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This is what we can tell.", "It is understood the measure will be announced when the first minister reveals her programme for government on Tuesday.", "It's the biggest test yet for North Korea, but what can we hope to learn about its nuclear progress?", "Uncertainty over Brexit is likely to stop the Monetary Policy Committee raising interest rates.", "The Sunday Times says Theresa May has \"secretly agreed\" a £50bn sum to settle the UK's Brexit bill.", "The car crashed into the living room of the house in York, hitting a man on a sofa inside.", "Her film, In Between, depicts three young Arab women drinking and taking drugs.", "Twenty eight inmates are moved out of HMP Birmingham after disorder led by 10 'key protagonists'.", "\"Things are working out well,\" says the president, as he and wife Melania meet flood victims.", "The UK 2020 report argues that fast-track two-year degrees could cut student debt.", "The Mason-Dixon Line is 250 years old - but who were the two British men who created one of America's most famous land borders?", "The EU's chief negotiator says it is his job to teach the UK about the cost of leaving the bloc.", "Lewis Hamilton has taken more pole positions than any other driver, but do the stats count towards \"best qualifier\" status?", "Kim Jong-un views what is said to be a new type of hydrogen bomb that fits on a ballistic missile.", "Theresa May calls for unity, as MPs return from the summer break to debate the EU repeal bill.", "Police had been concerned for Laurence Brophy who began walking the Taff Trail on Thursday.", "Hospital chiefs in England warn this winter could be the most difficult in recent history.", "The BBC's Yolande Knell gains rare access to trials of IS suspects in Iraq.", "Meet the woman who dresses refugee brides", "The BBC's Tara McKelvey joined the president as he made a second visit to flood-hit states.", "Some residents are allowed to return home as the largest fires ever to hit LA appear to be easing.", "Sunderland fan Bradley, who died aged six, \"would've absolutely loved\" the match, his mum said.", "Continuing updates after North Korea claims to have tested a nuclear weapon that can be loaded onto a long-range missile.", "There have been more than 2,000 nuclear explosions since people first learned how to make the weapons.", "The suspects are alleged to be part of a group supplying cocaine to partygoers, Spanish police say.", "Those injured include children who were in a tent during the event in the north-east.", "Tuna weighing about 540lbs is hauled in by shark fishermen, making it the second big catch in two days.", "The US-led coalition vows not to allow IS fighters and their families to reach Iraq, and bombs their path.", "BBC Scotland arts correspondent Pauline McLean won a ballot ticket to walk across the Queensferry Crossing.", "Data download speeds could soon be hitting gigabit speeds in some areas of the UK.", "The statue of David Livingstone next to the falls he discovered in 1855, sees few British visitors.", "Demand for sand in Kenya is driving the illegal sand harvesting industry, causing loss of ecosystems and even deaths.", "Almost 400 people have died in Muslim-Buddhist attacks in the most recent outbursts of violence.", "Daniel Jarvis was jailed for 20 weeks for his part in a fake robbery on a major London gallery.", "The band co-founder had been suffering from an unnamed condition, his band mate Donald Fagen says.", "Apple has big plans for augmented reality but faces strong competition from Google and Microsoft.", "Edinburgh and Birmingham are among the 54% of areas where pay has outpaced property prices since 2007.", "The police use of facial imaging technology could result in wrongful allegations, a watchdog warns.", "Ex-England star Emile Heskey said his family had not heard from relatives in Barbuda for almost a week.", "The collapse of Northern Rock: Ten years on", "The \"unprecedented\" payout follows the actress's claim her career was stifled by untrue articles.", "Researchers say a major study of attitudes towards Jewish people has revealed more about anti-Semitism", "A woman has been arrested over a daytime break-in at Prince George's prep school.", "Executives from the security firm G4S tell the Home Affairs Committee they were ashamed by revelations of abuse at an immigration detention centre, Brook House.", "The CCTV still is from the bus which narrowly avoided the woman who fell in its path.", "The president's son Eric and his wife Lara, who wed in 2014, announce the birth of their first child.", "Ellen Page thriller The Cured premieres in Toronto, but such films are often dismissed by critics.", "An MSP has questioned whether Skye is a \"real\" island, on account of its bridge. But what is a \"real\" island?", "The decision to launch a high-end, high-priced phone with facial recognition sparks strong feelings.", "The opera star, who sang at the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, announces her retirement.", "Theresa May's decision to lift the 1% cap on public pay dominates the front pages.", "A look back at the life of the man who founded the Royal Shakespeare Company.", "Jean-Claude Juncker says the EU will move on, but Nigel Farage says it has \"learnt nothing\".", "The family of Louella Michie say she \"appeared to have taken an illegal substance\".", "Despite record levels of employment, pay is lagging, and economists can't decide why, writes Simon Jack.", "The blaze, which killed at least 80, should be a \"turning point\", London's fire commissioner says.", "The new handset has an edge-to-edge screen and uses facial recognition to check owners' IDs.", "Using antibiotics to protect against infection will save more babies' lives, say experts.", "The tribute to the Princess of Wales is part of Chesterfield's well dressing celebrations.", "The Italian family fell into a pit on a visit to the popular tourist site at Solfatara near Naples.", "Berries are appearing early this year - and promise to last much longer than usual, according to experts.", "Two immigration removal centres made significant profits, documents seen by BBC Panorama suggest.", "In her new book, Hillary Clinton tries to explain \"what happened\" to her presidential dreams.", "The prime minister will outline her vision for the UK outside the EU days before negotiations resume.", "One victim told the FA's inquiry the ex-England manager advised him to \"sweep it under the carpet\".", "The institution apologises after one of its curators is attacked for calling Asian names \"confusing\".", "Eighteen people were illegally trafficked and exploited to fund the Rooney family's lavish lifestyle.", "Photographer Jim Grover documents life at Cafe Delight, on Clapham High Street, in London.", "Lord Bridges emphasises the \"complexity and scale\" of the task and the \"need to compromise\".", "The government has a \"light touch approach\" to tackling the issue, the National Audit Office says.", "In the early hours the government won its vote on the EU withdrawal bill. But ministers can't relax, not for a moment.", "Hurricane evacuees return to scenes of devastation as President Trump prepares to visit Florida.", "Theresa May says an officer starting in 2010 would, by now, have received a 32% increase in pay in real terms.", "Opposition MPs said the motion was a \"constitutional outrage\" but it was backed by 320 to 301.", "Noxolo Ntuli had the only copy of her master's thesis on a hard drive in her bag.", "Gusts of 70mph cause damage to parts of the UK, bringing down trees and cutting power.", "What is the relationship between the leader, her government and the military?", "Fiona Mozley, who works part-time in a York bookshop, is one of six novelists up for the prize.", "A group of Indonesian mothers identified and then reported a paedophile Facebook group.", "The long-time Trump aide will be the fourth person to fill the White House role.", "The actor, who also starred in several Scorsese films, had complications during heart surgery.", "He took money from 39 couples for bookings at an Angus castle before fleeing to Ibiza.", "Nick Clegg and his wife, Miriam Gonzalez Durantez, speak about their son's treatment for blood cancer.", "The RNLI closed Perranporth beach to swimmers because of large numbers of jellyfish-like creatures.", "Adult learners in Kenya get to read their first words, after a library opens in their village.", "The latest negotiating round is postponed by a week to give both sides \"flexibility to make progress\".", "The prime minister made the announcement amid criticisms of the UK's response to the disaster.", "Rashan Charles died as he tried to swallow a package during an arrest by police in east London.", "The 23-time Grand Slam winner uses social media to share first pictures of her baby girl.", "Disgraced breast surgeon Ian Paterson carried out hundreds of botched operations on his patients.", "European Commission head says the wind is back in Europe's sails to build a stronger union.", "A behind-the-scenes look at the TUC conference where talk of illegal strike action loomed large.", "The British Army drones were lost in the Irish Sea earlier this year.", "Britain's Caribbean islands are too rich to qualify for development resources, the BBC has learned.", "Producer Nile Rodgers admits to feeling \"uncertain\" about the single, which has just been released.", "The show's debut on Channel 4 provided one of the biggest audiences in the station's history.", "Latest updates as the most powerful Atlantic storm in a decade hits the US mainland.", "Rachel Carling-Jenkins gives a harrowing speech in an Australian state parliament.", "LGBT people face daily discrimination, abuse and violence but most don't report it, a survey finds.", "The EU wants Libya to do more on migrants but the unstable country is struggling to cope.", "Police say one man has been left with minor injuries after a small \"power network explosion\".", "Jonathan Head saw a Muslim village burn in Myanmar's Rakhine state, as the Rohingya exodus continues.", "We speak to students who paid for their studies by working several jobs.", "The pilot of a light aircraft is pronounced dead at the scene after the crash at Caernarfon Airport.", "The UK nationals were arrested after getting off a flight from Istanbul.", "Clandestine programme has helped safely resettle over 30 men and women from the Russian republic.", "The technology could help surgeons ensure they remove all of a tumour.", "Quamari Serunkuma-Barnes, 15, was stabbed to death outside his west London school by another boy.", "Designer Poppy Nash weaves her blood sugar results into the fabric she designs to help manage her diabetes", "In a time of genuine international tension, is war gaming really a serious analytical and training tool?", "Life expectancy was shorter in 1950 but men and women worked for longer than now, figures show.", "The French Caribbean territories St Martin and St Barts are badly damaged, France's president says.", "From losing the ability to walk to standing on the Olympic podium just 10 months later, Britain's Anyika Onuora opens up about battling malaria.", "The prime minister defends the government's response following criticism it was \"sorely lacking\".", "\"Upselling\" is fuelling obesity by persuading people to buy larger portions, say health officials.", "The embattled company, damaged by its work in South Africa, could go into administration next week.", "Includes Downsizing, Molly's Game, Kings, The Current War and Super Size Me 2.", "She tried to dispose of the unflushable waste out of a window and got stuck trying to get it back.", "For the first time, London is no longer the most expensive place to buy a beer.", "Suranne Jones returns as GP Gemma Foster and dominates Tuesday night's viewing figures.", "All new students at the school in Lewes must wear trousers as a new uniform policy is brought in.", "Former broadcaster Mike Neville presented regional news programmes for decades until retiring in 2006.", "Michel Barnier says Northern Ireland cannot be a \"test case\" for future customs arrangements.", "They are in dispute with Virgin Media after three 5ft-tall cabinets were installed directly outside their homes.", "Would British forensic science benefit from having its own outdoor laboratory to study human decomposition?", "The devastation wrought by Hurricane Irma in the Caribbean dominates Friday's front-page headlines.", "The elderly villagers of Corippo want tourists to share their traditional lifestyle.", "For doctors who fled to the UK, training to work in the NHS means having to learn the local dialect.", "Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg has stirred up controversy over his view on abortion.", "Two territories are severely damaged in the storm, with no word heard from many on the islands.", "Universities Minister Jo Johnson is encouraging vice-chancellors to show restraint in their pay.", "Laura Kuenssberg looks at a letter from Tory MPs warning against keeping the UK in the EU \"by stealth\".", "The universities minister is to set out a series of measures to curb the academics' salaries.", "A leaked Home Office document, and other recent signals, point to a very live debate going on in government about what will happen after Brexit.", "People fleeing violence in Myanmar tell the BBC's Sanjoy Majumder of killings, rape and massacres.", "MPs and the chair of the Treasury Committee call for a report into business practices at RBS to be published.", "Labour says the bill is a \"power grab\" - but David Davis accuses them of \"cynical\" blocking tactics.", "Pupils at Kepier School were lined up while trousers were checked to see if they were the right shade.", "María Pilar Abel Martínez says her mother had an affair with the artist before she was born.", "The government is accused of \"lacking ambition\" after rejecting recommendations to boost women MPs.", "What is life like in the country projected to have the world's fastest-shrinking population?", "Syria's army says rockets struck a base, amid reports that a suspected chemical site was targeted.", "Try the BBC's crime calculator tool to find out more about your personal risk of being a victim.", "West Midlands and Leicestershire Police are rated as 'inadequate' for effectiveness at recording reported crime.", "Nobel prize winner Malala Yousafzai says the 'global community' must protect Myanmar's Muslim minority.", "Most newspapers lead on the hurricane in the Caribbean and tensions over Brexit memo leaks.", "Relative of holocaust survivor criticises auction that includes Nazi sash and German army daggers.", "Why, in the mission to improve the health of man's best friend, scientists say greedy Labradors are at the head of the pack.", "Conductor Sakari Oramo says the \"demise of classical music\" has been exaggerated, as the Proms close.", "The tomb, found by archaeologists near the city of Luxor, belonged to a goldsmith.", "Latest updates as the most powerful Atlantic storm in a decade hits the US mainland.", "Claims that opt-out systems result in more transplants are not fully supported by the evidence.", "Even for a remarkable rider like Chris Froome winning the Tour-Vuelta double is an exceptional achievement, writes Tom Fordyce.", "They say they want to ease the rapidly worsening humanitarian crisis in Myanmar's Rakhine state.", "A 67-year-old woman dies following a collision with a competitor in July.", "Thousands of Remainers join a rally in central London to protest at the impact of the UK leaving the EU.", "The Met Office issues a further two yellow weather warnings for wind and rain in some areas.", "Openly gay comedian Susan Calman defends her decision to dance with a male professional dancer.", "Four exonerated prisoners tell the BBC how they were permanently changed by their experiences.", "Monmouthshire GP Dr Helen Webberley's practice is restricted while medical authorities investigate.", "Theresa May aims to win back young voters - and Tony Blair gets \"tough on migrants\".", "The new position will sit within the university's counselling service.", "Jens Stoltenberg tells the BBC that Nato and its allies want a peaceful solution to the nuclear threat.", "Critics accuse the former prime minister of a belated \"epiphany\" on the need for controls.", "The celebrity baker said he went to a 2003 party in a WW2 German uniform as an 'Allo 'Allo character.", "Nearly 60,000 runners joined Mo, who took his fourth consecutive elite men's win.", "Police are given more time to question three other men over a plot linked to a far-right group.", "Health workers tell the BBC the assessments left some patients being denied NHS care.", "Wolverhampton Wanderers said the actor confirmed he was a fan and the force was \"strong\" there.", "Sloane Stephens on overcoming adversity and her incredible six-week journey from world number 957 to US Open champion - and a $3.7m cheque.", "China has started \"relevant research\" but has not yet decided when the ban would come into force.", "The 33-year-old knifing victim is described as being in a stable condition in hospital.", "Leighton was jailed for rape after tricking victims online in four countries into abusing relatives.", "UK tourists in Cuba speak to the BBC about Hurricane Irma, and efforts to get them to safety.", "Alex Woolfall live tweeted the \"apocalyptic\" events on the island of St Martin as the hurricane hit.", "The comedian captures the mood at the venue's reopening concert with a message of \"love, not hate\".", "The number of women taking up shooting for pleasure is on the rise - why?", "Hurricane Irma is on path to hit the shallow Florida Keys islands, home to 70,000 people.", "Nina Stemme, Jason Manford and the BBC Concert Orchestra look forward to Saturday's Proms finale.", "Four members of the same family died in the overnight flooding after heavy rainfalls.", "The operating system of unreleased iPhones is leaked to two websites, revealing secret details.", "BBC correspondents report from the British Virgin Islands, which were ravaged by Hurricane Irma.", "Why has Botswana banned hunting, unlike its neighbours which still embrace it?", "Ministers are set to accept a pay review recommendation, paving the way for other public workers.", "Tours of the Jurassic Coast are ending because of \"hostility\" from residents, a bus company says.", "Amie drank 30 pints a weekend to \"keep up with the boys\" - but now she has had no alcohol for 16 months.", "President Putin has criticised North Korea's missile tests, but shares the country's anti-US sentiments.", "From twisty towers to tree-topped tors - the English landmarks that signify a journey's end.", "Catherine is again suffering from severe morning sickness, and has cancelled an engagement.", "To mark the launch of the 100 Women Challenge, meet the female inventors behind everyday innovations such as computer software to the dishwasher.", "Two sisters and their family describe their recovery after being caught up in the bombing.", "The president is set to end the Daca programme but he may still change his mind, sources say.", "Chinese people felt the ground tremble, but the government is more like to be shaking with anger.", "A gang offers £1,000 a week to Royal Mail staff to steal bank cards, a BBC investigation finds.", "Sports promoter Charlie Stillitano is possibly the football world's most influential American.", "The group, including a British Olympian, say they achieved 11 world records before seeking help.", "The Sky Sports presenter was found to be at more than three times the legal limit, a court hears.", "University bosses' pay reflects a global marketplace and not higher fees, says Oxford head.", "The device has been designed to help doctors track medical tools during internal examinations.", "The fast food chain has seen 14 workers walk out of two of its stores in a dispute over contracts.", "Stanley Bolland is given work experience at the theme park after writing: \"I am the man for the job.\"", "Zaid al-Hilli says he has no faith in the French investigators' search for his brother's killer.", "EU official says it is not time to \"teach lessons\" but to \"explain\" benefits of EU to all its members.", "Most newspapers lead on the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's baby announcement.", "Most newspapers highlight growing tensions with North Korea after its most recent nuclear test.", "The economic gap between coastal and non-coastal areas has grown, a think tank finds.", "Photographer George Bamby has hidden in bushes and worn disguises to snap photos of the rich and famous.", "The National Trust wants to buy land at the top of Dover's white cliffs in order to preserve them.", "Uncertainty over Brexit is likely to stop the Monetary Policy Committee raising interest rates.", "It's the biggest test yet for North Korea, but what can we hope to learn about its nuclear progress?", "Employers are not good enough at supporting staff with migraines, say three UK charities.", "Twenty eight inmates are moved out of HMP Birmingham after disorder led by 10 'key protagonists'.", "The European elite have been meeting on the shores of Lake Como, as the EU firms up its negotiating position.", "Scientists connect the solar storms behind the Aurora Borealis to the deaths of 29 whales in the North Sea.", "The German chancellor fends off her rival Martin Schulz in a televised election face-off.", "The penalty follows a controversial media campaign in South Africa that \"incited racial hatred\".", "Craig Stobo's pregnant wife Fiona died from sepsis and he almost lost his own life due to the condition.", "China, Russia, India, Singapore, Germany, and France are among those that traded with the North in 2016.", "She will lose her royal status, but Princess Mako says she loves Kei Komuro's \"smile like the sun\".", "Some residents are allowed to return home as the largest fires ever to hit LA appear to be easing.", "Twelve people are injured after a racing car performing burnouts sends flames into spectators.", "The proportion is highest among those aged between 18 and 25, a survey suggests.", "Drug-related gang violence in a Suffolk town involves children as young as 12, says a report.", "Troops find a body in woodland a day after the military pilot's unexplained fall during an air show.", "The number of raffle groups has grown rapidly over the last few years, but so have the number of scams.", "How do we work out the size and nature of North Korea's nuclear test? A physicist explains.", "When he lifted the toilet seat lid, the five-year-old came face to face with the 3ft (91cm) snake.", "The 29-year-old was stabbed after a fight between two groups on Hounslow, say police.", "A look at the sums behind Theresa May's claim in Parliament.", "Rachel Carling-Jenkins gives a harrowing speech in an Australian state parliament.", "The EU wants Libya to do more on migrants but the unstable country is struggling to cope.", "The ITV drama, which returns on Friday night, was filming the day after the Manchester Arena bombing.", "Police say one man has been left with minor injuries after a small \"power network explosion\".", "Jonathan Head saw a Muslim village burn in Myanmar's Rakhine state, as the Rohingya exodus continues.", "Country music has lost two major artists in Don Williams and Troy Gentry within hours of each other.", "\"Health problems\" are cited as 82-year-old Dave Prowse calls time on convention appearances.", "The e-commerce giant is looking to build a second headquarters for 50,000 workers.", "The group attacked the 16-year-old girl when she asked them for directions in Ramsgate, Kent.", "A new all-you-can-view movie subscription service has angered big cinema chains - but will the numbers ever add up?", "Could low-cost automated financial advice help close the massive retirement savings gap?", "The charity, which conducted the research for the BBC, calls the findings for new-builds \"startling\".", "Carolann Gallon was part of a gang who gave girls alcohol and drugs then forced them to have sex.", "Ian McDiarmid's latest role tries to uncover the true character of the controversial politician Enoch Powell.", "A disabled French teenager is critically ill after rats attacked her at night in Roubaix.", "One in 20 people is being prescribed potentially addictive painkillers for too long with little benefit, says report.", "PM explains Trump photo and rejects claims she was robotic in election campaign, in a BBC interview.", "Relative of holocaust survivor criticises auction that includes Nazi sash and German army daggers.", "From losing the ability to walk to standing on the Olympic podium just 10 months later, Britain's Anyika Onuora opens up about battling malaria.", "The teenager is accused of attacking six riders and leaving one with \"life-changing injuries\".", "7 days quiz: What's this woman entered the record books for?", "More than £11m has already been spent but money is only in place until the end of September.", "The embattled company, damaged by its work in South Africa, could go into administration next week.", "The nation is holding its first gun amnesty since its landmark response to a 1996 mass shooting.", "The earthquake is the most powerful to hit Mexico in a century, President Enrique Peña Nieto said.", "For the first time, London is no longer the most expensive place to buy a beer.", "Criticism of Theresa May and a cyber attack affecting millions of Britons make front-page headlines.", "A 72-year-old ex-school governor is given a 16-month jail sentence for importing a child sex doll.", "The number of women taking up shooting for pleasure is on the rise - why?", "The BBC returns to Oberhausen, which took in thousands of migrants and refugees. Now many may have to leave.", "There are at least 36 deaths after the powerful 8.2 quake struck off the southern coast.", "Could the stubbornness which sustained her in opposition stop her from changing her position now?", "MP David Lammy says some offenders do not trust solicitors and face discrimination in prison.", "The devastation wrought by Hurricane Irma in the Caribbean dominates Friday's front-page headlines.", "The DUP MP refers himself to a parliamentary watchdog over claims he did not declare trips.", "Tory MP Jacob Rees-Mogg has stirred up controversy over his view on abortion.", "Three-week-old Reggie Young was attacked by a Lakeland terrier-cross at his home in Sunderland.", "Sales of the Italian wine are soaring, but what's the secret behind its sparkling success?", "The boy, who was armed with a shotgun, had been \"seconds away\" from opening fire, a court hears.", "Scientists warn of potential hazards from modern structures with large expanses of glass or mirrors.", "What is life like in the country projected to have the world's fastest-shrinking population?", "Try the BBC's crime calculator tool to find out more about your personal risk of being a victim.", "Nobel prize winner Malala Yousafzai says the 'global community' must protect Myanmar's Muslim minority.", "Only four of the Wakefield City Academies Trust schools are rated as good or outstanding by Ofsted.", "Judge Robert Adam told Leighton he had \"effectively destroyed the lives\" of the young people he targeted.", "Catherine is again suffering from severe morning sickness, and has cancelled an engagement.", "Two sisters and their family describe their recovery after being caught up in the bombing.", "Beijing enjoys a close relationship to Pyongyang, formalised in a 1961 bilateral treaty.", "Image of beach-seller beats more than 9,000 entries in Saatchi Gallery smartphone competition.", "The pair attacked their five offspring for \"fairly trivial behaviour\", a court hears.", "Chinese people felt the ground tremble, but the government is more like to be shaking with anger.", "Hurricane Irma forces airline flight cancellations, with customers told to check before travelling.", "A BBC investigation has revealed concerns about some aspects of the work of an FGM campaigner.", "Sports promoter Charlie Stillitano is possibly the football world's most influential American.", "Two UK universities top the Times Higher Education Rankings for the first time in 13-year history.", "Family and friends say farewell to the veteran entertainer, who died last month.", "Europe's human rights court reverses a ruling which allowed a firm to read an employee's messages.", "Zaid al-Hilli says he has no faith in the French investigators' search for his brother's killer.", "Most newspapers lead on the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's baby announcement.", "The Sky Sports presenter was found to be at more than three times the legal limit, a court hears.", "A BBC investigation raises serious questions about the handling of FGM in children in the UK.", "Initial coin offerings - firms issuing their own digital currencies for investors to buy - are concerning regulators.", "The owner of a juvenile royal python found in a family's toilet comes forward to claim \"Reggie\".", "Photographer George Bamby has hidden in bushes and worn disguises to snap photos of the rich and famous.", "Universities UK wants ministers to look again at maintenance grants and interest rates in England.", "Is it better to be in your job now, compared to five years ago? BBC analysis reveals.", "Scientists connect the solar storms behind the Aurora Borealis to the deaths of 29 whales in the North Sea.", "The European elite have been meeting on the shores of Lake Como, as the EU firms up its negotiating position.", "The Brexit Secretary says the two sides have \"very different legal stances\" over what the UK owes.", "She tried to dispose of the unflushable waste out of a window and got stuck trying to get it back.", "Margarita Brock said her daughter Rebecca may have been forced to swallow the bag of drugs.", "The German chancellor fends off her rival Martin Schulz in a televised election face-off.", "The search has now been called off for the 21-year-old man's colleague.", "The penalty follows a controversial media campaign in South Africa that \"incited racial hatred\".", "Four servicemen are suspected of being members of the banned far-right group National Action.", "A French magazine is ordered to pay 100,000 euros to the royals, who will donate the money to charity.", "Craig Stobo's pregnant wife Fiona died from sepsis and he almost lost his own life due to the condition.", "Leaked document suggests post-Brexit migration will be based on \"economic and social needs\".", "Those in the path of the \"potentially catastrophic\" storm secure homes and stockpile supplies.", "An inventor charged with killing a journalist on board his submarine says she died in an accident.", "A 17-year-old also suffers \"life-changing\" injuries after the shooting in east London on Monday.", "Warnings have been issued for a string of islands as Irma becomes a highest category five hurricane.", "Joyce Msokeri is charged with claiming for support being provided to survivors of the disaster.", "The statistics that hold the key to the next few months in British politics, both for Brexit and Theresa May's leadership.", "The 29-year-old was stabbed after a fight between two groups on Hounslow, say police.", "The number of raffle groups has grown rapidly over the last few years, but so have the number of scams.", "How do we work out the size and nature of North Korea's nuclear test? A physicist explains.", "Thirteen visitors and a member of staff are winched to safety by helicopter.", "An investigation is looking into how the images came to be displayed on the sign in Shropshire.", "The Duke of Cambridge thanks well-wishers in his first appearance since the royal baby announcement.", "An \"adrenaline junkie\" from Wales says he has no regrets about the swim that cost him £250.", "Conductor Sakari Oramo says the \"demise of classical music\" has been exaggerated, as the Proms close.", "The EU Withdrawal Bill passes its first parliamentary test but will face more attempts to change it.", "A man is arrested on suspicion of murdering the 25-year-old daughter of actor John Michie.", "There are fears a major aircraft project that supports hundreds of Belfast jobs could be jeopardised.", "Latest updates as the most powerful Atlantic storm in a decade hits the US mainland.", "On a government-sponsored trip, journalists uncovered evidence they were not supposed to see.", "In many parts of India, men and children are fed first and only then can women eat.", "Jack Whiteley, who runs a garden furniture firm, had supplied police with CCTV footage of the crime.", "Why is Russia launching a huge military exercise in Belarus? The BBC's Jonathan Marcus investigates.", "Even for a remarkable rider like Chris Froome winning the Tour-Vuelta double is an exceptional achievement, writes Tom Fordyce.", "A photographer settles a legal fight against an animal rights group over a \"monkey selfie\" photograph.", "Michael Pitts was dining with his wife when the meat became lodged in his throat and he choked to death.", "The Met Office issues a further two yellow weather warnings for wind and rain in some areas.", "The Sleeping with the Enemy star will play a former prison friend of Phil Mitchell in the BBC soap.", "Four exonerated prisoners tell the BBC how they were permanently changed by their experiences.", "The measures, which include a cap on oil imports, are less severe than the original US proposal.", "Monmouthshire GP Dr Helen Webberley's practice is restricted while medical authorities investigate.", "The deeds for Eleanor Rigby's grave are for sale, but what's the real story behind The Beatles' hit?", "Sir Richard Branson says most of the buildings and vegetation on Necker island are damaged.", "The celebrity baker said he went to a 2003 party in a WW2 German uniform as an 'Allo 'Allo character.", "The woman's body was found in a wooded area of the festival site in the early hours.", "Sloane Stephens on overcoming adversity and her incredible six-week journey from world number 957 to US Open champion - and a $3.7m cheque.", "Craig Revel Horwood sees \"no reason\" why the BBC ratings success shouldn't allow them in the future.", "The couple say their son became confused as to why a fellow pupil dressed as both a boy and a girl.", "There are clear reasons for nerves on all sides of the House of Commons about the EU Withdrawal Bill.", "The director of Suburbicon said some scenes involving racial abuse made the cast and crew feel sick.", "The operation against Muslim Rohingyas \"seems a textbook example of ethnic cleansing\", the UN says.", "Latest news, sport, weather and travel updates from across Yorkshire on Monday 11 September 2017.", "A school bans mobile phones and tell parents children should be in bed by 21:30.", "The EU Withdrawal Bill is backed by MPs by 326 to 290 in a late-night vote, as it passes onto the next stage of legislation.", "A gunman kills eight people at a house in Dallas, Texas, before being shot dead by police.", "Three men, including two servicemen, are accused of being members of a banned neo-Nazi group.", "Hundreds of thousands of Catalans pack the streets with a vote on independence just weeks away.", "Figures from the government are seen as a milestone in the advance of renewable energy.", "How cycling app Strava became a must-have for cyclists around the world.", "The huge devastation caused by Irma as it strikes the United States dominates the front pages.", "Four members of the same family died in the overnight flooding after heavy rainfalls.", "John Clancy has faced criticism of his handling of a strike by refuse workers in Birmingham.", "A Silicon Valley CEO reveals her secret to getting ahead in business - darkening her blonde hair, wearing glasses and dressing in loose-fitting clothes.", "Ex-Bank of England governor Mervyn King says keeping it secret would have averted ensuing panic.", "The operating system of unreleased iPhones is leaked to two websites, revealing secret details.", "The training provider, one of the UK's biggest, was recently rated \"inadequate\" by Ofsted.", "The value of modern currency comes not from what it's made of, but what we all agree it's worth.", "Ministers are set to accept a pay review recommendation, paving the way for other public workers.", "The Swedish star was heard saying the word while playing a video game in a live broadcast.", "From twisty towers to tree-topped tors - the English landmarks that signify a journey's end.", "Ex-England captain Wayne Rooney is due to appear at court later this month.", "How Dubai may be winning the race to launch the first passenger-carrying flying drones.", "A weekly quiz of the news, 7 days 7 questions.", "President Trump is expected to ask for $5.9bn in federal aid, and pledged $1m of his own money.", "Stephanie Slater was held in a wooden \"coffin\" for eight days in 1992 by murderer Michael Sams.", "As Brexit talks make slow progress, Reality Check looks at why the divorce bill is causing such deadlock", "Hubert Zafke, who faced 3,681 counts of being an accessory to murder, has severe dementia.", "A row between the National Trust and the Countryside Alliance over hunting makes headlines.", "A cycling magazine says an \"idiotic\" caption appeared next to a photo of a female rider.", "The local business listings will no longer be available on paper after more than five decades.", "What was the biggest shock? Who was the biggest bargain? And biggest risk? BBC pundits assess the signings in a topsy-turvy transfer window.", "Voices in Westminster are whispering about change but how realistic is talk of a new political force?", "A team of UK experts is in Sierra Leone trying to prevent disease adding to the death toll from mudslides.", "The officer flirted with the vulnerable 17-year-old before they had sex at his home, an inquiry hears.", "Renault-Nissan and Kia follow VW and Toyota in announcing new incentive schemes for UK buyers.", "From vinyl records, to coffee mugs, flower pots and diamonds - the end-of-life industry has new ways to preserve you.", "Businesses are impatient at the slow progress of Brexit talks, the international trade secretary adds.", "UK's David Davis urges more flexibility as EU negotiator says \"no decisive progress\" has been made.", "As the 30 hours of free childcare scheme comes into effect, here's everything you need to know about how it works.", "Jack O'Brien tried to rob the West Ham striker of a £22,000 watch as he drove home from training.", "Passengers who were held for six hours on Ottawa runway rang the emergency services for help.", "Investment from the Netherlands will see 800,000 English and Welsh homes get free solar panels.", "Ladbrokes Coral companies appear 15 times for hospitality in the register of MPs' donations.", "One in three \"sick notes\" issued by GPs are for mental health problems, a new NHS report shows.", "The price of unleaded petrol could surpass diesel in the coming days, the RAC says.", "Christopher Wall was jailed for life after a jury heard evidence suggesting Hayley Wall had been hit by a TV.", "Former head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales has died aged 85.", "Those using more than 900 watts and emitting more than 80 decibels are now banned in Europe's shops.", "For football fans today has all the tension of a cup final penalty shoot-out without a single ball being kicked.", "Joshua Clements stabbed two men when thousands gathered in London's Hyde Park last year.", "Two out of five low-paid young parents who request flexible working end up worse off, the TUC says.", "He was the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales from 2000 to 2009.", "Florence will pass by at a relatively close distance but scientists say there is nothing to worry about.", "The air force becomes the first branch of the British military to allow women to apply for any role.", "The US orders Russia to close its San Francisco consulate in response to \"unwarranted\" actions.", "George Rankine was 19 when he walked across the Forth Road Bridge before the road was built.", "A man is left with a stab injury after a \"mass brawl\" at the Westfield shopping centre in east London.", "The Maritime and Coastguard Agency is investigating \"a number of possibilities\" for the toxic haze.", "A grammar school reverses its policy of refusing to let some students continue to the upper sixth.", "Pharmacy claims charity BPAS encouraged \"personal abuse\" in a dispute over morning-after pill costs.", "Arlene Foster says her plan is a \"common-sense solution\" to the ongoing power-sharing deadlock.", "Staff and guests were forced to flee after the drunk man and his wife made threats in the foyer.", "Companies in England would be charged for closing busy routes at peak times, under government plans.", "While many African traditions and cultures are under threat from modern life, one is holding its own - voodoo.", "Hollywood star Gal Gadot rallies behind two Sri Lankan cosplayers who faced a barrage of online abuse.", "The endangered bluefin tuna was returned to the waters by the angler who caught it.", "Did the Princess of Wales change the public's perception of the Royal Family forever?", "A foreign office minister met the country's ambassador to condemn its latest missile test.", "The three-time world Formula 1 champion turns his hand to poetry with \"England's Rose\".", "\"It's not like I launched a ballistic missile over Torbay,\" owner Bob Higginson says.", "Four companies will be paid up to $500,000 each for a 30ft segment of concrete border wall.", "A look at the various scenarios that could unfold in tackling Kim Jong-un's regime.", "A viral video showed a man in Australia repeatedly cutting the throat of an injured kangaroo.", "A war of words between UK and EU negotiators in Brussels makes many of Friday's front pages.", "Birmingham City Council reneged on a deal which had suspended seven weeks of industrial action.", "The 35-year-old tennis superstar has her first child with partner Alexis Ohanian.", "Businesses with offices separated by communal stairs are being hit with backdated business rates.", "The tomb, found by archaeologists near the city of Luxor, belonged to a goldsmith.", "The boy was found critically injured inside the factory after he went there with two friends.", "A look at the sums behind Theresa May's claim in Parliament.", "A 67-year-old woman dies following a collision with a competitor in July.", "The EU wants Libya to do more on migrants but the unstable country is struggling to cope.", "Thousands of Remainers join a rally in central London to protest at the impact of the UK leaving the EU.", "Openly gay comedian Susan Calman defends her decision to dance with a male professional dancer.", "The former co-host, who died in August, is remembered at the start of the new series of the show.", "Country music has lost two major artists in Don Williams and Troy Gentry within hours of each other.", "\"Health problems\" are cited as 82-year-old Dave Prowse calls time on convention appearances.", "Theresa May aims to win back young voters - and Tony Blair gets \"tough on migrants\".", "The group attacked the 16-year-old girl when she asked them for directions in Ramsgate, Kent.", "The charity, which conducted the research for the BBC, calls the findings for new-builds \"startling\".", "Ian McDiarmid's latest role tries to uncover the true character of the controversial politician Enoch Powell.", "A disabled French teenager is critically ill after rats attacked her at night in Roubaix.", "Eric Bolling was accused of sending unsolicited images of male genitalia to female co-workers.", "UK tourists in Cuba speak to the BBC about Hurricane Irma, and efforts to get them to safety.", "The windscreen wipers were being worked by a piece of string attached to the gearstick, say police.", "Baby Chloe is the second child for the Olympic cycling champion and his wife Sarra.", "Shadow Universities Minister Gordon Marsden says the company is nearing 'meltdown'", "The earthquake is the most powerful to hit Mexico in a century, President Enrique Peña Nieto said.", "Criticism of Theresa May and a cyber attack affecting millions of Britons make front-page headlines.", "The comedian captures the mood at the venue's reopening concert with a message of \"love, not hate\".", "The number of women taking up shooting for pleasure is on the rise - why?", "The BBC returns to Oberhausen, which took in thousands of migrants and refugees. Now many may have to leave.", "Could the stubbornness which sustained her in opposition stop her from changing her position now?", "Hurricane Irma is on path to hit the shallow Florida Keys islands, home to 70,000 people.", "Extra security checks are in place as thousands attend the first event since the 22 May bombing.", "Nina Stemme, Jason Manford and the BBC Concert Orchestra look forward to Saturday's Proms finale.", "The boy, who was armed with a shotgun, had been \"seconds away\" from opening fire, a court hears.", "Amie drank 30 pints a weekend to \"keep up with the boys\" - but now she has had no alcohol for 16 months.", "President Putin has criticised North Korea's missile tests, but shares the country's anti-US sentiments.", "Restaurants and takeaways in England should be made to show their ratings by law, councils say.", "Only four of the Wakefield City Academies Trust schools are rated as good or outstanding by Ofsted.", "The show's debut on Channel 4 provided one of the biggest audiences in the station's history.", "The glossy brochures have been removed from a number of stores as part of a trial \"testing demand\".", "The decision will save £700,000 per year, local health chiefs claim.", "There's speculation about who could take over from Colin Trevorrow at the helm of Episode IX.", "Latest updates as the most powerful Atlantic storm in a decade hits the US mainland.", "Beijing enjoys a close relationship to Pyongyang, formalised in a 1961 bilateral treaty.", "Theresa May was asked during PMQs about the conviction of a cyclist over a pedestrian's death.", "The Conservative MP says abortion is \"morally indefensible\", including in rape and incest cases.", "A BBC investigation has revealed concerns about some aspects of the work of an FGM campaigner.", "The pilot of a light aircraft is pronounced dead at the scene after the crash at Caernarfon Airport.", "We speak to students who paid for their studies by working several jobs.", "Quamari Serunkuma-Barnes, 15, was stabbed to death outside his west London school by another boy.", "Media editor Amol Rajan says Channel 4 would not have expected to beat previous BBC viewing figures.", "Boston's baseball team allegedly used the device to tell the batter what ball he was about to receive.", "The English wine making industry is growing, but could it ever threaten the dominant European producers?", "London's Nova Victoria building described as \"a hideous mess\" takes 2017's Carbuncle Cup for worst building.", "Most newspapers lead on the government's leaked document on low-skilled EU migrant workers.", "Universities UK wants ministers to look again at maintenance grants and interest rates in England.", "Anders Johansen spent his summer watching English football: he has now been to 445 grounds.", "The House of Lords debates bills on hereditary peers, the age of criminal responsibility and modern slavery.", "She tried to dispose of the unflushable waste out of a window and got stuck trying to get it back.", "Help is sought to digitise a unique set of records gathered on top of the UK's highest mountain.", "One in 10 women has it, but getting help for endometriosis is a long and difficult journey for most.", "Suranne Jones returns as GP Gemma Foster and dominates Tuesday night's viewing figures.", "All new students at the school in Lewes must wear trousers as a new uniform policy is brought in.", "Former broadcaster Mike Neville presented regional news programmes for decades until retiring in 2006.", "Why modern cyber-crime forums were inspired by a site started by Ukrainian credit card thieves.", "Leaked document suggests post-Brexit migration will be based on \"economic and social needs\".", "Those in the path of the \"potentially catastrophic\" storm secure homes and stockpile supplies.", "For doctors who fled to the UK, training to work in the NHS means having to learn the local dialect.", "The elderly villagers of Corippo want tourists to share their traditional lifestyle.", "An inventor charged with killing a journalist on board his submarine says she died in an accident.", "British Airways evacuates holidaymakers as the Foreign Office urges Britons to follow evacuation orders.", "The universities minister is to set out a series of measures to curb the academics' salaries.", "A leaked Home Office document, and other recent signals, point to a very live debate going on in government about what will happen after Brexit.", "Satellite images show \"more numerous and widespread\" disturbances at the test site than before.", "The Archbishop of Canterbury says the rich-poor divide in parts of the UK is destabilising.", "A cigarette accidentally ignited a \"build-up of air freshener gases\" in the car, the fire crew says.", "A murder investigation is launched following the death of Corey Junior Davis, from Forest Gate.", "María Pilar Abel Martínez says her mother had an affair with the artist before she was born.", "The government will buy at least five frigates to be constructed at shipyards around the country.", "How do we work out the size and nature of North Korea's nuclear test? A physicist explains.", "Donald Trump ended Obama-era protections for undocumented immigrants. Now it's Congress's challenge.", "Thirteen visitors and a member of staff are winched to safety by helicopter.", "The French Caribbean territories St Martin and St Barts are badly damaged, France's president says.", "Leaked Home Office proposals say firms must put UK workers first after Brexit or face penalties.", "Apple has big plans for augmented reality but faces strong competition from Google and Microsoft.", "The EU Withdrawal Bill passes its first parliamentary test but will face more attempts to change it.", "The collapse of Northern Rock: Ten years on", "Pyongyang's envoy to the UN rejects \"illegal resolution\" that imposed new sanctions on the country.", "Actor John Michie says his daughter was \"so bright, so out there\", following her death at Bestival.", "There are fears a major aircraft project that supports hundreds of Belfast jobs could be jeopardised.", "Researchers say a major study of attitudes towards Jewish people has revealed more about anti-Semitism", "A man is arrested on suspicion of murdering the 25-year-old daughter of actor John Michie.", "On a government-sponsored trip, journalists uncovered evidence they were not supposed to see.", "In many parts of India, men and children are fed first and only then can women eat.", "A photographer settles a legal fight against an animal rights group over a \"monkey selfie\" photograph.", "The Sleeping with the Enemy star will play a former prison friend of Phil Mitchell in the BBC soap.", "The president's son Eric and his wife Lara, who wed in 2014, announce the birth of their first child.", "The measures, which include a cap on oil imports, are less severe than the original US proposal.", "The deeds for Eleanor Rigby's grave are for sale, but what's the real story behind The Beatles' hit?", "Apple boss Tim Cook unveils the latest versions of the iPhone a decade after its launch.", "Theresa May's decision to lift the 1% cap on public pay dominates the front pages.", "A look back at the life of the man who founded the Royal Shakespeare Company.", "The former director of the National Theatre had a career that spanned half a century.", "The new handset has an edge-to-edge screen and uses facial recognition to check owners' IDs.", "The veteran space probe puts itself on a path to destruction in Saturn's atmosphere on Friday.", "The tribute to the Princess of Wales is part of Chesterfield's well dressing celebrations.", "There are clear reasons for nerves on all sides of the House of Commons about the EU Withdrawal Bill.", "The death of Holby City star John Michie's daughter at Bestival makes front-page headlines.", "The director of Suburbicon said some scenes involving racial abuse made the cast and crew feel sick.", "The singer on the end of Girls Aloud, her new music - and why she loves the smell of bleach.", "Art-pop band Sofi Tukker feature on the advert for the new iPhone X - but who are they?", "Three men, including two servicemen, are accused of being members of a banned neo-Nazi group.", "Madison Wolfe and Sydney Wade are the stars of I Kill Giants, which has premiered at the festival.", "Eighteen people were illegally trafficked and exploited to fund the Rooney family's lavish lifestyle.", "The troubled PR firm has appointed administrators in the UK after failing to find a buyer.", "Card and phone payments may be replacing coins and notes, but are Swedes ready to get rid of cash altogether?", "In the early hours the government won its vote on the EU withdrawal bill. But ministers can't relax, not for a moment.", "Philip Hammond says he will deliver his next Budget on Wednesday 22 November.", "How cycling app Strava became a must-have for cyclists around the world.", "Gusts of 70mph cause damage to parts of the UK, bringing down trees and cutting power.", "The long-time Trump aide will be the fourth person to fill the White House role.", "Northern Ireland football boss Michael O'Neill was stopped in Scotland in the early hours of Sunday.", "The RNLI closed Perranporth beach to swimmers because of large numbers of jellyfish-like creatures.", "The 250-metre long solid mass of wet wipes, nappies, fat and oil and condoms weighs in at 130 tonnes.", "A bomb squad checks a van parked near to the church, but police later say it was a false alarm.", "The latest negotiating round is postponed by a week to give both sides \"flexibility to make progress\".", "The writer-director is returning to end the sequel trilogy, as the release is delayed by six months.", "The gang, described as \"chilling in their mercilessness\", forced victims to live in squalor.", "The Italian family fell into a pit on a visit to the popular tourist site at Solfatara near Naples.", "Images spread on social media are confusing the facts about the escalating conflict in Rakhine state.", "How Dubai may be winning the race to launch the first passenger-carrying flying drones.", "A BBC experiment gains an insight into the range of attacks companies and other organisations suffer every day.", "As the water recedes in Houston, three families return home to survey the damage from Harvey.", "What do the woes of the UK's biggest door-to-door lender Provident Financial mean for hard-pressed borrowers?", "A row between the National Trust and the Countryside Alliance over hunting makes headlines.", "What was the biggest shock? Who was the biggest bargain? And biggest risk? BBC pundits assess the signings in a topsy-turvy transfer window.", "Voices in Westminster are whispering about change but how realistic is talk of a new political force?", "A suspected acoustic attack on embassy staff in Havana was reported as recently as last month.", "The Manchester United manager opts to play as a goalkeeper as they do not have to \"run so much\".", "Video footage shows Alex Wubbels screaming for help as she is manhandled and handcuffed.", "The $7.8bn would be a first instalment in the massive relief effort following Hurricane Harvey.", "Ladbrokes Coral companies appear 15 times for hospitality in the register of MPs' donations.", "Investment from the Netherlands will see 800,000 English and Welsh homes get free solar panels.", "The Sunday Times says Theresa May has \"secretly agreed\" a £50bn sum to settle the UK's Brexit bill.", "Former head of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales has died aged 85.", "\"Things are working out well,\" says the president, as he and wife Melania meet flood victims.", "The UK 2020 report argues that fast-track two-year degrees could cut student debt.", "Pedestrians embark on a first historic walk across the new Queensferry Crossing ahead of its official opening on Monday.", "The Mason-Dixon Line is 250 years old - but who were the two British men who created one of America's most famous land borders?", "Joshua Clements stabbed two men when thousands gathered in London's Hyde Park last year.", "Lewis Hamilton has taken more pole positions than any other driver, but do the stats count towards \"best qualifier\" status?", "Armed police led a controlled evacuation of the cricket ground when a crossbow bolt was found.", "Kim Jong-un views what is said to be a new type of hydrogen bomb that fits on a ballistic missile.", "Police had been concerned for Laurence Brophy who began walking the Taff Trail on Thursday.", "The Maritime and Coastguard Agency is investigating \"a number of possibilities\" for the toxic 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of a group supplying cocaine to partygoers, Spanish police say.", "Those injured include children who were in a tent during the event in the north-east.", "Tuna weighing about 540lbs is hauled in by shark fishermen, making it the second big catch in two days.", "The lucky few who got tickets to witness \"HiddleHamlet\" give their verdicts on his performance.", "The endangered bluefin tuna was returned to the waters by the angler who caught it.", "The 77-year-old singer from Pontypridd was due to perform in America on Wednesday.", "The 35-year-old tennis superstar has her first child with partner Alexis Ohanian."], "section": ["Technology", "US & Canada", "Business", "UK", "England", "Hampshire & Isle of Wight", "Cornwall", "The Papers", "Asia", "Scotland politics", "Asia", "Business", "The Papers", "York & North Yorkshire", "Entertainment & Arts", "Birmingham & Black Country", "US & Canada", "Education & Family", "England", "UK Politics", null, "Asia", "UK Politics", "South East 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online about an hour after they are switched on, suggests research.\n\nThe servers were part of an experiment the BBC asked a security company to carry out to judge the scale and calibre of cyber-attacks that firms face every day.\n\nAbout 71 minutes after the servers were set up online they were visited by automated attack tools that scanned them for weaknesses they could exploit, found security firm Cybereason.\n\nOnce the machines had been found by the bots, they were subjected to a \"constant\" assault by the attack tools.\n\nThe servers were accessible online for about 170 hours to form a cyber-attack sampling tool known as a honeypot, said Israel Barak, chief information security officer at Cybereason. The servers were given real, public IP addresses and other identifying information that announced their presence online.\n\n\"We set out to map the automatic attack activity,\" said Mr Barak.\n\nTo make them even more realistic, he said, each one was also configured to superficially resemble a legitimate server. Each one could accept requests for webpages, file transfers and secure networking.\n\nThe attack bots look for well-known weaknesses in widely used web applications\n\n\"They had no more depth than that,\" he said, meaning the servers were not capable of doing anything more than providing a very basic response to a query about these basic net services and protocols.\n\n\"There was no assumption that anyone was going to go in and probe it and even if they did, there's nothing there for them to find,\" he said.\n\nThe servers' limited responses did not deter the automated attack tools, or bots, that many cyber-thieves use to find potential targets, he said. A wide variety of attack bots probed the servers seeking weaknesses that could be exploited had they been full-blown, production machines.\n\nMany of the code vulnerabilities and other loopholes they looked for had been known about for months or years, he said. However, added Mr Barak, many organisations struggled to keep servers up-to-date with the patches that would thwart these bots potentially giving attackers a way to get at the server.\n\n\"This was a very typical pattern for these automatic bots,\" said Mr Barak. \"They used similar techniques to those we've seen before. There's nothing particularly new.\"\n\nAs well as running a bank of servers for the BBC, Cybereason also sought to find out how quickly phishing gangs start to target new employees. It seeded 100 legitimate marketing email lists with spoof addresses and then waited to see what would turn up.\n\nPhishing gangs were quick to find new email addresses and start sending booby-trapped messages\n\nAfter 21 hours, the first booby-trapped phishing email landed in the email inbox for the fake employees, said Mr Barak. It was followed by a steady trickle of messages that sought, in many different ways, to trick people into opening malicious attachments.\n\nAbout 15% of the emails contained a link to a compromised webpage that, if visited, would launch an attack that would compromise the visitor's PC. The other 85% of the phishing messages had malicious attachments. The account received booby-trapped Microsoft Office documents, Adobe PDFs and executable files.\n\nWe use a lots of honeypots in a lot of different ways. The concept really scales to almost any kind of thing where you can create a believable fake or even a real version of something. You put it out and see who turns up to hit it or break it.\n\nThere are honeypots, honey-nets, honey-tokens, honey anything.\n\nWhen a customer sees a threat that's hit hundreds of honeypots that's different to when they see one that no-one else has. That context in terms of attack is very useful.\n\nSome are thin but some have a lot more depth and are scaled very broadly. Sometimes you put up the equivalent of a fake shop-front to see who turns up to attack it.\n\nIf you see an approach that you've never seen before then you might let that in and see what you can learn from it.\n\nThe most sophisticated adversaries are often very targeted when they go after specific companies or individuals.\n\nMr Barak said the techniques used by the bots were a good guide to what organisations should do to avoid falling victim. They should harden servers by patching, controls around admin access, check apps to make sure they are not harbouring well-known bugs and enforce strong passwords\n\nCriminals often have different targets in mind when seeking out vulnerable servers, he said. Some were keen to hijack user accounts and others sought to take over servers and use them for their own ends.\n\nHoneypots have become a useful tool for security firms keen to understand hack attack techniques\n\nCyber-thieves would look through the logs compiled by attack bots to see if they have turned up any useful or lucrative targets. There had been times when a server compromised by a bot was passed on to another criminal gang because it was at a bank, government or other high-value target.\n\n\"They sell access to parts of their botnet and offer other attackers access to machines their bots are active on,\" he said. \"We have seen cases where a very typical bot infection turns into a manual operation.\"\n\nIn those cases, attackers would then use the foothold gained by the bots as a starting point for a more comprehensive attack. It's at that point, he said, hackers would take over and start to use other digital attack tools to penetrate further into a compromised organisation.\n\nHe said: \"Once an adversary has got to a certain level in an organisation you have to ask what will they do next?\"\n\nIn a bid to explore what happens in those situations, Cybereason is now planning to set up more servers and give these more depth to make them even more tempting targets. The idea is, he said, to get a close look at the techniques hackers use when they embark on a serious attack.\n\n\"We'll look for more sophisticated, manual operations,\" he said. \"We'll want to see the techniques they use and if there is any monetisation of the method.\"", "\"I don't know where to start\" - Herman Washington and his wife Mary Woodard found their home wrecked\n\nAs the water recedes in Houston, three families return home to survey the damage from Hurricane Harvey. Like so many others, they have no flood insurance and no way of paying for repairs.\n\nAt each house it was the same: a neat line, visible from the street, that showed where the flood finally abated. The lines ringed the small, one-storey homes in northeast Houston, where three bayous wind through the streets carrying water to the bay. For many of those returning home for the first time, the line would separate what was salvageable from what was lost.\n\nAt James and Rose Hert's house, a few hundred yards from the Greens Bayou, the line crossed the screen door about 5 ft from the ground. The water came in so fast it was up to Rose's neck by the time they waded onto the front lawn on Saturday, she said. At 59, recently recovered from thyroid cancer, and with arthritis that forces her to walk with a cane, Rose can't move fast. Neither can James, who's 63 and has nerve damage to his right leg and partial vision in his left eye.\n\nThe couple first made their way to a neighbour's house, on higher ground, but that too filled with water. Eventually they were pulled from the flood by a man with a truck, who drove them to a bus which took them to the mass shelter at the downtown convention centre. \"I was terrified for my life,\" said Rose. \"But that man was like an angel sent from heaven.\"\n\nTheir small, two-bedroom house, part-clapboard and part-brick, was a wedding anniversary present for Rose, purchased 23 years into the marriage and paid for with nearly all the money they had. Rose called it her castle. With the money left over she bought furniture - two couches, an armchair, a wooden dining table and a new refrigerator.\n\nThe most important piece of furniture though was an old one - an antique secretary desk handed down through three generations of women in Rose's family. She planned to pass it on to her daughter. She cried at the shelter when she thought about it. She couldn't face going back to the house, she said, so when James returned for the first time on Thursday he went without her.\n\nWhen he turned the key in the lock, the door wouldn't budge. It would be the same at other houses, the first sign that the furniture inside had been picked up by the water and soaked and dumped back down where it didn't belong. He couldn't have known, as he forced the door, that it was Rose's secretary desk in the way, toppled onto its back, one leg already broken, but the glass, miraculously, intact.\n\nAs the door inched open, the rank odour of the water hit. It had seeped into the couches and the carpets and pooled between the floorboards. Underneath the water line, the walls were stained and Rose's prize furniture lay tumbled about. The fridge was on its side, blocking off the kitchen. None of it was salvageable.\n\nAbove the water line, the couple's marriage certificate hung unscathed in a frame, alongside James's army discharge and diploma, and a picture of Rose's late mother. \"I guess that's something,\" James said.\n\nEarlier, at the shelter, as he kissed Rose goodbye, his eyes had filled with tears. He was not given easily to emotion, she said. Maybe for a two-tour veteran of Vietnam, with 12 years service, the flood did not seem too tough. Later, at the back of the house, where the water line was 7 ft high and the deck was caked in mud, he paused for a cigarette and stood in silence looking down towards the bayou.\n\n\"There's $20,000, $30,000 worth of damage here,\" he said, looking back. \"We just don't have it. We don't.\"\n\nJames Hert bought a house to mark his 25th wedding anniversary. Two years later, he will have to sell\n\nInsurance experts estimate that only about 20% of those in Houston's worst hit areas have flood insurance. The Herts don't have any. The premiums were too high, they said. They live off $1,100 dollars a month in disability payments. After their other bills and outgoings, that leaves about $100 spare.\n\nThe number of homeowners across Houston with flood insurance dropped 9% over the past five years and as much as 23% in some counties. Harris County, where James and Rose live, has 25,000 fewer flood-insured properties than it did in 2012, according to an Associated Press review of government data.\n\nMary Woodard and her husband Herman couldn't afford the insurance either. The floodwater that washed through their house, a few miles south of the Herts in a low-income neighbourhood by the Hunter Bayou, was the latest in a long list of financial and personal hardships for the couple.\n\nHerman, who's 63, had to retire from his work as a removals man last year after a stroke badly affected his right side. Mary, who's 59, worked 14 years in the local courthouse before retiring in 2011, after a diagnosis of osteoarthritis.\n\n\"It's the stink that gets you,\" Mary said as she pushed open the front door, entering her home for the first time after six nights in two different shelters. The tiled floor was slick with mud, the furniture soaked, the bases of the wooden cabinets warped. Food had floated out of the lower drawers and off the shelves and begun to rot on the floor. Mary didn't really care about what was beneath the water line, she wanted to know if the pictures of her first son and her first daughter had survived.\n\n\"I lost him when he was only eight years old,\" she said, fighting back tears. \"That's when he got drowned in the pool. And my daughter, she got killed just about 12 years ago now. Her boyfriend killed her. That's why I was so glad to see those pictures. That was very important to me that they survived. Very important.\"\n\nMuch of Mary's income had been diverted to helping raise her daughter's four sons, as well as to taking care of her other three children. It didn't leave much for savings to help her and Herman through retirement. Like the Herts, they have about $100 spare each month.\n\n\"We don't have the insurance or anything,\" she said. \"The few companies we did talk to, they were either too high or they didn't carry the flood insurance.\"\n\nThere was no money to pay for repairs, she said, they would have to move on. \"We'll salvage what we can. I probably couldn't stay in this house anyhow, not after this.\"\n\n\"It's much worse than I thought,\" said Mary Woodard when she saw her house for the first time\n\nThe only hope for couples like the Woodards and the Herts is the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Fema will give money to uninsured homeowners to cover repairs and emergency costs. The grants are capped at a maximum of $33,300, but most will get significantly less.\n\nAt the convention centre in Houston, a long line of people formed early every morning, waiting for hours to find out if they can claim. Mary and Herman had spoken to a Fema agent on Wednesday and he told them someone would be in touch within 10 days. By that point, they'd been in the shelter for five sleepless nights.\n\n\"I've had maybe eight hours sleep since I got there,\" said Mary. \"You get an hour here, an hour there. There are people walking all around you and people fighting. It's a lot of chaos. It's 2am before it starts to get quiet.\"\n\nThe first call from Fema will tell Mary and Herman whether they are eligible. Then they will have to wait up to 30 days for an adjustor to visit the property and assess how much they can claim. In the meantime, they hope Fema will pay for a hotel room. Mary's eldest son and her elderly mother both live in Houston but they both flooded just the same as Mary. \"Eventually we all winded up at the convention centre,\" she said.\n\nMary Woodard and her husband Herman found their grandson's toys floating across the road\n\nJames and Rose had been told they needed to go online to apply for relief. They had spent five days in borrowed clothes - James in an old sweatshirt and tracksuit bottoms, Rose in a pink nightgown - and they were overwhelmed. Three attempts to apply on a borrowed smartphone had failed as the Fema website repeatedly crashed.\n\nRose sat in the cavernous hallway of the convention centre and wept. She looked exhausted. She was still recovering from her brother's suicide last year, she said, and the loss of her mother two years before that. And now this. Two years after moving in, her dream home was gone.\n\n\"We put a tin roof on, we put new flowers in, we painted it,\" she said. \"We fixed it up. It was my little castle, like no one else could describe it. It was all I ever wanted.\"\n\nBut it was cheap, too, partly because it needed fixing up, partly because it sits on low ground near the bayou, and that puts a significant premium on the flood insurance. Just over the road, where the ground is higher, flood insurance costs about $200 a year. On the Herts' side of the road, the premiums can run into the thousands of dollars.\n\nTexas law stipulates that anyone in a Special Flood Hazard Area must have flood insurance, but only if you have a mortgage, people who own their homes are exempt. And the vast majority of those flooded by Hurricane Harvey fall outside the hazard zones and they never expected to see water washing through their homes.\n\n\"There's a lot of people here that have never been flooded,\" said Mark Hanna, from the Insurance Council for Texas. \"And if you don't have to have flood insurance, and you've never been flooded before, a lot people say 'Hey, the water's have never been this high, we'll be OK'.\n\n\"People weren't prepared for a thousand-year flood. Who is?\"\n\nRose Hert called her home her castle. She couldn't bear to see it after the flood\n\nFrank and Melvin Lee Rogers never thought it would happen. The two brothers had been flooded once before, when Storm Alison came through in 2001, but it was nothing like this. They escaped on Saturday with just the clothes on their back and one of their cats, a tiny kitten called Squeaky.\n\nFrank, 70, and Melvin Lee, 63, live in the Lakewood neighbourhood by the Halls Bayou, which cuts across the bottom of the street on its way to the Buffalo Bayou further south. The water had washed through the trees, leaving detritus in the branches as it went, including an old manual lawnmower which hung tangled 10 ft off the ground.\n\n\"I live down on the corner there, the white house with the blue trim,\" said Frank, as they crossed the bayou on foot on the way home. \"You can see the dirt on the side of the house. That's the water line right there.\"\n\nAt the front door, the smell was so strong it seeped out of the building. Inside, a floating couch had punched a hole in the wall and smashed through a glass coffee table. Scores of worms and a small snake lay dead on the carpet. A wall calendar, neatly marked off for each day before Saturday, was cut in half by the water line, the last two weeks of the month underwater.\n\nFrank Rogers stands in his kitchen on his first visit home, with the waterline visible behind him\n\nFrank, a Vietnam veteran who settled in Houston and became a plastics mould operator, called out for Goldy, their five-year-old cat, who they couldn't find when the water began coming in through the walls. \"No Goldy,\" he said. \"She's gone, or dead.\"\n\nOutside, his car had drifted 6 ft and was hanging off the edge of the driveway, with a film of mud over the body and the motor flooded. The mailbox was just high enough. He pulled the catch to one side and looked in. \"We've got mail!\" he said, cheered at finding something dry.\n\nAround him, those neighbours who had returned, mostly Hispanic families, played music and shouted to each other as they threw furniture, carpeting and wet sheetrock out onto the front lawns.\n\nFrank stood back and surveyed the damage. They would have to sell up, he said. But about $20,000 in repairs lay between them and a sellable house. \"I don't have that kind of money,\" he said. \"That's the point, I don't have the money. And it's hard to go to the bank and borrow money when your house is flooded. They'll tell you you're a risk.\"\n\nIt wasn't so much the money that prevented them getting flood insurance in the first place, said Melvin Lee, Frank's younger brother by seven years. \"We just didn't see this coming,\" he said. \"We had no idea it would be this bad. I don't think anyone thought it would be this bad.\"\n\nMelvin Lee Rogers surveys the damage outside the home he shares with his brother\n\nFive days after the flood washed away his mobile phone, Frank reached his sister. She told him she would collect him and Melvin Lee from the house. They set their few possessions down outside - a handful of dry clothes in a clear plastic bag, and Squeaky, in a carrier donated by the shelter - and began to wait.\n\nBack at the convention centre, Mary and Herman were getting ready to bed down for a sixth night on their cots, surrounded by thousands of others. Mary was making sure to keep her phone charged at the charging station, so she wouldn't miss a call or an email from Fema. They were relieved to have seen the home, they said, despite the state of it.\n\nJames was relieved too. It seemed like knowing was better than not knowing, no matter how bad the damage. As he took one last look around his house and got ready to leave, he flicked a light switch absentmindedly. The bulb over the dining table caught him by surprise. \"We have light!\" he said. \"That's a start!\"\n\nOn the drive back from the house he was upbeat. He told the story of how he first met Rose. \"I was fixing her boyfriend's car, so I had my shirt off and in those days I was still pretty well built. Anyway, it wasn't long after that I was working on another guy's car near her house, and she had a nice tree there I could use for pulling motors. She jumped up on the truck to help get some bolts out and that was that.\"\n\nAt the shelter, Rose waited anxiously for James to return. When he found her, he told her about the house. It wasn't bad at all, he said. The glass in the secretary desk was intact and the power was still on. The two dogs next door, which Rose loved, had survived, and the picture of her mother was hanging exactly where she left it. She cried with relief. James took her arm and walked her back to their cots, before getting in line again to speak to Fema. \"I can wait another few hours,\" he said. \"I've got time.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Lewis Baker is one of the workers on strike\n\nMcDonald's workers are staging their first UK strike after walking out at two stores in a dispute over zero-hours contracts and conditions.\n\nSome workers at Cambridge and Crayford, south-east London, began the 24-hour action at midnight. A union called it a \"brave\" move by low-paid staff.\n\nThe Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union said staff wanted a wage of at least £10 an hour and more secure jobs.\n\nMcDonald's said only 14 of the 33 union members balloted had joined in.\n\n\"A small number of our people representing less than 0.01% of our workforce took strike action in two of our 1,270 UK restaurants,\" said the company.\n\n\"As per the terms of the ballot, the dispute is solely related to our internal grievance procedures and not concerning pay or contracts.\"\n\nBut Ian Hodson, the union's president, disputed that.\n\n\"For far too long, workers in fast food restaurants such as McDonald's have had to deal with poor working conditions, drastic cuts to employee hours, and even bullying in the workplace - viewed by many as a punishment for joining a union,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, at a union protest near the Houses of Parliament in London, two of the striking McDonald's employees outlined their grievances.\n\nShen Batmaz, who serves customers in the company's Crayford branch, said that being on a zero-hours contract meant that some staff were anxious about going to work because they feared being bullied.\n\n\"Zero-hours contracts are the reasons why bullying managers can cut down on our shifts drastically,\" she said.\n\n\"When we had a bullying business manager in, when I stood up to him my hours were cut down from four days a week to one.\n\n\"A friend had the same shift pattern for five years but when he stood up to the bullying manager, he was cut down from five days a week to one,\" she said.\n\nSteve Day, a striking staff member from the McDonald's branch in Cambridge\n\nSteve Day, a McDonald's worker from Cambridge, said encouraging his colleagues to join the BFAWU and go on strike had been very difficult and 10 staff out of about 90 had travelled to the protest in London.\n\n\"We have had managers from everywhere coming into our store, the place has been crawling with them, our main organiser in Cambridge is followed everywhere, it's like we are being policed,\" he said.\n\nMcDonald's, which employs about 85,000 people in the UK, announced in April that workers would be offered a choice of flexible or fixed contracts with minimum guaranteed hours, saying that 86% had chosen to stay on flexible contracts.\n\nAnd it pointed to a series of pay rises as evidence that it treated its staff well.\n\n\"McDonald's UK and its franchisees have delivered three pay rises since April 2016, this has increased the average hourly pay rate by 15%,\" said the firm.\n\nThe union has taken advice from protesters in the US and New Zealand who have campaigned for better conditions at McDonald's there, Mr Hodson said.\n\nThe staff have also won backing from Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\n\"Our party offers support and solidarity to the brave McDonald's workers, who are making history today,\" he said.\n\n\"Their demands - an end to zero hours contracts by the end of the year, union recognition and a £10 per hour minimum wage - are just and should be met.\"", "Jose Mourinho has shown off his rarely-seen skills on the pitch by starring in a charity football match for people affected by the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nThe Manchester United boss came on as a sub goalkeeper in the Game4Grenfell match between two teams of celebrities and ex-players at QPR's Loftus Road.\n\nHis team lost 5-3 on penalties in the match, in which multiple Olympic gold medallist Sir Mo Farah scored a goal.\n\nAt least 80 people died in the tower block blaze in west London on 14 June.\n\nHomeland's Damian Lewis played against former footballers Chris Sutton and Jamie Redknapp\n\nSport stars, celebrities and former footballers all took part in the charity match\n\nCelebrities including actor Damian Lewis, Olly Murs and Wretch 32 featured in the game which saw two teams managed by Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer battle it out at the stadium, just a mile from the tower block in North Kensington.\n\nAll ticket money went to the Evening Standard's fund for those affected by the tragedy, although 2,000 complimentary tickets were given to survivors, their families, volunteers who helped in the aftermath of the blaze and the emergency services.\n\nDuring half-time, singers Rita Ora, Emeli Sande and Marcus Mumford entertained the crowd with a live performance.\n\nMourinho, who previously managed Chelsea and still has a home in west London, made his entrance midway through the second half when he replaced former England goalkeeper David James to a noisy reception.\n\nAlthough he was the son of a professional goalkeeper in his native Portugal, Mourinho himself never played above the semi-professional level and was a midfielder.\n\nBut the 54-year-old showed some useful touches between the posts, making a crucial early save as he battled to maintain his side's slender 2-1 lead at that stage of the match.\n\nIn typically combative style, Mourinho was centre of attention for much of the time he was on the pitch - being booked for time-wasting, arguing the equalising goal was offside and even scoring a penalty in the shoot-out.\n\nSir Mo Farah's team-mates did his trademark Mobot to celebrate the Olympian's goal\n\nOn the 80th minute mark, four Grenfell survivors and two firefighters who tackled the blaze came on together in a mass substitution and received the loudest reception of the day from the sell-out crowd at the 20,000-capacity stadium.\n\nThe match went to penalties after it ended 2-2 with ex-QPR star Trevor Sinclair and Kasabian's Chris Edwards joining Sir Mo on the scoresheet.\n\nAnd despite Mourinho's best efforts, he was unable to prevent a defeat for his side as Olly Murs scored the winning goal during the penalty shoot-out.\n\nGrenfell survivor Paul Menacer said being given the chance to play in the match \"means the world to me\".\n\n\"We met people who want to talk and actually care about us. Someone as big as Jose Mourinho coming down and talking to us is just an amazing thing.\"\n\nJose Mourinho failed to stop any goals during the penalty shoot-out\n\nGrenfell volunteer Omar Salha, who also scored a penalty against the Manchester United boss, said he felt shivers of \"goose bumps\" when his goal went in.\n\nHe said: \"He tried some mind tricks - I'm definitely going to play it back when I get home.\"\n\nSpeaking after the game, Mourinho joked that he had chosen to play as a goalkeeper so he didn't \"have to run so much\".\n\nAsked whether he enjoyed playing the role of the day's \"pantomime villain\", he said he wanted to bring \"something fun and different\" to the charity match.", "The saucers were found to be giving out a low, ominous tone\n\nThey had big metal domes, emitted a strange, ominous hum and appeared one morning in a straight line across southern England. For a few hours, members of the public, police and the Army really believed alien spaceships had landed - until it was revealed to be a stunt by students. But how was the hoax so successful?\n\nThe apparently extra-terrestrial vessels prompted a major police and military response, witnessed by Ray Seager who was with other children playing outside when one of the six saucers was found in the Isle of Sheppey on 4 September 1967.\n\n\"We all came running over, and there it was,\" he said. \"There were no two ways about it. It was there.\n\n\"It was the old flying saucer shape. It was a silver, big dome with the thing round the outside. Yes, it was a flying saucer.\"\n\nWhile the children were excited, he recalls there was also real fear as the police arrived.\n\n\"They started coming up the hill, and as they started getting close, they started gesturing to us, all the kids, to move away. And they were frightened I think, just as much as we were.\"\n\nNewspapers reported how the saucers were watched, listened to and weighed at police stations and one RAF base throughout the day.\n\nThe Sheppey saucer was removed by RAF helicopter, while satellite experts were called to a \"landing\" site in Berkshire amid reports the object found there was bleeping and hissing and full of a mysterious liquid.\n\nThe saucers were taken away and examined before it emerged that hoaxers were responsible\n\nDoubts about objects arose after batteries were found in one of them\n\nFrom the moment apprentices at Farnborough's Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) came up with the idea for the hoax, there was a determination it should be convincing, said engineer Chris Southall.\n\nAll of them were interested in sci-fi, and they set out to create a design that would not be recognisably human.\n\nThere could be no giveaway features on the saucers, such as portholes or aerials, nor anything that might be seen on terrestrial inventions such as a plane or a boat.\n\nFirst they made the metal-coated, fibreglass saucers by forming plaster moulds to build them in two halves, and then they sandwiched them together with electronic sound equipment inside.\n\nThe objects were filled with a flour and water sourdough-like substance, which fermented and then exploded when the saucers were drilled into\n\n\"When you turned the saucers upside down, it flicked a switch and started a battery,\" Mr Southall said.\n\n\"We were putting them out in secret, in the middle of the night, in the early hours, and we didn't want them to make a noise until then. Only when we left, we turned them upside down and the noise started - and then we got away quick.\"\n\nThe saucers were also filled with a flour and water mix that fermented inside and turned into foul-smelling slime.\n\n\"We wanted to make something that looked really alien,\" he said.\n\nThey were placed in six locations in a straight line from east to west - Queenborough on the Isle of Sheppey, Bromley in south London, Ascot, the village of Welford, near Newbury, in Berkshire, Chippenham in Wiltshire and Clevedon in Somerset.\n\nNewspapers showed how the saucers \"landed\" in a straight line\n\nEngineer Rog Palmer, who was also on the committee, organised teams of two or three apprentices to take the saucers to each location and briefed each group about how to carry out the task, including what to say if stopped by the police - that they had stayed out late at a party.\n\nAnd by the time the saucers were discovered, the pranksters were back in their hostel - where 500 apprentices lived - bleary-eyed over breakfast after being up all night, but very excited.\n\nThey had risen to the task of planting the \"spaceships\" without detection, but were they prepared for the extraordinary success of their hoax?\n\nMr Southall, now 72 and an environmental campaigner who runs an eco-house in Clacton, Essex, remembers it was the era of Sputnik and space exploration - and says the whole point of the hoax was for it to be taken seriously.\n\n\"We thought the government should have some sort of plan if aliens did land,\" he said.\n\n\"So we gave them a chance to try out whatever plan they had - but they didn't have one.\"\n\nHe recalls the surprise of the apprentices when police and Army responders blew one saucer up and dropped another.\n\nDavid Clarke, media law expert at Sheffield Hallam University and a consultant and curator for the National Archives UFO project, believes the response to the hoax was flawed.\n\n\"One of the saucers when they actually drilled into it, because it was full of this compacted, sort of papier-maché mess, actually exploded and showered the police officers with this stuff.\n\n\"If it had been some kind of radiation hazard, how would they have dealt with that? It would have been a disaster area.\n\n\"And what did they do? Just washed it down the drains.\"\n\nThe \"landings\" led to a major police and Army response\n\nDr Clarke and Mr Southall agree that in 1967 the public imagination was already gripped by UFO fever - at the time the Ministry of Defence was receiving near-daily reports of sightings.\n\nBut despite this climate, the apprentices did not expect the huge media response, which included international coverage and double-page spreads.\n\n\"It was more than we hoped for,\" Mr Southall said.\n\nThe events of that day remain something of a blur for him, but he remembers trekking to a TV studio in the evening after the hoax had been exposed.\n\nBy the time the papers went to press, journalists had been told about the prank, but it didn't deter them from reporting it as an alien invasion, Mr Southall said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. It's 50 years since the great UFO hoax fooled the nation\n\nPress cuttings from the time reveal official sources \"tended to be snappy\" when questioned about the hoax.\n\nBut police confirmed no action was to be taken against the pranksters, with one Bromley officer quoted as saying: \"We are taking it like gentlemen.\"\n\nMr Southall admits that to put the police and Army to such an inconvenience today would have entirely different consequences.\n\n\"Those were hippie days,\" he said. \"We were apprentices from the RAE and people had a kinder attitude to us because of who we were, and in those days it was different.\"\n\nNow, he says, the saucers would be treated as explosive devices and detonated - and the hoaxers could end up in jail.\n\n\"That's one of the interesting things looking back at this, 50 years on.\n\n\"The times we live in now are much harsher, and I don't think we could do it now. We would end up in trouble.\"\n\nSee more on this story on Inside Out, on BBC One South East and South on Monday 4 September at 19:30 BST, and later on the BBC iPlayer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Stanley Bolland, now aged seven, said he was \"the best man for the job\" of model maker at Legoland\n\nA job advert for model builders at Legoland Windsor attracted one standout application - from a six-year-old boy.\n\nIn a handwritten letter, Stanley Bolland, from Waterlooville, Hampshire, said: \"I am the man [for] the job because I have lots of experience.\"\n\nThe company did not give him the job but did arrange a day's work placement with the theme park's model makers.\n\nStaff member Paula Laughton said: \"Stanley showed great promise, so we hope this will inspire him.\"\n\nMerlin Entertainments Group advertised earlier this year for Lego model designers to help design and build animated figures for the Windsor theme park.\n\nThe advert asked for experience in product design, IT and design packages, as well as an \"interest or knowledge about Lego and creation of Lego models\".\n\nIn return, the company promised a \"competitive annual salary\", 20 days of holiday and 40% discount on Lego kits.\n\nStanley saw the advert and felt he was a perfect fit for the role.\n\nHe applied, saying: \"Dear Sir/Madam, I am six years old and I love Lego [and] have a box of it.\n\n\"I hide my Lego so my brother cant get it. I am the man [for] the job because I have lots of experience. Love, Stanley. (ref: model builders job)\"\n\nIn its reply, the company said: \"Loving Lego is the first step to being a model maker, so it certainly sounds like you'll be perfect for the job (once you've finished school of course).\n\n\"In the meantime, and because you say you're the man for the job, we'd love to offer you a one-off work experience day with our model makers.\"\n\nStanley, who has now turned seven, spent the day shadowing Ms Laughton, seeing how the model makers carry out checks and repairs on the Lego constructions throughout the theme park, and getting a behind-the-scenes tour.\n\nHe said: \"It was awesome to spend the whole day at Legoland meeting the model makers and learning all about what they do every day. I loved it and I can't wait to tell all my friends about it at school.\"\n\nLegoland staff showed Stanley how they take care of the models, including this 5ft dragon\n\nStanley learned the importance of keeping key attractions - such as this replica of the London Eye - clean", "Polperro High Street was left under nearly 4ft of water\n\nPeople were trapped in vehicles and roads were closed as surface water flooding hit parts of Cornwall.\n\nOvernight rainfall caused water to reach heights of 4ft (121cm) in some places on Sunday.\n\nA flood alert was issued by the Environment Agency, who said the main areas of concern were the rivers Camel, Allen and Bodmin Town Leat.\n\nThe fire service advised road users to avoid attempting to drive through flood water.\n\nA spokesman for the fire service said it had been a \"busy day\"\n\nCornwall Fire and Rescue Service crews from Launceston, St Austell, Wadebridge and Looe were among those called out to several rescues across the county.\n\nAt least six people had to be brought to safety by water rescue teams after becoming trapped in their vehicles, they said.\n\nWater rescue teams from Bude and Bodmin were deployed\n\nA spokesman from the Environment Agency said all flood defences in the area were holding and no rivers had broken their banks.\n\nHe said the flooding was thought to be largely \"surface water\" caused by blocked drains and heavy rainfall.\n\nThe fire service said it could take as little as 60cm of water to trap a car\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The tensions between North Korea and US President Trump feature on many of Sunday's papers\n\nThe Financial Times says US President Donald Trump has opened the door to launching an attack on North Korea, while both the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail also highlight warnings by the US that it is ready to \"annihilate\" the country.\n\nThe Times lays part of the blame at the door of the US president. It says the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has been emboldened by the incoherence of Mr Trump's attitude towards him.\n\nThe Guardian says it has learnt that a long-awaited official report on deaths in custody, which has yet to be published, will call for far-reaching reforms to the police and justice system.\n\nIt says the review - ordered by Theresa May when she was home secretary - will recommend that police cells should be completely phased out as a place to hold people who are believed to have mental health problems.\n\nIt will also say that the families of those who have died in police custody should receive \"free, non-means tested\" legal advice.\n\nThe Daily Mail says people who overload their bins risk being fined £2,500 and getting a criminal conviction.\n\nThe figure rises to £20,000 for businesses such as corner shops. The paper says councils are threatening to impose the penalties on households under anti-social behaviour laws.\n\nPutting bins out too early or too late is also said to be on the list of \"offences\".\n\nThe Times reports that Theresa May is using the threat of a reshuffle to bring Tory troublemakers into line as she seeks to tighten her grip on Downing Street. The paper says that Conservative backbencher Jacob Rees-Mogg is being lined up for a ministerial job to test his suitability for higher office.\n\nAn investigation by the Telegraph has found that people who make false allegations of sexual abuse are being allowed to keep tax-payer funded compensation.\n\nThe paper says thousands of pounds paid out to fake victims has not been clawed back even after their claims have been exposed as false. It believes the problem has been compounded by a compensation culture that has included lawyers touting for business from sex abuse victims.\n\nAnd the Daily Mirror leads on a report that hundreds of people died needlessly last year while waiting for a transplant organ.\n\nIt quotes figures showing that nearly 460 lives could have been saved by a change in the law so that people are assumed to consent to being donors after they die.\n\nThe government's chief mouse catcher has been earning his keep, according to the Sun.\n\nPalmerston the Whitehall cat has caught 27 mice since arriving from Battersea Dogs and Cats Home last year, says the paper. Although volunteers who look after him have told the Sun that based on reported sightings, the number is \"likely to be much higher\".\n\nAnd the Telegraph reports the white cliffs of Dover are under threat of development. It says the rolling chalk cliff tops could be sold if the National Trust cannot raise £1m in three weeks to buy it from the landowner.", "Just hours before the sixth nuclear test North Korea is suspected to have conducted, the state news agency released photographs of Kim Jong-un inspecting a nuclear warhead. Defence expert Melissa Hanham decodes what information the picture could yield.\n\nThis appears to be the biggest and most successful nuclear test by North Korea to date. Initial estimates by the USGS that it reached magnitude 6.3, which would make it an order of magnitude greater than we have ever seen before.\n\nIt is probably no coincidence that on the same day North Korean state media outlet KCNA released photographs of Kim Jong-un inspecting a so-called H-bomb, or a thermonuclear warhead, just hours before.\n\nThere is no way of telling if this is the actual device that was exploded in the tunnel - it could even be a model - but the messaging is clear. They want to demonstrate that they know what makes a credible nuclear warhead.\n\nKim Jong-un is standing very close to the apparent warhead, dangerously close many might reasonably posit. However, it could very well be that this is simply a model of the nuclear warhead. Nevertheless it is an extraordinary bit of messaging. In March 2016 he stood very close to a missile set to be launched. He has even been photographed smoking cigarettes next to the solid fuel motors of missiles, so he is not averse to showing extraordinary risk.\n\nEven if it is a model, there are enough signals in this model to make it look very credible and that is to do with its shape, size and how much detail they have showed.\n\nTypically when we've seen pictures of warheads from the US and Russia in the past they've just been cones. Here the North Koreans have shown us quite significant detail.\n\nThe bulbous peanut shaped object is an order of detail that we haven't seen before. This is the warhead itself.\n\nThe larger side, closer to the silver cylinder with the wires protruding is probably the fission device. When that explodes it will then detonate the smaller end of the object - which is the fusion part of the explosion.\n\nThe cylinder at the back is the firing set: this is the power, the electronics that will start off the explosion.\n\nThey are showing off the nuclear warhead alongside a missile. In some of the photographs we see a tall tan-coloured cone with a yellow and black painted tip. That is the Hwasong-14 ICBM nose cone. This nose cone would be what is appended to the Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile, that was tested in July, and signalled that North Korea may just have made a significant leap in weapons development.\n\nThere is even a chart in the background detailing how it will work. In Korean, the chart seems to detail that this device is intended to fit into the cone.\n\nThe North Koreans are also showing us more detail than is required because this is a propaganda piece for outside consumption.\n\nMelissa Hanham is a Senior Research Associate at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.\n• None This video has been removed for rights reasons", "Nicola Sturgeon will scrap the 1% cap on public sector pay rises when she sets out her legislative plans for the coming year, it is understood.\n\nThe first minister will announce the measure when she reveals her 2017-18 programme for government on Tuesday.\n\nThe SNP had committed to lifting the pay cap for public sector workers earlier this year, describing it as \"increasingly unsustainable\".\n\nScottish Labour described the move as a \"U-turn\".\n\nLabour's bid to scrap the cap for NHS nurses was defeated at Holyrood in May.\n\nA Scottish government source told the Sunday Herald: \"The programme for government will make clear that the time has come to ditch the 1% pay cap for the public sector.\n\n\"The cap will go from next year and future pay policy will take account of the cost of living.\n\n\"We need to ensure that future pay rises are affordable, but we also need to reflect the circumstances people are facing, and recognise the contribution made by workers across the public sector.\"\n\nScottish Labour's interim leader Alex Rowley MSP said: \"This SNP U-turn is long overdue - and it is welcome to see that Derek Mackay [finance secretary] has finally followed Labour's lead to end the pay cap.\n\n\"The SNP voted down a Labour motion to end the pay cap for our hard-working nurses earlier this year.\n\nNicola Sturgeon will reveal her 2017-18 programme for government on Tuesday\n\n\"This SNP's change of heart should be followed by a commitment to go further and use the powers of the Scottish Parliament to end austerity and invest in public services.\"\n\nIn June an attempt by the UK Labour Party, under Jeremy Corbyn, to reverse the long-running freeze was voted down by Conservative and Democratic Unionist MPs.\n\nThe programme for government is also understood to include the introduction of a specific offence for drug-driving.\n\nMs Sturgeon has further promised major reforms in education, health and justice, along with a \"bold\" vision for the economy and \"significant\" measures to protect the environment and improve the quality of housing.\n\nThe Scottish government said MSPs at Holyrood could expect to hear details of Ms Sturgeon's \"most ambitious\" programme yet, with 16 bills to be added to the 11 currently in progress.", "The USGS put the site of the quake near the Punggye-ri test site\n\nNorth Korea has hailed its sixth \"perfect success\" of a nuclear test. The seismic readings indicate it is bigger than any other it has conducted, but the apparent collapse of a tunnel at the nuclear test site could provide valuable information, nuclear defence analyst Catherine Dill writes.\n\nSeismic readings from the US and China place the explosion at a magnitude of 6.3, so we already know that this is likely to be the most powerful of North Korea's nuclear tests.\n\nThis magnitude roughly corresponds to the lower end of predicted yields of a thermonuclear weapon - basically the second generation of nuclear weapon, which works in two stages by having one bomb set off another bomb to generate a larger explosion\n\nIt is not yet clear exactly what nuclear weapon design was tested, but based on the seismic signature, the yield of this test definitely is an order of magnitude higher than the yields of the previous tests.\n\nSome estimates say that this latest test comes in at about 100-150 kilotonnes. For comparison, Hiroshima was about 15 kilotonnes. North Korea's last test in September 2016 was estimated at between 10 and 30 kilotonnes.\n\nWe can guess this because equations have been developed that translate magnitude of a tremor into the estimated yield of a nuclear device tested, which is basically the strength of the bomb.\n\nBut it also depends on the geology of the test site and how deep the tunnels are. We don't have all that information and that's why the information about the yields are all so preliminary.\n\nSo what else can we tell from this latest test? This is where an apparent tunnel collapse reported at the nuclear test site could be very useful.\n\nThe other way to learn is to monitor the composition of radionuclides released, which are the products of the nuclear reaction that are released into the atmosphere. In the past the tests have been very well contained as the tunnels where the tests took place were sealed. So we have not had much to analyse in recent years.\n\nBut this explosion was large and it also looks like a portion of the tunnel collapsed. The US Geological Survey recorded a second event approximately eight minutes after the test. The USGS, as well as China, have assessed this event as a \"collapse\" of the cavity.\n\nWhy would the tunnel collapse? It could be that the tunnel was not constructed sufficiently to handle an explosion of that size. It's also possible that they intended for this collapse to occur - a way of signalling to the world that this was an authentic test through radionuclide release, a serious advance. It is still too early to tell.\n\nThe news came hours after state media showed North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspecting what it said was a hydrogen bomb\n\nWhat it does mean is that we are likely to get information to analyse this nuclear explosion to determine what happened under the mountains of the test site. This will take weeks or even months as monitoring sites run by the CTBTO detect these radionuclides.\n\nThe information they give us may tell us the composition of the warhead: how much fissile material there was and what kind - was it plutonium or highly enriched uranium? North Korea produces both and has capability for both.\n\nNorth Korea's sixth nuclear test is not definitively a thermonuclear weapon from the seismic signature alone, but it appears to be a likely possibility at this point.\n\nThis progress is not surprising, though the magnitude of this test is a stark reminder of the seriousness of the current moment. According to South Korean government seismologists, this test was five to six times more powerful than past tests.\n\nSo what is next for North Korea and where could they go from here? Part of this depends on how the US responds.\n\nThe concern among some analysts is that North Korea will feel compelled to prove this warhead they have just tested can actually fly on an ICBM. They could want to try a live firing exercise or even an atmospheric nuclear test, which was how the earliest nuclear devices were tested until that was banned. This would be among the most provocative gestures they could make in the testing arena.\n\nThe timing of this test may or may not be politically significant. US-ROK joint exercises recently concluded. North Korea has been intimating that a test may occur this year, and the exact timing of this test may be for technical reasons more than political.\n\nAnd there is no doubt that they will glean useful technical information from this test and be able to make slight adjustments to the warhead to be confident it will work in the future.\n\nIn the official state announcement after the test, Pyongyang claimed a successful test of a two-stage hydrogen (thermonuclear) bomb ready to be deployed on an ICBM that Kim Jong Un inspected the previous day.\n\nCautious analysts have reason to continue to debate the exact nature of the device, but with the results of this test it will be difficult for observers to continue to claim that North Korea does not yet have a working nuclear weapons program.\n\nCatherine Dill is a senior research associate at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.", "Many economists do not expect UK interest rates to rise until 2019 despite inflation remaining above target, according to a BBC snapshot.\n\nThey believe that the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) will be reluctant to raise rates during Brexit negotiations.\n\nInflation stood at 2.6% in July - well above the Bank's official target of 2%.\n\nHalf the economists contacted by the BBC think wages growth will outpace inflation in the first half of 2019.\n\nLast week, one MPC member, Michael Saunders, said a \"modest rise\" in rates was needed to curb high inflation.\n\nThe base rate has stood at a record low of 0.25% since August 2016 - the first move since March 2009, when it was reduced to 0.5%.\n\nIn June, three MPC members voted for a rate rise - the first time since May 2011 that so many had wanted to tighten policy.\n\nThe same month the Bank's chief economist, Andy Haldane, also made a call for a rate rise this year.\n\nHowever, Mark Carney, the Bank governor, said in his Mansion House speech in late June that \"now is not yet the time\" to start raising rates once more.\n\nBank of England Governor Mark Carney has cast doubt on an imminent interest rate rise\n\nStuart Green, of Santander Global Corporate Banking, told the BBC he did not expect a rate hike to happen before 2019.\n\n\"We believe that policymakers will be reluctant to tighten monetary policy until greater clarity emerges around the UK's post-EU trading framework, and our expectation of declining inflation through 2018 should also reduce the pressure for an interest rate rise,\" he said.\n\nOthers expect it to be even longer, with economists at Morgan Stanley not expecting any movement until March 2019 at the earliest, with Andrew Goodwin at Oxford Economics suggesting it would not happen until the third quarter of that year.\n\nSimilarly, Fabrice Montagne, at Barclays, expects rates to stay on hold until \"at least 2019\".\n\nBut there are those who argue that the Bank will raise rates sooner. Howard Archer, chief economic adviser at the EY ITEM Club, said he had one increase, to 0.5%, pencilled in for late 2018, adding: \"I would not be at all surprised if it was delayed until 2019.\"\n\nMichael Lee, at Cambridge Econometrics, expects a rise to come in either the second or third quarter of next year as he thinks inflation will stay above the Bank's 2% target for the next two to three years.\n\nPhilip Rush, at Heteronomica, is more specific, settling on May 2018.\n\nThe one outlier is George Buckley at Nomura, who expects the MPC to jump in November.\n\nThe BBC also asked the economists when they expect inflation to peak in the UK. Both Mr Rush and Mr Archer think it will hit 2.9% in October, with the latter predicting it will then start to fall back \"as the impact of the sharp drop in sterling following the June 2016 Brexit vote increasingly wanes\".\n\nSeveral others, such as Mr Green, Mr Lee and Mr Goodwin, expect inflation to hit 3% in the final three months of the year before starting to retreat.\n\nMorgan Stanley is more pessimistic, however, predicting a peak of 3.2% in Spring 2018.\n\nHoliday makers planning trips to the continent in the next few months should prepare themselves for more pain, according to Morgan Stanley.\n\nIts currency strategy team expect sterling to weaken against the euro by a further 10% by March 2018.\n\nMr Green at Santander also forecasts more weakness for the UK currency over the course of the next year, with an average of $1.25 to the pound and just 96 euro cents in the final quarter of 2018.\n\nMr Archer thinks the pound will sink to about $1.25 by Christmas, but recover to trade about seven cents higher by the end of 2018.\n\nHeteronomica's Mr Rush is also a little more optimistic about sterling, expecting it to be stronger within a year.\n\nThe last time interest rates went up was 5 July, 2007. They rose by a quarter of a percentage point to 5.75%. The next month the credit crunch struck, and so began a series of cuts, down to 0.5% in March 2009.\n\nThese were supposed to be emergency measures. Then came the Brexit vote, and in August 2016 the official rate dropped to a fresh record low of 0.25%. That compares to a typical range of between 5% and 13% for most of the 1990s.\n\nEmergency rates are the new normal. That carries dangers. If we hit another slump, we've run out of road; there won't be much the Bank of England can do to help by cutting interest rates.\n\nWhile some members of the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee think we should start restoring interest rates to non-emergency levels this year, that is a minority view, as our snapshot of economists' forecasts shows.\n\nYou could draw a number of conclusions. You might decide interest rates aren't effective on their own - so the government should rely less on the central bank stimulus and instead use fiscal policy such as cutting taxes or raising spending.\n\nYou might take the view that rates should rise to help savers and pension schemes.\n\nOr you might take the view that an early rise could worsen the economic slowdown. You might even believe that we need to find ways to get the official rate below zero (so that I, the lender, pay you, the borrower, to take my money).\n\nTake your pick, but whichever you choose, normality ain't what it used to be.", "According to The Sunday Times, the outcome of the general election may have cost the country about £20bn. A source, described as a close ally of of Theresa May's, explains that meeting the UK's obligations to the EU had been estimated at up to £30bn. But, it says, the weakening of our negotiating position because the Conservative government lost a majority means the cost will rise.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday says the Prime Minister is hoping to keep the details of the likely \"divorce bill\" a secret until after the Conservative conference. Otherwise, it says, there could a furious backlash from Conservatives opposed to the EU.\n\nThe slow pace of the Brexit talks doesn't impress The Sunday Mirror. It calls on the EU to come up with a figure so Brexit Secretary David Davis can make the arguments for reducing it.\n\nThe Sunday People, among others, reports that government whips are at work trying to persuade \"wavering Tory MPs\" to support Mrs May's approach to Brexit. The Sun on Sunday says some have complained of \"bullying\". And The Observer believes the attempt to promote unity has left her facing \"a growing Tory revolt over her leadership.\"\n\nThe Sunday Telegraph warns the rebels that blocking Brexit would undermine democracy and respect for our political class. Rather than do that, it urges anti-Brexit MPs to \"put country before conceit\".\n\nThousands of children going back to school this week could face an epidemic of bullying online, according to The Sun. It welcomes the training of more teachers to support pupils and combat the threat of cyber abuse. But the paper calls for more to be done - if the 8m children at risk are to be protected from a torment that doesn't stop at the school gates.\n\nFor several of the papers the main news is the ructions that have followed the arrest on suspicion of drinking and driving of the former England captain, Wayne Rooney. The People believes he is fighting to save his marriage. The views of his wife Coleen are forcefully delivered elsewhere. The Sun calls her \"furious\". The headline in The Mirror is \"how could you do this to me when I'm pregnant?\".\n\nThis autumn, says The Sunday Express, could turn out to be warmer than the summer. It says forecasters think hot air from Europe, and balmy air from the Atlantic, could combine to produce temperatures of 32C (89.6F). \"How typical,\" says the paper, \"that the sun should start shining as soon as the school holidays are over.\"\n\nBritain must prepare itself for \"invasions of growing numbers of foreign sea creatures\" due to climate change, The Observer says. The paper says the experts believe that warming waters will drive some of our currently native species of mussels, fish and oysters further north. Their places may be taken by red mullet, john dory and pacific oysters, forcing us to change our seafood diet.", "The car crashed into the house and ended up in the living room, injuring a man on a sofa\n\nFour people were injured, three of them seriously, when a car smashed through the side of a house and started a fire.\n\nA white VW Golf crashed into the living room of the property in York at about 01:20 BST, injuring the driver and two passengers and a man on a sofa.\n\nSgt Paul Cording of North Yorkshire Police told Minster FM it was \"astounding that no-one lost their life\".\n\nA man in his 20s, believed to be the driver, has been arrested.\n\nPolice said it was \"astounding that no-one lost their life in this incident\"\n\nSgt Cording said a man inside the house was sitting on the sofa when the car ploughed through the wall.\n\nHe said the car had \"quite literally\" gone into the house in Rivelin Way, on Clifton Moor.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Fire and Rescue said the man suffered lower limb injuries but his wife and younger child managed to escape uninjured.\n\nThe occupants of the car all suffered head injuries.\n\nNorth Yorkshire Police is appealing for information about the vehicle in the moments before the crash.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sana Jammelieh, Shaden Kanboura and Mouna Hawa star in In Between\n\nWhen 35-year-old Maysaloun Hamoud, a Palestinian director, said she wanted to \"stir things up\" with her movies - she achieved it.\n\nHer first feature film, In Between, has resulted with her being issued with a fatwa (Islamic religious ruling), as well as death threats.\n\nThe movie, which is released in the UK this month, is about three young Arab women sharing an apartment in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv.\n\nAway from the traditions of their families, they find themselves \"in between\" the free lives they're aspiring to lead and the restrictions still imposed on them.\n\n\"It's naive to say, 'no I didn't expect any comeback' when I wrote it,\" says Hamoud, \"but I didn't know how big it would be.\n\nScenes in the film feature nightclubs, drug-taking and homosexuality\n\n\"I knew when I started to write these characters that it could not be passed by, but I did not expect the extent of the reaction.\"\n\nHer characters are: Nour, who seems to be heading for a respectable marriage, but her fiance is exposed as a religious hypocrite; Salma, who dreams of being a DJ and is unable to tell her family she is gay; and Laila, a successful lawyer, who hopes for a partner who is as liberal and independent as her, and is disappointed.\n\nThe film is also set within the Palestinian underground scene (a group of young Palestinians living in Israel who are using music to forge a new cultural identity for themselves) and features an electronic soundtrack from local DJs.\n\nWith scenes featuring nightclubs, drug-taking and homosexuality, the director admits that \"characters like this haven't appeared in Palestinian cinema before,\" adding that while initially frightened by the level of violence threatened against her and her actresses from ultra conservatives, she stands by her film.\n\n\"I wanted to take provocative action, we need to shake things up and see different things on screen. If we keep making things that people think they want to see then it's not art, it's not cinema.\n\n\"I think I have a job to develop my society and that means changing reality. The essence of an artist is to bring change.\"\n\nMaysaloun Hamoud has the name of her film in English and Arabic tattooed on her arm\n\nHamoud was born to Palestinian parents in Budapest in Hungary, but is now a resident of Jaffa in Israel. Her first short film, Sense of Morning, was set in the Beirut war of 1982, but believes In Between \"is every bit as much a political film\".\n\nThat would appear to be borne out by the reaction, particularly in the conservative Arab town of Umm-al-Fahm in northern Israel, where one of the characters, Nour, comes from. According to Hamoud, it was the mayor here who first declared her film \"haram\", or forbidden.\n\n\"Palestine has a young cinema and there are not a lot of genres here yet,\" she explains. \"I think there was actually a lot of confusion here when the film first appeared as to whether it was a documentary or a fiction film.\n\n\"I think some people watching it actually thought it was real life, and this is when the local leaders said they were ashamed of it, and started to go against the movie, and started talking about closing the cinemas down where it was playing.\n\n\"So my film was declared \"haram\", the fatwa issued, and we started getting death threats. There was a very violent atmosphere for a couple of weeks that was pretty scary.\n\n\"But you know, there is no such thing as bad publicity,\" she adds. \"More people started coming to see the film to see what all the fuss was about, and it ended up playing at cinemas for months. I've had great reaction from both men and women.\"\n\nSana Jammalieh, who plays Salma, is Palestine's first female DJ\n\nIn Between has since been nominated for 12 Ophir Awards - Israel's version of the Oscars, while Hamoud was given the best young talent award by the Women in Motion movement at the Cannes Film Festival this year, with Isabelle Huppert calling the three women characters of the film \"heroines of our time.\"\n\nMaysaloun Hamoud says that while the three women she wrote weren't necessarily representative of her or her own friends, \"they do represent the things that we have never talked about in our society before.\n\n\"All three characters represent huge amounts of invisible women, women who have never had their voices raised before in cinema from this part of the world. Finally, the film has made people talk about it and I'm glad.\"\n\nIn Between is released in the UK on 22 September 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. HMP Birmingham, operated by G4S, was the scene of 12 hours of disorder in December 2016\n\nTwenty eight inmates have been moved out of HMP Birmingham after trouble flared when prisoners refused to return to their cells, security firm G4S said.\n\nThe disorder on Sunday involved a \"small number of prisoners\" on one wing, the Prison Service said, and saw 28 cells suffer water damage.\n\nIt began at about 17:00 BST and was resolved by 23:45. No injuries have been reported.\n\nThe moved prisoners include 10 \"key protagonists\" who led the disorder.\n\nG4S, who took over running the jail from the Prison Service in 2011, said it expected the cells to have dried out by later on Monday, or Tuesday at the latest.\n\nThe prison was the scene of 12 hours of disorder in December 2016, which required riot teams to be deployed.\n\nTrouble flared after a group of prisoners refused to return to their cells, G4S said\n\nG4S said it would review what had caused the latest outbreak of trouble at the Category B and C prison in the Winson Green area of the city.\n\nA spokesman said trouble flared \"after a group of prisoners refused to return to their cells\" at the end of evening association.\n\nHe said: \"Staff have successfully resolved disorder on one wing at HM Prison Birmingham.\n\nOne inmate was taken to hospital for an unrelated medical matter\n\n\"No staff or prisoners were injured during the incident and the rest of the establishment was unaffected.\"\n\nOne inmate, believed to be in his 20s, was taken to hospital for an unrelated medical matter.\n\nSupport staff were drafted in on Sunday evening\n\nAre you in the area? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump: \"As tough as this was, it's been a wonderful thing\"\n\nUS President Donald Trump has praised the relief response to Hurricane Harvey on his second visit to flood-hit states.\n\n\"Things are working out well,\" he said of the efforts, as he and wife Melania met victims and volunteers in Texas.\n\n\"As tough as this was, it's been a wonderful thing,\" he added. \"I think even for the country to watch and for the world to watch.\"\n\nThe devastating hurricane made landfall in the state a week ago.\n\nSome residents have been allowed to return to their homes but flood waters are still rising in other areas.\n\nHarvey has been blamed for at least 47 deaths, and about 43,000 people are currently housed in shelters.\n\nPresident Trump and the first lady visited Texas earlier in the week but stayed clear of the disaster zone, saying they did not want to divert resources from rescue work.\n\nHowever, the president was criticised for not meeting victims of the flooding and for focusing largely on the logistics of the government response.\n\nVisiting Texas again on Saturday, Mr and Mrs Trump made a point of meeting flood survivors and volunteers in Houston. They took part in food distribution at a shelter, handing out packed lunches, and posed for photographs with victims when they requested it.\n\nDuring a tour of a shelter, the president said: \"I think people appreciate what's been done. It's been done very efficiently, very well, and that's what we want. We've very happy with the way things are going. A lot of love. There's a lot of love.\"\n\nThe president and his wife then travelled to Lake Charles, Louisiana, which also suffered flash floods, before flying back to Washington.\n\nPresident Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump greeted children at a centre for flood survivors in Houston\n\nAmid the destruction, stories have been shared of people opening their homes and businesses to others, and forming human chains to save people from treacherous rising waters.\n\nHowever, many are also now returning to destroyed homes without the insurance to fix them.\n\nExperts estimate that only about 20% of those in Houston's worst hit areas have flood insurance.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Flood victims have been returning to inspect the damage\n\nMr Trump has asked Congress for $7.8bn (£6bn) as an initial payment to help with recovery efforts following the flooding in both Texas and Louisiana, which has also hit production at America's main petrol and oil refining centre.\n\nThe White House said on Saturday that the president had authorised an increase in the level of federal funding available for debris removal and emergency protective measures.\n\nGovernor of Texas Greg Abbott has said the state may need more than $125bn in aid.\n\nThe president has declared Sunday a \"National Day of Prayer\" for victims of Hurricane Harvey.\n\nAdministration officials say there will be further requests for funds when the full impact of Hurricane Harvey becomes known.\n\nHarvey dumped an estimated 20 trillion gallons of rain on the Houston area.\n\nGovernor Abbott has warned that the recovery programme will be a \"multi-year project\".\n\n\"This is going to be a massive, massive clean-up process,\" he told ABC News.\n\nThe Environmental Protection Agency has warned that floodwater can contain bacteria and other contaminants from overflowing sewers. It said the biggest threat to public health was access to safe drinking water.\n\nAuthorities in flood-hit Orange County, east of Beaumont, imposed a curfew on Saturday night to give its residents \"peace of mind\", officials said. Looting in Houston earlier in the week led to a curfew being implemented.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThousands of homes and businesses remain without power, and many schools are expected to remain closed in the coming days.\n\nMeanwhile, the Houston Astros, the city's Major League Baseball team, returned home to take on the New York Mets on Saturday. Tributes were paid to those killed ahead of the game.\n\nThe team abandoned their home stadium this week, playing three games in Florida against the Texas Rangers.\n\n\"We hope that these games can serve as a welcome distraction for our city that is going through a very difficult time,\" Astros president Reid Ryan said.\n\n\"We hope that we can put smiles on some faces.\"", "Universities have been accused of running a \"cartel\" and failing to offer enough two-year bachelor's degrees, by a right of centre think tank.\n\nThe UK 2020 report argues that fast-track degrees could cut student debt.\n\nIt is backed by Labour's Lord Adonis and Sir Anthony Seldon, vice-chancellor of the University of Buckingham, which offers two-year degrees.\n\nBut the umbrella group Universities UK said uptake of existing two-year courses had been limited.\n\nAnd a spokesman pointed out that official investigations have previously found that competition in the sector was largely working well.\n\n\"Several universities have been offering two-year, fast-track degrees for a number of years, but the demand from students has been limited under the current fees and loans system in England,\" said UUK in a statement.\n\nPlans to boost two-year degrees were announced by Universities Minister Jo Johnson in February.\n\nThe UK 2020 report, co-authored by businessman and Leave.EU co-funder Richard Tice, says fast-track degrees could cut student debt, enhance choice and relieve pressured housing stocks.\n\nIt argues that tuition fees, reaching £9,250 this year, have failed to deliver real choice or competition for students in England and describes mounting student anger about debt and interest rates as a \"timebomb\" beneath the system.\n\nIt says most universities charge the maximum fees allowed and have acted as a cartel to slow reforms and freeze out private sector competition.\n\n\"Price competition is the area where most notoriously the universities have failed to deliver,\" says the report.\n\n\"In the long term, smarter ways of funding students will have to be found.\"\n\nThe authors argue that students promised a better experience by the increase in tuition fees were \"sold a lie\", while vice-chancellors with massive pay packets are the biggest beneficiaries.\n\nThe report estimates that two-year degrees could reduce individual graduate debt by up to £20,000, with major savings in accommodation costs.\n\nMr Tice said complaints of poor value for money from friends who were parents of university students prompted him to write the report.\n\n\"Investigating the truth behind these stories has shocked me, the powerful university cartel, interwoven with parts of the establishment care lots about money and little about students.\"\n\nLord Adonis, in a joint foreword with Conservative MP and UK 2020 chairman Owen Paterson, said: \"It is not often that politicians from such different parts of the spectrum come together on a major question of such national importance.\n\n\"But we are united in our desire to find a solution to the crisis in how students and universities are funded.\"\n\nSir Anthony said the report did \"an excellent service in channelling the debate on higher education towards the contemporary structure and its antiquated provision\".\n\nIn its statement, Universities UK said it expected three-year undergraduate degrees to remain the preferred option for many students.\n\n\"But if changes can be made to the funding and fees system in England that help increase the flexibility of provision and are in the interest of students, this is a good thing.\"\n\nChris Husbands, vice-chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University, added: \"Two-year degrees may make financial sense for some students.\n\n\"However, due to the compressed nature of a two-year degree there would be a significant reduction in opportunities for students to do part-time and vacation work which many students from lower or average income households rely on to help fund their university life.\n\n\"It is also less likely that a student would have the opportunity to carry out work placements or work-based learning in their chosen subject or area of study.\n\n\"This means their skills and readiness for the workplace could suffer as part of a two-year degree.\n\n\"The real need is for a funding regime which encourages more part-time study and study alongside work.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is 250 years since America's Mason-Dixon Line was completed. Hailed as a groundbreaking technical achievement, it came to symbolise the border between the Civil War North and South, separating free Pennsylvania from slave-owning Maryland. But who were the two British men who created it?\n\n\"It was the equivalent of the moon landings today,\" according to Mason-Dixon Line expert David Thaler.\n\nBaker's son Charles Mason and lapsed Quaker Jeremiah Dixon were established scientists when commissioned to settle a land dispute in the pre-revolutionary America of 1763.\n\nFor 80 years the Calvert family of Maryland and the Penns of Pennsylvania had been locked in a bloody dispute over the boundary between the two colonies they had been granted by the English Crown.\n\n\"The stakes were very high,\" said Mr Thaler, trustee of the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore and an expert on the Mason-Dixon project.\n\n\"There was about 4,000 sq miles of territory that was in dispute and nobody knew who to pay taxes to. Warfare regularly broke out along the border.\"\n\nNo portraits of either man remain, but US artist Adrian Martinez produced this interpretation of how Mason, seated left, and Dixon, also seated, might have looked during the project\n\nOutdated maps meant fresh measurements were needed, but colonial surveyors had proved inaccurate. So the families hired Mason and Dixon, who were known in England as master surveyors and astronomers.\n\nThe Mason-Dixon Line was drawn in two parts. An 83-mile (133.5km) north-south divide between Maryland and Delaware and the more recognised 233-mile (375km) west to east divide between Pennsylvania and Maryland, stretching from just south of Philadelphia to what is now West Virginia.\n\nMr Thaler said: \"This was the most outstanding scientific and engineering achievement, not only of its day, but of the American Enlightenment.\n\n\"It was so advanced for its time. The brains were the best and the technology was the best.\"\n\nMason and Dixon brought with them some of the most advanced surveying equipment of the day, including tools by renowned instrument maker John Bird, who, like Dixon, hailed from County Durham.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"The map they produced is one of the most important historical documents we have here in America. It's almost the equivalent of the Declaration of Independence,\" added Mr Thaler.\n\n\"The accuracy is so extraordinary that even today it continues to astound. It represents the first geodetic survey in the New World.\"\n\nMiner's son Dixon from Cockfield, near Bishop Auckland, and Mason, from Oakridge Lynch, near Stroud in Gloucestershire, originally came together in 1761 to map the Transit of Venus - making it easier to calculate the Earth's distance from the Sun.\n\nIt would take them almost five years - lugging their equipment across hundreds of miles of wilderness - to complete the survey and cement their place in the timeline of the United States.\n\nYet despite their groundbreaking achievement, both ended up in unmarked graves thousands of miles apart and remain virtually unknown in their home country.\n\nMilestones were marked with M for Maryland and P for Pennsylvania\n\nDixon's great-great-great-great-great-nephew, John Dixon, still lives in County Durham and is proud of his connection to a \"marvellous man\" who was of \"great significance\" in his lifetime.\n\n\"Jeremiah was a Quaker and from a mining family. He showed a talent early on for maths and then surveying.\n\n\"He went down to London to be taken on by the Royal Society, just at a time when his social life was getting a bit out of hand.\n\n\"He was a bit of a lad by all accounts, not your typical Quaker, and never married.\n\n\"He enjoyed socialising and carousing and was actually expelled from the Quakers for his drinking and keeping loose company.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn entry in the Quaker minute book of Raby in County Durham, dated October 1760, reads: \"Jery Dixon, son of George and Mary Dixon of Cockfield, disowned for drinking to excess.\"\n\nMr Dixon added: \"Nevertheless, it's marvellous to be connected to such a prominent man.\"\n\nMason's early life was more sedate by comparison. At the age of 28 he was taken on by the Royal Observatory in Greenwich as an assistant. Noted as a \"meticulous observer of nature and geography\" he later became a fellow of the Royal Society.\n\nMason chronicled his arrival in Philadelphia in his journal\n\nMason and Dixon signed a contract to begin the survey in 1763\n\n\"Not too much is known about his younger days, but we know his family was not terribly well off and that they ran a baking business,\" said Royal Society librarian Keith Moore.\n\n\"He had a school education, but didn't go to university. However, he did have some local connections and knew James Bradley, who was a very famous astronomer and also from Gloucestershire.\n\n\"Bradley got him a job at the Royal Observatory, which is really the start of his career as an astronomer and surveyor.\n\n\"While at the Royal Society, he was asked to undertake Transit of Venus observations and recruited Dixon as his assistant.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Star observations were used to measure the Mason-Dixon Line\n\nThe pair arrived in Philadelphia to begin work in November 1763. They used Bird's instruments to calculate their path by the stars and had to combat hostile Native Americans, mountains, dense forest, rivers and wild animals.\n\nLimestone markers measuring up to 5ft (1.5m) high - quarried and transported from England - were placed at every mile and marked with a P for Pennsylvania and M for Maryland on each side. So-called Crown stones were positioned every five miles and engraved with the Penn family's coat of arms on one side and the Calvert family's on the other.\n\n\"No-one really knows why the stones were shipped from England,\" said Todd Babcock, of the Mason and Dixon Line Preservation Partnership. \"But we know there were nearly 400 of them.\"\n\nHe added: \"At the time all Mason and Dixon had in front of them was wilderness.\n\n\"There were some settlements, but west of the Susquehanna River and approaching the Allegheny Mountains there were very few roads. It was all mature forest so they had to come through and cut a vista about 30ft wide.\n\n\"That required axe-men to cut down the trees, pack mule drivers to get the trees out of the way as well as cows for milk, chain carriers, instrument bearers and tent bearers. It was like a small army moving through the woods.\n\n\"They started off with a crew of five, but by the time they got towards the end of the survey the party had grown to about 115.\n\n\"When they came into this I think they thought it would take a year or two, but it ended up taking five.\"\n\nYet while their achievement has been rightly hailed, modern technology has shown the line was not as accurate as Mason and Dixon thought.\n\nIt took Mason and Dixon five years to complete their survey\n\nAdrian Martinex also imagined Mason and Dixon visiting a Pennsylvania tavern with some of their party a year into the survey\n\nCrown stones were placed at five-mile intervals along the line\n\nMr Babcock said: \"They thought at the end of the survey that the stones were accurate to within 50ft of where they should be. But what we're finding is that some of them are as much as 900ft off the intended line of latitude.\n\n\"Using modern GPS equipment we found they progressively went to the south and then started to come back to the north. The reason for that is not because they were inaccurate or because the equipment was faulty. It was actually gravity.\n\n\"Gravity had an impact on the plumb bob they were using. They had a 6ft telescope and it used a plumb bob on a fine wire to set it to true zero so they could measure directly overhead. But gravity varied from location to location because of the influence of things like mountains.\n\n\"We have found there was a direct correlation between the local variations in gravity and how far north or south of the line they were.\n\n\"The distances between the stones is supposed to be a mile, but what we're finding is that they are anything up to 15ft longer than a mile in places.\n\n\"That said, the idea of trying to stay on a line of latitude for 230 miles through the wilderness with equipment that had never been used before is just incredible.\"\n\nMason and Dixon began their return journey eastward on 20 October 1767 and later submitted a bill for £3,516.9s - estimated as the equivalent of about £500,000 today. But, according to David Thaler, neither died rich men.\n\n\"It was certainly a substantial amount for a world-class scientific effort,\" he said.\n\n\"But it wasn't enough to retire on.\"\n\nThe bill for the Mason-Dixon Line came to just over £3,500\n\nA plaque marks the spot close to where Mason and Dixon began their survey\n\nThe Mason-Dixon Line took on an enduring symbolism in part because of the American Civil War\n\nMason and Dixon are unlikely to have seen their names directly associated with their achievement, as the official report on the survey did not mention them.\n\nThe term \"Mason-Dixon Line\" would become more widely used when the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 to allow slave-owning Missouri and free Maine to join the union.\n\nAnd of course the line's enduring symbolism was firmly established after the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, representing that demarcation between the North and South - and freedom over enslavement.\n\nMason and Dixon are buried thousands of miles apart in unmarked graves\n\nAfter the mammoth project was completed, Mason returned to England to work again at the Greenwich Observatory but he ended his days virtually penniless back in America in 1786.\n\n\"Many years after the Mason-Dixon line was made, Mason returned to Philadelphia, but became sick during the journey,\" said John Hopkins, who oversees the burial ground at the city's Christ Church.\n\n\"When he got here he knew pretty much that he was close to death, so he wrote to Benjamin Franklin, who he knew, and asked him to give him a place to be buried so he didn't have to burden his wife and family.\n\n\"We don't know where he is. If he had a stone it's been lost over time.\n\n\"We have a plaque that a bunch of surveyors from around the country paid for with text close to what the inscription might have been at that time.\"\n\nCharles Mason was friends with Benjamin Franklin, according to John Hopkins of Christ Church\n\nDixon returned to County Durham to ply his trade.\n\n\"For the last 10 years of his life he did work for Lord Barnard at Raby Castle and surveyed Auckland Castle for the Bishop of Durham,\" his relative John Dixon said:\n\n\"He died at the young age of 45 in 1779. There was no death certificate. We know he'd been quite a steady drinker through his life and there were rumours he died from pneumonia.\n\n\"We presume that after having been put out of the Quakers they reconciled and accepted him back. He is buried in the Quaker burial ground at Staindrop.\n\n\"We don't know exactly where he is because it was the convention at that time for Quakers not mark their gravestones.\"\n\nFind out about musician Mark Knopfler's fascination with Mason and Dixon on Inside Out on BBC1 at 1930 BST on 4 September.", "The latest salvos come after a week of Brexit talks involving David Davis (left) and Michel Barnier\n\nThe EU's Brexit negotiator has said he sees the process as an opportunity to \"teach\" the British people and others what leaving the single market means.\n\nMichel Barnier said: \"There are extremely serious consequences of leaving the single market and it hasn't been explained to the British people.\"\n\nThe UK has hit back, saying the EU does \"not want to talk about the future\".\n\nBrexit Secretary David Davis said it was \"frightened\" and the UK would not be bounced into a divorce bill deal.\n\nThe latest salvos come after a week of talks in Brussels about the UK's withdrawal from the EU - scheduled to take place in March 2019 - which increased tensions between the two sides.\n\nThe EU suggested little substantive progress had been made on three key \"separation\" issues, the size of the UK's financial liabilities to the EU, the future of the Irish border and citizens' rights after Brexit.\n\nMr Barnier accused the UK of \"nostalgia\" and cast doubt on whether enough progress had been made to broaden the discussions, in the autumn, to consider the UK's post-Brexit trading relationship with the EU.\n\nThis led to a frosty response from British ministers, one of whom, International Trade Secretary Liam Fox, said the UK would not be blackmailed into doing a deal on money in order to open discussions on trade.\n\nSpeaking at a conference in Italy on Saturday, Mr Barnier said he did not want to punish the UK for leaving but said: \"I have a state of mind - not aggressive... but I'm not naïve.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Davis: \"This bill is about ensuring continuity\"\n\n\"We intend to teach people… what leaving the single market means,\" he told the Ambrosetti forum.\n\nOn the issue of finance, he said the UK must accept some key principles, such as honouring the commitment it made in 2014 to pay 14% of the EU budget until 2020\n\nHe said that a future free trade deal would be different to all others in the past and there had to be assurances there would be no unfair competition in the form of social, environmental or fiscal dumping, or state aid.\n\nBut speaking to BBC One's Andrew Marr Show, Mr Davis insisted the UK would not be pressured into agreeing an EU divorce bill until it is sure the sums being demanded are fair.\n\nHe dismissed newspaper reports the UK had secretly agreed to pay a figure of up to £50bn as \"nonsense\".\n\nThe UK was assessing the EU's financial demands on an item-by-item basis in a \"very British and pragmatic fashion\" - which he said the EU found difficult.\n\nWhile Mr Davis said he personally liked his counterpart, he said the European Commission risked making itself appear \"silly\" when it claimed no progress had been made in areas such as access to welfare and healthcare rights across Europe for British expats.\n\n\"What he's concerned about of course is he's not getting the answer on money… they've set this up to try and create pressure on us on money… they're trying to play time against money\".\n\nHe added: \"We're going through [the bill] line by line, and they're finding it difficult because we've got good lawyers… He wants to put pressure on us, which is why the stance this week in the press conference. Bluntly, I think it looked a bit silly, because plainly there were things that we've achieved.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Sir Keir Starmer: \"This is grown-up politics from the Labour party in the public interest\"\n\n\"We put people before process, what they're in danger of doing is putting process before people\".\n\nForeign Secretary Boris Johnson said some of the figures touted for the size of the divorce bill were \"extravagant\" and the UK would only respect a number that was \"serious and validated in law\".\n\n\"We will certainly honour our legal obligations as we understand them,\" he said, while stressing the UK would \"certainly not pay for access to the European markets\".\n\nThe continuing tit-for-tat between the two sides comes as Downing Street called for unity among its MPs as they prepare to debate the government's flagship Brexit bill.\n\nThe EU Withdrawal Bill will repeal the law that paved the way for the UK to join the European Economic Community in the 1970s and convert 40 years worth of EU statutes into domestic law.\n\nLabour has said it will seek to amend the bill to stop the government from automatically accruing new powers after Brexit.\n\nThe opposition is courting europhile Conservative MPs, claiming its position on remaining in the single market and customs union during any Brexit transition is more \"clear and coherent\" than the Tories.\n\n\"To suggest, as some do, that you can have, as it were, bespoke, special arrangements negotiated between now and March 2019 is nonsense, and so this is grown-up politics from the Labour party in the public interest,\" shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer told Andrew Marr.\n\nBut Mr Davis said Labour was onto its \"perhaps seventh, eighth, ninth\" policy on Brexit and the opposition knew the legislation was essential to ensuring legal certainty and practical continuity as the UK takes responsibility for policy in a wide range of areas.\n\n4 September 2017: This story was updated to amend the wording of some direct quotes from Michel Barnier.", "Lewis Hamilton has broken Michael Schumacher's career pole positions record by taking the 69th of his career.\n\nThe Briton moved level with the German seven-time world champion in Belgium last week and followed that up at the Italian Grand Prix with his eighth pole of the season.\n\nBBC Sport takes a look at Hamilton's record in numbers.\n\nHow often does Hamilton translate pole to victory?\n\nHamilton's first pole position came in his sixth race - the 2007 Canadian Grand Prix. He converted that into his first career victory.\n\nSince then he has been on pole at least once every season he has competed in, with 2016 his most dominant year in qualifying, finishing fastest on a Saturday on 12 occasions.\n\nOf the 68 previous occasions Hamilton has been on pole, he has translated it into a victory 37 times.\n\nHow does that compare to the other greats?\n\nWhen it comes to turning pole positions into victories, Hamilton is up there with the best.\n\nThe Briton has a poles-to-win ratio of 54%. Schumacher won 40 of the 68 races he was on pole for - 58.82%, while Brazilian legend Ayrton Senna [29 wins from 65 pole positions] has a ratio of 44.6%.\n\nDoes pole always lead to podium?\n\nEven if Hamilton does not manage to win a race from pole position, he rarely finishes outside the top three.\n\nJust 16 of the previous 68 races he started on pole have ended with him failing to be on the podium.\n\nHamilton's finishes after being on pole\n\nMonza to Melbourne - Hamilton at his best\n\nThere are very few circuits on which Hamilton has failed to take pole position.\n\nThe Briton has mastered a Saturday at least once on every track on the current calendar, with only poles at Magny Cours (France), Istanbul Park (Turkey) and Buddh International Circuit (India) eluding him throughout his entire career.\n\nHowever, his best Saturday form has come at four grands prix - Australia, China, Canada and Italy - with six pole positions at each of the circuits.\n\nOnly in Canada has Hamilton managed to make that pole position count the most, winning six times there after starting at the front of the pack.\n\nHis worst pole-to-win record is in Australia, winning just one of the six times he has started on pole in Melbourne.\n\nTwo of Hamilton's three world titles have come while he has been at Mercedes, in 2014 and 2015, and it is with this team he has been the most dominant in qualifying.\n\nHe claimed 26 pole positions in 110 races for McLaren and 43 in 90 for Mercedes. That makes for an impressive strike rate of 47% while at Mercedes, compared to 24% at the team he started his career with.\n\nThe one thing a driver can expect if they link up with Hamilton is to finish second best in qualifying.\n\nThe 32-year-old has taken more pole positions than his team-mate in nine of his previous 10 seasons and is well on course to pip Valtteri Bottas to more poles this year. He leads the Finn 8-2 with seven grand prix weekends remaining.\n\nThe one season he has failed to take more pole positions than his team-mate was 2014, when current world champion Nico Rosberg secured front place on the grid on four more occasions than Hamilton.\n\nIs Hamilton F1's best qualifier in history?\n\nHamilton is now officially the most successful qualifier in Formula 1 history, having broken the all-time record for pole positions.\n\nAs to whether that makes him the best qualifier in history - and by extension the out-and-out fastest driver - well, that's another thing altogether.\n\nFor a start, statistics are an unreliable guide in many circumstances in F1, including this one. Michael Schumacher, for example, held the pole record until Hamilton broke it, and precisely almost no-one would say he was a better qualifier than Ayrton Senna, whose record the German broke.\n\nSenna scored 65 poles and Schumacher 68. But the Brazilian won his in 162 races and Schumacher in 250 [ignoring the last three years of his ill-starred comeback]. So Senna's percentage was significantly better [40.1% compared to 27.2%].\n\nHamilton's is better than Schumacher's, at 34%, but not as good as Senna's - and Senna is only fourth in the all-time list in percentage terms behind Juan Manuel Fangio (an amazing 29 poles in 52 races), Jim Clark (33 out of 73) and Alberto Ascari (14 out of 33).\n\nEven if it was just down to the numbers, it would not be possible to say who was the fastest - how can you compare drivers from such different eras when it's hard enough to do with those who are racing at the same time?\n\nBut the quality of the machinery also comes into it. Hamilton's career statistics have improved enormously since he joined Mercedes, whereas by contrast, Fernando Alonso's have gone the other way in recent years. But that doesn't make either more or less good than they already were.\n\nThere are, though, a couple of things you can say with certainty about Hamilton.\n\nFirst, most would agree that he is the out-and-out fastest driver of his era. His best qualifying laps are things of awe and wonder, and it's a privilege to watch him at work.\n\nAnd second, he is up there with the very best of all time when it comes to qualifying speed. Williams technical chief Paddy Lowe, one of the few to have worked with both Hamilton and Senna, says Hamilton \"undoubtedly\" has Senna's speed.\n\n\"Those great drivers are able to pull out an extraordinary lap,\" Lowe says. \"They can't do it every Saturday but every now and again they just go out there and something really extraordinary is required and they produce a lap where you go, 'Wow, where on earth did that come from?' And Lewis is certainly one to do that, and so was Ayrton.\"", "State media said Kim Jong-un \"watched an H-bomb to be loaded into a new ICBM\"\n\nNorth Korea says it has developed a more advanced nuclear weapon that can be loaded on to a ballistic missile.\n\nThe state news agency released pictures of leader Kim Jong-un inspecting what it said was a new hydrogen bomb.\n\nThere has been no independent verification of the claims.\n\nInternational experts say the North has made advances in its nuclear weapons capabilities but it is unclear if it has successfully miniaturised a nuclear weapon it can load on to a missile.\n\nPyongyang has defied UN sanctions and international pressure to develop nuclear weapons and to test missiles which could potentially reach the mainland US.\n\nState news agency KCNA said Kim Jong-un had visited scientists at the nuclear weapons institute and \"guided the work for nuclear weaponisation\".\n\n\"The institute recently succeeded in making a more developed nuke,\" the report said, adding: \"He (Kim Jong-un) watched an H-bomb to be loaded into a new ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile).\"\n\nThe report carried pictures of the leader inspecting the device. It described the weapon as \"a multi-functional thermonuclear nuke with great destructive power which can be detonated even at high altitudes\".\n\nDefence expert Melissa Hanham, of the Middlebury Institute for International Studies in California, said that the North's claims could not be verified from the photographs alone.\n\n\"We don't know if this thing is full of styrofoam, but yes, it is shaped like it has two devices,\" she said on Twitter. Hydrogen bombs detonate in two stages.\n\nShe added: \"The bottom line is that they probably are going to do a thermonuclear test in the future, we won't know if it's this object though.\"\n\nNorth Korea has carried out a series of missile tests in recent months, including weapons that put the mainland US in range.\n\nLast week it fired a missile over Japan in a move Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called an \"unprecedented\" threat to his country.\n\nMr Abe and US President Donald Trump spoke by phone after the latest report emerged. The pair agreed more pressure needed to be put on North Korea, Mr Abe said.\n\nThe North has previously claimed to have miniaturised a nuclear weapon but experts have cast doubt on this. There is also scepticism about the North's claims to have developed a hydrogen bomb, which is more powerful than an atomic bomb.\n\nHydrogen bombs use fusion - the merging of atoms - to unleash huge amounts of energy, whereas atomic bombs use nuclear fission, or the splitting of atoms.\n\nNorth Korea has conducted five nuclear tests. Its most recent, and most powerful, came in September last year.\n\nCorrespondents say that although North Korea could conduct its sixth test at any time, there has been no recent activity at its Punggye-ri test site.", "Theresa May has appealed for unity from pro-EU Conservative MPs as the Commons is set to debate the government's Brexit repeal bill on Thursday.\n\nThe bill, seen as a key plank of the government's Brexit policy, transfers EU law into UK legislation\n\nMrs May has said there will be proper scrutiny, but some MPs fear it will give ministers sweeping new powers.\n\nBrexit Secretary David Davis said this was \"nonsense\" and all Tories should back it as it ensured \"continuity\".\n\nLabour has said that while it backs the principle of the bill, it will not give the government a \"blank cheque to pass powers into the hands of ministers\".\n\nFirst Secretary of State Damian Green warned that if Tory MPs backed Labour attempts to amend the bill it would increase \"the threat of a Corbyn government\".\n\nThe prime minister said the legislation, known officially as the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill, was \"the single most important step we can take to prevent a cliff-edge for people and businesses\".\n\nShe said the bill delivered the result of last year's EU referendum, adding that \"now it is time for Parliament to play its part\".\n\nMrs May added: \"We have made time for proper parliamentary scrutiny of Brexit legislation and welcome the contributions of MPs from across the house.\"\n\nIn an article in the Sunday Telegraph, the prime minister's de facto deputy Mr Green said that \"no Conservative wants a bad Brexit deal\", and a potential rebellion threatened to strengthen Labour's position.\n\nBut former minister and Remainer Anna Soubry told the Observer that attempts to frustrate changes to the repeal bill would amount to \"a trouncing of democracy and people will not accept it\".\n\nShe added that it was \"outrageous\" to suggest pro-EU Tories supported Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nThe legislation is not supported by the Labour Party, which has requested changes in six areas, including guarantees that workers' rights will be protected.\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said the government's approach to the process was \"completely wrong\", as it was reserving the power for ministers to overhaul existing EU laws and regulations after Brexit without any Parliamentary scrutiny.\n\n\"This is not about frustrating the process, it is not giving government a blank cheque to pass powers into the hands of ministers,\" he told BBC One's Andrew Marr Show.\n\n\"You could entrench important EU rights on Monday and take them away on Tuesday without primary legislation.\"\n\nBut Mr Davis told the programme Labour knew the legislation was necessary to ensure an orderly Brexit and was acting cynically in an attempt to destabilise the government.\n\nAsked what his message to Tory MPs was, he said: \"Everything that is significant in terms of changes will be done in separate primary legislation, on immigration, customs you name it.\n\n\"This bill is about ensuring continuity. Every MP, whether leaver or remainer, should support this bill.\"\n\nThe Scottish and Welsh governments have also raised concerns about the repeal bill, with Welsh First Minister Carwyn Jones describing it as a \"naked power-grab\".\n\nDamian Green warned potential Tory rebels that voting against the repeal bill increased the threat of a Labour government\n\nSeparately, Downing Street has rejected reports the prime minister is preparing to approve a £50bn financial settlement with the EU after the Conservative Party conference in October.\n\nAccording to the Sunday Times, a close ally of Mrs May said her negotiating position with Brussels had been weakened because of June's election result, in which the Conservatives lost the Commons majority they had won in 2015.\n\nA spokesman for No 10 said the claims were \"not true\".\n\nBritain's divorce bill with the EU has been frustrating talks with negotiators in Brussels.\n\nDuring the third set of talks between the UK and the EU, Europe's chief negotiator Michel Barnier said Mr Davis needed to \"start negotiating seriously\".", "Laurence Brophy is described as a \"fit and active gentleman\"\n\nAn 85-year-old charity walker reported missing on the Taff Trail has been found safe and was determined to finish his walk.\n\nLaurence Brophy, from Pencoed, had not been seen since he set off on his solo trek from Cardiff to Brecon and back on Thursday.\n\nSouth Wales Police had asked walkers to get in touch if they had seen him.\n\nHe was found by officers on Saturday on the Taff Mead embankment and insisted on finishing the walk.\n\nA post on his support page on Facebook said: \"He set his phone to airplane mode by mistake. That's why he could not be contacted or contact anyone else.\"\n\nThe retired teacher stood as a Green party candidate for the Ogmore seat at last year's assembly elections and has completed numerous charity walking and cycling challenges.\n\nHe was last seen in Tongwynlais at about 12:00 BST on Thursday, when he set off for the walk, wearing a yellow jacket and dark walking trousers.", "The NHS in England may suffer its worst winter in recent history if it does not receive an emergency bailout, hospital chiefs are warning.\n\nThey say the cash is needed to pay for extra staff and beds because attempts to improve finances have failed.\n\nThe government has given councils an extra £1bn for social care services to help relieve the pressure on hospitals.\n\nA Department of Health spokeswoman said: \"The NHS has prepared for winter more this year than ever before.\"\n\nBut the latest figures show A&E waits and bed shortages remain \"stubbornly\" bad, according to NHS Providers.\n\nThe group, which represents NHS chief executives, is calling for between £200m and £350m to be made available immediately.\n\nThe target to see most patients in A&E within four hours has been missed for two years now, while bed occupancy rates remain above recommended levels.\n\nOver the summer, just over 90% of A&E patients were treated or admitted within four hours.\n\nThat was below the goal of 95% and was almost exactly the same percentage as last summer, which was then followed by the worst set of winter waiting times since the target was introduced in 2004.\n\nChris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, said: \"Last winter the health service came under pressure as never before. This winter could be worse.\"\n\nHe acknowledged that planning had been much better this year but said that despite those efforts, and the extra money for care services, hospitals were still struggling to improve performance.\n\n\"We are in virtually the same position as this time last year,\" he said.\n\n\"Unless we get extra money, patients will be put at greater risk as local trusts won't have the beds and staff they need to meet the extra demand we will face.\"\n\nMr Hopson said feedback from his members showed that delays in discharging patients, and workforce shortages, were hampering their efforts.\n\nHe pointed out that the NHS budget had increased by only 1.3% this year compared to a 5% rise in demand.\n\nNHS bosses had already made savings of £20bn in the last Parliament and international evidence suggested the English health service was one of the most efficient in the world, Mr Hopson said.\n\nBut he said the Office of Budget Responsibility had estimated that the NHS would still have a £15bn funding shortfall by 2020.\n\nMr Hopson said: \"There's a bit of a myth running around that somehow if the NHS could be that bit more efficient or a lot more productive we wouldn't need to put this extra money in.\n\n\"Of course we should find more productivity and efficiency, but it's not going to close anything like that size of gap.\"\n\nThe call for more money comes ahead of a meeting of NHS leaders and Prime Minister Theresa May, which is expected to take place next week.\n\nIt is understood Mrs May has called in bosses at NHS England, and the regulator NHS Improvement, to check on plans for this winter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This animation explains how the NHS system works, and what causes delays in hospitals\n\nColchester Hospital University chief executive Nick Hulme said the past few months had been \"as challenging as any I can remember - there has been no let-up\".\n\n\"Our major concern going into this winter is staff - we are 50 junior doctors short on our rotas across the hospital. Every day is a constant struggle.\"\n\nJohn Lawlor, chief executive of Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Trust, which runs mental health services, said: \"Pressures on staffing, especially in psychiatry, are beginning to impact on services.\"\n\nThe government however, maintained that the £1bn extra for social care, coupled with a £100m fund set aside to get GPs into A&E departments to help see patients, would have an impact.\n\nBut Dr Tony O'Sullivan, the co-chairman of the campaign group Keep Our NHS Public, told the BBC this was an \"emergency response to a situation that has been created over several years\".\n\nHe accused the government of \"deliberately underfunding\" the health service.\n\nMeanwhile, Pauline Philip, NHS England national director for urgent and emergency care, said she had already received feedback from hospitals that more than 3,000 new beds would be opened in the coming months, which would help alongside the measures being taken nationally.\n\nShe said: \"The NHS will face challenges this winter, as it does every year.\n\n\"But as NHS Providers has stated, winter planning is more advanced than it was last year and, as they argue, special attention is being paid to areas where pressures are likely to be greatest.\n\n\"We are currently in the process of assessing how many extra beds trusts are planning to open over winter and early returns indicate that this will be more than 3,000.\n\n\"This is something we will continue to review on the basis of evidence rather than arbitrary estimates.\n\n\"If the expectations for reduced delays transfers of care outlined by the government are achieved, this would free up a further 2,000-3,000 beds over the winter period, on top of the extra 3,000 plus beds that hospitals now say they're going to open.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of IS cases are being tried in courts like Nineveh Criminal Court in Qaraqosh (above)\n\nA young man wearing a shabby, brown prisoner's outfit stands before three black-robed judges in a tiny, provincial courtroom, shaking nervously.\n\nAfter sipping some water, he confirms his name: Abdullah Hussein. He is accused of fighting for so-called Islamic State (IS).\n\n\"The decision of the court has been taken according to articles 2 and 3 of the 2005 Counterterrorism Law,\" states the judge. \"Death by hanging.\"\n\nAnd then Hussein - who, like many suspects here, was picked up on the Mosul frontline - breaks down crying.\n\nAs IS is defeated on the battlefields of northern Iraq, some 3,000 suspected group members or collaborators are waiting to be prosecuted in Iraqi courts. Usually there are at least 50 hearings a day.\n\nIS fighters have been killed or captured amid a recent string of defeats\n\nFor security reasons, most are sent to two courthouses in this mainly Christian town, 30km (19 miles) south-east of Mosul, retaken by US-backed Iraqi forces in October.\n\nSome human rights campaigners have criticised the system but top Iraqi judges insist it is playing a vital role in restoring law and order.\n\nI was allowed to sit in on some of their trials.\n\nThe next defendant, Khalil Hamada, is 21 and more talkative. He comes from a town held by IS for two years, and recalls seeking out its local recruiter.\n\n\"I went by myself, nobody forced me. A lot of us joined,\" he says.\n\n\"How did you join? What oath did you take?\" the judge asks.\n\n\"I can't remember the sentences exactly,\" Mr Hamada replies. \"But I swore loyalty to [IS chief] Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the caliphate.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe goes on to recount how he did training with IS - in Sharia law, bodybuilding and using weapons.\n\nBut he tells the court he became \"just a cook\" - before admitting he was also one of six guards, \"armed with Kalashnikovs\" at an IS base.\n\nHe was paid about $150 dollars (£120) a month.\n\nWhen the judge summarises his story, Mr Hamada nods, \"Yes, it's true\". A woman prosecutor then speaks and - albeit briefly - a state-appointed defence lawyer.\n\nLike Abdullah Hussein, Khalil Hamada gets the death penalty.\n\nHe is told he can appeal and that a higher court in Baghdad makes final rulings.\n\nHowever, his look of resignation suggests he knows this is little more than a formality.\n\nDuring fighting in Mosul, Human Rights Watch (HRW) found evidence that some Iraqi soldiers were executing suspected IS members instead of sending them to trial.\n\nIt said men and boys fleeing the city were ill-treated, tortured and killed. Iraq's prime minister has since admitted there were \"clear violations\".\n\nNow HRW says it has \"serious concerns\" about the quality of defence in cases being heard at the Nineveh Criminal Court in Qaraqosh.\n\nThe ancient Christian town of Qaraqosh was held by IS for two years\n\nBut Chief Judge Salam Nouri insists his court acts professionally and does an essential job.\n\n\"It sends a message to the people that the courts are the highest power and that the Iraqi government is back in control,\" he says.\n\n\"The judge remains neutral,\" says Justice Younis Jameeli, head of the Investigations Court, which has been temporarily set up in a large, family house.\n\nHe points out that IS targeted the judiciary in Mosul and says 15 of his colleagues were killed.\n\n\"Each of us lost family members and had homes destroyed but when a suspect appears before us, we treat him according to the law,\" he goes on.\n\nThousands of Christians fled and others were killed by IS\n\nWhen I ask Judge Jameeli about evidence, he has a glint in his eye. \"You know IS are helping us convict them,\" he declares, reaching for a file in the stack on his desk.\n\nInside there is further proof that IS are not some disorderly militia; they meant to function as a state. It is a spreadsheet, printed off from a computer and recovered by Iraqi intelligence.\n\nEach of the 196 rows neatly identifies an IS member - his full name and address, job and a photograph.\n\nWith real fears that jihadists will try to blend back into the Iraqi population, the hope is that prosecutions can stop IS re-emerging as an insurgent group and prevent reprisals.\n\nOutside the court, I meet Muwafaq who has come from Mosul to make an inquiry. He tells me his neighbour, who joined IS, burnt down his home. \"I hope he gets to court before I see him,\" he says.\n\nBut others allege their loved ones were wrongly arrested.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Law professor Ali Alhadidy describes how he had to go into hiding when IS arrived\n\nOne woman claims her husband, detained two months ago, has mental health problems.\n\nA father says his son was \"a regular guy selling vegetables from a cart\" - not part of IS.\n\nTalking to them, it is clear that judging exactly who was a collaborator is a tricky business; it is hard to tell whether some locals did what they had to just to survive or whether they bought into extremist IS ideology.\n\nAs court proceedings end for the day, armed guards march a column of prisoners out the gates, their heads down.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Iraqi Christians returning to villages destroyed by IS\n\nThe streets of Qaraqosh, all around, are virtually deserted.\n\nThree years ago tens of thousands of residents fled this mostly Christian town as IS advanced and very few have moved back.\n\nNow Qaraqosh - with its desecrated churches - bears testimony to the barbarity of IS and just how hard it will be for ordinary Iraqis to rebuild their lives.", "Even in refugee camps life must go on, and when a man and a woman decide to marry the rare chance for a big celebration may be seized with both hands. In one camp in northern Iraq, beautician Rozhin Ahmed-Hussein - herself a Syrian Kurdish refugee - finds that she is rarely short of work.\n\n\"Most of the people in the camp are poor, and Syrian refugees like me, so when I do a beautiful bride, usually I'll dance out of the door with her because I feel so happy,\" says Rozhin Ahmed-Hussein.\n\nA dusty refugee camp north of Mosul may not be the first place you'd expect to find a beauty salon and gown-hire shop, with frothy white frocks and diamante winking through the windows in the fierce sunlight - and slinky party dresses in vivid fuchsia and turquoise hanging from the rails.\n\nIn this camp, makeshift homes are separated by vast stretches of light brown gravel paths, which kick up dust in the wind and feel hot even through shoes in the 47C (117F) heat. There are 41,000 Syrian refugees living in two neighbouring camps here. The situations they've fled from are often desperate but that doesn't stop people falling in love. And when that happens, they do what people everywhere do, they get married.\n\nRozhin's salon isn't the only one in the camp, but it may be the most stylish. Small details, such as a coral sink placed next to a coral chair and proper reclining seats, let you know that Rozhin is not new to the business. She herself is immaculate, with no make-up. \"I do make-up all day, it's like work for me,\" she says. Her five daughters aged from one to seven often wear matching outfits.\n\n\"I like to look glamorous, I'm always like this,\" she says.\n\nRozhin and her family fled Qamishli, a Kurdish town in Syria in 2012, as the civil war picked up pace.\n\n\"In Syria I had a normal life, a normal job as a beautician, and then when we came here it was too hard, too tough to adjust to the environment,\" she says.\n\nShe cried a lot, she says, because her daughter fell ill and she was homesick.\n\n\"I kept begging my husband to go back, even though it was dangerous, but he refused. In time, I adapted to the situation and my daughter got better.\"\n\nIt helped that she was able to open her business. The shop was initially a grocery run by her husband, but after it failed to make enough money, Rozhin saw her opportunity. She borrowed some money from her uncle and turned it into a salon.\n\nAfter spotting the demand for wedding gowns and party dresses, she started stocking those too. Now the shop has been going for five years. It's named Tulin, after her daughter.\n\nAside from regulars coming in wanting a haircut, an eyebrow shape or a catch-up, Rozhin does up to 30 weddings a year. Many of her customers are Kurdish, and it cannot be overstated how lavish these weddings are.\n\nThe two suitable halls in the camp host 300-400 guests, which is - everyone in the room jumps in to explain - extremely small by Kurdish standards. One thousand guests would be more typical, they say. At Kurdish weddings, even the guests are made up exquisitely with flicked eyeliner, I'm told, thickly applied pale foundation, bum-length hair extensions or hijabs patterned with designer logos.\n\nBecause of the heat and sheer quantity of make-up needed, usually Rozhin does the bride's hair first and the make-up is done last to reduce the risk of it melting on the bride's face. Weddings usually take place at 7pm or 8pm when the air has cooled, but in the summer the temperature will still be in the 30s - which you have to factor in when the wedding make-up is as thick as face paint.\n\nEach bride takes around two-and-a-half hours to get ready, but it's not just the brides. The whole wedding party may want their hair and makeup done, and sometimes Rozhin has two weddings to do in one day.\n\nFortunately she has friends on hand to help. The International Medical Corps runs a programme training survivors of gender-based violence to do hair and make-up, so she brings them in to lend a hand. \"There's a lot of work to do with the bridal party,\" says Rozhin. \"When I call them to come and help they're so happy - we are all sisters and we have confidence in each other. After the job is done we drink tea and coffee together.\"\n\nThe majority of Rozhin's brides are very young.\n\n\"Usually I don't ask how old they are, but from their faces they are 18 or 19 on average.\n\n\"I don't know why they get married in every case, but when you're 18 years old and you're living here with your family - what else is there to do?\"\n\nIt also means having a big party. This is important for people coming to terms with a difficult past, and everyday refugee camp life - which means 20 people to one latrine, makeshift housing and constant vigilance against disease.\n\n\"For every single woman this is one special day to have a big glamorous dress and make-up,\" says Rozhin. \"Just one day to feel special. No-one will be hurt by this.\"\n\nWhile some brides might relish the experience of being made to feel glamorous, a mural showing a bride holding a teddy bear is painted outside the shop. It's a sobering reminder of the problem of young girls being married off to much older men - something which is particularly rampant in refugee camps.\n\nA mural outside the shop warns against child marriage\n\nBut the shop is a place for escapism, even if the women can't forget their problems altogether.\n\n\"In the salon we try out new techniques with make-up, but we are always thinking about our friends and relatives.\"\n\nThinking about them, and often worrying about them.\n\nRozhin is the main breadwinner of the family. Her husband, Ahmed, finds work some days, but the next day there be no work to be had, and he stays at home.\n\n\"I am the one who brings money to the family and my husband does not have any problem with this. Usually the men here don't like that, for a woman to be in charge. But he says, 'If we're getting money that's OK.'\"\n\nBusiness has been up and down. Having her twin girls recently meant she had to close up for a few months, allowing her rivals in the camp to pick up some of her regular customers, but now things are getting better.\n\n\"There are another three that have a lot of customers,\" Rozhin says.\n\nMany of the families in the camp have been living here for at least as long as Rozhin has. Communities build up, neighbours get to know each other, people fall in love. Getting married means having a stake in the future, even when that future is uncertain. If you look carefully at the wedding dresses in Rozhin's shop, you can see the hems are lightly stained the same colour as the gravelly paths of the camp.\n\nHow many women have worn these dresses, and made the same journey to the same hall, careful not to mess up their hair and make-up, and wondering what comes next?\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump helped distribute meals to victims of flooding in Houston\n\nAfter the tragedy caused by Hurricane Harvey, Donald Trump managed to oversee a federal emergency with only minimal distraction.\n\nWhen the president headed to Texas and Louisiana on Saturday, the mood on Air Force One was serious.\n\nA digital clock on the plane was set to Washington and \"destination\" time, and people wondered what they would see on the ground.\n\nThe president wore a jacket and carried a red baseball cap. White House staffers were dressed in jeans and flat shoes and seemed ready for anything. In contrast, First Lady Melania Trump wore snake-skin-style stilettos, later changing into trainers with bright, white laces.\n\nIt was the president's second visit in a week - for good reason.\n\nThe fourth most populous city in the US, Houston, has been deluged by water. At least 47 people have been killed by Harvey and more than 100,000 homes damaged or destroyed. Yet despite this even bigger disaster was averted.\n\nThe president's stewardship of the government effort gave him a chance to show steady leadership. The system functioned relatively well. It was all the more striking, given the chaos that has characterised the White House since the inauguration.\n\nFor the Trump presidency this has been - strangely enough - a peak moment. He's overseen a federal government that has rescued people and kept them safe in temporary shelters and he has personally offered a $1m (£772,000) donation to a charity.\n\nThe management of the crisis was a break for his presidency, one that has been characterised not by efficiency but by news about federal investigations, failed legislative efforts and staff shakeups.\n\nFor many people in Texas and Louisiana, though, the palace intrigue was irrelevant. They had more pressing issues and were happy he was there.\n\nThe president rode in a motorcade through an area of Houston that had been hit by the flood. A brick wall had a hole in it. Plasterboard was piled in backyards and fences were smashed. Carpets were rolled up and left next to a road.\n\nHe got out of his vehicle so he could talk to people in the neighbourhood. He was impressed with their efforts to rebuild. He helped, too. He loaded bottles of water and boxes of cleaning supplies on to SUVs and trucks in a Pearland car park, talking with the drivers briefly before they headed out.\n\nPresident Trump loaded supplies on to trucks in Pearland\n\nBefore Mr Trump arrived in the car park, I heard a man say he'd tried to get several other people to come and meet the president. They didn't show up. They'd been out saving people, he said, and they were exhausted.\n\nFederal aid workers and troops had been scouring the area looking for flood victims. Black Hawk helicopters swooped in. Ordinary citizens assisted, too, going out in boats to save people. Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) officials delivered food and water to people who were stuck in outlying areas.\n\nIt's too soon for an in-depth critique of what the authorities did or didn't do well. But early reports showed that the agencies functioned relatively smoothly and that officials co-ordinated their efforts in a thoughtful way.\n\n\"You saved a lot of lives,\" the president told a helicopter pilot he met on Saturday, adding: \"I'm proud of you.\" Then the president wondered aloud how many lives had been spared. But of course it's impossible to know.\n\nWhen Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans in 2005, hundreds died. People didn't know how bad things were until it was too late. Or they were poor and didn't have reliable means of transportation and couldn't escape.\n\nWith Hurricane Harvey, officials were better at informing people of the dangers and helping them escape.\n\nMr Trump was in Washington but as president he was in charge of the government's work. His efforts have been, said George Mason University's Francis Buckley, \"brilliant\", pointing to the way that he called for a national prayer day for the victims, a gesture Mr Buckley described as \"Lincoln-esque\".\n\nPresident Trump was happy to pose for selfies with those he met in Texas\n\nMore importantly, said Michael Caputo, who served as a Trump campaign adviser, the president hired competent people. Brock Long, the head of Fema, had worked for years in emergency management before taking the job and knew how to oversee a rescue effort.\n\nMr Caputo praised the president for choosing him and not \"a political crony or an insurance executive\".\n\nBrock Long, who travelled with the president on Saturday, seemed preoccupied. He had a lot of work ahead of him.\n\nHowever, the president's stewardship has not been without criticism.\n\nOn the day the hurricane hit, the president announced he would pardon a former Arizona sheriff, Joe Arpaio, who was known for his brutal tactics against immigrants. Mr Trump said he knew that more people would be watching television because of the hurricane so thought it'd be a good time for the announcement.\n\nFor some, his remarks seemed callous.\n\nHe visited Corpus Christi on Tuesday. \"What a crowd!\" he said to people. \"What a turnout!\" It was the kind of thing a candidate might say during a rally - not something you'd expect from a president.\n\n\"It's Trump being Trump,\" said Patrick Miller, a political science professor at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, explaining that the president talks about \"his success, his wealth, his poll numbers\".\n\n\"It's all about him,\" Mr Miller said.\n\nMany are left with ruined homes and ruined possessions after Hurricane Harvey\n\nOn Saturday Mr Trump also said things that seemed inappropriate. \"Enjoy,\" he said to a driver who was heading off to help rebuild a devastated part of Texas. When he was helping to serve food, he struggled to put on plastic gloves and joked: \"My hands are too big.\"\n\nStill, on the Trump-o-meter scale, the things he said and did on Saturday - and earlier in the week too - did not seem all that bad.\n\nHe seemed to take a genuine interest in the people he met on Saturday. He was also rooting for them. He got back on Air Force One with his fist in the air. He pumped it twice and headed back to Washington.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Planes tried to tackle the flames\n\nHundreds of Los Angeles residents have been allowed to return home, as the largest wildfires in the city's history appear to be easing.\n\nThe fires, covering about 5,000 acres, started in La Tuna Canyon on Friday, triggering a state of emergency.\n\n\"We've turned the corner, but this is not over,\" Mayor Eric Garcetti said on Sunday as he warned of \"strong\" winds.\n\nAt least three homes have been destroyed and four people are reported to have been injured.\n\nThe evacuations around the Glendale and Burbank suburbs were lifted on Sunday as rain and cooler temperatures helped firefighters to tackle the blaze, the Los Angeles Fire Department tweeted.\n\nThe fire caused hundreds of people to evacuate their homes in Burbank, California\n\nBut Mr Garcetti, who earlier described the blaze as \"the largest fire in the history of LA city in terms of its acreage\", told reporters on Sunday that the situation remained dangerous.\n\n\"We do not have this fire contained,\" Mr Garcetti said, adding: \"But we do have a good sense of, in the next day or two, how we can bring this fire to rest.\"\n\nHe said four firefighters had suffered dehydration or minor burns.\n\nMr Garcetti declared an emergency on Saturday night and a further emergency order was made by California Governor Jerry Brown on Sunday.\n\nThe declarations allowed state and federal funds to be provided as soon as possible.\n\nCalifornia has been in the grip of a heatwave and strong winds have helped to fan the flames of the Los Angeles wildfire.\n\nMajor fires are also affecting other areas of the western US.\n\nThe government has already declared states of emergency in Montana and Washington state and thousands of residents there have been evacuated.\n\nThe fires were clearly visible from the centre of Burbank\n\nThe La Tuna fire has already ravaged about 5,000 acres", "Michael Gray and Peter Reid battle for the ball\n\nTV stars and former footballers have taken part in a celebrity charity match in memory of Bradley Lowery.\n\nTwo teams, led by Everton legend Peter Reid and model Katie Price, went head-to-head at Goodison Park.\n\nSunderland fan Bradley, who died from a rare type of cancer aged six, \"would've absolutely loved it\" and will \"be there in spirit\", his mum Gemma Lowery said.\n\nSunderland fan Bradley Lowery was a mascot against Everton, and then for the Merseyside team\n\nFans took selfies with stars Olly Murs and Shayne Ward before kick-off\n\nThe Lowery Legends beat Bradley's Blues 7-3 with Bradley's uncle scoring for the winning team and X-Factor winner turned Coronation Street actor Shayne Ward scoring from the penalty spot for the losing side.\n\nPeter Reid came on for Steps star Lee Latchford-Evans while former Sunderland left-back Micky Gray and Calum Best also made an appearance.\n\nThe Bradley Lowery Foundation, which was set up after the youngster's death to help other children suffering illness, and Everton in the Community will benefit from the funds raised.\n\nBradley died on 7 July having been diagnosed with neuroblastoma when he was 18 months old.\n\nEvertonians formed a special bond with the youngster, initially during Everton's match at Sunderland in September 2016 and then when he was a guest at Goodison Park for two matches in January and February this year.\n\nThe Lowery Legends took on Bradley’s Blues\n\nKatie Price was managing The Lowery Legends, assisted by Liverpool's former boss Roy Evans\n\nBradley's mum said football \"was his passion\" and he even made them take him to watch \"when he was really poorly... because he loved it that much\".\n\n\"He loved meeting people, he was very sociable. He was a very happy little boy\", she said.\n\n\"He'll be there in spirit. He won't miss that.\"\n\nBradley's mum Gemma Lowery described him as \"a very happy little boy\"\n\nEx-Everton player and club ambassador Graham Stuart said it was \"an honour\" to take part.\n\n\"Bradley was a terrific young man who showed so much heart to fight off his problems but unfortunately they overcame him in the end.\n\n\"There are loads of kids out there with similar situations and the foundation is there for them as well.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham told BBC HARDtalk on Saturday that an American first military strike against North Korea is \"inevitable\" if something does not change.\n\nMr Graham was speaking to programme host Stephen Sackur at the Ambrosetti Forum in Italy, just hours before North Korea's new claim of a successful hydrogen bomb test.\n\n\"I am 100% certain that if Kim Jong-un continues to develop missile technology that can hit America, if diplomacy fails to stop him, there will be an attack by the US against his weapon system. I'm assuming the worst, I'm assuming we drop one bomb, he fires at South Korea and maybe Japan. Let me tell you how the war ends: it ends with his utter destruction. Thousands of people could be killed or maimed.\n\n\"There's a lot at stake here. Let me ask you: why would the world allow him [Kim Jong-un] to get a hydrogen bomb with a missile to deliver it anywhere in the world? Why would we do that?\"", "The first nuclear test was carried out by the US in the New Mexico desert in 1945\n\nThe apparent hydrogen bomb that North Korea is believed to have detonated underground on Sunday was a massive explosion.\n\nSome estimates put it at 100 kilotons, which would be five times more powerful than Fat Man, the bomb dropped on Nagasaki by the US in 1945 and which killed 70,000 people instantly.\n\nBut it still pales in comparison to the largest man-made explosion ever on Earth - the Soviet Union's Tsar Bomba - King of Bombs - detonated in 1961 in the height of the nuclear arms race.\n\nThat hydrogen bomb unleashed a staggering power of 50,000 kilotons, or 50 megatons.\n\nReports at the time said the Tsar Bomba destroyed all buildings within 55km (35 miles) of the test site at Sukhoy Nos in the Arctic Novaya Zemlya archipelago.\n\nBuildings were destroyed and windows broken for hundreds of kilometres all around. There were reports of broken windows in Finland and Norway, and the shockwave generated by the blast travelled around the planet three times.\n\nIt was a physically an enormous bomb, weighing 27 tonnes and about 8m in length, meaning it was entirely impractical as a genuine weapon. It was dropped by parachute, from a manned plane. The crew survived, though that had been far from a certainty.\n\nIt later emerged that the bomb could have been even more powerful - it was originally designed to generate a 100-megaton blast, but was scaled back to prevent the nuclear fallout affecting the wider population.\n\nThe Soviet Union carried out several other tests of immensely powerful nuclear weapons in the 1960s in Novaya Zemlya, which had a yield of 20-24 megatons.\n\nBut more than half of the more than 2,000 deliberate nuclear explosions since the dawn of the nuclear weapons age in July 1945 have been by the US, still the only country to use nuclear weapons in war.\n\nIn November 1952, the US blew up the world's first hydrogen bomb - a far more powerful nuclear device than atomic bombs. Codenamed Ivy Mike, the 82 tonne-weapon was detonated in the Marshall Islands in the Pacific Ocean.\n\nIt had an explosive power of 10 megatons.\n\nThe US hydrogen bomb explosion in 1952\n\nArchive news footage of the blast shows observers watching from military boats about 50km away.\n\nHarold Agnew, a physicist and leading figure in US nuclear programme, was on board one of the boats, and later said: \"Something I will never forget was the heat. Not the blast... the heat just kept coming, just kept coming on and on. It's really quite a terrifying experience.\"\n\nThe blast cloud was about 50km high and 100km wide, and completely destroyed the island of Elugelab.\n\nA huge concrete dome covers the site on Runit Island in the Marshall Islands where repeated nuclear tests were carried out\n\nBut the biggest ever nuclear device detonated by the US was Castle Bravo, in 1954 at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands.\n\nCastle Bravo is mostly remembered for its unintended after effects. It was expected to have a yield of about 5,000 kilotons, but the scientists had miscalculated and the eventual yield was three times that.\n\nThe resulting mushroom cloud was more than four miles wide and radiation spread over 11,000 sq km.\n\nThis 1956 test was one of several carried out in Bikini Atoll in the 1950s\n\nPeople nearby had been evacuated - many never to return - but the effects were wider than expected. In the days afterwards, hundreds more people across neighbouring atolls were exposed to nuclear fallout, as well as the crew of a Japanese fishing boat in the area, leading to radiation sickness.\n\nIn 1997, the International Atomic Energy Agency said the Bikini Atoll should \"should not be permanently resettled under the present radiological conditions\".", "Twelve Britons are among 14 people to be arrested as part of an alleged drug-dealing ring in the Spanish holiday resort of Magaluf, Majorca, police say.\n\nThe Spanish Civil Guard said the group was supplying cocaine to partygoers on the island.\n\nOfficers seized 3kg of high purity cocaine, 103,000 euros (around £100,000) in cash and other recreational drugs including ecstasy.\n\nThe UK's National Crime Agency worked with Spanish police on the arrests.\n\nThe arrests came after a series of dawn raids in Barcelona and Majorca, as part of Operation Tatum.\n\nThe two other suspects were Spanish and Dominican.\n\nCocaine was found in the boot of a car\n\nFootage obtained by ITV News showed officers, carrying guns and wearing helmets, raiding a block of flats while a helicopter hovered overhead.\n\nPolice searched a wardrobe and a car, where cocaine was allegedly found wrapped in Clingfilm bundles.\n\nFour vehicles were seized during the raids.\n\nFootage showed a man being led into court in handcuffs.\n\nOperation Tatum was launched following another drug raid last July, which saw four people - British and Spanish - arrested and 4.8kg of cocaine seized.", "Parts of France have been placed on alert for violent storms (archive picture)\n\nAt least 15 people have been injured, two of them seriously, by lightning at a music festival in the north-east of France, officials say.\n\nThe lightning struck in several areas of the Vieux Canal festival in the town of Azerailles, the regional council said in a statement.\n\nThose injured include children who were in a tent during the storm.\n\nThe victims were \"directly hit by the lightning and suffered burns\", the regional council said.\n\nA woman in her sixties and a 44-year-old man are reported to be in a serious condition as a result of the strikes.\n\nParts of France around this time of the year are often put on alert for violent storms.\n\nThose hurt in the latest incident received first aid from the festival's emergency teams before going on to get treatment from local hospitals.\n\nAll of Saturday's performances were cancelled after the incident. Among those due to appear were French electronic act Pony Pony Run Run and pop group Black Bones.", "Mark Evans and skipper Rob Rennie were fishing for sharks when they caught the giant fish\n\nA giant yellowfin tuna weighing about 540lb has been caught in the waters off Pembrokeshire.\n\nMark Evans and skipper Rob Rennie, from Tiers Cross, spent two hours reeling in the 244kg fish after it was caught accidentally during a shark fishing trip off Neyland\n\nAfter posing for photographs with the prize, the tuna was then returned to the water and swam away, they said.\n\nIt is the second giant tuna to be caught in the area in just two days.\n\nLast week, Andrew Alsop, 49, caught and released a bluefin tuna weighing about 500lb during a fishing trip from Neyland.\n\nJennifer Clifton, who was onboard the Lady Jue 5 on Saturday when the second big fish was caught, said \"it truly was breathtaking and caused a lot of excitement\".\n\nOn Friday a giant tuna weighing around 500lb was caught at the fishing spot", "The US-led coalition says the militants are \"experienced fighters\"\n\nThe US-led coalition says it will keep blocking a convoy of evacuated Islamic State militants in Syria from reaching IS-held territory on the Iraq border.\n\nThe hundreds of fighters recently surrendered an enclave on Syria's border with Lebanon.\n\nThey agreed with Hezbollah and the Syrian government that they would leave with their families and head eastwards.\n\nBut the coalition says it and Iraq were not part of the deal and on Tuesday bombed the road ahead of the convoy.\n\nThe buses are now stranded in an area of desert under Syrian government control between the towns of Humayma and al-Sukhnah.\n\nHowever reports say the Syrian army and Hezbollah are seeking a new route for the convoy and a monitoring group says dozens of people have already left in cars heading for the IS-held province of Deir al-Zour.\n\n\"The coalition will not condone Isis [IS] fighters moving further east to the Iraqi border,\" the coalition said in a statement.\n\n\"Relocating terrorists from one place to another, for someone else to deal with, is not a lasting solution,\" it added.\n\nThere are some 300 IS militants on board the convoy, described by the coalition as \"experienced fighters\".\n\nThe convoy is stranded in the al-Sukhnah area, recently recaptured from IS control by the Syrian government\n\nThe coalition says it has not bombed them because about 300 women and children are also present, but it says a tank, armed vehicles and other vehicles facilitating the relocation have been targeted.\n\nFood and water has been provided to the convoy, the statement says, and the coalition has also - via Russia - offered suggestions to Syria on possible ways of rescuing the women and children.\n\nMeanwhile the Syrian army and Hezbollah were seeking a new route for the IS fighters and their families to reach IS territory near the Iraq border, Reuters news agency quoted a pro-government military source as saying.\n\nAnd the UK based monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said dozens of people had already left the stranded convoy in cars in a bid to reach Deir al-Zour by themselves.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video shows the militants and their families preparing to leave the Lebanese town of Arsal\n\nLebanese, Syrian and Hezbollah forces agreed ceasefires with IS militants last week days after attacking the jihadists' final foothold in the Lebanon-Syria border area.\n\nMore than 300 militants and their families were allowed to leave for Albu Kamal, a town in the Syrian province of Deir al-Zour that is 6km (4 miles) from the Iraqi border.\n\nAfter the deal was announced Lebanon's army chief, Gen Joseph Aoun, said he had wanted to recover the bodies of Lebanese soldiers captured in 2014 and not risk any more lives.\n\nBut Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi criticised it. \"We fight the terrorists in Iraq. We do not send them to Syria,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile the US envoy to the coalition, Brett McGurk, said IS militants \"should be killed on the battlefield, not bussed across Syria to the Iraqi border without Iraq's consent\".\n\nIraqi forces backed by US-led coalition air strikes have been battling to oust IS fighters from the towns they control in northern Iraq.", "BBC Scotland arts correspondent Pauline McLean was lucky enough to be one of the 50,000 people whose name was selected to be one of the first to walk across the Queensferry Crossing.\n\nSecurity is tight at Edinburgh Park, one of several transport hubs around the crossing.\n\nIt's the first time I've been asked to show my passport to get into Fife, but it's swift and friendly and before we know it, we're on a double decker bus for the 15 minute journey to the bridge itself.\n\nThe atmosphere is low key and friendly, a steady stream of families, babies in prams, elderly people using sticks and walkers, a large group in fundraiser T-shirts are already making their way across the new bridge - its suspension columns looming ahead in the afternoon sunshine.\n\nThe initial first few hundred yards are disappointing, the views along the Firth of Forth well and truly blocked by the 8ft high plastic barricades.\n\nWalkers resort to taking pictures of each other, but as we walk further on, panels are removed at head height to allow us views out over Rosyth and downriver. That's better, says a young mum, who lifts two small boys up for a better view.\n\nMy own son, at 12, is slightly underwhelmed. A veteran of the M74 walk - when the extension road was closed for the day to allow pedestrian access - maybe he feels the \"once in a lifetime\" opportunity has slightly oversold the experience.\n\nIt is, as one headline put it, \"just a bridge, get over it.\"\n\nAnd yet, to stand beneath those concrete towers, and suspension wires, is a very special opportunity.\n\nThere's no distraction - no bands or banners. This is about the bridge - and it's a rare chance to get up close and personal and think for a moment about the sheer scale of what was involved in building it.\n\nThere's a quiet awe among those strolling along, no-one rushing to get across.\n\nBack on the bus, we head back across the Forth Bridge, the rail bridge shimmering on the left, the new Queensferry Crossing on the right. Three feats of design and engineering from three different centuries, which for two days at least have been seen from a new perspective.\n\nNext time, like most of you, I'll probably be in my car, barely registering the 1.7 mile crossing. Today, I was glad to count every step.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "At present, many UK properties offered fibre connections still rely on copper cables for the \"last leg\" of the journey\n\nSix areas in the UK will soon be trying out broadband technology that provides data at speeds approaching one gigabit per second (gbps).\n\nBusinesses, schools and hospitals will be the first to try out the \"full-fibre\" network technology.\n\nThe pilots will be run in Aberdeenshire, West Sussex, Coventry and Warwickshire, Bristol, West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester.\n\nThe government will spend about £10m getting the pilots up and running.\n\nThe technology involved is known as full-fibre because it takes high-speed cables directly to premises.\n\nBy contrast, much of the existing fibre services in the UK connect the fast cables to roadside cabinets and then rely on older, slower copper for the final link to homes and other buildings.\n\nCurrently full-fibre networks are only available to about 2% of premises in the UK.\n\nThe government hopes that the projects will significantly boost the availability of the technology.\n\nThe preferred technology of Openreach, the body that runs much of the UK's fibre network, has to date been fibre to the cabinet.\n\nThat means that homes and businesses are connected by a slower copper-based connection to local street cabinets, before the fibre optic network takes over.\n\nFull-fibre broadband uses fibre to the premises (FTTP) technology, which is widely regarded as the best way to deliver fast internet services.\n\nHere, the fast-fibre optic cables run directly to homes and offices, providing a more stable, efficient and reliable connection than the hybrid copper and fibre systems.\n\nThey can also support broadband speeds of up to 1Gbps, enough to download an HD TV programme in five seconds.\n\n\"How we live and work today is directly affected by how good our broadband connection is,\" said Andrew Jones, Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, in a statement.\n\nFaster, more reliable connections would create jobs, help new industries to emerge and let people work more flexibly, he said.\n\nSome remote homes have struggled to get decent broadband connections\n\nPossible uses of full-fibre broadband would include hospitals sharing high-definition images to aid diagnosis, or schools using video more effectively during lessons.\n\nHowever, broadband market analysts have pointed out that gigabit-capable cables would be shared with many different premises, suggesting that actual data download speeds would be much lower than the theoretical maximum.\n\nThe gigabit speeds that are possible with full-fibre are much faster than the 10 megabits per second (mbps) which the regulator Ofcom says modern families need to meet their requirements.\n\nLast month, the government published information about the work being done on its broadband delivery programme, which aims to improve download speeds across the UK.\n\nIt claimed that 93% of premises in the UK can now get superfast broadband services, which run at speeds of about 24mbps.\n\nCash for the gigabit-speed broadband pilots comes from a £200m fund announced in the budget earlier this year.\n\nThe government said it aimed to spend the remaining balance of the fund by the end of 2021.", "The statue of David Livingstone next to the Victoria Falls has few British visitors\n\nIn August 1934, a memorial statue to one of Britain's greatest national heroes, David Livingstone, was unveiled alongside his beloved Victoria Falls.\n\nA thousand people attended the grand ceremony, including British government dignitaries and hundreds of Africans, some of whom had travelled for days to honour him.\n\nFully 60 years after the explorer's death, Livingstone's almost mythical status was undiminished.\n\nA Christian missionary who risked his life many times to expose - and ultimately end - the evils of the East African slave trade, he introduced the world to one of its natural wonders, and was the first European person ever to walk across Africa from coast to coast, exploring and mapping the geography of the \"dark continent\".\n\nDavid Livingstone - shown being attacked by a lion in this 1850 illustration - travelled with few servants and porters\n\nImages of the life-sized bronze on the banks of the Zambezi were broadcast across the British Empire, countless school children thrilling to the stories of Livingstone's adventures and achievements.\n\nToday, visitors still file past the statue on their way to experience the humbling majesty of the Zambezi as it plunges over the towering First Gorge.\n\nBut the British are notable by their absence.\n\nOfficial figures from the Zimbabwe Tourism Ministry show that, since the turn of the millennium, the statue has rarely heard an accent from the United Kingdom, never mind voices from Livingstone's native Scotland.\n\nIn 2015, there were more Italian visitors than Britons, about twice as many Australians and French, three times as many Germans and seven times the number of Americans.\n\nDavid Livingstone dreamed of turning the falls he first saw in 1855 into a major tourist attraction\n\nIt was Livingstone's dream to turn Victoria Falls into a tourist attraction, his journals imagining paddle-steamers bringing visitors from the mouth of the Zambezi to witness their splendour.\n\nThere is a similar Britain-shaped hole at the quintessentially English Victoria Falls Hotel, where the flying boat from Southampton once stopped on its way to the Cape.\n\nPink gins are sipped on the lawns overlooking the Darlington-built steel bridge that has spanned the Zambezi gorge since 1905.\n\nPictures of British kings and queens adorn the walls, alongside animal heads and zebra skins.\n\nThe current Queen stayed at the hotel in 1947.\n\nA framed photograph shows the then-Princess Elizabeth with her father, George VI, watching the mighty Zambezi tumble over the precipice, an image that inspired huge numbers of British tourists to follow the Royals to the falls.\n\nA visit by then-Princess Elizabeth and George VI to Victoria Falls in 1947 helped boost the area's appeal\n\nBut in recent years, that flood has become a trickle.\n\nRobert Mugabe. Livingstone's statue stands on what is now Zimbabwean soil, and Britain has an uncomfortable relationship with its former colony.\n\nMost UK tourists visit what locals call Mosi-oa-Tunya (The Smoke That Thunders) from the Zambian side, north of the river, where consciences may feel less troubled.\n\nLimited sanctions remain in place against Zimbabwe, although these are mostly to do with arms dealing and individuals, including Robert and Grace Mugabe. Tourists can travel to the country.\n\nAnd this corner of Zimbabwe is making a plan to woo the British back.\n\nVictoria Falls are regularly dubbed one of the world's seven natural wonders\n\nThe border town of Victoria Falls exists only for tourism.\n\nBut after President Mugabe began forcibly confiscating land from white farmers in 2000, the country's status as an international pariah saw the number of foreign visitors there dwindle almost to nothing.\n\nA decade later and facing ruin, business leaders in the town met in emergency session.\n\nIt was clear the Mugabe government was not in a position to help them.\n\nThe economy was in tatters, ravaged by hyperinflation, the national bank had to issue trillion-dollar notes.\n\nShops were empty and the people haunted by desperate poverty and fear.\n\nThe roads had not been maintained, anti-malaria measures had all but been abandoned, the international press painted a picture of a country where white Westerners were treated as the enemy.\n\nWhat hope of attracting foreign tourists to that?\n\nVictoria Falls hotelier Ross Kennedy galvanised fellow business owners to try to address the town's problems\n\n\"If you have a pothole outside your house, there is no point in moaning about it if no-one is going to fix it,\" says Ross Kennedy, the hotelier behind the crisis meeting.\n\n\"We got together and agreed there are times when it is necessary to fix the pothole yourself.\"\n\nSo that's what they did, both metaphorically and literally.\n\n\"The town council said it could provide the labour and the trucks. We all chipped in to buy gravel and tar. It was a real town effort - hotel operators, transport operators, activity operators all helped fix the roads,\" Mr Kennedy says.\n\nIt was the same strategy with the fight against malaria. The council didn't have the foreign currency to buy the necessary chemicals to spray, so local businesses funded what was required, offsetting the cost against their rates.\n\nThey also tackled the security issue. As the owner of a number of local resorts, Mr Kennedy knew his business could never thrive if guests felt unsafe.\n\n\"Myself and three other guys in Vic Falls funded around 10 or 12 people to act as tourist police,\" he says.\n\nThe tourist police are jointly funded by local businesses and the tourism authority\n\nInitially sceptical, the government's tourism authority soon decided the friendly uniformed teams were a great way to reassure potential visitors.\n\n\"There are many more tourist police now,\" Mr Kennedy says.\n\n\"We pay half, and the tourism authority pays half.\n\n\"The local police have become more supportive, and now train the recruits in basic police work and public relations.\"\n\nThe latest plan is for private business to buy new software that would speed up the issuing of visas at the border, reducing the process from three minutes to 30 seconds, ending the long queues that are many tourists' dreary introduction to Zimbabwe.\n\nAs a result of these innovative joint ventures, Victoria Falls has managed to insulate itself from many of Zimbabwe's problems.\n\n\"We are in a bubble here,\" says Africa Albida Tourism's Michele Vickery.\n\n\"When the state could not be relied upon, the people of this community just looked out for each other. The result is that tourism is picking up again.\"\n\nThe Americans are coming back, both young backpackers and wealthy baby-boomers. Australians, Germans, French and Italians are beginning to arrive again too. The town is much busier. But where are the British?\n\n\"Britain is still a bit behind,\" Mr Kennedy says.\n\n\"I think the main reason is the colonial past. There is an element who say: 'There is no way I am spending a dollar in a country that behaves like that, where X, Y or Z is in power,' to which I say, 'I am not your moral compass.'\"\n\nThe British Embassy has been lobbied by town businesses to push for the inclusion of a paragraph in the UK's official Zimbabwe travel advice, saying that warnings of violence, assaults by security forces, shortages of fuel and water do not apply to Victoria Falls.\n\nBut the advice has not changed.\n\nThe UK's relationship with Zimbabwe was formalised following the Congress of Berlin in 1885, part of the so-called scramble for Africa.\n\nThis French cartoon from 1885 mocks German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck and his fellow European leaders slicing up Africa like a cake\n\nWestern powers sat around a table carving up the continent and claiming territorial rights.\n\nBritain walked away with the keys to exploiting the area it would later call Southern Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe.\n\nThe man granted the honour of unveiling David Livingstone's statue on the banks of the Zambezi in 1934 was the explorer's nephew, Howard Moffatt.\n\nA very different personality to his liberal and reforming uncle, Moffatt had just stepped down as prime minister of Southern Rhodesia, having pushed through the Land Apportionment Act of 1930.\n\nThe legislation barred African landownership in the British Crown colony, outside special reserves.\n\nThe best land was allocated exclusively to white people, farms where the seeds of black grievance and bitterness were sown.\n\nMr Mugabe's violent seizure of white-owned property 70 years later might be seen by some as the bloody consequence of that colonial arrogance.\n\nIn unusually candid comments in 2015, President Mugabe admitted there had been flaws in Zimbabwe's controversial land reform programme\n\nThe moral ambiguity that lies behind Britain's relationship with Zimbabwe surely helps explain the persistent reluctance of many in this country to risk association with it.\n\nSince 2015, Victoria Falls has had its own international airport with a runway capable of taking the largest passenger aircraft.\n\nThe townsfolk have pressed airlines to begin direct flights from Europe, but British carriers have so far not expressed much interest.\n\nUK airlines say there are commercial and logistical reasons for not flying directly to the resort at the moment.\n\nIt is easy to find reasons not to step upon the troubled lands of Zimbabwe.\n\nAt the moment, the country faces an acute cash shortage. cash machines are usually empty, and American dollars - now the legal currency - are so scarce, hawkers beg tourists for their shoes and clothes.\n\nThere are concerns that dreaded inflation is returning.\n\nPeople worry about social and political instability, with elections next year and, at some point, transition to a post-Mugabe Zimbabwe.\n\nBut the fundamentals of this beautiful and enchanting country are pretty solid.\n\nThe landscape and wildlife are stunning. The climate is benign and the soil fertile. Communities have become resilient and practical.\n\nThere are a few straws in the savannah wind. Some British tour operators have recently returned to Zimbabwe, and hoteliers report UK bookings are creeping up, although there is still a long way to go.\n\nZimbabwe's Tourism Minister Walter Mzembi points out that visitors to Niagara Falls in North America bring in income double that of the whole of Zimbabwe's economy.\n\n\"They are spending $30bn [£23bn] whilst Victoria Falls, a natural wonder of a higher magnitude, receives just $1bn,\" he told the Zimbabwe parliament.\n\nVictoria Falls can shield itself from some of Zimbabwe's contemporary woes.\n\nBut the grim countenance of Livingstone's statue, staring resolutely at the great falls, reminds us of the struggle to navigate a path through the thorny undergrowth of African history.", "You cannot have concrete without sand. River beds are being dug up across Africa to fuel a building boom, with little thought for what this means for the health of the river, and those who depend on it, as Harriet Constable found in Kenya.\n\nSand. The word conjures happy holiday memories: building castles from it; watching nervous crabs scuttle across it; digging giant holes in it, and then hiding in them and leaping out at opportune moments to terrify unknowing relatives. Sand is the make up of glittering beaches, hundreds of thousands of years of weathering to create millions and millions of tiny, sparkling, and yet seemingly insignificant particles. Sand is infinite, surely. And yet the world is running out.\n\nA beach in Tiwi, along Kenya's coast, where sand dredging has caused the beach to subside and start to disappear - it's a key nesting ground for sea turtles\n\nIt's obvious when you think about it. All the major building materials - concrete, bricks, glass, are made using sand. Exploding population numbers and the knock on need for development have made sand the second most used natural commodity on the planet after water. Billions and billions of tonnes are being used across the globe.\n\nSo much so that a UN report estimated global sand use in 2012 alone could have created a concrete wall 27m high by 27m wide around the equator. We need not go to the beach to be surrounded by sand - our cities are essentially giant towering sand castles disguised in concrete.\n\nA sand dredger just beyond the reef in Tiwi kicks up giants plumes of sand in the ocean - it settles over coral, suffocates fish, and muddies the waters for sea turtles who feed on the seagrass at the bottom\n\nThe sand used for construction comes mainly from riverbeds and oceans. Desert sand, it turns out, is too smooth for the mix. Huge projects quickly exhausted Dubai's marine sand supply, so, despite being a city built on sand, it now imports the material from Australia. The irony: sand has become such a precious commodity it is literally being sold to the Arabs.\n\nInnocent as sand may seem, the immense demand for it is causing loss of livelihoods, loss of ecosystems and even deaths.\n\nIn India, a black market for sand harvesting has emerged, operated by violent sand mafias. In China, the country's biggest freshwater lake - Poyang Lake - is drying up due to sand dredging. Hundreds of locals rely on the lake for fish, as do the millions of migratory birds that stop here each year.\n\nIn Kenya, sand dredging from the riverbeds of poor rural counties like Makueni is leaving some communities without access to water.\n\nDuring the rainy season, water percolates into the sand and is stored underground - then during the dry season, locals dig small wells in the sand to get water\n\nWith the country's population expected to double in the next 40 years, massive infrastructure projects like Kenya's new Standard Gauge Railway are necessary. But they need millions of tonnes of sand. Kenya's coast and inland rivers have all been exploited in recent years, but the effect in Makueni has been particularly acute.\n\nKenya's new Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) spans 609km from Mombasa to Nairobi, and its construction requires millions of tonnes of sand\n\nThroughout the year, temperatures in Makueni soar to over 35C (95F). Seasonal, sand-filled rivers snake their way through the arid land. During the rainy season, water percolates through and is stored underneath. During the dry season, the population of nearly one million people dig holes in the sand to extract water to survive. However, when enough sand is harvested, only the bedrock remains, and during the rainy season the water simply rushes across it. No water is stored.\n\nAnthony Mua Kimeu stares at the steep cliffs of the Kilome Ikolya \"dead\" River\n\nI visited several sand harvesting sites across the county earlier this year. \"We call this the dead river,\" a local called Anthony told me, staring over the steep, reddish-brown cliff edge into the barren riverbed at Kilome Ikolya River in Makueni.\n\nA couple of years ago this river was flat. Now, there is sheer drop of about 10m from the top of the bank to the riverbed. Tree roots jut out awkwardly from the cliff face, and along the dry, meandering river, bedrock sticks out of the ground, glistening in the sunshine. \"No-one can get water here now,\" Anthony said.\n\n\"No-one can get water here now,\" says Anthony, a farmer\n\nFor some, sand is life, and for others, sand is money. In a poor area with few employment opportunities, the reality of what desperate humans will do is stark.\n\nLocal Police Officer Geoffrey Kasyoki was well known in his community for trying to stop illegal sand harvesting in Makueni. In February 2011 he was set upon by a group of young men in broad daylight. They shot him with poisoned arrows, crushed his head and slashed his skin.\n\nIrene Nduku Kasyoki holds up a portrait of her late husband Geoffrey, a police officer who died trying to defend his community's sand\n\nStanding over her husband's grave, his widow Irene told me, \"He was killed to send a message to the community from the sand harvesters: do not try to stop us\". Her chest heaved in and out, shuddering with sobs, and she reached out to touch the sandy mound of earth under which he is buried.\n\nAs Anthony and I walked further along the riverbed, we came across harvesters labouring under the baking midday sun, shovelling sand into a pile ready for a truck to collect it.\n\nHarvester Richard Mutinda shovels sand into a big pile to be collected by trucks later - up to 100 tonnes of sand is taken from this stretch of the Nthange River daily\n\nWhile I watched and wondered whether sand could soon become the stuff of distant childhood memories, others around me had more pressing concerns. For them, sand could mean the difference between eating and going hungry, whether they'd have drinking water or not, or whether they'd ever see their loved ones again.\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson has warned Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi that the treatment of the Muslim Rohingya is \"besmirching\" the country's reputation.\n\nMr Johnson called on Ms Suu Kyi, the country's de facto leader, to \"use her remarkable qualities\" to end prejudice against Muslims in Rakhine state.\n\nViolence in the province erupted about a week ago, with some 58,000 refugees fleeing to neighbouring Bangladesh.\n\nMore than 100 people are thought to have died in the violence.\n\nThe Rohingya claim that security forces and Buddhist mobs of burning their villages.\n\nSecurity officials in Myanmar, also known as Burma, claim they are reacting to more than 20 attacks on police posts by Muslim Rohingya militants.\n\nRakhine, the poorest region in Myanmar, is home to more than a million Rohingya. They have faced decades of persecution in the Buddhist-majority country, where they are not considered citizens.\n\nRohingya refugees walk on the muddy road after travelling over the Bangladesh-Myanmar border\n\nMs Suu Kyi won the Nobel Peace Prize for her political activism in Myanmar, which led to the first non-military elected head of state in the country since the military coup in 1962.\n\nAlthough Htin Kyaw was sworn in as president in 2016 - as Ms Suu Kyi is constitutionally barred from holding the position - she is considered the de facto leader of the country.\n\nMs Suu Kyi, who has the title state counsellor of Myanmar, came to prominence in the 1990s when she was placed under house arrest by the military government.\n\nMr Johnson said: \"Aung San Suu Kyi is rightly regarded as one of the most inspiring figures of our age, but the treatment of the Rohingya is alas besmirching the reputation of Burma.\n\n\"She faces huge challenges in modernising her country. I hope she can now use all her remarkable qualities to unite her country, to stop the violence and to end the prejudice that afflicts both Muslims and other communities in Rakhine.\n\n\"It is vital that she receives the support of the Burmese military, and that her attempts at peacemaking are not frustrated.\n\n\"She and all in Burma will have our full support in this.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Rohingya Muslim women have been weeping on the Bangladesh border\n\nBurma Campaign UK - which lobbies European governments in a bid to restore human rights and democracy in Burma - believes the foreign secretary could have gone further in his remarks.\n\nIts director, Mark Farmaner, said Mr Johnson should have also criticised the armed forces' commander-in-chief, Ming Aung Hlaing.\n\nHe said: \"Min Aung Hlaing's soldiers are the ones killing hundreds of Rohingya and he is the only person in Burma with the power to order soldiers to stop attacking Rohingya villagers, shooting children and burning families alive in their homes.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. YouTuber Daniel Jarvis is \"not proud\" of his part in a fake robbery at a major London gallery\n\nA YouTuber jailed for his part in a prank on the public says he is \"sorry if he frightened people\".\n\nDaniel Jarvis, 27, is a member of the Trollstation YouTube channel, which has about a million subscribers.\n\nIn 2016, he and three others were jailed for a total of 72 weeks after pleading guilty to two counts of threatening behaviour causing fear of unlawful violence.\n\nThey staged a fake robbery at London's National Portrait Gallery in 2015.\n\nSpeaking in an exclusive interview with Stephen Nolan on BBC Radio 5 live, Jarvis said: \"I'm not proud. It wasn't meant to be that extreme.\n\n\"We were going to go in there and be stupid, dumb, criminals, falling over each other.\"\n\nThe pranksters set off an alarm inside the gallery after carrying in fake paintings, dressed as robbers, causing members of the public to flee.\n\nThe video has been viewed nearly one million times on YouTube.\n\n\"When the alarm was so loud, it caused too much panic, which was our fault,\" Jarvis said.\n\n\"I can't change the past. I don't like hurting people or making people upset. I do these videos to make people laugh and make them happy.\"\n\nIn court, magistrates warned such \"warped\" stunts could lead to fatalities.\n\nThe prosecutor said the pranksters had caused a stampede in which people had been trampled and one person had fainted.\n\nThe prank was also criticised for its timing - just a week after the Tunisian beach massacre, in which 39 people were killed\n\n\"A terrorist attack happens in this world every day. This has got nothing to do with terrorism,\" Jarvis told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"I don't like harming people or making people upset. I hate people crying. I like to see people happy and love making people happy. It wasn't a nice feeling to see people scared.\"\n\nTrollstation has built a reputation for filming staged pranks around London.\n\nIn March 2016, a fifth member of the channel was imprisoned following a bomb hoax.\n\nJudge Snow said the men had caused \"high levels of fear of violence\" and a \"risk of death or injury\" during the stampede from the National Portrait Gallery, and sought to \"humiliate\" the victims by \"recording their terrified reactions to upload on to the internet\".\n\nOne of Jarvis's most successful pranks saw him dressed up as a soldier in the Queen's Guard.\n\nHe then arranged for his friend to approach him and, uncharacteristically for a soldier in the Queen's Guard, he retaliated.\n\nThat video has 25 million views on YouTube.\n\nJarvis said he had felt the burden of providing videos for fans.\n\n\"It is a lot of pressure, if you haven't done a good video in a while and if you've not done an extreme video,\" he said.\n\nIn 2015, he disrupted the diving World Series at the London Aquatic Centre - where Tom Daley was participating - by diving from a 10m board.\n\nSpeaking about that prank, Jarvis said: \"It made a lot of people laugh, it made a lot of people happy.\"\n\nJarvis was challenged about the responsibility that comes with having such a massive, and impressionable, online following.\n\n\"It's not that anything can go. You've got to be respectful,\" he said.\n\nIn June, a woman from Minnesota was charged over the fatal shooting of her boyfriend, in what authorities say was a social media stunt gone wrong.\n\nJarvis said he wouldn't do anything that extreme in the chase for YouTube views.\n\n\"Even on the news, extreme stuff goes off.,\" he said. \"I'm not into extreme stuff like that. I wouldn't do anything too dangerous.\"", "Becker also had a career as a solo artist\n\nWalter Becker, co-founder and guitarist for the US band Steely Dan, has died aged 67, an announcement on his website said.\n\nNo cause of death or other details were given.\n\nBecker missed the band's July concerts to recover from an unspecified condition, band mate Donald Fagen said at the time.\n\nThe jazz-rock group has sold more than 40m albums and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001.\n\n\"Walter's recovering from a procedure and hopefully he'll be fine very soon,\" Fagen told Billboard magazine earlier this month.\n\nIn a statement, he said his band mate was \"smart as a whip, an excellent guitarist and a great songwriter.\n\n\"He was cynical about human nature, including his own, and hysterically funny,\" he said.\n\n\"I intend to keep the music we created together alive as long as I can with the Steely Dan band.\"\n\nBecker and Fagen began working on music together as students in New York.\n\nIn the early 1970s they moved to California to set up the band with guitarists Jeff Baxter and Denny Dias, drummer Jim Hodder and singer David Palmer.\n\nSteely Dan - named after a sex toy in the book Naked Lunch by William Burroughs - released its first album Can't Buy a Thrill in 1972.\n\nBecker, who also provided backing vocals, and keyboardist and singer Fagen remained the core band members as other musicians and singers came and left.\n\nThe band split up in 1981 but reformed in 1993 and released two more albums, one of which - Two Against nature - won the Grammy album of the year award.\n\nBecker also had a career as a solo artist, releasing two albums including Circus Money in 2008.\n\nMusicians and DJs were quick to pay tribute on social media.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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WATCH: What can AR do on iPhone?\n\nFace recognition, an OLED screen and a £999 price tag will grab all the headlines. But software developers around the world were waiting on one thing from the Apple event - more news on augmented reality.\n\nAnd slap bang in the middle of the iPhone 8 unveiling, a long section about AR, and a demo from a games developer - a clear signal that the company sees the technology as a key attraction in its new phones.\n\nBack in May, Apple released ARKit, its augmented reality development tool, hoping that developers would rush to try it out and give the company a lead in the fast growing technology, which imposes virtual objects on the real world. And it has done just that.\n\nDevelopers have been quick to experiment, showing off all kinds of apps, from a simple AR measuring tape to work out whether that chunky sofa will fit through the door, to a restaurant app that puts a virtual burger on your real plate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis week I found myself chasing pigeons around a cool shared office space in Shoreditch with Jamie Shoard. His tiny four-person company has used ARKit to develop Pigeon Panic, which he describes as \"an utterly ridiculous game, built to live out your very achievable fantasies of running haphazardly into large flocks of virtual pigeons\".\n\nAugmented reality has been around for a long time, but it was only with the arrival of Pokemon Go last year that it entered the lives of millions of smartphone users.\n\nJamie Shoard says that until now developing AR apps was a complex business that could only be contemplated by major developers, and ARKit has changed that: \"The technology would have taken years to create and a team of hundreds - now it can be done in matter of months by small teams like ours.\"\n\nHe now expects a new flowering of creativity in an app landscape that has been getting quite stale.\n\nApple showed off AR games played via its new smartphones\n\nBut if Apple is to spark this AR revolution, it has a number of hurdles to clear. First, there is plenty of competition.\n\nFor some years Google has been pushing its Tango augmented reality platform, but with just a couple of smartphones boasting the tech to make it work, the company saw the writing on the wall when ARKit came out.\n\nIt has ditched the brand and unveiled ARCore, which will work on millions of Android phones, with a big pitch to the developer community to get involved. Google's own designers have also demonstrated their first experiments, showing off a Streetview animation which allows you to zoom into the British Museum from the front of the building, and a training app demonstrating how to use an espresso machine.\n\nThe other big player is Microsoft with its Hololens headset, which the firm is using to bring what it calls mixed reality into the workplace and the classroom. While it may provide a more convincing experience than AR seen through a mobile phone, the headset is expensive and is not at this stage aimed at the consumer market.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIf anyone can be considered a veteran of the augmented reality world, it is Steve Dann, whose Amplified Robot studio is based in Soho.\n\nHis first AR project was for the Times newspaper 10 years ago and involved the use of a laptop's camera - smartphones were not in common use back then.\n\nHe admits that the revolution has taken longer to take off than he imagined - \"the technology has not advanced quite as quickly as we hoped it would\". But he does believe that Apple's initiative is a key moment for augmented reality.\n\n\"ARKit makes a big difference because it's an Apple statement of intent,\" he explained.\n\n\"Any time you get Apple entering into something, it is fully committed, and that will drag other companies in.\"\n\nBut however intense the competition to create compelling new uses for AR, there is another nagging question - do we really want to see our world through the lens of our smartphone camera?\n\nThe buzz has faded around pioneering augmented reality game Pokemon Go\n\nThe buzz around Pokemon Go has died down, and new augmented reality apps have not taken off in the same way. Paul Lee, head of technology research at Deloitte, says get ready for a big upsurge in interest: \"I expect there will be hundreds or millions of smartphone users who use augmented reality enhanced digital apps at least five times in 2018.\"\n\nHe says we are already using AR without realising it when for instance we use filters in photo apps to improve the real world. AR will become a feature of many existing apps. \"Augmenting reality is a very human activity - hence the appeal. It's a form of digital make up.\"\n\nBut Mr Dann thinks another technology advance may be needed before most people are ready to augment their world.\n\n\"I think ARKit is a step on the road to the future. I think augmented reality will really take off when you can see it through head mounted displays or a pair of glasses,\" he says.\n\nOf course, that has already been tried - but Google Glass proved unpalatable to its users. Maybe somewhere inside the Apple Park spaceship, engineers are working on an iHeadset, but for now the company is counting on the iPhone as its weapon to barge its way into another new market.", "More than half of Britain has seen wages rise faster than house prices in the last 10 years, research by a mortgage lender has suggested.\n\nEdinburgh and Birmingham are among the 54% of areas where pay has outpaced property prices since 2007, the Yorkshire Building Society found.\n\nYet the gap between wages and house prices has widened dramatically in other areas.\n\nThe building society suggested this had accentuated a north-south divide.\n\nAcross London and much of southern England, it has become \"increasingly difficult for first-time buyers and those wanting to move up the housing ladder\", said Andrew McPhillips, chief economist at the Yorkshire Building Society.\n\n\"However, the north of England, Wales and Scotland present a different picture entirely, with many places more affordable than they were before the credit crunch,\" he said.\n\n\"While some northern cities, such as Manchester, are less affordable than they were in 2007, in much of the north of England, Scotland and Wales, the gap between earnings and house prices is around a third of the average for London.\"\n\nThe analysis compares earnings data for each area from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) with Land Registry house price data at local authority level.\n\nThis is a relatively narrow definition of \"affordability\" as it ignores issues such as falling mortgage rates and the decreasing proportion of disposable income that is spent on home loan repayments.\n\nOverall, the Yorkshire concludes that wage rises have effectively kept pace with increasing property prices in Britain compared with 10 years ago.\n\nIn England, house prices rose faster, with the typical home costing 8.2 times median average pre-tax earnings for a single full-time employee compared with 7.9 times in 2007.\n\nIn Scotland, wages rose faster - with the current house price five times the size of typical average earnings in Scotland, compared with 6.2 times in 2007.\n\nThe same was true in Wales where the ratio has changed from 6.9 times earnings in 2007 to 5.7 times now.\n\nThree areas of Scotland have seen the biggest shift in wages rising faster than house prices compared with 10 years ago, according to the analysis.\n\nThey include Inverclyde, where house prices are 3.67 times average full-time gross earnings in the area now compared to 6.38 times a decade ago. The other two biggest movers were North Ayrshire and West Dunbartonshire.\n\nAt the other end of the scale was the Three Rivers local authority area in Hertfordshire, which has seen house prices rise from 9.83 times typical full-time earnings in that area in 2007 to 15.83 times now.\n\nThe next two biggest movers in that direction were the London borough of Haringey, where house prices are 17.5 times that area's typical earnings, and the London borough of Westminster which sees the average home cost more than £1m, or 24 times average earnings there.\n\nWhere can you afford to live? Try our housing calculator to see where you could rent or buy This interactive content requires an internet connection and a modern browser. Do you want to buy or rent? Use the buttons to increase or decrease the number of bedrooms: minimum one, maximum four. Alternatively, enter a number into the text input How much is your deposit? Enter your deposit below or adjust the deposit amount using the slider Return to 'How much is your deposit?' This calculator assumes you need a deposit of at least 5% of the value of the property to get a mortgage. The average deposit for UK first-time buyers is . How much can you pay monthly? Enter your monthly payment below or adjust the payment amount using the slider Return to 'How much can you pay monthly?' Your monthly payments are what you can afford to pay each month. Think about your monthly income and take off bills, council tax and living expenses. The average rent figure is for England and Wales. Amount of the that has housing you can Explore the map in detail below Search the UK for more details about a local area What does affordable mean? You have a big enough deposit and your monthly payments are high enough. The prices are based on the local market. If there are 100 properties of the right size in an area and they are placed in price order with the cheapest first, the “low-end” of the market will be the 25th property, \"mid-priced\" is the 50th and \"high-end” will be the 75th.", "Facial recognition technology was used at Notting Hill Carnival\n\nThe \"rapid\" growth of a police facial recognition database could lead to innocent people being unfairly targeted, a watchdog has warned.\n\nBiometrics Commissioner Paul Wiles said the Police National Database (PND) now had at least 19 million custody photographs on it.\n\nBut it is thought that hundreds of thousands are of innocent people.\n\nThe Home Office said police should delete images of unconvicted people if asked to do so.\n\nProf Wiles said that police have taken \"mug shots\" of people upon arresting them since Victorian times, but technical developments today - which allow digital pictures to be uploaded to a searchable national database - have moved \"much faster\" than the legislation.\n\nPictures of people who are entitled to the presumption of innocence - that is those who have not been convicted - are being kept on a national file for up to six years, he said.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"I think it's very worrying because if we're not careful the public will lose confidence in the police.\"\n\nIn a government review published in February, the Home Office concluded that those who are not convicted have the right to request that their custody image is deleted from all police databases.\n\nA High Court ruling in 2012 said retaining the custody images of unconvicted people amounted to a breach of human rights.\n\nThe PND contains custody images, taken at police stations after someone is arrested.\n\nOf these, more than 16 million have been enrolled in a gallery which can be searched using facial recognition software, including pictures of individuals who are released without charge or later cleared.\n\nProf Wiles told the BBC that new biometrics - such as voice and facial recognition - can be \"equally useful\" to the police as DNA and fingerprinting, adding that the police \"are quite right to be experimenting with this\".\n\nBut he warned that there was a \"legislative deficit\" around them which needs to be addressed first.\n\nHe pointed out in his annual report that facial imaging was also being used in public places, including to check Notting Hill carnival-goers against a watch list.\n\n\"The use of facial images by the police has gone far beyond using them for custody purposes,\" he said.\n\nProf Wiles, who has held the post since last year, warned wrongful allegations could occur from the \"very rapid growth\" of the database.\n\nCurrently, different forces use their own systems to upload images to the central database, with \"varying degrees of image quality\", the report said.\n\n\"This situation could easily produce differential decision making and potentially runs the risk of false intelligence or wrongful allegations,\" it added.\n\nProf Wiles, whose job is to scrutinise how police and other authorities retain information including DNA samples, profiles and fingerprints, said hundreds of thousands of innocent people were on the PND.\n\nThis is because they were later released or cleared in court, but never deleted from the database.\n\nBut Prof Wiles pointed out that police have the discretion to refuse such a request and warned that the \"complex\" proposals could result in a \"postcode lottery\".\n\nHe said: \"I have said that to the government [that] I think what they've put in place is a much more complicated process - that would be much simpler if deletion was simply automatic.\"\n\nRenate Samson, chief executive of Big Brother Watch, welcomed the watchdog's warnings, saying: \"It is of very serious concern that the Home Office appear to be so unwaveringly set on embedding facial biometric recognition technology into policing without debate, regulation, legislation or independent scrutiny.\"", "The former Liverpool striker has relatives in Barbuda, which was devastated by the hurricane\n\nFormer England footballer Emile Heskey has revealed some of his family have been missing since Hurricane Irma struck the Caribbean.\n\nThe ex-Liverpool striker said his parents in Antigua were safe, but his mother has had no contact with relatives in Barbuda for almost a week.\n\nAntigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne said Barbuda had been left \"barely habitable\".\n\n\"My mum can't get hold of them,\" Heskey said.\n\n\"My mum and dad were fortunately lucky. They caught the tail end of it,\" he continued.\n\n\"But my mum's family is from Barbuda and they were basically wiped out. Everything is gone.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's correspondents in the region chart Irma's path of destruction\n\nHurricane Irma destroyed an estimated 95% of buildings on the island of Barbuda, according to the prime minister.\n\nMost of the island's population of just over 1,600 live in the town of Codrington, where an initial assessment using satellite images appears to show most of the buildings have been damaged.\n\nMany buildings have been completely destroyed and debris litters the town.\n\nHeskey said his family were still awaiting news.\n\nThe retired footballer, who lives in Cheshire and also played for Bolton Wanderers and Leicester City, added that he was supporting the Peter Virdee Foundation, which is helping with the relief effort.\n\nThe footballer said he was supporting the relief effort in the Caribbean\n\nBut he said: \"We can't commit to anything because I believe there is another hurricane on its way towards Barbuda and Antigua.\n\n\"We don't know how much damage that is going to cause and what is going to be the final aid bill.\"", "In the summer of 2007, Newcastle had much to look forward to. The Toon - Newcastle United - had a new owner, the billionaire retail tycoon Mike Ashley, and much was expected under the management of Sam Allardyce.\n\nThe performance of the team's shirt sponsor, Northern Rock, was a source of pride; after decades of hard times following the end of shipbuilding and mining, the North East had a new economic champion, one that was giving the financial services giants of the South a real run for their money.\n\nThe former building society had demutualised and scaled the heights of the FTSE 100, the elite club of Britain's biggest quoted companies, and in the process had become the fourth biggest bank in the UK by share of lending.\n\nThe chairman, Matt Ridley, summed it up in the annual report, lauding \"another excellent year\" and said \"our strategy of using growth, cost efficiency and credit quality to reward both shareholders and customers continues to run well.\"\n\nA few months later, Northern Rock's empire was in ruins. The fuel it had used to grow so quickly turned out to be toxic.\n\nNorthern Rock had borrowed heavily on the international money markets\n\nRather than using customer deposits as the source of funds to lend out to homeowners, it borrowed in the international money markets.\n\nWhen the sub-prime crisis hit America, those markets took fright, and stopped lending to anything that looked like it might be over-exposed to the housing market. Northern Rock was an obvious first casualty.\n\nThe BBC broke the news that it needed Bank of England support 10 years ago tomorrow, and the day after there were queues outside branches, the first run on a British bank in 150 years. After limping on for a few more months, Northern Rock was nationalised in February 2008.\n\nCouncillor Nick Forbes, leader of Newcastle City Council, remembers walking out of the civic offices to nearby Northumberland Street where Northern Rock had its main city centre branch. \"There was a queue outside going right down the street. That really was the first sign that something was wrong. No-one really saw it coming.\"\n\nCustomers queued for hours to take out their savings\n\nNorthern Rock's demise - it was split into \"bad\" and \"good\" sets of assets and operations, with Virgin Money buying the latter - was a shock to the region's economy, as was the banking crisis that followed.\n\n\"We were early into recession and late out,\" said Mr Forbes. \"It's only now really that we have recaptured that lost ground.\"\n\nAbout 2,500 jobs were lost. There was another heavy blow, little understood outside the North East - the loss of the Northern Rock Foundation, a charitable trust which received 5% of the bank's profits each year.\n\nMany who lost their savings want the government to change its mind on compensation\n\nIt had given £235m to good causes before the bank was nationalised and broken up. Mr Forbes is now pressing the Treasury to give back some of the profits it expects to make from its intervention on Northern Rock to make up for the loss of the foundation.\n\nNorthern Rock shareholders are also making a claim on the potential profits, which independent experts think could eventually reach about £8bn.\n\nAn association of small shareholders, many of whom lost their life savings when the bank was nationalised, has asked the chancellor to think again on compensation, which has been denied before.\n\nAny surplus from Northern Rock's privatisation should go to taxpayers, says the Treasury\n\nJon Wood, a fund manager who was a big Northern Rock shareholder and has been severely critical of the Bank of England's action, is also thought be to considering fresh legal action. The Treasury has said that any surplus from the Northern Rock nationalisation should compensate taxpayers for the amounts risked in the rescue.\n\nA decade on, important strands of \"the run on the Rock\" story are only now being uncovered. In an interview with the BBC Gary Hoffman, who was parachuted in as chief executive after privatisation, said he found an organisation with an unquestioning - and unhappy - culture.\n\n\"The management had completely lost touch with the coal face, and did not know what was happening. There was an attitude that you did not question what was going on, which was a tragedy because there were extremely good people at the bank.\"\n\nHoffman reveals that the Treasury had considered all options for the future of the bank when he was in charge - not just a sale to a banking rival, but also a refloating of the bank as an independent business, and its complete run-down and closure.\n\nThe collapse was the first sign in Britain of the coming global financial crisis\n\nOther senior banking sources have told the BBC that the last option - closure - was the favourite right up until Christmas Eve 2008, when the bank's leadership was able to convince the Treasury it could be sold as a going concern.\n\nMr Hoffman says that the UK's banking sector is now safer than in the run-up to the crisis, with greater capital reserves at the big institutions. Others disagree, however, saying the increases have been largely illusory.\n\nKevin Dowd, professor of finance and economics at the University of Durham, says changes in bank regulations have not greatly improved banks' resilience.\n\n\"The Bank of England looks at the book value of bank assets - the value that they themselves put on their assets. But if you look at the stock market, investors don't believe it because most of our big banks have stock market values less than their book values.\"", "Rebel Wilson celebrating in June after a jury found in her favour\n\nActress Rebel Wilson has been awarded A$4.5m (£2.7m; $3.6m) in Australia's largest payout for a defamation case.\n\nWilson successfully argued that a series of magazine articles had wrongly portrayed her as a serial liar.\n\nIn June a jury unanimously sided with the star, who had claimed the articles stifled her career in Hollywood. She has said she will give the money away.\n\nBauer Media has always denied the articles were defamatory. A lawyer said it would consider the judgement.\n\nWilson sought A$7m during the trial but had offered to settle for A$200,000 before it went to court.\n\nJustice John Dixon told the Supreme Court of Victoria that the defamation case was \"unprecedented in this country\" because of its international reach.\n\n\"Substantial vindication can only be achieved by an award of damages that underscores that Ms Wilson's reputation as an actress of integrity was wrongly damaged in a manner that affected her marketability in a huge worldwide marketplace,\" he said on Wednesday.\n\nThe Bridesmaids and Pitch Perfect actress was not in court on Wednesday, but she later tweeted that Bauer Media \"viciously tried to take [her] down with a series of false articles\" and \"subjected [her] to a sustained and malicious attack\".\n\n\"The judge accepted without qualification that I had an extremely high reputation and that the damage inflicted on me was substantial,\" she wrote.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by 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\nShe added that the case \"wasn't about the money\" and that she would donate the damages to \"some great Australian charities\" and the Australian film industry.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nWilson sat in court for every day of the three-week trial and spent six days in the witness box.\n\nShe claimed that eight articles published by Bauer magazines in 2015 had portrayed her as a serial liar, and that this resulted in her being sacked from two feature films.\n\nA six-woman jury rejected Bauer Media's arguments that the articles were substantially true, trivial and did not affect Wilson's acting career. A 12-person jury is not required for civil cases in Victoria.\n\nWilson said the verdict had exposed the \"disgusting and disgraceful\" conduct of some tabloid media.", "More than a quarter of British people hold at least one anti-Semitic view, according to a study of attitudes to Jewish people.\n\nThe Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR) said the finding came from the largest and most detailed survey of attitudes towards Jews and Israel ever conducted in Britain.\n\nBut it said the study did not mean that British people were anti-Semitic.\n\nResearchers also found a correlation in anti-Jewish and anti-Israel attitudes.\n\nThe study found a relatively small number of British adults - 2.4% - expressed multiple anti-Semitic attitudes \"readily and confidently\".\n\nBut when questioned about whether they agreed with a number of statements, including \"Jews think they are better than other people\", and \"Jews exploit holocaust victimhood for their own purposes\", 30% agreed with at least one statement.\n\nDespite this, the researchers said they found that levels of anti-Semitism in Great Britain were among the lowest in the world.\n\nA spokesman for the Community Security Trust, which has recorded high levels anti-Semitic crime, said: \"We believe the new findings, data and nuance in this study will help us to work even more effectively with partners inside and outside the Jewish community to tackle this problem.\"\n\nThe report said about 70% of the population of Britain had a favourable opinion of Jews and did not hold any anti-Semitic ideas or views.\n\nThe JPR's researchers questioned 5,466 people face-to-face and online in the winter of 2016/17 - 995 of these were Muslims, although a smaller number of Muslims were included in the statisticians' nationally representative sample.\n\nThey found more than half of Muslims (55%) held at least one anti-Semitic attitude.\n\nDr Jonathan Boyd, director of the JPR, said: \"Our intention here was not to make any broad generalisations about the Muslim population and their attitudes towards Jews.\n\n\"There does seem to be some relationship between levels of religiosity in the Muslim population and anti-Semitism.\"\n\nThe institute said it wanted to promote an \"elastic view\", making a distinction between people who are clearly anti-Semites, and ideas that are perceived by Jews as anti-Semitic.\n\nIn December 2016 the government adopted an internationally recognised definition of anti-Semitism: \"a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews\".\n\nThe researchers also questioned people about their views on statements about Israel and the conflict with the Palestinians.\n\nTheir report said fewer than one in five people questioned (17%) had a favourable opinion of Israel, whereas about one in three (33%) held an unfavourable view.\n\nThe report said: \"The position of the British population towards Israel can be characterised as one of uncertainty or indifference, but among those who hold a view, people with sympathies towards the Palestinians are numerically dominant.\"\n\nDr Boyd said: \"Anti-Israel and anti-Jewish views exist both together and in isolation.\n\n\"The higher the level of anti-Israel attitudes measured, the more likely they are to hold anti-Semitic views as well.\"\n\nThe study also revealed that anti-Semitic attitudes were higher than normal among people who classified their politics as \"very right-wing\".\n\nAmong this group they were two to four times higher than among the general population.\n\nThe researchers said the prevalence was considerably higher among right-wingers than on the left.\n\nRabbi Charley Baginsky, from the Liberal Judaism movement, said: \"The report is important for helping us understand where the anxiety comes from within the community at large and for understanding why anti-Semitism seems to be the prevailing discourse within the community.\n\n\"We must be really careful that it does not come to define us and that we celebrate the positive interactions with society at large.\n\n\"What is arguably more important … is to educate and interact, to be more outward facing and open to discussion than inward facing.\"", "Security arrangements at Prince George's new school will be reviewed after a 40-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of attempted burglary.\n\nScotland Yard said the woman was held on Wednesday after someone gained access to Thomas' Battersea School in west London on Tuesday at 14:15 BST.\n\nPolice are \"working with the school... to review its security arrangements\" following the arrest, the Met said.\n\nThe woman remains in custody at a south London police station.\n\nThe four-year-old prince was dropped off on his first day by his father the Duke of Cambridge\n\nA Met spokesperson said officers had \"attended immediately after the issue came to light\".\n\n\"Police are part of the protective security arrangements for the Prince and we will continue to work closely with the school, which is responsible for building security on its site,\" they said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince George held his father's hand as he arrived for his first day at school\n\nThe four-year-old prince started at the £18,000-a-year preparatory school on 7 September.\n\nIt educates 560 boys and girls aged from four to 13, with around 20 pupils in each class.\n\nGeorge was at school on Tuesday but it is thought unlikely he was there at the time of the break-in.\n\nKensington Palace said it was \"aware of the issue but we would not comment further on security measures\".", "Executives from the security firm G4S have said they were ashamed by revelations of abuse at an immigration detention centre run by the company.\n\nThey were appearing before MPs on the Home Affairs Committee, who condemned the firm's management of Brook House Immigration Removal Centre, near Gatwick Airport.\n\nThe executives were accused of failing to \"get a grip\" and overseeing major failings at the centre.\n\nThe chair of the committee, Yvette Cooper, told them it was a matter of \"very grave concern\" that the company appeared to have failed to stop staff misbehaviour following earlier revelations of mistreatment at a young offenders' unit.\n\nThe committee also heard evidence from a former G4S duty director at Brook House, who said he had raised concerns about staff and management culture in institutions run by the company between 2001 and his resignation in 2014.\n\nNathan Ward told the MPs that he was \"not surprised but shocked\" at the level of abuse revealed in the BBC Panorama film.", "The CCTV still was captured on the Number 430 bus which narrowly avoided the woman\n\nPolice have released a new CCTV image of a jogger who appeared to push a woman into the path of a bus.\n\nFootage of the incident showed a man running along Putney Bridge in west London and appearing to shove the 33-year-old into the road.\n\nTwo men, both aged 41, have previously been arrested but were later released without further action.\n\nThe Met said officers were continuing \"to work through the information received to identify the man\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Putney Bridge: CCTV of jogger 'pushing' woman in front of bus\n\nThe woman was knocked into the road as she was walking across Putney Bridge at about 07:40 BST on 5 May.\n\nThe new image of the jogger was captured on the Number 430 bus which narrowly avoided her.\n\nAbout 15 minutes later the jogger returned to run back across the bridge.\n\nThe woman, who received minor injuries, tried to speak to him but he did not acknowledge her and carried on jogging.\n\nHe is described as a white man, aged in his 30s, with brown eyes and short brown hair.\n\nDet Sgt Chris Griffith appealed for anyone who provided officers with a name of the potential suspect to contact police again \"so we can fully follow up those lines of enquiry\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "US President Donald Trump's family just got a little more \"bigly\" with the addition of his ninth grandchild.\n\nThe president's son Eric and his 34-year-old wife Lara, who wed in 2014, have announced the birth of their first child, a boy named Eric \"Luke\" Trump.\n\nEric Trump, 33, posted a photo on Twitter of the newborn wearing a cap and swaddled in a blanket.\n\nThe president tweeted: \"Congratulations to Eric & Lara on the birth of their son, Eric 'Luke' Trump this morning!\"\n\nEric's older brother Donald Trump Jr, who has five children, teased his sibling: \"Congrats buddy. Welcome to the club. Now that the niceties are out of the way it's older brother revenge for that drum set to my kids.\"\n\nIvanka Trump, who has three children with husband and fellow White House adviser Jared Kushner, also congratulated him.\n\n\"Welcome to the world, baby boy,\" she said. \"I can't wait to meet you.\"", "Director David Freyne with Ellen Page and Sam Keeley, stars of The Cured\n\nMovies which generally attract awards buzz at film festivals like Toronto are dramas - and ideally ones based on true stories.\n\nThis year is no different with The Current War, Kings, Darkest Hour and I, Tonya among the hotly-tipped films.\n\nFew comedies will stand a chance of taking home any best picture prizes - and horror films are also rarely acknowledged.\n\nSuch movies are often dismissed in awards season, but zombie films in particular have a loyal fanbase - one which seems to be growing all the time.\n\n\"I think there is for sure [a snobbery], but I think it is changing,\" says Ellen Page, whose film The Cured premiered at Toronto.\n\nThe actress cites the 1970s as a golden era of horror in general, adding: \"I think it's been coming back these last few years, with these amazing films, like The Babadook and It Follows.\n\nThe Cured is David Freyne's first feature film as a director\n\n\"And when I think of how difficult it is to pull this genre off, as to how David [Freyne, director of The Cured] did it, it just blows my mind.\"\n\nThe film begins with the discovery of a cure for a disease which turns people into zombie-like monsters.\n\nAs the infected are reintegrated into society, they face hostility from sections of society who can't forgive their previous behaviour, leading to social unrest and government interference.\n\nThe film deals with themes of second chances and forgiveness - complex issues which aren't dissimilar to those you'd find in any standard Oscar-fodder biopic.\n\n\"When I started writing it, it was very much inspired by the recession we were suffering in Ireland,\" says Freyne.\n\n\"It was about the anger that I was experiencing, and people around me were experiencing - there were people losing jobs and being blamed for things beyond their control, just as the cured are in the film, and that was very much the starting point.\n\nSam, Ellen and David at the world premiere of The Cured\n\n\"That anger fuelled the script. We didn't predict what was going to happen over the next few years but what's happened is a symptom of it.\n\n\"But like all great genre films, I think they do reflect what's happening on society - they always have. \"\n\nInterestingly, despite it being loosely billed as a zombie thriller, the word \"zombie\" isn't uttered once in the film.\n\nInstead, those who have been cured are referred to as \"the infected\".\n\n\"It is very deliberate not to use the term [zombie],\" says Freyne. \"We wanted to be very careful that we create our own very distinct creature in the infected.\n\n\"They're not undead, they're not mindless brain-eaters - they hunt and behave like a pack, like wolves.\"\n\nBut the director says he's not trying to shy away from it being labelled as a zombie movie, as he's a big fan of the genre.\n\n\"I adore zombie films, but the idea was 'what would happen next? What's the film that starts where most films end?' And the idea of somebody being cured.\n\n\"So I'm inspired by them, and I pray to be in that genre, but if you were in this world, I think you'd naturally say infected rather than zombie.\n\n\"Zombie generally means undead, and these guys aren't undead - it's an animal infection.\"\n\nPage is known for her roles in Juno and the X-Men films\n\nSo, given that a zombie film has never won best picture at the Oscars, does Page think it's about time one did?\n\n\"I got sent the script for The Cured and was blown away. I was so compelled, I thought it was suspenseful and thought-provoking. It's like an intense family drama, but also a genre movie.\"\n\nShe co-stars in the film with Irish actor Sam Keeley, who praised Freyne for dealing with complex themes without being too preachy.\n\n\"You open any newspaper, turn on any news channel, it's all there, particularly in the last few years, the dramatic change in politics, the refugee crisis, Charlottesville - it's all insanity that's going on around us all the time,\" he says.\n\n\"But David did a clever thing by not beating people over the head with a message. He wrapped it in a way that people could absorb and then take that away.\"\n\nRead more from the festival:\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 Skye bridge was opened in 1995\n\nAn MSP has questioned whether Skye is a \"real island\" on account of the bridge linking it to the mainland. But what is a \"real\" island? To put it another way, when is an island not an island?\n\nJohn Mason provoked an audible intake of breath from the rural economy committee when he suggested that Skye \"doesn't have the problems of ferries and transport which real islands do\" on account of its bridge.\n\nThe committee's convener Edward Mountain - not a real mountain - was quick to underline that \"I'm sure we can all agree that Skye is an island\", and Skye MSP Kate Forbes noted that \"we'd have to rewrite the Skye Boat Song\" if Mr Mason was right.\n\nBut this is not the first row over what is or is not an island in Scotland. In 2011, Argyll and Bute Council saw its budget shrink due to Seil being declared no longer deserving of island funding, on account of its road bridge.\n\nSo what are the facts behind this?\n\nTo start with, this is not an issue unique to Scotland. The South China Sea is currently a hotbed of rather more serious tensions over the status of various artificial islands, which have been built on top of coral atolls and rocks.\n\nAt one point in 2003, the EU claimed that Britain was not an island, in a proposed new definition that excluded anything \"attached to the mainland by a rigid structure\".\n\nAnd to consider the contents of this rabbit-hole on an even greater scale, Australia, at 7 million square kilometres, is considered a continent, not an island, while the smaller but still massive Greenland, at 2 million sq km, is an island, not a continent.\n\nThe Scottish government's Islands Bill, which prompted Mr Mason's chin-stroking, describes an island as \"a naturally formed area of land which is surrounded on all sides by the sea (ignoring artificial structures such as bridges), and above water at high tide\".\n\nThat seems fairly reasonable, but it appears to go against a move the government itself made in 2011, when it apparently reclassified the island status of Seil.\n\nSeil has been linked to the Scottish mainland by the Clachan Bridge since 1792. The bridge is only about 22 metres long, but spans a channel linked to the ocean at both ends, leading to its nickname: \"the bridge over the Atlantic\".\n\nHowever, in 2011 the government reviewed areas in receipt of the Special Islands Needs Allowance, and concluded that Seil no longer met the criteria - ultimately costing the local authority, Argyll and Bute Council, some £400,000 in funding.