMs Pope-Weidemann added: \"We want to thank each and every one of you for everything you've done.\n\n\"If there is one ray of light in this nightmare it is the compassion, humanity and community spirit that you've shown over the last 10 days.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Your dedication and selflessness for a girl that many of you don't even know has been staggering and one of the few things that kept us going.\"\n\nThree people have previously been arrested on suspicion of murder and released under investigation.\n\nDetectives detained 71-year-old Rosemary Dinch; her 49-year-old son Paul Elsey; and her 19-year-old grandson Nathan Elsey - all of whom were known to Miss Pope.\n\nDet Supt Paul Kessell, of Dorset Police, said: \"Although the body has yet to be formally identified, we are confident that we have found Gaia.\n\n\"Her family has been informed and are being supported by specially-trained officers. Our thoughts remain with all of her family and friends at this very traumatic time.\n\n\"They have requested privacy and that we make no further media releases at this point.\"\n\nLand close to where the items of clothing were found was searched\n\nExtensive searches took place to locate the teenager, who was last seen at about 16:00 GMT on 7 November in Manor Gardens, Swanage.\n\nAn hour earlier she had been captured on CCTV buying an ice cream inside St Michael's Garage, having been driven there by a relative.\n\nHundreds of missing person posters were distributed across the county and volunteers helped to scour the town.\n\nDet Supt Kessell, of Dorset Police's major crime investigation team, said the Dorset coroner had been informed and a post-mortem examination would take place.\n\nHe said that forensic examinations would continue.\n\n\"This will guide the investigation in respect of the circumstances of the death which at this time remains unexplained,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"I can confirm that we have recovered all the clothing we believe Gaia was wearing when she disappeared and, with thanks, we no longer require the public to assist with searches.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ex-Tory minister Anna Soubry says her office has received 13 death threats since a newspaper front page named her as one of 15 \"Brexit mutineers\".\n\nThe pro-EU Remain supporter said the police took the threats seriously and had passed two cases to prosecutors.\n\nShe said she had been \"really quite frightened\" and blamed the threats on Wednesday's Daily Telegraph front page.\n\nThe paper's editor defended what he called \"the legitimate actions and language of a free press\".\n\nThe story concerned Conservative MPs planning to rebel against the government's bid to enshrine the precise date of Brexit in law.\n\nSpeaking on Broadcasting House on BBC Radio 4, Ms Soubry said her office had told her of the 13 death threats.\n\n\"That's just astonishing, isn't it?\" she said.\n\n\"The police take it seriously - it's not nice, it's not acceptable and it's not necessary.\"\n\nMs Soubry had previously described the headline as a \"blatant piece of bullying\".\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 threats had included \"references to what happens to mutineers\", she told the BBC, adding: \"A number of tweets have said we should be hung.\"\n\nShe added: \"If the Telegraph had not printed that headline those death threats would not have come through - that is a fact.\"\n\nThe government lost its majority at the general election and risks defeat when the Commons votes next month on the Brexit date issue.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Chancellor Philip Hammond said the government would not be withdrawing its plans to press ahead with the move, adding that Parliament was \"quite rightly\" debating the proposals as part of the EU (Withdrawal) Bill.\n\nThe BBC has contacted the Daily Telegraph for a formal response.\n\nBut in a tweet to Broadcasting House presenter Paddy O'Connell, editor Chris Evans said: \"I'd urge you to distinguish between the legitimate actions and language of a free press and the illegitimate actions and language of those who make threats of violence.\"\n\nHe also referred to a leader article in Saturday's paper defending the headline, which it says was intended to be \"arresting\" and to show \"that there are still forces at work seeking to stop Brexit happening\".\n\nIt added: \"The individuals may disagree with that observation, but we were entitled to make it and we will see during the course of the next year whether there is any merit in it.\n\n\"But the accusations of bullying are absurd and shrill.\"\n\nThe article also pointed out that Ms Soubry had described her inclusion in the front page as a \"badge of honour\".\n\nThe Telegraph's front page echoed that of the Daily Mail when it singled out three judges - labelling them \"Enemies of the people\" - after the High Court ruled that MPs must have a say on triggering Article 50.\n\nThe Daily Mail's piece attracted hundreds of complaints to watchdog the Independent Press Standards Organisation.", "Gaia Pope went missing in Swanage on 7 November\n\nThe sister of Gaia Pope, whose body was found on Saturday, has described her as the \"absolute light of my life\".\n\nClara Pope-Sutherland said the 19-year-old was \"intelligent, beautiful and emotionally wise\".\n\nThe teenager had not been seen for 11 days before her remains were found in a field near Swanage, close to where some of her clothing was found on Thursday.\n\nDorset Police said it was \"confident\" it was her and a post-mortem examination is due to take place.\n\nDet Supt Paul Kessell said: \"This will guide the investigation in respect of the circumstances of the death, which at this time remains unexplained.\"\n\nThe site where police searching for Gaia Pope found a body on Saturday afternoon\n\nFlowers have been laid in Swanage following the discovery of Miss Pope's body\n\nMiss Pope's cousin, Marienna Pope-Weidemann, said: \"We are absolutely devastated and unable to put those feelings of loss into words.\n\n\"Our little bird has flown, but she will always be with us.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe teenager's body was discovered by police at about 15:00 GMT, as local people took part in three mass searches of land around the town.\n\nAddressing volunteers Miss Pope's sister said: \"Every minute of your hard work has been absolutely worth it.\"\n\nShe added said the \"dedication and selflessness\" of local people was one of the few things which kept the family going during the search.\n\n\"If there is one ray of light in this nightmare it is the compassion, humanity and community spirit which you have shown.\"\n\nDet Supt Kessell thanked the public for their help and said no further assistance was needed with the searches.\n\nLand close to where the items of clothing were found was searched\n\nDuring the investigation, three people were arrested on suspicion of murder and released under investigation.\n\nThey were 71-year-old Rosemary Dinch; her 49-year-old son Paul Elsey; and her 19-year-old grandson Nathan Elsey - all of whom were known to Miss Pope.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Karen Gorham This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMany members of the public have shared their condolences with Miss Pope's family on the Find Gaia Facebook group.\n\nAmy Howes wrote \"our village is mourning a terrible loss this morning, such sad news\".\n\nSonia Card said: \"Such sad news. Didn't know Gaia or her family. But spent time searching in the hope we would find her. So sorry we didn't.\"\n\nA church service is being held at 18:30 GMT at St Mary's Church in Swanage.\n\nTeam rector, the Very Reverend John Mann, said: \"It is good to have an opportunity for people to come together from right across the town.\n\n\"At times like this people don't know what to say, they don't know what to do, and they need a focus of attention.\"\n\nIn a post on Twitter, The Bishop of Sherborne, Karen Gorham, said prayers would be said across Dorset for Miss Pope's family and friends.\n\n7 November: Miss Pope is driven by a family member from Langton Matravers to Swanage. At 14:55, she is seen on CCTV at St Michael's Garage buying ice cream. The last confirmed sighting is at 16:00 at an address in Manor Gardens on Morrison Road\n\n8 November: Her family makes a plea through police for her to make contact. Dorset Police says it is \"becoming increasingly concerned\"\n\n9 November: Searches by police, the coastguard and force helicopter are carried out in the Swanage area. Miss Pope's relatives release a statement saying they are \"frantic with worry\"\n\n10 November: CCTV footage shows Miss Pope on Morrison Road, Manor Gardens, at 15:39 on 7 November\n\n13 November: Rosemary Dinch and Nathan Elsey are arrested on suspicion of murder and released under investigation\n\n14 November: Searches continue with the coastguard and volunteers from Dorset Search and Rescue and Wessex 4x4\n\n15 November: CCTV images of Miss Pope at St Michael's Garage are released. Searches continue to concentrate inland\n\n16 November: Paul Elsey is arrested on suspicion of murder. Miss Pope's clothing is discovered in a field near Swanage and a police cordon is set up\n\n18 November: Police discover a body near the coast path and a field close to where her clothing was found\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dyfed-Powys Police has told BBC Wales it received reports of historical sexual abuse perpetrated by a monk on Caldey Island in the 1970s and 1980s.\n\nThe force investigated in 2014 and 2016 but could not prosecute as the monk, Father Thaddeus Kotik, died in 1992.\n\nThe Guardian newspaper has reported that Caldey Abbey has paid compensation to six women who were abused as children.\n\nBBC Wales has attempted to contact Caldey Abbey in Pembrokeshire.\n\nCourt papers seen by The Guardian said Kotik carried out the abuse between 1972 and 1987 and the women, who were on holiday at the time, believe there may be many more victims.\n\nKotik worked in the abbey's dairy and befriended families who regularly visited the island.\n\nAfter gaining the trust of parents he would babysit the children and sexually abuse them, the papers suggest.\n\nThe women, who are not identified, said the abbey knew about the offences and failed to report Kotik to the police.\n\nIn civil proceedings against the abbey, they said it was liable for the alleged assaults which occurred on its property by Kotik who was charged with the safekeeping and care of the children.\n\nThe women said that Kotik \"terrified them into silence\" and said if they told anyone their parents would not want them and leave them on the island with him.\n\nIn 2014, one of the women e-mailed the current abbot of Caldey Abbey, Brother Daniel van Santvoort, and told him that the effect of the abuse had been catastrophic.\n\nShe said: \"Father Thaddeus' perversion has left me with ongoing feelings and experience of severe anxiety, fear, guilt and sadness.\n\n\"I have lived my life feeling a deep and misunderstood level of self-hatred and an inability to trust and believe in another person truly loving me.\"\n\nThe Guardian reports Brother Daniel had heard allegations previously about Kotik and in response he wrote: \"I have heard occasionally about this serious matter as regards Father Thaddeus.\"\n\nHe told her that the monastery knew about his offences and that he had been banned from contact with islanders and visitors in the 1980s but it had not been reported to the police.\n\n\"I am fully aware now of this terrible criminal offence and Father Thaddeus should have... been handed over to the police - something that never happened,\" he added.\n\nBrother Daniel forwarded the e-mails to Dyfed-Powys Police who asked for a formal statement which she submitted.\n\nIn response, a Dyfed-Powys Police spokesman said: \"We can confirm that in 2014 and 2016 we received reports of non-recent sexual abuse that occurred at Caldey Island with the named offender being the deceased Thaddeus Kotik.\n\n\"These reports were recorded as crimes and victims contacted by police.\n\n\"During the investigation, information was obtained to confirm that the perpetrator was deceased and therefore a prosecution was not possible.\n\nAppropriate professional support was offered and the matter was drawn to a close.\n\n\"Dyfed-Powys Police always encourages anyone who has suffered abuse to come forward and report it by calling 101.\"\n\nBrother Daniel apologised to the woman but, according to the Guardian, during the legal proceedings the abbey claimed it had no knowledge of the abuse.\n\nThe Guardian reported it also argued there was an \"evidential disadvantage\" in that none of the monks at the abbey during the time of the allegations were still alive and claimed it was not liable as the priest was not employed by the abbey to provide care for children.\n\nThe defence therefore required the claimants to prove each offence.\n\nAccording to the Guardian, it also argued that the victims were out of time to sue for damages and it was not possible for the abbey to have a fair trial.\n\nIt is also reported that the abbey asked the court not to allow the claim because the seriousness of the allegations was likely to attract attention that may threaten the continued existence of the abbey.\n\nThe women accepted what the Guardian describes as \"meagre\" compensation payments and received no apology.\n\nThe solicitor representing the women, Tracey Emmott, told The Guardian: \"It took the issuing of court proceedings before the out of court settlements were offered and even then my client's request for a formal apology as part of the settlement package was never forthcoming.\"", "David Cassidy was a teen idol in the 1970s\n\nFormer The Partridge Family star and singer David Cassidy, 67, is ill in hospital but is reported to be conscious, after suffering multiple organ failure earlier this week.\n\nA spokeswoman said he was admitted to hospital in Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday after suffering pain.\n\nHe is reportedly suffering kidney failure and needs a liver transplant.\n\nEarlier this year the singer said he had dementia and would stop touring in order to \"enjoy life\".\n\nA spokeswoman for Cassidy told the Press Association that he was conscious, following reports he had been put into a coma.\n\nShe said he was surrounded by family.\n\nThe singer's health has been deteriorating for more than two months, entertainment website TMZ reported.\n\nThe singer shot to fame in the 1970s\n\nCassidy shot to fame playing Keith Partridge in The Partridge Family - a 1970s sitcom about a mother and five children who formed a rock and roll band. The show spawned hit songs, such as I Think I Love You.\n\nThe former heartthrob went on to a hugely successful solo career as a singer and pop idol.\n\nIn recent years he has spoken about his struggles with alcohol.\n\nIn 2015 he filed for bankruptcy. Between 2010 and 2014, he was arrested three times for drunken driving, and was ordered to rehab as part of his sentence in 2014. He has divorced three times.\n\nA video that emerged on social media of him performing earlier this year raised concerns about his health.", "Gen John Hyten (left): \"If you execute an unlawful order, you will go to jail.\"\n\nThe top nuclear commander in the US says he would resist any \"illegal\" presidential order to launch a strike.\n\nAir Force Gen John Hyten, said as head of the US Strategic Command he provided advice to a president and expected that a legal alternative would be found.\n\nHis comments come just days after US senators discussed a president's authority to launch a nuclear attack.\n\nSome of them expressed concern that President Donald Trump might irresponsibly order such a strike.\n\nOthers though said a president must have the authority to act without meddling from lawyers. It was the first such hearing in more than 40 years.\n\nIn August, Mr Trump vowed to unleash \"fire and fury like the world has never seen\" on North Korea if it threatened the US.\n\nLast month, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Republican chairman, Senator Bob Corker, accused the president of setting the US \"on a path to World War Three\".\n\nSpeaking at the Halifax International Security Forum in Canada, Gen Hyten said: \"We think about these things a lot. When you have this responsibility, how do you not think about it?\"\n\nAs for the legality of a strike, the general said that he had studied US laws of armed conflict for many years which stipulates key criteria the president must consider before launching any attack:\n\nThe armed conflict report quotes an International Court of Justice ruling which states that while the threat or use of nuclear weapons is not prohibited by international law, \"the use of such weapons seems scarcely reconcilable with respect for the requirements of the law applicable in armed conflict\".\n\nWhile Senators and expert witnesses agree the president has full authority to defend the nation, commentators have pointed out that because there is no all-encompassing definition of \"imminent attack\", the president is not given an entirely free hand.\n\n\"I provide advice to the president, he will tell me what to do,\" Gen Hyten said.\n\n\"And if it's illegal, guess what's going to happen? I'm going to say: 'Mr President, that's illegal.' And guess what he's going to do? He's going to say, 'What would be legal?' And we'll come up with options, of a mix of capabilities to respond to whatever the situation is, and that's the way it works.\n\n\"It's not that complicated,\" Gen Hyten added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Would the US military disobey a nuclear order from President Trump?\n\nHe added: \"If you execute an unlawful order, you will go to jail. You could go to jail for the rest of your life.\"\n\nPresident Trump has not publicly commented on Gen Hyten's remarks.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, the man known as \"the crocodile\" because of his political cunning, achieved a long-held ambition to succeed Robert Mugabe as Zimbabwe's president in November last year.\n\nHe has now won a disputed presidential election to legitimise his rule, promising voters his efforts to woo foreign investors will bring back the economy from the brink of collapse.\n\nMr Mugabe resigned following a military takeover and mass demonstrations - all sparked by his sacking of Mr Mnangagwa as his vice-president.\n\n\"The crocodile\", who lived up to his name and snapped back, may have unseated Zimbabwe's only ruler, but he is also associated with some of the worst atrocities committed under the ruling Zanu-PF party since independence in 1980.\n\nOne veteran of the liberation struggle, who worked with him for many years, once put it simply: \"He's a very cruel man, very cruel.\"\n\nBut his children see him as a principled, if unemotional, man. His daughter, Farai Mlotshwa - a property developer and the eldest of his nine children by two wives - told BBC Radio 4 that he was a \"softie\".\n\nAs if to reinforce this softer image of the new leader, a cuddly crocodile soft toy was passed among the Zanu-PF supporters who welcomed him back to the country after Mr Mugabe's resignation.\n\nEmmerson Mnangagwa is known as \"Ngwena\", the Shona word for crocodile\n\nAnd what he lacks in charisma and oratory prowess, he makes up for in pragmatism, says close friend and Zanu-PF politician Josiah Hungwe.\n\n\"Mnangagwa is a practical person. He is a person who recognises that politics is politics but people must eat,\" he told the BBC, adding that reforming Zimbabwe's disastrous economy will be the focus of his leadership.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emmerson Mnangagwa: Who is the man known as the ‘crocodile’?\n\nThe exact year of Mr Mnangagwa's birth is not known - but he is thought to be 75, which would make him nearly 20 years younger than his predecessor who left power aged 93.\n\nBorn in the central region of Zvishavane, he is a Karanga - the largest clan of Zimbabwe's majority Shona community.\n\nSome Karangas felt it was their turn for power, following 37 years of domination by Mr Mugabe's Zezuru clan, though Mr Mnangagwa was accused of profiting while under Mr Mugabe.\n\nAccording to a United Nations report in 2001, he was seen as \"the architect of the commercial activities of Zanu-PF\".\n\nThis largely related to the operations of the Zimbabwean army and businessmen in the Democratic Republic of Congo.\n\nZimbabwean troops intervened in the DR Congo conflict on the side of the government and, like those of other countries, were accused of using the conflict to loot some of its rich natural resources such as diamonds, gold and other minerals.\n\nMore recently military officials - many behind his rise to power - have been accused of benefiting from the rich Marange diamond fields in eastern Zimbabwe, with reports of killings and human rights abuses there.\n\nDespite his money-raising role, Mr Mnangagwa, a lawyer who grew up in Zambia, was not always well-loved by the rank and file of his own party.\n\nA Zanu-PF official posed an interesting question when asked about Mr Mnangagwa's prospects: \"You think Mugabe is bad, but have you thought that whoever comes after him could be even worse?\"\n\nThe opposition candidate who defeated Mr Mnangagwa in the 2000 parliamentary campaign in Kwekwe Central, Blessing Chebundo, might agree.\n\nDuring a bitter campaign, Mr Chebundo escaped death by a whisker when the Zanu-PF youths who had abducted him and doused him with petrol were unable to light a match.\n\nThose who fought in Zimbabwe's war of independence have long monopolised power\n\nMr Mnangagwa's fearsome reputation was made during the civil war which broke out in the 1980s between Mr Mugabe's Zanu party and the Zapu party of Joshua Nkomo.\n\nAs national security minister, he was in charge of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), which worked hand in glove with the army to suppress Zapu.\n\nThousands of civilians - mainly ethnic Ndebeles, seen as Zapu supporters - were killed in a campaign known as Gukurahundi, before the two parties merged to form Zanu-PF.\n\nAmong countless other atrocities carried out by the North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade of the army, villagers were forced at gunpoint to dance on the freshly dug graves of their relatives and chant pro-Mugabe slogans.\n\nMr Mnangagwa has denied any role in the massacres, but the wounds are still painful and many party officials, not to mention voters, in Matabeleland might find it hard to back Mr Mnangagwa.\n\nHe does enjoy the support of many of the war veterans who led the campaign of violence against the white farmers and the opposition from 2000.\n\nThey remember him as one of the men who, following his military training in China and Egypt, directed the fight for independence in the 1960s and 1970s.\n\nHe also attended the Beijing School of Ideology, run by the Chinese Communist Party.\n\nMr Mnangagwa's official profile says he was the victim of state violence after being arrested by the white-minority government in the former Rhodesia in 1965, when the \"crocodile gang\" he led helped blow up a train near Fort Victoria (now Masvingo).\n\n\"He was tortured, severely resulting in him losing his sense of hearing in one ear,\" the profile says.\n\n\"Part of the torture techniques involved being hanged with his feet on the ceiling and the head down. The severity of the torture made him unconscious for days.\"\n\nAs he said he was under 21 at the time, he was not executed but instead sentenced to 10 years in prison.\n\n\"He has scars from that period. He was young and brave,\" a close friend of Mr Mnangagwa once said, asking not to be named.\n\n\"Perhaps that explains why he is indifferent. Horrible things happened to him when he was young.\"\n\nHis ruthlessness, which it could be argued he learnt from his Rhodesian torturers, is said to have been seen again in 2008 when he reportedly masterminded Zanu-PF's response to Mr Mugabe losing the first round of the president election to long-time rival Morgan Tsvangirai.\n\nThe military and state security organisations unleashed a campaign of violence against opposition supporters, leaving hundreds dead and forcing thousands from their homes.\n\nMr Tsvangirai then pulled out of the second round and Mr Mugabe was re-elected.\n\nMr Mnangagwa has not commented on allegations he was involved in planning the violence, but an insider in the party's security department later confirmed that he was the political link between the army, intelligence and Zanu-PF.\n\nHe was seen as Mr Mugabe's right-hand man - that is until the former first lady Grace Mugabe became politically ambitious and tried to edge him out.\n\nTheir rivalry took a bizarre turn when he fell ill in August 2017 at a political rally led by former President Mugabe and had to be airlifted to South Africa.\n\nGrace Mugabe (right) bit off more than she could chew by taking on Mr Mnangagwa\n\nHis supporters suggested that a rival group within Zanu-PF had poisoned him and appeared to blame ice cream from Mrs Mugabe's dairy firm.\n\nIn his first words to cheering supporters after Mr Mugabe's resignation, he spoke about this plot and another plan to \"eliminate\" him.\n\nHe has also blamed a group linked to the former first lady for an explosion in June at a Zanu-PF rally in Bulawayo in which two people died.\n\nBut in a BBC interview, he said the country was safe, told foreign investors not to worry and sought to dispel his ruthless reputation: \"I am as soft as wool. I am a very soft person in life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mnangagwa: Criminal will be hounded down, but Zimbabwe is safe\n\nHis youngest son, a Harare DJ known as St Emmo, blames his reticence for his fearsome reputation.\n\n\"He was a good father, very very strict. He doesn't say much and I think that's what frightens people - like: 'What is he thinking?'\"\n\nNick Mangwana, Zanu-PF representative in the UK, accepts that the Zimbabwe's new leader is \"not the most eloquent\".\n\n\"He's not pally-pally but more of a do-er, more of a technocrat.\"\n\nBut in his six months in power he has fully embraced Twitter and Facebook - after the Bulawayo blast he posted a message reiterating the strength his Christian faith gives him.\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 Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa 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\nFixing the economy is what is paramount now. Zimbabweans are on average 15% poorer now than they were in the 1980s.\n\nBritish journalist Martin Fletcher, who interviewed Mr Mnangagwa in 2016, does not see him a reborn democrat.\n\n\"He understands the need to rebuild the economy if only so that he can pay his security forces - and his survival depends on their loyalty,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Katherine Brunt starred with bat and ball as England kept their hopes of a drawn Women's Ashes series alive with a 40-run win over Australia in the second Twenty20 international in Canberra.\n\nBrunt (32 not out) and Natalie Sciver (40) helped England post 152-6 from their 20 overs after they won the toss.\n\nJenny Gunn (4-13) and Brunt (2-10) then helped bowl the hosts out for 112.\n\nThe Aussies, who are already assured of retaining the trophy, now lead the points-based multi-format series 8-6.\n\nEngland can level the series if they win the final T20 match, also at the Manuka Oval, on Tuesday.\n\nA wholehearted character who has worn her heart on her sleeve since her England debut in 2004, Brunt would have felt Friday's defeat - which ended England's hopes of regaining the Ashes - as keenly as anyone, having been dismissed for a golden duck and then bowling three overs for 33 runs.\n\nHaving worked hard on her batting in the past couple of years, she is desperate to repay the faith shown in her by captain and coach which has seen her promoted up the order in T20 cricket.\n\nThis time, a platform had been set by the elevation of Danielle Wyatt (19 from 16 balls) to open, and when Brunt came to the crease in the 13th over after Sarah Taylor (30) ran herself out, she helped England post what proved to be a competitive total - and could have been even higher had Taylor and Sciver not got themselves out when well set.\n\nBrunt's unbeaten 32 came off 24 balls, hitting back-up seamers Delissa Kimmince and Sarah Aley for two big sixes down the ground off successive overs.\n\nWith her regular new-ball partner Anya Shrubsole fit again, Brunt - for once - was not asked to bowl in the powerplay. She was instrumental in putting the squeeze on Australia in mid-innings, her four overs costing only 10 runs, aided by a slick Taylor stumping which removed Elyse Villani.\n\nGunn, another of the side's veterans, has sometimes been a bit-part player for England in this series - being left out of the Test XI - but proved her worth with ball in hand on her 250th international appearance.\n\nThe seamer broke a useful opening stand of 45 by having Alyssa Healy caught at mid-on, ran fellow opener Beth Mooney out with a direct hit, and returned to wrap up the tail with some accurate slower balls.\n\n'Clinical from ball one and held their catches' - what they said\n\nEx-England seamer Isa Guha on BBC Test Match Special: \"England have been clinical from ball one. Danni Wyatt got them off to a great start, other players continued that momentum, they've looked in control and held all their catches. They haven't become a bad team overnight - they generally don't start overseas tours well and were found wanting in that first T20.\"\n\nPlayer of the match Katherine Brunt on TMS: \"It's a shame we brought one of our best games today and not the other day, but hopefully we can still level the series. If it's equal points, that's a good finish and what we're striving for now.\n\n\"We've had one day to turn it around and that included a six-hour coach journey, so we've done really well to pick ourselves up. It was really bitter the other day, we're still feeling it and it still hurts. But we want to level the series and we'll give it our all.\"\n\nAustralia all-rounder Delissa Kimmince on TMS: \"We lost too many wickets in clumps, Brunt bowled really well into the wicket and Gunn's slower balls were hard to get onto - they had their field set right and we kept hitting to fielders.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRobert Mugabe, the man who became synonymous with Zimbabwe, has resigned as president after 37 years in power.\n\nFor some, he will always remain a hero who brought independence and an end to white-minority rule. Even those who forced him out blamed his wife and \"criminals\" around him.\n\nBut to his growing number of critics, this highly educated, wily politician became the caricature of an African dictator, who destroyed an entire country in order to keep his job.\n\nIn the end, it was the security forces, who had been instrumental in intimidating the opposition and keeping him in power, who made him go.\n\nThey were incensed when he sacked his long-time ally, Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, paving the way for his much younger wife Grace to succeed him, fearing it meant the end for them as the powers behind the throne.\n\nHe had survived numerous previous crises and predictions of his demise but with his powers failing at the age of 93, his former comrades-in-arms turned on him, favouring Mr Mnangagwa.\n\nBefore the 2008 elections, Mr Mugabe said: \"If you lose an election and are rejected by the people, it is time to leave politics.\"\n\nBut after coming second to Morgan Tsvangirai, Mr Mugabe displayed more characteristic defiance, swearing that \"only God\" could remove him from office.\n\nAnd just to be sure, violence was unleashed to preserve his grip on power.\n\nIn order to save the lives of his supporters, Mr Tsvangirai pulled out of the second round and although Mr Mugabe was forced to share power with his long-time rival for four years, he remained president.\n\nHe even won another election, in 2013, as Mr Tsvangirai had lost a lot of credibility during his years working with Mr Mugabe.\n\nThe key to understanding Mr Mugabe is the 1970s guerrilla war where he made his name.\n\nPresident Mugabe (L) has given his support to his wife Grace (R) for the vice-presidency\n\nEven after 37 years in power, Mr Mugabe still maintained the same worldview - the patriotic socialist forces of his Zanu-PF party were still fighting the twin evils of capitalism and colonialism.\n\nAny critics were dismissed as \"traitors and sell-outs\" - a throwback to the guerrilla war, when such labels could be a death sentence.\n\nRobert Mugabe (L), seen here in 1960, was greatly influenced by pan-Africanist ideals\n\nHe always blamed Zimbabwe's economic problems on a plot by Western countries, led by the UK, to oust him because of his seizure of white-owned farms.\n\nHis critics firmly blamed him, saying he had no understanding of how a modern economy worked.\n\nHe always concentrated on the question of how to share out the national cake, rather than how to make it grow.\n\nProtesters in 2016 burn worthless currency in a show of defiance against the introduction of new bond notes\n\nMr Mugabe once famously said that a country could never go bankrupt - with the world's fastest-shrinking economy and annual inflation of 231 million per cent in July 2008, it seemed as though he was determined to test his theory to the limit.\n\nProfessor Tony Hawkins of the University of Zimbabwe once observed that with Zimbabwe's former leader: \"Whenever economics gets in the way of politics, politics wins every time.\"\n\nIn 2000, faced with a strong opposition for the first time, he wrecked what was one of Africa's most diversified economies in a bid to retain political control.\n\nHe seized the white-owned farms which were the economy's backbone and scared off donors but in purely political terms, Mr Mugabe outsmarted his enemies - he remained in power for another 17 years.\n\nAnd the tactics he and his supporters used were straight from the guerrilla war.\n\nAfter he suffered the first electoral defeat of his career, in a 2000 referendum, Mr Mugabe unleashed his personal militia - the self-styled war veterans, backed by the security forces - who used violence and murder as an electoral strategy.\n\nMr Mugabe says he is fighting for the rights of black Zimbabweans\n\nEight years later, a similar pattern was followed after Mr Mugabe lost the first round of a presidential election to his long-time rival Morgan Tsvangirai.\n\nWhen needed, all the levers of state - the security forces, civil service, state-owned media - which are mostly controlled by Zanu-PF, were used in the service of the ruling party.\n\nThe man who fought for one-man, one-vote introduced a requirement that potential voters prove their residence with utility bills, which the young, unemployed opposition core electorate were unlikely to have.\n\nIn fact, the signs of his attitude to opposition were there from the early 1980s, when members of the North-Korea trained Fifth Brigade of the army were sent to Matabeleland, home to his then rival, Joshua Nkomo.\n\nThousands of civilians were killed before Mr Nkomo agreed to share power with Mr Mugabe - a precursor of what happened with Mr Tsvangirai.\n\nOne of the undoubted achievements of the former teacher's 33 years in power was the expansion of education. Zimbabwe still has one of the highest literacy rates in Africa, at 89% of the population.\n\nThe now deceased political scientist Masipula Sithole once said that by expanding education, the president was \"digging his own grave\".\n\nMr Mugabe has not been afraid to use violence to stay in power\n\nThe young beneficiaries were able to analyse Zimbabwe's problems for themselves and most blamed government corruption and mismanagement for the lack of jobs and rising prices.\n\nHe often claimed to be fighting on behalf of the rural poor but much of the land he confiscated ended up in the hands of his cronies.\n\nArchbishop Desmond Tutu once said that Zimbabwe's long-time president had become a cartoon figure of the archetypal African dictator.\n\nDuring the 2002 presidential campaign, he started wearing brightly coloured shirts emblazoned with his face - a style copied from many of Africa's authoritarian rulers.\n\nFor the preceding 20 years, this conservative man was only seen in public with either a stiff suit and tie or safari suit.\n\nHe professes to be a staunch Catholic, and worshippers at Harare's Catholic Cathedral were occasionally swamped by security guards when he turned up for Sunday Mass.\n\nHowever, Mr Mugabe's beliefs did not prevent him from having two children by Grace, then his secretary, while his popular Ghanaian first wife, Sally, was dying from cancer.\n\nBut it was his second wife Grace, 40 years his junior, who ultimately proved his downfall.\n\nAlthough Mr Mugabe outlived many predictions of his demise, the increasing strain of recent years took its toll and his once-impeccable presentation has begun to look rather worn at times.\n\nIn 2011, a US diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks suggested that he was suffering from prostate cancer.\n\nWife Grace said Mr Mugabe woke at 05:00 for his exercise\n\nBut he certainly led a healthy lifestyle.\n\nGrace once said that he woke up at 05:00 for his daily exercises, including yoga. He did not drink alcohol or coffee and was largely vegetarian.\n\nMr Mugabe was 73 when she gave birth to their third child, Chatunga.\n\nIf nothing else, Mr Mugabe has always been an extremely proud man.\n\nHe often said he would only step down when his \"revolution\" was complete.\n\nHe was referring to the redistribution of white-owned land but he also wanted to hand-pick his successor, who would of course have had to come from the ranks of Zanu-PF.\n\nDidymus Mutasa, once one of Mr Mugabe's closest associates but who has since fallen out with him, once told the BBC that in Zimbabwean culture, kings were only replaced when they die \"and Mugabe is our king\".\n\nBut even his closest allies were not ready for Zimbabwe to be turned into a monarchy, with power retained by a single family.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A new portrait of the Queen and Prince Philip has been released to mark their 70th wedding anniversary.\n\nThe royal couple will mark Monday's platinum anniversary with a private dinner with family and friends at Windsor Castle.\n\nThe bells of Westminster Abbey, where they married in 1947, will ring to mark the occasion.\n\nRoyal Mail has issued a set of six commemorative stamps, featuring the couple's engagement and wedding.\n\nCommemorative stamps from the Royal Mail feature the royal couple's engagement and wedding photos\n\nThe Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are the first royal couple to celebrate their 70th wedding anniversary.\n\nWhen they married, the then Princess Elizabeth was 21-years-old while her groom, Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, was 26.\n\nThe new image, by celebrity photographer Matt Holyoak, shows the pair flanked by Thomas Gainsborough's paintings of George III and Queen Charlotte from 1781.\n\nIn the photograph, the Queen is wearing a cream day dress designed by Angela Kelly, her personal assistant and dressmaker since 2002.\n\nShe also wears a \"Scarab\" brooch in yellow gold, carved ruby and diamond, designed by Andrew Grima and given to the Queen as a gift in 1966.", "Drone footage has captured the scale of a 5,000 barrel oil leak in South Dakota.\n\nThe leak was discovered by Keystone pipeline operators TransCanada on Thursday.", "Nicole was described as a \"quiet, well-spoken, gentle child who brightened a room\"\n\nA 12-year-old girl who died after a crash between a beach buggy and a pick-up truck near Newry, County Down, has been described as \"a special girl\".\n\nNicole Fegan was a passenger on the beach buggy which crashed on the Flagstaff Road on Saturday afternoon.\n\nA 14-year-old girl, who was driving the beach buggy, is in hospital with a broken leg.\n\nA book of condolence has been opened in Mayobridge, outside Newry, for Nicole.\n\nShe was a Year 8 pupil at Our Lady's Grammar School in Newry.\n\nPrincipal Fiona McAlinden said the entire school was \"saddened and shocked\" by Nicole's tragic death.\n\nTributes have been left on the Flagstaff Road where the crash happened\n\n\"Nicole was a very well-loved and valued pupil and she will be much missed by the staff and her many friends across the school community,\" she said.\n\n\"We extend our deepest sympathies to her parents, brothers, family and friends.\"\n\nIn a Facebook post, her former school, St Patrick's Primary and Nursery School in Mayobridge, said they were \"heartbroken\" to learn of her sudden death.\n\n\"Nicole was such a special girl,\" they said.\n\nPolice said Nicole was a passenger in the buggy when it collided with a truck\n\n\"We have memories of her kindness and her willingness to contribute to the life of the school through her musical ability, her sporting talents, her desire to do her best at all times and her beautiful smile.\n\n\"We offer our heartfelt condolences to her loving family.\"\n\nThe buggy collided with the truck at about 14:50 GMT on Saturday.\n\nSDLP councillor Gillian Fitzpatrick told BBC News NI that Nicole was \"a great wee community girl\" who was well-known in the area.\n\nA 14-year-old girl, who was driving the buggy, sustained a broken leg and remains in hospital\n\n\"She was a quiet, well-spoken, gentle child who brightened a room,\" she said.\n\n\"She was into music and sport, she was unassuming but had a lovely, kind heart.\"\n\nThe driver of the pick-up truck was not injured.\n\nThe Northern Ireland air ambulance attended the scene of the collision.", "Jubilant scenes are unfolding on the streets of Zimbabwe's capital Harare, as protests demanding the resignation of President Robert Mugabe have turned to a celebration of the army's role in ending his grip on power.", "The Prince of Wales has described the destruction caused by Caribbean hurricanes as \"utterly heartbreaking\".\n\nAfter meeting homeless families in Antigua, he said it was \"painful beyond words to see the devastation\".\n\nPrince Charles is on three-day tour to see the damage caused by hurricanes Irma and Maria in September.\n\nHis visit came as the government announced a further £15m support for overseas territories affected by the hurricane, bringing the total to £92m.\n\nPrince Charles met residents of Barbuda whose homes had been destroyed and who were being temporarily housed in Antigua.\n\nLater, the heir to the throne visited Barbuda itself, flying over houses where the roofs had been torn off and replaced by blue tarpaulin. His first stop was to a primary school that was visited last year by Prince Harry. It is now partly ruined and abandoned.\n\nThe Barbuda affairs minister Arthur Nibbs told the prince that the force of the hurricane was \"unprecedented\" in 200 years.\n\nPrince Charles highlighted the belief of climate experts that global warming is already intensifying tropical storms. \"This will get worse with continuous warming,\" he said.\n\nOnly about 100 of the island's 1,700 residents remain. The prince stopped at the home of one of them, Evans Thomas, 50, who had turned his house into a makeshift bar after the nearby pub was destroyed.\n\nThe final stop on the royal tour will be the British Virgin Islands, where the prince is due to meet Red Cross staff who are supporting families left homeless.\n\nPrince Charles said: \"It was painful beyond words to see the devastation that was so cruelly wrought across the Caribbean by Hurricanes Irma and Maria in those few, terrible weeks in September.\"\n\nHe said that across the Caribbean \"the loss of life and property and the damage to the natural environment have been utterly heartbreaking\".\n\nNew International Development Secretary Penny Mordaunt, who is set to join the Prince of Wales on his Caribbean visit, announced additional financial support of £12m for Dominica and £3m for Antigua and Barbuda.\n\nAdded to £15m recently allocated to the British Overseas Territories of Anguilla, the British Virgin Islands and Turks and Caicos, it brings the total UK support for reconstructing the region to £92m.\n\nPrince Charles said his aim in making the visit was to show the Commonwealth's support for people who had suffered in the hurricanes and to thank the aid and rescue workers who were supporting them.\n\nHe said: \"The recent events in the Caribbean have helped to underline the importance of the Commonwealth as a family, whose members care deeply for each other in times of need.\"", "Despite a show of public defiance against President Mugabe people are still afraid Image caption: Despite a show of public defiance against President Mugabe people are still afraid\n\nThe BBC's Andrew Harding has been speaking to Zimbabweans on the streets of the capital Harare.\n\nHe reports that there is a feeling of growing frustration after President Robert Mugabe failed to resign last night as had been expected.\n\nHe says people feel confused and impatient.\n\nA taxi driver told him that he had expected Mr Mugabe to leave office last night:\n\nQuote Message: He was supposed to be looking after his family... [he should] stay in Singapore, Malaysia where he has assets.\" He was supposed to be looking after his family... [he should] stay in Singapore, Malaysia where he has assets.\"\n\nOthers said that despite Saturday's public show of defiance as people rallied to urge President Mugabe to go, they were still afraid.\n\nHarare resident Lydia Gombe told our reporter that after years of repressive rule, many Zimbabweans still fear that they might get into trouble if they speak out against the government:\n\nQuote Message: The level of fear that these people have instilled in us as a nation is unbelievable. And it is just simple things. WhatsApp texts can get you arrested. A conversation in the bus can get you arrested.\" The level of fear that these people have instilled in us as a nation is unbelievable. And it is just simple things. WhatsApp texts can get you arrested. A conversation in the bus can get you arrested.\"\n\nShe adds that it would take time for people to lose their fear of speaking out.", "Inspectors will question girls who wear hijab in primary school to find out why they do so, head of Ofsted Amanda Spielman has said.\n\nShe said creating an environment where Muslim children are expected to wear the headscarf \"could be interpreted as sexualisation of young girls\".\n\nThe hijab is traditionally worn as a sign of modesty once a girl reaches puberty.\n\nBut the Muslim Council of Britain said Ofsted's policy was \"deeply worrying\".\n\nThe announcement comes after Ms Spielman met campaigners from the Social Action and Research Foundation think tank on Friday.\n\nIn September, the foundation's head, Amina Lone, co-ordinated a letter to the Sunday Times from campaigners arguing that the hijab has \"no place in our primary schools\", and demanding action as Muslim girls as young as five were \"increasingly veiled\".\n\n\"This is an affront to the historical fight for gender equality in our secular democracy and is creating a two-tiered form of non-equality for young Muslim girls,\" the letter said.\n\nExplaining her decision to act, Ms Spielman said: \"While respecting parents' choice to bring up their children according to their cultural norms, creating an environment where primary school children are expected to wear the hijab could be interpreted as sexualisation of young girls.\n\n\"In seeking to address these concerns, and in line with our current practice in terms of assessing whether the school promotes equality for their children, inspectors will talk to girls who wear such garments to ascertain why they do so in the school.\"\n\nShe urged parents concerned about fundamentalist groups influencing school policy or breaching equality law to complain to the school or to Ofsted.\n\nBut Muslim Council of Britain secretary general Harun Khan said: \"It is deeply worrying that Ofsted has announced it will be specifically targeting and quizzing young Muslim girls who choose to wear the headscarf.\n\n\"It sends a clear message to all British women who adopt this that they are second-class citizens, that while they are free to wear the headscarf, the establishment would prefer that they do not.\"\n\nHe said many British Muslims who wear the headscarf have done \"extremely well\" in education.\n\n\"It is disappointing that this is becoming policy without even engaging with a diverse set of mainstream Muslim voices on the topic,\" he said.\n\nMr Khan urged Ms Spielman to reverse the decision and said it risked being \"counter-productive\" to Ofsted's promise to uphold British values.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. People sing and celebrate as Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe is sacked\n\nZimbabwe's ruling party has sacked Robert Mugabe as its leader, as pressure intensifies for him to step down as president.\n\nZanu-PF has also given Mr Mugabe, 93, until 10:00 GMT on Monday to resign as president, or face impeachment.\n\nHe is currently addressing the nation, after meeting military leaders who have called on him to step down.\n\nThe military intervened last week, in an apparent attempt to block him from installing his wife as his successor.\n\nThe first lady, Grace Mugabe, and several other senior officials have been expelled from the party altogether.\n\nTens of thousands of Zimbabweans attended street protests on Saturday, demonstrating against the Mugabes.\n\nNo details of the talks between Mr Mugabe and the military leaders have been released. However, photos posted by the state-run Herald newspaper show the two sides - who also met several days ago - shaking hands.\n\nMr Mugabe was said to be seeking more time to negotiate his exit after nearly four decades in power.\n\nA number of sources close to the talks said Mr Mugabe is poised to resign, but this has yet to be confirmed.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Herald Zimbabwe This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Herald Zimbabwe\n\nCheering erupted when the decision to dismiss Mr Mugabe as party leader was announced in Harare on Sunday.\n\nOne senior official later told the BBC's Andrew Harding: \"It's the dawn of a new era. Mugabe can go farming.\"\n\nZanu-PF appointed ex-Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who was fired by Mr Mugabe two weeks ago, in his place.\n\nThe party's central committee also warned that impeachment proceedings would begin if Mr Mugabe did not step down as president by noon local time on Monday.\n\nImpeaching the president would require a two-thirds majority in both houses of Zimbabwe's parliament, which is due to resume on Tuesday.\n\nThe opposition MDC-T party has tried unsuccessfully to impeach Mr Mugabe in the past, but this time the ruling party - which has an overwhelming majority in both houses - is likely to go against him.\n\nPresident Mugabe's wife, Grace, had emerged as a leading candidate to succeed her husband\n\nBut Mr Mnangagwa has re-emerged as front runner after his dismissal two weeks ago\n\nMr Mnangagwa, who left Zimbabwe after he was sacked but has since reportedly returned, has also been nominated as the party's presidential candidate for the 2018 general elections.\n\nNicknamed \"the crocodile\" for his perceived shrewdness, Mr Mnangagwa is a former state security chief who is now widely expected to lead an interim post-Mugabe government.\n\nHis sacking prompted an extraordinary chain of events over the past week:\n\nSpeaking ahead of the party meeting, the head of the influential War Veterans Association, Chris Mutsvangwa, threatened to \"bring back the crowds and they will do their business\" if Mr Mugabe did not step down.\n\nMr Mugabe has been leader of Zimbabwe for 37 years, having led the country since it gained independence in 1980.\n\nHe has made just one public appearance since events unfolded, speaking at a university graduation ceremony on Friday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Zimbabweans rallied to celebrate the army's takeover of the country", "Like the Cheshire Cat, it's hard to tame something that keeps disappearing and reappearing\n\nThe offshore finance industry puts trillions of dollars worldwide beyond the taxman's reach. Bringing it to heel is like taming a cat; not just a normal moggy - a thankless task in itself - but a Cheshire Cat: nebulous, hard to pin down, disappearing and reappearing when it likes.\n\nNo-one can actually agree on what a tax haven is. Or even on the name: one person's tax haven is another's \"offshore financial centre\". No-one can agree on how many there are. Nor on exactly how much money is stashed offshore. No statistics are fully reliable.\n\nAnd this suits those who operate in offshore finance, from the owner of the wealth to the lawyer or accountant middlemen who manage the funds, to the often sun-kissed beaches of the jurisdictions where they are secluded or pass through. The industry's key word is privacy. Or secrecy - a word it doesn't like so much.\n\nOne adage cited by the taxation author and expert Nicholas Shaxson sums it up: \"Those who know don't talk. And those who talk don't know.\"\n\nBut do we really not know how much is stashed offshore?\n\nA report this September, co-authored by the economist Gabriel Zucman, estimates about 10% of global GDP - the way we measure the size of the world's economy - is held offshore, about $7.8tn (£6tn). The Boston Consulting Group reported it last year at about $10tn.\n\nIf you are thinking, wow, that's bigger than Japan's economy, you'd be right. But if you want a real wow, try $36tn - the estimate offered by James Henry, author of the book Blood Bankers. That's twice as big as the US economy.\n\nAnd here's another wow. Remember the slogan \"we are the 99%\" coined by the Occupy movement to lambast the top 1% of the population for their disproportionate share of wealth? Well, the Zucman report says 80% of all offshore cash is owned by 0.1% of the richest households, with 50% held by the top 0.01%.\n\nSo if you read this and are thinking, if you can't beat them... quite frankly, it's unlikely you will ever join them. The management fees for the ordinary person will probably far outstrip the gains.\n\nAs Nicholas Shaxson told BBC Panorama: \"At the very lowest end you'll have the middle classes doing little bits and pieces. But the large majority of what's going on, this is a game for rich people.\"\n\nSurely we know some of how this works? The systems have a ring of familiarity - double taxation; tax inversion; trusts; shell companies etc. It's just we don't usually know who's in the schemes and what they are getting out of them.\n\nThe basic essence is rerouting money in one location where you don't like the taxation rules to another location - one that is stable and reliable - where there aren't as many, or any.\n\nFor example, if you want to protect your assets to stave off creditors, stick them in an offshore shell company. Hey presto, much harder to get at. Want to hide ownership of a property? Put it in a trust.\n\nThis is not illegal. There are many other schemes, legal, illegal and sometimes ethically debatable. But even within these categories there are many variables on what actually constitutes The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. After all, in the film with that name the ugly arguably wasn't as bad as the bad, and the good was hardly perfect.\n\nTrue to their Cheshire Cat-like origins, offshore financial centres (OFCs) do not always appear where one might expect them.\n\nThat's because offshore, sorry to confuse you, is also onshore. This makes it impossible to pin down the global number of OFCs. It could be 50, 70 or more and new ones come and go.\n\nThe US and UK are arguably two of the biggest OFCs.\n\nFor example, setting up shell firms is easy in some US states, like Delaware.\n\nAnd it's widely known that the City of London acts as the facilitating hub for Crown dependencies and overseas territories that channel trillions of offshore dollars.\n\nThe smaller, often island, nations are what Nicholas Shaxson calls \"captured states\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Investigative journalist Nicholas Shaxson on why tax havens are ‘like captured states’\n\nHe told Panorama: \"These places don't have a very deep pool of experienced people. They're just people who say, well we trust the accountants, we trust the lawyers to tell us what's best for our island and we'll do it.\"\n\nSo how does offshore defend itself?\n\nWell, the jurisdictions say it's wrong to think there are banks in OFCs sitting on pots of gold - the money is simply being reinvested by companies - and that if there were no OFCs there would be no constraint on the tax rates governments might levy.\n\nOFCs, they say, simply pump cash around the globe and the new transparency rules put in place over the past decade have severely limited tax evasion.\n\nIt's certainly wrong to lump all the OFCs together. Some are better regulated than others. Down at the murkier end, dealings in Panama were exposed by leaks last year.\n\nBut Bermuda's Bob Richards offered a stout defence of its financial services in an interview with Panorama carried out while he was still finance minister, citing a taxation system that had been in place for more than 100 years and adding that if other nations were losing out on tax they should sort their own systems out.\n\nBermuda, he says, has fully signed up to an international agreement that allows for the automatic transfer of tax information within governments and such a jurisdiction \"cannot be a tax haven\".\n\nAnd Appleby, the financial services firm involved in these latest leaks, made the case for OFCs back in 2009, in the wake of the global crash.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt said there was \"no evidence OFCs played any role in the economic crisis\", OFCs were \"neither the source of - nor the destination for - criminal proceeds\" and that OFCs \"protect people victimised by crime, corruption, or persecution by shielding them from venal governments\".\n\nOf the latest leaks, the company said: \"Many of the questions raise matters where - on any view - there is plainly no conceivable wrongdoing on the part of Appleby whatsoever.\"\n\nOFCs say there are no secrets, just privacy. But Gerard Ryle, of the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, which oversaw this huge leak of financial documents, known as the Paradise Papers, dismisses this.\n\n\"The only product that the offshore world sells is secrecy and when you take away secrecy they don't have a product anymore,\" he told the BBC.\n\n\"Where you have secrecy, you have the potential for wrongdoing.\"\n\nWhatever term you prefer, the elusive nature of offshore makes it hard to root out wrongdoing.\n\nYou could start an investigation into one firm or individual and be shuttled around from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, company to company, turning up a whole tranche of names on documents that are linked to no real owner, sometimes no real person, and lead absolutely nowhere.\n\nYou're probably also thinking, we've now had an awful lot of these financial leaks, haven't they changed anything?\n\nSpin backwards to April 2016. The Panama Papers have just come out. Iceland's PM Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson has resigned after the leaks showed he owned an offshore company with his wife.\n\nThousands are demonstrating in Reykjavik to vent anger at their politicians.\n\nSome estimates put the protest numbers at 6% of the whole Icelandic population. That's like if 19 million people turned up to a protest in the US today.\n\nBut then travel over to Elektrostal, two hours east of Moscow. Resident Nadezhda is haranguing BBC reporter Steve Rosenberg. \"All these 'investigations' are a waste of time and money. We know what you're up to. They're trying to rub Putin's face in the dirt,\" she says.\n\nIt kind of depends on where you are.\n\nIn the West, at least, people are questioning what high-net-worth individuals and multinationals can get away with.\n\nIs it right that they can use loopholes to keep more of their cash? Or should it go to governments to spend on their people?\n\nTo be fair, governments have been tracking stashed cash since the 2008 global meltdown, independent of any financial leaks, although their talk has usually been tougher than their action.\n\nSecrecy is now harder to achieve, transparency is greater. So-called country-by-country reporting, requiring multinationals to break down how they operate in different nations, has widened and public registries of companies have increased.\n\nEven Russia brought in a law requiring the disclosure of offshore assets. The result? Since the law came in three years ago, dozens of the super-rich have given up Russian residency to avoid it.\n\nThere are also OFC blacklists mooted but, as Nicholas Shaxson says, the big players will make sure their operations are not on it and it will weed out only the minnows.\n\nThe offshore firms will \"recalibrate\", he says. \"When legislation changes, you will have this ecosystem kind of readjusting and the money will shift to other places.\"\n\nAnd wealth holders will readjust too. Pump cash into diamonds and artworks maybe? Or just go and actually live somewhere that charges low tax.\n\nWhat makes this a vicious circle is that many governments are fully prepared to sanction offshore finance. Indeed, many people in government use it, as these leaks show.\n\nAnd there is one thing we do know. If the super wealthy don't pay the taxes, the money has to come from everyone else.\n\nWhich to many may sound a bit mad, but as the Cheshire Cat says: \"We're all mad here\".\n\nThe papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nThe 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Panorama has led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries. The BBC does not know the identity of the source.\n\nParadise Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #ParadisePapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"Paradise Papers\"\n\nWatch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJeremy Corbyn has suggested the Queen, among others, should apologise for using overseas tax havens if they were used to avoid taxation in the UK.\n\nThe Labour leader was asked at the CBI conference whether the Queen should say sorry for making overseas investments.\n\nHe said anyone putting money into tax havens for the purposes of avoidance should \"not just apologise for it, recognise what it does to our society\".\n\nThe BBC has revealed that the Queen's estate has used overseas tax havens.\n\nIt comes after a leak of confidential papers from Bermuda revealed the secret offshore investments of the rich and famous, including the Queen.\n\nMr Corbyn's spokesman later clarified his comments, saying the Labour leader did not specifically call on the Queen to apologise but thought \"anyone who puts money into a tax haven to avoid paying tax should acknowledge the damage it does to society\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Corbyn called for a full inquiry, public lists of company ownership, and a new tax enforcement unit to tackle tax evasion.\n\nOn Sunday, BBC Panorama broadcast the first results of its year-long investigation into the Paradise Papers, a massive leak of financial documents from Bermuda-based law firm Appleby.\n\nBuckingham Palace has not commented on the revelation that the Duchy of Lancaster, which handles the Queen's private wealth, used offshore investments.\n\nA spokesperson for the Duchy of Lancaster said: \"We operate a number of investments and a few of these are with overseas funds. All of our investments are fully audited and legitimate.\n\n\"The Queen voluntarily pays tax on any income she receives from the Duchy.\"\n\nHMRC chief executive Jon Thompson vowed to \"chase down\" anyone trying to hide money offshore and evade tax.\n\nHe told the Commons Public Accounts Committee that HMRC had asked to see the leaked Paradise Papers in order to \"look at every case of tax evasion very seriously\".\n\nMr Thompson said there were 66 ongoing criminal investigations into the Panama Papers, which in April 2016 exposed tax avoidance and evasion, saying £100m could be retrieved.\n\n\"That gives you some sense about how long quite complicated tax cases take to bring to some sort of fruition,\" he added.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May: 'UK already acting' on offshore tax havens\n\nTheresa May insisted efforts were already under way to obtain revenue from offshore tax vehicles, adding: \"We want people to pay the tax that is due\".\n\nAt the CBI conference, the prime minister said HMRC had collected £160bn by tackling tax avoidance, evasion and non-compliance since 2010.\n\nMrs May's spokesperson said: \"It is important to point out that holding investments offshore is not an automatic sign of wrongdoing, but HMRC has requested to see the papers urgently so it can look into any allegations.\"\n\nBut when asked, Mrs May did not commit to a public inquiry into tax revenue lost through offshore tax avoidance schemes.\n\nAmong the Paradise Papers documents was evidence that Tory donor Lord Ashcroft remained a non-dom and continued to avoid tax despite attempts to make peers pay their full share.\n\nLord Ashcroft has insisted he did not ignore rules in relation to the Punta Gorda offshore trust and said his tax residency was \"publicly available information\".\n\nThe leaked documents show that between 2000 and 2010, Lord Ashcroft received payments of around $200m (£150m) from his offshore trust in Bermuda.\n\nResponding to the programme, Lord Ashcroft wrote: \"At no point has it been suggested directly to me, or through others, that I have taken any inappropriate action.\"\n\nHe also explained why he ran away from a Panorama reporter who approached him for comment, taking refuge in a toilet, saying he was \"determined\" not to \"fall victim to their ambush\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Lord Ashcroft try to avoid Richard Bilton’s questions about his offshore trust\n\nThe Paradise Papers puts into question the practice of using highly secretive offshore tax havens, which is legal.\n\nBermuda's premier David Burt said the territory has a \"robust regulatory regime\" with the same tax system in place since 1898. He added the UK's tax law allows the use of offshore tax havens.\n\nFormer Business Secretary, Sir Vince Cable, criticised the government for not clamping down on offshore tax havens trading under the British flag.\n\nHe said: \"The Paradise Papers suggest that a small number of wealthy individuals have been able, entirely legally, to put their money beyond the reach of the Exchequer.\"\n\nThe papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nThe 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Panorama has led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries. The BBC does not know the identity of the source.\n\nParadise Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #ParadisePapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"Paradise Papers\"\n\nWatch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "Damian Green said the allegations were from a \"tainted and untrustworthy source\"\n\nTheresa May's most senior minister has denied a claim that police found pornography on a computer in his office during a raid in 2008.\n\nFirst Secretary of State Damian Green said ex-police chief Bob Quick's claims in the Sunday Times were \"completely untrue\" and \"political smears\".\n\nAnd he said police had never told him that any improper material had been found on a parliamentary computer.\n\nMr Quick said he \"stood\" by the claim and would take part in an inquiry.\n\nMeanwhile, Conservative MP Chris Pincher has resigned as a government whip and referred himself to police following newspaper allegations about his conduct made by a party activist.\n\nThe revelations are the latest in a growing sexual misconduct scandal in Westminster.\n\nChris Pincher is the MP for Tamworth in Staffordshire\n\nOn Sunday, further details emerged about allegations against Sir Michael Fallon, who this week resigned as defence secretary over his behaviour.\n\nThe Observer reported that he quit shortly after journalist Jane Merrick told Downing Street he had lunged at her and attempted to kiss her on the lips in 2003 after they had lunch together.\n\nAnd Tory MPs Daniel Poulter, Stephen Crabb and Daniel Kawczynski have been referred to the Conservative Party disciplinary committee after media allegations about their conduct.\n\nThe allegation regarding Mr Green, who is effectively the prime minister's deputy, relates to an inquiry into Home Office leaks which briefly led to his arrest in 2008.\n\nDaniel Poulter, Stephen Crabb and Daniel Kawczynski have faced questions about their professional conduct\n\nFormer Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Bob Quick said on Sunday that his officers had found pornographic material on a computer in Mr Green's Commons office after they searched it as part of their controversial investigation - which resulted in no charges.\n\nThe ex-anti-terror chief said he had made an appointment to speak to a senior official in the Cabinet Office, which last week launched an inquiry into an unrelated allegation against Mr Green, to discuss the matter.\n\n\"I bear no malice to Damian Green,\" he told BBC News.\n\nMr Quick, who quit his role in 2009 after inadvertently revealing secret documents, accepted he had not asked officers to report the matter at the time, saying they \"didn't expect to find the material\" and were in the midst of a \"very difficult inquiry with a lot of pressure to drop the case\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andrew Marr asked Home Secretary Amber Rudd whether the centre of government was close to collapse\n\nBut Mr Green said \"the allegations about the material and computer, now nine years old, are false, disreputable political smears\", adding that they \"amount to little more than an unscrupulous character assassination\".\n\nThe Cabinet Office inquiry was triggered after journalist Kate Maltby, who is three decades younger than Mr Green, told the Times he \"fleetingly\" touched her knee during a meeting in a pub in 2015 and a year later sent her a \"suggestive\" text message after she was pictured wearing a corset in the newspaper.\n\nMr Green said any allegation that he made sexual advances to Ms Maltby was \"untrue (and) deeply hurtful\".\n\nTwo Tory MPs, Anna Soubry and Heidi Allen, have urged Mr Green to step aside pending the outcome of the investigation but Home Secretary Amber Rudd said her cabinet colleague had the right to defend himself.\n\n\"I do think that we shouldn't rush to allege anything until that inquiry has taken place,\" she told the BBC's Andrew Marr.\n\nMore generally, she said abuse of power could not be tolerated and there needed to be a \"clearing out\" of Westminster to get rid of any such behaviour.\n\nMeanwhile, Conservative MP Anna Soubry has said former Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon was \"responsible for his own downfall\" amid fresh claims about his past behaviour.\n\nMs Merrick told the Observer she \"shrank away in horror\" when Sir Michael tried to kiss her when she was a 29-year-old reporter at the Daily Mail.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jeremy Corbyn says there must be change following recent revelations of sexual harassment\n\n\"I felt humiliated, ashamed. Was I even guilty that maybe I had led him on in some way by drinking with him?\" she said. \"After years of having a drink with so many other MPs who have not acted inappropriately towards me, I now know I was not.\"\n\nFriends of Sir Michael have not denied the allegation, but the BBC understands that his ministerial career ended because he could not guarantee there would be no further revelations after he admitted repeatedly touching another journalist's knee at a conference dinner 15 years ago.\n\nMs Soubry praised the journalist's \"outstanding bravery\" in coming forward and said she had put her in touch with Downing Street after Ms Merrick had confided in her and Labour's Harriet Harman.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jane Merrick \"outstandingly brave\" for speaking out about Sir Michael Fallon - Conservative MP Anna Soubry\n\nTheresa May, she added, must ensure an independent complaints system immediately so victims of harassment and those accused of misconduct did not have to undergo \"trial by newspapers\".\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn has said this must be a \"turning point\" for how the whole political class behaves, telling activists that his party - under fire for how it has handled harassment and rape allegations - was not afraid to \"shine a spotlight\" on itself.\n\n\"We must say, no more. We must no longer allow women, or anyone else for that matter, to be abused in the workplace or anywhere else,\" he said.", "Ian Squire was kidnapped in southern Nigeria in October\n\nA British aid worker kidnapped last month in southern Nigeria has been killed, while three other hostages have been freed, says the Foreign Office.\n\nIan Squire, an optician, was one of four Britons working for a medical charity in the Niger Delta when taken.\n\nSuspected militants stormed the rural community of Enekorogha on 13 October.\n\nUK and Nigerian authorities successfully negotiated the release of Alanna Carson, David Donovan and Shirley Donovan.\n\nBBC Lagos correspondent Stephanie Hegarty said there was little detail around Mr Squire's death, but that locals told her the kidnappers were a criminal gang who had been operating in the area for around a year.\n\nOur correspondent said: \"This is their first kidnapping of foreigners. They had kidnapped very recently the mother of a local politician, but before that they were just carrying out petty crime.\n\n\"We know that a ransom was demanded but we don't know if it was paid.\"\n\nAccording to reports, Dr and Mrs Donovan have lived in Nigeria for the past 14 years, running a Christian charity called New Foundations, which gives aid to remote villages in the Niger Delta.\n\nDr and Mrs Donovan (pictured) were released and are now home safely\n\nMr Squire normally ran a practice in Shepperton, Surrey, and locals told the BBC he travelled to Africa every year to carry out charity work.\n\nMr Squire's friend Paul Allan, who ran a neighbouring business, described him as a \"good friend\" and a \"very straight forward, nice, gentle guy\".\n\nHe described how Mr Squire fundraised in the community for his trips and even collected old glasses to take and reuse.\n\n\"I just can't believe what's happened,\" added Mr Allan. \"I find it shocking to believe for someone who has gone out to do good in the community overseas that the action has cost him dearly. It has cost him his life. It is beyond belief.\n\n\"It is a sign of this day and age, but he wasn't concerned about that. He just wanted to go out and help people in less fortunate situations than ours.\"\n\nMs Carson, a Specsavers optometrist, is now staying with her family in Northern Ireland, according to her employer in Leven, Fife.\n\nRelatives of the four said they were \"delighted and relieved\" that Ms Carson and Dr and Mrs Donovan had returned safely.\n\n\"Our thoughts are now with the family and friends of Ian as we come to terms with his sad death,\" they said in a statement issued on their behalf.\n\nThe Foreign Office currently advises against all but essential travel to much of Delta state, saying there is a \"high threat of criminal kidnap\".\n\nIt said Nigerian authorities were investigating the kidnapping, adding: \"Our staff will continue to do all we can to support the families.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAt least 26 people have been killed and 20 others wounded after a gunman opened fire at a Texas church during a Sunday service.\n\nThe attack happened at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, a small town in Wilson County. The victims' ages ranged from five to 72.\n\nThe suspected gunman was later found dead in his vehicle some miles away.\n\nPolice identified him only as a \"young, white male\" but US media named him as Devin Patrick Kelley, 26.\n\nKelley is reported to have been discharged from the US air force in 2014 following a court martial for assaulting his wife and child.\n\nThe motive for the killings was not immediately clear.\n\nA candlelit vigil was held for victims of the shooting in Sutherland Springs\n\nTexas Department of Public Safety regional director Freeman Martin said the attacker, dressed all in black and wearing a bulletproof vest, opened fire with a Ruger assault rifle outside the church at around 11:30 local time (17:30 GMT) and then went inside.\n\nAs the gunman left the church, a local citizen grabbed his own rifle and began shooting at the suspect, who then dropped his weapon and fled in a vehicle.\n\nThe citizen pursued the suspect, who eventually drove off the road and crashed his car at the Guadalupe County line.\n\nAt 01:30, Chris Speer was still sitting on his porch, sucking his cigarette in the dark. Fourteen hours earlier he was in the same place, with his 11-month-old son, when he heard \"close to 30 shots\".\n\n\"Your first instinct, you're out in the country, you think someone is shooting, practising,\" he says. \"But it was too close. I knew something wasn't right.\"\n\nHe took his son inside. \"If I could have got my gun, I would have,\" he says. \"But when you've got a kid in your hands, I'm not risking it. He wouldn't let go.\"\n\nMr Speer didn't know the attacker but he knew \"a lot\" of the victims. \"We're a small community. We band together. But what doesn't kill us makes us stronger.\"\n\nPolice found the man dead in his car but it is unclear if he died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound or from injuries received when fired on by the local citizen. The car contained several weapons.\n\nMr Martin added: \"We have multiple crime scenes. We have the church, outside the church. We have where the suspect's vehicle was located.\n\n\"We have been following up on the suspect and where he's from. We have Texas Rangers at all the hospitals locating those and interviewing those who were injured.\"\n\nOne man has told how he chased the gunman after seeing \"two men exchanging gunfire\" outside the church. Speaking to local TV station Ksat.com, Johnnie Langendorff said a \"gentleman came and said we need to pursue him. And that's what I did, I just acted\".\n\nMr Langendorff said the pair were driving at speeds of up to 95mph (153km/h) until the gunman lost control of his car and crashed.\n\nGovernor Greg Abbott, confirming the death toll, said it was the worst mass shooting in the history of Texas.\n\n\"This will be a long, suffering mourning for those in pain,\" he said at a news conference on Sunday.\n\nThe First Baptist Church's pastor, Frank Pomeroy, told ABC News his 14-year-old daughter, Annabelle, was among those killed.\n\nMr Pomeroy, who was in Oklahoma at the time of the attack, described her as \"one very beautiful, special child\" in a phone call to the television outlet.\n\nAt least 10 victims, including four children, were being treated at the University Health System in nearby San Antonio, the hospital said in a tweet.\n\nThe authorities could not confirm the names of any victims as they continued to work through the crime scene, Sheriff Joe Tackitt said.\n\nOfficials said 23 people were found dead inside the church while two people were fatally shot outside. Another died in hospital, the authorities say.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. After the Las Vegas attack in October 2017 the BBC looked at how US mass shootings are getting worse\n\nOne witness, Carrie Matula, told NBC News: \"We heard semi-automatic gunfire… we're only about 50 yards away from this church.\n\n\"This is a very small community, so everyone was very curious as to what was going on.\"\n\nSutherland Springs, which has a population of about 400, lies about 30 miles (50km) south-east of the city of San Antonio.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A guide to the weapons available in the US and the rate at which they fire\n\nPresident Donald Trump, on a tour of Asia, said the gunman was \"a very deranged individual\" and denied that guns were to blame for the shooting.\n\n\"We have a lot of mental health problems in our country, but this isn't a guns situation,\" he said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Trump: 'We cannot begin to imagine the suffering'\n\nThe shooting comes just a month after a gunman in Las Vegas opened fire on an outdoor music festival, killing 58 people and wounding hundreds in the deadliest mass shooting in recent US history.", "A display box at a fireworks event in Wiltshire malfunctioned sending projectiles towards the crowd.\n\nAmbulance crews treated 14 people for minor injuries after the display at the Antrobus Arms in Amesbury.", "All five men died on the way back from the South Pole\n\nA photograph of the team which took part in the doomed 1910-13 Antarctic expedition is to be sold at auction.\n\nCaptain Robert Scott and his four-man team died in 1912 after being beaten to the South Pole by Norwegian explorers.\n\nThe photograph of all five was taken using an automatic trigger in January of that year after the men read Roald Amundsen's note and realised they were not the first ones to get there.\n\nThe photo is expected to fetch £1,200 at Sotheby's in London on 14 November.\n\nCecilie Gasselholm of Sotheby's said it was almost possible to see \"the disappointment in their faces\".\n\nSir Ernest Shackleton led three expeditions to the Antarctic\n\nOther items to be sold at the auction include a silver spoon and fork from the Antarctic expedition and The South Polar Times - which was printed in Capt Scott's hut in 1912.\n\nSome of Antarctic explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton's expedition mementos will also be sold including a collection of sea shanties he sang and a photograph of his return from the Antarctic.\n\nThe image has the caption \"Just back from the south pole: this tramp became in after life the famous Sir Ernest Shackleton\".\n\nSir Ernest led three expeditions to the Antarctic.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Our kids play together,' says a resident whose neighbours are feared dead\n\nWhen a mass shooting happens in a small town like Sutherland Springs, Texas, everyone knows a victim.\n\nPauline Garza was lazy on Sunday morning, and it might have saved her life.\n\nShe and her 11-year-old daughter were thinking about going to church. She isn't a regular, but her daughter was baptised there.\n\nThis time, they decided not to. \"Feeling lazy,\" she says, standing on her porch 24 hours later.\n\nSoon afterwards, they heard the gunfire.\n\nPauline's neighbours, the Holcombes, were also churchgoers.\n\nPauline thinks they were in church on Sunday morning. She hasn't seen them return.\n\nThe Holcombes' two dogs lie on the drive, waiting. The gate is still locked; the porch light is still on.\n\nThe families are close. Pauline's daughter stays over at the Holcombes' place.\n\n\"Very nice family,\" says Pauline, 47. \"They're always out in the yard.\n\n\"The kids will play with my daughter all the time. Very nice.\"\n\nWhen Pauline heard the shots, she thought it was a neighbour working on his house.\n\n\"I asked my daughter - 'What was that noise?' She said 'I don't know'.\n\n\"We came to the door. I saw my (other) neighbour standing there. You could still hear the shots being fired.\n\n\"I never thought it was gunshots. I never did.\"\n\nAnd when she found it was gunfire?\n\n\"I thought 'How can that happen here?' It's unreal.\"\n\nThe town will recover, says Julius\n\nAround 400 people live in Sutherland Springs, a small town in Texas, 30 miles (48km) east of San Antonio.\n\nIt isn't a wealthy place. There are neat, well-built houses, but there is decay, too.\n\nThe All Coin Laundry, long forgotten, hasn't washed a shirt in 10 years, at least. People work in \"nursing homes, hospitals, the convenience store,\" says Pauline.\n\nBut - while it isn't wealthy - it is friendly. Neighbours know each other. People say hello. The school bus driver waves at passers-by.\n\nIn one garden, a sign says: \"Cowboys make good points with spurs and barbed wire.\"\n\nThe next sign says: \"Welcome to Texas.\"\n\n\"I love it here,\" says Pauline. \"You don't have all that loud stuff like the big cities.\"\n\nJulius Kepper, 53, has lived in Sutherland Springs for seven years. At first, he thought Sunday's gunfire was building work.\n\nWhen he realised it wasn't, he grabbed his gun and ran out of the house.\n\nHe wasn't the only one. His neighbour, Stephen, had already shot the attacker and given chase.\n\nJulius didn't go to church, but he knew \"a bunch of people\" who did.\n\n\"Some of the young guys who went would cut my yard,\" he says.\n\n\"It's a small community. You can't help but know people.\"\n\nJulius is drinking a large Coke in the petrol station on the edge of town. Another customer sits at a table, drinking coffee.\n\nBehind the counter are rows of Texas caps. The San Antonio Express-News sits on the counter.\n\n\"Time for worship turns to horror,\" says the headline.\n\nJulius thinks the town will heal, but it will take time.\n\n\"For this to happen in a little country town with 300 people, it's inconceivable,\" he says.\n\n\"You kind of expect it in big cities. Not here.\"\n\nBack on her porch, Pauline Garza thinks the shooting means more people will carry guns.\n\n\"Even to church,\" she says. \"We would never think out here in the country you would need a gun to protect yourself. Now you're going to have to.\n\n\"Now you got crazy people walking around everywhere.\"\n\nPauline didn't sleep on Sunday night. The what-ifs were playing through her mind.\n\nAnd, though she and her daughter are safe, their suffering isn't over.\n\n\"How do I talk to my daughter about this?\" she asks. \"How can I do that?\"", "The financial secrets of hundreds of world leaders, politicians and celebrities has been exposed in another huge leak of financial documents.\n\nDubbed the Pandora Papers it features almost 12 million files from companies providing offshore services in tax havens around the world.\n\nThe data was obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in Washington DC, which has organised the biggest ever global investigation, spanning 117 countries and involving more than 600 journalists. In the UK the investigation has been led by BBC Panorama and the Guardian.\n\nThe files are the latest in a series of whistleblower-led investigations that have rocked the world of finance in recent years.\n\nSo let's round up the other major leaks of the past decade.\n\nIn September 2020 the FinCEN Files exposed the failure of major global banks to stop money laundering and financial crime. They also revealed how the UK is often the weak link in the financial system and how London is awash with Russian cash.\n\nThe files included more than 2,000 suspicious activity reports (SARs), filed by financial institutions to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Agency, or FinCEN, a part of the US Treasury Department. They also include 17,641 records obtained through Freedom of Information (FOI) requests and other sources.\n\nThey were obtained by BuzzFeed News which shared them with the ICIJ and 400 journalists around the world, including BBC Panorama, which led the investigation in the UK.\n\nA huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which revealed the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nWho leaked the data? The BBC does not know the identity of the source. The 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the ICIJ. Panorama led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries.\n\nA confidential settlement was later reached between the BBC, the Guardian and Appleby over the reporting of the leaked documents, which Appleby said were taken by hackers. The Guardian and BBC said the reports were in the public interest but did not give more detail about the settlement.\n\nUntil Pandora this leak was seen as the daddy of them all in data size. If you thought the Wikileaks dump of sensitive diplomatic cables in 2010 was a big deal, this carried 1,500 times more data.\n\nSüddeutsche Zeitung's \"brothers\". Despite surnames that sound exactly the same, these two leading lights of the Panama Papers investigation, Frederik Obermaier (L) and Bastian Obermayer, are not related\n\nThe Panama Papers came about after an anonymous source contacted reporters at German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung in 2015 and supplied encrypted documents from the Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca. It sells anonymous offshore companies that help the owners hide their business dealings.\n\nOverwhelmed by the scale of the dump, which eventually grew to 2.6 terabytes of data, the Süddeutsche Zeitung called in the ICIJ, which led to the involvement of about 100 other partner news organisations, including the BBC's Panorama.\n\nAfter more than a year of scrutiny, the ICIJ and its partners jointly published the Panama Papers on 3 April 2016, with the database of documents going online a month later.\n\nWho was named? Where do we start? A few of the news partners focused on how associates of Russian President Vladimir Putin shuffled cash around the globe. Not that the Russians cared much. The prime ministers of Iceland and Pakistan came to far stickier ends, the former quitting and the latter being thrown out of office by the Supreme Court. Overall the financial dealings of a dozen current and former world leaders, more than 120 politicians and public officials and countless billionaires, celebrities and sports stars were exposed.\n\nWho leaked the data? John Doe. Yes, we know. It's not a real name. In US crime series it is mostly used to label anonymous victims but Mr (or Ms) Doe's manifesto, released a month after publication, reveals a self-styled revolutionary. The real identity is still unknown.\n\nFive months after the Panama Papers, the ICIJ published revelations from the Bahamas corporate registry. The 38GB cache revealed the offshore activities of \"prime ministers, ministers, princes and convicted felons\", it said. Former EU competition commissioner Neelie Kroes admitted an \"oversight\" in failing to disclose her interest in an offshore company.\n\nThis ICIJ investigation, involving hundreds of journalists from 45 countries, including BBC Panorama, went public in February 2015.\n\nIt focused on HSBC Private Bank (Suisse), a subsidiary of the banking giant, and so lifted the lid on dealings in a country where banking secrecy is taken for granted.\n\nThe leaked files covered accounts up to the year 2007, linked with more than 100,000 individuals and legal entities from more than 200 countries.\n\nThe ICIJ said the subsidiary had served \"those close to discredited regimes\" and \"clients who had been unfavourably named by the United Nations\".\n\nHSBC admitted that the \"compliance culture and standards of due diligence\" at the subsidiary at the time were \"lower than they are today\".\n\nWho was named? The ICIJ said HSBC had profited from \"arms dealers, bag men for Third World dictators, traffickers in blood diamonds and other international outlaws\".\n\nIt also cited those close to the regimes of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, former Tunisian President Ben Ali and Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad.\n\nWho leaked the data? Actually, we know this one. The ICIJ investigation was based on data originally leaked by the French-Italian software engineer and whistleblower Hervé Falciani, though the ICIJ got it later from another source. From 2008 onwards he passed information on HSBC Private Bank (Suisse) to French authorities, who in turn passed them to other relevant governments. Mr Falciani was indicted in Switzerland. He was held in detention in Spain but was later released and now lives in France.\n\nOr LuxLeaks for short. Another extensive ICIJ investigation, which revealed its findings in November 2014.\n\nIt centred on how professional services company PricewaterhouseCoopers helped multinational companies gain hundreds of favourable tax rulings in Luxembourg between 2002 and 2010.\n\nThe ICIJ said multinationals had saved billions by channelling money through Luxembourg, sometimes at tax rates of less than 1%. One address in Luxembourg was home to more than 1,600 companies, it said.\n\nThe leak of documents was first exposed in 2012 after a joint investigation between Panorama and France2 which lifted the lid on the tax agreements of UK pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline and media company Northern & Shell.\n\nWho was named? Pepsi, IKEA, AIG and Deutsche Bank were among those named.\n\nA second tranche of leaked documents said the Walt Disney Co and Skype had funnelled hundreds of millions of dollars in profits through Luxembourg subsidiaries. They and the other firms denied any wrongdoing.\n\nJean-Claude Juncker had been PM of Luxembourg when it enacted many of its tax avoidance rules. He had been appointed president of the European Commission just a few days before the leak came out. He said he had not encouraged avoidance.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jean-Claude Juncker says he is \"politically responsible for what happened\"\n\nEurosceptics went to town and pushed a censure motion against him and his commission. It was rejected. But the EU did investigate, and by 2016 had proposed a yet-to-be realised common tax scheme for the EU.\n\nWho leaked the data? Frenchman Antoine Deltour, a former PricewaterhouseCoopers employee, was the main man, saying he had acted in the public interest. Another PwC employee, Raphael Halet, helped him.\n\nThe pair, along with journalist Edouard Perrin, were all charged in Luxembourg after a PwC complaint. A first verdict was later revisited, watering down sentences, with Deltour given a six-month suspended jail term which was later quashed. Halet received a small fine and Mr Perrin was acquitted.\n\nThis was about a tenth of the size of the Panama Papers but was seen as the biggest exposé of international tax fraud ever when the ICIJ and its news partners went public in November 2012 and April 2013.\n\nSome 2.5 million files revealed the names of more than 120,000 companies and trusts in hideaways such as the British Virgin Islands and the Cook Islands.\n\nBBC Panorama exposed a flourishing tax evasion industry in the UK in an undercover investigation based on the files.\n\nWho was named? The usual suspects. A mix of politicians, government officials and their families, with the Russians notable, but also those in China, Azerbaijan, Canada, Thailand, Mongolia and Pakistan. The Philippines - in the form of the family of late strongman Ferdinand Marcos - get a dishonourable mention. To be fair, the ICIJ does point out that the leaks are not necessarily evidence of illegal actions.\n\nWho leaked the data? The ICIJ cites \"two financial service providers, a private bank in Jersey and the Bahamas corporate registry\" as the sources, but says nothing more other than it was \"data obtained\".\n\nThe Pandora Papers is a leak of almost 12 million documents and files exposing the secret wealth and dealings of world leaders, politicians and billionaires. The data was obtained by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists in Washington DC and has led to one of the biggest ever global investigations.\n\nMore than 600 journalists from 117 countries have looked at the hidden fortunes of some of the most powerful people on the planet. BBC Panorama and the Guardian have led the investigation in the UK.\n\nPandora Papers coverage: follow reaction on Twitter using #PandoraPapers, in the BBC News app, or watch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "A British woman who has been detained in Egypt for bringing nearly 300 Tramadol tablets into the country made \"an innocent, honest mistake\", according to her brother.\n\nLaura Plummer, from Hull, was transporting the pills for her Egyptian partner who suffers from back pain.\n\nIt is illegal to supply prescription drugs and Ms Plummer, 33, could face up to 25 years in jail.\n\nHer local MP Karl Turner said the Foreign Office was now involved.\n\nHe said the British Embassy has provided a lawyer - Ms Plummer's third since she was detained at Hurghada International Airport on suspicion of drug trafficking on 9 October.\n\nMs Plummer's family has been told she could face up to 25 years in prison, or even the death penalty.\n\nHer brother James Plummer told BBC Radio 5 live that Ms Plummer was visiting her husband of 18 months on \"just a routine holiday\". She reportedly sees him between two and four times a year.\n\nIt is not clear, however, whether the marriage is official.\n\nMs Plummer's brother said she had taken some Tramadol with her to treat her husband's back pain\n\nHe said that Laura, a shop assistant, had told a colleague about her partner's back pain and the work colleague replied that she could get some tablets from her GP. \"They were prescribed to a friend of hers,\" he said.\n\n\"So she took those over with her,\" Mr Plummer said. \"Laura didn't even check what they were, she didn't even know there was Tramadol in the bag. There was also Naproxen as well.\"\n\nMr Turner said Ms Plummer had brought the tablets to Egypt along with a number of other goods.\n\n\"It is difficult to get certain things in Egypt apparently so she'd taken talcum powder, shaving gel and razor blades and all sorts of things,\" he said. \"Clearly, [she was] very, very naïve.\"\n\nTramadol is the most abused drug in Egypt, according to Ghada Wali, the country's Minister of Social Solidarity.\n\nIn August, she said that the Drug Control Fund, which she chairs, received the most calls about Tramadol on its free helpline - which overall received 48,000 calls between January and June.\n\nMs Plummer is now being held in jail where Mr Turner said she is sharing a cell with between 20 to 30 other women.\n\nMr Turner said: \"The family describe Laura to me as somebody who is very naïve.\n\n\"Her father said to me 'look, the truth is she wouldn't know Tramadol from a Panadol. She wouldn't have a clue that she was doing something unlawful'.\"\n\nHe said that a British Embassy representative has been visiting Ms Plummer regularly and has been in touch with her family.\n\nDespite the severe overcrowding in Egyptian jails, Mr Turner said: \"Her family said to some extent it is better that she's with lots of people in a cell than in a cell on her own because people are around her.\n\n\"But the conditions are going to be extremely basic and I'm sure she's petrified by what is unfolding before her.\"", "The UK company which owns the PGL children's holidays brand exploited an anti-tax avoidance law to actually save itself tax, the Paradise Papers show.\n\nAn amendment to rules introduced by the government in 2013 allowed Holidaybreak to legally avoid corporation tax by artificially shifting German profits to the Isle of Man.\n\nHolidaybreak says it follows all tax rules and disclosure requirements.\n\nThe UK Treasury denies its regulations can help multinationals avoid tax.\n\nBut the EU last month announced it is investigating whether the amendment to the Controlled Foreign Companies (CFC) rules amount to illegal state aid.\n\nDavid Cameron's coalition government had pledged to work with the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and update tax rules to ensure \"these do not allow or encourage multinational enterprises to cut their tax bills by artificially shifting profits to low-tax jurisdictions\".\n\nThe CFC rules, first introduced in 1984, enabled HMRC to impose full corporation tax on foreign subsidiaries of UK companies if they considered them to be shifting profits into tax havens.\n\nBut the rules were reformed in 2013 and an \"exception\" was added to allow offshore subsidiaries of UK firms financing other group companies abroad to pay a quarter of the full rate.\n\nCampaigners including Action Aid have warned it would be open to exploitation and undermine the government's claims to support international efforts against tax avoidance.\n\nThe Paradise Papers documents held by offshore law firm Appleby and seen by BBC Panorama show how a finance company set up by Holidaybreak could use the CFC change to pay corporation tax in the UK at 5.25% in 2015. Company profits in Germany are taxed at around 30%.\n\nBy paying the reduced UK rate, Holidaybreak would be able to cut the amount of tax it paid on its German business by more than 1m euros (£900,000) a year, calculations suggest.\n\nThe documents show the tax structure put in place after Cheshire-based Holidaybreak acquired the German budget hotel group Meininger in 2013.\n\nAppleby set up Meininger Finance Company Limited in the Isle of Man and it loaned 134.6m euros (£110.8m) to the German hotel group.\n\nThe German company had to pay interest on the loan, which reduced both its profits and the amount of tax it had to pay in Germany.\n\nThe interest payments went to the Isle of Man. Under the old rules they would have been taxed by the UK government at the full rate of corporation tax, but under the new rules Holidaybreak was allowed to pay just a quarter of the rate.\n\nThe company would be able to shift between 6 and 7 million euros a year into the Isle of Man, according to the tax advice.\n\nOther documents show meetings of the finance company were held in Appleby's office in the island's capital, Douglas, to satisfy the UK tax authorities that the new company was being managed and controlled from the Isle of Man.\n\nHolidaybreak became part of Cox & Kings, an India-registered company and one of the world's longest established travel businesses, in 2011.\n\nA draft report in the Appleby documents outlines how the new company structure would work\n\nIn a statement, Holidaybreak said: \"All our business affairs are conducted within the tax regulations and disclosure requirements as set out in the law of the countries we operate in, including the UK where Holidaybreak is headquartered.\n\n\"Where appropriate, we seek advice from third party advisers in order to help ensure this compliance with local law and regulations.\"\n\nFabio De Masi sat on the European Parliament's Panama Papers committee as an MEP and is now a German MP.\n\nHe said: \"The Holidaybreak tax structure is exactly the sort of scheme the EU Commission will be looking at. The investigation could lead to the company being asked to pay some of the avoided tax back.\n\n\"The UK does have the option of objecting to the EU Commission's investigation through the European Court of Justice. However, this would mean the UK government doesn't want the money back,\" he added.\n\nLabour MP Margaret Hodge, the former chair of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, sees the CFC rule amendment in 2013 as evidence the coalition government \"were constantly introducing new rules to make Britain the tax haven of the world\".\n\nShe said: \"This was a deliberate change brought in by the government to help global companies do nothing other than avoid paying their fair share of tax.\"\n\nA Treasury spokesperson said: \"We do not believe these rules are incompatible with EU law but will co-operate with the European Commission's investigation.\n\n\"We are clear that all multinationals must pay tax ‎on any profits they make in the UK, and our rules prevent these profits from being artificially diverted overseas.\"\n\nIn a statement on the Paradise Papers leak, Appleby said it was a law firm which \"advises clients on legitimate and lawful ways to conduct their business. We operate in jurisdictions which are regulated to the highest international standards\".\n\nThe papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nThe 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Panorama has led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries. The BBC does not know the identity of the source.\n\nParadise Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #ParadisePapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"Paradise Papers\"\n\nWatch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "Andrea Leadsom knew of a rape case that had been reported to the Commons, the Victoria Derbyshire show understands.\n\nThe Commons leader has been accused by the alleged victim, an ex-Tory activist, of ignoring concerns over the \"toxic\" culture of Westminster.\n\n\"Amanda\" said she told the Commons clerk she had been raped by someone who worked for a Conservative MP.\n\nThe BBC has established Ms Leadsom was told about the alleged case by the clerk in a regular briefing.\n\nMs Leadsom's office initially said she did not receive an official complaint in relation to the alleged rape.\n\nBoth the clerk and Ms Leadsom said it would not have been appropriate to take any further action given the ongoing criminal case at the time.\n\nThe alleged rape did not take place inside Parliament.\n\n'Amanda' says the incident left her 'destroyed'\n\nAmanda - whose name has been changed to protect the identity of both parties - says she was raped \"by someone senior to me in the Conservative Party.\n\n\"It was violent. It wasn't in Westminster, it was in my own home.\"\n\n\"And it shouldn't have happened. I remember the attack, during the attack. I remember the room disappearing around me and thinking I was going to die.\n\n\"When he left the next day I was at the police station within an hour and I reported it.\"\n\nAs she waited for a trial date, she decided to tell the Commons officials about the alleged rape. She explained how she felt the \"heavy-drinking and sex-driven\" culture within Westminster had contributed to it.\n\nThis programme has confirmed Amanda had a 25-minute conversation with the House of Commons clerk, David Natzler.\n\nShe said she left the conversation believing her concerns about both the culture and her alleged attack would be passed on to the then-Chief Whip Gavin Williamson and the Leader of the House, Andrea Leadsom - and that a meeting might follow.\n\nMr Williamson has just been promoted to defence secretary after Michael Fallon resigned over his \"general conduct\" and Mrs Leadsom has since said Parliament would take a \"zero-tolerance\" approach to allegations of sexual misconduct.\n\nBut Amanda said: \"I never received contact from either of them. The parliamentary authorities never followed it up with me either. I heard nothing.\"\n\nThe clerk refused to confirm who he spoke to about what he had been told, saying that Amanda's concerns were \"informally reported onwards\" and were \"acted on\".\n\nThe BBC understands the allegation and Amanda's general concerns were raised by the clerk at a regular meeting with Ms Leadsom.\n\nBut no-one will say how exactly it was acted upon and Amanda was not told either.\n\nIt is understood Mr Williamson insists none of the claims was passed on to him.\n\nAmanda said the incident had \"destroyed\" her.\n\n\"I question how I could be so stupid as to get into that political scene,\" she added. \"And I blame myself for doing so because it led to what happened to me. If I hadn't have got into that scene I wouldn't have been attacked. It's as simple as that.\"\n\nShe added it had made her feel \"worthless and as if my experience wasn't important and that the experiences of others who had who had had similar things happen to them weren't important either\".\n\nThe man Amanda had accused of rape, who was not an MP, strongly denied the allegation and the case was later dropped after a review of the evidence.\n\nBut at the time she told the parliamentary authorities about it and her general concerns the case was due to go to trial and she says she was ignored despite their seriousness.\n\nIn a statement, the clerk confirmed the conversation took place.\n\nIt added: \"The allegation was mentioned but was not the focus of the discussion, as the incident had not taken place on the Parliamentary Estate, and the activist had not been employed on the estate.\n\n\"There was no question of formally 'referring' the allegations to other House authorities as there was already a criminal case under way.\"\n\nAmanda said the clerk took her concerns extremely seriously.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Prince Mansour was the son of former Crown Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz\n\nA senior Saudi prince and seven other officials have been killed in a helicopter crash near the country's border with Yemen, state media report.\n\nPrince Mansour bin Muqrin, the deputy governor of Asir province, was returning from an inspection tour when his aircraft came down near Abha late on Sunday, the interior ministry said.\n\nIt did not give a cause for the crash.\n\nThe incident came hours after a major purge of the kingdom's political and business leadership.\n\nAn anti-corruption body led by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, 32, ordered the detentions of dozens of people, including 11 princes, four ministers and dozens of ex-ministers.\n\nAnalysts see the unprecedented move as an attempt to cement the power of the heir to the throne.\n\nPrince Mansour was the son of Prince Muqrin bin Abdulaziz, a former intelligence chief who was crown prince between January and April 2015, when he was pushed aside by Prince Mohammed's father, King Salman, now 81.\n\nMansour served as a consultant to his father's royal court and in April 2017 was among eight young royals appointed deputy governors.\n\nThese are heady and unpredictable times in Saudi Arabia. The Arab world's richest country is undergoing seismic changes almost unprecedented in its 85-year history as a sovereign nation.\n\nThe idea of dozens of familiar pillars of the establishment all being publicly and humiliatingly removed from office and detained, albeit in great comfort, would have been unthinkable just three years ago.\n\nBut the conservative, stodgy, risk-averse Saudi Arabia of old is under new management these days. Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, who is leading the official anti-corruption purge, appears determined to take on all comers in his drive to both modernise the country and eliminate all opposition, both secular and religious.\n\nHe is popular with young Saudis but critics say he is playing for high stakes, risking a dangerous backlash.\n\nAn interior ministry statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency said the prince and seven provincial officials had boarded a helicopter on Sunday morning to tour a number of coastal projects west of the city of Abha.\n\n\"While returning in the evening of the same day, contact with the plane was lost in the vicinity of the Reda reserve,\" it added. \"The authorities are currently searching for survivors as the wreckage has been found.\"\n\nLater, state news channel al-Ikhbariya announced the death of the prince.\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 Reda reserve is located in the Sarawat Mountains, the largest range in the Arabian Peninsula, and is about 10km (6 miles) west of Abha and 120km from the border with Yemen\n\nFor the past two-and-a-half years, Saudi Arabia has been leading a coalition that is supporting Yemen's internationally-recognised government in its war with the rebel Houthi movement.\n\nThe interior ministry statement did not draw any link between the crash and the conflict, but on Saturday the Saudi military intercepted and destroyed a ballistic missile near the capital, Riyadh, that was fired by Houthi fighters.\n\nOn Sunday, the Saudi-led coalition said it was closing all of Yemen's air, land and sea borders in response to the missile attack. It accused Iran of supplying the missile, and said that it might amount to an act of war on Tehran's part.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAbout £10m of the Queen's private money was invested offshore, leaked documents show.\n\nThe Duchy of Lancaster, which provides the Queen with an income, held funds in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda.\n\nA small amount ended up in the company behind BrightHouse, a chain accused of irresponsible lending, and Threshers, which went bust owing £17.5m in UK tax.\n\nThe Duchy said the BrightHouse holding now equates to £3,208 and it was not involved in fund investment decisions.\n\nIt added it had been unaware the stores featured in the investments.\n\nThe chief finance officer of the £500m estate, Chris Adcock, told the BBC: \"Our investment strategy is based on advice and recommendation from our investment consultants and appropriate asset allocation...\n\n\"The Duchy has only invested in highly regarded private equity funds following a strong recommendation from our investment consultants.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Duchy of Lancaster added: \"We operate a number of investments and a few of these are with overseas funds. All of our investments are fully audited and legitimate.\n\n\"The Queen voluntarily pays tax on any income she receives from the Duchy.\"\n\nDetails about the Duchy's investments came to light in the Paradise Papers - a leak of 13.4m documents from companies including Appleby, one of the world's leading offshore law firms.\n\nThe two funds were based in British overseas territories with no corporation tax and at the centre of the offshore financial industry.\n\nBut the Duchy said it was not aware there were tax advantages to it from investing in offshore funds, adding that tax strategy was not a part of the estate's investment policy.\n\nThe documents show the Duchy of Lancaster put £5m in the Jubilee Absolute Return Fund Limited in Bermuda in 2004, with the investment coming to an end in 2010.\n\nIn 2005 the Duchy agreed to put $7.5m (£5.7m) in the Dover Street VI Cayman Fund LP.\n\nDocuments show the fund invested in medical and technology companies.\n\nThe connection to rent-to-buy firm BrightHouse began in 2007 when the US company running the fund asked the Duchy to contribute $450,000 to five projects, including the purchase of the two UK High Street retailers.\n\nThis included an interest in London-based private equity firm Vision Capital, the company which acquired 100% of BrightHouse and 75% of the owners of Threshers off licence chain.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour MP Dame Margaret Hodge says she is furious with those who advise the Queen\n\nUnder its new owners, Threshers' balance sheet was loaded with debt and it paid no corporation tax for two years. When the drinks retailer went bust in October 2009, almost 6,000 people lost their jobs.\n\nThe majority of Vision Capital's BrightHouse investment later ended up in a company based in Luxembourg and it began paying less corporation tax in the UK.\n\nLast month, the UK's financial regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority, said BrightHouse, which sells electrical goods and furniture predominantly to people on lower incomes via weekly installments, had not acted as a \"responsible lender\" and ordered it to pay £14.8m compensation to 249,000 customers.\n\nThe Duchy said its investment in the Cayman Islands fund is due to continue until 2019 or 2020 and amounts to 0.3% of the total value of the estate, while its interest in BrightHouse now equates to just 0.0006% of its wealth. The Duchy did not provide a figure for its interest in Threshers.\n\nVision Capital said it \"complies with all laws and regulations and pays its tax in full and on time. Any suggestion to the contrary is wrong\".\n\nThe Paradise Papers' revelations over the Queen's finances are certainly embarrassing.\n\nMany will also view the Duchy of Lancaster's offshore investments in BrightHouse and Threshers as dubious and inappropriate.\n\nHowever, it is not a question of tax avoidance, but of judgement on behalf of her advisers.\n\nThe Queen is officially exempt from UK tax laws, but voluntarily pays her share of income tax on her £500m estate.\n\nIt is extraordinary and puzzling that her advisers could have felt that it was appropriate - for somebody whose reputation is based so much on setting a good example - to invest in these offshore funds.\n\nThere will be meetings and questions being asked within Buckingham Palace this morning as the monarchy finds its reputation tarnished by association.\n\nThe Duchy's 2017 annual report says it \"gives ongoing consideration regarding any of its acts or omissions that could adversely impact the reputation of the Duchy or Her Majesty The Queen\".\n\nLabour MP Margaret Hodge, the former chair of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, said she was \"pretty furious\" with the Queen's investment advisers, saying they were bringing her reputation into disrepute.\n\n\"It is so obvious that if you're looking after the money of the monarchy, you've got to be actually cleaner than clean and you must never go near the dirty world of money laundering, tax avoidance, tax evasion or actually making money in dubious ways,\" she said.\n\nThe business model of BrightHouse has long come under the spotlight.\n\nA parliamentary report in 2015 said the company was charging interest rates of up to 94%. One in five customers were in arrears and one in 10 purchases ended in repossession. In one case examined by MPs and Lords, a Samsung freezer cost £644 to buy in John Lewis but £1,716 under a five-year plan from the chain.\n\nBrightHouse was attracting attention at the time of the Duchy's investment - with the Financial Times challenging its chief executive in November 2008 to respond to accusations that the chain was \"preying on the vulnerable\".\n\nThe company maintains it is a responsible lender and through its 300 stores provides a services to millions of Britons who are unable to access up traditional lines of credit.\n\nBrightHouse told the Guardian newspaper it follows all relevant tax regulations and pays its tax in full and on time.\n\nVision Capital announced it was acquiring the stakes in BrightHouse and Threshers in June 2007.\n\nThe offshore leaked documents show the Duchy of Lancaster was among 46 investors in the $312m Dover Street VI Cayman Fund LP.\n\nIn September 2007, investors were asked to pay 6% of their financial commitment into five investments, including \"Project Bertie\".\n\nThe investors were told Project Bertie was formed to take an interest in a company set up by Vision Capital to \"acquire a portfolio of two retailers in the United Kingdom\".\n\nThe Duchy of Lancaster's $450,000 commitment to the \"capital call\" is listed in the documents.\n\nAnother document shows the investment in Jubilee Absolute Return Fund.\n\nEstablished more than 700 years ago, the Duchy of Lancaster has a commercial and residential property portfolio and financial investments.\n\nIts main purpose is to provide income for the Queen, who is known as the \"Duke of Lancaster\".\n\nAlthough the Duchy is not subject to tax, since 1993 the Queen has voluntarily paid tax on any income she receives.\n\nThe Duchy's annual report and accounts include a summary of its holdings and financial performance and are put before Parliament. The offshore investments were not referenced in the reports but there is no requirement for specific details of the Duchy's holdings to be disclosed.\n\nDave McClure, the author of a book about the wealth of the Royal Family, told the BBC \"pressure will grow on the Duchy to open up to proper parliamentary scrutiny by the National Audit Office, which they've resisted for decades.\n\n\"The solution to the problem might be just full disclosure, so everyone knows what investments they're investing in.\"\n\nThe Duchy said the Queen \"takes a keen interest in the Duchy's estates and tenants\" but \"appoints a chancellor and the Duchy Council to administer the affairs of Her Duchy. The chancellor delegates the oversight to the Duchy to the Council\".\n\nInvestors in the Dover Street VI Cayman Fund LP made a commitment for a \"given period\" and are \"not party to its ongoing investment decisions\" or where money is \"ultimately invested\", it added.\n\nAsked whether the Duchy had other investments in offshore funds, it said it \"currently invests in a fund domiciled in Ireland\".\n\nThe Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster is a government minister and sits in the cabinet, but plays a nominal role in running the estate. The current chancellor is Sir Patrick McLoughlin MP, the Chairman of the Conservative Party.\n\nAt the time the Duchy initially invested in the Dover Street VI Cayman Fund LP in September 2005, its chancellor was Labour MP John Hutton.\n\nEd Miliband was the chancellor of the Duchy at the time the call came to invest in the company taking over BrightHouse and Threshers. Coincidentally in 2016, the former Labour leader called for better regulation on buy-to-rent firms such as BrightHouse in a film for the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme.\n\nThe papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nThe 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Panorama has led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries. The BBC does not know the identity of the source.\n\nParadise Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #ParadisePapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"Paradise Papers\"\n\nWatch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "Globally, temperatures in 2017 look set to be the third highest on record\n\nThe year 2017 is \"very likely\" to be in the top three warmest years on record, according to provisional figures from the World Meteorological Organization.\n\nThe WMO says it will likely be the hottest year in the absence of the El Niño phenomenon.\n\nThe scientists argue that the long-term trend of warming driven by human activities continues unabated.\n\nThey say many of the \"extraordinary\" weather events seen this year bear the hallmarks of climate change.\n\nOn the opening day of this year's key UN climate talks, researchers from the WMO have presented their annual State of the Global Climate report.\n\nIt follows hot on the heels of their greenhouse gases study from last week which found that concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere were the highest on record.\n\nWhile the new study only covers January to September, the WMO says the average global temperature was 1.1C above the pre-industrial figure.\n\nThis is getting dangerously close to the 1.5 degrees threshold that many island states feel temperatures must be kept under to ensure their survival.\n\nThe analysis suggests that 2017 is likely to come in 0.47C warmer than the 1981-2010 average.\n\nThis is slightly down on 2016 when the El Niño weather phenomenon saw temperatures that were 0.56C above the average.\n\nAccording to the WMO, this year vies with 2015 to be the second or third warmest mark yet recorded.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage of the aftermath in Dominica\n\n\"The past three years have all been in the top three years in terms of temperature records. This is part of a long-term warming trend,\" said WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas.\n\n\"We have witnessed extraordinary weather, including temperatures topping 50C in Asia, record-breaking hurricanes in rapid succession in the Caribbean and Atlantic, (and) reaching as far as Ireland, devastating monsoon flooding affecting many millions of people and a relentless drought in East Africa.\n\n\"Many of these events - and detailed scientific studies will determine exactly how many - bear the tell-tale sign of climate change caused by increased greenhouse gas concentrations from human activities,\" he said.\n\nThe Caribbean island of Saint-Barthelemy after it was hit by Hurricane Irma\n\nScientists will have to do attribution studies to clearly link specific events from 2017 to rising temperatures. But they believe the fingerprints of climate change are to be seen in events such as tropical cyclones, where the warmer seas can transfer more heat to the gathering storms and increased sea levels can make flooding more damaging.\n\nThe Accumulated Cyclone Energy Index, which measures the intensity and duration of these events, showed its highest ever monthly values in September this year.\n\nIt was also the first time that two Category 4 hurricanes made landfall in the same year in the US.\n\nHurricane Irma was a Category 5 storm for the longest period on record. Rain gauges in Nederland, Texas, recorded 1,539mm, the largest ever recorded for a single event in the mainland US.\n\nScientists say that extreme heat and drought contributed to many destructive wildfires such as this one in California\n\nThere were also significant flooding events with large loss of life in Sierra Leone, in Nepal, India, Bangladesh and Peru among many others.\n\nIn contrast, droughts and heatwaves affected many parts of Africa and South America. In Somalia, more than half of cropland was impacted with herds reduced by 40-60%.\n\nMore than 11 million people are experiencing severe food insecurity in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia.\n\n\"This year saw a multitude of damaging weather extremes which is not uncommon but many of these events were made more severe by the sustained warming influence of increasing atmospheric greenhouse gas levels due to human activities,\" said Richard Allan, professor of climate science at the University of Reading, UK.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: Hurricane Hunters fly over eye of storm to help forecasters\n\n\"An increased severity of weather extremes is expected in the decades ahead as Earth continues to heat up and it is only with the substantive cuts in greenhouse gas emissions required by the Paris climate agreement that we can avert much more potent and widespread damage to our societies and the ecosystems upon which they depend.\"\n\nWith UN talks on climate change now underway here in Bonn, the report is likely to reinforce a sense of urgency among many delegates.\n\n\"These findings underline the rising risks to people, economies and the very fabric of life on Earth if we fail to get on track with the aims and ambitions of the Paris Agreement,\" said Patricia Espinosa, executive secretary of UN Climate Change, which is hosting the Bonn conference.\n\nFollow Matt on Twitter and on Facebook", "About £10m of the Queen's private money was invested offshore, leaked documents show.\n\nThe Duchy of Lancaster, which provides the Queen with an income, held funds in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda.\n\nFind out more about the Paradise Papers.", "Facebook has chosen the UK as the first country outside the US to get its Messenger payments service. Later on Monday, local users will be able to send each other money in a message.\n\nThe service was launched in the US in 2015. The social network says it has been widely used to split restaurant bills, pay babysitters and simply send gifts. It says most users send less than $50 (£38).\n\nThe company says the service is coming to the UK because it has so many \"mobile-savvy consumers\".\n\nFacebook is collaborating with all the major banks and credit card firms to launch Messenger payments, which will require both the sender and recipient of money to register their payment cards.\n\nBut three years ago, UK banks launched their own instant payments service - Paym - which has not made a huge impact on the way we pay. So, why should this be any different?\n\nFacebook claims Messenger payments will catch on because \"people are looking for simplicity and emotion\".\n\nI'm not sure about the emotion, but the Messenger app is certainly a very simple way to send money, especially compared with Paym where you have to log in to your own bank's app.\n\nSmartphones have helped to enable quick and easy contactless payments\n\nDavid Marcus, who runs Messenger, says it is obvious from our messages that we need this.\n\n\"More and more people are having conversations on Messenger about paying one another,\" he explains.\n\n\"As a result it's a very natural place for you to have the most frictionless and secure way of paying each other.\"\n\nFacebook is also introducing something called M suggestions, a virtual assistant that recognises when you are talking about payments. It will suggest the new service as a quick and easy solution. We'll see how users enjoy being nudged in this manner.\n\nBut with millions of Messenger users, who will not need to download a separate app to use the service, Facebook is well placed to become major player in the UK payments scene. That begs the question, how did UK banks let this happen?\n\nA spokesman for Paym insisted it was growing, with four million people having registered their mobile phone numbers to use the service. But with just £400m of payments in three and a half years, it is still a minnow.\n\nIn Sweden, by contrast, Swish - a peer-to-peer payments service in a single app - has taken the country by storm with the majority of adults now \"swishing\" money to each other and small businesses.\n\nThe UK payments industry decided against a Paym app, believing customers would be more likely to trust their own bank's online operation. But it looks as though the lesson from Sweden - and from Facebook - is that simplicity is vital to building the network effect needed to make a new service take off.\n\nBut perhaps we should be cautious before allowing Facebook into yet another part of our lives. While the Messenger service is free to use, the business model behind it is all about \"engagement\" - keeping users on the platform for longer so that they can be served more advertising.\n\nAt a time when there is growing alarm over the extraordinary power the social media giant has to mould the way we see the world, letting it peer into our wallets as well may be a step too far for some.", "A friend of murdered schoolgirl Kate Bushell said she was \"numb\" when she heard her best friend had been murdered.\n\nThe 14-year-old's throat had been cut while she was walking her neighbour's dog near her home in Exwick, Devon, in 1997.\n\nPolice have released new information about orange fibres found at the scene in an attempt to catch her killer.\n\nMore than 100 of the fibres were found on her body, predominately used in non-fluorescent workwear such as boiler suits, aprons and gloves.\n\nInside Out South West is on BBC One on Monday 6 November at 19:30 GMT and on the iPlayer for 30 days thereafter.", "Priti Patel has apologised for holding a series of undisclosed meetings with senior Israeli officials during a private holiday over the summer.\n\nThe international development secretary met Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior figures without \"following the usual procedures\".\n\nMs Patel apologised for not informing the Foreign Office and suggesting Boris Johnson knew in advance of the visit.\n\nDowning Street said it welcomed Ms Patel's \"clarification\" and that at a meeting with Theresa May earlier, the prime minister had \"reminded her of the obligations which exist under the ministerial code\".\n\nNo 10 said it had not been aware of Ms Patel's meeting with Mr Netanyahu until Friday but insisted that Mrs May still had confidence in the minister.\n\nThe BBC's diplomatic correspondent James Landale said there were clear rules about what ministers could and could not do and \"in normal circumstances\" Ms Patel would be in \"serious trouble\".\n\nBut he said the fragility of Mrs May's government and the fact that the PM would not want to lose another cabinet minister after Sir Michael Fallon's recent resignation could help her.\n\nThe BBC revealed on Friday that Ms Patel held a number of undisclosed meetings with business and political figures during a family holiday in August, including Yair Lapid, the leader of Israel's centrist Yesh Atid party and Jean Judes, executive director of disability charity BIS.\n\nNo diplomats were present at the meetings, at which the minister was accompanied by an influential pro-Israeli Conservative peer and campaigner Lord Polak.\n\nMs Patel, who is a long-standing supporter of Israel and a former vice-chairman of Conservative Friends of Israel defended her actions, saying she had paid for the holiday herself and while in Israel had taken the opportunity to meet \"people and organisations\" for the purpose of building links between the two countries.\n\nShe also told the Guardian that \"Boris [Johnson] knew about the visit, the point is that the Foreign Office did know about this\".\n\nSuggesting that the reaction to her visit had been \"extraordinary\", she added that it was \"for the Foreign Office to go away and explain themselves\".\n\nBut in a statement \"clarifying her position\", Ms Patel said she had in fact attended 12 meetings, not just the handful previously reported, and that her earlier comments may have \"implied\" otherwise.\n\nAmong meetings that were not previously reported, she said that she had met Mr Netanyahu to discuss his forthcoming visit to the UK as well as the Israeli \"domestic political scene\" and UK-Israeli collaboration.\n\nShe said she had also met other senior figures in the Israeli government, including security minister Gilad Erdan and foreign ministry official Yuval Rotem.\n\nMs Patel has also set the record straight about when the government was informed about the trip.\n\nWhile the Foreign Office was aware of the visit \"while it was under way\", she said she was wrong to have given the impression that the department and Mr Johnson knew about it in advance.\n\nShe said she \"regretted the lack of precision in the wording\" of her previous statement about the trip.\n\n\"This summer I travelled to Israel, on a family holiday paid for myself,\" she said in a statement.\n\n\"While away I had the opportunity to meet a number of people and organisations...In hindsight, I can see how my enthusiasm to engage in this way could be mis-read, and how meetings were set up and reported in a way which did not accord with the usual procedures. I am sorry for this and I apologise for it.\n\n\"My first and only aim as the Secretary of State for International Development is to put the interests of British taxpayers and the world's poor at the front of our development work.\"\n\nIn her statement, Ms Patel also said the Foreign Office was clear that the UK's interests were \"not damaged or affected\" by her actions.\n\nLabour has called for an inquiry into whether Ms Patel broke the ministerial code or the rules on lobbying.\n\n\"Not only does it look like she has broken the ministerial code, she has now been caught misleading the British public,\" shadow international development secretary Kate Osamor said.\n\n\"If she does not now resign, then Theresa May must immediately refer the issue to the Cabinet Office for a full investigation.\"\n\nDowning Street said the ministerial code was \"not explicit\" in this area and Cabinet Secretary Sir Jeremy Heyward had been asked to see if it could be made clearer.", "The ambulance service said it checked four people for injuries\n\nA train which derailed with 300 passengers on board has caused knock-on delays on London's transport routes.\n\nThe South Western Railway (SWR) commuter service from Basingstoke derailed near Wimbledon station in south-west London at 05:54 GMT.\n\nThe rear axle of the last coach derailed at low speed as it left the station. One person had minor injuries.\n\nThere are delays on mainline services and the District line between Wimbledon and Parsons Green is blocked.\n\nDisruption is expected on the SWR line until 15:00 GMT.\n\nEngineers are recovering the derailed train, which is blocking the District line\n\nFour people were checked for injuries but no-one required hospital treatment, London Ambulance Service said.\n\nNine fire engines were in attendance.\n\nNine fire engines were sent to the derailment\n\nPassengers saw sparks fly as the train derailed\n\nJane and John, who were on the derailed carriage, told BBC Radio London they thought the train was \"going to come off the rails totally\".\n\n\"There was lots of noise, lots of screeching, lots of sparks, and John and I held on to each other and thought 'we're in trouble if it goes over',\" Jane said.\n\nJohn said: \"It felt at one point like it was going to tip, then it didn't, and remarkably, no one was screaming or anything, everyone was pretty calm, but it felt like it came quite close.\n\n\"You could tell it was off the tracks.\"\n\nThe rear axle of the last coach of the eight-carriage train derailed\n\nTransport for London (TfL) said engineers are recovering the derailed train, which is blocking the District line.\n\n\"Our engineers are supporting Network Rail with recovery work, which is likely to continue for the rest of the day,\" TfL 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 Yoann This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Metropolitan line still has minor delays due to an earlier signal failures at King's Cross St. Pancras and Wembley Park.\n\nThe Bakerloo, Central, Circle and Hammersmith and City lines now have a good service.\n\nA number of people have taken to social media to complain of the delays.\n\nUser Yoann said: \"#SouthWesternRailway when are you going to sort this mess? Constant delays, overcrowded trains; care to provide a good service one day?\"\n\nWhile Barry O'Sullivan tweeted: \"So all the trains out of Basingstoke are delayed. Got myself a late one, but it's now broke down at Hook! #whatajoke\"\n\nAnother, Rebecca, said: \"Can't believe I'm getting the bus the whole way to work. Nothing like a derailed train to ruin a Monday morning!\"\n\nThe Rail Accident Investigation Branch is investigating the cause of the incident.