\n\nIs Skye (left) an island, while Seil (right) is not?\n\nGovernment officials justified the inclusion of Skye in the Islands Bill by citing the 2011 census, which listed 93 \"inhabited islands\" in Scotland.\n\nThese range from relatively heavily populated area like Lewis and Harris, Shetland and Orkney down to five tiny islands which each have a single occupant.\n\nThe census defines an island as being \"a mass of land surrounded by water, separate from the Scottish mainland\", and adds that: \"Islands are still classified as individual islands even when they are linked to other islands or to the mainland by connections such as a bridge, causeway or ford.\"\n\nThis certainly describes Skye - but it also describes Seil.\n\nIn fact, the census report actually includes both in the list of 93 inhabited islands.\n\nThe Clachan Bridge links Seil to the mainland - which has cost the local council £400,000\n\nThe answer to this conundrum lies in the specific funding mechanism disputed in the case of Seil.\n\nThe Special Islands Needs Allowance is designed to funnel cash to councils with needs and \"characteristics unique to island communities\". Some 85% of its budget goes to the three \"islands councils\" - in Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles.\n\nCrucially, this fund does not apply to islands linked to the mainland by bridges - \"islands with road bridge links are not eligible, as it is clearly easier to get there by road\".\n\nThe government justified this in the case of Seil on the grounds that \"in many cases the costs of providing public services on such islands [with bridges] will be similar to rural communities on the mainland, which are already accommodated for under the general distribution formula\".\n\nThis refers to the fact that councils with a large number of islands in their local area - like Argyll and Bute, Highland and North Ayrshire - receive block funding grants per head of population above the Scottish average.\n\nSo both Skye and Seil are islands, but thanks to their bridges neither get specific islands funding.\n\nWhen is an island not an island? The answer appears to be, when money is involved.", "This 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\nWhen Apple chief Tim Cook declared the iPhone X \"the biggest leap forward since the first iPhone\" at his latest launch extravaganza, you couldn't help but wonder if he was referring to its features or its price.\n\nWith the top-end model costing £1,149, customers are paying a premium to swap their fingerprint sensor for a facial scanner and the ability to make an animated monkey or poo emoji copy their bemused looks.\n\nIn opting to refer to the model as \"ten\" rather than \"x\", the firm has also thrown its naming convention into a bit of confusion - will there ever be an iPhone 9 - or indeed IX?\n\nOf course, that's a problem for another day. And the internet has had plenty else to chew over in the meantime...\n\nSome critics believe the iPhone X makes the new iPhone 8 models look outdated\n\nThe two biggest questions for me focus on the iPhone X's most daring design change, ditching the home button. Will it actually make the phone more convenient to use? And will using your face to unlock the phone benefit you, or is it just a workaround?\n\nThe iPhone X may be the most powerful iPhone ever, but compared to almost any other Android flagships, it's hard to pick out a category where it leads the pack - at least on paper when comparing raw specifications. But if Apple has shown one thing time and again with every iPhone generation, it's that optimisation of hardware and software matter just as much - if not more.\n\nThe iPhone X's new design - a 5.8in, edge-to-edge display -has raised hopes that it can reverse Apple's fortunes in China, where sales have fallen six straight quarters. Chinese consumers are more influenced by a phone's appearance than consumers in other markets, and Apple had kept the same appearance for three years.\n\nA $1,000 iPhone could add as much as 6% to Apple's 2018 earnings per share... but that depends on the iPhone X being a hit, and there's more competition from lower-cost Chinese competitors such as Huawei and Xiaomi, which timed the introduction of their new phones around Apple's launch to attract customers who may be deterred by the iPhone X's price.\n\nApple has crafted a stunning new flagship. In a time when existing iPhones were starting to look a little - dare I say - pedestrian in comparison to what Samsung, LG, and others were doing in hardware, the iPhone X has accelerated through and can spar with the best of them.\n\nWhat did bother me a little more than expected were the bezels that run around the screen... Given that Apple's competition has done an incredible job trimming the cruft from around their displays, I can't help but feel that the iPhone X's design doesn't have the same kind of impact as, say, the Essential or Samsung's recent Galaxys.\n\nThe very notion of using your face as the key to your digital secrets presents some fundamental problems... It's very hard to hide your face from someone who wants to coerce you to unlock your phone, like a mugger, a customs agent, or a policeman who has just arrested you. In some cases, criminal suspects in the US can invoke the Fifth Amendment protections from self-incrimination to refuse to give up their phone's passcode. That same protection doesn't apply to your face.\n\nAll the focus today was on the innovations in the X.But it all made the new 8 look like a rather boring, \"plain old\" iPhone - and the price for that has just gone up $50 as well.\n\nThe X is the best iPhone, no questions, and it's quickly jumped to the top of the best phones, period. Yeah, it's going to cost you, but you already knew that.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I gaze into the iPhone and the iPhone gazes back at me\" - Nietzsche. @ericasadun\n\nI'm not sure how the iPhone X face recognition will distinguish between me with make-up and without make-up. Because the difference is real. @kandeejohnson\n\nSo if you were sleeping and your girl picks the iPhone X and puts it in your face, it just unlocks it yeah? Lol. Thanks Apple. But no, thanks. @DrOlufunmilayo\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Isabel Hsu @ MARVEL This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nI think the leaks spoiled the iPhone X keynote, but Apple also didn't do enough to show why augmented reality matters. @tomwarren\n\nThe choice is simple: The iPhone X or 363 coffees. @joshtgoossen\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Austin This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nReleasing the iPhoneX and 8 at the same time is strange, surely those who get the 8 will feel they've not got the latest iPhone. @Mr_Iconic\n\nThe iPhone X is over a thousand dollars but I get to make myself into a poop emoji, so ya, it's worth it. @donaldcookie\n\niPhone X has facial recognition. It'll look at your face and tell you that you can't afford it. - Abhimanyu Singh\n\nFace ID seems like an over-engineered fix that they were forced to include because they couldn't integrate a fingerprint scanner into the screen - Nick Farina\n\nHow on earth can they justify the same price in $s as in £s... utterly shameful! I won't be buying on that basis alone. - Darren Taylor\n\nThey made the 8 almost identical to the 7 so people would have to spend the extra money for the X. And I'm sure I'll buy one even though I know what they did. - Patrick Michael\n\nGoogle has just been given a gift. Apple could have really done something that would have caused Android fans angst today. It did not. Instead, we're looking toward the Pixel 2 launch in October with renewed interest. - Robert Scoble\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: A hands on with the new iPhone 8 Plus\n\nApple isn't the first in facial recognition (by a long shot) but they will without a doubt make facial recognition competitive by making it better. This is how they always work. - Leprecon\n\nThe lack of any fingerprint reader could cause problems for people who either cover their face for religious or professional reasons as well as for blind people. Really hoping Apple thought about these issues. - danius353\n\nThe iPhone home button was what made it look like a iPhone. The little round button was so iconic. Now the iPhone X looks like any other phone really especially if you put a case on it. - Ihavefallen\n\nX2? XS? What are they going to call the next one? - Alteran195", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDame Kiri Te Kanawa, one of opera's most celebrated stars, has told the BBC she will never sing in public again.\n\nDame Kiri, 73, said she stopped performing a year ago, but had not announced her retirement until now.\n\n\"I don't want to hear my voice,\" said the soprano, whose career has spanned more than half a century.\n\n\"It is in the past. When I'm teaching young singers and hearing beautiful young fresh voices, I don't want to put my voice next to theirs.\"\n\nDame Kiri has appeared at all the world's major opera houses and concert halls. She made her name in 1971 when she was cast as the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro at Covent Garden. At the time she was barely known.\n\nHer career took off after playing the Countess in The Marriage of Figaro\n\n\"I've had such an amazing career,\" the New Zealander said. But she was adamant she wanted to decide \"when it was going to be the last note\".\n\nHowever, she admitted it took her five years \"to say the goodbye in my own mind\", adding: \"I've taken that time.\"\n\nWhat turned out to be her final performance was a concert in Ballarat near Melbourne in Australia last October. \"Before I'd gone on, I said, right, this it. And that was the end.\"\n\nDame Kiri, who is of part-Maori ancestry, said she now never even sings in the shower but has no regrets and doesn't miss singing. She said: \"Look what I had. The memories are lovely.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dame Kiri te Kanawa marked her birthday with a performance of Donizetti's comic opera La Fille du Regiment\n\nShe has certainly achieved a level of fame rare for a classical performer. Six hundred million people heard her sing Let the Bright Seraphim by Handel at the wedding of the Prince and Princess of Wales in 1981.\n\n\"I was told two or three months before, you will sing this song,\" she revealed. \"Can you imagine holding that inside you for months and months, not being able to mention it to anyone?\"\n\nBut after the death of the Princess of Wales in 1997, she never sang it again. \"I never wanted to,\" she said. \"When she died, I felt that I should put that song away forever.\"\n\nShe has not even listened to the piece again since then. \"In sort of respect for her, and the death and everything about it was such a terrible thing that I never wanted to hear it again.\"\n\nDame Kiri runs her own Foundation to support young New Zealand singers\n\nDame Kiri was also the first singer to perform the Rugby World Cup anthem World in Union in 1991. Her other career highlights include a guest appearance in ITV's Downton Abbey in 2013.\n\nHer focus now, she said, was training what she called the future stars of opera through her own Foundation.\n\nAnd she is being honoured with a lifetime achievement award at the Gramophone Classical Music Awards. \"It's very, very special,\" she said.\n\nNonetheless, she thinks it is \"self-indulgent\" to dwell on the past.\n\nAnd she insisted that when she did reflect on her career, she never felt completely satisfied. \"I never really achieved perfection of the 100% that I would have liked to.\n\n\"I never actually came off stage saying, 'I've really nailed it.' Never. I always thought there was a mistake in it.\n\n\"I was constantly analysing through the whole of the performance what I'd done.\"\n\nBut, she added with a wry smile: \"I did keep trying.\"\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.", "Under the headline \"rebels' gamble\", the Sun criticises the Conservative MPs who have tabled amendments to the European Union Withdrawal Bill.\n\nThe legislation, which would end the supremacy of EU law in Britain, cleared its first hurdle in the Commons early on Tuesday morning.\n\nThe Sun warns that by potentially hindering its progress, Tory rebels are increasing the risk that the legal system will be \"in chaos\" when the UK leaves in March 2019.\n\nThe Telegraph believes those who obstruct the Bill \"risk undermining the chances of getting a good deal, and damaging the national interest\".\n\nThe Guardian uses the speech on Wednesday by the European Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker, as an opportunity to assess the health of the EU.\n\nIts opinion column agues that the Brexit vote, the refugee crisis, and the rise of nationalist parties across Europe are challenges which have actually made the bloc stronger. It concludes that \"better awareness of this in Britain is long overdue\".\n\n\"Will Sky finally be the limit for Murdoch?\" asks the \"i\". The question refers to the announcement by Culture Secretary Karen Bradley that she is likely to ask the Competition and Markets Authority to look at Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB takeover bid.\n\nIn its Lombard column, the Financial Times suggests that the media magnate must miss the days when \"it was the Sun wot won it\".\n\nThe Daily Telegraph's front page headline is \"NHS: winter flu to be worst ever\".\n\nThe warning comes from Simon Stevens, the head of the health service in England, who says services will be put under increased pressure.\n\nIn its leader, the Daily Mirror says the comments by Mr Stevens \"must be taken seriously\". It urges readers to \"get flu jabs where possible, so the NHS can concentrate on the most vulnerable\".\n\nA long-term study, suggesting women can take hormone replacement therapy without fear that it will cause early death, is the lead in the Times.\n\nResearchers used data on 27,000 women aged between 50 and 79. The paper quotes Professor JoAnn Manson of Harvard Medical School, who led the study, saying it \"fundamentally provides reassurance for women\".\n\nMany of the papers reflect on the career of Sir Peter Hall, who died on Monday.\n\nThe Times says the \"theatre world salutes a colossus\".\n\nThe Guardian has a large picture of Sir Peter on its front page. The headline is a tribute from its theatre critic, Michael Billington: \"He left British theatre infinitely richer than he found it\".\n\nSir Peter Hall, the founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company, died at the age of 86\n\nThe Daily Mail reports that the Unite union leader, Len McCluskey, when asked about the possibility of illegal strikes over public sector pay, said: \"I daresay if you'd have been interviewing Nelson Mandela or Mahatma Gandhi... you'd be telling them they were breaking the law.\"\n\nThe paper is unimpressed by the association.\n\nIts leader asks: \"Could the contrast be any starker between those gentle champions of democracy and Mr McCluskey, with his bellicose contempt for the law?\"\n\nFinally, the Times reports on how the US Republican senator, Ted Cruz, has been drawn into a controversy over what the paper describes as a \"Twitter porn gaffe\".\n\nA pornographic video was \"liked\" by Mr Cruz's official account on the site.\n\nThe paper says he blamed the incident on a \"staffing issue\", suggesting that someone with access to the account had inadvertently hit the \"like\" button.", "Sir Peter Hall was one of the great champions of British theatre.\n\nIn a career spanning seven decades, he acted, directed theatre and opera, and, occasionally, made forays into film and TV.\n\nHe founded the Royal Shakespeare Company and was director of the National Theatre for 15 years.\n\nAnd he fought tenaciously to persuade governments of all colours to maintain public funding for the arts.\n\nPeter Reginald Frederick Hall was born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, on 22 November 1930.\n\nHis father was a railway clerk, later a stationmaster. The family was not well-off.\n\n\"People always giggle when I say that I grew up on a single-line railway station with no running water and no electricity,\" he told the Guardian in 2005. \"But, in the 1930s, that's the way it was.\"\n\nSir Peter remembered his father as a man of little ambition, adding that it was his mother, Grace, who was the driving force in the family.\n\nThe daughter of a butcher, she had a sound belief in the principles of a good education and \"getting on\", and Hall inherited her drive.\n\nThe family moved to Cambridge, where Hall had his first taste of a public production - Mozart's Requiem in King's College.\n\nHe was immediately smitten and began staying regularly with a relative in London so he could attend the theatre and opera.\n\n\"I saw Gielgud's Hamlet when I was 12,\" he later recalled, \"standing at the back for sixpence.\"\n\nAlthough German bombs were falling on London, people crowded into theatres as an escape from the war, and he witnessed some of the greatest actors of the age.\n\nWatching Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier and Peggy Ashcroft quickly convinced Hall that he wanted to become a theatre director.\n\n\"There wasn't any question in my head of doing anything else,\" he said.\n\nFollowing a spell of National Service in the RAF, he won a scholarship to St Catharine's College, Cambridge, to study English.\n\nIn his third year, he booked a theatre and made his directorial debut with a performance of Jean Anouilh's Point of Departure.\n\n\"I remember an almost physical sense of release and pleasure rehearsing a play,\" he later recalled. \"I thought, this is what I want to do.\"\n\nHis final play at Cambridge, Luigi Pirandello's Henry IV, brought him good reviews and an invitation to make his professional directorial debut at the Theatre Royal, Windsor, in 1953.\n\nHe also secured a job at London's Arts Theatre as a script reviewer. When the artistic director John Fernald left, Hall found himself running his own West End theatre at the age of 24.\n\nA Midsummer Night's Dream, with Judi Dench, was one of his last productions for the RSC\n\nWithin weeks of beginning his tenure, the script of Waiting for Godot arrived. Hall was initially unimpressed.\n\n\"I haven't the foggiest idea what some of it is about,\" he told the cast. \"But if we stop to discuss every line, we will never open.\"\n\nIn the event, Hall's production of what was the play's British debut had the effect of making him one of the most talked-about directors in the country.\n\nHe appeared on the BBC, was interviewed for Vogue magazine and was invited to direct the stage version of the musical Gigi.\n\nThat show starred the French actress Leslie Caron. She and Hall married in 1956.\n\nBut the biggest boost that Godot gave to Hall's career was the invitation to run the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.\n\nAt the time, the theatre merely ran a regional Shakespeare festival - not nearly enough for the ambitious Hall.\n\nThe concept of a Royal Shakespeare Company was born in Hall's imagination, in which he envisaged a London theatre and a move into a wider range of drama.\n\nHe alternately bullied and cajoled the theatre management and eventually got his way. The newly-born RSC opened its first London season at the Aldwych Theatre in 1961.\n\nIts ensemble cast - a relatively new concept at the time - included exciting young actors such as Peter O'Toole and Vanessa Redgrave.\n\nHe also recruited Trevor Nunn and later Peter Brook. The appointment of the latter led to the controversial Theatre of Cruelty season in 1964.\n\nIt was an exciting time both for the theatre and the wider arts world, and Hall revelled in the new socially liberal scene of the 1960s.\n\nBut the pressures were taking their toll after a series of mental and physical breakdowns.\n\nHis marriage to Leslie Caron had ended in 1965 after her affair with the actor Warren Beatty, and Hall later married his assistant, Jacky Taylor.\n\nHall brought a young and enthusiastic team to the National\n\nIn 1968, he quit the RSC and briefly disappeared from the limelight.\n\nFor a time, he turned his attention to directing opera, both at Glyndebourne and the Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden.\n\nIn 1972, it emerged that he had been offered the job of running the National Theatre, which was due to move into its new modernist home on London's South Bank.\n\nHis appointment attracted a great deal of flak, not least from those who had been passed over for the job.\n\nJonathan Miller referred to him as \"a safari-suited bureaucrat\" who would suck all of Britain's talent and cash into the new theatre.\n\nHall, never the most gregarious of men, was prone to rub people up the wrong way.\n\nHe was accused of theatrical class distinction, grovelling to the stars and treating lesser mortals with disdain.\n\nWith cast members from a 1988 production of Twelfth Night\n\nHowever, others praised him for going into battle - not least to secure the funds the theatre needed to achieve a sound financial footing.\n\nNot only did he have to contend with funding, there was also the problem of the building itself, which was behind schedule and over budget.\n\nHall finally got things under way in 1976 with a production of Beckett's Happy Days, before the unions walked out and closed the building down.\n\nA year later he received a knighthood for services to British theatre.\n\nBut, after the early trials and tribulations, things improved. Sir Peter managed to successfully establish the theatre and sent the company out on a series of well-received foreign tours.\n\nHe quit the National in 1986. \"I was ready to leave,\" he said. \"Fifteen years is probably five years too long.\"\n\nWith Elaine Paige in a production of The Misanthrope at the Piccadilly Theatre\n\nHe continued to direct, highlights being his 1988 production of Orpheus Descending and a musical version of Ionesco's Rhinoceros, for which Hall wrote the lyrics and co-wrote the libretto.\n\nSir Peter was still working on the eve of his ninth decade, with a production of Pygmalion at the Hong Kong Arts Festival.\n\nWhile his first love was the stage, he occasionally ventured into film and television.\n\nMost of these forays involved classical plays and opera, although he did direct Channel 4's 1992 adaptation of Mary Wesley's novel The Camomile Lawn.\n\nHe was appointed director emeritus of the Rose Theatre, Kingston upon Thames, enticing Dame Judi Dench to appear in his sell-out production of A Midsummer's Night Dream in 2010.\n\nAfter divorcing Jacky Taylor in 1981, he married the opera singer Maria Ewing in 1982.\n\nThe marriage ended in 1990 and he married his fourth wife, Nicky Frei, the same year.\n\nSir Peter Hall's great gift was that he excelled as an administrator as well as a theatre director.\n\nHe was a skilled administrator and director\n\n\"I love politics,\" he once said. \"I do love committees, I do love getting things done.\"\n\nHis detractors saw him as a schemer and a manipulator, but there was little doubt about his talent as a director. He always preferred to act as an interpreter of playwright's work, rather than imposing his own concept.\n\nThe playwright Harold Pinter, many of whose works Sir Peter directed, was clear about his abilities. \"I've seen productions of my work in various places that have really distorted the whole thing,\" he said.\n\n\"Peter never allows this. He doesn't impose, he discovers.\"\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. Brexit is \"a very sad and tragic moment in our history\"\n\nThe UK will \"soon regret\" leaving the EU, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has said.\n\nMr Juncker told the European Parliament that Brexit would be a \"sad, tragic\" moment for the EU but that the 27-member union would \"move on\".\n\n\"Brexit is not the future of Europe. It is not the be all and end all.\"\n\nBut, speaking in the same debate, ex-UKIP leader Nigel Farage said the EU had \"learnt nothing\" from Brexit and was ploughing \"full steam ahead\".\n\nIn his state of the union speech in Strasbourg, Mr Juncker proposed an EU summit on the day after Brexit, 30 March 2019, in the Romanian city of Sibiu to map out the future of the European Union.\n\nHe called for closer economic and defence co-operation among member states, including more support for states outside the eurozone to prepare them to join the single currency, and reforms to the single market.\n\nReflecting on the economic and political challenges that the continent had faced in recent years, he said the \"wind is back in Europe's sails\".\n\nWhile he respected the choice of the British people to go their own way, he said the UK's exit would prove a \"very sad, tragic moment in our history\" which we \"will always regret\".\n\nResponding to UKIP MEPs in the chamber, who had cheered the mention of the UK's exit, he added - in an off-the-cuff remark not included in advance copies of the speech - \"I think you will regret it as well soon, if I might say.\"\n\nBut he went on to stress that Brexit \"was not everything\" and an increasingly confident EU would continue to advance, focusing as he put it on the big strategic challenges rather than \"the small things\".\n\nMr Farage, the best known campaigner in the Parliament for the UK's withdrawal from the EU, attacked what he said were \"truly worrying\" plans to create a single president of the EU, an EU finance minister and a \"strong EU army in a militarised Europe\".\n\nHe said what was being proposed was \"more Europe in every single direction... without the consent of the people\".\n\nThe EU would further centralise power after Brexit, Mr Farage said\n\nHe also warned the idea of allowing future candidates to the European Parliament to stand on transnational tickets, rather than representing nation states, was anti-democratic and \"reminiscent of regimes of old\".\n\n\"You have learnt nothing from Brexit. If you had offered David Cameron concessions, particularly on immigration, I would have to admit that the Brexit vote would never ever have happened,\" he said.\n\nTelling MEPs \"thank God we are leaving\", Mr Farage said the EU was \"deluding itself\" if it believed the \"populist wave\" of protests against the established European political order was over.\n\nResponding to Mr Juncker's comments, justice minister Sam Gyimah said his initial reaction was \"he would say that, wouldn't he\" and he had signalled a future direction for Europe that \"Britain was never going to go in\".\n\nRather than \"berating Britain\", the Conservative MP told the BBC's Daily Politics that the EU's best interests would be served by agreeing a Brexit deal which made the whole of Europe more prosperous and secure.\n\nNegotiations between the UK and EU are continuing although the latest round of talks, due to begin on Monday, have been put back a week to allow \"more time for consultation\".\n\nSpeaking on Tuesday, former Brexit minister Lord Bridges said the UK must be \"honest\" about the \"complexity and scale\" of leaving the EU as well as the lack of time to reach agreement with the EU.\n\nAnd France's economy minister has sounded a warning that it will aggressively target new business as it seeks to make Paris the pre-eminent financial centre on the continent.\n\nChanges to the country's labour laws meant France would become the \"place to be\" for financial services, Benjamin Griveaux told BBC Radio 4's Today, while acknowledging London would remain a major player.\n\n\"We need to have a fair Brexit, but we need to move on and we need probably more clarity and less ambiguity from the British government regarding the target of Brexit,\" he added.", "John Michie said his daughter Louella was \"so very positive\"\n\nThe death of a 25-year-old woman at a music festival, which sparked a police murder inquiry, involved \"no malice\", her father has said.\n\nLouella Michie, 25, was found in a wooded area of the Bestival site at Lulworth, Dorset, early on Monday.\n\nHer father, 60-year-old Holby City actor John Michie, said his daughter \"appeared to have taken an illegal substance\" along with a male friend.\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and supplying a controlled drug.\n\nThe 28-year-old suspect, who knew Ms Michie, was later released pending further inquiries.\n\nIn a statement, Mr Michie, who also appeared in Coronation Street and Taggart, said the \"horrific tragedy\" happened when his daughter attended the festival with a friend.\n\nHe said: \"We do not believe there to have been any malice intended in [their] weekend at Bestival.\n\n\"They appear to have taken an illegal substance but we would appreciate cautious and sensitive reporting until the facts are known.\n\n\"Louella inspired all who knew her with her joy of life. The family would like to thank everyone for their heartfelt tributes and messages.\"\n\nThe four-day Bestival event was being held at a new site for the first time this year\n\nA post-mortem examination revealed no signs of an assault on Ms Michie, although further tests were needed to establish the cause of her death, police said.\n\nIn a statement on Monday, modelling agency The Eye Casting said: \"It is with profound sadness and shock that we have heard of the death of our beautiful model Louella Michie.\n\n\"The thoughts of us all are with her sister Daisy and the rest of the family at this tragic time.\"\n\nBestival was first held in 2004 at Robin Hill on the Isle of Wight, but the four-day annual event was held at Lulworth Estate for the first time this year.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Unions have threatened strikes if the public sector pay cap remains in place\n\nIn August 2013, the Bank of England Governor said he would consider raising interest rates when the unemployment rate came down to 7%.\n\nAt the time, it was 7.8% - today it is at a 42 year low of 4.3% and rather than raising rates, the only adjustment the bank has made is to cut rates further in the aftermath of the referendum result.\n\nHe thought, along with most economists, that as unemployment came down, wages would start to rise and that would be the sensible time to consider returning interest rates to normal levels rather than levels associated with economic intensive care.\n\nWhat happened? And more importantly what should the Bank of England do now?\n\nUsually, as the unemployment rate falls, competition for available workers increases and, therefore, so do wages.\n\nThis relationship is called the Phillips Curve but it has become increasingly apparent that someone, or something, has taken a Phillips screwdriver to this mechanism. We have the lowest unemployment since 1975 and yet wage growth is weak.\n\nThere are several competing theories as to what has happened to alter this relationship. The most hotly debated of these explanations is that we have an inexhaustible supply of cheap labour from the EU which is holding down wages.\n\nA Bank of England research paper found that in low skilled occupations, every 10% increase in the ratio of migrant to native worker created a 1.88% fall in wages.\n\nThere was no evidence it affected higher skilled jobs at all and so the impact on overall UK wages would be, in the words of the author Stephen Nickell, \"infinitesimally small\".\n\nIt's also worth noting that stagnant wage growth is a global phenomenon to be found in the US and also Japan where net migration is negligible.\n\nThe business lobby points out that an array of additional burdens on them such as the introduction of the apprenticeship levy (affecting big businesses), the introduction of the living wage, and the roll out of auto-enrolment (affects smaller businesses more) means they simply can't afford to offer higher wages.\n\nIt makes intuitive sense that an increase in overall labour costs would make it harder to raise basic pay.\n\nPay growth did indeed fall around the time of auto-enrolments introduction in 2013 but in the years since, wage growth has fluctuated from 1% to 3% so there doesn't appear to be any lasting impact.\n\nSome argue Uber does not pay its drivers enough\n\nAlso, it would presumably act as an equally powerful disincentive to hiring people in the first place which it clearly hasn't.\n\nThe changing nature of work is also a suspect in this mystery.\n\nThe economist Martin Beck has made powerful arguments that companies which offer less secure forms of employment, like Uber, can switch their demand for labour on and off based on its cost - meaning pay rates no longer move upward as unemployment moves downward.\n\nThis has the important knock-on effect, argues Beck, that workers become so cheap that companies are tempted to use them rather than invest in more productive machines and processes so worker productivity (and the ability to pay them more per hour) declines.\n\nOne of the least discussed explanations is the decline in power of labour organisations. Unions experienced their biggest fall in membership since records began last year losing 275,000 members.\n\nUnite boss Len McCluskey wields influence, but union membership has been falling\n\nUnion membership has halved since the late 1970s and both the rise in self employment and the fall in public sector roles could make it hard to reverse that decline.\n\nThere are probably elements of all of these factors at work. What really matters it not so much whether your pay is going up 1% or 3% but more, what your wages are doing compared to inflation.\n\nRight now more of us are working than ever before and yet on average we are getting a bit poorer every day as inflation devours any income growth.\n\nThe question is when will it change - and why?\n\nThe Bank of England expects wage growth to exceed inflation next year for two reasons.\n\nThe first one is a pretty solid bet. Inflation will fall as the effect of sterling's post-referendum drop works its way through the system. Comparing prices of imports now to the same time last year will stop showing such a big rise.\n\nThe second reason is that it's convinced we must now be near the threshold when low unemployment begins to push wages higher.\n\nIt's been wrong on this before of course, but there is increasing evidence from recruitment firms that scarcity of available workers is beginning to force employers to offer higher salaries in some sectors.\n\nThe Bank of England's chief economist, Andy Haldane, could vote for a rate rise\n\nPresiding over an economy in which working people are getting poorer every day is not a very comfortable political position to be in. We have seen the cap on public sector workers' pay loosened this week, under pressure from a TUC threatening strike action and a rejuvenated Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nThe government will be dearly hoping the Bank is right this time.\n\nWe will get an inkling of how confident the Bank is in this prediction when it votes on interest rates tomorrow.\n\nLast time only two out of the nine rate setters thought the time was right to nudge rates higher. Previously one other, Chief Economist Andy Haldane, has said he might join them later this year.\n\nIt will be worth keeping an eye out for how he votes.", "At least 80 people died at Grenfell Tower\n\nLondon's fire commissioner says the Grenfell Tower blaze must be a \"turning point\", calling for sprinklers in all high-rise council flats.\n\nAt least 80 people died when fire engulfed the west London block in June.\n\nA BBC Breakfast investigation which focused on half the UK's council and housing association-owned tower blocks found just 2% have full sprinkler systems.\n\nOf those, 68% have just one staircase through which to evacuate.\n\nA public inquiry will look at the causes of the fire, the adequacy of high-rise regulations, Grenfell Tower's refurbishment, and the actions of public authorities before and after the blaze.\n\nThe inquiry will hold its first hearing on Thursday, with an initial report due by Easter.\n\nThe Department for Communities and Local Government says it will consider whether to retrofit sprinklers based on the inquiry's recommendations.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDany Cotton, commissioner of the London Fire Brigade, said: \"I think Grenfell should be a turning point.\n\n\"I support retrofitting - for me where you can save one life then it's worth doing.\n\n\"This can't be optional, it can't be a nice to have, this is something that must happen.\n\n\"If that isn't one of the recommendations (of the Grenfell Tower inquiry) then I will be so very disappointed.\"\n\nIn 2007, sprinklers were made compulsory in new-build high rises over 98 feet (30m) tall in England.\n\nThis requirement was not applied retroactively so did not apply to Grenfell Tower, which was built in 1974.\n\nCroydon Council, in south London, has taken the decision to retrofit sprinklers in its 25 high-rise blocks at a cost of £10m.\n\nCouncillor Alison Butler, Croydon's deputy leader and cabinet member for homes, regeneration and planning, said: \"Grenfell changed everything. It was horrifying.\n\n\"It brings home to you as a council that there are a lot of things you do, but this one is about saving lives.\"\n\nThe council says the Department of Communities and Local Government failed to offer any financial support to install sprinklers when the council requested it earlier this year.\n\nIn a letter to the council, Housing Minister Alok Sharma said \"It is the landlord's responsibility to ensure people are safe, and cost considerations should not get in the way of this.\"\n\nHe did say support would be provided to prevent crucial safety work from falling through on cost grounds.\n\nThe report into the Lakanal House fire in 2009 supported the introduction of sprinklers\n\nAfter the inquest into tower block fire in 2009, coroner Frances Kirkham recommended the government \"encourage\" housing providers to retrofit sprinkler systems in high rise flats.\n\nSix people were killed in the fire in Lakanal House, in Southwark, London, in July 2009.\n\nAlan Brinson, executive director of campaign group the European Fire Sprinkler Network, said that sprinklers could significantly reduce fire deaths.\n\n\"Nothing compares to them in saving lives,\" he said.\n\nEvidence from the US shows that deaths per thousand reported fires were 87% lower where sprinklers were fitted.\n\nMajor fires in high rises with sprinklers in which nobody died\n\nIn Wales, all new homes built from 2016 now have to be fitted with sprinkler systems.\n\nAnn Jones, Labour AM for the Vale of Clywd, pushed reforms through the Welsh Assembly.\n\n\"After 30 years in the fire service, I saw many firefighters coming back from incidents of fires where they had lost people, and the devastation that that causes,\" she said.\n\n\"I decided I was going to try to put in a system that would help fire safety, and for me, sprinklers in all new build homes was that opportunity.\"\n\nScotland also has stronger regulation than England, with new residential buildings taller than 18m requiring sprinklers.\n\nBBC research found 30% of the blocks investigated had some kind of cladding, though not the same ACM cladding that played a role at Grenfell.\n\nSome of this cladding will have passed safety tests, and some will still be undergoing checks.\n\nLondon Mayor Sadiq Khan said: \"The results from the BBC investigation should be a source of concern to us all.\n\n\"The Grenfell public inquiry must report as soon as possible so that action can be taken.\"\n\nA Department for Communities and Local Government spokesman said: \"Public safety is paramount.\n\n\"Following the Grenfell Tower tragedy, the government established a comprehensive building safety programme to ensure a fire like this can never happen again.\n\n\"This included commissioning an independent review of building regulations and fire safety. We will consider this issue in light of the recommendations of this review and the findings of the Public Inquiry.\"\n\nThe BBC questioned 56 local authorities and housing associations in towns and cities across the UK with requests under the Freedom of Information act, for high-rise properties for which they hold the freehold.\n\nThese responses covered about half of the UK's estimated 4,000 tower blocks.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nApple has revealed a high-end smartphone with an \"edge-to-edge\" screen that has no physical home button.\n\nThe iPhone X - which is referred to as \"ten\" - uses a facial recognition system to recognise its owner rather than a fingerprint-based one.\n\nApple said FaceID can work in the dark by using 30,000 infra-red dots to check an identity, and was harder to fool than its old TouchID system.\n\nIt is Apple's most expensive phone yet.\n\nA 64 gigabyte capacity model will cost $999 (£999 in the UK) when it goes on sale on 3 November. A 256GB version will be priced at $1,149 (£1,149 in the UK).\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\nBy contrast, Samsung is charging $930 (£869 in the UK) for its new Note 8 phone, which has 64GB of storage.\n\n\"The iPhone X is a long-term investment by Apple that sets a template for the next generation of iPhone hardware,\" commented Geoff Blaber from the CCS Insight consultancy.\n\n\"An OLED [organic light-emitting diode] display and the new design is likely to be standard on future iPhone models, but Apple must first tackle the challenge of obtaining sufficient supplies.\"\n\nApple said the switch to an OLED display would help the phone produce \"true blacks\" and more accurate colours than before. LG and Samsung already use similar tech on their handsets.\n\nPrior to the launch, Apple's most expensive phone was an iPhone 7 Plus that cost $969 (£919 in the UK).\n\nOne expert commented that Apple's ability to get consumers to spend more on its smartphones than rivals' was \"legendary\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: A hands on with the new iPhone 8 Plus\n\n\"There may be an element of high pricing to constrain demand and make things match up with how many they can produce,\" said Neil Mawston from Strategy Analytics.\n\n\"But I suspect Apple always had a $1,000 iPhone in mind - we had seen the price creep up year after year, and there's a lot of pressure from shareholders for the company to hit a $1tn valuation.\n\n\"Bumping up the prices on their number one product is one way of doing that.\"\n\nApple acknowledged that users might have concerns about using facial recognition to verify purchases via Apple Pay or to access their device.\n\nBut it claimed that while there was a one-in-50,000 chance that TouchID could be unlocked by a random stranger, the odds rose to one-in-one-million with FaceID.\n\nApple said it used a range of technologies to ensure its FaceID system was accurate\n\nNevertheless, one expert said users might still be concerned the handset had no fingerprint sensor as an alternative.\n\n\"This is the steepest hurdle that they have,\" commented Carolina Milanesi from market research firm Creative Strategies.\n\n\"A lot of consumers will be a little bit reluctant to use facial recognition as an ID system until Apple has proven that it is safe and works all the time.\n\n\"In the eyes of consumers TouchID wasn't broken - so they may ask why Apple is trying to fix it.\"\n\nOther features announced about the handset included:\n\nIt's the big(ger) leap that iPhone fans - and Wall Street - had been demanding.\n\nThe iPhone X brings together many features we'd been expecting - such as FaceID for unlocking the phone, and animated emojis - animojis - that look fun to play with, if not a killer feature that will have people running to stores.\n\nAll this won't come cheap: at $999+ it's the most expensive iPhone to date.\n\nApple is often accused of being slow to new tech, and I think that criticism will continue.\n\nWireless charging comes years after Samsung first introduced it, for example, and the overall look of the phone - which no longer has the iconic home button - looks strikingly similar to the latest Samsung Galaxy Note.\n\nThe iPhone X uses its face-mapping sensors to let users control the facial expressions of new animojis\n\nThe phone was unveiled in the new Steve Jobs Theater, a purpose-built venue for such launches.\n\nA beautiful, comfy building, with marble everywhere, it sits alongside Apple's striking new spaceship campus. This is the house that iPhone built, with a decade of phenomenal success.\n\nDoes iPhone X herald another great era? The audience here cheered, but didn't stand, with applause. I'm reserving my judgement until I've tried it.\n\nThe iPhone X also adds support for wireless charging.\n\n\"It was the right decision to use a standard because Apple users will benefit from widely available charge pads.\"\n\nThe feature was also introduced to the new iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus models, which were introduced earlier at the event.\n\nThe iPhone 8 models are dust and water resistant\n\nThe lower-end 4.7in and 5.5in devices are distinguished from their predecessors by having:\n\nThe iPhone 8 ranges from $699 to $849 and the iPhone 8 Plus from $799 to $949.\n\nThey will cost the same amounts in Sterling and go on sale on 22 September.\n\nThe new models coincide with the release of iOS 11 - the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system.\n\nIt introduces ARKit - software development tools that make it easier for developers to add augmented reality features to their apps, in which graphics are mixed together with real-world views.\n\nMarketing chief Phil Schiller showed off one app that - if used by spectators at a sports stadium - would show real-time stats hovering over the live action.\n\nAnother demo involved the Machines, a multiplayer robot-battle game that can be played over views of close-by table tops and other surfaces.\n\nThe facility will not work on the iPhone 6 or older devices, so may provide a means to convince owners of ageing Apple kit to upgrade.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: What can AR do on iPhone?\n\n\"When Apple first introduced the iPhone users were unsure about how touchscreens would benefit them, but now we know that they're a great way to use a device,\" said Brian Blau, a tech industry analyst at Gartner.\n\n\"The same thing will happen with augmented reality - it's as important as touch, if not more.\n\n\"Developers have new opportunities and I think they will embrace them, but just as with touch it took them years to perfect those experiences, I also think that will also happen with AR.\"\n\nApple also unveiled a version of its smartwatch with its own 4G link.\n\nThe new watch has a red crown to denote its 4G capability\n\nThe innovation means that the Watch Series 3 can receive phone calls, access internet services and stream music without being linked to an iPhone. Users will, however, face an additional monthly charge for the benefit.\n\nApple recently overtook Fitbit to become the world's joint-top wearable tech-maker alongside Xiaomi, according to one study.\n\nOther companies - including LG and Samsung - have previously sold smartwatches with in-built cellular capabilities, but battery-life restrictions and other issues limited interest.\n\n\"Apple's ability in the past to generate new markets when others thought they were dead is legendary,\" commented Mr Mawston.\n\n\"For people like joggers, runners and cyclists who possibly want to do hardcore sports outdoors without carrying two devices, an LTE Apple Watch could be something of a blessing.\"\n\nThe latest version of the Watch's operating system - which will also be available to earlier models - will include new heart monitor functions.\n\nIt will warn owners if their heart rate becomes elevated when they are not active or if its rhythm becomes irregular, to flag the possibility of disease.\n\nThe 4G Apple Watch will cost $399 (£300) and be released on 22 September.\n\nThe launch was held in the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple's new campus\n\nApple also announced a fresh version of its TV set-top box, which now supports 4K video and high dynamic range (HDR) content.\n\nIn one of the few details not to have leaked in advance, Apple revealed it had struck a deal with several of the major movie studios to ensure that films in the higher-resolution, richer-colour formats would not cost more than their high-definition (HD) equivalents.\n\nConsumers have had to pay a premium for 4K HDR movies until now\n\nUsers' existing iTunes movie libraries will also be upgraded without charge.\n\nHDR 4K movies have already been available to rent or buy from services including Amazon, but they tended to be sold at much higher prices than lower-quality formats.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rebecca with her daughter, Hannah, and baby Alistair, who was treated for Strep B\n\nAll pregnant women who go into labour too soon should be given antibiotics to protect their baby from a potentially deadly infection called Group B Strep (GBS), say new guidelines.\n\nHundreds of newborn babies a year in the UK catch it. With prompt treatment, most can make a full recovery.\n\nCurrently, two in every 20 infected babies develops a disability and one in every 20 dies.\n\nThe Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists wants to change this.\n\nIt says any woman who goes into labour before 37 weeks should be offered antibiotics as a precaution, even if her waters have not broken and the protective amniotic sac surrounding the baby in the womb is still intact.\n\nGroup B Strep bacteria can live harmlessly in the lower vaginal tract - about one in four women has it - and it can be passed on to the baby during delivery.\n\nMost women will not realise they are a carrier.\n\nThe updated guidelines from the RCOG say pregnant women should be given information about the condition to raise awareness.\n\nThey also say women who have tested positive for GBS in a previous pregnancy can be tested at 35 to 37 weeks in subsequent pregnancies to see if they also need antibiotics in labour.\n\nBut they do not go as far as recommending routine screening of mothers-to-be.\n\nThe RCOG says there is no clear evidence that this would be beneficial, as previously stated by the government's National Screening Committee but campaigners disagree.\n\nGroup B Strep Support would like every pregnant woman to be offered the opportunity to be tested for the bacteria.\n\nChief executive Jane Plumb said: \"The RCOG guideline is a significant improvement on previous editions, however, the UK National Screening Committee still recommends against offering GBS screening to all pregnant women, ignoring international evidence that shows such screening reduces GBS infection, disability and death in newborn babies.\"\n\nBaby Alistair was unaffected by GBS after his mother was given antibiotics after her waters broke\n\nRebecca Gunn, 32 and from Wakefield, had GBS during her second pregnancy.\n\n\"I had gone in to hospital after experiencing some bleeding at 17 weeks, and that is when they picked up that I was a GBS carrier.\n\n\"The diagnosis came out of the blue. I was really surprised, as GBS hadn't even crossed my mind.\"\n\nRebecca went into labour at 38 weeks and was given intravenous antibiotics after her waters broke.\n\nShe gave birth to her son, Alistair, who was fortunately unaffected by GBS.\n\n\"I knew nothing about GBS. I'm not saying this to scare people, but it's important they are informed and aware of the risks,\" 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. Chesterfield Borough Council said it hoped the design would bring more people to the town.\n\nA floral tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales, displayed as part of a town's well dressing celebrations, has been described as \"horrific\" and \"awful\".\n\nThe memorial displayed in Chesterfield Market Place marks the 20th anniversary of the death of the princess.\n\nHowever, the portrait has been mocked on social media, with some saying it looked more like Worzel Gummidge.\n\nChesterfield Borough Council said it hoped the design would bring more people to the town.\n\nThe authority published the pictures of the memorial on its Facebook page earlier, attracting mixed reviews.\n\nThe floral tribute was installed in Chesterfield Market Place\n\nSome have likened the portrait to the TV character Worzel Gummidge\n\nGayla Tuckley thought it was an \"insult to Diana\", while Catherine Bunten commented she was \"crying with laughter\".\n\nRichard Wilkins said it looked more like Worzel Gummidge, a living scarecrow played by Jon Pertwee, in the children's 1979 TV show, while Julie White commented: \"I appreciate all the work that goes into the dressing of a well but this is just awful.\"\n\nThe pictures have since gone viral, provoking many more comments, including one by Welbeck Kane who said: \"I live here [Chesterfield] and, let me tell you, I can feel its eyes on me, even now in my house.\"\n\nMany people said the portrait looked nothing like the princess\n\nA spokesman for the authority said: \"The well dressing is produced by 14 volunteers using the ancient Derbyshire art of well dressing, which involves creating designs from flower petals and other natural materials.\n\n\"All art is meant to be a talking point and that certainly seems to be the case with this year's design.\n\n\"The well dressing is designed to attract visitors to the area and if the publicity encourages more people to come and experience our historic market town and local shops then that can only be good for Chesterfield.\"\n\nThe well dressings are on display until Saturday.\n\nMany comments were posted on the council's Facebook page about the memorial\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The three fell into a pit that opened up as the parents tried to save their son\n\nA boy and his parents have died after falling into a pit in a volcanic crater at Solfatara near Naples.\n\nThe drama unfolded during a family trip at the end of the school holidays, when the 11-year-old walked past a barrier into a prohibited area.\n\nWhen his parents tried to pull him to safety, part of the crater collapsed and they fell 3m (10ft) into a hole.\n\nIt is thought all three were overcome by fumes. Their seven-year-old son did not enter the crater and survived.\n\nSolfatara of Pozzuoli is one of a number of volcanoes to the west of Naples and is popular with tourists. A dormant volcano that last erupted in 1198, it has a shallow crater and is known for its sulphurous fumes and emissions of steam.\n\nThe family was visiting from Meolo near Venice in north-eastern Italy, reports said. The parents were both in their forties. Italian reports named the three as Massimiliano Carrer, Tiziana Zaramella, and their son, Lorenzo.\n\nThe hole in the crater was visible along with the chains that rescuers had used to reach the three victims\n\nThe area where they died is known for a type of quicksand, where the ground is prone to crumbling.\n\nWhen the boy went into the quicksand, his father tried to help him and fell into the pit. His mother went to their aid and all three are thought to have become trapped and lost consciousness because of poisonous gases. The local civil protection department said that inside the pit was boiling hot mud.\n\nFirefighters managed to recover the three bodies and Pozzuoli mayor Vincenzo Figliolia said he had never come across such a tragedy at the site in 40 years.\n\nSolfatara is one of many volcanic craters in the Campi Flegrei area west of Naples\n\nThe surviving son was taken to a bar close to the entrance, where owner Armando Guerriero told La Repubblica: \"We tried to calm him down, as he was obviously very shocked. He was repeatedly asking for the rest of his family.\"\n\nThe seven-year-old was later looked after by social workers and a psychologist. He was due to be reunited with his grandparents later.\n\nA local worker at the site, Diego Vitagliano, said the accident was the worst thing he had seen in his life.", "Berries are appearing on plants and hedgerows early this year because of the unusual weather patterns.\n\nThe combination of a warm, dry spring, followed by July and August rains, has led to a plethora of berries, according to horticulturists.\n\n\"Berries are a vital part of gardens and wildlife, and things have come together this year to make an abundant and beautiful crop,\" said Guy Barter, chief horticulturist at the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS).\n\nPlants that are already bearing berries include spindle bushes (Euonymus) and firethorn (Pyracantha), while crab apples are also ripening early.\n\nThe fruits are likely to coincide with the appearance of autumn colour on leaves.\n\nSkimmia japonica: The glossy green fruit ripen to bright red in autumn\n\n\"At some stage, the autumn colours will form and you will get these wonderful colour combinations of reds, blacks, yellows and purples - something to look forward to,\" he added.\n\nTrevor Dines of the charity, Plantlife, said there have been near-perfect conditions for good fruit in our hedgerows this year.\n\nThe dry warm spring encouraged pollinating bees, wasps and flies to be out at peak flowering times in April and May.\n\nThen, the warm, wet summer was perfect for fruit development, with water around to swell the berries.\n\nMeanwhile, autumn colour is also on display in some areas.\n\n\"With the return to wetter conditions over summer, it's been a bit of an extended growing season and so it's not surprising that we're now seeing fruit set and autumn colours arriving three to five weeks earlier than normal,\" said Dr Dines.\n\n\"Oak trees in north Wales are already starting to turn colour - you'd normally not see that until late October.\"\n\nBerries can be seen on many plants at RHS Wisley in Surrey\n\nBerries are a valuable source of food for wildlife, particularly birds.\n\nThrushes, blackbirds, redwings and fieldfares feast on berries throughout the winter.\n\nThe seeds pass out through the bird's gut and are often deposited far away, helping to spread plants far and wide.", "Brook House is operated privately by G4S on behalf of the Home Office\n\nDocuments seen by the BBC's Panorama suggest G4S has been making significant profits from running two immigration removal centres near Gatwick Airport.\n\nOne, Brook House, was the focus of a Panorama investigation, which exposed chaos, bullying and the abusive treatment of detainees by some staff.\n\nThe BBC has seen a presentation stating G4S earned more than £2.4m in pre-tax profits from the centre in 2013.\n\nG4S said the sum was \"significantly overstated\".\n\nThe company said the figures were based on \"incomplete information\", adding: \"The Home Office has full access to financial information regarding the contract performance.\n\n\"Substantial savings have been passed on to the Home Office over the life of the Brook House contract.\"\n\nLabour's Yvette Cooper, who chairs the home affairs select committee, said G4S had \"serious questions\" to answer about its profits.\n\n\"Clearly it would be unacceptable for a private company to be making excessive profits out of a contract where there appears to have been abuse taking place,\" she said.\n\nThe BBC has seen a slide presentation, dated January 2014, that was shown to senior G4S managers.\n\nIt states that in 2013 the company made a profit of just under 20% before tax on the running of Brook House Immigration Removal Centre near Gatwick - a figure of more than £2.4m.\n\nIt is understood that the original agreement with the Home Office envisaged that the company would make significantly less.\n\nThe BBC has also seen more financial documents for a number of years from the period 2009 to 2016 which suggest the company has been making significant profits.\n\nThe slide presentation states that in 2013 Tinsley House Immigration Removal centre, which shares the site at Gatwick with Brook House, made a profit of 27.3% before tax, about £1.5m.\n\nSeparately, a former senior manager with the company has told the BBC that he sat in meetings where those profits were discussed.\n\nNathan Ward, who quit the company in April 2014, said profits were \"far in excess of what was meant to be made\" from the Brook House contract.\n\n\"During those meetings profit margins at the end of the year that I left were declared at around 20% for the Brook House contract,\" he said.\n\nMr Ward, who is now a priest, said people would be asked not to recruit staff in order to save money.\n\n\"And actually the motive behind it for managers locally was that if you didn't make the profit you didn't get your bonus,\" he said.\n\nHe added: \"If you are not recruiting the staff you need you have to offer overtime to existing staff who are already working extraordinarily long shifts.\"\n\nHe said this put staff \"under more stress\" and made them less able to deal with people in their care in a \"decent humane way\".\n\nThe Home Office said it was \"committed\" to ensuring immigration removal centre contractors provided a high level of service to detainees and value for money to the taxpayer.\n\n\"The G4S contract for Brook House and Tinsley House is no exception,\" it said.\n\nThe Home Office said G4S, like other firms contracted by the government, were required to meet set service standards - including ensuring minimum staffing levels are met and providing quarterly financial reports to the Home Office and Cabinet Office.\n\nIt added: \"Savings identified by G4S through smarter working practices have been, and continue to be, reported to the Home Office.\"\n\nAfter the BBC shared the slideshow with the Home Office, a spokesperson responded: \"We do not recognise the profit margins quoted and they do not reflect those reported to the Home Office, which include all overheads and shared services.\"\n\nCallum Tulley, 21, agreed to go undercover at Brook House\n\nLast week, an undercover investigation by BBC One's Panorama showed staff working in Brook House Immigration Removal Centre under huge pressure - with drugs rife and self-harm common place amongst detainees awaiting deportation.\n\nA 21-year-old detainee custody officer, Callum Tulley, had become so concerned by what he was seeing he decided to blow the whistle.\n\nWearing a secret camera, he was able to capture on film a chaotic place.\n\nSome officers were doing their best in difficult circumstances, others were seen bullying, abusing, and in one case allegedly choking a detainee.\n\nG4S has suspended 10 staff whilst it investigates the allegations made in the programme.\n\nAn 11th person, who now works for the Home Office, has also been suspended from his job.", "In the firing line - Barack Obama, the New York Times, Jill Stein and Bernie Sanders\n\nThe beauty of Hillary Clinton's new book title, What Happened, is it can be interpreted in so many ways.\n\nPerhaps it's a definitive account of the 2016 presidential election. \"Here's what happened\".\n\nMaybe it's an exclamation, like someone reacting to an unexpectedly loud noise (or an electoral earthquake). \"Yikes! What happened!?\"\n\nThen again, it could be a stern mom, who just walked in on the mess her children (the voters) made in the living room. \"Whaaaaat happened …\"\n\nOr is she the dazed boxer, picking herself up off the canvas after getting knocked out by a surprise punch from her opponent.\n\nIt's up to readers to decide for themselves, but in Mrs Clinton's recent interviews and in her book, which was formally released on Tuesday, she offers plenty of explanations from which to choose.\n\nHere's a list of just some of the factors to blame for the fact that she's hitting book stores across the country, while Donald Trump is redecorating the Oval Office.\n\n\"If not for the dramatic intervention of the FBI director in the final days we would have won the White House.\"\n\nThis isn't the first time Mrs Clinton has said the former FBI director - who wrote a letter informing Congress that he had reopened the investigation into the handling of classified material on Mrs Clinton's personal email server as secretary of state - is the main culprit behind her defeat.\n\nIn her book, Mrs Clinton calls the use of that server a \"dumb mistake\", but the resulting scandal was \"even dumber\". And in Mrs Clinton's eyes, Mr Comey's blame for the matter extends to his public announcement that he would not bring charges against Mrs Clinton, despite the fact that she had been \"extremely careless\" in her handling of classified material.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"I don't know quite what audience he was playing to, other than maybe some right-wing commentators, right-wing members of Congress, whatever,\" Mrs Clinton said of Mr Comey's press conference in July 2016.\n\nDid it matter? Heading into the election home stretch, Mrs Clinton appeared to have all the momentum. Mr Trump was reeling after the decade-old Access Hollywood tape revealed he had boasted of making unwanted sexual advances. Then Comey's letter happened, and for nearly a week the story dominated the media, casting a cloud over Mrs Clinton and giving Mr Trump room to win back his Republican base. In a race as close as this one turned out to be, it was likely enough to tip the balance to the Republican.\n\n\"I never imagined that he would have the audacity to launch a massive covert attack against our own democracy, right under our noses - and that he'd get away with it.\"\n\nAlthough few knew it at the time, there was mounting evidence over the course of the 2016 election that Russia was attempting to influence the outcome.\n\nThrough hacking of Democratic Party emails and state electoral databases, social media advert purchases and bots, and the proliferation of political propaganda, the US intelligence community has concluded that Russian President Vladimir Putin was attempting to put his finger on the electoral scale in favour of the Republican.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. All you need to know about the Trump-Russia investigation\n\nMrs Clinton, needless to say, is not amused. What's more, she is convinced that members of the Trump team colluded with Russia to help get the Republican nominee elected.\n\n\"There certainly was communication and there certainly was an understanding of some sort,\" she said in an interview with USA Today.\n\nDid it matter? If what we know Russia did is all that Russia actually did, then it almost certainly wasn't enough to hand Mr Trump the election (although it is, and should be, a major cause for concern going forward). Mrs Clinton compares Russian influence to the equivalent of a major outside political action committee contributing to a candidate. Of course, the Democrat had plenty of those kind of organisations at her disposal - and vastly outspent her opponent - and she still lost.\n\n\"I do wonder sometimes about what would have happened if President Obama had made a televised address to the nation in the fall of 2016 warning that our democracy was under attack. Maybe more Americans would have woken up to the threat in time. \"\n\nAccording to media reports, part of the reason why the nation didn't know about the evidence implicating Russia in election meddling until after the election is because President Barack Obama wouldn't go public unless he had the support of Republicans in Congress.\n\nWithout that support, the president kept quiet - concerned that any action he took would be viewed as being done for partisan benefit.\n\nMrs Clinton has plenty of words for Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, as well, who she said shamefully put partisanship ahead of national security.\n\n\"McConnell knew better,\" she writes, \"but he did it anyway.\"\n\nDid it matter? During the campaign Mrs Clinton tried to make the case that Mr Trump was a Russian \"puppet\", who took too soft a stand against Mr Putin's aggressive foreign policy. \"You're the puppet,\" was the Republican's famous debate-night retort. Americans largely shrugged it all off, but perhaps the attacks would have stuck if it had been clear that Russia's machinations reached well beyond Ukraine.\n\n\"Many in the political media … can't bear to face their own role in helping elect Trump, from providing him free airtime to giving my emails three times more coverage than all the issues affecting people's lives combined.\"\n\nIt's no secret that Mrs Clinton isn't happy about the way the media covered the presidential race. She singles out the New York Times, in particular, which she accuses of \"shoddy reporting\" about her use of a private email server and over-hyping Mr Comey's election-eve letter announcing the FBI was reopening its investigation.\n\n\"The Times was by no means been the only - or even the worst - offender,\" she writes, \"but its treatment has stung the most.\"\n\nDid it matter? Mr Trump was an unconventional candidate who garnered an unprecedented amount of media attention - and ratings. His regular disregard for political norms, his seeming invulnerability to scandals that would sink typical politicians meant reporters were hard-pressed to cover the race in the traditional both-sides-get-their-say manner. Mrs Clinton may complain that the media weren't being fair, but Mr Trump was playing by a different set of rules.\n\nBernie Sanders campaigned for Clinton in the autumn, but it's his primary shots she remembers\n\n\"His attacks caused lasting damage, making it harder to unify progressives in the general election and paving the way for Trump's 'Crooked Hillary' campaign.\"\n\nMrs Clinton still has a bone to pick with her Democratic primary opponent Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, as well.\n\nShe writes that he impugned her character, made unrealistic promises that put her in the position of being a wet-blanket realist and did little to confront those in his movement who were launching \"ugly and more than a little sexist\" attacks on her supporters.\n\nMrs Clinton also points out that Mr Sanders is not a member of the Democratic Party and, consequently, may not always have the party's best interests in mind.\n\n\"I am proud to be a Democrat, and I wish Bernie were, too,\" she writes.\n\nDid it matter? According to several post-election surveys, as many as 12% of Sanders supporters ended up voting for Mr Trump. If they had opted for Mrs Clinton, that would have been more than enough to put her over the top in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin - and give her the White House. Then again, the percentage of cross-party voting in 2016 wasn't unusual compared to historical norms.\n\n\"There were more than enough Stein voters to swing the result, just like Ralph Nader did in Florida and New Hampshire in 2000.\"\n\nThe last time a presidential candidate won the popular vote but lost the election thanks to the state-by-state idiosyncrasies of the Electoral College was in 2000, when Republican George W Bush beat Democrat Al Gore.\n\nThis historical quirk was clearly in Mrs Clinton's mind as she wrote this book, as she draws a comparison between Mr Nader's Green Party campaign and Jill Stein's in 2016.\n\nThe 2000 gap between Mr Bush and Mr Gore in Florida was 537 votes, so just a fraction of the 97,488 votes Mr Nader received in that state would have tipped the election to the Democrat.\n\nDid it matter? In 2016 Ms Stein received 1,457,216 votes, the first time since 2000 that the Green Party had topped the million mark. Put Ms Stein's Pennsylvanian, Wisconsin and Michigan voters in Mrs Clinton's column, and the Democrat wins. Given that Ms Stein didn't have much visibility during the election cycle, however, her performance probably was more a reflection of dissatisfaction with Ms Clinton, than anything the Green Party candidate did or didn't do.\n\n\"This has to be said. Sexism and misogyny played a role in the 2016 presidential election. Exhibit A is that the flagrantly sexist candidate won.\"\n\nMrs Clinton was the first woman to be a major party presidential nominee. At key moments - such as when she locked up the nomination during the primaries and when she gave her acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention - she explicitly acknowledged this fact. Other times, she downplayed it.\n\nThe groundbreaking nature of her campaign, however, was always in the background. On election day, women put flowers on the graves of famous leaders of the women's suffrage movement, in anticipation of a historic night to come.\n\nThat, of course, didn't happen - and, in Mrs Clinton's view, her gender was an obstacle she had to overcome.\n\n\"I started the campaign knowing that I would have to work extra hard to make women and men feel comfortable with the idea of a woman president,\" she said during a CBS interview. \"It doesn't fit into the stereotypes we all carry around in our head. And a lot of the sexism and the misogyny was in service of these attitudes. Like, you know, 'We really don't want a woman commander in chief'.\"\n\nDid it matter? The thing about historic firsts is that there is no standard by which to judge them. Mrs Clinton had remarkably high negative ratings for a modern presidential nominee (as did Mr Trump). Was this because of her gender or an aspect of her personality that some voters found off-putting? \"What makes me such a lightning rod for fury?\" Mrs Clinton writes. \"I'm really asking. I'm at a loss.\" Until there's another female nominee (or more), it will be difficult to know for certain.\n\n\"He was quite successful in referencing a nostalgia that would give hope, comfort, settle grievances, for millions of people who were upset about gains that were made by others … millions of white people.\"\n\nMrs Clinton has plenty of criticism of Mr Trump in her book, from his naivete to his sexism to his dangerous and ill-conceived policies. During her interview with CBS, however, the former Democratic nominee was particularly blunt about what she viewed as the explicit attempts by the Trump campaign to stoke racial resentment among white working-class voters.\n\nHer critique picks up on a particularly testy exchange between Trump and Clinton campaign aides in a post-election forum, where Clinton communications director Jennifer Palmieri said Mr Trump gave a platform to white supremacists and that she would \"rather lose than win the way you guys did\".\n\nDid it matter? Whether you call it playing to racial grievances or giving hope to socially and economically anxious voters, there's no question that Mr Trump had a message that resonated with many members of the white working-class.\n\n\"You can blame the data, blame the message, blame anything you want - but I was the candidate. It was my campaign. Those were my decisions.\"\n\nPolitical analyst Mark Shields likes to note that in few professions is failure on such prominent display as in the world of politics. If the average Joe doesn't get a promotion, the local paper won't devote entire articles to what character flaw or personal mistake is to blame.\n\n\"Politicians boldly risk public rejection of the kind that the rest of us will go to any lengths to avoid,\" he writes.\n\nClinton is left wondering what happened - and what might have been\n\nAny attempt by Mrs Clinton to explain \"what happened\" in 2016 was going to be ripe for criticism. Is she talking out too much? Or not enough? Why is she blaming other people? Will she devote 300 pages to delving into why people just don't seem to connect with her?\n\nAlthough Mrs Clinton in her book is liberal with apportioning responsibility for her defeat, she sets aside plenty of space to point the finger at herself.\n\nShe calls her labelling of a certain segment of Mr Trump's base as being in a \"basket of deplorables\" as a \"political gift\" to her opponent. She says she deeply regrets her remarks about how government policies were going to put coal workers \"out of business\", even if she insists they were taken out of context.\n\nShe laments that she was unable to connect with the anger and resentment that many Americans felt after the financial crash in 2008.\n\nMost of all, she says she understands that something just didn't click between her and many US voters.\n\n\"I have come to terms with the fact that a lot of people - millions and millions of people - decided they just didn't like me,\" she writes. \"Imagine what that feels like.\"\n\nDid it matter? Mrs Clinton has written her book and stated her case that, despite any personal flaws, it was a perfect political storm that dashed her presidential dreams. In the end, history will be the judge.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hillary Clinton did make history, despite losing the 2016 election, her advisor says", "Theresa May will travel to Florence to make a speech on Brexit in a move likely to be seen as a bid to break the deadlock in negotiations.\n\nThe prime minister will give the speech on 22 September, days before Brexit negotiations resume in Brussels.\n\nDowning Street said the PM will underline the UK's wish for a \"special partnership\" with the EU after Brexit.\n\nThe EU has criticised UK negotiators, claiming progress on Britain's divorce deal has been too slow.\n\nSpeculation about Mrs May's speech was sparked when EU Parliament negotiator Guy Verhofstadt claimed an \"important intervention\" would be made by the PM.\n\nThe fourth round of talks will begin on 25 September after they were pushed back by a week.\n\nMrs May's official spokesman denied that the delay was caused by the timing of the PM's speech.\n\n\"Both sides settled on the date for that round after discussions between senior officials in recognition that more time would give negotiators flexibility to make further progress,\" he said.\n\nDowning Street declined to discuss the content of Mrs May's speech, beyond saying that she will give an \"update on Brexit negotiations so far\" and will \"underline the government's wish for a deep and special partnership with the European Union once the UK leaves the EU\".\n\nExplaining the choice of venue, he added that the PM wanted to speak about the UK's future relationship with Europe \"in its historical heart\".", "Aston Villa first team squad photo 1988-89, featuring manager Graham Taylor (bottom, centre) and Dave Richardson (next to him)\n\nEx-Aston Villa manager Graham Taylor was warned about the abuse of young players in the 1980s, the FA's inquiry into sexual abuse has been told.\n\nOne victim told the Victoria Derbyshire show he was advised to \"sweep it under the carpet\" rather than tell police.\n\nA new document appears to show paedophile Ted Langford worked as a scout for Villa almost two years after staff were first warned about him.\n\nA club spokesman said safeguarding was of \"paramount importance\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'They told me to sweep it under the carpet'\n\nLangford, who is now dead, was convicted in 2007 of historical abuse against four boys, three of whom were linked to Aston Villa football club.\n\nTony Brien - who has waived his right to anonymity - revealed on the Victoria Derbyshire programme in January that he was abused numerous times by Langford while playing for a local youth team from the age of 12.\n\nAged 16, Mr Brien was signed for Leicester City by then youth team manager Dave Richardson, recommended by Langford, who was a part-time scout for the club.\n\nTwo years later, in the summer of 1987, Mr Richardson joined Aston Villa as assistant manager and Langford moved with him.\n\nLater that season Mr Brien said he decided to call Mr Richardson to warn him about the scout's behaviour.\n\nMr Brien, aged 18 or 19 at the time, claimed he had a number of conversations with Mr Richardson and later a single conversation with manager Graham Taylor, but was put off from going public with the allegations.\n\nIn oral evidence to the FA's independent inquiry into sexual abuse, he said: \"They discouraged me from going forward and never offered me a chance to go to the police or anything like that.\n\n\"I went into the kitchen at my mum's and my mum said, 'Well?' And I just said, 'They just told me to sweep it underneath the carpet.' And I burst into tears.\"\n\nIn his interview with Victoria Derbyshire, Mr Brien added that Mr Taylor had said to him: \"Look, you're a young lad starting out in the game. I know you've just made your debut. Could you really be dealing with all the obscenities from the terraces? So I just suggest you sweep it under the carpet.\"\n\nMr Brien played for Leicester City and number of other league clubs. He never played for Aston Villa. In December 2016 he first gave a police statement outlining allegations against Langford and the response of Aston Villa FC.\n\nDave Richardson told the Victoria Derbyshire programme in January that he could not recall having a conversation with Tony Brien and strongly denied he would have advised the player he should not go public.\n\nTed Langford was sentenced to three years in prison in 2007 for sexual abuse between 1976 and 1989.\n\n\"The bottom line is once he'd rung me, [I would have said] 'We're dealing with it, it will be dealt with in such a way whereby you don't have to worry',\" he said at the time.\n\n\"I wouldn't brush it under the carpet.\"\n\nThe BBC now understands a second victim of abuse, who wishes to remain anonymous, has come forward saying he made similar complaints about Langford in the late 1980s.\n\nHis lawyer said he was visited at his house by someone he now believes to be Graham Taylor, and another unidentified man, who he says both deterred him from taking the matter any further.\n\n\"They should have done more to protect children in their care,\" said Dino Nocivelli from solicitors Bolt Burdon Kemp. \"My clients have been let down and other children have been abused due to the lack of action from Villa staff.\"\n\nMr Richardson said in a statement issued in January through his lawyers that he was first made aware of \"alarming allegations\" against Langford shortly after he joined Aston Villa in the summer of 1987.\n\nHe said he spoke to Graham Taylor and chairman Doug Ellis and an internal investigation took place.\n\n\"I took these extremely seriously and began making inquiries. These led me to speak to the parents of two young footballers at Aston Villa who each told me their sons had been abused by Ted Langford,\" he said.\n\nThis letter given to the Victoria Derbyshire programme suggests that Langford was still acting as the club's official representative until at least March 1989.\n\nMr Richardson said the parents involved did not want the matter reported to the police but, after consulting with Mr Taylor and Mr Ellis, Langford was sacked by the club.\n\nHe said earlier this year that he acted \"rapidly\" to deal with the situation.\n\n\"As soon as we got more information, as soon as I knew, we brought him in and we got him out of the way,\" he said.\n\nBut the programme has now seen a document that shows Langford was still acting as the club's official representative until at least March 1989, almost two years after Mr Richardson said he was first made aware of the allegations.\n\nWhen asked to respond to the latest information obtained by the programme, Mr Richardson said he did not consider it appropriate to comment while the FA independent inquiry was continuing. He said he would co-operate with the inquiry if he was asked to do so.\n\nIt is not clear what happened to Langford after he was sacked by Aston Villa although it is thought he continued to work in junior football in the Birmingham area.\n\nIn 2007, the scout was convicted of a range of sexual offences against boys that took place between 1976 and 1989. He died in 2012 after his release from prison.\n\nA spokesman for Aston Villa said: \"Aston Villa would encourage anyone with any allegation or concern regarding safeguarding or other potential wrongdoing to contact the relevant authorities.\n\n\"Allegations relating to Ted Langford and involving the club are subject to ongoing legal proceedings and it is therefore not appropriate for the club to comment further on this matter.\"\n\nFormer chairman Doug Ellis, now 93, could not be reached for comment.\n\nWatch the Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News channel.", "The London institution is the most popular visitor attraction in Britain\n\nThe British Museum has apologised after a tweet from one of its curators saw it accused of racism and dumbing down.\n\nThe row escalated after Jane Portal, from the London institution's Asia department, said \"sometimes Asian names can be confusing\" on exhibition labels.\n\n\"We have to be careful about using too many,\" she continued, prompting a string of critical tweets.\n\nThe museum later said in a statement: \"We would like to apologise for any offence caused.\"\n\nIt added: \"Jane was answering a very specific question about how we make the information on object labels accessible to a wider range of people.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by British Museum This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAnswering a question as part of the museum's #AskACurator initiative, Ms Portal said \"we aim to be understandable by 16 year olds\" and the length of the wording on information labels could be limiting.\n\n\"Dynasties & gods have different names in various Asian languages,\" she wrote. \"We want to focus on the stories.\"\n\nHer comments were described by one Twitter user, Dave Cochrane, as \"a gigantic own goal\", while Amanda Lillywhite wrote: \"Don't blame the 16 year olds!\"\n\n\"Confusing to whom?\" asked Twitter user Jillian, while MrChaz asked her to \"be a bit less racist\".\n\nYet the museum keeper was not entirely friendless, with one Tweeter saying what she described \"seems a perfectly sensible approach\".\n\nThe museum's statement added: \"Label text for any object is necessarily limited and we try to tell the object's story as well as include essential information about what it is and where it is from.\n\n\"We are not always able to reflect the complexity of different names for eg periods, rulers, gods in different languages and cultures on labels.\"\n\nThe gaffe is the latest in a number of embarrassing stories involving the museum, the UK's most popular visitor attraction.\n\nEarlier this year it confirmed it had lost a diamond ring worth £750,000, while last year it emerged that a waiter working at the Museum had knocked the thumb off a priceless Roman sculpture.\n\nAccording to the British Museum's website, Jane Portal started working there in 1987 as its curator of Chinese and Korean collections, and became Keeper of Asia in 2014.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The sister of one of the victims says he was forced to dig his own grave\n\nMembers of a traveller family have been jailed for enslaving 18 men who were made to work for little or no wages while their captors lived a life of lavish luxury.\n\nThe workers were illegally trafficked and exploited by the Rooney family - 10 men and one woman - whose actions left a gruelling mark on their victims.\n\nOne man's terrifying ordeal spanned more than a quarter of a century. On one occasion, he was made to dig his own grave if he did not agree to a lifetime of servitude.\n\n\"You're going to work for me for the rest of your life... if you don't sign this contract that is where you're going,\" John Rooney told his victim, pointing at the hole he had been forced to dig.\n\nThe harrowing details have been told to the BBC by the victim's sister.\n\nPolice said the living quarters of 18 men who were trafficked into a modern slavery ring were \"truly shocking\"\n\nShe described how her brother was beaten with a rake and had his front teeth smashed with a concrete slab in savage attacks which left him \"psychologically damaged\".\n\n\"I think one of the worst stories he told me was about digging his own grave,\" his sister, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the BBC.\n\n\"John Rooney had asked him to dig a hole and he said, 'I kept digging and digging and digging. I said to John: Crikey how much more have I got to dig? And he said keep digging'.\n\n\"According to my brother, John produced a contract and said to him 'you're going to work for me for the rest of your life... if you don't sign this contract that is where you're going'.\n\n\"On another occasion, he was late getting up and John came into his van with a rake and hit him over the head. You can see evidence of scarring on the left side of his head.\n\nThe victims were aged between 18 and 63, held in squalor and forced to work up to 12-hour days, seven days a week, for the family's tarmacking company.\n\nWhile the Rooneys led an extravagant lifestyle, their slaves lived in filth - some in stables next to dog kennels, many in unkempt caravans without running water or toilet facilities.\n\n\"Many were very, very thin and they were absolutely filthy,\" said Ch Supt Nikki Mayo, of Lincolnshire Police.\n\n\"These individuals didn't have a toilet so many had to go into the woods and, in fact, some were kept in a stable block nearby with animals. So, absolutely disgraceful.\"\n\nThe 11 members of the Rooney led extravagant lifestyles while their victims suffered\n\nMany were alcoholics and estranged from their relatives, while several had learning disabilities and mental health issues. Half were British nationals targeted from all over the country because they were homeless.\n\nCh Supt Mayo said the victims were left \"completely institutionalised and isolated from society\".\n\n\"They were given scraps of food that were mainly leftovers from family meals, complete with bite marks, but only after working long hard hours tarmacking driveways and fitting block paving,\" she said.\n\n\"When they weren't working for the company the men had to collect scrap, sweep, tidy up or look after pets around the sites.\n\n\"Often their only payment was a packet of tobacco and a limited amount of alcohol, which didn't help those with addictions and was another way in which the defendants exerted control over them.\"\n\nThe men worked long hard hours for little more than a packet of tobacco\n\nEven though the victims were \"not physically trapped\", they were \"financially, emotionally and physically abused making any escape seem impossible\", the detective added.\n\nThe threat of violence also made them too scared to leave. One victim told police he was afraid of the Rooney gang because he had seen the brutality they had inflicted on others.\n\n\"There was one moment one of the [Rooneys] took a shovel... and then I [saw] three people kicking [the slave] as he was lying on the ground,\" he said.\n\n\"I've been quite scared because I've seen what they're capable of.\"\n\nThe family operated from a number of sites in Lincolnshire and were caught as part of Operation Pottery, which detectives described as \"one of the largest and most complex\" cases in the force's history.\n\nReverend Jeremy Cullimore, who worked in a homeless shelter in Lincoln, said he had tried to protect potential victims.\n\n\"We were aware that the Rooneys [had] a series of vans driving around the streets, seeking out people, to persuade them that they could offer them a nice caravan and so on.\n\n\"We introduced a number of systems so that people who were vulnerable would not be alone.\"\n\nThe defendants led a lavish lifestyle and operated from a number of sites\n\nHe recalled the moment he came head-to-head with the gang.\n\n\"The family [came] to recover a man who escaped from them and they were saying quite clearly 'he's ours, he owes us money and we want him'.\n\n\"I turned around and said 'You know I'm a priest and I can absolve you from your sins, but beware I can bind them to you forever. Now think on this' and they left.\n\nWhen police officers dismantled the ring in 2014, the force set up a refuge for the victims aided by the NHS, social services, British Red Cross and the UK Human Trafficking Centre.\n\nOne charity worker, who wanted to remain anonymous, said one individual used \"an entire bottle of shampoo to make themselves feel clean\".\n\n\"When I first saw them they looked completely bedraggled. One of them asked how long he could shower for. We said 'as long as you like' and he was completely taken aback by the response.\n\n\"After 20 minutes he came out looking like a different person. The colour in his skin came back. He just felt like a normal human being.\"\n\nBut how did the Rooney slavery ring operate undetected for so long?\n\nKevin Hyland, the UK's Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, said there was a lack of awareness about slavery legislation and recognising the signs.\n\n\"People in the communities haven't recognised this for what it is or haven't really understood what it is,\" he said. \"But this case really does demonstrate how serious this crime is and it can be happening on your own front drive.\n\n\"There has been a lack of understanding and awareness but, then also, what do you do when you recognise it? The authorities themselves need to understand this and realise this is a crime and they have a duty to respond.\"\n\nUnder the Modern Slavery Act, introduced in 2015, it is illegal to hold someone in slavery or servitude and force them to carry out compulsory labour.\n\nFor the woman whose brother was captive for 26 years, the mark left by his experience is indelible.\n\nOn seeing him for the first time after his release, she said she wanted to \"fall on my knees and sob\".\n\n\"He was very thin. His teeth are terrible, they're all rotten and he's not got many left.\n\n\"He's damaged... but he's now enjoying his freedom.\"\n• None What has the National Crime Agency found in investigating modern slavery- - BBC News", "On 19 August 1996, Cafe Delight opened its doors, on Clapham High Street, for the first time. To celebrate its 21st birthday, it is hosting an exhibition of photographs of many of its regular customers as well as everyday life in the cafe. The photographs were taken by local award-wining photographer Jim Grover.\n\nWhen Cafe Delight opened, Izzy was 16 and had just left school. Two years later, his father died, leaving the destiny of Cafe Delight in the hands of Izzy and his new wife, Mehtap.\n\nInside, you will find a wonderfully broad spectrum of patrons: a TV reporter, a stand-up comic, and a chain-saw wood sculptor rub shoulders with local builders, shop workers, and members of a local club for the deaf - among many others.\n\n\"This is not just a cafe with all of the traditional features you'd expect: great food, never-ending mugs of tea, friendly service, banter (plus racing tips) and spotlessly clean tables. It's also a community - offering company, familiarity and security for those regulars who have made Cafe Delight part of their daily lives,\" said Grover.\n\nSome come for company and banter, others to eat and pass the time alone, reading the paper, picking horses, or watching the world go by through the cafe's large windows. Some of Cafe Delight's regulars have been coming since it first opened, others are more recent converts; many come every day.\n\nWhen the cafe opened, Charlie was working as a tailor. Now, approaching his 90th birthday he is still making clothes.\n\nFriends Ricky and Julie are members of the Clapham Deaf Club and have been coming to the cafe for 10 and 15 years respectively.\n\nPerry keeps the streets of Clapham clean and has been coming to the cafe for 12 years.\n\nIn 1996, Gus was a sixth-former. Now, he works as a shop manager and has been a regular at the cafe for 19 years.\n\nLeanne has been coming to the cafe for the past four years.\n\nThe photographs can be seen at Cafe Delight, 19 Clapham High Street, London, SW4 7TS, from 14 September to 31 October (closed Sundays).\n\nTo see the full selection of pictures and more work by Jim Grover visit his website.", "A former Brexit minister has said the UK must be \"honest\" about the \"complexity and scale\" of leaving the EU.\n\nLord Bridges also urged honesty about the lack of time to reach agreement with the EU over the UK's withdrawal.\n\nThe Tory peer, who left government after June's general election, emphasised the need for a transitional arrangement after March 2019.\n\nThat is when the UK is due to leave the EU under the Article 50 process.\n\nNegotiations are under way, and ministers have said some form of interim arrangement - ending before the next general election - would help avoid a \"cliff edge\" scenario as new arrangements kick in.\n\nOn Tuesday evening, peers debated the recent series of papers published by the UK government setting out its position on key negotiation subjects.\n\nLord Bridges, who campaigned for Remain in last year's EU referendum, said: \"We must be honest about the task we face, and its complexity and scale.\n\n\"We should be honest about the need to compromise. Honest about the lack of time we, and the EU, have to come to an agreement on our withdrawal.\"\n\nHe said the transitional arrangement must have a clear end point to avoid fuelling suspicion that \"it would be a means to stay in the EU permanently by stealth\".\n\n\"During this period we should keep, as far as possible, the existing arrangements we have with the EU,\" he said, adding that the UK should make it clear it will carry on paying into the EU budget until the current \"financial framework\" ends in 2020.\n\nAs parliamentary under-secretary in the Department for Exiting the EU, Lord Bridges was a member of the ministerial team led by Brexit Secretary David Davis.\n\nSaying the government will not be \"defined by Brexit\" - as Theresa May has done - is \"careless talk\" that will distract the government from the \"task at hand\", he said.\n\n\"The priority for every department must be to help ministers get the best possible deal, prepare us for Brexit, and ensure we prosper once we have left. Nothing is more important.\"\n\nLord Bridges added that the question of what sort of country the UK will be when it regains powers from Brussels was \"unanswered\".\n\nThe fourth round of UK-EU negotiations, will start on 25 September after they were put back a week.\n\nNegotiations are focusing on any \"divorce bill\" to be paid by the UK, citizens' rights and Northern Ireland.\n\nThe EU says talks cannot move on to trade until it is happy sufficient progress on the initial subjects.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe number of homeless families in the UK has risen by more than 60% and is \"likely to have been driven\" by the government's welfare reforms, the public spending watchdog has said.\n\nHomelessness of all kinds has increased \"significantly\" over the last six years, said the National Audit Office.\n\nIt accused the government of having a \"light touch approach\" to tackling the problem.\n\nThe government said it was investing £550m by 2020 to address the issue.\n\nThere has been a 60% rise in households living in temporary accommodation - which includes 120,540 children - since 2010/11, the NAO said.\n\nA snapshot overnight count last autumn found there were 4,134 rough sleepers - an increase of 134% since the Conservatives came into government, it added.\n\nA report by the watchdog found rents in England have risen at the same time as households have seen a cut to some benefits.\n\nHomelessness cost more than £1bn a year to deal with, it said.\n\nReforms to the local housing allowance are \"likely to have contributed\" to making it more expensive for claimants to rent privately and \"are an element of the increase in homelessness,\" the report added.\n\nWelfare reforms announced by the government in 2015 included a four-year freeze to housing benefit - which was implemented in April 2016.\n\nAuditor General Sir Amyas Morse said the Department for Work and Pensions had failed to evaluate the impact of the benefit changes on homelessness.\n\n\"It is difficult to understand why the department persisted with its light touch approach in the face of such a visibly growing problem.\n\n\"Its recent performance in reducing homelessness therefore cannot be considered value for money.\"\n\nThe ending of private sector tenancies - rather than a change in personal circumstances - has become the main cause of homelessness in England, with numbers tripling since 2010/11, said the NAO.\n\nIts analysis found private sector rents in England have gone up by three times as much as wages since 2010 - apart from in the north and East Midlands.\n\nWhile in London, costs have risen by 24% - eight times the average wage increase.\n\nReforms to the local housing allowance are \"likely to have contributed\" to homelessness, says the NAO\n\nCouncils spent £1.1bn on homelessness in 2015/16 - with £845m going to pay for temporary accommodation, the NAO said.\n\nIt found that local authorities in London have been buying properties outside the capital to house families.\n\nLabour MP Meg Hillier, who chairs the Public Accounts Committee, said: \"It is a national scandal that more and more people are made homeless every year.\n\n\"This reports illustrates the very real human cost of the government's failure to ensure people have access to affordable housing.\"\n\nThe Local Government Association - which represents councils - said local authorities were having to house \"the equivalent of an extra secondary school's worth of homeless children in temporary accommodation every month.\"\n\n\"The net cost to councils of doing this has tripled in the last three years, as they plug the gap between rising rents and frozen housing benefit.\"\n\nIt called on the government to support councils by allowing them to invest in building affordable homes and \"provide the support and resources they need to help prevent people becoming homeless in the first place\".\n\nHomelessness charity Shelter said it wants the government to end the freeze on housing benefit and commit to building affordable homes.\n\nThe government said tackling homelessness was a \"complex issue\" but it was determined to help the most vulnerable in society.\n\nIt said it was implementing the Homelessness Reduction Act which \"means more people get the help they need earlier to prevent them from becoming homeless in the first place\".\n\nA spokesman added: \"Our welfare reforms restore fairness to the system with a strong safety net in place to support the most vulnerable, including £24bn through the housing benefit.\n\n\"There's more to do to make sure people always have a roof over their head and ministers will set out further plans shortly, including delivering on our commitment to eliminate rough sleeping entirely.\"\n\nAre you homeless? Living in temporary accommodation? Share your views and experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "In the early hours the government won its vote on the behemoth-like task of transferring laws incorporated from the EU on to a new statute book.\n\nIn the end Labour doubts and a strict hand from the Tory whips won the day and the numbers were more comfortable than the squeaky feeling at the start of the political week suggested.\n\nBut ministers can't relax, not for a moment.\n\nTories with unease about the withdrawal bill have already drawn up proposed amendments, changes to the bill and here's the rub - they say they already have at least a dozen colleagues signed up, including four influential chairs of Westminster committees.\n\nWhy does that matter? Remember, the government's majority (with the DUP) is so slim only six grumpy Tories can sink a bill.\n\nSo a dirty dozen, as ministers might see them, can force them to change their position or lose.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The Florida Keys was one of the US areas hit hardest by Irma\n\nHurricane Irma evacuees are returning to scenes of devastation in the Florida Keys with reports of a quarter of homes destroyed on the low-lying islands.\n\nThe latest images show homes torn apart after the storm pummelled the region with winds of up to 120mph (192km/h).\n\nSearch and rescue teams are moving through the worst affected areas with emergency supplies of food and water.\n\nUS President Donald Trump will visit Florida on Thursday to view the damage caused as Irma tore through the state.\n\nIt will be Mr Trump's third trip related to hurricanes in two weeks and he will be joined this week by his wife Melania, the first lady.\n\nResidents of Vilano Beach in Florida are returning to find their homes destroyed\n\nAbout 90,000 residents returning to the Florida Keys and Miami Beach have been warned that most fuel stations remain closed and mobile phone signals are patchy.\n\nSome residents were allowed into the towns of Key Largo, Tavernier and Islamorada on Tuesday morning.\n\n\"Returning residents should consider that there are limited services. Most areas are still without power and water,\" authorities in Monroe Country said.\n\nIrma is being linked to at least 18 deaths in the US since it struck as a category four storm on Sunday, including 12 in Florida.\n\nNearly 6.9 million homes were left without power in Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Alabama.\n\nParts of the Florida Keys, the low-lying islands which bore the brunt of Hurricane Irma, have since reopened.\n\nBut entry is being restricted to residents and business owners as work continues to clear roads and check the state of bridges linking the islands.\n\nSome of the trailer properties in the Florida Keys were completely torn apart\n\nResidents have been returning to mobile homes that have been torn apart, boats grounded in the streets and debris piled high after police lifted roadblocks on Tuesday.\n\nFederal Emergency Management Agency administrator Brock Long said at least 25% of homes in the Keys were destroyed and 65% suffered significant damage.\n\n\"Basically, every house in the Keys was impacted,\" he said.\n\nFlorida Governor Rick Scott said: \"So many areas that you would never have thought have flooded, have flooded.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe storm earlier left a trail of destruction in the Caribbean, where nearly 40 people were killed.\n\nThe BBC's Laura Bicker and Paul Blake on Tortola island say many neighbourhoods have been flattened, and their residents can be seen trying to cook and clean amidst the rubble.\n\nMany homes in the main town, Road Town, have been badly damaged.\n\nHurricane Irma also battered Providenciales in the Turks and Caicos Islands.\n\nEuropean countries have been boosting relief efforts in their Caribbean territories amid criticism over their response to Hurricane Irma.\n\nFrench President Emmanuel Macron, who is visiting French islands that took the full force of the storm, said his government had responded with \"one of the biggest airlifts since World War Two\".\n\nUK Foreign Minister Boris Johnson is also due to visit the British Virgin Islands and Dutch King Willem-Alexander is touring the Dutch side of St Martin, where at least four people were killed.\n\n\"I have seen proper war as well as natural disasters before, but I've never seen anything like this,\" King Willem-Alexander told Dutch radio on Tuesday.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's correspondents in the region chart Irma's path of destruction\n\nIrma killed at least 23 people in the three countries' overseas territories. The victims include 10 on the French island of St Barts and on the French part of St Martin.\n\nThousands of people ignored calls to evacuate last week, and clung on in the dangerously exposed islands during the storm.\n\nTeams are still working to clear Highway 1, the road connecting most of the inhabited islands, and bridge inspections are continuing.\n\nThe US aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln has arrived off Florida and other navy ships were in the area on Tuesday to help distribute food to the Keys and evacuate residents.\n\nIn Jacksonville, Mayor Lenny Curry said 356 people had to be rescued amid record-high storm surges and flooding, the Florida Times-Union reported.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Aerial footage shows the damage to homes in Orlando, Florida\n\nOther parts of the state escaped the storm lightly compared to the Caribbean islands.\n\n\"The storm surge flooding in Miami is a mere fraction of what would have happened if the core of the storm had been further east,\" Rick Knabb, former director of the National Hurricane Center, said in a tweet.\n\nAnother hurricane, Jose, has been weakening over the western Atlantic, with swells due to affect parts of Hispaniola (the island split into Haiti and the Dominican Republic), the Bahamas, and the Turks and Caicos Islands, later this week.", "The claim: A police officer starting in 2010 would, by now, have received a 32% increase in pay in real terms.\n\nReality Check verdict: That's right, but it is not representative of police officers as a whole.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May told the House of Commons on Wednesday that a police officer who had started in 2010 would, by now, have seen their pay rise by 32% in real terms.\n\nNow, 32% over seven years is 4% a year, which sounds high. The Police Federation initially said her statement was a \"joke\" and a \"downright lie\".\n\nDowning Street gave the figures behind the claim. A typical police officer joining the force in 2010 would have earned £23,259, taking home £17,972 after deductions for tax and national insurance.\n\nAfter seven years' service, the same officer would earn £35,478, taking home £27,405 after tax and national insurance. This is an increase of £9,433.\n\nWhen you adjust for inflation, the increase is just under £6,000, which is indeed an increase of 32%.\n\nThe Police Federation confirmed that a new officer starting in 2010 would have earned about £23,000, rising to about £35,000 today.\n\nBut the Police Federation stressed that this was not a typical example and that those who had started in 2010 made up less than 4% of all officers.\n\nIt also said that most officers were now at top of their pay scale and so would not benefit from progression payments.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Controversial changes giving the government control of key Parliamentary committees have been agreed by MPs.\n\nThe vote gives the Tories a majority on the public bill committees in charge of the detailed scrutiny of legislation.\n\nOpposition MPs said it was a \"constitutional outrage\" and a \"power grab\" from a government lacking a Commons majority.\n\nBut ministers said they should be able to make progress on getting legislation through Parliament.\n\nCommons Leader Andrea Leadsom said the Tories had a \"working majority\" due to their arrangement with the Democratic Unionist Party, which was agreed after June's general election left the UK with a hung Parliament.\n\nThe public, she said, \"rightly has an expectation for government to deliver business through the House in a timely fashion\".\n\nBut Labour's Angela Eagle said the DUP deal did not entitle the government to \"gerrymander the selection of standing committees in order to make life easier\".\n\nThe SNP's Pete Wishart said it was an \"incredible, totally undemocratic power grab from a government that does not command a majority in this House\".\n\nThe DUP had already confirmed it would be supporting the government in Tuesday night's vote, and the motion was passed by 320 votes to 301.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ms Ntuli was attacked as she returned from work\n\nThe prospect of losing the only copy of her master's thesis during a robbery was just too much for one South African student to bear.\n\nNoxolo Ntuli, 26, grappled with armed attackers to hold on to it during the incident in Johannesburg on Tuesday.\n\n\"There's no way I will let them take it,\" she told the BBC.\n\nBut she also said her actions were \"not very smart\" and advised others to give robbers what they ask for. \"You can always write again,\" she said.\n\nMs Ntuli, a medical scientist at the National Health Laboratory Service, had her molecular zoology master's thesis on a hard drive when a car drew up beside her and two men jumped out, one brandishing a gun.\n\nBut while the attackers were able to take her lunch bag, Ms Ntuli refused to let go of the bag containing the hard drive.\n\n\"I was thinking about my masters. I'm almost done with what I'm writing, there's no way I will let them take it,\" she said.\n\n\"I was just pulling myself into a ball. They were trying to put me in the car, I think, but I made myself so heavy that they just gave up.\"\n\nDuring the attack, one of the robbers pressed a gun to her head and repeatedly threatened to shoot her.\n\nThe alleged robbers were later arrested\n\nBut Ms Ntuli held on. Losing the thesis would have meant having to ask for an extension until next year, she said.\n\n\"I really want to finish so badly, I want to do it now. Nothing got in the way of that, but it was very dangerous,\" she said.\n\nFootage of the struggle was recorded on security cameras attached to nearby homes in the suburb of Auckland Park.\n\nMs Ntuli has since backed up her work and said she would not advise others to follow her example.\n\n\"You can always write again if you are worried about your work,\" she said.\n\nThe alleged robbers were later arrested and found to be in possession of a gas gun.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The worst of Storm Aileen's winds have rattled off towards the Netherlands, says BBC Weather's Matt Taylor\n\nStrong winds have caused travel disruption and power cuts across parts of the country.\n\nAileen, the first named storm this season, has now eased away but caused problems on rail routes and left thousands without power overnight.\n\nThe Met Office said gusts of 74mph hit Mumbles Head in south Wales, with southern parts of northern England and the north Midlands also badly affected.\n\nLorry drivers and motorcyclists were warned of the risk of being blown over.\n\nThroughout the morning, rail travellers faced slower journeys and cancellations, but services now seem to be returning to normal.\n\nOn its website, National Rail said falling trees and large branches, power cuts and debris blown onto the tracks had caused difficulties.\n\nBy lunchtime, only Southern rail and Thameslink were still reporting difficulties. Other services were also affected during the morning rush hour.\n\nA car is dented by a branch in Sheffield\n\nIn south Wales, the Taff Trail, between Radyr and Cardiff, takes a battering\n\nAt its height, the storm cut power to 60,000 homes in Wales - some for 10 minutes, others for several hours.\n\nWestern Power Distribution, which provides electricity to homes in south and west Wales, said all affected areas, from Pembrokeshire to Monmouthshire, were back up and running.\n\nNorthern Powergrid, which covers north-east England, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, said 7,400 homes had lost power overnight, and it was still working to restore power to 800 customers.\n\nElectricity North West said about 1,300 homes were affected.\n\nPolice forces in Staffordshire, Cheshire and Gloucestershire all reported trees being blown over by the winds during the night.\n\nThe Met Office said there was no connection between high winds in the UK and the recent extreme weather in the Caribbean and the US.\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 UK's weather system came from the north, in the Atlantic, the Met Office added.\n\nBy late morning, all weather warnings had been lifted and Storm Aileen was heading for the Netherlands.\n\nThe Environment Agency lifted two flood warnings, but 7 alerts remain in place for areas where flooding \"is possible\".\n\nBy contrast, on this day last year, the temperature in Gravesend, Kent, reached 34C (93F).\n\nStorm Aileen is the first storm to be given a name since they were announced for the 2017/18 season.\n\nOther names on the list include Dylan, Octavia, Rebecca and Simon.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "For 20 years the military and Aung San Suu Kyi were bitterly opposed, but must work together\n\nThe huge exodus of Rohingya from Myanmar's Rakhine State, and the brutal tactics of the security forces, have stirred up strong condemnations of the Nobel Laureate and de-facto leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who has defended her government's actions as a legitimate response to terrorism. As it emerges Ms Suu Kyi will miss next week's UN General Assembly debate, how much power does she really have inside her country?\n\nAung San Suu Kyi's formal title is \"state counsellor\". It is a position she created to get around a clause in the constitution - aimed specifically at her - that bars anyone with a foreign spouse or foreign children from the presidency.\n\nMs Suu Kyi is by far the most popular political figure in Myanmar and she led her National League for Democracy (NLD) to a landslide victory in the 2015 election. She makes most of the important decisions in her party and cabinet. She also holds the position of foreign minister.\n\nIn practice, the actual president, Htin Kyaw, answers to her.\n\nThe constitution was drafted by the previous military government, which had been in power in one form or another since 1962. It was approved in a questionable referendum in 2008. At the time, it was not recognised by the NLD or Ms Suu Kyi.\n\nIt was the key to the military's declared plan to ensure it still had a guiding role in what it called a \"discipline-flourishing democracy\". Under it, the armed forces are guaranteed one quarter of the seats in parliament.\n\nAlthough Htin Kyaw is Myanmar's president, in practice he answers to Aung San Suu Kyi\n\nThe military retains control of three vital ministries - home affairs, defence and border affairs. That means it also controls the police.\n\nSix out of 11 seats on the powerful National Defence and Security Council, which has the power to suspend democratic government, are military appointees.\n\nFormer military personnel occupy many top civil positions. The military also still has significant business interests. Defence spending is still 14% of the budget, more than health and education combined.\n\nFor more than 20 years the military and Aung San Suu Kyi were bitterly opposed. She spent 15 of those years under house arrest.\n\nMs Suu Kyi addresses supporters after her temporary release from house arrest in 1995\n\nAfter the election, they had to find ways to work together. She had the mandate. The generals had the real power.\n\nThey still disagreed on important issues, like amending the constitution, which she wants, and the pace of peace talks with the various ethnic armies that have been fighting the government from Myanmar's borders for the past 70 years.\n\nBut they agreed on the need to reform and improve the economy and the need for stability - \"rule of law\" is Ms Suu Kyi's favourite mantra - at a time when rapid change has been stirring up social tension.\n\nBut on the issue of the Rohingya, Ms Suu Kyi must tread carefully. There is little public sympathy for the Rohingya.\n\nMuch of the Burmese population agrees with the official view that they are not citizens of Myanmar, but illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, even though many Rohingya families have been in the country for generations.\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\nThat hostility has increased markedly after the attacks on police posts by militants from the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army in October last year and this August.\n\nInside Rakhine State, the local Buddhist population are even more hostile. Conflict between them and the Rohingya - who they refer to as Bengalis - goes back many decades.\n\nMany Rakhine Buddhists believe they will eventually become a minority, and fear that their identity will be destroyed. The Rakhine nationalist party, the ANP, dominates the local assembly, one of the few not controlled by Ms Suu Kyi's NLD.\n\nGen Mn Aung Hlaing has made it clear he has little sympathy for the Rohingyas\n\nThere is strong sympathy for them among the police - almost half of whose officers are Rakhine Buddhist - and the military.\n\nThe military is the real power in northern Rakhine State, along the border with Bangladesh, where access is tightly controlled.\n\nAnd the powerful armed forces commander, Gen Min Aung Hlaing, has made it clear he has little sympathy for the Rohingya.\n\nHe has referred to the current \"clearance\" operations there as necessary to finish a problem that dates back to 1942, a period of shifting front lines between Japanese and British forces that saw bitter communal fighting between Rohingya and Rakhine Buddhists.\n\nThe military sees itself now as fighting an externally funded terrorist movement, a view shared by much of the public.\n\nIt seems to be applying its \"four cuts\" strategy, used in other conflict areas, in which soldiers destroy and terrorise communities thought to be giving support to insurgencies.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is burning down Rohingya villages?\n\nThe media is also a factor. One of the biggest changes in Myanmar over the past five years has been the proliferation of new, independent media outlets, and the dramatic growth of mobile phone and internet use, in a country that scarcely had landlines a decade ago.\n\nBut very few media have shown what is happening inside Bangladesh, or the suffering of the Rohingya. Most have focused instead on displaced Buddhists and Hindus inside Rakhine, who are far fewer in number. The popularity of social media has allowed disinformation and hate speech to spread quickly.\n\nSo Aung San Suu Kyi has very little power over events in Rakhine State. And speaking out in support of the Rohingya would almost certainly prompt an angry reaction from Buddhist nationalists.\n\nWhether, with her immense moral authority, it might start to change public prejudice against the Rohingya, is an open question. She has calculated that it is a gamble not worth taking. She is known to be very stubborn once she has made up her mind.\n\nMs Suu Kyi has been widely condemned internationally over the Rohingya crisis\n\nIs there a risk that the military might step in and replace her, should she challenge what they are doing in Rakhine? They have the power to do so. In the current climate, they might even have some public support.\n\nBut it is worth remembering that the current power-sharing arrangements with the NLD are more or less what the military was aiming for when it announced its Seven Stage Roadmap to Democracy back in 2003.\n\nAt the time this was dismissed as a sham. But it turns out Myanmar's political development over the next 14 years followed that roadmap closely. Even after its own political party was trounced in 2015's election, the military remains by far the most powerful institution in the country.\n\nOnly this time, it has Aung San Suu Kyi as a shield, to be battered by the international outcry over its actions.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Fiona Mozley says she finds selling customers her own novel \"strange and embarrassing\"\n\nA 29-year-old writer who works part-time at a bookshop in York has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for her debut novel.\n\nFiona Mozley, the second-youngest author to be up for the prestigious literary prize, wrote Elmet while commuting between London and York.\n\nEmily Fridlund, another debut novelist, is also up for the £50,000 award.\n\nSo are fellow Americans Paul Auster and George Saunders, Britain's Ali Smith and Pakistan-born Mohsin Hamid.\n\nThe winning book will be announced on 17 October.\n\nIn a nutshell: A young man growing up in New Jersey in the 1950s and 60s leads four parallel lives.\n\nJudges' comment: \"An ambitious, complex, epic narrative... that is essentially both human and humane.\"\n\nIn a nutshell: A 14-year-old girl living on a commune in the US Midwest befriends some new arrivals.\n\nJudges' comment: \"A novel of silver prose and disquieting power that asks very difficult questions.\"\n\nIn a nutshell: A boy and girl fall in love, move in together and consider leaving their unnamed country.\n\nJudges' comment: \"A subtle, compact piece of writing about a relationship, its blossoming and digressions.\"\n\nIn a nutshell: A boy remembers his life in a house his father built with his bare hands in an isolated wood.\n\nJudges' comment: \"Timeless in its epic mixture of violence and love, it is also timely... with no punches pulled.\"\n\nGeorge Saunders (above), Lincoln in the Bardo\n\nIn a nutshell: President Abraham Lincoln goes to a Georgetown cemetery to grieve following his young son's death.\n\nJudges' comment: \"Daring and accomplished, this is a novel with a rare capriciousness of mind and heart.\"\n\nIn a nutshell: A dying 101-year-old man is watched over by his closest and only friend.\n\nJudges' comment: \"An elegy for lost time, squandered beauty but also for the loss of connections.\"\n\nMozley, a PhD student at the University of York's Centre for Medieval Studies, is one of three female writers on a shortlist evenly divided between the sexes.\n\nThe author told Woman's Hour the issue of home ownership was on her mind while writing her novel, which takes its title from the old name for the West Riding in Yorkshire.\n\nVeteran writer Paul Auster has been shortlisted at the age of 70 for 4 3 2 1. The book, which runs to 866 pages, is Auster's first novel in seven years.\n\nHamid is best known for his 2007 novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist\n\nSmith, who has been shortlisted for the Booker three times, makes the cut again with Autumn, the first in a quartet of books named after the seasons.\n\nHamid, shortlisted in 2007 in The Reluctant Fundamentalist, is once more in contention thanks to Exit West.\n\nUS writer Saunders, best known for his short stories and novellas, is shortlisted for Lincoln in the Bardo, his first full-length novel.\n\nThe shortlist is completed by History of Wolves, the first novel from US writer Fridlund.\n\nThe prize has been open to American writers since 2014 and was awarded to its first American winner, Paul Beatty, last year.\n\nAuster's 4 3 2 1 took him more than three years to write\n\nThis is a really interesting shortlist - a good mix of established literary names and newer voices.\n\nAt the top of the tree is Paul Auster, the oldest and most high-profile author. 4 3 2 1 took him three-and-a-half years to write, working six-and-a-half days a week.\n\nDo not be put off by its 866 pages. It is a richly rewarding and entertaining novel, though probably easier to follow in physical book form than on an E-reader.\n\nHe is joined by his compatriots George Saunders and Emily Fridlund. Those who feared American dominance of the prize may raise eyebrows that half the authors on this year's list are from the United States. No room, yet again, for Indian, African or Australian writers.\n\nIt is a huge achievement for Fiona Mozley to be shortlisted for her debut novel. It is a coup too for her editor Becky Walsh. It was the first book she acquired when she joined the small imprint JM Originals.\n\nFour-times nominated Ali Smith is catching up with the perpetual Booker bridesmaid Beryl Bainbridge, who was shortlisted five times without winning.\n\nHer novel Autumn is a timely book - a response, in part, to Brexit - while Mohsin Hamid's Exit West is also topical, imagining a world where mass migration is the norm.\n\nThis is the fourth time Ali Smith has been shortlisted for the prize\n\nBaroness Lola Young, chair of the 2017 judging panel, said the six shortlisted novels \"collectively push against the borders of convention\".\n\nShe said: \"The emotional, cultural, political and intellectual range of these books is remarkable, and the ways in which they challenge our thinking is a testament to the power of literature.\"\n\nHer fellow judges include novelist Sarah Hall, artist Tom Phillips and the travel writer Colin Thubron.\n\nThe shortlist was whittled down from a longlist of 15 novels that was announced in July.\n\nSebastian Barry, Arundhati Roy and Zadie Smith are among the big-name writers whose works were on the longlist but have not made the final cut.\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.", "When a group of Indonesian mothers sharing pictures of their children stumbled upon news of an online paedophile group earlier this year, they decided to infiltrate it to expose those behind it. The BBC's Christine Franciska followed the story.\n\nCapturing and posting the funny, sweet and memorable moments of children on social media is common for many proud parents in Indonesia and around the world.\n\nRisrona Simorangkir has been uploading photos of her seven-year-old daughter and toddler son on Facebook ever since they were born.\n\nBut one day in March she stumbled across a blog about a group that shares child abuse pictures.\n\n\"This [Facebook] group has thousands of members, they share pictures and videos. Some of them said they produce the materials by themselves - taken from neighbour's children or even relatives,\" the article said. The group's members called their victims \"lolly\" - short for lollipop candy.\n\nMrs Simorangkir, 29, warned her friends immediately and they decided to find out more by joining the group - which the BBC is not naming.\n\n\"We have an online community for mothers talking about parenting, life, and anything. After I posted [the article], some of us tried to get into [the group] to collect evidence and we discussed the findings,\" says Mrs Simorangkir.\n\n\"I joined the group for only four hours. I could not stand it. The content was so horrible. They are not human [for posting like that],\" says Mrs Simorangkir.\n\n\"They talk about how you can approach and seduce a kid to have sex with you, what you can do to make sure those kids don't say anything to their parents, and how you can have sex with children without making them bleed.\"\n\n\"One person told a story about his victim and how he has been doing it to his nephew. It was terrifying.\"\n\nMichelle Lestari, Mrs Simorangkir's friend, says they began to save and screen capture evidence, including conversations, administrators' profile links, and even phone numbers.\n\n\"I reported it to the police,\" said Mrs Lestari.\n\nOther parenting groups had been reporting the group to Facebook, said Ms Lestari, and the social media giant took it down. A Facebook spokesperson also told the BBC that further investigations were conducting into the individuals.\n\nThe case was heavily discussed in the local media and the efforts of the parents have been widely praised. \"The power of mothers,\" said one Twitter user.\n\nThis group had more than 7,000 members, who produced and distributed at least 400 videos and 100 photos of child abuse, Indonesian police said after the arrests.\n\nThe police said that they were co-ordinating with United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as they suspected some members were linked to international networks.\n\n\"One of the suspects joined 11 WhatsApp groups that linked 11 countries. They exchange pornographic material between countries. Indonesia sends one and someone in North America sends another,\" said Jakarta Police spokesman Sr. Comr. Argo Yuwono to the BBC.\n\nChild sex abuse online is a real threat in Indonesia, but society's reaction in tackling online child sex abuse is still too lax, said the head of Indonesia's Child Protection Commission (KPAI) Arist Merdeka Sirait.\n\n\"In Indonesia's cultural context, people still think that paedophilia or sexual abuse is only related to penetration -committing rape. They have to realise that grabbing a child's bottom is also considered molestation, for example,\" said Mr Sirait.\n\nLast year, the country's parliament passed controversial laws authorising chemical castration and execution for convicted paedophiles.\n\nBut what Mrs Simorangkir and many internet users have done, by infiltrating the paedophile group, is dangerous because they are exposing their own identities, activists say.\n\n\"It is the equivalent of neighbourhood patrols, which is great but you need to realise the danger,\" said the executive director of Indonesia's civil society organisation ICT Watch Donny B.U.\n\n\"It is best if you just report it to the police. What you can do is be actively involved in building digital literacy in your community and take preventive action by being knowledgeable about data privacy,\" he explains.\n\nAnd this kind of action won't necessarily solve the larger problem, he says. \"This particular case is just the tip of the ice berg. People easily found it because they used Facebook as a platform, which is quite amateur. There are more threats in the dark web, encrypted.\"\n\nMrs Simorangkir says she doesn't regret what she did.\n\nHer four-hour experience in the paedophile group makes her more afraid of the people around her family, but it also \"opened my eyes to be more careful and teach my children about their private parts\".\n\n\"But I still have this disgusted feeling when I remember the kinds of thing they posted.\"\n\nShe says she has now changed her Facebook setting to private mode. But before that, \"I uploaded maybe thousands of pictures of my children online,\" she says.", "Twenty-eight-year-old interim White House Communications Director Hope Hicks will serve in the role on a permanent basis.\n\nThe longtime Trump aide is the fourth person to fill the position, replacing Anthony Scaramucci, who was fired in July after just 10 days on the job.\n\nMs Hicks has served as President Donald Trump's strategic communications director and campaign press secretary.\n\nThe ex-Trump Organization employee is one of his most trusted aides.\n\nAs White House communications director she will be responsible for shaping the administration's message - although in a less visible way than press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.\n\nThe appointment of Ms Hicks - a former Ralph Lauren fashion model - comes after a summer of staff shake-ups at the White House.\n\nMr Scaramucci was fired after he raised eyebrows for calling a reporter to give a profanity-laced tirade against his own colleagues.\n\nPresident Trump's chief of staff, Reince Priebus, and spokesman, Sean Spicer, both left their posts after Mr Scaramucci's appointment.\n\nGeneral John Kelly, who replaced Mr Priebus, sacked Mr Scaramucci after he was sworn in.\n\nMike Dubke, who was first appointed as communications director, resigned in May.\n\nMr Spicer also filled in as communications director while the post was open over the summer.\n\nReporters say mean things about Hope Hicks. They complain that she's not qualified for the job, and they say she's in over her head.\n\nIt's true that she did not come from the Washington establishment or the political world. A former Ford model, she started working for Trump in 2015.\n\nStill, she has something valuable - the president's trust. Among those in the West Wing, she's the closest to Trump and knows how he wants to achieve his goals.\n\nThat seems like a good background for someone who's handling his communications strategy.", "Frank Vincent, seen here in a party for his book in 2006, reportedly had heart complications\n\nVeteran American actor Frank Vincent, known for roles in the TV series The Sopranos and several Martin Scorsese films, has died at the age of 78.\n\nHe had complications during open heart surgery in a New Jersey hospital, TMZ reports.\n\nIn HBO's The Sopranos, he portrayed gangster Phil Leotardo, the nemesis to the main character Tony Soprano.\n\nHe also played tough guys for Scorsese in Raging Bull, Goodfellas and Casino.\n\nHe was born in North Adams, Massachusetts and was introduced to show business at an early age by his father, an amateur actor.\n\nHe made his acting debut in 1975 in Death Collector, by director Ralph DeVito, his website said. Scorsese saw his work and cast him for Raging Bull, in 1980.\n\nDuring his 41-year career, Vincent often played mafia characters, most notably in Goodfellas, in 1990, when he portrayed Billy Batts, who famously ended up beaten to death by Joe Pesci's Tommy DeVito.\n\nVincent was also a musician, comedian, producer and author - he wrote A Guy's Guide to Being A Man's Man.\n\nActor Vincent Pastore, who co-starred with Vincent in The Sopranos, said in an email quoted by website The Blast: \"We lost a great character actor and great man... May he always stay in our memory.\"\n• None The Sopranos - the new Shakespeare?", "Craig Williamson used some of the money to pay off gambling debts\n\nA wedding planner who defrauded £130,000 from couples booking ceremonies at an Angus castle has been jailed for 30 months.\n\nCraig Williamson, 42, diverted money from 39 couples who had booked weddings at Guthrie Castle into his own accounts before fleeing to Ibiza.\n\nThe castle's owner had to cover the cost of refunding the couples defrauded by Williamson.\n\nDundee Sheriff Court was told previously that some couples' events were double booked and others left in limbo weeks before their weddings.\n\nWilliamson had used some of the money to finance his gambling habit.\n\nOne bride paid £19,000 to Williamson and found out her wedding was not on the books only a week before the event, but it went ahead after the castle's owner Dan Pena met the cost.\n\nGuthrie Castle's owner had to cover the cost of refunding the couples Williamson defrauded\n\nWilliamson was hired as castle and estate manager in November 2014.\n\nIn early April this year he told colleagues he was going to visit his father in Glasgow, but did not return their calls.\n\nA missing person's inquiry was launched and it was established Williamson had withdrawn £6,000 in cash and boarded a Eurostar train to Paris before travelling to Ibiza.\n\nThe court heard that Guthrie Castle stopped taking bookings for weddings at the venue after December 2017 as a result of Williamson's fraud.\n\nWilliamson, a prisoner at HMP Perth, admitted a charge of fraud committed between July 2015 and April 2017.\n\nSolicitor Billy Rennie, defending, said Williamson had developed a gambling addiction which led to the \"initial temptation\".\n\nMr Rennie said: \"The losses began and he ended up robbing Peter to pay Paul and ends up in this sorry mess.\n\n\"He realises it will be a different world facing him on his release from prison.\"\n\nSheriff Alastair Carmichael told Williamson: \"It was despicable to take money in good faith from people who made wedding bookings.\n\n\"One couple have had to move their wedding to 2019.\n\n\"As a result, a successful business of 12 years has been closed down due to this crime.\n\n\"Jobs have been lost and couples left in doubt about weddings.\"\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. Nick Clegg tells ITV's Lorraine Kelly that advances in chemotherapy are remarkable \"but it is still a very brutal thing\"\n\nFormer Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg and his wife, Miriam Gonzalez Durantez, have spoken for the first time about their son's treatment for cancer.\n\nAntonio, now 15, was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma last September.\n\nAfter treatment at University College Hospital in London, including chemotherapy, he is now in remission.\n\nHis parents told ITV's Lorraine programme how telling their eldest son he had blood cancer was one of the \"toughest things\" the family had faced.\n\n\"It is like a word bomb - certainly if you are not familiar with it, as we were not,\" said Mr Clegg.\n\n\"Your initial reaction, as we found, was like any mum or dad - it is irrational but you almost have this physical wish to take it off your kid and take it yourself.\"\n\nMs Gonzalez Durantez said Antonio had gone to his GP after finding a small lump on his neck, which had not been particularly painful.\n\n\"We were very lucky that he [the GP] spotted that it could be something more serious,\" she told host Lorraine Kelly.\n\n\"We dealt with it by carrying on and trying to keep things as close to the routine that we had beforehand and also being very open.\n\n\"The day that he was told, and I think that probably us telling him is one of the toughest things that we have ever done, the following day he went to school, he stood up and he told everybody, 'I have cancer.'\n\n\"That's the way he dealt with it, but other children and other families deal with it in a different way, you have to find your way.\"\n\nMr Clegg said: \"His lymphoma was all over his chest and his neck and he gets tested every three months, I think for a couple of years, so there is always a slight spike of anxiety with us every three months, but basically he is on the road to recovery.\n\n\"Interestingly, the thing he was most concerned about was sort of falling behind his classmates. His anxiety was more about keeping up with his classmates, keeping up at school. So, it was very impressive actually.\"\n\nHe added the couple's other children, Alberto and Miguel, had taken the news well.\n\n\"Once they heard from us that he will be OK, again they are just so, so practical - just, 'OK then,'\" he said.\n\nMr Clegg praised the way Antonio had handled the diagnosis and treatment, which resulted in severe side effects including hair loss, vomiting and fatigue.\n\nThe Cleggs are trying to raise awareness of the charity Bloodwise, which launched a report on Wednesday urging more research into less toxic treatments for children with cancer.\n\nMs Gonzalez Durantez said: \"[With] chemotherapy, they poison your body so that you can get cured and it's a shock to see it happen.\n\n\"We do realise how incredibly lucky we are both with the fact that the treatment has worked and how well he seems.\"\n\nDr Alasdair Rankin, Bloodwise's director of research, said: \"The reality is that one in five children diagnosed with the most common type of leukaemia still do not survive, and that those who do often experience devastating side effects both during and after treatment.\n\n\"This is simply not good enough. We need to save every child's life, make the treatment process much kinder and give them the life they would have had without cancer.\"\n• None The teenagers growing up with cancer\n• None Sailing to a better future after cancer", "A Portuguese man-of-war, which was one of a group of six, washed up at Gwithian\n\nLarge numbers of potentially fatal Portuguese man-of-war have washed up on a Cornish beach, prompting its closure.\n\nRNLI lifeguards erected do not swim red flags at Perranporth beach earlier because of the \"unusually large number\" of the creatures.\n\nThe jellyfish-like organisms, which have long purple tentacles, have also been seen in Wales this month, says the Marine Conservation Society (MCS).\n\nWith mild sea temperatures of 16C there were fears of swimmers being stung.\n\nThe RNLI said it placed red flags at Perranporth beach between 10:00 and 13:30 BST to signal that the water was out of bounds, while lifeguards took advice on the level of danger to beachgoers.\n\nMan-of-war were spotted at Newgale, Pembrokeshire, on 8 September and the next day on beaches near the holiday destination of Newquay.\n\nA leatherback turtle was found washed up at Portreath\n\nThey have also been seen at Porthmelon Beach on the Isles of Scilly and on the Cornish beaches of Portheras Cove and Summerleaze, Widemouth, Perranporth, Hayle, Holywell Bay and Praa Sands.\n\nSix were also reported at Gwithian.\n\nDr Peter Richardson from the MCS said a man-of-war's tentacles, which are usually about 10m (30ft) long, \"deliver an agonising and potentially lethal sting\".\n\n\"They are very pretty and look like partially deflated balloons with ribbons but picking one up could be very nasty,\" he said.\n\nThe man-of-war retain their sting when they are wet, even if they look dead, he warned.\n\nHe advised anyone who was stung to get the tentacles away from the body as soon as possible.\n\nThe man-of-war can be tempting to children because it looks like a deflated balloon\n\nLeatherback turtles have also been washed up, Dr Richardson said.\n\nA leatherback turtle was found at Portreath on 9 September and another one has been reported in Pembrokeshire.\n\nThe NHS recommends using tweezers or a clean stick, and gloves if possible, to remove man-of-war tentacles.\n\nIf symptoms become more severe, or a sensitive part of the body has been stung, you should seek medical help.\n\nThe MCS is asking people to report any sightings which could rise as man-of-war are driven across the Atlantic by recent storms.\n\nThe RNLI said it wasn't uncommon to see man-of-war after windy conditions\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Florence Cheptoo began to learn to read when her grandchild brought home a library book\n\nWhat's it like to read your first words at the age of 60? What difference does it make after a lifetime of getting by without reading?\n\nIf you think about how much written information we consume every hour - going through emails at work or flicking through messages on mobile phones - it's hard to imagine being without these ways of communicating.\n\nBut Florence Cheptoo, who lives in an isolated rural village near Chesongoch, in Kenya, has turned her first page as a 60-year-old.\n\nHer path to reading began when her granddaughter brought home books from primary school.\n\nThe school had been given a small lending library of books, through the Book Aid International charity that distributes books donated by UK publishers.\n\nBut many of the parents and grandparents of the schoolchildren were themselves unable to read, and teachers began literacy lessons for adults.\n\nFlorence, forwarding her answers to the BBC through a local librarian, said she now felt \"part of those who are in the modern world\".\n\nAdult literacy classes began after the library was opened\n\nWhen she had been younger, there had been no support for her to become literate, she said.\n\nHer parents had wanted her to marry and to get a dowry and stay tending livestock - and there had never been a chance to learn.\n\n\"My parents did not value the need for education,\" she said.\n\nIt meant that she couldn't sign her name or read any legal documents or check if she was being cheated over payments.\n\nNow, Florence has begun reading and lists the practical differences it has made in her life.\n\nShe can read the information on medicine she is prescribed, she can look at newspapers and find out about the outside world and take charge of her own personal records.\n\nFlorence says that learning to read has brought more control over her life, as well as pleasure\n\nThere are things she said she particularly enjoyed: reading storybooks for the first time, getting letters from her family and being able to read the Bible for herself.\n\nThe world of maps has been opened up. \"I like knowing where other parts of the country are located,\" she said. And she has been getting books on agriculture \"so that I can learn how to farm\".\n\nWhen her grandchildren get school reports, she can see how they are progressing.\n\nIt had given her a new confidence, she said, letting her feel more knowledgeable and able to have an opinion alongside people, either literate or illiterate.\n\n\"I am able to identify what is good and bad in society.\"\n\nFlorence wasn't the oldest member of this adult literacy class.\n\nThere was also a man in his 80s. His eyesight wasn't very good and he didn't really think he would become much of a reader - but he told the teachers that he wanted to be seen regularly at the class to send a message to the rest of the village that this was important.\n\nIdeas for the Global education series? Get in touch.\n\nThe Book Aid International charity distributes a million free books a year, new from publishers, with further grants to buy books locally and to train librarians and teaching staff.\n\nMost of the books go to projects in Africa, where they are shared in libraries.\n\nThe village is in a remote part of Kenya\n\nEmma Taylor, from Book Aid International, has visited the scheme in Kenya where Florence is learning and says there is a great demand for learning there - which the library helps to serve.\n\n\"It's an incredibly powerful experience,\" she said, seeing people reading for the first time.\n\n\"It opens the door to so many different things that we take so much for granted.\"\n\nSetting up libraries in deprived communities had a particular value, she said.\n\nIn the slums of Nairobi, she said, libraries had become a place of safety for young people, where they could feel protected, and then could begin exploring the books around them and opening up their minds to ideas.\n\n\"There's something really special about a library. It's not just putting books in a room,\" she said.", "David Davis and Michel Barnier are currently meeting once a month\n\nThe next round of Brexit talks has been postponed by a week to \"allow more time for consultation\".\n\nThe fourth round of UK-EU negotiations, due to begin on 18 September, will start on the 25th instead.\n\nThe government said a short delay \"would give negotiators the flexibility to make progress\".\n\nThere had been been speculation that the talks could be moved to accommodate a major speech by Prime Minister Theresa May on the issue of Europe.\n\n\"The UK and the European Commission have today jointly agreed to start the fourth round of negotiations on September 25,\" the Department for Exiting the European Union said in a statement.\n\n\"Both sides settled on the date after discussions between senior officials in recognition that more time for consultation would give negotiators the flexibility to make progress in the September round.\"\n\nMichel Barnier, the EU's chief negotiator, has emphasised the need to be flexible while also warning that the \"clock is ticking\" if an agreement is to be reached by the time the UK is scheduled to leave at the end of March 2019.\n\nTalks between the two sides, led on the British side by Brexit Secretary David Davis, have been taking place once a month since June.\n\nThe UK is keen to intensify their pace and open discussions on the country's future relationship with the EU, including trade, as soon as possible.\n\nAt the moment, the focus is on core separation issues, including the rights of EU nationals in the UK and British expats on the continent, the future of the Irish border, and financial matters.\n\nSpeculation about the delay was fuelled when European Parliament chief negotiator Guy Verhofstadt claimed an \"important intervention\" would be made by the PM \"in the coming days\", although this has not been confirmed by Downing Street.\n\nReuters also quoted diplomatic sources as suggesting that there could be a hold-up in the talks to allow for an event in the UK's \"domestic political calendar\".\n\nThe PM's loss of her Commons majority following June's snap election caused turmoil in the party and has made her more vulnerable to possible rebellions over key Brexit legislation.\n\nMrs May - who has insisted her Brexit strategy is unchanged and that she wants to stay as leader for the \"long term\" - is due to address the Conservative Party conference at the start of October.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"You can't but be affected by the scale of the devastation\"\n\nThe UK is to give an extra £25m of funding to help with the recovery effort following Hurricane Irma, Theresa May has said.\n\nThe prime minister pledged the extra money in the Commons amid criticism of the government's response to the disaster in the Caribbean.\n\nThe announcement came as Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson arrived in the region to visit affected communities.\n\nHe has defended the UK's response saying it was \"extremely fast\".\n\nThe extra funding will be in addition to the £32m already pledged by the government.\n\nMr Johnson said the UK would be there for Anguilla for \"the long term\" after the island's \"hellish experience\".\n\nHis trip follows criticism from Caribbean residents and senior MPs that the UK's response was too slow.\n\nMr Johnson visited Anguilla's worst hit areas, before heading to the neighbouring British Virgin Islands.\n\nAnguillan chief minister, Victor Banks, said the visit by Mr Johnson \"sends a very positive signal to Anguillians that the British are serious about their response to this very severe hurricane\".\n\nBut he said the money offered by the government so far was \"not enough\".\n\n\"I am talking about real capital infrastructure development by the British government.\n\n\"At the end of the day, the £10-15 million which is going to come to us is not going to be sufficient,\" he said.\n\nThe former attorney general of Anguilla, Rupert Jones, told the Guardian the £32m hurricane relief fund was a \"drop in the Caribbean Sea\".\n\nThe foreign secretary visited the British Virgin Islands where communities suffered devastating damage\n\nIrma caused widespread damage across the island of Anguilla\n\nRoyal Marines clearing up the damage at Princess Alexandra Hospital on the island of Anguilla\n\nAnguilla, Turks and Caicos, and the British Virgin Islands (BVI) are among 14 British overseas territories which are all self-governing but the British government is responsible for their defence and security, with a duty to protect them from natural disasters.\n\nAnguilla suffered extensive damage, and at least one person there has been confirmed dead.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Bicker This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Johnson visited Anguilla's Princess Alexandra Hospital, which suffered 60% damage, where Royal Marines have been helping to clear up and make repairs.\n\nHe said: \"You can't be but affected by the scale of devastation the people of Anguilla have endured.\"\n\nMr Johnson called it the \"biggest operation our armed forces have conducted since Libya\".\n\nThe Foreign Office said that more than 1,000 UK military personnel in the region helping with the relief effort, with 200 more arriving the next few days.\n\nSpeaking at the home of Anguilla governor Tim Foy on Tuesday, Mr Johnson praised the community's response to the hurricane.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Boris Johnson This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nHe added: \"Talking to you all, it is clear this place has been through an absolutely hellish experience, and it is no doubt at all that you need help with power generation, with getting the hospital back up and running, getting the airport back up and running, and schools properly set. We are here to help.\"\n\nHundreds of UK troops have been sent to the British Virgin Islands and Mr Johnson said more would be joining them.\n\n\"The military presence is really ratcheting up now,\" he said. \"There were about 700 troops in the region, that has now gone up to 1,000. It will go up to 1,250 in the course of the next few days.\"\n\nThe Royal Navy's HMS Ocean is on its way from Gibraltar to the Caribbean loaded with emergency supplies including timber, buckets, bottled water, food, baby milk, bedding and clothing.\n\nSo far, 40 tonnes of UK aid have arrived in the region, including over 2,500 shelter kits and 2,300 solar lanterns, the Ministry of Defence said.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. British holidaymakers describe how they coped with Hurricane Irma when it hit the US\n\nMeanwhile, British holidaymakers have begun to return to the UK from Florida, where around 10 million people were still without power on Wednesday morning.\n\nJulie Doyle landed at Manchester Airport after a flight from Orlando. She said her hotel, among others, had been ordered to accept dogs along with evacuated residents.\n\n\"Our hotel was full of dogs because people with dogs who'd abandoned their homes brought them all to our hotel, which was so bizarre,\" she said. \"So you'd go down to reception and there was just dogs, everywhere.\"", "Rashan Charles died after being apprehended by police in Dalston\n\nA Metropolitan Police officer is being investigated for gross misconduct over the death of Rashan Charles in London, the police watchdog has said.\n\nMr Charles, 20, died after being apprehended by police officers in Dalston, east London, on 22 July.\n\nHe became ill after trying to swallow an object and was later pronounced dead in hospital.\n\nThe Met Police said it was vital to establish the truth of how Mr Charles died as quickly as possible.\n\nA post-mortem examination found a package containing \"a mixture of paracetamol and caffeine\" in Mr Charles' throat.\n\nMr Charles' death led to angry clashes in Hackney with protesters hurling fireworks and bottles at riot police, blocking parts of Kingsland Road and setting mattresses alight.\n\nOn Wednesday the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) said it had formally notified the police officer that he was being investigated for gross misconduct.\n\nViolence broke out in Kingsland Road during a protest over the death of Mr Charles\n\nIPCC commissioner Cindy Butts said: \"The officer may have breached the police standards of professional behaviour regarding the detention and restraint of Rashan as well as how he dealt with Rashan's medical emergency.\n\n\"Our investigators have analysed the CCTV and body-worn video evidence we gathered and considered the officer's detailed statement as well as statements from other witnesses to the incident.\n\n\"We have also considered the relevant policies and procedures.\"\n\nShe added that while the IPCC investigation was moving into a new phase it did not \"necessarily mean misconduct proceedings will follow\".\n\nIn a statement the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) said: \"It is absolutely vital that the facts of what took place are thoroughly established as quickly as possible through an independent examination of all the available evidence.\n\n\"The thoughts of the MPS are with the family of Mr Charles at this incredibly difficult time for them.\n\n\"All police officers are fully aware that they will be asked to account for their actions. No officer is above the law and they would not wish to be.\"\n\nThe Met said the officer and other colleagues were fully co-operating with the IPCC investigation.\n\nIt added it was now reviewing what restrictions, if any, should be placed on the officer.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Serena Williams posted the first picture of baby Alexis on Wednesday\n\nTennis star Serena Williams has posted the first photo of her daughter Alexis Olympia Ohanian Jr on social media, almost two weeks after her birth.\n\nWilliams and her fiancé Alexis Ohanian, the Reddit co-founder, welcomed their little girl on 1 September at a clinic in Florida.\n\nThe 23-time Grand Slam winner shared a video clip on her Instagram Stories, Facebook and website.\n\nWilliams announced the name of her baby daughter on her Instagram Stories profile. She also shared a montage of memorable moments from her pregnancy, including winning the Australian Open while pregnant and her first ultrasound.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Reddit This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nSerena Williams and her fiancé used social media to welcome their daughter to the world\n\nHer Instagram post has attracted more than 270,000 likes within an hour of posting and her tweet was retweeted more than 1,300 times (at time of writing).\n\nEarlier this year, Williams won her 23rd grand slam tournament at the Australian Open while pregnant.\n\nAccording to her coach, she hopes to return to court in time for next year's Australian Open.\n\nIn December 2016, Williams used the social platform Reddit to announce that she is engaged to its co-founder, Mr Ohanian.", "About 750 victims of rogue breast surgeon Ian Paterson are to be paid compensation from a new £37m fund.\n\nPrivate healthcare firm Spire has agreed to pay £27.2m, with £10m coming from Paterson's insurers and the Heart of England NHS Trust.\n\nPaterson was found guilty of 17 counts of wounding with intent in April after a trial at Nottingham Crown Court.\n\nIn August, he had his 15-year jail term increased to 20 years after the Appeal Court ruled his term was too lenient.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe payments concern patients treated at private Spire Healthcare hospitals in the West Midlands, who Paterson worked for when he carried out hundreds of botched operations.\n\nThe fund is intended to halt legal proceedings by patients against the group and account for any new claims.\n\nHeart of England NHS Trust was part of the civil action because patients said it failed to notify Spire of Paterson's dangerous methods discovered while working for Solihull Hospital.\n\nThe NHS has already paid out £9.49m in damages, as well as £8.31m costs, to hundreds of others treated by Paterson, 59, from Altrincham, Greater Manchester.\n\nIan Paterson's victims fall broadly into two camps. Those who underwent unnecessary surgery, and those who did need operations but were left prone to cancer returning because of the untried technique he used.\n\nThe criminal trial dealt with cases from the first group - nine women and a man who were either subjected to intrusive surgery or had their breasts removed despite there being no evidence that there was anything wrong them.\n\nThe civil case which was settled today involved the many others whose cases did not come to court, as well as those who were treated using something called a cleavage-sparing operation in which tumours were removed but potentially cancerous tissue was left behind.\n\nThe technique was something that was only ever performed by Paterson and never properly tested.\n\nThe surgeon's trial heard he wildly exaggerated his patients' cancer symptoms, leading them to have several needless operations which left them scarred for life physically and emotionally.\n\nFellow medics at Solihull Hospital first raised concerns about his conduct in 2002 when it emerged Paterson, who grew up in County Down, Northern Ireland, was carrying out unregulated 'cleavage-sparing' mastectomies on cancer patients, which left them at higher risk of the disease returning.\n\nDespite three reports into his actions, he carried on working until 2011 when he was suspended by the trust.\n\nThe payout concerns patients treated at private Spire Healthcare hospitals in the West Midlands\n\nHundreds of Paterson's private patients were due to take their case for compensation to the High Court in October.\n\nIn its statement, Spire said the agreement was conditional on all parties agreeing, and the court approving, the terms of a formal court order.\n\nIt said the order would also \"provide for a portion of the fund to be set aside to provide compensation for any former patient of Mr Paterson who has not yet brought a legitimate claim against Spire Healthcare and the other defendants, but does so prior to 30 October 2018.\"\n\nSimon Gordon, interim chief executive at Spire, said: \"Earlier this year a criminal court decided that Ian Paterson must bear responsibility for his actions, finding him guilty of assaulting a number of his patients.\n\n\"He behaved with clear criminal intent and abused the trust of those who looked to him for his care and relied upon his expertise.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Gordon added: \"However, whilst nothing diminishes Mr Paterson's responsibility for his actions, these events took place in our hospitals, and this should not have happened.\n\n\"We accept that better clinical governance in the private hospitals where Mr Paterson practised, as well as in his NHS trust, might have led to action being taken sooner, and it is right that we have made a material contribution to the settlement announced today.\n\n\"We have apologised unreservedly to Mr Paterson's patients for their suffering and distress and we would like to repeat that apology.\"\n\nEmma Doughty, a specialist medical negligence lawyer from Slater and Gordon, which represents more than 100 of Paterson's victims, said no financial settlement would heal the physical and mental scars inflicted on their clients but added they were relieved to have won their battle for justice.\n\nLawyers Irwin Mitchell, which represents 30 patients, echoed the sentiment but said questions still remain about the redress that private healthcare patients have if they are the victims of negligent treatment.\n\nIt also said the sum set aside by Spire is likely to be less than the patients will need.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Brexit is \"a very sad and tragic moment in our history\"\n\nThe \"wind is back in Europe's sails\", European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has said in his annual state of the union address.\n\nHe told the European Parliament there was a \"window of opportunity\" to build a stronger, more united union - but it \"wouldn't stay open forever\".\n\nMr Juncker said Europe's economy was \"bouncing back\" and the EU had to move beyond Brexit.\n\nHe called for the union to embrace reforms and forge new trade deals.\n\nLast year, the EU was \"battered and bruised by a year that shook our very foundation\", Mr Juncker said - facing the challenges of Brexit, the migrant crisis and the rise of populism.\n\nIn his speech of more than an hour, during which he switched from English to French to German, Mr Juncker said member states \"chose unity\" and the union was \"slowly but surely gathering momentum\".\n\nThe speech was markedly different from recent years, says the BBC Europe correspondent Damian Grammaticas. Gone was the sense of crises besetting the EU - instead Mr Juncker mentioned Brexit just once in an address focused on a post-Brexit vision for the EU.\n\nAddressing the UK's decision to leave the EU on 29 March 2019, he said that \"we will always regret this\" and, departing from his script, he added \"and you will regret it soon, too\". \"We will move on because Brexit isn't everything. It isn't the future of Europe - it's not the be all and end all.\"\n\nHe called for a summit in Romania on 30 March 2019 for decisions to be taken on a \"more united, stronger and democratic Europe\".\n\nThe state of the union address gives the Commission's president a chance to outline the political objectives of the EU executive.\n\nMr Juncker hailed a European Union where membership of the banking union, eurozone and the Schengen border-free zone would be standard.\n\nOn trade, Mr Juncker hailed recent deals with Canada and Japan, and said deals with Mexico and South America were in the pipeline.\n\nTrade talks should open with Australia and New Zealand, he said, and be completed by late 2019. But he said there had to be reciprocity in trade deals: \"We have to get as much as we give.\"\n\nAnd he promised new openness in trade negotiations and - amid concern about Chinese investment in strategic European assets - said investors in the EU would be screened.\n\nMr Juncker praised Europe's progress on migration, saying it protected its external borders in a more efficient manner. He highlighted Italy's \"perseverance and generosity\" in helping to manage irregular migration from Africa.\n\nBut work needed to be done opening legal migration routes, ending \"scandalous\" conditions in Libya and investing in Africa.\n\nMr Juncker said the EU must embrace the value of equality - between member states, workers and consumers.\n\nReferring to growing controversy over different food standards across the union, Mr Juncker said he \"would not accept that in some parts of Europe, people are sold food of lower quality than in other countries, despite the packaging and branding being identical\".\n\nEurope had to pursue a \"credible enlargement project to the countries of the western Balkans\", and it was high time for Romania and Bulgaria to be brought into the EU's border-free Schengen zone, along with Croatia when it was ready, he said.\n\nMr Juncker joined the chorus of criticism against Turkey's imprisonment of journalists\n\nBut he sternly reminded member states that final jurisdiction in the union belonged to the European Court of Justice, and said the rule of law was not optional. That might have been a tacit reference to countries such as Poland, which have defied judicial decisions from the EU on a number of issues.\n\nIn the EU \"the rule of law, justice and fundamental rights\" took priority, he said - and \"that rules out EU membership for Turkey for the foreseeable future\".\n\nHe demanded that Ankara free imprisoned journalists and stop personal attacks on European leaders.\n\n\"Stop calling our leaders fascists and Nazis!\" he demanded, to applause from the assembly.\n\nMr Juncker also called for a number of key reforms to the union's organisation.\n\nHe suggested his own role of Commission president should be merged with that of the Council president, and elected following a \"pan-European campaign\".\n\nThis proposal, he added, did not \"target in any way\" the work of his \"excellent friend\" Donald Tusk - the current incumbent of the Council presidency. Any attempt to merge the two roles would require a change to EU treaties.\n\nThe Commission leader also proposed the creation of a Europe-wide finance minister, enabling deeper integration of the eurozone.\n\nIn response, Denmark's Prime Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen said he agreed with Mr Juncker that there should not be treaty changes. \"No new grand projects or institutional discussions,\" he tweeted.\n\nBut the role of the Council president was important, he said, and needed as a voice of member states.", "As this year's TUC conference draws to a close, counter-intuitively the government has forged a high degree of unity within the union movement.\n\nExpectations on the lifting of the pay cap were raised, then dashed, when the awards to police officers were above the pay cap but palpably below inflation. The unions feel they are winning the argument on pay after seven years of restraint.\n\nBut there is less unity over how to respond if the government fails to use its new flexibility to award bigger increases next year or if any increases come at the expense of existing departmental budgets rather than from the Treasury.\n\nSo the unions will be poring over the small print of the November Budget.\n\nThey agreed this week to push for a 5% increase for public service workers and to co-ordinate strike action if necessary. But scratch beneath the surface and there are significant tactical differences.\n\nFirst there is Len McCluskey's oft-repeated call for illegal industrial action. He first advanced the case for this in 2015 when the then majority Conservative government pushed ahead with plans to increase the threshold for strike action.\n\nBut there was, to put it mildly, huge frustration from other union leaders when he reminded shop stewards at a meeting open to the public and the press on Sunday that he had changed his union rule book to allow members to strike outside the law.\n\nBoth the BBC and Sky reported this. But the story, Lazarus-like, rose again when Len McCluskey warmed to his theme in a pre-recorded interview for the Today programme two days later.\n\nThe reaction in Brighton from senior union officials ranged from groans - \"he plays into the stereotype of a union leader\" to frustration - \"talk of this is a diversion from our agenda\" - and to anger \"he was just worried he wasn't getting enough media... I'm extremely angry\". (\"extremely\" is a polite form of the word that was used).\n\nBut however unwelcome his intervention, the question is whether there is a realistic prospect of illegal action.\n\nTUC sources put the likelihood between \"zero and nothing\".\n\nWhat's significant is that other union leaders every bit as left-wing as Len McCluskey - and maybe even more so - are not singing from the same hymn sheet. Sure, they want the union laws scrapped. But they believe the level of frustration amongst their members over pay restraint would mean the government's higher thresholds for industrial action would be exceeded.\n\nThe left-led civil service union the PCS will hold a consultative ballot next month to test the water. And some union leaders fear their funds could be sequestered if the McCluskey rhetoric ever became reality. So it fails the cost/benefit test.\n\nThey want the focus to remain on the pay issue, not illegality. Indeed one union leader refused all media bids for interviews yesterday in case his appearances were dominated by questions about illegal strikes rather than public sector pay.\n\nFrances O'Grady said co-ordinated strike action was a \"last resort\"\n\nHowever, the second option - co-ordinated legal action, last carried out in 2011 - is real.\n\nThe PCS, GMB, and the Fire Brigades Union, amongst others, met to discuss this privately here at the TUC yesterday.\n\nThere is anger that the 55% of public service workers not covered by Pay Review Bodies might get left behind.\n\nCo-ordinated action is unlikely to begin until early next year - once the unions have assessed the generosity or otherwise of the budget and further tested the mood of their members.\n\nBut while co-ordinated action is the official policy of the TUC, its general secretary Frances O'Grady stressed to me that this was very much \"a last resort\".\n\nAnd a long-standing official in one of the big public service unions was cautious about co-ordinating action with other unions and extremely sceptical it would happen at all.\n\nIndeed some unions - and one big public sector union in particular - favour a more subtle option. Pleased as they are with the Corbyn-led Labour Party's willingness to support co-ordinated strikes, the focus of their lobbying efforts are Conservative MPs.\n\nThey see Tories who heard voters' frustration with pay restraint on the doorstep at the election as potential allies. The unions were delighted when some Conservatives who had worked in the public services or the military before entering Parliament spoke out in favour of lifting the pay cap and they feel they can pile more pressure on backbenchers to in turn pressure the government to make further concessions.\n\nCombined with a public campaign, they feel this might be more effective than asking already hard-pressed workers to lose pay by going on strike.\n\nBut it's easy to overdo the differences. The unions do stand united in their message that pay restraint has run its course and this week's announcements seem only to have strengthened their resolve.", "The aircraft is capable of transmitting high definition images - day or night\n\nTwo multi-million pound British Army drones crashed after taking off from a base in mid Wales, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed.\n\nThe unmanned Watchkeeper aircraft were lost in the Irish Sea earlier this year, leading commanders to temporarily ground the entire fleet.\n\nFlight trials resumed at Aberporth Airport in Ceredigion in early July.\n\nThe crashes are the latest in a series of accidents and delays to have hit the Army's new spy planes.\n\nThe MoD ordered 54 Watchkeepers in 2005 as part of an £847m deal.\n\nOriginally, it was hoped they would be in service by 2010.\n\nA recent report from the UK infrastructure and projects authority said the project had already cost £1.1bn.\n\nDelays have been blamed on technical and safety issues and a lack of trained personnel.\n\nThe MoD said despite the crashes, it hoped to bring the aircraft into full service by the end of the year.\n\nA spokesman said: \"Inquiries into the specific incidents are ongoing as they look to learn all they can from the events\".\n\nA demonstration was held outside the airport on Wednesday\n\nThe Watchkeeper has proved controversial and protests have been held at Aberpoth Airport by peace campaigners.\n\nHarry Rogers, who runs Drones Campaign Network Cymru, is concerned about their safety.\n\nHe said: \"There's been two previous incidents, one crashed into the runway about three years ago and another one crashed into the road outside the base and hit a parked car. No one was in the car but there could have been.\n\n\"The main reason people are opposed to drones in this area is the noise and the surveillance issue. People are worried about their privacy.\"\n\nBut business owner Derfel Thomas said he had \"benefitted business wise\" from the airport.\n\n\"We've sold them specially-built trailers and we maintain their tractor. Across 12 months we do a fair bit with them,\" he said.\n\n\"We have to support anybody that creates work.\"\n\nThe aircraft operates at altitudes of up to 16,000ft (4,876m) and can stay in the air for 16 hours", "The army has been landing aid vehicles on Anguilla's Sandy Bay Village beach\n\nThe UK's £13bn aid budget cannot be used to help the British overseas territories hit by Hurricane Irma, the BBC has learned.\n\nUnder international aid rules, Anguilla, Turks and Caicos and the British Virgin Islands are considered too wealthy to qualify for assistance.\n\nInstead, the UK's emergency relief will have to be funded by various budgets from across government.\n\nThe government has pledged £57m so far to help with recovery efforts.\n\nThe Department for International Development denied that its response to the crisis had been affected by any budgetary considerations.\n\nIn a statement it said: \"This is an unprecedented disaster. It is absolutely right that the UK responded immediately to the people affected.\n\n\"This has been our primary focus and continues to be our priority. We are looking at how the current overseas aid rules apply to disasters such as this one.\"\n\nThere are very strict international rules about what officially counts as foreign aid.\n\nThese are agreed by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris, of which Britain is a member.\n\nAnd these rules make clear that only the poorest countries can receive what is known as official development assistance or ODA.\n\nThe OECD confirmed that Anguilla, Turks and Caicos and the British Virgin Islands do not qualify for this official aid. Their national incomes are too high.\n\nThe Royal Marines have been helping to repair damage at the Princess Alexandra hospital in Anguilla\n\nOne well-placed minister told me this made it harder for the government to raise the funds needed - and he claimed five times as much money would have been available if the official pot of aid could have been used.\n\n\"These millions (announced by the government) are non-ODA,\" he said. \"Therefore they come from rather scanty resources.\n\n\"This great pot of ODA, necessary for development, needs to be spent on crises like this and we have to find a way of doing it.\"\n\nThe Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson visited the British Virgin Islands and Anguilla and promised £25m more relief money - on top of the £32m already being spent in the region.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Boris Johnson: \"You can't but be affected by the scale of the devastation\"\n\nThe Department for International Development insisted that the fact that the territories were not eligible for official development assistance had not affected the UK's emergency relief.\n\nAnd officials categorically denied that five times as much money would have been available if ODA could have been used.\n\nA DFID source said: \"Claims that we could have provided five times as much money are absolute nonsense. These are British people on British territories and in times of crisis we stand by them.\n\n\"Absolutely nothing held us back in sending help. Our response was based on need alone.\"\n\nThe problem for the future is that a lot more money is going to be needed to help the long-term reconstruction of the three territories and that will put a huge strain on government budgets if official aid cannot be used.\n\nThe MoD says it is funding its response from cross-government funds.\n\nIn Haiti, many roads were blocked or damaged by the storm, hindering recovery operations\n\nIt has also emerged that the group of charities that form the Disasters Emergency Committee are refusing to launch an emergency appeal for the three British territories.\n\nThe committee said that the scale of the damage on the islands did not justify an appeal.\n\nIn a statement, the DEC said: \"Many of the islands that have been affected are supported by wealthy nations such as the UK, France and the US, and those governments are providing the assistance needed.\n\n\"The DEC and its members have been closely monitoring poorer islands such as Haiti, but the current assessment is that the scale of the long-term damage to infrastructure and livelihoods is not at the level which justifies DEC members collectively appealing to the UK public for funds.\"", "Producer Nile Rodgers has admitted to feeling \"uncertainty\" about working on George Michael's new single.\n\nFantasy, a remix of a 1980s outtake, premiered on Radio 2 on Thursday.\n\nRodgers' confession came in response to a fan who expressed \"mixed feelings\" over the song's release, eight months after Michael's death.\n\n\"You SHOULD have mixed feelings,\" he said on Twitter. \"No one's heart was dragged through emotional ambiguity more than mine.\"\n\nRodgers said he approached the remix with \"tears, uncertainty, happiness & #LOVE\".\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\nFantasy sounds vastly different to the version that was released as a b-side in 1990, and later as a bonus track on 2011's deluxe version of the Faith album.\n\nThe tinny 80s production of the original has been completely overhauled in favour of a slinky funk groove, featuring Rodgers' choppy guitar rhythms and championing Michael's soulful harmonies.\n\nOn first listen, it appears some of the vocals are alternate takes to the previously released version.\n\nBut while it is refreshing to hear Michael's voice on the radio again, the track still feels more like an offcut than an undiscovered gem.\n\nThe decision to create a new \"hook\" from speeded-up samples of the star's vocals also feels like a rare mis-step for Rodgers, whose production credits include Madonna, David Bowie and Duran Duran.\n\n\"Fantasy was originally meant to be on Listen Without Prejudice and was intended to be one of the singles from the album, but somehow it got lost in the ether,\" Michael's manager David Austin told Radio 2's Chris Evans in a letter, which the broadcaster read out on his breakfast show.\n\nWhile working on a reissue of Listen Without Prejudice before his death, he revisited the song and decided it could become a single.\n\n\"George phoned up Nile Rodgers, his good pal, in early 2016 because the two of them have always spoken the same musical language, and Nile has reworked the record.\"\n\nNews of the single emerged on Wednesday as Michael's sisters Melanie and Yioda posted an update on his official website, saying they will carry on his musical legacy \"exactly as Yog would have wanted\".\n\nFans embraced the track, and many tweeted about \"listening with tears\" in their eyes.\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\nMichael, who rose to fame in band Wham!, died last year from heart disease and a build-up of fat in his liver.\n\nHis body was found by his partner, hairdresser Fadi Fawaz, at his home in Goring-on-Thames, Oxfordshire, on Christmas Day.\n\nDuring his career, Michael enjoyed seven number ones on the UK singles charts, including Careless Whisper, A Different Corner, Jesus To a Child and Fast Love.\n\nThe 53-year-old had 23 top 10 hits, including Faith, Father Figure, Outside and You Have Been Loved.\n\nThe Fantasy remix will feature on a deluxe version of Listen Without Prejudice Vol 1 / MTV Unplugged, which is set for release on 20 October.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The new series of The Great British Bake Off has been popular with viewers\n\nThe first episode of this year's Great British Bake Off provided one of the biggest audiences in Channel 4's 35-year history, new figures show.\n\nFull ratings, which includes those who watched the show up to seven days later, ended up at 9.5 million viewers.\n\nNo programme has achieved ratings as high since Big Fat Gypsy Weddings had 9.7 million viewers in February 2011.\n\nChannel 4's creative officer Jay Hunt said: \"Bake Off has well and truly landed.\"\n\nShe added: \"I'm thrilled viewers have warmed to Paul, Prue, Noel and Sandi and are enjoying the exceptional standard of baking.\"\n\nThis year's contestants hoping to win Bake Off\n\nBake Off's viewing figures mean it received a place in Channel 4's top 10 biggest audiences of all time.\n\nThe largest audience in Channel 4's history was for the final episode of the mini-series A Woman of Substance, which was watched by 13.9 million viewers in January 1985.\n\nAmong the 9.5 million who watched this year's opener were 2.7 million 16 to 34-year-olds, making Bake Off the biggest programme for young viewers on any channel so far in 2017.\n\nThe full ratings for last year's launch on BBC One were 13.6 million.\n\nSome of the personnel may have changed but the recipe is pretty much unchanged\n\nIn poaching Bake Off from the BBC, Channel 4 had to ensure they retained excellent plots and characters.\n\nThe former they could largely leave to Love Productions, the independent company which achieved such success with the format on the BBC.\n\nThe latter was a trickier mission. But the near universal acclaim - among critics at least - for the combination of Noel Fielding, Sandi Toksvig and Prue Leith with Paul Hollywood suggests that they've scored on this front as well.\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.", "About 400 survivors of Hurricane Irma have arrived in France and the Netherlands aboard military planes, AFP reports.\n\nSome 278 survivors landed in Paris, while another 100 flew into Eindhoven which is in the south of the Netherlands, the news agency says.\n\nEarlier, French officials said six out of 10 homes on St Martin, an island shared between France and the Netherlands, were now uninhabitable.\n\nThey said nine people had died and seven were missing in the French territories, while four are known to have died in Dutch Sint Maarten.", "An Australian politician has delivered a harrowing speech revealing that her estranged husband was jailed for possessing child abuse images.\n\nRachel Carling-Jenkins, a member of Victoria's state parliament, said she discovered the extensive collection in their family home last year.\n\nHer husband was convicted after Dr Carling-Jenkins and her son went to police.\n\nShe said the discovery had turned her life upside down.\n\n\"In this discovery, I personally viewed deeply distressing images which have caused me immediate and ongoing anguish,\" she said.\n\n\"My marriage ended instantly and I left home the day I made that discovery and I have not returned to the family home since, except to pick up belongings.\"\n\nThe conservative politician told a sitting of the Victorian upper house on Thursday that she had kept silent on the matter to prevent interfering with police and court proceedings.\n\nShe had never had suspicions that her husband was addicted to child abuse images.\n\n\"I have no regrets as a mother or a wife in reporting and exposing this dreadful crime which occurred within the privacy of my home,\" she said.\n\nDr Carling-Jenkins said her husband had since refused to sign divorce papers and also denied her a property settlement and access to assets.\n\nShe said she had been financially and mentally abused by her husband, who had been sentenced to prison.\n\nShe also spoke of the anguish she felt for the young victims.\n\n\"The faces of many are etched into my memory for eternity and I pray that the police were able to identify and rescue as many of the poor, helpless, vulnerable victims as possible,\" she said.\n\n\"These little girls would not be abused if people like my ex-husband did not provide a market.\"\n\nFellow MPs hugged Dr Carling-Jenkins in the chamber after her speech.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Leon and Steve have been both attacked in recent months for being gay\n\nMore than half of gay men in Britain do not feel comfortable holding hands with a partner in the street, a survey of 5,000 LGBT people has revealed.\n\nOne in five lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender respondents to Stonewall's poll said they had experienced a hate crime in the past year.\n\nThey ranged from abuse to assault, but 81% of victims did not go to police.\n\nThe Home Office said all hate crime was \"completely unacceptable\" and \"should be met with the full force of the law\".\n\nStonewall said the UK had much to do before all LGBT people \"can feel safe, included and free to be themselves\".\n\nWhile hate crime was more effectively recorded than in the past, the charity said there had undoubtedly been \"a genuine increase\" in incidents since its last major survey in 2013.\n\nThe 2017 poll - timed to coincide with a major new campaign, Come Out for LGBT - also found:\n\nThe report also highlights the daily discrimination LGBT people face, for example in shops or when attempting to access public services.\n\nOne in 10 respondents said they had suffered problems trying to either rent or buy a property.\n\nOne in six said their sexuality had been an issue in cafes or restaurants, while 10% of those who have attended a live sporting event claim to have been discriminated against.\n\nThe report includes harrowing accounts, such as that of Ava, a 56-year-old from London, who said: \"Someone described their intention to slit my throat and kill me.\n\n\"They went on to say no court would convict them for killing 'the queer bait'.\"\n\nElijah, a 19-year-old from south-east England, said: \"I live in constant fear of being attacked again due to my gender identity.\"\n\nStonewall says its research highlights the \"shocking levels of hate crime and discrimination that LGBT people still face in Britain today\".\n\nChief executive Ruth Hunt said: \"At Stonewall, we want everyone across Britain who feels impacted by reading this report to join our campaign and pledge to come out for LGBT people everywhere, as visible allies.\"\n\nMinister for countering extremism Baroness Williams said all forms of hate crime were unacceptable and the Home Office was working to improve the response to such incidents, including ensuring victims had the confidence to come forward.\n\n\"We are clear there can be absolutely no excuse for targeting someone because of their gender identity or sexual orientation. We put victims at the heart of everything we do, which is why we work closely with partners to support victims of LGBT hate crime.\"\n\nDavid Isaac, chairman of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, reiterated the desire to see an end to what he called \"a hierarchy of hate crime\".\n\n\"All hate crime is abhorrent. LGBT people, like everyone else, have the right to live safely in the community,\" he said.\n\n\"That is why we want the government to conduct a full review of hate crime legislation and sentencing guidance.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe 18-year-old from South Sudan knew he might perish on the treacherous crossing from Libya to Europe. So far this year, the Mediterranean has claimed an estimated 2,400 migrants and refugees.\n\nBut before he ever reached the shore, Hennessy was kidnapped, beaten and almost shot.\n\nThe teenager says he left home in 2016 after family problems resulted in death threats.\n\nHe is behind bars in the Triq al-Sika detention centre in Tripoli, along with around 1,000 other men. Most we met were Africans in search of work, who were stopped at sea, or trying to get there.\n\nNow they are jammed into a warehouse, bereft of light and struggling to breathe.\n\nHennessy Manjing spent three years in London, where he wants to return\n\nIn the sweltering heat they are melding together - a tapestry of jumbled limbs, and torment.\n\n\"When they find their journey ends here, they are completely broken,\" said one official at the centre.\n\nSome try to fan themselves with scraps of cardboard. At night, when the doors are locked, they have to urinate in bottles.\n\n\"It's like hell,\" said Hennessy \"even worse than jail.\"\n\nThe gaunt teenager spoke with a London accent - the legacy of three years spent living in the UK with his family.\n\nHopes of getting back there led him first to Egypt, and then across the border to eastern Libya. He says that's where an armed gang kidnapped him and about 40 others from their trafficker.\n\nThere is not enough money to look after all the detainees\n\n\"We saw people holding guns and sticks, and they forced us into trucks,\" he said.\n\n\"People starting jumping off. By the time we jumped, there was an old man, from Chad. He was shot. Blood went all over my T-shirt. I thought I had been shot as well so I just ran away.\"\n\nHe sought help from a local man, who returned him to one of the kidnappers.\n\n\"He slapped me and punched me in the stomach, and said: 'Why did you run away?'\n\n\"Thank God, on the third day my trafficker came and released us.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHennessy was given a fake visa to fly to Tripoli, but on arrival he was arrested by a militia and taken to a detention centre near the airport.\n\n\"There were daily abuses,\" he said. \"If people make noise, or rush for food, you get beaten.\"\n\nThe weapon of choice for the guards was a water pipe.\n\nSome of his fellow detainees outlined other hazards on the migrant trail through Libya - being bought and sold by militias, used as slave labour, and forced to bribe guards to be released from detention centres.\n\nI just want to leave this place and go to my country\n\nOsman Abdel Salam, from Sudan, lifted the red towel around his neck to reveal a raised scar.\n\nHe said that was the handiwork of jailers in the Libyan town of Bani Walid. They forced prisoners to call home, while being brutalised, to extort money from their relatives.\n\n\"When we call, we are crying. They beat you on the head. There are some people who don't want to obey - they burn their body. My father is a farmer. He doesn't have money so he sold our house.\"\n\nOsman's freedom - which was short-lived - cost his family $5,000 (£3,800).\n\nWhen I asked if he still wanted to get to Europe, he covered his eyes with the towel and began to weep.\n\n\"I just want to leave this place and go to my country.\"\n\nEmmanuel John, an 18-year-old who speaks perfect English, said he was beaten from the moment he crossed the border, and feared he would die.\n\n\"The smugglers that brought us to Libya handed us to others, from the same network,\" he said.\n\n\"There are stops along the way until you arrive in the city. At every stop you have to pay money. And if you don't, there will be beatings.\"\n\nBut it was not the physical abuse that pained him the most.\n\n\"Two girls were raped in the room beside us,\" he said.\n\n\"It was a horrible moment. We couldn't do anything. We didn't have anything to defend ourselves.\"\n\nHe told us the girls were aged about 15 and 19, and were travelling with their family.\n\nThe European Union wants Libya to do more to prevent migrants like Emmanuel reaching Europe.\n\nBut those intercepted by the Libyan coastguard are being returned to an unstable country, with a collapsing economy, that can barely feed them.\n\nA recent United Nations report condemned the \"inhuman conditions\" in Libyan detention centres highlighting \"consistent reports of torture, sexual violence and forced labour\", and cases of severe malnutrition.\n\nBreakfast time at Triq al-Sika was long on queues, and short on food.\n\nEach man received a small bread roll, some butter, and a single cup of watery juice.\n\nThree-month-old Sola has been in detention for most of his short life\n\nThe detainees wanted us to witness this, as did the officials in charge. They say they have run out of money to pay their suppliers and are now relying on donations.\n\nThose behind bars here are effectively prisoners, who don't know their sentence. They can be held indefinitely - with no legal process. Their only hope of release is to be sent back to their home country.\n\nThree-month-old Sola has been in detention for most of his short life.\n\nWe found him in the women's section, sleeping peacefully on a faded mattress.\n\nHis young mother, Wasila Alasanne, tried to take him across the seas to Italy when he was just four weeks old.\n\n\"Our boat broke and the police arrested us on the water,\" she said.\n\n\"Since then we have been in five prisons. We don't have enough food. We don't have the right to call our parents. They don't know if I am alive or dead. My baby and I are suffering.\"\n\nWasila's husband is being held in a different detention centre.\n\nShe has no idea when they will be reunited, or when they will free.\n\nHer home country, Togo, has no ambassador in Libya.\n\nNow she can only dream of deportation, as she used to dream of Europe.\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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage shows part of the pavement scorched after the explosion\n\nPart of Oxford Street was closed after a suspected electrical explosion.\n\nThe Met Police said one man had been left with minor injuries after a small \"power network explosion\" at about 19:00 BST.\n\nA police cordon was put in place blocking traffic and part of the pavement, but has since been lifted.\n\nEyewitnesses described \"screaming, crying and shouting\" after a loud explosion, followed by \"heat and light\" coming from a box of electrical wires.\n\nEyewitnesses described seeing \"burnt ground\" after the suspected electrical explosion\n\nBronte Aurell tweeted: \"I saw the explosion on #oxfordstreet I was right there - if that's an electrical explosion I don't want to ever meet one again. Was massive!\"\n\nAdam Jogee tweeted: \"Terrifying few moments in John Lewis on Oxford Street. Explosion and lots of screaming, crying and shouting. All told to hide or get out.\"\n\nTwitter account @Londonstuff tweeted a video showing a large amount of smoke saying: \"Something's happened on Oxford Street. People running away quickly and panicking.\"\n\nA spokeswoman from the Met confirmed roads had now reopened and emergency teams had stood down.\n\nShe said the electricity company was at the scene.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jonathan Head tweeted this image of the fires in Gawdu Zara village in Rakhine\n\nAbout 164,000 Rohingya Muslims have poured into Bangladesh from Myanmar's Rakhine state since violence erupted two weeks ago. They say the military and Rakhine Buddhists are destroying their villages to drive them out after attacks by Rohingya militants on police posts.\n\nThe government rejects this, saying the militants and Muslim residents are burning their own villages. But the BBC's South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head says he saw a Muslim village that had just been set on fire, apparently by a group of Rakhine Buddhists. Here he describes what he witnessed:\n\nI am part of a group of journalists invited by the Myanmar government to see the situation on the ground in Maungdaw. The conditions for us joining this trip are that we stay in the group and do not go off independently, and we are taken to places the government chooses for us.\n\nRequests to go to other areas of interest, even nearby, were rejected as being unsafe.\n\nWe were returning from a visit to the town of Al Le Than Kyaw, south of Maungdaw, which is still smoking, suggesting houses have been recently set alight.\n\nThe police said it was the Muslim inhabitants who burned their own homes, although most fled after militants from the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army attacked the police post in the town on 25 August. While there we saw at least three columns of smoke in the distance to the north, and heard sporadic automatic weapons fire.\n\nOn our way back we saw a large column of smoke rising from a cluster of trees in the rice fields - usually a sign of a village.\n\nWe got out and raced across the fields to reach it. We could see the first buildings in the village ablaze, but only just. Houses in these villages burn to ash in 20-30 minutes. It was obvious the fires had just been lit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jonathan Head, speaking on Wednesday on a government-organised trip to Rakhine\n\nAs we walked in, a group of young, muscular men carrying machetes, swords and sling-shots were walking out. We tried to ask them questions but they refused to be filmed.\n\nHowever, my Myanmar colleagues did speak to them away from the cameras and they said they were Rakhine Buddhists. One of them admitted he had lit the fires, and said he had help from the police.\n\nAs we walked further in, we saw the Madrasa (Islamic religious school) with its roof only just on fire. Flames licked up the sides of another house opposite; within three minutes it was an inferno.\n\nThere was was no-one else in the village. These men we saw were the perpetrators. Household goods were strewn across the path; children's toys, women's clothing. We saw one empty jug reeking of petrol and another with a little fuel left in it in the middle of the path.\n\nBy the time we walked out, all the burned houses were smouldering, blackened ruins.", "There's a new call for politicians to look at maintenance grants for the poorest students.\n\nMore than a hundred universities are calling for a rethink on costs. Universities UK says the main worry for undergraduates is \"money in their pocket\" while they are studying.\n\nIt's estimated those from low income families will also leave with debts of £57,000.\n\nWe speak to students who paid for their studies by working several jobs.\n\nArwen Hawley-Brandt (above) is in her final year at Falmouth University studying filmmaking.\n\n\"I've had to waitress, work in a fish and chip shop and sell loads of things on eBay in order to fund my way through my studies,\" she tells Newsbeat.\n\nAlthough she says the course itself is a lot of fun, she's not sure if the costs she's incurred will be worth it.\n\n\"I've contemplated dropping out but the only reason I'm staying is I'm in so much debt as it is, I might as well get the degree.\"\n\nThe 23-year-old had no option but to take out a credit card. \"Then because I couldn't pay it off, I had to leave university early to go back to my parents and work, because they kept getting letters.\"\n\n\"Worrying about money has caused me a lot of anxiety and feelings of depression. I've had to stay in student halls again because I couldn't afford the £3,000 for a deposit on a house share.\"\n\nStephen Rooney, 30, from Newcastle had four jobs when he was studying politics.\n\n\"I did pedi-cabbing, worked in a call centre doing sales and service at Direct Line motor insurance, worked with a Polish builder doing some manual labour and fundraised for the university development and alumni office,\" he rattles off.\n\nHe says the multiple workplaces helped give him \"additional disposable income\" and \"independence from my parents\".\n\n\"I had plenty of free time beyond my studies to earn some extra cash and I found balancing work and student life very easy.\"\n\n\"My favourite job was being a lifeguard and activity co-ordinator for Disney in America,\" says Gregor Hollerin, 32.\n\nHe also worked on a potato farm. \"I loved the competitive element; we always tried to beat the record for most plants in a day,\" he tells Newsbeat.\n\nDuring term time he worked in bars and restaurants. \"It was very flexible and managed to easily fit it around my studies and sport,\" he says.\n\nHe was also a street fundraiser for a time but gave that one up. He's now a PR consultant.\n\n\"I took my student loan every year, but it didn't cover more than the basics so I needed to work,\" explains Nicki Smith, 22, who has just finished her degree in business management at the University of Strathclyde.\n\n\"I would work Friday night and Saturday and Sundays at a range of venues owned by Kained Holdings... it was essentially like working in nine different places but they were all good opportunities.\n\n\"Some weeks I found it challenging with deadlines but buying a diary was a saviour,\" she laughs.\n\nBut the 22-year-old has no regrets.\n\n\"It was definitely worth it, because I'm about to start my graduate job in hospitality in a few weeks.\"\n\nNatalie Smythe, 25, worked three jobs and volunteered while studying biology at the University of Southampton. The 25-year old is from a single-parent household and says it was a struggle to get anything more than a \"pitiful loan\".\n\n\"I worked as a silver service waitress, so no tips, and as a tutor and proof reader to cover my rent and expenses,\" she explains.\n\nShe says her lowest point was in the third year, writing her dissertation and doing lab work, while keeping the jobs going. \"I'm sure working unsociable shifts impacted my grades.\"\n\nAndrew Mackin, 40, is a music teacher who is still paying off his student debt.\n\n\"I first moved away to study music at Manchester City College at the age of 23. In order to pay for my living costs and tuition I'd work as a chef and also give private guitar lessons,\" he tells Newsbeat.\n\n\"Working really put a squeeze on the time I had left.\n\n\"Three nights a week, I'd finish college and go straight to work finishing up at 11.30pm, then get on with course work until around 4am and do it all again the next day,\" he says.\n\nAndrew still has £17,000 of debt to pay back.\n\nUntil a short time ago Ben Boreham, 21, worked as a chef in Plymouth. He was sacked because the business didn't need him anymore and has struggled to find work since.\n\n\"I think it's really hard to get about eight to 20 hours work a week. I get the impression people don't want to take on students,\" he says.\n\nHe says short-term work is tough to find. \"They say they would take me on but they don't employ students. We are not sought after because we are too transient.\"\n\n\"I don't want to have to ask my parents as I've got twin brother and sister who have just started university. I want to show my family I can sort myself out.\"\n\nFind us on Instagram at BBCNewsbeat and follow us on Snapchat, search for bbc_newsbeat", "The Air Accident Investigation Branch has sent an investigation team to the airport\n\nOne person has died after a light aircraft crashed onto the runway at an airport in north Wales.\n\nPolice were called to Caernarfon Airport at 18:29 BST on Wednesday after the plane crashed and burst into flames on the runway.\n\nThe pilot was pronounced dead at the scene and an investigation has begun.\n\nCh Insp Sharon McCairn, of North Wales Police, said: \"A cordon is in place around the site and we are urging the public to remain clear of the area.\"\n\nThe Air Accident Investigation Branch has sent a team to the airport.\n\nMark Hancock, a guest at the nearby Morfa Lodge holiday park, said he saw what looked like a twin-engine plane crash as it came into land.\n\n\"The first thing I noticed was that the plane had no landing gear on, its wheels weren't down,\" he said.\n\n\"It was coming in way too fast and then the bottom of it did a sort of belly flop on the runway. It caught fire and then it bounced back up into the air and when it hit the ground again it burst into flames.\n\n\"It was like a massive fireball and there was black smoke everywhere. We could feel the heat from where we were standing. There were bits of plane all over the runway.\"\n\nCaernarfon Airport, near Dinas Dinlle, operates training flights and is also home to the Wales Air Ambulance and the HM Coastguard Helicopters operated by Bristow.\n\nWales Air Ambulance said the crash did not involve any of its aircraft.", "The arrested men had flown into Birmingham from Turkey\n\nTwo men have been arrested at Birmingham Airport on suspicion of terror offences.\n\nThe pair, aged 40 and 29, and from the UK, were held on Thursday after getting off a flight from Istanbul, Turkey.\n\nThe older man is being held on suspicion of being concerned in the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism. He is currently in hospital in London.\n\nThe other was arrested on suspicion of belonging to a proscribed organisation.\n\nHe is being questioned at a London police station.\n\nThey are being detained by officers from the Met's Counter Terrorism Command.", "Protests have been held around the world to condemn the persecution of gay and lesbian Chechens\n\nThirty-one gay and bisexual Chechen men and women have been granted asylum in Canada following a violent crackdown on LGBT people in the Russian republic. They are being brought to Canada as part of an under-the-radar collaboration between human rights groups and the federal government.\n\nIn April, reports of abductions, detentions, disappearances, torture and deaths targeting gay and bisexual men in Chechnya began making international headlines.\n\nThe Chechen government denied that security officials had launched an anti-gay purge, saying that gay men \"simply don't exist in the republic\".\n\nIt was a claim repeated in July by authoritarian Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, who denied in an interview there were gay men in Chechnya.\n\nHe then told HBO reporter David Scott : \"If there are any, take them to Canada\".\n\nRainbow Road executive director Kimahli Powell says \"I had to chuckle when I heard that\".\n\nBy that time Rainbow Road, a non-governmental organisation (NGO) that helps LGBT people escape persecution and violence around the world, was well into a clandestine effort to spirit gay and lesbian Chechens to Canada.\n\nThe programme was kept secret until last week in order to assure the security of those they were assisting.\n\nIts full details remain vague and the Canadian government has only confirmed its role through unnamed sources.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'Ruslan', a gay man who says he fled: \"It's the extermination of gay men\"\n\nPowell confirmed that 31 people have been granted asylum in Canada since June and that 22 are now in the country. They are all young, between 20 and 25 years old. Most were brought to Canada as government-assisted refugees.\n\nRainbow Railroad, based in Toronto, has also helped move another four to other countries.\n\nAll told, about 70 gay and bisexual men and women have escaped Chechnya, though a number still remain in Russia.\n\nIn May, the Russian LGBT Network said it was working with five countries in Europe and elsewhere to offer asylum to dozens of gay men.\n\nBut the organisation only named one country - Lithuania - as a confirmed destination.\n\nPowell says when the scope of the persecution in Chechnya became clear, it made sense to approach the federal government for help.\n\nCanadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has been a vocal advocate for LGBT rights\n\nPrime Minister Justin Trudeau publicly supports LGBT rights and regularly attends pride parades across the country. He named Liberal MP Randy Boissonnault as special adviser on LGBT issues.\n\nTrudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland had both publicly condemned the anti-gay purge and called the persecution \"reprehensible\".\n\nRainbow Railroad was also concerned that Europe, with its Chechen diaspora, might not be the safest place for the refugees.\n\nPowell says \"this was a time to see whether the government was really going to do something\".\n\nRainbow Railroad worked closely with the Russian LGBT network - the key organisation in the region - to help get the men and women out of Chechnya.\n\n\"In February, they're young individuals who had never left home, closeted, and all of a sudden captured, rounded up, beaten, abused, outed and then forced to migrate, within a few months,\" Powell says.\n\n\"Even in Canada they don't believe they're safe.\"\n\nHuman Rights Watch was also instrumental in the effort.\n\nEgale, a Canadian LGBT human rights organisation, is working with 16 of the Chechens who have safely settled in Toronto.\n\nThe individuals will get counselling and settlement services.\n\nExecutive director Helen Kennedy says they face the usual challenges common to refugees - integrating into a new country and culture with different customs and language - as well as the trauma related to their experience.\n\nShe says the LGBT groups supporting the newcomers will need resources to help them adapt.\n\nGay men and lesbians who have faced persecution in other countries often distrust groups that provide services that aren't focused on the LGBT community.\n\n\"They should not feel abandoned once they get here,\" she says.\n\nIt's possible Canada's involvement will increase tensions between Canada and Russia.\n\nThe Globe and Mail newspaper reported that Freeland played a key role in the operation. Freeland is also one of 13 Canadian officials sanctioned by Moscow in 2014 in retaliation for sanctions imposed over Russia's annexation of Crimea.\n\nRussian officials told the Globe that there would be consequences if Canada violated Russian law by bringing in the Chechen refugees.\n\nIt's not the first time Canada has helped persecuted gay men and lesbians.\n\nThe previous Conservative government helped LGBT people fleeing persecution from Iran, though the number being granted asylum in Canada dropped as Liberal government shifted its priorities to bringing in Syrian refugees in 2015.", "A handheld device can identify cancerous tissue in 10 seconds, according to scientists at the University of Texas.\n\nThey say it could make surgery to remove a tumour quicker, safer and more precise.\n\nAnd they hope it would avoid the \"heartbreak\" of leaving any of the cancer behind.\n\nTests, published in Science Translational Medicine, suggest the technology is accurate 96% of the time.\n\nThe MasSpec Pen takes advantage of the unique metabolism of cancer cells.\n\nTheir furious drive to grow and spread means their internal chemistry is very different to that of healthy tissue.\n\nThe pen is touched on to a suspected cancer and releases a tiny droplet of water.\n\nChemicals inside the living cells move into the droplet, which is then sucked back up the pen for analysis.\n\nThe pen is plugged into a mass spectrometer - a piece of kit that can measure the mass of thousands of chemicals every second.\n\nIt produces a chemical fingerprint that tells doctors whether they are looking at healthy tissue or cancer.\n\nThe challenge for surgeons is finding the border between the cancer and normal tissue.\n\nIn some tumours it is obvious, but in others the boundary between healthy and diseased tissue can be blurred.\n\nThe pen should help doctors ensure none of the cancer is left behind.\n\nRemove too little tissue, and any remaining cancerous cells will grow into another tumour. But take too much, and you can cause damage, particularly in organs such as the brain.\n\nLivia Eberlin, an assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Texas, Austin, told the BBC: \"What's exciting about this technology is how clearly it meets a clinical need.\n\n\"The tool is elegant and simple and can be in the hands of surgeons in a short time.\"\n\nThe technology has been tested on 253 samples as part of the study. The plan is to continue testing to refine the device before trialling it during operations next year.\n\nThe pen currently analyses a patch of tissue 1.5mm (0.06in) across, but the researchers have already developed pens that are even more refined and should be able to look at a finer patch of tissue just 0.6mm across.\n\nWhile the pen itself is cheap, the mass spectrometer is expensive and bulky.\n\nDr Eberlin said: \"The roadblock is the mass spectrometer, for sure.\n\n\"We're visioning a mass spectrometer that's a little smaller, cheaper and tailored for this application that can be wheeled in and out of rooms.\"\n\nDr James Suliburk, one of the researchers and the head of endocrine surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, said: \"Any time we can offer the patient a more precise surgery, a quicker surgery or a safer surgery, that's something we want to do.\n\n\"This technology does all three.\"\n\nThe MasSpec Pen is the latest attempt to improve the accuracy of surgery.\n\nA team at Imperial College London have developed a knife that \"smells\" the tissue it cuts to determine whether it is removing cancer.\n\nAnd a team at Harvard are using lasers to analyse how much of a brain cancer to remove.\n\nDr Aine McCarthy, from Cancer Research UK, said: \"Exciting research like this has the potential to speed up how quickly doctors can determine if a tumour is cancerous or not and learn about its characteristics.\n\n\"Gathering this kind of information quickly during surgery could help doctors match the best treatment options for patients sooner.\"", "A 15-year-old boy has been sentenced for stabbing to death another teenager outside his school gates in an act described as \"pure evil\".\n\nQuamari Serunkuma-Barnes, also 15, was chased and stabbed three times outside Capital City Academy in Willesden, west London, in January.\n\nThe defendant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was found guilty of murder after a trial at the Old Bailey.\n\nHe was detained for at least 14 years.\n\nFollowing the trial, the boy admitted attacking Quamari.\n\nIn a statement, he said: \"I don't know why I did it. I was scared and confused.\n\n\"I'm telling the truth for Quamari's mum and dad. I'm sorry.\n\n\"I didn't mean Quamari to get so hurt.\n\n\"I'm not a murderer. I didn't want him to die.\n\nThe motive behind the killing remains unknown\n\n\"I want to have a different life but I don't know how. I'm trying.\"\n\nIn a statement read out in court, Quamari's mother Lillian Serunkuma described the killer's actions as \"pure evil\".\n\n\"You never gave Quamari a second chance to defend himself.\n\n\"You took his life in a cold and malicious way.\"\n\nShe said her son had a \"fun loving spirit\" and his life was stolen for \"no reason\", adding what the teenager did was \"indefensible\".\n\nTributes were left at the school gates following his death\n\nJudge John Bevan QC said it was \"infinitely depressing\" to sentence a young person for such a serious crime.\n\nHe said: \"It is very unusual to admit a murder after conviction. It is a mature decision rather than taking your chances in the Court of Appeal.\"\n\nBut he added: \"This is a bad case of its kind because Quamari can have done nothing to merit an attack of this severity.\n\n\"His death was a product of a total lack of self control combined with the cowardice of knifing an unarmed victim.\"\n\nProsecutor Sally O'Neill QC said: \"It is not accepted that Quamari was anything to do with any sort of gang.\n\n\"Information from the school painted a picture of a happy, hardworking, well liked and sociable boy.\"\n\nOutside court, Quamari's father Paul Barnes said he thought his son's killer was \"grabbing at straws\" by admitting the attack.\n\nHe said he was \"trying to save his own skin. Last ditch dot com. Trying to save his own bacon\".\n\nDet Ch Insp Jamie Stevenson, from the homicide and major crime command, said: \"This was a deliberate and planned attack on a defenceless schoolboy as he made his way home, laughing and joking with friends.\n\n\"Quamari was well liked amongst his peers and had his whole life ahead of him. He was a Year 11 pupil and was in the latter stages of preparing for his GCSEs.\n\n\"His friends have gone on to sit their exams, something Quamari was never able to do, and his family have been denied the opportunity to know what their son and brother would have gone on to achieve.\"", "If you're diabetic, checking your blood sugar level is part of the fabric of life. But one designer with the condition went a step further and wove her blood results into the fabric she designs.\n\nPoppy Nash was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes aged six which meant her body was no longer able to produce insulin.\n\n\"It was horrible and scary,\" she says, as she recalled the day her GP sent her straight to A&E. \"I remember Mum crying in the hospital. That's when I realised there was something wrong.\"\n\nNash was diagnosed and discharged with a new life-changing routine which revolved around injections and measuring blood-sugar levels multiple times a day, a demanding cycle kept up by her mum for many years until she was old enough to take responsibility for her own health.\n\nWhen she was hospitalised at 18, after she accidentally injected herself with double the amount of insulin she needed, the true gravitas of the condition hit her.\n\n\"That was my wake-up call,\" she says. \"It was like a second diagnosis and I suddenly realised 'I'm in charge of this stuff that essentially can kill me'.\"\n\nIt gave Nash a new outlook when she left home for Glasgow School of Art to study Communication Design where she \"pushed\" her way into the textiles department to learn how to screen print.\n\nAsked to create a body of work on a subject she cared about, Nash says she hit a wall as the \"voice\" of diabetes became \"too loud\" and drowned out her creativity.\n\n\"I got so stressed out and my diabetes control went badly,\" she says. \"Diabetes was the thing that made me stop doing my project work so I turned the situation on its head, then it made sense.\"\n\nNash went back to her blood sugar monitor and the ream of data it automatically stores which reveals how her body reacts to life - the good and bad.\n\nShe took the numbers, sometimes elaborated on them or added colour, then printed them onto fabric, before she turned that fabric into wearable artwork and felt she was literally weaving her blood into clothes.\n\n\"When you do research for a project you have to really believe in what you're doing and this [diabetes] is the only subject that I really cared about,\" she says.\n\n\"It makes me weirdly happy because I feel I'm cheating something, but they're also real numbers and that's why it's so scary.\"\n\nAlthough Nash loves to focus on her work, she says it can bring on negative thoughts if she dwells on the reality of the figures and the impact the condition can have on her life.\n\n\"I was looking at these articles of people dying in their sleep from diabetes and I thought 'actually I can't do this'.\n\nWhen that happens Nash says she has to put her work to one side for the day. She says \"it's scary\" but believes the project is ultimately good for her because it makes her confront the reality of what can happen if she doesn't look after herself.\n\nWhen she's being creative in the studio Nash tries to look at her blood sugar levels artistically rather than medically.\n\nThe repetitive nature of writing out the numbers can be a \"good therapy\", she says, but she has to be careful not to get overwhelmed and focus only on the \"bad numbers\".\n\nAccording to Diabetes UK, healthy blood sugar levels vary between each person but tend to be between four and nine, depending on when they have eaten - some of Nash's readings, which she has printed on her fabric, reach as high as 18.\n\nNash's latest commission is to design the interior of a house for the National Disability Arts Collection and Archive but she has also started to experiment with text to make sense of the mass of information she is meant to know about the condition.\n\nShe has started to collect news articles which reveal the harsh realities of diabetes, and use them to create patchwork quilts.\n\n\"I'll write out a whole article and then cut it up. I'll use fragments on some patchwork - one is about diabetes burnout - because it's so impersonal. It's all about people not choosing a healthy lifestyle. \"\n\nBurnout can arise years after a diagnosis when, out of frustration, some people with diabetes get sick of the diet and testing regime and give up or lapse. They may disregard their blood sugar level management or switch back to unhealthy eating habits.\n\nAlongside her own artwork Nash works as a pattern drafter and cutter and recently made costumes for a band.\n\nHer current focus is on textiles - fabrics, clothing and one-off pieces for exhibitions - but she hopes one day there might be a clothing collection.\n\n\"I would love people to wear them,\" she says, \"They'd be telling the story of diabetes and they wouldn't even know.\"\n\nNash has had to overcome a lack of confidence in the worth of her artwork and whether it's relevant to non-diabetics.\n\n\"I think about diabetes all the time,\" she says. \"I worry that if I think I talk about it all the time I feel self-indulgent. But it's not only diabetics who like it and it opens up conversations.\"\n\nEven with the best management, hypos - when blood sugar gets too low - can occur regularly and Nash estimates she has two a week.\n\n\"It's like tripping out,\" she says. \"You have no idea what's going on. My boyfriend has been talking to me and I just didn't understand what he was saying. I could repeat the words, but I didn't understand them.\n\n\"If there was a rulebook on how hypos can be caused it would be longer than Harry Potter,\" she says.\n\nNash will continue to monitor her blood sugar levels indefinitely but it will also continue to provide her with a well of creative possibilities.\n\n\"This is a nice platform, because I can turn something so rubbish into something that I like, it makes it kind of amusing.\n\n\"Diabetes as a subject can go on and on, so long as people want to listen.\"\n\nIf you have been affected by anything in this article you can visit Diabetes UK for further information about the condition.\n\nFor more Disability News, follow BBC Ouch on Twitter and Facebook, and subscribe to the weekly podcast.", "North Korea has just fired off an intercontinental ballistic missile over Japan. Japan is uncertain as to whether the US wants to start a war.\n\nIt's trying to find out why a massive American naval fleet has just arrived in the region. But it's not getting any answers. There's chaos in the White House as various factions try to influence the president.\n\nSome of this might sound familiar. But this is not real life. It's the scenario in a war game called Dire Straits, set in 2020.\n\nAnd it's being acted out, not on the world stage, but in a lecture theatre and seminar rooms at King's College, London.\n\nMore than 100 people are taking part - academics, students, serving military officers and civil servants, as well as a few who do this for a hobby.\n\nTo an outsider, the game looks like chaos, but there are rules and referees.\n\nParticipants are given a scenario, which develops throughout the exercise\n\nTables have been set out representing countries.\n\nThe participants wear badges with their national flag and their role. There's a Russian president and foreign minister, a UN secretary general, military commanders and even journalists.\n\nIt's a noisy mix of debating society and board games: Risk meets Top Trumps meets chess.\n\nOn one table, there's a map of the region with cards placed on top with pictures of military hardware such as a US aircraft carrier and a nuclear submarine.\n\nThen, there are the \"live inserts\". Tweets appear on giant television screens to signal another twist in the game. Some of them are the actual tweets of President Trump. It keeps everyone on their toes.\n\nIt's all been choreographed by Jim Wallman and Prof Rex Brynen, of McGill University, in Montreal, who has also done these kind of games with the US military.\n\nProf Brynen says in recent years there's been a \"major resurgence of war gaming as a serious analytical and training tool in both the US and UK\".\n\nProf Rex Brynen says there's growing interest in war gaming\n\nIn Dire Straits, he's overseeing events in the White House - a room down the corridor from the rest of the world in the lecture theatre. A dozen people are trying to influence President Trump, who's survived another election in this scenario.\n\nAlex Jonas, who plays the role of a beleaguered White House chief of staff, is trying to decide which of the advisers gets access to the president. Alex's real job as a web developer sounds less frantic.\n\nPresident Trump is not being played by a person.\n\nInstead, there's a board with chance cards that reveal his state of mind. Some are based on his own tweets. Before lunch, one of the cards warns North Korea of \"fire and fury\", echoing a phrase the president used in August.\n\nProf Brynen says there are a lot of players trying to influence the president. \"He's blowing hot and cold on China, and US ambassadors in the region feel he's not really listening.\" Some of this might reflect his own views of President Trump.\n\nOver on the North Korea table, the man playing Kim Jong-un has demanded that his team applaud each decision he makes. The umpire for North Korea is a real-life British military officer, Maj Tom Mouat, who lectures at the Defence Academy, at Shrivenham. His presence suggest this is a serious business.\n\nHe says war gaming \"allows you to better understand what options you have\". \"You avoid the group-think mindset,\" he says.\n\nEach participant takes on a specific role in the unfolding scenario\n\nHe gives the example of the US academic Thomas Schelling, who was involved in war gaming during the Cold War and helped identify the need for a \"hotline\" for the US and Russian presidents to talk.\n\nPhilip Sabin, professor of strategic studies at King's College, says war gaming highlights the dangers in a \"safe way\".\n\nHe refers to a recent game involving Russia and its Baltic neighbours, in which nuclear weapons were fired.\n\n\"War games are designed to explore how things can go horribly wrong,\" he says. \"That helps you to avoid getting into that situation in real life.\"\n\nSo what happens at the end of the Dire Straits war game?\n\nAn unpredictable US policy led North Korea's neighbours to seek regional solutions. None relied on US leadership in the game.\n\nSouth Korea secretly prepared the way for its own nuclear weapons programme. Taiwan used the chaos to further its independence from China. The US accelerated the deployment of a new anti-ballistic missile system.\n\nAs for North Korea, it made significant advances in its nuclear weapons programme. But no-one was prepared to risk a broader war, and the collapse of a nuclear-armed North Korea was seen as even more dangerous.\n\nIn the end, the major powers helped to de-escalate the crisis. Even in war gaming - where the stakes are of course much lower than real life - jaw-jaw is often better than war-war.", "Workers are retiring at a younger age now than in 1950, figures show, despite longer life expectancy.\n\nMen left the labour market at an average age of 67 in 1950, compared with 65 now, according to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP).\n\nWomen typically left at 63 both in 1950 and now, although the current retirees are generally a few months younger.\n\nBut experts say that we should expect to retire at an increasingly older age as the state pension age is rising.\n\nThe age of retirement has been going up in the last 20 years and this trend is expected to continue.\n\nTom Selby, senior analyst at pension provider AJ Bell, said: \"The rise in average retirement ages is only going to accelerate in the decades to come as the state pension age increases further and the number of people retiring with generous defined benefit entitlements falls away.\n\n\"We will also see more people working longer, either full-time or part-time, in order to supplement their retirement income.\n\n\"For some this won't be a problem, but for those in more strenuous or physically demanding roles the thought of retiring later will be difficult to stomach. But the stark reality is that, if life expectancy keeps going up, many will be staring a retirement age of 70 or older square in the face.\"\n\nThe government recently announced that the state pension age will rise to 68 for men and women between 2037 and 2039, rather than from 2044 as was originally proposed.\n\nThe DWP figures simplify a more complex picture, said Nathan Long, senior pension analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown.\n\n\"Retirement is hugely personal and this data does not show the wide dispersion in ages of people leaving the workforce. There is some clustering to state pension age, but overall there are a wide range of factors that influence when someone stops working,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHurricane Irma has caused considerable damage on French island territories in the Caribbean, and casualties are expected, France's president says.\n\nThe impact of Irma on St Martin and St Barts would be \"hard and cruel\", Emmanuel Macron added.\n\nHis overseas affairs minister later confirmed at least two people dead and another two seriously injured.\n\nThe storm damaged more than 90% of buildings on Barbuda, Antigua and Barbuda's prime minister said.\n\nThe category five hurricane, the highest possible level, is now passing over the northern Virgin Islands.\n\nThe most powerful storm in a decade, with wind speeds of 295km/h (185mph), is also forecast by the US National Hurricane Center to pass near or just north of Puerto Rico, then near or just north of the coast of the Dominican Republic on Thursday.\n\nHurricane Irma first hit Antigua and Barbuda, before moving on to St Martin and Saint Barthélemy - the French holiday destination popularly known as St Barts.\n\nSignificant damage is also being reported in the Dutch section of St Martin, known as Sint-Maarten.\n\nFrench Interior Minister Gérard Collomb said the hurricane had caused major floods, and destroyed buildings, including four of the \"most solid\" on the island.\n\nThousands of people have been evacuated from at-risk areas across the Caribbean. Residents have flocked to shops for food, water, and emergency supplies, and airports have closed on several islands which are popular holiday destinations.\n\nBritish Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said the government was in touch with British overseas territories caught up in Irma, and was doing \"everything we can to help those afflicted\".\n\nIn the US, Florida's Key West area has ordered a mandatory evacuation, with landfall expected at the weekend.\n\nIrma as seen from space at 11:30 GMT on Wednesday\n\nThe French government said earlier it was worried about thousands of people who had refused to seek shelter on the islands.\n\nOfficials in the French territory of Guadeloupe confirmed the following damage:\n\nIn the Dutch territory, known as Sint-Maarten, the airport has been closed with photos showing debris strewn across the departures area and outside.\n\nThere has been a total power blackout, streets are littered with debris, cars are underwater and boats in the ports have been destroyed, Dutch broadcaster NOS reported (in Dutch).\n\nFrance's interior minister said three emergency teams were being sent to the islands, two from France and one from Guadeloupe.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alison Strand told the BBC about the \"dangerous conditions\" in Anguilla\n\nConfirming the two fatalities in St Martin and St Barts, French Overseas Affairs Minister Annick Girardin said: \"Obviously the situation can change very quickly.\"\n\nThe hurricane had caused major flooding in low-lying areas, and authorities had yet to gain access to the worst-hit areas, she added.\n\nSome 40,000 people live in the French part of St Martin, with around the same number estimated to live on the Dutch side. About 9,000 people live on St Barts.\n\nSome islands in the region are almost at sea level and any significant storm surges would be potentially deadly, the BBC's Will Grant reports from Havana.\n\nAntigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne announced the huge destruction on Barbuda, population 1,600, in a satellite phone call to local broadcaster ABS TV and radio.\n\nHowever, Antigua, population 80,000, escaped major damage, with no loss of life, he said earlier.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has declared a state of emergency for Florida, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, mobilising federal disaster relief efforts.\n\nIn Florida's Key West, visitors will be required to leave on Wednesday morning, with residents due to follow in the evening.\n\n\"Watching Hurricane closely,\" Mr Trump tweeted on Wednesday. \"My team, which has done, and is doing, such a good job in Texas, is already in Florida. No rest for the weary!\"\n\nParts of Texas and Louisiana are dealing with the damage done by Hurricane Harvey in late August. But it is not yet clear what impact Hurricane Irma might have on the US mainland.\n\nThe US House of Representatives on Wednesday approved roughly $8bn (£6.1bn) in initial emergency aid for states affected by Harvey. The measure will now go to the Senate.\n\nA third storm further out in the Atlantic behind Irma swelled to category one hurricane strength on Wednesday, the US National Hurricane Center confirmed. Hurricane Jose has a maximum sustained wind speed of 75km/h.\n\nSeeing multiple storms developing in the same area of the Atlantic in close succession is not uncommon.\n\nRarer though is the strength of the hurricanes, with Harvey making landfall in the US as a category four.\n\nThere have never been two category four storms making landfall on the US mainland during the same season, since records began.\n\nAre you in the region? Are you a holidaymaker unable to get a flight home or a resident who has been preparing for Hurricane Irma? If it is safe for you to do so, share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "When British sprinter Anyika Onuora took some time off to visit family in Nigeria in October 2015, she expected it to be like every other holiday.\n\nBut the 32-year-old contracted malaria and unable to walk, her Rio Olympic dream was left hanging in the balance.\n\nJust 10 months later the Liverpudlian stood on the Olympic podium, with a bronze medal in the 4x400m relay hanging round her neck.\n\nNot even her team-mates knew about the life-threatening ordeal she had endured just to be there. Now 13 months on from the Games, she tells her story...\n\nThere was a pause and the consultant just gave me the look - the look of uncertainty. He didn't know whether I'd make a full recovery.\n\n\"You're lucky to be alive,\" he said.\n\nBut all I could think was 'can I leave? I've got an Olympics to train for'. I felt like my dream was being taken away from me and it was heart breaking.\n\nIt all started when I was in Nigeria - I contracted malaria but I didn't know I had it. I went to the Dominican Republic for another holiday and that was when my symptoms started to get really rough.\n\nI emailed the doctor at British Athletics and I told him my urine was dark, really really dark.\n\n\"Are you sure it's not alcohol or you haven't been drinking and staying hydrated?\" he asked. But I was hydrated and it was getting quite worrying.\n\nEven with the symptoms, I got home from the Dominican Republic and I went back to training at Loughborough. I was in denial for a long time. But I knew I wasn't running properly and I felt weird. That's when I realised it was something much more serious. As soon as I stopped that session, the fever kicked in.\n\nI went to get a urine and a blood test and within 12 hours the chief medical officer got back to me. \"There's something wrong with your kidneys, you need to see a specialist,\" he said.\n\nI had no way to get to London other than to drive myself, with a raging fever, to St John's Hospital.\n\nI sometimes complain about doing a tough workout but the symptoms I had were beyond anything I could have imagined.\n\nI had a fever, I had vomiting, stomach cramps and headaches. I was going from hot to cold, shivering, and waking up in a pool of sweat without knowing why it had happened or where it had come from.\n\nBy the time they diagnosed me and told me I had malaria my fever was reaching 40C and they said \"we need to throw you in an ice tub\", but I couldn't move, I could barely breathe. The nurse had to put bags of ice around the bed because I couldn't get to the tub - I was in so much pain.\n\nI was then put in quarantine and I wasn't allowed to leave. I couldn't even go outside and I remember gazing out the window and thinking how amazing London looked. I didn't know if I was ever going to see fresh air again.\n\nI also had to learn to walk again. When I was moved to the ward I tried to do laps and I was fighting with the nurses because they said I should be in bed resting. But I needed to walk, I needed some sort of movement, I needed to be active - this was my winter training, I should have been out on the track.\n\nThe day I got released from hospital, it was my birthday and as soon as I walked outside I took a deep breath of air. I was so thankful to have the opportunity to do that, because not many people are able to survive it.\n\nI think if I was a regular person I wouldn't have known it was malaria. I would have just taken some tablets and thought it was a cold.\n\nThey told me if I'd have left it a day or two days later it could have been fatal. I'm thankful that I caught it as early as I did.\n\nI went through the absolute worst in that hospital and I nearly had everything taken away.\n\nBut as soon as I could walk again, I started running. No matter how much the training sessions killed me, I was just so grateful to be there.\n\nOriginally the European Championships weren't in my plans before the 2016 Rio Olympics, but because of the circumstances that led to my performances at the national championships - the Olympic trials - I had to go to the Europeans in Amsterdam to get a medal.\n\nSo nine months after contracting malaria I won my first global individual medal - a bronze in the 400m before gold in the 4x400m relay.\n\nThat didn't get me an individual place at Rio 2016 but I was selected for the relay and I said \"I'm not coming back to the UK without an Olympic medal\".\n\nAnd in August, I got everything I'd ever dreamed of.\n\nAlongside my team-mates Christine Ohuruogu, Emily Diamond and Eilidh Doyle we won bronze in the 4x400m relay.\n\nI remember shaking on the podium. I'd been at the Europeans and got a medal, been to the Commonwealths and the World Championships in Beijing, but an Olympic medal? It was amazing. You just want to stare at it and hold it, it's like a new born child that you've just created and you don't want to let go.\n\nOnly a handful of people knew what had happened to me in the months building up to the Olympics. I told 400m runner Martin Rooney because we were training partners and I also told long jumper Shara Proctor.\n\nI didn't know how people would react so I decided to keep the fact I'd had malaria a secret, even from my 4x400m relay team-mates.\n\nI am always accountable for everything I do and if I had a bad race in 2016 I didn't want anyone to use the malaria as an excuse. I just wanted to focus on the season and not think about it.\n\nEven when I got the Olympic medal, I wasn't too sure about telling people - I felt exposed at the time but the response when I finally did was amazing and completely overwhelming.\n\nSometimes I still get nightmares about what happened in the hospital. I didn't want to have to remember it but speaking about it gives me a sense of relief and closure.\n\nI am now an ambassador for Malaria No More UK - an amazing charity who are bringing the disease to the forefront. They're teaching people that this is a global disease and not just in Africa.\n\nPeople are sometimes worried about going to Africa because of Malaria but Nigeria is like home for me and I love going back - it's where my parents were born and bred. After my dad passed away in 2012 I said I'd go back as often as possible and I might even retire there one day.\n\nI know many people who have passed away from Malaria. I have a cousin who died from the disease so it makes me truly grateful that I survived and am able to tell my story.\n\nIn terms of my performances on the track, I'm not in exactly the same shape as before. Over the last two years my times have been up and down, but I don't think that's related to malaria. I'm just feeling my way with the 400m.\n\nI'm definitely capable of running as quick as I have done in the past and malaria by no means is going to stop me. The biggest thing I took away from this experience is strength, strength I never knew I had.\n\nWe've got the Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast and the European Championships in Germany next year so hopefully there are more medals to come.", "The UK territory of the British Virgin Islands is among the areas affected\n\nThe UK government has increased the relief fund for British overseas territories devastated by Hurricane Irma to £32m, Theresa May has said.\n\nThe announcement - increasing the fund from £12m - was made by the prime minister as she said the government had responded \"swiftly\" to the disaster.\n\nDefence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon said the government was doing all it could to help people affected.\n\nBut Baroness Amos said it was felt the UK \"did not respond\" quickly enough.\n\nThe former UN under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs said those in the overseas territories would want an \"urgent and immediate\" response from the UK.\n\n\"It's always the people on the ground who respond first. They are looking to their national governments but they are also looking outside for as much help to come as quickly as possible.\n\n\"We are now a couple of days in and I think people are feeling Britain did not respond quickly enough given we know that it is hurricane season.\"\n\nThe low-lying British territory of Turks and Caicos is still in the storm's path and evacuations have started.\n\nHurricane Irma has caused widespread destruction across the Caribbean, reducing buildings to rubble and leaving at least 10 people dead.\n\nForeign Office minister Sir Alan Duncan said British overseas territory Anguilla received the hurricane's \"full blast\" while the British Virgin Islands would need \"extensive humanitarian assistance\".\n\nAt least one death has been reported on Anguilla, according to local officials.\n\nA third British territory, Montserrat, was \"swiped\" but the damage was not as bad as first thought, Sir Alan said.\n\nBriton Emily Killhoury has lived on Tortola, the main island in the British Virgin Islands, with her husband Michael and their two children, aged nine and 10, for five years.\n\nShe told the BBC her family bunkered down in a closet when the storm hit.\n\n\"Our downstairs doors suddenly blew out which was terrifying. We just stayed hiding,\" she said.\n\n\"We eventually emerged at about 7pm to see total devastation. Everybody is shocked but trying to be practical.\"\n\nSimon Cross, 32, who also lives on Tortola, said it had gone from being a \"lush green tropical island to almost like there's been a fire\".\n\n\"There are boats upside down all twisted up. You can see corrugated sheeting littering all of the mountain.\n\n\"It's unclear as to how many people are trapped. I can't get hold of any of my friends.\n\n\"The island needs additional resources from the UK urgently.\"\n\nRoyal Navy ship, the RFA Mounts Bay, is in the region and a second British ship, HMS Ocean, is also being sent, but is not expected to arrive for another two weeks.\n\nSpeaking after a meeting of the government's Cobra emergency committee, Sir Michael said the UK's taskforce would help with relief efforts, such as restoring clean water, providing medical assistance and reconstruction work.\n\nBut Josephine Gumbs-Conner, a barrister from Anguilla, said the UK's preparations for, and response to, the storm had been \"sorely lacking\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the UK government should have \"done what the French did in St Martin - who made sure that they had military on the ground so that the response given is timely\".\n\nInternational Development Secretary Priti Patel said \"world-leading humanitarian experts\" as well as 200 shelter kits had been sent to the region as part of the UK's response.\n\nSignificant damage has been reported in the Dutch section of St Martin, known as Sint-Maarten\n\nThe Queen said she and Prince Philip have been shocked and saddened by reports of the devastation.\n\nIn a message to the governor-general of Antigua and Barbuda, she said: \"Our thoughts and prayers are with all those whose homes and livelihoods have been destroyed or adversely affected by this terrible storm.\"\n\nThousands of British tourists are believed to be holidaying in the Caribbean, the travel association Abta said.\n\nThe Foreign Office had warned Britons to evacuate the area, as the most powerful Atlantic storm in a decade approached.\n\nFears are growing for pregnant Briton Afiya Frank, 27, and her sister Asha Frank, 29, who were preparing for the storm in Barbuda but have not been heard from since Tuesday night.\n\nTheir aunt, Ruth Bolton, told BBC Radio Suffolk the pair had \"gone completely silent\" since they last messaged on WhatsApp at about 21:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nShe said Afiya had been due to return to Suffolk to give birth.\n\nMany expats and tourists have been left stranded as airlines were forced to ground or divert flights.\n\nBritish Airways evacuated 326 passengers from Antigua on Tuesday and has managed to rebook many others across the Caribbean islands on to flights out with alternative airlines.\n\nVirgin Atlantic said it had scheduled a relief flight \"loaded with essential items\" to help the recovery effort, including blankets and bottled water, to arrive in Antigua on Thursday.\n\nSt Barts suffered serious damage to buildings as well as flooding and power cuts\n\nMany British tourists staying at resorts in the Dominican Republic, where a hurricane warning is still in place, are being evacuated from coastal areas and moved to temporary shelters.\n\nAndrea Fowkes Smith, from Surrey, told the BBC that part of the roof had fallen off the hotel where she was sheltering in Punta Cana.\n\n\"We have not been evacuated from our hotel but have just been moved to the steak house as our room was on the third floor,\" she said.\n\n\"They say we should all stay on the ground,\" she added. \"It's very strong winds and rain.\"\n\nOfficials in the US have started evacuations of tourists and residents from Florida Keys as the hurricane approaches.\n\nFlights to and from several airports in Florida were being suspended, while Orlando's international airport said commercial flights would stop from 17:00 local time on Saturday.\n\nA state of emergency has been declared for Florida, Puerto Rico and Cuba.\n\nAre you in the region? Are you a holidaymaker unable to get a flight home or a resident who has been preparing for Hurricane Irma? If it is safe for you to do so, share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How often do you get offered a large coffee with cream?\n\nThe UK's obesity crisis is being fuelled by businesses pushing unhealthy food and larger portions on shoppers, according to health experts.\n\nThe Royal Society for Public Health warned consumers were being tricked by a marketing ploy known as upselling.\n\nThe tactic involves shops, cafes and restaurants encouraging customers to upgrade to larger meals and drinks or adding high-calorie toppings and sides.\n\nA poll suggested eight in 10 people experienced it every week.\n\nThe most common upsells to be taken included larger coffees, bigger meals, sweets and chocolates and extra sides such as onion rings and chips.\n\nRoyal Society for Public Health chief executive Shirley Cramer said the industry was pressuring the public into buying extra calories, which then added up \"without us noticing\".\n\nShe said businesses needed to stop training staff to upsell high-calorie food and instead focus on healthy alternatives.\n\nThe findings were drawn from a poll of more than 2,000 UK adults by the RSPH and Slimming World.\n\nThose who had experienced upsells had been targeted more than twice a week on average, with younger people the most susceptible.\n\nThe most common place for it to happen was restaurants, followed by fast-food outlets, supermarkets, coffee shops and pubs and bars.\n\nThe research showed many of the upsells were unhealthy options, with the average person who fell victim to the technique consuming an average of 17,000 extra calories a year, enough to gain an extra 5lbs (2.3kg) over 12 months.\n\nWhat are your views? Join the debate on our Facebook page.\n\nLiam Smith, 25, from West Yorkshire, is just one of the many people who have been persuaded by the marketing ploy.\n\nBut since recognising he was eating too much he has lost 6st (38kg) and now refuses upsells.\n\n\"Being able to 'go large' on a meal for 30p extra was always a no-brainer for me, as was a few pence more for a large cup of hot chocolate or paying £1 more to turn a single burger into a double.\n\n\"Afterwards, I'd wish I hadn't done it though - I can only describe it as a major feeling of guilt.\"\n\nThe practice occurs at the point-of-sale and is not at the customer's request.\n\nExamples include a coffee shop barista asking if you would like a large rather than a regular-sized coffee or if you want whipped cream added.\n\nAnother popular one is a fast-food worker asking if you would like to make a meal large for only a minimal cost.\n\nOne worker told researchers: \"I've been trained so that if a customer asks for a product, I always ask if they'd like to make that a meal.\"\n\nSome bar workers are also trained to nudge people towards buying a double rather than a single measure.\n\nBut Brigid Simmonds, chief executive of the British Beer and Pub Association, said there was \"absolutely no evidence\" of upselling in pubs.\n\n\"Telling people what to do is not what you do,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme. \"You go to a pub and there's a certain amount of free choice.\"\n\nShe adds: \"There are actually fewer calories in half a pint of beer than there are in a glass of orange juice.\"\n\nAnd Andrew Opie, of the British Retail Consortium, also disputed that supermarkets upsold.\n\nHe said: \"They promote and market products in store, but ensure there is a balance of products and it is offered as choice rather than upselling.\"", "Bell Pottinger's Asian unit has said it will separate from its British parent, amid reports the public relations firm is nearing collapse.\n\nBell Pottinger's UK business is expected to go into administration as early as next week, the firm said.\n\nThe Asian business will begin trading under a new name \"in the coming days\".\n\nThe PR firm was expelled from the industry trade body after being accused of stirring up racial hatred in South Africa.\n\nThe company's Asian business is seeking to distance itself from the scandal.\n\n\"The Asia business is entirely ringfenced and solvent,\" Asia Chief Executive Ang Shih Huei said in a statement sent to clients on Friday seen by the BBC. \"Our teams are intact, we continue to serve our clients and it is entirely business as usual.\"\n\nBell Pottinger Asia said it would soon re-launch with a new ownership structure and operate under the name Klareco Communications.\n\nLate on Thursday an announcement was made to UK staff saying the firm could go into administration next week, according to the Financial Times and other media outlets.\n\nThe meeting was attended by a representative of accountants BDO, hired to advise on a potential sale, reports said.\n\nHowever, BDO did not respond to a BBC request for a comment.\n\nThe company's founder, Lord Bell, who resigned last year, has admitted to the BBC that it is probably \"near the end\".\n\nA string of big names have already cut ties with the firm since it was expelled from the Public Relations and Communications Association earlier this week.\n\nThe company's work on the campaign for Oakbay Capital, a South African company owned by the wealthy Gupta family, was accused of inciting racial hatred.\n\nBell Pottinger and its founder, Lord Bell, have a reputation in the PR industry for taking risks.\n\nThe firm represented the South African Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorious after he was charged with murder.\n\nBelarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko has used the firm's services, as well as Syria's first lady Asma al-Assad.\n\nIn the late 1990s the PR firm worked on a campaign to release the former Chilean dictator, General Pinochet, who had been arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges.\n\nLord Bell, who founded Bell Pottinger in the 1990s, resigned last year, partly due to his unease with the company's deal with the Guptas.\n\nWhen asked on BBC2's Newsnight this week if he thought the PR company would survive the scandal, he replied: \"I think it is probably getting near the end.\"", "Annette Bening and Jamie Bell co-star in Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool\n\nWhat plans do you have for March 2018?\n\nIf you're anything like us, you'll barely know what you're doing this weekend, let alone that far ahead in the calendar.\n\nBut in Hollywood, it's a different story.\n\nPreparation for awards season has already started, with the Venice Film Festival in Italy and the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado taking the lead in identifying likely Oscar contenders.\n\nHollywood is about to descend on the Canadian city to premiere the major releases that will dominate cinemas this winter - and, they hope, the Oscars next March.\n\nAmong the possible awards contenders showing at TIFF are First They Killed My Father, directed by Angelina Jolie; Breathe, directed by Andy Serkis; Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool starring Annette Bening; and Roman J Israel, Esq starring Denzel Washington.\n\nWe couldn't possibly do justice to the 250+ feature films showing at the festival, which opens on Thursday and runs until 17 September.\n\nHere, though, is everything you need to know about 13 of the highest-profile titles in this year's programme.\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. Ever had a date that ended like this?\n\nA woman who threw her poo out of her date's toilet window because it \"would not flush\" had to be rescued after she got stuck trying to retrieve it.\n\nThe amateur gymnast was on a first date with Bristol student Liam Smith when she \"panicked\" and threw the faeces out of the window.\n\nIt did not land in the garden, but became wedged between two non-opening windows.\n\nAfter climbing in head first after it, she became wedged.\n\nMr Smith had to call the fire service for help.\n\nThe story appeared on a crowdfunding page, set up by the University of Bristol student.\n\nIf this story yanks your chain, you might also like these:\n\nMr Smith, who is raising funds to fix his broken window, wrote that he was on a Tinder date with the woman and they went back to the shared house he lives in.\n\n\"We'd had a really nice evening,\" he said. \"We'd had a meal at a well-known chicken restaurant, had a few beers and then gone back to mine for a bottle of wine and a film.\"\n\nAfter the fire service had \"composed themselves,\" Mr Smith said they set to work freeing his date from the window\n\nHe said the woman went to the toilet and when she came back she had a \"panicked look in her eye\" and told him what she had done.\n\nHe said the toilet window opened into a narrow gap separated by another double glazed window.\n\n\"It was into this twilight zone that my date had thrown her poo,\" he said.\n\nHe went to find a hammer to smash the window, but she decided to \"climb in head first\" after the \"offending package\" and became jammed.\n\n\"I was starting to grow concerned, so I called the fire brigade and once they had composed themselves, they set to work removing her from the window.\"\n\nThe \"offending package\" was trapped between two \"non-opening\" double glazed windows\n\nAlthough the woman was rescued unharmed, Mr Smith said his bathroom window was destroyed.\n\n\"I'm not complaining, they did what they had to do,\" he said.\n\n\"Problem is, I've been quoted north of £300 to replace the window and as a postgraduate student, that is a significant chunk of my monthly budget.\"\n\nMr Smith originally set a crowdfunding target of £200, but has already raised more than £1,200.\n\nHe said he and his date had decided to split the extra cash between two charities, one supporting firefighters and another that builds and maintains flushing toilets in developing countries.\n\nUnsurprisingly, the woman does not want to be named but Mr Smith said he had seen her since and \"who knows what the future holds\".\n\n\"We had a lovely night on the second date but it's too early to say if she's the one. But we got on very very well and she's a lovely girl,\" he said.\n\n\"And we've already got the most difficult stuff out of the way first.\"\n\nAvon Fire and Rescue service confirmed it had received a call and freed a woman trapped between external and double glazing.\n\nIt also confirmed that a \"window was broken in the process\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The price difference for a pint of beer is now more than £1 across the country\n\nLondon is no longer the most expensive place to buy a pint, a new study says.\n\nFor the first time, Surrey has overtaken the capital as the most expensive area to buy a drink, with the average pint costing £4.40.\n\nAccording to the Good Pub Guide, Herefordshire and Yorkshire have the cheapest pints at £3.31.\n\nThe difference in price for a pint of beer is now more than £1 across the country, with the average tipple costing £3.60 - up by 13p on 2016.\n\nBeer in pubs brewing their own brands was typically £3.09 a pint\n\nOther cheaper counties where drinkers have a reason to raise a glass include Shropshire at £3.33 a pint, Derbyshire at £3.36 and Cumbria and Worcestershire, both at £3.38.\n\nIt was bad news for pint-drinkers in Sussex, who pay an average of £3.82, while Hertfordshire comes in at £3.81 and the Scottish Islands, £3.80.\n\nHowever, drinkers in Surrey might not be crying into their beer if they are earning the median full time weekly wage of £669.70, as they can more easily absorb the £4.40 price of their pint.\n\nBeer drinkers in Herefordshire might be paying three quarters as much for their pint at £3.31, but their median weekly wage is £460 - only two thirds of what people in Surrey can expect to make.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The price of beer has changed more than the nation's love of it\n\nBlue Dowd, who is the owner of the Basketmakers Arms in Brighton, said the most expensive beer his Sussex pub stocks costs £6 per pint.\n\n\"It's what's known as a craft beer, and a lot more goes into the making of them,\" he said.\n\n\"The people who buy premium beers know they're going to be charged a premium price. They buy it because it's a very fine beer.\"\n\nBlue Dowd said customers expect to pay higher prices for premium beers\n\nBeer in pubs brewing their own brands was typically cheaper at £3.09 a pint.\n\nThe guide also said that increasing numbers of pubs are offering accommodation, food and outside catering services, taking business away from restaurants.\n\nSome pubs are also offering delis, book clubs, live music and conferences, it said.\n\nEditor Fiona Stapley said: \"You name it and pubs have thought of it.\n\n\"It's this entrepreneurial spirit that will keep pubs alive and kicking for years to come, despite all the doom and gloom around.\"\n• None The Good Pub Guide - Reviews of the UK's best pubs The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Suranne Jones and Bertie Carvel come face-to-face in the first episode\n\nDoctor Foster is back on our screens, two years since the first series - and fans and critics alike seem happy to have her back.\n\nIt was the most-watched television programme on Tuesday night, beating Channel 4's Great British Bake Off.\n\nSuranne Jones reprises her role as Gemma Foster, which earned her a Bafta.\n\nThe new series sees the GP's cheating ex-husband Simon - played by Bertie Carvel - return to his former home town with his new wife.\n\nThe BBC One show drew an average audience of 6.3 million viewers - slightly higher than Bake Off's average of six million viewers. Channel 4's figures include those watching on +1.\n\nCould Suranne Jones be up for more awards?\n\nThe Independent Sean O'Grady says Jones is in contention for another Bafta and praises Mike Bartlett's \"skilfully rendered\" script.\n\nHe says the set pieces, including a \"wedding party debacle\" and a \"surprise Interflora package\" with a rude message were \"all done stylishly\" and that the title sequence \"drew us delicately into this middle class emotional hellhole\".\n\nO'Grady has problems with Gemma's nemesis, Kate however.\n\nHe writes: \"I hate to say it, but Doctor Foster was also a bit compromised by the fact that the older (40 or so) woman is actually at least as attractive, smart and elegant as the younger (25 years old) usurper, Kate, played with well-calibrated naivety by Jodie Comer, who has only chronology on her side.\"\n\nThe Guardian's Lucy Mangan says she was gripped.\n\n\"An hour of the five in and I've already had so much fun I can barely type,\" she writes.\n\n\"Simon drives up to the front door in a shiny new car. He smirks more smirkingly than anyone has ever smirked before to find her there, before delivering the most perfect pass-agg speech ever penned (I mentally prostrated myself at the feet of writer Mike Bartlett then and never really rose thereafter).\"\n\nViewers of the show were also quick to take to Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jess Seaman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 were questioning the loyalty of Gemma's co-worker Ros, who promised not to go to ex-husband Simon's wedding party but was later outed. One fan describes Gemma's colleague Ros as a \"snake\".\n\nSimon was also at the wrath of social media users - with many describing him in terms too colourful to publish.\n\nAnd one writes she now hates her ex-husband after watching the show, despite the fact she's never even been married.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Reesha Siniara This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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.", "Returning students have the option to wear either trousers or skirts\n\nA secondary school is making its uniform \"gender neutral\" by prohibiting new joiners from wearing skirts.\n\nPriory School in Lewes, East Sussex, made the change after \"concerns\" raised over the length of skirts, and catering for a handful of transgender pupils.\n\nStarting this autumn term, all new students must wear trousers, while returning students have the option to wear either trousers or skirts.\n\nHead teacher Tony Smith said the move addresses \"inequality and decency\".\n\nHe added: \"Respecting people's rights are very important. We believe in rights and responsibilities, we believe in equality and we believe in fairness. We want to treat everybody the same.\n\n\"We hope that it will provide a smart, comfortable and affordable alternative to the current uniform.\"\n\nFrom now, all new pupils at the school will have identical shirt, tie, jumper and trousers, with an alternative summer uniform, following complaints about how unsuitable the previous uniform was during the hotter months.\n\nPupils will now be able to wear a polo shirt and trousers, and in extremely high temperatures, PE shorts or skorts - shorts made to look like skirts.\n\nThe new uniform \"addresses the current issues of inequality and decency\" said the head teacher\n\nFrank Furedi, sociologist at the University of Kent said: \"You start with uniform on Monday, by Tuesday you're going to say, 'maybe we shouldn't use the pronouns he and she'.\n\n\"By Wednesday, you're going to talk about having gender neutral bathrooms. In so doing, you're raising fundamental questions about people's identity.\"\n\nSome parents have supported the move. One interviewed outside the school said: \"[My daughter] will whinge about wearing trousers, but it's tough.\n\n\"There's certain work uniforms you have to wear and it's tough. It's not a fashion show, she's there to learn.\"\n\nOther pupils and parents were critical on social media though - saying its \"too draconian\" - and unfair that older pupils would still be allowed to wear skirts.\n\nPosting on BBC South East's Facebook page, Jeanetta Kelsey said: \"What happened to a bit of choice? Skirts, shorts, trousers, as long as it's uniform.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former regional broadcaster Mike Neville dies at the age of 80\n\nMike Neville, the face of television news for decades in north-east England, has died.\n\nThe 80-year-old was known to viewers in the region for more than 40 years as presenter of the BBC's Look North and then North East Tonight, Tyne Tees Television's news programme.\n\nHe retired in 2006 and died peacefully in hospital, his family said.\n\nBorn in Willington Quay in 1936, Mr Neville launched his career at the independent station Tyne Tees in 1962.\n\nAfter moving to the BBC two years later, he presented Look North for decades as well as the Nationwide programme during the 1970s and 80s.\n\nReturning to ITV in 1996, he fronted its main regional news show but was away from the screen for almost a year from July 2005, following emergency surgery to remove a blood clot.\n\nIf you lived in the north-east of England at any time from the 1960s to the turn of the new millennium and owned a television set, you'd have known Mike Neville.\n\nIn this part of the world he was simply the godfather of regional TV.\n\nMike became a local legend with his easy-going style and his terrific sense of humour. Millions of viewers gladly welcomed him into their homes from Monday to Friday nights.\n\nAn actor in his early days, he had the happy gift of being able to cope with any situation.\n\nEven in retirement he remained a popular figure with a public that loved him for what he was - a TV star but always one of their own.\n\nMr Neville said he welcomed \"being invited into people's homes\" every evening\n\nTyne Tees managing director Graeme Thompson had described his stepping down as \"the end of an era for television in the north-east\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC after he retired, Mr Neville explained he had no regrets about remaining in the North East.\n\n\"I actually hated working in London,\" he said. \"Up here, it is like working with family.\"\n\nAs well as a lifetime achievement award from the Royal Television Society, he was awarded an MBE for services to broadcasting.\n\nIn 1989, Mr Neville received a \"Gotcha\" award from Noel Edmonds as part of Noel's Saturday Roadshow after being pranked into thinking he was filling several minutes of live air time because a technical fault had delayed the broadcast of the Wogan chat show.\n\nMr Neville was tricked into believing he had seven minutes of air time to fill", "The border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland is a key issue for Brexit talks\n\nThe EU's negotiator says he is worried by the UK's post-Brexit proposals for the Northern Ireland border.\n\nMichel Barnier said the UK was asking for EU laws, its customs union and single market to be suspended at a \"new external border\".\n\nHe said the UK wanted Northern Ireland to be a \"test case\" for future customs arrangements with the EU.\n\nThe UK said both sides were \"closely aligned\" in what they wanted to achieve.\n\nNorthern Ireland is the only part of the UK that will share a land border with an EU state after Brexit.\n\nThe impact of Brexit on Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland is one of the key issues being discussed in the early stages of UK-EU negotiations.\n\nFears have been raised that a return to border checks could undermine the Good Friday peace agreement and damage the economy.\n\nThe UK - which plans to leave the EU's customs union - has said it wants an \"unprecedented solution\", avoiding physical checks at the border.\n\nInstead, the government is arguing for a wide-ranging exemption under which small and medium-sized businesses would not have to comply with any new customs tariffs.