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Barry O'Sullivan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Rebecca ⚓️ This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. May: Allegations must be properly investigated\n\nTheresa May has called for a \"new culture of respect\" ahead of a meeting with other party leaders to discuss the Westminster sexual misconduct scandal.\n\nThe PM said in a speech to the CBI that people should know their complaints will be investigated properly.\n\nIt comes as several Conservative and Labour MPs are investigated over claims of sexual misconduct.\n\nOn Sunday Conservative MP Chris Pincher stepped down as a government whip after allegations about his behaviour.\n\nMr Pincher has also referred himself to police and the Conservative Party's complaints procedure following newspaper reports of allegations about his conduct in 2001 made by a party activist.\n\nIt follows the resignation of Sir Michael Fallon as defence secretary following complaints about his behaviour and amid a Cabinet Office inquiry into the conduct of First Secretary of State Damian Green.\n\nChris Pincher is the MP for Tamworth in Staffordshire\n\nDover MP Charlie Elphicke, who denies wrongdoing, has been suspended from the party after \"serious allegations\" against him were referred to the police and three other Conservative MPs who deny wrongdoing - Stephen Crabb, Dan Poulter and Daniel Kawczynski - have been referred to the party's disciplinary committee after media allegations about their conduct.\n\nLabour has also suspended an MP - Kelvin Hopkins, who denies claims he made inappropriate physical contact with a Labour activist in 2004 - and is investigating a formal complaint made against Clive Lewis, who denies groping a woman.\n\nThe party has also launched an independent investigation after Labour activist Bex Bailey said she had been raped at a party event in 2011 and discouraged by a senior official from reporting the attack.\n\nIn a speech at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) conference Mrs May said: \"We need to establish a new culture of respect at the centre of our public life.\n\n\"One in which everyone can feel confident that they are working in a safe and secure environment, where complaints can be brought forward without prejudice and victims know that these complaints will be investigated properly.\n\n\"Political parties have not always got this right in the past. But I am determined to get it right for the future.\"\n\nShe is due to meet other party leaders later to discuss setting up an independent grievance procedure for Parliament.\n\n\"Those working for Members of Parliament should not have to navigate different party systems depending on their employer's political affiliation,\" the prime minister told the CBI.\n\n\"What has been revealed over the last few weeks has been deeply troubling - and has understandably led to significant public unease.\n\n\"Women and men should be able to work free from the threat or fear of harassment, bullying or intimidation.\n\n\"But for too long the powerful have been able to abuse their power, and their victims have not felt able to speak out.\"\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn told the CBI conference that everyone, including businesses, \"have a duty to act, and act now\" over sexual harassment.\n\nHe said: \"Such abuse, sexism and misogyny is, sadly, very far from being confined to Hollywood and the corridors of power, but is also widespread in our schools and universities, in our businesses and workplaces, in our newspapers and on our TV screens. It is all around us.\n\n\"That must change and business has an essential role to play. All of you need to look hard at yourselves, as we in the Labour Party are doing ourselves, to see how your processes and procedures can be improved. How it can be made easier for women to speak out and for victims to get the support they have a right to expect.\"\n\nMeanwhile, Mr Green, Mrs May's most senior minister, is to be interviewed as part of the Cabinet Office investigation into his conduct.\n\nThe inquiry was triggered after Kate Maltby, who is three decades younger than him, claimed he \"fleetingly\" touched her knee during a meeting in a Waterloo pub in 2015, and a year later sent her a \"suggestive\" text message after she was pictured wearing a corset in the newspaper.\n\nDamian Green said the allegations were from a \"tainted and untrustworthy source\"\n\nMr Green said any allegation that he made sexual advances to Ms Maltby was \"untrue (and) deeply hurtful\".\n\nThe inquiry was broadened after the Sunday Times reported that a statement prepared by ex-Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner Bob Quick alleged pornography was discovered by officers searching Mr Green's parliamentary office following a spate of leaks of Home Office information in 2008.\n\nMr Green said the claims were \"completely untrue\" and \"political smears\".", "Many homes have been targeted in racist, sectarian or paramilitary attacks\n\nMore than 2,000 housing intimidation cases - where people were forced out of home by threats - have been acted upon by the Housing Executive since 2012.\n\nIt spent £7m re-housing people forced out by paramilitary threats, sectarian, racist or homophobic intimidation or anti-social behaviour.\n\nBut only 32 convictions were secured from 2011 to 2016 for the offence of intimidating victims from their homes.\n\nThe figures have been compiled by the investigative news website, The Detail.\n\nThe website reported that during the financial years April 2012 to April 2017, the Housing Executive received more than 3,000 complaints of housing intimidation.\n\nThe publicly funded housing body \"accepted\" a total of 2,060 cases but rejected about 1,000 of the complaints.\n\nThe Detail said the \"overwhelming majority\" of the accepted cases were in eastern parts of Northern Ireland, including Belfast; Lisburn and Castlereagh; Ards and North Down and the Antrim and Newtownabbey council areas.\n\nParamilitary threats account for most of the forced evictions\n\nThe Housing Executive agreed to buy 57 properties from homeowners who were forced to flee, at a total cost of more than £6.7m.\n\nThe sales are processed through the Scheme for the Purchase of Evacuated Dwellings (SPED).\n\nThe housing body also paid emergency accommodation grants to more than 1,000 tenants who fled from rented homes, which meant an additional bill of more than £800,000.\n\nAlmost three quarters (1,523) of the accepted complaints related to paramilitary intimidation.\n\nA significant number (222) of householders fled due to what was described as \"anti-social behaviour\".\n\nSectarian intimation forced 153 people from their homes and racism was cited as the motive in 112 cases.\n\nThe issue of housing intimidation hit the headlines in September, when four Catholic families fled their homes in Belfast's Cantrell Close.\n\nCantrell Close was built under a shared housing initiative, in a bid to bring communities together\n\nPSNI Chief Constable George Hamilton said the victims had been forced to leave their homes \"because of their community background, because of their religion\".\n\nHe said detectives believed members of the loyalist paramilitary group, the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), had issued the threats.\n\nIn recent years, PSNI officers have also been the victims of housing intimidation.\n\nIn June, the BBC's Nolan Show reported that every year, an average of 16 police officers either move home or have special security measures installed due to threats.\n\nDeputy Ch Constable Drew Harris told the programme: \"We could expect, every month, one or two officers to be in the position where they're having to move home.\"\n\nThe Detail asked the PSNI for its figures on the number of arrests and charges for housing intimidation over the past five years.\n\nThe PSNI refused the request on the grounds of how much it would cost to compile the figures.\n\nThe conviction statistics - 32 between March 2011 and August 2016 - are therefore based on figures obtained from the Northern Ireland Court Service.", "The real WhatsApp messenger has been downloaded more than a billion times from the Play Store\n\nA fake version of the WhatsApp messenger app was downloaded more than a million times from the Google Play Store before it was removed.\n\nThe app, \"Update WhatsApp Messenger\", appeared to have been developed by the firm behind the real program - WhatsApp Inc.\n\nAccording to users on web forum Reddit, the fake contained ads and could download software to users' devices.\n\nIt has now been removed from the Play Store.\n\nWhoever was behind the app managed to make it look as though its developer was \"WhatsApp Inc\".\n\nThey did this by using that exact name, though replacing the space with a special character that looks like a space.\n\nThe subtle difference would have been practically undetectable to the average user.\n\nUsers receiving automatic updates via the real WhatsApp would not have been affected.\n\nIt is far from the first time that Google has had to clean up fake malicious apps on the Play Store.\n\nIn 2015, the firm had to step in and block one program that disguised itself as a battery monitor and sent premium-rate text messages from people's phones.", "Sutherland Springs: What we know so far\n\nAt least 26 people were killed and 20 injured when a gunman opened fire at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, on Sunday morning. It is the worst mass shooting in the state's history. Children are reported among the victims. The suspect, described as a white male, wore a bulletproof vest and black combat gear. Police say that after leaving the church he was shot at by a local resident and dropped his assault rifle and fled the scene. He was later found dead in his vehicle. Police have not confirmed the suspect's identity but US media have named him as Devin P Kelley, 26. The motive is still not clear.", "A 24-hour service has been launched for NHS patients, offering GP consultations via videolink on smartphones.\n\nThe pilot scheme will initially cover 3.5 million patients in greater London.\n\nPatients will be able to check their symptoms through the mobile app and then have video consultations within two hours of booking.\n\nThe Royal College of GPs has warned the service may not help patients with complex needs.\n\nThe new free service has been launched by a group of London GPs and the online healthcare provider Babylon.\n\nPatients joining will leave their existing practice, with their records transferred to a group of five central London surgeries.\n\nDr Mobasher Butt, who is part of the team behind the GP at Hand service, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"It's high time that NHS patients were given the opportunity to benefit from technology to improve access to healthcare.\n\n\"We've benefited from this kind of technology in so many different aspects of our lives, whether that be shopping or banking, and it's really time that we were able to do that in healthcare for NHS patients.\"\n\nJane Barnacle, director of patients and information at NHS England London, said GP practices were right to carefully test innovative new technologies that could improve free NHS services for their patients while also freeing up staff time.\n\nBut the Royal College of GPs is concerned the new service might only work for younger healthier commuters and not those with complex health conditions.\n\nProf Helen Stokes-Lampard, who chairs the RCPG, said: \"We are really worried that schemes like this are creating a twin-track approach to NHS general practice and that patients are being 'cherry-picked', which could actually increase the pressures on traditional GPs based in the community.\n\n\"We understand that with increasingly long waiting times to see a GP, an online service is convenient and appealing, but older patients and those living with more complex needs want continuity of care and the security of their local practice where their GPs know them.\n\n\"We notice there is an extensive list of patient conditions such as frailty, pregnancy and mental health conditions that are the essence of general practice and which GPs deal with every day, but which are not eligible for this service.\n\n\"We are also concerned that patients are being given the option of switching back to their local surgery if they are not satisfied with the level of service offered by the app.\n\n\"As well as issues with patient confidentiality and the safety of the patient record, it is hard to see how this could be achieved without adding to the huge burden of red tape that GPs are already grappling with.\n\n\"While this scheme is backed by the NHS and offers a free service to patients, it is undoubtedly luring GPs away from front-line general practice at a time when we are facing a severe workforce crisis and hardworking GPs are struggling to cope with immense workloads.\"\n\nDr Richard Vautrey from the British Medical Association said: \"This approach risks undermining the quality and continuity of care and further fragmenting the service provided to the public.\"\n\nGP at Hand strongly deny that care would be compromised in any way.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nA tennis player was asked to pull off a female model's glove with his teeth in a \"disgraceful\" draw ceremony that has led to accusations of sexism.\n\nAt the Next Gen ATP Finals draw in Milan on Sunday, female models decided groupings by revealing letters hidden under their clothing.\n\nIn a joint statement, the ATP and sponsors Red Bull said they \"deeply regretted\" causing offence.\n\n\"Our execution was in poor taste and unacceptable,\" the statement read.\n\nOne model suggestively took off her jacket to reveal the letter B on her back, while Denis Shapovalov discovered he was in Group A when his chosen model pulled up a lace dress to reveal the letter A on her right thigh.\n\nSouth Korea's Hyeon Chung was asked to pull a model's glove off with his teeth.\n\nFormer Wimbledon champion Amelie Mauresmo said the draw was a \"disgrace\", while Judy Murray tweeted that it was \"awful\".\n\nFrench player Alize Cornet posted on social media: \"Good job @ATPWorldTour. Supposed to be a futurist event right? #backtozero\"\n\nThe inaugural Next Gen Finals is the ATP's under-21 version of the World Tour Finals, featuring eight of the world's best young players.\n\nThe qualifiers were asked to select one of two models before making their way down the catwalk arm in arm.\n\nAt that point the model revealed the letter A or B, which had been concealed under an item of clothing.\n\nThe event is run by the ATP in partnership with the Italian Tennis Federation and the country's National Olympic Committee.\n\nThe draw party, though, was sponsored by Red Bull and the evening appears to have been designed as a tribute to Milan's famous links with the fashion industry.\n\nThe ATP is understood to be \"furious\" about the way the draw was executed, and accepts it was in \"poor taste\".\n\nIts joint statement with Red Bull read: \"ATP and Red Bull apologise for the offence caused by the draw ceremony for the Next Gen ATP Finals.\n\n\"The intention was to integrate Milan's rich heritage as one of the fashion capitals of the world. However, our execution of the proceedings was in poor taste and unacceptable. We deeply regret this and will ensure that there is no repeat of anything like it in the future.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Paradise Papers: Who is in control of Everton?\n\nQuestions have been raised in the leaked Paradise Papers about who controls Everton FC and whether Premier League rules have been broken.\n\nFarhad Moshiri sold his Arsenal stake in 2016 to buy nearly 50% of Everton.\n\nBut the leaks suggest his original Arsenal stake was funded by a \"gift\" from oligarch Alisher Usmanov, who owns 30.4% of Arsenal, raising the question of whether his money is now in Everton.\n\nLawyers acting for him in the Everton deal said any allegation Premier League rules had been violated were wholly false.\n\nThey say Mr Moshiri is independently wealthy and funded the football investments himself.\n\nMr Usmanov's legal representatives said there were errors in the allegations and that the investigation was a gross intrusion into their client's privacy.\n\nPremier League rules state an individual who owns a stake of 10% or more in one club cannot hold a single share in another, to avoid any conflict of interest, including in games between the clubs and in transfers.\n\nOfficially Mr Usmanov and Mr Moshiri, the oligarch's former accountant, bought a 14.58% stake in Arsenal together in 2007 through an offshore company called Red and White Holdings.\n\nBut the documents show that all the funds for the purchase of the Arsenal shares came from a firm called Epion Holdings, a company wholly owned by Mr Usmanov, who is currently said to be worth about $15.8bn (£12bn).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOne document reads: \"Dividend from Gallagher Holdings to Alisher Usmanov who will then gift the monies to Moshiri who will in turn invest in the company. Funding for Red and White has come from Epion Holdings Limited\".\n\nGallagher Holdings is also an Usmanov company.\n\nLawyers acting for Mr Moshiri originally denied that the money had come from Epion.\n\nThey later admitted the initial funding had come from Epion, but said Mr Moshiri had subsequently paid Mr Usmanov back.\n\nRed and White Holdings continued to raise its stake in Arsenal, reaching 30.4%.\n\nIn February 2016, Mr Moshiri sold his half of the Arsenal shares to the Russian oligarch.\n\nA document in the Paradise Papers from Appleby, the firm overseeing due diligence on the deal, confirms the sale was used to raise funds to buy a 49.9% stake in Everton. The reported price was £87.5m.\n\nA Russian media company with close links to Mr Usmanov initially reported the Everton deal as \"Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov has become the new owner of Everton\". The report was soon taken down but suspicions were aroused.\n\nThe suspicions rose further this January when it was announced Everton's training ground, Finch Farm, was now being sponsored by Mr Usmanov's company, USM Holdings. The training ground has been renamed USM Finch Farm.\n\nWhen BBC Panorama approached Mr Moshiri and asked him whether Mr Usmanov was in control of Everton, he asked: \"Are you crazy? Have you seen a psychiatrist?\"\n\nHe said: \"If it is a loan, you owe the money back to him. If it is a gift, it is yours. It is neither of them because I paid for it.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ex-FA chairman Greg Dyke on how the Premier League may respond\n\nMr Moshiri later said that all the documents that mentioned a gift were \"a mistake\".\n\nMr Moshiri's legal representatives said the Premier League had carried out checks, including on its funding, and was satisfied that he had complied with its Owners' and Directors' Test.\n\nThey also said that Mr Moshiri, who is said by Forbes magazine to be worth $2.4bn, had subsequently provided considerably more finance to Everton.\n\nFormer FA chairman Greg Dyke told Panorama that a gift \"sounds unusual\", adding: \"If these papers say what you say they say, I feel sure that the Premier League will want to do their own investigations.\"\n\nAnd shadow culture minister Tom Watson has said he will be writing to the Premier League to urge them to investigate.\n\nThe outcome of any investigation would depend on what the two men did and what the clubs knew.\n\nWhen asked about the matter, the Premier League said it \"would not disclose confidential information about clubs or individuals\".\n\nThe Everton deal was administered by Isle of Man company Bridgewaters Limited.\n\nOther documents in the Paradise Papers suggest that Bridgewaters was secretly taken over by Mr Usmanov in 2011. This is strongly denied by Bridgewaters and Mr Usmanov.\n\nBlue Heaven Holdings, the company that owns Everton, has its registered office at Bridgewaters and its two directors are an employee of Bridgewaters and an employee of Mr Usmanov's company, USM Holdings.\n\nLawyers for Mr Usmanov said there were \"errors of fact and interpretation\" in the allegations but gave no further details.\n\nThey said: \"Our client is not obliged at all to assist you in your enquiries. It is not for him to do your journalists' research which on its face appears to be biased.\"\n\nIn May, Mr Usmanov failed in a £1bn bid to buy out major Arsenal shareholder Stan Kroenke, a move that would have left him with about 97% of Arsenal shares.\n\nMr Usmanov is known to be frustrated at his inability to influence Arsenal and has no seat on the board.\n\nBoth clubs have had their problems on the pitch. Many Arsenal fans have questioned whether manager Arsene Wenger should continue given the recent lack of league titles, while Everton sacked boss Ronald Koeman after a poor start to the season.\n\nThe teams met at Goodison Park on 22 October, with Arsenal running out 5-2 winners.\n\nThe papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nThe 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Panorama has led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries. The BBC does not know the identity of the source.\n\nParadise Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #ParadisePapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"Paradise Papers\"\n\nWatch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emily Hunt said she \"had a lightbulb moment\" that she was drugged\n\nA woman seeking what is thought to be the UK's first crowdfunded private rape prosecution says she hopes to lead the way for those \"let down\" by the courts.\n\nEmily Hunt from London, claims she was drugged and raped in 2015.\n\nPolice investigated, but the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) felt there was insufficient evidence to proceed with a case.\n\nMs Hunt has hired a barrister who believes there are grounds for a criminal prosecution.\n\nMs Hunt - who has waived her right to anonymity - told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on the day of the alleged rape she woke up \"completely naked\" at 22:00 in a hotel room next to a man she had \"never seen\".\n\nHer last memory of that day was between 16:00 and 17:00, she said, when she had been having a meal with her father.\n\nWhen she \"finally came to\", she added, she had a \"light-bulb moment\" that she had been drugged.\n\n\"I'd never felt like that before. I'd lost five hours of my life and wound up somewhere where I didn't know how I got there.\"\n\nShe said she hid in the bathroom and phoned a friend, who rang the police.\n\nWith no memory of the encounter Ms Hunt was not aware they had had sex until police informed her they had found used condoms in the hotel room.\n\nThe man told police they had had sex but insisted it was consensual.\n\nMs Hunt believes it was rape as she would not have been in a state to consent.\n\nPolice told her the man had also \"filmed her naked and unconscious on the bed\" and carried out a sex act over her body.\n\nThe police referred her case to the CPS, who upon reviewing CCTV footage and toxicology tests decided there was not enough evidence to proceed.\n\nCCTV footage of Ms Hunt and the man showed them kissing and holding hands as they walked to the hotel after leaving a bar.\n\nToxicology tests, taken almost nine hours after her last memory, showed Ms Hunt was at least two times over the drink drive limit, but came back negative for any signs of the date rape drug GHB.\n\nMs Hunt believes the toxicology report was \"flawed\", and that CCTV footage - which she said showed her unable to stand without support - demonstrated how she could not have been in a position to give consent.\n\nShe estimated the cost of a potential private rape prosecution to be £50,000 - a sum she is hoping to crowdfund.\n\n\"It is an amazing thing that we as individuals can bring a criminal charge in a case where the system has let us down, that can result in a rapist going to jail,\" she said.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said it \"carried out a thorough investigation following [Ms Hunt's] allegations\" and \"will always provide support to anyone who reports a serious sexual offence\".\n\nMs Hunt's complaints over its investigation were \"independently reviewed by the IPCC and not upheld\", it continued.\n\nThe CPS said \"having looked carefully at all the available evidence, a specialist prosecutor decided there was insufficient evidence for a realistic prospect of conviction in this case\".\n\nA further review - conducted at the request of Ms Hunt - \"upheld the original decision\", it added.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.", "Despite losing her job, the 50-year-old says she does not regret \"flipping off\" the motorcade\n\nA woman pictured raising her middle finger toward US President Donald Trump's motorcade has reportedly been fired from her job over the photograph.\n\nThe image went viral after it was taken on 28 October in Virginia, close to a Trump golf resort.\n\nJuli Briskman, who was identified as the cyclist in the image, alleges she was fired by employers Akima LLC after she posted it to her online profiles.\n\nThe company did not respond to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nMs Briskman told US media the firm had called her into a meeting a day after she informed their HR department she was the subject of the widely circulated image.\n\nShe told the Huffington Post news website that executives had told her they classified the image as \"lewd\" or \"obscene\", and therefore deemed that it violated their social media policies after she had posted it to her Twitter and Facebook accounts.\n\nHowever Ms Briskman said she had emphasised to management that she had not been in working hours when the photograph was taken and had not mentioned her employers on the social media pages.\n\nMs Briskman also alleges that a male colleague was allowed to keep his job after deleting a post deemed as offensive in a separate incident.\n\nShe therefore questions why she was immediately dismissed from her role.\n\nThe 50-year-old mother-of-two had reportedly been at the government contractor firm for six months working in communications.\n\nMotorcade protests are not uncommon: this was taken by press photographer Brendan Smialowski on the same day\n\nDespite losing her job, Ms Briskman said she did not regret making the gesture.\n\n\"In some ways, I'm doing better than ever,\" she told The Huffington Post\n\n\"I'm angry about where our country is right now. I am appalled. This was an opportunity for me to say something.\"\n\nThe press photographer, Brendan Smialowski, told the AFP website that it was common to see people protesting or making obscene gestures at presidents as they drove by.\n\nHe said that he had been struck by the \"tenacity\" of Ms Briskman after she made the gesture several times and made attempts to catch up with the motorcade.", "One of the world's largest firms loaned a businessman previously accused of corruption $45m and asked him to negotiate mining rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Paradise Papers reveal.\n\nAnglo-Swiss company Glencore made the loan available to Israeli billionaire Dan Gertler, a notorious middle man with a close relationship with senior figures in the DR Congo government, in 2009.\n\nMr Gertler was asked to negotiate a new deal for a mining company in which Glencore had a significant stake, which campaigners say cost DR Congo hundreds of millions of dollars.\n\nHe and Glencore deny any wrongdoing.\n\nGlencore agreed to pay Dan Gertler $534m (£407m) to buy him out of their shared mining interests in DR Congo in February this year.\n\nThe new details came to light in the Paradise Papers, a leak of more than 13.4 million documents, many from within Appleby, one of the world's leading offshore law firms.\n\nDR Congo has been mired in violence and corruption for decades, leaving more than half of its population living below the poverty line.\n\nBut the country's vast mineral resources are worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year for those that can access them.\n\nBy some measures it is the 16th largest company on the planet.\n\nFor many years Glencore has been involved in mining in DR Congo, in particular the production of copper.\n\nThe company says it has invested $50bn there. Ten years ago it had an 8.52% stake in a company called Katanga which had the rights to mine copper in the south of the country.\n\nIn June 2008 Katanga's board, which contained a senior Glencore figure, received some bad news.\n\nThe DRC government under President Joseph Kabila wanted to renegotiate the terms of its mining licences. Glencore had already invested $150m in Katanga but this could have been wasted if it was unable to mine.\n\nThe state-owned mining company Gécamines wanted $585m (£409m) in an \"access premium\" to allow the exploitation of copper and cobalt at the mine.\n\nThe previous agreement had been for $135m (£94.5m).\n\nDocuments contained within the Paradise Papers show Katanga's board felt the demands of the DRC authorities were \"quite unacceptable\". For the first time, it is possible to see that the directors decided to call for the help of an Israeli businessman called Dan Gertler.\n\n\"Dan Gertler, who had a substantial indirect interest in the company, should be given a mandate from the board to negotiate with the DRC authorities,\" Katanga's board minutes from June 2008 show.\n\n\"The board... should approach Mr Gertler to see whether he was prepared to act in this way.\"\n\nMr Gertler was asked to negotiate an agreement on Katanga's behalf.\n\nAt around the same time, Glencore agreed to lend a company in the British Virgin Islands called Lora Enterprise $45m (£31.5m).\n\nGlencore then loaned Katanga $265m (£185m). This was later converted into shares in the company, allowing Glencore to become its biggest shareholder. The loan to Lora Enterprises allowed Dan Gertler to maintain his stake in the mine. Although Mr Gertler says he did not benefit in any way from the loan.\n\nKatanga announced the larger of the loans to the Toronto Stock Exchange in February 2009, but the details around it were sparse until now.\n\nThe terms of the loan to Mr Gertler's company show that if he failed to deliver a new agreement for the rights within three months, Glencore would have been entitled to demand immediate repayment of the loan.\n\nThe Paradise Papers documents suggest Mr Gertler was quickly successful. Gécamines reduced the access premiums it was asking for from $585m to $140m, which was close to the original agreement, saving Katanga $445m.\n\nPete Jones from anti-corruption campaigners Global Witness said deals similar to the one Glencore was able to strike have had serious consequences for DR Congo.\n\n\"For a country that dependent on it natural resource wealth, deals like this which just suck money out of the economy have hugely negative consequences for DR Congo.\"\n\nMr Gertler disputes that it was a poor deal for the DRC and says \"Gécamines benefitted significantly from the new JVA including Katanga's release of copper and cobalt reserves to Gécamines worth $825m.\"\n\nGlencore told the BBC the $45m loan to Lora Enterprises was made \"on commercial terms and was negotiated at arm's length\".\n\nIt also said it was repaid in full by 2010. Lawyers for Mr Gertler said it's not unusual for a lender in a mining deal to demand repayment of a loan if a joint venture fails. They went on to say that \"neither Lora Enterprises nor Mr Gertler nor any company or person related to them received the loan funds directly\".\n\nMr Gertler's notoriety in DR Congo goes back almost two decades. In 2001 the UN produced a report that accused him of exchanging weapons and military training in part of a deal to secure a monopoly on diamond mining rights.\n\nIn 2013, a report by the Africa Progress Panel, led by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, suggested Dan Gertler's companies had won mining rights in DR Congo at well below their true value. Lawyers for the Israeli businessman deny the allegations made in the 2001 and 2013 reports.\n\nLast year, hedge fund Och-Ziff agreed to pay $412m to settle a case brought by US authorities accusing it of paying bribes in several African countries. Prosecutors described, but did not name, an Israeli businessman who they claimed paid \"together with others, more than $100m in bribes to obtain special access to, and preferential prices for, opportunities in Congo's mining sector\".\n\nDan Gertler denies that he did this. Perhaps most significantly, Mr Gertler was also known to be a close friend of a man called Katumba Mwanke, a key advisor to President Kabila before dying in 2012.\n\nDaniel Balint-Kurti from the NGO Global Witness, which has been investigating the relationship between Dan Gertler and Glencore for several years, says the company should have been wary of working with the businessman.\n\n\"By hiring someone close to the Congolese president and pumping him with cash and mandating him as their man in negotiations they were running an extremely high risk,\" he said.\n\nDan Gertler's lawyers told the BBC that \"[He] is a respectable businessman who contributes the vast majority of his wealth and time to the needy.\"\n\nFind out more about the words and phrases found in the Paradise Papers.\n\nYour browser does not support this Lookup Your guide to financial jargon\n\nThe papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nThe 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Panorama has led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries. The BBC does not know the identity of the source.\n\nParadise Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #ParadisePapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"Paradise Papers\"\n\nWatch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "While speaking in Japan, President Donald Trump condemns the shooting in Sutherland Springs as an \"act of evil\".\n\nAt least 26 people have been killed and 20 others wounded after a gunman opened fire at a Texas church during Sunday service.", "Driver Jordan Steubing describes the scene as emergency services attend a mass shooting in Texas.\n\nA gunman is believed to have opened fire at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs.\n\nPolice told the outlet there were \"multiple victims\" and the gunman had been killed in the aftermath.", "A best-selling author has recalled 20,000 copies of her new book, which used the term \"mongolism\" to describe Down's syndrome.\n\nCelebrity nutritionist Libby Weaver apologised and said she was \"mortified to have caused anyone any distress\".\n\nThe Australian, who has written several bestselling books, said she had no idea the word was offensive and not correct.\n\nThe term \"mongolism\" was used until the 1980s. The medical term now used is Down's Syndrome or Trisomy 21.\n\nMs Weaver posted a video message on her website saying that she used the word in her latest book What Am I Supposed to Eat?, thinking it \"was a current medically used word\".\n\n\"It has since been brought to my attention it is a word that is used in a derogatory way and I am very, very sorry to have caused anyone any distress through this error, particularly children with Down Syndrome and their families,\" she said.\n\nThe author, who is based in Australia and New Zealand, added that people who had already bought a copy the book could return it for a refund, local media reported.\n\n\"The term mongolism is an outdated and offensive term which was used historically to refer to Down syndrome,\" Dr Ellen Skladzien of Down Syndrome Australia told the BBC.\n\n\"There has been consensus for many decades that this is not an appropriate term to describe people with Down syndrome,\" she explained.\n\n\"I am pleased to see that the book that utilised this inappropriate term has been withdrawn and that the author has apologised.\"\n\nWhile most people have 23 pairs of chromosomes, people with Down's have an extra copy of chromosome 21, which means they develop differently and have varying levels of learning disability.\n\nDown's was first classified in the 1860s by British physician John Langdon Down, who used the term \"mongoloid\" for it.\n\nIn recent decades, the term was replaced by Down's syndrome as it was considered derogatory and offensive.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. More than a dozen are hurt as a fireworks display goes wrong in Amesbury.\n\nThe organisers of a bonfire event where 14 people were hurt say they are \"saddened\" by the upset and injury caused.\n\nThe display at the Antrobus Hotel in Amesbury, Wiltshire, on Saturday night was cancelled soon after a box of fireworks malfunctioned.\n\nA number of young children were among those injured with some parents saying they were \"traumatised\".\n\nWiltshire Council is investigating and the hotel is reviewing procedures.\n\nThe firm which runs the Antrobus Hotel said the incident was highly regrettable\n\nStephen Fitzgerald, director of Fitzbride Ltd, which runs the hotel, said: \"This incident, which was caused by a faulty firework box detonating on the ground, was highly regrettable and I would like to commend the team on duty, who called the emergency services and rendered aid in what was otherwise extremely challenging circumstances.\n\n\"The whole team is saddened by the upset and injury caused on what should have been a happy evening.\n\n\"Our focus now is liaising with those affected, the fireworks supplier, as well as reviewing our procedures and completing a thorough investigation to ensure that incidents like this do not occur at events held at other venues.\"\n\nKatie Millward was sitting near the front of the fireworks display when the incident occurred.\n\nShe said: \"We arrived early and when we sat down we were outside the cordon, but as more people arrived it kept getting moved.\n\nA display box containing multiple fireworks malfunctioned at the Antrobus Hotel\n\n\"There were so many children screaming and crying, and a very high sense of panic.\n\n\"A firework exploded on the bench in front of us and we ran to the pub but all the doors were locked.\"\n\nMr Fitzgerald said a full risk assessment had been carried out ahead of the event and the hotel's safety cordon was double that specified by the manufacturers.\n\nHe added that despite concerns about overcrowding, the venue was below capacity.\n\nHe said: \"All four fire exits at the rear of the hotel were available, however we appreciate that in the rush to get inside some persons may have had difficulty in operating the doors - which we will be reviewing.\"\n\nThe Health and Safety Executive said it would only investigate if the council decided it was appropriate.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "We are going to finish our coverage at the end of day three of the Paradise Papers revelations.\n\nThe huge trove of leaked documents has made headlines around the world on the offshore financial affairs of hundreds of politicians, multinationals, celebrities and high-net-worth individuals.\n\nHere are today's top stories so far:\n• Prince Charles campaigned to alter climate-change agreements without disclosing his private estate had an offshore financial interest in what he was promoting\n• An entrepreneur charged with managing the oil wealth of the struggling African state of Angola was paid more than $41m in just 20 months\n• The Isle of Man has rejected claims it is a tax haven, saying it doesn't welcome those \"seeking to evade or aggressively avoid taxes\"\n\nThey came after a wave of stories on Monday, including:\n• Apple has protected its low-tax regime by using the Channel Island of Jersey\n• Formula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton avoided tax on his £16.5m luxury jet, the papers suggest\n• A Lithuanian shopping mall partly owned by U2 star Bono is under investigation for potential tax evasion\n• How three stars of the hit BBC sitcom, Mrs Brown's Boys, diverted more than £2m into an offshore tax-avoidance scheme\n\nAnd the stories on day one revealed:\n• The Queen's private estate invested about £10m offshore including a small amount in the company behind BrightHouse, a chain accused of irresponsible lending\n• One of President Donald Trump's top administration officials kept a financial stake in a firm whose major partners include a Russian company part-owned by President Vladimir Putin's son-in-law\n• Lord Ashcroft, a former Conservative party deputy chairman, has denied allegations he ignored the rules around how his offshore investments were managed.", "A charity fears a British-Iranian woman held in Iran could have her prison sentence doubled following remarks made by the foreign secretary.\n\nBoris Johnson told a Commons committee that Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was arrested at Tehran Airport in 2016, was \"teaching people journalism\".\n\nThe Thomson Reuters Foundation said she was seeing family and urged Mr Johnson to correct his \"serious mistake\".\n\nThe Foreign Office said the remarks could not justify new charges.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe is currently serving a five-year sentence after Iran tried her on charges of trying to overthrow the government. She denies all the allegations against her.\n\nShe lost her final appeal in April 2017 but has since faced two more charges relating to an accusation of plotting to topple the regime in Tehran.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe has worked for the Thomson Reuters Foundation and BBC Media Action (the corporation's international development charity), but insisted the 2016 visit was for her daughter to meet her grandparents.\n\nMr Johnson was appearing before MPs on the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee on 1 November, and criticised Iran over the case before saying: \"When I look at what Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was doing, she was simply teaching people journalism as I understand it.\n\n\"[Neither] Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe nor her family has been informed about what crime she has actually committed. And that I find extraordinary, incredible.\"\n\nFour days later, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was summoned to court where the foreign secretary's comments were cited as evidence against her.\n\nAt this hearing she was accused of engaging in \"propaganda against the regime\".\n\nThe Iranian judiciary's High Council for Human Rights said Mr Johnson's comments \"shed new light\" on the charity worker and proved Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe \"had visited the country for anything but a holiday\".\n\nMonique Villa, chief executive of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, called on Mr Johnson to \"immediately correct the serious mistake he made\".\n\nThomson Reuters Foundation says the comments \"can only worsen her sentence\"\n\nMs Villa said there was a \"direct correlation\" between Mr Johnson's comments and the unscheduled court appearance.\n\n\"This accusation from Judge Salavati can only worsen her sentence. She is obviously a bargaining chip between the UK government and Iran and this injustice must stop as soon as possible.\n\n\"Whatever is at stake should be paid attention to by the UK government.\"\n\nLabour's Tulip Siddiq, the MP for Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's constituency, said she is \"furious\" with Mr Johnson and called on him to \"urgently retract\" his remarks.\n\nA Foreign Office spokesman said the remarks \"provide no justifiable basis\" to bring further charges against Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.\n\n\"While criticising the Iranian case against Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the Foreign Secretary sought to explain that even the most extreme set of unproven Iranian allegations against her were insufficient reason for her detention and treatment.\n\n\"The UK will continue to do all it can to secure her release on humanitarian grounds and the foreign secretary will be calling the Iranian foreign minister to raise again his serious concerns about the case and ensure his remarks are not misrepresented.\"", "A key aide of Canada's PM is linked to offshore schemes that may have cost the nation millions of dollars in taxes, the Paradise Papers show.\n\nThe revelations may embarrass Justin Trudeau, who has campaigned against tax havens.\n\nThe leaks pose questions about the actions of Stephen Bronfman, chief fundraiser for Mr Trudeau's Liberal Party as well as ex-senator Leo Kolber.\n\nLawyers for them said no deals had tried to evade tax and all were legal.\n\nCanadian broadcaster, CBC, and the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) have been spearheading this investigation as part of the Paradise Papers leaks.\n\nThey said a trove of documents found in the files of Appleby, the offshore law firm that is the main source of the leaks, suggested that Mr Bronfman's investment firm, Claridge, had for more than 20 years moved millions offshore for the Kolber family.\n\nStephen Bronfman is not only a key aide to Mr Trudeau, he is a close friend and was central to his rise to power.\n\nHe helped raise cash for Mr Trudeau's party leadership battle in 2013 and was then asked to turn around the Liberal Party's financial fortunes.\n\nThe key revelations in the Paradise Papers concern a Cayman Islands trust which Claridge runs for Leo Kolber.\n\nMr Kolber, a retired senator originally appointed by Mr Trudeau's father, Pierre, was the chief Liberal Party fundraiser for many years, earning the nickname \"Bagman\". He has had longstanding links with the Bronfman family - one of Canada's most illustrious - and is Stephen's godfather.\n\nMr Kolber's home was used in September last year for a Liberal Party fundraising event co-hosted by Stephen Bronfman.\n\nStephen Bronfman (right) with his father Charles\n\nThe Bronfmans are one of Canada's most illustrious families.\n\nSamuel Bronfman, Stephen's grandfather, founded Seagram, once the largest alcohol distiller in the world.\n\nSamuel's son Charles - Stephen's father - is worth an estimated $2.3bn, while Stephen's cousin Edgar Jr engineered the disastrous sale of Seagram to Vivendi in 2000, losing the family billions.\n\nStephen, born in 1963, took over the private equity firm Claridge, of which he is still executive chairman, in 1997 and initially kept a lower profile.\n\nIn 2013, Justin Trudeau turned to him to raise money for his Liberal Party leadership bid. After winning, Mr Trudeau asked him to turn around the party's financial fortunes. Mr Bronfman has said Mr Trudeau is \"very, very saleable\".\n\nIn March 2016, he joined Mr Trudeau on his first state visit as PM - to President Barack Obama.\n\nThe Liberal Party told CBC and the ICIJ that Mr Bronfman's role was as a volunteer on its National Board and that although it was grateful for his contribution, his role was non-voting and did not involve policy decisions.\n\nThe document trail raises significant questions about activities surrounding the Kolber Trust, which was set up in 1991 in the Cayman Islands, with Mr Kolber's son, Jonathan, and his \"legitimate issue\" as its beneficiaries.\n\nMillions of dollars were transferred into the Claridge-run trust, much of it in loans from the Bronfman family.\n\nThe leaked documents show some of the Bronfman loans were made without interest, which many tax officials see as a red flag suggesting possible tax avoidance.\n\nIn one case, the ICIJ found a C$4.1m ($3.1m) loan from a US-based Bronfman trust to the Kolber Trust that it says would appear to have required interest payment under US law.\n\nLeo Kolber was a former Liberal Party fundraiser who earned the nickname \"Bagman\"\n\nJonathan Kolber's investment adviser tells Mr Kolber that if he pays the interest, Claridge will find a way to \"make him whole\", suggesting Mr Kolber send the company an invoice for unspecified \"services rendered\" in exactly the same amount.\n\nTax expert Marwah Rizqy told CBC this was the \"smoking gun\" because, if true, \"that means it's not a real debt\".\n\nHowever, lawyers for Mr Kolber and Mr Bronfman told the ICIJ that \"non-interest bearing loans by a US person do not violate US law. Rather, in certain circumstances, there is a deemed interest concept\".\n\nThis is a complex concept that deals with interest on a loan that is deemed to have been received even though it has not. It usually involves a profits adjustment made by tax authorities in the lender's country.\n\nAnother question that was raised concerns the nature of trusts. One fundamental rule is that decisions about them are made by trustees offshore.\n\nTax experts told CBC that if too many decisions were being made in Canada, tax authorities there would question the offshore nature of the trust and it could be liable for taxes dating back to its foundation.\n\nCBC said it had found a number of instances of attempts to reduce the Canada link.\n\nOne document says an invoice to Montreal-based investment adviser Don Chazan \"should be treated as personal expenses and not expenses of the trusts... This results in one less formal link between the trusts and entities outside Cayman\".\n\nWhen earlier interviewed by CBC about who ran the Kolber Trust, Jonathan Kolber had said that Mr Chazan was \"the adviser. He's the guy who made the decisions\".\n\nHowever, the Kolber and Bronfman lawyers told the ICIJ that the Kolber Trust was run from the Cayman islands and that Mr Chazan \"was certainly never the directing mind of the Trust\".\n\nAnother trail concerns Lynn Kolber Halliday, Jonathan's sister and another Kolber Trust beneficiary.\n\nAs a US citizen the money sent to her could trigger taxes. Her name was later taken off the trust.\n\nShe would \"be taken care of in other ways than through the trust\", one document reads.\n\nThe Israel-based Jonathan \"will arrange to make gifts to her instead of the trust making the present distributions to her\".\n\nThe Kolber and Bronfman lawyers told the ICIJ: \"Personal gifts are a customary mode of financial assistance.\"\n\nThey added that \"none of the transactions or entities at issue were effected or established to evade or even avoid taxation\" and that they \"were always in full conformity with all applicable laws and requirements\".\n\nAny tax avoidance would reflect badly on a party that has set out its stall on preventing it and on fair taxation.\n\nBack in March, Mr Trudeau had vowed to do a \"better job of getting tax avoiders\".\n\nHe was responding to a CBC/Radio-Canada investigation that showed a number of wealthy Canadians were apparently linked to shell companies on the Isle of Man.\n\n\"It is absolutely unacceptable that there be people not paying their fair share of taxes,\" he said. \"It's something we continue to take very, very seriously.\"\n\nThe papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nThe 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Panorama has led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries. The BBC does not know the identity of the source.\n\nParadise Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #ParadisePapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"Paradise Papers\"\n\nWatch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "Annie-Laure Promonet managed to hang on to her laptop during the burglary\n\nA woman said she deliberately scratched a burglar while he was trying to steal her laptop in order to get his DNA.\n\nAnnie-Laure Promonet, 42, found a man in her home in Watford, Hertfordshire, on 22 July and attempted to stop him.\n\nPolice were able to take scrapings from under her fingernails and found traces of tissue from Marvyn Mulvey, 40.\n\nMulvey admitted burglary and assault occasioning actual bodily harm and was jailed for seven and a half years at St Albans Crown Court on Friday.\n\nProsecutor Richard Jones told the court Ms Promonet had \"made it her aim\" to scratch Mulvey to obtain his DNA.\n\nAfter the hearing, Ms Promonet said: \"I thought I had to see his face, see if I could get his DNA, while all the time trying to memorise the clothes he was wearing.\n\n\"I didn't have time to panic. Maybe if I'd had a few more seconds then I would have realised it was a dangerous thing to do.\"\n\nMarvyn Mulvey was jailed for seven and a half years\n\nDuring the burglary, Mulvey used a wine bottle to beat Ms Promonet to the floor, leaving her with bruising to her body and head injuries.\n\nShe managed to hold on to her laptop, but Mulvey took a key to her flat and left.\n\nHe was later traced through his DNA and was arrested.\n\nJudge Graham Arran said Ms Promonet had shown a \"very cool head\" during the burglary.\n\n\"She did what was was necessary to bring this defendant to justice and showed enormous bravery in preventing him escaping from her flat,\" he said.\n\nAt a crown court ceremony, Ms Promonet will be given an award of £350 out of public funds for her bravery.\n\nIn a letter to the judge, Mulvey apologised and said: \"What I have put her though, no-one should have to go through.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US soldiers take part in \"Warrior Strike\" exercises in South Korea in September\n\nA Pentagon assessment has declared the only way to completely destroy all parts of North Korea's nuclear weapons programme is through a ground invasion.\n\nRear Admiral Michael Dumont expressed the opinion on behalf of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in a letter to Congressman Ted Lieu.\n\nMr Dumont said calculating \"even the roughest\" potential casualty figures would be extremely difficult.\n\nHe also gave some detail on what the first hours of a war would involve.\n\n\"The only way to 'locate and destroy - with complete certainty - all components of North Korea's nuclear weapons programs' is through a ground invasion,\" he wrote in response to Congressman Lieu's questions about a potential conflict.\n\nThe risks involved included a potential nuclear counter-attack by North Korea while US forces attempted to disable its \"deeply buried, underground facilities\", he said.\n\n\"A classified briefing is the best venue for a detailed discussion,\" he added.\n\nThe Joint Chiefs of Staff directly advise the president of the United States on military matters.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ted Lieu This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a statement with more than a dozen other military veterans turned congressmen, Mr Lieu, a Democrat, said the assessment was \"deeply disturbing\" and warned that a conflict \"could result in hundreds of thousands, or even millions of deaths in just the first few days of fighting.\"\n\n\"Their assessment underscores what we've known all along: there are no good military options for North Korea,\" the statement said.\n\nThe letter was published as Donald Trump begins his mammoth tour of Asia, during which the North Korean threat is expected to be a major topic of discussion.\n\nThe president has previously said that if forced to defend the US or its allies, he \"will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea.\"\n\n\"The President needs to stop making provocative statements that hinder diplomatic options and put American troops further at risk,\" Mr Lieu's joint statement said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRear Admiral Dumont opened his letter with a clear indication that his office supported economic and diplomatic solutions ahead of any military action.\n\nPotential casualties from a conflict depended heavily on the intensity of any attack on South Korea's capital, Seoul, which lies just 35 miles (56 km) from the border, as well as how much advance warning the US and its allies had, he said.\n\nHe said a counter-offensive from artillery battery fire and air strikes might help limit casualties.\n\nThe Joint Chiefs also fear that Pyongyang would use biological weapons in a conflict, despite international conventions banning their use, as well as chemical weapons - which it has never agreed to abandon.\n\n\"It likely possesses a [chemical weapons] stockpile,\" the letter said.\n\nThe assessment by military chiefs follows the release of a report from the non-partisan Congressional Research Service, which warned that even a brief conflict without the use of banned weapons could cost tens of thousands of lives.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I cried myself to sleep every night,\" says Callum\n\n\"It felt like no-one was there for me and no-one cared - I was crying myself to sleep every night.\"\n\nThis is what life was like for Callum after he was taken into care aged 13 in 2008, following the death of his father and a family breakdown.\n\nHe told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme his mental health quickly deteriorated.\n\n\"I was still an emotional kid trying to get over Dad, and everything got on top of me. He was my superhero.\"\n\nAlmost half of those in the care system have a diagnosable mental health disorder, according to statutory guidance published in 2015.\n\nLooked-after children are four times more likely than their non-looked after peers to have a mental health condition.\n\nEngland's children's commissioner Anne Longfield has told the Victoria Derbyshire programme there should be \"a presumption\" among those working in the sector that all children in care should receive support for their mental health.\n\nShe said the care system had been too focused on child safeguarding in the past and not enough on helping children recover from traumatic upbringings.\n\n\"Kids aren't nurtured enough when in care,\" she said. \"They will be - at best - able to get some support, but it's still quite clunky.\n\n\"We need to see it differently - need to help children in terms of trauma-based therapy at an early stage.\n\n\"We know kids in care are more likely to end up homeless and in prison. The earlier we can deal with the trauma, the better.\"\n\nThe government said it was \"vital that children in care and those who look after them receive the mental health support they need.\n\n\"We are putting a record £1.4bn into children and young people's mental health but there is more to be done.\"\n\nMs Longfield's comments came as the Social Care Institute for Excellence published its recommendations to help improve the wellbeing of children in care.\n\nIt said a \"virtual mental health lead\" should be established, \"to ensure that every child and young person in the system is getting the support they need for their mental health and emotional wellbeing\".\n\nAnother recommendation said \"everyone working directly with looked-after children should receive training on children and young people's mental health\".\n\nThe charity Barnardo's, who supported Callum, said two-thirds of care leavers identified as having mental health needs were not receiving any help from a statutory service.\n\nAnne Longfield says the children \"moved around\" the care system are most in need of support\n\nCallum said his self-harm became so destructive \"I had a cut from my hip down to my kneecap\".\n\nHe also tried to hang himself, but was stopped by a carer.\n\nHe agreed that more mental health support was needed, adding that when he first entered the care system he did not know where to look.\n\nWhen he did get support, he said the quality between different professionals differed greatly.\n\n\"I got a bit of counselling. Sometimes you had a good counsellor, and then a bad counsellor,\" he said.\n\nThe \"bad\" counsellors, he added, \"didn't know what was going on in my life - they've just read a piece of paper\".\n\n\"If I could go back there today, I'd say that I want one set worker for me - I don't want to see one person one week, and then another person [the next] week.\"\n\nAnne Longfield said the children most in need of support were those who had been \"moved around\" the care system more frequently.\n\nShe added that with more children coming into the care system at an older age it was vital to introduce mental health support as early as possible, as these individuals would have already had longer \"in a very difficult environment\".\n\nCallum left the care system aged 18, and is positive about his future.\n\n\"Now I'm in a happy place. I've got my own house, a beautiful daughter, and a beautiful fiancee,\" he said.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.\n• None 'They're my mum and dad, not terrorists'", "Pastor Frank Pomeroy and his wife Sherri were away travelling when a gunman killed 26 of the congregation including their daughter Annabelle.", "More than 130 families left homeless by the Grenfell Tower fire are living in emergency housing, MPs have heard.\n\nCommunities Secretary Sajid Javid said Kensington and Chelsea Council's response in the aftermath of the fire had been \"sluggish and chaotic\".\n\nIt comes as the Grenfell taskforce produced a report into the fire, which said the council \"failed its community\" on 14 June.\n\nCouncil leader Elizabeth Campbell said it had \"huge\" amounts of work to do.\n\nSpeaking in the Commons, Mr Javid said residents had been \"failed by a system that allowed the fire to happen\" and then failed again in the aftermath.\n\nHe said efforts to rehouse victims had been \"painfully slow\" - with just 26 out of 204 Grenfell Tower and Grenfell Walk families given permanent accommodation so far.\n\nHe said 122 households had accepted an offer of temporary or permanent accommodation, and 73 had moved in to new homes.\n\nThe taskforce said residents were \"hesitating to accept rehousing offers\" because they did not want to lose benefits.\n\nCurrently, former residents of Grenfell Tower and Grenfell Walk have their rent, utility bills and council tax suspended for the first 12 months of moving into temporary or permanent accommodation.\n\nThe council said this created a \"financial cliff edge, which the tenants can avoid by remaining in their emergency accommodation\".\n\nSome residents see the rent-free period as wasted on temporary homes, it said.\n\nIt voted to extend the rent-free period until summer 2019 in a bid to remove \"unintended disincentives\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Marcio and Andreia Gomes tell the story of how they managed to escape the fire\n\nThe Grenfell taskforce, set up in the aftermath of the fire, has spent nine weeks looking at the recovery process run by the council.\n\n\"The report pulls no punches about the fact that there is still significant room for improvement,\" Mr Javid said.\n\nIt said 320 families altogether - including not only former residents but also those living in Grenfell's vicinity - were still living in hotels.\n\nThe report, written by housing and local government experts appointed by the government, said the council needed to work more quickly, and cited accounts of \"poor treatment\" towards victims.\n\nIt said many staff did their best to help but there was a leadership vacuum and a distant council that did not know its residents.\n\nThe report's authors met survivors, concluding that many victims felt no-one was listening to their concerns.\n\nIt nevertheless praised Kensington and Chelsea for \"working hard to develop effective support and services to victims and survivors\".\n\nSince the fire, many of those at the top of the council have quit, including leader Nick Paget-Brown and chief executive Nicholas Holgate.\n\nThe Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea said it \"entirely\" accepted all the taskforce's recommendations and would offer new homes to \"all those who want to leave\" emergency accommodation by December.\n\nMrs Campbell said the local authority had \"huge amounts of work to do\" and understood the need to change.\n\nBut the report criticised its lack of urgency, saying: \"As the council tries to do everything at once, it is doing everything too slowly.\"\n\nIt accused council members of lacking a \"firm grasp\" of the true scale of the recovery operation - saying some believed that \"in a few months' time everything shall return to the way it used to be\".\n\nIt said it was \"disappointing\" that the tower, which is currently a crime scene, had not yet been covered, urging scaffold work to be completed with \"greater haste\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Why did it take so long to get an aerial platform to the tower block? BBC Newsnight investigates\n\nIt said visible remains of the burnt-out tower \"cast a shadow\" over the entire area.\n\n\"Any extended delays will further add to the ongoing trauma that the community is living with,\" the report said.\n\nMr Javid suggested a number of ways the council could improve - including increasing the pace of their work and the need for \"greater empathy and emotional intelligence\" towards victims.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFormula 1 champion Lewis Hamilton avoided tax on his £16.5m luxury jet, according to Paradise Papers documents.\n\nThey show a £3.3m VAT refund was given after the Bombardier Challenger 605 was imported into the Isle of Man in 2013.\n\nIt appears a leasing deal set up by advisers was artificial and did not comply with an EU and UK ban on refunds for private use - although he may have been entitled to one for business.\n\nHamilton's lawyers say a tax barrister review found the structure was lawful.\n\nThey added it was not correct to say no VAT had been paid on any of the arrangements.\n\nA statement later issued by the racing driver's representative said: \"As a global sportsman who pays tax in a large number of countries, Lewis relies upon a team of professional advisers who manage his affairs.\n\n\"Those advisers have assured Lewis that everything is above board and the matter is now in the hands of his lawyers.\"\n\nAt 06:15 on 21 January 2013, Hamilton touched down at Ronaldsway airport on the Isle of Man in his new jet with his then-pop star girlfriend Nicole Scherzinger to finalise the paperwork with customs.\n\nWhile Hamilton's planned use of the jet was predominantly for business purposes, the BBC's Panorama programme has seen documents which suggest the 32-year-old F1 Mercedes driver intended to make private flights about a third of the time.\n\nHamilton's social media accounts provide evidence he has used the candy apple red Challenger for holidays and on other personal trips around the world.\n\nHe has posted a number of photographs of himself on the plane on Instagram - including one showing his bulldogs Roscoe and Coco on board.\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 lewishamilton This article contains content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Meta’s Instagram cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"If private usage of the jet is being disguised as business usage of the jet, then what you essentially have is a tax avoidance scheme,\" says Rita De La Feria, professor of tax law at Leeds University.\n\n\"You're using it for your own private interests, you're going on holidays, meeting friends. You're supposed to pay the tax on private consumption.\"\n\nPrivate jets purchased outside the EU are subject to 20% VAT on importation in order to qualify for free circulation within the bloc.\n\nWhile the Isle of Man is not part of the EU, it is a British Crown Dependency and forms a common area with the UK for VAT purposes. Because of this link, an aircraft imported via the island is granted full access to the EU.\n\nTo try and get round EU and UK rules banning VAT refunds on aircraft used by private individuals, Hamilton's advisers formed a VAT-registered leasing business on the Isle of Man, the leaked documents held by offshore law firm Appleby suggest.\n\nThe new company, Stealth (IOM) Limited, leased the jet from Hamilton's British Virgin Islands company, Stealth Aviation Limited, and imported it into the Isle of Man.\n\nIt was then leased on to a UK jet management company that provided Hamilton with a crew and other services - and which leased it back to Hamilton and his Guernsey company, BRV Limited.\n\nHamilton is described in the documents as the jet's \"ultimate client\".\n\nThey also suggest he was being kept up to date.\n\nIn one email sent ahead of the final signing of the charter agreements and the jet's importation into the Isle of Man, an adviser states: \"I would like to email Lewis his agreement this evening and try to reach him on the phone to talk him through it.\"\n\nOther documents show the hourly rate of the plane's lease was increased from £2,000 to £5,500 overnight at one stage, so the Isle of Man company turned a profit as a \"commercial\" aircraft leasing business.\n\nOn the basis of the transactions, Hamilton's advisers were able to claim a 100% VAT refund on the £3.3m he was obliged to pay at the point of importation.\n\nBut the leasing agreements suggest Hamilton was going to be using the plane 80 hours per month, with his company using it for 160 hours.\n\nIf this estimate had been used for the basis of the VAT refund, under UK and EU VAT rules, only two thirds could have been considered for a refund in relation to business use. The artificiality of the structure raises questions about whether Hamilton should have received a refund at all.\n\nHamilton secured his fourth F1 title at last month's Mexico Grand Prix\n\nLawyers acting for Hamilton said the driver has a \"set of professionals in place who run most aspects of his business operations and that no subterfuge or improper levels of secrecy had been put in place\".\n\nIn a statement, they said Stealth (IOM) Limited was formed to run a leasing business and hire the aircraft on a long-term basis at a commercial rate.\n\nThey added that the company made all necessary disclosures to Isle of Man officials, who approved the approach.\n\nThe lawyers said that reducing taxes was not the motive, but even if it had been, it is lawful to lease rather than buy in order to reduce VAT.\n\nThere are 50 schemes like Hamilton's in the Paradise Papers.\n\nThe documents show that Appleby on the Isle of Man has imported luxury jets worth £1.25bn.\n\nIn total, the island has handed out more than £790m in VAT refunds to jet leasing companies, involving more than 230 planes.\n\nIn light of the Paradise Papers revelations, the Isle of Man government has invited the UK Treasury to conduct an assessment of the practice of importing aircraft into the EU through the island.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Isle of Man says since 2011 more than 30 assessments for under-declared or over-claimed VAT against businesses in the aircraft leasing sector, with a value of about £4.7m, have been raised.\n\nLabour Leader Jeremy Corbyn last week called on the Prime Minister Theresa May to launch an investigation into VAT avoidance allegations linked with business jets in the Isle of Man.\n\nIn a statement on the Paradise Papers leak, Appleby said it was a law firm which \"advises clients on legitimate and lawful ways to conduct their business. We operate in jurisdictions which are regulated to the highest international standards\".\n\nDecember 2012: Lewis Hamilton's company in the British Virgin Islands Stealth Aviation Limited pays $26.8m (£16.5m) to buy the Bombardier Challenger 605 and luxury additions\n\n24 December 2012: Hamilton flies his family and Nicole Sherzinger to Hawaii for Christmas in the jet\n\n15 January 2013: The new company is VAT registered by Isle of Man customs as a company engaged in \"renting and leasing of passenger air transport equipment\"\n\n17 January 2013: Hamilton's BVI company leases the plane to Stealth (IOM) Limited. Stealth (IOM) Limited leases it to a UK jet management company, which agrees to charter it to the driver and his Guernsey company BRV Limited\n\n21 January 2013: Hamilton and Nicole Scherzinger arrive at the Isle of Man's Ronaldsway airport. The £3.3m VAT bill is paid on his behalf by his an Isle of Man accountancy firm. A customs officer attends out of hours and stamps a VAT paid form to be kept on board the jet. The couple fly-off again at 08:10\n\nLewis Hamilton has amassed an estimated £131m fortune, according to the Sunday Times Rich List. Forbes reports his earnings and endorsements in 2016 were more than £30m.\n\nOne of Hamilton's first trips on the jet was for a Christmas 2012 holiday in Oahu, Hawaii, accompanied by members of his and then girlfriend Nicole Scherzinger's family.\n\nIn May 2015, just after competing in Monaco, he flew to Los Angeles. The Daily Mirror newspaper reported that he was \"having a break\" following the Grand Prix.\n\nOn 11 July 2017, he posted a photo of himself sitting with friends on its steps.\n\n\"To my loving fans, I can't wait to see you in Silverstone. Until then, I'm away on a two day break.\"\n\nSpeaking to US talk show Jimmy Kimmel in December 2015, Hamilton talked about the plane and how he decided to \"pimp it out\" in the red colour scheme.\n\n\"We travel a lot - I love cars and I love planes,\" he said. \"Every time I'm at the airport you see these really sad white planes old planes with the saddest stripe down the side.\"\n\nFind out more about the words and phrases found in the Paradise Papers.\n\nYour browser does not support this Lookup Your guide to financial jargon\n\nThe papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nThe 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Panorama has led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries. The BBC does not know the identity of the source.\n\nParadise Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #ParadisePapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"Paradise Papers\"\n\nWatch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)\n• None Paradise Papers: All you need to know", "The controversial campaign has been labelled \"disgusting\" and \"offensive\"\n\nA campaign telling parents to send children to school if they have colds has prompted more than 6,500 signatures to a petition against its \"aggressive, condescending and insulting\" message.\n\nLeaflets were sent in East Sussex County Council's Get a Grip drive to parents whose children missed at least three days of the current school year.\n\nThey also give advice on \"being more organised\" the night before school.\n\nThe council said it \"won't flinch from this extremely serious issue\".\n\nThe campaign features the slogan \"good reasons for missing school - there are none\".\n\nThe petition, set up by Ella Lewis of Seaford, calls for the council to withdraw the campaign and apologise for the \"disgusting and offensive\" alienation of parents, particularly those \"struggling with serious illnesses, traumas and ongoing disabilities and conditions\".\n\nMrs Lewis, 37, who has two children, received the leaflet after her six-year-old daughter had three days off for a chest infection and stomach bug. This equated to 91% attendance over the short autumn half term - below the council's 95% expectation.\n\nElla Lewis said the campaign was offensive rather than productive\n\nShe said: \"These are unattainable standards. The council says it expects a doctor's note, but even if you could get a GP appointment, people are told not to go to the doctor's with a sickness bug.\n\n\"Schools also tell you not to allow your child back to school until you're 48 hours clear of a vomiting bug. In taking that direction, you fall into the 'persistence absence' threshold and are potentially reported to the council by the school. It's nonsensical.\n\n\"As parents we need to be able to validate our own child's health and suitability to be in school.\"\n\nMrs Lewis, who works in a school, said: \"The council could have been more polite, engaging or creative.\n\n\"But they've just offended people who are trying to do their best every day for their children.\"\n\nThe council says headaches, coughs and colds are \"not reasons\" for school absence\n\nThe leaflet sent out to parents also warns them about fines for unauthorised absences, including holidays during term time, and says children should attend school if they have a cold, headache or minor illness.\n\nA council spokesman said the campaign was not aimed at parents of children who had genuine medical reasons for being absent, but for those who regularly have odd days off or holiday in term time.\n\nHe said: \"We appreciate this campaign has been controversial.\n\n\"Missing even one day of school has an impact not just on a child's education but on the rest of the class, as it means the teacher has to spend time helping them catch up - to the detriment of other pupils. Missing days of school reduces children's chances of achieving success.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Emile Cilliers told the jury \"someone must have\" tampered with the kit, but denied any involvement\n\nAn Army sergeant accused of trying to kill his wife by tampering with her parachute told a court she may have been targeted by a stranger.\n\nEmile Cilliers, 37, said the idea a \"random killer\" had sabotaged the device was a \"possibility\" as he \"didn't have anything to do with it\".\n\nHe told jurors: \"I'm not trying to point the finger at anybody, I just want to get to the bottom of this.\"\n\nMs Cilliers suffered multiple injuries when her hired parachute malfunctioned and the reserve failed as she plummeted 4,000ft to the ground at Netheravon Airfield, Wiltshire.\n\nMichael Bowes QC, prosecuting, told Winchester Crown Court the notion of a \"complete stranger\" trying to sabotage a parachute with the \"sudden urge to kill someone\" without knowing their victim was \"ridiculous\".\n\nWhen Mr Cilliers replied it was a \"possibility\", to which Mr Bowes responded: \"It's a possibility a number of asteroids will strike the earth, isn't it?\"\n\nThe defendant denies tampering with his wife's hire kit in a toilet cubicle at the Army Parachute Association at the airfield camp, allegedly twisting the lines on the main chute and removing parts from the reserve.\n\nElizabeth Marsh QC, defending, asked the Army fitness instructor about how he came to take the parachute to the toilet with him.\n\n\"Why didn't you put it on a rack?\" she said, to which he said he had not paid much attention to the kit as it was \"not something that really bothered me\".\n\nThe court was told Mr Cilliers accompanied his wife to hospital while she was in a full body brace after the fall, and visited her the next day.\n\nThe jury earlier heard he had searched the internet for the term \"wet nurses\" - women who breastfeed babies when their mothers are unable.\n\nHis wife had given birth two months before the fall, the trial heard previously.\n\nAsked why he had done so, he could not recall. \"Maybe it was something to do with Princess Charlotte,\" the jury was told.\n\n\"It was just a subject of interest. We would often see something on TV and research it.\"\n\nIn response to his defence's questions, he said the jury should not read anything suspicious into the search.\n\nThe father of six also denies a second attempted murder charge relating to a gas leak at the family home in Amesbury, Wiltshire, and a third charge of damaging a gas valve, recklessly endangering life.\n\nHe told the court he had investigated the source of the leak with a tool.\n\nWhen asked by Ms Marsh how his blood came to be on a pipe next to the leak, he said: \"I might have cut my hand, I don't remember.\n\n\"I can't say exactly how it got there. It could have been from cooking, I could have brushed against it. These are all possibilities.\"\n\nHe denied tampering with the gas valve and rejected the notion he would want to harm his wife or their children.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nJeremy Corbyn has defended his decision to appoint an MP to his shadow cabinet who had been reprimanded for allegations of inappropriate behaviour.\n\nThe Labour leader said he was aware Kelvin Hopkins had been rebuked by the party's chief whip in 2015 after concerns raised by a young activist.\n\nBut he said he thought the case had been \"closed\" and the promotion to his ministerial team was \"reasonable\".\n\nMr Hopkins was suspended last week but denies claims of sexual harassment.\n\nThe 76-year old MP has been accused by Ava Etemadzadeh of hugging her inappropriately after a student event in 2014 and subsequently making offensive comments during a visit to Parliament.\n\nThe 27-year-old activist, who said she later received an over-familiar message from the MP, did not make a formal complaint at the time after being told she would have to waive her anonymity to do so.\n\nBut she reported the matter to an MP, who then informed the then chief whip Rosie Winterton, resulting in Mr Hopkins receiving a verbal reprimand in 2015.\n\nLabour's handling of the case has come in for criticism after it emerged that Ms Winterton expressed her reservations to the leadership about Mr Hopkins' appointment as shadow culture secretary in July 2016.\n\nAlthough he only served in the position for three months, at a time when Mr Corbyn was struggling to rebuild his frontbench after a mass walkout over his leadership, several MPs have suggested the move was a mistake.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ava Etemadzadeh said she felt ignored by the party\n\nAsked on Sunday whether it was appropriate to promote Mr Hopkins, Mr Corbyn said he could not \"discuss hindsight\" but he stood by his decision at the time.\n\n\"He had been reprimanded, the case had been closed... I thought it was reasonable to appoint him, albeit for a very short time, to shadow cabinet... All I can say is I took a decision based on what I knew at the time and he made a good contribution to the shadow cabinet during the short time he was there.\"\n\nThe whole matter must now be \"investigated and resolved,\" Mr Corbyn insisted.\n\n\"Now the case has been reopened and it will be looked at again. He has been suspended from party membership, which is the decision I took immediately I heard about the later revelations.\"\n\nMs Etemadzadeh has said she believed the party leadership had basically \"ignored\" her concerns and, in promoting Mr Hopkins, had effectively condoned his alleged behaviour - leaving her feeling disillusioned.\n\nCategorically denying any claims of harassment, Mr Hopkins said he had only \"put an arm around\" Ms Etemadzadeh at their first meeting and did not rub any part of his body against hers.\n\nThe activist, he maintained, had given no indication at the time she was in any way upset.\n\nThe Luton North MP, who has been in Parliament since 1997, said he did not recall subsequently asking her about her personal life, but said he did send a text message saying she was \"charming and sweet-natured\".", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola praised his side's \"amazing\" run of form after they outclassed Arsenal to open up an eight-point lead at the top of the Premier League.\n\nCity have won nine consecutive league matches, a club record for a single season, have progressed to the knockout stage of the Champions League and are through to the quarter-finals of the Carabao Cup.\n\n\"We cannot deny the last two months have been amazing,\" Guardiola said. \"We knew how important this game was and we prepared well. The players gave an amazing performance.\"\n\nKevin de Bruyne's driven finish and a Sergio Aguero penalty put City in command and, even though substitute Alexandre Lacazette pulled one back for Arsenal, Gabriel Jesus sealed victory for the home side from close range.\n\nArsenal were aggrieved at the penalty awarded for Nacho Monreal's challenge on Raheem Sterling and both Jesus and David Silva appeared to be offside for the third goal, but the visitors did not deserve to take anything from the game.\n\n\"It is unfortunate that the game finished the way it finished,\" Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger said. \"You can accept it if City win in a normal way, but this is unacceptable.\"\n\nStill, the Gunners would have been beaten by more had it not been for the saves of goalkeeper Petr Cech and the wastefulness of the hosts.\n\nCity go into the two-week international break with an extended advantage over second-placed Manchester United, who were beaten 1-0 at Chelsea.\n\nThe eight-point gap between the top two is the largest after 11 games in the Premier League era.\n\nArsenal slip to sixth, 12 points behind City, and face a battle to regain a place in the Champions League.\n• None Re-live Manchester City's victory over Arsenal and Manchester United's defeat by Chelsea\n\nCity have now won 15 consecutive matches in all competitions, including an EFL Cup victory over Wolverhampton Wanderers on penalties.\n\nTheir 11-game haul of 31 points and +31 goal difference is a Premier League record, built on some breathtaking attacking play. This win was no different, even if they were hampered by their lack of ruthlessness in front of goal.\n\nCity were particularly dangerous on the counter-attack, their pace, movement and precision passing a constant threat. Just behind the front three of Aguero, Sterling and Leroy Sane, De Bruyne was the orchestrator.\n\nAguero and Sterling could have both scored before De Bruyne broke the deadlock, the Belgian playing a one-two with Fernandinho and angling the ball inside the far post via Cech's fingertips.\n\nCity could have been further ahead by the break, a Silva ball across goal should have been finished, while Sterling was unable to feed Sane when Arsenal were outnumbered at the back.\n\nOnly when Aguero converted a penalty off the post, early in the second half, was the result beyond doubt.\n\nThe visitors complained that Monreal's tangle with Sterling should not have penalised, but the Arsenal defender hauled down the England forward without winning the ball.\n\nSome sloppiness crept into City's play - home keeper Ederson almost dropped Alex Iwobi's long-range shot into his own net and they were carved open for Lacazette's goal.\n\nBut substitute Jesus' tap-in, fed by Silva from the right when both men could have been flagged offside, was no more than Guardiola's side deserved.\n\nIt was to Arsenal's credit that they did not capitulate - as they have done so often in the past - but this was a stark reminder of how far they lag behind the Premier League's top clubs.\n\nIn away league matches against the rest of the 'big six' since the start of the 2014-15 season, Wenger's side have won only once (a 2-0 win at City in January 2015), losing 10 and drawing seven.\n\nThough they started brightly, the Gunners were soon pushed back by wave after wave of City attacks, a central defensive trio that included Francis Coquelin continually stretched.\n\nGoing forward, they lacked the incision and creativity of their opponents. Alexis Sanchez, pursued by City in the summer, was tireless in his efforts as a lone striker, but an isolated figure.\n\nSanchez was preferred up front to Lacazatte, the £46.5m pre-season arrival, and it was only when the France striker was introduced that Arsenal looked like taking anything from the game.\n\nThe visitors came down the inside-right channel, good work from Iwobi and Aaron Ramsey fed Lacazette, whose shot went through the legs of Ederson.\n\nEven then, though, the prospect of Arsenal earning a point seemed unlikely and they needed Cech to deny Jesus and De Bruyne before the third City goal made the scoreline a fair reflection of the game.\n\n'It will be difficult to stop City' - what they said\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola: \"The only regret is the chances in the first half that we did not take, or when we didn't make the right pass. My wish is that the players come back healthy from the international break.\n\n\"We deserved to win it. We were so, so tired after the Champions League game and against Arsenal it is never won because they are able to make changes.\n\n\"We have 12 more points than Arsenal and Liverpool, eight more than Tottenham. That is a lot in November.\"\n\nArsenal manager Arsene Wenger: \"Can anyone stop them? With the way they have started and the quality they have it will be difficult, but you never know. If on top of that they have decisions like they have had today, they will be unstoppable.\n\n\"Sanchez did very well. He was up front on his own in the first half but did not have enough support. Overall, I think he has done everything. He is focused and wants to win. He put in a good performance.\n\n\"[Per] Mertesacker came in sick yesterday morning. [Fellow defender Rob] Holding had a thigh strain and [Mathieu] Debuchy has just come back from a long-term absence. I don't see that big problem for Coquelin to play in the middle of the two defenders or as the defensive midfielder.\"\n• None Manchester City's 31 points and a +31 goal difference is the best start to a Premier League season after 11 games.\n• None Arsenal have registered just one win away to the 'big six' in the Premier League since the start of 2014-15, drawing seven and losing 10.\n• None Manchester City's haul of 52 goals is a record for a Premier League club after 17 games in all competitions (since 1992-93).\n• None City midfielder Fernandinho has been directly involved in four goals in his last four Premier League appearances (two goals, two assists), as many as in his previous 64.\n• None Since the start of last season, Arsenal have conceded 12 goals from the penalty spot, more than any other Premier League side.\n• None City forward Sergio Aguero has had a hand in 10 goals in his last five Premier League games (seven goals, three assists).\n• None Petr Cech has saved none of the 13 penalties he has faced with Arsenal in all competitions.\n• None City forward Gabriel Jesus' rate of a goal every 89.6 minutes in the Premier League is the best record of any player to score more than 10 goals in the competition.\n\nManchester City travel to Leicester on Saturday, 18 November, following the international break (15:00 GMT). Earlier that day, Arsenal host biggest rivals Tottenham in the north London derby (12:30).\n• None Delay over. They are ready to continue.\n• None Delay in match Fabian Delph (Manchester City) because of an injury.\n• None Offside, Manchester City. Ederson tries a through ball, but Gabriel Jesus is caught offside.\n• None David Silva (Manchester City) wins a free kick on the right wing. Navigate to the next page Navigate to the last page", "Pastor Frank Pomeroy and his wife Sherri who have lost a daughter\n\nHalf of the 26 victims of the worst mass shooting in Texas history are children, officials say, as a portrait of a small town Texas church emerges.\n\nA pregnant woman's unborn baby was named as the shooting's youngest victim. Another child killed was just one year old.\n\nThe oldest victim of the attack was a 77-year-old woman.\n\nTwenty more were wounded, 10 were in a critical condition. Authorities fear the death toll could rise.\n\nLocal law enforcement have not released the victim's identities, but the names of some of those gunned down are emerging.\n\nAccording to US media, the gunman's ex-wife's grandmother was among the dead.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Belle died with her church family,' her mother said\n\nThe first victim to be named was the 14-year-old daughter of First Baptist Church of Sutherland Spring's pastor, Frank Pomeroy.\n\nPastor Pomeroy, who was away in Oklahoma at the time, told ABC News she was \"one very beautiful, special child\".\n\n\"We lost more than Belle yesterday, and one thing that gives me a sliver of encouragement is the fact that Belle was surrounded yesterday by her church family that she loved fiercely,\" her mother Sherri said on Monday.\n\nEight members of the Holcombe family were among the dead. Bryan Holcombe was serving as the guest pastor in Pastor Pomeroy's absence.\n\nAn associate pastor at the church who also conducted prison ministry, he was about to lead the congregation in worship when he was shot dead, his parents Joe and Claryce told the Washington Post.\n\nBryan's wife of 25 years, Karla, died too. Their son Marc Daniel Holcombe, 36, died alongside his one-year-old daughter Noah.\n\nAnother son of Bryan and Karla, John, survived but his eight-month pregnant wife, Crystal Holcombe, was killed. They were expecting their first child together. The unborn child has been included in the death count.\n\nThe gunman killed three of Crystal's five children by a previous marriage - Emily, Megan and Greg. The two others are said to be in the hospital with their stepfather, according to CNN.\n\n\"She doesn't even drink, smoke or nothing,\" her brother Nick Uhlig told the Houston Chronicle.\n\n\"She just takes care of kids; she raises goats and makes homemade cheese... They don't go out dancing or anything like that. They're real old-fashioned, down-to-earth.\"\n\nThe Holcombe's close family friend was killed with her two children, who were wounded.\n\nShe reportedly lived with Bryan and Karla and called them Mom and Dad, according to local reports.\n\n\"This is a huge loss. Tara was very kind-hearted person, great employee,\" wrote Kevin Koenen, the owner of the Aumont Saloon where Ms McNulty worked.\n\nA 13-year-old girl was shot dead, the San Antonio Express-News reports. Amanda Mosel, 34, said the victim was her goddaughter.\n\nFamily members confirmed that Lula White, the gunman's ex-wife's grandmother, was also among the dead.\n\nWhite frequently volunteered at the church, according to her Facebook page.\n\nBrooke Ward, five, and Emily Garza, seven, were killed, along with their mother Joann Ward.\n\nHer son Ryland, also aged five, was seriously injured - but is expected to survive.\n\nMs Ward's friend, Vonda Greek Smith, paid tribute to the mother-of-four on Facebook, saying that she died \"shielding\" her children.\n\n\"Little Rihanna (9) was there at the shooting but mommy pushed her down when she saw the shooter open fire, so in her words, 'I didn't get shot because I was hiding, and momma covered Emily, Ryland & Brooke.'\"\n\nHaley Krueger, 16, was also killed, her mother Charlene Marie Uhl told US media.\n\n\"She was a vibrant 16-year-old that loved life,\" Mrs Uhl said, adding that she had hopes to become a nurse.\n\n\"She loved babies and always wanted to help.\"\n\nHaley had arrived at church early on Sunday to prepare breakfast, her mother told People magazine.\n\nRichard Rodriguez and his wife of 11 years, Therese Rodriguez, were killed.\n\nRichard's daughter told US media that her father and stepmother were active in the church community. She said they often took their grandchildren to church, but did not on the day of the shooting.\n\nRobert was a retired high-ranking member of the US air force and had served for 30 years. Their two children are also reportedly on active service.\n\n\"This is a huge tragedy, not only for the family, for this small town,\" said Renee Haley, director of Veterans Services for Clare County, Michigan.\n\nThis article will be updated as more information becomes available", "The firework hit the roof of the house in Haven Baulk Avenue in Littleover\n\nA woman has described how she \"lost everything\" when a stray firework set fire to her home and destroyed it.\n\nWendy Bagshaw said the firework sounded like \"an Exocet missile\" hitting the roof. The stress of the fire caused her husband to have an angina attack.\n\nMrs Bagshaw, from Littleover, Derby, said she had already gone through the \"worst year of her life\" and the pair are now temporarily homeless.\n\nShe expressed frustration at people who recklessly set off fireworks.\n\n\"I just can't believe what's happened to my house. It's all gone. I've got nothing,\" she said.\n\n\"I've lost everything that I've worked for 40 years for, and it's just so stupid that people don't realise what they're doing.\n\n\"If you don't understand what you're doing with fireworks, then don't use them.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaking to BBC Radio Derby, Wendy Bagshaw said the firework sounded 'like an Exocet missile'\n\nMrs Bagshaw was watching Strictly Come Dancing on Saturday when she heard a bang.\n\n\"I can only describe it as an Exocet missile, just came at the house,\" she said.\n\n\"It shook the foundations of the house, I felt it shake. My little dogs jumped off my knee and ran outside.\"\n\nWendy Bagshaw expressed frustration at people who recklessly set off fireworks\n\nShe and her husband Ted, who had been in the conservatory with their third dog, went outside to see what had happened.\n\nA man driving past shouted to say the roof was on fire, and the couple tried in vain to extinguish it using a hose.\n\nThe fire damaged the interior of the house, which will be uninhabitable for about six months\n\nThe fire service put out the fire but the house was severely damaged and many of the couple's possessions were destroyed.\n\nThe couple are staying at a nearby hotel until they can move into more permanent accommodation.\n\n\"The insurance assessors have given us somewhere to stay, but they have told us to find a house as it will be at least six months before ours will be habitable again,\" she said.\n\nMrs Bagshaw lost all her photos of her mother, who died earlier this year. Two aunts and two friends also died this year, she said.\n\nBoth her husband, who has a heart condition, and her father, who has prostate cancer, are ill.\n\n\"It's been the worst year of my life, and now this,\" she said.\n\nDerbyshire Fire Service said the occupants were lucky to get out early as the damage was extensive.\n\nMichael Haslam from Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service said: \"Our advice is that if you want to see fireworks, go to an organised display.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police in the US state of Texas say several people have been shot by a gunman at a church.\n\nThe attack happened at the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs in Wilson County.\n\nLocal ABC affiliate KSAT 12 reported the gunman entered the church at around 11:30 local time and began shooting.\n\nPolice told the outlet there were \"multiple victims\" and the gunman had been killed in the aftermath.", "Westminster party leaders have agreed to introduce a new grievance procedure for staff to deal with misconduct allegations, Theresa May has said.\n\nThe prime minister said the measures, which will also include face-to-face human resources support, were an \"important step forward\".\n\nThey were backed by Labour's Jeremy Corbyn following cross-party talks.\n\nIt comes as several Conservative and Labour MPs are investigated over allegations of sexual misconduct.\n\nThe new grievance procedure should be in place next year, said Mrs May, with the new face-to-face support service, an upgrade of an existing complaints hotline, to be introduced by the end of the month.\n\nSpeaking after the meeting in her parliamentary office, Mrs May said: \"I think if this hasn't happened to you it's difficult to appreciate the impact that being a victim of this sort of behaviour can have, it simply has a lasting impact on people.\n\n\"We need to do more to stop these abuses of power and I'm pleased that having convened this meeting of party leaders today we have agreed a way forward,\" she added.\n\nMr Corbyn has called for training for MPs in managing their offices and a new independent body to support staff who suffer mistreatment.\n\nIn a letter to the prime minister ahead of the meeting, Mr Corbyn said MPs should undergo training after each general election in employment standards.\n\nHe said a new body should be set up to provide an \"independent route\" to counselling, reporting and representation through complaints procedures, and have powers to recommend reporting of criminal allegations to the police.\n\nHe said political parties should encourage all staff to join a trade union, as they can provide a \"vital mechanism\" for strengthening effective action and protection from sexual and other harassment and abuse at work.\n\nGreen Party co-leader Caroline Lucas, who last week called for MPs to be educated on consent, said any new training programme should come into force immediately, rather than after an election.\n\nThe SNP Ian Blackford said that although the proposal for a working group came from the prime minister there was \"cross-party consensus\" on the plan.\n\n\"This is about a working group that can work on a consensual basis, on a cross-party basis, to make sure we can have standards - first class standards, gold plated standards - that we can be proud of\", he said.\n\nBut Labour MPs who have led the campaign to crackdown on sexual abuse and harassment said the reforms did not go far enough.\n\nJess Phillips, the MP for Birmingham Yardley, said: \"Find this utterly disappointing. Great a grievance procedure, the victims will be thrilled. What if they don't work in Parliament?\n\n\"What about sanctions, what about specialist support from actual professionals who know what they are talking about on sexual violence/harassment.\"\n\nAnd Stella Creasy, the MP for Walthamstow, added: \"Still much work to do making parliament safe if this only comes into place in a year and only covers MP staff.\"", "The law change was passed by the Isle of Man's Parliament in Douglas in May 2005\n\nThe Isle of Man passed a law that would help tax evaders, documents in the Paradise Papers show.\n\nLawyers promoting a scheme allowing Swiss bank clients to hide their cash offered to help the authorities amend rules in November 2004.\n\nThe law was changed seven months later, amid an EU clampdown on tax dodging.\n\nBBC Panorama has spoken to the man behind the scheme who claims an Isle of Man regulator was aware the new law would help tax evaders.\n\nMark Morris, a tax adviser and leading expert on tax loopholes, told the programme regulators in offshore territories used to regularly help financial institutions in this way.\n\n\"I think in those times, it was wrong, and there were regulators helping financial institutions,\" he said.\n\n\"But today, this would never be allowed.\"\n\nMr Morris devised the scheme to help wealthy clients avoid the European Union Savings Directive (EUSD).\n\nThe EUSD was introduced in 2005 to stop people from within one part of Europe putting assets in an account in another country without declaring it. Most of the people targeted by EUSD were therefore already evading tax.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Swiss-based adviser Mark Morris on how Isle of Man ‘tax dodge law’ came about\n\nThe idea was that EU-based banks and those in other nations including Switzerland would make automatic deductions for tax from interest payments.\n\nMr Morris's scheme was designed to be exempt from the reach of the EUSD. It involved Swiss bank deposits being moved into a redeemable insurance product sold by a new Isle of Man company, Minerva Assurance Ltd.\n\nThe draft of an agreement with an unnamed bank says of the proposals: \"Policy applications and surrenders are transacted expeditiously.... Confidentiality is maintained, as the individual client is not directly involved.\"\n\nA slide presentation illustrated how EUSD would be avoided at each stage of the investment\n\nThe leaked documents outline events in late 2004 when lawyers acting for Mr Morris held talks with the IoM insurance and pensions regulator, David Vick.\n\nAfter it became clear that the new insurance company would not be authorised to operate under existing laws, they appear to have offered to help Mr Vick draft new regulations.\n\nA letter they wrote to Mr Vick in November 2004 after their discussions asks him to get in touch \"if you believe it would be helpful for us to provide you with ideas as to how to improve the regulations to more readily accord with our client's proposal\".\n\nMr Vick then emailed them in March 2005 to say a consultation was to take place about proposed changes to the 1986 Insurance Act. He tells the lawyers he would \"be particularly interested in any comments that you… have in this regard\".\n\nOn 17 May 2005, amendments were approved by the IoM parliament, known as the Tynwald, and they took effect on 1 June 2005 - exactly a month before the EUSD began.\n\nMr Vick retired from the IoM's Insurance and Pension Authority in 2015. Approached about the events, he declined to answer any questions and referred the BBC to the Isle of Man authorities.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Vick refuses to comment on his role in law change that would have helped tax dodgers\n\nThe Isle of Man's Chief Minister, Howard Quayle, says the island is a \"responsible jurisdiction\" and complies with international regulations on tax transparency.\n\nHe said the events surrounding the insurance scheme would be investigated but he did not believe the regulator at the time would have knowingly helped to create a law to facilitate tax evasion.\n\nMr Quayle told Panorama: \"If it had happened I would be incredibly disappointed. Give me the opportunity to look at the evidence first and then we'll take action if it is proven.\"\n\nMark Morris said he had acted within the law and described the financial structure he devised as one of \"many loopholes\" available at the time. He said that \"nine times out of 10\" the investors would have been intending to evade tax.\n\nIn the end, the tax dodge was never used because Mark Morris was unable to recruit enough clients.\n\nHe said: \"Nobody utilised this plan because there were so many other solutions.\"\n\nMr Morris later gave evidence to the German parliament on EUSD and helped the European Commission with reform of the rules.\n\nThe papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nThe 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Panorama has led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries. The BBC does not know the identity of the source.\n\nParadise Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #ParadisePapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"Paradise Papers\"\n\nWatch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "The area from Oxford Circus to near Selfridges could become traffic-free\n\nLarge parts of London's Oxford Street could be pedestrianised by December 2018, under plans put forward by London Mayor Sadiq Khan.\n\nAbout half a mile of the street from Oxford Circus to Orchard Street could become a \"traffic-free pedestrian boulevard\", the mayor said.\n\nHe said he hoped it would coincide with the arrival of the Elizabeth Line in central London in December next year.\n\nMore than four million people visit Oxford Street each week.\n\nAll east-west traffic will be stopped but some north-south routes will be maintained, according to the plans.\n\nSome north-south traffic will be allowed\n\nA 800m-long work of public art could be commissioned for the length of the former road\n\nCyclists would not be able to ride in the pedestrianised area but Transport for London said it would consult on plans to create \"new high-quality cycle routes\" to the north and south of Oxford Street.\n\nMr Khan said: \"Oxford Street is world famous with millions of visitors every year, and in just over a year the iconic part of the street west of Oxford Circus could be transformed into a traffic-free pedestrian boulevard.\n\n\"Alongside the arrival of the Elizabeth Line, the Oxford Street area will be truly transformed over the coming years.\"\n\nJace Tyrrell, chief executive of the New West End Company, said: \"After years of campaigning, it's excellent news finally to see commitment from our politicians to a game-changing transformation of Oxford Street.\"\n\nRichard Massett, chairman of the Licensed Taxi Drivers' Association said: \"The LTDA is disappointed by the proposals for Oxford Street that were presented today.\n\n\"A 24 hour vehicle ban presents a major threat to the West End as a whole. Forcing traffic onto neighbouring streets will merely shift congestion and pollution, all the while making it far harder to visit London's premier retail destination.\"\n\nThe plans are out for consultation until 17 December.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Malcolm Turnbull says the new declarations will help achieve transparency in Canberra\n\nAustralia's Prime Minister has announced new rules to make all federal politicians declare their citizenship status.\n\nIt comes amid a dual citizenship saga, which has led to six politicians losing their office.\n\nIn Australia, dual citizens are not allowed to run for federal office.\n\nMalcolm Turnbull unveiled the new disclosure rules on Monday in a bid to clear up the uncertainty around politicians' eligibility in Canberra.\n\nThe plan will need to be voted on in both the upper and lower houses in Australia's parliament, before coming into force.\n\nUnder the new plan, politicians will be obliged to make a formal declaration about their citizenship status, as well as provide details about the time and place of their birth, and the time and place of birth of their parents.\n\nIf the politicians had citizenship of another country they will also be required to detail when and how they renounced it.\n\nCurrent politicians will have 21 days to make the declaration, while future members of parliament will be required to make the declaration when they are elected.\n\n\"What we have seen is a concern, a legitimate concern that there is insufficient transparency,\" Mr Turnbull said on Monday.\n\n\"Members and senators have been put squarely on notice now and so they will be turning their mind to their own affairs and the issues of citizenship.\"\n\nThe plan comes following weeks of pressure on the Turnbull government to carry out an audit of all sitting federal politicians.\n\nLast month, Australia's highest court decided that five politicians - including Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce - were invalidly elected because they held dual citizenship.\n\nMany of the politicians had argued that they had not been aware they were dual nationals due to their parents or place of birth.\n\nLast week Australian Senate President Stephen Parry also resigned, after confirming he was a UK dual citizen.\n• None Are there more Australia dual citizen MPs?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Teenagers have been speaking about the 'dangers' of sexting\n\nPolice investigations into children sharing sexual images of themselves and others have more than doubled in two years, figures have shown.\n\nForces in England and Wales recorded 6,238 underage \"sexting\" offences in 2016-17, a rate of 17 a day.\n\nPolice said they received reports from children as young as 10.\n\nChief Constable Simon Bailey, the National Police Chiefs' Council lead for child protection, said: \"There is a worrying upward trend.\"\n\nHe added social networks needed to remove indecent images more quickly.\n\nThe number of cases where under-18s were sharing indecent or prohibited images was up by a third on the 4,681 offences recorded the previous year, and represented a 131% rise on 2014-15, with 2,700 incidents.\n\nMr Bailey, who is head of Norfolk Constabulary, said: \"Sharing and possessing these images is against the law. Once an image is shared with others it can cause deep embarrassment and distress.\"\n\nAs well as calling for faster action from social media companies, he said schools needed to do more to counteract the influence of pornography.\n\nHe said: \"I am concerned about the impact that exposure to extreme pornography can have on children so we need to consider if a lack of universal relationship and sex education is compounding the problem.\"\n\nPolice said the youngest children involved in sexting inquiries were aged 10, while the number of offences investigated was at its peak among 14-year-olds.\n\nGirls were more likely to be the victims, but suspects or perpetrators were evenly split between boys and girls.\n\nInvestigators noted that reports of offences declined substantially in August, suggesting children were more at risk in school term time.\n\nThe figures cover a period in which the College of Policing introduced new guidance, aimed at assuaging concerns that teenagers might be routinely criminalised by laws on sexting.\n\nIt said that officers should record all cases of under-18s sharing images of themselves or other children as crimes. However, formal action only needs to be taken where there is exploitation, coercion or wider child protection issues.\n\nThere were more than 2,000 such cases where police determined that further action was not in the public interest in 2016-17.\n\nMr Bailey said: \"Forces are risk-assessing every case to ensure we are not unnecessarily stigmatising children and saddling them with a criminal record.\n\n\"But there will always be a criminal investigation where we see that young people are being coerced, exploited or blackmailed.\"\n\nThe NSPCC said the rise in sexting incidents is \"extremely worrying\".\n\n\"It is vital that parents and schools talk to children about the dangers of sexting as soon as they are given any technology,\" the charity said.", "Mr Trump and Mr Abe also reaffirmed their countries' close ties\n\nUS President Donald Trump has said Japan could shoot North Korean missiles \"out of the sky\" with military equipment bought from the US.\n\nJapan's PM Shinzo Abe followed up by saying his country could intercept missiles \"if necessary\", and added that he was looking into the deal.\n\nThe two leaders were speaking to reporters at the close of Mr Trump's first state visit to Japan.\n\nNorth Korea has fired missiles over Japan twice in recent months.\n\nOn Monday, while answering questions at a press conference, Mr Trump said Mr Abe was \"going to purchase massive amounts of military equipment\" from the US.\n\nReferencing North Korea's missiles, he said Mr Abe could \"shoot them out of the sky\" when he completed the purchase, which Mr Trump said would provide jobs to Americans as well as \"safety for Japan\".\n\nMr Abe said he was considering such a deal, adding that Japan had to \"qualitatively and quantitatively\" enhance its defence capability, given the \"very tough\" North Korea situation.\n\nHe stressed that missile defence was based on \"legal co-operation\" between Japan and the US, and as for shooting down missiles, \"if necessary of course we can do that\".\n\nIt is not clear whether a military deal has been signed during Mr Trump's trip, but the two countries are close military allies with the US maintaining several military bases in Japan.\n\nIn September Mr Trump had tweeted that he would allow the sale of high-end military equipment to Japan and South Korea.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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\nJapan does not have a standing army, but instead maintains what it calls self-defence forces, under its post-war pacifist constitution which the hawkish Mr Abe has been seeking to revise.\n\nThe two leaders also reaffirmed their ties and pledged to \"stand against the North Korean menace\", said Mr Trump. Mr Abe said Japan was imposing sanctions on several North Korean entities and individuals.\n\nEarlier on Monday, North Korean state media accused Mr Trump of driving tensions \"to the extremes\" and said that \"no-one can predict when the lunatic old man of the White House, lost to senses, will start a nuclear war\" against North Korea.\n\nMr Trump on Monday met families of Japanese people abducted by North Korea - a topic which he later addressed in the press conference, calling it a \"very, very sad thing\".\n\nHe said it would be \"a tremendous signal\" and \"the start of something very special\" if North Korean leader Kim Jong-un returned the abductees, something which Mr Abe has constantly pushed for.\n\nThe two leaders also said they discussed economic co-operation in the region.\n\nMr Trump is visiting Japan as part of his first tour of Asia as US president.\n\nHe has also visited a US air base near Tokyo, and met American business leaders where he publicly criticised Japan over a trade deficit.\n\nMr Trump will be going to South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines in the coming week.", "Catalan independence supporters protested outside the prosecutor's office in Brussels\n\nFormer Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont and four former ministers have been freed with conditions by an investigating judge in Belgium.\n\nThe judge said they could not leave the country without permission and had to give details of their accommodation.\n\nThey had handed themselves in to Belgian police following an EU arrest warrant issued by a Spanish judge.\n\nMr Puigdemont fled to Belgium after Madrid imposed direct rule on Catalonia following an independence declaration.\n\nHe has said he will not return to Spain unless he is guaranteed a fair trial.\n\nThe five are wanted in Spain to face charges including rebellion, sedition and misuse of public funds.\n\nMr Puigdemont could be seen inside the public prosecutor's office in Brussels\n\nThey are now expected to appear in court in Belgium within 15 days. Belgium has a maximum of 60 days to return the five to Spain but, if they do not raise legal objections, a transfer could happen much sooner.\n\n\"The request made this afternoon by the Brussels' Prosecutor's Office for the provisional release of all persons sought has been granted by the investigative judge,\" said a statement by the Belgian prosecutor's office.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In Catalonia, this small town is divided over independence\n\nMr Puigdemont's political party, PDeCAT, said he had surrendered to police to show his \"willingness not to flee from the judicial process but to defend himself in a fair and impartial process, which is possible in Belgium, and highly doubtful in Spain\".\n\nLast week, Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy imposed direct rule on Catalonia following a declaration of independence in the regional parliament. He sacked Mr Puigdemont, dissolved the parliament and called local elections for 21 December.\n\nThe declaration of independence followed a referendum that the Spanish constitutional court had declared illegal.\n\nMr Puigdemont's colleagues also listed on the EU arrest warrant are Meritxell Serret (former agriculture minister), Antoni Comín (former health minister), Lluís Puig (former culture minister), and Clara Ponsatí (former education minister).\n\nFrom left to right, Meritxell Serret, Antoni Comín, Lluís Puig and Clara Ponsatí have also handed themselves in\n\nThey all handed themselves in to Belgian federal police, accompanied by their lawyers, on Sunday morning and were questioned in a hearing lasting 10 hours.\n\nThere were more protests in Catalan cities on Sunday against the detention of officials and activists held by the Spanish authorities.\n\nProtesters plastered city squares with posters depicting the detainees as political prisoners.\n\nEight politicians are being held in an investigation into alleged rebellion and sedition linked to Catalonia's declaration of independence.\n\nTwo activists are being detained in a separate investigation.", "A typhoon which battered southern and central Vietnam has left at least 27 people dead, and more than 20 missing.\n\nTyphoon Damrey made landfall on Saturday, with winds of up to 90 km/h.", "The wreckage of the 1902 Benz can be seen on the bonnet of the Ford C-Max\n\nSix people were injured in a crash during the annual London to Brighton Veteran Car Run.\n\nThe 1902 Benz was involved in a collision with three other cars at about 11:35 GMT at Reigate Hill, Surrey.\n\nIt had been taking part in the annual parade of vehicles dating back to the early 20th Century.\n\nTwo people from the Benz were taken to hospital with serious injuries.\n\nTwo other people travelling in the car were taken to hospital with minor injuries, said Surrey Police.\n\nA Ford C-Max, a Mercedes-Benz GLE and a Fiat Fiorino were also involved in the crash.\n\nTwo passengers from the Ford were taken to hospital with minor injuries.\n\nThe Royal Automobile Club, which stages the veteran run, previously said it was the world's oldest motoring event.\n\nIt commemorates the Emancipation Run in 1896, celebrating the Locomotives on the Highway Act which raised the speed limit from 4mph to 14mph and abolished the requirement for vehicles to be preceded by a man on foot.\n\nThe Royal Automobile Club said it would be \"conducting a thorough review to identify any lessons which can be learnt from this accident\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Freeman Martin from the Texas Department of Public Safety has given details about the mass shooting in a Texas church that has left at least 26 dead.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Witnesses Phil and Kim Dick say they shouted for paramedics\n\nMany of the most seriously injured victims of the Manchester Arena attack did not get expert medical help for more than an hour, witnesses have said.\n\nTwenty-two people were killed and 512 injured by suicide bomber Salman Abedi at an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May.\n\nOnly three paramedics ever entered the cordoned-off foyer area at the centre of the blast, in line with the major incident plan, the BBC has been told.\n\nInjured people inside were later taken to medical staff gathered outside by members of the public and police.\n\nPhil and Kim Dick, from Bradford, were in the arena foyer at the time of the explosion, waiting for their daughter and granddaughter to come out of the concert.\n\nThey told BBC Inside Out a young victim with \"horrific\" injuries collapsed in front of them.\n\nMrs Dick said she sat with the girl, who survived, for more than an hour.\n\n\"She could hardly walk,\" she said. \"She was stumbling, bleeding from her arm and her mouth and her leg, and her hair was burnt.\n\n\"I just kept shouting: 'We need paramedics now'. And they [armed police] just said: 'We're just making sure there are no more bombs'.\"\n\nPhil and Kim Dick were waiting to collect their daughter and granddaughter at the time of the explosion\n\n\"There was just too much for just three paramedics to deal with,\" Mr Dick added.\n\n\"The longer it went on the more silent it became. It was really eerie and people who I had seen a little earlier, who were severely injured, were now dead.\"\n\nMr Dick said he believed a decision was made \"about an hour and 10 minutes after the explosion that the medical staff weren't coming up to the foyer but were going to evacuate all the casualties\".\n\nWhile we have been able to piece together much of what happened on that terrible night, several key questions remain unanswered:\n\nUltimately those in the unenviable position of being in command on the night had a terrible dilemma on their hands. Did they deploy their staff - thereby potentially exposing them to the risk of being caught up in a second blast or facing marauding terrorists - to try to save the critically injured?\n\nEight days after the bomb, Chief Constable Ian Hopkins told BBC Radio Manchester his force had been on the scene \"within seconds\" and one of its roles had been to co-ordinate the emergency services' response.\n\nHe said his force had contacted North West Ambulance Service (NWAS) within three minutes of the incident being declared and the ambulance service had followed its major incident plan.\n\nBoth the fire and ambulance services initially went to a rendezvous point as per standard practice, he said.\n\nMr Hopkins added: \"The ambulance service were called forward and, at this stage, I am unsure as to why the fire service were delayed so long.\"\n\nThe BBC has ascertained one paramedic was already inside the inner cordon by the time it was established, and that two specially trained paramedics joined him.\n\nThereafter no other paramedics entered the foyer, which was known as the \"hot zone\".\n\nIn a statement, NWAS said that despite the \"clear risk\", the decision was made to allow three staff into the foyer.\n\n\"Their job was to triage the injured and work with police to move people to a place close by where they could be treated safely - and where 25 paramedics were waiting, in accordance with our major incident plan.\n\n\"Within an hour all critical patients had been moved and were being treated by 50 paramedics. Some people had already been taken to hospital. Within four hours, all the injured that required hospital care had been transferred.\n\n\"This is the clinical model used in all major incidents.\n\n\"The Kerslake inquiry will fully review the processes that we used and we welcome any findings or lessons learnt that may be provided as a result but we are confident in our response which followed implementation of our major incident plan.\"\n\nIn total, 56 ambulances and seven rapid response vehicles were deployed to the incident, NWAS added.\n\nAbedi detonated his home-made device, packed full of nuts and bolts so as to maximise casualties, at 22:31 BST.\n\nBBC Inside Out has also learned that Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) did not deploy crews to the arena until one hour and 47 minutes later, at 00:18.\n\nA serving GMFRS firefighter, who wants to remain anonymous, told the BBC that the paramedics were asking where the fire service was.\n\n\"People were dying, why weren't we there? We were just helpless.\n\n\"I don't want the public to think that we didn't want to go or were scared to go, we were held back by the senior management.\n\n\"There were homeless people helping, members of the public helping. I'm a paid public servant and I wanted to help, I just wasn't allowed to help.\n\n\"The hairs are standing up on the back of my neck because it's embarrassing that we weren't allowed to go.\"\n\nAnother firefighter, who also did not want to be named, told the BBC: \"There were rumours that some people wanted to self-deploy because they were watching ambulances drive past their fire station and they were wondering why they hadn't been tasked to the event.\"\n\nAn anonymous firefighter said there were rumours people \"wanted to self-deploy\"\n\nGMFRS said it had conducted a \"debrief\" of its response to the deadliest terror attack in the UK since the bombing of the London transport network on 7 July 2005.\n\nBut it said it would be inappropriate to comment further, given the fact it was co-operating with an ongoing review by Lord Kerslake into the Manchester attack, commissioned by Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham.\n\nThe BBC asked all 49 fire brigades in the UK whether their firefighters were covered by their service's insurance in the event of injury or death while attending a terrorist attack.\n\nMerseyside was the only fire service to confirm explicitly it has insurance in place for its officers to respond to terrorist attacks.\n\nIn a statement on Sunday, GMFRS said its employers' liability insurance covers firefighters attending such incidents.\n\nLord Kerslake's interim report is due to be published in early 2018.\n\nThe BBC has been told the deadline for submissions to the inquiry is to be extended to 24 November.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Matthew Scully-Hicks made a 999 call two months before Elsie died claiming she fell down stairs\n\nA man has been found guilty of murdering his 18-month-old baby just two weeks after formally adopting her.\n\nMatthew Scully-Hicks, 31, of Delabole, Cornwall, had denied inflicting catastrophic injuries on Elsie at his Cardiff home four days before she died.\n\nHe called 999 on 25 May 2016 claiming he had found her unresponsive on the floor but a jury unanimously rejected his claim.\n\nA pathologist said her injuries were \"very typical\" of a shaken baby.\n\nScully-Hicks will be sentenced on Tuesday and a child practice review is now expected to take place which will investigate the role of agencies in the case and look at whether lessons can be learned to prevent future tragedies.\n\nPathologist Dr Stephen Leadbetter told the trial Elsie's injuries were consistent with \"shaking impact syndrome\".\n\nHe said she died after suffering a \"blunt head injury\", which triggered a cardiac arrest and starved her organs of blood.\n\nA CT scan showed she had bleeding on the brain and a post-mortem examination revealed she had also suffered broken ribs, a fractured left femur and a fractured skull.\n\nThere was also haemorrhaging within both of Elsie's retinas - associated with inflicted trauma or injury.\n\nIn the months before her death, Scully-Hicks had told his husband and a health visitor a bruise on Elsie's face and leg fracture were caused by falls around the house.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Scully-Hicks called 999 to say Elsie was not breathing\n\nBut a doctor who examined Elsie after her death said his account was inconsistent with her injuries.\n\nLess than three months before she died Scully-Hicks called 999 and said Elsie had fallen down the stairs after a wooden stair gate accidentally opened when she pulled herself up on it.\n\nOn 25 May, Scully-Hicks was on the phone to the emergency services again.\n\nThis time he said he had changed Elsie's nappy in the living room, left the room before returning minutes later to find her unresponsive on the floor.\n\nHe told the court: \"I got closer and called her, there was no response. I got down and gave her a gentle tap and there was no response at all so I picked up the phone and called for an ambulance.\"\n\nHe said he carried out CPR until a police officer arrived and took over and she was rushed to hospital.\n\nElsie died at the University Hospital of Wales, in Cardiff, on 29 May 2016 after doctors determined she could not be saved and her ventilator was switched off.\n\nDuring the trial, the jury was told Scully-Hicks had sent his husband Craig text messages saying he was \"struggling to cope\" and describing Elsie as \"Satan in a babygro\" and a \"psycho\".\n\nNeighbours told the court they heard Scully-Hicks raise his voice and swear at the the baby.\n\nThe court heard Scully-Hicks who remained emotionless as the jury gave its unanimous verdict, did not suffer from a psychiatric illness or personality disorder.\n\nProsecutor Paul Lewis QC, said: \"[Scully-Hicks'] actions on the late afternoon of 25 May were the tragic culmination of a course of violent conduct on his part towards a defenceless child - an infant that he should have loved and protected, but whom he instead assaulted, abused, and ultimately murdered.\"\n\nFollowing the unanimous verdict, Iwan Jenkins, from the Crown Prosecution Service said: \"There were complicating factors in that the only two people who knew what happened in the months leading up to the incident which resulted in her hospitalisation were the defendant and the victim herself.\"\n\nHe said evidence from medical experts had been \"crucial\" to the case, adding the analysis of Elsie's injuries were \"vital to show explanations provided by the defendant were not true and were inconsistent\".\n\nHe added: \"There are no winners in cases of murder.\"\n\nA National Adoption Service spokesman said it was a \"tragic and extremely rare case\".\n\nDet Ch Insp Stuart Wales, of South Wales Police's major crime investigation team, said Elsie's \"untimely death\" has had a \"devastating effect first and foremost on her family\".\n\n\"Elsie's death has also impacted a wider community, including the many professionals involved in her care and the subsequent investigation. I would like to thank all of them, including the many witnesses who assisted the prosecution,\" he said.\n\n\"This case represents an extremely rare and distressing set of circumstances. We at South Wales Police continue to respect and value the role that adoption, and those involved, play in our society.\"", "Lord Ashcroft remained a non-dom, and continued to avoid tax despite attempts by Parliament to make peers pay their full share, leaked documents reveal.\n\nThe peer was domiciled for tax purposes in Belize at a time when it was widely believed he had given up the status, the Paradise Papers show.\n\nWhile ordinary Britons have to pay tax on everything they earn, non-doms are only taxed on their UK income.\n\nLord Ashcroft, who donated millions to the Tories, said he would not comment.\n\nHe said it was because of the way he had been treated by BBC Panorama in the past.\n\nBut his spokesman, Alan Kilkenny, is quoted in the Guardian newspaper as saying the peer had never engaged in tax evasion, abusive tax avoidance or tax avoidance using artificial structures.\n\nWhen questions were raised about the peer's non-dom status in 2010, he denied any \"impropriety or wrongdoing\".\n\nA former party treasurer and deputy chairman, Lord Ashcroft fell out with David Cameron in 2010 and later co-authored a controversial unauthorised biography of the then prime minister.\n\nBut the 71-year-old remains involved in UK politics through his polling and publishing interests and last year said he would start donating \"smaller sums\" to the party again.\n\nParliament tried to force the controversial peer to pay full British tax when he entered the House of Lords in 2000.\n\nLord Ashcroft promised to become a permanent resident in the UK - a change that would have meant giving up his status as a UK resident whose permanent home, or domicile, is outside of the country.\n\nThe then leader of the Conservative Party William Hague told Parliament that becoming a peer would \"cost him [Lord Ashcroft] and benefit the Treasury tens of millions of pounds a year in tax\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Lord Ashcroft try to avoid Richard Bilton’s questions about his offshore trust\n\nThe tax was never paid because Lord Ashcroft, who was once Belize's ambassador to the United Nations and maintains links to the central American country, persuaded officials that he should be allowed to become a long term resident of the UK rather than a permanent one. A distinction that allowed him to retain his non-dom status.\n\nThe leaked documents show that between 2000 and 2010, Lord Ashcroft received payments of around $200m (£150m) from his offshore trust in the Bermuda.\n\nThe Tory Peer continued to sit in the House of Lords and as a non-dom he did not have to pay tax on these payments.\n\nLord Ashcroft's admission in 2010 that he was still a non-dom led to a major political controversy and the introduction of legislation designed to force anybody who sits in Parliament to pay full British tax.\n\nAfter Lord Ashcroft told the BBC in May 2010 he was going to become \"a fully taxed person in Britain\", it was widely reported he had given up his non-dom status.\n\nThe Conservative Party also gave such an indication on 7 July that same year.\n\nHowever, documents seen by the BBC's Panorama, reveal \"his true domicile is Belize\".\n\nThe new law, the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act, had not specified that non-dom MPs and peers would have to give up the status - only that they be \"treated as domiciled in the UK\" by the tax authorities.\n\nIt meant Lord Ashcroft had to pay full British tax while he sat in Parliament, but as soon as he resigned from the House of Lords in March 2015 he was also a non-dom again in the eyes of UK revenue inspectors.\n\nThe Paradise Papers suggest Lord Ashcroft worked around the new law to continue avoiding tax on his worldwide income between 2010 and 2015.\n\nOn the 31 March 2010, the day before the new law came into effect, Lord Ashcroft's offshore trust bought shares worth £33.9m from one of his companies.\n\nHis advisers note that the deal has \"capital gains tax implications\" but they point out he is \"not domiciled in the UK at the moment\".\n\nIf the deal had happened the following day, he would have been treated differently and could have been liable for capital gains tax.\n\nLord Ashcroft with William Hague and Ffion Hague in 2006\n\nWhile he was sitting in the Lords as a full British taxpayer between 2010 and 2015, Lord Ashcroft appears to have stopped taking payments from his offshore trust.\n\nOne of his advisers notes \"that there is no applicable tax as there is no distributable income\".\n\nThe accounts for the trust show Lord Ashcroft didn't receive any payments in 2011, 2012 or 2013. The accounts for 2014 and 2015 were not in the leaked documents.\n\nLord Ashcroft announced his resignation from the House of Lords in March 2015.\n\nIf he had still been sitting in Parliament, he would have been liable for capital gains tax on any profits from the sale. But Lord Ashcroft was being treated as a non-dom again and could legally avoid the tax.\n\nJournalist Peter Oborne says Lord Ashcroft's non-dom status was a \"huge issue\" at the time he started to sit in the Lords and there was \"fresh controversy\" when the Tories entered power in 2010.\n\nThe revelations in the Paradise Papers could cause a \"major political explosion,\" he said. \"The Labour Party... will turn it into a first class political row. It will raise huge questions about not just the Conservatives [but] also the House of Lords.\"\n\nThe Conservative Party did not respond to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nThe papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nThe 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Panorama has led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries. The BBC does not know the identity of the source.\n\nParadise Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #ParadisePapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"Paradise Papers\"\n\nWatch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "Eight members of one family are feared dead in the Texas church shooting. The Holcombes' neighbour, Pauline Garza, tells the BBC she doesn't know what to tell her children.", "US President Donald Trump has lashed out at Japan over trade and said he would push for a fairer economic relationship between the two countries.\n\nSpeaking to business leaders in Tokyo on Monday he said Japan \"has been winning\" on trade in recent decades.\n\nHe also called on Japan to build more cars in America.\n\nMr Trump's comments come at the start of a 12-day Asian tour which is expected to be dominated by North Korea and trade.\n\nThe US leader said his country had \"suffered massive trade deficits at the hands of Japan for many, many years\".\n\n\"We want free and reciprocal trade but right now our trade with Japan is not free and it's not reciprocal and I know it will be and we've started the process,\" Mr Trump told the group of US and Japanese executives.