\n\nEU negotiator Michel Barnier, seen with Irish foreign minister Simon Coveney, says the border issue must be settled early in the Brexit talks\n\nUnveiling the EU's position, Mr Barnier said: \"What I see in the UK's paper on Ireland and Northern Ireland worries me.\"\n\nHe added: \"Creativity and flexibility can't be at the expense of the integrity of the single market and customs union.\n\n\"This would be not fair for Ireland and it would not be fair for the European Union.\"\n\nMr Barnier said the peace process should be preserved, the common travel area between Ireland and the UK protected and that there should be no return to a \"hard border\", all of which the UK has also said it is seeking.\n\n\"Irish citizens in Northern Ireland must continue to enjoy their rights as EU citizens,\" Mr Barnier continued, calling for the UK to come up with a \"unique\" solution.\n\nAs the UK had chosen to leave the EU, it was its responsibility to come up with solutions, he said.\n\nThe UK government, which released its own position paper on Northern Ireland last month, said there was now a \"good basis on which to continue to make swift progress\" on the subject.\n\nIt welcomed the EU's view there should be no \"physical infrastructure\" at the border, but added that \"unilateral UK flexibility will not be sufficient to meet our shared objectives\".\n\nBrussels has refused to discuss the UK's future relationship with the EU - notably how they will trade with each other - until the initial discussion issues, including Northern Ireland, have been settled.\n\nThe EU's paper suggests specific provisions being written into the final departure deal to protect cross-border co-operation in areas like health, education, transport and fishing.\n\nThe Liberal Democrats said the EU's document \"demolishes another of the Leave campaign's fantastical claims - that Brexit would have no impact on the Irish border\".\n\nMP Tom Brake said the only solution to the border question was for the UK to stay in the single market and customs union.\n\nUnveiling the Northern Ireland plans at a press conference, Mr Barnier also attacked the UK over one of the sticking points in the Brexit negotiations - the size of any \"divorce\" bill required as it leaves the EU.\n\nThe UK has said it will honour its financial commitments but also that it has a \"duty to our taxpayers\" to \"rigorously\" examine the EU's demands.\n\nMr Barnier said Brussels expected Britain to deliver on commitments made in the multi-year EU budget signed up to by David Cameron and approved by the Westminster Parliament.\n\n\"I have been very disappointed by the UK position as expressed last week, because it seems to be backtracking on the original commitment of the UK to honour its international commitments, including the commitments post-Brexit,\" he said.\n\n\"Every euro spent has a specific legal base,\" he added.\n\n\"There is a moral dilemma here. You can't have 27 paying for what was decided by 28. What was decided by the 28 member states has to be borne out by 28 member states, right up to the end. It's as simple as that.\"\n\nDavid Davis is leading the Brexit negotiations for the UK\n\nMr Barnier was also asked about comments which have emerged by European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker about Brexit Secretary David Davis.\n\nIn newly-published minutes of a 12 July meeting between Mr Juncker and Mr Barnier, Mr Juncker was recorded as questioning the \"stability and accountability\" of Mr Davis.\n\nMr Juncker also said Mr Davis's \"apparent lack of involvement... risked jeopardising the success of the negotiations\".\n\nIn the meeting, which came after the first round of negotiations, Mr Barnier was recorded as saying the UK negotiating strategy involved \"using past debts as a means of buying future access to parts of the single market, something which the Union could not accept\".\n\nMr Barnier brushed off the comments at a Brussels press conference, insisting he had \"cordial\" relations with the Brexit secretary and praising his \"professionalism\".\n\nAnd the Department for Exiting the European Union responded: \"These are clearly out-of-date comments and it is abundantly clear that the secretary of state has been fully engaged and involved throughout the discussions, in the same way as Mr Barnier.\"\n\nIn another position paper from the EU, it called for the UK to continue to honour the protected legal status given to delicacies like Parma ham or Champagne after Brexit.\n\nThe European Commission first acted in 1992 to establish a list of products which could only be described by their place of origin if they really were produced in that place.\n\nIt also includes UK products like Cornish clotted cream, Dorset Blue cheese, and Jersey Royal potatoes.\n\nUnder the EU's intellectual property proposals, the UK would implement the \"necessary domestic legislation providing for their continued protection\".\n\nThe impact of Brexit on food was also considered in the House of Commons, where Labour's Jenny Chapman warned against imposing tariffs on European food imports, and asked whether the government was planning a \"return to consuming Spam and tinned peaches\".\n\nBrexit Minister Steve Baker assured her this was not the case and described her comments as a \"fantastical proposal\".", "Donald and Rosemary Ferguson have been in a nine-month dispute with Virgin media\n\nA group of pensioners are in dispute with Virgin Media after the firm installed broadband boxes in front of their homes in East Renfrewshire.\n\nDonald, 88, and Rosemary Ferguson, 82, and their neighbour Betty McGrath, 83, claim the 5ft-tall boxes stop light from coming through their windows.\n\nThe cabinets were put in the street beside the Barrhead flats in January.\n\nA Virgin Media spokeswoman said correct procedures were followed prior to installation.\n\nMrs Ferguson, who has lived at the address for seven years, said they were never informed the boxes would be placed directly outside their home.\n\nShe said: \"This has really affected our homes.\n\n\"It completely blocks out any light from coming into the house, and we now have no outlook at all.\n\n'We were never advised they were going to be put here, but apparently, that's because they don't need planning permission to put them up.\n\n\"We have been fighting this since January and have just hit a brick wall the whole way.\"\n\nThe couple say the boxes block the sunlight\n\nThe pensioners contacted local councillor Danny Devlin, who is demanding the boxes be relocated.\n\n\"Virgin Media are a law unto themselves,\" he said.\n\n\"They don't need planning permission but they would usually speak to the council about the installation of these boxes. However, in this case, they didn't.\n\nHowever, Virgin Media said the council was notified prior to the cabinets being installed.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Virgin Media is currently expanding its network in the area to bring ultrafast broadband speeds to more homes and businesses.\n\n\"As we do so, we endeavour to minimise disruption and we apologise for any inconvenience to residents.\"\n\nThe flats prior to the installation of the boxes\n\nA spokesman for East Renfrewshire Council said communication companies, including Virgin Media, do not require planning permission to install the boxes.\n\nHe said: \"Planning permission is not required for these boxes, although we would expect them to be placed in suitable locations which have minimal impact on residents.\"\n\nMr Devlin said the firm should be made to go through the planning process with the council.\n\n\"As a gesture of common sense, I would expect Virgin to take the boxes down and give these pensioners back the view they had before,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Investigations of murder cases would benefit from the data gathered at a body farm\n\nIt's the start of a fascinating and eventful - if gory and smelly - journey, at least for your body as it decomposes.\n\nUnderstanding decomposition can hold the key to solving murders, finding missing people and crucially recognising them, and that is why \"body farms\" exist.\n\nBody farms are essentially outdoor laboratories where experiments using donated human cadavers investigate taphonomy - the science of decomposition.\n\nWorldwide there are several such facilities: one in Australia, the others are in the US. But now UK scientists, including Dr Anna Williams from the University of Huddersfield, are lobbying for one in the UK.\n\nThis page contains some images a number of readers might find disturbing.\n\nAt the British Science Association's annual Science Festival this week in Brighton, Dr Williams presented on the importance of body farms to science and why she believes a UK facility is needed.\n\n\"Much of what we know about human decomposition was discovered in US body farms,\" she said.\n\nInsect clues: The rate at which blowfly pupae grow is dependent on temperature\n\n\"We know that the sequence of events in decomposition proceeds along the same path regardless of where the body is, but the timing is very different depending on many factors - moisture, temperature and insects are probably the most important.\"\n\nBut more nuanced factors may also influence decomposition - \"such as bacteria already on, and in, the body; whether the person was obese, had been on antibiotics, was diabetic, or even whether they were a vegetarian or not.\"\n\nSo decomposition is anything but simple. And add in to the mix the fact that the bodies of murder victims can be found on a woodland floor, sealed in a suitcase, buried in a shallow grave, encased in concrete, burnt, dismembered, naked, clothed, wrapped in plastic, and so on.\n\nTraumatic injury is also variable: gunshot wound, stabbing, hanging… the list goes on.\n\nBody farm advocates point out the benefits of such facilities, including training dogs to sniff out dead bodies, recognising facial features and ancestry after decay, and even helping to work out how fingerprints change and whether DNA can be recovered after varying intervals of decomposition.\n\nBut what about the classic detective question on finding a dead body: \"Time of death\"?\n\nThis is much more difficult to pin down than TV dramas would have you believe, especially a few weeks and more after death.\n\nMedical examiners often use insect colonisation on the body, but this is notoriously unreliable to apply from place to place as it depends on fickle local weather conditions.\n\nPigs are used in UK experiments, but is their decomposition very different from humans?\n\nExciting new data published last year in the journal Plos One suggests that the succession of bacteria that come and go, feeding on the decaying body, may help scientists to more accurately pinpoint post-mortem interval.\n\nThis discovery was made by analysing bacteria scraped from the nose and ear canals of decomposing cadavers at the world's first body farm in Tennessee.\n\nIn the UK, all decomposition experiments use animals - usually pigs.\n\nThis does have some advantages. Most obviously, rotting animals in our countryside is not as objectionable to people as rotting humans. Indeed, it might be a challenge getting a local community to accept a body farm in its area.\n\nThe other advantage is that when pigs are used, multiple experiments can be set up where the conditions prior to decomposition can be varied to show different outcomes. This has not been the case with human experiments.\n\nAs Dr Patrick Randolph-Quinney from the University of Central Lancashire explained, the number of human bodies used in experiments has rarely exceeded three or four individuals, and this limited number will not catch all of the possible outcomes of decomposition.\n\n\"It's little more than anecdotal observation without any real understanding or prediction of underlying processes - you might call it 'anecdata',\" he told BBC News.\n\nBut, on the flipside, there are big disadvantages to using pigs. Firstly, we really don't know whether pigs decompose similarly to humans, and whether they are a good substitute to use. This is being actively investigated in the newly opened Australian body farm.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Australian body farm: More than 500 people have donated their bodies\n\nThe results are eagerly awaited. But as Dr Williams said in her presentation at the science festival: \"There can be no better substitute for humans in understanding human decomposition\".\n\nDr Williams firmly believes that a UK body farm facility will allow forensic science to flourish in Britain, producing new data on decomposition bespoke to our climate and situation.\n\nBut she cautioned: \"We need academics to collaborate and share data across the UK, and across the world - that way experiments have the best chance of being rigorous with larger sample sizes.\"\n\nDr Randolph-Quinney has a further ambition: \"If we imagine a game of 'fantasy taphonomy', where we had enough money and resources to investigate human decomposition properly, we wouldn't necessarily use outdoor facilities.\"\n\n\"We might build a grave in the lab, where we could adequately control experimental variables such as temperature, humidity, and recover all the products such as body fluids, DNA, organic gases that a body gives off after death.\n\n\"This would allow us to model and predict the underlying processes in a scientific way. We can't do that at present.\"\n\nEither way human body donations are required. This may not be a big problem: at both US and Australian facilities there is a waiting list of living donors ready, upon death, to give their body to forensic science.", "The i illustrates the destruction in the Caribbean, with pictures of wrecked buildings and trees bent and torn from their roots.\n\nIt says the storm appears increasingly likely to rip into heavily populated southern Florida this weekend.\n\nThe Daily Mirror focuses on relief efforts - its headline talks of the \"navy's dash to save 185mph storm Brits\".\n\nRoyal Navy ships, it says, were last night dashing to the Caribbean to help rescue Brits stranded by the killer storm.\n\nA picture on the front of the Daily Express shows cars in St Martin, smashed about like toys.\n\nAccording to the Financial Times, the prime minister's Brexit strategy has suffered a double blow.\n\nIt cites reported comments of European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, questioning the \"stability\" and \"accountability\" of Brexit Secretary David Davis, and a letter signed by 35 Eurosceptic Tory MPs pushing for a hard Brexit.\n\nThe lead in the Times says pro-Remain Tory MPs want Theresa May to sack minister Steve Baker and Treasury aide Suella Fernandes, who they claim supported the letter.\n\nThe Daily Mail hits back at Mr Juncker and chief EU negotiator Michel Barnier for their attacks on Mr Davis.\n\n\"Don't treat us with contempt,\" warns the main headline.\n\nTheir \"arrogance\", the paper says, will only \"harden the resolve of the majority who voted for Brexit\".\n\nThe Guardian leads on the report by Labour MP David Lammy, commissioned by Downing Street, in which he concludes that black and minority ethnic (BAME) people continue to face bias and overt discrimination in the criminal justice system.\n\nIt highlights his call for prosecutions against some BAME suspects to be deferred or dropped.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph believes \"the Lammy review has good intentions\" but the paper foresees complications.\n\nIt advises the government to proceed with caution - and on the principle that our police and courts exist primarily to uphold law and order.\n\nThe Daily Mail sums up the report's findings with the headline: \"Criminals could side-step courts... by agreeing to therapy instead\".\n\nTrips made by Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party MP Ian Paisley come under scrutiny in the Telegraph.\n\nThe paper alleges that he accepted holidays worth £100,000 from the government of Sri Lanka - and that he is now helping the country to secure a post-Brexit trade deal.\n\nThe paper says he failed to record them as gifts in the MPs' register of interests.\n\nIt says he declined this week to answer any questions about the accusations.\n\nThe Guardian has an excoriating editorial on Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi.\n\nHer long silence, it says, on the plight of the Rohingya in Myanmar has been shameful.\n\nWith tens of thousands now fleeing atrocities in Rakhine state, the Nobel prize winner's moral sanctity lies in tatters.\n\n\"Seldom has a reputation fallen so fast,\" says the Times.\n\nNearly all the front pages have a picture of a certain four-year-old dressed smartly for his first day at school - or \"his royal shyness\" as the Mirror and the Mail label Prince George.\n\nHe is certainly looking a bit diffident in their pictures.\n\n\"Mum, I'm glum,\" says the Sun, pointing out that the Duchess of Cambridge was unable to go with him because of morning sickness.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Corippo has 16 inhabitants and only one of them works\n\nLike many Alpine communities, Corippo, in the southern canton of Ticino, has experienced decades of depopulation as younger generations moved down to the towns and cities for schooling, work and, understandably, a social life.\n\nToday, Corippo's struggle has become existential, as Mayor Claudio Scettrini explains.\n\n\"There are only 16 residents,\" he sighs. \"And I'm the only one going to work, the rest of them are pensioners.\"\n\n\"I hope the rest of them live into their 90s,\" he continues, \"otherwise there will be no-one left here at all. It's really quite tragic.\"\n\nThe village's spartan buildings are mostly deserted - the young have gone\n\nThere has been a community in Corippo for more than 600 years. In the 19th Century the village had 300 inhabitants, and there were many similar villages across the southern Swiss Alps.\n\nToday's popular lakeside resorts of Locarno and Lugano, affectionately known as the \"Swiss Riviera\", were avoided back then because of the high risk of malaria.\n\nBut with malaria eradicated, and traditional mountain farming less and less economically viable, the village way of life has begun to die.\n\nCorippo has no shop, no school and no children. It may be only 30 minutes' drive from bustling Locarno, but the narrow access road, with its hairpin bends, may not be many people's chosen commute.\n\nWhat Corippo does have, however, are more than 60 traditional stone houses, with dry stone roofs, many of them still with their original fireplaces, and chestnut wood floors. And most of them are empty.\n\nThe crumbling interiors would test any do-it-yourself enthusiast\n\nTicino tourism director Elia Frapolli, optimistically perhaps, views this state of affairs as an opportunity.\n\n\"Life in Corippo and small villages like this is special,\" he insists. \"It's like being in another century. Time slows down, everybody knows each other in the village, and you feel the authenticity of living in a village that has existed for centuries.\"\n\nAnd so, with the support of a foundation devoted to preserving Corippo, a plan has been developed: to turn some of the empty houses into hotel rooms.\n\nThe concept, known as albergo diffuso or \"scattered hotel\", has already been tried in some Italian hill villages, but never in Switzerland.\n\nAn old lady makes her way up one of Corippo's narrow streets\n\nThe entire village of Corippo is now protected as a historic monument, which means architect Fabio Giacomazzi faces a monumental challenge: how to modernise some of the interiors without touching the exteriors.\n\nA peek inside some of the houses reveals the scale of his task: many have been untouched since the 1950s, some residents emigrated to the US, others simply died, and no-one was left to clear out the property.\n\nOld clothes, postcards and empty wine bottles litter the floors. The walls are damp and dusty. There is no sign of running water, let alone a flushing toilet.\n\n\"Of course we will paint, of course we will put in bathrooms,\" says Mr Giacomazzi. \"But the original doors will stay, the original wood and stone must stay. The experience for guests should be very similar to what it was in the 19th Century in Corippo.\"\n\nIt will be relatively spartan, he admits.\n\nNevertheless Corippo's 16 residents, from Mayor Scettrini on down, are pinning their hopes on the idea. They are determined their village should not become a theme park. Guests will live side-by-side with villagers, the local bar will be an informal hotel reception, the village square an open-air lobby.\n\n\"It's good for the village, for the future, because most of us are old,\" says elderly resident Silvana. \"With this project people will come here.\"\n\nThe few tourists wandering Corippo's empty lanes also seem supportive.\n\n\"I think more and more people appreciate this kind of accommodation,\" says one young man.\n\n\"If you want to switch off then I could see it being relaxing for a few days,\" adds another. \"Maybe if you have a book to write or something.\"\n\nSome houses are decorated with old frescoes much in need of restoration\n\nFor tourism director Elia Frapolli, a place to switch off completely, to escape from 21st-Century life, is precisely Corippo's attraction.\n\n\"This is the perfect place for what we call 'digital detox',\" he says.\n\n\"It's a new trend. In the 21st Century the new luxury will be authenticity, having a place where you can really feel the history of the place, you can leave your mobile phone behind. This is real, it's not fake, there is hundreds of centuries of history here.\"\n\nCorippo's plans will take time to achieve, nothing will be ready for at least another year.\n\nBut word seems to have got out, and requests for reservations are already coming in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDoctors who have travelled to Scotland as refugees are being given the chance to start working for the NHS through a training scheme. The BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme has been to meet those involved.\n\n\"When people say, 'I had a couple of beers', they don't mean two,\" jokes instructor Dr Patrick Grant, a retired A&E doctor training refugees to work for NHS Scotland - including in how to overcome cultural barriers.\n\nOne of his students is Fatema, who previously worked as a surgeon in the Middle East until she was forced to flee.\n\nHaving treated anti-government protesters in her home country, she herself had become a government target.\n\n\"I wish one day this country will be proud of me,\" she says.\n\nFatema is one of 38 refugees and asylum seekers on the course - a £160,000 programme funded by the Scottish government.\n\nBased in Glasgow, it provides the doctors with advanced English lessons, medical classes and placements with GPs or hospitals.\n\nThe aim is to give the refugee doctors - who commit to working for NHS Scotland - the skills to get their UK medical registration approved.\n\nFatema says coming to the UK and not being able to work as a surgeon had felt like being \"handcuffed\".\n\n\"I'm a qualified medical doctor. It's hard to start again from zero,\" she explains.\n\nMaggie Lennon, founder of the Bridges Programmes which runs the scheme, says it is important for the UK to utilise its high-skilled refugees.\n\nMaggie Lennon says the refugee doctors' clinical skills are very similar to those of doctors trained in the UK\n\n\"I always say to people, 'I imagine taking out an appendix in Peshawar is not that different to taking out an appendix in Paisley'.\n\n\"I don't think there's actually any difference in the clinical skills, I think where there is a huge difference is attitudes to patients and how medicine is performed,\" she explains.\n\nThe scheme is designed to overcome such hurdles, including the case of one surgeon who, Ms Lennon says, was unaware he would have to speak to patients, having previously only encountered them in his home country after they had been put to sleep.\n\nWatch Catrin Nye's full film on refugee doctors on the Victoria Derbyshire programme's website.\n\nLaeth Al-Sadi, also on the course, used to be a doctor in the Iraqi army.\n\nHe came to Scotland to study but his life was threatened in Iraq and he was never able to go back.\n\nOne of the ways he has learned to work with patients in the UK is to use informal terms that might put them at ease - \"How are the waterworks down there?\" being one example.\n\nLaeth Al-Sadi says being part of the scheme allows him to feel like he \"belongs somewhere\"\n\nLanguage classes are an important part of the course, and placements with GPs and hospitals also allow the refugees to take note of local dialects.\n\nAnother doctor says he was confused by a patient who said they had a headache because of a \"swally\" - a term for an alcoholic drink.\n\nBefore refugees can even take their medical exams, they must pass tests to ensure they speak English at a high level.\n\nThey must pass a test called IELTS with a level of 7.5 - which even some doctors from the US and Australia have failed in the past.\n\nAll classes are taught in English. In one \"situational judgement\" lesson, the refugees are taught to assess what is wrong with a dummy patient based on its \"symptoms\".\n\nLaeth says he feels lucky to be offered the possibility of a job in NHS Scotland.\n\n\"Lots of colleagues, or people who are doctors, are living here, and they are working other jobs.\n\n\"Some of them are even taxi drivers, which has [led to a loss of] hope for a lot of people.\"\n\nMs Lennon says this issue of under-employment among the refugee population \"is as serious as unemployment\".\n\n\"If someone's a qualified accountant and they're working pushing trolleys [in a supermarket], then there is an argument that they're taking a job from a poorly qualified person in this country,\" she adds.\n\nLanguage classes are an important part of the scheme\n\nFatema says that despite having to leave the Middle East, she is glad she took the decision to treat anti-government protesters.\n\n\"My promise at medical graduation [was to] treat people equally, and try to do whatever is possible to help people. So I would do it again.\"\n\nDr Greg Jones, clinical lead at NHS Education Scotland, defended the use of government money on the scheme.\n\n\"As well as getting people back to their careers as doctors being the right thing to do from a humanitarian standpoint,\" he explains, \"it's also the right thing to do financially.\n\n\"It would be a hugely wasted resource if people who'd already gone through medical training were not used as doctors.\"\n\nLaeth says being part of the scheme allows him to feel like he \"belongs somewhere\".\n\n\"It means the world,\" he adds.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nConservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg is the first British politician in decades to publicly oppose abortion in all cases, even when a woman has been raped.\n\nIt was not, he stressed, government policy, but his own personal view based on Catholic teachings.\n\nHe got credit from his supporters for his candour - not for Mr Rees-Mogg the evasions and caveats of other politicians who have found their personal religious convictions out of step with party policy and the prevailing orthodoxy.\n\nBut others found his views \"extreme\" and wildly at odds with majority opinion in the UK.\n\nIt would certainly be a strange way to launch a party-leadership bid, although Mr Rees-Mogg insists he has no ambitions in that direction, whatever social media says about \"Moggmentum\".\n\nFormer Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith said Mr Rees-Mogg's appearance on ITV's Good Morning Britain programme could well be a \"tipping point\" if the North-East Somerset MP ever changed his mind about that.\n\nFormer Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe, a Catholic who has previously spoken out against abortion, told BBC Radio 5 live's Emma Barnett Mr Rees-Mogg's views were \"nothing like as rare as you may think\" and they would have no long-term effect on his career.\n\n\"Now, can a politician say what he thinks?\" she said. \"Or are we simply going to end up in a situation where every time you say what you think, you end up with an adverse effect, so in the end you simply dodge it?\"\n\nSo why is abortion such an apparently taboo subject in British politics?\n\nIn the US, being against abortion is a standard position for Republican politicians and a reliable dividing line with the Democrats, although the issue of exemptions for rape and incest is a highly sensitive one.\n\nIt still causes controversy when someone running for office voices their opposition to such exemptions, as Republican hopeful Marco Rubio did last year.\n\nBut American politicians are expected to be upfront about their religious beliefs and take a position on moral issues that in the UK tend to be seen as personal matters.\n\nPiers Morgan, who prodded Mr Rees-Mogg into revealing his views on the Good Morning Britain sofa, tried a similar line of questioning, on his CNN show in 2012, during the Republican primaries.\n\nThe former Mirror editor asked White House hopeful Rick Santorum, a devout Catholic, if he would let his daughter get an abortion after rape.\n\nMr Santorum said did not say yes outright, adding that he would explain to her that a baby, even when \"horribly created\", was still a \"gift, in a very broken way\".\n\nDonald Trump, who before running for president was pro-choice and is now firmly against abortion, draws the line at cases of rape, incest, and when the mother's health is endangered.\n\nThe issue of abortion in Britain is seen by many people as a settled matter - it rarely comes up at general elections.\n\n\"We are a pro-choice country, we have a pro-choice Parliament,\" said Katherine O'Brien, of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service.\n\n\"Every politician is entitled to hold their own opinion on abortion. But what matters is whether they would let their own personal convictions stand in the way of women's ability to act on their own.\"\n\nIn fact, there have been several serious attempts to restrict abortions since Liberal leader David Steel succeeded in liberalising the law in 1967, resulting in some impassioned debates in the House of Commons.\n\nIn 2008, MPs voted on cutting the 24-week limit, for the first time since 1990, in a series of amendments to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill.\n\nThere were calls for a reduction to 12, 16, 20 or 22 weeks, but MPs rejected the proposals in a series of votes.\n\nGoing further back, Liberal MP David Alton resigned as his party's chief whip in 1987 to launch what turned out to be an unsuccessful bid to ban late abortions.\n\nThe first version of Mr Alton's bill did not include an exemption for women who had been raped - he argued that they represented a tiny minority of cases.\n\nThe exemption was added at a later date, but supporters of the bill made it clear that they viewed it as a stepping stone to a complete ban.\n\nConservative MP Terry Dicks told MPs: \"I understand and am concerned about incest and rape and the implication of a child being born as a result. I do not know the answer, but I do know that life is important from the minute that conception takes place.\n\n\"Of course ladies have rights and we must consider them, but they also have obligations and responsibilities that they have to face up to.\"\n\nTheresa May and Arlene Foster hold differing views on abortion\n\nFew MPs have been as outspoken in their opposition to abortion since, although senior figures in all parties have expressed their personal support for reducing the time limit.\n\nAnd there have been cases where politicians have had to wrestle with their conscience on the issue.\n\nLabour's Ruth Kelly, a member of Catholic organisation Opus Dei, refused to take a ministerial role at the Department of Health to avoid conflicts with her beliefs.\n\nThe issue has crept back on to the political agenda in recent months with the deal between Theresa May and the DUP to keep the Conservatives in power.\n\nUnlike in the rest of the UK, abortion is illegal in Northern Ireland unless a woman's life is in danger or there is a serious risk to her mental or physical health.\n\nAnd the DUP has consistently opposed abortion, with its leader, Arlene Foster, saying: \"I would not want abortion to be as freely available here as it is in England.\"\n\nTory MP Terry Dicks backed a ban on abortions in the 1980s\n\nBut, in an unexpected turn of events, Northern Irish women have now been granted access to terminations on the NHS in mainland Britain.\n\nIn June, the government had to draw up emergency plans to head off a revolt by Conservative MPs who joined forces with Labour in opposing the DUP's stance, to the evident delight of some Tory ministers.\n\nAs the law was changed, Education Secretary and Equalities Minister Justine Greening said: \"Let us send a message to women everywhere that in this Parliament their voices will be heard and their rights upheld.\"\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May is also opposed to changing the abortion laws and was careful to distance herself from Jacob Rees-Mogg's opinions, while stressing that it was a \"long-standing principle\" that abortion was a \"matter of conscience\" for individual MPs to decide on.\n\nMr Rees-Mogg knows his views are not mainstream in Conservative circles at Westminster. In his Good Morning Britain interview, he said women's abortion rights under UK law were \"not going to change\".\n\nBut he argued that his party was more tolerant of religious views than the Liberal Democrats, whose former leader Tim Farron quit after facing repeated questions about his views on gay sex.\n\n\"It's all very well to say we live in a multicultural country... until you're a Christian, until you hold the traditional views of the Catholic Church, and that seems to me fundamentally wrong,\" he said.\n\n\"People are entitled to hold these views.\"", "The UK territory of the British Virgin Islands is among the areas affected\n\nTwo British territories in the Caribbean have suffered \"severe\" damage from Hurricane Irma, the UK's Foreign Office has said.\n\nSir Alan Duncan said Anguilla received the hurricane's \"full blast\" while the British Virgin Islands would need \"extensive humanitarian assistance\".\n\nAt least one death has been reported on Anguilla, according to local officials.\n\nThe low-lying British territory of Turks and Caicos is still in the storm's path and preparing to be hit.\n\nEvacuations have begun, with tropical-force rains expected to begin at around 14:00 local time, or 19:00 BST.\n\nDefence Secretary Michael Fallon said the UK was sending a task group to the region to help with relief efforts.\n\nThe RFA Mounts Bay and its crew has arrived in the Caribbean and a second ship, HMS Ocean, is also being sent to the region, Sir Michael said following a meeting of the government's Cobra emergency committee.\n\nTwo more helicopters will be sent to the region.\n\nSir Michael said the UK's taskforce would help with relief efforts, such as restoring clean water, providing medical assistance and reconstruction work.\n\nThe government has pledged £12m of disaster relief money.\n\nIt comes amid some criticism of an \"inadequate\" response by the UK government to the disaster.\n\nA third British territory, Montserrat, was \"swiped\" but the damage is not as bad as first thought, Sir Alan said.\n\nThere is widespread destruction across the Caribbean, with buildings reduced to rubble and at least 10 people dead.\n\nThe small Commonwealth Realm of Barbuda is said to be \"barely habitable\", while officials warn that the French territory of St Martin is almost destroyed.\n\nThe Queen said she and Prince Philip have been shocked and saddened by reports of the devastation.\n\nIn a message to the Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda, she said: \"Our thoughts and prayers are with all those whose homes and livelihoods have been destroyed or adversely affected by this terrible storm.\n\n\"Please convey my gratitude and good wishes to members of the emergency services and to those who are working on the rescue effort at this very difficult time for you all.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"It was like a horror movie\" - Residents of Barbuda describe the destruction wrought by Hurricane Irma\n\nOn Wednesday Sir Richard Branson, who refused to leave his private retreat of Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands (BVI), said he was \"retreating to a concrete wine cellar\" with his staff as the hurricane approached.\n\nHis son Sam has since said his father is \"OK\" but there has been \"lots of damage\" to the island.\n\nPosting an update on Instagram, Mr Branson also said buildings and moorings on the BVI's main islands of Tortola and Jost Van Dyke had been destroyed.\n\nOn Virgin Gorda - the third largest of the 40 islands and islets - there was no cell, power or wifi coverage, he said.\n\nThe BVI's largest private island, Peter Island, \"is wrecked\", he added, though people on the island were thought to be safe.\n\nBritain's 14 overseas territories are under UK sovereignty and jurisdiction - most are self-governing but they rely on the UK for defence, security and safety - including protection from natural disasters.\n\nJosephine Gumbs-Conner, a barrister from Anguilla, claimed the UK's preparations for and response to the storm have been \"sorely lacking\".\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the UK government should have \"done what the French did in St Martin - who made sure that they had military on the ground so that the response given is timely\".\n\nShe said the island's essential services including hospitals and police stations, were now in a \"limping position\", after the hurricane caused \"nuclear bomb devastation\".\n\nSignificant damage has been reported in the Dutch section of St Martin, known as Sint-Maarten\n\nOfficials have confirmed several deaths and considerable damage in the French and Dutch territories of Saint-Martin and Saint Barthélemy, popularly known as St Barts.\n\nForeign Secretary Boris Johnson said he had spoken to the chief minister of Anguilla, while foreign office officials worked through the night to assess and respond to the disaster.\n\nSir Alan said there are four UK aid experts standing ready to co-ordinate relief efforts in the region.\n\nHe said Prime Minister Theresa May has spoken to her French counterpart and has agreed to co-ordinate closely with the French and Dutch on relief efforts.\n\nThousands of British tourists are believed to be holidaying in the Caribbean, the travel association ABTA said.\n\nThe UK Foreign Office warned Britons to evacuate the area as the most powerful Atlantic storm in a decade approached, but many expats and tourists were left stranded as airlines were forced to ground or divert flights.\n\nFears are growing for pregnant Briton Afiya Frank, 27, and her sister Asha Frank, 29, who were preparing for the storm in Barbuda but have not been heard from since Tuesday night.\n\nTheir aunt, Ruth Bolton, told BBC Radio Suffolk the pair had \"gone completely silent\" since they last messaged on WhatsApp at about 21:00 GMT on Tuesday.\n\nShe said Afiya had been due to return to Suffolk to give birth.\n\nMany British tourists staying at resorts in the Dominican Republic, where a hurricane warning is still in place, are being evacuated from coastal areas and moved to temporary shelters.\n\nAndrea Fowkes Smith, from Surrey, told the BBC that part of the roof had fallen off the hotel where she is sheltering in Punta Cana.\n\n\"We have not been evacuated from our hotel but have just been moved to the steak house as our room was on the third floor,\" she said.\n\n\"They say we should all stay on the ground,\" she added. \"It's very strong winds and rain.\"\n\nSt Barts suffered serious damage to buildings as well as flooding and power cuts\n\nWhile the French and the Dutch have permanent military bases in the Caribbean, the British forces are kept at sea ready to respond to UK territories spread out across the region.\n\nMeanwhile, British Airways evacuated 326 passengers from Antigua on Tuesday and has managed to rebook many others across the Caribbean islands onto flights out with alternative airlines.\n\nVirgin Atlantic said it has scheduled a relief flight \"loaded with essential items\" to help the recovery effort, including blankets and bottled water, to arrive in Antigua on Thursday.\n\nOfficials in the US have started evacuations of tourists and residents from Florida Keys as the hurricane approaches.\n\nFlights to and from several airports in Florida were being suspended, while Orlando's international airport said commercial flights would stop from 17:00 local time on Saturday.\n\nA state of emergency had been declared for Florida, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, mobilising federal disaster relief efforts.\n\nAre you in the region? Are you a holidaymaker unable to get a flight home or a resident who has been preparing for Hurricane Irma? If it is safe for you to do so, share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "The claim: Pay for university vice-chancellors has been spiralling.\n\nReality Check verdict: In the past seven years, average pay for vice-chancellors has risen by about the same amount as average earnings, but there have been some individual examples of pay rising by considerably more than that.\n\nUniversities Minister Jo Johnson is encouraging vice-chancellors to show restraint in their pay.\n\nA government press release said that he would \"unveil a series of new measures designed to curb spiralling vice-chancellor pay\".\n\nSpeaking on Radio 4's Today Programme, Mr Johnson said: \"There has been significant inflation in some institutions,\" and referred to \"very very high salaries\".\n\nThe accountants Grant Thornton have been carrying out a survey of vice-chancellor pay since 2009.\n\nAmong the 156 higher education institutions it surveyed, the average salary for a vice-chancellor in 2015-16 was £246,000. Pension contributions, benefits and bonuses take that to £281,000.\n\nThat compares with an average annual salary for all jobs in the UK of £28,296.\n\nSince the survey started in 2009-10, average vice-chancellor salaries have risen by 13%.\n\nThe Office for National Statistics (ONS) says that between April 2009 and April 2016, average weekly earnings rose by about the same amount, so over that period it is certainly not accurate to say that vice-chancellor pay in general has been spiralling.\n\nSource: Times Higher Education Supplement - excludes institutions that changed vice-chancellor during the year\n\nHowever, there are certainly examples, as the minister says, of institutions in which the pay of the vice-chancellor has increased significantly.\n\nOxford University's vice-chancellor, Louise Richardson, is paid £350,000, which is about 70% more than her predecessor was being paid 10 years ago.\n\nShe defended her salary on BBC Radio 4, saying that the university had annual costs of £1.4bn. That figure has approximately doubled during the past 10 years.\n\nThe vice-chancellor of Bath University, Prof Dame Glynis Breakwell, is the highest paid, receiving £451,000 in salary, benefits and allowances, up 77% during the past decade.\n\nLast week, she announced a review of the university's remuneration committee, which decides her pay.\n\nThe vice-chancellor of Birmingham University is paid £378,000 a year plus another £45,000 bonus and £3,000 in taxable benefits, which is a 60% increase on 10 years ago.\n\nImperial College London pays its president a salary of £353,000, but that has gone up a more modest 15% in the past decade (pension contributions and other benefits take this up to £430,000).\n\nProf Dame Glynis Breakwell is the highest paid vice-chancellor in the country\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Summer's over and the pushback over Brexit has begun\n\nAfter a summer where Tory supporters of a more gradual Brexit were heartened by statements from ministers, now comes the, probably inevitable, pushback.\n\nA letter leaked to the BBC, signed by dozens of Tory MPs, was scheduled for the pages of a Sunday newspaper, demanding that Theresa May stand firm, and stick to her original plan for Brexit.\n\nThe letter will be seen as a warning to ministers too, particularly Chancellor Philip Hammond who Eurosceptics see as trying to water down Mrs May's original Brexit plan to leave the single market and customs union.\n\nThe letter demands that the government resists any move to keep the UK in the EU \"by stealth\" and is also designed to put pressure on Labour's new position on Brexit, which advocates a more gradual departure.\n\nOrganisers of the letter say it's designed to be supportive of the prime minister, to bolster her Brexit convictions.\n\nBut with pressure from Remain sympathisers on one side, this new push from Brexiteers will remind Number 10 in no uncertain terms that the government is under pressure from all sides.\n\nYou can judge how supportive of the government the letter really is, by reading it yourself:\n\nThe letter will be seen as a warning to ministers to stick to Mrs May's original Brexit plan\n\nContinued membership of the single market, even as part of a transitional arrangement, would quite simply mean EU membership by another name - and we cannot allow our country to be kept in the EU by stealth.\n\nThe government must respect the will of the British people, and that means leaving the single market at the same time as we leave the EU. Here's why:\n\nContinued membership of the 'single market' (the 'Norway option') - the stated goal of the Labour Party - would be an historic mistake.\n\nThe truth is that the 'single market' is a political project, and requires its members to constantly introduce new European Union (EU) laws. Therefore, the longer one remains a member, the harder it is to leave.\n\nContrary to claims that it is a 'sensible' stepping stone to independence, it is in fact a conveyer belt to ever more European integration.\n\nWhat's more, for as long as we remain in the single market, we will have to make payments into the EU budget, and will be unable to take advantage of the freedoms available as a result of leaving the EU - such as the ability to deport foreign criminals.\n\nIn order to ensure that no-one seeks to use a transition period as means of keeping the UK in the EU by stealth, the government must add the following clauses to any transitional deal:\n\nWith these clauses in place, the will of the British people will have been respected, and the country set on a course to make a great success of Brexit.\"\n• None Reality Check: Who are the low-skilled EU workers?", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jo Johnson: \"I do not want to read about VC pay in the newspapers\"\n\nSpiralling rates of pay for university vice-chancellors are to be curbed by a series of new measures being set out by the universities minister.\n\nJo Johnson urged institutions to show restraint, when it emerged that dozens of university heads were earning £300,000, and some more than £400,000.\n\nNow, he wants universities to justify pay rates topping £150,000 a year to a new regulator, the Office for Students.\n\nDetails of staff earning above £100,000 year would also have to be made public.\n\nUniversities have argued that their leaders are managing large institutions, have enormous responsibilities and huge budgets, and therefore command large salaries.\n\nMr Johnson called for \"transparency and openness\" in the way pay is set for university heads and \"greater restraint\" in vice-chancellor and senior-level salaries.\n\n\"We [need to] put an end to the spate of damaging headlines we've seen over recent weeks,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nMr Johnson is setting out the plans in a speech to university heads at the annual conference of the umbrella body Universities UK, in west London on Thursday.\n\nThe plans, which will be consulted on, could see the Office for Students using its powers to impose fines if institutions do not give good reasons for high pay.\n\nThe new regulator, which is to be headed by Nicola Dandridge, the former chief executive of Universities UK, will also issue new guidance on the role and independence of pay committees.\n\nMs Dandridge herself volunteered for an 18% pay cut from £200,000 a year to £165,000, a move Mr Johnson said was \"out of the spirit of public service\".\n\nMr Johnson also told Today that student fees would rise next year with inflation.\n\n\"It's important there's confidence fees are put to the uses we intend them to be - we want fees to deliver great teaching and world-class research,\" he said.\n\nMr Johnson said the debate over student finance had increased public scrutiny of how universities spent the money they received.\n\n\"When students and taxpayers invest so heavily in our higher education system, excessive vice-chancellor salaries send a powerful signal to the outside world.\"\n\nHe added: \"Exceptional pay can only be justified by exceptional performance, which is why I will ask the new Office for Students to take action to ensure value for money and transparency for students and the taxpayer.\"\n\nProf Janet Beer, president of Universities UK and vice-chancellor of the University of Liverpool, said in her conference address that it was understandable that high pay was being questioned.\n\n\"It is right to expect that the process for determining pay for senior staff is rigorous and the decision-making process is transparent.\n\n\"It is also reasonable to expect that decisions are explained and justified.\"\n\nShe also addressed the issue of the student funding, calling on the government to consider providing targeted maintenance grants for those most in need of this support.\n\nThe government should also \"consider reducing the interest rate payable, not for all, but specifically for low- and middle-income earners through changes in earning thresholds to which interest rates apply\", she said.\n\nThe overall cost of salary and benefits for vice-chancellors rose 2.5% to an average remuneration of £257,904 in 2015-16 on the previous year.\n\nWhen pension contributions are included, the rise was 2.2% to an average of £280,877.\n\nAnd several high profile cases revealed pay levels substantially higher than this.\n\nImperial College London pays its vice-chancellor, Alice Gast, a £430,000 yearly wage and pension package. She was recruited from an American university some years ago where she was paid £679,754.\n\nThe University of Birmingham pays Sir David Eastwood £426,000 in salary and pensions.\n\nSir David was previously chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council since 2006 - the post responsible for overseeing the university finance system in England.\n\nUniversity of Exeter vice-chancellor, also a former chairman of Universities UK, Sir Steve Smith receives a £426,000 package, according to the Times Higher Education newspaper.\n\nThe Russell Group, an association which represents 24 leading UK universities, says its institutions \"recognise the need to act responsibly\".\n\nDr Tim Bradshaw, acting director of the group, said Russell Group universities have demonstrated strong and effective governance around senior remuneration and will continue to do so.\n\nBut, he stressed, universities operate in a competitive market, saying salaries help to maintain the UK's position as a \"world leader in science and innovation\".\n\nGeneral secretary of the University and College Union Sally Hunt said soaring vice-chancellor pay, which her union has highlighted over the years, had become a real embarrassment for the higher education sector.\n\nShe accused vice-chancellors of hiding behind \"shadowy remuneration committees\".\n\nShe said: \"Over two-thirds of vice-chancellors sit on their own remuneration committees, and three-quarters of universities refuse to publish full minutes of the meetings where leadership pay is decided.\"\n• None Three more MPs quit uni roles over pay\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The prime minister has at least two big reasons for wanting to get this right.\n\nFor Theresa May, the referendum result was a clear instruction from the British people that they wanted to reduce the levels of immigration. Politically, therefore, she believes it's a demand she has to meet.\n\nAnd as home secretary for six years, when the government continually flunked its own immigration target, the new system that will control immigration is finally, perhaps, a chance to meet her own long-missed goal.\n\nSo Wednesday's mega-leak from the Home Office of the potential design of the post Brexit system is significant.\n\nMany of the proposals in it are not a surprise - the requirement for EU citizens who want to move to the UK long term after Brexit to register with the authorities, for example. You can read more of the extensive details here. One source involved in the negotiations says the \"general principles\" of the document are indeed an accurate reflection of the government position.\n\nBut it's far from the final version. And much of the uncertainty lies around what happens on \"D+1\", the day after we leave the European Union.\n\nThe implication from the document is that as soon as we leave, freedom of movement is over.\n\nAlthough ministers have said as much on the record before, and Downing Street sources are adamant that will be the case, it pulls against indications in Whitehall a few months ago that the principle whereby EU citizens could come to live and work freely in the UK could carry on uninhibited during a transition period, the couple of years following Brexit itself.\n\nOne extremely senior source was, in fact, categorical that would be the case, and implied that had been agreed by ministers, as part of the acceptance that a transition period of some sort was inevitable. Not, it seems now, the case.\n\nCouple those mixed signals with the leak of this document, and it points to a very live debate taking place right now in government.\n\nI am told there was a series of meetings last week, involving the Home Office, the Treasury, Downing Street, and the Brexit department, about how to fulfil Theresa May's political imperative on immigration as quickly as possible, without creating howls of alarm from business or denting the economy.\n\nIn fact, since the draft was written, only last month, there have been six new versions of the proposals, none of which has yet been to cabinet, with the final version due in a White Paper later this autumn.\n\nOne source involved in the discussions said: \"I'm not going to pretend it's an easy job,\" and in reality much of the detail is a long, long way off.\n\nThat's partly because the longer term plans will be informed by a big study looking at what the economy needs, which the government has only recently commissioned, and, inevitably, much of the policy that will cover the period immediately after Brexit will be subject to the negotiations between the UK and the EU.\n\nIt is also because even this big detailed document doesn't even really begin to fill in the blanks for phase three, the years that will follow the transition period, the eventual destination.\n\nWho said anything about Brexit would be easy?\n• None Reality Check: Who are the low-skilled EU workers?", "Tens of thousands of people have fled violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state. Many speak of killings, rape and even massacres.\n\nOff the south-eastern coast of Bangladesh, a row of crescent-shaped, wooden fishing boats approach the shore, listing dangerously in the strong winds.\n\nAs they get closer, you can see they are packed. Women on the floor, many holding on to children, men pressed against the sides of the boats.\n\nThis is the latest boatload of Rohingya Muslims, fleeing from Myanmar's Rakhine state.\n\nRefugees like Dil Bahar are traumatised and exhausted - and have horrific stories\n\nLocal Bangladeshis gathered on the beach wave frantically. \"This way, this way,\" they say as they guide the boats into shallower waters.\n\nAs the first one hits the shoreline near Shamlapur, several men jump off. The women and children are helped out, a couple almost collapsing as their legs buckle under them.\n\nThe direct route across the Naf river is no longer accessible. The Bangladeshi authorities have stopped them from coming from that direction after several Rohingyas drowned attempting the crossing.\n\nSo they circumnavigate, heading out to sea before turning back. A journey which would have taken under an hour now takes about six to eight.\n\nAs the Rohingyas hit the beach, they collapse in a heap. Many look dazed and disoriented after the voyage. Others are visibly dehydrated, some are retching.\n\nA few, including men, start sobbing uncontrollably, their bodies heaving. They cannot, it appears, believe they are alive. Others are handed mobile phones by locals so they can tell their loves ones they made it.\n\nOne middle-aged woman, dressed in black, is scanning the horizon anxiously, shading her eyes.\n\nRohima Khatun is waiting for her brother. Their village in Myanmar's Maungdaw district had been attacked more than 10 days ago. In the rush to flee, they were separated. She made it across to Bangladesh and has been coming to the beach every day, hoping her brother Nabi Hasan would be among the hundreds arriving by sea.\n\nAs the fourth boat reaches the shore she screams and starts running.\n\nA young man limps across the beach and the two of them clutch each other sobbing.\n\nNabi Hasan and his sister Rohima Khatun did not know if they would see each other alive\n\n\"He Allah, he Allah [dear God],\" she mutters constantly, rocking back and forth.\n\n\"I didn't think I would see you,\" Nabi Hasan says, wiping his sister's tears.\n\n\"Our village was attacked by the military,\" they say, \"along with Mogs\", referring to the ethnic Buddhist community living in Rakhine.\n\n\"We are the only two in our family of 10 to have survived,\" they say.\n\nAs I move around the group others have similar testimony.\n\nDil Bahar, a woman in her sixties, is sobbing uncontrollably. Her husband, Zakir Mamun, a frail man with a wispy beard, is standing behind her.\n\nA teenage boy is with them, his arm encased in a crude, homemade splint, trussed together with string.\n\nSome arrivals bear the scars of what they say are bullet shots\n\nHis face is contorted in pain.\n\n\"He's my grandson, Mahbub,\" Dil Bahar says. \"He was shot in the arm.\"\n\n\"It's a massacre,\" whispers Zakir Mamun, looking at us.\n\nTheir village is in Buthidaung, a little over 50km (30 miles) from the Bangladesh border.\n\nThe attack apparently took place without any warning.\n\n\"They came for us,\" Zakir tells me. \"People were ordered indoors over loudspeakers, by the military. Then the military and the mobs threw bombs at our homes, setting them on fire.\"\n\nThey say that when the villagers tried to leave, the attackers opened fire.\n\n\"People were falling all over, as they were hit,\" Zakir says. \"We ran for the mountain and hid.\"\n\nBut his son, Mahbub's father, was killed.\n\n\"All night we could hear the firing, the 'rockets' going off,\" Zakir says.\n\nThe next morning, they saw their village in ruins. Smoke was rising from the smouldering homes.\n\n\"Everything was gone,\" he says.\n\nThe family gathered a few utensils which were undamaged, collected some uncooked rice and left.\n\nThey trekked for 12 days, across two mountains and then through jungles.\n\n\"Our rice ran out on the eighth day,\" Zakir says. \"We had nothing to eat, we survived on plants and rainwater.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Jonathan Head went on a government-organised trip in Rakhine state last week\n\nThere is no way of independently verifying any of these accounts. Access to Rakhine state is severely restricted.\n\nMyanmar's military denies wrongdoing and says it is only targeting Rohingya militants who attacked police posts.\n\nThe group have now been moved to a sprawling refugee camp in Balukhali. Mahbub has been taken to a clinic run by International Organisation of Migration, his splint replaced and his wound treated.\n\nThis is their temporary home for the unforeseeable future. Their tent is a simple plastic sheet stretched over bamboo poles. The camp water supply, a pit in the ground collecting rain.\n\nBut the relief at being alive and relatively safe, overpowers any other emotion.\n\n\"I am happy to be in Bangladesh,\" Zakir says. \"It's a Muslim country, we are safe here.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Sanjoy Majumder treks through difficult terrain with people fleeing Myanmar", "Nicky Morgan wants the matter resolved as quickly as possible\n\nA group of MPs have joined a call by Nicky Morgan, the Treasury Committee chair, for full publication of a leaked report on the treatment of customers in RBS's global restructuring group (GRG).\n\nThe report, produced for the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), suggested that GRG mistreated many of its clients.\n\nThe All Party Parliamentary Group on Fair Business Banking called RBS's treatment of business customers an \"ugly stain\" on the industry.\n\nEarlier, Mrs Morgan asked FCA head Andrew Bailey to secure RBS's permission to publish the report \"without delay\".\n\nShe says the report is in the hands of an \"unknown number of third parties\".\n\nRBS's global restructuring group operated from 2005 to 2013 and at its peak handled 16,000 companies.\n\nIt was introduced as an expert service that would turn around a business and stepped in when companies missed a loan repayment or had a drop in sales or profits.\n\nBut the report, seen by the BBC, found that struggling companies who were placed in the recovery group had a slim chance of emerging from it.\n\nThe letter from the All Party Parliamentary Group on Fair Business Banking expresses a number of concerns.\n\nAmong these is that the investigation may not have included all customers involved with the GRG, since RBS was left to decide which businesses were to be looked at.\n\nIt says in its letter that while details of the \"focus and execution\" of the investigation remain hidden from public view, there cannot be confidence that the probe has identified the scale and damage of the poor behaviour at RBS, nor whether there has been an adequate response from either the bank of the FCA.\n\nThe head of the group, Lord Cromwell, is meeting Mr Bailey next week.\n\nMrs Morgan said: \"The FCA told the committee in November 2016 that a 'full account' of the findings from the skilled persons' report would be published.\n\n\"Nearly a year later, and nearly four years since the report was commissioned, we are still waiting for answers.\"\n\n\"I have asked Mr Bailey to update the committee on any information that the FCA uncovers as part of its inquiry into the leak,\" she said.\n\n\"This would not be the first instance of leaking from the FCA, but lessons must be learned to ensure it is the last.\"\n\nThe FCA said it would respond \"in due course\" to the request from Mrs Morgan.\n\n\"We have already initiated a leak inquiry into the disclosure of the s166 report on RBS GRG to the BBC, and we have asked the other parties who had access to the report, namely RBS and Promontory, to do the same.\n\n\"If the Treasury Select Committee or the BBC have evidence that the document was leaked by the FCA, we encourage them to share that with us.\"\n\nBill Esterson, Labour's shadow business minister, said Mrs Morgan should not be asking RBS for permission to release the report, \"she should be demanding it... What happens if they say no\".\n\nHe said: \"Livelihoods were ruined... Of course the report should be released and a full enquiry held.\"\n\nIn November 2013, Lawrence Tomlinson, then 'Enterprise Czar' for Business Secretary Vince Cable, made several allegations against RBS in a report into the GRG.\n\nOn the same day, RBS chairman Sir Andrew Large published an RBS-commissioned report into its own lending performance, which said that the bank needed \"to address the concerns that have been raised by some customers and external shareholders\".\n\nTwo months later the FCA announced its own review into the group's conduct.", "David Davis has accused Labour of a \"cynical and unprincipled\" bid to block a key piece of Brexit legislation.\n\nThe Brexit secretary claimed Britons \"will not forgive\" Labour if they try to \"delay or destroy\" the process of leaving the EU.\n\nOn Thursday MPs began debating the EU (Withdrawal) Bill, which will end the supremacy of EU law in the UK.\n\nLabour backs Brexit but says the bill is a \"huge power grab\" by ministers and it will vote against it, as it stands.\n\nShadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer said the bill would \"reduce MPs to spectators\".\n\nThe EU (Withdrawal) Bill overturns the 1972 European Communities Act which took the UK into the then European Economic Community but will also convert all existing EU laws into domestic ones, to ensure there are no gaps in legislation.\n\nMr Davis described it as the next step in the \"historic process\" of honouring the EU referendum decision and argued that it was largely technical in nature and would ensure that \"on the day we leave, businesses know where they stand\".\n\nSir Keir Starmer says it should be called 'the great power grab bill'\n\nHe urged all parties to work with the government \"in the spirit of collaboration\", rejecting opposition claims that he was attempting to get the power to change laws without proper Parliamentary scrutiny.\n\n\"It is only what is necessary for a smooth exit and to provide stability,\" he said.\n\nHe attacked Labour's position, calling it a \"fundamental misrepresentation of Parliament and our democratic process\" and \"reckless in the extreme\".\n\nBut Sir Keir said: \"He (Mr Davis) is keen to portray this bill as a technical exercise converting EU law into our law without raising any serious constitutional issues about the role of Parliament.\n\n\"Nothing could be further than the truth.\"\n\nHe added: \"It's an unprecedented power grab. Rule by decree is not a mis-description. It's an affront Parliament and accountability.\"\n\nThe European Communities Act passed under Edward Heath will be repealed\n\nHe said Labour voted for Article 50 Act, triggering the process of Brexit, because it accepted the referendum result. But he claimed the EU (Withdrawal) Bill would hand \"all power and responsibility\" over how Britain left the EU to ministers.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said just six rebels could mean defeat for the bill and ministers privately concede they will have to give some ground.\n\nBut she said with so much to sort out, the government argues that there is not the time for MPs to pick over every detail, and the bill will allow ministers to make tweaks.\n\nLabour argues that it will give the government powers similar to those used by medieval monarchs. It has tabled a series of amendments to the bill and will order its MPs vote against the legislation at second reading on Monday, unless they are accepted.\n\nSir Keir has called for the Withdrawal Bill to spell out that the UK can stay in the EU single market and customs union during the post-Brexit transition period.\n\nThe main aim of this legislation is to incorporate, rather than repeal, 40 years of relevant EU law onto the UK statute book. It is intended to ensure there is no legal chaos on the day Britain leaves the EU in March 2019.\n\nAt the start of its second reading in the Commons, Brexit Secretary David Davis said this \"essential\" bill maximises certainty for businesses and consumers.\n\nBut unusually, the government is facing a parliamentary battle to clear this early hurdle, with Labour, the Liberal Democrats and Scottish and Welsh Nationalists lined up to oppose the Bill.\n\nTheir main objection is at what they see as a power grab by ministers who will be able to change some laws without the usual parliamentary scrutiny.\n\nTory MPs sceptical about the government's Brexit will not vote with opposition parties next week. But ministers are braced for an arduous fight as this bill goes through Parliament\n\nHe has also called for workers' rights and environmental laws to be protected - and has criticised the government for failing to incorporate the EU charter of fundamental rights into domestic law.\n\nBut some of Jeremy Corbyn's MPs are expected to defy the party's orders to vote against the bill. Pro-Brexit Labour MP Graham Stringer said opposing the Bill would be \"an absolute breach of trust\" with voters.\n\nConservative opponents of a \"hard Brexit\" have indicated they will hold back on any challenge to the Bill until later in its passage through Parliament, although veteran Europhile Ken Clarke hinted he might be prepared to rebel unless he received \"some assurances\".\n\nFormer attorney general Dominic Grieve described it as an \"astonishing monstrosity\" of a bill and said he would vote against it later on, if it were not improved.\n\nThe SNP and Lib Dems also plan to vote against the bill after tabling amendments setting out their reasons for opposing it but the government has the support of the Democratic Unionists, with whom they have a Commons pact.\n\nNegotiations between the UK and the EU on the terms of exit are on-going, with the European Union publishing its latest set of position papers, including one on the crucial issue of the future of the Irish border, on Thursday.", "Head teacher of the Wearside school Nicky Cooper says she is \"very, very particular\" about uniform\n\nPupils were lined up at the gates of a secondary school while their trousers were checked to see if they were the right shade of grey - with some failing the inspection and being sent home.\n\nKepier School in Houghton-le-Spring has defended the move, which it said was because it valued \"consistency\".\n\nParents have been told that only clothes of a particular colour and bought from one supplier are allowed.\n\nSeveral pupils were sent home, with others barred from classes.\n\nParent Kim Lister saw pupils being checked at the school gates\n\nParent Kim Lister said she witnessed the checks after being alerted by her son.\n\nShe said: \"I got a phone call within two minutes saying: 'Mam, they're not letting us through the school gates.'\n\n\"When I got down there were a load of children actually lined up having their uniform checked.\n\n\"I love the uniform but it would be nice if parents could have a choice where to go for the uniform.\"\n\nAbout a dozen pupils were sent home from Kepier School\n\nHead teacher of the Wearside school Nicky Cooper said: \"We are very, very particular about the uniform because we need consistency right across the board.\n\n\"In doing so some learners were sent home.\n\n\"If you have different types of trousers it leads on to different types of shoes, different types of shirts, etc.\"\n\nLuke Bramhall, from the Children North East charity, said: \"Instead of focusing on discipline and punishing students for having the right uniform, what is important is for schools to understand what each individual child and their family is going through and how they can help in difficult circumstances.\"\n\nThe Department of Education said schools had a duty to provide and recommend uniforms that were the best value for money.", "Ms Martínez says she was born in 1956 as a result of an affair between Dalí and her mother\n\nA Spanish woman who believed Salvador Dali was her father is not the surrealist artist's daughter, a DNA test has proved.\n\nMaría Pilar Abel Martínez, a tarot card reader who was born in 1956, says her mother had an affair with Dalí during the year before her birth.\n\nA judge in Madrid agreed his body could be exhumed for testing in June.\n\nBut now the Dali Foundation says the tests carried out have conclusively proved the two are not related.\n\n\"The DNA tests show that Pilar Abel is not Dali's daughter,\" the foundation, which manages his estate, said in a statement on Wednesday, six weeks after the artist's body was exhumed from a crypt in a museum dedicated to his life and work in Figueres, in north-eastern Spain.\n\nHad they been related, Ms Martinez would have had a claim on part of Dali's estate, which he left to the Spanish state following his death in 1989 at the age of 85.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA number of Dali experts had raised their eyebrows at the claim before his body was exhumed, with biographer Ian Gibson noting the artist's own claim of \"I'm impotent, you've got to be impotent to be a great painter\".\n\nIt is not known how Ms Martinez, who had been told from an early age she was the painter's daughter, has responded to the news.\n\nDalí's wife, Gala, died in 1982 - after which he is said to have lost much of his zest for life", "Six out of 23 full cabinet ministers are women - two more attend cabinet\n\nThe government has rejected calls for political parties to face fines if they fail to meet targets for female candidates at general elections.\n\nIt has rejected six recommendations, including new laws to ensure at least 45% of election candidates are women.\n\nThe Commons Women and Equalities Committee accused ministers of a \"lack of action and ambition\" on the subject.\n\nMinisters say \"significant progress\" has been made but it is up to political parties to select their candidates.\n\nIn this year's general election, 208 women were elected, at 32% the highest ever proportion, up from 191 in 2015. Six out of 23 full cabinet members are women, including the prime minister.\n\nBut they made up only 29% of the total 3,304 general election candidates in 2017.\n\nData from the Inter-Parliamentary Union suggests that, as of the 2015 election, the UK ranked 46th out of 193 countries for the percentage of women in its lower house.\n\nAll six recommendations made by the committee in the previous Parliament have been rejected by the government.\n\nIn 1997, Labour MPs made up 101 out of 120 women elected - but women still made up only 18% of MPs\n\nAmong them were calls for the government to set a target that 45% of MPs should be women and the same percentage elected in local government by 2030, a 45% minimum threshold for female parliamentary candidates in general elections for each party and for those that fail to hit the target to face sanctions.\n\nBut in its response, the government said while it agreed that a \"gender-balanced Parliament is long overdue\" it must be political parties themselves - not the government - that were responsible for candidate selection and that it did not believe that \"overall domestic targets are the solution to increasing representation\".\n\nIt said progress was being made and parties were using various methods, including mentoring, training, all-women shortlists and fielding more women candidates in winnable seats, to get more women elected.\n\nIn its response, the government said: \"The main political parties have had some success in increasing women's representation in the House of Commons, but more needs to be done.\n\n\"The government does not believe that the best way to achieve this is through legislation and placing an additional regulatory burden on political parties. Instead, we look to the parties to lead the way through further and more vigorous voluntary action.\"\n\nBut Maria Miller, who chairs the Women and Equalities Committee, said more work was needed before the next general election to improve the figures.\n\nShe said: \"The UK is failing to be a world leader on women's representation. There are still more than twice as many men as women in the House of Commons: after the 2017 election, women still only make up 32% of MPs.\n\n\"This demands a vigorous response across the board, but the government has shown it is content to sit on its hands with an approach which has yielded depressingly slow progress so far.\"\n\nShe said government could make a \"real difference\" and should require parties to publish \"diversity data\" about their candidate selection to \"give people the data to hold parties to account for their progress\".\n\n\"The government's failure to commit to this - or to accept any of the previous committee's other recommendations - shows a complete lack of action and ambition to bring about real change,\" she said.\n\nBefore 1987, women had never made up more than 5% of MPs.\n\nYour browser does not support this content, please upgrade! Number of female MPs, before and after election", "Bulgaria's current population of about seven million is predicted to be nearer five million by 2050\n\nBulgaria is projected to have the fastest-shrinking population in the world. It's already lost a fifth of its population since the 1990s. But what does this mean for those who remain?\n\nDeep in the Bulgarian countryside, in the western province of Pernik, I make a rare discovery.\n\nIt's not Stoyan Evtimov's traditional embroidered woollen tunic that makes him unusual.\n\nIt's the fact he's a thirty-something living in a village. \"All my friends that I grew up with here left long ago,\" he says.\n\nLike many young Bulgarians, they moved to towns and cities in search of work.\n\nStoyan considers himself lucky to have employment in the mountain village of Peshtera, leading its folk-singing group and organising an annual music festival in an attempt to revive traditional marriage music, and the village.\n\nEven so, he is finding village life unsustainable.\n\nStoyan Evtimov, in his 30s, is resigned to the fact he will have to leave his village\n\n\"It's impossible to find someone to marry here in the village, or the villages around, simply because there are no young people. The only chance for me to find someone is in the town,\" he says.\n\n\"It would be very sad and hard for me to leave the village, but I will have to do it at some point.\"\n\nBulgarian villages have been losing people for decades.\n\nWhen the Communists took power after World War Two, they brought in collective farming and many agricultural workers found work in new factories.\n\nAfter Communism fell, in 1989, and collective farms were broken up, that trend of leaving the countryside for the towns sharpened.\n\nAnd many people don't stop there: they continue their search for work abroad.\n\nIn 1989, almost nine million people lived in Bulgaria. Now, it is a little over seven million. By 2050, that number is projected to be less than 5.5 million. By the end of the century, it could be close to half what it is now.\n\nStefka fears she will have to close her shop\n\nThis exodus contributes to another factor in Bulgaria's dwindling population numbers - in part because a lot of young adults have left the country, the birth rate is low.\n\nThe last time a baby was born in the village, recalls shopkeeper Stefka - whose own two sons have moved away to the city - was a decade ago. The little girl and her mother now live in Cyprus, she adds.\n\nThe vast majority of the people Stefka serves are over the age of 60. The shelves are sparsely stocked, she says, because there aren't many customers, and she worries the shop will have to close.\n\nHigher up the mountain, the village shops have already shut, along with schools and bus services.\n\n\"This village used to be made up of about 600 people,\" says Boyan, a 70-year-old living in Kalotinsi. \"Now we are 13. Some are in the cemetery, the rest are in towns.\"\n\nGranny Stanka is now the only person living in her street\n\nIn the village of Smirov Dol, Stanka Petrova - Granny Stanka to those who know her - sits under a tree at a bend in the mountain road, patiently waiting for the mobile shop, which serves the area.\n\n\"I was born in this village, and I remember the village when it was really full of people. It was such a fun and nice life. Young people, old people,\" she says, explaining that this is the spot where people would come together and enjoy traditional dancing.\n\n\"There is no-one in the village, so of course nothing like that can happen now,\" she says.\n\n\"In this street, for example, that I came from, in the past there were a lot of people in the houses. Now only I live there.\"\n\nAbandoned and derelict buildings are a common sight in parts of rural Bulgaria\n\nDoes she get lonely? \"Of course I'm lonely. It's very hard,\" she says, tearfully.\n\nThe people in Kalotinsi and surrounding villages buy their groceries from a mobile shop that visits three times a week.\n\nThe service is run by middle-aged husband-and-wife team Atanas and Lili Borisov.\n\nTheir unmarked van is well-stocked with everything from bread and yoghurt to cigarettes and beer, and even medicines. In 10 years, they've never missed a delivery, even though in winter the mountain roads are covered in snow.\n\n\"Because there are few people, we are friends with all of them, so we're trying to help them with all that we can,\" Lili says.\n\nAtanas and Lili's mobile shop visits villages in western Bulgaria three times a week\n\nIt's obvious they're popular with the people they're serving, but Lili says customer numbers, and profits, are dwindling. In business and personal terms, the mobile shop is at the sharp end of the depopulation of Bulgaria's countryside.\n\n\"We start worrying when someone doesn't appear at the normal place we meet them,\" Lili says, \"especially during the winter.\"\n\n\"We had a case, actually, where we found someone dead.\"\n\nThe government is introducing a number of measures to try to tackle depopulation by increasing the birth rate: offering help with the costs of fertility treatment, giving childcare, and mortgage support.\n\nIt is also encouraging ethnic Bulgarians who live abroad to return to the country, but no-one else.\n\nBulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister, Valeri Simeonov, rejects the idea of refugees repopulating the country\n\n\"Bulgaria doesn't need uneducated refugees,\" says Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov, a leader of the United Patriots, an anti-immigrant grouping forming part of the coalition government.\n\nNor would Bulgarian society accept educated and skilled migrants, Mr Simeonov says.\n\n\"They have a different culture, different religion, even different daily habits,\" he says. \"And thank God Bulgaria so far is one of the most-well defended countries from Europe's immigrant influx.\"\n\nMr Simeonov is referring to a razor-wire fence that Bulgaria has been building across its 260km (160 mile) border with Turkey to discourage immigrants from trying to enter the country.\n\nThe new razor-wire border fence is a major obstacle for migrants trying to cross from Turkey\n\nAccording to figures from the European Commission, Bulgaria had taken in only about 50 of the migrants who arrived in Europe from North Africa and the Middle East between 2015 and July 2017.\n\nIt is clear that the Bulgarian government does not see immigration as a possible solution to the country's dwindling population.\n\nAlthough the government is full of ideas to boost the number of Bulgarian babies being born, in the countryside the feeling is that politicians talk, but don't act.\n\nBefore I left the mountains, I bumped into Boyan again, the man living in Kalotinsi, which has shrunk from being a village of 600 people to one of 13.\n\nBoyan, 70, believes that people have been abandoned by politicians\n\n\"We are abandoned,\" he says. \"Abandoned from everyone - from rulers and from God.\n\n\"Politicians will not do anything for us. They're just interested in their own interests. They don't care about the people - especially the old people in the villages. They don't even care about the young people because the young people are abroad.\n\n\"So the politicians don't care at all and the Bulgarian state is disappearing.\"\n\nRuth Alexander's report from Bulgaria is on Crossing Continents, on BBC Radio 4 at 11:00 on Thursday 7 September. You can listen online or download the programme podcast.", "The Syrian army says Israeli jets have attacked a site in the west of the country where Western powers suspect chemical weapons are being produced.\n\nAn army statement says rockets fired from Lebanese airspace hit a military post near Masyaf, killing two soldiers.\n\nA monitoring group says they struck a scientific research centre and base storing surface-to-surface missiles.\n\nIsrael, which has carried out clandestine attacks on weapons sites in Syria before, has not commented.\n\nAn Israeli military spokeswoman declined to discuss the reports, saying it did not comment on operational matters.\n\nThe attack comes a day after UN human rights investigators said they had concluded a Syrian Air Force jet had dropped a bomb containing the nerve agent Sarin on a rebel-held town in April, killing at least 83 people.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Abo Rabeea says he is still suffering from the suspected chemical weapons strike in Khan Sheikhoun\n\nSyrian President Bashar al-Assad has said the incident in Khan Sheikhoun - which prompted the US to launch a missile strike on an airbase - was a \"fabrication\".\n\nHe has also insisted his forces destroyed their entire chemical arsenal under a deal brokered by the US and Russia after a Sarin attack outside Damascus in 2013.\n\nThe Syrian army said rockets had struck the base near Masyaf, about 35km (22 miles) west of the city of Hama, at 02:42 on Thursday (23:42 GMT on Wednesday), causing \"material damage\" and the deaths of two personnel.\n\nIt accused Israel of attacking \"in a desperate attempt to raise the collapsed morale\" of the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) and warned Israel about \"the dangerous repercussions of such hostile acts on the security and stability of the region\".\n\nThe Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, said the rockets had hit a Scientific Studies and Research Centre (SSRC) facility and a military camp nearby used to store short-range surface-to-surface missiles.\n\nA Western intelligence agency told the BBC in May that three branches of the SSRC - at Masyaf, and at Dummar and Barzeh, both just outside Damascus - were being used to produce chemical munitions in violation of the 2013 deal.\n\nThe SSRC is promoted by the Syrian government as a civilian research institute but the US accuses the agency of focusing on the development of non-conventional weapons and the means to deliver them.\n\nIsrael has been watching events in Syria with alarm: the rising power of Iran and its Lebanese ally, Hezbollah - two of the main props of the Syrian regime - together with the reported periodic use of chemical weapons against civilians.\n\nSo this latest alleged attack sends a clear warning, not just to Hezbollah and Damascus but also to Russia - the other crucial supporter of the Syrian government.\n\nIsrael has been waging a long-running air campaign to prevent sophisticated weaponry being transferred to Hezbollah.\n\nIt is now talking about this campaign more openly; the former Israeli Air Force chief recently noting that it had carried out almost 100 air strikes over the past five years.\n\nAnd with Israeli claims that Iran is building missile production facilities in Lebanon and Syria for Hezbollah, the message could not be clearer.\n\nA former head of Israeli military intelligence, Amos Yadlin, tweeted that Thursday's strike on Masyaf was \"not routine\" and had targeted a \"Syrian military-scientific centre for the development and manufacture of, among other things, precision missiles\".\n\n\"The factory that was targeted in Masyaf produces the chemical weapons and barrel bombs that have killed thousands of Syrian civilians,\" he added.\n\nIsrael has acknowledged carrying out dozens of strikes inside Syria in recent years\n\nIn 2016, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said it had carried out dozens of strikes in Syria meant to prevent transfers of advanced weapons to Hezbollah.\n\nThe militant Lebanese Shia Islamist movement, which last fought a war with Israel in 2006 and is backed by Israel's arch-enemy Iran, has sent thousands of fighters to support Syria's army in the country's six-year civil war.\n\nLast month, Mr Netanyahu said Iran was building facilities in Syria and Lebanon to produce precision-guided missiles \"as part of its declared goal to eradicate Israel\". He gave no details but warned \"this is something Israel cannot accept\".", "Are you scared of being a victim of crime?\n\nToday, for the first time, BBC News, working with the Office for National Statistics, is providing you with a way of understanding your risk of being a victim of crime in England and Wales. If you are interested in Scotland, you can find out more about the Scottish Crime Survey on its official website.\n\nThe tool below uses national crime statistics, your address and your personal characteristics to tell you what's happened to people similar to you in the last year - and therefore something approaching a personal estimate of how likely you are to be a victim.\n\nIt only takes a moment to fill in, and the BBC does not keep the data, so punch in your details and have a look at the results:\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this content\n\nWeek in, week out, journalists like myself report on the big crime trends across the nation. And you will almost certainly notice the tool tells a different story - a personal one.\n\nNow, it's worth pointing out that it has some limitations. The Crime Survey of England and Wales, which provides most of the data in the calculator, captures a wide range of real experiences of crime, but some things are very difficult to measure, such as risky lifestyles and behaviour.\n\nBe that as it may, the tool does tell us a lot. And if you try changing your age - and even your gender - you learn a lot more about how crime affects us depending on who we are and our stage in life.\n\nSo, for instance, the tool shows that people like me, living in an area like mine, have a very low risk of being a victim of violence. If I were aged between 16 and 29 (sadly those days are gone) and living in the same area, my risk of being assaulted is five times greater.\n\nIf I were a woman in my 60s, I'd be even less likely to be a victim.\n\nPut most simply, young men in areas of higher deprivation are the most likely victims of crime. Old ladies living in the same areas - among those who are most likely to fear crime - have a lower risk. There is a dividend for living in a posher area - but age and gender remain key factors too.\n\nNow, there are a lot of nuances in here - and you can drill into the ONS's data tables for the full facts - or read this highly digestible analysis from Victim Support.\n\nBut many of these differences come down to how we live our lives.\n\nYounger people spend more time out at night. They're more likely to come into contact with people who become violent after they have had one too many drinks.\n\nHow many parents have had to console a teenager who's had their bike or mobile phone stolen?\n\nWhen kids move out of home, start work or become a student, they're likely to be living in cheaper, less-secure, rented accommodation.\n\nBut as they get older, the security of stable employment leads to security at home and family life. And you're less likely to be burgled if you've sunk into the sofa watching a box set, rather than if you've gone to the pub.\n\nEvery time a home is renovated, it's harder to break in to than before. Each new car we buy tends to be more secure than its predecessors.\n\nThat's not actually how we perceive crime and our personal risk. In fact, what we think is happening can be at complete odds with what is actually going on.\n\nAccording to the most recent data from the ONS, people generally have a pretty good idea about how much crime is close to them. Their perceptions seem to match the reality. But 60% also thought that crime is rising across the country as a whole - even though the long-term trend is down.\n\nThe people with the highest risk of being a victim - the young - were less likely to be worried than older generations, even though the older you become, the safer things generally become.\n\nDr Jane Wood, a forensic psychologist at the University of Kent, says a range of factors influence this perception gap. Women for instance fear crime because they know they cannot fight off a younger man. But our perceptions are also influenced by what we see around us - and how we hear about.\n\nWhen the ONS asked interviewees to choose from a list of what most influenced their perceptions of national crime levels, people talked about television, radio, newspapers (tabloid and broadsheet), the internet and word of mouth. And, Dr Wood says, the more we read or watch about crime, the more we think about it.\n\nAll of which may be an argument for not listening to a word that journalists like me tell you.\n\nBut while I wait for the hue and cry to drag me from the newsroom, please share a link to the crime risk calculator.", "Thousands of reported crimes are not being recorded by West Midlands Police, a watchdog has said.\n\nHM Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS) said five out of six reported offences were recorded but 38,800 each year were not.\n\nThe force said it would improve its recording but challenged key parts of the assessment.\n\n\"Vast improvement\" was also needed at Leicestershire Police with about 1 in 4 crimes currently going unrecorded.\n\nUnrecorded crimes included sexual offences, domestic abuse and rape, the report on the West Midlands force said.\n\nIt also highlighted the recording of violent crime as a particular cause of concern. Its recording rate is 77.9%.\n\nAn unrecorded crime is classed as one that is reported to the police but not recorded as an offence.\n\nHM Inspector of Constabulary Wendy Williams said it meant victims could potentially be at more risk of harm, without the required support.\n\nThe watchdog said the force's processes had improved since its last inspection in 2014, but rated it as inadequate for effectiveness at recording reported crime.\n\nSeven out of 43 forces in England and Wales have had inspection reports published for their \"crime data integrity\" since June 2017.\n\nOf those, four were branded inadequate overall and two were told they required improvement.\n\nJust one, Wiltshire, received an overall rating of good from HMICFRS.\n\nWest Midlands Police Deputy Chief Constable Louisa Rolfe said the force broadly accepted the data underpinning the report but disputed the 38,000 figure.\n\n\"A significant number of these incidents were recorded on our systems but just not classified correctly,\" she said.\n\n\"This report focuses on our technical compliance with the National Crime Recording System and, as such, is about administration and the interaction between different computer systems used to record crime.\"\n\nWest Midlands Police and Crime Commissioner David Jamieson said he had asked for rapid improvements to be made.\n\nLeicestershire Police was also rated as inadequate with an estimated 21,200 crimes not being recorded each year, including reports from \"victims of crimes of a sexual nature, and of violence\".\n\nThe force said it noted the report and the inspectorate's conclusions \"which are consistent with half of the forces it has inspected to date\".\n\nIt added: \"We acknowledge there are areas that we need to improve upon and are taking steps to address these administrative shortfalls.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Malala says she is nervous about starting as a student at Oxford\n\nNobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai says the \"global community\" needs to intervene to protect Myanmar's Muslim minority.\n\nShe urged Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi to speak up for the Rohingya.\n\n\"We can't be silent right now. The number of people who have been displaced is hundreds of thousands,\" Malala told the BBC.\n\nThe human rights activist is about to become a student at Oxford and admitted to \"nerves\" about her new life.\n\nSpeaking in Oxford, she called for an international response to the violence in Myanmar.\n\n\"I think we can't even imagine for a second what it's like when your citizenship, your right to live in a country, is completely denied,\" said Malala.\n\n\"This should be a human rights issue. Governments should react to it. People are being displaced, they're facing violence.\n\nRohingya refugees have been trying to reach Bangladesh\n\n\"Children are being deprived of education, they cannot receive basic rights - and living in a terrorism situation, when there's so much violence around you, is extremely difficult.\n\n\"We need to wake up and respond to it - and I hope that Aung Sang Suu Kyi responds to it as well,\" she said.\n\nMalala, now 20, is about to become an undergraduate at the University of Oxford.\n\nWhile the university might have produced many people who went on to win Nobel prizes, she is unusual in having one before she has arrived.\n\n\"I am trying to be just a normal student.\"\n\n\"I want to make friends just as the girl Malala and not the Nobel laureate.\"\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\n\"I'm a bit nervous as well, because in the beginning you don't know anyone, and you don't know how to make friends and it will be challenging… but fingers crossed it will be OK.\"\n\nShe also says she is pleased to be following in the footsteps of another \"strong female leader\" from Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, who studied at Oxford.\n\nMalala has been campaigning over the rights of girls to have an education - and she is setting up a network of \"champions\" for education in countries such as Afghanistan and Nigeria and for Syrian refugees.\n\nThis is called the Gulmakai Network - the name taken from her pseudonym when she wrote a blog about the loss of girls' rights under the Taliban in Pakistan, which had lead to the attempt on her life in 2012.\n\nStudents in Mexico hold up copies of her book when she visited this year\n\nShe says she wants education to be recognised as a global priority - and for more urgency in addressing the lack of access to school for 130 million girls, often in the world's poorest countries or in conflict zones.\n\n\"I know there are other issues that are taken more seriously - such as poverty, terrorism, or climate change, but education is the only solution for all of these problems.\"\n\nShe says there are many problems to overcome, \"whether it's early marriage, poverty, lack of awareness or lack of funding\".\n\n\"But the benefits are many, we need to educate people about the importance of education,\" she said.\n\nMalala, the advocate of girls' right to education, came to the world's attention after the Taliban in her native Pakistan attempted to murder her in a gun attack.\n\nThis week there have been reports that one of those involved in the attack had been killed by security forces in Pakistan.\n\nMalala's life is being depicted in a Bollywood movie\n\nShe says she has already forgiven the people who were trying to murder her.\n\n\"But they were able to carry out other killings in Pakistan. I hope that the army and the country helps them in a deradicalisation process and they learn about the true message of Islam and the meaning of human rights and learn about the importance of education.\n\n\"But personally I have forgiven them.\n\n\"I think what's the point now to say that they should be punished. It has no benefit to anyone, you're just creating more harm. I would want to reduce harm and help each other.\"", "The fallout from the leaked memo about EU migrant workers post-Brexit continues to dominate some of the papers.\n\nTheresa May's plans are in chaos, says the Daily Telegraph. Two of the PM's top ministers, Amber Rudd and Damian Green, have distanced themselves from the immigration policies - the paper adds. It also says Europe has described the policies as \"toxic\".\n\nAccording to the Financial Times, the leaked policy paper exposes the biggest unresolved question at the heart of Brexit: To what extent is the UK prepared to sacrifice its economic interests in the cause of restricting free movement?\n\nThey leave much to be desired, says the Times, warning an extreme clampdown would damage the economy.\n\nDespite the Daily Mail saying the proposals are too long and too complicated, it argues the principles underpinning them are thoroughly sound.\n\nThe liberal left hate the idea of prioritising our own workers, the Sun says, even though all major countries outside of the EU do this.\n\nMeanwhile, the second round of leaked documents feature in the Guardian. It reports the papers reveal fissures between Britain and the EU. They lay bare the complexity of Brexit delving into the technical minefields not covered during the referendum campaign, the paper says.\n\nDramatic pictures of Hurricane Irma and its destruction, which has so far killed at least seven people, appear on several front pages.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph describes how the worst Atlantic storm in history has unleashed havoc and destruction.\n\n\"Irmageddon\" is the headline in the Sun as it talks of a storm the size of France hitting the Caribbean while the Daily Mail declares \"paradise is pulverised\".\n\nThe i says that islanders are praying while tourists are hiding. It repeats a tweet by a man from London who describes the sound of Irma's arrival as \"apocalyptic\".\n\nAlex Woolfall, who's on holiday on St Martin, talks of \"constant booms and bangs. This is like a movie I never want to see\".\n\nOverseas, the Washington Post describes how the storm swelled into \"a monster force\". It adds that Irma has already hit President Trump's lavish waterfront estate on the Caribbean island of St Martin and is now heading towards his properties in Florida.\n\n\"I am a Catholic and I take the teachings of the Catholic Church seriously,\" says the Tory MP\n\nMuch attention is paid to comments made by the Conservative backbencher, Jacob Rees-Mogg, that abortion is \"morally indefensible\" in all circumstances, including rape and incest.\n\nThe Times says his views are out of kilter with modern Britain. It recalls that Mr Rees-Mogg has said that he would rather be Pope than prime minister.\n\nWith his recent comments in mind, says the paper, he would be better suited to the former, than the latter.\n\nHe's a Tory fossil who's demonstrated that he is incapable of leading Britain to a better future, according to the Daily Mirror.\n\nBut the Daily Mail says while millions will profoundly disagree with him, others will feel grudging admiration for an MP who sticks to his principles - no matter how unfashionable or unpopular they may be.\n\nThe school making its pupils wear trousers and banning girls from wearing skirts is in many papers, saying parents are \"furious\".\n\nPriory School in Lewes, East Sussex is making all Year 7 pupils wear trousers, reports the Mirror, the Mail and the Sun.\n\nTeachers say it will help the increasing number of pupils who are confused about their gender. But one mother tells the Mirror, \"My daughter has got a gender and it's female. She is proud to be a girl. Girls should be allowed to wear skirts\".\n\nAnd finally, the Daily Telegraph reveals that Surrey is now the UK's most expensive place to order a pint of beer. The latest Good Pub Guide puts the average price at £4.40.\n\nIt is the first time London has been overtaken as the place with the priciest pints. But, the Guardian says people living in Yorkshire and Herefordshire can enjoy the cheapest pint at £3.31.", "A number of Nazi items are in the auction on Saturday\n\nThe son of a Holocaust survivor has described as \"tasteless\" a decision by a Dublin auction house to sell Nazi \"memorabilia\".\n\nNine items from the Third Reich period are being offered as part of Whyte's The Eclectic Collector auction this weekend, that features more than 500 lots.\n\nGallery owner Oliver Sears said he thought it was \"quite appalling\".\n\nIan Whyte has defended his auction house's decision to sell the items.\n\nThey include a Nazi sash, an Anschluss campaign leaflet, a child's helmet and various German army daggers.\n\nMr Sears has a gallery on the same street as Whyte's on Molesworth Street.\n\nHis mother, Monika, survived the Warsaw ghetto. As a child, she was placed on a train to Treblinka, but escaped. A number of other family members died in Auschwitz.\n\nIn 1942, before the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, the Nazi SS deported about 300,000 Jews from the ghetto to the Treblinka camp, where they were killed in gas chambers.\n\nMr Sears said he thought the fascination with Nazi collectables was \"strange\" and that they should be \"donated to a museum\".\n\n\"For me particularly, they are an appalling part of history,\" he added.\n\nA child's helmet is among the items\n\n\"What distinguishes this kind of symbolism from any other militaria is that these symbols are used by hundreds of far right groups.\"\n\nMr Sears said he had approached Ian Whyte in September of last year with regard to an auction that featured items from the Third Reich period.\n\n\"I said you can take the moral high ground by not proceeding with the sale, you can donate money to a relevant charity, or you can post a message on your website distancing yourself from the policies of the Third Reich,\" he added.\n\n\"He said he would put something on the website, but he did not do that.\n\n\"It is legal (selling Nazi memorabilia), but it is a question of taste.\"\n\nMr Whyte said his auction house sold a wide range of material and its main business was \"fine art\".\n\nHe said he believed it was \"a form of censorship to say collectors cannot collect what they like provided it is legal\".\n\nHe said Whyte's would only make a \"tiny amount\" from the items Mr Sears objected to.\n\nMr Whyte added that he did not see any connection between \"collectors and neo-Nazis\".'\n\nHe said he did not know any collectors who were doing it for \"sinister reasons\".\n\n\"To me it is a matter of principle, I do not agree with banning collectibles on the basis of political things,\" he said.\n\n\"I understand what he (Mr Sears) says about the Nazis, they were a dreadful regime.\n\n\"They are probably the worst villains, but there were other villains around like the Soviet Union and we could argue about the famine here in Ireland, we could argue about what the Romans and Greeks did even if you want to go back in time.\"\n\nMr Whyte said that he had told Mr Sears that he would think about his proposal last year to post a message on the auction house's website distancing it from the Third Reich, but decided against it.\n\n\"We don't do that, we don't pass comment on what we sell, we describe it, we make sure it is genuine and that it is legal to sell,\" he said.\n\nHe added that he saw \"no reason\" for donating any money gained from the items to a charity and that if he wanted to it was \"a private matter\".", "When it comes to man's best friend, science may finally have solved the mystery of their gluttony - some Labradors, it seems, are genetically predisposed to being hungry.\n\nThat's according to scientists who were discussing their ongoing mission to improve our favourite pets' health at the British Science Association Festival in Brighton.\n\nSeveral research teams in the UK are on a mission to improve canine health.\n\nResearchers at the University of Cambridge have studied the appetite of Britain's favourite dog breed, and suggest Labradors are genetically at risk of becoming overweight.\n\nRoughly a quarter of British households own a pet dog, and Labrador retrievers remain our most popular canine companion.\n\nHowever, this stereotypically \"greedy\" breed often suffers size-related health problems.\n\n\"Obesity is a serious issue for our dog population,\" says Dr Eleanor Raffan from the Wellcome Trust-MRC Institute of Metabolic Science.\n\n\"It has the potential to have a massive impact on pet welfare.\"\n\nIn research supported by the Dogs Trust, Dr Raffan and her colleagues have analysed DNA from the saliva of Labradors across the UK. They found that particularly greedy individuals possess a gene mutation responsible for increasing their appetite.\n\n\"We found around a quarter of pet Labradors have at least one copy of this mutation in the gene,\" Dr Raffan explains. Their increased appetite manifests itself as a \"food obsession\", familiar to dog-owners as begging or scavenging for food.\n\nIn the past, the onus has been on owners to restrict the diet of their pets to prevent excessive weight gain.\n\nBut Dr Raffan's research suggests the propensity for large appetites, and hence potential obesity, is hardwired into some individuals.\n\n\"We hope to shift the paradigm away from owner-blaming\" says Dr Raffan. \"It's a bit more nuanced than just owners needing to be careful.\"\n\nDr Raffan cautions against any attempt to breed this \"greedy mutation\" out of Labrador lines. While it might predispose the dogs to obesity, a strong focus on food may also explain why Labradors are so easy to train and are such loyal human companions.\n\n\"If we try to get rid of the mutation, we might find we change the personality of the breed, and that would be a real shame,\" she explains.\n\nYet their results raise an ethical conundrum. Owners and veterinary surgeons are responsible for providing five core so-called freedoms to animals in their care, including freedom from pain and disease, and freedom from hunger.\n\nObesity is a disease, and negatively impacts upon canine quality of life. \"But equally, being hungry is a welfare issue,\" says Dr Raffan. \"And these dogs are genetically hungry.\"\n\nDr Raffan hopes future research will improve the satiety of their diets, allowing a feeling of \"fullness\" without the potential for excessive weight gain.\n\nBeing overweight undoubtedly reduces a dog's quality of life, and can also affect their ability to cope with arthritis and other underlying joint disorders.\n\nAt the University of Liverpool, scientists are using state-of-the-art imaging technology to study diseases affecting the knee joints of Labradors.\n\nDamage to the canine cruciate ligament, similar to the injuries commonly suffered by professional human athletes, is the most common orthopaedic problem seen in veterinary practices. Injury to the knee ligaments is also more common in heavier dog breeds\n\n\"We're trying to understand how the shape of the Labrador body and the way they walk might contribute to knee problems,\" says Prof Eithne Comerford, a specialist in musculoskeletal biology.\n\nUsing high-speed x-ray cameras, the researchers film their canine patients walking through the lab, and watch their knee bones slide and twist in real-time.\n\nThe team hopes to understand how walking contributes to the risk of ligament injury and rupture in Labradors, with the ultimate goal of reducing lameness and suffering within the breed.\n\n\"This data will also help veterinary surgeons and engineers design better treatments for ligament damage in Labradors, like customised knee implants,\" explains biomechanist Dr Karl Bates from the University of Liverpool.\n\nBoth research groups rely heavily on the good will of Labrador owners, both for collecting samples and entering their pets into experimental trials.\n\nIn addition to tackling diagnosed health issues, researchers hope to change the public's perception of what \"desirable\" traits should characterise our favourite breeds.\n\n\"There is a real danger when we breed dogs to be cuddlier and cuter,\" warns Dr Raffan. \"I think people have seen so many overweight Labradors, they start to assume it's normal\".\n\nDr Charlotte Brassey is a BBSRC Future Leader Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University, and British Science Association Media Fellow 2017. Twitter: @cbrassey\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Flags of all varieties were seen at the Royal Albert Hall\n\nThe 2017 Proms season has ended with a rallying cry for the future of classical music.\n\n\"For many decades we have heard about the imminent demise of classical music,\" said conductor Sakari Oramo.\n\n\"But look,\" he said, surveying the Royal Albert Hall, \"at this.\"\n\n\"Classical music is going to be around for a very long time,\" he added, praising Proms co-founder Sir Henry Wood, \"whose vision of access to music for everyone continues to inspire us.\"\n\nAs is tradition, the audience set off party poppers, honked hooters, danced and wept melodramatically during Sir Henry's medley of British sea songs.\n\nProm-goers also waved the traditional Union flags - but that act has become politicised over the last two years.\n\nFollowing 2016's referendum, anti-Brexit campaigners have distributed EU flags to the audience as they arrive.\n\nA spokesman for EU Flags Proms Team told The Telegraph: \"During the Age of Enlightenment, Mozart, Handel and Bach all lived and worked for part of their lives in London.\n\n\"Presumably under the Brexit dark ages, they would not be welcome.\"\n\nLeave campaigners, including Nigel Farage, criticised the move and called for a counter-campaign.\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 EU emblem was certainly more prominent this year than last - with one Prommer wearing a blue suit decorated with yellow stars.\n\nBut there were dozens of nations represented, with flags from Finland, Bulgaria, Wales and St Kitts and Nevis all on display.\n\nAnd the flag that received most reaction on social media was part of the BBC Symphony Chorus - where a Sikh tenor wore a red, white and blue turban.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The 2017 Proms in just four minutes\n\nSir Henry established the Proms in 1895, in conjunction with theatre impresario Robert Newman and Dr George Cathcart, a Harley Street throat specialist who put up the money for the first season in 1895.\n\nInitially the sole conductor and musical director, he presided over more than 5,000 promenade concerts, and premiered works by Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky and Mahler, amongst others.\n\nIn an interview from 1941, broadcast on Radio 3 during Saturday's Last Night celebrations, he echoed the sentiments expressed by Oramo.\n\n\"They said there wasn't the public for great music 47 years ago. The critics wagged their heads.\n\n\"But Robert Newman said we'd make a public and we did. It was a bold venture in 1895 [but] it worked.\"\n\nSir Henry Wood conducting one of his 5,000 Proms concerts\n\nThis year's Proms season - the 123rd - has seen 80 orchestras and ensembles performing more than 400 pieces of music, including 30 premieres, over eight weeks.\n\nSaturday's Last Night wrapped up the season in traditional good spirits, with Swedish soprano Nina Stemme dressing up as a Valkyrie to deliver Rule Britannia.\n\nThe concert opened with a premiere of Flounce, a spritely new work by Finnish composer Lotta Wennakoski, whose staccato strings and sweeping crescendos resembled one of Bernard Hermann's soundtracks for Alfred Hitchcock.\n\nStemme later brought the audience to tears with a sublime performance of the Prelude and Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.\n\nAcross the UK, fans joined in the fun with Proms in the Park concerts in Enniskillen, Swansea, Glasgow and London's Hyde Park.\n\nMica Paris braved the Welsh rain to deliver an impassioned tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, while the London audience were treated to Bryn Terfel lugging around milk churns as he performed If I Were a Rich Man from Fiddler on the Roof.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, Dame Evelyn Glennie delivered an eye-wateringly brisk performance of Flight of the Bumblebee; while Hyde Park was headlined by Kinks legend Sir Ray Davies.\n\n\"I don't know anywhere else in the world where you have something like this,\" marvelled Nina Stemme ahead of her performance.\n\n\"I think we should do more concerts with this kind of participation, in various forms, from the audience.\"\n\nThe 2017 Proms welcomed nearly 300,000 concert-goers through the doors of the Royal Albert Hall, with one in five purchasing standing tickets which are sold on the day for £6.\n\nMore than 35,500 tickets were bought by people attending the Proms for the first time and 10,000 under-18s attended concerts across the season.\n\nThe BBC Proms will return on 13 July, 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.", "Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered the tomb of a royal goldsmith containing the mummies of a woman and her two children, authorities said.\n\nThe tomb, dating back to the New Kingdom (16th to 11th Centuries BC), was found near the Nile city of Luxor, 400 miles (700km) south of Cairo.\n\nAmong the items discovered inside was a statue of the goldsmith Amenemhat, sitting beside his wife.\n\nIt is unclear whether the three mummies discovered are connected to Amenemhat.\n\nThe mummies were found down a burial shaft leading off the main chamber, Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities said.\n\nThe tomb was found in the Draa Abul Naga necropolis, which was used for officials\n\nAccording to the archaeologists, the mother died aged about 50, with tests revealing she had a bacterial bone disease. Her two sons were in their 20s and 30s and their bodies said to have been preserved in good condition.\n\nAuthorities believe the tomb of Amenemhat, who was goldsmith for the god Amun, the period's most powerful deity, could lead them to further discoveries in the Draa Abul Naga necropolis, an area famed for its temples and burial grounds.\n\nMinister of Antiquities Khaled al-Anani said: \"We found many objects of the funerary equipment inside and outside the tomb. We found mummies, coffins, funerary combs, funerary masks, some jewellery, and statue.\n\n\"The work did not finish yet.\"\n\nThe bodies of the male mummies are said to be in good condition\n\nMr Anani said archaeologists had read four new names.\n\n\"What about those four new names? How about their tombs? Their tombs are not discovered yet. But I believe they are owners of the tomb,\" he said.\n\n\"I believe, inshallah, for the coming season, we are going to do our excavations. We are going to do our excavations in this area. So I believe we can find one, or two or maybe four if we are going to be very lucky, four of them in this area.\"\n\nAmenemhat's son is depicted as sitting between him and his wife\n\nThe discovery is the second big find for archaeologists in the area this year", "About 400 survivors of Hurricane Irma have arrived in France and the Netherlands aboard military planes, AFP reports.\n\nSome 278 survivors landed in Paris, while another 100 flew into Eindhoven which is in the south of the Netherlands, the news agency says.\n\nEarlier, French officials said six out of 10 homes on St Martin, an island shared between France and the Netherlands, were now uninhabitable.\n\nThey said nine people had died and seven were missing in the French territories, while four are known to have died in Dutch Sint Maarten.", "The NHS has released figures revealing that 457 people died in England last year while waiting for an organ transplant.\n\nDoctors' union the British Medical Association (BMA) and politicians alike have called for an opt-out system to be adopted in England, where people's consent to donate their organs after their death is presumed unless they have explicitly said otherwise.\n\nThis system is currently in force in Wales and in a number of other countries throughout Europe.\n\nIn a recent Parliamentary debate on organ donation, Labour MP Dan Jarvis said: \"England must now move to an opt-out system. The evidence is clear - hundreds of people a year are paying a price of us not doing so.\"\n\nBut there is a lack of evidence to support this claim.\n\nIn Wales, where an opt-out system was introduced in December 2015, there has actually been a small dip in the number of deceased donors, from 64 in 2015-16 to 61 in 2016-17. This resulted in a drop in organ transplants from 214 to 187 respectively.\n\nThis is not to say the opt-out scheme is having a negative effect - some fluctuation is to be expected - but so far, despite the claims, we don't have any evidence that it is having a positive effect.\n\nThe BMA says it believes that over time such a scheme would lead to an increase in organ donation.\n\nThe Welsh government is in the process of evaluating the scheme and plans to publish a report by the end of this year.\n\nJemima Layzell died of a brain aneurysm in 2012 and her organ donations have helped eight people including five children\n\nOne concern raised by Dr Margaret McCartney, a GP, in a paper for the British Medical Journal is that the Wales model of organ donation creates a group of non-donors who did not exist before.\n\nIn the English system there are two groups of people: those who have opted in and registered their wish to be a donor, and those who have done nothing whose families will be asked to decide.\n\nIn Wales there are now effectively three groups of people: those who have opted in and so registered their wish to be a donor; those who have done nothing for whom it is assumed they are happy to donate their organs, but it is still ultimately for their family to decide; and a third group who have opted out and so expressly registered their wish not to be a donor.\n\nAs it currently stands, 6% of the Welsh population has opted out of organ donation. This is a group of people who in an opt-in system were still potential donors, depending on their families' wishes - they may not have ended up donating organs, but we just don't know.\n\nThere is correlation between countries having opt-out schemes and having a higher number of organ donors.\n\nBut the countries which have the most donors per head combined the introduction of their opt-out schemes with other changes, like better infrastructure, more funding for transplant programmes and more staff working to identify and build relationships with potential donors before their death.\n\nSpain is often touted as an opt-out scheme success story.\n\nSo-called \"presumed consent\" legislation was passed in 1979 but donor rates only began to go up 10 years later when a new national transplant organisation was founded which co-ordinates the whole donation and transplantation process.\n\nThe legislation is also not strictly enforced since families are always consulted and have the final say.\n\nHowever, opt-out schemes don't always translate to increased organ donor rates. In Sweden, for example, such a scheme has been in force since 1996 and it remains one of the lowest-ranked countries for organ donation in Europe. Luxembourg and Bulgaria also have opt-out systems and low rates of organ donation.\n\nIn France and Brazil, variations on a \"presumed consent\" system actually led to a decline in the rate of organ donation.\n\nAnother difficulty in assessing whether opt-in or opt-out schemes are driving different countries' donation rates is that these schemes take different forms across the globe.\n\nIn both Spain and Wales, families of potential organ donors are always given the chance to refuse. But this is not universal - Austria and Singapore both have \"hard opt-out\" systems where those who have not opted out are presumed to have consented to organ donation regardless of their families' wishes.\n\nAnd there are other differences, for example in Israel a priority incentive scheme means those who have agreed to donate their own or a deceased family member's organs are given priority on transplant lists should they themselves need an organ in the future.\n\nIn \"hard opt-out\" systems there were increases in the organ donor rate of up to 25%.", "There was a time, as recently as the start of July, when many in cycling wondered whether Chris Froome might not be what he was: not a single win all year, fewer days racing going in to the Tour de France than ever before, his rivals, many younger and in punchier form, lining up on his wheel.\n\nThree months on, having bagged his fourth Tour and become the first Briton in history to win the Vuelta a Espana, they have been proved right. Froome is not the rider he was. He is a superior one.\n\nWhen sporting success comes as frequently and in such dominant fashion as this it can be easy to assume it also came easily. A yellow jersey one month, a red the next, towed up the road by a line of Sky team-mates in white or black.\n• None Listen: An absolutely savage way to finish - Froome\n\nEven for a remarkable rider like Froome this double is an exceptional achievement. Only two Frenchmen, Jacques Anquetil in 1963 and Bernard Hinault 15 years later, have pulled it off before.\n\nHe has done it in a style all of his own. Eddy Merckx, arguably the greatest cyclist of them all, was nicknamed The Cannibal for his insatiable hunger for wins, chewing up his rivals, ravenous whether the race was Grand Tour or little spin.\n\nFroome, the serial winner - polite and friendly off his bike, as aggressive as an accountant - is transformed in the racing frenzy into a cold-eyed killer of others' ambitions, taking them out one by one, never with a single blow but the slow accumulation of pressure until they can take no more.\n\nAnquetil loved the solo attack. Hinault stamped his mood and judgement all over the peloton. Merckx would take them anywhere he could - rampaging up mountains, tearing through time-trials, sprinting and always fighting, fighting.\n\nFroome does it by stealth. A few seconds here, a few more there. A late push up a steep summit finish, squeezing out a little more on a solo ride against the clock.\n\nIt is not spectacular but it is brutal, a cruel constriction of his rivals, the inexorable application of a superior strength.\n\nBy the end of the Tour de France the other principal contenders for the general classification - Fabio Aru, Rigoberto Uran, Romain Bardet - were reduced to scrapping among each other for distant second. In this Vuelta it has been the same. His rivals start the race thinking what a nice chap Froome is and finish it having nightmares about him.\n\nOn Saturday, on arguably the most brutal climb in cycling, in conditions so grim that northern Spain in early September felt more like the north of Scotland in mid-November, he gave one final demonstration of all that has brought him so far.\n\nAnquetil and Hinault never had to go up a mountain like this. The Alto de l'Angliru was a cattle track until the start of this century. Even now the tarmac hangs on to the mountain for dear life.\n\nIt is not the height. There are bigger climbs than its 1,573 metres. At 12.5km it is long but not endless. Its average gradient of 10% appears spiteful but not exceptional.\n\nIt is the ramps that break men - sections at 15% and 17%, the sort of thing a club cyclist struggles to keep moving on, then inhumane segments of almost 24%, less a route to the summit than a wet grey wall.\n\nRiding up 15% makes your heart feel like it is jumping out of your chest; 24% makes you want to pick your bike up and throw it back down the cruel slopes.\n\nTo drive up it in Saturday's black cloud and thundering rain was nightmarish - a relentless steepness, brutal ramped hairpins, the smell of burning clutch acid in the nostrils.\n\nCycling up it appeared to make no sense. \"What's the point of riding up a mountain that it would be quicker to go up by foot?\" fumed the Italian Marzio Bruseghin after being pummelled by it nine years ago.\n\nA vindictive mountain, so cold even watching that you wore all the clothes you had in your suitcase simultaneously, transformed by Froome into the peak of the British sporting summer.\n\nIt was Anquetil's burden that he was not loved as much as Raymond Poulidor, the eternal second place to his first. A greater tranche of the French public found it easier to empathise with Poulidor's obvious exertions and the limited reward they brought.\n\nFroome too has struggled to win over his own sporting public in the same way as Bradley Wiggins, the first Briton to win the Tour. By rights, the past nine weeks should correct that curious imbalance.\n\nFroome has been backed once again this summer by the dominant team in the peloton. Wout Poels, Mikel Nieve and Gianni Moscon have provided the same peerless support for him in August and September as Mikel Landa, Sergio Henao and Michal Kwiatkowski did in July.\n\nHe has also triumphed in a more competitive landscape. Anquetil had 12 other teams to contend with at the 1963 Tour and eight at the Vuelta. Hinault came up against 10 others in France and nine at the Vuelta. Froome has had to compete with 21 squads of nine riders at both the Tour and Vuelta.\n\nBoth Anquetil and Hinault won their own doubles when the Vuelta was held in April. Marshalling finite reserves of energy across spring and then mid-summer is arguably marginally easier than attempting to do the same from mid-summer to late summer. There were only 26 days between the Tour ending in Paris this year and the Vuelta beginning in Nimes.\n\nIt is not just the physical exertion, but also the mental. Across his two Grand Tours Froome has raced for more than 4,200 miles, across 42 stages, through six countries, in blazing heat and pouring rain, all of it with opponents waiting to pounce on the slightest lapse of concentration.\n\nHe was in the leader's jersey for most of that, with news conferences to do every day, meaning he often leaves a finish more than an hour after his team-mates, eating later, resting less, the expectation going ahead of him and the pressure waiting for him on every new morning's start line.\n\nNo blow-outs after Paris, no allowing himself a week of cold lager or chips or even steak after three weeks of Gallic torment.\n\nAnquetil used to take a glass of red wine with his main course during races, let alone the dessert and post-prandial cigar outside his competition schedule. Froome has been on steamed fish and wilted greens and a rumbling tummy for day after sapping day.\n\nAfter more than 160 hours of racing this summer his final combined margin of victory will be just over three minutes.\n\nIt sounds like a small divide between him and rest. Do not be fooled.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Myanmar's Rohingya have been described by the UN as \"the most friendless people in the world, as Justin Rowlatt reports\n\nRohingya Muslim insurgents in Myanmar have declared a one-month unilateral ceasefire to ease the humanitarian crisis in northern Rakhine state.\n\nThe Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (Arsa) said the truce would start on Sunday, urging Mynamar's army to lay down weapons as well.\n\nArsa attacks on police on 25 August led to a ferocious military response.\n\nAbout 290,000 Rohingya are said to have fled Rakhine and sought shelter over the border in Bangladesh since then.\n\nThe UN says that aid groups urgently need $77m (£58m) to help Rohingya who have fled Myanmar.\n\nThere is a desperate need for food, water and health services for new arrivals in Cox's Bazaar, the UN added.\n\nRohingya residents - a stateless, mostly Muslim minority in Buddhist-majority Myanmar - say the military and Rakhine Buddhists are waging a brutal campaign against them, burning their villages.\n\nMyanmar rejects this, saying its military is fighting against Rohingya \"terrorists\".\n\nArsa announced its ceasefire in a statement on Saturday.\n\nIt also asked humanitarian organisations to resume their work.\n\nMyanmar so far has made no public comments on the insurgents' initiative.\n\nRohingya accuse the military of burning their villages - but Myanmar says its soldiers are fighting against \"terrorists\"\n\nAid agencies in Cox's Bazaar say they are overwhelmed by the numbers fleeing, while reporters at the scene have described seeing thousands of Rohingya waiting at roadsides, begging and chasing food trucks.\n\nAn AP reporter saw one man collapsing from hunger while queuing at a food distribution point.\n\nThe UN Resident Co-ordinator in Bangladesh, Robert Watkins, said: \"There is now an urgent need for 60,000 new shelters, as well as food, clean water and health services, including specialist mental health services and support for survivors of sexual violence.\"\n\nThose who have fled Rakhine describe village burnings, beatings and killings at the hands of the security forces and Buddhist youths.\n\nThe Myanmar government says it is the Rohingya militants and the Muslim villagers themselves who are burning their own homes and attacking non-Muslims - many of whom have also fled the violence.\n\nBut a BBC reporter in Rakhine state on Thursday saw a Muslim village being burned, apparently by a group of Rakhine Buddhists, contradicting the official version of events.\n\nAlso on Saturday, rights group Amnesty International accused Myanmar's military of planting landmines at the border with Bangladesh.\n\nBangladeshi border guards and villagers have told the BBC that they witnessed more than 100 Myanmar soldiers walking by and apparently planting landmines at the border.\n\nBangladeshi officials have said they believe Myanmar government forces are planting the landmines to stop the Rohingya returning to their villages.\n\nA Myanmar military source said no landmines had been planted recently, while a government spokesman told Reuters more information was needed.\n\nThe Rohingya plight is sparking concern and protests in many nations, and Myanmar's de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been criticised for failing to protect them.\n\nVarious world leaders have urged Ms Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace laureate who spent years under house arrest for her pro-democracy activism, to speak out on behalf of the Rohingya.", "A pedestrian has died after she was struck by a cyclist during this year's RideLondon event.\n\nThe 67-year-old suffered serious head injuries when she was struck on New King's Road at the junction of Guion Road in Parsons Green.\n\nFollowing the collision on 30 July, she was taken to a west London hospital. She died on Thursday.\n\nA 60-year-old cyclist, who was also injured, was taken to hospital with minor injuries.\n\nThe Met has issued an appeal for anyone with information to contact them.\n\nRiders completed either a 46 or 100-mile cycle route through Surrey and London\n\nDet Sgt Alastair Middleton, from the Met's serious collision investigation unit, said: \"In light of the sad news that the pedestrian in this collision has passed away, it is important that we understand more about the circumstances surrounding the collision from either members of the public or those working as part of the event.\n\n\"Please call into the incident room if you have information, footage or images that could benefit our investigation.\"\n\nThe pedestrian is the second person to have died following the event.\n\nMaris Ozols, a 67-year-old father-of-four, died after he suffered a cardiac arrest about 13 miles into the event.\n\nRideLondon saw 28,032 riders complete either a 46 or 100-mile cycle ride through Surrey and London on 30 July.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Thousands of protesters in favour of the UK staying in the European Union have marched in Westminster.\n\nThe People's March for Europe took a route through central London before a rally in Parliament Square.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable said there were a growing number of people worried about Brexit's impact.\n\nThe march came ahead of MPs voting on Monday on a bill that will overturn the act that took the UK into the EU and end the supremacy of EU law in the UK.\n\nRemainers - many dressed in blue and yellow outfits and draped in EU flags - amassed outside Parliament on Saturday afternoon.\n\nMany carried \"Exit from Brexit\" placards or wore \"Remoaner Till I Die\" t-shirts.\n\nFormer Liberal Democrat cabinet minister Sir Ed Davey told marchers he had \"gone from anger to distress, from fury to despair\".\n\nHe added: \"Since the Brexit negotiations begun there's a third emotion I've been feeling - embarrassment.\n\n\"Embarrassment at our country's leaders. Embarrassment for Great Britain.\"\n\nTory peer Baroness Patience Wheatcroft told demonstrators that Remainers needed to keep campaigning to stay in the EU.\n\nShe said: \"We have to stop Brexit. Since we joined the EU we've had an unprecedented period of peace and prosperity. It must be right to try and maintain that.\n\n\"It's not undemocratic to try to persuade the electorate to think again about Brexit. That's democracy at work.\"\n\nOrganisers estimated there were between 10,000 and 15,000 people at the start of the march, adding that numbers rose to about 50,000 at its height as people joined along the way.\n\nThe police did not provide any estimates and the BBC is unable to verify these figures.\n\nOne marcher, wearing a blue beret emblazoned with yellow stars, told the BBC she had joined the rally because she felt \"totally violated by the idea of Brexiting\".\n\n\"I've lived, worked and loved in Europe for years. My whole existence has been a European existence,\" she said.\n\n\"My husband has a business in Europe. We worked for years to build this up. What's going to happen to that?\"\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable was at the march\n\nOne man, holding a home-made placard, said. \"I don't believe people really knew what they were voting for.\n\n\"We keep being told those who voted to Remain have largely changed their minds but I don't believe that at all.\"\n\nSir Vince told the BBC growing numbers of people wanted the UK to keep its links with the European Union and this was the beginning of a \"loud and powerful\" movement.\n\n\"They (the government) are not listening - they've got tin ear,\" he said.\n\n\"They're making a complete mess of these negotiations - totally disunited, dysfunctional, a lack of preparation.\n\n\"Even if you believe in Brexit you must be in despair at the way they're approaching these negotiations.\"", "Wind speeds reached up to 62mph after an area of low pressure caused strong gusts across the UK on Monday.\n\nThe Met Office had issued a yellow \"be aware\" weather warning for wind in parts of Wales and south-west England, which has since been lifted.\n\nFresh yellow warnings for rain and wind are now in place for some areas from Tuesday evening into Wednesday morning.\n\nThe Met Office said \"longer journey times by road, rail and air are likely\".\n\nHeavy rain is expected on Tuesday across Northern Ireland and southern Scotland, which may cause flooding.\n\nStrong winds with gusts of 55-65mph are also looking \"increasingly likely\" on Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, said the Met Office.\n\nThey are expected to affect the north of England, the Midlands, Yorkshire and Humber as well as south-west Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.\n\nA yellow warning is described as a sign that people should \"plan ahead\" for severe weather and pay attention to Met Office statements.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Calman said her wife would be at the Strictly studio to see her dance\n\nSusan Calman has strongly defended her decision as an openly gay woman to dance with a male professional dancer on Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nThe Scottish comedian and writer has faced criticism on social media for taking part in the show - because it does not have same-sex dancing couples.\n\nCalman said the criticism had offended her, adding: \"No one can say I haven't stood up for my community.\"\n\nIt is understood show bosses have not ruled out same-sex couples in future.\n\nCalman is one of 15 celebrities taking to the dance floor on the BBC One contest.\n\nThe stars will find out who their professional partners are in the launch show, broadcast on Saturday night.\n\nThe 42-year-old said she was \"absolutely not disappointed\" that she would not be paired with a woman and that it was her decision to dance with a man.\n\nShe said: \"I think politically, there's nothing more powerful than having an openly gay woman on the biggest show on television, whose wife's on the front row, doing what she wants to do.\"\n\nCalman has also written a book about depression, called Cheer Up Love\n\nShe added: \"For the gay community to criticise me and try to get me what they want to do is, I think, as difficult as suggesting the straight community are trying to.\n\n\"No one is holding me hostage in this room, making me wear a dress and dance with a man. I want to learn how to dance.\"\n\nCalman suggested she was receiving more flack as a gay woman than gay male contestants had done on the dance show - including The Reverend Richard Coles, a fellow member of the \"class of 2017\".\n\n\"I have protested, I have picketed, I have fought, I have been spat on, I have been punched - and I want to dance,\" she said.\n\n\"There will be a time for same-sex dancing. I think what annoyed me slightly is that I seem to be getting it in the neck.\n\n\"Will Young didn't get it, Judge Rinder didn't get it, Richard Coles isn't getting it. It seems to me as a woman, he's not getting it the same way I am.\n\n\"And for me to be getting it is, I think, unfair. I seem to be getting the brunt of the LGBT community.\"\n\nRichard Coles is the first vicar to take part in the show\n\nColes, meanwhile, said he would be more than happy to dance with a male partner.\n\nHe said: \"We've had a discussion about it actually, and I don't know. I mean, it's in no sense that anyone resists the idea in principle, it's just a question of doing it.\n\n\"I think it's a good year to do it actually, with the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Decriminalisation Act.\"\n\nCalman, who presents daytime quiz The Boss and children's programme Top Class, said the issue had become \"a bigger deal than it should have\".\n\n\"To put the weight of the LGBT community on me - and changing platforms and changing perceptions - is unfair, upsetting and is ignoring the impact I will have in the biggest show on television.\n\n\"A lot of people are very supportive of my decision, but it's making this about my sexuality instead of a woman wanting to learn how to dance.\n\n\"The idea that people are depressed by it or upset by it, I think offends me because I've done... a lot for that community.\"\n\nThe 15 contenders for the Strictly glitterball trophy\n\nCalman, who regularly appears on TV and radio panel shows, has also spoken about the issue on social media.\n\nShe received support from fans with one saying, tongue in cheek: \"You're not a straight man, so must ALWAYS represent your sex/sexual orientation/short stature!\"\n\nA Strictly Come Dancing spokeswoman said: \"Strictly has chosen the traditional format of mixed-sex couples and at the moment we have no plans to introduce same-sex couples in the competition.\"\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "They were convicted of crimes they did not commit and are permanently changed by spending years in prison.\n\nThey face a range of serious psychiatric problems and can never return to the lives they had before.\n\nFour exonerated prisoners - Robert Brown, Paddy Hill, Sunny Jacobs and Peter Pringle - told the BBC documentary Fallout their false convictions continued to blight their lives many years later.\n\nRobert Brown celebrates on his release from prison but he now says it was a hollow victory\n\nAt the age of 19, Glasgow-born Robert Brown was found guilty of a murder he didn't commit.\n\nHe was arrested in Manchester in 1977 and charged with killing 51-year-old Annie Walsh.\n\nBrown had first travelled to the city to watch Manchester United. He had met a girl and ended up staying.\n\nHe says he was trying to build a new life for himself after growing up in a children's home in Renfrewshire.\n\n\"The police took that opportunity away from me to build a new life with my girlfriend, who I cared for and loved,\" he says.\n\n\"It affected her as well. She died of alcohol poisoning at 35 years of age.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Robert Brown hasn’t slept in a bed in six months as he needs cell-like conditions to sleep.\n\nBrown's arrest came early one morning four months after the murder.\n\n\"I was beaten up in the police station for two days and I got blamed for the murder of Annie Walsh,\" he says.\n\nBrown signed a confession but always claimed it was because he was bullied into it by the police.\n\nA decade before his release he could have applied for parole but refused because it would have meant abandoning his claims of innocence.\n\nHe says: \"My mother begged me to take parole. That was never going to happen. If I had taken parole I was a dead man.\n\n\"If I had took parole I would have been selling my soul to the devil. I would never have been free.\"\n\nIn 2002, the Court of Appeal heard of a \"conspiracy of corruption\" within Greater Manchester Police and that one of the police officers central to the case, former Detective Chief Inspector Jack Butler, was \"deeply corrupt\".\n\nBrown's conviction was considered unsafe and he was released after 25 years behind bars.\n\nHe says: \"To ram it down the back of their throats, the establishment, is an amazing feeling but it a hollow, empty victory - and then the real horror story begins.\"\n\nHe remembers raising his hands aloft outside the court on his release.\n\n\"I thought what am I doing this for because it was not a victory.\"\n\nBrown says: \"The amount of time that I served would, in all honesty, damage anybody.\n\n\"The deprivation, the degradation, that would damage anybody.\"\n\nFifteen years after his release he lives in a one room \"prison cell\" and struggles to sleep.\n\n\"At night time I just walk up and down, your adrenaline is off the Richter scale, your heartbeat is off the Richter scale, it is a constant kaleidoscope of thoughts about what they did to me.\n\n\"I go through that process until my head is that tired of thinking about it I just conk out for a couple of hours.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Paddy Hill’s reaction to being released from prison after 16 years.\n\nOn the day, Robert Brown was released from prison, there was another man standing beside him who had been through the same ordeal.\n\nPaddy Hill was one of the Birmingham Six, sentenced to life for the IRA bombings in 1974 and released as an innocent man after 16 years.\n\nHis psychiatrist describes him as one of the most mentally scarred cases he has ever come across.\n\nIt was the organisation that Hill founded after his release - the Miscarriage of Justice Organisation or MOJO - whose campaign was instrumental in Brown winning his freedom.\n\nHill says: \"People think that when we got out it was the old proverbial fairytale ending, we get plenty of money and head off into the sunset and live happily ever after. It's a load of nonsense.\"\n\nThe 72-year-old grew up in the Ardoyne area of Belfast but moved to Birmingham with his family in 1960, at the age of 16.\n\nHe says: \"I met a girl there and fell in love and got married. Birmingham was like my second home.\"\n\nFiremen survey the damage outside the Birmingham pub, 'Tavern in the Town', after an IRA bomb blast\n\nOn the night of bombings at the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town pubs in Birmingham, in which 21 people died, Hill was travelling back to Belfast with a group of friends.\n\n\"We were getting the boat back from Heysham back to Belfast,\" he says.\n\nThe wrecked interior of the Mulberry Bush public house after the explosion of a bomb planted by the IRA\n\nHill says he was having a pint on the boat when a \"uniform cop with a big Alsatian came up to me and said port security wanted to talk to me\".\n\nAt first the interrogation followed procedure but when police from the West Midlands arrived, Hill says, he was battered and tortured.\n\n\"It changed my whole life round,\" he says.\n\n\"I never thought I would go to jail.\"\n\nPaddy Hill speaking after his release from prison in 1991\n\n\"If you had told me the day I got out that I would not be able to handle the outside world I would have laughed in your face,\" Hill says.\n\n\"I was a hell of a lot happier in prison than I was when I came out.\"\n\nHill says he \"hit he wall\" a few months after being released and began to burst into tears without warning.\n\nIt has been a quarter of a century since Hill was released but the effects of his wrongful conviction remain.\n\nHe says: \"I have a bad sleeping pattern. I wake up and the sweat and the adrenaline is pumping through you at 100 mph and every one of your nerves is like they are being stretched.\"\n\nHe says his anger levels at his own situation have come down over the years but he now gets angry for other people when he hears their stories.\n\n\"There are more innocent people in prison today than there was in my day, a hell of a lot more,\" Hill says.\n\n\"The reason they don't help us is clear to me, it would be an admission of guilt.\"\n\nPeter Pringle was one of the last men to be sentenced to death in Ireland, convicted of murdering two Gardai in 1980. He served 15 years.\n\nHe was born and raised on the south side of Dublin and left school early after \"a bit of bother\" with a Christian brother.\n\nPeter, who is now 78, says he was \"very angry\" about the poverty in Dublin in the 1950s and joined Sinn Fein when he was 16.\n\nHe became known to police when he was involved with the IRA in his youth but after spending two years in an internment camp in his early 20s he moved to the west coast and became a fisherman.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Peter Pringle grieved for the life he should have had before it was stolen from him.\n\nAt the age of 41, with a serious drink problem, he was arrested in Galway and accused of armed robbery and the murder of a policeman acting in the course of duties.\n\n\"I had absolutely nothing to do with it,\" Pringle says.\n\nThe bank robbery was in Co Roscommon, 80km (50 miles) from where he was staying.\n\n\"I am an alcoholic and at that time had a serious drink problem and on that date I was on a 12-day session,\" he says.\n\n\"It was brought to my attention that the police were looking for me.\n\n\"I detoxed in the police station while being battered and interrogated. It was an horrendous time. I knew I had nothing to do with it. I was not even in the bloody county.\"\n\nHe was sentenced to death and put in a death cell.\n\nTwo weeks before his execution date in June 1981, he was told his sentence had been commuted to 40 years in jail.\n\nHe studied law and fought his case, eventually winning release in 1995.\n\nPeter actually got help from a clinical psychiatrist on his release because it was organised by his human rights lawyer Greg O'Neill.\n\n\"He explained to me about grief and how I needed to grieve for the life I might have had if I had not of been sent to prison,\" Pringle says.\n\nHe says the dreadful experience of that grief has helped him cope with his life now.\n\n\"I had a terrible loss, a terrible blackness, just feeling totally lost,\" he says.\n\n\"That terrible time actually benefits me now.\"\n\nPeter Pringle and Sunny Jacobs have been around the world campaigning against the death penalty\n\nAlong with his new partner, Sunny Jacobs (see below), Pringle now uses what happened to him to help other exonerated prisoners.\n\nHe says: \"We provide a place where people who have experienced wrongful imprisonment can be with people who have experienced the same thing.\n\n\"We can listen, they know we are not judging. They know we understand.\"\n\nSunny Jacobs was sentenced to death, along with her then husband, for the murder of two police officers in Florida in 1976 and served 17 years on Death Row.\n\nShe says: \"We have been told the experience of being convicted and locked up for 15/20 years is beyond post-traumatic stress disorder. It is something that does not even have a name.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How would you celebrate your release after being wrongfully incarcerated for 17 years?\n\nJacobs was born in Queens, New York City, and describes herself as a \"quiet kid who liked rescuing injured animals\".\n\nShe had a son when she was 18 which ended her college career and she says she became isolated, concentrating on raising her child.\n\nTen years later, in 1976, she was married to Jesse Tafero and had a second child, who was just 10 months old.\n\nTheir car broke down in Florida and someone Jesse knew offered to give them a lift back to North Carolina.\n\nJacobs and her children were sleeping in the car in the rest area of an Interstate when the police came to check the IDs of drivers.\n\nThe next thing she knew there were shots being fired and the driver, Walter Rhodes, was ordering Sunny and the kids into the police car.\n\nRhodes drove them away but they were stopped at a road block.\n\nTwo police officers were killed in the gunfire and Jesse and Sunny were convicted on the testimony of Rhodes, who negotiated a plea bargain, claiming they had pulled the triggers.\n\nAt her trial Jacobs says there was one juror \"who refused to bullied in going along with the rest of them because he did not feel right about the conviction\".\n\nShe says: \"As a result of not being unanimous they had to sentence me to life in prison but the judge overruled them and sentenced me to death anyway.\"\n\nAt the time she was the only woman in the US with a sentence of death.\n\nJacobs was put in solitary confinement for five years, awaiting execution, but eventually her sentence was commuted to life.\n\nHer husband Jesse was executed in horrific circumstances.\n\nJacobs says: \"The electric chair malfunctioned and instead of dying he caught fire.\n\n\"The people who were there on behalf of the media said that flames shot out of his head and smoke came out of his ears and he struggled against his restraints.\n\n\"It took 13 and a half minutes before he was finally pronounced dead.\n\n\"When our daughter, who was by then 15 years old, heard what happened to her father she tried to kill herself.\"\n\nAfter Jesse's execution, Rhodes confessed he had fired the fatal shots and Jacobs was released 1992, at the age of 45.\n\nShe says the authorities were in such a hurry to get rid of her that there was no-one to collect at the prison.\n\n\"I was standing there with my little box of possessions,\" she says.\n\n\"I had not a penny in my pocket, I had no ID, it was like I had just landed from some strange planet through a portal.\"\n\nShe says she was afraid it was a trick and there might be a marksman on the roof ready to shoot her if she moved away from the prison.\n\nFor Jacobs, being released was a \"big let down\" because she felt estranged from all the people whom she thought of as her home base.\n\nJacobs, who practices yoga and meditation, says she had to stop focusing on the harm done to her and instead concentrate on what was left of her life and \"what could I do?\"\n\n\"That helped me a lot,\" she says.\n\n\"I was able to form a new healthy relationship with each of my children and then my grandchildren.\n\n\"All this time later it is still a daily process.\"\n\nSunny and Peter met in 1998 when Jacobs travelled to Ireland to speak at Amnesty International events.\n\nThey now live together in Ireland and run the Sunny Center, giving exonerated prisoners somewhere to go where they will be listened to and understood.\n\nShe says: \"As a result of us coming together we are able to share with others in ways that we wouldn't be able to individually.\n\n\"So I really think that peace is the way and love is the answer.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Helen Webberley said she listens to 'children's hearts' about when they want treatment\n\nA Monmouthshire GP is being investigated over complaints about her giving gender-change hormones to children as young as 12.\n\nDr Helen Webberley has been restricted from treating transgender patients unsupervised while the General Medical Council (GMC) looks into the case.\n\nThe Abergavenny-based GP said there had been no adverse finding against her.\n\nThe GMC said it would only comment on investigations if and when they reached tribunal stage.\n\nThe investigation was launched after two GPs complained to the GMC about Dr Webberley's private clinic, which specialises in gender issues.\n\nShe told the BBC she had given cross-sex hormone treatment to one 12-year-old and three 15-year-olds, despite NHS guidelines that they be given at about 16 or over.\n\n\"There are many children under 16 who are desperate to start what they would consider their natural puberty earlier than that,\" Dr Webberley told BBC Wales.\n\n\"And, of course, when someone mentions a 12-year-old it is very emotive.\"\n\nDr Webberley said the NHS protocol on hormone treatment starting at about 16 was \"not set on any medical evidence or research\".\n\n\"It's not in line with the centres of excellence in other countries and the standards of transgender care moving forward,\" she added.\n\nShe pointed out there had been \"no decisions or judgements\" made on the claims against her and they were \"simply aspects that need to be explored\".\n\nThe restrictions imposed by the GMC on 7 May mean that all of Dr Webberley's work with transgender patients will have to be supervised until November 2018.\n\nShe is unable to practise until she finds an approved clinical supervisor, which Dr Webberley says she is currently putting in place.\n\nStephanie Davies-Arai, of campaign group Transgender Trends, which raises concerns about gender treatment among children, said she was \"very concerned\" by the move toward \"earlier and earlier\" treatment for \"younger and younger\" children.\n\n\"Teenagers [and children] are not really equipped to make long-term decisions and benefit and risk calculations. We should not be fixing their identity at that age with medication that is irreversible,\" she added.\n\nShe said cross-sex hormone treatment can effectively put patients on the path to sterilisation, alongside other changes, which is a \"huge ethical issue\".\n\n\"These are huge, life-changing effects on children's bodies, on children's lives, and we need to be very, very cautious before presenting this treatment pathway to minors,\" she said.\n\nMs Davies-Arai called for \"much-tighter regulation\" for private GPs in this area.\n\nThe news comes after the Welsh Government announced Wales would get its first transgender clinic last month.\n\nThe Tavistock clinic, in England, which is currently the only centre offering gender identity treatment to young people in England and Wales, has seen a sharp rise in cases in recent years.", "The Sunday Telegraph reports that Theresa May will attempt to win back young voters lost to Jeremy Corbyn in the general election, by looking at cutting interest rates on student loans and \"strong-arming\" universities into lowering tuition fees.\n\nIt predicts that announcements could follow within weeks - at next month's Conservative party conference and in the autumn Budget.\n\nAccording to the paper, the Treasury has grown infuriated that, in its view, some students are being \"ripped off\" by taking courses costing £9,000 a year which offer little in return.\n\nHowever, some senior Tories are said to have told the Telegraph that the party must not \"over-interpret the results of a disastrous campaign\" by adopting \"hardcore Corbynism\".\n\nThe Sunday Times describes Tony Blair's call for tough new rules on immigration - in contrast to the open borders he presided over as prime minister - as an \"explosive\" intervention in the Brexit debate.\n\nIn an article for the paper's website, Mr Blair acknowledges that this is a radical departure from his policies in office. But he argues that \"back then, the economy was strong, the workers needed\" and \"the times were different\" and voters' concerns now \"cannot be ignored\".\n\nIn an editorial, the Sunday Times calls this a \"deathbed repentance\" on migration, and a \"mea culpa\" for the decision of the Labour government to open the door to people from the EU's new eastern European members.\n\nWould Britain have voted for Brexit, it asks, or even held a referendum without the pressures this unleashed? Its conclusion: Tony Blair's conversion has come too late.\n\nThe Observer reports that survivors on Caribbean islands shattered by Hurricane Irma are begging the world for food, water, shelter and rescue as they face down armed looters and the prospect of a fresh onslaught from Hurricane Jose.\n\nThere is also no let up in the criticism of the UK government's response to Hurricane Irma.\n\nThe Sunday Telegraph condemns it as \"appallingly slow\" and a \"dereliction of duty\". As well as the Americans, it says, the French and the Dutch have been far more dynamic.\n\nWriting in the Mail, the former attorney general in Anguilla, Rupert Jones, says the British overseas territory has been devastated - and what's been promised so far is a \"drop in the ocean\".\n\nIf Irma had hit the Falklands or Gibraltar, there would have been a national outcry, he complains.\n\nA British Royal Logistics Corps Mexflote arrives in Anguilla to help with the relief effort\n\nWriting in the Sun on Sunday, the International Development Secretary, Priti Patel, says the critics are \"just wrong\".\n\nShe says the £32 million already pledged will support the humanitarian needs of people left without food, water, shelter and power, while ministers are also looking at how to rebuild islands.\n\nMs Patel adds that a Royal Navy vessel loaded with aid and military support was deployed ahead of the disaster, and that UK forces are working around the clock in the British Virgin Islands.\n\nThe Sunday Express and the Daily Star Sunday both focus on what they call the \"miraculous\" escape of a British family trapped by Irma in their house of the Caribbean island of Tortola.\n\nAt one stage, parents Sasha and Brendan Joyce say they had to lay on top of their two boys, aged four and two, to prevent them being blown away. The bedroom they were in was the only room not destroyed.\n\nThe Sunday Times reports that ministers will signal an end to their seven year public sector pay freeze this week.\n\nIt says police officers are set to get the first rises - either an across-the-board increase of more than 1% or targeted bonuses for those on the front line.\n\nAfter the return of Strictly Come Dancing, the Telegraph suggests that the BBC is set to court controversy with some viewers by considering introducing same-sex dancing partners.\n\nIt quotes the Church of England vicar, Richard Coles, as revealing that discussions have taken place - though the Corporation is said to have ruled it out for the current series.\n\nThe Telegraph speaks of a backlash by LGBT activists against the lesbian comic, Susan Calman, for agreeing to dance with a man.\n\nShe says she's \"getting it in the neck\" only because she's a woman.", "The new position has a salary of up to £37,183\n\nCambridge University has placed an advert seeking to appoint a sexual assault and harassment adviser.\n\nThe new position will sit within the university's counselling service and aims to \"bolster the advice and support available to a student\".\n\nThe National Union of Students has said one in five students across the UK experience some sort of sexual harassment in their first week of term.\n\nThe university told the BBC it aimed to tackle all types of harassment.\n\nThe post involves working with students and running workshops\n\nAccording to the advert, the successful applicant will work with the police, the local sexual assault referral centre and Cambridge Rape Crisis.\n\nIt involves \"individual work with students\" and also \"designing and running workshops for staff\".\n\nA University of Cambridge spokesman said: \"The university is continuously and actively working to improve the prevention, response, support and investigation of all instances of harassment, hate crime and sexual misconduct.\n\n\"This new post has been created to supplement and bolster advice and support available to students through the college tutorial system, and in particular offer a source of specialist support to students.\"\n\nThe sexual consent course also covers legal aspects of consent and general sex education.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kim Jong-un attended a celebration for the country's nuclear scientists and engineers after its latest test\n\nNato's general secretary, Jens Stoltenberg, has said North Korea's nuclear programme \"is a global threat and requires a global response\".\n\n\"That of course also includes Nato,\" he told the BBC's Andrew Marr Show.\n\nBut he refused to say whether an attack on the US overseas territory of Guam would trigger the military alliance's collective defence pact.\n\nArticle 5 of the Nato treaty says that an attack against one member is considered an attack against all.\n\nGuam, an island territory of the US in the Pacific Ocean, is a key military outpost and has been the subject of heated rhetoric from Pyongyang.\n\n\"I will not speculate about whether Article 5 will be applied in such a situation,\" Mr Stoltenberg said.\n\n\"What I will say is that we are now totally focused on how can we contribute to a peaceful solution of the conflict and press North Korea to stop its nuclear missile programmes.\"\n\nHe called on North Korea to stop its development of nuclear weapons, saying it was a blatant violation of UN security resolutions and \"a threat to international peace and stability\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nNato has condemned Pyongyang's tests but, as a military alliance, is not directly involved in the related diplomacy.\n\nThe comments from Mr Stoltenberg come as members of the UN Security Council differ on how to deal with the crisis following North Korea's latest missile test over Japan.\n\nThe US has drafted a resolution to increase sanctions and cut off some of the last remaining sources of income for Pyongyang, as well as imports of oil.\n\nRussia, however, has expressed scepticism about more sanctions, which have had little effect so far.\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\nAppearing separately on the same programme as Mr Stoltenberg, British defence minister Michael Fallon said the US would have a right to ask other members of the United Nations to join any defence of its territory - but that should be avoided.\n\n\"What we have to avoid at all cost is the spilling over in to any kind of military conflict,\" he said.\n\n\"So we're working flat out at the United Nations to get a better resolution there, to enforce the existing sanctions. We are looking at sanctions across the European Union and of course we are trying to persuade China to keep its neighbour in check.\"\n\nAnalysts believe a military conflict with North Korea would be devastating for both Pyongyang and South Korea; and some say that North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is seeking a nuclear deterrent rather than planning for open war.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Tony Blair: \"If you think there is a different and better way... argue for it\"\n\nTony Blair has defended his call for new controls on EU migration as a cabinet minister accused him of a belated \"epiphany\" on the issue.\n\nThe ex-PM said the UK could stay in the EU after all with new curbs in place.\n\nHe claimed this would address people's \"grievances\" without the \"sledgehammer\" of Brexit.\n\nCritics have pointed to his Labour government's decision not to apply transitional controls to eastern European migrants in 2004.\n\nMr Blair's proposals are to \"tighten\" existing free movement rules, including on benefit entitlement, and seek to negotiate an \"emergency brake\" on EU migration in certain sectors.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr show, the former prime minister - one of the most prominent anti-Brexit campaigners - said he accepted last year's Leave vote but that there were ways of controlling EU immigration without leaving.\n\n\"Brexit is a distraction, not a solution, to the problems this country is facing,\" he said.\n\nMr Blair said he believed Brexit would go ahead \"unless it starts to become obvious that the public is having second thoughts\" - and that \"hasn't become obvious yet\".\n\n\"If we put this case to people, maybe they will listen. If they don't - I accept it goes forward,\" he said.\n\nCritics said Tony Blair had been responsible for \"open door\" immigration\n\nUnlike France and Germany, which did not give migrants from the 10 countries which joined the EU in May 2004 full access to their labour market until 2011, the then-Labour government did not insist on any transitional controls.\n\nMr Blair said: \"The situation back then was different.\"\n\nHe told the Marr show the economy had been strong when he left office in 2007 before the financial crash, adding: \"You've got to listen to what people are saying and react to it.\"\n\n\"It's a bit late now, this epiphany\", responded Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon on the Marr show.\n\nSir Michael said \"election after election\" had shown the public wanted \"proper controls\" over immigration.\n\n\"I think it's a pity he didn't think of that when all these new countries were admitted to the European Union on his watch,\" he added.\n\nPro-EU Conservative Ken Clarke told Sky News it was \"hopeless\" to think the UK could stay in the EU, given the \"mood of the country\".\n\nThe government has said free movement will end with the UK's withdrawal from the EU, and a forthcoming immigration bill will set out its plans in detail.\n\nLast week, leaked draft plans suggested firms would have to recruit locally unless they could prove an \"economic need\" to employ EU citizens and ending the right to settle in the UK for most European migrants.\n\nThe report by Mr Blair's Institute for Global Change suggests reforming free movement rules, without \"excessive\" restrictions which would jeopardise the UK's membership of the EU single market.\n\nIt says the \"structure of free movement\" could be kept \"broadly intact\" with rules on access to benefits tightened.\n\nUnder existing rules, citizens of other EU countries can be removed after six months if they have not found a job, have no realistic possibility of finding one, and require support from the welfare system.\n\nMr Blair's report says EU nationals should already have an offer of work when they arrive and says those who did not earn permission to stay would be banned from opening a bank account, renting a home or claiming benefits.\n\nThe report also proposes restricting free healthcare for unemployed migrants and letting universities charge EU nationals higher tuition fees than UK students.\n\nIt says an \"emergency brake\" could be negotiated with the EU, which would allow the UK to impose temporary restrictions in certain sectors when migrant numbers were high.\n\nAn \"emergency brake\" - which would have affected migrants' benefits - was key to the package of EU reforms ex-PM David Cameron tried to use to persuade voters to back staying in the EU last year.\n\nThe co-chairman of the campaign group Leave Means Leave, Richard Tice, said Tony Blair's attempt to deny democracy would be seen for what it was, and ex-UKIP leader Nigel Farage, referring to immigration, said Mr Blair was \"the reason we are in this mess\".\n\nUnite union leader Len McCluskey said Mr Blair was \"as out of touch now as he was in 2004\".\n\nHe told Radio 5 live's Pienaar's Politics that \"greedy bosses\", not migrant workers, were to blame for undercutting wages, saying that unionisation and regulation were the only way to prevent this from happening.\n\nOpening the TUC's annual conference in Brighton, general secretary Frances O'Grady said the government had \"no realistic negotiating strategy\" and was taking the UK towards a \"kamikaze Brexit\".\n• None What happens now that a deal's been done?", "Paul Hollywood said he was dressed as a character from BBC comedy 'Allo 'Allo\n\nGreat British Bake Off star Paul Hollywood has apologised after being pictured wearing a Nazi uniform.\n\nThe Sun on Sunday published pictures of the celebrity baker in a World War Two outfit, including a swastika armband.\n\nThe 51-year-old said the pictures dated from 2003, when he went to a New Year's Eve party as a character from the 1980s WW2-set BBC comedy series 'Allo 'Allo.\n\nIn a statement he said: \"I am absolutely devastated if this caused offence to anyone.\"\n\nOne picture shows Hollywood smiling in a photo in a pub alongside a friend, who is also wearing a Nazi military uniform.\n\nIn another image, they are joined by friends wearing French-style berets.\n\nAs well as the red armband, Hollywood's outfit included an Iron Cross medal and a badge featuring a Nazi eagle.\n\nDuring an episode of the BBC show Who Do You Think You Are? in 2015, Hollywood learned about the experiences of his grandfather Norman Harman during World War 2, when he served as an anti-aircraft gunner.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by The Sun\n\nIn his statement, Hollywood said he had been on his way to a TV comedy-themed party 14 years ago when the pictures were taken.\n\nHe added: \"Everyone who knows me knows I am incredibly proud of the efforts of those, including my own grandfather, who fought against the Nazis during the war.\"\n\nHollywood is currently on TV in the first Channel 4 series of Great British Bake Off, alongside new fellow judge Prue Leith and presenters Sandi Toksvig and Noel Fielding.", "Mo Farah won the elite men's race in just over an hour\n\nUp to 57,000 people took to the streets in the Great North Run, won by Mo Farah for the fourth time in a row.\n\nThe four-times Olympic champion won the elite men's race in one hour and six seconds, with New Zealand's Jake Robertson six seconds behind.\n\nKenya's Mary Keitany won the elite women's with the third fastest time in its history.\n\nCumbrian Simon Lawson took the elite men's wheelchair race with a time of 44 minutes and 22 seconds.\n\nSwitzerland's Manuela Schar set a course record winning the elite women's wheelchair race in 48 minutes and 44 seconds.\n\nThe Red Arrows took their customary turn over the race\n\nIt was Keitany's third Great North Run, which this time she finished in one hour, five minutes and 59 seconds.\n\nKenya's Vivian Cheruiyot came second and fellow countrywoman Caroline Kipkirui came third.\n\nMary Keitany made the third fastest women's time in the run's history\n\nSimon Lawson took the men's elite wheelchair title with five seconds to spare\n\nSpeaking to BBC One, Mo Farah said the race had been \"really tough\".\n\n\"I'm sore everywhere,\" he said.\n\n\"I've never been this sore - I think it's down to a lack of training.\n\n\"With four miles to go, I was hanging on and gritting my teeth.\n\n\"I was thinking if I can just sit on him then, at the end, I can sprint.\"\n\nWhile Farah was lying on the road recovering, Robertson proposed to his girlfriend Magdalyne Masai from Kenya - who had just finished fourth in the women's elite race.\n\nThe proposal on the finish line appeared to have been accepted\n\nCelebrities running in this year's race included television presenter Davina McCall, newsreader Sophie Raworth and X Factor contestant Sam Lavery.\n\nThe 13.1-mile race from Newcastle to South Shields - now in its 37th year - originally had 12,000 runners take part.\n\nOrganisers said the 2016 event had participants from 178 countries.\n\nDavina McCall completed the race in two hours, six minutes and 52 seconds\n\nJulie Robinson from Jesmond in Newcastle, who was cheering on her stepdaughter, said the race was \"wonderful, fantastic\".\n\n\"I've probably been here coming to support for about 15 years,\" she said.\n\n\"I've ran it quite a few times myself.\n\n\"It's a great atmosphere and there's no excuse for me because I'm only across the Town Moor home.\"\n\nFor every runner in standard running kit, there's another dressed to the nines\n\nThis year's event was started by the run's founder Brendan Foster, who recently announced his retirement.\n\nThere was also a minute's applause for veteran television presenter Mike Neville, who died on Tuesday, and who started the first run in 1981.\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\nMinions tend to stand out from the crowd\n\nDozens of runners manage the race dressed in less streamlined clothing\n\nImagine being beaten to the finish line by a dinosaur\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two men arrested over a suspected neo-Nazi terror plot involving serving British army soldiers have been released without charge by police.\n\nNo further action will be taken against two men, both aged 24, from Northampton and Ipswich, West Midlands Police said.\n\nThey were among five men, four soldiers and a civilian, who were arrested on 5 September over a plot linked to banned far-right group National Action.\n\nDetectives have been granted more time to question the other three.\n\nThey are a 22-year-old from Birmingham, a 32-year-old arrested in Powys, and a 24-year-old from Northampton.\n\nThe latter was arrested in Cyprus and the Ministry of Defence had previously confirmed he was held at the island's British Dhekelia base before being transferred to RAF Akrotiri for a flight back to the UK.\n\nThe men are being held on suspicion of being concerned in the commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism under the Terrorism Act 2000; namely on suspicion of being members of a proscribed organisation.\n\nA West Midlands Police spokeswoman said: \"Detectives have been granted extra time to question the men.\"\n\nThree of the servicemen are believed to be from the Royal Anglian Regiment.\n\nBeing a member of - or inviting support for - a proscribed organisation is a criminal offence carrying a sentence of up to 10 years in prison.\n\nThere are 71 such groups listed by the Home Office on its register.\n\nThey include a range of international and national groups, of which National Action was the first far-right group to be banned in December 2016.\n\nPolice previously said the arrests were \"pre-planned and intelligence-led\", adding \"there was no threat to the public's safety\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The NHS pays for long-term support and care for severely ill patients using national criteria\n\nMedical opinions have been ignored in the assessment of NHS payments to patients receiving care, it is claimed.\n\nThree health workers said an assessor organisation discounted medical views so some patients were denied NHS care.\n\nNorman Lamb MP said England-wide data obtained by the BBC showed a \"regional disparity\" and was \"an injustice\".\n\nHowever the assessor organisation, Arden and Greater East Midlands CSU, says it follows national guidelines to decide on payments.\n\nUnder national criteria, the NHS pays for long-term support and care if a patient's condition is severe enough.\n\nHowever, BBC Inside Out East has found a wide difference among clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) in England in the percentage of patients rejected following assessment for continuing health care (CHC).\n\nBetween July 2016 and July 2017, Birmingham South and Central CCG rejected 75% of its new CHC assessments, Manchester CCG turned down only 17% of assessments, while Tameside and Glossop CCG only rejected 5% of those assessed.\n\nAll assessors - of which there about half a dozen covering England - should use the same criteria.\n\nThree health workers told the BBC that one of the main assessor organisations, Arden and Greater East Midlands CSU (Commissioning Support Unit), sometimes ignored medical opinions in assessments so patients could not obtain NHS care.\n\nOne worker told the BBC: \"There has been bullying at the meetings - attempts to ridicule people who are there who have a professional opinion.\n\n\"They ignored what professionals have said and changed what professionals have said. The concern is that this puts patients at risk.\"\n\nNorth Norfolk MP Mr Lamb, whose Liberal Democrat constituency includes North Norfolk CCG where 73% of cases assessed were turned down, said the disparity and the allegations of medical opinions being ignored were \"very disturbing\".\n\n\"The regional disparity amounts to an injustice between individuals with the same conditions which can't begin to be justified,\" said the former health minister.\n\nBut Alfonzo Tramontano, chief nurse at Arden and Greater East Midlands CSU, said: \"There are strict national guidelines for what constitutes continuing healthcare.\n\n\"Importantly, there is no reason why we would ever want to do anything other than assess an individual's needs correctly.\n\n\"We carry out each assessment using the national guidelines and make recommendations to an expert CCG panel, and we have never put pressure on our nurse assessors to do anything other than assess each individual's health care needs correctly.\"\n\nAn NHS England spokesman said taxpayers \"rightly expect\" care to be taken before public money is handed out.\n\n\"It's a fact that the majority of people put through a continuing healthcare assessment turn out not to need it,\" he said.\n\n\"While funding decisions on CHC cases are taken by local health bodies, there is now a far more consistent approach than ever before since the launch of the national eligibility framework.\"\n\nJohn Gallagher, 78, had NHS funding for the care for his wife Diane withdrawn three times\n\nAmong those receiving NHS care was nursing home resident Diane Gallagher, 77, who had Alzheimer's disease.\n\nHer husband, John Gallagher, 78, who lives in Northampton, said funding was withdrawn three times, but every time he argued with the authorities and got it back.\n\nTalking about the most recent time NHS payment was rejected, Mr Gallagher said he was \"totally gobsmacked\", adding by that point his wife couldn't walk, stand, talk or feed herself.\n\nIn August Mrs Gallagher died, but her husband still faces having to pay the bill for her final weeks of care. He insists the NHS should pay.\n\nBBC Inside Out East is broadcast at 19:30 BST on Monday.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Hollywood actor is now officially a fan, Wolves said\n\nStar Wars legend Mark Hamill has become a fan of Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club - albeit by accident.\n\nAfter fans on Twitter suggested he could support Wolves, this got a 'like' from Hamill, who played Luke Skywalker.\n\n@HamillHimself said on Twitter when asked if he liked the Wolves, he \"thought they meant the animal\" but added \"everyone got so excited-I HAD to be a fan\".\n\nThe club said he had confirmed he was a fan and the force was \"strong\" there.\n\nFans group Wolves Fancast tweeted that it took the fact he had liked a tweet as confirmation he was now a fan.\n\nThe club said it was made aware of the social media chat and added: \"We sent a tweet to Mark, who replied to confirm that he has indeed now pledged his allegiance to Wolves - clearly he is a good judge!\n\n\"The force is certainly strong at Molineux at the moment with the team making an excellent start to the season, and it was perhaps fitting that yesterday's game against Millwall finished Obi Wan-Nil.\n\n\"There is always room in the Wolf Pack for The Last Jedi, and there is the open invitation for Mark to attend a fixture at Molineux should his Landspeeder ever be passing.\"\n\nIt all started with @HamillHimself liking a Tweet from a #Wolves fan, prompting the fans on Twitter to ask if he was a fan.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nSloane Stephens was planning to spend Saturday night in New York celebrating with Madison Keys, hours after beating her friend to a first Grand Slam title.\n\nThe 24-year-old American, ranked 83rd until Monday, thrashed 15th seed Keys 6-3 6-0 in just 61 minutes to complete a scarcely believable return from injury.\n\nAsked if she would be buying the drinks, Stephens confirmed: \"Yes, a lot of them apparently. We are having a little celebration and she is coming.\"\n\nIf you told someone this story, they'd be, like, 'That's insane'.\n\nJust 69 days after returning from an 11-month injury lay-off, and six weeks since her ranking dropped to 957, Stephens became only the fifth unseeded woman to win a Grand Slam singles title in the Open era.\n\nAnd she later revealed it was boredom as much as nerves that threatened to upset her equilibrium during the 48 hours between semi-final and final at Flushing Meadows.\n\n\"I was literally in my room twiddling my thumbs,' she said. \"I was looking at car reviews last night on Auto Trader, like literally. That's how bored I was. I didn't have anything to do.\"\n\nStephens admitted that the nerves finally took hold as she stepped out onto Arthur Ashe Stadium - but a little over an hour later her eyes were bulging as a cheque for $3.7m (£2.8m) was handed to her and she was announced as a Grand Slam champion.\n\nShe said: \"There are no words to describe how I got here, because if you told someone this story they'd be, like, 'that's insane'.\"\n\n'There is no positive to not being able to walk'\n\nIt is four years since Stephens first grabbed worldwide headlines when she beat compatriot Serena Williams in the Australian Open quarter-finals.\n\nThe likes of NBA stars Shaquille O'Neal and Dirk Nowitzki, and singer John Legend, congratulated her on social media, and a star had seemingly been born.\n\nIn the event, progress was harder going until 2016 when she won three titles, cementing her place in the top 30 and apparently on the up.\n\nA right foot stress fracture halted that momentum, forcing her to withdraw from the US Open last August, and she would not return until Wimbledon.\n\nSurgery followed in January and for the next 16 weeks Stephens was on crutches and unable to put any pressure on her foot.\n\nJust a month before Wimbledon, she was still wearing a protective boot.\n\n\"There is no positive to not being able to walk and being on one leg,\" said Stephens. \"That's not fun for anyone.\"\n\nFinally, Stephens stepped back on court in July - and first-round defeats at Wimbledon and in Washington were entirely predictable. Her ranking plummeted to 957.\n\nWhat followed was, in her own words on Saturday night, \"insane\".\n\nThe victory over Keys was her 15th in 17 matches, the kind of form shown by someone vying to be number one rather than avoid slipping outside the top 1,000.\n\n\"When I had surgery, I was not thinking that I would be anywhere near a US Open title,\" she said.\n\n\"Nor did I think I was going to be anywhere near the top 100.\"\n\nSybil Smith made her tournament debut in the player box for the final as her daughter made history.\n\n\"It was nice that we got it right for the two weeks, and I came out with the title,\" said Stephens.\n\nIt is eight years since Stephens attended her father's funeral on the eve of the US Open, after he died in a car accident in Louisiana.\n\nEstranged from the family, John Stephens had been a running back in the NFL for the New England Patriots, the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs.\n\nBut it was her mother, Sybil, an all-American swimmer, who brought up Stephens, and that included introducing the nine-year-old to tennis.\n\n\"Obviously my whole life my mum has been very supportive,\" said Stephens. \"She's been in my corner the whole time.\n\n\"I have had a lot of ups and a lot of downs - and some really low downs - and throughout that, my mum has been there 100% with me.\"\n\nFind out how to get into tennis in our special guide.\n\nIt was at a tennis academy in her native Florida that Stephens learned the game, and also where she met Laura Robson as an 11-year-old.\n\nThe British number four, 23, was clearly moved on Saturday night by seeing two of her friends and contemporaries on the US Open presentation stage, posting on social media: \"Who's cutting onions?\"\n\nRobson might use both women as inspiration for her own struggle back up the rankings following injury.\n\nStephens has spent as much time in 2017 as a TV presenter on a US tennis channel - what Keys described as \"her second job\" - as she has on court, helping fill her time during the 11-month injury lay-off.\n\nDescribing herself as in \"a sad place\", the television work proved to be a boost to morale.\n\nPaul Annacone, ex-coach of Pete Sampras, worked with Stephens for eight months in 2014, and again on her TV work this year. He believes the extended break from tennis had some benefit.\n\n\"I think it has helped Sloane become more focused and realise that the window is closing, ever so slightly,\" he told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"That's allowed her to go on court with a much more relentless ability to compete and deal with adversity.\n\n\"I think historically she has got a little bit nervous in stages, and then when adversity has set in she's struggled a little bit to compete through it.\n\n\"This summer, Sloane's been amazing with adversity.\"\n\nThe semi-final victory over fellow American Venus Williams in New York took her record in three-set matches this summer to 8-0.\n\n'He should have got a hat-trick'\n\nStephens will not be short of family and friends, including Keys, to celebrate with in New York.\n\nHer coach, Kamau Murray, and team have exuded calm, happily posing with fans in the public plaza at Flushing Meadows earlier in the week.\n\nIt is unlikely Serena Williams joined the party eight days after giving birth to her first child, but the 23-time Grand Slam champion posted her support on social media before the final.\n\n\"There are NO words to describe how proud and how happy I am,\" Williams said on Twitter.\n\nOne person absent from the player box on Arthur Ashe Stadium was Stephens' boyfriend, Jozy Altidore, a former forward for Sunderland in the Premier League, now leading the line for Toronto FC.\n\nOtherwise engaged in MLS action against San Jose, he revealed that he found out the result of the final from his mother in the stands at half-time.\n\nAltidore then scored twice in the second half of a 4-0 win.\n\n\"That's really good,\" said Stephens, before adding: \"He should have got a hat-trick. It would have been such a good day. Goodness.\"", "China wants more electric cars on the road to fight pollution\n\nChina, the world's biggest car market, plans to ban the production and sale of diesel and petrol cars and vans.\n\nThe country's vice minister of industry said it had started \"relevant research\" but that it had not yet decided when the ban would come into force.\n\n\"Those measures will certainly bring profound changes for our car industry's development,\" Xin Guobin told Xinhua, China's official news agency\n\nChina made 28 million cars last year, almost a third of the global total.\n\nBoth the UK and France have already announced plans to ban new diesel and petrol vehicles by 2040, as part of efforts to reduce pollution and carbon emissions.\n\nChinese-owned carmaker Volvo said in July that all its new car models would have an electric motor from 2019.\n\nGeely, Volvo's Chinese owner, aims to sell one million electric cars by 2025.\n\nVolvo has announced plans to go electric across the board\n\nOther global car firms including Renault-Nissan, Ford and General Motors are all working to develop electric cars in China.\n\nAutomakers are jostling for a slice of the growing Chinese market ahead of the introduction of new rules designed to fight pollution.\n\nChina wants electric battery cars and plug-in hybrids to account for at least one-fifth of its vehicle sales by 2025.\n\nThe proposals would require 8% of automakers' sales to be battery electric or plug-in hybrids by next year, rising to 12% in 2020.\n\nXin predicted the change would create \"turbulent times\" in the industry.\n\nThe shift will also have a knock-on effect on oil demand in China. The country is currently the world's second-largest oil consumer after the US.", "The stabbings happened at a church on Rocky Lane in Aston\n\nThree people have been injured in a stabbing inside a church in Birmingham.\n\nA 33-year-old man is being treated in hospital after he was knifed at the New Jerusalem Apostolic Church, in Aston, at about 10:50 BST.\n\nHe is in a stable condition and his injuries are not thought to be life-threatening. A 46-year-old man is being held on suspicion of attempted murder.\n\nThe other two people suffered hand injuries as they tried to restrain the knifeman, West Midlands Police said.\n\nEarly indications suggested the offender and victim knew each other and it was a targeted attack, the force added.\n\nIn a statement on Facebook, the church said three members of its congregation were injured.\n\nNone of the injuries were life-threatening, it said.\n\nThe church said: \"At this time we are restricting hospital visits to family only and we will keep you updated as regularly as possible.\n\n\"We would like to thank all of our members and friends that were with us this morning for your cooperation, bravery and support and thank everyone else for your prayers.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Leighton created dozens of fake Facebook accounts to trap his victim\n\nThe extradition of a paedophile jailed for 16 years for sex offences involving teenagers in four countries is being sought by the US.\n\nPaul Leighton, 32, of County Durham, admitted rape, despite being in the UK when the offences took place in the US.\n\nLeighton tricked victims on Facebook into sending him naked pictures and blackmailed them to abuse relatives.\n\nUS Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) anticipated his extradition over victims in Pennsylvania, it said.\n\nThe Home Office spokesperson said it would \"neither confirm nor deny that an extradition request has been made\".\n\nIt is believed as many as 100 children in North America were abused by Leighton.\n\nThe defendant, of Malvern Crescent, Seaham, created dozens of fake Facebook profiles to befriend teenagers in the UK, Canada, the US and Australia, Newcastle Crown Court was told.\n\nHe threatened a 14-year-old boy from Florida into repeatedly raping his one-year-old niece.\n\nProsecutor Paul Reid said it had been a \"campaign of rape\".\n\nLeighton pleaded guilty \"to the rape of this baby 4,000 miles away as he was using [the uncle] as an accessory\", he said.\n\nHe admitted other offences, including blackmail, causing a child to engage in sexual activity, making indecent photographs of a child and sexual assault.\n\nThe investigation that led to his arrest was led by HSI in a joint operation with Northumbria Police.\n\nHSI London attaché James Mancuso said protecting children from exploitation took \"the collaboration of law enforcement agencies around the world\".", "Thomas Cook customers in Cuba have been evacuated to the north resort town of Varadero\n\nBritish tourists in Cuba have been speaking of the impact of Hurricane Irma, with one saying the storm had led to the \"honeymoon from hell\".\n\nIrma has made landfall on the island, having claimed at least 20 lives as it churned across the Caribbean.\n\nThomas Cook has been criticised by some for not evacuating tourists, and continuing to bring holidaymakers to Cuba's resorts as late as Thursday.\n\nA spokeswoman says the firm is working with Cuban authorities to get customers off the island.\n\nSam Lever, 50, from Bury in Greater Manchester, travelled to Cuba last week with his new wife Chelsea, 30, for their honeymoon.\n\nThe couple told the BBC how they, along with 2,500 other Thomas Cook passengers, had to travel eight hours by coach from the resort of Cayo Coco to the town of Varadero.\n\nMr Lever said: \"This is becoming a honeymoon from hell.\n\n\"We were all put on 11 buses by the authorities and had to travel eight hours with no food to Varadero.\n\n\"There were people on those coaches who had arrived from Manchester the night before. I just find that scandalous behaviour.\"\n\nSoftware developer Sam Lever, 50, is currently celebrating his honeymoon in Cuba with his wife Chelsea\n\nMr Lever said a contingent of Canadian tourists in the resort were flown home on Thursday.\n\nHe said he and his wife were \"huddled into a games room\" with other tourists.\n\n\"We just think Thomas Cook was playing a game of roulette, seeing if the storm would even hit Cayo Coco.\n\n\"It's scandalous that they flew people out on Wednesday, with staff who were going to deal with the evacuation.\n\nOne of those flown in on Wednesday was Steve Allen, who said there were \"major flaws\" in the evacuation process.\n\n\"They actually lost our passenger manifest at the hotel so we didn't know who was meant be going where at the time,\" he said.\n\n\"Well, we are now stuck in Varadero and praying we get through this nightmare in one piece.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Footage shows the central province of Villa Clara battered by wind and rain\n\nA spokeswoman for Thomas Cook said the company had followed advice given to them by Cuban authorities, and that they were told to evacuate their customers to Varadero.\n\nShe added that three aircraft would be chartered to Varadero on Sunday to bring UK holidaymakers home.\n\nRoy Pinches said his daughter, who works as cabin crew for Thomas Cook, had been sent to Cuba on Thursday and was now stranded on the island.\n\nMr Pinches said: \"They have been told to stay in one room where 10 cabin crew have been told to barricade themselves in\n\n\"Their last option is to use the bathroom where they have been told to get under the table placed there.\n\n\"This hotel could not be in a worse position to handle this hurricane.\"\n\nThomas Cook's spokeswoman added that staff members and reps were all in lockdown, like customers, as advised by Cuban authorities.", "A British tourist who live tweeted his terror as Hurricane Irma struck has been rescued by the US air force.\n\nAlex Woolfall, from London, who was on holiday on the Caribbean island of St Martin, has been taken to Puerto Rico.\n\nFour days ago, he was evacuated from his hotel room to a concrete stairwell to hide from the storm and described the \"apocalyptic\" noise as it hit.\n\nMr Woolfall told the BBC the island now looks \"like a war zone after heavy bombardment\".\n\nThe PR consultant posted updates for more than 20 hours while trapped in the stairwell of the Westin Hotel, describing the soaring temperature and \"terrifying\" sounds.\n\nMr Woolfall said the experience was \"like a movie I never want to see\".\n\nHis updates eventually stopped after power to the island was cut, and his Twitter account remained silent for several days until his rescue.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by alex woolfall This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Woolfall said a military plane airlifted him to safety just as the next storm of the season - Hurricane Jose - was approaching.\n\nShortly after his rescue, he told the BBC about the devastation he left behind.\n\n\"Even the plants and trees looks like they have been scorched,\" he wrote.\n\n\"People made homeless overnight, sitting in the street with no power or water. It's heartbreaking and they need our help.\n\n\"At the same time, I have never in my life experienced such kindness. Local staff at the Westin who have lost everything and have no idea if family and friends are alive came in day after day to look after tourists.\n\n\"They were distressed but worked round the clock to provide drinking water and food and support.\n\n\"Even as we left, local people sat outside in the rubble waving and shouting, 'Good luck. Get home safely.'\n\n\"It was extremely moving but upsetting at the same 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 2 by alex woolfall This 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\nMr Woolfall said he hoped help would come for the island from the Dutch and French governments, especially with the threat from Hurricane Jose now looming.\n\nBefore being evacuated by hotel staff, he said guests had been advised to close blackout curtains, stay away from windows and stay inside the building.\n\nMr Woolfall said, in a series of tweets during the storm, the noise was \"like standing behind a jet engine\" - \"apocalyptic\" with \"constant booms and bangs\".\n\nLater he asked for prayers saying he was \"pretty terrified\".", "Kay said the last four months had been \"horrendous\" for Manchester\n\nComedian Peter Kay has delivered a message of defiance at Manchester Arena's reopening concert, declaring \"we can't let terrorists win\".\n\nKay appeared at the We Are Manchester show on Saturday alongside other local heroes including Noel Gallagher.\n\nMore than 14,000 fans were there, four months after a bomb killed 22 people.\n\n\"The victims will never ever be forgotten, but we've got to move forward with love and not hate, and that's how we win,\" Kay told the crowd.\n\nKay worked as a steward at the venue in the 1990s before going on to perform there more than 40 times.\n\n\"There's been a lot of joy in this room over the years, including the night of 22 May, right up until the terrorist attack,\" he said - and the crowd booed at the mention of the attack.\n\n\"These last four months have been incredibly painful,\" Kay continued.\n\n\"Horrendous is putting it mildly. But that's why you're here - because we can't let terrorists win.\n\n\"And I know the memories of that night will stay with us for a very long time but we've got to remember the good times and let them outweigh the bad.\"\n\nKay then introduced Gallagher, and the former Oasis star performed a string of favourites including Don't Look Back In Anger.\n\nThe song took on special significance in the wake of the bombing after a crowd started spontaneously singing it at a memorial.\n\n\"It's become some sort of anthem for defiance,\" Gallagher said. \"And every time you sing, we win.\"\n\nThe atmosphere was joyful for most of the show\n\nArmed police patrolled outside and inside the arena\n\nAs well as defiance, the mood at the event had a mixture of pride, catharsis, pure enjoyment - and, for some, trepidation.\n\nAmong the crowd were Paul Woodhouse and his son, from Edinburgh, who were at the Ariana Grande concert that was attacked on 22 May.\n\nHe said: \"Some of us that were there first time were there [at the reopening] to face a fear.\n\n\"Not so much of going to a concert, but of going back to the same place. It's still a bit raw. In time, yes, I think it will have helped, coming back to the same place.\"\n\nThe atmosphere inside the concert was \"quite positive\", he added.\n\n\"We found everybody was quite cheerful with everybody. Quite uplifting. You knew everybody was standing together.\"\n\nCourteeners got the crowd going\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola was in the audience\n\nAdrian Thorpe, who was in the arena foyer when the bomb went off, said returning with his daughter and partner was initially \"nerve-wracking\".\n\nHe said: \"It was emotional returning but it's turned out a happy evening. Last time we were here it was a sad time but it's been a joyous evening.\n\n\"She's enjoyed it and that's all that matters now. The kids can put a smile back on their faces again.\"\n\nThe foyer area was also reopened on Saturday, but it now contains a row of airport-style body scanners and brightly-coloured temporary wall coverings with slogans such as \"We are entertainment\", \"We are love\" and \"We are stronger\".\n\nPixie Lott was the first singer to perform\n\nAlso in the crowd was Pep Guardiola, manager of Manchester City FC, whose wife and daughters were at the Ariana Grande gig.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"It's good to come back to normality and see that life is going on and remember the families that suffered.\"\n\nThere was tight security at the venue, with backpacks banned and armed police patrolling both the exterior and the inside concourse.\n\nThe night started with a tribute to the bomb victims from Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, who read the names of the 22 people who were killed by Salman Abedi.\n\nThe something-for-everyone bill included 1980s pop star Rick Astley - who was wearing a shirt bearing the Manchester bee emblem - plus Pixie Lott, ex-Girls Aloud member Nadine Coyle, grime MC Bugzy Malone and Stockport band Blossoms.\n\nPoet Tony Walsh delivered his poem This is the Place\n\nManchester band Courteeners summed up how the sense of pride in the city has been renewed since the attack when singer Liam Fray declared during their first song: \"Manchester, centre of the universe.\"\n\nThe concert was hosted by comedian Russell Kane. When a photographer came on stage to take a picture of the crowd, Kane told them: \"Let's show the world what defiance, happiness, positivity and strength look like.\"\n\nProceeds from the concert will go to establishing a permanent memorial to the victims.\n\nStockport band Blossoms were among the local acts on the bill\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 Shotgun & Chelsea Bun Club describes itself as the UK's largest ladies' shooting community\n\nIt has traditionally been seen as a man's game, enjoyed by country types wearing flat caps and tweed. But the number of women taking up shooting - particularly clay pigeon shooting - is on the rise. Why?\n\nGrowing up in Berkshire, Danielle Brown's only experience of the countryside was \"seeing it on the television\".\n\n\"I was a right town girl,\" she said. \"Went to a comprehensive, mum on her own, didn't have much money, never thought about country pursuits.\"\n\nDanielle Brown got into shooting after moving to the countryside\n\nIt was when she moved to Herefordshire with her husband that she was introduced to shooting by a neighbour. After a bit of investigating she came across the Shotgun & Chelsea Bun Club - a group holding events specifically for women - and she was hooked.\n\n\"I just loved it, that feeling when you shoot a clay, a moving target in the sky. I wanted to do it again.\"\n\nThe club is one of a number of groups attracting an increasing number of women to shoot, and building a new image for the sport.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shooting: Not just a sport for men\n\nGone are the days of shooting being just a pursuit for country folk; members are now as likely to be students and shop assistants as they are bankers and lawyers.\n\nAnd numbers of female shooters are rising.\n\nFigures show the number of women joining the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) each year has risen a third over the past four years.\n\nThe association welcomed 1,212 women in 2011, compared with 1,603 in 2015, and now has almost 10,000 female members.\n\nFemmes Fatales aims to \"challenge the misconception that shooting is a man's game\". Participants are more likely to don sportswear than reflect the \"Downton Abbey and farmers in tweed look\", says founder Lydia Abdelaoui.\n\nRachel Carrie, left and Lydia Abdelaoui, right, who founded Femmes Fatales\n\nMiss Abdelaoui, 33, works in the shooting industry for an ammunition manufacturer, but only took up the sport three years ago.\n\n\"It never really appealed to me that much until I went with a group of women,\" she said.\n\n\"I had been before, but it was just a bit dull, I find men are really competitive. We had such a laugh and got to talk about doing things to attract more women and that's where the idea of Femmes Fatales came about.\"\n\nThe group started out on social media and has built up a \"community\" of about 7,000 women.\n\n\"It's not farmers and the gentry, it's just normal people from all different backgrounds who are just serious about the sport,\" says Miss Abdelaoui.\n\n\"We try to get away from the misconception that people have about shooters and to make it a bit more feminine and up to date.\n\n\"I had a Twitter exchange with a guy and he called us 'privileged women' and he suggested that women that shoot are all 'ladies that lunch' that don't have jobs - nothing could be further from the truth. Everybody works hard and we shoot at weekends.\"\n\nShotgun & Chelsea Bun Club members enjoy tea and cake after a day of shooting\n\nAt the Shotgun & Chelsea Bun Club, women meet for shooting followed by tea and cake.\n\nIt was founded by Victoria Knowles-Lacks who, while learning to shoot with her uncle, saw there was a \"major lack\" of women shooting.\n\n\"I'd see wives and daughters being dragged round clay grounds press buttons on clay traps for their husbands and I just thought the shooting industry is missing a trick,\" said the 33-year-old from Shropshire.\n\nWhen Mrs Knowles-Lacks took four female friends who \"weren't overly keen\" to a group shooting lesson, she baked a cake to \"soften\" the day.\n\nAnd the winning combination of clays and cake was born.\n\n\"We shot in a small group under instruction, then we had tea and cake. The format has stayed the same since that very first day.\n\n\"I've made it my mission to make it really easy, affordable and to showcase how social and how much fun shooting is,\" she added.\n\nWomen enjoy shooting and the social side of the sport at the Shotgun & Chelsea Bun Club\n\nIt is the social side of the club that Mrs Brown, 38, says has \"transformed\" her life.\n\n\"I don't have children so I didn't have any natural way of making my own friends, I didn't have any hobbies but all of a sudden I went to those clubs and met these lovely ladies.\"\n\nThe financial controller now practises once or twice a week and competes a couple of times a month.\n\nWhile she admits her hobby is expensive, she says there are many routes into it, such as hen parties, and it's not just for the well off - she herself makes sacrifices to fund her passion.\n\n\"I don't go clothes shopping any more, I buy shotgun cartridges instead.\"\n\nThe profile of the sport is giving women shooters \"visibility\" for the first time, added Mrs Knowles-Lacks.\n\n\"When we started the club back in 2011 there was literally nothing for female shooters. You'd see a few ladies at clay shoots or in the kitchen on game shoots, but there weren't really any opportunities.\n\n\"It's definitely reaching people who wouldn't really have considered trying the sport before.\"\n• None Breakfast's Holly has a go at shooting", "Officials have warned that no areas of the low-lying Florida Keys will be safe\n\nConcern is growing for residents in the most vulnerable areas of Florida who have not yet evacuated, as Hurricane Irma edges closer to making landfall.\n\nDespite authorities begging residents of the Florida Keys to evacuate since Thursday, some have opted to remain.\n\nThe low-lying coral cay islands are scattered off Florida's southern coast, with a population of 70,000.\n\nOne official warned staying on the islands among storm surge warnings was \"almost like suicide\".\n\nThe tropical archipelago extends for more than 100 miles off the US mainland, north of Cuba.\n\nThe islands, which are mostly part of Monroe County, are linked to the Florida peninsula by a scenic highway that runs across into Miami.\n\nIn 2005 the islands avoided a direct hit from Hurricane Wilma, but the category three storm caused major ocean storm surges that left low-lying areas inundated with flood water.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NWS Key West This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMuch of the Keys have an elevation of just a few feet above sea level.\n\nKey West, the largest island with a population of about 27,000, is extremely vulnerable to the large storm surges forecast by Hurricane Irma (though it has one of the highest points in the Keys at 18ft (5.5m) above sea level).\n\nThe area is frequently ordered to evacuate in Florida's tropical storm seasons.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Greg Diamond This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Florida Keys locals, known as \"conches\", have developed a tough attitude to riding storms out.\n\nNews on Friday that the county's first responders and emergency staff could be evacuated to the mainland prompted some to change their mind.\n\nThis photograph from Hurricane Michelle evacuations in 2001 show the area's vulnerability\n\nElizabeth Prieto told CBS news that she was evacuating the Keys for the first time in 51 years.\n\n\"I've been through George, I've been through Andrew, and I've been through Wilma. But I'm not staying for Irma. No, not happening,\" Ms Prieto said.\n\nEven patients at local hospitals and 460 prisoners from a detention centre have been relocated.\n\nThose opting to stay despite the mandatory evacuation order included the curator and 10 members of staff at Ernest Hemingway's famous home in Key West.\n\nThe museum is now famous for homing 54 cats, which the curator said would be too difficult to evacuate safely on the gridlocked roads.\n\nAreas of Key West were flooded with feet of water after Hurricane Wilma in 2005\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWith some still opting to remain despite the warnings, Monroe County was forced to announce the opening of four shelters of last resort in the area.\n\nBut officials stressed services and supplies would not be provided at the shelters.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Once a dangerous storm starts, don't dial 911 during it because nobody is going to answer,\" Monroe County Administrator Roman Gastesi said.\n\nWith Irma hours away it is unclear how many have opted to stay on the islands.\n\nThe hurricane is on course to reach the islands on Sunday morning.", "Finnish conductor Sakari Oramo will conduct the concert for the second year in a row\n\nAfter two months and 74 concerts, the 2017 Proms season draws to a close on Saturday with the world-famous Last Night concert.\n\nLed by Finnish conductor Sakari Oramo, the celebration will spill across the UK with events in Enniskillen, Glasgow, Swansea and London's Hyde Park.\n\nAt the Royal Albert Hall, anti-Brexit campaigners are planning to hand out thousands of EU flags to the audience.\n\nThey say the action is \"in support of EU musicians\" who play in the UK.\n\nA similar attempt last year did not overwhelm the Last Night celebrations, as fans waved flags from all around the world - Germany, Australia, Denmark, Wales and Cornwall - alongside the more traditional Union flag.\n\nEarlier this summer, the Royal Albert Hall was forced to deny it had \"banned the EU flag\" from concerts, following several press reports.\n\nPerformers at the Last Night include percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie (Northern Ireland), Kinks star Sir Ray Davies (Hyde Park) and Swedish soprano Nina Stemme (Royal Albert Hall).\n\n\"It's a dream I didn't dare dreaming when I was a young student,\" said Stemme, who will reprise her award-winning performance of Tristan and Isolde. \"And now it's coming true. Who would ever have thought this?\"\n\nWe spoke to the Swedish star and other stars of the Proms to find out what the spectacular evening has in store.\n\nComposer Lotta Wennakoski gets to open the Last Night concert, with the world premiere of her latest work, Flounce.\n\nWhat's the story behind the piece?\n\nI was commissioned by the BBC - and then I was asked to give them a title before I had written anything! So I have a little place where I collect words and sentences I like - and there, I happened to have the title Flounce, which I like because it has two meanings. So I chose the title first and then I began to elaborate my material, according to those two meanings.\n\nHow do you approach writing for the Proms?\n\nI knew it was the opening number, so I knew it shouldn't be too introverted. And I also knew it's a special concert that's characterised by lots of shorter pieces, so I thought 'OK, this is not the place for meditation', so it had to be festive and, on the other hand, careful.\n\nPresumably once it's played, you can relax and enjoy the night.\n\nYes! That's the best thing! Because usually the composer cannot really listen to anything before their own piece.\n\nIs there anything in the programme you're looking forward to?\n\nI've printed out the words for Britain's National Anthem because I want to sing along as accurately as possible! In fact, I actually know some of it in Finnish - because when I was in school we had to sing all the anthems. I remember some of it still [she sings] \"Jumala suojaa hallitsija\"\n\nI know the Soviet Union anthem in Finnish, too!\n\nBest known as a TV presenter and stand-up comic, Jason Manford will be singing songs from the musicals at Glasgow's Proms in the Park. It's the first time he'll perform the music he's recorded for his debut album, A Different Stage.\n\nI'm glad you chose something low-key to launch your singing career.\n\nI know, it's crazy isn't it? When they asked me, I was like, \"Er, are you sure?\" But I know I can do it. Fundamentally, I wouldn't do it if I was blagging it.\n\nSo there won't be a Milli Vanilli moment?\n\nThe music stops and Alfie Boe comes out from behind a curtain? No, there'll be none of that.\n\nI mean, I've heard of this auto-tune magic, but no-one's shown it me yet.\n\nSo what will you perform?\n\nWe're going to do Hushabye Mountain from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which I should know by now, having sung it 500 times [in the West End]. And we're doing Stars from Les Mis.\n\nI have to say, you sing it better than Russell Crowe.\n\nWell you know, that's not a compliment! I'm not the sort of person to complain, but he phoned that in, didn't he?\n\nI remember I went to see the film on the night it was released because I'm a huge fan. It was like one minute past midnight, with all these Les Mis uber-fans - and they were cheering every song, until he sung that. It went so quiet in the cinema; and at the end, when Javert jumps off the bridge, the crowd cheered!\n\nBut I'm sure he's not bothered what I think.\n\nHave you ever been to the Proms before?\n\nNo, not really. It's never really been in my social calendar. I've seen it on telly, like everyone else. I love that family vibe. I love that people bring picnics and deckchairs. I just think that's a terribly British way of doing things.\n\nHave you checked the forecast for Glasgow?\n\nI was going to mention that! Most of these events, you say to the organisers, \"Oh, what's the dress code?\" and they'll come back and say \"lounge suit\" or \"black tie\".\n\nThis time, they came back saying, \"make sure you're dressed for the weather!\"\n\nRegularly described as \"the greatest dramatic soprano in the world,\" Stemme will treat audiences to a reprise of her signature role in Tristan und Isolde.\n\nYou've played the Proms before but never the Last Night. How are you feeling?\n\nFor me, it's a dream I didn't dare dreaming when I was a young student. And now it's coming true. Who would ever have thought this? It's such an honour.\n\nTristan and Isolde has followed you around your whole career, ever since you performed it at Glyndebourne. What do you connect to in that character?\n\nEverything - the psychological situations and the music. I can't wait to see what Sakari Omoro brings out of it. It changes from one performance to the next and that's the wonderful thing about music.\n\nDid you see Juan Diego Florez's costume at last year's Last Night?\n\nI had a little glimpse of it on YouTube. What an outfit!\n\nJuan Diego Florez dressed as Manco Capac, governor and founder of the Inca civilization, at the 2016 Proms\n\nHave you got something similar planned?\n\nIt's entirely up to us, so we'll see what I can come up with! A little bit of craziness, and a little bit of theatre history as well.\n\nAhead of the first night, pianist Igor Levit said the one thing he needed before playing was chocolate. Do you have any rituals or essentials?\n\nAt the beginning, when I sang my first Isolde, I had to have a bowl of pasta but apparently my metabolism has changed!\n\nI tend to go into myself, save my voice. I try to look perfectly normal from the outside - but I think my friends and colleagues can see through me.\n\nLast Night is unique and a little bit bizarre. Is there anything else that compares?\n\nI don't think so! I haven't come across anything like it - but if someone can come up with something similar, please let me know because it's so wonderful. It's musical craziness and I love it.\n\nI've got family coming from Sweden, and my brother-in-law is preparing them for everything. They have flags and song texts. I think it's wonderful.\n\nFor the sixth year in a row, Richard Balcombe will conduct the BBC Concert Orchestra at the Hyde Park leg of Proms In The Park; accompanying artists including Sir Bryn Terfel, Sir Ray Davies and pop group Steps.\n\nYou've done five of these now. How do you gear up for it?\n\nIt's one of the most exciting dates I do, because of the sheer size of it. When you look out and see 35,000 people looking back, it sort of stirs the soul.\n\nHow long do you get to rehearse with someone like Ray Davies?\n\nWe had two sessions with him on Wednesday, and a soundcheck in the Park on Friday - so altogether nine hours. [The orchestra will be conducted by David Temple, of the Crouch End Festival Chorus during Davies' performance].\n\nThat's not a lot of time…\n\nActually, in terms of what the orchestra does regularly, that's quite a decent time. For a regular Friday night performance, for example, we'll have two rehearsals before the concert goes out live on the radio. They're the finest, they read anything and just play it.\n\nDo you ever wander out into the crowd at Hyde Park?\n\nYes, because my wife comes and we bring a whole group of people from our village, so during the pre-show entertainment, which starts about five, I go out and enjoy the atmosphere.\n\nOf those five you've done before, what's been the highlight?\n\nGetting the chance to work with artists like Sir Bryn Terfel, Joseph Calleja the tenor, Vittorio Grigolo - the absolute cream of the crop in terms of classical musicians - but also the chance to be on the stage with Kylie Minogue or Bryan Ferry or The Jacksons. It's an absolute privilege.\n\nIs there any part of you that thinks, \"I'd love to be in the Royal Albert Hall tonight?\"\n\nHaha! No, there's part of me that wishes I was there but I'm just so happy doing what I'm doing. We contribute a big part to the success of the whole evening, by linking up to the parks through the country, I'm just really happy to be doing my bit.\n\nThe Last Night of the Proms will be broadcast live on BBC One, Two and Radio 3 from 19:15 BST.\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.", "Italian rescue services issued this photo of the flooded Livorno area\n\nAt least six people have been killed after heavy rainstorms and flooding in the Italian city of Livorno.\n\nFour members of a family were killed when their basement apartment flooded. Italian newspaper Il Tirreno reports that two parents and their son died.\n\nOne girl was rescued by her grandfather, but he died when he returned to attempt for his other family members, the newspaper said.\n\nPictures from the city showed large areas underwater and extensive damage.\n\nOne resident, Piero Caturelli, said he had never seen such bad weather.\n\n\"It's incredible, incredible. It started around 10pm and continued until this morning. In my living memory, there's never been anything like this,\" he said.\n\nThe flooding caused extensive damage to property in Livorno\n\nMayor Filippo Nogarin told the AFP news agency that the extent of the flooding was completely unexpected, as only an orange alert was issued.\n\nThe city in Tuscany was the worst hit, but weather warnings have been issued for much of the country.\n\nPrecautions are being taken in the capital, Rome, where the highest level of alert is in place.", "Developers are still scouring the leaked code for fresh discoveries\n\nDetails of new iPhones and other forthcoming Apple devices have been revealed via an apparent leak.\n\nTwo news sites were given access to an as-yet-unreleased version of the iOS operating system.\n\nThe code refers to an iPhone X in addition to two new iPhone 8 handsets. It also details facial recognition tech that acts both as an ID system and maps users' expressions onto emojis.\n\nOne tech writer said it was the biggest leak of its kind to hit the firm.\n\nApple is holding a launch event at its new headquarters on Tuesday.\n\nThe California-based company takes great efforts to keep its technologies secret until its showcase events, and chief executive Tim Cook spoke in 2012 of the need to \"double down\" on concealment measures.\n\nSome details about the new devices had, however, already been revealed in August, when Apple published some test code for its HomePod speakers.\n\nBut while that was thought to have been a mistake, it has been claimed that the latest leak was an intentional act of sabotage.\n\n\"As best I've been able to ascertain, these builds were available to download by anyone, but they were obscured by long, unguessable URLs [web addresses],\" wrote John Gruber, a blogger known for his coverage of Apple.\n\n\"Someone within Apple leaked the list of URLs to 9to5Mac and MacRumors. I'm nearly certain this wasn't a mistake, but rather a deliberate malicious act by a rogue Apple employee.\"\n\nNeither Mr Gruber nor the two Apple-related news sites have disclosed their sources.\n\nHowever, the BBC has independently confirmed that an anonymous source provided the publications with links to iOS 11's golden master (GM) code that downloaded the software from Apple's own computer servers.\n\nGM is a term commonly used by software firms to indicate that they believe a version of a product is ready for release.\n\n\"More surprises were spoiled by this leak than any leak in Apple history,\" Mr Gruber added.\n\nApple could not be reached for comment.\n\nApple chief Tim Cook has publicly discussed his desire to protect Apple's secrets\n\nSeveral developers are still scouring the leak for new features, but discoveries so far include:\n\nIt marks the second time in three months that the company seems to have been deliberately caught out by a staff member.\n\nIn June, an hour-long recording of an internal meeting - ironically about stopping leakers - was passed onto the Outline news site.\n\nIt revealed that Apple had hired ex-workers from the US National Security Agency (NSA), FBI and Secret Service to help catch tattletales.\n\n\"I have faith deep in my soul that if we hire smart people they're gonna think about this, they're gonna understand this, and ultimately they're gonna do the right thing, and that's to keep their mouth shut,\" one senior Apple executive was heard to say.\n\nApple's mobile devices account for the bulk of its profits\n\nOne company watcher said that the scale of the leak meant Tuesday's launch had lost some of its power to surprise.\n\n\"There will be an unbelievable effort within Apple to determine how this happened and I don't envy the person that did it because there will be no forgiveness for it,\" commented Ben Wood from the tech consultancy CCS Insight.\n\nBut he added that it was unlikely to affect sales or interest in the new devices.\n\n\"For other companies this might have huge impact on the effectiveness of their grand official launches, but for Apple there is such insatiable demand for even the smallest details and such an obsessive fan-following of its products that even a very detailed leak will do little to dampen the enthusiasm of bloggers and others to report its news,\" 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. Hurricane Irma left a path of destruction in the Virgin Islands\n\nThe BBC's Paul Blake and Laura Bicker report from the British Virgin Islands, where Hurricane Irma's force has destroyed communities, and left at least five people dead.\n\nThe flight into the island of Tortola should feature sweeping views of lush green hillsides and translucent-blue bays. Today it looks like the victim of a bomb blast.\n\nOn approach to the airport on Saturday, boats could be seen piled on top of one another like children's toys. Others laid lop-sided on dry ground or semi-submerged offshore.\n\nA car ride to the governor's office gave a street-level view of the destruction. Many neighbourhoods have been flattened, their residents can be seen trying to cook and clean amidst the rubble.\n\nHill sides were strewn with debris and dotted by houses disembowelled by the storms powerful winds.\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\nAround them, the earth looked scorched - not by fire, but by wind and water that has ripped away vegetation.\n\nPower lines snaked across roads while residents drove over them in vehicles with blown-out windows.\n\nResidents recalled the storm with horror, with many believing that the hurricane had spun off tornadoes, which then cut through buildings like a jigsaw.\n\nAs they tried to assess the damage, many asked with trepidation about Hurricane Jose - a smaller storm loosely following Irma's path - and whether it was coming their way.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Hurricane Irma: 'My roof blew off - I lost everything'\n\nWe met one survivor who was still trying to comprehend what had happened to his home. Arron Glasgow says he and his brother were fighting to keep the wind out when the roof suddenly blew off.\n\nStanding in what used to be the family's living room, he says \"I've lost everything. What you see me have on - perhaps one other shirt - is what I have.\"\n\nFlipped cars and boats in the street meant driving was slow and treacherous.\n\nDowned trees and power poles were buttressed by flimsy boards so that cars passed underneath.\n\nWith stagnant water pooling in the streets and a decimated utility system, there is now a concern that disease and other public health threats could emerge.\n\nThere is a shortage of basic supplies such as gasoline, food and water\n\nSome residents have criticised the UK government's response as \"pathetic and slow\". British troops have now arrived to help.\n\nThe Royal Engineers and Commandos co-ordinated by Joint Force Headquarters have retrofitted the arrivals lounge into something of a home base, where they are organising security and recovery operations.\n\nMid-afternoon on Saturday, those operations came into full swing with the arrival of a Royal Air Force A400M transport aircraft. As the massive prop plane came to a halt, its rear hatch cracked open.\n\nTroops arrived on the island of Tortola on Saturday\n\nBritish troops are using Tortola's airport arrivals lounge as a home base\n\nDozens of soldiers jogged out with gear that is being used to establish a sort of base of operations inside the arrivals lounge.\n\nOver the coming days they'll be working to reinstate law and order on the island and help jump-start the recovery process.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Paul Blake This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nAt the governor's mansion, British soldiers were working to establish satellite communications with the outside world, while Brigadier John Ridge was liaising with governor Gus Jaspert about what operations needed to be prioritised.\n\nAt a local police station - we are told - British Army commandos are working with officers to try and re-establish control after reports of looting. For his part, the governor has imposed an overnight curfew to keep criminality at bay.", "Drifting down the Zambezi in Zimbabwe, I overheard two American men swapping hunting stories.\n\n\"First shot got him in the shoulder,\" a white man in his late sixties explained to his friend. \"Second hit him right in the side of the head!\" Pointing at his temple, he passed his phone with a picture. The animal in question was a dead crocodile.\n\nCrocodiles are easy to find on this part of the Zambezi: lying in the sun on the banks of the river, boats can float just a few feet away. And given that they are motionless for most of the time, not hard to shoot, I imagine.\n\nThe second American showed his pal a picture of a Cape Buffalo he had killed, and planned to have shoulder mounted. He complained he couldn't afford the $19,000 (£14,500) Zimbabwe demands for the licence to kill an elephant. His buffalo cost him $8,000 (£6,100).\n\n\"Are they saying an elephant is worth more than two buffalo?\" he lamented. \"I saw hundreds of elephants today. Far too many. You have to see it here to realise. In California they are saying these animals are endangered!\"\n\nThe first man's wife then talked of the thrill she gets at the kill, discussing how different calibres of bullet explode the vital organs of African wildlife. I left to look at the hippos watching from the river.\n\nBut, curiously, I have felt obliged to consider the ethics of big game hunting at home in London in the last few months.\n\nI'm an Arsenal fan, and it recently emerged that my team's owner, American sports tycoon Stan Kroenke, had launched a TV channel in the UK featuring lion and elephant hunting.\n\nThe corporate values of family brand Arsenal do not sit easily with pay-to-view videos of hunters shooting animals for fun, and after a couple of days of hostile publicity, Kroenke ordered his channel to stop showing the killing of some big game.\n\nBut both sides in the hunting debate claim they are the true guardians of animal welfare.\n\nSupporters of African trophy hunting, including some in very high places - two of President Trump's sons are avid big game hunters - argue that a ban on hunting would harm wildlife and local people.\n\nIt would stop much needed revenue reaching some of Africa's poorest communities, discourage conservation and cut funds for wildlife management that would make it easier for poachers to operate, they say.\n\nOpponents counter that little of the profit from trophy hunting money ends up in the communities where it takes place. They say poachers use legal hunting as cover for their illegal activities, and argue that there are more efficient and humane ways to support the welfare of southern Africa's animals and people.\n\nI was travelling in Zimbabwe and neighbouring Botswana last month - two countries with opposing policies towards big game hunters. Hunting is still big business in Zimbabwe, as the rich Americans on the Zambezi demonstrate, but since 2014 it has been completely banned in Botswana.\n\nThe difference in approach between Botswana and its neighbours - South Africa, Namibia and Zambia also allow trophy hunting - was brought dramatically home to me in the country's glorious Chobe National Park.\n\nIn the late afternoon, I watched a herd of around 600 Cape Buffalo snake its way down to the Chobe River that marks the boundary with Namibia. It was mesmerising to see these majestic animals following each other, nose to tail, across the water.\n\nCape Buffalo cross the Chobe River from Botswana into Namibia where hunters are waiting\n\nThen my guide pointed out two vehicles on the horizon, across the river. \"Hunters,\" he explained, simply. Through the binoculars we could see six men with rifles. Apparently oblivious to the risk, the buffalo continued to cross the border towards them. Later, shots would be heard.\n\nIn a move interpreted as a direct challenge to the wildlife policies of other southern African nations, Botswana's President Ian Khama is marching his country towards a new model of African tourism: \"low impact/high value\".\n\nBotswana believes that by protecting its animals and minimising humankind's footprint on the natural world, it can turn the country into an exclusive tourist destination that brings in far more than it loses from the ban on hunting.\n\nBotswana is home to more than a third of Africa's dwindling elephant population, and - since the hunting ban - these intelligent animals have increasingly sought refuge there.\n\nThe concentration of elephants is a huge draw for tourists but, as predicted by opponents of the ban, it is also a huge temptation for less scrupulous hunters and poachers.\n\nBotswana's answer is to make the country a hostile environment for those who want to harm the wildlife.\n\nMilitary bases have been moved to the borders of the national parks. Armed patrols on foot and in the air are ready, if necessary, to kill people coming to kill animals. Some poachers have been shot dead.\n\nThe hunting ban doesn't just apply to rich trophy hunters.\n\nIt also limits or outlaws the shooting of game by local people for food or to protect crops and livestock. The Botswana government believes if there is any legal shooting of animals, the big poaching syndicates and illegal hunting operations will use that as cover for their activities.\n\nFarmer Chibeya Longwani shows me his bucket of tabasco chillies\n\nIn Mabele village, close to the Namibian border, I watched a man mixing an extraordinary cocktail: crushed tabasco chillies, elephant dung and engine oil. With a flourish he set the contents on fire and stood back to admire his handiwork.\n\n\"That is supposed to stop an elephant trampling my crops,\" Chibeya Longwani told me, pointing at the ash in the tin.\n\nHe spread it along the sides of his field, beside plastic chairs, broken electric fans and beer crates, as instructed by the Ministry of Agriculture.\n\n\"They said that bees stop elephants too,\" Mr Longwani said. \"But they don't have the boxes at the moment.\" His frustration was obvious.\n\nAs well as advice on deterring elephants, farmers can claim compensation from the government if wild game does damage property. But if they kill the animals, they are likely to get nothing.\n\nPlastic refuse is used to try and deter elephants from farmland\n\nTo police the new approach, the Department of Wildlife and National Parks has recruited an army of Special Wildlife Scouts, operating in rural villages. Their job, for example, includes ensuring families don't take more than the five guinea fowl they are allowed each day, and that farmers are honest in their compensation claims.\n\nIt is a nationwide exercise in social engineering - trying to change the ancient relationship between the rural population and the wild animals around them. The government believes the long-term rewards justify the rules. Many farmers remain unconvinced.\n\nFor those tourists coming to Botswana with cameras rather than guns though, the policies have created an utterly captivating wild landscape teeming with amazing African animals and birds. And \"elite travellers\" are prepared to pay big money for the privilege of seeing it.\n\nDuring the high season, a single room in one of the most exclusive lodges on the Okovango Delta can cost more than $5,000 (£3,830) a night, equivalent to the price of a Namibian licence to shoot a single leopard.\n\nMany tourist lodge operators work in partnership with local villages. I encountered one lodge where 10% of the business turnover will soon go to the community nearby. Villagers often have a direct say in development plans.\n\nThere was a huge backlash after the much-loved Zimbabwean lion Cecil was killed in 2015\n\nInternational tourism is expected to bring in $210m (£160m) to Botswana this year, rising to $370m (£280) by 2021 - more than trophy hunters spend across the whole of southern Africa.\n\nMany in Zimbabwe, by contrast, see hunting as an inextricable part of Africa's cultural heritage, believing that, if done sustainably and responsibly, it can be a valuable addition to the region's economy and wildlife management.\n\nThe walking guides who take tourists into the bush there aren't allowed to operate until they have passed a state exam that includes shooting an elephant and a buffalo. I asked one guide how he had felt about doing it. \"It depends if you like hunting,\" was his enigmatic reply.\n\nThe Zimbabwean government argues that 75% of proceeds from trophy hunting goes towards wildlife preservation and anti-poaching initiatives.\n\nThe recent Great Elephant Census project suggests Zimbabwe's elephant population has fallen 11% in a decade, with poaching and illegal hunting threatening to wipe out whole herds in parts of the country.\n\nThe killing of Cecil the lion by an American trophy hunter just outside Zimbabwe's protected Hwange National Park area in 2015 made headline news around the world.\n\nThe furore prompted a number of airlines to ban the transport of \"trophies\" from Africa, another sign of how toxic hunting has become for international brands.\n\nThree years after introducing its hunting ban, Botswana is so far holding firm, despite huge pressure from other southern African nations.\n\nIt is a critical time for the policy. Any stumble, and the hunters are waiting on the horizon.", "The government is to lift the 1% public sector pay cap for the first time for both police and prison officers, the BBC understands.\n\nMinisters are expected to accept recommendations for higher pay rises this week and also to pave the way for similar increases in other sectors.\n\nUnions, the opposition, and some Tories are calling for the cap to be lifted.\n\nBut there are warnings that police forces have budgeted for a 1% rise and without extra money, jobs are at risk.\n\nThe BBC's home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said that while forces were welcoming reports of a pay rise, there were widespread concerns that it would put a huge strain on them if extra resources were not found.\n\nThe West Midlands Police and Crime commissioner has warned that, in such a scenario, 80 jobs would be lost for every 1% rise above the current cap.\n\n\"If the government do not put aside money to fund the pay increase, PCCs will be left with large bills and have no other option other than to reduce officer and staff numbers,\" Labour's David Jamieson said.\n\n\"The government must act quickly to ensure that its pay cap lifting is not a hollow gesture.\"\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.\n\nThe higher increases expected this week for police and prison officers are based on the recommendations of independent pay review bodies, with recruitment and retention problems being cited in the case of prison officers.\n\nThe BBC understands the Treasury will then issue guidance on next year's pay round, which is likely to see the cap eased in other areas where there are similar problems, such as teaching and nursing.\n\nNurses protested about the pay cap at Westminster last week\n\nMost - though not all - pay review bodies this year identified recruitment and retention problems, but decided to take note of government policy on wage restraint so they didn't recommend rises above an average of 1%.\n\nBut the police and prison officers review bodies, in as yet unpublished reports, did call for increases above 1% this summer, and the government has been mulling over how to handle a controversial issue.\n\nThis week it will agree to the recommendations, though there may be some creativity over how the pay awards are implemented.\n\nAnd the government would also say that some public sector workers have enjoyed rises above 1% through promotion or pay increments.\n\nBut now, more widely, the Treasury is expected to tell other pay bodies - covering teachers and NHS staff for example - that they can take recruitment and retention difficulties into account when recommending next year's increases.\n\nSo not lifting of the pay cap across the board - which Labour is calling for - but this could be, as the TUC put it, a crack in the ice of pay restraint.\n\nIt comes as MPs are set to vote on public sector pay on Wednesday.\n\nLabour's health spokesman Jon Ashworth urged Conservative MPs who \"sincerely\" believe the public sector pay cap should go to vote with his party during its Opposition Day debate, which would not be binding on the government.\n\nHe told Sky News: \"We keep getting briefings in newspapers and suggestions that the government is sympathetic and wants to do something, and 'oh, it's terrible and we accept that but let's see where we get to'.\"\n\nBut the TUC's Frances O'Grady said the government should not favour some public service workers over others - and speaking at the TUC conference in Brighton, she said nurses, paramedics and fire fighters \"are very angry\", adding that seven years was \"a long time for anyone to manage\" with pay restraint.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We're very clear that public service workers are a team. Pay shouldn't be a popularity contest. We know that front-line workers, so-called, depend on the whole team so we want a pay rise across the board.\"\n\nThe Public and Commercial Services union is to ballot its members on industrial action over the cap.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies has said raising pay in line with inflation for the next three or four years would cost £6bn to £7bn more than continuing with the current policy.\n\nDuring last week's Prime Minister's Questions, Theresa May said public sector workers were doing a vital job in often harrowing circumstances.\n\nShe added that the government would wait for the publication of the police and prison officers' pay review bodies' reports before deciding its policy framework for 2018-2019.\n• None Public sector pay: Will they or won't they?", "The service has been running since 2015\n\nAn open-top bus service has been axed because of \"hostility and tirades\" from residents, its operator says.\n\nDrivers of the Jurassic Mule service, on the Devon and Dorset coast, have been verbally abused and a bus depot entrance was \"deliberately blocked\".\n\nThe Mendip Mule Motorbus service runs through Beer, Colyton and Seaton in Devon, and on to Lyme Regis and Charmouth in Dorset.\n\nThe operator said buses will be withdrawn from service later.\n\nIt has been running since 2015 and employs 25 part-time staff.\n\nIssues over parking had arisen in Seaton and cars had been badly parked, intentionally, across Colyton bus depot's entrance, owner Derek Gawn said.\n\n\"I do realise that 99% of people do support us, but I can no longer cope with the 1%,\" said Mr Gawn.\n\nHe said the company used a bus park in Seaton, provided by East Devon District Council for use by buses and coaches on a pay-and-display basis.\n\n\"It isn't for the bus drivers to be shouted at by residents who don't welcome the facility,\" Mr Gawn continued.\n\n\"[And it's] not a particularly good welcome for the much-needed tourists bringing their spending to the town.\"\n\nEast Devon District Council said it was a matter for Seaton Town Council, which has not responded to a BBC request for comment.\n\n\"We have also experienced people deliberately parking their cars badly on the approach to our depot at Colyton Station in an attempt to make access difficult,\" Mr Gawn added.\n\nSome people have taken to social media in support of the service.\n\nOn Facebook, Clare Dare said: \"I think by moving next to a bus park there is a pretty good indication that there may possibly be a bus or 2 in there at some point!!!\"\n\nBecky Perry added: \"Such a shame my little boys loved their adventure on the open top bus this summer!\"\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. Jennifer, Kirsty, Kate and Amie (from left) drink mocktails and an alcohol-free beer\n\nAmie used to drink 30 pints in a weekend to \"keep up with the boys\".\n\n\"I could neck three bottles of wine and not think about it,\" said the 38-year-old from Derbyshire.\n\nHer drinking was so extreme that she contemplated suicide: \"I thought well, stuff's got to change.\"\n\nFor Jennifer, it caused her relationship with her partner to break down: \"I was like a different person when I was drinking - I had blackouts,\" she said.\n\nA report last year found women are now almost on a par with men when it comes to problematic drinking.\n\nBoth Amie and Jennifer had had enough of hangovers - and decided to give up alcohol.\n\nThey are doing it with the help of one programme designed to help people stop drinking called One Year No Beer, a scheme people pay to join which gives them strategies to help them to go alcohol-free.\n\nOne tactic is known as stealth drinking, where people pretend their non-alcoholic drink is alcohol, for example by getting a non-alcoholic beer in a pint glass topped up with lemonade.\n\nOne Year No Beer has seen a 10-fold increase in membership this year alone.\n\nThe alcohol-free drinks market is booming too.\n\nIn only five years, the amount of low or alcohol-free beer sold in the UK has risen by nearly 50%.\n\nAnd the world's first alcohol-free spirit Seedlip launched 21 months ago. In 12 months, it experienced a 1,000% rise in sales.\n\nThere are now clubs for people who want to get together without alcohol and the UK's first alcohol-free drinking festival was held in London last month.\n\nThe alcohol-free drinks market is booming as increasing numbers choose to give up alcohol\n\nThe clubs and the festival want to cater for the increasing number of Britons choosing to give up drink.\n\nA report by the Office for National Statistics in May found that just under 60% of those surveyed had had an alcoholic drink in the past week - the lowest rate since the survey began in 2005.\n\nAnother survey from 2015 found that one in four British people were thinking of cutting down their drinking or at least trying to reduce it.\n\nStill, many who have made the change complain that there are few options in traditional pubs other than sugary soft drinks.\n\nProf Luc Bovens, an expert in public health at London School of Economics, has made a number of recommendations to British pubs aimed at \"nudging\" people away from alcohol.\n\n\"The road to hangovers is often paved with good intentions, but by tinkering with the British pub's choice architecture we may be able to help some people,\" he wrote.\n\nHe suggested that pubs provide a no-alcohol or low-alcohol beer on tap and added: \"For many people, there is a distinct feeling of alienation in toasting proper pints with a sad little bottle.\"\n\nA spokesman for the British Beer & Pub Association said: \"No-alcohol beers are bottled because the sales volume typically wouldn't support a keg option.\n\n\"Our members have a good track record. Within the beer category, we've seen brewers remove 1.3 billion units from the market by the drinks industry as part of the Public Health Responsibility Deal, through producing low strength, or no strength options and reducing the strength of existing products.\"\n\nJennifer said one of the biggest challenges comes from friends: \"It's actually seen as bad or weird not drinking. It's like you're a minority, people look at you like you're an absolute weirdo.\"\n\nBut after 90 days of not drinking, her relationship with her partner is back on track and her life has improved: \"Getting up on a Monday is not a problem. I can bounce out of bed.\"\n\nMeanwhile for Amie, who has been alcohol-free for 16 months, the benefits have been vast: \"I lost four stone. I train six days a week. And everything I want to do, I can go and do.\"", "Russian television has broadcast a series of glowing reports on everyday life in North Korea\n\n\"It smells of freshness, and of our deep respect for our leader,\" the woman declared, smiling to the Russian TV camera.\n\nA North Korean, she'd just sniffed a big red flower named after the country's former leader Kim Jong-il.\n\nPart of a series of glowing reports on everyday life in the secretive state, covering topics from fashion to food, the moment was broadcast to millions of Russians watching state television over their breakfast.\n\nThe coverage suggested Russia was taking a rather different approach over North Korea's nuclear programme and its missile tests, two weeks after Donald Trump tweeted that the US military was \"locked and loaded\", primed to respond with what he called \"military solutions\".\n\nVladimir Putin has underlined those differences many times this week, warning against whipping up \"military hysteria\", and insisting that North Koreans would rather \"eat grass\" under more sanctions, than give up their weapons programme.\n\nAnd while he has criticised recent missile tests as \"provocative\", he's also taken pains to explain them.\n\nPresident Putin argues North Korea has developed its nuclear capability in self-defence\n\nNorth Koreans remember the 2003 US invasion of Iraq over Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons programme, Mr Putin reasoned.\n\nSo the country sees becoming a nuclear state as its only sure-fire guarantee of self-defence.\n\n\"Russia believes that Pyongyang's aim is not to bomb anyone, that its [nuclear programme] is a deterrent against South Korea and the US,\" explains Alexander Gabuev of the Moscow Carnegie Centre.\n\n\"Russia understands that because it is just as paranoid about American 'democracy promotion' as North Korea is,\" he adds.\n\nPutin - pictured with Kim Jong-il in 2002 - wrote off most of North Korea's Soviet-era debt\n\nPersonal experience is perhaps also partly why Russia - under US sanctions itself - opposes imposing further penalties on Pyongyang to halt its nuclear ambitions.\n\nThe US wants the international community to apply more economic pressure, including a full energy embargo and a ban on hiring North Korean labourers.\n\n\"What are we going to do? Stop all energy exports so people freeze and ambulances have no fuel to reach the sick?\" asks Georgy Toloraya, a Russian diplomat who spent many years in North Korea.\n\nHe says Russia's position is motivated by a principle, rather than concern over lost trade.\n\nPresident Putin himself described energy exports to its neighbour as \"practically zero\", though some 30,000 North Koreans are employed in logging and construction in Russia's Far East.\n\nThey are essentially hired out by the state which pockets most of their pay.\n\n\"It's not about whether Russia has any leverage. The question is why should we use that?\" Mr Toloraya asks.\n\n\"Our whole concept does not allow for the isolation and strangulation of North Korea, and the weakening of the regime,\" he explains.\n\nLike China, Russia shares a border with North Korea and sees it as a buffer against South Korea, a political and military ally of the US.\n\nMoscow and Beijing have presented their own road map for resolving the conflict.\n\nAs a first step, it calls for a joint freeze of Pyongyang's missile tests - and US and South Korean military exercises. The next step would be bringing all sides together for talks.\n\nSome suggest that strategy is more about posturing than peace: that Russia wants to insert itself into another global crisis.\n\n\"Russia knows that plan won't fly, but it makes the US look bad,\" Alexander Gabuev argues. \"At least China and Russia have a peaceful programme, whereas the US president is just tweeting about fire and fury.\"\n\nHe believes Moscow's leverage with Pyongyang these days is minimal, despite years of Soviet support for the regime.\n\nSouth Korean President Moon Jae-in (L) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) in Vladivostok, which felt the tremors from Pyongyang's latest missile test\n\nBut this week, following a trip to China, President Putin hosted the leaders of South Korea and Japan at an economic forum in eastern Russia, also attended by a delegation from North Korea.\n\nThey were in Vladivostok, which felt the tremors from Pyongyang's latest missile test.\n\n\"It's in our interests to have a peaceful, stable neighbour,\" Georgy Toloraya argues.\n\n\"As for North Korea, Russia is the least hostile of all the great powers involved in resolving this crisis,\" he says, insisting that historic ties mean Russia still knows \"many people\" who matter there.\n\nA guard at the Tumangan border crossing between Russia and North Korea\n\nA few years back, President Putin wrote off most of North Korea's Soviet-era debt in a major goodwill gesture.\n\nRecent efforts to improve ties have included a ferry service to the peninsula, and even a North Korean tourism agency in Moscow, presumably banking on a rush of visitors keen to sniff flowers named after its leaders.\n\nThe ferry has since been suspended due to lack of demand.\n\nAll this is unfolding as Russia's relations with Washington have plummeted amid allegations of interference in the US elections, sanctions and tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions.\n\nThe US wants to target the personal assets of North Korean President Kim Jong-un\n\nThat gives Moscow little incentive to back the US against Pyongyang. It knows the power to reward Russia by lifting sanctions now lies with a hostile US Congress.\n\nMeanwhile, Russian ties with China have been increasing in importance.\n\nSo the two continue to push for talks as the best way to prevent an accidental escalation of the Korean crisis into actual conflict.\n\n\"The Americans need to make contact [with Pyongyang] and the sooner the better. We can pass information on, if they want,\" says Mr Toloraya.\n\n\"Talks can go on for 10 or 20 years if necessary. But for that time we would have stability, not this creep towards war.\"", "Long journeys can seem even more tedious when they're accompanied by the kids in the back seat asking \"are we nearly there yet?\" every few miles. So it can be something of a relief when a familiar landmark comes into view, indicating the comforts of home are just around the corner.\n\nFrom tree-topped tors to man-made monoliths, people shared with BBC News their particular sights - and sites - that means the trip is nearing its end.\n\nKirsten Reeve with her son Archie and their \"coming home tree\"\n\nA solitary tree stands atop the natural knoll, which rises roughly 20m above the Severn Valley. Also known as the Crookbarrow Hill, the mound is a registered monument with Historic England as the site of a mediaeval fortification.\n\nMore importantly to some, though, the tree is a clear sign to those on the M5 that junction 7 - Worcester South - is drawing near.\n\nKirsten Reeves has nominated The Tump as her family's \"coming home tree\".\n\n\"It is very special to our family. I grew up in Worcester so seeing the tree as we travelled home from holidays on the M5 was always a very exciting moment and symbolised that just 10 minutes of the journey were left.\n\n\"After moving away for many years I decided to move 'home' when my husband and I started our family as he was in the navy and spent a long time away. Our two children now love seeing the coming home tree too and always spend the last part of our journeys trying to be the first one to spot it as it emerges.\n\n\"My husband has spent a lot of time at sea and after completing an 11-month deployment away from home said that the best thing ever was seeing that tree and knowing he was finally home.\"\n\nFor Nick Mitchell the Ouse Valley viaduct at Balcombe always marks his return from London to Sussex by train.\n\nHe tells the BBC: \"I know we are back in the countryside as we cross the magnificent structure.\n\n\"As the train soars over the beautiful Ouse Valley, passengers often look up from their newspapers and electronic devices to gaze out over the woods and fields.\n\n\"When there's heavy mist or it's dark, it feels like we are flying as you can't see the ground at all.\"\n\nThe National Lift Tower is a research facility built to test - you've guessed it - lifts.\n\nThe 127m (418ft) tall structure houses six lift shafts of varying heights, one of which is a high-speed shaft with a (theoretical) maximum speed of 10m/s (22mph).\n\nIt rose to wider fame when Sir Terry Wogan lampooned it on his BBC Radio 2 programme, dubbing it the \"Northampton lighthouse\". He even joked the east coast was eroding so quickly that the government had commissioned the \"lighthouse\" ready for Northampton's new coastal location.\n\nHe's quoted as saying: \"I don't think it was looked on in an architectural sense by my listeners - they're a bit too dim - we just took it for what it was: a lighthouse in the middle of nowhere.\"\n\nAccording to Christopher Watts, for whom it is the landmark that shows he's nearly home, it is known as \"Terry Wogan's lighthouse\".\n\n\"I also have a personal interest as l worked on it for six months during the construction, installing a lot of the lift equipment,\" Mr Watts says.\n\nSarah Dev-Sherman and her children enjoy spotting the tower on their way to visit family\n\nThe Church Langley Water Tower is a conspicuous landmark perched high above and on the west side of the M11.\n\nSarah Dev-Sherman, originally from Essex but now living in Norfolk, says whenever she and her children visit family \"there is always a race with the kids to see who can see the Church Langley water tower first.\n\n\"When we see it, it means we're nearly there after a long time in the car. It's such an iconic landmark you cannot fail to notice it.\"\n\nSue Simmons from Cambridge also lists it as her favourite sign that home is around the corner. \"We always shout 'home cone!' when we see it. People think we're strange, but it is now a family tradition.\"\n\nThe Penshaw Monument was built in 1844 in memory of John George Lambton, the first Earl of Durham. He was a reforming Whig politician with the nickname \"Radical Jack\" who inherited vast wealth, created by the coalmining interests on his family's estates, when he was only five.\n\nHe then became known as \"Jog Along Jack\" after saying \"a gentleman could jog along comfortably on £40,000 a year\".\n\nFor local boy Richard Speding, who has lived in London for more than 30 years, the Penshaw (pronounced Pen-sher) Monument is the first thing he looks for when leaving the A1 and joining the A690.\n\n\"It's then I know I'm only minutes from the village I was brought up in. If I have the time I will visit and climb up to the top and survey my hometown.\"\n\nHidden inside one of the towers is a secret passage which goes to the top of the 20m (66ft) structure - the National Trust opens the winding staircase to the public between Good Friday and the end of September.\n\nIts towering profile is one of the symbols on the badge of Sunderland Football Club.\n\nDream, a statue of the elongated head of a nine-year-old girl is located on the summit of the former Sutton Manor Colliery in St Helens, Merseyside, midway between Liverpool and Manchester.\n\nIt was created by Catalan artist Jaume Plensa after the group of former miners who made up the commissioning committee were unhappy with his first proposal - a statue of a mining lamp. They rejected the proposal and asked for something more \"present day and progressive\".\n\nIt's a homecoming landmark for Maeve and Maurice Harris, who remember the topping off ceremony in 2009 as it was on the same day as the birth of their first grandchild.\n\n\"For that reason, we always call her \"Your Grace\" after our granddaughter Gracie. She's a special reminder of a special time and always makes us smile on the way back to Warrington.\"\n\nThe Parish Church of St Mary and All Saints has a vision-bendingly twisty spire, which signifies \"home\" for John Merry. He says local lore has it that the devil or a witch caused the twist when being expelled from the area.\n\nThe spire is made of wood and clad in lead. It's thought the lean on the tower is accidental and arose from the use of unseasoned timber and inexperienced craftsmen, while the twist is a deliberate design.\n\nThe church survived underground activities of both coalmining and railway works, as well as two world wars, but nearly succumbed to fire in 1961.\n\nThis story was inspired by responses to How do you know when you're nearly home?\n• None The landmarks that mean you're nearly home", "The couple took their two children, George and Charlotte, on an official visit to Poland in July\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are expecting their third child, Kensington Palace has announced.\n\nThe Queen and both families are said to be \"delighted with the news\".\n\nAs with her previous two pregnancies, the duchess, 35, is suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum, or severe morning sickness.\n\nShe pulled out of an engagement at the Hornsey Road Children's Centre in London, which had been planned for Monday afternoon.\n\nCatherine is being cared for at Kensington Palace, the statement said.\n\nThe duke and duchess have a son, George, who is four, and a daughter, Charlotte, aged two.\n\nWith the previous two pregnancies, the couple announced them before the 12-week mark - when most women have their first scan - because of the duchess being unwell with hyperemesis gravidarum.\n\nHer first pregnancy was revealed when she was just a few weeks pregnant with Prince George after she was admitted to hospital in December 2012.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry gives a thumbs up to the royal baby news\n\nThe duchess's second pregnancy with Princess Charlotte was announced in September 2014, when she was treated at the palace for the condition.\n\nHyperemesis gravidarum affects about one in every 200 pregnancies and results in severe nausea and vomiting - with one of the main dangers being dehydration.\n\nOnce again Prince William and his wife - who are very focused on being in control - have been thwarted.\n\nAnd once again, it's due to circumstances outside their control.\n\nThe couple have been forced to make the announcement at a time not of their choosing - and while the duchess is still in the early stages of her pregnancy - because she is suffering from very acute morning sickness.\n\nThey were poised to take on more royal duties. They are now preparing to welcome another addition to their family.\n\nAn addition that will attract considerable global interest. The child's grandmother is the late Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nThis princess or prince is unlikely to be crowned monarch. As things stand, that future awaits their brother, Prince George.\n\nSo there is no constitutional significance to the birth next year.\n\nBut an ancient institution that already appears pretty secure has just been further buttressed.\n\nThe three Cambridge siblings will fashion the future of the British monarchy well into the 21st Century.\n\nThe BBC's royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said the announcement comes at the start of a \"significant week\" for the family \"because Prince George is due to start at big school.\"\n\n\"Presumably his mother would be keen to take him to that, [but] whether she is going to be well enough to do that remains to be seen,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"It had also been expected that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge would be taking a foreign trip this autumn,\" he added.\n\n\"Whether they will be able to do that or whether the duchess will be well enough to do that also remains to be seen.\"\n\nThe expected child will become the fifth in line to the throne behind Prince Charles, Prince William, Prince George and Princess Charlotte.\n\nA change - which stops royal sons taking precedence over their female siblings in the line of succession - came into force in March 2015.\n\nThe child will be the Queen's sixth great-grandchild.\n\nTo become King or Queen as the third-born royal child is rare - and has yet to happen within the current House of Windsor.\n\nBut the third child of George III and Queen Charlotte, William IV, took on the task and ruled from 1830 to 1837.\n\nThe Hanoverian king acceded to the throne aged 64 when his older brother, George IV, died without an heir.\n\nHe became next in line when he was 62 and his other older brother, Frederick, Duke of York, died.\n\nArriving in Manchester for a royal visit, Prince Harry - who will drop to sixth in line to the throne when the child is born - said the news was \"fantastic\" and he was \"very, very happy\".\n\nClarence House has tweeted on behalf of the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall to say they are \"delighted\".\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May has tweeted her congratulations to the couple, calling it \"fantastic 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 UK Prime Minister This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Asked to name important inventors and you might start with Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell or Leonardo da Vinci.\n\nBut what about Mary Anderson? Or Ann Tsukamoto?\n\nYou might not know their names, but they are just two of the female inventors behind everyday objects and scientific innovations.\n\nBBC 100 Women, the season featuring stories of inspiring and influential women, is taking on a new challenge.\n\nThis year, women from around the world will be asked to come up with innovations to tackle some of the biggest problems they face.\n\nScroll down for more information about 100 Women - and, for more inspiration, here are nine inventions we wouldn't have, if it weren't for ground-breaking women.\n\nAfter joining the US Navy during the Second World War, Rear Admiral Grace Hopper was assigned to work on a new computer, called the Mark 1.\n\nIt wasn't long before she was at the forefront of computer programming in the 1950s.\n\nShe was behind the compiler, which could translate instructions into code that computers can read, making programming quicker and ultimately revolutionising how computers worked.\n\nHopper also helped popularised the term \"de-bugging\" that we still use on computers programmes today, after a moth was removed from inside her machine.\n\n\"Amazing Grace\", as she was known, continued working with computers until she retired from the navy as its oldest serving officer, aged 79.\n\nDr Shirley Ann Jackson is an American theoretical physicist, whose research from the 1970s is responsible for caller ID and call waiting.\n\nHer breakthroughs in telecommunications have also enabled others to invent the portable fax, fibre optic cables and solar cells.\n\nShe is the first African-American woman to gain a PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the first African-American woman to lead a top-ranked research university.\n\nOn a winter's day of 1903, Mary Anderson was visiting New York City when she noticed that her driver was forced to open his window, just to the clear the snow from his windscreen.\n\nEvery time the window was open, the passengers in the car got colder.\n\nAnderson started drawing her solution of a rubber blade that could be moved from inside the car, and in 1903 was awarded a patent for her device.\n\nBut the invention proved unsuccessful with car companies, who believed it would distract drivers.\n\nAnderson never profited from her invention, even when the wipers later became standard on cars.\n\nIt might not have the catchiest name on this list, but the long cycle-life nickel-hydrogen battery has helped power the International Space Station, so it's pretty important.\n\nOlga D Gonzalez-Sanabria, who is originally from Puerto Rico, developed technology which helped create these batteries in the 1980s and is now director of engineering at Nasa's Glenn Research Centre.\n\nBBC 100 Women names 100 influential and inspirational women around the world every year. In 2017, we're challenging them to tackle four of the biggest problems facing women today - the glass ceiling, female illiteracy, harassment in public spaces and sexism in sport.\n\nWith your help, they'll be coming up with real-life solutions and we want you to get involved with your ideas. Find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter and use #100Women\n\nA frequent entertainer, Cochrane wanted a machine that would wash her dishes faster than her servants, and be less likely to break them.\n\nHer machine, which involved a motor turning a wheel inside a copper boiler, was the first automatic dishwasher to use water pressure.\n\nCochrane's alcoholic husband had left her with masses of debt after his death and this motivated her to patent her invention in 1886 and open her own production factory.\n\nA nurse, who was often home alone, Marie Van Brittan Brown came up with an idea that would make her feel safer.\n\nTogether with her husband Albert, Van Brittan Brown developed the first home security system in response to the rising crime rates and slow police responses of the 1960s.\n\nThe device was complicated, with a camera powered by a motor which moved up and down the door to look through a peephole.\n\nA monitor in her bedroom also came equipped with an alarm button.\n\nHer patent was awarded in 1991 and since then Tsukamoto's work has led to great advancements in understanding the blood systems of cancer patients, which could lead to a cure for the disease.\n\nTsukamoto is currently conducting further research into stem cell growth and is the co-patentee on more than seven other inventions.\n\nThis chemist invented the lightweight fibre used in bullet-proof vests and body armour.\n\nSince her discovery in 1965, the material, which is five times stronger than steel, has saved lives and is used by millions every day.\n\nIt's found in products ranging from household gloves and mobiles phones to aeroplanes and suspension bridges.\n\nA man named Charles Darrow is often credited with creating the most popular board game in history, but the rules were in fact invented by Elizabeth Magie.\n\nMagie wanted to demonstrate the problems with capitalism with an innovative game in which players traded fake money and property.\n\nHer design, which she patented in 1904, was called The Landlord's Game.\n\nThe game of Monopoly that we know today was published in 1935 by the Parker Brothers, who discovered that Darrow was not the sole creator and had, for just $500 (£385), bought Magie's patent and, well, monopolised the game.\n\nThere are many more female inventors out there, so let us know your favourites by getting in touch on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, using #100Women.", "Eve Senior and her mother Natalie later returned to visit the Arena\n\nThe morning after the Manchester Arena bomb an image of one girl filled the front pages of almost every newspaper.\n\nHer name is Eve Senior. She's 14 but looks older in the photo - she had dressed up and done her make-up to go to the Ariana Grande concert.\n\nShe was a few metres from Salman Abedi when he detonated his suicide bomb, killing 22 people.\n\nIn the picture, half her jeans had been cut off by paramedics and she needed help to walk because of 14 shrapnel wounds she had suffered. Once at hospital medics operated to remove the lumps of metal from her legs.\n\nFor many people the photograph conveyed the awful reality of the attack. An attack targeting a concert packed with children.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eve Senior, 14, speaks on the effect of the Manchester Arena attack on her\n\nBut another image that has stayed with me is of Eve's younger sister.\n\nOn the night of the bomb I watched as 11-year-old Emilia was scooped up by her father and carried away from the arena. She is too tall for her dad to carry very far. But he tried.\n\nOnce through the police cordon she was hugged and kissed by her grandparents. I heard her quietly say to them that she was one of the lucky ones.\n\nThat night, Emilia told me they had been leaving the concert when the bomb went off.\n\n\"We walked out and then suddenly something really hot flew over us,\" she said. \"We all dropped to the floor.\"\n\nHer mother and sister were still inside waiting to go to hospital. Emilia wiped her face and said: \"My sister's really bad.\"\n\nShe was remarkably calm and articulate. But looking back at footage of that interview now, you can see the fear.\n\nFour weeks later, I met Emilia again at her home near Bradford, West Yorkshire. She told me that as she left Manchester Arena on the night of the bomb she was convinced her big sister was dying.\n\nThis was also the first time I met Eve. She was still struggling to walk because of the shrapnel wounds and nerve damage. As a teenage girl and talented dancer, the way her legs looked and worked was important to her.\n\nShe had been told she still had months of physiotherapy ahead of her and doctors had mentioned the possibility of plastic surgery.\n\n\"Some of my friends don't understand how long it's going to take,\" she said. \"I don't think I understand.\"\n\nHer parents Andrew and Natalie told me Eve had good days and bad days. The bad days were really tough.\n\nEmilia's hearing in one ear was damaged by the blast, but she escaped any other physical injuries. Her parents' main concern was about the psychological impact.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emilia Senior was at Manchester Arena on the night of the attack\n\nAs she talked to me about the way her mind played and replayed what she saw that night, it became clear why.\n\n\"I see all of it. I see the flashing lights of the explosion,\" she said.\n\n\"I see the people being thrown in the air who were probably dead. And then you play it. And then you pause it. It's like my mind took a photo. That's what it feels like when you think about it.\"\n\nHer father was sitting quietly next to her, taking in what she was saying.\n\nHer mother, who was also injured in the explosion, said: \"For an 11-year-old child to have seen the things she saw, it's going to be a long process.\"\n\nBy early July, when I next met the family, Emilia had turned 12 and Eve was walking without crutches.\n\nI went with them to their local hospital where Eve and her mother had a physiotherapy session.\n\nThey had made huge progress, but for Eve it wasn't fast enough.\n\nEmilia Senior (centre) and Eve, pictured with their mother, Natalie\n\n\"It feels like I'm not improving at all,\" she said. \"I know I am. But it feels like that, because I just want to be able to do all the stuff I did before.\"\n\nFor her mother, each physiotherapy session had been a reminder of how far they had come.\n\n\"We've turned a real corner,\" she said. \"Eve's getting a lot more mobile which has been a big thing for us.\"\n\nThey had been for days out together and one of their outings was to Manchester.\n\nLike other survivors, the family had been offered the chance to visit the arena before its scheduled reopening. They had doubts in the days before the visit. The girls' parents hoped it would help them move forward, but feared the girls would find it totally overwhelming.\n\nIn the end it did help. It helped them fill in the gaps and get a better sense of what happened. They calculated that Eve was 5m from Abedi when he detonated the bomb.\n\nPolice urged people to stay calm and move away from the area on the night of the attack\n\n\"I was really scared to go,\" Eve told me. \"I was crying before I even went in. But as soon as I got in there, you felt more calm.\"\n\nHer mother said that for weeks after the attack she'd pictured the Arena foyer as a cold and frightening place. But going back changed that.\n\n\"It was as if you were going back somewhere where you found a bit of peace,\" she said.\n\nEve's face lit up when she talked about the staff at Manchester Children's Hospital.\n\n\"Before Manchester I had no idea what I wanted to be when I grow up,\" she said.\n\n\"But staying in hospital and seeing what the nurses do and how good they are - when I'm older I want to be a nurse.\"\n\nEmilia has also found ways to cope. As her mother and sister worked out at their physio session, she chatted to me while colouring-in.\n\nIt is easy to forget how young she is. Her colouring book reminded me. She told me her trauma counsellor had suggested colouring as way to block out the images that had been filling her mind.\n\nRemarkably, she said she did not hate the man who carried out the attack.\n\n\"You have to forgive and forget in life, or else you're not going to get anywhere.\"\n\nThis family is one of hundreds deeply and permanently affected by the Manchester attack. But despite all they have been through, they still regard themselves as the lucky ones.\n\nAlongside hospital appointments and counselling sessions, they have found the time to hold fundraising events for the Manchester Emergency Fund and Victim Support.\n\nMr Senior told me he constantly thinks about the fathers whose children did not survive.\n\n\"It changes your perspective on things,\" he said. \"We're always going to have Manchester as a part of our family now.\"\n\nInside Out North West is at 19:30 BST on BBC One in the North West and later on BBC iPlayer for 30 days.", "Many recipients of the Daca programme have taken to the streets to defend it\n\nUS President Donald Trump has decided to scrap a programme that protects young undocumented immigrants, according to reports.\n\nHe will give Congress six months to draw up legislation to replace the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca), sources quoted by US media say.\n\nThe decision, first reported in Politico, is considered a compromise amid strong support for the scheme.\n\nHowever, the sources cautioned that Mr Trump could still change his mind.\n\nHe is due to formally announce his decision on Tuesday.\n\nThe Obama-era Daca programme protects hundreds of thousands of so-called \"Dreamers\" from deportation and provides work and study permits.\n\nCandidate Trump promised to do away with Daca, and it appears that's what he's going to do, despite warnings from a cross-party collection of politicians. Or, knowing this president, those objections from \"the establishment\" only make him more determined to act.\n\nFortunately for him, unlike repealing Obamacare or building his Mexican border wall, he doesn't need Congress's help here.\n\nIn fact, by setting a six-month fuse on Daca's destruction, Mr Trump puts all the pressure on legislators if they want to protect undocumented immigrants who entered the US as children.\n\nWhile the votes may be there for some type of fix, Congress already has its hands full with other pressing issues - hurricane relief, budget resolutions, the need to authorise new government debt and, at some point, tax reform.\n\nMr Trump may not care, but he's putting Republicans with tough re-election races in a difficult spot. If the president's Daca bomb goes off, they will face angry constituents just as the campaign season gets into gear.\n\nThe president, however, satisfies his anti-immigration base with this move - and washes his hands of the matter. The loyalists who have stood by him are rewarded, others in his party be damned.\n\nAccording to Politico, the White House informed House Speaker Paul Ryan of the president's decision on Sunday morning.\n\nMr Ryan last week urged the president not to scrap the scheme, arguing it left many young people \"in limbo\".\n\n\"These are kids who know no other country, who were brought here by their parents and don't know another home,\" he said.\n\nPresident Trump has previously said he \"loves\" the Dreamers\n\nMr Ryan is one of a growing number of Republican lawmakers and business leaders to speak out against scrapping the programme.\n\nWhile campaigning for office, Mr Trump took a hard-line on immigration and said he planned to \"immediately terminate\" the Daca programme.\n\nBut since then he has said he finds the subject \"very, very tough\".\n\nHe said he intends to show \"great heart\" in dealing with what he described as, in many cases, \"incredible kids\".\n\nThe decision to give Congress six months to draft an alternative is seen as a compromise after Republican lawmakers and business leaders from companies including Google, General Motors and Microsoft urged Mr Trump to retain the programme.\n\nOn Sunday, former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton tweeted: \"Thanks to Dreamers' courage & resolve, #DACA has allowed thousands of young people to contribute to our society. We're better for 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 by Bernie Sanders This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nIleana Ros-Lehtinen, a Cuban-American Republican Representative from Florida, also took to Twitter to vent her frustration, saying: \"After teasing #Dreamers for months with talk of his 'great heart,' @POTUS slams door on them. Some 'heart'.\"\n\nThe Daca programme protects roughly 750,000 people in the US from deportation and provides temporary permits for work and study.\n\nIn order to qualify for Daca, applicants under the age of 30 submit personal information to the Department of Homeland Security.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThey must go through an FBI background check and have a clean criminal background, and either be in school, recently graduated or have been honourably discharged from the military.\n\nIn exchange, the US government agrees to \"defer\" any action on their immigration status for a period of two years.\n\nThe majority of so-called Dreamer immigrants in the US are from Mexico and other Latin American countries.", "Chinese President Xi is, again, dealing with the crisis while in the middle of hosting an international summit\n\nIn the small Chinese city of Yanji, the ground was moving.\n\nThis Korean-speaking region sits on the border with North Korea and soon local bloggers were posting images on social media of things shaking.\n\nWhat they could not have known was that this earthquake was man-made.\n\nNot far away, the government in Pyongyang was soon declaring the successful test of a hydrogen bomb - its most powerful to date.\n\nThe timing was a clear slap in the face for Beijing.\n\nJust hours after the underground nuclear test, President Xi Jinping was due to make a speech as the head of state for the nation hosting the Brics summit, which would welcome delegates from Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa to Xiamen.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by China Xinhua 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\nIt is conceivable that North Korea did not necessarily choose the opening day of this major diplomatic gathering for its test but it certainly did not see the need to call it off for fear of offending China.\n\nAnd, what is more, these weapons test \"coincidences\" are now starting to mount up when it comes to Xi Jinping.\n\nIn March, just before the Chinese leader was set to meet United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Beijing, North Korea announced the successful test of a new type of rocket engine.\n\nThen in May President Xi was preparing to open the One Belt One Road forum. The leaders of dozens of nations had come to the Chinese capital to discuss economic development and transport infrastructure around the Chinese leader's signature foreign policy initiative. Then, whoooooosh! Off goes another North Korean missile test to steal the limelight before the summit could even get going.\n\nThat this could have happened again with the Brics summit is incredible.\n\nXi Jinping - who is also the chair of the Central Military Commission in China - cannot be happy with this emerging pattern.\n\nPeople look across to North Korea from Tumen\n\nThe North Koreans, in turn, would be furious with the behaviour of their old Cold War allies. China has not only backed sanctions against them in the United Nations Security Council but, as the isolated regime's principal trading partner, it has also been the principal implementer of these sanctions, turning back coal shipments and the like.\n\nYet most observers know that, if it really wanted to, Beijing could bring crippling economic pain to North Korea. Heading into winter, it could freeze oil and gas supplies.\n\nThen there are the banks.\n\nNorth Korea is thought to conduct an enormous amount of laundered business via Chinese financial institutions. Various front businesses have been set up to facilitate money and products to flow in and out of the country with the assistance of these bodies. The Chinese government cannot be unaware of this and they could pull the plug on it tomorrow if they wanted to.\n\nBut they don't for one reason.\n\nThe Chinese government does not like the regional instability that their neighbour's nuclear weapons testing programme brings, but Beijing fears something even more.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThey worry that total regime collapse in Pyongyang, leading to a unified Korean Peninsula dominated by the South, could lead to US troops on the border within marching distance of Yanji and they will put up with an awful lot from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea as long as this does not happen.\n\nThe Environment Ministry here has announced that it has now started \"emergency radiation testing\" along the frontier. The government's displeasure would be significant if Chinese territory has been contaminated.\n\nThe Chinese Foreign Ministry's official response to this latest North Korean nuclear weapons test condemned it strongly but, with increasingly loud calls coming for this country to do more to pressure Kim Jong-un to give up intercontinental ballistic missile ambitions, there would be serious frustration within the upper echelons of the Chinese Communist Party as to what they can realistically do next.\n\nThe North Korean leader has made his nuclear ambitions a hallmark of his administration to the extent that it is hard to see what type of offering or threat could alter this situation.\n\nThat is, unless the US and China have come up with a secret agreement which would see American troops leave Korea in the event of unification… if that was in place it could change everything.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nPostal workers are being offered £1,000 per week to steal bank cards, a BBC investigation has found.\n\nOnline adverts offer huge sums to tempt Royal Mail staff to intercept letters containing cards and PINs.\n\nMore than 11,000 people in the UK have been affected by this type of fraud in 2016, where bank cards are stolen in transit, according to UK Finance.\n\nRoyal Mail would not disclose how many workers had been convicted but claimed \"the theft of mail is very rare\".\n\nIt added its security team was investigating the findings by BBC Inside Out West Midlands and it had no evidence of its employees being involved.\n\nWest Midlands Police said its economic and fraud teams are not aware of the BBC's findings and it has not had any reports of this type of fraud.\n\nA BBC journalist posed as a postman and responded to an advert offering £1,000 per week to intercept letters.\n\nAfter a few weeks working to build up the gang's trust, he was able to persuade a member to meet him.\n\nAdverts posted online promise up to £1,000 a week for postal workers willing to intercept letters\n\nOur reporter secretly filmed a meeting outside the bus station in Lewisham, south-east London, where the gang member explained what was expected.\n\n\"We're going to tell you, for example, that Ms *****, she's going to have a letter from NatWest,\" he told the undercover journalist.\n\n\"Any letters from NatWest for Ms *****, intercept. As simple as that.\n\n\"If you open up a new account you're going to get your card and you're going to get your PIN, right? Two letters, that's all it is.\n\n\"We do that, you intercept the letters, bring them back to us, you get paid.\"\n\nThe gang member said his contact in Birmingham works with \"a number of postmen\"\n\nOne gang in Birmingham has been operating for 30 years, according to the unidentified member who said the leader has \"been in the game for 30 years\".\n\n\"I've worked with two. One was in the Midlands - Coventry - and one was on the outskirts of London, Romford area.\n\n\"But my guy, he lives in Birmingham and I obviously do the work, he sorts out the other side.\"\n\nWhen confronted, the gang member offered no explanation for the gang's crimes\n\nOn their second meeting in a south London park, the undercover journalist confronted his contact.\n\nThe gang member offered no answer and ran away when asked why he was trying to recruit postal workers to commit fraud.\n\nRoyal Mail would not comment on how many of its workers had been prosecuted for stealing mail since it was privatised in 2013.\n\nHowever, 1,759 Royal Mail workers were convicted of theft between 2007 and 2011.\n\nFigures from UK Finance show the problem does not seem to be getting any better with the number of cases, and the cost to card issuers, rising each year since 2014.\n\nIn 2016, there were 11,377 cases of fraud where a card is stolen in transit, costing card issuers £12.5m.\n\nUK Finance said it works closely with Royal Mail to target these types of gangs. It has its own police unit with prosecution powers.\n\n\"We do have our own police unit and they target organised criminality,\" Katy Worobec, head of fraud detection at UK Finance said.\n\n\"They try and get the people who are actually organising the criminality behind the scene.\n\n\"Once you've taken that part of the gang out, the thing falls apart.\n\n\"We've got a very good relationship with Royal Mail to help target these types of gangs and we've seen some good successes in the past.\"\n\nRoyal Mail said: \"We take all instances of fraud - alleged or actual - very seriously.\n\n\"Our security team is reviewing the programme's findings as a matter of urgency and will continue our close and ongoing cooperation with the relevant law enforcement agency.\n\n\"The overwhelming majority of postmen and women do all they can to protect the mail and deliver it safely. The safety and security of mail is of the utmost importance to Royal Mail.\n\n\"We deliver millions of items safely every day and the theft of mail is rare. The business operates a zero tolerance approach to any dishonesty. We prosecute anyone we believe has committed a crime.\"\n\nMr Blythe is blind and said he was left depressed and unable to get out of the house when his money was stolen\n\nDarren Blythe, from Banbury, had his bank card intercepted by postal worker Damon Alvey in 2013.\n\nHe sensed something was wrong when the new bank card he requested did not arrive within the estimated time.\n\n\"I was waiting and waiting and eventually I rang the bank and that's when they told me my bank account had been wiped out totally.\"\n\nAlvey, from Thame, was jailed for 10 months in 2014 for the fraud which saw about £3,000 taken from Mr Blythe's account.\n\n\"He left me with just over £2 in my account,\" Mr Blythe said.\n\n\"It made me really depressed. I was stuck indoors for days and days on end.\"\n\nAlthough his money was refunded by the bank within two weeks, Mr Blythe said he did not \"trust postmen any more really\".\n\nYou can see this story in full on BBC Inside Out West Midlands at 19:30 BST on BBC One on Monday 4 September, or via iPlayer for seven days afterwards.", "US soccer promoter Charlie Stillitano has been called many things in the past 18 months or so - with \"power broker\" and \"mogul\" among the more flattering descriptions of the ebullient New Yorker.\n\nOn the downside, for his apparent suggestion that a European super league might be an idea worth talking about, he has been called \"a poster boy for greed\" and even \"a corporate goblin\".\n\nStillitano is the executive chairman of Relevant Sports, which organises the International Champions Cup, an annual summer tournament held mainly across the US - although other countries also host matches - featuring the world's top football clubs.\n\nBut it was for organising a meeting of executives from Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea - where they discussed the possibility of restructuring the Uefa Champions League - that he found himself in the firing line.\n\n\"It was not our [Relevant's] intention to be a stalking horse for the creation of a European Super League, that was never the intention,\" he tells me.\n\n\"I would never advocate a closed-shop Champions League or any closed European league. I know it sounds cliched but I was misquoted, or rather I was asked a question about whether closed leagues can ever work.\n\nStillitano has been a football fan since his childhood days in the 1960s\n\n\"And in some circumstances they can - look at NFL American football, one of the most successful leagues in the world. But I know that closed leagues are anathema in Europe.\"\n\nThe 57-year-old says discussions about the format of European football first emerged because clubs came to him and asked if the Champions Cup could become more than just a pre-season event, and be put on a more official footing.\n\nStillitano says he got sucked into a Champions League controversy inadvertently\n\n\"So things were coming about more as a reaction to teams approaching us,\" he says. \"We caused a stir unintentionally. And clubs are still coming up to us.\n\n\"Anyway, the big European clubs ended up cutting new commercial and sporting deals, including the changes at Uefa with the Champions League,\" he adds, referring to the deal where bigger nations such as England are guaranteed more places.\n\nStillitano's partner in the International Champions Cup is US billionaire and Miami Dolphins American football team owner, Stephen Ross.\n\nIndeed, he says it is Ross's lack of a traditional soccer background that has enabled him to put together some of the bigger Champions Cup matches.\n\n\"We brokered the biggest game, the Real Madrid v Barcelona Clasico, in Miami this summer,\" he says. \"Steve Ross has the advantage of not being a massive soccer follower, so he just said 'let's get it' without even considering it might not be possible.\n\n\"From the beginning Mr Ross and his business partner Matt Higgins could see there was something out there, a huge untapped soccer market.\n\nFive English clubs took part in the 2017 event\n\n\"The Champions Cup sits in a nice pre-season niche. It gives us the opportunity to own the month of pre-season, and build a viable business.\n\n\"We get to show the best players in the world, and they are able to perform in a relaxed atmosphere without the the pressure of a regular season game. It allows the teams to build for their seasons.\"\n\nThe tournament has just completed its fifth year, with Ross investing roughly $100m over the period since 2013.\n\n\"We are making money out of it, we have turned the financial corner, I think the investment has paid off,\" says Stillitano.\n\nStillitano says the Champions Cup is creating a new generation of US soccer fans\n\n\"I know it is not a Champions League or regular season games. But the fans love it and lots of cities and clubs would live to have Champions Cup games to host.\n\n\"We are helping to cultivate the new US soccer fan. The biggest crowd ever for a Manchester United v Real Madrid game was in America this summer. Clearly we have something that has caught the imagination of the US sporting public.\"\n\nGrew up watching Italian and German football on cable TV\n\nDirector of Giants Stadium at the 1994 World Cup\n\nIn 1996 became general manager of MLS team New York/New Jersey MetroStars (later Red Bulls)\n\nSet up Champions World series of games in the US featuring major European teams in the 2000s\n\nStillitano says the next step is to make the event more of an entertainment property.\n\n\"We saw it for the first time in Miami with the Clasico,\" he says. \"We had legends games, concerts, activities for kids. That is something we want to expand, make it a fun day out, not just the match. The NFL Super Bowl is currently the only event that gets that mix right.\n\n\"The next part is also to attract more cities to take part - Singapore is a good example of a city that has come on board with us.\"\n\nGames have also been held in England, Italy, Spain, Canada, Mexico and China; Mr Stillitano says there is interest in Argentina, Brazil, the Middle East, and South Africa.\n\n\"It is good for the economies of host cities,\" he says. \"Three quarters of the people who came to the Miami Clasico were from out of state. And there were 70,000 at the game, and 40,000 at the training sessions.\"\n\nFifa took over the former Intercontinental Cup/Toyota Cup\n\nSo, does this growth signal that the Champions Cup is indeed ripe for becoming a part of the official football calendar?\n\n\"Different people own different football spaces... but things change,\" he says. \"Look at how Fifa decided they wanted to take over the old Intercontinental Cup, and moved in on it.\n\n\"However, are we going to morph into something more official? I don't think so.\"\n\nAnd on the subject of competitions morphing into something else, Stillitano has a final riposte for those who accused him of trying to set up a closed-shop European league.\n\n\"I think we are already in danger of creating a closed league, through financial fair play,\" he says, referring to Uefa rules which generally mean clubs can only spend what they make, and break even.\n\nPSG are emerging as one of clutch of super-wealthy European teams\n\n\"It means there are five, six, clubs that are wealthy enough to dominate the Champions League over the next 20 years - the likes of Paris Saint Germain, Manchester City, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich.\n\n\"A Celtic or Ajax will never win the cup again, while the likes of AC Milan, Atletico Madrid, Juventus, and other historic big names are condemned to almost second tier status.\"\n\nHe laughs: \"But I am the one who got all the trouble and criticism!\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Polar Row crew were taken to mainland Norway by the Norwegian coastguard\n\nA group of rowers has been rescued by the coastguard from a remote Norwegian island, where they had been stuck for more than two weeks.\n\nThe crew, including British Olympian Alex Gregory, had been stranded on Jan Mayen since 19 August, a month after starting to row from Norway to Iceland.\n\nThe group, who were taken to the Norwegian mainland, sought refuge on the island because of ill health.\n\nDespite not completing the row, they say they achieved 11 world records.\n\nIn a post on the group's Polar Row Facebook page, they said: \"The Polar Row crew and boat is now on mainland Norway!\n\n\"Thanks to the great hospitality of the Norwegians on Jan Mayen and the Norwegian coastguard who gave us a lift to the mainland.\n\n\"It's been an extremely successful trip, although some amendments due to the circumstances, we are extremely happy to have accomplished the expedition.\"\n\nThey said the group's injuries were better and Gregory's \"infamous\" hands - which he pictured on social media on 30 August - were healing and \"looking less like he should be in a morgue every day\".\n\nThe crew of nine, which included four Britons and men from Iceland, India, the United States and Norway, are now due to fly home.\n\nThey were looked after by the Norwegian military on the island while they awaited rescue.\n\nIn a Facebook post, Oxfordshire-based Gregory said it had been \"one extraordinary month, something unexpected and interesting at every turn\".\n\n\"Hopefully now the flights are simple and straightforward because I need to get home in time for my daughter Daisy's first day of school tomorrow!\"\n\nOn 20 July, the group set out from Tromso, Norway and headed north towards Svalbard, a group of islands which lie midway between the mainland and the North Pole.\n\nIn nine days the crew completed the 521 nautical miles (965 km) and achieved eight world records.\n\nThey spent two nights in Svalbard making changes to the crew and preparing for the second leg of the row to Iceland.\n\nOn 7 August, the group began the next part of their expedition, and three days later they reached the Arctic sea ice, becoming the first recorded rowing boat to reach such a northerly latitude.\n\nBut soon after, the weather became overcast, and after five days of no visible sun the boat's solar-powered batteries had drained.\n\nEight days after leaving Svalbard, the power had stopped all electrical equipment from working.\n\nAlex Gregory said it had been an \"extraordinary month\"\n\nThe crew had to resort to manual steering and without navigational aids decided to head towards the island of Jan Mayen - 370 miles (600 km) from Iceland.\n\nIn a post on 18 August, while still at sea, the group said they had had a \"phenomenally tough 72 hours\".\n\n\"I've never been so wet and cold. It's seeping into my bones, there is absolutely no escape from it. Two degrees, 99% humidity [so] nothing will dry,\" said Gregory.\n\nA day later they reached the island. Its only inhabitants are Norwegian Armed Forces personnel, and a small number of people working for the Norwegian Meteorological Institute.\n\nDue to ill health, four members of the crew then decided they would not continue to Iceland.\n\nThe rowers set out from Tromso, Norway, on 20 July\n\nFiann Paul, captain of Polar Row, said that despite his attempts, he was unable to get a new crew in to complete the row.\n\n\"Regardless of that, the project was a spectacular success,\" he said.\n\n\"We missed one record but we got 11.\n\n\"Looking at the entire project I can proudly say that there will be no other ocean row that successful ever again.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Kirsty Gallacher was more than three-times the drink-drive limit when she was pulled over in Eton, Berkshire\n\nTelevision presenter Kirsty Gallacher has admitted drink-driving after being caught at more than three times the legal limit.\n\nThe Sky Sports presenter, 41, was arrested in Eton, Berkshire, the day after she had been drinking, Slough magistrates heard.\n\nShe was on her way to meet her children to visit Windsor Castle on 12 August.\n\nShe received a two-year driving ban and was ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid community work.\n\nGallacher, who is divorced from former rugby union player Paul Sampson, was seen driving her BMW X4 erratically before police tracked her down using CCTV.\n\nHer alcohol level was found to be 106 micrograms per 100ml of breath. The legal limit is 35 micrograms per 100ml of breath.\n\nKirsty Gallacher appeared at Slough Magistrates' Court wearing black and spoke only to confirm her name, address and plea\n\nJennifer Dempster, mitigating, said Gallacher very rarely drank, and had taken a taxi home before going to collect her car the following morning.\n\nShe said Gallacher's children had not been in the car at the time.\n\n\"This is of course the morning after drinking, and it is a topic which is a hot one at present,\" Ms Dempster said.\n\n\"This is in many senses unintentional drink-driving.\n\n\"What this defendant did was exactly right until 11:00 BST the next morning.\"\n\nProbation officer Jasvir Kaur Bhatti said Gallacher was \"very remorseful\" and \"very much regrets what happened\".\n\nDistrict Judge Davinder Lachhar said the charge was \"very serious\" and described the level of alcohol in her system as \"very high\".\n\nThe defendant, of Virginia Water, Surrey, appeared wearing black and spoke only to confirm her name, address and plea.\n\nGallacher, a former Strictly Come Dancing contestant, was told her driving ban could be reduced by six months if she opted to take part in a driving safety course at a later date.\n\nShe was ordered to pay £85 in court charges and a separate surcharge of £85.", "Louise Richardson says top universities have to compete for staff in a 'global marketplace'\n\nOxford University's vice-chancellor says it is dishonest of politicians to link high levels of pay for university leaders with increases in tuition fees.\n\nShe said that pay rates reflected a \"global marketplace\" and counterparts in the US were much better paid.\n\nUniversities minister Jo Johnson and Labour's Lord Adonis have warned against \"excessive\" pay levels.\n\n\"I think it's completely mendacious for politicians to suggest that vice-chancellors have used the £9,000 fees to enhance their own salaries,\" said Prof Richardson, speaking in London at the Times Higher Education World Academic Summit.\n\n\"We know that the £9,000 fees were a substitute for the withdrawal of government funding.\n\n\"My own salary is £350,000 - which is a very high salary compared to our academics - our junior academics especially, who are very lowly paid.\"\n\nBut Prof Richardson said university heads' pay might not look so high compared with footballers or bankers.\n\nShe said that leading UK universities wanted to attract heads from around the world - and that meant competing financially in a \"global marketplace\".\n\nJo Johnson says vice-chancellors will have to explain their high levels of pay\n\nIn the United States, she said that more than 40 university leaders earned more than $1m (£770,000) and that some received more than $2m (£1.54m).\n\nUniversities have come under pressure over high levels of pay for senior staff - at a time when tuition fees and levels of student debt are increasing in England.\n\nBut Prof Richardson accused politicians of using this to undermine the higher education sector.\n\n\"I think this is just the politicians, and I wish they wouldn't do it, not because it's embarrassing for me or my colleagues but because it's damaging.\n\n\"Why would you want to try and damage what is one of the most successful aspects of the British economy?\n\n\"The calibre of university education is something that should be celebrated on a daily basis - not just trying to drag it down by making spurious correlations between fees and salaries.\"\n\nUniversities minister Jo Johnson has warned of the \"upward spiral\" in vice-chancellors' pay.\n\nHe told universities in July that they needed to do more to respond to students' concerns about value for money - \"especially when some vice-chancellors take home a wage that in some cases exceeds that of the prime minister\".\n\nLabour's former education minister Lord Adonis has attacked the rising levels of pay for university leaders - at a time when students faced increases in fees and interest rates on loans.\n\nFour MPs have resigned from their roles at the University of Bath, in protest at the pay received there by Prof Dame Glynis Breakwell, who is the highest-paid vice-chancellor in the country.\n\n\"At what point does it become justifiable to pay someone £450,000?\" asked Bristol East MP, Kerry McCarthy, as she resigned.\n\nOxford head Prof Richardson also challenged universities to protect free speech on campus and to resist those who wanted to stop the airing of controversial views.\n\nShe said that students did not have a right not to be offended - and that universities had to be places where people might hear opinions they did not share.\n\n\"I've had many such conversations with students who come to me and say they don't feel comfortable because their professor has expressed views against homosexuality,\" said Prof Richardson.\n\n\"They don't feel comfortable being in class with someone with those views.\n\n\"And I say, 'I'm sorry, but my job is not to make you feel comfortable. Education is not about being comfortable. In fact, I'm interested in making you uncomfortable'.\n\n\"If you don't like his views, you challenge them, engage with them, and figure out how a smart person like that can have views like that.\n\n\"Figure out how you can persuade him to change his mind. It is difficult, but it is absolutely what we have to do if we believe in what we say, and I certainly do.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The device has been designed to help doctors track medical tools known as endoscopes within the body\n\nScientists have developed a camera that can see through the human body.\n\nThe device has been designed to help doctors track medical tools, known as endoscopes, during internal examinations.\n\nUntil now, medics have had to rely on expensive scans, such as X-rays, to trace their progress.\n\nThe new camera works by detecting light sources inside the body, such as the illuminated tip of the endoscope's long flexible tube.\n\nProf Kev Dhaliwal, of the University of Edinburgh, said: \"It has immense potential for diverse applications, such as the one described in this work.\n\n\"The ability to see a device's location is crucial for many applications in healthcare, as we move forwards with minimally invasive approaches to treating disease.\"\n\nEarly tests have shown the prototype device can track a point light source through 20cm of tissue under normal conditions.\n\nBeams from the endoscope can pass through the body, but usually scatter or bounce off tissues and organs rather than travelling straight through.\n\nThat makes it problematic to get a clear picture of where the tool is.\n\nThe equipment is sensitive it can detect individual photons\n\nThe new camera can detect individual particles, called photons, and is so sensitive it can catch tiny traces of light passing through tissue.\n\nIt can also record the time taken for light to pass through the body, meaning the device is able to work out exactly where the endoscope is.\n\nResearchers have developed the new camera so it can be used at the patient's bedside.\n\nThe project - led by the University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University - is part of the Proteus Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration, which is developing a range of new technologies for diagnosing and treating lung diseases.\n\nDr Michael Tanner, of Heriot-Watt University, said: \"My favourite element of this work was the ability to work with clinicians to understand a practical healthcare challenge, then tailor advanced technologies and principles that would not normally make it out of a physics lab to solve real problems.\n\n\"I hope we can continue this interdisciplinary approach to make a real difference in healthcare technology.\"\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. Lewis Baker is one of the workers on strike\n\nMcDonald's workers are staging their first UK strike after walking out at two stores in a dispute over zero-hours contracts and conditions.\n\nSome workers at Cambridge and Crayford, south-east London, began the 24-hour action at midnight. A union called it a \"brave\" move by low-paid staff.\n\nThe Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union said staff wanted a wage of at least £10 an hour and more secure jobs.\n\nMcDonald's said only 14 of the 33 union members balloted had joined in.\n\n\"A small number of our people representing less than 0.01% of our workforce took strike action in two of our 1,270 UK restaurants,\" said the company.\n\n\"As per the terms of the ballot, the dispute is solely related to our internal grievance procedures and not concerning pay or contracts.\"\n\nBut Ian Hodson, the union's president, disputed that.\n\n\"For far too long, workers in fast food restaurants such as McDonald's have had to deal with poor working conditions, drastic cuts to employee hours, and even bullying in the workplace - viewed by many as a punishment for joining a union,\" he said.\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, at a union protest near the Houses of Parliament in London, two of the striking McDonald's employees outlined their grievances.\n\nShen Batmaz, who serves customers in the company's Crayford branch, said that being on a zero-hours contract meant that some staff were anxious about going to work because they feared being bullied.\n\n\"Zero-hours contracts are the reasons why bullying managers can cut down on our shifts drastically,\" she said.\n\n\"When we had a bullying business manager in, when I stood up to him my hours were cut down from four days a week to one.\n\n\"A friend had the same shift pattern for five years but when he stood up to the bullying manager, he was cut down from five days a week to one,\" she said.\n\nSteve Day, a striking staff member from the McDonald's branch in Cambridge\n\nSteve Day, a McDonald's worker from Cambridge, said encouraging his colleagues to join the BFAWU and go on strike had been very difficult and 10 staff out of about 90 had travelled to the protest in London.\n\n\"We have had managers from everywhere coming into our store, the place has been crawling with them, our main organiser in Cambridge is followed everywhere, it's like we are being policed,\" he said.\n\nMcDonald's, which employs about 85,000 people in the UK, announced in April that workers would be offered a choice of flexible or fixed contracts with minimum guaranteed hours, saying that 86% had chosen to stay on flexible contracts.\n\nAnd it pointed to a series of pay rises as evidence that it treated its staff well.\n\n\"McDonald's UK and its franchisees have delivered three pay rises since April 2016, this has increased the average hourly pay rate by 15%,\" said the firm.\n\nThe union has taken advice from protesters in the US and New Zealand who have campaigned for better conditions at McDonald's there, Mr Hodson said.\n\nThe staff have also won backing from Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn.\n\n\"Our party offers support and solidarity to the brave McDonald's workers, who are making history today,\" he said.\n\n\"Their demands - an end to zero hours contracts by the end of the year, union recognition and a £10 per hour minimum wage - are just and should be met.\"", "Stanley Bolland, now aged seven, said he was \"the best man for the job\" of model maker at Legoland\n\nA job advert for model builders at Legoland Windsor attracted one standout application - from a six-year-old boy.\n\nIn a handwritten letter, Stanley Bolland, from Waterlooville, Hampshire, said: \"I am the man [for] the job because I have lots of experience.\"\n\nThe company did not give him the job but did arrange a day's work placement with the theme park's model makers.\n\nStaff member Paula Laughton said: \"Stanley showed great promise, so we hope this will inspire him.\"\n\nMerlin Entertainments Group advertised earlier this year for Lego model designers to help design and build animated figures for the Windsor theme park.\n\nThe advert asked for experience in product design, IT and design packages, as well as an \"interest or knowledge about Lego and creation of Lego models\".\n\nIn return, the company promised a \"competitive annual salary\", 20 days of holiday and 40% discount on Lego kits.\n\nStanley saw the advert and felt he was a perfect fit for the role.\n\nHe applied, saying: \"Dear Sir/Madam, I am six years old and I love Lego [and] have a box of it.\n\n\"I hide my Lego so my brother cant get it. I am the man [for] the job because I have lots of experience. Love, Stanley. (ref: model builders job)\"\n\nIn its reply, the company said: \"Loving Lego is the first step to being a model maker, so it certainly sounds like you'll be perfect for the job (once you've finished school of course).\n\n\"In the meantime, and because you say you're the man for the job, we'd love to offer you a one-off work experience day with our model makers.\"\n\nStanley, who has now turned seven, spent the day shadowing Ms Laughton, seeing how the model makers carry out checks and repairs on the Lego constructions throughout the theme park, and getting a behind-the-scenes tour.\n\nHe said: \"It was awesome to spend the whole day at Legoland meeting the model makers and learning all about what they do every day. I loved it and I can't wait to tell all my friends about it at school.\"\n\nLegoland staff showed Stanley how they take care of the models, including this 5ft dragon\n\nStanley learned the importance of keeping key attractions - such as this replica of the London Eye - clean", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alps Murder: 'No progress' five years on\n\nThe brother of a British man shot dead while on a family holiday in the French Alps says he is frustrated with the lack of progress in the investigation.\n\nThe bodies of Saad al-Hilli, his wife Iqbal and her mother, Suhaila al-Allaf, were found on 5 September 2012. French cyclist Sylvain Mollier was also shot.\n\nThe couple's two young daughters survived the shooting near Lake Annecy.\n\nThe French lead prosecutor said it was the most complex case she had worked on.\n\nZeena al-Hilli, then four years old, was discovered hiding under her mother's body inside the family car, eight hours after the shooting.\n\nHer seven-year-old sister Zainab was found with serious head injuries after being shot and beaten.\n\nZaid al-Hilli says he has no faith in those investigating the shooting of his brother and his family\n\nThe bodies of the couple from Claygate, Surrey, along with Ms al-Allaf and Mr Mollier, were found on a remote road in Chevaline near where they had been on holiday.\n\nMr al-Hilli's brother Zaid said: \"There hasn't been any progress in the case. The initial investigation [by French investigators] has been a total failure.\n\n\"They made claims against the family which they couldn't prove.\"\n\nIn 2013, Surrey Police arrested Zaid al-Hilli, who lives in Chessington, as part of the French investigation.\n\nHe was later released, with British police saying there was not enough evidence to charge him.\n\nSurrey Police said it was continuing to provide support to the French investigation as part of the joint investigation team (JIT) established following the deaths.\n\nIt said officers had worked closely with the French authorities to progress a number of lines of enquiry in the UK.\n\nThe force said: \"This is a complex inquiry. However, Surrey Police remains committed to helping find answers to what happened.\"\n\nHe said the last time he had been in contact with the French authorities was \"very briefly\" in 2015.\n\nThe two daughters have been given new identities since the shootings.\n\n\"The girls are fine and doing well, and I'm in touch with them,\" Zaid al-Hilli said.\n\nThe French lead prosecutor, Veronique Dizot, said work was being carried out to identify the previous owners of the guns used in the attack, but she said there were no potential suspects in the case.\n\nShe said: \"We have certain technical information about the weapons, but we have not yet identified the previous owner or owners of the weapons.\"\n\nShe told the BBC it was the most complex case she had worked on but there had been no progress in solving it.\n\nThe killer of Saad al-Hilli may never be found, his brother fears\n\n\"The only way forward is for a British judge to look into the investigation and give us some conclusions,\" Mr al-Hilli said.\n\n\"I don't think the French authorities were honest and we don't trust them and we don't have faith in them.\n\n\"Five years on I don't think we'll ever find out what happened.\"", "Michel Barnier has clarified remarks he is reported to have made about Brexit.\n\nThe EU negotiator was quoted as saying he saw the process as an opportunity to \"teach\" the British people and others what leaving the single market means.\n\nMr Barnier said he actually told a meeting it \"was an occasion of great explanation for everyone in the EU\".\n\nThe BBC understands he was talking in Italy about explaining the benefits of the single market to a broad European audience, not just specifically the UK.\n\nThe latest round of negotiations over the UK's exit from the EU concluded last week, with the two sides due to officially meet again later this month.\n\nThe UK, which is keen to move on from issues directly related to its withdrawal to talk about its future relationship with the EU, has said it would like to \"intensify\" the pace of talks, with Downing Street saying it is open to holding negotiations on a rolling basis.\n\nThere has been unconfirmed speculation that Prime Minister Theresa May is to make a major speech on Brexit later this month in the run-up to the Conservative Party conference.\n\nSpeaking at a conference in Italy on Saturday, Mr Barnier said he did not want to punish the UK for voting to leave the EU in last year's referendum.\n\nBut he reportedly warned that \"there are extremely serious consequences of leaving the single market and it hasn't been explained to the British people\".\n\n\"We intend to teach people… what leaving the single market means,\" he reportedly told the Ambrosetti forum.\n\nResponding to the remarks, a No 10 spokesman said \"the British people have heard those arguments.\"\n\nMr Barnier tweeted on Monday that what he had said was that Brexit was an \"occasion to explain single market benefits in all countries, including my own\".\n\nHe added \"we do not want to \"educate\" or \"teach lessons\".\n\nThe former French minister, who met the Irish Republic's Foreign Minister Simon Coveney for talks on Monday, later reiterated these comments when speaking to a BBC reporter outside the European Parliament.\n\nAmid growing tensions between the two sides about the progress of talks and the priority given to different issues, a senior EU official has said talks about the UK's financial obligations after Brexit are going backwards.\n\nGunther Oettinger, the European Commissioner responsible for the EU budget, said \"the Brits have to accept that their obligations are going beyond March 2019\".\n\n\"In July we had been thinking 'yes, they are on the way to accept it'. Now in the last few days they are coming back,\" he told a technology conference in Brussels.\n\nBBC Brussels reporter Adam Fleming said Mr Oettinger had told him he believed that progress made on the issue in the July round of talks had been reversed during last week's session.\n\nA source at the Department for Exiting the EU said it did not recognise this description and that there had been a robust debate about money.\n\nLast week British officials gave a three-hour long presentation on the legal basis of the EU's request for a Brexit financial settlement.", "Prince William and Catherine already have two children, George, who is four, and Charlotte, aged two\n\nBets are on for what the third royal baby could be called, with many papers leading on the announcement that the Duchess of Cambridge is expecting.\n\nThe Guardian and the Telegraph are just two of the papers which say Alice and Arthur are the most popular possible names for Princess Charlotte and Prince George's new brother or sister.\n\nOthers are taking a punt on the date and location of the child's conception. \"The Warsaw Act\" is the Sun's headline, referring to the royal couple's recent trip to Poland. But the Star reckons it's a south London baby, quoting a palace source who said \"they both have so much fun during Wimbledon\".\n\nThere's widespread concern over the United States' warning that North Korea is \"begging for war\". Writing in the daily Telegraph, former Foreign Secretary William Hague says there are no sanctions that will deter Kim Jong-un from pursuing his nuclear weapons programme - and only China can halt his ambitions.\n\nThe Daily Express agrees, saying Beijing now has the chance to show its maturity as a world power. But in its analysis, the Times thinks the crisis has highlighted the weakness in North Korea and China's relationship. It says China has lost control over its neighbour.\n\nAnd in the Daily Mirror, former Foreign Secretary Lord Owen asks whether force is the next step in standing up to the atomic threat.\n\nMeanwhile, the Guardian leads on its investigation uncovering a secret scheme to launder more than £2bn from Azerbaijan through a network of UK companies.\n\nAccording to the paper, some of the cash from the so-called \"Azerbiajani Laundromat\" was spent on lobbying to deflect criticism of the country's president, who is accused of human rights abuses and rigging elections.\n\nA journalist in Baku jailed for investigating government corruption, Khadija Ismayilova, says it is a kleptocracy which perpetuates the poverty of ordinary citizens.\n\nRohingya refugees walk on the muddy road after travelling over the Bangladesh-Myanmar border\n\nThere's criticism of the de facto leader of Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi, in both the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail.\n\nIn its leader column, the Telegraph says she must speak out against the persecution of the Muslim Rohingya minority if she is to live up to her worldwide reputation as a defender of the oppressed.\n\nMail commentator Peter Oborne goes further, accusing her government of complicity in genocide and mass rape. The journalist has travelled to Sittwe in Myanmar and spoken to Rohingyas who have been forced to live in a tiny ghetto with no access to proper healthcare.\n\nCriminals are launching hundreds of successful cyber attacks on UK universities each year, the Times reports. The groups are targeting scientific, engineering and medical advances including research into missiles.\n\nA cybersecurity expert tells the paper that many attacks go completely untraced, as most universities have \"fundamentally backward-looking defences\".\n\nFinally, the paper also says Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been toying with the idea of veganism.\n\nHe announced he was \"going through the process\" of eliminating animal products from his diet but his love of Somerset brie has been holding him back.", "The tensions between North Korea and US President Trump feature on many of Sunday's papers\n\nThe Financial Times says US President Donald Trump has opened the door to launching an attack on North Korea, while both the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail also highlight warnings by the US that it is ready to \"annihilate\" the country.\n\nThe Times lays part of the blame at the door of the US president. It says the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, has been emboldened by the incoherence of Mr Trump's attitude towards him.\n\nThe Guardian says it has learnt that a long-awaited official report on deaths in custody, which has yet to be published, will call for far-reaching reforms to the police and justice system.\n\nIt says the review - ordered by Theresa May when she was home secretary - will recommend that police cells should be completely phased out as a place to hold people who are believed to have mental health problems.\n\nIt will also say that the families of those who have died in police custody should receive \"free, non-means tested\" legal advice.\n\nThe Daily Mail says people who overload their bins risk being fined £2,500 and getting a criminal conviction.\n\nThe figure rises to £20,000 for businesses such as corner shops. The paper says councils are threatening to impose the penalties on households under anti-social behaviour laws.\n\nPutting bins out too early or too late is also said to be on the list of \"offences\".\n\nThe Times reports that Theresa May is using the threat of a reshuffle to bring Tory troublemakers into line as she seeks to tighten her grip on Downing Street. The paper says that Conservative backbencher Jacob Rees-Mogg is being lined up for a ministerial job to test his suitability for higher office.\n\nAn investigation by the Telegraph has found that people who make false allegations of sexual abuse are being allowed to keep tax-payer funded compensation.\n\nThe paper says thousands of pounds paid out to fake victims has not been clawed back even after their claims have been exposed as false. It believes the problem has been compounded by a compensation culture that has included lawyers touting for business from sex abuse victims.\n\nAnd the Daily Mirror leads on a report that hundreds of people died needlessly last year while waiting for a transplant organ.\n\nIt quotes figures showing that nearly 460 lives could have been saved by a change in the law so that people are assumed to consent to being donors after they die.\n\nThe government's chief mouse catcher has been earning his keep, according to the Sun.\n\nPalmerston the Whitehall cat has caught 27 mice since arriving from Battersea Dogs and Cats Home last year, says the paper. Although volunteers who look after him have told the Sun that based on reported sightings, the number is \"likely to be much higher\".\n\nAnd the Telegraph reports the white cliffs of Dover are under threat of development. It says the rolling chalk cliff tops could be sold if the National Trust cannot raise £1m in three weeks to buy it from the landowner.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The decline of the busy port of Ardrossan in Ayrshire\n\nThe UK's coastal communities are among the country's worst off for earnings, employment, health and education, a report for the BBC has found.\n\nThe Social Market Foundation said the economic gap between coastal and non-coastal places has grown.\n\nAverage wages are £3,600 a year lower in these \"pockets of deprivation\", according to the think tank.\n\nMeanwhile, the minister for coastal communities has announced £40m in funding to help coastal areas.\n\nThe report, produced for BBC Breakfast, found that five of the 10 local authorities in the UK with the highest unemployment rate for the three months to March 2017 were coastal.\n\nThese were Hartlepool, North Ayrshire, Torridge, Hastings, South Tyneside and Sunderland.\n\nIt also found those in employment in coastal areas were likely to be paid less.\n\nOf the 98 local authorities on the coast, 85% had pay levels below the UK's average in 2016.\n\nGreat Yarmouth ranked lowest in England and Wales for post-16 education\n\nIn terms of health, 10 of the 20 local authorities in England and Wales with the highest proportion of people in poor health are coastal: Neath Port Talbot, Blackpool, Bridgend, Sunderland, Barrow-in-Furness, Carmarthenshire, East Lindsey, South Tyneside, County Durham and Hartlepool.\n\nAnd the two local authorities in England and Wales with the smallest proportion of over-16s holding level four and above qualifications [certificates above A level] are Great Yarmouth in Norfolk and Castle Point in Essex.\n\nReport author, SMF chief economist Scott Corfe, said a lack of local job opportunities and poor transport links contribute to badly-performing economies.\n\nThere is currently no official definition of a coastal community, which the SMF believes is a problem.\n\nFor its analysis the SMF defined them as a local authority area with a coastal border.\n\n\"Despite the evident social and economic problems these places face, there is currently no official definition of a 'coastal community',\" Mr Corfe added.\n\n\"The government needs to do more to track - and address - economic problems in our coastal towns.\"\n\nThe SMF warned that some areas - particularly in the South East - \"are pockets of significant deprivation surrounded by affluence - meaning their problems are often overlooked by policymakers\".\n\nThe report found the economic gap between coastal and non-coastal areas has widened from 23% to 26% from 1997 to 2015.\n\nIn Blackpool, individual health is among the poorest in the UK\n\nMeanwhile, the government announced on Monday that it was providing £40m for coastal areas from the Coastal Communities Fund.\n\nHaving launched in 2012, it has so far provided £170m for 278 projects across the UK in five rounds of funding.\n\nSome of the projects to have received funding include a new conference centre in Blackpool's Winter Gardens and improvements to Southport Pier.\n\nCoastal Communities Minister Jake Berry said: \"From the world-renowned Blackpool illuminations to Brighton's i360, our coastal towns and cities have a lot to offer all year round.\n\n\"This year is already looking like another record year for staycations and our latest round of funding will help attract even more visitors to the great British coast so that our coastal communities can thrive.\"\n• None The dark side of the British seaside", "Paparazzi photographer George uses an array of disguises to photograph the rich and famous\n\nGeorge Bamby grabbed his first photograph of Coleen Rooney when she was 16-year-old Coleen McLoughlin, as the Liverpool schoolgirl was shopping.\n\n\"I got a tip-off. She was still in her school uniform, it was mental,\" says George, who takes pride in his 20 years as a paparazzi photographer.\n\nIn the wake of newspaper allegations after husband Wayne Rooney's arrest for suspected drink driving, Coleen, who is now 31, says she has \"had enough\" of \"dangerous\" paparazzi photographers - accusing them in a tweet of following her and her three children in the car.\n\n\"Following someone in a car isn't dangerous, it's what we do for a living,\" says George, although he insists he never takes pictures of celebrities with children.\n\nWhatever their methods, these freelancers' unofficial and often unflattering photos feed the showbiz news cycle. So what is life like behind the lens?\n\n\"It's like being a private detective,\" says Devon-based George, 45, who travels across the UK so he can sell celebrity photos to tabloid newspapers and celebrity magazines.\n\n\"I've got disguises - wigs, hats glasses, false beards - everything from fishing gear to jogging gear, scuba diving gear.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Coleen Rooney This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGeorge aims for anything unusual or different.\n\nHe has recently photographed Dawn French while buying French crepes, David Cameron surfing in Cornwall and Poldark actor Aiden Turner vaping in-between filming on set.\n\n\"Get a picture of David Cameron on the beach and you can sell it all over the world,\" he says.\n\nHe claims newspapers are prepared to pay thousands of pounds for a single photo, but is reluctant to reveal how much he earns. \"I make a good living,\" he says.\n\nHe admits bending the truth for a front page photo - on one occasion, he says, he asked a friend to give TV presenter Judy Finnigan a bottle of wine as a \"gift\", before snapping a picture of the celebrity.\n\n\"A magazine rang me and said, 'We think Judy's an alcoholic, get us some evidence,\" he says. \"The headline was 'Judy out of control' - there wasn't any truth in it whatsoever.\"\n\nHis methods have been the subject of a Channel 4 documentary and the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) recently cancelled his press card.\n\nBut George has little sympathy for celebrity couples like the Rooneys. \"They're public property at the end of the day,\" he says.\n\n\"Everything they do is scrutinised by the press and quite rightly so - they get paid millions and millions of pounds.\"\n\nGeorge recalls how photographers raced to be the first to snap the teenage Coleen, after the press found out she was going out with football prodigy Wayne.\n\n\"We were going round Liverpool trying to find her,\" he says. \"We just got information off people and got tips.\"\n\nWayne Rooney and Coleen, who have gained media attention since their teens\n\nThe Rooneys have kept George in business for years.\n\nA decade ago, he camped in Manchester United's training grounds, going undetected for three days, to get a picture of Wayne Rooney and his team-mate Cristiano Ronaldo.\n\nIt came shortly after the 2006 World Cup, when Ronaldo had appeared to wink after Rooney was sent off during an England v Portugal game..\n\n\"One morning the lads came out training and one of the balls landed in the bushes. John O'Shea literally picked the ball up from outside the door of my tent but didn't see me.\n\n\"I had a little camping stove, but I didn't do any cooking until the players left,\" says George, adding: \"I got the picture - £7,000.\"\n\nHe relies on celebrities' family, friends, agents and managers to give him tips - as well as his own luck.\n\nGeorge's first photo came purely by chance - when he spotted cricketer Freddie Flintoff leaving a shop in Manchester with a bag of nappies.\n\n\"He got in his car, then he blew his nose into a nappy, so I took a photo,\" he says. \"I thought, that's really good, and rang up the Daily Star and they gave me £500.\n\n\"I was doing nothing at the time, just working in a hotel as a porter carrying people's bags.\"\n\nGeorge thinks of his job as more of a hobby.\n\n\"Every day is different. It's the thrill of the chase in the celebrity world - finding out things before everyone else.\"\n\nThe story-chasing paparazzi have been known to get into scuffles with famous people, from Prince Harry to Liam Gallagher.\n\nHarry Potter actress Emma Watson claimed a photographer tried to take a photo up her skirt during her 18th birthday.\n\nMeanwhile, Buckingham Palace has asked the press to not publish paparazzi pictures of the royal children.\n\nGeorge admits the methods employed by some photographers are controversial, but he says: \"There's a difference between following someone and chasing them.\n\n\"The problem is you get loads of young kids who think 'that's a really good job', buy a camera for £15.99, jump in a car and do anything they can to get a photograph.\"\n\nActor Aidan Turner was spotted by George using a vaping device on the set of BBC One's Poldark\n\nThe job does not require qualifications - George left school by the age of 14 - but he says a thick skin and a network of contacts to supply tip-offs are essential.\n\nGeorge says he has been dragged into the back of a car by security guards \"to terrify me\", but that he never let bad experiences put him off.\n\n\"I have two rules,\" he says. \"I don't take pictures of anybody mentally unwell, and I don't take pictures of celebrities with children with them.\"\n\nThere is no code of conduct to be a paparazzo, unless a photographer joins a body such as the NUJ, although newspapers are prohibited from publishing misleading photos or pictures of people in private places without their consent.\n\nBut George thinks photographers have become less invasive than when he first began taking photos in Manchester in the late 1990s.\n\n\"We'd hide in people's gardens, wheelie bins, sheds, you could do anything you wanted,\" he says.\n\nGeorge's next job is in Manchester, where he is driving for four hours to - once again - snap Wayne Rooney.\n\n\"I got a tip-off,\" he says.\n• None Diana's embrace: The legacy she left her sons", "Dame Vera said the white cliffs still represented important British ideals\n\nAn urgent plea to raise £1m in weeks to protect Dover's white cliffs has been backed by Dame Vera Lynn amid fears the land could be sold to developers.\n\nThe National Trust wants to buy 700,000 square metres of \"iconic land\" behind the cliffs when it goes up for sale.\n\nGeneral manager of the white cliffs, Virginia Portman, said she would be \"devastated to lose this opportunity\".\n\nDame Vera, who famously sang about the landmark during World War Two, said preserving the cliffs was \"vital\".\n\n\"They were often the first sight of home for our brave boys,\" she said.\n\nThe trust is bidding to raise the £1m by 22 September.\n\nDame Vera, who celebrated her 100th birthday at her home in Ditchling, Sussex, this year, became known as the Forces' Sweetheart after her performances of the 1942 classic, The White Cliffs of Dover.\n\nShe added: \"They continue to represent important British ideals such as hope and resilience even in the most difficult of times.\n\n\"It is vital that we do all that we can to preserve this important historical site.\"\n\nThe charity wants to restore chalk grassland, protect military structures and improve access\n\nThe trust bought the cliff top in 2012, but later found 700,000 square metres of land had become available after the vendor recognised it could support conservation work on the cliffs.\n\nMs Portman said: \"This unique coastal habitat should be open for the whole nation to enjoy.\n\n\"I'd be devastated to lose this opportunity to protect it forever.\"\n\nThe land, known as Wanstone Battery, has more than 40 species of flowers and grasses.\n\nIt provides a habitat for butterflies including the Adonis Blue and Marbled White, and birds including the peregrine falcon and skylark.\n\nThe site also has several structures from World War Two including two large gun emplacements.\n\nThe trust wants to return the land to chalk grassland, make the military structures watertight and create access routes for visitors.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Many economists do not expect UK interest rates to rise until 2019 despite inflation remaining above target, according to a BBC snapshot.\n\nThey believe that the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) will be reluctant to raise rates during Brexit negotiations.\n\nInflation stood at 2.6% in July - well above the Bank's official target of 2%.\n\nHalf the economists contacted by the BBC think wages growth will outpace inflation in the first half of 2019.\n\nLast week, one MPC member, Michael Saunders, said a \"modest rise\" in rates was needed to curb high inflation.\n\nThe base rate has stood at a record low of 0.25% since August 2016 - the first move since March 2009, when it was reduced to 0.5%.\n\nIn June, three MPC members voted for a rate rise - the first time since May 2011 that so many had wanted to tighten policy.\n\nThe same month the Bank's chief economist, Andy Haldane, also made a call for a rate rise this year.\n\nHowever, Mark Carney, the Bank governor, said in his Mansion House speech in late June that \"now is not yet the time\" to start raising rates once more.\n\nBank of England Governor Mark Carney has cast doubt on an imminent interest rate rise\n\nStuart Green, of Santander Global Corporate Banking, told the BBC he did not expect a rate hike to happen before 2019.\n\n\"We believe that policymakers will be reluctant to tighten monetary policy until greater clarity emerges around the UK's post-EU trading framework, and our expectation of declining inflation through 2018 should also reduce the pressure for an interest rate rise,\" he said.\n\nOthers expect it to be even longer, with economists at Morgan Stanley not expecting any movement until March 2019 at the earliest, with Andrew Goodwin at Oxford Economics suggesting it would not happen until the third quarter of that year.\n\nSimilarly, Fabrice Montagne, at Barclays, expects rates to stay on hold until \"at least 2019\".\n\nBut there are those who argue that the Bank will raise rates sooner. Howard Archer, chief economic adviser at the EY ITEM Club, said he had one increase, to 0.5%, pencilled in for late 2018, adding: \"I would not be at all surprised if it was delayed until 2019.\"\n\nMichael Lee, at Cambridge Econometrics, expects a rise to come in either the second or third quarter of next year as he thinks inflation will stay above the Bank's 2% target for the next two to three years.\n\nPhilip Rush, at Heteronomica, is more specific, settling on May 2018.\n\nThe one outlier is George Buckley at Nomura, who expects the MPC to jump in November.\n\nThe BBC also asked the economists when they expect inflation to peak in the UK. Both Mr Rush and Mr Archer think it will hit 2.9% in October, with the latter predicting it will then start to fall back \"as the impact of the sharp drop in sterling following the June 2016 Brexit vote increasingly wanes\".\n\nSeveral others, such as Mr Green, Mr Lee and Mr Goodwin, expect inflation to hit 3% in the final three months of the year before starting to retreat.\n\nMorgan Stanley is more pessimistic, however, predicting a peak of 3.2% in Spring 2018.\n\nHoliday makers planning trips to the continent in the next few months should prepare themselves for more pain, according to Morgan Stanley.\n\nIts currency strategy team expect sterling to weaken against the euro by a further 10% by March 2018.\n\nMr Green at Santander also forecasts more weakness for the UK currency over the course of the next year, with an average of $1.25 to the pound and just 96 euro cents in the final quarter of 2018.\n\nMr Archer thinks the pound will sink to about $1.25 by Christmas, but recover to trade about seven cents higher by the end of 2018.\n\nHeteronomica's Mr Rush is also a little more optimistic about sterling, expecting it to be stronger within a year.\n\nThe last time interest rates went up was 5 July, 2007. They rose by a quarter of a percentage point to 5.75%. The next month the credit crunch struck, and so began a series of cuts, down to 0.5% in March 2009.\n\nThese were supposed to be emergency measures. Then came the Brexit vote, and in August 2016 the official rate dropped to a fresh record low of 0.25%. That compares to a typical range of between 5% and 13% for most of the 1990s.\n\nEmergency rates are the new normal. That carries dangers. If we hit another slump, we've run out of road; there won't be much the Bank of England can do to help by cutting interest rates.\n\nWhile some members of the Bank's Monetary Policy Committee think we should start restoring interest rates to non-emergency levels this year, that is a minority view, as our snapshot of economists' forecasts shows.\n\nYou could draw a number of conclusions. You might decide interest rates aren't effective on their own - so the government should rely less on the central bank stimulus and instead use fiscal policy such as cutting taxes or raising spending.\n\nYou might take the view that rates should rise to help savers and pension schemes.\n\nOr you might take the view that an early rise could worsen the economic slowdown. You might even believe that we need to find ways to get the official rate below zero (so that I, the lender, pay you, the borrower, to take my money).\n\nTake your pick, but whichever you choose, normality ain't what it used to be.", "The USGS put the site of the quake near the Punggye-ri test site\n\nNorth Korea has hailed its sixth \"perfect success\" of a nuclear test. The seismic readings indicate it is bigger than any other it has conducted, but the apparent collapse of a tunnel at the nuclear test site could provide valuable information, nuclear defence analyst Catherine Dill writes.\n\nSeismic readings from the US and China place the explosion at a magnitude of 6.3, so we already know that this is likely to be the most powerful of North Korea's nuclear tests.\n\nThis magnitude roughly corresponds to the lower end of predicted yields of a thermonuclear weapon - basically the second generation of nuclear weapon, which works in two stages by having one bomb set off another bomb to generate a larger explosion\n\nIt is not yet clear exactly what nuclear weapon design was tested, but based on the seismic signature, the yield of this test definitely is an order of magnitude higher than the yields of the previous tests.\n\nSome estimates say that this latest test comes in at about 100-150 kilotonnes. For comparison, Hiroshima was about 15 kilotonnes. North Korea's last test in September 2016 was estimated at between 10 and 30 kilotonnes.\n\nWe can guess this because equations have been developed that translate magnitude of a tremor into the estimated yield of a nuclear device tested, which is basically the strength of the bomb.\n\nBut it also depends on the geology of the test site and how deep the tunnels are. We don't have all that information and that's why the information about the yields are all so preliminary.\n\nSo what else can we tell from this latest test? This is where an apparent tunnel collapse reported at the nuclear test site could be very useful.\n\nThe other way to learn is to monitor the composition of radionuclides released, which are the products of the nuclear reaction that are released into the atmosphere. In the past the tests have been very well contained as the tunnels where the tests took place were sealed. So we have not had much to analyse in recent years.\n\nBut this explosion was large and it also looks like a portion of the tunnel collapsed. The US Geological Survey recorded a second event approximately eight minutes after the test. The USGS, as well as China, have assessed this event as a \"collapse\" of the cavity.\n\nWhy would the tunnel collapse? It could be that the tunnel was not constructed sufficiently to handle an explosion of that size. It's also possible that they intended for this collapse to occur - a way of signalling to the world that this was an authentic test through radionuclide release, a serious advance. It is still too early to tell.\n\nThe news came hours after state media showed North Korean leader Kim Jong-un inspecting what it said was a hydrogen bomb\n\nWhat it does mean is that we are likely to get information to analyse this nuclear explosion to determine what happened under the mountains of the test site. This will take weeks or even months as monitoring sites run by the CTBTO detect these radionuclides.\n\nThe information they give us may tell us the composition of the warhead: how much fissile material there was and what kind - was it plutonium or highly enriched uranium? North Korea produces both and has capability for both.\n\nNorth Korea's sixth nuclear test is not definitively a thermonuclear weapon from the seismic signature alone, but it appears to be a likely possibility at this point.\n\nThis progress is not surprising, though the magnitude of this test is a stark reminder of the seriousness of the current moment. According to South Korean government seismologists, this test was five to six times more powerful than past tests.\n\nSo what is next for North Korea and where could they go from here? Part of this depends on how the US responds.\n\nThe concern among some analysts is that North Korea will feel compelled to prove this warhead they have just tested can actually fly on an ICBM. They could want to try a live firing exercise or even an atmospheric nuclear test, which was how the earliest nuclear devices were tested until that was banned. This would be among the most provocative gestures they could make in the testing arena.\n\nThe timing of this test may or may not be politically significant. US-ROK joint exercises recently concluded. North Korea has been intimating that a test may occur this year, and the exact timing of this test may be for technical reasons more than political.\n\nAnd there is no doubt that they will glean useful technical information from this test and be able to make slight adjustments to the warhead to be confident it will work in the future.\n\nIn the official state announcement after the test, Pyongyang claimed a successful test of a two-stage hydrogen (thermonuclear) bomb ready to be deployed on an ICBM that Kim Jong Un inspected the previous day.\n\nCautious analysts have reason to continue to debate the exact nature of the device, but with the results of this test it will be difficult for observers to continue to claim that North Korea does not yet have a working nuclear weapons program.\n\nCatherine Dill is a senior research associate at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey.", "Fiona McKenzie was made to feel she was \"making a fuss over nothing\" when she had migraines\n\nMany employers do not understand the terrible effects of migraines and could do more to support staff with the condition, three UK charities say.\n\nWith one in seven people affected, their research suggests more help and awareness from bosses is needed.\n\nFiona McKenzie, 33, was told by one of her former employers she would be fired if her absences due to migraines didn't improve.\n\nShe says migraine pain is \"like someone hitting my brain with an ice pick\".\n\nIn a survey of more than 2,000 UK adults by the Migraine Trust, Migraine Action and the National Migraine Centre, 64% said they thought employers were not properly informed about the nature of migraines or how they affected employees.\n\nOne in five believed health professionals were not fully aware of the impact of migraine on their patients either.\n\nNine million people in the UK are thought to have them, with women more likely to be affected than men.\n\nThe most common migraine symptoms are:\n\nFiona, who lives in London, says she has some of her worst migraines at work.\n\nAt their worst, they affect her vision, cause a stabbing pain in her head and leave her unable to talk. She also becomes sensitive to loud noises, light and smells.\n\nAlthough she has had some very understanding managers, she says she has also experienced a complete lack of support.\n\n\"[Some time] ago, I had 16 headache days in one month, and it had a real impact on my work, although I tried hard not to take sick days.\"\n\nBut her employer simply told her to pull her socks up and be more resilient.\n\nFiona says: \"I found it very hard, it pushed the onus on to me, but it was not something in my control.\n\n\"It feels like you're fighting an illness all by yourself.\n\n\"I came home and cried on the sofa because I couldn't magically make myself better.\"\n\nAlthough migraine can be classed as a disability if it is severe enough to affect work, charities says the legislation is unclear and many employers are reluctant to act.\n\nEvery year, an estimated 25 million days are lost because of migraines in the workplace and in schools in the UK.\n\nSimon Evans, from Migraine Action, said most people with migraines \"kill themselves to get in to work\".\n\nHe said employers should consider how lighting and computer screens could affect staff with the condition, and offer a sick room that is dark and quiet where people could go to recover. They should also send home those affected, if necessary.\n\nEmployers could be more understanding towards staff with migraines, charities say\n\n\"No two migraines are the same. People feel they can't say they are suffering because it's often used as an excuse for a sickie.\"\n\nFiona says she would like employers to be more sympathetic, offer flexible working and encourage staff to seek help and treatment.\n\nShe had to push to see a neurologist because her GP was sceptical that anything more could be done to relieve her migraines.\n\nYet there are a variety of treatments and preventative medicines available, depending on how regular and how serious the migraines are.\n\nIf you are having four or more migraine attacks per month, the advice is to discuss how to prevent attacks occurring with your GP - rather than taking painkillers once they start.\n\nNew research, published in the journal Headache, found that measuring daily stress levels could help predict when migraine attacks were going to occur in those who got them frequently.\n\nArlene Wilkie, chief executive at The Migraine Trust, said charities were able to provide everyday support for migraine sufferers and campaign for more support in the workplace.\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. HMP Birmingham, operated by G4S, was the scene of 12 hours of disorder in December 2016\n\nTwenty eight inmates have been moved out of HMP Birmingham after trouble flared when prisoners refused to return to their cells, security firm G4S said.\n\nThe disorder on Sunday involved a \"small number of prisoners\" on one wing, the Prison Service said, and saw 28 cells suffer water damage.\n\nIt began at about 17:00 BST and was resolved by 23:45. No injuries have been reported.\n\nThe moved prisoners include 10 \"key protagonists\" who led the disorder.\n\nG4S, who took over running the jail from the Prison Service in 2011, said it expected the cells to have dried out by later on Monday, or Tuesday at the latest.\n\nThe prison was the scene of 12 hours of disorder in December 2016, which required riot teams to be deployed.\n\nTrouble flared after a group of prisoners refused to return to their cells, G4S said\n\nG4S said it would review what had caused the latest outbreak of trouble at the Category B and C prison in the Winson Green area of the city.\n\nA spokesman said trouble flared \"after a group of prisoners refused to return to their cells\" at the end of evening association.\n\nHe said: \"Staff have successfully resolved disorder on one wing at HM Prison Birmingham.\n\nOne inmate was taken to hospital for an unrelated medical matter\n\n\"No staff or prisoners were injured during the incident and the rest of the establishment was unaffected.\"\n\nOne inmate, believed to be in his 20s, was taken to hospital for an unrelated medical matter.\n\nSupport staff were drafted in on Sunday evening\n\nAre you in the area? Email haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "It's a pretty place for some very hard talking by the EU's man in charge of Brexit talks.\n\nThe stately hotel the Villa d'Este, on the shores of magnificent Lake Como replete with baroque chandeliers, statues of nymphs and marble columns is not a hard sell.\n\nNo wonder former prime ministers, current ministers, US senators and European commissioners are happy to mingle under the watchful eye of the dozens of varieties of Italian police, some complete with sabres and tall plumed hats, at this high powered forum of the Italian think tank Ambrosetti - The European House.\n\nThey are the European elite - and feel their project is in remission. Over the weekend there's been torrential rain and thunder but now Lake Como's waters are only slightly choppy - a timely European metaphor.\n\nThis time last year, the subject for discussion here was the possibility of the disintegration of the EU. Brexit and Trump were feared as harbingers of nationalists taking power across Europe. It didn't happen in the Netherlands. Then it didn't happen in France. Now they are sure it won't happen in Germany this autumn and fairly confident it won't happen next spring in Italy either.\n\nThe mood could be best summed us as 'phew!' Perhaps the tone was set by one prominent guest who, in a voice full of passion, spoke of the EU as the greatest experiment in history - a club which ensured peace and prosperity.\n\nHis voice rising, with an orator's power, he said he was born in the 1970s and had known only peace. But his father was a child of the 1930s - he remembered war, remembered American soldiers bringing the new tastes of freedom and chocolate to a ravaged continent. His grandfather too had known war, and his great-grandfather, and his great-great-grand father. That was why now he said Europe was a synonym for peace.\n\nIn this telling of the story the UK had only a bit part, hardly mentioned except as one of the issues still haunting the Continent: the refugee crisis, the legacy of economic crisis, terrorism and Brexit.\n\nThis view from the lakeside goes a long way to explain the position of the conference's star turn, the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier.\n\nHis purpose at the conference was, seemingly, not to rile British politicians or throw some red meat to the British press, but instead to start building a solid foundation for the EU for life after Brexit, to put the past behind it, to make it a singular earthquake not the remaking of an entire landscape.\n\nHis opening statement was not the most newsworthy but central to his purpose. He said his first principle was that the future of Europe is more important than Brexit. Far more important.\n\nMichel Barnier said he wanted to teach the British people and others what leaving the EU means\n\nIndeed that appears to be the view of most EU leaders, that Britain - having made a rather strange decision - must go now and try not to slam the door.\n\nAlthough the EU is often portrayed in the UK as a monolith run by faceless bureaucrats, actually policy is usually a fudge between the competing interests of left and right, West and East, small and large, North and South and so on.\n\nThe unity over Brexit is fairly remarkable and Mr Barnier will hold tight to his mandate to make sure it does not shatter. He's also well aware that while French and Dutch voters didn't go the whole hog, the hard right strengthened its position and those very critical of the EU consensus are in power in Poland and Hungary.\n\nHe said that any adverse impact on the UK is not a punishment in itself but a logical consequence of decisions made by the British voters and subsequently by the British government, and he intends to educate people about that.\n\nThis position has two parts. One, being out of the EU cannot be as good as being in the club. And secondly, the separate choice to leave the single market has even more consequences.\n\nOn free trade, Mr Barnier said the 60 or so such deals negotiated by the EU in the past were a result of a slow process of countries converging, coming together, with the EU.\n\nSome in the UK argue that means a free trade deal for us should be easy - as we have been converged for decades. Mr Barnier said that is not the point - the UK has deliberately chosen now to diverge after 40 years together and the EU needs to know how wide the new gap will get.\n\nDoes it imply breaching rules of the single market about workers' rights? Environmental standards? Undercutting tax costs? Will a deal for Toyota mean a break with state aid rules? He wants guarantees that won't happen.\n\nMr Barnier said he wanted to teach the British people and others what leaving the single market means, hence his reference to being a teacher, a pedagogue.\n\nIt was notable that he singled out one person by name, the leader of the Eurosceptic, right-wing Dutch Freedom Party, Geert Wilders, who wants the Netherlands to follow the UK out of the EU. He said the \"education\" was for him and those of a similar mind.\n\nDutch Euro-sceptic Geert Wilders, had some choice words for Mr Barnier\n\nI asked Mr Wilders what he made of this.\n\n\"Mr Barnier who is, of course, a person I respect, is talking a lot of nonsense,\" he said.\n\n\"I am a politician and I asked a British institution to make a survey about what would happen if the Dutch would leave the EU. They came up with a result which proved it would hurt, like it is hurting Britain in the short term, but in the long run after three or 4 years our GDP would grow by more than 10%. There are many chances so Mr Barnier will have to look in the mirror if he wants an education.\"\n\nBut Mr Barnier is probably the sort of man who only looks in the mirror with a certain sense of satisfaction.\n\nUsing the contents of their well coiffured grey heads, few in the EU leadership want a bad relationship with the UK. They want a firm foundation for a good and inevitably close alliance. But both their hearts and their heads tell them anything that encourages further fracture of a project that is still very fragile, anything that looks like suggesting leaving the EU is a primrose path rather than a road to possible perdition, is a non-starter.\n\nMichel Barnier concluded by pointing out again that he was, like Theresa May, a walker, a mountaineer used to taking one step after another, watching out for problems but always with his eyes fixed on the peaks.\n\nThe EU is determined that it will not stumble just because one member of the team is giving up on getting to the summit, particularly when it thinks that member never really believed in the sunny uplands in the first place.", "This sperm whale was one of a number stranded on this beach in the Netherlands\n\nLarge solar storms, responsible for the northern lights, may have played a role in the strandings of 29 sperm whales in the North Sea early in 2016.\n\nA new study says these geomagnetic disruptions may have confused the whales' ability to navigate, diverting them into the shallow waters.\n\nTrapped and lost, the whales died on European beaches, attempting to escape.\n\nThe research has been published recently in the International Journal of Astrobiology.\n\nResearchers have been puzzled by the losses as autopsies showed that the animals were mainly well fed, young and disease-free.\n\nThe 29 strandings generated a great deal of public interest and a large number of theories among scientists.\n\nThese ranged from poisoning, to climatic changes driving prey into the North Sea which the large cetaceans followed to their doom.\n\nSperm whales live in deep, warm-to-temperate waters all around the world. Many groups live around the Azores in the eastern Atlantic.\n\nWhen they are between 10 and 15 years old, young males head north towards the polar region, attracted by the huge quantities of squid found in the colder waters.\n\nTwo sperm whales that washed up on a beach near Gibraltar Point in Skegness in January 2016\n\nTheir journey sometimes takes them up along the west coasts of the UK and Ireland and into the Norwegian sea. They normally return by the same route.\n\nBut in less than a month in early 2016, 29 sperm whales were found stranded on the coasts of Germany, the Netherlands, the UK and France.\n\nNow a team of researchers say they think they understand what happened to them.\n\nThe argue that sperm whales navigate using the Earth's geomagnetic field.\n\nRather than being uniform, the field is stronger in some places and weaker in others, and scientists believe that species learn to read these anomalies and use them for navigation in the way that humans read contours on maps.\n\nDr Klaus Vanselow from the University of Kiel, Germany, and his colleagues say that large-scale solar storms may have distorted the magnetic field and caused the whales to lose their way.\n\nTriggered by coronal mass ejections from the Sun, these storms contain large amounts of charged particles and radiation.\n\nWhen they hit the Earth's upper atmosphere, they produce the spectacular displays of the polar lights over the Arctic, however the most powerful storms can also damage communications systems and satellites.\n\nScientists already have some evidence that solar storm activity can impact the navigating abilities of birds and bees.\n\nThis map shows the 'magnetic mountain' anomaly off the coast of Norway. The whales should have followed the white arrow but the authors argue that the solar storms made the mountains invisible and the whales instead followed the red arrow to the North Sea\n\nDr Vanselow and his colleagues studied the connection between whale strandings and two major solar storms that took place at the very end of December in 2015.\n\nThese produced huge displays of the Aurora Borealis that were seen in many parts of Scotland and elsewhere.\n\nLooking specifically at the region around Shetland, the scientists found that these solar events would have caused short-term shifts in the magnetic field of up to 460km, in the area between the islands and Norway.\n\nThis could have caused sperm whales in the region to move in the wrong direction.\n\nThey also believe that sperm whales see a regular magnetic anomaly off the Norwegian coast as a \"geomagnetic mountain chain\", a kind of guardrail that prevents them from entering the North Sea.\n\nThe solar storms may have nullified this effect, rendering the mountain chain invisible and allowing the whales to swim through into the North Sea.\n\n\"Where the polar lights are seen, that's the region with the most geomagnetic disruptions on the Earth's surface,\" Dr Vanselow told BBC News.\n\n\"Sperm whales are very huge animals and swim in the free ocean so if they are disrupted by this affect, they can swim in the wrong direction for days and then correct it.\n\n\"But in the area between Scotland and Norway, if the whales swim in the wrong direction for one or two days, then it is too late for them to go back, they are trapped.\"\n\nDr Vanselow believes that his theory makes sense with the timeline of the discovery of the stranded whales up to six weeks after the storms.\n\nHe believes that because young males grow up around the Azores, an area that sees minimal impacts from solar storms, the creatures have little experience of the abrupt and powerful events that affect the poles.\n\nDr Vanselow's research is a theory that is very difficult, if not impossible, to prove.\n\nHowever, other scientists say it is plausible.\n\nThis whale was beached at Hunstanton and was one of the last to die in the stranding event in early 2016\n\n\"It would be difficult to say that 'yes this was the cause', we would be cautious in saying that,\" said Abbo Van Neer from the University of Hannover who carried out the autopsies on the 16 whales that stranded in Germany.\n\n\"But it is a valid hypothesis and a potential reason for the stranding.\"\n\nNasa has also been investigating the question of whether solar storms can affect a whole range of cetaceans around the world.\n\nA team of researchers is shortly to publish a research paper on the connection between strandings in Cape Cod and geomagnetic storms. They say the Venselow paper is \"well founded\".\n\n\"It is one potential mechanism for having animals confused, I think it's a credible theory,\" Dr Antti Pulkkinen, who is leading the Nasa project, told BBC News.\n\n\"But does their paper prove that is the case? I don't think so.\"\n\n\"Having looked at this problem from a data analysis point of view, it is not a single factor that contributes to this.\n\n\"Things need to line up from multiple different perspectives for these events to take place.\"\n\nFollow Matt on Twitter and on Facebook.", "Media polls after the broadcast put Angela Merkel ahead in the run up to the 24 September vote\n\nThis was supposed to be the highlight of a lacklustre election campaign. For months German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives have enjoyed a significant lead over their nearest rival - and current coalition partner.\n\nThe TV stations prepared their viewers for an impassioned, furious debate. But those hoping for rhetorical bloody noses were disappointed. As were the viewers hoping that Martin Schulz, who is unlikely to take Mrs Merkel's crown, might at least taste victory on national TV.\n\nAngela Merkel has been in the job for 12 years, and it showed.\n\nThe chancellor is not known for her skilful oratory and she doesn't relish this kind of public debate. Nevertheless, Mrs Merkel appeared relaxed, credible and experienced, effortlessly parrying her opponent's attacks.\n\nIt was her best debate performance, according to the German news site Spiegel online. Which doesn't say much, given that she lost the first three.\n\nBut then Martin Schulz was always going to struggle to land a blow. It is tricky, for example, to attack Mrs Merkel's refugee policy when you are on record as having said that the faith in Europe that each migrant brought with them is worth more than gold.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Germany's election: What you need to know\n\nDuring the election campaign, Mr Schulz has focused on social justice; a subject to which he returned on Sunday night.\n\nHe spoke about unemployment, poverty. Mrs Merkel batted both away. Five million people were unemployed when she began her first term - the figure is now at two and a half million.\n\nAs for poverty, Mr Schulz's own party was responsible for the Harz IV welfare reforms that shape German social policy today.\n\nUnder Mr Schulz's leadership, the social democrats are promising tax cuts. But Mrs Merkel's conservatives, who have a habit of stealing the best bits of a rival campaign, are offering similar breaks.\n\nWhich left foreign policy. Mr Schulz was on bullish form. Donald Trump, he said, had brought the world to the brink of disaster several times with his tweets. It was time the world sought a solution to the North Korea crisis without President Trump, he said.\n\nAnd, as for Turkey, were he the German chancellor he would call off EU accession talks. Mr Schulz challenged Mrs Merkel to do just that.\n\nMrs Merkel - who has never wanted Turkey to become an EU member - said she had ruled out that course of action for now. Nevertheless, she said, she would speak with other EU leaders to see whether they could develop a common position on ending the talks.\n\nDramatic language, but Mrs Merkel could draw on years of crisis management. Her rather more measured language and approach appears to have appealed to viewers. Polls suggest they found her more believable and convincing.\n\nBefore the TV duel, Mr Schulz said that he was confident his performance would sway undecided voters and create momentum. It is unlikely to be in the direction he intended.", "James Henderson has resigned as chief executive of Bell Pottinger\n\nBell Pottinger has been expelled from the UK public relations trade body for its work on a controversial contract in South Africa.\n\nIt is the first time that the Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA) has ejected a PR firm as prominent as Bell Pottinger.\n\nPRCA director-general Francis Ingham said it was \"highly questionable\" whether the firm would survive.\n\nBell Pottinger said it \"accepts that there are lessons need to be learned\".\n\nThe PR firm's work on a campaign for Oakbay Capital, a South African company owned by the wealthy Gupta family, had \"incited racial hatred\" and was \"absolutely unthinkable\", Mr Ingham said.\n\nHe expected more clients to abandon Bell Pottinger following the sanction.\n\nSouth Africa's opposition Democratic Alliance complained to the PRCA, accusing Bell Pottinger of a \"hateful and divisive campaign to divide South Africa along the lines of race\".\n\nThe campaign emphasised the power of white-owned businesses and used the #WhiteMonopolyCapital hashtag.\n\nSouth African President Jacob Zuma has faced corruption allegations and suspicion over his ties with the Guptas. Mr Zuma and the Guptas have consistently denied all allegations.\n\nSouth African President Jacob Zuma is attending a BRICS summit in China this week\n\nChief executive James Henderson resigned ahead of the five-year expulsion from the PRCA. His departure was \"necessary, but not sufficient\", Mr Ingham said.\n\n\"Bell Pottinger has brought the PR and communications industry into disrepute with its actions, and it has received the harshest possible sanctions,\" he added.\n\nThe firm was found to have breached two clauses of the PRCA's professional charter and two clauses of its public affairs and lobbying code of conduct.\n\nThe law firm Herbert Smith Freehills was commissioned by Bell Pottinger to conduct an internal review following the Oakbay controversy.\n\nIts review, released on Monday, criticised the PR firm's senior management: \"Bell Pottinger senior management should have known that the campaign was at risk of causing offence, including on grounds of race.\n\n\"In such circumstances, BP ought to have exercised extreme care and should have closely scrutinised the creation of content for the campaign. This does not appear to have happened.\"\n\nHerbert Smith also found that certain material created by Bell Pottinger for the economic emancipation campaign \"was negative or targeted towards wealthy white South African individuals or corporates and/or was potentially racially divisive and/or potentially offensive and was created in breach of relevant ethical principles\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bell Pottinger's founder, Lord Bell, tells Newsnight the PR firm is unlikely to survive\n\nIn a statement Bell Pottinger said it \"acknowledges the PRCA ruling, accepts that there are lessons to be learned but disputes the basis on which the ruling was made\".\n\nIt added: \"The overwhelming majority of our partners and employees played no part in the Oakbay Capital account and have not been accused of breaching the PRCA code. Many of them will now consider applying for individual membership.\n\n\"With the Herbert Smith Freehills findings made publicly available and the PRCA ruling published, the business can refocus on delivering outstanding work for our clients and looking after our people.\"\n\nBell Pottinger has already lost clients over the affair, including luxury goods company Richemont and investment firm Investec. The further reputational damage could see other clients sever their ties.\n\nOn Tuesday, Labour peer Peter Hain was due to table questions in the House of Lords asking if Bell Pottinger's actions contravened any UK trade policies.\n\nThe PR firm, founded by Lord Tim Bell, was closely associated with Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party in the 1980s.\n\nSpeaking on Newsnight on Monday, Lord Bell, who resigned from Bell Pottinger last year, said the PRCA report marked a \"disappointing\" day for the company.\n\nHe stood down, he told Newsnight, because it had been wrong to take on the Oakbay account. Lord Bell denied accusations he played a role in securing the business.\n\nBell Pottinger has gone on to accept contracts from many controversial clients, including former South African president FW de Klerk, when he opposed Nelson Mandela; Asma al-Assad, the wife of Syrian president Bashir al-Assad; arms manufacturer BAE Systems; and the South African athlete Oscar Pistorius after he was charged with murder.", "Craig says he and Fiona had a wonderful life ahead of them\n\nFive years ago Craig Stobo suddenly lost his wife and unborn daughter to a condition he knew nothing about - and he almost died himself.\n\nHis wife Fiona was a GP in Bo'ness and it was her concern at Craig's symptoms that led him to seek medical help.\n\nFiona, who was 35 weeks pregnant with their second child, phoned him as she was on the way for an antenatal scan.\n\nCraig was meant to have attended the scan but he told her he was feeling unwell with a severe headache and nausea.\n\nHis doctor wife was concerned that it did not sound like a cold or flu and said he needed to get checked out quickly.\n\nWhen he did, Craig was diagnosed with sepsis and immediately treated with intravenous antibiotics.\n\nCraig's wife Fiona Agnew was a GP and he says she saved his life\n\nHowever the next day, while he was still in hospital in Edinburgh he learned that 38-year-old Fiona had also been taken ill with the same condition.\n\nBoth Craig and Fiona developed septic shock but, possibly because she was pregnant, doctors could not save her.\n\nCraig, who is now 47, says: \"We lost our daughter, she was stillborn.\n\n\"She was literally the first part of Fiona's system to shut down.\n\n\"The medics then battled for a further 24 hours to try to save Fiona but without success.\"\n\nThe cause of the illness was never established.\n\nCraig says he was \"bewildered\" by what had happened.\n\nFiona was just 38 when she died\n\n\"Fiona was perfectly fit and healthy, as was I, and it happened so quickly that it was profoundly shocking and devastating,\" he says.\n\nIt is estimated Sepsis kills about 44,000 people every year in the UK - more than breast, bowel and prostate cancer combined.\n\nIt is caused when the body's immune system overreacts to infection.\n\nIn Scotland, the government quotes the figure of 3,500 deaths although statisticians admit it is an estimate and they do not know the full picture.\n\nExperts agree that the key to lower mortality rates is early diagnosis and treatment within an hour if possible.\n\nFor each hour that passes the chances of survival lower considerably.\n\nCraig is now the chairman and trustee of the Fiona Elizabeth Agnew Trust (FEAT), the Scottish sepsis charity he set up in his wife's memory.\n\nUnlike his wife, Craig's background was in tax law so he says that he had only vaguely heard of blood poisoning and septicaemia before that day in 2012.\n\n\"I started asking a lot of questions of the medics to try to understand it,\" he says\n\n\"I heard about the figures for the number of people who were affected and I was horrified.\n\n\"I had never heard of this and I did not think that I was completely ignored.\n\n\"I thought 'how many other people have not heard of it?'.\n\n\"'How can people not have heard about something that affects so many people and is so devastating and so indiscriminate?'\"\n\nCraig Stobo with his wife Fiona and son Robert at Christmas 2010\n\nThe charity he set up has been campaigning to raise public awareness of the disease.\n\nHe says: \"I am extremely fortunate to be here because I was diagnosed and treated very quickly.\n\n\"I owe my life to Fiona. She was a good doctor and a good mum.\n\n\"She was only 38. We had a lovely life together, we were very lucky and we had it all ahead of us.\n\n\"It all changed over the course of 62 hours and life literally had to be started again.\"\n\nCraig's son Robert was just two when his mother died.\n\nHe says he has been honest with him at all times about what happened to his mother and sister.\n\n\"Frequently it was not easy, particularly in the very early stages,\" Craig says.\n\n\"It has been hard and there have been many long, dark nights of the soul but so far so good.\n\n\"He is a happy and active wee chap.\n\n\"We still talk about his mum. He knows he had a sister and we are completely open about that and I think it is the best way to be.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "How realistic is cutting off trade ties with all of the countries that do business with North Korea?\n\nThis is what US President Donald Trump has threatened on Twitter following North Korea's sixth nuclear test, its biggest so far and one it claims is the successful test of a hydrogen bomb.\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\nThe international community has tried everything short of military action to get North Korea to stop, but nothing - not sanctions, not isolation, or even the threat of annihilation appears to have dented its nuclear ambitions.\n\nSo now, instead of just punishing North Korea, President Trump has tweeted that he will punish all countries who still do business with North Korea by stopping US trade with them.\n\nTo look at how realistic that might be - first we have to look at which countries do business with North Korea.\n\nAccording to figures from KOTRA (Korea's Trade Investment Promotion Agency) there were around 80 countries that traded with Pyongyang in 2016 including:\n\nNorth Korea's total trade with all of the countries on the list last year was worth US$6.5bn. That figure has been growing by about 5% a year. Granted, the amount of trade for some of these countries is small and decreasing. But there are some fascinating insights.\n\nSingapore - which is number 8 on the list of largest traders with North Korea - saw trade with Pyongyang fall by 90% in 2016.\n\nMeanwhile the Philippines - saw a massive 171% jump in trade with North Korea.\n\nBoth are economic partners of the US.\n\nIn fact, many of the countries on this list are trading partners with the US and most are doing far more business with the US than they do with the tiny North Korean economy.\n\nBut there is one country that potentially holds all the right cards. No prizes for guessing who is Pyongyang's biggest customer and supplier - China.\n\n90% of North Korea's trade comes from China.\n\nBeijing is mainly buying coal and other minerals from Pyongyang, and crucially supplying food and fuel for its citizens. The data from 2016 doesn't clearly reflect what's going on now, as China banned North Korean coal in February.\n\nSo when Trump says that the US would stop doing business with countries trading with Pyongyang, it would almost certainly have to include China.\n\nBut frankly it is hard to see how that would happen without some damage to the US economy. This it how it breaks down:\n\nGoods: The US bought more than $450 bn worth of goods from China last year and exported $115bn to China.\n\nJobs: Cutting off trade with Beijing would cost the US almost a million American jobs connected to goods and services exported to China.\n\nConsumer prices: As I've written about before, even Trump's threats of imposing tariffs on China for being a currency manipulator would have disastrous effects on prices of goods in the US, boosting the cost of an iPhone for instance by about 5%.\n\nDon't forget - anything that affects China would necessarily also affect the global economy. Global research house Capital Economics says if the US were to stop buying goods from China altogether, it would cost the country some 3% of GDP.\n\nWhich would have a knock-on effect of that on economies in Asia, most of whom count China as their biggest trading partner, and buyer of goods.\n\nAll of that is possibly why Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin has come up with a less direct way to \"punish\" these countries - he said in a Fox TV news interview on Monday that he was preparing a sanctions package that would cut off \"all trade and other business\" with Pyongyang, adding that there's \"much more\" the US can do economically.\n\nBut that just looks like more of the same stuff we've seen before.\n\nSo what we are left with is a US that appears to have increasingly few economic options left on the table when it comes to negotiating with Pyongyang.\n\nEven if President Trump follows through with his trade threat, it would almost certainly result in a congressional backlash.\n\nIt's hard to see how the president would be able to sell a policy with such questionable effectiveness, and one that would damage the US economically more than it would limit North Korea's nuclear options.", "The couple smiled at each other through the announcement\n\nJapan's Princess Mako has formally announced her engagement to a non-royal after receiving the emperor's approval.\n\nThis announcement kicks off a lengthy marriage process, and it also means the princess will lose her royal status.\n\nUnder a controversial Japanese law, female imperial family members forfeit their status upon marriage to a \"commoner\" whereas male members do not.\n\nAt a press conference, she said she was first attracted to Kei Komuro's \"smile like the sun\".\n\n\"I've been aware since my childhood that I would lose royal status once I married,\" Princess Mako said. \"While I've worked to help the emperor and fulfil duties as a royal family member as much as I can, I've been cherishing my own life.\"\n\nThe formal announcement came from Japan's Imperial Household Agency on Sunday, after local media reported news of the planned engagement in May.\n\nThe princess was not in line to the throne, as a 1947 succession law states that only men from her family's lineage can become emperor.\n\nHer fiancé, Kei Komuro, is a 25-year-old law firm employee. The couple met five years ago while studying at the same university.\n\nIn the televised conference, he described the princess as someone who quietly watched over him \"like the moon\".\n\nPrincess Mako, 25, is the eldest child of Prince Fumihito, whose official title is Prince Akishino. She is pursuing a doctorate and works as a museum researcher.\n\nThe announcement was originally expected in July, but was postponed after a rain disaster hit western Japan. The wedding is expected to take place next year, according to the public broadcaster NHK.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Planes tried to tackle the flames\n\nHundreds of Los Angeles residents have been allowed to return home, as the largest wildfires in the city's history appear to be easing.\n\nThe fires, covering about 5,000 acres, started in La Tuna Canyon on Friday, triggering a state of emergency.\n\n\"We've turned the corner, but this is not over,\" Mayor Eric Garcetti said on Sunday as he warned of \"strong\" winds.\n\nAt least three homes have been destroyed and four people are reported to have been injured.\n\nThe evacuations around the Glendale and Burbank suburbs were lifted on Sunday as rain and cooler temperatures helped firefighters to tackle the blaze, the Los Angeles Fire Department tweeted.\n\nThe fire caused hundreds of people to evacuate their homes in Burbank, California\n\nBut Mr Garcetti, who earlier described the blaze as \"the largest fire in the history of LA city in terms of its acreage\", told reporters on Sunday that the situation remained dangerous.\n\n\"We do not have this fire contained,\" Mr Garcetti said, adding: \"But we do have a good sense of, in the next day or two, how we can bring this fire to rest.\"\n\nHe said four firefighters had suffered dehydration or minor burns.\n\nMr Garcetti declared an emergency on Saturday night and a further emergency order was made by California Governor Jerry Brown on Sunday.\n\nThe declarations allowed state and federal funds to be provided as soon as possible.\n\nCalifornia has been in the grip of a heatwave and strong winds have helped to fan the flames of the Los Angeles wildfire.\n\nMajor fires are also affecting other areas of the western US.\n\nThe government has already declared states of emergency in Montana and Washington state and thousands of residents there have been evacuated.\n\nThe fires were clearly visible from the centre of Burbank\n\nThe La Tuna fire has already ravaged about 5,000 acres", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nTwelve people have been injured after a car sprayed burning fuel over fans during a burnouts competition in central Australia.\n\nThe incident at Red CentreNATS - a popular festival of drag racing and other motoring activities - sent lit fuel into the crowd in Alice Springs.\n\nEleven of the 12 people treated were taken to hospital on Sunday. One man, 47, suffered critical injuries.\n\nHe was flown to the Royal Adelaide Hospital with burns to about 20% of his body, the Royal Flying Doctor Service said.\n\nEight people, including the man's 19-year-old son, remained in a stable condition in hospital on Monday. Two patients had been released.\n\nThe incident took place during a burnout competition, a Red CentreNATS spokeswoman told the BBC.\n\nOrganisers shut down the event following the incident, which is being investigated by police.\n\n\"This is a distressing situation however all patients are receiving the care they need,\" Red CentreNATS said in a statement.\n\nLast year, about 14,000 motoring enthusiasts attended the event billed as the \"Ultimate Festival of Wheels\".", "The Sunday Assembly in London describes itself as a secular congregation that celebrates life\n\nFor the first time, more than half of people in the UK do not identify as religious, a survey suggests.\n\nLast year 53% of people described themselves as having \"no religion\", in a survey of 2,942 adults by the National Centre for Social Research.\n\nAmong those aged between 18 and 25, the proportion was higher at 71%.\n\nThe Bishop of Liverpool said God and the Church \"remains relevant\" and that saying \"no religion was not the same as considered atheism\".\n\nThe figures, shown to BBC Radio 5 live, reveal a downward trend for religious belief in the UK.\n\nWhen the national centre's British Social Attitudes survey began in 1983, 31% of respondents said they had no religion.\n\nA random sample of adults were involved in the latest survey and they were asked whether they regarded themselves as belonging to a particular religion.\n\nAlmost two in three 25 to 34 year olds said they were non-religious, while 75% of people aged 75 and over said they were religious.\n\nTamsin is not religious but attends a secular congregation\n\nTamsin, a 26-year-old travel journalist, goes to the Sunday Assembly, a secular congregation that meets in London every fortnight.\n\nSpeaking to 5 live's Rosanna Pound-Woods, she said: \"I'm not religious at all. I like the fact that this is a way for community to come together, without having to be about religion.\"\n\nAt times in her life where religion might be important traditionally, like deaths or weddings, she said: \"I turn to my friends and just tend to celebrate or commiserate together.\"\n\nAnother member of the congregation, Mitsky, was raised as a Jain - an ancient Indian religion - but now considers himself more atheist.\n\n\"Most religions have good basic principles, but certain religions take them maybe in a different direction which I didn't really tend to agree with,\" the 38-year-old said.\n\n\"I was heavily involved in that community here in London and I do miss it, which is why I was looking for something else.\"\n\nThe latest figures show that for people who were born into a religious household, four in 10 are no longer religious.\n\nThe most dramatic decline is among those identifying as Anglican\n\nThe most dramatic reduction has been amongst those who identify as Anglican.\n\nSome 15% of people in Britain considered themselves Anglican in 2016, half the proportion who said this in 2000, according to the survey.\n\nThose identifying as Catholic has remained stable - at around one in 10 - over the past 30 years, while one in 20 people identify with non-Christian religions.\n\nRoger Harding, from the National Centre for Social Research, said the figures should cause \"all religious leaders to pause for thought\".\n\n\"With falling numbers, some faith leaders might wonder whether they should be doing more to take their congregation's lead on adapting to how society is changing,\" he added.\n\nThe Bishop of Liverpool, the Rt Rev Paul Bayes, said the figures bring a \"continuing challenge to the churches\" in \"a sceptical and plural world\".\n\nBut he said people's hearts and minds remained \"open\".\n\n\"Saying 'no religion' is not the same as a considered atheism. People see the point of faith when they see the difference faith makes,\" he said.\n\n\"We need to keep finding ways to show and tell those who say they have 'no religion' that faith - faith in the God who loves them still - can make that life-transforming difference for them and for the world.\"\n\nBut the charity, Humanists UK, said the figures raise fresh questions about the place of churches in the running of state schools and their other state-funded privileges.\n\nThe charity's chief executive, Andrew Copson, said: \"More generally, how can the Church of England remain in any meaningful sense the national legally established church, when it caters for such a small portion of the population?\"", "Suffolk Police said children were acting as \"runners\" to deliver drugs\n\nDrug-related gang violence in a Suffolk town has created a \"perfect storm\" involving children as young as 12, says a report.\n\nThe University of Suffolk's study found Ipswich had been targeted by London drug gangs.\n\n\"Violence, threats and coercion were used routinely by these groups to exert control over vulnerable children and young people,\" the report said.\n\nSuffolk Police said children were acting as \"runners\" to deliver drugs.\n\nThe report, commissioned by the county council, also said children and young people reported missing in London had been found at Suffolk addresses known to be used for Class A drug dealing.\n\nThe study was conducted by the University of Suffolk\n\nIt said Jubilee Park, a deprived area of Ipswich, had been targeted by the gangs with addicts' homes being taken over as bases for drug dealers.\n\nIntelligence from the police also suggested the gangs were storing weapons at dealing locations and arming runners with knives.\n\n\"This kind of violence was evident in other parts of Suffolk where the illicit drug market was saturated and competition between dealers was fierce,\" the report said.\n\nOne of the authors of the report, Paul Andell, said the rise in drug gang violence could be due to the drop in police numbers and cuts to public services.\n\n\"There's a perception that they (criminals) will not be dealt with as robustly (by local police),\" he said. \"All of these factors create a perfect storm.\"\n\nJunior Smart, a former Ipswich gang member, who is now a youth worker with the St Giles Trust, said all the agencies involved with the prevention of crime and young people needed to communicate better.\n\n\"The agencies aren't talking to each other - in some respects the agencies are more territorial than the gangs are,\" he said.\n\nSuffolk's Assistant Chief Constable Rachel Kearton said the police and crime commissioner had put a huge amount of money to help young people stay out of gangs, \"six-figure numbers that allow these kids to actually have a better chance in life\".\n\n\"We're investing in the young people for their future to find ways for them to live their lives rather than getting into the drugs world.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An Agusta helicopter (file pic): The aircraft is used by air forces and police worldwide\n\nA body has been found in the search for a pilot who fell out of a military helicopter during an air show in eastern Belgium, Belgian media report.\n\nPolice discovered the body close to a valley at Amay near Liège.\n\nThree troops had jumped with parachutes from the Agusta A-109 helicopter, but the pilot did not have a parachute.\n\nForensic experts have been sent to the site, a wooded area near the town of Huy. Investigators are believed to be examining suicide as a possible motive.\n\nAccording to reports, the co-pilot helped the three parachutists jump, but then turned to see the pilot's seat empty and his door wide open.\n\nHe then grabbed the controls and landed the helicopter safely.\n\nThe search for the pilot, who fell several hundred metres in the incident on Sunday, was resumed on Monday after police and troops were forced to abandon their efforts at nightfall.\n\nThe reason for the pilot's fall remains a mystery.\n\nThe sliding door alongside the pilot seat had been opened and the radio connection between the pilot and other crew members had been cut, Belgium's Nieuwsblad reports.\n\nBelgian troops are scouring the countryside around Amay, 28km (17 miles) from Liège", "Maggie Hughes was a member of between 25 and 30 online raffle groups\n\nThe number of raffle groups on Facebook has grown rapidly over the last few years, but so have the number of people being scammed.\n\n\"It just makes me so angry. [The scammers] keep changing their names and Facebook just let them do it,\" says Maggie Hughes, who says at one stage she was a member of between 25 and 30 online raffle groups on the social media site.\n\nAnyone can set up a raffle group on Facebook and then begin inviting contacts to join, although Facebook says it shuts down illegal raffle pages - those not licensed by the Gambling Commission - as soon as they are reported.\n\nThe page owners then choose a prize, and sell tickets - using PayPal or a bank transfer.\n\nFrom then on, it works just like a normal raffle. A number is drawn at random and the winner earns a prize.\n\nAt least that is how it should work.\n\nMaggie became suspicious of one woman online when she says she won some prizes.\n\n\"I played her tombola [raffle] and I have not received any prizes from her at all,\" she says.\n\nMaggie is disabled and her husband has dementia. She says the £40 to £50 she estimates she has lost is a lot of money to her.\n\n\"It's very hard, it just upsets me. It makes me angry that this girl is getting away with it.\"\n\nThe woman Maggie says she dealt with, Lauren Brattle, appears to have a number of online aliases.\n\nHer raffles were among the many mentioned on a Facebook page that raises awareness of possible scams.\n\nMs Brattle says the allegations against her are false and she has not done anything wrong.\n\nLiz Hodgson says the scamming problem is \"huge\"\n\nThe page is moderated by Liz Hodgson, who deals with problem raffles run all over the country.\n\n\"[The problem] is huge,\" she says. \"It's so big at the moment. Everybody's creating their own groups.\n\n\"There are daily posts in the 10s, of people having issues with admins on these raffle groups.\n\n\"They're not drawing them correctly, the [players] aren't receiving their prizes.\"\n\nTracie Morgans, a member of Liz's online page, said she knew of one woman who \"walked away with £400 worth of people's money\" without giving out prizes.\n\n\"She was boasting that she was taking her kids on holiday,\" she adds, having been scammed twice in the past herself.\n\n\"There are so many nasty, selfish, greedy, money-hungry idiots,\" says Karen Evans, also a member of Liz's page. \"I didn't realise how rotten the world was.\"\n\nKaren says she has also been cheated out of money on a raffle group.\n\n\"I played a page and I paid for the raffle and all of a sudden the page wasn't there any more. I tried to inbox the girl and she blocked me.\"\n\nThe Gambling Commission, which regulates all gambling activities in the UK, says complaints about social media raffles have been greatly on the rise in recent years.\n\nThe prizes on offer, it adds, have included a shotgun, a monkey and a pregnant spaniel.\n\nIn order to be legal, online raffles must be licensed by the Gambling Commission.\n\nFacebook says it shuts down raffle pages as soon as they are reported and found to be illegal, and the Gambling Commission says almost all of the raffle groups reported to them are now no longer active.\n\nFor some users, the possibility of being scammed is not the only issue associated with the raffle pages.\n\nIt is also the fact they allow people to freely gamble online.\n\nLiz says she \"would absolutely say people are becoming addicted\".\n\n\"Quite a lot of the posts on the scammers group are where people have placed their last £50 or £60 on one raffle.\n\n\"And they've got children and they're spending their children's money.\"\n\nSome raffle groups say they are raising money for charity.\n\nThe BBC understands Ms Brattle - the woman Maggie says scammed her - had previously claimed her raffles made money for the Sick Person's Trust, but the charity says it has not received any money from her.\n\nThe police told us they are investigating a complaint.\n\n\"It's absolutely disgusting that this charity hasn't received a penny,\" explains Maggie.\n\nBut the wider question surrounding raffle groups is - with so many popping up daily - how to stop them.\n\nWatch the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.", "The nuclear test that North Korea conducted on Sunday is thought to be the biggest ever conducted by Pyongyang. But what does this really mean and how will we find out more about the bomb? Physicist Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress explains.\n\nA nuclear explosion is an extremely large explosion, so large that it shakes the ground just as an earthquake does and is detected by seismic sensors thousands of kilometres away.\n\nThe magnitude of the shaking is a measure of the immense energy released by the event. A parameter known as the body-wave magnitude (Mb) is used.\n\nThe US hydrogen bomb explosion in 1952 was the first test of a thermonuclear device\n\nThis is not a linear scale. A magnitude-6 event, for example, releases 30 times more energy than one of magnitude 5.\n\nIn all, 34 stations that are part of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organisation's (CTBTO) vast seismic monitoring network detected North Korea's explosion and it was so intense that it actually \"saturated\" the detectors. In other words for this monitoring network, which is sensitive to extremely small nuclear test explosions, this test was so high it essentially went off scale.\n\nThere have been widely differing calculations of the power of this blast, ranging from 50-150 kilotonnes. The force is measured in kilotonnes to indicate what would happen if one kilotonne of TNT was exploded.\n\nThe yields predicted so far vary because it depends on the precise formula used: which scaling relation of the yield as a function of body wave magnitude is used - and that depends on a variety of factors such as the depth and type of rock where the test was conducted, for example.\n\nA recent scaling equation takes into account the depth at which an explosion took place. This was developed by Miao Zhang and Lianxing Wen from the University of Science and Technology of China and Stony Brook and is appropriate for North Korea.\n\nIt means that we can begin to start guessing how powerful the blast would have been at various depths and this is what it looks like in a graph.\n\nModelling of the test site has led analysts to guess that blasts take place at depths as deep as 600 to 900 metres (1968-2952ft). If that is true, the yield is likely to have been at least 370 kilotonnes, which is vastly more than most estimates.\n\nWhat this graph shows is that small differences in depth can make vast differences in yield or power. Compare this with the destructive force of Hiroshima: that came in at 15 kilotonnes.\n\nThis new estimate is consistent with the yield of a \"two-stage\" thermonuclear device, which is the type of bomb that North Korea claims that they have developed.\n\nBut more work will need to be done to determine the depth at which this test was conducted to reach consensus on the yield - that is the power - of the bomb.\n\nFerenc Dalnoki-Veress is scientist in residence at the Middlebury Institute of International studies at Monterey.", "The toilet had been \"blocked for several days\", but the family had no idea why\n\nA five-year-old boy was shocked to discover a python inside his toilet when he lifted up the lid.\n\nHe was \"frantic\" when he found it in the bathroom at home in Southend, Essex, his mother Laura Cowell said.\n\nSpecialists from pet shop Scales and Fangs came to the rescue, removing the harmless 3ft (91cm) baby royal python.\n\n\"It smelt of bleach and a bit toilet-y,\" Ethan Pinion from the store said. The snake \"most likely came up the u-bend\" and is expected to recover fully.\n\nRoyal pythons can grow to about 150cm (5ft) but this is \"a baby\", rescuers said\n\nMrs Cowell said the toilet had been \"blocked for several days and the water wasn't draining well\", but at the time, she did not know why.\n\nHer son discovered the unwelcome visitor when he went to use the toilet on Wednesday.\n\n\"He was frantic, and shaking, and I could tell something was wrong, but that was not what I expected,\" she said.\n\n\"I had to use a broom handle to lift the lid, then out popped its head and its tongue came out as well.\"\n\nThe snake was taken away safely by a reptile specialist\n\nAfter phoning several potential rescuers, Rob Yeldham, who owns the Leigh-on-Sea store, came to help.\n\n\"I've done many snake rescues in my 10 years, but I've never had one in a toilet before. It's definitely a first for us,\" he said.\n\nMr Yeldham said some neighbours of Mrs Cowell had recently moved and old vivariums were left outside with the rubbish.\n\n\"I think the snake probably escaped and went down their toilet, and ended up in this one, as all the sewers are connected,\" he said.\n\nIt was unlikely it had been there long as it was healthy and not underweight, although it is suffering from scale rot, \"probably from the bleach\".\n\nThe snake is being treated at the store and once \"in perfect health\" will be \"rehomed with someone reputable so he won't end up in a toilet again\".\n\nThe snake is being cared for by a local pet shop\n\nMrs Cowell said she was \"petrified\" and put weights on the toilet lid for several days after the experience.", "Officers said the groups had dispersed by the time they arrived at the scene on Rosebery Road, Hounslow\n\nA man has been stabbed to death in a fight between two groups in west London, Scotland Yard had said.\n\nThe 29-year-old died just after 16:15 BST on Monday at the scene in Rosebery Road, Hounslow.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said the groups had dispersed by the time officers arrived, but they found the victim suffering from a stab wound.\n\nThe air ambulance was called and the man was treated by paramedics, but was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThe Met has launched a murder investigation and said inquiries are continuing. No arrests have been made.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The claim: We pay more on debt interest than on NHS pay.\n\nReality Check verdict: If you use the Office for Budget Responsibility's headline figure for debt interest then we actually spend more on NHS pay.\n\nWith nurses demonstrating in Parliament Square against the pay cap this week, Prime Minister Theresa May was asked by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn about whether public sector workers could be paid more.\n\nShe replied by blaming the last Labour government for the amount of debt the country has, saying: \"As a result of the decisions the Labour Party took in government we now have to pay more on debt interest than on NHS pay.\"\n\nReality Check asked Downing Street for the figures to back this up and were told that in 2016-17 debt interest costs were expected to have been £49.1bn while NHS staff costs the same year were £48.1bn.\n\nLet's look at those figures in turn.\n\nThe debt interest costs figure comes from the Office for Budget Responsibility's (OBR) economic and fiscal outlook from the time of the Budget in March.\n\nThe tricky thing with this figure is that the OBR comes up with two numbers depending on whether or not you count what's known as the Asset Purchase Facility (APF).\n\nAs part of its attempts to stimulate the economy, the Bank of England has bought a large amount of UK government bonds.\n\nThe government has to pay interest on those bonds, so it makes interest payments to the Bank of England.\n\nBut once a quarter, the Bank of England returns those interest payments to the government.\n\nThe OBR's headline figure doesn't count the money which has been returned as part of government spending. In 2016-17 it was £36.0bn.\n\nThe one used by Theresa May ignores the fact the money was returned to government coffers, so totals £49.1bn.\n\nThe figure for NHS pay is a surprisingly difficult one to give a definitive answer to.\n\nThe number Downing Street gave comes from the Department of Health annual report and accounts.\n\nThe figure of £48.1bn is for all permanently employed staff of the departmental group, which means it includes people working full-time for the NHS in England as well as those working for the Department of Health and arm's length bodies such as Public Health England. It includes employer national insurance contributions and pension contributions.\n\nIt does not include anyone working for the NHS in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland because staff there are paid by the devolved administrations.\n\nIt also does not include anyone employed via an agency, on a temporary contract, or most staff working in GP surgeries.\n\nWe asked NHS Digital to come up with a figure for only the salaries of NHS England staff and they gave us the remarkably precise figure of £39,450,395,739.60, i.e. about £39.5bn.\n\nNHS Digital warns that the figure is lower than it should be because it excludes data for two hospital trusts and also does not include maternity pay or sick pay. As with the Department of Health figures, it also does not include figures for the NHS outside England or for GP practices.\n\nBut even this figure is higher than the amount spent on debt interest when the APF is taken into account.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An Australian politician has delivered a harrowing speech revealing that her estranged husband was jailed for possessing child abuse images.\n\nRachel Carling-Jenkins, a member of Victoria's state parliament, said she discovered the extensive collection in their family home last year.\n\nHer husband was convicted after Dr Carling-Jenkins and her son went to police.\n\nShe said the discovery had turned her life upside down.\n\n\"In this discovery, I personally viewed deeply distressing images which have caused me immediate and ongoing anguish,\" she said.\n\n\"My marriage ended instantly and I left home the day I made that discovery and I have not returned to the family home since, except to pick up belongings.\"\n\nThe conservative politician told a sitting of the Victorian upper house on Thursday that she had kept silent on the matter to prevent interfering with police and court proceedings.\n\nShe had never had suspicions that her husband was addicted to child abuse images.\n\n\"I have no regrets as a mother or a wife in reporting and exposing this dreadful crime which occurred within the privacy of my home,\" she said.\n\nDr Carling-Jenkins said her husband had since refused to sign divorce papers and also denied her a property settlement and access to assets.\n\nShe said she had been financially and mentally abused by her husband, who had been sentenced to prison.\n\nShe also spoke of the anguish she felt for the young victims.\n\n\"The faces of many are etched into my memory for eternity and I pray that the police were able to identify and rescue as many of the poor, helpless, vulnerable victims as possible,\" she said.\n\n\"These little girls would not be abused if people like my ex-husband did not provide a market.\"\n\nFellow MPs hugged Dr Carling-Jenkins in the chamber after her speech.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe 18-year-old from South Sudan knew he might perish on the treacherous crossing from Libya to Europe. So far this year, the Mediterranean has claimed an estimated 2,400 migrants and refugees.\n\nBut before he ever reached the shore, Hennessy was kidnapped, beaten and almost shot.\n\nThe teenager says he left home in 2016 after family problems resulted in death threats.\n\nHe is behind bars in the Triq al-Sika detention centre in Tripoli, along with around 1,000 other men. Most we met were Africans in search of work, who were stopped at sea, or trying to get there.\n\nNow they are jammed into a warehouse, bereft of light and struggling to breathe.\n\nHennessy Manjing spent three years in London, where he wants to return\n\nIn the sweltering heat they are melding together - a tapestry of jumbled limbs, and torment.\n\n\"When they find their journey ends here, they are completely broken,\" said one official at the centre.\n\nSome try to fan themselves with scraps of cardboard. At night, when the doors are locked, they have to urinate in bottles.\n\n\"It's like hell,\" said Hennessy \"even worse than jail.\"\n\nThe gaunt teenager spoke with a London accent - the legacy of three years spent living in the UK with his family.\n\nHopes of getting back there led him first to Egypt, and then across the border to eastern Libya. He says that's where an armed gang kidnapped him and about 40 others from their trafficker.\n\nThere is not enough money to look after all the detainees\n\n\"We saw people holding guns and sticks, and they forced us into trucks,\" he said.\n\n\"People starting jumping off. By the time we jumped, there was an old man, from Chad. He was shot. Blood went all over my T-shirt. I thought I had been shot as well so I just ran away.\"\n\nHe sought help from a local man, who returned him to one of the kidnappers.\n\n\"He slapped me and punched me in the stomach, and said: 'Why did you run away?'\n\n\"Thank God, on the third day my trafficker came and released us.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHennessy was given a fake visa to fly to Tripoli, but on arrival he was arrested by a militia and taken to a detention centre near the airport.\n\n\"There were daily abuses,\" he said. \"If people make noise, or rush for food, you get beaten.\"\n\nThe weapon of choice for the guards was a water pipe.\n\nSome of his fellow detainees outlined other hazards on the migrant trail through Libya - being bought and sold by militias, used as slave labour, and forced to bribe guards to be released from detention centres.\n\nI just want to leave this place and go to my country\n\nOsman Abdel Salam, from Sudan, lifted the red towel around his neck to reveal a raised scar.\n\nHe said that was the handiwork of jailers in the Libyan town of Bani Walid. They forced prisoners to call home, while being brutalised, to extort money from their relatives.\n\n\"When we call, we are crying. They beat you on the head. There are some people who don't want to obey - they burn their body. My father is a farmer. He doesn't have money so he sold our house.\"\n\nOsman's freedom - which was short-lived - cost his family $5,000 (£3,800).\n\nWhen I asked if he still wanted to get to Europe, he covered his eyes with the towel and began to weep.\n\n\"I just want to leave this place and go to my country.\"\n\nEmmanuel John, an 18-year-old who speaks perfect English, said he was beaten from the moment he crossed the border, and feared he would die.\n\n\"The smugglers that brought us to Libya handed us to others, from the same network,\" he said.\n\n\"There are stops along the way until you arrive in the city. At every stop you have to pay money. And if you don't, there will be beatings.\"\n\nBut it was not the physical abuse that pained him the most.\n\n\"Two girls were raped in the room beside us,\" he said.\n\n\"It was a horrible moment. We couldn't do anything. We didn't have anything to defend ourselves.\"\n\nHe told us the girls were aged about 15 and 19, and were travelling with their family.\n\nThe European Union wants Libya to do more to prevent migrants like Emmanuel reaching Europe.\n\nBut those intercepted by the Libyan coastguard are being returned to an unstable country, with a collapsing economy, that can barely feed them.\n\nA recent United Nations report condemned the \"inhuman conditions\" in Libyan detention centres highlighting \"consistent reports of torture, sexual violence and forced labour\", and cases of severe malnutrition.\n\nBreakfast time at Triq al-Sika was long on queues, and short on food.\n\nEach man received a small bread roll, some butter, and a single cup of watery juice.\n\nThree-month-old Sola has been in detention for most of his short life\n\nThe detainees wanted us to witness this, as did the officials in charge. They say they have run out of money to pay their suppliers and are now relying on donations.\n\nThose behind bars here are effectively prisoners, who don't know their sentence. They can be held indefinitely - with no legal process. Their only hope of release is to be sent back to their home country.\n\nThree-month-old Sola has been in detention for most of his short life.\n\nWe found him in the women's section, sleeping peacefully on a faded mattress.\n\nHis young mother, Wasila Alasanne, tried to take him across the seas to Italy when he was just four weeks old.\n\n\"Our boat broke and the police arrested us on the water,\" she said.\n\n\"Since then we have been in five prisons. We don't have enough food. We don't have the right to call our parents. They don't know if I am alive or dead. My baby and I are suffering.\"\n\nWasila's husband is being held in a different detention centre.\n\nShe has no idea when they will be reunited, or when they will free.\n\nHer home country, Togo, has no ambassador in Libya.\n\nNow she can only dream of deportation, as she used to dream of Europe.\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.", "Cold Feet returned with the original cast last year after a 13-year hiatus\n\nThe Cold Feet cast have revealed how their return to filming had a sombre start after the Manchester Arena bombing, where 22 people were killed after Ariana Grande's concert.\n\n\"It was horrible. Just horrible,\" said John Thomson, who plays Pete.\n\n\"I couldn't wait to get home to my girls that night, as we nearly went.\n\n\"We couldn't get into town because town was shut down. We re-jigged the schedule and went to the studio. \"\n\nHe paid tribute to the Cold Feet team, saying: \"Credit to everyone that day, crew especially and cast.\"\n\nThe new series starts nine months after the end of the last one\n\nThey were meant to be filming on 23 May in St Ann's Square, where flowers were laid in tribute to the victims of the bombing the day before.\n\nFay Ripley, who plays Jenny, said: \"The first thing you think is - we're in Manchester, working with people who are friends. The first call you make is 'is everyone okay?'\n\n\"Then you look to Manchester. You try to behave in a way that's responsible. My kids came up about a week after. We all went to St Anne's Square, something I know they will always remember.\"\n\nHermione Norris spoke of the impact of the bombing on Manchester\n\nHermione Norris, who plays Karen, added: \"It's a small community and it was felt incredibly strongly.\"\n\nLast year's series was a huge success for ITV and was very warmly received after its 13-year gap.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Cold Feet is back for a new series but what happened to the characters?\n\n\"It was an enormous relief that people welcomed us back with open arms,\" admitted Ripley.\n\n\"We didn't have an example - it was the first experiment of bringing something back after (more than) 10 years. But it's the same characters so why wouldn't you be interested?\"\n\nJohn Thomson said he felt the pressure of filming this series\n\nBut after that success, Thomson said it wasn't easier this time round.\n\n\"The pressure was huge, it's harder in a way - like the difficult second album.\n\n\"To be honest when I had my storyline pitched to me I was a bit underwhelmed.\n\n\"Because we went in guns blazing the first time round, we had to bait the audience because it'd been 13 years so we had to go in strong.\n\n\"You can't go in on popularity stakes alone, that's so arrogant, so we had to have decent, meaty storylines and it worked.\"\n\nFay Ripley said there's some \"fun to be had\" in this series\n\n\"What I had to appreciate is once we'd now established ourselves you can build slowly to a bigger thing.\"\n\nRipley said the audience could look forward to a few surprises along the way.\n\n\"There may be some cameos, famous cameos coming up. I'm not allowed to say who or when, but there might be fun to be had. Some people you might recognise.\"\n\nBetween the last series and this one, Nesbitt made headlines after he made an impassioned speech about equality for actresses at the Bafta TV Awards. Something his co-star Ripley approved of.\n\n\"I think it's great to have someone stand up and defend women in the workplace. I've paid for a taxi for James to go and renegotiate my salary.\n\nNesbitt, pictured with onscreen son Cel Spellman, said the characters' children growing up \"means a whole new dynamic\"\n\n\"Obviously I am joking - in Cold Feet we don't have a gender issue. If there is any (disparity) it's not because of that.\"\n\nNesbitt has a slightly different memory of it, joking that she was a \"nightmare\" with teasing him over his speech. But he's glad he did it.\n\n\"I didn't want to become the spokesperson for it, but I'm very, very happy to be part of the campaign for the equal representation of actresses.\n\n\"Society is absorbing on a daily basis - particularly the young - that even though there is a 50/50 split for genders, for every female part there's three male parts.\n\nTina and Adam got together at the end of the last series\n\n\"That is absorbed by my children and anyone's children on a daily basis - subconsciously or consciously - it is bound to have an impact on actual equality and who has power and who has influence.\"\n\nHe added: \"You know what was funny was my eldest daughter sent me a text having seen it saying 'You go girl', which I thought was very good.\"\n\nAs for the success of this series John Thomson said another series is not definite.\n\n\"Everyone goes 'oh it's in the bag' and you go 'not in this day and age, absolutely not'.\n\n\"You cannot rest on your laurels. It's best to go in with low expectations.\"\n\nRobert Bathurst is happy to do occasional series with gaps in between\n\nAnd Robert Bathurst, who plays David Marsden said it would be fine if this was the end for the time being.\n\n\"If we do no more that's that, and in a sense it might allow us to get older, and creatively it could become open ended until we die - we might just do a couple here and a couple there until we're 105.\"\n\nThis is an idea Thomson is fully on board with.\n\n\"We'll do it now in our 50s, sit on it a bit and come back in our 70s. I'm glad that's the idea because I'm a comedy actor and my pension was going to be Last of the Summer Wine - they all rocked up in that - that was our pension but it's gone 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.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage shows part of the pavement scorched after the explosion\n\nPart of Oxford Street was closed after a suspected electrical explosion.\n\nThe Met Police said one man had been left with minor injuries after a small \"power network explosion\" at about 19:00 BST.\n\nA police cordon was put in place blocking traffic and part of the pavement, but has since been lifted.\n\nEyewitnesses described \"screaming, crying and shouting\" after a loud explosion, followed by \"heat and light\" coming from a box of electrical wires.\n\nEyewitnesses described seeing \"burnt ground\" after the suspected electrical explosion\n\nBronte Aurell tweeted: \"I saw the explosion on #oxfordstreet I was right there - if that's an electrical explosion I don't want to ever meet one again. Was massive!\"\n\nAdam Jogee tweeted: \"Terrifying few moments in John Lewis on Oxford Street. Explosion and lots of screaming, crying and shouting. All told to hide or get out.\"\n\nTwitter account @Londonstuff tweeted a video showing a large amount of smoke saying: \"Something's happened on Oxford Street. People running away quickly and panicking.\"\n\nA spokeswoman from the Met confirmed roads had now reopened and emergency teams had stood down.\n\nShe said the electricity company was at the scene.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Jonathan Head tweeted this image of the fires in Gawdu Zara village in Rakhine\n\nAbout 164,000 Rohingya Muslims have poured into Bangladesh from Myanmar's Rakhine state since violence erupted two weeks ago. They say the military and Rakhine Buddhists are destroying their villages to drive them out after attacks by Rohingya militants on police posts.\n\nThe government rejects this, saying the militants and Muslim residents are burning their own villages. But the BBC's South East Asia correspondent Jonathan Head says he saw a Muslim village that had just been set on fire, apparently by a group of Rakhine Buddhists. Here he describes what he witnessed:\n\nI am part of a group of journalists invited by the Myanmar government to see the situation on the ground in Maungdaw. The conditions for us joining this trip are that we stay in the group and do not go off independently, and we are taken to places the government chooses for us.\n\nRequests to go to other areas of interest, even nearby, were rejected as being unsafe.\n\nWe were returning from a visit to the town of Al Le Than Kyaw, south of Maungdaw, which is still smoking, suggesting houses have been recently set alight.\n\nThe police said it was the Muslim inhabitants who burned their own homes, although most fled after militants from the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army attacked the police post in the town on 25 August. While there we saw at least three columns of smoke in the distance to the north, and heard sporadic automatic weapons fire.\n\nOn our way back we saw a large column of smoke rising from a cluster of trees in the rice fields - usually a sign of a village.\n\nWe got out and raced across the fields to reach it. We could see the first buildings in the village ablaze, but only just. Houses in these villages burn to ash in 20-30 minutes. It was obvious the fires had just been lit.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jonathan Head, speaking on Wednesday on a government-organised trip to Rakhine\n\nAs we walked in, a group of young, muscular men carrying machetes, swords and sling-shots were walking out. We tried to ask them questions but they refused to be filmed.\n\nHowever, my Myanmar colleagues did speak to them away from the cameras and they said they were Rakhine Buddhists. One of them admitted he had lit the fires, and said he had help from the police.\n\nAs we walked further in, we saw the Madrasa (Islamic religious school) with its roof only just on fire. Flames licked up the sides of another house opposite; within three minutes it was an inferno.\n\nThere was was no-one else in the village. These men we saw were the perpetrators. Household goods were strewn across the path; children's toys, women's clothing. We saw one empty jug reeking of petrol and another with a little fuel left in it in the middle of the path.\n\nBy the time we walked out, all the burned houses were smouldering, blackened ruins.", "US country music singer Don Williams - who enjoyed great success with his easy-going singing style - has died aged 78 after a short illness.\n\nWilliams began his solo career in 1971, amassing 17 number one country hits. His songs such as Gypsy Woman and Tulsa Time, were covered by singers such as Eric Clapton and Pete Townshend.\n\nWilliams was known as the gentle giant of country music.\n\nAnother country star, Troy Gentry, also died on Friday in a helicopter crash.\n\nWilliams' other hits included You're My Best Friend, I Believe in You and Lord, I Hope This Day Is Good.\n\nIn 2010, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Big & Rich This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 news of the death of 50-year-old Troy Gentry has shocked country music fans and artists.\n\n\"It is with great sadness that we confirm that Troy Gentry, half of the popular country duo, Montgomery Gentry, was tragically killed in a helicopter crash which took place at approximately 1:00pm today in Medford, New Jersey,\" a statement of the band's website said.\n\nTroy Gentry was due to perform in Medford, New Jersey on Friday evening\n\nThe helicopter's pilot also died in the incident, but the reasons for the crash remain unclear.\n\nThe country duo, who were brothers, formed in 1999 and had released eight studio albums.\n\nGrammy award-winning Singer Brad Paisley said he was \"heartbroken and in disbelief\" at the news of Gentry's death in a Friday night tweet.", "Prowse played Darth Vader (right) in the original sci-fi trilogy\n\nDave Prowse, who played Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, is calling time on public appearances.\n\nA statement on the 82-year-old's social media accounts said he would \"no longer be doing any personal appearances or conventions due to health problems\" from January 2018 onwards.\n\nProwse was the man behind Vader's mask in Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.\n\nHe also played the Green Cross Code man in television road safety commercials.\n\nBorn in Bristol in 1935, Prowse was a successful bodybuilder and weightlifter before landing his iconic Star Wars role.\n\nThe Bristol native started out as a bodybuilder and weightlifter\n\nHis face was never seen in the films though, while his voice was dubbed by US actor James Earl Jones.\n\nWhen Vader's mask was removed in Return of the Jedi, another actor - Sebastian Shaw - was revealed beneath.\n\nTwo new actors - Daniel Naprous and Spencer Wilding - shared the role of Vader during his brief appearance in last year's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.\n\nProwse, a fixture on the convention circuit since Jedi's release in 1983, announced last year \"with great sadness\" that he would no longer attend international events.\n\nIn 2014 he revealed he had dementia, though this did not prevent him participating in the 2015 documentary I Am Your Father, or recently appearing in a music video for singer Jayce Lewis.\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.", "Amazon's current headquarters in Seattle has fuelled an economic boom\n\nAmazon says it wants to build a massive second headquarters in North America, sparking immediate competition from rival cities to attract what could be billions of dollars in investment.\n\nOfficials from Toronto, Texas, Maryland and Chicago were among those who said they planned to try to win Amazon's new venture.\n\nThe e-commerce giant is seeking a base for as many as 50,000 workers.\n\nIt said it plans to spend $5bn (£3.8bn) on the project over 15-17 years.\n\nOpportunities to compete for headquarters projects are nearly unheard of in the US at the scale Amazon envisions, experts said.\n\nBy comparison General Electric plans to move 800 people to a new headquarters in Boston.\n\n\"It is very rare,\" said Craig Richard, vice-chair of the International Economic Development Council. \"You don't have a lot of these that happen so when the occasion arises... economic developers jump at it.\"\n\nAmazon boss Jeff Bezos said the headquarters would be a \"full equal\" to its headquarters in Seattle.\n\n\"Amazon HQ2 will bring billions of dollars in up-front and ongoing investments, and tens of thousands of high-paying jobs,\" he added. \"We're excited to find a second home.\"\n\nThe firm said it is looking for a site in a city area with more than one million people. It wants a location with access to mass transit that is close to major highways and an international airport.\n\nThe firm also said incentives offered by local governments would be a \"significant\" factor in the decision.\n\nLocations such as Austin, Boston, Dallas, Denver, Phoenix, and Toronto shot to the top of list of potential places. Austin is home to Whole Foods, the grocery chain that Amazon recently acquired.\n\nAmazon has received millions in subsidies as it expanded its warehouse network\n\nDeciding to build a second headquarters speaks to Amazon's massive growth as well as the breadth of its business, which includes logistics, retail, media and cloud computing, analysts said.\n\nIt is unusual for a firm to opt to conduct a headquarters search in the public eye.\n\nBut Amazon has a long history of seeking government support for expansions. The firm won more than $240m in subsidies in the US between Jan 2015 and Dec 2016 for its warehouse network, according to a study by the non-profit Good Jobs First.\n\nGreg LeRoy, executive director of Good Jobs First, said a public competition is a negotiating tactic designed to yield better offers.\n\n\"Amazon may already know where it wants to go but even if it does, it can stage an auction to up the ante with that place it likes the best,\" he said.\n\nThe firm may also be sending a political message by not limiting the search to the US, analysts say.\n\nMr Bezos is among several corporate leaders to have broken with US President Donald Trump on issues such as climate change and immigration.\n\n\"It's natural for a US company to say we're thinking about creating a new US location,\" said Gregg Wassmansdorf, a senior managing director at Newmark Knight Frank, who has worked on corporate relocations.\n\n\"It takes a little more intention to say we're looking at a North American option.\"\n\nAmazon said officials should submit proposals - including economic incentive packages - by October 19. The firm plans to settle on the location next year.\n\nMayors such as John Tory of Toronto issued messages touting their towns, calling his city a \"prime candidate\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Tory This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nOfficials elsewhere said they were not deterred by the prospect of tough negotiations over a possible incentive package.\n\n\"We know it will be a big number but we're going to be aggressive in going after it,\" said Steve Pennington, managing director for business and industry sector development at the Maryland Commerce Department. \"I think everyone will be very aggressive.\"", "(L-R) Shershah Muslimyar, Rafiullah Hamidy and Tamin Rahmani were jailed for 14 years each\n\nThree men and a boy raped a girl who had asked them for directions when she got lost on a night out with friends.\n\nThe girl, 16, who cannot be named, was trying to get to a friend's house in Ramsgate, Kent, when she was attacked and then dumped on the street.\n\nThey fulfilled their \"depraved sexual desires\" on the 16-year-old girl, Canterbury Crown Court heard.\n\nThree of the men were each jailed for 14 years each and a 17-year-old boy was jailed for seven years.\n\nThe girl was found crying in the street by two people returning from a night out.\n\nRafiullah Hamidy, 24, of High Street, Herne Bay, Shershah Muslimyar, 21, of Hovenden Close, Canterbury, Tamin Rahmani, 38, of Northwood Road, Ramsgate, and the 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, all denied rape but were found guilty by a jury in May.\n\nSentencing, Judge Heather Norton said the girl had been trying to make her way on foot back to a friend's house having missed the last train home, and was \"young, drunk, disorientated and vulnerable\".\n\nShe said the girl thought the four were going to help her, but instead they \"took her up to a bedroom, pushed her on to a mattress and repeatedly raped her\" over a sustained period.\n\nRafiullah Hamidy fled to Italy after raping the teenage girl\n\nJudge Norton said the girl had been clear that while she was being raped, others were in the room watching.\n\nDescribing it as a prolonged attack in degrading circumstances, she told the defendants: \"This was an appalling and repeated gang rape of a vulnerable girl who had sought your assistance.\"\n\nThey attacked the girl at Rahmani's home in the early hours of 18 September 2016.\n\nHe owns 555 Pizza and Kebab in Northwood Road, Ramsgate, and is in the UK under a spousal visa.\n\nHamidy fled to Taranto in southern Italy after the attack where he was detained by local officers.\n\nHe was returned to the UK following an extradition hearing and taken into custody at Heathrow Airport on 28 March.\n\nAfter the hearing, Det Insp Richard Vickery said the men \"saw an opportunity to fulfil their depraved sexual desires and betrayed the trust she placed in them in the worst possible way\".\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\nMitch Lowe does. And he remembers what they said to him as he set about putting them out of business with Redbox, the movie rental company.\n\n“They said 'wait a minute, we rent movies for $5. You can’t make money renting them for a dollar!’\"\n\n\"The year I left we did $1.5bn in revenue. Blockbuster doesn’t exist any more.\"\n\nLowe was also on the founding executive team at Netflix, and he helped guide the company to be the dominant online streaming service. It is one of Silicon Valley’s great disruptors - turning an industry almost on its head.\n\nNow he thinks he can do it again, this time with cinema.\n\nLowe didn’t create Moviepass - it’s been around for six years - but he’s the company’s new chief executive at a time when it is making a dramatic move: it’s lowered its monthly subscription rate to $9.95.\n\nFor that money you can watch any movie, at (almost) any movie theatre in the US, any time you like, as often as you like (though not more than once per day).\n\nIt used to be $50, an expenditure for only the most dedicated filmgoers. But at $10, Lowe thinks he’s cracked it, and casual film-watching millennials, who have stopped going to the movies as much, will be flooding through the doors once again.\n\n“That’s the group we can get to go much more often,” Lowe says. \"That’s great for the industry.\"\n\nThis isn’t some kind of coupon trick or shady deal.\n\nWhen you sign up to Moviepass, you’re sent a straightforward debit card in the post. When you pick a film you want to watch, and a place to watch it, the company finds out the normal ticket price and adds precisely that amount to your card - and you purchase it just as you would normally.\n\nThe money is only unlocked when you get in close proximity to the theatre, and one of the company’s patented technologies locks your card so it can only be used for buying that ticket. In other words, you can’t just load it up for a “film\" and then go and buy lunch instead. Trust me, I tried.\n\nSo what’s the catch? Well, there’s a big one - but for now at least it’s for the company, not you.\n\nYou need to be in close proximity to the theatre before the money will ready\n\nYou'd do well to get one movie ticket for $9.95, let alone a whole month's worth. So what gives? It’s simple - Moviepass is going to sink the cost in the hope that eventually, somehow, they will be able to make up the deficit by taking a profit share from other cinema-related spending.\n\nIf Lowe can prove that Moviepass is encouraging many more people to go to the movies, he thinks chains will agree to share the added profit from the multiple daylight robberies that occur when you decide to order popcorn and a drink.\n\nAlso, he says while the company obviously loses money on each ticket in big cities with high prices, it will make it up in parts of the US where tickets are less than $9.95 - though I’m personally not buying that strategy. Even if a ticket in small-town USA costs $5, two films a month in and Moviepass is already in the red.\n\nIt is, ultimately, a quite literal bums-on-seats strategy. An Uber-like approach of subsidising everything at bonkers expense until people can't live without it - and work out the rest later.\n\nMoviepass already has a powerful enemy, however. AMC, the biggest theatre chain in the US, has threatened to take legal action against the company.\n\nMovie theatre chain AMC is unhappy about the \"untenable\" deal\n\n\"That price level is unsustainable and only sets up consumers for ultimate disappointment down the road if or when the product can no longer be fulfilled,\" the company said.\n\nAMC is caught in a hard place. It can’t simply block the Moviepass card because, as I mentioned, it’s just a Mastercard. The firm would have to block all Mastercard transactions (or some other inventive method, which would see them fall foul of various legal and contractual obligations).\n\nLowe suspects the firm might take issue with Moviepass as it is about to launch a subscription service of its own. AMC did not respond to the BBC’s request for comment on this article.\n\nMoviepass expects to have 2.5m subscribers by next year. It currently has 300,000 - 150,000 of which came in the two days following the price drop to $9.95.\n\nBut right now it’s struggling to get its cards sent out to new customers - there’s a 2-3 week wait for them to arrive, according to reports.\n\nYet investors are apparently happy to plough money into the idea until it works (or not). They see the opportunity as being something well beyond the movie ticket, Lowe says.\n\n“We think that going to the movies is the centrepiece of a whole night out. You could go shopping, you could get drinks, you could go to dinner, you might take a Lyft.\n\n\"We want to be part of that whole ecosystem. We want to drive more business around that night out to the movies.\"\n\nYou can reach Dave securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "Would you be better off with an automated financial adviser?\n\nAutomated financial advice delivered by computer algorithm - often dubbed robo-advice - is a fast-growing business. But should you entrust your life savings to a computer?\n\nFor many of us, talking about money is embarrassing - revealing our income and spending habits can feel like disrobing in public.\n\nSo it's no wonder seeking investment advice from an impersonal, unbiased computer program is proving so popular.\n\nConsultancy firm Accenture found that 68% of global consumers would be happy to use robo-advice to plan for retirement, with many feeling it would be faster, cheaper, and more impartial than human advice.\n\n\"Many of our clients say they feel awkward in face-to-face meetings, preferring an online experience where they don't feel judged,\" says Lynn Smith, a director of robo-advice firm Wealth Wizards.\n\nSo how does robo-advice work and is it really any better than traditional financial advice?\n\nRobo-adviser firms use algorithms to analyse your financial situation and goals and then work out an investment plan to suit you.\n\nBasically, you answer lots of questions online about your income, expenses, family situation, attitude to risk, and so on, and then the algorithm allocates your savings to a mix of investments, from index funds that aim to mimic a particular stock market index or sector, to fixed-income bonds.\n\nRobo-adviser algorithms allocate your cash to a balanced mix of investments\n\nAs some investments are riskier than others, younger investors will generally have their portfolios weighted towards higher-risk, higher-growth investments, whereas older investors approaching retirement will see the balance of their portfolios weighted towards lower-risk, fixed income investments, such as government bonds or gilts.\n\nJoe Ziemer, vice president of communications at Betterment, a US robo-adviser with more than $9bn under management, says: \"The Betterment service takes your information and uses a series of algorithms to create an asset allocation plan, which might be, for example, 90% equities and 10% bonds for a retirement saver.\"\n\nThe crucial point is that these algorithms work everything out for you at much lower cost than many traditional wealth advisory firms.\n\nWealth Wizards, for example, typically charges £65 for investments up to £30,000, and 0.30%, or £300, on a £100,000 investment pot. Betterment charges 0.25% a year.\n\nThat's peanuts compared to human advisers' fees, which come in at about £580 for advice on a £200-a-month pension contribution, or £1,000-£2,000 for guidance on what to do with your £100,000 pot when your retire, according to UK adviser network Unbiased.\n\nMany of these robo-advisers will offer human advice as well - for any extra fee - if your finances are more complicated or you need tax planning services as well.\n\n\"When a client needs advice spanning a number of different regulatory regimes, human advice will be required,\" says John Perks, managing director of life and pensions at UK insurer LV, which launched its Retirement Wizard robo-advice service two years ago.\n\nMany of us are facing poverty in retirement because we're not saving enough, yet living longer\n\nSo could these cheaper investment services encourage more of us to save more?\n\nThe powers that be certainly hope so.\n\nWorld Economic Forum figures show the collective retirement savings gap of the world's largest economies will hit $400tn (£307tn) by 2050, meaning a lot of people could be spending their retirements in poverty.\n\nGovernments are concerned that this might then place an unsustainable burden on welfare systems.\n\nRobo-advice is certainly growing in popularity.\n\nMarket research aggregator Statista says the US market will grow 29% per year between now and 2021, and forecasts that the number of Chinese investors using robo-advice services will jump from two million to 79.4 million in the same period.\n\nWhile Consultancy AT Kearney forecasts that robo-advisers will be managing $2.2tn within five years, representing a 68% annual growth rate.\n\nAnd these services are only likely to become more sophisticated as the data from money management and banking apps are fed in to the algorithms and artificial intelligence is added to the mix, experts believe.\n\n\"If you knew everything about a person, you could wire up the back office to do the same as a human adviser. The fact find is the difficult bit,\" says Ms Smith.\n\nBut are we really happy to ditch the human adviser completely? No, is the short answer.\n\nAccenture finds that a significant proportion of us still want human interaction, particularly if our finances are complex.\n\nSuccessful financial services firms will need a strategy \"that seamlessly integrates technology, branch networks and staff\", argues Accenture's Piercarlo Gera, senior managing director, distribution and marketing services.\n\nWhile Betterment provides 100% of its advice online, clients can still talk to a human being when they want to.\n\nBetterment claims it's investment portfolios are based on Nobel Prize-winning research\n\nEven those who prefer face-to-face interaction could still benefit from the robo-advice phenomenon, however.\n\n\"Using robo-advice can cut the time it takes an adviser to provide regulated advice for a client from nine hours down to just 90 minutes,\" LV's Mr Perks says.\n\n\"This could transform companies' back office operations, allowing them to offer a cheaper service.\"\n\nBut what about investment performance?\n\nAre algorithms choosing cheap investments that merely track markets better at making you money than professional fund managers trying to back winners on your behalf?\n\nThe truth is that only about a quarter of funds managed by clever humans outperform the market as a whole, so when you take into account the much higher management fees you pay for that level of service, the performance difference is likely to be marginal for most of us.\n\nThe robots may be coming, but in this case at least, they seem to be on the side of the small investor trying to save for a comfortable retirement.", "Ken says his children have lost out from his retirement property dropping in value\n\nAround half of new build retirement homes sold during a 10-year period were later re-sold at a loss, according to exclusive research for the BBC.\n\nThe research by the Elderly Accommodation Counsel charity found falls in value could be more than 50%.\n\nIt looked at thousands of Land Registry records for resale details of homes built between 1998 and 2012.\n\nThe charity found many properties built after 2002 had underperformed the general property market.\n\nAdam Hillier of the Elderly Accommodation Counsel (EAC), which advises people considering retirement housing, called the scale of the falls \"startling\".\n\nAccording to the research, 51% of retirement properties built and sold between 2000 and 2010, and then sold again between 2006 and 2016, suffered a loss in value.\n\nFor those properties which declined in value, the average loss was 17%.\n\nFor some, the falls are much steeper.\n\nThe EAC found that for new build retirement properties sold between 2005 and 2007, and then resold between 2012 and 2014, more than four fifths fell in value.\n\nThe average loss for these properties was 25%.\n\nThe Elderly Accommodation Counsel charity said the trend was \"startling\"\n\nMr Hillier said it was unclear why it was happening. \"It's the million dollar question, really.\n\n\"I think part of it is the new build premium - especially when it comes to retirement housing,\" he said.\n\nAnother reason could be under-investment from developers once they have built the properties, he said.\n\n\"The traditional model was to hand over these properties to a managing agent to run them,\" he said. \"Does the developer have that much of an interest in investing in the property?\"\n\nThe trend has continued in recent years too. For new retirement properties sold between 2008 and 2010, and then resold between 2015 and 2017, nearly two thirds were sold for less than the purchase price.\n\nThe average loss here was 19%.\n\nMoney Box spoke to the residents of one development - Burlington Court, in Bridlington in East Yorkshire - where prices have more than halved since it was first built around a decade ago.\n\nAccording to Land Registry figures, one flat in Burlington Court, bought new in 2006 for £166,000, was resold for just £70,000 in 2014. Another two bedroom apartment bought for £140,000, in 2008, was sold last year for £58,000.\n\nKen, 91, bought his flat in Burlington Court for around £180,000 in 2008.\n\n\"I thought when I bought this that if I lived for another five or six years, my children would get maybe £190,000 for it,\" he said.\n\n\"In actual fact they'll be lucky to get £70,000 for it, maybe even £60,000.\n\n\"It's criminal really. When I mention it other people, they say: 'Why should you worry, you won't be here?'\n\n\"But I do feel my son and daughter have lost out. It's a lot of money,\" he added.\n\nThe developer said Burlington Court was hit by a lack of parking and difficult local market\n\nMargarete, 92, paid nearly £150,000 for her flat eleven years ago. She sold a detached bungalow in York.\n\nLike most residents of Burlington Court, she says it's a nice place to live, with a nice community of people.\n\nBut Margarete says she's always wanted to move back to Germany, where she was born.\n\nHowever the value of her property means that isn't now an option.\n\n\"My friends in Germany always wanted me to go back.\"\n\n\"But if I get £40,000 for this flat I'd be lucky. I couldn't afford to go back to Germany and buy a place there.\"\n\nThe largest developer of retirement homes, McCarthy and Stone, told the BBC that the numbers did not include incentives given to the original buyers, which effectively lowers the purchase price.\n\nThe company also said it had worked hard to increase resale values in recent years, including extending leases, retaining management of developments, and providing sales support.\n\n\"The vast majority of our retirement apartments increase in value on resale\", McCarthy and Stone told the BBC in a statement.\n\n\"It is also important to understand that the value of specialist retirement housing is not purely financial. It improves lives, provides peace of mind, care and support and ultimately helps older people maintain their independence.\n\n\"However, we recognise that there are a small number of cases, particularly with our older properties, where resale values of some apartments haven't performed as we would have wished. This can be down to many reasons, including the performance of some local property markets.\"\n\nMcCarthy and Stone, which also built Burlington Court, said resale values in that particular development had been hit by a lack of car parking spaces and a difficult local property market.\n\n\"Dismal resale prices for retirement properties help explain why only 2% of over-65s live in designated retirement properties - far less than the US or Australia.\n\n\"Something is seriously wrong with the business model that these flats fall so drastically in value.\n\n\"The retirement housing sector will not expand notably until this is addressed. That would be more effective than attempting to deny that the problem exists.\"\n\nListen to the full report on Money Box, midday on Saturday 9 September on BBC Radio 4.", "Carolann Gallon pleaded guilty to three counts of trafficking for sexual exploitation\n\nA woman who trafficked underage girls to a drugs and grooming ring that forced young women to have sex has been jailed for six years and three months.\n\nCarolann Gallon was one of 18 people convicted as part of Operation Sanctuary, an investigation into the sexual abuse of vulnerable girls.\n\nThe 22-year-old, of Hareside Court, Newcastle, admitted three counts of trafficking.\n\nAnother gang member, Abdulhamid Minoyee, was sentenced to 15 years.\n\nThe 34-year-old, of Gainsborough Grove, Newcastle, had been convicted of raping a woman with learning difficulties, sexual assault, and the supply of drugs.\n\nNewcastle Crown Court heard that Gallon took girls - two of whom were in care and one who was only 13 years old - to the parties knowing they would be sexually abused.\n\nShe also took a girl with learning difficulties to a flat where she was raped by Minoyee.\n\nAbdulhamid Minoyee gave a girl with learning difficulties cannabis and raped her while she was intoxicated\n\nThe prosecution said after Gallon was arrested, she told police: \"I didn't force them into having sex. They [are] not kids, they've got their own mind.\n\n\"If they're mortal [drunk] they are going to do something, why get mortal in the first place?\n\n\"It's self-inflicted, I've got no sympathy.\"\n\nGallon was aged 17 or 18 at the time of the offences, but police decided that she was an active member of the gang rather than a victim.\n\nJudge Penny Moreland said: \"You were described yourself as being a victim.\n\n\"There have been ample opportunities for you to make complaints about these matters. You have never chosen to do so.\"\n\nShe added that Gallon continued to \"ally\" herself with other defendants.\n\nAll but one of the grooming gang have now been sentenced\n\nA total of 16 men and one woman have now been jailed, with one more to be sentenced on 14 September.\n\nVictims were lured to parties, known as \"sessions\", at addresses around the West End of Newcastle by men who apparently befriended them.\n\nThere they were plied with alcohol or drugs - some became addicted - and forced to have sex.\n\nDuring sentencing, victims' impact statements described their psychological damage, and those living close to the party addresses spoke of being \"put through hell\".\n\nSpeaking after sentencing, Det Supt Steve Barron, from Northumbria Police, said: \"I have spoken to some of these victims and they are lovely people.\n\n\"They have had a tough life and to then go through courts is so difficult for them. It has just been brilliant to see how their bravery is now showing justice.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ian McDiarmid portrays Enoch Powell at the time of his \"rivers of blood\" speech and later towards the end of his life\n\nA single controversial speech probably made Enoch Powell the most admired and the most detested British politician of the 1960s. In 1968 his intervention in Britain's policies on migration ended his career as a shadow minister - but it made him known around the world. Chris Hannan's play What Shadows, starring Star Wars actor Ian McDiarmid, looks at Powell's motives then and at his legacy today.\n\nHannan says the play What Shadows isn't really about Powell, although the politician dominates the stage.\n\n\"I knew I wanted to write about national identity and Powell is a good way of exploring that. But the inspiration was partly my own background in a working-class Irish family in Scotland. There was a huge amount of discrimination as the Irish were often seen as unwanted immigrants. So the Powell speech resonated more widely than you might think.\"\n\nIn April 1968 Powell made a speech which has gone down in British political history. The Conservatives were in opposition under Edward Heath - a party rival for whom Powell had little respect. Powell, the Tory defence spokesman, knew some of his white constituents in Wolverhampton South-West were unhappy at levels of immigration from the Commonwealth.\n\nIan McDiarmid (left) is known for playing Supreme Chancellor Palpatine in Star Wars\n\nHe made a speech at the Midland Hotel in Birmingham, using the racial language of the time, in which he quoted the Roman poet Virgil, setting out dark forebodings about growing levels of migration. \"Like the Roman,\" he said \"I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood.\"\n\nThe press around the world reported the so-called \"rivers of blood\" speech and Powell was quickly sacked from the Tory front bench. But TV news bulletins were filled with voters for whom Powell had become an unlikely populist hero.\n\nHannan's play shows events surrounding the Birmingham speech and then revisits Powell towards the end of his life. The play was seen last year at the Birmingham Rep and is now being restaged in Edinburgh and London. The lead role is taken by Ian McDiarmid, famous on screen as the Emperor Palpatine in the Star Wars films.\n\nThe play's poster gives an inflammatory image of Enoch Powell\n\nMcDiarmid says the 1968 Britain we see portrayed isn't very different from the nation today. \"I think we now have a divided Britain, almost down the middle - as it very much was when Powell made the speech.\n\n\"There are the people who have reason to be grateful and happy about multiculturalism and there are other people who are feeling rather dispossessed. And that's something which he put his finger on in 1968 - in fact he lit the blue touch-paper.\n\n\"So Chris has written about a divided nation but with Powell there's also a divided personality. He was a romantic nationalist and a passionate person: he felt he had an insight into human nature. In a public sense he had two great ambitions: he wanted to be Viceroy of India and then he wanted to be prime minister. They both came to nothing.\"\n\nPolitical journalist Simon Heffer was Powell's official biographer. Before the politician's death in 1998 they spoke about the Birmingham speech - but he was never quite sure if Powell had been surprised at its huge impact with the public.\n\nIan McDiarmid (left) previously played the World War One foreign secretary Sir Edward Grey in drama 37 Days\n\n\"There's no denying that Enoch had aspirations to be his party's leader. He disliked the fact that Edward Heath was a pro-European and not a traditional Tory. He knew the Birmingham speech would aggravate Heath but he was also, I think, acting as a dedicated constituency MP. He was not a racist and I think he had no theories about race as such - but he was opposed to immigration.\n\n\"Some of the language he used in the speech undoubtedly offended people with his talk of 'charming, wide-grinning piccaninnies'. It's fair to point out that he was quoting a constituent.\n\n\"But when I wrote his biography a lot of his contemporaries at Westminster told me his speech had made it impossible to discuss immigration at all: the whole thing became so toxic. That was not what he intended.\"\n\nHannan enjoyed delving into Powell's complex personality. But he says it's contemporary Britain he had in mind writing the play. \"We find this conversation so difficult: it's as if the language isn't fit for talking about it. As soon as we raise the subject of racism and immigration we can last about two minutes before we give up and shut the dialogue down.\n\nThe playwright Chris Hannan says conversation about immigration has become harder since the time of Enoch Powell\n\n\"I believe the conversation has actually got worse over the half century since the Powell speech. The play really ask, 'How do we learn to talk about this? How do we learn to talk about the things that divide us?' Because we have to get beyond all the hatred - there's no choice about that. The play is about the Birmingham speech needing to be answered. It's not a matter of agreeing with it but I want to know, with all the anger, how on earth do we talk to each other?\"\n\nMcDiarmid has to make Powell tick on stage - so does he find something to like in him?\n\n\"Acting works by empathising with your character. If you fail to do that, the audience simply won't take it seriously and the whole thing will fall apart. So I admire him for sticking to his guns. But at the end of the day you have to ask if what he did advanced the argument in any productive way. I'm not sure it did.\n\n\"I suspect the audience may go away thinking he was brave but also naïve - or prejudiced but also honest. I think there are elements of all those aspects to him. But he was a significant character in British life. And - whether you like his arguments or not - the issues he raises are as relevant as they ever were.\"\n\nWhat Shadows plays at the Lyceum theatre in Edinburgh from 7 September. From 26 September it's at the Park theatre in London.\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.", "Rats may have been attracted to rubbish piled up in a nearby car park\n\nA disabled French girl covered in rat bites is critically ill in hospital after a pack swarmed into her bedroom in northern France.\n\nThe 14-year-old paraplegic was sleeping on the ground floor when the attack happened, in a rented house in Roubaix.\n\nA medical expert quoted by France Info said the girl had 45 facial lesions, 150 on her hands and 30 on her feet.\n\nThe girl's father is suing the landlord for alleged negligence. Reports say rubbish bins nearby were overflowing.\n\nThe father, who has two other children, said he found his paraplegic daughter Samantha \"drenched in blood\" in her bed last Saturday.\n\nHe said everything had been fine when the family had gone to bed. He was sleeping upstairs.\n\n\"There was blood coming from her ears - I was terrified that she might have had a brain haemorrhage,\" he said, quoted by the local newspaper Courrier-Picard.\n\nSome of her fingertips were bitten off and surgeons cannot repair them, he said.\n\nThe family has now been moved to a different house and police are investigating the attack.\n\nThe hospital has run checks on Samantha for possible infections, including rabies. The rabies test was negative.\n\nSuch attacks on humans are rare, though hungry rats do sometimes feed on corpses.", "The use of potentially addictive painkillers across England has doubled in the last 15 years, according to a report by leading public health experts.\n\nResearchers found one in 20 people was being prescribed opioid painkillers, such as codeine and tramadol.\n\nThey also found that drugs were being prescribed for longer periods of time.\n\nExperts say long-term use leads to a risk of addiction while the benefits become greatly reduced.\n\nA routine prescription drug led James to the brink of destruction.\n\nHis problems started with severe stomach aches but the painkillers he was prescribed quickly stopped working.\n\nDesperate for pain relief, he was soon spending £400 a month on additional supplies from online pharmacies.\n\nJames went from taking eight pills a day to 50 - and almost before he knew it, his life had spiralled out of control.\n\n\"A few months before, I was just this normal guy working full time, kids and a wife and happy, then all of a sudden I am basically a drug addict.\n\n\"I thought it would be fine. I thought I would be on these tablets short term, but then before I knew it, I couldn't get off them.\"\n\nFor James, the side-effects were terrible - headaches, nausea, constipation - and then a series of seizures that he feared would end his life.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. James says he wouldn't have started taking codeine if had known how addictive it was.\n\n\"They can ruin your life without you knowing because I do believe that probably within a year - taking the same amounts or increasing - they probably would have killed me.\"\n\nJames is now getting help to deal with his crippling addiction through a programme run by his council and a local GP practice.\n\nResearch in just a handful of GP practices where he lives in Scunthorpe alone identified more than 100 people dependent on painkillers.\n\nBut responsibility for helping them falls between the NHS and local councils, and schemes like the one James is on are rare.\n\nThe data comes from a wider study of 50,000 NHS patients in England by the Public Health Research Consortium.\n\nIt looked at those who had been prescribed at least one of four types of potentially addictive drugs - known as Dependence Forming Medicines - between 2000 and 2015.\n\nThe biggest single group of drugs were opioid painkillers which can help relieve pain for cancer patients or those with short-term needs.\n\nThe data shows more people are being prescribed these powerful medicines.\n\nIn 2015, 5% of patients were receiving regular prescriptions, double the rate when compared with 2000.\n\nNeil Smith, research director at the National Centre for Social Research, said: \"This report highlights that a balance needs to be struck between avoiding prescribing that might lead to dependence or other harms and ensuring proper access to medicines to relieve suffering and treat disorders.\n\n\"Trends in the extent and duration of opioid prescribing… need close and ongoing monitoring.\"\n\nDoctors say that for short-term use, opioid painkillers, such a tramadol, codeine or morphine can be very effective.\n\nBut when used over a longer period of time the body develops a tolerance and so that effectiveness declines.\n\nThey also come with side-effects including headaches, nausea and constipation as well as being potentially highly addictive.\n\nExperts warn that no-one should stop their medication before seeking the advice of their GP.\n\nBut Dr Cathy Stannard, a specialist in pain management, says it is clear that patients using opioid drugs for a long time are often getting little benefit, but suffer all the side-effects.\n\n\"I am not suggesting somebody who is benefiting has their drugs removed.\n\n\"But out of a population who are taking these drugs, the majority are not benefiting and they should be supported to come off these medicines.\"\n\nToday's report doesn't contain hard data on addiction but it does indicate there is a growing need to closely monitor the use of these powerful drugs.\n• None Trip to dentist led to heroin and prison - BBC News\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "UK Prime Minister Theresa May has described the time she and US president Donald Trump held hands as a \"moment of assistance\".\n\nThe leaders were captured on camera as they walked at the White House on Mrs May's visit in January 2017.\n\nThe picture made headlines around the world, with some suggesting it was a sign of their closeness.\n\nGovernment sources in Washington DC suggested Mr Trump has a fear of stairs or slopes.\n\nSpeaking on the BBC's Test Match Special, Mrs May said: \"We were walking along, he said there was a ramp around the corner and it might be difficult walking down it so to take his arm.\n\n\"And then when we got to the top of the ramp he took my hand, just for going down the ramp and then that was it ... I think it was to assist.\"\n\nThe prime minister added: \"You suddenly see this bank of photographers and then of course it becomes something that the photographers and the journalists and the commentators and everybody pick up. But I think it was genuinely a moment of assistance.\"\n\nTheresa May was speaking to Test Match Special\n\nAsked whether she trusted Mr Trump not to \"press the button or be reckless\", Mrs May said the president was surrounded by \"very good advisers\" who would help him make the right decisions.\n\n\"I believe that Donald Trump as American president will take the decisions that are right for security and safety around the world,\" she added.\n\n\"He has very good advisers around him in some of the individuals he has in key roles of state, defence and so forth. And we will work with them.\n\n\"I had a call with him earlier this week, talking exactly about North Korea and what we can do together, particularly at the United Nations ... and how we can work with other countries to achieve what we all want, which is for North Korea to stop what is illegal activity.\"\n\nIn a wide-ranging interview with the BBC's Jonathan Agnew at Lord's cricket ground, Mrs May also hit back at critics of her general election campaign, saying \"I don't think I'm in the least robotic\".\n\nMrs May was ridiculed by critics during the election for repeating stock phrases, such as \"strong and stable,\" with one dubbing her the \"Maybot\".\n\nInstead of addressing large crowds and doing walkabouts, like her Labour opponent Jeremy Corbyn, her appearances were mostly limited to tightly-controlled party events.\n\nShe said she had been \"frustrated\" that as prime minister she had not been able to \"knock on doors\" and meet ordinary people.\n\n\"In any election campaign a plan is made about what that campaign is going to be like.\n\n\"I get frustrated... people used the word robotic about me during that campaign. I don't think I'm in the least robotic.\n\n\"What I really enjoy is getting out there talking to people, hearing from them, understanding what the issues are for them.\n\n\"That's what drove me when I first became prime minister.\"\n\nShe also discussed harassment on social media, saying she worried about its impact on young people's mental health.\n\n\"Social media is hugely positive in most of the ways that people use it. But there is this aspect to it that does enable people to harass others, to make really very unpleasant comments, and beyond unpleasant comments, real threats.\n\n\"That's why it is important that the Crown Prosecution Service recently issued some new guidance on prosecutions of online harassment and threats online. I think it's important that action is taken when it's right, when it's passed the level which is appropriate in terms of criminality and prosecutions.\"\n\nShe added: \"If it's a crime offline, it's a crime online. I think sometimes people think that online is a different sort of world and it doesn't matter and you can do what you like. Actually, no, you can't. You should behave online as you would offline.\"\n\nAsked if she had taken the election result, which saw her lose her Commons majority, personally, Mrs May said: \"As the leader of the party of course you have to take it to a degree personally and you have to accept that responsibility.\"\n\nMrs May, a longstanding cricket fan, was attending the test match between England and the West Indies, at Lord's.\n• None May and Trump hold talks at White House", "A number of Nazi items are in the auction on Saturday\n\nThe son of a Holocaust survivor has described as \"tasteless\" a decision by a Dublin auction house to sell Nazi \"memorabilia\".\n\nNine items from the Third Reich period are being offered as part of Whyte's The Eclectic Collector auction this weekend, that features more than 500 lots.\n\nGallery owner Oliver Sears said he thought it was \"quite appalling\".\n\nIan Whyte has defended his auction house's decision to sell the items.\n\nThey include a Nazi sash, an Anschluss campaign leaflet, a child's helmet and various German army daggers.\n\nMr Sears has a gallery on the same street as Whyte's on Molesworth Street.\n\nHis mother, Monika, survived the Warsaw ghetto. As a child, she was placed on a train to Treblinka, but escaped. A number of other family members died in Auschwitz.\n\nIn 1942, before the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, the Nazi SS deported about 300,000 Jews from the ghetto to the Treblinka camp, where they were killed in gas chambers.\n\nMr Sears said he thought the fascination with Nazi collectables was \"strange\" and that they should be \"donated to a museum\".\n\n\"For me particularly, they are an appalling part of history,\" he added.\n\nA child's helmet is among the items\n\n\"What distinguishes this kind of symbolism from any other militaria is that these symbols are used by hundreds of far right groups.\"\n\nMr Sears said he had approached Ian Whyte in September of last year with regard to an auction that featured items from the Third Reich period.\n\n\"I said you can take the moral high ground by not proceeding with the sale, you can donate money to a relevant charity, or you can post a message on your website distancing yourself from the policies of the Third Reich,\" he added.\n\n\"He said he would put something on the website, but he did not do that.\n\n\"It is legal (selling Nazi memorabilia), but it is a question of taste.\"\n\nMr Whyte said his auction house sold a wide range of material and its main business was \"fine art\".\n\nHe said he believed it was \"a form of censorship to say collectors cannot collect what they like provided it is legal\".\n\nHe said Whyte's would only make a \"tiny amount\" from the items Mr Sears objected to.\n\nMr Whyte added that he did not see any connection between \"collectors and neo-Nazis\".'\n\nHe said he did not know any collectors who were doing it for \"sinister reasons\".\n\n\"To me it is a matter of principle, I do not agree with banning collectibles on the basis of political things,\" he said.\n\n\"I understand what he (Mr Sears) says about the Nazis, they were a dreadful regime.\n\n\"They are probably the worst villains, but there were other villains around like the Soviet Union and we could argue about the famine here in Ireland, we could argue about what the Romans and Greeks did even if you want to go back in time.\"\n\nMr Whyte said that he had told Mr Sears that he would think about his proposal last year to post a message on the auction house's website distancing it from the Third Reich, but decided against it.\n\n\"We don't do that, we don't pass comment on what we sell, we describe it, we make sure it is genuine and that it is legal to sell,\" he said.\n\nHe added that he saw \"no reason\" for donating any money gained from the items to a charity and that if he wanted to it was \"a private matter\".", "When British sprinter Anyika Onuora took some time off to visit family in Nigeria in October 2015, she expected it to be like every other holiday.\n\nBut the 32-year-old contracted malaria and unable to walk, her Rio Olympic dream was left hanging in the balance.\n\nJust 10 months later the Liverpudlian stood on the Olympic podium, with a bronze medal in the 4x400m relay hanging round her neck.\n\nNot even her team-mates knew about the life-threatening ordeal she had endured just to be there. Now 13 months on from the Games, she tells her story...\n\nThere was a pause and the consultant just gave me the look - the look of uncertainty. He didn't know whether I'd make a full recovery.\n\n\"You're lucky to be alive,\" he said.\n\nBut all I could think was 'can I leave? I've got an Olympics to train for'. I felt like my dream was being taken away from me and it was heart breaking.\n\nIt all started when I was in Nigeria - I contracted malaria but I didn't know I had it. I went to the Dominican Republic for another holiday and that was when my symptoms started to get really rough.\n\nI emailed the doctor at British Athletics and I told him my urine was dark, really really dark.\n\n\"Are you sure it's not alcohol or you haven't been drinking and staying hydrated?\" he asked. But I was hydrated and it was getting quite worrying.\n\nEven with the symptoms, I got home from the Dominican Republic and I went back to training at Loughborough. I was in denial for a long time. But I knew I wasn't running properly and I felt weird. That's when I realised it was something much more serious. As soon as I stopped that session, the fever kicked in.\n\nI went to get a urine and a blood test and within 12 hours the chief medical officer got back to me. \"There's something wrong with your kidneys, you need to see a specialist,\" he said.\n\nI had no way to get to London other than to drive myself, with a raging fever, to St John's Hospital.\n\nI sometimes complain about doing a tough workout but the symptoms I had were beyond anything I could have imagined.\n\nI had a fever, I had vomiting, stomach cramps and headaches. I was going from hot to cold, shivering, and waking up in a pool of sweat without knowing why it had happened or where it had come from.\n\nBy the time they diagnosed me and told me I had malaria my fever was reaching 40C and they said \"we need to throw you in an ice tub\", but I couldn't move, I could barely breathe. The nurse had to put bags of ice around the bed because I couldn't get to the tub - I was in so much pain.\n\nI was then put in quarantine and I wasn't allowed to leave. I couldn't even go outside and I remember gazing out the window and thinking how amazing London looked. I didn't know if I was ever going to see fresh air again.\n\nI also had to learn to walk again. When I was moved to the ward I tried to do laps and I was fighting with the nurses because they said I should be in bed resting. But I needed to walk, I needed some sort of movement, I needed to be active - this was my winter training, I should have been out on the track.\n\nThe day I got released from hospital, it was my birthday and as soon as I walked outside I took a deep breath of air. I was so thankful to have the opportunity to do that, because not many people are able to survive it.\n\nI think if I was a regular person I wouldn't have known it was malaria. I would have just taken some tablets and thought it was a cold.\n\nThey told me if I'd have left it a day or two days later it could have been fatal. I'm thankful that I caught it as early as I did.\n\nI went through the absolute worst in that hospital and I nearly had everything taken away.\n\nBut as soon as I could walk again, I started running. No matter how much the training sessions killed me, I was just so grateful to be there.\n\nOriginally the European Championships weren't in my plans before the 2016 Rio Olympics, but because of the circumstances that led to my performances at the national championships - the Olympic trials - I had to go to the Europeans in Amsterdam to get a medal.\n\nSo nine months after contracting malaria I won my first global individual medal - a bronze in the 400m before gold in the 4x400m relay.\n\nThat didn't get me an individual place at Rio 2016 but I was selected for the relay and I said \"I'm not coming back to the UK without an Olympic medal\".\n\nAnd in August, I got everything I'd ever dreamed of.\n\nAlongside my team-mates Christine Ohuruogu, Emily Diamond and Eilidh Doyle we won bronze in the 4x400m relay.\n\nI remember shaking on the podium. I'd been at the Europeans and got a medal, been to the Commonwealths and the World Championships in Beijing, but an Olympic medal? It was amazing. You just want to stare at it and hold it, it's like a new born child that you've just created and you don't want to let go.\n\nOnly a handful of people knew what had happened to me in the months building up to the Olympics. I told 400m runner Martin Rooney because we were training partners and I also told long jumper Shara Proctor.\n\nI didn't know how people would react so I decided to keep the fact I'd had malaria a secret, even from my 4x400m relay team-mates.\n\nI am always accountable for everything I do and if I had a bad race in 2016 I didn't want anyone to use the malaria as an excuse. I just wanted to focus on the season and not think about it.\n\nEven when I got the Olympic medal, I wasn't too sure about telling people - I felt exposed at the time but the response when I finally did was amazing and completely overwhelming.\n\nSometimes I still get nightmares about what happened in the hospital. I didn't want to have to remember it but speaking about it gives me a sense of relief and closure.\n\nI am now an ambassador for Malaria No More UK - an amazing charity who are bringing the disease to the forefront. They're teaching people that this is a global disease and not just in Africa.\n\nPeople are sometimes worried about going to Africa because of Malaria but Nigeria is like home for me and I love going back - it's where my parents were born and bred. After my dad passed away in 2012 I said I'd go back as often as possible and I might even retire there one day.\n\nI know many people who have passed away from Malaria. I have a cousin who died from the disease so it makes me truly grateful that I survived and am able to tell my story.\n\nIn terms of my performances on the track, I'm not in exactly the same shape as before. Over the last two years my times have been up and down, but I don't think that's related to malaria. I'm just feeling my way with the 400m.\n\nI'm definitely capable of running as quick as I have done in the past and malaria by no means is going to stop me. The biggest thing I took away from this experience is strength, strength I never knew I had.\n\nWe've got the Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast and the European Championships in Germany next year so hopefully there are more medals to come.", "Emergency crews and other moped drivers went to the help of victims on 13 July\n\nA 16-year-old boy has denied carrying out a string of acid attacks on six moped riders.\n\nThe teenager, who cannot be named because of his age, is accused of targeting the men to steal their bikes, spraying them in their faces with a noxious liquid. He will stand trial in January.\n\nHe is said to have stolen two mopeds in the attacks, spread over 90 minutes.\n\nThe defendant, from Croydon, south London, appeared at Wood Green Crown Court on Friday and pleaded not guilty to 12 charges relating to the attacks on 13 July in north-east London.\n\nThe offences include six counts of throwing a corrosive liquid with intent to \"disable, burn, maim, disfigure or cause grievous bodily harm\", two counts of robbery and four counts of attempted robbery.\n\nThe youth was remanded in custody until the trial on 8 January.\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\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter", "Police have asked the government for more money to investigate the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, weeks before funding is due to end.\n\nMore than £11m has been spent on the Metropolitan Police hunt, but funding will run out at the end of the month.\n\nIn April, the force said it was still pursuing a critical line of inquiry, 10 years after Madeleine's disappearance in Portugal, aged three.\n\nA family spokesman said her parents were \"encouraged\" by the request.\n\nThe Home Office said the application would be considered.\n\nMadeleine, whose parents Kate and Gerry are from Rothley, Leicestershire, disappeared from her family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in May 2007.\n\nThe Met's Operation Grange has been helping with the search for clues about what happened to her since 2011.\n\nIn April, the force's Assistant Commissioner, Mark Rowley, said they still hoped they could provide answers.\n\nHe said: \"I know we have a significant line of inquiry which is worth pursuing, and because it's worth pursuing it could provide an answer, but until we've gone through it I won't know whether we are going to get there or not.\"\n\nKate and Gerry McCann have worked to try to find their daughter - including by issuing pictures of how she may have looked later on in childhood\n\nMr Rowley said there was no \"definitive evidence\" as to whether Madeleine was alive or dead.\n\nHe also declined to reveal the nature of the working theories or whether any suspects were currently being considered, but said the investigating team were still receiving evidence and new information from members of the public on a daily basis.\n\nIn March, the Home Office granted police £85,000 to cover \"operational costs\" between April and September this year.\n\nThe McCann spokesman added: \"Naturally, Kate and Gerry hope the Met request is granted.\n\n\"They are encouraged that there remains work to be done that requires extra funding and they remain very grateful to all Operation Grange officers who are continuing to look for their daughter.\"\n\nA Scotland Yard spokesman said: \"Funding is in place until the end of September.\n\n\"Any details about future funding will be released when appropriate.\"", "Bell Pottinger's Asian unit has said it will separate from its British parent, amid reports the public relations firm is nearing collapse.\n\nBell Pottinger's UK business is expected to go into administration as early as next week, the firm said.\n\nThe Asian business will begin trading under a new name \"in the coming days\".\n\nThe PR firm was expelled from the industry trade body after being accused of stirring up racial hatred in South Africa.\n\nThe company's Asian business is seeking to distance itself from the scandal.\n\n\"The Asia business is entirely ringfenced and solvent,\" Asia Chief Executive Ang Shih Huei said in a statement sent to clients on Friday seen by the BBC. \"Our teams are intact, we continue to serve our clients and it is entirely business as usual.\"\n\nBell Pottinger Asia said it would soon re-launch with a new ownership structure and operate under the name Klareco Communications.\n\nLate on Thursday an announcement was made to UK staff saying the firm could go into administration next week, according to the Financial Times and other media outlets.\n\nThe meeting was attended by a representative of accountants BDO, hired to advise on a potential sale, reports said.\n\nHowever, BDO did not respond to a BBC request for a comment.\n\nThe company's founder, Lord Bell, who resigned last year, has admitted to the BBC that it is probably \"near the end\".\n\nA string of big names have already cut ties with the firm since it was expelled from the Public Relations and Communications Association earlier this week.\n\nThe company's work on the campaign for Oakbay Capital, a South African company owned by the wealthy Gupta family, was accused of inciting racial hatred.\n\nBell Pottinger and its founder, Lord Bell, have a reputation in the PR industry for taking risks.\n\nThe firm represented the South African Olympic athlete Oscar Pistorious after he was charged with murder.\n\nBelarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko has used the firm's services, as well as Syria's first lady Asma al-Assad.\n\nIn the late 1990s the PR firm worked on a campaign to release the former Chilean dictator, General Pinochet, who had been arrested in London on a warrant from Spain requesting his extradition on murder charges.\n\nLord Bell, who founded Bell Pottinger in the 1990s, resigned last year, partly due to his unease with the company's deal with the Guptas.\n\nWhen asked on BBC2's Newsnight this week if he thought the PR company would survive the scandal, he replied: \"I think it is probably getting near the end.\"", "More than 400 weapons have been surrendered each day since July\n\nAustralians have handed in nearly 26,000 firearms in the nation's first gun amnesty since its landmark response to a mass shooting in 1996.\n\nThe amnesty began on 1 July to help counter a growing terrorism threat and an influx of arms in the country.\n\nIt is illegal to own an unregistered firearm in Australia.\n\nThose caught outside the amnesty period face fines of up to A$280,000 (£172,000, $225,000) and up to 14 years in jail.\n\nThe current programme, running until 30 September, means Australians can surrender unregistered firearms and related items without fear of prosecution.\n\nJustice Minister Michael Keenan said the \"great result\" so far would make the nation safer.\n\nPolice estimate there are as many as 260,000 illicit guns in Australia, with some used in organised crime as well as recent terror incidents.\n\nMr Keenan cited the example of Man Haron Monis, the perpetrator of a Sydney cafe siege in 2014, who used an unregistered shotgun which had entered Australia in the 1950s.\n\nAustralians turned in 643,726 firearms in 1996 and 1997 following the killing of 35 people in the Tasmanian town of Port Arthur - the nation's worst and most recent mass shooting.\n\nThe incident also led to a ban on semi-automatic and automatic weapons in the country.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This is what the southern region of Mexico woke up to after an 8.1 magnitude quake\n\nThe race to rescue those trapped in the rubble continues, nearly 48 hours after a powerful earthquake struck off Mexico's southern coast.\n\nThe 8.1 magnitude quake left at least 65 people dead, according to officials.\n\nAnother 200 people were injured, President Enrique Peña Nieto said, as he declared a national day of mourning.\n\nMeanwhile, the feared category one Hurricane Katia, which struck Veracruz on the east coast on Saturday, has been downgraded to a tropical storm.\n\nThe US National Hurricane Center reported Katia had been rapidly weakening since making landfall, but local officials are worried the storm could still cause landslides and flooding.\n\nRescue efforts following the earthquake, which struck late on Thursday, are focussing on the worst-hit states of Tabasco, Oaxaca and Chiapas.\n\nTens of thousands of emergency packs, as well as 100 extra police officers and rescue dogs were sent to Juchitán, Oaxaca, which was the most affected town.\n\nThe earthquake is the most powerful anywhere in the world since September 2015, but its depth - 70km according to the US Geological Survey - means that the shaking felt at the surface was less strong than it would have been for an equally powerful but shallower tremor.\n\nAt least 37 people have been reported dead in Juchitán, according to the Milenio newspaper. The town hall and a number of other buildings destroyed or badly damaged.\n\n\"The situation is Juchitán is critical; this is the most terrible moment in its history,\" said Mayor Gloria Sanchez.\n\nPolice officer Vidal Vera, 29, who had not slept in more than 36 hours, told AFP: \"I can't remember an earthquake this terrible.\n\n\"The whole city is a disaster zone right now. Lots of damage. Lots of deaths. I don't know how you can make sense of it. It's hard. My sister-in-law's husband died. His house fell on top of him.\"\n\nMr Peña Nieto, who visited the town on Friday, said flags would fly at half-mast on Saturday out of respect for the dead and bereaved.\n\nThe president said 45 deaths had been reported in Oaxaca, 12 in Chiapas and four in Tabasco.\n\nParts of the town hall in Juchitán were levelled\n\nThe BBC's Arturo Wallace says the affected region is the poorest and least developed part of Mexico and the full extent of the damage is yet to become clear.\n\nAt least one other person was killed in Guatemala, its president has said.\n\nThe huge quake struck at 23:50 local time on Thursday (04:50 GMT Friday), shaking buildings and causing panic hundreds of miles away in the capital, Mexico City.\n\nPatients at a hospital in Villahermosa, Tabasco state, were moved into the open after the quake struck\n\nThe earthquake also triggered a tsunami warning and the evacuation of thousands of people in coastal communities in Chiapas. The warning was later lifted.\n\nThroughout Friday, the region was shaken with scores of aftershocks.\n\nPresident Peña Nieto's office said he would travel to Chiapas to survey the damage.\n\nPope Francis, addressing an open air Mass on a visit to Colombia, said he was praying \"for those who have lost their lives and their families\".\n\nThe earthquake was more powerful than the 1985 tremor which hit close to Mexico City and caused thousands of deaths. Correspondents say the death toll appears to have been lower because it struck further away from highly populated areas.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A bowling alley shakes in Tuxtla Gutierrez, 240km from the epicentre\n\nJournalist Franc Contreras, who was in Mexico City, told the BBC: \"You could hear loud cracks in the concrete. It sounded like a giant wooden branch being just broken open violently.\n\n\"People were streaming out of the hallways. And everybody walking out single file into the streets, trying to avoid overhead power lines.\"", "The price difference for a pint of beer is now more than £1 across the country\n\nLondon is no longer the most expensive place to buy a pint, a new study says.\n\nFor the first time, Surrey has overtaken the capital as the most expensive area to buy a drink, with the average pint costing £4.40.\n\nAccording to the Good Pub Guide, Herefordshire and Yorkshire have the cheapest pints at £3.31.\n\nThe difference in price for a pint of beer is now more than £1 across the country, with the average tipple costing £3.60 - up by 13p on 2016.\n\nBeer in pubs brewing their own brands was typically £3.09 a pint\n\nOther cheaper counties where drinkers have a reason to raise a glass include Shropshire at £3.33 a pint, Derbyshire at £3.36 and Cumbria and Worcestershire, both at £3.38.\n\nIt was bad news for pint-drinkers in Sussex, who pay an average of £3.82, while Hertfordshire comes in at £3.81 and the Scottish Islands, £3.80.\n\nHowever, drinkers in Surrey might not be crying into their beer if they are earning the median full time weekly wage of £669.70, as they can more easily absorb the £4.40 price of their pint.\n\nBeer drinkers in Herefordshire might be paying three quarters as much for their pint at £3.31, but their median weekly wage is £460 - only two thirds of what people in Surrey can expect to make.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The price of beer has changed more than the nation's love of it\n\nBlue Dowd, who is the owner of the Basketmakers Arms in Brighton, said the most expensive beer his Sussex pub stocks costs £6 per pint.\n\n\"It's what's known as a craft beer, and a lot more goes into the making of them,\" he said.\n\n\"The people who buy premium beers know they're going to be charged a premium price. They buy it because it's a very fine beer.\"\n\nBlue Dowd said customers expect to pay higher prices for premium beers\n\nBeer in pubs brewing their own brands was typically cheaper at £3.09 a pint.\n\nThe guide also said that increasing numbers of pubs are offering accommodation, food and outside catering services, taking business away from restaurants.\n\nSome pubs are also offering delis, book clubs, live music and conferences, it said.\n\nEditor Fiona Stapley said: \"You name it and pubs have thought of it.\n\n\"It's this entrepreneurial spirit that will keep pubs alive and kicking for years to come, despite all the doom and gloom around.\"\n• None The Good Pub Guide - Reviews of the UK's best pubs The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Times highlights an attack on Theresa May as \"hopeless and weak\" by Conservative party donor Lord Harris of Peckham.\n\nIn an interview with the paper, Lord Harris says the prime minister's administration is mishandling Brexit and he would prefer a \"strong Labour government\" led by a figure such as Tony Blair.\n\nHe also criticises Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson as \"lazy\", and adds that Environment Secretary Michael Gove has \"no personality\".\n\nIn its leading article, the Times complains of \"paralysis\" in Downing Street and describes Mrs May as a \"caretaker adrift\".\n\nNevertheless, it urges her to stay on and face down factions in her own party who it says are exploiting her weakness in Parliament to pursue their own narrow interests.\n\nThe prime minister's declaration of admiration for Geoffrey Boycott catches the attention of the Guardian, which points out that the famously obdurate cricketer was eventually sacked as Yorkshire captain amid an acrimonious dressing room revolt.\n\nIt also notes that the team won nothing during Boycott's time in charge, and that he once scored so slowly during his brief spell as England captain that Ian Botham was sent on deliberately to get him run out.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph attacks the UK's initial response to Hurricane Irma as \"embarrassingly slow\" as the storm smashed through British territories in the Caribbean.\n\nIt says those affected are British passport holders - no different to citizens of the Falklands or Gibraltar - and the UK should care for all of them.\n\nThe Telegraph thinks the situation \"smacked of a government distracted\" by Brexit.\n\nThe Daily Express agrees that \"we should be doing so much more\".\n\nIt says the foreign aid budget could be saving lives in the Caribbean instead of being used on \"pointless development projects\".\n\nThe Daily Mirror hails Saturday night's reopening of the Manchester Arena as a triumph over terror and a \"new beginning\".\n\nIt says the victims of the bombing in May must never be forgotten but nor should \"crazed jihadists\" be allowed to destroy our way of life.\n\nIn the Mirror's view, the Manchester Arena, like the Bataclan in Paris, will become a symbol of defiance against what it calls \"miserable fanaticism\".\n\nAccording to the Daily Mail, ministers are considering plans to raise on-the-spot fines for littering from a maximum of £80 to £150.\n\nFor those who pay late, the penalty could increase to £300.\n\nCouncils have been pressing for the change and for the freedom to spend the proceeds as they wish - raising fears, says the Mail, that they will use litter patrols as cash cows.\n\nThe Sun and the Mirror both have the story of a woman who appears to have vanished with thousands of pounds after offering to arrange her fiance's stag party in Ibiza.\n\nThe jilted groom discovered what had happened only when he arrived at Leeds airport with 30 friends and found their flight tickets were fake and their hotel had no record of a booking.\n\nHe apparently headed to a local pub to drown his sorrows.\n\nThe Sun's headline is: \"Here cons the bride\".", "David Turner owned a number of child sex dolls, and possessed images of child sexual abuse\n\nA former school governor and church warden who imported a child sex doll has been jailed for 16 months.\n\nDavid Turner, 72, admitted importing the child-size item and possessing 34,000 images of child sexual abuse.\n\nAn investigation began when the UK Border Force intercepted a package in November, imported from China.\n\nThe National Crime Agency (NCA) then discovered that Turner, of Ramsgate, Kent, had two other child sex dolls, and indecent images of children.\n\nTurner was sentenced by Judge Simon James at Canterbury Crown Court for possessing a doll that was 3ft 10in (1.16m) tall, which he had also bought clothes for.\n\nHe was sentenced to eight months for owning the doll and eight months for possessing images of child sexual abuse.\n\nHe was officially convicted of one charge of importing a child sex doll, three charges of possession of indecent images of a child, three charges of making indecent images, and a charge of possessing extreme pornographic images.\n\nIn July, a court ruled the child sex doll was an obscene item, after Turner's lawyers had argued it was not covered by a law banning their importation.\n\nOther men have been convicted for importing child sex dolls, but this was the first case where the question of whether a doll is indecent or obscene had been tested by the courts.\n\nWhat a terrible fall from grace for David Turner who until his arrest last November was a much-respected member of the Ramsgate community.\n\nEven though he had no previous convictions a jail sentence was inevitable given the number of abuse images he'd amassed, including 138 of the most serious kind, and the need to send out a message to other people contemplating ordering child sex dolls.\n\nInvestigators believe it's a growing problem facilitated by the internet.\n\nThis week, Simon Bailey, the chief constable who leads on child protection for the National Police Chiefs' Council, said it wouldn't be long before there were virtual reality videos of child sexual abuse - and robots engineered for the task.\n\n\"Trust me, it will happen,\" he said.\n\nIn a police interview, Turner said he preferred viewing indecent images of girls aged between four and 10 and added he had secretly taken pictures of minors in public. Children in the images were as young as three.\n\nHe was placed on the sex offenders register for 10 years and given an indefinite sexual harm prevention order.\n\nOfficers also found that he had 29 fictional stories which described the rape of children, but the accounts fell outside the Obscene Publications Act.\n\nThe NCA's Hazel Stewart said: \"Importing child dolls to have sex with - as David Turner did - is a crucial flag to potential offending against children.\n\n\"In this case it enabled us to uncover Turner's long-standing sexual interest in children. He should not be near them and I am delighted that our investigation has seen him convicted and jailed.\"\n\nTurner is one of seven people in the UK to have been convicted for possessing the obscene dolls to-date.\n\nThe Border Force has seized 123 dolls from 120 individuals since March 2016.\n\nThey were convicted using a 19th Century law, called the Customs Consolidation Act of 1876.\n\nThe Crown Prosecution Service's Donna East said: \"Given the nature of the offence, which is very much modern day, with people ordering these sex dolls online, it is perhaps surprising that we are using laws dating back to the end of the 19th century, but this demonstrates how the law can apply to many circumstances.\"\n\nChild sex dolls are considered a relatively new phenomenon, which have seen only a handful of convictions\n\nThe NSPCC has complained that the dolls offer a \"legal loophole\" to potential child sex abusers, and has called for them to be criminalised in the same way as indecent images.\n\nThe charity's chief executive Peter Wanless said: \"At present in England and Wales it is only illegal to import an obscene or indecent item. It is not a crime to make these dolls, to distribute them or to possess them.\n\n\"This is baffling and needs to be changed so that the law in relation to child sex dolls is brought in line with the law on prohibited images.\n\n\"I urge [the home secretary] to take swift action and remedy this issue at the earliest available opportunity.\"", "The Shotgun & Chelsea Bun Club describes itself as the UK's largest ladies' shooting community\n\nIt has traditionally been seen as a man's game, enjoyed by country types wearing flat caps and tweed. But the number of women taking up shooting - particularly clay pigeon shooting - is on the rise. Why?\n\nGrowing up in Berkshire, Danielle Brown's only experience of the countryside was \"seeing it on the television\".\n\n\"I was a right town girl,\" she said. \"Went to a comprehensive, mum on her own, didn't have much money, never thought about country pursuits.\"\n\nDanielle Brown got into shooting after moving to the countryside\n\nIt was when she moved to Herefordshire with her husband that she was introduced to shooting by a neighbour. After a bit of investigating she came across the Shotgun & Chelsea Bun Club - a group holding events specifically for women - and she was hooked.\n\n\"I just loved it, that feeling when you shoot a clay, a moving target in the sky. I wanted to do it again.\"\n\nThe club is one of a number of groups attracting an increasing number of women to shoot, and building a new image for the sport.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shooting: Not just a sport for men\n\nGone are the days of shooting being just a pursuit for country folk; members are now as likely to be students and shop assistants as they are bankers and lawyers.\n\nAnd numbers of female shooters are rising.\n\nFigures show the number of women joining the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) each year has risen a third over the past four years.\n\nThe association welcomed 1,212 women in 2011, compared with 1,603 in 2015, and now has almost 10,000 female members.\n\nFemmes Fatales aims to \"challenge the misconception that shooting is a man's game\". Participants are more likely to don sportswear than reflect the \"Downton Abbey and farmers in tweed look\", says founder Lydia Abdelaoui.\n\nRachel Carrie, left and Lydia Abdelaoui, right, who founded Femmes Fatales\n\nMiss Abdelaoui, 33, works in the shooting industry for an ammunition manufacturer, but only took up the sport three years ago.\n\n\"It never really appealed to me that much until I went with a group of women,\" she said.\n\n\"I had been before, but it was just a bit dull, I find men are really competitive. We had such a laugh and got to talk about doing things to attract more women and that's where the idea of Femmes Fatales came about.\"\n\nThe group started out on social media and has built up a \"community\" of about 7,000 women.\n\n\"It's not farmers and the gentry, it's just normal people from all different backgrounds who are just serious about the sport,\" says Miss Abdelaoui.\n\n\"We try to get away from the misconception that people have about shooters and to make it a bit more feminine and up to date.\n\n\"I had a Twitter exchange with a guy and he called us 'privileged women' and he suggested that women that shoot are all 'ladies that lunch' that don't have jobs - nothing could be further from the truth. Everybody works hard and we shoot at weekends.\"\n\nShotgun & Chelsea Bun Club members enjoy tea and cake after a day of shooting\n\nAt the Shotgun & Chelsea Bun Club, women meet for shooting followed by tea and cake.\n\nIt was founded by Victoria Knowles-Lacks who, while learning to shoot with her uncle, saw there was a \"major lack\" of women shooting.\n\n\"I'd see wives and daughters being dragged round clay grounds press buttons on clay traps for their husbands and I just thought the shooting industry is missing a trick,\" said the 33-year-old from Shropshire.\n\nWhen Mrs Knowles-Lacks took four female friends who \"weren't overly keen\" to a group shooting lesson, she baked a cake to \"soften\" the day.\n\nAnd the winning combination of clays and cake was born.\n\n\"We shot in a small group under instruction, then we had tea and cake. The format has stayed the same since that very first day.\n\n\"I've made it my mission to make it really easy, affordable and to showcase how social and how much fun shooting is,\" she added.\n\nWomen enjoy shooting and the social side of the sport at the Shotgun & Chelsea Bun Club\n\nIt is the social side of the club that Mrs Brown, 38, says has \"transformed\" her life.\n\n\"I don't have children so I didn't have any natural way of making my own friends, I didn't have any hobbies but all of a sudden I went to those clubs and met these lovely ladies.\"\n\nThe financial controller now practises once or twice a week and competes a couple of times a month.\n\nWhile she admits her hobby is expensive, she says there are many routes into it, such as hen parties, and it's not just for the well off - she herself makes sacrifices to fund her passion.\n\n\"I don't go clothes shopping any more, I buy shotgun cartridges instead.\"\n\nThe profile of the sport is giving women shooters \"visibility\" for the first time, added Mrs Knowles-Lacks.\n\n\"When we started the club back in 2011 there was literally nothing for female shooters. You'd see a few ladies at clay shoots or in the kitchen on game shoots, but there weren't really any opportunities.\n\n\"It's definitely reaching people who wouldn't really have considered trying the sport before.\"\n• None Breakfast's Holly has a go at shooting", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Oberhausen is my home now,\" says Khaled Kohestani. \"A lot of things have happened since I arrived here two years ago.\"\n\nKhaled, 24, first spoke to the BBC 16 months ago. Everything in Germany was new to him. He was scared of getting on the bus. \"Everybody is so quiet, no one speaks or say hello, I'm scared of doing something illegal, we don't know the rules and we can't speak to anyone.\"\n\nKhaled lived in a refugee centre for three months but now has accommodation and a job\n\nKhaled is not scared anymore. We meet him in a metal workshop, where he's grinding and polishing iron doors and garden tables, sending sparks flying. \"Things are much easier today, mainly because I speak German now, nothing really is a problem because I understand what people say.\"\n\nKhaled is an exception. Out of the 1,902 asylum seekers living in Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, only 42 are, like him, employed or doing an apprenticeship.\n\nBut that is no guarantee that he'll be allowed to stay. In January this year, his asylum application was rejected by the German authorities. Khaled and his lawyer have appealed against the decision but Afghanistan is considered a safe country and Khaled and his family could be deported if the appeal is rejected.\n\nTwo years on from the big influx of migrants and refugees into Germany, things have calmed down and reception centres are operating below their full capacity.\n\nA man in his forties selling curry-wurst for a couple of euros in a small food market on the edge of Oberhausen says when the migrants started coming to Germany there was a lot of noise about what might happen. But for him the city has not really changed in that time, and it does not feel as if there are more foreigners than before.\n\nChief police inspector Tom Litges says initially the city's reception centres were overcrowded and it was not unusual to be called out to break up fights among the migrants. But things are calmer these days.\n\n\"The small protests against migrants and refugees have also have stopped. They used to be massively outnumbered by pro-migrant demonstrators anyway,\" he points out.\n\nThe German Red Cross organises activities for children living in Oberhausen's refugee centre\n\nOn Duisburg street, a Turkish artist paints a wall with a dozen children living at a refugee centre. They are colouring jolly characters that seem to come out of a comic book.\n\nGermany is nearing the climax of its general election campaign, but immigration is no longer the hot national issue it once was.\n\n\"The situation is now much calmer for everybody and I don't think that the refugee crisis of 2015 will have an impact,\" says Joerg Fischer from the German Red Cross, who was on the front line in 2015 when emergency camps had to be opened to accommodate everybody.\n\nVoters go to the polls on 24 September and Martin Schulz is challenging Angela Merkel for the job of chancellor\n\n\"If the elections had taken place 18 months ago it would clearly have benefited the far right but two years ago Angela Merkel said 'Wir schaffen das' - we will do this - and indeed we did it.\"\n\n\"Oberhausen has received more migrants and refugees than any other region. We'll probably start receiving more people in the autumn again so we are using this time to start integration programmes, we now have a football team, cooking classes for men and empowerment classes for women as well as art workshop for the kids.\"\n\nOn the high street in central Oberhausen elections posters are everywhere, but to the newcomers the election campaign is barely noticeable.\n\n\"It's so quiet,\" says Osmane, a 20-year-old from Guinea. \"It doesn't look like its elections time here. In Africa it's chaos during electoral campaigns, you can get mugged for no reason. It is peaceful here, I like it.\"\n\nWith just over two weeks to go before the vote, the anti-immigrant party Alternative for Germany (AfD) is expected to enter the federal parliament for the first time.\n\nWhoever wins the federal election will make little difference to Khaled's future in Oberhausen. He says his life is in Germany now rather than Afghanistan and vows to do everything he can to stay. \"My son goes to the kindergarten, my wife is learning German and I've got a job.\"\n\n\"German people are always on time everywhere so I try to be punctual, I want my boss to be satisfied with me.\" And for now that seems to work.\n\n\"His German still needs to improve but he's doing well and he is a reliable worker,\" says Frank Kalutza, who gave him his first job.\n\nThe decision for now is out of Khaled's hands and could take several more months. \"I don't want to leave, there is nothing in Afghanistan for me.\"\n\nKhaled is one of only 42 refugees who are in employment in Oberhausen", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A bowling alley shakes in Tuxtla Gutierrez, 240km from the epicentre\n\nAn earthquake described by Mexico's president as the country's strongest in a century has struck off the southern coast, killing at least 36 people.\n\nThe quake, which President Enrique Peña Nieto said measured 8.2, struck in the Pacific, about 87km (54 miles) south-west of Pijijiapan.\n\nOaxaca and Chiapas states bore the brunt of the damage and dozens of aftershocks have been reported.\n\nA tsunami warning was initially issued but later lifted.\n\nThe quake, which struck at 23:50 local time on Thursday (04:50 GMT Friday), was felt hundreds of miles away in Mexico City, with buildings swaying and people running into the street.\n\nPresident Peña Nieto said about 50 million Mexicans would have felt the tremor and that the death toll might rise. His office said he would travel to Chiapas to survey the damage.\n\nAt least 25 people were killed in Mexico's Oaxaca state, 17 of them in the town of Juchitán, officials said.\n\nAnother seven were reported killed in Chiapas and three more, including two children, died in Tabasco state. President Peña Nieto said more than 200 people had been injured.\n\nAt least one person was killed in Guatemala, its president has said.\n\nImages showed collapsed buildings across Oaxaca. In Juchitán, the municipal palace and a number of other structures were destroyed or badly damaged.\n\nParts of the municipal palace in Juchitán were levelled\n\nA hotel collapsed in the town of Matías Romero, Oaxaca state, but it is not clear if there were any casualties.\n\nThe Pacific Tsunami Warning Center (PTWC) had originally said that tsunami waves of more than 3m (9ft) were possible along the coasts of Mexico, with threats also facing El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Costa Rica. It said later that waves only 0.7m high reached the Mexican coast.\n\nSome coastal areas were evacuated as a precaution.\n\nThe earthquake has brought back memories of the tremor of 1985, which left massive destruction in Mexico City and a death toll of 10,000.\n\nThis explains the scenes of panic on the streets of the capital, more than 1,000km away from the epicentre. The government does not expect the same scale of physical destruction, as the states most affected are in the poorest and least-developed regions.\n\nChiapas is the southernmost state, along the Guatemalan border. It's a very mountainous, remote area, where 25% of the population belong to indigenous groups. It's also much visited by tourists seeking to explore some of the best and most well-preserved archaeological treasures, such as the ancient Mayan city of Palenque.\n\nAt magnitude 8.2, the quake outstrips the deadly 1985 tremor that hit close to Mexico City and caused thousands of deaths.\n\nThe US Geological Survey measured the latest quake slightly lower, at 8.1, saying it struck at a depth of 70km.\n\nSoldiers stood guard after a hotel collapsed in the town of Matias Romero, Oaxaca state\n\nThe coastal town of Puerto Madero, Mexico, was among those evacuated amid fears of a tsunami\n\nDamage in the Mexican city of Oaxaca, about 300km from the epicentre\n\nThe tremor was strong enough to bring down buildings near Mexico City\n\nMr Peña Nieto said the Salina Cruz refinery on the southern coast had temporarily suspended operations.\n\nThis is the biggest quake experienced anywhere in 2017. Going on the statistics, you would expect at least one magnitude 8 to occur somewhere on the planet each year.\n\nIt occurred where the Pacific ocean floor is drawn under Mexico and Guatemala. A great slab of rock, known as the Cocos tectonic plate, is driving towards the coast at a rate of 75mm per year. As it jerks downwards into the Earth's interior, about 200km offshore, large tremors are the inevitable outcome.\n\nThere have been three magnitude 7s in 2017, with a 7.9 recorded deep under Papua New Guinea back in January. This latest event, being an 8.2, is nearly three times as energetic. That tells you something about how the magnitude scale works.\n\nFortunately, this event was deep, too. The rupture, which will have ripped across more than 100km of fault line, was down at 70km. That will have limited some of the shaking, but as we've seen there is still extensive damage.\n\nSome electricity cuts were reported in the capital and social media video showed lampposts and the famous Angel of Independence statue swaying violently.\n\nJournalist Franc Contreras, who is in Mexico City, told the BBC: \"You could hear loud cracks in the concrete. It sounded like a giant wooden branch being just broken open violently.\n\nGuatemala's Red Cross tweeted damage in the town of Tacana, close to the Mexican border\n\n\"People were streaming out of the hallways here. And everybody walking out single file into the streets, trying to avoid overhead high power lines.\"\n\nGuatemalan President Jimmy Morales appealed for calm on national television and in a Twitter post.\n\n\"We have reports of some damage and the death of one person, even though we still don't have exact details,\" Associated Press quoted Mr Morales as saying.\n\nCindy Lamothe, who is in the Guatemalan city of Antigua, told the BBC: \"It was swaying so intensely it felt like we were in a boat and I heard neighbours screaming through the walls... it lasted almost three minutes.\"\n\nMexico is currently also being threatened on its eastern coast by Hurricane Katia.\n\nThe category one hurricane is about 300km south-east of Tampico and has sustained winds of 140km/h the National Hurricane Center says.", "She was the perfect symbol of democracy. Highly intelligent, well-read, articulate and photogenic.\n\nSet against this, the thuggish Burmese generals could never hope to capture the good opinion of the international media. Not that they ever cared to try.\n\nThose of us who worked undercover in Myanmar remember a constant struggle to stay out of the way of the secret policemen and spies. We were despised by the junta and feted by the pro-democracy movement.\n\nWhen I first encountered Aung San Suu Kyi shortly after her first release from house arrest in July 1995, she was - after Nelson Mandela - the most important global symbol of defiance against tyranny.\n\nThe world's media related how she had faced down soldiers with their rifles levelled in her direction.\n\nHer fight for democracy in Myanmar was backed around the world\n\nThe UN and others demanded her release from house arrest and worked hard to achieve that goal.\n\nWe listened to her address supporters at the gates of her lakeside villa about the need for tolerance and discipline.\n\nIn her interviews with me back in the 1990s, she repeatedly stressed the need for non-violence.\n\nShe was always keen to know how the African National Congress had managed the transition to majority rule in South Africa, my previous posting.\n\nThe phrase \"freedom from fear\" was repeated, and became the title of a bestselling book.\n\nAung San Suu Kyi, swarmed by supporters on her release from house arrest in 2002\n\nIt was language which Western journalists (including myself), were eager to hear. Many who found their way to Myanmar in those days were veterans of recent tragedies in Rwanda and the Balkans.\n\nAfter witnessing genocide and ethnic cleansing, we were inspired by the words of the lady by the lake.\n\nHere was a peacemaker in a world made dark by the actions of Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia, Franjo Tudjman of Croatia, and the Hutu power extremists of Rwanda.\n\nIn retrospect, we knew too little of Myanmar and its complex narratives of ethnic rivalries, deepened by poverty and manipulated over decades by military rulers. And we knew too little of Aung San Suu Kyi herself.\n\nMalala has called on her fellow Nobel peace laureate to intervene\n\nWe did not calculate that the stubbornness which refused to concede to the military junta might, if she came to power, prove equally forceful when confronted with foreign criticism.\n\nHer greatest strength in adversity could prove a defining weakness. Old friends in the international human rights movement and some previously sympathetic politicians have become strongly critical.\n\nAnybody who has spent time in her company knows that shifting her mind when she is set on a course of action is extremely difficult.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLast December, when Vijay Nambiar, the UN Special Representative to Myanmar, urged Aung San Suu Kyi to visit Rakhine state, he was rebuffed.\n\nAs one member of her inner circle put it to me: \"She will never ever be seen to do what Nambiar tells her to do.\"\n\nNor will she ever concede that the Rohingya Muslims are being subjected to ethnic cleansing, not even when tens of thousands are being burned from their homes amid widespread reports of killing and sexual violence.\n\nThis is not the first time she has faced criticism over the Rohingya.\n\nIt was the same story five years ago during a campaign that displaced more than 100,000 Rohingya.\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\nDaw Suu, as she is known, did not visit the area or speak out in defence of the persecuted minority.\n\nWhile her government has moved to tackle hate speech by Buddhist extremists, she has not made the kind of public gestures in support of Muslims made by her hero Mahatma Gandhi and his colleague Jawaharlal Nehru during the violence of India's partition.\n\nGandhi paid with his life and the leaders did not succeed in ending the slaughter. But both men laid down a marker about the values of the India they wished to see emerge from partition.\n\nJawaharlal Nehru (L) and Mahatma Gandhi publicly condemned violence against Muslims during India's partition\n\nThe memory of Nehru wading into Hindu mobs to prevent sectarian violence is one of the 20th Century's defining acts of personal courage.\n\nNobody expects this of Aung San Suu Kyi, but it is the absence of even rhetorical intervention that disturbs many former supporters.\n\nThe suffering of the Rohingya is a tragedy in itself. But the palls of smoke from Rakhine state is indicative of a military that feels it can carry on in the old brutal way, whatever the world says.\n\nTens of thousands of Rohingya have fled violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state\n\nThe action unleashed now against the Rohingya will be familiar to the residents of other ethnic areas in Myanmar such as Shan state, or in the war against the Karen.\n\nAung San Suu Kyi does not control the military and they do not trust her. But her refusal to condemn well-documented military abuses provides the generals with political cover.\n\nIt goes further than silence.\n\nHer diplomats are working with Russia and the UN to prevent criticism of the government at Security Council level, and she herself has characterised the latest violence as a problem of terrorism.\n\nStubbornness in the face of what she feels is unfounded criticism is part of the equation.\n\nBut there is a more troubling question: is her long-declared commitment to universal human rights partial, a concern that does not and never will embrace the beleaguered Rohingya Muslims in this Buddhist majority country?\n\nShe may yet answer that question by pressing the military to end its brutal crackdown. At this moment there is little sign of that happening.", "The criminal justice system has \"deep-seated issues to address\", says David Lammy\n\nYoung offenders from ethnic minorities will become \"the next generation\" of criminals unless the justice system is reformed, says MP David Lammy.\n\nA review led by him found the system in England and Wales is biased and discriminates in treatment of people from ethnic minority backgrounds.\n\nThe Labour MP has made 35 recommendations, including delaying or dropping some prosecutions.\n\nThe government said it will \"look carefully\" at the suggestions.\n\nPeople from black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) backgrounds make up 25% of the prison population in England and Wales and 41% of the youth justice system, despite these groups being 14% of the general population, the review says.\n\nIt has highlighted various \"concerning\" statistics, including a rise in the proportion of first-time offenders from these backgrounds to 19% - up from 11% - in the past 10 years, and the same increase in the proportion of young people reoffending.\n\nRecommendations from the report included allowing low-level offenders to \"defer\" prosecution and opt for a rehabilitation programme before entering a plea, more gathering of data on the ethnicity and religion of offenders, and the introduction of targets for a more representative workforce within the justice system.\n\nMr Lammy said it was well established that there was an over-representation of people from minority backgrounds in the criminal justice system, but his report was about looking at their \"treatment and outcomes\".\n\nWhilst he does not believe all of the blame lies at the door of the justice system, noting the \"broadly proportionate\" decision on charging by the Crown Prosecution Service, Mr Lammy said: \"It is clear to me that BAME individuals still face bias.\"\n\nMP David Lammy has made 35 recommendations to reform the criminal justice system\n\nTrust is one of the major issues, according to the report. It says individuals from these backgrounds do not trust the advice provided by their solicitors or police officers when it comes to pleading guilty.\n\nAs a result, the rate of black defendants pleading not guilty in Crown Courts between 2006 and 2014 was 41%, compared with 31% for white defendants - leading to more trials and longer sentences.\n\nAlso, when in prison, many BAME men and women believe they are actively discriminated against, which Mr Lammy says \"contributes to an atmosphere of 'us' and 'them' and an urge to rebel, rather than reform\".\n\nThe most striking recommendation in this detailed and well-evidenced report is the idea of deferred prosecutions.\n\nIt's similar to the \"conditional cautioning\" scheme under which people escape trial if they admit their offence and agree to undergo rehabilitation, do unpaid work or pay compensation.\n\nThe Lammy report also referred to Operation Turning Point - a deferred prosecution pilot project run in the West Midlands which resulted in fewer violent offenders committing further crimes compared with those taken through the courts.\n\nIf rolled out, the programme would be applied to offenders from all ethnic backgrounds, though those from BAME communities, who are disproportionately represented, could benefit most.\n\nBut its success would depend on probation, health and justice agencies working together, and working intensively with offenders. And that requires investment at a time when budgets are tight.\n\nHis biggest concern, however, is the youth justice system, as whilst youth offending has fallen significantly in the past 10 years, there is now a larger share of young people from ethnic minorities offending for the first time, reoffending and serving a custodial sentence.\n\nThe report points out black children are more than twice as likely to grow up in a lone parent family, and black and mixed ethnic boys are more likely than white boys to be permanently excluded from school.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMr Lammy said the youth justice system seemed to have \"given up on parenting\" - saying behind many young offenders are adults who neglect or exploit them.\n\nMr Lammy said responsibility must be taken by adults - and the youth justice system \"should be more rooted in local communities\" where parents can play a stronger role.\n\nPrisons are products of society, he said: \"The criminal justice system has deep-seated issues to address, but there is only so much it can do.\"\n\nJunior Smart, who founded the St Giles' Trust SOS project - which supports young people in the justice system - after spending five years in prison for drugs offences, welcomed the report.\n\nHe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"The cultural understanding amongst young people is you don't trust the police and you don't talk to the police.\n\n\"There is that lack and we need them to come forward, and we need to make sure that victims are supported.\n\n\"And the fact is the criminal justice system doesn't reflect the diversity and how criminality is evolved over time...\n\n\"It is not lack of will - these people have got the best intentions for these young people - but they don't reflect the diversity that we are seeing and they don't understand the complexity.\"\n\nMalcolm Richardson, chairman of the Magistrates Association, said there was not sufficient evidence to pinpoint why the disparity occurs, but he agreed the lack of trust in the system needed to be addressed.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe Equality and Human Rights Commission urged the government to respond \"urgently\" and put in place a comprehensive race strategy with targets to reduce race inequality.\n\nLabour shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon said Mr Lammy's recommendations could \"play an important role in eradicating discrimination\".\n\nJustice Secretary David Lidington said the government would \"look very carefully\" at the review's findings and recommendations before responding fully.\n\nGareth Wilson, the National Police Chiefs' Council's lead for equality and diversity, said he would work with the Home Office and College of Policing to make more data on ethnicity available for scrutiny - but also work on making the force more representative.\n\nDirector of Public Prosecutions Alison Saunders said the CPS would consider the review's recommendations.", "The i illustrates the destruction in the Caribbean, with pictures of wrecked buildings and trees bent and torn from their roots.\n\nIt says the storm appears increasingly likely to rip into heavily populated southern Florida this weekend.\n\nThe Daily Mirror focuses on relief efforts - its headline talks of the \"navy's dash to save 185mph storm Brits\".\n\nRoyal Navy ships, it says, were last night dashing to the Caribbean to help rescue Brits stranded by the killer storm.\n\nA picture on the front of the Daily Express shows cars in St Martin, smashed about like toys.\n\nAccording to the Financial Times, the prime minister's Brexit strategy has suffered a double blow.\n\nIt cites reported comments of European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, questioning the \"stability\" and \"accountability\" of Brexit Secretary David Davis, and a letter signed by 35 Eurosceptic Tory MPs pushing for a hard Brexit.\n\nThe lead in the Times says pro-Remain Tory MPs want Theresa May to sack minister Steve Baker and Treasury aide Suella Fernandes, who they claim supported the letter.\n\nThe Daily Mail hits back at Mr Juncker and chief EU negotiator Michel Barnier for their attacks on Mr Davis.\n\n\"Don't treat us with contempt,\" warns the main headline.\n\nTheir \"arrogance\", the paper says, will only \"harden the resolve of the majority who voted for Brexit\".\n\nThe Guardian leads on the report by Labour MP David Lammy, commissioned by Downing Street, in which he concludes that black and minority ethnic (BAME) people continue to face bias and overt discrimination in the criminal justice system.\n\nIt highlights his call for prosecutions against some BAME suspects to be deferred or dropped.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph believes \"the Lammy review has good intentions\" but the paper foresees complications.\n\nIt advises the government to proceed with caution - and on the principle that our police and courts exist primarily to uphold law and order.\n\nThe Daily Mail sums up the report's findings with the headline: \"Criminals could side-step courts... by agreeing to therapy instead\".\n\nTrips made by Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party MP Ian Paisley come under scrutiny in the Telegraph.\n\nThe paper alleges that he accepted holidays worth £100,000 from the government of Sri Lanka - and that he is now helping the country to secure a post-Brexit trade deal.\n\nThe paper says he failed to record them as gifts in the MPs' register of interests.\n\nIt says he declined this week to answer any questions about the accusations.\n\nThe Guardian has an excoriating editorial on Burmese leader Aung San Suu Kyi.\n\nHer long silence, it says, on the plight of the Rohingya in Myanmar has been shameful.\n\nWith tens of thousands now fleeing atrocities in Rakhine state, the Nobel prize winner's moral sanctity lies in tatters.\n\n\"Seldom has a reputation fallen so fast,\" says the Times.\n\nNearly all the front pages have a picture of a certain four-year-old dressed smartly for his first day at school - or \"his royal shyness\" as the Mirror and the Mail label Prince George.\n\nHe is certainly looking a bit diffident in their pictures.\n\n\"Mum, I'm glum,\" says the Sun, pointing out that the Duchess of Cambridge was unable to go with him because of morning sickness.", "Ian Paisley succeeded his late father as MP for North Antrim in 2010\n\nMP Ian Paisley has referred himself to a parliamentary watchdog over claims he did not declare £100,000 in hospitality from the Sri Lankan government.\n\nA newspaper report said the DUP MP and his family took two all-expenses-paid holidays to the island in 2013.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph said he recently met Sri Lankan officials to discuss the possibility of post-Brexit trade deals with the south Asian country.\n\nBut the MP said the report was \"devoid of fact or logic\" and \"defamatory\".\n\nMr Paisley later tweeted an image of a letter from his solicitor, Paul Tweed, refuting the allegations and saying that the Antrim MP had referred the matter, and a full explanation, to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards.\n\nIn response to the Sri Lankan holiday claims, a DUP spokesman said it would await the outcome of the commissioner's investigation.\n\nDUP MP Nigel Dodds told the BBC's Inside Politics programme: \"Allegations have been made. Ian has given a very robust response and referred it to his legal team.\n\n\"He has also referred himself, quite rightly, to the Parliamentary Commissioner so this can be fully investigated.\"\n\nThe newspaper reported that the Paisley family flew business class to Sri Lanka twice in 2013 and stayed in luxurious hotels.\n\nIt estimated the total worth of the trips at about £100,000 and claimed the cost and expenses were paid for by the Sri Lankan government.\n\nMr Paisley this week tweeted a picture of himself meeting the Sri Lankan High Commissioner Amari Wijewardene \"to discuss NI-Sri Lanka trade deal after Brexit\".\n\nTwo days later he tweeted a picture of himself with International Trade Secretary Liam Fox \"discussing our trade agreements post-Brexit\".\n\nThe 50-year-old MP is the son of the late Ian Paisley, founder and former leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), now the largest political party in Northern Ireland.\n\nIn 2010, the then Mr Paisley Jr succeeded his father as MP for the North Antrim constituency.\n\nIan Paisley's late father was one of Northern Ireland's most significant political leaders\n\nHe is currently one of 10 DUP MPs who are propping up Theresa May's minority Conservative government.\n\nThe DUP struck a significant deal with the Tories after the snap general election in June, which saw Mrs May losing her majority in the House of Commons.\n\nAt the time, it was reported that the agreement would result in more than £1bn in extra government spending for Northern Ireland over the next two years.\n\nThe DUP signed a deal to support the Conservative government in June\n\nHowever, a Stormont Civil Service source told the BBC on Thursday the Treasury had made clear that \"not a penny\" would be released unless power-sharing was restored in Northern Ireland.\n\nThe DUP replied that the delivery of the financial package \"does not depend on the nature of local government at Stormont\".\n\nNorthern Ireland has been without a devolved government since January, when a coalition led by the DUP and Sinn Féin collapsed.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nConservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg is the first British politician in decades to publicly oppose abortion in all cases, even when a woman has been raped.\n\nIt was not, he stressed, government policy, but his own personal view based on Catholic teachings.\n\nHe got credit from his supporters for his candour - not for Mr Rees-Mogg the evasions and caveats of other politicians who have found their personal religious convictions out of step with party policy and the prevailing orthodoxy.\n\nBut others found his views \"extreme\" and wildly at odds with majority opinion in the UK.\n\nIt would certainly be a strange way to launch a party-leadership bid, although Mr Rees-Mogg insists he has no ambitions in that direction, whatever social media says about \"Moggmentum\".\n\nFormer Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith said Mr Rees-Mogg's appearance on ITV's Good Morning Britain programme could well be a \"tipping point\" if the North-East Somerset MP ever changed his mind about that.\n\nFormer Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe, a Catholic who has previously spoken out against abortion, told BBC Radio 5 live's Emma Barnett Mr Rees-Mogg's views were \"nothing like as rare as you may think\" and they would have no long-term effect on his career.\n\n\"Now, can a politician say what he thinks?\" she said. \"Or are we simply going to end up in a situation where every time you say what you think, you end up with an adverse effect, so in the end you simply dodge it?\"\n\nSo why is abortion such an apparently taboo subject in British politics?\n\nIn the US, being against abortion is a standard position for Republican politicians and a reliable dividing line with the Democrats, although the issue of exemptions for rape and incest is a highly sensitive one.\n\nIt still causes controversy when someone running for office voices their opposition to such exemptions, as Republican hopeful Marco Rubio did last year.\n\nBut American politicians are expected to be upfront about their religious beliefs and take a position on moral issues that in the UK tend to be seen as personal matters.\n\nPiers Morgan, who prodded Mr Rees-Mogg into revealing his views on the Good Morning Britain sofa, tried a similar line of questioning, on his CNN show in 2012, during the Republican primaries.\n\nThe former Mirror editor asked White House hopeful Rick Santorum, a devout Catholic, if he would let his daughter get an abortion after rape.\n\nMr Santorum said did not say yes outright, adding that he would explain to her that a baby, even when \"horribly created\", was still a \"gift, in a very broken way\".\n\nDonald Trump, who before running for president was pro-choice and is now firmly against abortion, draws the line at cases of rape, incest, and when the mother's health is endangered.\n\nThe issue of abortion in Britain is seen by many people as a settled matter - it rarely comes up at general elections.\n\n\"We are a pro-choice country, we have a pro-choice Parliament,\" said Katherine O'Brien, of the British Pregnancy Advisory Service.\n\n\"Every politician is entitled to hold their own opinion on abortion. But what matters is whether they would let their own personal convictions stand in the way of women's ability to act on their own.\"\n\nIn fact, there have been several serious attempts to restrict abortions since Liberal leader David Steel succeeded in liberalising the law in 1967, resulting in some impassioned debates in the House of Commons.\n\nIn 2008, MPs voted on cutting the 24-week limit, for the first time since 1990, in a series of amendments to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill.\n\nThere were calls for a reduction to 12, 16, 20 or 22 weeks, but MPs rejected the proposals in a series of votes.\n\nGoing further back, Liberal MP David Alton resigned as his party's chief whip in 1987 to launch what turned out to be an unsuccessful bid to ban late abortions.