\n\nHe praised Japan, which counts the US as its second largest trade partner after China, for buying American military hardware.\n\nMr Trump also said he wanted his country to be the most attractive place to hire and invest.\n\nJapan had a $69bn (£52.8bn) trade surplus with the US in 2016, according to the US Treasury department.\n\nThe US has a much bigger imbalance with China, which Mr Trump has long rallied against. The total trade relationship between the pair was worth $648bn last year, but trade was heavily skewed in China's favour with the US amassing a nearly $310bn deficit.\n\nMr Trump's \"America First\" views are underpinning re-examination of trade with Asia, prompting a crackdown on China's intellectual property practices and fresh negotiations after the US walked away from a major regional trade pact, the Trans Pacific Trade partnership. (TPP).\n\nThe remaining 11 nations taking part in the TPP, which includes Japan, are proceeding with negotiations on the agreement without the US.\n\nJapanese prime minister Shinzo Abe held formal talks with US president Donald Trump in Tokyo on Monday\n\nThe US and Japan are now working on a new roadmap for trade, but talks could put a strain on otherwise warm relations between the two countries.\n\nJapan's Prime Minister, Shinzo Abe, was the first foreign leader to meet Mr Trump following his election in November 2016. The pair played golf in Japan on Sunday after which the US president described his relationship with his Japanese counterpart as \"really extraordinary\".\n\nDespite that, Mr Trump took aim at Japanese carmakers in Tokyo on Monday.\n\n\"Try building your cars in the United States instead of shipping them over. That's not too much to ask,\" the US president said at the briefing, adding, \"is that rude to ask\"?\n\nData from the Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, a non-profit trade group, shows that in 2016, three-quarters of Japanese branded cars sold in the US were manufactured in North America.\n\nLast year, those carmakers built nearly 4 million vehicles and 4.7 million engines in the US it said.\n\nThey contributed $45.6bn in total investment through 24 manufacturing plants, and 43 research and development and design centres in the US.\n\nWhy is President Trump complaining about Japanese cars?\n\nIt's true, as he points out, that there is a massive trade deficit between the US and Japan. Last count it was about second only to China's deficit with the US - although that's much bigger.\n\nIt's also true that while a lot of Japanese cars ARE made in the US, Americans are still buying cars from Japan, along with agricultural goods, electronic components and pharmaceutical products.\n\nThis doesn't wholly explain the trade gap though. The weakness of the Japanese currency, the yen, does. The weaker the yen against the US dollar, the cheaper Japanese goods are for American shoppers.\n\nBut this is an old argument, which Tokyo has heard before. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will be wary of any push from President Trump that will see the yen's value strengthen.", "The Uzbek-born billionaire is a major client of Bridgewaters\n\nAn oligarch with close links to the Kremlin may have secretly taken ownership of a company responsible for anti-money laundering checks on Russian cash, the Paradise Papers show.\n\nIsle of Man-based Bridgewaters should conduct independent due diligence tests on firms it administers, including dozens linked to Alisher Usmanov.\n\nIf he owns or controls the firm it would be a clear conflict of interest.\n\nHe and Bridgewaters strongly deny it is owned or controlled by the Russian.\n\nBridgewaters has been involved in major deals involving Russian cash, including the purchase of significant stakes in Facebook.\n\nThe Uzbek-born billionaire is a major client of Bridgewaters and if he does own or control the company it could be carrying out financial checks on Mr Usmanov's own offshore business activities.\n\nSome of Mr Usmanov's $15.8bn (£9.97bn) fortune is in a private trust company called Bordeaux Limited.\n\nBordeaux used to be managed by offshore law company Appleby, the source of much of the Paradise Papers leaks, but in 2011 the private trust's management was transferred to Bridgewaters.\n\nAn internal Appleby email from 2011 uncovered in the Paradise Papers about the transfer of Mr Usmanov's Bordeaux private trust states that \"the client has now bought a trust company in the Isle of Man (called Bridgewaters)\".\n\nCompany filings show Mr Usmanov's business associate, Matthias Bolliger, was a director of Bridgewaters from 2011 to 2015.\n\nAnd a leaked 2015 document from the Paradise Papers lists Mr Bolliger as \"an ultimate beneficial official owner\" of the company.\n\nAuthor and taxation expert Nicholas Shaxson told BBC Panorama: \"These companies are supposed to have due diligence requirements to look at what their clients are doing and make sure that this is not criminal money.\n\n\"If the billionaire controls the company that's supposed to be doing the due diligence on his own stuff it's a massive conflict of interest.\"\n\nLawyers acting for Bridgewaters told BBC Panorama that their client was not secretly owned or controlled by any individual.\n\nThe lawyers, who also act for Mr Bolliger, said he had never controlled Bridgewaters on behalf of any other individual and would be unable to do so as Bridgewaters was a regulated Isle of Man financial services company with a board of directors.\n\nChief Minister for the Isle of Man Howard Quayle told Panorama he could not comment on individual cases but if there was evidence Mr Usmanov was approving his own deals \"we will have it thoroughly investigated and if there has been any wrongdoing whatsoever, we will take the relevant action. Whether that's a prosecution or withdrawal of right to operate on the Isle of Man\".\n\nOther revelations in the Paradise Papers have questioned whether Mr Usmanov may be secretly linked with both Arsenal and Everton in a way which if true could be a breach of Premier League rules.\n\nThe Everton deal was administered by Bridgewaters.\n\nThe company that owns Everton, Blue Heaven Holdings, is registered at Bridgewaters.\n\nOne of its directors is an employee of Bridgewaters and the other is an employee of Mr Usmanov.\n\nPanorama has also seen a list of dozens of British Virgin Islands (BVI) companies linked to Mr Usmanov that are managed by Bridgewaters.\n\nUnder anti-money laundering rules the true, or beneficial, owners of companies should be disclosed.\n\nHowever, the ownership details of most of the companies on the list remain hidden.\n\nThe Panamanian law firm, Mossack Fonseca, often known as Mossfon and which was the source of last year's Panama Papers leaks, acted as an agent for Bridgewaters and was clearly frustrated by the lack of information it was getting about Mr Usmanov's companies.\n\nOne Mossfon email says: \"The answers on the incorporation forms are ambiguous normally, given in a manner that can be interpreted in various ways. They are trying to give information without giving it if you know what I mean... now they have raised a bit of suspicion.\"\n\nAfter Mossfon raised questions about compliance, Bridgewaters transferred most of its BVI companies to another financial services company, SHRM Trustees, in February 2015.\n\nThe papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nThe 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Panorama has led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries. The BBC does not know the identity of the source.\n\nParadise Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #ParadisePapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"Paradise Papers\"\n\nWatch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "Watch Lord Ashcroft try to avoid Richard Bilton’s questions about his offshore trust.\n\nFind out more about the Paradise Papers.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch Lord Ashcroft try to avoid Richard Bilton’s questions about his offshore trust\n\nLord Ashcroft has denied allegations that he ignored rules around the management of his offshore investments.\n\nAccording to leaked documents, the Tory donor gave assets worth hundreds of millions of dollars to the Punta Gorda Trust in Bermuda in 2000.\n\nThe leaked Paradise Papers provoked questions as to whether he sometimes made decisions without consulting trust officials. Such action could see the trust challenged by HMRC.\n\nIn a statement, he said that he has never known the identity of any of the trustees or had any dealings with them.\n\n\"At no point has it been suggested directly to me, or through others, that I have taken any inappropriate action.\n\n\"No professional trustee has ever resigned because of anything I may have done,\" he added.\n\nPanorama approached Lord Ashcroft during last month's Conservative Party conference in Manchester but he declined to answer any questions about the trust.\n\nHe has described two previous Panorama investigations into his affairs as \"unashamedly one-sided\" and said he had informed BBC director general Tony Hall that he is \"simply not prepared to deal with\" the programme.\n\nThe 71-year-old former Conservative deputy chairman has given millions of pounds to the party.\n\nHe fell out with David Cameron in 2010 and later co-authored a controversial unauthorised biography of the then-prime minister but remains involved in UK politics through his polling and publishing interests.\n\nJournalist Peter Oborne said Lord Ashcroft has been a \"hugely significant figure\" in the Conservative Party over the last 20 years.\n\nHe said: \"Lord Ashcroft has been one of the most significant donors to the... party. But it's not just... that he's been a giver of money, he's also been very important organisationally. He's involved himself in the internal politics.\"\n\nOther documents in the Paradise Papers show Lord Ashcroft has secretly remained non-domiciled in the UK for tax purposes.\n\nAddressing this allegation, he said in his statement: \"My position was made public in a statement which I made in March 2010 and to which a link is provided here.\n\n\"Following the change in the law later that year, a change which my statement anticipated, for each of the remaining five years during which I sat in the House of Lords, I was deemed tax resident and domiciled.\n\n\"This is all publicly available information and nothing was produced yesterday by the BBC which suggests different.\"\n\nThe structure of a trust involves one entity legally entrusting a second to look after assets for a third, essentially removing ownership for tax purposes.\n\nWealthy people can legally avoid paying tax on assets that they have given to a trust because they can tell the authorities they no longer own or control the assets in them.\n\nBut for a trust to work as a tax break, decisions about its assets have to be taken independently by the trustees.\n\nDespite the warning, Lord Ashcroft appears to have continued to make decisions about the trust's assets.\n\nIn October 2000, one of the trustees said: \"I would like to emphasize at this point that it is imperative at all times that the trustees are aware of any and all transactions to be entered into prior to transactions occurring.\n\n\"To do otherwise, will only serve to undermine the integrity of the trust as the trustees are being advised of actions taken in connection with trust assets, which should be under their control, after the event.\"\n\nA review of the trust in 2009, discovered that significant payments out had been made that had not been properly recorded.\n\nIn an internal email, a lawyer representing the trust says: \"There have been very large sums of money involved and I am very concerned that there has been inadequate supervision of both transactions and distributions... to put it bluntly we seem to be told nothing whereas we carry the responsibility of acting as trustee.\"\n\nPaperwork then appears to have been put in place retrospectively \"to ensure that we have all the relevant trustee and company authorities in place for the transactions which have occured [sic]\".\n\nTrust experts say anybody who puts their money into a trust could face a challenge by tax authorities if it was felt rules had been abused.\n\nThis could include a challenge from HM Revenue and Customs if it was to take the view an overseas trust had been controlled from the UK.\n\nNicholas Shaxson, the author of Treasure Islands, an expose of the workings of tax havens, told Panorama: \"On the evidence I have seen, it looks like something that is abusive behaviour and an abusive structure. If the trustees are worried, the trustees are expressing alarm about that, that's a clear red flag.\"\n\nProf Brooke Harrington, the author of Capital Without Borders, said: \"It's important that trustees be independent because the whole concept of a trust is that a settlor gives over legal ownership of an asset to the trustee.\n\n\"That's why you get these tax benefits and other legal benefits from the trust structure.\"\n\nLord Ashcroft's spokesman, Alan Kilkenny, is quoted in the Guardian as saying the peer had never engaged in tax evasion, abusive tax avoidance or tax avoidance using artificial structures.\n\nThe papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nThe 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Panorama has led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries. The BBC does not know the identity of the source.\n\nParadise Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #ParadisePapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"Paradise Papers\"\n\nWatch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "The BBC has extended its contract with the Met Office to supply weather information after its replacement provider failed to be ready in time.\n\nMeteogroup was expected to take over providing meteorological data for TV, radio and online in spring 2017.\n\nBut delays mean the Met Office's contract will now end in March 2018.\n\nIn August 2015, the BBC announced it was changing weather forecasting provider to \"secure the best value for money for licence fee payers\".\n\nAt the time, it said the contract change would save the corporation \"millions of pounds\".\n\nThe previous deal with the Met Office, which has provided the data used for BBC forecasts since the corporation's first radio weather bulletin in 1922, ended on 30 September 2017.\n\nA Met Office spokeswoman said: \"As the UK's national weather service we will always ensure the UK public have the weather information they need so they can make informed decisions.\n\n\"We are continuing to provide the BBC with their weather services, having signed a contract out to March 2018.\"\n\nWhen Meteogroup takes over the service, the BBC will continue to show all national severe weather warnings as agreed with the Exeter-based Met Office.\n\nUnder the terms of the deal, the BBC will also be supported by the UK's national meteorological service at times of severe weather.\n\nA BBC spokesman told the Guardian: \"As is well known, we're changing our weather services provider and it's only right we take the time to make sure the new and improved service and graphics provide audiences with the best possible service.\n\n\"BBC Weather will continue to give people reliable forecasts on television, radio, online and our app.\"", "Wilbur Ross has played a key part in Donald Trump's business and political careers\n\nA top member of Donald Trump's administration has business links with Russian allies of President Vladimir Putin who are under US sanctions, the Paradise Papers have revealed.\n\nCommerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has an interest in Navigator Holdings, which earns millions a year transporting gas for Russian energy firm Sibur.\n\nTwo major Sibur shareholders are under some form of US sanctions.\n\nA commerce department spokesman did not dispute the revelations.\n\n\"Secretary Ross recuses himself from any matters focused on transoceanic shipping vessels,\" the spokesman told BBC Panorama, adding that the secretary \"works closely with Commerce Department ethics officials to ensure the highest ethical standards\".\n\nAnother Sibur shareholder is President Putin's son in law, Kirill Shamalov.\n\nHe holds a 3.9% stake in the firm. Gennady Timchenko, who has been individually sanctioned by the United States, has at least 12 companies connected to him, and Leonid Mikhelson, whose main company, Novatek, is also sanctioned, are major shareholders.\n\nSibur itself and Mr Shamalov are not under sanctions, although Mr Shamalov's father, Nikolai, is.\n\nThe commerce department spokesman said Mr Ross had never met the three Russian shareholders.\n\nThe US imposed some sanctions after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014. Others were imposed last year for alleged interference in the US presidential election.\n\nThe revelations will again raise questions about the Russian connections of Donald Trump's team. His presidency has been dogged by allegations that Russians colluded to try to influence the outcome of the election. He has called the allegations \"fake news\". A special counsel is investigating the matter.\n\nWilbur Ross and Donald Trump have known each other for more than a quarter of a century. Mr Ross played a key part in a prepackaged bankruptcy deal - deal agreed between a company and its creditors - for Mr Trump's Atlantic City casino, the Taj Mahal, in the 1990s.\n\nTrump biographer David Cay Johnston told BBC Panorama: \"If it hadn't been for Wilbur Ross, Donald Trump would not be in the White House.\n\nWL Ross & Co, which was founded by Wilbur Ross, first invested in Navigator Holdings in 2011.\n\nAn investigation has revealed details of how Mr Ross retains a financial interest in Navigator Holdings via a number of companies in the Cayman Islands.\n\nSome of these Cayman companies were disclosed by Mr Ross when he became commerce secretary, but under the disclosure rules he did not have to declare his interest in Navigator Holdings.\n\nIts annual report in 2016 showed 31.5% was still held by entities in which Mr Ross has a stake, although the value of Mr Ross's personal holding remains unclear.\n\nDonald Trump at the Taj Mahal casino in 1990\n\nBack in 1990, after a high-profile financial battle, Donald Trump opened his third casino in Atlantic City - the Taj Mahal, dubbed the \"eighth wonder of the world\".\n\nIt didn't go well. Mr Trump financed it with $675m raised through junk bonds at an interest rate of 14%. He struggled to make the payments.\n\nStep in Wilbur Ross. Then at Rothschild Inc, he was representing the angry bondholders but liked Donald Trump's style.\n\nTrump biographer David Cay Johnston said: \"Wilbur Ross was a key negotiator in Donald Trump not having to go through bankruptcy and not being swept into the dustbin of history because he saw the value in the Trump name.\"\n\nMr Ross said at this year's Concordia Annual Summit: \"When you meet people who are under tremendous financial pressure... you really get to see what they are made of, and he was made of much stronger stuff than a lot of owners of troubled businesses.\"\n\nOne prepackaged bankruptcy later and The Donald was on his way out of debt and heading up the Forbes rich list.\n\nWilbur Ross became a board member of Navigator in 2012 but the commerce department said he was not on the board when Navigator signed its charter deal with Sibur that year.\n\nBut Mr Ross was still a board member during the period from March to November 2014, when the US was sanctioning Russians over the annexation of Crimea, including Mr Timchenko and Mr Mikhelson's company, Novatek.\n\nDuring that period Navigator continued to increase its business with Sibur. The energy firm accounted for 9.1% of Navigator's total revenues in 2015, compared with 5.3% in 2014, Navigator's own filings show.\n\nMr Ross left Navigator's board in November 2014 but his seat was taken by Ross group partner Wendy Teramoto, who served on it until 2017.\n\nFigures from 2016 showed Sibur was still among Navigator's top five clients, predominantly exporting Russian gas to Europe and potentially providing significant income to sanctioned Putin allies.\n\nThis year, Navigator doubled the fleet it is using on Sibur exports to four. Sibur has provided Navigator with $68m (£49m) in revenue since 2014.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThere is no suggestion Mr Ross has violated any rules.\n\nBut Daniel Fried, who oversaw the introduction of US sanctions against Russia under President Barack Obama, told Panorama that it would be a mistake for any American official to do business with Sibur.\n\n\"I would advise any client who came to me to stay well away from Sibur or anybody else who has been sanctioned or has a relationship with sanctioned individuals... on the grounds, at least, of reputational risk.\"\n\nBut Mr Ross appears to have maintained a close relationship with the shipping company.\n\nOn the night that he was nominated as commerce secretary by President Trump, Mr Ross went to a restaurant in New York where he was congratulated on his promotion by the senior management of Navigator Holdings, Bloomberg reported.\n\nMr Ross reportedly told the CEO of Navigator: \"Your interest is aligned to mine. The US economy will grow, and Navigator will be a beneficiary.\"\n\nAnother key Navigator customer has been PDVSA, the Venezuelan state oil company. It was targeted by US sanctions this year.\n\nThe commerce department said Mr Ross had \"been generally supportive of the Administration's sanctions of Russian and other entities\".\n\nThe papers are a huge batch of leaked documents mostly from offshore law firm Appleby, along with corporate registries in 19 tax jurisdictions, which reveal the financial dealings of politicians, celebrities, corporate giants and business leaders.\n\nThe 13.4 million records were passed to German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung and then shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ). Panorama has led research for the BBC as part of a global investigation involving nearly 100 other media organisations, including the Guardian, in 67 countries. The BBC does not know the identity of the source.\n\nParadise Papers: Full coverage; follow reaction on Twitter using #ParadisePapers; in the BBC News app, follow the tag \"Paradise Papers\"\n\nWatch Panorama on the BBC iPlayer (UK viewers only)", "More than 150,000 workers whose firms are signed up to the voluntary living wage rate are set to get a pay rise.\n\nThe voluntary rate, promoted by the Living Wage Foundation campaign group, is to rise by 30p an hour to £8.75. For those living in London, the rate will rise by 45p to £10.20 an hour.\n\nAbout 3,600 firms are signed up to the scheme, including Ikea and Google.\n\nIt is separate from the government's compulsory National Minimum Wage (NMW) and the National Living Wage (NLW).\n\nThe National Living Wage, which was introduced in April last year for workers aged 25 and above, is currently set at £7.50 an hour. Those under 25, are still paid the lower National Minimum Wage.\n\nLiving Wage Foundation director Katherine Chapman urged more employers to sign up to the scheme.\n\n\"In-work poverty is today's story,\" she said. \"The new living wage rates will bring relief for thousands of UK workers being squeezed by stagnant wages and rising inflation.\"\n\nOn Monday, a number of new companies announced their commitment to pay the living wage, including Heathrow Airport, the National Gallery and professional services firm JLL.\n\nHeathrow is the first airport to sign up to the scheme. Chief executive John Holland-Kaye said paying the living wage was \"the right thing to do as a responsible employer\".\n\nResearch from accountancy firm KPMG on Sunday estimated around one in five UK workers were paid below the voluntary living wage.\n\nThe level of the voluntary living wage is calculated annually by the Resolution Foundation, a not-for-profit research and policy organisation.\n\nIt is overseen by the Living Wage Commission, which is appointed by the Living Wage Foundation and includes representation from employers, trade unions, civil society and independent experts.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Leo Varadkar said that if an election happened \"it would be better to have it done before Christmas\"\n\nIrish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has said he hopes talks can resolve a crisis that threatens to collapse the Irish government.\n\nThe crisis was sparked when the main opposition party, Fianna Fáil, tabled a motion of no confidence in the deputy prime minister.\n\nThe motion against Frances Fitzgerald comes over her handling of a police whistleblower controversy.\n\nMr Varadkar said he did not want a general election.\n\nHowever, the taoiseach (Irish prime minister) added that he will continue to back Ms Fitzgerald and that if an election was to happen \"it would be better to have it done before Christmas\".\n\nThe no confidence motion threatens the confidence-and-supply arrangement in which the Fine Gael-led minority government is supported by Fianna Fáil.\n\nFianna Fáil agreed after the 2016 general election not to vote against the minority government in confidence motions and to support it for three budgets, two of which are now past.\n\nThe two parties are now at loggerheads over the position of Ms Fitzgerald.\n\nFine Gael passed a motion to support her at an emergency party meeting on Thursday night.\n\nFianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin said the situation would be resolved if Ms Fitzgerald resigned\n\nFianna Fáil front bench members lodged the no confidence motion for debate next Tuesday.\n\nMr Varadkar said that talks between himself and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin on Friday had \"cleared the air somewhat\".\n\nHe said that Fianna Fáil motion was still going ahead but that there is still \"an opportunity over the next couple of days to resolve it\".\n\n\"I don't believe that the decapitation of the tánaiste (deputy prime minister), based on trumped-up charges, is fair,\" he told Irish national broadcaster RTÉ.\n\n\"So let's all calm down a bit, let's pause for reflection, let's perhaps withdraw these motions and allow the Charleton Tribunal, starting on 8 January, to do the work that we set it up to do.\"\n\nFrances Fitzgerald was Irish minister for justice during a police whistleblower controversy\n\nEarlier on Friday, Mr Martin said that his party did not want an election but that the issue could be resolved if Ms Fitzgerald resigned.\n\nMs Fitzgerald has faced questions in the Dáil (Irish parliament) about what she knew about what lawyers were going to put to a whistleblower at a commission of enquiry.\n\nIn particular, she has been questioned over her account of an email she received about the legal strategy of the former Garda (police) commissioner in the case of Sgt Maurice McCabe.\n\nMs Fitzgerald has recently admitted that she was made aware a year earlier than she had previously stated, that lawyers for the Garda were going to attempt to discredit Sgt McCabe.\n\nThe email was initially sent to Ms Fitzgerald in May 2015, but she told the Dáil earlier this week that she could not remember reading it.\n\nSinn Féin, the country's third largest party, had tabled their own no confidence motion against Ms Fitzgerald on Thursday.", "Eighteen-year-old Sally Anne Bowman was murdered in south London in 2005\n\nThe murderer of model Sally Anne Bowman has been given two further life sentences for raping two other women.\n\nMark Dixie, now 47, was jailed for at least 34 years in 2008 for repeatedly stabbing 18-year-old Miss Bowman, before raping her as she lay dead or dying in south London in 2005.\n\nDixie confessed to detectives in 2015 he was responsible for more attacks, including one when he was a teenager.\n\nOutside court Mr Le Pere said although the Metropolitan Police had no evidence to link the former pub chef to any other rapes or murders, \"with my experience, I would find it very surprising if he had not done something extremely serious we don't know about\".\n\nMark Dixie was jailed for a minimum of 34 years in 2008\n\nFriday's sentencing hearing was told Dixie targeted his first victim when he was 16 while she was sitting in her own car in an isolated south London car park.\n\nHe then tied her up inside and set the vehicle on fire.\n\nThe victim said he \"seemed delighted in her evident fear\" as she became hysterical, fearing she was going to die.\n\nShe managed to free herself and raised the alarm, Southwark Crown Court was told in July.\n\nHowever, she was left \"utterly petrified\", when she received two chilling phone calls from her attacker in the following days, the court was told.\n\nIn a victim impact statement, she said: \"I didn't seek counselling, I had survived, I was in one piece. I just wanted to get on with life.\"\n\nThe second attack, in 2002, saw him bludgeon a woman with a chef's steel, normally used to sharpen kitchen knives, before telling her \"I'm going to kill you\" and molesting her.\n\nShe managed to escape when Dixie was interrupted by a man who heard her screams.\n\nThe court heard Dixie took his victim's mobile phone during the attack and later boasted to her ex-boyfriend in a call: \"I've battered her. I've battered her. I've left her by the railway.\"\n\nIn the early hours of 25 September 2005, Sally Anne Bowman, an 18-year-old hairdresser and model, was murdered near her home in Croydon, south London.\n\nReturning from a night out, she was stabbed in the neck and stomach and then raped as she lay dead or dying.\n\nShe had been dropped off by her ex-boyfriend Lewis Sproston who police arrested but later released without charge.\n\nThe murder remained unsolved until June 2006, when local man Mark Dixie was arrested following a fight at the pub where he worked as a chef.\n\nDNA taken from a swab linked him to the case and he was charged with the murder.\n\nDuring the Old Bailey trial Dixie, admitted to having sex with Miss Bowman after finding her on the ground outside her home, but denied murdering her.\n\nHe was found guilty of Miss Bowman's murder and was sentenced to life in jail with a minimum term of 34 years.\n\nSally Anne Bowman's body was found by a skip in Croydon\n\nFather-of-three Dixie admitted charges of rape, indecent assault and grievous bodily harm during a hearing on 26 July.\n\nIn January 2015 the killer, who had pleaded not guilty throughout his first trial, finally confessed to the murder.\n\nDixie wrote to police saying he wanted to \"tell the truth\" about what happened to Miss Bowman, before telling detectives he had killed her in a frenzied attack that included biting her after she fled from her boyfriend's car in a row.\n\nLater, while being interviewed by police, he said he had not raped or murdered anybody before.\n\nHowever, he went on to admit two further attacks after he was told by the investigating officer: \"That's not entirely true. I know something you did in 1987.\"\n\nBy the time Dixie was jailed for Miss Bowman's murder, he had already been convicted of indecent exposure and indecent assault in the UK.\n\nHe was also responsible for another sex attack in Australia, where he had lived for six years.\n\nDixie has also admitted a serious sexual assault in Spain in 2005, his barrister Andrew Mooney said.\n\nMr Le Pere said Dixie was still \"very dangerous\", adding: \"I would be very surprised if he would ever not pose a threat to the public or a danger to the public.\n\n\"But that's for other people to decide.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "What is the point of capitalism?\n\nThat might seem like a pretty big question, but one answer could be \"to provide people the opportunity through work to become richer\".\n\nWhat, though, if the economy fails in that endeavour?\n\nIf the system leaves you - despite all your efforts - worse off in December than you were the previous January?\n\nOr worse off now than you were a decade ago?\n\nIt was Lord Adair Turner, the former head of the Low Pay Commission, who put it succinctly.\n\n\"The UK over the last 10 years has created a lot of jobs, but today real wages are below where they were in 2007,\" he told me earlier this year.\n\n\"That is not the capitalist system delivering its promise that over a decade or so it will raise all boats, and it is a very fundamental issue.\"\n\nYesterday the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) announced an aggressive downgrade of both its growth and productivity forecasts.\n\nThose big, macro-economic announcements have a significant effect on all of us as well as on the state of the public finances.\n\nIt means the economy is forecast to be weaker at producing wealth for every hour that we work.\n\nWhich makes the chances of a pay rise for everyone recede.\n\nToday, two pieces of chunky analysis of the OBR's judgements reveal why those downgrades are so important.\n\nThe social justice think tank, the Resolution Foundation, said that \"lower productivity feeds directly through to pay, which is now forecast to be £1,000 a year lower on average than the OBR thought back in March\".\n\nThe Foundation says that the fall in real incomes people are experiencing could now become the longest since records began.\n\nAnd that wages will not recover to their pre-financial crisis levels until 2025 - that's 17 years during which people have been experiencing an incomes squeeze.\n\nThe tax and economy think tank, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, agrees.\n\n\"Real earnings are falling this year as inflation has risen to 3%,\" Paul Johnson, the Institute's director, said.\n\n\"The nascent recovery in earnings, which were growing through 2014 to the first half of 2016, has been choked off.\n\n\"That they even might still be below their 2008 level in 2022 as the OBR forecasts is truly astonishing. Let's hope this forecast turns out to be too pessimistic.\"\n\nGovernment ministers will be similarly keeping their fingers crossed.\n\nAnd hoping that with strong employment levels and plans to boost investment in the type of infrastructure that boosts productivity - transport, scientific and technology research - the real incomes squeeze can be alleviated.\n\nBecause if a system does not deliver increasing wealth - even if it is a modest increase - then people, quite naturally, begin to wonder what is the point.\n• None What the Budget means for you", "Armed police have been stood down and two central London Underground stations have reopened following reports of gunshots being fired at Oxford Circus.\n\nPolice want to speak to two men after an altercation \"erupted\" on a platform at the station, but say there is no evidence any weapons had been fired.\n\nOfficers also want to speak to anyone who was at the station about the cause of the mass panic and evacuation.\n\nSixteen people were treated after they were injured fleeing the station.\n\nOxford Circus was closed and armed police were deployed following reports that gunshots had been heard inside the station.\n\nPolice initially treated the incident as potentially terrorism-related, while nearby Bond Street station was closed amid fears of overcrowding.\n\nThe British Transport Police (BTP) said officers believe there was an altercation between two men on the platform before the scare.\n\nThey have released CCTV images of two men they want to speak to.\n\nPolice want to speak to two men after an altercation \"erupted\" on a platform\n\nThe Met said it began receiving \"numerous\" 999 calls reporting gunshots in Oxford Street and at Oxford Circus station at 16:38 GMT.\n\nOxford Circus - where Oxford Street and Regent Street meet - was cordoned off, while shops and businesses were placed in lockdown.\n\nIn a statement, the Met Police said: \"Officers working with colleagues from British Transport Police carried out an urgent search of the area.\n\n\"No causalities, evidence of any shots fired or any suspects were located by police.\"\n\nHowever, the force said there had been \"significant\" panic at station.\n\nSixteen people were injured as passengers fled from Oxford Circus station, in what witnesses said was \"a stampede\".\n\nOne patient was transferred to a major trauma centre for leg injuries, while eight people were taken to central London hospitals for minor injuries.\n\nA further seven patients were treated at the scene, the London Ambulance Service added.\n\nScotland Yard said the operation had been stood down at 18:05 GMT.\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\nBritish Transport Police said it received reports of gunfire on the westbound Central Line platform at Oxford Circus.\n\n\"This caused a significant level of panic which resulted in numerous calls from members of the public reporting gunfire,\" the force said.\n\n\"A full and methodical search of the station and Oxford Street was conducted by our specially trained firearms officers.\n\n\"During the search officers did not find any evidence of gunfire at the station,\" it added.\n\nArmed police were deployed to the area, in central London\n\nEyewitnesses said it was \"a very panicked scene\"\n\nPolice said additional officers would remain on duty in the West End to reassure the public.\n\nIn a statement, Mayor of London Sadiq Khan praised the city's emergency services for a \"swift response\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have attended the Royal Variety Performance, at the nearby London Palladium theatre.\n\nHowever, their scheduled arrival was delayed by an hour, as a result of the incident.\n\nA Kensington Palace spokesman said the royal couple were in time for the start of the show, but the traditional pre-show meeting with some of the performers had to be dropped.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe scare happened on Black Friday, at a time when Oxford Street and the surrounding areas were filled with shoppers.\n\nBBC reporter Helen Bushby said she had seen a \"mass stampede\" of people running away from the station in the panic.\n\n\"They were crying, they were screaming, they were dropping their shopping bags. It was a very panicked scene,\" she added.\n\n\"People said they heard a gunshot and panic was just spreading.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nShe spoke to a group of young women at Topshop, in Oxford Street, who said people had dropped their shopping and ran as quickly as they could.\n\nGreg Owen, 37, from London, said he was at Oxford Circus station when people began running away.\n\n\"I was next to the Tube station and everyone started screaming and shouting and then a flood of people came up the stairs,\" he added.", "Oscar Pistorius has been sentenced to six years in prison for murdering his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day, 2013.\n\nBBC News looks at the case in numbers.", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge had been delayed for about an hour because of a security alert at nearby Oxford Circus Tube station.\n\nThe traditional pre-show line-up, in which the royals meet performers, had to be cancelled.\n\nCatherine, who is four months pregnant, wore a Jenny Packham dress.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How avatar therapy is helping people stand up to schizophrenic voices by giving them a face\n\nConfronting an avatar on a computer screen helped patients hearing voices to cope better with hallucinations, a UK trial has found.\n\nPatients who received this therapy became less distressed and heard voices less often compared with those who had counselling instead.\n\nExperts said the therapy could add an important new approach to treating schizophrenia hallucinations.\n\nThe trial, on 150 people, is published in The Lancet Psychiatry journal.\n\nIt follows a much smaller pilot study in 2013.\n\nHallucinations are common in people with schizophrenia and can be threatening and insulting.\n\nOne in four patients continues to experience voices despite being treated with drugs and cognitive behavioural therapy.\n\nIn this study, run by King's College London and University College London, 75 patients who had continued to hear voices for more than a year, were given six sessions of avatar therapy while another 75 received the same amount of counselling.\n\nIn the avatar sessions, patients created a computer simulation to represent the voice they heard and wanted to control, including how it sounded and how it might look.\n\nThree avatars created by people taking part in the therapy\n\nThe therapist then voiced the avatar while also speaking as themselves in a three-way conversation to help the patient gain the upper hand.\n\nProf Tom Craig, study author from King's College London, said getting patients to learn to stand up to the avatar was found to be safe, easy to deliver and twice as effective as counselling at reducing how often voices were heard.\n\n\"After 12 weeks there was dramatic improvement compared to the other therapy,\" he said.\n\n\"With a talking head, patients are learning to confront and get replies from it.\n\n\"This shifts the idea that the voice is all-controlling,\" he said.\n\nPatients are encouraged to talk to the avatar and take control of the conversation, saying things such as, \"I'm not going to listen to you any more.\"\n\nSeven patients who had had the avatar therapy and two from the counselling group said their hallucinations had completely disappeared after 12 weeks.\n\nProf Tom Craig acted as therapist and voiced the avatar in the therapy sessions\n\nBy 24 weeks, however, the patients in both groups had shown the same levels of improvement, suggesting the avatar therapy required booster sessions in the long term, the study said.\n\nProf Craig said the next step was to find out if the therapy worked in other locations before it could be made widely available on the NHS, but he said the findings were a \"significant advance\" in treating hallucinations.\n\nProf Stephen Lawrie, head of psychiatry at the University of Edinburgh, said the trial was impressive and robust but more work was needed.\n\n\"Further study is required to replicate these results, establish the role of such treatment versus others such as CBT [cognitive behavioural therapy], and clarify who might benefit most.\"\n\nSir Robin Murray, professor of psychiatric research at King's College London's Institute of Psychiatry, said that if they could be reproduced, the findings \"will add an important new approach to care\".\n\nHe added: \"If a wholly psychological intervention such as avatar therapy can produce such an improvement, then it should make us rethink the way we conceptualise auditory hallucinations.\"\n\nBrian Dow, from charity Rethink Mental Illness, said he welcomed any attempts to try and develop new and innovative treatments for schizophrenia.\n\n\"Hallucinations can be extremely traumatising for patients who experience them and the results of the this trial are promising.\"\n\nProf Julian Leff, from University College London, is the inventor of avatar therapy.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Theresa May met German's Angela Merkel and other EU leaders\n\nIssues still need to be resolved but progress is being made in Brexit negotiations, Theresa May has insisted.\n\nThe prime minister said there had been a \"very positive atmosphere\" in talks with several EU leaders in Brussels.\n\nThe UK, she said, would honour its financial commitments and shared the same desire as Ireland to stop barriers to trade or movement across the border.\n\nEU Council President Donald Tusk said talks could move to the next phase in December but it was a \"huge challenge\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Tusk This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt a security summit in Brussels, Mrs May had lunch with Angela Merkel and also met Mr Tusk, who told her last week that she has until the start of December to make an enhanced offer on money and provide guarantees on the Irish border after Brexit.\n\nMinisters have given her their backing to increase the UK's \"divorce bill\" but only if the EU shows movement on trade.\n\nThe government has refused to comment on reports it had agreed to pay about £40bn to pave the way for EU leaders to approve the next phase of talks on future relations at a summit on 14 December.\n\nSpeaking in Brussels, Mrs May did not answer specific questions about money and said there were \"still issues across the various matters that we're negotiating on to be resolved\".\n\nBut she added: \"There's been a very positive atmosphere in the talks and a genuine feeling that we want to move forward together.\"\n\nLast week, Mr Tusk said the EU was \"ready\" to move on to the next phase of talks - focused on a trade and security partnership after the UK leaves in March 2019 - but the UK must first show more progress on outstanding \"separation\" issues.\n\nThe BBC's Europe reporter Adam Fleming said that after holding talks with Mrs May, Danish PM Lars Lokke Rasmussen had told journalists in the Belgian capital that there had been \"movement\" on the issue of money.\n\n\"It seems to me that there is progress and so I have decided to be optimistic about this,\" Mr Rasmussen - one of the UK's closest allies - said.\n\nThe PM also said the UK was in continuing discussions with the Irish government about the solutions for avoiding a hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland.\n\nNo 10 earlier had to clarify its position after a spokesman appeared to suggest the possibility of Northern Ireland staying in the customs union may be up for negotiation.\n\nAsked about the issue at a lobby briefing, the spokesman said the UK must \"continue to negotiate to find an innovative way forward\".\n\nBut Downing Street later insisted that the UK's stated policy - that the whole of the UK is leaving the single market and customs union - remained in force.\n\nThe UK voted to leave the EU in June 2016, and served the EU with formal notice of Brexit in March 2017. This began a two-year countdown to the UK's departure day which will be in March 2019.", "The victims were, from left, Mark McGrotty, 12, and Evan McGrotty, 8, Sean McGrotty, 49, Ruth Daniels, 57, and Jodie Lee Daniels, 14\n\nFive members of a Londonderry family whose car went into Lough Swilly from a slipway drowned due to misadventure, a coroner inquest jury has found.\n\nThe Buncrana pier tragedy took the lives of Sean McGrotty, his sons Mark and Evan, his partner's mother, Ruth Daniels and her daughter, Jodie Lee.\n\nMr McGrotty handed his baby daughter to a rescuer moments before the Audi Q7 sank in March 2016.\n\nFamily member Louise James said it was an \"accident waiting to happen\".\n\nThe gate on the slipway \"should have been closed\", said Ms James, who was Mr McGrotty's partner, Mark and Evan's mother, Mrs Daniel's daughter and Jodie-Lee's sister.\n\nThe couple's four-month-old daughter Rionaghac-Ann was the sole survivor.\n\nMs James said there were \"no words capable of expressing my pain, my disbelief and indeed my anger over what happened on that fateful day\".\n\nShe said her heart was \"shattered\".\n\nDavitt Walsh, a former footballer who rescued the infant after swimming out to help the family, \"was an ordinary man who did an extraordinary thing\", the inquest heard on Thursday.\n\nMr Walsh tried to save another child but said he appeared to \"get stuck\" on something.\n\nIrish police inspector David Murphy also paid tribute to gardaí rescuers who arrived on the scene within minutes.\n\nHe hoped the conclusion of the inquest would go some way to aiding the grieving process for the relatives of those who died, added Insp Murphy.\n\nA pathologist told the inquest Sean McGrotty had a blood alcohol level of 159mg - three times over the Republic of Ireland's drink-drive limit.\n\nOn Thursday, an RNLI volunteer diver told the inquest that he could not open the doors of the vehicle when it was under the water.\n\nJohn O'Raw said the water was about three metres deep and visibility was an issue.\n\nThe incident was one of the worst family tragedies along the Irish coastline, the coroner says\n\nMr O'Raw told the inquest he entered the water about 40 minutes after the alarm was raised.\n\nOn the second day of the inquest in Buncrana, Mr O'Raw recalled how his pager beeped at 19:13 GMT that day.\n\nWhen he got to the scene 17 minutes later, he saw colleagues performing CPR on a woman.\n\nHe returned home to get snorkelling equipment and entered the water at 19:55.\n\nThe RNLI volunteer said he tried to open the rear passenger door and the handle came freely, but the mechanism to open the door was not working.\n\n\"I couldn't get the door open,\" he said.\n\n\"I went to the passenger side front door and it was exactly the same. I told recovery I couldn't get the doors open.\"\n\nHe added: \"I tried the rear driver's side door, and then tried front driver's door but neither would open. The driver's window was half intact and was bowed facing inwards, into the car.\n\n\"I couldn't understand what I was seeing. The tailgate at the back of the vehicle was open.\"\n\nMr O'Raw said he could get his \"head in through the window and could see there was no one in the two front seats\".\n\nHe said, it was his opinion, that because the window was broken and the tailgate was open, the water pressure would have been the same inside and outside the vehicle so the doors should have been able to open.\n\nThe coroner said there would be some resistance, akin to opening a door into wind.\n\nLouise James (centre) was present on the opening day of the inquest\n\nGarda Seamus Callaghan told the inquest when he arrived at the scene the RNLI were performing CPR on Ruth Daniels.\n\nHe said four bodies were recovered in a relatively short space of time and a local priest said prayers over each of the victims.\n\nGarda Callaghan told the inquest the slipway was \"extremely slippery with thick algae\".\n\nGarda Damien Mulcairns told the inquest he inspected the car, an Audi Q7, the following day at a garage in Letterkenny.\n\nHe said the car was in road-worthy condition before the incident and he had no issue with opening all the doors in the car from the outside and from the inside.\n\nGarda Mulcairns said the driver's side window was shattered, but intact with lamination, which is a common safety aspect in modern vehicles.\n\nHe said it would have taken considerable force to break the glass.\n\nGarda Mulcairns said central locking was operated both mechanically and electronically.\n\nIn his opinion, any electrical component submerged in water would not react in the same way, he said.\n\nOn the first day of the inquest, Dr Catriona Dillon, the pathologist who carried out the post-mortem examination on Mr McGrotty, told the inquest his blood-alcohol reading \"may indicate a level of intoxication\".", "Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar and Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin could fight a fresh election in the coming months\n\nThe Republic of Ireland could face a general election after the country's second largest party tabled a motion of no confidence in the deputy prime minister.\n\nThe Fianna Fáil motion against Frances Fitzgerald comes over her handling of a police whistleblower controversy.\n\nHer party, Fine Gael, passed a motion to support her at an emergency party meeting on Thursday night.\n\nFianna Fáil front bench members lodged the motion for debate next Tuesday.\n\nFine Gael lead the minority government with the support of Fianna Fáil.\n\nFianna Fáil, the main opposition party, agreed to back a Fine Gael minority government after the 2016 general election did not return a majority government.\n\nUnder the terms of the confidence and supply arrangement, Fianna Fáil agreed not to vote against the minority government in confidence motions and to support it for three budgets, two of which are now past.\n\nNow, the government looks likely to collapse, forcing a snap election next month, unless Ms Fitzgerald resigns before the no confidence motion is debated.\n\nFrances Fitzgerald was Irish minister for justice during a police whistleblower controversy\n\nSinn Féin, the country's third largest party, had tabled their own no confidence motion on Thursday.\n\nIt is due to be debated and voted on next week.\n\nMs Fitzgerald has been under pressure over her handling of an ongoing controversy around a Garda (police) whistleblower when she was Irish justice minister.\n\nWhat we are witnessing is a game of call my bluff, involving three political parties.\n\nThe decision by Sinn Féin to put down a motion of no confidence in Frances Fitzgerald was aimed at calling Fianna Fáil's bluff.\n\nThat's because Fianna Fáil has an agreement with the minority-led Fine Gael government whereby they were prepared to support them in a confidence-and-supply arrangement.\n\nBut Fianna Fáil called Sinn Féin's bluff by deciding to put down their motion of no confidence which will take precedence over the Sinn Féin one - at a time when Sinn Féin is undergoing generational change.\n\nFine Gael is now calling Fianna Fáil's bluff by saying they are prepared to go to the country over this issue.\n\nOnce TDs go back into their constituencies they will face questions from the public: How can you bring down a government over a missing or forgotten email by Frances Fitzgerald during key Brexit talks, when many thousands of people are homeless and there are huge hospital waiting lists?\n\nFine Gael normally prides itself on putting the country before the party.\n\nI wouldn't be surprised if, in the coming days, Frances Fitzgerald fell on her sword.\n\nMs Fitzgerald has faced questions in the Dáil (Irish parliament) about what she knew about what lawyers were going to put to a whistleblower at a commission of enquiry.\n\nIn particular, she has been questioned over her account of an email she received about the legal strategy of the former Garda commissioner in the case of Sgt Maurice McCabe.\n\nMs Fitzgerald has recently admitted that she was made aware a year earlier than she had previously stated, that lawyers for the Garda were going to attempt to discredit Sgt McCabe.\n\nThe email was initially sent to Ms Fitzgerald in May 2015, but she told the Dáil earlier this week that she could not remember reading it.\n\nSpeaking to Irish national broadcaster RTÉ, Fianna Fáil justice spokesperson Jim O'Callaghan said that Ms Fitzgerald \"should go\".\n\nHe said that party leader Micheál Martin had expressed this view to Taoiseach (prime minister) Leo Varadkar.\n\nIrish foreign minister Simon Coveney told RTÉ that the government would continue to support Ms Fitzgerald and that calls for her resignation were \"built on sand\".", "The YPG played a key role in removing IS from Raqqa and other strongholds\n\nThe US is to stop supplying arms to the Syrian Kurdish militia the YPG, Turkey has said.\n\nForeign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said President Donald Trump had made the promise in a phone call to his Turkish counterpart, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.\n\nThe White House said it was making \"adjustments\" to its support for partners inside Syria but did not explicitly name the YPG.\n\nTurkey has long complained about US support for the group.\n\nWashington has viewed the YPG as a key player in the fight against so-called Islamic State (IS), but Ankara brands the group's fighters as terrorists.\n\nTurkey says the YPG is as an extension of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a group it has been fighting for decades in south-eastern Turkey.\n\nThe US, however, has seen the YPG as distinct from the PKK. In May it announced it would supply arms to the Kurdish elements of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which were poised to drive IS from its stronghold of Raqqa. It had previously armed only Arab elements of the SDF.\n\n\"President Trump instructed [his generals] in a very open way that the YPG will no longer be given weapons,\" Mr Cavusoglu was quoted as saying in the Turkish Hurriyet Daily News.\n\nHe said Mr Trump gave his assurances after President Erdogan reiterated his concern over the continued supply of weapons and armoured vehicles to the YPG.\n\nIf this is true, it would be a major shift in US policy. The Kurds have proved to be valuable partners in the fight against IS.\n\nIt is notable that Washington's account of the call does not mention taking away the arms that the Trump administration agreed to give the YPG earlier this year - something Ankara has called for. Turkey feared the weapons would end up in the hands of fighters intent on creating an independent Kurdish state.\n\nThe Pentagon is likely reassessing its needs in Syria as the fight against IS has waned in recent months. But whatever adjustments are being made, it is clear the US military has no plans to leave the war-torn country. It has been revealed that about 2,000 US troops are now based there - a significant increase since the Obama administration.\n\nThe White House confirmed the two leaders had spoken by phone and said Mr Trump \"reaffirmed the strategic partnership\" between the US and Turkey.\n\n\"Consistent with our previous policy, President Trump also informed President Erdogan of pending adjustments to the military support provided to our partners on the ground in Syria, now that the battle of Raqqa is complete,\" the statement said.\n\n\"We are progressing into a stabilisation phase to ensure that Isis [IS] cannot return. The leaders also discussed the purchase of military equipment from the United States.\"\n\nPro-Syrian government forces have also driven IS from land it once controlled\n\nThe SDF, an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias, has driven IS militants from much of the land it once controlled.\n\nThe YPG and its political arm, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), denies any direct links with the PKK, whose insurgency has left thousands dead.\n\nBut Mr Cavusoglu has previously said that every weapon obtained by the YPG constituted \"a threat to Turkey\".\n\nThe SDF declared victory in Raqqa last month after a four-month battle to retake the city from IS, which had ruled it for three years.", "Zimbabwe's new President Emmerson Mnangagwa has addressed a packed stadium, vowing to serve all citizens.\n\nHe paid tribute to his predecessor Robert Mugabe - to muted applause - calling him \"a father, mentor, comrade-in-arms and my leader\".", "Sir Vince's debut novel was published in September\n\nSir Vince Cable won't be considered for 2017's Bad Sex in Fiction Award - because his writing isn't bad enough.\n\nThe Literary Review, which organises the prize, said his thriller Open Arms had received \"many\" nominations but wasn't ultimately shortlisted.\n\nThat means he will not compete against the likes of Wilbur Smith's War Cry, one of six nominees announced so far.\n\nIn it a male character says he wants to explore his lover \"like Dr Livingstone and Mr Stanley exploring Africa\".\n\nThe same passage from Smith's novel, co-written with David Churchill, refers to nipples \"standing up as proudly as little guardsmen on parade\".\n\nAnother shortlisted work - The Future Won't Be Long by Turkish-American author Jarett Kobek - likens sexual intercourse to a \"pulsing wave\", a \"holy burst\" and a \"congress of wonder\".\n\nA third nominee - The Seventh Function of Language by France's Laurent Binet - features a man wooing a woman with the words: \"Let's construct an assemblage.\"\n\nWar Cry is part of Wilbur Smith's series of Courtney novels\n\nTheir love-making continues \"until they reach the point of impact, when the two desiring machines collide in an atomic explosion\".\n\nIn her debut novel Mother of Darkness, Venetia Welby writes about a character called Tera who \"moans in colours\" as her lover approaches.\n\n\"It was as if a Catherine Wheel had been ignited in my solar plexus,\" muses a character in another passage from the book singled out for consideration.\n\nOrganisers say the purpose of the prize is \"to draw attention to poorly written, perfunctory or redundant passages of sexual description in modern fiction\".\n\nThe award, whose recent winners include Morrissey's debut novel List of the Lost, does not cover pornographic or expressly erotic literature.\n\nThe winner of the prize, which last year went to Italian author Erri De Luca, will be announced in central London on 30 November. The venue? The Naval and Military Club - also known as the In & Out.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This is an image of the Big Bird lineage, which arose through the breeding of two distinct parent species: G. fortis and G. conirostris\n\nA population of finches on the Galapagos has been discovered in the process of becoming a new species.\n\nThis is the first example of speciation that scientists have been able to observe directly in the field.\n\nResearchers followed the entire population of finches on a tiny Galapagos island called Daphne Major, for many years, and so they were able to watch the speciation in progress.\n\nThe research was published in the journal Science.\n\nThe group of finch species to which the Big Bird population belongs are collectively known as Darwin's finches and helped Charles Darwin to uncover the process of evolution by natural selection.\n\nIn 1981, the researchers noticed the arrival of a male of a non-native species, the large cactus finch.\n\nProfessors Rosemary and Peter Grant noticed that this male proceeded to mate with a female of one of the local species, a medium ground finch, producing fertile young.\n\nAlmost 40 years later, the progeny of that original mating are still being observed, and number around 30 individuals.\n\n\"It's an extreme case of something we're coming to realise more generally over the years. Evolution in general can happen very quickly,\" said Prof Roger Butlin, a speciation expert who wasn't involved in the study.\n\nThis new finch population is sufficiently different in form and habits to the native birds, as to be marked out as a new species, and individuals from the different populations don't interbreed.\n\nProf Butlin told the BBC that people working on speciation credit the Grant professors with altering our understanding of rapid evolutionary change in the field.\n\nIn the past, it was thought that two different species must be unable to produce fertile offspring in order to be defined as such. But in more recent years, it has been established that many birds and other animals that we consider to be unique species are in fact able to interbreed with others to produce fertile young.\n\n\"We tend not to argue about what defines a species anymore, because that doesn't get you anywhere,\" said Prof Butlin. What he says is more interesting is understanding the role that hybridisation can have in the process of creating new species, which is why this observation of Galapagos finches is so important.\n\nThe researchers think that the original male must have flown 65 miles from the large cactus finches' home island of Española. That's a very long way for a small finch to fly, and so it would be very unlikely for the bird to make a successful return flight.\n\nA member of the G. fortis species, one of two that interbred to give rise to the Big Bird lineage\n\nA finch belonging to the G. conirostris species. It's the other half of the pairing that gave rise to the Big Bird population\n\nBy identifying one way that new species can arise, and following the entire population, the researchers state this as an example of speciation occurring in a timescale we can observe.\n\nIn most cases, the offspring of cross-species matings are poorly adapted to their environment. But in this instance, the new finches on Daphne Major are larger than other species on the island, and have taken hold of new and unexploited food.\n\nFor this reason, the researchers are calling the animals the \"Big Bird population\".\n\nTo scientifically test whether the Big Bird population was genetically distinct from the three species of finch native to the island, Peter and Rosemary Grant collaborated with Prof Leif Andersson of Sweden's Uppsala University who analysed the population genetically for the new study.\n\nProf Andersson told BBC News: \"The surprise was that we would expect the hybrid would start to breed with one of the other species on the island and be absorbed… we have confirmed that they are a closed breeding group.\"\n\nDue to an inability to recognise the songs of the new males, native females won't pair with this new species.\n\nThe finches led Darwin to his theory of natural selection, as outlined in On The Origin of Species\n\nAnd in this paper, new genetic evidence shows that after two generations, there was complete reproductive isolation from the native birds. As a result, they are now reproductively - and genetically - isolated. So they have been breeding exclusively with each other over the years.\n\n\"What we are saying is that this group of birds behave as a distinct species. If you didn't know anything about [Daphne Major's] history and a taxonomist arrived on this island they would say there are four species on this island,\" said Prof Andersson.\n\nThere is no evidence that they will breed again with the native medium ground finch, but even if they did, they now have a larger size and can exploit new opportunities. Those advantageous traits may be maintained by natural selection.\n\nSo hybridisation can lead to speciation, simply through the addition of one individual to a population. It may therefore be a way for new traits to evolve quickly.\n\n\"If you just wait for mutations causing one change at a time, then it would make it more difficult to raise a new species that way. But hybridisation may be more effective than mutation,\" said Prof Butlin.", "The claim: Changes to stamp duty will save an average of £1,700 to first-time buyers.\n\nReality Check verdict: The average first-time buyer would indeed save about £1,700 in stamp duty, but for some people it's likely that would be more than offset by increased house prices, according to the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), which provides independent assessments of the Budget. It's likely to be better news for potential first-time buyers struggling to get together a deposit than for those unable to borrow enough as a result of their earnings.\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond has abolished stamp duty on homes costing less than £300,000, with reduced rates up to £500,000.\n\nYou can read about the full details of the policy with the variations around the UK here.\n\nA first-time buyer purchasing a £500,000 property, who would previously have paid £15,000 in stamp duty, will now pay £10,000, while someone buying a property for £300,000, who would previously have faced a stamp duty bill of £5,000, will now not pay anything.\n\nThe chancellor told BBC News that the average saving for first-time buyers would be £1,700 - that is the amount of stamp duty that would previously have been payable on the average property bought by first-time buyers, according to the Halifax.\n\nBut forecasts from the judgement of the OBR suggest that the benefits would come to existing homeowners and not first-time buyers because house prices are likely to rise by 0.3%.\n\nThis policy is part of a package of measures designed to help first-time buyers to access the housing market. To understand whether it is a good thing, it is useful to think about two key reasons why people might be struggling to buy houses.\n\nOne possibility is that people are struggling to raise enough money for a deposit. Most mortgages require the borrower to put up a minimum proportion of the purchase price - 5% or 10% for example.\n\nIf somebody is struggling to get together a deposit, then being able to spend the £5,000 they had earmarked for stamp duty on the deposit instead, for example, will be useful and also may increase the amount they can borrow, which will mean they can buy a property they may not have been able to in other circumstances.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) stressed that while house prices might have risen, this sort of buyer would end up with a more valuable asset, even if only as a result of the new stamp duty policy.\n\n\"The price goes up, but the other impact it has is that it allows first-time buyers the ability to purchase properties that they otherwise wouldn't have been able to afford,\" OBR chairman Robert Chote told the BBC's Daily Politics.\n\nAnother possibility is that people have saved up their deposit but their earnings are not high enough for a mortgage provider to be prepared to lend them enough money to buy a suitable property.\n\nThis policy will not be good for them if house prices rise as the OBR suggested. It said that house prices could go up by twice as much as the stamp duty saving because of the extra borrowing made possible for some people by having a bigger deposit.\n\nThe OBR also quoted HMRC's verdict on the similar stamp duty holiday after the financial crisis, which was that it \"has not had a significant impact in terms of improving the affordability of residential property for first-time buyers\".\n\nThis point about rising prices was put to the chancellor on the Today programme, but he said this was looking at the stamp duty change in isolation without the effect on the market of the 300,000 net homes per year that the government plans to build in England by the middle of the next decade.\n\nThere has been some doubt about the government's ability to achieve this target, not least from the OBR, which has not made any adjustments to its forecasts for housing starts. It said: \"Governments have announced a number of initiatives aimed at overcoming housing supply constraints,\" referring for example to the National Planning Policy Framework from 2012.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It was a \"great relief\" to find out that jailed Briton Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe did not have cancer, her husband has said.\n\nRichard Ratcliffe, whose wife has been held in Iran since April 2016, told BBC London that doctors in Iran will see Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe again in three months.\n\nThe full details of the allegations against Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe have never been made fully public.", "Sinai, including here in El-Arish, has seen multiple Islamist attacks in recent years\n\nThe militant group Sinai Province is the most active insurgent group in Egypt. It has been linked to a number of deadly attacks, mostly in North Sinai, but also in the capital, Cairo, and other provinces.\n\nThe Islamist group, initially known as Ansar Beit al-Maqdis (Supporters of Jerusalem), has been active in the Sinai Peninsula since 2011.\n\nIt changed its name after it pledged allegiance to the so-called Islamic State (IS) group in November 2014.\n\nIn 2015, Sinai Province staged a series of attacks against the army, whose scale and complexity indicated the possibility of closer coordination with the IS leadership in Syria.\n\nSinai Province is thought to be aiming to take control of the Sinai Peninsula in order to turn it into an Islamist province run by IS.\n\nThe number of active Sinai Province members is believed to be between 1,000 and 1,500.\n\nIt has expanded its operations outside Sinai by creating cells in some governorates, including Cairo and Giza.\n\nThese cells have claimed several attacks, including one on a security building in the northern province of Dakahliya in December 2013, which killed at least 15 people and injured over 100.\n\nThe group's operations have also reached the Western Desert, an area popular with tourists for its oases and rock formations, but which has also become a militant hideout due to its proximity to volatile Libya.\n\nSinai Province has been operating mainly in North Sinai, which has been under a state of emergency since October 2014 when 33 security personnel were killed in an attack claimed by the group.\n\nThe then Egyptian prime minister, Ibrahim Mehleb, described the army's confrontation with Sinai Province as a \"state of war\".\n\nNorth Sinai is thinly populated and broadly underdeveloped, with some of the local population feeling marginalised from the government's investment programme on the mainland.\n\nThe sense of disconnect is seen as helping fuel a level of support for the militants there.\n\nA buffer zone has been created along Egypt's border with Gaza\n\nThe border with Israel and the Gaza Strip has been a scene of tension over the past few years. The Egyptian authorities have created a buffer zone, demolishing houses and digging a trench to prevent smuggling between Egypt and Gaza - which they say is a source of weapons for the militants.\n\nIn September 2015, the Egyptian army launched a large-scale military campaign against militant groups in North Sinai.\n\nThe ongoing Operation The Martyr's Right targets sites mainly in Rafah, Arish and Sheikh Zuweid, all towns in northern areas of the peninsula.\n\nAs part of the offensive, the army pumped water from the Mediterranean Sea into the tunnels along the Gaza border.\n\nSinai Province started by attacking Israel with rockets, but after the removal of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in 2013 it focused on Egypt's security services, killing dozens of soldiers.\n\nIt has been involved in suicide bombings, drive-by shootings, assassinations and beheadings.\n\nIn July 2015, the group said it had attacked an Egyptian naval vessel in the Mediterranean with a missile fired from the shore - a worrying development for shipping in the region.\n\nAfter the launch of the military campaign in North Sinai in September 2015, the group changed its strategy again by carrying out frequent small-scale bombings and hit and run attacks rather than intermittent \"spectaculars\".\n\nA survey conducted by London-based Al-Araby al-Jadid news website said the group had carried out more than 31 attacks in various areas across Sinai within just a two-week period in March 2016.\n\nSinai Province has developed a media production operation, and has published a host of propaganda videos online.\n\nOne entitled The Soldiers' Harvest and released in September 2015 featured several attacks the group said it carried out against security personnel. These included shooting policemen in the street, sniping at army soldiers, and targeting military vehicles with explosive devices.\n\nAnother video released in March 2016 allegedly showed training camps in a desert area where members of the group received combat training.\n\nIn other videos, the group has urged citizens to avoid cooperating with the authorities, especially by joining the army and police.\n\nIn some of its films, the group has softened its tone towards the Muslim Brotherhood, who it previously criticized for adopting \"infidel democracy\" and joining the political process.\n\nIn a video released just few days before the fifth anniversary of the 25 January 2011 revolution, Sinai Province called on what it described as \"supporters of peacefulness\" - a reference to the Muslim Brotherhood - to rise up against President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi.\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.", "Tom Baker has returned on camera as Doctor Who in a lost episode released 38 years after the story was left abandoned.\n\nShada, which was filmed around Cambridge, fell victim to BBC strike action - meaning the studio scenes that were needed to finish the episode were never recorded.\n\nThe parts not filmed in 1979 will be completed with animation and Baker's voice, but he has also filmed a scene in the episode, written by Douglas Adams.", "BBC reporter Helen Bushby was walking towards Oxford Circus Tube when people started running towards her.", "Mr Tusk said progress on citizens' rights had not been mirrored in other areas\n\nTheresa May has been told she has two weeks to put more money on the table if the EU is to agree to begin Brexit trade talks before the end of the year.\n\nEU Council President Donald Tusk said he was \"ready\" to move onto the next phase of Brexit talks, covering future relations with the UK.\n\nBut he said the UK must show much more progress on the \"divorce bill\" and the Irish border by early next month.\n\nMrs May said \"good progress\" was being made but more needed to be done.\n\nThe talks are currently deadlocked over the UK's financial settlement, citizens' rights and Ireland with Irish PM Leo Varadkar accusing the UK of not \"thinking through\" the implications of Brexit for his country.\n\nA week ago, the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier informed his UK counterpart David Davis he had a fortnight to spell out in more detail what he was prepared to pay the EU to \"settle its accounts\" and to clarify how trade between the Republic and Northern Ireland and security across the 310 mile border would be preserved after the UK leaves the single market and customs union.\n\nAfter holding talks with Mrs May on the margins of a jobs summit in Sweden, Mr Tusk repeated the message, saying \"much more\" progress was needed on these two issues if he was to recommend to EU leaders at their next meeting on 14 December to give the green light to the next phase of talks.\n\nHe said he would meet Mrs May in a week's time to assess progress but warned time was running out for a breakthrough before the end of 2017.\n\n\"We will be ready to move on to the second phase already in December,\" he said.\n\n\"But in order to do that we need to see more progress from the UK side.\n\nThe UK needs the approval of all 27 EU nations if it is to begin the next phase of talks\n\n\"If there is not sufficient progress by then, I will be ... not be in a position to propose new guidelines on transition and the future relationship at the December European Council....I made it very clear to the Prime Minister May that this progress needs to happen at the beginning of December at the latest.\"\n\nBefore leaving the event in Gothenburg, Mrs May said that the two sides had to \"work together\" to reach a point where the EU believed sufficient progress had been made to open up trade discussions.\n\nShe rejected claims that the talks were in limbo and restated her priority was to talk as soon as possible about her goal of a future \"deep and special\" trade and economic partnership.\n\n\"We're clear and I'm clear that what we need to do is move forwards together,\" she said.\n\nThe UK has said it will honour its existing financial obligations by ensuring no EU nation is worse off during the current budgetary period ending in 2020, a sum reported to be in the region of £20bn.\n\nBut the EU wants the UK to go further and contribute to what they say are longer-term liabilities, such as regional development spending and pension payments for British officials working for the EU and retired staff.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Davis: \"Nothing comes for nothing\" in negotiations\n\nAsked whether Mrs May had to stump up more money to pave the way for trade talks, Swedish PM Stefan Lovren said Britain \"needs to clarify what they mean by their financial responsibility\".\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron said the unified position agreed by all 27 other EU members earlier this year had not changed and talks on future relations would not commence \"until the divorce has been settled\".\n\nMr Varadkar, who also held a bilateral meeting with his British counterpart, said he was prepared to wait until next year for \"further concessions\" from the UK in a number of areas.\n\nHe said he wanted binding guarantees that there would be no physical checks at the border after the UK leaves in March 2019, dismissing as inadequate verbal assurances that technological advances will help ensure the continued free and safe movement of people.\n\n\"What we want to take off the table before talking about trade is the idea that there would be any hard border, physical border, or border resembling the past in Ireland,\" said the Irish PM.\n\n\"I think it would be in all of our interests that we proceed to phase two in December,\" he added.\n\n\"But it's 18 months since the referendum. Sometimes it doesn't seem like they've thought all of this through.\"\n\nSome Tory MPs believe the UK should flex its muscles and walk away from the talks unless the EU is more accommodating, arguing the EU has as much to lose as the UK from not agreeing a trade deal.", "This video can not be played\n\nTo play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "The Leeds bid has cost £1m over the past four years\n\nThe European Commission has cancelled the UK's turn to host the European Capital of Culture after Brexit, disappointing the bidding cities.\n\nFive places have already bid to hold the title in 2023 - Dundee, Nottingham, Leeds, Milton Keynes and Belfast/Derry.\n\nBut the commission has said the UK will no longer be eligible to have a host city after it leaves the EU in 2019.\n\nThe Creative Industries Federation said it was \"gutted\", while arts minister John Glen called it a \"crazy decision\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by John Glen 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\nPlans for the UK to host a Capital of Culture in 2023 were announced in 2014 - before the EU referendum.\n\nIn December 2016, the UK government said the competition would \"run as normal\", but did warn bidders that it \"may be subject to\" the Brexit negotiations.\n\nLiverpool was the last British city to be a European Capital of Culture, in 2008, following Glasgow in 1990.\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 title of European Capital of Culture rotates around eligible countries.\n\nCities from non-EU countries have held the title before - but if a country isn't in the EU, it must be a candidate to join or must be in the European Free Trade Association or European Economic Area.\n\nA spokeswoman for the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport said the government was in \"urgent discussions\" with the commission about the decision.\n\n\"We disagree with the European Commission's stance and are deeply disappointed that it has waited until after UK cities have submitted their final bids before communicating this new position to us,\" a statement said.\n\n\"The prime minister has been clear that while we are leaving the EU, we are not leaving Europe and this has been welcomed by EU leaders.\"\n\nDundee's bid team called it \"a bombshell for all of us\"\n\nThe statement said the government wants the UK to continue \"working with our friends in Europe\", including in cultural programmes, and will work with the bidders to \"help them realise their cultural ambitions\".\n\nThe Creative Industries Federation, which represents the arts sector, said: \"We are gutted to learn that the UK will not be allowed to host the European Capital of Culture as planned in 2023 after Brexit.\n\n\"This is despite the fact that cities in Europe that are outside the European Union have participated in the scheme historically.\"\n\nIt added that people were \"working feverishly behind the scenes to reverse this decision\".\n\nDanish chorus girls launched Aarhus as a European Capital of Culture in 2017\n\nThe federation's deputy chief executive Rosie Millard, who was to be among the contest's judges, wrote on Twitter: \"Very sad for the 5 bidding cities. I am on the judging panel & have seen all their hard work. #Brexitfallout\"\n\nDundee's bid team called it \"a bombshell for all of us\", saying they were \"hugely disappointed\" that the decision had come days before they were due to make their pitch in London.\n\n\"The timing is disrespectful not only to the citizens of Dundee, but to people from all five bidding cities who have devoted so much time, effort and energy so far in this competition,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"It's a sad irony that one of the key drivers of our bid was a desire to further enhance our cultural links with Europe.\"\n\nA statement from the Nottingham bid said they hoped the situation \"can be resolved positively\"\n\nThe Leeds bid has cost £1m over the past four years - £200,000 from the city council and £800,000 from private funders.\n\nHilary Benn, MP for Leeds Central and head of the House of Commons Select Committee for leaving the EU, said: \"This is a terrible blow and has come completely out of the blue.\n\n\"It's particularly extraordinary especially as the bids have just gone in.\n\n\"And to wait until all the work had gone in and turn around and say, 'You can't do this' - it's shoddy treatment of Leeds and the other cities have worked so hard.\"\n\nA Belfast City Council spokesman said they were \"deeply disappointed\" but wanted to make sure \"the time, energy, enthusiasm, ideas and resources put into our bid are carried forward regardless\".\n\nA statement from the Nottingham bid team said they hoped the situation \"can be resolved positively\" and Milton Keynes council leader Pete Marland said he remains \"hopeful that a compromise may be found in the future\".\n\nThree non-EU cities have previously held the title - Istanbul in 2010, Stavanger in Norway in 2008, and Reykjavik, Iceland, in 2000.\n\nExplaining the decision, a spokesman for the European Commission said: \"As one of the many concrete consequences of its decision to leave the European Union by 29 March 2019, the UK cannot host the European Capital of Culture in 2023.\n\n\"According to the rules adopted by the European Parliament and the Council (Decision 445/2014), this action is not open to third countries except candidate countries and European Free Trade Association/European Economic Area countries.\n\n\"Given that the UK will have left the EU by 29 March 2019, and therefore be unable to host the European Capital of Culture in 2023, we believe it makes common sense to discontinue the selection process now.\"\n\nThe European Capital of Culture is separate from the UK City of Culture title, which is currently held by Hull.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Glasgow Airport was closed temporarily after a towing vehicle hit a passenger plane getting ready for take-off.\n\nThe incident happened in \"freezing conditions\" at 20:45 and involved a British Airways plane.\n\nIt is thought the tug vehicle may have skidded on ice as the plane was being pushed back from the stand.\n\nThe Scottish Fire Service sent three pumps and an aerial unit to the scene as a precaution. No-one was injured and the airport has now reopened.\n\nA spokesman for Glasgow Airport said: \"We are currently open and operational. The airfield experienced flash freezing tonight along with multiple rain showers.\n\n\"A departing flight to Gatwick was cancelled following a minor incident on stand with a tug as a result of the freezing conditions.\n\n\"Emergency services attended the incident as part of our normal operating procedures for any incidents involving aircraft.\"\n\nHe added: \"Our priority remains the safety of the airfield and its operations and we apologise for any disruption caused. We will continue to carry out de-icing throughout the night.\"", "Last updated on .From the section European Football\n\nBrazilian footballer Robinho has been sentenced to nine years in prison for taking part in the gang rape of a woman in Milan in 2013.\n\nAn Italian court ruled the 33-year-old and five other Brazilians assaulted the Albanian woman, who was 22, after plying her with alcohol in a nightclub.\n\nThe forward, who left AC Milan in 2015 after five years, was not in court but pleaded not guilty via his lawyer.\n\nThe sentence will be put on hold until the appeals process is completed.\n\nRobinho, capped 100 times by his country, spent two years at Manchester City and currently plays for Atletico Mineiro in Brazil.\n\nA post on Robinho's Instagram page said he had \"already defended himself against the accusations, affirming that he did not participate in the episode\" and that \"all legal measures are being taken\".\n\nAfter starting his career at Santos, Robinho won two La Liga titles in four seasons at Real Madrid, before joining City for a then British record fee of £32.5m in the summer of 2008.\n\nHis arrival, on the final day of the transfer window, came on Sheikh Mansour's first day as owner of the Premier League club.\n\nThe playmaker struggled to make an impact in England and was loaned back to Santos in January 2010.\n\nHe won Serie A during his subsequent spell at Milan, but returned to Santos for another loan spell in August 2014 before joining Chinese side Guangzhou Evergrande in July 2015.\n\nWhen his sixth-month deal expired, he moved back to Brazil, joining Atletico Mineiro on a two-year deal.", "A South African court has increased Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorius's jail sentence for killing his girlfriend to 13 years and five months.\n\nProsecutors had argued that the six-year term for murdering Reeva Steenkamp was \"shockingly light\".\n\nMs Steenkamp's parents were \"emotional\" as they watched the ruling at home on TV, a spokeswoman said.\n\n\"They feel there has been justice for Reeva. She can now rest in peace,\" Tania Koen told Associated Press.\n\n\"But at the same time, people think this is the end of the road for them... the fact is they still live with Reeva's loss every day,\" Ms Koen said.\n\nOscar Pistorius claimed he shot dead Ms Steenkamp on Valentine's Day in 2013 after mistaking her for a burglar.\n\nThe Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein has now given Pistorius the minimum 15 years prescribed for murder in South Africa, less time already served.\n\nThe lower court had justified the six-year sentence by citing mitigating circumstances such as rehabilitation and remorse. It said they outweighed aggravating factors such as his failure to fire a warning shot.\n\nPistorius's brother Carl said on social media that he was \"shattered. Heartbroken. Gutted\" at the decision.\n\n\"We have all suffered incomprehensible loss. The death of Reeva was and still is a great loss for our family too,\" he wrote.\n\nThere is huge relief here from the National Prosecuting Authority and from Ms Steenkamp's family and friends. Prosecutors are relieved because the earlier sentence of six years for murder could have set a precedent in future trials. The Pistorius family are devastated, as is the athlete himself.\n\nThe six-year sentence gave an impression of inconsistency. There have been fraud and corruption trials that led to 15-year sentences. It seemed lenient considering that the Paralympian fired four bullets into a bathroom door behind which there was an unarmed and frightened Ms Steenkamp.\n\nOscar Pistorius, 31, was not in court to hear the decision.\n\nHe was initially given a five-year term for manslaughter in 2014, but was found guilty of murder on appeal in 2015.\n\nPistorius shot Ms Steenkamp four times through a locked toilet door at his home in the capital Pretoria.\n\nPreviously, the six-time Paralympic gold medallist had made history by becoming the first amputee sprinter to compete at the Olympics, in 2012 in London, running on prosthetic \"blades\".\n\nHe had his legs amputated below the knee as a baby.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Pistorius becomes the first amputee sprinter to compete at the Olympics", "Emmerson Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe’s new president whose nickname is “the crocodile”, has pledged to crack down on corruption, hold elections on schedule and restore relations with the West.\n\nHere are the key moments from his speech that were applauded by the 60,000-strong crowd.\n\nQuote Message: I am required to serve our country as the president of all citizens regardless of colour, creed, religion, tribe, totem or political affiliation.\" I am required to serve our country as the president of all citizens regardless of colour, creed, religion, tribe, totem or political affiliation.\"\n\nQuote Message: In acknowledging the honour you have bestowed upon me, I recognise that the urgent tasks that beckon will not be accomplished through speeches. I must hit the ground running.\" In acknowledging the honour you have bestowed upon me, I recognise that the urgent tasks that beckon will not be accomplished through speeches. I must hit the ground running.\"\n\nQuote Message: We should never remain hostages of our past. Let us humbly appeal to all of us that we let bygones be bygones readily embracing each other in defining a new destiny of our beloved Zimbabwe.\" We should never remain hostages of our past. Let us humbly appeal to all of us that we let bygones be bygones readily embracing each other in defining a new destiny of our beloved Zimbabwe.\"\n\nQuote Message: The principle of re-possessing our land cannot be challenged or reversed. The dispossession of our ancestral lands was the fundamental reason for waging the liberation struggle.\" The principle of re-possessing our land cannot be challenged or reversed. The dispossession of our ancestral lands was the fundamental reason for waging the liberation struggle.\"\n\nQuote Message: My government is committed to compensating those farmers from whom land was taken in terms of our laws of lands.\" My government is committed to compensating those farmers from whom land was taken in terms of our laws of lands.\"\n\nQuote Message: Our economic policy will be predicated on our agriculture, our command agriculture, which is the mainstay and on creating conditions for investment-led economic recovery that puts a premium on job, job, job creation.\" Our economic policy will be predicated on our agriculture, our command agriculture, which is the mainstay and on creating conditions for investment-led economic recovery that puts a premium on job, job, job creation.\"\n\nQuote Message: The liquidity challenges, which have bedevilled the economy, must be tacked head on, with real solutions being generated as a matter of urgency. People must be able to access their earnings and savings as and when they need them.\" The liquidity challenges, which have bedevilled the economy, must be tacked head on, with real solutions being generated as a matter of urgency. People must be able to access their earnings and savings as and when they need them.\"\n\nQuote Message: As we focus on recovering our economy, we mush shed misbehaviours and acts of indiscipline which have characterised the past. Acts of corruption must stop. Where these occur, swift, swift, swift justice must be served.\" As we focus on recovering our economy, we mush shed misbehaviours and acts of indiscipline which have characterised the past. Acts of corruption must stop. Where these occur, swift, swift, swift justice must be served.\"\n\nQuote Message: Gone are the days of absenteeism…days of undue delays and forestalling decisions and services in the hope of extorting dirty rewards. Those days are over.\" Gone are the days of absenteeism…days of undue delays and forestalling decisions and services in the hope of extorting dirty rewards. Those days are over.\"\n\nQuote Message: I stand here today to say that our country is ready and willing for a steady re-engagement with all the nations of the world.\" I stand here today to say that our country is ready and willing for a steady re-engagement with all the nations of the world.\"\n\nQuote Message: As we build a new, democratic Zimbabwe, we ask those who have punished us in the past to reconsider their economic and political sanctions against us. Whatever misunderstandings may have subsisted in the past, let this make way for a new beginning.\" As we build a new, democratic Zimbabwe, we ask those who have punished us in the past to reconsider their economic and political sanctions against us. Whatever misunderstandings may have subsisted in the past, let this make way for a new beginning.\"\n\nQuote Message: I wish to be clear, all foreign investments will be safe in Zimbabwe.\" I wish to be clear, all foreign investments will be safe in Zimbabwe.\"\n\nQuote Message: Brothers and sisters, the people of Zimbabwe, the task before us is much bigger than competing for political office. Let us all play our part to build this great country, together, as Zimbabweans.May God bless Zimbabwe, I thank you.\" Brothers and sisters, the people of Zimbabwe, the task before us is much bigger than competing for political office. Let us all play our part to build this great country, together, as Zimbabweans.May God bless Zimbabwe, I thank you.\"", "Nikki Entwistle, 33, said stamp-duty changes would not help her afford a deposit\n\nWhat do the measures introduced in the Budget mean to young people in the UK?\n\nThe Chancellor Philip Hammond, announced the immediate abolition of stamp duty for properties up to £300,000 in England, Northern Ireland and, for a time, Wales.\n\nThe average first-time buyer pays about £1,600 in stamp duty, according to Halifax Building Society.\n\nThe BBC spoke to a number of young people to find out if they thought the chancellor had gone far enough.\n\nThe stamp-duty reform was welcomed by some first-time buyers, but some worried it was not enough to enable young people to get their foot on the ladder\n\nHollie Croft, 31, is buying a house in London with her husband.\n\n\"Our stamp duty would have been £9,000,\" she said.\n\n\"Now, we can afford to redo the bathroom straight away instead of living with the rundown one until we'd saved up.\n\n\"Saving for a deposit whilst paying London rent has meant no holidays, no new clothes and very few nights out.\n\n\"I still think current house prices are disproportionate to wages and I don't know if this change will help in the long term, but for us right now? We're very happy.\"\n\nMadeleine van Oss, a 25-year-old law student in Oxford, told the BBC the stamp-duty cut reflected the difficulty many young people faced accessing the housing market.\n\n\"If I get a good job and I can buy a house, the stamp-duty [cut] will help me,\" she said.\n\n\"It's good to see an acknowledgement that things are harder for us now than it was for them back in the day.\n\n\"Personally, I do well out of [this Budget],\" she added.\n\nOthers were more circumspect. Nick, 19, said: \"A lot of [this Budget], I felt, was just empty promises and things to attempt to win over voters.\"\n\nHe added: \"I'm not sure how much of an impact the stamp-duty change will make to first-time buyers.\n\n\"With property prices rising, especially in London, £300,000 in house terms isn't a lot, in my opinion.\"\n\nNikki Entwistle, 33, agrees. After being made redundant from her job at British Gas in 2016, she decided to go back to college, where she is now studying animal management.\n\n\"I've never been able to afford my own home,\" she said.\n\n\"I've rented property since I was about 19.\n\n\"It seemed expensive then, but prices have gone up a lot.\n\n\"I don't know how the government expects us to be able to afford to save.\n\n\"With council tax, energy bills, rent and food, there's not enough left.\n\n\"I think there needs to be a cap on rent.\n\nJames Furniss-Rees welcomed the cut in stamp duty but thinks that measures could be introduced to address student debt\n\nJames Furniss-Rees, who graduated from university in July with £58,000 of debt, said there had been \"not enough\" in the Budget for him.\n\n\"There was no real talk about debt, where there will be changes to timeframes, when to pay back and how,\" he said.\n\n\"The government should revise whether we pay tuition fees at all, because it's unrealistic for us to pay that all back.\"", "YouTuber Jack Maynard - who left I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! when offensive tweets he posted in 2012 emerged - has apologised for saying some \"pretty disgusting things\".\n\nThe tweets, which prompted allegations of racism and homophobia, were published in the Sun newspaper while Maynard, 23, was in Australia.\n\nHe said he was \"young\" and \"careless\" when he posted them.\n\nIn an online video, Maynard added: \"I've been really stupid in the past.\"\n\nThe show told viewers Maynard - who has more than 1.2m subscribers to his YouTube channel and is the younger brother of singer Conor Maynard - had left the jungle on Tuesday.\n\nA spokesman said he had departed \"due to circumstances outside camp\".\n\nIn a video posted on his YouTube channel, Maynard confirmed he was back in London.\n\n\"The least you deserved was for me to come home and sit down and talk to you and explain everything that has been going on,\" he told his subscribers.\n\n\"I'm so sorry to anyone that I offended, anyone that I upset, anyone I made feel uncomfortable.\"\n\nHe said he had \"messed up\" adding: \"I've tweeted some bad things, some horrible things, some pretty disgusting things that I'm just ashamed of.\"\n\n\"I was young I was careless, I just wasn't thinking, this was back when I had just left school and I didn't know what I was doing.\"\n\nThe social media star, who revealed it was his 23rd birthday, added: \"All I can do is beg and encourage that you guys don't make the same mistake as well.\n\n\"Don't put anything online you wouldn't say to your mum.\"\n\nMaynard appeared on Tuesday night's show, but presenters Ant and Dec confirmed his removal half-way through the programme.\n\nHis representative later said the star realised the language used in the now-deleted tweets was \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nThey said Maynard agreed with the decision to leave the show, which was \"made by his representatives and ITV\".\n\nHe had been one of 10 contestants taking part in the programme, which started on Sunday.", "If the economy is a cruise liner then the chancellor made the cabins more affordable for some passengers on Wednesday.\n\nPhilip Hammond said first-time buyers buying a home of up to £300,000 would pay no stamp duty.\n\nWhile that will make some passengers happy, the weather for their trip could turn stormy in the coming years.\n\nThat is because the body which assembles economic data is forecasting a dramatic deterioration in conditions.\n\nThe Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), which prepares the figures that the chancellor bases his Budget on, predicts that annual economic growth will be below 2% for five years - one of the worst forecasts in living memory.\n\nWhy has the situation turned so gloomy? After all, the UK was one of the fastest growing of the major economies in 2016.\n\nThe answer hinges on productivity. If we return to our cruise ship, for years the crew were able to make it go significantly faster every year. But since the storm that was the financial crisis of 2007, that improved performance has not been repeated.\n\nIt's not clear why productivity has been so disappointing. Experts have several theories, including poor management and a lack of investment.\n\nWhatever the reason, the official forecasters have conceded that productivity is unlikely to recover and that translates into slower economic growth. You can see how that outlook has deteriorated in the chart below.\n\nThe government's income is closely linked to growth. The faster the economy grows, the greater the receipts from VAT, income tax, corporation tax and other revenue-raising measures.\n\nThe government is already borrowing to fund spending on government departments and servicing the nation's debt. It plans to reduce that borrowing, to zero, but the downgrades to growth means that will be harder to do.\n\nThe chart below shows how the deficit (the difference between government income and expenditure) is forecast to fall over the next five years, but not as fast as the OBR predicted in the spring.", "Last updated on .From the section Horse Racing\n\nFormer England striker Michael Owen finished second on his debut as a jockey in a charity race at Ascot.\n\nOwen rode Calder Prince over the Prince's Countryside Trust seven-furlong Flat race, finishing behind Tom Chatfeild-Roberts on Golden Wedding.\n\n\"I'm home in one piece and had the time of my life,\" said the 37-year-old.\n\nThe former Liverpool, Manchester United and Real Madrid forward breeds and owns racehorses but only got in the saddle for the first time this year.\n\nHe lost more than a stone in weight during training and fell from his ride several times in the run up to the race.\n\n\"I'm really pleased with the whole outcome,\" Owen, who retired from football in 2013, told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"To get home safe and sound, to earn a lot of money for charity and to have an experience like I did - learn a new discipline, lose a bit of weight - I like to think some good has come from it.\"\n\n\"I know everyone was keeping an eye on whether I fell off or did something wrong. It was almost like I was playing in the World Cup quarter-finals again against Brazil, with my phone going mental for a day or two.\"\n\nAsked whether he will race again, Owen replied: \"I absolutely loved it and it does give you the chance to do some good.\n\n\"The not eating bit was hard. I've done 20 pounds in 21 days so I'm going to stop off at every service station on the way home and eat everything.\n\n\"I enjoyed it enough to say I'd do it again - but I've got four kids, I don't want to hurt myself.\"\n\nWhat a superb performance. He looked the part throughout, putting his horse in just the right position too. Never once did he look as though he was even vaguely wobbling in the saddle.\n\nTo do this just a few months after taking up riding is pretty startling.\n\nWith just the final quarter-mile to go it looked like he was possibly poised to win - but when push came to shove, the considerably more experience of the winning rider proved decisive.\n\nIt's unclear if Owen will do it again, but I'd be surprised if the 'bug' hasn't bitten.", "Naomi Davis said her daughter Chayse felt \"singled out\" in the diversity lesson\n\nA school asked pupils to rank potential neighbours based on who they would most like to live next to - from a list which included \"a black person\" and a \"gay man\".\n\nParent Naomi Davis complained to Bristol Free School when daughter Chayse told her about the exercise.\n\nShe said the exercise had been designed to do \"something positive\" but \"hadn't achieved its objective\".\n\nThe school said it would \"review the materials as a result of her concerns\".\n\nIt said the citizenship and diversity lesson was part of a \"unit of work aimed at heightening students' understanding of the advantages of living in a diverse and inclusive society\".\n\nWhen her 11-year-old daughter came home, Ms Davis said, she told her mum she wanted \"to show you something and I don't think it's going to make you happy\".\n\nShe then showed her a photo she had taken of the worksheet.\n\nMs Davis said her daughter \"did not understand the context of why a black person would be on that list\".\n\nBristol Free School said the lesson was about citizenship and diversity\n\nAlthough she understood why teachers had given the \"much-needed\" piece of work, she said it had made Chayse feel \"singled out\".\n\n\"That's why I went back to the school - because they are trying to do a positive piece of work but this had the reverse effect,\" she said.\n\nMs Davis praised the school for its \"extremely speedy response\" and said they were very \"apologetic\".\n\nShe added she \"wanted to make it clear\" that the \"main issue\" with the list was the comparison between what a black person or a disabled person \"might go through\" to a vegetarian.\n\nMs Davis said the school had told her it was also going to work with parents from black, Asian and other ethic groups to help devise its worksheets.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "He was one of the world's most successful sportsmen, an inspiration to millions, but now Oscar Pistorius is serving a five-year sentence for killing his girlfriend.\n\nSixteen years ago, breathless after the 75m swim, he climbs out of the pool with his stumps trailing behind him, and into the arms of his friends.\n\nHe clambers on to the back of a classmate, Deon, who trots off with the grinning 12-year-old Oscar as cargo.\n\nThe second part of the race is an 800m run, and the route stretches ahead of them under a blue Johannesburg sky. As the five young racers pass the netball courts, they leave behind the concrete path and feel the soft grass of the school playing fields underfoot. Cheyne is in front, carrying Oscar's prosthetic legs under his arms.\n\nOscar is carried over the finish line by Kaylem, who won the race but doubled back to pick up his friend. Like a human relay baton, Oscar completes the race after being passed from one friend to another, according to a pre-arranged plan.\n\nThis vignette from early 1999 at Constantia Kloof Primary School in Roodepoort, near Johannesburg, sums up the childhood of Oscar Pistorius - never left out, surrounded by friends, often the centre of attention.\n\nLast year, he was the focus of attention during a six-month trial after shooting his girlfriend through a toilet door. The attack happened just months after he was the poster boy at the London Paralympics and made history by competing in the Olympic Games three weeks earlier.\n\nThe life of Pistorius can be seen in two arcs. There is one story of extraordinary determination - how this boy with no evident running talent at 12 somehow scaled the heights of sport in just a few years. But the second story is how that innocent boy became, as weeks of testimony in court suggested, a man plagued by his temper, with a reckless love for guns and speed - condemned by the judge as \"negligent\" when he pulled the trigger.\n\nIn one of Oscar's earliest memories, he hurtled down a hill near his home, in his brother Carl's go-kart, as the two of them began a lifelong passion for speed - they were \"adrenalin junkies\", Pistorius later wrote in his autobiography, Blade Runner.\n\nAs the wall at the bottom of the hill loomed in front of them, with no brakes on the kart, Carl grabbed Oscar's prosthetic leg, yanked it off and pushed it into the wheel to bring the vehicle to a sudden stop.\n\nThis narrow escape did nothing to dampen his new addiction - aged four he was riding mini-motorbikes. Soon after he was racing his father at go-karting. Aged 15, he was driving his brother's Golf, and as an adult a speedboating accident nearly ended his career.\n\nThis hotheaded adventurousness in the young boy was partly encouraged by his family, who were determined that his disability would not make him a spectator in life. In the Pistorius family, who lived in a comfortable part of Johannesburg, no-one was allowed to say \"I can't.\"\n\nBorn with no fibulas - the smaller of the two lower leg bones - Oscar's legs were amputated below the knee when he was 11 months old. Six months later, he received his first prosthetics, a defining moment in his life, he later said. This plaster and mesh fitted with a lycra \"skin\" was a liberation. Immediately, he says, he felt invincible and his energy was boundless.\n\n\"I believe that it was at this time in my life that my personality was shaped, and that my family was instrumental in laying the foundation stones of my competitive nature, and of the man that I am today,\" he wrote in Blade Runner.\n\nHis mother was a huge influence. She put inspirational notes into the lunchboxes of her children, and one letter she wrote for him he still keeps: \"The real loser is never the person who crosses the finishing line last. The real loser is the person who sits on the side, the person who does not even try to compete.\"\n\nGetting ready for school, she would say: \"Carl, put on your shoes. Oscar, put on your legs.\" He was different, but equal.\n\nIn fact, the young Oscar didn't feel different at all.\n\n\"He didn't like to be reminded that he was different because mentally he wasn't different,\" says Gianni Merlo, who co-authored Pistorius' book. \"This was because of the way his mother brought him up as a kid. He has a spirit that is completely different because he was born that way. Without knowing what it feels like to be normal, you feel normal.\"\n\nAs well as providing an emergency brake for go-karts, there were other advantages to prosthetic legs. Oscar never had to wear cricket pads and he could leave his leg dangling against a hot oven and not suffer terrible burns. Children at the beach marvelled at his small round footprints, while opponents on the rugby field who tackled him were left clutching an artificial limb.\n\nCarl suffered serious injuries in a road accident last month\n\nA major inspiration was a teacher at Constantia Kloof, Tessa Shellard, who encouraged him to take part in sports, even putting him in the school team for a prestigious nationwide triathlon series, despite him not being the best athlete.\n\n\"I gave him the opportunity that maybe others didn't give him. I saw a youngster with a disability but one who had it within himself to persevere. He was like a little hero in my heart that, at that young age, he gave so much.\"\n\nHe usually gave it everything, even though he often came last. That biathlon race, in which he was carried by his friends, came on a day when his prosthetics were hurting him and so they hatched a plan to spare him the pain.\n\nOscar was bubbly and full of energy, says Shellard, and in 2007 he came back to the school and signed a photo of the two of them, writing: \"Times of change, memories still the same, thank you for all the times you helped me up.\"\n\nAged nine, he had his first fist-fight - over a girl - and more followed. The family's response? His father and grandfather taught him how to box. This was the time when he first learned to defend himself, he says, and he later proved on several occasions that he was never slow in lashing out, usually verbally, at people who annoyed him. The most public example was when, after defeat in the 200m at the London Paralympics, he accused Brazilian Alan Oliveira of using illegal blades - an incident captured on live TV.\n\nDespite this pluckiness, he showed little sporting talent in his early teens. That didn't shine until Pretoria Boys School, when he was able to use much lighter prosthetics, thanks to a family friend and design engineer, Chris Hatting.\n\nInitially it was endurance running, not sprinting, that interested him. He was showing ability in 10km races, and enjoying rugby and water polo. His discovery of sports in which he could properly compete, not just take part, meant his schooldays were generally happy - but three life-changing events cast a more sombre light on these years.\n\nThe first was the divorce of his parents, which meant Oscar and his siblings were separated from their father and lived with their mother in a smaller house. Perhaps as a way to bridge this distance, his father bought Oscar and Carl a small speedboat and his sons found yet another means to race against each other - this time on water-skis.\n\nThen in March 2002 his mother Sheila died. To the 15-year-old it felt like his world's guiding light had been extinguished. He has the dates of her birth and death tattooed on his right arm.\n\n\"Sport was my salvation, as it helped me get through this difficult time,\" he wrote. \"My mother had been a strong woman, the centre of my world. Sporting activity was the only thing that could distract me from such a loss.\"\n\nHis aunt Diana stepped in to play a greater part in the upbringing of Oscar, Carl and Aimee. She says Sheila was such a devoted mother that her death required a \"huge adjustment at a difficult time developmentally\" for the three teenagers.\n\n\"Sheila valued each of her children for their individual talents and was proud of them,\" says Oscar's aunt, Diana Binge.\n\n\"Strict, loving, spontaneous and always game for fun, she was also a devout Christian who brought her children up to observe the Christian way of life, something she tried to demonstrate in her own relationships.\n\n\"She was open about Oscar's disability and shared her experience in bringing Oscar up in order to encourage other parents of disabled children. Oscar has continued her legacy of helping others.\n\n\"Sheila had unique relationships with each of her children and losing her would have left a unique gap in each of their lives, which each of them had to handle in their own way.\"\n\nA year after his mother's death came the third life-changing event - he shattered his knee on the rugby pitch.\n\nIt came at a time when he had been working hard on his general fitness, to complement his rugby and water polo. One trainer, Jannie Brooks, has spoken about how Pistorius used his gym in Pretoria for six months - boxing, skipping and doing press-ups - before he realised he had no legs. \"He was just one of the bunch, doing everything at the same pace as everybody else.\"\n\nBut after the injury, he was back with the same medics who had carried out the amputations when he was a baby, and his recovery was slow. It was during his rehabilitation, supervised by the University of Pretoria, that he was advised to take up sprinting to help the knee joint recover. At the same time, Hatting - now working for a firm in the US - was working on new, lighter prosthetics and he invited Oscar to fly to the US to try the Flex-Foot Cheetah blades, manufactured by Ossur.\n\nThree weeks after taking up sprinting, Pistorius ran his first 100m race. With his father watching in Bloemfontein, he won the race in a time faster than any double amputee had achieved before - 11.72s. A star was born.\n\nEight months later, he won the 200m gold at the Paralympics in Athens and his life changed forever. It was at this moment - September 2004 - that the world woke up to his talent and personality.\n\nBefore long he began running against non-disabled athletes, first in a Golden Gala 400m race in Rome in 2007, finishing second, and then in Sheffield where, in very wet conditions, he finished last.\n\nThe question now began to be asked whether his prosthetics gave him an advantage.\n\nIt was a huge blow when, the following year, the world governing body for athletics (IAAF) concluded that they did, and banned them. But he fought the decision and won an appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne, paving the way for him to compete in the summer Olympic Games in Beijing later that year. Failing to qualify, he set his sights on London in 2012, where in due course he became the first track and field athlete to compete in both Paralympic and Olympic Games.\n\n\"Oscar, with his personality, athletic prowess and the fact that he was trying to compete in the able-bodied Olympics made him the big breakthrough name, who brought sponsorship in Paralympic sport to the next level, internationally,\" says Paralympic commentator Tony Garrett, who has known Pistorius since he burst on to the scene in Athens.\n\nNot only was he a very good athlete, says Garrett, one who broke down the barriers between disabled and non-disabled sport, he was a good-looking young man full of vitality, ready to take on the world.\n\nPistorius has always strongly rejected the suggestion that his fight to compete in the Olympics meant he regarded Paralympic sport as second-rate. He says he just believed it was unfair to exclude disabled athletes from taking part, if they were good enough. \"I am not a Paralympic athlete, nor an Olympic athlete. I am simply an athlete and sprinter.\"\n\nDespite his relatively privileged background, his achievements made him a hero to many South Africans, even if they came from different communities. He was a unifying figure. \"For us South Africans,\" wrote Justice Malala in the Guardian, \"it is impossible to watch Oscar Pistorius run without... wanting to break down and cry and shout with joy.\"\n\nBut as the sponsorship deals and media appearances multiplied, Garrett was not the only person to notice a change in the man he knew.\n\nIn 2011, Pistorius had stormed out of a BBC radio interview after taking exception to a question about his fight to take part in non-disabled athletics. Then there was the outburst at the London Games, when he lashed out at Alan Oliveira. Another South African Paralympian, Arnu Fourie, told a journalist he had to change rooms in the athletes' village because Pistorius was shouting on the phone so much.\n\n\"His lifestyle and image changed and clearly something got to him and he wasn't the same person, there were so many demands on his time,\" says Garrett. \"I think he let rip every so often and he wouldn't have done that a few years ago.\"\n\nOther acquaintances concur that his character subtly altered. Sports journalist Graeme Joffe, who co-owned a racehorse called Tiger Canyon with Pistorius and three others, first met him 13 years ago. Then Pistorius was an athlete of enormous promise and Joffe was really impressed by his confidence and charisma.\n\n\"But three years ago, the syndicate was put together and I and some of the other owners met him at the stables. I immediately thought there was something about Oscar that had changed,\" he says. \"He was a different man to the one I had interviewed so many times, in the sense that he was a bit stand-offish and a little bit cold, not his usual warm self.\"\n\nJoffe says he had taken note of Pistorius' behaviour towards the BBC interviewer, and was aware of an earlier incident when Pistorius, captaining a speedboat, was involved in an accident in which someone could have been killed.\n\n\"These were big red flags for me and I was quite surprised that no-one in the media or in his management team condemned it publicly,\" says Joffe. \"He was showing a spoilt-brat attitude that came out a year later at the Paralympics [in 2012] when he embarrassed the country.\"\n\nThis wasn't just about fame going to his head, says Joffe, there were other incidents over the years that suggested an aggressive side and a recklessness that the public didn't see - at least not until the trial.\n\nThere was a gun that went off in a restaurant and another shot through a car roof, and the odd verbal and physical fight. The South African media didn't explore this unpalatable side of the national hero, says Joffe. And journalists who questioned whether Pistorius' blades could give him an advantage were given no more interviews.\n\nWhat did make headlines - at least, in the celebrity press - was the romance with Reeva Steenkamp. The two met in November 2012 through a mutual friend at a motoring event and she agreed to accompany him to an awards ceremony that night as he didn't have a date.\n\nThe model was already a reality show star and a regular presence on the cover of magazines. She was also hugely popular. Her best friend and housemate Gina Myers told the BBC this was a woman \"as magnificent on the inside as she was beautiful on the outside\".\n\nA friend of the couple, Del Levin, saw the couple at a dinner about two weeks before Steenkamp's death, when Levin's wife, a well known television personality, sat next to her and the two women spoke for a long time. Levin and his wife got the impression the couple, who had then known each other for about three months, were happy.\n\nBy his own admission, Pistorius' relationships with women over the years have been turbulent. In his book, he referred to a \"particularly nasty argument\" here, a \"very fiery\" relationship there.\n\n\"He could get very furious suddenly,\" says his biographer Merlo. \"He spoke of a fire inside. He had tough arguments with girls and afterwards sweet reconciliation. He has always had very beautiful girlfriends. I never saw the temper but sometimes there were situations where it was [apparent]. Sometimes he can explode but I have always seen the bright part of the moon, I've never seen the dark part.\"\n\nBefore Pistorius became a celebrity, he was very open to people, very friendly, says Merlo, who first met the athlete in 2007 in Rome and began working on the book with him the following year.\n\nPeople fell in love with him when they met him, he says, but the red carpet wasn't a stage upon which he felt comfortable. \"It's not easy for a young guy who becomes a celebrity to follow the light that you see from afar that can be your light.\"\n\nMerlo agrees with those who say Pistorius underwent a change. But some friends of the athlete tell a very different story - of a man full of warmth and fun who overcame life's setbacks and stayed loyal despite his fame.\n\nLevin, a marketing director, says that unlike many in Johannesburg's high society, the athlete was sincere in his affections.\n\n\"I wasn't a close friend but I got to know him over the years. He was an amazing, generous and courteous and kind person, easy to get along with, and very willing to share his own experiences and insights.\n\n\"Typically when you meet someone on the social scene, they're very cold and stand-offish and particularly if you are the spouse of someone [famous] but he was someone who embraced me from the beginning. He would see me and run over and say 'Hey' and talk, and we would catch up and see how things were. He was definitely not just faking it but genuinely interested in you.\"\n\nOne thing that did strike Levin was Pistorius' fears about security. He had recently bought a new home in the Johannesburg suburb of Sandton and talked about how happy he was that it was equipped with more safety features than his house in Pretoria.\n\nPistorius sold the house where Steenkamp was killed, to pay for legal fees\n\nLittle did he know that his home would become the subject of such scrutiny in the months ahead. Few bedrooms, bathrooms, doors, duvets, fans and electric sockets have been pored over in such detail.\n\nAfter a year in jail and now under house arrest, the freedom and companionship of the sunny playing fields of Constantia Kloof Primary School must seem a world away.", "Reeva Steenkamp was shot dead by her boyfriend Oscar Pistorius on Valentine's Day 2013. Much attention has been focused on Mr Pistorius, the South African Olympic athlete who denies the charges. The BBC's Pumza Fihlani has been finding out more about the victim, a model, reality TV star and law graduate.\n\nWhile Reeva Steenkamp projected the image of a sex kitten in the glossy men's magazines, those who knew her say the \"real Reeva\" was a deeply private person and had a \"small-town girl\" attitude about her.\n\n\"She was self-conscious. You would never think that but she was,\" says Kerry Smith, a close friend who met Reeva at university - before she was twice voted among the \"100 sexiest women in the world\" for FHM magazine.\n\nLooking through photos of the two on her laptop and old Facebook messages - one in which Ms Steenkamp said she regarded her as \"a sister\" - Ms Smith says her friend was determined to use her law degree in years to come.\n\n\"She always said modelling would not last - you need to have something to come back to,\" she tells me as we sit in her living room in Port Elizabeth, known as the \"friendly city\", where both women grew up.\n\n\"She was more than just a pretty face, she had a beautiful heart and ambition,\" the 35-year-old legal assistant says.\n\nKerry Smith and Reeva Steenkamp had planned to open a law firm to help abused women\n\nThe 29-year-old died almost instantly after Mr Pistorius shot her through a toilet door in his Pretoria home. The double-amputee sprinter denies murder, saying he feared an intruder had broken in.\n\nMs Smith was one of a select few who attended the intimate funeral for Ms Steenkamp, who had been going out with the athlete for three months.\n\n\"There's no closure. We couldn't even view her body in the coffin,\" she says, sadly.\n\nMs Steenkamp was shot three times - once in the head, meaning her family could not hold an open-casket ceremony.\n\nGiven that she was killed by her boyfriend, it is poignant that one of her passions was helping victims of domestic abuse.\n\nThe two university friends had planned to start a law firm to help abused women after graduating.\n\nIt was an ambition they kept in mind despite Ms Steenkamp's modelling career - and she had applied to the bar in late 2011, aiming to become a legal advocate by the age of 30.\n\nBefore her involvement with Mr Pistorius, Ms Steenkamp had reportedly been in an abusive relationship with Wayne Agrella, accusations the jockey denies, while Ms Smith had been in an abusive marriage for 10 years.\n\n\"She wanted to save everyone, wanted to protect everyone,\" her friend recalls.\n\nOscar Pistorius told the murder trial the couple had been planning a future together\n\nSome believe this need to save and protect played a hand in her relationship with Mr Pistorius, who the world has learned was insecure about his disability in spite of his \"superhuman\" persona on the world athletics stage.\n\nMs Smith says it upsets her when people dismiss Ms Steenkamp's messages to Mr Pistorius, in which she said she was sometimes scared of him.\n\nReferring to the relationship that supposedly fuelled her need to protect women from abusive men, Ms Smith says: \"For Reeva I think it was mainly mental, I don't know that he was physically abusive but definitely emotionally abusive.\n\n\"When she was with Wayne she always felt she had to cover up. She would always be on these fad diets with him. She lost a lot of weight,\" she says.\n\n\"It wasn't a healthy relationship. When she moved to Johannesburg, we were grateful because it meant she would be free from him.\"\n\nMr Agrella, who was with the model for six years, denies that the relationship was anything but loving.\n\n\"That is the biggest lie ever. I even asked the family what this was about, they were just as shocked I was,\" says Mr Agrella, tersely.\n\nSince this tragedy happened people have had this impression that Reeva was just a model or the pretty girl and she was so much more than that. There was this implication that she was riding on Oscar Pistorius' coat-tails and the fact of the matter is she was already somewhere, in her own right.\n\nShe had a successful career and many of us in the industry were watching her with great expectation - you could see that Reeva was going places. She was a really, really beautiful person - forget about the looks, I mean her heart and mind.\n\nEven as a teenager she got it, she had a great work ethic. At competitions, shoots and anything that we did, she was one of the first to arrive and one of the last to leave.\n\nThe reason I've still got these photographs is because I had kept them aside to give her next time she was back in town. I've given them to her parents now.\n\nMs Smith says her own abusive marriage almost cost her friendship with Ms Steenkamp.\n\nThe pair did not see each other for several years - reconnecting some years later after Ms Smith had re-married.\n\n\"She later said it was because she couldn't handle seeing me being treated like that,\" says Ms Smith.\n\nShe and \"Reeves\", as she affectionately calls her friend of more than 10 years, met in 2002 when they both studied law at Port Elizabeth's Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University.\n\nReeva Steenkamp dyed her hair blonde after she was turned down twice to be a cover girl for FHM\n\nThe pair were honoured among the top 10 achievers in the first year class - and had spent a month working together on an assignment.\n\nThis was when she got the first glimpse of Ms Steenkamp's drive, Ms Smith says.\n\nHer friend always had striking looks, even before she became a TV star: \"She had this classic beauty to her. What made her even more beautiful was how unaware she seemed of it.\"\n\nAt university, Ms Steenkamp spent most of her time behind a book, with loved ones and riding horses.\n\nDuring her final year of university she broke her back after falling off a horse and was bedridden for two months.\n\nThose close to her say this was what she needed to get out her shell.\n\n\"I think it made her realise that things can happen so quickly,\" says Ms Smith, who was one of the first people to visit her in hospital shortly after the accident.\n\n\"She's lying there, her head is strapped in and she is not allowed to move and she says: 'My hair is dirty, I've got grass in my hair and I've got sand in my hair. I can't handle it' - it was so her,\" laughs Ms Smith, saying her friend never let bad situations get her down.\n\nAlthough she was worried about embarking on her modelling career relatively late, Ms Steenkamp was set on making a name for herself in the industry.\n\nAfter being turned down for auditions for FHM cover girl two years in a row, she underwent a makeover - changing her hair colour from brunette to sunny blonde.\n\nKerry Smith was one of the few friends invited to Reeva Steenkamp's funeral\n\n\"She was determined to get that job. Reeva was the kind of person who didn't take no for an answer. She worked hard and lost weight, re-invented herself and it paid off,\" says Ms Smith.\n\nHer face lights up when she speaks of her friend, she is mostly in high spirits but there are moments when she pauses to compose herself.\n\nShe dips in and out of referring to Ms Steenkamp in the present, a sign perhaps that she has not quite dealt with the loss.\n\nMs Smith tells me how shocked she was when she heard that the model was dating Mr Pistorius, because Ms Steenkamp had recently told her how happy she was with another man, whom she had been seeing for three years.\n\n\"I thought that was the person she was going to marry, they even had a company together. I don't know what happened, next thing I know she is dating Oscar,\" she says.\n\nWhen Ms Steenkamp died, the couple had been dating for three months and her parents had not met the athlete\n\n\"It happened so quickly, even her parents hadn't met him. Soon after that it had all ended.\"\n\nLike many others, Ms Smith has questions about the moments leading up to the shooting.\n\n\"She was not a quiet person at all. She would have screamed, hearing him shout in the house, she would have let rip, she would have not kept her mouth shut at all,\" says Ms Smith.\n\nBut Mr Pistorius says Ms Steenkamp remained quiet, otherwise he would have known she was in the toilet.\n\nShe had spoken of some concerns about Mr Pistorius, like his speeding while driving.\n\n\"I think she genuinely loved him and that blinded her. I think she got to a point where she thought it was all fine,\" says Ms Smith.\n\nLike Ms Steenkamp's parents, she says she just wants the truth and for justice to be served.\n\nWe have been sitting for more than an hour looking at the messages she and Ms Steenkamp exchanged - she says she reads them sometimes when missing her becomes too much.\n\n\"She was mad about my daughter. It breaks my heart to think she will never have that. She adored children,\" Ms Smith says, struggling to complete her sentences.\n\nThe pain is still all too raw.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe prediction that average UK earnings in 2022 could still be less than in 2008 is \"astonishing\", according to an independent economic think tank.\n\nPaul Johnson, director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies, added that the economic forecasts published in the Budget made for \"pretty grim reading\".\n\nHe highlighted that since 2014 growth in earnings has been \"choked off\".\n\n\"We are in danger of losing not just one but getting on for two decades of earnings growth,\" he said.\n\n\"Let's hope this forecast turns out to be too pessimistic.\"\n\nMr Johnson was reacting to the productivity, earnings and economic growth forecasts from the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), which were released on Wednesday.\n\nThe Chancellor, Philip Hammond, has said he hopes to prove the bleak economic forecasts released in the Budget wrong.\n\nThe chancellor said clarity around Brexit would increase consumer confidence and lead to higher growth in the economy.\n\nWhat is the point of capitalism?\n\nThat might seem like a pretty big question, but one answer could be \"to provide people the opportunity through work to become richer\".\n\nWhat, though, if the economy fails in that endeavour?\n\nIf the system leaves you - despite all your efforts - worse off in December than you were the previous January?\n\nOr worse off now than you were a decade ago?\n\nIt was Lord Adair Turner, the former head of the Low Pay Commission, who put it succinctly.\n\n\"The UK over the last 10 years has created a lot of jobs, but today real wages are below where they were in 2007,\" he told me earlier this year.\n\n\"That is not the capitalist system delivering its promise that over a decade or so it will raise all boats, and it is a very fundamental issue.\"\n\nOn Wednesday, the OBR cut its growth forecast for the UK economy sharply, following changes to estimates of productivity and business investment.\n\nIt now expects the economy to grow by 1.5% this year, down from its previous forecast of 2%. It also said growth would be weaker than previously thought in each of the subsequent four years.\n\nShadow chancellor John McDonnell said the hit to the economy would \"hit all of society\".\n\nHe said more government intervention and extra spending would \"pay for itself\" and alleviate the UK's productivity problem.\n\nAlso on Thursday, another think tank, the Resolution Foundation, said that disposable incomes are now expected to be £540 lower by 2023 than forecast in March, largely as a result of weaker pay growth.\n\nThe Foundation said that the UK is on course for its longest fall in living standards since records began more than 60 years ago, with real disposable incomes now set to fall for 19 successive quarters.\n\nDespite high levels of employment in the UK, wage growth has remained stubbornly low.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Philip Hammond explains how the UK can get its economic forecast upgraded\n\nThe latest official figures showed workers' earnings, excluding bonuses, rose 2.2% in the three months to September compared with a year ago.\n\nBut they fell 0.5% in real terms when accounting for inflation, marking seven months of negative pay growth, according to the Office for National Statistics.\n\nThe lower forecasts for growth are also jeopardising the government's plan to balance the books by the mid 2020s.