\n\nThe first version of Mr Alton's bill did not include an exemption for women who had been raped - he argued that they represented a tiny minority of cases.\n\nThe exemption was added at a later date, but supporters of the bill made it clear that they viewed it as a stepping stone to a complete ban.\n\nConservative MP Terry Dicks told MPs: \"I understand and am concerned about incest and rape and the implication of a child being born as a result. I do not know the answer, but I do know that life is important from the minute that conception takes place.\n\n\"Of course ladies have rights and we must consider them, but they also have obligations and responsibilities that they have to face up to.\"\n\nTheresa May and Arlene Foster hold differing views on abortion\n\nFew MPs have been as outspoken in their opposition to abortion since, although senior figures in all parties have expressed their personal support for reducing the time limit.\n\nAnd there have been cases where politicians have had to wrestle with their conscience on the issue.\n\nLabour's Ruth Kelly, a member of Catholic organisation Opus Dei, refused to take a ministerial role at the Department of Health to avoid conflicts with her beliefs.\n\nThe issue has crept back on to the political agenda in recent months with the deal between Theresa May and the DUP to keep the Conservatives in power.\n\nUnlike in the rest of the UK, abortion is illegal in Northern Ireland unless a woman's life is in danger or there is a serious risk to her mental or physical health.\n\nAnd the DUP has consistently opposed abortion, with its leader, Arlene Foster, saying: \"I would not want abortion to be as freely available here as it is in England.\"\n\nTory MP Terry Dicks backed a ban on abortions in the 1980s\n\nBut, in an unexpected turn of events, Northern Irish women have now been granted access to terminations on the NHS in mainland Britain.\n\nIn June, the government had to draw up emergency plans to head off a revolt by Conservative MPs who joined forces with Labour in opposing the DUP's stance, to the evident delight of some Tory ministers.\n\nAs the law was changed, Education Secretary and Equalities Minister Justine Greening said: \"Let us send a message to women everywhere that in this Parliament their voices will be heard and their rights upheld.\"\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May is also opposed to changing the abortion laws and was careful to distance herself from Jacob Rees-Mogg's opinions, while stressing that it was a \"long-standing principle\" that abortion was a \"matter of conscience\" for individual MPs to decide on.\n\nMr Rees-Mogg knows his views are not mainstream in Conservative circles at Westminster. In his Good Morning Britain interview, he said women's abortion rights under UK law were \"not going to change\".\n\nBut he argued that his party was more tolerant of religious views than the Liberal Democrats, whose former leader Tim Farron quit after facing repeated questions about his views on gay sex.\n\n\"It's all very well to say we live in a multicultural country... until you're a Christian, until you hold the traditional views of the Catholic Church, and that seems to me fundamentally wrong,\" he said.\n\n\"People are entitled to hold these views.\"", "Reggie Young, who was three weeks old, was attacked on 20 June 2015\n\nA father who was drunk and asleep when his dog killed his three-week-old son has been jailed for 21 months.\n\nReggie Young was mauled for up to 20 minutes at the family home in Falkland Road, Sunderland, on 20 June 2015.\n\nRyan Young, 32, of Holborn Road, Sunderland, previously pleaded guilty at Newcastle Crown Court to being in charge of a dangerous dog.\n\nJudge Tim Gittens said Reggie's mother Maria Blacklin returned home to a scene of \"Gothic horror\".\n\nA child neglect charge was ordered to lie on file.\n\nThe court heard the Lakeland terrier-cross, which was called Tricky, was destroyed soon after the attack.\n\nJudge Gittins said: \"Reggie was subjected to a most dreadful, torturous, confusing attack and he sustained horrific and painful injuries.\"\n\nRyan Young was jailed for 21 months at Newcastle Crown Court\n\nThe court heard Miss Blacklin had been at a family gathering after her grandmother's death when the dog attacked her son at around 04:00 BST.\n\nShe returned home to find Reggie in a pool of blood on the floor, the hearing heard.\n\nThe court heard how Young failed to prevent the attack because he had drunk eight cans of lager and had fallen asleep, and only woke up when he heard Miss Blacklin screaming.\n\nReggie was blue but still breathing and paramedics were called, but he could not be saved.\n\nYoung, who refused to give a breath test, later told police: \"I would not say I was drunk, more tired.\"\n\nProsecutor Shaun Dodds told the court: \"The officers who arrived described the defendant as appearing drunk.\"\n\nRyan Young carried his son's coffin at the funeral service in July 2015\n\nThe court heard inquiries suggested the baby fell or was dragged from the bouncer and was mauled by the terrier, which had not been introduced to the newborn and may have been driven to attack by Reggie's \"unco-ordinated\" movements.\n\nMr Dodds added: \"Had the defendant not been asleep in drink, he would have been able to stop the attack.\"\n\nYoung wept loudly throughout the proceedings. No family members were in court for the sentencing hearing.\n\nHis defence barrister Caroline Goodwin QC said: \"Nothing he can do can turn back the clock and bring back his own child.\n\n\"It was all the more harrowing for the family when he carried his child's coffin before the funeral service.\"\n\nThe judge accepted that Young was a hard-working father and had developed depression since his son's death.\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. Prosecco v champagne: Which one tastes better?\n\nIt's Friday and across the country, people will soon be clocking off with a glass of fizz. Sales of the Italian wine are soaring faster than you can say \"I'll be there in a prosecco\", but what's the secret behind its sparkling success?\n\nOn Instagram, there are almost two million photos tagged #prosecco and a further 12,000 for #FizzFriday. Even Theresa May's future has been debated over a glass of sparkling Italian wine.\n\nSupermarkets are stacking their shelves high with bottles that give you change from £10 and bars up and down the UK are promoting it as an affordable, weekly treat.\n\nBut its success is not solely down to cost.\n\n\"It is targeted at women,\" says Vhari Russell from the Food Marketing Expert. \"Many of them like to drink bubbles and bubbles are associated with luxury and celebrations.\n\n\"It is served in beautiful glasses and can be seen as very classy.\"\n\nHas prosecco become the go-to celebration drink?\n\nIn a bar in Birmingham a group of women are sharing a bottle of prosecco.\n\n\"It feels very feminine,\" says Bev Gordon. \"It just makes you feel more sophisticated,\" her sister, Jennifer Tristham, adds.\n\n\"We'll drink it at house parties, when we're out, at little reunions... it's now become part of our lifestyle,\" their friend, Wendy Johnstone, explains.\n\nAccording to Richard Halstead from market researcher Wine Intelligence, the beverage could be described as the \"phenomenon of the last five years\".\n\nHe said it is \"wildly popular\" among women in their 20s and 30s who post pictures on social media of themselves clinking glasses and popping corks.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"Drinking prosecco is part of our lifestyle\"\n\nIt is a trend Alex Windsor and his fiancée, Sophie Andrews, spotted when they gave up their jobs to launch a mobile prosecco van.\n\n\"We see a huge amount of people taking pictures with glasses and putting them on social media sites,\" says Mr Windsor.\n\n\"Prosecco is a lot cheaper than champagne and a lot of people tell us it tastes nicer. It is a much more affordable drink, but gives [off] that elegance you get with champagne.\"\n\nMs Russell says prosecco has now overtaken champagne as the go-to drink for big occasions.\n\nBut cutting back on luxuries in favour of an affordable alternative started in the wake of the 2007 financial crash, according to Mr Halstead.\n\n\"No-one sees the bottle, or pays much attention, so there was the easy trade-down from champagne [to prosecco] if you were hosting an event,\" he says.\n\nSupermarkets were also quick to jump on the bubble bandwagon, adding prosecco to the \"dine in\" meal deals designed to mimic restaurant-quality food without the hefty bill, says Ms Russell.\n\nBut the marketing genius was really in its pricing, with many chains offering bottles at discounted prices.\n\n\"If you can't afford to go on holiday or go out to dinner, the idea of having a mini celebration with change from £10 is a strong pull,\" Mr Halstead adds.\n\nGeorgie Pilling, Katie Matkin and Sofia Meadowcroft are all prosecco fans\n\nIt's a move that has paid off for major retailers. Lidl has seen sales of its own brand bottles grow by 79% in January 2017 compared to the same month last year, while Marks and Spencer's prosecco sales saw a 25% rise from 2015 to 2016.\n\nWaitrose saw a 12% increase in sales since last year and said the nation's love of the sparkling wine has grown so much they will be releasing a prosecco turkey in time for Christmas.\n\nSo is prosecco here to stay or will it fall flat like its once fashionable Spanish counterpart, cava?\n\nPaul Creamer, wine buyer at Loki Wines in Birmingham, says they no longer stock the once-popular sparkling wine as there is no demand for it.\n\nHe says cava is having a personality crisis and believes it would take a marketing miracle for it to get back on the same playing field as its counterparts.\n\n\"The problem is that the global image of champagne is very well managed compared to that of cava,\" Mr Creamer explains.\n\n\"It would take a seismic shift in cava marketing to reposition it in a different niche or price tier with the wine market.\"\n\nAlex Windsor and Sophie Andrews spotted a van-sized gap in the prosecco market\n\nFood and drink journalist Paul Fulford thinks cava is often associated with an older generation of people that first holidayed in Spain - in a similar way people associate sherry with their grandparents.\n\nBut he says cava is actually better quality than prosecco.\n\n\"It has a more superior taste because of the way it is made, the fizz is more integrated, making the [bubbles] less likely to disappear. And the flavour is better,\" he adds.\n\nSimilar methods are used in the manufacture of champagne, cava and prosecco, but with crucial differences that set each other apart.\n\nChampagne uses the \"methode champenoise\", which requires it be made from the region's grapes and fermented in the bottle for at least 15 months; cava is formed from a blend of wines and ferments for nine months as per the \"methode tradicional\", while prosecco implements the \"Italian Charmant\" method - fermenting in steel tanks.\n\nBut can you really taste the difference?\n\nAt Albert's Schloss in Manchester, Katie Matkin thinks so. \"I've had champagne before and it tastes heavy, I didn't like it,\" she says.\n\n\"Whereas everyone seems to like prosecco. It's cheap, it's light, it's easy, you can add things like syrups.\"\n\nProsecco's versatility as both a standalone drink and mixer has helped broaden its appeal.\n\nRather than fall foul of nostalgia it has embraced it, even aiding in the resurrection of the Aperol Spritz - a cocktail popular in the late 1980s which has reappeared in countless pubs and bars.\n\nLooking to the future, there are now skinny, vegan and organic versions of the drink available, as well as sweets, candles, bubble bath and even \"pawsecco\" for your pet.\n\nSo is it just flavour of the month? Mr Fulford thinks not.\n\n\"It feels like indulgence without the extravagance, most of the varieties are so easy to drink and it suits everyone's palate,\" he says.\n\n\"It is here to stay, it's ingrained in people's drinking habits.\"\n\nPerhaps prosecco's popularity is a combination of things - its marketability, the ceremony, and the perception it gives. But fizz fan Tamara Poxon thinks there is a simpler explanation.\n\n\"When you compare it to the price of champagne, there's no reason why somebody wouldn't drink prosecco.\"\n\nThe Aperol Spritz, made with prosecco, soda and the herbal liqueur from which it takes its name, is popular once again", "The boy told police he had suicidal thoughts at the time\n\nA boy who took a shotgun and 200 rounds of ammunition into school with the intention of harming others has been detained for six years.\n\nThe 15-year-old had a change of heart and instead called 999 from Higham Lane School, in Nuneaton, Warwickshire.\n\nWarwick Crown Court heard the boy had been \"seconds away\" from opening fire.\n\nJudge Andrew Lockhart QC said: \"A moment in time separated the pupils and staff of this school from being the subject of a terrible event.\"\n\nThe court heard the teenager, who also took a balaclava into school, had depression, an anxiety disorder and felt a sense of hopelessness at the time of the incident, on 13 June.\n\nHe cannot be named because of his age.\n\nA teacher sat with the boy until police arrived at the school\n\nA 999 call handler \"averted disaster\" by questioning the boy about his mental state and instructing him to dis-assemble the double-barrelled gun, and place it outside the room he was in.\n\nThe court also heard how a teacher helped calm the situation down until the police arrived.\n\nThe shotgun and ammunition - used by the boy and his father for clay pigeon shooting - were legally held and correctly stored, the Crown Prosecution Service said (CPS).\n\nPassing sentence, the judge told the teenager: \"In interview, you were frank and told the police that you took the gun to school that day intending to harm people.\n\n\"At that time you were in a room, angry to the point of being prepared to use serious and lethal force, armed with a loaded shotgun and 200 cartridges.\n\n\"Had you begun to shoot I have no doubt serious injury and death would have resulted and it is impossible for me to predict how many might have been hit.\"\n\nHe added that if the shooting had happened it would have \"taken a dreadful place in the history of truly wicked crimes committed in this country\".\n\nThe boy's mother sobbed when he was sentenced\n\nThe teenager pleaded guilty to having the gun with intent to endanger life, as well as possessing 200 rounds of ammunition with intent to endanger life, and possession of a lock-knife.\n\nSupt Martin Samuel, from Warwickshire Police, said: \"Our emergency call handlers are all trained to make quick decisions in high pressured situations.\n\n\"The call handler in this case immediately understood the severity of the situation and took immediate steps to ensure the safety of everyone concerned. He is a credit to the force.\"\n\nHead teacher Phil Kelly said on Friday the school had reviewed its safety procedures since the incident.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Modern buildings with large expanses of glass or mirrored surfaces are \"potentially dangerous\" for bats, research suggests.\n\nScientists are calling for monitoring of the risks, particularly in areas where bats congregate in large numbers.\n\nBats have a remarkable ability to fly at high speeds in the dark avoiding natural hazards such as trees.\n\nYet, smooth, vertical surfaces such as glass windows create a \"blind spot\" for the flying mammals, a study shows.\n\n\"Bats predominately rely on their echolocation system to forage, orientate, and navigate,\" says a team led by Dr Stefan Greif of the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology near Munich in Germany.\n\n\"We found that bats can mistake smooth, vertical surfaces as clear flight paths, repeatedly colliding with them, likely as a result of their acoustic mirror properties.\"\n\nBats use echolocation to detect obstacles in flight, find their way into roosts and forage for food.\n\nAs they fly, they make calls and listen to the returning echoes to build up a sonic map of their surroundings.\n\nBats can flit through natural obstacles, such as forests, which return some echo back to them.\n\nHowever, vertical mirroring surfaces such as window panes appear to trick them into thinking that the way ahead is clear.\n\nProf Gareth Jones of Bristol University, who is not connected with the study, is an expert on bat echolocation.\n\n\"Sound reflects away in front of a bat flying over water, and the flight route ahead is often clear, or interrupted with obvious targets like trees that can be detected by echolocation,\" he explained.\n\n\"Vertical surfaces seem to reflect sound in ways that make the surface difficult to detect, and increase collision risk.\"\n\nSmooth vertical surfaces are rare in bats' natural habitat. However, they treat horizontal, smooth surfaces like water, and attempt to drink from them.\n\nTo investigate the issue, researchers analysed the flight behaviour of greater mouse-eared bats (Myotis myotis) in dark flight tunnels.\n\nThe researchers placed a metal plate either vertically or horizontally in the corner of the tunnel and watched what happened.\n\nOf 21 individual bats, 19 collided with the vertical plate at least once but never with the horizontal plate.\n\nWhen the bats collided with the vertical plate, they were producing fewer calls and approaching the plate at a more acute angle and at higher flight speeds compared with the bats that avoided collision.\n\nSimilar findings were found with three species of bat in the wild.\n\nNo bats were injured in the experiment.\n\nThe findings, published in the journal, Science, may explain why injured or dead bats are sometimes found near buildings.\n\nThe researchers are calling for more evidence to be gathered on the scale of the threat to bats.\n\nThey say smooth vertical services should be avoided at sites where bats migrate, forage or raise their young.\n\n\"Only if we identify and evaluate the real extent of collisions with acoustic mirrors can we avoid or mitigate potential detrimental effects on bat populations,\" said Dr Greif and co-researchers.\n\nCommenting on the research, Prof Kate Jones of University College London, said: \"As we try and encourage more sustainable and nature-friendly cities, it is really important to understand how city design will impact wildlife populations and this study provides some key information for bats.\"\n\nBats make up one fifth of all land mammals.\n\nThey are among the most endangered of the world's animals, because much of their habitat has been destroyed.\n\nAs important pollinators for many plants, and key predators of insects, their loss has serious consequences for the planet.\n• None How to eavesdrop on urban bats", "Bulgaria's current population of about seven million is predicted to be nearer five million by 2050\n\nBulgaria is projected to have the fastest-shrinking population in the world. It's already lost a fifth of its population since the 1990s. But what does this mean for those who remain?\n\nDeep in the Bulgarian countryside, in the western province of Pernik, I make a rare discovery.\n\nIt's not Stoyan Evtimov's traditional embroidered woollen tunic that makes him unusual.\n\nIt's the fact he's a thirty-something living in a village. \"All my friends that I grew up with here left long ago,\" he says.\n\nLike many young Bulgarians, they moved to towns and cities in search of work.\n\nStoyan considers himself lucky to have employment in the mountain village of Peshtera, leading its folk-singing group and organising an annual music festival in an attempt to revive traditional marriage music, and the village.\n\nEven so, he is finding village life unsustainable.\n\nStoyan Evtimov, in his 30s, is resigned to the fact he will have to leave his village\n\n\"It's impossible to find someone to marry here in the village, or the villages around, simply because there are no young people. The only chance for me to find someone is in the town,\" he says.\n\n\"It would be very sad and hard for me to leave the village, but I will have to do it at some point.\"\n\nBulgarian villages have been losing people for decades.\n\nWhen the Communists took power after World War Two, they brought in collective farming and many agricultural workers found work in new factories.\n\nAfter Communism fell, in 1989, and collective farms were broken up, that trend of leaving the countryside for the towns sharpened.\n\nAnd many people don't stop there: they continue their search for work abroad.\n\nIn 1989, almost nine million people lived in Bulgaria. Now, it is a little over seven million. By 2050, that number is projected to be less than 5.5 million. By the end of the century, it could be close to half what it is now.\n\nStefka fears she will have to close her shop\n\nThis exodus contributes to another factor in Bulgaria's dwindling population numbers - in part because a lot of young adults have left the country, the birth rate is low.\n\nThe last time a baby was born in the village, recalls shopkeeper Stefka - whose own two sons have moved away to the city - was a decade ago. The little girl and her mother now live in Cyprus, she adds.\n\nThe vast majority of the people Stefka serves are over the age of 60. The shelves are sparsely stocked, she says, because there aren't many customers, and she worries the shop will have to close.\n\nHigher up the mountain, the village shops have already shut, along with schools and bus services.\n\n\"This village used to be made up of about 600 people,\" says Boyan, a 70-year-old living in Kalotinsi. \"Now we are 13. Some are in the cemetery, the rest are in towns.\"\n\nGranny Stanka is now the only person living in her street\n\nIn the village of Smirov Dol, Stanka Petrova - Granny Stanka to those who know her - sits under a tree at a bend in the mountain road, patiently waiting for the mobile shop, which serves the area.\n\n\"I was born in this village, and I remember the village when it was really full of people. It was such a fun and nice life. Young people, old people,\" she says, explaining that this is the spot where people would come together and enjoy traditional dancing.\n\n\"There is no-one in the village, so of course nothing like that can happen now,\" she says.\n\n\"In this street, for example, that I came from, in the past there were a lot of people in the houses. Now only I live there.\"\n\nAbandoned and derelict buildings are a common sight in parts of rural Bulgaria\n\nDoes she get lonely? \"Of course I'm lonely. It's very hard,\" she says, tearfully.\n\nThe people in Kalotinsi and surrounding villages buy their groceries from a mobile shop that visits three times a week.\n\nThe service is run by middle-aged husband-and-wife team Atanas and Lili Borisov.\n\nTheir unmarked van is well-stocked with everything from bread and yoghurt to cigarettes and beer, and even medicines. In 10 years, they've never missed a delivery, even though in winter the mountain roads are covered in snow.\n\n\"Because there are few people, we are friends with all of them, so we're trying to help them with all that we can,\" Lili says.\n\nAtanas and Lili's mobile shop visits villages in western Bulgaria three times a week\n\nIt's obvious they're popular with the people they're serving, but Lili says customer numbers, and profits, are dwindling. In business and personal terms, the mobile shop is at the sharp end of the depopulation of Bulgaria's countryside.\n\n\"We start worrying when someone doesn't appear at the normal place we meet them,\" Lili says, \"especially during the winter.\"\n\n\"We had a case, actually, where we found someone dead.\"\n\nThe government is introducing a number of measures to try to tackle depopulation by increasing the birth rate: offering help with the costs of fertility treatment, giving childcare, and mortgage support.\n\nIt is also encouraging ethnic Bulgarians who live abroad to return to the country, but no-one else.\n\nBulgaria's Deputy Prime Minister, Valeri Simeonov, rejects the idea of refugees repopulating the country\n\n\"Bulgaria doesn't need uneducated refugees,\" says Deputy Prime Minister Valeri Simeonov, a leader of the United Patriots, an anti-immigrant grouping forming part of the coalition government.\n\nNor would Bulgarian society accept educated and skilled migrants, Mr Simeonov says.\n\n\"They have a different culture, different religion, even different daily habits,\" he says. \"And thank God Bulgaria so far is one of the most-well defended countries from Europe's immigrant influx.\"\n\nMr Simeonov is referring to a razor-wire fence that Bulgaria has been building across its 260km (160 mile) border with Turkey to discourage immigrants from trying to enter the country.\n\nThe new razor-wire border fence is a major obstacle for migrants trying to cross from Turkey\n\nAccording to figures from the European Commission, Bulgaria had taken in only about 50 of the migrants who arrived in Europe from North Africa and the Middle East between 2015 and July 2017.\n\nIt is clear that the Bulgarian government does not see immigration as a possible solution to the country's dwindling population.\n\nAlthough the government is full of ideas to boost the number of Bulgarian babies being born, in the countryside the feeling is that politicians talk, but don't act.\n\nBefore I left the mountains, I bumped into Boyan again, the man living in Kalotinsi, which has shrunk from being a village of 600 people to one of 13.\n\nBoyan, 70, believes that people have been abandoned by politicians\n\n\"We are abandoned,\" he says. \"Abandoned from everyone - from rulers and from God.\n\n\"Politicians will not do anything for us. They're just interested in their own interests. They don't care about the people - especially the old people in the villages. They don't even care about the young people because the young people are abroad.\n\n\"So the politicians don't care at all and the Bulgarian state is disappearing.\"\n\nRuth Alexander's report from Bulgaria is on Crossing Continents, on BBC Radio 4 at 11:00 on Thursday 7 September. You can listen online or download the programme podcast.", "Are you scared of being a victim of crime?\n\nToday, for the first time, BBC News, working with the Office for National Statistics, is providing you with a way of understanding your risk of being a victim of crime in England and Wales. If you are interested in Scotland, you can find out more about the Scottish Crime Survey on its official website.\n\nThe tool below uses national crime statistics, your address and your personal characteristics to tell you what's happened to people similar to you in the last year - and therefore something approaching a personal estimate of how likely you are to be a victim.\n\nIt only takes a moment to fill in, and the BBC does not keep the data, so punch in your details and have a look at the results:\n\nSorry, your browser cannot display this content\n\nWeek in, week out, journalists like myself report on the big crime trends across the nation. And you will almost certainly notice the tool tells a different story - a personal one.\n\nNow, it's worth pointing out that it has some limitations. The Crime Survey of England and Wales, which provides most of the data in the calculator, captures a wide range of real experiences of crime, but some things are very difficult to measure, such as risky lifestyles and behaviour.\n\nBe that as it may, the tool does tell us a lot. And if you try changing your age - and even your gender - you learn a lot more about how crime affects us depending on who we are and our stage in life.\n\nSo, for instance, the tool shows that people like me, living in an area like mine, have a very low risk of being a victim of violence. If I were aged between 16 and 29 (sadly those days are gone) and living in the same area, my risk of being assaulted is five times greater.\n\nIf I were a woman in my 60s, I'd be even less likely to be a victim.\n\nPut most simply, young men in areas of higher deprivation are the most likely victims of crime. Old ladies living in the same areas - among those who are most likely to fear crime - have a lower risk. There is a dividend for living in a posher area - but age and gender remain key factors too.\n\nNow, there are a lot of nuances in here - and you can drill into the ONS's data tables for the full facts - or read this highly digestible analysis from Victim Support.\n\nBut many of these differences come down to how we live our lives.\n\nYounger people spend more time out at night. They're more likely to come into contact with people who become violent after they have had one too many drinks.\n\nHow many parents have had to console a teenager who's had their bike or mobile phone stolen?\n\nWhen kids move out of home, start work or become a student, they're likely to be living in cheaper, less-secure, rented accommodation.\n\nBut as they get older, the security of stable employment leads to security at home and family life. And you're less likely to be burgled if you've sunk into the sofa watching a box set, rather than if you've gone to the pub.\n\nEvery time a home is renovated, it's harder to break in to than before. Each new car we buy tends to be more secure than its predecessors.\n\nThat's not actually how we perceive crime and our personal risk. In fact, what we think is happening can be at complete odds with what is actually going on.\n\nAccording to the most recent data from the ONS, people generally have a pretty good idea about how much crime is close to them. Their perceptions seem to match the reality. But 60% also thought that crime is rising across the country as a whole - even though the long-term trend is down.\n\nThe people with the highest risk of being a victim - the young - were less likely to be worried than older generations, even though the older you become, the safer things generally become.\n\nDr Jane Wood, a forensic psychologist at the University of Kent, says a range of factors influence this perception gap. Women for instance fear crime because they know they cannot fight off a younger man. But our perceptions are also influenced by what we see around us - and how we hear about.\n\nWhen the ONS asked interviewees to choose from a list of what most influenced their perceptions of national crime levels, people talked about television, radio, newspapers (tabloid and broadsheet), the internet and word of mouth. And, Dr Wood says, the more we read or watch about crime, the more we think about it.\n\nAll of which may be an argument for not listening to a word that journalists like me tell you.\n\nBut while I wait for the hue and cry to drag me from the newsroom, please share a link to the crime risk calculator.", "Malala says she is nervous about starting as a student at Oxford\n\nNobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai says the \"global community\" needs to intervene to protect Myanmar's Muslim minority.\n\nShe urged Myanmar's leader Aung San Suu Kyi to speak up for the Rohingya.\n\n\"We can't be silent right now. The number of people who have been displaced is hundreds of thousands,\" Malala told the BBC.\n\nThe human rights activist is about to become a student at Oxford and admitted to \"nerves\" about her new life.\n\nSpeaking in Oxford, she called for an international response to the violence in Myanmar.\n\n\"I think we can't even imagine for a second what it's like when your citizenship, your right to live in a country, is completely denied,\" said Malala.\n\n\"This should be a human rights issue. Governments should react to it. People are being displaced, they're facing violence.\n\nRohingya refugees have been trying to reach Bangladesh\n\n\"Children are being deprived of education, they cannot receive basic rights - and living in a terrorism situation, when there's so much violence around you, is extremely difficult.\n\n\"We need to wake up and respond to it - and I hope that Aung Sang Suu Kyi responds to it as well,\" she said.\n\nMalala, now 20, is about to become an undergraduate at the University of Oxford.\n\nWhile the university might have produced many people who went on to win Nobel prizes, she is unusual in having one before she has arrived.\n\n\"I am trying to be just a normal student.\"\n\n\"I want to make friends just as the girl Malala and not the Nobel laureate.\"\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\n\"I'm a bit nervous as well, because in the beginning you don't know anyone, and you don't know how to make friends and it will be challenging… but fingers crossed it will be OK.\"\n\nShe also says she is pleased to be following in the footsteps of another \"strong female leader\" from Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, who studied at Oxford.\n\nMalala has been campaigning over the rights of girls to have an education - and she is setting up a network of \"champions\" for education in countries such as Afghanistan and Nigeria and for Syrian refugees.\n\nThis is called the Gulmakai Network - the name taken from her pseudonym when she wrote a blog about the loss of girls' rights under the Taliban in Pakistan, which had lead to the attempt on her life in 2012.\n\nStudents in Mexico hold up copies of her book when she visited this year\n\nShe says she wants education to be recognised as a global priority - and for more urgency in addressing the lack of access to school for 130 million girls, often in the world's poorest countries or in conflict zones.\n\n\"I know there are other issues that are taken more seriously - such as poverty, terrorism, or climate change, but education is the only solution for all of these problems.\"\n\nShe says there are many problems to overcome, \"whether it's early marriage, poverty, lack of awareness or lack of funding\".\n\n\"But the benefits are many, we need to educate people about the importance of education,\" she said.\n\nMalala, the advocate of girls' right to education, came to the world's attention after the Taliban in her native Pakistan attempted to murder her in a gun attack.\n\nThis week there have been reports that one of those involved in the attack had been killed by security forces in Pakistan.\n\nMalala's life is being depicted in a Bollywood movie\n\nShe says she has already forgiven the people who were trying to murder her.\n\n\"But they were able to carry out other killings in Pakistan. I hope that the army and the country helps them in a deradicalisation process and they learn about the true message of Islam and the meaning of human rights and learn about the importance of education.\n\n\"But personally I have forgiven them.\n\n\"I think what's the point now to say that they should be punished. It has no benefit to anyone, you're just creating more harm. I would want to reduce harm and help each other.\"", "Wakefield City Academies Trust said the decision was in the \"best interests\" of pupils\n\nA trust which runs 21 schools has announced it is pulling out in the first week of the new term.\n\nWakefield City Academies Trust (WCAT) said it was unable to \"facilitate the rapid improvement our academies need, and our students deserve\".\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) said many of the schools within the trust were performing below the national average.\n\nIt said it would work with the trust until a new sponsor could be found.\n\nOnly four of the schools are rated as good or outstanding by Ofsted.\n\nEleven out of 14 primary schools and six of the seven secondary schools were performing below the national average in 2016.\n\nIn a statement, the trust said it recognised the announcement would cause uncertainty but said the decision was in the \"best interests\" of the students.\n\nA DfE spokesperson said academies operate within a strict system of accountability, allowing swift action to \"deal with under-performance\".\n\nIt said its priority was to ensure all children receive the best possible education.\n\nRegional commissioners are now working with the schools to identify new sponsors and ensure minimal disruption for pupils.\n\nDamian Walenta, from the National Education Union, said the news had come as no surprise and was largely down to a lack of accountability.\n\n\"Whilst the quality and values of academy chains vary greatly, we hear more and more bad news about poor academy chains,\" he said.\n\nIn November, The Independent newspaper reported the trust had paid its then chief executive £82,000 for 15 weeks' work.\n\nAn investigation into WCAT found it had been put in an \"extremely vulnerable position as a result of inadequate governance, leadership and overall financial management\".\n• None Academies 'not taken over fast enough'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Leighton created dozens of fake Facebook accounts to trap his victim\n\nA paedophile has been jailed for 16 years after admitting rape, despite being thousands of miles away when the offences happened.\n\nPaul Leighton, 32, from Seaham, County Durham, created up to 40 fake Facebook profiles to befriend teenagers in the UK, Canada, the US and Australia.\n\nHe tricked them into sending him naked selfies, then blackmailed them into abusing young relatives.\n\nHe had earlier admitted a total of 21 offences at Newcastle Crown Court.\n\nThe court heard one 14-year-old from Florida was tricked into believing he was talking to a girl, then blackmailed into repeatedly raping his one-year-old niece.\n\nLeighton threatened the teenager he would post videos of the abuse online if he did not do more.\n\nThe boy has since been charged by US authorities.\n\nSentencing Leighton to 16 years with a six-year extended licence, Judge Robert Adams told him: \"You have effectively destroyed the lives of these people.\"\n\nHe said Leighton was \"clearly dangerous\" and posed a risk to children in the UK and abroad.\n\nLeighton blackmailed two British teenage girls and also sexually abused a nine-year-old girl living in the north-east of England, the court was told.\n\nThe FBI is investigating other victims who may have been targeted.\n\nLeighton, from Malvern Crescent in Seaham, was arrested in November by police investigating reports he had exchanged indecent images.\n\nWhen officers examined his phone they found evidence that as many as 100 children in North America had been abused.\n\nLeighton admitted three counts of rape as well as other offences, including blackmail, causing a child to engage in sexual activity, making indecent photographs of a child and sexual assault.\n\nPaul Reid, prosecuting, said of Leighton's conduct with the Florida teenager and his niece: \"This was a campaign of rape.\n\n\"The defendant has pleaded guilty to the rape of this baby 4,000 miles away as he was using (the uncle) as an accessory.\"\n\nMr Reid said the case involved the \"utterly appalling abuse of many children\".\n\nAndrew Rutter, mitigating, said the offences were committed while Leighton was being treated for anxiety and depression, and taking cannabis and alcohol. He said he pleaded guilty at the first opportunity.\n\nHe added: \"He protests it was not for sexual gratification but because it gave him a feeling of power to exercise the utmost control over other individuals.\"\n\nDet Sgt Peter Morgan of Northumbria Police, which led the investigation, said: \"Leighton was calculated and sophisticated in his approach to this abuse and his lack of thought for his victims is spine-chilling.\"\n\nGary Buckley, of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), said the offences made for \"chilling reading\" for any parent.\n\nHe added: \"We were able to successfully prosecute Leighton for rape by proving that he was as guilty in instigating the overseas offending as he would have been committing the crime itself.\"", "The couple took their two children, George and Charlotte, on an official visit to Poland in July\n\nThe Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are expecting their third child, Kensington Palace has announced.\n\nThe Queen and both families are said to be \"delighted with the news\".\n\nAs with her previous two pregnancies, the duchess, 35, is suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum, or severe morning sickness.\n\nShe pulled out of an engagement at the Hornsey Road Children's Centre in London, which had been planned for Monday afternoon.\n\nCatherine is being cared for at Kensington Palace, the statement said.\n\nThe duke and duchess have a son, George, who is four, and a daughter, Charlotte, aged two.\n\nWith the previous two pregnancies, the couple announced them before the 12-week mark - when most women have their first scan - because of the duchess being unwell with hyperemesis gravidarum.\n\nHer first pregnancy was revealed when she was just a few weeks pregnant with Prince George after she was admitted to hospital in December 2012.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prince Harry gives a thumbs up to the royal baby news\n\nThe duchess's second pregnancy with Princess Charlotte was announced in September 2014, when she was treated at the palace for the condition.\n\nHyperemesis gravidarum affects about one in every 200 pregnancies and results in severe nausea and vomiting - with one of the main dangers being dehydration.\n\nOnce again Prince William and his wife - who are very focused on being in control - have been thwarted.\n\nAnd once again, it's due to circumstances outside their control.\n\nThe couple have been forced to make the announcement at a time not of their choosing - and while the duchess is still in the early stages of her pregnancy - because she is suffering from very acute morning sickness.\n\nThey were poised to take on more royal duties. They are now preparing to welcome another addition to their family.\n\nAn addition that will attract considerable global interest. The child's grandmother is the late Diana, Princess of Wales.\n\nThis princess or prince is unlikely to be crowned monarch. As things stand, that future awaits their brother, Prince George.\n\nSo there is no constitutional significance to the birth next year.\n\nBut an ancient institution that already appears pretty secure has just been further buttressed.\n\nThe three Cambridge siblings will fashion the future of the British monarchy well into the 21st Century.\n\nThe BBC's royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell said the announcement comes at the start of a \"significant week\" for the family \"because Prince George is due to start at big school.\"\n\n\"Presumably his mother would be keen to take him to that, [but] whether she is going to be well enough to do that remains to be seen,\" he told BBC News.\n\n\"It had also been expected that the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge would be taking a foreign trip this autumn,\" he added.\n\n\"Whether they will be able to do that or whether the duchess will be well enough to do that also remains to be seen.\"\n\nThe expected child will become the fifth in line to the throne behind Prince Charles, Prince William, Prince George and Princess Charlotte.\n\nA change - which stops royal sons taking precedence over their female siblings in the line of succession - came into force in March 2015.\n\nThe child will be the Queen's sixth great-grandchild.\n\nTo become King or Queen as the third-born royal child is rare - and has yet to happen within the current House of Windsor.\n\nBut the third child of George III and Queen Charlotte, William IV, took on the task and ruled from 1830 to 1837.\n\nThe Hanoverian king acceded to the throne aged 64 when his older brother, George IV, died without an heir.\n\nHe became next in line when he was 62 and his other older brother, Frederick, Duke of York, died.\n\nArriving in Manchester for a royal visit, Prince Harry - who will drop to sixth in line to the throne when the child is born - said the news was \"fantastic\" and he was \"very, very happy\".\n\nClarence House has tweeted on behalf of the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall to say they are \"delighted\".\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May has tweeted her congratulations to the couple, calling it \"fantastic 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 UK Prime Minister This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Eve Senior and her mother Natalie later returned to visit the Arena\n\nThe morning after the Manchester Arena bomb an image of one girl filled the front pages of almost every newspaper.\n\nHer name is Eve Senior. She's 14 but looks older in the photo - she had dressed up and done her make-up to go to the Ariana Grande concert.\n\nShe was a few metres from Salman Abedi when he detonated his suicide bomb, killing 22 people.\n\nIn the picture, half her jeans had been cut off by paramedics and she needed help to walk because of 14 shrapnel wounds she had suffered. Once at hospital medics operated to remove the lumps of metal from her legs.\n\nFor many people the photograph conveyed the awful reality of the attack. An attack targeting a concert packed with children.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Eve Senior, 14, speaks on the effect of the Manchester Arena attack on her\n\nBut another image that has stayed with me is of Eve's younger sister.\n\nOn the night of the bomb I watched as 11-year-old Emilia was scooped up by her father and carried away from the arena. She is too tall for her dad to carry very far. But he tried.\n\nOnce through the police cordon she was hugged and kissed by her grandparents. I heard her quietly say to them that she was one of the lucky ones.\n\nThat night, Emilia told me they had been leaving the concert when the bomb went off.\n\n\"We walked out and then suddenly something really hot flew over us,\" she said. \"We all dropped to the floor.\"\n\nHer mother and sister were still inside waiting to go to hospital. Emilia wiped her face and said: \"My sister's really bad.\"\n\nShe was remarkably calm and articulate. But looking back at footage of that interview now, you can see the fear.\n\nFour weeks later, I met Emilia again at her home near Bradford, West Yorkshire. She told me that as she left Manchester Arena on the night of the bomb she was convinced her big sister was dying.\n\nThis was also the first time I met Eve. She was still struggling to walk because of the shrapnel wounds and nerve damage. As a teenage girl and talented dancer, the way her legs looked and worked was important to her.\n\nShe had been told she still had months of physiotherapy ahead of her and doctors had mentioned the possibility of plastic surgery.\n\n\"Some of my friends don't understand how long it's going to take,\" she said. \"I don't think I understand.\"\n\nHer parents Andrew and Natalie told me Eve had good days and bad days. The bad days were really tough.\n\nEmilia's hearing in one ear was damaged by the blast, but she escaped any other physical injuries. Her parents' main concern was about the psychological impact.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Emilia Senior was at Manchester Arena on the night of the attack\n\nAs she talked to me about the way her mind played and replayed what she saw that night, it became clear why.\n\n\"I see all of it. I see the flashing lights of the explosion,\" she said.\n\n\"I see the people being thrown in the air who were probably dead. And then you play it. And then you pause it. It's like my mind took a photo. That's what it feels like when you think about it.\"\n\nHer father was sitting quietly next to her, taking in what she was saying.\n\nHer mother, who was also injured in the explosion, said: \"For an 11-year-old child to have seen the things she saw, it's going to be a long process.\"\n\nBy early July, when I next met the family, Emilia had turned 12 and Eve was walking without crutches.\n\nI went with them to their local hospital where Eve and her mother had a physiotherapy session.\n\nThey had made huge progress, but for Eve it wasn't fast enough.\n\nEmilia Senior (centre) and Eve, pictured with their mother, Natalie\n\n\"It feels like I'm not improving at all,\" she said. \"I know I am. But it feels like that, because I just want to be able to do all the stuff I did before.\"\n\nFor her mother, each physiotherapy session had been a reminder of how far they had come.\n\n\"We've turned a real corner,\" she said. \"Eve's getting a lot more mobile which has been a big thing for us.\"\n\nThey had been for days out together and one of their outings was to Manchester.\n\nLike other survivors, the family had been offered the chance to visit the arena before its scheduled reopening. They had doubts in the days before the visit. The girls' parents hoped it would help them move forward, but feared the girls would find it totally overwhelming.\n\nIn the end it did help. It helped them fill in the gaps and get a better sense of what happened. They calculated that Eve was 5m from Abedi when he detonated the bomb.\n\nPolice urged people to stay calm and move away from the area on the night of the attack\n\n\"I was really scared to go,\" Eve told me. \"I was crying before I even went in. But as soon as I got in there, you felt more calm.\"\n\nHer mother said that for weeks after the attack she'd pictured the Arena foyer as a cold and frightening place. But going back changed that.\n\n\"It was as if you were going back somewhere where you found a bit of peace,\" she said.\n\nEve's face lit up when she talked about the staff at Manchester Children's Hospital.\n\n\"Before Manchester I had no idea what I wanted to be when I grow up,\" she said.\n\n\"But staying in hospital and seeing what the nurses do and how good they are - when I'm older I want to be a nurse.\"\n\nEmilia has also found ways to cope. As her mother and sister worked out at their physio session, she chatted to me while colouring-in.\n\nIt is easy to forget how young she is. Her colouring book reminded me. She told me her trauma counsellor had suggested colouring as way to block out the images that had been filling her mind.\n\nRemarkably, she said she did not hate the man who carried out the attack.\n\n\"You have to forgive and forget in life, or else you're not going to get anywhere.\"\n\nThis family is one of hundreds deeply and permanently affected by the Manchester attack. But despite all they have been through, they still regard themselves as the lucky ones.\n\nAlongside hospital appointments and counselling sessions, they have found the time to hold fundraising events for the Manchester Emergency Fund and Victim Support.\n\nMr Senior told me he constantly thinks about the fathers whose children did not survive.\n\n\"It changes your perspective on things,\" he said. \"We're always going to have Manchester as a part of our family now.\"\n\nInside Out North West is at 19:30 BST on BBC One in the North West and later on BBC iPlayer for 30 days.", "The People's Republic of China, a country averse to binding, treaty-based commitments, has always enjoyed a particular relationship with its small, north-eastern neighbour.\n\nNorth Korea is the only country with which China has a legally binding mutual aid and co-operation treaty, signed in July 1961. There are only seven articles in the document.\n\nThe second is the most important: \"The contracting parties undertake jointly to adopt all measures to prevent aggression against either of the contracting parties by any state.\n\n\"In the event of one of the contracting parties being subjected to the armed attack by any state or several states jointly and thus being involved in a state of war, the other contracting party shall immediately render military and other assistance by all means at its disposal.\"\n\nIn essence, therefore, if there is a simple answer to the question of what China would need to do if North Korea is unilaterally attacked by another power - say the US or South Korea - this sentence supplies the answer.\n\nIt would, according to this treaty, be obliged to become involved - and on the North Koreans' side. This, more than anything else, shows the ways in which history continues to frame the relationship between the two.\n\nWe have a very powerful precedent here. Even before the treaty in 1950, China committed a million troops to the Korean War once United Nations forces were involved. In defence of the North as a client state and buffer zone, it is more than likely to commit its much more formidable military assets.\n\nThis agreement still stands, despite the immense changes to China since the period in which it was signed.\n\nA million Chinese troops were involved on North Korea's side in the Korean War\n\nAfter the death of Mao in 1976, the country shifted from its adherence to a utopian version of socialism, and undertook widespread reforms. These resulted in the hybrid, complex system the country has today. Its economy and geopolitical prominence have burgeoned.\n\nFor North Korea, things have been different. Tepid attempts at controlled reform over the past three decades have had little success.\n\nIn the early 2000s, the Chinese hosted its former leader, the late Kim Jong-Il, and showed him special economic zones in Shanghai and examples of how to create a manufacturing, export-orientated economy servicing the capitalist West but maintaining its Marxist-Leninist system.\n\nThe attempt at persuasion evidently fell on deaf ears. North Korea's unique Juche ideology - a pure form of nationalism - meant that it resisted any attempts to copy models from elsewhere.\n\nTo this day, the market, if it exists in North Korea in any shape or form, is highly circumscribed and geared towards supporting the country's military aims and regime survival.\n\nChina's great points of leverage these days are trade, aid and energy. As the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, North Korea's most important patron vanished almost overnight. Since that point, the reliance on China has increased to the extent that is now almost a monopoly.\n\nSome 80% of the country's oil comes from its neighbour. Coal exports into China were immensely important - until sanctions stopped them in July last year after provocative behaviour. China has stuck to this agreement, with precipitous collapses in the North Korean economy in the ensuing year.\n\nLate North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il with former Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) in Beijing in January 2006\n\nAlmost all of North Korea's exports are either to China, or through China to elsewhere. Some 90% of its aid comes from China. China is the only country it has air links with, and a rail line into.\n\nIt was, until the mid-2000s, the only country, too, whose banks had relations with North Korean counterparts, through accounts in Macau in particular. Monies here were frozen in a previous spate of sanctions.\n\nEven so, one of the new targets of UN-backed measures is Chinese banks, which continue, mostly indirectly, to deal with embargoed North Korean companies or intermediaries.\n\nThe main point of Chinese leverage over North Korea is widely believed to be its oil. Stopping this would lead to an immediate, dramatic economic impact.\n\nA few years ago, for a matter of days, the oil pipes into North Korea were closed, around the time of a previous nuclear test. China has, therefore, been willing to flex its muscles here.\n\nBut wholesale stopping of the supply, rather than temporary glitches, is a different matter. Many believe this would trigger regime crisis, or even collapse. After all, the North Koreans are already living in a subsistence economy. Taking away this final lifeline could be fatal.\n\nThere are powerful counter-arguments, however, that say things would not be so straightforward. North Korea devotes 25% of its GDP (gross domestic product) to military activity. The oil stocks there would last a few months. And that would give it time to embark on the devastating assault southwards that everyone fears, into the highly populated regions of South Korea.\n\nIt would be a suicidal mission, but as the world knows from plenty of other examples, handling those with suicide on their minds is the greatest challenge.\n\nNor would North Korea be compliant in other areas as it collapsed. Refugees would swarm across the border into China. A vacuum would appear. China would be faced with its worst nightmare - a space which the US and its allies might try to occupy.\n\nFor all its seeming points of leverage and influence, therefore, the most remarkable thing about China and North Korea is the ways in which, at a time when the rest of the world is agonising over how to deal with a renascent, confident, powerful-looking China, this narrative is so brutally undermined by the ways in which its small, impoverished neighbour almost daily exposes its impotence.\n\nThis analysis piece was commissioned by the BBC from an expert working for an outside organisation.\n\nKerry Brown is professor of Chinese studies and director of the Lau China Institute at King's College, London.", "An image of a boy selling candyfloss on Tijuana beach in Mexico has won the Saatchi Gallery's smartphone photography competition.\n\nPaola Ismene's photo was selected from more than 9,000 entries in the #selfexpression competition.\n\nThe competition was launched off the back of the London gallery's From Selfie to Self-Expression exhibition, which closes on Wednesday.\n\nIsmene's prize is a solo exhibition at the Saatchi, off London's King's Road.\n\nFlying Blue Corsica, taken by Helene Vallas Vincent, also made the shortlist\n\nIsmene said she was \"truly grateful for being selected... because it's a great platform to expose the work of emerging photographers\".\n\n\"Mobile photography has allowed me to capture countless images in my everyday life,\" the Mexico City resident continued.\n\nFrom Selfie to Self-Expression features traditional self-portraits from the likes of Van Gogh and Rembrandt alongside more modern examples.\n\nThese include a selfie taken by Kim Kardashian and another of former US President Barack Obama with former Prime Minister David Cameron.\n\nDenis Cherim's shortlisted shot was taken from a London bus\n\nThe shortlisted finalists in the competition came from across the globe and included entries from Australia, Spain, the US and the UK.\n\nNigel Hurst, Saatchi Gallery CEO, said: \"We hope that this new #SelfExpression competition encourages everyone with a smartphone to realise its potential as an artistic tool, and inspire them to document their daily lives with even more creative vigour.\"\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.", "BB guns are designed to fire ball bearings or pellets\n\nA couple shot their children with a BB gun as a \"bizarre and frankly barbaric chastisement\" for not doing chores properly, a court has heard.\n\nThe Blackpool pair, who cannot be named for legal reasons, used the weapon on their five children for four months, Preston Crown Court heard.\n\nThe \"fairly trivial behaviour\" punished included not changing a nappy, dropping items and failing to wash the dishes.\n\nBoth parents pleaded guilty to five counts of child cruelty.\n\nThe 50-year-old father was jailed for two years, while the mother, aged 33, was given a suspended sentence and ordered to do 200 hours of unpaid work.\n\nThe court heard the man bought the BB gun - a type of air gun designed for shooting pellets - in February 2016 and began using it to shoot birds and punish the children, aged between seven and 15, on a daily basis.\n\nOne of the girls, aged 13, was shot for having a boyfriend, as her father said she was too young.\n\nThe court was told that the father did most of the shooting and kept the gun down the side of the sofa, but his wife would take over if he was not at home.\n\nThe cruelty came to light in June 2016, when the 13-year-old told a teacher of her injuries, which included bruises and an open wound on her leg.\n\nOn arrest, the couple denied the allegations, with the father claiming he had only used a foam dart gun on the children. Both parents later admitted child cruelty.\n\nDefending, Rosalyn Emslie-Smith said the father had \"always accepted he has failed in terms of his parenting\", while Ciaran Rankin, defending his wife, said the \"misguided\" shootings \"began as a bit of fun and developed from there\".\n\nSentencing the pair, Judge Robert Altham said they had developed a \"regime of discipline\" and created a \"climate of fear\" in their home.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Chinese President Xi is, again, dealing with the crisis while in the middle of hosting an international summit\n\nIn the small Chinese city of Yanji, the ground was moving.\n\nThis Korean-speaking region sits on the border with North Korea and soon local bloggers were posting images on social media of things shaking.\n\nWhat they could not have known was that this earthquake was man-made.\n\nNot far away, the government in Pyongyang was soon declaring the successful test of a hydrogen bomb - its most powerful to date.\n\nThe timing was a clear slap in the face for Beijing.\n\nJust hours after the underground nuclear test, President Xi Jinping was due to make a speech as the head of state for the nation hosting the Brics summit, which would welcome delegates from Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa to Xiamen.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by China Xinhua 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\nIt is conceivable that North Korea did not necessarily choose the opening day of this major diplomatic gathering for its test but it certainly did not see the need to call it off for fear of offending China.\n\nAnd, what is more, these weapons test \"coincidences\" are now starting to mount up when it comes to Xi Jinping.\n\nIn March, just before the Chinese leader was set to meet United States Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Beijing, North Korea announced the successful test of a new type of rocket engine.\n\nThen in May President Xi was preparing to open the One Belt One Road forum. The leaders of dozens of nations had come to the Chinese capital to discuss economic development and transport infrastructure around the Chinese leader's signature foreign policy initiative. Then, whoooooosh! Off goes another North Korean missile test to steal the limelight before the summit could even get going.\n\nThat this could have happened again with the Brics summit is incredible.\n\nXi Jinping - who is also the chair of the Central Military Commission in China - cannot be happy with this emerging pattern.\n\nPeople look across to North Korea from Tumen\n\nThe North Koreans, in turn, would be furious with the behaviour of their old Cold War allies. China has not only backed sanctions against them in the United Nations Security Council but, as the isolated regime's principal trading partner, it has also been the principal implementer of these sanctions, turning back coal shipments and the like.\n\nYet most observers know that, if it really wanted to, Beijing could bring crippling economic pain to North Korea. Heading into winter, it could freeze oil and gas supplies.\n\nThen there are the banks.\n\nNorth Korea is thought to conduct an enormous amount of laundered business via Chinese financial institutions. Various front businesses have been set up to facilitate money and products to flow in and out of the country with the assistance of these bodies. The Chinese government cannot be unaware of this and they could pull the plug on it tomorrow if they wanted to.\n\nBut they don't for one reason.\n\nThe Chinese government does not like the regional instability that their neighbour's nuclear weapons testing programme brings, but Beijing fears something even more.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThey worry that total regime collapse in Pyongyang, leading to a unified Korean Peninsula dominated by the South, could lead to US troops on the border within marching distance of Yanji and they will put up with an awful lot from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea as long as this does not happen.\n\nThe Environment Ministry here has announced that it has now started \"emergency radiation testing\" along the frontier. The government's displeasure would be significant if Chinese territory has been contaminated.\n\nThe Chinese Foreign Ministry's official response to this latest North Korean nuclear weapons test condemned it strongly but, with increasingly loud calls coming for this country to do more to pressure Kim Jong-un to give up intercontinental ballistic missile ambitions, there would be serious frustration within the upper echelons of the Chinese Communist Party as to what they can realistically do next.\n\nThe North Korean leader has made his nuclear ambitions a hallmark of his administration to the extent that it is hard to see what type of offering or threat could alter this situation.\n\nThat is, unless the US and China have come up with a secret agreement which would see American troops leave Korea in the event of unification… if that was in place it could change everything.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nCaribbean travel plans have been thrown into chaos as flights are disrupted by Hurricane Irma sweeping across the region towards the US coast.\n\nIrma, coming days after the US was hit by Hurricane Harvey, has been upgraded to a category five, the highest.\n\nPuerto Rico, a major flight transfer hub for the region, has declared a state of emergency.\n\nBritish Airways cancelled a flight from the UK on Tuesday and, with Virgin Atlantic, changed return schedules.\n\nOn Tuesday, British Airways cancelled its flight to Antigua, which was then due to continue to Tobago.\n\nBA sent an empty aircraft to Antigua to bring travellers home early. The full flight of 326 passengers left the island early evening on Tuesday, UK time.\n\nAntigua's airport will be closed on Wednesday.\n\n\"The safety of our customers and crew is always our priority,\" BA said in statement. \"We have offered all customers due to travel to the region in the coming days a range of re-booking options and are keeping our flights to the entire region under review.\"\n\nVirgin has brought forward its flight from Antigua to the UK by five hours. A spokesman said the airline was monitoring the strength and direction of Irma before changing more schedules. \"We may need to make some changes or cancellations,\" he said, and urged customers to check with the airline before travelling.\n\nFlights between many of the islands, which include the Dominican Republic, Guadeloupe, and the British Virgin Islands, have been cancelled.\n\nOn Tuesday, American Airlines cancelled its schedules to the islands of St Kitts and St Maarten,\n\nFor Wednesday, Puerto Rico's San Juan airport has cancelled 85 flights, about 40% of services. The island's governor Ricardo Rossello described the hurricane as \"something without precedent\".\n\nThe US Virgin Islands' seaports were closed to everything except essential traffic.\n\nThe threat of Irma to cruise ship tourism hit shares in big operators including Carnival, Norwegian Cruise Line, and Royal Caribbean Cruises. Their shares fell between 3%-4%.\n\nOne hotelier on Antigua told the Reuters news agency that his property's window were being boarded up and that coconuts were being stripped from trees.\n\n\"I wasn't that nervous yesterday, but today I'm nervous,\" said Gary Randall, head of the Blue Waters Resort. He expected the beach to be swept away and the hotel to be flooded.\n\nShares in insurance companies with an exposure to Florida slid as investors weighed up the likely financial impact of Irma. Heritage Insurance and Universal Insurance both fell more than 15%.\n\nThe National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Tuesday that Irma was \"potentially catastrophic\". It said the hurricane was currently on track to hit the northern Leeward Islands early on Wednesday, and possibly the Florida Keys by the weekend. Florida has also declared an emergency.\n\nThe Center said Irma's winds may reach 180 miles (280 kilometers) per hour. \"These rainfall amounts may cause life-threatening flash floods and mudslides,\" the NHC warned.\n\nThe UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office has urged travellers, tour operators and hotel owners to \"follow the advice of the local authorities\".\n\nResidents in two US states, Texas and Louisiana, are still recovering from the effects of Harvey, which struck as a category four storm, causing heavy rain and destroying thousands of homes.\n• None How hard has Harvey hit the local economy?", "A BBC Newsnight investigation has revealed a series of concerns about some aspects of the work of a celebrated FGM campaigner.\n\nComfort Momoh established one of the UK's first FGM clinics and has recently retired as a midwife from Guy's and St Thomas' Trust in London.\n\nShe has also received an MBE for her work in women's health.\n\nBut senior specialists have raised concerns about her credibility when it comes to examining children for FGM.\n\nThere are also suggestions Ms Momoh may be exaggerating her professional qualifications. She has repeatedly described herself as \"Dr Momoh\" - including on the website of Guys and St Thomas's hospital, but she is not a qualified medical doctor - instead, she has an honorary doctorate from Middlesex University.\n\nA university spokesperson confirmed to Newsnight that this does not enable her to use the title \"doctor\".\n\nComfort Momoh has not responded to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nWhen Newsnight approached the Nursing and Midwifery Council, who regulate midwives, for comment on their findings, they told the programme that a referral had been made about Comfort Momoh on 8 August which they are currently investigating.\n\nThe NMC said it would be \"inappropriate\" to comment on any specific details as the case is ongoing. It has not been confirmed whether the concerns within the referral are the same as those raised in Newsnight's reporting.\n\nFemale genital mutilation is a term given to all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitals or other injury to female genital organs where there are no medical reason.\n\nIt is usually carried out on girls under the age of 15, with most FGM done under the age of five, according to Unicef.\n\nNewsnight understands that Comfort Momoh has examined children for FGM on at least five occasions, despite not having relevant qualifications.\n\nAlthough Comfort Momoh is an expert in adult cases of FGM, serious questions have been raised about her competence to assess children - whose anatomy is different to that of adults.\n\nIn 2012, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health produced guidance with the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine, for the examination of child abuse victims, saying this should only be performed by a doctor with specialist training in children - which Ms Momoh is not understood to have.\n\nComfort Momoh was awarded an MBE for her work in 2008\n\nIn a court case involving a child who was alleged to have had FGM in Leeds in 2014 in which Comfort Momoh did give evidence, the judge involved said she merited \"harsh criticism\" and had \"difficulty in providing answers even about the even the simplest factual question\".\n\nShe originally said - after examination - that the right labia appeared to be missing in one of the girls and said the child had been subjected to \"some form of FGM\".\n\nBut in oral evidence in court, Comfort Momoh changed her findings.\n\nSir James Munby, the President of the Family Division, described her report as \"a remarkably shoddy piece of work\" and \"worse than useless\". He said she was \"not a reliable witness\".\n\nJudge Munby concluded, there was not enough evidence to suggest the child had had FGM, after the examination was reviewed by an expert.\n\nComfort Momoh was one of two key expert witnesses in another high-profile case in 2015 - the first of its kind - in which a doctor was taken to court in the UK for allegedly carrying out FGM.\n\nShe was dropped as a witness just before the trial. It is unclear why. A jury acquitted the accused after less than half an hour of deliberations.\n\nDoctor Dhanuson Dharmasena was found not guilty of performing FGM\n\nGuy's and St Thomas's NHS Foundation - where Comfort Momoh has worked as a midwife for 20 years - said she had recently retired.\n\nThey said this had been planned for some time, and was \"not linked to issues raised by Newsnight\".\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Female genital mutilation is a horrific act of abuse which this government is working to tackle.\"\n\nThey added: \"We have also published comprehensive standards of what we expect in delivering FGM care in children under the age of 18.\n\n\"In this we make clear that those examining children are doctors, and that they need paediatric competencies and appropriate experience.\"\n\nMore on this story on BBC Newsnight on iPlayer", "US soccer promoter Charlie Stillitano has been called many things in the past 18 months or so - with \"power broker\" and \"mogul\" among the more flattering descriptions of the ebullient New Yorker.\n\nOn the downside, for his apparent suggestion that a European super league might be an idea worth talking about, he has been called \"a poster boy for greed\" and even \"a corporate goblin\".\n\nStillitano is the executive chairman of Relevant Sports, which organises the International Champions Cup, an annual summer tournament held mainly across the US - although other countries also host matches - featuring the world's top football clubs.\n\nBut it was for organising a meeting of executives from Manchester United, Manchester City, Liverpool, Arsenal and Chelsea - where they discussed the possibility of restructuring the Uefa Champions League - that he found himself in the firing line.\n\n\"It was not our [Relevant's] intention to be a stalking horse for the creation of a European Super League, that was never the intention,\" he tells me.\n\n\"I would never advocate a closed-shop Champions League or any closed European league. I know it sounds cliched but I was misquoted, or rather I was asked a question about whether closed leagues can ever work.\n\nStillitano has been a football fan since his childhood days in the 1960s\n\n\"And in some circumstances they can - look at NFL American football, one of the most successful leagues in the world. But I know that closed leagues are anathema in Europe.\"\n\nThe 57-year-old says discussions about the format of European football first emerged because clubs came to him and asked if the Champions Cup could become more than just a pre-season event, and be put on a more official footing.\n\nStillitano says he got sucked into a Champions League controversy inadvertently\n\n\"So things were coming about more as a reaction to teams approaching us,\" he says. \"We caused a stir unintentionally. And clubs are still coming up to us.\n\n\"Anyway, the big European clubs ended up cutting new commercial and sporting deals, including the changes at Uefa with the Champions League,\" he adds, referring to the deal where bigger nations such as England are guaranteed more places.\n\nStillitano's partner in the International Champions Cup is US billionaire and Miami Dolphins American football team owner, Stephen Ross.\n\nIndeed, he says it is Ross's lack of a traditional soccer background that has enabled him to put together some of the bigger Champions Cup matches.\n\n\"We brokered the biggest game, the Real Madrid v Barcelona Clasico, in Miami this summer,\" he says. \"Steve Ross has the advantage of not being a massive soccer follower, so he just said 'let's get it' without even considering it might not be possible.\n\n\"From the beginning Mr Ross and his business partner Matt Higgins could see there was something out there, a huge untapped soccer market.\n\nFive English clubs took part in the 2017 event\n\n\"The Champions Cup sits in a nice pre-season niche. It gives us the opportunity to own the month of pre-season, and build a viable business.\n\n\"We get to show the best players in the world, and they are able to perform in a relaxed atmosphere without the the pressure of a regular season game. It allows the teams to build for their seasons.\"\n\nThe tournament has just completed its fifth year, with Ross investing roughly $100m over the period since 2013.\n\n\"We are making money out of it, we have turned the financial corner, I think the investment has paid off,\" says Stillitano.\n\nStillitano says the Champions Cup is creating a new generation of US soccer fans\n\n\"I know it is not a Champions League or regular season games. But the fans love it and lots of cities and clubs would live to have Champions Cup games to host.\n\n\"We are helping to cultivate the new US soccer fan. The biggest crowd ever for a Manchester United v Real Madrid game was in America this summer. Clearly we have something that has caught the imagination of the US sporting public.\"\n\nGrew up watching Italian and German football on cable TV\n\nDirector of Giants Stadium at the 1994 World Cup\n\nIn 1996 became general manager of MLS team New York/New Jersey MetroStars (later Red Bulls)\n\nSet up Champions World series of games in the US featuring major European teams in the 2000s\n\nStillitano says the next step is to make the event more of an entertainment property.\n\n\"We saw it for the first time in Miami with the Clasico,\" he says. \"We had legends games, concerts, activities for kids. That is something we want to expand, make it a fun day out, not just the match. The NFL Super Bowl is currently the only event that gets that mix right.\n\n\"The next part is also to attract more cities to take part - Singapore is a good example of a city that has come on board with us.\"\n\nGames have also been held in England, Italy, Spain, Canada, Mexico and China; Mr Stillitano says there is interest in Argentina, Brazil, the Middle East, and South Africa.\n\n\"It is good for the economies of host cities,\" he says. \"Three quarters of the people who came to the Miami Clasico were from out of state. And there were 70,000 at the game, and 40,000 at the training sessions.\"\n\nFifa took over the former Intercontinental Cup/Toyota Cup\n\nSo, does this growth signal that the Champions Cup is indeed ripe for becoming a part of the official football calendar?\n\n\"Different people own different football spaces... but things change,\" he says. \"Look at how Fifa decided they wanted to take over the old Intercontinental Cup, and moved in on it.\n\n\"However, are we going to morph into something more official? I don't think so.\"\n\nAnd on the subject of competitions morphing into something else, Stillitano has a final riposte for those who accused him of trying to set up a closed-shop European league.\n\n\"I think we are already in danger of creating a closed league, through financial fair play,\" he says, referring to Uefa rules which generally mean clubs can only spend what they make, and break even.\n\nPSG are emerging as one of clutch of super-wealthy European teams\n\n\"It means there are five, six, clubs that are wealthy enough to dominate the Champions League over the next 20 years - the likes of Paris Saint Germain, Manchester City, Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich.\n\n\"A Celtic or Ajax will never win the cup again, while the likes of AC Milan, Atletico Madrid, Juventus, and other historic big names are condemned to almost second tier status.\"\n\nHe laughs: \"But I am the one who got all the trouble and criticism!\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Oxford is the world's best university, according to the ranking\n\nTwo UK universities occupy the top spots in a global ranking for the first time.\n\nThe University of Oxford is top of the Times Higher Education World University Rankings, with Cambridge University second, up from fourth place last year.\n\nA key factor in the rankings is income and both universities saw this rise in the past year, partly in the form of European Union research grants.\n\nBut this income could fall with Brexit, warned rankings director Phil Baty.\n\nTimes Higher Education, which compiles the rankings, said that margins were extremely tight at the top, with all the top-ranked institutions excelling against measures in teaching, research, citations, international outlook and income.\n\nBut Oxford and Cambridge saw significant increases in their total institutional income - up 24% and 11% respectively while their nearest rivals, the California Institute of Technology and Stanford University saw falls in income.\n\nThe researchers also point out that about a quarter of Cambridge's research income, and a fifth of Oxford's, come in the form of EU grants - a factor which they say underlines the risk Brexit could pose to the global performance of the UK's leading universities.\n\nThe top of the global ranking of 1,000 universities in 77 countries is dominated by US institutions.\n\nOther UK universities in the top 50 are Imperial College London in eighth place; University College London, 16th; London School of Economics and Political Science, 25th; University of Edinburgh, 27th; and King's College London, 36th.\n\nCambridge University rose from fourth to second place\n\nThe researchers say the findings show \"a widening gulf between the UK's super elite institutions and other universities\", with just over half of the UK's top 200 institutions, dropping down the ranking.\n\nMr Baty said: \"The UK higher education system is facing intense political pressure, with questions over the value for money provided by £9,250 tuition fees in England, our continued attractiveness to international students, the flow of research funding and academic talent post-Brexit, and even levels of vice-chancellors' pay.\n\n\"But one thing this new data makes absolutely clear is that the UK has many of the very best universities in the world and it has one of the world's strongest higher education systems.\n\n\"The data shows UK universities are consistently producing ground-breaking new research which is driving innovation, they are attracting international students and academic talent and are providing a world-class teaching environment.\n\n\"They are a huge national asset, and one that the country can ill-afford to undermine at a time when its place in the global order is under intense scrutiny.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sir Bruce died in August at the age of 89\n\nFamily and friends have said farewell to Sir Bruce Forsyth at a private funeral.\n\nThe star's manager confirmed to BBC News that the service took place on Monday.\n\nA public memorial service will be held in due course for fans to pay their respects to the entertainer, with details released in the next few weeks.\n\nThere will also be a tribute on Strictly Come Dancing when it returns to BBC One on Saturday evening.\n\nSir Bruce, who co-hosted the dance show until 2014, died on 18 August at the age of 89.\n\nHis manager Ian Wilson released a statement on behalf of Sir Bruce's family, saying: \"It was the express wish of Lady Forsyth and family that this be a private event and they would like to thank the media for respecting this request.\n\n\"There will be no further details or comment. A more public celebration of Sir Bruce's life will be announced in the coming weeks.\"\n\nStrictly executive producer Louise Rainbow has promised that the show's tribute will include \"a heartfelt performance from our Strictly professional dancers\".\n\nShe added: \"We all want to celebrate him and all that he loved about the show.\n\n\"Sir Bruce was, and will always be, a huge part of Strictly Come Dancing.\"\n\nSir Bruce's TV career stretched back to the 1950s and he became one of Britain's best-loved entertainers thanks to shows like Sunday Night at the London Palladium, The Generation Game, Play Your Cards Right and The Price Is Right.\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 European Court of Human Rights is in Strasbourg\n\nA Romanian man should not have been fired for sending private messages at work, Europe's top human rights court has ruled.\n\nBogdan Mihai Barbulescu was sacked for sending the messages via the Yahoo messaging system in 2007.\n\nHis employer had used surveillance software to monitor his computer activity.\n\nA Romanian court ruled in 2016 that the firm was within its rights but this has now been overturned.\n\nSome of the communications he had sent were \"intimate in nature\" and were sent to his brother and his fiancee, the court heard.\n\nHowever, his right to privacy had not been \"adequately protected\", the apex body of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has now ruled.\n\nThe ECHR also said it was not clear whether Mr Barbulescu had been warned that his communications would be monitored, and that the original court had not established specifically why the monitoring had taken place.\n\nAs it is the highest court there can be no further appeal.\n\n\"...although it was questionable whether Mr Barbulescu could have had a reasonable expectation of privacy in view of his employer's restrictive regulations on internet use, of which he had been informed, an employer's instructions could not reduce private social life in the workplace to zero,\" said the court in its decision.\n\nIn a question and answer section on its website, the ECHR says the ruling does not mean that firms cannot now monitor employee communications at work, and that they can still dismiss employees for private use.\n\n\"However, the Court considers that States should ensure that, when an employer takes measures to monitor employees' communications, these measures are accompanied by adequate and sufficient safeguards against abuse,\" it said.\n\nCatrina Smith, employment partner at the legal firm Norton Rose Fulbright said it would not have a huge impact on UK employment regulation.\n\n\"What it will do, for companies who thought they had a bit more leeway than they did, is confirm the fact that they don't,\" she said.\n\n\"It will hopefully remind employers that they need to think about these issues and be very clear with employees about what is and isn't permissible.\n\n\"Employees also need to be smarter about the way in which they use both personal and work devices.\"\n\nMs Smith added that in the UK both the Data Protection Act and the Interception of Communications Act set out clear guidelines for employers regarding what they can monitor.\n\n\"You have to make sure the employee understands that [monitoring] might happen and you have to have a good reason for doing so,\" she said.\n\n\"It's all about having a dialogue and having an agreement about what is and isn't personal.\"\n\nThere also needs to be clear guidelines about the use of personal devices for work purposes, she added.\n\n\"In the old days if you took papers home, they still belonged to the employer,\" she said.\n\n\"You need to have clear understanding of the amount of ownership an employer has over information held on a personal device.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alps Murder: 'No progress' five years on\n\nThe brother of a British man shot dead while on a family holiday in the French Alps says he is frustrated with the lack of progress in the investigation.\n\nThe bodies of Saad al-Hilli, his wife Iqbal and her mother, Suhaila al-Allaf, were found on 5 September 2012. French cyclist Sylvain Mollier was also shot.\n\nThe couple's two young daughters survived the shooting near Lake Annecy.\n\nThe French lead prosecutor said it was the most complex case she had worked on.\n\nZeena al-Hilli, then four years old, was discovered hiding under her mother's body inside the family car, eight hours after the shooting.\n\nHer seven-year-old sister Zainab was found with serious head injuries after being shot and beaten.\n\nZaid al-Hilli says he has no faith in those investigating the shooting of his brother and his family\n\nThe bodies of the couple from Claygate, Surrey, along with Ms al-Allaf and Mr Mollier, were found on a remote road in Chevaline near where they had been on holiday.\n\nMr al-Hilli's brother Zaid said: \"There hasn't been any progress in the case. The initial investigation [by French investigators] has been a total failure.\n\n\"They made claims against the family which they couldn't prove.\"\n\nIn 2013, Surrey Police arrested Zaid al-Hilli, who lives in Chessington, as part of the French investigation.\n\nHe was later released, with British police saying there was not enough evidence to charge him.\n\nSurrey Police said it was continuing to provide support to the French investigation as part of the joint investigation team (JIT) established following the deaths.\n\nIt said officers had worked closely with the French authorities to progress a number of lines of enquiry in the UK.\n\nThe force said: \"This is a complex inquiry. However, Surrey Police remains committed to helping find answers to what happened.\"\n\nHe said the last time he had been in contact with the French authorities was \"very briefly\" in 2015.\n\nThe two daughters have been given new identities since the shootings.\n\n\"The girls are fine and doing well, and I'm in touch with them,\" Zaid al-Hilli said.\n\nThe French lead prosecutor, Veronique Dizot, said work was being carried out to identify the previous owners of the guns used in the attack, but she said there were no potential suspects in the case.\n\nShe said: \"We have certain technical information about the weapons, but we have not yet identified the previous owner or owners of the weapons.\"\n\nShe told the BBC it was the most complex case she had worked on but there had been no progress in solving it.\n\nThe killer of Saad al-Hilli may never be found, his brother fears\n\n\"The only way forward is for a British judge to look into the investigation and give us some conclusions,\" Mr al-Hilli said.\n\n\"I don't think the French authorities were honest and we don't trust them and we don't have faith in them.\n\n\"Five years on I don't think we'll ever find out what happened.\"", "Prince William and Catherine already have two children, George, who is four, and Charlotte, aged two\n\nBets are on for what the third royal baby could be called, with many papers leading on the announcement that the Duchess of Cambridge is expecting.\n\nThe Guardian and the Telegraph are just two of the papers which say Alice and Arthur are the most popular possible names for Princess Charlotte and Prince George's new brother or sister.\n\nOthers are taking a punt on the date and location of the child's conception. \"The Warsaw Act\" is the Sun's headline, referring to the royal couple's recent trip to Poland. But the Star reckons it's a south London baby, quoting a palace source who said \"they both have so much fun during Wimbledon\".\n\nThere's widespread concern over the United States' warning that North Korea is \"begging for war\". Writing in the daily Telegraph, former Foreign Secretary William Hague says there are no sanctions that will deter Kim Jong-un from pursuing his nuclear weapons programme - and only China can halt his ambitions.\n\nThe Daily Express agrees, saying Beijing now has the chance to show its maturity as a world power. But in its analysis, the Times thinks the crisis has highlighted the weakness in North Korea and China's relationship. It says China has lost control over its neighbour.\n\nAnd in the Daily Mirror, former Foreign Secretary Lord Owen asks whether force is the next step in standing up to the atomic threat.\n\nMeanwhile, the Guardian leads on its investigation uncovering a secret scheme to launder more than £2bn from Azerbaijan through a network of UK companies.\n\nAccording to the paper, some of the cash from the so-called \"Azerbiajani Laundromat\" was spent on lobbying to deflect criticism of the country's president, who is accused of human rights abuses and rigging elections.\n\nA journalist in Baku jailed for investigating government corruption, Khadija Ismayilova, says it is a kleptocracy which perpetuates the poverty of ordinary citizens.\n\nRohingya refugees walk on the muddy road after travelling over the Bangladesh-Myanmar border\n\nThere's criticism of the de facto leader of Myanmar, Aung San Suu Kyi, in both the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail.\n\nIn its leader column, the Telegraph says she must speak out against the persecution of the Muslim Rohingya minority if she is to live up to her worldwide reputation as a defender of the oppressed.\n\nMail commentator Peter Oborne goes further, accusing her government of complicity in genocide and mass rape. The journalist has travelled to Sittwe in Myanmar and spoken to Rohingyas who have been forced to live in a tiny ghetto with no access to proper healthcare.\n\nCriminals are launching hundreds of successful cyber attacks on UK universities each year, the Times reports. The groups are targeting scientific, engineering and medical advances including research into missiles.\n\nA cybersecurity expert tells the paper that many attacks go completely untraced, as most universities have \"fundamentally backward-looking defences\".\n\nFinally, the paper also says Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has been toying with the idea of veganism.\n\nHe announced he was \"going through the process\" of eliminating animal products from his diet but his love of Somerset brie has been holding him back.", "Kirsty Gallacher was more than three-times the drink-drive limit when she was pulled over in Eton, Berkshire\n\nTelevision presenter Kirsty Gallacher has admitted drink-driving after being caught at more than three times the legal limit.\n\nThe Sky Sports presenter, 41, was arrested in Eton, Berkshire, the day after she had been drinking, Slough magistrates heard.\n\nShe was on her way to meet her children to visit Windsor Castle on 12 August.\n\nShe received a two-year driving ban and was ordered to carry out 100 hours of unpaid community work.\n\nGallacher, who is divorced from former rugby union player Paul Sampson, was seen driving her BMW X4 erratically before police tracked her down using CCTV.\n\nHer alcohol level was found to be 106 micrograms per 100ml of breath. The legal limit is 35 micrograms per 100ml of breath.\n\nKirsty Gallacher appeared at Slough Magistrates' Court wearing black and spoke only to confirm her name, address and plea\n\nJennifer Dempster, mitigating, said Gallacher very rarely drank, and had taken a taxi home before going to collect her car the following morning.\n\nShe said Gallacher's children had not been in the car at the time.\n\n\"This is of course the morning after drinking, and it is a topic which is a hot one at present,\" Ms Dempster said.\n\n\"This is in many senses unintentional drink-driving.\n\n\"What this defendant did was exactly right until 11:00 BST the next morning.\"\n\nProbation officer Jasvir Kaur Bhatti said Gallacher was \"very remorseful\" and \"very much regrets what happened\".\n\nDistrict Judge Davinder Lachhar said the charge was \"very serious\" and described the level of alcohol in her system as \"very high\".\n\nThe defendant, of Virginia Water, Surrey, appeared wearing black and spoke only to confirm her name, address and plea.\n\nGallacher, a former Strictly Come Dancing contestant, was told her driving ban could be reduced by six months if she opted to take part in a driving safety course at a later date.\n\nShe was ordered to pay £85 in court charges and a separate surcharge of £85.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSome children in the UK have spent months on child protection plans - or in foster care - on the false suspicion they are victims of female genital mutilation, a BBC report has found.\n\nThe BBC understands that it can take months for children to be examined in cases where FGM is suspected.\n\nChildren can be separated from their parents while inquiries take place.\n\nExperts say that in the majority of cases, when examined by a specialist, it turns out the child has not had FGM.\n\nFemale genital mutilation is a term given to all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitals or other injury to female genital organs where there are no medical reason.\n\nIt is usually carried out on girls under the age of 15, with most FGM done under the age of five, according to Unicef.\n\nFGM has been illegal in the UK since 1985 and further legislation in 2003 and 2005 made it an offence to arrange FGM outside the country for British citizens or permanent residents.\n\nFor nearly two years, it has been a legal requirement for all health professionals, social workers and teachers to report cases of FGM in under-18s in England and Wales to the police, and is an obligation for professionals to refer suspected cases to local safeguarding teams.\n\nA study by experts at University College London Hospital in 2016 showed it took nearly two months for children to be referred for an examination by local authorities. There have been waits of more than a year. The hospital confirmed this was still a problem.\n\nThere are cases where children have been separated from their parents while investigations take place.\n\nA charity that works with families to eliminate FGM in the UK says the way some cases were handled left children and their families traumatised.\n\nToks Okeniyi has worked with families who have been separated because of false FGM claims\n\n\"There's a knee-jerk reaction from professionals when they hear FGM. I don't know whether it's terrified or wanting to make sure something doesn't go wrong. So they really go in too hard,\" says Toks Okeniyi, head of programmes and operations for the organisation Forward.\n\nHer organisation worked with one family where the child was placed in foster care for eight months before being examined and was found not to have undergone FGM.\n\n\"This family said they felt like goats herded into a paddock and nobody cared. It is just a hopeless situation,\" she said.\n\nOne woman, originally from East Africa, whom we are keeping anonymous to protect the identity of her children, told the BBC that police opened an investigation after she asked her midwife a question about FGM.\n\nHer children were placed on a child protection plan because it was believed that she had undergone the procedure and her two daughters may have too.\n\nShe denied the accusations and fought for four months to get the medical examination that proved her innocence, but the ordeal had a huge impact.\n\n\"I needed an examination done on me and my children. I knew I hadn't undergone FGM, my children hadn't undergone any FGM,\" she says.\n\n\"I knew within myself that I hadn't done anything wrong - my children were fine and healthy and I hadn't hurt them in any way.\n\n\"The police officer said to me that if I hadn't had the examination taken for my children, to be sincere, I would have lost my children. Social services would have taken them away.\"\n\nThere are no definitive figures but the British government has warned thousands of women and children are at risk of FGM and has committed to helping to end the practice worldwide within a generation.\n\nIn 2015, the former Home Affairs Select Committee chairman Keith Vaz said: \"Young girls are being mutilated every hour of every day. This is deplorable. This barbaric crime which is committed daily on such a huge scale across the UK cannot continue to go unpunished.\"\n\nBut some doctors have told the BBC that they do not believe that FGM is taking place on the scale politicians have suggested.\n\n\"We're just not seeing the number that we would have thought we would see, given the demographics that we cover now,\" says Dr Catherine White, clinical director at St Mary's Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Manchester, one of three specialist centres in the UK where children are examined for FGM.\n\n\"Perhaps newer generations, younger generations, aren't perpetuating it in the same way... now I know that some of it might be hidden and that it might be done and never come to light to professionals.\n\nDr Catherine White works at a specialist centre in the UK where children are examined for FGM\n\n\"But I think if certain types of FGM were being done at the rates that we were perhaps led to expect we would be seeing cases coming through with infection or bleeding, they would be ending up in front of healthcare professionals and then being referred to us. And that just hasn't happened - not here in Greater Manchester anyway.\"\n\nExperts from across the country told the BBC that most confirmed cases were historic and had taken place abroad.\n\nSince mandatory reporting came in, there have been more than 40 referrals in Manchester, of which 14 were confirmed as cases of FGM. All had been performed before the child came to the UK.\n\nA similar picture was found in Birmingham, where all nine confirmed cases of FGM between April and August this year were in children who had had the procedure before moving to the country.\n\nSo far no-one has been successfully prosecuted in the UK.\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Female genital mutilation is a horrific act of abuse which this government is working to tackle.\n\n\"We know that by its nature FGM is a hidden crime and the government is committed to improving our understanding of the scale and nature of it in the UK.\"\n\nMore on this story on The World at One on Radio 4 and BBC Newsnight at 22:30 on BBC Two", "Sean Boulanger says initial coin offerings give small investors a chance to invest in start-ups\n\nA growing number of tech companies are raising funds through initial coin offerings - issuing their own digital currencies for investors to buy. But the practice is completely unregulated. Is another financial scandal just around the corner?\n\nSean Boulanger, a senior community manager at a Cape Town digital agency, doesn't consider himself a serious investor.\n\nBut he came across US tech company Civic, run by fellow South African entrepreneur Vinny Lingham. It was planning to raise money in a way Mr Boulanger had never heard of before.\n\nInstead of issuing shares and floating all or part of the company on the stock market - known as an initial public offering or IPO - Civic decided to issue its own tokens, or digital currency, to help fund the identity verification platform it was developing.\n\nMr Boulanger was impressed with Civic's product and decided to invest.\n\n\"It has allowed me to jump in and invest in a start-up, which is very difficult in this country to do, especially with limited funds,\" says Mr Boulanger.\n\n\"The risk is high, but so is the reward.\"\n\nCivic raised $33m (£26m) via this initial coin offering (ICO), as it's known.\n\nCivic founder Vinny Lingham says an initial coin offering was the \"right thing to do\" for his firm\n\nThe cost of the new currency is set by the issuing company and investors hold the \"coins\" in digital wallets, hoping that their value will rise as the company flourishes.\n\nSeveral other companies developing blockchain-based applications have raised money this way, including Bancor ($153m) and Tezos ($232m) with more than $1bn being raised in total so far this year.\n\nCompanies like ICOs because they are quick, easy, and free from regulatory red tape.\n\n\"Preparing an ICO takes only weeks and can be targeted directly at the interested investors and customers rather than going through venture capitalists,\" says Michael Marcovici, a director of Cayman Islands-based Digital Developers Fund.\n\nThe Fund is currently offering tokens for sale to raise money for its own investments in crypto-currencies.\n\nBut the lack of regulatory oversight is alarming many commentators.\n\nThe US Securities and Exchange Commission recently warned investors against fake ICOs and \"pump and dump\" scams, whereby fraudsters spread rumours and false information about potential ICOs in the hope of boosting a company's share price.\n\nOnce the share price rises, the fraudsters sell, or dump, the shares at a profit.\n\nMr Boulanger says he was wary of the negative publicity surrounding scam ICOs before he invested - token launches taking place even before a viable product has been developed, for example.\n\nThe 17th Century Tulip mania was the first investment bubble. Could ICOs be the latest?\n\n\"I found out that it's really still the Wild West out there,\" he says.\n\nBut so far, at least, he doesn't regret it.\n\nHe took the plunge with Civic because he trusted Mr Lingham - a proven entrepreneur and fellow South African who acknowledges that there are risks on both sides.\n\n\"This is uncharted territory, but we feel confident that it was the right thing to do for the company,\" says Mr Lingham, who aimed to make his firm's token sale as transparent as possible to avoid any future allegations of wrongdoing.\n\n\"There are unfortunately also many scams operating in this space,\" he warns.\n\nThe worry is that ICOs are creating a classic investment bubble - similar to the Tulip mania in the 17th Century - and attracting fraudsters and hackers to this new, unregulated market.\n\nNearly 10% (about $150m) of the money invested in ICOs this year using Ethereum - the blockchain-based platform - has been stolen, according to a recent report by Chainalysis, a firm specialising in monitoring crypto-currency transactions.\n\nOne of the risks of badly managed ICOs is hackers stealing the digital currency\n\n\"There are already stories of fraudsters capitalising on this somewhat irrational exuberance over ICOs,\" says Gray Sasser of US law firm Frost Brown Todd, a blockchain specialist.\n\nHe believes that regulation is inevitable. Indeed, the SEC recently suggested ICOs should be registered in the same way as conventional investments.\n\nBut advocates like Mr Marcovici believe investors should be left to carry out their own due diligence.\n\n\"There will be attempts [to regulate the sector] that is for sure, but as a manager of a fund I must say that regulations mainly add cost to the investor and reduce the options of investors drastically,\" he says.\n\n\"There will be money lost... but this will be an important step for self-regulation of the market.\"\n\nCivic's Mr Lingham has no doubt that regulation will eventually come in.\n\n\"We're in the early days of a very new industry,\" he says. \"I'm very happy to see that places like Zug in Switzerland and Singapore are creating regulatory frameworks for token sales to ensure that they can be controlled and benefit society.\"\n\nBut Mr Sasser fears that it may take a headline-grabbing fraud to force US regulators into action, given the current US administration's antipathy towards more regulation.\n\nThe risk for firms that have pre-sold tokens before launching any underlying software, he warns, is that new regulation could raise compliance costs to such an extent that this wipes out any money already raised.\n\n\"It is only a matter of time before a disgruntled investor makes a securities fraud claim against an issuer,\" he says.\n\n\"Right now, both investors and issuers are playing without a net.\"", "Royal pythons can grow to about 150cm (5ft) but Reggie was \"a juvenile\", his rescuer said\n\nA snake that shocked a family when they discovered it in their toilet might have been on the loose in the area for about two months, it has emerged.\n\nReggie the royal python appeared when a five-year-old boy opened the lid in his family bathroom in Southend.\n\nFollowing media coverage of the snake's rescue his owner has now come forward.\n\nReggie escaped when Tim Yardley moved a few houses away and he had almost given up hope of ever finding him. On social media he apologised to his neighbours.\n\nThe harmless snake, measuring about 3ft (91cm) petrified Laura Cowell and her son when it appeared in the family's home on Wednesday.\n\nReggie had been blocking the family's toilet for several days, it transpired\n\nLocal reptile specialist Rob Yeldham, owner of Leigh-on-Sea pet shop Scales and Fangs came to the rescue, prising the python from the porcelain.\n\nHis owner recognised Reggie from the media coverage and contacted Mr Yeldham to show him photos of his missing pet.\n\n\"Snake markings are like fingerprints and unique, so comparing them to our snake I am 100% certain we've found Reggie's owner,\" Mr Yeldham said.\n\nThe snake managed to survive for about two months and is in good health\n\nReggie apparently made his bid for freedom the night his owners moved into their new home.\n\n\"During the move one of the air vents on the enclosure got dislodged and... Reggie was able to pull the air vent off his enclosure and escape his tank,\" Mr Yeldham said.\n\n\"We believe from there he made his way into the toilet system.\n\n\"He was out for about two months... before he finally made his way up into Laura [Cowell]'s toilet where her son unfortunately came face to face with him.\"\n\nThe snake is being cared for by reptile specialists\n\nAs royal pythons are harmless, \"there's no-one really to report a missing one to\" and putting it on social media can \"create panic\", Mr Yeldham said.\n\nHowever, as they are \"vulnerable to foxes and cats\" Mr Yardley had given up hope of finding him.\n\nOn social media Mr Yardley said Reggie's escape was a \"total accident\".\n\nHe thanked the rescuers, and added: \"I'm just glad he ended up in safe hands, my full apologies to the family and their little boy who found him under such circumstances\".\n\nReggie is suffering from some scale rot because of the bleach in the toilet system, but once recovered will be returned to his owner \"once we check he has a secure vivarium\", Mr Yeldham added.", "Paparazzi photographer George uses an array of disguises to photograph the rich and famous\n\nGeorge Bamby grabbed his first photograph of Coleen Rooney when she was 16-year-old Coleen McLoughlin, as the Liverpool schoolgirl was shopping.\n\n\"I got a tip-off. She was still in her school uniform, it was mental,\" says George, who takes pride in his 20 years as a paparazzi photographer.\n\nIn the wake of newspaper allegations after husband Wayne Rooney's arrest for suspected drink driving, Coleen, who is now 31, says she has \"had enough\" of \"dangerous\" paparazzi photographers - accusing them in a tweet of following her and her three children in the car.\n\n\"Following someone in a car isn't dangerous, it's what we do for a living,\" says George, although he insists he never takes pictures of celebrities with children.\n\nWhatever their methods, these freelancers' unofficial and often unflattering photos feed the showbiz news cycle. So what is life like behind the lens?\n\n\"It's like being a private detective,\" says Devon-based George, 45, who travels across the UK so he can sell celebrity photos to tabloid newspapers and celebrity magazines.\n\n\"I've got disguises - wigs, hats glasses, false beards - everything from fishing gear to jogging gear, scuba diving gear.\"\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Coleen Rooney This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nGeorge aims for anything unusual or different.\n\nHe has recently photographed Dawn French while buying French crepes, David Cameron surfing in Cornwall and Poldark actor Aiden Turner vaping in-between filming on set.\n\n\"Get a picture of David Cameron on the beach and you can sell it all over the world,\" he says.\n\nHe claims newspapers are prepared to pay thousands of pounds for a single photo, but is reluctant to reveal how much he earns. \"I make a good living,\" he says.\n\nHe admits bending the truth for a front page photo - on one occasion, he says, he asked a friend to give TV presenter Judy Finnigan a bottle of wine as a \"gift\", before snapping a picture of the celebrity.\n\n\"A magazine rang me and said, 'We think Judy's an alcoholic, get us some evidence,\" he says. \"The headline was 'Judy out of control' - there wasn't any truth in it whatsoever.\"\n\nHis methods have been the subject of a Channel 4 documentary and the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) recently cancelled his press card.\n\nBut George has little sympathy for celebrity couples like the Rooneys. \"They're public property at the end of the day,\" he says.\n\n\"Everything they do is scrutinised by the press and quite rightly so - they get paid millions and millions of pounds.\"\n\nGeorge recalls how photographers raced to be the first to snap the teenage Coleen, after the press found out she was going out with football prodigy Wayne.\n\n\"We were going round Liverpool trying to find her,\" he says. \"We just got information off people and got tips.\"\n\nWayne Rooney and Coleen, who have gained media attention since their teens\n\nThe Rooneys have kept George in business for years.\n\nA decade ago, he camped in Manchester United's training grounds, going undetected for three days, to get a picture of Wayne Rooney and his team-mate Cristiano Ronaldo.\n\nIt came shortly after the 2006 World Cup, when Ronaldo had appeared to wink after Rooney was sent off during an England v Portugal game..\n\n\"One morning the lads came out training and one of the balls landed in the bushes. John O'Shea literally picked the ball up from outside the door of my tent but didn't see me.\n\n\"I had a little camping stove, but I didn't do any cooking until the players left,\" says George, adding: \"I got the picture - £7,000.\"\n\nHe relies on celebrities' family, friends, agents and managers to give him tips - as well as his own luck.\n\nGeorge's first photo came purely by chance - when he spotted cricketer Freddie Flintoff leaving a shop in Manchester with a bag of nappies.\n\n\"He got in his car, then he blew his nose into a nappy, so I took a photo,\" he says. \"I thought, that's really good, and rang up the Daily Star and they gave me £500.\n\n\"I was doing nothing at the time, just working in a hotel as a porter carrying people's bags.\"\n\nGeorge thinks of his job as more of a hobby.\n\n\"Every day is different. It's the thrill of the chase in the celebrity world - finding out things before everyone else.\"\n\nThe story-chasing paparazzi have been known to get into scuffles with famous people, from Prince Harry to Liam Gallagher.\n\nHarry Potter actress Emma Watson claimed a photographer tried to take a photo up her skirt during her 18th birthday.\n\nMeanwhile, Buckingham Palace has asked the press to not publish paparazzi pictures of the royal children.\n\nGeorge admits the methods employed by some photographers are controversial, but he says: \"There's a difference between following someone and chasing them.\n\n\"The problem is you get loads of young kids who think 'that's a really good job', buy a camera for £15.99, jump in a car and do anything they can to get a photograph.\"\n\nActor Aidan Turner was spotted by George using a vaping device on the set of BBC One's Poldark\n\nThe job does not require qualifications - George left school by the age of 14 - but he says a thick skin and a network of contacts to supply tip-offs are essential.\n\nGeorge says he has been dragged into the back of a car by security guards \"to terrify me\", but that he never let bad experiences put him off.\n\n\"I have two rules,\" he says. \"I don't take pictures of anybody mentally unwell, and I don't take pictures of celebrities with children with them.\"\n\nThere is no code of conduct to be a paparazzo, unless a photographer joins a body such as the NUJ, although newspapers are prohibited from publishing misleading photos or pictures of people in private places without their consent.\n\nBut George thinks photographers have become less invasive than when he first began taking photos in Manchester in the late 1990s.\n\n\"We'd hide in people's gardens, wheelie bins, sheds, you could do anything you wanted,\" he says.\n\nGeorge's next job is in Manchester, where he is driving for four hours to - once again - snap Wayne Rooney.\n\n\"I got a tip-off,\" he says.\n• None Diana's embrace: The legacy she left her sons", "More than a hundred universities are calling for a rethink on the costs for poorer students in England.\n\nUniversities UK says ministers should look again at grants for living costs and interest rates for some graduates.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable told the BBC the existing system was \"politically difficult to sustain\".\n\nMinisters have defended current tuition fees of £9,250 a year as providing sustainable funding for universities and fairness for graduates.\n\nUniversities UK, which represents higher education bodies, says the government must show it is listening to students.\n\nIt says the main concern for young people is \"money in their pocket\" while they are studying.\n\nVice chancellors are meeting this week amid growing political concern that the system no longer feels fair to young people.\n\nProf Janet Beer, the new president of Universities UK, will call on ministers to look again at maintenance grants for students most in need of help with living costs.\n\nIn England, grants for living costs were scrapped last year and replaced with loans, leading to predictions that students from the poorest families would have the largest debts.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies estimated this would add up to debts of £57,000 for students from low income families.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Prof Beer said: \"We've done a poor job at explaining the good things in the system, but there are things that can be looked at again, the threshold for repayment, interest rates and maintenance grants.\"\n\nThe board of Universities UK met on Tuesday and agreed to press ministers to look again at some aspects of the overall cost of a university education.\n\nThe government has confirmed that from this autumn, a new higher interest rate of 6.1% will be levied on student tuition fee loans, calculated as RPI +3%.\n\nNow universities are calling for a rethink from ministers on the interest charges for some graduates.\n\nUniversities UK has decided to call for different thresholds for interest rates for graduates that go on to become low or middle earners.\n\nSir Vince Cable says \"we are already seeing the beginnings of a revolt\"\n\nSir Vince oversaw the introduction of £9,000 tuition fees in government as business secretary.\n\nHe still defends the principle of graduates contributing through their higher earnings to the funding of universities.\n\nBut speaking exclusively to me this week he said: \"The system is becoming politically difficult to sustain.\"\n\nThe significant vote by young people for Labour - whose policy is to replace tuition fees with direct government subsidy to universities - has shifted the political landscape.\n\nSir Vince said: \"We are already seeing the beginnings of a revolt.\"\n\nAnd he signalled that other ways of taxing graduate wealth might need to be considered to make the system fairer.\n\n\"Those of us involved in trying to create a fairer system in the past have got to be willing to reopen some of the basic questions about how the system operates. The interest fixing is bizarre, economically nonsensical.\"\n\nHe also wants to see more support for living costs for students and better help for those who go through further education.\n\nOnly the highest paid graduates are expected to pay off their tuition fee loans in full before the 30-year term expires.\n\nThe rest is written off by the government, but unlike funding universities from current spending, the final bill does not appear as part of government borrowing.\n\nJo Johnson, the minister for higher education, has argued that the fact many graduates do not repay their loans in full is not a sign of failure.\n\nIn a speech earlier in the summer, he said the sharing of costs between students and the state was \"a conscious investment in the skills base of the country, not a symptom of a broken student finance system.\"\n\nThe government has to decide within weeks whether to confirm the inflation-linked increase in fees to about £9,500 expected by universities in England for 2018/19.\n\nUniversities now rely heavily on the income from tuition fees, as the almost tripling of fees to £9,000 in 2012 coincided with the withdrawal of direct government funding.", "Wage stagnation and an ever increasing cost of living have left many people feeling poorer over the last few years.\n\nBut for some workers skills shortages mean pay has shot up. So is your job on the rise or is it time to explore the market? Try out our calculator, then scroll down to find out the jobs market's winners and losers...\n\nThere is a version of this calculator with updated data here.\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\nCalculator produced by Daniel Dunford, Alison Benjamin, Ransome Mpini, Evisa Terziu, Luke Keast and Mark Bryson. Users of the Twitter mobile app or Google AMP may need to access the BBC News App or website directly to use it.\n\nIn many parts of the UK, people don't feel richer than they did five years ago.\n\nBy May 2017, average weekly pay in the UK was 0.5% lower than the same time a year earlier after inflation was taken into account.\n\nBut there have also been significant winners. Privatisation, unionisation, skills shortages and supply and demand can all play their part in determining how pay fluctuates.\n\nHere are the jobs with the biggest average pay rises and falls over the past five years, based on official analysis of the pay data collected by HMRC.\n\nFlying high: Pay for pilots has risen by 26%\n\nPilots enjoyed an average pay rise of 26% between 2011 and 2016 - taking their average annual salary up to a cool £86,855.\n\nOne young British Airways pilot says that while he didn't become a pilot for the money, there are certainly perks of the job. He requested that his name not be included.\n\n\"The pay was not a particular draw. Ever since I was a kid I never wanted to do anything else. It's not as good as it was - in the 80s and 90s the pay was crazy - they were on the starting salary that we are on now. But it's still a good lifestyle because they pay you pretty well for how much time we spend at work.\n\n\"I would encourage anybody to do it. It's a brilliant career - not as glamorous as it once was but it's still pretty good.\"\n\nAfter the financial crisis, with some airlines close to going bust, pilots were allowed to work more hours. Typically, they are paid at a higher rate when working over their basic hours.\n\nAt the same time, demand is growing. A record number of passengers passed through UK airports in 2015, and about 600,000 new commercial airline pilots will be needed globally over the next two decades.\n\nEnergy workers have seen their average pay shoot up by 29% in five years, as a skills shortage has started to bite.\n\nAbout 80% of power engineers are due to retire within the next 15 years and the energy and utilities sector predicts 221,000 vacancies arising in the next decade alone.\n\nNick Turton from the Energy Institute says the increase in pay is to bring in fresh blood to the sector. He suggests Brexit 'is likely to become a further aggravating factor', pushing up wages further.\n\n\"We know from our most recent engagement that a majority in the sector see the availability of skilled, qualified labour as an acute concern, in the event of any restriction on freedom of movement. Many also believe this is likely to drive wage levels higher still, unless the government and industry can act to stem the contraction of an already shallow talent pool.\"\n\nPubs and bars may find it harder to recruit after Brexit\n\nIt may not fit with Al Murray's grumpy persona, but recent years have been kind to pub landlords and managers in terms of pay.\n\nDomonic Naylor managed a gastropub for several years and now recruits for a premium hospitality business.\n\nHe says there has been a \"huge increase\" in the average wage for most hospitality roles.\n\n\"As more independent pubs go under and are purchased by the industry giants they recognise that a competent manager is key to their continued success.\n\n\"Despite the fact that they are part of a larger corporation, the pub manager will drive the reputation that sees sales rise or fall. In order to attract and retain the best they are often essentially blackmailed into paying higher and higher wages.\"\n\nPay rose by an average of 29% between 2015 and October 2016, something Mr Naylor attributes to the lead up and immediate aftermath of the Brexit vote.\n\n\"The effect of Brexit is being felt across the industry already. A number of EU nationals felt, and still feel, that their futures were insecure so made the decision to head back to their home countries.\"\n\nBut the flipside is that in some jobs pay has been falling.\n\nProbation officers have been hit by the pubic sector pay cap\n\nProbation officers have seen their pay fall a whopping 20% in five years. Napo, the probation service union, says its members have been hit particularly hard by the 2010 public sector pay cap.\n\nKatie Lomas, Napo's vice chair says changes to pay increments means it now takes 23 years for a new officer to reach the next pay bracket. The pay increments officers received three times a year were reduced to one - but remained at just under 1%.\n\n\"Because of the pay freeze most probation officers have given up hope of ever seeing the top of the pay scale.\n\n\"We are seeing people leave the sector because it does not pay like it used to. It was seen as a professional job and a probation officer could have a mortgage and provide for a family on a single income but that is not the case anymore and we see colleagues struggling with day to day living costs.\"\n\nAdvertising accounts managers and creative directors have seen their pay fall\n\nTelevision shows like Mad Men play tribute to the once-glamorous world of the advertising agency. But wages for accounts managers and chief executives within the sector have fallen by 14%.\n\nOne factor could be the trend for firms to create advertising campaigns internally, rather than pay an agency.\n\nIn the US, the Association of National Advertisers found in-house agencies increased by 16% between 2008 and 2013, with cost-cutting the main reason.\n\nLaura Jordan Bambach, chief creative officer and partner at independent agency Mr. President, says big agencies haven't been nimble enough to keep up with the evolution of the sector.\n\n\"Everyone is in every sector is feeling the pinch and clients are looking to do different types of work.\n\n\"You used to use one ad agency to do everything for you but the nature of advertising has changed and the bigger agencies who can't change as fast as the industry end up with quite inflexible structures and quite a lot of overheads.\"\n\nRadiographers have also seen their average pay fall\n\nRichard Evans, chief executive of the Society of Radiographers, says the sector's 8% pay decline has to be seen in the context of stagnating NHS pay.\n\n\"We are seeing a gradual fall off in more senior people as they retire, and a slowing of promotion for others. The effect of economies having to be made in the NHS means people are not bring promoted as fast as they should be so when people leave from higher grades they are not being replaced as quickly.\n\n\"This is quite serious because you want to create circumstances in which people have ambition and want to deepen their practice.\"\n\nThis increased pressure also has knock-on effects for related professions.\n\n\"There is a national shortage of radiologists and one of the ways the service is compensating is that radiographers are taking some of the load off them, but that won't happen if we don't have the people to do it.\"\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 October 2016. 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 2016 inclusive. We excluded jobs entirely if there was no figure for 2016. 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-terms' adjustments.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This sperm whale was one of a number stranded on this beach in the Netherlands\n\nLarge solar storms, responsible for the northern lights, may have played a role in the strandings of 29 sperm whales in the North Sea early in 2016.\n\nA new study says these geomagnetic disruptions may have confused the whales' ability to navigate, diverting them into the shallow waters.\n\nTrapped and lost, the whales died on European beaches, attempting to escape.\n\nThe research has been published recently in the International Journal of Astrobiology.\n\nResearchers have been puzzled by the losses as autopsies showed that the animals were mainly well fed, young and disease-free.\n\nThe 29 strandings generated a great deal of public interest and a large number of theories among scientists.\n\nThese ranged from poisoning, to climatic changes driving prey into the North Sea which the large cetaceans followed to their doom.\n\nSperm whales live in deep, warm-to-temperate waters all around the world. Many groups live around the Azores in the eastern Atlantic.\n\nWhen they are between 10 and 15 years old, young males head north towards the polar region, attracted by the huge quantities of squid found in the colder waters.\n\nTwo sperm whales that washed up on a beach near Gibraltar Point in Skegness in January 2016\n\nTheir journey sometimes takes them up along the west coasts of the UK and Ireland and into the Norwegian sea. They normally return by the same route.\n\nBut in less than a month in early 2016, 29 sperm whales were found stranded on the coasts of Germany, the Netherlands, the UK and France.\n\nNow a team of researchers say they think they understand what happened to them.\n\nThe argue that sperm whales navigate using the Earth's geomagnetic field.\n\nRather than being uniform, the field is stronger in some places and weaker in others, and scientists believe that species learn to read these anomalies and use them for navigation in the way that humans read contours on maps.\n\nDr Klaus Vanselow from the University of Kiel, Germany, and his colleagues say that large-scale solar storms may have distorted the magnetic field and caused the whales to lose their way.\n\nTriggered by coronal mass ejections from the Sun, these storms contain large amounts of charged particles and radiation.\n\nWhen they hit the Earth's upper atmosphere, they produce the spectacular displays of the polar lights over the Arctic, however the most powerful storms can also damage communications systems and satellites.\n\nScientists already have some evidence that solar storm activity can impact the navigating abilities of birds and bees.\n\nThis map shows the 'magnetic mountain' anomaly off the coast of Norway. The whales should have followed the white arrow but the authors argue that the solar storms made the mountains invisible and the whales instead followed the red arrow to the North Sea\n\nDr Vanselow and his colleagues studied the connection between whale strandings and two major solar storms that took place at the very end of December in 2015.\n\nThese produced huge displays of the Aurora Borealis that were seen in many parts of Scotland and elsewhere.\n\nLooking specifically at the region around Shetland, the scientists found that these solar events would have caused short-term shifts in the magnetic field of up to 460km, in the area between the islands and Norway.\n\nThis could have caused sperm whales in the region to move in the wrong direction.\n\nThey also believe that sperm whales see a regular magnetic anomaly off the Norwegian coast as a \"geomagnetic mountain chain\", a kind of guardrail that prevents them from entering the North Sea.\n\nThe solar storms may have nullified this effect, rendering the mountain chain invisible and allowing the whales to swim through into the North Sea.\n\n\"Where the polar lights are seen, that's the region with the most geomagnetic disruptions on the Earth's surface,\" Dr Vanselow told BBC News.\n\n\"Sperm whales are very huge animals and swim in the free ocean so if they are disrupted by this affect, they can swim in the wrong direction for days and then correct it.\n\n\"But in the area between Scotland and Norway, if the whales swim in the wrong direction for one or two days, then it is too late for them to go back, they are trapped.\"\n\nDr Vanselow believes that his theory makes sense with the timeline of the discovery of the stranded whales up to six weeks after the storms.\n\nHe believes that because young males grow up around the Azores, an area that sees minimal impacts from solar storms, the creatures have little experience of the abrupt and powerful events that affect the poles.\n\nDr Vanselow's research is a theory that is very difficult, if not impossible, to prove.\n\nHowever, other scientists say it is plausible.\n\nThis whale was beached at Hunstanton and was one of the last to die in the stranding event in early 2016\n\n\"It would be difficult to say that 'yes this was the cause', we would be cautious in saying that,\" said Abbo Van Neer from the University of Hannover who carried out the autopsies on the 16 whales that stranded in Germany.\n\n\"But it is a valid hypothesis and a potential reason for the stranding.\"\n\nNasa has also been investigating the question of whether solar storms can affect a whole range of cetaceans around the world.\n\nA team of researchers is shortly to publish a research paper on the connection between strandings in Cape Cod and geomagnetic storms. They say the Venselow paper is \"well founded\".\n\n\"It is one potential mechanism for having animals confused, I think it's a credible theory,\" Dr Antti Pulkkinen, who is leading the Nasa project, told BBC News.\n\n\"But does their paper prove that is the case? I don't think so.\"\n\n\"Having looked at this problem from a data analysis point of view, it is not a single factor that contributes to this.\n\n\"Things need to line up from multiple different perspectives for these events to take place.\"\n\nFollow Matt on Twitter and on Facebook.", "It's a pretty place for some very hard talking by the EU's man in charge of Brexit talks.\n\nThe stately hotel the Villa d'Este, on the shores of magnificent Lake Como replete with baroque chandeliers, statues of nymphs and marble columns is not a hard sell.\n\nNo wonder former prime ministers, current ministers, US senators and European commissioners are happy to mingle under the watchful eye of the dozens of varieties of Italian police, some complete with sabres and tall plumed hats, at this high powered forum of the Italian think tank Ambrosetti - The European House.\n\nThey are the European elite - and feel their project is in remission. Over the weekend there's been torrential rain and thunder but now Lake Como's waters are only slightly choppy - a timely European metaphor.\n\nThis time last year, the subject for discussion here was the possibility of the disintegration of the EU. Brexit and Trump were feared as harbingers of nationalists taking power across Europe. It didn't happen in the Netherlands. Then it didn't happen in France. Now they are sure it won't happen in Germany this autumn and fairly confident it won't happen next spring in Italy either.\n\nThe mood could be best summed us as 'phew!' Perhaps the tone was set by one prominent guest who, in a voice full of passion, spoke of the EU as the greatest experiment in history - a club which ensured peace and prosperity.\n\nHis voice rising, with an orator's power, he said he was born in the 1970s and had known only peace. But his father was a child of the 1930s - he remembered war, remembered American soldiers bringing the new tastes of freedom and chocolate to a ravaged continent. His grandfather too had known war, and his great-grandfather, and his great-great-grand father. That was why now he said Europe was a synonym for peace.\n\nIn this telling of the story the UK had only a bit part, hardly mentioned except as one of the issues still haunting the Continent: the refugee crisis, the legacy of economic crisis, terrorism and Brexit.\n\nThis view from the lakeside goes a long way to explain the position of the conference's star turn, the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, Michel Barnier.\n\nHis purpose at the conference was, seemingly, not to rile British politicians or throw some red meat to the British press, but instead to start building a solid foundation for the EU for life after Brexit, to put the past behind it, to make it a singular earthquake not the remaking of an entire landscape.\n\nHis opening statement was not the most newsworthy but central to his purpose. He said his first principle was that the future of Europe is more important than Brexit. Far more important.\n\nMichel Barnier said he wanted to teach the British people and others what leaving the EU means\n\nIndeed that appears to be the view of most EU leaders, that Britain - having made a rather strange decision - must go now and try not to slam the door.\n\nAlthough the EU is often portrayed in the UK as a monolith run by faceless bureaucrats, actually policy is usually a fudge between the competing interests of left and right, West and East, small and large, North and South and so on.\n\nThe unity over Brexit is fairly remarkable and Mr Barnier will hold tight to his mandate to make sure it does not shatter. He's also well aware that while French and Dutch voters didn't go the whole hog, the hard right strengthened its position and those very critical of the EU consensus are in power in Poland and Hungary.\n\nHe said that any adverse impact on the UK is not a punishment in itself but a logical consequence of decisions made by the British voters and subsequently by the British government, and he intends to educate people about that.\n\nThis position has two parts. One, being out of the EU cannot be as good as being in the club. And secondly, the separate choice to leave the single market has even more consequences.\n\nOn free trade, Mr Barnier said the 60 or so such deals negotiated by the EU in the past were a result of a slow process of countries converging, coming together, with the EU.\n\nSome in the UK argue that means a free trade deal for us should be easy - as we have been converged for decades. Mr Barnier said that is not the point - the UK has deliberately chosen now to diverge after 40 years together and the EU needs to know how wide the new gap will get.\n\nDoes it imply breaching rules of the single market about workers' rights? Environmental standards? Undercutting tax costs? Will a deal for Toyota mean a break with state aid rules? He wants guarantees that won't happen.\n\nMr Barnier said he wanted to teach the British people and others what leaving the single market means, hence his reference to being a teacher, a pedagogue.\n\nIt was notable that he singled out one person by name, the leader of the Eurosceptic, right-wing Dutch Freedom Party, Geert Wilders, who wants the Netherlands to follow the UK out of the EU. He said the \"education\" was for him and those of a similar mind.\n\nDutch Euro-sceptic Geert Wilders, had some choice words for Mr Barnier\n\nI asked Mr Wilders what he made of this.\n\n\"Mr Barnier who is, of course, a person I respect, is talking a lot of nonsense,\" he said.\n\n\"I am a politician and I asked a British institution to make a survey about what would happen if the Dutch would leave the EU. They came up with a result which proved it would hurt, like it is hurting Britain in the short term, but in the long run after three or 4 years our GDP would grow by more than 10%. There are many chances so Mr Barnier will have to look in the mirror if he wants an education.\"\n\nBut Mr Barnier is probably the sort of man who only looks in the mirror with a certain sense of satisfaction.\n\nUsing the contents of their well coiffured grey heads, few in the EU leadership want a bad relationship with the UK. They want a firm foundation for a good and inevitably close alliance. But both their hearts and their heads tell them anything that encourages further fracture of a project that is still very fragile, anything that looks like suggesting leaving the EU is a primrose path rather than a road to possible perdition, is a non-starter.\n\nMichel Barnier concluded by pointing out again that he was, like Theresa May, a walker, a mountaineer used to taking one step after another, watching out for problems but always with his eyes fixed on the peaks.\n\nThe EU is determined that it will not stumble just because one member of the team is giving up on getting to the summit, particularly when it thinks that member never really believed in the sunny uplands in the first place.", "Mr Davis said any financial settlement must accord with the law and a \"spirit\" of future partnership\n\nThe differences between the UK and EU over the Brexit \"divorce bill\" remain significant, David Davis has said.\n\nThe Brexit Secretary told MPs the UK was rigorously vetting the EU's demands and the two sides had \"very different legal stances\" over what was owed.\n\nWhile overall talks were proving \"tough and at times confrontational\", he said he hoped they could be widened to open dialogue on trade after October.\n\nLabour said \"fantasy was meeting brutal reality\" in what was achievable.\n\nThe UK has said it is ready to \"intensify\" talks about the EU's exit - due to take effect in March 2019 - rather than stick to its one-week-a-month schedule.\n\nEU officials have warned over the progress of negotiations and said the UK must \"start negotiating seriously\".\n\nUpdating MPs on the most recent round of talks as Parliament returned from the summer recess, Mr Davis said \"concrete progress\" had been made over the summer in areas such as protecting the rights of British expats in the EU to access healthcare and over the future of the Irish border.\n\nCharacterising the UK's approach to the negotiations as \"much more flexible and pragmatic\" than the EU's, he said he still hoped \"if possible\" that a summit of EU leaders in October would decide to extend the talks to discuss the UK's future relationship with the EU.\n\nOn the issue of money, while the UK and the EU would honour their \"financial obligations to each other on exit\", he said the EU was trying to use the tight timetable for concluding negotiations to pressure the UK into agreeing a deal.\n\n\"It is clear that the two sides have very different legal stances,\" he said.\n\n\"(EU chief negotiator) Michel Barnier and I agreed that we do not anticipate making incremental progress on the final shape of the financial deal in every round ... it is also clear there are significant differences to be bridged in this sector.\"\n\nThe UK would not be bounced into an agreement, he added. \"Does Labour want to pay £100bn to get progress in the next month?\", he told MPs. \"I hope not. We will do this the proper way.\"\n\nEuropean Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has said the final divorce bill could be around 60bn euros (£55bn) but Mr Davis has dismissed reports the UK secretly agreed a figure of up to £50bn.\n\nBut shadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said the slow progress was \"becoming a real cause for concern\" and there would be serious consequences if talks on trade were pushed back.\n\nCritics of Brexit say the UK's assumptions are unrealistic\n\n\"Too many promises have been made about Brexit that cannot be kept\", he said. \"The Secretary of State has just said nobody was pretending that it would be easy - Mr Speaker, they were pretending it would be easy.\"\n\nFormer Conservative Chancellor Ken Clarke urged the government to remain in the single market and customs union during any Brexit transitional period, a position also supported by Labour.\n\nBut Mr Davis said that while there was consensus for the need for an implementation period to bed in the changes, the UK was seeking entirely separate but parallel arrangements on customs and trade.\n\nTory backbencher Jacob Rees-Mogg warned the EU against demanding money \"with menaces\", saying it was ridiculous for the EU to seek a \"dowry\" from a country that was a net beneficiary to its budget.\n\nThe minister's update comes as MPs prepare to debate for the first time the government's EU withdrawal bill, which will transfer existing EU legislation into domestic UK law.\n\nLabour has already announced it will vote against the bill at second reading - the first stage of its passage through the Commons - on Monday because they think it will allow ministers to \"grab powers from Parliament to slash rights at work and reduce protection for consumers and the environment\".\n\nIt has also been suggested that some pro-EU Conservative MPs could back Labour attempts to make changes to the bill.\n\nMr Davis said anyone actively opposing the bill would have to answer to their constituents, insisting that the legislation was a \"practical bill designed to protect the interests of British business and British citizens - that is what it is there for, nothing else\".\n\nOver the summer break, Labour changed its position to back the single market and customs union for a four-year transition period.\n\nLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn said his MPs \"will not allow this government to destroy parliamentary democracy by giving themselves unlimited powers\".\n\nBut, speaking in the Commons, Labour MP Kate Hoey said that while it was reasonable for details of the withdrawal bill to be scrutinised in committee, anyone voting against the principle of the legislation would be \"betraying the will\" of the people.\n\nThe Scottish National Party, the third largest party in the Commons with 35 MPs, urged Labour to work with it to oppose the EU Withdrawal Bill.\n\nThe SNP's Stephen Gethins said: \"This debate is about more than just one party or one part of the UK. It is up to parties and MPs from across these islands and the political spectrum to come together and work for a better deal and hold the Government to account.\"\n\nBrexit is scheduled to take place in March 2019, but Number 10 said it would rather have a rolling series of meetings than the current one-week-a-month talks.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ever had a date that ended like this?\n\nA woman who threw her poo out of her date's toilet window because it \"would not flush\" had to be rescued after she got stuck trying to retrieve it.\n\nThe amateur gymnast was on a first date with Bristol student Liam Smith when she \"panicked\" and threw the faeces out of the window.\n\nIt did not land in the garden, but became wedged between two non-opening windows.\n\nAfter climbing in head first after it, she became wedged.\n\nMr Smith had to call the fire service for help.\n\nThe story appeared on a crowdfunding page, set up by the University of Bristol student.\n\nIf this story yanks your chain, you might also like these:\n\nMr Smith, who is raising funds to fix his broken window, wrote that he was on a Tinder date with the woman and they went back to the shared house he lives in.\n\n\"We'd had a really nice evening,\" he said. \"We'd had a meal at a well-known chicken restaurant, had a few beers and then gone back to mine for a bottle of wine and a film.\"\n\nAfter the fire service had \"composed themselves,\" Mr Smith said they set to work freeing his date from the window\n\nHe said the woman went to the toilet and when she came back she had a \"panicked look in her eye\" and told him what she had done.\n\nHe said the toilet window opened into a narrow gap separated by another double glazed window.\n\n\"It was into this twilight zone that my date had thrown her poo,\" he said.\n\nHe went to find a hammer to smash the window, but she decided to \"climb in head first\" after the \"offending package\" and became jammed.\n\n\"I was starting to grow concerned, so I called the fire brigade and once they had composed themselves, they set to work removing her from the window.\"\n\nThe \"offending package\" was trapped between two \"non-opening\" double glazed windows\n\nAlthough the woman was rescued unharmed, Mr Smith said his bathroom window was destroyed.\n\n\"I'm not complaining, they did what they had to do,\" he said.\n\n\"Problem is, I've been quoted north of £300 to replace the window and as a postgraduate student, that is a significant chunk of my monthly budget.\"\n\nMr Smith originally set a crowdfunding target of £200, but has already raised more than £1,200.\n\nHe said he and his date had decided to split the extra cash between two charities, one supporting firefighters and another that builds and maintains flushing toilets in developing countries.\n\nUnsurprisingly, the woman does not want to be named but Mr Smith said he had seen her since and \"who knows what the future holds\".\n\n\"We had a lovely night on the second date but it's too early to say if she's the one. But we got on very very well and she's a lovely girl,\" he said.\n\n\"And we've already got the most difficult stuff out of the way first.\"\n\nAvon Fire and Rescue service confirmed it had received a call and freed a woman trapped between external and double glazing.\n\nIt also confirmed that a \"window was broken in the process\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Rebecca Brock (right) was found unresponsive in her room by hotel staff\n\nA teenager died in an Ibiza hotel room after a bag of ecstasy \"exploded\" in her stomach, an inquest heard.\n\nRebecca Brock, 18, from Nottinghamshire was found unresponsive in her room by hotel staff in September 2015, the city's coroners' court was told.\n\nSpanish police began an investigation after the amount of the drug in her system was double the fatal dose level.\n\nRebecca's mother Margarita said her daughter may have been forced to swallow the bag of drugs.\n\nRebecca's body was discovered at the Hotel Marco Polo on 28 September after she had travelled to the island for a friend's birthday.\n\nHer mother told the inquest that a medical examiner in Spain said a bag had \"exploded\" in her body.\n\nMrs Brock said her daughter was unable to swallow tablets.\n\nShe added Rebecca - who had been studying law in the Netherlands - had openly talked about experimenting with cocaine, but said she did not think she would have taken so much ecstasy in one go.\n\n\"The major crime squad were investigating rather than the police because of how she was found,\" she said.\n\n\"She wouldn't take any pills easily - I can't imagine that getting in her body at all. I can't see any other way than someone making that happen.\"\n\nMrs Brock added: \"Spanish authorities say five bags were found which were wrapped with elastic bands.\"\n\nCoroner Mairin Casey said Rebecca flew to Ibiza from the Netherlands on 22 September and was captured on CCTV checking into her hotel.\n\n\"She didn't have contact with anyone after September 23,\" she said. \"On the morning of September 28 she was tragically found deceased in the hotel room.\n\n\"Spanish authorities gave the cause of death as an adverse reaction to drugs and a ruptured body pack. The date of death has been recorded as September 26.\n\n\"Becky died of MDMA intoxication commonly known as ecstasy. There was no evidence of a form of assault.\n\n\"I find it impossible to say how a pack or packs were ingested. How these bags were in her stomach, we will never know.\"\n\nAfter the inquest, Mrs Brock said outside the court: \"There are some answers but there are also some clear gaps.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Media polls after the broadcast put Angela Merkel ahead in the run up to the 24 September vote\n\nThis was supposed to be the highlight of a lacklustre election campaign. For months German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives have enjoyed a significant lead over their nearest rival - and current coalition partner.\n\nThe TV stations prepared their viewers for an impassioned, furious debate. But those hoping for rhetorical bloody noses were disappointed. As were the viewers hoping that Martin Schulz, who is unlikely to take Mrs Merkel's crown, might at least taste victory on national TV.\n\nAngela Merkel has been in the job for 12 years, and it showed.\n\nThe chancellor is not known for her skilful oratory and she doesn't relish this kind of public debate. Nevertheless, Mrs Merkel appeared relaxed, credible and experienced, effortlessly parrying her opponent's attacks.\n\nIt was her best debate performance, according to the German news site Spiegel online. Which doesn't say much, given that she lost the first three.\n\nBut then Martin Schulz was always going to struggle to land a blow. It is tricky, for example, to attack Mrs Merkel's refugee policy when you are on record as having said that the faith in Europe that each migrant brought with them is worth more than gold.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Germany's election: What you need to know\n\nDuring the election campaign, Mr Schulz has focused on social justice; a subject to which he returned on Sunday night.\n\nHe spoke about unemployment, poverty. Mrs Merkel batted both away. Five million people were unemployed when she began her first term - the figure is now at two and a half million.\n\nAs for poverty, Mr Schulz's own party was responsible for the Harz IV welfare reforms that shape German social policy today.\n\nUnder Mr Schulz's leadership, the social democrats are promising tax cuts. But Mrs Merkel's conservatives, who have a habit of stealing the best bits of a rival campaign, are offering similar breaks.\n\nWhich left foreign policy. Mr Schulz was on bullish form. Donald Trump, he said, had brought the world to the brink of disaster several times with his tweets. It was time the world sought a solution to the North Korea crisis without President Trump, he said.\n\nAnd, as for Turkey, were he the German chancellor he would call off EU accession talks. Mr Schulz challenged Mrs Merkel to do just that.\n\nMrs Merkel - who has never wanted Turkey to become an EU member - said she had ruled out that course of action for now. Nevertheless, she said, she would speak with other EU leaders to see whether they could develop a common position on ending the talks.\n\nDramatic language, but Mrs Merkel could draw on years of crisis management. Her rather more measured language and approach appears to have appealed to viewers. Polls suggest they found her more believable and convincing.\n\nBefore the TV duel, Mr Schulz said that he was confident his performance would sway undecided voters and create momentum. It is unlikely to be in the direction he intended.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA 21-year-old fisherman has died and another is still missing after being swept off rocks into the sea in north Cornwall.\n\nThe alarm was raised at 14:35 BST on Monday when two people were reported in the water west of Treyarnon Bay.\n\nLifeguards recovered one man and he was airlifted to the Royal Cornwall Hospital, Treliske, but died on arrival.\n\nThe search for the other man has now been called off.\n\nIt had resumed at first light on Tuesday.\n\nThe two men were spotted in trouble by one of a group of three fishermen, thought to be a family of holidaymakers.\n\nThe pair were swept into water west of Treyarnon Bay, Cornwall\n\nThe Maritime & Coastguard Agency (MCA) said a \"massive search and rescue operation\" was launched on Monday.\n\nShortly before 12:00 BST the MCA said the search for the second man had been called off.\n\nRescue Centre manager James Instance described the incident as an \"unimaginable tragedy\".\n\nHe said: \"It is an unfortunately bleak and stark reminder of quite how powerful the sea is and how things can happen incredibly quickly.\"", "James Henderson has resigned as chief executive of Bell Pottinger\n\nBell Pottinger has been expelled from the UK public relations trade body for its work on a controversial contract in South Africa.\n\nIt is the first time that the Public Relations and Communications Association (PRCA) has ejected a PR firm as prominent as Bell Pottinger.\n\nPRCA director-general Francis Ingham said it was \"highly questionable\" whether the firm would survive.\n\nBell Pottinger said it \"accepts that there are lessons need to be learned\".\n\nThe PR firm's work on a campaign for Oakbay Capital, a South African company owned by the wealthy Gupta family, had \"incited racial hatred\" and was \"absolutely unthinkable\", Mr Ingham said.\n\nHe expected more clients to abandon Bell Pottinger following the sanction.\n\nSouth Africa's opposition Democratic Alliance complained to the PRCA, accusing Bell Pottinger of a \"hateful and divisive campaign to divide South Africa along the lines of race\".\n\nThe campaign emphasised the power of white-owned businesses and used the #WhiteMonopolyCapital hashtag.\n\nSouth African President Jacob Zuma has faced corruption allegations and suspicion over his ties with the Guptas. Mr Zuma and the Guptas have consistently denied all allegations.\n\nSouth African President Jacob Zuma is attending a BRICS summit in China this week\n\nChief executive James Henderson resigned ahead of the five-year expulsion from the PRCA. His departure was \"necessary, but not sufficient\", Mr Ingham said.\n\n\"Bell Pottinger has brought the PR and communications industry into disrepute with its actions, and it has received the harshest possible sanctions,\" he added.\n\nThe firm was found to have breached two clauses of the PRCA's professional charter and two clauses of its public affairs and lobbying code of conduct.\n\nThe law firm Herbert Smith Freehills was commissioned by Bell Pottinger to conduct an internal review following the Oakbay controversy.\n\nIts review, released on Monday, criticised the PR firm's senior management: \"Bell Pottinger senior management should have known that the campaign was at risk of causing offence, including on grounds of race.\n\n\"In such circumstances, BP ought to have exercised extreme care and should have closely scrutinised the creation of content for the campaign. This does not appear to have happened.\"\n\nHerbert Smith also found that certain material created by Bell Pottinger for the economic emancipation campaign \"was negative or targeted towards wealthy white South African individuals or corporates and/or was potentially racially divisive and/or potentially offensive and was created in breach of relevant ethical principles\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Bell Pottinger's founder, Lord Bell, tells Newsnight the PR firm is unlikely to survive\n\nIn a statement Bell Pottinger said it \"acknowledges the PRCA ruling, accepts that there are lessons to be learned but disputes the basis on which the ruling was made\".\n\nIt added: \"The overwhelming majority of our partners and employees played no part in the Oakbay Capital account and have not been accused of breaching the PRCA code. Many of them will now consider applying for individual membership.\n\n\"With the Herbert Smith Freehills findings made publicly available and the PRCA ruling published, the business can refocus on delivering outstanding work for our clients and looking after our people.\"\n\nBell Pottinger has already lost clients over the affair, including luxury goods company Richemont and investment firm Investec. The further reputational damage could see other clients sever their ties.\n\nOn Tuesday, Labour peer Peter Hain was due to table questions in the House of Lords asking if Bell Pottinger's actions contravened any UK trade policies.\n\nThe PR firm, founded by Lord Tim Bell, was closely associated with Margaret Thatcher and the Conservative Party in the 1980s.\n\nSpeaking on Newsnight on Monday, Lord Bell, who resigned from Bell Pottinger last year, said the PRCA report marked a \"disappointing\" day for the company.\n\nHe stood down, he told Newsnight, because it had been wrong to take on the Oakbay account. Lord Bell denied accusations he played a role in securing the business.\n\nBell Pottinger has gone on to accept contracts from many controversial clients, including former South African president FW de Klerk, when he opposed Nelson Mandela; Asma al-Assad, the wife of Syrian president Bashir al-Assad; arms manufacturer BAE Systems; and the South African athlete Oscar Pistorius after he was charged with murder.", "The British far-right group was banned last year\n\nFour serving members of the Army have been arrested under anti-terror laws on suspicion of being members of banned neo-Nazi group National Action.\n\nA fifth person - a civilian - has also been arrested on the same charge. One of the soldiers was detained by the Royal Military Police in Cyprus.\n\nThe arrests were planned and intelligence-led, and there had been no threat to public safety, police said.\n\nThe Army said it had supported the operation.\n\nFour of the men are being held at a West Midlands police station.\n\nPolice said they were a 22-year-old from Birmingham, a 32-year-old from Powys, a 24-year-old from Ipswich and a 24-year-old from Northampton.\n\nPolice are continuing to search several properties.\n\nA Ministry of Defence spokesman confirmed the man detained in Cyprus had been held at the island's British Dhekelia base before being transferred to RAF Akrotiri, from where he will be flown to the UK.\n\nAn Army spokesman said: \"We can confirm that a number of serving members of the Army have been arrested under the Terrorism Act for being associated with a proscribed far-right group.\n\n\"This is now the subject of a civilian police investigation and it would be inappropriate to comment further.\"\n\nThree of the servicemen are believed to be from the Royal Anglian Regiment.\n\nThe men are being held on suspicion of being concerned in the commission, preparation and instigation of acts of terrorism under the Terrorism Act 2000; namely on suspicion of being members of a proscribed organisation.\n\nNational Action became the first British neo-Nazi group to be banned last December after Home Secretary Amber Rudd said it was promoting violence and acts of terrorism.\n\nMembers and supporters applauded the murder of Jo Cox MP by a white supremacist - and the group had carried out a series of small, but confrontational, demonstrations in towns and cities throughout England.\n\nOne of its most notorious events saw masked members - many of them very young men - gathering outside York Minster to make Hitler salutes.\n\nSince it was banned, detectives have been carrying out more and more investigations into the group which, to all intents and purposes, has organised itself in a similar way to the banned al Muhajiroun network - the extremist Islamist youth movement.\n\nBoth have used social media to target young people, attracting them with a simplistic us-and-them message designed to make them angry.\n\nBeing a member of - or inviting support for - a proscribed organisation is a criminal offence carrying a sentence of up to 10 years in prison.\n\nThere are 71 such groups listed by the Home Office on its register.\n\nThey include a range of international and national groups, of which National Action was the first far-right group to be banned.\n\nWilliam Baldet, a co-ordinator for the government's counter-terrorism strategy known as Prevent, said about a third of the cases dealt with through the scheme were related to far right and extreme right-wing groups.\n\n\"It's a white supremacist organisation that sees the extinction of white people as a very real and likely possibility.\"\n\nThe group tweeted about the killing of Jo Cox MP\n\nNational Action describes itself as a \"National Socialist youth organisation\" and says its movement is aimed at the \"broken right-wing\".\n\nThe official register says it was established in 2013 and has branches across the UK which \"conduct provocative street demonstrations and stunts aimed at intimidating local communities\".\n\nIts online material contains extremely violent imagery and language and it condones and glorifies those who have used extreme violence for political or ideological ends, the Home Office says.\n\nThat included tweets in 2016 about the murder of Labour MP Jo Cox, who was stabbed and shot by Thomas Mair. One such tweet said there were \"only 649 MPs to go\".", "The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have been awarded 100,000 euros (£92,000) in damages after a French magazine printed topless pictures of Catherine.\n\nA French court ruled the images used by Closer - taken as the couple holidayed in Provence five years ago - had been an invasion of their privacy.\n\nThe royals will donate the funds to charity, the BBC understands.\n\nThe judge fined Closer magazine's editor and owner 45,000 euros - the maximum amount allowed.\n\nThe damages - 50,000 euros to each royal - fall short of the 1.6 million euros (£1.5m) sought by lawyers for Prince William and Catherine.\n\nLong-lens images of Catherine sunbathing on a terrace were published on the front and inside pages of the Closer publication - which is separate to the UK's Closer magazine - in 2012.\n\nPresiding judge Florence Lasserre-Jeannin also instructed regional newspaper La Provence, which printed images of the duchess in her swimwear, to pay 3,000 euros in damages during the hearing at the Tribunal de Grande Instance de Nanterre.\n\nA statement from Kensington Palace said: \"This incident was a serious breach of privacy, and their Royal Highnesses felt it essential to pursue all legal remedies.\n\n\"They wished to make the point strongly that this kind of unjustified intrusion should not happen.\"\n\nThe judgement follows the trial of six people, including photographers and the former editor of Closer, which began in May.\n\nAll six defendants were convicted of charges relating to the taking and publication of the images.\n\nThe couple had been staying at this chateau in Provence owned by Viscount David Linley, the nephew of the Queen\n\nA statement from Prince William was read at the trial in May.\n\nThe duke said: \"The clandestine way in which these photographs were taken was particularly shocking to us as it breached our privacy.\"\n\nThe invasion of privacy was \"all the more painful\" given the experience of his mother, Princess Diana, with the paparazzi, he added.\n\nThe guilty verdict was certainly not a surprise. It's almost a game these magazine play. They get the fines but they think it's worth it - they get the extra sales from the photographs they publish.\n\nWhat was interesting about this case was that the royal couple and their lawyers here were pushing for a much, much larger amount in damages. They were, in effect, saying the royal couple is different.\n\nThere was an attempt to turn this into a different kind of affair, one in which there would be almost punitive damages awarded against Closer magazine, damages that would really inhibit and deter it from doing a similar sort of thing in the future.\n\nIn the end, though the damages are substantial, they are not really out of line with similar cases in the past.\n\nThey aren't precedent-setting kind of damages which would really act as a deterrent to Closer magazine and others like it in the future.\n\nErnesto Mauri, 70, chief executive of publishing group Mondadori, which produces Closer, and Laurence Pieau, 51, editor of the magazine in France, were fined 45,000 euros each for their role in the invasion of privacy.\n\nAgency photographers Cyril Moreau and Dominique Jacovides, who had denied taking the topless photographs, were told to each pay 10,000 euros.\n\nMarc Auburtin, 57, who was La Provence's publishing director at the time, and the paper's photographer, Valerie Suau, 53, were each given suspended fines.\n\nThe duke and duchess launched their legal proceedings in 2012 and a court in Paris banned Closer from printing any further images.", "Craig says he and Fiona had a wonderful life ahead of them\n\nFive years ago Craig Stobo suddenly lost his wife and unborn daughter to a condition he knew nothing about - and he almost died himself.\n\nHis wife Fiona was a GP in Bo'ness and it was her concern at Craig's symptoms that led him to seek medical help.\n\nFiona, who was 35 weeks pregnant with their second child, phoned him as she was on the way for an antenatal scan.\n\nCraig was meant to have attended the scan but he told her he was feeling unwell with a severe headache and nausea.\n\nHis doctor wife was concerned that it did not sound like a cold or flu and said he needed to get checked out quickly.\n\nWhen he did, Craig was diagnosed with sepsis and immediately treated with intravenous antibiotics.\n\nCraig's wife Fiona Agnew was a GP and he says she saved his life\n\nHowever the next day, while he was still in hospital in Edinburgh he learned that 38-year-old Fiona had also been taken ill with the same condition.\n\nBoth Craig and Fiona developed septic shock but, possibly because she was pregnant, doctors could not save her.\n\nCraig, who is now 47, says: \"We lost our daughter, she was stillborn.\n\n\"She was literally the first part of Fiona's system to shut down.\n\n\"The medics then battled for a further 24 hours to try to save Fiona but without success.\"\n\nThe cause of the illness was never established.\n\nCraig says he was \"bewildered\" by what had happened.\n\nFiona was just 38 when she died\n\n\"Fiona was perfectly fit and healthy, as was I, and it happened so quickly that it was profoundly shocking and devastating,\" he says.\n\nIt is estimated Sepsis kills about 44,000 people every year in the UK - more than breast, bowel and prostate cancer combined.\n\nIt is caused when the body's immune system overreacts to infection.\n\nIn Scotland, the government quotes the figure of 3,500 deaths although statisticians admit it is an estimate and they do not know the full picture.\n\nExperts agree that the key to lower mortality rates is early diagnosis and treatment within an hour if possible.\n\nFor each hour that passes the chances of survival lower considerably.\n\nCraig is now the chairman and trustee of the Fiona Elizabeth Agnew Trust (FEAT), the Scottish sepsis charity he set up in his wife's memory.\n\nUnlike his wife, Craig's background was in tax law so he says that he had only vaguely heard of blood poisoning and septicaemia before that day in 2012.\n\n\"I started asking a lot of questions of the medics to try to understand it,\" he says\n\n\"I heard about the figures for the number of people who were affected and I was horrified.\n\n\"I had never heard of this and I did not think that I was completely ignored.\n\n\"I thought 'how many other people have not heard of it?'.\n\n\"'How can people not have heard about something that affects so many people and is so devastating and so indiscriminate?'\"\n\nCraig Stobo with his wife Fiona and son Robert at Christmas 2010\n\nThe charity he set up has been campaigning to raise public awareness of the disease.\n\nHe says: \"I am extremely fortunate to be here because I was diagnosed and treated very quickly.\n\n\"I owe my life to Fiona. She was a good doctor and a good mum.\n\n\"She was only 38. We had a lovely life together, we were very lucky and we had it all ahead of us.\n\n\"It all changed over the course of 62 hours and life literally had to be started again.\"\n\nCraig's son Robert was just two when his mother died.\n\nHe says he has been honest with him at all times about what happened to his mother and sister.\n\n\"Frequently it was not easy, particularly in the very early stages,\" Craig says.\n\n\"It has been hard and there have been many long, dark nights of the soul but so far so good.\n\n\"He is a happy and active wee chap.\n\n\"We still talk about his mum. He knows he had a sister and we are completely open about that and I think it is the best way to be.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "An estimated 250,000 nationals of other EU countries came to the UK last year\n\nProposals aimed at cutting the numbers of low-skilled migrants from Europe following Brexit have been disclosed in a leaked Home Office paper.\n\nThe document, obtained by The Guardian, suggests free movement will end upon exit in March 2019 and the UK will adopt a \"more selective approach\" based on the UK's economic and social needs.\n\nAccess to labour in industries without shortages may be curbed, it suggests.\n\nThe BBC understands the document has not been signed off by ministers.\n\nA spokesman for the government said it did not comment on \"leaked draft\" documents.\n\nThey said ministers would be setting out their \"initial proposals\" for a new immigration system \"which takes back control of the UK's borders\" later in the autumn.\n\nDowning Street has long maintained that the current right of EU citizens to live and work in the UK will come to an end on the day that the UK leaves the 28-member bloc.\n\nIt is also likely that there will be an implementation period to minimise disruption to businesses and to the public services, many of which are heavily reliant on European labour.\n\nHowever, details of the likely shape of the UK's post-Brexit immigration policy remain hazy with a proposed immigration bill, one of eight pieces of Brexit-related legislation, yet to be published.\n\nThe Home Office document obtained by the Guardian, entitled the Border, Immigration and Citizenship System After the UK Leaves the EU, is marked extremely sensitive and dated August 2017.\n\nAmong the ideas set out, the 82-page document suggests low-skilled migrants would be offered residency for a maximum of two years while those in \"high-skilled occupations\" would be granted permits to work for a longer period of three to five years.\n\nEmployers would be encouraged to focus recruitment on \"resident labour\" and EU nationals could be required to seek permission before taking up a job. While there would be no new border checks on entering the country, all EU citizens will be required to show a passport.\n\n\"The government will take a view on the economic and social needs of the country as regards EU migration, rather than leaving this decision entirely to those wishing to come here and employers,\" it states.\n\nIt also floats the idea of ending the right to settle in Britain for most European migrants and placing new restrictions on their rights to bring in family members.\n\nThe new measures, it indicates, would only come fully into force at the end of a transition period, which could last up to three years. It is understood that the document is a draft, unfinished version of an upcoming White Paper circulated among senior officials and that there have been at least five earlier versions.\n\nA leading campaigner for tougher migration controls said the document's thinking was \"excellent news\".\n\n\"Uncontrolled migration from the EU simply cannot be allowed to continue,\" said Lord Green, chairman of Migration Watch. \"These proposals rightly focus on low-skilled migration and by doing so could reduce net migration from the EU by 100,000 a year over time.\n\n\"This would be an important step to achieving the government's immigration target.\"\n\nUKIP also welcomed the proposals, saying they should be implemented \"without fudging\" and prioritise the needs of communities up and down the country as well as those of workers and businesses.\n\nHowever, Labour MP Yvette Cooper said the document appeared to fly in the face of Home Secretary Amber Rudd's commitment earlier this summer to consult on a post-Brexit immigration system.\n\n\"The process for developing its policy seems to be completely confused. What assessment has been done of the impact or the interrelationship between immigration proposals and any trade or single market deal?\"\n\nThe TUC said the \"back of the envelope plans\" would \"create an underground economy, encouraging bad bosses to exploit migrants and undercut decent employers offering good jobs\".\n\nThe government has said it is sticking by its target of cutting levels of net migration from about 250,000 last year to less than 100,000 despite calls from the opposition and some Conservative MPs for it to be dropped.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alison Strand told the BBC about the \"dangerous conditions\" in Anguilla\n\nHurricane Irma, the most powerful Atlantic storm in a decade, has hit the Caribbean, with officials warning of its \"potentially catastrophic\" effects.\n\nThe category five hurricane, the highest possible level, has sustained wind speeds reaching 300km/h (185mph).\n\nIt first hit Antigua and Barbuda, before moving on to Saint Barthelemy and Saint Martin.\n\nIt is then expected to move on towards Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.\n\nIn the US, Florida's Key West area has ordered a mandatory evacuation.\n\nThe French government, which runs Saint Barthélemy, more commonly known as St Barts, and Saint Martin, has said it is worried about thousands of people who have refused to seek shelter.\n\nMajor flooding has been caused in their low-lying areas, said the French weather office.\n\nThe eye of the storm first hit Barbuda, which has a population of around 2,000 people, at about 02:00 local time (06:00 GMT).\n\nWinds gusted at 250km/h, before the recording equipment broke and no further readings were received.\n\n\"Early indications seem to show that Antigua has not been too badly hit, but we cannot say the same for Barbuda as we don't yet know,\" reported Antigua's ABS radio.\n\nThe Antigua Observer said it had received initial reports of roofs being blown off on both islands.\n\nThere have also been concerns for St Kitts and Nevis. President Timothy Harris said on Twitter: \"All of our national security agencies have been fully mobilised and are on the highest alert.\"\n\nThousands of people have been evacuated from at-risk areas across the Caribbean. Residents have flocked to shops for food, water, and emergency supplies.\n\nAirports have closed on several islands, which are popular holiday destinations, and authorities have urged people to go to public shelters.\n\nIn Florida, people have rushed to buy supplies\n\nThe US National Hurricane Centre (NHC) said Irma was moving at a speed of 24km/h (15mph), saying that the storm was \"potentially catastrophic\".\n\nThere are hurricane warnings for:\n\nThe islands' populations range from about 2,000 each on Barbuda, Saba and Culebra, to 3.5 million in Puerto Rico.\n\nHaiti, the Turks and Caicos Islands and the south-eastern Bahamas are on hurricane watch.\n\n\"No rest for the weary!\" tweeted US President Trump, in reference to emergency operations being undertaken again in the country, less than two weeks after Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas.\n\nMr Trump has declared a state of emergency for Florida, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, mobilising federal disaster relief efforts for those areas.\n\nIn Florida's Key West, visitors will be required to leave on Wednesday morning, with residents due to follow in the evening.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 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\n\"We're emphatically telling people you must evacuate. You cannot afford to stay on an island with a category five hurricane coming at you,\" said Martin Senterfitt, the emergency operations centre director in Monroe County in Florida.\n\nIn Puerto Rico, a 75-year-old man died during preparations for the storm.\n\nPuerto Rican Governor Ricardo Rossello said the situation on the island was \"something without precedent\", as 460 emergency shelters were prepared, according to Reuters news agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe ordered police and National Guard troops to help evacuate flood-prone areas in the territory's north and east.\n\nThe Bahamas is also launching the \"largest evacuation in its history\", according to Prime Minister Hubert Minnis. Plans have been made to fly residents from the south-east islands to the safer capital, Nassau, on Wednesday.\n\nIn San Juan, Puerto Rico, people have been preparing their homes and businesses\n\nAlison Strand, originally from Staffordshire in the UK, is on the island of Anguilla. She said her family had spent several hours fortifying her home on the coast.\n\n\"Our house is 5m (15ft) above sea level and we're expecting 8m swells, so we're just crossing our fingers,\" she said. \"We are expecting to lose our wooden roof.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Weather's Ben Rich has the latest on dangerous Hurricane Irma\n\nCarolyne Coleby, in Montserrat, said: \"Irma is about to hit us full force.\"\n\n\"I am a goat farmer and have to consider my livestock. Last night I moved 20 goats to a backhouse at a hostel I manage which is on slightly higher ground,\" she said.\n\n\"I am hoping the galvanised roof of the backhouse doesn't fly off. I can't go to the shelter because I can't leave my animals.\n\nSir Richard Branson shared pictures of his preparation on his private Necker Island\n\nParts of Texas and Louisiana are dealing with the damage done by Hurricane Harvey in late August. But it is not yet clear what impact Hurricane Irma might have on the US mainland.\n\nThe mainland has not been hit by two category four hurricanes in one season since the storms were first recorded in 1851.\n\nTexan officials told the Associated Press that 60 people are dead, or are feared dead, from Hurricane Harvey. Not all of these are confirmed.\n\nA string of US stars, including Beyoncé, George Clooney and Oprah Winfrey, have reportedly signed up to take part in a fundraising telethon for victims. Hurricane Harvey Relief will air on 12 September.\n\nMeanwhile, a third tropical storm, Jose, has formed further out in the Atlantic behind Irma, and is expected to become a hurricane by later on Wednesday, according to the US National Hurricane Center.\n\nAre you in the region? Are you a holidaymaker unable to get a flight home or a resident who has been preparing for Hurricane Irma? If it is safe for you to do so, share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kim Wall's death: What we know so far\n\nSwedish journalist Kim Wall died by accident after being hit by a hatch cover on board a submarine, the Danish owner of the vessel has told a court.\n\nPeter Madsen said he had been holding the heavy hatch - but then lost his foothold and the hatch shut.\n\nMr Madsen, 46, then said he had tried to bury Ms Wall, who was 30, at sea and intended to commit suicide.\n\nHe has been charged with killing Ms Wall, whose headless torso was found on 23 August in waters off Denmark.\n\nShe was last seen alive on 10 August as she departed with Mr Madsen on his home-made submarine to interview the inventor.\n\nProsecutors have accused Mr Madsen of murdering Ms Wall and mutilating her body. He denies this.\n\nTestifying in Copenhagen's court on Tuesday, Mr Madsen said Ms Wall was bleeding intensely after being hit by the 70kg (154lb) hatch.\n\n\"There was a pool of blood where she had landed.\"\n\n\"In the shock I was in, it was the right thing to do,\" he said, answering why he threw the journalist overboard.\n\nDanish police believe Mr Madsen deliberately sank the 40-tonne submarine hours after the search for Ms Wall began on 11 August.\n\nHer partner had reported that she had not returned from the trip.\n\nMr Madsen was rescued from waters between Denmark and Sweden.\n\nLocal authorities are continuing their search for the rest of Ms Wall's remains, hoping that this will provide clues about the cause of her death.", "Police said there were \"serious concerns\" of retaliation and put extra officers on the streets\n\nA 14-year-old boy is in a critical condition in hospital and a 17-year-old has suffered \"life-changing\" injuries in a double shooting in east London.\n\nPolice were called on Monday afternoon to Moore Walk, Forest Gate, and found the two teenagers with gunshot wounds.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said there were \"serious concerns\" of retaliation and put extra officers on the streets.\n\nInquiries are continuing. No arrests have been made. The Met said the boys were taken to an east London hospital.\n\nCh Supt Ade Adelekan said: \"Sadly today two young men have been shot on our streets, one of whom remains critically ill in hospital.\n\n\"We are only too well aware that this incident comes after a number of shootings and firearms discharges that are blighting our communities and seriously injuring our young men.\n\n\"Tonight [Monday] there will be extra officers on duty throughout our borough, and due to my serious concerns that others may retaliate in response to today's incident, I will be authorising my officers to use stop and search throughout the borough under Section 60.\"\n\nMet Police figures published in April revealed a 42% spike in gun offences in the capital in the last year - up to 2,544 compared with 1,793 between April 2015 and 2016.\n\nCh Supt Adelekan added: \"Violence has no place on our streets, and we have already made four arrests in connection with recent firearms offences.\n\n\"I want the community of Newham to help us tackle this - if you have any information about people carrying or supplying firearms please let us know and we will take action.\"\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\nHurricane Irma has been upgraded to a category five - the highest category - making it \"extremely dangerous\" as it crosses the Caribbean.\n\nIrma now has sustained winds of 290km/h (180mph), making it the most powerful the Atlantic has seen in over a decade.\n\nIt is projected to bring storm surges, life-threatening winds and torrential rainfall to the Leeward Islands.\n\nFlorida, where it is due to arrive as a category four hurricane on Sunday, has declared a state of emergency.\n\nResidents in Texas and Louisiana are still reeling from the effects of Hurricane Harvey, which struck as a category four storm in late August, causing heavy rain and destroying thousands of homes.\n\nHowever the National Hurricane Center (NHC) has warned that it is too early to forecast Irma's exact path or effects on the continental US.\n\nThe US mainland has not been hit by two category four hurricanes in one hurricane season, since the storms were first recorded in 1851.\n\nIrma, which has been moving at a speed of 22km/h (14mph), is set to reach the Leeward Islands, east of Puerto Rico, within the next 24 hours, the centre added.\n\nIt issued a hurricane warning for the following islands:\n\nGuadeloupe and the Dominican Republic, which borders Haiti, are on hurricane watch.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nRainfall of up to 30cm (12in) may occur in some northern areas and water levels may rise by up to 3.8m (12ft) above normal levels, the NHC said.\n\nPuerto Rico has declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard.\n\nGovernor Ricardo Rossello described the hurricane as \"something without precedent\" and announced the closure of schools on Tuesday.\n\nThe island has a population of 3.4 million people, and emergency shelters able to house up to 62,000 people have been opened.\n\nLong queues of people formed in shops, with residents stocking up on water, food, batteries, generators and other supplies.\n\nResidents of Puerto Rico have been stocking water and other supplies\n\nOn St Martin, a woman in a supermarket told AFP news agency: \"I [am] getting some stuff for the hurricane, because the hurricane is coming direct on us. They say that it's coming on us so then I start to pick up truly the things what I need.\"\n\nA manager at the supermarket said people had been stocking up on \"lots of canned food, cooked dishes, canned fish, paper towels, cleaning products, cakes, lots of cakes, and water, of course.\"\n\nIn Florida, Governor Rick Scott said he had been assured by US President Donald Trump that \"the full resources of the federal government\" would be made available as the state prepared for the storm.\n\nFlorida Keys officials have ordered a pre-emptive mandatory evacuation of visitors to the islands will start Wednesday, ahead of the projected storm.\n\nA third tropical storm, Jose, has formed further out in the Atlantic behind Irma, and is expected to become a hurricane later on in the week.\n\nAre you in the region? Are you a holidaymaker unable to get a flight home or a resident who has been preparing for Hurricane Irma? If it is safe for you to do so, share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "A woman who falsely claimed her husband died in the Grenfell Tower fire, claiming £10,000 in funds allocated for survivors, has appeared in court.\n\nJoyce Msokeri, 46, of Ambleside Gardens, Sutton, south London, is charged with seven counts of fraud.\n\nIt is alleged she also falsely claimed to have a child in intensive care following the blaze.\n\nWestminster Magistrates' Court heard Ms Msokeri made substantial claims on the basis she was a survivor of the fire.\n\nThe charges allege she made false representations to the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea for money and accommodation at the Hilton hotel and to charities in order to obtain clothing and food.\n\nShe is also alleged to have made false representations to HMRC and a GP surgery in Kensington and Chelsea.\n\nSending the case to crown court, District Judge Elizabeth Roscoe said: \"It is a substantial amount of money.\n\n\"It is in circumstances where it is akin to a fraud on a vulnerable person who has been injured.\n\n\"It is similar to that in that of course there is a finite pot and the more that is taken out illegally, the less there is for those that deserve it.\"\n\nRoyal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea said it could not talk about individual cases, especially those under investigation, but whenever it suspected fraud it involved the police.\n\n\"If fraud on any level has been committed this would be appalling as it could directly, and negatively, impact [on] the council's efforts to give crucial help and support to the victims and survivors of the fire,\" a spokesman said.\n\nMs Msokeri, who was arrested on 26 July, is due to next appear in custody at Southwark Crown Court on 3 October.", "There are 66 pages in the European Withdrawal Bill, the passage of which will be arguably this fragile government's hardest job, in a fractious political universe with a weakened prime minister. The bill comes back to the Commons this Thursday, with the first votes next week.\n\nOpposition MPs could field a forest of hostile amendments, proposed changes to the complicated legislation, some frankly to make political points, some to try to make reasonable changes to the legislation.\n\nOne minister, conceding the government will have to budge in some areas, says some of their opponents may as well \"be tabling amendments for sunshine\" and the task for government will be to work out \"what is grandstanding\" and where their critics have a valid point.\n\nThe task would be difficult in any political climate, but harder, when the prime minister can't be confident of cheery enthusiasm from her backbenches.\n\nThere are 50 Tory MPs who have given their names to those gathering a list, who I'm told are \"on a spectrum\", ranging from a small number who would demand an immediate departure, to those who want the PM to make clear she won't go into the next election or to set out a departure timetable.\n\nI'm told there are cabinet ministers, including those who fancy their chances as taking over one day, who have taken part in discussions around these plans.\n\nTheresa May's allies, in contrast, believe that having made it through the summer, each day she stays in office makes her stronger, and potentially, if all goes according to plan, could see her achieve her claim of being in it for the long term, remarks made to reporters in Japan last week that stirred the leadership rumblings once more.\n\nOne of the rows she'll have to contend with in the coming weeks is a Brexit bill that could end up edging towards £50bn, an amount it was reported Theresa May had already agreed, an amount that would make some Brexiteers sick to their stomachs. That story was flatly denied by the brexit secretary over the weekend, but sources close to the talks have previously acknowledged the territory of the costs could be well north of £30bn, even if there is no final agreement yet.\n\nPolitically, ministers believe it would be more palatable, and more realistic for the bill to be presented as a series of prices for particular costs that are individually politically acceptable, for example £1bn to stay a member of a particular scientific research organisation, or the Erasmus programme for students.\n\nA row over money is likely, but it's not in the interest of the UK to settle it any time soon, as one cabinet minister says \"money is our leverage\".\n\nIt's 47 days since the House of Commons finished its business for the summer, and MPs scattered to their constituency offices, summer fetes, back gardens or sun loungers. It has, one government source says, \"been a proper recess\", where most politics has been on pause.\n\nAfter a 12-month period of tumult, that's been reflected by the poll ratings of the two main parties, the average Conservative and Labour poll ratings have seen Labour on average on 42%, and the Tories on 41%.\n\nLabour consistently only just ahead, a margin that neither side would trust, that contributes to an edginess in the air as politics gets back down to work.\n\nWhile many MPs and ministers have been glad of a break before getting stuck into the 28 clauses and schedules of the Withdrawal Bill that will return this week, some parts of government have been busy.\n\nThe Department for Exiting the EU and the EU Commission have been carrying on their Brexit talks throughout the normally quiet summer pause, and after months of criticism that they have been slack, the government has produced a flurry of seven position and future partnership papers, on their hopes and aspirations for the Brexit negotiations, with more expected in the coming days.\n\nThey have been pored over, and greeted with inevitable disappointment in Brussels, but the government has been keen to show, at last, their critics would say, a sense of momentum in the talks. This hasn't suddenly revealed chapter and verse on the world outside the EU, but they do represent a significant administrative step along this bumpy road.\n\nOn that road, the government needs to keep happy the 10 DUP MPs who agreed to lend them their backing in a loose form of government deal to give them support on Brexit and their Budgets.\n\nTheresa May needs them on side, because having carelessly mislaid her majority at the election, it only takes six rebels, yes, you read that right, six Tory MPs, willing to vote against the government on any one issue to humble them in defeat.\n\nA number that leads one of her critics to say simply, ''she is only there now because she serves at the pleasure of the '22'\" - the 1922, that's the group that represents Tory MPs.\n\nAnother one of her Tory detractors says that means two big mistakes, and she is out, \"a first one would destabilise her, a second would kill her off\". But there are plenty of MPs on the Tory benches who just want to get their heads down at the start of this new term.\n\nOne cabinet minister says \"she's safe for now, the public expects us to behave\".\n\nSome junior ministers who fancy their own chances for later, it's said, want to get through the autumn, through the initial stages of the Brexit legislation, to at least the middle of next year before rattling any cages that might lead to a leadership fight.\n\nFinally, helping the government settle down, and Theresa May stay in place, is the reality that there is zero desire at the moment on the Tory benches for another general election.\n\nThey are human beings after all, like the rest of us, who want to keep their jobs, who just don't want to take the risk. The fear of another election and a possible Labour victory is helping to keep the lid on Tory infighting.\n\nBut the weeks ahead are likely to be fractious and testing. However capable Theresa May's rebooted Number 10 team is, however profound her new-found determination, hindering a smooth re-entry for the prime minister to this new term is the fact this government has zero experience of how to go about its biggest task, taking us out of the European Union.\n\nFor good or ill, this is a complicated task full of risk and uncertainty as well as opportunity, and it's never been done before. The prime minister has a lot to do to prove even to her own party that she strong enough to get it done.", "Officers said the groups had dispersed by the time they arrived at the scene on Rosebery Road, Hounslow\n\nA man has been stabbed to death in a fight between two groups in west London, Scotland Yard had said.\n\nThe 29-year-old died just after 16:15 BST on Monday at the scene in Rosebery Road, Hounslow.\n\nThe Metropolitan Police said the groups had dispersed by the time officers arrived, but they found the victim suffering from a stab wound.\n\nThe air ambulance was called and the man was treated by paramedics, but was pronounced dead at the scene.\n\nThe Met has launched a murder investigation and said inquiries are continuing. No arrests have been made.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Maggie Hughes was a member of between 25 and 30 online raffle groups\n\nThe number of raffle groups on Facebook has grown rapidly over the last few years, but so have the number of people being scammed.\n\n\"It just makes me so angry. [The scammers] keep changing their names and Facebook just let them do it,\" says Maggie Hughes, who says at one stage she was a member of between 25 and 30 online raffle groups on the social media site.\n\nAnyone can set up a raffle group on Facebook and then begin inviting contacts to join, although Facebook says it shuts down illegal raffle pages - those not licensed by the Gambling Commission - as soon as they are reported.\n\nThe page owners then choose a prize, and sell tickets - using PayPal or a bank transfer.\n\nFrom then on, it works just like a normal raffle. A number is drawn at random and the winner earns a prize.\n\nAt least that is how it should work.\n\nMaggie became suspicious of one woman online when she says she won some prizes.\n\n\"I played her tombola [raffle] and I have not received any prizes from her at all,\" she says.\n\nMaggie is disabled and her husband has dementia. She says the £40 to £50 she estimates she has lost is a lot of money to her.\n\n\"It's very hard, it just upsets me. It makes me angry that this girl is getting away with it.\"\n\nThe woman Maggie says she dealt with, Lauren Brattle, appears to have a number of online aliases.\n\nHer raffles were among the many mentioned on a Facebook page that raises awareness of possible scams.\n\nMs Brattle says the allegations against her are false and she has not done anything wrong.\n\nLiz Hodgson says the scamming problem is \"huge\"\n\nThe page is moderated by Liz Hodgson, who deals with problem raffles run all over the country.\n\n\"[The problem] is huge,\" she says. \"It's so big at the moment. Everybody's creating their own groups.\n\n\"There are daily posts in the 10s, of people having issues with admins on these raffle groups.\n\n\"They're not drawing them correctly, the [players] aren't receiving their prizes.\"\n\nTracie Morgans, a member of Liz's online page, said she knew of one woman who \"walked away with £400 worth of people's money\" without giving out prizes.\n\n\"She was boasting that she was taking her kids on holiday,\" she adds, having been scammed twice in the past herself.\n\n\"There are so many nasty, selfish, greedy, money-hungry idiots,\" says Karen Evans, also a member of Liz's page. \"I didn't realise how rotten the world was.\"\n\nKaren says she has also been cheated out of money on a raffle group.\n\n\"I played a page and I paid for the raffle and all of a sudden the page wasn't there any more. I tried to inbox the girl and she blocked me.\"\n\nThe Gambling Commission, which regulates all gambling activities in the UK, says complaints about social media raffles have been greatly on the rise in recent years.\n\nThe prizes on offer, it adds, have included a shotgun, a monkey and a pregnant spaniel.\n\nIn order to be legal, online raffles must be licensed by the Gambling Commission.\n\nFacebook says it shuts down raffle pages as soon as they are reported and found to be illegal, and the Gambling Commission says almost all of the raffle groups reported to them are now no longer active.\n\nFor some users, the possibility of being scammed is not the only issue associated with the raffle pages.\n\nIt is also the fact they allow people to freely gamble online.\n\nLiz says she \"would absolutely say people are becoming addicted\".\n\n\"Quite a lot of the posts on the scammers group are where people have placed their last £50 or £60 on one raffle.\n\n\"And they've got children and they're spending their children's money.\"\n\nSome raffle groups say they are raising money for charity.\n\nThe BBC understands Ms Brattle - the woman Maggie says scammed her - had previously claimed her raffles made money for the Sick Person's Trust, but the charity says it has not received any money from her.\n\nThe police told us they are investigating a complaint.\n\n\"It's absolutely disgusting that this charity hasn't received a penny,\" explains Maggie.\n\nBut the wider question surrounding raffle groups is - with so many popping up daily - how to stop them.\n\nWatch the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme on weekdays between 09:00 and 11:00 on BBC Two and the BBC News Channel.", "The nuclear test that North Korea conducted on Sunday is thought to be the biggest ever conducted by Pyongyang. But what does this really mean and how will we find out more about the bomb? Physicist Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress explains.\n\nA nuclear explosion is an extremely large explosion, so large that it shakes the ground just as an earthquake does and is detected by seismic sensors thousands of kilometres away.\n\nThe magnitude of the shaking is a measure of the immense energy released by the event. A parameter known as the body-wave magnitude (Mb) is used.\n\nThe US hydrogen bomb explosion in 1952 was the first test of a thermonuclear device\n\nThis is not a linear scale. A magnitude-6 event, for example, releases 30 times more energy than one of magnitude 5.\n\nIn all, 34 stations that are part of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organisation's (CTBTO) vast seismic monitoring network detected North Korea's explosion and it was so intense that it actually \"saturated\" the detectors. In other words for this monitoring network, which is sensitive to extremely small nuclear test explosions, this test was so high it essentially went off scale.\n\nThere have been widely differing calculations of the power of this blast, ranging from 50-150 kilotonnes. The force is measured in kilotonnes to indicate what would happen if one kilotonne of TNT was exploded.\n\nThe yields predicted so far vary because it depends on the precise formula used: which scaling relation of the yield as a function of body wave magnitude is used - and that depends on a variety of factors such as the depth and type of rock where the test was conducted, for example.\n\nA recent scaling equation takes into account the depth at which an explosion took place. This was developed by Miao Zhang and Lianxing Wen from the University of Science and Technology of China and Stony Brook and is appropriate for North Korea.\n\nIt means that we can begin to start guessing how powerful the blast would have been at various depths and this is what it looks like in a graph.\n\nModelling of the test site has led analysts to guess that blasts take place at depths as deep as 600 to 900 metres (1968-2952ft). If that is true, the yield is likely to have been at least 370 kilotonnes, which is vastly more than most estimates.\n\nWhat this graph shows is that small differences in depth can make vast differences in yield or power. Compare this with the destructive force of Hiroshima: that came in at 15 kilotonnes.\n\nThis new estimate is consistent with the yield of a \"two-stage\" thermonuclear device, which is the type of bomb that North Korea claims that they have developed.\n\nBut more work will need to be done to determine the depth at which this test was conducted to reach consensus on the yield - that is the power - of the bomb.\n\nFerenc Dalnoki-Veress is scientist in residence at the Middlebury Institute of International studies at Monterey.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Helicopters were used to lift people off the Jurassic Skyline Tower\n\nFourteen people have been winched to safety after becoming trapped up a 53m-high (174ft) viewing tower in Dorset.\n\nThirteen visitors, including an 11-week-old baby, and a member of staff were rescued from Weymouth's Jurassic Skyline tower by coastguard helicopter.\n\nThe rescue operation began after fire crews were called at about 16:15 BST and ascended the tower.\n\nThe helicopter arrived at around 19:30, when other rescue options were ruled out due to bad weather.\n\nIt refuelled in Bournemouth at 21:00, before returning to winch those who remained in the tower to safety.\n\nThe rescue was completed at about 22:10 and the helicopter was flown back to its base at Lee-on-the-Solent.\n\nDorset Fire and Rescue said: \"Arrangements have been made to provide them with a safe place to rest and recover once returned to the ground.\"\n\nThe firefighters in the tower were getting themselves out of the building.\n\nThe operator of the tower, which gives 360-degree views of the coastline, Jurassic Skyline, said on Facebook the problem was down to \"technical difficulties\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This photograph captured by a member of the public has been pixellated\n\nA council has been left red-faced after pornographic images appeared on an electronic information sign.\n\nThe screen, in Telford, Shropshire, which usually shows visitors local information, was photographed on Monday showing an adult website.\n\nTelford and Wrekin Council said it immediately alerted police and had stopped internet access to its signs.\n\nThe picture was initially shared with local news website Telford Live and has since been widely shared.\n\nIt is not clear if someone hacked into the council website to display the images.\n\nThe Southwater development is made up of bars and restaurants and a cinema\n\nThe sign is at the town's multi-million pound Southwater development that includes a mix of bars, restaurants and entertainment complexes, along with Southwater One, home to a new state-of the-art library, and council offices.\n\nIn a statement the council said: \"We are carrying out a full investigation into this complaint and have referred it to West Mercia Police and the cyber-crime desk.\n\n\"Immediately the issue was raised with us on Monday afternoon, we disabled internet connectivity to all totems in Southwater, which were displaying correct content at the time.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The duke thanked well-wishers at a conference in Oxford\n\nThe Duchess of Cambridge has had an \"anxious\" start to her pregnancy but is well, the Duke of Cambridge has said.\n\nIn his first appearance since Monday's announcement, Prince William said \"there was not much sleep going on\" but the pregnancy was \"very good news\".\n\nCatherine, 35, is suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum, or severe morning sickness, and had to pull out of an engagement on Monday.\n\nThe duke thanked well-wishers at a conference in Oxford on Tuesday.\n\nDuring a visit to the National Mental Health and Policing Conference, he said: \"We need Catherine to get over this first bit and then we can start celebrating.\n\n\"It's always a bit anxious to start with, but she's well.\"\n\nHe added: \"There's not much sleep going on at the moment.\"\n\nThe duke and duchess have a son, George, who is four, and a daughter, Charlotte, aged two.\n\nWith the previous two pregnancies, the couple announced them before the 12-week mark - when most women have their first scan - because of the duchess being unwell with hyperemesis gravidarum.\n\nThe condition affects about one in every 200 pregnancies and results in severe nausea and vomiting - with one of the main dangers being dehydration.\n\nThe duke and duchess have a son, George, who is four, and a daughter, Charlotte, aged two\n\nLater, the duke and Prince Harry visited a new centre which is offering advice and counselling to families affected by the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nThey are to meet members of the community and volunteers in North Kensington at the Support4Grenfell community hub, close to where the tower block stands.\n\nThe brothers were due to be joined by the Duchess of Cambridge, but she was forced to pull out from the engagement because of her severe morning sickness.\n\nThe Duke of Cambridge and Prince Harry visited a new centre which is offering advice to families affected by the Grenfell Tower fire", "An \"adrenalin junkie\" from north Wales has been fined by police in America after swimming across the Colorado River at the Hoover Dam.\n\nArron Hughes, 28, was on a stag do when he took a dip at the dam on the Arizona-Nevada border near Las Vegas.\n\nThe forklift driver from Ruthin, Denbighshire, was arrested at the scene and fined $330 (£250).\n\n\"We got there and it was absolutely roasting. I thought to myself 'I'm going in for a dip',\" he said.\n\nTurbines close to where Mr Hughes was swimming were not on when he was in the water on 8 August.\n\n\"The plan was just to go for a little dip at the start and then I thought 'I can make this' so I swam across, I made it from Arizona to Nevada,\" he said.\n\n\"I don't have any regrets. I even have a tattoo saying 'no regrets', that's the type of person I am.\"\n\nHis ticket issued by Nevada police lists the offence as: \"Jumping, diving, swimming from dam's spillways or other structures.\"\n\nMr Hughes said he did not realise swimming at the landmark was an offence as he did not see any signs.", "Flags of all varieties were seen at the Royal Albert Hall\n\nThe 2017 Proms season has ended with a rallying cry for the future of classical music.\n\n\"For many decades we have heard about the imminent demise of classical music,\" said conductor Sakari Oramo.\n\n\"But look,\" he said, surveying the Royal Albert Hall, \"at this.\"\n\n\"Classical music is going to be around for a very long time,\" he added, praising Proms co-founder Sir Henry Wood, \"whose vision of access to music for everyone continues to inspire us.\"\n\nAs is tradition, the audience set off party poppers, honked hooters, danced and wept melodramatically during Sir Henry's medley of British sea songs.\n\nProm-goers also waved the traditional Union flags - but that act has become politicised over the last two years.\n\nFollowing 2016's referendum, anti-Brexit campaigners have distributed EU flags to the audience as they arrive.\n\nA spokesman for EU Flags Proms Team told The Telegraph: \"During the Age of Enlightenment, Mozart, Handel and Bach all lived and worked for part of their lives in London.\n\n\"Presumably under the Brexit dark ages, they would not be welcome.\"\n\nLeave campaigners, including Nigel Farage, criticised the move and called for a counter-campaign.\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 EU emblem was certainly more prominent this year than last - with one Prommer wearing a blue suit decorated with yellow stars.\n\nBut there were dozens of nations represented, with flags from Finland, Bulgaria, Wales and St Kitts and Nevis all on display.\n\nAnd the flag that received most reaction on social media was part of the BBC Symphony Chorus - where a Sikh tenor wore a red, white and blue turban.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The 2017 Proms in just four minutes\n\nSir Henry established the Proms in 1895, in conjunction with theatre impresario Robert Newman and Dr George Cathcart, a Harley Street throat specialist who put up the money for the first season in 1895.\n\nInitially the sole conductor and musical director, he presided over more than 5,000 promenade concerts, and premiered works by Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky and Mahler, amongst others.\n\nIn an interview from 1941, broadcast on Radio 3 during Saturday's Last Night celebrations, he echoed the sentiments expressed by Oramo.\n\n\"They said there wasn't the public for great music 47 years ago. The critics wagged their heads.\n\n\"But Robert Newman said we'd make a public and we did. It was a bold venture in 1895 [but] it worked.\"\n\nSir Henry Wood conducting one of his 5,000 Proms concerts\n\nThis year's Proms season - the 123rd - has seen 80 orchestras and ensembles performing more than 400 pieces of music, including 30 premieres, over eight weeks.\n\nSaturday's Last Night wrapped up the season in traditional good spirits, with Swedish soprano Nina Stemme dressing up as a Valkyrie to deliver Rule Britannia.\n\nThe concert opened with a premiere of Flounce, a spritely new work by Finnish composer Lotta Wennakoski, whose staccato strings and sweeping crescendos resembled one of Bernard Hermann's soundtracks for Alfred Hitchcock.\n\nStemme later brought the audience to tears with a sublime performance of the Prelude and Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.\n\nAcross the UK, fans joined in the fun with Proms in the Park concerts in Enniskillen, Swansea, Glasgow and London's Hyde Park.\n\nMica Paris braved the Welsh rain to deliver an impassioned tribute to Ella Fitzgerald, while the London audience were treated to Bryn Terfel lugging around milk churns as he performed If I Were a Rich Man from Fiddler on the Roof.\n\nIn Northern Ireland, Dame Evelyn Glennie delivered an eye-wateringly brisk performance of Flight of the Bumblebee; while Hyde Park was headlined by Kinks legend Sir Ray Davies.\n\n\"I don't know anywhere else in the world where you have something like this,\" marvelled Nina Stemme ahead of her performance.\n\n\"I think we should do more concerts with this kind of participation, in various forms, from the audience.\"\n\nThe 2017 Proms welcomed nearly 300,000 concert-goers through the doors of the Royal Albert Hall, with one in five purchasing standing tickets which are sold on the day for £6.\n\nMore than 35,500 tickets were bought by people attending the Proms for the first time and 10,000 under-18s attended concerts across the season.\n\nThe BBC Proms will return on 13 July, 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. The moment the government's attempt to take the UK out of EU law passed its first parliamentary test\n\nThe government's bid to extract the UK from EU law in time for Brexit has passed its first parliamentary test.\n\nMPs backed the EU Withdrawal Bill by 326 votes to 290 despite critics warning that it represented a \"power grab\" by ministers.\n\nThe bill, which will end the supremacy of EU law in the UK, now moves onto its next parliamentary stage.\n\nMinisters sought to reassure MPs by considering calls for safeguards over their use of new powers.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May welcomed the Commons vote in the early hours of Tuesday morning, saying the bill offered \"certainty and clarity\" - but Labour described it as an \"affront to parliamentary democracy\".\n\nSeven Labour MPs defied Jeremy Corbyn's order to oppose the bill - Ronnie Campbell, Frank Field, Kate Hoey, Kelvin Hopkins, John Mann, Dennis Skinner and Graham Stringer. No Conservatives voted against it.\n\nHaving cleared the second reading stage, the bill will now face more attempts to change it with MPs, including several senior Conservative backbenchers, publishing a proposed 157 amendments, covering 59 pages.\n\nPreviously referred to as the Great Repeal Bill, the EU Withdrawal Bill overturns the 1972 European Communities Act which took the UK into the then European Economic Community.\n\nIt will also convert all existing EU laws into UK law, to ensure there are no gaps in legislation on Brexit day.\n\nCritics' concerns centre on ministers giving themselves the power to make changes to laws during this process without consulting MPs.\n\nThe government says it needs to be able to make minor technical changes to ensure a smooth transition, but fears were raised that ministers were getting sweeping powers to avoid parliamentary scrutiny.\n\nMore than 100 MPs had their say during the two-day second reading debate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"This isn't the end of this bill, just one very early stage\"\n\nLabour, which denounced the \"vague offers\" of concessions, mostly voted against the bill.\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said the bill was a \"naked power grab\" by the government, adding that \"this is a deeply disappointing result\".\n\nHe said: \"Labour will seek to amend and remove the worst aspects from the bill but the flaws are so fundamental it's hard to see how this could ever be made fit for purpose.\"\n\nLib Dem Brexit spokesman Tom Brake said MPs who backed the bill should feel \"ashamed\".\n\n\"This is a dark day for the mother of parliaments,\" he added.\n\nSumming up the Commons debate, Justice Secretary David Lidington had said some criticism had been \"exaggerated up to and beyond the point of hyperbole\".\n\nHe said the bill would \"enable us to have a coherent and functioning statute book\" on the day the UK leaves the EU.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said Conservative MPs concerned about the legislation had already tabled a number of amendments to \"remove the excesses of the bill\" and to \"make considerable improvements\".\n\nThese include limiting the use of delegated powers, giving Parliament the \"final say\" on the EU withdrawal agreement and restoring the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.\n\nOne MP told the BBC: \"We hope MPs from all parties who share our concerns and aims to make the bill fit for the purpose of delivering a smooth Brexit will add their names.\"\n\nSNP MPs, who also voted against the bill, said powers over devolved issues would be seized by Westminster as they were returned from Brussels.\n\nBut Mr Lidington denied this, predicting it would result in a \"significant increase\" in the powers exercised by the devolved administrations.\n\nThe bill will now receive line-by-line scrutiny in its committee stage.\n\nMPs voted in favour of the government's proposed timetable for debating legislation - by 318 votes to 301 - guaranteeing 64 hours of debate over eight days.\n\nBut Mr Lidington said the government was \"willing to consider\" extending the allocated time.\n\nThe Bill's committee stage will take place when MPs return to parliament after their party conferences.", "Louella Michie's body was discovered in a wooded area on the edge of the Bestival site\n\nA woman who was found dead at Bestival was the daughter of Holby City, Taggart and Coronation Street actor John Michie, his agent has confirmed.\n\nThe body of Louella Michie, 25, from London, was discovered in a wooded area at the Dorset festival site.\n\nPolice said they were called at about 01:00 BST amid concern for the welfare of a woman.\n\nA 28-year-old man from London has been arrested on suspicion of murder and is being questioned by police.\n\nA post-mortem examination is due to be carried out to establish the cause of death.\n\nIn a statement, Michie's agent said: \"Sadly, I can confirm the tragic death of John Michie's daughter Louella at Bestival.\n\n\"John and his wife Carol ask that the privacy of their family be respected at this traumatic time.\"\n\nJohn Michie currently stars as Guy Self in Holby City\n\nFestival founder DJ Rob da Bank tweeted a link to the statement, which was posted on the festival's Facebook page.\n\nIn a statement, Bestival organisers said the team were \"devastated to hear about this tragic news\".\n\n\"We continue to support the police in their ongoing investigation and our thoughts and prayers are with all the woman's family and friends.\"\n\nA cordon remains in place at the festival site while forensic examinations are carried out.\n\nThe festival was held at Lulworth Castle and estate\n\nDet Ch Insp Sarah Derbyshire, of Dorset Police, said: \"Following the discovery of the woman's body we have now launched an investigation into her death.\n\n\"We have specially trained officers supporting her family at this very difficult time.\"\n\nShe added the force was \"working closely\" with the festival organisers and urged anyone with information to get in touch.\n\nBestival was first held in 2004 at Robin Hill on the Isle of Wight.\n\nThis was the first year the four-day annual event was held at Dorset's Lulworth Estate, where its sister festival Camp Bestival has been held since 2008.\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 history of Bombardier in Northern Ireland\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May has phoned US President Donald Trump over a threat to jobs at Bombardier in Belfast from a trade dispute.\n\nIn 2016, Canadian firm Bombardier won an order to supply up to 125 C-Series passenger jets to US airline Delta.\n\nThe wings for the C-Series are made at Bombardier's Belfast plant.\n\nHowever, rival aircraft firm Boeing has complained to the US authorities that the deal was unfairly subsidised by the Canadian state.\n\nBoeing has also complained about a UK government loan made to the Bombardier plant in Belfast.\n\nThe US Department of Commerce is due to make a ruling later this month.\n\nIt could hit Bombardier with punitive tariffs.\n\nMrs May and her Canadian counterpart, Justin Trudeau, would discuss the dispute at a meeting in Ottawa on 18 September, Reuters reported.\n\nThe wings for the C-Series planes are made in Belfast\n\nTariffs could make it very difficult for Bombardier to find new C-Series customers in the US.\n\nThe C-Series project supports hundreds of jobs in Belfast.\n\nThe government was \"working tirelessly to safeguard Bombardier's operations and its highly skilled workers in Belfast\", said a spokesperson.\n\n\"Ministers across government have engaged swiftly and extensively with Boeing, Bombardier, the US and Canadian governments,\" added the spokesperon.\n\n\"Our priority is to encourage Boeing to drop its case and seek a negotiated settlement with Bombardier.\"\n\nMrs May raised the issue and her concern to protect jobs in Northern Ireland in a call with President Donald Trump last week, Downing Street confirmed.\n\nBusiness Secretary Greg Clark had also travelled to Chicago to meet Boeing's chairman, president and chief executive officer, Dennis Muilenburg.\n\nBombardier managers in Belfast are also understood to have recently briefed trade unions about the importance of the case.\n\nBoeing has alleged that Bombardier engaged in \"price dumping\" by agreeing to sell 75 of their planes for almost $14m (£10.6m) below their cost price.\n\nThe company said it had appealed to the International Trade Commission \"to restore a level playing field in the US single-aisle airplane market\".\n\n\"Boeing had to take action as subsidised competition has hurt us now and will continue to hurt us for years to come, and we could not stand by given this clear case of illegal dumping,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"Global trade only works if everyone plays by the same rules of the road, and that's a principle that ultimately creates the greatest value for Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and our aerospace industry.\"\n\nIt also pointed out that the Delta deal came after the regional government in Quebec effectively bailed out the C-Series programme with a $1bn investment.\n\n\"Equity infusions from government coffers not only rescued the program but have given Bombardier the resources it needs to aggressively target the US market,\" it said.\n\nBombardier has described the allegations as \"absurd\" and said the government investments \"comply with the laws and regulations in the jurisdictions where we do business\".\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons on Tuesday, Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable called on the UK government to \"commit itself to standing very firmly behind Bombardier and its workers, and alongside the Canadian Government in resisting bullying from Boeing and its friend in the United States administration\".\n\nMinister for Climate Change and Industry Claire Perry said: \"It is vitally important that we have this dispute settled and we create the environment for many manufacturers in this vital sector to thrive and grow.\"\n\nStrangford DUP MP Jim Shannon raised concerns about the future of the C-Series with Research and Innovation Minister, Jo Johnson.\n\n\"He'll be aware of Boeing's attempts to stop the contract which will add $30m (£23m) to every plane (coming into) C-Series in Belfast,\" he said.\n\nMr Johnson replied: \"I can assure him that we are engaging very closely with the companies involved and will be following up on his point.\"", "About 400 survivors of Hurricane Irma have arrived in France and the Netherlands aboard military planes, AFP reports.\n\nSome 278 survivors landed in Paris, while another 100 flew into Eindhoven which is in the south of the Netherlands, the news agency says.\n\nEarlier, French officials said six out of 10 homes on St Martin, an island shared between France and the Netherlands, were now uninhabitable.\n\nThey said nine people had died and seven were missing in the French territories, while four are known to have died in Dutch Sint Maarten.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is burning down Rohingya villages?\n\nThe 300,000 people who have fled Rakhine state to Bangladesh over the past two weeks all come from the northern districts of Maungdaw, Buthidaung and Rathedaung, the last areas of Myanmar with sizeable Rohingya populations not confined to displacement camps.\n\nThese districts are hard to reach. Roads are poor, and the government requires permits to go there, which journalists rarely get.\n\nSo we grabbed the opportunity to join a government-organised visit to Maungdaw, for 18 local and foreign journalists.\n\nIt would mean seeing only places and people they wanted us to see. But sometimes, even under these restrictions, you can glean valuable insights.\n\nBesides, the government has arguments that need to be heard. It is now facing an armed insurgency, albeit one some would argue has been self-inflicted. The communal conflict in Rakhine state has a long history, and would be difficult for any government to deal with.\n\nA Muslim man sits in a marketplace in Maungdaw, which journalists were allowed to visit only under supervision\n\nOn arrival at Sittwe, the Rakhine state capital, we were given instructions. No-one was to leave the group and try to work independently. There was a curfew at 6pm, so no wandering after dark. We could request to go to places that interested us; in practice we found such requests were rejected on grounds of security. To be fair, I believe they were genuinely concerned for our safety.\n\nMost of the travel in this low-lying region of Myanmar is along the maze of creeks and rivers on crowded boats. The journey from Sittwe to Buthidaung takes six hours. From there we travelled for an hour on a rough road over the Mayu Hills to Maungdaw. As we drove into the town we passed our first burned village, Myo Thu Gyi. Even the palm trees were scorched.\n\nThe government's purpose in bringing us was to balance the overwhelmingly negative narrative coming from the Rohingya refugees arriving in Bangladesh, who have almost all spoken of a deliberate campaign of destruction by the Myanmar military and Rakhine mobs, and appalling human rights abuses.\n\nBut right away these efforts faltered.\n\nWe were first taken to a small school in Maungdaw, now crowded with displaced Hindu families. They all had the same story to tell of Muslims attacking, of fleeing in fear. Oddly, Hindus who have fled to Bangladesh all say they were attacked by local Rakhine Buddhists, because they resemble Rohingyas.\n\nIn the school we were accompanied by armed police and officials. Could they speak freely? One man started to tell me how soldiers had been firing at his village, and he was quickly corrected by a neighbour.\n\nA woman in an orange, lacy blouse and distinctive grey and mauve longyi was especially animated about the abuses by Muslims.\n\nA local monk said Muslims burned down their own homes\n\nWe were then taken to a Buddhist temple, where a monk described Muslims burning down their own homes, nearby. We were given photographs catching them in the act. They looked strange.\n\nMen in white haji caps posed as they set light to the palm-thatch roof. Women wearing what appeared to be lacy tablecloths on their heads melodramatically waved swords and machetes. Later I found that one of the women was in fact the animated Hindu woman from the school, and I saw that one of the men had also been present in among the displaced Hindu.\n\nThey had faked the photos to make it look as though Muslims were doing the burning.\n\nJournalists were provided with photos supposedly of Muslims \"caught in the act\"\n\nBut the BBC later identified the same woman in a Hindu village\n\nWe had an audience with Colonel Phone Tint, the local minister for border security. He described how Bengali terrorists, as they call the militants of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, had taken control of Rohingya villages, and forced them to offer one man per household as a fighter. Those who refused to comply have their houses burned, he said. He accused the militants of planting mines and destroying three bridges.\n\nI asked whether he was saying that all of the dozens of burned villages had been destroyed by the militants. He confirmed that was the government's position. Responding to a question about military atrocities, he waved it away. \"Where is the proof?\" he asked. \"Look at those women,\" he meant the Rohingya refugees, \"who are making these claims - would anyone want to rape them?\"\n\nColonel Phone Tint insists 100% of burned villages have been set on fire by Muslim militants\n\nThe few Muslims we were able to see in Maungdaw were mostly too scared to talk in front of a camera. Breaking away from our minders, we spoke to some who described the hardship of not being allowed to leave their neighbourhood by the security forces, of food shortages, and intense fear.\n\nOne young man said they had wanted to flee to Bangladesh, but their leaders had signed an agreement with the authorities to stay. In the now quiet Bengali market, I asked a man what he was frightened of. The government, he said.\n\nWeeks after the violence, Alel Than Kyaw was somehow still smouldering\n\nThe main destination on our itinerary outside Maungdaw was the coastal town of Alel Than Kyaw. This was one of the places attacked by Arsa militants in the early hours of 25 August. As we approached, we passed village after village, all completely empty. We saw boats, apparently abandoned, along with goats and cattle. There were no people.\n\nAlel Than Kyaw had been razed to the ground. Even the clinic, with a sign showing it had been run by the charity Medecins Sans Frontieres, had been destroyed. To the north, in the distance we could see four columns of smoke rising, and heard bursts of automatic weapons fire. More villages being put to the torch, we guessed.\n\nThe MSF charity's clinic was just one of the levelled buildings\n\nPolice Lieutenant Aung Kyaw Moe described to us how he had been given advance warning of the attack. He had taken the non-Muslim population for protection into his barracks, and his men fought off the assailants - armed, he said, with guns, swords and home-made explosives, for three hours until they were driven off. Seventeen of the militants lay dead, and one immigration officer. The Muslim population fled shortly afterwards.\n\nBut he struggled to explain why parts of the town were still smouldering, two weeks after the attack, and in the rainy season. Perhaps a few Muslims stayed on, and then set their homes alight before leaving more recently, he suggested half-heartedly.\n\nThen, on our way back from Alel Than Kyaw, something entirely unplanned happened.\n\nThe village of Gaw Du Thar Ya, seen burning by the group\n\nWe spotted black smoke billowing out of some trees, over the rice fields. It was another village going up, right by the road. And the fires had only just started. We all shouted at our police escort to stop the van. When they did, we just ran, leaving our bewildered government minder behind. The police came with us, but then declared it was unsafe to enter the village. So we went ahead of them.\n\nThe sound of burning and crackling was everywhere. Women's clothing, clearly Muslim, was strewn on the muddy path. And there were muscular young men, holding swords and machetes, standing on the path, baffled by the sight of 18 sweaty journalists rushing towards them. They tried to avoid being filmed, and two of them dashed further into the village, bringing out the last of their group and making a hasty exit.\n\nThe village was reduced to charred timber and ashes\n\nThey said they were Rakhine Buddhists. One of my colleagues managed a quick conversation with one of them, who admitted they had set the houses on fire, with the help of the police.\n\nAs we walked in, we could see the roof of the madrassa had just been set alight. School texts with Arabic script had been thrown outside. An empty plastic jug, reeking of petrol, had been left on the path.\n\nThe village was called Gawdu Thar Ya. It was a Muslim village. There was no sign of the inhabitants. The Rakhine men who had torched the village walked out, past our police escort, some carrying household items they had looted.\n\nThe burning took place close to a number of large police barracks. No-one did anything to stop it.", "The Damor family now eat all their meals together\n\nMeals have a way of bringing families together. As food is laid out, everyone gathers round the table, conversation flows and families bond.\n\nBut traditionally, eating together has not been encouraged in India. Men and children are fed first and only then can women sit down to eat.\n\nBut in millions of poor homes, this practice has had an unintended consequence - malnutrition among women.\n\nNow, however, campaigners are urging women to eat with their families instead of after them. And, they say, the results have been very encouraging.\n\nNo-one knows when or where or how the practice started, but like every other symbol of patriarchy, it is deeply entrenched in people's psyche.\n\nAs a child, in my home too, my mother, grandmother, aunts and cousin's wives would cook and serve, but they would always be the last to eat.\n\nIn the pecking order, gods came first - once food was prepared, a small portion of all the dishes would be offered to them.\n\nIn my Brahmin home, even the resident cow was fed before humans - when my grandfather sat down to eat, he would set aside bits of food from every dish onto a small thick round piece of bread that was placed on a leaf. He would eat only after one of us had fed that to the cow.\n\nThis staggered eating sometimes caused minor friction at home - if men delayed mealtimes, it just meant that the women's wait to eat got longer. It didn't matter how hungry they were, they just had to wait.\n\nThe locally grown leafy vegetable is high in nutrients\n\nOur family was not an exception - this is how my neighbours ate, as did those living across the length and breadth of the country. In many families, a rather unhygienic practice involved women eating from the unwashed plates of their husbands.\n\nAnyone who sought an explanation for why this happened was told that it was the norm, that it had happened for centuries, that it was the traditional way.\n\nIn cities though, it is becoming increasingly common for educated and employed women to eat as and when they want to, but the tradition of women eating last continues to be widely followed to this day, especially in rural areas.\n\nIn homes like ours, it has no serious impact because there is enough food to go around. But in poor rural homes, it often leaves women and children hungry.\n\n\"This tradition of prioritising men's needs means sometimes when women sit down to eat, there isn't enough left for them,\" says Vandana Mishra of Rajasthan Nutrition Project (RNP), executed by charities Freedom from Hunger India Trust and Grameen Foundation.\n\nKarma, Manshu Damor's daughter-in-law, does most of the cooking at their home\n\nCampaigners are trying to promote locally grown coarse grain which they say is healthier\n\nA survey of 403 poor tribal women in the state's Banswara and Sirohi districts in March 2015 showed \"food secure and food insecure people in the same household\", Ms Mishra said.\n\n\"Men always said, 'I go to work first and children go to school, so we need to eat first',\" Rohit Samariya, RNP project manager in Banswara, told the BBC.\n\n\"We created plates to demonstrate what a man's plate looked like and what a woman's plate looked like to drive the point home that women were literally scraping the bottom of the barrel,\" he says.\n\nTo break this pattern, the group came up with a very simple but unusual strategy - to encourage families to eat their meals together.\n\nTheir two-year project concluded recently and to gauge its impact on rural communities, I travelled last month to the tribal-dominated Ambapara village in Banswara.\n\nAs I arrive at Manshu Damor's house, I find him chopping a type of locally grown leafy vegetable while his wife and daughter-in-law cook in the kitchen behind him.\n\nAmbapara is among India's poorest villages where 89% still defecate in the open, child marriages are rampant, literacy levels are low and women still cover their faces in the presence of men.\n\nSo when the RNP campaigners suggested that people eat their meals together as a family, it was nothing less than revolutionary.\n\nUntil then, Mr Damor tells me, he had never shared a meal with Barju, his wife of 35 years. The idea that his daughter-in-law Karma could sit alongside him was unthinkable.\n\n\"People said how could a woman eat in front of her father-in-law? It had always been against our tradition, so in the beginning I also resisted. I too found it a bit odd,\" he said.\n\nMr Samariya says by asking men to eat together with the women, \"we were asking them to change their behaviour\".\n\n\"In our patriarchal society, men are not brought up to care for their wives. So we have to sensitise them to gender issues.\"\n\nRamila Damor (front) said her family had their first meal together two years ago\n\nIt was not just men - women also believed in the same tradition. But after some persuasion, the villagers agreed to give it a try.\n\nAnd, it's made a world of difference to women's well-being.\n\n\"I was the one always cooking, but by the time I would sit down to eat, there would be little food left. Men would finish all the vegetables, so I'd have to contend with bread and salt,\" says Karma, Mr Damor's daughter-in-law. \"Now everyone gets equal food.\"\n\nHer neighbour, Ramila Damor, said her family had their first meal together two years ago.\n\n\"When I heard about it for the first time, I went home and cooked and I told my husband that from now on, we'll all eat together. It felt really nice sharing a meal,\" she said.\n\nIn traditional Indian homes, men are fed first\n\nAll the other women I spoke to in the village said family meals had become the norm in their homes too.\n\nA survey done at the end of the two-year campaign in May showed heartening results - food security among the surveyed women had more than doubled. As the wellbeing of children is often linked to that of mothers, their food security too showed a huge increase.\n\nThe impact of the campaign was not limited to improving nutrition levels, it brought on other positive changes too.\n\nMr Damor says his daughter-in-law no longer covers her face entirely and the veil has moved up.\n\n\"Also, now she calls me Ba (father) instead of Haahoo (dad-in-law) and my wife Aaee (mother) instead of Haaharozi (mum-in-law).\"\n\nMeals do have a way of bringing families together. Like they have done in the case of Damors.", "Jack Whiteley was \"let down\" by Essex Police, the force has admitted\n\nA businessman was told police officers were too busy to investigate after £26,000 worth of garden furniture was stolen from his company.\n\nJack Whiteley, who runs Glencrest Seatex Ltd in Leigh-on-Sea, supplied Essex Police with CCTV footage of the theft on 26 August.\n\nBut he was told in an email officers were \"unable to assist as they are at saturation point with their workload\".\n\nThe force said it would make the case a priority - and has now made an arrest.\n\nAssistant Chief Constable Andy Prophet said he had called for an \"urgent review\" of the crime and apologised to the business owner.\n\nHe said some of the force's \"processes let Mr Whiteley down\".\n\nFurniture worth £26,000 was stolen from Mr Whiteley's warehouse on 26 August\n\nMr Whiteley supplied Essex Police with CCTV footage of the crime\n\n\"In this case, an eminently solvable case, an officer should have been allocated more efficiently than on this occasion,\" he told BBC 5 live.\n\n\"This is a priority and Essex Police will be taking it forward.\"\n\nAt about 15:10 BST on Monday, police said they had arrested a 32-year-old man from Laindon on suspicion of theft.\n\nSpeaking before the arrest, Mr Whiteley said the garden chairs were stolen from his warehouse.\n\nHe reported the crime on 28 August.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nA week later, in an email, Mr Whiteley was told by police that an officer had tried to call him while he was away in Germany and that the allocated officer was then on rest days and leave.\n\nThe email from the crime bureau went on to say the police team on duty could not assist as they were too busy with their own workload.\n\nMr Whiteley said: \"My furniture has gone walkies now, the whole point of me sending this (the CCTV footage) to the police on the Tuesday following the bank holiday weekend was we had time to go and get these people and get my 20-odd thousand pounds worth of goods back.\n\n\"From my point of view, the police have cost me those goods.\"\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\nIt is being billed as a military exercise, but when Russian and Belarusian forces start Zapad-2017 this week, many neighbouring countries will be looking on nervously.\n\nZapad-2017 (\"West-2017\") is a joint strategic-level exercise involving Russian and Belarusian military forces, expected to begin on 14 September in Russia's western military district Kaliningrad, and across Belarus.\n\nIt is scheduled to last about a week, but may well go on for longer. The exercise is part of a four-year rolling cycle of manoeuvres that focus each year on one broad region or \"front\" (\"West\", \"Eastern\", \"Central\" or \"Caucasus\"). This year's Zapad exercise though is drawing much greater attention than did its predecessor in 2013.\n\nThe context has changed significantly. Russia has seized and annexed Crimea; it has supported a separatist war in eastern Ukraine with weaponry, training and, for periods, its own combat units. Russia is thus seen by several Nato countries as much more threatening.\n\nUkrainian President Petro Poroshenko has described Russia's build-up for the exercise as \"preparations for an offensive war on a continental scale\". Ukrainian border defences, he said, are being bolstered.\n\nHe also pointed to the fact that in his view, Russia has form here, using the pretext of an exercise to mobilise and position forces to conduct offensive operations. President Poroshenko said he could not rule out the possibility that the drill \"may be used as a smokescreen to create new Russian army assault groups to invade Ukrainian territory\".\n\nPantsir anti-aircraft missile: Russian and foreign troops competed in army games last month\n\nNato watchers and insiders do not necessarily share this concern about an all-out invasion of Ukraine.\n\nRussia expert Keir Giles, a fellow at Chatham House think tank, acknowledges that \"previous Russian exercises on this scale have prepositioned troops for undertaking military operations, against Georgia in 2008 and against Ukraine in 2014\".\n\nHowever, he says, \"both of those moves were precipitated by an immediate political crisis - currently absent in Europe.\n\n\"And there have been plenty of other major Russian exercises in between,\" he says, \"which did not end up with somebody getting invaded\".\n\nNonetheless, the fear of a resurgent and more aggressive Russia is real enough. That is why, over the past year, Nato has sent small multi-national units to Poland and to each of the three Baltic republics to underline its deterrent message. And that is why this year's war games will be watched so closely.\n\nJust how closely is a contentious issue. Russia, unlike Belarus, has been far more reluctant to invite Western observers in any number. This despite the fact that, as a member of the OSCE international security body, it is obliged to send out broad invitations if an exercise numbers more than 13,000 troops.\n\nMr Giles notes that, while Russia may be \"content to see Europe alarmed at the prospect of Moscow throwing its military weight around\", Belarus seeks instead to calm the situation. The siting of the exercise in ranges across the middle of the country - not near the Polish and Lithuanian borders - was a deliberate policy decision intended to reduce the chances of misinterpretation, or incidents when Russian troops and aircraft come close to Nato borders.\n\nThis Polish F-16 is part of a Nato air-policing mission over the Baltic states (Aug 2017 photo)\n\nBelarus has been much more open towards international observers. Clearly satellites, airborne radars and other national intelligence collection measures will be used by Nato countries.\n\nIn addition, efforts are under way to mobilise concerned citizens in Belarus to observe military movements in their area and post them online for the benefit of non-government, open-source analysts and experts.\n\nSo just how big is this exercise and what will Western analysts and observers be watching for? Here assessments differ widely.\n\nThe Russians say some 12,700 troops will be involved in total, including a significant contingent from Belarus. (Notice this takes it below the 13,000 OSCE threshold.)\n\nWestern experts watching the preparations, especially the marshalling of railway flat-cars - the main way of moving heavy armoured formations to the exercise areas - say it will be considerably more.\n\nSome estimates suggest that up to 80,000 troops could be involved, but since there are a range of drills, exercises and spot mobilisations it is hard to be precise about numbers.\n\nRussia will be testing its capacity to contain and respond to some form of outside aggression and will be deploying units from different services: heavy armour; airborne troops; \"spetsnaz\" elite reconnaissance teams; and electronic warfare specialists.\n\nThe Baltic Fleet will be involved, as will units from the 14th Corps based in Kaliningrad. One point of interest may be the part played at the tactical and strategic levels of \"information operations troops\" - a relatively new formation in the Russian order of battle.\n\nIndeed, while there may be much to learn about Russia's use of artillery, its capability in electronic warfare (already manifest in the fighting in Ukraine) and the growing importance of precision-guided munitions in Russia's thinking, it may be this information aspect that is most important. For beyond the troop movements, Zapad-2017 is part of a wider propaganda effort to influence and shape opinion in the West.\n\nThe US analyst Michael Kofman in a fascinating piece on the War on the Rocks website, describes Zapad as \"a good window into the Russian mindset.\n\n\"For all the modernisation and transformation of the Russian armed forces,\" he writes, \"in reality the Russian leadership is probably still afraid: afraid the United States will try to make a bid for Belarus, afraid of American technological and economic superiority, afraid the US seeks regime change in Moscow, and afraid Washington desires the complete fragmentation of Russian influence in its near abroad, or even worse, Russia itself.\"\n\n\"Zapad,\" he argues, \"is the most coherent manifestation of these fears, and a threat from Moscow to the United States about what it might do if the worst should come to pass.\"\n\nAnd what of those lingering fears in some quarters that this could be much more than just an exercise? Mr Giles remains unconvinced by much of the media hyperbole surrounding Zapad.\n\nBut he has this caution: \"The time to watch troop deployments most closely,\" he says, \"is likely to be after the exercise proper has ended.\"\n\nThe final day of Zapad is 20 September but, he notes, \"Russian troops are only scheduled to leave Belarus by 30 September - after the observers have departed, and when the media interest will have died down. That will be the time to decide whether Zapad this year has in fact passed off peacefully.\"", "There was a time, as recently as the start of July, when many in cycling wondered whether Chris Froome might not be what he was: not a single win all year, fewer days racing going in to the Tour de France than ever before, his rivals, many younger and in punchier form, lining up on his wheel.\n\nThree months on, having bagged his fourth Tour and become the first Briton in history to win the Vuelta a Espana, they have been proved right. Froome is not the rider he was. He is a superior one.\n\nWhen sporting success comes as frequently and in such dominant fashion as this it can be easy to assume it also came easily. A yellow jersey one month, a red the next, towed up the road by a line of Sky team-mates in white or black.\n• None Listen: An absolutely savage way to finish - Froome\n\nEven for a remarkable rider like Froome this double is an exceptional achievement. Only two Frenchmen, Jacques Anquetil in 1963 and Bernard Hinault 15 years later, have pulled it off before.\n\nHe has done it in a style all of his own. Eddy Merckx, arguably the greatest cyclist of them all, was nicknamed The Cannibal for his insatiable hunger for wins, chewing up his rivals, ravenous whether the race was Grand Tour or little spin.\n\nFroome, the serial winner - polite and friendly off his bike, as aggressive as an accountant - is transformed in the racing frenzy into a cold-eyed killer of others' ambitions, taking them out one by one, never with a single blow but the slow accumulation of pressure until they can take no more.\n\nAnquetil loved the solo attack. Hinault stamped his mood and judgement all over the peloton. Merckx would take them anywhere he could - rampaging up mountains, tearing through time-trials, sprinting and always fighting, fighting.\n\nFroome does it by stealth. A few seconds here, a few more there. A late push up a steep summit finish, squeezing out a little more on a solo ride against the clock.\n\nIt is not spectacular but it is brutal, a cruel constriction of his rivals, the inexorable application of a superior strength.\n\nBy the end of the Tour de France the other principal contenders for the general classification - Fabio Aru, Rigoberto Uran, Romain Bardet - were reduced to scrapping among each other for distant second. In this Vuelta it has been the same. His rivals start the race thinking what a nice chap Froome is and finish it having nightmares about him.\n\nOn Saturday, on arguably the most brutal climb in cycling, in conditions so grim that northern Spain in early September felt more like the north of Scotland in mid-November, he gave one final demonstration of all that has brought him so far.\n\nAnquetil and Hinault never had to go up a mountain like this. The Alto de l'Angliru was a cattle track until the start of this century. Even now the tarmac hangs on to the mountain for dear life.\n\nIt is not the height. There are bigger climbs than its 1,573 metres. At 12.5km it is long but not endless. Its average gradient of 10% appears spiteful but not exceptional.\n\nIt is the ramps that break men - sections at 15% and 17%, the sort of thing a club cyclist struggles to keep moving on, then inhumane segments of almost 24%, less a route to the summit than a wet grey wall.\n\nRiding up 15% makes your heart feel like it is jumping out of your chest; 24% makes you want to pick your bike up and throw it back down the cruel slopes.\n\nTo drive up it in Saturday's black cloud and thundering rain was nightmarish - a relentless steepness, brutal ramped hairpins, the smell of burning clutch acid in the nostrils.\n\nCycling up it appeared to make no sense. \"What's the point of riding up a mountain that it would be quicker to go up by foot?\" fumed the Italian Marzio Bruseghin after being pummelled by it nine years ago.\n\nA vindictive mountain, so cold even watching that you wore all the clothes you had in your suitcase simultaneously, transformed by Froome into the peak of the British sporting summer.\n\nIt was Anquetil's burden that he was not loved as much as Raymond Poulidor, the eternal second place to his first. A greater tranche of the French public found it easier to empathise with Poulidor's obvious exertions and the limited reward they brought.\n\nFroome too has struggled to win over his own sporting public in the same way as Bradley Wiggins, the first Briton to win the Tour. By rights, the past nine weeks should correct that curious imbalance.\n\nFroome has been backed once again this summer by the dominant team in the peloton. Wout Poels, Mikel Nieve and Gianni Moscon have provided the same peerless support for him in August and September as Mikel Landa, Sergio Henao and Michal Kwiatkowski did in July.\n\nHe has also triumphed in a more competitive landscape. Anquetil had 12 other teams to contend with at the 1963 Tour and eight at the Vuelta. Hinault came up against 10 others in France and nine at the Vuelta. Froome has had to compete with 21 squads of nine riders at both the Tour and Vuelta.\n\nBoth Anquetil and Hinault won their own doubles when the Vuelta was held in April. Marshalling finite reserves of energy across spring and then mid-summer is arguably marginally easier than attempting to do the same from mid-summer to late summer. There were only 26 days between the Tour ending in Paris this year and the Vuelta beginning in Nimes.\n\nIt is not just the physical exertion, but also the mental. Across his two Grand Tours Froome has raced for more than 4,200 miles, across 42 stages, through six countries, in blazing heat and pouring rain, all of it with opponents waiting to pounce on the slightest lapse of concentration.\n\nHe was in the leader's jersey for most of that, with news conferences to do every day, meaning he often leaves a finish more than an hour after his team-mates, eating later, resting less, the expectation going ahead of him and the pressure waiting for him on every new morning's start line.\n\nNo blow-outs after Paris, no allowing himself a week of cold lager or chips or even steak after three weeks of Gallic torment.\n\nAnquetil used to take a glass of red wine with his main course during races, let alone the dessert and post-prandial cigar outside his competition schedule. Froome has been on steamed fish and wilted greens and a rumbling tummy for day after sapping day.\n\nAfter more than 160 hours of racing this summer his final combined margin of victory will be just over three minutes.\n\nIt sounds like a small divide between him and rest. Do not be fooled.", "Mr Slater said that he had to earn the trust of the monkeys over several days before venturing close enough to get the selfie\n\nA photographer has settled a two-year legal fight against an animal rights group over a \"monkey selfie\" picture.\n\nNaruto the macaque monkey took the image in the Indonesian jungle in 2011 when it picked up a camera owned by David Slater from Monmouthshire.\n\nUS judges had said copyright protection could not be applied to the monkey but Peta said the animal should benefit.\n\nPeta's appeal on the \"monkey's behalf\" was dismissed but Mr Slater has agreed to donate 25% of any future revenue.\n\nIn a joint statement from Peta and Mr Slater, it said the photographer will give a quarter of the funds he receives from selling the monkey selfies to registered charities \"dedicated to protecting the welfare or habitat of Naruto\".\n\n\"Peta's groundbreaking case sparked a massive international discussion about the need to extend fundamental rights to animals for their own sake, not in relation to how they can be exploited by humans,\" said Peta lawyer Jeff Kerr.\n\nMr Slater, of Chepstow, said he put in a lot of effort which was more than enough for him to claim copyright.\n\nPeta claimed the monkey is a female called Naruto but Mr Slater claimed it was a different male macaque\n\nHe also said he was a conservationist and interest in the image had already helped animals in Indonesia.\n\nThe case was listed as \"Naruto v David Slater\" but the identity of the monkey had also been in dispute, with Peta claiming it is a female called Naruto and Mr Slater saying it is a different male macaque.\n\nBut appeal judges at a court in San Francisco ruled in Mr Slater's favour after a two-year legal fight.\n\nIn the joint-statement between Peta and Mr Slater, they say this case \"raises important, cutting-edge issues about expanding legal rights for non-human animals\".", "Michael Pitts had been dining with his wife at The Grapevine restaurant in Odiham when he choked on the steak\n\nAn 84-year-old man died after choking on a piece of ribeye steak while celebrating his 57th wedding anniversary, an inquest heard.\n\nMichael Pitts was dining with wife, Joan, 78, at The Grapevine restaurant in Odiham, Hampshire, on 16 June, when the meat became lodged in his throat.\n\nRestaurant staff and paramedics tried to resuscitate him but he later died in hospital.\n\nHe added a post-mortem examination showed the cause of death was asphyxia contributed to by heart disease and old age.\n\nMrs Pitts told the Basingstoke inquest her husband had complained the steak was a bit chewy but when asked by the waiter if he wanted it changed, he said that it was \"probably just the cow\".\n\n\"It was his sense of humour,\" she added.\n\nShe continued: \"I just saw him coughing and I thought he had something which catches.\n\n\"I told him to have a glass of water, and with that his arms went down and he just fell backwards into his chair.\"\n\nStaff at the restaurant attempted to resuscitate Mr Pitts and put him in the recovery position until paramedics arrived, the inquest heard.\n\nAfter about 40 minutes the medical team found his airways were blocked and extracted a piece of steak from his throat. He later died in hospital.\n\nMrs Pitts said everyone \"worked extremely hard\" but added no-one initially realised food was stuck.\n\nRestaurant manager Sumin Lohani described the death as \"very sad\", adding: \"It should have been the best memory to celebrate their 57th wedding anniversary at my restaurant.\"\n\nMr Bradley said: \"It was a celebration that went wrong, it could not go any more wrong than that.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Wind speeds reached up to 62mph after an area of low pressure caused strong gusts across the UK on Monday.\n\nThe Met Office had issued a yellow \"be aware\" weather warning for wind in parts of Wales and south-west England, which has since been lifted.\n\nFresh yellow warnings for rain and wind are now in place for some areas from Tuesday evening into Wednesday morning.\n\nThe Met Office said \"longer journey times by road, rail and air are likely\".\n\nHeavy rain is expected on Tuesday across Northern Ireland and southern Scotland, which may cause flooding.\n\nStrong winds with gusts of 55-65mph are also looking \"increasingly likely\" on Tuesday night into Wednesday morning, said the Met Office.\n\nThey are expected to affect the north of England, the Midlands, Yorkshire and Humber as well as south-west Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales.\n\nA yellow warning is described as a sign that people should \"plan ahead\" for severe weather and pay attention to Met Office statements.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sleeping with the Enemy star Patrick Bergin - the man who turned towel-straightening into a sign of malevolent intent - is joining EastEnders.\n\nThe Robin Hood actor will play Aidan Maguire, a prison friend of Phil Mitchell's who is described as a \"charismatic old-school villain\".\n\nThe 66-year-old will start filming this month and will appear on screen towards the end of the year.\n\nBergin said he was \"delighted\" to join a soap he had \"watched and admired.\"\n\n\"It is an iconic show that has the ability to shape the way people think, whilst also telling big explosive stories that keep the audience gripped.\n\n\"I am really looking forward to seeing what they have in store for Aidan as it's bound to be dramatic.\"\n\nBergin's storyline will see Aidan turn up on Phil's doorstep after many years, reigniting their old bond of friendship and ability to get into trouble.\n\nEastEnders' creative director John Yorke said it was a \"huge honour to have him on board\".\n\nHe said Bergin will be working closely with Phil (Steve McFadden) and Mick Carter (Danny Dyer) to \"carry a truly explosive storyline\" over Christmas and New Year.\n\n\"EastEnders deserves the very best, and in Patrick we are absolutely privileged to have a truly great actor join the show.\"\n\nBorn in Dublin in 1951, Bergin's recent credits include heist film We Still Steal the Old Way and Irish TV series Red Rock.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "They were convicted of crimes they did not commit and are permanently changed by spending years in prison.\n\nThey face a range of serious psychiatric problems and can never return to the lives they had before.\n\nFour exonerated prisoners - Robert Brown, Paddy Hill, Sunny Jacobs and Peter Pringle - told the BBC documentary Fallout their false convictions continued to blight their lives many years later.\n\nRobert Brown celebrates on his release from prison but he now says it was a hollow victory\n\nAt the age of 19, Glasgow-born Robert Brown was found guilty of a murder he didn't commit.\n\nHe was arrested in Manchester in 1977 and charged with killing 51-year-old Annie Walsh.\n\nBrown had first travelled to the city to watch Manchester United. He had met a girl and ended up staying.\n\nHe says he was trying to build a new life for himself after growing up in a children's home in Renfrewshire.\n\n\"The police took that opportunity away from me to build a new life with my girlfriend, who I cared for and loved,\" he says.\n\n\"It affected her as well. She died of alcohol poisoning at 35 years of age.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Robert Brown hasn’t slept in a bed in six months as he needs cell-like conditions to sleep.\n\nBrown's arrest came early one morning four months after the murder.\n\n\"I was beaten up in the police station for two days and I got blamed for the murder of Annie Walsh,\" he says.\n\nBrown signed a confession but always claimed it was because he was bullied into it by the police.\n\nA decade before his release he could have applied for parole but refused because it would have meant abandoning his claims of innocence.\n\nHe says: \"My mother begged me to take parole. That was never going to happen. If I had taken parole I was a dead man.\n\n\"If I had took parole I would have been selling my soul to the devil. I would never have been free.\"\n\nIn 2002, the Court of Appeal heard of a \"conspiracy of corruption\" within Greater Manchester Police and that one of the police officers central to the case, former Detective Chief Inspector Jack Butler, was \"deeply corrupt\".\n\nBrown's conviction was considered unsafe and he was released after 25 years behind bars.\n\nHe says: \"To ram it down the back of their throats, the establishment, is an amazing feeling but it a hollow, empty victory - and then the real horror story begins.\"\n\nHe remembers raising his hands aloft outside the court on his release.\n\n\"I thought what am I doing this for because it was not a victory.\"\n\nBrown says: \"The amount of time that I served would, in all honesty, damage anybody.\n\n\"The deprivation, the degradation, that would damage anybody.\"\n\nFifteen years after his release he lives in a one room \"prison cell\" and struggles to sleep.\n\n\"At night time I just walk up and down, your adrenaline is off the Richter scale, your heartbeat is off the Richter scale, it is a constant kaleidoscope of thoughts about what they did to me.\n\n\"I go through that process until my head is that tired of thinking about it I just conk out for a couple of hours.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Paddy Hill’s reaction to being released from prison after 16 years.\n\nOn the day, Robert Brown was released from prison, there was another man standing beside him who had been through the same ordeal.\n\nPaddy Hill was one of the Birmingham Six, sentenced to life for the IRA bombings in 1974 and released as an innocent man after 16 years.\n\nHis psychiatrist describes him as one of the most mentally scarred cases he has ever come across.\n\nIt was the organisation that Hill founded after his release - the Miscarriage of Justice Organisation or MOJO - whose campaign was instrumental in Brown winning his freedom.\n\nHill says: \"People think that when we got out it was the old proverbial fairytale ending, we get plenty of money and head off into the sunset and live happily ever after. It's a load of nonsense.\"\n\nThe 72-year-old grew up in the Ardoyne area of Belfast but moved to Birmingham with his family in 1960, at the age of 16.\n\nHe says: \"I met a girl there and fell in love and got married. Birmingham was like my second home.\"\n\nFiremen survey the damage outside the Birmingham pub, 'Tavern in the Town', after an IRA bomb blast\n\nOn the night of bombings at the Mulberry Bush and the Tavern in the Town pubs in Birmingham, in which 21 people died, Hill was travelling back to Belfast with a group of friends.\n\n\"We were getting the boat back from Heysham back to Belfast,\" he says.\n\nThe wrecked interior of the Mulberry Bush public house after the explosion of a bomb planted by the IRA\n\nHill says he was having a pint on the boat when a \"uniform cop with a big Alsatian came up to me and said port security wanted to talk to me\".\n\nAt first the interrogation followed procedure but when police from the West Midlands arrived, Hill says, he was battered and tortured.\n\n\"It changed my whole life round,\" he says.\n\n\"I never thought I would go to jail.\"\n\nPaddy Hill speaking after his release from prison in 1991\n\n\"If you had told me the day I got out that I would not be able to handle the outside world I would have laughed in your face,\" Hill says.\n\n\"I was a hell of a lot happier in prison than I was when I came out.\"\n\nHill says he \"hit he wall\" a few months after being released and began to burst into tears without warning.\n\nIt has been a quarter of a century since Hill was released but the effects of his wrongful conviction remain.\n\nHe says: \"I have a bad sleeping pattern. I wake up and the sweat and the adrenaline is pumping through you at 100 mph and every one of your nerves is like they are being stretched.\"\n\nHe says his anger levels at his own situation have come down over the years but he now gets angry for other people when he hears their stories.\n\n\"There are more innocent people in prison today than there was in my day, a hell of a lot more,\" Hill says.\n\n\"The reason they don't help us is clear to me, it would be an admission of guilt.\"\n\nPeter Pringle was one of the last men to be sentenced to death in Ireland, convicted of murdering two Gardai in 1980. He served 15 years.\n\nHe was born and raised on the south side of Dublin and left school early after \"a bit of bother\" with a Christian brother.\n\nPeter, who is now 78, says he was \"very angry\" about the poverty in Dublin in the 1950s and joined Sinn Fein when he was 16.\n\nHe became known to police when he was involved with the IRA in his youth but after spending two years in an internment camp in his early 20s he moved to the west coast and became a fisherman.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How Peter Pringle grieved for the life he should have had before it was stolen from him.\n\nAt the age of 41, with a serious drink problem, he was arrested in Galway and accused of armed robbery and the murder of a policeman acting in the course of duties.\n\n\"I had absolutely nothing to do with it,\" Pringle says.\n\nThe bank robbery was in Co Roscommon, 80km (50 miles) from where he was staying.\n\n\"I am an alcoholic and at that time had a serious drink problem and on that date I was on a 12-day session,\" he says.\n\n\"It was brought to my attention that the police were looking for me.\n\n\"I detoxed in the police station while being battered and interrogated. It was an horrendous time. I knew I had nothing to do with it. I was not even in the bloody county.\"\n\nHe was sentenced to death and put in a death cell.\n\nTwo weeks before his execution date in June 1981, he was told his sentence had been commuted to 40 years in jail.\n\nHe studied law and fought his case, eventually winning release in 1995.\n\nPeter actually got help from a clinical psychiatrist on his release because it was organised by his human rights lawyer Greg O'Neill.\n\n\"He explained to me about grief and how I needed to grieve for the life I might have had if I had not of been sent to prison,\" Pringle says.\n\nHe says the dreadful experience of that grief has helped him cope with his life now.\n\n\"I had a terrible loss, a terrible blackness, just feeling totally lost,\" he says.\n\n\"That terrible time actually benefits me now.\"\n\nPeter Pringle and Sunny Jacobs have been around the world campaigning against the death penalty\n\nAlong with his new partner, Sunny Jacobs (see below), Pringle now uses what happened to him to help other exonerated prisoners.\n\nHe says: \"We provide a place where people who have experienced wrongful imprisonment can be with people who have experienced the same thing.\n\n\"We can listen, they know we are not judging. They know we understand.\"\n\nSunny Jacobs was sentenced to death, along with her then husband, for the murder of two police officers in Florida in 1976 and served 17 years on Death Row.\n\nShe says: \"We have been told the experience of being convicted and locked up for 15/20 years is beyond post-traumatic stress disorder. It is something that does not even have a name.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. How would you celebrate your release after being wrongfully incarcerated for 17 years?\n\nJacobs was born in Queens, New York City, and describes herself as a \"quiet kid who liked rescuing injured animals\".\n\nShe had a son when she was 18 which ended her college career and she says she became isolated, concentrating on raising her child.\n\nTen years later, in 1976, she was married to Jesse Tafero and had a second child, who was just 10 months old.\n\nTheir car broke down in Florida and someone Jesse knew offered to give them a lift back to North Carolina.\n\nJacobs and her children were sleeping in the car in the rest area of an Interstate when the police came to check the IDs of drivers.\n\nThe next thing she knew there were shots being fired and the driver, Walter Rhodes, was ordering Sunny and the kids into the police car.\n\nRhodes drove them away but they were stopped at a road block.\n\nTwo police officers were killed in the gunfire and Jesse and Sunny were convicted on the testimony of Rhodes, who negotiated a plea bargain, claiming they had pulled the triggers.\n\nAt her trial Jacobs says there was one juror \"who refused to bullied in going along with the rest of them because he did not feel right about the conviction\".\n\nShe says: \"As a result of not being unanimous they had to sentence me to life in prison but the judge overruled them and sentenced me to death anyway.\"\n\nAt the time she was the only woman in the US with a sentence of death.\n\nJacobs was put in solitary confinement for five years, awaiting execution, but eventually her sentence was commuted to life.\n\nHer husband Jesse was executed in horrific circumstances.\n\nJacobs says: \"The electric chair malfunctioned and instead of dying he caught fire.\n\n\"The people who were there on behalf of the media said that flames shot out of his head and smoke came out of his ears and he struggled against his restraints.\n\n\"It took 13 and a half minutes before he was finally pronounced dead.\n\n\"When our daughter, who was by then 15 years old, heard what happened to her father she tried to kill herself.\"\n\nAfter Jesse's execution, Rhodes confessed he had fired the fatal shots and Jacobs was released 1992, at the age of 45.\n\nShe says the authorities were in such a hurry to get rid of her that there was no-one to collect at the prison.\n\n\"I was standing there with my little box of possessions,\" she says.\n\n\"I had not a penny in my pocket, I had no ID, it was like I had just landed from some strange planet through a portal.\"\n\nShe says she was afraid it was a trick and there might be a marksman on the roof ready to shoot her if she moved away from the prison.\n\nFor Jacobs, being released was a \"big let down\" because she felt estranged from all the people whom she thought of as her home base.\n\nJacobs, who practices yoga and meditation, says she had to stop focusing on the harm done to her and instead concentrate on what was left of her life and \"what could I do?\"\n\n\"That helped me a lot,\" she says.\n\n\"I was able to form a new healthy relationship with each of my children and then my grandchildren.\n\n\"All this time later it is still a daily process.\"\n\nSunny and Peter met in 1998 when Jacobs travelled to Ireland to speak at Amnesty International events.\n\nThey now live together in Ireland and run the Sunny Center, giving exonerated prisoners somewhere to go where they will be listened to and understood.\n\nShe says: \"As a result of us coming together we are able to share with others in ways that we wouldn't be able to individually.\n\n\"So I really think that peace is the way and love is the answer.\"", "North Korea says it has developed and tested a hydrogen bomb\n\nThe United Nations has imposed a fresh round of sanctions on North Korea after its sixth and largest nuclear test.\n\nThe measures restrict oil imports and ban textile exports - an attempt to starve the North of fuel and income for its weapons programmes.\n\nThe US had originally proposed harsher sanctions including a total ban on oil imports.\n\nPyongyang said it \"categorically rejected\" what it called an \"illegal\" resolution.\n\nNorth Korea's ambassador to the UN, Han Tae Song, told a conference in Geneva: \"The forthcoming measures by DPRK [the Democratic Republic of Korea] will make the US suffer the greatest pain it has ever experienced in its history.\"\n\nMonday's vote was only passed unanimously after Pyongyang allies Russia and China agreed to the reduced measures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Was your T-shirt made in North Korea?\n\nThe US call last week for a total ban on oil imports was seen as by some analysts as potentially destabilising for the regime.\n\nThe new sanctions agreed by the UN include:\n\nA proposed asset freeze and a travel ban on North Korean leader Kim Jong-un were dropped.\n\nThe US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, told the Security Council after the vote: \"We don't take pleasure in further strengthening sanctions today. We are not looking for war.\"\n\n\"The North Korean regime has not yet passed the point of no return,\" she added. \"If North Korea continues its dangerous path, we will continue with further pressure. The choice is theirs.\"\n\nBut the North Korean envoy also said: \"Instead of making [the] right choice with rational analysis... the Washington regime finally opted for political, economic and military confrontation, obsessed with the wild dream of reversing the DPRK's development of nuclear force - which has already reached the completion phase.\"\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\nA South Korean presidential office spokesman said on Tuesday: \"North Korea needs to realise that a reckless challenge against international peace will only bring about even stronger sanctions against them.\"\n\nMonday's resolution was the ninth one unanimously adopted by the UN since 2006.\n\nThe UN Security Council, which includes the US, has repeatedly slapped sanctions on North Korea\n\nChina's foreign ministry said on Tuesday (link in Chinese) that North Korea had \"ignored international opposition and once again conducted a nuclear test, severely violating UN Security Council resolutions\".\n\nIt also repeated its call for a \"peaceful resolution\" instead of a military response, adding: \"China will never allow the peninsula to descend into war and chaos.\"\n\nThe BBC's China editor Carrie Gracie says Beijing is treading a fine line and wants sanctions tough enough to signal its displeasure to Pyongyang and avoid American accusations of complicity, but not so tough as to threaten North Korea's survival.\n\nBoth Russia and China reiterated their proposal that the US and South Korea freeze all military drills - which anger North Korea - and asked for a halt in the deployment of the controversial anti-missile system Thaad, in exchange for Pyongyang's cessation of its weapons programmes.\n\nBeijing believes Thaad, which employs a powerful radar, is a security threat to China and neighbouring countries.\n\nMs Haley last week dismissed this proposal as \"insulting\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dr Helen Webberley said she listens to 'children's hearts' about when they want treatment\n\nA Monmouthshire GP is being investigated over complaints about her giving gender-change hormones to children as young as 12.\n\nDr Helen Webberley has been restricted from treating transgender patients unsupervised while the General Medical Council (GMC) looks into the case.\n\nThe Abergavenny-based GP said there had been no adverse finding against her.\n\nThe GMC said it would only comment on investigations if and when they reached tribunal stage.\n\nThe investigation was launched after two GPs complained to the GMC about Dr Webberley's private clinic, which specialises in gender issues.\n\nShe told the BBC she had given cross-sex hormone treatment to one 12-year-old and three 15-year-olds, despite NHS guidelines that they be given at about 16 or over.\n\n\"There are many children under 16 who are desperate to start what they would consider their natural puberty earlier than that,\" Dr Webberley told BBC Wales.\n\n\"And, of course, when someone mentions a 12-year-old it is very emotive.\"\n\nDr Webberley said the NHS protocol on hormone treatment starting at about 16 was \"not set on any medical evidence or research\".\n\n\"It's not in line with the centres of excellence in other countries and the standards of transgender care moving forward,\" she added.\n\nShe pointed out there had been \"no decisions or judgements\" made on the claims against her and they were \"simply aspects that need to be explored\".\n\nThe restrictions imposed by the GMC on 7 May mean that all of Dr Webberley's work with transgender patients will have to be supervised until November 2018.\n\nShe is unable to practise until she finds an approved clinical supervisor, which Dr Webberley says she is currently putting in place.\n\nStephanie Davies-Arai, of campaign group Transgender Trends, which raises concerns about gender treatment among children, said she was \"very concerned\" by the move toward \"earlier and earlier\" treatment for \"younger and younger\" children.\n\n\"Teenagers [and children] are not really equipped to make long-term decisions and benefit and risk calculations. We should not be fixing their identity at that age with medication that is irreversible,\" she added.\n\nShe said cross-sex hormone treatment can effectively put patients on the path to sterilisation, alongside other changes, which is a \"huge ethical issue\".\n\n\"These are huge, life-changing effects on children's bodies, on children's lives, and we need to be very, very cautious before presenting this treatment pathway to minors,\" she said.\n\nMs Davies-Arai called for \"much-tighter regulation\" for private GPs in this area.\n\nThe news comes after the Welsh Government announced Wales would get its first transgender clinic last month.\n\nThe Tavistock clinic, in England, which is currently the only centre offering gender identity treatment to young people in England and Wales, has seen a sharp rise in cases in recent years.", "Eleanor Rigby is listed among the names on a headstone in the graveyard of St Peter's Church, Woolton\n\nIn a graveyard in Liverpool lies a headstone bearing the name Eleanor Rigby. Its deeds are being auctioned later as part of a sale of Beatles memorabilia, but what is the real story behind the Fab Four's famous hit?\n\nIt was at a church fete in 1957 that John Lennon and Paul McCartney first met. Just yards away lay the grave of scullery maid Eleanor Rigby, who had died, aged 44, in 1939.\n\nNine years later, McCartney would pen the lyrics for what became one of the band's most celebrated songs.\n\nOften described as a lament for the lonely, or a commentary on life in post-war Britain, it tells the story of a woman who \"died in the church and was buried along with her name\".\n\nIt is tempting to picture the teenage Lennon and McCartney sombrely contemplating the headstone, imagining the life of Eleanor and later dreaming up the lyrics.\n\nBut the reality is few knew of the grave's existence until the early 1980s, and McCartney himself has denied it was the inspiration behind the song.\n\nThis hasn't stopped the deeds to the grave being listed for auction with a guide price of £4,000. They are part of a sale which also features other Beatles items and concludes on Thursday.\n\nThe deeds to Eleanor Rigby's grave were found by a relative\n\nDavid Bedford, who has written several books about the band, said he thought it was \"weird\" there was such interest in a woman seemingly unconnected to the song.\n\n\"The score of the song you can understand but a grave, I find it really unusual,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm not quite sure who would want to buy the deeds to a grave, and I'll be interested to see who does buy them, and for how much money.\"\n\nBut Mr Bedford said he believed it would be \"too much of a coincidence\" if the grave had never figured in McCartney's mind, at least at some subliminal level.\n\n\"The mythology of the grave grows every year,\" he said.\n\nThe song seems to have gone through several stages of development.\n\nMcCartney said when he first sat down at the piano he had the name Daisy Hawkins in his mind. He later changed this to Eleanor, after the actress Eleanor Bron, who had starred with The Beatles in the film Help!\n\nThe character's surname at one stage was Bygraves, according to Spencer Leigh, author of The Beatles book Love Me Do to Love Me Don't.\n\nBut McCartney later changed this to Rigby, from the name of a store he had spotted in Bristol - Rigby & Evens Ltd, Wine & Spirit Shippers.\n\n\"I just liked the name,\" he said in 1984. \"I was looking for a name that sounded natural. Eleanor Rigby sounded natural.\"\n\nPaul McCartney has conceded the grave of Eleanor Rigby may have influenced him in a subconscious way\n\nSt Peter's Church in Woolton, where the grave of Eleanor Rigby lies\n\nIn 2008, a birth certificate for the woman buried in the graveyard of St Peter's Church, Woolton, was put up for auction.\n\n\"Eleanor Rigby is a totally fictitious character that I made up,\" McCartney said in response.\n\n\"If someone wants to spend money buying a document to prove a fictitious character exists, that's fine with me.\"\n\nHowever, he has conceded in the past the headstone may have influenced him in a subconscious way.\n\nMr Leigh said it was easy to see how McCartney's childhood visits to the churchyard would have been very memorable for him.\n\n\"John Lennon had connections in that church and had even been in the choir there,\" he said.\n\n\"[Lennon's] uncle died in 1955 when he was quite young. His name was George Toogood Smith. John loved the name and quite often he would take his friends into the graveyard to show them.\n\n\"It's quite possible McCartney saw the Rigby grave and just stored it away in his head. It's just possible that he kept that in his mind. But we actually don't know, and I think McCartney himself doesn't know.\"\n\nEleanor Rigby was written primarily by Paul McCartney (far left) and produced by George Martin (second from right)\n\nMcCartney's score includes notes that there should be four violins, two violas and two cellos\n\nKaren Fairweather, from Omega Auctions, conceded the connection between the real Eleanor Rigby and the song was a matter of \"folklore\", none of which was rooted in \"concrete fact\".\n\n\"There is of course the gravestone, and the Rigbys lived on the road that backed on to the road where John Lennon lived,\" she added.\n\nYet, whatever the origin of the name, Eleanor Rigby remains an integral part of the band's story and Liverpool's Beatles industry. The gravestone itself is regularly visited by guided tours and an Eleanor Rigby sculpture can be found in Stanley Street.\n\nMr Leigh describes the song as \"perfect\", both in its melodies and its representation of a typical Liverpudlian woman of the time.\n\nAn Eleanor Rigby sculpture sits on a bench in Liverpool's Stanley Street\n\n\"The real Eleanor Rigby worked as a sort of scullery maid,\" Mr Leigh said. \"It just fits so perfectly.\"\n\nHe said the jazz singer George Melly put it best when he said: \"Eleanor Rigby seemed to be written out of their experiences in Liverpool.\n\n\"Liverpool was always in their songs but this was about the kind of old woman that I remembered from my childhood and later: very respectable Liverpool women, living in two-up, two-down streets with the doorsteps meticulously holystoned (scoured) and the church the one solid thing in their lives.\n\n\"There's the loneliness of it and it struck me as a poem from the start.\n\n\"If you read Love Me Do without the music, it doesn't mean much but if you read Eleanor Rigby, it is a poem about someone, which [was] something unprecedented in popular song.\"", "Sir Richard is taking stock after last week's storm\n\nSir Richard Branson says most of the buildings and vegetation on Necker, his Caribbean island, have been destroyed or badly damaged by Hurricane Irma.\n\nNecker is among the 50 British Virgin Islands (BVI). Sir Richard says he has visited the nearest ones to Necker and has seen \"first-hand how ferocious and unforgiving this storm was\".\n\nThe hurricane killed five people in the territory and the BVI's premier has asked the UK to give long-term support.\n\nSir Richard and his team are safe.\n\nNecker's buildings were tossed around by last week's hurricane\n\nHurricane Irma passed through the British Virgin Islands in the middle of last week.\n\nHe said: \"We felt the full force of the strongest hurricane ever in the Atlantic Ocean. But we are very fortunate to have a strong cellar built into Necker's Great House and were very lucky all of our teams who stayed on Island during the storm are safe and well.\"\n\nSir Richard says most of the vegetation on the island is damaged or destroyed\n\nHe said the \"story is about the tens of thousands of people who have lost their homes and their livelihoods\".\n\nCommunications are mostly still down in the British Virgin Islands and Sir Richard is currently in Puerto Rico, a few kilometres to the west of the islands.\n\nSir Richard says the \"story is about the tens of thousands of people who have lost their homes and their livelihoods\".\n\nHe said he was there \"to further mobilise aid efforts and rebuilding plans for the British Virgin Islands and wider Caribbean\".\n\nSir Richard said he would be talking to various governments and aid agencies as well as the media, and would be heading straight back to the British Virgin Islands to continue helping the recovery effort on the ground.\n\nThe British Virgin Islands is a self-governing British overseas territory with the Queen as its head of state.\n\nThe British Virgin Islands' premier, Orlando Smith, said they would need long-term help from the UK: \"We are a resilient people but this has shaken us to our core.\n\n\"A comprehensive economic package for reconstruction backed by the UK Government will be needed over the long-term in order to return to normalcy,\"\n\nThe UK has sent military planes, and on Sunday the Royal Navy said locals had helped a helicopter crew unload medical supplies, including vaccines.\n\nNecker Island as it was before the storm", "Paul Hollywood said he was dressed as a character from BBC comedy 'Allo 'Allo\n\nGreat British Bake Off star Paul Hollywood has apologised after being pictured wearing a Nazi uniform.\n\nThe Sun on Sunday published pictures of the celebrity baker in a World War Two outfit, including a swastika armband.\n\nThe 51-year-old said the pictures dated from 2003, when he went to a New Year's Eve party as a character from the 1980s WW2-set BBC comedy series 'Allo 'Allo.\n\nIn a statement he said: \"I am absolutely devastated if this caused offence to anyone.\"\n\nOne picture shows Hollywood smiling in a photo in a pub alongside a friend, who is also wearing a Nazi military uniform.\n\nIn another image, they are joined by friends wearing French-style berets.\n\nAs well as the red armband, Hollywood's outfit included an Iron Cross medal and a badge featuring a Nazi eagle.\n\nDuring an episode of the BBC show Who Do You Think You Are? in 2015, Hollywood learned about the experiences of his grandfather Norman Harman during World War 2, when he served as an anti-aircraft gunner.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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End of twitter post by The Sun\n\nIn his statement, Hollywood said he had been on his way to a TV comedy-themed party 14 years ago when the pictures were taken.\n\nHe added: \"Everyone who knows me knows I am incredibly proud of the efforts of those, including my own grandfather, who fought against the Nazis during the war.\"\n\nHollywood is currently on TV in the first Channel 4 series of Great British Bake Off, alongside new fellow judge Prue Leith and presenters Sandi Toksvig and Noel Fielding.", "The festival was held at Lulworth Castle\n\nA man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a woman was found dead at a festival in Dorset.\n\nThe body of the 25-year-old was discovered in a wooded area at the edge of the Bestival site in Dorset in the early hours.\n\nPolice said they were called shortly before 01:00 BST amid concern for welfare of the woman, from London.\n\nA 28-year-old man from London has been arrested on suspicion of murder and is being questioned by police.\n\nA cordon remains in place at the festival site while forensic examinations take place.\n\nDorset Police said the woman's family and the coroner had been informed.\n\nA post-mortem examination is to be carried out to establish the cause of death.\n\nDet Ch Insp Sarah Derbyshire said: \"Following the discovery of the woman's body we have now launched an investigation into her death. We have specially trained officers supporting her family at this very difficult time.\n\n\"We are working closely with the festival organisers and I would appeal to anyone with any information about the incident to contact Dorset Police.\"\n\nOn Sunday the festival arenas were temporarily evacuated as high winds battered the site.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Last updated on .From the section Tennis\n\nSloane Stephens was planning to spend Saturday night in New York celebrating with Madison Keys, hours after beating her friend to a first Grand Slam title.\n\nThe 24-year-old American, ranked 83rd until Monday, thrashed 15th seed Keys 6-3 6-0 in just 61 minutes to complete a scarcely believable return from injury.\n\nAsked if she would be buying the drinks, Stephens confirmed: \"Yes, a lot of them apparently. We are having a little celebration and she is coming.\"\n\nIf you told someone this story, they'd be, like, 'That's insane'.\n\nJust 69 days after returning from an 11-month injury lay-off, and six weeks since her ranking dropped to 957, Stephens became only the fifth unseeded woman to win a Grand Slam singles title in the Open era.\n\nAnd she later revealed it was boredom as much as nerves that threatened to upset her equilibrium during the 48 hours between semi-final and final at Flushing Meadows.\n\n\"I was literally in my room twiddling my thumbs,' she said. \"I was looking at car reviews last night on Auto Trader, like literally. That's how bored I was. I didn't have anything to do.\"\n\nStephens admitted that the nerves finally took hold as she stepped out onto Arthur Ashe Stadium - but a little over an hour later her eyes were bulging as a cheque for $3.7m (£2.8m) was handed to her and she was announced as a Grand Slam champion.\n\nShe said: \"There are no words to describe how I got here, because if you told someone this story they'd be, like, 'that's insane'.\"\n\n'There is no positive to not being able to walk'\n\nIt is four years since Stephens first grabbed worldwide headlines when she beat compatriot Serena Williams in the Australian Open quarter-finals.\n\nThe likes of NBA stars Shaquille O'Neal and Dirk Nowitzki, and singer John Legend, congratulated her on social media, and a star had seemingly been born.\n\nIn the event, progress was harder going until 2016 when she won three titles, cementing her place in the top 30 and apparently on the up.\n\nA right foot stress fracture halted that momentum, forcing her to withdraw from the US Open last August, and she would not return until Wimbledon.\n\nSurgery followed in January and for the next 16 weeks Stephens was on crutches and unable to put any pressure on her foot.\n\nJust a month before Wimbledon, she was still wearing a protective boot.\n\n\"There is no positive to not being able to walk and being on one leg,\" said Stephens. \"That's not fun for anyone.\"\n\nFinally, Stephens stepped back on court in July - and first-round defeats at Wimbledon and in Washington were entirely predictable. Her ranking plummeted to 957.\n\nWhat followed was, in her own words on Saturday night, \"insane\".\n\nThe victory over Keys was her 15th in 17 matches, the kind of form shown by someone vying to be number one rather than avoid slipping outside the top 1,000.\n\n\"When I had surgery, I was not thinking that I would be anywhere near a US Open title,\" she said.\n\n\"Nor did I think I was going to be anywhere near the top 100.\"\n\nSybil Smith made her tournament debut in the player box for the final as her daughter made history.\n\n\"It was nice that we got it right for the two weeks, and I came out with the title,\" said Stephens.\n\nIt is eight years since Stephens attended her father's funeral on the eve of the US Open, after he died in a car accident in Louisiana.\n\nEstranged from the family, John Stephens had been a running back in the NFL for the New England Patriots, the Green Bay Packers and the Kansas City Chiefs.\n\nBut it was her mother, Sybil, an all-American swimmer, who brought up Stephens, and that included introducing the nine-year-old to tennis.\n\n\"Obviously my whole life my mum has been very supportive,\" said Stephens. \"She's been in my corner the whole time.\n\n\"I have had a lot of ups and a lot of downs - and some really low downs - and throughout that, my mum has been there 100% with me.\"\n\nFind out how to get into tennis in our special guide.\n\nIt was at a tennis academy in her native Florida that Stephens learned the game, and also where she met Laura Robson as an 11-year-old.\n\nThe British number four, 23, was clearly moved on Saturday night by seeing two of her friends and contemporaries on the US Open presentation stage, posting on social media: \"Who's cutting onions?\"\n\nRobson might use both women as inspiration for her own struggle back up the rankings following injury.\n\nStephens has spent as much time in 2017 as a TV presenter on a US tennis channel - what Keys described as \"her second job\" - as she has on court, helping fill her time during the 11-month injury lay-off.\n\nDescribing herself as in \"a sad place\", the television work proved to be a boost to morale.\n\nPaul Annacone, ex-coach of Pete Sampras, worked with Stephens for eight months in 2014, and again on her TV work this year. He believes the extended break from tennis had some benefit.\n\n\"I think it has helped Sloane become more focused and realise that the window is closing, ever so slightly,\" he told BBC Radio 5 live.\n\n\"That's allowed her to go on court with a much more relentless ability to compete and deal with adversity.\n\n\"I think historically she has got a little bit nervous in stages, and then when adversity has set in she's struggled a little bit to compete through it.\n\n\"This summer, Sloane's been amazing with adversity.\"\n\nThe semi-final victory over fellow American Venus Williams in New York took her record in three-set matches this summer to 8-0.\n\n'He should have got a hat-trick'\n\nStephens will not be short of family and friends, including Keys, to celebrate with in New York.\n\nHer coach, Kamau Murray, and team have exuded calm, happily posing with fans in the public plaza at Flushing Meadows earlier in the week.\n\nIt is unlikely Serena Williams joined the party eight days after giving birth to her first child, but the 23-time Grand Slam champion posted her support on social media before the final.\n\n\"There are NO words to describe how proud and how happy I am,\" Williams said on Twitter.\n\nOne person absent from the player box on Arthur Ashe Stadium was Stephens' boyfriend, Jozy Altidore, a former forward for Sunderland in the Premier League, now leading the line for Toronto FC.\n\nOtherwise engaged in MLS action against San Jose, he revealed that he found out the result of the final from his mother in the stands at half-time.\n\nAltidore then scored twice in the second half of a 4-0 win.\n\n\"That's really good,\" said Stephens, before adding: \"He should have got a hat-trick. It would have been such a good day. Goodness.\"", "Revel Horwood said the only issue was \"who's going to go backwards\"\n\nStrictly Come Dancing judge Craig Revel Horwood has predicted there will \"probably\" be same-sex couples dancing on the show next year.\n\nPrior to the launch show Susan Calman faced criticism for taking part in their absence, and the BBC issued a statement saying they had \"no plans\" to introduce them.\n\nBut Revel Horwood said he is hopeful.\n\n\"In the world of competition there are same-sex couples... so there's no reason why that can't happen.\"\n\nHe continued: \"The Beeb have to decide whether they want to do that one year. I think it will probably happen next year.\"\n\nRevel Horwood made the comments on ITV's Lorraine show on Monday.\n\n\"I think same-sex couples can exist,\" he continued. \"You only have to decide who's going to go backwards really, that's the only difference.\n\n\"If you consider the tango was originally danced between two men anyway... It's powerful, explosive, and the same can happen between two women.\"\n\nSusan Calman admitted to Tess Daly she was a Kevin Clifton superfan\n\nCalman strongly defended her decision as an openly gay woman to dance with a male professional dancer on Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nThe Scottish comedian was partnered up with Kevin Clifton on Saturday's launch show, becoming emotional as she revealed she had a poster of him in her kitchen.\n\nThe Reverend Richard Coles - who was paired with new professional dancer Dianne Buswell - has also said he would be more than happy to dance with a male partner.\n\nOther pairings saw This Morning's Ruth Langsford team up with Anton Du Beke.\n\nJLS singer Aston Merrygold said he was hoping to have a short partner, so was relieved when he was teamed up with Janette Manrara.\n\nOn the other end of the height scale, former Emmerdale actress Gemma Atkinson was happy to be teamed up with Aljaz Skorjanec.\n\nThe celebrities competed to see who could be the most excited about their dancing partner\n\nAston Merrygold was ecstatic to get Janette Manrara as his dance partner\n\nThe launch episode of Strictly Come Dancing was the ratings victor on Saturday, with an average of 8.8 million people tuning in to watch.\n\nOver on ITV, 5.5 million saw The X Factor as it reached its second week.\n\nStrictly's ratings were down on last year's launch show, which drew a record audience of 9.3 million.\n\nThe opening show, which had a tribute to former host Sir Bruce Forsyth, had a 44.7% share of the audience, while The X Factor had 27.3%.\n\nThe two shows clashed at 20:00 BST, when The X Factor ran against Strictly's last 40 minutes.\n\nX Factor hopeful Deanna Mussington was voted through after her audition\n\nThe ITV show featured an audition from Deanna Mussington, who flew over from the Caribbean island of Anguilla to perform before the judges.\n\nThe 22-year-old has since returned to Anguilla, which has suffered extensive damage from Hurricane Irma.\n\nSunday night's X Factor programme recorded ratings of 6.39 million and a 29.8% share of the audience.\n\nThe X Factor returned last week with an average audience of six million viewers - the lowest launch show ratings since the show began in 2004.\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. Sally and Nigel Rowe say their child came home from school confused and unhappy\n\nThe parents of a six-year-old boy have removed him from his primary school in a row over whether another pupil should be allowed to wear a dress.\n\nNigel and Sally Rowe said their son was confused as to why the child at the Church of England School on the Isle of Wight dressed as both a boy and a girl.\n\nThe Diocese of Portsmouth, under which the school falls, said it was required to \"respect diversity of all kinds\".\n\nThe couple believe the school should have consulted all parents.\n\nMrs Rowe told the BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme that when they spoke with the school, which is not being identified, they were told \"if a child wants to do that then we just have to accept it\".\n\nThe couple said under the school's bullying policy their son faced being disciplined for misidentifying the gender of the six-year-old pupil.\n\nTwo years ago they removed their eldest son from the same school in a separate row about a different child with gender identity issues.\n\nThe Rowes say the suggestion that gender is fluid conflicts with their Christian beliefs and they are seeking a legal challenge against the school's actions.\n\nThe Christian Legal Centre, which is supporting Mr and Mrs Rowe, said the couple were being accused of \"transphobic behaviour\" because of their \"refusal to acknowledge a transgender person's true gender\".\n\nMr Rowe said: \"I am shocked by the suggestion, especially from a church school, that just because we question the notion that a six-year-old boy can really become a girl, we are transphobic.\"\n\nShe added:: \"We believe he [the older boy] was under stress by the confusion that was caused by having a boy in his class that decided that they were going to have a girl's name and dress as a girl.\"\n\nThere is no specific law dictating uniforms. Schools are free to set their own rules as long as they don't breach human rights and equality legislation; in other words, they cannot discriminate on the basis of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation or faith.\n\nUnder the Human Rights Act, schools must also make sure that no child is prevented from accessing education due to their uniform rules. It's more common for schools or employers to be challenged over dress codes when people are prevented from wearing something, for instance a hijab or a crucifix necklace, rather than because they have permitted something - in this case for a boy to wear the regulation girls' uniform.\n\nThis case is unusual because the parents taking legal action are protesting against a form of uniform being permitted rather than prohibited, and because their child is not the party being directly affected by the rules. This is likely to make their case harder to argue.\n\nIt will all come down to competing rights - for both children to freely access education and not to be discriminated against.\n\nJeff Williams, director of education for the Diocese of Portsmouth, said: \"Church of England schools are inclusive environments where pupils learn to respect diversity of all kinds.\n\n\"Like any other state school, our schools comply with the legal requirements of the Equalities Act 2010.\n\n\"Among other things, this requires schools to accept the wishes of children and their families with regard to gender identity. It would be unlawful for any of our schools to do otherwise.\"\n\nMr and Mrs Rowe say the school's handling of the situation did not show proper regard for the possible long-term emotional and psychological effects for the two young children seeking to change gender, or for the confusion and concern caused to other people by the suggestion that boys are not always boys, and girls are not always girls.\n\nLGBT campaigner Jane Fae, who is transgender, said Mr and Mrs Rowe had misjudged the issue, as children with gender issues needed sympathy to help prevent them being bullied.\n\nShe said: \"I have a child who took a lot of bullying on my behalf and that bullying was exactly the same: it was parents saying 'we have a right to an opinion' and they told their children their opinion, and having told their children their opinion, their children thought it was open season on bullying my son.\"", "The government wants to incorporate EU law into the UK statute book in time for Brexit\n\nWhat is all the fuss about?\n\nListen to ministers and all they are trying to do is tidy up the paperwork, cross the t's and dot the i's. Listen to Labour and Theresa May is trying her luck as a despot, grabbing power in great chunks, never again to give our elected representatives the chance to argue or even consider what's being done on our behalf.\n\nGuess what? As ever in politics the truth is somewhere in between, whatever the two sides say. We are leaving the EU in less than two years (pretty much inevitably unless something really surprising happens).\n\nBut much of our law is based on EU law and EU institutions. So when we leave, in theory we lose lots of law overnight, and much of it simply won't make sense any more in thousands and thousands of areas.\n\nSounds strange, but hypothetically that's what could happen. Right now the EU rules that have over the years been incorporated into our statute books govern everything from chemicals to beaches to immigration to animal welfare to aviation. This list goes on and on, and it is safe to assume EU law shapes pretty much everything.\n\nThe idea behind the Withdrawal Bill is therefore to cut and paste the lot into British law, so that we don't wake up the morning after we leave the EU in 2019 with a free-for-all.\n\nSo far, so uncontroversial. Here's the problem. The amount of stuff, the sheer volume of the rules and regulations that need to be transferred is so massive, basically our entire statute book, that the government says there is just no way there will be time to debate it all, let alone vote on every bit.\n\nTheir solution is to use so-called 'Henry VIII powers', evoking the image of a medieval monarch, ruling by whim and decree. In practice this could mean that on thousands of rules, regulations, ministers can make changes, whether harmless tweaks or suspicious alterations, without having to consult other MPs, let alone give them a vote.\n\nPro-EU demonstrators waved flags outside Parliament as MPs prepared to debate the bill\n\nCrucially, it would allow ministers to change things where they think it is \"appropriate\", in theory that makes their decisions even exempt to legal challenge. As it stands, the bill also gives ministers the power to choose the day of our actual exit from the EU, without asking Parliament, and it could also give them the power to designate different days for Brexit in different legal areas.\n\nThere are therefore clear reasons for there to be nerves on all sides of the House of Commons about the bill.\n\nMinisters accept privately that they will probably have to budge in some areas. But tonight's midnight vote is not likely to be the big showdown.\n\nTory rebels will, in the main, vote for the bill in principle, and enter hand-to-hand combat in the more detailed stages in the next couple of months. And although the opposition will vote against the bill this evening, there are also anxious MPs on that side of the House of Commons who won't, worried about appearing to be blocking Brexit by \"killing the bill\".\n\nBut tonight will be the first real taste of the months to come, the House of Commons sitting until midnight, the government anxiously totting up the numbers, MPs being told to cancel any plans they have to be around for vital votes.\n\nTonight's likely approval of the bill won't wash away the real concerns, and once it makes it to the House of Lords the battles could be even more fraught.\n\nPS: Potential Tory rebels might find a little relief in this nugget. Despite reports that the government chief whip, Gavin Williamson, had acquired a second tarantula for his office, the better to torment his charges (yes he does have one), he told me this morning that in fact that is not the case. His spider, Cronus, is still his only office pet.\n• None Reality Check: Who are the low-skilled EU workers?", "George Clooney is the director of Suburbicon - currently showing at the Toronto Film Festival\n\nGeorge Clooney has said he \"felt sick\" while directing some scenes in his new movie Suburbicon.\n\nThe film's plot sees a black family move into a predominantly white suburban community in the 1950s.\n\n\"The trickiest part [of shooting] was, we were in a very racially diverse neighbourhood in Fullerton, California,\" Clooney said.\n\n\"And we had about 350 extras who were going to hurl a lot of racial slurs and say a lot of pretty terrible things.\"\n\nClooney added: \"Everybody who was making the film, we all just felt sick while we were doing it.\"\n\nReferring to the way the family is treated in the film, the director said: \"These are things that happened - [neighbours] sang church hymns, they hung confederate flags over the fence, they built a fence around their house, these are things that really happened.\n\n\"But it was sickening to be part of it quite honestly, so that was one of the most difficult things to shoot.\"\n\nThe movie, which is currently showing as part of the Toronto Film Festival, was conceived during the run up to the US election of November 2016, which was won by Donald Trump.\n\nClooney said: \"We'd seen some things on the campaign trail where they were talking about building fences, and scapegoating Mexicans and Muslims, and we're always reminded that these aren't new things and new moments in our history.\n\n\"So we thought it would be interesting to talk about it, but we wanted the film to be entertaining, not a documentary, we didn't want it to be an eat-your-spinach piece of filmmaking.\n\n\"So we merged it with [an existing Coen Brothers script] Suburbicon, because we thought it was a funnier idea to put it in the suburbs in the 1950s where we all thought everything was perfect - if you were a white straight male.\"\n\nThe actor and director said the real-life political climate the film was shot in ultimately altered the tone of the movie.\n\n\"While we were shooting, Trump was elected, and it changed the temperature of the film in a weird way,\" Clooney explained.\n\n\"The country got angrier, whichever side you were on. We had to cut some of Josh Brolin's scenes out, and one of the reasons is they were really slapstick funny, and it felt like the wrong tone suddenly.\"\n\nThe film stars Matt Damon, Julianne Moore and Karimah Westbrook - who drew parallels between her character (the mother of the African-American family) and her own experience of the entertainment industry.\n\n\"I think early on there was a lot of correlations as far as what I've experienced in Hollywood,\" she said.\n\nKarimah Westbrook said diversity in Hollywood had improved more recently\n\n\"I wore my hair natural for a very long time, so when I first moved to Hollywood I had an afro, and my manager said 'You'll never work with your hair like that, you'll have to straighten it'.\n\n\"I struggled with that for years, my looks, my hair... but I feel like things have changed so much in the industry, we have so many African-American women starring in shows now, so I feel there's been progress, but there's still a lot of things we're facing on both sides.\"\n\nRead more from the festival:\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. Aid agencies say Rohingya refugees from Myanmar are in desperate need of aid\n\nThe security operation targeting Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar \"seems a textbook example of ethnic cleansing\", the UN human rights chief says.\n\nZeid Raad Al Hussein urged Myanmar to end the \"cruel military operation\" in Rakhine state.\n\nMore than 300,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled to Bangladesh since violence erupted there late last month.\n\nThe military says it is responding to attacks by Rohingya militants and denies it is targeting civilians.\n\nThe violence began on 25 August when the Rohingya militants attacked police posts in northern Rakhine, killing 12 security personnel.\n\nRohingyas who have fled Myanmar since then say the military responded with a brutal campaign, burning villages and attacking civilians in a bid to drive them out.\n\nThe Rohingya, a stateless mostly Muslim minority in Buddhist-majority Rakhine, have long experienced persecution in Myanmar, which says they are illegal immigrants.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Who is burning down Rohingya villages?\n\nMr Zeid, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said the current operation in Rakhine was \"clearly disproportionate\".\n\nHe noted that the situation could not be fully assessed because Myanmar had refused access to human rights investigators, but said the UN had received \"multiple reports and satellite imagery of security forces and local militia burning Rohingya villages, and consistent accounts of extrajudicial killings, including shooting fleeing civilians\".\n\n\"I call on the government to end its current cruel military operation, with accountability for all violations that have occurred and to reverse the pattern of severe and widespread discrimination against the Rohingya population,\" he said.\n\nLatest reports put the number of those who have fled to Bangladesh at 313,000. Aid agencies say they are in desperate need of food, shelter and medical aid, and that current resources are inadequate.\n\nBangladesh is already host to hundreds of thousands of Rohingya who have fled previous outbreaks of violence in Rakhine. Existing refugee camps are full and the new arrivals are sleeping rough in whatever space they can find, reports say.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe authorities have, however, started to register the new arrivals. Previously only those in two official camps were being documented, but government teams are now collecting fingerprints and details from all newcomers, including those in makeshift shelters.\n\nAnalysts say that, until now, the government has refused to register those outside camps for fear of legitimising them. But the current move may help the government as it engages in a diplomatic battle about the Rohingyas' future, the BBC's Sanjoy Majumder reports.\n\nOn Sunday, the Rohingya militant group behind the 25 August attacks declared a one-month unilateral ceasefire to allow aid agencies in, but the Myanmar government rejected it, saying it would not negotiate with \"terrorists\".\n\nIt maintains that it is the militants who are burning Rohingya villages and targeting civilians, but a BBC correspondent on an official visit to Rakhine came across a Muslim village apparently burned by Rakhine Buddhists, contradicting the official narrative.\n\nAung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's de facto leader, is facing mounting criticism for failing to protect the Rohingya, and on Monday exiled Tibetan Buddhist leader the Dalai Lama added his voice, urging her \"to reach out to all sections of society to try to restore friendly relations\".\n\nBut the Rohingya are extremely unpopular inside Myanmar. On Sunday, police fired rubber bullets to break up a mob attacking the home of a Muslim butcher in Magway region in central Myanmar. One protester was quoted by AFP news agency saying it was a response to events in Rakhine.", "Two prisoners at Lindholme prison have had their jail time extended after attacking another inmate and leaving him with a broken jaw.\n\nAdam Woodhouse, 23, formerly of Harehills, Leeds and Marlon James, 24, formerly of Chapeltown, Leeds, appeared before Sheffield Crown Court on Monday 4 September, where they entered guilty pleas.\n\nThe attack happened in May last year.\n\nWoodhouse, who is currently serving a six year sentence for burglary and vehicle theft and was due to be released next year, pleaded guilty to wounding and was sentenced to a further 27 months in prison.James, serving an eight year sentence for possession of a firearm, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm and was jailed for a further 24 weeks in prison.", "Pupils have been told to be in bed by 21:30 in a set of strict new rules at the failing school\n\nThe new head of a failing school has come in for severe criticism after introducing strict new rules to improve pupil performance.\n\nConcerns over the \"army-like schooling\" at Great Yarmouth Charter Academy have been expressed by parents on Facebook.\n\nNew rules include banning mobile phones and children have been told to be in bed by 21:30 every night.\n\nBut a spokesman for the school said what pupils needed was \"the right environment to learn and succeed\".\n\nGreat Yarmouth High School was taken over by Inspiration Trust and re-named Charter Academy. Until this summer it had \"some of the worst GCSE results in the entire country\", according to new principal Barry Smith.\n\n\"In a typical class of 30 pupils, 21 pupils left the school without even a pass in English and maths,\" he said.\n\n\"As the headmaster of Charter Academy I cannot, I will not, allow the indiscipline, the disrespect, the failure, the bullying, the truancy and the lack of parental support, that were all a part of daily life at the former high school, to continue.\n\n\"There's a lot more to school than just passing exams. Every good teacher knows that. But, when push comes to shove, kids need those grades.\"\n\nParents have expressed concern over strict new rules at Great Yarmouth Charter Academy\n\nA Facebook page was set up by parent Kelvin Seal, on which parents expressed concern over the strict uniform rules and detention for dental appointments taken during school hours.\n\nChildren have been told to be in bed by 21:30 every night and up at 06:30, and warned those claiming to feel sick during lessons would be handed a bucket to vomit in instead of being allowed to leave classrooms.\n\nSeeing a parent and child crying outside the school, Mr Seal told the BBC he politely asked the head: \"'Excuse me, why are you doing this to children?' His reply was 'If you don't like it, get out.'\"\n\nInspiration Trust spokesman James Goffin said: \"Unfortunately there has been a lot of rumour and inaccurate information spread on social media that has understandably concerned some parents and pupils.\"\n\nA document shared with the BBC revealed the standards of discipline expected from pupils. The 22-page document included the following:\n\nSteven Homes said his daughter was \"begging him\" not to send her back to the the academy\n\nParent Steven Holmes said his daughter came home in tears at the end of her first day in year seven saying she had been shouted at all day.\n\n\"I want her to learn not be in fear, \" said Mr Holmes. \"This isn't about discipline. It's bullying.\"\n\nMr Goffin said: \"The academy will be holding a meeting for all parents in the coming days so they can hear first-hand what Great Yarmouth Charter Academy is really all about.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "That wraps up debate on the EU Withdrawal Bill today.\n\nThe government won its votes on second reading and the programme motion - and comfortably defeated Labour's amendment.\n\nBut looking ahead in Westminster later today, the Commons could be facing another late night...\n\nA major row has blown up over a move designed to guarantee the government a majority on committees which do the line-by-line scrutiny of legislation.\n\nLabour argues that the government didn't get a majority in the election, so they shouldn't have one to drive through their programme in the committees either.\n\nThere may be some fireworks surrounding those votes.\n\nThe Commons sits at 11.30am, kicking off with questions to the Business Secretary Greg Clark and his team of ministers.\n\nSee you then...", "Police vehicles arriving at the scene of the shooting, in the Dallas suburb of Plano\n\nA gunman has killed eight people at a home in Dallas, Texas, before being shot dead by police.\n\nTwo further shooting victims are in hospital after they were injured at the property on Sunday night.\n\nPolice spokesman David Tilley said the shooter was killed by the first responding officer after an exchange of gunfire. The officer was not injured.\n\nIt is not yet clear what motivated the attack in the suburb of Plano, or if the gunman knew the victims.\n\n\"We're trying to put all the puzzle pieces together,\" Mr Tilley said.\n\nThe local Dallas News reported that those killed had been watching the Dallas Cowboys, an American Football team, when the violence unfolded.\n\nThe outlet quoted a neighbour, Stacey Glover, who said there had been a game-watching party at the property that started early in the afternoon, with people laughing and grilling food outside.\n\nPolice have not named the shooter or any of the victims, but all are said to be adults. The condition of the two survivors is unknown.", "Three men, including two British soldiers, have been charged under terror laws with being members of a banned neo-Nazi group.\n\nAlexander Deakin, 22, Mikko Vehvilainen, 32, and Mark Barrett, 24, have been charged with being members of National Action.\n\nIt was the first far-right group to be banned by the Home Office in 2016.\n\nThey are among five men arrested on 5 September. Two others have since been released without charge.\n\nMr Deakin from Birmingham, Mr Vehvilainen, based at Sennybridge Camp in Brecon, and Mr Barrett, based at Dhekelia Garrison in Cyprus, will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.\n\nWest Midlands Police has said the arrests were \"pre-planned and intelligence-led\" with no threat to public safety.\n\nMr Deakin has been charged with two counts under Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000 - alleged possession of documents likely to be useful to a person preparing to commit an act of terrorism.\n\nThe 22-year-old is also charged with one count of distributing a terrorist publication. Separately he faces one count of inciting racial hatred - allegedly posting a number of National Action stickers at the Aston University campus in Birmingham in July 2016.\n\nMr Vehvilainen has also been charged under the Terrorism Act 2000 for the possession of a document likely to be useful to a person preparing to commit an act of terrorism.\n\nThe 32-year-old also faces two counts of publishing threatening, abusive or insulting comments online intending to stir up racial hatred under the Public Order Act 1986.\n\nHe has also been charged with possession of a weapon - pepper spray.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Thousands march in Barcelona in support of an independence referendum\n\nHundreds of thousands of Catalans in Barcelona have marked their national day - the \"Diada\" - in support of an independence referendum.\n\nThe city's streets were a mass of red and yellow flags three weeks ahead of the planned vote - which the Spanish government has deemed illegal.\n\nCatalonia's pro-independence government has passed a law to secede from Spain if the vote is Yes.\n\nOpinion polls suggest the vote, if it takes place, will be very close.\n\nWith their own language and customs, Catalans already have much autonomy.\n\nOrganisers say more than a million people took part in the protest\n\nBut there is a widespread feeling in the region - one of Spain's richest - that too much of its tax revenue goes to Madrid.\n\nEstimates of the numbers taking part in Monday's protest varied - organisers said it was more than one million people, but Spanish government officials quoted by local media said it was much lower than that.\n\nSpain's economic woes since the 2008 financial crisis - including chronic unemployment - have fuelled the pro-independence mood in Catalonia.\n\nIn recent days Spain's Guardia Civil police have raided several Catalan printing shops suspected of preparing material for the referendum.\n\nThe crowd in central Barcelona swelled as Catalans of all ages descended on the city. Nearly 2,000 buses were chartered to bring people to the rally.\n\nThe city's police, the Guàrdia Urbana, tweeted on Monday evening that \"around a million people have participated\".\n\nPatriotic face-painting is common during the Diada\n\nThose who gathered in Barcelona - many sporting T-shirts in the national colours - were hopeful the vote would go ahead, despite Spain's Constitutional Court placing a legal block on the independence referendum.\n\nA majority of Catalans want the vote to go ahead, polls suggest, to settle the thorny issue of independence.\n\n\"We are in the 21st century and this constitution which says that the referendum is illegal is from 40 years ago: times change,\" Laura Alberch, 25, told news agency AFP.\n\nAnna Comellas, 20, said: \"Time passes and people become more and more aware that remaining in Spain harms us.\"\n\nThe 11 September Diada marks the fall of Barcelona in the War of Spanish Succession in 1714 - a defeat for Catalan forces.\n\nThe striped Catalan flag also adorned the iconic Sagrada Familia church\n\nThe left-wing mayor of Barcelona, Ada Colau, cautiously backs the referendum, but has asked the Catalan parliament for guarantees to make the vote as inclusive as possible.\n\nIn November 2014, Catalonia held an unofficial \"consultation\" on independence - and some 80% of those who voted backed it.\n\nBut turnout then was relatively low and the vote was non-binding, as the Constitutional Court had ruled it illegal.", "Energy from offshore wind in the UK will be cheaper than electricity from new nuclear power for the first time.\n\nThe cost of subsidies for new offshore wind farms has halved since the last 2015 auction for clean energy projects\n\nTwo firms said they were willing to build offshore wind farms for a guaranteed price of £57.50 per megawatt hour for 2022-23.\n\nThis compares with the new Hinkley Point C nuclear plant securing subsidies of £92.50 per megawatt hour.\n\nNuclear firms said the UK still needed a mix of low-carbon energy, especially for when wind power was not available.\n\nThe figures for offshore wind, from the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, were revealed as the result of an auction for subsidies, in which the lowest bidder wins.\n\nIn the auction in 2015, offshore wind farm projects won subsidies between £114 and £120 per megawatt hour.\n\nEmma Pinchbeck, from the wind energy trade body Renewable UK, told the BBC the latest figures were \"truly astonishing\".\n\n\"We still think nuclear can be part of the mix - but our industry has shown how to drive costs down, and now they need to do the same.\"\n\nBigger turbines, higher voltage cables and lower cost foundations, as well as growth in the UK supply chain and the downturn in the oil and gas industry have all contributed to falling prices.\n\nThe newest 8 megawatt offshore turbines stand almost 200 metres high, taller than London's Gherkin building. But Ms Pinchbeck said the turbines would double in size in the 2020s.\n\nHowever, the nuclear industry said that because wind power is intermittent, nuclear energy would still be needed.\n\nTom Greatrex, chief executive of the Nuclear Industry Association, said: \"It doesn't matter how low the price of offshore wind is. On last year's figures it only produced electricity for 36% of the time.\"\n\nEDF, which is building the Hinkley Point C nuclear plant, said the UK still needed a \"diverse, well-balanced\" mix of low-carbon energy.\n\n\"New nuclear remains competitive for consumers who face extra costs in providing back-up power when the wind doesn't blow or the sun doesn't shine,\" the French firm said.\n\n\"There are also costs of dealing with excess electricity when there is too much wind or sun.\"\n\nEDF added that energy from new nuclear plants would become cheaper as the market matures, as has happened with offshore wind.\n\nEyes will be raised at this suggestion, as nuclear power has already received subsidies since the 1950s. But storage of surplus energy from offshore wind is still a challenge.\n\nOnshore wind power and solar energy are already both cost-competitive with gas in some places in the UK.\n\nAnd the price of energy subsidies for offshore wind has now halved in less than three years.\n\nEnergy analysts said UK government policy helped to lower the costs by nurturing the fledgling industry, then incentivising it to expand - and then demanding firms should bid in auction for their subsidies.\n\nMinister for Energy and Industry Richard Harrington said: \"We've placed clean growth at the heart of the Industrial Strategy to unlock opportunities across the country, while cutting carbon emissions.\n\n\"The offshore wind sector alone will invest £17.5bn in the UK up to 2021 and thousands of new jobs in British businesses will be created by the projects announced today.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nMichael Grubb, professor of energy policy at University College London, called the cost reduction \"a huge step forward in the energy revolution\".\n\n\"It shows that Britain's biggest renewable resource - and least politically problematic - is available at reasonable cost.\n\n\"It'll be like the North Sea oil and gas industry: it started off expensive, then as the industry expanded, costs fell. We can expect offshore wind costs to fall more, too,\" he said.\n\nThe subsidies, paid from a levy on consumer bills, will run for 15 years - unlike nuclear subsidies for Hinkley C which run for 35 years.\n\nThis adds to the cost advantage offshore wind has now established over new nuclear.\n\nProf Grubb estimated the new offshore wind farms would supply about 2% of UK electricity demand, with a net cost to consumers of under £5 per year.\n\nCaroline Lucas, co-leader of the Green Party, said: \"This massive price drop for offshore wind is a huge boost for the renewables industry and should be the nail in the coffin for new nuclear.\n\n\"The government's undying commitment to new nuclear risks locking us into sky high prices for years to come. Put simply, this news should be the death knell for Hinkley C nuclear station.\"\n\nConstruction of the Hinkley Point plant is under way after government approval last year\n\nAlong with three offshore wind farm projects, biomass and energy from waste plants have secured subsidies for low-carbon energy, with a total of 11 successful schemes in the latest auction.\n\nThe £57.50 for new offshore wind power is not a true subsidy. It is a \"strike price\" - a guaranteed price to the generating firm for power it supplies.\n\nWhen the wholesale market price for electricity is below that price, payments to the firm are made up with a levy on consumers.\n\nHowever, when the wholesale price is above the strike price, the generator pays the difference back. It is a way of providing a certain return on investment for large energy projects.\n\nIt is impossible to predict what the final additional cost to consumers will be because it depends on market conditions, but it will almost certainly be a fraction of the strike price itself.\n\nExperts warn that in order to meet the UK's long term climate goals, additional sources of low-carbon energy will still be needed.", "Mark Gainey did not let injury stop him from cycling for long\n\nThankfully for tens of millions of cyclists around the world, Mark Gainey didn't walk away from the sport when he had a nasty crash back in 2002.\n\nRacing his bike down a steep road in California, he hit a pothole and went flying, shattering his left arm and elbow. He required no fewer than 11 operations to repair the damage.\n\nMany of us wouldn't want to look at a bike again after that, but Mark got back in the saddle and a few years later he and a friend came up with the idea for what has become the world's most popular cycling app - Strava.\n\nIf you aren't a keen cyclist then you may not have heard of it but for those of us who do like pedalling around on two wheels it isn't an exaggeration to say that the app has been revolutionary.\n\nUtilising the GPS (global positioning system) software on your smartphone, it enables you to record your ride, and then see an accurate line of the route you have cycled on an electronic map.\n\nIt tells you how far and fast you have cycled, and you can compare your times over certain sections - such as popular hill climbs - with both how well you have done before and with other Strava users.\n\nThis means that you can compete to beat other people's times and aim to be \"the king (or queen) of the mountain\" on a certain stretch of road.\n\nThe Strava app is continuing to see user numbers soar\n\nFirst launched in 2009 and since expanding to running and other sports, Strava now has tens of millions of users around the world, many of whom find it completely addictive.\n\nThe word Strava is even used as a verb, as in \"I'm going to strava this ride,\" and then there is the saying: \"If it isn't on Strava then it doesn't count.\"\n\nWhile it has numerous rivals whose apps do similar things, such as Map My Ride and Endomondo, Strava's user numbers tower over the others. It claims that an additional one million people join every 45 days.\n\nBut despite its vast popularity and the fact that it is backed by $70m (£54m) of investment, the company (which doesn't reveal its financial results) is widely reported to have not yet made a profit. So what is the problem and how can it change it?\n\nThe app was inspired by the idea to help boost camaraderie among fellow athletes\n\nMark Gainey, 48, says that the original genesis of the idea for San Francisco-based Strava came when he and co-founder Michael Horvath graduated from Harvard University.\n\n\"Back in the late 1980s Michael and I rowed together at Harvard. It was an incredible experience, pretty special, with great camaraderie.\n\n\"The only problem was that we then graduated and - whoosh - that all just disappeared.\n\n\"So brainstorming ideas for businesses we said, 'Wouldn't it be great to replicate that camaraderie in the boathouse.' The idea was to create a virtual locker room for athletes to compare times. Unfortunately the technology just didn't exist at the time.\"\n\nFast-forward to 2008 and Mark and Michael, still friends, had not forgotten their idea. By then Mark had spent almost two decades in the software sector, while Michael was a business and economics lecturer who also dabbled in the IT industry.\n\nBy then technology had made their idea possible, with the invention of GPS recorders and the iPhone and other smartphones. And the likes of Facebook had made people used to sharing information about themselves online.\n\nThe app has since expanded to running and other sports such as skiing\n\nAnd so the two friends launched Strava, the name being the Swedish word for \"strive\" in reference to Michael's ancestry.\n\nThe app was an immediate word-of-mouth hit and user numbers soon skyrocketed and haven't slowed since.\n\nWith its largest number of users in the US followed by the UK and Brazil, commentators put Strava's success compared with its smaller rivals down to a combination of its ease of use, and larger focus on sociability - the ability to see what friends are up to, chat and comment on each other's rides, and give someone \"kudos\" for a good ride.\n\nMark refers to this as Strava's \"secret sauce\", and he has huge ambitions for the company. \"We want to be the trusted sports brand of the 21st Century, but instead of needle and thread it is bits and bytes,\" he says.\n\nThe financial problem for Strava is that its basic free offering is so good most users aren't tempted to upgrade to its paid-for \"premium\" service.\n\nThe company won't release the percentage figure for the number of premium users, but commentators say it is likely to be around the 20% mark.\n\nUsers of the app can upload their own photos\n\nAs Mark confirms that the company's main revenue stream remains premium subscribers, it needs to see if it can increase this.\n\nStrava is also hoping to increase the money it makes from tie-ups with sports firms, and use its data to work with local authorities around the world to improve and increase their provision of bike lanes.\n\nTo help boost Strava's earning potential, it has recently brought in a new chief executive, James Quarles, who joined from Instagram. The change saw Mark move from that role to chairman.\n\nMark says: \"We want to take Strava from tens of millions [in] revenues to hundreds of millions, and James will lead that.\"\n\nMark has switched from chief executive to chairman\n\nUK cycling journalist Rebecca Charlton says it is hard to overstate how successfully Strava had turned itself into a \"social network for athletes, a kind of home for their athletic lives\".\n\nMeanwhile, US cycling industry commentator Scott Montgomery predicts that Strava will indeed have a profitable future.\n\n\"They say in the technology sector that the first is the winner, and the second is forgotten, and Strava has definitely beaten its rivals.\n\n\"Somebody has done a great job on the marketing side and the app is very easy to use. They are now at the stage where they own a vast audience, and if you are in that position you will get profitable.\"\n\nMark adds: \"We are the world's social network for athletes, but I'm also very pleased that we are simply encouraging more people to be active.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Being caught in Irma's \"relentless churning\" was like being a towel in a washing machine - so says a journalist for the Times, which, like a number of the papers, carries eyewitness accounts of the hurricane which swept Florida.\n\nThe Daily Express describes how Irma's last-minute change of course meant many residents, who had fled to Florida's west coast for safety, ended up experiencing the full force of the storm.\n\nA restaurant owner from Miami, who decided to sit out the hurricane in his 35th floor apartment, tells the Guardian it was like being on a ship - he could feel the building swaying the whole time.\n\nThe Guardian's Ed Pilkington, reporting from the city of Naples, says the desperation of thousands of residents was palpable, particularly in the public shelters.\n\nBut a Red Cross volunteer tells the Financial Times that despite a lack of bedding for people to sleep on, there was a \"sense of unity, and of people coming together\".\n\nThe news that ministers are poised to agree wage rises for police and prison officers, which breach the public sector pay cap, is welcomed by the Mirror, which declares that Britain \"deserves a pay rise\".\n\nThe Guardian describes it as \"a significant shift\", and a first step towards recognising the concerns of workers across the public sector.\n\nBut for the Telegraph, the move risks increasing the deficit and is likely to be attacked by critics on the Conservative right.\n\nBut sources tell the Times the rise won't be paid for by more borrowing, suggesting the money will be found from cuts elsewhere.\n\nMany papers get their first chance to comment on Tony Blair's call for a new immigration policy, which he suggests could address public concerns about immigration, without Britain having to leave the EU.\n\nThe Daily Mail is furious that the man it accuses of having thrown open the UK's frontiers \"to all comers\", should have the audacity to pose as a champion of rigorous border controls.\n\nThe Daily Express accuses the former prime minister of \"sheer gall\", while the Sun says the idea that senior EU officials could shift on the question of free movement is \"delusional\".\n\nThe Guardian columnist Matthew d'Ancona accuses Mr Blair of yielding too much ground on the question of immigration.\n\nHe's right to acknowledge anxieties, he writes, but there's a big difference between acknowledgment and appeasement.\n\nThe Guardian leads with a claim by the UN's rapporteur on toxic waste that the government is \"flouting\" its duty to protect its citizens from illegal and dangerous levels of air pollution.\n\nThe paper says such harsh international criticism will embarrass ministers, whose proposals to tackle air pollution have already been ruled illegal and inadequate on two occasions.\n\nA government spokeswoman tells the paper that EU policies have damaged the environment - and Brexit represents a chance to improve the UK's air quality.\n\nA separate report in the Telegraph says thousands of schoolchildren are using playgrounds near roads with illegal levels of pollution.\n\nA spiked net designed to stop vans and lorries targeting crowds in terror attacks, unveiled by Scotland Yard\n\nStaying with the Telegraph, and the paper reports that a new device, designed to stop a vehicle being used for a terrorist attack, has been unveiled by Scotland Yard.\n\nIt says the equipment, a heavy net \"bristling with tungsten steel spikes\", can stop and trap a 17-tonne lorry.\n\nA senior police officer tells the Times the net, which can be deployed to protect public gatherings in less than a minute, \"undoubtedly has the potential to save lives\".", "Italian rescue services issued this photo of the flooded Livorno area\n\nAt least six people have been killed after heavy rainstorms and flooding in the Italian city of Livorno.\n\nFour members of a family were killed when their basement apartment flooded. Italian newspaper Il Tirreno reports that two parents and their son died.\n\nOne girl was rescued by her grandfather, but he died when he returned to attempt for his other family members, the newspaper said.\n\nPictures from the city showed large areas underwater and extensive damage.\n\nOne resident, Piero Caturelli, said he had never seen such bad weather.\n\n\"It's incredible, incredible. It started around 10pm and continued until this morning. In my living memory, there's never been anything like this,\" he said.\n\nThe flooding caused extensive damage to property in Livorno\n\nMayor Filippo Nogarin told the AFP news agency that the extent of the flooding was completely unexpected, as only an orange alert was issued.\n\nThe city in Tuscany was the worst hit, but weather warnings have been issued for much of the country.\n\nPrecautions are being taken in the capital, Rome, where the highest level of alert is in place.", "John Clancy said he accepted he had made mistakes\n\nThe leader of Birmingham City Council, John Clancy, has resigned following criticism of his handling of industrial action by refuse workers.\n\nIn a statement, he said \"frenzied media speculation\" about the dispute was beginning to harm both the council and the Birmingham Labour Party.\n\nHe said he accepted he had made mistakes \"for which he is sorry\" and takes \"full responsibility\".\n\nWorkers resumed their strike on 1 September after a deal, which had seen the seven-week action suspended, fell apart.\n\nBin bags have piled up in Birmingham during the dispute\n\nMr Clancy, who has been leader of Birmingham City Council since December 2015, said the actions he took to negotiate an end to an \"extremely complex and difficult industrial dispute were done with the best of intentions\".\n\nHe also mentioned in his statement that \"events in his personal life\" had convinced him there were \"issues of far more importance than Birmingham City Council\".\n\nMr Clancy ended it by saying: \"I really am looking forward to spending more time with my family.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIan Ward is now acting leader of the council.\n\nRefuse workers started strike action on 30 June in a dispute over job re-grading and shift patterns. The Unite union says restructuring plans threaten the jobs of more than 120 staff, while the council says the changes will modernise the service and save £5m a year.\n\nThe action was suspended on 16 August when conciliation service Acas said the city council had agreed certain posts would not be made redundant, and bin collections resumed.\n\nBut on 31 August, the council said it was issuing redundancy notices and the industrial action restarted the following day.\n\nMr Clancy's announcement came just after it emerged that the government has written to Birmingham's Improvement Panel asking it for an urgent update into events.\n\nUnite is also calling for the council chief executive Stella Manzie to leave\n\nThe panel, which was overseeing the running of the council, was set up in 2014 following an inquiry into the so-called Trojan Horse letter and council services.\n\nIn August it said it was satisfied the council could continue under its own steam.\n\nBut Sajid Javid, Secretary of State for the Department of Communities and Local Government has written to the panel saying that \"clearly, there have been some developments since then which could have major implications\" both for the council's leadership and finance and asked for an urgent update before he decided what the next steps should be.\n\nAndy Street, Metro Mayor for the West Midlands, tweeted to say Mr Clancy has been a \"generous colleague\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or 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 Street This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nUnite's assistant general secretary Howard Beckett told BBC WM Mr Clancy \"made a mistake by claiming there was no deal in place when everybody knew there was and Acas recorded the deal\".\n\n\"I'm just sorry the whole situation has got to this. He did an honourable deal and, I believe we would have had a settlement long ago and he made a crucial error.\"\n\nMr Beckett also stated interim chief executive of Birmingham City Council, Stella Manzie, \"must follow in John Clancy's footsteps and resign\".\n\nResidents in one part of the city marked 50 days since their rubbish had last been collected\n\n\"Stella Manzie has twice blocked Unite lawyers meeting council lawyers to discuss the fictitious equal pay concerns she is using to scupper the agreement that Unite reached with the council at Acas.\n\n\"John Clancy in his statement has made it clear this agreement was reached with the full knowledge of the cabinet.\"\n\nBirmingham's nine Labour MPs had previously written a letter describing the city council as \"an obstacle to moving forward\" in resolving the bin strike.\n\nIn the letter addressed to Mr Clancy, MPs said delays to finding a solution were \"unacceptable\".\n\nThe Labour-run council said a swift end to the dispute was its \"top priority\".\n\nDavid Jamieson, the Police and Crime Commissioner for the West Midlands, said Mr Clancy \"made the right choice\" to resign.\n\n\"He's stood back because he feels he's an impediment to Birmingham going forward. Birmingham has an excellent set of councillors to choose from to choose a new leader.\"\n\nJohn Clancy's resignation was seen as inevitable by some following his comments there was never any deal with Unite over the bin dispute.\n\nUnite have made it clear they feel a deal was not honoured\n\nWhat followed was a series of allegations and reported evidence there had indeed been some kind of deal - and not only that, but John Clancy had overstepped the mark and overplayed his hand in promising it.\n\nWhilst many people believe his intentions were good, his failure to admit mistakes in that crucial 'no deal' interview meant there was nowhere to go.\n\nConfidence in the leader was crumbling and his resignation may have been influenced by three things: a critical letter from Labour MPs, a reported private meeting of his cabinet where all but one called for him to step down, and a government letter asking for an 'urgent update' from the independent panel monitoring the way the council keeps its house in order.\n\nUnite have made it clear they feel they have a deal and they want it honoured. And that could mean strike action for some time to come.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Birmingham bin workers: \"We just want to work\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A Silicon Valley CEO reveals her secret to getting ahead in business - dyeing her blonde hair brown, and ditching her heels and contact lenses.\n\nEileen Carey is a successful CEO, in her early 30s, with glasses and brown hair.\n\nBut she didn't always look the way she does now.\n\n\"The first time I dyed my hair was actually due to advice I was given by a woman in venture capital,\" she says.\n\nCarey was told that the investors she was pitching to would feel more comfortable dealing with a brunette, rather than a blonde woman.\n\n\"I was told for this raise [of funds], that it would be to my benefit to dye my hair brown because there was a stronger pattern recognition of brunette women CEOs,\" she explains.\n\nPattern recognition is a theory which suggests people look for familiar experiences - or people - which in turn can make them feel more comfortable with the perceived risks they are taking.\n\nWhen she had blonde hair, Eileen says she was likened to Elizabeth Holmes, whose company Theranos has been through a lot of controversy.\n\n\"Being a brunette helps me to look a bit older and I needed that, I felt, in order to be taken seriously,\" Carey says.\n\nEileen Carey used to have blonde hair and wear contact lenses\n\nIn interviewing candidates for roles at her startup, Glassbreakers, which provides companies with software aimed at attracting and empowering a diverse workforce, she's encountered other blonde women who have also dyed their hair brown.\n\n\"We discussed that there's the fetishisation of blondes,\" says Carey.\n\n\"People are more likely to hit on me in a bar if I'm blonde. There's just that issue in general.\n\n\"For me to be successful in this [tech industry] space, I'd like to draw as little attention as possible, especially in any sort of sexual way.\"\n\nIt's not just hair colour either. Carey has swapped her contact lenses for glasses and says she wears loose-fitting \"androgynous\" clothes to work.\n\nShe says, in a male-dominated working environment, her old look made it more likely she would be flirted with.\n\nBBC 100 Women names 100 influential and inspirational women around the world every year. In 2017, we're challenging them to tackle four of the biggest problems facing women today - the glass ceiling, female illiteracy, harassment in public spaces and sexism in sport.\n\nWith your help, they'll be coming up with real-life solutions and we want you to get involved with your ideas. Find us on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter and use #100Women\n\n\"I want to be seen as a business leader and not as a sexual object. Those lines are still crossed very often in this space,\" she explains.\n\nEven so, Carey admits that sexual harassment against women in work or other public spaces is all too common.\n\n\"There's a problem in our industry, period, around sexual harassment,\" she explains.\n\nAt a recent party for software company executives, cocktails were served by paid female models, who were \"dressed like fairies\".\n\nBeing one of the few female CEOs in the room, Carey says she was in the minority when it came to seeing the situation as inappropriate and unprofessional.\n\nGlassbreakers provides companies with software aimed at empowering a diverse workforce\n\nShe says her mother, Eileen Sr, has been a massive influence on the way she approaches masculinity and femininity, and gender issues in general.\n\nBoth Carey's mother and her aunt were feminists back in the 1980s.\n\n\"My mom has short hair, never wears makeup, does not wear high heels, never wears dresses. That's who she has always been,\" Carey says.\n\nIn the past Carey had her hair blow-dried professionally, her nails manicured.\n\nNow she declares herself \"very much my mother's daughter, where I don't like wearing makeup, and I don't like wearing heels. I just like being comfortable at work.\"\n\nCarey doesn't feel the same pressure to be feminine as women who were brought up in more traditional cultures or households. \"I was very fortunate that I didn't have those gender stereotypes placed on me at a very young age.\"\n\nWith news stories about sexism and gender in the tech industry - from Uber to Google - dominating the headlines, Carey says employees must remember they have a choice about where they work.\n\nTrying to change a culture alone from within a company can be difficult she says, and can lead to employees feeling very wounded - leading potentially to \"a million papercuts, the micro-aggressions, the little things\".\n\nIf you want to try and change a company, then \"Be the change you want to see in the world, which may mean sacrificing your personal life for a discrimination lawsuit. That's unfortunately how you have to change businesses.\"\n\nOtherwise, she says: \"Go where you are going to be successful.\"\n\nCompanies that aren't inclusive, that don't make spaces for women in leadership, that make it difficult for women to be retained, are not going to win in the long term, she explains.\n\n\"Look at the numbers. Look at the leadership. Talk to women who work there. If that doesn't seem like a place that you can reach your highest potential, don't work there.\"", "The revelation of an emergency loan to Northern Rock caused a run on the bank\n\nAn agreement to bail out Northern Rock which triggered a run on the bank should have been kept secret, the country's then top banker claims.\n\nThe BBC revealed the Bank of England's support of the struggling North East bank on 13 September 2007.\n\nThe following day thousands of Northern Rock customers led the first run on a British bank since 1866.\n\nMervyn King, then governor of the Bank of England, said he advised the deal be kept secret to prevent panic.\n\nMervyn King - who entered the House of Lords as Baron King of Lothbury four years ago - was governor of the Bank of England from 2003 to 2013\n\nHe told BBC Inside Out, North East & Cumbria: \"My advice was very clear - we should not reveal publicly the fact we were going to lend to Northern Rock.\"\n\nA Northern Rock insider told the programme the bank wanted to keep the liquidity support facility secret but was told it was \"illegal\".\n\nThe then governor - now Baron King of Lothbury - disagreed. He said: \"Northern Rock and the Financial Services Authority (FSA) all felt it would be a good idea to reveal it.\n\n\"The advice of the lawyers and FSA was [keeping the deal secret] was against a European directive.\n\n\"Actually, none of my colleagues in Europe believed that for a minute.\"\n\nThe FSA's former head, Sir Hector Sants, said it would be \"inappropriate\" for him to comment.\n\nThe following year, the Bank of England did make secret loans worth £61.2bn to RBS and HBOS.\n\nThe news of the Northern Rock loan was broken by Robert Peston, then the BBC's business editor on the News at Ten.\n\nThe revelation caused many customers to try to withdraw their money and a there was a 30% drop in the value of Northern Rock shares.\n\nMany staff and customers lost thousands of pounds worth of shares in the bank in the ensuing fall and subsequent nationalisation.\n\nNorthern Rock was taken over by the government in January 2008 before eventually being sold to Virgin money four years later.\n\nNorthern Rock shareholders claim they should have received compensation when the government took over\n\nMr Peston, who is now political editor of ITV News, said: \"Under the rules, the moment Northern Rock requests emergency help from the Bank of England in that way it has failed.\n\n\"If I had not reported that event I would have been guilty of playing God in an incredibly patronising way.\n\n\"I'd have been effectively saying that adults were not capable of understanding the significant information and that would have been an appalling thing for any journalist to do.\"\n\nLord King said Mr Peston reported the story in a \"very responsible way\" and could not be blamed for the consequences.\n\nHe also said he would have wanted a \"fair deal\" for Northern Rock shareholders, which would have seen them get the \"residual value\" of the shares when the government took over.\n\nInstead, they received nothing as the government concluded the bank was not a going concern, a view upheld by the High Court.\n\nCampaigners are now mounting a new challenge for compensation.\n\nWatch the full story on Inside Out, North East & Cumbria on Monday 11 September on BBC One at 19:30.", "Developers are still scouring the leaked code for fresh discoveries\n\nDetails of new iPhones and other forthcoming Apple devices have been revealed via an apparent leak.\n\nTwo news sites were given access to an as-yet-unreleased version of the iOS operating system.\n\nThe code refers to an iPhone X in addition to two new iPhone 8 handsets. It also details facial recognition tech that acts both as an ID system and maps users' expressions onto emojis.\n\nOne tech writer said it was the biggest leak of its kind to hit the firm.\n\nApple is holding a launch event at its new headquarters on Tuesday.\n\nThe California-based company takes great efforts to keep its technologies secret until its showcase events, and chief executive Tim Cook spoke in 2012 of the need to \"double down\" on concealment measures.\n\nSome details about the new devices had, however, already been revealed in August, when Apple published some test code for its HomePod speakers.\n\nBut while that was thought to have been a mistake, it has been claimed that the latest leak was an intentional act of sabotage.\n\n\"As best I've been able to ascertain, these builds were available to download by anyone, but they were obscured by long, unguessable URLs [web addresses],\" wrote John Gruber, a blogger known for his coverage of Apple.\n\n\"Someone within Apple leaked the list of URLs to 9to5Mac and MacRumors. I'm nearly certain this wasn't a mistake, but rather a deliberate malicious act by a rogue Apple employee.\"\n\nNeither Mr Gruber nor the two Apple-related news sites have disclosed their sources.\n\nHowever, the BBC has independently confirmed that an anonymous source provided the publications with links to iOS 11's golden master (GM) code that downloaded the software from Apple's own computer servers.\n\nGM is a term commonly used by software firms to indicate that they believe a version of a product is ready for release.\n\n\"More surprises were spoiled by this leak than any leak in Apple history,\" Mr Gruber added.\n\nApple could not be reached for comment.\n\nApple chief Tim Cook has publicly discussed his desire to protect Apple's secrets\n\nSeveral developers are still scouring the leak for new features, but discoveries so far include:\n\nIt marks the second time in three months that the company seems to have been deliberately caught out by a staff member.\n\nIn June, an hour-long recording of an internal meeting - ironically about stopping leakers - was passed onto the Outline news site.\n\nIt revealed that Apple had hired ex-workers from the US National Security Agency (NSA), FBI and Secret Service to help catch tattletales.\n\n\"I have faith deep in my soul that if we hire smart people they're gonna think about this, they're gonna understand this, and ultimately they're gonna do the right thing, and that's to keep their mouth shut,\" one senior Apple executive was heard to say.\n\nApple's mobile devices account for the bulk of its profits\n\nOne company watcher said that the scale of the leak meant Tuesday's launch had lost some of its power to surprise.\n\n\"There will be an unbelievable effort within Apple to determine how this happened and I don't envy the person that did it because there will be no forgiveness for it,\" commented Ben Wood from the tech consultancy CCS Insight.\n\nBut he added that it was unlikely to affect sales or interest in the new devices.\n\n\"For other companies this might have huge impact on the effectiveness of their grand official launches, but for Apple there is such insatiable demand for even the smallest details and such an obsessive fan-following of its products that even a very detailed leak will do little to dampen the enthusiasm of bloggers and others to report its news,\" he said.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Training company Learndirect should face an investigation after it was rated \"inadequate\" by Ofsted, the chair of the Public Accounts Committee says.\n\nThe firm is estimated to have received more than £600m of public funding since 2011, but Meg Hillier said the government must demonstrate there were consequences for failure.\n\nOfsted has told the BBC no training provider should be beyond scrutiny.\n\nLearndirect said it had made strong progress in improving its provision.\n\nOfsted's report, which the company tried to prevent being made public, rated Learndirect inadequate overall, with failings in apprenticeships and lesser problems in adult learning.\n\nNo termination of contract notice has been issued, which would normally follow a similar rating.\n\nOfficials have told the BBC that because there is a need to \"protect learners and maintain other key public services run by Learndirect Ltd\", the contract will run its course until next summer with intensive monitoring.\n\nBut those officials will face questions about their handling of the contract when they next appear before the influential Commons Public Accounts Committee (PAC).\n\nLabour MP Ms Hillier MP said: \"It's a very big contract and we're concerned the way Learndirect is treated is a sign the government considers it is too big to fail, which raises wider issues about how we contract these things out.\"\n\nShe said she had asked the National Audit Office to consider looking into the contract.\n\n\"If something is failing, the government needs to take action,\" Ms Hillier continued.\n\n\"It needs to show there are consequences, and it's a real slap in the face to providers out there doing a good job, who are rated good or excellent by Ofsted, who then see a failing provider seemingly getting away with it.\"\n\nLearndirect Ltd has dozens of subcontractors, and takes a share of the contract value in return for passing the work on.\n\nBut this case raise may wider questions about the scrutiny of major public contracts.\n\nThe head of Ofsted, Amanda Spielman, spoke exclusively to the BBC and FE Week in a joint interview about the lessons that need to be learned.\n\n\"We have to make sure that we say what we have to say about quality, no matter what,\" she said.\n\n\"We have to do that as early on as possible in the life of providers so we don't end up with more Learndirects where there are 20,000 apprentices not getting what they should be getting.\"\n\nShe refused to be drawn on her view of the response by the Department for Education (DfE) following the Ofsted report, saying: \"It is not for us to decide what happens to Learndirect.\"\n\nBut she added: \"I hope that the lessons from Learndirect will really focus people's minds on what can be done up front, especially with very large providers.\n\n\"In any system there are always going to be some problems, some providers with difficulty, and making sure the system can cope with the failure of any provider is an essential part of a functioning market.\"\n\nThere is a risk for Ofsted that if robust action isn't seen to be taken following a critical report, its own authority is undermined.\n\nIn a BBC interview, Skills Minister Anne Milton said Learndirect Ltd was not seen by the government as too big to fail.\n\n\"It is most certainly not untouchable, we have the learners' interests at heart.\n\n\"We will continue to act swiftly with Learndirect and any other provider that fails to do as their contract specifies.\"\n\nShe also gave an undertaking to recoup any public money for training not delivered - the first time the government has said this publicly.\n\n\"We will claw back from Learndirect any bit of their contract they have failed to fulfil.\"\n\nThat could only happen after an audit of the contract, if it was found that some training had not been delivered.\n\nAmanda Spielman said lessons must be learned from this case\n\nThis criticism of Learndirect comes at a time when a significant expansion of apprenticeships is about to unfold.\n\nThe prospect of the new employer-funded apprenticeship levy has led to around 2,000 potential providers joining a new government register.\n\nMs Spielman said: \"There are very clear risks. One is about people who shouldn't be providing training at all, making sure they don't get onto the register, or recognising that at the earliest possible moment before lives are disrupted.\n\n\"One is about making sure that people who have the potential to do it well stay in control of their business model and don't lose sight of apprentices through layers of subcontracts that aren't managed well.\"\n\nThe new system will be very different, because employers will commission as well as fund the training.\n\nLearndirect said it was making improvements to its adult training.\n\n\"We remain committed to working with current employers and apprentices to ensure they receive the training and skills they need to succeed,\" it said.\n\n\"Our focus is on delivering the highest levels of service and outcomes, and we will continue working closely with the DfE and ESFA [Education and Skills Funding Agency] to ensure its requirements around quality measures are met.\"\n\nA separate company Learndirect Apprenticeships Limited has been set up for business under the new apprenticeship levy.\n\nA spokesman for that company said Ofsted had recognised it had prepared well for the new system and that corporate apprenticeship customers were happy with the standard of learning.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Almost 750 years ago, a young Venetian merchant named Marco Polo wrote a remarkable book chronicling his travels in China.\n\nThe Book of the Marvels of the World was full of strange foreign customs that Marco claimed to have seen.\n\nBut there was one that was so extraordinary, Marco Polo could barely contain himself: \"Tell it how I might,\" he wrote, \"you never would be satisfied that I was keeping within truth and reason.\"\n\nWhat had excited Marco so much? He was one of the first Europeans to witness an invention that remains at the foundation of the modern economy: paper money.\n\n50 Things That Made the Modern Economy highlights the inventions, ideas and innovations which have helped create the economic world in which we live.\n\nOf course, the paper itself isn't the point. Modern paper money isn't made of paper - it's made of cotton fibres or plastic.\n\nAnd the Chinese money that so fascinated Marco Polo wasn't quite paper either.\n\nIt was made from a black sheet derived from the bark of mulberry trees, signed by multiple officials and, with a seal smothered in bright red vermilion, authenticated by the Chinese emperor Kublai Khan himself.\n\nKublai Khan announced that officially stamped mulberry bark was money - and lo, it was\n\nThe chapter of Marco Polo's book was titled, somewhat breathlessly: \"How the great Khan Causes the Bark of Trees, Made into Something Like Paper, to Pass for Money All over His Country\".\n\nThe point is, that whatever these notes were made of, their value didn't come from the preciousness of the substance, as with a gold or silver coin.\n\nInstead, the value was created purely by the authority of the government.\n\nPaper money is sometimes called fiat money - the Latin word \"fiat\" means \"let it be done\". The Great Khan announces that officially stamped mulberry bark is money - and lo, let it be done. Money it is.\n\nThe genius of this system amazed Marco Polo, who explained that the paper money circulated as though it were gold or silver itself. Where was all the gold that wasn't circulating? Well, the emperor kept a tight hold of that.\n\nThe Mulberry money itself wasn't new when Marco Polo heard about it. It had emerged nearly three centuries earlier, around the year 1000 in Sichuan, China.\n\nSichuan was a frontier province, bordered by foreign and sometimes hostile states. China's rulers didn't want valuable gold and silver currency to leak into foreign lands, and so they imposed a bizarre rule. Sichuan had to use coins made of iron.\n\nThese Chinese coins dating back to the Song Dynasty (960-1279) were found in 2005\n\nIron coins aren't terribly practical. If you traded in a handful of silver coins - 50g worth - you'd be given your own body weight in iron coins.\n\nEven something simple like salt was worth more, gram for gram, than iron - so if you went to the market for groceries, your sackful of coins on the way there would weigh more than the bag of goods that you brought back.\n\nSichuan merchants had a problem, as William Goetzmann explains in his book Money Changes Everything. It was illegal to use gold and silver coins, and impractical to use iron coins. It's no surprise that they began to experiment with an alternative.\n\nThat alternative was called \"jiaozi\", or \"exchange bills\". Instead of carrying around a wagonload of iron coins, a well-known and trusted merchant would write an IOU, and promise to pay his bill later when it was more convenient for everyone.\n\nThat was a simple enough idea. But then there was a twist, a kind of economic magic. These \"jiaozi\", or IOUs, started to trade freely.\n\nSuppose I supply some goods to the eminently reputable Mr Zhang, and he gives me an IOU. When I go to your shop later, rather than paying you with iron coins - who does that? - I could write you an IOU.\n\nBut it might be simpler - and indeed you might prefer it - if instead I give you Mr Zhang's IOU. After all, we both know he's good for the money.\n\nNow you, and I, and Mr Zhang, have together created a kind of primitive paper money - it's a promise to repay that has a marketable value of its own - and can be passed around from person to person without being redeemed.\n\nThis is very good news for Mr Zhang, because as long as people keep finding it convenient simply to pass on his IOU as a way of paying for things, Mr Zhang never actually has to stump up the iron coins.\n\nEffectively, he enjoys an interest-free loan for as long as his IOU continues to circulate. Better still, it's a loan that he may never be asked to repay.\n\nA fragment of one of the earliest surviving banknotes, which was printed in the early 1260s\n\nNo wonder the Chinese authorities started to think these benefits ought to accrue to them, rather than to the likes of Mr Zhang.\n\nAt first they regulated the issuance of jiaozi, but then outlawed private jiaozi and took over the whole business themselves.\n\nThe official jiaozi currency was a huge hit, circulating across regions and even internationally. In fact, the jiaozi even traded at a premium, because they were so much easier to carry around than metal coins.\n\nInitially, the government-issued jiaozi could be redeemed for coins on demand, exactly as the private jiaozi had been. This was logical: it treated the paper notes as a placeholder for something of real value.\n\nBut the government soon moved stealthily to a fiat system, maintaining the principle but abandoning the practice of redeeming jiaozi for metal. Bring an old jiaozi in to the government treasury to be redeemed, and you would receive a crisp new jiaozi.\n\nThat was a very modern step. The money we use today all over the world is created by central banks and it's backed by nothing in particular except the promises to replace old notes with fresh ones.\n\nThe oldest known British bank note, issued by the Bank of England in 1699\n\nWe've moved from a situation where Mr Zhang's IOU circulates without ever being redeemed, to the mind-bending situation where the government's IOUs circulate despite never being redeemed.\n\nFor governments, fiat money represents a temptation: a government with bills to pay can simply print more money. And when more money chases the same amount of goods and services, prices tend to go up.\n\nThe temptation quickly proved too great to resist.\n\nThe Song dynasty issued too many jiaozi. Counterfeiting was also a problem. Within a few decades of its invention in the early 11th century, jiaozi was devalued and discredited, trading at just 10% of its face value.\n\nOther countries have since suffered much worse. Weimar Germany and Zimbabwe are famous examples of economies collapsing into chaos as excessive money-printing rendered prices meaningless.\n\nThe abysmal world record for hyperinflation is held by Hungary in 1946, where prices trebled during the course of every day. Walk into a Budapest cafe back then, and it was better to pay for your coffee when you arrived, not when you left.\n\nThese rare but terrifying episodes have convinced some economic radicals that fiat money can never be stable.\n\nThey yearn for a return to the days of the gold standard, when paper money could always be redeemed for a little piece of the precious metal held inside Fort Knox.\n\nGold has been used as currency for thousands of years\n\nBut mainstream economists generally now believe that pegging the money supply to gold is a terrible idea. Most regard low and predictable inflation as no problem at all - perhaps even a useful lubricant to economic activity.\n\nAnd while we may not always be able to trust central bankers to print just the right amount of new money, it probably makes more sense than trusting miners to dig up just the right amount of new gold.\n\nThe ability to fire up the printing presses is especially useful in crisis situations.\n\nAfter the 2007 financial crisis, the US Federal Reserve pumped trillions of dollars into the economy, without creating inflation. In fact, the printing presses were metaphorical: those trillions were simply created by key-strokes on computers in the global banking system.\n\nAs a wide-eyed Marco Polo might have put it: \"The great Central Bank Causes the Digits on a Computer Screen, Made into Something Like Spreadsheets, to Pass for Money\".\n\nTechnology has changed, but what passes for money continues to astonish.", "The government is to lift the 1% public sector pay cap for the first time for both police and prison officers, the BBC understands.\n\nMinisters are expected to accept recommendations for higher pay rises this week and also to pave the way for similar increases in other sectors.\n\nUnions, the opposition, and some Tories are calling for the cap to be lifted.\n\nBut there are warnings that police forces have budgeted for a 1% rise and without extra money, jobs are at risk.\n\nThe BBC's home affairs correspondent Danny Shaw said that while forces were welcoming reports of a pay rise, there were widespread concerns that it would put a huge strain on them if extra resources were not found.\n\nThe West Midlands Police and Crime commissioner has warned that, in such a scenario, 80 jobs would be lost for every 1% rise above the current cap.\n\n\"If the government do not put aside money to fund the pay increase, PCCs will be left with large bills and have no other option other than to reduce officer and staff numbers,\" Labour's David Jamieson said.\n\n\"The government must act quickly to ensure that its pay cap lifting is not a hollow gesture.\"\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.\n\nThe higher increases expected this week for police and prison officers are based on the recommendations of independent pay review bodies, with recruitment and retention problems being cited in the case of prison officers.\n\nThe BBC understands the Treasury will then issue guidance on next year's pay round, which is likely to see the cap eased in other areas where there are similar problems, such as teaching and nursing.\n\nNurses protested about the pay cap at Westminster last week\n\nMost - though not all - pay review bodies this year identified recruitment and retention problems, but decided to take note of government policy on wage restraint so they didn't recommend rises above an average of 1%.\n\nBut the police and prison officers review bodies, in as yet unpublished reports, did call for increases above 1% this summer, and the government has been mulling over how to handle a controversial issue.\n\nThis week it will agree to the recommendations, though there may be some creativity over how the pay awards are implemented.\n\nAnd the government would also say that some public sector workers have enjoyed rises above 1% through promotion or pay increments.\n\nBut now, more widely, the Treasury is expected to tell other pay bodies - covering teachers and NHS staff for example - that they can take recruitment and retention difficulties into account when recommending next year's increases.\n\nSo not lifting of the pay cap across the board - which Labour is calling for - but this could be, as the TUC put it, a crack in the ice of pay restraint.\n\nIt comes as MPs are set to vote on public sector pay on Wednesday.\n\nLabour's health spokesman Jon Ashworth urged Conservative MPs who \"sincerely\" believe the public sector pay cap should go to vote with his party during its Opposition Day debate, which would not be binding on the government.\n\nHe told Sky News: \"We keep getting briefings in newspapers and suggestions that the government is sympathetic and wants to do something, and 'oh, it's terrible and we accept that but let's see where we get to'.\"\n\nBut the TUC's Frances O'Grady said the government should not favour some public service workers over others - and speaking at the TUC conference in Brighton, she said nurses, paramedics and fire fighters \"are very angry\", adding that seven years was \"a long time for anyone to manage\" with pay restraint.\n\nShe told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: \"We're very clear that public service workers are a team. Pay shouldn't be a popularity contest. We know that front-line workers, so-called, depend on the whole team so we want a pay rise across the board.\"\n\nThe Public and Commercial Services union is to ballot its members on industrial action over the cap.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies has said raising pay in line with inflation for the next three or four years would cost £6bn to £7bn more than continuing with the current policy.\n\nDuring last week's Prime Minister's Questions, Theresa May said public sector workers were doing a vital job in often harrowing circumstances.\n\nShe added that the government would wait for the publication of the police and prison officers' pay review bodies' reports before deciding its policy framework for 2018-2019.\n• None Public sector pay: Will they or won't they?", "PewDiePie has more than 57 million subscribers on YouTube\n\nThe world's highest-paid YouTube star, PewDiePie, has used the \"n-word\" during an online broadcast.\n\nThe 27-year-old Swede - real name Felix Kjellberg - could be heard using the racial slur while he was playing a video game during a live streaming.\n\nAfter using the term he appeared to recognise his error, saying: \"I don't mean that in a bad way.\"\n\nPewDiePie, who has more than 57 million subscribers, previously had to defend himself over anti-Semitism allegations.\n\nOn another occasion, he was suspended from Twitter for so-called Islamic State jokes.\n\nSean Vanaman, whose Campo Santo studio develops the game Firewatch, tweeted that he intends to file DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) reports in an attempt to remove all videos and streams of Kjellberg playing his company's title.\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\nPewDiePie amassed his following by posting recordings of himself playing video games and providing commentary.\n\nIn February, some of his videos were found to contain Nazi references or anti-Semitic imagery, which resulted in Disney cutting ties with him.\n\nHe is reported to have made $15m (£11m) through YouTube last year and has accrued billions of hits since he joined YouTube in 2010.\n\nHe had been associated with Disney via Maker Studios, a company with a network of YouTube stars.\n\nIn February, Disney said that while Mr Kjellberg had a reputation for being provocative and irreverent, some of the videos he made were \"inappropriate\".\n\nIn one of the controversial videos, Mr Kjellberg paid two people through a crowd-sourcing website to hold up a sign which read \"Death to all Jews\".\n\nPewDiePie accepted the material was offensive, but said he did not support \"any kind of hateful attitudes\".\n\nHe said that the anti-Semitism claims were \"insane\" and \"unfair\", adding: \"I am sorry for the words I used as I know they offended people.\"\n\nThe row led to YouTube cancelling the release of Mr Kjellberg's new series, Scare PewDiePie 2.", "Long journeys can seem even more tedious when they're accompanied by the kids in the back seat asking \"are we nearly there yet?\" every few miles. So it can be something of a relief when a familiar landmark comes into view, indicating the comforts of home are just around the corner.\n\nFrom tree-topped tors to man-made monoliths, people shared with BBC News their particular sights - and sites - that means the trip is nearing its end.\n\nKirsten Reeve with her son Archie and their \"coming home tree\"\n\nA solitary tree stands atop the natural knoll, which rises roughly 20m above the Severn Valley. Also known as the Crookbarrow Hill, the mound is a registered monument with Historic England as the site of a mediaeval fortification.\n\nMore importantly to some, though, the tree is a clear sign to those on the M5 that junction 7 - Worcester South - is drawing near.\n\nKirsten Reeves has nominated The Tump as her family's \"coming home tree\".\n\n\"It is very special to our family. I grew up in Worcester so seeing the tree as we travelled home from holidays on the M5 was always a very exciting moment and symbolised that just 10 minutes of the journey were left.\n\n\"After moving away for many years I decided to move 'home' when my husband and I started our family as he was in the navy and spent a long time away. Our two children now love seeing the coming home tree too and always spend the last part of our journeys trying to be the first one to spot it as it emerges.\n\n\"My husband has spent a lot of time at sea and after completing an 11-month deployment away from home said that the best thing ever was seeing that tree and knowing he was finally home.\"\n\nFor Nick Mitchell the Ouse Valley viaduct at Balcombe always marks his return from London to Sussex by train.\n\nHe tells the BBC: \"I know we are back in the countryside as we cross the magnificent structure.\n\n\"As the train soars over the beautiful Ouse Valley, passengers often look up from their newspapers and electronic devices to gaze out over the woods and fields.\n\n\"When there's heavy mist or it's dark, it feels like we are flying as you can't see the ground at all.\"\n\nThe National Lift Tower is a research facility built to test - you've guessed it - lifts.\n\nThe 127m (418ft) tall structure houses six lift shafts of varying heights, one of which is a high-speed shaft with a (theoretical) maximum speed of 10m/s (22mph).\n\nIt rose to wider fame when Sir Terry Wogan lampooned it on his BBC Radio 2 programme, dubbing it the \"Northampton lighthouse\". He even joked the east coast was eroding so quickly that the government had commissioned the \"lighthouse\" ready for Northampton's new coastal location.\n\nHe's quoted as saying: \"I don't think it was looked on in an architectural sense by my listeners - they're a bit too dim - we just took it for what it was: a lighthouse in the middle of nowhere.\"\n\nAccording to Christopher Watts, for whom it is the landmark that shows he's nearly home, it is known as \"Terry Wogan's lighthouse\".\n\n\"I also have a personal interest as l worked on it for six months during the construction, installing a lot of the lift equipment,\" Mr Watts says.\n\nSarah Dev-Sherman and her children enjoy spotting the tower on their way to visit family\n\nThe Church Langley Water Tower is a conspicuous landmark perched high above and on the west side of the M11.\n\nSarah Dev-Sherman, originally from Essex but now living in Norfolk, says whenever she and her children visit family \"there is always a race with the kids to see who can see the Church Langley water tower first.\n\n\"When we see it, it means we're nearly there after a long time in the car. It's such an iconic landmark you cannot fail to notice it.\"\n\nSue Simmons from Cambridge also lists it as her favourite sign that home is around the corner. \"We always shout 'home cone!' when we see it. People think we're strange, but it is now a family tradition.\"\n\nThe Penshaw Monument was built in 1844 in memory of John George Lambton, the first Earl of Durham. He was a reforming Whig politician with the nickname \"Radical Jack\" who inherited vast wealth, created by the coalmining interests on his family's estates, when he was only five.\n\nHe then became known as \"Jog Along Jack\" after saying \"a gentleman could jog along comfortably on £40,000 a year\".\n\nFor local boy Richard Speding, who has lived in London for more than 30 years, the Penshaw (pronounced Pen-sher) Monument is the first thing he looks for when leaving the A1 and joining the A690.\n\n\"It's then I know I'm only minutes from the village I was brought up in. If I have the time I will visit and climb up to the top and survey my hometown.\"\n\nHidden inside one of the towers is a secret passage which goes to the top of the 20m (66ft) structure - the National Trust opens the winding staircase to the public between Good Friday and the end of September.\n\nIts towering profile is one of the symbols on the badge of Sunderland Football Club.\n\nDream, a statue of the elongated head of a nine-year-old girl is located on the summit of the former Sutton Manor Colliery in St Helens, Merseyside, midway between Liverpool and Manchester.\n\nIt was created by Catalan artist Jaume Plensa after the group of former miners who made up the commissioning committee were unhappy with his first proposal - a statue of a mining lamp. They rejected the proposal and asked for something more \"present day and progressive\".\n\nIt's a homecoming landmark for Maeve and Maurice Harris, who remember the topping off ceremony in 2009 as it was on the same day as the birth of their first grandchild.\n\n\"For that reason, we always call her \"Your Grace\" after our granddaughter Gracie. She's a special reminder of a special time and always makes us smile on the way back to Warrington.\"\n\nThe Parish Church of St Mary and All Saints has a vision-bendingly twisty spire, which signifies \"home\" for John Merry. He says local lore has it that the devil or a witch caused the twist when being expelled from the area.\n\nThe spire is made of wood and clad in lead. It's thought the lean on the tower is accidental and arose from the use of unseasoned timber and inexperienced craftsmen, while the twist is a deliberate design.\n\nThe church survived underground activities of both coalmining and railway works, as well as two world wars, but nearly succumbed to fire in 1961.\n\nThis story was inspired by responses to How do you know when you're nearly home?\n• None The landmarks that mean you're nearly home", "Wayne Rooney is due to appear at Stockport Magistrates' Court later this month\n\nEverton striker Wayne Rooney has been charged with drink-driving, Cheshire Police have said.\n\nRooney was arrested shortly after 02:00 BST after officers stopped a black VW Beetle on Altrincham Road, Wilmslow.\n\nCheshire Police said Rooney, 31, had been charged with driving whilst over the prescribed limit.\n\nThe ex-England captain has been released on bail and is due to appear at Stockport Magistrates' Court later this month.\n\nRooney, who retired from the national team last month, is England's all-time record goal scorer.\n\nHe rejoined his boyhood club Everton this summer, 13 years after leaving the Merseyside team for Manchester United.\n\nRooney's court hearing is set for 18 September - the day after Everton take on Manchester United at Old Trafford in the Premier League.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Dubai says it will begin a five-year test period of the Volocopter later in 2017\n\nTech companies are competing to develop the first viable passenger-carrying sky taxis, whether manned or pilotless, but how soon could these clever copters really be whizzing over our cities? And would you trust one?\n\nDubai is racing to be the first to put drone taxis in the air.\n\nIn June, its Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) signed an agreement with a German start-up Volocopter to test pilotless air taxis towards the end of this year.\n\nThe firm has received 25m euros (£22m; $30m) from investors, including German motor manufacturer Daimler, to develop the 18-rotor craft capable of transporting two passengers at a time.\n\nThe promotional video claims a top speed of 100km/h (60mph) and a maximum flight time of around 30 minutes, while nine independent battery systems ensure safety.\n\n\"You will never require\" the onboard emergency parachute, Volocopter assures us.\n\nDubai's RTA has also teamed up with China's Ehang and is testing the drone maker's single passenger Ehang 184 \"autonomous aerial vehicle\".\n\nThe Ehang 184 will land automatically if any systems malfunction, its maker says\n\nBut the largest city in the United Arab Emirates faces stiff competition. It seems the whole world has gone gaga for air-cabs.\n\nIn February, ride-sharing giant Uber poached Nasa chief technologist Mark Moore and set him to work heading their Project Elevate - \"a future of on-demand urban air transportation\".\n\nAirbus, the French aircraft maker, is also working on a prototype air taxi, Vahana, saying it will begin testing at the end of 2017 and have one ready by 2020.\n\nThey all spy opportunities in the air because traffic is becoming increasingly clogged on the ground. To take an extreme example, in Brazil's Sao Paulo, the world's 10th richest city, traffic jams average 180km (112 miles) on Fridays, and sometimes stretch to a barely credible 295km.\n\nYet the world's megalopolises are continuing to grow. No wonder air taxis are capturing people's imaginations.\n\nThe Airbus Vahana drone concept features rotors that can swivel for vertical and horizontal flight\n\nEhang carries a single passenger, Volocopter two, while City Airbus is looking at four to six. And each of these companies is pursuing electric propulsion, seeing it as greener and quieter.\n\nThe preferred horizontal rotor technology allows for vertical take off and landing, which makes sense in densely built up urban spaces. And composite materials, such as carbon fibre, help keep weight to a minimum.\n\nBut how will they work in practice and will they be affordable?\n\nUber's Mr Moore says the cost, with three or four passengers sharing a pool, will be \"very similar to what an UberX [car] costs today\".\n\nMore seriously, given the trade-off between power and weight, how long will these things be able to stay up in the sky relying on battery power alone?\n\nBecause if you don't like your mobile going flat, you definitely won't like it when your air taxi does.\n\nWith traffic jams like this in Sao Paulo, Brazil, it's no wonder sky taxis are an appealing concept\n\nChina's Ehang drone currently flies for 23 minutes. But US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulates stipulate that aircraft require a spare 20 minutes of fuel. So this would limit the drone to a commercially unviable three-minute flight.\n\n\"It's really a problem,\" says Janina Frankel-Yoeli vice-president of Israel's Urban Aeronautics, a firm taking a manned, combustion-engine approach to air taxis instead.\n\nBut Mr Moore argues that improvements in batteries are \"on the track we need for them to be there in 2023\", when Uber plans to have its first 50 air taxis ready.\n\nThe vastly increased investment in electric cars around the world is improving recharging speeds and capacity, he says.\n\n\"We don't need long range - 60 miles covers the longest trip across a city.\"\n\nSo rapid recharging capability is more important than range, he argues.\n\nAirbus concept: Is it a car? Is it a plane? Could it be both?\n\nAnother solution may involve a two-part drone, with the batteries stored in a detachable base that can be swapped quickly between flights, says Tim Robinson, editor of the Royal Aeronautical Society's magazine, Aerospace.\n\n\"If there was a drone waiting and it had a flat battery I'm pretty sure it wouldn't let you take off, whatever your journey was,\" he says.\n\nIn other words, it's very unlikely that a sky taxi would run out of juice mid-flight. Once battery levels reached a critical point, the drone would make an emergency landing.\n\n\"I think we'll see multiple redundancy and back-up systems,\" says Mr Robinson, \"like a ballistic parachute which would trigger automatically if it detected a descent rate beyond the parameters.\"\n\nAnother major challenge is managing the airspace and avoiding collisions.\n\nMost major cities already have air corridors set up for helicopters that air taxis could use, Mr Moore says. But requesting to enter the corridors is currently done manually.\n\n\"You'd fly to the edge of that airspace, request to enter, and maybe be told 'Nope, hold, wait',\" he says.\n\nSo Nasa's NTX research centre is exploring how flight corridors can work without voice interactions. This includes improved \"sense-and-avoid\" technology that will allow drones to communicate with other passenger aircraft to avoid one other.\n\nBut perhaps the biggest drag on sky taxi development is regulation.\n\nWhile commercial aircraft are already \"virtually capable of taking off, flying and landing on their own\", says Ms Frankel-Yoeli, the US FAA and European Aviation Safety Agency will not allow them to fly without a pilot.\n\nIt may take a long time for autonomous drone tech to win regulatory - not to mention public - trust. And that's ignoring the potential complaints about the noise all these buzzing copters would make in our cities.\n\nUber's Mr Moore believes air taxis will have autonomous capability built in from 2023, but will have human pilots for the first five-to-10 years while enough data is collected to convince regulators that sky taxis are safe.\n\nMeanwhile Dubai seems to be racing ahead, with ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum saying \"by 2030, 25% of the mass transportation in the city has to be autonomous\".\n\nBut Dubai is a harsh aviation climate, where \"winds can go up to 40-50 knots [46-58mph], there's sand, there's fog\", warns Mark Martin, an aviation consultant working there.\n\nPerhaps Dubai is moving too quickly and should work more closely with the slower US and European regulators, he argues.\n\n\"If one crashes, who's ever going to take a drone?\"", "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", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Mike Pence: \"The American people are with you\"\n\nThe White House says it will ask the US Congress for emergency funding to help those affected by Hurricane Harvey.\n\nPresident Donald Trump is expected to propose an initial $5.9bn (£4.56bn). Texas authorities say the state might need more than $125bn.\n\nAt least 39 people have died in the storm and its aftermath. East of Houston, floodwaters are still rising.\n\nVisiting Texas, Vice-President Mike Pence promised federal help to \"rebuild bigger and better than ever before\".\n\nThe BBC's Barbara Plett Usher in Houston, Texas, says Congress is expected to act quickly on the request for initial funding when it reconvenes next week after its August recess.\n\nBut, she adds, that will be only the first tranche of money needed for the recovery.\n\nMr Pence said 311,000 people had registered for disaster assistance. It is not yet clear how quickly funds might reach victims.\n\nVisiting the battered town of Rockport, Mr Pence paid tribute to the people of Texas: \"The resilience of the people of Texas has been inspiring.\"\n\nHe added: \"The American people are with you. We are here today, we will be here tomorrow and we will be here every day until this city and this state and this region rebuild bigger and better than ever before.\"\n\nThe White House also said Mr Trump would donate $1m of his own money to the relief effort.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nFirefighters in Houston have been carrying out door-to-door searches for survivors and bodies in an operation that could take up to two weeks.\n\nRescue operations are still continuing further east, where floodwaters are still rising.\n\nHundreds of thousands of residents who were evacuated or chose to leave are being warned not to return home until they are told it is safe to do so.\n\nEarlier, a senior White House aide said about 100,000 homes, not all of which were fully insured, had been affected by the storm and the flooding that accompanied it.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The BBC's Gabriel Gatehouse finds out what Storm Harvey left behind\n\nThe US Federal Emergency Management Agency (Fema) said its teams had rescued more than 3,800 people, and more than 90,000 had already been approved for disaster assistance.\n\nFema also warned that residents were being targeted by scams. There are reports of criminals impersonating inspectors and immigration officials.\n\nOthers were receiving fraudulent calls about flood insurance claiming a premium must be paid or coverage would be lost.\n\nEnergy suppliers in southern Texas were forced to shut down refineries and close off pipelines, sending petrol prices higher across the US. Many have restarted operations, but it could take weeks before production is back to normal.\n\nResidents returning to their homes are also facing challenges.\n\nThe Environmental Protection Agency is warning residents that floodwater can contain bacteria and other contaminants from overflowing sewers. It said the biggest threat to public health was access to safe drinking water.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. What are the long-term health risks for Storm Harvey victims?\n\nOne chemical plant in Crosby, near Houston, caught fire on Thursday, and more fires are expected in the coming days.\n\nChemicals stored at the flooded Arkema plant are no longer being refrigerated, making them combustible.\n\nResidents have been evacuated from the plant in a 1.5 mile (2km) radius, and smoke was seen rising from the site on Thursday.\n\nPresident Trump and his wife Melania are expected to return to Texas on Saturday.\n\nThe president visited the flood-hit state earlier in the week but limited his visit to Corpus Christi, which avoided the worst of the flooding, over fears his presence could divert resources from rescue efforts.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nStorm Harvey has been downgraded to a tropical depression and is expected to dissipate in Ohio on Saturday evening.\n\nSeveral inches of rainfall are expected in Tennessee and Kentucky over the next two days, and flood warnings remain in effect in parts of Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Texas, and Louisiana.", "Stephanie Slater moved to the Isle of Wight after she was kidnapped in 1992\n\nStephanie Slater, the estate agent who was kidnapped and held captive for eight days in 1992, has died of cancer aged 50.\n\nMs Slater was held in a \"cramped wooden coffin\" after she was kidnapped by Michael Sams.\n\nSams posed as a house buyer to kidnap Ms Slater in Birmingham. She was freed after her employer paid a £175,000 ransom.\n\nMs Slater moved to the Isle of Wight and went on to help kidnapping victims.\n\nStephanie Slater worked as an estate agent and was kidnapped during a bogus house viewing\n\nSams, from Sutton-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire, was jailed for life in 1993 for kidnapping Ms Slater and for the kidnap and murder of Leeds teenager Julie Dart.\n\nSams, now 76, was caught after his third wife recognised his voice from a clip played on BBC's Crimewatch.\n\nMs Slater was 25 and working at Shipways Estate Agency in Great Barr when she was kidnapped.\n\nShe was gagged and driven from Birmingham to Sams' workshop in Newark.\n\nShe was put in a wooden box inside a wheelie bin where she was handcuffed and had electrodes attached to her leg.\n\nMichael Sams was jailed for life for kidnapping Ms Slater and for the murder and kidnap of Julie Dart\n\nMs Slater spent her life working with police forces to improve treatment of kidnap victims and also with victims to help them overcome their experiences.\n\nShe wrote a book, Beyond Fear: My Will To Survive, telling of her time in captivity which she hoped would help others better understand the point of view of female victims of violence.\n\nHer best friend, Stacey Kettner said: \"I know that she never truly got over the events that changed her life so dramatically in January 1992.\n\n\"It's been an honour and a privilege to be Stephanie's best friend.\"", "All smiles from the Brexit negotiators despite major differences between the two sides\n\nThe biggest fights in the European Union are always about money, so there was never any reason to suppose that the Brexit negotiations would be any different.\n\nLast year, Treasury figures show the UK paid about £13bn to the EU, around £200 per person. Some of which then gets spent in the UK.\n\nBut the European Commission is trying to calculate what the UK's outstanding financial obligation should be when it leaves.\n\nThe EU argues that the UK has made a series of big financial commitments as part of the current seven-year budget that need to be paid on exit.\n\nIt also says the UK needs to settle its share of what's known as the \"reste à liquider\". This is money that has been committed but not yet paid - in effect the EU's credit card bill.\n\nHere's the problem for the EU: the less the UK agrees to pay, the more other countries will have to fill the gap.\n\nThat means that countries that are net contributors to the EU budget, like Germany or the Netherlands, will have to pay more.\n\nAt the other end of the scale, the countries that are net beneficiaries, like Poland or Greece, will receive less.\n\nSo when the UK argues that the EU is being unreasonable in its demands, it has no allies at all.\n\nThe hard line approach adopted by the European Commission has come from pressure from other member states. They don't think, for example, that the UK should be entitled to a share of the EU's assets when financial calculations are made.\n\nBritish officials spent several hours during this week's negotiations questioning the legal basis of the EU's proposals. But they haven't put forward counter-proposals of their own - which, in turn, is annoying European officials.\n\nHow can we negotiate, they argue, when we don't know what you want?\n\nHence the pessimistic tone of Europe's chief Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier, who again insisted that the divorce deal must be agreed before talks move on to discuss issues such as the future trade relationship.\n\nMr Barnier claimed there had been \"no decisive progress\" and the negotiations were still \"quite far\" away from being able to move on to other issues.\n\nThe EU hasn't publicly put a figure on the amount it thinks the UK should pay, but many estimates come up with a net figure of about 60 billion euros. The UK says it won't pay anything like that.\n\nOne possible route out of the impasse is talk of a transition period. If the UK was still paying into the EU budget for two or three years after Brexit, that could help reduce the final exit bill considerably. It would also fill a hole in the EU budget, and generate goodwill elsewhere on the continent.\n\nMujtaba Rahman is a Brexit expert and Managing Director at the Eurasia Group, a political risk consultancy. He says that it will be up to Theresa May to lay the groundwork in order for negotiations to progress:\n\n\"In October when heads of state get together there will be an opportunity for Theresa May to make the case that she can only write a cheque if it's packaged as part of a bigger deal that gives the UK concessions on both transition and future trade terms.\"\n\nIt is worth remembering that compared to what's at stake in renegotiating the UK's entire trading relationship with the EU and the rest of the world, even 60 billion euros or more isn't a huge amount.\n\nBut politically, it's explosive. And three months after these negotiations finally began, under pressure of time, it has become the toughest nut to crack.\n\nIn the end it will have to be resolved by political decisions rather than legal or technical advice.", "Hubert Zafke faced 3,681 counts of being an accessory to murder\n\nGerman prosecutors have said a case against a 96-year-old former SS medic should be thrown out because he is unfit to stand trial.\n\nHubert Zafke is accused of assisting in the killing of 3,681 people at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.\n\nMedical evaluations in March and July this year determined Mr Zafke, who has dementia, to be \"unfit to stand trial\".\n\nA court spokesman said \"the defendant is no longer able to reasonably assess his interests\".\n\nIt is estimated that 1.1 million people, most of them European Jews, died at Auschwitz before it was liberated by Soviet forces in 1945.\n\nMr Zafke's defence have said he suffers from poor health, high blood pressure and suicidal thoughts.\n\nHis trial, which began in February 2016 in the north-eastern town of Neubrandenburg, has been postponed three times because of concerns regarding his health.\n\nStefan Urbanek, a spokesman for the regional prosecutor's office, said, quoted by AFP: \"Now the dementia has reached a severity that the defendant is no longer able, inside and outside the courtroom, to reasonably assess his interests or coherently follow or give testimony.\"\n\nHe said that prosecutors were required by law to submit a motion to dismiss the case after receiving this independent medical evaluation.\n\nA lawyer for the two co-plaintiffs, who are sons of a woman murdered at Auschwitz, acknowledged the motion to end the trial \"complied with the rule of law\".\n\nThe former SS medic served for several weeks in the summer of 1944 in the medical unit at the Auschwitz death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland.\n\nHubert Zafke denies the charges, and argues that he treated only wounded soldiers and members of the SS.\n\nA Polish court sentenced him to a four-year jail term after the war, and he was released in 1951.\n\nBut during his first questioning by German prosecutors in 2014, he denied ever having worked at Auschwitz.\n\nHe later acknowledged his presence but said he was unaware of the gas chambers and crematoria at the death camp until after the war had ended.\n\nTeenage Jewish girl Anne Frank arrived at the camp during the period covered by Hubert Zafke's indictment. She died in another camp, Bergen-Belsen, shortly before it was liberated by the British Army in 1945.\n\nHubert Zafke served in the medical unit at Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp\n\nProceedings against Mr Zafke, a farmer's son who joined the SS when he was 19, were halted last October following complaints that the judges were biased.\n\nThe International Auschwitz Committee, which represents Holocaust survivors, has previously attacked Germany's handling of the case, saying the court was hurtling \"between sloppy ignorance and complete disinterest\" in a resolution.", "The National Trust is \"embroiled in a row with countryside campaigners\", according to the lead in the Daily Telegraph.\n\nThe conservation charity has been accused of \"effectively painting targets\" on people who hunt after it decided to publish details of the times and locations of legal hunts on its land.\n\nHunt supporters say such information could be used by saboteurs, increasing the risk of violent disruption.\n\nThe trust is due to vote at its AGM next month on whether to ban the sport on its land in a motion tabled by the League Against Cruel Sports.\n\nIt tells the paper it had lost confidence everything possible was being done to ensure the law on hunting was being upheld.\n\nThe Sun accuses Labour of \"betrayal\" over Brexit.\n\n\"Labour is now the anti-Brexit party\", it says, after deputy leader Tom Watson said the UK could remain a permanent part of the single market and customs union.\n\nThe Daily Express agrees, saying any effort to keep Britain within the bloc following Brexit would be \"shamefully undemocratic\".\n\nThe Daily Mail accuses Labour of a \"risible volte-face\" - for soft Brexit read no Brexit at all, it says.\n\nThe Financial Times says a ruling by Kenya's Supreme Court to nullify the presidential election will go some way to restoring faith in the country's democracy.\n\nAlex Vines, head of the Africa programme at the Chatham House think tank, tells the Guardian it is good news for Kenya but says there is no precedent for such a judgement anywhere on the continent.\n\nThe Times says the decision will be especially keenly felt in other Commonwealth countries - such as South Africa, Uganda and Rwanda - where democracy is under threat.\n\nBut it will be a slap in the face for international observers, led by former US Secretary of State John Kerry, who declared that the last election had been largely fair.\n\nThe Telegraph has learned that the Metropolitan Police has paid £100,000 in compensation to Lord Bramall and Lady Brittan after raiding their homes during child sex abuse investigation Operation Midland.\n\nThe paper says lawyers for Scotland Yard agreed the settlements, which include gagging clauses, after accepting that the searches had been unjustified and should never have taken place.\n\nJohn Lewis has become the first major retailer to ditch \"boys\" and \"girls\" labels from its clothing range, the Mail reports.\n\nThe department store, which is introducing non gender-specific clothes for children, has also ditched boys and girls signs in stores.\n\nIt says it does not want to reinforce stereotypes.\n\nThe paper points out that the move has been welcomed by some parents on social media but Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen said the signs were informative, and removing them could be very confusing.\n\n\"It appears political correctness continues to march\", he said.\n\nThe grass is always greener in Stuart Grindle's garden.\n\nThe Express reports the 74-year-old from Doncaster has taken the title of Britain's Best Lawn.\n\nThe Daily Mirror points out that the lawn has taken work - Mr Grindle cuts it four days a week, two or three times a day, and would not let his son play football or cricket on the grass when he was a child.\n\nHe tells the Times he might sound a bit of a geek but \"it's the be all and end all\".", "The caption labelled one of the Hinckley club's female riders a \"token attractive woman\"\n\nA leading cycling magazine has apologised after a female rider was labelled \"token attractive woman\".\n\nCycling Weekly's edition from 31 August featured a profile of Hinckley Cycle Racing Club to mark the Leicestershire group's 70th anniversary.\n\nClub secretary Tim Ellershaw said they were annoyed, and the comment \"should never have been made in the first place\".\n\nThe magazine accepted the caption was idiotic and not funny.\n\nThe caption appeared in a feature about the club, which was founded in 1947\n\nHannah Noel, the cyclist in the picture, said on Facebook: \"I made it into Cycling Weekly, it seems not for my ability as a female cyclist but as a 'token attractive woman' - I'm absolutely gutted and disappointed in the magazine.\"\n\nIn response to a comment about her looking \"fabulous\", she said: \"It's not really the reason I'd want to be in a magazine, it's sexist and derogatory to female cyclists.\"\n\nSimon Richardson, editor of Cycling Weekly, said in a statement: \"Unfortunately during the magazine's production process a member of the sub-editing team decided to write an idiotic caption on a photo of one of the female riders of the club.\n\n\"The caption is neither funny nor representative of the way we approach our work.\"\n\nMr Ellershaw said it had \"taken the shine off\" an exciting event for the club.\n\n\"It's really not appropriate in this day and age,\" he said.\n\n\"You can see how these things happen - comments slip through the net when things need to be proof-read properly - but it shouldn't be made in the first place.\n\n\"The lady in the picture is a keen member of the club - she rides every week, and she's certainly not just a token woman.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The local business directory that helped JR Hartley find his book on fly fishing is set to go out of print.\n\nThe Yellow Pages will no longer be published on paper from next year onwards, more than five decades after it launched in the UK.\n\nIts owner, Yell, has announced that the first of its 104 final editions will be distributed in Kingston next January.\n\nA year later, a final directory will be sent out in Brighton, where it was first published in 1966.\n\nYell, the UK operation owned by Hibu, is going fully digital and says that it hopes to \"help a million businesses be found, chosen and trusted by more customers online by 2020\".\n\nA household staple - and handy doorstop - for years, Yellow Pages was known for its advertisements, among them the JR Hartley classic and the one featuring a hungover teenager in desperate need of a French polisher.\n\nRichard Hanscott, chief executive of Yell, said: \"After 51 years in production Yellow Pages is a household name and we're proud to say that we still have customers who've been with us from the very first Yellow Pages edition in 1966.\n\n\"How many brands can say they've had customers with them for over 50 years?\"\n\nCommenting on why the company is ending the print edition, Mr Hanscott said: \"Like many businesses, Yell has found that succeeding in digital demands constant change and innovation. We're well placed to continue to help local businesses and consumers be successful online, both now and in the future.''", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nAfter two months of mind-boggling spending, miles of social media speculation, smoke, mirrors and silly signing announcements, the transfer window has finally closed.\n\nAmid all the noise, which are the bargains, bloopers and just plain bonkers signings of a roller-coaster transfer window?\n\nStoke midfielder Charlie Adam, ex-England winger Trevor Sinclair, former Everton winger Kevin Kilbane and Andy Townsend, once of Aston Villa, Chelsea and Republic of Ireland's midfields, were in the BBC Sport centre for transfer deadline day.\n\nAmid all the breaking late news, they gave their perspectives on a topsy-turvy transfer window.\n• None Everton's Barkley 'did not have Chelsea medical'\n• None Who did what? Complete list of transfers\n• None Watch: Who were the transfer window's winners and losers?\n\nWhat was the biggest surprise?\n\nAndy Townsend: I was really surprised at Chelsea's decision to sell Nemanja Matic - such a key part of their title-winning squad - to Manchester United - such a key rival. That seemed peculiar and I bet that Jose [Mourinho] could not believe it when he was told it was possible.\n\nThat brought in £40m which was pretty much what Chelsea had spent on Monaco's Tiemoue Bakayoko. But then they were reportedly after Danny Drinkwater at Leicester as well. All very strange.\n\nTrevor Sinclair: One of the biggest surprises for me was the lack of planning at Arsenal. They were not able to react to Manchester City's interest in Alexis Sanchez. There was no contingency plan in place.\n\nI thought they would have [Paris St-Germain winger] Julian Draxler lined up given the French side have brought in Neymar and Kylian Mbappe at such expense.\n\nDraxler is 24 years old still, a player that Arsene Wenger is believed to have been interested in in the past and has a ton of experience.\n\nThe rush for [Monaco midfielder] Thomas Lemar - after Wenger had said any deal for him was dead - was just too late.\n\nCharlie Adam: That Manchester City could not get a deal done for Jonny Evans was surprising to me.\n\nHe has got the experience of playing at a big club in the same city having been at Manchester United, he has won trophies and he plays the game the way that Pep Guardiola likes.\n\nThat would have been a great bit of business for both the player and City.\n\nKevin Kilbane: The sheer size of Neymar's £198m deal to go from Barcelona to Paris St-Germain has got to be the biggest surprise.\n\nWhen Paul Pogba joined Manchester United for a world record £89m last year, it felt like we were already seeing the record shift dramatically. Now, it has more than doubled. It really is remarkable.\n\nTrevor Sinclair: The deal to sign Neymar got people talking, but he is already established as a star of the club and international game.\n\nBut, the deal that has been set up to take Kylian Mbappe from Monaco to Paris St-Germain is extraordinary.\n\nHe obviously looks like an exceptional prospect, but he is still only 18 and his value is based on one outstanding season.\n\nHe scored 24 goals in 41 appearances for Monaco last season and he looks the real deal, but £165.7m is a huge amount for someone who is still a little bit of an unknown quantity.\n\nAndy Townsend: I think that £45m is a lot for Everton to have spent bringing in Gylfi Sigurdsson from Swansea. He has the ability to score goals and create, but he is nearly 28. I don't think he would have improved any of the clubs above Everton.\n\nI can understand why Everton wanted him and how well he fits into Ronald Koeman's plans, but at £45m it seemed like a lot of money.\n\nTrevor Sinclair: I think if Liverpool can keep Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain fit I think they have got a matchwinner on their hands. He has explosive power, balance, the agility and trickery to go past people and, at his best, takes games by the scruff of the neck.\n\nAt 24, he is at a good stage of his career, he has a heap of experience and I think Liverpool's narrower shape will suit him.\n\nIf they can get him on the pitch 80% of the time, I think that £35m is a bargain.\n\nCharlie Adam: Swansea's loan deal to take Renato Sanches from Bayern Munich for the season is not cheap - there is talk of a £4m loan fee and the Welsh club having to pick up most of his wages.\n\nBut if they stay in the league it is going to be small change and he will be committed to the cause. Paul Clement will put an arm round him, tell him to express himself and get the best from him. I think that is a good move for Swansea.\n\nAndy Townsend: I think that Tottenham have done very good business in bringing in right-back Serge Aurier from Paris St-Germain for £23m.\n\nI have seen a lot of him and he is an incredible athlete, very quick, a real beast of a player. He has actually got more facets to his game than Kyle Walker I think.\n\nHe has had issues off the pitch, but if he knuckles down, he is a proper player.\n\nWho much would you have been worth in your prime?:\n\nTrevor Sinclair: When Ray Wilkins first came in at QPR in 1994 he put a £10m pricetag on my head, which would have been a British record at the time.\n\nThere were a few inquiries about me around that time. It was only a few years later that I found out that when Bobby Robson became manager of Barcelona in 1996, he asked about me.\n\nThat was the time that they had Ronaldo, Luis Figo, Hristo Stoichkov. If I had known about that at the time, I would have swum there!\n\nAndy Townsend: I went to Chelsea for just over £1m in 1990, when some of the really top deals were around £1.5m to £2m. Dennis Wise joined the same summer for £1.6m.\n\nWhen I left for Aston Villa in 1993, I cost around £2.5m and there were deals around the £3m mark.\n\nI don't know what that equates to in today's money, but I'm very happy to have played in the era that I did.\n\nThere are a lot of obvious reasons why being a young footballer nowadays is tempting but there are a lot of downsides as well.\n\nTheir privacy is seriously invaded, everywhere they go they are scrutinised and any mistakes are pounced on.", "How realistic are Westminster whispers about a new political party?\n\nWhispers of collaboration waft through the air. Rumours of a new political entity emerging into the light. Stories of politicians ready to cast aside tribal instinct and join something new.\n\nBut that is quite enough about the political intrigue in Germany where, weeks before the general election, there is no doubt breathless discussion in the cafes near the Bundestag about who Angela Merkel may end up working with if she's returned as chancellor again.\n\nI talk of the occasional chat here, among those who describe themselves as forced to sleep on the political streets: homeless in the era of Brexit and Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nDestitute, desperate and with a desire for something different, the story goes, they are smooching their way discreetly towards an immaculate political conception.\n\nThey are searching for the Anglo-Saxon equivalent of France's En Marche, the miracle birth over the water.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron built his own political kit car widget by widget, and, fuelled by the French electorate, drove it straight to the Elysee Palace.\n\nSo this political correspondent peeled himself away from the feverish summer squalls over the Big Ben bong ban, and instead made some inquiries.\n\nOne household name had already told me privately that they frequently passed colleagues from other parties in the corridors here, and thought that they had much more in common with them than plenty of their own supposed political brethren.\n\nAnother well-known politician told me of their desire to \"create a home for those deeply politically engaged people who I call the 'militant, muscular moderates'\".\n\n\"On the surface, there is the two-party system, but it is more complex than that,\" I was told.\n\n\"There is a lot of voter churn - the electorate is soft and fluid.\"\n\nThat's Westminster speak for: \"No-one's quite sure what's going on, so anything's possible.\" Possibly.\n\nLook closely and what could be the embryonic beginnings of a new party are there.\n\nLeft-leaning parties worked together to try to defeat the Conservatives at the general election\n\nThere was what was called the Progressive Alliance at this year's general election.\n\nThere were 42 seats across the UK where candidates broadly of the left stood aside with the intention of helping another candidate on the left beat the Conservatives.\n\nIn 38 of them, the Green Party didn't put up a candidate. In two, the Liberal Democrats didn't bother. And in one, the Women's Equality Party didn't. Not one Labour candidate stood aside.\n\nThen there is the More United campaign. It says that at the general election it \"backed 49 candidates from five different parties. Of these, 34 have been elected to be members of Parliament.\"\n\nOf those, 26 were Labour, five were Lib Dem and there was one each for the Conservatives, Greens and the SNP.\n\nAgain, then, the same asymmetry: Labour was the principal beneficiary.\n\nFormer Chancellor George Osborne argues there's a potentially fertile gap between the right and left\n\nBut glance towards the Conservatives and some see contemporary politics as a doughnut or a mint: something with a large hole in the centre.\n\nThere's \"a real gap in the middle of politics at the moment between the Corbynistas and the hard Brexiteers,\" says the former Chancellor George Osborne in an interview with Influence, a magazine for the PR industry, to be published next month.\n\nAnother Tory tells me they are \"frightened\". Politics, they say, \"is dominated by the far-left and the far-right\".\n\nBut, they point out, politics for most at Westminster is like supporting a football team: tribal blindness reigns. Plus, there's the 2017 general election result.\n\nTwo quotes from my notebook here: \"The election changed everything\" and \"A new party is not a goer\".\n\nThese remarks from two people within Labour, one of whom thought, until June, that their party was \"more likely than not to split\".\n\nNext, a third voice. A trenchant, persistent critic of Jeremy Corbyn who still harbours vast doubts about him, but acknowledges his election performance reshaped the landscape.\n\nJeremy Corbyn's campaign slogan \"For the many, not the few\" resonated with many young voters in particular\n\n\"There is no place - and no need - for another party. He killed that. It is dead, literally dead. You don't vote against someone who is going to get you into power.\"\n\nYou'll have noticed in this report the absence of people speaking on the record.\n\nThere's a good reason for that. Beyond saying \"it's not going to happen,\" plenty are reluctant to talk publicly.\n\nFor the adhesive that binds parties together becomes altogether stickier when the two giants of Westminster politics each poll at least 40% of the vote.\n\nEven the other established parties resemble toddlers in a world of giants, reducing the nascent rumblings described above to the microscopic level.\n\nAnd then, the bete noire of any potential political pregnancy: the first-past-the-post electoral system for Westminster. It requires concentrated pockets of support to ensure any breakthrough.\n\nGlance into the graveyard of political failure, and you see the tombstones of Veritas, Libertas, The Jury Team, No2EU and Your Party.\n\nThe one example still alive: UKIP. But even it only ever managed to win one seat at a general election.\n\nIt won't stop the chatter, the never-ending asking of the question: \"What next?\"\n\nAnd yes, it's been a rough old time at Westminster recently for our old friend conventional wisdom.\n\nBut, for now at least, I see little sign of the midwives gathering or a delivery suite assigned for the birth of a new political giant.", "The relief team visits the site of the fatal mudslide\n\nAs families desperately clawed through red earth and debris that had buried their communities within just a few hours, another fear was already taking hold.\n\nGushing muddy waters had poured into poor communities, killing at least 500 people, leaving many more homeless and wrecking what were already very basic water and sanitation systems.\n\nAlthough tragedy has already struck, things could get a lot worse.\n\n\"The floods and landslides have caused damage to water and sanitation systems in affected areas thus resulting in contamination of open water sources, and also created possible breeding sites for vectors like mosquitoes,\" World Health Organization Sierra Leone officer in charge, Dr Alexander Chimbaru, said.\n\nLarge displaced populations, limited clean water supplies and no or unhygienic places to go to the toilet, all create the perfect conditions for deadly diseases to spread fast.\n\nWithin four days of the disaster, the Sierra Leonean government had called on the new UK Public Health Rapid Support Team (UK-PHRST) to deploy to Freetown and help them prevent a major outbreak of disease.\n\nThe team is made up of top experts, who commit to jumping on a plane within hours of a disaster anywhere in the world.\n\nIt was created in response to the world's tardy reaction to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.\n\nLittle did the team know that one of its first deployments would be back to one of the worst Ebola-hit countries.\n\n\"We got the call on 18 August, and I was on a plane within three days,\" said epidemiologist Maria Saavedra-Campos.\n\n\"It's unfortunate we need to come back again in these circumstances. But it's clear how resilient Sierra Leoneans are.\"\n\nTheir job - in short - is to help local governments stop major outbreaks before they start.\n\n\"We are part of an additional level of surveillance of disease that the government put in place after this disaster struck. We do active case finding\" said Ms Saavedra-Campos.\n\n\"We are looking for what we call 'epidemic prone' diseases, such as cholera, measles, malaria and typhoid.\"\n\nMany have died in tragedy\n\nEvery day, the team goes into community health centres in and around the worst affected areas and helps local health workers to build the systems needed to gather detailed information about illnesses in local areas.\n\nFor example, how many people reported having diarrhoea or a fever in the community that day, what medication or other intervention were they given.\n\nGathering this information on a daily basis helps build a better picture of whether there may be small clusters of disease that could be the beginnings of a major outbreak.\n\nThe idea is any potential epidemic is picked up super-early, so it can be stamped out before it spirals into a national or even international emergency.\n\n\"Many of these health workers have themselves lost loved ones in the mudslides,\" said Ms Saavedra-Campos.\n\n\"It is a difficult situation, and we are asking them to report every morning while some of them are still grieving. \"\n\n\"We try to make it easy as possible by visiting them often and having a presence.\n\n\"Government teams and NGOs [non-governmental organisations] also do similar visits.\"\n\nThe World Health Organization says the loss of life in Sierra Leone has been devastating, both after Ebola and this recent disaster, and the recovery will again take time.\n\nMaria Saavedra-Campos is assessing the best way forward\n\n\"This was an unanticipated tragedy which resulted in sudden loss of life and property and is hugely traumatic,\" said Dr Alexander Chimbaru.\n\n\"People here are incredibly brave and resilient, but we should not underestimate the effects an incident like this can have on people's mental health and wellbeing.\"\n\nUK-PHRST is funded by the British government, which believes getting involved in such relief efforts abroad is money well spent.\n\n\"Diseases can spread rapidly around the world,\" said Ms Saavedra-Campos.\n\n\"We can travel to the other side of the globe in less than a day, diseases don't care about borders - we've seen that here in Sierra Leone with Ebola.\n\n\"If we can detect diseases early and tackle them at source, they won't spread to neighbouring countries or internationally - including to the UK.\"", "A police officer who had sex with a \"vulnerable\" teenager has been dismissed.\n\nSpecial Sgt Corey Alvey, 26, was part of a team involved in a search for the 17-year old, referred to only as HF, who had been reported missing.\n\nA disciplinary hearing, at Lincolnshire police headquarters, was told Mr Alvey - based in Stamford - made legitimate contact with the teenager on Snapchat.\n\nBut he had then continued to contact HF on Instagram after the search ended.\n\nThe officer had flirted with the vulnerable teenager on Instagram, the panel heard\n\nMatthew Green, for Lincolnshire Police, told the hearing in Nettleham the subsequent contact via Instagram was \"inappropriate, personal and unprofessional\".\n\nHe said it was plain the officer \"believed he could facilitate a personal relationship with HF\".\n\nThe panel heard the officer had initially appeared to be supporting and reassuring HF after the incident on 9 April, but the content of his messages had then become flirtatious.\n\nThe following day Mr Alvey took HF, whose gender was not revealed at the hearing, to his home where they had sex, Mr Green told the panel.\n\nThe matter was then reported to police by HF's father, he said.\n\nIn conclusion, Mr Green told the hearing the officer knew, or should have known, HF was vulnerable.\n\nHe added it was clear public trust in the police had been seriously damaged.\n\nLincolnshire's Chief Constable Bill Skelly, who chaired the hearing, found the officer's actions amounted to gross misconduct and dismissed him without notice.\n\nHe said Mr Alvey, who was not present at the hearing, had grossly undermined his privileged position.\n\nThe hearing comes just a day after another Lincolnshire police officer was dismissed.\n\nPC Rebecca Stevenson was found to be at twice the legal alcohol limit when she lost control of her vehicle and crashed into a dyke.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Renault-Nissan and Kia are the latest car companies to launch car trade-in schemes, aimed at persuading UK customers to swap older, more polluting, car models for new ones.\n\nEarlier Volkswagen and Toyota announced diesel scrappage schemes, joining BMW, Ford, Hyundai, Mercedes-Benz and Vauxhall who have all launched schemes.\n\nThe car companies will accept trade-ins from any brand registered before 2010.\n\nIt comes as the \"toughest ever\" new-car emissions tests begin to be rolled out.\n\nKia and Renault are offering £2,000 off new models, for part-exchanged vehicles, all of which will be taken off the road.\n\nNissan is calling its scheme a \"switch\" scheme since not all the cars traded in will be scrapped. The firm is also offering a £2,000 incentive and encouraging customers to consider buying their all-electric Leaf model.\n\nVW will give discounts of up to £6,000 to trade in diesel vehicles when buying a new car. Meanwhile, Toyota is offering up to £4,000 off models more than seven years old.\n\nAmongst the biggest firms marketing cars in the UK only Peugeot, Landrover, Honda, Citroen, Fiat and Volvo, have not announced trade-in schemes.\n\nCar manufacturers have been under increasing political pressure, especially in Germany, to encourage consumers to buy less polluting cars.\n\nIt follows VW's \"Dieselgate\" scandal, in which 11 million vehicles worldwide were found to have cheated on emissions tests.\n\nVW's German scrappage scheme offered discounts of up to 10,000 euros\n\nVW's UK scheme, which includes all its UK brands - including Audi, Seat, Skoda and VW Commercial Vehicles - follows an initiative launched in Germany.\n\nVW's German scheme offered a discount of up to 10,000 euros (£9,000) to trade in diesel vehicles.\n\nIts UK scheme will apply to any diesel vehicle that has emissions standards lower than Euro 5 and was registered before 2010.\n\nIncentives range from £1,800 off a new VW Up! to £6,000 off a Sharan people carrier.\n\nElectric and hybrid vehicles, which attract government grants, will be included in the scheme.\n\nTim Urquhart, principal analyst at IHS Automotive, said the move was both about restoring VW's credibility after \"dieselgate\" and boosting sales.\n\n\"We've seen a bit of a drop in the UK car market this year after years of really accelerated growth. I think the manufacturers are looking to get people into their showrooms,\" he told the BBC's Today programme.\n\n\"At the same time VW are showing they are being socially responsible. They are getting some of these older diesel vehicles off the roads.\"\n\nJim Holder, editorial director of Haymarket Automotive, told the BBC that VW's scrappage incentives would vary from country to country, due to factors such as transport costs and vehicles being cheaper in its home market.\n\nHowever, he said VW would probably have pitched their discounts in order to compete with rival schemes in the UK market.\n\nToyota's scheme offers discounts of up to £4,000\n\nVW's UK scheme offers substantially higher discounts than some of its competitors, which seem to hover around the £2,000 mark as an upper limit.\n\nHowever, Mr Holder said it was not clear what impact the VW scheme would have on vehicle sales.\n\n\"Owners of older vehicles typically don't have the money to spend on a new vehicle, even with these discounts - in normal circumstances it would be far more likely that they would trade up to another, less old, used car.\"\n\nToyota's scheme runs from 1 September to 31 December and is open to any vehicle more than seven years old.\n\nCustomers can get a discount of £2,000 off models including Aygo, Prius and Hilux, and £4,000 off a Land Cruiser.\n\nPaul Van der Burgh, Toyota GB managing director, said: \"Our scrappage scheme is a win-win solution. Motorists can dispose of their older vehicles and have access to our cleaner, more efficient model range.\"\n\nIt comes as tougher emissions tests begin to be rolled out across the European Union on Friday.\n\nAs well as a new laboratory test, all newly launched car models will have to undergo robust \"on-road\" testing before they go on sale.\n\nThe Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders said the tests would better reflect modern driving habits. They will also be more stringent than any other vehicle testing regime in the world.\n\nChief executive Mike Hawes said: \"Combined, these new and demanding tests will soon give consumers emissions performance information that is far closer to what they experience behind the wheel.\n\n\"They will also inspire greater confidence that the new cars they buy are not only the cleanest, but the most fuel efficient ever produced.\"", "There is about a teaspoonful of Madge Hobson's ashes in her record\n\nJohn Hobson is listening to a recording of conversations with his late mother, mostly small talk about family.\n\nThe words are on a vinyl record, although this is more than a recording of memories.\n\nThe ashes of Madge Hobson are combined with the vinyl, with a photograph and details of her life printed on the labels.\n\n\"It makes the perfect family record, which can be passed down the generations,\" says Jason Leach, 46, the founder of And Vinyly, which produced the disc.\n\nThe firm is part of a fast-growing sector of the end-of-life industry. No longer need ashes be stored in an urn or scattered to the wind. Now you can wear, drink from, or display a little part of what is left of your loved one.\n\nMr Hobson, a 69-year-old sculptor, says his mother, a devout churchgoer, would thoroughly approve of her record.\n\n\"I had to weigh out a quantity of the ashes [which had been kept in an urn], and put a large teaspoonful into a number of small plastic bags, one for each disc,\" he says.\n\nFifteen records were pressed for family and friends. Says Mr Hobson: \"I think And Vinyly has undoubtedly helped to keep the memory of my mother alive.\"\n\nJason Leach says he wants to increase production to meet increasing demand\n\nMr Leach, based in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, began pondering the possibilities of pressing ashes into records about 10 years ago.\n\nThere was no business plan. He was just reflecting on mortality, issues brought into sharper focus when his mother began work at a funeral directors.\n\n\"I was amazed by how little I or any of my friends had even properly considered or even accepted our own mortality, and how incredibly sheltered many of us are from death and conversations around it,\" Mr Leach says.\n\n\"It was not intended to be a business. It was the result of having a bit of fun with what at the time felt like a shocking and disconcerting inevitability.\"\n\nThe process is the same as making a standard vinyl disc, with ashes (human or pet) added at a specific stage in production.\n\n\"It's a balance between adding enough ashes so as to be seen, but not so much as to affect the grooves' smooth playing,\" says Mr Leach.\n\n\"There will, of course, be some extra pops and crackles resulting from the inclusion of ashes - but we like these, as this is you.\"\n\nPrices vary as every request is different, he says. A basic package costs about £900, rising to about £3,000.\n\nOptions include 7-inch or 12-inch discs, specially-composed music, a portrait painted on the record using the ashes, and clear or coloured vinyl.\n\nThis could be you - an Algordanza diamond is made from human ashes\n\nMr Leach, a music producer and music label owner, currently presses about two discs a month that have human ashes added to them, on equipment he already owns.\n\nBut he is in the process of arranging more funding to meet rising demand. He is also linking with funeral homes which will offer the service. \"The concept markets itself,\" he says.\n\n\"Of course, there are those who find it strange, even creepy, but most people actually come round to the idea.\"\n\nAnd his plans for his own record? Spoken words from him, his partner of more than 25 years, and their two daughters, plus some music he has written.\n\n\"I like to think about my great, great grandchildren listening to me. This is about as close to time travel as I'm going to get,\" he says.\n\nIn Domat/Ems, Switzerland, Rinaldo Willy, 37, has another way of keeping memories alive - turning ashes into diamonds.\n\n\"I was diagnosed with cancer at the age of 21, and therefore was sensitised to the topic of death,\" he says.\n\nWhile a business studies student, in 2003, he read about isolating carbon from ashes to create synthetic diamonds. A year later, with his professor, he founded Algordanza.\n\nA diamond is 99.9% carbon, while the human body is 20%. After cremation about 1-5% of carbon remains.\n\nNatural diamonds - symbols of love and the everlasting - are created under enormous pressure and high temperatures inside of the earth. Algordanza replicates the process in its laboratory, creating stones within weeks.\n\nAbout 85 diamonds a month are made, costing between about £2,800 and £12,700.\n\nMore stories from the BBC's Business Brain series looking at quirky or unusual business topics from around the world:\n\nThe start-up investment in Algordanza was £300,000, with Mr Willy using all his savings.\n\n\"After six years, we were able to pay ourselves a proper salary,\" he says. The business now employs 60 people worldwide, with 12 based at the Switzerland headquarters.\n\nMany of Algordanza's customers have gone through huge trauma. \"We have families who lost someone in events and incidents such as the tsunami in Thailand, the earthquake in Chile, soldiers who lost their lives on duty in Afghanistan, the terror attack in Madrid, the flight crash of Germanwings,\" Mr Willy says.\n\nIn Santa Fe, in the US, Justin Crowe, 29, uses cremated ashes as raw material for pottery.\n\nA fine art graduate, he founded Chronicle Cremation Designs in 2016. He already ran a ceramics studio, so needed minimal initial investment. But he has now raised $100,000 (£78,400) seed funding to expand.\n\nAt Chronicle Cremation, Justin Crowe will turn ashes into home decor and small jewellery pieces\n\nA typical ceramic glaze is made up of flint, minerals and clay. \"We've developed a special glaze recipe that incorporates the cremated remains, which ultimately function to form the gloss you see on the surface of the work,\" Mr Crowe says.\n\nHis Lifeware product line includes vases, urns, and coffee cups. The most popular items are candle luminaries and jewellery. Prices range from $195 for a necklace up to $995 for a large bowl.\n\nThe ashes are used to help glaze the cups\n\nHe gets plenty of unusual requests, such as from a women who wanted the ashes of her sister and two dogs glazed on to coffee mugs.\n\nMr Crowe acknowledges that some people feel that transforming someone into a piece of homeware is disrespectful.\n\nBut, he says, a flower vase or candle holder provide daily reminders of loved ones. \"Ultimately, the pieces are about keeping memories close in daily life.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Liam Fox says negotiations should focus on the final Brexit settlement\n\nThe UK must not be \"blackmailed\" into agreeing a Brexit \"divorce\" bill before trade talks begin, Liam Fox has said.\n\nTalks should begin soon \"because that's good for business\", the international trade secretary added.\n\nEU negotiator Michel Barnier has said trade talks are still a way off, due to slow progress on other key issues.\n\nThe UK Brexit Secretary, David Davis, has warned that negotiations will be turbulent and disagreements over the divorce bill were \"the first ripple\".\n\nConcluding the third round of Brexit negotiations on Thursday, both he and Mr Barnier made clear that the size of the UK's Brexit \"divorce bill\" remained a sticking point in talks.\n\nThe UK wants to begin trade talks and discuss the future relationship between Britain and the EU as soon as possible, saying it would benefit both sides.\n\nHowever, Brussels insists that discussions about the future relationship can only begin once \"sufficient progress\" has been made on the \"divorce bill\" - the amount the UK will pay to settle its liabilities when it leaves the EU - citizens' rights, and the border between Northern Ireland and the Irish republic.\n\nSpeaking in Japan on Friday, Mr Fox was asked whether it was time for the UK to name its Brexit price.\n\nHe told ITV News: \"We can't be blackmailed into paying a price on the first part (the divorce fee).\n\nLiam Fox undertook a range of broadcast interviews before flying back from Japan.\n\nHis accusation of \"blackmail\" featured only in the first of these. That suggests this wasn't a pre-scripted broadside.\n\nInstead, it perhaps demonstrated frustration that, so far, the government's strategy of pushing for wider trade talks with the EU in the autumn hasn't been successful.\n\nThe aim was to persuade big EU trading nations to put pressure on the EU Commission to start trade talks after the October EU summit but it seems that the end of the year now looks a more likely timescale.\n\nHis colleague David Davis - a self-declared \"determined optimist\" - thinks that there could be more progress after German elections later this month.\n\nInterestingly, he declined to repeat or endorse the international trade secretary's rather undiplomatic language - simply warning of more turbulence to come.\n\n\"We think we should begin discussions on the final settlement because that's good for business, and it's good for the prosperity both of the British people and of the rest of the people of the European Union.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC at the end of the three-day visit to Japan, Mr Fox said businesses were \"getting impatient\" and a willingness by the EU to negotiate on the future trading relationship now would \"unlock some of the tension\".\n\nWhen asked about Mr Fox's \"blackmail\" remark, Mr Davis, who has been giving a speech in Washington DC, said he did not comment on other ministers' views.\n\nBut he added: \"We are in a very difficult and tough, complicated negotiation. I have said from the beginning it will be turbulent. What we are having at the moment is the first ripple and there will be many more ripples along the way.\"\n\nBritain, which voted to leave the EU in June 2016, officially began Brexit talks on 19 June this year and is due to leave the EU on Friday, 29 March 2019.\n\nMr Barnier said that at the current rate of progress, he was quite far from being able to recommend opening parallel talks on a future trade relationship.\n\nNo figure has yet been put on the \"divorce\" payment, but European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker has suggested it could come in at about 60bn euros (£55bn).\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Davis, Brexit secretary: \"I think it's fair to say we've seen some concrete progress\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWriting in the Daily Telegraph on Friday, Belgian MEP Guy Verhofstadt, who heads the European Parliament's Brexit group, said the EU has been \"fully transparent\" about its negotiating positions and mandates since day one.\n\n\"This is not a ploy to derail talks, but an inevitable consequence of the Brexit decision,\" he said.\n\nLabour MP Chuka Umunna, who works with the pro-EU Open Britain pressure group, said Mr Fox's comments were \"sabre rattling from a trade secretary who is twiddling his thumbs because he cannot do anything until the trade position of the UK has been resolved with the EU\".\n\nThe European Council is due to meet in October and will decide whether sufficient progress has been made on key Brexit discussions to allow negotiations to move on to trade and the UK's future relationship with the EU.\n\nIf it has not, as Mr Barnier has suggested, the next opportunity would be the council's meeting in December - meaning talks about the future relationship would be unlikely to begin before the end of the year.\n\nMeanwhile the Home Office has told EU citizens in the UK, and UK expats in the EU, that \"progress was made\" in this week's negotiations on rights to healthcare, and the right of EU citizens to set up and manage a business.\n\nThe update said: \"We agreed to protect the rights to reciprocal healthcare, including European Health Insurance Cards (EHICs), for EU citizens in the UK and UK nationals in the EU who are present on the day of exit.\n\n\"Both sides also agreed that the rights of cross border workers should be protected.\n\n\"On economic rights, we have confirmed the right of EU citizens to set up and manage a business in the UK, and the same applies to British citizens in their member state of residence,\" the Home Office added.\n\nIt also said it had apologised to about 100 EU citizens who received deportation letters \"in error\" and said the letters should be ignored.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nBoth the UK and EU have expressed frustration at the pace of Brexit talks amid disagreement over the size of the UK's \"divorce bill\".\n\nEU negotiator Michel Barnier said the UK did not feel \"legally obliged to honour its obligations\" after Brexit.\n\nHe said \"no decisive progress\" had been made on key issues, following the third round of talks.\n\nBut Brexit Secretary David Davis said the UK had a \"duty to our taxpayers\" to \"rigorously\" examine the EU's demands.\n\nAnd he urged the EU to be \"more imaginative and flexible\" in its approach.\n\nDuring a joint press conference, Mr Barnier acknowledged there had been some \"fruitful\" discussions on the issues surrounding the relationship between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, but he struck a pessimistic tone overall.\n\nHe stressed that he was \"impatient… I am not angry… I am impatient and determined\" about the progress of negotiations, adding that \"time is flying\" and the EU was willing to intensify the \"rhythm\" of talks.\n\nBehind their polished podium performances, it's clear there are major gaps between the stance of Michel Barnier and David Davis which are not being bridged.\n\nMoney is the big sticking point of course, although the phraseology around the issue is a little more elegant than that, and the language at these moments can give you a real feel for the underlying atmosphere.\n\nMr Barnier says that after this week \"it's clear that the UK doesn't feel legally obliged to honour its obligations\".\n\nMr Davis claims it's natural that the UK would want to \"interrogate rigorously\" any demand placed on its taxpayers. But he is also careful to note that Britain is a country that meets its obligations - moral as well as legal; it just expects them to be properly specified.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. David Davis, Brexit secretary: \"I think it's fair to say we've seen some concrete progress\"\n\nThe UK wants to begin trade talks as soon as possible, but Brussels insists that discussions about the future relationship after Brexit can only begin once \"sufficient progress\" has been made on the arrangements for withdrawal - including on the so-called \"divorce fee\".\n\nMr Barnier said that at the current rate of progress, he was quite far from being able to recommend opening parallel talks on a future trade relationship with the UK.\n\nHe cited two areas where \"trust\" needed to be built between the two sides - on citizens' rights and the financial settlement, stressing that 27 members of the bloc should not have to pay for obligations taken by 28.\n\nClaiming there had been a shift in the UK government's approach, he said: \"In July the UK recognised that it has obligations beyond the Brexit date but this week the UK explained that these obligations will be limited to the last payment to the EU project before departure.\"\n\nNo figure has yet been put on the payment, but European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker has suggested it could come in at around 60 billion euro (£55bn), while unconfirmed reports have put it as high as 100 billion euro (£92bn).\n\nMr Davis defended the \"rigorous\" line-by-line examination of the EU's demands carried out by British officials in response to the \"unspecified but undoubtedly large\" sum demanded by Brussels.\n\nHe added: \"It will, of course, lead to difficult exchanges - nobody will pretend it was anything but a tough exchange this week - but I think the British taxpayer would expect nothing less.\"\n\nFormer Labour PM Tony Blair was also in Brussels for talks with European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker\n\nMr Davis also told reporters the talks had exposed how the UK approach was \"substantially more flexible and pragmatic than that of the EU\".\n\n\"This week we have had long and detailed discussions across multiple areas and I think it's fair to say we have seen some concrete progress, and Michel referred to one but there's more than that,\" he said.\n\n\"However, as I said at the start of the week, it's only through flexibility and imagination that we will achieve a deal that works truly for both sides.\n\n\"In some areas we have found this from the [European] Commission's side, which I welcome, but there remains some way to go.\"\n\nHe added: \"Beyond the debates about process and technicalities, at the heart of this process, must be a desire to deliver the best outcome for the people and the businesses of the European Union and the United Kingdom,\" he added - particularly on citizens' rights.", "The government is increasing the funded hours from 15 to 30 a week for children of working families who meet the eligibility criteria\n\nFrom September, working parents of three and four year olds in England will be entitled to 30 hours' free childcare a week. But how do you know if you are eligible and what is the process for applying?\n\nThe government is doubling the universal entitlement of 15 hours' free childcare, which is available for all three and four year olds. It is funded during term time only - so 38 weeks of the year - but parents can chose whether to use it as 30 hours per week during term time or 22.8 hours per week across 50 weeks of the year.\n\nThe free childcare concept was at the centre of the Conservative's 2015 election manifesto\n\nBoth parents must be working or the sole parent must be working in a lone-parent family. They must earn a minimum of the equivalent of 16 hours per week at the national living or minimum wage and less than £100,000 a year. If you are self-employed or on a zero hours-contract you are still eligible as long as you meet the earnings threshold.\n\nIf one parent is not in paid employment you will not usually be eligible although there are exceptions for those who are on parental, maternity, paternity, adoption or sick leave.\n\nOnce the government confirms your eligibility, the funding comes into effect the September, January or April following your child's third birthday.\n\nTo qualify for the extra hours from next month, you must have applied by midnight on August 31. Cut off dates for the other school terms are: 31 December for the spring term (January) and 31 March for the summer term (April).\n\nThrough the government's online childcare service. You can also apply by ringing the childcare service helpline on 0300 123 4097.\n\nYou must make the application the term before you wish to start receiving the funding and you can apply up to 16 weeks before your child turns three.\n\nIt you are eligible, you'll receive an 11-digit code which you then take to your childcare provider along with your national insurance number and child's date of birth.\n\nThere will be a short grace period allowing parents to have a chance to find new employment.\n\nKaren Simpkin, from Sunflower Children's Centre in Sheffield, said they were having to charge extra for meals\n\nAny provider on Ofsted's Early Years Register, including childminders, day nurseries, playgroups, pre-schools and nurseries. You cannot use it with a nanny or an unregistered childminder.\n\nDoes my childcare provider have to offer it?\n\nNo. It is completely up to your provider as they are under no legal obligation to do so.\n\nCan I use more than one provider?\n\nYes. You can split the funded hours between different providers, for example between a childminder and a session at pre-school.\n\nWhy is my provider charging me a top-up fee?\n\nGovernment funding is meant to cover the delivery of early education and care only. This means the extra funding does not include food or cover the cost of additional services such as day trips, costs of drop-offs and pick-ups. Providers can therefore charge for things such as drinks, meals, nappies, wipes and trips out.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Footage of the chase was captured on a dashcam and bus CCTV cameras\n\nA man has been jailed for trying to rob footballer Andy Carroll of his £22,000 wristwatch as the striker drove home from West Ham's training ground.\n\nJack O'Brien, 22, claimed he was not the motorbike rider who targeted Mr Carroll as he waited at traffic lights in north-east London, on 2 November.\n\nO'Brien, of Navarre Gardens, Romford, was given six years, with another five years three months for other crimes.\n\nThe sentences are to run consecutively.\n\nHe had pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing to several other robberies, carried out in October and November, last year.\n\nO'Brien was found by police hiding beneath a mattress in a property in Dagenham 10 days after the attempt.\n\nThe footballer told jurors he was scared when the motorcycle rider pulled up beside him, said \"nice watch\" then demanded he gave it to him.\n\nMr Carroll did a U-turn, but was forced to drive on the wrong side of the road as he was pursued back to West Ham's training ground where there were security staff.\n\nIn a 999 call played in court he was heard telling responders: \"There's two motorbikes, one's behind me pulling out a gun, I don't know what to do.\"\n\nMr Carroll also said he had \"probably just hit about 10 cars\" during his getaway.\n\nIn a victim impact statement Mr Carroll said he had \"feared for his life\" and now travels to and from training with security guards.\n\nThe West Ham striker told the court he now travels to and from training with security guards\n\nPolice seized a motorcycle helmet, Ducati jacket and a Suzuki motorbike which they believed were used by O'Brien during the attempted robbery.\n\nDNA matching the 22-year-old's was found on the helmet and jacket, but O'Brien said that while he had used the equipment for other robberies, somebody else was wearing them when Mr Carroll was targeted.\n\nNo firearm was found by police. The second motorbike rider has not been located.\n\nJudge John Lodge suggested O'Brien had targeted Mr Carroll, telling the court it \"doesn't take an awful lot of work\" to find out when the striker would leave training and by what route.\n\nDet Sgt Brett Hagen said CCTV footage of the pursuit \"shows the persistent and reckless lengths this man went to in order to try to steal a high-value watch\".\n\n\"I would like to thank the victim who showed great courage and calmness throughout this terrifying robbery attempt,\" he continued.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The passengers of two international flights were held for up to six hours\n\nThe Canadian Transportation Agency is holding an inquiry into two Air Transat flights held on the tarmac at Ottawa for hours in conditions passengers called \"deplorable\".\n\nThe flights from Brussels and Rome were diverted on 31 July amid bad weather in Montreal and Toronto.\n\nPassengers said they were stranded for up to six hours without adequate air conditioning, food or water.\n\nThe two international flights were among 20 diverted to Ottawa from Montreal and Toronto.\n\nAir Transat said that numerous factors beyond its control, including long waits for fuel, had resulted in its inability to reduce the delay and allow passengers to disembark safely.\n\nFlight staff said food and water were running low but that refreshments were available and temperatures seemed acceptable.\n\nBut travellers who gave statements or testified before the inquiry painted a very different picture, with some describing a growing frustration and panic fuelled by poor communication from airline staff.\n\nMore than one passenger testified during the public hearings that they felt they were seen simply as \"luggage\".\n\nIn a statement to the panel, passengers Alan and Patricia Abraham, of Flight 507 from Rome, said they were initially told the delay in Ottawa would be just 45 minutes to refuel.\n\nThe plane ended up held for five hours.\n\nThe couple said they were stranded in the stuffy plane, were given a small meal and only once offered a small glass of water.\n\n\"The bathroom had run out of toilet paper. One young boy became nauseous and was trying to make his way to the bathroom when he vomited in the aisle and all over several passengers two rows behind us,\" they said. \"The stench was unbearable.\"\n\nAir Transat says many factors contributed to the delay on 31 July\n\nPilot Yves St-Laurent testified before the CTA panel that the tarmac delay seemed like \"the lesser evil\" compared to the logistics of getting passengers off the aircraft and sending them through customs, and then arranging transport and accommodation for them.\n\nPilots have the final say on whether to unload a plane.\n\nHe said he did not consider disembarking the aircraft as he was consistently told it would be refuelled in short order.\n\n\"If we had known that the delay would be longer than three hours, the decisions would have been very different,\" Mr St-Laurent said, adding that the air conditioning stopped working only for a minute or two.\n\nPeople on board Flight 157 from Brussels to Montreal were experiencing similar conditions to Flight 507. They ended up being stranded for six hours.\n\nAt one point passengers chanted \"open the door, open the door\" to cabin crew. The cabin temperature reached more than 31C (87F).\n\nPilot Denis Lussier also said he was told his plane would be quickly refuelled.\n\nHe added that his flight was short on fuel when it landed and that the air conditioning was cut off when the power shut off.\n\nPassengers eventually rang the emergency services to complain of the heat and inability to disembark, and emergency responders came to their assistance and handed out water.\n\nSeveral of the passengers shared their ordeal on social media while inside the planes.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Brice de Schietere This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nBoth pilots said they had not received any calls from passengers to get off in Ottawa.\n\nAirline CEO Jean-Francois Lemay said on Thursday that \"something did not work well, obviously\" on 31 July.\n\n\"I am not saying there is a fault or blame but there is a collective responsibility that has to be observed in these events.\"\n\nChristophe Hennebelle, vice president of corporate affairs, said other planes also suffered significant delays, but that Air Transat was being singled out because of the media attention over the call to emergency services.", "Solar panels are to be installed in 800,000 low-income homes across England and Wales over the next five years, as part of a new government scheme.\n\nThe Dutch firm, Maas Capital, is investing £160m in the project.\n\nThe panels, which will be free to tenants, are expected to cut hundreds of pounds from energy bills, according to the UK firm Solarplicity.\n\nThe first people to benefit from the scheme include residents of a sheltered retirement home in Ealing, west London.\n\nSpeaking at the site, International Trade minister Greg Hands said: \"This initial £160m capital expenditure programme will deliver massive benefits to some of the UK's poorest households.\n\n\"As well as creating 1,000 jobs and delivering cheaper energy bills for up to 800,000 homes, it shows yet another vote of confidence in the UK as a place to invest and do business.\"\n\nThe firm providing the panels, Solarplicity, will work with more than 40 social landlords, including local authorities across England and Wales.\n\nIt will profit from the payments received under the feed-in tariff scheme and payments for energy from social housing customers.\n\nThe feed-in tariff scheme offers guaranteed cash payments to households that produce their own electricity using renewable technologies.\n\nIt changed in February, adopting different rules and lower tariff rates.\n\nMr Hands also told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that Solarplicity will target military veterans when it recruits staff to install the panels.\n\n\"Armed forces veterans are very good at doing this, actually,\" he said. \"They understand how to put the panels on efficiently and well.\"\n\nTenants in the North West will be the biggest beneficiaries, with more than 290,000 homes receiving solar panels in towns and cities such as Oldham and Bradford.\n\nThe North East and Midlands will also see a significant number of homes benefit.\n\nTenants will not pay anything towards the installation of the panels and their energy bills will be reduced by an average of £240 per year, according to the Department for International Trade.\n\nJulian Bell, leader of Ealing Council, welcomed the scheme, but said its own programme of installing solar panels had been curtailed after the government reduced the feed-in tariffs that offered a return on electricity generated from small-scale energy schemes.\n\n\"The business case didn't quite add-up when the government made changes to subsidies and feed-in tariffs for sustainable energy,\" he said.\n\n\"We're grateful that private investors are coming here and investing in Ealing and benefitting our residents but the government still needs to do more to move people to sustainable energy and solar power particularly.\"\n\nGreg Hands says the scheme is a show of confidence for business in the UK\n\nThe chief executive of Solarplicity, David Elbourne, said the price of solar panels had fallen enough so that government subsidies were no longer essential.\n\n\"In the past, the feed-in tariff meant that people who could afford to have solar, benefitted from solar. But now people who can't afford to have solar [can]- we'll put it on the roof for free - and they will get a reduced energy bill.\"\n\nDavid Hunter, director of market studies at energy management firm Schneider Electric gave the scheme a cautious welcome.\n\n\"Obviously any kind of investment in the transition to low carbon energy supply can be a positive thing and with any of these developments it's always best to consider whether it's best value for money.\n\n\"But certainly the idea of upgrading our social housing stock to make it more energy efficient and lower carbon is a worthwhile aim,\" he said.\n\nMaas Capital is the equity investment arm of ABN AMRO, which specialises in shipping, oil and gas, and renewable energy. ABN AMRO is 75% owned by the Dutch government.", "MPs have declared about £215,000 worth of gifts, benefits and hospitality\n\nSports and betting companies top the list of donors treating MPs to gifts and hospitality.\n\nThe Ladbrokes Coral group appeared 15 times in the register of members' interests, more than any other donor.\n\nOut of 187 donations from UK sources registered by MPs, 58 were from the world of sport. A further 19 were from betting companies.\n\nLadbrokes Coral said it wanted MPs to take decisions \"from a position of knowledge\".\n\nBut campaigners for tighter rules on gambling said companies could use hospitality to lobby MPs not to change rules on fixed odds betting terminals.\n\nMPs are required to declare any gifts, benefits and hospitality over a value of £300. The latest register was published on 29 August and most declarations date from the beginning of 2016 to July 2017.\n\nThe Ladbrokes Coral Group accounted for 15 entries including trips to Ascot, Doncaster and Cheltenham races, the Community Shield at Wembley and dinner at the Conservative Party conference.\n\nAltogether, the group of companies donated £7,475-worth of hospitality to four MPs, Conservatives Philip Davies (eight occasions - totalling £3,685), Laurence Robertson (four occasions -£2,550) and Thérèse Coffey (twice - £890) and Labour's Conor McGinn (once - £350).\n\nThe total does not include any gifts or hospitality worth less than £300 as MPs do not have to declare this.\n\nITV appeared eight times and Channel 4 was mentioned five times. BBC Northern Ireland appears once.\n\nWhile Ladbrokes Coral appeared most often it was not the biggest donor in terms of the value of its hospitality.\n\nThe largest individual donor in the section on \"gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources\" was the Road Haulage Association, which the register revealed funds a researcher in the office of Dover's Conservative MP Charlie Elphicke at a cost of £22,577.\n\nMr Elphicke said: \"The researcher is looking at how we can be ready on day one for Brexit - particularly at the Dover front line.\n\n\"This is vital work for both my constituency and the haulage industry. No-one wants to see long queues of lorries at Dover.\n\n\"In this work the interests of the haulage industry and my constituency are strongly aligned. That's why we decided to join forces.\"\n\nMatt Zarb-Cousin, spokesman for the Campaign for Fairer Gambling, accused Ladbrokes Coral of being \"desperate\" to keep fixed odds betting terminals (FOBTs) at £100 a spin.\n\nHe said: \"They will throw as much money as they can. It shows a lot about the strength of their argument that they need to wine and dine MPs.\"\n\nThe organisation wants to see the maximum stake on the terminals cut from £100 to £2 amid concerns vulnerable people can lose a lot of money very quickly.\n\nIts founder Derek Webb has funded the Liberal Democrats and also appeared in previous registers of members' interests as a donor to Labour deputy leader Tom Watson.\n\nThe government is conducting a review into FOBTs.\n\nA spokesman for Ladbrokes Coral said: \"We employ over 25,000 people, we have a high street presence in nearly every constituency in the land and pay UK taxes of circa £55m per annum.\n\n\"Of course we engage with politicians, we want to make sure that when decisions are taken that affect our 25,000 people, they are done from a position of knowledge.\"\n\nMr Davies, MP for Shipley and one of the recipients of Ladbrokes' hospitality, said: \"I am the elected chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Betting and Gaming - and a former bookmaker - so of course I meet with bookmakers.\n\n\"It would be rather extraordinary if I didn't.\"\n\nTewkesbury MP Mr Robertson said he did discuss FOBTs with Ladbrokes, but also other issues such as taxation and their relationship with horse racing.\n\nHe said: \"Very many companies (including the BBC) provide hospitality as a means of lobbying MPs pretty well every day of the week, inside and outside the Palace of Westminster, at various sporting and other events, at party conferences and so on.\n\n\"Charities do similar. Some of it is declarable, if it is over the threshold, and some of it isn't.\n\n\"I represent the Cheltenham racecourse and am also joint chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Racing and Bloodstock, so have responsibilities in this area.\n\n\"Similar to most countries in the world, UK horse racing is very largely financially supported by bookmakers and there is a fear that curtailing their income by reducing the stakes on FOBTs could cause many shops to close which would, in turn, lead to a dramatic reduction in the funding of horse racing, which, contrary to popular belief, is a very poorly funded sport in the first place.\"\n\nDr Coffey and Mr McGinn have been approached for comment.\n• None Fifth of MPs still employ family member", "Nearly a third of fit notes issued by GPs are for psychiatric problems, says an NHS report.\n\nThis makes them the most common reason for people to take time off work, ahead of musculoskeletal diseases.\n\nThere was a 14% rise in notes relating to anxiety and stress between 2015-16 and 2016-17.\n\nThe Royal College of Psychiatrists said the findings were \"alarming\" and pointed to a need for more to be done to help get people back to work.\n\nFit notes is the formal name given to what were once called sick notes.\n\nThe new data analysed more than 12 million of them, issued over almost two and a half years from GP practices across England.\n\nAround half of the notes had a known diagnosis.\n\nIt was the first time this information had been collected from GPs and analysed.\n\nSimon Stevens, the chief executive of NHS England, said: \"These figures explain why the NHS is now putting mental health front and centre, in what was recently independently described as 'the world's most ambitious effort to treat depression, anxiety and other common mental illnesses'.\"\n\nThe NHS Digital report also revealed that fit notes for psychiatric problems were being issued for longer periods of time than other types of illness.\n\nFor example, more than one in five psychiatric sick notes were issued for longer than 12 weeks, compared to only 3% of notes for diseases of the respiratory system.\n\nJed Boardman, from the Royal College of Psychiatrists, said not enough was being done to facilitate a person's return to work.\n\n\"GPs will write suggestions on the fit note, such as staggered work days or agreeing specific goals for the returning employer - both parties need to be more active in tailoring these suggestions to that person,\" he said.\n\nDr Boardman said the data \"may underestimate the scale of the problem\" as discrimination can mean those with mental health issues are out of the labour force completely.\n\n\"Almost half of benefits claimants of Employment and Support Allowance in England are receiving payments as the result of mental and behavioural disorders,\" he pointed out.\n\nA spokeswoman from the Department for Work and Pensions said: \"We're helping thousands of people to remain in, or get back into work after a period of ill-health.\n\n\"We're determined to go further, and these statistics will provide us with a better understanding of why people take sickness absence in different areas across the country.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The price of unleaded petrol could surpass that of diesel in the coming days as a result of the disruption caused by Hurricane Harvey in the US, the RAC has warned.\n\nThe drivers' association said the price of a litre of unleaded in the UK could rise by up to 4p, passing 121p.\n\nThat level has not been seen since December 2014.\n\nCrude oil production in the Gulf of Mexico has fallen.\n\nIn response, US demand for petrol imports has jumped, driving up prices.\n\nRAC spokesman Pete Williams said this was now affecting UK forecourts.\n\n\"The average price of a litre of unleaded petrol on Thursday 31 August was 117.29p and diesel was 118.14p,\" he said.\n\n\"But we could see unleaded rise in the coming days to around 121p a litre, with diesel likely to stay stable around 118.5p.\"\n\nHe added: \"This will be the first time unleaded has been higher than diesel since June 2016 and we expect this to be the case for some time to come - or at least until the US oil industry is able to get refineries back into operation.\"\n\nHowever, the AA said that any price rises needed to be seen in context.\n\n\"Petrol prices were already heading up because of the increase in the price of oil since mid August,\" Mr Bosdet said.\n\n\"But they still have a little way to go before reaching the 119p of April and 120p of February.\"\n\nHe added: \"This is not Hurricane Katrina, which hit around the August bank holiday of 2005 and added 5p to a litre of pump petrol in a matter of days - before starting to fall back shortly afterwards.\n\n\"Katrina destroyed oil infrastructure, Harvey has just disrupted it.\"\n\nHurricane Harvey has killed more than 30 people and destroyed thousands of homes.\n\nThe costs of the storm in Texas and the Gulf of Mexico have continued to mount, with Texas authorities estimating it at $125bn (£97bn).", "The court heard Christopher Wall, 58, was in a relationship with his niece Hayley, 25\n\nA man has been jailed for life for murdering a woman who was his niece and also his partner.\n\nHayley Wall, 25, was found with head injuries in a street in Bournemouth on 13 December and died nine days later.\n\nA jury heard evidence suggesting she had been struck by a television and possibly also a door ripped from its hinges.\n\nChristopher Wall, 58, of Shelbourne Road, was convicted by a jury on Thursday following a two-week trial.\n\nHayley Wall was found with serious injuries outside Charminster Supermarket in Bournemouth\n\nJailing Wall for a minimum of 14 years, Judge Keith Cutler told him: \"You felt you were in love. This all happened because your relationship was volatile, sometimes marked by violence and aggression.\"\n\nThe judge said neighbours had heard Wall shouting, \"is this how you want to be treated?\", followed by repeated thuds.\n\nPassers-by found Hayley with serious injuries in Charminster Road before she was taken to hospital.\n\nThe court heard that before falling unconscious, she told a paramedic: \"My partner smashed a TV over the top of my head.\"\n\nLater on the same evening, police found Wall asleep in bed with stab wounds to his back.\n\nHe told detectives he had been attacked by Hayley with a pair of scissors and had used reasonable force to defend himself.\n\nPolice found a damaged flat screen television in the house, as well as blood in the bedroom and bathroom.\n\nA blood-stained door on a landing had been knocked off its frame and had two long dark hairs embedded in a crack.\n\nWall's barrister, Nicholas Haggan QC, told the court: \"He is desperately sorry that Hayley died as a result of events that night. All he can do is apologise.\"\n\nIn a statement, Hayley's relatives said they would have acted to get her away from Wall if they had known about their relationship.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Cormac Murphy-O'Connor served in holy orders for more than six decades.\n\nThe man who began his career as a priest in 1950s Hampshire went on to lead the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales and to don the red hat of a cardinal.\n\nA traditionalist who opposed birth control and abortion, he preached that Christians must be more outspoken about their faith.\n\nBut he was heavily criticised when it emerged that he had failed to report a priest, who was later convicted of abusing children. It was a failing which he later bitterly regretted.\n\nCormac Murphy-O'Connor was born into a devout Catholic family in Reading, Berkshire on 24 August 1932.\n\nHis parents had emigrated from County Cork in Ireland before World War One.\n\nHe studied at the English College in Rome later returning as Rector\n\nOne of six children, two of his brothers, Brian and Patrick, would also become priests and his eldest brother, James, qualified as a General Practitioner and played international rugby union for Ireland.\n\nThe family would say the Rosary (a series of prayers) most evenings and always attended church together on Sundays.\n\nThe young Murphy-O'Connor attended the Catholic Presentation College in Reading where he gained a reputation as a useful rugby player and became an accomplished pianist.\n\nBy the time he went to Prior Park College in Bath he knew he was destined for the priesthood.\n\nHe studied at the Venerable English College in Rome, the seminary set up in the 16th Century to train priests for England and Wales, where he gained a degree in theology, and was ordained in October 1956.\n\nHe began his ministry in Hampshire, eventually being appointed secretary to the Bishop of Portsmouth, Derek Worlock.\n\nMurphy-O'Connor in 1999 when he was the Bishop of Arundel and Brighton\n\nIn 1970 he was appointed as parish priest at the church of the Immaculate Conception in Portswood, a suburb of Southampton.\n\nBy then his theological acumen had brought him to the attention of senior clergy and he served as rector of the college in Rome where he had previously studied.\n\nWhile there he hosted the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Donald Coggan, on his groundbreaking visit to Rome when, to the amazement of the Vatican, Coggan called for full intercommunion between the Anglican and Catholic churches.\n\nMurphy-O'Connor was appointed as Bishop of Arundel and Brighton in 1977 where his theologically orthodox and pastorally engaged ministry was well received.\n\nIt was in Sussex that he also faced his greatest public challenge when a priest within the diocese, Michael Hill, was accused of child sexual abuse.\n\nMurphy-O'Connor sought advice from a psychotherapist and a counsellor who suggested that Hill should be given a job that did not involve children. The bishop agreed and Hill was made a chaplain at Gatwick Airport. He went on to abuse more children and was subsequently jailed in 1997.\n\nHe became Archbishop of Westminster in 2000\n\nHe deeply regretted his failure to report the priest to the police, and said of his conduct: \"I don't make any excuses. It was shameful. It's very hard for a bishop, who's told when he takes up that office, that a priest is your brother, you must help him, forgive him.\n\n\"What we didn't realise, as we should have done, was the grievous damage done to the victims,\" he added.\n\nMurphy-O'Connor refused to resign but instead, upon becoming Archbishop of Westminster in 2000, established an independent committee led by Lord Nolan, to carry out a review on child protection practices in the Catholic Church in England and Wales.\n\nThe resulting report contained recommendations for key structures required at parish, diocesan and national level and in religious orders, the action needed to create as safe an environment as possible for children and those who work with them, and a strengthening of arrangements for responding to allegations of abuse.\n\nAlthough he did not engage directly in politics, it was his careful nurturing that led Prime Minister Tony Blair to convert to Catholicism in 2007.\n\nBlair later gave public testimony of his faith after the leadership of the Labour Party had passed to Gordon Brown.\n\nHe guided Tony Blair on his path to Catholicism\n\nHowever, the two clashed over the issue of gay couples being allowed to adopt, with Murphy-O'Connor telling Blair that Catholic adoption agencies should be exempted from the measure, a proposal which the government rejected.\n\nA year later Murphy-O'Connor published a book entitled Faith in the Nation in which he said that while Britain had become more diverse and pluralistic, the Christian values which had shaped its identity should not be abandoned.\n\nThroughout his ministry he strove to improve relationships with the Church of England although that became something of a struggle for him when the Anglican Church began admitting women as priests, something which he opposed.\n\nHe was created a cardinal in 2001 and, a year later, read prayers at the funeral service of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.\n\nIt was the first time since 1509 that a Catholic Cardinal had taken part in an English royal funeral service.\n\nHe sought accommodations with other religious leaders in a bid to find common ground\n\nWhen he reached the mandatory retirement age of 75, Pope Benedict asked him to stay on and he finally retired two years later in 2009.\n\nHe was the first Archbishop of Westminster not to die in office.\n\nIn retirement Murphy-O'Connor continued to rail against what he saw as the continuing secularisation of British society and what he saw as the marginalisation of religious faith.\n\n\"Religious belief of any kind,\" he said, \"tends to be treated more as a private eccentricity than as the central and formative element of British society that it is.\n\n\"In the name of tolerance, it seems to me that tolerance is being abolished,\" he said.", "Sales of vacuum cleaners producing more noise and heat than suction are restricted under EU rules from today.\n\nVacuum cleaners using more than 900 watts and emitting more than 80 decibels will be banned when stocks run out.\n\nSome anti-EU campaigners say homes won't be properly cleaned if people have to buy lower wattage machines.\n\nBut energy experts say the best low-power appliances clean just as well as high-wattage machines.\n\nThey say some manufacturers deliberately increased the amount of electricity their appliances use because shoppers equate high-wattage with high performance.\n\nThe European Environment Bureau (EEB) said: \"Power doesn't always equal performance, though the misconception has become widespread.\n\n\"Some efficient models maintained high standards of dust pick-up while using significantly less energy - due to design innovation.\"\n\nVacuum cleaner salesman Howard Johnson, who works in Coventry, told BBC News: \"People want a more powerful vacuum cleaner but they can't see that more power doesn't mean more suction.\n\n\"The lower power machines are perfectly adequate, and better for the planet\".\n\nLess power doesn't have to mean less suction, say experts\n\nThe EU's own website says: \"With more efficient vacuum cleaners, Europe as a whole can save up to 20 TWh of electricity per year by 2020.\n\n\"This is equivalent to the annual household electricity consumption of Belgium.\n\n\"It also means over 6 million tonnes of CO2 will not be emitted - about the annual emissions of eight medium-sized power plants.\"\n\nAnd the UK Climate Change Committee says that since 2008 electricity demand is down 17% (despite all our gadgets) and gas demand is 23% lower, thanks to tougher standards on energy efficiency in homes and appliances.\n\nThis, it says, has helped keep bills down.\n\nBut there's a question over what happens to EU energy standards after Brexit.\n\nUKIP's Roger Helmer said: \"By all means let's make pathetic under-powered vacuum cleaners for export to the EU.\n\n\"But we must retain the right to make and use sensible full-powered appliances in the UK. This shows why we must not agree to be bound by EU rules after Brexit.\"\n\nThe EEB replied: \"Without EU energy efficiency rules, the UK market risks getting flooded with inefficient and cheap imports from China which waste more energy and break easily due to lower standards.\"\n\nEfficiency standards are so effective at driving down bills and emissions that it's believed they will be kept after Brexit.\n\nBut the government's statement to BBC News on the issue was ambiguous.\n\nA spokeswoman said: \"Until we leave the EU, the UK government continues to implement European regulations.\n\n\"We support measures that will save households and businesses money on their energy bills.\"\n\nSir James Dyson has gone to court over the issue\n\nVacuum cleaner entrepreneur Sir James Dyson has been in a court battle with the EU because he says the vacuum standards test doesn't replicate real world conditions.\n\nHis spokesman told BBC News: \"We agree with the principle of using standards to drive products that use less energy.\n\n\"But we think that technical innovation itself would be a better way of changing consumer behaviour.\n\n\"You can have a perfectly good vacuum cleaner running with lower energy.\"\n\nThe latest Dyson model does qualify under the new EU rules.\n\nNext week the government will be presented with a major report from energy economists making the case for a big boost to the economy through energy efficiency in homes.", "For football fans, today has all the tension of a cup final penalty shoot-out without a single ball being kicked.\n\nClubs in England and Wales have until 11pm to add to their squads. While in Scotland the deadline is midnight.\n\nFor football agent George Swan it's his busiest day of the year and, at 22, he's the youngest agent in the country.\n\n\"Even toilet breaks, we try and stay away from them because you don't want to miss a massive call,\" he tells Newsbeat.\n\nArsenal, Manchester City, Chelsea and Tottenham are expected to be among the big spenders today.\n\nDeals are sometimes completed seconds before the transfer window closes leaving fans to spend the rest of the day speculating about new signings.\n\n\"So this morning, it was a case of waking up reading the tabloids and looking at the news on the telly seeing what's gone on overnight,\" George said.\n\n\"Then the agents I work with, we sit down and look at which of our players could be moving and assess the situation.\"\n\nThe 22-year-old is a former professional footballer who joined Manchester City's under-14 squad in 2009 for £450,000.\n\nHe went on to play for clubs including Sheffield Wednesday, York City and Wolverhampton Wanderers before injuries forced him to retire in 2014.\n\nGeorge says he won't be away from his phone or leave the office well after tonight's transfer window has closed.\n\n\"You can't afford to miss a call. Then you miss the chance of one of our lads moving to another club and someone else's player getting that call.\n\n\"As long as the player signs the contact the rest can be sorted after it all,\" he added.\n\nGeorge Swan thinks this year's summer transfer window could be as busy as it was in 2011 when UK clubs spent hundreds of millions on new players.\n\n\"Arsenal are maybe the big talking point, are they going to lose Alexis Sanchez? Who will they replace him with.\n\n\"When I was younger I used to love transfer day. Even as a player you sit and text other players and talk about what's going on.\"\n\nFind us on Instagram at BBCNewsbeat and follow us on Snapchat, search for bbc_newsbeat", "Joshua Clements stabbed two men when thousands gathered in London's Hyde park last year\n\nA teenager who stabbed two men during a mass water fight in London's Hyde Park has been jailed for 14 years.\n\nJoshua Clements, 19, attacked the men as violence broke out when thousands of people gathered on 19 July last year.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard he was masked and armed with a large hunting knife, and planned to rob people at the event.\n\nHe previously pleaded guilty to two charges of wounding and having an offensive weapon as well as two counts of handling stolen goods.\n\nClements, who had been released from Feltham Young Offenders Institution two months before the attack, also admitted possession of heroin and crack cocaine with intent.\n\nPolice found a hunting knife with student Audean Thompson's DNA on it during a search of Joshua Clements' house\n\nThe court heard how Clements stabbed student Audean Thompson, 20, in the stomach and leg.\n\nMr Thompson, who used a walking stick due to a previous leg injury, was left with a 4cm (1.5 inch) stab wound to the chest and had £150 taken in the attack.\n\nThe attack was captured on mobile phone footage which was played in court.\n\nEarlier that night, male model Duane Williams, 20, was stabbed in the stomach by Clements, leaving part of his bowel lining protruding. Clements did not attempt to rob Mr Williams.\n\nA spontaneous water fight in Hyde Park led to violent clashes in which five officers were injured and one was stabbed\n\nMr Thompson wrote in a statement: \"I worry people will recognise me. I have not been on a bus since.\"\n\nMr Williams said he was left fearful about going out and his scars stopped him working as a body model.\n\nJudge Michael Topolski QC said: \"These were vicious attacks on two unarmed entirely innocent victims.\"\n\nThe judge sentenced Clements to 14 years in a young offenders institution with an extended licence period of five years.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Two out of five low-paid young parents who ask for flexible work arrangements are \"penalised\" as a result, according to a TUC survey.\n\nThey are given fewer hours, worse shifts and some have lost their jobs, its survey of 1,000 parents suggested.\n\nAbout half of low-paid young mums and dads are struggling to manage work and childcare, the trades union body said.\n\nA government spokesperson said businesses must have a legitimate reason to refuse flexible working.\n\nThe TUC survey found that more than half of those working in low-paid sectors, such as retail, hospitality and social care, did not know their employment rights, with many unaware of unpaid parental leave arrangements.\n\nAll the young parents the TUC spoke to had at least one child aged between 1 and 16, were themselves aged between 20 and 35, had household earnings of less than £28,000, and none found it very easy to organise childcare with their working hours.\n\nTUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said: \"Too many workplaces expect mums and dads to forget all about their kids as soon as they walk through the door.\n\nEvery employee in the UK has the statutory right to request flexible working after 26 weeks of employment.\n\nRequests should be in writing, stating the date of the request and whether any previous application has been made and the date of that application.\n\nRequests and appeals must be considered and decided upon within three months of the receipt of the request.\n\nEmployers must have a sound business reason for rejecting any request.\n\nEmployees can only make one request in any 12-month period.\n\nMs O'Grady said: \"It's a nightmare to plan childcare when your boss changes your shifts at the drop of a hat, and you never work the same weekly hours twice.\n\n\"Many parents fear losing shifts, taking unpaid leave or being viewed badly at work if they need time off to look after their kids.\"\n\nShe said it was \"shocking\" that some mums and dads were stopped from taking their children to hospital when they were sick.\n\nShe added that workers should be told their shift pattern at least one month in advance.\n\nBen Willmott, head of public policy at HR professional body the CIPD, told the BBC that employers can be more innovative about flexible working.\n\n\"Certainly employers can do more about communicating the rights that people do have for time off to care for dependents,\" he said.\n\n\"Flexible working can be quite exclusive - home working is often too restricted to managers and senior professionals. Employers should absolutely be looking at the practices that they have [to] make them more inclusive.\"\n\nBen Wilson, executive director at the Equality and Human Rights Commission, called for a radical overhaul of company cultures to make flexible working the norm.\n\n\"We have been calling for all jobs to be advertised as available for flexible working in order to remove the barriers people, particularly parents, face to increased pay and fulfilling careers.\"\n\nA spokesperson for the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy said that more than 20 million people in the UK were eligible to request flexible working, and businesses must have a legitimate reason to refuse a request.\n\n\"We commissioned Matthew Taylor to review modern working practices to ensure our employment rules and rights keep up to date to reflect new ways of working.\n\n\"We are considering his report carefully and will respond in due course,\" the spokesperson added.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Martin Bashir looks back at the life of Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor\n\nThe former Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, has died at the age of 85, the Roman Catholic Church says.\n\nCardinal Murphy-O'Connor, who died on Friday at 15:35 BST, had cancer.\n\nHe had been seriously ill in hospital since his health took a \"defining turn\" in August.\n\nPope Francis paid tribute to the cardinal's \"unwavering devotion\" and \"distinguished service to the Church in England and Wales\".\n\nCardinal Murphy-O'Connor became the 10th Archbishop of Westminster in March 2000 and therefore the leader of the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales.\n\nHe retired from the role in 2009 and was the first archbishop to do so.\n\nBorn on 24 August 1932 in Reading, Berkshire, Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor was one of six children. Two of his brothers became priests while another played rugby for Ireland.\n\nHe was ordained a priest in Rome in October 1956 and was made Cardinal in 2001 by Pope John Paul II.\n\nThe current Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Vincent Nichols, had led calls for prayers for the cardinal after he became ill last month.\n\nIn his last message, Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor wrote to Cardinal Nichols, saying: \"I am at peace and have no fear of what is to come.\n\n\"I have received many blessings in my life, especially from my family and friends.\"\n\nSpeaking to the BBC, Cardinal Nichols said his lasting memory of him would be his \"laughter and of his joy in life, music and sport and in company and in having a good chat\".\n\n\"I'm sure heaven will be ringing with his laughter.\"\n\nOn the BBC's Desert Island Discs programme Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor admitted that while training for the priesthood at the English College he learned how to make a good Martini cocktail.\n\nThe Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby, said in a statement that Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor's \"humility, sense and holiness made him a church leader of immense impact\".\n\n\"He was a great raconteur and story-teller, amusing, but always with a purpose. His words and his life drew people to God.\n\n\"His genial warmth, pastoral concern and genuine love for those in his care will be missed, but also celebrated with thanks. May he rest in peace and rise in glory.\"\n\nCardinal Murphy-O'Connor's time with the church did not pass without its controversy.\n\nWhile he was the Bishop of Arundel and Brighton, it became known to him a priest in the diocese was abusing children.\n\nAfter seeking advice, Cardinal Murphy-O'Connor moved Michael Hill to be a chaplain at Gatwick Airport, but Hill abused more children there and was sent to prison in 1997.\n\nCardinal Murphy-O'Connor later said the way he handled things was \"shameful\" and went on to set up a independent committee to review child protection practices in the Catholic Church in England and Wales.\n\nFormer Prime Minister Tony Blair, who converted to Catholicism in 2007 when he left office, paid his own tribute to the churchman credited with playing a role in his conversion.\n\nHe said the cardinal was a \"wonderful advertisement\" for Christianity and the Catholic Church.\n\n\"He led a life of commitment, dedication and compassion. But he also led a life of joy.\n\n\"He was a lovely person to be with and be around with a great sense of humour and the sharpest of wits. I found him always a source of wisdom and genuine friendship.\"", "The largest asteroid in more than a century is set to pass by Earth at a relatively close distance of 4.4 million miles (7 million km), Nasa says.\n\nFlorence measures 2.7 miles (4.4km) in diameter and will not pose a threat to Earth for centuries to come.\n\nWhile other asteroids have passed closer to Earth, they were all estimated to be smaller.\n\nAsteroids are the rubble left over from the formation of the Sun and planets.\n\nAt its closest point, Florence - which was discovered in 1981 - will be at about 18 times the average distance between the Earth and the Moon.\n\n\"Florence is the largest asteroid to pass by our planet this close since the [American space agency] Nasa program to detect and track near-Earth asteroids began,\" Paul Chodas, manager of Nasa's Center for Near-Earth Object Studies, said in a statement.\n\nThe 2017 encounter is the closest by this asteroid since 1890 and the closest it will ever be until after 2500, the US space agency added.\n\nScientists plan to study the asteroid up close, using ground-based radar imaging in California and Puerto Rico.\n\nAmateur astronomers will also be tracking it, says Sky and Telescope Magazine.\n\nThe rock is relatively easy to see with good observing equipment, not just because it is large but also because it reflects more than 20% of the sunlight that hits its surface. The Moon in contrast has an average reflectivity of just 12%.\n\nAn object of Florence's size would have global effects were it to hit the Earth. Scientists believe they have now identified more than 90% of such monster rocks moving through space near our planet.", "Women will now be able to join the RAF Regiment - its ground-fighting force\n\nThe Royal Air Force has become the first branch of the British military to open up every role to men and women.\n\nFrom Friday it will accept applications from women to join the RAF Regiment - its ground-fighting force.\n\nThe Army and Navy will open also roles to all genders over the next 12-18 months.\n\nThe main role of the 2,000-strong RAF Regiment, which sustained casualties in Afghanistan, is to patrol and protect RAF bases and airfields.\n\nWomen make up 14% of the air force as a whole - compared to 10% for the whole military.\n\nBBC Defence Correspondent Jonathan Beale says it is a significant moment because it means women can now apply for any RAF role, from fighter pilot to ground support.\n\nThe RAF's women will not be the first women allowed to serve in close combat roles, as some recently joined the Army's Royal Armoured Corps, but they are still excluded from several of the Army's regiments.\n\nIt will be another year before women can apply to enter infantry units, and the Navy's Royal Marines, where the physical demands can be tougher.\n\nIn July, Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon announced that the RAF Regiment would be open to them from September - ahead of its original 2018 schedule.\n\nHe said at the time: \"A diverse force is a more operationally effective force.\"\n\nThe former head of British forces in Afghanistan, Colonel Richard Kemp, told BBC Breakfast he \"vehemently disagrees\" that women should be serving in close combat roles - because of their physical capability.\n\nHe said: \"Once you have got through selection, you are subjecting yourself to a minimum of four years of intensive physical training, day in and day out, in barracks and out of barracks, which puts enough of a strain on a man's body.\"\n\nQuoting statistics that women sustain around twice as many serious injuries as men do during training, Colonel Kemp added: \"I think the reality is we will find many more women than men suffer injuries… and we will then undoubtedly see very significant compensation payments being made out of the defence budget.\n\n\"And the nature of woman's bodies means that some of the injuries are going to be more significant in terms of being able to bear children and the like.\n\n\"I am not a doctor, but I have certainly read up on this and that is a problem.\"\n\nHowever, a former major in the British Army, Judith Webb, said it had been proven that women were \"well capable\" of the roles.\n\nMajor Judith Webb has backed the decision for women to take on the roles\n\nShe told the programme: \"My concern has always been to ensure that research is carried out so that women know exactly what they are in line for.\n\n\"Being aware of our physical differences is an important aspect, but that is where I feel research has now been carried out.\"\n\nMajor Webb added: \"We want to promote diversity and get the best people, and if we have got women who want to do it, who are capable of doing it - then of course they should be able to do it.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The closure of the San Francisco consulate leaves just three remaining in the US, a senior administration official says\n\nRussia has been ordered to close its San Francisco consulate and two trade missions in response to \"unwarranted\" Russian action, the US has said.\n\nThe consulate, and annexes in New York and Washington, must close by Saturday.\n\nThe US state department's move follows Moscow's reduction of US diplomatic staff in Russia last month.\n\nThat in turn followed new US sanctions on Russia over Crimea and alleged election interference, which led to the expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats.\n\nPresident Barack Obama had ordered those expulsions, along with the closure of two compounds, last December.\n\nAlthough Russian President Vladimir Putin did not respond initially to that move, with Mr Trump set to assume office, he then announced on 31 July a reduction of 755 US diplomatic staff in Russia, in retaliation for the US sanctions.\n\nThe US embassy in Moscow. US staff in Russia have been sizeably reduced\n\nThe US diplomats expelled have until this Friday to leave Russia - a day before the US closures of the Russian consulate and two annexes, which are trade missions, must be completed.\n\nA senior administration official said on Thursday that the consulate and the residence attached to it as well as the two trade missions would close but no Russian staff would be required to leave the country.\n\nRussia will be allowed to maintain the properties, but not use them, the official added.\n\nThe state department said the US actions were \"in the spirit of parity\". It blamed Moscow for what it called a downward spiral in bilateral ties, but suggested it wanted an end to the current spat.\n\n\"The United States hopes that, having moved toward the Russian Federation's desire for parity, we can avoid further retaliatory actions by both sides and move forward to achieve the stated goal of both our presidents: improved relations between our two countries and increased co-operation on areas of mutual concern,\" state department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement.\n\nThe move leaves each country with three consulates in place, Ms Nauert added.\n\nRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke to US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in a phone call on Thursday, expressing \"regret at the escalation of tensions in bilateral relations\".\n\nHe said Moscow would study the order and respond accordingly, according to a statement from the Russian foreign ministry.\n\nMr Lavrov and Mr Tillerson are due to meet in September on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.\n\nEarlier this month, Mr Trump said US relations with Russia were at a \"dangerous low\" amid a row with Congress over the fresh sanctions against Moscow.\n\nThe president, who wanted warmer ties with Russia, had opposed the bill, which included a provision that limits his ability to lift sanctions and forces him to consult Congress first.\n\nMr Trump has been dogged by claims that Russia tried to sway the election in his favour and several investigations are under way to determine whether anyone from his campaign colluded with Moscow.\n\nBut the Kremlin has repeatedly denied interfering and Mr Trump has insisted that there was no collusion, calling the investigations a \"witch hunt\".\n• None What are the sanctions on Russia?", "George Rankine walked across the mesh walkways to both towers on the Forth Road Bridge\n\nGeorge Rankine was 19 when he walked across the Forth Road Bridge before the road was built.\n\nThe 74-year-old was a student in Edinburgh when his friend, who had a summer job at the bridge, asked his supervisor if they could walk over a mesh catwalk before it was removed.\n\nHis boss pointed across the walkway and said: \"Off you go then\".\n\nIt was 1962 and the pair were not wearing helmets, yellow vests or harnesses.\n\nMr Rankine, who lives in Crossford, Fife, was also one of the first people to drive across the Forth Road Bridge once the road had been built 53 years ago.\n\nThe bridge is now being replaced by the new Queensferry Crossing, and Mr Rankine managed to become one of the first to drive across that too at 03:00 on Wednesday.\n\nHe was also \"delighted\" to win tickets in the ballot to walk across it on Saturday.\n\nGeorge Rankine took pictures from walkways in between the middle of the towers\n\nGeorge Rankine said he was delighted to win tickets in the ballot to walk across the Queensferry Crossing\n\nSpeaking about his experience as a student, Mr Rankine told the BBC Scotland news website: \"You wouldn't get to do something like that now without all the health and safety trimmings.\n\n\"It was a Saturday morning and my friend's boss just pointed over the mesh and said 'Off you go then' and off the three of us went.\"\n\nThey started on the Edinburgh side and walked up to the first tower, before going up to the north tower then along the walkways joining the towers.\n\nGeorge Rankine visited the Queensferry Crossing on the night it opened to traffic\n\n\"All you could see was the water when you looked down through the mesh, it was quite a long way down,\" Mr Rankine said.\n\n\"I wasn't scared though because we were used to climbing and it wasn't a windy day.\n\n\"We spent all morning walking across and back and taking pictures.\"\n\nSpeaking about being selected to walk across the bridge on Saturday, he said: \"My wife and I were in Zimbabwe when the ballot opened and could only find wifi at Victoria Falls so we made the application there and were absolutely delighted that we got tickets to walk across.\n\n\"It's once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and we will be taking lots of pictures.\"", "Photos shared on social media appear to show a man lying on the floor inside the shopping centre\n\nA man was stabbed in what witnesses described as a \"mass brawl\" at a shopping centre in London.\n\nPolice were called to reports of a fight at Westfield shopping centre, east London, at about 18.15 BST.\n\nOne man was taken to hospital with stab wounds, police said, while a second man sustained head injuries.\n\nA suspect was arrested nearby on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm and possession of an offensive weapon, Scotland Yard said.\n\nPhotos shared on social media appear to show a man lying on the floor inside the shopping centre.\n\nOn Twitter, BBC reporter Justin Dealey, who was shopping at the time, said there had been a \"mass brawl\".\n\nHollie Rose tweeted: \"Imagine getting locked in a store in Westfield only to come out to find blood all over the floor and police everywhere, brilliant.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "People staying nearby had been told to keeps doors and windows closed\n\nThe chemical cloud that caused a Sussex beach to be evacuated on Sunday might have come from a shipwreck, the coastguard agency has suggested.\n\nPart of the East Sussex coast was engulfed by the cloud and about 150 people were treated for breathing problems, stinging eyes and vomiting.\n\nThe Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said emissions from the area's many shipwrecks might be the cause.\n\nIt is also investigating discharges from passing ships or lost cargo.\n\nBirling Gap beach was evacuated after people began suffering unexplained symptoms from a \"mist\" that descended.\n\nPeople had been enjoying the bank holiday weather at Birling Gap\n\nIn the past, chemicals have drifted across from European industrial units, but Sussex Police said weather models suggested the source was unlikely to have been in northern France.\n\nThe MCA said in a statement: \"As part of our investigations we are considering a number of possibilities, such as discharges from a vessel, previously unreported lost cargo, and emissions from known shipwrecks.\n\n\"We have identified approximately 180 vessels that passed through the English Channel off the coast of Eastbourne on Sunday.\n\n\"We are working with all relevant environmental and public health regulators to conclude these investigations. We have no further information at this stage.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sixth formers excluded from a school because they did not get at least B grades at AS-level will be allowed to return, their lawyer has confirmed.\n\nPupils at St Olave's in Orpington, south-east London, were told they could not progress to take their A-levels.\n\nParents had begun legal action over the policy, but now the school has backed down, according to their lawyer.\n\nSt Olave's is one of England's top-performing grammar schools, with places decided on academic ability.\n\nDan Rosenberg, a lawyer for Simpson Millar solicitors who has been acting for the families, confirmed by email on Friday evening that the school had reversed its position.\n\nHe said he was \"pleased the school has agreed to readmit the children and withdraw their policy\".\n\n\"We would now expect all other schools with similar policies to do the same,\" he said.\n\nIn a statement issued by the Diocese of Rochester, the school said: \"Following a review of the school's policy on entry to Year 13, the headmaster and governors of St Olave's grammar school have taken the decision to remove this requirement and we have today written to all parents of pupils affected to offer them the opportunity to return to the school and continue their studies.\n\n\"Our aim as a school has been and continues to be to nurture boys who flourish and achieve their full potential academically and in life generally.\n\n\"Our students can grow and flourish, making the very best of their talents to achieve success.\"\n\nNinety-six percent of pupils at St Olave's got grades A-B at A-level\n\nSt Olave's leadership and governing body had declined to comment publicly.\n\nParents contested whether pupils who had been admitted to the lower sixth should be stopped from continuing into the upper sixth and taking their A-levels.\n\nThey had claimed that preventing pupils from continuing into the upper sixth year was in effect an exclusion - and that it was unlawful for a school to exclude a pupil on the grounds of a lack of academic progress.\n\nParents had accused the school of behaving like \"an exam factory\", focusing on league table results at the expense of students' education and welfare.\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.\n\nJo Johnson, Conservative MP for Orpington and minister for universities and science, had previously said that it was hard to see how the exclusions were in students' interests and said he had raised the issue with school standards minister Nick Gibb.\n\nAfter the decision to readmit students, Mr Johnson tweeted: \"Sensible move by St Olave's - a great school.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Department for Education said: \"All schools have a responsibility to provide a high quality education to every pupil and ensure there is no limit to their potential. Students enrolled in a sixth form cannot be removed because of academic ability.\n\n\"The law is clear on this and we expect all schools to follow it. We will be taking action to remind headteachers of their responsibility on this point.\"\n\nPeter Read, a former headteacher in Kent who now runs an education advice service, said that the problem was not restricted to a few grammar schools.\n\nHe said: \"The pressure on schools today is immense to deliver, deliver, deliver. League tables are forcing all sorts of things to go wrong in schools, this is just one example. But it's destroying young people's careers.\"\n\nHe said he had received an email from one parent, whose daughter was excluded last year under similar circumstances, that said \"we don't know if she will ever believe in herself in the same way again.\"\n\n\"This is traumatic for young people who think they are going on to A-level [courses] and are then thrown out on the street,\" Mr Read said.", "Boots has accused a pregnancy charity of encouraging the \"harassment\" of its senior employees in a dispute over the cost of its morning-after pills.\n\nLawyers for Boots said the British Pregnancy Advisory Service (BPAS) helped supporters to send a \"torrent of personal abuse\" to members of staff.\n\nMembers of the public contacted Boots using an online form provided by BPAS.\n\nBoots has cut the cost of its emergency contraception following criticism from BPAS and some MPs.\n\nThe pharmacy said it would offer a £15.99 alternative to Levonelle, which costs £28.25, and a Boots-branded £26.75 pill, from next month.\n\nIt follows the launch of a \"Just Say Non\" BPAS campaign in July, which invited people to email senior executives at Boots via an online form.\n\nIn a letter from law firm Schillings, Boots accused BPAS of the \"facilitation and tacit encouragement of personal abuse\" in creating the form, which between 20 and 24 July contained the names of five Boots employees.\n\nFour of the names have now been removed from the form.\n\nMessages allegedly described one employee as a \"vile, nasty, strange excuse of a half man\", while another email read: \"You will have to answer to God for what you have done\", according to the lawyers.\n\nBPAS said this \"misrepresented\" the messages, saying thousands were from women who needed to use emergency contraception as well as pharmacists, GPs, and other healthcare professionals.\n\nIn a statement, BPAS said Boots \"failed to provide any evidence of abuse sent through the campaign\".\n\nThe form BPAS used as part of its campaign for Boots to cut the cost of is morning-after pill\n\nA Boots spokesperson said the letter was intended to \"actively protect our colleagues from abuse and harassment\".\n\nThey said: \"We asked [BPAS] simply to remove personal email details from their campaign widget and to agree not to encourage personal abuse of our people.\"\n\nIn July, Boots initially refused to cut the cost of the morning-after pill, telling BPAS it wanted to avoid \"incentivising inappropriate use\" - for which the company later apologised.\n\nThe response led some Labour MPs to say Boots had taken an \"unacceptable\" moral position, while Clare Murphy of BPAS added: \"Women struggle to access emergency contraception and the cost is a key barrier.\"\n\nBy comparison, the progestogen-based drug Levonelle costs £13.50 at Tesco, Morrisons, Asda and Superdrug.", "The DUP leader, Arlene Foster, proposed an immediate restoration of the assembly in Northern Ireland along with a parallel, time-limited process to deal with culture and language.\n\nMrs Foster described it as a \"common-sense solution\" to the ongoing political deadlock.\n\nSinn Féin rejected the plan and said the DUP have not addressed the cause of the assembly's collapse.\n\nIn June, talks between parties failed to restore a power-sharing executive.\n\nArlene Foster was addressing party meeting in Belfast on Thursday night\n\nAt the DUP meeting in Belfast, Mrs Foster said if the parties fail to reach an agreement, then direct rule from London would be the only option.\n\nMrs Foster added that more talks would be a \"waste of time unless there is some new thinking\".\n\nShe said that the executive should be restored immediately so that ministers can deal with ongoing pressures in areas such as health and education.\n\nAt the same time, she said, parties should \"agree to bring forward legislation to address culture and language issues in Northern Ireland within a time-limited period to be agreed\".\n\nSinn Fein said they are committed to making the institutions work.\n\nMrs Foster warned that failure to do this \"in a way that commands cross-community support\" would lead to direct rule from London.\n\nMrs Foster acknowledged the need to deal with culture and language, but those matters \"should not have a greater priority than health or education or the economy\".\n\n\"We have nothing to fear from the Irish language nor is it any threat to the Union. However what we cannot and will not do is simply agree to one-sided demands,\" she said.\n\nMrs Foster also accused Sinn Féin of building \"a barrier to the return of Stormont\".\n\n\"I question whether Sinn Féin is serious about wanting to see an early return of Stormont. This is not an unreasonable question given some of the recent comments from Gerry Adams.\"\n\nMrs O'Neill said the DUP proposal showed they have not acknowledged the reasons behind the collapse of the assembly.\n\n\"Establishing an executive that may collapse after a matter of months on the same issues will only fail all our people,\" she said.\n\n\"The speed of Sinn Fein`s rejection makes it clear that Gerry Adams' intransigence is still in place\" Robin Swann\n\nUlster Unionist leader Robin Swann acknowledged the DUP's proposal to restore the executive, but said that in light of Sinn Féin's \"intransigence other options should be explored\".\n\n\"If Sinn Féin and the DUP can no longer work together then other alternatives should be explored to ensure that Northern Ireland is governed by Northern Ireland politicians,\" he said.\n\n\"Arlene Foster has missed an opportunity to show real leadership\" Colum Eastwood.\n\nThe SDLP leader, Colum Eastwood, said the DUP proposition was a can-kicking exercise.\n\n\"Anything can be agreed in a time-limited parallel process can be agreed now. Time is not the issue, a critical lack of political generosity is.\"\n\nSinn Fein leader Gerry Adams says that without a stand-alone Irish Language Act, there will be no new assembly\n\nNorthern Ireland has been without a functioning devolved government since January, when the coalition led by the two biggest parties, the DUP and Sinn Féin, collapsed over a botched green energy scheme.\n\nThe late deputy first minister, Sinn Féin's Martin McGuinness, stood down in protest against the DUP's handling of an investigation into the scandal, in a move that triggered a snap election in March.\n\nOne of the major sticking points in talks to restore devolved government has been Sinn Féin's demand for an Irish Language Act.\n\nEarlier this week, Sinn Féin president Gerry Adams said there would be no Northern Ireland Assembly without an Irish Language Act.\n\nStephen Farry described the ongoing deadlock as a \"complete and utter mess\".\n\nThe deputy Alliance leader told BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme both main parties had work to do.\n\n\"The DUP need to show a much stronger sense of realism about the depth of reasons as to why we're in the current crisis.\n\n\"At the same time, Sinn Féin need to show a little bit more in terms of flexibility and the speed of their rejection was telling of their attitude towards the talks.\"\n\nHe also told the programme it seemed \"inevitable\" there would be some sort of intervention from the UK government.\n\n\"We are seeing ever growing crises in terms of health and education. We have to have our own voice though and something that does reflect our circumstances here in Northern Ireland\".", "Ruth and Robert Fergus had both been drinking before the incident\n\nStaff and guests were forced to flee after two \"out of control\" pensioners rampaged through a Highland Perthshire resort hotel, a court heard.\n\nRobert Fergus, 72, ran naked with a pair of scissors in the public reception of the MacDonald Loch Rannoch Hotel and smashed a glass pane.\n\nHis wife Ruth, 69, threatened to shoot a staff member after \"reacting badly\" to the alcohol she consumed earlier.\n\nThe couple were fined £4,100 at Perth Sheriff Court.\n\nMr Fergus, from Troon, was also ordered to pay the hotel £800 compensation to cover the cost of the damage from the incident on 4 February.\n\nHe had admitted behaving in a threatening and abusive manner towards four staff members, wilfully destroying property, and drink driving.\n\nStaff and guests were forced to flee the MacDonald Loch Rannoch Hotel\n\nMrs Fergus admitted causing fear or alarm at the hotel by threatening guests and staff with violence.\n\nThe court heard how Mr Fergus used the scissors to cut communications cables at the hotel reception and was eventually caught drunk at the wheel of his BMW.\n\nFiscal Depute Michael Sweeney said a guest was woken by banging on his door at 01:45 and saw Mrs Fergus, who became abusive, in the hallway.\n\nAfter the guest informed reception, Mr Fergus appeared with no clothes on and began shouting abuse at the staff and guests in the foyer.\n\nMr Sweeney said: \"Both accused were acting as if they were out of control.\n\n\"He was observed to have a pair of scissors.\n\n\"Mrs Fergus said: 'I'm going to get a gun and shoot you,' at (staff member) Miss Titkova.\"\n\n\"On seeing the scissors, Miss Titkova shouted at the other staff and guests to run.\n\n\"They saw Mr Fergus pick up a sign and smash a glass pane in the door with it.\"\n\nMr Fergus then ran through the foyer telling witnesses he would \"slit\" and \"kill\" them.\n\nStaff and guests ran from the hotel towards the village of Kinloch Rannoch.\n\nSolicitor Ewan Cameron, for Mr Fergus, said: \"He consumed much more alcohol than was sensible.\n\n\"He retired to bed but was roused by his wife who said she had been on the receiving end of hostility from hotel staff.\n\n\"He reacted disproportionately by going to reception to confront them.\"\n\nSolicitor Pauline Cullerton, for Mrs Fergus, said her client reacted badly to the alcohol she drank because she had eaten little during the day.\n\nSheriff Gillian Wade told Mr Fergus: \"I don't think I need to tell you it's a very sorry state of affairs.\n\n\"I have no doubt you will regret it for the rest of your life.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Councils in England would be allowed to charge utility companies by the hour for roadworks which cause significant disruption, if government proposals are approved.\n\nThe plan aims to halve the delays motorists endure due to utility works.\n\nRoadworks cost the economy £4bn a year due to delayed deliveries and people being unable to get to work on time.\n\nThe proposals follow successful trials in London and Kent which saw severe congestion fall by more than 50%.\n\nThe charges aim to encourage utility companies to avoid busy routes and times, and to work together to avoid repeatedly digging up the same piece of road.\n\nThe London trial saw firms co-ordinate their roadworks more than 600 times.\n\nCompanies could avoid the charges, also known as lane rental schemes, by carrying out works in the evening or at weekends.\n\nCouncils currently issue permits for roadworks, but the government believes the new scheme would give them greater control and monitoring powers.\n\nTransport Secretary Chris Grayling said: \"Delays caused by roadworks can be the bane of drivers' lives - especially when they take place at rush hour on busy routes.\n\n\"These proposals would give councils greater powers to ensure utility companies avoid carrying out works at the busiest times and on the most popular routes.\n\n\"This would not only improve journeys and cut congestion but also save businesses from the increased costs they incur as a result of traffic on our roads,\" Mr Grayling said.\n\nThe rollout is part of a government plan to give councils more ways to manage roadworks, with the aim to support the delivery of wider national infrastructure projects.\n\nBob Gallienne, chief executive of the National Joint Utilities Group (NJUG), criticised the proposals, saying: \"Utilities companies are delivering the infrastructure that the UK needs to drive up productivity, create economic growth and deliver on government priorities such as broadband and new homes.\n\n\"Lane rental schemes make it harder for utilities companies to deliver vital infrastructure and value for money for consumers while minimising disruption.\"\n\nThe Local Government Association (LGA) said it was \"delighted\" that the government had answered its calls for such powers.\n\nLGA transport spokesman Martin Tett said: \"Councils are on the side of frustrated motorists who find themselves spending wasted hours held up in tailbacks.\n\n\"We're confident these new measures will help minimise delays from roadworks, and keep traffic moving on our local roads.\n\n\"It is crucial that councils are given these powers without lengthy national approval mechanisms, so they can ensure critical roadworks are carried out as quickly as possible.\n\n\"The sooner councils are allowed to get on top of this problem the better.\"\n\n\"We hope that collaboration and cooperative work plans between service providers will now be standard practice,\" he said.\n\n\"One issue that we hope is resolved with lane rental is making sure that whoever digs up the road returns it back in a good state.\n\n\"It wouldn't be acceptable for the road to be patched up quickly and poorly, just to try and keep within their rental period.\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Breakfast, Lord Callanan, parliamentary under-secretary of state for the Department for Transport, said that local authorities will inspect the work and \"there's been no evidence of any shoddy workmanship\" in the trials so far.\n\nHe said: \"The idea is that hopefully at the end of the day we won't be raising much money through this, because they will do the work faster or at quiet times.\n\n\"But any money that is raised will have to go back to the local authorities and be spent on other measures to reduce congestion.\"\n\nThe consultation on the proposals will last for eight weeks and the changes would come into effect by 2019.", "The Temple of Pythons in Benin is considered a sacred place by voodoo followers\n\nWhile many African traditions and cultures are under threat from modern life, there is one which is holding its own - voodoo.\n\nIt has suffered from a bad press internationally but is an official religion in the West African country of Benin.\n\nIn the voodoo heartland of Ouidah, the sound of drums fills the air, while men and women dressed mainly in white take turns to dance around a bowl of millet, a freshly slaughtered chicken and alcohol.\n\nThese are the day's offering at the Temple of Pythons.\n\nThey have an audience of about 60 people who have gathered from nearby towns for an annual cleansing ceremony.\n\nInside the temple, where more than 50 snakes are slithering around a custom-made pit, local devotees make amends for sins of the past year.\n\nIn voodoo, the python is a symbol of strength - the devotees explain they are relying on Dagbe, the spirit whose temple this is, to give them the power to change.\n\nAnd to make that change happen, blood must be spilled.\n\nAnimal sacrifices are an important part of voodoo ceremonies - an offering to appease the spirits\n\nThe first offering is a chicken - some of the blood is spread across the tiles of the temple and the rest is mixed into a communal bowl of millet - which the devotees eat as it is passed around.\n\nVoodoo is rooted in the worship of nature and ancestors - and the belief that the living and the dead exist side by side - a dual world that can be accessed through various deities.\n\nIts followers believe in striving to live in peace and to always do good - that bad intentions will not go unpunished, a similar concept to Christians striving for \"righteousness\" and not \"sinning\".\n\nVoodoo believers communicate with their gods through prayers and meditation\n\nModest estimates put voodoo followers here at at least 40% of Benin's population. Some 27% classify themselves as Christians and 22% Muslims.\n\nBut expert on African religions and traditions Dodji Amouzouvi, a professor of sociology and anthropology, says many people practice \"dual religion\".\n\n\"There is a popular saying here: 'Christian during the day and voodoo at night'. It simply means that even those who follow other faiths always return to voodoo in some way,\" he tells me.\n\nTo illustrate the closeness of the two faiths, there is a Basilica opposite the Temple of Pythons in the town square.\n\n\"At the moment many people here in Benin feel let down by the establishment, there are no jobs,\" Mr Amouzouvi.\n\n\"People are turning to voodoo to pray for better times.\"\n\nBut how did voodoo get exported to places such as New Orleans and Haiti?\n\nAt the edge of the sea in Ouidah stands La Porte du Non-Retour \"The Door of No Return\" - a stone arch monument with carvings of men and women in chains walking in a procession towards a ship.\n\nThe Door of No Return is a reminder of Benin's painful slave history\n\nIt was from this point that many thousands of African slaves were packed into ships and taken to the Americas - the only thing they took with them was voodoo, which they clung to as a reminder of home.\n\nThey continued to practise it, at times being beaten if caught by the slave masters.\n\nThis made some even more determined to keep it alive, according to reports.\n\nSome practices in voodoo can appear threatening to the outsider - the slaughtering of animals have in part earned the faith its unflattering image, some say.\n\nBut Mr Amouzouvi says voodoo is not all that different to other faiths.\n\n\"Many religions recognise blood as a source of power, a sign of life. In Christianity it's taught that there is power in the blood of Jesus,\" he says.\n\n\"Voodoo teaches that there is power in blood, it can appease gods, give thanks. Animals are seen as an important part of the voodoo practice.\"\n\nRegine Romaine, an academic with a keen interest in voodoo, agrees.\n\n\"The African experience is open for all to see - people are invited to witness the ceremonies, the slaughtering and that same openness has been judged whereas it isn't in other systems like the Islamic and Jewish faiths,\" she tells me.\n\n\"Slaughtering animals is not unique to voodoo. If you go to the kosher deli or buy halaal meat, it's been killed and allowed to bleed out before being shared.\n\n\"Ultimately, the gaze on voodoo over the years has not been one of love - that's why it's been given a bad image.\"\n\nMs Romaine is of Haitian and US heritage.\n\nShe first learned about voodoo from her aunt in Haiti - she travelled on a pilgrimage to retrace the \"slave route\" and her last stop was here in Benin where she has been living for more than a year.\n\nAccording to Ms Romaine, voodoo's bad image abroad has a lot to do with what people have seen in Hollywood films.\n\n\"The image of voodoo went wrong from the first encounter - from the first visitors to the continent, the anthropologists who didn't understand what they were seeing and from that came a lot of xenophobic writing,\" she says.\n\n\"It was also worsened by the US invasion of Haiti much later, which gave rise to Hollywood's fascination with the horror stories that all had voodoo.\"\n\nBack at the ceremony, the processing of devotees has now moved to the town square for the final stage of the rituals.\n\nThere is more drumming, singing, dancing and after four animals are killed and cooked inside three large flaming pots of clay, the meat inside is shared by all those who have attended the day's proceedings.\n\nThe Regional High Priest of Voodoo Daagbo Hounon is presiding over the day's rituals.\n\nHe is dressed in ceremonial robes, with a striking top hat, and holding a staff made from cowry shells.\n\nRegional High Priest of Voodoo Daagbo Hounon says voodoo has been unfairly judged by outsiders over the years\n\nHe is a big man with a booming voice and speaks passionately about their belief system - he tells me that their faith is misunderstood.\n\n\"Voodoo is not evil. It's not the devil,\" he says.\n\n\"If you believe and someone thinks badly of you and tries to harm to you, voodoo will protect you. Some say it is the devil, we don't believe in the devil and even if he exists, he's not here,\" he tells me.\n\nHe is keen to welcome international visitors.\n\nThe small town offers an \"initiation\" from people from all over the world to come and learn about the practice - from how to use herbal medication, how to pray and meditate, how to perform rituals for the gods.\n\nHigh Priest Hounon says the programme is popular with tourists from the US, Cuba and parts of Europe.\n\nFor many West Africans in the diaspora, voodoo has become a symbolic coming home.\n\nCeremonies are a chance for young and old to come together and celebrate\n\nMs Romaine, who is also member of that diaspora, believes voodoo is successful because it provides a connection to a neglected identity.\n\nShe tells me that voodoo is gaining appeal in the US amongst young people.\n\n\"There is a shift especially in the Americas. The younger generation now want to proclaim their identity in a way that the previous generation was perhaps more intimidated to do and spiritual identity is a part of that. For some voodoo meets that need.\"\n\nThe government here in Benin is committed to upholding the practice.\n\nIn the mid 1990s it built a monument to voodoo in a place known as the sacred forest - an ancient place of worship on the edge of town.\n\nLife-sized metal and wooden totems have pride of place amongst the towering trees - this place is meant to help teach young people here about their voodoo heritage.\n\nWith the government supporting it at home and the descendants of slaves embracing it abroad, the ancient voodoo tradition has found a place in the modern world, where other African belief systems are often struggling for relevance.\n\nRead more from Pumza on Africa's disappearing cultures:", "Hollywood actress Gal Gadot has thrown her support behind two young women in Sri Lanka after they were cyber-bullied for cosplaying as Wonder Woman.\n\nThe two had become the target of a wave of online memes, body-shaming and harassment.\n\nBoth Gadot, who played the character in the recent blockbuster movie, and its director Patty Jenkins tweeted support and encouragement.\n\nWhen Amaya Suriyapperuma and fellow cosplayer Seshani Cooray decided to dress up as Wonder Woman at the Comic Con 2017 event in Colombo, they were not expecting it to send them on a rollercoaster ride of demeaning online memes.\n\nAfter the first day, photographers at the event began sharing their pictures online and photos of the two women were picked up by Facebook groups mocking them for their appearance.\n\nIt was only the next day the two found out. It was Ms Suriyapperuma's birthday, and friends who had spotted the memes tried to keep them secret, but that was bound to fail.\n\nAmaya Suriyapperuma says Facebook needs Sinhala-speaking moderators to monitor bullying\n\n\"First I was shocked,\" Ms Suriyapperuma told the BBC. I didn't really let it get to me although I was genuinely baffled at why these people would spend their valuable time hating someone they don't even know.\"\n\nHer fellow cosplayer agrees. \"I was offended and shocked at how the internet reacted,\" said Ms Cooray.\n\n\"Most of the memes and comments I received seemed to objectify me.\"\n\nShe was drawn to the character of Wonder Woman because she feels it empowers young women like herself to be independent and strong minded.\n\nSeshani Cooray says Wonder Woman empowers young women like herself\n\nMs Suriyapperuma says she didn't reply to any of the comments or publicly retaliate because she thought they didn't deserve her energies.\n\n\"Instead, me and my friends and the whole Sri Lankan geek community would band together and silently report every single meme and post and page. Some even got unpublished on Facebook as a result.\"\n\nThe women's costumes were faithful representations of Gal Gadot's outfits in the film\n\nWhat then happened was a remarkable reversal of the tide and an overwhelming wave of support started building up online.\n\n\"There was immense support on the Facebook page of Geek Club of Sri Lanka and people I didn't even know personally were messaging me asking me to stay strong,\" Ms Suriyapperuma recalls. \"It was amazing.\"\n\nOne such tweet by a complete stranger pledging support went viral - and that's how the story found its way to Hollywood and reached Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot.\n\nAnd once the two of them threw some serious Hollywood weight into the ring, the attention the two Sri Lankan women received went to a whole new level.\n\n\"It definitely feels amazing to be recognised and praised by Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot herself!\" Ms Suriyapperuma said. \"I'm a huge fan of Gal Gadot so this has been amazing.\"\n\nMs Cooray was equally stunned that their idols actually recognised them. \"It felt amazing - my inner fangirl is never going to forget this!\"\n\nTheir case sparked a wider online debate around the problems of bullying online.\n\n\"I think it's actually a good thing that this is a public story,\" Ms Suriyapperuma explains. \"If we didn't get this much coverage this would've been just another case of cyber-bullying.\n\n\"But now everyone knows it and thus we have opened a very important conversation about bullying and body shaming.\"\n\nMs Suriyapperuma hopes her own case will have a positive impact\n\nAs just one example, an online petition has been started to put more pressure on Facebook to monitor content for hate or cyber-bullying and block such posts.\n\nBut the case goes beyond just the online world, Ms Suriyapperuma points out. It ties in with the broader goal of empowering women generally.\n\nLooking at her own experiences growing up in Sri Lanka, she says the country's society needs to see examples of women who stand up to hate without running and hiding away or retaliating by going down to their level.\n\n\"If people start seeing women being strong as a normal thing - which is what the movie tried to do as well as what I want - then more and more women will stop tolerating harassment.\"", "Andrew Alsop said he was exhausted and aching after the catch\n\nA huge bluefin tuna weighing about 500lb has been caught in Welsh waters off Pembrokeshire.\n\nAndrew Alsop, 49, spent two hours and 15 minutes to bring the 226kg \"monster\" in after it was accidently caught during a fishing trip from Neyland.\n\nMr Alsop described it as the \"fish of a lifetime\".\n\nHe returned the 7ft 7in (2.3m) tuna, which is an endangered species, to the water afterwards.\n\nIn a Facebook post, Mr Alsop, from Rhoose in Vale of Glamorgan, wrote: \"Well what a day!!\n\n\"I caught a fish of a lifetime today after a 2hr 15min pain locker battle on my own...\n\n\"This bluefin tuna is now the biggest fish ever landed from Welsh waters.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andrew Alsop says catching the 500lb tuna in Welsh waters was like 'a dream'\n\nSpeaking after the catch, Mr Alsop said that he was out shark fishing with five others and did not intend to catch any bluefin tuna.\n\n\"Out of the blue, one of the closest [fishing] lines went off like a rocket,\" he said.\n\n\"After two hours we finally got a glimpse of the fish and realised it was a giant tuna. We couldn't believe it.\n\n\"The boys were pouring water on me to cool me down, it was hard work.\n\n\"It's one of the hardest fighting fish in the sea. We were just praying the rod did not break.\"\n\nBluefin tuna are named on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of threatened species.\n\nThe UK government's Marine Management Organisation advises it should not be targeted and if caught accidentally, must be returned to the sea, alive and unharmed to the greatest extent possible.", "Lady Diana Spencer was immediately thrust into the media spotlight in 1980 after rumours she was dating Prince Charles\n\nTwenty years after the death of Princess Diana in a car accident in Paris, her legacy seems most apparent in the open and candid nature of her sons - Princes William and Harry - and the media's relationship with the Royal Family.