\n\nThe IFS said it was highly unlikely Mr Hammond will meet that target.\n\n\"To get there we would have to have another round of spending cuts,\" IFS director Paul Johnson told the BBC. \"Given how hard it has been to get where we are, I think that is going to be pretty tough.\"", "The BBC's Question Time was cut short on Thursday when an audience member was taken ill during the recording.\n\nThe BBC One show, from Colchester Town Hall, in Essex, was suspended while the woman was given first aid.\n\nHost David Dimbleby said later they had to end the recording as the woman \"could not be safely moved\".\n\nThe hour-long programme, featuring Conservative Greg Clark, Labour's Diane Abbott and others was about 40 minutes in when it was halted.\n\nThe panel had already been asked \"what is the point of capitalism?\" and whether the Budget could fix the broken housing market.\n\nThe programme was broadcast in a shortened form, while Andrew Neil's political show This Week was moved forward.\n\nA tweet from Question Time later read: \"With regards to last night's #bbcqt - the audience member is now out of hospital and thanks everyone for their concern.\"", "Katie was found seriously injured near playing fields in York in January\n\nA teenager who killed seven-year-old Katie Rough has been detained for life and ordered to serve a minimum term of five years.\n\nThe girl, 16, who cannot be named for legal reasons, pleaded guilty to manslaughter by diminished responsibility in July.\n\nKatie was smothered and slashed with a knife at a playing field in Woodthorpe, York, on 9 January.\n\nMr Justice Soole at Leeds Crown Court said it was a \"truly exceptional case\".\n\nThe defendant, who appeared via video link, sat with her head down clutching a soft toy as Katie's family looked on from the jury box.\n\nSentencing the teenager, the judge said: \"The gravity of the offence of killing a small child speaks for itself. The level of danger to the public is high.\n\n\"In the circumstances of your continuing silence, the critical question is whether there is any reliable estimate as to how long that danger will continue.\"\n\nHer barrister said this was not a \"malicious manoeuvre\", but a coping mechanism, as she was still suffering from post-traumatic stress.\n\nA previous hearing was told how the girl, who was 15 at the time of the attack, suffered with severe mental health problems and was convinced people \"were robots\".\n\nDuring the hearing, the court was told how the girl was found standing in a cul-de-sac covered in blood and carrying a Stanley knife as she rang 999 to tell police what she had done.\n\nA post-mortem examination showed Katie had two severe cuts to her body, one to her neck and the other to her torso, but died from being smothered.\n\nPaul and Alison Rough found their daughter at the same time as police officers reached her\n\nIn July, after denying murder but admitting manslaughter, the teenager was given a 12-week interim hospital order to allow for further assessment of her mental health before sentencing.\n\nThe judge was told the girl began suffering from mental health problems more than a year before the killing and that due to her \"irrational beliefs\" she may have been trying to prove that Katie was not a robot.\n\nProsecutors said she had reported delusional thoughts as well as depression, self-harm and suicidal thoughts.\n\nNicholas Johnson QC, defending, told the previous hearing his client \"was clearly crying out for help and support\".\n\nDuring the sentencing hearing, the court was told psychiatrists still cannot agree on the exact nature of the girl's mental disturbance.\n\nSome have explored whether she was suffering from a depressive disorder and others considered if she has an emerging personality disorder.\n\nMr Johnson explained she had not engaged with the experts and asked the judge to conclude that she was \"unwilling because she was unable\".\n\nMore than 300 people attended Katie's funeral in February\n\nNHS England said it had commissioned an independent inquiry to investigate the treatment the teenager had received prior to the killing.\n\nFollowing sentencing a statement by Katie's family was read outside court by police.\n\nIt said: \"Our story is about a loving home and family that was torn apart on a day when we lost our daughter.\n\n\"Our story goes on into a future where our home feels very empty, but we will keep going for sake of our other children and our grandson.\n\n\"Katie's memory will live on in our hearts but also more widely, as a little girl who brought more colour to her world.\"\n\nDet Ch Insp Andrea Kell, of North Yorkshire Police, said: \"This investigation has been one of the most tragic and challenging I have ever dealt with.\n\n\"There are no positive results from cases such as these.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It's seven months until Russia hosts the Football World Cup, and one of the England team’s favoured locations for their base is the small village of Repino near St Petersburg.\n\nWe've been granted exclusive access to the training ground complex that is being built and the nearby four-star hotel. Sarah Rainsford reports.", "Last updated on .From the section Cricket\n\nFirst Ashes Test, Gabba, Brisbane (day two of five)\n\nAustralia captain Steve Smith withstood the charge of the England bowlers to leave the first Ashes Test delicately poised after two days in Brisbane.\n\nOn a fascinating and, at times, thrilling day, Smith made an unbeaten 64 to lead his side to 165-4, 137 behind.\n\nThat was a significant recovery from 76-4 as England's attack, expertly marshalled by skipper Joe Root, was excellent in the scorching afternoon heat.\n\nSmith combined with Shaun Marsh, who is 44 not out, for an unbroken partnership of 89.\n\nThe tourists earlier lost their last six wickets for 56 runs to slip to 302 all out.\n\nIn control when Dawid Malan (56) and Moeen Ali (38) were together, England surrendered the initiative in a whirl of poor shots, aggression from Australia's fast bowlers and the trickery of off-spinner Nathan Lyon.\n\nHe claimed two wickets, while pace bowlers Mitchell Starc and Pat Cummins finished with three each.\n\nTo slump from 246-4 was feeble from England, but their total was put into context as Australia struggled to score freely on a pitch that remains slower than a usual Gabba wicket.\n\nAlthough Smith and Marsh were solid later in the day, England are well in the hunt to end Australia's 29-year unbeaten run on this ground.\n• None England can expect more bouncers but Australia have a soft underbelly - Agnew\n• None 'This game is in the balance' - TMS podcast with Agnew & Vaughan\n• None Listen to Test Match Special highlights of day two\n\nIf a first day when England reached 196-4 was attritional, disrupted by rain and not enough to really stir the crowd, then day two was when the Ashes excitement truly arrived.\n\nIt was cut and thrust as soon as play resumed at 09:30 local time, England more intent to play shots and finding the boundary with regularity.\n\nWhen Australia's bowlers began to target England with short bowling, the hostility shown to the visiting batsmen rallied the home support.\n\nFor the first time in the match, the Gabba lived up to its 'Gabbatoir' nickname as the sight of an England collapse in front of baying fans evoked memories of the 5-0 whitewash in 2013-14.\n\nStill, the Barmy Army were lively throughout, trading songs with hundreds of Australia supporters dressed as the late commentator Richie Benaud on a scorching afternoon.\n\nDuring the Australia fightback, noise dropped as tension grew and at one point a scuffle in the crowd had to be broken up by the police.\n\nHowever, perhaps the biggest cheer of the day had nothing to do with cricket, instead greeting a successful marriage proposal in the boundary-side swimming pool.\n\nFor a while in the afternoon, it looked as though the brilliance of England's bowlers would take advantage of Australia's brittle batting.\n\nWith Root directing fielders according to careful plans and the attack showing the discipline and skill to execute them, the top order was dismantled.\n\nDebutant opener Cameron Bancroft poked at a wide one to be caught behind off Stuart Broad, while off-spinner Moeen, on after only eight overs, pinned Usman Khawaja in front.\n\nJake Ball claimed the crucial wicket of David Warner, the vice-captain tamely chipping to short mid-wicket, and James Anderson successfully reviewed a not-out decision to have Peter Handscomb lbw.\n\nSmith, the top-ranked batsman in the world, stood firm throughout and gave no chances as he shuffled across his stumps to score almost exclusively on the leg side.\n\nHe found an ally in Marsh, who was controversially recalled to the side but grew in stature as the final session wore on.\n\nMarsh twice edged through the slips, once off Moeen and once off Root's part-time off-spin. In the end, it was England who were happier to see the close.\n\nThe tourists and Ashes holders will come back fresher on Saturday, looking to break the fifth-wicket partnership in order to attack the lower order.\n\nWhile Malan and Moeen were extending their fifth-wicket stand - worth 33 overnight - to 83, it looked like England would reap full rewards for their day-one patience.\n\nMalan, the third Ashes debutant in England's top five to pass 50, played drives and hooks and Moeen swept Lyon as Australia's bowling seemed there for the taking.\n\nBut when Malan was sloppily suckered into hooking Starc straight to deep square-leg, it began a collapse reminiscent of England's defeat four years ago.\n\nAustralia's pace bowlers were energised into a barrage of short-pitched deliveries and Jonny Bairstow, Ball and Broad also fell to the short ball.\n\nAt the other end, Lyon trapped Moeen lbw and bowled a driving Chris Woakes to pick up the wickets his performance deserved.\n\nIt took Broad's swiping 20 to get England past 300, but from their earlier position they will surely feel like they should have scored more.\n\n'It's fascinating' - what they said\n\nEngland seamer James Anderson on BBC Test Match Special: \"Every batsman that has come in has said they don't know what a good score is.\n\n\"If we come out and get two early wickets tomorrow, then 300 is a pretty good score.\"\n\nFormer England captain Michael Vaughan on TMS: \"I found today really, really exciting to watch.\n\n\"The game is in the balance. It's been fascinating. When I team scores 302, those kind of scores tend to bring out really good Test matches.\n\nAustralia spinner Nathan Lyon: \"There were a lot of nerves around for our first innings - there are in every Test.\n\n\"We need to bat as long as we can, get to their score and hopefully past it. The bowlers need to fight hard with the stick.\"\n• None This is the third time England have reached 300 batting first at the Gabba; they won on both previous occasions, in 1936-37 and 1986-87\n• None England have only lost once at the Gabba when scoring at least 300 in their first innings, when they made 325 in 2002-03\n• None All three of Jake Ball's Test wickets have been top-three batsmen: Azhar Ali, Cheteshwar Pujara and David Warner\n• None Australia have only won one Ashes Test at the Gabba when conceding a first-innings lead batting second (1990-91)", "The Black Friday sales bonanza was on course for a record with consumers set to spend almost £8bn during what has become a four-day shopping event.\n\nBarclaycard said transaction numbers were 32% up on last year, with Black Friday most likely behind the rise.\n\nRetail researchers said online sales would see the most growth on Friday.\n\nShoppers are expected to spend £1.15bn online - up 15% on the same day last year. On the High Street, sales were forecast to hit £1.45bn, up 4% on 2016.\n\nBarclaycard said the value of all transactions were up 8% on last year by mid afternoon.\n\nUsing Barclaycard data, it is not possible to split off what is everyday spending and what is spurred by Black Friday.\n\nHowever, average weekly spending online in the UK stands at about £1.2bn according to the Office of National Statistics, so sales on Friday alone will be close to matching those in a normal week.\n\nJohn Lewis, Game, Tesco and Argos have extended their high street opening hours and many retailers have already offered days of deals in a bid to maximise hype and spending around the event.\n\nBut many retailers have opted out, including Marks and Spencer. London's Harrods department store has also ignored Black Friday, saying that frenzied sales events \"cheapen the brand\".\n\nAnd clothing retailer Primark said in a blog: \"Black Friday? *Yawn* As if we'd make you wait all year for a flash sale, just to wow you with our totes increds prices.\"\n\nBlack Friday - which now includes weekend shopping promotions and Cyber Monday - has surged in popularity in the UK in recent years, and has become popular in mainland Europe.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Not everywhere was as busy as predicted on Black Friday\n\nAccording to predictions by VoucherCodes and the Centre for Retail Research, shoppers are expected to spend £7.8bn over the four-day period including Cyber Monday. That would be up 7% on the four days last year.\n\nBarclaycard, which processes nearly half of all debit and credit card transactions in the UK, said between 1pm and 2pm it had processed a record 998 transactions in one second, compared with last year's peak of 791. Meanwhile, spending was up by 8% on the same period last year.\n\nTopCashback's UK director Adam Bullock said \"Black Friday is shaping up to be the biggest shopping day we have ever seen\", with overall consumer spending increasing by 15% and £12,500 being spent per minute. The discount retailing site said it expects the figure to increase throughout the day.\n\nHowever, there was a lack of early morning queues on Oxford Street Friday morning, although John Lewis had attracted a line of about 12 bargain hunters who stood outside the department store shortly before opening time.\n\nLawrence Konadu and Jeremy Opoku at Uniqlo on Black Friday\n\nLawrence Konadu, 20, and Jeremy Opoku, 22, were heading to Japanese retailer Uniqlo to buy KAWS' second collection of the iconic comic strip Peanut, which launched on Friday.\n\n\"We still would have come out, but the release of this brand gave us more of a push,\" Mr. Opoku said.\n\nBut other shoppers said they didn't even realise it was Black Friday. Mark Norden said: \"I didn't know it was Black Friday. I had a meeting around the corner and thought I would return some boots.\"\n\nPeople are staying up later and waking up earlier for Black Friday deals. Online traffic between midnight and 6am rose 40% year-on-year, and was up 300% over a typical day, according to Katie Ward of Vouchercloud.\n\n\"We've increasingly discovered the trend of staying up later and waking up earlier for Black Friday deals is true and strong,\" Ms. Ward said.\n\nThe largest peak in spending was between 6am and 7am, with traffic rising more than 400%. Some 85% more shoppers checked deals before midnight.\n\nSales via smartphones may replace desktops on Black Friday this year, according to researcher PCA Predict, with more than 40% of transactions expected to be made on phones and tablets.\n\nDozens of retailers are offering a raft of deals online including Amazon, Currys PC World, Argos, Gap, Top Shop, Miss Selfridge and others.\n\nAlthough online transactions have increased, basket sizes are lower so far, according to Global Savings Group.\n\nThe average basket size of online spenders is £107.35 compared with a normal day's spend of £151.42. About 60% of online discount hunters are female, the group said.\n\nBlack Friday originated in the US, where it takes place the day after Thanksgiving, traditionally kick-starting the Christmas shopping period.", "British Transport Police say officers were called to Oxford Circus Tube station following reports of gun fire on the westbound Central Line platform.\n\n\"Passengers at the station then self-evacuated the station onto Oxford Circus and Regent Street area of London,\" a statement said.\n\n\"This caused a significant level of panic which resulted in numerous calls from members of the public reporting gunfire. \"Officers responded in line with our procedures of a terrorist incident, this included armed officers from British Transport Police and the Metropolitan Police.\n\n\"A full and methodical search of the station and Oxford Street was conducted by officers.\n\n\"At this stage, we are examining the circumstances of the incident which resulted in the station being evacuated. \"During the station evacuation, one woman is believed to have sustained a minor injury.\"", "Theresa May has been given 10 days to offer further concessions on issues including the Brexit divorce bill and the complex matter of the Irish border if she wants European Union leaders to agree to trade talks.\n\n\"We need to see progress from UK within 10 days on all issues, including on Ireland,\" European Council president Donald Tusk said after talks in Brussels.\n\nThe prime minister hopes a crunch summit in the Belgian capital next month will give the green light to move on to the next stage of the Brexit process, covering future trading arrangements and a possible implementation period to avoid a cliff-edge for businesses.\n\nShe insisted that there had been a \"very positive atmosphere\" in talks on Friday.", "Footage shows the chaotic aftermath of a bomb and gun attack on a mosque in Egypt that left at least 235 dead.\n\nMilitants opened fire on worshippers at the al-Rawda mosque in the town of Bir al-Abed during Friday prayers.", "It is not yet clear how the tiger escaped from the circus (archive pic)\n\nA tiger broke out of a circus in central Paris and roamed streets just south of the Eiffel Tower before its circus handlers shot and killed it.\n\nPolice tweeted that the tiger had gone on the loose in the 15th district but \"the danger has been eliminated\".\n\nNobody was hurt by the 200kg (31-stone) tiger, according to local reports.\n\nTram traffic was suspended in the area. Residents called the emergency services when they spotted the animal on the run just before 18:00 (17:00 GMT).\n\n\"It was a very big tiger,\" a witness called Ralph told Le Parisien website. \"We heard two or three shots and saw police going down towards the tracks.\"\n\nThe tiger was killed in an alley, a fire service spokesman said.\n\nIts owner, who brought the animal down with a shotgun, has been taken into custody, AFP news agency reports citing a police source. Police have opened an investigation.\n\nThe Bormann Moreno circus recently set up in Paris and planned to start holding shows from 3 December.\n\nThe tiger was shot by its handler", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMichael Gove has hit out at the way social media \"corrupts and distorts\" political reporting and decision making following a row about animal welfare.\n\nThe environment secretary said attacks on MPs over a vote on EU laws on animal \"sentience\" were \"absolutely wrong\".\n\nThe Commons vote sparked protests and social media campaign backed by high-profile figures such as Ben Fogle.\n\nThe explorer has apologised for posting \"misleading threads\" but defended sharing details on \"important stories\".\n\nLast week MPs voted not to incorporate part of an EU treaty recognising that animals could feel emotion and pain into the EU Withdrawal Bill.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ben Fogle This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGreen Party co-leader Caroline Lucas had tabled the amendment to the EU bill, which would have transferred the EU protocol on animal sentience - the ability to experience feelings - into domestic law.\n\nBut ministers argued that the recognition of animals' sentience already existed in UK law and MPs rejected the amendment.\n\nMr Gove told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"On social media there was a suggestion that somehow the MPs had voted against the principle that animals are sentient beings, that did not happen, that is absolutely wrong.\"\n\n\"There is an unhappy tendency now for people to believe that the raw and authentic voice of what's shared on social media is more reliable than what is said in Hansard or on the BBC.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove says the government has made a commitment to animal welfare\n\n\"More than that there is a particular concern somehow, a belief somehow that outside the European Union our democratic institutions can't do better than we did in the EU. We've got to challenge both those points.\"\n\nHe said Parliament was \"an effective and vigorous institution which can ensure protection for human rights and animal rights\".\n\nVeterinary bodies want existing references to animal sentience in law made more explicit\n\n\"We've also got to stand up against the way in which social media corrupts and distorts both reporting and decision making... It's important that all of us do that and that some of us who shared some of these messages on social media have been generous enough to acknowledge ... that they may have unwittingly passed these messages on.\"\n\nAmong others who shared material posted by campaign groups which criticised MPs were the comedian Sue Perkins and Countdown host Rachel Riley.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Sue Perkins This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Fogle said he accepted the government's arguments but insisted it was not only up to social media users to spread inaccurate reports, pointing out that a number of established newspapers published stories based on the same information.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 3 by Ben Fogle This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Gove said there would not be a \"gap\" in animal welfare provisions as a result of the vote, once the UK left the EU, because the UK would \"ensure we have stronger protection written into law\". He argued that the EU legislation was \"poorly designed\" and said there was \"no way in which animal protection can be diminished in any way, in any shape, or in any form\".\n\nBut Ms Lucas said the government had been \"backpedalling\" since the vote: \"What I was told in the chamber was that they had no need to take any account of my amendment because this principle of animal sentience was already recognised in UK law in the Animal Welfare Act of 2006.\n\n\"Now that is patently untrue, wrong and I am very glad in the last 24 hours Michael Gove and others have been rapidly backpedalling and admitting that that's not true.\"\n\nAnd David Cameron's ex-director of communications suggested Mr Gove reflect on the impact of social media during the EU referendum - in which he was a passionate Leave campaigner.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Craig Oliver This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Veterinary Association senior vice president Gudrun Ravetz told the BBC that there was a \"significant difference\" between the Article 13 EU protocol, which put a duty on the state to pay full regard to animal welfare when formulating and implementing policies, and the UK legislation, the 2006 Animal Welfare Act, which put the duty on the owner.\n\nThe first was \"explicit\" about \"animal sentience\", the latter was only \"implicit about sentience of animals and vertebrates\".\n\n\"That is a very important principle, we have the duty of animal welfare for the owner and keeper under the Animal Welfare Act, and that will continue but what we want to see is that duty to the state,\" she added.\n\nMr Gove was a relatively late convert to social media, only joining Twitter in June 2016 after he was sacked as a minister by Theresa May.\n\nBut he has continued to tweet since rejoining the cabinet this summer.\n\nHansard is the name given to the daily verbatim transcripts of parliamentary debates in Westminster, which have been officially printed since 1909 and are available online too.", "Dominic O'Neill crashed a police car while he was in custody wearing handcuffs\n\nA drink-driver who tried to escape in a police car and crashed into cars while wearing handcuffs has been jailed.\n\nDominic O'Neill, 38, was detained and placed in the back, but \"managed to get into the driver's seat and drive off\" in Leicester, on 21 October.\n\nO'Neill was sentenced to 16 months in prison for several motoring offences at Leicester Crown Court.\n\nLeicestershire Police said its officers had \"received advice\" surrounding the circumstances of the crash.\n\nPolice said officers, who were on patrol on Abbey Park Road, identified a car which was driving on false plates.\n\nO'Neill, of Lincoln Street in the city, was \"driving the car and failed to stop\" for the officers.\n\nA short while later officers stopped the car on Parker Drive where O'Neill was detained and handcuffed.\n\nPolice said he was placed in the back of the car, but \"managed to get into the driver's seat and drive off\".\n\nThe offender crashed and damaged two vehicles which were stationary at traffic lights.\n\nHe abandoned the police car and ran off, but was arrested nearby.\n\nO'Neill was charged and admitted aggravated vehicle taking/dangerous driving, driving while disqualified, using a vehicle on a road/public place without third party insurance and driving a motor vehicle with alcohol levels above the limit.\n\nAs well as the jail-term, he also had to pay a victim surcharge of £140 and was disqualified from driving for four years and eight months.\n\nIn a statement, Leicestershire Police said: \"Following the incident an internal investigation was carried out into the circumstances surrounding the incident.\n\n\"The matter was not referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.... necessary officers have received advice.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Serious work on restoring Zimbabwe's finances need to begin once the celebrations over Robert Mugabe's departure have ended\n\nCurrent events in Zimbabwe show that while a week may be a long time in politics, it is really a very short blink of an eye in economics. Zimbabweans on the streets of Harare and Bulawayo may be hopeful for political change, but they are much more sanguine and realistic when it comes to improving the country's economy.\n\nPresidents can be impeached in days or weeks. It takes years to wreck economies and usually even longer to repair them.\n\nSo, will Emmerson Mnangagwa be able to take Zimbabwe's economy off life support and at least start to put it on the road to recovery? Analysts are very sceptical that a quick solution is even feasible. The euphoria that has gripped the nation has certainly raised hopes that the future will be brighter, but if that improved sentiment is to deliver economic dividends, the government needs to make some drastic reforms.\n\nThe first tool President Mnangagwa would need to even get a recovery kick-started is hard currency. Zimbabwe hasn't had a currency of its own since 2009, after hyperinflation killed off the old Zimbabwean dollar.\n\nZimbabwe 100 trillion and 500 thousand dollar banknotes, produced after the country experienced a period of hyperinflation\n\nZimbabwe has lost its status as the breadbasket of Africa\n\nSince then, the US dollar has been the main currency for transactions, as well as the South African rand. And in recent years a cash shortage has been slowly strangling the economy, which is half the size it was at the turn of the millennium.\n\nBut who would stump up the cash? Western donors will remain wary of a Zanu-PF government which simply sees Robert Mugabe replaced by Mr Mnangagwa.\n\nThe International Monetary Fund, which describes Zimbabwe's economy as one of the most fragile in the world, may be more willing - but only with many strings attached to any deal.\n\nChina is possibly the most likely cash benefactor in the initial stages of a Mnangagwa administration. In some circles, Mr Mnangagwa is seen as Zimbabwe's Deng Xiaoping, the Chinese leader who instigated a degree of market liberalisation.\n\nAssuming the cash is forthcoming, what then? Mr Mnangagwa would have to dump economic policies that are unpalatable to foreign investors.\n\nZimbabwe's agricultural production started to plunge after the government-sanctioned programme of farm seizures came into effect\n\nZimbabwe has a potential labour force that is one of the most skilled in Africa\n\nIn 2009, Mr Mugabe signed the Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Act (IEEA) into law, which aimed to place 51% of companies into the hands of Black Zimbabweans.\n\nEven some Chinese companies have been forced to close their operations in Zimbabwe in recent years, because the IEEA made it unprofitable to do business in the country.\n\nOnce considered the breadbasket of Africa, Zimbabwe saw its agricultural production start to plunge at the turn of the century after the government-sanctioned programme of farm seizures.\n\nSome sources claim that Mr Mnangagwa is keen to revitalise Zimbabwe's commercial farms, and may seek the help of white farmers to do it.\n\nCorruption has been a major restraint on economic growth in Zimbabwe for years. Much of the farmland that was seized from white farmers ended up in the hands of army generals and the political elite, who knew next to nothing about agriculture.\n\nThe farms simply fell into disarray. Likewise, businesses that ended up with people with more political connections than entrepreneurial flair more often than not went to the wall.\n\nThree million Zimbabweans are estimated to live outside the country, having fled the dire economic conditions that emerged over the past two decades\n\nNot that corruption is confined to Zimbabwe in the African context, but it is one of those places that it seems to trickle down from the top. Just ask any South African who has driven their car across the border and been stopped at a police roadblock.\n\nBut Mr Mnangagwa has not escaped the corruption criticism. It is alleged that he was at the top of corruption tree when the army effectively took over the Marange diamond fields in the east of the country in 2008. At the time, he was the defence minister.\n\nThat whole affair raised the eyebrows even of Mr Mugabe, who said last year that he felt at least $13bn of revenue had gone missing from the diamond bonanza.\n\nFor nearly 20 years, Zimbabwe has been in default on $9bn worth of international debt. That debt needs restructuring, probably with the assistance of the IMF and the World Bank.\n\nPerhaps a government that did not only include Zanu-PF could even get the debt (or some of it) wiped out. Mr Mnangagwa is thought to be open to a new deal with the IMF, but getting new financing and renegotiating old deals would probably be easier for a unity government which included opposition politicians, especially former Finance Minister Tendai Biti.\n\nFormal jobs in Zimbabwe are rare. Unemployment runs at more than 90%. Creating the conditions for investment and seeing that money flows in should have a dramatic short-term effect on unemployment.\n\nWestern governments will be wary of a Zanu-PF government which simply sees Robert Mugabe replaced by Emmerson Mnangagwa (above)\n\nOther conditions already exist: the country has an abundance of natural resources in both agriculture and mining, and a potential labour force that's one of the most skilled in Africa.\n\nAll it needs is the political will and the right economic conditions for Zimbabwe's unemployment statistics to become rather less stratospheric.\n\nMeanwhile, three million Zimbabweans are estimated to live outside the country, having fled the dire economic conditions that emerged over the past two decades. They too have skills which would be useful in the rebuilding of the economy.\n\nBut they will have to feel they would be landing on solid and stable ground - both financially and politically. Otherwise, why go back?\n\nIn addition, it could be argued that a Zanu-PF dominated government would not want them back this side of an election. The vast majority of the returning diaspora would be unlikely to vote for Mr Mnangagwa and his party.\n\nIn the longer term, Zimbabwe needs to have its own currency.\n\nUsing the US dollar was necessary after the old Zim dollar became worth less than the paper it was printed on and met its demise.\n\nBanks in Zimbabwe have been feeling the strain in recent months\n\nBut there is so much more to creating a viable currency than switching on a printing press. Confidence is key.\n\nLast year, the Reserve Bank introduced \"bond notes\" which were meant to alleviate the chronic shortage of US dollars in the system.\n\nHowever, many thought this was an attempt to re-introduce the Zim dollar via the back door.\n\nIn fact, the notes have done nothing to address the cash shortage and some analysts say they might have actually made the situation worse, by pushing up the demand for US dollars even further.\n\nFew people like using the bond notes, even though the amount in circulation is relatively low and the denominations are small.\n\nPutting money into a bank was no longer considered the soundest of options, because the cash could only be withdrawn in small amounts and there was always the fear that the Reserve Bank would come for your hard-earned dollars.\n\nSo, the stock market soared, ironically becoming one of the best performing bourses in the world. Indeed, the rise in the stock market has only been curtailed by the army intervention and the resignation of Mr Mugabe.\n\nPresident Mugabe was accused of preparing the presidency for his wife Grace\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.", "Dozens of prominent Saudi figures are being held in the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh. Many names are still secret, but the list is said to comprise at least 11 princes. It is part of an anti-corruption drive by the young Crown Prince, Mohammed bin Salman.\n\nThe BBC's Lyse Doucet was the first journalist to be allowed inside the hotel. She was given access by Saudi authorities.", "If you feel a little poorer now than you did a few years ago, you may not be alone as full-time workers earn a little less in real terms than they did a year ago, despite low unemployment levels.\n\nTo find out what the average wage is for your job and to see if it has increased since 2011 use the calculator below.\n\nYou can search by typing, or explore our list of 332 different roles, as classified by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).\n\nPlease enable JavaScript to view the salary calculator. I am a… Enter text to look for your job The BBC will not record your salary information. Please enter an amount between 1 and 100000\n\nIf you cannot see the calculator, click here.\n\nAll data used on this page is compiled and made available by the ONS's Annual Survey of Hours and Earnings (ASHE) - the most recent release was 26 October, 2017. The survey doesn't include self-employed workers or bonuses. We have chosen to use data for full-time workers only.\n\nThe BBC has examined figures from 2011 to 2017, inclusive. We excluded jobs entirely if there was no figure for 2017. Other sections may be hidden for certain jobs due to missing data.\n\nThe only sheets we used are those referring to \"Gross annual pay\" and \"Hourly pay- excluding overtime\". We used hourly pay to work out the gender pay gap and annual pay for all other figures. We selected the median figure rather than the mean, as per ONS advice.\n\nWe used the CPI measure of inflation to make real-term adjustments, comparing the indices for April 2017 with April 2011 and April 2016. The survey is completed in April at the end of each financial year.", "IS' Sinai Province, the most prominent jihadist group, posted video showcasing their weapons\n\nMore than 200 people have died in an unprecedented attack targeting a Sunni mosque in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula during Friday prayers, highlighting the alarming threat posed by jihadist militants in the region.\n\nSo far, no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, the deadliest of its kind in the country.\n\nSo-called Islamic State (IS) is the most prominent and violent of the militant groups in Sinai, with a record of targeting civilians in that area and in mainland Egypt.\n\nOther groups active in the country are mostly aligned with IS's arch jihadist rival, al-Qaeda.\n\nIS's Sinai affiliate, Sinai Province, has claimed responsibility for many deadly attacks, mostly targeting the army in Sinai. It also claimed the downing of a Russian airliner in October 2015.\n\nFormerly known as Ansar Beit al-Maqdis, the group first appeared in September 2011 and rebranded itself with an IS pledge of allegiance in November 2014.\n\nThe group generally targets Egyptian security forces in northern Sinai, but has also claimed an attack on a tourist site in southern Sinai in April.\n\nIn the first part of the year IS stepped up its rhetoric and attacks against Christians in Sinai and elsewhere in Egypt, claiming two deadly attacks on churches in Tanta and Alexandria on 9 April.\n\nIS started to scale up its attacks in Sinai since September, as it started losing territory in Iraq and Syria.\n\nOn 24 November, IS boasted about attacks it had carried out earlier in the week targeting policemen in western Arish, the area of the attacked mosque.\n\nIn addition to its attacks on Christians, IS has adopted a threatening tone against Sufi Muslims, whom it considers to be heretics.\n\nThe head of IS's religious police in Sinai had previously said that Sufis who did not \"repent\" would be killed. IS has beheaded a number of Sufi men whom it accused of \"sorcery\".\n\nScreen grab from the video posted by Jund al-Islam\n\nThe propaganda and rhetoric of this low-profile group suggests alignment with al-Qaeda.\n\nIts rivalry with IS in Sinai surfaced in November when Jund al-Islam issued a threat to IS militants.\n\nIn an audio message released on 11 November, Jund al-Islam claimed responsibility for an October attack on IS militants in Sinai, and vowed to crush the rival group \"for committing crimes against Muslims\" in the peninsula.\n\nA day later, Jund al-Islam issued another statement condemning the 9 November deadly attack on lorry drivers in northern Sinai, as well as blaming IS and the Egyptian government for the deaths.\n\nIn both its recent messages, Jund al-Islam stressed that it did not target \"innocent Muslims\".\n\nJund al-Islam's recent communiques follow a lengthy spell of media silence since 2015, and suggest the group is presenting itself as a challenger to IS in Sinai.\n\nThe group emerged in September 2013 with a claim of a double suicide attack on the Egyptian military intelligence HQ in the northern Sinai town of Rafah, which borders the Gaza Strip.\n\nIt stepped up its propaganda campaign in 2015, claiming rocket attacks on Israel and issuing a propaganda video that hinted at links with al-Qaeda in Yemen (AQAP).\n\nNot to be confused with the former Sahara-based jihadist group al-Mourabitoun, this Egyptian faction announced itself in 2015.\n\nHowever, since its formation, the group has not been observed to carry out any prominent attacks, and has mainly put out statements and threats.\n\nGiven its lack of visible activity, it remains unclear where exactly al-Mourabitoun operates in Egypt.\n\nIts propaganda suggests an al-Qaeda orientation, and veteran jihadist media operatives have linked it to an al-Qaeda attempt to check the rise of IS in Egypt.\n\nIts leader, Abu-Umar al-Muhajir, alias Hisham Ashmawi, is a former Egyptian army officer and a senior figure in Ansar Beit al-Maqdis before it pledged allegiance to IS.\n\nIn October 2015, Ashmawi called for the killing of Egyptian military officers, and for revenge in response to the deaths of Palestinians by Israel's security forces.\n\nAshmawi reiterated that message in March 2016, and urged Muslim clerics to play an active role in encouraging young people to embrace jihad.\n\nThis new group, not to be confused with the veteran Ansar al-Islam in Iraq, emerged in November, when it claimed responsibility for a high-profile attack in Egypt's Western Desert.\n\nAnsar al-Islam described the attack, in which more than 50 security personnel died, as \"the beginning of our jihad\".\n\nThe group's attack claim and its founding statement of 3 November was widely circulated by high-profile online supporters of al-Qaeda, which suggested a nod of approval.\n\nIts rhetoric and pledge to fight until the establishment of Islamic law suggest a jihadist orientation.\n\nAnsar al-Islam's statement urged Egyptians to join the jihad, or support the group through words or funds.\n\nMeaning \"Soldiers of Egypt\", this group appeared in January 2014, and carried out attacks in Cairo over the summer.\n\nIt has possible al-Qaeda associations, in that the Yemeni and African branches of that network posted eulogies on the death of its leader in April 2015.\n\nIt also coordinated attacks with Ansar Beit al-Maqdis before the latter joined IS.\n\nBut Ajnad Misr has repeatedly said that it tries to avoid civilian casualties in its attacks.\n\nMany of the group's members are now thought to be in prison.\n\nIn October 2017, the Egyptian authorities sought death sentences for 13 individuals with suspected links to the group.\n\nThe individuals are accused of killing soldiers, police officers and civilians, with a verdict expected in December.\n\nThe Hasm Movement surfaced in the summer of 2016 and has focused on attacking government and security personnel in Cairo and elsewhere in Egypt.\n\nThe Egyptian authorities and media have linked Hasm to the Muslim Brotherhood, which is outlawed in Egypt.\n\nThe group's rhetoric is more Islamist and \"pro-revolution\" than jihadist.\n\nOn 1 October Hasm targeted the Myanmar embassy in Cairo with an explosive device to express its solidarity with Rohingya Muslims, it said.\n\nHasm released its first propaganda video in January in which it showcased its training camps and boasted about the range of attacks it had carried out on the Egyptian authorities.\n\nSlick production and the group's claim of organisation and structure in the video were clearly meant to indicate that Hasm was not a shadowy group, but rather a sophisticated force to be reckoned with.\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.", "Authorities are investigating the RYB Education kindergarten in Beijing's Chaoyang district\n\nA Beijing nursery is accused of giving injections and feeding drugs to toddlers, in a case that has sparked outrage in China.\n\nAuthorities are now investigating the nursery, which is a branch of the well-known RYB Education chain.\n\nThe company says it \"deeply apologises\" for the matter that has caused \"severe disquiet\".\n\nBeijing officials are also conducting a security check in all nurseries in the Chinese capital.\n\nThe incident comes weeks after a Shanghai childcare centre was alleged to have abused several toddlers.\n\nAt least eight children attending the RYB Education pre-school in the upscale Chaoyang district are said to have been injected with unknown substances.\n\nParents told local media they had discovered needle marks on their children's bodies in recent days, and also circulated photographs online.\n\nState broadcaster CCTV aired a report showing a picture of needle marks taken by a parent\n\nThey also said their children were fed pills or syrup before their naptime. One father told state broadcaster CCTV that his child had said that every day after lunch they would be given two white pills, and \"go to sleep\" after eating the pills.\n\nLocal media report that some parents are also alleging possible sexual abuse, saying their children were stripped naked.\n\nOn Thursday, several parents gathered outside the kindergarten to protest. Some told Caixin Global that they suspected teachers had used needles to discipline children.\n\n\"Disobedient students were also forced to stand naked or were locked up in a dark room at the kindergarten,\" one parent told the news portal.\n\nPolice have seized CCTV footage at the nursery, and three teachers have also been suspended.\n\nThe Beijing Municipal Commission of Education said that a \"comprehensive security check\" was being conducted in all nurseries in Beijing.\n\nOne father told CCTV that his child was fed two white pills every day\n\nRYB Education issued a statement on Thursday (in Chinese) saying it was co-operating with police and added: \"We deeply apologise for this matter which has brought severe disquiet to parents and society!\"\n\nIt also said: \"If any wrongdoing is found, we will not shake off the responsibility. And we have also reported to the police some false accusations against us.\"\n\nThe company is one of China's most well-known early childhood education providers, and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange in September.\n\nThe case has sparked an intense outcry and reignited anxieties over childcare standards in China, which has seen other cases of abuse at nurseries in recent years.\n\nLast year four teachers at a RYB nursery in Jilin province were jailed for abuse, also involving giving injections to children. State news agency Xinhua reported at the time that one child was found to have more than 50 needle marks.\n\nRYB Education, one of China's most well-known education providers, was listed on New York Stock Exchange in September\n\nMainstream media have extensively covered the latest Beijing case, which has drawn tens of thousands of comments on microblogging network Sina Weibo.\n\nMost expressed outrage at the nursery and education authorities, and demanded fuller explanations as well as heavier punishments for the teachers. \"Suspension? That's just too easy,\" said one commenter, while another said: \"Don't let these beasts harm anyone else!\"\n\nMany also claimed that some online discussion was being scrubbed. A check on FreeWeibo, a website which tracks censorship on the network, found the top censored search was \"Honghuanglan\", RYB Education's Chinese name.\n\n\"The authorities are covering things up, and have an attitude where they do not directly answer questions. After this, no matter what kind of explanations they give, it will be hard to believe them. They are losing public trust step by step!\" said one commenter.\n\nA storm of social media attention came after a crowd of angry Beijing parents gathered outside the kindergarten.\n\nThere are reports that police have already confirmed that the marks on the children are consistent with needle punctures.\n\nRealising the explosive potential for this issue to spread, the Beijing education authorities have been quick to announce a full safety check of all kindergartens under its control.\n\nShock over the allegations follows an investigation last month into bruised children at a kindergarten in Wuhan, Hubei province and another scandal in Shanghai, also in November this year, after a video was released appearing to show kindergarten children being assaulted and injured by teachers.", "Thurman has appeared in a number of films produced by Weinstein\n\nUS actress Uma Thurman has sent out a Thanksgiving message venting anger at movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, who has been accused of sexual harassment and assault by dozens of women.\n\nShe did not detail any personal issues but added: \"When I'm ready, I'll say what I have to say... stay tuned.\"\n\nHer message wished a happy Thanksgiving to everyone \"except you Harvey and all your wicked conspirators\".\n\n\"I'm glad it's going slowly - you don't deserve a bullet,\" she added.\n\nWriting on Instagram, Thurman said she had \"a few reasons\" to be angry.\n\nShe added: \"#metoo in case you couldn't tell by the look on my face.\"\n\nThe hashtag has been used by women to share stories of sexual harassment and assault.\n\n\"I feel it's important to take your time, be fair, be exact,\" she said. \"Stay tuned.\"\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 ithurman 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 an earlier interview, Thurman said it was commendable that women were speaking out about harassment and assault.\n\n\"I have learned, I am not a child and I have learned that... when I've spoken in anger, I usually regret the way I express myself,\" she said.\n\n\"So I've been waiting to feel less angry. And when I'm ready, I'll say what I have to say.\"\n\nThurman has appeared in a number of films that were produced by Weinstein, including Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill.\n\nDozens of actresses, including Rose McGowan, Asia Argento, Angelina Jolie, Gwyneth Paltrow and Cara Delevingne have accused Mr Weinstein of harassment or assault.\n\nMeanwhile, representatives from Canada's film and TV industry have announced plans to establish a code of conduct \"clearly defining expectations of appropriate and inappropriate behaviour\".\n\nSixteen unions, guilds and associations have put their name to a commitment \"to end sexual harassment... discrimination, bullying and violence.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None How the Harvey Weinstein scandal has unfolded", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tom Baker returns on camera as the Doctor in Shada\n\nTom Baker has made a surprise appearance on camera as Doctor Who, donning his trademark stripy scarf in a newly-released episode.\n\nThe 83-year-old actor has returned to complete the unfinished story Shada, filmed in Cambridge, 38 years after it was abandoned.\n\nThe parts not filmed in 1979 will be completed with animation and Baker's voice, but he has also filmed a scene.\n\nBaker, the fourth Doctor, played the Time Lord between 1974 and 1981.\n\nHe is seen by fans of the show as one of the best actors in the role.\n\nThe story finds the Doctor in Cambridge working alongside Romana and a retired Time Lord\n\nFilming for Shada, which was written by Douglas Adams at the same time as he was creating The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, was started in 1979.\n\nBut strike action at the BBC meant studio scenes were never completed and the episodes were abandoned.\n\nIt has now been released by BBC Worldwide, with the original footage combined with new colour animations and voiceovers to complete the story.\n\nIn the new scene, Baker was filmed on the set of the original Tardis as it appeared in 1979.\n\nMissing scenes of the Shada adventures have been animated\n\nSpeaking about returning to the role, Baker said the Doctor \"probably never left me\".\n\n\"That's why I can't stay away from it, it was a lovely time of my life,\" he added.\n\n\"I loved doing Doctor Who, it was life to me. I used to dread the end of rehearsal because then real life would impinge on me. Doctor Who... when I was in full flight, then I was happy.\"\n\nOf his time filming Shada in Cambridge in 1979, Baker said: \"Mostly I remember being mocked by the students on the [River] Cam because I wasn't very good at punting, I kept losing the pole.\"\n\nThe newly-recorded lines from Baker as the Doctor and Lalla Ward as his companion Romana follow the original script by Douglas Adams.\n\nThe story finds the Doctor in Cambridge working alongside Romana and a retired Time Lord, Professor Chronotis, to defeat the evil alien Skagra who is attempting to steal the secrets to the prison planet Shada.\n\nJem Roberts, author of The Frood: The Authorised and Very Official History of Douglas Adams, said Adams later used the character Chronotis and parts of the plot in his novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency.\n\n\"Adams was probably glad that Shada was not finished, so he could use it for the backbone of his novel. He was a great believer in recycling,\" he said.\n\nBaker has returned to the role of the Doctor in audio plays and appeared as the Curator in the 2013 50th anniversary special The Day of the Doctor.\n\nHe last appeared on screen as the Doctor in a 1993 Children in Need special.\n\nShada is available to buy now as a digital download and will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on 4 December.", "Former Met Commissioner Sir Paul Stephenson said the allegations against Mr Green showed \"no criminality\"\n\nA former Scotland Yard chief was aware pornography had allegedly been found on Damian Green's office computer during a 2008-9 police probe, he has said.\n\nSir Paul Stephenson, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner between 2009-11, said he was briefed about the claims but regarded them as a \"side issue\".\n\nThe allegations were first made public last week by former Met Assistant Commissioner, Bob Quick.\n\nFirst Secretary of State Mr Green said his accusers had \"ulterior motives\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Porn was allegedly found to have been viewed on Mr Green's office computer after police raids in 2008\n\nMr Green, who is Prime Minister Theresa May's second-in-command, said: \"I reiterate that no allegations about the presence of improper material on my parliamentary computers have ever been put to me or to the parliamentary authorities by the police.\n\n\"I can only assume that they are being made now, nine years later, for ulterior motives.\"\n\nBut Mr Quick, who led the investigation into Home Office leaks which saw Mr Green's Commons office being searched, says pornography was found on a computer there.\n\nBoth Sir Paul and Mr Quick gave evidence to a Cabinet Office inquiry into Mr Green's conduct last week, led by senior Cabinet Office official Sue Gray.\n\nThe inquiry, which is being held behind closed doors, is also looking at a separate claim that Mr Green, made inappropriate advances towards a female Conservative activist in 2015. He also denies that allegation.\n\nDamian Green denies claims police found pornography on a computer in his office\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Sir Paul said he thought the claim about Mr Green \"wasn't relevant to the criminal inquiry\" into Home Office leaks, which began in October 2008.\n\nMr Green's home and office were searched as part of that probe and he was briefly arrested in November that year, but the then shadow immigration minister faced no further action.\n\nA review of the police inquiry found that \"less intrusive methods\" could have been used.\n\nReferring to the pornography allegations, Sir Paul said: \"I regret it's in the public domain.\n\n\"There was no criminality involved, there were no victims, there was no vulnerability and it was not a matter of extraordinary public interest.\"\n\nSir Paul added that it was not Scotland Yard's role to \"police the workplace\".\n\nThe Met declined to say whether it was helping the Cabinet Office investigate the claims, but said in a statement: \"As this is not our inquiry the MPS does not believe it is appropriate to comment upon it.\"", "Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump have previously called each other mad\n\nPresident Donald Trump has again traded barbs with North Korea, shortly before offering to mediate in a heated regional dispute.\n\nHe took to Twitter to complain he would never call North Korean leader Kim Jong-un \"short and fat\", after its foreign ministry called him \"old\".\n\nIt was one of a series of remarks he made on social media before volunteering his services over maritime claims in the South China Sea.\n\n\"I'm a very good mediator,\" he said.\n\nChina, Vietnam, the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia and Brunei all have competing claims to territory in the South China Sea.\n\nTensions with China have been high in both Vietnam and the Philippines, inflamed by the formers island-building and naval patrols.\n\nA framework for a code of conduct was agreed in August, but this is still only an outline, with more negotiations due to take place before it can be legally binding.\n\nMr Trump, who has long styled himself as a dealmaker, suggested his expertise could aid the process.\n\n\"If I can help mediate or arbitrate, please let me know,\" Mr Trump told his Vietnamese counterpart, Tran Dai Quang, at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Hanoi.\n\nMr Trump offered to help his Vietnamese counterpart, Tran Dai Quang (pictured together)\n\nMr Trump's own dispute with North Korea continues to escalate, at least in the insults traded across Twitter and in official statements.\n\nOn Saturday, North Korea denounced Mr Trump's Asia trip, calling it a \"warmonger's visit\" and again described the president as a \"dotard\" - a centuries-old insult for an elderly person.\n\nMr Trump responded with a passive aggressive tweet, suggesting he would never call Mr Kim was \"short and fat\", and complaining: \"Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend - and maybe someday that will happen!\"\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\nAs the president took to social media, three US aircraft carriers were taking part in a military exercise in the Western Pacific, in a show of strength aimed at North Korea.\n\nUS Pacific Fleet commander Scott Swift said the triple-carrier drill was the first in the region since 2007.\n\nSouth Korean and Japanese ships were also due to take part in the exercises, which began on Saturday and will continue until 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 U.S. Pacific Fleet This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 U.S. Pacific Fleet\n\nPresident Trump has not ruled out friendly relations with North Korea.\n\nAsked at a news conference in Vietnam if he could see himself being friends with Mr Kim, the president said: \"That might be a strange thing to happen but it's a possibility.\n\n\"If it did happen it could be a good thing I can tell you for North Korea, but it could also be good for a lot of other places and be good for the rest the world.\n\n\"It could be something that could happen. I don't know if it will but it would be very, very nice.\"\n\nThe Vietnamese leg of Mr Trump's five-nation Asia tour was met with protests. Mai Khoi, a singer and dissident, said police confined her to her home and threatened her with eviction, after she defied a ban on protests.\n\nMs Khoi, who was barred from standing for parliament last year, said she was escorted home after she flashed a sign insulting the president as his motorcade passed by.\n\nShe said she was protesting against Donald Trump's attitude to women and his failure to meet with human rights activists in Vietnam.\n\nMr Trump will travel to Manila later on Sunday for the final stop on his Asia tour, before flying back to the US.\n• None Why the Philippines matters to the US", "Iran's supreme court has upheld a five-year prison sentence given to a British-Iranian woman for security offences.\n\nCharity worker, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, was arrested at Tehran Airport in April 2016 while visiting family in Iran with her daughter.\n\nThe 38-year-old, who maintains her innocence, has lost the final stage of her appeal against the sentence.\n\nHer husband said there were no more legal options to overturn the sentence.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who works for the charity the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was imprisoned for five years in September and then lost an initial appeal against her sentence in January.\n\nShe was accused of allegedly plotting to topple the government in Tehran, but the official charges against her have not been made public.\n\nIran refuses to recognise dual nationals and denies them access to consular assistance.\n\nThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office has said it is \"deeply concerned\" by the latest court decision.\n\nThe British ambassador to Iran visited Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's two-year-old daughter Gabriella last year, who has been placed in the care of her Iranian grandparents, after the Iranian government confiscated her passport.\n\nA spokesman for the FCO said: \"Iran continues to refuse the UK access to her. The prime minister and foreign secretary have both raised Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's case with their counterparts in Iran.\n\n\"We continue to press the Iranians for access and for due process to be followed, and are ready to help get her daughter back safely to the UK if requested.\"\n\nBut speaking from the UK, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband, Richard, said he would continue to put pressure on the UK government.\n\n\"We've had a year, the legal process is finished, so I think the government needs to step up, find a way to visit her, say that she's innocent and call for her release publicly,\" he said.\n\n\"As her husband, I can say Nazanin is innocent until I am blue in the face. I have spent a year doing it.\n\n\"But it makes a clear difference that the government hasn't. It indulges the whispers.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaking to the BBC in January 2017, Richard Ratcliffe recalls the moment he realised his wife would not be returning to the UK.\n\nMonique Villa, CEO at Thomson Reuters Foundation, said she was \"entirely convinced\" of Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's innocence and called for her immediate release.\n\nShe said: \"This extinguishes the last hope we have had of legally overturning a punishment where the crime remains a mystery.\n\n\"Nazanin was given no court hearing for this final judgement. She is not a spy but an innocent mother who travelled to Iran only to show her baby to her parents.\"\n\nMs Villa added that Ms Zaghari-Ratcliffe has never had dealings with Iran in her professional capacity at the Thomson Reuters Foundation.", "PM Mariano Rajoy (L) joined the leader of his PP party in Catalonia for campaigning on Sunday\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has said regional elections next month in Catalonia will help end \"separatist havoc\" in the north-eastern region.\n\nHe addressed a campaign event on his first visit there since imposing direct rule on the region a fortnight ago.\n\nDefending his decision in Barcelona, he said he had \"exhausted all roads\" after the Catalan government's unilateral declaration of independence last month.\n\nSeveral key Catalan leaders are currently being detained over the move.\n\nSome 750,000 people protested in Barcelona on Saturday against the arrests, local police estimated.\n\nThe crisis was sparked by a disputed referendum held in Catalonia in October, which had been declared illegal by the Spanish courts.\n\nCatalan officials said the independence campaign won 92% of the vote, from a turnout of 43%. Many of those who were against independence did not cast votes, refusing to recognise the legitimacy of the referendum.\n\nThe Catalan government subsequently declared independence. In response, the Spanish government dissolved the region's parliament, imposed direct rule and called a snap regional election on 21 December.\n\nProtesters shone their mobile phone torches during Saturday's rally in Barcelona\n\nSpeaking at a campaign event in Barcelona for his Popular Party (PP) on Sunday, Mr Rajoy called on the participation of the \"silent majority\" to \"convert their voice into a vote\".\n\n\"We must reclaim Catalonia from the havoc of separatism,\" he added, saying: \"With democracy, we want to reclaim Catalonia for everyone.\"\n\nHe told PP supporters that the right result would boost Spain's economic growth next year to above 3%.\n\nHe called on companies not to leave the region, after hundreds of firms moved their headquarters away amid uncertainty over the region - which accounts for a fifth of Spain's economy. He also urged people in Spain to continue buying Catalan products.\n\nFor a short while, the man who ultimately runs Catalonia was in Catalonia. But Mariano Rajoy's advisors made sure he would not run into vocal pro-independence opponents.\n\nInstead, he spoke to the party faithful. Mr Rajoy's main campaign event was held inside a hotel ballroom, in front of mostly older supporters.\n\nSpain's prime minister came here in order to win the regional Catalan election he's called for 21 December. His People's Party doesn't command widespread support in this region.\n\nMr Rajoy's supporters waved flags left for them on their seats\n\nBut the pro-Spain movement as a whole makes up about half the population of Catalonia. An election victory for this sector would make it much harder for pro-independence forces to make another attempt to break away from Spain.\n\nAfter speaking for 25 minutes, Mr Rajoy posed for pictures and made his way out of the hotel amid a crush of supporters.\n\n\"Will you meet your opponents?\" I asked him. \"Yes,\" he said. But he didn't say where or when.\n\nSince the crackdown by Madrid, Catalonia's sacked President Carles Puigdemont has gone into self-imposed exile in Belgium, and many of his top allies have been remanded in custody.\n\nThousands took to the streets of Barcelona on Saturday calling on Spain to free the ministers, as well as two grassroots campaign leaders being detained.\n\nThey marched behind a banner declaring \"We are a republic\", and carried placards that said the detainees were political prisoners.\n\nThe sacked former ministers are accused of alleged rebellion and sedition, while the two activists were arrested over a mass protest before the referendum.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Here's what protesters in Catalonia are singing about\n\nThe left-wing ERC party, a key ally of Mr Puigdemont, has announced that some of the prisoners, including party leader Oriol Junqueras, as well as some of the sacked ministers who also went to Belgium, will stand on its electoral list.\n\nHowever, the ERC has rejected a call from Mr Puigdemont to fight the election as part of a single pro-independence bloc with other parties - as they did in 2015.\n\nMr Rajoy's PP won just 8.5% of the vote in the last regional elections two years ago.\n\nMr Rajoy was mocked as the Devil on this recent placard in Barcelona\n\nIn another development, the mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, condemned Catalonia's pro-independence leaders.\n\nMs Colau, who was elected in 2015 on an anti-capitalist platform and whose party is standing in the regional parliamentary election for the first time, said leaders of the independence movement had \"tricked the population for their own interests\".\n\nHowever, her party has also voted to break a pact with the Socialist party in Barcelona in protest at its support for the national government's decision to invoke Article 155 of the constitution, imposing direct rule on Catalonia.", "Michel Barnier says \"everyone needs to plan\" for the possible collapse of Brexit negotiations\n\nThe EU's chief negotiator, Michel Barnier, says he is planning for the possible collapse of Brexit negotiations with the UK.\n\nMr Barnier was talking to French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche days after giving the UK a two-week deadline to clarify key issues.\n\nFailing to reach an agreement was not his preferred option, he stressed.\n\nThe UK's Brexit Secretary David Davis has said it is time for both sides \"to work to find solutions\".\n\nOn Friday, Mr Davis insisted good progress was being made across the board, and that the negotiations had narrowed to a \"few outstanding, albeit important, issues\".\n\nDiscussing the likelihood of the talks collapsing, Mr Barnier said: \"It's not my option, but it's a possibility. Everyone needs to plan for it, member states and businesses alike. We too are preparing for it technically.\n\n\"A failure of the negotiations would have consequences on multiple domains.\"\n\nMr Barnier has asked the UK to clarify its stance on its financial obligations to the EU if future trade talks are to go ahead in December.\n\nBut Mr Davis has made conflicting remarks, suggesting the UK would not have to give a figure for a financial settlement before it could move on to talks about a future trading relationship.\n\nSpeaking to Sky News on Sunday, he said: \"In every negotiation, each side tries to control the timetable. The real deadline on this is, of course, December.\"\n\nMr Davis was referring to the next EU summit which will take place in Brussels in December.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Davis says there cannot be a new border within the UK\n\nHe said British taxpayers \"would not want me to just come along and just give away billions of pounds\".\n\nHe added: \"We've been very, very careful, and it's taking time and we will take our time to get to the right answer.\"\n\nHis comments followed a sixth round of talks between Mr Davis and Mr Barnier in Brussels.\n\nSpeaking after the talks on Friday, Mr Davis said any solution for the Irish border could not be at the expense of the constitutional integrity of the UK.", "A new poll suggests millennials in Canada are the mostly likely generation to attend a Remembrance Day celebration.", "Rebel Wilson says a male star repeatedly asked her to perform an obscene act\n\nAustralian actress Rebel Wilson is the latest Hollywood star to reveal her experience of sexual harassment in the entertainment industry.\n\nIn a series of tweets, she alleged that \"a male star in a position of power\" had repeatedly asked her to perform an obscene act.\n\n\"I refused. The whole thing was disgusting,\" she said.\n\nWilson said the unnamed star's male friends had attempted to film the incident before she left the room.\n\nShe complained to the film studio about the encounter, but says she was later \"threatened by one of the star's representatives\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rebel Wilson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe Pitch Perfect actress also recounted a second incident which she described as a \"hotel room encounter with a top director\".\n\n\"Nothing physical happened because the guy's wife called and started abusing him over the phone for sleeping with actresses... I bolted out of there immediately,\" she said.\n\nWilson added: \"If I witness this behaviour, whether it happens to me or someone I know, I will no longer be polite.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Rebel Wilson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA growing number of sexual misconduct allegations have been made against public figures in recent weeks.\n\nThe allegations have been sparked by multiple women speaking out against the Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, and a subsequent campaign encouraging victims to share their stories of sexual harassment under the #metoo hashtag..\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Margot Robbie wants \"something positive\" to come out of the Harvey Weinstein allegations", "Last updated on .From the section Formula 1\n\nLewis Hamilton says he was \"upset\" by news that personnel from his Mercedes team were robbed at gunpoint in Sao Paulo on Friday night.\n\nA van of Mercedes workers was held up on the road away from the Interlagos track. No-one was hurt in the incident.\n\nHamilton said: \"Gun shots fired, gun held at one's head. This is so upsetting to hear.\n\n\"It happens every single year here. F1 and the teams need to do more. No excuse.\"\n• None Hamilton starts from back after crash as Bottas takes pole\n\nHamilton added: \"Please say a prayer for my guys, who are here as professionals today even if shaken.\"\n\nA Mercedes spokesman said: \"Valuables were stolen but most importantly everybody is safe and uninjured.\"\n\nOther F1 personnel had near-misses on the same road, which is notorious for robberies.\n\nA gunman approached a car containing officials from governing body the FIA and tapped his weapon on the window, but the vehicle was armoured with bulletproof glass and they escaped.\n\nA car containing Williams team members was behind the FIA car and was approached by a gunman but managed to leave the scene safely.\n\nThey are the latest in a series of incidents affecting F1 personnel at the Brazilian Grand Prix in recent years.\n\nFormer F1 driver Jenson Button escaped a similar attempted robbery in 2010 when his driver, again in an armoured car, charged through stationary traffic to get away.", "Fresh claims about bullying in the Welsh Government have been made by a former adviser to Wales' first minister.\n\nSteve Jones said he agreed with former cabinet minister Leighton Andrews, who has described a \"toxic\" atmosphere at the top of the administration.\n\nThey spoke out following the death of sacked former communities minister Carl Sargeant who was found dead on Tuesday.\n\nThe Welsh Government said it did not recognise Mr Jones's claims.\n\nMr Sargeant was found dead at home four days after being sacked by First Minister Carwyn Jones over allegations of improper conduct towards women.\n\nBefore leaving the Welsh Government in September 2014, Steve Jones was a media adviser for the first minister and also worked on his Labour leadership campaign.\n\nIn a statement, he said he agreed entirely with Mr Andrews's description of \"toxicity\" in the government and said that the behaviour of some was \"pure poison\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mr Jones, speaking to BBC Wales Today via Skype, claims there was \"constant undermining\" of ministers\n\n\"Ministers were undermined by senior advisers playing power games and seeking to exert unreasonable control over government and the first minister himself,\" he said.\n\nSome ministers, including Mr Sargeant, \"would have their diaries unreasonably monitored and questioned, their policy proposals shelved and direct access to the first minister blocked\".\n\n\"It went way beyond any 'office politics' or personality clashes,\" he said.\n\nMr Jones said at one stage he intended to resign because of the effect on his wellbeing but changed his mind when the first minister urged him to reconsider.\n\n\"Things improved for a few months, then the poison returned and it began to engulf others - advisers and ministers alike.\n\n\"It was clear that all this was getting Carl down.\n\nMr Jones added: \"It became increasingly obvious that Carwyn was either unwilling or unable to address the culture that existed within his office. He allowed it to develop, fester and grow.\"\n\nCarwyn Jones has ordered an independent inquiry into how he handled allegations against Carl Sargeant\n\nThe Welsh Government said: \"We do not recognise these comments. All complaints regarding staff and special adviser conduct are taken seriously and dealt with accordingly.\"\n\nFormer communities secretary Mr Sargeant was being investigated over claims of \"unwanted attention, inappropriate touching or groping\" and was also suspended by Welsh Labour.\n\nThe first minister has said he will order an independent inquiry into his handling of Mr Sargeant's dismissal.\n\nOn Sunday, Wales' health secretary Vaughan Gething said he did not believe Mr Jones would resign following anger and criticism of his actions.\n\nBut Bernie Attridge, a lifelong friend of Mr Sargeant and the deputy leader of Flintshire council, has called on the first minister to step aside.", "\"She can have up to 40 seizures a day - potentially each one could be dangerous.\"\n\nHer cerebral palsy, chronic lung disease and epilepsy mean she needs 24-hour care at their home in Liverpool.\n\nIt is estimated there are 40,000 children like Holly living with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions in England alone.\n\nMany of them need palliative care round-the-clock, which is largely provided at home by their families but with the support of community children's nurses and community paediatricians.\n\nHayley says: \"I have a community matron and a community physio. They work Monday to Friday, 9am till 5pm. They are great.\"\n\nBut when it comes to out-of-hours and weekends, Hayley says she is left without any support.\n\n\"We don't have anyone through the night, we don't really have anyone at the weekend.\n\n\"I'm dealing with life-threatening situations, and if I make the wrong decision that could have a serious impact on Holly.\n\n\"I feel like I'm trying to do a job, but I'm not given the right tools to do the job, and I feel quite isolated and alone and scared sometimes.\n\n\"I'm not a clinician, I'm a mum. To have that support, it's like when somebody gives you that hug and says, 'it's going to be ok.'\n\n\"Sometimes we need that - it shouldn't be a luxury - it's a necessity.\"\n\nHolly with her mum Hayley and dad Gary\n\nHayley is not alone. BBC Radio 5 live Investigates has seen a new report by the charity Together for Short Lives which describes the commissioning of children's palliative care as 'patchy and inconsistent'.\n\nThe charity submitted Freedom of Information requests to every Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) in England asking what services they commission for children who need palliative care.\n\nIn all, 199 (94%) CCGs provided data. It revealed that, while nearly all CCGs commission community children's nursing teams, just two-thirds (67%) could say that they commission them to provide care out-of-hours and at weekends.\n\nIf this support isn't in place, families say they have to call an ambulance or go to A&E.\n\n\"We know how much it disrupts Holly to take her into hospital because she's so comfortable at home,\" said Hayley.\n\n\"Also, because she is so immunocompromised, going into a hospital environment potentially brings more risk to her.\"\n\nLiverpool CCG said it couldn't comment on individual cases, but that it did offer out-of-hours access to very high quality children's palliative care. Services are provided by Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust.\n\nAlder Hey said: \"The community children's nursing team is commissioned to provide an extended hours seven day service, but not 24/7.\n\n\"The community paediatricians do not provide a 24/7 service except for safeguarding.\"\n\nLiverpool CCG added: \"It would not be appropriate for us to discuss details about an individual's care, but we would urge the family to raise any issues about their care with their provider in the first instance, or with us as a commissioner if they would prefer.\"\n\nFollowing a review in 2015 into end-of-life care the government said that, where possible, children should be cared for at home with the support of community services.\n\nBut this new research shows that only a third of CCG's in England could say they are implementing this commitment.\n\nBarbara Gelb, chief executive of Together for Short Lives, said the government should undertake a review of children's palliative care as a matter of urgency:\n\n\"It is not a nine-to-five job. A child's condition can deteriorate very quickly, and being able to call on a community service in the middle of the night is crucial to help families cope at these times. \"\n\nA spokesperson for NHS Clinical Commissioners, the membership organisation for CCGs, said it was encouraged that the report showed improvement in some aspects but acknowledged there was more work to be done.\n\nIt added, \"Commissioners are having to make really difficult decisions on a daily basis about how to use the finite funding they have been allocated\".\n\nThe Department of Health has said it will look at the report's recommendations closely. A spokesperson said the NHS is expected to provide \"a personalised and dignified service\" that takes account of families' wishes.\n\nThey added \"We recently published the government's end of life care commitment so that by 2020 there will be significant progress in patient choice, increased personalisation of care and improved quality and availability of services\".\n\n5 live Investigates is broadcast on Sunday 12th November 2017 at 11am GMT. If you've missed it you can catch up on the iPlayer.\n\nHave you got something you want us to investigate? We want to hear from you. Email us.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police tweeted about the haul, which was found on Saturday night\n\nSeven bin bags full of cannabis plants have been found at the side of a road in North Yorkshire.\n\nThe plants were found by council officers on the A59 in Blubberhouses near Harrogate early on Sunday morning.\n\nPC Amanda Hanusch-Moore tweeted: \"If it's yours come and speak to us at Harrogate Police station, we're more than happy to discuss!\"\n\nAnyone with information is being urged to contact North Yorkshire 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 Amanda Hanusch-Moore This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMillions of people have fallen silent to remember the nation's war dead, as the UK marked Armistice Day.\n\nBig Ben, which has been silent since August while repair work is carried out, chimed at 11:00 GMT.\n\nEvents have been held around the country to mark the 99th anniversary of the end of World War One.\n\nAnd the Queen and other members of the Royal Family have taken part in a Royal Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall in London.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cambridge were among those at the event, run by the British Legion and featuring performances from Emeli Sande, Tom Odell, Melanie C, Alfie Boe and the Band of HM Royal Marines.\n\nThe service marked the centenaries of the women's service in the regular Armed Forces, the Battle of Passchendaele, the creation of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and the 100th birthday of Dame Vera Lynn.\n\nThere was also praise for service personnel and civilian services who came to the aid of the injured in this year's terrorist attacks in London and Manchester.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Les Cherrington said thinking about his fallen comrades made him very emotional\n\nEarlier, the Western Front Association held its annual service of remembrance at the Cenotaph, in Whitehall, central London, where a two-minute silence was observed.\n\nAnd the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire hosted an outdoor service of remembrance within the walls of the Armed Forces Memorial.\n\nPeople observe a two minute silence at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire\n\nThe Western Front Association's annual service of remembrance at the Cenotaph, Whitehall\n\nThe Duke of York and Duchess of Cambridge were among those attending the Royal Festival of Remembrance\n\nThey were joined by the Queen and Prince Philip\n\nIn Brighton, the world's tallest moving observation tower, the British Airways i360, is turning red to mark the event.\n\nThe Field of Remembrance at Westminster Abbey\n\nOn Sunday, Prince Charles will lay a wreath at the Cenotaph on his mother's behalf.\n\nIt will be the first time, as head of state, that the Queen will observe the ceremony from a nearby balcony, where she will be joined by the Duke of Edinburgh.\n\nPeople gathered at the Cenotaph on Whitehall to observe a two minute silence\n\nA service of remembrance was held at the Edinburgh Garden of Remembrance\n\nElsewhere, Australians have observed a minute's silence to remember their war dead.\n\nThe country's Sydney Opera House was lit up with red poppies.\n\nThe sails of the Sydney Opera House are seen illuminated with red poppies\n\nAustralian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull joined his New Zealand counterpart, Jacinda Ardern, in Vietnam - where the Apec summit is taking place - to attend a service of remembrance.\n\n\"We remember every ANZAC serviceman and woman who has made the supreme sacrifice to keep our two countries free,\" he said.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron lays a wreath in front of the statue of Georges Clemenceau in Paris\n\nArmistice Day is a national holiday in France and Belgium. French president Emmanuel Macron has laid a wreath in front of the statue of Georges Clemenceau - the prime minister of France during World War One.\n\nPrincess Anne paid tribute during the Last Post ceremony at Ypres Memorial in Belgium\n\nArmistice Day falls each year on 11 November to mark the day in 1918 when the fighting in World War One was stopped.\n\nThe Allies and Germany signed an armistice in a railway carriage in the Forest of Compiegne in France at 05:00. Six hours later, at 11:00, the conflict ceased.\n\nKing George V announced that a two-minute silence would be observed in 1919, four days before the first anniversary of Armistice Day. The silence continues to be observed every year on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.\n\nWatch the Royal British Legion Festival of Remembrance on BBC One on Saturday at 21:00 GMT.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. These were the scenes in 2017 when a nationalist march and counter-protest took place in Warsaw\n\nTens of thousands of people joined a nationalist march in Warsaw on Saturday, organised to coincide with Poland's independence day.\n\nMarchers chanted religious slogans such as \"God, honour, country\" and some called out racist chants including \"Pure Poland, white Poland\".\n\nPolice estimated that 60,000 people took part in the main march.\n\nIt attracted far-right agitators from elsewhere in Europe, including Tommy Robinson from the UK and Roberto Fiore from Italy.\n\nKamil Staszalek, 30, said he was there to \"honour the memory of those who fought for Poland's freedom\".\n\n\"I'd say some people here do have extreme views, maybe even 30% of those marching, but 70% are simply walking peacefully, without shouting any fascist slogans,\" he told the AFP news agency.\n\nSupporters of the country's governing conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party took part in the annual march, which takes place alongside other events.\n\n\"We are proud that so many Poles have decided to take part in a celebration connected to the Independence Day holiday,\" he said.\n\nAndy Eddles, a British language teacher who has been living in Poland for 27 years, said he was \"shocked that they're allowed to demonstrate on this day\".\n\n\"It's 50,000 to 100,000 mostly football hooligans hijacking patriotism,\" the 50-year-old, who joined the counter-protest, told AFP.\n\n\"For me it's important to support the anti-fascist coalition, and to support fellow democrats, who are under pressure in Poland today,\" he said.\n\nThe nationalist marchers carried Polish flags and threw red smoke bombs. Pawel, 21, from the southern city of Rzeszow told AFP it was \"important because religion is important in our country and we don't want Islamisation, of Europe or especially Poland\".Other events were also held in the city for Independence Day, which marks the country regaining independence 123 years after it was carved up by Tsarist Russia, Prussia, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire.\n\nAn official ceremony was hosted by President Andrzej Duda.\n\nAll living former Polish presidents attended, as well as the European Union president Donald Tusk.\n\nEuropean Council President Donald Tusk lays a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier\n\n\"Independence Day has always been and will continue to be a celebration of all Poles and not just one party. No politician in Poland has ever had nor will ever have a monopoly on patriotism,\" Mr Tusk said as he arrived at the airport in Warsaw.\n\nPoland was the only EU country to vote against Mr Tusk's reelection as EU president in March.\n\nThe conservative tack taken by the country's ruling PiS party, including anti-migrant and pro-logging reforms, has put it increasingly at odd with Brussels.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe husband of a British mother detained in Iran has said the idea she could be involved in trying to overthrow the regime is \"absurd\".\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 37, is due on trial on as yet unspecified charges after being arrested in April.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC on the couple's seventh wedding anniversary, Richard Ratcliffe, from north London, said his wife was \"a proud and loyal Iranian\".\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May raised the case with Iran's president last week.\n\nThe British-Iranian charity worker was arrested while she was at an airport with her daughter Gabriella while visiting her family on holiday.\n\nRichard's only contact with his daughter is via Skype\n\nMr Ratcliffe told the BBC's Caroline Hawley her arrest was \"so absurd\", adding: \"The idea that anyone with a baby could be busy overthrowing the regime is obviously nonsense.\"\n\nHe said his wife had been under \"intense interrogation\" for the first two months of her imprisonment and was kept in solitary confinement.\n\nShe lost a lot of weight and became very weak, he said, adding: \"When she came out of solitary that was when she couldn't walk without blackouts and her hair was falling out.\"\n\nMr Ratcliffe believes his wife is being used as a pawn in a larger dispute.\n\n\"There is definitely a political game going on between different parts of the Iranian government and the Iranian regime, so the revolutionary guard versus the government, and she's caught up in that.\n\n\"There have been various attempts by the Iranian government to improve relations with the West and this is almost as provocative as possible to stop that happening.\"\n\nMr Ratcliffe said his wife had been caught up in a \"political game\"\n\nHis daughter has had her passport confiscated and is currently being taken care of by relatives in Tehran, he said.\n\n\"There's a picture in Nazanin's parents' living room of our wedding and she'll go and point to the wedding photo if she wants to speak to daddy or if she wants to speak to mummy,\" he added.\n\n\"But, of course, she associates where she sees them, so she knows she sees mummy at prison at the moment. She knows that she sees daddy on the telephone.\"\n\nHe admitted being away from his daughter was \"tough\" and said \"online parenting\" was not the same as watching your daughter grow up.\n\nHowever, he said it was a \"small mercy\" she was with relatives in Iran.\n\nHe welcomed the involvement of Mrs May - who \"raised concerns\" about Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe and other cases of detained nationals during a phone call with Iranian president Hassan Rouhani.\n\n\"We are still at the stage where we are not clear what is going on or how the process is working,\" Mr Ratcliffe added.\n\n\"Certainly the fact that Theresa May has raised Nazanin's case, and that it has reached that level - that can only help the situation.\"\n\nA Downing Street spokeswoman said the PM had \"stressed the importance of resolving these cases as we worked to strengthen our diplomatic relationship\".\n\nMs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who is a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, travelled to Iran on an Iranian passport.\n\nShe is being prosecuted in Tehran's Revolutionary Court and her case is to be handled by judge Abolghassem Salavati.", "Labour MP Harriet Harman has told BBC News that the string of allegations of sexual abuse and harassment against MPs is not a witch hunt.\n\nShe said: \"There are a lot of men saying this has been blown out of all proportion, it's a witch hunt. No, it's not a witch hunt, it's long overdue.\"\n\nHer comments follow the suspensions of a Conservative and a Labour MP.\n\nMeanwhile, SNP MSP Mark McDonald has quit as a Scottish government minister over \"inappropriate\" behaviour.\n\nIn a statement he said it had been brought to his attention that some of his \"previous actions have been considered to be inappropriate\".\n\n\"I apologise unreservedly to anyone I have upset or who might have found my behaviour inappropriate,\" Mr McDonald, who represents Aberdeen Donside at Holyrood, said.\n\nConservative MP Charlie Elphicke and Labour's Kelvin Hopkins were suspended from their parties on Friday, while Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon resigned earlier this week.\n\nOn Saturday morning, Sir Roger Gale, Conservative MP for North Thanet, urged people \"not to rush to judgement\", telling BBC Radio 4's Today programme that he believes the scandal is turning into a \"witch hunt\".\n\n\"I don't think there's anybody who would seek to defend rape or sexual abuse in the context there's no proof that I can see yet of any wrongdoing. How does a member of Parliament refute that?\"\n\nOn Friday, the Conservatives published a new code of conduct and are immediately adopting a new complaints procedure.\n\nMrs May is also meeting opposition party leaders on Monday to discuss proposals to bring forward a new grievance system for Westminster staff and MPs.\n\nMs Harman, the former Labour deputy leader, said that she thought Prime Minister Theresa May took \"very bold action\" in relation to Sir Michael's resignation.\n\nSir Michael, who quit office on Wednesday saying his general conduct fell short of expected standards, has \"categorically denied\" allegations over his conduct.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The scandal is turning into a \"witch hunt\", says Tory MP\n\nMs Harman told BBC Radio 4's Week in Westminster that Mrs May's actions have made her \"hopeful\" that the parties can work together to change standards.\n\nShe said people were put off from making complaints for fear of being disloyal to their party and \"helping\" the other side. But now, she said, \"there's a bigger fight\".\n\n\"We're all tribal beasts, that's why we're there [in parliament] and that has dampened down any ability to speak out,\" she said. \"I think that's changed after this week.\"\n\nMs Harman said that Parliament has a \"sea change opportunity\" to address the issue - and to help those who speak out.\n\nShe added: \"If you point your finger at a powerful man, they won't just sit there, they will fight back. So there will be some backlash about this amongst the corridors [of Westminster].\"\n\nOn Friday, Charlie Elphicke, a former party whip who has been the Conservative MP for Dover since 2010, was suspended by the party after \"serious allegations\" were referred to the police.\n\nDenying any wrongdoing in a post on Twitter, the married 46-year-old wrote: \"The party tipped off the press before telling me of my suspension. I am not aware of what the alleged claims are.\"\n\nLabour MPs Clive Lewis and Kelvin Hopkins are being investigated by the party over allegations about their behaviour.\n\nBut Conservative MP Sir Roger Gale told BBC Radio 4: \"We're in danger of getting into a situation where nobody half bright, half sensible, half decent, will want to go into the House of Commons - and that will not be good for democracy.\n\n\"We should look at the facts...by all means throw book at them, but don't throw the book at them until the case is proven.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. I was groped and flashed at - Emily Thornberry\n\nRupa Huq, Labour MP for Ealing Central and Acton, told BBC Breakfast that the House of Commons has \"no real structure\" for complaints.\n\nShe said it is \"the most unusual workplace\" where the rules around sexual harassment are \"lax if not non-existent\".\n\n\"In this sense it needs to get into line. Other big companies have a sexual harassment policy, they have a staff handbook. All those things do not exist for MPs\", she said.\n\nOn top of that, she added, \"you've got a whole political culture which has thrived on favours and bullying\" as well as partisan \"one-upmanship\" where people are \"incredibly loyal to their parties\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Labour's shadow chancellor says Parliament must 'give women the confidence to work in safety'\n\nAlongside the new code of conduct and complaints procedure, the Conservatives have set up a a hotline for reporting potential breaches and a more detailed investigatory process.\n\nLabour has introduced a new complaints procedure, while the Liberal Democrats continue to review their complaints procedures.\n\nLabour's shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, said any complaints system has to apply to all political parties, and must be \"fair and objective\".\n\n\"There should be an element of independence [in the system], particularly for support as well, so people can feel confident about where they can report these things and at the same time how it can be dealt with.\"\n\nMrs May said Parliament must do its bit as well as the individual parties - as it was not fair to expect potentially vulnerable people to \"navigate different grievance procedures according to political party\".\n\nLord Bew, chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life, told the Today programme that the \"burning issue\" at stake is the reputation of parliament.\n\nHe said it was vital that cases were not dealt with internally by the parties, but by those outside parliament who could \"give some reassurance to the public that this is not just another cover-up\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband said \"she was just a mum on holiday\"\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, the British-Iranian woman being held in Iran, has seen a specialist after finding lumps in her breasts, her husband has said.\n\nRichard Ratcliffe also expressed concern that his wife appeared to be \"on the verge of a nervous breakdown\".\n\nShe was arrested during a visit to Iran in April 2016, accused of trying to overthrow the regime, which she denies.\n\nCabinet ministers Boris Johnson and Michael Gove have been accused of bungling the UK's handling of the case.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's family have issued a statement about her condition, saying she had been \"complaining of sharp stabbing pains in her breasts\" for more than a year.\n\nThey said she had been given a mammogram by the prison's gynaecologist, which gave an inconclusive result.\n\nAfter insisting on seeing an outside specialist, the family said Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was then taken to hospital for an ultrasound on Saturday.\n\nThey said although the doctor thought the lumps were likely to be benign, he did note her family having a history of breast cancer.\n\nShe was given anti-inflammatory medication and vitamin pills and was to be seen by the specialist again next week to see whether there was any improvement or whether she might need surgery, the family said.\n\nThe full details of the allegations against Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe have never been made fully public.\n\nShe maintains the purpose of her trip to Iran was to visit family and for her daughter to meet her grandparents but speaking in Westminster on 1 November, UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson appeared to contradict her account when he wrongly said she had been training journalists there.\n\nFour days later, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was recalled to court in Iran and his remark cited as evidence against her, prompting fears her five-year sentence could be extended.\n\nHowever, her family say there have been no developments on new charges against her since her court appearance. Her lawyer also says he has not been contacted by the Iranian judiciary.\n\nIn the statement her husband, Richard Ratcliffe, describes his earlier phone conversation with Mr Johnson and says the minister is trying to find time to meet him \"in the next few days\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove says Richard Ratcliffe was the person who would know what his wife was doing in Iran\n\nIt came after Environment Secretary Michael Gove told the BBC he did not know what Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been doing in Iran when she was arrested.\n\nHe later said he would \"take her husband's assurance\" that she was on holiday.\n\nAmid calls for his resignation over the matter, the foreign secretary earlier this week clarified that the UK government had \"no doubt\" that a holiday was the sole purpose of her visit to Iran.\n\nMr Ratcliffe said his wife had been angered by Mr Johnson's initial remarks and Iranian media coverage of her case.\n\nBut he restated his belief that it was not in Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's interests for anyone to resign.", "Women's Ashes Test, North Sydney Oval (day four of four):\n\nCaptain Heather Knight led a stubborn rearguard action as England forced a draw against Australia to keep the multi-format Women's Ashes alive.\n\nAustralia would have retained the trophy if they had won this inaugural day-night Test, but needed to bowl England out on the final day in Sydney.\n\nEngland began on 40-0, 128 runs behind, but after losing their openers, Knight (79 not out) added an unbroken 117 with Georgia Elwiss (41 not out) to keep Australia at bay before a draw was agreed with the tourists on 206-2.\n\nAustralia now lead the series 6-4 on points, meaning - barring intervention from the weather - England need to win all three Twenty20 internationals in order to regain the Ashes trophy.\n\nEllyse Perry's sparkling double century on day three had left the hosts in the ascendancy, but neither side were helped by a lifeless North Sydney Oval pitch which gave no assistance to the bowlers, and it must be a concern that the T20 series begins on Friday at the same ground - with the same pitch reportedly set to be reused.\n• None Relive the fourth day of the Test\n\nAfter the excitement of Perry's unbeaten 213 the previous day, Sunday's action will have tested the patience of even the most committed fan of women's cricket.\n\nWith the unrealistic prospect of an England victory out of the window, the only possible results were an Aussie win to clinch the series, or a draw to keep it alive.\n\nIt meant England had to take a safety-first approach, but openers Tammy Beaumont (37) and Lauren Winfield (34) continued their positive start from the previous night, adding 71 for the first wicket.\n\nFor the second time in the match, Beaumont was dismissed by a superb leg break bowled by rookie Amanda-Jade Wellington.\n\nHaving been caught at slip in the first innings, here she was bowled by a delivery which drifted into the right-hander, pitched on leg stump and turned sharply to take the top of off stump.\n\nIn terms of an Australian leg-spinner dismissing an England batsman renowned as a good player of spin in an Ashes Test, it even drew comparisons with Shane Warne's \"ball of the century\" to Mike Gatting in 1993.\n\nKnight, who had scored a painstaking 157 from 330 balls in the 2013 Ashes Test at Wormsley, then led from the front as she compiled her second half-century of the match, her unbeaten 79 coming from 220 balls but containing 11 fours.\n\nElwiss, making her first appearance since the group stage of the World Cup, vindicated her selection as the extra batter with 41 from 190.\n\nShe rode her luck at times - shouldering arms to spinner Jess Jonassen and nearly losing her off stump, while she was nearly run out when Knight called her for a quick single - but England were ultimately good value for their draw.\n\nSo does women's Test cricket have a future?\n\nWhile men's Test cricket's future as a five-day match has been recently questioned, the women's game remains a four-day contest, with faster over-rates allowing 100 overs to be bowled in a day.\n\nMore than 12,000 fans entered the North Sydney Oval across the four days, showing that the increased profile of women's cricket - aided by a successful World Cup and the growth of Australia's Women's Big Bash League and England's Super League - means there is an audience for it.\n\nPlayers from both sides have also been insistent that they would love to play more Test cricket, rather than one game every two years or so.\n\nBut commentators have agreed that the game does itself no favours when pitches such as this one are used, after only 21 wickets fell in 387 overs.\n\nThe track was devoid of grass, offering little or no pace or swing for the seamers. Even after four days, it had not deteriorated to aid the spinners, who were forced to bowl with a pink ball which scuffed up very quickly.\n\n\"There's been no life in it from day one, and it's been very hard for the players to get wickets,\" ex-England captain Charlotte Edwards said on BBC Test Match Special.\n\n\"It's been too flat and too slow. I said on the first day, that if we're going to play women's Test cricket, the pitch has got to have more pace in it.\"\n\nBy mid-evening, Australia captain Rachael Haynes had resorted to using three part-time bowlers, including herself, in a fruitless attempt to break the deadlock.\n\n'The pitch destroyed the pink ball' - what they said\n\nEngland captain Heather Knight on TMS: \"It's been a long few days, but for the girls to come back today and make the game safe was pleasing. It was disappointing we couldn't force a win as Ellyse took the game away from us yesterday.\n\n\"We're not used to playing multi-innings games but batting with Georgia was brilliant. She's a mentally strong player and she knows her game really well. It was attritional at times but that's the game we had to play. It was difficult to take 20 wickets but we can only play in the conditions we're given.\"\n\nAustralia captain Rachael Haynes on TMS: \"Our goal was to win - we were happy to get a couple of early wickets but the England batters shut us out. Given that our Tests are played over four days, perhaps that track was too flat as it made it tough for the bowlers once the ball got old.\"\n\nEngland coach Mark Robinson on TMS: \"It was challenging on that wicket with a slow outfield, but it was a nice rearguard action to keep it out for a draw. We had to show some good backbone. But we need pace on the ball in women's cricket, the pitch was grassless and destroyed the pink ball.\n\n\"But to have nearly 4,000 there yesterday was a tremendous effort by Cricket Australia and we saw a tremendous innings by a special player, so I don't want to sour it by talking about the pitch.\"\n\nTMS commentator Charles Dagnall: \"England have done the job they were here to do. They've saved the Test match. The fact that the scoring rate on days one and two was only just over two an over tells you everything - the pitch ain't good enough.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel says she has been \"inundated\" with support since resigning over unofficial meetings in Israel\n\nPriti Patel has made her first public appearance since resigning as UK international development secretary after a row over unauthorised meetings.\n\nMs Patel, 45, attended the Armistice Day service in her Witham constituency in Essex on Saturday.\n\nEarlier this week, she was summoned to Downing Street and quit her cabinet post over her meetings with Israeli officials.\n\nAfter the service, she said she had been \"inundated\" with support.\n\nMs Patel quit her post on Wednesday, admitting unauthorised meetings with Israeli officials had \"lacked transparency\".\n\nMs Patel said she had been \"overwhelmed\" by people's support\n\nLast week the BBC revealed how she had arranged a number of meetings with business and political figures during a family holiday to Israel in August, without telling Downing Street or the Foreign Office.\n\nIt later emerged that after Ms Patel's visit to Israel she asked her officials to look into whether Britain could support humanitarian operations conducted by the Israeli army in the occupied Golan Heights area.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Priti Patel left the back entrance of 10 Downing Street after quitting\n\nThe Conservative MP did not take any questions during her visit to Saturday's service, but told the BBC: \"I've been overwhelmed with support from colleagues across the political divide.\n\n\"Of course, nothing is more humbling than the support I've received from my constituents.\n\n\"I look forward to returning to Parliament on Monday where I will continue to be a strong voice for Witham and Britain.\"\n\nThe Conservative MP for Portsmouth North Penny Mordaunt has taken over Ms Patel's post.\n\nLike her predecessor, she had also backed Brexit in last year's referendum.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An Army robot at the scene of the alert on Sunday\n\nA security alert that postponed a wreath-laying ceremony in Omagh earlier was caused by a viable pipe bomb type device, police have said.\n\nPolice Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) Chief Constable George Hamilton said police were following a \"strong line of enquiry\" that dissident republicans were responsible.\n\nThe alert began after the discovery of a suspicious object on Drumragh Avenue.\n\nThe rest of the Remembrance Sunday service was able to go ahead.\n\nCordons were in place at Drumragh Avenue, Mountjoy Road, Sedan Avenue, George Street and High Street. The alert has now ended.\n\nThe PSNI Chief Constable said that the device was \"left to cause maximum disruption\" to the commemorations and described it as \"sickening and appalling\".\n\n\"This is the action of a small and callous group of violent people who have nothing to offer our communities other than fear and intimidation,\" he said.\n\n\"Whilst our investigation into the incident is at a very early stage, one strong line of enquiry is that violent dissident republicans are responsible.\n\n\"Their actions today have demonstrated the disregard and disrespect they have for this community, which has already suffered so much pain and hurt at the hands of terrorists.\"\n\nDUP MLA Tom Buchanan said he believed the planting of the pipe bomb was a \"re-run\" of the Enniskillen Poppy Day bomb 30 years ago that resulted in the deaths of 12 people.\n\n\"Innocent men, women and children's lives were taken and maimed with a similar type of device at that particular time,\" he said.\n\n\"And, again, I find it very difficult to get words strong enough to condemn those that are responsible for planning and pre-meditating such an attack.\"\n\nUlster Unionist councillor Chris Smyth said those responsible were cowards.\n\n\"It's always going to hurt an awful lot when people come to remember their dead and they come with wreaths, they come with a very clear idea of what they want to do,\" he said.\n\n\"Then, because of the actions of a few very sick and very cowardly individuals, they're stopped from doing that.\"\n\nThe Sinn Féin MP for the area, Barry McElduff, said everyone had the \"unfettered right\" to remember their dead.\n\n\"Whoever decided to leave a package in this area, a suspicious package, obviously has shown complete disregard for everyone in the community,\" he said.", "Hariri's resignation has sent shockwaves through Lebanon and the region\n\nLebanon's Prime Minister Saad Hariri says he will return home \"in days\" to formally submit his resignation.\n\nMr Hariri spoke to Future TV from Riyadh, his first public remarks since he announced he was stepping down last week.\n\nHis cabinet allies say he is being held captive, but Mr Hariri denied this.\n\nHe has blamed the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement for his resignation, citing concerns over his and his family's safety.\n\nThe US and UK have warned other countries not to use Lebanon for proxy conflicts.\n\nMr Hariri, a Sunni leader and businessman, was nominated to form Lebanon's government in November 2016.\n\n\"I have resigned. I am going to Lebanon very soon and I will resign in the constitutional manner,\" he said in the TV interview.\n\nUnder Lebanese law the prime minister has to submit his resignation to the president, who must accept it for it to take effect.\n\nHowever, Mr Hariri also held out the prospect that he might reconsider resigning if Hezbollah stopped intervening in neighbouring countries.\n\n\"If we want to go back on the resignation, we have to return to the policy of distancing ourselves\" from regional conflicts,\" he said, according to the Associated Press.\n\n\"I am not against Hezbollah as a party, I have a problem with Hezbollah destroying the country,\" he said.\n\nThe main problem for the region, he said, was \"Iran interfering in Arab states\".\n\nA sombre Mr Hariri recognised that he did not resign in the \"usual way\" but said he wanted to give his country a \"positive shock\".\n\n\"My resignation came as a wake-up call for Lebanon,\" he said.\n\nPosters of Mr Hariri have appeared across Beirut. This one says: \"We are all Saad\"\n\nIran and Hezbollah have accused Saudi Arabia of holding Mr Hariri hostage.\n\nBut Mr Hariri insisted that he was free to travel as he pleased in the country. \"I am free here. If I want to travel tomorrow, I will,\" he said.\n\nObservers noted the journalist who interviewed Mr Hariri made an effort to demonstrate that the event was live, rather than pre-recorded, though there were several moments which raised suspicions about the conditions under which the interview was held, the Associated Press reported.", "Last updated on .From the section Rugby League\n\nEngland set up a World Cup quarter-final against Papua New Guinea by easing past France in Perth.\n\nAlthough Wayne Bennett's side won by a comfortable 30-point margin, the Australian head coach will be concerned by another disjointed showing.\n\nEngland effectively ended the contest after just nine minutes by scoring three quick tries courtesy of the impressive Gareth Widdop, Stefan Ratchford and James Graham.\n\nCentres Mark Percival and John Bateman both went over but French forward Benjamin Garcia's brilliant dummy allowed him to touch down from close range before half-time.\n\nJermaine McGillvary took his tally to nine tries from nine games by scoring twice in a scrappy second half, but the team failed to add further points to the scoreboard.\n\nEngland will face Papua New Guinea in Melbourne next Sunday (kick-off 05:00 GMT), live on BBC TV, radio and online.\n• None We can fix mistakes, says coach Bennett\n\nBennett made five changes to his team to give the fringe players a run in the competition, but the Australian now has a selection headache for the next game in the knockout stages.\n\nVeteran Kevin Brown showed his experience by directing the play from stand-off and was heavily involved in England's free-flowing attacking play in the first 40 minutes, combining superbly with half-back partner Luke Gale and Widdop.\n\nSt George Illawarra Dragon Widdop was switched to full-back from stand-off, and his support play from the back of the field provided a constant threat to the France defence and he opened the scoring by breaking clear in the opening two minutes.\n\nIt was Widdop's speed and quick offloads that set up tries for Percival and McGillvary, while he also added eight points with the boot.\n\nFormer Great Britain full-back Jonathan Davies said on BBC Two: \"Widdop is going to play in the quarter-final next weekend, but where is he most beneficial? I think it is full-back. He has got great vision, a great kicking game and he is a finisher.\"\n\nSt Helens full-back Jonny Lomax, who is recovering from injury, may well be the man to miss out again while Ratchford was tried out on the wing against France.\n\nEngland's leading forward Sam Burgess said he is fit to return after a knee injury sustained against Australia kept him out of the games against Lebanon and France.\n\nEngland defended well in their defeat by Australia and win against Lebanon but had been incoherent at times in attack.\n\nBennett had asked for \"a mistake-free game\" against France and will be annoyed he did not get this.\n\nHis side made 13 handling errors in the match, 10 of which came in a largely disappointing second half, and missed a total of 20 tackles.\n\nAssistant coach Denis Betts told BBC Sport: \"It was a great first half, just a very disjointed, sloppy second half.\n\n\"I was happy we did not concede another try, keeping them to six, but the completion rate was not good enough, the ball control was really poor and the decision-making and options were not good enough.\n\n\"It is hard to put a finger on why. I have got to highlight how clinical we were at the start and some of the attacking skills were outstanding but we have got to do that for 80 minutes.\"\n\nMcGillvary, allowed to play after being cleared of biting in the previous game, dropped a simple high kick and from the resulting set Tom Burgess tried to anticipate Garcia's pass, but the Frenchman threw a dummy and burrowed in from close range for their try.\n\nAlthough Huddersfield's McGillvary scored twice in the second half, his efforts came 20 scoreless minutes apart in which his side failed to complete sets and dropped balls when they should have converted.\n\nCastleford forward Mike McMeeken took his eye off the ball and spilled a pass close to the line, while prop James Graham gave the ball away when attempting to offload - and was fortunate his error went unpunished as Lucas Albert ran 70 metres to score, but referee Phil Bentham adjudged a forward pass in the move.\n\nTonga's surprise 28-22 victory over 2008 champions New Zealand on Saturday was a result that had a significant impact on the rest of the tournament and England in particular.\n\nBennett's side face Papua New Guinea - the only country in the world which classes rugby league as their national sport - after they emerged top of Group C ahead of Ireland and Wales.\n\nMore interestingly for England, they will avoid holders Australia and the Kiwis in the semi-finals if they progress - and the way the draw has panned out means those two sides will not contest the final for the first time since 1995.\n• None Sign up for live match notifications on the BBC Sport app", "Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has called for Boris Johnson to resign over comments he made about a British-Iranian woman being held in Iran.\n\nThe foreign secretary caused consternation when he told a group of MPs that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been \"training journalists\" in Iran.\n\nHer family say Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was in Iran visiting family,", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Richard Ratcliffe, whose wife is in jail in Iran, wants to go there with Boris Johnson\n\nThe husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman being held in Iran, will speak to Boris Johnson tomorrow, he has told the BBC.\n\nHe also wants to meet the foreign secretary in the coming days, he said.\n\nThe BBC understands the Foreign Office agreed Mr Ratcliffe would meet Mr Johnson the week after next at a meeting with families involved in dual nationality cases.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who was in Iran visiting family, is accused of spying.\n\nIt is also understood the Foreign Office is reviewing Mr Radcliffe's latest request, made this morning on BBC Breakfast, to meet next week.\n\nHe has also asked to join Mr Johnson on his next visit to Iran, which he says will hopefully be in the coming weeks.\n\nThe foreign secretary caused consternation earlier this week when he told a group of MPs that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe had been \"training journalists\" in Iran.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This is how Iranian media reported Boris Johnson's remarks about Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe\n\nSoon after those comments, Iran moved to double her prison sentence.", "It was more gripping than any box set we could get our hands on.\n\nOver two years, the investigations into Russian interference in the US election, and whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin, delivered daily developments and drama worthy of anything seen in House of Cards.\n\nIn the end, 35 people and three companies were charged by Robert Mueller, the special counsel who investigated Russian interference in the 2016 election.\n\nHere's our guide to the main characters in the four seasons of the only political drama that mattered.\n\nThis was the season in which Donald Trump, the reality TV star, took centre stage in his own political drama by launching a presidential campaign. He was supported by his family and got the attention of the Russians. The season ended with a cliffhanger - could Trump the outsider actually win?!\n\nIt's been a while since all of this happened, so let's remind you of the key players in this season.\n\nWho was he? Donald Trump, the billionaire candidate (who by Season Three is the 45th president of the United States). If you really need a refresher, here's his life story.\n\nKey plot line As Donald Trump was busy traversing the country canvassing for votes in Season One, Russia hacked into the emails of his Democratic rivals, investigators later said.\n\nThe question is why? Was the Kremlin trying to alter the outcome of the election, and what did Trump and his campaign know?\n\nSkip forward to the end of Season Four and Mr Trump stood triumphant before reporters in a Florida airport, celebrating what he called \"a complete and total exoneration\".\n\nBut in between, there was no shortage of drama or tension.\n\nWho was he? He was Trump's campaign chairman before being forced to quit over his ties to Russian oligarchs and Ukraine.\n\nKey plot line He was one of the biggest dominoes to fall. When he ended up being arrested, it was a big season-ending shocker.\n\nManafort hung around a bit in Season One, but then disappeared from view for a while.\n\nHe quit the campaign after being accused of having links to pro-Russian groups in Ukraine. He also sat in on a crucial meeting with a Russian lawyer who may have been trying to feed the Trump team classified information (more on that later).\n\nAfter an FBI raid on his home in Season Three, Manafort was found guilty on eight charges of tax fraud, bank fraud, and failing to disclose foreign banks accounts and is sentenced to 47 months in prison.\n\nIn Season Four, he agreed to co-operate with a special counsel inquiry in exchange for a reduced prison term. But then, in a twist - prosecutors claimed he breached his plea bargain by repeatedly lying to the FBI.\n\nRead more: The man who helped Trump win\n\nWho was he? The president's eldest child, who it emerged met some questionable Russians.\n\nKey plot line Donald Trump Jr's role in this unfolding saga all came down to a meeting he had with a Russian lawyer, which was set up by a music publicist (the full details of which come out in Season Three). If it sounds random, then in many ways it is.\n\nThe publicist, Rob Goldstone, offered Trump Jr a meeting with lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya, promising him dirt on Hillary Clinton.\n\nThis meeting was the key to much of our plot line because it raised several key questions. Did this amount to the campaign colluding with a foreign government? Why did he agree to the meeting?\n\nWhat happened at the meeting was the scene investigators played over and over again as they tried to work out if there was any impropriety. In the end, no collusion charges were brought.\n\nDonald Trump confounded his critics by winning the presidency. But the transition was as gripping as the season before it as Trump picked his cabinet, introducing key characters to the mix.\n\nThe season ended with Trump taking the oath of office on a cold January morning - but there were more twists to come.\n\nWho was he? The granite-faced former general who later became the shortest-serving member of Donald Trump's cabinet. He resigned after not being honest about his contact with a Russian official - and was later charged with making false statements to the FBI.\n\nKey plot line Flynn was appointed national security adviser just days after the election, against the advice of then-President Obama, who warned Trump not to hire him. Flynn's starring role came in December 2016, just before Trump was sworn in, when he spoke to the Russian ambassador, Sergei Kislyak.\n\nThe Washington Post and New York Times said the men discussed Russian sanctions, and that Flynn later lied to the Vice President Mike Pence about the conversation (Mr Kislyak says the men discussed only \"simple things\").\n\nThe substance of those talks eventually led to Flynn being prosecuted as part of the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller.\n\nAt the end of Season Three, in December 2017, Flynn pleaded guilty to making \"false, fictitious and fraudulent statements\" to the FBI about what he and Kislyak discussed.\n\nWith that, the investigation reached Trump's inner circle.\n\nRead more: Out after 23 days - who is Michael Flynn?\n\nWho was he? Many roads in this drama led back to Sergei Kislyak, the jolly and charismatic figure, who up until July 2017 was the Russian ambassador to Washington.\n\nKey plot line Kislyak's role in this drama remained unclear up to the end - but many of the players in this drama had meetings with him, and that put them in awkward spots.\n\nThe key questions for investigators were: why were they drawn to him, and what was said? The Russian ambassador spoke to both Flynn and Attorney-General Jeff Sessions - meetings which both Trump officials didn't initially acknowledge took place.\n\nAnything else we should know? Well, Russia fiercely fought back against claims on CNN that Kislyak was a \"top spy and recruiter of spies\".\n\nWho was he? Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III hovered in the background during Season One, when he was an Alabama senator and a trusted Trump adviser, but we really got to know him during Season Two, when he became Trump's nominee for attorney general, a job he kept for almost two years.\n\nKey plot line Sessions was one of several Trump aides to meet Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak, and question marks emerged over the nature of those meetings.\n\nWhen the FBI investigation focused on the Trump campaign, Sessions stood down from the inquiry, much to Trump's irritation.\n\nThat decision to step down dogged him to the end, and he was written out of the series close to the end of Season Four, when Trump forced him to resign.\n\nThat move put control of the Mueller investigation into the hands of a Trump loyalist.\n\nRead more: An attorney general dogged by scandal\n\nThis was where the drama really picked up and all the plot lines came together. A lot of the background characters we saw in Season One came back with a vengeance and the infighting got nasty - and this is when the police started circling.\n\nWho was she? A Russian lawyer with a fearsome reputation who fought against US restrictions on Russia. But was she a Kremlin stooge?\n\nDespite earlier denials, she admitted in April 2018 to being an \"informant\" for Russia's prosecutor general.\n\nKey plot line Hers was a small but crucial role - she's the one who Manafort, Trump Jr and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner met in June 2016, the details of which begin trickling out a year later in a flashback sequence.\n\nShe said the meeting was to discuss adoptions - but those who helped set it up said she was offering dirt on the Democrats and Hillary Clinton's campaign.\n\nWhile the meeting became a central plot point, whatever happened inside never actually led to any charges.\n\nThat meeting would never have happened without...\n\nWho were they? Emin Agalarov is Azerbaijan's biggest pop star, of course. Have you not heard Love is a Deadly Game? Emin helped bring Donald Trump's Miss Universe competition to Russia and the two are close enough to send each other birthday messages. His dad, Aras, is a billionaire who mixes in the highest circles of influence in Moscow.\n\nKey plot line Again in a flashback scene, we met Emin as he set the wheels in motion on that Trump Jr meeting.\n\nAn email sent to Trump Jr suggested Emin was offering information on the Democrats (Emin said he wasn't). The email also said Aras Agalarov had apparently met the \"crown prosecutor\" of Russia - a role that weirdly didn't exist - and got information on Hillary Clinton.\n\nWho was he? He became deputy attorney general under Jeff Sessions. In the TV drama of the Russia scandal, this is the sort of role that would go to a solid Broadway actor you recognise but can't put a name to.\n\nKey plot line When Sessions stood down from leading the main investigation into the Trump-Russia ties, it fell to Rosenstein to do that job. In a major plot development, he appointed a special investigator - not a popular move with the White House.\n\nRead more: Who is Rod Rosenstein?\n\nWho was he? Married to Trump's daughter, Ivanka, Kushner was the character who was seen but very rarely heard.\n\nKey plot line Amid cries of nepotism, he was given a plum White House job as senior adviser to the president with a wide-ranging portfolio. It was his contacts with the Russians during the election campaign and beyond that led investigators to circle him.\n\nIn June 2016, Kushner attended THAT meeting with Donald Trump Jr and the Russian lawyer. He said he was so bored he messaged his assistant to call him so he could leave.\n\nKushner was also another character who had repeated contact with Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak - contact that he initially failed to disclose.\n\nRead more: The son-in-law with Trump's ear\n\nWho was he? A British former tabloid journalist, with a penchant for selfies in silly hats, was perhaps an unlikely addition to the cast, but in most good dramas there's always room for the slightly out-of-place eccentric.\n\nKey plot line Rob Goldstone found his way into Donald Trump's circle of trust thanks to his connections with Russian pop star Emin Agalarov.\n\nGoldstone managed the pop star, and it was he who contacted Donald Trump Jr on behalf of his client to set up that now-infamous meeting at Trump Tower in June 2016. Goldstone sent an email to Trump Jr promising dirt on Hillary Clinton.\n\nRead more: The Music Man with a love for hats\n\nWho was he? At 6ft 8in, James Comey was a towering figure, the character who gave little away about himself personally but had a huge role in this story.\n\nKey plot line He first entered this drama in Season One, when as head of the FBI he reopened the investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails - just weeks before the election. Democrats blamed him for her loss, Republicans hailed him a hero. That, we thought, was the last we'd seen of him.\n\nJump ahead to Season Three, when months into the Trump presidency, Comey was fired by the new president. In true television drama style, he learned of his sacking as he was watching TV news during a trip to LA. Up to then, Comey was heading up an investigation into possible ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.\n\nEven by the end of the series, whether this amounted to obstruction of justice by the president remained an unresolved plot point.\n\nComey's testimony to the Senate was one of the most set-pieces in the series up to this point, as - under oath - he told politicians he was asked to pledge loyalty to the president, but refused.\n\nRead more: The FBI director who took centre stage\n\nWho was he? A former election adviser to Trump, although you'd be forgiven if you didn't remember the face. He was in only a few scenes in Season Two, but he had a massive role to play in Season Three, becoming the first person to plead guilty as part of the investigation.\n\nKey plot line In late October 2017, court documents emerged showing Papadopoulos had pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about the timing of meetings with alleged go-betweens for Russia.\n\nAfter lying to the FBI, he deleted an incriminating Facebook account and destroyed a phone.\n\nHis guilty plea and co-operation with the investigation had the potential to damage the US leader because it related directly to his campaign - but in the end, it didn't do so.\n\nWho was he? The man who held the fate of the Trump presidency in his hands.\n\nKey plot line Some characters wielded a lot of power, but didn't have a starring role, such as Robert Mueller, the tall chiselled figure who was appointed as \"special counsel\" to take over the Russia investigation after the dismissal of James Comey. Mueller came from the same stock as Comey - both were former heads of the FBI.\n\nThere were no showboating scenes and powerhouses speeches from Mueller in this series - we only ever saw him studiously working in his office.\n\nThere were reports that the president considered firing Mueller at one point - but Mueller stayed in the background doing his job until the very end of the series.\n\nAfter Season Three ended with the first charges being laid down by Robert Mueller, things really sped up in Season Four. The president's fury with the special counsel investigation increased and he fired his Attorney-General. But the series ended with no charges laid against the president and a sense of victory in the White House. Might we see a spin-off series...?\n\nWho was he? OK, he wasn't Putin's chef by this point, but he once was. In Season Four, he was the man accused of spearheading Russia's attempts to interfere in the 2016 election.\n\nKey plot line A little out of the blue, Mueller announced charges against Prigozhin and 12 other Russians, accusing them of tampering with the US election by (among other things) organising and promoting political rallies in the US.\n\nIn one surreal flashback sequence, we even see the Russians trying to buy a cage large enough to hold an actress dressed as Hillary Clinton in a prison costume.\n\nRead more: Seven key takeaways from indictment\n\nWho was he? The man who once said he would take a bullet for Donald Trump - but who instead turned against him.\n\nKey plot line Cohen, as Trump's long-time personal lawyer, lingered around the edges of the plot for the first three seasons, but became the big player of the fourth.\n\nWhen Mueller's team began looking into Cohen's finances, they passed on their concerns to investigators in New York.\n\nThen the plot took an unexpected new turn: Cohen, a long-time Trump loyalist, flipped and began co-operating with investigators. Not only that, but he ended up giving them a lot of help in exchange for a lighter sentence.\n\nCohen ended up admitting violating campaign finance laws, committing tax evasion and lying to Congress.\n\nThe last shot of the entire series was a mournful Cohen being locked into his jail cell.\n\nWho was he? A long-time Washington political operative who acted as an informal adviser to the Trump campaign. He called himself an agent provocateur, and once defended his actions by saying: \"One man's dirty trick is another man's political, civic action.\"\n\nKey plot line Stone was one of those memorable bit-part characters in Seasons One and Two - a colourful character known for his fiery tongue, sharp suits and the Richard Nixon tattoo spread across his back.\n\nTowards the end of Season One, he appeared to let the cat out of the bag, hinting on Twitter that there was damaging information coming out on Hillary Clinton. Soon after, that information (that we later learned was found by Russia) was made public.\n\nAfter a bit of a lull in the middle of Season Four, investigators indicted Stone on seven counts of witness tampering, obstruction and false statements, although he wasn't charged with co-ordinating with Russia.\n\nAll the way through, he denied any wrongdoing. He, like the president, called the investigation a \"witch-hunt\" and once said the accusations of collusion with Russia were \"a steaming plate of bull\".\n\nText by Rajini Vaidyanathan and Roland Hughes; illustrations by Gerry Fletcher", "The case of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is first and foremost a story of terrible personal suffering for a young woman, her husband and their baby girl.\n\nEighteen months into a five-year sentence, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe faces the prospect of up to 16 years in an Iranian jail.\n\nIt is also, however, a story of an internal power struggle in Iran, as well as of the nation's deeply difficult relationship with the UK.\n\nTo understand how she fits into this, the first thing to examine is the timing of her arrest. Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was detained in April 2016, a few months ahead of the first anniversary of Iran's historic nuclear deal.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe accord, on which President Hassan Rouhani had staked his reputation, was bitterly opposed by elements of the powerful Revolutionary Guards.\n\nThey had often benefited financially from the sanctions regime. They were adamant that the nuclear deal must be seen as a failure, that it had changed nothing and that compromise with the West was a fruitless exercise.\n\nArrests of a number of Iranians with dual nationality came about in this context:\n\nIran is in the grip of an ideological power-struggle, with two competing world views.\n\nPresident Rouhani came to power promising to open Iran up to the world; the supreme leader, the Revolutionary Guards and the judiciary have a far more hardline position, both in relation to how the country should be run as well as its foreign relations.\n\nAll the arrests were seen as an attempt by the Revolutionary Guards to undermine not just the president, but the very process of thawing relations with the West.\n\nOf the three dual-national prisoners arrested after the deal was agreed, only one has since been released: Ms Hoodfar was sent home a few months later on what the Iranians called \"humanitarian grounds\".\n\nThe only significant difference between her case and Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's was their nationalities: one was half-Canadian, the other half-British.\n\nTo Iranian minds, the UK is viewed with almost unique suspicion. Indeed, in 2009 the supreme leader said that of all the world's \"arrogant powers\", the UK was the \"most evil\".\n\nTo understand why, one must go back to the 1953 coup-d'état that overthrew nationalist Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, returning the autocratic Shah to power. Behind it were the British and American intelligence agencies.\n\nAlmost 300 people were killed in the streets of Tehran after protesting against the prime minister's removal in a US- and British-organised coup in 1953\n\nThis led to deep-rooted suspicions of the West's intentions; once the Shah was ousted by the Islamic Revolution of 1979, those suspicions became open hostilities. Relations have never really recovered.