\n\nSun photographer Arthur Edwards was one of the first people to photograph the future Princess of Wales. He recalls his surprise at seeing how the 19-year-old reacted to the media attention generated by her courtship by Prince Charles.\n\n\"Other girlfriends were quite shy,\" he says. \"She wasn't like a lot of celebrities... ducking and hiding. Mostly she was head-up smiling, taking it all on the chin and coping very well.\n\n\"A lot of the royal watchers, me included at the time, thought this was a sign that this girl was obviously quite keen to get the job of the Princess of Wales.\"\n\nArthur Edwards' picture of Lady Diana Spencer with two nursery children gave an early hint of her tactile nature\n\nEdwards ended up taking the iconic picture of the princess-to-be at the nursery school where she was working in 1980.\n\nShe refused to do interviews but agreed to a picture with two of the nursery's children [above, centre], an early hint to the press of her tactile nature.\n\nFew could have predicted then that this apparently benign trait would herald a change in our future expectations of the UK's most famous family.\n\nThe following year, Lady Diana Spencer married Prince Charles in front of a worldwide TV audience of 750 million. She established herself as a global figure, using royal visits around the world to establish her empathy with the ill and impoverished, and overturn the aloof image of the royals.\n\nFor Edwards, the contrast between the old and new guard of royals was epitomised by a visit Diana made to a leprosy hospital in Nigeria in 1990.\n\nPrincess Diana used the media to attract attention to charitable causes, like the Child Feeding Scheme at a school in Zimbabwe\n\n\"I always compare it to a trip I did with Princess Anne in Africa for Save the Children,\" he said.\n\n\"There were 5,000 mothers and children... being inoculated, and I never got one frame of Princess Anne with an African mother or an African child being inoculated.\n\n\"When we went to Africa with Diana, we couldn't stop her hugging them, feeding them, embracing them. She was embracing them... looking straight into their eyes and made them feel a million dollars.\"\n\nTo Ingrid Seward, editor of Majesty magazine, the difference was just as stark: \"She made the rest of them look completely old-fashioned really.\"\n\nPrincess Diana was a patron of more than 100 charities before her death in 1997. She is widely credited with helping to challenge the public's perception of HIV and Aids by shaking the hands of patients at the London Lighthouse, a centre that pioneered services for sufferers.\n\nBBC royal correspondent Nicholas Witchell believes Diana's different style was down to her \"coming from outside the Royal Family\".\n\n\"She was a person of her generation who found it rather implausible that one was expected to step back and not embrace people, quite literally.\"\n\nBut this familiarity with the press and natural candour translated into close scrutiny of her personal life and failing marriage.\n\nAfter the publication of Andrew Morton's biography in 1992, which claimed infidelity in the royal marriage, the Prince and Princess of Wales separated.\n\nIn her Panorama interview with Martin Bashir, Princess Diana admitted to having bulimia during her marriage\n\nThe book, thought to have been aided by interviews with Diana, led to Prince Charles discussing his relationship with the-then Camilla Parker-Bowles in an interview with ITV's Jonathan Dimbleby.\n\nThe princess hit back, telling her side of the story in a 1995 TV interview with Martin Bashir on the BBC's Panorama.\n\nAs well as discussing her marriage with Prince Charles, Diana openly talked about her struggles with bulimia, depression and anxiety. It was unprecedented territory for a member of the Royal Family.\n\n\"It was my escape mechanism,\" she told the programme. \"When you have bulimia you're very ashamed of yourself and you hate yourself. You don't discuss it with people.\"\n\nIt is this willingness to discuss personal issues that is closely echoed in the recent revelations by her sons, Princes William and Harry, about the deeply personal impact of their mother's premature death.\n\nIn April, Prince Harry opened up about his own struggles, by discussing how he needed counselling after his mother's death.\n\nRoyal commentator Richard Fitzwilliams says Diana's relationship with the public and the media clearly influenced her sons.\n\n\"I don't think anyone would've predicted William and Harry would be as candid as they were. And that is undoubtedly down to their absolute admiration of their mother and that they're clearly following in their footsteps in terms of her charity work.\"\n\nIn a recent BBC documentary, former Prime Minister Tony Blair said: \"Today… we see Prince William and Prince Harry as people who [the public] feel a close connection with.\n\n\"It's really important to wind back 20 years and realise she was the first member of the Royal Family that people felt behaved and acted like a normal human being.\"\n\nBut historian Christopher Lee urges us not to overestimate her impact.\n\n\"What Diana did was focus on Diana. She became a celebrity,\" he said.\n\n\"These were celebrity moments and it's in fact quite remarkable, for a monarchy, that the British public still don't know their Royal Family.\n\n\"The Queen's behaviour as a result of Diana's death [did not change], nor did the Queen's attitude change.\"\n\nArthur Edwards, however, sees the princes' work as a continuation of their mother's hands-on approach to charitable work.\n\nRemembering a visit to a children's hospital in Barbados with Prince Harry, he says: \"He wouldn't leave until there were kids smiling. Same with William. I remember going on a boat on Lake Windermere with him. There were a lot of sick children there and he was twirling them round... really making them feel fantastic.\"\n\nPrince Harry and Prince William have used their media status to promote good causes\n\nDiana's relationship with the media came to a catastrophic end, after her chauffeured car crashed when the driver was trying to escape paparazzi on motorcycles.\n\nBut Mr Fitzwilliams says the power of the paparazzi has been diminished as a result.\n\nAnd when photos of a topless Duchess of Cambridge were published, many in the mainstream media refused them out of a \"global sense of common decency\".\n\n\"There is still a paparazzi danger to the Royal Family, and there are periodic pleas by William and Kate, Harry and Meghan [Markle].\"\n\nIt is surely no coincidence that today, when the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are expected to mark a family moment for the press, they don't shirk from the cameras. They understand the media's needs - but often now it is the duchess herself who is behind the lens.\n\nPrince George and Princess Charlotte, photographed by the Duchess of Cambridge", "A government minister has held a face-to-face meeting with North Korea's ambassador to condemn the country's latest missile test.\n\nMark Field, Britain's minister for Asia and the Pacific, summoned the ambassador after North Korea fired a missile over Japan on Tuesday.\n\n\"I made clear how strongly the UK condemns the launch,\" Mr Field said.\n\nThe move came as Theresa May met the Japanese prime minister to discuss countering the threat from North Korea.\n\nOn Tuesday, the missile flew over the island of Hokkaido, landing in the sea.\n\nSirens sent people scattering for shelter. The Japanese government called the missile an \"unprecedented threat\".\n\nSpeaking after his meeting with the ambassador, Mr Field said: \"Once again, North Korea's reckless actions violate multiple UN Security Council resolutions and threaten international security.\n\n\"The UK will work with our partners and allies to tackle this threat.\n\n\"I urge the regime to end its illegal pursuit of nuclear and ballistic missiles and return to dialogue with the international community.\"\n\nTensions around the North Korea's nuclear programme have been mounting since a war of words broke out between the Pyongyang government and Donald Trump.\n\nIn August, North Korea's military announced that it had sent a plan to attack the US island territory of Guam to the country's ruler, Kim Jong-un, for approval.", "British racing driver Lewis Hamilton has written a poem in tribute to Princess Diana to mark the 20th anniversary of her death.\n\nThe 32-year-old said she was a \"shining star in the midnight sky\" and his poem was accompanied by images of Diana and a Van Morrison song.\n\nHamilton is taking part in the Italian Grand Prix this weekend.\n\nThe driver, who was born in Stevenage, was 12 when Diana died in a Paris car crash.\n\nHamilton's poem was accompanied by the Van Morrison song \"Into the Mystic\"\n\nHamilton posted the poem on his Instagram account on Friday and within hours his video had been viewed nearly 200,000 times and received hundreds of comments.\n\nOne follower said: \"Beautiful @lewishamilton. She's my biggest inspiration in every way, since I was a small child till today.\"\n\nAnother added: \"What a touching tribute to the People's Princess. Still feels like yesterday, still feels so tragic.\"\n\nHamilton's poem referred to Diana as the \"nation's rose\" and said \"the Earth stood still as we laid her to rest\".\n\nHe went on to say \"there will never be another like you, now a shining star in the midnight sky, I will always remember you, Princess Diana\".", "Bob Higginson said with many antiques on display he was \"quite nervous\" about small children being in the coffee shop\n\nThe owner of a cafe with a no children under 12 policy has hit back at critics calling for a boycott of his shop.\n\nThe Chart Room, in Brixham, Devon is an ocean-liner themed coffee lounge which also houses antiques and collectables.\n\nBob Higginson said it was designed for people to experience the \"opulence and splendour of early steamship travel without distraction\".\n\nBut resident Wendy Moore said she would be boycotting the cafe, and calling on others to do so.\n\n\"Can anyone tell me just what kind of town we're living in when dogs are allowed into an establishment and children are not?\" she wrote.\n\n\"Who on earth does this Bob Higginson think he is? Would he ban disabled people from entering his premises? Or people of a particular race or colour or religion? I'll bet my bottom dollar he wouldn't; he'd be frightened to death to do so.\"\n\nThe Chart Room is an ocean-liner themed coffee shop\n\nBut Mr Higginson says the policy has been \"blown out of proportion\".\n\n\"I simply wanted to create a nice quiet zone where grown-ups could sit, relax and enjoy the quiet atmosphere,\" he said.\n\n\"There are plenty of other places for people with children to go.\n\n\"It's not like I've launched a ballistic missile over Torbay.\"\n\nMr Higginson said he has received \"a hundred messages of support\" since the \"unfounded accusations\" were posted online.\n\nHe said that with so many precious antiques on display, he was \"quite nervous\" about small children being in the coffee shop.", "Parts of the US border with Mexico are already sealed off\n\nFour companies have been chosen to build prototypes for Donald Trump's planned border wall, US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said.\n\nThe four concrete prototypes will be 30ft (9m) long and up to 30ft tall, and will be built in the coming months.\n\nOfficials will then spend up to two months testing the walls for tampering and penetration resistance using small hand tools, CBP said.\n\nThe four contracts are worth up to $500,000 (£387,000) each.\n\nA continuous wall across the entire southern US border was a key promise in President Trump's election campaign.\n\nThe prototypes \"will help us refine the design standards\" of the eventual wall, acting CBP deputy commissioner Ronald Vitiello said.\n\n\"Testing will look at things like the aesthetics of it, how penetrable they are, how resistant they are to tampering, and scaling or anti-climb features.\"\n\nBut he said the officials would stick to small hand tools rather than testing \"ballistic kind of things\".\n\nThe walls will also need to feature cable conduits and other design features for sensors and cameras.\n\nOnce the order to start building is given in the next few weeks, the prototypes are expected to be finished within 30 days.\n\nThe four companies to which the contracts were awarded are:\n\nMr Vitiello said he did not know if any of the firms had had prior experience in border wall construction.\n\nMore than 200 companies are believed to have submitted designs for the proposed border wall.\n\nFour more contracts for prototypes made from materials other than concrete will be announced next week.", "North Korea's official news agency distributed this photo, purportedly of the missile launch\n\nUS President Donald Trump said \"we'll see\" when asked if he was going to attack North Korea after the secretive state claimed to have successfully tested a hydrogen bomb. So what could military action against Kim Jong-un's regime actually look like?\n\nPyongyang has defied UN sanctions and international pressure to develop nuclear weapons and test missiles that could potentially reach the US.\n\nSouth Korea, Japan, China and Russia are among those to voice strong criticism against the country's nuclear tests.\n\nAnd when North Korea fired a missile over Japan's Hokkaido region, sending residents running for cover, President Trump said \"all options are on the table\".\n\nBut while the US has unrivalled military strength, the range of options it actually has against the hermit country are limited.\n\nThis is the least risky but arguably least effective option available since it would simply build on deployments that have long been in place and have had little success in deterring North Korea's ballistic missile and nuclear programme.\n\nThe US could move additional ground forces into South Korea, including ground-based missile defences, such as the controversial Thaad system, heavy artillery and armoured vehicles, to demonstrate its willingness to use force to back up its demands.\n\nHowever, South Korea temporarily halted the current Thaad deployment and is strongly against any increases in US ground forces, because of concerns about provoking the North.\n\nIndeed, North Korea would almost certainly interpret such moves as a prelude to a ground invasion, given its reactions to annual joint exercises between the US and South Korean militaries.\n\nChina and Russia would no doubt strenuously object too, and both have the power to make life difficult for the US in other areas such as Eastern Europe and the South and East China Seas.\n\nThe US Navy could increase its presence around Korea, sending more cruisers and destroyers able to shoot down ballistic missiles and, possibly, deploying a second carrier strike group.\n\nAlongside the naval options, the US Air Force could bolster its forward-based airpower, with more attack fighter squadrons, support tankers, surveillance aircraft and heavy bombers at bases in Guam, South Korea and Japan.\n\nHowever, the US Navy and US Air Force are both extremely heavily tasked around the world and are feeling the strain of well over a decade of continuous high-intensity deployments in support of operations, including those in Iraq and Afghanistan.\n\nMore importantly, perhaps, time is on North Korea's side, since an enhanced US military presence would not itself force a halt to its rapidly maturing nuclear weapons programme and ballistic missile testing.\n\nAnd any statement of intent to shoot down North Korean ballistic missiles that travel outside the country's airspace would itself require a major increase in US Navy presence around the peninsula.\n\nNorth Korea has a large ballistic missile arsenal, and US interceptor missiles are extremely expensive and available in limited quantities aboard each ship.\n\nIt would, therefore, be possible for the North to overwhelm and deplete the US Navy's stocks, leaving them vulnerable and forced to return to port.\n\nSuch a policy would therefore represent an extremely expensive and probably unsustainable challenge to North Korea, as well as a dangerous escalation towards direct military conflict.\n\nThe US Air Force and US Navy possess the most advanced surgical strike capabilities on Earth.\n\nUsing volleys of precision Tomahawk missiles fired from submarines off the North Korean coastline and attacks by B-2 stealth bombers against key North Korean nuclear sites and ballistic missile facilities may seem like an attractive proposition, at first glance.\n\nIt is undoubtedly the case that heavy damage could be inflicted on high-value targets, with deeply buried and hardened underground facilities vulnerable to the 30,000lb Massive Ordnance Penetrator bomb.\n\nThe immediate danger to US aircraft would depend on many factors, including the amount of warning North Korea received, the number of strikes flown and the contribution of non-stealth aircraft within range of its defences.\n\nHowever, the state of North Korea's air defence network is very hard to determine since it is a mix of Soviet/Russian, Chinese and home-grown surface-to-air missile and radar systems acquired over 50 years.\n\nThe defences are among the densest on Earth, but they have been modified and upgraded to an unknown degree and their readiness is difficult to assess.\n\nIf the US lost aircraft to enemy fire or accidents, it would then face the nightmare scenario of having to try to rescue its aircrew, or abandon them to a very public fate.\n\nFar more significant, however, is the fact that even successful strikes on nuclear and missile sites, command centres and even the leadership itself, would not stop North Korea retaliating.\n\nThe People's Army would still have the ability to inflict almost inevitably devastating damage in immediate retaliation against South Korea - a key US ally.\n\nIt consists of more than a million regular soldiers and, by some estimates, more than six million reserves and paramilitary troops.\n\nA huge number of conventional and rocket artillery pieces, mostly dug in near the demilitarised zone, include hundreds that are within range of parts of the South Korean capital city Seoul, which is home to around 10 million people.\n\nEven the US military would take days to fully eliminate just these artillery batteries, which would be able to fire tens of thousands of shells and rockets during that time.\n\nThe catastrophic damage that these batteries would inflict on a crowded modern city, as well as the South Korean military forces, is why the South Korean government is opposed to any pre-emptive military action against North Korea.\n\nEven without a usable nuclear weapon and without actively invading South Korea, the Kim regime could inflict devastating damage and probably end the US-South Korean alliance as we know it.\n\nGiven the sheer size of the People's Army, the power of its artillery, its dense air defences and South Korea's reluctance to support any US military action, this option is extremely far-fetched.\n\nAny attempt to actually invade North Korea would require months of visible US military build-up, full-scale South Korean participation and a way to guarantee the neutralisation of North Korea's mysterious nuclear capabilities.\n\nIt would also cost hundreds of thousands of lives on both sides.\n\nIn addition to heavy artillery bombardments, the People's Army has long trained for large-scale commando infiltration into South Korea, using low, slow-flying biplanes which are hard to detect on radar, small boats and midget submarines.\n\nThese would add to the chaos and loss of life in the event of any large-scale conflict, and ensure that the comparatively fewer, albeit much higher-technology US and South Korean forces would be stretched painfully thin.\n\nThe last time the US and its allies advanced into North Korea, during the Korean War in 1950, China entered the war on the side of the North to prevent the establishment of a unified Western-aligned Korea on its land border.\n\nSuch a development is still something that China is not prepared to contemplate - the main reason it has propped up the Kim regime for so long.\n\nFinally, even if somehow these huge problems could be overcome, a successful invasion of North Korea led by the US would leave it responsible for rebuilding a shattered country.\n\nNorth Korea has existed in an unparalleled state of psychological manipulation, chronic economic hardship and isolation for over 60 years.\n\nThe monumental task of reintegrating East Germany after the Cold War pales in comparison.\n\nThe reality is that none of the military options available to the US for dealing with North Korea come without high costs and significant risks - considerations that it will have to weigh up against uncertain and problematic potential outcomes.\n\nThis analysis piece was commissioned by the BBC from an expert working for an outside organisation.\n\nJustin Bronk is a Research Fellow specialising in combat airpower and technology at The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). Follow him @Justin_Br0nk.\n\nRUSI describes itself as an independent think tank engaged in defence and security research.", "A man has been arrested in Melbourne after a video showing a man slashing at a wounded kangaroo's throat went viral.\n\nThe 43-year-old man was charged with destroying protected wildlife, said authorities in the state of Victoria. Officers also seized knives and firearms from his home, they said.\n\nEnvironment officials described the incident as \"particularly abhorrent\".\n\nIf convicted under Victorian law, the man faces up to two years in jail and a fine of A$38,056 (£23,000; $30,000).\n\nThe short video clip, shared widely on Chinese messaging app WeChat, starts with a man approaching a wounded kangaroo lying on a hillside.\n\nThe kangaroo is seen kicking several times and making noises, so the man eventually approaches it from behind.\n\nHe then grabs its tail and steps on its back, before repeatedly cutting its throat with a large hunting knife until the kangaroo stops moving.\n\nPeople can be heard laughing in the background.\n\n\"We take all alleged cases of animal cruelty very seriously,\" said Glenn Sharp, a spokesman for Victoria's Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning.\n\n\"The wildlife offences captured in this video are particularly abhorrent.\"\n\nHe thanked members of the public for coming forward with information.\n\nThe man has been granted bail and will appear in court at a later date.", "The end of the latest round of Brexit talks provides the lead for many papers.\n\nThe Guardian highlights the view of the EU's chief negotiator Michel Barnier that the UK's approach is nostalgic, unrealistic and undermined by a lack of trust.\n\n\"You can't bully us Mr Barnier,\" is its headline, saying his comments enraged the British side.\n\nThe Times emphasises an EU demand that the UK pays billions of pounds in foreign aid to Africa as part of its financial settlement with Brussels.\n\nBusiness paper City AM sums up the problem as \"money trouble\", and says deadlock over the so-called divorce bill has triggered fresh alarm that trade talks could be shunted into next year.\n\nThe Financial Times and the Daily Mail have a photo of EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker greeting former PM Tony Blair with a kiss.\n\nThe Mail calls it a \"nauseating love-in\" that \"reminds us why we were so right to get out\".\n\nThe Guardian, which publishes an investigation into the gambling industry, claims online casinos are targeting people on low incomes and those who have stopped gambling.\n\nIn an editorial, the paper says the record fine levied on one company on Thursday is a sign that the UK has a gambling problem and that greater regulation is needed.\n\n\"Making the necessary changes will be painful,\" it acknowledges, \"but the costs to public health cannot be ignored\".\n\nThe Times says for an industry that relies on expert judgement in studying form and setting odds, betting operators have an uncanny knack of shooting themselves in the foot.\n\nIt says modest cuts in stakes and prizes might be enough to satisfy critics, but the industry's poor record on responsible gambling is shortening the odds of a drastic outcome.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph is among the papers to concentrate on the role of a sat-nav in the alleged terror attack outside Buckingham Palace a week ago.\n\nEvidence taken from the car of Mohiussunath Chowdhury, who appeared in court on Thursday, suggests he programmed his sat-nav for Windsor Castle.\n\nHowever, the in-car system is believed to have taken him to a central London pub of the same name rather than to the castle itself.\n\nThe Times and the Sun point out that the suspect was a driver for taxi firm Uber.\n\nTrying to stop yourself yawning actually increases the urge, according to a study published in the i newspaper.\n\nThe Daily Express focuses on a different aspect of the research, which suggests that studying contagious yawning could hold the key to a future cure for dementia, as the tendency to catch a yawn is controlled by a particular part of the brain.\n\nThe Daily Mail says Italians have been left \"fizzing with rage\" at claims that too much Prosecco damages your teeth.\n\nBut the Daily Telegraph says they have misunderstood the British attitude to health - saying that even definitive proof that something is bad for you is no guarantee of a fall in sales.\n\nThe paper says Prosecco will remain popular as long as it remains a budget alternative to Champagne.\n\nThe Times considers whether criticising other countries' popular exports is a clever post-Brexit strategy.\n\n\"Those Leonardo and Michaelangelo guys are overrated, Roman Catholicism is a passing cult,\" the paper muses, before concluding that the idea may require further refinement.", "Rubbish piled up on the streets of Alum Rock in Birmingham during the dispute\n\nBirmingham bin workers are expected to resume strike action after the city's council said it was issuing redundancy notices.\n\nThe seven-week strike action that saw mountains of waste pile up on streets was suspended on 16 August amid talks between Unite and the city council.\n\nBut the council reneged on a deal that saw the strike suspended and said a meeting due on Friday would not happen.\n\nThe Unite union described the move as a \"deeply provocative act\".\n\nIt said refuse workers were expected to resume industrial action and could walk out for three hours on a daily basis at 07:00, 10:30 and 13:00 BST.\n\nThe union warned industrial action \"could extend until the new year\".\n\nConciliation service Acas said on 16 August the council had accepted the workers' case and restored the jobs of grade three workers, who are responsible for safety at the back of refuse vehicles.\n\nBut a council report said the deal struck by Unite and the council was unaffordable.\n\nThe authority said on Thursday it was issuing redundancy notices to certain grade three workers \"in order to protect its legal and financial position\".\n\nBut alternative jobs at the same grade and salary elsewhere were available for those employees, it said.\n\nPosters in support of the refuse workers have been spotted around Birmingham\n\nUnite assistant general secretary Howard Beckett said: \"This is a deeply provocative act that drives a coach and horses through the agreement Unite reached with the council in good faith at the conciliation service Acas.\n\n\"It does a great disservice to the people of Birmingham and the city's refuse workers who now face being made redundant and losing their livelihoods or pay cuts of thousands of pounds.\"\n\nThe union urged the council to \"come to its senses\" and withdraw the redundancy notices to avoid disruption to services.\n\nThe council said it wished to continue ongoing discussions \"with trades unions through Acas in parallel with seeking alternative jobs for the Grade 3s affected by redundancy\".\n\nLisa Trickett, cabinet member for clean streets, recycling and environment, added: \"We hope that, in view of the ongoing discussions with Acas, Unite will not take their workforce back out on strike but continue in discussions with us and the other unions.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Parents-to-be Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian in New York in May\n\nTennis star Serena Williams has given birth to a baby girl at a clinic in Florida.\n\nWilliams, 35, whose partner is Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, was admitted to the St Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach on Wednesday.\n\nThe 23-time Grand Slam winner said last month she was planning to return to tennis for the Australian Open in January.\n\nCongratulations have been pouring in from sports stars and celebrities.\n\nNews of the birth came as her sister Venus prepared to go out on court at the US Open.\n\n\"Obviously I'm super-excited,\" Venus said. \"Words can't describe it.\"\n\nThe couple are yet to confirm the birth themselves but Serena's coach, Patrick Mouratoglou, tweeted: \"I am so happy for you and I feel your emotion.\"\n\nHe added: \"Btw ... I wish you a speedy recovery... we have a lot of work ahead of us.\"\n\nSerena admitted she had revealed her pregnancy to the world in April by accident, after mistakenly uploading a photograph on Snapchat.\n\nShe won the Australian Open title this January while newly pregnant, and in an article in Vogue last month she said she wanted to defend her title.\n\n\"It's the most outrageous plan,\" she said. \"I just want to put that out there. That's, like, three months after I give birth.\"\n\nIn June she appeared in a nude cover photo for Vanity Fair, saying: \"I don't know what to do with a baby.\"\n\nThe news has delighted the tennis world, with Rafa Nadal among the first to tweet his congratulations.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rafa Nadal This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n• None How did she compete while pregnant?", "Carolyn Saddington says her bills have risen by thousands of pounds\n\nBackdated tax demands being sent to businesses with offices in communal blocks are \"particularly unfair\", the head of a committee of MPs has said.\n\nDubbed the \"staircase tax\" by critics, business rates in England and Wales are being set depending on how many rooms are being used and how they are linked.\n\nThose with more than one office linked by a communal lift, corridors or stairs are being charged more.\n\nIn a letter to Melissa Tatton, chief executive of the Valuation Office Agency (VOA), which sets the rates, Mrs Morgan has asked how many businesses are being hit and what is being done to mitigate the impact.\n\n\"On the face of it, it seems unfair to tax businesses differently depending solely on whether the staircases between their rooms are communal or private,\" she said.\n\n\"It seems particularly unfair for the increase in rates to be backdated. I have written to Ms Tatton to ascertain the reasons for the VOA backdating it. \"\n\nThe change - and the backdating of rates - was the result of a ruling in the Supreme Court which the VOA said had clarified the law and given it no choice but to send the fresh demands.\n\nAmong those to have received them is Carolyn Saddington, the director of digital marketing agency Loyalty Matters, based in Harrogate.\n\nThe 54-year-old said the agency was spread over three offices on two floors of a building.\n\n\"Our offices - because they are separated by a [communal] staircase and a small amount of carpet - are now assessed by the Valuation Office as three separate properties,\" she told BBC Radio 4's You and Yours programme.\n\nShe said if they had an office that was a single unit, then they would be eligible for 100% rate relief, but the current situation meant they would only receive relief on one office and had to pay rates on the other two.\n\nShe has received a backdated rates demand of £4,000 and a charge of £2,000 a year from now on. It was \"a bit of shock\", she said.\n\n\"The ridiculous thing is that there is a wall between two offices. We could knock a door through then the Valuation Office would have to assess it as one property. It is absolutely crazy,\" she added.\n\nMrs Morgan, in her letter, questions why the recalculated rates are being backdated. She also asked whether there is any analysis on the winners and losers under the new rules.\n\nShe has also asked for details on how many businesses are affected, an estimate of the typical increase or fall in rates, and what transitional relief is available.\n\nThe Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) estimates that 80,000 properties are affected. It said the levy was \"ridiculous\" and there was cross-party support in Parliament to help affected businesses.\n\n\"No small business should receive a sudden tax hike of 5,000% simply because a workspace has been separated, for years, by a communal area, stairway or lift. Some small business owners are discussing whether to knock holes in their walls or stick a staircase on the outside of their premises,\" said Mike Cherry, national chairman of the FSB.\n\n\"This is no way to run a tax system in the 20th century, let alone the 21st. Ministers have the power to provide relief, and they should do this urgently - to correct this defect in the UK tax system.\"", "Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered the tomb of a royal goldsmith containing the mummies of a woman and her two children, authorities said.\n\nThe tomb, dating back to the New Kingdom (16th to 11th Centuries BC), was found near the Nile city of Luxor, 400 miles (700km) south of Cairo.\n\nAmong the items discovered inside was a statue of the goldsmith Amenemhat, sitting beside his wife.\n\nIt is unclear whether the three mummies discovered are connected to Amenemhat.\n\nThe mummies were found down a burial shaft leading off the main chamber, Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities said.\n\nThe tomb was found in the Draa Abul Naga necropolis, which was used for officials\n\nAccording to the archaeologists, the mother died aged about 50, with tests revealing she had a bacterial bone disease. Her two sons were in their 20s and 30s and their bodies said to have been preserved in good condition.\n\nAuthorities believe the tomb of Amenemhat, who was goldsmith for the god Amun, the period's most powerful deity, could lead them to further discoveries in the Draa Abul Naga necropolis, an area famed for its temples and burial grounds.\n\nMinister of Antiquities Khaled al-Anani said: \"We found many objects of the funerary equipment inside and outside the tomb. We found mummies, coffins, funerary combs, funerary masks, some jewellery, and statue.\n\n\"The work did not finish yet.\"\n\nThe bodies of the male mummies are said to be in good condition\n\nMr Anani said archaeologists had read four new names.\n\n\"What about those four new names? How about their tombs? Their tombs are not discovered yet. But I believe they are owners of the tomb,\" he said.\n\n\"I believe, inshallah, for the coming season, we are going to do our excavations. We are going to do our excavations in this area. So I believe we can find one, or two or maybe four if we are going to be very lucky, four of them in this area.\"\n\nAmenemhat's son is depicted as sitting between him and his wife\n\nThe discovery is the second big find for archaeologists in the area this year", "The boy was found critically injured after falling through the roof of the Aida Bliss factory\n\nA 12-year-old boy has died after falling through the roof of a derelict factory.\n\nThe boy was found critically injured inside the Aida Bliss building in Derby, just after 19:30 BST on Friday.\n\nHe was taken to hospital where he was later pronounced dead.\n\nPolice said he had been at the factory in City Road, Chester Green, with two friends who had been left \"understandably distraught\" by what happened.\n\nThe building was used to make metal stamping presses, but since closing in 2004 it has attracted people inside to take photos and videos they post online.\n\nThis photo inside the Aida Bliss factory was taken by photography student Alison White\n\nOfficers have appealed for potential witnesses to speak to them \"urgently\".\n\nThey believe there may have been other youngsters inside the factory who were not known to the group.\n\nCh Supt Jim Allen, of Derbyshire Police, said: \"This is a tragic incident and our thoughts and sympathies go out to the young boy's family.\n\n\"If you were in the building at the time, you will not be in any trouble - we just need to speak to you as a witness as soon as possible, so please call us now.\"\n\nHe said specially trained officers and staff are supporting the boy's family \"at this unimaginably difficult time\".\n\nCh Supt Allen also urged anyone who was in the area or passing by at the time to contact police.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The claim: We pay more on debt interest than on NHS pay.\n\nReality Check verdict: If you use the Office for Budget Responsibility's headline figure for debt interest then we actually spend more on NHS pay.\n\nWith nurses demonstrating in Parliament Square against the pay cap this week, Prime Minister Theresa May was asked by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn about whether public sector workers could be paid more.\n\nShe replied by blaming the last Labour government for the amount of debt the country has, saying: \"As a result of the decisions the Labour Party took in government we now have to pay more on debt interest than on NHS pay.\"\n\nReality Check asked Downing Street for the figures to back this up and were told that in 2016-17 debt interest costs were expected to have been £49.1bn while NHS staff costs the same year were £48.1bn.\n\nLet's look at those figures in turn.\n\nThe debt interest costs figure comes from the Office for Budget Responsibility's (OBR) economic and fiscal outlook from the time of the Budget in March.\n\nThe tricky thing with this figure is that the OBR comes up with two numbers depending on whether or not you count what's known as the Asset Purchase Facility (APF).\n\nAs part of its attempts to stimulate the economy, the Bank of England has bought a large amount of UK government bonds.\n\nThe government has to pay interest on those bonds, so it makes interest payments to the Bank of England.\n\nBut once a quarter, the Bank of England returns those interest payments to the government.\n\nThe OBR's headline figure doesn't count the money which has been returned as part of government spending. In 2016-17 it was £36.0bn.\n\nThe one used by Theresa May ignores the fact the money was returned to government coffers, so totals £49.1bn.\n\nThe figure for NHS pay is a surprisingly difficult one to give a definitive answer to.\n\nThe number Downing Street gave comes from the Department of Health annual report and accounts.\n\nThe figure of £48.1bn is for all permanently employed staff of the departmental group, which means it includes people working full-time for the NHS in England as well as those working for the Department of Health and arm's length bodies such as Public Health England. It includes employer national insurance contributions and pension contributions.\n\nIt does not include anyone working for the NHS in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland because staff there are paid by the devolved administrations.\n\nIt also does not include anyone employed via an agency, on a temporary contract, or most staff working in GP surgeries.\n\nWe asked NHS Digital to come up with a figure for only the salaries of NHS England staff and they gave us the remarkably precise figure of £39,450,395,739.60, i.e. about £39.5bn.\n\nNHS Digital warns that the figure is lower than it should be because it excludes data for two hospital trusts and also does not include maternity pay or sick pay. As with the Department of Health figures, it also does not include figures for the NHS outside England or for GP practices.\n\nBut even this figure is higher than the amount spent on debt interest when the APF is taken into account.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "A pedestrian has died after she was struck by a cyclist during this year's RideLondon event.\n\nThe 67-year-old suffered serious head injuries when she was struck on New King's Road at the junction of Guion Road in Parsons Green.\n\nFollowing the collision on 30 July, she was taken to a west London hospital. She died on Thursday.\n\nA 60-year-old cyclist, who was also injured, was taken to hospital with minor injuries.\n\nThe Met has issued an appeal for anyone with information to contact them.\n\nRiders completed either a 46 or 100-mile cycle route through Surrey and London\n\nDet Sgt Alastair Middleton, from the Met's serious collision investigation unit, said: \"In light of the sad news that the pedestrian in this collision has passed away, it is important that we understand more about the circumstances surrounding the collision from either members of the public or those working as part of the event.\n\n\"Please call into the incident room if you have information, footage or images that could benefit our investigation.\"\n\nThe pedestrian is the second person to have died following the event.\n\nMaris Ozols, a 67-year-old father-of-four, died after he suffered a cardiac arrest about 13 miles into the event.\n\nRideLondon saw 28,032 riders complete either a 46 or 100-mile cycle ride through Surrey and London on 30 July.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThe 18-year-old from South Sudan knew he might perish on the treacherous crossing from Libya to Europe. So far this year, the Mediterranean has claimed an estimated 2,400 migrants and refugees.\n\nBut before he ever reached the shore, Hennessy was kidnapped, beaten and almost shot.\n\nThe teenager says he left home in 2016 after family problems resulted in death threats.\n\nHe is behind bars in the Triq al-Sika detention centre in Tripoli, along with around 1,000 other men. Most we met were Africans in search of work, who were stopped at sea, or trying to get there.\n\nNow they are jammed into a warehouse, bereft of light and struggling to breathe.\n\nHennessy Manjing spent three years in London, where he wants to return\n\nIn the sweltering heat they are melding together - a tapestry of jumbled limbs, and torment.\n\n\"When they find their journey ends here, they are completely broken,\" said one official at the centre.\n\nSome try to fan themselves with scraps of cardboard. At night, when the doors are locked, they have to urinate in bottles.\n\n\"It's like hell,\" said Hennessy \"even worse than jail.\"\n\nThe gaunt teenager spoke with a London accent - the legacy of three years spent living in the UK with his family.\n\nHopes of getting back there led him first to Egypt, and then across the border to eastern Libya. He says that's where an armed gang kidnapped him and about 40 others from their trafficker.\n\nThere is not enough money to look after all the detainees\n\n\"We saw people holding guns and sticks, and they forced us into trucks,\" he said.\n\n\"People starting jumping off. By the time we jumped, there was an old man, from Chad. He was shot. Blood went all over my T-shirt. I thought I had been shot as well so I just ran away.\"\n\nHe sought help from a local man, who returned him to one of the kidnappers.\n\n\"He slapped me and punched me in the stomach, and said: 'Why did you run away?'\n\n\"Thank God, on the third day my trafficker came and released us.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHennessy was given a fake visa to fly to Tripoli, but on arrival he was arrested by a militia and taken to a detention centre near the airport.\n\n\"There were daily abuses,\" he said. \"If people make noise, or rush for food, you get beaten.\"\n\nThe weapon of choice for the guards was a water pipe.\n\nSome of his fellow detainees outlined other hazards on the migrant trail through Libya - being bought and sold by militias, used as slave labour, and forced to bribe guards to be released from detention centres.\n\nI just want to leave this place and go to my country\n\nOsman Abdel Salam, from Sudan, lifted the red towel around his neck to reveal a raised scar.\n\nHe said that was the handiwork of jailers in the Libyan town of Bani Walid. They forced prisoners to call home, while being brutalised, to extort money from their relatives.\n\n\"When we call, we are crying. They beat you on the head. There are some people who don't want to obey - they burn their body. My father is a farmer. He doesn't have money so he sold our house.\"\n\nOsman's freedom - which was short-lived - cost his family $5,000 (£3,800).\n\nWhen I asked if he still wanted to get to Europe, he covered his eyes with the towel and began to weep.\n\n\"I just want to leave this place and go to my country.\"\n\nEmmanuel John, an 18-year-old who speaks perfect English, said he was beaten from the moment he crossed the border, and feared he would die.\n\n\"The smugglers that brought us to Libya handed us to others, from the same network,\" he said.\n\n\"There are stops along the way until you arrive in the city. At every stop you have to pay money. And if you don't, there will be beatings.\"\n\nBut it was not the physical abuse that pained him the most.\n\n\"Two girls were raped in the room beside us,\" he said.\n\n\"It was a horrible moment. We couldn't do anything. We didn't have anything to defend ourselves.\"\n\nHe told us the girls were aged about 15 and 19, and were travelling with their family.\n\nThe European Union wants Libya to do more to prevent migrants like Emmanuel reaching Europe.\n\nBut those intercepted by the Libyan coastguard are being returned to an unstable country, with a collapsing economy, that can barely feed them.\n\nA recent United Nations report condemned the \"inhuman conditions\" in Libyan detention centres highlighting \"consistent reports of torture, sexual violence and forced labour\", and cases of severe malnutrition.\n\nBreakfast time at Triq al-Sika was long on queues, and short on food.\n\nEach man received a small bread roll, some butter, and a single cup of watery juice.\n\nThree-month-old Sola has been in detention for most of his short life\n\nThe detainees wanted us to witness this, as did the officials in charge. They say they have run out of money to pay their suppliers and are now relying on donations.\n\nThose behind bars here are effectively prisoners, who don't know their sentence. They can be held indefinitely - with no legal process. Their only hope of release is to be sent back to their home country.\n\nThree-month-old Sola has been in detention for most of his short life.\n\nWe found him in the women's section, sleeping peacefully on a faded mattress.\n\nHis young mother, Wasila Alasanne, tried to take him across the seas to Italy when he was just four weeks old.\n\n\"Our boat broke and the police arrested us on the water,\" she said.\n\n\"Since then we have been in five prisons. We don't have enough food. We don't have the right to call our parents. They don't know if I am alive or dead. My baby and I are suffering.\"\n\nWasila's husband is being held in a different detention centre.\n\nShe has no idea when they will be reunited, or when they will free.\n\nHer home country, Togo, has no ambassador in Libya.\n\nNow she can only dream of deportation, as she used to dream of Europe.\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.", "Thousands of protesters in favour of the UK staying in the European Union have marched in Westminster.\n\nThe People's March for Europe took a route through central London before a rally in Parliament Square.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable said there were a growing number of people worried about Brexit's impact.\n\nThe march came ahead of MPs voting on Monday on a bill that will overturn the act that took the UK into the EU and end the supremacy of EU law in the UK.\n\nRemainers - many dressed in blue and yellow outfits and draped in EU flags - amassed outside Parliament on Saturday afternoon.\n\nMany carried \"Exit from Brexit\" placards or wore \"Remoaner Till I Die\" t-shirts.\n\nFormer Liberal Democrat cabinet minister Sir Ed Davey told marchers he had \"gone from anger to distress, from fury to despair\".\n\nHe added: \"Since the Brexit negotiations begun there's a third emotion I've been feeling - embarrassment.\n\n\"Embarrassment at our country's leaders. Embarrassment for Great Britain.\"\n\nTory peer Baroness Patience Wheatcroft told demonstrators that Remainers needed to keep campaigning to stay in the EU.\n\nShe said: \"We have to stop Brexit. Since we joined the EU we've had an unprecedented period of peace and prosperity. It must be right to try and maintain that.\n\n\"It's not undemocratic to try to persuade the electorate to think again about Brexit. That's democracy at work.\"\n\nOrganisers estimated there were between 10,000 and 15,000 people at the start of the march, adding that numbers rose to about 50,000 at its height as people joined along the way.\n\nThe police did not provide any estimates and the BBC is unable to verify these figures.\n\nOne marcher, wearing a blue beret emblazoned with yellow stars, told the BBC she had joined the rally because she felt \"totally violated by the idea of Brexiting\".\n\n\"I've lived, worked and loved in Europe for years. My whole existence has been a European existence,\" she said.\n\n\"My husband has a business in Europe. We worked for years to build this up. What's going to happen to that?\"\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable was at the march\n\nOne man, holding a home-made placard, said. \"I don't believe people really knew what they were voting for.\n\n\"We keep being told those who voted to Remain have largely changed their minds but I don't believe that at all.\"\n\nSir Vince told the BBC growing numbers of people wanted the UK to keep its links with the European Union and this was the beginning of a \"loud and powerful\" movement.\n\n\"They (the government) are not listening - they've got tin ear,\" he said.\n\n\"They're making a complete mess of these negotiations - totally disunited, dysfunctional, a lack of preparation.\n\n\"Even if you believe in Brexit you must be in despair at the way they're approaching these negotiations.\"", "Calman said her wife would be at the Strictly studio to see her dance\n\nSusan Calman has strongly defended her decision as an openly gay woman to dance with a male professional dancer on Strictly Come Dancing.\n\nThe Scottish comedian and writer has faced criticism on social media for taking part in the show - because it does not have same-sex dancing couples.\n\nCalman said the criticism had offended her, adding: \"No one can say I haven't stood up for my community.\"\n\nIt is understood show bosses have not ruled out same-sex couples in future.\n\nCalman is one of 15 celebrities taking to the dance floor on the BBC One contest.\n\nThe stars will find out who their professional partners are in the launch show, broadcast on Saturday night.\n\nThe 42-year-old said she was \"absolutely not disappointed\" that she would not be paired with a woman and that it was her decision to dance with a man.\n\nShe said: \"I think politically, there's nothing more powerful than having an openly gay woman on the biggest show on television, whose wife's on the front row, doing what she wants to do.\"\n\nCalman has also written a book about depression, called Cheer Up Love\n\nShe added: \"For the gay community to criticise me and try to get me what they want to do is, I think, as difficult as suggesting the straight community are trying to.\n\n\"No one is holding me hostage in this room, making me wear a dress and dance with a man. I want to learn how to dance.\"\n\nCalman suggested she was receiving more flack as a gay woman than gay male contestants had done on the dance show - including The Reverend Richard Coles, a fellow member of the \"class of 2017\".\n\n\"I have protested, I have picketed, I have fought, I have been spat on, I have been punched - and I want to dance,\" she said.\n\n\"There will be a time for same-sex dancing. I think what annoyed me slightly is that I seem to be getting it in the neck.\n\n\"Will Young didn't get it, Judge Rinder didn't get it, Richard Coles isn't getting it. It seems to me as a woman, he's not getting it the same way I am.\n\n\"And for me to be getting it is, I think, unfair. I seem to be getting the brunt of the LGBT community.\"\n\nRichard Coles is the first vicar to take part in the show\n\nColes, meanwhile, said he would be more than happy to dance with a male partner.\n\nHe said: \"We've had a discussion about it actually, and I don't know. I mean, it's in no sense that anyone resists the idea in principle, it's just a question of doing it.\n\n\"I think it's a good year to do it actually, with the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Decriminalisation Act.\"\n\nCalman, who presents daytime quiz The Boss and children's programme Top Class, said the issue had become \"a bigger deal than it should have\".\n\n\"To put the weight of the LGBT community on me - and changing platforms and changing perceptions - is unfair, upsetting and is ignoring the impact I will have in the biggest show on television.\n\n\"A lot of people are very supportive of my decision, but it's making this about my sexuality instead of a woman wanting to learn how to dance.\n\n\"The idea that people are depressed by it or upset by it, I think offends me because I've done... a lot for that community.\"\n\nThe 15 contenders for the Strictly glitterball trophy\n\nCalman, who regularly appears on TV and radio panel shows, has also spoken about the issue on social media.\n\nShe received support from fans with one saying, tongue in cheek: \"You're not a straight man, so must ALWAYS represent your sex/sexual orientation/short stature!\"\n\nA Strictly Come Dancing spokeswoman said: \"Strictly has chosen the traditional format of mixed-sex couples and at the moment we have no plans to introduce same-sex couples in the competition.\"\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\nStars of Strictly Come Dancing have paid an emotional tribute to former co-host Sir Bruce Forsyth at the start of this year's series.\n\nSir Bruce, who died in August aged 89, had a showbiz career that lasted 75 years - 10 of them on Strictly.\n\nThe tribute started with a collection of Sir Bruce's best moments and people's favourite memories.\n\nThe professional dancers then performed a traditional ballroom routine to \"Fly Me to the Moon\" by Frank Sinatra.\n\nThe outline of Sir Bruce's fist-to-face pose was in the background, and the dancers adopted it as a last nod to the entertainer.\n\nA tearful Tess Daly, who co-hosted the show alongside Sir Bruce from 2004, said that everyone working on Strictly \"missed him dearly\".\n\nShe fondly remembered his attempts to steady her nerves before the first show in 2004.\n\nSir Bruce always joined in the dancing with co-host Tess Daly\n\nClips of Sir Bruce insisting various contestants were his \"favourite\" showed his comedic side. The show described him as \"Strictly family\".\n\nOne of the judges, Bruno Tonioli, said Sir Bruce \"always had time for everyone\", adding \"he'll never be forgotten\".\n\n\"That first show, I was sitting in my little dressing room and there was a knock at the door,\" recalled Len Goodman, a previous head judge.\n\n\"And he said: 'Len, I just wanted to say, I hope you have a lovely show'.\n\n\"And there I am, little old Len, the dance teacher from Dartford, sitting and chatting with Bruce Forsyth.\"\n\nStrictly was Sir Bruce's final television role, yet he managed to coin a new, enduring catchphrase - always encouraging the audience to \"Keep dancing!\"\n\nCraig Revel Horwood, another judge, described him simply as an \"inspiration\".\n\nDancer Anton Du Beke said he \"couldn't tell you how that feels\", describing the moment Sir Bruce asked him to choreograph his entrance with Tess Daly.\n\nThe first show of the new series also saw the celebrity contestants matched with their professional partners.\n\nThis year's famous faces include singer Alexandra Burke, Good Morning Britain presenter Charlotte Hawkins, and Jonnie Peacock, the Paralympic gold medallist.\n\nThe long-standing judging panel of Horwood, Darcey Bussell and Tonioli have been joined by a new head judge, following Len Goodman's departure.\n\nShirley Ballas, a former award-winning dancer, is known as the \"queen of Latin\".", "US country music singer Don Williams - who enjoyed great success with his easy-going singing style - has died aged 78 after a short illness.\n\nWilliams began his solo career in 1971, amassing 17 number one country hits. His songs such as Gypsy Woman and Tulsa Time, were covered by singers such as Eric Clapton and Pete Townshend.\n\nWilliams was known as the gentle giant of country music.\n\nAnother country star, Troy Gentry, also died on Friday in a helicopter crash.\n\nWilliams' other hits included You're My Best Friend, I Believe in You and Lord, I Hope This Day Is Good.\n\nIn 2010, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Big & Rich This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 news of the death of 50-year-old Troy Gentry has shocked country music fans and artists.\n\n\"It is with great sadness that we confirm that Troy Gentry, half of the popular country duo, Montgomery Gentry, was tragically killed in a helicopter crash which took place at approximately 1:00pm today in Medford, New Jersey,\" a statement of the band's website said.\n\nTroy Gentry was due to perform in Medford, New Jersey on Friday evening\n\nThe helicopter's pilot also died in the incident, but the reasons for the crash remain unclear.\n\nThe country duo, who were brothers, formed in 1999 and had released eight studio albums.\n\nGrammy award-winning Singer Brad Paisley said he was \"heartbroken and in disbelief\" at the news of Gentry's death in a Friday night tweet.", "Prowse played Darth Vader (right) in the original sci-fi trilogy\n\nDave Prowse, who played Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy, is calling time on public appearances.\n\nA statement on the 82-year-old's social media accounts said he would \"no longer be doing any personal appearances or conventions due to health problems\" from January 2018 onwards.\n\nProwse was the man behind Vader's mask in Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi.\n\nHe also played the Green Cross Code man in television road safety commercials.\n\nBorn in Bristol in 1935, Prowse was a successful bodybuilder and weightlifter before landing his iconic Star Wars role.\n\nThe Bristol native started out as a bodybuilder and weightlifter\n\nHis face was never seen in the films though, while his voice was dubbed by US actor James Earl Jones.\n\nWhen Vader's mask was removed in Return of the Jedi, another actor - Sebastian Shaw - was revealed beneath.\n\nTwo new actors - Daniel Naprous and Spencer Wilding - shared the role of Vader during his brief appearance in last year's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story.\n\nProwse, a fixture on the convention circuit since Jedi's release in 1983, announced last year \"with great sadness\" that he would no longer attend international events.\n\nIn 2014 he revealed he had dementia, though this did not prevent him participating in the 2015 documentary I Am Your Father, or recently appearing in a music video for singer Jayce Lewis.\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 Sunday Telegraph reports that Theresa May will attempt to win back young voters lost to Jeremy Corbyn in the general election, by looking at cutting interest rates on student loans and \"strong-arming\" universities into lowering tuition fees.\n\nIt predicts that announcements could follow within weeks - at next month's Conservative party conference and in the autumn Budget.\n\nAccording to the paper, the Treasury has grown infuriated that, in its view, some students are being \"ripped off\" by taking courses costing £9,000 a year which offer little in return.\n\nHowever, some senior Tories are said to have told the Telegraph that the party must not \"over-interpret the results of a disastrous campaign\" by adopting \"hardcore Corbynism\".\n\nThe Sunday Times describes Tony Blair's call for tough new rules on immigration - in contrast to the open borders he presided over as prime minister - as an \"explosive\" intervention in the Brexit debate.\n\nIn an article for the paper's website, Mr Blair acknowledges that this is a radical departure from his policies in office. But he argues that \"back then, the economy was strong, the workers needed\" and \"the times were different\" and voters' concerns now \"cannot be ignored\".\n\nIn an editorial, the Sunday Times calls this a \"deathbed repentance\" on migration, and a \"mea culpa\" for the decision of the Labour government to open the door to people from the EU's new eastern European members.\n\nWould Britain have voted for Brexit, it asks, or even held a referendum without the pressures this unleashed? Its conclusion: Tony Blair's conversion has come too late.\n\nThe Observer reports that survivors on Caribbean islands shattered by Hurricane Irma are begging the world for food, water, shelter and rescue as they face down armed looters and the prospect of a fresh onslaught from Hurricane Jose.\n\nThere is also no let up in the criticism of the UK government's response to Hurricane Irma.\n\nThe Sunday Telegraph condemns it as \"appallingly slow\" and a \"dereliction of duty\". As well as the Americans, it says, the French and the Dutch have been far more dynamic.\n\nWriting in the Mail, the former attorney general in Anguilla, Rupert Jones, says the British overseas territory has been devastated - and what's been promised so far is a \"drop in the ocean\".\n\nIf Irma had hit the Falklands or Gibraltar, there would have been a national outcry, he complains.\n\nA British Royal Logistics Corps Mexflote arrives in Anguilla to help with the relief effort\n\nWriting in the Sun on Sunday, the International Development Secretary, Priti Patel, says the critics are \"just wrong\".\n\nShe says the £32 million already pledged will support the humanitarian needs of people left without food, water, shelter and power, while ministers are also looking at how to rebuild islands.\n\nMs Patel adds that a Royal Navy vessel loaded with aid and military support was deployed ahead of the disaster, and that UK forces are working around the clock in the British Virgin Islands.\n\nThe Sunday Express and the Daily Star Sunday both focus on what they call the \"miraculous\" escape of a British family trapped by Irma in their house of the Caribbean island of Tortola.\n\nAt one stage, parents Sasha and Brendan Joyce say they had to lay on top of their two boys, aged four and two, to prevent them being blown away. The bedroom they were in was the only room not destroyed.\n\nThe Sunday Times reports that ministers will signal an end to their seven year public sector pay freeze this week.\n\nIt says police officers are set to get the first rises - either an across-the-board increase of more than 1% or targeted bonuses for those on the front line.\n\nAfter the return of Strictly Come Dancing, the Telegraph suggests that the BBC is set to court controversy with some viewers by considering introducing same-sex dancing partners.\n\nIt quotes the Church of England vicar, Richard Coles, as revealing that discussions have taken place - though the Corporation is said to have ruled it out for the current series.\n\nThe Telegraph speaks of a backlash by LGBT activists against the lesbian comic, Susan Calman, for agreeing to dance with a man.\n\nShe says she's \"getting it in the neck\" only because she's a woman.", "(L-R) Shershah Muslimyar, Rafiullah Hamidy and Tamin Rahmani were jailed for 14 years each\n\nThree men and a boy raped a girl who had asked them for directions when she got lost on a night out with friends.\n\nThe girl, 16, who cannot be named, was trying to get to a friend's house in Ramsgate, Kent, when she was attacked and then dumped on the street.\n\nThey fulfilled their \"depraved sexual desires\" on the 16-year-old girl, Canterbury Crown Court heard.\n\nThree of the men were each jailed for 14 years each and a 17-year-old boy was jailed for seven years.\n\nThe girl was found crying in the street by two people returning from a night out.\n\nRafiullah Hamidy, 24, of High Street, Herne Bay, Shershah Muslimyar, 21, of Hovenden Close, Canterbury, Tamin Rahmani, 38, of Northwood Road, Ramsgate, and the 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, all denied rape but were found guilty by a jury in May.\n\nSentencing, Judge Heather Norton said the girl had been trying to make her way on foot back to a friend's house having missed the last train home, and was \"young, drunk, disorientated and vulnerable\".\n\nShe said the girl thought the four were going to help her, but instead they \"took her up to a bedroom, pushed her on to a mattress and repeatedly raped her\" over a sustained period.\n\nRafiullah Hamidy fled to Italy after raping the teenage girl\n\nJudge Norton said the girl had been clear that while she was being raped, others were in the room watching.\n\nDescribing it as a prolonged attack in degrading circumstances, she told the defendants: \"This was an appalling and repeated gang rape of a vulnerable girl who had sought your assistance.\"\n\nThey attacked the girl at Rahmani's home in the early hours of 18 September 2016.\n\nHe owns 555 Pizza and Kebab in Northwood Road, Ramsgate, and is in the UK under a spousal visa.\n\nHamidy fled to Taranto in southern Italy after the attack where he was detained by local officers.\n\nHe was returned to the UK following an extradition hearing and taken into custody at Heathrow Airport on 28 March.\n\nAfter the hearing, Det Insp Richard Vickery said the men \"saw an opportunity to fulfil their depraved sexual desires and betrayed the trust she placed in them in the worst possible way\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ken says his children have lost out from his retirement property dropping in value\n\nAround half of new build retirement homes sold during a 10-year period were later re-sold at a loss, according to exclusive research for the BBC.\n\nThe research by the Elderly Accommodation Counsel charity found falls in value could be more than 50%.\n\nIt looked at thousands of Land Registry records for resale details of homes built between 1998 and 2012.\n\nThe charity found many properties built after 2002 had underperformed the general property market.\n\nAdam Hillier of the Elderly Accommodation Counsel (EAC), which advises people considering retirement housing, called the scale of the falls \"startling\".\n\nAccording to the research, 51% of retirement properties built and sold between 2000 and 2010, and then sold again between 2006 and 2016, suffered a loss in value.\n\nFor those properties which declined in value, the average loss was 17%.\n\nFor some, the falls are much steeper.\n\nThe EAC found that for new build retirement properties sold between 2005 and 2007, and then resold between 2012 and 2014, more than four fifths fell in value.\n\nThe average loss for these properties was 25%.\n\nThe Elderly Accommodation Counsel charity said the trend was \"startling\"\n\nMr Hillier said it was unclear why it was happening. \"It's the million dollar question, really.\n\n\"I think part of it is the new build premium - especially when it comes to retirement housing,\" he said.\n\nAnother reason could be under-investment from developers once they have built the properties, he said.\n\n\"The traditional model was to hand over these properties to a managing agent to run them,\" he said. \"Does the developer have that much of an interest in investing in the property?\"\n\nThe trend has continued in recent years too. For new retirement properties sold between 2008 and 2010, and then resold between 2015 and 2017, nearly two thirds were sold for less than the purchase price.\n\nThe average loss here was 19%.\n\nMoney Box spoke to the residents of one development - Burlington Court, in Bridlington in East Yorkshire - where prices have more than halved since it was first built around a decade ago.\n\nAccording to Land Registry figures, one flat in Burlington Court, bought new in 2006 for £166,000, was resold for just £70,000 in 2014. Another two bedroom apartment bought for £140,000, in 2008, was sold last year for £58,000.\n\nKen, 91, bought his flat in Burlington Court for around £180,000 in 2008.\n\n\"I thought when I bought this that if I lived for another five or six years, my children would get maybe £190,000 for it,\" he said.\n\n\"In actual fact they'll be lucky to get £70,000 for it, maybe even £60,000.\n\n\"It's criminal really. When I mention it other people, they say: 'Why should you worry, you won't be here?'\n\n\"But I do feel my son and daughter have lost out. It's a lot of money,\" he added.\n\nThe developer said Burlington Court was hit by a lack of parking and difficult local market\n\nMargarete, 92, paid nearly £150,000 for her flat eleven years ago. She sold a detached bungalow in York.\n\nLike most residents of Burlington Court, she says it's a nice place to live, with a nice community of people.\n\nBut Margarete says she's always wanted to move back to Germany, where she was born.\n\nHowever the value of her property means that isn't now an option.\n\n\"My friends in Germany always wanted me to go back.\"\n\n\"But if I get £40,000 for this flat I'd be lucky. I couldn't afford to go back to Germany and buy a place there.\"\n\nThe largest developer of retirement homes, McCarthy and Stone, told the BBC that the numbers did not include incentives given to the original buyers, which effectively lowers the purchase price.\n\nThe company also said it had worked hard to increase resale values in recent years, including extending leases, retaining management of developments, and providing sales support.\n\n\"The vast majority of our retirement apartments increase in value on resale\", McCarthy and Stone told the BBC in a statement.\n\n\"It is also important to understand that the value of specialist retirement housing is not purely financial. It improves lives, provides peace of mind, care and support and ultimately helps older people maintain their independence.\n\n\"However, we recognise that there are a small number of cases, particularly with our older properties, where resale values of some apartments haven't performed as we would have wished. This can be down to many reasons, including the performance of some local property markets.\"\n\nMcCarthy and Stone, which also built Burlington Court, said resale values in that particular development had been hit by a lack of car parking spaces and a difficult local property market.\n\n\"Dismal resale prices for retirement properties help explain why only 2% of over-65s live in designated retirement properties - far less than the US or Australia.\n\n\"Something is seriously wrong with the business model that these flats fall so drastically in value.\n\n\"The retirement housing sector will not expand notably until this is addressed. That would be more effective than attempting to deny that the problem exists.\"\n\nListen to the full report on Money Box, midday on Saturday 9 September on BBC Radio 4.", "Ian McDiarmid portrays Enoch Powell at the time of his \"rivers of blood\" speech and later towards the end of his life\n\nA single controversial speech probably made Enoch Powell the most admired and the most detested British politician of the 1960s. In 1968 his intervention in Britain's policies on migration ended his career as a shadow minister - but it made him known around the world. Chris Hannan's play What Shadows, starring Star Wars actor Ian McDiarmid, looks at Powell's motives then and at his legacy today.\n\nHannan says the play What Shadows isn't really about Powell, although the politician dominates the stage.\n\n\"I knew I wanted to write about national identity and Powell is a good way of exploring that. But the inspiration was partly my own background in a working-class Irish family in Scotland. There was a huge amount of discrimination as the Irish were often seen as unwanted immigrants. So the Powell speech resonated more widely than you might think.\"\n\nIn April 1968 Powell made a speech which has gone down in British political history. The Conservatives were in opposition under Edward Heath - a party rival for whom Powell had little respect. Powell, the Tory defence spokesman, knew some of his white constituents in Wolverhampton South-West were unhappy at levels of immigration from the Commonwealth.\n\nIan McDiarmid (left) is known for playing Supreme Chancellor Palpatine in Star Wars\n\nHe made a speech at the Midland Hotel in Birmingham, using the racial language of the time, in which he quoted the Roman poet Virgil, setting out dark forebodings about growing levels of migration. \"Like the Roman,\" he said \"I seem to see the River Tiber foaming with much blood.\"\n\nThe press around the world reported the so-called \"rivers of blood\" speech and Powell was quickly sacked from the Tory front bench. But TV news bulletins were filled with voters for whom Powell had become an unlikely populist hero.\n\nHannan's play shows events surrounding the Birmingham speech and then revisits Powell towards the end of his life. The play was seen last year at the Birmingham Rep and is now being restaged in Edinburgh and London. The lead role is taken by Ian McDiarmid, famous on screen as the Emperor Palpatine in the Star Wars films.\n\nThe play's poster gives an inflammatory image of Enoch Powell\n\nMcDiarmid says the 1968 Britain we see portrayed isn't very different from the nation today. \"I think we now have a divided Britain, almost down the middle - as it very much was when Powell made the speech.\n\n\"There are the people who have reason to be grateful and happy about multiculturalism and there are other people who are feeling rather dispossessed. And that's something which he put his finger on in 1968 - in fact he lit the blue touch-paper.\n\n\"So Chris has written about a divided nation but with Powell there's also a divided personality. He was a romantic nationalist and a passionate person: he felt he had an insight into human nature. In a public sense he had two great ambitions: he wanted to be Viceroy of India and then he wanted to be prime minister. They both came to nothing.\"\n\nPolitical journalist Simon Heffer was Powell's official biographer. Before the politician's death in 1998 they spoke about the Birmingham speech - but he was never quite sure if Powell had been surprised at its huge impact with the public.\n\nIan McDiarmid (left) previously played the World War One foreign secretary Sir Edward Grey in drama 37 Days\n\n\"There's no denying that Enoch had aspirations to be his party's leader. He disliked the fact that Edward Heath was a pro-European and not a traditional Tory. He knew the Birmingham speech would aggravate Heath but he was also, I think, acting as a dedicated constituency MP. He was not a racist and I think he had no theories about race as such - but he was opposed to immigration.\n\n\"Some of the language he used in the speech undoubtedly offended people with his talk of 'charming, wide-grinning piccaninnies'. It's fair to point out that he was quoting a constituent.\n\n\"But when I wrote his biography a lot of his contemporaries at Westminster told me his speech had made it impossible to discuss immigration at all: the whole thing became so toxic. That was not what he intended.\"\n\nHannan enjoyed delving into Powell's complex personality. But he says it's contemporary Britain he had in mind writing the play. \"We find this conversation so difficult: it's as if the language isn't fit for talking about it. As soon as we raise the subject of racism and immigration we can last about two minutes before we give up and shut the dialogue down.\n\nThe playwright Chris Hannan says conversation about immigration has become harder since the time of Enoch Powell\n\n\"I believe the conversation has actually got worse over the half century since the Powell speech. The play really ask, 'How do we learn to talk about this? How do we learn to talk about the things that divide us?' Because we have to get beyond all the hatred - there's no choice about that. The play is about the Birmingham speech needing to be answered. It's not a matter of agreeing with it but I want to know, with all the anger, how on earth do we talk to each other?\"\n\nMcDiarmid has to make Powell tick on stage - so does he find something to like in him?\n\n\"Acting works by empathising with your character. If you fail to do that, the audience simply won't take it seriously and the whole thing will fall apart. So I admire him for sticking to his guns. But at the end of the day you have to ask if what he did advanced the argument in any productive way. I'm not sure it did.\n\n\"I suspect the audience may go away thinking he was brave but also naïve - or prejudiced but also honest. I think there are elements of all those aspects to him. But he was a significant character in British life. And - whether you like his arguments or not - the issues he raises are as relevant as they ever were.\"\n\nWhat Shadows plays at the Lyceum theatre in Edinburgh from 7 September. From 26 September it's at the Park theatre in London.\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.", "Rats may have been attracted to rubbish piled up in a nearby car park\n\nA disabled French girl covered in rat bites is critically ill in hospital after a pack swarmed into her bedroom in northern France.\n\nThe 14-year-old paraplegic was sleeping on the ground floor when the attack happened, in a rented house in Roubaix.\n\nA medical expert quoted by France Info said the girl had 45 facial lesions, 150 on her hands and 30 on her feet.\n\nThe girl's father is suing the landlord for alleged negligence. Reports say rubbish bins nearby were overflowing.\n\nThe father, who has two other children, said he found his paraplegic daughter Samantha \"drenched in blood\" in her bed last Saturday.\n\nHe said everything had been fine when the family had gone to bed. He was sleeping upstairs.\n\n\"There was blood coming from her ears - I was terrified that she might have had a brain haemorrhage,\" he said, quoted by the local newspaper Courrier-Picard.\n\nSome of her fingertips were bitten off and surgeons cannot repair them, he said.\n\nThe family has now been moved to a different house and police are investigating the attack.\n\nThe hospital has run checks on Samantha for possible infections, including rabies. The rabies test was negative.\n\nSuch attacks on humans are rare, though hungry rats do sometimes feed on corpses.", "US television network Fox News has announced it and a host accused of sending lewd messages to female co-workers have decided to \"part ways amicably\".\n\nEric Bolling was suspended in August as the network investigated accusations of inappropriate picture messages.\n\nHis lawyer described the claims at the time as \"untrue and terribly unfair\".\n\nIt was the latest of several high-profile harassment cases at the conservative cable news outlet.\n\nThe allegations first emerged on the Huffington Post, which cited 14 unnamed sources claiming Mr Bolling had sent unsolicited photos of male genitalia to at least two female colleagues at Fox Business and Fox News.\n\nAfter initially suspending Mr Bolling pending an investigation, Fox News announced his departure on Friday.\n\n\"We thank Eric for his ten years of service to our loyal viewers and wish him the best of luck,\" the network said in a statement.\n\nThey also confirmed they were cancelling his show, The Specialists.\n\nMr Bolling's lawyer, Michael Bowe had previously told the Reuters news agency that he intended to co-operate with the investigation so Mr Bolling could \"return to work as quickly as possible.\"\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 Hill reported in August that Mr Bolling was allegedly suing the journalist who first broke the story for defamation.", "Thomas Cook customers in Cuba have been evacuated to the north resort town of Varadero\n\nBritish tourists in Cuba have been speaking of the impact of Hurricane Irma, with one saying the storm had led to the \"honeymoon from hell\".\n\nIrma has made landfall on the island, having claimed at least 20 lives as it churned across the Caribbean.\n\nThomas Cook has been criticised by some for not evacuating tourists, and continuing to bring holidaymakers to Cuba's resorts as late as Thursday.\n\nA spokeswoman says the firm is working with Cuban authorities to get customers off the island.\n\nSam Lever, 50, from Bury in Greater Manchester, travelled to Cuba last week with his new wife Chelsea, 30, for their honeymoon.\n\nThe couple told the BBC how they, along with 2,500 other Thomas Cook passengers, had to travel eight hours by coach from the resort of Cayo Coco to the town of Varadero.\n\nMr Lever said: \"This is becoming a honeymoon from hell.\n\n\"We were all put on 11 buses by the authorities and had to travel eight hours with no food to Varadero.\n\n\"There were people on those coaches who had arrived from Manchester the night before. I just find that scandalous behaviour.\"\n\nSoftware developer Sam Lever, 50, is currently celebrating his honeymoon in Cuba with his wife Chelsea\n\nMr Lever said a contingent of Canadian tourists in the resort were flown home on Thursday.\n\nHe said he and his wife were \"huddled into a games room\" with other tourists.\n\n\"We just think Thomas Cook was playing a game of roulette, seeing if the storm would even hit Cayo Coco.\n\n\"It's scandalous that they flew people out on Wednesday, with staff who were going to deal with the evacuation.\n\nOne of those flown in on Wednesday was Steve Allen, who said there were \"major flaws\" in the evacuation process.\n\n\"They actually lost our passenger manifest at the hotel so we didn't know who was meant be going where at the time,\" he said.\n\n\"Well, we are now stuck in Varadero and praying we get through this nightmare in one piece.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Watch: Footage shows the central province of Villa Clara battered by wind and rain\n\nA spokeswoman for Thomas Cook said the company had followed advice given to them by Cuban authorities, and that they were told to evacuate their customers to Varadero.\n\nShe added that three aircraft would be chartered to Varadero on Sunday to bring UK holidaymakers home.\n\nRoy Pinches said his daughter, who works as cabin crew for Thomas Cook, had been sent to Cuba on Thursday and was now stranded on the island.\n\nMr Pinches said: \"They have been told to stay in one room where 10 cabin crew have been told to barricade themselves in\n\n\"Their last option is to use the bathroom where they have been told to get under the table placed there.\n\n\"This hotel could not be in a worse position to handle this hurricane.\"\n\nThomas Cook's spokeswoman added that staff members and reps were all in lockdown, like customers, as advised by Cuban authorities.", "The van also had a taped up wing mirror\n\nA van driver using a piece of string to operate his windscreen wipers has had his vehicle seized.\n\nPolice from Sandwell described the string attached to the gearstick as an \"inventive\" way to clean windscreens.\n\nThe van was spotted as officers took part in a road safety operation in the West Midlands borough.\n\nCentral Motorway Police Group (CMPG) said: \"Of all the defects found on numerous dangerous vehicles in Sandwell today this was the most amusing.\"\n\nAnd West Midlands Police joked the string set-up was \"knot acceptable\".\n\nCMPG later said the operation had been successful and included the discovery of seven vehicles in a dangerous condition.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Baby Chloe weighed 4lb 14oz when she was born\n\nSir Chris Hoy has announced that his wife Sarra has given birth to a baby daughter.\n\nChloe Rose Carol was born at 36 weeks and weighed 4lb 14oz.\n\nThe six-time Olympic cycling gold medallist and his wife already have a two-year-old son, Callum.\n\nSir Chris revealed the news of the latest arrival on Twitter, saying: \"Delighted to announce the safe arrival of Chloe Rose Carol Hoy this week! Sarra and Chloe doing really well.x\"\n\nChloe is Sir Chris and wife Sarra's second child\n\nLady Hoy added: \"We owe a huge debt of thanks to our local hospital & amazing staff, who gave me the most incredible care, while our family of 3 became 4.\"\n\nThe couple's first child was born 11 weeks prematurely by emergency caesarean section after Sarra was diagnosed with pre-eclampsia.\n\nHe weighed just 2lbs 2oz and spent 60 days in neonatal care but has now grown into a healthy toddler.\n\nFollowing his birth, Lady Hoy became the official ambassador of Bliss Scotland, a charity for babies born prematurely or sick.\n• None Son for Chris Hoy and his wife Sarra", "Students are paying more for their university education in England than ever before\n\nThere has been a call for an urgent inquiry into problems at the Student Loans Company which led to the suspension of its chief executive.\n\nShadow Universities Minister Gordon Marsden said the firm was near \"meltdown\" and urged the Universities Minister to address the problems.\n\nThe Department for Education suspended Steve Lamey in July without saying why.\n\nA DfE spokesman defended the student loans system and said Jo Johnson would respond in due course.\n\nIn early July, a statement from the DfE said: \"The Student Loans Company, in consultation with the Department for Education, took the decision to suspend the chief executive, pending an investigation into concerns which have been raised.\n\n\"The suspension is a neutral act and does not imply wrongdoing.\n\n\"As the matters leading to suspension are now subject to an independent investigation, it would be inappropriate to comment further at this time.\"\n\nBut this week, Mr Marsden wrote to Mr Johnson, asking him to clarify the details around the suspension and the nature of the associated investigation.\n\nHe told the BBC: \"Whilst the full details have yet to become clear, the Student Loans Company appears to be approaching a situation of meltdown.\n\n\"There needs to be an urgent, substantial inquiry into all aspects of the way they operate with HMRC.\"\n\nHis letter continues: \"This worrying situation has been compounded by an ongoing stream of accounts over the past few months in the media, and based on numerous individual stories appearing, of the inadequacies of the Student Loans Company to properly administer student loans and specifically repayments.\"\n\nHe highlighted that the number of student loan customers who had overpaid their debts rose to 86,000 in 2015-16, from 52,000 in 2009-10.\n\nAnd he asked Mr Johnson to set out what steps he and his officers were taking to address the issue.\n\nHe called for a review of the system of communications between HMRC and the company, after reports that the SLC was only getting salary information on borrowers at the end of the tax year.\n\nThis is thought to have led to more overpayments by customers than may have been necessary.\n\nHe wrote: \"The deteriorating situation suggests that there are significant management pressures at the SLC, both in processing this information and then in rectifying overpayments.\n\n\"So are you able to give assurances that there will be no further cuts in staffing resource or capacity at the SLC?\"\n\nA spokesman for the DfE defended the student loans system, which debits money directly from earnings through the tax system, saying it was fair.\n\nThe spokesman said: \"No borrower need overpay their loan.\n\n\"The SLC gives all borrowers the option to repay by direct debit two years before they are due to repay their loan and borrowers who take up this option will not overpay.\"\n\nAny borrower who believes they have overpaid should contact the SLC as soon as possible.\n\nMr Marsden pointed out that the problems at the firm come at a time when some students leave university with debts of up to £57,000.\n\nHe also raised the issue of graduates facing the prospect of paying 6.1% on their student loans while the Bank of England base rate is 0.25%.\n\nThe interest rate is due to rise soon from 4.6%.\n\nHe said that, without action, the confidence of existing graduates and future students would continue to erode, to the detriment of the sector.\n• None Why are student loan interest rates so high?\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 is what the southern region of Mexico woke up to after an 8.1 magnitude quake\n\nThe race to rescue those trapped in the rubble continues, nearly 48 hours after a powerful earthquake struck off Mexico's southern coast.\n\nThe 8.1 magnitude quake left at least 65 people dead, according to officials.\n\nAnother 200 people were injured, President Enrique Peña Nieto said, as he declared a national day of mourning.\n\nMeanwhile, the feared category one Hurricane Katia, which struck Veracruz on the east coast on Saturday, has been downgraded to a tropical storm.\n\nThe US National Hurricane Center reported Katia had been rapidly weakening since making landfall, but local officials are worried the storm could still cause landslides and flooding.\n\nRescue efforts following the earthquake, which struck late on Thursday, are focussing on the worst-hit states of Tabasco, Oaxaca and Chiapas.\n\nTens of thousands of emergency packs, as well as 100 extra police officers and rescue dogs were sent to Juchitán, Oaxaca, which was the most affected town.\n\nThe earthquake is the most powerful anywhere in the world since September 2015, but its depth - 70km according to the US Geological Survey - means that the shaking felt at the surface was less strong than it would have been for an equally powerful but shallower tremor.\n\nAt least 37 people have been reported dead in Juchitán, according to the Milenio newspaper. The town hall and a number of other buildings destroyed or badly damaged.\n\n\"The situation is Juchitán is critical; this is the most terrible moment in its history,\" said Mayor Gloria Sanchez.\n\nPolice officer Vidal Vera, 29, who had not slept in more than 36 hours, told AFP: \"I can't remember an earthquake this terrible.\n\n\"The whole city is a disaster zone right now. Lots of damage. Lots of deaths. I don't know how you can make sense of it. It's hard. My sister-in-law's husband died. His house fell on top of him.\"\n\nMr Peña Nieto, who visited the town on Friday, said flags would fly at half-mast on Saturday out of respect for the dead and bereaved.\n\nThe president said 45 deaths had been reported in Oaxaca, 12 in Chiapas and four in Tabasco.\n\nParts of the town hall in Juchitán were levelled\n\nThe BBC's Arturo Wallace says the affected region is the poorest and least developed part of Mexico and the full extent of the damage is yet to become clear.\n\nAt least one other person was killed in Guatemala, its president has said.\n\nThe huge quake struck at 23:50 local time on Thursday (04:50 GMT Friday), shaking buildings and causing panic hundreds of miles away in the capital, Mexico City.\n\nPatients at a hospital in Villahermosa, Tabasco state, were moved into the open after the quake struck\n\nThe earthquake also triggered a tsunami warning and the evacuation of thousands of people in coastal communities in Chiapas. The warning was later lifted.\n\nThroughout Friday, the region was shaken with scores of aftershocks.\n\nPresident Peña Nieto's office said he would travel to Chiapas to survey the damage.\n\nPope Francis, addressing an open air Mass on a visit to Colombia, said he was praying \"for those who have lost their lives and their families\".\n\nThe earthquake was more powerful than the 1985 tremor which hit close to Mexico City and caused thousands of deaths. Correspondents say the death toll appears to have been lower because it struck further away from highly populated areas.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. A bowling alley shakes in Tuxtla Gutierrez, 240km from the epicentre\n\nJournalist Franc Contreras, who was in Mexico City, told the BBC: \"You could hear loud cracks in the concrete. It sounded like a giant wooden branch being just broken open violently.\n\n\"People were streaming out of the hallways. And everybody walking out single file into the streets, trying to avoid overhead power lines.\"", "The Times highlights an attack on Theresa May as \"hopeless and weak\" by Conservative party donor Lord Harris of Peckham.\n\nIn an interview with the paper, Lord Harris says the prime minister's administration is mishandling Brexit and he would prefer a \"strong Labour government\" led by a figure such as Tony Blair.\n\nHe also criticises Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson as \"lazy\", and adds that Environment Secretary Michael Gove has \"no personality\".\n\nIn its leading article, the Times complains of \"paralysis\" in Downing Street and describes Mrs May as a \"caretaker adrift\".\n\nNevertheless, it urges her to stay on and face down factions in her own party who it says are exploiting her weakness in Parliament to pursue their own narrow interests.\n\nThe prime minister's declaration of admiration for Geoffrey Boycott catches the attention of the Guardian, which points out that the famously obdurate cricketer was eventually sacked as Yorkshire captain amid an acrimonious dressing room revolt.\n\nIt also notes that the team won nothing during Boycott's time in charge, and that he once scored so slowly during his brief spell as England captain that Ian Botham was sent on deliberately to get him run out.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph attacks the UK's initial response to Hurricane Irma as \"embarrassingly slow\" as the storm smashed through British territories in the Caribbean.\n\nIt says those affected are British passport holders - no different to citizens of the Falklands or Gibraltar - and the UK should care for all of them.\n\nThe Telegraph thinks the situation \"smacked of a government distracted\" by Brexit.\n\nThe Daily Express agrees that \"we should be doing so much more\".\n\nIt says the foreign aid budget could be saving lives in the Caribbean instead of being used on \"pointless development projects\".\n\nThe Daily Mirror hails Saturday night's reopening of the Manchester Arena as a triumph over terror and a \"new beginning\".\n\nIt says the victims of the bombing in May must never be forgotten but nor should \"crazed jihadists\" be allowed to destroy our way of life.\n\nIn the Mirror's view, the Manchester Arena, like the Bataclan in Paris, will become a symbol of defiance against what it calls \"miserable fanaticism\".\n\nAccording to the Daily Mail, ministers are considering plans to raise on-the-spot fines for littering from a maximum of £80 to £150.\n\nFor those who pay late, the penalty could increase to £300.\n\nCouncils have been pressing for the change and for the freedom to spend the proceeds as they wish - raising fears, says the Mail, that they will use litter patrols as cash cows.\n\nThe Sun and the Mirror both have the story of a woman who appears to have vanished with thousands of pounds after offering to arrange her fiance's stag party in Ibiza.\n\nThe jilted groom discovered what had happened only when he arrived at Leeds airport with 30 friends and found their flight tickets were fake and their hotel had no record of a booking.\n\nHe apparently headed to a local pub to drown his sorrows.\n\nThe Sun's headline is: \"Here cons the bride\".", "Kay said the last four months had been \"horrendous\" for Manchester\n\nComedian Peter Kay has delivered a message of defiance at Manchester Arena's reopening concert, declaring \"we can't let terrorists win\".\n\nKay appeared at the We Are Manchester show on Saturday alongside other local heroes including Noel Gallagher.\n\nMore than 14,000 fans were there, four months after a bomb killed 22 people.\n\n\"The victims will never ever be forgotten, but we've got to move forward with love and not hate, and that's how we win,\" Kay told the crowd.\n\nKay worked as a steward at the venue in the 1990s before going on to perform there more than 40 times.\n\n\"There's been a lot of joy in this room over the years, including the night of 22 May, right up until the terrorist attack,\" he said - and the crowd booed at the mention of the attack.\n\n\"These last four months have been incredibly painful,\" Kay continued.\n\n\"Horrendous is putting it mildly. But that's why you're here - because we can't let terrorists win.\n\n\"And I know the memories of that night will stay with us for a very long time but we've got to remember the good times and let them outweigh the bad.\"\n\nKay then introduced Gallagher, and the former Oasis star performed a string of favourites including Don't Look Back In Anger.\n\nThe song took on special significance in the wake of the bombing after a crowd started spontaneously singing it at a memorial.\n\n\"It's become some sort of anthem for defiance,\" Gallagher said. \"And every time you sing, we win.\"\n\nThe atmosphere was joyful for most of the show\n\nArmed police patrolled outside and inside the arena\n\nAs well as defiance, the mood at the event had a mixture of pride, catharsis, pure enjoyment - and, for some, trepidation.\n\nAmong the crowd were Paul Woodhouse and his son, from Edinburgh, who were at the Ariana Grande concert that was attacked on 22 May.\n\nHe said: \"Some of us that were there first time were there [at the reopening] to face a fear.\n\n\"Not so much of going to a concert, but of going back to the same place. It's still a bit raw. In time, yes, I think it will have helped, coming back to the same place.\"\n\nThe atmosphere inside the concert was \"quite positive\", he added.\n\n\"We found everybody was quite cheerful with everybody. Quite uplifting. You knew everybody was standing together.\"\n\nCourteeners got the crowd going\n\nManchester City manager Pep Guardiola was in the audience\n\nAdrian Thorpe, who was in the arena foyer when the bomb went off, said returning with his daughter and partner was initially \"nerve-wracking\".\n\nHe said: \"It was emotional returning but it's turned out a happy evening. Last time we were here it was a sad time but it's been a joyous evening.\n\n\"She's enjoyed it and that's all that matters now. The kids can put a smile back on their faces again.\"\n\nThe foyer area was also reopened on Saturday, but it now contains a row of airport-style body scanners and brightly-coloured temporary wall coverings with slogans such as \"We are entertainment\", \"We are love\" and \"We are stronger\".\n\nPixie Lott was the first singer to perform\n\nAlso in the crowd was Pep Guardiola, manager of Manchester City FC, whose wife and daughters were at the Ariana Grande gig.\n\nHe told BBC News: \"It's good to come back to normality and see that life is going on and remember the families that suffered.\"\n\nThere was tight security at the venue, with backpacks banned and armed police patrolling both the exterior and the inside concourse.\n\nThe night started with a tribute to the bomb victims from Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, who read the names of the 22 people who were killed by Salman Abedi.\n\nThe something-for-everyone bill included 1980s pop star Rick Astley - who was wearing a shirt bearing the Manchester bee emblem - plus Pixie Lott, ex-Girls Aloud member Nadine Coyle, grime MC Bugzy Malone and Stockport band Blossoms.\n\nPoet Tony Walsh delivered his poem This is the Place\n\nManchester band Courteeners summed up how the sense of pride in the city has been renewed since the attack when singer Liam Fray declared during their first song: \"Manchester, centre of the universe.\"\n\nThe concert was hosted by comedian Russell Kane. When a photographer came on stage to take a picture of the crowd, Kane told them: \"Let's show the world what defiance, happiness, positivity and strength look like.\"\n\nProceeds from the concert will go to establishing a permanent memorial to the victims.\n\nStockport band Blossoms were among the local acts on the bill\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 Shotgun & Chelsea Bun Club describes itself as the UK's largest ladies' shooting community\n\nIt has traditionally been seen as a man's game, enjoyed by country types wearing flat caps and tweed. But the number of women taking up shooting - particularly clay pigeon shooting - is on the rise. Why?\n\nGrowing up in Berkshire, Danielle Brown's only experience of the countryside was \"seeing it on the television\".\n\n\"I was a right town girl,\" she said. \"Went to a comprehensive, mum on her own, didn't have much money, never thought about country pursuits.\"\n\nDanielle Brown got into shooting after moving to the countryside\n\nIt was when she moved to Herefordshire with her husband that she was introduced to shooting by a neighbour. After a bit of investigating she came across the Shotgun & Chelsea Bun Club - a group holding events specifically for women - and she was hooked.\n\n\"I just loved it, that feeling when you shoot a clay, a moving target in the sky. I wanted to do it again.\"\n\nThe club is one of a number of groups attracting an increasing number of women to shoot, and building a new image for the sport.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Shooting: Not just a sport for men\n\nGone are the days of shooting being just a pursuit for country folk; members are now as likely to be students and shop assistants as they are bankers and lawyers.\n\nAnd numbers of female shooters are rising.\n\nFigures show the number of women joining the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) each year has risen a third over the past four years.\n\nThe association welcomed 1,212 women in 2011, compared with 1,603 in 2015, and now has almost 10,000 female members.\n\nFemmes Fatales aims to \"challenge the misconception that shooting is a man's game\". Participants are more likely to don sportswear than reflect the \"Downton Abbey and farmers in tweed look\", says founder Lydia Abdelaoui.\n\nRachel Carrie, left and Lydia Abdelaoui, right, who founded Femmes Fatales\n\nMiss Abdelaoui, 33, works in the shooting industry for an ammunition manufacturer, but only took up the sport three years ago.\n\n\"It never really appealed to me that much until I went with a group of women,\" she said.\n\n\"I had been before, but it was just a bit dull, I find men are really competitive. We had such a laugh and got to talk about doing things to attract more women and that's where the idea of Femmes Fatales came about.\"\n\nThe group started out on social media and has built up a \"community\" of about 7,000 women.\n\n\"It's not farmers and the gentry, it's just normal people from all different backgrounds who are just serious about the sport,\" says Miss Abdelaoui.\n\n\"We try to get away from the misconception that people have about shooters and to make it a bit more feminine and up to date.\n\n\"I had a Twitter exchange with a guy and he called us 'privileged women' and he suggested that women that shoot are all 'ladies that lunch' that don't have jobs - nothing could be further from the truth. Everybody works hard and we shoot at weekends.\"\n\nShotgun & Chelsea Bun Club members enjoy tea and cake after a day of shooting\n\nAt the Shotgun & Chelsea Bun Club, women meet for shooting followed by tea and cake.\n\nIt was founded by Victoria Knowles-Lacks who, while learning to shoot with her uncle, saw there was a \"major lack\" of women shooting.\n\n\"I'd see wives and daughters being dragged round clay grounds press buttons on clay traps for their husbands and I just thought the shooting industry is missing a trick,\" said the 33-year-old from Shropshire.\n\nWhen Mrs Knowles-Lacks took four female friends who \"weren't overly keen\" to a group shooting lesson, she baked a cake to \"soften\" the day.\n\nAnd the winning combination of clays and cake was born.\n\n\"We shot in a small group under instruction, then we had tea and cake. The format has stayed the same since that very first day.\n\n\"I've made it my mission to make it really easy, affordable and to showcase how social and how much fun shooting is,\" she added.\n\nWomen enjoy shooting and the social side of the sport at the Shotgun & Chelsea Bun Club\n\nIt is the social side of the club that Mrs Brown, 38, says has \"transformed\" her life.\n\n\"I don't have children so I didn't have any natural way of making my own friends, I didn't have any hobbies but all of a sudden I went to those clubs and met these lovely ladies.\"\n\nThe financial controller now practises once or twice a week and competes a couple of times a month.\n\nWhile she admits her hobby is expensive, she says there are many routes into it, such as hen parties, and it's not just for the well off - she herself makes sacrifices to fund her passion.\n\n\"I don't go clothes shopping any more, I buy shotgun cartridges instead.\"\n\nThe profile of the sport is giving women shooters \"visibility\" for the first time, added Mrs Knowles-Lacks.\n\n\"When we started the club back in 2011 there was literally nothing for female shooters. You'd see a few ladies at clay shoots or in the kitchen on game shoots, but there weren't really any opportunities.\n\n\"It's definitely reaching people who wouldn't really have considered trying the sport before.\"\n• None Breakfast's Holly has a go at shooting", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"Oberhausen is my home now,\" says Khaled Kohestani. \"A lot of things have happened since I arrived here two years ago.\"\n\nKhaled, 24, first spoke to the BBC 16 months ago. Everything in Germany was new to him. He was scared of getting on the bus. \"Everybody is so quiet, no one speaks or say hello, I'm scared of doing something illegal, we don't know the rules and we can't speak to anyone.\"\n\nKhaled lived in a refugee centre for three months but now has accommodation and a job\n\nKhaled is not scared anymore. We meet him in a metal workshop, where he's grinding and polishing iron doors and garden tables, sending sparks flying. \"Things are much easier today, mainly because I speak German now, nothing really is a problem because I understand what people say.\"\n\nKhaled is an exception. Out of the 1,902 asylum seekers living in Oberhausen, North Rhine-Westphalia, only 42 are, like him, employed or doing an apprenticeship.\n\nBut that is no guarantee that he'll be allowed to stay. In January this year, his asylum application was rejected by the German authorities. Khaled and his lawyer have appealed against the decision but Afghanistan is considered a safe country and Khaled and his family could be deported if the appeal is rejected.\n\nTwo years on from the big influx of migrants and refugees into Germany, things have calmed down and reception centres are operating below their full capacity.\n\nA man in his forties selling curry-wurst for a couple of euros in a small food market on the edge of Oberhausen says when the migrants started coming to Germany there was a lot of noise about what might happen. But for him the city has not really changed in that time, and it does not feel as if there are more foreigners than before.\n\nChief police inspector Tom Litges says initially the city's reception centres were overcrowded and it was not unusual to be called out to break up fights among the migrants. But things are calmer these days.\n\n\"The small protests against migrants and refugees have also have stopped. They used to be massively outnumbered by pro-migrant demonstrators anyway,\" he points out.\n\nThe German Red Cross organises activities for children living in Oberhausen's refugee centre\n\nOn Duisburg street, a Turkish artist paints a wall with a dozen children living at a refugee centre. They are colouring jolly characters that seem to come out of a comic book.\n\nGermany is nearing the climax of its general election campaign, but immigration is no longer the hot national issue it once was.\n\n\"The situation is now much calmer for everybody and I don't think that the refugee crisis of 2015 will have an impact,\" says Joerg Fischer from the German Red Cross, who was on the front line in 2015 when emergency camps had to be opened to accommodate everybody.\n\nVoters go to the polls on 24 September and Martin Schulz is challenging Angela Merkel for the job of chancellor\n\n\"If the elections had taken place 18 months ago it would clearly have benefited the far right but two years ago Angela Merkel said 'Wir schaffen das' - we will do this - and indeed we did it.\"\n\n\"Oberhausen has received more migrants and refugees than any other region. We'll probably start receiving more people in the autumn again so we are using this time to start integration programmes, we now have a football team, cooking classes for men and empowerment classes for women as well as art workshop for the kids.\"\n\nOn the high street in central Oberhausen elections posters are everywhere, but to the newcomers the election campaign is barely noticeable.\n\n\"It's so quiet,\" says Osmane, a 20-year-old from Guinea. \"It doesn't look like its elections time here. In Africa it's chaos during electoral campaigns, you can get mugged for no reason. It is peaceful here, I like it.\"\n\nWith just over two weeks to go before the vote, the anti-immigrant party Alternative for Germany (AfD) is expected to enter the federal parliament for the first time.\n\nWhoever wins the federal election will make little difference to Khaled's future in Oberhausen. He says his life is in Germany now rather than Afghanistan and vows to do everything he can to stay. \"My son goes to the kindergarten, my wife is learning German and I've got a job.\"\n\n\"German people are always on time everywhere so I try to be punctual, I want my boss to be satisfied with me.\" And for now that seems to work.\n\n\"His German still needs to improve but he's doing well and he is a reliable worker,\" says Frank Kalutza, who gave him his first job.\n\nThe decision for now is out of Khaled's hands and could take several more months. \"I don't want to leave, there is nothing in Afghanistan for me.\"\n\nKhaled is one of only 42 refugees who are in employment in Oberhausen", "She was the perfect symbol of democracy. Highly intelligent, well-read, articulate and photogenic.\n\nSet against this, the thuggish Burmese generals could never hope to capture the good opinion of the international media. Not that they ever cared to try.\n\nThose of us who worked undercover in Myanmar remember a constant struggle to stay out of the way of the secret policemen and spies. We were despised by the junta and feted by the pro-democracy movement.\n\nWhen I first encountered Aung San Suu Kyi shortly after her first release from house arrest in July 1995, she was - after Nelson Mandela - the most important global symbol of defiance against tyranny.\n\nThe world's media related how she had faced down soldiers with their rifles levelled in her direction.\n\nHer fight for democracy in Myanmar was backed around the world\n\nThe UN and others demanded her release from house arrest and worked hard to achieve that goal.\n\nWe listened to her address supporters at the gates of her lakeside villa about the need for tolerance and discipline.\n\nIn her interviews with me back in the 1990s, she repeatedly stressed the need for non-violence.\n\nShe was always keen to know how the African National Congress had managed the transition to majority rule in South Africa, my previous posting.\n\nThe phrase \"freedom from fear\" was repeated, and became the title of a bestselling book.\n\nAung San Suu Kyi, swarmed by supporters on her release from house arrest in 2002\n\nIt was language which Western journalists (including myself), were eager to hear. Many who found their way to Myanmar in those days were veterans of recent tragedies in Rwanda and the Balkans.\n\nAfter witnessing genocide and ethnic cleansing, we were inspired by the words of the lady by the lake.\n\nHere was a peacemaker in a world made dark by the actions of Slobodan Milosevic of Serbia, Franjo Tudjman of Croatia, and the Hutu power extremists of Rwanda.\n\nIn retrospect, we knew too little of Myanmar and its complex narratives of ethnic rivalries, deepened by poverty and manipulated over decades by military rulers. And we knew too little of Aung San Suu Kyi herself.\n\nMalala has called on her fellow Nobel peace laureate to intervene\n\nWe did not calculate that the stubbornness which refused to concede to the military junta might, if she came to power, prove equally forceful when confronted with foreign criticism.\n\nHer greatest strength in adversity could prove a defining weakness. Old friends in the international human rights movement and some previously sympathetic politicians have become strongly critical.\n\nAnybody who has spent time in her company knows that shifting her mind when she is set on a course of action is extremely difficult.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nLast December, when Vijay Nambiar, the UN Special Representative to Myanmar, urged Aung San Suu Kyi to visit Rakhine state, he was rebuffed.\n\nAs one member of her inner circle put it to me: \"She will never ever be seen to do what Nambiar tells her to do.\"\n\nNor will she ever concede that the Rohingya Muslims are being subjected to ethnic cleansing, not even when tens of thousands are being burned from their homes amid widespread reports of killing and sexual violence.\n\nThis is not the first time she has faced criticism over the Rohingya.\n\nIt was the same story five years ago during a campaign that displaced more than 100,000 Rohingya.\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\nDaw Suu, as she is known, did not visit the area or speak out in defence of the persecuted minority.\n\nWhile her government has moved to tackle hate speech by Buddhist extremists, she has not made the kind of public gestures in support of Muslims made by her hero Mahatma Gandhi and his colleague Jawaharlal Nehru during the violence of India's partition.\n\nGandhi paid with his life and the leaders did not succeed in ending the slaughter. But both men laid down a marker about the values of the India they wished to see emerge from partition.\n\nJawaharlal Nehru (L) and Mahatma Gandhi publicly condemned violence against Muslims during India's partition\n\nThe memory of Nehru wading into Hindu mobs to prevent sectarian violence is one of the 20th Century's defining acts of personal courage.\n\nNobody expects this of Aung San Suu Kyi, but it is the absence of even rhetorical intervention that disturbs many former supporters.\n\nThe suffering of the Rohingya is a tragedy in itself. But the palls of smoke from Rakhine state is indicative of a military that feels it can carry on in the old brutal way, whatever the world says.\n\nTens of thousands of Rohingya have fled violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state\n\nThe action unleashed now against the Rohingya will be familiar to the residents of other ethnic areas in Myanmar such as Shan state, or in the war against the Karen.\n\nAung San Suu Kyi does not control the military and they do not trust her. But her refusal to condemn well-documented military abuses provides the generals with political cover.\n\nIt goes further than silence.\n\nHer diplomats are working with Russia and the UN to prevent criticism of the government at Security Council level, and she herself has characterised the latest violence as a problem of terrorism.\n\nStubbornness in the face of what she feels is unfounded criticism is part of the equation.\n\nBut there is a more troubling question: is her long-declared commitment to universal human rights partial, a concern that does not and never will embrace the beleaguered Rohingya Muslims in this Buddhist majority country?\n\nShe may yet answer that question by pressing the military to end its brutal crackdown. At this moment there is little sign of that happening.", "Officials have warned that no areas of the low-lying Florida Keys will be safe\n\nConcern is growing for residents in the most vulnerable areas of Florida who have not yet evacuated, as Hurricane Irma edges closer to making landfall.\n\nDespite authorities begging residents of the Florida Keys to evacuate since Thursday, some have opted to remain.\n\nThe low-lying coral cay islands are scattered off Florida's southern coast, with a population of 70,000.\n\nOne official warned staying on the islands among storm surge warnings was \"almost like suicide\".\n\nThe tropical archipelago extends for more than 100 miles off the US mainland, north of Cuba.\n\nThe islands, which are mostly part of Monroe County, are linked to the Florida peninsula by a scenic highway that runs across into Miami.\n\nIn 2005 the islands avoided a direct hit from Hurricane Wilma, but the category three storm caused major ocean storm surges that left low-lying areas inundated with flood water.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by NWS Key West This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nMuch of the Keys have an elevation of just a few feet above sea level.\n\nKey West, the largest island with a population of about 27,000, is extremely vulnerable to the large storm surges forecast by Hurricane Irma (though it has one of the highest points in the Keys at 18ft (5.5m) above sea level).\n\nThe area is frequently ordered to evacuate in Florida's tropical storm seasons.\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 some Florida Keys locals, known as \"conches\", have developed a tough attitude to riding storms out.\n\nNews on Friday that the county's first responders and emergency staff could be evacuated to the mainland prompted some to change their mind.\n\nThis photograph from Hurricane Michelle evacuations in 2001 show the area's vulnerability\n\nElizabeth Prieto told CBS news that she was evacuating the Keys for the first time in 51 years.\n\n\"I've been through George, I've been through Andrew, and I've been through Wilma. But I'm not staying for Irma. No, not happening,\" Ms Prieto said.\n\nEven patients at local hospitals and 460 prisoners from a detention centre have been relocated.\n\nThose opting to stay despite the mandatory evacuation order included the curator and 10 members of staff at Ernest Hemingway's famous home in Key West.\n\nThe museum is now famous for homing 54 cats, which the curator said would be too difficult to evacuate safely on the gridlocked roads.\n\nAreas of Key West were flooded with feet of water after Hurricane Wilma in 2005\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nWith some still opting to remain despite the warnings, Monroe County was forced to announce the opening of four shelters of last resort in the area.\n\nBut officials stressed services and supplies would not be provided at the shelters.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\n\"Once a dangerous storm starts, don't dial 911 during it because nobody is going to answer,\" Monroe County Administrator Roman Gastesi said.\n\nWith Irma hours away it is unclear how many have opted to stay on the islands.\n\nThe hurricane is on course to reach the islands on Sunday morning.", "Fans are facing tight security as they queue for the show\n\nThousands of people are attending a special benefit concert at Manchester Arena for its first event since May's bomb attack that killed 22 people.\n\nNoel Gallagher is headlining the We Are Manchester show, featuring the likes of the Courteeners and poet Tony Walsh.\n\nCharlotte Campbell, whose daughter Olivia, 15, died in the attack, said she had come back to show defiance.\n\nSuicide bomber Salman Abedi detonated a homemade device in the foyer, following an Ariana Grande concert, on 22 May.\n\nExtra security measures were in place for the re-opening with restrictions on the size of bags that could be taken in.\n\nCharlotte Campbell's daughter Olivia, 15, was killed in the attack\n\n\"We have had to come back to show defiance, to show we are not scared and we don't want Manchester to be scared,\" said Mrs Campbell, from Bury.\n\n\"Music was Olivia's life. If she had been still here today she would have been walking through those doors with us, showing her defiance, that they may have got her but she's not beaten. She's here with us.\"\n\nSally Thornton-Heywood said it was an emotional return to the arena\n\nFor Sally Thornton-Heywood, from Leeds, who attended the Ariana Grande concert with daughter Tilly, 13, said she felt \"very emotional\".\n\n\"I just thought about those parents, the children and the fear that set into them,\" she said.\n\n\"[For us on the night] It was fight or flight. Fortunately we were at the other side of the arena, I just had to get out.\"\n\nAs I arrived at the arena with my wife and seven-year-old son, we had to pass through airport-style security checks.\n\nThe whole process was very quick though - clearly a lot of people heeded advice and turned up early.\n\nAt least half the foyer area is still sealed off and it is quite unsettling being at the scene of the awful events of 22 May.\n\nAs they queued fans were pretty quiet, but once they were inside the arena it was far more like a normal gig.\n\nManchester legend Clint Boon was first on DJ-ing and warming up the crowd with Manchester classics.\n\nTony Walsh's This Is The Place poem was cheered enthusiastically before he paused to ask for a moment to remember the victims and all those injured.\n\n\"We don't want a minute's silence. This is Manchester and I want everybody to make as much noise as they possibly can,\" he said.\n\nThousands in the arena didn't need a second invitation, clapping wildly and shouting their message loud and clear: This city will never be silenced.\n\nMusic fans Jennifer Stuart 28, Sophie Chadwick 27 and Liv Slack, 29, all from Altrincham, said they felt safe as they arrived.\n\n\"We're here because of what it means to Manchester.\n\n\"It's about everyone coming together. The bands are fantastic as well. And it's going to be an amazing atmosphere,\" said Ms Stuart.\n\n\"We've been here a lot throughout our lives and we would always still come here.\"\n\nJennifer Stuart, (centre) said she was looking forward to the performances\n\nPoet Tony Walsh captured the spirit of the city when he performed his poem This Is The Place, at a vigil the day after the attack.\n\n\"It was quite a moment that night and I think it will be a bridge this evening between that day and this day and we can move on and enjoy the rest of the show,\" he said.\n\n\"Twenty-two people lost their lives, hundreds of people were injured and tonight we're paying our respects, we're raising money for a permanent memorial and we're going to have a good time as well.\"\n\nNoel Gallagher's hit Don't Look Back in Anger became a city anthem\n\nNoel Gallagher's appearance will also have particular significance - his song Don't Look Back In Anger became an anthem of unity in the wake of the bombing after a crowd started spontaneously singing it at a memorial.\n\nAll profits from the concert will go towards establishing a permanent memorial to the victims, which will be built by the new Manchester Memorial Fund.\n\nThe concert is being broadcast live on three radio stations.\n\nPolice dogs were used to search the venue as Noel Gallagher's soundcheck took place\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Finnish conductor Sakari Oramo will conduct the concert for the second year in a row\n\nAfter two months and 74 concerts, the 2017 Proms season draws to a close on Saturday with the world-famous Last Night concert.\n\nLed by Finnish conductor Sakari Oramo, the celebration will spill across the UK with events in Enniskillen, Glasgow, Swansea and London's Hyde Park.\n\nAt the Royal Albert Hall, anti-Brexit campaigners are planning to hand out thousands of EU flags to the audience.\n\nThey say the action is \"in support of EU musicians\" who play in the UK.\n\nA similar attempt last year did not overwhelm the Last Night celebrations, as fans waved flags from all around the world - Germany, Australia, Denmark, Wales and Cornwall - alongside the more traditional Union flag.\n\nEarlier this summer, the Royal Albert Hall was forced to deny it had \"banned the EU flag\" from concerts, following several press reports.\n\nPerformers at the Last Night include percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie (Northern Ireland), Kinks star Sir Ray Davies (Hyde Park) and Swedish soprano Nina Stemme (Royal Albert Hall).\n\n\"It's a dream I didn't dare dreaming when I was a young student,\" said Stemme, who will reprise her award-winning performance of Tristan and Isolde. \"And now it's coming true. Who would ever have thought this?\"\n\nWe spoke to the Swedish star and other stars of the Proms to find out what the spectacular evening has in store.\n\nComposer Lotta Wennakoski gets to open the Last Night concert, with the world premiere of her latest work, Flounce.\n\nWhat's the story behind the piece?\n\nI was commissioned by the BBC - and then I was asked to give them a title before I had written anything! So I have a little place where I collect words and sentences I like - and there, I happened to have the title Flounce, which I like because it has two meanings. So I chose the title first and then I began to elaborate my material, according to those two meanings.\n\nHow do you approach writing for the Proms?\n\nI knew it was the opening number, so I knew it shouldn't be too introverted. And I also knew it's a special concert that's characterised by lots of shorter pieces, so I thought 'OK, this is not the place for meditation', so it had to be festive and, on the other hand, careful.\n\nPresumably once it's played, you can relax and enjoy the night.\n\nYes! That's the best thing! Because usually the composer cannot really listen to anything before their own piece.\n\nIs there anything in the programme you're looking forward to?\n\nI've printed out the words for Britain's National Anthem because I want to sing along as accurately as possible! In fact, I actually know some of it in Finnish - because when I was in school we had to sing all the anthems. I remember some of it still [she sings] \"Jumala suojaa hallitsija\"\n\nI know the Soviet Union anthem in Finnish, too!\n\nBest known as a TV presenter and stand-up comic, Jason Manford will be singing songs from the musicals at Glasgow's Proms in the Park. It's the first time he'll perform the music he's recorded for his debut album, A Different Stage.\n\nI'm glad you chose something low-key to launch your singing career.\n\nI know, it's crazy isn't it? When they asked me, I was like, \"Er, are you sure?\" But I know I can do it. Fundamentally, I wouldn't do it if I was blagging it.\n\nSo there won't be a Milli Vanilli moment?\n\nThe music stops and Alfie Boe comes out from behind a curtain? No, there'll be none of that.\n\nI mean, I've heard of this auto-tune magic, but no-one's shown it me yet.\n\nSo what will you perform?\n\nWe're going to do Hushabye Mountain from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, which I should know by now, having sung it 500 times [in the West End]. And we're doing Stars from Les Mis.\n\nI have to say, you sing it better than Russell Crowe.\n\nWell you know, that's not a compliment! I'm not the sort of person to complain, but he phoned that in, didn't he?\n\nI remember I went to see the film on the night it was released because I'm a huge fan. It was like one minute past midnight, with all these Les Mis uber-fans - and they were cheering every song, until he sung that. It went so quiet in the cinema; and at the end, when Javert jumps off the bridge, the crowd cheered!\n\nBut I'm sure he's not bothered what I think.\n\nHave you ever been to the Proms before?\n\nNo, not really. It's never really been in my social calendar. I've seen it on telly, like everyone else. I love that family vibe. I love that people bring picnics and deckchairs. I just think that's a terribly British way of doing things.\n\nHave you checked the forecast for Glasgow?\n\nI was going to mention that! Most of these events, you say to the organisers, \"Oh, what's the dress code?\" and they'll come back and say \"lounge suit\" or \"black tie\".\n\nThis time, they came back saying, \"make sure you're dressed for the weather!\"\n\nRegularly described as \"the greatest dramatic soprano in the world,\" Stemme will treat audiences to a reprise of her signature role in Tristan und Isolde.\n\nYou've played the Proms before but never the Last Night. How are you feeling?\n\nFor me, it's a dream I didn't dare dreaming when I was a young student. And now it's coming true. Who would ever have thought this? It's such an honour.\n\nTristan and Isolde has followed you around your whole career, ever since you performed it at Glyndebourne. What do you connect to in that character?\n\nEverything - the psychological situations and the music. I can't wait to see what Sakari Omoro brings out of it. It changes from one performance to the next and that's the wonderful thing about music.\n\nDid you see Juan Diego Florez's costume at last year's Last Night?\n\nI had a little glimpse of it on YouTube. What an outfit!\n\nJuan Diego Florez dressed as Manco Capac, governor and founder of the Inca civilization, at the 2016 Proms\n\nHave you got something similar planned?\n\nIt's entirely up to us, so we'll see what I can come up with! A little bit of craziness, and a little bit of theatre history as well.\n\nAhead of the first night, pianist Igor Levit said the one thing he needed before playing was chocolate. Do you have any rituals or essentials?\n\nAt the beginning, when I sang my first Isolde, I had to have a bowl of pasta but apparently my metabolism has changed!\n\nI tend to go into myself, save my voice. I try to look perfectly normal from the outside - but I think my friends and colleagues can see through me.\n\nLast Night is unique and a little bit bizarre. Is there anything else that compares?\n\nI don't think so! I haven't come across anything like it - but if someone can come up with something similar, please let me know because it's so wonderful. It's musical craziness and I love it.\n\nI've got family coming from Sweden, and my brother-in-law is preparing them for everything. They have flags and song texts. I think it's wonderful.\n\nFor the sixth year in a row, Richard Balcombe will conduct the BBC Concert Orchestra at the Hyde Park leg of Proms In The Park; accompanying artists including Sir Bryn Terfel, Sir Ray Davies and pop group Steps.\n\nYou've done five of these now. How do you gear up for it?\n\nIt's one of the most exciting dates I do, because of the sheer size of it. When you look out and see 35,000 people looking back, it sort of stirs the soul.\n\nHow long do you get to rehearse with someone like Ray Davies?\n\nWe had two sessions with him on Wednesday, and a soundcheck in the Park on Friday - so altogether nine hours. [The orchestra will be conducted by David Temple, of the Crouch End Festival Chorus during Davies' performance].\n\nThat's not a lot of time…\n\nActually, in terms of what the orchestra does regularly, that's quite a decent time. For a regular Friday night performance, for example, we'll have two rehearsals before the concert goes out live on the radio. They're the finest, they read anything and just play it.\n\nDo you ever wander out into the crowd at Hyde Park?\n\nYes, because my wife comes and we bring a whole group of people from our village, so during the pre-show entertainment, which starts about five, I go out and enjoy the atmosphere.\n\nOf those five you've done before, what's been the highlight?\n\nGetting the chance to work with artists like Sir Bryn Terfel, Joseph Calleja the tenor, Vittorio Grigolo - the absolute cream of the crop in terms of classical musicians - but also the chance to be on the stage with Kylie Minogue or Bryan Ferry or The Jacksons. It's an absolute privilege.\n\nIs there any part of you that thinks, \"I'd love to be in the Royal Albert Hall tonight?\"\n\nHaha! No, there's part of me that wishes I was there but I'm just so happy doing what I'm doing. We contribute a big part to the success of the whole evening, by linking up to the parks through the country, I'm just really happy to be doing my bit.\n\nThe Last Night of the Proms will be broadcast live on BBC One, Two and Radio 3 from 19:15 BST.\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 boy told police he had suicidal thoughts at the time\n\nA boy who took a shotgun and 200 rounds of ammunition into school with the intention of harming others has been detained for six years.\n\nThe 15-year-old had a change of heart and instead called 999 from Higham Lane School, in Nuneaton, Warwickshire.\n\nWarwick Crown Court heard the boy had been \"seconds away\" from opening fire.\n\nJudge Andrew Lockhart QC said: \"A moment in time separated the pupils and staff of this school from being the subject of a terrible event.\"\n\nThe court heard the teenager, who also took a balaclava into school, had depression, an anxiety disorder and felt a sense of hopelessness at the time of the incident, on 13 June.\n\nHe cannot be named because of his age.\n\nA teacher sat with the boy until police arrived at the school\n\nA 999 call handler \"averted disaster\" by questioning the boy about his mental state and instructing him to dis-assemble the double-barrelled gun, and place it outside the room he was in.\n\nThe court also heard how a teacher helped calm the situation down until the police arrived.\n\nThe shotgun and ammunition - used by the boy and his father for clay pigeon shooting - were legally held and correctly stored, the Crown Prosecution Service said (CPS).\n\nPassing sentence, the judge told the teenager: \"In interview, you were frank and told the police that you took the gun to school that day intending to harm people.\n\n\"At that time you were in a room, angry to the point of being prepared to use serious and lethal force, armed with a loaded shotgun and 200 cartridges.\n\n\"Had you begun to shoot I have no doubt serious injury and death would have resulted and it is impossible for me to predict how many might have been hit.\"\n\nHe added that if the shooting had happened it would have \"taken a dreadful place in the history of truly wicked crimes committed in this country\".\n\nThe boy's mother sobbed when he was sentenced\n\nThe teenager pleaded guilty to having the gun with intent to endanger life, as well as possessing 200 rounds of ammunition with intent to endanger life, and possession of a lock-knife.\n\nSupt Martin Samuel, from Warwickshire Police, said: \"Our emergency call handlers are all trained to make quick decisions in high pressured situations.\n\n\"The call handler in this case immediately understood the severity of the situation and took immediate steps to ensure the safety of everyone concerned. He is a credit to the force.\"\n\nHead teacher Phil Kelly said on Friday the school had reviewed its safety procedures since the incident.\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. Jennifer, Kirsty, Kate and Amie (from left) drink mocktails and an alcohol-free beer\n\nAmie used to drink 30 pints in a weekend to \"keep up with the boys\".\n\n\"I could neck three bottles of wine and not think about it,\" said the 38-year-old from Derbyshire.\n\nHer drinking was so extreme that she contemplated suicide: \"I thought well, stuff's got to change.\"\n\nFor Jennifer, it caused her relationship with her partner to break down: \"I was like a different person when I was drinking - I had blackouts,\" she said.\n\nA report last year found women are now almost on a par with men when it comes to problematic drinking.\n\nBoth Amie and Jennifer had had enough of hangovers - and decided to give up alcohol.\n\nThey are doing it with the help of one programme designed to help people stop drinking called One Year No Beer, a scheme people pay to join which gives them strategies to help them to go alcohol-free.\n\nOne tactic is known as stealth drinking, where people pretend their non-alcoholic drink is alcohol, for example by getting a non-alcoholic beer in a pint glass topped up with lemonade.\n\nOne Year No Beer has seen a 10-fold increase in membership this year alone.\n\nThe alcohol-free drinks market is booming too.\n\nIn only five years, the amount of low or alcohol-free beer sold in the UK has risen by nearly 50%.\n\nAnd the world's first alcohol-free spirit Seedlip launched 21 months ago. In 12 months, it experienced a 1,000% rise in sales.\n\nThere are now clubs for people who want to get together without alcohol and the UK's first alcohol-free drinking festival was held in London last month.\n\nThe alcohol-free drinks market is booming as increasing numbers choose to give up alcohol\n\nThe clubs and the festival want to cater for the increasing number of Britons choosing to give up drink.\n\nA report by the Office for National Statistics in May found that just under 60% of those surveyed had had an alcoholic drink in the past week - the lowest rate since the survey began in 2005.\n\nAnother survey from 2015 found that one in four British people were thinking of cutting down their drinking or at least trying to reduce it.\n\nStill, many who have made the change complain that there are few options in traditional pubs other than sugary soft drinks.\n\nProf Luc Bovens, an expert in public health at London School of Economics, has made a number of recommendations to British pubs aimed at \"nudging\" people away from alcohol.\n\n\"The road to hangovers is often paved with good intentions, but by tinkering with the British pub's choice architecture we may be able to help some people,\" he wrote.\n\nHe suggested that pubs provide a no-alcohol or low-alcohol beer on tap and added: \"For many people, there is a distinct feeling of alienation in toasting proper pints with a sad little bottle.\"\n\nA spokesman for the British Beer & Pub Association said: \"No-alcohol beers are bottled because the sales volume typically wouldn't support a keg option.\n\n\"Our members have a good track record. Within the beer category, we've seen brewers remove 1.3 billion units from the market by the drinks industry as part of the Public Health Responsibility Deal, through producing low strength, or no strength options and reducing the strength of existing products.\"\n\nJennifer said one of the biggest challenges comes from friends: \"It's actually seen as bad or weird not drinking. It's like you're a minority, people look at you like you're an absolute weirdo.\"\n\nBut after 90 days of not drinking, her relationship with her partner is back on track and her life has improved: \"Getting up on a Monday is not a problem. I can bounce out of bed.\"\n\nMeanwhile for Amie, who has been alcohol-free for 16 months, the benefits have been vast: \"I lost four stone. I train six days a week. And everything I want to do, I can go and do.\"", "Russian television has broadcast a series of glowing reports on everyday life in North Korea\n\n\"It smells of freshness, and of our deep respect for our leader,\" the woman declared, smiling to the Russian TV camera.\n\nA North Korean, she'd just sniffed a big red flower named after the country's former leader Kim Jong-il.\n\nPart of a series of glowing reports on everyday life in the secretive state, covering topics from fashion to food, the moment was broadcast to millions of Russians watching state television over their breakfast.\n\nThe coverage suggested Russia was taking a rather different approach over North Korea's nuclear programme and its missile tests, two weeks after Donald Trump tweeted that the US military was \"locked and loaded\", primed to respond with what he called \"military solutions\".\n\nVladimir Putin has underlined those differences many times this week, warning against whipping up \"military hysteria\", and insisting that North Koreans would rather \"eat grass\" under more sanctions, than give up their weapons programme.\n\nAnd while he has criticised recent missile tests as \"provocative\", he's also taken pains to explain them.\n\nPresident Putin argues North Korea has developed its nuclear capability in self-defence\n\nNorth Koreans remember the 2003 US invasion of Iraq over Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons programme, Mr Putin reasoned.\n\nSo the country sees becoming a nuclear state as its only sure-fire guarantee of self-defence.\n\n\"Russia believes that Pyongyang's aim is not to bomb anyone, that its [nuclear programme] is a deterrent against South Korea and the US,\" explains Alexander Gabuev of the Moscow Carnegie Centre.\n\n\"Russia understands that because it is just as paranoid about American 'democracy promotion' as North Korea is,\" he adds.\n\nPutin - pictured with Kim Jong-il in 2002 - wrote off most of North Korea's Soviet-era debt\n\nPersonal experience is perhaps also partly why Russia - under US sanctions itself - opposes imposing further penalties on Pyongyang to halt its nuclear ambitions.\n\nThe US wants the international community to apply more economic pressure, including a full energy embargo and a ban on hiring North Korean labourers.\n\n\"What are we going to do? Stop all energy exports so people freeze and ambulances have no fuel to reach the sick?\" asks Georgy Toloraya, a Russian diplomat who spent many years in North Korea.\n\nHe says Russia's position is motivated by a principle, rather than concern over lost trade.\n\nPresident Putin himself described energy exports to its neighbour as \"practically zero\", though some 30,000 North Koreans are employed in logging and construction in Russia's Far East.\n\nThey are essentially hired out by the state which pockets most of their pay.\n\n\"It's not about whether Russia has any leverage. The question is why should we use that?\" Mr Toloraya asks.\n\n\"Our whole concept does not allow for the isolation and strangulation of North Korea, and the weakening of the regime,\" he explains.\n\nLike China, Russia shares a border with North Korea and sees it as a buffer against South Korea, a political and military ally of the US.\n\nMoscow and Beijing have presented their own road map for resolving the conflict.\n\nAs a first step, it calls for a joint freeze of Pyongyang's missile tests - and US and South Korean military exercises. The next step would be bringing all sides together for talks.\n\nSome suggest that strategy is more about posturing than peace: that Russia wants to insert itself into another global crisis.\n\n\"Russia knows that plan won't fly, but it makes the US look bad,\" Alexander Gabuev argues. \"At least China and Russia have a peaceful programme, whereas the US president is just tweeting about fire and fury.\"\n\nHe believes Moscow's leverage with Pyongyang these days is minimal, despite years of Soviet support for the regime.\n\nSouth Korean President Moon Jae-in (L) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) in Vladivostok, which felt the tremors from Pyongyang's latest missile test\n\nBut this week, following a trip to China, President Putin hosted the leaders of South Korea and Japan at an economic forum in eastern Russia, also attended by a delegation from North Korea.\n\nThey were in Vladivostok, which felt the tremors from Pyongyang's latest missile test.\n\n\"It's in our interests to have a peaceful, stable neighbour,\" Georgy Toloraya argues.\n\n\"As for North Korea, Russia is the least hostile of all the great powers involved in resolving this crisis,\" he says, insisting that historic ties mean Russia still knows \"many people\" who matter there.\n\nA guard at the Tumangan border crossing between Russia and North Korea\n\nA few years back, President Putin wrote off most of North Korea's Soviet-era debt in a major goodwill gesture.\n\nRecent efforts to improve ties have included a ferry service to the peninsula, and even a North Korean tourism agency in Moscow, presumably banking on a rush of visitors keen to sniff flowers named after its leaders.\n\nThe ferry has since been suspended due to lack of demand.\n\nAll this is unfolding as Russia's relations with Washington have plummeted amid allegations of interference in the US elections, sanctions and tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions.\n\nThe US wants to target the personal assets of North Korean President Kim Jong-un\n\nThat gives Moscow little incentive to back the US against Pyongyang. It knows the power to reward Russia by lifting sanctions now lies with a hostile US Congress.\n\nMeanwhile, Russian ties with China have been increasing in importance.\n\nSo the two continue to push for talks as the best way to prevent an accidental escalation of the Korean crisis into actual conflict.\n\n\"The Americans need to make contact [with Pyongyang] and the sooner the better. We can pass information on, if they want,\" says Mr Toloraya.\n\n\"Talks can go on for 10 or 20 years if necessary. But for that time we would have stability, not this creep towards war.\"", "All restaurants and takeaways in England should be made to display their food hygiene scores by law, the Local Government Association (LGA) has said.\n\nThe body that represents councils in England says the move should be made as part of the post Brexit legislation.\n\nOutlets are scored zero to five based on factors such as kitchen cleanliness, cooking methods and food management.\n\nThe Food Standards Agency, which runs the scheme, said it was reviewing how food businesses were regulated.\n\nThe FSA also oversees the rating system in Wales and Northern Ireland, where displaying the scores is compulsory, while in Scotland they must display similar food hygiene information.\n\nIn England, food outlets do not have to display the rating.\n\nThe FSA conducted a survey in 2012 that showed 43% of restaurants and other food businesses in England put up a score, which fell to 32% in London.\n\nFor businesses with a low rating - between zero and two - the figures fell to 12% across England and 9% in London.\n\nChris Barber, who advises restaurants on their business, said compulsory display would be \"absolutely revolutionary\".\n\n\"This is going to have the same impact as when it was first brought in - a massive kick up the backside.\n\n\"This is going to be an even bigger kick up the backside.\"\n\nThe LGA said much existing food safety legislation comes from the European Union and it was important it was not weakened after Brexit.\n\nThe government plans to convert EU law into domestic legislation as part of its EU (Withdrawal) Bill and councils want ministers to take that opportunity to strengthen regulation by making all restaurants and takeaways in England display their \"scores on the doors\" for food hygiene.\n\nSimon Blackburn, chairman of the LGA's Safer and Stronger Communities Board, said EU food standards must be protected after Brexit.\n\n\"Food hygiene standards and compliance levels have risen since the scheme was introduced in Wales,\" he said.\n\n\"The lack of a hygiene rating sticker in a business means customers are left in the dark on official kitchen cleanliness levels when eating or buying food there.\"\n\nThe FSA said it was hoping to bring plans to improve regulation forward for England to ministers by 2020.\n\n\"Mandatory display is part of the FSA's plans for a new model of regulation but implementation will require legislation,\" a spokesman said.\n\n\"We want to bring the food hygiene rating scheme in England in line with Wales and Northern Ireland, where the benefits of more visible ratings have already been felt.\"", "Wakefield City Academies Trust said the decision was in the \"best interests\" of pupils\n\nA trust which runs 21 schools has announced it is pulling out in the first week of the new term.\n\nWakefield City Academies Trust (WCAT) said it was unable to \"facilitate the rapid improvement our academies need, and our students deserve\".\n\nThe Department for Education (DfE) said many of the schools within the trust were performing below the national average.\n\nIt said it would work with the trust until a new sponsor could be found.\n\nOnly four of the schools are rated as good or outstanding by Ofsted.\n\nEleven out of 14 primary schools and six of the seven secondary schools were performing below the national average in 2016.\n\nIn a statement, the trust said it recognised the announcement would cause uncertainty but said the decision was in the \"best interests\" of the students.\n\nA DfE spokesperson said academies operate within a strict system of accountability, allowing swift action to \"deal with under-performance\".\n\nIt said its priority was to ensure all children receive the best possible education.\n\nRegional commissioners are now working with the schools to identify new sponsors and ensure minimal disruption for pupils.\n\nDamian Walenta, from the National Education Union, said the news had come as no surprise and was largely down to a lack of accountability.\n\n\"Whilst the quality and values of academy chains vary greatly, we hear more and more bad news about poor academy chains,\" he said.\n\nIn November, The Independent newspaper reported the trust had paid its then chief executive £82,000 for 15 weeks' work.\n\nAn investigation into WCAT found it had been put in an \"extremely vulnerable position as a result of inadequate governance, leadership and overall financial management\".\n• None Academies 'not taken over fast enough'\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The new series of The Great British Bake Off has been popular with viewers\n\nThe first episode of this year's Great British Bake Off provided one of the biggest audiences in Channel 4's 35-year history, new figures show.\n\nFull ratings, which includes those who watched the show up to seven days later, ended up at 9.5 million viewers.\n\nNo programme has achieved ratings as high since Big Fat Gypsy Weddings had 9.7 million viewers in February 2011.\n\nChannel 4's creative officer Jay Hunt said: \"Bake Off has well and truly landed.\"\n\nShe added: \"I'm thrilled viewers have warmed to Paul, Prue, Noel and Sandi and are enjoying the exceptional standard of baking.\"\n\nThis year's contestants hoping to win Bake Off\n\nBake Off's viewing figures mean it received a place in Channel 4's top 10 biggest audiences of all time.\n\nThe largest audience in Channel 4's history was for the final episode of the mini-series A Woman of Substance, which was watched by 13.9 million viewers in January 1985.\n\nAmong the 9.5 million who watched this year's opener were 2.7 million 16 to 34-year-olds, making Bake Off the biggest programme for young viewers on any channel so far in 2017.\n\nThe full ratings for last year's launch on BBC One were 13.6 million.\n\nSome of the personnel may have changed but the recipe is pretty much unchanged\n\nIn poaching Bake Off from the BBC, Channel 4 had to ensure they retained excellent plots and characters.\n\nThe former they could largely leave to Love Productions, the independent company which achieved such success with the format on the BBC.\n\nThe latter was a trickier mission. But the near universal acclaim - among critics at least - for the combination of Noel Fielding, Sandi Toksvig and Prue Leith with Paul Hollywood suggests that they've scored on this front as well.\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.", "Customers at some Argos stores are unable to take home a catalogue\n\nTraditional glossy catalogues have been removed from a number of Argos stores as increasing numbers of consumers choose to shop online.\n\nThe retail giant said the move is part of a small scale trial \"testing demand\" for the take-home glossy catalogues.\n\nIt is understood that the two stores in Inverness - at the city's retail park and in the Eastgate Centre - are part of the experiment.\n\nBut it has sparked an outcry among some shoppers on social media.\n\nSheena Hendry said it was \"astonishing\" that there were no catalogues to pick up from an Argos in the Highland capital.\n\nIn a message to the business on Facebook, she said she was disappointed that there appeared to be plans to phase them out.\n\nShe said: \"Do you even realise how many hours of peace and quiet that catalogue gives to parents of young children who sit flicking through the toy section?\"\n\nSpeaking to BBC Scotland news, she said: \"I love the Argos catalogue. It's great for browsing and getting inspiration, and the kids love it especially at Christmas.\n\n\"I wouldn't even mind paying a couple of quid for one.\"\n\nParents say their children love browsing through the pages of toys\n\nShe said a member of staff told her it was a trial and that she should contact the company with feedback if she wanted them to return to the store.\n\nA spokeswoman for Argos said: \"As increasing numbers of customers choose to shop with us online, for a limited period we are testing demand for the take-home catalogues in a small number of stores.\n\n\"Catalogues continue to be available in the vast majority of our stores for customers who want them.\"\n\nArgos was acquired by Sainsbury's as part of its £1.4bn takeover of the Home Retail Group earlier this year.\n\nLast week Sainsbury's chief executive, Mike Coupe, launched Argos click-and-collect points at 100 Sainsbury's Local stores in time for Christmas.", "IVF will no longer be available free on the NHS in Cambridgeshire\n\nFree fertility treatment on the NHS is to be scrapped in the county where the procedure was pioneered 40 years ago.\n\nThe Cambridgeshire and Peterborough area has become the third place in the UK to withdraw free IVF treatment.\n\nGovernment guidelines recommend that women under 40 should be offered three free cycles if they have been trying to conceive for three years.\n\nThe local clinical commissioning group (CCG) said the decision would save the county £700,000 a year.\n\nIt comes after a 20-week public consultation - and will stop with immediate effect. The decision will be reviewed next in April 2019.\n\nClinical commissioning groups in Croydon and parts of Essex were the first to withdraw routine free IVF treatment on the NHS.\n\nCambridgeshire and Peterborough CCG chair Dr Gary Howsam, said it was \"one of the hardest decisions we've had to take\".\n\n\"I think there's a recognition that the NHS funding situation is desperate in our region,\" he said.\n\n\"The CCG has finite resources to fund a whole range of health services and treatments.\n\n\"We need to save £46.5m this financial year, and so we have had to review all areas of our spending and to make some difficult decisions.\"\n\nHe described suspending routine specialist fertility services as \"financially necessary\".\n\nIVF was pioneered by biologist Robert Edwards, who with gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe, fertilised the first human egg in a Cambridge laboratory in 1978.\n\nSince then, nearly four million children have been born using the technology.\n\nCambridge University Hospitals Trust, which provides the local NHS IVF service, said it was still committed to helping as many patients as possible start families.\n\nConsultant embryologist Stephen Harbottle described the decision as \"devastating\".\n\n\"NHS care should be available equitably to everyone. Even within the eastern region, care is still available but the people of Cambridgeshire and Peterborough will not have access to it.\n\n\"People see IVF treatment as non-essential care but the effect of withdrawing it can be devastating for their mental health, their relationships, and financially.\"\n\nIVF pioneers Robert Edwards (L) and Patrick Steptoe (R) pose with the world's first IVF baby, Louise Brown\n\nHe said patients could now expect to pay a minimum of £4,000-£5,000 per treatment cycle.\n\nMore than 2,300 people have signed an online petition calling for the CCG to reverse its decision.\n\nThe CCG added that only a handful of exceptions would apply, such as for patients undergoing cancer treatment that could make them infertile.\n\nCouples who had already been referred for specialist fertility services would still receive one cycle of IVF.\n\nInfertility affects one in six people and is categorised as a disease by the World Health Organisation (WHO).\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Colin Trevorrow got the Star Wars job after directing 2015's Jurassic World\n\nDirector Colin Trevorrow has dropped out of Star Wars: Episode IX because he and Lucasfilm have differing \"visions\".\n\nEpisode IX is expected to star Daisy Ridley and John Boyega and is due out in May 2019. Lucasfilm will now seek a replacement for Trevorrow, who is best known for directing Jurassic World.\n\nHis departure comes less than three months after a Han Solo spin-off film also lost its directors.\n\nPhil Lord and Christopher Miller were replaced by Ron Howard.\n\nOn Tuesday, a statement on the Star Wars website said: \"Lucasfilm and Colin Trevorrow have mutually chosen to part ways on Star Wars: Episode IX.\n\nThe Last Jedi director Rian Johnson (right) is said to be top of the shortlist\n\n\"Colin has been a wonderful collaborator throughout the development process, but we have all come to the conclusion that our visions for the project differ. We wish Colin the best and will be sharing more information about the film soon.\"\n\nBritish writer Jack Thorne - who wrote the script for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - is reported to be working on the screenplay for Episode IX.\n\nLucasfilm has a reputation for ruthlessness when it comes to hiring and firing directors. In 2015, Fantastic Four's Josh Trank was dropped from directing a standalone Star Wars story.\n\nDeadline reports that Rian Johnson, who is directing The Last Jedi (AKA Episode VIII, which is out this December), is top of the shortlist.\n\nThere are suggestions that JJ Abrams - who directed The Force Awakens (AKA Episode VII, out in 2015) - could step in. But The Wrap's reporter Umberto Gonzalez says that rumour has been \"shot down\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Umberto Gonzalez This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 thing's for sure - it won't be Thor: Ragnarok director Taika Waititi, who joked on Twitter that he would \"be fired within a week\".\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Taika Waititi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 Taika Waititi This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 called for Lucasfilm to cast its net a bit wider.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Jamil Smith This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\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.", "About 400 survivors of Hurricane Irma have arrived in France and the Netherlands aboard military planes, AFP reports.\n\nSome 278 survivors landed in Paris, while another 100 flew into Eindhoven which is in the south of the Netherlands, the news agency says.\n\nEarlier, French officials said six out of 10 homes on St Martin, an island shared between France and the Netherlands, were now uninhabitable.\n\nThey said nine people had died and seven were missing in the French territories, while four are known to have died in Dutch Sint Maarten.", "The People's Republic of China, a country averse to binding, treaty-based commitments, has always enjoyed a particular relationship with its small, north-eastern neighbour.\n\nNorth Korea is the only country with which China has a legally binding mutual aid and co-operation treaty, signed in July 1961. There are only seven articles in the document.\n\nThe second is the most important: \"The contracting parties undertake jointly to adopt all measures to prevent aggression against either of the contracting parties by any state.\n\n\"In the event of one of the contracting parties being subjected to the armed attack by any state or several states jointly and thus being involved in a state of war, the other contracting party shall immediately render military and other assistance by all means at its disposal.\"\n\nIn essence, therefore, if there is a simple answer to the question of what China would need to do if North Korea is unilaterally attacked by another power - say the US or South Korea - this sentence supplies the answer.\n\nIt would, according to this treaty, be obliged to become involved - and on the North Koreans' side. This, more than anything else, shows the ways in which history continues to frame the relationship between the two.\n\nWe have a very powerful precedent here. Even before the treaty in 1950, China committed a million troops to the Korean War once United Nations forces were involved. In defence of the North as a client state and buffer zone, it is more than likely to commit its much more formidable military assets.\n\nThis agreement still stands, despite the immense changes to China since the period in which it was signed.\n\nA million Chinese troops were involved on North Korea's side in the Korean War\n\nAfter the death of Mao in 1976, the country shifted from its adherence to a utopian version of socialism, and undertook widespread reforms. These resulted in the hybrid, complex system the country has today. Its economy and geopolitical prominence have burgeoned.\n\nFor North Korea, things have been different. Tepid attempts at controlled reform over the past three decades have had little success.\n\nIn the early 2000s, the Chinese hosted its former leader, the late Kim Jong-Il, and showed him special economic zones in Shanghai and examples of how to create a manufacturing, export-orientated economy servicing the capitalist West but maintaining its Marxist-Leninist system.\n\nThe attempt at persuasion evidently fell on deaf ears. North Korea's unique Juche ideology - a pure form of nationalism - meant that it resisted any attempts to copy models from elsewhere.\n\nTo this day, the market, if it exists in North Korea in any shape or form, is highly circumscribed and geared towards supporting the country's military aims and regime survival.\n\nChina's great points of leverage these days are trade, aid and energy. As the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, North Korea's most important patron vanished almost overnight. Since that point, the reliance on China has increased to the extent that is now almost a monopoly.\n\nSome 80% of the country's oil comes from its neighbour. Coal exports into China were immensely important - until sanctions stopped them in July last year after provocative behaviour. China has stuck to this agreement, with precipitous collapses in the North Korean economy in the ensuing year.\n\nLate North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il with former Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) in Beijing in January 2006\n\nAlmost all of North Korea's exports are either to China, or through China to elsewhere. Some 90% of its aid comes from China. China is the only country it has air links with, and a rail line into.\n\nIt was, until the mid-2000s, the only country, too, whose banks had relations with North Korean counterparts, through accounts in Macau in particular. Monies here were frozen in a previous spate of sanctions.\n\nEven so, one of the new targets of UN-backed measures is Chinese banks, which continue, mostly indirectly, to deal with embargoed North Korean companies or intermediaries.\n\nThe main point of Chinese leverage over North Korea is widely believed to be its oil. Stopping this would lead to an immediate, dramatic economic impact.\n\nA few years ago, for a matter of days, the oil pipes into North Korea were closed, around the time of a previous nuclear test. China has, therefore, been willing to flex its muscles here.\n\nBut wholesale stopping of the supply, rather than temporary glitches, is a different matter. Many believe this would trigger regime crisis, or even collapse. After all, the North Koreans are already living in a subsistence economy. Taking away this final lifeline could be fatal.\n\nThere are powerful counter-arguments, however, that say things would not be so straightforward. North Korea devotes 25% of its GDP (gross domestic product) to military activity. The oil stocks there would last a few months. And that would give it time to embark on the devastating assault southwards that everyone fears, into the highly populated regions of South Korea.\n\nIt would be a suicidal mission, but as the world knows from plenty of other examples, handling those with suicide on their minds is the greatest challenge.\n\nNor would North Korea be compliant in other areas as it collapsed. Refugees would swarm across the border into China. A vacuum would appear. China would be faced with its worst nightmare - a space which the US and its allies might try to occupy.\n\nFor all its seeming points of leverage and influence, therefore, the most remarkable thing about China and North Korea is the ways in which, at a time when the rest of the world is agonising over how to deal with a renascent, confident, powerful-looking China, this narrative is so brutally undermined by the ways in which its small, impoverished neighbour almost daily exposes its impotence.\n\nThis analysis piece was commissioned by the BBC from an expert working for an outside organisation.\n\nKerry Brown is professor of Chinese studies and director of the Lau China Institute at King's College, London.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Dangerous driving offences should be extended to cyclists, says Labour's Heidi Alexander\n\nThe government says it will consider new laws to tackle dangerous cycling.\n\nTheresa May made the commitment in PMQs when asked about the trial of a cyclist who knocked over and killed a woman.\n\nCyclist Charlie Alliston - whose fixed gear bike had no front brakes - was cleared of manslaughter last month but convicted under the 19th century offence of \"wanton or furious driving\".\n\nLabour MP Heidi Alexander said this law was \"hopelessly outdated and wholly inadequate\".\n\nThe Lewisham East MP, whose constituent Kim Briggs was killed in the incident, also asked whether the offence of dangerous driving could be extended to cover cyclists.\n\nMrs May said the point was about ensuring legislation is kept up to date, and added: \"I am sure this is an issue that the secretary of state for transport will look at.\"\n\nNurses protested about low pay outside Parliament during Prime Minister's Questions\n\nIt was the first Prime Minister's Questions since the summer recess, and Mrs May clashed with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on executive pay and zero-hours contracts.\n\nMr Corbyn urged her to support McDonald's workers, who went on strike this week, and accused her of going back on \"tough talk\" and a manifesto pledge to tackle boardroom pay rises.\n\nThe PM said the McDonald's strike was a matter for the fast-food chain and that her party had just published proposals on corporate governance.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Theresa May asks Jeremy Corbyn why Labour did nothing about zero hours contracts when it was in power for 13 years\n\nShe was also urged by the Labour leader to lift the cap on public sector pay rises - saying public servants did a good job in often \"very difficult and harrowing circumstances\".\n\nThe government would balance protecting public servants' jobs with \"being fair to those who are paying for it\" she added.\n\nTo coincide with PMQs, nurses held a protest outside Parliament calling for an end to the pay cap.\n\nWith Brexit likely to dominate Parliamentary proceedings in the coming weeks, Mrs May said she would \"listen very carefully\" to concerns about the legislation the government plans to enact to leave the EU.\n\nConservative MP Anna Soubry said there were \"very serious concerns\" on Tory benches that the government's EU Withdrawal Bill would become an \"unprecedented and unnecessary power-grab\".\n\nThe bill will incorporate EU law onto the UK statute book by the time Brexit happens in March 2019.\n\nThe \"power-grab\" concerns are because ministers plan to give themselves the power to update legislation during the Brexit process without needing Parliamentary approval.\n\nMrs May said this would ensure an \"orderly exit from the EU\" but said the government would listen to concerns and offered to meet Ms Soubry to discuss the issue.\n\nJohn Bercow criticised MPs who appeared to laugh at new Lib Dem MP Layla Moran as she asked her question about free childcare.\n\nThe Speaker accused the members of an \"unseemly response\".\n\n\"The honourable lady is a new member, she's highly articulate and she will be heard,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile, Chancellor Philip Hammond's rather conspicuous yawn while the PM was speaking did not go unnoticed by the watching journalists.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nResponding to a question from Tory MP Tim Loughton, Mrs May said politicians had to be free to speak out against child sexual abuse despite \"political or cultural sensitivities\".\n\nIn a veiled reference to Labour MP Sarah Champion, who quit the party's front bench after criticism of a newspaper article she wrote about grooming gangs, the PM said: \"The freedom to speak out must apply to those in positions of responsibility, including ministers and shadow ministers on both sides of this House.\n\n\"Because if we turn a blind eye to this abuse, as has happened too much in the past, then more crimes will be committed and more children will be suffering in silence.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nConservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg says he is \"completely opposed\" to abortion, including in cases of rape or incest.\n\nThe backbencher told ITV's Good Morning Britain that abortion was \"morally indefensible\".\n\n\"Life is sacrosanct and begins at the point of conception,\" he said.\n\nThe North East Somerset MP has recently faced questions about his leadership ambitions, dismissing reports linking him with the job as \"jolly August stuff\".\n\nAppearing on Good Morning Britain, he again distanced himself from leadership talk, before being asked for his views on same-sex marriage, which he opposes.\n\n\"I am a Catholic and I take the teachings of the Catholic Church seriously,\" he said.\n\n\"Marriage is a sacrament and the decision of what is a sacrament lies with the Church not with Parliament.\"\n\nThe Church's teachings on faith and morals were \"authoritative\", he said, but he added it was not for him to judge others.\n\nHowever, he said he was completely opposed to abortion.\n\n\"With same-sex marriage, that is something that people are doing for themselves,\" he said.\n\n\"With abortion, it is something that is done to the unborn child. That is different.\"\n\nAsked whether his opposition applied in cases of pregnancies resulting from rape or incest, he replied: \"I'm afraid so.\"\n\nMr Rees-Mogg said women's abortion rights under UK law were \"not going to change\".\n\nHe also said his party was more tolerant of religious views than the Liberal Democrats, whose former leader Tim Farron quit after facing repeated questions about his views on gay sex.\n\n\"It's all very well to say we live in a multicultural country... until you're a Christian, until you hold the traditional views of the Catholic Church, and that seems to me fundamentally wrong,\" Mr Rees-Mogg said.\n\n\"People are entitled to hold these views.\"\n\nHe added that the \"democratic majority\" were equally entitled to laws that did not follow the Catholic Church's teaching.\n\nThe British Pregnancy Advisory Service said Mr Rees-Mogg's \"extreme\" views were \"wildly at odds\" with public opinion.\n\nTheir head of policy research Katherine O'Brien said: \"We are a pro-choice country, we have a pro-choice Parliament.\n\n\"Every politician is entitled to hold their own opinion on abortion. But what matters is whether they would let their own personal convictions stand in the way of women's ability to act on their own.\"\n\nA spokesman for Theresa May said the PM did not agree with Mr Rees-Mogg but said that it was a \"long-standing principle\" that abortion was a \"matter of conscience\" for individual MPs to decide on.", "A BBC Newsnight investigation has revealed a series of concerns about some aspects of the work of a celebrated FGM campaigner.\n\nComfort Momoh established one of the UK's first FGM clinics and has recently retired as a midwife from Guy's and St Thomas' Trust in London.\n\nShe has also received an MBE for her work in women's health.\n\nBut senior specialists have raised concerns about her credibility when it comes to examining children for FGM.\n\nThere are also suggestions Ms Momoh may be exaggerating her professional qualifications. She has repeatedly described herself as \"Dr Momoh\" - including on the website of Guys and St Thomas's hospital, but she is not a qualified medical doctor - instead, she has an honorary doctorate from Middlesex University.\n\nA university spokesperson confirmed to Newsnight that this does not enable her to use the title \"doctor\".\n\nComfort Momoh has not responded to the BBC's request for comment.\n\nWhen Newsnight approached the Nursing and Midwifery Council, who regulate midwives, for comment on their findings, they told the programme that a referral had been made about Comfort Momoh on 8 August which they are currently investigating.\n\nThe NMC said it would be \"inappropriate\" to comment on any specific details as the case is ongoing. It has not been confirmed whether the concerns within the referral are the same as those raised in Newsnight's reporting.\n\nFemale genital mutilation is a term given to all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitals or other injury to female genital organs where there are no medical reason.\n\nIt is usually carried out on girls under the age of 15, with most FGM done under the age of five, according to Unicef.\n\nNewsnight understands that Comfort Momoh has examined children for FGM on at least five occasions, despite not having relevant qualifications.\n\nAlthough Comfort Momoh is an expert in adult cases of FGM, serious questions have been raised about her competence to assess children - whose anatomy is different to that of adults.\n\nIn 2012, the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health produced guidance with the Faculty of Forensic and Legal Medicine, for the examination of child abuse victims, saying this should only be performed by a doctor with specialist training in children - which Ms Momoh is not understood to have.\n\nComfort Momoh was awarded an MBE for her work in 2008\n\nIn a court case involving a child who was alleged to have had FGM in Leeds in 2014 in which Comfort Momoh did give evidence, the judge involved said she merited \"harsh criticism\" and had \"difficulty in providing answers even about the even the simplest factual question\".\n\nShe originally said - after examination - that the right labia appeared to be missing in one of the girls and said the child had been subjected to \"some form of FGM\".\n\nBut in oral evidence in court, Comfort Momoh changed her findings.\n\nSir James Munby, the President of the Family Division, described her report as \"a remarkably shoddy piece of work\" and \"worse than useless\". He said she was \"not a reliable witness\".\n\nJudge Munby concluded, there was not enough evidence to suggest the child had had FGM, after the examination was reviewed by an expert.\n\nComfort Momoh was one of two key expert witnesses in another high-profile case in 2015 - the first of its kind - in which a doctor was taken to court in the UK for allegedly carrying out FGM.\n\nShe was dropped as a witness just before the trial. It is unclear why. A jury acquitted the accused after less than half an hour of deliberations.\n\nDoctor Dhanuson Dharmasena was found not guilty of performing FGM\n\nGuy's and St Thomas's NHS Foundation - where Comfort Momoh has worked as a midwife for 20 years - said she had recently retired.\n\nThey said this had been planned for some time, and was \"not linked to issues raised by Newsnight\".\n\nA government spokesperson said: \"Female genital mutilation is a horrific act of abuse which this government is working to tackle.\"\n\nThey added: \"We have also published comprehensive standards of what we expect in delivering FGM care in children under the age of 18.\n\n\"In this we make clear that those examining children are doctors, and that they need paediatric competencies and appropriate experience.\"\n\nMore on this story on BBC Newsnight on iPlayer", "The Air Accident Investigation Branch has sent an investigation team to the airport\n\nOne person has died after a light aircraft crashed onto the runway at an airport in north Wales.\n\nPolice were called to Caernarfon Airport at 18:29 BST on Wednesday after the plane crashed and burst into flames on the runway.\n\nThe pilot was pronounced dead at the scene and an investigation has begun.\n\nCh Insp Sharon McCairn, of North Wales Police, said: \"A cordon is in place around the site and we are urging the public to remain clear of the area.\"\n\nThe Air Accident Investigation Branch has sent a team to the airport.\n\nMark Hancock, a guest at the nearby Morfa Lodge holiday park, said he saw what looked like a twin-engine plane crash as it came into land.\n\n\"The first thing I noticed was that the plane had no landing gear on, its wheels weren't down,\" he said.\n\n\"It was coming in way too fast and then the bottom of it did a sort of belly flop on the runway. It caught fire and then it bounced back up into the air and when it hit the ground again it burst into flames.\n\n\"It was like a massive fireball and there was black smoke everywhere. We could feel the heat from where we were standing. There were bits of plane all over the runway.\"\n\nCaernarfon Airport, near Dinas Dinlle, operates training flights and is also home to the Wales Air Ambulance and the HM Coastguard Helicopters operated by Bristow.\n\nWales Air Ambulance said the crash did not involve any of its aircraft.", "There's a new call for politicians to look at maintenance grants for the poorest students.\n\nMore than a hundred universities are calling for a rethink on costs. Universities UK says the main worry for undergraduates is \"money in their pocket\" while they are studying.\n\nIt's estimated those from low income families will also leave with debts of £57,000.\n\nWe speak to students who paid for their studies by working several jobs.\n\nArwen Hawley-Brandt (above) is in her final year at Falmouth University studying filmmaking.\n\n\"I've had to waitress, work in a fish and chip shop and sell loads of things on eBay in order to fund my way through my studies,\" she tells Newsbeat.\n\nAlthough she says the course itself is a lot of fun, she's not sure if the costs she's incurred will be worth it.\n\n\"I've contemplated dropping out but the only reason I'm staying is I'm in so much debt as it is, I might as well get the degree.\"\n\nThe 23-year-old had no option but to take out a credit card. \"Then because I couldn't pay it off, I had to leave university early to go back to my parents and work, because they kept getting letters.\"\n\n\"Worrying about money has caused me a lot of anxiety and feelings of depression. I've had to stay in student halls again because I couldn't afford the £3,000 for a deposit on a house share.\"\n\nStephen Rooney, 30, from Newcastle had four jobs when he was studying politics.\n\n\"I did pedi-cabbing, worked in a call centre doing sales and service at Direct Line motor insurance, worked with a Polish builder doing some manual labour and fundraised for the university development and alumni office,\" he rattles off.\n\nHe says the multiple workplaces helped give him \"additional disposable income\" and \"independence from my parents\".\n\n\"I had plenty of free time beyond my studies to earn some extra cash and I found balancing work and student life very easy.\"\n\n\"My favourite job was being a lifeguard and activity co-ordinator for Disney in America,\" says Gregor Hollerin, 32.\n\nHe also worked on a potato farm. \"I loved the competitive element; we always tried to beat the record for most plants in a day,\" he tells Newsbeat.\n\nDuring term time he worked in bars and restaurants. \"It was very flexible and managed to easily fit it around my studies and sport,\" he says.\n\nHe was also a street fundraiser for a time but gave that one up. He's now a PR consultant.\n\n\"I took my student loan every year, but it didn't cover more than the basics so I needed to work,\" explains Nicki Smith, 22, who has just finished her degree in business management at the University of Strathclyde.\n\n\"I would work Friday night and Saturday and Sundays at a range of venues owned by Kained Holdings... it was essentially like working in nine different places but they were all good opportunities.\n\n\"Some weeks I found it challenging with deadlines but buying a diary was a saviour,\" she laughs.\n\nBut the 22-year-old has no regrets.\n\n\"It was definitely worth it, because I'm about to start my graduate job in hospitality in a few weeks.\"\n\nNatalie Smythe, 25, worked three jobs and volunteered while studying biology at the University of Southampton. The 25-year old is from a single-parent household and says it was a struggle to get anything more than a \"pitiful loan\".\n\n\"I worked as a silver service waitress, so no tips, and as a tutor and proof reader to cover my rent and expenses,\" she explains.\n\nShe says her lowest point was in the third year, writing her dissertation and doing lab work, while keeping the jobs going. \"I'm sure working unsociable shifts impacted my grades.\"\n\nAndrew Mackin, 40, is a music teacher who is still paying off his student debt.\n\n\"I first moved away to study music at Manchester City College at the age of 23. In order to pay for my living costs and tuition I'd work as a chef and also give private guitar lessons,\" he tells Newsbeat.\n\n\"Working really put a squeeze on the time I had left.\n\n\"Three nights a week, I'd finish college and go straight to work finishing up at 11.30pm, then get on with course work until around 4am and do it all again the next day,\" he says.\n\nAndrew still has £17,000 of debt to pay back.\n\nUntil a short time ago Ben Boreham, 21, worked as a chef in Plymouth. He was sacked because the business didn't need him anymore and has struggled to find work since.\n\n\"I think it's really hard to get about eight to 20 hours work a week. I get the impression people don't want to take on students,\" he says.\n\nHe says short-term work is tough to find. \"They say they would take me on but they don't employ students. We are not sought after because we are too transient.\"\n\n\"I don't want to have to ask my parents as I've got twin brother and sister who have just started university. I want to show my family I can sort myself out.\"\n\nFind us on Instagram at BBCNewsbeat and follow us on Snapchat, search for bbc_newsbeat", "A 15-year-old boy has been sentenced for stabbing to death another teenager outside his school gates in an act described as \"pure evil\".\n\nQuamari Serunkuma-Barnes, also 15, was chased and stabbed three times outside Capital City Academy in Willesden, west London, in January.\n\nThe defendant, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was found guilty of murder after a trial at the Old Bailey.\n\nHe was detained for at least 14 years.\n\nFollowing the trial, the boy admitted attacking Quamari.\n\nIn a statement, he said: \"I don't know why I did it. I was scared and confused.\n\n\"I'm telling the truth for Quamari's mum and dad. I'm sorry.\n\n\"I didn't mean Quamari to get so hurt.\n\n\"I'm not a murderer. I didn't want him to die.\n\nThe motive behind the killing remains unknown\n\n\"I want to have a different life but I don't know how. I'm trying.\"\n\nIn a statement read out in court, Quamari's mother Lillian Serunkuma described the killer's actions as \"pure evil\".\n\n\"You never gave Quamari a second chance to defend himself.\n\n\"You took his life in a cold and malicious way.\"\n\nShe said her son had a \"fun loving spirit\" and his life was stolen for \"no reason\", adding what the teenager did was \"indefensible\".\n\nTributes were left at the school gates following his death\n\nJudge John Bevan QC said it was \"infinitely depressing\" to sentence a young person for such a serious crime.\n\nHe said: \"It is very unusual to admit a murder after conviction. It is a mature decision rather than taking your chances in the Court of Appeal.\"\n\nBut he added: \"This is a bad case of its kind because Quamari can have done nothing to merit an attack of this severity.\n\n\"His death was a product of a total lack of self control combined with the cowardice of knifing an unarmed victim.\"\n\nProsecutor Sally O'Neill QC said: \"It is not accepted that Quamari was anything to do with any sort of gang.\n\n\"Information from the school painted a picture of a happy, hardworking, well liked and sociable boy.\"\n\nOutside court, Quamari's father Paul Barnes said he thought his son's killer was \"grabbing at straws\" by admitting the attack.\n\nHe said he was \"trying to save his own skin. Last ditch dot com. Trying to save his own bacon\".\n\nDet Ch Insp Jamie Stevenson, from the homicide and major crime command, said: \"This was a deliberate and planned attack on a defenceless schoolboy as he made his way home, laughing and joking with friends.\n\n\"Quamari was well liked amongst his peers and had his whole life ahead of him. He was a Year 11 pupil and was in the latter stages of preparing for his GCSEs.\n\n\"His friends have gone on to sit their exams, something Quamari was never able to do, and his family have been denied the opportunity to know what their son and brother would have gone on to achieve.\"", "Some of the personnel may have changed but the recipe is pretty much unchanged\n\nThe second episode of The Great British Bake Off was watched by an average of 5.4 million viewers on Channel 4, according to overnight figures - rising to six million including +1. That's lower than the show's ratings on the BBC - but Channel 4 won't be worried.\n\nIn his Poetics, Aristotle says that tragedy contains six elements, and the first two are the most important: plot and character.\n\nHis rules apply beyond tragedy of course, to drama more broadly. And the basic ingredients of story-telling haven't changed much in the past two millennia.\n\nTo a very great extent, top quality television is still a union of these two elements.\n\nIn poaching Bake Off from the BBC, Channel 4 had to ensure they retained excellent plots and characters.\n\nThe former they could largely leave to Love Productions, the independent company who achieved such success with the format on the BBC.\n\nThe pressure's on in the tent again...\n\nThe latter was a trickier mission. But the near universal acclaim - among critics at least - for the combination of Noel Fielding, Sandy Toksvig and Prue Leith with Paul Hollywood suggests that they've scored on this front as well.\n\nThe ratings for the first programme also gave the broadcaster hope that this expensive gamble was well-judged.\n\nIt is true that the 6.5 million viewers they achieved in the overnight ratings for the first episode was well down on the 13.4 million that was achieved when Nadiya Hussain won the 2015 final.\n\nAnd it was the lowest figure for an opening episode of GBBO since 2013 - when the show attracted 5.6 million viewers to BBC Two.\n\nBut there are several reasons for this, and Channel 4 wouldn't have expected to get anywhere near those dizzy heights with their first episodes.\n\nChannel 4 simply has a lower baseline audience than BBC One. To attract audiences of over 10 million, Channel 4 would need both an outstanding product (which they may well have) and a degree of marketing and media hype which could only build over a series.\n\nEven though this was their first episode and they put a lot of resources into promoting it, their hope will be that if the characters and plot develop well, the audience will gradually build.\n\nChannel 4 will also see their first year with Bake Off as something of a learning experience: years two and three need to be bigger still.\n\nIt is possible that some residual loyalty to the BBC, and distaste for ads, will have dissuaded previous Bake Off viewers from making the switch to Channel 4.\n\nBut if Channel 4 sticks to Aristotle's formula, and craft a narrative that is truly compelling, its audience will grow - and their investment will seem prudent.\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 Boston Red Sox used an Apple Watch illicitly to gain the upper hand in a recent game, a Major League Baseball (MLB) investigation has reportedly found.\n\nAccording to the New York Times, the Red Sox used the device to receive messages about what kind of pitch was about to be thrown.\n\nThat information was then relayed from the dug-out to the batter - giving him an advantage.\n\nIt is unclear what kind of punishment Boston’s beloved team might receive following the investigation. The team is currently top of the American League Eastern division.\n\nMLB did not return the BBC’s request for comment on Tuesday.\n\nNor did the Red Sox or the New York Yankees - the team whose complaint provoked the probe. The Yankees provided video from a three-game series that took place in August.\n\nIn baseball, the catcher, crouched behind the batter, will signal to the pitcher what kind of ball should be thrown, such as a fast ball or slider.\n\nTypically, the catcher will hold up a number of fingers to relay that message.\n\nThese signals - known as signs - would be very useful to the batter if he could see them, but he’s looking in the other direction, using only the pitcher’s posture and grip for guidance.\n\nStealing signs, as the practice is known, involves a team member seeing the opponent's signal and somehow relaying that information to the batter in the short window before the ball is thrown.\n\nThe MLB investigation found the Red Sox would have an off-field person watching a camera feed of the catcher. He would then contact the dug-out via the Apple Watch, and that signal would be passed on from the dug-out to the batter.\n\nThe New York Times report said MLB will now look to see if the Red Sox had used the technique in other games.\n\nStealing signs by analogue means - such as a team mate at second base seeing the catcher and revealing the signal to the batter opposite - is legal. But using a devices such as binoculars or electronics to aid the process is not.\n\nTeams have long used ingenious ways to steal signs, including in 1951 when the New York Giants’ Bobby Thomson hit a series-winning home run, a hit later dubbed the “shot heard round the world”.\n\nIt was revealed some years later that the Giants had a team member in the club house opposite using a telescope to spot signs.\n\nJoel Sherman, a baseball columnist for the New York Post, said on Twitter that MLB must clamp down on mischievous uses of technology in the sport.\n\n\"MLB must rethink how it polices tech use. Perhaps no electronics at all in dugout,” he wrote.\n\n\"Also, teams might have to rethink how signs are given on field by going to verbal signals or eliminating putting fingers down as the lone way to convey pitch selection.”\n\nYou can reach Dave securely through encrypted messaging app Signal on: +1 (628) 400-7370", "Lucy Fernandez from Toronto says she wouldn't buy Chapel Down's white wine\n\nFrance, Italy and Spain are some of the world's best known wine producing countries but could a growing English wine making industry ever threaten their dominance?\n\nAt English winemaker Chapel Down the opinions of a group of tourists sampling the various wines it produces are mixed.\n\n\"A bit bitter,\" is Toronto tourist Lucy Fernandez's take on the vineyard's Flint Dry white wine.\n\nShe says Canadians are open to drinking wines from all over the world, but she wouldn't buy this variety.\n\nHowever, Andrew from Adelaide has tried the Bacchus 2016 white and says it \"compares quite well\" to wines he's used to back in South Australia.\n\nBeatrice Ness from Paris is impressed with Chapel Down's sparkling wine\n\nBeatrice Ness, a teacher from Paris, has sampled a sparkling variety, arguably what the Kent-based vineyard is best known for, and is clearly impressed.\n\n\"This is as good as Moet champagne,\" she says of the Three Graces 2011, costing £29.99 a bottle.\n\n\"We buy a lot of foreign wines in Paris and I think people would go for this.\"\n\nIt's no secret that English wine-making has taken off over the last decade, with industry sales hitting a record £130m .\n\nHowever, while around four to five million bottles are produced each year, less is said about UK exports, which stood at just 250,000 in 2015, the most recent year for which figures are available.\n\nChapel Down is best known for its sparkling wines\n\nDespite the small scale of the export industry, its reach is growing.\n\nEnglish sparkling wines were shipped to 27 markets last year compared with 19 in 2015, official statistics show.\n\nWith more UK land being used for grape growing, and the industry targeting exports of 2.5 million bottles by 2020, could the country be on track to becoming a serious wine producer on the world stage?\n\nHe says the firm has seen \"consistent growth\" over the last seven years and is tapping a wider range of markets, from North America to South East Asia.\n\n\"You need a dose of realism,\" says Frazer Thompson, chief executive of Chapel Down\n\nLike most English winemakers, the majority of his exports are of sparkling wines, which account for just over half of the firm's production.\n\nBut he points out that exports are only a \"part of the story\" and the firm is still largely focused on the UK, one of the world's biggest wine markets.\n\n\"In the rest of the world there is potential but you need a dose of realism,\" he says. \"It took the French 350 years to export 50% of their champagne and the UK is their largest market.\"\n\nProducers tend to see certain international markets as better bets than others, preferring places that like wine but don't have huge domestic industries of their own.\n\nFrance, Italy and Spain are \"hard work\", says Bob Lindo, who founded the Cornish winery Camel Valley with his wife Annie in 1989.\n\nBut countries such as Japan, China and the US, which is his biggest market, buy much more.\n\n\"We are sold in 23 US states now,\" Mr Lindo says. \"There are a lot of parts of America that don't grow wine and there's a very enthusiastic wine culture.\"\n\nThe Camel Valley winery in Cornwall has done well in international competitions\n\nHelpfully, English wine has shed its once negative reputation and is doing well in major competitions such as the Euposia International Challenge (Bollicine del Mondo) in Italy, which attracts sparkling wines from around the world.\n\nOrganiser Carlo Rossi says English brands regularly make the top 10 in various categories, with wine producers Nyetimber, Hambledon and Camel Valley all having won golds in the recent past.\n\n\"About 10 years ago it seemed a joke that the English could make excellent sparkling wine, but there has been a surge in interest,\" he says.\n\nChapel Down grows a variety of grapes at its vineyards, including Chardonnay, Pinot Blanc and Bacchus\n\nChapel Down's Mr Thompson believes better marketing is the key to exposing the talent in the industry.\n\nHe notes how countries such as France play on the fact they are associated with producing fantastic food and drink, \"so we buy French, even their lager which isn't actually that good\".\n\n\"So England needs to sell itself as a quality producer of food and drink, which it still doesn't do well enough and wine can be a flag-bearer.\"\n\nNot everyone is convinced about English wine, though.\n\nMalcolm Gluck, a British wine critic who has penned numerous books, says there is a \"marvellous conspiracy\" among winemakers and writers to pretend English wine is great.\n\n\"There are English wines that are interesting that cost £12-15,\" he adds. \"But they cost two to three times more than comparable wines from South America or France, Italy and Spain.\"\n\nThe UK has a shortage of land suited to wine growing\n\nThere are other barriers to building a world-beating wine industry, including a shortage of land suitable for grape growing and high set-up costs.\n\nThe English climate also limits production mainly to the south of England, although rather perversely, things could improve in that respect because of global warming.\n\nA study last year by climatologists at UCL suggested rising temperatures and rainfall could let vineyards thrive as far north as Elgin near Inverness by 2100.\n\nThey also claimed the Thames estuary would become warm enough to grow Malbec grapes.\n\nMore from the BBC's series taking an international perspective on trade:\n\nCamel Valley's Mr Lindo believes exports will increase gradually as the reputation of English wine flourishes but he's not chasing them. He says he is busy enough catering to restaurants and supermarkets up and down the UK.\n\nHe also thinks we should not judge the industry's success by its scale.\n\n\"A lot of City money is going into English wine and there is a risk it will become too commercialised,\" he says.\n\n\"You have to be really committed to run a vineyard, but if the market gets flooded, producers who have been here from the start will suffer.\n\n\"There's also been a lot of cooperation between English producers and I don't want it to stop.\"", "Nova Victoria has won the dubious honour of being the UK's worst new building of 2017\n\nA London office block described as a \"bright red hideous mess\" has been named the UK's worst building.\n\nNova Victoria, London won the 2017 Carbuncle Cup with one judge describing it as \"cringe-worthy\".\n\nIt is the sixth consecutive time a London building has scooped the dubious honour run by Building Design Magazine (BD).\n\nArchitects PLP described the £380m office complex as a \"distinct and architecturally daring\" building.\n\nBut judges disagreed, describing the building as \"crass, over-scaled and a hideous mess\".\n\nPLP described the £380m office complex as \"distinct and architecturally daring\"\n\nJudge Catherine Croft said: \"It makes me want to cringe physically. It's a crass assault on all your senses from the moment you leave the Tube station.\"\n\nDavid Rudlin said the red cathedral like spire on Nova South was a particular cause for concern.\n\n\"It's got the same proportions as Salisbury Cathedral. For me the spire gives it carbuncular status - otherwise it's just a bad building\", he said.\n\nThe development, which occupies a whole city block near London's Victoria station, consists of two office buildings designed by PLP Architecture and a residential building designed by Benson & Forsyth.\n\nThe title was awarded to PLP Architecture for the office buildings.\n\nThe other buildings on the 2017 Carbuncle Cup shortlist were as follows:\n\nCircus West, Battersea Power Station was shortlisted for the 2017 award\n\nBuilding Design started the award in 2006 as a \"light-hearted way of drawing attention to a serious problem - bad architecture blighting the country's towns and cities\".\n\nPast winners have included Liverpool's ferry terminal, the renovation of the Cutty Sark and an apartment block incorporating a branch of Tesco in Woolwich, south-east London.\n\nReaders put forward the nominations and a panel draws up the shortlist.\n\nPLP said it did not want to comment on the announcement.\n\nLincoln Plaza in London's Docklands won the 2016 Carbuncle Cup with one judge describing it as a \"horror show\"\n\nWoolwich Central was one of two buildings shortlisted that was developed by Tesco subsidiary Spenhill\n\n464 Caledonian Road stands on the same street as HMP Pentonville\n\nThe restoration of the Cutty Sark won the award in 2012\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The draft plans leaked to the Guardian setting out tougher EU migration rules immediately after Brexit feature on most of the front pages.\n\nMigration Watch tells the Sun and the Daily Mail the proposals could cut annual migrant numbers from the EU by 100,000.\n\nBut the Daily Telegraph warns that they may just increase tensions during, what it calls, \"crucial\" Brexit negotiations.\n\nThe Times suggests the document will \"alarm business leaders\" who are concerned about finding workers for the hospitality, farming and health sectors.\n\nMeanwhile, a Home Office official told the Financial Times the draft has not been seen by ministers and does not reflect government policy. It suggests the document would change depending on other government departments, Downing Street and EU negotiations.\n\nMP Alison McGovern, from the anti-Brexit group, Open Britain, told the paper it was \"part of a mean and cynical approach which is already deterring people from coming here.\"\n\nThe NHS already faces a recruitment crisis, according to the Mirror. Under its headline \"worst nurse shortage ever,\" the paper says there are 40,000 vacancies.\n\nThe head of the nursing union, Janet Davies, says experienced nurses are \"leaving in droves... because they can't afford to stay.\"\n\nThere are also empty posts in the teaching profession, as the i reports a 9% increase in vacant positions on this time last year. It suggests 300,000 pupils are starting school this term without a permanent teacher.\n\nThe government said the vacancy rate last year was 0.3%.\n\nThe Mirror urges Prime Minister Theresa May to lift what it calls \"the dangerous pay cap for all workers.\"\n\nThis all won't help dismiss what the Archbishop of Canterbury thinks, as he says the UK's economic model is \"broken\". In the Financial Times, Justin Welby calls for wage increases, improvements to the education system and tax rises for the wealthy, as well as investment in green technology and housing.\n\nThe i describes his words as an \"extraordinary political intervention,\" which the paper says will \"irritate the PM and chancellor.\"\n\nThe Daily Mail accuses the archbishop of \"endorsing a ruinous left-wing agenda of swingeing tax increases, trade union power and state interventions.\"\n\nThe archbishop made the comments in a report on economic justice\n\nThe size of salaries within the BBC is continuing to make headlines. On its front page, the Daily Telegraph says the corporation has called in consultants to work on an \"equal pay audit.\"\n\nIt suggests the review could lead to pay cuts for some staff and rises for others.\n\nIn other business news, the Financial Times has the latest in the Bell Pottinger row. The paper says the disgraced PR company is hiring accountants to advise on a potential sale.\n\nIt says the company's reputation is in tatters after damning reports found it stoked racial tensions in South Africa.\n\nFinally, several papers warn dog owners in Canterbury, Kent face £80 fines if they fail to carry two plastic bags when they are walking their pet.\n\nThe Times says the city council came up with the rule because its officers found it difficult to catch people not clearing up after dogs and had issued only one fine since 2014.\n\nBut the Dogs Trust told the Daily Express it was deeply concerned by the decision, calling it a sledgehammer to crack a nut.\n\nAccording to the Mail, the penalties could be higher. It says owners in Manchester face £100 on-the-spot fines which could rise to £1,000 if they refuse to pay.", "More than a hundred universities are calling for a rethink on the costs for poorer students in England.\n\nUniversities UK says ministers should look again at grants for living costs and interest rates for some graduates.\n\nLiberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable told the BBC the existing system was \"politically difficult to sustain\".\n\nMinisters have defended current tuition fees of £9,250 a year as providing sustainable funding for universities and fairness for graduates.\n\nUniversities UK, which represents higher education bodies, says the government must show it is listening to students.\n\nIt says the main concern for young people is \"money in their pocket\" while they are studying.\n\nVice chancellors are meeting this week amid growing political concern that the system no longer feels fair to young people.\n\nProf Janet Beer, the new president of Universities UK, will call on ministers to look again at maintenance grants for students most in need of help with living costs.\n\nIn England, grants for living costs were scrapped last year and replaced with loans, leading to predictions that students from the poorest families would have the largest debts.\n\nThe Institute for Fiscal Studies estimated this would add up to debts of £57,000 for students from low income families.\n\nIn an interview with the BBC, Prof Beer said: \"We've done a poor job at explaining the good things in the system, but there are things that can be looked at again, the threshold for repayment, interest rates and maintenance grants.\"\n\nThe board of Universities UK met on Tuesday and agreed to press ministers to look again at some aspects of the overall cost of a university education.\n\nThe government has confirmed that from this autumn, a new higher interest rate of 6.1% will be levied on student tuition fee loans, calculated as RPI +3%.\n\nNow universities are calling for a rethink from ministers on the interest charges for some graduates.\n\nUniversities UK has decided to call for different thresholds for interest rates for graduates that go on to become low or middle earners.\n\nSir Vince Cable says \"we are already seeing the beginnings of a revolt\"\n\nSir Vince oversaw the introduction of £9,000 tuition fees in government as business secretary.\n\nHe still defends the principle of graduates contributing through their higher earnings to the funding of universities.\n\nBut speaking exclusively to me this week he said: \"The system is becoming politically difficult to sustain.\"\n\nThe significant vote by young people for Labour - whose policy is to replace tuition fees with direct government subsidy to universities - has shifted the political landscape.\n\nSir Vince said: \"We are already seeing the beginnings of a revolt.\"\n\nAnd he signalled that other ways of taxing graduate wealth might need to be considered to make the system fairer.\n\n\"Those of us involved in trying to create a fairer system in the past have got to be willing to reopen some of the basic questions about how the system operates. The interest fixing is bizarre, economically nonsensical.\"\n\nHe also wants to see more support for living costs for students and better help for those who go through further education.\n\nOnly the highest paid graduates are expected to pay off their tuition fee loans in full before the 30-year term expires.\n\nThe rest is written off by the government, but unlike funding universities from current spending, the final bill does not appear as part of government borrowing.\n\nJo Johnson, the minister for higher education, has argued that the fact many graduates do not repay their loans in full is not a sign of failure.\n\nIn a speech earlier in the summer, he said the sharing of costs between students and the state was \"a conscious investment in the skills base of the country, not a symptom of a broken student finance system.\"\n\nThe government has to decide within weeks whether to confirm the inflation-linked increase in fees to about £9,500 expected by universities in England for 2018/19.\n\nUniversities now rely heavily on the income from tuition fees, as the almost tripling of fees to £9,000 in 2012 coincided with the withdrawal of direct government funding.", "Anders Johansen prefers watching lower-league football - such as at eighth-tier Spalding United in Lincolnshire\n\nThe match, between Darlington Railway Athletic and Tow Law Town, takes place in Northern League Division Two.\n\nIt is the 10th tier of English football, where games are sometimes still played on mud patches and the players smell of Deep Heat.\n\nThe crowd will be 100, at most. If it rains, it will be half that. But among them, come rain or shine, will be Anders Johansen.\n\nAnders, 44, is from Norway. This match will be the 27th he has seen in Britain in 24 days.\n\nWhile some people seek out the sun, Anders has spent his summer holiday watching teams such as Llandrindod Wells, Quorn, and Percy Main Amateurs.\n\n\"My friends think I'm mad,\" he admits.\n\nIn total, Anders has seen matches at 445 grounds in England, most in the past few years (two years ago, he saw 117 games in one season).\n\nHe's also been to 18 grounds in Scotland, three in Wales, and two in Northern Ireland.\n\nIn short, he is a groundhopper. While others collect stamps, Anders collects football grounds.\n\nAnders grew up watching English football. In Norway, First Division matches were broadcast live on Saturday afternoons, and a whole generation was hooked.\n\nIn the early 1990s, an English friend introduced Anders to Reading FC. Anders became a fan, travelling from Norway a couple of times a season to watch matches.\n\nBut, by 2010, he was \"falling out of love\" with the club. Reading were in a golden era - spending two seasons in the Premier League from 2006 to 2008 - but Anders was disillusioned.\n\n\"I always wanted Reading to reach the Premier League,\" he says. \"But when we got there I found it boring.\n\n\"I don't like the top level any more. It's not for me. It's been reduced to business. It's all about money - foreign owners, foreign managers, foreign players.\n\n\"And I don't like the new grounds. They all look the same. Plastic bowls.\"\n\nDuring one visit to England, in between Reading games, Anders went to a non-league match (in England, non-league means anything below the top four divisions of the Premier League and Football League).\n\n\"I fell in love again,\" he says.\n\n\"At the top level, you're just a customer. A number. In non-league, you always get a welcome.\"\n\nAnders has been welcomed in every corner of Britain: from Falmouth Town (Cornwall) to Forres Mechanics (near Inverness).\n\nIn Shildon, County Durham, where he visited on August Bank Holiday Monday, he got a full English - and a pint - in the clubhouse before the game.\n\nAt Sheringham, Norfolk, which he visited on 18 August, he got a club shirt and a lift back to the station.\n\n\"Things like that are typical,\" says Anders. \"People are kind.\"\n\nAnd the hospitality goes both ways.\n\nAt Horden Colliery Welfare, Anders won the raffle not once, but twice. Both times, the prizes - a bottle of wine and a box of chocolates - were given back to the club.\n\nHorden Colliery Welfare in County Durham, where Anders won the raffle - twice\n\nIt is the community, as much as the football, that keeps Anders flying over the North Sea.\n\nAlthough he does visit bigger clubs - he has been to Sunderland and Tranmere Rovers this summer - Anders enjoys the grassroots grounds the most.\n\n\"In Norway, below the top two or three divisions, most football grounds are very boring,\" he says.\n\n\"They are council-owned plastic pitch complexes. A number of teams groundshare. It is no-one's home.\n\n\"They are not allowed to sell alcohol, so people come a minute before kick-off and leave at the final whistle.\n\n\"But in Britain, most teams have a clubhouse. People get there early. The football clubs are like a little community hub.\"\n\nAfter visiting more than 450 British grounds, Anders is well known in non-league football - \"I often see a friendly face,\" he says - but he prefers to travel alone.\n\n\"That way I can go where I want.\"\n\nHe uses a rail pass to keep costs down and stays in budget hotels and B&Bs, or with friends.\n\nAnders, who's from Drobak, a town 20 miles south of Oslo, used to work in warehousing but quit to follow his passion. He now earns money writing guides to English football.\n\n\"So far it's been okay,\" he says. \"But I am considering finding another job.\"\n\nOne of Anders' favourite grounds: Salts FC in West Yorkshire\n\nAfter tonight's match in Darlington, Anders will fly home on Friday.\n\nHe is due back in England on Boxing Day. How long he stays depends on how much money he saves before then.\n\nBut what about when the grounds run out? What will he do when there are no more worlds to conquer?\n\n\"There are always new grounds to visit,\" he says, laughing.\n\n\"And in the last year or two, I've taken a liking to Scottish grounds.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Conservative Lord Naseby now poses his private notice question about support for the Caribbean following the devastation caused by Hurricane Irma.\n\nSpecifically he laments what he considers to be a slow response by the UK and wonders why facilities weren't on standby - \"given that this is hurricane season.\"\n\nHe notes that France and Holland had prepared and \"were able to act more speedily than the UK\".\n\nGovernment spokesperson Earl of Courtown replies that both France and Holland have military bases in the region.\n\nHe tells the House that three transport planes have set off today as part of an MoD taskforce to support the relief effort.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Ever had a date that ended like this?\n\nA woman who threw her poo out of her date's toilet window because it \"would not flush\" had to be rescued after she got stuck trying to retrieve it.\n\nThe amateur gymnast was on a first date with Bristol student Liam Smith when she \"panicked\" and threw the faeces out of the window.\n\nIt did not land in the garden, but became wedged between two non-opening windows.\n\nAfter climbing in head first after it, she became wedged.\n\nMr Smith had to call the fire service for help.\n\nThe story appeared on a crowdfunding page, set up by the University of Bristol student.\n\nIf this story yanks your chain, you might also like these:\n\nMr Smith, who is raising funds to fix his broken window, wrote that he was on a Tinder date with the woman and they went back to the shared house he lives in.\n\n\"We'd had a really nice evening,\" he said. \"We'd had a meal at a well-known chicken restaurant, had a few beers and then gone back to mine for a bottle of wine and a film.\"\n\nAfter the fire service had \"composed themselves,\" Mr Smith said they set to work freeing his date from the window\n\nHe said the woman went to the toilet and when she came back she had a \"panicked look in her eye\" and told him what she had done.\n\nHe said the toilet window opened into a narrow gap separated by another double glazed window.\n\n\"It was into this twilight zone that my date had thrown her poo,\" he said.\n\nHe went to find a hammer to smash the window, but she decided to \"climb in head first\" after the \"offending package\" and became jammed.\n\n\"I was starting to grow concerned, so I called the fire brigade and once they had composed themselves, they set to work removing her from the window.\"\n\nThe \"offending package\" was trapped between two \"non-opening\" double glazed windows\n\nAlthough the woman was rescued unharmed, Mr Smith said his bathroom window was destroyed.\n\n\"I'm not complaining, they did what they had to do,\" he said.\n\n\"Problem is, I've been quoted north of £300 to replace the window and as a postgraduate student, that is a significant chunk of my monthly budget.\"\n\nMr Smith originally set a crowdfunding target of £200, but has already raised more than £1,200.\n\nHe said he and his date had decided to split the extra cash between two charities, one supporting firefighters and another that builds and maintains flushing toilets in developing countries.\n\nUnsurprisingly, the woman does not want to be named but Mr Smith said he had seen her since and \"who knows what the future holds\".\n\n\"We had a lovely night on the second date but it's too early to say if she's the one. But we got on very very well and she's a lovely girl,\" he said.\n\n\"And we've already got the most difficult stuff out of the way first.\"\n\nAvon Fire and Rescue service confirmed it had received a call and freed a woman trapped between external and double glazing.\n\nIt also confirmed that a \"window was broken in the process\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The observatory was funded largely by the Scottish Meteorological Society\n\nScientists are seeking the public's assistance in rescuing a unique set of weather records gathered at the summit of the UK's highest mountain.\n\nFrom 1883 to 1904, meteorologists were stationed atop Ben Nevis, logging temperature, precipitation, wind and other data around the clock.\n\nTheir measurements are held in five big volumes that now need to be digitised to be useful to modern researchers.\n\nThe public can help with the conversion at the www.weatherrescue.org website.\n\nIt will involve copying tables into a database. Experts say the Ben Nevis records contain some fascinating reports on major storms from the period.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Prof Ed Hawkins: \"Just a few minutes of someone's time can contribute to improving our knowledge\"\n\nIt is not uncommon for the summit to be covered in a thick mist\n\nThere are also likely insights to be gained on the peculiarities of mountain weather. A fresh analysis could possibly lead to improvements in the performance of today's forecasting models.\n\n\"The data these men took is incredible, and it's arguably the most detailed mountain weather measurements we still have even today,\" said Reading University's Prof Ed Hawkins, who leads the Operation Weather Rescue: Ben Nevis project.\n\n\"And because the data was acquired over a century ago, it's a very good baseline from which to try to assess any changes that we've seen since then to our weather.\"\n\nThe Royal Society of Edinburgh published the data volumes between 1890 and 1910\n\nThe Ben Nevis observatory was set up to collect upper-atmosphere information. Nowadays, this function is performed by satellites, radars, and radiosondes (balloons). But in Victorian times, placing thermometers, rain gauges and anemometers on a tall mountain was the only systematic way to obtain the necessary data.\n\nAnd at an altitude of 1,345m (4,411ft), the imposing Munro fitted the requirements perfectly.\n\nThe Scottish Meteorological Society largely funded the exercise, paying to put in a pony track, a low-rise building and a telegraph wire.\n\nIt also had a second station set up in Fort William at the base of the mountain. This allowed comparisons to be made with the weather at sea-level.\n\nHigh ambition: The meteorologists of the day wanted to acquire data from further up in the atmosphere\n\nThree or four men would man the summit observatory at any one time. One of these staffers would be the cook. They also had a pet cat.\n\nWorking in shifts, the meteorologists tracked hourly changes in temperature, pressure, rainfall, sunshine, cloudiness, wind strength and wind direction. And those parameters could be pretty brutal on occasions, with hurricane force winds and very heavy precipitation.\n\n\"At the start, when the snow was very bad, they had to tunnel their way out to make measurements,\" said Marjory Roy, former Superintendent of Met Office Edinburgh and author of the definitive book on the observatory - The Weathermen of Ben Nevis.\n\n\"They had a plan, though, for a tower - that's what you see in the photographs. The tower allowed them to mount an anemometer and other instruments, but it also allowed them to get out in winter when the snow was at roof-level.\"\n\nThe observatory closed when the sources of private and public funding would no longer cover the £1,000-a-year running costs.\n\nCalum MacColl is a meteorologist who hails from Fort William, and recognises the Ben's many moods. He says modern models still struggle on occasions with their forecasts for the conditions on the highest ground, and he is hopeful the Victorian information can bring new benefits.\n\n\"In the last 10-20 years, the models have come on leaps and bounds and have a real good go at trying to mark out the complex orography (mountain topography). But they don't always get the peaks right and that can translate into inaccuracies in terms of the temperature, where the cloud base is going to be, and, somewhat more vital from the mountaineer's perspective - the strength of wind speed.\n\n\"It can be out by 30, 40 or 50 knots. Taking the old information into the new models could make a difference.\"\n\nLooking southeast with fog trapped below a temperature inversion (warm air above cold)\n\nIn addition to their weather tables, the old volumes also contain some wonderful sketches of the Northern Lights and some of the optical effects that can be created when sunlight interacts with the likes of ice crystals or dust in the atmosphere. These aspects, however, are to be investigated separately.\n\nRecovering old weather information is a daunting task. There are literally millions of records from centuries past that would undoubtedly aid modern scientific study if only they could be converted into a useable form.\n\nThe Royal Navy, for example, has a colossal archive of hand-written logbooks that will need to be transferred to digital form at some point.\n\nProf Hawkins says optical character-recognition tools can play their part in getting this old information into modern databases, but he believes citizen scientists are a powerful force.\n\n\"In part this is about trust,\" he told BBC News. \"Do we trust a computer to read some of these old logbooks perfectly, or do we trust three sets of human eyes instead? And I think for accuracy, the human eyes still do it better.\"\n\nClose to the edge: Hurricane force winds can blow at the summit\n\nA companion station was operated in Fort William to collect complementary sea-level data\n\nThe Operation Weather Rescue: Ben Nevis project aims to have recovered two million data points from the mountain volumes by November.\n\nThe deadline coincides with the UK Natural Environment Research Council's free public event in Edinburgh in the middle of that month called UnEarthed. Staged at the Dynamic Earth venue next to the Scottish parliament, it will showcase wide-ranging endeavours of Britain's environmental scientists.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos", "Amelia hopes that talking about her condition will help others\n\nEndometriosis isn't just painful periods, it's a chronic condition in a league of its own.\n\nOne in 10 women has it yet, in the UK, it takes on average seven years to get it correctly diagnosed by a doctor - something experts want to change.\n\nWith endometriosis, tissue that behaves like womb lining is found in other bits of the body, causing nasty symptoms.\n\nAmelia Davies was 12 when she got her first period. She soon came to dread her \"agonising Auntie Red\".\n\n\"At times it was so bad I couldn't go to school. I missed loads of days. The pain was really intense, with lots of different types - stabbing, cramping and burning. I was so bad I couldn't walk or get out of bed.\"\n\nNew guidelines for the NHS aim to reduce delays in diagnosis and save women years of unnecessary distress and suffering.\n\nAmelia first explained her symptoms to her GP and then a few different doctors, but they couldn't find anything wrong.\n\n\"Finally, they agreed to send me to hospital for an ultrasound scan.\n\n\"So, there I am sitting in the hospital waiting room in full school uniform with dad laughing and joking about to try and keep me calm. It felt like people in that waiting room were giving me dirty looks, and assuming I was there for a pregnancy scan or something. I felt judged.\"\n\nThe scan revealed she had a cyst on her ovary, plus endometriosis.\n\nWhen a woman with endometriosis menstruates, the misplaced womb tissue bleeds too, causing crippling pain and some rather unusual symptoms.\n\nSome women pee blood at their time of the month. Others even cough up some blood if the rogue tissue is in their lungs.\n\nOver time, the bleeding can irritate the body and lead to scarring or adhesions - tough cords of fibrous tissue that can cause more pain and make organs stick to each other and cause complications.\n\nAmelia's doctor advised her to take an oral contraceptive pill to help alleviate her symptoms.\n\nShe currently takes the mini pill and hasn't had a period in two years.\n\nBut Amelia, now 18 and living in south London, says her endometriosis still causes her daily pain. She's been writing a blog about her experiences.\n\n\"Sometimes it can be really bad still. I get flare-ups and that's really difficult.\n\n\"I get the phrase, 'At least you're not dying,' quite a lot.\n\n\"I know it's said most of the time by good friends who are trying to be nice and reassure me. But endometriosis for me is the prospect of a long life full of pain. I sometimes feel like people are measuring my level of struggle against others' and that doesn't feel fair. It's daunting.\"\n\nCaroline Overton, a consultant gynaecologist who helped write the new guidelines from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence said: \"There is no cure for endometriosis, so helping affected women manage their symptoms is imperative.\n\n\"As one of the most common gynaecological diseases in the UK, it is vital that endometriosis is more widely recognised.\"\n\nEmma Cox, from Endometriosis UK, said: \"The impact a delayed diagnosis has on a woman's life - her education, work, relationships and personal life - can be huge. On top of coping with the disease itself, women have to put up with being told, sometimes for years, that what they have is 'in their heads' or 'normal', when it isn't.\"", "Suranne Jones and Bertie Carvel come face-to-face in the first episode\n\nDoctor Foster is back on our screens, two years since the first series - and fans and critics alike seem happy to have her back.\n\nIt was the most-watched television programme on Tuesday night, beating Channel 4's Great British Bake Off.\n\nSuranne Jones reprises her role as Gemma Foster, which earned her a Bafta.\n\nThe new series sees the GP's cheating ex-husband Simon - played by Bertie Carvel - return to his former home town with his new wife.\n\nThe BBC One show drew an average audience of 6.3 million viewers - slightly higher than Bake Off's average of six million viewers. Channel 4's figures include those watching on +1.\n\nCould Suranne Jones be up for more awards?\n\nThe Independent Sean O'Grady says Jones is in contention for another Bafta and praises Mike Bartlett's \"skilfully rendered\" script.\n\nHe says the set pieces, including a \"wedding party debacle\" and a \"surprise Interflora package\" with a rude message were \"all done stylishly\" and that the title sequence \"drew us delicately into this middle class emotional hellhole\".\n\nO'Grady has problems with Gemma's nemesis, Kate however.\n\nHe writes: \"I hate to say it, but Doctor Foster was also a bit compromised by the fact that the older (40 or so) woman is actually at least as attractive, smart and elegant as the younger (25 years old) usurper, Kate, played with well-calibrated naivety by Jodie Comer, who has only chronology on her side.\"\n\nThe Guardian's Lucy Mangan says she was gripped.\n\n\"An hour of the five in and I've already had so much fun I can barely type,\" she writes.\n\n\"Simon drives up to the front door in a shiny new car. He smirks more smirkingly than anyone has ever smirked before to find her there, before delivering the most perfect pass-agg speech ever penned (I mentally prostrated myself at the feet of writer Mike Bartlett then and never really rose thereafter).\"\n\nViewers of the show were also quick to take to Twitter.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Jess Seaman This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 were questioning the loyalty of Gemma's co-worker Ros, who promised not to go to ex-husband Simon's wedding party but was later outed. One fan describes Gemma's colleague Ros as a \"snake\".\n\nSimon was also at the wrath of social media users - with many describing him in terms too colourful to publish.\n\nAnd one writes she now hates her ex-husband after watching the show, despite the fact she's never even been married.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Reesha Siniara This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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.", "Returning students have the option to wear either trousers or skirts\n\nA secondary school is making its uniform \"gender neutral\" by prohibiting new joiners from wearing skirts.\n\nPriory School in Lewes, East Sussex, made the change after \"concerns\" raised over the length of skirts, and catering for a handful of transgender pupils.\n\nStarting this autumn term, all new students must wear trousers, while returning students have the option to wear either trousers or skirts.\n\nHead teacher Tony Smith said the move addresses \"inequality and decency\".\n\nHe added: \"Respecting people's rights are very important. We believe in rights and responsibilities, we believe in equality and we believe in fairness. We want to treat everybody the same.\n\n\"We hope that it will provide a smart, comfortable and affordable alternative to the current uniform.\"\n\nFrom now, all new pupils at the school will have identical shirt, tie, jumper and trousers, with an alternative summer uniform, following complaints about how unsuitable the previous uniform was during the hotter months.\n\nPupils will now be able to wear a polo shirt and trousers, and in extremely high temperatures, PE shorts or skorts - shorts made to look like skirts.\n\nThe new uniform \"addresses the current issues of inequality and decency\" said the head teacher\n\nFrank Furedi, sociologist at the University of Kent said: \"You start with uniform on Monday, by Tuesday you're going to say, 'maybe we shouldn't use the pronouns he and she'.\n\n\"By Wednesday, you're going to talk about having gender neutral bathrooms. In so doing, you're raising fundamental questions about people's identity.\"\n\nSome parents have supported the move. One interviewed outside the school said: \"[My daughter] will whinge about wearing trousers, but it's tough.\n\n\"There's certain work uniforms you have to wear and it's tough. It's not a fashion show, she's there to learn.\"\n\nOther pupils and parents were critical on social media though - saying its \"too draconian\" - and unfair that older pupils would still be allowed to wear skirts.\n\nPosting on BBC South East's Facebook page, Jeanetta Kelsey said: \"What happened to a bit of choice? Skirts, shorts, trousers, as long as it's uniform.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Former regional broadcaster Mike Neville dies at the age of 80\n\nMike Neville, the face of television news for decades in north-east England, has died.\n\nThe 80-year-old was known to viewers in the region for more than 40 years as presenter of the BBC's Look North and then North East Tonight, Tyne Tees Television's news programme.\n\nHe retired in 2006 and died peacefully in hospital, his family said.\n\nBorn in Willington Quay in 1936, Mr Neville launched his career at the independent station Tyne Tees in 1962.\n\nAfter moving to the BBC two years later, he presented Look North for decades as well as the Nationwide programme during the 1970s and 80s.\n\nReturning to ITV in 1996, he fronted its main regional news show but was away from the screen for almost a year from July 2005, following emergency surgery to remove a blood clot.\n\nIf you lived in the north-east of England at any time from the 1960s to the turn of the new millennium and owned a television set, you'd have known Mike Neville.\n\nIn this part of the world he was simply the godfather of regional TV.\n\nMike became a local legend with his easy-going style and his terrific sense of humour. Millions of viewers gladly welcomed him into their homes from Monday to Friday nights.\n\nAn actor in his early days, he had the happy gift of being able to cope with any situation.\n\nEven in retirement he remained a popular figure with a public that loved him for what he was - a TV star but always one of their own.\n\nMr Neville said he welcomed \"being invited into people's homes\" every evening\n\nTyne Tees managing director Graeme Thompson had described his stepping down as \"the end of an era for television in the north-east\".\n\nSpeaking to the BBC after he retired, Mr Neville explained he had no regrets about remaining in the North East.\n\n\"I actually hated working in London,\" he said. \"Up here, it is like working with family.\"\n\nAs well as a lifetime achievement award from the Royal Television Society, he was awarded an MBE for services to broadcasting.\n\nIn 1989, Mr Neville received a \"Gotcha\" award from Noel Edmonds as part of Noel's Saturday Roadshow after being pranked into thinking he was filling several minutes of live air time because a technical fault had delayed the broadcast of the Wogan chat show.\n\nMr Neville was tricked into believing he had seven minutes of air time to fill", "The AlphaBay market is one of many shut down by police action\n\nThe notorious dark web marketplaces Alphabay and Hansa were shut down in July following \"landmark\" action by police forces in the US and Europe to unmask who was running them.\n\nThey join a long list of other forums, chat rooms and boards that appeared and were blazingly popular with the criminal underworld before they were compromised and closed.\n\nBut those sites, including Dark Market, Carders Market, Shadow Crew, Carder.su, Darkode, GhostMarket and the Silk Road, have more in common than just the trajectory of their genesis and demise.\n\nThey all follow the modus operandi of a landmark forum set up in 2001 called Carder Planet. Designed for criminals who specialised in monetising lists or \"dumps\" of credit card numbers, it has had an influence far beyond that select group.\n\n\"Carder Planet created the framework for the current criminal underground,\" said Andrei Barysevich, now a director at security firm Recorded Future but who, at the time the site operated, was helping to monitor cyber-crime in Eastern Europe.\n\nThe site was set up online shortly after a face-to-face meeting at a restaurant in Odessa attended by some of Ukraine and Russia's top credit card thieves, said Mr Barysevich.\n\n\"Odessa was, and still is, the ground zero for cyber-crime,\" he said. \"It is a very criminalised city and a centre of white collar crime.\"\n\nBefore Carder Planet was set up, anyone who wanted to make money from stealing card numbers had to be a jack of all trades, said Liam O'Murchu, a researcher at Symantec who has spent years tracking online crime forums.\n\nNot only did they have to find ways to steal the card numbers, often involving malware or hacking, they also had to work out how to turn those numbers into cash and not get caught.\n\n\"What they decided to do was pool everyone's resources, so they did not have to be perfectly skilled in everything in order to be able to do crime,\" he said.\n\n\"They set up the forum where people could come together and trade skills and nobody had to be an expert in the entire chain from beginning to end,\" said Mr O'Murchu.\n\nThe site proved an immediate success and soon had thousands of members all busily trading with each other.\n\n\"They got so blase and so sure of themselves that they organised the first real life meet-up of Carder Planet members,\" said Mr Barysevich. \"Forum members were invited to a resort outside Odessa where they hung out together.\n\n\"They had good food, drink and girls and had a pretty good time,\" he said.\n\nIt was not only the attendees who enjoyed themselves. The police did too because news about the conference, as well as pictures of attendees, were leaked to the authorities. It was the first time that many of the cyber-thieves had been photographed and the images were widely studied, he said.\n\nDespite the attention, Carder Planet kept going and enjoyed significant success, said Dmitri Alperovitch, co-founder of CrowdStrike and a veteran cyber-crime researcher, who has helped to track down and expose some of its key members.\n\n\"It was the right place at the right time,\" he said. \"You had a lot of smart folks in Russia and Ukraine at the time and you had the proliferation of the internet in those days in the former Soviet Union and the economy was doing very, very poorly.\"\n\nGiven that, he said, it was not surprising that those with technical skills and nothing legitimate to do with them turned to crime.\n\nCoupled with this was the rise of online shopping in the US, much of which was powered by people using credit cards. Unfortunately, many of the firms setting up online were better at selling than security, meaning the thieves were regularly able to steal large amounts of card numbers.\n\nMr Alperovitch said the board explicitly modelled itself on more traditional organised crime groups - specifically the Italian mafia.\n\nThe rise of online shopping helped cyber-thieves cash in\n\nOccasional contributors were called \"soldiers\" and the more someone got involved the higher up the ranks they rose. At the top, he said, were the \"dons\" and \"capos\" who ran the biggest scams and collected financial tributes from the people they set working on them.\n\nHe said it was also a board on which reputation mattered a lot - a trait seen on many other criminal forums ever since.\n\nBefore any criminals worked together they looked for \"vouches\" - essentially personal recommendations from other thieves about whether someone was trustworthy or not. Without those endorsements a collaboration between say a spammer and a malware writer was unlikely to get started. Anyone with a persistently bad reputation would find that no-one would work with them.\n\nCarder Planet was shut down voluntarily by its creators in 2004 - largely to avoid the fate of other boards, many of which were compromised by police and used to gather intelligence about members.\n\nMany of its members did keep on stealing cards and some of them, notably Roman Vega (aka Boa) and Vladislav Horohorin (aka Badb), have been tracked down and arrested.\n\nThose arrests were a consequence of the open atmosphere on Carder Planet, said Mr Alperovitch.\n\n\"They've realised they were quite naive about law enforcement engagement and they did not realise that law enforcement was paying very close attention,\" he said.", "An estimated 250,000 nationals of other EU countries came to the UK last year\n\nProposals aimed at cutting the numbers of low-skilled migrants from Europe following Brexit have been disclosed in a leaked Home Office paper.\n\nThe document, obtained by The Guardian, suggests free movement will end upon exit in March 2019 and the UK will adopt a \"more selective approach\" based on the UK's economic and social needs.\n\nAccess to labour in industries without shortages may be curbed, it suggests.\n\nThe BBC understands the document has not been signed off by ministers.\n\nA spokesman for the government said it did not comment on \"leaked draft\" documents.\n\nThey said ministers would be setting out their \"initial proposals\" for a new immigration system \"which takes back control of the UK's borders\" later in the autumn.\n\nDowning Street has long maintained that the current right of EU citizens to live and work in the UK will come to an end on the day that the UK leaves the 28-member bloc.\n\nIt is also likely that there will be an implementation period to minimise disruption to businesses and to the public services, many of which are heavily reliant on European labour.\n\nHowever, details of the likely shape of the UK's post-Brexit immigration policy remain hazy with a proposed immigration bill, one of eight pieces of Brexit-related legislation, yet to be published.\n\nThe Home Office document obtained by the Guardian, entitled the Border, Immigration and Citizenship System After the UK Leaves the EU, is marked extremely sensitive and dated August 2017.\n\nAmong the ideas set out, the 82-page document suggests low-skilled migrants would be offered residency for a maximum of two years while those in \"high-skilled occupations\" would be granted permits to work for a longer period of three to five years.\n\nEmployers would be encouraged to focus recruitment on \"resident labour\" and EU nationals could be required to seek permission before taking up a job. While there would be no new border checks on entering the country, all EU citizens will be required to show a passport.\n\n\"The government will take a view on the economic and social needs of the country as regards EU migration, rather than leaving this decision entirely to those wishing to come here and employers,\" it states.\n\nIt also floats the idea of ending the right to settle in Britain for most European migrants and placing new restrictions on their rights to bring in family members.\n\nThe new measures, it indicates, would only come fully into force at the end of a transition period, which could last up to three years. It is understood that the document is a draft, unfinished version of an upcoming White Paper circulated among senior officials and that there have been at least five earlier versions.\n\nA leading campaigner for tougher migration controls said the document's thinking was \"excellent news\".\n\n\"Uncontrolled migration from the EU simply cannot be allowed to continue,\" said Lord Green, chairman of Migration Watch. \"These proposals rightly focus on low-skilled migration and by doing so could reduce net migration from the EU by 100,000 a year over time.\n\n\"This would be an important step to achieving the government's immigration target.\"\n\nUKIP also welcomed the proposals, saying they should be implemented \"without fudging\" and prioritise the needs of communities up and down the country as well as those of workers and businesses.\n\nHowever, Labour MP Yvette Cooper said the document appeared to fly in the face of Home Secretary Amber Rudd's commitment earlier this summer to consult on a post-Brexit immigration system.\n\n\"The process for developing its policy seems to be completely confused. What assessment has been done of the impact or the interrelationship between immigration proposals and any trade or single market deal?\"\n\nThe TUC said the \"back of the envelope plans\" would \"create an underground economy, encouraging bad bosses to exploit migrants and undercut decent employers offering good jobs\".\n\nThe government has said it is sticking by its target of cutting levels of net migration from about 250,000 last year to less than 100,000 despite calls from the opposition and some Conservative MPs for it to be dropped.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alison Strand told the BBC about the \"dangerous conditions\" in Anguilla\n\nHurricane Irma, the most powerful Atlantic storm in a decade, has hit the Caribbean, with officials warning of its \"potentially catastrophic\" effects.\n\nThe category five hurricane, the highest possible level, has sustained wind speeds reaching 300km/h (185mph).\n\nIt first hit Antigua and Barbuda, before moving on to Saint Barthelemy and Saint Martin.\n\nIt is then expected to move on towards Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.\n\nIn the US, Florida's Key West area has ordered a mandatory evacuation.\n\nThe French government, which runs Saint Barthélemy, more commonly known as St Barts, and Saint Martin, has said it is worried about thousands of people who have refused to seek shelter.\n\nMajor flooding has been caused in their low-lying areas, said the French weather office.\n\nThe eye of the storm first hit Barbuda, which has a population of around 2,000 people, at about 02:00 local time (06:00 GMT).\n\nWinds gusted at 250km/h, before the recording equipment broke and no further readings were received.\n\n\"Early indications seem to show that Antigua has not been too badly hit, but we cannot say the same for Barbuda as we don't yet know,\" reported Antigua's ABS radio.\n\nThe Antigua Observer said it had received initial reports of roofs being blown off on both islands.\n\nThere have also been concerns for St Kitts and Nevis. President Timothy Harris said on Twitter: \"All of our national security agencies have been fully mobilised and are on the highest alert.\"\n\nThousands of people have been evacuated from at-risk areas across the Caribbean. Residents have flocked to shops for food, water, and emergency supplies.\n\nAirports have closed on several islands, which are popular holiday destinations, and authorities have urged people to go to public shelters.\n\nIn Florida, people have rushed to buy supplies\n\nThe US National Hurricane Centre (NHC) said Irma was moving at a speed of 24km/h (15mph), saying that the storm was \"potentially catastrophic\".\n\nThere are hurricane warnings for:\n\nThe islands' populations range from about 2,000 each on Barbuda, Saba and Culebra, to 3.5 million in Puerto Rico.\n\nHaiti, the Turks and Caicos Islands and the south-eastern Bahamas are on hurricane watch.\n\n\"No rest for the weary!\" tweeted US President Trump, in reference to emergency operations being undertaken again in the country, less than two weeks after Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas.\n\nMr Trump has declared a state of emergency for Florida, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, mobilising federal disaster relief efforts for those areas.\n\nIn Florida's Key West, visitors will be required to leave on Wednesday morning, with residents due to follow in the evening.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 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\n\"We're emphatically telling people you must evacuate. You cannot afford to stay on an island with a category five hurricane coming at you,\" said Martin Senterfitt, the emergency operations centre director in Monroe County in Florida.\n\nIn Puerto Rico, a 75-year-old man died during preparations for the storm.\n\nPuerto Rican Governor Ricardo Rossello said the situation on the island was \"something without precedent\", as 460 emergency shelters were prepared, according to Reuters news agency.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe ordered police and National Guard troops to help evacuate flood-prone areas in the territory's north and east.\n\nThe Bahamas is also launching the \"largest evacuation in its history\", according to Prime Minister Hubert Minnis. Plans have been made to fly residents from the south-east islands to the safer capital, Nassau, on Wednesday.\n\nIn San Juan, Puerto Rico, people have been preparing their homes and businesses\n\nAlison Strand, originally from Staffordshire in the UK, is on the island of Anguilla. She said her family had spent several hours fortifying her home on the coast.\n\n\"Our house is 5m (15ft) above sea level and we're expecting 8m swells, so we're just crossing our fingers,\" she said. \"We are expecting to lose our wooden roof.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. BBC Weather's Ben Rich has the latest on dangerous Hurricane Irma\n\nCarolyne Coleby, in Montserrat, said: \"Irma is about to hit us full force.\"\n\n\"I am a goat farmer and have to consider my livestock. Last night I moved 20 goats to a backhouse at a hostel I manage which is on slightly higher ground,\" she said.\n\n\"I am hoping the galvanised roof of the backhouse doesn't fly off. I can't go to the shelter because I can't leave my animals.\n\nSir Richard Branson shared pictures of his preparation on his private Necker Island\n\nParts of Texas and Louisiana are dealing with the damage done by Hurricane Harvey in late August. But it is not yet clear what impact Hurricane Irma might have on the US mainland.\n\nThe mainland has not been hit by two category four hurricanes in one season since the storms were first recorded in 1851.\n\nTexan officials told the Associated Press that 60 people are dead, or are feared dead, from Hurricane Harvey. Not all of these are confirmed.\n\nA string of US stars, including Beyoncé, George Clooney and Oprah Winfrey, have reportedly signed up to take part in a fundraising telethon for victims. Hurricane Harvey Relief will air on 12 September.\n\nMeanwhile, a third tropical storm, Jose, has formed further out in the Atlantic behind Irma, and is expected to become a hurricane by later on Wednesday, according to the US National Hurricane Center.\n\nAre you in the region? Are you a holidaymaker unable to get a flight home or a resident who has been preparing for Hurricane Irma? If it is safe for you to do so, share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nDoctors who have travelled to Scotland as refugees are being given the chance to start working for the NHS through a training scheme. The BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme has been to meet those involved.\n\n\"When people say, 'I had a couple of beers', they don't mean two,\" jokes instructor Dr Patrick Grant, a retired A&E doctor training refugees to work for NHS Scotland - including in how to overcome cultural barriers.\n\nOne of his students is Fatema, who previously worked as a surgeon in the Middle East until she was forced to flee.\n\nHaving treated anti-government protesters in her home country, she herself had become a government target.\n\n\"I wish one day this country will be proud of me,\" she says.\n\nFatema is one of 38 refugees and asylum seekers on the course - a £160,000 programme funded by the Scottish government.\n\nBased in Glasgow, it provides the doctors with advanced English lessons, medical classes and placements with GPs or hospitals.\n\nThe aim is to give the refugee doctors - who commit to working for NHS Scotland - the skills to get their UK medical registration approved.\n\nFatema says coming to the UK and not being able to work as a surgeon had felt like being \"handcuffed\".\n\n\"I'm a qualified medical doctor. It's hard to start again from zero,\" she explains.\n\nMaggie Lennon, founder of the Bridges Programmes which runs the scheme, says it is important for the UK to utilise its high-skilled refugees.\n\nMaggie Lennon says the refugee doctors' clinical skills are very similar to those of doctors trained in the UK\n\n\"I always say to people, 'I imagine taking out an appendix in Peshawar is not that different to taking out an appendix in Paisley'.\n\n\"I don't think there's actually any difference in the clinical skills, I think where there is a huge difference is attitudes to patients and how medicine is performed,\" she explains.\n\nThe scheme is designed to overcome such hurdles, including the case of one surgeon who, Ms Lennon says, was unaware he would have to speak to patients, having previously only encountered them in his home country after they had been put to sleep.\n\nWatch Catrin Nye's full film on refugee doctors on the Victoria Derbyshire programme's website.\n\nLaeth Al-Sadi, also on the course, used to be a doctor in the Iraqi army.\n\nHe came to Scotland to study but his life was threatened in Iraq and he was never able to go back.\n\nOne of the ways he has learned to work with patients in the UK is to use informal terms that might put them at ease - \"How are the waterworks down there?\" being one example.\n\nLaeth Al-Sadi says being part of the scheme allows him to feel like he \"belongs somewhere\"\n\nLanguage classes are an important part of the course, and placements with GPs and hospitals also allow the refugees to take note of local dialects.\n\nAnother doctor says he was confused by a patient who said they had a headache because of a \"swally\" - a term for an alcoholic drink.\n\nBefore refugees can even take their medical exams, they must pass tests to ensure they speak English at a high level.\n\nThey must pass a test called IELTS with a level of 7.5 - which even some doctors from the US and Australia have failed in the past.\n\nAll classes are taught in English. In one \"situational judgement\" lesson, the refugees are taught to assess what is wrong with a dummy patient based on its \"symptoms\".\n\nLaeth says he feels lucky to be offered the possibility of a job in NHS Scotland.\n\n\"Lots of colleagues, or people who are doctors, are living here, and they are working other jobs.\n\n\"Some of them are even taxi drivers, which has [led to a loss of] hope for a lot of people.\"\n\nMs Lennon says this issue of under-employment among the refugee population \"is as serious as unemployment\".\n\n\"If someone's a qualified accountant and they're working pushing trolleys [in a supermarket], then there is an argument that they're taking a job from a poorly qualified person in this country,\" she adds.\n\nLanguage classes are an important part of the scheme\n\nFatema says that despite having to leave the Middle East, she is glad she took the decision to treat anti-government protesters.\n\n\"My promise at medical graduation [was to] treat people equally, and try to do whatever is possible to help people. So I would do it again.\"\n\nDr Greg Jones, clinical lead at NHS Education Scotland, defended the use of government money on the scheme.\n\n\"As well as getting people back to their careers as doctors being the right thing to do from a humanitarian standpoint,\" he explains, \"it's also the right thing to do financially.\n\n\"It would be a hugely wasted resource if people who'd already gone through medical training were not used as doctors.\"\n\nLaeth says being part of the scheme allows him to feel like he \"belongs somewhere\".\n\n\"It means the world,\" he adds.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Corippo has 16 inhabitants and only one of them works\n\nLike many Alpine communities, Corippo, in the southern canton of Ticino, has experienced decades of depopulation as younger generations moved down to the towns and cities for schooling, work and, understandably, a social life.\n\nToday, Corippo's struggle has become existential, as Mayor Claudio Scettrini explains.\n\n\"There are only 16 residents,\" he sighs. \"And I'm the only one going to work, the rest of them are pensioners.\"\n\n\"I hope the rest of them live into their 90s,\" he continues, \"otherwise there will be no-one left here at all. It's really quite tragic.\"\n\nThe village's spartan buildings are mostly deserted - the young have gone\n\nThere has been a community in Corippo for more than 600 years. In the 19th Century the village had 300 inhabitants, and there were many similar villages across the southern Swiss Alps.\n\nToday's popular lakeside resorts of Locarno and Lugano, affectionately known as the \"Swiss Riviera\", were avoided back then because of the high risk of malaria.\n\nBut with malaria eradicated, and traditional mountain farming less and less economically viable, the village way of life has begun to die.\n\nCorippo has no shop, no school and no children. It may be only 30 minutes' drive from bustling Locarno, but the narrow access road, with its hairpin bends, may not be many people's chosen commute.\n\nWhat Corippo does have, however, are more than 60 traditional stone houses, with dry stone roofs, many of them still with their original fireplaces, and chestnut wood floors. And most of them are empty.\n\nThe crumbling interiors would test any do-it-yourself enthusiast\n\nTicino tourism director Elia Frapolli, optimistically perhaps, views this state of affairs as an opportunity.\n\n\"Life in Corippo and small villages like this is special,\" he insists. \"It's like being in another century. Time slows down, everybody knows each other in the village, and you feel the authenticity of living in a village that has existed for centuries.\"\n\nAnd so, with the support of a foundation devoted to preserving Corippo, a plan has been developed: to turn some of the empty houses into hotel rooms.\n\nThe concept, known as albergo diffuso or \"scattered hotel\", has already been tried in some Italian hill villages, but never in Switzerland.\n\nAn old lady makes her way up one of Corippo's narrow streets\n\nThe entire village of Corippo is now protected as a historic monument, which means architect Fabio Giacomazzi faces a monumental challenge: how to modernise some of the interiors without touching the exteriors.\n\nA peek inside some of the houses reveals the scale of his task: many have been untouched since the 1950s, some residents emigrated to the US, others simply died, and no-one was left to clear out the property.\n\nOld clothes, postcards and empty wine bottles litter the floors. The walls are damp and dusty. There is no sign of running water, let alone a flushing toilet.\n\n\"Of course we will paint, of course we will put in bathrooms,\" says Mr Giacomazzi. \"But the original doors will stay, the original wood and stone must stay. The experience for guests should be very similar to what it was in the 19th Century in Corippo.\"\n\nIt will be relatively spartan, he admits.\n\nNevertheless Corippo's 16 residents, from Mayor Scettrini on down, are pinning their hopes on the idea. They are determined their village should not become a theme park. Guests will live side-by-side with villagers, the local bar will be an informal hotel reception, the village square an open-air lobby.\n\n\"It's good for the village, for the future, because most of us are old,\" says elderly resident Silvana. \"With this project people will come here.\"\n\nThe few tourists wandering Corippo's empty lanes also seem supportive.\n\n\"I think more and more people appreciate this kind of accommodation,\" says one young man.\n\n\"If you want to switch off then I could see it being relaxing for a few days,\" adds another. \"Maybe if you have a book to write or something.\"\n\nSome houses are decorated with old frescoes much in need of restoration\n\nFor tourism director Elia Frapolli, a place to switch off completely, to escape from 21st-Century life, is precisely Corippo's attraction.\n\n\"This is the perfect place for what we call 'digital detox',\" he says.\n\n\"It's a new trend. In the 21st Century the new luxury will be authenticity, having a place where you can really feel the history of the place, you can leave your mobile phone behind. This is real, it's not fake, there is hundreds of centuries of history here.\"\n\nCorippo's plans will take time to achieve, nothing will be ready for at least another year.\n\nBut word seems to have got out, and requests for reservations are already coming in.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Kim Wall's death: What we know so far\n\nSwedish journalist Kim Wall died by accident after being hit by a hatch cover on board a submarine, the Danish owner of the vessel has told a court.\n\nPeter Madsen said he had been holding the heavy hatch - but then lost his foothold and the hatch shut.\n\nMr Madsen, 46, then said he had tried to bury Ms Wall, who was 30, at sea and intended to commit suicide.\n\nHe has been charged with killing Ms Wall, whose headless torso was found on 23 August in waters off Denmark.\n\nShe was last seen alive on 10 August as she departed with Mr Madsen on his home-made submarine to interview the inventor.\n\nProsecutors have accused Mr Madsen of murdering Ms Wall and mutilating her body. He denies this.\n\nTestifying in Copenhagen's court on Tuesday, Mr Madsen said Ms Wall was bleeding intensely after being hit by the 70kg (154lb) hatch.\n\n\"There was a pool of blood where she had landed.\"\n\n\"In the shock I was in, it was the right thing to do,\" he said, answering why he threw the journalist overboard.\n\nDanish police believe Mr Madsen deliberately sank the 40-tonne submarine hours after the search for Ms Wall began on 11 August.\n\nHer partner had reported that she had not returned from the trip.\n\nMr Madsen was rescued from waters between Denmark and Sweden.\n\nLocal authorities are continuing their search for the rest of Ms Wall's remains, hoping that this will provide clues about the cause of her death.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alison Strand has lost power and is facing \"dangerous conditions\" in Anguilla\n\nBritons in the Caribbean and Florida have been urged to follow evacuation orders as the most powerful Atlantic storm in a decade hits the region.\n\nThe Foreign Office warned that Hurricane Irma would bring hazardous conditions to the area.\n\nBriton James Fairs, who lives on the island of St Kitts, said experiencing the storm was \"pretty scary\".\n\nAirlines were forced to ground or divert flights, and British Airways evacuated 326 passengers from Antigua.\n\nSome travellers have been left stranded after being unable to get a flight following the category five hurricane - the highest possible level.\n\nThe storm - which has sustained wind speeds reaching 295km/h (185mph) - has already caused major flooding and damage to buildings on several islands.\n\nFrance's overseas affairs minister confirmed two people have been killed and another two seriously injured in the French Caribbean territories of St Martin and St Barts.\n\nThe eye of the storm hit the island of Barbuda, which has a population of about 2,000 people, shortly after 01:00 local time (05:00 GMT).\n\nIt has since hit Antigua, before moving on to St Martin and St Barts.\n\nMas Rezai, from London, is on holiday in the Dominican Republic with his family but has not been able to leave the island.\n\n\"We want to go home but British Airways say they do not have flights available,\" he said.\n\n\"When I complained and asked why British Airways wasn't providing a plane to get British citizens out they told me they simply had nothing available.\n\n\"Now we are hearing the airport is closed too. We just want to go home as soon as possible.\"\n\nBA sent an aircraft to Antigua on Tuesday to collect 326 customers.\n\n\"We are making sure our customers are well looked after in their hotels and are constantly monitoring the situation and liaising with the airport authorities in the region,\" a spokesman said.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by alex woolfall This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPippa Holman, 24, is on holiday with her parents and sister in Antigua and said they had been \"incredibly fortunate\" to avoid the worst of the storm.\n\n\"The anticipation was the most frightening part,\" she said. \"It was howling around us, but we were really fortunate the damage was relatively limited.\"\n\nHolidaymaker Alex Woolfall, from London, tweeted from his hotel on the nearby island of Saint Martin, where he was taking cover in a stairwell after being evacuated from his room.\n\nHe wrote: \"My God this noise! It's like standing behind a jet engine!! Constant booms & bangs. At least concrete stairwell not moving.\"\n\nHe added: \"May be my last tweet as power out and noise now apocalyptic. This is like a movie I never want to see.\"\n\nMr Fairs, who lives at Frigate Bay in St Kitts, said the hurricane felt like being on a plane as it takes off.\n\n\"At one point we could see what we thought was lightning through the curtains but when we looked out we could see live electricity cables dancing around in the dark,\" he said.\n\nHurricane Irma hits the San Juan in the northern Caribbean on Wednesday\n\nSir Richard Branson said he had experienced a night of \"howling wind and rain\" as the hurricane \"edges ever closer\" to his private Necker Island, in the British Virgin Islands.\n\nWriting a blog on Wednesday, he said: \"All of us slept together in two rooms. I haven't had a sleepover quite like it since I was a kid.\n\n\"The atmosphere is eerie but beautiful. Everyone is willing the eye of the storm to veer away from the British Virgin Islands in these last few hours.\n\n\"We are expecting to get the full force of the hurricane in around five hours' time, when we will retreat to a concrete wine cellar under the Great House.\"\n\nSir Richard Branson's \"sleepover\" as his team prepare for the hurricane to hit his Necker Island\n\nThe Royal Navy ship RFA Mounts Bay, which is currently in the Caribbean on operations to counter drugs smuggling, is on standby to help.\n\nThe Department for International Development (DfiD) has also sent three humanitarian experts from the UK to the Caribbean to provide assistance.\n\nPriti Patel, DfiD secretary, said: \"Our staff are on standby, both in the UK and at post, to support any British people affected.\n\n\"We urge British Nationals in the affected area to closely monitor and follow Foreign Office and local travel advice.\"\n\nVirgin Atlantic warned that any customers booked on flights to or from Antigua, Havana and Miami between Wednesday and Monday may need to rebook. The airline said it had cancelled a flight to Antigua on Thursday.\n\nSan Juan airport, the busiest in Puerto Rico, has cancelled about 40% of its flights in response to the hurricane.\n\nThomas Cook has postponed two flights from Manchester for 24 hours - one going to Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic on Thursday, and a flight travelling to Cuban airport Vardadero on Friday.\n\nAre you in the region? If you are a holidaymaker unable to get a flight home or a resident who has been preparing for Hurricane Irma share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Jo Johnson: \"I do not want to read about VC pay in the newspapers\"\n\nSpiralling rates of pay for university vice-chancellors are to be curbed by a series of new measures being set out by the universities minister.\n\nJo Johnson urged institutions to show restraint, when it emerged that dozens of university heads were earning £300,000, and some more than £400,000.\n\nNow, he wants universities to justify pay rates topping £150,000 a year to a new regulator, the Office for Students.\n\nDetails of staff earning above £100,000 year would also have to be made public.\n\nUniversities have argued that their leaders are managing large institutions, have enormous responsibilities and huge budgets, and therefore command large salaries.\n\nMr Johnson called for \"transparency and openness\" in the way pay is set for university heads and \"greater restraint\" in vice-chancellor and senior-level salaries.\n\n\"We [need to] put an end to the spate of damaging headlines we've seen over recent weeks,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nMr Johnson is setting out the plans in a speech to university heads at the annual conference of the umbrella body Universities UK, in west London on Thursday.\n\nThe plans, which will be consulted on, could see the Office for Students using its powers to impose fines if institutions do not give good reasons for high pay.\n\nThe new regulator, which is to be headed by Nicola Dandridge, the former chief executive of Universities UK, will also issue new guidance on the role and independence of pay committees.\n\nMs Dandridge herself volunteered for an 18% pay cut from £200,000 a year to £165,000, a move Mr Johnson said was \"out of the spirit of public service\".\n\nMr Johnson also told Today that student fees would rise next year with inflation.\n\n\"It's important there's confidence fees are put to the uses we intend them to be - we want fees to deliver great teaching and world-class research,\" he said.\n\nMr Johnson said the debate over student finance had increased public scrutiny of how universities spent the money they received.\n\n\"When students and taxpayers invest so heavily in our higher education system, excessive vice-chancellor salaries send a powerful signal to the outside world.\"\n\nHe added: \"Exceptional pay can only be justified by exceptional performance, which is why I will ask the new Office for Students to take action to ensure value for money and transparency for students and the taxpayer.\"\n\nProf Janet Beer, president of Universities UK and vice-chancellor of the University of Liverpool, said in her conference address that it was understandable that high pay was being questioned.\n\n\"It is right to expect that the process for determining pay for senior staff is rigorous and the decision-making process is transparent.\n\n\"It is also reasonable to expect that decisions are explained and justified.\"\n\nShe also addressed the issue of the student funding, calling on the government to consider providing targeted maintenance grants for those most in need of this support.\n\nThe government should also \"consider reducing the interest rate payable, not for all, but specifically for low- and middle-income earners through changes in earning thresholds to which interest rates apply\", she said.\n\nThe overall cost of salary and benefits for vice-chancellors rose 2.5% to an average remuneration of £257,904 in 2015-16 on the previous year.\n\nWhen pension contributions are included, the rise was 2.2% to an average of £280,877.\n\nAnd several high profile cases revealed pay levels substantially higher than this.\n\nImperial College London pays its vice-chancellor, Alice Gast, a £430,000 yearly wage and pension package. She was recruited from an American university some years ago where she was paid £679,754.\n\nThe University of Birmingham pays Sir David Eastwood £426,000 in salary and pensions.\n\nSir David was previously chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council since 2006 - the post responsible for overseeing the university finance system in England.\n\nUniversity of Exeter vice-chancellor, also a former chairman of Universities UK, Sir Steve Smith receives a £426,000 package, according to the Times Higher Education newspaper.\n\nThe Russell Group, an association which represents 24 leading UK universities, says its institutions \"recognise the need to act responsibly\".\n\nDr Tim Bradshaw, acting director of the group, said Russell Group universities have demonstrated strong and effective governance around senior remuneration and will continue to do so.\n\nBut, he stressed, universities operate in a competitive market, saying salaries help to maintain the UK's position as a \"world leader in science and innovation\".\n\nGeneral secretary of the University and College Union Sally Hunt said soaring vice-chancellor pay, which her union has highlighted over the years, had become a real embarrassment for the higher education sector.\n\nShe accused vice-chancellors of hiding behind \"shadowy remuneration committees\".\n\nShe said: \"Over two-thirds of vice-chancellors sit on their own remuneration committees, and three-quarters of universities refuse to publish full minutes of the meetings where leadership pay is decided.\"\n• None Three more MPs quit uni roles over pay\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The prime minister has at least two big reasons for wanting to get this right.\n\nFor Theresa May, the referendum result was a clear instruction from the British people that they wanted to reduce the levels of immigration. Politically, therefore, she believes it's a demand she has to meet.\n\nAnd as home secretary for six years, when the government continually flunked its own immigration target, the new system that will control immigration is finally, perhaps, a chance to meet her own long-missed goal.\n\nSo Wednesday's mega-leak from the Home Office of the potential design of the post Brexit system is significant.\n\nMany of the proposals in it are not a surprise - the requirement for EU citizens who want to move to the UK long term after Brexit to register with the authorities, for example. You can read more of the extensive details here. One source involved in the negotiations says the \"general principles\" of the document are indeed an accurate reflection of the government position.\n\nBut it's far from the final version. And much of the uncertainty lies around what happens on \"D+1\", the day after we leave the European Union.\n\nThe implication from the document is that as soon as we leave, freedom of movement is over.\n\nAlthough ministers have said as much on the record before, and Downing Street sources are adamant that will be the case, it pulls against indications in Whitehall a few months ago that the principle whereby EU citizens could come to live and work freely in the UK could carry on uninhibited during a transition period, the couple of years following Brexit itself.