\n\nOver the years there have been a number of key points, notably the 1989 fatwah calling for the death of British author Salman Rushdie. His book, The Satanic Verses, was denounced as blasphemous by the supreme leader; he called on Muslims around the world to try and kill Rushdie. The controversy led to a severing of diplomatic ties, which were not repaired until 1998.\n\nIn 2007, 15 British Royal Navy personnel were detained off the South Coast of Iran. They were paraded on TV, a show of power by Tehran, but ultimately released under diplomatic pressure.\n\nThe 2009 re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was followed by peaceful street protests, which the supreme leader accused the West of encouraging. A number of staff at the British embassy were arrested and forced to sign confessions.\n\nIn November 2011, relations deteriorated further. After the UK increased sanctions on Iran, the parliament voted to expel the British ambassador. Before he could pack his bags, members of the hardline Basij militia ransacked the British embassy in Tehran. It did not re-open until 2014.\n\nBut, it is not just the British government that has been viewed with great hostility. Western media, most notably the BBC's Persian Service, has long been regarded with deep distrust, fear and often hatred by the hardline Iranian establishment.\n\nFor years Persian Service journalists have been harassed and intimidated by the Iranian authorities. Two months ago all the assets of 150 BBC staff, former staff and contributors were frozen for \"conspiracy against national security\".\n\nAnd here we come to the final part of the story of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe. Many years ago, she worked for BBC Media Action, the charitable wing of the BBC. Although it has no direct connection to the BBC's Persian service, it has been used as evidence that she was in Iran for political reasons.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIt is, therefore, for this reason that the recent comments by Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson were so controversial, and potentially damaging.\n\nBy stating that she was involved in \"training journalists\", he has given ammunition to those elements of the establishment who view her as just another example what the supreme leader described as \"an infiltration project\" by the West.\n\nAll the while, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe languishes in Tehran's Evin jail. Her daughter, who has now forgotten how to speak English, can only see her for an hour-and-a-half a week. Meanwhile her husband Richard suffers in London.\n\nThe future of a family, half-British, half-Iranian, has been torn apart by the suspicion and distrust caused by their own countries' pasts.", "Millions of people have fallen silent to remember the nation's war dead, as the UK marks Armistice Day.\n\nAmong those paying tribute at the National Memorial Arboretum was 99-year-old World War Two veteran Les Cherrington.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC's Phil Mackie, he described his tank coming under fire in north Africa - and his emotions over his friends who were killed.", "Some 1,400 bell ringers are to be recruited in 2018 to mark 100 years since World War One ended.\n\nThey will represent the 1,400 bell ringers who died in the conflict.\n\nBells in churches and cathedrals will ring out on 11 November next year and Big Ben will also strike to mark the centenary of Armistice Day.\n\nChurch bells were rung in celebration when armistice was declared in 1918, after having been restricted during the four-year war.\n\nCulture Secretary Karen Bradley said: \"On November 11, 1918, the ringing of church bells erupted spontaneously across the country, as an outpouring of relief that four years of war had come to an end.\n\n\"I am pleased that to honour that moment.\"\n\nCommunities Secretary Sajid Javid said it was a priority to \"keep the history of the First World War alive for generations to come\".\n\nOn Saturday, events were held around the UK to mark the 99th anniversary of Armistice Day with Big Ben chiming for the first time since August.\n\nThe centenaries of women's service in the regular Armed Forces, the World War One battle of Passchendaele, the creation of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission and the 100th birthday of Dame Vera Lynn are also being marked this year.", "In France, one town was not only remembering the end of World War One, but the loss of one of its citizens, Chloe Boissinot, killed in the jihadist attacks on Paris two years ago. The Treaty of Versailles was signed in France in 1919, imposing harsh terms on Germany.", "Damian Green's conduct is being investigated by the Cabinet Office\n\nFirst Secretary of State Damian Green gave evidence to a Cabinet Office inquiry into his conduct earlier on Tuesday, the BBC understands.\n\nThe inquiry, which is being held behind closed doors, quizzed former senior police officer Bob Quick on Monday.\n\nIt is examining Mr Quick's claims pornography was found on a computer in Mr Green's Commons office during a police investigation in 2008-09.\n\nMr Green has denied the allegations saying they were a \"political smear\".\n\nThe inquiry is also looking at a separate claim that Mr Green, who is Theresa May's second-in-command, made inappropriate advances towards a female Conservative activist in 2015.\n\nHe also denies that allegation and has provided the inquiry with text messages between the pair as part of his evidence, BBC Home Affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said.\n\nNo timescale has been set for how long the inquiry will take but it's thought that it will be quite short, added our correspondent.\n\nBob Quick led the investigation into Home Office leaks which saw Mr Green's office being searched\n\nMr Green was briefly arrested in 2008 during what was a controversial inquiry into Home Office leaks. His Commons office and home were also searched but no charges of any kind were brought.\n\nMr Green has said the police never told him at the time that any improper material had been found on a parliamentary computer, condemning the claims as \"disreputable political smears\" which \"amount to little more than an unscrupulous character assassination\".\n\nHe has suggested Mr Quick, who was forced to resign as the UK's top anti-terror officer in 2009 following a security blunder which compromised a potential operation, was a \"discredited\" figure but the former officer is standing by the claims.\n\nMr Quick, Scotland Yard's former assistant commissioner, told MPs in 2009 the leak inquiry had been \"complicated by the existence of private material on the computer removed from Mr Green's parliamentary office\".", "A BBC Panorama investigation has uncovered evidence of abuse of the government's student loan system in one of the biggest private colleges in England.\n\nThe Greenwich School of Management (GSM) and its students receive around £66m a year in maintenance and tuition fee loans.\n\nPanorama sent undercover reporters into GSM to investigate.", "Michael Jonas died of stab wounds to the chest after he was attacked in Penge, south east London\n\nTwo more teenagers have been charged with murdering a 17-year-old boy who was stabbed to death in a park.\n\nMichael Jonas was fatally attacked in Betts Park, Penge, south-east London on 2 November.\n\nThe Met Police said a 14-year-old boy and a 17-year-old boy had been charged and will appear at Bromley Magistrates' Court on Monday.\n\nTwo other teenagers, aged 17 and 16, have already appeared in court in connection with the stabbing.\n\nThe Met said it was called to reports of an attack at the park at around 19:20 GMT and found Michael with multiple stab wounds.\n\nHe was pronounced dead at the scene just under an hour later.\n\nA post-mortem examination at the Princess Royal University Hospital confirmed the cause of death as stab wounds to the chest and haemorrhage.\n\nMichael was the 16th teenager to be stabbed to death in the capital this year.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mallows Bay, on the Maryland side of America's Potomac River, hosts potentially the largest group of World War One shipwrecks anywhere in the world.\n\nA century since the United States entered the conflict, the BBC Travel Show has been to see how the vessels are being reclaimed by nature.\n\nThe Travel Show can be seen on BBC World News and the BBC News Channel.", "Lilleth went missing some time in the last three weeks\n\nA council which ordered an escaped Eurasian lynx to be shot dead by a marksman has defended its decision.\n\nCeredigion council said it sought expert advice before ordering Lilleth be 'humanely destroyed' on Friday.\n\nShe escaped from Borth Wild Animal Kingdom, near Aberystwyth, three weeks ago and on Saturday the zoo's owners said they were \"outraged\".\n\nMeanwhile, Dyfed-Powys Police said it was investigating threats against the marksman.\n\nIn a statement on Sunday evening, the council said Lilleth was \"not afraid of humans\" and had entered a populated area.\n\nThey said that the shooting had been approved beforehand by the police, the Welsh government and the chief veterinary officer for Wales.\n\nA council spokeswoman said: \"It was not possible to assess the condition or temperament of the lynx but there were concerns about its likely behavioural response if it was startled or inadvertently confronted by a member of the public, especially by a young child.\n\n\"It must be remembered that the lynx is classified in legislation as 'dangerous and wild' and the authorities were dealing with an unmanaged escape situation.\"\n\nShe added that using a tranquiliser instead was \"specifically discussed\" but the terrain and vegetation in the area meant they were told it was \"not an option\".\n\nShe said: \"On other occasions and in different circumstances it may be fitting to attempt to tranquilise an escaped animal but, based on the factors involved with this incident, it was decided that it was not appropriate.\"\n\nFlowers have been left outside the zoo in tribute to Lilleth\n\nThe council has been investigating the animal's escape \"to establish whether there have been any breaches of the operating licence and other related matters\".\n\nShe is believed to have escaped after making a \"giant leap\" over an electrified fence.\n\nThere had been a number of sightings but she evaded capture and was at one point thought to be hiding in bushes near the zoo.\n\nCeredigion council and Dyfed-Powys Police said they had tried a \"range of measures\" to capture the Lynx, including baited traps.\n\nThe local authority has previously said it would carry out an inspection of the zoo later this month.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nCoverage: Watch live on BBC Two, Red Button, BBC Sport website and mobile app, listen on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra and follow text updates online.\n\nSix-time champion Roger Federer opened with a straight-set win over Jack Sock at the ATP Finals in London.\n\nThe 36-year-old Swiss, making his 15th appearance at the season-ending event for the top eight players in the world, won 6-4 7-6 (7-4) at the O2 Arena.\n\nAmerican Sock was making his tournament debut, having qualified by winning the Paris Masters a week ago.\n\nAlexander Zverev beat Marin Cilic 4-6 6-3 6-4 in Sunday's second round-robin match in the Boris Becker Group.\n\nGerman third seed Zverev broke serve in the opening game with a deft volley and took the first set, but Croatian fifth seed Cilic grew stronger as the match progressed and looked set for victory at 3-1 up in the decider.\n\nHowever, 20-year-old Zverev showed why he has won two Masters titles this year as he reeled off five of six games, breaking serve to love to clinch victory.\n\n\"For the most part of the second and third sets he was the better player, I was just happy to come back and get the win,\" said Zverev.\n\nThe Pete Sampras Group starts on Monday, with Dominic Thiem taking on Grigor Dmitrov at 14:00 GMT followed by Rafael Nadal against David Goffin at 20:00. Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares begin their doubles campaign at 12:00.\n\nDefending champion Andy Murray, five-time winner Novak Djokovic and three-time Grand Slam champion Stan Wawrinka are among a number of players who chose to end their seasons early to recover from injuries.\n\n'I got off to a great start' - Federer\n\nFederer lost just four points behind his first serve as he came through an entertaining match without facing a break point.\n\nSock, 25, never looked like causing an upset after dropping his opening service game but clung on impressively in the second set before the pressure eventually told.\n\nFederer served out the opener after 36 minutes but could not close it out in the second as five break points slipped by across the seventh, ninth and 11th games.\n\nFor the first time in four meetings. Sock managed to take the 19-time Grand Slam champion to a tie-break, but a double fault from the American at 4-5 handed Federer a match point that he clinically converted.\n\n\"I got off to a great start, my big hope was I was going to be able to play a bit more freely after that,\" said Federer.\n\n\"The second set was tight, I missed some opportunities, the breaker could have gone either way and in the end he helped me with some double faults and some mistakes.\n\n\"I'm really happy that I got through somehow.\"\n\nFederer last won the season-ending title back in 2011, but he is the favourite to add a seventh victory to his extraordinary CV at the end of a year when he has won two more Grand Slam titles.\n\nIt is a far cry from 12 months ago, when the Swiss was absent through injury, while Murray and Djokovic - themselves missing this year - battled for the year-end number one ranking.\n\n\"It's wonderful to be back, especially after missing last year with injury,\" said Federer.\n\n\"It was tough not to be here but at the same time I really enjoyed the battle for number one between Andy and Novak.\"\n\nNadal, 31, has had a similarly spectacular return to form in 2017, winning the other two major titles and ending the year as world number one.\n\nReceiving a trophy on court following the opening match, the Spaniard said: \"It has been a fantastic season, a very emotional one after all of the things I have been going through in the last couple of years with injury.\n\n\"To have this trophy again is something I never thought was possible.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Charles lays Remembrance Sunday wreath as the Queen watches from a balcony\n\nPoliticians, members of the Royal Family and veterans are commemorating those who lost their lives in conflict as the UK marks Remembrance Sunday.\n\nA two-minute silence was held across the country and wreaths were laid at memorials.\n\nPrince Charles attended the annual ceremony at the Cenotaph in London and Big Ben chimed at 11:00 GMT.\n\nThe Queen did not lay a wreath but instead watched from the Foreign Office's balcony.\n\nThe only other occasions when she has not laid the wreath were when she was pregnant or abroad.\n\nAt the Cenotaph on Whitehall, the Last Post was played shortly before the Prince of Wales laid the wreath.\n\nThe royals were joined by Prime Minister Theresa May, other senior politicians, religious leaders and dignitaries from around the Commonwealth.\n\nTheresa May and Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn also paid their respects\n\nThe Queen watched the ceremony with Prince Philip and the Duchess of Cornwall from a nearby balcony...\n\n...as did the Duchess of Cambridge and other royals\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry also laid wreaths\n\nAs part of services being held across Scotland, more than 100 wreaths were laid at Edinburgh's City Chambers. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon attended the service.\n\nIn Wales, a service was held at the Welsh National War Memorial and a field of remembrance at Cardiff Castle featured more than 10,000 crosses.\n\nAt the Cenotaph in Enniskillen in Northern Ireland, Irish Taoiseach Leo Varadkar laid a green laurel wreath, 30 years after an IRA bombing there killed 12 people.\n\nIn Omagh, a wreath-laying ceremony was postponed after a suspicious object was found.\n\nMeanwhile, bell ringers are being sought for 2018 to honour the 1,400 ringers who died in World War One.\n\nVeterans gathered for Remembrance Sunday at the Cenotaph in Whitehall\n\nSir Stuart Peach, chief of the defence staff, told the Andrew Marr show that the day was one of remembrance and reconciliation.\n\n\"Today we mark and remember over a million British and Commonwealth soldiers who died in both world wars. So it is about remembering the sacrifice they made so that we can enjoy the freedom and liberty that we have today,\" he said.\n\n\"It's also very important to understand that this is about reconciliation. That nations move on.\"\n\nThe new Defence Secretary, Gavin Williamson, said: \"We must not forget the continued sacrifices our armed services make, right across the globe serving in 30 countries, making sure that this country remains safe - and that the freedoms that we have today continue to be protected.\"\n\nOn Saturday, events were held around the UK to mark the 99th anniversary of Armistice Day with Big Ben chiming for the first time since August.\n\nThe evening saw a Festival of Remembrance held at Albert Hall. Members of the Royal Family watched as Emeli Sande, Tom Odell and other stars performed alongside the Queen's Colour Squadron and The Band of HM Royal Marines.\n\nThe event was held by the Royal British Legion and hosted by the BBC's Huw Edwards. It commemorated all the British military personnel killed in combat since World War One.", "More than 20 police officers were injured in Brussels when celebrations over Morocco's qualification for football's World Cup turned violent.\n\nThe Moroccan national side qualified for the 2018 tournament in Russia with a 2-0 victory away to Ivory Coast on Saturday, topping their group.\n\nBelgium has a large Moroccan community and fans hit the capital's streets after the game.\n\nOne witness posted video to Twitter of water cannon being used on a crowd. Police said it was used on a group of about 300 people, some of whom were throwing stones.\n\nCalm had returned by 21:30 local time (20:30 GMT), a reporter for the AFP news agency said.\n\nBelgium's Interior Minister Jan Jambon condemned the riots, tweeting (in French) that they constituted \"unacceptable aggression in the centre of Brussels\".\n\nHe added: \"Living together means respect, also for the police who are committed to our safety day and night.\"\n\nIn the Netherlands too, large groups of fans from Morocco or of Moroccan background celebrated in the streets. Some celebrations there turned violent, with the police in The Hague tweeting (in Dutch) that some people threw things at officers.\n\nIn Rotterdam, dancing fans set off flares in red and green, Morocco's colours.\n\nMeanwhile in Morocco itself thousands of fans celebrated in the streets of Marrakesh, Casablanca and other cities.\n\nOwners of businesses in the centre of Brussels woke on Sunday to damaged shop fronts\n\nExuberant fans hit the streets of Amsterdam too\n\nMost celebrations - like this one in Marrakesh - were peaceful", "Some MPs are concerned Brexit poses a risk to UK wildlife and habitats\n\nA new environment watchdog to protect UK wildlife, land, water and air once Britain leaves the European Union is being planned by the government.\n\nEnvironment Secretary Michael Gove said the body would hold the powerful to account and deliver a green Brexit.\n\nThe plans come amid concerns that environmental regulations enshrined in EU law could be lost after Brexit.\n\nMr Gove told the Andrew Marr Show standards would not be sacrificed as part of a potential US free trade deal.\n\nMr Gove wants the watchdog to be independent of government - able to speak its mind freely, he said, with clear legal authority.\n\nWriting in The Telegraph, he said the watchdog would have \"real bite\" but did not outline exact planned powers.\n\nHe said it was important that environmental enforcement and policymaking remained bound to a clear set of principles once Britain leaves the EU.\n\nHe added that the watchdog would make a national policy statement to ensure policymakers protect the environment, and remain grounded by rigorous scientific evidence.\n\nSpeaking to Andrew Marr, Mr Gove rejected suggestions from US Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross that the UK may relax its policies to secure an agreement post-Brexit.\n\n\"While we do want a trade deal with the United States, we will not lower environment or animal welfare standards,\" he said.\n\n\"Free trade is a good thing, but free trade flounders on the rocks of public opinion if it is used as a Trojan horse for lowering environmental standards, so we're not going there.\"\n\nSome MPs are worried Brexit poses a risk to UK wildlife and habitats - with the cross-party Environmental Audit Committee calling for the creation of new environmental protection law.\n\nLabour's Mary Creagh, chair of the committee, told BBC News earlier this year: \"European law protects huge amounts of the UK's environment, farming and countryside.\"\n\nThe government has said the EU Withdrawal Bill - which goes before MPs for debate this week - will incorporate many of these regulations.\n\nMr Gove also outlined his vision for British agriculture and wildlife once Britain leaves the EU.\n\nDescribing British farmers as the \"best in the world\", he said he wanted to \"help support farmers produce food in a sustainable and productive way\".\n\nMr Gove told Marr that in the event of a no deal scenario, British food would still be \"increasingly in demand worldwide\".\n\n\"The trend overall globally is toward greater quality and British farmers are in the best position to meet that,\" he added.\n\nHe also revealed plans to plant 11 million trees over the next decade, and encourage a \"wider range of species\".\n\n\"I want the number of birds to increase - particularly farmland birds,\" he concluded.", "President Michel Aoun (L) has expressed concern over the well-being of Saad al-Hariri (R)\n\nThe Lebanese president has asked Saudi Arabia to clarify the situation of Prime Minister Saad Hariri, who announced his resignation in Riyadh.\n\nMichel Aoun has not accepted the shock resignation of a week ago, suggesting words attributed to Mr Hariri should be treated with caution.\n\nIran and its Lebanese ally, the militant group Hezbollah, accuse Saudi Arabia of holding Mr Hariri hostage.\n\nThe US has warned other countries not to use Lebanon for proxy conflicts.\n\nThere is growing concern that Lebanon is becoming drawn into spiralling sectarian tensions between the region's biggest Shia Muslim power, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, which is mainly Sunni Muslim.\n\nMr Hariri, a Sunni leader and businessman, was nominated to form Lebanon's government by Mr Aoun in November 2016.\n\nThe announcement of his resignation on 4 November sent shockwaves through the region.\n\n\"The obscurity surrounding the condition of Prime Minister Saad Hariri since his resignation a week ago means that all positions and actions declared by him or attributed to him do not reflect the truth,\" President Aoun said.\n\nAn unnamed senior Lebanese official, quoted by Reuters news agency, said President Aoun had told a group of foreign ambassadors on Friday that Mr Hariri had been \"kidnapped\" and should have immunity.\n\nHowever, the remarks have not been officially confirmed. French Foreign Minister Yves Le Drian said on Friday that \"we think he's free to move and he has to make his own choices\".\n\nIn his televised remarks from Riyadh a week ago, Mr Hariri said that he was stepping down because of an unspecified threat to his life.\n\nHe accused Iran and Hezbollah, a Shia group, of taking over Lebanon and destabilising the wider region.\n\nHe has not spoken publicly since then.\n\n\"We are all Saad,\" posters of the missing prime minister have appeared across Beirut\n\nOn Friday, US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said he had received assurances that Mr Hariri was free and he encouraged him to return to Lebanon.\n\nHe expressed concern about how the crisis might affect the stability of Lebanon's fragile coalition, and warned countries in the region against using Lebanon as a \"venue for proxy conflicts\".\n\nMeanwhile, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah accused Saudi Arabia of declaring war on Lebanon.\n\nThe international community has also weighed in on Mr Hariri's absence, with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres warning that a new conflict in the region would have \"devastating consequences\".\n\nOn Thursday, French President Emmanuel Macron paid an unscheduled visit to Saudi Arabia, to emphasise to Saudi leaders the importance of stability in Lebanon. He spoke to Mr Aoun by phone on Saturday.\n\nMr Hariri (R) was seen meeting the Saudi king on Monday\n\nFrance has historical ties with Lebanon, as the former mandate power before independence.\n\nSaudi Arabia and its Gulf allies ordered their citizens in Lebanon on Thursday to leave the country immediately.\n\nRiyadh accused Iran of \"direct military aggression\", saying it had supplied a missile which it says was fired by Hezbollah at Riyadh from Yemen the same day as Mr Hariri's resignation.\n\nIran dismissed the Saudi allegations as \"false and dangerous\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Michael Gove says he does not know why Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was in Iran\n\nMichael Gove has come under fire for saying he didn't know what Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was doing in Iran when she was arrested in 2016.\n\nMr Gove told Andrew Marr he would \"take her husband's assurance\" that the British-Iranian citizen was on holiday.\n\nHe was defending the foreign secretary, whose own comments have caused concern that her sentence could be extended.\n\nLabour said he \"was more interested in protecting (Boris) Johnson's job\" than Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's liberty.\n\nShadow Cabinet Office minister Jon Trickett said Mr Gove had \"compounded\" Mr Johnson's \"cavalier approach to international diplomacy\".\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was arrested at Tehran airport with her 18-month-old daughter in April 2016, one of several Iranians with dual nationality to be detained over a period of months.\n\nShe was accused of trying to overthrow the Iranian regime - charges she has always denied - and sentenced to five years' imprisonment.\n\nShe says she was on holiday in Iran so relatives could meet her young daughter.\n\nThe arrests were seen as part of an attempt by Iran's Revolutionary Guards to undermine President Hassan Rouhani and the process of thawing relations with the West.\n\nLast week UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson was criticised for suggesting she had been training journalists on the trip - causing concern it could cause her sentence to be lengthened.\n\nMr Johnson has since said the government has \"no doubt\" she was on holiday \"and that was the sole purpose of her visit\".\n\nAsked on Sunday by Mr Marr what she had been doing in Iran, Mr Gove replied: \"I don't know\" adding there was \"no reason Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe should be in prison in Iran so far as any of us know\".\n\nHe went on to say her husband was the person who would know and he would take his assurance that she was on holiday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sadiq Khan: \"If Theresa May was a strong prime minister, she'd have sacked him a long time ago\"\n\nHe said: \"We make a big mistake if we think the right thing to do is to blame politicians in a democracy who are trying to do the right thing for the plight of a woman who is being imprisoned by a regime that is a serial abuser of human rights.\"\n\n\"Who is in the dock here? Iran. It should be the actions of their judiciary and the revolutionary guards.\"\n\nHe added the UK should not \"play their game\".\n\nMeanwhile, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and London Mayor Sadiq Khan have both called for Mr Johnson to resign for putting Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe at risk.\n\nMr Corbyn told the Observer Mr Johnson should be sacked as foreign secretary for \"undermining our country\" and \"putting our citizens at risk\".\n\nAnd Labour's Tulip Siddiq, who is Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's MP, told the BBC that she had repeatedly raised the details of the case in Parliament\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband said \"she was just a mum on holiday\"\n\n\"For Michael Gove to go on TV today and say he wasn't sure ... he should know that Nazanin was on holiday and in compounding the lie that was told about training journalists, he is only going to make life worse for my constituent.\"\n\nIt is understood that Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband Richard spoke to the foreign secretary on Sunday. Mr Ratcliffe told the BBC he hoped he might be able to travel to Iran with Mr Johnson to meet his wife and see his daughter, who he has not seen in person since the arrest.", "Jupiter and Venus were photographed here above Brighton Pier\n\nJupiter and Venus - the two brightest planets - have appeared together in the morning sky.\n\nThe planetary conjunction was visible to the naked eye across much of the UK, with the time before dawn being the best to catch the spectacle.\n\nExperts said the planets were so close as to appear almost on top of each other.\n\nOne astronomer said it would probably be \"decades rather than years\" before they appeared as close together.\n\nWhile the planets have been visible to the unaided eye, viewers with a telescope have also been able to see Jupiter's four Galilean moons.\n\nPeople in the UK have taken to social media to share their photos of the planetary display.\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\nViewed from London, the planets began appearing shortly before 06:00 GMT with the conjunction occurring just after.\n\nThose on high ground with a clear view of the eastern horizon had the best chance of witnessing the planetary display.\n\nThis image of the planetary display was captured by Alexandra Palace in London\n\nThe planets were spotted here in the Merseyside skyline\n\nThe conjunction of the planets looks like a bright star\n\nIn 2004, the planet Venus could be seen crossing the Sun as a small black dot\n\nMark Thompson, an astronomer and former presenter on the BBC show Stargazing Live, said conjunctions occur when planets line up in such a way that they appear from Earth to be next to each other - despite in this case being hundreds of millions of miles apart.\n\nMr Thompson told the BBC the cloudy atmospheres of the two planets made them appear bright to the naked eye.\n\nHe said the event was not uncommon - Venus and Jupiter appeared together in 2015 and 2016, also on 13 November - but it was much rarer for them to appear so close to each other.\n\n\"There have certainly been cases where they've been close in the sky but they've not been this close in recent years, certainly the last couple of planetary conjunctions.\n\n\"This is actually quite a good conjunction because they're so close, and over the next few years they'll pass each other and be close but not this close…\n\n\"One as close as this, you're probably looking decades rather than years.\"\n\nThe conjunction can also be seen in countries in the mid-northern latitudes, including parts of the US.\n\nThose who missed the event will be able to see the two planets again on Tuesday morning, but they will not be as close together.\n\nAccording to Nasa, stargazers will be treated to another planetary pairing later this month, when Saturn will meet Mercury on the western horizon at dusk on 24 and 28 November.", "Nathan McSeveney died after falling in a stairwell at Celtic Park in November 2014\n\nThe family of a football fan who died after falling in a stairwell at an international match at Celtic Park are suing the club.\n\nNathan McSeveney, 20, from Cumnock in Ayrshire, died after Scotland's Euro 2016 qualifier against the Republic of Ireland in November 2014.\n\nLawyers for his family said they believed Celtic FC had \"failed in its duty of care to protect\" Mr McSeveney.\n\nCeltic said it did not accept liability for the accident.\n\nMr McSeveney was taken to Glasgow Royal Infirmary from Exit 33 of the stadium on 14 November 2014 but died from his injuries.\n\nThe family's lawyers, Thompsons Solicitors, said it was \"a tragic case that has devastated a family\".\n\nPartner Patrick McGuire added: \"It is our firm belief that the football club failed in its duty of care to protect this young man leading to this awful accident.\n\n\"The fact that they have now taken the obvious measure to make the area in question safer by erecting safety nets proves this.\n\n\"We will be fighting hard to make sure they family receive the justice they deserve.\"\n\nA spokesman for Celtic said: \"Celtic Football Club has considerable sympathy with the McSeveney family for their terrible loss following this tragic accident.\n\n\"However, and while the club's sympathy is in no sense diminished, the club does not accept liability for the accident.\n\n\"Celtic Park is a very safe environment and complies with all applicable building standards.\n\n\"Celtic Park is regularly inspected and certified as safe by the relevant authorities, including an investigation immediately following the accident.\"\n\nThe spokesman added: \"The matter is in the hands of the club's insurers and solicitors and it would not be appropriate to comment further at this time.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The parade featured larger-than-life puppets of giants and mythical beasts\n\nA parade of street performers dressed as giant creatures weaved its way through Hull on Saturday as part of the City of Culture 2017 arts festival.\n\nThousands of people lined the Old Town streets to watch The Land of Green Ginger Unleashed procession, which began on Saville Street at 18:30 GMT.\n\nProduced by Irish arts company Macnas, it included large puppets of giants, woodland creatures and mythical beasts.\n\nIt has produced similar experiences in China, Australia and the United States.\n\nThousands of people gathered in the Old Town on Saturday evening\n\nThe procession marked the end of a year-long project inspired by a Hull street, curiously named Land of Green Ginger, and was aimed at reaching audiences which are traditionally harder to engage in the arts.\n\nPrevious \"Land of Green Ginger\" events have included storytellers running tours of city streets, a bonfire and a model city.\n\nThe show was inspired by a street in Hull called Land of Green Ginger\n\nThe show travelled through Humber Street in the city\n\nPerformers drew inspiration from the idea of parallel worlds\n\nKaty Fuller, Executive Producer of Hull 2017, said: \"Hull provided a glorious stage for Macnas and the reaction has been truly overwhelming.\"\n\nEach Act had its own identity and was created by a different artist\n\nNoeline Kavanagh, Artistic Director of Macnas, said: \"We were blown away by the reception from the people of Hull - such a warm and generous audience.\"\n\nOne of the central characters was a giant puppet which walked the streets\n\nThe parade made its way along Guildhall Road, Lowgate and High Street before finishing at Humber Street at about 21:00 GMT.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe has served 19 months of her five-year sentence\n\nA British-Iranian mother being held in Iran faces two more charges in relation to her alleged involvement in trying to overthrow the government.\n\nNazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 38, has served 19 months of a five-year term for alleged security offences.\n\nThe charity worker was arrested at Tehran Airport in April 2016 while visiting family in Iran with her daughter.\n\nShe rejects the charges, which carry an extra 16 years in prison if proven.\n\nMrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who has worked for the charity the Thomson Reuters Foundation and the BBC, lost her final appeal in April 2017.\n\nUnder the previous charges, which have not been made public, she was accused of plotting to topple the regime in Tehran.\n\nThe latest charges allege Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe joined organisations which specifically worked to overthrow the government.\n\nShe is also accused of attending a demonstration outside the Iranian Embassy in London - it is claimed a photo was found during a search of her private email account.\n\nHer family has paid bail to stop her being put back in solitary confinement and a date for the full trial has not been set.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Speaking to the BBC in January 2017, Richard Ratcliffe recalls the moment he realised his wife would not be returning to the UK\n\nIran does not recognise dual nationals and denies them access to consular assistance.\n\nThe Foreign and Commonwealth Office said it was seeking more information from the Iranian authorities and both the prime minister and foreign secretary had raised the case with Tehran and at the UN General Assembly.\n\nMiddle East minister Alistair Burt has met Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's family both in London and in Tehran to discuss her case, and hopes to meet with them again later this month.\n\nA spokesman for the FCO said: \"We continue to be concerned for the welfare for Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe and have repeatedly raised this with the Iranian authorities, urging them to provide all necessary medical assistance.\n\n\"We will continue to raise all our dual national detainees, including Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's case with the Iranian government at every available opportunity.\"\n\nRichard Radcliffe has said he believes his family is being used as a \"bargaining chip\" over UK-Iran politics\n\nSpeaking from the UK, Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe's husband, Richard, said the UK and Iran need to look after its citizens.\n\n\"The Iranian Ambassador and the UK government need to stand up, and say they will protect British Iranians.\n\n\"It is not enough just to focus in public on their business deals, and to keep a silent pretence. It looks like heads in the sands.\"\n\nMonique Villa, CEO at the Thomson Reuters Foundation, said the accusation Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe was trying to overthrow the regime is a \"complete invention\".\n\n\"The Thomson Reuters Foundation doesn't work in Iran and has no programme or dealings with Iran.\n\n\"We continue to assert that she is 100% innocent and that these ludicrous charges must be dropped immediately.\"\n\nShe added the charity worker was subject to \"inhumane treatment\" which had already caused \"irreparable damage\".", "A British woman held in Egypt on drug smuggling charges has been referred to a criminal court for trial.\n\nLaura Plummer, 33, was arrested last month accused of entering the country with 300 Tramadol tablets, a painkiller legal in the UK but not in Egypt.\n\nShe will remain in custody at a police station in the resort of Hurghada.\n\nThe shop assistant from Hull told the BBC she had \"no idea\" the painkillers she was carrying were banned in the country.\n\nBut local police said that ignorance of the law is no excuse.\n\nHer lawyers had hoped to apply for bail on Saturday, but a custody hearing was cancelled.\n\nLaura Plummer said the prescription pills were for her partner Omar Caboo\n\nMs Plummer's mother, Roberta Synclair, had waited at the courthouse in the Red Sea resort hoping to see her daughter granted bail on Saturday.\n\nShe told the BBC Ms Plummer was in \"very bad spirits\" when she last saw her a few days ago.\n\n\"It's absolutely heart-breaking because your daughter's there and you can't bring her home with you,\" Ms Synclair said.\n\nIt is unclear when the first hearing for the trial will be.\n\nThis is a blow for Laura Plummer and her lawyers. Instead of being granted bail - as they had hoped - she has now been referred to a criminal court.\n\nBeing sent for trial was always a possibility after the shop assistant was charged with the serious offence of drug smuggling.\n\nPolice investigating the case have stressed that she had a large quantity of the banned drug Tramadol - about 300 tablets.\n\nLaura Plummer insists she had no idea that the painkiller is banned here and that she brought it for her Egyptian boyfriend, who has a bad back. Her lawyers say he has medical certificates which could help her case.\n\nThis could be the beginning of a lengthy legal process. In Egypt, defendants can be kept in custody for up to two years before a trial.\n\nFor now she remains in an overcrowded cell at a police station in Hurghada.\n\nDrug smuggling can carry the death sentence in Egypt.\n\nTramadol is legal in the UK with a prescription but banned in Egypt, where many are addicted to the opiate.\n\nIn a phone call from her cell, Ms Plummer told the BBC she was given the tablets by a colleague for her Egyptian partner, Omar Caboo, who she says has back problems.\n\nShe said the colleague put them in a chemist's bag, which she put in her suitcase.\n\n\"I didn't even look in the bag,\" she said. \"I can't tell you how stupid I feel.\"\n\nMs Plummer is being held in the Red Sea beach resort of Hurghada\n\nMs Plummer told the BBC her cell in a police station was the size of her bedroom in the UK, but she was having to share it with 25 other women.\n\nHer shared cell was claustrophobic, she said, and it was sometimes hard to breathe. Although her fellow prisoners were trying to look after her, none of them spoke English.\n\nHer family have said Ms Plummer was \"unrecognisable\" after four weeks in custody in Egypt.\n\nMs Plummer's local MP, Karl Turner, says she has never been in trouble at home.\n\n\"She's never had so much as a parking ticket in the UK,\" he said.\n\n\"This is a woman who's definitely, clearly, done wrong, but she, in my view, absolutely had no knowledge of what she was doing to be illegal, and we need to be mindful of that.\"", "It was the first time Her Majesty marked Remembrance Day from the balcony of the Foreign Office. She was alongside her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, and the Duchess of Cornwall.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThree-quarters of a million people have rallied in Barcelona to protest against Spain's detention of Catalan independence leaders, police estimate.\n\nThey shone phone torches in unison at sunset as calls were made to free eight regional ministers and two grassroots campaign leaders being held on remand.\n\nSome of the detainees will be included on the list of a Catalan separatist party at next month's snap election.\n\nSpanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is to visit the city on Sunday.\n\nIn another development, Barcelona's mayoress has condemned pro-independence leaders.\n\nThe Catalan parliament declared independence last month following an unrecognised referendum on independence from Spain.\n\nMadrid responded by dissolving the parliament and calling a regional election on 21 December.\n\nSince the crackdown by Madrid, Catalonia's sacked President Carles Puigdemont has gone into self-imposed exile in Belgium, and his top allies have been prosecuted.\n\nThe pro-independence movement has proven its ability to mobilise large numbers of demonstrators. Many came to this latest protest from small towns and villages in Catalonia - a sign of the movement's reach.\n\nTheir immediate aim is to call for the release of the eight politicians and two activists remanded in custody on charges of sedition and rebellion. The authorities in Madrid insist that the case is purely a matter for the courts, but the detention of politicians and activists does have a political impact. Imprisonment may have served to increase their popularity. It may galvanise the pro-independence movement as the regional election approaches.\n\nThe pro-independence camp wants to win a clear parliamentary majority. That would allow their side to have another go at trying to break away from Spain. But the pro-union camp, which represents the other half of Catalan society, will also campaign vigorously.\n\nProtesters marched behind a banner declaring \"We are a republic\" and carried placards declaring the 10 detainees political prisoners.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Here's what protesters in Catalonia are singing about\n\nThe sacked former ministers are being investigated for alleged rebellion and sedition, while the two activists were arrested over a mass protest before the referendum.\n\nThere were performances and speeches to the crowd. Protesters chanted \"Puigdemont for president\" and a cellist played a traditional Christmas carol, The Song of the Birds, which is associated with Catalans driven into political exile.\n\nThe left-wing ERC party, a key ally of Mr Puigdemont, has announced that some of the prisoners, including party leader Oriol Junqueras, as well as some of the sacked ministers who also went to Belgium, will stand on its electoral list.\n\nHowever, the ERC has rejected a call from Mr Puigdemont to fight the election as part of a single pro-independence bloc with other parties - as they did in 2015.\n\nMr Rajoy was mocked as the Devil on this recent placard in Barcelona\n\nThe Spanish prime minister is to make his first appearance in Catalonia since implementing direct rule two weeks ago.\n\nHe is expected to address a meeting of supporters of his centre-right Popular Party, who firmly want Catalonia to remain a part of Spain.\n\nAda Colau, who was elected mayoress in 2015 on an anti-capitalist platform and whose party (a merger of left-wing parties) is standing in the regional parliamentary election for the first time, said leaders of the independence movement had \"tricked the population for their own interests\".\n\nMs Colau, seen here kissing her baby, has kept her distance from both separatists and unionists\n\n\"They've provoked tensions and carried out a unilateral independence declaration which the majority do not want,\" she told a meeting of her Catalunya en Comú (English: Catalonia in Common) party.", "A paramedic says an incident in which a note was left on an ambulance windscreen criticising alleged blocking of a driveway is not uncommon.\n\nA handwritten message tweeted by West Midlands Ambulance Service telling paramedics not to park their \"van\" in a \"stupid place\" while seeing to a critically ill patient on Friday went viral.", "A two-minute silence was held across the country and wreaths were laid at memorials to those who died in conflict.\n\nFor the first time the Queen watched from the Foreign Office's balcony, as Prince Charles laid her wreath.", "The shooting of a lynx has \"broken emotionally and physically\" the owner of the zoo it escaped from.\n\nLilleth, the Eurasian lynx, had escaped from Borth Wild Animal Kingdom but Ceredigion council said on Friday that she had been \"humanely destroyed\".\n\nThe council said despite \"exhaustive efforts\" to recapture her, it received advice that the risk to public safety had \"increased to severe\".\n\nThe zoo's co-owner Dean Tweedy has condemned the killing, saying he wanted to see her darted instead.\n\nCeredigion council said it would carry out an inspection of the zoo, which has been closed since Lilleth's escape, later this month.", "An explosion ripped through an oil pipeline near the village of Buri in northern Bahrain.\n\nBahrain's interior minister, Sheikh Rashid bin Abdullah Al Khalifa, said in a statement that the blast was \"the latest example of a terrorist act\" and blamed Iran.", "The man was found injured in High Road, Ilford, in east London\n\nA man was beaten to death by attackers thought to be wielding baseball bats.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said they had started a murder inquiry after the attack on the man in High Road, Ilford, east London, in the early hours of Sunday.\n\nThe man, who was found injured, was taken by ambulance to an east London hospital but died at about 04:30 GMT.\n\nNo arrests have been made. Police say they are keeping an open mind regarding a motive for the attack.\n\nLocal road closures have been put in place and buses have been re-routed\n\nThe Met added inquiries were under way to identify the man and a post-mortem examination would be arranged in due course.\n\nLocal road closures have been put in place and buses have been re-routed.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Politicians, members of the Royal Family and veterans honour those who lost their lives in conflict.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPresident Donald Trump has criticised Senator Al Franken on Twitter after the Democrat apologised for a photo of him appearing to grope a woman.\n\nMr Trump called him \"Al Frankenstien\" - a misspelled reference to the undead monster - and mocked his previous advocacy for women's' rights.\n\nMr Franken apologised to his accuser, but disputed \"forcibly\" kissing her.\n\nMr Trump has yet to publicly comment on sexual misconduct allegations against Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore.\n\nFranken said the photo \"was clearly intended to be funny but wasn't\"\n\n\"The Al Frankenstien picture is really bad, speaks a thousand words,\" Mr Trump wrote in a pair of tweets late on Thursday.\n\nLos Angeles radio host Leeann Tweeden claims the now-Minnesota senator \"aggressively\" kissed her while they rehearsed a scene during a 2006 tour to entertain US troops in the Middle East and Afghanistan.\n\nHe also had a photo taken of him appearing to touch her breasts while she slept onboard a military plane, she said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"And to think that just last week he was lecturing anyone who would listen about sexual harassment and respect for women\", Mr Trump said in a follow-up tweet.\n\nMr Trump has yet to comment on a string of sexual misconduct allegations against Republican US Senate candidate Roy Moore.\n\nThe former Alabama Supreme Court judge denies has repeatedly denied the allegations and has resisted calls from his own national party to quit the US Senate race.\n\nHours before the tweets, White House President Secretary Sarah Sanders said the president found the allegations against Mr Moore \"very troubling\" and that \"the people of Alabama should make the decision on who their next senator should be\".\n\nMr Trump has himself denied numerous allegations of sexual misconduct against him. During the second presidential debate, he was asked if he had ever grabbed anyone's genitals or kissed them without consent.\n\n\"Women have respect for me. And I will tell you: No, I have not,\" he replied.\n\nLater, when asked to explain the distinction between the allegations against Mr Trump and Mr Franken, Mrs Sanders said: \"Senator Franken has admitted wrongdoing, and the president hasn't. That's a very big distinction.\"\n\nIn an article for KABC, a Los Angeles radio station where Ms Tweeden now works, she recalled feeling victimised by Mr Franken during her ninth tour of the Middle East.\n\n\"You knew exactly what you were doing,\" she wrote. \"You forcibly kissed me without my consent, grabbed my breasts while I was sleeping and had someone take a photo of you doing it, knowing I would see it later, and be ashamed.\"\n\nThe former comedian issued an initial statement saying he did not recall the rehearsal, but sent his \"sincerest apologies to Leeann\".\n\n\"As to the photo, it was clearly intended to be funny but wasn't. I shouldn't have done it,\" he added.\n\nA Pentagon photo of the 2006 Hope & Freedom Tour in Kuwait show the two performing a skit\n\nMr Franken later issued a second, longer statement following a backlash from critics who accused him of a non-apology and demanded his resignation.\n\n\"I respect women. I don't respect men who don't. The fact that my own actions have given people a good reason to doubt that makes me feel ashamed,\" 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 3 by Sen. Al Franken This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 the photo, he added: \"I look at it now and I feel disgusted with myself... It's obvious how Leeann would feel violated by that picture.\"\n\nIn Mr Trump's tweets on Thursday night, he also mentioned the \"Lesley Stahl tape\", which refers to a New York magazine story about a Saturday Night Live writers discussion in which Mr Franken suggested a joke about raping the CBS 60 Minutes correspondent.\n\nMr Franken was quoted as saying: \"And, 'I give the pills to Lesley Stahl. Then, when Lesley's passed out, I take her to the closet and rape her.' Or, 'That's why you never see Lesley until February.' Or, 'When she passes out, I put her in various positions and take pictures of her.'\"\n\nAl Franken has been married to his wife, Franni (R), for more than 40 years and they have two adult children\n\nSenate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer called for the chamber's Ethics Committee to investigate Mr Franken, saying: \"Sexual harassment is never acceptable.\"\n\nThe Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell echoed the call and Mr Franken said he would \"gladly co-operate\".", "The pharmacy says there a stock issue has delayed the roll-out\n\nBoots has been accused of breaking its promise to offer a cheaper brand of morning-after pill in its stores.\n\nThe pharmacy was criticised in July after refusing to reduce the cost of emergency contraception - and later pledged to supply an inexpensive alternative in all of its branches.\n\nBut a letter from over 130 Labour MPs says they are \"deeply concerned\" only 69 of its 2,500 stores stock a version.\n\nBoots says it is doing \"all it can\" to roll the service out nationally.\n\nThe morning after pill can be taken in the days after unprotected sex to prevent pregnancy.\n\nThe company faced outrage in July after telling the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) - which had called on Boots to reduce the cost of emergency pill, Levonelle - that making it cheaper could incentivise inappropriate use.\n\nAt the time, the progestogen-based drug was priced at £28.25, while the non-branded equivalent was £26.75.\n\nFollowing a backlash, Boots apologised and said it was committed to finding a cheaper alternative, and announced the roll-out of a generic pill costing £15.99.\n\nIt said it had been \"working hard with the manufacturer to increase supply\" in order to offer this alternative across every store in October.\n\nBut the MPs - led by shadow public health minister Sharon Hodgson - said it was \"difficult to understand\" why competitors had offered a cheaper alternative but Boots had not.\n\nMs Hodgson wrote: \"We are deeply concerned that Boots are either unable or unwilling to deliver on your pledge.\n\n\"Over the Christmas period many women struggle to access contraceptive services and their usual family planning method.\n\n\"Clearly, pharmacy access to emergency contraception is of an even greater importance in December and January.\n\n\"Whilst Boots say they have started the process of rolling out this product in the stores, the progress they have made so far can only be described as a drop in the ocean with a long way to go before it is accessible in each of their 2,500 stores across the country.\"\n\nShe also urged the pharmacy to reduce the cost of the generic pill currently in stock.\n\nBut Boots says it is working with MPs to make emergency contraception free from pharmacies to all women in England to \"end the current postcode lottery\".\n\nA Boots spokeswoman said: \"It is currently available as a free NHS service in the majority of our stores, however we would like to see one nationally commissioned NHS service available for all women in England, as there is in Wales and Scotland.\n\nShe said the company remained committed to rolling out the service nationally and giving women access to emergency contraception.\n\n\"Unfortunately the manufacturer has experienced a batch failure due to quality issues which means that the stock we were expecting is not now available, and we are now waiting for a new batch to be produced.\n\n\"We thank our customers for their continued patience and reassure them that we are doing all we can to roll this service out to all our stores as soon as possible.\"\n\nBPAS said it was \"absolutely scandalous\" that Boots had failed to deliver on its pledge, and there was \"no excuse\" for the slow progress.\n\n\"If Boots cannot 'source' a new version of emergency contraception to sell at a lower price, then they should do the right thing and cut the price of the version they currently have in stock.\n\n\"Regardless of 'supply chain delays', affordable emergency contraception is entirely within their gift to give right now.\n\n\"Every day they refuse to do so, more women are being ripped off, or risking an unplanned pregnancy because they cannot afford Boots's inflated price tag.\"\n\nIn England, emergency contraceptives Levonelle and EllaOne are free from most sexual health clinics, most GP surgeries and most NHS walk-in centres or urgent care centres.\n\nBut they are free only to women in certain age groups from pharmacies in some parts of the country.\n\nIn Scotland and Wales, the emergency contraceptive pill is available free of charge on the NHS from pharmacies, GPs and sexual health clinics.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, some pharmacies allow it to be bought on the NHS, and it is available free of charge from sexual health clinics and GPs.\n• None Where can I get emergency contraception (morning after pill) - NHS Choices The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The 5.4 magnitude tremor hit the south-eastern port city of Pohang in the afternoon, and dozens of aftershocks have occurred since.\n\nMore than 1,000 buildings, homes and vehicles have been destroyed or damaged.", "A soldier killed in a training exercise was shot by a colleague who mistook him for a target, a report has found.\n\nPrivate Conor McPherson was critically injured during a night-time \"live fire\" exercise at Otterburn, Northumberland.\n\nThe Defence Safety Authority's Service Inquiry report identified a number of Army failings in the run-up to the incident.\n\nThe Army has said it \"deeply regrets\" the death the young soldier, which was \"a terrible, terrible tragedy\".\n\nPrivate McPherson, 24, from The Black Watch, 3rd Battalion, the Royal Regiment of Scotland, was pronounced dead at the scene on 22 August last year.\n\nThe report stated that soldiers using live rounds had been stumbling about in the dark.\n\nLieutenant General Richard Felton, director general of the Defence Safety Authority, said he could not understand why the trainees were subjected to an 18-hour plus day.\n\nIt also emerged the opening day of Exercise Wessex Storm at the Heely Dod Range featured nine different shooting sequences.\n\nBut Lieutenant General Felton said the safety risk present that night \"was neither recognised - nor the potential consequences understood - by the Fire Team, supervising staff or Battalion leadership\".\n\nWhile it was \"highly likely\" Private McPherson, from Paisley, Renfrewshire, was shot by one of his colleagues, another soldier did not fire a single round because he found it impossible to identify any targets in the gloom.\n\nLieutenant General Felton said: \"The tragic death of Pte Conor McPherson serves as a reminder of the dangers inherent in Military training.\"\n\nBut he added:\" Military training must continue to test and challenge, with progression through a unit's training cycle correctly adding complexity and greater levels of Safety Risk.\n\n\"To not do so would reduce the value of training and the preparedness of our soldiers to fight and win in future conflicts.\"\n\nPrivate McPherson had already trained in France and Kenya by the time he joined the fatal exercise with colleagues from 3 Platoon A Company 3 Scots.\n\nTheir final mission that day was to negotiate a firing range, using live ammo as the infantrymen moved towards rigid targets, without any fixed illumination.\n\nA reconstruction ordered by the inquiry found that the LUCIE Universal night vision goggles and ear plugs worn by Pte McPherson were not cleared for use in this type of exercise.\n\nThe probe into the incident has identified eight \"contributory factors\" that made the accident more likely to happen that night, including a lack of effective supervision of the soldier who fired the shot.\n\nThe investigating panel said it is highly likely a solder named only as \"firer 2\" - a private who had been in the military for five and a half years - misidentified Private McPherson as a target and fired the fatal round.\n\nColonel Jim Taylor of HQ Field Army, Training branch welcomed the inquiry's findings, saying: \"It has done outstanding work to identify what went wrong.\n\n\"In particular, their reconstruction of the events that night has been invaluable in helping us identify what caused the accident and the factors which contributed to it. We are now carefully considering its recommendations.\n\n\"We care about our soldiers above all else and we do everything we can to reduce the risks to them as they conduct the essential training required to prepare them for combat operations.\"\n\nA spokeswoman for Northumbria Police said:\"The death is still being investigated and Northumbria Police is working with the Health and Safety Executive and the Coroner.\"", "Japan has one of the world's most reliable railways and is known for its Shinkansen bullet trains (pictured)\n\nA rail company in Japan has apologised after one of its trains departed 20 seconds early.\n\nManagement on the Tsukuba Express line between Tokyo and the city of Tsukuba say they \"sincerely apologise for the inconvenience\" caused.\n\nIn a statement, the company said the train had been scheduled to leave at 9:44:40 local time but left at 9:44:20.\n\nMany social media users reacted to the company's apology with surprise.\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 mistake happened because staff had not checked the timetable, the company statement said.\n\n\"The crew did not sufficiently check the departure time and performed the departure operation,\" it said.\n\nIt added that no customers had complained about the early departure from Minami Nagareyama Station, which is just north of Tokyo.\n\nThe Tsukuba Express line takes passengers from Akihabara in eastern Tokyo to Tsukuba in about 45 minutes.\n\nIt is rare for trains in Japan, which has one of the world's most reliable railways, to depart at a different time to the one scheduled.\n\nThe country's Tokaido line, which runs from Tokyo to the city of Kobe, is by far the world's busiest and carries nearly 150 million passengers a year.\n\nImpressed railway users worldwide tweeted the story to their local train operators - particularly in Britain, where rail services are often delayed.\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.", "Robert Piggott school would like voluntary donations amounting to £190 per family per year\n\nA primary school in Prime Minister Theresa May's constituency has asked parents for a £1 daily donation to help pay for stationery and books.\n\nRobert Piggott CofE School in Wargrave, Berkshire, said the plea comes after \"national changes to school funding\".\n\nLabour said this showed \"Tory cuts\" were \"hitting schools badly\".\n\nEducation minister Nick Gibb said the school is set to gain around £10K a year in extra cash from 2018 under the new National Funding Formula.\n\nThe school, which according to the most recent figures has 311 pupils, is in the Maidenhead constituency represented by Mrs May since 1997.\n\nThe letter to parents read: \"One of the elements of [the funding plan] was to ask parents and the community to consider making donations to help meet the predicted shortfall in funding.\n\n\"Therefore, like many other schools, we are now requesting voluntary contributions from parents.\"\n\n\"We would like to suggest that parents donate £1 per school day for each child to help the schools through this funding crisis. This equates to £190 per year.\"\n\nThe school said it would help pay for glue, pens, pencils, exercise books, paper, tape and reading books.\n\nParent Anita Smith said: \"I have had the letter and to be honest with you I was fuming when I received it.\n\n\"Not at Robert Piggott because they are an exceptional school, but I'm so angry at the Government that the school has had to resort to this.\n\n\"I've got two children at the school so that's around £400 a year, but my salary hasn't gone up to cover that.\"\n\nTheresa May has represented Maidenhead since 1997\n\nNews of the letter comes days after school heads delivered a letter to Downing Street warning schools are increasingly having to make requests for voluntary donations.\n\nShadow education secretary Angela Rayner told the Daily Mirror: \"The Government can spin all they like but the reality is that Tory cuts are hitting schools badly, even in the PM's own constituency.\"\n\nEducation Secretary Justine Greening said an extra £1.3bn will be found for England's schools from existing budgets, though some teacher unions said this would not be enough to plug funding gaps.\n\nMr Gibb said: \"Every school will see an increase in funding through the formula from 2018, with Robert Piggott CofE Infant and Junior Schools set to gain around £10,000 a year in total.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A summertime flood in the Austrian Tyrol in 2005\n\nClimate change has had a significant impact on the timing of river floods across Europe over the past 50 years, according to a new study.\n\nIn some regions, such as southern England, floods are now occurring 15 days earlier than they did half a century ago.\n\nBut the changes aren't uniform, with rivers around the North Sea seeing floods delayed by around eight days.\n\nThe study has been published in the journal Science.\n\nFloods caused by rivers impact more people than any other natural hazard, and the estimated global damages run to over a $100bn a year.\n\nResearchers have long predicted that a warming world would have direct impacts on these events but until now the evidence has been hard to establish.\n\nFloods are affected by many different factors in addition to rainfall, such as the amount of moisture already in the soil and other questions such as changes in land-use that can speed up water run-off from hillsides.\n\nThis new study looks at this issue in some depth, by creating a Europe-wide database of observations from 4,262 hydrometric stations in 38 countries, dating back to 1960.\n\nThe analysis finds a clear but complex impact of climate change on river flooding.\n\nThe blue arrows indicate earlier flooding due to changes in the soil moisture levels. The yellow and green indicate earlier floods due to earlier snow melt\n\nThe most consistent changes are in north-eastern Europe around Scandinavia where earlier snow melt due to warmer temperatures is leading to earlier spring floods. Around 50% of monitoring stations are seeing floods eight days earlier than they did 50 years ago.\n\nThe biggest changes are seen along the western edge of Europe, from Portugal up to Southern England. Half the stations recorded floods at least 15 days earlier than previously. A quarter of the stations saw flooding more than 36 days earlier than in 1960.\n\nIn these regions, the issue isn't snow melt - it's more about saturated soils. Maximum rainfall tends to occur in the autumn and gets stored in the soils. Heavier and earlier rain means that the groundwater reaches capacity earlier.\n\n\"It's the interplay between extreme rainfall and the abundance of rainfall,\" lead author Prof Günter Blöschl, from the Technical University of Vienna, told BBC News.\n\n\"In southern England, it has been raining more, longer and more intensely than in the past. This has created a rising groundwater table and higher soil moisture than usual and combined with intense rainfall this produces earlier river floods.\"\n\nHowever, around the North Sea, in the Netherlands, Denmark and Scotland, the trend is towards later floods.\n\nThe scientists believe this is due to changes in the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO), the weather phenomenon that pushes storms across the ocean into Europe.\n\nAcross Europe, regions experienced different shifts in the timing of floods, both earlier and later\n\nThe NAO is driven by differences in atmospheric pressure between the North Pole and the Equator. Recent, rapid changes in temperatures in the Arctic are interfering with these pressure levels and changing the track of the oscillation and storms as well.\n\nAccording to this study, the storms are arriving later and as a result some river flooding happens later too.\n\nProf Blöschl says that this study shows clear evidence of the impact of human-induced climate change in many regions - but there are still some areas of uncertainty.\n\n\"Where the human imprint is obvious is in the northeast of Europe. It is quite a direct link, with a warming climate and earlier snow melt,\" he said.\n\n\"However, the areas impacted by the NAO are more difficult to attribute to anthropogenic global warming. The jury is still out on that aspect.\"\n\nThe study foresees subtle but significant impacts that could arise from the change in flood timing. There could be effects on river ecosystems with salmon spawning later in the year. There could also be implications for hydropower stations, and for agriculture if fields stay wetter for longer.\n\nThe UK has experienced severe flooding on many rivers in recent years, including on the Thames\n\n\"The more serious concern is that if warming impacts the seasonality it may also impact the scale of flooding,\" said Prof Blöschl.\n\n\"You could think of timing changes as the harbinger of future changes of flood magnitude. That is the more serious concern. If that happens, flood risk management will have to adapt and that will be different in different parts of Europe.\"\n\nOther experts believe that the changes in flood timing identified by this study have significant implications for how we understand the risk of river floods and how we deal with them.\n\n\"Nearly every major city and town in Europe is built on a river and we protect this urban infrastructure by using past floods as a gauge of the potential risk,\" said Mark Maslin, Professor of Climatology at University College London.\n\n\"The study shows that this approach underestimates the risk, as climate change has made European floods occur earlier in the year, increasing their potential impact.\n\n\"This means all the infrastructure that we have built to protect our cities needs to be reviewed as much of it will be inadequate to protect us from future climate change-induced extreme flooding.\"\n\nFollow Matt on Twitter and on Facebook.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Det Supt Paul Kessell said the 49-year-old is believed to be known to Gaia\n\nPolice investigating the disappearance of teenager Gaia Pope have arrested a 49-year-old man on suspicion of murder.\n\nPaul Elsey, confirmed as the suspect to the BBC by his father, is from the Swanage area of Dorset.\n\nMr Elsey, the third person to be held in the inquiry, is believed to be known to 19-year-old Gaia, who went missing from the town on Tuesday, 7 November.\n\nA search is continuing in an area where items of women's clothing were found earlier, Dorset Police said.\n\nMr Elsey lives at the same property as his mother Rosemary Dinch, 71, who along with her 19-year-old grandson, Nathan Elsey, were arrested on suspicion of murdering Ms Pope on Monday.\n\nThe pair were released on Tuesday while inquiries continue.\n\nGaia Pope was last seen in Swanage on 7 November\n\nDet Supt Paul Kessell said the clothing was found on land near the Dorset coast path and \"a number of vehicles\" had also been seized.\n\nThe officer said it was not clear who the clothes belonged to but they were \"similar\" to those which Gaia was wearing.\n\nForensic officers are working in the area where items of clothing were found\n\nHe added Gaia's family had been informed of the developments and were being supported.\n\nShe was last seen nine days ago by family friend Ms Dinch in Swanage.\n\nSince Gaia's disappearance, extensive searches have been carried out in and around the resort, involving police, coastguard teams and local volunteers.\n\nAsked why the latest suspect had been arrested on suspicion of murder, Mr Kessell said: \"As you would expect, we have been conducting this inquiry for two weeks and it is our responsibility to investigate every avenue of inquiry that's open to us.\n\n\"In doing that, we continue to investigate whether Gaia has come to harm through an act of crime or whether she is missing and we will continue to do so.\"\n\nHe appealed directly to the public to come forward if they have any information or have had any contact with Gaia since she went missing.\n\nPolice cordoned off an area of land, north of the coast path after items of women's clothing were found\n\nGaia, who has severe epilepsy, is thought to have gone missing without her medication.\n\nEarlier, her father Richard Sutherland told the BBC the support from the community in the search had been \"heart warming\".\n\n\"It's been beautiful, it keeps us going. To feel that strength of everyone helping us - every bit of help is gratefully received and she's worth every bit of it,\" he said.\n\nOn Wednesday police released CCTV images of Gaia at a petrol station shortly before she went missing.\n\nCCTV shows Gaia at a petrol station on the afternoon she went missing\n\nOfficers have also been searching Swanage for any signs of missing Gaia\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\nOne person was rescued from a burning tower block and a number of residents were led to safety after a fire broke out at high-rise flats outside Belfast.\n\nFirefighters were called to Coolmoyne House in Dunmurry at about 17:30 GMT as flames and smoke hit multiple floors.\n\nOn arrival, crews were faced with \"a well-developed fire on the ninth floor\" the NI Fire and Rescue Service said.\n\nThe flats were evacuated, and four people were treated by paramedics. The fire was extinguished by 18:10 GMT.\n\nPictures posted on social media showed flames and smoke at Coolmoyne House\n\nLagan Valley Hospital said that two people - a man and a woman - were stable after being admitted following the fire.\n\nGeoff Somerville, group commander with the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service, said firefighters rescued a man from the flat in which the fire started.\n\nHe said they believed the fire was \"accidental\" and that the man \"was making toast at the time\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Geoff Somerville from NIFRS says it's believed the fire was accidental\n\n\"He had moved into his bedroom and then heard his smoke detectors operate in his flat and that alerted him to the fire,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm very relieved there's been no loss of life and that's only because of the courageous actions of our firefighters here today.\"\n\nTower block residents told a BBC reporter at the scene that they felt shocked but \"lucky to be alive\".\n\nThey added that all they could think about was the Grenfell Tower tragedy in London during the summer.\n\nSusanne Berrill said she lived in the flat above where the fire had started\n\nSusanne Berrill, another tower block resident, told the BBC that she had lost everything in the blaze.\n\n\"I've literally only started life again after a big trauma and this has happened,\" she said, speaking from a local community centre.\n\nThe fire started in a flat on the ninth floor of the tower block\n\nSome residents expressed anger and said that they had not heard fire alarms on their floors.\n\nOne told the BBC: \"The alarms went off on the floor where the fire was but why didn't it go off on all the floors with such a big fire?\"\n\nHowever, Group Commander Somerville said that the fire alarms had worked \"as expected\".\n\n\"The residents should not have concerns about that (the fire alarms),\" he said.\n\n\"The alarm in the gentleman's flat operated and sounded and that is the correct configuration.\n\n\"There is a communal fire alarm system in the hallway that is to operate and automatically open vents to the common hallway and that also successfully operated.\n\nEmergency vehicles were sent to the scene of the fire on Wednesday evening\n\n\"There would be no sounders in the common hallway nor should their be.\n\n\"It is important of course to emphasise to everybody that each flat would have a self-contained fire alarm system, this individual flat itself had three smoke detectors and they operated and worked.\n\n\"Their (other residents) alarms should not go off unless they detected smoke.\"\n\nHe added that the fire service would now assess whether residents can return to their homes but that \"some flats and all flats may not be safe to enter tonight\".\n\nThe blaze damaged flats on the ninth and tenth floors before it was brought under control, according to local community worker Julie Ann Jackson.\n\n\"They got everybody out,\" she told the BBC's Evening Extra programme.\n\nMs Jackson said safety drills had been carried out at the block, following the Grenfell fire in June.\n\nSome of the flats on the upper floors have been damaged\n\nA total of eleven fire appliances and four ambulances were sent to Coolmoyne House.\n\nThe tower block on the Seymour Hill housing estate is owned and operated by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive.\n\n\"Staff have been on site following the fire in a flat this evening and are on hand to offer emergency accommodation to any resident who requires it,\" it said in a statement,\n\n\"The cause of the fire is now under investigation by the NIFRS and we will be co-operating with them fully.\n\n\"We would like to commend the Northern Ireland Fire And Rescue Service, the Northern Ireland Ambulance Service and the Police Service of Northern Ireland for their immediate response.\"\n\nDunmurry resident Sam Waide was driving past Coolmoyne House when he saw what he first believed was steam coming from the top of the building.\n\nHe pulled his car over and realised the tower block was on fire.\n\n\"It was sort of frightening,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\n\"After what happened in England, you think to yourself, is this another one?\"\n\nMr Waide said emergency vehicles were at the scene \"very, very quickly\".\n\nA cordon was put in place around the tower block\n\nRobert Cullen was driving towards his sister's house in Seymour Hill when he saw \"lots and lots of smoke\".\n\n\"One side of the flats was all in flames, from about half way up,\" he told BBC News NI.\n\nHe said within minutes, fire appliances started to arrive \"left, right and centre\".\n\n\"As far as I'm aware, everybody got out,\" Mr Cullen added.\n\nHe said that after about 20 minutes, firefighters had doused all the flames and \"there was just smoke\".", "Mr Davis laughed off a question about the UK being prepared to pay 60bn euros for financial obligations\n\nDavid Davis has warned against \"putting politics above prosperity\" in Britain's post-Brexit relationship with the EU.\n\nIn a speech in Berlin, the UK's Brexit Secretary outlined his hopes for a deal that \"allows for the freest possible trade in goods and services\".\n\nHe also said he thought it \"incredibly unlikely\" there would be no deal.\n\nThe EU says negotiations cannot move on to trade until questions about the UK \"divorce bill\", citizens' rights and Northern Ireland are resolved.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said Mr Davis's speech was delivered politely but implied \"pretty significant frustrations on the UK side with the EU's attitude\".\n\nIn a question and answer session following the speech, a German interviewer got a round of applause for suggesting the UK government looked to be \"in chaos\".\n\nMr Davis replied: \"One of the issues in modern politics is that all governments have periods of turbulence.\n\n\"This is a period of turbulence, it will pass.\"\n\nIn his speech to an economic conference organised by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, he said trade between Germany and the UK was worth 176bn euros a year or \"more than a thousand euros to every man, woman and child in each of our countries\".\n\nHe said the \"close economic ties\" with the EU \"should continue, if not strengthen\" after Brexit, and he warned: \"Putting politics above prosperity is never a smart choice\".\n\nThe UK was seeking a \"deep and comprehensive free trade agreement\" of a scope the EU had never seen before as well as \"continued close co-operation in highly regulated areas such as transport, energy and data\", he said.\n\nBritain would use an independent trade policy to lead a \"race to the top on quality and standards\" rather than engage in a \"race to the bottom\" that would mean lower standards, he told the audience.\n\nHe said the EU and UK needed to \"think creatively\" about their post-Brexit relationship but stressed the need for a \"time limited transition period\" to implement the new arrangements.\n\n\"And that would mean access to the UK and European markets would continue on current terms. Keeping both the rights of a European Union member and the obligations of one, such as the role of the European Court of Justice.\n\n\"That also means staying in all the EU regulators and agencies during that limited period. Which would be about two years.\"\n\nHe added that tariff-free trade should be maintained and there must be an \"effective dispute mechanism\" for any disputes that may arise, that should be neither the UK courts, nor the European Court of Justice.\n\n\"It must be appropriate for both sides so that it can give business the confidence it needs that this partnership will endure.\"\n\nIn a question and answer session following his speech, Mr Davis laughed off a question about whether the UK would be prepared to pay 60bn euros to settle its financial obligations.\n\nHe said the UK's aim was that \"nobody will have to pay more ... nobody will receive less\" but would not give a figure that the UK would be prepared to pay.\n\nAsked if he thought the Brexit negotiations would end in \"no deal\", he said: \"I think that's incredibly unlikely.\"\n\nWhile the UK government has not put a figure on the amount it is prepared to pay to settle the UK's obligations but it has been estimated at 20bn euros (about £18bn).\n\nThe Sun newspaper reported on Thursday that the prime minister was preparing to offer an additional £20bn to the EU to clear the way for talks about a transitional and future trade deal. Downing Street described that as \"yet more speculation\".\n\nEU sources told the BBC last week that the UK had only two weeks left to make progress on the so-called withdrawal issues, including the amount the UK will pay as it leaves and Mr Davis's EU counterpart Michel Barnier said \"time is pressing\" to get agreement on the bill.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFlash floods caused by heavy overnight rain have killed at least 15 people and caused destruction in central Greece.\n\nThe industrial towns of Mandra, Nea Peramos and Megara, west of the capital Athens, were the most affected.\n\nMany of the dead were elderly people whose bodies were found inside their homes, reports say. Fast-flowing torrents of red mud flooded roads.\n\nPrime Minister Alexis Tsipras declared a period of national mourning in the wake of the tragedy.\n\n\"Everything is lost. The disaster is biblical,\" Mandra Mayor Yianna Krikouki told state broadcaster ERT.\n\nAt least 37 people have been taken to hospital, the broadcaster said, and some are still missing.\n\nBad weather has hit parts of Greece for about a week, but particularly heavy rain overnight caused the sudden flooding, for which locals said they were unprepared.\n\nThe force of the water moved vehicles, damaged walls and roofing, and left many homeless as their homes flooded to a life-threatening level.\n\nBy Wednesday afternoon, Greece's fire service said it had received over 600 calls for help and dispatched almost 200 firefighters in 55 vehicles to the towns, which have a combined population in the tens of thousands.\n\n\"The water came down the mountain, millions of tonnes,\" Stavros Fotiou, the deputy mayor of Nea Peramos, told ERT.\n\n\"Our roads are completely destroyed... 1,000 homes have been flooded, that's a third of the town,\" he added.\n\nSome roads were inundated by more than 1m (3ft) of water\n\nThe region's deputy governor, Yiannis Vassileiou, told the broadcaster that emergency services had been prepared for poor weather, but then \"the Niagara Falls came down and could not be stopped\".\n\nPrime Minister Tsipras said that declaring a period of national mourning was \"the least we can do\".\n\nHe also vowed to provide aid to the victims and ensure they were housed safely.\n\nA state of emergency has been declared in some of the affected areas\n\nThe fire service said there were more than 300 calls for help\n\nEmergency teams have been deployed to the region", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In a recent documentary Benedict Allen described his experiences of living in Papua New Guinea\n\nMissing UK explorer Benedict Allen has been seen \"alive and well\" near an airstrip in Papua New Guinea.\n\nThe BBC's Frank Gardner said Mr Allen had asked to be rescued and efforts were under way to retrieve him, but he was \"not out of danger yet\".\n\nA search was mounted for the 57-year-old after his family said he had not taken planned flights home.\n\nMr Allen was travelling on his own to try to find the reclusive Yaifo tribe, whom he first met 30 years ago.\n\nHis agent, Jo Sarsby, said the co-ordinating director for New Tribe Mission in Papua New Guinea, Keith Copley, had confirmed in writing at 17:00 local time that Mr Allen was \"safe, well and healthy\", and at a remote airstrip 20 miles north-west of Porgera, Enga Province.\n\n\"Confirmation on exact location coordinates are now being confirmed in order to arrange evacuation as soon as possible,\" she said.\n\nShe said it was understood the airstrip was not accessible by road, so it was hoped a helicopter would be sent on Friday.\n\nBenedict Allen was under no illusions about the dangers and difficulties he would face when he chose to march off alone into the jungles of Papua New Guinea, in search of the isolated Yaifo tribe.\n\nThis is exactly the sort of challenge he thrives on.\n\nBut as well as having to contend with almost impossibly steep and forested terrain, it seems his plans have been disrupted by an outbreak of tribal infighting which often happens in remote areas.\n\nAlthough foreigners are rarely the target of this violence outside the towns, there is always a risk of being associated with one tribe that is at war with another.\n\nThose now trying to organise a rescue say he chose not to take a satellite phone, made no evacuation plan and left no coordinates of where he intended to end his journey.\n\nThey say his only way out is by helicopter or light aircraft.\n\nMr Allen's older sister, Katie Pestille, had said it was \"out of character\" for him to miss his scheduled flight out of Papua New Guinea to Hong Kong.\n\nThe explorer, from London, has previously crossed the Amazon Basin on foot and in a dug-out canoe, and participated in a six-week male initiation ceremony in which crocodile marks were carved onto his body.\n\nHe has filmed a number of his adventures for BBC documentaries and written books on exploration.\n\nFirst solo adventure: To the Amazon at 22, during which he was shot at by two hitmen\n\nTough time: An initiation into manhood in Papua New Guinea. He was kept in a \"crocodile nest\" with 20 others, and repeatedly cut with bamboo blades to leave scars that looked like crocodile scales\n\nLow moment: Eating his own dog to survive\n\nTravel habit: Always keeps loo paper in a back pocket. \"You know how it is,\" he tells the Lonely Planet.\n\nPhilosophy: \"For me personally, exploration isn't about conquering nature, planting flags or leaving your mark. It's about the opposite: opening yourself up and allowing the place to leave its mark on you.\"\n\nCareer: Six TV series for the BBC, author, motivational speaker\n\nIn his last tweet from 11 October, Mr Allen wrote: \"Marching off to Heathrow. I may be some time.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Benedict ALLEN This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n• None Search under way for missing UK explorer", "Children as young as nine as becoming opium addicts in Afghanistan as the amount of the drug produced in the country hits record levels.\n\nFindings suggest that the area of land used to cultivate opium poppies grew dramatically and fewer provinces are now seen as \"poppy free\".", "The Orthopaedic and Prosthetic Centre in Taiz offers hope for the seriously injured in Yemen’s war.\n\nThe BBC's Clive Myrie saw inside one of the few places in the country that can produce prosthetic limbs.", "Last updated on .From the section Cycling\n\nSir Bradley Wiggins said his life was \"a living hell\" during an investigation into allegations of wrongdoing at British Cycling and Team Sky.\n\nOn Wednesday, UK Anti-Doping said there would be no charges over a \"mystery\" medical package delivered for Wiggins at the Criterium du Dauphine in 2011.\n\nWiggins, 37, said the investigation \"felt nothing less than a witch hunt\".\n\nHe added: \"Being accused of any doping indiscretion is the worst possible thing for any professional sportsman.\"\n\nWiggins won five Olympic gold medals and the 2012 Tour de France before retiring from cycling in December 2016.\n\nIt was alleged that the package that was the focus of the investigation contained a banned substance - but the doctor involved, Dr Richard Freeman, said it was a legal decongestant, Fluimucil.\n\nThe 14-month investigation has been closed and a Ukad statement said it would only \"revisit matters if new and material information were to come to light\".\n\nUkad said it was unable to \"definitively confirm the contents of the package\" because of a \"lack of contemporaneous evidence\".\n\nIts chief executive Nicole Sapstead said the investigation was hindered by the \"lack of accurate medical records\" held by British Cycling.\n\nWiggins, British Cycling and Team Sky have always denied any wrongdoing.\n\n'It has felt nothing less than a malicious witch hunt'\n\nWiggins said in a statement: \"I welcome Ukad's confirmation that no anti-doping charges are to be brought regarding the so-called 'jiffy-bag' allegations.\n\n\"It has always been the case that no such charges could be brought against me as no anti-doping violations took place. I am pleased this has finally been confirmed publicly.\n\n\"This period of time has been a living hell for me and my family, full of innuendo and speculation. At times it has felt nothing less than a malicious witch hunt.\"\n\nWiggins, who said he would assess potential legal options, was unhappy with Ukad's statement and questioned the body's decision to begin an investigation.\n\n\"To say I am disappointed by some of the comments made by Ukad this morning is an understatement,\" added Wiggins. \"No evidence exists to prove a case against me and in all other circumstances this would be an unqualified finding of innocence.\n\n\"Where did the information come from to launch the investigation?\n\n\"Who was the source? What exactly did that person say and to whom?\n\n\"Why did Ukad deem it appropriate to treat it as a credible allegation?\"\n\nWith no clarity over what was in the now-infamous jiffy bag delivered to Team Sky in 2011, this represents a wholly unsatisfactory end to a saga that has tainted some of the biggest reputations in British sport, and exposed Ukad's lack of power.\n\nIts statement is deliberately nuanced, falling short of an exoneration of those involved, much to Sir Bradley Wiggins' dismay in a blistering statement, despite Britain's most decorated Olympian facing no charges.\n\nBut while the end of the investigation will come as a relief to many in the sport, the lack of medical records, the inaccuracies in Team Sky's initial explanations for the mystery delivery, the unavailability of key witness Dr Richard Freeman to Ukad investigators, the theft of his laptop, and the medical exemptions that Wiggins had before major races, all mean that suspicion will linger. The close relationship between Team Sky and the governing body (who still share headquarters in Manchester) is also again under scrutiny.\n\nAnd at best, the attention to detail that was once the mantra of Team Sky and British Cycling has been exposed as hollow.\n\nHow did this issue arise?\n\nIn October 2016, the Daily Mail reported that Team Sky's Dr Richard Freeman had received a package from Simon Cope, then working as a coach for British Cycling's women's teams, on the final day of the 2011 Criterium du Dauphine. The package was alleged to be for Sir Bradley Wiggins, who won the race.\n\nUkad then began an investigation into the contents of the package.\n\nWhat was in the package?\n\nAt a Department of Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) select committee hearing in December 2016, Team Sky boss Sir Dave Brailsford - already facing questions after hackers had revealed Wiggins had received a therapeutic use exemption (TUE) to take banned anti-inflammatory drug triamcinolone for allergies and respiratory issues before key races - said that he had been told by Dr Freeman that the package contained Fluimucil.\n\nFreeman, who was simultaneously employed by British Cycling and Team Sky between 2009 and 2015, missed the hearing through ill health but the DCMS committee was told that in 2014 he had a laptop containing medical records stolen while he was on holiday.\n\nFreeman was off work from British Cycling with a stress-related illness before resigning last month.\n\nBrailsford's testimony was widely questioned. Cope was alleged to have flown into Geneva Airport and driven for two hours to France to deliver the package, but 2008 Olympic champion Nicole Cooke pointed out that Fluimucil is available freely over the counter in France, and that there were eight pharmacies located within five kilometres of where the team received the package.\n\nDavid Kenworthy, the previous chairman of Ukad, told the BBC in January the answers given by figures within British Cycling and Team Sky to the DCMS committee were \"very disappointing\".\n\nIn an interview with the BBC in January, Brailsford refused to confirm or deny whether he or anyone else at Team Sky had been able to provide paperwork to prove the package contained Fluimucil.\n\n\"I will give what I have got to Ukad,\" he said. \"I said what I had to say in the DCMS and I am leaving it there.\"\n\nTeam Sky subsequently said that they were \"confident\" no wrongdoing would be found when the inquiry was concluded.", "An Australian government minister has said hackers are responsible for a \"like\" on his Twitter account to a pornographic video.\n\nThe activity on Minister for Defence Industry Christopher Pyne's profile at about 02:00 local time on Thursday (15:00 GMT Wednesday) was pointed out by other Twitter users.\n\nMr Pyne said hackers had possibly liked the gay pornography as \"mischief\" after Australia's same-sex marriage vote.\n\nThe \"like\" has since been removed.\n\nOn Wednesday, Australians learned they had overwhelmingly voted in favour of legalising same-sex marriage in a historic poll. Parliament is now debating changing the law.\n\nMr Pyne, a veteran MP, was appointed to his current ministerial position last year to deliver a major submarine fleet project.\n\nHe said he was asleep when the Twitter activity took place.\n\nSome Twitter users responded to his explanation with scepticism, while others raised concerns over possible security implications.\n\nOne independent senator, Cory Bernardi, said it should prompt a \"full investigation and report in case [it is a] foreign agent trying to influence elections\".\n\nMany users compared it to a similar incident in September where US senator Ted Cruz's Twitter account \"liked\" a pornographic video. Mr Cruz told reporters the incident was a \"staffing issue\" and \"not malicious\".", "A woman whose eight-year-old son died in a house fire killed herself because she could not go on without him, an inquest has found.\n\nKelly-Anne Carter, 35, suffered serious burns in the fire at the family home in Sandbach, Cheshire, on 30 October 2016.\n\nLucas Carter died shortly after he was rescued from the blaze which was not treated as suspicious.\n\nMiss Carter's friend told the court the mother had described herself as a \"dead woman walking\".\n\nThe inquest at Crewe Municipal Buildings on Thursday heard Miss Carter's partner found her hanged at his home on 12 November 2016.\n\nSarah Blakey, Miss Carter's friend who was with her the night before she died, told the court: \"She didn't want to be here without Lucas, she couldn't forgive herself.\n\n\"He was her world. To her he was her greatest achievement and he was lovely, he was an absolute credit.\"\n\nA verdict of suicide was recorded by coroner Claire Welch.\n\nThe fire in Sandbach was not treated as suspicious by police\n\nMs Welch said: \"I can't imagine the distress and trauma that she must have been going through at this time, having gone through such a traumatic experience and lost her only child.\"\n\nThe coroner for Cheshire also paid tribute to the \"dignity and calmness\" showed by Miss Carter's sister Gemma Williams during the inquest.\n\n\"To have lost Lucas and then Kelly in such short succession is unimaginable from my point of view so my heartfelt condolences really do go out to you and all your family,\" she said.\n\nThe inquest heard medical notes recording Miss Carter's comments telling staff she would hang herself or overdose once she was home were not passed on when she was transferred to Macclesfield Hospital.\n\nBut Ms Welch said the mistake did not cause or contribute to her death.\n\nShe said she was satisfied that at the time of her discharge it was considered more appropriate to allow Miss Carter to be with her family and to plan Lucas's funeral.\n\nAn inquest into Lucas's death has not yet been held.", "Flash flooding west of the Greek capital, Athens, has killed at least 14 people, officials say.\n\nTorrential rain overnight created fast-flowing torrents of red mud, with a mayor calling it a \"biblical\" disaster.", "About 5,000 people are forced to sleep rough on Scotland's streets each year\n\nTwo thirds of Scots never stop to speak to homeless people, according to a new study.\n\nCharity Street Soccer Scotland, which commissioned the research, also said that 41% of those questioned were \"fearful\" of approaching the homeless.\n\nThe research shows younger people aged 16 to 24 were least likely to stop and talk.\n\nIt is estimated that each year about 5,000 people are forced to sleep rough on Scotland's streets.\n\nStreet Soccer Scotland said older age groups were less likely to be anxious about speaking to rough sleepers.\n\nFounder and chief executive of the charity David Duke, who was homeless for three years, said: \"Having experienced homelessness I know what it's like to spend your days alone, with no-one to speak to.\n\n\"I also know the difference that having someone to talk to can make when you've lost all hope.\n\n\"I'm really shocked at the number of people who say they don't stop to speak to people who are homeless, and especially by the number who say they're afraid to.\"\n\nLast year, 9,187 homelessness applications were received from people aged 16 to 24.\n\nMr Duke, who also sits on the Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Action Group set up by the Scottish government, added: \"Today in Scotland, great strides are being made to eradicate homelessness with progressive laws and a willing government.\n\n\"However, unfortunately some things have stayed exactly the same.\n\n\"The lack of dignity afforded to people experiencing homelessness, the prejudice and stigma that comes with what is the worst time of your life, is holding our society back. We need to do more to change that.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two new \"breakthrough\" drugs to treat breast cancer have been given the green light for use on the NHS.\n\nThe National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) approved palbociclib and ribociclib after negotiating prices for the treatments.\n\nResearch shows the drugs slow down advanced cancer for at least 10 months and can delay the need for chemotherapy.\n\nAround 8,000 people in England will now have access to the medications.\n\nThere are about 45,000 new diagnoses of breast cancer in the country each year.\n\nPalbociclib had earlier been rejected by NICE because of its high cost.\n\nOne cycle of palbociclib - or 21 capsules - costs £2,950 for a pack of 21. For 63 tablets of ribociclib, the price is the same.\n\nThe latest draft guidance from NICE said that women with oestrogen receptor positive breast cancer that is diagnosed after it has begun to spread will be eligible for palbociclib - also known as Ibrance.\n\nIf they have gone through the menopause, they will be eligible for ribociclib - also known as Kisqali.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Breast cancer drug palbociclib could give women more time to control disease, scientist tells Today\n\nThe two medications are the first of a new type of drug shown to slow down the progression of cancer by inhibiting two proteins - CDK 4 and 6.\n\nThey only need to be taken once a day, alongside an aromatase inhibitor - which blocks the production of the hormone oestrogen and can fuel some breast cancers.\n\nVikki Orvice, who was prescribed palbociclib for two years as part of a trial, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the NICE approval was \"brilliant news\".\n\n\"It's a life-changing drug for thousands of women and in years to come as well,\" the sports writer from St Albans, Hertfordshire, said.\n\n\"You get slight fatigue from it, but it was manageable and I was on the highest dose possible. No one looking at me would have known I was ill... you have a quality of life with so few side effects.\"\n\nCraig Eagle, head of oncology at Pfizer UK, which manufactured palbociclib, told Today the tablet \"helps control and slow the cancer for up to two years, bringing that extra time for patients in the prime of their life\".\n\nHe said it was correct that the company had first offered the drug at a price that was rejected by NICE, but they had later come to a \"confidential agreement around the price\".\n\nNicholas Turner, professor of molecular oncology at the Institute of Cancer Research in London, and consultant medical oncologist at the Royal Marsden, said the new drugs were \"one of the most important breakthroughs for women with advanced breast cancer in the last two decades\".\n\nProf Turner, who led the clinical trials for the drugs, said: \"Palbociclib and ribociclib have made a huge difference to women's lives - slowing down tumour growth for nearly a year, and delaying the need for chemotherapy with all its potentially debilitating side-effects.\n\n\"These drugs have allowed women to live a normal life for longer.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Roy Moore: How Alabamans are defending the accused judge\n\nA lawyer for embattled Senate candidate Roy Moore has raised questions about evidence provided by a woman who claims he sexually assaulted her as a teen.\n\nBeverly Young Nelson showed Mr Moore's purported signature and message in her high school yearbook as proof of his alleged interest in her.\n\nHis lawyer cast doubt on the signature and called on Mrs Nelson to release the yearbook for handwriting examination.\n\nA number of women have come forward to accuse Mr Moore of sexual misconduct.\n\nMany of them accuse him of initiating sexual contact while they were teenage girls.\n\nThe 70-year-old former Alabama Supreme Court judge has flatly denied the claims.\n\nHe tweeted a defiant message - \"Bring. It. On\" - to Mitch McConnell, the Republican Senate majority leader, who is among those to have urged him to quit.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMr Moore's lawyer, Phillip Jauregui, told reporters on Wednesday the allegations against his client were \"incredibly painful\" and suggested his fifth accuser had altered the judge's signature in her yearbook.\n\n\"Was it written by somebody else?\" Mr Jauregui asked, before urging Mrs Nelson's lawyer, Gloria Allred, to release the yearbook to a \"neutral custodian\" to analyse the handwriting.\n\nNelson displayed her 1977 yearbook whilst making her accusation last week\n\nHe claimed the handwriting was different from the judge's signature.\n\nThe yearbook message reads: \"To a sweeter more beautiful girl I could not say Merry Christmas. Christmas 1977. Love, Roy Moore, D.A. 12-22-77 Olde Hickory House.\"\n\nMrs Nelson said she was 16 years old and working as a waitress at the Olde Hickory House when Mr Moore, who was 30 at the time, allegedly wrote the message. She claims he tried to force himself on her about a week later.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHer account followed a Washington Post report quoting four women by name, including one who alleged Mr Moore initiated sexual contact with her when she was 14 - beneath the legal age of consent in Alabama - while he was a prosecutor in his 30s.\n\nThe newspaper on Wednesday night published two more accounts from women who claimed Mr Moore harassed them when they were younger.\n\nGene Richardson, 58, alleges Mr Moore called her at her high school to ask her out. She rebuffed his offer, but said she felt pressured to go out with him after he allegedly asked again at the Gadsden Mall, where she worked. She claims the date ended with a \"forceful\" kiss.\n\nBecky Gray, who was 22 at the time, also worked at the mall and said she complained to her manager about Mr Moore's behaviour. She alleges the manager told her it was \"not the first time he had a complaint about him hanging at the mall\".\n\nAnother accuser told Al.com she was groped by Mr Moore during a meeting at his law office in 1991, when she was 28 years old. Tina Johnson said she went to see him to sign over custody of her son, who was then 12, to her mother.\n\nWhen the meeting ended, she said Mr Moore grabbed her buttocks.\n\n\"He didn't pinch it; he grabbed it,\" she said, noting she didn't tell her mother about the incident.\n\nMr Moore's campaign did not directly address the new allegations but suggested in a statement to the newspaper that the claims were politically motivated.\n\nAs the Republican establishment lines up to denounce Roy Moore, many in his home state are standing by him. At a gathering I attended in Montgomery, many GOP voters felt the allegations of misconduct were false, and questioned the timing of their emergence.\n\nWas this is Democratic conspiracy, some asked. Why didn't any of this come out before, in the many decades Roy Moore has held public office? Some local Republican associations in the state have issued statements standing by their candidate for the Senate - which makes any national moves to remove him from this race tricky.\n\nMany people I've met here say Alabamans don't like being told what to do by people from outside. Roy Moore represents the conservative, evangelical base of the party, which is sick of decrees from the so-called Washington elite.\n\nPolls numbers might show the Democrats making ground here in what's usually safe GOP territory - but the fact Roy Moore still has a base of support is why he continues to tweet that he's not going to quit, and why he is still - very much - in this race.\n\nThe news conference came as another woman accused Mr Moore of sexual misconduct, alleging that he groped her in his office when she was 28 years old.\n\nUS President Donald Trump's daughter, Ivanka Trump, strongly condemned Mr Moore to the Associated Press news agency on Wednesday.\n\n\"There's a special place in hell for people who prey on children,\" she said. \"I've yet to see a valid explanation [from Moore] and I have no reason to doubt the victims' accounts.\"\n\nPresident Trump has yet to publicly comment on the controversy while several prominent Republicans have called on him to \"step aside\" in the Senate race.\n\nMr Jauregui on Wednesday disputed Mrs Nelson's claim that she did not have contact with Mr Moore after the alleged 1977 incident.\n\nHe said the judge presided over Mrs Nelson's divorce in 1999 and suggested she lifted his signature from her court documents from the case.\n\nMr Moore had no recollection of signing \"DA\" after his name, but had an assistant with those initials at the time of Mrs Nelson's divorce who would have stamped it on court filings, Mr Jauregui said.\n\nMr Moore, an outspoken Christian conservative, had been a heavy favourite to win the 12 December election against Democrat Doug Jones.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The painting has been cleaned and restored from the image on the left to the one on the right\n\nA 500-year-old painting of Christ believed to have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci has been sold in New York for a record $450m (£341m).\n\nThe painting is known as Salvator Mundi (Saviour of the World).\n\nIt is the highest auction price for any work of art and brought cheers and applause at the packed Christie's auction room.\n\nLeonardo da Vinci died in 1519 and there are fewer than 20 of his paintings in existence.\n\nSalvator Mundi, believed to have been painted sometime after 1505, is the only work thought to be in private hands.\n\nBidding began at $100m and the final bid for the work was $400m, with fees bringing the full price up to $450.3m. The unidentified buyer was involved in a bidding contest, via telephone, that lasted nearly 20 minutes.\n\nExcitement in the auction room rose as the bids by telephone came in\n\nThe painting shows Christ with one hand raised, the other holding a glass sphere.\n\nIn 1958 it was sold at auction in London for a mere £45.\n\nBy then the painting was generally reckoned to be the work of a follower of Leonardo and not the work of Leonardo himself.\n\nIt apparently was part of King Charles I of England's collection in the 1600s and got lost, but was \"rediscovered\" in 2005.\n\n$450m for Salvator Mundi is an astonishing price to have realised, given both its condition and authenticity have been questioned.\n\nIt shows that ultimately art comes down to belief.\n\nAnd there were plenty of bidders last night who were suitably convinced by its Leonardo da Vinci attribution to drive the price up to such stratospheric heights.\n\nAs yet, the new owner is unknown.\n\nSpeculation will be rife. Which I will contribute to, by noting the newly opened Louvre Abu Dhabi will have a Leonardo shaped hole in its displays when the decade-long loan deal with the French museums comes to an end.\n\nWherever it ends up, you've got to hand it to Christie's for its masterclass in the art of selling art.\n\nArt agents celebrated when the sale was completed\n\nIn a bold move, without a hint of irony, the painting was sold in its Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale alongside a Jean-Michel Basquiat and Andy Warhol.\n\nWhy not in the Old Masters Sale? Because that's not where the elephant bucks are.\n\nThe big money comes into the room nowadays when Pollocks and Twomblys are on the block, and promptly leaves when the Reynolds and Winterhalters arrive.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Salvator Mundi was discovered hidden under layers of paint\n\nDr Tim Hunter, who is an expert in Old Master and 19th Century art, told the BBC the painting is \"the most important discovery in the 21st Century\".\n\n\"It completely smashes the record for the last Old Masters painting to sell - Van Gogh's Sunflowers in 1988. Records get broken from time to time but not in this way.\n\n\"Da Vinci painted less than 20 oil paintings and many are unfinished so it's incredibly rare and we love that in art.\"\n\nBefore the auction it was owned by Russian billionaire collector Dmitry E Rybolovlev, who is reported to have bought it in a private sale in May 2013 for $127.5m (£98m).\n\nThe painting has had major cosmetic surgery - its walnut panel base has been described as \"worm-tunnelled\" and at some point it seems to have been split in half - and efforts to restore it resulted in abrasions.\n\nBBC arts correspondent Vincent Dowd said that even now attribution to Leonardo is not universally accepted.\n\nOne critic has described the surface of the painting to be \"inert, varnished, lurid, scrubbed over and repainted so many times that it looks simultaneously new and old\".\n\n\"Any private collector who gets suckered into buying this picture and places it in their apartment or storage, it serves them right,\" Jerry Saltz wrote on Vulture.com.\n\nBut Christie's has insisted the painting is authentic and billed it as \"the greatest artistic rediscovery of the 20th Century\".\n\nGeorgina Adam, who is an Art Market specialist, told the BBC the price of the piece is \"fuelled by the sheer amount of money that billionaires have.\"\n\n\"This is the last Leonardo painting you can buy. This isn't as a store of value, it's the ultimate trophy - only one person in the world can own this.\n\n\"If you think of the wealth of some billionaires, Bill Gates is worth 87 billion, and I'm not saying it's him, but near to half a billion would not be a colossal chunk out of his income for example.\"\n\nThe auction house has not revealed who purchased the picture, but Hunter speculates it could be a buyer from Asia or even be on the way to the new Louvre in Abu Dhabi.\n\nCould the painting be headed for Abu Dhabi's new Louvre Museum?\n\n\"It's the sort of painting you can imagine as a star piece in a private collection and as billionaire collectors like to set up their own museums, it could be a good piece for them,\" Hunter said.\n\nAdam also thinks the piece could have gone to an Asian market.\n\n\"We don't know who bought it, I went to the Louvre in Abu Dhabi and I did wonder whether the Gulf could be responsible.\n\n\"People are thinking the Far East, the picture was taken to Hong Kong before it was put up for sale to show to possible buyers there so that is possible. \"\n\nPaul Gauguin's 'When Will You marry?' broke price records in 2015\n\nThe 79 x 69 inch (2 x 1.75m) expressionist piece was painted in 1955. It was sold to hedge-fund founder Kenneth C Griffin, who spent about $500m in total in 2016 on a Pollock piece too.\n\n2. Nafea Faa Ipoipo (When Will You Marry?) by Paul Gauguin - $300m (£230m)\n\nHis post-impressionist painting of Tahiti women was sold in February 2015 to a mystery buyer, rumoured to be a Qatari museum, and is thought to share the top spot with a piece by William de Kooning.\n\nThis sale to Qatar broke records in 2011. The piece was painted at the end of the 19th Century and was part of a five-part series. The others in the series are at some of the world's most prestigious art museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.\n\nThis abstract expressionist piece was also sold in 2016 to Kenneth C Griffin from American businessman David Geffen.\n\nMr Griffin, 49, founded global investment firm Citadel and is considered one of the world's most active art buyers\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Dr Brien wrote the report which formed the basis of one of the government's flagship policies\n\nThe man who invented Universal Credit has added his voice to growing calls for the benefit to be paid quicker.\n\nStephen Brien, whose report in 2009 became the blueprint for the benefit, told the BBC claimants should receive their first payment after four weeks.\n\nCurrently people typically have to wait six weeks and one in five wait longer.\n\nTheresa May defended the system in the Commons on Wednesday though there is a widespread expectation that changes will be made in next week's Budget.\n\nMPs are due to hold a debate on Universal Credit, which merges six benefits for working-age people into one new payment, later on Thursday.\n\nLast month the Commons voted overwhelmingly to pause its roll-out but the government did not take part in the ballot and effectively ignored the decision.\n\nUniversal Credit started life in the Centre for Social Justice think tank, under the leadership of Dr Brien.\n\nIn 2009, he wrote a 370 page report called Dynamic Benefits, which became the basis for the new benefit. He then went on to work in the Department for Work and Pension between 2011 and 2013, creating the benefit.\n\nWhile he told the BBC the principle of the idea remains, he believed there were now significant operational problems.\n\n\"I would get rid of the seven days (waiting period),\" he said, referring to the initial week after someone makes a claim where they aren't paid any benefit even if they're eligible for Universal Credit.\n\nAnd he also thinks the department doesn't need a week to actually process payments.\n\nThe system is predicated on making people better off in work\n\nBut critics warn it is forcing more and more people to turn to food banks\n\n\"We should be looking at something much closer to a four-week process.\n\n\"When we are looking at a group of people who have lost their job, to expect them to take six weeks on their own back without getting any cash is a challenging one.\n\n\"I think we have to recognise that the benefits system needs to focus on the needs of the most vulnerable as much as it focuses on getting people back to work.\"\n\nUniversal credit is the largest change to the welfare system in decades. It combines six working-age benefits, such as tax credits and housing benefit, into one monthly payment.\n\nThe roll-out of the benefit is currently being accelerated to 50 job centres a month. A number of groups, including Citizens Advice, the Labour Party and the Children's Commissioner for England, have called for the extension to be paused arguing that it is creating debts and rent arrears.\n\nThe government has so far resisted such demands, arguing the benefit is working and getting single people into a job quicker than previous benefits.\n\nStephen Brien, who currently works for the Legatum Institute, also argues changes made by the government in the 2015 Budget have moved Universal Credit away from its over-riding aim - to make work pay for everyone.\n\n\"Certain groups have a greater incentive than they had in the past; others do not, and that's the area we need to fix. It was designed to make work pay. It still makes work pay but not as well as it could and should do.\"\n\nThe 2015 changes to the current system of tax credits means it is currently more attractive for some people to move into work than it will be under Universal Credit.\n\nForthcoming Budgets should address the problem, Dr Brien says.\n\n\"There is more value in increasing the work allowances payments for benefit claimants than in increasing the tax threshold for earners. The most vulnerable groups will benefit most from increases in work allowances than raising the threshold of tax.\"", "New powers to fund house-building have been announced, as ministers promised more measures in next week's Budget.\n\nHousing associations will be reclassified as private bodies allowing their £70bn debt to be removed from the government's balance sheet.\n\nThey said the technical change would allow them to build more affordable homes.\n\nBut Labour said the government had no coherent plan to address the \"housing crisis\".\n\nLatest figures show 217,350 \"additional dwellings\" in England last year, which includes new builds, conversions and changes of use. This was up by 27,700 up on 2015-16.\n\nLabour said any increase was welcome but that house-building had still not returned to the level it reached before the global financial crisis.\n\nVisiting a north London housing estate, Prime Minister Theresa May pledged to take \"personal charge\" of the government's strategy to address what is widely regarded as the chronic shortage of new affordable homes being built, particularly for rent.\n\nThere have been reports of tensions within the cabinet about whether the government should be borrowing tens of billions to directly fund more schemes.\n\nIn a speech in Bristol, Communities Secretary Sajid Javid said the decision by the Office for National Statistics to remove housing association debt from the UK balance sheet would help create a more \"stable investment environment\" for the thousands of providers.\n\nHousing associations were classified as public bodies in 2015 because of the way they were funded - a move that led to warnings it would hamper their ability to fund new house-building.\n\nIn 2015, the Office for National Statistics shocked the government by announcing that ministerial control of housing associations had become so intrusive they could no longer be seen as charities or private businesses.\n\nOvernight, all their borrowing was added to the public debt.\n\nNow, after the drafting of new regulations currently going through Parliament, the ONS has agreed the government has become hands-off enough again to take all that debt away.\n\nThe announcement of the change, before the new regulations have come into law, appears to be part of a move to encourage Philip Hammond to offer more help to the housing sector.\n\nWhether such pressure will move the Treasury to loosen the purse strings remains to be seen.\n\nThe National Housing Federation, which represents housing associations, said it strongly supported the reclassification.\n\nIt said housing associations built nearly 50,000 new homes last year, including social and affordable rental properties.\n\nThe federation added: \"This change will allow them to build on their strong track record and secure the long-term finance needed to build even more affordable homes.\"\n\nMr Javid said the rethink would help \"lay the foundation\" for thousands and thousands of new homes.\n\nBut he warned new thinking is required to stop \"a rootless generation\" of tenants drifting from one short-term tenancy to another.\n\n\"There are many, many faults in our housing market, dating back many many years. If you only fix one you will make some progress but not enough. This is a big problem and we have to think big.\"\n\nHe also said the government would be intervening in the case of 15 local authorities which have failed to produce a local plan for housing development in their area.\n\nMore than 1.2 million families in England are currently on the waiting for council accommodation while in 2015-6 only 6,800 social rented homes were completed.\n\nThe Local Government Association said councils should be given the same freedom to borrow to build.", "Health authorities said there was no evidence of any broad contamination of game meat\n\nA New Zealand family are seriously ill in hospital, with a wild boar they hunted and ate being investigated by doctors as one possible cause.\n\nFriends of the family wrote in a Facebook post that Shibu Kochummen, his wife Subi Babu and mother Alekutty Daniel collapsed after eating the meat.\n\nHealth officials said there is no evidence of any \"broader contaminated game\" or any risk to public health.\n\nTwo children who did not eat the meat are unaffected.\n\nBut the three adults in the family had cooked and eaten the boar, before being found on the floor of their home in Waikato by emergency services last Friday, friends of the family said.\n\nJoji Varghese told the BBC that doctors are waiting on a toxicology report and that \"the nature of the contaminant is unknown\".\n\nIn a Facebook post appealing for help, Mr Varghese and other friends of the family wrote of the severity of their condition, adding that officials had sent samples of all food items found in the family's home for testing.\n\nThe family moved to New Zealand from India five years ago and Mr Kochummen, a hunting enthusiast, had earlier shot the wild boar which they eventually ate.\n\n\"We are still investigating potential sources for the illness in this case,\" said Richard Vipond, a medical officer at the Waikato Health Board, in a press release.\n\nHe added that those who hunt or handle game meat should follow the guidelines set out by the Ministry of Primary Industries to reduce any risk of contamination.\n\nMr Kochummen and Ms Daniel are reportedly stable in a ward, but Ms Babu remains in critical condition, according to Dr Vipond.\n\nThe Indian High Commission told the New Zealand Herald that embassy staff are working with family and friends.", "Seventy one victims of the Grenfell Tower fire have been formally identified and police believe that all those who died have now been recovered.\n\nThe number of victims includes baby Logan Gomes, who was stillborn in hospital on 14 June, the day the 24-storey blaze broke out.\n\nThe final two victims to be formally identified have been named as Victoria King and daughter Alexandra Atala.\n\nThe Met said it was providing \"every support we can\" to the bereaved.\n\nMetropolitan Police Commander Stuart Cundy said: \"I have been clear from the start that a priority for us was recovering all those who died, and identifying and returning them to their families.\n\n\"Specialist teams working inside Grenfell Tower and the mortuary have pushed the boundaries of what was scientifically possible to identify people.\n\n\"After the fire was finally put out, I entered Grenfell Tower and was genuinely concerned that due to the intensity and duration of the fire, that we may not find, recover and then identify all those who died.\n\nVictoria King, pictured, died in the flat alongside her daughter Alexandra Atala\n\n\"I know that each and every member of the team has done absolutely all they can to make this possible.\"\n\nIn June, the Met had a list of 400 missing people - some of whom were reported a number of times under different names or spellings, with one person in particular recorded 46 separate times.\n\nThe work to investigate and locate all those reported as missing was only concluded in the last few weeks, the Met said.\n\nThe family of Ms King, 71, and Ms Atala, 40, said they were \"devastated\" to learn of the pair's fate, adding that the mother and daughter were \"devoted to each other\".\n\nThe original missing persons list was also made higher by fraudulent cases, police said, with some individuals attempting to benefit financially from the tragedy.\n\nThere are a number of ongoing fraud investigations, and earlier this month one man pleaded guilty to fraud after claiming that his wife and son had both died in the fire.\n\nThe Met is also investigating alleged thefts from seven flats at Grenfell Tower, although no perpetrators have yet been identified, according to BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw.\n\nCommander Cundy told BBC News: \"There was only one way in and out of the tower and [CCTV] footage shows 223 people came out and survived.\"\n\nHe said not all 223 people were residents, some were visitors, and some residents were not in the tower at the time.\n\nWhile the final stage of the search operation is not expected to conclude until early December, the Met said in a statement: \"Based on all the work carried out so far and the expert advice, it is highly unlikely there is anyone who remains inside Grenfell Tower\".\n\nSpecially trained officers from the Met, City of London Police and British Transport Police have been involved in the search and recovery operation, thoroughly searching every single flat on every single floor.\n\nOfficers have examined 15.5 tonnes of debris on each floor, helped by forensic anthropologists, archaeologists and forensic dentists or odontologists.\n• None Grenfell Tower fire: Who were the victims?", "A man sells watermelon in the capital a day after the military moved against Mr Mugabe\n\nDriving around Zimbabwe, one can hardly tell the country is in the middle of the biggest political crisis since independence.\n\nIn one town, a man in his 20s invites me to his shop and tries to convince me to buy a silver necklace. \"It costs $20 [£15],\" he says. \"But for you I can make that $15.\"\n\nHe offers the discount rather half-heartedly.\n\n\"You see, people don't want to spend money on thing like these; the economy is really doing badly.\"\n\nThe once-promising African country has sunk into an economic abyss.\n\nThe government was forced to abolish the country's currency in 2009 because of hyperinflation, and introduced more stable foreign currencies such as the US dollar.\n\nAnnual inflation reached 231 million per cent in central bank figures reported in July 2008 - officials gave up reporting monthly statistics when it peaked at just under 80 billion per cent in mid-November 2008.\n\nOn Wednesday this week, the government published the latest inflation rate showing a 2.24% year-on-year rise for the month of October. Some economists, however, say the new figures are a gross underestimate.\n\nIt is no surprise then that many Zimbabweans almost instantly warmed to the military's move to take control of the country, and confine President Robert Mugabe to his official residence.\n\n\"The military has done a good thing,\" says one bookseller. \"They will ensure we get a transitional government.\"\n\nHe is firmly convinced that Mr Mugabe's 37-year rule is coming to an end.\n\nThere has been a sudden change of tone in the country, and the sense is that many Zimbabweans have been yearning for change.\n\nAny change, it seems, would do.\n\nAt the market, traders hope this means their fortunes will change.\n\nMany of them passively watch shoppers walk past their shops, resigned to the idea that most people are struggling to make ends meet.\n\nSo when a middle-aged tourist buys souvenirs, the rest of the traders suddenly swarm around her as they invite her to view their merchandise. She thanks them, but politely declines the invitation and walks away.\n\nTraders working in a troubled economy hope that change will improve their fortunes\n\nThe traders believe their economic situation will improve once Mr Mugabe's rule ends.\n\nBut there is still political uncertainty surrounding the succession.\n\nThe once-vibrant opposition has begun to speak out, and the former Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, is now back in the country. He has demanded that President Mugabe steps down.\n\nWhat started as a split within the ruling Zanu-PF party could well develop into a broader crisis with politicians from across the divide angling to take over from Mr Mugabe.\n\nBut the president still commands a lot of respect as an independence icon.\n\nThe same respect does not seem to be extended to his wife, Grace, who was thought to be his preferred successor.\n\nHer openly extravagant lifestyle has been widely criticised.\n\nWhat is clear is that the events of this week have dented - if not ended - any chances she had of succeeding her husband.\n\nIn the midst of political uncertainty, Zimbabweans remain hopeful. Change is coming, in whatever form.", "RMT members working on Virgin West Coast have voted 9-1 to take action, including strike action, over pay.\n\nThe union said nearly 1,800 workers including train managers and on-board catering workers on the West Coast route from Glasgow to Euston took part.\n\nThe RMT said it wanted a \"suitable and equal\" pay offer to the £500 one given to drivers.\n\nA Virgin Trains spokesman said they hoped to be able to run most services throughout any industrial action.\n\nThe firm said: \"We are disappointed by the result of the RMT's ballot, but can reassure customers that we will be able to run the majority of services during any industrial action.\n\n\"We have offered a 3.2% annual pay increase at a time when the average increase across public and private sector employees is around 2%. We remain open to continuing talks with the RMT.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "To get to President Robert Mugabe's rural home, you drive along the Robert Mugabe Highway.\n\nIt is probably one of the most well-maintained roads in Zimbabwe. It is like driving on a carpet.\n\nAlong the way you are greeted by a plaque erected in his honour.\n\nKutama Village is home to the 93-year-old. It is a small and tightly connected village where everyone knows each other.\n\nYou cannot really tell if they have been rattled by the current political crisis.\n\nAs we arrived, there was an air of uncertainty.\n\nMr Mugabe is respected here. To many, he is a father and a friend.\n\nSpeaking to me at his compound, a 65-year-old neighbour told me:\n\nQuote Message: He's kind, he's a good man and he understands people's plight.\"\n\nThe man goes to St Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church with Mr Mugabe, a devout Christian, whenever he visits.\n\nQuote Message: He never demands special treatment. He visits people to check on their welfare.\" He never demands special treatment. He visits people to check on their welfare.\"\n\nNevertheless, he supported the intervention by the army to remove Mr Mugabe from office, saying it is meant to correct a broken system:\n\nQuote Message: If his term goes out then there's nothing wrong.\" If his term goes out then there's nothing wrong.\"\n\nWhen I approached other villagers, I attracted immediate suspicion. They were not keen to talk.\n\nBut it seems to me that Mr Mugabe is seen as a hero in the village. It is easy to spot people wearing clothes emblazoned with his face.\n\nPolice officers are patrolling the area around Mr Mugabe's home.\n\nYou can't really peep inside the compound because of tight security.", "Google Docs was inaccessible for a \"significant subset” of users on Wednesday.\n\nThe company confirmed the issue on its status page but did not offer more information.\n\nA spokeswoman for Google would not confirm to the BBC how many users encountered the problem, but said she did not believe any customers who paid for extra storage were affected.\n\nProblems were reported by users trying to access the programs across the world.\n\nDowndetector.com, which tracks outages around the world, suggested US users were having the most significant issues - though there were some reports in Europe, where the outage occurred at a time that was outside of typical hours for most business.\n\nThe down time lasted for between 30 minutes and an hour, during which many people used Twitter to complain.\n\nAt 2209 GMT the Twitter account for Google Docs said: \"Docs is back up for most users, and we expect a full resolution for all users shortly.\n\n\"Sorry for this disruption and thanks again for your patience with us.”\n\nIt is the second time in recent weeks that Google Docs users have been left frustrated by glitches in the system.\n\nIn October some users were locked out of a files after they were wrongly tagged as being “inappropriate” content. The company apologised for the disruption.\n\nCloud computing - where files are stored and edited on the internet rather than locally on your computer - is a major part of the technology sector.\n\nThose services remaining stable and reliable is crucial for businesses that rely on the software for day-to-day work.\n\nAmazon Web Services (AWS) is the market leader by revenue, but it is not immune to down time - an incident at the start of this year saw more than 150,000 websites taken offline due to an Amazon fault.\n\nGoogle's service status page said the problem had now been resolved.\n\n\"We apologise for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience and continued support,\" it added.\n\n\"Please rest assured that system reliability is a top priority at Google, and we are making continuous improvements to make our systems better.\"", "Richard Spencer and Tommy Robinson have lost their blue badges\n\nTwitter has stripped several far-right accounts of their \"verified\" badge, after changing its policy.\n\nAmong them are Jason Kessler who helped organise a far-right march in Charlottesville, and white supremacist Richard Spencer.\n\nEnglish Defence League founder Tommy Robinson also had his badge removed.\n\nTwitter said the badge was being interpreted as an \"endorsement or an indicator of importance\" and said it would change the scheme.\n\nThe blue badge was first introduced to indicate the authenticity of prominent profiles on the social network.\n\nOriginally the site had chosen who to verify, and usually reserved the status for celebrities, public officials and journalists.\n\nIn July 2016, it opened the scheme up to the wider public and let anybody apply for a verified badge.\n\nLast week, the social network was criticised for giving Mr Kessler a verified badge, and on 9 November halted its verified profile scheme.\n\nIt said it had not intended the blue badge to be an endorsement of views shared.\n\n\"We gave verified accounts visual prominence on the service which deepened this perception,\" it said. \"We should have addressed this earlier but did not prioritise the work as we should have.\"\n\nTwitter said it was designing a new \"authentication and verification programme\", but in the meantime would \"remove verification from accounts whose behaviour does not fall within the new guidelines\".\n\nThe new guidelines say verified status can be lost if a person breaks Twitter's rules or \"promotes hate\" on the basis of \"race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or disease\".\n\nIt said behaviour both on and off Twitter would be taken into account.\n\nSome of those who had their verified badges removed said the new policy was being applied inconsistently and highlighted accounts of disgraced celebrities that had not lost the icon.\n\nMr Kessler suggested Twitter had changed its rules to \"censor\" his views, while Mr Robinson said Twitter now classed the truth as \"hate speech\".", "The chief executive of Goldman Sachs, Lloyd Blankfein, has suggested holding another referendum on Brexit.\n\nMr Blankfein tweeted: \"Here in UK, lots of hand-wringing from CEOs over #Brexit... So much at stake, why not make sure consensus still there?\"\n\nThe firm, which is known to have taken office space in Frankfurt, employs about 6,000 people in London.\n\nBanks are particularly worried the UK will fail to strike an EU trade deal.\n\nThe banks fear that after Britain leaves the EU their businesses will lose \"passporting rights\", which allows them to sell financial services across borders.\n\nMr Blankfein's tweet went on to say: \"Better sense of the tough and risky road ahead. Reluctant to say, but many wish for a confirming vote on a decision so monumental and irreversible.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Lloyd Blankfein This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Blankfein's twitter account was barely used until recently.\n\nDespite him signing up to the microblogging service in 2011 he only sent his first tweet in June - and since then has shared his thoughts in that way just 26 times.\n\nNevertheless, he has attracted 69,000 followers.\n\nHis previously most noticeable tweet - sent last month - was also Brexit-related: \"Just left Frankfurt. Great meetings, great weather, really enjoyed it. Good, because I'll be spending a lot more time there. #Brexit\".\n\nThat was seen as a hint that Frankfurt would become a key European base for the Wall Street giant post-Brexit.\n\nLast month, the Wall Street bank said it had agreed to lease office space at a new building in Frankfurt giving it space for up to 1,000 staff.\n\nThat would be five times the current staff of 200 and see the Wall Street giant bolstering activities including trading, investment banking and asset management.\n\nThe bank is also thought to be looking at expanding its operation in Paris.\n\nA spokesman for Goldman Sachs said the bank had nothing further to add to Mr Blankfein's comments.", "Police have cordoned off an area of land north of the coast path\n\nDetectives investigating the disappearance of teenager Gaia Pope say women's clothing has been found near a coastal path in Dorset.\n\nIt is not clear who the clothes belong to, but Dorset Police said Gaia's family have been informed.\n\nGaia, 19, was last seen nine days ago by family friend Rosemary Dinch, in Swanage, Dorset.\n\nAn area near Durlston Country Park has been cordoned off after a member of the public found the clothes.\n\nSenior investigating officer Neil Devoto, said: \"Following the discovery of these items of clothing, a full and thorough search will now take place in the field and surrounding area.\n\n\"We have seized the clothing and investigations will now be carried out to identify who they belong to.\"\n\nMs Dinch, 71, and her 19-year-old grandson, Nathan Elsey, were arrested on suspicion of murdering Ms Pope on Monday.\n\nThe pair were released on Tuesday while inquiries continue.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Missing Gaia Pope search: \"She's worth every bit of it\"\n\nGaia's father Richard Sutherland said earlier that the search for his missing daughter had been the \"toughest thing\" to go through.\n\nHe praised the local community for helping in the search for Gaia, last seen in Morrison Road at 16:00 GMT on 7 November.\n\nMr Sutherland told the BBC he and her family \"know she'll be found\".\n\nEarlier this week, police issued CCTV images of Gaia, who has severe epilepsy, while she was running on Morrison Road and at a petrol station in the town.\n\nMr Sutherland told the BBC the search by volunteers and police through the streets of the seaside town had been \"heart warming\".\n\nGaia Pope was last seen in Swanage on 7 November\n\n\"It's been beautiful, it keeps us going. To feel that strength of everyone helping us - every bit of help is gratefully received and she's worth every bit of it,\" he said.\n\n\"We have every hope - every minute that goes by we still have hope.\n\n\"I can't describe it - you can imagine, it's just about the toughest thing we can go through.\"\n\nCCTV shows Gaia at a petrol station on the afternoon she went missing\n\nThe CCTV images of Gaia show her in the petrol station at St Michael's Garage, on Valley Road, Swanage where she went in to buy an ice cream at about 14:55 on the day she disappeared.\n\nPolice said she was being driven between Langton Matravers and Swanage by a family member when they stopped off for fuel.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Police believe Gaia Pope is captured in this CCTV running past a house\n\nMr Devoto said: \"We believe Gaia was wearing the same grey and white woven leggings and white trainers, but was last seen in a red checked shirt with white buttons.\n\n\"When she disappeared she was not wearing the black jacket pictured, which was recovered at an address in Manor Gardens.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Family friend Rosemary Dinch was the last person to see Gaia Pope before she went missing\n\nThe force said on Tuesday it believed the teenager was still in the Swanage area and it remained \"hopeful\" it would find her alive.\n\nGaia's family previously said it was thought she did not have her epilepsy medication on her.\n\nShe is described as 5ft 7ins tall, of medium build and with long, mousey blonde hair.\n\nPolice put up a missing person notice for Ms Pope in Swanage\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Former entertainer Rolf Harris has had one of 12 indecent assault convictions overturned by the Court of Appeal.\n\nThree judges in London ruled the conviction was \"unsafe\". But they dismissed applications by Harris, 87, to challenge the other 11 convictions.\n\nThere will be no retrial on the one conviction quashed.\n\nThe Australian-born TV presenter was jailed in 2014 for 12 indecent assaults, relating to four girls between 1968 and 1986.\n\nHe was jailed for five years and nine months and has since been released from that sentence.\n\nThe overturned conviction related to an allegation that Harris indecently assaulted an eight-year-old girl in 1969 at an event in Portsmouth.\n\nThough Harris was not in court for the ruling, he said in a statement: \"I have said all along that I did not attend and had never attended the location in Portsmouth as this complainant alleged at my first trial.\n\n\"I was not believed and she was... I have served a nine-month prison sentence based on her word.\"\n\nHe thanked his legal team, led by Stephen Vullo QC, for \"finally\" proving his innocence of the alleged crime, which he said was backed up by a \"fantasist\" claiming to be the sole witness.\n\nThe man claimed to have been on leave from the military when he saw Harris in Portsmouth, but Mr Vullo's team proved he had never served in the armed forces - he was a lorry driver who had never left the UK.\n\nHarris claims this information was in the hands of the police \"from day one\" but was not given to his first legal team \"by mistake\".\n\nHe added: \"I hope the press supply the facts to the public to let them decide if I am a monster or the subject of a frenzied witch hunt which focused more on grabbing headlines than finding the truth.\"\n\nAnnouncing their decision on Thursday, Lord Justice Treacy, Mrs Justice McGowan and the Recorder of Preston, Judge Mark Brown, refused to give Harris permission to appeal against the rest of the convictions.\n\nThey ruled that \"stepping back and looking at the totality of the evidence\" on those remaining counts, \"we find nothing that causes us to doubt the safety of those convictions\".", "The BBC Price of Football study has found the majority of ticket prices have been frozen or have fallen for a third year - yet a poll of young adult football fans suggests the cost is still putting them off.\n\nThis year BBC Sport asked more than 200 clubs across the United Kingdom for information on ticket prices and found almost two thirds of price categories have been reduced or remained the same across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.\n\nIn a separate poll, we asked 1,000 18- to 24-year-old fans living in Britain how they engage with football, and four in five (82%) said the cost of tickets was an obstacle to them going to more matches.\n\nThe annual study found 135 clubs out of 190 in England, Scotland and Wales offer reduced prices for teenagers and young adults - separate from any student concessions - but 55% of the fans we polled said they had stopped going completely or go to fewer games because it was too expensive.\n\nYoung adult fans can save, on average, £146.94 on season tickets in the English Premier League and Football League, while in the top four divisions in Scotland the average saving on a season ticket is £143.66.\n• None How much could you pay? Enter your team in the calculator\n• None Analysis: What does it mean for clubs and fans?\n• None Take the Price of Football quiz\n\nAccording to figures from the Premier League, young adult fans bought 4% of all season tickets this year. A report in 2015 suggested the average age of an adult supporter in the Premier League was 41.\n\nRob Wilson, football finance expert at Sheffield Hallam University, says top clubs need to do more to attract young adults.\n\n\"These fans are the next generation of season ticket holders but they have been brought up in a sanitised and expensive environment,\" he told BBC Sport.\n\n\"With this in mind, they are reluctant to pay so much to watch their teams play and these findings should act as a warning to the Premier League elite - they ignore this group of fans at their peril.\"\n\nArsenal manager Arsene Wenger admitted he was worried by the findings.\n\n\"I think nothing is better than to share the experience of a stadium,\" he said. \"There are many ingredients in the modern game that stopped people going. The lifestyle is different, they play less, they play more computers.\n\n\"The security of gathering people is a problem. Can you afford to go when you are young? There are many ingredients we have to take care of in the game.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Premier League said: \"Clubs engage with their fans in many ways and hugely appreciate their loyal and passionate support.\n\nThe online poll, conducted by ComRes, also showed young fans are more likely to engage with football by playing games on a console or PC (61%) than in a football team (37%).\n\nMore young football fans bet on the sport (44%) than play in a team (37%), but more fans play in a team than have a fantasy football team (33%).\n\nOnly one in four fans (26%) said they go to watch football live more than once a month.\n• None Are young people being priced out of football? Watch our live debate\n• None Two thirds (65%) of young football fans said the cost of travel was an obstacle to attending more matches.\n• None Three quarters (74%) of young fans said they get their football news from social media - 24% from print newspapers.\n• None Three in five fans aged 18-24 go to a sport app or mobile site (59%) for football news while at least half access it via a TV results service (53%).\n• None 70% of supporters agreed football clubs did value their fans, but more than half of the teenagers and young adults (56%) said professional football was not run with them in mind.\n• None Similar numbers of football fans asked said they go to a football match at least once a week (11%), two to three times a month (15%) or five to 10 times a season (14%).\n• None One in six (16%) male football fans aged 18-24 said they go to a match at least once a week, compared to 7% of women in this group.\n\nOf the top four leagues in England, 92% of clubs offer special prices for young adults, separate from any student concessions. The age ranges vary from 16-24 years old, with most targeting the 18-21 bracket.\n\nThe biggest discounts come in the Premier League, where an Arsenal member aged 16-19 can purchase a season ticket for £384 compared to the cheapest adult season ticket at £891 - a saving of £507.\n\nChelsea offer the biggest discount on single matchday tickets for their under 20s, who can pay £15.50 instead of £47 - a saving of £31.50.\n\nBut despite these discounts, 81% of the young adult football fans living in England who were polled say they feel the cost of tickets is stopping them from going to more matches.\n\nIn Scotland, 27 of the 42 clubs offer young adult discounts.\n\nIn the poll, 79% of fans say cost is an obstacle to them attending football matches.\n\nA third of the clubs in the Welsh Premier League offer special discounts for young adults.\n\nOf the young adults asked in Wales, 90% say the cost of tickets puts them off going to watch football.\n• None The Price of Football: Results in full\n• None How we produced the Price of Football 2017\n\nE-sports are becoming big business and this is the next key challenge for clubs. How do you convert e-sport players into terrace-goers? Can you link the e-game to the actual one? How can mobile technologies support this at half-time, for example? Moreover, the way young fans consume information is changing - clubs need to engage fans much more effectively when it comes to social media.\n\nWe've seen big reductions in subscriptions to the pay TV platforms so it's unsurprising young people think twice about live football. There are also lots of options for young people to spend their leisure pound (the cinema, gym, university, cars etc) so football clubs need to work much harder to engage them. There is no magic bullet but they need to do more and communicate that more effectively. The long-term impact of young fans feeling priced out is yet to be truly felt.\n\nWhat we are seeing, especially with young people, is that incomes are being squeezed in real terms and this will lead to a decrease in demand, particularly as there are alternative leisure opportunities. The number of fans attending football will also respond to rise and fall in prices because of the price elasticity of demand for tickets.\n\nSupport for a team is often a matter of loyalty and hence lower prices may not attract many new fans. If young people find their finances are stretched, they may make a rational choice to follow a team by other means such as screened matches.\n\nYoung people tend to be in work but with the very slow growth in wages in the past 10 years, their income is lagging behind living costs. Real wages are not rising and young people are also saddled with student debt. Rent and utility bills have to be paid and they are rising faster than other prices.\n\nThen, when you have to pay for food on top, it means things like sport and paying to watch football are not a priority.\n\nThere are a number of different, interacting factors that play a part in young people's decision making. These factors are relevant to decisions made about leisure (and in particular football). These include factors such as: 1) temperament and personality and 2) past history - including childhood memories, parents' interests & values, and past teachers or peer influence.\n\nHowever, there are some interesting trends around leisure also. Young people are drinking less. Young people are more thoughtful about what they want to do with their time and money. Superficially it looks like they have increased choice about what they may do, but in reality they also have less money and less time.\n\nAs a young person gets older, it often becomes more important to make decisions that will not alienate them from a social group of friends when compared to decisions that their parents may not like or may be unhealthy.\n\nI am not surprised young people are engaging with football online through videos/fantasy football and probably through social media & apps too - as this is a trend we are seeing across the board with leisure.\n\nI feel sad and disappointed that young people are playing less football as there are so many physical and mental health benefits to this. It is sad that the big drive to increase football in schools is not having a long-term effect once children leave school.\n\nDo you go to games?\n\nDo you attend football matches regularly? If so, what keeps you coming back? Or if you don't, what stops you from going? Get in touch using this link.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNo prisoners will be prosecuted over a two-day riot in which armed inmates took over a wing and smashed windows, it has emerged.\n\nRiot-trained officers were sent to HMP The Mount, Hertfordshire, after trouble broke out on 31 July and 1 August.\n\nHertfordshire Police said it had exhausted all lines of inquiry and no charges would be brought.\n\nPrisoners \"must not feel they can do anything\" without legal recourse, the Prison Officers' Association said.\n\nPolice said reports were received on 31 July that prisoners had \"threatened prison officers and caused damage to the prison\" over a 10-hour period.\n\nAt the time, it was reported by BBC home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw that one wing and half of another were \"lost\".\n\nRiot-trained staff with shields entered HMP The Mount during a 10-hour disturbance on Monday, 31 July\n\nThe following day it was reported to police that a prisoner had been assaulted by two inmates, while well-placed sources told the BBC armed prisoners had taken over the Nash wing of the prison.\n\nA \"nucleus of about 30 prisoners\" was said to have been involved in the violence.\n\nA Hertfordshire Police spokeswoman said the force would investigate any further information if it came to light.\n\nObtaining evidence from a prison environment is not as straightforward as it seems.\n\nIn the absence of CCTV footage or body-worn cameras - which have yet to be rolled out to all jails - investigators have to rely on witnesses.\n\nAnd when those witnesses are prisoners that becomes problematic.\n\nSome may fear reprisals if they speak to police, others might give false evidence to implicate others.\n\nIt will be immensely disappointing to the prison authorities and staff that police were unable to bring anyone to justice for the trouble at The Mount, let alone have enough evidence to send a file to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).\n\nThe message that troublemakers can get away with it is not one the Prison Service wants prisoners to hear.\n\nThe Prison Officers Association said it was \"disappointed\" criminal proceedings were not being pursued.\n\n\"The incident resulted in significant damage to the prison and costs to the tax payer,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"Prisons have CCTV in all accommodation areas and so we are surprised evidence is not available to assist the police.\"\n\nHMP The Mount was designed as a category C training prison built on the site of a former RAF station on the outskirts of Bovingdon village, Hertfordshire\n\nThe Mount Prison opened in 1987 as a young offenders institution and now houses more than 1,000 prisoners.\n\nIt was designed as a category C training prison built on the site of a former RAF station on the outskirts of Bovingdon village, Hertfordshire.\n\nThe prison is described as a \"hybrid training and resettlement prison\" for inmates in the final six months of their sentences.\n\nA report in 2016 by the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) found \"all the ingredients\" were in place for The Mount to suffer disorder such as has been experienced in other prisons:\n\nThe CPS said it had not received a referral from police in relation to this matter.\n\nThe Ministry of Justice said it would not comment as it was a matter for the police.\n\nThe BBC also asked the Ministry of Justice in October for the cost of repairs to the prison but was told a final amount was not yet available.\n\nThis followed a previous Freedom of Information request for a report into the disturbance, which was refused.\n\nA \"tornado team\" entered HMP The Mount to tackle to disturbances\n\nOn the second day of trouble at The Mount, about 30 inmates at Erlestoke prison in Wiltshire also became violent and four people were reported to have been taken to hospital.\n\nIn October, prison staff were attacked with pool balls at the high-security HMP Long Lartin in Worcestershire.\n\nPolice have previously brought charges against those in other prisons involved in disturbances. In September, six inmates were convicted for their part in a 15-hour riot at HMP Birmingham in December 2016.\n• None Second day of trouble at prison", "Shadow chancellor John McDonnell has demanded \"an emergency Budget for our public services\", which he says are in crisis.\n\nHe is promising to spend about £17bn a year extra on the NHS, social care, schools and local government.\n\nThe extra spending would be paid for by tax rises for companies and \"the rich\", while tackling tax avoidance.\n\nThe government said Labour's plans would lead to more debt, higher taxes and fewer jobs.\n\nChancellor Philip Hammond is due to give his Budget speech next Wednesday afternoon.\n\nIn a speech at Church House in Westminster, Mr McDonnell called for an end to austerity by the government and set out five main proposals:\n\nHe said the Chancellor, Philip Hammond, was out of touch with the lives of ordinary people and there was growing anger after seven years of austerity.\n\n\"They were told austerity was the solution to the economic crisis,\" he said.\n\n\"So it's understandable that after seven years of the austerity solution, they are angry when they queue for hours at A&E, see their school laying off teaching assistants, their Surestart centre closing and the local neighbourhood police withdrawn from their streets.\n\n\"Especially, while at the same time, they learn about the Paradise Papers and the tax avoidance of the super-rich.\"\n\nMr McDonnell said the Conservatives were giving away about £76bn in cuts to corporation tax, capital gains tax and \"the rich\" during the life of this Parliament.\n\nHe said Labour had already calculated £6.5bn could be raised from clamping down on tax avoidance, but he believed that could be significantly higher after the leaking of the Paradise Papers.\n\nA global investigation looked at 13.4 million previously secret documents that revealed offshore investments made by companies, politicians and wealthy individuals.\n\nJohn McDonnell wants to create a clear red line between him and the present incumbent of Number 11, Philip Hammond.\n\nA week ahead of the Budget, the shadow chancellor has said that more should be spent on health, education and housing and that the public sector pay cap of 1% should be lifted.\n\nThe controversial introduction of the new benefits system - the universal credit - should also be delayed after evidence that some recipients were being left without payments for several weeks.\n\nTo pay for the new policies, Mr McDonnell will say he is willing to borrow more to invest in infrastructure, arguing it is a good time to do so as interest rates are at historic lows.\n\nIt is a position rejected by the Conservatives, with Mr Hammond saying that more borrowing now simply means more debts to be repaid in the future.\n\nIt is expected that he will focus any new spending on health and housing in the Budget, next Wednesday.\n\nMr McDonnell said more action was needed to tackle what he called the \"housing crisis\".\n\nThe government is to wipe about £70bn worth of debt from housing associations' balance sheets, allowing them to raise money more cheaply.\n\nBut Mr McDonnell described it as \"accountancy tricks\" and called for more funding.\n\n\"The scale of the crisis demands action on an equal scale. We need at least 100,000 new social homes a-year funded and built by this government, to even begin to address the problem.\"\n\nHe said Mr Hammond could do far more.\n\n\"He wants to pretend he cannot invest on the scale needed, yet he has already borrowed more in his first year as chancellor than any of his predecessors in their first year at the Treasury.\"\n\nResponding to Mr McDonnell's proposals, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Liz Truss said: \"The shadow chancellor has today admitted Labour would borrow billions more and hike up taxes to record levels.\n\n\"The costs would rack up and up - putting economic growth at risk and hitting ordinary working people in the pocket.\n\n\"Only the Conservatives can build a country that is fit for the future.\"", "Zimbabwe's The Herald newspaper ran a special edition later on Wednesday\n\nZimbabwean media have been slow to keep their audiences up to date on developments after the military took control earlier today.\n\nState TV and radios were re-broadcasting the statement by Major-General Sibusiso Moyo announcing that the military had taken over but offered little by way of updates to the situation.\n\nFor most of the morning the TV played patriotic songs from the independence period of the 1980s before resuming normal programming.\n\nThe lunchtime news featured the army takeover as the main story.\n\nThe print edition of the government-owned daily The Herald appeared on the streets on Wednesday morning with Tuesday's stories which downplayed the importance of the warning by the head of the armed forces Constantino Chiwenga that the military would take over if necessary.\n\nThe paper's online edition took a few hours to update, and has been carrying coverage of the unfolding events, under the headline Live and developing: No Military Takeover in Zim.\n\nApart from carrying the military statement the paper said: \"The situation in Harare's central business district is calm with people going about their business.\"\n\nSocial media users have been trying to make up for the lack of news by posting their own observations and pictures of street scenes in the capital Harare, including some of troops and police being made to sit in a line outside parliament and people going about their daily lives.\n\nMany have dismissed suggestions by the military that their actions don't amount to a coup.\n\nMaj Gen Sibusiso Moyo read out a statement on national TV early on Wednesday\n\nUsing the Twitter hashtag #ZimbabweCoup, many users welcomed the developments. The hashtag had been used more than 13,000 times in the 24 hours up until noon on Wednesday, many of the users appearing to be in the country.\n\nOne widely shared and liked tweet with a sarcastic overtone read: \"The coup going on in Zimbabwe is the smoothest I've ever seen.. It started like we just wanna talk then went to it's cute you think you [sic] still president.\"\n\n\"When you see the army commanders take over the state broadcaster airwaves then that's the confirmation it's a COUP. End of an era,\" another tweet read. (bit.ly/2hyoy64)\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Chipo Dendere, PhD This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, another user provided a different interpretation: \"It's a Zanu PF internal putsch backed by the army - very different from a military takeover - the statement issued is so very unique - you can feel the restraint.\" (bit.ly/2mt6oEl)\n\nMufti Ismail Menk of Zimbabwe tweeted: \"#Zimbabwe is calm and life goes on for most ordinary citizens. Streets are safe and most children are in school.\"\n\nSome users made fun of the fact that this morning's print editions were way out of date.\n\n\"News editors in Zim slept through the revolution. You need night shifts comrades,\" said @drDendere.\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.", "On social media there are several accounts claiming to be the mouthpiece of Zimbabwe's governing Zanu-PF party, but it's unclear which, if any, are official, and what links they have with those currently in charge.\n\nNews networks across the world have been reporting on the seizure of power by military generals in Zimbabwe.\n\nMany media outlets, including the BBC, reported posts by the unverified Twitter account @zanu_pf which claims to be \"the only official handle\" for the Zanu-PF party.\n\nBut it's far from clear who is in control of the account and what their connection to the party is.\n\nThe account was described as a fake by PRI in 2012, and has previously adopted a tone at odds with what might be expected from official accounts.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by ZANU PF This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIts Twitter history is full of rants and proclamations about pornography, eggs Benedict and imperialism.\n\nSeveral journalists in Africa, or specialising on African issues, quickly derided the reporting on the Zanu PF account.\n\nMatina Stevis-Gridneff, Africa reporter at the Wall Street Journal referred to it as a \"parody account,\" but said she, too, had earlier mistakenly retweeted its content.\n\nAlastair Jamieson, from NBC News' London office, tweeted he was trying to establish whether the account was not to be trusted, but could not find the evidence.\n\nThe confusion about who's running the account isn't limited to outside observers. At times Zanu-PF officials have publicly wondered who is running the account.\n\nIn 2013 another account, reported to be that of a spokesman for the Zanu-PF party, tried to \"urgently\" establish contact with the person running the @zanu_pf handle.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Psychology Maziwisa This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt is not known what contact was made between the account @zanu_pf and the Zanu-PF party.\n\nIn a surreal turn of events, the unverified account was accused of being a fake in 2016 by a parody account mocking Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.\n\nIn the post the fake Mr Mugabe claimed the \"official party account\" was @ZANUPF_Official.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 H.E. Robert G Mugabe This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 3 by H.E. Robert G Mugabe\n\nThe @ZANUPF_Official account is another which has seen a popularity boost after recent events in the country.\n\nIt had slightly over a thousand followers in 2013, a few thousand on Wednesday morning, and over 10,000 by Thursday morning. Again, it's unclear what connection the account has, if any, with the party leadership.\n\nIt has tweeted infrequently - just 535 times since 2013. Unusually for a party account claiming to be official, it did not post at all during 2014 or the first half of 2017.\n\nThe account became active again in August with a post stating that it, and not the other account - @zanu_pf - was the real deal.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 ZANU PF This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPerhaps unsurprisingly, social media users replied expressing their confusion and questioning the legitimacy of both @zanu_pf and @ZANUPF_Official.\n\n\"Look at these jokers,\" posted one Harare resident. \"Both from the same tree.\"\n\n\"Get verified so we know which one is real,\" suggested a business analyst from East Zimbabwe.\n\nAnd \"now we don't know which one is the fake one,\" joked a third user from South Africa.\n\nThe lack of clarity over who is running these political accounts extends to another Twitter account, one claiming to be the youth wing of the party.\n\nPosting between 6 and 14 November, the account @YLZANUPF1 was highly critical of former vice-president Emmerson Mnangagwa and General Constantino Chiwenga, and supportive of Grace Mugabe's bid for the vice-presidency.\n\nHowever, since the military seized power on Wednesday morning the tone of their posts had radically changed. It sent out tweets praising the \"gallant Zimbabwean Army\" which was \"professionally and peacefully carrying out the National Democractic Project\". Some have been left questioning if control of this account has changed hands.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Ricardo Chitagu This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 why has there been such confusion over Twitter accounts? Some see it as a symptom of a wider problem in the representation of African users on social media.\n\nChipo Dendere took aim at Twitter for \"not verifying African accounts\", arguing a lack of verification causes confusion.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by Chipo Dendere, PhD This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nReplying to Sally Hayden, one of the first journalists to raise the alarm over the citing of the @zanu_pf account on Wednesday morning, fellow journalist Caelainn Hogan asked: \"If there was more credence and respect given to nameless 'journalists in Africa', or better yet Zimbabwean journalists and researchers, maybe this wouldn't be such an issue?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 7 by Caelainn Hogan This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 online confusion reflected the foggy situation on Wednesday morning, with Zimbabwe's media not covering the takeover until the lunchtime news and organisations involved avoiding the term \"coup\".\n\nOther media outlets have run footage from September, believing it to be showing armoured vehicles approaching Harare on Tuesday.\n\nSeveral newspapers and websites claimed Emmerson Mnangagwe had returned to Harare from exile, using a still from a video filmed in August of the former vice-president arriving at Manyame Air Force Base to support this claim.\n\nThis image was tweeted by Fadzayi Mahere, advocate of the High Court and Supreme Court of Zimbabwe, of people being detained by the army\n\nMultiple accounts, some switching their messages, many accused of parody, international journalists uncertain which can be dismissed, local journalists hesitant, and a lack of verification on African Twitter: Who to believe on Zimbabwean social media remains unclear.\n\nYou can follow BBC Trending on Twitter @BBCtrending, and find us on Facebook. All our stories are at bbc.com/trending.", "Robert Mugabe's wife, or \"Gucci Grace\" to her critics, was tipped to be Zimbabwe's next president.", "Josh Rivers, sacked from his new role as editor at the Gay Times over offensive tweets published in the past, has said he is \"appalled\" by his posts.\n\nThe tweets, some of which have now been deleted, have been described as racist, transphobic, homophobic and anti-Semitic.\n\nMr Rivers, who has already apologised, also made remarks about obese people and children with disabilities.\n\nHe told Radio 4's PM programme: \"I was appalled... I said, 'Who wrote that?'\"\n\n\"I was stunned, I was confused. I spent most of my 20s in a daze, in a blur. I was not sober as much as I probably could have been.\n\nThe 31-year-old added: \"I was lost, I was angry. I was upset, I was lonely. And I think those tweets are a reflection of someone lashing out at the world around him.\n\n\"They were cries for help.\"\n\nMr Rivers said: \"My past is mine to reckon with... I have to look in the mirror (every day), I have to get myself to a place where I'm fit to serve the community.\"\n\nHe said he had \"no recollection\" of writing the tweets, saying he had drunk heavily in his 20s.\n\nMr Rivers added that he had been seeing a therapist since 2014 \"to unpick the loneliness and sense of abandonment... I've taken who I was and I've turned it into who I want to be\".\n\nThe Gay Times magazine wrote on Twitter that it had removed all articles written by Mr Rivers from its website.\n\nGay Times said: \"Gay Times do not tolerate such views and will continue to strive to promote inclusivity.\n\n\"We sincerely apologise for the offence that has been caused, particularly to those members of our wider community to whom such inappropriate and unacceptable commentary was the focus.\"\n\nThe publication added it is relaunching on 30 November with \"what is quite possibly the most significant overhaul in its 33-year history\".\n\nIt will feature submissions and significant contributions from \"the far reaches of our wonderful and diverse LGBTQ community\".\n\nGay Times has been praised by its readers for making the decision to end Rivers' position at the magazine and have been responding to their statement 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 Hans This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nCraig Evry wrote, \"Well done on taking swift, decisive action. A well thought-out and sincere statement.\"\n\nAlan Palmer added, \"Strong, positive reaction. Too often, organisations try to ride out the storm and do nothing so as not to risk themselves. Well done.\"\n\nHolly Amory also tweeted, saying, \"Thank you! It bodes well that you're taking this so seriously.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by Bluesky This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nRivers was appointed editor in October. In a statement released before his removal from the post, he said: \"I have long taken steps to address the issues that prevented me from treating people with the respect and kindness I value so dearly now.\n\n\"It is because of my past and my own awakening that I've since pivoted everything in my life towards supporting and empowering our community.\"\n\nHe expressed sadness that \"the damage I caused before has now resurfaced to cause more pain\".\n\nBenjamin Cohen, chief executive of LGBT news organisation PinkNews, told the BBC: \"I am frankly appalled at the litany of offensive Twitter posts that Josh Rivers made over a number of years.\n\n\"It is beyond surprising that the level of inappropriate and hurtful comments were not uncovered by Gay Times during the recruitment process for the appointment of the key role of editor.\n\n\"As someone who for many years wrote a column for Gay Times, I'm saddened that what was a great institution has had its brand so recklessly damaged by someone who was in office for just a few weeks.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "The Mugabes have clashed with recently sacked Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa (second from right) and armed forces chief Gen Constantino Chiwenga\n\nZimbabwean generals say they have seized control to take power away from \"criminals\" around President Robert Mugabe.\n\nThe crisis came a week after Mr Mugabe sacked his deputy, Emmerson Mnangagwa, in favour of his wife, Grace.\n\nArmy chief Gen Constantino Chiwenga warned on Monday that the military would step in and take action if such \"purges\" in the ruling Zanu-PF party did not stop.\n\nWho are the key players in this crisis?\n\nA revolutionary hero who spent years in jail for the \"liberation\" struggle, he came to power in elections after independence was declared in 1980.\n\nThis is why, even today, many African leaders remain reluctant to criticise him - unlike a large number of his compatriots who experience his rule first-hand.\n\nMost of the world has moved on from the anti-colonial struggles but Mr Mugabe's outlook and tactics for retaining political control remain the same. He is best-known for his land reform programme in the 1990s that involved the seizure of white-owned farms for redistribution to black peasants.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAfter decades of authoritarian rule, his country is in political and economic turmoil, and allegations of government corruption are rife. He is viewed globally with derision.\n\nThe proud 93-year-old is reluctant to relinquish power but as his physical powers have visibly deteriorated, the battle over his succession has come to the fore.\n\nThe independence-era old guard represented by sacked Vice-President Mnangagwa is rivalling the younger \"Generation-40\" faction fronted by Mrs Mugabe.\n\nRobert Mugabe's second wife, who is more than 40 years his junior, has risen from presidential typist to the most powerful woman in Zimbabwe.\n\nThey met and had their first two of three children while Mr Mugabe's first wife, Sally, was terminally ill with cancer, though they only married after her death.\n\nHer alleged appetite for extravagant shopping earned her the moniker Gucci Grace.\n\nWhile her supporters point to her charitable and philanthropic work and refer to her as \"Dr Amai\", meaning \"mother\", her critics accuse her of pursuing a ruthless campaign for wealth and power.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAs a notable political figure close to the president, Grace has been subject to the same targeted EU and US sanctions as her husband, which include a travel ban and asset freeze.\n\nShe accompanies the president on trips abroad, often visiting the Far East where they own property. Her many domestic business interests also include a dairy farm estate outside Harare, which she claimed as part of the national land reforms implemented starting in 2001.\n\nMrs Mugabe has a sharp tongue and last week she described her rival, Vice President Mnangagwa, as a \"snake\" which \"must be hit on the head\". The next day President Mugabe sacked him.\n\nUntil Mrs Mugabe's rise, he had been viewed for several years as President Mugabe's anointed successor.\n\nFollowing military training in Egypt and China, he helped direct the \"liberation\" struggles prior to independence in 1980, spending time in jail where he was allegedly tortured. He has been in government ever since.\n\nThousands of civilians died in a brutal post-independence conflict in which he played a key role as National Security minister, though he denies having blood on his hands.\n\nHe is known in Zimbabwe as ngwena (English: crocodile) (and his supporters as \"Lacoste\") because of his political cunning, biding his time in the 1990s to reclaim a position of power after falling foul of Mr Mugabe and being cast into political oblivion. But his fearsome reputation means he is little loved in the rank-and-file of the Zanu-PF party.\n\nAs a former defence and national security minister, he was a key link between the ruling party and Zimbabwe's military and intelligence agencies. He is also chair of the Joint Operations Command, in charge of state security.\n\nAt 61, he is a close ally of Mr Mnangagwa and has led the army since 1994.\n\nGen Chiwenga was also a product of the country's independence struggles, training with the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army in Mozambique and later rising through its ranks.\n\nIn 2002, he and 18 other close associates of President Mugabe were sanctioned by the European Union, United States and New Zealand, including a travel ban and freeze on his foreign assets, which has been repeatedly extended. In 2003, he was promoted to commander general of the Zimbabwe combined armed forces.\n\nHe shocked Zimbabweans on Monday when he issued an open warning against those responsible for \"purging\" the ruling party of those who shared his roots in the country's struggles against colonialism, saying the military could step in.\n\nA former mine worker and union chief, the 65-year-old became the symbol of resistance to Mr Mugabe's government during the mid-2000s.\n\nThe charismatic public speaker founded the Movement for Democratic Change in 2000 and stood for president in 2008, gaining the most votes but, according to official results, not enough to win outright. He withdrew from the second round after a campaign of violence by Mr Mugabe's security forces.\n\nHe was later sworn in as prime minister and in 2013 challenged Mr Mugabe for the presidency again but lost heavily.\n\nMr Tsvangirai has been brutally assaulted, charged with treason and labelled a traitor and has reportedly survived three assassination attempts, including one in 1997 in which he was nearly forced out of the window of his 10th-storey office.\n\nHe has been receiving treatment for cancer in South Africa but returned to Zimbabwe after the army took control and has called for Mr Mugabe to resign.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Darryll Rowe told one of his victims 'I got you. Burn, you have it'\n\nA man has been convicted of trying to infect 10 men with HIV in a \"campaign\" to infect as many as possible.\n\nDaryll Rowe infected five men he had unprotected sex with and sabotaged the condoms of another five in Brighton and Northumberland.\n\nAfter sex with some of the men he texted mocking messages, including \"I have HIV LOL. Oops!\" and \"I'm riddled\".\n\nDuring the trial hairdresser Rowe, 27, claimed to believe months of drinking his own urine cured him of the virus.\n\nHe was convicted at Lewes Crown Court of five counts of causing grievous bodily harm (GBH) and five of attempted GBH.\n\nDaryll Rowe met his partners on dating app Grindr, jurors at Lewes Crown Court were told\n\nDuring the six-week trial the prosecution described Rowe's actions as a \"campaign\" to infect as many men as possible over a four-month period starting in October 2015 across the Brighton area.\n\nHe had relations with eight men he met on dating app Grindr, before moving to Northumberland and having unprotected sex with another two men later in 2016.\n\nSpeaking after the verdict, Nigel Pilkington, deputy chief crown prosecutor in the South East, said he believed there \"may well be more men out there\" who had fallen victim to Rowe, of no fixed address.\n\nThroughout the case Rowe was described as a \"control freak\" who would shift between being charming and \"jealous\".\n\nMr Pilkington said he was a \"cruel and callous man\" whose crimes were \"akin to stabbing or shooting somebody\".\n\nMr Pilkington added: \"The absolute deliberate infection of other men by a man, is not something I've ever come across in 25 years as a prosecutor and I don't expect to ever come across a case like it again.\n\n\"This is a man who, after the event, having known what was he was doing, sent mocking and abusive texts to some of his victims. It must have been traumatic.\"\n\nDeborah Gold, chief executive of the National Aids Trust (NAT), said Rowe's behaviour was \"utterly exceptional and vanishingly rare\".\n\nShe added that the majority of HIV transmissions are by people who are unaware they have the virus.\n\nSpeaking after the hearing, one of Rowe's victims, whose biological parents both had HIV and later died, said the news of his condition drove him to a suicide attempt.\n\n\"I was always so careful,\" he said.\n\n\"My dad was a junkie and she was a very young mother. I was always trying to run away from that lifestyle, That's why I always insisted on condoms.\"\n\nHe added it was a \"reminder of my past\".\n\n\"I feel it's come full-circle, and has made this my new life, which is very unfair,\" he added.\n\n\"[Rowe] called me over and over. He admitted to ripping the condom.\n\n\"He said, 'I got you. Burn, you have it' and he was laughing at me. There was menace in his voice, it was an insane conversation. It was horrific to hear. I was in a dark place.\n\n\"It's a violation. I could only describe it as feeling like you've been raped, not the physical side of it, but the mental side.\"\n\nRowe will be sentenced on 29 January.\n\nDet Insp Andy Wolstenholme of Sussex Police said: \"Daryll Rowe was consistent in lying to his victims about having HIV, he was persistent and aggressive in wanting unprotected sex in order to infect people, and when he didn't get what he wanted, he deliberately damaged condoms to achieve his aim.\n\nAt the end of the trial it emerged two dock officers were sacked after falling asleep while evidence was being given.\n\nLoud snoring disturbed the hearing on 5 October and they were both removed from the proceedings.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Mental health trusts in England are restraining patients on average every 10 minutes, figures have revealed.\n\nThey show the number of incidents of restraint has increased each year since 2013.\n\nFormer health minister Norman Lamb said use of force was \"endemic\" in many units.\n\nThe Department of Health said it was working with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to ensure the use of restraint is minimised.\n\nFigures from 40 mental health trusts in England revealed patients were restrained 59,808 times in 2016-17, equivalent to between six and seven incidents an hour.\n\nThis compares with 46,499 times in 2013-14.\n\nThe figures, released to the Liberal Democrats under the Freedom of Information Act, also showed an increase in injuries to patients and staff\n\nHowever, use of the most extreme restraints, where patients are forced to the ground, fell 9% across 33 trusts.\n\nMental health trusts say they have improved their reporting of their use of restraint, which may have contributed to some of the rise.\n\nPhysical restraint is classed as \"any direct physical contact where the intention is to prevent, restrict, or subdue movement of the body (or part of the body) of another person\".\n\nThe Department of Health says there must be \"a real possibility of harm to the person or to staff, the public or others\" for restraint to be used.\n\nLiz Rotherham believes it was unnecessary to restrain her\n\nLiz Rotherham suffers from psychotic episodes and said she has been restrained in hospital on three occasions.\n\nShe claimed it happened at the The Linden Centre in Chelmsford and The Lakes in Colchester. The most recent was in 2013.\n\n\"I don't know why they felt the need to it,\" said the 46-year-old from Essex. \"I wasn't throwing things around, I wasn't being abusive or anything like that.\n\n\"They actually hurt me, which wasn't very nice. I had six people holding me down on a crash mat. They pulled down the side of my knickers and injected me.\"\n\nShe said that a female police officer attending the unit once told her \"don't be a wuss\".\n\n\"I will never, ever forget that. I felt like I was being treated like an animal.\"\n\nMs Rotherham said she believed someone could have sat down and talked to her without the need for restraint.\n\nThe Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust, which runs the hospitals, said it could not comment on an individual patient's case.\n\nDr Sridevi Kalidindi of the Royal College of Psychiatrists said the data showed some trusts were making progress but consistent improvements were not being seen across the board.\n\n\"The increase in the number of restraints recorded is concerning,\" she said. \"Cuts to bed numbers and community care programmes mean you now have to be more ill to be admitted to a mental health unit.\"\n\nDr Kalidindi said increasing use of agency staff meant fewer permanent staff trained to de-escalate situations were available.\n\nLib Dem health spokesman Norman Lamb said: \"Many inspiring units have demonstrated how you can very significantly reduce the use of force, training staff in de-escalation.\n\n\"This can avoid situations which lead to stress and conflict. This needs to be given much greater priority by the Government.\"\n\nVicki Nash of mental health charity Mind, said: \"Physical restraint can be humiliating, terrifying, dangerous and even life-threatening.\n\n\"There is currently a Private Members' Bill going through parliament which, if it becomes law, has the opportunity to increase transparency and accountability around the use of force in mental health settings.\"\n\nA Department of Health spokeswoman said: \"Physical restraint should only be used as a last resort and our guidance to the NHS is clear on this.\n\n\"We want patients to be treated and cared for in a safe environment and we are actively working with the regulator, the Care Quality Commission, to ensure the use of restraint is minimised.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Matthew Herbert destroyed some instruments on BBC Radio 3's Between the Ears\n\nA musician who wants to tour Europe to heal the \"huge divisions\" caused by Brexit has been given a grant by the UK Department for International Trade.\n\nMatthew Herbert said he wanted to correct the impression created by Leave campaigners that the UK was \"retreating into an absurd little enclave\".\n\nHe said he wanted to get the message out: \"We are still listening, we want to be friends, we want to collaborate.\"\n\nHerbert has also set Article 50 to music and plans Brexit-themed concerts.\n\nThe experimental musician, who also gets funding from the British Council, is one of 12 artists sharing £181,944 grant money from the department headed by Liam Fox, who was one of the key campaigners for a Leave vote in the UK's 2016 EU referendum.\n\nSo far the department - which aims to promote international trade and is seeking to agree free trade agreements after Brexit - has handed out £2.4m to support British acts in their bid to \"become the next Adele or Ed Sheeran\".\n\nAs well as Matthew Herbert, the twice Mercury prize-nominated Ghostpoet and Public Service Broadcasting have also been named as the latest recipients of the grants under the Music Export Growth Scheme, although the department would not say how much each has received.\n\nHerbert, who was last year commissioned by BBC Radio 3 to deconstruct Beethoven - see the tweet below for how he did it - is known for his use of sampled sounds. On one previous album he chronicled the life cycle of a pig through the noises it made.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 3 This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIn a recent performance at The Barbican, in London, the percussion for one song was provided by ripping up copies of the Daily Mail, according to the Politico website.\n\nHe told the website: \"I want to create something that's the opposite of Brexit - about collaboration, about creativity, about love rather than hate.\"\n\nHe launched his Brexit Big Band project earlier this year with a website that allows anyone to upload three seconds of Brexit-themed noise to form part of a \"sonic petition\".\n\nHe has also set Article 50, the treaty clause taking Britain out of the EU, to music and plans a series of Brexit-themed concerts and workshops culminating in the release of an album at the same moment Britain leaves the EU in March 2019.\n\nWriting on the Brexit Big Band website, Herbert said: \"The message from parts of the Brexit campaign were that as a nation we are better off alone.\n\n\"I refute that idea entirely and wanted to create a project that embodies the idea of collaboration from start to finish.\"\n\nGhostpoet is among the 12 artists to be awarded grant money\n\nGrants under the Music Export Growth Scheme are decided by a panel of music industry executives.\n\nEach artist receives least £5,000, according to the criteria set out by the BPI, which administers the scheme.\n\nApplications are judged on their individual merits, \"not political views\", the department says, and must \"show traction in the UK and their target market as well as having a robust plan for making a success of the international activity\".\n\nTrade and export minister Baroness Fairhead, a former chair of the BBC Trust, said: \"The UK is a world leader in music exports and recognised for its exceptional home-grown talent around the globe.\n\n\"Through the music exports scheme, we help to nurture the talent of the future to explore new global markets.\"", "Tony Blair pulled out of talks to fund Robert Mugabe's controversial land reforms in 1997\n\nBritain's relationship with Zimbabwe has always been complex.\n\nA former imperial power can feel torn between a responsibility towards its ex-colony and a reluctance to interfere in what is now an independent state. And a freshly minted nation can feel resentment towards its former ruler while also hoping to maintain longstanding trade and cultural links.\n\nThus it has been for London and Harare.\n\nTake, for example, President Mugabe. For years, he has railed against Britain and its political leaders as they opposed his disastrous land reforms, his persecution of white farmers and his calamitous management of Zimbabwe's economy.\n\nBut Mr Mugabe is also an Anglophile who loves cricket, the Royal Family and Savile Row suits.\n\nHe developed a surprising friendship with Lord Soames, the last British governor of what was then Rhodesia, whose son, Nicholas, the Conservative MP, he saw only a few weeks ago.\n\nAnd when Mr Mugabe's cabinet colleagues were celebrating the fall of Margaret Thatcher in 1990, he rebuked them, reportedly saying: \"Who organised our independence? Let me tell you - if it hadn't been for Mrs Thatcher none of you would be here today. I'm sorry she's gone.\"\n\nZimbabwe began life as a colony of the British South African Company in the late 19th Century, run by the British empire-builder, Cecil Rhodes.\n\nIn the 1920s, Southern Rhodesia, as it was then known, was annexed by the United Kingdom but with an element of self-government. The white minority ruled for decades, but were increasingly challenged by nationalist campaigners.\n\nEventually, in 1965, the government led by Ian Smith unilaterally declared independence from Britain. UDI, as it was known, prompted international outrage and sanctions.\n\nYears of guerrilla warfare in the bush led to pressure for a negotiated settlement in Rhodesia, and, in 1979, Britain hosted all-party talks at Lancaster House in London. And from this process emerged a peace agreement, a new constitution and a former guerrilla fighter and leader called Robert Mugabe - the first prime minister of a newly independent Zimbabwe.\n\nRobert Mugabe has said he trusted Margaret Thatcher - in contrast to Tony Blair\n\nEven then, Britain's relations with Mr Mugabe were ambiguous.\n\nPoliticians and diplomats at the time placed a huge amount of faith in him as exactly the kind of strong, pro-western leader that Zimbabwe would need to embed its new-found independence and democracy. But he nevertheless was still able to wind them up.\n\nLord Carrington, Britain's foreign secretary who chaired the Lancaster House talks, described him as \"devious and clever, he was the archetypal cold fish\". On a dull moment in the talks, Lord Carrington rejoiced with glee when he discovered that Mugabe reads backwards as \"E ba gum\".\n\nLord Hurd, another British foreign secretary, told The Africa Report that: \"Mugabe was one of those people the British Empire created who specialised in knowing how to twist the British government's tail. He was well-trained in the art of annoying the British if he needed to. He knew our ways.\"\n\nAt first, Britain was hopeful about Zimbabwe's prospects. And normal relations were maintained.\n\nThe Princess of Wales visited Mr Mugabe in Harare in 1993. The England cricket team, led by Michael Atherton, played Zimbabwe in Harare in 1996.\n\nBut over the decades of Mr Mugabe's rule, as the country slipped into greater autocracy and economic decline, relations deteriorated.\n\nIn 1997, Tony Blair's government pulled out of talks to fund Mr Mugabe's controversial land reforms. The Zimbabwean president accused the British of meddling in his country's affairs by funding his political opponents.\n\nBritain began to withdraw development aid and sanctions were imposed on the president and his inner circle.\n\nCampaigners such as Peter Tatchell would protest regularly against Mr Mugabe's homophobia outside the hotel in St James' where the president stayed on his frequent visits to London.\n\nYet through all this, Mr Mugabe still hoped Britain might help revive his country's ailing economy. As he told a crowd a few years ago when he was celebrating his 90th birthday: \"The British, we don't hate you, we only love our country better.\"", "Some 3.5m passengers and 40,000 drivers use the Uber app in London\n\nUber's appeal to renew its licence in London could take years, the mayor of London has said.\n\nSadiq Khan said the appeal process against a decision by Transport for London (TfL) to strip the taxi app of its operating licence could \"go on for a number of years\".\n\nTfL deemed Uber unfit to run a taxi service and refused to renew its licence in September.\n\nUber previously said it was \"determined to make things right\".\n\nWhen asked about how long the appeals process could last at a monthly question session, Mr Khan said: \"My understanding is that it could go on for a number of years.\"\n\nTfL's concerns include Uber's approach to carrying out background checks on drivers and reporting serious criminal offences.\n\nSome 3.5m passengers and 40,000 drivers use the Uber app in London.\n\nUber's licence expired in October but its drivers can continue to operate in the capital while it pursues an appeal.\n\nA spokesman for the company said: \"Uber continues to have constructive discussions with TfL in order to try to reach a resolution, even though we have filed our appeal.\"", "(L-R): Sajid Ali, Zaheer Iqbal, and Riaz Makhmood were found guilty of a total of 15 counts of indecent assault\n\nThree men have been jailed following the first trial to come out of the National Crime Agency's inquiry into historical sex abuse in Rotherham.\n\nSajid Ali, 38, Zaheer Iqbal, 40, and Riaz Makhmood, 39, were convicted of a total of 15 counts of indecent assault on a teenage girl.\n\nThe men plied the girl with alcohol and encouraged her to perform sex acts.\n\nShe told Sheffield Crown Court their actions had ruined her teenage years.\n\nThis trial is the first to come out of Operation Stovewood, the National Crime Agency's (NCA) investigation into child sexual exploitation and abuse in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013.\n\nSentencing the three men, Judge David Dixon said: \"The offences involved the exploitation and abuse by all three of you together of what at the time was a young and vulnerable girl.\n\n\"She was groomed, coerced and intimidated, she was called abusive names and she was treated like a thing, a thing that you passed around among yourselves.\"\n\nThe girl, who cannot be named, said she was 12 years old at the time the abuse began in the mid 1990s.\n\nShe told the court she had not been popular at school when she started spending time with Ali, Iqbal and Makhmood, who she knew as 'Sos, Booty and Raz', but they had made her feel \"wanted\".\n\nThe trial took place at Sheffield Crown Court\n\nThe girl said she believed Ali was her boyfriend but within weeks of meeting them they began to talk about sex.\n\nShe told the court she had not been forced to do anything but the men, who were teenagers at the time, had made her feel that she should.\n\nReading a victim impact statement, prosecutor Sophie Drake said the abuse had led the girl to suffer from eating disorders, anxiety and depression.\n\nHer statement said: \"I've tried everyday to put these things behind me and while I manage most of the time they still haunt me.\"\n\nAll three men had denied the offences, with Ali claiming not to know the girl at all, saying that it would not have happened in the close knit community in which they lived.\n\nAli, of James Street, Masbrough, Rotherham, was convicted of seven counts of indecent assault and jailed for seven-and-a-half years.\n\nIqbal, of St John's Avenue, Masbrough, was found guilty of five counts of indecent assault and given a seven-and-a-half year prison sentence.\n\nMakhmood, of Falding Street, Masbrough was convicted of three counts of indecent assault and jailed for six years and nine months.\n\nPaul Williamson, from the NCA, said: \"Our mission is to make Rotherham a hostile environment for anyone who has committed child sexual exploitation during the period of our operation.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Heat waves will cause most weather-related deaths if measures are not taken, the study says\n\nExtreme weather could kill up to 152,000 people yearly in Europe by 2100 if nothing is done to curb the effects of climate change, scientists say.\n\nThe number is 50 times more deaths than reported now, the study in The Lancet Planetary Health journal said.\n\nHeat waves would cause 99% of all weather-related deaths, it added, with southern Europe being worst affected.\n\nExperts said the findings were worrying but some warned the projections could be overestimated.\n\nIf nothing is done to cut greenhouse gas emissions and to improve policies to reduce the impact against extreme weather events, the study by the European Commission's Joint Research Centre says:\n\nThe research analysed the effects of the seven most dangerous types of weather-related events - heat waves, cold snaps, wildfires, droughts, river and coastal floods and windstorms - in the 28 EU countries as well as Switzerland, Norway and Iceland.\n\nThe team looked at disaster records from 1981 to 2010 to estimate population vulnerability, and combined this information with predictions of how climate change might progress and how populations might increase and migrate.\n\nThey assumed a rate of greenhouse gas emissions that would lead to average global warming of 3C (5.4F) by the end of the century from levels in 1990, a pessimistic forecast well above targets set by the Paris Agreement on tackling climate change.\n\nLow levels of the Po River near Pavia in northern Italy\n\n\"Climate change is one of the biggest global threats to human health of the 21st century, and its peril to society will be increasingly connected to weather-driven hazards,\" said Giovanni Forzieri, one of the authors of the study.\n\n\"Unless global warming is curbed as a matter of urgency and appropriate measures are taken, about 350 million Europeans could be exposed to harmful climate extremes on an annual basis by the end of the century.\"\n\nFlooding near the Bavarian village of Deggendorf in southern Germany in 2013\n\nFire rages through an area of woodland in Artigues in south-eastern France\n\nOn Friday, the United States issued its first written notification to the UN of its intention to withdraw from the 2015 Paris climate agreement.\n\nUS President Donald Trump drew international condemnation in June when he first announced his decision, saying the deal would cost millions of American jobs.\n\nThe Paris Agreement saw nearly 200 countries agree to keep warming \"well below\" the level of 2C (3.6F) above pre-industrial times and \"endeavour to limit\" them even more, to 1.5C\n\nExperts from South Korea's Seoul National University warned that the study's results \"could be overestimated\".\n\n\"People are known to adapt and become less vulnerable than previously to extreme weather conditions because of advances in medical technology, air conditioning, and thermal insulation in houses,\" they wrote in a comment piece published in the same journal.\n\nPaul Wilkinson, a professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, who was not involved in the study, said the findings were \"yet another reminder of the exposures to extreme weather and possible human impacts that might occur if emissions of greenhouse gases continue unabated.\n\n\"It adds further weight to the powerful argument for accelerating mitigation actions to protect population health.\"", "Last updated on .From the section Winter Sports\n\nA Russian boycott of February's Winter Olympics would \"damage athletes\", says World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) president Sir Craig Reedie.\n\nWada said on Thursday that Russia remains non-compliant with its code, but clean Russians may compete in Pyeongchang under a neutral banner.\n\nIt has been claimed President Vladimir Putin would not allow them to do so.\n\n\"Boycotts, in my view, never really work. All they do is damage athletes,\" Reedie told BBC Sport.\n\n\"The Olympic movement was plagued with boycotts 20, 25 years ago and it has got over that issue. I hope that people come and compete.\"\n\nThe International Olympic Committee (IOC) will make the final decision on Russia's participation in South Korea from 9-25 February at its next board meeting from 5-7 December.\n• None Life on the run for Russian whistleblower\n\nLast year, an independent report commissioned by Wada found evidence of state-sponsored doping in the country.\n\nWada told BBC Sport last week that the \"best solution\" is for Russia to \"work with them\" after receiving new intelligence.\n\nRussia's sports minister said their anti-doping agency (Rusada) have \"fulfilled all of their obligations\" to get the ban - implemented after an initial Wada report in 2015 - lifted.\n\nHowever, Wada says two criteria remain outstanding: granting access to the Moscow laboratory suspected to be the hub of the operation, and a public acceptance that senior sports ministry figures were complicit in an organised cover-up.\n\nReedie said Wada and the Russian authorities \"seem to have very different definitions\" of what is deemed state-sponsored doping.\n\n\"Their definition seems to be that state sponsored means from the very top of state down to the very bottom of state,\" he said. \"In the western world it would be different.\n\n\"If it comes down to a situation where we're one letter apart then I'm sure we could resolve that.\n\n\"There would have to be a will to do it. At the moment there are still feelings that we shouldn't.\"\n\nKuwait, Equatorial Guinea and Mauritius were also found non-compliant by Wada's independent compliance review committee on Thursday.\n\nRussian authorities have never acknowledged any involvement in doping, and President Putin has suggested the allegations were an attempt to sow discontent in the build-up to the presidential elections.\n\nRussian Olympic Committee president Alexander Zhukov, who said in September he expected the country to have a team at the Winter Games, reiterated the state's innocence and said Wada's latest judgement \"cannot be accepted\".\n\n\"We accept the fact our national anti-doping system has failed [but] we absolutely deny a state-sponsored doping system,\" said Zhukov, who added that unconditional recognition of the McLaren report \"is impossible\".\n\nSports minister Pavel Kolobkov said the criteria for reinstatement have a \"political character\".\n\n\"I got the impression that the decision was made in advance,\" he told TASS news agency after Wada's announcement, made on the recommendation of its independent compliance review committee.\n\n\"[The] committee has been inventing reasons not to reinstate Rusada; the accusations are simply a joke.\"\n\nThis is important news as it will heap pressure on the IOC to ban Russia from the 2018 Winter Olympics when it meets in early December.\n\nIOC president Thomas Bach has been weighing up a compromise, such as a hefty fine. But now the pressure to allow only Russians who can prove they are clean to compete as neutral athletes will intensify.\n\nInsiders believe that, with an election in March looming, this may mean President Putin will boycott the Games and order his athletes to stay away rather than compete as neutrals. We are a step closer to the first major boycott of an Olympics since 1984.\n\nRussia was suspended from track and field events by the International Association of Athletics Federations in November 2015 following the publication of the independent Wada report.\n\nFormer sports minister Vitaly Mutko apologised for Russia's failure to catch the cheats, but stopped short of admitting the scandal had been state-sponsored.\n\nHowever, an independent report commissioned by Wada and completed by Canadian law professor Richard McLaren suggested senior figures in Russia's sports ministry were complicit.\n\nThe report implicated the majority of Olympic sports in the cover-up and claimed Russian secret service agents were involved in swapping positive urine samples for clean ones.\n\nAs a result, Wada recommended all Russian athletes be banned from competing in the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.\n\nThe IOC chose not to impose a blanket ban, instead leaving decisions on whether Russians could compete to individual sporting federations. In total, 271 Russians competed in Rio.\n\n\"While it's another sad moment in this entire sordid affair, there was really no other outcome, based on their unwillingness to admit what the flood of evidence proves, said the US Anti-Doping Agency's Travis Tygart. \"Now clean athletes are watching anxiously to see if the IOC similarly will take action to finally stand up for their rights or not.\"\n\nSome figures from the world of winter sport have come out in support of Russia.\n\nBob Storey, former president of the International Bobsleigh and Tobogganing Federation, said: \"These issues are not just in Russia, and not without resolution over time.\n\n\"Now many innocent athletes, who have worked a lifetime to earn Olympic status, are in limbo because of the interminable squabble over past doping transgressions. Those athletes wait while sport politicians and technocrats decide whether or not they can compete at Pyeongchang.\n\n\"I have never met an Olympic competitor who wants to win through technical disqualification of clean competitors. Banning clean athletes from future games or from competing under their country's flag serves no sporting or Olympic purpose.\"", "School children have been playing a new light game system with people with dementia at a care home in Saffron Walden, Essex.\n\nIt is called the Tovertafel Magic Table and projects images on to a table that people can interact with.", "MPs took part in Prime Minister's Questions before embarking on a second day of debate\n\nThe second day of debate in the Commons over the EU Withdrawal Bill has ended with the government winning every vote.\n\nAmendments had been put forward by Labour regarding issues such as employment rights and environmental legislation after Brexit.\n\nHowever, the government managed to win five votes during the course of the day - despite its majority falling as low as 12 at times.\n\nThe dates of six more debating days in the Commons will be confirmed later.\n\nIf passed, the withdrawal bill will bring existing EU law into UK law and allow the government to use so-called Henry VIII powers to change it without full parliamentary scrutiny.\n\nThe powers have been criticised by members on both sides of the House, and one of Labour's amendments called for full debates before changes to any EU laws.\n\nShadow Brexit minister Matthew Pennycook said the powers could be used to \"chip away at rights, entitlements, protections and standards that the public enjoy and wish to retain\".\n\nConservative former Attorney General Dominic Grieve agreed with Mr Pennycook, saying that laws of \"very considerable importance\" to the public would be brought to the \"lowest possible status\" without full scrutiny.\n\nBut Ken Clarke was the only Tory MP to vote for the amendment and it was defeated by 311 votes to 299 - with nine DUP MPs and two former Tories sitting as independents voting with the government.\n\nSix more days of debates are required before completing the committee stage of the bill.\n\nCommons leader Andrea Leadsom is expected to confirm the dates later.\n\nSolicitor general Robert Buckland said: \"The Brexit process will in no way whatsoever be used to undermine or curtail the rights of workers that have been enshrined both in domestic law and in law by virtue of the EU.\"\n\nHe also hinted that concessions may be made at the next stage in the progress of the bill - the report stage - when it returns to Parliament.\n\nDuring Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday, Theresa May said the government was \"listening carefully to those who wish to improve the bill\".", "A 500-year-old painting of Christ believed to have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci has been sold in New York for a record $450m (£341m), after fees.\n\nThe painting is known as Salvator Mundi (Saviour of the World).\n\nIt is the highest auction price for any work of art and brought cheers and applause at the packed Christie's auction room.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. In 2015, Joy Lofthouse returned to the skies, taking control of a Spitfire 70 years after last flying in one\n\nVeteran pilot Joy Lofthouse, who flew Spitfires and bombers for the Air Transport Auxiliary (ATA) during World War Two, has died at the age of 94.\n\nMrs Lofthouse joined the ATA in 1943 after spotting a notice in a magazine calling for women to learn to fly.\n\nShe was one of only 164 female pilots, known as the Attagirls, who flew aircraft from factory to airfield.\n\nThe Royal International Air Tattoo said she was an \"amazing character with even more amazing stories\".\n\nThe ATA was formed in 1940 when, despite some male opposition, women were allowed to fly military trainer and communications aircraft.\n\nMrs Lofthouse, from Cirencester in Gloucestershire, learned to fly before she learned to drive.\n\nJoy Lofthouse was one of the first female pilots to fly a Spitfire during World War Two\n\nIn an interview last year, she said: \"I saw this caption in the Aeroplane magazine that said the ATA had run out of qualified pilots and were training. So I applied and I was in.\"\n\nTrained at Thame in Oxfordshire, she learnt to fly all types of single-seater aircraft but without a driving licence, she said she found \"taxiing much more difficult than flying\".\n\n\"We had nine days of technical training - it wasn't very technical - no navigation, just map reading,\" she said.\n\n\"After about 10 hours [of flying], they sent you off solo. My first solo flight I think you're only afraid if you're going to find the airfield again.\"\n\nLast summer, she was guest of honour in the Royal Box at Wimbledon, where she received an ovation from the centre court crowd\n\nIn 2015, she returned to the skies, taking control of a Spitfire 70 years after last flying in one\n\nThe auxiliary suffered 156 casualties, mostly due to bad weather, but Mrs Lofthouse said when you are young \"you don't think about the danger\".\n\n\"It was just part of the war effort. I felt very lucky that I was allowed to do something so rewarding,\" she said.\n\nIn 2015, she returned to the skies, taking control of a Spitfire 70 years after last flying in one.\n\nLast summer, she was guest of honour in the Royal Box at Wimbledon, where she received an ovation from the centre court crowd.\n\nAnd last November, she and fellow ATA pilot Mary Ellis were honoured in front of members of the Royal Family at the annual Festival of Remembrance at the Royal Albert Hall in London.\n\nIn all, she flew 18 different types of aeroplane across her career but the \"wonderful\" Spitfire remained her favourite.\n\n\"It's the nearest thing to having wings of your own and flying,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The newly appointed Gay Times editor Josh Rivers has been suspended over offensive tweets he posted in the past.\n\nThe tweets, some of which have now been deleted, have been described as racist, transphobic, homophobic and anti-Semitic.\n\nMr Rivers, who has since apologised, also made remarks about obese people and children with disabilities.\n\nThe magazine said the tweets \"do not align with the values of Gay Times, or any of our employees\".\n\nIt added: \"Josh has been suspended with immediate effect while we investigate the facts. Appropriate action will be taken in due course.\"\n\nRivers was appointed editor in October. In a statement he said: \"I have long taken steps to address the issues that prevented me from treating people with the respect and kindness I value so dearly now.\n\n\"It is because of my past and my own awakening that I've since pivoted everything in my life towards supporting and empowering our community.\"\n\nHe expressed sadness that \"the damage I caused before has now resurfaced to cause more pain\".\n\nBenjamin Cohen, Chief Executive of LGBT news organisation PinkNews, told the BBC: \"I am frankly appalled at the litany of offensive Twitter posts that Josh Rivers made over a number of years.\n\n\"It is beyond surprising that the level of inappropriate and hurtful comments were not uncovered by Gay Times during the recruitment process for the appointment of the key role of editor.\n\n\"As someone who for many years wrote a column for Gay Times, I'm saddened that what was a great institution has had its brand so recklessly damaged by someone who was in office for just a few weeks.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "President Mugabe's ties to the military date from the liberation struggle\n\nZimbabwe's military says its actions do not amount to a takeover. It still refers to Robert Mugabe as the commander-in-chief of the country's defence forces. But practically speaking, Mr Mugabe is not in charge if his forces can step in to usurp his authority.\n\nThis is not a coup d'état in name, but it appears to be in action.\n\nThe military takeover of the national broadcaster, the presence of troops on the streets and major access points, and even forced entry into the presidential palace are traits of a military takeover - at least as we have seen them in Africa.\n\nOne thing that is lacking is that the constitution has not been suspended.\n\nThe cementing of democracy across Africa has led to a general regional and continent-wide aversion to violent takeovers of government.\n\nEven in the past, coup-stagers often promised a quick handover to civilian government through elections or a negotiated transition.\n\nThe military says it has not taken control of the country\n\nSo far in Zimbabwe, the military is not showing any intention of assuming a governing role.\n\nHowever, it has someone it would prefer to do that. Emmerson Mnangagwa, the recently sacked vice-president, is held in high regard in Zimbabwean military circles.\n\nHe was involved in the struggle for independence, and in 1980 created the Zimbabwe National Army by fusing the Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) and Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (Zanla) with the remnants of the former Rhodesian security forces.\n\nHe was seen as the natural successor for the top office.\n\nPresident Mugabe sacked Mr Mnangagwa last week at the prompting of the First Lady Grace Mugabe, who has political aspirations and has publicly opposed the former vice president, but does not have support within a military where the liberation legacy is held in high esteem.\n\nThe top military officials were part of the liberation struggle, like their comrade and president Mr Mugabe, so they have supported his government over the years because he has served their interests.\n\nThey did not act this way in 2014, when Mr Mugabe sacked his previous Vice President Joice Mujuru, a former independence fighter, in a similar power struggle.\n\nThis time though, there is a sense the president might have gone too far.\n\nGen Chiwenga said that the military would not allow the purging of leaders with a liberation background from the governing party\n\nEarlier this week, the commander of Zimbabwe's Defence Forces, General Constantino Chiwenga, warned the Zanu-PF governing party to stop the purge against independence war veterans.\n\nFollowing his dismissal and escape to South Africa, Mr Mnangagwa promised to return to regain control of the ruling party from the Mugabes.\n\nThis suggested his confidence in the support he had from the military.\n\nSo the next step would be to negotiate his return ahead of the party congress in December, where he could be affirmed as the president's successor.\n\nAt worst, the military will force Mr Mugabe to resign - but they will not want to humiliate him further because of the history they share.\n\nThey will also extend the courtesy to Grace Mugabe, in spite of her recent actions.\n\nPrior suggestions that the armed forces were divided have not been revealed so far this week.\n\nThe rise of an opposing faction would probably be bloody, and not something Zimbabweans would like to see, regardless of how tough life has been in recent years.\n\nThe end of the Mugabe era would be a relief to many, but Mr Mnangagwa is not necessarily popular in all parts of the country.\n\nUnder his tenure as security minister in the early 1980s, government forces crushed a rebellion in the Midlands and Matebeleland province, and allegedly killed thousands of civilians.\n\nThere is still bitter resentment among people from the affected regions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Which cities might suffer as the ice melts\n\nA forecasting tool reveals which cities will be affected as different portions of the ice sheet melt, say scientists.\n\nIt looks at the Earth's spin and gravitational effects to predict how water will be \"redistributed\" globally.\n\n\"This provides, for each city, a picture of which glaciers, ice sheets, [and] ice caps are of specific importance,\" say the researchers.\n\nThe tool has been developed by scientists at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.\n\nTheir findings are published in the journal Science Advances.\n\nSenior scientist Dr Erik Ivins said: \"As cities and countries attempt to build plans to mitigate flooding, they have to be thinking about 100 years in the future and they want to assess risk in the same way that insurance companies do.\"\n\nAnd this new tool provided a way for them to work out which ice sheets they should be \"most worried about\".\n\nIt suggests that in London sea-level rise could be significantly affected by changes in the north-western part of the Greenland ice sheet.\n\nWhile for New York, the area of concern is the ice sheet's entire northern and eastern portions.\n\nSea level changes in Sydney, the forecast shows, are \"very strongly influenced\" by ice changes that occur along the north-northeast and north-northwest coasts of Antarctica.\n\nDr Eric Larour, the lead developer on this project from Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, explained that three key processes influenced the \"sea-level fingerprint\", or pattern of sea-level change around the world.\n\n\"These [ice sheets] are huge masses that exert an attraction on the ocean,\" said Dr Larour.\n\n\"When the ice shrinks, that attraction diminishes- and the sea will move away from that mass.\"\n\nAs well as this \"push-pull influence\" of ice, the ground under a melting ice sheet expands vertically, having previously been compressed by the sheer weight of ice.\n\nThe forecasting tool provides a fingerprint showing, in red, the area of concern for sea level rise in a particular city. This map of the Antarctic ice sheet was generated for Cape Town.\n\nThe last factor involves the rotation of the planet itself.\n\n\"You can think of the Earth as a spinning top,\" said Dr Larour.\n\n\"As it spins it wobbles and as masses on its surface change, that wobble also changes.\n\n\"That, in turn, redistributes water around the Earth.\"\n\nBy computing each of these factors into their calculations, the researchers were able to build their city-specific forecasting tool.\n\n\"We can compute the exact sensitivity - for a specific town - of a sea level to every ice mass in the world,\" Dr Larour told BBC News.\n\n\"This gives you an idea, for your own city, of which glaciers, ice sheets and ice caps are of specific importance.\"\n\nAnother member of the team, Dr Surendra Adhikari, said: \"People can be desperate to understand how these huge, complicated global processes impact on them.\n\n\"With this tool, they can see the impact on their own city.\"", "Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, the man known as \"the crocodile\" because of his political cunning, achieved a long-held ambition to succeed Robert Mugabe as Zimbabwe's president in November last year.\n\nHe has now won a disputed presidential election to legitimise his rule, promising voters his efforts to woo foreign investors will bring back the economy from the brink of collapse.\n\nMr Mugabe resigned following a military takeover and mass demonstrations - all sparked by his sacking of Mr Mnangagwa as his vice-president.\n\n\"The crocodile\", who lived up to his name and snapped back, may have unseated Zimbabwe's only ruler, but he is also associated with some of the worst atrocities committed under the ruling Zanu-PF party since independence in 1980.\n\nOne veteran of the liberation struggle, who worked with him for many years, once put it simply: \"He's a very cruel man, very cruel.\"\n\nBut his children see him as a principled, if unemotional, man. His daughter, Farai Mlotshwa - a property developer and the eldest of his nine children by two wives - told BBC Radio 4 that he was a \"softie\".\n\nAs if to reinforce this softer image of the new leader, a cuddly crocodile soft toy was passed among the Zanu-PF supporters who welcomed him back to the country after Mr Mugabe's resignation.\n\nEmmerson Mnangagwa is known as \"Ngwena\", the Shona word for crocodile\n\nAnd what he lacks in charisma and oratory prowess, he makes up for in pragmatism, says close friend and Zanu-PF politician Josiah Hungwe.\n\n\"Mnangagwa is a practical person. He is a person who recognises that politics is politics but people must eat,\" he told the BBC, adding that reforming Zimbabwe's disastrous economy will be the focus of his leadership.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emmerson Mnangagwa: Who is the man known as the ‘crocodile’?\n\nThe exact year of Mr Mnangagwa's birth is not known - but he is thought to be 75, which would make him nearly 20 years younger than his predecessor who left power aged 93.\n\nBorn in the central region of Zvishavane, he is a Karanga - the largest clan of Zimbabwe's majority Shona community.\n\nSome Karangas felt it was their turn for power, following 37 years of domination by Mr Mugabe's Zezuru clan, though Mr Mnangagwa was accused of profiting while under Mr Mugabe.\n\nAccording to a United Nations report in 2001, he was seen as \"the architect of the commercial activities of Zanu-PF\".\n\nThis largely related to the operations of the Zimbabwean army and businessmen in the Democratic Republic of Congo.\n\nZimbabwean troops intervened in the DR Congo conflict on the side of the government and, like those of other countries, were accused of using the conflict to loot some of its rich natural resources such as diamonds, gold and other minerals.\n\nMore recently military officials - many behind his rise to power - have been accused of benefiting from the rich Marange diamond fields in eastern Zimbabwe, with reports of killings and human rights abuses there.\n\nDespite his money-raising role, Mr Mnangagwa, a lawyer who grew up in Zambia, was not always well-loved by the rank and file of his own party.\n\nA Zanu-PF official posed an interesting question when asked about Mr Mnangagwa's prospects: \"You think Mugabe is bad, but have you thought that whoever comes after him could be even worse?\"\n\nThe opposition candidate who defeated Mr Mnangagwa in the 2000 parliamentary campaign in Kwekwe Central, Blessing Chebundo, might agree.\n\nDuring a bitter campaign, Mr Chebundo escaped death by a whisker when the Zanu-PF youths who had abducted him and doused him with petrol were unable to light a match.\n\nThose who fought in Zimbabwe's war of independence have long monopolised power\n\nMr Mnangagwa's fearsome reputation was made during the civil war which broke out in the 1980s between Mr Mugabe's Zanu party and the Zapu party of Joshua Nkomo.\n\nAs national security minister, he was in charge of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), which worked hand in glove with the army to suppress Zapu.\n\nThousands of civilians - mainly ethnic Ndebeles, seen as Zapu supporters - were killed in a campaign known as Gukurahundi, before the two parties merged to form Zanu-PF.\n\nAmong countless other atrocities carried out by the North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade of the army, villagers were forced at gunpoint to dance on the freshly dug graves of their relatives and chant pro-Mugabe slogans.\n\nMr Mnangagwa has denied any role in the massacres, but the wounds are still painful and many party officials, not to mention voters, in Matabeleland might find it hard to back Mr Mnangagwa.\n\nHe does enjoy the support of many of the war veterans who led the campaign of violence against the white farmers and the opposition from 2000.\n\nThey remember him as one of the men who, following his military training in China and Egypt, directed the fight for independence in the 1960s and 1970s.\n\nHe also attended the Beijing School of Ideology, run by the Chinese Communist Party.\n\nMr Mnangagwa's official profile says he was the victim of state violence after being arrested by the white-minority government in the former Rhodesia in 1965, when the \"crocodile gang\" he led helped blow up a train near Fort Victoria (now Masvingo).\n\n\"He was tortured, severely resulting in him losing his sense of hearing in one ear,\" the profile says.\n\n\"Part of the torture techniques involved being hanged with his feet on the ceiling and the head down. The severity of the torture made him unconscious for days.\"\n\nAs he said he was under 21 at the time, he was not executed but instead sentenced to 10 years in prison.\n\n\"He has scars from that period. He was young and brave,\" a close friend of Mr Mnangagwa once said, asking not to be named.\n\n\"Perhaps that explains why he is indifferent. Horrible things happened to him when he was young.\"\n\nHis ruthlessness, which it could be argued he learnt from his Rhodesian torturers, is said to have been seen again in 2008 when he reportedly masterminded Zanu-PF's response to Mr Mugabe losing the first round of the president election to long-time rival Morgan Tsvangirai.\n\nThe military and state security organisations unleashed a campaign of violence against opposition supporters, leaving hundreds dead and forcing thousands from their homes.\n\nMr Tsvangirai then pulled out of the second round and Mr Mugabe was re-elected.\n\nMr Mnangagwa has not commented on allegations he was involved in planning the violence, but an insider in the party's security department later confirmed that he was the political link between the army, intelligence and Zanu-PF.\n\nHe was seen as Mr Mugabe's right-hand man - that is until the former first lady Grace Mugabe became politically ambitious and tried to edge him out.\n\nTheir rivalry took a bizarre turn when he fell ill in August 2017 at a political rally led by former President Mugabe and had to be airlifted to South Africa.\n\nGrace Mugabe (right) bit off more than she could chew by taking on Mr Mnangagwa\n\nHis supporters suggested that a rival group within Zanu-PF had poisoned him and appeared to blame ice cream from Mrs Mugabe's dairy firm.\n\nIn his first words to cheering supporters after Mr Mugabe's resignation, he spoke about this plot and another plan to \"eliminate\" him.\n\nHe has also blamed a group linked to the former first lady for an explosion in June at a Zanu-PF rally in Bulawayo in which two people died.\n\nBut in a BBC interview, he said the country was safe, told foreign investors not to worry and sought to dispel his ruthless reputation: \"I am as soft as wool. I am a very soft person in life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mnangagwa: Criminal will be hounded down, but Zimbabwe is safe\n\nHis youngest son, a Harare DJ known as St Emmo, blames his reticence for his fearsome reputation.\n\n\"He was a good father, very very strict. He doesn't say much and I think that's what frightens people - like: 'What is he thinking?'\"\n\nNick Mangwana, Zanu-PF representative in the UK, accepts that the Zimbabwe's new leader is \"not the most eloquent\".\n\n\"He's not pally-pally but more of a do-er, more of a technocrat.\"\n\nBut in his six months in power he has fully embraced Twitter and Facebook - after the Bulawayo blast he posted a message reiterating the strength his Christian faith gives him.\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 Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa 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\nFixing the economy is what is paramount now. Zimbabweans are on average 15% poorer now than they were in the 1980s.\n\nBritish journalist Martin Fletcher, who interviewed Mr Mnangagwa in 2016, does not see him a reborn democrat.\n\n\"He understands the need to rebuild the economy if only so that he can pay his security forces - and his survival depends on their loyalty,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The number of unlicensed vehicles on the road has tripled since the paper tax disc was abolished, government figures show.\n\nThe data, published every two years, shows that the government potentially lost out on £107m from 755,000 unlicensed vehicles last year.\n\nThe RAC said the decision to get rid of the paper tax disc three years ago has proved \"costly\".\n\nThe measure was meant to have saved the Treasury £10m a year, the RAC said.\n\nFigures from the Department for Transport show that 1.8% of vehicles were unlicensed in 2017 compared with 0.6% on 2013.\n\n\"The principle of abolishing the tax disc to introduce greater efficiencies has, so far, evidently failed,\" said RAC public affairs manager Nicholas Lyes.\n\n\"It appears that having a visual reminder was an effective way to prompt drivers into renewing their car tax - arguably more drivers are now prepared to try their luck and see if they can get away with not paying any vehicle tax at all, or are simply forgetting to tax their vehicle when they are due to.\"\n\nWhen the abolition of the paper tax disc was announced by then-Chancellor, George Osborne, the Treasury said it showed government was moving \"into the modern age\".\n\nOfficials said the disc, introduced in 1921, was no longer needed with the DVLA and police relying on an electronic register.\n\nHowever, there is clear evidence that it has led to confusion, mistakes or open flouting of the rules by drivers.\n\nThe RAC said a third of untaxed vehicles had changed hands since September 2016, indicating that many drivers were not aware that tax does not carry over when ownership changes.\n\nThe DVLA also said that it was running a campaign warning the rising number of people still driving cars that had been declared as off the road to tax their vehicles.\n\nThe seller receives a refund of any full months of remaining tax while the new owner must tax the vehicle immediately.\n\nJust over half had been unlicensed for two months or less, suggesting some of these drivers had forgotten about their renewal date, although reminders are sent before the expiry date by the DVLA.\n\nThe highest levels of evasion were in the West Midlands (2.1% of vehicles) and the North West of England (2%).\n\nThe East of England had the lowest rate at 0.8%, with all other areas ranging between 1.6% and 1.8%.\n\nThese results are based on where vehicles were seen in traffic by enforcement officers or cameras, not where they are registered.", "The unnamed police officer was reportedly stationed in Paris\n\nA French policeman shot three people dead on a street near Paris in an apparent domestic dispute, before killing himself, media reports say.\n\nHis girlfriend, as well as her mother and her sister, were wounded in the incident, which occurred late on Saturday in the town of Sarcelles.\n\nThose killed are said to be the girlfriend's father and two passers-by.\n\nThe mayor of Sarcelles, north of Paris, said the woman had recently told the policeman she was breaking up with him.\n\nThe officer first killed two people with his service weapon on the street, Le Monde newspaper says.\n\n\"They were local residents - I knew them well because I lived on this street for 10 years,\" Sarcelles Mayor François Pupponi told AFP new agency, adding that they had no connection with the policeman.\n\nThe 31-year-old then shot his girlfriend in the face as she was sitting in a car, the reports say. He also fired on her mother, father and sister, before turning the gun on himself.\n\nHis body was found in the front garden of a nearby house.", "Gaia Pope was last seen in Swanage on 7 November\n\nThere were no injuries to suggest \"any other person was involved\" in the death of missing teenager Gaia Pope, police have said.\n\nThe 19-year-old's body was found on Saturday in a field near Swanage, 11 days after she was last seen.\n\nDorset Police is treating her death as \"unexplained\" pending toxicology results.\n\nThree people were arrested on suspicion of murder as part of the investigation and released under investigation.\n\nDet Supt Paul Kessell said: \"The post-mortem examination has not identified any injuries to suggest any other person was involved in her death.\n\n\"The cause of death is undetermined, pending toxicology. The coroner is involved in the oversight of these examinations but at this time this remains an investigation into an unexplained death.\"\n\nSome items of clothing that Miss Pope was wearing on the day she went missing were found on Thursday\n\nMiss Pope, who had severe epilepsy, had not been seen since 7 November.\n\nHer disappearance prompted a massive campaign from family and friends who spent days scouring the town.\n\nItems of clothing she was wearing on the day she went missing were found on Thursday, close to where her remains were found near a coastal path.\n\nPolice thanked volunteers for their help in searching for the teenager, but have asked people to stay away from the site due to safety concerns.\n\nDet Supt Kessell added: \"I reiterate this area is steep and slippery in an exposed area close to sea cliffs. The area is covered in dense undergrowth and gorse and can present a hazard.\n\n\"The area where the body was located is likely to remain cordoned off for some time while forensic examinations and searches are concluded.\"\n\nMiss Pope went missing in Swanage on 7 November\n\nFlowers have been left in Miss Pope's memory at a Swanage monument\n\nEarlier, Miss Pope's twin sister, Maya, spoke of her heartbreak and vowed to \"make her [sister] so proud\".\n\nOn Facebook, she added: \"Can't find any words right now. Gaia is my everything and I am heartbroken. I thank everyone who was involved in searching for my beautiful twin.\"\n\nHer elder sister, Clara Pope-Sutherland, said the 19-year-old was the \"light of my life\" and \"intelligent, beautiful and emotionally wise\".\n\nPeople in the town came together at the church to say prayers and light candles on Sunday night\n\nA church service was held at St Mary's Church in Swanage with candles lit in memory of Miss Pope on Sunday night.\n\nTeam rector, the Very Reverend John Mann, said: \"When you see the candles together it brings that sense of unity.\n\n\"There were police and people who had been out searching at the service - that added to the sense this was a community together, we were there together.\"\n\nFloral tributes have begun to be left on the Alfred Monument, next to the sea front.\n\nFamily friend Sheri Carr, who organised the Find Gaia social media campaign thanked the public for its support.\n\n\"We are absolutely devastated, and unable to put into words our feeling of loss,\" she wrote on social media.\n\nThe public has been asked to stay away from the site due to safety concerns\n\nOn the day she went missing, Miss Pope was seen at about 15:00 GMT buying an ice cream at St Michael's Garage, having been driven there by a relative.\n\nShe was then spotted an hour later on CCTV in Manor Gardens, off Morrison Road.\n\nRosemary Dinch, 71; her 49-year-old son Paul Elsey; and 19-year-old grandson Nathan Elsey - all of whom were known to Miss Pope - were questioned by detectives and released under investigation.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Independent online newspaper has streamed a video it described as \"live from space\" on its Facebook page - but the footage was recorded in 2015.\n\nMore than 180,000 people viewed the video during the \"live\" broadcast, with at least 2,000 sharing the post.\n\nThe stream was ended shortly after the BBC contacted the paper and it has since been deleted.\n\nA spokesman for the Independent said it regretted \"the human error that led to the mistake\".\n\nThe original footage was recorded by astronaut Terry Virts during a spacewalk in February 2015.\n\nAn hour-long recording of the spacewalk was posted to YouTube in April that year.\n\nAbove: The Independent, Below: YouTube footage\n\nIt is not the first time this specific recording from space has been shared on social media and wrongly said to be live.\n\nIn 2015, some 26m people watched the exact same footage on the Viral USA Facebook page.\n\nWhile in 2016 the hugely popular Facebook page Unilad shared a similar \"live\" stream. This video appears to show Russian cosmonauts at the International Space Station.\n\nAbove: The Independent, Below: Youtube footage\n\nThe Independent asked viewers of the video to comment on it with where they were watching from.\n\nIt is not clear where the paper sourced it from, or why it chose to stream it on Sunday.\n\nIts spokesman told the BBC: \"The Independent removed a social media post this afternoon after it was brought to our attention that a video stream we believed to be - and which we described as - live was in fact footage from some time ago.\"\n\nNasa has previously advised people to check its official social media accounts to see if a \"live\" broadcast is taking place.", "The books are set in a fantasy world in the sky\n\nEnid Blyton's The Magic Faraway Tree is being brought to life on the big screen for the first time.\n\nStudioCanal, which was behind the Paddington films, is joining forces with Sam Mendes' Neal Street Productions, for a live action adaptation of the book series.\n\nThe tales follow a group of children's adventures at the top of a tree in an enchanted forest.\n\nBlyton wrote the Faraway Tree books between 1939 and 1951.\n\nBlyton (centre) is one of the world's best-selling children's authors\n\nThe characters in the stories included Silky the fairy, Moonface, Dame Washalot and Saucepan Man.\n\nSimon Farnaby, who will write the adaptation and was also behind the Paddington 2 screenplay, said: \"The Magic Faraway Tree books are a firework display of the imagination.\n\n\"The pages are lit up with wonderful characters, humour, peril and adventure. Most homes have a well-worn jam-fingerprinted volume somewhere on their shelves.\n\n\"I'm very much looking forward to bringing the likes of the Old Saucepan Man and Dame Washalot to the big screen for fans both old and new.\"\n\nPaddington 2 was recently released in the UK\n\nDanny Perkins of StudioCanal UK described Blyton's work as \"timeless\", saying he'd \"loved her writing since childhood\".\n\nHe added: \"Not unlike the work of Michael Bond CBE, we very much look forward to bringing enduring family classics to audiences worldwide.\"\n\nBlyton is one of the world's best-selling children's authors and her books have sold more than 500 million copies. She died in 1968.\n\nThe four novels that have been optioned for film adaptation are The Enchanted Wood, The Magic Faraway Tree, The Folk of the Faraway Tree and Up the Faraway Tree.\n\nPrevious films from Neal Street Productions include Oscar-nominated Revolutionary Road, Starter for Ten and Jarhead. It also makes BBC series Call The Midwife.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An open letter calls for chief executive of the South West Ambulance Service to resign\n\nAmbulance staff have called for their boss to quit as they \"struggle to maintain a crumbling service\".\n\nGMB union members from South West Ambulance Service (SWASFT) have written a letter \"apologising\" to the public for \"potentially putting them at risk\".\n\nThey have told chief executive Ken Wenman government cuts have led to \"despair and frustration\" among staff.\n\nMr Wenman said SWASFT was working to \"improve resource levels\" and \"urged\" GMB to \"re-engage and talk to us\".\n\nHe has not commented publicly on the call for him to resign.\n\nThe open letter was addressed as an \"apology to our families, friends and the community\".\n\nTo the public, they said they were \"sorry for not getting to you or your loved ones quick enough because there are just not enough of us\".\n\nThey also apologised to family and friends for times when they missed \"yet another family occasion\".\n\nThey also wrote that they felt \"unsupported\" by their employer SWASFT.\n\nThis dispute is all about changes to rotas as well as concern from members that they are having to work for longer than their usual 12-hour shift.\n\nBut it must be remembered the GMB is not recognised by SWASFT, and part of their mission is to recruit more members to take them above the 25% figure that would help that come about.\n\nHaving said that, the main union Unison is also concerned about work load, especially with the extra demands on their service due to problems with the out of hours service in Somerset, and closure at night of Weston A&E unit.\n\nBut Unison has not gone as far as to call for any heads to roll.\n\nGary Palmer, from the GMB, said: \"We felt this recent letter on behalf of a group of GMB members particularly summoned up the general despair and frustration many staff currently feel from working within a service and role they love.\"\n\nTony Fox, from SWASFT, said: \"We accept that there is always more to be done and we will continue to work closely with our colleagues and listen and respond to their needs.\"\n\nThe South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust covers Cornwall, Isles of Scilly, Devon, Dorset, Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, Bristol, Somerset and South Gloucestershire.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "How much will we have to pay - and why? And will the British public wear it?\n\nThe BBC's Norman Smith tells you all you need to know about the Brexit divorce bill.", "Young people are taking part in a wider range of sexual practices, including anal sex, with opposite sex partners, research reveals.\n\nExperts looked at responses to a national sex survey that has been carried out every 10 years since 1990 in the UK.\n\nMore than one in 10 millennial teenagers said they had tried anal sex by the age of 18.\n\nBy the age of 22 to 24, three in every 10 said they had tried it.\n\nVaginal and oral sex are still the most common types of sexual activity between young men and women, however.\n\nThe age that young people start having sex - vaginal, anal or oral - has not changed much in recent decades.\n\nIn the most recent survey, it was 16.\n\nWhile the study in the Journal of Adolescent Health shows what types of sex people are having, it doesn't shed light on why preferences are changing.\n\nExperts can only speculate, but say society has become more accepting and less judgemental about sexual experimentation.\n\nKaye Wellings, senior author and professor of sexual and reproductive health at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, said: \"The changes in practices we see here are consistent with the widening of other aspects of young people's sexual experience, and are perhaps not surprising given the rapidly changing social context and the ever-increasing number of influences on sexual behaviour.\"\n\nProf Cynthia Graham is a professor in sexual and reproductive health at the University of Southampton.\n\nShe said the internet and media might have played a role in breaking down sexual taboos.\n\n\"The internet means people can easily find and see things that they would not have been able to in the past.\n\n\"Anal sex is still pretty stigmatised, but attitudes appear to be changing. We know society has become more accepting of things like same sex behaviour overall. But there's very little research out there about anal sex and motivation.\"\n\nShe said more studies were needed to inform sex education and equip young people with the information they need for their sexual health.\n• None The National Survey of Sexual Attitudes and Lifestyles The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rescue teams are removing the wreckage from the site\n\nThe bodies of four men killed in a crash between a helicopter and plane have been recovered from the site.\n\nThe aircraft collided over Waddesdon Estate, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, on Friday. One of the victims was Capt Mike Green.\n\nThames Valley Police said it would not confirm the other men's identities but said one was a Vietnamese national.\n\nPost-mortem examinations, due to begin later, are expected to last several days, a spokesman said.\n\nHe added the force was working with \"military support\" to remove the wreckage.\n\nAn investigation by the Air Accidents Investigation Branch into the cause of the crash is ongoing.\n\nCapt Mike Green was described as a 'respected' helicopter instructor\n\nThe bodies of all four men have now been recovered\n\nSupt Rebecca Mears said: \"Our thoughts remain with the families of the men who have tragically lost their lives.\n\n\"Specially-trained officers are continuing to offer their support to the families of the victims affected, three of whom we understand to be British nationals, one of whom is a Vietnamese national.\n\n\"Work will today focus on removing the aircraft from the scene.\"\n\nInvestigations at the site are expected to last several days\n\nCapt Green was conducting a flight instructor course with a student when they both died, his employer Helicopter Services said on Facebook.\n\nThe firm said it was \"devastated\" by his death.\n\nThe helicopter and the Cessna plane both took off from Wycombe Air Park, also known as Booker Airfield, which offers flight training.\n\nIt is about 20 miles (30km) from the site of the crash.\n\nThree of the victims' families visited the site of the wreckage, which is scattered across a wooded area, on Saturday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Gen Constantino Chiwenga, 61, is being hailed as a political saviour after he led the military takeover in Zimbabwe, however he is under sanctions from the European Union and the US - for his role in a brutal crackdown on the opposition, and over the seizure of white-owned farms.\n\nZimbabweans took to the streets on Saturday to demand President Robert Mugabe's resignation, holding aloft placards which declared: \"Zimbabwe army - the voice of the people.\"\n\nPastor Patrick Mugadza, hounded by the police in January this year for predicting that the 93-year-old leader would die in nine months' time, went as far as to announce that he intended to name his son after the general.\n\n\"My wife is very, very pregnant. When the boy comes, I will be naming him after you, General Chiwenga,\" Zimbabwe's privately owned NewsDay newspaper quoted him as saying in an audio message.\n\nGen Chiwenga says he stepped in to end the economic suffering of Zimbabweans\n\nYet, Gen Chiwenga played a central role in keeping Mr Mugabe in power after he lost elections to his main rival, Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), in 2008, amid reports that Mr Mugabe was going to accept defeat.\n\n\"He told Mugabe: 'We can't lose elections. We can't hand power to the MDC. We are going to obliterate them,\" UK-based Africa confidential magazine editor Patrick Smith told the BBC, adding that he carried out the operation with Emmerson Mnangagwa, the man Gen Chiwenga is trying to install as Mr Mugabe's successor as president.\n\n\"They are joined at the hip, with Mnangagwa the senior partner,\" Mr Smith said.\n\nAfter a long delay, the official results were announced, saying that Mr Tsvangirai had not gained the 50% required for victory and so a second round was needed. Before the run-off, pro-Zanu-PF militias backed by the security forces attacked opposition supporters around the country, beating, raping and killing.\n\nMr Tsvangirai pulled out of the second round and Mr Mugabe remained in power.\n\nThis opposition supporter was one of thousands who said their homes were attacked by pro-Zanu-PF militias\n\nGen Chiwenga joined the guerrilla war against white minority rule in the then Rhodesia as a teenager and got military training in Mozambique and Tanzania.\n\nAfter independence, he received British training, as a new army, made up of ex-guerrillas and soldiers of the former white minority regime, was formed.\n\nPower in Zimbabwe is monopolised by those who fought the 1970s war of independence\n\nRecalling his ex-student in an interview with the UK-based Sunday Times newspaper, retired Lt-Col Zach Freeth, 76, said Gen Chiwenga was once caught cheating, and while he was deciding what to do with him the next morning, he received news that that the ex-guerrilla fighter, then in his 20s, had shot himself in the chest twice but had miraculously survived.\n\nLt-Col Freeth said the incident was forgotten, but when Gen Chiwenga was appointed defence chief in 2003 he invited him to his home.\n\n\"He gave me his card and said: 'If you ever need anything...' We both knew what he was referring to.\"\n\nLt-Col Freeth was quoted as saying: \"I knew him very well. I probably did too good a job.\"\n\nMany Zimbabweans are hoping that the army's intervention will lead to the downfall of Mr Mugabe\n\nA Zimbabwean lawyer, who has met Gen Chiwenga on several occasions, offered a different perspective of the army chief.\n\n\"He is fearless, and as tough as nails,\" the lawyer, who asked not to be identified, told the BBC.\n\n\"In terms of his political outlook, he is a Pan-Africanist at heart. He abhors the notion that Western values are superior. He believes in equal recognition, and that comes from the heart,\" the lawyer added.\n\nNow married to Mary Chiwenga - a former model and ex-wife of footballer Shingi Kazwondera - Gen Chiwenga was involved in a messy divorce about five years ago when he ended his marriage to his then-wife, Jocelyn.\n\nAt the time, the privately owned NewZimbabwe.com news site reported that it had seen court papers in which Gen Chiwenga alleged that his wife used to beat him up, and even thrashed his office at military headquarters.\n\nShe hit back, alleging that she was, in fact, the victim, and their marriage ran into trouble because he was having an affair with his current wife.\n\nPresident Mugabe's plan to anoint his wife, Grace, as his successor caused the crisis\n\nGen Chiwenga's messy divorce enhanced, rather than damaged, his reputation among his troops.\n\nAs one soldier told the BBC: \"The general is a very patient man. Look at how his relationship with Jocelyn was, but he waited for the right time to call it off.\"\n\nHis second wife obtained a degree from a university where Mr Mugabe is the chancellor just two days after the general took power.\n\nMr Mugabe conferred degrees on more than 3,000 students, in his first public appearance since being put under house arrest. However, Mrs Chiwenga failed to attend.\n\nPresident Robert Mugabe was to have conferred a degree on the general's wife\n\nThe veteran leader's appearance in public was intended to show that the general was treating him kindly.\n\nSaid the soldier: \"Gen Chiwenga is a man of the people, a hard-working person who stands for the truth. He is an achiever.... No matter what is happening, the president will never win.\"\n\nThe army chief put Mr Mugabe under house arrest after the president had sacked the general's close ally Vice-President Mnangagwa, in a move seen as an attempt to install the Mr Mugabe's wife, Grace, as his successor.\n\nDays earlier, Gen Chiwenga had warned that \"the current purging, which is clearly targeting members of the party with a liberation background, must stop forthwith\".\n\nGen Chiwenga then went to China, and Mr Mugabe's allies in the security forces planned to arrest him on his return, Mr Smith said.\n\nBut the general got wind of the plot, and a strong contingent of loyalist troops arrived at the airport, to prevent his detention.\n\nShortly afterwards, the army chief took power, but insisted that he was not staging a coup.\n\nThe army said it had intervened to arrest the \"criminals\" around Mr Mugabe, a reference to the political faction headed by Mrs Mugabe, and to end the economic suffering of Zimbabweans.\n\nHis intervention caught Zimbabweans by surprise but, as the lawyer who has observed his career closely, said: \"Once you cross a certain path, he does not hesitate to act. However, he respects Mugabe and will want him to go out in the most dignified way possible.\n\n\"He is genuinely worried about the economic crisis and sees it as a threat to national security. So, he wants the politicians to start dealing with it, and he did not think the G40 faction [headed by Mrs Mugabe] would,\" said the lawyer.\n\nGen Chiwenga flanked Mr Mugabe when he addressed the nation on Sunday night, vowing to remain in office despite the intense pressure on him to leave office.\n\nThe army chief helped the president with his papers, as he struggled to read his long speech, and his officers saluted Mr Mugabe, still their commander-in-chief.\n\n\"It was theatre intended to show that the military are not bully boys picking on a nonagenarian. They want this to be sorted out as amicably as possible,\" Africa Confidential's Mr Smith said.\n\nRead more about the Zimbabwe crisis:", "Mark Milsome was working on The Forgiving Earth when the incident occurred\n\nA British camera operator has died while shooting a stunt sequence for a BBC drama in Ghana.\n\nMark Milsome, whose credits include Saving Private Ryan and Sherlock, was working on upcoming drama The Forgiving Earth when the incident occurred.\n\nThe BBC said it was \"deeply shocked and saddened\" by the news, calling Milsome \"a much respected colleague\".\n\nHis agent said he would be \"greatly missed\" and that an investigation into Saturday's incident was under way.\n\n\"We all need answers to this dreadful tragedy,\" said Sarah Prince of PrinceStone.\n\nIt has been reported that Milsome, who was from Builth Wells, was taking part in a night shoot for a car stunt scene.\n\nMilsome's many credits include Game of Thrones, The Theory of Everything and Bond film Quantum of Solace.\n\nHis agent said he was \"an incredibly talented cameraman... a gentle gentleman [and a] genuinely loved member of the film industry family\".\n\nCinematographer Seamus McGarvey was among those to remember Milsome on Twitter, calling him \"one of the loveliest people [he had] ever met\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Seamus McGarvey This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDirector Mark Herman, who worked with Milsome on such films as Brassed Off and Little Voice, also paid tribute, saying he was \"one of the nicest guys in the business\".\n\nMilsome started out in the 1990s as a clapper loader, working his way up the camera department to focus puller, camera operator and director of photography.\n\nThe 54-year-old leaves a wife and daughter, to whom his agent said he was devoted.\n\nFormerly known as Black Earth Rising, The Forgiving Earth is a BBC co-production with subscription service Netflix about the prosecution of international war crimes.\n\nWritten by Hugo Blick, who wrote and directed thriller The Honourable Woman, it is provisionally set for transmission in 2018.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Teeth grew from the scales of primitive shark-like fish millions of years ago, research by scientists suggests.\n\nOld lineage cartilaginous fish like sharks, skates and rays that have skin which contained small spiky scales or \"dermal denticles\" may be the key, scientists say.\n\nCambridge University said their tooth-like appearance is no accident.\n\nResearchers suggest it may be a direct link between us and marine ancestors from up to 400 million years ago.\n\nDuring early evolution of jawed vertebrates, dermal denticles were transferred from the skins of primitive fish to their mouth.\n\nIn the millennia that followed, the tiny appendages went on to produce the flesh-tearing six-inch long teeth of dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex and the fangs of the sabre-toothed cat, the team said.\n\nLead scientist Dr Andrew Gillis, from the Department of Zoology, said: \"Stroke a shark and you'll find it feels rougher than other fish, as shark skin is covered entirely in dermal denticles.\n\n\"By labelling the different types of cells in the embryos of skate, we were able to trace their fates.\n\n\"We show that... the denticle scales of sharks and skate develop from neural crest cells, just like teeth.\"\n\nNeural crest cells are central to the process of tooth development in mammals said Dr Gillis, adding their finding suggest a deep evolutionary relationship between the primitive fish scales and the teeth of vertebrates.\n\nThe fact teeth and sharks' denticle scales both arise from the same kind of embryonic cell suggests a common evolutionary origin, the team reported in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.\n\nThe skins of sharks are all that remains of amour plating that clad their jawless forbears some 400 million years ago to protect against predators such as sea scorpions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Robert Mugabe: \"The congress is due... I will preside over its processes\"\n\nZimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has defied calls from the public, the army and his own party to resign, vowing to stay in power for several weeks.\n\nHis televised address on Sunday triggered an avalanche of comments across social media.\n\nResponding to another user's comments, constitutional lawyer and human rights activist Tendai Biti argued that Mr Mugabe, who has ruled Zimbabwe since 1980, would never quit.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by TENDAI BITI This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTau Moyo was one of many users who expressed shock and anger over Mr Mugabe's decision to stay 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 2 by Tau Moyo This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTalent Machingura put it bluntly, saying that people's hopes were \"crushed\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Talent machingura This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAncillar Mangena thought it was Mr Mugabe's message to the world that \"he is in charge\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Ancillar Mangena This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 many users were left simply confused about what may happen next.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Raphael Goredema This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOthers are already looking forward to Tuesday, when impeachment proceedings might be launched in parliament.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by Tendayi Manyange This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnd there were those who just poked fun at the latest developments.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 7 by Dimitra Alex This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Most of the victims were women and elderly people\n\nAt least 15 people have been killed and five others wounded in a stampede in Morocco while food aid was distributed.\n\nThe incident occurred in the town of Sidi Boulaalam in Essaouira province. The aid was being handed out by a private local charity.\n\nSome reports indicate that up to 40 people were injured in the crush. Local media reported that most of the victims were women and elderly people.\n\nPictures on social media showed bodies of women laid out on the ground.\n\nWitnesses told local media that this year's annual food aid distribution at a local market in Sidi Boulaalam, an impoverished town with just over 8,000 inhabitants, attracted a larger crowd than usual.\n\n\"This year there were lots of people, several hundred people,\" a witness who asked to remain anonymous told AFP news agency.\n\n\"People shoved, they broke down the barriers,\" he said, adding that the injured had been evacuated to a hospital in Marrakesh.\n\nMorocco's interior ministry said that King Muhammed VI had instructed the local authorities to help those affected, adding that he would personally cover all medical and funeral costs.\n\nAn unverified video shot by a bystander before the incident showed a large crowd gathered at the open-air market, waiting for the food distribution.\n\nIt is not clear what triggered the stampede, and an investigation is now under way.", "Daniel Hegarty was flung into barriers during lap six and suffered fatal injuries\n\nA friend of a motorcyclist killed in a crash at the Macau Grand Prix said he had a strong feeling something \"disastrous\" was going to happen.\n\nDaniel Hegarty, 31, from Nottingham, suffered fatal injuries when he came off his bike on a sharp bend.\n\nRoger Edwards, who helped the father-of-two with his motorbike charity, said he had troubling sleeping before the race in China and feared for the rider.\n\nMr Edwards said the sportsman was \"magical\" and a great friend.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Hegarty, who raced for Top Gun Racing Honda, was flung into barriers during lap six and suffered fatal injuries. He died on the way to hospital.\n\n\"Motorcycling is a dangerous sport,\" said Mr Edwards. \"The risk is always there and premonition can foretell an awful lot and I didn't sleep last night or the night before.\n\n\"The premonition proved, sadly, correct. I knew something disastrous was going to happen and my thoughts were with Daniel being overseas.\n\n\"The following morning I was woken by a phone call from Daniel's mother with the bad news. I feel exceedingly sad, I couldn't be sadder [that those fears came true].\"\n\nMr Hegarty ran Rev and Go, a charity which aimed to tackle anti-social behaviour by getting youngsters involved in motorcycling sport.\n\nMr Edwards said he was a \"great role model\" to the teenagers who came to the charity.\n\n\"[He was] a magical fella who influenced an awful lot of people for the good,\" he said.\n\nMany tributes were paid to Mr Hegarty including from his girlfriend Lucy Draycott, who described him as the \"love of my life\".", "The US base in Okinawa houses tens of thousands of troops\n\nThe US military has banned all soldiers stationed in Japan from drinking alcohol after one of its servicemen was involved in a deadly crash on Okinawa island linked to drink driving.\n\nUS troops on Okinawa have also been told to stay on base or at home.\n\nThe Marine crashed his truck into a minivan on Sunday, killing the local driver of the other vehicle.\n\nOkinawa hosts more than half of the US troops in Japan - locals have long resented the military presence.\n\nIn a statement, the US military confirmed that one its service members had been involved in the accident and said that \"alcohol may have been a factor\".\n\nThe military also announced \"mandatory training to address responsible alcohol use, risk management and acceptable behaviour\" for all its troops across Japan.\n\nJapanese police said the Marine was three times over the legal blood alcohol limit, Reuters reports.\n\nHe is under arrest charged with negligent driving resulting in death, police say.\n\nIn 2016, tens of thousands of people joined protests against the US troops\n\nThe US presence on Okinawa in southern Japan is a key part of the security alliance between the two countries. The base houses about 26,000 US troops.\n\nThere are plans to relocate part of it to a less-populated area of the island, but many Okinawans want the air base removed altogether.\n\nThey object to the alleged crimes and accidents attributed to the troops. Resentment at the US presence has been growing among many locals, particularly since the 1995 gang-rape of a 12-year-old girl by US troops.\n\nIn 2016, the murder of a woman was linked to an ex-Marine employed at one of the bases, also leading to a temporary ban on alcohol as well as a midnight curfew.", "Charles Manson has died, aged 83. But what is it about the murderous cult leader, who committed his crimes almost 50 years ago, that continues to fascinate?\n\nThe brown eyes. The beard. The swastika tattooed between his eyes. It was impossible not to look at Charles Manson, however much you wanted to turn away.\n\nDuring his years in prison, photographs of Manson were issued only periodically, so he seemed to age in chunks, unable to appear before the public but always remaining at the back of its consciousness.\n\nMore than 30 books about his life and crimes have been published. One, by the prosecuting attorney at his trial, Vincent Bugliosi, has sold more than seven million copies.\n\nNetflix has made a comedy film - Manson Family Vacation - showing how his macabre crimes affect a modern middle-class American family, and two documentaries on his life and crimes have come out this year alone.\n\nIn life, everything Manson did was news, the most recent example being the media frenzy in 2014 when it was announced he had been granted a licence to marry 26-year-old Afton Elaine Burton.\n\nActress Sharon Tate, the most high-profile victim of the \"Manson Family\"\n\nFrom behind bars, Manson courted publicity, setting himself up as a counter-cultural icon. He once told the American public: \"My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you.\"\n\nIt's 48 years since Manson sent a group of his indoctrinated followers - known as the Family - to the home of heavily pregnant Hollywood actress Sharon Tate to \"totally destroy everyone in it\". They stabbed Tate and four others to death.\n\nFalse clues were left to dress the scene as an attack by the Black Panthers, a militant African-American group which used violence in its battle against white racism.\n\nManson's hope was that these murders, and the killing of two shop owners the next night, would start an apocalyptic race war, after which he would emerge as America's ruler.\n\nManson was found guilty of conspiracy to murder in 1971 and given a life sentence.\n\nYet something in his life story resonated. Born in Ohio, he had an impoverished and troubled childhood, moving between reform schools. When he was five his mother and uncle went to prison for holding up a service station. By the age of 13, Manson was robbing casinos and shops at gunpoint.\n\nHe had \"a tendency towards moodiness and a persecution complex\", according to a psychologist who described him as \"aggressively anti-social\", partly due to \"an unfavourable family life, if it can be called family life at all\".\n\nWhen he couldn't afford bills or support his pregnant wife, he became a thief. After six years in prison, he was released in 1967, the year of the so-called \"summer of love\".\n\nManson developed a fixation with the Beatles song Helter Skelter. Ostensibly about the difficulties of a love life told through a metaphor of a fairground ride, he instead thought it predicted a race war after which he and his followers, taking refuge in an underground city in California's Death Valley, would be the only white survivors.\n\nBlack people, he thought, would be unable to organise themselves and then beg him to be their leader.\n\nManson set up a commune at the Spahn ranch in the Californian desert, surrounded by disused sets from 1950s Westerns.\n\nHe recruited followers, mainly middle-class and female, with whom he took LSD and participated in orgies.\n\n\"He managed to exploit the hippy subculture brilliantly,\" Daniel Kane, professor of American literature and culture at Sussex University, says. \"Hippies, after all, proposed themselves as disaffiliated from the political and social mainstream, committed to creating their own independent utopias marked by sex, drugs and rock and roll.\n\n\"Manson took on all those signs - LSD, music, free love, communal lifestyles - and reframed them as tools for apocalyptic mass murder. Totally bizarre, totally evil, and very, very seductive.\"\n\nWith his long brown hair and beard, Manson's followers likened his appearance to that of Jesus.\n\nThe appearance of Charles Manson, shown here in 1969, was likened by his followers to that of Jesus\n\n\"There are thousands of evil, polished conmen out there, and we've had more brutal murders than the Manson murders,\" Mr Bugliosi, the prosecuting attorney at Manson's trial, told Rolling Stone magazine in 2012, \"so why are we still talking about Charles Manson?\n\n\"He had a quality about him that one thousandth of 1% of people have. An aura. 'Vibes,' the kids called it in the '60s. Wherever he went, kids gravitated toward him.\"\n\nPsychopaths are \"incredibly charming and persuasive\", David Wilson, professor of criminology at Birmingham City University, told the BBC in 2014, when Manson's intention to marry was announced. \"To get you under control, to court you, they appear to give their complete and utter attention.\"\n\nThe Manson case involved drugs, orgies and cults, three concerns shared by parents of children growing up in the \"free love\" atmosphere of the late 1960s. It also came at a time divisions in the US over civil rights, race and the Vietnam War.\n\n\"He is iconic because he was the person who brought the swinging sixties to an end,\" Prof Wilson says. \"His strange and bizarre thinking appeared perfectly in tune with the damaged side of drug culture. It wasn't flower power any more. Youth culture was far darker and more disturbing than people had previously thought.\"\n\nIn death, Manson is leading TV and radio bulletins and news websites.\n\n\"There's another feeding frenzy around him since he passed on,\" says Prof Kane. \"The aura around Charles Manson is continuing and it shows no sign of dying off.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nChildren who were sexually abused by Jehovah's Witnesses were allegedly told by the organisation not to report it.\n\nVictims from across the UK told the BBC they were routinely abused and that the religion's own rules protected perpetrators.\n\nOne child abuse lawyer believes there could be thousands of victims across the country who have not come forward.\n\nThe organisation said it did not \"shield\" abusers and any suggestion of a cover-up was \"absolutely false\".\n\nBBC Hereford and Worcester spoke to victims - men and women - from Birmingham, Cheltenham, Leicester, Worcestershire and Glasgow, one of whom waived her right to anonymity.\n\nLouise Palmer, who now lives in Evesham, Worcestershire, was born into the organisation along with her brother Richard Davenport, who started raping her when she was four. He is serving a 10-year prison sentence for the abuse.\n\nThe 41-year-old, formerly of Halesowen, West Midlands, said she was told not to go to police.\n\nFormer Jehovah's Witnesses have been speaking to the BBC about abuse\n\n\"I asked [the organisation], 'what should I do? Do you report it to the police, [or] do I report it to the police'?\n\n\"And their words were that they strongly advised me not to go to the police because it would bring reproach on Jehovah.\"\n\nAnother woman, from Worcestershire, said she was sexually abused as a child by a friend of her brother.\n\nShe said she told her parents and elders in the congregation what happened and they advised her not to report it.\n\n\"It started off just being very cuddly and I was always a very tactile little girl, but it gradually got worse and worse.\n\n\"It escalated until... he started raping me.\"\n\nJehovah's Witnesses are members of a movement best known for their door-to-door evangelistic work.\n\nChild abuse lawyer Kathleen Hallisey said there were concerns that the organisation's procedures compromised child safety.\n\n\"[For example] in order for [victims] to take allegations of sexual abuse further, they have to have two witnesses to the abuse,\" she said.\n\nI've spoken to multiple victims who have told me of the abuse they have suffered while in the Jehovah's Witnesses organisation.\n\nWhat most of them keep coming back to is something known as the \"two witness rule\".\n\nIt is a procedure set by the main governing body of the religion and means for any sin committed, there must be two witnesses to it in order for the elders of the congregation to take any action.\n\nThe problem with this is it can be rare to have witnesses in cases of abuse.\n\nThe victims I've spoken to said the organisation self-polices and teaches members to avoid interaction with outside authorities or to take another member of the religion to court.\n\nTo do so, they say, could lead to expulsion from the religion.\n\nIn a statement the organisation said \"any suggestion that Jehovah's Witnesses covered up child abuse was absolutely false\".\n\nIt said victims and their parents had \"the absolute right to report the matter to the governmental authorities\" and reporting so was \"not contingent on the number of witnesses to the offence\".\n\nIt described child abuse as a \"heinous crime and sin\" and said the congregation did not \"shield abusers from the authorities of the consequences of their actions\".\n\nThe statement added \"loving and protective parents\" were the \"best deterrent to child abuse\" and elders provided \"abuse victims and their families with spiritual comfort from the Bible\".\n\nIn 2013 the Charity Commission started an inquiry into safeguarding issues in the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Britain - the UK's main Jehovah's Witnesses organisation which the commission regulates.\n\nFor information and support for anyone affected by sexual abuse, including sources of support for children, young people and concerned parents, visit listings on BBC Action Line.\n• None The ex-Jehovah's Witnesses shunned by their families", "Ant (left) and Dec returned to screens on Sunday night\n\nThe latest series of I'm A Celebrity has kicked off - with presenter Dec Donnelly joking Ant McPartlin had been replaced following his stint in rehab.\n\nThe presenting duo were reunited on screen for the first time since McPartlin's treatment for drug addiction over the summer.\n\nDonnelly joked that he would have a new co-host on the show, saying: \"It's me and the gorgeous Holly Willoughby!\"\n\nMcPartlin replied: \"I'm back, my friend... it's good to be back.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This video has been removed for rights reasons\n\nMcPartlin entered rehab in June, having become addicted to alcohol and prescription painkillers following a knee operation in 2015.\n\nLater in the programme, Donnelly presented a model of the camp and said he'd made it himself - but with no help from McPartlin.\n\nHe asked his friend: \"Where were you all summer anyway, what were you doing?\"\n\n\"Just stuff... just dead busy,\" McPartlin replied with a smile, before swiftly trying to change the subject.\n\nThe celebs looking fresh-faced before entering the jungle\n\nThis year's contestants on I'm A Celebrity include boxer Amir Khan, ex-footballer Dennis Wise, Made in Chelsea's Georgia Toffolo and Stanley Johnson - father of Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.\n\nThey are joined by Coronation Street actress Jennie McAlpine and Hollyoaks actor Jamie Lomas, along with comedian Shappi Khorsandi, footballer Jamie Vardy's wife Rebekah, Saturdays singer Vanessa White and YouTube personality Jack Maynard.\n\nThis year's show opener attracted 10.3 million viewers as it was aired, beating its nearest rival in the same time slot, BBC One's Howards End, which was watched by 9.9 million.\n\nIt wasn't the highest viewed programme on Sunday evening overall though, with both Strictly Come Dancing's results show and Blue Planet II seen by 10.8 million each on BBC One.\n\nMaynard, 22, found himself in hot water over the weekend for some old Tweets he had posted in 2012.\n\nHe was accused of using homophobic and racist terms, as well as the term \"retards\".\n\nA spokesman for Maynard said: \"Jack is ashamed of what he said in these tweets, many of which were deleted a long time ago and were sent in response to a neighbour who was bullying him.\n\n\"Jack was a lot younger when he posted them in 2012 but realises that age is no defence. He would never use that language now and realises that, as someone who was bullied himself, this kind of retaliatory, inflammatory, insulting language is completely unacceptable.\"\n\nAn ITV spokesperson added: \"Jack has deleted these tweets and has since issued a full apology.\"\n\nJohnson had to rummage in creature-filled holes to gain rewards\n\nSunday night's show saw some of the contestants tackling a walk the plank challenge on the roof of a hotel in Australia, 334 feet up in the air.\n\nOther tasks included one which saw Johnson, 77, and Vardy putting their hands into holes cut into the side of a wrecked wooden boat that were filled with rats, spiders and crabs.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n• None I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here! 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. German chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday said it was a day of \"deep reflection\" for Germany\n\nGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel has said she would prefer new elections to leading a minority government, after a breakdown in coalition talks plunged the country into political crisis.\n\nShe also said she did not see any reason to resign from her post despite the failed negotiations.\n\nOn Sunday evening, the FDP liberals pulled out of talks with Mrs Merkel's CDU/CSU bloc and the Greens.\n\nGermany's president called on parties to \"reconsider their attitudes\".\n\nFrank-Walter Steinmeier urged them to make compromises for Germany's \"well-being\", amid a situation he said was unprecedented.\n\nMrs Merkel faces her biggest challenge in 12 years as chancellor.\n\n\"The path to the formation of a government is proving harder than any of us had wished for,\" she told broadcaster ARD.\n\nBut she said she was \"very sceptical\" about a minority government, adding that \"new elections would be the better path\".\n\nIn a separate interview with the ZDF broadcaster, she argued Germany needed stability and a government \"that does not need to seek a majority for every decision\".\n\nThe elections were held in late September.\n\nSome in Mrs Merkel's party still hope for another grand coalition with the Social Democrats (SPD), despite that party repeatedly ruling such an option out.\n\nEarlier on Monday, SPD leader Martin Schulz said his party was \"not afraid of new elections\".\n\nWhen asked about the prospect of another alliance with the SPD, Mrs Merkel told ZDF she would wait to see what came of upcoming talks between President Steinmeier and SPD leaders.\n\nHowever, she said a demand for her to resign would not make a positive start for a new coalition.\n\nIf fresh elections are to happen, they would need to be called by Mr Steinmeier, after a long drawn-out process that would take months.\n\nBut he appears to view new polls as a last resort. In a brief address earlier on Monday he told politicians they had a responsibility that could not just be handed back to voters.\n\n\"Inside our country, but also outside, in particular in our European neighbourhood, there would be concern and a lack of understanding if politicians in the biggest and economically strongest country [in Europe] did not live up to their responsibilities,\" he said in a statement.\n\nMrs Merkel's bloc won September's poll, but many voters deserted the mainstream parties.\n\nNegotiations between the pro-market FDP, the Greens and the conservative CDU/CSU bloc had gone on for four weeks before the FDP's surprise withdrawal late on Sunday.\n\nMrs Merkel blamed the FDP for the collapse, saying that the parties were on the \"home straight\" when the liberals pulled out.\n\nBut FDP leader Christian Lindner has defended his party, saying it \"did not take such a decision lightly\".\n\nDespite Mrs Merkel's words about a fresh poll, analysts say the new elections would be likely to benefit the anti-Islam, anti-immigrant AfD most, so other parties would probably try to avoid them.\n\nThe far-right AfD won 12.6% of the vote in the September elections, entering parliament for the first time with more than 90 seats.", "A woman was filmed repeatedly hitting a man with a riding crop during a hunt in Sussex.\n\nIt happened after the man, who appears to be a hunt saboteur, took hold of the horse's reins.", "Gaia Pope's body was found 11 days after she went missing\n\nThree people who were held over the death of teenager Gaia Pope will face no further action, police have said.\n\nPaul Elsey, 49, his mother Rosemary Dinch, 71, and her 19-year-old grandson, Nathan Elsey, were all arrested on suspicion of murder.\n\nThey were questioned by detectives over the disappearance of 19-year-old Miss Pope, who went missing from Swanage, Dorset, on 7 November.\n\nHer body was found on Saturday in a field near the town.\n\nA post-mortem examination was conducted on Sunday but did not identify any injuries to suggest the involvement of other people, Dorset Police said.\n\nThe force is treating the death as \"unexplained\" pending toxicology results.\n\nDet Supt Paul Kessell, of Dorset Police said: \"We have today released from our investigation two men, aged 19 and 49, and a 71-year-old woman, all from Swanage, who had been arrested and were assisting with our enquiries.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I appreciate our enquiries would have caused these individuals stress and anxiety, however we have an obligation in any missing person investigation to explore every possible line of enquiry.\n\n\"The public would expect Dorset Police to fully investigate the sudden disappearance of a teenage girl. Our aim was not only to find Gaia but to find out what happened to her.\n\n\"Gaia's family has been informed of this latest development and our thoughts remain with all her family and friends at this incredibly difficult time.\"\n\nTributes have been left to Gaia on Swanage seafront\n\nIn a statement, Miss Pope's mother Natasha described her daughter as \"a light that will radiate for all eternity\".\n\n\"A wise, magnificent soul that burns far too bright for this world. Her spirit overflows with love and compassion for others. Gaia our free spirit, our wild pony.\n\n\"Meet me at the gate my darling. And so we are here longing for you for the rest of our lives. Together forever, united as one,\" she said.\n\nHer father, Richard Sutherland, expressed his gratitude to the emergency services and members of the public who joined in the search for his daughter.\n\n\"That support gave us hope and I can't express that enough,\" Mr Sutherland said.\n\nHer cousin Marienna Pope-Weidemann said Miss Pope had been \"very, very vulnerable, but such an inspiration\".\n\n\"We are determined to make sure Gaia was done right by, and all the lessons are learnt and no-one goes through what we've been through.\"\n\nGaia Pope's father Richard Sutherland thanked members of the public before a community search on Saturday\n\nFollowing her disappearance, searches by police, the coastguard and police helicopter - along with hundreds of volunteers - were carried out in the Swanage area.\n\nOn Thursday, police discovered clothing belonging to Miss Pope on open land outside the town.\n\nA church service was held at St Mary's Church in Swanage on Sunday evening in memory of the teenager.\n\nMembers of the public also shared their condolences with Miss Pope's family via the Find Gaia Facebook group which attracted more than 11,800 members.\n\nSearch and rescue teams scoured the open space above the cliffs near Swanage\n\n7 November: Miss Pope is driven by a family member from Langton Matravers to Swanage. At 14:55, she is seen on CCTV at St Michael's Garage buying ice cream. The last confirmed sighting is at 16:00 at an address in Manor Gardens on Morrison Road\n\n8 November: Her family makes a plea through police for her to make contact. Dorset Police says it is \"becoming increasingly concerned\"\n\n9 November: Searches by police, the coastguard and force helicopter are carried out in the Swanage area. Miss Pope's relatives release a statement saying they are \"frantic with worry\"\n\n10 November: CCTV footage shows Miss Pope on Morrison Road, Manor Gardens, at 15:39 on 7 November\n\n13 November: Rosemary Dinch and Nathan Elsey are arrested on suspicion of murder and released under investigation\n\n14 November: Searches continue with the coastguard and volunteers from Dorset Search and Rescue and Wessex 4x4\n\n15 November: CCTV images of Miss Pope at St Michael's Garage are released. Searches continue to concentrate inland\n\n16 November: Paul Elsey is arrested on suspicion of murder. Miss Pope's clothing is discovered in a field near Swanage and a police cordon is set up\n\n18 November: Police discover a body near the coast path and a field close to where her clothing was found\n\n20 November: Police announce Paul Elsey, Ms Dinch, and Nathan Elsey are to face no action\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "General Chiwenga was welcomed to China by military leaders\n\nA trip to Beijing by Zimbabwe's military chief was a \"normal military exchange\", China's foreign ministry said after the army seized power in Harare. How deep are relations between China and Zimbabwe really?\n\nThe news that General Constantino Chiwenga had visited China only a few days before the military takeover in Zimbabwe was a coincidence that did not go unnoticed.\n\nThere was also speculation after China said it was closely watching developments, but stopped short of condemning President Mugabe's apparent removal from power.\n\nChina is Zimbabwe's fourth largest trading partner and its largest source of investment - with stakes worth many billions of pounds in everything from agriculture to construction.\n\nZimbabwe is the dependent partner - with China providing the largest market for its exports and much needed support to its fragile economy.\n\nChina's relations with Zimbabwe are deep, starting during the Rhodesian Bush War.\n\nRobert Mugabe failed in 1979 to get Soviet backing, so turned to China, which provided his guerrilla fighters with weapons and training.\n\nBoth countries formally established diplomatic relations at Zimbabwean independence in 1980 and Robert Mugabe visited Beijing as prime minister the following year.\n\nHe has been a regular visitor since.\n\nFor years, Zimbabwe's officials have tried to play off China against the West, advocating the country's \"Look East\" strategy, particularly following the introduction of EU sanctions in 2002.\n\nIndeed, a decade ago, Mr Mugabe told a packed rally at the Chinese-built national sports stadium in Harare: 'We have turned east, where the sun rises, and given our back to the west, where the sun sets.\"\n\nChina's military engagement also deepened during Zimbabwe's \"Look East\" era.\n\nHowever, following a controversy about a shipment of arms in 2008, Beijing decided to list Zimbabwe for \"limited level\" military trading.\n\nDespite Zimbabwe's efforts, the \"Look East\" strategy did not bring the investment flood hoped for and a decade later, in August 2015, Mr Mugabe openly asked for Western re-engagement in his \"state of the nation\" address.\n\nNow, the reality is that increasingly Chinese and Western interests - particularly those of the UK - have become aligned.\n\nNot far from each other in the outer suburbs of Harare, two of the biggest embassies in Zimbabwe are the British and the Chinese.\n\nAs other embassies scaled down or closed, Beijing's expanded.\n\nWhereas British diplomats were well connected with business, civil society and opposition figures, the Chinese invested in \"technical support\" of the party of government Zanu-PF, including state security and the presidency.\n\nWhen it came to Zanu-PF politics and factionalism, Chinese diplomats were well connected and insightful and, like their Western colleagues, concerned about stability, a better investment climate and adherence to the rule of law.\n\nPresident Xi Jinping visited Zimbabwe in 2015 and President Mugabe visited Beijing in January 2017.\n\nIn public, the Chinese leader said his country is willing to encourage capable companies to invest in Zimbabwe.\n\nBut in private, the message was that there would be no more loans until Zimbabwe stabilised its economy.\n\nMaj Gen Sibusiso Moyo said the military was not staging a coup\n\nIn 2016 trade between the two countries amounted to $1.1bn (£0.8bn), with China the biggest buyer of Zimbabwean tobacco and also importing cotton and various minerals.\n\nIn return Zimbabwe imported electronics, clothing and other finished products.\n\nChinese state construction firms have also been active, building infrastructure including Zimbabwe's $100m (£75m) National Defence College.\n\nAnd last year China agreed to finance a new 650-seat parliament in Harare.\n\nBut Chinese diplomats and many businesses are waiting for better days in Zimbabwe.\n\nSome companies have found the investment climate challenging - being burned on diamonds, for example - and have looked for alternative markets.\n\nA couple of weeks ago I was in China, attending a meeting on China-Africa relations and Zimbabwe was not mentioned once.\n\nUnlike Ethiopia, Sudan, or Angola that are strategic partners, or big markets like Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa, Zimbabwe is far from being Beijing's new priority.\n\nSo, Beijing's interest is in a better investment climate in Zimbabwe.\n\nA clear transitional arrangement resulting in elections for a legitimate government in Harare is as much in Beijing's interest as London's.\n\nThe \"Look East\" and the \"Re-engagement with the West\" strategies have not brought about the confidence and investment that Zimbabwe needs.\n\nWhat Zimbabwe requires is stable and accountable government - then investors from Asia, America and Europe will seriously consider that Zimbabwe has an investment future.\n\nThis was the message that Mr Mugabe received in Beijing in January.\n\nAnd the one which Zimbabwe's military chief also was given last week.\n\nThis analysis piece was commissioned by the BBC from an expert working for an outside organisation.\n\nDr Alex Vines OBE is Head of Africa Programme, Chatham House, and a Senior Lecturer at Coventry University.\n\nChatham House, the Royal Institute of International Affairs, describes itself as an independent policy institute helping to build a sustainably secure, prosperous and just world.", "Despite a show of public defiance against President Mugabe people are still afraid Image caption: Despite a show of public defiance against President Mugabe people are still afraid\n\nThe BBC's Andrew Harding has been speaking to Zimbabweans on the streets of the capital Harare.\n\nHe reports that there is a feeling of growing frustration after President Robert Mugabe failed to resign last night as had been expected.\n\nHe says people feel confused and impatient.\n\nA taxi driver told him that he had expected Mr Mugabe to leave office last night:\n\nQuote Message: He was supposed to be looking after his family... [he should] stay in Singapore, Malaysia where he has assets.\" He was supposed to be looking after his family... [he should] stay in Singapore, Malaysia where he has assets.\"\n\nOthers said that despite Saturday's public show of defiance as people rallied to urge President Mugabe to go, they were still afraid.\n\nHarare resident Lydia Gombe told our reporter that after years of repressive rule, many Zimbabweans still fear that they might get into trouble if they speak out against the government:\n\nQuote Message: The level of fear that these people have instilled in us as a nation is unbelievable. And it is just simple things. WhatsApp texts can get you arrested. A conversation in the bus can get you arrested.\" The level of fear that these people have instilled in us as a nation is unbelievable. And it is just simple things. WhatsApp texts can get you arrested. A conversation in the bus can get you arrested.\"\n\nShe adds that it would take time for people to lose their fear of speaking out.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nFormer Wimbledon champion Jana Novotna has died at the age of 49.\n\nThe Women's Tennis Association said Novotna, who had cancer, \"died peacefully, surrounded by her family\".\n\nThe Czech player had lost in the Wimbledon final in 1993 and 1997 before winning the Grand Slam tournament in 1998 by beating Nathalie Tauziat.\n\nNovotna captured the hearts of fans when she burst into tears after losing to German great Steffi Graf in 1993 and was consoled by the Duchess of Kent.\n\n\"Jana was an inspiration both on and off court to anyone who had the opportunity to know her,\" said WTA chief executive Steve Simon.\n\n\"Her star will always shine brightly in the history of the WTA. Our condolences and our thoughts are with Jana's family.\"\n\nNovotna was renowned for her serve-and-volley game, and achieved a career-high singles ranking of number two.\n\nIn addition to her only singles Grand Slam win at Wimbledon, she claimed 12 Grand Slam doubles titles and four in mixed doubles.\n\nShe was also inducted into the Tennis Hall of Fame in 2005.\n\nIt was Novotna's exploits at Wimbledon which particularly endeared her to supporters, especially the 1993 defeat by Graf at the All England Club.\n\nNovotna had a 4-1 lead in the third set and was a point away from going 5-1 up only to serve a double fault and lose five games in a row as she was beaten 7-6 (8-6) 1-6 6-4.\n\nShe started crying when presented with her trophy before the Duchess of Kent put a comforting arm around her and gave her a shoulder to shed her tears on during emotional scenes on Centre Court.\n\nNovotna said the Duchess had told her \"she would do it\" when she went to collect her trophy and, despite losing to Martina Hingis in 1997, she finally won Wimbledon a year later.\n\nIn doing so, she became the then oldest first-time Grand Slam singles winner in the Open era at 29 years and nine months.\n\n'It felt like I was the winner'\n\nNovotna gave an interview to BBC World Service's Sporting Witness in 2015 during which she spoke about the 1993 final.\n\n\"The next day, even though I was sad and disappointed, I opened the newspaper and my picture with the Duchess of Kent was on the front pages,\" she said.\n\n\"For a moment, it felt like I was the winner and that was a great feeling. I still have the newspapers, they're beautiful pictures and I think it showed the human side of professional tennis, which most of the people came to remember instead of me losing.\"\n\nShe added: \"It wouldn't sound great to say the 1993 final was the one I was most proud of because I lost the match when I was ahead.\n\n\"But it meant so much for me and maybe it made me a better player, a better person and maybe that match helped me to accomplish a lot more in my career.\n\n\"If I could do it again I would - all of it - except I would win Wimbledon three times this time around.\"\n\nThe abiding image of Jana Novotna's career is of her accepting - quite literally - a shoulder to cry on by the Duchess of Kent as she received the runners-up trophy at Wimbledon in 1993.\n\nShe had been in a winning position in her first final against the great Steffi Graf, but undeterred, she would be back.\n\nMartina Hingis was too strong in the 1997 final but, just as the Duchess had predicted, it was third time lucky when Novotna made it through to the final again.\n\nAn instinctive serve-volleyer and a superb athlete, Novotna was also a brilliant doubles player: winning a total of 16 Grand Slam titles. She reached number two in singles and number one in doubles, won the Fed Cup with the Czech Republic and medals in both singles and doubles for her country at the Olympic Games.\n\nIn more recent years, she was a charming member of the BBC commentary team at Wimbledon. Jana was never ostentatious in her delivery, but her love for the sport shone out.\n\nJana's microphone always needed a boost as she was so softly spoken. But she was born to play, and commentate, on Centre Court. Her words were carefully chosen, but the authority cut through.", "British Airways is introducing a boarding policy that means those buying the cheapest seats will be called last.\n\nFrom 12 December, passengers will be assigned a number between 1-5 printed on boarding passes, with the highest figure reserved for economy fares.\n\nBA said the move is about simplifying the boarding process, and bringing it into line with other carriers, including American Airlines and Iberia.\n\nBut BA was accused of operating a class system and further eroding perks.\n\nThe number \"one\" will be given to first class passengers, with others assigned to other segments such as Executive Club or World Traveller Plus.\n\nPassengers who are travelling with children or have mobility issues will still be able to board ahead of everyone else.\n\nA BA spokeswoman said: \"We are always looking at ways to improve and simplify the airport experience for our customers... Next month we are introducing new boarding procedures to speed up the process and make it simpler for customers to understand.\n\n\"This method has been used by airlines around the world for a number of years, including by our partners American Airlines, Iberia and Qatar.\"\n\nBut the move has not gone down well with some travellers on Twitter. Banjobob @scottishcringe says: \"Nothing quite like a British class system to let you know your place!\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Simon Calder This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nDavid Smith @drs1969 writes: \"British Airways: Are you out of your minds? This boarding method is appalling and universally hated.\"\n\nAnd Sam Vines @samvines6, writes: \"Who thought up this stupid idea? If you want to improve boarding process then group by seats, not by price.\"\n\nHowever, the zoned boarding plan was welcomed by Ben Schlappig, who writes the One Mile At A Time frequent-flyer blog.\n\n\"Arguably this is an easier system as it can be consistent across aircraft types, and is also easier for passengers to comprehend.\n\n\"Ultimately the success of such a system largely comes down to the clarity of announcements and the enforcement of the boarding area. The way I see it this would definitely simplify things, so I'd welcome it.\"", "Laura Plummer is in police custody in the resort of Hurghada\n\nThe sister of a British woman facing drug smuggling charges in Egypt has apologised to the country's officials.\n\nLaura Plummer, 33, faces a trial accused of entering the country with 300 Tramadol tablets, a painkiller legal in the UK but not in Egypt.\n\nShe is in police custody in Hurghada awaiting a hearing date.\n\nHer sister Rachel told officials she had \"unintentionally done wrong\" and apologised for \"bringing such trouble to your country\".\n\nIt is not clear whether the apology has been seen by the authorities, who have not commented.\n\nBut in response to the apology, Ms Plummer's MP Karl Turner, described her as a \"decent, law-abiding\" citizen who had \"done something really silly\".\n\nLaura Plummer said the prescription pills were for her partner Omar Caboo\n\nMs Plummer, a shop assistant from Hull, claims she was carrying the pills for her Egyptian partner, Omar Caboo, who suffers from back pain.\n\nShe has been held in a cell, which she has to share with 25 other women.\n\nRachel Plummer said her sister had carried out \"a totally innocent action\"\n\nIn a statement, Rachel said she \"would like to place on record our gratitude for the fairness and just manner the Egyptian justice system has shown towards Laura\".\n\n\"We realise Laura has unintentionally done wrong in the eyes of the Egyptian authorities; a totally innocent action that has resulted in her being held in custody by the police in Hurghada,\" she said.\n\n\"Laura, along with all of us, loves Egypt and upon visits to see Laura we have been happy with the professional and fair way the police officers have been with Laura and we would like to apologise for bringing such trouble to your country.\"\n\nOther family members have made no further comment.\n\nLaura Plummer said she had \"no idea\" the painkillers she was carrying were banned in the country\n\nHe said he met Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson last week and was reassured \"the government is doing all it can\" to support Laura and her family. The UK Foreign Office has not publicly commented.\n\nMs Plummer said earlier this month she had \"no idea\" the painkillers she was carrying were banned in the country.\n\nBut local police said ignorance of the law was no excuse.\n\nTramadol is the most abused drug in Egypt, according to Ghada Wali, the country's Minister of Social Solidarity.\n\nDrug smuggling can carry the death sentence in Egypt.", "This video has been removed for rights reasons.\n\nAnt McPartlin returns to I'm A Celebrity after a stint in rehab.\n\nMcPartlin entered rehab in June, having become addicted to alcohol and prescription painkillers following a knee operation in 2015.", "The Electoral Commission has reopened an investigation into Vote Leave's EU referendum spending.\n\nThe campaign paid £625,000 to clear bills allegedly run up by university student Darren Grimes with a digital agency days ahead of last June's vote.\n\nThe campaign denies attempting to get round spending limits - the Electoral Commission initially accepted this but now says it has new information.\n\nA group of campaigning lawyers, The Good Law Project, has started legal action against the commission over its original decision to drop the investigation, claiming the watchdog was not doing its job properly.\n\nJo Maugham QC, of the Good Law Project, said: \"We are 18 months after the referendum vote. It is extraordinary that only now is the Electoral Commission taking a serious look at whether the rules were complied with. And only in response to legal action.\"\n\nHe added: \"The Electoral Commission has urged us to agree to drop our High Court case. We will consider this question carefully in the coming days.\"\n\nA former senior Vote Leave source accused the watchdog of giving in to pressure from the Good Law project - something the watchdog has denied.\n\n\"The Electoral Commission is an utter joke,\" the source told BBC News.\n\n\"They investigated the last time there was a spurious complaint and found Vote Leave followed the rules and donations were within the law.\n\n\"Now they've given in to peer pressure from a bunch of die-hard Remainers who would rather believe in some vast conspiracy rather than respect the democratic vote of the British people.\n\n\"This is in contrast to the Electoral Commission's repeated failures to call out dodgy Remain behaviour, which exploited the full weight of the government during the campaign. It reeks of double standards.\"\n\nThe row centres around Darren Grimes, at the time a fashion student at the University of Brighton, who set up a group called BeLeave, to give young pro-Brexit campaigners a voice during last year's referendum.\n\nAs a registered campaigner, he was allowed to spend up to £700,000. He initially spent very little but in the 10 days leading up to the 23 June vote he ran up a £675,315 bill with AggregateIQ Data, a Canadian marketing firm that specialises in political campaigns.\n\nMoney to clear the bill was not given to Mr Grimes but sent directly to Aggregate IQ by Vote Leave, which separately spent £2.7m with the same firm, more than a third of its £6.8m budget.\n\nMr Grimes also received £50,000 from an individual Vote Leave donor in the final 10 days, making the previously obscure campaigner's group one of the best-funded at the referendum.\n\nVote Leave Campaign director Dominic Cummings was quoted on AggregateIQ's website as saying \"we couldn't have done it without them\".\n\nIn total, AIQ was given £3.5m by groups campaigning for Brexit, including Vote Leave, the Democratic Unionist Party and Veterans for Britain.\n\nVote Leave would have gone over its campaign spending limit if it had spent the money it donated on behalf of Mr Grimes itself.\n\nThe campaign group said it made the donation to Mr Grimes because it was coming up to its £7m spending limit and wanted a way of using £9.2m it had raised from individuals and companies on campaigning activities.\n\nThe Electoral Commission said in March this was an \"acceptable method of donating under the rules\" and after a \"detailed look\" at the case it did not find reasonable grounds to suspect an offence had been committed.\n\nThe new probe will look at whether the spending returns delivered by Mr Grimes, Veterans for Britain and Vote Leave were correct - and whether or not Vote Leave exceeded its spending limit.\n\nBob Posner, the Electoral Commission's director of political finance and regulation, said: \"There is significant public interest in being satisfied that the facts are known about Vote Leave's spending on the campaign, particularly as it was a lead campaigner with a greater spending limit than any other campaigners on the Leave side.\n\n\"Legitimate questions over the funding provided to campaigners risks causing harm to voters' confidence in the referendum and it is therefore right that we investigate.\"\n\nIn April, the Electoral Commission launched a separate investigation into spending during the referendum by Leave.EU, the campaign backed by then-UKIP leader Nigel Farage and donor Arron Banks.\n\nIt is also investigating spending by the anti-Brexit campaign Britain Stronger in Europe.", "Zimbabwe's ruling Zanu-PF party is planning to support impeachment proceedings against Robert Mugabe, after he ignored a deadline to stand down as president.\n\nZimbabweans - and many watching around the world - were astounded on Sunday night when Mr Mugabe addressed the nation and said that far from stepping down, he was going to stay on and preside over the ruling party's congress in December.\n\nSo with Mr Mugabe defiant, and the army insisting that it has not carried out a a coup, what are the options for getting him to vacate his position?\n\nHere are five possible scenarios:\n\nZanu-PF members sang and danced as they sacked Mr Mugabe as leader\n\nZanu-PF says it will launch impeachment proceedings against Mr Mugabe when parliament convenes on Tuesday.\n\nImpeachment is the process of removing a president via parliament.\n\nBoth the National Assembly and the Senate can begin proceedings to remove the president if both pass simple majority votes against him.\n\nA two-thirds majority is needed in both houses in order for impeachment to succeed.\n\nZanu-PF has a two-thirds majority in the House of Assembly, but not the Senate.\n\nThe formal process is expected to start on Tuesday but it is not clear how long it would take.\n\nThe benefit of this process for the military is that it allows the generals to say the removal of the president was done in accordance with the constitution, in keeping with their statement that this is not a coup.\n\nThe downside for them is that it does not guarantee that the man widely thought to be their favourite for president will get the top job straight away.\n\nPeople in Harare celebrated Zanu-PF sacked Robert Mugabe as their leader\n\nEmmerson Mnangagwa, whose sacking prompted the military's action, could not immediately take over from Mr Mugabe, because constitutionally it is the current vice-president who should fill the vacancy.\n\nAt the moment that person is Phelekezela Mphoko - a man whose sympathies are known to lie with Grace Mugabe, and who was expelled by Zanu-PF on Sunday.\n\nWhether the army can persuade Mr Mugabe to appoint their preferred candidate as vice-president before stepping down remains to be seen.\n\nSome analysts have argued that this may be what the generals were discussing with him - and it may also be his trump card.\n\nBut given how difficult it has been to get Mr Mugabe to step down, the chances of getting him to concede further ground look increasingly slim.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Robert Mugabe: \"The congress is due... I will preside over its processes\"\n\nPresident Mugabe was defiant when he made his televised address on Sunday.\n\nDespite having been sacked by Zanu-PF, he said \"the party congress is due in a few weeks and I will preside over its processes\".\n\nHe suggested that he was willing to forgive the military action, and said \"whatever the pros and cons of how they [the army] went about their operation, I, as commander-in-chief, do acknowledge their concerns\".\n\nIt had been reported that Mr Mugabe had agreed to resign.\n\nIt is unclear whether he changed his mind, or if these reports were incorrect. But BBC Africa editor Fergal Keane says it makes the military look weak.\n\nSome suggest that there may be grounds within Zanu-PF's own rules which might allow Mr Mugabe to reject his sacking by the party.\n\nPresident Mugabe is known for both being shrewd and stubborn. So he may well have another ace up his sleeve.\n\nThere is growing speculation over the whereabouts of Grace Mugabe\n\nInitially it had been thought that the military was trying to reach a deal which would allow President Mugabe to stay in Zimbabwe once he had stood down.\n\nBut the current stalemate makes that look less likely.\n\nFrom the point of view of Mr Mugabe, and his wife, there is a fear that even if he were to be promised immunity from prosecution now, that could be removed by a future government.\n\nSo it might mean that Mr Mugabe is forced into exile.\n\nUntil recently, neighbouring South Africa would have been a natural place for him to go.\n\nMr Mugabe enjoys a high level of respect there, in large part because of his support for the fight against apartheid rule.\n\nIndeed, the opposition EFF party has called on the government to \"prepare to welcome President Mugabe for political asylum\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by EFF This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Mugabes are reported to have a number of properties in South Africa.\n\nThe sticking point would be what happens to Grace.\n\nShe was granted diplomatic immunity after allegedly assaulting a model in a hotel room in Johannesburg in August.\n\nBut model Gabriella Engels is trying to get the diplomatic immunity order set aside. If successful, it would mean Mrs Mugabe could face prosecution should she go to South Africa.\n\nSo if not South Africa, then where?\n\nOther possible options are Singapore and Malaysia, where the Mugabes also have properties.\n\nThe leader of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change-Tsvangirai (MDC-T) party is back in Harare after receiving treatment for cancer in South Africa, fuelling speculation about negotiations for a unity government.\n\nThis is the scenario that many in the West, and of course the opposition, would prefer.\n\nAnother opposition leader, Tendai Biti, has said that he would join a national unity government if Mr Tsvangirai was also in it.\n\nBut the military takeover was not a change of regime. It was an internal dispute within Zanu-PF, and that party is still very much in power.\n\nThe military is to a large extent the armed wing of Zanu-PF.\n\nAnd the man it supports as leader - Emmerson Mnangagwa - helped Robert Mugabe carry out some of his most controversial policies.\n\nEmmerson Mnangagwa is the man the military wants to take over\n\nHe is also, some say, more ruthless.\n\nSo it is far from clear that the ousting of Mr Mugabe would improve the lives of ordinary Zimbabweans.", "Stationery company Paperchase has apologised for a promotional giveaway in the Daily Mail after it was criticised for working with the paper.\n\nThe chain offered two free rolls of wrapping paper in Saturday's newspaper.\n\nIt said it was \"truly sorry\" after hundreds of people - encouraged by campaign group Stop Funding Hate - urged the chain to end the partnership.\n\nA Daily Mail statement said it was \"deeply worrying\" Paperchase had let itself \"be bullied into apologising\".\n\nStop Funding Hate lobbies firms to stop advertising with certain newspapers which it claims promote divisive views.\n\nThe group has previously been involved in getting companies such as Lego to pull advertising.\n\nIt tweeted on Saturday: \"After a torrid few weeks of divisive stories about trans people, is a Daily Mail promotion what customers want to see from @FromPaperchase?\"\n\nPaperchase responded a few hours later by asking for customers' views and received hundreds of replies on Twitter.\n\nThe company later said it had \"listened\" to the responses about the weekend's newspaper promotion.\n\n\"We now know we were wrong to do this - we're truly sorry and we won't ever do it again.\n\n\"Thanks for telling us what you really think and we apologise if we have let you down on this one. Lesson learnt.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Paperchase This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 some people have criticised the apology, saying they will now shop elsewhere.\n\nJournalist Julia Hartley-Brewer said: \"I for one am happy to lead a boycott of Paperchase for making this absurd grovelling apology simply for advertising in a national newspaper.\"\n\nTV presenter Piers Morgan, who also writes for the Mail Online, tweeted: \"I hope Paperchase understand that British people don't like snivelling little cowards who let themselves get bullied... I'll buy my cards from Clintons in future.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Iain Martin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIt said in a statement: \"The Mail has only run one promotion with Paperchase - who are not an advertiser - and had no plans for any more, so it is disingenuous of them to say it won't be repeated.\n\n\"However it is deeply worrying that Paperchase should have allowed itself to be bullied into apologising - on the back of a derisory 250 Facebook comments and 150 direct tweets - to internet trolls orchestrated by a small group of hard left Corbynist individuals seeking to suppress legitimate debate and impose their views on the media.\n\n\"Has the company considered what message they are sending to the four million people who read the Daily Mail on Saturday, many of whom will be their customers?\"", "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\nThis Morning went off air unexpectedly during Monday's live show, with ITV blaming technical problems.\n\nViewers were left unable to watch the morning programme, hosted by Phillip Schofield and Holly Willoughby, for more than 12 minutes.\n\nThe presenters were chatting to guest Ben Fogle when the programme suddenly cut out.\n\nITV apologised for the glitch and said it was looking into what caused the problem.\n\nViewers were met with a message saying the broadcaster was \"working hard to fix the issue\".\n\nFogle was discussing a recent vote in Parliament when This Morning went off air.\n\nHe later joked about the disruption on Twitter, asking: \"What did I say?\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Ben Fogle This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nITV said a fault with the BT Tower caused the loss of transmission.\n\nThey said: \"We would like to apologise to This Morning viewers after the programme went off air for 12 minutes today as a result of an issue at BT Tower, which affected the live feed to ITV.\n\n\"We are in contact with BT to establish the cause of this issue.\"\n\nAudience members took to Twitter, however, and were quick to come up with their own theories.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Morning's showbiz reporter Rylan Clark-Neal joked on Twitter he had pulled the plug after fellow reporter Alison Hammond was given an interview with Victoria Beckham instead of him.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Rylan Clark-Neal This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. 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End of twitter post 5 by This Morning\n\nWhen the programme finally came back on air, Schofield and Willoughby seemed confused about the situation.\n\nSchofield was reading comments on his Twitter feed to Willoughby and seemed to have only just realised they had fallen off air.\n\nHe later confirmed they had carried on as normal during the outage.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 6 by Phillip Schofield This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nVicky Pattison lamented that her debut stint reporting on I'm A Celebrity - which she won in 2015 - had gone wrong.\n\n\"My big This Morning debut, man, and it's not even going out,\" she complained.\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 vickypattison 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\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "What is it about the murderous cult leader Charles Manson, who committed his crimes more than 40 years ago, that continues to fascinate?\n\nThe stare is still the same. The hair may have greyed but the beard remains. With a swastika etched between his eyes, Charles Manson maintains an aura.\n\nIt is almost 45 years since he sent a group of his indoctrinated followers - known as the Family - to the home of heavily pregnant Hollywood actress Sharon Tate to \"totally destroy everyone in it\". She and four others were stabbed to death.\n\nFalse clues were left to dress the scene as an attack by the Black Panthers, a militant African-American group which used violence in its battle against white racism.\n\nManson's hope was that these murders, and the killing of two shop owners the next night, would start a race war, after which he would emerge as America's ruler.\n\nIt did not happen. Amid public revulsion at his crimes, Manson was found guilty of conspiracy to murder in 1971 and given a life sentence.\n\nNow aged 80, Manson has been granted a licence to marry Afton Elaine Burton, a 26-year-old who moved from the Mid West to live near the prison where he is an inmate in Corcoran, California. \"I love him,\" she declares. \"I'm with him.\" But that closeness is unlikely to extend to living with Manson, who isn't eligible for parole until 2027.\n\n\"Why does a 26-year-old woman want to marry him?\" asks Daniel Kane, a lecturer on American literature and culture at Sussex University. \"It shows the continuing attraction that he has for a counter-culture to this day. Manson the rebel, the outlaw, the radical vegetarian willing to kill to make his point.\n\n\"That's disgusting and demented, but it's also fundamentally political, in the same way a contemporary terrorist is political.\"\n\nActress Sharon Tate, the most high-profile victim of the \"Manson family\"\n\nSharon Tate's sister Debra, who acts as a spokeswoman for the families of Manson's victims, has called the impending marriage \"ludicrous''. But this and other stories about Manson still get reported across the world's media.\n\nMore than 30 books about his life and crimes have been published. One, by the prosecuting attorney at his trial, Vincent Bugliosi, has sold more than seven million copies since 1974.\n\nManson's comments are widely quoted. He insists he is a \"political prisoner\" and that the US government is holding him hostage, proclaiming: \"My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you.\"\n\nBorn in Ohio, Manson had an impoverished and troubled childhood. With a reportedly high IQ, but unable to read or write properly, he moved between reform schools. When he was five his mother and uncle went to prison after they held up a service station. By the age of 13 Manson was robbing casinos and shops at gunpoint.\n\nHe had \"a tendency towards moodiness and a persecution complex\", according to a psychologist who described him as \"aggressively anti-social\" partly due to \"an unfavourable family life, if it can be called family life at all\".\n\nWhen he couldn't afford bills or support his pregnant wife, he became a thief. After six years in prison, he was released in 1967, the year of the so-called \"summer of love\".\n\nManson developed a fixation with the Beatles song Helter Skelter. Ostensibly about the difficulties of a love life told through a metaphor of a fairground ride, he instead thought it predicted an apocalyptic race war after which he and his followers, taking refuge in an underground city in California's Death Valley, would be the only white survivors. Black people, he thought, would be unable to organise themselves and then beg him to be their leader.\n\nManson set up a commune at the Spahn ranch in the Californian desert, surrounded by disused sets from 1950s Westerns. He recruited followers, mainly middle-class and female, with whom he took LSD and participated in orgies.\n\n\"He managed to exploit the hippy subculture brilliantly,\" says Kane, \"Hippies, after all, proposed themselves as disaffiliated from the political and social mainstream, committed to creating their own independent utopias marked by sex, drugs and rock and roll.\n\n\"Manson took on all those signs - LSD, music, free love, communal lifestyles - and reframed them as tools for apocalyptic mass murder. Totally bizarre, totally evil, and very, very seductive.\"\n\nWith his long hair and beard, Manson's followers likened his appearance to that of Jesus.\n\n\"There are thousands of evil, polished conmen out there, and we've had more brutal murders than the Manson murders,\" Bugliosi, the prosecuting attorney at Manson's trial, told Rolling Stone magazine in 2012, \"so why are we still talking about Charles Manson?\n\n\"He had a quality about him that one thousandth of 1% of people have. An aura. 'Vibes,' the kids called it in the 60s. Wherever he went, kids gravitated toward him.\"\n\nPsychopaths are \"incredibly charming and persuasive\", says David Wilson, professor of criminology at Birmingham City University. \"To get you under control, to court you, they appear to give their complete and utter attention.\"\n\nThere was a sense of bewilderment and terror at Manson's crimes - how an ex-convict from a poor background had managed to style himself as a guru and persuaded middle-class youngsters to do his bidding.\n\nThe Manson case involved drugs, orgies and cults, three concerns shared by parents of children growing up in the \"free love\" atmosphere of the era. It also came at a time of intense divisions in the US over civil rights, race and the Vietnam War. Rioting had affected several cities in 1968.\n\nWilson thinks Manson's persistence as a cultural figure is because he seemed to be teaching Americans about their own negligence to threats they apparently faced. This, plus his personal charisma, made his impact greater than that of most murderers.\n\n\"He is iconic because he was the person who brought the swinging sixties to an end,\" he says. \"His strange and bizarre thinking appeared perfectly in tune with the damaged side of drug culture. It wasn't flower power any more. Youth culture was far darker and more disturbing than people had previously thought.\"\n\nSubscribe to the BBC News Magazine's email newsletter to get articles sent to your inbox.", "Inspectors will question girls who wear hijab in primary school to find out why they do so, head of Ofsted Amanda Spielman has said.\n\nShe said creating an environment where Muslim children are expected to wear the headscarf \"could be interpreted as sexualisation of young girls\".\n\nThe hijab is traditionally worn as a sign of modesty once a girl reaches puberty.\n\nBut the Muslim Council of Britain said Ofsted's policy was \"deeply worrying\".\n\nThe announcement comes after Ms Spielman met campaigners from the Social Action and Research Foundation think tank on Friday.\n\nIn September, the foundation's head, Amina Lone, co-ordinated a letter to the Sunday Times from campaigners arguing that the hijab has \"no place in our primary schools\", and demanding action as Muslim girls as young as five were \"increasingly veiled\".\n\n\"This is an affront to the historical fight for gender equality in our secular democracy and is creating a two-tiered form of non-equality for young Muslim girls,\" the letter said.\n\nExplaining her decision to act, Ms Spielman said: \"While respecting parents' choice to bring up their children according to their cultural norms, creating an environment where primary school children are expected to wear the hijab could be interpreted as sexualisation of young girls.\n\n\"In seeking to address these concerns, and in line with our current practice in terms of assessing whether the school promotes equality for their children, inspectors will talk to girls who wear such garments to ascertain why they do so in the school.\"\n\nShe urged parents concerned about fundamentalist groups influencing school policy or breaching equality law to complain to the school or to Ofsted.\n\nBut Muslim Council of Britain secretary general Harun Khan said: \"It is deeply worrying that Ofsted has announced it will be specifically targeting and quizzing young Muslim girls who choose to wear the headscarf.\n\n\"It sends a clear message to all British women who adopt this that they are second-class citizens, that while they are free to wear the headscarf, the establishment would prefer that they do not.\"\n\nHe said many British Muslims who wear the headscarf have done \"extremely well\" in education.\n\n\"It is disappointing that this is becoming policy without even engaging with a diverse set of mainstream Muslim voices on the topic,\" he said.\n\nMr Khan urged Ms Spielman to reverse the decision and said it risked being \"counter-productive\" to Ofsted's promise to uphold British values.", "Muslim campaigners have condemned \"discriminatory\" plans for school inspectors to question girls who wear hijab in primary school.\n\nHead of Ofsted Amanda Spielman said pupils would be asked why they wear the headscarf, which \"could be interpreted as sexualisation of young girls\".\n\nBut some have asked why the pupils and not the schools will be challenged.\n\nOfsted said the move was in line with its current practice of assessing whether a school promotes equality.\n\nThe hijab is traditionally worn as a sign of modesty once a girl reaches puberty.\n\nResearch by the National Secular Society in September suggested 59 of 142 Islamic schools, including 27 primary schools, in England have a uniform policy which states a head-covering is compulsory.\n\n\"The hijab in primary schools should be something that is dealt with via the schools uniform policy,\" said Sajda Mughal, head of JAN Trust, a charity working with BAME and Muslim women.\n\nShe called the move by Ofsted \"nonsense and discriminatory\" and said it will be used by extremists to advance their narrative of \"them and us'\" and could fuel marginalisation.\n\n\"I know as a Muslim mother of young girls, I'd be alarmed and horrified if I found that my daughters were questioned if they wore the hijab,\" she said.\n\nThis was echoed by human rights campaigner Aisha Ali-Khan, who said the primary schools should be held to account \"rather than quizzing little girls\".\n\nOftsed should instead ask \"why are primary school uniform policies allowing hijab for girls under the age of puberty when Islamic laws state otherwise,\" 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 Sajda Mughal This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Amina Lone, from the Social Action and Research Foundation, was one of those who lobbied Ofsted to take action.\n\n\"As a second generation Muslim woman and a parent, I have huge concerns about the increasing encroachment of gender inequality in public spaces for women of faith,\" she told the BBC's Asian Network.\n\n\"The hijab is absolutely not required for children.\n\n\"Gender equality was hard fought for in this country and we shouldn't be diluting that.\"\n\nShe said it was \"absurd\" to be having this debate in 2017 and stressed this was not about secondary school children or adults.\n\nThere is no ban on Islamic dress in the UK, but schools are allowed to decide their own dress code.\n\nCurrent government advice states: \"Pupils have the right to manifest a religion or belief, but not necessarily at all times, places or in a particular manner.\"\n\nShereen, a hijabi, said the choice should be between the parents and the child.\n\nThe mother-of two, whose own daughters do not wear a hijab, said the headscarf has been misrepresented.\n\n\"It has nothing to do with sexualising children. That claim is ridiculous,\" she told the BBC Asian Network.\n\n\"Hijab is not about sexualisation. It is a sign of submission to our faith,\" she said.\n\n\"I do feel like the government are trying to control Muslims.\"\n\nBut blogger Hifsa Haroon-Iqbal said the issue was simply a school uniform one.\n\n\"If schools do not want young children in primary education to wear hijabs in school, this needs to be made explicitly clear within the school uniform policy.\n\n\"This is not about racism, being islamophobic or discriminatory. It is common sense,\" the mother-of-three wrote.\n\n\"To subject a young child to questioning about why they are dressed in a particular way is ludicrous as it will always warrant the same response, 'because my mother dresses me'.\"", "Zimbabwe's embattled leader Robert Mugabe has vowed to stay in power for several weeks, despite intensifying pressure on him to stand down.\n\nMr Mugabe said he would preside over the ruling Zanu-PF party's congress in December.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Richard Sutherland said the family would 'treasure her always'\n\nTeenager Gaia Pope had \"struggled\" with health issues before her death, her father has said.\n\nPolice are treating the 19-year-old's death as \"unexplained\" after her body was found in a field near Swanage on Saturday.\n\nHer father Richard Sutherland, said his daughter had had \"a lot of issues\" and \"clearly just couldn't cope with that.\"\n\nThree people who were arrested on suspicion of her murder will face no further action, police said earlier.\n\nPaul Elsey, 49, his mother Rosemary Dinch, 71, and her 19-year-old grandson, Nathan Elsey, were all questioned about Ms Pope's disappearance.\n\nGaia Pope's body was found 11 days after she went missing\n\nMiss Pope's body was found close to where items of her clothing were discovered two days earlier\n\nHer body was found 11 days after she was reported missing in Swanage, on 7 November.\n\nA post-mortem examination did not identify any injuries to suggest the involvement of other people, Dorset Police said.\n\nThe force is awaiting the results of toxicology tests.\n\nPaul's father, Greg Elsey, said Ms Pope was clearly \"on the verge of a nervous breakdown\" when she visited Mrs Dinch in an agitated state on the day she disappeared.\n\nHe said her health problems included a previous breakdown as well as epilepsy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIn a statement, Ms Pope's mother Natasha described her daughter as \"a light that will radiate for all eternity\".\n\n\"A wise, magnificent soul that burns far too bright for this world,\" she said.\n\n\"Her spirit overflows with love and compassion for others. Gaia our free spirit, our wild pony.\"\n\nMr Sutherland thanked the emergency services and members of the public who joined searches for his daughter.\n\nHe said his daughter had \"happy moments... right up into the end of her life\", despite her health problems.\n\nHer cousin Marienna Pope-Weidemann said Ms Pope had been \"very, very vulnerable, but such an inspiration\".\n\nShe said she was determined that \"lessons will be learned\" from Ms Pope's death.\n\nVisibly upset, she said: \"It should not have taken 11 days to find her so close and we need to know why.\"\n\nGaia Pope's father Richard Sutherland thanked members of the public before a community search on Saturday\n\nFollowing her disappearance, searches by police, the coastguard and police helicopter - along with hundreds of volunteers - were carried out in the Swanage area.\n\nOn Thursday, police discovered clothing belonging to Ms Pope on open land outside the town.\n\nHer body was found two days later in the same area.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The hospital cares for adults with an intellectual disability, behavioural or mental health problems\n\nFour staff members have been suspended from Muckamore Abbey Hospital in Antrim while police investigate allegations of the \"ill-treatment\" of patients.\n\nThe BBC understand it centres on the care of at least two patients.\n\nMuckamore Abbey Hospital provides acute inpatient care to adults with an intellectual disability, behavioural or mental health problems.\n\nA spokesperson for the Belfast Health Trust said that an incident had come to light several months ago.\n\n\"Following concerns identified in relation to the conduct of a small number of staff in Muckamore Abbey Hospital, Belfast Trust has placed four members of staff on precautionary exclusion from work while a full internal investigation is undertaken,\" it said.\n\nThe police said the safeguarding of any victim was their concern\n\nFamilies of other long-term patients are being kept informed of the investigation.\n\nThe Belfast Trust says it has introduced additional measures and is assured of the ongoing safety and care of the community of patients in the hospital.\n\nDet Ch Insp Tracey Mageean said: \"We can confirm that we are working with Belfast Health and Social Care Trust regarding a number of allegations into ill treatment of patients at a hospital facility in Antrim.\n\n\"This is a live investigation and it would be inappropriate to comment any further.\n\n\"The safeguarding of any vulnerable victim is a priority for the Police Service of Northern Ireland.\"", "Winston Churchill described the royal couple's wedding in 1947 as 'a flash of colour on the hard road we travel'\n\nThree more portraits of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh have been released to commemorate their platinum wedding anniversary.\n\nOn Monday it will be 70 years since their marriage at Westminster Abbey. The church's bells will ring for more than three hours to mark the occasion.\n\nThe couple will celebrate at a private dinner in Windsor Castle.\n\nQueen Elizabeth is the first British monarch to celebrate a platinum wedding anniversary.\n\nThe images are part of a series by celebrity photographer Matt Holyoak, whose first portrait of them was revealed on Saturday.\n\nThe Queen wears a cream dress designed by Angela Kelly, her dressmaker for the last 15 years.\n\nHer golden \"Scarab\" brooch was a gift from Prince Philip in 1966.\n\nThe Queen and Duke of Edinburgh are the first royal couple to celebrate the milestone\n\nWhen they married, the monarch was 21 and the Duke a 26-year-old sailor who had served in the Royal Navy.\n\nWinston Churchill summed up the occasion in 1947 as \"a flash of colour on the hard road we travel\".\n\nPrince Philip is the nation's longest serving consort and the Queen its most enduring monarch.\n\nThe pair will welcome their sixth great-grandchild in April.\n\nAlthough the Queen continues with many of her duties as head of state, Prince Philip, 96, has retired from royal duties.\n\nThe Royal Mail has issued a set of six commemorative stamps for the occasion that feature the couple's engagement and wedding.", "Neil Stewart was on the boat with his friends and girlfriend travelling from Amsterdam\n\nA British man is missing after falling from a party boat into a canal in the Netherlands.\n\nNeil Stewart, 30, who was part of a group from Newcastle, fell into the Noordzeekanaal at Westzaan, near Amsterdam, at about midnight on Saturday, Dutch police said.\n\nAn immediate search was launched involving divers and a helicopter but he is yet to be found.\n\nDutch firefighters said the water was about 7C (45F) at the time.\n\nMr Stewart was on the boat with his friends and girlfriend travelling from Amsterdam to IJmuiden when he fell, a police spokesman said.\n\nThe captain of the boat was immediately alerted but Mr Stewart had disappeared beneath the water.\n\nThe Noordzeekanaal canal is 13 miles (21km) long, 550ft (170m) wide and 50ft (15.5m) deep\n\nThe spokesman said sonar equipment was also used during the the search which went on until late on Sunday.\n\nHe said: \"Now we are considering how to proceed.\n\n\"We first want to inform the girlfriend and family about the next steps.\"\n\nThe Noordzeekanaal canal is 13 miles (21km) long, 550ft (170m) wide and 50ft (15.5m) deep\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Time Warner owns HBO, the company behind Game of Thrones\n\nThe US Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit to block telecoms giant AT&T's acquisition of Time Warner, the owner of CNN and HBO.\n\nThe department said the merger would reduce competition and lead to higher consumer prices.\n\nAT&T vowed to fight the move, calling it a radical departure from US competition practice.\n\nUS President Donald Trump objected to the deal during his campaign last year, fuelling the controversy.\n\nAT&T chief executive Randall Stephenson said he thought the acquisition had been on a good path \"until recently\".\n\nHe referred to concerns about possible political influence as the \"elephant in the room\". President Trump is a vocal critic of CNN which is owned by Time Warner.\n\nMr Stephenson said: \"There's been a lot of reporting and speculation whether this is all about CNN. And frankly I don't know. Nobody should be surprised the question keeps coming up.\"\n\nIn its lawsuit, the Department of Justice claimed that the deal - valued at more than $85bn when it was announced last year - would harm American consumers.\n\nAssistant attorney general Makan Delrahim of the Department of Justice's antitrust division, said: \"It would mean higher monthly television bills and fewer of the new, emerging innovative options that consumers are beginning to enjoy.\"\n\nOf the 24 firms that were part of the nationwide landline telephone network Bell System, ten are a part of the current AT&T. The firm has also been on a buying spree in the past two decades.\n\nAT&T offshoot SBC Communications bought Pacific Telesis Group in 1997 and Ameritech in 1999. In 2005, SBC then bought out its parent group AT&T Corporation, creating the new AT&T Inc.\n\nIn 2006 AT&T bought BellSouth, which gave it total ownership of previous joint venture Cingular Wireless.\n\nIn 2013, it bought prepaid-wireless provider Cricket. In 2015, it completed the purchase of two Mexican wireless companies, Lusacell and Nextel Mexico, and also bought pay-TV firm DIRECTV. AT&T also owns approximately a 2% stake in Canadian-based entertainment company Lionsgate.\n\nMeanwhile, Time Warner comprises three divisions: pay television service Home Box Office behind the popular Game of Thrones series, multi-channel TV provider Turner Broadcasting System, and giant entertainment conglomerate Warner Bros.\n\nMr Delrahim said the combination would hurt the emergence of new online television options and give AT&T the power to force rival pay TV companies to pay \"hundreds of millions of dollars more\" for Time Warner content.\n\nThe department has also denied political interference.\n\nThe decision to take legal action sets up a high-profile fight over US anti-trust law, which has rarely been tested in cases involving companies that do not directly compete.\n\nGeorge Hay, a professor of law and economics at Cornell, said there was \"no question\" the merger's potential competitive impact merited serious review.\n\nHowever, he said the lawsuit was noteworthy given the president's comments during the presidential campaign.\n\n\"There would be nothing unusual if you didn't have all of this political background,\" he said.\n\nDuring his presidential campaign last October, Mr Trump said that the deal would not be approved \"in my administration because it's too much concentration of power in the hands of too few\".\n\nBut challenges of vertical mergers - when firms operating at different levels within an industry's supply chain combine - have been rare, since at least one of the parties involved must have a major market position to raise concerns, Professor Hay said.\n\nIn the past, competition officials have also been open to settlements in such cases, assuming the deals will create efficiencies that could benefit the consumer. In those cases, companies can merge but face restrictions on their behaviour.\n\nThat happened in 2011, when the department allowed a merger between Comcast and NBCUniversal.\n\nLast year, Mr Delrahim said he did not see major issues with the merger.\n\nBut he has also criticised so-called behavioural remedies used in the past to keep anti-competitive activity in check, saying they are overly intrusive and hard to enforce.\n\nAT&T called Monday's lawsuit \"a radical and inexplicable departure from decades of antitrust precedent\".\n\nThe company's general counsel, David McAtee, said: \"Vertical mergers like this one are routinely approved because they benefit consumers without removing any competitor from the market. We see no legitimate reason for our merger to be treated differently.\"\n\nAT&T also denied that the deal would lead to higher charges and said it had been willing to negotiate.\n\nPreviously, US media reported that the Department of Justice was pushing AT&T to sell some of its assets as a condition for approval. The options included Turner Broadcasting or its satellite network.\n\nMr Stephenson has said he is unwilling to sell CNN, which is part of Turner.\n\nProfessor Hay said it was not clear how the case would fare in court and it could still get resolved with a settlement.\n\nHe said it was surprising that the challenge was coming under a Republican administration, since Republicans and their appointees have historically been more business friendly.\n\nBut he was \"sceptical\" the decision to bring the case would turn out to be entirely political, given how much Department of Justice staff prize their independence. If it were, he said, it would harm the department's case.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Charles Manson's followers carried out murders on his orders\n\nCharles Manson, the notorious cult leader who directed his followers to commit a string of brutal murders, and who became a symbol of the dark side of 1960s counterculture, has died aged 83.\n\nManson was admitted to Bakersfield hospital, California earlier this month and died of natural causes on Sunday.\n\nIn 1969, his followers, known as the Manson Family, killed nine people.\n\nAmong the victims of the killing spree was heavily pregnant Hollywood actress Sharon Tate, wife of Roman Polanski.\n\nOne of Manson's young followers, Susan Atkins, stabbed Tate to death and scrawled \"PIG\" on the home's front door with the actress's blood.\n\nFour other people at Tate's home were brutally stabbed to death. The next day, a wealthy couple in Los Angeles, Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, were also killed by the clan. The killings became known collectively as the Tate-LaBianca murders.\n\nSeparately Donald Shea, a Hollywood stuntman, and Gary Hinman, an acquaintance of the group, were killed by members of the Manson Family.\n\nManson was not at the scene of the killings, but was nonetheless convicted of murder for directing his followers in seven of the killings. He was sentenced to death in 1971.\n\nSharon Tate, here with husband Roman Polanski, was eight and a half months pregnant when she was murdered\n\nManson \"died of natural causes at 8:13 pm (04:13 GMT Monday) on Sunday\" at a hospital in Kern County, the California Department of Corrections said in a statement. He had been in custody for more than 40 years.\n\nTate's sister, Debra told the TMZ website that she had received a phone call from prison officials shortly after Manson's death.\n\nGathering young followers around him in the late 1960s, Manson claimed to believe in a coming race war in America. He planned to hasten the war and emerge as the leader of a new social order - a vision he nicknamed \"Helter Skelter\", after a Beatles song Manson became obsessed with.\n\nProsecutors argued that Manson hoped black Americans would be blamed for the Tate-LaBianca killings, heightening racial tensions.\n\nManson convinced a number of his followers that he was the reincarnation of Jesus Christ, using a combination of drugs and genuine charisma to bring the \"Family\" - mainly young, middle-class women - under his control.\n\nBefore Manson's death sentence could be carried out, California outlawed capital punishment and his sentence was reduced to nine life sentences. Over the course of his four decades in prison, Manson applied for parole 12 times.\n\nThe last attempt was turned down by the parole board in 2012.\n\nIn 2014, Manson was granted a marriage licence to wed a 26-year-old woman who said she loved him, but the licence expired and the marriage did not go ahead.\n\nAlmost half a century on, the Manson Family's killing spree continues to fascinate many Americans, and has been retold through books, films and music.", "A pilot has crash landed on a Florida highway after experiencing engine trouble.\n\nIt happened near Clearwater Airpark in Pinellas County on Sunday morning.\n\nThe incident was caught on the dashcam of two police officers who were in the area on an unrelated call.\n\nThere were no reported injuries.", "Ex-Tory minister Anna Soubry says her office has received 13 death threats since a newspaper front page named her as one of 15 \"Brexit mutineers\".\n\nThe pro-EU Remain supporter said the police took the threats seriously and had passed two cases to prosecutors.\n\nShe said she had been \"really quite frightened\" and blamed the threats on Wednesday's Daily Telegraph front page.\n\nThe paper's editor defended what he called \"the legitimate actions and language of a free press\".\n\nThe story concerned Conservative MPs planning to rebel against the government's bid to enshrine the precise date of Brexit in law.\n\nSpeaking on Broadcasting House on BBC Radio 4, Ms Soubry said her office had told her of the 13 death threats.\n\n\"That's just astonishing, isn't it?\" she said.\n\n\"The police take it seriously - it's not nice, it's not acceptable and it's not necessary.\"\n\nMs Soubry had previously described the headline as a \"blatant piece of bullying\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Anna Soubry 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 threats had included \"references to what happens to mutineers\", she told the BBC, adding: \"A number of tweets have said we should be hung.\"\n\nShe added: \"If the Telegraph had not printed that headline those death threats would not have come through - that is a fact.\"\n\nThe government lost its majority at the general election and risks defeat when the Commons votes next month on the Brexit date issue.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show, Chancellor Philip Hammond said the government would not be withdrawing its plans to press ahead with the move, adding that Parliament was \"quite rightly\" debating the proposals as part of the EU (Withdrawal) Bill.\n\nThe BBC has contacted the Daily Telegraph for a formal response.\n\nBut in a tweet to Broadcasting House presenter Paddy O'Connell, editor Chris Evans said: \"I'd urge you to distinguish between the legitimate actions and language of a free press and the illegitimate actions and language of those who make threats of violence.\"\n\nHe also referred to a leader article in Saturday's paper defending the headline, which it says was intended to be \"arresting\" and to show \"that there are still forces at work seeking to stop Brexit happening\".\n\nIt added: \"The individuals may disagree with that observation, but we were entitled to make it and we will see during the course of the next year whether there is any merit in it.\n\n\"But the accusations of bullying are absurd and shrill.\"\n\nThe article also pointed out that Ms Soubry had described her inclusion in the front page as a \"badge of honour\".\n\nThe Telegraph's front page echoed that of the Daily Mail when it singled out three judges - labelling them \"Enemies of the people\" - after the High Court ruled that MPs must have a say on triggering Article 50.\n\nThe Daily Mail's piece attracted hundreds of complaints to watchdog the Independent Press Standards Organisation.", "Last updated on .From the section Sport\n\nUK Sport chair and Olympic gold medallist Dame Katherine Grainger has urged British sports to improve athlete welfare.\n\nSeveral governing bodies are embroiled in bullying allegations and Grainger said they must \"rise to the challenge\" of improving high-performance culture.\n\nThe 42-year-old five-time Olympian, who won rowing gold at London 2012, said there was \"a lot more to do\" on duty of care, and that this would mean more medals, not fewer.\n\nIt comes as UK Sport releases new guidance to coaches and staff on how to treat athletes with more respect.\n\nThe funding agency says coaching staff will be given guidance on four so-called \"golden threads\" of a positive and winning sporting culture - inspiration, integrity, the pursuit of excellence, and respect - tailored to \"12 critical moments in an athlete's journey through their sport\".\n• None Should welfare come before winning?\n\nWhat is the background?\n\nUK Sport's 'no-compromise' funding strategy, which allocates money according to medal potential, has been credited with transforming the country's Olympic and Paralympic fortunes.\n\nBut months of negative headlines involving athlete complaints have raised fears that medal success has come at the expense of welfare.\n\nThis isn't about putting welfare before performance because there isn't a choice between the two.\n\nLast week, British Gymnastics became the latest governing body to be dragged into the crisis, after inquiries into duty of care standards at British Cycling,British Swimming,British Canoeing,GB Taekwondo and the British Bobsleigh and Skeleton Association among others.\n\nCommonwealth champion Dan Keatings told BBC Sport he experienced a culture of \"bullying and manipulation\" throughout his time as a British gymnast, and several of his former team-mates are in dispute with the governing body over their refusal to sign new contracts.\n\nLast month, MPs on a parliamentary select committee were told that British athletes were threatened with not being selected if they spoke out about classification concerns in Paralympic sports.\n\nMeanwhile, Jess Varnish is suing British Cycling and UK Sport after she claimed to be the victim of bullying and discrimination when she was dropped from the Olympic squad last year.\n\nIf her lawyers successfully argue that she should have had employee status as a competitor and therefore better protections, the case could have major ramifications for all contracted athletes who are funded by UK Sport.\n\n'There is a lot more to do'\n\n\"I recognise and accept that there have been a number of difficult issues across a range of sports in recent months that have challenged our system, and we have to rise to that challenge,\" said Grainger, who became one of the most powerful figures in British sport when appointed in July.\n\n\"These issues do not take away from the achievements of our athletes and coaches, but neither can we brush them under the carpet or just hope that they go away.\n\n\"We have to aim to be the best in the world at athlete welfare, culture, governance and integrity just as we aim to be so in performance.\n\n\"And we have to be seen to be the best in order to maintain public trust and pride in our achievements.\"\n\nUK Sport has already appointed a new head of integrity and says it has conducted a review of policies across the high performance system.\n\nIt is also understood to be considering more funding for the British Athletes Commission.\n\nLast week the sports minister Tracey Crouch said she was open to appointing an independent ombudsman to investigate cases of bullying and discrimination, a key recommendation of Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson's duty of care review earlier this year.\n\n\"We have done a lot already but there is a lot more to do,\" added Grainger. \"In particular we have to concentrate on putting these new and improved policies into action.\n\n\"Getting our culture right is simply the right thing to do. This isn't about putting welfare before performance because there isn't a choice between the two.\n\n\"I genuinely believe that a better culture will lead to a stronger system and that in turn will help improve performances.\"", "Manson, pictured here in 1989, sent his followers to commit murder on his behalf\n\nMembers of his so-called Family were responsible for a series of high-profile killings that shattered the peace and love of the Californian summer of 1969.\n\nOver a period of five weeks, nine people, including the actress Sharon Tate, died in barbaric circumstances.\n\nDespite not committing any of the murders himself, Manson narrowly escaped the death penalty and spent the rest of his life in jail.\n\nHe was born Charles Milles Maddox in Cincinnati, Ohio, on 12 November 1934, the illegitimate son of 16-year-old Kathleen Maddox. Shortly after his birth, his mother married William Manson and her son took his stepfather's name.\n\nHe endured a miserable childhood. His mother was an alcoholic and when, in 1939, she was jailed after robbing a petrol station, Manson was placed in the care of his aunt and uncle.\n\nWhen his mother was paroled in 1942 she lived with her eight-year-old son in a series of dilapidated rooms before unsuccessfully applying to a court to have him fostered. Instead he was placed in a Catholic boys' home from which he ran away after just 10 months.\n\nBy the time he was a teenager he was a habitual criminal\n\nManson's robbery of an off-licence marked the beginning of a series of crimes, including armed robbery, and subsequent incarcerations in a number of institutions.\n\nBy the time he was 17 he had a string of convictions, with one prison case worker reporting that he was \"aggressively antisocial\". After rebelling against the prison authorities, he was classified as dangerous.\n\nHowever, by 1954, after a period of good behaviour, he was allowed parole. He moved to West Virginia to be with his mother and, in 1955, married Rosalie Jean Willis, who worked as a waitress in a hospital.\n\nThis brief settled period came to an end when he was sentenced to five years' probation for car theft, which was changed to three years in prison after he failed to appear in court to answer another charge. His wife went off with another man and the couple divorced.\n\nManson took up with a prostitute named Leona \"Candy\" Stevens, whose tearful plea to a court that she and Manson would marry if he stayed out of jail saw the judge suspend a 10-year jail sentence on Manson for passing a stolen Treasury cheque. However, in 1960 he again broke probation and was ordered to serve his suspended sentence.\n\nIn 1967 he was released from prison despite pleading with the authorities to let him stay. Having spent half his life in institutions, he did not feel capable of facing the world outside.\n\nThree of his Family - Susan Atkins, Patricia Krenwinkel and Leslie Van Houten - arrive in court\n\nHe moved to San Francisco where he met a library assistant called Mary Bunning, eventually persuading her to allow other women to move in with them. According to one account, there were at least 18 women resident in the apartment in the first incarnation of what would be dubbed the Manson Family.\n\nFuelled by considerable quantities of drugs, notably LSD, Manson set himself up as something of a guru, peddling a mixture of beliefs and the teachings of numerous cults. He convinced a series of adoring female followers that he was in fact Christ.\n\nBefore the end of 1967, Manson and some of his followers set off to tour the country in an old bus, covered in hippie regalia.\n\nIn a bizarre interlude, the Family moved into a plush house owned by the Beach Boys drummer, Dennis Wilson, where the musician found himself subsidising Manson's growing entourage. He introduced Manson to a number of friends working in music and show business.\n\nAfter being evicted by Wilson's manager, the Family relocated to a rundown ranch where Manson became obsessed by the track Helter Skelter on the Beatles' White Album, released in November 1968.\n\nLennon and McCartney's innocent lyrics about a children's playground slide were interpreted by Manson as signifying the beginning of a race war between black and white. In Manson's fevered mind, black people would emerge victorious but would have to rely on the guidance of the Family to help them to build a new social order.\n\nThe first killing took place on 25 July 1969, when Manson sent three members to the house of an acquaintance, Gary Hinman, who, Manson believed, had a stash of money. After being held hostage for two days, Hinman was stabbed to death by a Family member, Bobby Beausoleil.\n\nOn 8 August, Manson sent four members of the Family to the rented house of record producer Terry Melcher, with instructions to kill everyone they found. Melcher had previously turned down Manson's request for a recording contract.\n\nHowever, Melcher had moved, and the house had been rented to the film director Roman Polanski and his actress wife Sharon Tate. The gang first shot an 18-year-old youth they encountered outside the house before bursting in and killing the four occupants, hairstylist Jay Sebring, Polanski's friend and aspiring screenwriter Wojciech Frykowski and Frykowski's girlfriend Abigail Folger. Polanski himself was in London on business.\n\nTate, who was eight and a half months pregnant, died from stab wounds and her blood was used to write the word \"pig\" on the outside of the house.\n\nSharon Tate, 26, and Roman Polanski had only married the year before\n\nThe following night Manson, who had not attended the previous killings, went with six members of the Family to the house of a supermarket executive, Leno LaBianca, and his wife Rosemary. The couple were stabbed to death although, after tying them up, Manson left the house before the attacks began.\n\nThe final victim was Donald Shea. Manson instructed Steve Grogan, a member of the Family, to kill the former film stuntman, who he believed had passed information to the police. Shea's remains were not found until 1977, when Grogan led police to where he had buried him eight years previously.\n\nThe police initially ruled out any connection between the Tate and LaBianca killings. The breakthrough only came when Manson and some Family members were arrested after allegations they had vandalised part of the Death Valley National Park by burning stolen vehicles.\n\nWhile being held in custody, Family member Susan Atkins confided her involvement in the murders to two other prisoners who informed the authorities.\n\nThe trial was marked by a series of disruptions by Family members and a rambling speech in his own defence by Manson. Manson and the three other defendants from the Family were sentenced to death. An appeal process delayed the executions and the sentences were commuted to life imprisonment when California abolished the death penalty in 1972.\n\nThe publicity surrounding Charles Manson and his Family failed to go away. In 1975, one of his followers, Lynette \"Squeaky\" Fromme, was jailed for life after attempting to assassinate President Ford.\n\nManson himself remained in the public eye. He gave four TV interviews from prison in the 1980s, most notably with Dan Snyder from NBC News and Charlie Rose for CBS, the latter interview winning an Emmy award.\n\nHis marriage to Elaine \"Star\" Burton did not go ahead\n\nBy the turn of the century, Manson and his followers had become something of a cult, with websites dedicated to him by people not even born when the Family committed murder.\n\nOne of these admirers was Afton Elaine \"Star\" Burton, who had begun corresponding with Manson in 2007 when she was just 17. She later announced that she and Manson had become engaged. A marriage licence was issued but it expired without any wedding taking place.\n\nThe singer Marilyn Manson took his surname, while the British band Kasabian are named after Linda Kasabian, the Family member who escaped prosecution by giving evidence against her former associates.\n\nVincent Bugliosi, the prosecutor at his trial, and the author of Helter Skelter, an account of the case, summed it up thus. \"The very name Manson has become a metaphor for evil, and evil has its allure.\"\n\nManson made 12 applications for parole, all of which were refused. Neither the court hearings, nor a positive avalanche of subsequent writings, have given any definitive explanation for Manson's motivation or, perhaps more puzzling, the motivation of those who decided to follow him and commit murder on his behalf.", "Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, the man known as \"the crocodile\" because of his political cunning, achieved a long-held ambition to succeed Robert Mugabe as Zimbabwe's president in November last year.\n\nHe has now won a disputed presidential election to legitimise his rule, promising voters his efforts to woo foreign investors will bring back the economy from the brink of collapse.\n\nMr Mugabe resigned following a military takeover and mass demonstrations - all sparked by his sacking of Mr Mnangagwa as his vice-president.\n\n\"The crocodile\", who lived up to his name and snapped back, may have unseated Zimbabwe's only ruler, but he is also associated with some of the worst atrocities committed under the ruling Zanu-PF party since independence in 1980.\n\nOne veteran of the liberation struggle, who worked with him for many years, once put it simply: \"He's a very cruel man, very cruel.\"\n\nBut his children see him as a principled, if unemotional, man. His daughter, Farai Mlotshwa - a property developer and the eldest of his nine children by two wives - told BBC Radio 4 that he was a \"softie\".\n\nAs if to reinforce this softer image of the new leader, a cuddly crocodile soft toy was passed among the Zanu-PF supporters who welcomed him back to the country after Mr Mugabe's resignation.\n\nEmmerson Mnangagwa is known as \"Ngwena\", the Shona word for crocodile\n\nAnd what he lacks in charisma and oratory prowess, he makes up for in pragmatism, says close friend and Zanu-PF politician Josiah Hungwe.\n\n\"Mnangagwa is a practical person. He is a person who recognises that politics is politics but people must eat,\" he told the BBC, adding that reforming Zimbabwe's disastrous economy will be the focus of his leadership.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emmerson Mnangagwa: Who is the man known as the ‘crocodile’?\n\nThe exact year of Mr Mnangagwa's birth is not known - but he is thought to be 75, which would make him nearly 20 years younger than his predecessor who left power aged 93.\n\nBorn in the central region of Zvishavane, he is a Karanga - the largest clan of Zimbabwe's majority Shona community.\n\nSome Karangas felt it was their turn for power, following 37 years of domination by Mr Mugabe's Zezuru clan, though Mr Mnangagwa was accused of profiting while under Mr Mugabe.\n\nAccording to a United Nations report in 2001, he was seen as \"the architect of the commercial activities of Zanu-PF\".\n\nThis largely related to the operations of the Zimbabwean army and businessmen in the Democratic Republic of Congo.\n\nZimbabwean troops intervened in the DR Congo conflict on the side of the government and, like those of other countries, were accused of using the conflict to loot some of its rich natural resources such as diamonds, gold and other minerals.\n\nMore recently military officials - many behind his rise to power - have been accused of benefiting from the rich Marange diamond fields in eastern Zimbabwe, with reports of killings and human rights abuses there.\n\nDespite his money-raising role, Mr Mnangagwa, a lawyer who grew up in Zambia, was not always well-loved by the rank and file of his own party.\n\nA Zanu-PF official posed an interesting question when asked about Mr Mnangagwa's prospects: \"You think Mugabe is bad, but have you thought that whoever comes after him could be even worse?\"\n\nThe opposition candidate who defeated Mr Mnangagwa in the 2000 parliamentary campaign in Kwekwe Central, Blessing Chebundo, might agree.\n\nDuring a bitter campaign, Mr Chebundo escaped death by a whisker when the Zanu-PF youths who had abducted him and doused him with petrol were unable to light a match.\n\nThose who fought in Zimbabwe's war of independence have long monopolised power\n\nMr Mnangagwa's fearsome reputation was made during the civil war which broke out in the 1980s between Mr Mugabe's Zanu party and the Zapu party of Joshua Nkomo.\n\nAs national security minister, he was in charge of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), which worked hand in glove with the army to suppress Zapu.\n\nThousands of civilians - mainly ethnic Ndebeles, seen as Zapu supporters - were killed in a campaign known as Gukurahundi, before the two parties merged to form Zanu-PF.\n\nAmong countless other atrocities carried out by the North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade of the army, villagers were forced at gunpoint to dance on the freshly dug graves of their relatives and chant pro-Mugabe slogans.\n\nMr Mnangagwa has denied any role in the massacres, but the wounds are still painful and many party officials, not to mention voters, in Matabeleland might find it hard to back Mr Mnangagwa.\n\nHe does enjoy the support of many of the war veterans who led the campaign of violence against the white farmers and the opposition from 2000.\n\nThey remember him as one of the men who, following his military training in China and Egypt, directed the fight for independence in the 1960s and 1970s.\n\nHe also attended the Beijing School of Ideology, run by the Chinese Communist Party.\n\nMr Mnangagwa's official profile says he was the victim of state violence after being arrested by the white-minority government in the former Rhodesia in 1965, when the \"crocodile gang\" he led helped blow up a train near Fort Victoria (now Masvingo).\n\n\"He was tortured, severely resulting in him losing his sense of hearing in one ear,\" the profile says.\n\n\"Part of the torture techniques involved being hanged with his feet on the ceiling and the head down. The severity of the torture made him unconscious for days.\"\n\nAs he said he was under 21 at the time, he was not executed but instead sentenced to 10 years in prison.\n\n\"He has scars from that period. He was young and brave,\" a close friend of Mr Mnangagwa once said, asking not to be named.\n\n\"Perhaps that explains why he is indifferent. Horrible things happened to him when he was young.\"\n\nHis ruthlessness, which it could be argued he learnt from his Rhodesian torturers, is said to have been seen again in 2008 when he reportedly masterminded Zanu-PF's response to Mr Mugabe losing the first round of the president election to long-time rival Morgan Tsvangirai.\n\nThe military and state security organisations unleashed a campaign of violence against opposition supporters, leaving hundreds dead and forcing thousands from their homes.\n\nMr Tsvangirai then pulled out of the second round and Mr Mugabe was re-elected.\n\nMr Mnangagwa has not commented on allegations he was involved in planning the violence, but an insider in the party's security department later confirmed that he was the political link between the army, intelligence and Zanu-PF.\n\nHe was seen as Mr Mugabe's right-hand man - that is until the former first lady Grace Mugabe became politically ambitious and tried to edge him out.\n\nTheir rivalry took a bizarre turn when he fell ill in August 2017 at a political rally led by former President Mugabe and had to be airlifted to South Africa.\n\nGrace Mugabe (right) bit off more than she could chew by taking on Mr Mnangagwa\n\nHis supporters suggested that a rival group within Zanu-PF had poisoned him and appeared to blame ice cream from Mrs Mugabe's dairy firm.\n\nIn his first words to cheering supporters after Mr Mugabe's resignation, he spoke about this plot and another plan to \"eliminate\" him.\n\nHe has also blamed a group linked to the former first lady for an explosion in June at a Zanu-PF rally in Bulawayo in which two people died.\n\nBut in a BBC interview, he said the country was safe, told foreign investors not to worry and sought to dispel his ruthless reputation: \"I am as soft as wool. I am a very soft person in life.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mnangagwa: Criminal will be hounded down, but Zimbabwe is safe\n\nHis youngest son, a Harare DJ known as St Emmo, blames his reticence for his fearsome reputation.\n\n\"He was a good father, very very strict. He doesn't say much and I think that's what frightens people - like: 'What is he thinking?'\"\n\nNick Mangwana, Zanu-PF representative in the UK, accepts that the Zimbabwe's new leader is \"not the most eloquent\".\n\n\"He's not pally-pally but more of a do-er, more of a technocrat.\"\n\nBut in his six months in power he has fully embraced Twitter and Facebook - after the Bulawayo blast he posted a message reiterating the strength his Christian faith gives him.\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 Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa 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\nFixing the economy is what is paramount now. Zimbabweans are on average 15% poorer now than they were in the 1980s.\n\nBritish journalist Martin Fletcher, who interviewed Mr Mnangagwa in 2016, does not see him a reborn democrat.\n\n\"He understands the need to rebuild the economy if only so that he can pay his security forces - and his survival depends on their loyalty,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Hard conversations are coming for Theresa May\n\nDid you watch Theresa May try to make the best of her Swedish photo opportunities yesterday? Or listen to David Davis as he urged the EU side to blink first, rather than the UK side?\n\nThey both know that time is short to guarantee the UK gets what it wants and pushes the EU to move to the next stage of vital Brexit talks at the next leaders' jamboree in December.\n\nWhat's been missing until now is a sense of when the UK will be able to resolve its own short-term position.\n\nIs the cabinet willing to sanction a political move to offer the promise (not the figure) of more money on the table to settle our EU accounts?\n\nAnd if ministers are willing to do so, what do they expect in return - and when?\n\nIt's been all too obvious that the EU side has, for a long time, been clear that they'll only budge when the UK is ready to promise - even vaguely or implicitly - a lot more cash.\n\nThe hold-up has in part been that the UK has been pushing to make sure that taxpayers at home don't shell out when they don't have to.\n\nAnd also because UK and EU officials have taken a very different approach to settling the bill.\n\nBut it's also the case that cabinet ministers have not been ready to agree how they want to proceed, and without that political agreement, it's been hard for the negotiations about the money to progress.\n\nHowever, the crunch is coming fast.\n\nI'm told on Monday there will be a significant meeting of the small cabinet committee that decides the Brexit negotiating strategy.\n\nSeveral government sources say the meeting of the Brexit strategy group could change the course of our departure.\n\nThe question to be answered on Monday could be profound.\n\nOne source told me: \"People have to decide if they really want to make progress and support this prime minister, or not.\"\n\nFor some in government that tight group of cabinet ministers must on Monday take a decision as vital as that - do they want to do a deal with the EU, or not?\n\nDavid Davis has urged EU negotiators to blink first\n\nOf course there is bravado on both sides.\n\nAs ever, whether thinking of talks on the continent, or in government, take every utterance with a pinch of salt.\n\nBrexiteer ministers believe that they need to be clearer about what the UK would get in return for paying a bigger bill - a view that would no question have sympathy among swathes of taxpayers.\n\nThey are not, thus far, ready to sign up to what they see as Number 10's version of the next move - a promise to pay a lot more cash, potentially as much as 50bn-60bn euros.\n\nThey do not rule it out completely, but not before it is clear what we get in return.\n\nBut the lack of clarity in government about our eventual destination - whether we are closely, or loosely tied to the EU after departure - makes that hard to conclude.\n\nOne insider said: \"We still have to settle the broader question - what do we actually want? That's the point to consider.\"\n\nThe discussion on Monday could therefore spill into conversations about the future relationship after Brexit, as well as cold hard cash.\n\nFor some in government, Monday feels vital. For others, it's OK in theory to let another decision point go past without conclusions.\n\nBut if they don't reach any conclusions, some in government believe that sets us on a course to crash out with no deal.\n\nTime is running short for the discussion in government that Theresa May has put off for so long.\n\nBut one insider said there is no \"limping\" on until March: \"We have to just decide.\"\n\nDonald Tusk's deadline is hypothetical, but the pressure to move on is now not just coming from Brussels or Berlin, but from some elements in government.\n\nTheresa May is yet to give her own public view.\n\nBut hard conversations don't get easier the longer you wait.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRobert Mugabe, the man who became synonymous with Zimbabwe, has resigned as president after 37 years in power.\n\nFor some, he will always remain a hero who brought independence and an end to white-minority rule. Even those who forced him out blamed his wife and \"criminals\" around him.\n\nBut to his growing number of critics, this highly educated, wily politician became the caricature of an African dictator, who destroyed an entire country in order to keep his job.\n\nIn the end, it was the security forces, who had been instrumental in intimidating the opposition and keeping him in power, who made him go.\n\nThey were incensed when he sacked his long-time ally, Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, paving the way for his much younger wife Grace to succeed him, fearing it meant the end for them as the powers behind the throne.\n\nHe had survived numerous previous crises and predictions of his demise but with his powers failing at the age of 93, his former comrades-in-arms turned on him, favouring Mr Mnangagwa.\n\nBefore the 2008 elections, Mr Mugabe said: \"If you lose an election and are rejected by the people, it is time to leave politics.\"\n\nBut after coming second to Morgan Tsvangirai, Mr Mugabe displayed more characteristic defiance, swearing that \"only God\" could remove him from office.\n\nAnd just to be sure, violence was unleashed to preserve his grip on power.\n\nIn order to save the lives of his supporters, Mr Tsvangirai pulled out of the second round and although Mr Mugabe was forced to share power with his long-time rival for four years, he remained president.\n\nHe even won another election, in 2013, as Mr Tsvangirai had lost a lot of credibility during his years working with Mr Mugabe.\n\nThe key to understanding Mr Mugabe is the 1970s guerrilla war where he made his name.\n\nPresident Mugabe (L) has given his support to his wife Grace (R) for the vice-presidency\n\nEven after 37 years in power, Mr Mugabe still maintained the same worldview - the patriotic socialist forces of his Zanu-PF party were still fighting the twin evils of capitalism and colonialism.\n\nAny critics were dismissed as \"traitors and sell-outs\" - a throwback to the guerrilla war, when such labels could be a death sentence.\n\nRobert Mugabe (L), seen here in 1960, was greatly influenced by pan-Africanist ideals\n\nHe always blamed Zimbabwe's economic problems on a plot by Western countries, led by the UK, to oust him because of his seizure of white-owned farms.\n\nHis critics firmly blamed him, saying he had no understanding of how a modern economy worked.\n\nHe always concentrated on the question of how to share out the national cake, rather than how to make it grow.\n\nProtesters in 2016 burn worthless currency in a show of defiance against the introduction of new bond notes\n\nMr Mugabe once famously said that a country could never go bankrupt - with the world's fastest-shrinking economy and annual inflation of 231 million per cent in July 2008, it seemed as though he was determined to test his theory to the limit.\n\nProfessor Tony Hawkins of the University of Zimbabwe once observed that with Zimbabwe's former leader: \"Whenever economics gets in the way of politics, politics wins every time.\"\n\nIn 2000, faced with a strong opposition for the first time, he wrecked what was one of Africa's most diversified economies in a bid to retain political control.\n\nHe seized the white-owned farms which were the economy's backbone and scared off donors but in purely political terms, Mr Mugabe outsmarted his enemies - he remained in power for another 17 years.\n\nAnd the tactics he and his supporters used were straight from the guerrilla war.\n\nAfter he suffered the first electoral defeat of his career, in a 2000 referendum, Mr Mugabe unleashed his personal militia - the self-styled war veterans, backed by the security forces - who used violence and murder as an electoral strategy.\n\nMr Mugabe says he is fighting for the rights of black Zimbabweans\n\nEight years later, a similar pattern was followed after Mr Mugabe lost the first round of a presidential election to his long-time rival Morgan Tsvangirai.\n\nWhen needed, all the levers of state - the security forces, civil service, state-owned media - which are mostly controlled by Zanu-PF, were used in the service of the ruling party.\n\nThe man who fought for one-man, one-vote introduced a requirement that potential voters prove their residence with utility bills, which the young, unemployed opposition core electorate were unlikely to have.\n\nIn fact, the signs of his attitude to opposition were there from the early 1980s, when members of the North-Korea trained Fifth Brigade of the army were sent to Matabeleland, home to his then rival, Joshua Nkomo.\n\nThousands of civilians were killed before Mr Nkomo agreed to share power with Mr Mugabe - a precursor of what happened with Mr Tsvangirai.\n\nOne of the undoubted achievements of the former teacher's 33 years in power was the expansion of education. Zimbabwe still has one of the highest literacy rates in Africa, at 89% of the population.\n\nThe now deceased political scientist Masipula Sithole once said that by expanding education, the president was \"digging his own grave\".\n\nMr Mugabe has not been afraid to use violence to stay in power\n\nThe young beneficiaries were able to analyse Zimbabwe's problems for themselves and most blamed government corruption and mismanagement for the lack of jobs and rising prices.\n\nHe often claimed to be fighting on behalf of the rural poor but much of the land he confiscated ended up in the hands of his cronies.\n\nArchbishop Desmond Tutu once said that Zimbabwe's long-time president had become a cartoon figure of the archetypal African dictator.\n\nDuring the 2002 presidential campaign, he started wearing brightly coloured shirts emblazoned with his face - a style copied from many of Africa's authoritarian rulers.\n\nFor the preceding 20 years, this conservative man was only seen in public with either a stiff suit and tie or safari suit.\n\nHe professes to be a staunch Catholic, and worshippers at Harare's Catholic Cathedral were occasionally swamped by security guards when he turned up for Sunday Mass.\n\nHowever, Mr Mugabe's beliefs did not prevent him from having two children by Grace, then his secretary, while his popular Ghanaian first wife, Sally, was dying from cancer.\n\nBut it was his second wife Grace, 40 years his junior, who ultimately proved his downfall.\n\nAlthough Mr Mugabe outlived many predictions of his demise, the increasing strain of recent years took its toll and his once-impeccable presentation has begun to look rather worn at times.\n\nIn 2011, a US diplomatic cable released by Wikileaks suggested that he was suffering from prostate cancer.\n\nWife Grace said Mr Mugabe woke at 05:00 for his exercise\n\nBut he certainly led a healthy lifestyle.\n\nGrace once said that he woke up at 05:00 for his daily exercises, including yoga. He did not drink alcohol or coffee and was largely vegetarian.\n\nMr Mugabe was 73 when she gave birth to their third child, Chatunga.\n\nIf nothing else, Mr Mugabe has always been an extremely proud man.\n\nHe often said he would only step down when his \"revolution\" was complete.\n\nHe was referring to the redistribution of white-owned land but he also wanted to hand-pick his successor, who would of course have had to come from the ranks of Zanu-PF.\n\nDidymus Mutasa, once one of Mr Mugabe's closest associates but who has since fallen out with him, once told the BBC that in Zimbabwean culture, kings were only replaced when they die \"and Mugabe is our king\".\n\nBut even his closest allies were not ready for Zimbabwe to be turned into a monarchy, with power retained by a single family.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Boxing\n\nDavid Haye's heavyweight rematch with fellow Briton Tony Bellew has been postponed after Haye slipped on the stairs in a \"freak\" training accident.\n\nHaye, who has had surgery for a torn biceps, said he was \"devastated\".\n\nWBC cruiserweight world champion Bellew, 34, stopped former heavyweight world champion Haye, 37, in the 11th round of their fight in March.\n\nThe rematch, a sell-out scheduled for 17 December at the 02 Arena in London, will be held on 24 March or 5 May 2018.\n\nHaye was injured during training on 16 November.\n\n\"After a freak accident during a stair conditioning session, which I've done with no incident hundreds of times, I lost my footing and slipped,\" he said.\n\n\"I instinctively grabbed the banister to stop myself toppling down the stairwell. In doing so I somehow managed to damage my biceps.\n\n\"I underwent a procedure to repair it; this was pretty straightforward and my doctor and physiotherapist have no doubt that not only will I make a full recovery but will be able to be back in the gym to start my arm rehabilitation in two weeks.\n\n\"I would like to apologise to Tony, his family and his training team, as well as all our fans who have been left disappointed.\"\n\nThis is the latest injury for David Haye - just about everything has gone wrong with him. He's been boxing for 25 years and it takes its toll on everybody.\n\nEvery time he has fought in the last 10 years he has hurt himself, he has pulled out of some monumental fights. He has to be so careful when he trains because when he was younger, he didn't.\n\nHe is desperate to fight, to put right a wrong which he considers the last Bellew fight - and he wants a £6m, £7m or £8m payday with Anthony Joshua.\n\nBellew will be crushed, he's had a long camp and I don't think he will take another fight. He will give Haye until the New Year. He wants that fight. It will make him a lot of money and Bellew is convinced he will win.", "Around 5,000lb of explosives were used to bring down one of the biggest dome structures in the US. The newly erected Mercedes-Benz Stadium next door opened earlier this year.", "Endris Mohammed carried out the killings during a \"sleepover\" in the lounge\n\nA man who murdered his two young children by smothering them with a petrol-soaked rag has been sentenced to at least 33 years in jail.\n\nEndris Mohammed, 47, was convicted of killing his son Saros and daughter Leanor Endris, aged eight and six, at their home in Birmingham last October.\n\nHe also tried to kill his wife in an attempted gas blast at the house, Birmingham Crown Court heard.\n\nHe was also given a 10-year concurrent sentence for her attempted murder.\n\nOn Friday, jurors took less than 30 minutes to find Mohammed guilty of the killings of his children and the attempt to murder his wife, Penil Teklehaimanot.\n\nJurors had heard that after trying to blow up the house by tampering with a gas valve Mohammed, a taxi driver, had started a fire near the front door.\n\nSaros and Leanor died from airway obstruction after suffering chemical burns to their faces, the court was told.\n\nMohammed was told his children \"trusted him implicitly\"\n\nOn the night they were murdered, Mrs Teklehaimanot was woken by a smoke alarm at their home in Holland Road, Great Barr, but had thought her children were asleep.\n\nBut, they had been killed by their father during a \"sleepover\" downstairs with him, and were found dead at about 03.30 BST on 28 October, 2016.\n\nPassing sentence on Mohammed, Mr Justice Gilbart described the murders as a \"terrible criminal enterprise\" and told Mohammed: \"You have deliberately snuffed out their young lives\".\n\n\"They trusted you implicitly and were enjoying your company even on the night of their murder,\" he said. \"You repaid their trust in you by killing them.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mohammed captured buying petrol on CCTV less than 12 hours before killing his children\n\nCCTV footage showed Mohammed buying a fuel can and three litres of petrol the day before the murders.\n\nSpeaking after his conviction, Mrs Teklehaimanot said the pain of losing her children was \"indescribable\".\n\n\"There is no bigger pain in this world than this experience,\" she said. \"I cannot comprehend how anyone could be so cold-hearted.\"\n\nEndris Mohammed suffered burns when he set his car on fire\n\nThe Uber driver claimed to have a depressive disorder, citing debts and failed hopes for \"a good life in England\".\n\nHe murdered his children after deciding they \"would be better off dead\", the court heard.\n\nHe was later found sitting in his car in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire, with severe burns, after setting fire to himself.\n\nPolice said Mohammed had no history of mental illness and contrary to claims of financial difficulties, his account was not overdrawn and Mrs Teklehaimanot was \"bringing good money into the house\".\n\nJudge Gilbart accepted Mohammed was suffering a depressive illness but said it fell short of diminished responsibility.\n\nDet Insp Justin Spanner, from West Midlands Police, said \"evidence of the pre-planning\" made this \"one of the worst cases I've dealt with\".\n\nMohammed's defence barrister Timothy Raggatt, said the defendant was a man of \"previous good character... who has done something unspeakable\".\n\n\"He is at a loss to understand it himself,\" he added.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Michael Fallon: \"Not right for me to go on as defence secretary\".\n\n\"What might have been acceptable 15, 10 years ago is clearly not acceptable now,\" Sir Michael Fallon told me tonight as he quit the government.\n\nClear to him now, and his departure will make clear to any other politicians in Westminster that behaviour they might have laughed off or treated as part and parcel of the rumbustious life is not acceptable and is not, it seems, acceptable to Number 10.\n\nIt has plainly for him been a very painful discovery to make.\n\nSources close to him don't believe that he is some kind of predator.\n\nHe has been known as a reliable minister, but also a sociable and approachable politician.\n\nWhile sources close to him want to underline that they had not been told of any more allegations to come, or anything more serious, they were clearly aware that there could be more to come.\n\nHe did not feel that he could necessarily account for every event, every encounter in a long ministerial career without being able to guarantee that no more would emerge.\n\nBut it's also been suggested to the BBC that Number 10 was approached directly by several women with concerns about Sir Michael just this afternoon.\n\nAnd within hours he had therefore taken the decision to go.\n\nNumber 10 won't deny or confirm what led to the resignation - they won't engage at all in any discussion of the whys and wherefores of the decision making process.\n\nAnd as above, Sir Michael's team say they know of nothing else that was about to break.\n\nBut some Tory MPs are looking to what happened as potential evidence that when the prime minister said that she would take this harassment scandal seriously, she really meant it.\n\nP.S. It also leaves Mrs May with a huge headache about reshaping her Cabinet at a time of political weakness. More of that tomorrow.", "A private member's bill to give 16 and 17-year-olds the vote now has little chance of becoming law after running out of debating time in the House of Commons, before it could be put to a vote.\n\nThe Representation of the People (Young People's Enfranchisement) Bill, proposed by the Labour MP Jim McMahon, was debated for a little less than an hour and a half.\n\nAnd the Deputy Speaker Eleanor Laing ruled that was not long enough for her to allow it to be put to a vote.\n\nIn theory the debate will resume on a Friday in December, but in practice the bill will be so low on the agenda, it's unlikely to get any debating time.", "Police were called after a taxi mounted a pavement in Covent Garden, London\n\nFour people have been injured, including one seriously, after a taxi mounted a pavement in London.\n\nThe incident, in Southampton Street, Covent Garden, is not believed to be terror-related, police have said.\n\nA man has been transferred to a major trauma centre with a serious leg injury. Two others were taken to hospital with minor injuries and a fourth was treated by paramedics.\n\nThe driver of the taxi was detained at the scene.\n\nPolice believe two vehicles were involved in the collision, which took place just after 17:00 GMT.\n\nAn eyewitness described seeing a person trapped under the taxi and \"hearing screams\" as pedestrians were struck.\n\nPolice say two cars are thought to have been involved\n\nAnother onlooker said he initially thought the incident was terror-related.\n\n\"Everyone was running, panicking and screaming\", he said.", "Two men have been charged with negligence over the deaths of three soldiers during an SAS selection march in the Brecon Beacons.\n\nL/Cpl Edward Maher, L/Cpl Craig Roberts and Cpl James Dunsby were taking part in a 16-mile (25km) recruitment exercise on the hottest day of 2013.\n\nThe Service Prosecution Authority confirmed charges had been brought.\n\nThe case will be heard in a military court and the maximum sentence is two years detention.\n\nA Ministry of Defence spokesman said: \"Any decision to prosecute any personnel, veteran or serving, is made by the Service Prosecution Authority (SPA), an independent body.\"\n\nL/Cpl Roberts, 24, from Penrhyn Bay, Conwy county, and L/Cpl Maher, 31 of Winchester, died on the exercise in July, while Cpl Dunsby, 31, from Wiltshire, was taken to hospital and died 17 days later.\n\nAll had suffered from hyperthermia, where the body no longer controls core temperature.\n\nInitially, the SPA decided charges were not going to be directed against the pair, but relatives of the soldiers who died asked for the case to be reviewed.\n\nThe soldiers will appear in a military court, which provides jurisdiction for all members of the UK's armed forces, for both service and criminal matters.\n\nThe Military Court Service is independent and is headed by a civil servant.\n\nThe soldiers collapsed during the march while carrying 50lbs (22kg) of equipment", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Special correspondent Ed Thomas has witnessed the reality of knife crime\n\nDelivery rider Abla's life changed in an instant in July on his way through Tottenham, north London.\n\nAfter stopping at traffic lights, his moped was surrounded by five other motorbikes, two riding on the road, three on the pavement.\n\nWith the lights on red, he was pushed off his scooter while being threatened with a knife. In a matter of seconds the bike was gone.\n\n\"My money has gone, my bike has gone, my job, everything,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't know what I'm going to do.\"\n\nWith only third party insurance, he estimates he's had £2,500 stolen from him.\n\nHe is far from being alone.\n\nAcross England and Wales an incident involving a blade or sharp object takes place, on average, every 14 minutes. Of the 37,000 incidents in the past 12 months, more than 13,000 offences were committed in London.\n\nWe filmed Abla's bike being stolen. What is striking looking back at the footage is how small the robbers look on their mopeds.\n\nBut the police say this is not a surprise, with the average age of moped criminals at just 15.\n\nJust weeks later we encounter the aftermath of another attack - this time a woman in a wheelchair assaulted in her local park after a man tried to steal her bag.\n\nHer head and arms covered in blood, she is confused and distressed.\n\n\"I couldn't see anything\", she said. \"He just said 'give me your bag'... I just don't know why people have to do these things.\"\n\nThe violent robbery was witnessed by a group of teenagers. One of them told us he saw violence every day and now felt hopeless.\n\n\"It's scaring people because things are happening so often, to the point where people are fearing for their lives every single day.\"\n\nThe capital has seen a staggering 34% rise in knife crime over the last year.\n\nPaul McKenzie has spent all his life in Tottenham.\n\nWhen he was 15 years old he was stabbed in the hand with a machete.\n\nShortly afterwards he decided to start carrying a knife to protect himself.\n\nBut just months later police caught him with the weapon, and he was sent to a young offender's institute.\n\nPaul McKenzie is committed to getting knives off the streets, after police caught him with a weapon\n\nSince then he has spent 20 years working with young people to educate them about the dangers of drugs, gangs, knives and guns.\n\nHe said most of the young people he speaks to in his workshops carry knives for protection.\n\n\"What you're finding is - and this has come out of the mouth of a few young people I've spoken to - that teenagers actually know people who can stitch [their wounds] up.\"\n\n\"A lot of the knife crimes are not reported because nobody wants to be involved with the police.\"\n\nMr McKenzie said that as well as the fear of 'snitching' there is a lack of faith that an investigation will lead to a prosecution.\n\nThe BBC has learnt that police forces across England and Wales are charging fewer people for knife crimes at the same time as offences are rising.\n\nFreedom of Information (FOI) responses from 30 out of 43 police forces showed that the number of knife crime offences that led to offenders being charged or summoned to court had fallen by eight per cent between 2015 and 2016.\n\nBut in Northern Ireland, knife crime is down for the second successive year.\n\nPolice in Scotland only began collating comprehensive knife crime figures in April. Prior to this, statistics were kept for possession of a knife - this has remained stable for the last few years.\n\nMr McKenzie regularly gets tip-offs about the public places where knives are hidden by people to use when they might need them at short notice.\n\nAs he walks around a park in Enfield, north London, it takes him just minutes to find what he is looking for.\n\n\"That could be the difference between someone living and dying right there, because now I know that's not going to go into somebody's chest.\"\n\nThe Metropolitan Police say people carry knives for many reasons - for some it's because they mistakenly believe it offers them protection.\n\nOne man the BBC spoke to, who carries a Rambo-style knife and does not want to be identified, said he felt safer when carrying a blade.\n\nHe admitted to seeing multiple friends injured from knife crime - some of them have died.\n\nHe added: \"It makes you know that you have to keep a knife with you, because it's a part of life now.\"\n\nPerhaps the most striking feature of the increase in extreme violence is the number of young people involved.\n\nStatistics show a third of all those accused of offences where a gun was fired (237 out of 668) in London since 2012 were aged 19 or under.\n\nForty-five of the offences were committed by people aged under 14.\n\nThe increase in violent crime does not only involve knives.\n\nGun crime offences still remain below historic highs of March 2007 - when they were 31% higher than today - but the increase over the last three years is marked.\n\nGun crime across England and Wales has increased by 27% over the last year and in London is 42% higher.\n\nOne-in-six of the victims of gun crime in London in the first eight months of this year was aged 17 or under.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police is trying to tackle the issue using stop-and-search. In a statement the Met said it regards it as an \"invaluable tool\" that takes several thousand weapons off the streets each year, and has been backed by Commissioner Cressida Dick.\n\nThe force says it has changed the way they use stop-and-search and complaints have fallen by over 60%.\n\nBut the tactic can cause tension.\n\nFriends of Jordan Malutshi, a 17-year-old stabbed to death in 2012, were stopped and searched at a memorial barbecue at Patmore Estate in Wandsworth, south London.\n\nAn officer told us there had been three murders locally within a matter of weeks as a result of knife crime.\n\nBut one of Jordan's friends, calling himself Abs, claimed the search amounted to racial profiling.\n\nA stop-and-search was used on a Wandsworth estate for the first time in three years as people began arriving to Jordan Malutshi's memorial\n\nHe said he thought the group was stopped because the police saw \"four black youths in a car, in a nice car\".\n\nThe BBC has learned that 65% of all people who face criminal proceedings for knife crime in London are from ethnic minorities, and 42% are black.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Cressida Dick, said tackling violent crime is her priority.\n\nIn a statement to the BBC, she expressed her \"anger\" at \"the apparent perception amongst some criminals that they could operate with near impunity\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mark Lehner: \"A space that the builders left to protect the grand gallery?\"\n\nThe mysteries of the pyramids have deepened with the discovery of what appears to be a giant void within the Khufu, or Cheops, monument in Egypt.\n\nIt is not known why the cavity exists or indeed if it holds anything of value because it is not obviously accessible.\n\nJapanese and French scientists made the announcement after two years of study at the famous pyramid complex.\n\nThey have been using a technique called muography, which can sense density changes inside large rock structures.\n\nThe Great Pyramid, or Khufu's Pyramid, is thought to have been constructed during the reign of Pharaoh Khufu between 2509 and 2483 BC.\n\nAt 140m (460 feet) in height, it is the largest of the Egyptian pyramids located at Giza on the outskirts of Cairo.\n\nKhufu famously contains three large interior chambers and a series of passageways, the most striking of which is the 47m-long, 8m-high Grand Gallery.\n\nThe newly identified feature is said to sit directly above this and have similar dimensions.\n\n\"We don't know whether this big void is horizontal or inclined; we don't know if this void is made by one structure or several successive structures,\" explained Mehdi Tayoubi from the HIP Institute, Paris.\n\n\"What we are sure about is that this big void is there; that it is impressive; and that it was not expected as far as I know by any sort of theory.\"\n\nThe newly found void is directly above the Grand Gallery\n\nThe ScanPyramids team is being very careful not to describe the cavity as a \"chamber\".\n\nKhufu contains compartments that experts believe may have been incorporated by the builders to avoid collapse by relieving some of the stress of the overlying weight of stone.\n\nThe higher King's Chamber, for example, has five such spaces above it.\n\nHe says the muon science is sound but he is not yet convinced the discovery has significance.\n\n\"It could be a kind of space that the builders left to protect the very narrow roof of the Grand Gallery from the weight of the pyramid,\" he told the BBC's Science In Action programme.\n\n\"Right now it's just a big difference; it's an anomaly. But we need more of a focus on it especially in a day and age when we can no longer go blasting our way through the pyramid with gunpowder as [British] Egyptologist Howard Vyse did in the early 1800s.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mehdi Tayoubi: \"It's a big void, similar to the Grand Gallery, but what is it?\"\n\nOne of the team leaders, Hany Helal from Cairo University, believes the void is too big to have a pressure-relieving purpose, but concedes the experts will debate this.\n\n\"What we are doing is trying to understand the internal structure of the pyramids and how this pyramid has been built,\" he told reporters.\n\n\"Famous Egyptologists, archaeologists and architects - they have some hypotheses. And what we are doing is giving them data. It is they who have to tell us whether this is expected or not.\"\n\nMuch of the uncertainty comes down to the rather imprecise data gained from muography.\n\nThis non-invasive technique has been developed over the past 50 years to probe the interiors of phenomena as diverse as volcanoes and glaciers. It has even been used to investigate the failed nuclear reactors at Fukushima.\n\nMuography makes use of the shower of high-energy particles that rain down on the Earth's surface from space.\n\nWhen super-fast cosmic rays collide with air molecules, they produce a range of \"daughter\" particles, including muons.\n\nThese also move close to the speed of light and only weakly interact with matter. So when they reach the surface, they penetrate deeply into rock.\n\nBut some of the particles will be absorbed and deflected by the atoms in the rock's minerals, and if the muon detectors are placed under a region of interest then a picture of density anomalies can be obtained.\n\nThe muon detectors have to be placed under the region of interest\n\nThe ScanPyramids team used three different muography technologies and all three agreed on the position and scale of the void.\n\nSébastien Procureur, from CEA-IRFU, University of Paris-Saclay, emphasised that muography only sees large features, and that the team's scans were not just picking up a general porosity inside the pyramid.\n\n\"With muons you measure an integrated density,\" he explained. \"So, if there are holes everywhere then the integrated density will be the same, more or less, in all directions, because everything will be averaged. But if you see some excess of muons, it means that you have a bigger void.\n\n\"You don't get that in a Swiss cheese.\"\n\nThe question now arises as to how the void should be investigated further.\n\nJean-Baptiste Mouret, from the French national institute for computer science and applied mathematics (Inria), said the team had an idea how to do it, but that the Egyptian authorities would first have to approve it.\n\n\"Our concept is to drill a very small hole to potentially explore monuments like this. We aim to have a robot that could fit in a 3cm hole. Basically, we're working on flying robots,\" he said.\n\nThe muography investigation at Khufu's Pyramid is reported in this week's edition of Nature magazine.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "When George Papadopoulos pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI many people tweeted him, and many of them were angry. But many people tweeted the wrong man.\n\nGeorge Papadopoulos, an American financial planner and accountant and nothing to do with alleged meetings between the Trump campaign and Russia, has had an interesting social media experience since news broke regarding his namesake on Monday.\n\nHe has, however, greeted the attention with good humour.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by George Papadopoulos This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 George Papadopoulos This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 people mistaken for celebrities have tweeted him to express their support. Michael Bolton, who happens to share the same name as the balladeer, commiserated.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Michael Bolton This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHowever, James Taylor, not the former England cricketer but sometimes confused with the singer-songwriter, chipped in with the idea of forming a bootleg band.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 James Taylor This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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\"So... when do we go on tour?\" asked Mr Papadopoulos, the accountant.\n\n\"Let's go,\" replied Mr Taylor, not the singer-songwriter.\n\nSimilarly, other Twitter accounts which happen to share a name with the well-known have had their share of attention, positive and negative.\n\nWhile John Lewis, not the retail store, ended up with a series of personalised gifts, Joe Hart the comedian took a lot of criticism aimed at the England goalkeeper after his performances at Euro 2016.\n\nEdward Snowden's Twitter experience changed when his namesake, a former US National Security Agency (NSA) contractor, leaked secret data to Wikileaks and the media.\n\nThe Edward Snowden who made headlines in 2013\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Mr Snowden recounted: \"Some people had their conspiracy theories about me being him, some people were probably naive on how to use Twitter and tagged me unnecessarily and others probably wanted the banter or engagement.\n\n\"It was a whirlwind as I had no idea who he was and there was a lot of interaction from people. There were a lot of people who thought he was a hero and a lot thought he was a traitor.\n\n\"The communication was contrasting and varied. Twitter remains a good source of information and humour and I would say it's enhanced my enjoyment.\"\n\nMr Snowden said the NSA whistle-blower has not been in touch with him. He said it is a \"shame\" and would have been \"interesting\" to talk with him.\n\nDoes he have any advice for George Papadopoulos and victims of mistaken identities?\n\n\"Enjoy it,\" says Mr Snowden. \"Engage with people in a light hearted way and there is good humorous conversation to be had. Don't worry about threatening comments - they're not aimed at you directly or so, you hope!\"\n\nHowever, the final word should go to George.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 George Papadopoulos This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. George Papadopoulos: The Trump adviser who lied to the FBI", "The Bank of England will deliver one of the most closely watched interest rate decisions since the financial crisis later on Thursday.\n\nEconomists and investors are expecting the first increase in a decade.\n\nIn September, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) laid the groundwork for an increase \"over the coming months\" if economic growth remained stable.\n\nIf the Bank raises rates from the current 0.25%, it would represent the first increase since July 2007.\n\nCommercial banks use the Bank of England's base rate as a reference point for their accounts and loans.\n\nHigher rates are expected to hit the 3.7 million households with a standard variable rate (SVR) or tracker mortgage. However, they will also benefit a large share of the 45 million savers who are likely to enjoy higher returns from accounts that pay variable interest rates.\n\nCharities and business groups have warned the Bank against raising rates, which they claim will put a strain on homeowners and companies struggling to make ends meet.\n\nHowever, mortgage lender Nationwide has described the impact of a small rise in interest rates as \"modest\" for borrowers whose repayments are linked to the base rate.\n\nOfficial data show more homeowners are fixing the interest rate charged on their mortgage than a decade ago.\n\nThe total share of new mortgages taken out on a fixed rate was just under 88% in the second quarter of 2017, according to the Bank of England. This compares with 46% at the start of 2008.\n\nFinancial markets believe there is more than a 90% chance that the Bank will increase rates to 0.5%, just over a year after reducing them to a new low of 0.25% in the wake of the Brexit vote.\n\nNot all economists favour a rise though. Danny Blanchflower, a former member of the MPC and now economics professor at Dartmouth college in the US, said he saw \"nothing\" in the recent economic data to justify higher interest rates.\n\n\"We've seen an inflation jump due to a fall in the value of the pound. But that's a once-off jump that's going to drop off in the next few months. Real wages are falling. Retail sales are falling.\n\n\"Growth in the UK is anaemic at best,\" Prof Blanchflower said.\n\nBut Dame DeAnne Julius, also a former MPC member and chair of University College London, is \"absolutely\" in favour of a rate rise.\n\n\"Although I'm sure that the fall in sterling has been part of the story, it's certainly not the whole story,\" she said.\n\n\"The degree of slack in the economy... is down. Unemployment is at a 40-year low. Also the negative effects of having such low interest rates for such a long period of time are really showing up.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Where were you when interest rates last went up?\n\nOfficial economic growth figures showed the UK economy expanded by 0.4% in the three months to the end of September compared with the previous quarter.\n\nThis is stronger than the 0.3% expansion expected by the Bank.\n\nIn September, the MPC said that a \"majority\" of members believed that some withdrawal of stimulus would be appropriate if the economy continues to grow at a steady pace.\n\nA 0.4% increase in gross domestic product (GDP) may sound unspectacular. The average quarterly growth rate since 1993 has been about 0.6%.\n\nBut weaker investment and productivity means the economy and living standards may never grow at the same pace as seen before the financial crisis.\n\nThis means the Bank may have to raise rates to keep a lid on inflation, even if growth remains subdued.\n\nAs Bank of England governor Mark Carney put it: \"The speed limit, if you will, of the economy has slowed.\"\n\nIn other words, this may be as good as it gets.\n\nPrices have been rising faster than pay in recent months, and this has put pressure on UK households.\n\nInflation, as measured by the consumer prices index (CPI), stood at a five-year high of 3% in September.\n\nThis is also above the Bank's estimate of 2.8%. Policymakers believe inflation will peak just above 3% in the coming months.\n\nThe UK's jobs-rich recovery has continued, with unemployment falling to a four-decade low of 4.3% in recent months.\n\nAverage total weekly earnings grew by 2.2% in the three months to August compared with the same period a year earlier, while the Bank of England's agents noted in September that pay deals had \"clustered around 2% to 3%\".\n\nIn the decade before the financial crisis, earnings growth averaged 4.25%.\n\nHowever, there are tentative signs that pay could be picking up, particularly for the 82% of workers in the private sector.\n\nWhatever the Bank of England decides on Thursday, one thing is clear. Any rate rises will be \"limited and gradual\".\n\nThe Bank's current forecasts are predicated on a smooth Brexit, and it is likely to stress that future changes to monetary policy are not on a pre-determined course and will be dependent on developments within the economy.\n• None What the interest rate rise means for you", "Edwina Currie has said that while there are cases of unwanted attention and harassment at Westminster \"a lot of it is consenting adults falling in love\".\n\nThe former Conservative minister said: \"Do people think women are 'fainting violets', that 'we women are not capable of saying no?'\"\n\nIn an interview with BBC Radio 5 Live's Emma Barnett, Ms Currie said that often it is a case of the \"researcher falls in love with an MP\" and \"sometimes it's not reciprocated... it's a minefield\".\n\nShe said that in parliament you were dealing with people who are passionate about what they do and that enthusiasm for the job spills over.\n\nShe also claimed that people shouldn't go to parties and get drunk and then \"not be in a position to protect yourself\".\n\n\"Sometimes you have to take responsibility for your own actions,\" she added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What exactly is the Bank of England interest rate?\n\nThe Bank of England has raised interest rates from 0.5% to 0.75% after much speculation.\n\nExpectations of a strengthening economy, solid employment levels, more consumer spending and the potential for wages to rise have all played a part in the decision.\n\nThe Bank's main priority is to keep the rising cost of living - known as inflation - under control. It uses its key interest rate, known as the Bank rate or base rate, which is the reference point for how much banks and building societies pay savers and charge borrowers in interest.\n\nGenerally, a rise in the Bank rate is good for the UK's 45 million savers and bad for borrowers - but the reality is a bit more nuanced.\n\nAcross the UK, 9.1 million households have a mortgage.\n\nOf these, more than 3.5 million are on a standard variable rate or a tracker rate.\n\nThese are the people who would be most affected, as their monthly payments would increase.\n\nThe relatively small rise will not be particularly painful for the vast majority of householders, although debt charities say that some squeezed families will find this extra burden a real challenge.\n\nThose on such variable rates tend to be older, and with relatively small outstanding mortgage balances.\n\nThe average outstanding balance is £112,000. For somebody with 20 years left on this mortgage, the monthly bill rise by about £14 a month.\n\nFor those with a larger balance, then clearly the rise in the mortgage bill will be greater.\n\nThe vast majority of new mortgage loans - 96% - are on fixed interest rates, typically for two or five years.\n\nCurrently half of all outstanding loans are on fixed rates, equating to about 4.7 million households.\n\nSome of these rates are expected to rise after the latest announcement.\n\nOf course, none of these borrowers would see an immediate rise.\n\nHowever, when such borrowers reach the end of their term, they may find they have to make higher monthly payments.\n\nThat said, they could - depending on when they took out their loan - end up on a cheaper deal. Lenders offering fixed rates tend to be especially competitive.\n\nSome rates may rise on other types of borrowing such as personal loans and credit cards.\n\nShould they rise, that would have relatively little impact on a credit card interest rate that is generally about 18%.\n\nWhen base rates rise, so do savings rates, in theory.\n\nBut it depends on the extent to which banks and building societies want to increase their deposits.\n\nSo after November's rate increase, banks were slow to pass on any rise to savers, or they typically passed on a fraction of the full increase.\n\nIn fact, half of all savings accounts did not move at all after the last Bank rate rise in November. Commentators say savers could probably expect something similar this time.\n\nAccording to the Bank of England, returns on longer-term cash Individual Savings Accounts (ISAs) were little changed in December.\n\nYet they jumped significantly in January, with average returns on cash ISAs going up from 0.36% to 0.94%.\n\nIn February and March they held steady at 0.86%, before falling subsequently to 0.63% by the end of June.\n\nFor the average cash Isa saver with £11,200 locked away, the latest rise - if passed on - could mean £28 more a year in interest.\n\nAny rate rise might also good for retirees buying an annuity - a financial product that provides an income for life.\n\nAnnuity rates follow the yields - or interest rates - on long-dated government bonds, otherwise known as gilts.\n\nThese yields could be expected to rise amid an environment of rising interest rates, giving retirees better value for money when they buy an annuity.\n\nBack in November 2011, a 65-year-old buying a joint annuity for £100,000 would have got an annual income of £5,404. Last year, that had dropped by £1,318 to £4,086.\n\nHowever, by now this has risen to about £4,670.\n\nDepending on how the market views the likelihood of further base rate rises, annuity rates may continue to creep up.\n\nAccording to Willliam Burrows, of Better Retirement, a 1% rise in gilt yields translates into an 8% rise in annuity rates - but this remains a long-term consideration.\n\n\"Annuity rates have been in the doldrums since the EU referendum in 2016, when gilt yields fell dramatically. Any increase in the bank rate should result in higher gilt yields, which will in turn lead to higher annuities,\" he said.\n\n\"However, don't hold your breath waiting for annuity rates to rise, because it is normally a slow process.\"\n\nBut we are still a long way from the heady days of the 1990s, when a £100,000 pension pot would have bought an annual income of about £15,000 a year.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The new defence secretary is welcomed to the MoD\n\nGavin Williamson is a smart operator, a talented politician, who has proved himself loyal to Theresa May by running her leadership campaign and then getting through the nightmare of holding the Tories together with no majority, so far.\n\nThis very fragile government has not lost a vote on its own business.\n\nTheresa May's programme has been much curtailed by the political reality. But she has not, so far, been humiliated in Parliament in the way that, the morning after the election, it seemed quite feasible that she would be.\n\nThe restive right have been held back from making significant attacks. And ardent Remainers have been handled carefully enough not to blow up (so far). That is a kind of achievement, and it is in large part down to the capabilities of Gavin Williamson. So why not reward him?\n\nSecondly, the prime minister also wants to promote the next generation in the Tory party, to give the impression they aren't simply a busted flush. Promoting one of their number is a move in that direction. And Williamson is not from the Tory Home Counties either.\n\nAnd beyond keeping a tarantula as a pet - pictured here by his successor...\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\n...and suggesting that he is a fan of the \"sharpened carrot\", rather than the stick, there is not much that Gavin Williamson has said or done in his previous political career that is in the public domain that means any embarrassments or problems will be hung around his neck in his new job. (So far at least).\n\nFor all those reasons therefore, it is good logic to allocate the former chief whip, Yorkshireman and Staffordshire MP this hefty promotion. Sources within the MoD say it's a good appointment because he is regarded as a very good politician who has shown that \"he can get things done\".\n\nHere's the other theory though - the decision isn't smart, it's hugely risky.\n\nProblem one, Gavin Williamson has never worked in a government department, he's never been a minister before. Undoubtedly clever, but moving him into such a huge government job straight away is a gamble.\n\nAs the Tory MP Sarah Wollaston suggested in a gently cutting way, \"there are times when offered a job that it would be better to advise that another would be more experienced and suited to the role\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA former government insider who knows him well suggested the move shows Number 10's judgement is \"whacko\".\n\nSecond, when all the political parties are in the grip of allegations of sexual misdemeanours and trying to keep a lid on - shall we say - personnel issues, is it really a good time to be moving the man who is charge of party discipline?\n\nAnd third, while promotions are always going to make some people unhappy, some Tory MPs are furious, believing that Mr Williamson manoeuvred himself into the job, playing on the prime minister's vulnerability.\n\nOne minister told me it was \"appalling\": \"She is so weak she has let Gavin Williamson appoint himself\".\n\nAnother MP said: \"She is too weak and overwhelmed to spot his scheming\".\n\nA senior Tory said: \"MPs are deeply unhappy he has used the position of chief whip to benefit himself and has deserted his post at such a crucial time\".\n\nThere is no shortage of critics of the appointment, a former minister told me it was \"outrageous - we are in the grip of a bunch of boys, when we need serious big beasts leading us. Defence needs someone who is able to fill at least one of Fallon's shoes\".\n\nAnd while Mr Williamson would deny or laugh off any suggestion that he has leadership ambition, others in the Tory party see this move (perhaps inevitably) as part of his attempt to build a bigger power base for a run at the leadership after Theresa May.\n\nGavin Underwood doesn't have quite the same ring as Frank, but jokes and conspiracy theories are already doing the rounds about his secret plans for world domination, tracing the fictional footsteps of the main character in the American version of House of Cards. (Take with at least a sprinkle, if not a large pinch of salt.)\n\nDespite all the talk of Gavin Williamson's loyalty, this is not a safety first announcement.\n\nThe prime minister could have moved other ministers from the Ministry of Defence upwards. But for all the calculations today about whether it is a smart move or something she will come to regret, it is time to see what the new defence secretary is made of.\n\nHe has learnt as chief whip that being effective is not the same as being popular. That may well come in handy.\n\nAnd here's the irony, the man who was meant to make sure that Tory MPs behaved themselves has found himself a rather good new job - because one of them did not.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. New York truck attack: Who is Sayfullo Saipov?\n\nSayfullo Saipov, the main suspect in Tuesday's New York truck attack that killed eight people and injured 12, arrived in the US from Uzbekistan in 2010 and is married with three children.\n\nHe became a legal permanent resident of the US through a lottery programme that grants green cards annually to foreign nationals, in an effort to diversify the country's immigrant population.\n\nA day after the attack, Mr Saipov admitted to investigators that he had been inspired by propaganda from so-called Islamic State (IS).\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, US-based Uzbek religious activist and blogger Mirrakhmat Muminov, who met Mr Saipov in Ohio soon after he arrived in the US, said the suspect was radicalised online and had become increasingly aggressive.\n\n\"He was not well educated and had no knowledge of the Koran before arriving in the US,\" he said.\n\n\"At the beginning of his time here he was a normal sort of person.\"\n\nBut Mr Muminov said that Mr Saipov had become depressed, separated from his community and more resentful and angry after failing to find work as a driver.\n\n\"Because of his radical views he frequently used to argue with other Uzbeks and moved to Florida,\" Mr Muminov said. \"From then onwards I lost contact with him.\"\n\nHe had never been the subject of an NYPD or FBI intelligence investigation, according to John Miller, deputy commissioner for the New York Police Department.\n\nHowever, the New York Times, citing three officials, said the suspect had previously come to the attention of federal authorities via an unrelated probe.\n\nThe back patio of the apartment building in Florida where Sayfullo Saipov was a resident\n\nBorn in Uzbekistan in February 1988, Mr Saipov emigrated to the US in 2010 after winning a green card via the lottery and is believed to have lived in Ohio, Florida, and New Jersey since.\n\nMr Muminov said there were about 70,000 people from Uzbekistan now living in the US, with the overwhelming majority in New York City but also smaller populations in Florida - mostly in Orlando - and in Chicago and Ohio.\n\nAccording to the New York Times, Mr Saipov arrived in the country with a poor command of English and sought work as a truck and Uber taxi driver.\n\n\"He was a very good person when I knew him,\" Uzbek immigrant Kobiljon Matkarov - who met Mr Saipov in Florida several years ago - told the newspaper.\n\n\"He liked the US. He seemed very lucky and all the time he was happy and talking like everything is OK. He did not seem like a terrorist, but I did not know him from the inside.\"\n\nMr Saipov was shot and injured by a police officer and appeared in court in a wheelchair a day after the attack.\n\nHe told investigators he had been planning the attack for a year, and intentionally chose Halloween because he believed there would be more people in the streets.\n\nAuthorities found 90 graphic and violent propaganda videos on his phone - one that showed IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi talking about Muslims avenging deaths in Iraq.\n\nOfficials say a note was found in the truck that referred to IS, but New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said it was likely the suspect had acted alone and there was no evidence to suggest a wider plot.\n\nWitnesses said they heard the attacker shout \"Allahu Akbar\" - Arabic for \"God is greatest\" - when he emerged from his vehicle after the killings.\n\nFederal prosecutors charged Mr Saipov on two counts: providing material support and resources to IS and violence and destruction of motor vehicles.\n\nPresident Donald Trump has denounced him as \"very sick\" and a \"deranged person\".\n\nHe is reported to have been living most recently in Paterson, New Jersey, about 40km (25 miles) north-west of the scene of the attack. The truck involved was rented from nearby Passaic, a former industrial hub just south of Paterson.\n\nAbout 25,000 to 30,000 Muslims live in the city, the New York Times reported, giving it one of the highest concentrations of Muslims in the New York City area.\n\nUzbekistan has over the last 20 years taken a hard line against Islamic extremism.\n\nMr Saipov is not be the first person from the Central Asian country to be accused of plotting terror attacks in the US. Last month a Brooklyn man of Uzbek origin was sentenced to 15 years in prison for plotting terrorist attacks, including threats to kill Barack Obama.", "Former Tesco executives Carl Rogberg (left), Christopher Bush (centre) and John Scouler (right), are on trial at Southwark Crown Court\n\nTesco's chief executive has told a court of his \"surprise and shock\" on learning the company's profits had been misstated by £246m.\n\nDavid Lewis was told about the issue just weeks after he took up the post in September 2014.\n\nMr Lewis has been giving evidence at the trial into alleged fraud at the supermarket giant.\n\nFormer Tesco executives Carl Rogberg, Christopher Bush and John Scouler are on trial. All deny the charges.\n\nThey are accused of fraud by abuse of position and false accounting between February and September 2014.\n\nMr Lewis told jurors at Southwark Crown Court that he took up his post at the beginning of September 2014.\n\nHe said he had had numerous meetings with Bush and one with Scouler, but he was not told of the accounting issue until 19 September.\n\nHe recalled he was called into a meeting with Adrian Morris, Tesco's chief counsel, at about lunchtime that day, and presented with a paper detailing the problem.\n\nAsked for his reaction to this, he told the court: \"One of surprise and one of shock, really.\n\n\"I think the thing that was unique to this paper was the indication that the numbers that had been declared had a potential misstatement within them.\n\n\"What was new was the proposition here that £246m of income had been included in the first half of the year that on that basis of this paper was deemed to be questionable.\"\n\nMr Lewis said: \"I had never experienced anything like this before, but it was quite clear that having read the paper, and the manner in which it was served, I felt that it had to be taken very seriously.\"\n\nHe said he called Tesco's chairman, Sir Richard Broadbent, and told him what the document said, and that a team of internal and external auditors was assembled to work through the weekend.\n\nMr Lewis went on to explain the company had spent a great deal of time between Tesco's public announcement on 22 September stating profits had been overestimated, and when the company was due to issue its interim results on 23 October.\n\nHe said: \"It was a very intensive amount of investigation of these numbers. It required a huge amount of review of paperwork, documentation between pretty much all of the suppliers to Tesco and the different categories in order to validate the number.\n\n\"So that was quite an extensive exercise.\"\n\nAt an earlier hearing, the court heard that two members of its finance department resigned in 2014 over concerns they may be compromising their professional integrity.\n\nThe two were unhappy about what they were being asked to do by bosses.\n\nCarl Rogberg, 50, Chris Bush, 51, and John Scouler, 49, are alleged to have failed to correct inaccurately recorded income figures.\n\nThe company's former UK finance head, UK managing director and UK food commercial boss deny charges of fraud by abuse of position and false accounting.\n\nThe court has heard the three men were accused of \"cooking the books\" by bringing forward income not yet earned to artificially inflate its figures.\n\nProblems with Tesco's accounts came to light in a regulatory announcement in September 2014, when Tesco shocked the market in admitting it had overstated profits forecast by about £250m.", "University officials said Brianna Brochu was no longer a student\n\nA white US university student is facing a hate crime charge after admitting to smearing bodily fluids on her black roommate's possessions, in an apparent attempt to force her out of the room.\n\nBrianna Brochu, 18, has already been charged with misdemeanour criminal mischief and breach of peace.\n\nPolice in West Hartford, Connecticut, said they had asked a judge to add a felony bigotry charge.\n\nUniversity president Greg Woodward said Ms Brochu was no longer a student.\n\nHer campaign against roommate Chennel Rowe apparently came to light via Instagram posts in which she bragged about her actions.\n\nChennel Rowe suspects she was made ill by her roommate's actions\n\nIn one post, published by local media and described by Ms Rowe in a Facebook video, she reportedly wrote: \"Finally did it yo girl got rid of her roommate!! After 1 ½ month of spitting in her coconut oil, putting moldy clam dip in her lotions... putting her toothbrush places where the sun doesn't shine, and so much more I can finally say goodbye Jamaican Barbie.\"\n\nIn a statement addressed to students, Mr Woodward said Ms Brochu's actions were \"reprehensible\" and the incident \"deeply disturbing\".\n\n\"As of this morning, Brianna Brochu is no longer a student at the University of Hartford. She will not be returning to the institution,\" he said.\n\nMs Brochu appeared at Hartford Community Court on Wednesday morning but did not comment during the brief appearance.\n\nIn the Facebook video, Ms Rowe said she had felt \"unwanted\" and \"disrespected\" by Ms Brochu after moving into the room.\n\nShe described becoming sick and said she had suffered \"extreme throat pain\", which she alleged was connected to Ms Brochu's actions.\n\n\"I keep looking at this paragraph, right, because the paragraph said so much stuff she'd done, at the same time she said she's done so much more.\n\n\"But I don't know the so much more. I've been using my toothbrush for how long? She says she put my toothbrush places the sun doesn't shine.\"", "Shares in electric carmaker Tesla fell 6.8% to $299.26 in Thursday trading after it reported a third-quarter loss and a delay in production targets for its Model 3 vehicle on Wednesday evening.\n\nAnalysts at Cowen and Co, said: \"Tesla needs to slow down and more narrowly focus its vision and come up for a breath of fresh air.\n\n\"[Chief executive] Elon Musk needs to stop over-promising and under-delivering.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe British peer Arthur Balfour barely makes an appearance in UK schoolbooks, but many Israeli and Palestinian students could tell you about him.\n\nHis Balfour Declaration, made on 2 November 1917, is taught in their respective history classes and forms a key chapter in their two very different, national narratives.\n\nIt can be seen as a starting point for the Arab-Israeli conflict.\n\nThe declaration by the then foreign secretary was included in a letter to Lord Walter Rothschild, a leading proponent of Zionism, a movement advocating self-determination for the Jewish people in their historical homeland - from the Mediterranean to the eastern flank of the River Jordan, an area which came to be known as Palestine.\n\nIt stated that the British government supported \"the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people\".\n\nAt the same time, it said that nothing should \"prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities\".\n\nPalestinians see this as a great betrayal, particularly given a separate promise made to enlist the political and military support of the Arabs - then ruled by the Ottoman Turks - in World War One.\n\nThis suggested Britain would back their struggle for independence in most of the lands of the Ottoman Empire, which consisted of much of the Middle East. The Arabs understood this to include Palestine, though it had not been specifically mentioned.\n\n\"Do you think Britain committed a crime against the Palestinian people?\" asks a teacher during a lesson in a Palestinian school in the West Bank city of Ramallah.\n\nPalestinians regard the declaration as an historical injustice\n\n\"Yes,\" a 15-year-old girl answers. \"This declaration was illegitimate because Palestine was still part of the Ottoman Empire and Britain did not control it.\"\n\n\"Britain considered the Arabs as a minority while they formed over 90% of the population.\"\n\nIsraeli children, inevitably, tend to see British involvement more positively when they study the Balfour Declaration in a lesson towards the end of their high-school years.\n\nIn Balfouria, a village in northern Israel, nine-year-old Noga Yehezekeli is already proudly able to recite a Hebrew version of the text off by heart.\n\n\"In the moment it was given, the declaration gave huge hope and a huge push for the Zionist movement,\" says her father, Neve.\n\n\"People saw that if the British government gave such a declaration there was a chance that one day the Jewish nation would be established, which really happened later in '48\" - the year the State of Israel was formed.\n\nThe declaration gave Zionists huge hope, says Neve Yehezekeli (right)\n\nResidents of Balfouria - including Neve's grandfather - were part of a growing Jewish community in Palestine when Lord Balfour visited in 1925. They gave him a hero's welcome.\n\nBy that time, the area was under British administration. The Balfour Declaration had been formally enshrined in the British Mandate for Palestine, which had been endorsed by the League of Nations.\n\nDuring the first half of the Mandate period, Britain allowed waves of Jewish immigration. But amid an Arab backlash and rising violence, Israelis remember how it later blocked many fleeing persecution, particularly during the Holocaust.\n\nAt the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, inaugurated by Balfour, Professor Ruth Lapidoth has studied the 67-word document.\n\nAn expert on international law, Prof Lapidoth argues it was a legally binding declaration, but says Britain found it hard to deliver on its pledge.\n\nLord Balfour was given a hero's welcome by the Jewish community in Jerusalem in 1925\n\n\"The political situation was very bad when the Nazis came to power and then England needed the help, the friendship of the Arab countries,\" she says.\n\n\"Then they had to limit the implementation of the declaration, which is a pity.\"\n\nProf Lapidoth left Germany in 1938, a year before the start of World War Two, and so has a personal interest in the pronouncement.\n\n\"I'm still very grateful for it,\" she says. \"It was really the source of our right to come back to Palestine, including my own.\"\n\nIsrael's Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, describes the Balfour Declaration as \"a central milestone\" in the process of establishing his country.\n\nThe British government has invited him to London for events to mark the centenary on Thursday.\n\nThat decision, at a time of dimming hopes for Israeli-Palestinian peace, has infuriated Palestinians, who plan a day of protests.\n\nPalestinians say Britain's declaration deprived them of a state\n\nThey want Britain to apologise for the Balfour Declaration.\n\n\"As the time passes, I think British people are forgetting about the lessons of history,\" says Palestinian Education Minister Sabri Saidam.\n\nHe points out that Palestinians still seek the creation of a state of their own - which alongside Israel would form the basis of the so-called two-state solution to the conflict, a formula supported by the international community.\n\n\"The time has come for Palestine to be independent and for that long-due promise to be fulfilled,\" he says.", "The raid took place in Blantyre Road\n\nAn armed gang tied up a family in their home in South Lanarkshire before stealing jewellery worth more than £100,000.\n\nFour men forced their way into the house in Blantyre Road, Bothwell, at about 19:30 on Tuesday.\n\nThe father, 59, and mother, 56, were threatened with weapons including a knife before being tied up.\n\nTheir 11-year-old son was also bound before they raided the property.\n\nPolice said jewellery and watches worth a six-figure sum were taken from the home.\n\nThe family were uninjured but left \"extremely\" shaken.\n\nThe suspects all spoke in what is described as broken English.\n\nDet Insp Susie Cairns said: \"This was a very traumatic experience for this family and I would like to reassure the public that we are doing everything possible to track down the four men responsible.\n\n\"Officers are currently carrying out enquiries into this robbery and gathering CCTV footage to gather more information on the four men responsible.\n\n\"There are also additional police patrols in the area to provide public reassurance.\n\n\"We do, however, need the help of the local community and at this time we are urging anyone who may have seen these men in the area prior to the robbery taking place, or who may have seen them leaving afterwards, to contact police immediately.\"\n\nAll the suspects are said to be about 5ft 10in tall.\n\nThe first is said to be stocky with an olive complexion, wearing dark-coloured clothing including a jacket, scarf, hat, tracksuit trousers and black boots. He was carrying a black-and-white rucksack.\n\nThe second was of medium build with an olive complexion. He was also wearing dark-coloured clothing including a hooded jacket, tracksuit trousers, hat and woollen gloves. He wore black, beige and green camouflage print Adidas trainers.\n\nThe third was of medium build with fair complexion. He was wearing a dark-coloured hooded top with a scarf covering the lower part of his face. He also had gloves, navy tracksuit trousers and black Nike trainers.\n\nThe fourth was of medium build with a fair complexion, wearing a dark-coloured thin padded jacket with stitched squares. He was wearing dark brown trainers with no socks.", "Strictly Come Dancing is one of the top UK shows of the year\n\nFavourite British TV shows like Strictly Come Dancing and Broadchurch could be under threat due to a funding shortfall, the BBC is warning.\n\nThe rise of services like Netflix and Amazon could mean British content faces \"an uncertain future\", director general Tony Hall will say in a speech later.\n\nThere could be a funding shortfall of £500m over the next 10 years, according to new research.\n\nLord Hall is to call for a \"new golden age for British production\".\n\n\"The BBC has always shown a great ability to adapt to new challenges and make them opportunities,\" he will say.\n\nSpeaking in Liverpool, he will say if there is an immediate response to the issue, then the future of British content could be protected.\n\nHe calls the figures on funding, from consultants Mediatique and published by the BBC, \"worrying\".\n\n\"We have to face the reality that the British content we value and rely upon is under serious threat.\"\n\nLord Hall will add that global services like Netflix, Amazon and Apple are not likely to make up the funding shortfall.\n\nLord Hall is to say the BBC should remain a 'bastion of brilliant British content'\n\n\"The reality is that their investment decisions are likely to focus increasingly on a narrow range of very expensive, very high-end content - big bankers that they can rely on to have international appeal and attract large, global audiences.\n\n\"Even the most generous calculations suggest they are barely likely to make up half of the £500m British content gap over the decade ahead. And a more realistic forecast points to substantially less.\"\n\nThe top five shows in the UK this year so far have all been British - the One Love Manchester concert, Broadchurch, Britain's Got Talent, Sherlock and Strictly.\n\nLord Hall will say that the BBC \"should remain a guardian of UK production\", and a \"bastion of brilliant British content\".\n\n\"But to achieve this, we have to recognise that the environment around the BBC has changed dramatically, and we must change in response,\" he will say.\n\n\"In the UK we often think of the BBC as a big player, but today the media market is truly global.\n\n\"And in that vast solar system, we are tiny compared to the huge gas giants of the US. And every day they're getting bigger.\"\n\nWhile about 83% of independent production companies in the UK were British or European-owned 10 years ago, today that figure is less than 40% - the rest are owned by US multinationals.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Scientists who have been puzzling for years over the genetic \"peculiarity\" of a tiny population of orangutans in Sumatra have finally concluded that they are a new species to science.\n\nThe apes in question were only reported to exist after an expedition into the remote mountain forests there in 1997.\n\nSince then, a research project has unpicked their biological secret.\n\nThe species has been named the Tapanuli orangutan - a third species in addition to the Bornean and Sumatran.\n\nResearchers have studied these great apes in detail for 20 years\n\nIt is the first new great ape to be described for almost a century.\n\nPublishing their work in the journal Current Biology, the team - including researchers from the University of Zurich, Liverpool John Moores University and the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme - pointed out that there are only 800 individuals remaining, making this one of the world's most threatened ape species.\n\nEarly on in their study, researchers took DNA from the orangutans, which showed them to be \"peculiar\" compared to other orangutans in Sumatra.\n\nSo the scientists embarked on a painstaking investigation - reconstructing the animals' evolutionary history through their genetic code.\n\nOne of the lead researchers, Prof Michael Krützen from the University of Zurich, Switzerland, explained to BBC News: \"The genomic analysis really allows us to look in detail at the history.\n\n\"We can probe deep back in time and ask, 'when did these populations split off?'.\"\n\nThe analysis of a total 37 complete orangutan genomes - the code for the biological make-up of each animal - has now shown that these apes separated from their Bornean relatives less than 700,000 years ago - a snip in evolutionary time.\n\nThe Tapanuli orangutan has distinguishing anatomical features - revealed by a close examination of its skull\n\nFor his part in the study, Prof Serge Wich, from Liverpool John Moores University, focused on the orangutans' signature calls - loud sounds the male apes make to announce their presence.\n\n\"Those calls can carry a kilometre through the forest,\" Prof Wich explained.\n\n\"If you look at these calls, you can tease them apart, and we found some subtle differences between these and other populations.\"\n\nThe final piece of the puzzle, though, was very subtle but consistent differences in the shape of the Sumatran, Bornean and Tapanuli orangutan skulls.\n\nProf Wich told BBC News that the decades of collaborative genetic, anatomical and acoustic studies had achieved an \"amazing breakthrough\".\n\n\"There are only seven great ape species - not including us,\" he said. \"So adding one to that very small list is spectacular.\n\n\"It's something I think many biologists dream of.\"\n\nBut this newly described great ape will be added to the list of Critically Endangered species, just as it is added to the zoological textbooks.\n\n\"It's very worrying,\" said Prof Wich, \"to discover something new and then immediately also realise that we have to focus all of our efforts before we lose it.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A phrase consistently in the headlines - and one Twitter feed in particular - has been named the word of the year by dictionary publisher Collins.\n\n\"Fake news\" became synonymous with statements from US President Donald Trump, as he railed against the media.\n\nAnd it appears the rest of the world has followed suit, with its use rising by 365% in 2017.\n\nAs with previous words of the year picked by the publisher, \"fake news\" will feature in their next dictionary.\n\nPolitics had a big influence on the short list, with \"Antifa\" and \"Echo-chamber\" also taking their spots.\n\nBut even \"Insta\" - linked to the photo-sharing app Instagram - and \"fidget spinner\" could not beat the top phrase, defined by Collins as \"false, often sensational, information disseminated under the guise of news reporting\".\n\nIt is the fifth year that Collins has highlighted a trending word or phrase, with previous winners including \"Brexit\" and \"Geek\".\n\nPresident Trump has not been alone in using the term. Both Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn have included it in speeches, and social media has been littered with accusations.\n\nHelen Newstead, Collins' head of language content, said: \"'Fake news', either as a statement of fact or as an accusation, has been inescapable this year, contributing to the undermining of society's trust in news reporting.\"\n\n2016 - Brexit: Noun meaning \"the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union\".\n\n2015 - Binge-watch: Verb meaning \"to watch a large number of television programmes (especially all the shows from one series) in succession\".\n\n2014 - Photobomb: Verb meaning \"spoiling a photograph by stepping in front of them as the photograph is taken, often doing something silly such as making a funny face\".\n\n2013 - Geek: Countable noun meaning \"someone who is skilled with computers, and who seems more interested in them than in people\".\n\nThe Labour leader will also be pleased to hear that \"Corbynmania\" enjoyed a resurgence thanks to general election coverage, after surfacing in 2015.\n\nOther new words hitting the shortlist included \"gig economy\", \"gender fluid\" and \"cuffing season\" - when single people look for a partner just to keep them warm in the winter months.", "Two 14-year-old boys from Northallerton have appeared in court charged with conspiracy to murder following a counter-terrorism investigation in North Yorkshire.\n\nAre they the youngest in the Britain to have been arrested and charged in such circumstances? Surprising though it may sound, they are not.\n\nIn 2015, a teenager from Blackburn was charged with inciting terrorism by encouraging another teenager in Australia to carry out an attack there.\n\n\"Boy S\" was 14 years and eight months old at the time of his arrest in March of that year and a month older when he was charged. By the time he had pleaded guilty and received the juvenile version of a life sentence, he had turned 15.\n\nThe two boys who appeared in court in Leeds, known as A and B, are a little older than Boy S. Assuming their case progresses, they will have turned 15 by the time they face trial.\n\nVery few of those arrested on suspicion of committing a terrorism-related offence are under 18 years old. In the year to June 2016 across England, Wales and Scotland, only 12 of the 222 arrested under counter-terrorism powers were younger than 18.\n\nSince 11 September 2001, more than 3,650 people have been arrested in counter-terrorism investigations in the Great Britain. Of those:\n\nThe rise of the so-called Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq prompted a slight shift in the age range of those coming under suspicion in the UK.\n\nThe group wanted to attract young people from across Europe to its cause - it wanted fit men to fight and young women willing to start families.\n\nThat led to more younger people trying to travel to Syria - and that was reflected to some extent in the corresponding arrests statistics.\n\nNot all of those who were arrested were investigated for links to jihadism. One significant investigation from 2016 was focused on the activities of a 17-year-old who had become a follower of the banned neo-Nazi group National Action.\n\nWhy is the media not naming the two boys who have appeared in court on Thursday? The law prohibits identifying anyone under the age of 18 who is charged or convicted of a criminal offence unless a judge gives permission.\n\nIt's very rare for such an anonymity restriction to be lifted, because judges tend to take the view that the very youngest offenders should be given the chance to be rehabilitated as they mature.\n\nThere are exceptions, including the decision to name in 1993 the 10-year-olds who murdered James Bulger.\n\nMore recently, a judge refused to lift a reporting restriction prohibiting the media from naming two teenage girls who tortured a vulnerable woman to death in Hartlepool.", "The 31-page indictment against Paul Manafort contained one surprising detail - that he listed one of his New York City properties for rent on the website Airbnb. The BBC spoke to a family who unwittingly rented the former Trump campaign manager's flat for a long weekend.\n\nLike any cautious Airbnb user, Suzanne was initially suspicious when she read the ad for an \"amazing full floor loft in Soho\".\n\n\"It took me a really long time to believe what I was seeing,\" says Suzanne, who asked her full name be withheld to protect her family's privacy. \"It was too good to be true.\"\n\nIt was December 2014, her father had just recovered after a long stay in hospital, and she wanted to give her family a break. So she and her husband Jeff began planning a whirlwind tour of the Big Apple with their three children.\n\nFour nights for a family of five in New York City can get very expensive, so Suzanne started combing through ads on Airbnb. Despite her fears the Soho listing might be a scam, Suzanne decided to take the risk.\n\nJeff, Suzanne and their three kids were floored by the \"rock-star apartment\"\n\nWhen they arrived at 29 Howard Street in Manhattan, Suzanne says they met their Airbnb host James - or \"Jimmy\" as he introduced himself - who showed them how to take the keyed elevator up to the fourth floor, where the doors opened right into the flat. What they saw blew them away.\n\nThe sprawling two-bedroom, two-bathroom loft was replete with a working fireplace, a professional-grade kitchen and stunning fourth-floor views of one of Manhattan's trendiest neighbourhoods. A portrait of Kurt Cobain hung on one wall; everything seemed to be brand new.\n\n\"I think we called it 'the rock star apartment',\" Suzanne recalls. \"It was exactly as pictured. It was wonderful, perfect.\"\n\nEven meeting Jimmy was a bit like a rock star experience - he told Suzanne and Jeff he was an actor with a starring role in the 1999 comedy Detroit Rock City under his belt. Suzanne says he explained that he split his time between New York and Los Angeles, and made his living in property.\n\nLooking back now, Suzanne doesn't know why she didn't wonder how someone as young as Jimmy could afford the enormous, luxury flat. It was clear to the couple that no-one lived in apartment 4D - Jeff found the plastic packaging their sheets had come in. There were no clothes in the apartment, save for a couple of designer jackets hanging in a hallway closet.\n\nFor the next four days, the family hit the town. They saw a performance of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, wandered the Museum of Modern Art, and dined at Soho's trendiest restaurants. After the family checked out and flew home to Chicago, Suzanne penned a rave review on Airbnb.\n\nJeff reclines in the main living area of 4D\n\n\"The apartment made New York feel like ours,\" she wrote. \"Can't wait to come back and stay here again.\"\n\nSuzanne says she did try to reach out to Jimmy to find out about returning, but doesn't remember hearing back. Eventually, the listing disappeared.\n\nThree years and a phone call from the BBC later, Suzanne and Jeff now know that their dream vacation apartment may in fact have belonged to Paul Manafort, Donald Trump's former campaign manager.\n\nOn Monday, Mr Manafort turned himself in to the FBI after being charged with 12 counts, including money laundering and conspiring against the US government. He denies all the charges.\n\nAccording to the indictment, he paid $2.85m (£2.14m) for the fourth floor apartment at 29 Howard Street, allegedly using a shell company to make the purchase in 2012.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Manafort's indictment: Where did all the money go?\n\n\"All the money used to purchase the condominium came from MANAFORT entities in Cyprus,\" says the indictment. \"MANAFORT used the property from at least January 2015 through 2016 as an income-generating rental property, charging thousands of dollars a week on Airbnb, among other places.\"\n\nThe indictment goes on to allege that Manafort then applied for and received a $3.18m mortgage on the condominium, after telling his daughter and son-in-law to tell a bank appraiser that 29 Howard Street was their second home.\n\nAlthough the listing for the \"amazing full floor loft in Soho\" has disappeared, \"James\" - full name James DeBello - still has an active profile on Airbnb.\n\nIn a phone call, Mr DeBello confirmed that he once had a starring role in Detroit Rock City (according to his lengthy IMDB profile, he also had parts in American Pie and Cabin Fever) and that in the past, he has given Airbnb guests keys to 29 Howard Street.\n\nJames Debello (third from left) in his most known role as an actor - Detroit Rock City\n\nHowever, he claims that a friend named Kevin set up Airbnb rentals using DeBello's account and he only let people into 29 Howard Street as a favour to Kevin.\n\nDeBello says he has never met Manafort and no longer has contact information for Kevin, having not talked to him in three years.\n\n\"I think it's funny,\" he says of his bit part in the unfolding Manafort scandal.\n\nMultiple real estate companies have published listings over the years of the fourth floor of 29 Howard Street, and multiple US outlets have reported that this is indeed Manafort's apartment. Both the layout and decor of the flat in the real estate photos match Suzanne and Jeff's holiday pictures.\n\n\"It absolutely is the same apartment,\" says Jeff.\n\nManafort pleaded not guilty in a federal courthouse on Monday, and was placed on house arrest, though it's unlikely he'll be doing so on Howard Street. A spokesman for Manafort says that he \"looks forward to having these allegations tried before a judge and jury\".\n\nAs for Suzanne and Jeff, they still thought about their magical Soho apartment even before they knew it was a tiny part of a major American political scandal.\n\n\"When I'm in Soho, I stand there longingly,\" says Suzanne. \"This is good cocktail party fodder for sure.\"\n\nAirbnb has not responded to BBC's request for comment.", "The Hospital Club is one of a new breed of trendy private members' clubs\n\nA new breed of fashionable private members clubs are growing in popularity around the world, promising to be more inclusive and diverse than their stuffy older counterparts.\n\nYet while the newer venues certainly have a far more youthful membership, and you certainly don't need to have gone to a posh school or university, they still have high joining fees and strict vetting processes.\n\nSo how less elitist are they? And what are the benefits of getting your name on the list?\n\n\"I like how organically relationships happen at Soho House,\" says tech entrepreneur Tyler McIntyre. \"You can't wear business suits, you can't hand out business cards, and you can't take phone calls.\"\n\nThe 26-year-old joined Soho Beach House in Miami two years ago, after visiting with friends who were members.\n\n\"It's a laidback place to network but it's also given me the opportunity to try things I typically wouldn't do by myself, like wine tastings or a jam-making class.\n\n\"And sometimes I'll go to the sunset DJ parties by the pool, which are loud and pretty crazy.\"\n\nWelcome to the new breed of private members' club, which claim to be less restrictive and more diverse than the stuffy gentlemen's clubs of the past.\n\nThese modern venues - with their co-working spaces, screening rooms and rooftop pools - are fast becoming the places where many of today's young creative class choose to work and play.\n\nMembership isn't cheap though, with some charging more than $2,000 (£1,500) per annum, along with joining fees of $300.\n\n\"In the past, members' clubs were seen as being elitist and populated by people who went to the same public schools and universities,\" says Richard Cope, a senior trends consultant at Mintel.\n\n\"But these places are more for entrepreneurs and self-made people. The only thing you have to be able to do is pay the fee, and it can be fairly expensive.\"\n\nWhile trendy members' clubs have been around for years, they became much more common after the launch of Soho House in London in 1995.\n\nThe trend has also gained a foothold in the US and other countries.\n\n\"We've see a huge jump in the number of the new types of club coming online, as compared to the traditional model,\" says Zack Bates of Private Club Marketing, a firm that promotes members' clubs.\n\n\"In Los Angeles, you can't get into Soho House. So others are being built, the Hospital Club, Griffin Club and Norwood, to keep up with the appetite for these spaces.\"\n\nSoho House itself now boasts 18 venues around the world, including in New York, Istanbul, Berlin, and soon Mumbai.\n\nGroup revenue rose 3% in 2016 to £293.4m, while global membership jumped from 56,000 to 70,000.\n\nHowever, you have to do more than just fill out an application to join its venues.\n\nMembership costs between £400 to £1,580 per annum, depending on the club, although there are discounts for under-27s.\n\nMore stories from the BBC's Business Brain series looking at interesting business topics from around the world:\n\nThe Hospital Club has a TV and music studio on site\n\nAnd there's a tough background check to ensure potential members are part of the creative class - Soho House frowns on those who work in financial services, for instance.\n\nOnce accepted, members enjoy a host of perks. Soho House Barcelona, for example, one of the chain's newest venues, boasts a retro-themed gym, pool and free classes like yoga.\n\nMembers pay full price for food and drink but get discounts on the club's hotel rooms.\n\nMr Cope says: \"These clubs offer people a discreet place to network and wind down, typically in cities where personal space is at a premium.\"\n\nHowever, they are also about \"showing off to a degree\".\n\n\"In an age of social media, people like to let others know where they hang out or which restaurants they eat at. So there's an element of satisfying those peacock tendencies.\"\n\nThe Hospital Club says it provides its members with networking opportunities\n\nThe newer clubs do serve more practical functions, though, such as offering young entrepreneurs a place to work.\n\nTake London's Hospital Club, based in Covent Garden, which offers its own meeting and conference rooms, and even an in-house TV and music recording studio. Standard membership costs £865 plus a £250 joining fee.\n\nWhile some might find such fees high, it's still cheaper than forking out for your own office space, says Mr Bates.\n\n\"It suits today's digital nomads, who work remotely via their laptops. Paying for an office can be prohibitively expensive, especially in a major city.\"\n\nMembers' clubs also offer vital networking opportunities that help further your career, says Zikki Munyao, 40.\n\nThe remote IT worker joined Common House, a private member's club in Charlottesville, USA, largely for this purpose.\n\n\"There are areas to socialise and meeting spaces where I can have privacy,\" he says of the club, where membership costs $150 (£113) a month, plus a $600 joining fee.\n\n\"I even met my estate agent over a game of pool.\"\n\nThe new breed of members' clubs does face challenges, though.\n\nSome warn that as clubs proliferate, their exclusivity is becoming diluted, and they struggle to attract the celebrities that once lent them cachet.\n\nThe social commentator Peter York tells the BBC: \"Traditionally private members' clubs have played on their exclusivity and being able to attract the 'magic people'.\n\n\"But as more and more of them pop up, you get blase. The magical people also can't be corralled in one place anymore.\"\n\nHe adds that as clubs like Soho House keep on expanding, they seem to be \"more about business\", which further dilutes their brand.\n\n\"The danger is that a new challenger, which looks younger and groovier, arrives and steals your limelight.\"\n\nBut Mr Cope believes the market for these new clubs is going to expand.\n\n\"Having somewhere where you can unwind and host friends in the centre of cities is useful. So there are a lot of practicalities around this.\n\n\"It is also about expressing your individuality, so I think the emotional need for this is only going to grow.\"", "Libya's interior ministry issued this photo of Hashem Abedi in May\n\nThe brother of Manchester Arena bomber Salman Abedi faces arrest in the UK after prosecutors asked for him to be extradited from Libya.\n\nHashem Abedi was arrested in the country shortly after the suicide attack that killed 22 people.\n\nThe Libyan authorities are considering the UK's formal request, Greater Manchester Police said.\n\nPolice also revealed 512 people are now known to have been injured in the blast at an Ariana Grande concert on 22 May.\n\nSalman Abedi was born in Manchester on New Year's Eve 1994\n\nBoth brothers travelled to Libya in April, before Salman returned alone, carrying out the attack.\n\nHashem Abedi is understood to be currently held by a militia group in Libya.\n\nGreater Manchester Police (GMP) said it had \"applied for and been granted a warrant for the arrest of Hashem Abedi\".\n\nThe arrest warrant relates to the \"murder of 22 people, the attempted murder of others who were injured and conspiracy to cause an explosion,\" police said.\n\nThe then 20-year-old was arrested in Tripoli by members of the Rada Special Deterrence Force a day after the attack.\n\nThe North West Counter Terrorism Unit applied for the warrant at Westminster Magistrates' Court within the last two weeks, GMP said.\n\nThe force said it was \"grateful\" to the Libyan authorities for considering the extradition request.\n\nTop (left to right): Lisa Lees, Alison Howe, Georgina Callender, Kelly Brewster, John Atkinson, Jane Tweddle, Marcin Klis - Middle (left to right): Angelika Klis, Courtney Boyle, Saffie Roussos, Olivia Campbell-Hardy, Martyn Hett, Michelle Kiss, Philip Tron, Elaine McIver - Bottom (left to right): Eilidh MacLeod, Wendy Fawell, Chloe Rutherford, Liam Allen-Curry, Sorrell Leczkowski, Megan Hurley, Nell Jones\n\nThose who were injured suffered both physical and psychological injuries, a GMP spokeswoman said.\n\nA total of 112 people needed hospital treatment after the attack, with 64 suffering \"very serious\" injuries.\n\nPhysical injuries include paralysis, loss of limbs, internal injuries and very serious facial injuries. Many have had complicated plastic surgery.\n\nTwo people remain in hospital more than five months later.\n\nThe force also revealed that:\n\nOfficers are looking for the blue suitcase that was used by bomber Salman Abedi\n\nThe investigation into the UK's worst terrorist atrocity since the 7 July 2005 attacks on the London transport system is \"still running a very fast pace\" with 100 officers working on it full time, GMP said.\n\nPreviously, GMP said Salman Abedi built the device packed with nuts and bolts alone.\n\nDetectives are still looking for a blue suitcase that he was seen using in the days before the attack.\n\nGreater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham said he was \"encouraged\" by the development but said \"there may well be further challenges ahead\".\n\nImages released by police showed Salman Abedi on CCTV in Manchester\n\nSecurity Minister Ben Wallace said: \"We have been clear from the outset that we are determined to do everything in our power to ensure that those suspected of being responsible for the Manchester attack are brought to justice in the UK.\n\n\"That is why the Home Secretary agreed to request the extradition of Hashem Abedi, who has been named as a suspect by Greater Manchester Police, and we continue to work closely with the CPS, police and Libyan authorities to return him to the UK.\n\n\"This was a callous and evil act and the victims and their families deserve and demand justice. They must remain our priority and we will therefore not be commenting further so as not to jeopardise the investigation.\"", "Shakib Khan is one of the best known actors of his generation in Bangladesh\n\nA Bangladeshi auto-rickshaw driver is suing one of the country's best-known film stars, who used his phone number in a movie.\n\nThe blunder led to Ijajul Mia being deluged with calls from admiring female fans of film star Shakib Khan.\n\n\"The use of my number... made my life completely miserable,\" Mr Mia said.\n\nHe is seeking more than $60,000 (£45,000) for the distress caused by the calls, which he argues has nearly ruined his marriage.\n\nMr Mia is estimated to have received nearly 500 calls over a five-day period in July from women hoping to meet Mr Khan.\n\nThere has been no comment from the actor to the claims.\n\nCycle rickshaws and auto-rickshaws jostle for space and custom in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka - and Mr Mia says his mobile phone is vital for his business\n\nMr Khan is one of the famous and successful actors in Bangladesh, winning numerous awards.\n\nThe incident involving Mr Mia's mobile phone number took place in the film Rajniti - released in June and produced and directed by Mr Khan.\n\nIn the film, the movie star is seen and heard reciting Mr Mia's number to his onscreen girlfriend.\n\n\"Every day I got hundreds of calls, mostly from female fans of Shakib Khan,\" a frustrated Mr Mia told the AFP news agency.\n\n\"They would say 'Hello Shakib, I am your fan. Do you have two minutes to talk to me?'\"\n\nMr Mia said the anxiety caused by the calls had left him questioning whether to sell his family home, and led to his new wife threatening to leave him.\n\nHe explained that he could not afford to get a different number because he would lose business from long-established clients if he did so.\n\n\"I am a newly-married man with one daughter,\" he said. \"When these calls started coming, my wife thought that I was having an affair.\"\n\nOne fan was reported by AFP to have been so enamoured with the idea of meeting Mr Khan that she travelled 500km (300 miles) to see him.\n\nMr Mia's case was filed this week before a district judge, who initially was reported to have been reluctant to hear it.\n\nBut the judge is reported to have changed his mind after lawyers acting on his behalf submitted evidence showing the personal angst experienced by him because of the phone calls.\n\nAnother hearing in the case has been fixed for 18 December, local media reported.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The dram was bought for £7,600\n\nA dram of vintage Scotch bought by a Chinese millionaire in a Swiss hotel bar for £7,600 was a fake, laboratory tests have concluded.\n\nAnalysts from Scotland were called in by the Waldhaus Am See hotel in St Moritz after experts questioned the authenticity of the 2cl shot.\n\nIt had been poured from an unopened bottle labelled as an 1878 Macallan single malt.\n\nIt is believed to be the largest sum ever paid for a poured dram of Scotch.\n\nBut analysis found that it was almost certainly not distilled before 1970.\n\nThe hotel said it had accepted the findings and reimbursed the customer in full.\n\nZhang Wei, 36, from Beijing - one of China's highest-earning online writers - had paid just under 10,000 Swiss francs (£7,600, $10,050) for the single shot while visiting the hotel's Devil's Place whisky bar in July.\n\nBut suspicions about the spirit's provenance surfaced soon after the purchase, when whisky industry experts spotted discrepancies in the bottle's cork and label from newspaper articles.\n\nMr Zhang was photographed with hotel manager Sandro Bernasconi after buying the dram\n\nThat prompted the Waldhaus to send a sample to Dunfermline-based specialists Rare Whisky 101 (RW101) for analysis.\n\nCarbon dating tests were then carried out by researchers from the University of Oxford, which suggested a 95% probability that the spirit was created between 1970 and 1972.\n\nFurther lab tests by Fife-based alcohol analysts Tatlock and Thomson indicated that it was probably a blended Scotch, comprising 60% malt and 40% grain - ruling it out as a single malt.\n\nRW101 said the tests had shown that the bottle was \"almost worthless as a collector's item\".\n\nHad the bottle been genuine, it would have carried a bar-value of about 300,000 Swiss francs (£227,000).\n\nThe dram was poured from an unopened bottle that purported to be an 1878 Macallan\n\nMr Zhang, who writes martial arts fantasy novels under the pen name Tang Jia San Shao, earned the equivalent of about $16.8m in 2015, according to China Daily.\n\nHe bought the dram while on holiday with his grandmother at the Swiss hotel, which stocks 2,500 different whiskies.\n\nWaldhaus manager Sandro Bernasconi told BBC Scotland that the hotel had no idea the bottle was a fake.\n\nHe said: \"My father bought the bottle of Macallan 25 years ago, when he was manager of this hotel, and it had not been opened.\n\n\"When Mr Zhang asked if he could try some, we told him it wasn't for sale. When he said he really wanted to try it, I called my father who told me we could wait another 20 years for a customer like that so we should sell it.\n\n\"Mr Zhang and I then opened the bottle together and drank some of it.\"\n\nMr Zhang wrote about his experience with the \"1878\" Macallan a few days after his visit to the Waldhaus hotel\n\nA few days after tasting the whisky, Mr Zhang posted a message on the Chinese micro-blogging platform Weibo about his experience.\n\nHe wrote in Mandarin: \"When I came across a fine spirit from over 100 years ago, there wasn't much struggle inside.\n\n\"My grandma who accompanied me on this trip was only 82, yet the alcohol was 139 years old - same age as my grandma's grandma.\n\n\"To answer you all, it had a good taste. It's not just the taste, but also history.\"\n\nThe dram was bought from the Devil's Place whisky bar in St Moritz\n\nMr Bernasconi broke the bad news to Mr Zhang when he flew out to China to reimburse him recently.\n\nHe added: \"When I showed him the results, he was not angry - he thanked me very much for the hotel's honesty and said his experience in Switzerland had been good.\n\n\"When it comes to selling our customers some of the world's rarest and oldest whiskies, we felt it was our duty to ensure that our stock is 100% authentic and the real deal.\n\n\"That's why we called in RW101.\n\n\"The result has been a big shock to the system, and we are delighted to have repaid our customer in full as a gesture of goodwill.\"\n\nRW101 co-founder David Robertson said: \"The Waldhaus team did exactly the right thing by trying to authenticate this whisky.\n\n\"We would implore that others in the market do what they can to identify any rogue bottles.\n\n\"The more intelligence we can provide, the greater the chance we have to defeat the fakers and fraudsters who seek to dupe the unsuspecting rare whisky consumer.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Bank of England may lift rates twice more over three years\n\nFor the first time in more than 10 years, the Bank of England has raised interest rates.\n\nThe official bank rate has been lifted from 0.25% to 0.5%, the first increase since July 2007.\n\nIt is likely to rise twice more over the next three years, according to Bank of England governor Mark Carney.\n\nThe move reverses the cut in August of last year, which was made in the wake of the vote to leave the European Union.\n\nAlmost four million households face higher mortgage interest payments after the rise, but it should give savers a modest lift in their returns.\n\nAs well as many of the country's 45 million savers, anyone considering buying an annuity for their pension will also see better deals.\n\nThe main losers will be households with a variable rate mortgage.\n\nMr Carney expects banks to pass on the rate rise to savers, but said many mortgages, loans and credit cards would not see an immediate impact.\n\nHe said that British households have been \"savvy\" with their finances and have mostly taken out fixed-rate mortgages, which means it will take some time before the rise has an impact on them.\n\nThe Bank estimates that almost two million mortgage holders have not experienced an interest rate rise since taking out a mortgage.\n\nOf the 8.1 million households with a mortgage, 3.7 million - or 46% - are on either a standard variable rate or a tracker rate - which generally move with the official bank rate.\n\nThe average outstanding balance is £89,000 which would see payments increase by about £12 a month, according to UK Finance.\n\nThe panel which sets interest rates, called the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC), justified the rate increase by pointing to record-low unemployment, rising inflation and stronger global economic growth.\n\nSeven out of the nine members voted in favour of higher rates.\n\nMr Carney told the BBC that the Bank expected the UK economy to grow at about 1.7% for the next few years, which he said would require \"about two more interest rate increases over the next three years\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. We challenged some ten year olds to explain a system that baffles many adults…\n\nThe pound fell about 1% against the dollar and euro, as some investors had hoped to see hints of more rate rises. Sterling dropped more than a cent against the two currencies to $1.3130 and €1.1280 respectively.\n\nThe financial markets are indicating two more interest rate increases over the next three years, taking the official rate to 1%.\n\nHoward Archer, chief economic adviser to the EY Item Club consultancy, said: \"The Bank of England seemingly sees the hike to 0.50% as more likely to be a case of 'one and a little more to come' rather than 'one and done'.\"\n\nThe MPC also said that the decision to leave the European Union is having a \"noticeable impact\" on the economic outlook.\n\nMr Carney said \"Brexit-related constraints\" on investment and workers appeared to be holding back the potential growth of the economy.\n\nLooking ahead, he said: \"The biggest determinate of our outlook is going to be those negotiations ongoing on Brexit - both a transition deal to a new arrangement and what is the longer form arrangement with the European Union.\"\n\nThe Bank of England is tasked with keeping consumer price inflation at around 2%.\n\nHowever, inflation has been running higher than that since February, and in September it hit 3% - the highest rate since April 2012.\n\nMr Carney said inflation was unlikely to return to 2% without raising rates, because the economy was growing at levels \"above its speed limit\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Where were you when interest rates last went up?\n\nBusiness bodies said the rise was expected, but warned that companies could be hit if further increases came too soon.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses said some would struggle to \"absorb more hikes in the short term\", while the CBI said \"what's important is the pace of any future rises\".\n\nEconomists said the rise was unlikely to have a big effect on the economy, because rates are still at the lows seen since the financial crisis.\n\nLucy O'Carroll, chief economist at Aberdeen Standard Investments, said: \"The symbolism of this hike is more significant than its economic impact.\"\n\nThe Bank has been reluctant to raise interest rates until now, arguing that inflation had been boosted by the fall in the value of the pound since the Brexit vote in June of last year.\n\nThat weaker pound has driven up the costs of imported food, fuel and other goods. The Bank says this effect is probably at its peak at the moment.\n\nThe other issue holding back the Bank has been the weakness in wage growth. While inflation hit 3% in September, wage growth was only 2.1%.\n\nHowever, the Bank sees wage growth \"gradually\" increasing over the 2018 and says there are signs of that happening already.\n\nIn its Quarterly Inflation Report, released with the announcement on rates, the Bank estimated inflation was likely to peak this month at 3.2%.", "How should the international community treat the defeated fighters of so-called Islamic State?\n\nCountries must remember \"our shared humanity\" when dealing with captured fighters from so-called Islamic State, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).\n\nAt a briefing in Geneva, the ICRC's deputy director for the Middle East, Patrick Hamilton, insisted that international law on the treatment of combatants must be followed, and rejected calls for the \"annihilation\" of fighters.\n\nHe acknowledged that the campaign against IS had left \"huge devastation in its wake\", with \"catastrophic humanitarian consequences\".\n\nBut while Mr Hamilton's remarks did touch on the appalling suffering of civilians who have had to live through the brutal regime of IS in Mosul or Raqqa - and the bloody battles for those cities - his focus was the future treatment of IS fighters, including those who travelled to Syria and Iraq from other countries.\n\nThe ICRC is already visiting more than 1,300 women and children of several dozen nationalities detained near Mosul.\n\nThey are believed to be the families of foreign fighters. As the coalition against IS gains more ground, more and more IS fighters and their families are expected to be captured.\n\nSo what should happen to them?\n\nThe ICRC, said Patrick Hamilton, was concerned about a \"public discourse… on the desirability of annihilating those enemies still standing\", and he warned against treating the fighters as \"if they were outside our shared humanity\".\n\nHe did not identify specific names of those carrying on such a discourse.\n\nBut when Mr Hamilton warned about \"dehumanising rhetoric\", he was probably referring to comments made by a number of Western politicians - including Rory Stewart, minister of state at the UK's foreign office - who recently said that UK citizens fighting for IS were a \"serious danger to us\".\n\n\"Unfortunately,\" he said, \"the only way of dealing with them will be, in almost every case, to kill them.\"\n\nAt least 800 people from the UK have travelled to support or fight for jihadist organisations in Syria and Iraq\n\nThe French Defence Minister Florence Parly has also suggested that if IS fighters \"perish in this fight, I would say that's for the best\".\n\nBrett McGurk, the US envoy to the coalition against IS, has said the coalition wants to ensure that foreign fighters \"die here in Syria\".\n\nThe comments from politicians may find a good deal of sympathy among voters.\n\nCitizens and survivors of terror attacks in Paris, London or New York are understandably nervous about the prospect of individuals who joined IS returning home once the battle for the caliphate is lost.\n\nAn estimated 30,000 foreign fighters are believed to have joined IS.\n\nThe security services view even a few hundred returning to Europe as a huge challenge: putting them in jail risks further radicalisation but allowing them to go free will almost certainly involve the police in round-the-clock surveillance work.\n\nMany may struggle to identify any \"shared humanity\" with people whose ideology appears to include enslaving women, decapitating prisoners or driving trucks into crowds of tourists.\n\nBut at the ICRC, the guardian of the Geneva Conventions, the mood is different. \"Exceptional crimes do not justify exceptions to the law,\" said Patrick Hamilton.\n\nIn his view, any fighter \"left standing\" must be captured, detained, and, if crimes are suspected, brought to justice in the usual way.\n\nAgnes Callamard, the UN's special rapporteur on extra-judicial, summary or arbitrary executions, shares the ICRC's concerns.\n\nThe UN's Agnes Callamard is also concerned about any desire to circumvent due process\n\nShe believes the current rhetoric focusing specifically on IS is \"problematic\". \"In Syria and Iraq,\" she argues, \"vast numbers of atrocities have been committed, by all sides - why single one out?\"\n\nPeople who are not actually fighting, she explains, are \"hors de combat\" - or \"out of action\" - and international law is very clear about how they should be treated.\n\nShe agrees with the ICRC that there should be no exceptions to this, and that there should be no arbitrary killing just because someone is believed to be a member of IS.\n\nOn a practical level, both Agnes Callamard and Reed Brody of Human Rights Watch fear that the apparent desire, as expressed by US President Donald Trump, to \"annihilate Islamic State\" could, if really carried out, destroy valuable evidence of war crimes.\n\n\"In terms of uncovering the truth and ensuring the victims or their relatives get justice,\" said Ms Callamard, \"that can only be done through an open and transparent judicial process.\"\n\nRaqqa has been devastated by three years of IS rule and the action to recapture the city\n\nMr Brody agrees that returning IS fighters present \"challenges\", but argues they also offer \"opportunities\".\n\nHe talks of the possibility of finding a way \"to work with some of these former fighters to find out all we can about how Isis operates, and even to build criminal cases against high-ranking Isis officials who have been involved in war crimes and other atrocities\".\n\n\"We have a right to know,\" adds Ms Callamard. \"For history, how IS operated, who funded them. All of this is crucial information.\"\n\nDespite their apparent contradiction, underlying both the comments made by Western politicians and the pleas for humanity from the ICRC and others is a common desire for peace, both in the Middle East and on our city streets.\n\nEradication of a group that has caused so much horror may be an attractive solution, but the ICRC views it as short-sighted, as well as illegal under international law.\n\nNazi leader Hermann Goering was sentenced to death for crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg trials in 1946\n\n\"How a conflict is fought and brought to an end [is] important to future peace,\" Patrick Hamilton points out. \"Talk of annihilation or extermination risks perpetuating the conflict.\"\n\n\"Our justice system is predicated on the fact that even the worst perpetrators… should have their day in court, for all to see,\" says Agnes Callamard.\n\nAnd, she points out, we have had the vision and the energy to bring the perpetrators of history's most horrific crimes to justice in the past.\n\n\"We did it after World War Two [with the Nuremberg trials]. We did not have a choice then, and we do not have a choice now.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTheresa May is expected to name a new defence secretary after the resignation of Sir Michael Fallon on Wednesday.\n\nHe stood down, saying his conduct had \"fallen short\" of the required standards after allegations of inappropriate sexual behaviour.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said a \"radical reshuffle\" was not expected, but instead a \"sideways move or single shuffle up\".\n\nScottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson said the \"tone of politics had changed\".\n\nSir Michael is the first politician to quit following recently revealed claims of sexual harassment in Parliament.\n\nHe told the BBC that what had been \"acceptable 15, 10 years ago is clearly not acceptable now\".\n\nRuth Davidson said it was time to \"clean out the stables\" in British politics.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"It isn't actually about sex. It's about power. It's always about power. And we as elected representatives have to hold ourselves to a higher standard.\n\n\"We're in positions of power so we can make things better for who comes after, not so that we can exert that power in a nefarious way.\"\n\nIn his resignation letter, Sir Michael said a number of allegations that had surfaced about MPs, including himself, had been false, but added: \"I accept that in the past I have fallen below the high standards that we require of the Armed Forces that I have the honour to represent.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Michael Fallon: \"Not right for me to go on as defence secretary\".\n\nSir Michael later told the BBC it \"was right\" for him to resign, adding: \"Parliament now has to look at itself and the prime minister has made very clear that conduct needs to be improved and we need to protect the staff of Westminster against any particular allegations of harassment.\"\n\nWhen asked if he thought he should apologise, Mr Fallon said: \"I think we've all got to look back now at the past, there are always things you regret, you would have done differently.\"\n\nMrs May said she appreciated the \"serious manner\" in which Sir Michael had considered his Cabinet role and paid tribute to \"a long and impressive ministerial career\".\n\nLaura Kuenssberg said that sources close to him do not believe he is \"some kind of predator\", but that he had not felt that he would be able to account for every encounter in his long ministerial career.\n\nShe said there was already a \"fragile balance\" in Cabinet and that the prime minister would be wary when naming Sir Michael's successor.\n\nIt was not just about appointing a figurehead for the military, she added, but with big issues like Brexit on the table, the appointment would be about \"keeping the political peace.\"\n\nOn Tuesday, a spokesman for Sir Michael confirmed that he was once rebuked by a journalist, Julia Hartley-Brewer, for putting his hand on her knee during a dinner in 2002.\n\nMs Hartley-Brewer, a former political editor of the Sunday Express and regular political commentator, told BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight: \"If he has gone because he touched my knee 15 years ago, that is genuinely the most absurd reason for anyone to have lost their job in the history of the universe, so I hope it is not because of that.\"\n\nThe BBC understands fresh claims about his behaviour were raised on Wednesday, but Downing Street refused to comment.\n\nLabour MP Jess Phillips said recent allegations made against MPs were a cross-party issue, but said Sir Michael's resignation made her feel that action was being taken.\n\nShe added: \"I am not interested in scalps, I am interested in cultural change, in parliament and in our political parties, to make it safer and a better environment for women.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ruth Davidson says the notion of overwhelmingly male-dominated professions has got to stop\n\nFollowing a range of recent allegations, including claims of a lack of support for those making complaints, Mrs May has written to party leaders calling for the \"serious, swift, cross-party response this issue demands\".", "Actors Dustin Hoffman (L) and Kevin Spacey (R) have been accused of sexual misconduct\n\nTwo Oscar-winning actors, a Hollywood filmmaker and a senior US news editor are the latest high-profile figures to be accused of sexual harassment.\n\nThe actors Kevin Spacey and Dustin Hoffman have been accused of sexual misconduct and have issued apologies.\n\nMeanwhile, six women have accused Brett Ratner, director of the Rush Hour film series and X-Men: The Last Stand, of sexual harassment or misconduct.\n\nRatner's lawyer \"categorically\" denied all of the accusations on his behalf.\n\nA representative for Spacey released a short statement to the US media, saying the actor \"is taking the time necessary to seek evaluation and treatment. No other information is available at this time\".\n\nA growing number of allegations have been made against public figures in recent weeks.\n\nThe allegations have been sparked by multiple women speaking out against the Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, and a subsequent campaign encouraging victims to share their stories of sexual harassment under the #metoo hashtag.\n\nSo who has been accused of misconduct?\n\nNew allegations have emerged from a number of men accusing Kevin Spacey of sexual misconduct.\n\nUS filmmaker Tony Montana claims he was groped by the actor in a Los Angeles bar in 2003. He says he was left with PTSD for six months after Spacey \"forcefully\" grabbed his crotch.\n\nMr Montana told Radar Online that he was in his thirties when the incident took place at the Coronet Bar in LA.\n\nIt follows an allegation made by Anthony Rapp that the House of Cards actor tried to \"seduce\" him when he was 14 years old.\n\nKevin Spacey says he has no recollection of that encounter, and was \"beyond horrified\".\n\nIncidents regarding Spacey are also alleged to have taken place in the UK while the two-time Oscar winner was the artistic director at the Old Vic in London between 2004 and 2015.\n\nMexican actor Roberto Cavazos, who acted in several plays at the theatre, claims Spacey \"routinely preyed\" on young male actors.\n\nOne man told the BBC about his experience of being invited to spend the weekend with Spacey in New York when he was a teenager in the 1980s.\n\nSix women have accused Hollywood filmmaker Brett Ratner of sexual harassment or misconduct.\n\nThe women, including The Newsroom actress Olivia Munn, made the allegations in the Los Angeles Times.\n\nNatasha Henstridge, who appeared in Species and The Whole Ten Yards, claimed she had been forced into a sex act with Ratner as a teenager.\n\nThe actress, now 43, was a 19-year-old model at the time she alleges Ratner stopped her from leaving a room at his New York apartment and then made her perform a sex act on him.\n\n\"He strong-armed me in a real way,\" she told the LA Times. \"He physically forced himself onto me.\"\n\nRatner's lawyer \"categorically\" denied all of the accusations on his behalf in response to the article.\n\nSeparately, Ratner has filed a libel case in Hawaii against a woman who accused him on Facebook of rape more than 10 years ago.\n\nRatner says he has stepped away from dealings with movie studio Warner Bros since the allegations came to light.\n\nDustin Hoffman has been accused of sexually harassing an intern on the set of one of his films in 1985.\n\nAnna Graham Hunter, a writer, says that when she was 17, the Oscar-winning actor groped her and made inappropriate comments about sex to her.\n\nShe told The Hollywood Reporter: \"He was openly flirtatious, he grabbed my ass, he talked about sex to me and in front of me.\"\n\nHoffman apologised, and said he was sorry if he \"put her in an uncomfortable situation\".\n\nIn a statement to the magazine, Hoffman said: \"I have the utmost respect for women and feel terrible that anything I might have done could have put her in an uncomfortable situation. I am sorry. It is not reflective of who I am.\"\n\nThe BBC has contacted representatives of Dustin Hoffman for his response to these allegations.\n\nMichael Oreskes resigned following accusations he kissed female colleagues without their consent\n\nSenior editor Michael Oreskes has resigned following accusations he kissed female colleagues without their consent during business meetings.\n\nThe 63-year-old was asked to step down by the National Public Radio (NPR) network in response to the allegations. He has previously worked for the Associated Press and the New York Times.\n\nTwo women spoke to the Washington Post on condition of anonymity, and reported stories of abrupt and unexpected kisses during business meetings. They said they were worried about career development if their names were made public.\n\nOne of the women said that while she met Mr Oreskes in the hope of getting a job with the New York Times, he suggested that they eat room service lunch in a hotel, before he unexpectedly kissed her and \"slipped his tongue into her mouth\".\n\nHe has not commented publicly on the allegations, and journalists at NPR report that they have tried to contact him for comment, without success.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. New Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson arrives at the MoD\n\nChief Whip Gavin Williamson has been appointed as the new defence secretary after Sir Michael Fallon's resignation.\n\nSir Michael quit on Wednesday saying his past behaviour may have \"fallen short\" of the standards expected by the UK military.\n\nHe became the first politician to quit following recently revealed claims of sexual harassment in Parliament.\n\nSouth Staffordshire MP Mr Williamson, 41, said he was \"both honoured and excited\" by the promotion.\n\nHe has been replaced as chief whip by his former deputy, Julian Smith, who will now be in charge of enforcing party discipline in the Commons. Mr Smith's deputy will be Tatton MP - and former GMTV presenter - Esther McVey.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Williamson said he was \"determined to ensure that the armed forces receive the recognition they deserve for the great work they do, including through the Armed Forces Covenant, and that they evolve both to meet the changing threats that we face and to ensure that they properly represent the modern society that they defend\".\n\nHe told reporters it was an \"immense privilege\" to be able to work with Britain's armed forces. He said his priority would be to continue to focus on \"countering\" Daesh, or so-called Islamic State, and \"making sure national security is at the forefront of everything we do\".\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said that while Mr Williamson was seen as an effective operator some Conservatives were furious that an MP with no ministerial experience had been promoted to the cabinet.\n\nOne senior Conservative told her: \"MPs are deeply unhappy he has used the position of chief whip to benefit himself and has deserted his post at such a crucial time\".\n\nAsked about claims he lacks ministerial experience, Mr Williamson said: \"I've been a minister as chief whip, but it was a little bit quieter when you're chief whip, not so much publicity.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nOne Tory MP, Sarah Wollaston, told BBC Radio 4's World at One that Penny Mordaunt and Tobias Ellwood had been possible alternatives adding: \"These are decisions that are made through patronage. Part of the role of the chief whip is to advise the prime minister about the suitability of the candidate.\"\n\nBut Conservative MP Bob Stewart - a former Army colonel - described Mr Williamson as a \"decent, calm man... he's also a very thoughtful man\".\n\n\"He won't know much about defence but I believe the civil service in the Ministry of Defence, the generals and the Armed Forces themselves won't mind that too much because he's the sort of person that will listen carefully, take advice but then make his own decision.\"\n\nGavin Williamson has no military background and has never been a secretary of state. But he is youthful, a rising star and trusted by Number 10.\n\nHe arrives at the Ministry of Defence at a difficult time. His first challenge will be to try to stave off more defence cuts. The Cabinet Office is currently carrying out a defence and security review which is due to report by the end of the year.\n\nAll three services have been asked to put forward options for cuts. Although there has been a modest rise in the MoD's budget, it has still got to make more than £20bn of efficiency savings.\n\nThere's also pressure to fund an increase in pay for the armed forces. They've been struggling with both recruitment and retention. That also hasn't been helped by a political reluctance to put troops in harm's way - something they train for.\n\nThere is still unfinished business against so-called Islamic State and Gavin Williamson will be the man who now oversees the RAF airstrikes. Few inside the military or the MoD will know much about him - even fewer on the international stage.\n\nThe prime minister's official spokesman said Mr Williamson was not involved in reshuffle discussions, and said he was \"an excellent and hard-working chief whip and the prime minister thinks he will make an excellent defence secretary\".\n\n\"The PM is confident in the operation of the whips' office during her premiership.\"\n\nIn his resignation letter, Sir Michael Fallon said a number of allegations that had surfaced about MPs, including himself, had been false, but added: \"I accept that in the past I have fallen below the high standards that we require of the Armed Forces that I have the honour to represent.\"\n\nGavin Williamson keeps a tarantula - not this one - on his desk\n\nForeign Secretary Boris Johnson said Sir Michael had a record to be proud of as defence secretary.\n\n\"I've known Michael for many years,\" he said.\n\n\"He has been a great colleague and a great defence secretary.\"\n\nAsked by the BBC if his own behaviour had always been of a standard expected of cabinet ministers, Mr Johnson replied: \"You bet.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPeople have been sharing their stories of sexual harassment at work against a backdrop of claims against high profile figures.\n\nAllegations including rape, sexual assault and unwanted touching of minors have come to light.\n\nSpeaking to the Victoria Derbyshire programme Rebecca Crookshank, who used to be in the RAF, described her deployment to the Falkland Islands aged 20.\n\nShe said it had taken her 15 years to talk about her harassment.\n\nAs the only woman sent to a base in the mountains, Rebecca describes how she was \"moonied\" when her flight came in and the initiation ceremony to which she was subjected.\n\nShe describes how her complaint was met with an \"offer of a flight\" to secure her silence.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Told to touch myself at a casting\"\n\nModel Aaron Lesta Lopez has been harassed by a casting director several times - he said he is slapped on the bottom when he sees him.\n\nHe was called to a shoot - without being told it was being held at the director's home - and told he could \"touch yourself\" on camera.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"I didn't tell this man not to do that - I froze\"\n\nMichelle Russell has been a nurse for 30 years but unable to work for the last two after being subjected to a sexual assault.\n\nShe says it escalated from being asked for a phone number to physical touching.\n\nShe describes how she has lost her pay and been banned from talking to colleagues.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"He said this is the room where we have sex with employees\"\n\nAt 18, Becka Hudson says she was subjected to a torrent of harassment from her manager.\n\nWorking a zero-hour contract as a waitress, she described how he slapped her bum and called her names.\n\nIt reached a tipping point when on one shift she was taken to a private room and told \"this is the room where we have sex with employees\".", "American firework laws may seem strict - but as the UK prepares for Bonfire Night, has the US got the right idea?\n\nIn Delaware, you don't need a licence to own a shotgun.\n\nYou don't need a permit to buy a shotgun or carry a shotgun.\n\nIf you're over 18, and you pass the background check, the state won't interfere with your shotgun.\n\nSparklers, however, are a different matter.\n\nUnless you have a permit for a public display, it is illegal to sell or possess fireworks in Delaware.\n\nThat includes sparklers - which the law specifically mentions.\n\nThe maximum fine is $100. Last year, 17 people were arrested in Delaware for fireworks offences.\n\nWhile the US constitution does uphold the right to bear arms, it doesn't uphold the right to bear roman candles.\n\nThe offices at Patriotic Fireworks in Maryland\n\nIn the US, firework laws vary from state to state, even town to town. Like Delaware, Massachusetts bans all consumer fireworks - including sparklers.\n\nIllinois, Ohio, and Vermont ban everything but sparklers and novelty items. Other states ban anything that flies.\n\nThe laws mean firework stores are often found on state lines, so customers from one state can take advantage of laws in another.\n\nPatriotic Fireworks is in Elkton, Maryland - six miles from the Delaware state line. It's a small, friendly store, found down a long, tree-lined track.\n\nA pig-tailed dog called Princess Sofia says hello to customers. A sign on the door says: \"Let freedom ring\".\n\nBut they take the law seriously.\n\nFirstly, they don't sell to people from Maryland. They could, but the state law is so complex, and so strict, it's not worth their time.\n\n\"I would have to dedicate a person to go round with each customer, to make sure they bought legal items,\" says owner April Frederici. \"It's just easier not to.\"\n\nThey do sell to Delaware residents - \"I can't be the world's policeman,\" says April - but every customer must sign a contract.\n\nIt states that fireworks will be used \"in accordance with all state and local laws\". It also says Patriotic will not be liable for any \"accident or injury\".\n\nAnd when it comes to fireworks, accidents do happen. Just ask American football player Jason Pierre-Paul.\n\nIn 2015, Pierre-Paul celebrated Independence Day in his home town of Deerfield Beach, Florida. At the end of the night, he decided to set off one last firework.\n\nHe tried seven times to light the fuse. Then it exploded in his hand.\n\nPierre-Paul lost his index finger and the tip of his thumb. His middle finger was badly damaged.\n\nHe still plays football, returning with his hand wrapped in a club. In 2016, he became the face of a fireworks safety campaign.\n\n\"Jason Pierre-Paul is a great example of the dangers of fireworks,\" says Michael Chionchio, the assistant state fire marshal in Delaware.\n\nMichael and the state fire marshal's office are based on the edge of the state capital, Dover.\n\nIn the car park, a sign keeps tally of the number of fire deaths in Delaware. Last year: nine. This year: seven (six without a smoke detector).\n\nMichael is proud of his state's fireworks law. \"I can sum it up in a few words,\" he says. \"Fireworks are unsafe.\"\n\nIn 2004, Republicans in the state legislature tried to legalise sparklers, but failed. This year, they are trying again.\n\nThe fire marshal opposes the change. Not only are sparklers a \"gateway\" to other fireworks, says Michael, but they are unsafe.\n\n\"A sparkler can burn up to 1,800 degrees (980 celsius),\" he says.\n\nMichael leans across the wooden table and points to the Consumer Product Safety Commission's 2016 report on firework safety.\n\nIt says fireworks were involved in 11,100 injuries treated in US hospitals in 2016 (92% of victims were seen at the emergency department then released).\n\nIn the 30 days around 4 July, sparklers caused 900 injuries, with 400 of those in children aged 0-4.\n\n\"We can't consciously tell you that we accept fireworks and sparklers being legalised,\" says Michael.\n\n\"We just can't do that. We're fire marshals. We protect people from fires. We can't support something that will hurt somebody.\"\n\nAlthough the constitution allows guns, the US has a safety-conscious streak. In the \"land of the free\", the following are banned:\n\nSlowly, though, firework laws are being liberalised.\n\nSince 2000, nine states have legalised sparklers - New Jersey was the most recent. Another seven states have relaxed laws on other fireworks.\n\nJulie Heckman from the American Pyrotechnics Association says legalising fireworks makes them safer.\n\n\"Everyone celebrates their pride and patriotism on 4 July with backyard fireworks,\" she says.\n\n\"If fireworks are banned, people are just breaking the law. And where there was complete prohibition there was no safety message.\"\n\nLike Michael Chionchio, she has statistics to make her case. The number of firework-related injuries is the same as in 1976 - 11,100.\n\nBut at the same time, the consumption of fireworks has increased massively. Pound for pound, says Julie, the injury rate has fallen \"dramatically\".\n\nThe association attributes the decline to better education and safer products. It also points out that other things are risky, too.\n\nIn 2016, it says baseball was linked to 10 times as many injuries as fireworks.\n\nPeter Schwartzkopf is the Speaker of the Delaware House of Representatives, and was a policeman in the state for 25 years.\n\n\"I don't want you to think we're a bunch of prudes,\" he says.\n\n\"We have fireworks on 4 July in my town, Rehoboth. It's permitted, it's a fantastic show.\n\n\"It's not like we don't do fireworks. But it's mostly commercialised, done by companies that are experts.\"\n\nWhile he says fireworks are \"very dangerous\", he \"doesn't see that much harm in a sparkler\". But he points out that Delaware has a \"very strong fire marshal and fire company lobby\".\n\nIs it not strange that a place that allows firearms should ban fireworks?\n\n\"It's two separate things, but I'd love to trade you on that one,\" he says.\n\n\"I believe in the right to carry a gun and the right to protect yourself. But I think somewhere along the line we've gone way too far.\n\n\"They make guns out there that have no legitimate reason, other than to kill people in war. I'm on the side of tightening it up.\"\n\nSo why hasn't it been tightened up?\n\n\"It's a difficult process,\" he says. \"And we have an extremely strong gun lobby in DC.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Plans to shake-up the UK's ATM network may lead to a \"vast reduction\" in the number of free-access cash machines.\n\nLink, the UK's largest ATM network with 70,000 machines, is proposing to overhaul the operation.\n\nUnder the change, Link would reduce the amount it charges card issuers to allow customers to use the machines.\n\nBut the move will leave \"ATM deserts\" where communities have no access to cash, warned the ATM Industry Association.\n\nOn Wednesday, Link published a range of proposals, including a cut in the fees it charges card companies from around 25p to 20p per withdrawal.\n\nIt said the changes - which would come into effect next April - would help protect the network, which currently includes 55,000 free-to-use machines.\n\nLink said it was committed to maintaining an extensive network of free-to-use machines\n\nBut the ATM Industry Association criticised the plans.\n\nThe trade body warned that unprofitable machines would be shut down, leaving \"ATM deserts\" where communities have no access to cash and other financial services.\n\n\"A unwarranted shake-up of Link will hit the most hard-up the heaviest - particularly the millions of people who rely on cash for day-to-day budgeting,\" said Ron Delnevo, of the association.\n\nBut Link chief executive John Howells said: \"Free access to cash is vital for UK consumers and Link intends to maintain this for many years to come.\"\n\nHe said Link's financial inclusion programme will help maintain \"extensive free access to cash for all in the UK\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Amid the dire - and somewhat overhyped - predictions of occupations that will be decimated by artificial intelligence and automation, there is one crumb of comfort. Yes, lorry drivers, translators and shop assistants are all under threat from the rise of the robots, but at least the lawyers are doomed too. (Some of my best friends are lawyers, honest.)\n\nThat at least may be your conclusion when you hear about a fascinating contest that took place last month. It pitched over 100 lawyers from many of London's ritziest firms against an artificial intelligence program called Case Cruncher Alpha.\n\nBoth the humans and the AI were given the basic facts of hundreds of PPI (payment protection insurance) mis-selling cases and asked to predict whether the Financial Ombudsman would allow a claim.\n\nIn all, they submitted 775 predictions and the computer won hands down, with Case Cruncher getting an accuracy rate of 86.6%, compared with 66.3% for the lawyers.\n\nQuite a triumph then for a tiny start-up business. For Case Cruncher is not the product of a tech giant but the brainchild of four Cambridge law students. They started out with a simple chatbot that answered legal questions - a bit of a gimmick but it caught on.\n\nJozef Maruscak, Rebecca Agliolo and Ludwig Bull are three of the law students involved\n\nThen they turned to something more sophisticated - a program that could predict the outcome of cases. I was surprised to hear that none of the team had a background in computer science, though it seems the chief executive Ludwig Bull has taught himself about AI during his legal studies.\n\nTwo judges oversaw the competition, Cambridge law lecturer Felix Steffek and Ian Dodd from a company called Premonition, which runs the world's biggest database of legal cases. He says the youthful Case Cruncher team chose the subject for the contest well.\n\n\"There's a lot of these cases and the information isn't too complicated,\" he explained.\n\n\"For certain things like this you can ask a machine and it will do it far more speedily and efficiently than a human.\"\n\nSo, should lawyers now fear for their jobs? Felix Steffek is cautious about reading too much into this competition.\n\n\"Both sides could have achieved better or worse results under different conditions,\" he said.\n\n\"The artificial intelligence might have benefited from more computing power. The lawyers' results might have improved if only experts in PPI claims as opposed to commercial lawyers generally participated.\"\n\nHe says the question at this early stage of AI development is whether it will \"remain limited to descriptive analysis or whether it will be capable of evaluating rules and events\", and then whether it will be a tool for junior lawyers to use or something which replaces them.\n\nThe results of the week-long competition were announced on Friday\n\nIan Dodd thinks AI may replace some of the grunt work done by junior lawyers and paralegals but no machine can talk to a client or argue in front of a High Court judge. He puts it simply: \"The knowledge jobs will go, the wisdom jobs will stay.\"\n\nAnd maybe the smartest, wisest lawyers will do what the Case Cruncher team have done - develop new uses for AI in the law.", "So, the Bank proved it could be a \"reliable boyfriend\" and did what it suggested it would.\n\nIncreasing interest rates became almost inevitable after the governor, Mark Carney, announced on BBC Radio 4's Today programme in September that, if economic growth kept on track, then \"you could expect interest rates to increase\".\n\nAnd given that recent growth figures were slightly ahead of expectations, to not act would have been a surprise.\n\nAnd the Bank of England should rarely be in the surprise industry.\n\nThis rise takes the rate back to where it was before the referendum, and at 0.5% is still at low levels historically.\n\nEconomic support for the economy from the Bank via asset purchases (quantitative easing) and ultra-low interest rates remains.\n\nThe effects of the financial crisis a decade ago still weigh on the economy - and the Bank has again warned that the Brexit process \"is having a noticeable impact on the economic outlook\".\n\nWe still do not live in normal times.\n\nFor that reason, the Bank has taken care to signal that any future rate rises will be \"gradual and limited\".\n\nThe expectation is that rates will rise to just 1%, in two increases of 0.25%, one next year and one in 2020.\n\nThe Bank believes that the economy is unlikely to reach pre-financial crisis growth rates anytime soon, if at all.\n\nYes, inflation is above target - but the Bank argues that the main driver of that is sterling's 18% decline in value since late 2015, with the biggest fall coming directly after the Brexit referendum.\n\nCurrency inflation effects tend to push through the economy relatively quickly - sterling's rapid fall leading to an increase in import prices which the Bank says is likely to see inflation peak next month.\n\nIt predicts inflation will hit 3.2%, before falling back to the target of 2% over subsequent years.\n\nAlthough there is some evidence of global energy inflation adding to price pressures - the oil price is up 17% compared with three months ago and global growth is stronger, which can lead to a more general increase in commodity price inflation as demand rises - many of the other price pressures are weak.\n\nToday's rise is a small dab of good news for savers who will see an uptick in the rates they receive on their cash.\n\nBut for many millions of others it will mean a rise in the cost of living.\n\nYes, many will only see a small increase in monthly repayments if they are on a variable mortgage (on average between £10 and £20 a month).\n\nBut do not forget that Financial Conduct Authority survey which revealed that many millions of people would find it difficult to find the money to pay an unexpected bill of just £50.\n\nThe rise will also generally increase the cost of credit, as it pushes through to the rates banks and other providers charge for people to borrow money - which many millions are doing to make ends meet.\n\nMany households live on very fine economic margins.\n\nThe decision by the Bank of England today will make those margins just that little bit tighter.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDefence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon has resigned, saying his behaviour may have \"fallen short\" of the standards expected by the UK military.\n\nHe told the BBC that what had been \"acceptable 15, 10 years ago is clearly not acceptable now\".\n\nHe is the first politician to quit following recently revealed claims of serious sexual abuse in Parliament.\n\nThe BBC understands fresh claims about his behaviour were raised on Wednesday, but Downing Street refused to comment.\n\nPolitical editor Laura Kuenssberg said that sources close to him do not believe he is \"some kind of predator\", but that he had not felt that he could guarantee that he would be able to account for every encounter in his long ministerial career.\n\nTheresa May said she appreciated the \"serious manner\" in which Sir Michael had considered his Cabinet role.\n\nShe also praised the \"particular example you wish to set servicemen and women and others\".\n\nIn his resignation letter, Sir Michael said: \"A number of allegations have surfaced about MPs in recent days, including some about my previous conduct.\n\n\"Many of these have been false but I accept that in the past I have fallen below the high standards that we require of the Armed Forces that I have the honour to represent.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Michael Fallon: \"Not right for me to go on as defence secretary\".\n\nSir Michael told the BBC it \"was right\" for him to resign and said: \"The culture has changed over the years, what might have been acceptable 15, 10 years ago is clearly not acceptable now.\n\n\"Parliament now has to look at itself and the prime minister has made very clear that conduct needs to be improved and we need to protect the staff of Westminster against any particular allegations of harassment.\"\n\nWhen asked if he thought he should apologise, Mr Fallon said: \"I think we've all got to look back now at the past, there are always things you regret, you would have done differently.\"\n\nHe added that it had been a \"privilege\" to have been defence secretary over the past three and a half years.\n\nIn response Mrs May accepted his resignation and paid tribute to \"a long and impressive ministerial career - serving in four Departments of State under four prime ministers\".\n\nSir Michael Fallon had an interrupted parliamentary career that spanned four decades and two constituencies.\n\nIn March 1983, he lost the Darlington by-election to Labour's Oswald O'Brien, only to win it 77 days later after Margaret Thatcher called a general election.\n\nBut in 1992 his career in government stalled after he lost his Darlington seat to Labour's Alan Milburn in the General Election.\n\nHe returned to Westminster in 1997 after being selected as the Conservative candidate for Sevenoaks when MP Mark Wolfson retired.\n\nDuring the coalition government he was appointed minister for business and enterprise, and then minister for energy.\n\nHe was then appointed minister for Portsmouth in 2014 by David Cameron - a post which was created after the loss of jobs in the local shipyard at arms manufacturer BAE Systems.\n\nIn the same year he succeeded Philip Hammond as defence secretary.\n\nThe resignation comes a day after a spokesman for Sir Michael confirmed that he was once rebuked by a journalist, Julia Hartley-Brewer, for putting his hand on her knee during a dinner in 2002.\n\nThe spokesman said Sir Michael apologised when it happened.\n\nMs Hartley-Brewer, a former political editor of the Sunday Express and regular political commentator, told BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight: \"If he has gone because he touched my knee 15 years ago, that is genuinely the most absurd reason for anyone to have lost their job in the history of the universe, so I hope it is not because of that.\"\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\nFormer Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith said he was sorry to see Sir Michael go, but it showed leadership from the prime minister who \"read the riot act\" to her cabinet.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's The World Tonight: \"Theresa May made it very, very clear… that it was simply unacceptable that people in positions of power over others should then abuse that position to solicit things that otherwise would not be granted to them.\"\n\nLabour MP Ruth Smeeth told the BBC: \"I think we're all very shocked this evening, however we've got to look at what happens next. For me, it's who is going to replace him, how quickly.\n\n\"There's a lot going on and this is not the time for instability at the top of the Ministry of Defence.\"\n\nGeneral Sir Mike Jackson, former head of the British Army, said members of the armed forces would be \"sad\" to see Sir Michael go.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"It's clearly a personal decision he's come to, and so be 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 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’. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nFollowing a range of recent allegations, including claims of a lack of support for those making complaints, Mrs May has written to party leaders calling for the \"serious, swift, cross-party response this issue demands\".\n\nThe prime minister said a \"common, transparent independent grievance procedure\" for all those who work in Parliament was needed and that it \"cannot be right\" for policies to vary between parties.\n\nLabour, meanwhile, has launched an independent investigation into an activist's claim that she was discouraged by a party official from reporting an alleged rape at a party event in 2011.\n• None Take sex abuse claims to police, May urges", "The claim: You're 16. Now you can get married, join the Army, work full-time.\n\nReality Check verdict: You can only join the Army aged 16 or 17 with your parents' permission. At that age you also need your parents' permission to get married unless you do so in Scotland. Since 2013, 16- and 17-year-olds cannot work full-time in England, but can in the other three home nations with some restrictions.\n\nThe Labour Party is distributing a video as part of its campaign to give 16-year-olds across the UK the right to vote.\n\nIn Scotland, 16- and 17-year-olds were allowed to vote in the independence referendum and are allowed to vote in local elections and elections to the Scottish Parliament but Labour wants this right to be universal.\n\nIt argues that they should be allowed to vote because they can get married, join the Army or work full-time.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by The Labour Party This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and 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 Labour Party\n\nLet's start with marriage - you need your parents' permission to get married at the age of 16 or 17 in England, Wales or Northern Ireland.\n\nIn Scotland you do not need permission, even if you come from one of the other nations.\n\nYou need your parents' permission to join the British army as a regular soldier at the age of 16 - you can actually start the application process when you're younger than 16 if you have parental consent. You can't apply to be an officer until you're 18.\n\nThe regulations for full-time work vary across the United Kingdom.\n\nIn England, you can leave full-time education on the last Friday in June if you will be 16 by the end of the summer holidays.\n\nBut until you are 18, the only way you can be working full-time is if it is part of an apprenticeship, which usually involves having one day a week to study skills relating to your role.\n\nYou could also take up a traineeship, which is an unpaid course that involves work experience, which can last up to six months.\n\nIn Wales, under-18s are allowed to work full-time up to a maximum of 40 hours a week once they have reached the minimum school-leaving age of 16.\n\nYou can work full-time in Scotland if you are 16 or 17, but your employer must conduct a health and safety assessment taking into account your youth and lack of experience and that must be shown to your parents.\n\nYou are also not allowed to work more than eight hours a day or 40 hours a week and you are entitled to reasonable, paid time off work for education or training.\n\nThere are various restrictions around selling alcohol or cigarettes and working at night.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, 16- and 17-year-olds are also allowed to work full-time.\n\nThey are limited to eight hours a day and 40 hours a week and there are restrictions around working night shifts.\n\nSo while 16-year-olds can do all the things the Labour Party video says, there are various restrictions on all of them depending on where you live.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn tweeted a separate video on the subject in which he stresses that \"at 16 you can pay tax\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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\nHe's probably talking about direct taxes such as income tax and National Insurance.\n\nYou'd have to be earning more than £11,500 a year to pay income tax (at any age) and £8,160 to be paying National Insurance (if you're over 16).\n\nUnder-18s do not have to pay council tax while people of all ages regularly pay VAT.\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. Dimitris Legakis recorded the moment he was attacked while calling 999\n\nGreek-born Dimitris Legakis has lived and worked in Wales for 17 years and considers the UK his home. But since he was hurt in a racially motivated attack last year, he fears for the safety of his family.\n\nHe spoke to BBC Wales after South Wales Police said hate crime was still drastically under-reported.\n\nIt follows official figures released in October showing the number of hate crimes across England and Wales rose by 29% in 2016-17.\n\nA Home Office report said the biggest rise was in disability and transgender hate crimes, but said the increase was mainly due to better crime recording.\n\nSouth Wales Police said it was \"more important than ever\" that communities reported issues.\n\nMr Legakis explained what happened to him.\n\nDimitris Legakis is a familiar face to the fans and the players at Swansea City Football Club.\n\nAs their official photographer he is a regular on the touchline at the Premier League team's home and away matches.\n\nHis photographs regularly feature in the pages of the national newspapers and, trusted by the players and management, he travels with the team to matches.\n\nLast December he was with the team for their away trip to Middlesbrough for the Swans' match at the Riverside Stadium.\n\nThe night before the match when he was in the city centre he saw a man smash a car window.\n\nMr Legakis, 41, called 999. The man heard his Greek accent and turned on him calling him a \"smelly foreigner\".\n\nDimitris' arms were broken in the attack\n\nMr Legakis was able to photograph the man before he launched a vicious attack which he also recorded on his mobile phone.\n\n\"I ended up with two broken arms, my right forearm, the left one a little bone called the scaphoid which hasn't healed yet,\" Mr Legakis said.\n\n\"I couldn't work for two months - I calculated it was over £10,000 of work that I lost out on.\"\n\nDuring the five-minute call to police Mr Legakis can be heard screaming for help as his attacker Daniel Skelton kicked and punched him to the ground.\n\nAs well as broken bones, Mr Legakis suffered facial injuries, cuts, serious bruising and was left traumatised by the attack. His camera kit was also badly damaged.\n\nSkelton was jailed for 28 months for the attack\n\nSkelton, 29, from Redcar, Teesside was jailed for 28 months in June after admitting racially aggravated grievous bodily harm, two charges of racially aggravated damage and damaging property, at Teesside Crown Court.\n\nThe judge described it as a \"sustained and vicious attack\".\n\nIn a letter to Mr Legakis after the assault, Skelton apologised for his actions.\n\nHe wrote: \"I am truly sorry. I had no right to touch you or your belongings - I was in a very bad place.\n\n\"If I could take it back I would. I hate myself for my actions that night.\"\n\nMr Legakis said: \"He said he had separated from his girlfriend and he was trying to have a few drinks to forget about it.\"\n\nA year on, Mr Legakis said it had changed the way he thinks and feels about other people.\n\n\"I'm a bit more concerned, I've always been very open to people, very friendly, I want to believe I am at least, and it's knocked me down a bit in that people may make a comment or say or do something just because of a foreign accent,\" he said.\n\nFollowing the attack and since a reported spike in the number of recorded hate crimes after the Brexit vote, Mr Legakis said he was concerned not just for his safety but for that of his family.\n\n\"They do carry a foreign surname with them which at some point may cause some problems for them,\" he said.", "The actor won Oscars in 1996 and 2000\n\nKevin Spacey has said he is seeking treatment after facing allegations of sexual misconduct from a string of men.\n\nA representative for the actor said he \"is taking the time necessary to seek evaluation and treatment\".\n\nThey did not give any information about what kind of treatment he wants.\n\nHe is one of several Hollywood figures who have been accused of sexual misconduct. Dustin Hoffman has issued an apology while director Brett Ratner has been accused by six women.\n\nA lawyer for Ratner, the director of the Rush Hour films and X-Men: The Last Stand, has \"categorically\" denied all of the accusations.\n\nThe allegations have been sparked by multiple women speaking out against the Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein, and a subsequent campaign encouraging victims to share their stories of sexual harassment under the #metoo hashtag.\n\nSo who has been accused of misconduct?\n\nNew allegations have emerged from a number of men accusing Kevin Spacey of sexual misconduct.\n\nUS filmmaker Tony Montana claims he was groped by the actor in a Los Angeles bar in 2003. He says he was left with PTSD for six months after Spacey \"forcefully\" grabbed his crotch.\n\nMr Montana told Radar Online that he was in his 30s when the incident took place at the Coronet Bar in LA.\n\nIt follows an allegation made by Anthony Rapp that the House of Cards actor tried to \"seduce\" him when he was 14 years old.\n\nKevin Spacey says he has no recollection of that encounter, and was \"beyond horrified\".\n\nIncidents regarding Spacey are also alleged to have taken place in the UK while the two-time Oscar winner was the artistic director at the Old Vic in London between 2004 and 2015.\n\nMexican actor Roberto Cavazos, who acted in several plays at the theatre, claims Spacey \"routinely preyed\" on young male actors.\n\nOne man told the BBC about his experience of being invited to spend the weekend with Spacey in New York when he was a teenager in the 1980s.\n\nThe Old Vic has set up a confidential complaints process for anyone connected to the theatre, and said on Thursday that it is \"already seeing the great benefits of the new policy of openness and the safe sharing of information\".\n\nSix women have accused Hollywood filmmaker Brett Ratner of sexual harassment or misconduct.\n\nThe women, including The Newsroom actress Olivia Munn, made the allegations in the Los Angeles Times.\n\nNatasha Henstridge, who appeared in Species and The Whole Ten Yards, claimed she had been forced into a sex act with Ratner as a teenager.\n\nThe actress, now 43, was a 19-year-old model at the time she alleges Ratner stopped her from leaving a room at his New York apartment and then made her perform a sex act on him.\n\n\"He strong-armed me in a real way,\" she told the LA Times. \"He physically forced himself onto me.\"\n\nRatner's lawyer \"categorically\" denied all of the accusations on his behalf in response to the article.\n\nSeparately, Ratner has filed a libel case in Hawaii against a woman who accused him on Facebook of rape more than 10 years ago.\n\nRatner says he has stepped away from dealings with movie studio Warner Bros since the allegations came to light.\n\nDustin Hoffman has been accused of sexually harassing an intern on the set of one of his films in 1985.\n\nAnna Graham Hunter, a writer, says that when she was 17, the Oscar-winning actor groped her and made inappropriate comments about sex to her.\n\nShe told The Hollywood Reporter: \"He was openly flirtatious, he grabbed my ass, he talked about sex to me and in front of me.\"\n\nHoffman apologised, and said he was sorry if he \"put her in an uncomfortable situation\".\n\nIn a statement to the magazine, Hoffman said: \"I have the utmost respect for women and feel terrible that anything I might have done could have put her in an uncomfortable situation. I am sorry. It is not reflective of who I am.\"\n\nThe BBC has contacted representatives of Dustin Hoffman for his response to these allegations.\n\nSenior editor Michael Oreskes has resigned following accusations he kissed female colleagues without their consent during business meetings.\n\nThe 63-year-old was asked to step down by the National Public Radio (NPR) network in response to the allegations. He has previously worked for the Associated Press and the New York Times.\n\nTwo women spoke to the Washington Post on condition of anonymity, and reported stories of abrupt and unexpected kisses during business meetings. They said they were worried about career development if their names were made public.\n\nOne of the women said that while she met Mr Oreskes in the hope of getting a job with the New York Times, he suggested that they eat room service lunch in a hotel, before he unexpectedly kissed her and \"slipped his tongue into her mouth\".\n\nHe has not commented publicly on the allegations, and journalists at NPR report that they have tried to contact him for comment, without success.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "New allegations have emerged from a number of men accusing Kevin Spacey of sexual misconduct.\n\nUS filmmaker Tony Montana claims he was groped by the actor in a Los Angeles bar in 2003.\n\nMontana says he was left with PTSD for six months after he claims Spacey \"forcefully\" grabbed his crotch.\n\nIt follows an allegation made by Anthony Rapp that the House of Cards actor tried to \"seduce\" him when he was 14 years old.\n\nKevin Spacey says he has no recollection of that encounter, and was \"beyond horrified\".\n\nIt's claimed Kevin Spacey \"routinely preyed\" on young male actors while he was artistic director at the Old Vic\n\nFilm director Montana told Radar Online that he was in his thirties when the incident took place at the Coronet Bar in LA.\n\nHe says he removed Spacey's hand from his crotch and walked away, but claims the actor later followed him into the men's toilets.\n\nIncidents regarding Spacey are also alleged to have taken place in the UK while the two-time Oscar winner was the artistic director at the Old Vic in London between 2004 and 2015.\n\nMexican actor Roberto Cavazos, who acted in several plays at the theatre, claims Spacey \"routinely preyed\" on young male actors.\n\n\"It seems the only requirement was to be a male under the age of 30 for Mr Spacey to feel free to touch us,\" he wrote in a Facebook post.\n\nHe said he fended off two \"unpleasant\" advances from Spacey that \"bordered on harassment,\" but that others were afraid to do so.\n\n\"There are a lot of us who have a 'Kevin Spacey story',\" says Cavazos.\n\nThe Old Vic has set up a confidential complaints process for anyone connected to the 200-year-old theatre to come forward.\n\nIt said in a statement: \"We aim to foster a safe and supportive environment without prejudice, harassment or bullying of any sort, at any level.\"\n\nSeparately, a British man claims Kevin Spacey exposed himself to him in 2010, when he was working at a hotel in West Sussex.\n\nSpeaking to the Sun, Daniel Beal alleges the Usual Suspects star flashed his private parts, saying: \"It's big, isn't it?\" and tried to get the then 19-year-old to touch him.\n\nThe former bartender claims Spacey also invited him up to his room, but he rejected the star's advances.\n\nBeal says Spacey gave him his £5,000 watch later that same evening, and a few weeks later called him asking to meet up.\n\nHe told the Sun: \"In hindsight, that must have been grooming. He was just like his character in House Of Cards - seedy and a bit weird.\"\n\nThe BBC has also uncovered allegations of sexual misconduct against Spacey by a man who claims he was harassed by the star in the mid-1980s.\n\nThe man, who wanted to remain anonymous, says he met the star at theatre school before being invited to New York by him, when he was 17 years old.\n\nKevin Spacey holds his Oscar for Best Actor for his role in American Beauty in 2000.\n\nSpeaking to the Victoria Derbyshire programme, the man (who they've called John), says despite sleeping on the star's sofa he woke up fully clothed with Spacey lying on him, in his underwear.\n\nJohn, who still works in the entertainment industry, said Spacey again became \"affectionate\" the second night he was in the city.\n\n\"I burst into tears because I couldn't articulate any more what was happening to me. I was scared... To his credit, he backed off and we went to sleep.\"\n\nReflecting on his experience, John says: \"It seems he was grooming me. For me, I never let on that that's what I was interested in. I never discussed it, nor did I want it.\n\nJohn points out neither of them drank any alcohol that weekend.\n\n\"He was either very stupid or he was predatory - or maybe a little of both. I was uncomfortable at best, traumatised at worst, emotionally.\n\nJohn says he didn't tell the authorities or his parents at the time, although he has since told friends.\n\nRobin Wright and Kevin Spacey in Netflix drama House of Cards\n\nThe BBC has contacted representatives of Kevin Spacey for his response to these allegations.\n\nMeanwhile, production of the sixth season of Netflix series House of Cards has been suspended following the sexual assault allegations against the actor.\n\nThe show was already due to end after this season, but production is now suspended \"until further notice\".\n\nSpacey has also been dropped as the recipient of a special Emmy award he was due to receive next month.\n\nThe International TV Academy said in a statement that it was withdrawing the International Emmy Founders Award \"in light of recent events\".\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "Savers with the Nationwide, the TSB, the Skipton and the Yorkshire Building Society will be among the first to benefit from the rise in base rates.\n\nThe Yorkshire said all savers on variable rate accounts would receive the full increase of 0.25%.\n\nThe same will apply to the Yorkshire's two other building societies, the Chelsea and Norwich & Peterborough.\n\nThe Nationwide has already promised to increase rates by 0.25% for all those who received a cut in August 2016.\n\nSavers with TSB will see an increase of 0.15%.\n\nThe bank said it was not passing on the full increase, as it had previously protected savers from the full 0.25% base rate cut in 2016.\n\nThe Skipton said savings rates would rise by the full 0.25% from 5 December. Savers in the building society's cash Lifetime Isa will see the rate go up from 0.5% to 0.75% on the same date.\n\nMike Regnier, chief executive at Yorkshire Building Society, said: \"It has been a tough few years for savers, so we're delighted to be able to pass on the full bank rate increase.\"\n\nHSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) and Barclays said they were reviewing their savings rates.\n\nEarlier Mark Carney, the Bank of England governor, said he expected all providers to increase returns for savers after the Bank's Base Rate was increased from 0.25% to 0.5%.\n\n\"We do expect it to be passed on,\" he told reporters.\n\n\"Banks did pass on the cuts to their depositors, and we expect competition to push it in the other direction. Obviously we will watch it closely.\"\n\nBorrowers with the Yorkshire Building Society will likewise see an increase in their standard variable rate (SVR) mortgages of 0.25% to 4.99%.\n\nThe Skipton has promised not to raise variable rate mortgages\n\nSVR mortgage holders with the TSB and the Nationwide will also see a 0.25% rise.\n\nMost of those on tracker rates will see an immediate and automatic rise.\n\nHSBC said such borrowers would face higher borrowing costs from Friday. Lloyds Banking Group - which includes the Halifax and Bank of Scotland - said tracker rates would rise on 1 December.\n\nRBS - which includes NatWest - and Barclays also confirmed that tracker rates would go up, but neither have specified a date.\n\nMost lenders are expected to announce rises in variable rate mortgages over the next few weeks.\n\nHowever the Skipton Building Society said it had no plans to increase costs on its variable rate products.", "Labour has suspended an MP after it was alleged he sexually harassed a party activist three years ago.\n\nLuton North MP Kelvin Hopkins, 76, has not commented on the claims, which were published in the Telegraph shortly after his suspension was announced.\n\nThe woman involved, Ava Etemadzadeh, 27, said he had sent her inappropriate text messages and made inappropriate physical contact while hugging her.\n\nMr Hopkins has had the whip withdrawn while an investigation takes place.\n\nA party spokesman said Labour \"takes all such complaints extremely seriously and has robust procedures in place\".\n\nMs Etemadzadeh told the Telegraph that she met Mr Hopkins in 2013 and invited him to speak at a Labour event at Essex University in 2014, when she was 24, after which, she told the newspaper he had hugged her too tightly and made inappropriate contact.\n\nShe visited Parliament at his invitation in February 2015 but said later that month he sent a suggestive text message. Having taken advice from another Labour MP, she said she took a complaint about him to Labour's whips office in December 2015.\n\nIt is understood that at the time, Mr Hopkins was spoken to about why his behaviour was inappropriate and was reprimanded by the then chief whip Dame Rosie Winterton.\n\nBut he went on to be promoted, albeit briefly, to Labour's front bench in June 2016 - shortly after leader Jeremy Corbyn faced mass resignations following the EU referendum.\n\nSources suggested Labour whips advised the leader's office not to promote him because of what happened. The leader's office say that is not the case.\n\nMs Etmadzadeh said she was frustrated that he had been promoted but when she complained to the chief whip, she was told she could not take action while remaining anonymous.\n\nShe told the BBC: \"I was shocked to learn that he got promoted afterwards.\n\n\"I'm disillusioned by the party not just not doing anything, but then promoting him afterward. They ignored it.\"\n\nMr Hopkins has been MP for Luton North since 1997\n\nThe BBC has been told that Ms Etmadzadeh had a meeting with the chief whip on Thursday.\n\nThere has not yet been any comment from Mr Hopkins - who is married and has been Luton North MP for 20 years - despite repeated attempts to contact him.\n\nLabour MP Jess Phillips told BBC Radio 4's Today programme Mr Hopkins should probably not have been promoted.\n\nBut she added: \"I don't think that it was sort of political expediency; I think that people just didn't take it as seriously as it needed to be taken.\"\n\nLabour Leader Jeremy Corbyn declined to answer questions from reporters about Mr Hopkins's promotion on Friday morning.\n\nThe suspension comes amid various claims of sexual harassment and improper behaviour in Parliament.\n\nSir Michael Fallon quit as defence secretary on Wednesday night, saying his conduct may have \"fallen short\" of the standards expected by the UK military.\n\nIn another incident, Labour confirmed it had launched an independent inquiry into claims that activist Bex Bailey, 25, was discouraged by a party official from reporting an alleged rape at a Labour event in 2011. Party leaders have vowed to tackle discipline and grievance procedures.\n\nIn a letter to Commons Speaker John Bercow, Theresa May said disciplinary procedures needed to be reformed.", "A serial conman has admitted pretending his family died in the Grenfell Tower fire to obtain about £12,500 from funds meant for victims.\n\nAnh Nhu Nguyen claimed his wife and son were killed in the blaze.\n\nHe posed as a victim of the disaster for almost two weeks and was given the money by charities and Kensington and Chelsea Council.\n\nThe 52-year-old, of Beckenham, south-east London, pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court on Thursday.\n\nThe blaze on 14 June claimed the lives of at least 80 people\n\nHe admitted two counts of fraud by false representation and one count of making an untrue statement for the purpose of obtaining a passport.\n\nNguyen posed as a victim of the fire and shook the Prince of Wales' hand when he visited a relief centre set up in the wake of the disaster.\n\nHe claimed the fire had destroyed \"everything\" he owned, and that he was so upset about having lost his wife and son that he could not eat or concentrate.\n\nNguyen was given a hotel room, clothing, food, electrical items and money after posing as one of the survivors.\n\nHe was discovered to be a fake when he gave several different flat numbers, some of which did not exist and one where a real victim lived.\n\nNguyen showed no emotion as he entered his pleas through a translator.\n\nHe will be sentenced on 15 December.\n\nNguyen met the Prince of Wales at a relief centre set up in the wake of the disaster\n\nNguyen was born in Vietnam, and has been in the UK since the 1980s. He is a British citizen and has 17 aliases.\n\nHe has 28 previous convictions for 56 offences spanning more than 30 years, including theft, arson and grievous bodily harm.\n\nKate Mulholland from the Crown Prosecution Service said: \"Nguyen's deceit in the aftermath of such a catastrophic loss of life was breathtaking.\n\n\"He was willing to lie again and again, adapting his story when it was questioned, in order to profit from the huge aid efforts and outpouring of sympathy for true victims.\"\n\nElizabeth Campbell, leader of Kensington and Chelsea Council, said: \"It is disgraceful.\n\n\"Fraud on any level directly and negatively impacts our efforts to give crucial help and support to the victims and survivors of the fire.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The prosecution claims Emile Cilliers wanted to kill his wife and start a new life with his lover\n\nAn Army instructor accused of trying to murder his wife told police he would \"never, ever\" try to harm her, a court has heard.\n\nFormer Army officer Victoria Cilliers suffered multiple injuries in 2015 when her parachute failed to open and she fell 4,000ft (1,200m).\n\nEmile Cilliers is accused of tampering with the equipment to cause her death.\n\nBut in statements given to police in September last year, Mr Cilliers said he loved his wife and children.\n\nDuring a police interview, a transcript of which was read out at Winchester Crown Court, Mr Cilliers was asked: \"Did you try to kill your wife?\"\n\nHe was then asked: \"Did you try to kill your children?\"\n\nVictoria Cilliers suffered multiple injuries when her parachute failed to open\n\nThe jury has already heard that Mr Cilliers had been having an affair with another woman in the months before the parachute failed during a jump over Netheravon airfield in Wiltshire.\n\nMr Cilliers is also accused of trying to murder his wife a week before the fall by tampering with a gas fixture at their home in Amesbury.\n\nIn his 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