\n\nOne extremely senior source was, in fact, categorical that would be the case, and implied that had been agreed by ministers, as part of the acceptance that a transition period of some sort was inevitable. Not, it seems now, the case.\n\nCouple those mixed signals with the leak of this document, and it points to a very live debate taking place right now in government.\n\nI am told there was a series of meetings last week, involving the Home Office, the Treasury, Downing Street, and the Brexit department, about how to fulfil Theresa May's political imperative on immigration as quickly as possible, without creating howls of alarm from business or denting the economy.\n\nIn fact, since the draft was written, only last month, there have been six new versions of the proposals, none of which has yet been to cabinet, with the final version due in a White Paper later this autumn.\n\nOne source involved in the discussions said: \"I'm not going to pretend it's an easy job,\" and in reality much of the detail is a long, long way off.\n\nThat's partly because the longer term plans will be informed by a big study looking at what the economy needs, which the government has only recently commissioned, and, inevitably, much of the policy that will cover the period immediately after Brexit will be subject to the negotiations between the UK and the EU.\n\nIt is also because even this big detailed document doesn't even really begin to fill in the blanks for phase three, the years that will follow the transition period, the eventual destination.\n\nWho said anything about Brexit would be easy?\n• None Reality Check: Who are the low-skilled EU workers?", "The pictures released by 38 North appear to show several landslides near the peak of Mount Mantap\n\nNorth Korea's recent nuclear test appears to have triggered several landslides, according to what are believed to be the first satellite images of the aftermath.\n\nSunday's test took place underground at the mountainous Punggye-ri site.\n\nAnalysis group 38 North published pictures which show \"more numerous and widespread\" disturbances than before.\n\nThe test unleashed a powerful 6.3-magnitude tremor which was felt across the border in China.\n\nNorth Korea has conducted six nuclear tests so far, all at Punggye-ri, which consists of a system of tunnels dug beneath a mountainous region.\n\n38 North said its latest pictures, which were taken a day after the latest test, showed landslides as well as numerous areas of gravel and scree fields which were \"lofted\" from the tremors.\n\nLofting occurs when shockwaves force material to be lifted up from the ground, and the material falls back down in the same place.\n\nA close-up of the Punggye-ri test site as photographed days before the test...\n\n...and the same area seen on Monday\n\nThe disturbances took place near Mount Mantap, the highest point in the test site.\n\nThey were \"more numerous and widespread than what we have seen from any of the five tests North Korea previously conducted\", the site's analysis said.\n\nBut it added that while the test triggered a powerful tremor, it did not appear to have caused the crater to collapse.\n\nSome experts believe however that the nuclear test did cause an underground tunnel at Punggye-ri to collapse.\n\nA wider shot of Punggye-ri before the test shows the mountainous region covered in green vegetation\n\nA picture taken after the test show more brown patches along mountain ridges, seen as evidence of landslides\n\nSunday's bomb was thought to have had a power range from 50 to 120 kilotonnes. A 50kt device would be about three times the size of the US bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945.\n\nThe repeated tests have prompted concerns about the test site's longevity, although experts are divided.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nuclear North Korea: What do we know?\n\nEarlier this week Chinese scientists warned of the possibility of the mountain caving in and releasing radiation after future tests, reported the South China Morning Post.\n\nA previous 38 North commentary debunked the possibility of the tests triggering a volcanic eruption.", "The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, says Britain's economic model is broken, as the gap between the richest and poorest parts of the UK widens.\n\nBritain stands at a watershed and must make \"fundamental choices\" about the direction of the economy, he said.\n\nThe remarks come in a report by a commission set up by the centre-left Institute for Public Policy Research.\n\nThe UK Treasury said: \"Employment is at a record high, the deficit is down and inequality is at a 30-year low.\"\n\nThe IPPR's interim Commission on Economic Justice report says the UK economy is the most unbalanced in Europe, and contains more workers overqualified for their jobs than the rest of the European Union.\n\nBritain's economic model is simply unfit for the 2020s, the IPPR argues. The organisation proposes a \"fundamental reform\" of the economy, on a scale comparable with the Atlee reforms of the 1940s and the Thatcher revolution of the 1980s.\n\nCommittee members include the Archbishop, along with leading figures from business and civil society.\n\nThe archbishop said: \"Our economic model is broken. Britain stands at a watershed moment where we need to make fundamental choices about the sort of economy we need.\n\n\"We are failing those who will grow up into a world where the gap between the richest and poorest parts of the country is significant and destabilising.\"\n\nThe report sets out new analysis which suggests that, although GDP per head has risen by 12% since 2010, average earnings per employee have fallen by 6%.\n\nIt says that since the 1970s, the share of national income that has gone to wages has gradually declined, from 80% to 73%, while the share going to profits has increased. The wage share is now the lowest it has been since the World War Two.\n\nThe report says that economic growth and earnings have \"'decoupled\" since the financial crisis.\n\nIt states: \"The UK economy no longer translates economic growth into rising earnings. Gains from growth have gone largely into profits rather than wages, and the UK economy is now in the longest period of earnings stagnation for 150 years.\"\n\nThe Commission is calling for an urgent public debate on taxation, the role of the financial sector, the power of trade unions as well as looking at the impact of new company models including Google and Amazon.\n\nOverall, the report's analysis finds that the economy is no longer raising living standards for a majority of the population.\n\nIt says this growth was a \"promise\" that has underpinned public life since 1945 and the economy's deep weaknesses make it \"unfit\" to face the challenges of the 2020s.\n\nA Treasury spokesman said the government was proud of its record but there was more to be done: \"That is why we are investing £23bn in infrastructure, R&D and housing, while also reforming technical education to prepare for the high paid, high skilled jobs of the future.\"\n\nAmong the main points of the IPPR's research:\n\nThe report calls for public debate on a range of reforms, including:\n\nAs well as the Archbishop of Canterbury, the IPPR commission's members include Sir Charlie Mayfield, the chairman of John Lewis, Juergen Maier, the chief executive of German electronics giant Siemens, and Frances O'Grady, the general secretary of the TUC.", "A cigarette ignited a build-up of air freshener gases inside the car, the fire service said\n\nAn air freshener has caused a car to explode in a B&Q car park injuring one person.\n\nThe roof and doors were blown off the Ford Focus in Fossetts Drive, Southend, earlier as the Southend Echo reported.\n\nStaff at the DIY store in Essex helped the casualty, who was taken to hospital with minor injuries.\n\n\"The explosion happened after a build-up of gases from an air freshener was accidentally ignited by a cigarette,\" Essex Fire and Rescue Service said.\n\nA man who was nearby, said he heard a \"very loud bang\" as the \"doors, windscreen and roof... were blown out\".\n\nOne person was injured in the explosion\n\n\"B&Q staff rushing to help,\" he wrote on Twitter.\n\nThe explosion happened at about 12:15 BST and all three emergency services attended.\n\n\"One patient... is believed to have minor injuries,\" an East of England Ambulance Service spokeswoman said.\n\nThe ambulance service was unable to confirm whether the injured person was male or female.\n\nThe car \"suffered significant damage\", the fire service said, however, the \"cause of the explosion has been confirmed as accidental\".\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Police said there were \"serious concerns\" over retaliations and put extra officers on the streets\n\nA 14-year-old boy has died after being gunned down in a double shooting in east London.\n\nCorey Junior Davis, from Forest Gate, died in hospital on Tuesday night, the Metropolitan Police said.\n\nCorey and a 17-year-old boy, who suffered \"life-changing\" injuries, were found in Moore Walk, in Forest Gate, after the shooting on Monday.\n\nCorey's grandfather, Neville McLeod, said he could not believe \"that someone could want to kill\" the teenager.\n\nA murder investigation has been launched, although no arrests have been made.\n\nThe Met said there were \"serious concerns\" of retaliation and has put extra officers on the streets.\n\nMr McLeod said he lived with Corey, who was known as CJ.\n\n\"He never gave me any trouble. I've nothing bad to say about CJ. Not one word,\" he said.\n\n\"He might have got into trouble once. But not anything major, that someone could want to kill him.\"\n\nPolice are appealing for information about a light coloured 4x4 vehicle that was seen leaving the scene immediately after the shooting\n\nDet Ch Supt Dave Whellams described it as \"a very tragic incident\".\n\n\"A teenage boy's life has been taken in an extreme act of violence leaving his family utterly devastated,\" he said.\n\n\"We are pursuing all lines of inquiry to catch the person responsible for Corey's murder and are keen to hear from anyone who believes they might have information to come forward as it could prove vital to our investigation.\n\n\"Our thoughts are with Corey's family at this very difficult time.\"\n\nPolice are appealing for information about a large, light coloured 4x4 vehicle that was seen leaving the scene immediately after the shooting.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Ms Martínez says she was born in 1956 as a result of an affair between Dalí and her mother\n\nA Spanish woman who believed Salvador Dali was her father is not the surrealist artist's daughter, a DNA test has proved.\n\nMaría Pilar Abel Martínez, a tarot card reader who was born in 1956, says her mother had an affair with Dalí during the year before her birth.\n\nA judge in Madrid agreed his body could be exhumed for testing in June.\n\nBut now the Dali Foundation says the tests carried out have conclusively proved the two are not related.\n\n\"The DNA tests show that Pilar Abel is not Dali's daughter,\" the foundation, which manages his estate, said in a statement on Wednesday, six weeks after the artist's body was exhumed from a crypt in a museum dedicated to his life and work in Figueres, in north-eastern Spain.\n\nHad they been related, Ms Martinez would have had a claim on part of Dali's estate, which he left to the Spanish state following his death in 1989 at the age of 85.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA number of Dali experts had raised their eyebrows at the claim before his body was exhumed, with biographer Ian Gibson noting the artist's own claim of \"I'm impotent, you've got to be impotent to be a great painter\".\n\nIt is not known how Ms Martinez, who had been told from an early age she was the painter's daughter, has responded to the news.\n\nDalí's wife, Gala, died in 1982 - after which he is said to have lost much of his zest for life", "HMS Queen Elizabeth was built in blocks across six cities before being assembled in Rosyth\n\nA new national shipbuilding strategy intended to benefit UK shipyards is being unveiled by Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon.\n\nThe government plans to buy at least five frigates, and share the work between shipyards around the UK.\n\nThe first batch of new Type 31e frigates will bolster a depleted Royal Navy fleet, but it is hoped future ships will be bought by foreign navies.\n\nIt comes as the Ministry of Defence aims to save billions of pounds.\n\nThe new frigates would be built across different shipyards, but assembled at a central site, and ready for service by 2023.\n\nTheir cost would be capped at £250m each.\n\nThe strategy has been called \"ambitious\" and with reason.\n\nWill there be enough work to sustain several shipyards in the UK? Will there really be demand from abroad for British-designed warships?\n\nAnd can you really build a frigate for just £250m? Defence doesn't have a great record of keeping costs under control.\n\nAnd that highlights a larger problem. The MoD's budget is once again in crisis. It's equipment programme has become more expensive because of a fall in the pound.\n\nIt still has to find tens of billions of pounds in \"efficiency savings\". And all three services are struggling to recruit and retain key personnel.\n\nDefence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon boasts of a growing defence budget. But the sums still don't add up.\n\nTo balance the books, the MoD will need to make another round of painful defence cuts.\n\nSir Michael told BBC Breakfast this was a \"huge opportunity\" for UK shipyards which could bid for these \"big contracts\" next year, with building expected to start the following year.\n\n\"It's a great day for the Royal Navy.\"\n\nThe navy currently uses Type 23 frigates, which would be slowly phased out, added Sir Michael.\n\nThey are to be replaced by eight Type 26 frigates, which are being built in Glasgow, and five of the smaller Type 31e frigates.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon tells Radio 4's Today the defence budget will \"continue to increase\"\n\nHe acknowledged previous warships had been over-budget and delivered late.\n\nBut he insisted that the new approach of fixing the price at the start, as recommended by industrialist Sir John Parker in his 2016 shipbuilding review, would allow them to take advantage of the \"renaissance\" in shipbuilding.\n\n\"We have to get back to making things,\" he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.\n\nHe said the defence budget would increase from £36bn this year to £37bn next year.\n\n\"I'm determined our armed forces will have the new equipment they need,\" he added.\n\nScottish National Party defence spokesman Stewart McDonald said the plans had \"nothing to do with ambition\".\n\n\"It is all about squeezing costs to the bone and cutting corners, and still leaves real uncertainties for the future for workers at Scottish shipyards and the communities that depend on them.\"\n\nGMB, the union for workers in the shipbuilding industry, said it would watch the government closely to see whether it \"backs its warm words with deeds\" to protect the UK's shipbuilding future.\n\n\"Without a clear commitment from government, it will be foreign competitors who will benefit from vital work that should be taking place in UK yards,\" GMB national officer Ross Murdoch warned.", "The nuclear test that North Korea conducted on Sunday is thought to be the biggest ever conducted by Pyongyang. But what does this really mean and how will we find out more about the bomb? Physicist Ferenc Dalnoki-Veress explains.\n\nA nuclear explosion is an extremely large explosion, so large that it shakes the ground just as an earthquake does and is detected by seismic sensors thousands of kilometres away.\n\nThe magnitude of the shaking is a measure of the immense energy released by the event. A parameter known as the body-wave magnitude (Mb) is used.\n\nThe US hydrogen bomb explosion in 1952 was the first test of a thermonuclear device\n\nThis is not a linear scale. A magnitude-6 event, for example, releases 30 times more energy than one of magnitude 5.\n\nIn all, 34 stations that are part of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty Organisation's (CTBTO) vast seismic monitoring network detected North Korea's explosion and it was so intense that it actually \"saturated\" the detectors. In other words for this monitoring network, which is sensitive to extremely small nuclear test explosions, this test was so high it essentially went off scale.\n\nThere have been widely differing calculations of the power of this blast, ranging from 50-150 kilotonnes. The force is measured in kilotonnes to indicate what would happen if one kilotonne of TNT was exploded.\n\nThe yields predicted so far vary because it depends on the precise formula used: which scaling relation of the yield as a function of body wave magnitude is used - and that depends on a variety of factors such as the depth and type of rock where the test was conducted, for example.\n\nA recent scaling equation takes into account the depth at which an explosion took place. This was developed by Miao Zhang and Lianxing Wen from the University of Science and Technology of China and Stony Brook and is appropriate for North Korea.\n\nIt means that we can begin to start guessing how powerful the blast would have been at various depths and this is what it looks like in a graph.\n\nModelling of the test site has led analysts to guess that blasts take place at depths as deep as 600 to 900 metres (1968-2952ft). If that is true, the yield is likely to have been at least 370 kilotonnes, which is vastly more than most estimates.\n\nWhat this graph shows is that small differences in depth can make vast differences in yield or power. Compare this with the destructive force of Hiroshima: that came in at 15 kilotonnes.\n\nThis new estimate is consistent with the yield of a \"two-stage\" thermonuclear device, which is the type of bomb that North Korea claims that they have developed.\n\nBut more work will need to be done to determine the depth at which this test was conducted to reach consensus on the yield - that is the power - of the bomb.\n\nFerenc Dalnoki-Veress is scientist in residence at the Middlebury Institute of International studies at Monterey.", "The Trump administration has confirmed it's ending the Obama-era programme called Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca). Now the president - and Congress - must grapple with the political fallout.\n\nIt won't be a hard break. Current enrolees will be allowed to maintain their normalised residency status until the expiration of their current two-year permits, and renewals for those whose status ends within the next six months will be processed until the end of September.\n\nNevertheless, the move is a significant change for the more than 840,000 long-time US residents who entered the nation without documentation when they were under the age of 16 and accepted Barack Obama's offer to emerge from the legal shadows.\n\nIt also represents a new challenge for the politicians in Washington.\n\nFor once, Mr Trump avoided the spotlight following a major presidential decision. Instead, the administration provided an off-the record briefing for reporters, followed by an on-camera statement by Attorney General Jeff Sessions - after which he took no questions.\n\nThe former Alabama senator said the administration was doing the \"compassionate\" move by ending the programme over the course of two years, rather than risk having a court rule Daca illegal and instantly end protections for formerly covered immigrants.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe - and other administration officials - overstated the unanimity of the opinion in the legal world as to the validity of Mr Obama's order, but there was a very real possibility that a federal judge would have suspended the programme if a group of Republican-controlled states followed through with their threat to file a lawsuit.\n\nThe president perhaps took a back seat on Tuesday because Daca protections are generally popular with Americans, who have sympathy for young adults in the programme, many of whom have no recollection of their previous home countries. This is a presidential decision that will have a very human face and very real consequences.\n\nThe president would eventually issue a statement of his own, largely echoing Mr Sessions' legal arguments and putting the onus on Congress to work on \"responsible immigration reform\".\n\nWould that include Daca-like protections? Mr Trump wasn't clear - but, as always, his Twitter feed might offer some suggestions.\n\n\"Congress get ready to do your job,\" he wrote. \"Daca!\"\n\nBy Tuesday evening he had cast the finality of his decision into question, writing: \"Congress now has 6 months to legalize DACA (something the Obama Administration was unable to do). If they can't, I will revisit this issue!\"\n\nThe journey from telling Congress to \"do its job\" and actually getting legislation on the president's desk is a long one, even with the president raising questions about whether he plans to follow through with his decision. Despite Republican control of both the Senate and the House of Representatives, significant legislative achievements have been few and far between during the Trump presidency.\n\nWhat's more, Congress has been grappling with this particular issue for more than 15 years to no avail. The closest they came was during the Democratic-controlled Congress in 2010, when the House passed a Daca-like bill, but it failed to get the 60 votes in the Senate necessary to break a Republican filibuster.\n\nConservatives were largely united in opposition, joined by a handful of Democrats. That prompted Mr Obama's unilateral executive action, which he framed as an exercise in presidential \"prosecutorial discretion\", buttressed by a process that granted legal status only to those who had come to the US as children, lived on America soil for at least 10 years, had a clean criminal record and had completed high school or served in the military.\n\nNow Congress must act if it wants to preserve the programme. Legislators haven't always responded well to the threat of doomsday deadlines, however. Back in 2013 they faced severe across-the-board budget cuts unless they reached a compromise to trim the federal deficit. They didn't, and the so-called \"sequestration\" budget rules have hamstrung legislators ever since.\n\nDemocratic Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois and Republican Lindsey Graham of South Carolina announced on Tuesday they were introducing a bill to codify Daca similar to previous efforts, but a stand-alone measure isn't what the Trump administration has in mind.\n\nAccording to the White House, any Daca reinstatement should be part of comprehensive immigration reform that includes strengthened border security, a change to merit-based immigration and cuts to overall legal immigration numbers. The legislative process for such a measure - even under favourable circumstances - could drag on for months.\n\nThe circumstances, however, are less than favourable. Democrats are likely not interested in anything other than straight-up Daca re-instatement. Funding for Mr Trump's Mexican border wall, for instance, would be a non-starter.\n\nAs for Republicans? Similar to other recent big-ticket items on the legislative agenda, there's far from unanimity on how to proceed.\n\nIn announcing the administration's decision to \"wind down\" Daca, Mr Sessions didn't just argue that the Obama-era policy was presidential overreach of questionable legality. While much of his statement was about upholding \"the rule of law\", he also made clear he thought Daca was bad policy.\n\n\"The effect of this unilateral executive amnesty, among other things, contributed to a surge of unaccompanied minors on the southern border that yielded terrible humanitarian consequences,\" the attorney general said. \"It also denied jobs to hundreds of thousands of Americans by allowing those same jobs to go to illegal aliens.\"\n\nIn his press statement, Mr Trump was equally explicit, drawing the line between Daca recipients - many of whom have lived in the US for most of their lives - and \"Americans\".\n\n\"We must remember that young Americans have dreams too,\" Mr Trump said. \"Being in government means setting priorities. Our first and highest priority in advancing immigration reform must be to improve jobs, wages and security for American workers and their families.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'America is the only country I've known'\n\nMany Republicans in Congress - even those who have in the past criticised Obama's executive action - have offered a more supportive tone in backing legislation that provides Daca recipients with legal status.\n\nSpeaker of the House Paul Ryan said he hopes Congress can ensure that \"those who have done nothing wrong can still contribute as a valued part of this great country\".\n\nSenator John McCain was more blunt, calling Mr Trump's decision the \"wrong approach\".\n\n\"I believe that rescinding Daca at this time is an unacceptable reversal of the promises and opportunities that have been conferred on these individuals,\" he said in a press release.\n\nMeanwhile, battle lines are forming on the other side of the debate, as well. Ann Coulter, a conservative columnist who was an early supporter of candidate Trump's tough immigration rhetoric, had a warning to congressional Republicans.\n\n\"Millions of voters not only won't vote for Donald Trump again, but will never vote Republican again if they pass this Daca amnesty,\" she tweeted.\n\nA bit of executive leadership on this issue would likely go a long way toward helping unite the Republican Party, but that doesn't seem to be forthcoming. The president himself, at times, has appeared as divided as his party.\n\nWhile he campaigned on the immediate termination of all Mr Obama's \"illegal\" executive orders - including Daca - he's since been much more equivocal, saying that deciding what to do about these so-called DREAMers has been \"very tough\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis isn't the first time the president, who likes to fashion himself as a decisive executive, has played Hamlet on the national stage. There was similarly professed soul-searching prior to his announcement that he was increasing US forces in Afghanistan and withdrawing the US from the Paris climate accord.\n\nThe Afghanistan move ran counter to candidate Trump's campaign pledge to reduce US exposure there and exposed a rift between his military aides and the more nativist leanings of some of his political advisers.\n\nThe other moments of doubt and reflection revealed tension between White House hard-liners and moderates in the White House, including daughter Ivanka Trump, who serves as a presidential close adviser and confidante.\n\nAnd with both the climate agreement and Daca, Ivanka and other White House, moderates were on the losing side.\n\nIn a White House that has been wracked at times by palace intrigue, it's interesting to note where the president has seemed the most torn. On military matters, the generals tend to prevail. But when it comes to domestic issues, the president usually tilts towards the promises he made to his base, even if the establishment - and his daughter - advise otherwise.\n\nOver the coming days and weeks Washington may be obsessed with the political implications of this decision. What does it mean for the president's popularity? What are the risks for moderate Republicans in Congress already facing tough re-elections next year? Which party can gain the upper hand in the coming battles?\n\nOutside of the nation's capital, the president's decision will have very real consequences for Daca beneficiaries. In six months, individuals who had emerged from the legal shadows - who had provided their names and pertinent information to the US government in exchange for normalised immigration status - will start to be plunged back into darkness.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. 'We won't go back into the shadows', says this undocumented immigrant\n\nEven though the Trump administration has said that they will not be prioritised for deportation, the sense of security and benefits these long-time US residents enjoyed will be gone.\n\nFor some Americans, this is a cold but hard truth for those who violated the law, even if they did so as children. For others, it is an avoidable tragedy - one of the president's making.\n\nFor Daca recipients, the countdown clock is now ticking.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Helicopters were used to lift people off the Jurassic Skyline Tower\n\nFourteen people have been winched to safety after becoming trapped up a 53m-high (174ft) viewing tower in Dorset.\n\nThirteen visitors, including an 11-week-old baby, and a member of staff were rescued from Weymouth's Jurassic Skyline tower by coastguard helicopter.\n\nThe rescue operation began after fire crews were called at about 16:15 BST and ascended the tower.\n\nThe helicopter arrived at around 19:30, when other rescue options were ruled out due to bad weather.\n\nIt refuelled in Bournemouth at 21:00, before returning to winch those who remained in the tower to safety.\n\nThe rescue was completed at about 22:10 and the helicopter was flown back to its base at Lee-on-the-Solent.\n\nDorset Fire and Rescue said: \"Arrangements have been made to provide them with a safe place to rest and recover once returned to the ground.\"\n\nThe firefighters in the tower were getting themselves out of the building.\n\nThe operator of the tower, which gives 360-degree views of the coastline, Jurassic Skyline, said on Facebook the problem was down to \"technical difficulties\".\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\nHurricane Irma has caused considerable damage on French island territories in the Caribbean, and casualties are expected, France's president says.\n\nThe impact of Irma on St Martin and St Barts would be \"hard and cruel\", Emmanuel Macron added.\n\nHis overseas affairs minister later confirmed at least two people dead and another two seriously injured.\n\nThe storm damaged more than 90% of buildings on Barbuda, Antigua and Barbuda's prime minister said.\n\nThe category five hurricane, the highest possible level, is now passing over the northern Virgin Islands.\n\nThe most powerful storm in a decade, with wind speeds of 295km/h (185mph), is also forecast by the US National Hurricane Center to pass near or just north of Puerto Rico, then near or just north of the coast of the Dominican Republic on Thursday.\n\nHurricane Irma first hit Antigua and Barbuda, before moving on to St Martin and Saint Barthélemy - the French holiday destination popularly known as St Barts.\n\nSignificant damage is also being reported in the Dutch section of St Martin, known as Sint-Maarten.\n\nFrench Interior Minister Gérard Collomb said the hurricane had caused major floods, and destroyed buildings, including four of the \"most solid\" on the island.\n\nThousands of people have been evacuated from at-risk areas across the Caribbean. Residents have flocked to shops for food, water, and emergency supplies, and airports have closed on several islands which are popular holiday destinations.\n\nBritish Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said the government was in touch with British overseas territories caught up in Irma, and was doing \"everything we can to help those afflicted\".\n\nIn the US, Florida's Key West area has ordered a mandatory evacuation, with landfall expected at the weekend.\n\nIrma as seen from space at 11:30 GMT on Wednesday\n\nThe French government said earlier it was worried about thousands of people who had refused to seek shelter on the islands.\n\nOfficials in the French territory of Guadeloupe confirmed the following damage:\n\nIn the Dutch territory, known as Sint-Maarten, the airport has been closed with photos showing debris strewn across the departures area and outside.\n\nThere has been a total power blackout, streets are littered with debris, cars are underwater and boats in the ports have been destroyed, Dutch broadcaster NOS reported (in Dutch).\n\nFrance's interior minister said three emergency teams were being sent to the islands, two from France and one from Guadeloupe.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Alison Strand told the BBC about the \"dangerous conditions\" in Anguilla\n\nConfirming the two fatalities in St Martin and St Barts, French Overseas Affairs Minister Annick Girardin said: \"Obviously the situation can change very quickly.\"\n\nThe hurricane had caused major flooding in low-lying areas, and authorities had yet to gain access to the worst-hit areas, she added.\n\nSome 40,000 people live in the French part of St Martin, with around the same number estimated to live on the Dutch side. About 9,000 people live on St Barts.\n\nSome islands in the region are almost at sea level and any significant storm surges would be potentially deadly, the BBC's Will Grant reports from Havana.\n\nAntigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne announced the huge destruction on Barbuda, population 1,600, in a satellite phone call to local broadcaster ABS TV and radio.\n\nHowever, Antigua, population 80,000, escaped major damage, with no loss of life, he said earlier.\n\nUS President Donald Trump has declared a state of emergency for Florida, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, mobilising federal disaster relief efforts.\n\nIn Florida's Key West, visitors will be required to leave on Wednesday morning, with residents due to follow in the evening.\n\n\"Watching Hurricane closely,\" Mr Trump tweeted on Wednesday. \"My team, which has done, and is doing, such a good job in Texas, is already in Florida. No rest for the weary!\"\n\nParts of Texas and Louisiana are dealing with the damage done by Hurricane Harvey in late August. But it is not yet clear what impact Hurricane Irma might have on the US mainland.\n\nThe US House of Representatives on Wednesday approved roughly $8bn (£6.1bn) in initial emergency aid for states affected by Harvey. The measure will now go to the Senate.\n\nA third storm further out in the Atlantic behind Irma swelled to category one hurricane strength on Wednesday, the US National Hurricane Center confirmed. Hurricane Jose has a maximum sustained wind speed of 75km/h.\n\nSeeing multiple storms developing in the same area of the Atlantic in close succession is not uncommon.\n\nRarer though is the strength of the hurricanes, with Harvey making landfall in the US as a category four.\n\nThere have never been two category four storms making landfall on the US mainland during the same season, since records began.\n\nAre you in the region? Are you a holidaymaker unable to get a flight home or a resident who has been preparing for Hurricane Irma? If it is safe for you to do so, share your experiences by emailing haveyoursay@bbc.co.uk.\n\nPlease include a contact number if you are willing to speak to a BBC journalist. You can also contact us in the following ways:", "Firms that rely on EU workers have warned of the \"catastrophic\" impact of proposals to slash unskilled migration on the day Britain leaves the EU.\n\nUnder the draft plan, leaked to the Guardian, firms would have to recruit locally unless they could prove an \"economic need\" to employ EU citizens.\n\nThey could face a skills tax to boost training of UK workers if they still chose to employ unskilled EU staff.\n\nBut business groups say a \"sudden\" cut could cause \"massive disruption\".\n\nThe National Farmers' Union claimed the \"entire food supply chain\" could be threatened.\n\nNFU deputy president Minette Batters said: \"We are calling for an urgent and clear commitment from government to ensure that farmers and growers have access to sufficient numbers of permanent and seasonal workers post-Brexit.\n\n\"And we need clarity on the new rules for EU nationals living and working in the UK well before free movement ends in March 2019.\"\n\nThe leaked Home Office document has not been signed off by ministers, who will set out their post-Brexit migration plans later this year.\n\nBut Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said: \"The public voted to leave the European Union. That means freedom of movement has to end.\"\n\nHe said \"people with the right skills\" would still be \"welcome\".\n\nBut he added: \"Equally we have to make sure that British companies are also prepared to train up British workers.\n\nThe prime minister has at least two big reasons for wanting to get this right.\n\nFor Theresa May, the referendum result was a clear instruction from the British people that they wanted to reduce the levels of immigration. Politically, therefore, she believes it's a demand she has to meet.\n\nAnd as home secretary for six years, when the government continually flunked its own immigration target, the new system that will control immigration is finally, perhaps, a chance to meet her own long-missed goal.\n\nSo Wednesday's mega-leak from the Home Office of the potential design of the post Brexit system is significant. Read more\n\n\"The public are very clear, they want to see immigration not stopped but brought properly under control.\"\n\nHis message was echoed by Theresa May at Prime Minister's Questions, who told MPs immigration had to be cut to ease the strain on public services, adding that it \"often hits those at the lower end of the income scale hardest in depressing their wages\".\n\nThe EU has not issued an official response to the leaked document. Unnamed sources have told The Times the EU would block access to the single market during the transition period the UK wants after Brexit if it presses ahead with the proposals.\n\nMichael Fallon said the government would take the views of business into account when drawing up its migration policy.\n\nBut business groups have hit back at his suggestion that they are using cheap foreign labour rather than training up British workers.\n\nThe British Hospitality Association said: \"If these proposals are implemented it could be catastrophic for the UK hospitality industry and for those who enjoy the hospitality it brings.\"\n\nThe BHA claims 75% of waiters, 25% of chefs and 37% of housekeepers in the UK are EU nationals and at least 60,000 new EU workers are needed every year to fill vacancies.\n\nThe organisation said it would take 10 years to train up enough British workers to plug the gap and some businesses would fail in the meantime, \"taking UK jobs with them\".\n\nIan Wright, director general of the Food and Drink Federation, said: \"If this does represent the government's thinking it shows a deep lack of understanding of the vital contribution that EU migrant workers make - at all skill levels - across the food chain.\"\n\nA trade body representing Britain's manufacturers, the EEF described the leaked proposals as a \"mixed bag\".\n\n\"On the highly skilled side, the system described is one we can work with, after some changes,\" a spokesman said, but it had \"grave concerns\" about low-skilled workers, \"with many UK manufacturers telling us that they simply don't get jobs applications from prospective UK workers\".\n\nThe Home Office document obtained by the Guardian, entitled the Border, Immigration and Citizenship System After the UK Leaves the EU, is marked extremely sensitive and dated August 2017.\n\nAmong the ideas in it are:\n\n\"The government will take a view on the economic and social needs of the country as regards EU migration, rather than leaving this decision entirely to those wishing to come here and employers,\" the document states.\n\nLow-skilled migrants would be offered residency for a maximum of two years while those in \"high-skilled occupations\" would be granted permits to work for a longer period of three to five years.\n\nEU citizens coming as tourists, on short-term business trips or visits to friends and family would be able to enter the UK without needing permission, under the draft proposals.\n\nThose staying longer would need to register for a residence permit by showing proof of employment, study or self-sufficiency. Applicants' fingerprints could also be taken.\n\nThe document says the new regime would only come fully into force at the end of a transition period, which could last up to three years.\n\nThe proposals would not affect EU nationals already living and working in the UK - the government says they should be given the right to apply for \"settled status\" after five years of being lawful residents, although agreement on this has yet to be reached in Brexit talks.\n\nThe leaked document says: \"Put plainly, this means that, to be considered valuable to the country as a whole, immigration should benefit not just the migrants themselves but also make existing residents better off.\"\n\nSources have told the BBC that the proposals have been updated six times since the leaked document was written in August and although the broad principles in it are correct, it has yet to be discussed by the cabinet.\n\nLord Green, of the Migration Watch pressure group, said: \"These proposals rightly focus on low-skilled migration and by doing so could reduce net migration from the EU by 100,000 a year over time.\"\n\nUKIP also welcomed the proposals, saying they should be implemented \"without fudging\" - but Labour MP Yvette Cooper said they appeared to fly in the face of Home Secretary Amber Rudd's commitment earlier this summer to consult on a post-Brexit immigration system.\n\nThe TUC said the \"back of the envelope plans\" would \"create an underground economy, encouraging bad bosses to exploit migrants and undercut decent employers offering good jobs\".\n\nLib Dem leader Sir Vince Cable claimed Theresa May had suppressed \"up to nine reports\" showing immigration did not hit the wages or jobs of existing UK workers when she was home secretary - claims denied by Downing Street.\n\nItaly's minister for European Affairs, Sandro Gozi, has described the proposals as \"very restrictive and unacceptable\".\n\nHe told the BBC News Channel that it was \"the wrong direction in our analysis\" and \"we won't be ready to negotiate along those lines\".", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: What can AR do on iPhone?\n\nFace recognition, an OLED screen and a £999 price tag will grab all the headlines. But software developers around the world were waiting on one thing from the Apple event - more news on augmented reality.\n\nAnd slap bang in the middle of the iPhone 8 unveiling, a long section about AR, and a demo from a games developer - a clear signal that the company sees the technology as a key attraction in its new phones.\n\nBack in May, Apple released ARKit, its augmented reality development tool, hoping that developers would rush to try it out and give the company a lead in the fast growing technology, which imposes virtual objects on the real world. And it has done just that.\n\nDevelopers have been quick to experiment, showing off all kinds of apps, from a simple AR measuring tape to work out whether that chunky sofa will fit through the door, to a restaurant app that puts a virtual burger on your real plate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThis week I found myself chasing pigeons around a cool shared office space in Shoreditch with Jamie Shoard. His tiny four-person company has used ARKit to develop Pigeon Panic, which he describes as \"an utterly ridiculous game, built to live out your very achievable fantasies of running haphazardly into large flocks of virtual pigeons\".\n\nAugmented reality has been around for a long time, but it was only with the arrival of Pokemon Go last year that it entered the lives of millions of smartphone users.\n\nJamie Shoard says that until now developing AR apps was a complex business that could only be contemplated by major developers, and ARKit has changed that: \"The technology would have taken years to create and a team of hundreds - now it can be done in matter of months by small teams like ours.\"\n\nHe now expects a new flowering of creativity in an app landscape that has been getting quite stale.\n\nApple showed off AR games played via its new smartphones\n\nBut if Apple is to spark this AR revolution, it has a number of hurdles to clear. First, there is plenty of competition.\n\nFor some years Google has been pushing its Tango augmented reality platform, but with just a couple of smartphones boasting the tech to make it work, the company saw the writing on the wall when ARKit came out.\n\nIt has ditched the brand and unveiled ARCore, which will work on millions of Android phones, with a big pitch to the developer community to get involved. Google's own designers have also demonstrated their first experiments, showing off a Streetview animation which allows you to zoom into the British Museum from the front of the building, and a training app demonstrating how to use an espresso machine.\n\nThe other big player is Microsoft with its Hololens headset, which the firm is using to bring what it calls mixed reality into the workplace and the classroom. While it may provide a more convincing experience than AR seen through a mobile phone, the headset is expensive and is not at this stage aimed at the consumer market.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nIf anyone can be considered a veteran of the augmented reality world, it is Steve Dann, whose Amplified Robot studio is based in Soho.\n\nHis first AR project was for the Times newspaper 10 years ago and involved the use of a laptop's camera - smartphones were not in common use back then.\n\nHe admits that the revolution has taken longer to take off than he imagined - \"the technology has not advanced quite as quickly as we hoped it would\". But he does believe that Apple's initiative is a key moment for augmented reality.\n\n\"ARKit makes a big difference because it's an Apple statement of intent,\" he explained.\n\n\"Any time you get Apple entering into something, it is fully committed, and that will drag other companies in.\"\n\nBut however intense the competition to create compelling new uses for AR, there is another nagging question - do we really want to see our world through the lens of our smartphone camera?\n\nThe buzz has faded around pioneering augmented reality game Pokemon Go\n\nThe buzz around Pokemon Go has died down, and new augmented reality apps have not taken off in the same way. Paul Lee, head of technology research at Deloitte, says get ready for a big upsurge in interest: \"I expect there will be hundreds or millions of smartphone users who use augmented reality enhanced digital apps at least five times in 2018.\"\n\nHe says we are already using AR without realising it when for instance we use filters in photo apps to improve the real world. AR will become a feature of many existing apps. \"Augmenting reality is a very human activity - hence the appeal. It's a form of digital make up.\"\n\nBut Mr Dann thinks another technology advance may be needed before most people are ready to augment their world.\n\n\"I think ARKit is a step on the road to the future. I think augmented reality will really take off when you can see it through head mounted displays or a pair of glasses,\" he says.\n\nOf course, that has already been tried - but Google Glass proved unpalatable to its users. Maybe somewhere inside the Apple Park spaceship, engineers are working on an iHeadset, but for now the company is counting on the iPhone as its weapon to barge its way into another new market.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The moment the government's attempt to take the UK out of EU law passed its first parliamentary test\n\nThe government's bid to extract the UK from EU law in time for Brexit has passed its first parliamentary test.\n\nMPs backed the EU Withdrawal Bill by 326 votes to 290 despite critics warning that it represented a \"power grab\" by ministers.\n\nThe bill, which will end the supremacy of EU law in the UK, now moves onto its next parliamentary stage.\n\nMinisters sought to reassure MPs by considering calls for safeguards over their use of new powers.\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May welcomed the Commons vote in the early hours of Tuesday morning, saying the bill offered \"certainty and clarity\" - but Labour described it as an \"affront to parliamentary democracy\".\n\nSeven Labour MPs defied Jeremy Corbyn's order to oppose the bill - Ronnie Campbell, Frank Field, Kate Hoey, Kelvin Hopkins, John Mann, Dennis Skinner and Graham Stringer. No Conservatives voted against it.\n\nHaving cleared the second reading stage, the bill will now face more attempts to change it with MPs, including several senior Conservative backbenchers, publishing a proposed 157 amendments, covering 59 pages.\n\nPreviously referred to as the Great Repeal Bill, the EU Withdrawal Bill overturns the 1972 European Communities Act which took the UK into the then European Economic Community.\n\nIt will also convert all existing EU laws into UK law, to ensure there are no gaps in legislation on Brexit day.\n\nCritics' concerns centre on ministers giving themselves the power to make changes to laws during this process without consulting MPs.\n\nThe government says it needs to be able to make minor technical changes to ensure a smooth transition, but fears were raised that ministers were getting sweeping powers to avoid parliamentary scrutiny.\n\nMore than 100 MPs had their say during the two-day second reading debate.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"This isn't the end of this bill, just one very early stage\"\n\nLabour, which denounced the \"vague offers\" of concessions, mostly voted against the bill.\n\nShadow Brexit secretary Sir Keir Starmer said the bill was a \"naked power grab\" by the government, adding that \"this is a deeply disappointing result\".\n\nHe said: \"Labour will seek to amend and remove the worst aspects from the bill but the flaws are so fundamental it's hard to see how this could ever be made fit for purpose.\"\n\nLib Dem Brexit spokesman Tom Brake said MPs who backed the bill should feel \"ashamed\".\n\n\"This is a dark day for the mother of parliaments,\" he added.\n\nSumming up the Commons debate, Justice Secretary David Lidington had said some criticism had been \"exaggerated up to and beyond the point of hyperbole\".\n\nHe said the bill would \"enable us to have a coherent and functioning statute book\" on the day the UK leaves the EU.\n\nBBC political editor Laura Kuenssberg said Conservative MPs concerned about the legislation had already tabled a number of amendments to \"remove the excesses of the bill\" and to \"make considerable improvements\".\n\nThese include limiting the use of delegated powers, giving Parliament the \"final say\" on the EU withdrawal agreement and restoring the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.\n\nOne MP told the BBC: \"We hope MPs from all parties who share our concerns and aims to make the bill fit for the purpose of delivering a smooth Brexit will add their names.\"\n\nSNP MPs, who also voted against the bill, said powers over devolved issues would be seized by Westminster as they were returned from Brussels.\n\nBut Mr Lidington denied this, predicting it would result in a \"significant increase\" in the powers exercised by the devolved administrations.\n\nThe bill will now receive line-by-line scrutiny in its committee stage.\n\nMPs voted in favour of the government's proposed timetable for debating legislation - by 318 votes to 301 - guaranteeing 64 hours of debate over eight days.\n\nBut Mr Lidington said the government was \"willing to consider\" extending the allocated time.\n\nThe Bill's committee stage will take place when MPs return to parliament after their party conferences.", "In the summer of 2007, Newcastle had much to look forward to. The Toon - Newcastle United - had a new owner, the billionaire retail tycoon Mike Ashley, and much was expected under the management of Sam Allardyce.\n\nThe performance of the team's shirt sponsor, Northern Rock, was a source of pride; after decades of hard times following the end of shipbuilding and mining, the North East had a new economic champion, one that was giving the financial services giants of the South a real run for their money.\n\nThe former building society had demutualised and scaled the heights of the FTSE 100, the elite club of Britain's biggest quoted companies, and in the process had become the fourth biggest bank in the UK by share of lending.\n\nThe chairman, Matt Ridley, summed it up in the annual report, lauding \"another excellent year\" and said \"our strategy of using growth, cost efficiency and credit quality to reward both shareholders and customers continues to run well.\"\n\nA few months later, Northern Rock's empire was in ruins. The fuel it had used to grow so quickly turned out to be toxic.\n\nNorthern Rock had borrowed heavily on the international money markets\n\nRather than using customer deposits as the source of funds to lend out to homeowners, it borrowed in the international money markets.\n\nWhen the sub-prime crisis hit America, those markets took fright, and stopped lending to anything that looked like it might be over-exposed to the housing market. Northern Rock was an obvious first casualty.\n\nThe BBC broke the news that it needed Bank of England support 10 years ago tomorrow, and the day after there were queues outside branches, the first run on a British bank in 150 years. After limping on for a few more months, Northern Rock was nationalised in February 2008.\n\nCouncillor Nick Forbes, leader of Newcastle City Council, remembers walking out of the civic offices to nearby Northumberland Street where Northern Rock had its main city centre branch. \"There was a queue outside going right down the street. That really was the first sign that something was wrong. No-one really saw it coming.\"\n\nCustomers queued for hours to take out their savings\n\nNorthern Rock's demise - it was split into \"bad\" and \"good\" sets of assets and operations, with Virgin Money buying the latter - was a shock to the region's economy, as was the banking crisis that followed.\n\n\"We were early into recession and late out,\" said Mr Forbes. \"It's only now really that we have recaptured that lost ground.\"\n\nAbout 2,500 jobs were lost. There was another heavy blow, little understood outside the North East - the loss of the Northern Rock Foundation, a charitable trust which received 5% of the bank's profits each year.\n\nMany who lost their savings want the government to change its mind on compensation\n\nIt had given £235m to good causes before the bank was nationalised and broken up. Mr Forbes is now pressing the Treasury to give back some of the profits it expects to make from its intervention on Northern Rock to make up for the loss of the foundation.\n\nNorthern Rock shareholders are also making a claim on the potential profits, which independent experts think could eventually reach about £8bn.\n\nAn association of small shareholders, many of whom lost their life savings when the bank was nationalised, has asked the chancellor to think again on compensation, which has been denied before.\n\nAny surplus from Northern Rock's privatisation should go to taxpayers, says the Treasury\n\nJon Wood, a fund manager who was a big Northern Rock shareholder and has been severely critical of the Bank of England's action, is also thought be to considering fresh legal action. The Treasury has said that any surplus from the Northern Rock nationalisation should compensate taxpayers for the amounts risked in the rescue.\n\nA decade on, important strands of \"the run on the Rock\" story are only now being uncovered. In an interview with the BBC Gary Hoffman, who was parachuted in as chief executive after privatisation, said he found an organisation with an unquestioning - and unhappy - culture.\n\n\"The management had completely lost touch with the coal face, and did not know what was happening. There was an attitude that you did not question what was going on, which was a tragedy because there were extremely good people at the bank.\"\n\nHoffman reveals that the Treasury had considered all options for the future of the bank when he was in charge - not just a sale to a banking rival, but also a refloating of the bank as an independent business, and its complete run-down and closure.\n\nThe collapse was the first sign in Britain of the coming global financial crisis\n\nOther senior banking sources have told the BBC that the last option - closure - was the favourite right up until Christmas Eve 2008, when the bank's leadership was able to convince the Treasury it could be sold as a going concern.\n\nMr Hoffman says that the UK's banking sector is now safer than in the run-up to the crisis, with greater capital reserves at the big institutions. Others disagree, however, saying the increases have been largely illusory.\n\nKevin Dowd, professor of finance and economics at the University of Durham, says changes in bank regulations have not greatly improved banks' resilience.\n\n\"The Bank of England looks at the book value of bank assets - the value that they themselves put on their assets. But if you look at the stock market, investors don't believe it because most of our big banks have stock market values less than their book values.\"", "North Korea says it has developed and tested a hydrogen bomb\n\nNorth Korea has threatened the United States with the \"greatest pain\" it has ever suffered following new sanctions imposed by the United Nations.\n\nPyongyang's envoy to the UN accused Washington of opting for \"political, economic and military confrontation\".\n\nUS President Donald Trump said the move was nothing compared to what would have to happen to deal with North Korea.\n\nThe UN sanctions are an attempt to starve the country of fuel and income for its weapons programmes.\n\nThe measures restrict oil imports and ban textile exports, and were approved after North Korea's sixth and largest nuclear test earlier this month.\n\nHan Tae Song, North Korea's ambassador to the UN, said he \"categorically rejected\" what he called an \"illegal resolution\".\n\n\"The forthcoming measures by DPRK [the Democratic Republic of Korea] will make the US suffer the greatest pain it has ever experienced in its history,\" he told a UN conference in Geneva.\n\n\"Instead of making [the] right choice with rational analysis... the Washington regime finally opted for political, economic and military confrontation, obsessed with the wild dream of reversing the DPRK's development of nuclear force - which has already reached the completion phase.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Was your T-shirt made in North Korea?\n\nThe resolution was only passed unanimously after North Korea's allies Russia and China agreed to softer sanctions than those proposed by the US.\n\nThe initial text included a total ban on oil imports, a measure seen by some analysts as potentially destabilising for the regime.\n\nThe new sanctions agreed by the UN include:\n\nA proposed asset freeze and a travel ban on North Korean leader Kim Jong-un were dropped.\n\nReacting on Tuesday, Mr Trump said: \"We think it's just another very small step, not a big deal.\n\n\"I don't know if it has any impact, but certainly it was nice to get a 15 to nothing vote. But those sanctions are nothing compared to what ultimately will have to happen,\" he added, without giving details.\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\nThe US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, told the Security Council after the vote: \"We don't take pleasure in further strengthening sanctions today. We are not looking for war.\"\n\n\"The North Korean regime has not yet passed the point of no return,\" she added. \"If North Korea continues its dangerous path, we will continue with further pressure. The choice is theirs.\"\n\nA South Korean presidential office spokesman said on Tuesday: \"North Korea needs to realise that a reckless challenge against international peace will only bring about even stronger sanctions against them.\"\n\nMonday's resolution was the ninth one unanimously adopted by the UN since 2006.\n\nThe UN Security Council, which includes the US, has repeatedly slapped sanctions on North Korea\n\nChina's foreign ministry said on Tuesday (link in Chinese) that North Korea had \"ignored international opposition and once again conducted a nuclear test, severely violating UN Security Council resolutions\".\n\nIt also repeated its call for a \"peaceful resolution\" instead of a military response, adding: \"China will never allow the peninsula to descend into war and chaos.\"\n\nThe BBC's China editor Carrie Gracie says Beijing is treading a fine line and wants sanctions tough enough to signal its displeasure to Pyongyang and avoid American accusations of complicity, but not so tough as to threaten North Korea's survival.\n\nBoth Russia and China reiterated their proposal that the US and South Korea freeze all military drills - which anger North Korea - and asked for a halt in the deployment of the controversial anti-missile system Thaad, in exchange for Pyongyang's cessation of its weapons programmes.\n\nBeijing believes Thaad, which employs a powerful radar, is a security threat to China and neighbouring countries.\n\nMs Haley last week dismissed this proposal as \"insulting\".", "John Michie said his daughter Louella was \"so very positive\"\n\nGrieving Holby City actor John Michie has paid tribute to his daughter following her death at a music festival in Dorset.\n\nLouella Michie was found in a wooded area of the Bestival site at Lulworth Castle in the early hours of Monday.\n\nHer 60-year-old dad told The Sun that the family had \"lost an angel\".\n\nDorset Police said a 28-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murdering the 25-year-old is continuing to assist officers with inquiries.\n\nThe force said Miss Michie and the arrested man, who is also being interviewed on suspicion of supplying a controlled drug, knew each other.\n\nAn initial post-mortem examination which revealed no clear signs of an assault was inconclusive.\n\nMore tests, including toxicology to establish if there were any substances in her system, will now be carried out, police said.\n\nThe force has urged anyone with information to get in touch.\n\nMr Michie, who also starred in Coronation Street and Taggart, told the paper: \"She touched so many lives. She was so very positive, so bright, so out there.\n\n\"She had such energy. The tributes to her have been incredible.\"\n\nPosting on Twitter, modelling agency The Eye Casting said: \"It is with profound sadness and shock that we have heard of the death of our beautiful model Louella Michie.\n\n\"The thoughts of us all are with her sister Daisy and the rest of the family at this tragic time.\"\n\nBestival was first held in 2004 at Robin Hill on the Isle of Wight, but the four-day annual event was held at Lulworth Estate for the first time this 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. The history of Bombardier in Northern Ireland\n\nPrime Minister Theresa May has phoned US President Donald Trump over a threat to jobs at Bombardier in Belfast from a trade dispute.\n\nIn 2016, Canadian firm Bombardier won an order to supply up to 125 C-Series passenger jets to US airline Delta.\n\nThe wings for the C-Series are made at Bombardier's Belfast plant.\n\nHowever, rival aircraft firm Boeing has complained to the US authorities that the deal was unfairly subsidised by the Canadian state.\n\nBoeing has also complained about a UK government loan made to the Bombardier plant in Belfast.\n\nThe US Department of Commerce is due to make a ruling later this month.\n\nIt could hit Bombardier with punitive tariffs.\n\nMrs May and her Canadian counterpart, Justin Trudeau, would discuss the dispute at a meeting in Ottawa on 18 September, Reuters reported.\n\nThe wings for the C-Series planes are made in Belfast\n\nTariffs could make it very difficult for Bombardier to find new C-Series customers in the US.\n\nThe C-Series project supports hundreds of jobs in Belfast.\n\nThe government was \"working tirelessly to safeguard Bombardier's operations and its highly skilled workers in Belfast\", said a spokesperson.\n\n\"Ministers across government have engaged swiftly and extensively with Boeing, Bombardier, the US and Canadian governments,\" added the spokesperon.\n\n\"Our priority is to encourage Boeing to drop its case and seek a negotiated settlement with Bombardier.\"\n\nMrs May raised the issue and her concern to protect jobs in Northern Ireland in a call with President Donald Trump last week, Downing Street confirmed.\n\nBusiness Secretary Greg Clark had also travelled to Chicago to meet Boeing's chairman, president and chief executive officer, Dennis Muilenburg.\n\nBombardier managers in Belfast are also understood to have recently briefed trade unions about the importance of the case.\n\nBoeing has alleged that Bombardier engaged in \"price dumping\" by agreeing to sell 75 of their planes for almost $14m (£10.6m) below their cost price.\n\nThe company said it had appealed to the International Trade Commission \"to restore a level playing field in the US single-aisle airplane market\".\n\n\"Boeing had to take action as subsidised competition has hurt us now and will continue to hurt us for years to come, and we could not stand by given this clear case of illegal dumping,\" it said in a statement.\n\n\"Global trade only works if everyone plays by the same rules of the road, and that's a principle that ultimately creates the greatest value for Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and our aerospace industry.\"\n\nIt also pointed out that the Delta deal came after the regional government in Quebec effectively bailed out the C-Series programme with a $1bn investment.\n\n\"Equity infusions from government coffers not only rescued the program but have given Bombardier the resources it needs to aggressively target the US market,\" it said.\n\nBombardier has described the allegations as \"absurd\" and said the government investments \"comply with the laws and regulations in the jurisdictions where we do business\".\n\nSpeaking in the House of Commons on Tuesday, Liberal Democrat leader Sir Vince Cable called on the UK government to \"commit itself to standing very firmly behind Bombardier and its workers, and alongside the Canadian Government in resisting bullying from Boeing and its friend in the United States administration\".\n\nMinister for Climate Change and Industry Claire Perry said: \"It is vitally important that we have this dispute settled and we create the environment for many manufacturers in this vital sector to thrive and grow.\"\n\nStrangford DUP MP Jim Shannon raised concerns about the future of the C-Series with Research and Innovation Minister, Jo Johnson.\n\n\"He'll be aware of Boeing's attempts to stop the contract which will add $30m (£23m) to every plane (coming into) C-Series in Belfast,\" he said.\n\nMr Johnson replied: \"I can assure him that we are engaging very closely with the companies involved and will be following up on his point.\"", "More than a quarter of British people hold at least one anti-Semitic view, according to a study of attitudes to Jewish people.\n\nThe Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR) said the finding came from the largest and most detailed survey of attitudes towards Jews and Israel ever conducted in Britain.\n\nBut it said the study did not mean that British people were anti-Semitic.\n\nResearchers also found a correlation in anti-Jewish and anti-Israel attitudes.\n\nThe study found a relatively small number of British adults - 2.4% - expressed multiple anti-Semitic attitudes \"readily and confidently\".\n\nBut when questioned about whether they agreed with a number of statements, including \"Jews think they are better than other people\", and \"Jews exploit holocaust victimhood for their own purposes\", 30% agreed with at least one statement.\n\nDespite this, the researchers said they found that levels of anti-Semitism in Great Britain were among the lowest in the world.\n\nA spokesman for the Community Security Trust, which has recorded high levels anti-Semitic crime, said: \"We believe the new findings, data and nuance in this study will help us to work even more effectively with partners inside and outside the Jewish community to tackle this problem.\"\n\nThe report said about 70% of the population of Britain had a favourable opinion of Jews and did not hold any anti-Semitic ideas or views.\n\nThe JPR's researchers questioned 5,466 people face-to-face and online in the winter of 2016/17 - 995 of these were Muslims, although a smaller number of Muslims were included in the statisticians' nationally representative sample.\n\nThey found more than half of Muslims (55%) held at least one anti-Semitic attitude.\n\nDr Jonathan Boyd, director of the JPR, said: \"Our intention here was not to make any broad generalisations about the Muslim population and their attitudes towards Jews.\n\n\"There does seem to be some relationship between levels of religiosity in the Muslim population and anti-Semitism.\"\n\nThe institute said it wanted to promote an \"elastic view\", making a distinction between people who are clearly anti-Semites, and ideas that are perceived by Jews as anti-Semitic.\n\nIn December 2016 the government adopted an internationally recognised definition of anti-Semitism: \"a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews\".\n\nThe researchers also questioned people about their views on statements about Israel and the conflict with the Palestinians.\n\nTheir report said fewer than one in five people questioned (17%) had a favourable opinion of Israel, whereas about one in three (33%) held an unfavourable view.\n\nThe report said: \"The position of the British population towards Israel can be characterised as one of uncertainty or indifference, but among those who hold a view, people with sympathies towards the Palestinians are numerically dominant.\"\n\nDr Boyd said: \"Anti-Israel and anti-Jewish views exist both together and in isolation.\n\n\"The higher the level of anti-Israel attitudes measured, the more likely they are to hold anti-Semitic views as well.\"\n\nThe study also revealed that anti-Semitic attitudes were higher than normal among people who classified their politics as \"very right-wing\".\n\nAmong this group they were two to four times higher than among the general population.\n\nThe researchers said the prevalence was considerably higher among right-wingers than on the left.\n\nRabbi Charley Baginsky, from the Liberal Judaism movement, said: \"The report is important for helping us understand where the anxiety comes from within the community at large and for understanding why anti-Semitism seems to be the prevailing discourse within the community.\n\n\"We must be really careful that it does not come to define us and that we celebrate the positive interactions with society at large.\n\n\"What is arguably more important … is to educate and interact, to be more outward facing and open to discussion than inward facing.\"", "Louella Michie's body was discovered in a wooded area on the edge of the Bestival site\n\nA woman who was found dead at Bestival was the daughter of Holby City, Taggart and Coronation Street actor John Michie, his agent has confirmed.\n\nThe body of Louella Michie, 25, from London, was discovered in a wooded area at the Dorset festival site.\n\nPolice said they were called at about 01:00 BST amid concern for the welfare of a woman.\n\nA 28-year-old man from London has been arrested on suspicion of murder and is being questioned by police.\n\nA post-mortem examination is due to be carried out to establish the cause of death.\n\nIn a statement, Michie's agent said: \"Sadly, I can confirm the tragic death of John Michie's daughter Louella at Bestival.\n\n\"John and his wife Carol ask that the privacy of their family be respected at this traumatic time.\"\n\nJohn Michie currently stars as Guy Self in Holby City\n\nFestival founder DJ Rob da Bank tweeted a link to the statement, which was posted on the festival's Facebook page.\n\nIn a statement, Bestival organisers said the team were \"devastated to hear about this tragic news\".\n\n\"We continue to support the police in their ongoing investigation and our thoughts and prayers are with all the woman's family and friends.\"\n\nA cordon remains in place at the festival site while forensic examinations are carried out.\n\nThe festival was held at Lulworth Castle and estate\n\nDet Ch Insp Sarah Derbyshire, of Dorset Police, said: \"Following the discovery of the woman's body we have now launched an investigation into her death.\n\n\"We have specially trained officers supporting her family at this very difficult time.\"\n\nShe added the force was \"working closely\" with the festival organisers and urged anyone with information to get in touch.\n\nBestival was first held in 2004 at Robin Hill on the Isle of Wight.\n\nThis was the first year the four-day annual event was held at Dorset's Lulworth Estate, where its sister festival Camp Bestival has been held since 2008.\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. Who is burning down Rohingya villages?\n\nThe 300,000 people who have fled Rakhine state to Bangladesh over the past two weeks all come from the northern districts of Maungdaw, Buthidaung and Rathedaung, the last areas of Myanmar with sizeable Rohingya populations not confined to displacement camps.\n\nThese districts are hard to reach. Roads are poor, and the government requires permits to go there, which journalists rarely get.\n\nSo we grabbed the opportunity to join a government-organised visit to Maungdaw, for 18 local and foreign journalists.\n\nIt would mean seeing only places and people they wanted us to see. But sometimes, even under these restrictions, you can glean valuable insights.\n\nBesides, the government has arguments that need to be heard. It is now facing an armed insurgency, albeit one some would argue has been self-inflicted. The communal conflict in Rakhine state has a long history, and would be difficult for any government to deal with.\n\nA Muslim man sits in a marketplace in Maungdaw, which journalists were allowed to visit only under supervision\n\nOn arrival at Sittwe, the Rakhine state capital, we were given instructions. No-one was to leave the group and try to work independently. There was a curfew at 6pm, so no wandering after dark. We could request to go to places that interested us; in practice we found such requests were rejected on grounds of security. To be fair, I believe they were genuinely concerned for our safety.\n\nMost of the travel in this low-lying region of Myanmar is along the maze of creeks and rivers on crowded boats. The journey from Sittwe to Buthidaung takes six hours. From there we travelled for an hour on a rough road over the Mayu Hills to Maungdaw. As we drove into the town we passed our first burned village, Myo Thu Gyi. Even the palm trees were scorched.\n\nThe government's purpose in bringing us was to balance the overwhelmingly negative narrative coming from the Rohingya refugees arriving in Bangladesh, who have almost all spoken of a deliberate campaign of destruction by the Myanmar military and Rakhine mobs, and appalling human rights abuses.\n\nBut right away these efforts faltered.\n\nWe were first taken to a small school in Maungdaw, now crowded with displaced Hindu families. They all had the same story to tell of Muslims attacking, of fleeing in fear. Oddly, Hindus who have fled to Bangladesh all say they were attacked by local Rakhine Buddhists, because they resemble Rohingyas.\n\nIn the school we were accompanied by armed police and officials. Could they speak freely? One man started to tell me how soldiers had been firing at his village, and he was quickly corrected by a neighbour.\n\nA woman in an orange, lacy blouse and distinctive grey and mauve longyi was especially animated about the abuses by Muslims.\n\nA local monk said Muslims burned down their own homes\n\nWe were then taken to a Buddhist temple, where a monk described Muslims burning down their own homes, nearby. We were given photographs catching them in the act. They looked strange.\n\nMen in white haji caps posed as they set light to the palm-thatch roof. Women wearing what appeared to be lacy tablecloths on their heads melodramatically waved swords and machetes. Later I found that one of the women was in fact the animated Hindu woman from the school, and I saw that one of the men had also been present in among the displaced Hindu.\n\nThey had faked the photos to make it look as though Muslims were doing the burning.\n\nJournalists were provided with photos supposedly of Muslims \"caught in the act\"\n\nBut the BBC later identified the same woman in a Hindu village\n\nWe had an audience with Colonel Phone Tint, the local minister for border security. He described how Bengali terrorists, as they call the militants of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army, had taken control of Rohingya villages, and forced them to offer one man per household as a fighter. Those who refused to comply have their houses burned, he said. He accused the militants of planting mines and destroying three bridges.\n\nI asked whether he was saying that all of the dozens of burned villages had been destroyed by the militants. He confirmed that was the government's position. Responding to a question about military atrocities, he waved it away. \"Where is the proof?\" he asked. \"Look at those women,\" he meant the Rohingya refugees, \"who are making these claims - would anyone want to rape them?\"\n\nColonel Phone Tint insists 100% of burned villages have been set on fire by Muslim militants\n\nThe few Muslims we were able to see in Maungdaw were mostly too scared to talk in front of a camera. Breaking away from our minders, we spoke to some who described the hardship of not being allowed to leave their neighbourhood by the security forces, of food shortages, and intense fear.\n\nOne young man said they had wanted to flee to Bangladesh, but their leaders had signed an agreement with the authorities to stay. In the now quiet Bengali market, I asked a man what he was frightened of. The government, he said.\n\nWeeks after the violence, Alel Than Kyaw was somehow still smouldering\n\nThe main destination on our itinerary outside Maungdaw was the coastal town of Alel Than Kyaw. This was one of the places attacked by Arsa militants in the early hours of 25 August. As we approached, we passed village after village, all completely empty. We saw boats, apparently abandoned, along with goats and cattle. There were no people.\n\nAlel Than Kyaw had been razed to the ground. Even the clinic, with a sign showing it had been run by the charity Medecins Sans Frontieres, had been destroyed. To the north, in the distance we could see four columns of smoke rising, and heard bursts of automatic weapons fire. More villages being put to the torch, we guessed.\n\nThe MSF charity's clinic was just one of the levelled buildings\n\nPolice Lieutenant Aung Kyaw Moe described to us how he had been given advance warning of the attack. He had taken the non-Muslim population for protection into his barracks, and his men fought off the assailants - armed, he said, with guns, swords and home-made explosives, for three hours until they were driven off. Seventeen of the militants lay dead, and one immigration officer. The Muslim population fled shortly afterwards.\n\nBut he struggled to explain why parts of the town were still smouldering, two weeks after the attack, and in the rainy season. Perhaps a few Muslims stayed on, and then set their homes alight before leaving more recently, he suggested half-heartedly.\n\nThen, on our way back from Alel Than Kyaw, something entirely unplanned happened.\n\nThe village of Gaw Du Thar Ya, seen burning by the group\n\nWe spotted black smoke billowing out of some trees, over the rice fields. It was another village going up, right by the road. And the fires had only just started. We all shouted at our police escort to stop the van. When they did, we just ran, leaving our bewildered government minder behind. The police came with us, but then declared it was unsafe to enter the village. So we went ahead of them.\n\nThe sound of burning and crackling was everywhere. Women's clothing, clearly Muslim, was strewn on the muddy path. And there were muscular young men, holding swords and machetes, standing on the path, baffled by the sight of 18 sweaty journalists rushing towards them. They tried to avoid being filmed, and two of them dashed further into the village, bringing out the last of their group and making a hasty exit.\n\nThe village was reduced to charred timber and ashes\n\nThey said they were Rakhine Buddhists. One of my colleagues managed a quick conversation with one of them, who admitted they had set the houses on fire, with the help of the police.\n\nAs we walked in, we could see the roof of the madrassa had just been set alight. School texts with Arabic script had been thrown outside. An empty plastic jug, reeking of petrol, had been left on the path.\n\nThe village was called Gawdu Thar Ya. It was a Muslim village. There was no sign of the inhabitants. The Rakhine men who had torched the village walked out, past our police escort, some carrying household items they had looted.\n\nThe burning took place close to a number of large police barracks. No-one did anything to stop it.", "The Damor family now eat all their meals together\n\nMeals have a way of bringing families together. As food is laid out, everyone gathers round the table, conversation flows and families bond.\n\nBut traditionally, eating together has not been encouraged in India. Men and children are fed first and only then can women sit down to eat.\n\nBut in millions of poor homes, this practice has had an unintended consequence - malnutrition among women.\n\nNow, however, campaigners are urging women to eat with their families instead of after them. And, they say, the results have been very encouraging.\n\nNo-one knows when or where or how the practice started, but like every other symbol of patriarchy, it is deeply entrenched in people's psyche.\n\nAs a child, in my home too, my mother, grandmother, aunts and cousin's wives would cook and serve, but they would always be the last to eat.\n\nIn the pecking order, gods came first - once food was prepared, a small portion of all the dishes would be offered to them.\n\nIn my Brahmin home, even the resident cow was fed before humans - when my grandfather sat down to eat, he would set aside bits of food from every dish onto a small thick round piece of bread that was placed on a leaf. He would eat only after one of us had fed that to the cow.\n\nThis staggered eating sometimes caused minor friction at home - if men delayed mealtimes, it just meant that the women's wait to eat got longer. It didn't matter how hungry they were, they just had to wait.\n\nThe locally grown leafy vegetable is high in nutrients\n\nOur family was not an exception - this is how my neighbours ate, as did those living across the length and breadth of the country. In many families, a rather unhygienic practice involved women eating from the unwashed plates of their husbands.\n\nAnyone who sought an explanation for why this happened was told that it was the norm, that it had happened for centuries, that it was the traditional way.\n\nIn cities though, it is becoming increasingly common for educated and employed women to eat as and when they want to, but the tradition of women eating last continues to be widely followed to this day, especially in rural areas.\n\nIn homes like ours, it has no serious impact because there is enough food to go around. But in poor rural homes, it often leaves women and children hungry.\n\n\"This tradition of prioritising men's needs means sometimes when women sit down to eat, there isn't enough left for them,\" says Vandana Mishra of Rajasthan Nutrition Project (RNP), executed by charities Freedom from Hunger India Trust and Grameen Foundation.\n\nKarma, Manshu Damor's daughter-in-law, does most of the cooking at their home\n\nCampaigners are trying to promote locally grown coarse grain which they say is healthier\n\nA survey of 403 poor tribal women in the state's Banswara and Sirohi districts in March 2015 showed \"food secure and food insecure people in the same household\", Ms Mishra said.\n\n\"Men always said, 'I go to work first and children go to school, so we need to eat first',\" Rohit Samariya, RNP project manager in Banswara, told the BBC.\n\n\"We created plates to demonstrate what a man's plate looked like and what a woman's plate looked like to drive the point home that women were literally scraping the bottom of the barrel,\" he says.\n\nTo break this pattern, the group came up with a very simple but unusual strategy - to encourage families to eat their meals together.\n\nTheir two-year project concluded recently and to gauge its impact on rural communities, I travelled last month to the tribal-dominated Ambapara village in Banswara.\n\nAs I arrive at Manshu Damor's house, I find him chopping a type of locally grown leafy vegetable while his wife and daughter-in-law cook in the kitchen behind him.\n\nAmbapara is among India's poorest villages where 89% still defecate in the open, child marriages are rampant, literacy levels are low and women still cover their faces in the presence of men.\n\nSo when the RNP campaigners suggested that people eat their meals together as a family, it was nothing less than revolutionary.\n\nUntil then, Mr Damor tells me, he had never shared a meal with Barju, his wife of 35 years. The idea that his daughter-in-law Karma could sit alongside him was unthinkable.\n\n\"People said how could a woman eat in front of her father-in-law? It had always been against our tradition, so in the beginning I also resisted. I too found it a bit odd,\" he said.\n\nMr Samariya says by asking men to eat together with the women, \"we were asking them to change their behaviour\".\n\n\"In our patriarchal society, men are not brought up to care for their wives. So we have to sensitise them to gender issues.\"\n\nRamila Damor (front) said her family had their first meal together two years ago\n\nIt was not just men - women also believed in the same tradition. But after some persuasion, the villagers agreed to give it a try.\n\nAnd, it's made a world of difference to women's well-being.\n\n\"I was the one always cooking, but by the time I would sit down to eat, there would be little food left. Men would finish all the vegetables, so I'd have to contend with bread and salt,\" says Karma, Mr Damor's daughter-in-law. \"Now everyone gets equal food.\"\n\nHer neighbour, Ramila Damor, said her family had their first meal together two years ago.\n\n\"When I heard about it for the first time, I went home and cooked and I told my husband that from now on, we'll all eat together. It felt really nice sharing a meal,\" she said.\n\nIn traditional Indian homes, men are fed first\n\nAll the other women I spoke to in the village said family meals had become the norm in their homes too.\n\nA survey done at the end of the two-year campaign in May showed heartening results - food security among the surveyed women had more than doubled. As the wellbeing of children is often linked to that of mothers, their food security too showed a huge increase.\n\nThe impact of the campaign was not limited to improving nutrition levels, it brought on other positive changes too.\n\nMr Damor says his daughter-in-law no longer covers her face entirely and the veil has moved up.\n\n\"Also, now she calls me Ba (father) instead of Haahoo (dad-in-law) and my wife Aaee (mother) instead of Haaharozi (mum-in-law).\"\n\nMeals do have a way of bringing families together. Like they have done in the case of Damors.", "Mr Slater said that he had to earn the trust of the monkeys over several days before venturing close enough to get the selfie\n\nA photographer has settled a two-year legal fight against an animal rights group over a \"monkey selfie\" picture.\n\nNaruto the macaque monkey took the image in the Indonesian jungle in 2011 when it picked up a camera owned by David Slater from Monmouthshire.\n\nUS judges had said copyright protection could not be applied to the monkey but Peta said the animal should benefit.\n\nPeta's appeal on the \"monkey's behalf\" was dismissed but Mr Slater has agreed to donate 25% of any future revenue.\n\nIn a joint statement from Peta and Mr Slater, it said the photographer will give a quarter of the funds he receives from selling the monkey selfies to registered charities \"dedicated to protecting the welfare or habitat of Naruto\".\n\n\"Peta's groundbreaking case sparked a massive international discussion about the need to extend fundamental rights to animals for their own sake, not in relation to how they can be exploited by humans,\" said Peta lawyer Jeff Kerr.\n\nMr Slater, of Chepstow, said he put in a lot of effort which was more than enough for him to claim copyright.\n\nPeta claimed the monkey is a female called Naruto but Mr Slater claimed it was a different male macaque\n\nHe also said he was a conservationist and interest in the image had already helped animals in Indonesia.\n\nThe case was listed as \"Naruto v David Slater\" but the identity of the monkey had also been in dispute, with Peta claiming it is a female called Naruto and Mr Slater saying it is a different male macaque.\n\nBut appeal judges at a court in San Francisco ruled in Mr Slater's favour after a two-year legal fight.\n\nIn the joint-statement between Peta and Mr Slater, they say this case \"raises important, cutting-edge issues about expanding legal rights for non-human animals\".", "Sleeping with the Enemy star Patrick Bergin - the man who turned towel-straightening into a sign of malevolent intent - is joining EastEnders.\n\nThe Robin Hood actor will play Aidan Maguire, a prison friend of Phil Mitchell's who is described as a \"charismatic old-school villain\".\n\nThe 66-year-old will start filming this month and will appear on screen towards the end of the year.\n\nBergin said he was \"delighted\" to join a soap he had \"watched and admired.\"\n\n\"It is an iconic show that has the ability to shape the way people think, whilst also telling big explosive stories that keep the audience gripped.\n\n\"I am really looking forward to seeing what they have in store for Aidan as it's bound to be dramatic.\"\n\nBergin's storyline will see Aidan turn up on Phil's doorstep after many years, reigniting their old bond of friendship and ability to get into trouble.\n\nEastEnders' creative director John Yorke said it was a \"huge honour to have him on board\".\n\nHe said Bergin will be working closely with Phil (Steve McFadden) and Mick Carter (Danny Dyer) to \"carry a truly explosive storyline\" over Christmas and New Year.\n\n\"EastEnders deserves the very best, and in Patrick we are absolutely privileged to have a truly great actor join the show.\"\n\nBorn in Dublin in 1951, Bergin's recent credits include heist film We Still Steal the Old Way and Irish TV series Red Rock.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.", "US President Donald Trump's family just got a little more \"bigly\" with the addition of his ninth grandchild.\n\nThe president's son Eric and his 34-year-old wife Lara, who wed in 2014, have announced the birth of their first child, a boy named Eric \"Luke\" Trump.\n\nEric Trump, 33, posted a photo on Twitter of the newborn wearing a cap and swaddled in a blanket.\n\nThe president tweeted: \"Congratulations to Eric & Lara on the birth of their son, Eric 'Luke' Trump this morning!\"\n\nEric's older brother Donald Trump Jr, who has five children, teased his sibling: \"Congrats buddy. Welcome to the club. Now that the niceties are out of the way it's older brother revenge for that drum set to my kids.\"\n\nIvanka Trump, who has three children with husband and fellow White House adviser Jared Kushner, also congratulated him.\n\n\"Welcome to the world, baby boy,\" she said. \"I can't wait to meet you.\"", "North Korea says it has developed and tested a hydrogen bomb\n\nThe United Nations has imposed a fresh round of sanctions on North Korea after its sixth and largest nuclear test.\n\nThe measures restrict oil imports and ban textile exports - an attempt to starve the North of fuel and income for its weapons programmes.\n\nThe US had originally proposed harsher sanctions including a total ban on oil imports.\n\nPyongyang said it \"categorically rejected\" what it called an \"illegal\" resolution.\n\nNorth Korea's ambassador to the UN, Han Tae Song, told a conference in Geneva: \"The forthcoming measures by DPRK [the Democratic Republic of Korea] will make the US suffer the greatest pain it has ever experienced in its history.\"\n\nMonday's vote was only passed unanimously after Pyongyang allies Russia and China agreed to the reduced measures.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Was your T-shirt made in North Korea?\n\nThe US call last week for a total ban on oil imports was seen as by some analysts as potentially destabilising for the regime.\n\nThe new sanctions agreed by the UN include:\n\nA proposed asset freeze and a travel ban on North Korean leader Kim Jong-un were dropped.\n\nThe US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, told the Security Council after the vote: \"We don't take pleasure in further strengthening sanctions today. We are not looking for war.\"\n\n\"The North Korean regime has not yet passed the point of no return,\" she added. \"If North Korea continues its dangerous path, we will continue with further pressure. The choice is theirs.\"\n\nBut the North Korean envoy also said: \"Instead of making [the] right choice with rational analysis... the Washington regime finally opted for political, economic and military confrontation, obsessed with the wild dream of reversing the DPRK's development of nuclear force - which has already reached the completion phase.\"\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\nA South Korean presidential office spokesman said on Tuesday: \"North Korea needs to realise that a reckless challenge against international peace will only bring about even stronger sanctions against them.\"\n\nMonday's resolution was the ninth one unanimously adopted by the UN since 2006.\n\nThe UN Security Council, which includes the US, has repeatedly slapped sanctions on North Korea\n\nChina's foreign ministry said on Tuesday (link in Chinese) that North Korea had \"ignored international opposition and once again conducted a nuclear test, severely violating UN Security Council resolutions\".\n\nIt also repeated its call for a \"peaceful resolution\" instead of a military response, adding: \"China will never allow the peninsula to descend into war and chaos.\"\n\nThe BBC's China editor Carrie Gracie says Beijing is treading a fine line and wants sanctions tough enough to signal its displeasure to Pyongyang and avoid American accusations of complicity, but not so tough as to threaten North Korea's survival.\n\nBoth Russia and China reiterated their proposal that the US and South Korea freeze all military drills - which anger North Korea - and asked for a halt in the deployment of the controversial anti-missile system Thaad, in exchange for Pyongyang's cessation of its weapons programmes.\n\nBeijing believes Thaad, which employs a powerful radar, is a security threat to China and neighbouring countries.\n\nMs Haley last week dismissed this proposal as \"insulting\".", "Eleanor Rigby is listed among the names on a headstone in the graveyard of St Peter's Church, Woolton\n\nIn a graveyard in Liverpool lies a headstone bearing the name Eleanor Rigby. Its deeds are being auctioned later as part of a sale of Beatles memorabilia, but what is the real story behind the Fab Four's famous hit?\n\nIt was at a church fete in 1957 that John Lennon and Paul McCartney first met. Just yards away lay the grave of scullery maid Eleanor Rigby, who had died, aged 44, in 1939.\n\nNine years later, McCartney would pen the lyrics for what became one of the band's most celebrated songs.\n\nOften described as a lament for the lonely, or a commentary on life in post-war Britain, it tells the story of a woman who \"died in the church and was buried along with her name\".\n\nIt is tempting to picture the teenage Lennon and McCartney sombrely contemplating the headstone, imagining the life of Eleanor and later dreaming up the lyrics.\n\nBut the reality is few knew of the grave's existence until the early 1980s, and McCartney himself has denied it was the inspiration behind the song.\n\nThis hasn't stopped the deeds to the grave being listed for auction with a guide price of £4,000. They are part of a sale which also features other Beatles items and concludes on Thursday.\n\nThe deeds to Eleanor Rigby's grave were found by a relative\n\nDavid Bedford, who has written several books about the band, said he thought it was \"weird\" there was such interest in a woman seemingly unconnected to the song.\n\n\"The score of the song you can understand but a grave, I find it really unusual,\" he said.\n\n\"I'm not quite sure who would want to buy the deeds to a grave, and I'll be interested to see who does buy them, and for how much money.\"\n\nBut Mr Bedford said he believed it would be \"too much of a coincidence\" if the grave had never figured in McCartney's mind, at least at some subliminal level.\n\n\"The mythology of the grave grows every year,\" he said.\n\nThe song seems to have gone through several stages of development.\n\nMcCartney said when he first sat down at the piano he had the name Daisy Hawkins in his mind. He later changed this to Eleanor, after the actress Eleanor Bron, who had starred with The Beatles in the film Help!\n\nThe character's surname at one stage was Bygraves, according to Spencer Leigh, author of The Beatles book Love Me Do to Love Me Don't.\n\nBut McCartney later changed this to Rigby, from the name of a store he had spotted in Bristol - Rigby & Evens Ltd, Wine & Spirit Shippers.\n\n\"I just liked the name,\" he said in 1984. \"I was looking for a name that sounded natural. Eleanor Rigby sounded natural.\"\n\nPaul McCartney has conceded the grave of Eleanor Rigby may have influenced him in a subconscious way\n\nSt Peter's Church in Woolton, where the grave of Eleanor Rigby lies\n\nIn 2008, a birth certificate for the woman buried in the graveyard of St Peter's Church, Woolton, was put up for auction.\n\n\"Eleanor Rigby is a totally fictitious character that I made up,\" McCartney said in response.\n\n\"If someone wants to spend money buying a document to prove a fictitious character exists, that's fine with me.\"\n\nHowever, he has conceded in the past the headstone may have influenced him in a subconscious way.\n\nMr Leigh said it was easy to see how McCartney's childhood visits to the churchyard would have been very memorable for him.\n\n\"John Lennon had connections in that church and had even been in the choir there,\" he said.\n\n\"[Lennon's] uncle died in 1955 when he was quite young. His name was George Toogood Smith. John loved the name and quite often he would take his friends into the graveyard to show them.\n\n\"It's quite possible McCartney saw the Rigby grave and just stored it away in his head. It's just possible that he kept that in his mind. But we actually don't know, and I think McCartney himself doesn't know.\"\n\nEleanor Rigby was written primarily by Paul McCartney (far left) and produced by George Martin (second from right)\n\nMcCartney's score includes notes that there should be four violins, two violas and two cellos\n\nKaren Fairweather, from Omega Auctions, conceded the connection between the real Eleanor Rigby and the song was a matter of \"folklore\", none of which was rooted in \"concrete fact\".\n\n\"There is of course the gravestone, and the Rigbys lived on the road that backed on to the road where John Lennon lived,\" she added.\n\nYet, whatever the origin of the name, Eleanor Rigby remains an integral part of the band's story and Liverpool's Beatles industry. The gravestone itself is regularly visited by guided tours and an Eleanor Rigby sculpture can be found in Stanley Street.\n\nMr Leigh describes the song as \"perfect\", both in its melodies and its representation of a typical Liverpudlian woman of the time.\n\nAn Eleanor Rigby sculpture sits on a bench in Liverpool's Stanley Street\n\n\"The real Eleanor Rigby worked as a sort of scullery maid,\" Mr Leigh said. \"It just fits so perfectly.\"\n\nHe said the jazz singer George Melly put it best when he said: \"Eleanor Rigby seemed to be written out of their experiences in Liverpool.\n\n\"Liverpool was always in their songs but this was about the kind of old woman that I remembered from my childhood and later: very respectable Liverpool women, living in two-up, two-down streets with the doorsteps meticulously holystoned (scoured) and the church the one solid thing in their lives.\n\n\"There's the loneliness of it and it struck me as a poem from the start.\n\n\"If you read Love Me Do without the music, it doesn't mean much but if you read Eleanor Rigby, it is a poem about someone, which [was] something unprecedented in popular song.\"", "Disney has pushed back the release of Star Wars: Episode IX by seven months to December 2019 after changing directors for the film.\n\nThe Force Awakens filmmaker JJ Abrams (pictured) will return to a galaxy far, far away to replace Colin Trevorrow as the director of the next instalment.\n\nTrevorrow, who made Jurassic World, parted company with the film last week. Abrams will co-write the film with Chris Terrio, as well as directing.\n\nAbrams delivered a huge box office success with Episode VII The Force Awakens in 2015, which took more than $2bn worldwide.\n\nEpisode VIII The Last Jedi, which will be released in cinemas on 14 December this year, was directed by Rian Johnson.", "Under the headline \"rebels' gamble\", the Sun criticises the Conservative MPs who have tabled amendments to the European Union Withdrawal Bill.\n\nThe legislation, which would end the supremacy of EU law in Britain, cleared its first hurdle in the Commons early on Tuesday morning.\n\nThe Sun warns that by potentially hindering its progress, Tory rebels are increasing the risk that the legal system will be \"in chaos\" when the UK leaves in March 2019.\n\nThe Telegraph believes those who obstruct the Bill \"risk undermining the chances of getting a good deal, and damaging the national interest\".\n\nThe Guardian uses the speech on Wednesday by the European Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker, as an opportunity to assess the health of the EU.\n\nIts opinion column agues that the Brexit vote, the refugee crisis, and the rise of nationalist parties across Europe are challenges which have actually made the bloc stronger. It concludes that \"better awareness of this in Britain is long overdue\".\n\n\"Will Sky finally be the limit for Murdoch?\" asks the \"i\". The question refers to the announcement by Culture Secretary Karen Bradley that she is likely to ask the Competition and Markets Authority to look at Rupert Murdoch's BSkyB takeover bid.\n\nIn its Lombard column, the Financial Times suggests that the media magnate must miss the days when \"it was the Sun wot won it\".\n\nThe Daily Telegraph's front page headline is \"NHS: winter flu to be worst ever\".\n\nThe warning comes from Simon Stevens, the head of the health service in England, who says services will be put under increased pressure.\n\nIn its leader, the Daily Mirror says the comments by Mr Stevens \"must be taken seriously\". It urges readers to \"get flu jabs where possible, so the NHS can concentrate on the most vulnerable\".\n\nA long-term study, suggesting women can take hormone replacement therapy without fear that it will cause early death, is the lead in the Times.\n\nResearchers used data on 27,000 women aged between 50 and 79. The paper quotes Professor JoAnn Manson of Harvard Medical School, who led the study, saying it \"fundamentally provides reassurance for women\".\n\nMany of the papers reflect on the career of Sir Peter Hall, who died on Monday.\n\nThe Times says the \"theatre world salutes a colossus\".\n\nThe Guardian has a large picture of Sir Peter on its front page. The headline is a tribute from its theatre critic, Michael Billington: \"He left British theatre infinitely richer than he found it\".\n\nSir Peter Hall, the founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company, died at the age of 86\n\nThe Daily Mail reports that the Unite union leader, Len McCluskey, when asked about the possibility of illegal strikes over public sector pay, said: \"I daresay if you'd have been interviewing Nelson Mandela or Mahatma Gandhi... you'd be telling them they were breaking the law.\"\n\nThe paper is unimpressed by the association.\n\nIts leader asks: \"Could the contrast be any starker between those gentle champions of democracy and Mr McCluskey, with his bellicose contempt for the law?\"\n\nFinally, the Times reports on how the US Republican senator, Ted Cruz, has been drawn into a controversy over what the paper describes as a \"Twitter porn gaffe\".\n\nA pornographic video was \"liked\" by Mr Cruz's official account on the site.\n\nThe paper says he blamed the incident on a \"staffing issue\", suggesting that someone with access to the account had inadvertently hit the \"like\" button.", "Sir Peter Hall was one of the great champions of British theatre.\n\nIn a career spanning seven decades, he acted, directed theatre and opera, and, occasionally, made forays into film and TV.\n\nHe founded the Royal Shakespeare Company and was director of the National Theatre for 15 years.\n\nAnd he fought tenaciously to persuade governments of all colours to maintain public funding for the arts.\n\nPeter Reginald Frederick Hall was born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, on 22 November 1930.\n\nHis father was a railway clerk, later a stationmaster. The family was not well-off.\n\n\"People always giggle when I say that I grew up on a single-line railway station with no running water and no electricity,\" he told the Guardian in 2005. \"But, in the 1930s, that's the way it was.\"\n\nSir Peter remembered his father as a man of little ambition, adding that it was his mother, Grace, who was the driving force in the family.\n\nThe daughter of a butcher, she had a sound belief in the principles of a good education and \"getting on\", and Hall inherited her drive.\n\nThe family moved to Cambridge, where Hall had his first taste of a public production - Mozart's Requiem in King's College.\n\nHe was immediately smitten and began staying regularly with a relative in London so he could attend the theatre and opera.\n\n\"I saw Gielgud's Hamlet when I was 12,\" he later recalled, \"standing at the back for sixpence.\"\n\nAlthough German bombs were falling on London, people crowded into theatres as an escape from the war, and he witnessed some of the greatest actors of the age.\n\nWatching Ralph Richardson, Laurence Olivier and Peggy Ashcroft quickly convinced Hall that he wanted to become a theatre director.\n\n\"There wasn't any question in my head of doing anything else,\" he said.\n\nFollowing a spell of National Service in the RAF, he won a scholarship to St Catharine's College, Cambridge, to study English.\n\nIn his third year, he booked a theatre and made his directorial debut with a performance of Jean Anouilh's Point of Departure.\n\n\"I remember an almost physical sense of release and pleasure rehearsing a play,\" he later recalled. \"I thought, this is what I want to do.\"\n\nHis final play at Cambridge, Luigi Pirandello's Henry IV, brought him good reviews and an invitation to make his professional directorial debut at the Theatre Royal, Windsor, in 1953.\n\nHe also secured a job at London's Arts Theatre as a script reviewer. When the artistic director John Fernald left, Hall found himself running his own West End theatre at the age of 24.\n\nA Midsummer Night's Dream, with Judi Dench, was one of his last productions for the RSC\n\nWithin weeks of beginning his tenure, the script of Waiting for Godot arrived. Hall was initially unimpressed.\n\n\"I haven't the foggiest idea what some of it is about,\" he told the cast. \"But if we stop to discuss every line, we will never open.\"\n\nIn the event, Hall's production of what was the play's British debut had the effect of making him one of the most talked-about directors in the country.\n\nHe appeared on the BBC, was interviewed for Vogue magazine and was invited to direct the stage version of the musical Gigi.\n\nThat show starred the French actress Leslie Caron. She and Hall married in 1956.\n\nBut the biggest boost that Godot gave to Hall's career was the invitation to run the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon.\n\nAt the time, the theatre merely ran a regional Shakespeare festival - not nearly enough for the ambitious Hall.\n\nThe concept of a Royal Shakespeare Company was born in Hall's imagination, in which he envisaged a London theatre and a move into a wider range of drama.\n\nHe alternately bullied and cajoled the theatre management and eventually got his way. The newly-born RSC opened its first London season at the Aldwych Theatre in 1961.\n\nIts ensemble cast - a relatively new concept at the time - included exciting young actors such as Peter O'Toole and Vanessa Redgrave.\n\nHe also recruited Trevor Nunn and later Peter Brook. The appointment of the latter led to the controversial Theatre of Cruelty season in 1964.\n\nIt was an exciting time both for the theatre and the wider arts world, and Hall revelled in the new socially liberal scene of the 1960s.\n\nBut the pressures were taking their toll after a series of mental and physical breakdowns.\n\nHis marriage to Leslie Caron had ended in 1965 after her affair with the actor Warren Beatty, and Hall later married his assistant, Jacky Taylor.\n\nHall brought a young and enthusiastic team to the National\n\nIn 1968, he quit the RSC and briefly disappeared from the limelight.\n\nFor a time, he turned his attention to directing opera, both at Glyndebourne and the Royal Opera House in London's Covent Garden.\n\nIn 1972, it emerged that he had been offered the job of running the National Theatre, which was due to move into its new modernist home on London's South Bank.\n\nHis appointment attracted a great deal of flak, not least from those who had been passed over for the job.\n\nJonathan Miller referred to him as \"a safari-suited bureaucrat\" who would suck all of Britain's talent and cash into the new theatre.\n\nHall, never the most gregarious of men, was prone to rub people up the wrong way.\n\nHe was accused of theatrical class distinction, grovelling to the stars and treating lesser mortals with disdain.\n\nWith cast members from a 1988 production of Twelfth Night\n\nHowever, others praised him for going into battle - not least to secure the funds the theatre needed to achieve a sound financial footing.\n\nNot only did he have to contend with funding, there was also the problem of the building itself, which was behind schedule and over budget.\n\nHall finally got things under way in 1976 with a production of Beckett's Happy Days, before the unions walked out and closed the building down.\n\nA year later he received a knighthood for services to British theatre.\n\nBut, after the early trials and tribulations, things improved. Sir Peter managed to successfully establish the theatre and sent the company out on a series of well-received foreign tours.\n\nHe quit the National in 1986. \"I was ready to leave,\" he said. \"Fifteen years is probably five years too long.\"\n\nWith Elaine Paige in a production of The Misanthrope at the Piccadilly Theatre\n\nHe continued to direct, highlights being his 1988 production of Orpheus Descending and a musical version of Ionesco's Rhinoceros, for which Hall wrote the lyrics and co-wrote the libretto.\n\nSir Peter was still working on the eve of his ninth decade, with a production of Pygmalion at the Hong Kong Arts Festival.\n\nWhile his first love was the stage, he occasionally ventured into film and television.\n\nMost of these forays involved classical plays and opera, although he did direct Channel 4's 1992 adaptation of Mary Wesley's novel The Camomile Lawn.\n\nHe was appointed director emeritus of the Rose Theatre, Kingston upon Thames, enticing Dame Judi Dench to appear in his sell-out production of A Midsummer's Night Dream in 2010.\n\nAfter divorcing Jacky Taylor in 1981, he married the opera singer Maria Ewing in 1982.\n\nThe marriage ended in 1990 and he married his fourth wife, Nicky Frei, the same year.\n\nSir Peter Hall's great gift was that he excelled as an administrator as well as a theatre director.\n\nHe was a skilled administrator and director\n\n\"I love politics,\" he once said. \"I do love committees, I do love getting things done.\"\n\nHis detractors saw him as a schemer and a manipulator, but there was little doubt about his talent as a director. He always preferred to act as an interpreter of playwright's work, rather than imposing his own concept.\n\nThe playwright Harold Pinter, many of whose works Sir Peter directed, was clear about his abilities. \"I've seen productions of my work in various places that have really distorted the whole thing,\" he said.\n\n\"Peter never allows this. He doesn't impose, he discovers.\"\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.", "Sir Peter Hall staged premieres of Waiting for Godot and Homecoming\n\nSir Peter Hall, the founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company and former National Theatre director, has died at the age of 86.\n\nHe died on Monday at University College hospital in London, surrounded by his family, the National Theatre said.\n\nDuring his career he staged the English language premiere of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and the world premiere of Harold Pinter's Homecoming.\n\nSir Peter had been diagnosed with dementia in 2011.\n\nSir Peter with his wife Nicki and daughter Rebecca at the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards\n\nSir Peter became director of the National in 1973 and was responsible for the theatre's move from the Old Vic to the purpose-built complex on the South Bank.\n\nHe founded the RSC at the age of just 29 in 1960 and led the company until 1968.\n\nTributes have been paid to Sir Peter by many in the theatre world.\n\nSpeaking to Radio 4's World at One, actress Vanessa Redgrave described Sir Peter as \"a very extraordinary, interesting and fascinating director\".\n\n\"He was very mischievous, very handsome, an extremely attractive man who everyone fell in love with... he was everything really, a kind of Shelley in the theatre.\"\n\nSeveral stars have credited Sir Peter with helping launch their careers, Sir Patrick Stewart being among them.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Patrick Stewart This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nToby Stephens paid tribute, saying Sir Peter gave him his first break as an actor.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 2 by TOBY STEPHENS This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 peer and broadcaster Dame Joan Bakewell also tweeted, sharing her \"golden memories\" of the director.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Joan Bakewell This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nPlaywright Sir David Hare also praised Sir Peter for his legacy.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. \"He was fearless about giving young people their head,\" says playwright David Hare\n\nRufus Norris, current director of the National Theatre, said: 'We all stand on the shoulders of giants and Peter Hall's shoulders supported the entirety of British theatre as we know it.\n\n\"All of us, including those in the new generation of theatre-makers not immediately touched by his influence, are in his debt. His legendary tenacity and vision created an extraordinary and lasting legacy for us all.\"\n\nSir Peter Hall was, in many ways, the single most influential figure in British theatre in the second half of the 20th Century.\n\nNot just because he was the man who launched Beckett in Britain, or founded the Royal Shakespeare Company, or transformed the National Theatre from a niche affair operating out of the Old Vic into a three-stage, globally respected, highly ambitious production house - all of which were great achievements.\n\nBut what really made him special was what he did for others - the way in which he helped playwrights, actors and fellow directors flourish.\n\nOther former National Theatre directors lined up to pay tribute.\n\nSir Nicholas Hytner said: \"Peter Hall was one of the great figures in British theatrical history, up there in a line of impresarios that stretches back to [Richard] Burbage.\n\n\"He was the great theatrical buccaneer of the 20th Century and has left a permanent mark on our culture.\"\n\nSir Trevor Nunn described Sir Peter as \"not only a thrilling and penetrating director, he was also the great impresario of the age\".\n\nAnd Sir Richard Eyre said Sir Peter \"was - and is - the godfather (in both senses) of British theatre\".\n\nGreg Doran, director of the RSC, said of his predecessor: \"Sir Peter Hall was a colossus, bestriding the British theatre. He was a visionary.\n\n\"Not only was he a great director of theatre and opera, he was a politician who fought for the arts... his greatest legacy without doubt will be judged to be the formation of the Royal Shakespeare Company.\"\n\nAfter leaving the National Theatre in 1988, Sir Peter formed the Peter Hall Company (1988 - 2011) and in 2003 became the founding director of the Rose Theatre Kingston.\n\nThroughout his career, Sir Peter was also a champion of public funding for the arts.\n\nHis other works included the London and Broadway premieres of Alan Ayckbourn's Bedroom Farce (1977) and the 1987 production of Antony and Cleopatra, starring Dame Judi Dench and Anthony Hopkins.\n\nHe also directed his daughter, the actress Rebecca Hall, in a 2003 production of Shakespeare's As You Like It.\n\nSir Peter's last production at the National Theatre was Twelfth Night in 2011.\n\nHe was also a renowned opera director and was the artistic director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera between 1984 and 1990.\n\nGus Christie, Glyndebourne's executive chairman, said in a statement: \"It was a golden era for Glyndebourne when Peter was artistic director. He was loved by both audiences and artists. The productions he created were timeless.\"\n\nIn 1983, Sir Peter staged Wagner's Ring Cycle in Bayreuth, Germany, to honour the 100th anniversary of the composer's death.\n\nSir Peter is survived by his wife Nicki, children Christopher, Jennifer, Edward, Lucy, Rebecca and Emma, and nine grandchildren.\n\nHis former wives Leslie Caron, Jacqueline Taylor and Maria Ewing also survive him.\n\nThere will be a private family funeral, with details of a memorial service to be announced at a later date.\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nApple has revealed a high-end smartphone with an \"edge-to-edge\" screen that has no physical home button.\n\nThe iPhone X - which is referred to as \"ten\" - uses a facial recognition system to recognise its owner rather than a fingerprint-based one.\n\nApple said FaceID can work in the dark by using 30,000 infra-red dots to check an identity, and was harder to fool than its old TouchID system.\n\nIt is Apple's most expensive phone yet.\n\nA 64 gigabyte capacity model will cost $999 (£999 in the UK) when it goes on sale on 3 November. A 256GB version will be priced at $1,149 (£1,149 in the UK).\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\nBy contrast, Samsung is charging $930 (£869 in the UK) for its new Note 8 phone, which has 64GB of storage.\n\n\"The iPhone X is a long-term investment by Apple that sets a template for the next generation of iPhone hardware,\" commented Geoff Blaber from the CCS Insight consultancy.\n\n\"An OLED [organic light-emitting diode] display and the new design is likely to be standard on future iPhone models, but Apple must first tackle the challenge of obtaining sufficient supplies.\"\n\nApple said the switch to an OLED display would help the phone produce \"true blacks\" and more accurate colours than before. LG and Samsung already use similar tech on their handsets.\n\nPrior to the launch, Apple's most expensive phone was an iPhone 7 Plus that cost $969 (£919 in the UK).\n\nOne expert commented that Apple's ability to get consumers to spend more on its smartphones than rivals' was \"legendary\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: A hands on with the new iPhone 8 Plus\n\n\"There may be an element of high pricing to constrain demand and make things match up with how many they can produce,\" said Neil Mawston from Strategy Analytics.\n\n\"But I suspect Apple always had a $1,000 iPhone in mind - we had seen the price creep up year after year, and there's a lot of pressure from shareholders for the company to hit a $1tn valuation.\n\n\"Bumping up the prices on their number one product is one way of doing that.\"\n\nApple acknowledged that users might have concerns about using facial recognition to verify purchases via Apple Pay or to access their device.\n\nBut it claimed that while there was a one-in-50,000 chance that TouchID could be unlocked by a random stranger, the odds rose to one-in-one-million with FaceID.\n\nApple said it used a range of technologies to ensure its FaceID system was accurate\n\nNevertheless, one expert said users might still be concerned the handset had no fingerprint sensor as an alternative.\n\n\"This is the steepest hurdle that they have,\" commented Carolina Milanesi from market research firm Creative Strategies.\n\n\"A lot of consumers will be a little bit reluctant to use facial recognition as an ID system until Apple has proven that it is safe and works all the time.\n\n\"In the eyes of consumers TouchID wasn't broken - so they may ask why Apple is trying to fix it.\"\n\nOther features announced about the handset included:\n\nIt's the big(ger) leap that iPhone fans - and Wall Street - had been demanding.\n\nThe iPhone X brings together many features we'd been expecting - such as FaceID for unlocking the phone, and animated emojis - animojis - that look fun to play with, if not a killer feature that will have people running to stores.\n\nAll this won't come cheap: at $999+ it's the most expensive iPhone to date.\n\nApple is often accused of being slow to new tech, and I think that criticism will continue.\n\nWireless charging comes years after Samsung first introduced it, for example, and the overall look of the phone - which no longer has the iconic home button - looks strikingly similar to the latest Samsung Galaxy Note.\n\nThe iPhone X uses its face-mapping sensors to let users control the facial expressions of new animojis\n\nThe phone was unveiled in the new Steve Jobs Theater, a purpose-built venue for such launches.\n\nA beautiful, comfy building, with marble everywhere, it sits alongside Apple's striking new spaceship campus. This is the house that iPhone built, with a decade of phenomenal success.\n\nDoes iPhone X herald another great era? The audience here cheered, but didn't stand, with applause. I'm reserving my judgement until I've tried it.\n\nThe iPhone X also adds support for wireless charging.\n\n\"It was the right decision to use a standard because Apple users will benefit from widely available charge pads.\"\n\nThe feature was also introduced to the new iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus models, which were introduced earlier at the event.\n\nThe iPhone 8 models are dust and water resistant\n\nThe lower-end 4.7in and 5.5in devices are distinguished from their predecessors by having:\n\nThe iPhone 8 ranges from $699 to $849 and the iPhone 8 Plus from $799 to $949.\n\nThey will cost the same amounts in Sterling and go on sale on 22 September.\n\nThe new models coincide with the release of iOS 11 - the latest version of Apple's mobile operating system.\n\nIt introduces ARKit - software development tools that make it easier for developers to add augmented reality features to their apps, in which graphics are mixed together with real-world views.\n\nMarketing chief Phil Schiller showed off one app that - if used by spectators at a sports stadium - would show real-time stats hovering over the live action.\n\nAnother demo involved the Machines, a multiplayer robot-battle game that can be played over views of close-by table tops and other surfaces.\n\nThe facility will not work on the iPhone 6 or older devices, so may provide a means to convince owners of ageing Apple kit to upgrade.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. WATCH: What can AR do on iPhone?\n\n\"When Apple first introduced the iPhone users were unsure about how touchscreens would benefit them, but now we know that they're a great way to use a device,\" said Brian Blau, a tech industry analyst at Gartner.\n\n\"The same thing will happen with augmented reality - it's as important as touch, if not more.\n\n\"Developers have new opportunities and I think they will embrace them, but just as with touch it took them years to perfect those experiences, I also think that will also happen with AR.\"\n\nApple also unveiled a version of its smartwatch with its own 4G link.\n\nThe new watch has a red crown to denote its 4G capability\n\nThe innovation means that the Watch Series 3 can receive phone calls, access internet services and stream music without being linked to an iPhone. Users will, however, face an additional monthly charge for the benefit.\n\nApple recently overtook Fitbit to become the world's joint-top wearable tech-maker alongside Xiaomi, according to one study.\n\nOther companies - including LG and Samsung - have previously sold smartwatches with in-built cellular capabilities, but battery-life restrictions and other issues limited interest.\n\n\"Apple's ability in the past to generate new markets when others thought they were dead is legendary,\" commented Mr Mawston.\n\n\"For people like joggers, runners and cyclists who possibly want to do hardcore sports outdoors without carrying two devices, an LTE Apple Watch could be something of a blessing.\"\n\nThe latest version of the Watch's operating system - which will also be available to earlier models - will include new heart monitor functions.\n\nIt will warn owners if their heart rate becomes elevated when they are not active or if its rhythm becomes irregular, to flag the possibility of disease.\n\nThe 4G Apple Watch will cost $399 (£300) and be released on 22 September.\n\nThe launch was held in the Steve Jobs Theater at Apple's new campus\n\nApple also announced a fresh version of its TV set-top box, which now supports 4K video and high dynamic range (HDR) content.\n\nIn one of the few details not to have leaked in advance, Apple revealed it had struck a deal with several of the major movie studios to ensure that films in the higher-resolution, richer-colour formats would not cost more than their high-definition (HD) equivalents.\n\nConsumers have had to pay a premium for 4K HDR movies until now\n\nUsers' existing iTunes movie libraries will also be upgraded without charge.\n\nHDR 4K movies have already been available to rent or buy from services including Amazon, but they tended to be sold at much higher prices than lower-quality formats.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The international Cassini spacecraft at Saturn has executed the course correction that will send it to destruction at the end of the week.\n\nThe probe flew within 120,000km of the giant moon Titan on Monday - an encounter that bent its trajectory just enough to put it on a collision path with the ringed planet.\n\nNothing can now stop the death plunge in Saturn's atmosphere on Friday.\n\nCassini will be torn to pieces as it heads down towards the clouds.\n\nIts components will melt and be dispersed through the planet's gases.\n\nTitan's surface: Pebbles rounded by the action of a flowing liquid\n\nEver since it arrived at Saturn 13 years ago, the probe has used the gravity of Titan - the second biggest moon in the Solar System - to slingshot itself into different positions from which to study the planet and its stunning rings.\n\nIt has been a smart strategy because Cassini would otherwise have had to fire up its propulsion system and drain its fuel reserves every time it wanted to make a big change in direction.\n\nAs it is, those propellants are almost exhausted and Nasa is determined the spacecraft will not be permitted to just drift around Saturn uncontrolled; it must be disposed of properly and fully.\n\nThe agency called Monday's last encounter with Titan the \"kiss goodbye\".\n\n\"Cassini has been in a long-term relationship with Titan, with a new rendezvous nearly every month for more than a decade,\" said Earl Maize, the Cassini project manager at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.\n\n\"This final encounter is something of a bittersweet goodbye, but as it has done throughout the mission, Titan's gravity is once again sending Cassini where we need it to go.\"\n\nClosest approach to the moon's surface occurred at 19:04 GMT (20:04 BST; 15:04 EDT; 12:04 PDT).\n\nAs the probe passed Titan, it gathered some images and other science data that will be streamed back to Earth on Tuesday.\n\nThe investigation of the 5,150km-wide moon has been one of the outstanding successes of the Cassini mission.\n\nThe spacecraft put a small robot called Huygens on its surface in 2005. It returned a remarkable image of rounded pebbles that had been smoothed by the action of flowing liquid methane. This hydrocarbon rains from Titan's orange sky and runs into huge seas at northern latitudes.\n\nCassini also spied what are presumed to be volcanoes that spew an icy slush and vast dunes made from a plastic-like sand.\n\nCassini began its study of the ringed planet in 2004\n\nCassini scientist Michelle Dougherty from Imperial College London, UK, says there will be an effort in the days up to Friday to try to squeeze out every last scientific observation.\n\n\"We're now running on fumes,\" she told BBC Radio 4's Inside Science programme.\n\n\"The fact that we've got as far as we have, so close to the end of mission, is spectacular. We're almost there and it's going to be really sad watching it happen.\"\n\nBesides a last look at Titan, scientists want to get a few more pictures of the rings and the moon Enceladus, before then configuring the spacecraft for its dramatic scuttling.\n\nThe idea is to use only those instruments at the end that can sense Saturn's near-space environment, such as its magnetic field, or can sample the composition of its gases.\n\nIn the final three hours or so before \"impact\" on Friday, all data acquired by the spacecraft will be relayed straight to Earth, bypassing the onboard solid state memory.\n\nContact with the probe after it has entered the atmosphere will be short, measured perhaps in a few tens of seconds.\n\nThe signal at Earth is expected to drop off around 11:55 GMT (12:55 BST; 07:55 EDT; 04:55 PDT). Engineers will be able to be more precise once they have looked at the position of the probe after Monday's change in course.\n\n\"The Cassini mission has taught us so very much, and to me personally I find great comfort from the fact that Cassini will continue teaching us right up to the very last seconds,\" said Curt Niebur, the Cassini programme scientist at Nasa Headquarters in Washington, DC.\n\nThe Cassini-Huygens mission is a joint endeavour of Nasa, and the European and Italian space agencies.\n\nBBC News will have live coverage of the ending of the mission on both TV and radio. Inside Science will preview the climax this Thursday at 16:30 BST on Radio 4. A Horizon documentary will also review the mission and the final hours in a special programme to be broadcast on Monday 18 September at 21:00 BST on BBC Two. And you can still watch the Sky At Night programme Cassini: The Gamechanger on the iPlayer. This is being repeated on Thursday on BBC Four at 19:30 BST.\n\nJonathan.Amos-INTERNET@bbc.co.uk and follow me on Twitter: @BBCAmos\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. Chesterfield Borough Council said it hoped the design would bring more people to the town.\n\nA floral tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales, displayed as part of a town's well dressing celebrations, has been described as \"horrific\" and \"awful\".\n\nThe memorial displayed in Chesterfield Market Place marks the 20th anniversary of the death of the princess.\n\nHowever, the portrait has been mocked on social media, with some saying it looked more like Worzel Gummidge.\n\nChesterfield Borough Council said it hoped the design would bring more people to the town.\n\nThe authority published the pictures of the memorial on its Facebook page earlier, attracting mixed reviews.\n\nThe floral tribute was installed in Chesterfield Market Place\n\nSome have likened the portrait to the TV character Worzel Gummidge\n\nGayla Tuckley thought it was an \"insult to Diana\", while Catherine Bunten commented she was \"crying with laughter\".\n\nRichard Wilkins said it looked more like Worzel Gummidge, a living scarecrow played by Jon Pertwee, in the children's 1979 TV show, while Julie White commented: \"I appreciate all the work that goes into the dressing of a well but this is just awful.\"\n\nThe pictures have since gone viral, provoking many more comments, including one by Welbeck Kane who said: \"I live here [Chesterfield] and, let me tell you, I can feel its eyes on me, even now in my house.\"\n\nMany people said the portrait looked nothing like the princess\n\nA spokesman for the authority said: \"The well dressing is produced by 14 volunteers using the ancient Derbyshire art of well dressing, which involves creating designs from flower petals and other natural materials.\n\n\"All art is meant to be a talking point and that certainly seems to be the case with this year's design.\n\n\"The well dressing is designed to attract visitors to the area and if the publicity encourages more people to come and experience our historic market town and local shops then that can only be good for Chesterfield.\"\n\nThe well dressings are on display until Saturday.\n\nMany comments were posted on the council's Facebook page about the memorial\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The government wants to incorporate EU law into the UK statute book in time for Brexit\n\nWhat is all the fuss about?\n\nListen to ministers and all they are trying to do is tidy up the paperwork, cross the t's and dot the i's. Listen to Labour and Theresa May is trying her luck as a despot, grabbing power in great chunks, never again to give our elected representatives the chance to argue or even consider what's being done on our behalf.\n\nGuess what? As ever in politics the truth is somewhere in between, whatever the two sides say. We are leaving the EU in less than two years (pretty much inevitably unless something really surprising happens).\n\nBut much of our law is based on EU law and EU institutions. So when we leave, in theory we lose lots of law overnight, and much of it simply won't make sense any more in thousands and thousands of areas.\n\nSounds strange, but hypothetically that's what could happen. Right now the EU rules that have over the years been incorporated into our statute books govern everything from chemicals to beaches to immigration to animal welfare to aviation. This list goes on and on, and it is safe to assume EU law shapes pretty much everything.\n\nThe idea behind the Withdrawal Bill is therefore to cut and paste the lot into British law, so that we don't wake up the morning after we leave the EU in 2019 with a free-for-all.\n\nSo far, so uncontroversial. Here's the problem. The amount of stuff, the sheer volume of the rules and regulations that need to be transferred is so massive, basically our entire statute book, that the government says there is just no way there will be time to debate it all, let alone vote on every bit.\n\nTheir solution is to use so-called 'Henry VIII powers', evoking the image of a medieval monarch, ruling by whim and decree. In practice this could mean that on thousands of rules, regulations, ministers can make changes, whether harmless tweaks or suspicious alterations, without having to consult other MPs, let alone give them a vote.\n\nPro-EU demonstrators waved flags outside Parliament as MPs prepared to debate the bill\n\nCrucially, it would allow ministers to change things where they think it is \"appropriate\", in theory that makes their decisions even exempt to legal challenge. As it stands, the bill also gives ministers the power to choose the day of our actual exit from the EU, without asking Parliament, and it could also give them the power to designate different days for Brexit in different legal areas.\n\nThere are therefore clear reasons for there to be nerves on all sides of the House of Commons about the bill.\n\nMinisters accept privately that they will probably have to budge in some areas. But tonight's midnight vote is not likely to be the big showdown.\n\nTory rebels will, in the main, vote for the bill in principle, and enter hand-to-hand combat in the more detailed stages in the next couple of months. And although the opposition will vote against the bill this evening, there are also anxious MPs on that side of the House of Commons who won't, worried about appearing to be blocking Brexit by \"killing the bill\".\n\nBut tonight will be the first real taste of the months to come, the House of Commons sitting until midnight, the government anxiously totting up the numbers, MPs being told to cancel any plans they have to be around for vital votes.\n\nTonight's likely approval of the bill won't wash away the real concerns, and once it makes it to the House of Lords the battles could be even more fraught.\n\nPS: Potential Tory rebels might find a little relief in this nugget. Despite reports that the government chief whip, Gavin Williamson, had acquired a second tarantula for his office, the better to torment his charges (yes he does have one), he told me this morning that in fact that is not the case. His spider, Cronus, is still his only office pet.\n• None Reality Check: Who are the low-skilled EU workers?", "Shadow chancellor John McDonnell is on the front page of the Daily Mail\n\nThe Daily Mail quotes the shadow chancellor, John McDonnell, telling a rally in 2013 that parliamentary democracy and elections no longer work - and urging industrial action and \"insurrection\".\n\nThe Mail has put a video of the speech on its website, and says the dictionary definition of insurrection is \"violent uprising\".\n\nIt calls the speech \"chilling\" and says Mr McDonnell has spent the last three months living up to his words, by appearing at rallies and on picket lines inciting union members to \"drive the Tories from office\".\n\nA spokesman for Mr McDonnell tells the paper he's spent the summer \"meeting with workers across the country who are struggling to get by under a Tory government\".\n\nThere are more dramatic pictures of the aftermath of Hurricane Irma.\n\nThe Sun has a picture of Royal Marines standing among wreckage in the British Virgin Isles, labelling them \"storm troopers\".\n\nIt says 700 British troops sent to the Caribbean for the relief effort have also found themselves tackling marauding gangs of armed looters - one says he is stopping a looter every 10 minutes.\n\nThe Daily Mirror has pictures of what it says are looters in Florida lying face down, handcuffed behind their backs.\n\nThe Daily Mail calls it the \"anarchy after Irma\". It also warns that strong winds are set to batter parts of Britain this week - with gusts of 75mph - as stormy weather races across the Atlantic.\n\nThe BBC has won a battle to ease its public service role, according to the lead in the Daily Telegraph.\n\nThe paper says it has learned that, under plans being drawn up by the regulator Ofcom, Radio 4 will no longer be required to broadcast religious services, science shows or art programming.\n\nIn fact, it says, 200 requirements will be reduced to just 20. Business, farming, consumer affairs and disability are other issues which will apparently no longer be mandatory.\n\nBut a BBC spokesman said there were no plans to change the balance or mix of programmes on Radio 4.\n\nAccording to The Times, Theresa May has appealed to US President Donald Trump to intervene in a dispute between Boeing and the Canadian plane maker, Bombardier.\n\nThe disagreement is said to threaten jobs at a Bombardier factory in Northern Ireland, which employs 4,500 people making wings.\n\nThe Daily Express says official figures released to MPs show that Britain has paid £374 billion to the EU since 1973.\n\nIt says Leave campaigners insist the \"colossal payment\" means Britain should not be forced to pay a divorce fee on leaving the EU.\n\nAccording to the Sun, firefighters are to be asked to check people's blood pressure when they visit homes to test smoke alarms.\n\nFive-and-a-half million people in England are said to have high blood pressure without knowing it and it is hoped the move will help prevent 9,000 heart attacks and 15,500 strokes a year - saving the NHS more than £500m annually.\n\nThe Daily Telegraph says under the same NHS proposals, it is also being suggested that teachers could carry out blood pressure tests during parents' evenings or at the school gates.\n\nThe Daily Mail says there might be machines at schools that let people test their own blood pressure - and possibly at supermarkets too.\n\nAccording to the Daily Mirror, hospital blunders have hit record levels - something the paper blames on \"the worst staffing crisis in the history of the NHS\".\n\nCompensation claims soared 72% last year to £29 million, the paper says, according to figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act.\n\nIt calls on Theresa May to give nurses, teachers and all essential workers a decent pay rise.\n\nLouella Michie's body was discovered in a wooded area on the edge of the Bestival site\n\nA picture of the daughter of Holby City star John Michie features on many of the front pages.\n\nThe former Coronation Street actor told the Sun his daughter's death at Bestival was a \"tragic accident\".\n\nThe 60-year-old said his family had \"lost an angel\" with the death of 25-year-old Louella Michie.", "George Clooney is the director of Suburbicon - currently showing at the Toronto Film Festival\n\nGeorge Clooney has said he \"felt sick\" while directing some scenes in his new movie Suburbicon.\n\nThe film's plot sees a black family move into a predominantly white suburban community in the 1950s.\n\n\"The trickiest part [of shooting] was, we were in a very racially diverse neighbourhood in Fullerton, California,\" Clooney said.\n\n\"And we had about 350 extras who were going to hurl a lot of racial slurs and say a lot of pretty terrible things.\"\n\nClooney added: \"Everybody who was making the film, we all just felt sick while we were doing it.\"\n\nReferring to the way the family is treated in the film, the director said: \"These are things that happened - [neighbours] sang church hymns, they hung confederate flags over the fence, they built a fence around their house, these are things that really happened.\n\n\"But it was sickening to be part of it quite honestly, so that was one of the most difficult things to shoot.\"\n\nThe movie, which is currently showing as part of the Toronto Film Festival, was conceived during the run up to the US election of November 2016, which was won by Donald Trump.\n\nClooney said: \"We'd seen some things on the campaign trail where they were talking about building fences, and scapegoating Mexicans and Muslims, and we're always reminded that these aren't new things and new moments in our history.\n\n\"So we thought it would be interesting to talk about it, but we wanted the film to be entertaining, not a documentary, we didn't want it to be an eat-your-spinach piece of filmmaking.\n\n\"So we merged it with [an existing Coen Brothers script] Suburbicon, because we thought it was a funnier idea to put it in the suburbs in the 1950s where we all thought everything was perfect - if you were a white straight male.\"\n\nThe actor and director said the real-life political climate the film was shot in ultimately altered the tone of the movie.\n\n\"While we were shooting, Trump was elected, and it changed the temperature of the film in a weird way,\" Clooney explained.\n\n\"The country got angrier, whichever side you were on. We had to cut some of Josh Brolin's scenes out, and one of the reasons is they were really slapstick funny, and it felt like the wrong tone suddenly.\"\n\nThe film stars Matt Damon, Julianne Moore and Karimah Westbrook - who drew parallels between her character (the mother of the African-American family) and her own experience of the entertainment industry.\n\n\"I think early on there was a lot of correlations as far as what I've experienced in Hollywood,\" she said.\n\nKarimah Westbrook said diversity in Hollywood had improved more recently\n\n\"I wore my hair natural for a very long time, so when I first moved to Hollywood I had an afro, and my manager said 'You'll never work with your hair like that, you'll have to straighten it'.\n\n\"I struggled with that for years, my looks, my hair... but I feel like things have changed so much in the industry, we have so many African-American women starring in shows now, so I feel there's been progress, but there's still a lot of things we're facing on both sides.\"\n\nRead more from the festival:\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.", "Nadine has recorded a new album with Girls Aloud's \"mad scientist\" Brian Higgins\n\n\"My favourite smell is bleach,\" says Nadine Coyle.\n\n\"If I walk into the house and there's things being bleached, it just makes me feel at home, euphoric almost.\"\n\nShe pauses and laughs. \"I can't believe we're having a whole discussion about bleach. Real pop star things!\"\n\nThe topic has come up because Coyle's new song, Go To Work, is a withering riposte to a lover who's not pulling their weight.\n\n\"Tell me what I got to do / To get you up in the morning?\" she sings over an infectious house piano. \"Why don't you go to work?\"\n\nThe song sees the 32-year-old reunited with Xenomania, the songwriting geniuses behind her old band Girls Aloud. Together they scored 21 Top 10 singles, more than any other female band in history, before calling it a day in 2013. (Coyle says the split was \"silly\" and refused to put her name to it. But more on that later.)\n\n\"LA is a beautiful place, but it doesn't feel like real life,\" says the singer\n\nGo To Work was inspired, says Coyle, by \"general annoyance\" with people \"who just don't do anything\" to help out, at home or at work.\n\nBut she's quick to point out the lyrics have nothing to do with her partner, American Football player Jason Bell.\n\n\"It's funny, we were watching this programme, Married to a Celebrity, the other night, and people had to write lists of whinges about their partner.\n\n\"I said to Jason, 'what would we write on our lists?' and he said, 'I wouldn't write anything.'\n\n\"I was like, 'that's a good answer. Well done, Jason!'\n\n\"We live really well together,\" she adds. \"He doesn't cook and he doesn't clean, but he makes really good coffees.\"\n\nHome life has been Coyle's priority since Girls Aloud split in 2013. She moved back to Northern Ireland after nine years in Los Angeles to raise her three-year-old daughter Anaiya.\n\nNow, though, she's all fired up and ready to return to the charts.\n\nNadine's first solo record was released, somewhat disastrously, in partnership with Tesco.\n\nSix years on she's signed a deal with Virgin EMI, home to Justin Bieber and Katy Perry, and says there's already a \"four-single plan\" for her new album.\n\nCoyle had almost 100 songs to choose from, recorded over a two-year period in Brighton. The overwhelming theme, she says, is feel-good pop.\n\n\"We're not trying to change the world. There's enough people trying to do that,\" she explains.\n\n\"We just want songs you can put on and have fun, that make your day better for those three minutes\".\n\nGirls Aloud at the start of their career (L-R): Sarah Harding, Cheryl, Nicola Roberts, Nadine and Kimberley Walsh\n\nBorn and raised in Derry, Northern Ireland, Coyle first came to attention in 2001 on the Irish version of reality show Pop Stars.\n\nShe made it through to the final band, Six. But then it was discovered she was 16, two years below the show's age limit, and had been lying throughout the audition process.\n\nThe revelation saw her make a tearful exit from the competition. But Louis Walsh, a judge on the series, kept in touch and encouraged the singer to audition for ITV's Pop Stars: The Rivals in 2002.\n\nShe was the third member to be selected for Girls Aloud, joining Cheryl Tweedy (as she was then), Nicola Roberts, Kimberley Walsh and Sarah Harding.\n\nWhat followed were some of the best, most unconventional pop hits of the 21st Century.\n\nBiology, for example, took two minutes and five (five!) musical movements to get to the chorus, while Sexy... No! No! No! grafted a lyric about sexual liberation onto a '70s heavy metal sample.\n\nThe singer says her new album is \"all uptempo\", despite her love of big R&B ballads\n\nTo begin with, Coyle was very much seen as the star.\n\n\"She's the one with the big solo career,\" Louis Walsh told the BBC in an (unpublished) interview from 2005. \"All she wants to do is sing.\n\n\"She's kind of lost in the group really, because no one knows how good she is. But if they were the Supremes, she would be Diana Ross.\"\n\nIt didn't quite turn out like that.\n\nWhen Cheryl signed up for X Factor, she began to eclipse her bandmates. On later Girls Aloud albums, she received a bigger share of the lead vocals.\n\nAnd it was Cheryl's solo career, not Coyle's, that produced platinum albums and number one singles.\n\nBut there was no bad blood, and Coyle happily signed up for a Girls Aloud reunion tour in 2013 - an experience that nearly ended in disaster when a floating platform malfunctioned during rehearsals.\n\n\"We came down on the platform and it tilted and nearly tipped us off,\" she recalls. \"We were all screaming and clinging on for dear life. Thankfully, we were all fine.\"\n\nThe band won a Brit Award in 2009 for their number one single The Promise\n\nThe tour was a huge success. After 20 dates, though, the band called it a day, announcing their split in a brief tweet.\n\nThe statement was famously issued against Coyle's wishes.\n\nInformed of the decision just 20 minutes before they were due on stage for their final show, Coyle refused to sign a contract formalising their separation.\n\n\"I was in my robe and I'd got my hair and make-up on, and I was like, 'What? Everybody wants to do that?' And they said, 'Yes, everybody'.\n\n\"I thought it was silly. Why would you want to do that? I thought everybody was tired because it was the end of the tour and they'd change their minds.\n\n\"Then they said, 'We're going to put out a statement' - and it was a tweet.\n\n\"I thought, 'What? What?! We came back with a press conference, and you're going to end 10 years with a tweet? Then remove my name completely from the whole thing. I do not agree with any of this.'\"\n\nThe statement may have gone out but, to this day, Coyle has not put pen to paper - technically making her the sole remaining member of the band.\n\n\"I'm not saying that!\" she guffaws. \"You know that's what the headline will be! 'Nadine says she is Girls Aloud!'\"\n\nBut she's still in touch with the rest of the band, and says she voted \"all day\" for Sarah Harding to win the latest series of Celebrity Big Brother.\n\nThe role of Erin was \"one of the best jobs I've had in my life,\" says Coyle\n\nFollowing the band's split and the birth of her daughter, Coyle signed up to appear as Erin the Goddess in Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance - finding herself dumbstruck by the dancers' physical prowess.\n\n\"It's like a sport,\" she says. \"When they were getting ready for the big finale, they would literally jump way above the height of me, just to get themselves pumped up.\n\n\"They were like gazelles, then they'd run on stage.\"\n\nDid she ever harbour ambitions to join in? \"Are you joking?\" she laughs.\n\n\"I tried Irish dancing when I was younger but I wasn't any good. I just thought, 'this is a waste of time.'\"\n\nNo, singing has always been in her blood - from her early days in a local restaurant called The Drunken Duck, all the way to Wembley Stadium.\n\nYou get the sense that nothing makes her happier than being in the vocal booth, running through scales and recording harmonies.\n\nMaking the new album with Xenomania supremo Brian Higgins, she says, pushed herself to discover new shades and tones to her voice.\n\n\"Brian would say, 'Oh, there's a lot to get through - we've got 25 vocal parts to record, but we'll do it over two or three days'.\n\n\"And I'd be like, 'No, we'll get this done in two hours.'\n\n\"You have to get into a zone where you're so focused that you're hearing melodies you've never heard before.\"\n\nNadine's Uber rating is going to suffer if she leaves a mark on that door\n\nCoyle says her favourite songs on the record include Girls On Fire, a celebration of strong women, and I Fall, \"which is about feeling connected to somebody, even when you're not in the same room.\"\n\nSoon enough, though, she's back to talking about domestic life and describing how she pined for the Irish winter when she was out in America.\n\n\"I love being at home and hearing the rain on the window,\" she says. \"I missed that cosiness.\"\n\nNor was she impressed by LA's health-conscious food trends. \"You know how everybody's into this 'fresh from the farm' organic produce? That's how we grew up!\n\n\"You went to the farm to pick up your eggs and your potatoes. We were on that years ago - now it's trendy!\"\n\nIf her music's as ahead of the curve as her diet, we're sure to be hearing a lot more from Nadine Coyle over the next 12 months.\n\nGo To Work is out now on Virgin/EMI.\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.", "Art-pop band Sofi Tukker feature on the advert for the new iPhone X - but who are they?\n\nFormed in 2014, the New York duo are Sophie Hawley-Weld and Tucker Halpern (hence the name).\n\nTheir song, Best Friends, recalls the anything-goes psychedelia of Deee-Lite, with an infectious bassline punctuated by horn stabs and cowbells.\n\n\"You are my best friend and we've got some things to do,\" sing-speaks Hawley-Weld in the track's whimsical chorus.\n\nThe singer and guitar player (who, in the lyrics, claims to be \"addictive like some Pokemon\") met Halpern at an art gallery while studying at Browns University in Rhode Island.\n\n\"I was playing acoustic bossa nova music in a trio and Tucker was the DJ that night,\" Hawley-Weld explained to the Huffington Post last year.\n\n\"He came early and saw what we were doing and ended up remixing one of my songs on the spot... We have been working together ever since!\"\n\nHawley-Weld was born in Germany and grew up in international school communities in Brazil, Italy and Canada.\n\nHer upbringing introduced her to a wide variety of music - as did her degree in West African dance and drumming at university - all of which filter into the band's eclectic sound.\n\nHalpern, meanwhile, is a Boston native who was set to play professional basketball (he's 6ft 8in) until health issues forced him out of the sport.\n\nLaid up in bed for eight months, he taught himself to be a DJ - leading to that fateful meeting with his bandmate.\n\nThe band's debut single Drinkee, a colourful, danceable slice of pop, was released in 2016 and earned the band a Grammy nomination for best dance recording.\n\n\"It was the first song we wrote,\" Halpern told Billboard. \"It's why we started the band, really, because we believed in the vibe.\"\n\nBased on the poem Relogio by the Brazilian-Portuguese writer Chacal, the song is partly sung in Portuguese.\n\n\"We wanted it to act like a chant in which the point is just the act of repetition,\" they explained to NPR - who presciently commented that the record sounded like the soundtrack to \"a fashion week party or an Apple ad\".\n\nNow that they've landed one of those coveted adverts, the band join a club that includes Feist, U2 and Florence + The Machine.\n\nThey might be more self-consciously quirky than those acts, but there's a strand of playfulness to their music that suggests they could cross over to the mainstream.\n\nHawley-Weld summed it up perfectly last year when she was asked how she'd explain her music to visiting aliens.\n\n\"Hi Aliens,\" she told Mat Mag. \"We're Sofi Tukker. This is called dancing, it is what people do when they want to be happy and feel free. Let's be friends!\"\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.", "Three men, including two British soldiers, have been charged under terror laws with being members of a banned neo-Nazi group.\n\nAlexander Deakin, 22, Mikko Vehvilainen, 32, and Mark Barrett, 24, have been charged with being members of National Action.\n\nIt was the first far-right group to be banned by the Home Office in 2016.\n\nThey are among five men arrested on 5 September. Two others have since been released without charge.\n\nMr Deakin from Birmingham, Mr Vehvilainen, based at Sennybridge Camp in Brecon, and Mr Barrett, based at Dhekelia Garrison in Cyprus, will appear at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Tuesday.\n\nWest Midlands Police has said the arrests were \"pre-planned and intelligence-led\" with no threat to public safety.\n\nMr Deakin has been charged with two counts under Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000 - alleged possession of documents likely to be useful to a person preparing to commit an act of terrorism.\n\nThe 22-year-old is also charged with one count of distributing a terrorist publication. Separately he faces one count of inciting racial hatred - allegedly posting a number of National Action stickers at the Aston University campus in Birmingham in July 2016.\n\nMr Vehvilainen has also been charged under the Terrorism Act 2000 for the possession of a document likely to be useful to a person preparing to commit an act of terrorism.\n\nThe 32-year-old also faces two counts of publishing threatening, abusive or insulting comments online intending to stir up racial hatred under the Public Order Act 1986.\n\nHe has also been charged with possession of a weapon - pepper spray.", "It's not often you ask an actor how they felt about working with their co-star and they reply: \"We hated each other.\"\n\nFortunately Madison Wolfe is only kidding, and she and Sydney Wade collapse into giggles as they explain how close they grew on the set of their new movie I Kill Giants.\n\n\"At the beginning of production we were just kind of polite to each other or whatever, but by the end we were really good friends,\" 14-year-old Madison says.\n\nHer co-star Sydney, 15, picks up: \"By the time we finished we were roasting each other, 'I don't like your shoes', 'Oh yeah, well I don't like your hair!'\n\n\"But honestly all jokes aside... she's an okay person.\" The pair descend into more laughter.\n\nThe duo struck up a firm friendship on set\n\nBy quite some distance, Sydney and Madison must be two of the youngest movie stars at this year's Toronto Film Festival.\n\nBut they're not exactly newcomers to the industry. \"I've been acting since I was four, so 11 years now,\" Sydney explains.\n\n\"Building up to this film was a very difficult process for me, it was challenging. I had to graft. I was doing non-speaking roles, non-paid roles. I didn't mind what I did as long as I was doing what I loved.\n\n\"But when I got on to I Kill Giants I thought 'this is it - this is everything that I wanted.'\"\n\nSimilarly, audiences (and horror fans in particular) may have already seen films starring Madison without even realising it.\n\n\"A lot of people saw me in The Conjuring, that was probably my biggest role so far,\" she says. \"But people didn't realise that I'd been working for almost six years before that. It takes a long time.\"\n\nMadison and Sydney's new film I Kill Giants is the big-screen adaptation of the graphic novel of the same name by Joe Kelly and Ken Niimura.\n\nIt tells the story of Barbara (Madison), a young girl who escapes to her own imaginary world to deal with the grief and trauma of something she's experiencing at home.\n\nSydney plays Sophia, an English girl to whom Barbara somewhat reluctantly grows close through the course of the film.\n\nThe young actress and the character she plays are both from Leeds - but there's little hint of a northern accent.\n\n\"We did try a stronger accent, but we thought, for the film to go globally, it's very hard for some people to understand the Leeds accent, because it can be really strong,\" Sydney says.\n\n\"But I'm kind of neutral. I'm not RP [received pronunciation], I'm not from London or anything, so my own accent is quite plain, and you can understand it.\n\n\"I feel like it works well with Madison's accent too, which isn't too strong American.\"\n\nMadison's character is far from your stereotypical teen girl heroine. She's a social outcast at school, dresses awkwardly and is generally quite eccentric and introverted - quite the opposite of Madison's outgoing real-life personality.\n\n\"Getting to play a character that's so different from myself is so cool,\" the actress says.\n\n\"I don't dress like her or anything or wear bunny ears, but this is why I love acting so much, you can be anyone you want to be.\n\n\"Barbara being so scruffy and hard, it kind of betrays that she has a bit of a shell on her and she is kind of an introvert.\"\n\nThe film is directed by Anders Walter and also stars Imogen Poots and Zoe Saldana.\n\nWorking on major film projects like this must be quite exhausting when you've got homework and exams to worry about, right?\n\n\"It's my last year at school, so I'm trying to pass through that,\" Sydney says.\n\n\"I tried a private school which worked really well, but towards the end I was struggling to manage both because I had loads of lessons.\n\n\"And then I did a year of home schooling, which was easier in terms of going off to work, but it was harder in terms of learning exactly what you needed to.\n\n\"So now I'm back at school, who are just incredible. They're so lenient with me going off and everything.\"\n\nMadison and Sydney clearly have a long and bright future in film ahead of them - and when asked which other actresses they look up to, they're both full of names.\n\nSydney cites Chloe Grace Moretz and Nicole Kidman as her acting inspirations\n\n\"One of the biggest icons I have is Meryl Streep,\" Madison says instantly. \"If I ever met her I think I would die.\n\n\"But I also love Natalie Portman, Emma Roberts, Margot Robbie - there's so many.\"\n\nSydney adds: \"I really appreciate Chloe Grace Moretz, I think she's a really great, interesting actor. And she's really diverse with everything she does.\n\n\"And Nicole Kidman, I saw her yesterday, very close-up! They are my top two.\"\n\nKidman is just one of several Hollywood A-listers Madison and Sydney have been rubbing shoulders with while in Toronto.\n\nPromotion and film festivals can be overwhelming, especially at such a young age, but it's a process the pair are clearly enjoying.\n\n\"It's quite rewarding, everyone worked so hard on this film,\" Madison says. \"You see all the reviews and people wanting to know more about it, it's just great - you feel like you've really accomplished something.\"\n\nThe same photographers who have mostly spent their time chasing Matt Damon, Jennifer Lawrence and George Clooney around Toronto this week could well be turning their attention to Madison and Sydney in a few years' time.\n\nRead more from the festival:\n\nFollow us on Facebook, on Twitter @BBCNewsEnts, or on Instagram at bbcnewsents. If you have a story suggestion email entertainment.news@bbc.co.uk.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The sister of one of the victims says he was forced to dig his own grave\n\nMembers of a traveller family have been jailed for enslaving 18 men who were made to work for little or no wages while their captors lived a life of lavish luxury.\n\nThe workers were illegally trafficked and exploited by the Rooney family - 10 men and one woman - whose actions left a gruelling mark on their victims.\n\nOne man's terrifying ordeal spanned more than a quarter of a century. On one occasion, he was made to dig his own grave if he did not agree to a lifetime of servitude.\n\n\"You're going to work for me for the rest of your life... if you don't sign this contract that is where you're going,\" John Rooney told his victim, pointing at the hole he had been forced to dig.\n\nThe harrowing details have been told to the BBC by the victim's sister.\n\nPolice said the living quarters of 18 men who were trafficked into a modern slavery ring were \"truly shocking\"\n\nShe described how her brother was beaten with a rake and had his front teeth smashed with a concrete slab in savage attacks which left him \"psychologically damaged\".\n\n\"I think one of the worst stories he told me was about digging his own grave,\" his sister, who cannot be named for legal reasons, told the BBC.\n\n\"John Rooney had asked him to dig a hole and he said, 'I kept digging and digging and digging. I said to John: Crikey how much more have I got to dig? And he said keep digging'.\n\n\"According to my brother, John produced a contract and said to him 'you're going to work for me for the rest of your life... if you don't sign this contract that is where you're going'.\n\n\"On another occasion, he was late getting up and John came into his van with a rake and hit him over the head. You can see evidence of scarring on the left side of his head.\n\nThe victims were aged between 18 and 63, held in squalor and forced to work up to 12-hour days, seven days a week, for the family's tarmacking company.\n\nWhile the Rooneys led an extravagant lifestyle, their slaves lived in filth - some in stables next to dog kennels, many in unkempt caravans without running water or toilet facilities.\n\n\"Many were very, very thin and they were absolutely filthy,\" said Ch Supt Nikki Mayo, of Lincolnshire Police.\n\n\"These individuals didn't have a toilet so many had to go into the woods and, in fact, some were kept in a stable block nearby with animals. So, absolutely disgraceful.\"\n\nThe 11 members of the Rooney led extravagant lifestyles while their victims suffered\n\nMany were alcoholics and estranged from their relatives, while several had learning disabilities and mental health issues. Half were British nationals targeted from all over the country because they were homeless.\n\nCh Supt Mayo said the victims were left \"completely institutionalised and isolated from society\".\n\n\"They were given scraps of food that were mainly leftovers from family meals, complete with bite marks, but only after working long hard hours tarmacking driveways and fitting block paving,\" she said.\n\n\"When they weren't working for the company the men had to collect scrap, sweep, tidy up or look after pets around the sites.\n\n\"Often their only payment was a packet of tobacco and a limited amount of alcohol, which didn't help those with addictions and was another way in which the defendants exerted control over them.\"\n\nThe men worked long hard hours for little more than a packet of tobacco\n\nEven though the victims were \"not physically trapped\", they were \"financially, emotionally and physically abused making any escape seem impossible\", the detective added.\n\nThe threat of violence also made them too scared to leave. One victim told police he was afraid of the Rooney gang because he had seen the brutality they had inflicted on others.\n\n\"There was one moment one of the [Rooneys] took a shovel... and then I [saw] three people kicking [the slave] as he was lying on the ground,\" he said.\n\n\"I've been quite scared because I've seen what they're capable of.\"\n\nThe family operated from a number of sites in Lincolnshire and were caught as part of Operation Pottery, which detectives described as \"one of the largest and most complex\" cases in the force's history.\n\nReverend Jeremy Cullimore, who worked in a homeless shelter in Lincoln, said he had tried to protect potential victims.\n\n\"We were aware that the Rooneys [had] a series of vans driving around the streets, seeking out people, to persuade them that they could offer them a nice caravan and so on.\n\n\"We introduced a number of systems so that people who were vulnerable would not be alone.\"\n\nThe defendants led a lavish lifestyle and operated from a number of sites\n\nHe recalled the moment he came head-to-head with the gang.\n\n\"The family [came] to recover a man who escaped from them and they were saying quite clearly 'he's ours, he owes us money and we want him'.\n\n\"I turned around and said 'You know I'm a priest and I can absolve you from your sins, but beware I can bind them to you forever. Now think on this' and they left.\n\nWhen police officers dismantled the ring in 2014, the force set up a refuge for the victims aided by the NHS, social services, British Red Cross and the UK Human Trafficking Centre.\n\nOne charity worker, who wanted to remain anonymous, said one individual used \"an entire bottle of shampoo to make themselves feel clean\".\n\n\"When I first saw them they looked completely bedraggled. One of them asked how long he could shower for. We said 'as long as you like' and he was completely taken aback by the response.\n\n\"After 20 minutes he came out looking like a different person. The colour in his skin came back. He just felt like a normal human being.\"\n\nBut how did the Rooney slavery ring operate undetected for so long?\n\nKevin Hyland, the UK's Independent Anti-Slavery Commissioner, said there was a lack of awareness about slavery legislation and recognising the signs.\n\n\"People in the communities haven't recognised this for what it is or haven't really understood what it is,\" he said. \"But this case really does demonstrate how serious this crime is and it can be happening on your own front drive.\n\n\"There has been a lack of understanding and awareness but, then also, what do you do when you recognise it? The authorities themselves need to understand this and realise this is a crime and they have a duty to respond.\"\n\nUnder the Modern Slavery Act, introduced in 2015, it is illegal to hold someone in slavery or servitude and force them to carry out compulsory labour.\n\nFor the woman whose brother was captive for 26 years, the mark left by his experience is indelible.\n\nOn seeing him for the first time after his release, she said she wanted to \"fall on my knees and sob\".\n\n\"He was very thin. His teeth are terrible, they're all rotten and he's not got many left.\n\n\"He's damaged... but he's now enjoying his freedom.\"\n• None What has the National Crime Agency found in investigating modern slavery- - BBC News", "Bell Pottinger has collapsed into administration in the UK after running a racially charged PR campaign in South Africa.\n\nThe troubled public relations firm put itself up for sale last week, but could not find a buyer.\n\nThe administrators BDO said the firm had been \"heavily financially impacted\" by the scandal.\n\nThe level of its losses and the inability to win new clients left the firm with no other option, BDO said.\n\nBell Pottinger was ejected from the UK's industry body last week for a PR campaign that emphasised the power of white-owned businesses in South Africa.\n\nA string of clients, including HSBC, Investec and luxury goods company Richemont, cut ties with the firm over its work on the campaign.\n\nBell Pottinger filed plans to appoint three BDO administrators on Friday, and the appointment became effective on Tuesday.\n\nA BDO spokesman said: \"Following an immediate assessment of the financial position, the administrators have made a number of redundancies.\n\n\"The administrators are now working with the remaining partners and employees to seek an orderly transfer of Bell Pottinger's clients to other firms in order to protect and realise value for creditors.\"\n\nBell Pottinger's Middle East and Asian units had already announced plans to separate from the UK parent company.\n\nSouth Africa's opposition party filed a complaint over the campaign\n\nThe PR firm worked on the controversial campaign for Oakbay, a company owned by the wealthy Guptas family in South Africa.\n\nThe work was criticised for presenting opponents of President Jacob Zuma and the Guptas as agents of \"white monopoly capital\".\n\nBell Pottinger and its co-founder, Lord Bell, had a reputation for taking risks. Lord Bell, who was a PR adviser to Margaret Thatcher, resigned from the firm last year.\n\nThe company represented Oscar Pistorius, the South African Olympic athlete, after he was charged with murder.\n\nBelarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko has used the firm's services, as well as Syria's first lady Asma al-Assad.\n\nIn the late 1990s the PR firm worked on a campaign to release former Chilean dictator General Pinochet after his arrest in London on a Spanish extradition warrant on murder charges.", "Senobar Johnsen says it's \"visibly noticeable\" that Swedes prefer cards to cash these days\n\nSweden is the most cashless society on the planet, with barely 1% of the value of all payments made using coins or notes last year. So how did the Nordic nation get so far ahead of the rest of us?\n\nWarm cinnamon buns are stacked next to mounds of freshly-baked sourdough bread at a neighbourhood coffee shop in Kungsholmen, just west of Stockholm city centre.\n\nAmongst the other typically Scandinavian touches - minimalist white tiles and exposed filament light bulbs - is another increasingly common sight in the Swedish capital: a \"We don't accept cash\" sign.\n\n\"We wanted to minimise the risk of robberies and it's quicker with the customers when they pay by card,\" says Victoria Nilsson, who manages two of the bakery chain's 16 stores across the city.\n\n\"It's been mainly positive reactions. We love to use our cards here in Stockholm.\"\n\nAcross the country, cash is now used in less than 20% of transactions in stores - half the number five years ago, according to the Riksbank, Sweden's central bank.\n\nCoins and banknotes have been banned on buses for several years after unions raised concerns over drivers' safety.\n\nEven tourist attractions have started to gamble on taking plastic-only payments, including Stockholm's Pop House Hotel and The Abba Museum.\n\nBjorn Ulvaeus (left) back in his Abba heyday. Now he's a keen supporter of a cashless Sweden.\n\nThe iconic band's Bjorn Ulvaeus is, in fact, one of the nation's most vocal supporters of Sweden's cash-free trend, after his son lost cash in an apartment burglary.\n\nSmaller retailers are jumping on the bandwagon, too, making use of home-grown technologies such as iZettle, the Swedish start-up behind Europe's first mobile credit card reader.\n\nSuch portable technologies have enabled market traders - and even homeless people promoting charity magazines - to take card payments easily.\n\n\"I took my kids to the funfair and there was a guy selling balloons and he had a card machine with him,\" remarks Senobar Johnsen, one of the Swedish customers back at the bakery.\n\nCurrently living in Portsmouth in southern England, she's visiting Sweden for the first time in a year and says it's \"visibly noticeable\" that people are paying more with cards.\n\n\"It's not like the UK where there's often a minimum spend when you go to a kiosk or you're in the middle of nowhere. I think it's great\".\n\nSwish, a smartphone payment system, is another popular Swedish innovation used by more than half the country's 10 million strong population.\n\nSigns like this are becoming increasingly common in Sweden\n\nBacked by the major banks, it allows customers to send money securely to anyone else with the app, just by using their mobile number.\n\nA staple at flea markets and school fetes, it's also a popular way to transfer money instantly between friends: Swedes can no longer get away with delaying their share of a restaurant bill using the excuse that they're short on cash.\n\n\"In general, consumers are very interested in new technologies, so we're quite early to adopt [them],\" explains Niklas Arvidsson, a professor at Stockholm's Royal Institute of Technology.\n\nThis is partly down to infrastructure (Sweden is among the most connected countries in the EU); a relatively small population that is an ideal test-bed for innovations; and the country's historically low corruption levels, he argues.\n\n\"Swedes tend to trust banks, we trust institutions... people are not afraid of the sort-of 'Big Brother' issues or fraud connected to electronic payment.\"\n\nSomewhat paradoxically, Sweden's decision to update its coins and banknotes, a move announced by the Riksbank in 2010 and fully implemented this year, actually boosted cashless transactions, explains Prof Arvidsson.\n\n\"You would have thought that a new kind of cash would have created an interest, but the reaction seems to have been the opposite,\" he says.\n\n\"Some retailers thought it's easier not to accept these new forms of cash because there's learning to be done, maybe investment in cash registration machines and so-on.\"\n\nThere has also been a \"ripple effect\", he says, with more shops signing up to the cashless idea as it becomes increasingly socially acceptable.\n\nFormer Interpol president Bjorn Eriksson is worried about a cashless future\n\nRiksbank figures reveal that the average value of Swedish krona in circulation fell from around 106 billion (£10bn) in 2009 to 65 billion (£6bn) in 2016.\n\nBarely 1% of the value of all payments were made using coins or notes last year, compared to around 7% across the EU and in the US.\n\nProf Arvidsson predicts that the use of cash will most likely be reduced to \"a very marginal payment form\" by 2020.\n\nRetailers seem to agree. A survey - not yet published - of almost 800 small retailers carried out by his research team found that two thirds of respondents said they anticipated phasing out cash payments completely by 2030.\n\nBut the trend is not to everyone's liking, as Bjorn Eriksson, formerly national police commissioner and president of Interpol, explains from the suburb of Alvik.\n\nHere, his local coffee shop still accepts old-fashioned money, but several of the banks no longer offer cash deposits or over-the-counter withdrawals.\n\n\"I like cards. I'm just angry because about a million people can't cope with cards: the elderly, former convicts, tourists, immigrants. The banks don't care because [these groups] are not profitable,\" he argues.\n\nThe 71-year-old is the face of a national movement called Kontantupproret (Cash Rebellion), which is also concerned about identity theft, rising consumer debt and cyber-attacks.\n\n\"This system could easily be disturbed or manipulated. Why invade us when it's so easy? Just cut off the payment system and we're completely helpless,\" says Mr Eriksson.\n\nHis arguments haven't escaped the notice of politicians in Sweden, where debates about security are increasingly making their way onto the agenda in the wake of a government agency data leak that almost brought down the ruling coalition in July.\n\nMeanwhile, the backdrop of an increasingly divided electorate suggests that rural and elderly voters could prove crucial in the Nordic country's next general election, scheduled for September 2018.\n\nBack at Stockholm's Royal Institute of Technology, Prof Arvidsson points out that while most Swedes have embraced the nation's cash-free innovations, two thirds don't want to get rid of notes and coins completely.\n\n\"There's a very strong emotional connection to cash among Swedes, even though they do not use it,\" he says.\n\nSweden may leading the global trend towards a cashless future, but its tech-savvy population also appears to be guided by another, more traditional Swedish trait: caution.", "In the early hours the government won its vote on the behemoth-like task of transferring laws incorporated from the EU on to a new statute book.\n\nIn the end Labour doubts and a strict hand from the Tory whips won the day and the numbers were more comfortable than the squeaky feeling at the start of the political week suggested.\n\nBut ministers can't relax, not for a moment.\n\nTories with unease about the withdrawal bill have already drawn up proposed amendments, changes to the bill and here's the rub - they say they already have at least a dozen colleagues signed up, including four influential chairs of Westminster committees.\n\nWhy does that matter? Remember, the government's majority (with the DUP) is so slim only six grumpy Tories can sink a bill.\n\nSo a dirty dozen, as ministers might see them, can force them to change their position or lose.", "The next Budget will be held on Wednesday 22 November, Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond has said.\n\nIt will be the first Budget since the Conservatives lost their majority in the House of Commons in the snap election in June.\n\nMr Hammond delivered another Budget earlier this year in the spring.\n\nBut he has previously indicated that the main date for the annual speech, which outlines fiscal forecasts and tax changes, will move to the autumn.\n\nThe chancellor said the Budget was an opportunity for the government to \"set out our thinking on how to keep the economy strong and resilient and fair\".\n\nMr Hammond told the Lords Economics Affairs Committee that the UK economy had \"inevitably been overshadowed by the uncertainty of the Brexit negotiation process\".\n\n\"The quicker we can generate some clarity about the future for business and consumers, the better, so that we can get back to the business of pursuing what I think looked like a very positive outlook for the UK economy in early 2016,\" he added.\n\nAlso on Tuesday, the government moved on public sector pay, announcing pay rises for police and prison officers which go beyond the current cap.\n\nDowning Street signalled the end of the 1% pay freeze for other public sector workers, saying they recognised the need for more flexibility in future.", "Mark Gainey did not let injury stop him from cycling for long\n\nThankfully for tens of millions of cyclists around the world, Mark Gainey didn't walk away from the sport when he had a nasty crash back in 2002.\n\nRacing his bike down a steep road in California, he hit a pothole and went flying, shattering his left arm and elbow. He required no fewer than 11 operations to repair the damage.\n\nMany of us wouldn't want to look at a bike again after that, but Mark got back in the saddle and a few years later he and a friend came up with the idea for what has become the world's most popular cycling app - Strava.\n\nIf you aren't a keen cyclist then you may not have heard of it but for those of us who do like pedalling around on two wheels it isn't an exaggeration to say that the app has been revolutionary.\n\nUtilising the GPS (global positioning system) software on your smartphone, it enables you to record your ride, and then see an accurate line of the route you have cycled on an electronic map.\n\nIt tells you how far and fast you have cycled, and you can compare your times over certain sections - such as popular hill climbs - with both how well you have done before and with other Strava users.\n\nThis means that you can compete to beat other people's times and aim to be \"the king (or queen) of the mountain\" on a certain stretch of road.\n\nThe Strava app is continuing to see user numbers soar\n\nFirst launched in 2009 and since expanding to running and other sports, Strava now has tens of millions of users around the world, many of whom find it completely addictive.\n\nThe word Strava is even used as a verb, as in \"I'm going to strava this ride,\" and then there is the saying: \"If it isn't on Strava then it doesn't count.\"\n\nWhile it has numerous rivals whose apps do similar things, such as Map My Ride and Endomondo, Strava's user numbers tower over the others. It claims that an additional one million people join every 45 days.\n\nBut despite its vast popularity and the fact that it is backed by $70m (£54m) of investment, the company (which doesn't reveal its financial results) is widely reported to have not yet made a profit. So what is the problem and how can it change it?\n\nThe app was inspired by the idea to help boost camaraderie among fellow athletes\n\nMark Gainey, 48, says that the original genesis of the idea for San Francisco-based Strava came when he and co-founder Michael Horvath graduated from Harvard University.\n\n\"Back in the late 1980s Michael and I rowed together at Harvard. It was an incredible experience, pretty special, with great camaraderie.\n\n\"The only problem was that we then graduated and - whoosh - that all just disappeared.\n\n\"So brainstorming ideas for businesses we said, 'Wouldn't it be great to replicate that camaraderie in the boathouse.' The idea was to create a virtual locker room for athletes to compare times. Unfortunately the technology just didn't exist at the time.\"\n\nFast-forward to 2008 and Mark and Michael, still friends, had not forgotten their idea. By then Mark had spent almost two decades in the software sector, while Michael was a business and economics lecturer who also dabbled in the IT industry.\n\nBy then technology had made their idea possible, with the invention of GPS recorders and the iPhone and other smartphones. And the likes of Facebook had made people used to sharing information about themselves online.\n\nThe app has since expanded to running and other sports such as skiing\n\nAnd so the two friends launched Strava, the name being the Swedish word for \"strive\" in reference to Michael's ancestry.\n\nThe app was an immediate word-of-mouth hit and user numbers soon skyrocketed and haven't slowed since.\n\nWith its largest number of users in the US followed by the UK and Brazil, commentators put Strava's success compared with its smaller rivals down to a combination of its ease of use, and larger focus on sociability - the ability to see what friends are up to, chat and comment on each other's rides, and give someone \"kudos\" for a good ride.\n\nMark refers to this as Strava's \"secret sauce\", and he has huge ambitions for the company. \"We want to be the trusted sports brand of the 21st Century, but instead of needle and thread it is bits and bytes,\" he says.\n\nThe financial problem for Strava is that its basic free offering is so good most users aren't tempted to upgrade to its paid-for \"premium\" service.\n\nThe company won't release the percentage figure for the number of premium users, but commentators say it is likely to be around the 20% mark.\n\nUsers of the app can upload their own photos\n\nAs Mark confirms that the company's main revenue stream remains premium subscribers, it needs to see if it can increase this.\n\nStrava is also hoping to increase the money it makes from tie-ups with sports firms, and use its data to work with local authorities around the world to improve and increase their provision of bike lanes.\n\nTo help boost Strava's earning potential, it has recently brought in a new chief executive, James Quarles, who joined from Instagram. The change saw Mark move from that role to chairman.\n\nMark says: \"We want to take Strava from tens of millions [in] revenues to hundreds of millions, and James will lead that.\"\n\nMark has switched from chief executive to chairman\n\nUK cycling journalist Rebecca Charlton says it is hard to overstate how successfully Strava had turned itself into a \"social network for athletes, a kind of home for their athletic lives\".\n\nMeanwhile, US cycling industry commentator Scott Montgomery predicts that Strava will indeed have a profitable future.\n\n\"They say in the technology sector that the first is the winner, and the second is forgotten, and Strava has definitely beaten its rivals.\n\n\"Somebody has done a great job on the marketing side and the app is very easy to use. They are now at the stage where they own a vast audience, and if you are in that position you will get profitable.\"\n\nMark adds: \"We are the world's social network for athletes, but I'm also very pleased that we are simply encouraging more people to be active.\"\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 worst of Storm Aileen's winds have rattled off towards the Netherlands, says BBC Weather's Matt Taylor\n\nStrong winds have caused travel disruption and power cuts across parts of the country.\n\nAileen, the first named storm this season, has now eased away but caused problems on rail routes and left thousands without power overnight.\n\nThe Met Office said gusts of 74mph hit Mumbles Head in south Wales, with southern parts of northern England and the north Midlands also badly affected.\n\nLorry drivers and motorcyclists were warned of the risk of being blown over.\n\nThroughout the morning, rail travellers faced slower journeys and cancellations, but services now seem to be returning to normal.\n\nOn its website, National Rail said falling trees and large branches, power cuts and debris blown onto the tracks had caused difficulties.\n\nBy lunchtime, only Southern rail and Thameslink were still reporting difficulties. Other services were also affected during the morning rush hour.\n\nA car is dented by a branch in Sheffield\n\nIn south Wales, the Taff Trail, between Radyr and Cardiff, takes a battering\n\nAt its height, the storm cut power to 60,000 homes in Wales - some for 10 minutes, others for several hours.\n\nWestern Power Distribution, which provides electricity to homes in south and west Wales, said all affected areas, from Pembrokeshire to Monmouthshire, were back up and running.\n\nNorthern Powergrid, which covers north-east England, Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, said 7,400 homes had lost power overnight, and it was still working to restore power to 800 customers.\n\nElectricity North West said about 1,300 homes were affected.\n\nPolice forces in Staffordshire, Cheshire and Gloucestershire all reported trees being blown over by the winds during the night.\n\nThe Met Office said there was no connection between high winds in the UK and the recent extreme weather in the Caribbean and the US.\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 UK's weather system came from the north, in the Atlantic, the Met Office added.\n\nBy late morning, all weather warnings had been lifted and Storm Aileen was heading for the Netherlands.\n\nThe Environment Agency lifted two flood warnings, but 7 alerts remain in place for areas where flooding \"is possible\".\n\nBy contrast, on this day last year, the temperature in Gravesend, Kent, reached 34C (93F).\n\nStorm Aileen is the first storm to be given a name since they were announced for the 2017/18 season.\n\nOther names on the list include Dylan, Octavia, Rebecca and Simon.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Twenty-eight-year-old interim White House Communications Director Hope Hicks will serve in the role on a permanent basis.\n\nThe longtime Trump aide is the fourth person to fill the position, replacing Anthony Scaramucci, who was fired in July after just 10 days on the job.\n\nMs Hicks has served as President Donald Trump's strategic communications director and campaign press secretary.\n\nThe ex-Trump Organization employee is one of his most trusted aides.\n\nAs White House communications director she will be responsible for shaping the administration's message - although in a less visible way than press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders.\n\nThe appointment of Ms Hicks - a former Ralph Lauren fashion model - comes after a summer of staff shake-ups at the White House.\n\nMr Scaramucci was fired after he raised eyebrows for calling a reporter to give a profanity-laced tirade against his own colleagues.\n\nPresident Trump's chief of staff, Reince Priebus, and spokesman, Sean Spicer, both left their posts after Mr Scaramucci's appointment.\n\nGeneral John Kelly, who replaced Mr Priebus, sacked Mr Scaramucci after he was sworn in.\n\nMike Dubke, who was first appointed as communications director, resigned in May.\n\nMr Spicer also filled in as communications director while the post was open over the summer.\n\nReporters say mean things about Hope Hicks. They complain that she's not qualified for the job, and they say she's in over her head.\n\nIt's true that she did not come from the Washington establishment or the political world. A former Ford model, she started working for Trump in 2015.\n\nStill, she has something valuable - the president's trust. Among those in the West Wing, she's the closest to Trump and knows how he wants to achieve his goals.\n\nThat seems like a good background for someone who's handling his communications strategy.", "Northern Ireland's football team manager, Michael O'Neill, has been arrested on suspicion of drink-driving.\n\nHe was detained by police on the outskirts of Edinburgh on Sunday.\n\nPolice Scotland said they arrested and charged a 48-year-old man in connection with drink-driving eastbound on the A720 at about 00.55 BST on Sunday.\n\nHe is due to appear at Edinburgh Sheriff's Court on 10 October, two days after Northern Ireland's final World Cup qualifier match against Norway.\n\nIn a statement, the Irish Football Association (IFA) said it was \"aware of an alleged drink-driving incident involving Michael O'Neill\".\n\nThe IFA added that it was a \"police matter\" and would make no further comment, after the story first appeared in the Scottish Sun.\n\nMr O'Neill became manager of the Northern Ireland international football team in February 2012.\n\nHe has enjoyed considerable success during his five-and-a-half-year tenure, guiding the team to their first ever European Championship finals last year.\n\nUnder his leadership, Northern Ireland made it through to the last 16.\n\nMichael O'Neill was lauded after taking his side - featuring Steven Davies - to the Euro 2016 finals\n\nA few months before the team travelled to France for the Euro finals, Mr O'Neill signed a new four-year contract with the IFA.\n\nHis success has continued into the 2018 World Cup qualifying campaign.\n\nThe team is currently second in their qualifying group after a string of impressive results.\n\nBoth of their final two qualifiers - at home to Germany on 5 October and away to Norway on 8 October - take place in the week before Mr O'Neill's court case.\n\nDuring his playing career, Mr O'Neill won 33 caps for Northern Ireland and scored seven international goals.\n\nThe midfielder started out playing for Irish League club Coleraine and went on to play for Newcastle United, Dundee United and Hibernian.\n\nWhen he hung up his boots, he entered management as an assistant at Cowdenbeath in Scotland, before taking charge of another Scottish side, Brechin City.\n\nIn 2008, he was appointed manager of Dublin team, Shamrock Rovers, and guided them to successive League of Ireland titles in 2010 and 2011.\n\nHe made history by becoming the first manager of a League of Ireland team to reach the group stages of the Europa League.", "A Portuguese man-of-war, which was one of a group of six, washed up at Gwithian\n\nLarge numbers of potentially fatal Portuguese man-of-war have washed up on a Cornish beach, prompting its closure.\n\nRNLI lifeguards erected do not swim red flags at Perranporth beach earlier because of the \"unusually large number\" of the creatures.\n\nThe jellyfish-like organisms, which have long purple tentacles, have also been seen in Wales this month, says the Marine Conservation Society (MCS).\n\nWith mild sea temperatures of 16C there were fears of swimmers being stung.\n\nThe RNLI said it placed red flags at Perranporth beach between 10:00 and 13:30 BST to signal that the water was out of bounds, while lifeguards took advice on the level of danger to beachgoers.\n\nMan-of-war were spotted at Newgale, Pembrokeshire, on 8 September and the next day on beaches near the holiday destination of Newquay.\n\nA leatherback turtle was found washed up at Portreath\n\nThey have also been seen at Porthmelon Beach on the Isles of Scilly and on the Cornish beaches of Portheras Cove and Summerleaze, Widemouth, Perranporth, Hayle, Holywell Bay and Praa Sands.\n\nSix were also reported at Gwithian.\n\nDr Peter Richardson from the MCS said a man-of-war's tentacles, which are usually about 10m (30ft) long, \"deliver an agonising and potentially lethal sting\".\n\n\"They are very pretty and look like partially deflated balloons with ribbons but picking one up could be very nasty,\" he said.\n\nThe man-of-war retain their sting when they are wet, even if they look dead, he warned.\n\nHe advised anyone who was stung to get the tentacles away from the body as soon as possible.\n\nThe man-of-war can be tempting to children because it looks like a deflated balloon\n\nLeatherback turtles have also been washed up, Dr Richardson said.\n\nA leatherback turtle was found at Portreath on 9 September and another one has been reported in Pembrokeshire.\n\nThe NHS recommends using tweezers or a clean stick, and gloves if possible, to remove man-of-war tentacles.\n\nIf symptoms become more severe, or a sensitive part of the body has been stung, you should seek medical help.\n\nThe MCS is asking people to report any sightings which could rise as man-of-war are driven across the Atlantic by recent storms.\n\nThe RNLI said it wasn't uncommon to see man-of-war after windy conditions\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 fatberg was filmed by Thames Water engineers who are trying to remove the blockage\n\nThe solid mass of congealed fat, wet wipes, nappies, oil and condoms formed in the Victorian-era tunnel in Whitechapel, London.\n\nThames Water described it as one of the largest it had seen and said it would take three weeks to remove.\n\nThe company's head of waste networks Matt Rimmer said: \"It's a total monster and taking a lot of manpower and machinery to remove as it's set hard.\"\n\nThe company says fatbergs form when people put things they shouldn't down sinks and toilets.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"It's basically like trying to break up concrete,\" Mr Rimmer said.\n\n\"It's frustrating as these situations are totally avoidable and caused by fat, oil and grease being washed down sinks and wipes flushed down the loo.\n\n\"The sewers are not an abyss for household rubbish and our message to everyone is clear - please bin it - don't block it.\"\n\nThe fatberg is about as heavy as 11 double decker buses.\n\nWork at Whitechapel Road to remove the immense fatberg started this week.\n\nEight workers will break up the mass with high-pressure hoses, suck up the pieces into tankers and take it to a recycling site in Stratford.\n\nIn 2013, Thames Water found a bus-size fatberg in a sewer in Kingston-upon-Thames.\n\nA spokesman for Tower Hamlets Council said: \"We know this is a major issue across London.\n\n\"We have set up a waste oil collection point with Truman Brewery in Brick Lane, and strongly encourage businesses to set up collection contracts for their waste oil with companies for recycling.\"\n\nEight workers will break up the mass with high-pressure hoses\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The Sagrada Familia basilica is a famous attraction in Barcelona\n\nSpanish police have evacuated and cordoned off one of Barcelona's main tourist attractions, the Sagrada Familia basilica, as part of an anti-terrorist operation.\n\nA bomb squad was sent to check a van parked next to the church, but police later said it was a false alarm.\n\nNearby shops had also been evacuated as a precaution.\n\nLast month, a series of attacks by jihadists in and around Barcelona killed 16 people.\n\nCatalan police said on Twitter (in Catalan) that checks ruled out that the vehicle had any dangerous material.\n\nDesigned by Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi, the basilica attracts millions of tourists every year.", "David Davis and Michel Barnier are currently meeting once a month\n\nThe next round of Brexit talks has been postponed by a week to \"allow more time for consultation\".\n\nThe fourth round of UK-EU negotiations, due to begin on 18 September, will start on the 25th instead.\n\nThe government said a short delay \"would give negotiators the flexibility to make progress\".\n\nThere had been been speculation that the talks could be moved to accommodate a major speech by Prime Minister Theresa May on the issue of Europe.\n\n\"The UK and the European Commission have today jointly agreed to start the fourth round of negotiations on September 25,\" the Department for Exiting the European Union said in a statement.\n\n\"Both sides settled on the date after discussions between senior officials in recognition that more time for consultation would give negotiators the flexibility to make progress in the September round.\"\n\nMichel Barnier, the EU's chief negotiator, has emphasised the need to be flexible while also warning that the \"clock is ticking\" if an agreement is to be reached by the time the UK is scheduled to leave at the end of March 2019.\n\nTalks between the two sides, led on the British side by Brexit Secretary David Davis, have been taking place once a month since June.\n\nThe UK is keen to intensify their pace and open discussions on the country's future relationship with the EU, including trade, as soon as possible.\n\nAt the moment, the focus is on core separation issues, including the rights of EU nationals in the UK and British expats on the continent, the future of the Irish border, and financial matters.\n\nSpeculation about the delay was fuelled when European Parliament chief negotiator Guy Verhofstadt claimed an \"important intervention\" would be made by the PM \"in the coming days\", although this has not been confirmed by Downing Street.\n\nReuters also quoted diplomatic sources as suggesting that there could be a hold-up in the talks to allow for an event in the UK's \"domestic political calendar\".\n\nThe PM's loss of her Commons majority following June's snap election caused turmoil in the party and has made her more vulnerable to possible rebellions over key Brexit legislation.\n\nMrs May - who has insisted her Brexit strategy is unchanged and that she wants to stay as leader for the \"long term\" - is due to address the Conservative Party conference at the start of October.", "JJ Abrams, who launched the new era of Star Wars films with The Force Awakens in 2015, is returning to the series as director of Star Wars: Episode IX.\n\nLucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy said \"JJ delivered everything we could have possibly hoped for\" in the earlier instalment, and she was excited he was returning to \"close out this trilogy\".\n\nAbrams replaces Colin Trevorrow, who dropped out of the film last month.\n\nMeanwhile the release has been delayed by six months, to December 2019.\n\nThe announcement was made on Twitter by Walt Disney Studios, which owns Lucasfilm, on Friday.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Star Wars This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nChris Terrio will co-write the ninth instalment with Abrams. He won an Oscar for writing Argo in 2013 and his other scripts include Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and the forthcoming Justice League.\n\nThe return of JJ Abrams to the Star Wars universe is a big deal for fans and for Lucasfilm.\n\nAfter the lacklustre prequel films, he made the series relevant again - delivering, in The Force Awakens, a movie that satisfied fans of the original 70s/80s trilogy, and excited a new audience, not to mention taking $2bn in ticket sales.\n\nSince Disney bought Lucasfilm from George Lucas, the production giant has often had trouble marrying the visions of individual directors with its own clear view of how its most lucrative property should develop. Several directors have been left by the wayside.\n\nJJ Abrams has so far proved to be one of the few directors who's been able to balance his individuality as a film-maker with Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy's more than firm hand on the movies. This news signals a return to stability in the saga of Star Wars series.\n\nEpisode IX is expected to star Daisy Ridley and John Boyega.\n\nRian Johnson is directing the second in the current trilogy, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, which will be released this December. Deadline reported that Johnson had declined an offer to take over Episode IX before Abrams was approached.\n\nMost Star Wars fans on Twitter welcomed Abrams' return to the franchise.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript 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 Denizcan Targaryen This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy 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 ☕Stephen M. Colbert This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post 4 by Matt Neglia This article contains content provided by Twitter. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. You may want to read Twitter’s cookie policy, external and privacy policy, external before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nTrevorrow, who directed Jurassic World, left the director's chair because he and Lucasfilm had differing \"visions\", the company said.\n\nLucasfilm has a reputation for ruthlessness when it comes to hiring and firing directors. In 2015, Fantastic Four's Josh Trank was dropped from directing a standalone Star Wars story.\n\nPhil Lord and Chris Miller also left the Han Solo standalone movie with only a few weeks left in production, and were replaced by Ron Howard.\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.", "Nine members of a traveller family who kept workers in squalid conditions in caravans have been jailed for modern day slavery offences.\n\nOne victim, whose ordeal spanned more than 25 years, was made to dig his own grave.\n\nThe head of the family, Martin Rooney Senior, was jailed for 10 years, while two of his sons were each jailed for more than 15 years.\n\nThe traveller family were described as \"chilling in their mercilessness\".\n\nThe case at Nottingham Crown Court was part of Lincolnshire Police's Operation Pottery investigation, one of the largest investigations of its kind.\n\nThe Rooneys' victims were beaten and left without running water or toilet facilities at the Drinsey Nook site in Lincolnshire.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. The sister of one of the victims says he was forced to dig his own grave\n\nSentencing Martin Rooney Senior, Timothy Spencer QC said: \"You brought up your sons in a criminal culture.\"\n\nThe judge also compared the squalid lives of the victims to the lavish lifestyle the family enjoyed.\n\n\"It was like the gulf between medieval royalty and peasantry,\" he told him.\n\nThe head of the family Martin Rooney Senior was jailed for 10 years\n\nCh Supt Chris Davison, of Lincolnshire Police, said: \"The victims will never get the years back that were taken away from them but I hope this provides them with some comfort that justice has been served and demonstrates that we will do everything in our power to try and stop others suffering in the ways that they did.\"\n\nMr Davison said there were potentially other victims of modern slavery in the UK and that the force \"would not rest on this result\".\n\n\"We are exploring five active investigations and we will continue to put any victims at the very heart of our investigations,\" he added.\n\nPolice began operations against members of the Rooney family in September 2014 when seven warrants were executed in Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire and London.\n\nA number of victims were found and the UK Human Trafficking Centre concluded 18 men had been illegally brought to the sites.\n\nThe victims were all described as vulnerable adults, aged between 18 and 63, who were often homeless and had been picked up by the defendants from across the UK.\n\nThe victims lived in squalor, police said\n\nIn one attack, a man was beaten with a shovel and left injured in a caravan for days for returning a car with no petrol.\n\nThe court also heard of one victim's terrifying ordeal which spanned more than a quarter of a century.\n\nOn one occasion, he was made to dig his own grave if he did not agree to a lifetime of servitude.\n\nThe Rooneys' victims were beaten at the Drinsey Nook site in Lincolnshire\n\nJudge Spencer also spoke of how the family used food as a means of control over their victims.\n\n\"They knew if they wanted to eat, they had to stay at Drinsey Nook,\" he said.\n\n\"None of the men, in my judgement, were ever truly free to leave at all.\"\n\n\"You stripped them of dignity and humanity and confined them to a life of drudgery\".\n\nBridget Rooney was told she had the power to stop what was happening but chose to ignore it\n\nIn a statement which was read in court, one victim said \"life with the Rooneys was a living hell\".\n\nJudge Spencer told Bridget Rooney, described as the matriarch of the family, she had \"the power to stop this\".\n\nShe was jailed for seven years.\n\nTwo others, Eileen Rooney, 32, of Drinsey Nook, Sheffield Road, Saxilby and Nora Rooney, 31, of the same address, were both acquitted.\n\nJanine Smith, from the Crown Prosecution Service, paid tribute to the victims\n\nSpeaking outside court after sentencing, Janine Smith, from the Crown Prosecution Service, said the sentences \"reflect the level of exploitation, control and violence they exhibited and the betrayal of those they condemned to forced labour and the people they defrauded\".\n\nShe added: \"I hope that seeing their abusers imprisoned will be of some comfort to them and will be a suitable acknowledgement of their courage in giving evidence.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The three fell into a pit that opened up as the parents tried to save their son\n\nA boy and his parents have died after falling into a pit in a volcanic crater at Solfatara near Naples.\n\nThe drama unfolded during a family trip at the end of the school holidays, when the 11-year-old walked past a barrier into a prohibited area.\n\nWhen his parents tried to pull him to safety, part of the crater collapsed and they fell 3m (10ft) into a hole.\n\nIt is thought all three were overcome by fumes. Their seven-year-old son did not enter the crater and survived.\n\nSolfatara of Pozzuoli is one of a number of volcanoes to the west of Naples and is popular with tourists. A dormant volcano that last erupted in 1198, it has a shallow crater and is known for its sulphurous fumes and emissions of steam.\n\nThe family was visiting from Meolo near Venice in north-eastern Italy, reports said. The parents were both in their forties. Italian reports named the three as Massimiliano Carrer, Tiziana Zaramella, and their son, Lorenzo.\n\nThe hole in the crater was visible along with the chains that rescuers had used to reach the three victims\n\nThe area where they died is known for a type of quicksand, where the ground is prone to crumbling.\n\nWhen the boy went into the quicksand, his father tried to help him and fell into the pit. His mother went to their aid and all three are thought to have become trapped and lost consciousness because of poisonous gases. The local civil protection department said that inside the pit was boiling hot mud.\n\nFirefighters managed to recover the three bodies and Pozzuoli mayor Vincenzo Figliolia said he had never come across such a tragedy at the site in 40 years.\n\nSolfatara is one of many volcanic craters in the Campi Flegrei area west of Naples\n\nThe surviving son was taken to a bar close to the entrance, where owner Armando Guerriero told La Repubblica: \"We tried to calm him down, as he was obviously very shocked. He was repeatedly asking for the rest of his family.\"\n\nThe seven-year-old was later looked after by social workers and a psychologist. He was due to be reunited with his grandparents later.\n\nA local worker at the site, Diego Vitagliano, said the accident was the worst thing he had seen in his life.", "This photo is from Bangladesh in 1971 but is being shared on social media to describe Rohingya people in Myanmar as terrorists\n\nA recent surge in violence in the northern part of Myanmar's Rakhine state has been accompanied by a slew of misleading images being shared on social media.\n\nPhotos and video purporting to be from the conflict have been circulated widely.\n\nMuch of it is gruesome and inflammatory, and much of it is wrong.\n\nDeep-seated mistrust and rivalry between Rohingya Muslims and the majority Buddhist population in Rakhine have led to deadly communal violence in the past.\n\nThe Rohingya have faced decades of persecution in Myanmar where they are denied citizenship.\n\nWARNING: This article contains images some people may find upsetting.\n\nInformation is very sketchy and journalists have very limited access to this region.\n\nEven those who have managed to reach the area have found that the volatile situation and intense hostility towards the Rohingyas makes it very difficult to gather information.\n\nHere is what we know about what is happening in Rakhine:\n\nOn 29 August, the Turkish Deputy Prime Minister, Mehmet Simsek, tweeted four photographs, urging the international community to stop the ethnic cleansing of Rohingyas.\n\nHis post was retweeted more than 1,600 times, and liked by more than 1,200 readers.\n\nBut he was quickly criticised about the authenticity of the photographs.\n\nThree days after his tweet, with many people challenging the images, Mr Simsek deleted it.\n\nThe BBC has blurred parts of these images because they are too distressing to show\n\nThe first photograph, showing a number of bloated corpses, has been the hardest to track down.\n\nA number of Burmese who have challenged Mr Simsek for the tweet have suggested they are victims of the devastating Cyclone Nargis in May 2008.\n\nOthers suggested they are victims of river boat accidents in Myanmar.\n\nNo similar photographs can be found related to those events.\n\nBut the image does appear on a several websites dated last year (we have not linked to these sites due to the graphic content).\n\nThis suggests the image is not from the recent violence in Rakhine state.\n\nThe BBC has ascertained that the second photograph, of a woman mourning a dead man tied to a tree, was taken in Aceh, Indonesia, in June 2003, by a photographer working for Reuters.\n\nThe third photograph, of two infants crying over the body of their mother, is from Rwanda in July 1994.\n\nIt was taken by Albert Facelly for Sipa, and was one of series of photos that won a World Press Award.\n\nIt has also been difficult to track down the fourth image, of people immersed in a canal, but it can be found on a website appealing for funds to help victims of recent flooding in Nepal.\n\nThere is now a frenzied social media war around the Rohingyas as the rival stories of each side battle for supremacy.\n\nI have personally been bombarded with gruesome images, purporting to show victims of massacres, most of which are difficult to verify.\n\nBut some of the images are clearly wrong.\n\nOne image I was sent (below), supposedly showing Rohingya militants training with rifles, turned out to be a photograph of Bangladeshi volunteers fighting in the 1971 independence war.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nEarlier this year, when a team from the United Nations Human Rights Commission carried out research into alleged human rights violations in Rakhine state, it refused to use any photographs or video it had not taken itself, because of the problem of authenticating such material.\n\nTheir report gives meticulous details of their methodology.\n\nYet its findings, of \"devastating cruelty\" towards the Rohingya community, and actions it said could amount to crimes against humanity, were rejected by the Myanmar government, which then refused to issue visas for a fact-finding mission to Rakhine state.\n\nThe information we are piecing together from different sources on the current situation in Rakhine state paints a clear picture of a serious conflict, with large-scale human casualties.\n\nThere appear to have been atrocities committed by both sides, but the situation for the Rohingya, now under sustained attack by the security forces and armed civilians, appears to be far worse.\n\nObtaining an accurate picture of what is happening, though, will take a long time, given how little access neutral observers have to the area.\n\nBut the social media disinformation campaigns will harden attitudes on both sides, and quite possibly make the conflict worse.", "Dubai says it will begin a five-year test period of the Volocopter later in 2017\n\nTech companies are competing to develop the first viable passenger-carrying sky taxis, whether manned or pilotless, but how soon could these clever copters really be whizzing over our cities? And would you trust one?\n\nDubai is racing to be the first to put drone taxis in the air.\n\nIn June, its Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) signed an agreement with a German start-up Volocopter to test pilotless air taxis towards the end of this year.\n\nThe firm has received 25m euros (£22m; $30m) from investors, including German motor manufacturer Daimler, to develop the 18-rotor craft capable of transporting two passengers at a time.\n\nThe promotional video claims a top speed of 100km/h (60mph) and a maximum flight time of around 30 minutes, while nine independent battery systems ensure safety.\n\n\"You will never require\" the onboard emergency parachute, Volocopter assures us.\n\nDubai's RTA has also teamed up with China's Ehang and is testing the drone maker's single passenger Ehang 184 \"autonomous aerial vehicle\".\n\nThe Ehang 184 will land automatically if any systems malfunction, its maker says\n\nBut the largest city in the United Arab Emirates faces stiff competition. It seems the whole world has gone gaga for air-cabs.\n\nIn February, ride-sharing giant Uber poached Nasa chief technologist Mark Moore and set him to work heading their Project Elevate - \"a future of on-demand urban air transportation\".\n\nAirbus, the French aircraft maker, is also working on a prototype air taxi, Vahana, saying it will begin testing at the end of 2017 and have one ready by 2020.\n\nThey all spy opportunities in the air because traffic is becoming increasingly clogged on the ground. To take an extreme example, in Brazil's Sao Paulo, the world's 10th richest city, traffic jams average 180km (112 miles) on Fridays, and sometimes stretch to a barely credible 295km.\n\nYet the world's megalopolises are continuing to grow. No wonder air taxis are capturing people's imaginations.\n\nThe Airbus Vahana drone concept features rotors that can swivel for vertical and horizontal flight\n\nEhang carries a single passenger, Volocopter two, while City Airbus is looking at four to six. And each of these companies is pursuing electric propulsion, seeing it as greener and quieter.\n\nThe preferred horizontal rotor technology allows for vertical take off and landing, which makes sense in densely built up urban spaces. And composite materials, such as carbon fibre, help keep weight to a minimum.\n\nBut how will they work in practice and will they be affordable?\n\nUber's Mr Moore says the cost, with three or four passengers sharing a pool, will be \"very similar to what an UberX [car] costs today\".\n\nMore seriously, given the trade-off between power and weight, how long will these things be able to stay up in the sky relying on battery power alone?\n\nBecause if you don't like your mobile going flat, you definitely won't like it when your air taxi does.\n\nWith traffic jams like this in Sao Paulo, Brazil, it's no wonder sky taxis are an appealing concept\n\nChina's Ehang drone currently flies for 23 minutes. But US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) regulates stipulate that aircraft require a spare 20 minutes of fuel. So this would limit the drone to a commercially unviable three-minute flight.\n\n\"It's really a problem,\" says Janina Frankel-Yoeli vice-president of Israel's Urban Aeronautics, a firm taking a manned, combustion-engine approach to air taxis instead.\n\nBut Mr Moore argues that improvements in batteries are \"on the track we need for them to be there in 2023\", when Uber plans to have its first 50 air taxis ready.\n\nThe vastly increased investment in electric cars around the world is improving recharging speeds and capacity, he says.\n\n\"We don't need long range - 60 miles covers the longest trip across a city.\"\n\nSo rapid recharging capability is more important than range, he argues.\n\nAirbus concept: Is it a car? Is it a plane? Could it be both?\n\nAnother solution may involve a two-part drone, with the batteries stored in a detachable base that can be swapped quickly between flights, says Tim Robinson, editor of the Royal Aeronautical Society's magazine, Aerospace.\n\n\"If there was a drone waiting and it had a flat battery I'm pretty sure it wouldn't let you take off, whatever your journey was,\" he says.\n\nIn other words, it's very unlikely that a sky taxi would run out of juice mid-flight. Once battery levels reached a critical point, the drone would make an emergency landing.\n\n\"I think we'll see multiple redundancy and back-up systems,\" says Mr Robinson, \"like a ballistic parachute which would trigger automatically if it detected a descent rate beyond the parameters.\"\n\nAnother major challenge is managing the airspace and avoiding collisions.\n\nMost major cities already have air corridors set up for helicopters that air taxis could use, Mr Moore says. But requesting to enter the corridors is currently done manually.\n\n\"You'd fly to the edge of that airspace, request to enter, and maybe be told 'Nope, hold, wait',\" he says.\n\nSo Nasa's NTX research centre is exploring how flight corridors can work without voice interactions. This includes improved \"sense-and-avoid\" technology that will allow drones to communicate with other passenger aircraft to avoid one other.\n\nBut perhaps the biggest drag on sky taxi development is regulation.\n\nWhile commercial aircraft are already \"virtually capable of taking off, flying and landing on their own\", says Ms Frankel-Yoeli, the US FAA and European Aviation Safety Agency will not allow them to fly without a pilot.\n\nIt may take a long time for autonomous drone tech to win regulatory - not to mention public - trust. And that's ignoring the potential complaints about the noise all these buzzing copters would make in our cities.\n\nUber's Mr Moore believes air taxis will have autonomous capability built in from 2023, but will have human pilots for the first five-to-10 years while enough data is collected to convince regulators that sky taxis are safe.\n\nMeanwhile Dubai seems to be racing ahead, with ruler Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum saying \"by 2030, 25% of the mass transportation in the city has to be autonomous\".\n\nBut Dubai is a harsh aviation climate, where \"winds can go up to 40-50 knots [46-58mph], there's sand, there's fog\", warns Mark Martin, an aviation consultant working there.\n\nPerhaps Dubai is moving too quickly and should work more closely with the slower US and European regulators, he argues.\n\n\"If one crashes, who's ever going to take a drone?\"", "Cyber-criminals start attacking servers newly set up online about an hour after they are switched on, suggests research.\n\nThe servers were part of an experiment the BBC asked a security company to carry out to judge the scale and calibre of cyber-attacks that firms face every day.\n\nAbout 71 minutes after the servers were set up online they were visited by automated attack tools that scanned them for weaknesses they could exploit, found security firm Cybereason.\n\nOnce the machines had been found by the bots, they were subjected to a \"constant\" assault by the attack tools.\n\nThe servers were accessible online for about 170 hours to form a cyber-attack sampling tool known as a honeypot, said Israel Barak, chief information security officer at Cybereason. The servers were given real, public IP addresses and other identifying information that announced their presence online.\n\n\"We set out to map the automatic attack activity,\" said Mr Barak.\n\nTo make them even more realistic, he said, each one was also configured to superficially resemble a legitimate server. Each one could accept requests for webpages, file transfers and secure networking.\n\nThe attack bots look for well-known weaknesses in widely used web applications\n\n\"They had no more depth than that,\" he said, meaning the servers were not capable of doing anything more than providing a very basic response to a query about these basic net services and protocols.\n\n\"There was no assumption that anyone was going to go in and probe it and even if they did, there's nothing there for them to find,\" he said.\n\nThe servers' limited responses did not deter the automated attack tools, or bots, that many cyber-thieves use to find potential targets, he said. A wide variety of attack bots probed the servers seeking weaknesses that could be exploited had they been full-blown, production machines.\n\nMany of the code vulnerabilities and other loopholes they looked for had been known about for months or years, he said. However, added Mr Barak, many organisations struggled to keep servers up-to-date with the patches that would thwart these bots potentially giving attackers a way to get at the server.\n\n\"This was a very typical pattern for these automatic bots,\" said Mr Barak. \"They used similar techniques to those we've seen before. There's nothing particularly new.\"\n\nAs well as running a bank of servers for the BBC, Cybereason also sought to find out how quickly phishing gangs start to target new employees. It seeded 100 legitimate marketing email lists with spoof addresses and then waited to see what would turn up.\n\nPhishing gangs were quick to find new email addresses and start sending booby-trapped messages\n\nAfter 21 hours, the first booby-trapped phishing email landed in the email inbox for the fake employees, said Mr Barak. It was followed by a steady trickle of messages that sought, in many different ways, to trick people into opening malicious attachments.\n\nAbout 15% of the emails contained a link to a compromised webpage that, if visited, would launch an attack that would compromise the visitor's PC. The other 85% of the phishing messages had malicious attachments. The account received booby-trapped Microsoft Office documents, Adobe PDFs and executable files.\n\nWe use a lots of honeypots in a lot of different ways. The concept really scales to almost any kind of thing where you can create a believable fake or even a real version of something. You put it out and see who turns up to hit it or break it.\n\nThere are honeypots, honey-nets, honey-tokens, honey anything.\n\nWhen a customer sees a threat that's hit hundreds of honeypots that's different to when they see one that no-one else has. That context in terms of attack is very useful.\n\nSome are thin but some have a lot more depth and are scaled very broadly. Sometimes you put up the equivalent of a fake shop-front to see who turns up to attack it.\n\nIf you see an approach that you've never seen before then you might let that in and see what you can learn from it.\n\nThe most sophisticated adversaries are often very targeted when they go after specific companies or individuals.\n\nMr Barak said the techniques used by the bots were a good guide to what organisations should do to avoid falling victim. They should harden servers by patching, controls around admin access, check apps to make sure they are not harbouring well-known bugs and enforce strong passwords\n\nCriminals often have different targets in mind when seeking out vulnerable servers, he said. Some were keen to hijack user accounts and others sought to take over servers and use them for their own ends.\n\nHoneypots have become a useful tool for security firms keen to understand hack attack techniques\n\nCyber-thieves would look through the logs compiled by attack bots to see if they have turned up any useful or lucrative targets. There had been times when a server compromised by a bot was passed on to another criminal gang because it was at a bank, government or other high-value target.\n\n\"They sell access to parts of their botnet and offer other attackers access to machines their bots are active on,\" he said. \"We have seen cases where a very typical bot infection turns into a manual operation.\"\n\nIn those cases, attackers would then use the foothold gained by the bots as a starting point for a more comprehensive attack. It's at that point, he said, hackers would take over and start to use other digital attack tools to penetrate further into a compromised organisation.\n\nHe said: \"Once an adversary has got to a certain level in an organisation you have to ask what will they do next?\"\n\nIn a bid to explore what happens in those situations, Cybereason is now planning to set up more servers and give these more depth to make them even more tempting targets. The idea is, he said, to get a close look at the techniques hackers use when they embark on a serious attack.\n\n\"We'll look for more sophisticated, manual operations,\" he said. \"We'll want to see the techniques they use and if there is any monetisation of the method.\"", "\"I don't know where to start\" - Herman Washington and his wife Mary Woodard found their home wrecked\n\nAs the water recedes in Houston, three families return home to survey the damage from Hurricane Harvey. Like so many others, they have no flood insurance and no way of paying for repairs.\n\nAt each house it was the same: a neat line, visible from the street, that showed where the flood finally abated. The lines ringed the small, one-storey homes in northeast Houston, where three bayous wind through the streets carrying water to the bay. For many of those returning home for the first time, the line would separate what was salvageable from what was lost.\n\nAt James and Rose Hert's house, a few hundred yards from the Greens Bayou, the line crossed the screen door about 5 ft from the ground. The water came in so fast it was up to Rose's neck by the time they waded onto the front lawn on Saturday, she said. At 59, recently recovered from thyroid cancer, and with arthritis that forces her to walk with a cane, Rose can't move fast. Neither can James, who's 63 and has nerve damage to his right leg and partial vision in his left eye.\n\nThe couple first made their way to a neighbour's house, on higher ground, but that too filled with water. Eventually they were pulled from the flood by a man with a truck, who drove them to a bus which took them to the mass shelter at the downtown convention centre. \"I was terrified for my life,\" said Rose. \"But that man was like an angel sent from heaven.\"\n\nTheir small, two-bedroom house, part-clapboard and part-brick, was a wedding anniversary present for Rose, purchased 23 years into the marriage and paid for with nearly all the money they had. Rose called it her castle. With the money left over she bought furniture - two couches, an armchair, a wooden dining table and a new refrigerator.\n\nThe most important piece of furniture though was an old one - an antique secretary desk handed down through three generations of women in Rose's family. She planned to pass it on to her daughter. She cried at the shelter when she thought about it. She couldn't face going back to the house, she said, so when James returned for the first time on Thursday he went without her.\n\nWhen he turned the key in the lock, the door wouldn't budge. It would be the same at other houses, the first sign that the furniture inside had been picked up by the water and soaked and dumped back down where it didn't belong. He couldn't have known, as he forced the door, that it was Rose's secretary desk in the way, toppled onto its back, one leg already broken, but the glass, miraculously, intact.\n\nAs the door inched open, the rank odour of the water hit. It had seeped into the couches and the carpets and pooled between the floorboards. Underneath the water line, the walls were stained and Rose's prize furniture lay tumbled about. The fridge was on its side, blocking off the kitchen. None of it was salvageable.\n\nAbove the water line, the couple's marriage certificate hung unscathed in a frame, alongside James's army discharge and diploma, and a picture of Rose's late mother. \"I guess that's something,\" James said.\n\nEarlier, at the shelter, as he kissed Rose goodbye, his eyes had filled with tears. He was not given easily to emotion, she said. Maybe for a two-tour veteran of Vietnam, with 12 years service, the flood did not seem too tough. Later, at the back of the house, where the water line was 7 ft high and the deck was caked in mud, he paused for a cigarette and stood in silence looking down towards the bayou.\n\n\"There's $20,000, $30,000 worth of damage here,\" he said, looking back. \"We just don't have it. We don't.\"\n\nJames Hert bought a house to mark his 25th wedding anniversary. Two years later, he will have to sell\n\nInsurance experts estimate that only about 20% of those in Houston's worst hit areas have flood insurance. The Herts don't have any. The premiums were too high, they said. They live off $1,100 dollars a month in disability payments. After their other bills and outgoings, that leaves about $100 spare.\n\nThe number of homeowners across Houston with flood insurance dropped 9% over the past five years and as much as 23% in some counties. Harris County, where James and Rose live, has 25,000 fewer flood-insured properties than it did in 2012, according to an Associated Press review of government data.\n\nMary Woodard and her husband Herman couldn't afford the insurance either. The floodwater that washed through their house, a few miles south of the Herts in a low-income neighbourhood by the Hunter Bayou, was the latest in a long list of financial and personal hardships for the couple.\n\nHerman, who's 63, had to retire from his work as a removals man last year after a stroke badly affected his right side. Mary, who's 59, worked 14 years in the local courthouse before retiring in 2011, after a diagnosis of osteoarthritis.\n\n\"It's the stink that gets you,\" Mary said as she pushed open the front door, entering her home for the first time after six nights in two different shelters. The tiled floor was slick with mud, the furniture soaked, the bases of the wooden cabinets warped. Food had floated out of the lower drawers and off the shelves and begun to rot on the floor. Mary didn't really care about what was beneath the water line, she wanted to know if the pictures of her first son and her first daughter had survived.\n\n\"I lost him when he was only eight years old,\" she said, fighting back tears. \"That's when he got drowned in the pool. And my daughter, she got killed just about 12 years ago now. Her boyfriend killed her. That's why I was so glad to see those pictures. That was very important to me that they survived. Very important.\"\n\nMuch of Mary's income had been diverted to helping raise her daughter's four sons, as well as to taking care of her other three children. It didn't leave much for savings to help her and Herman through retirement. Like the Herts, they have about $100 spare each month.\n\n\"We don't have the insurance or anything,\" she said. \"The few companies we did talk to, they were either too high or they didn't carry the flood insurance.\"\n\nThere was no money to pay for repairs, she said, they would have to move on. \"We'll salvage what we can. I probably couldn't stay in this house anyhow, not after this.\"\n\n\"It's much worse than I thought,\" said Mary Woodard when she saw her house for the first time\n\nThe only hope for couples like the Woodards and the Herts is the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Fema will give money to uninsured homeowners to cover repairs and emergency costs. The grants are capped at a maximum of $33,300, but most will get significantly less.\n\nAt the convention centre in Houston, a long line of people formed early every morning, waiting for hours to find out if they can claim. Mary and Herman had spoken to a Fema agent on Wednesday and he told them someone would be in touch within 10 days. By that point, they'd been in the shelter for five sleepless nights.\n\n\"I've had maybe eight hours sleep since I got there,\" said Mary. \"You get an hour here, an hour there. There are people walking all around you and people fighting. It's a lot of chaos. It's 2am before it starts to get quiet.\"\n\nThe first call from Fema will tell Mary and Herman whether they are eligible. Then they will have to wait up to 30 days for an adjustor to visit the property and assess how much they can claim. In the meantime, they hope Fema will pay for a hotel room. Mary's eldest son and her elderly mother both live in Houston but they both flooded just the same as Mary. \"Eventually we all winded up at the convention centre,\" she said.\n\nMary Woodard and her husband Herman found their grandson's toys floating across the road\n\nJames and Rose had been told they needed to go online to apply for relief. They had spent five days in borrowed clothes - James in an old sweatshirt and tracksuit bottoms, Rose in a pink nightgown - and they were overwhelmed. Three attempts to apply on a borrowed smartphone had failed as the Fema website repeatedly crashed.\n\nRose sat in the cavernous hallway of the convention centre and wept. She looked exhausted. She was still recovering from her brother's suicide last year, she said, and the loss of her mother two years before that. And now this. Two years after moving in, her dream home was gone.\n\n\"We put a tin roof on, we put new flowers in, we painted it,\" she said. \"We fixed it up. It was my little castle, like no one else could describe it. It was all I ever wanted.\"\n\nBut it was cheap, too, partly because it needed fixing up, partly because it sits on low ground near the bayou, and that puts a significant premium on the flood insurance. Just over the road, where the ground is higher, flood insurance costs about $200 a year. On the Herts' side of the road, the premiums can run into the thousands of dollars.\n\nTexas law stipulates that anyone in a Special Flood Hazard Area must have flood insurance, but only if you have a mortgage, people who own their homes are exempt. And the vast majority of those flooded by Hurricane Harvey fall outside the hazard zones and they never expected to see water washing through their homes.\n\n\"There's a lot of people here that have never been flooded,\" said Mark Hanna, from the Insurance Council for Texas. \"And if you don't have to have flood insurance, and you've never been flooded before, a lot people say 'Hey, the water's have never been this high, we'll be OK'.\n\n\"People weren't prepared for a thousand-year flood. Who is?\"\n\nRose Hert called her home her castle. She couldn't bear to see it after the flood\n\nFrank and Melvin Lee Rogers never thought it would happen. The two brothers had been flooded once before, when Storm Alison came through in 2001, but it was nothing like this. They escaped on Saturday with just the clothes on their back and one of their cats, a tiny kitten called Squeaky.\n\nFrank, 70, and Melvin Lee, 63, live in the Lakewood neighbourhood by the Halls Bayou, which cuts across the bottom of the street on its way to the Buffalo Bayou further south. The water had washed through the trees, leaving detritus in the branches as it went, including an old manual lawnmower which hung tangled 10 ft off the ground.\n\n\"I live down on the corner there, the white house with the blue trim,\" said Frank, as they crossed the bayou on foot on the way home. \"You can see the dirt on the side of the house. That's the water line right there.\"\n\nAt the front door, the smell was so strong it seeped out of the building. Inside, a floating couch had punched a hole in the wall and smashed through a glass coffee table. Scores of worms and a small snake lay dead on the carpet. A wall calendar, neatly marked off for each day before Saturday, was cut in half by the water line, the last two weeks of the month underwater.\n\nFrank Rogers stands in his kitchen on his first visit home, with the waterline visible behind him\n\nFrank, a Vietnam veteran who settled in Houston and became a plastics mould operator, called out for Goldy, their five-year-old cat, who they couldn't find when the water began coming in through the walls. \"No Goldy,\" he said. \"She's gone, or dead.\"\n\nOutside, his car had drifted 6 ft and was hanging off the edge of the driveway, with a film of mud over the body and the motor flooded. The mailbox was just high enough. He pulled the catch to one side and looked in. \"We've got mail!\" he said, cheered at finding something dry.\n\nAround him, those neighbours who had returned, mostly Hispanic families, played music and shouted to each other as they threw furniture, carpeting and wet sheetrock out onto the front lawns.\n\nFrank stood back and surveyed the damage. They would have to sell up, he said. But about $20,000 in repairs lay between them and a sellable house. \"I don't have that kind of money,\" he said. \"That's the point, I don't have the money. And it's hard to go to the bank and borrow money when your house is flooded. They'll tell you you're a risk.\"\n\nIt wasn't so much the money that prevented them getting flood insurance in the first place, said Melvin Lee, Frank's younger brother by seven years. \"We just didn't see this coming,\" he said. \"We had no idea it would be this bad. I don't think anyone thought it would be this bad.\"\n\nMelvin Lee Rogers surveys the damage outside the home he shares with his brother\n\nFive days after the flood washed away his mobile phone, Frank reached his sister. She told him she would collect him and Melvin Lee from the house. They set their few possessions down outside - a handful of dry clothes in a clear plastic bag, and Squeaky, in a carrier donated by the shelter - and began to wait.\n\nBack at the convention centre, Mary and Herman were getting ready to bed down for a sixth night on their cots, surrounded by thousands of others. Mary was making sure to keep her phone charged at the charging station, so she wouldn't miss a call or an email from Fema. They were relieved to have seen the home, they said, despite the state of it.\n\nJames was relieved too. It seemed like knowing was better than not knowing, no matter how bad the damage. As he took one last look around his house and got ready to leave, he flicked a light switch absentmindedly. The bulb over the dining table caught him by surprise. \"We have light!\" he said. \"That's a start!\"\n\nOn the drive back from the house he was upbeat. He told the story of how he first met Rose. \"I was fixing her boyfriend's car, so I had my shirt off and in those days I was still pretty well built. Anyway, it wasn't long after that I was working on another guy's car near her house, and she had a nice tree there I could use for pulling motors. She jumped up on the truck to help get some bolts out and that was that.\"\n\nAt the shelter, Rose waited anxiously for James to return. When he found her, he told her about the house. It wasn't bad at all, he said. The glass in the secretary desk was intact and the power was still on. The two dogs next door, which Rose loved, had survived, and the picture of her mother was hanging exactly where she left it. She cried with relief. James took her arm and walked her back to their cots, before getting in line again to speak to Fema. \"I can wait another few hours,\" he said. \"I've got time.\"", "Money is short and school uniforms are needed for the new term, or there are Christmas wishes are to be fulfilled.\n\nAt the door is a friendly face, often a neighbour, offering an expensive but convenient and immediate cash loan. The deal is done and the relationship between customer and agent begins.\n\n\"We would come to know everything about them,\" says one agent. \"By the second month, we would know what colour clothes they wore on a Friday.\"\n\n\"They could call us and we would go and do a loan. Our customers would come to rely on it. But we would also keep them on the straight and narrow.\"\n\nWhatever the moral viewpoint of this model it was undoubtedly a very successful one for Provident Financial, the 137-year-old door-to-door lender that says it has delivered a profit every year since listing on the UK stock market in 1962.\n\nBut then the Bradford-based company replaced these self-employed agents by hiring \"customer experience managers\". Clients jumped ship, profit warnings were issued, the company's share price plummeted, and its chief executive resigned.\n\nThe reasons for this business decision are complex, with regulation and accountability part of the equation. Yet, back on the doorstep, those in financial strife remain. So who are these millions of customers, what will they do, and is the door-to-door lending model damaged?\n\nMost of the self-employed agents were women as, they say, were their customers. There were single mums, tenants and people living on the breadline, but there were also professionals such as teachers and builders who may have had credit issues in the past which blocked them from the mainstream market.\n\nTheir loans have been relatively expensive. Somebody borrowing £200, and paying it back over 26 weeks, would generally pay interest of more than £100.\n\nFormer agents - many of whom are angry at the way they were moved out by the company - say that the personal touch, as much as the convenience, was the key selling point for these doorstep loans.\n\n\"Somebody is coming to the door. A few of my customers didn't see anybody, so they liked the wee interaction,\" former agent Daniel Miskelly told BBC Radio 5 Live.\n\nTwo ex-agents, who wished to remain anonymous, say that on the odd occasion, understanding the sensitivity of borrowing, this personal touch extended to picking up repayments in secret from a rubbish bin. It also meant they could talk some customers out of loans they thought might get them into financial trouble.\n\nThey still receive calls from their old customers. There were \"cuddles and tears\" when they stopped working for Provident. The company has \"taken the personal\" out of Provident, they say.\n\nEven though it may have been a positive for the company, those personal relationships may have actually been a weakness for many customers, according to debt charities.\n\nStepChange says that customers struggling with repayments may feel more of an obligation to keep repaying doorstep loans, owing to that personal relationship, when they should instead be concentrating on repaying priority debts such as rent, or council tax.\n\nRolled over loans tend to lock people into long-term debt, it adds, and many of those who sought help from the charity also had other forms of high-cost credit.\n\nFor example, 54% of the charity's clients who had doorstep loans also owed an average £2,681 in total on more than two credit cards.\n\nAnother charity - Citizens Advice - says that some doorstep loan customers might not get such a friendly service from providers in general.\n\n\"Although some customers like the personalised experience of a doorstep loan, where a lending agent visits their house each week to collect a repayment, for other customers it can cause big problems,\" it says.\n\n\"Citizens Advice has seen many cases where lending agents use high-pressure sales tactics, carry out inadequate affordability checks to issue a loan, and use aggressive practices to collect repayments.\"\n\nOne borrower, who did not want to be named, says she was sold a loan while suffering from depression. Although the agent was \"pleasant\", she says, she never really wanted anyone to come to the door.\n\n\"That loan should never have been made. They put the money in front of me,\" she says.\n\nEventually the debt was written off.\n\nMick McAteer, founder of the Financial Inclusion Centre, says that the temptation provided by high-cost lenders as a whole has caused wider financial difficulties.\n\n\"These lenders made it incredibly easy to borrow money. It is quick to borrow money, whereas it takes time and effort to save and years to see the benefits,\" he says.\n\n\"[High-cost credit customers] see money in their hand very quickly. It is immediate gratification.\"\n\nHe says that the strict regulation of the payday lending industry had been one of the most effective developments of recent years, creating a gap in the market which he hopes will be filled by credit unions.\n\nThere is little evidence of that so far, nor do these not-for-profit credit unions appear to have filled the gap left by Provident Financial's woes.\n\nEarlier this week, Provident's major competitor, Morses Club, said its loan book had increased by 12% in the six months to the end of August, and that the number of customers had also grown by 12% to 233,000. It has hired a number of Provident's old agents.\n\nIts chief executive, Paul Smith, said the firm had \"capitalised on market conditions\" but that its growth had been \"accelerated by Provident's current position, rather than caused by its position\".\n\nIt will take much longer to know whether the customers themselves are able to capitalise too.\n\nYou can hear more about doorstep lending on Money Box on BBC Radio 4 at 12:00 BST on Saturday 2 September, and again at 21:00 on Sunday 3 September", "The National Trust is \"embroiled in a row with countryside campaigners\", according to the lead in the Daily Telegraph.\n\nThe conservation charity has been accused of \"effectively painting targets\" on people who hunt after it decided to publish details of the times and locations of legal hunts on its land.\n\nHunt supporters say such information could be used by saboteurs, increasing the risk of violent disruption.\n\nThe trust is due to vote at its AGM next month on whether to ban the sport on its land in a motion tabled by the League Against Cruel Sports.\n\nIt tells the paper it had lost confidence everything possible was being done to ensure the law on hunting was being upheld.\n\nThe Sun accuses Labour of \"betrayal\" over Brexit.\n\n\"Labour is now the anti-Brexit party\", it says, after deputy leader Tom Watson said the UK could remain a permanent part of the single market and customs union.\n\nThe Daily Express agrees, saying any effort to keep Britain within the bloc following Brexit would be \"shamefully undemocratic\".\n\nThe Daily Mail accuses Labour of a \"risible volte-face\" - for soft Brexit read no Brexit at all, it says.\n\nThe Financial Times says a ruling by Kenya's Supreme Court to nullify the presidential election will go some way to restoring faith in the country's democracy.\n\nAlex Vines, head of the Africa programme at the Chatham House think tank, tells the Guardian it is good news for Kenya but says there is no precedent for such a judgement anywhere on the continent.\n\nThe Times says the decision will be especially keenly felt in other Commonwealth countries - such as South Africa, Uganda and Rwanda - where democracy is under threat.\n\nBut it will be a slap in the face for international observers, led by former US Secretary of State John Kerry, who declared that the last election had been largely fair.\n\nThe Telegraph has learned that the Metropolitan Police has paid £100,000 in compensation to Lord Bramall and Lady Brittan after raiding their homes during child sex abuse investigation Operation Midland.\n\nThe paper says lawyers for Scotland Yard agreed the settlements, which include gagging clauses, after accepting that the searches had been unjustified and should never have taken place.\n\nJohn Lewis has become the first major retailer to ditch \"boys\" and \"girls\" labels from its clothing range, the Mail reports.\n\nThe department store, which is introducing non gender-specific clothes for children, has also ditched boys and girls signs in stores.\n\nIt says it does not want to reinforce stereotypes.\n\nThe paper points out that the move has been welcomed by some parents on social media but Conservative MP Andrew Bridgen said the signs were informative, and removing them could be very confusing.\n\n\"It appears political correctness continues to march\", he said.\n\nThe grass is always greener in Stuart Grindle's garden.\n\nThe Express reports the 74-year-old from Doncaster has taken the title of Britain's Best Lawn.\n\nThe Daily Mirror points out that the lawn has taken work - Mr Grindle cuts it four days a week, two or three times a day, and would not let his son play football or cricket on the grass when he was a child.\n\nHe tells the Times he might sound a bit of a geek but \"it's the be all and end all\".", "Last updated on .From the section Football\n\nAfter two months of mind-boggling spending, miles of social media speculation, smoke, mirrors and silly signing announcements, the transfer window has finally closed.\n\nAmid all the noise, which are the bargains, bloopers and just plain bonkers signings of a roller-coaster transfer window?\n\nStoke midfielder Charlie Adam, ex-England winger Trevor Sinclair, former Everton winger Kevin Kilbane and Andy Townsend, once of Aston Villa, Chelsea and Republic of Ireland's midfields, were in the BBC Sport centre for transfer deadline day.\n\nAmid all the breaking late news, they gave their perspectives on a topsy-turvy transfer window.\n• None Everton's Barkley 'did not have Chelsea medical'\n• None Who did what? Complete list of transfers\n• None Watch: Who were the transfer window's winners and losers?\n\nWhat was the biggest surprise?\n\nAndy Townsend: I was really surprised at Chelsea's decision to sell Nemanja Matic - such a key part of their title-winning squad - to Manchester United - such a key rival. That seemed peculiar and I bet that Jose [Mourinho] could not believe it when he was told it was possible.\n\nThat brought in £40m which was pretty much what Chelsea had spent on Monaco's Tiemoue Bakayoko. But then they were reportedly after Danny Drinkwater at Leicester as well. All very strange.\n\nTrevor Sinclair: One of the biggest surprises for me was the lack of planning at Arsenal. They were not able to react to Manchester City's interest in Alexis Sanchez. There was no contingency plan in place.\n\nI thought they would have [Paris St-Germain winger] Julian Draxler lined up given the French side have brought in Neymar and Kylian Mbappe at such expense.\n\nDraxler is 24 years old still, a player that Arsene Wenger is believed to have been interested in in the past and has a ton of experience.\n\nThe rush for [Monaco midfielder] Thomas Lemar - after Wenger had said any deal for him was dead - was just too late.\n\nCharlie Adam: That Manchester City could not get a deal done for Jonny Evans was surprising to me.\n\nHe has got the experience of playing at a big club in the same city having been at Manchester United, he has won trophies and he plays the game the way that Pep Guardiola likes.\n\nThat would have been a great bit of business for both the player and City.\n\nKevin Kilbane: The sheer size of Neymar's £198m deal to go from Barcelona to Paris St-Germain has got to be the biggest surprise.\n\nWhen Paul Pogba joined Manchester United for a world record £89m last year, it felt like we were already seeing the record shift dramatically. Now, it has more than doubled. It really is remarkable.\n\nTrevor Sinclair: The deal to sign Neymar got people talking, but he is already established as a star of the club and international game.\n\nBut, the deal that has been set up to take Kylian Mbappe from Monaco to Paris St-Germain is extraordinary.\n\nHe obviously looks like an exceptional prospect, but he is still only 18 and his value is based on one outstanding season.\n\nHe scored 24 goals in 41 appearances for Monaco last season and he looks the real deal, but £165.7m is a huge amount for someone who is still a little bit of an unknown quantity.\n\nAndy Townsend: I think that £45m is a lot for Everton to have spent bringing in Gylfi Sigurdsson from Swansea. He has the ability to score goals and create, but he is nearly 28. I don't think he would have improved any of the clubs above Everton.\n\nI can understand why Everton wanted him and how well he fits into Ronald Koeman's plans, but at £45m it seemed like a lot of money.\n\nTrevor Sinclair: I think if Liverpool can keep Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain fit I think they have got a matchwinner on their hands. He has explosive power, balance, the agility and trickery to go past people and, at his best, takes games by the scruff of the neck.\n\nAt 24, he is at a good stage of his career, he has a heap of experience and I think Liverpool's narrower shape will suit him.\n\nIf they can get him on the pitch 80% of the time, I think that £35m is a bargain.\n\nCharlie Adam: Swansea's loan deal to take Renato Sanches from Bayern Munich for the season is not cheap - there is talk of a £4m loan fee and the Welsh club having to pick up most of his wages.\n\nBut if they stay in the league it is going to be small change and he will be committed to the cause. Paul Clement will put an arm round him, tell him to express himself and get the best from him. I think that is a good move for Swansea.\n\nAndy Townsend: I think that Tottenham have done very good business in bringing in right-back Serge Aurier from Paris St-Germain for £23m.\n\nI have seen a lot of him and he is an incredible athlete, very quick, a real beast of a player. He has actually got more facets to his game than Kyle Walker I think.\n\nHe has had issues off the pitch, but if he knuckles down, he is a proper player.\n\nWho much would you have been worth in your prime?:\n\nTrevor Sinclair: When Ray Wilkins first came in at QPR in 1994 he put a £10m pricetag on my head, which would have been a British record at the time.\n\nThere were a few inquiries about me around that time. It was only a few years later that I found out that when Bobby Robson became manager of Barcelona in 1996, he asked about me.\n\nThat was the time that they had Ronaldo, Luis Figo, Hristo Stoichkov. If I had known about that at the time, I would have swum there!\n\nAndy Townsend: I went to Chelsea for just over £1m in 1990, when some of the really top deals were around £1.5m to £2m. Dennis Wise joined the same summer for £1.6m.\n\nWhen I left for Aston Villa in 1993, I cost around £2.5m and there were deals around the £3m mark.\n\nI don't know what that equates to in today's money, but I'm very happy to have played in the era that I did.\n\nThere are a lot of obvious reasons why being a young footballer nowadays is tempting but there are a lot of downsides as well.\n\nTheir privacy is seriously invaded, everywhere they go they are scrutinised and any mistakes are pounced on.", "How realistic are Westminster whispers about a new political party?\n\nWhispers of collaboration waft through the air. Rumours of a new political entity emerging into the light. Stories of politicians ready to cast aside tribal instinct and join something new.\n\nBut that is quite enough about the political intrigue in Germany where, weeks before the general election, there is no doubt breathless discussion in the cafes near the Bundestag about who Angela Merkel may end up working with if she's returned as chancellor again.\n\nI talk of the occasional chat here, among those who describe themselves as forced to sleep on the political streets: homeless in the era of Brexit and Jeremy Corbyn.\n\nDestitute, desperate and with a desire for something different, the story goes, they are smooching their way discreetly towards an immaculate political conception.\n\nThey are searching for the Anglo-Saxon equivalent of France's En Marche, the miracle birth over the water.\n\nPresident Emmanuel Macron built his own political kit car widget by widget, and, fuelled by the French electorate, drove it straight to the Elysee Palace.\n\nSo this political correspondent peeled himself away from the feverish summer squalls over the Big Ben bong ban, and instead made some inquiries.\n\nOne household name had already told me privately that they frequently passed colleagues from other parties in the corridors here, and thought that they had much more in common with them than plenty of their own supposed political brethren.\n\nAnother well-known politician told me of their desire to \"create a home for those deeply politically engaged people who I call the 'militant, muscular moderates'\".\n\n\"On the surface, there is the two-party system, but it is more complex than that,\" I was told.\n\n\"There is a lot of voter churn - the electorate is soft and fluid.\"\n\nThat's Westminster speak for: \"No-one's quite sure what's going on, so anything's possible.\" Possibly.\n\nLook closely and what could be the embryonic beginnings of a new party are there.\n\nLeft-leaning parties worked together to try to defeat the Conservatives at the general election\n\nThere was what was called the Progressive Alliance at this year's general election.\n\nThere were 42 seats across the UK where candidates broadly of the left stood aside with the intention of helping another candidate on the left beat the Conservatives.\n\nIn 38 of them, the Green Party didn't put up a candidate. In two, the Liberal Democrats didn't bother. And in one, the Women's Equality Party didn't. Not one Labour candidate stood aside.\n\nThen there is the More United campaign. It says that at the general election it \"backed 49 candidates from five different parties. Of these, 34 have been elected to be members of Parliament.\"\n\nOf those, 26 were Labour, five were Lib Dem and there was one each for the Conservatives, Greens and the SNP.\n\nAgain, then, the same asymmetry: Labour was the principal beneficiary.\n\nFormer Chancellor George Osborne argues there's a potentially fertile gap between the right and left\n\nBut glance towards the Conservatives and some see contemporary politics as a doughnut or a mint: something with a large hole in the centre.\n\nThere's \"a real gap in the middle of politics at the moment between the Corbynistas and the hard Brexiteers,\" says the former Chancellor George Osborne in an interview with Influence, a magazine for the PR industry, to be published next month.\n\nAnother Tory tells me they are \"frightened\". Politics, they say, \"is dominated by the far-left and the far-right\".\n\nBut, they point out, politics for most at Westminster is like supporting a football team: tribal blindness reigns. Plus, there's the 2017 general election result.\n\nTwo quotes from my notebook here: \"The election changed everything\" and \"A new party is not a goer\".\n\nThese remarks from two people within Labour, one of whom thought, until June, that their party was \"more likely than not to split\".\n\nNext, a third voice. A trenchant, persistent critic of Jeremy Corbyn who still harbours vast doubts about him, but acknowledges his election performance reshaped the landscape.\n\nJeremy Corbyn's campaign slogan \"For the many, not the few\" resonated with many young voters in particular\n\n\"There is no place - and no need - for another party. He killed that. It is dead, literally dead. You don't vote against someone who is going to get you into power.\"\n\nYou'll have noticed in this report the absence of people speaking on the record.\n\nThere's a good reason for that. Beyond saying \"it's not going to happen,\" plenty are reluctant to talk publicly.\n\nFor the adhesive that binds parties together becomes altogether stickier when the two giants of Westminster politics each poll at least 40% of the vote.\n\nEven the other established parties resemble toddlers in a world of giants, reducing the nascent rumblings described above to the microscopic level.\n\nAnd then, the bete noire of any potential political pregnancy: the first-past-the-post electoral system for Westminster. It requires concentrated pockets of support to ensure any breakthrough.\n\nGlance into the graveyard of political failure, and you see the tombstones of Veritas, Libertas, The Jury Team, No2EU and Your Party.\n\nThe one example still alive: UKIP. But even it only ever managed to win one seat at a general election.\n\nIt won't stop the chatter, the never-ending asking of the question: \"What next?\"\n\nAnd yes, it's been a rough old time at Westminster recently for our old friend conventional wisdom.\n\nBut, for now at least, I see little sign of the midwives gathering or a delivery suite assigned for the birth of a new political giant.", "Employees at the embassy in Havana reported feeling unwell late last year\n\nA suspected acoustic attack on US embassy staff in Cuba was reported as recently as last month, US officials have revealed.\n\nIt was originally thought that the incidents had ended several months ago.\n\nThe US State Department also said the number of staff who have reported health problems had increased to 19.\n\nIt comes as the union representing diplomatic staff says some victims suffered mild brain injuries and permanent hearing loss.\n\nCuba has denied any involvement in the attacks and says it is investigating the reports.\n\nUS embassy staff and at least one Canadian began to notice symptoms late last year.\n\nHowever, the affair was first reported in August when the US expelled two Cuban diplomats from Washington. Officials said the expulsions were in protest at Cuba's failure to protect its diplomats.\n\nSonic devices may have been used to emit inaudible sound waves that can cause deafness, US media suggest.\n\nOn Friday, the US government confirmed that an incident took place as recently as August and that the number of staff reporting problems had increased.\n\n\"We can't rule out new cases as medical professionals continue to evaluate members of the embassy community,\" state department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said.\n\nIn a statement, the American Foreign Service Association, which represents US diplomatic and international aid staff, said it had spoken to 10 people who had received treatment.\n\n\"Diagnoses include mild traumatic brain injury and permanent hearing loss, with such additional symptoms as loss of balance, severe headaches, cognitive disruption and brain swelling,\" it said.\n\nIt urged the government to do everything possible to help those affected and to \"ensure that these incidents cease and are not repeated\".\n\nThe statement is the first time that the hearing loss has been described as permanent. It is understood that \"mild traumatic brain injury\" could include concussion or headaches.\n\nThe state department is yet to blame anyone for the incidents.\n\nThe US mission in Havana was reopened as a full embassy in 2015 following 50 years of hostilities between the two countries.", "Jose Mourinho has shown off his rarely-seen skills on the pitch by starring in a charity football match for people affected by the Grenfell Tower fire.\n\nThe Manchester United boss came on as a sub goalkeeper in the Game4Grenfell match between two teams of celebrities and ex-players at QPR's Loftus Road.\n\nHis team lost 5-3 on penalties in the match, in which multiple Olympic gold medallist Sir Mo Farah scored a goal.\n\nAt least 80 people died in the tower block blaze in west London on 14 June.\n\nHomeland's Damian Lewis played against former footballers Chris Sutton and Jamie Redknapp\n\nSport stars, celebrities and former footballers all took part in the charity match\n\nCelebrities including actor Damian Lewis, Olly Murs and Wretch 32 featured in the game which saw two teams managed by Les Ferdinand and Alan Shearer battle it out at the stadium, just a mile from the tower block in North Kensington.\n\nAll ticket money went to the Evening Standard's fund for those affected by the tragedy, although 2,000 complimentary tickets were given to survivors, their families, volunteers who helped in the aftermath of the blaze and the emergency services.\n\nDuring half-time, singers Rita Ora, Emeli Sande and Marcus Mumford entertained the crowd with a live performance.\n\nMourinho, who previously managed Chelsea and still has a home in west London, made his entrance midway through the second half when he replaced former England goalkeeper David James to a noisy reception.\n\nAlthough he was the son of a professional goalkeeper in his native Portugal, Mourinho himself never played above the semi-professional level and was a midfielder.\n\nBut the 54-year-old showed some useful touches between the posts, making a crucial early save as he battled to maintain his side's slender 2-1 lead at that stage of the match.\n\nIn typically combative style, Mourinho was centre of attention for much of the time he was on the pitch - being booked for time-wasting, arguing the equalising goal was offside and even scoring a penalty in the shoot-out.\n\nSir Mo Farah's team-mates did his trademark Mobot to celebrate the Olympian's goal\n\nOn the 80th minute mark, four Grenfell survivors and two firefighters who tackled the blaze came on together in a mass substitution and received the loudest reception of the day from the sell-out crowd at the 20,000-capacity stadium.\n\nThe match went to penalties after it ended 2-2 with ex-QPR star Trevor Sinclair and Kasabian's Chris Edwards joining Sir Mo on the scoresheet.\n\nAnd despite Mourinho's best efforts, he was unable to prevent a defeat for his side as Olly Murs scored the winning goal during the penalty shoot-out.\n\nGrenfell survivor Paul Menacer said being given the chance to play in the match \"means the world to me\".\n\n\"We met people who want to talk and actually care about us. Someone as big as Jose Mourinho coming down and talking to us is just an amazing thing.\"\n\nJose Mourinho failed to stop any goals during the penalty shoot-out\n\nGrenfell volunteer Omar Salha, who also scored a penalty against the Manchester United boss, said he felt shivers of \"goose bumps\" when his goal went in.\n\nHe said: \"He tried some mind tricks - I'm definitely going to play it back when I get home.\"\n\nSpeaking after the game, Mourinho joked that he had chosen to play as a goalkeeper so he didn't \"have to run so much\".\n\nAsked whether he enjoyed playing the role of the day's \"pantomime villain\", he said he wanted to bring \"something fun and different\" to the charity match.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Nurse Alex Wubbels was following hospital protocols when she was arrested in Utah\n\nA US police officer who forcibly arrested a nurse for refusing to take a blood sample from an unconscious patient has been placed on administrative leave.\n\nAn investigation is under way after footage of the incident at a hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah, emerged.\n\nIt shows nurse Alex Wubbels screaming for help as she is manhandled outside and handcuffed.\n\nThe hospital said she had correctly followed its policy.\n\nBlood can only be handed over without a patient's consent if they are under arrest or the police have a warrant - neither of which was the case in this incident, the University of Utah Hospital said.\n\nSalt Lake City Police Department said both the officer involved and another police department employee had been placed on administrative leave pending the investigation.\n\nThe incident occurred on 26 July, but the video was only made public on Thursday at a news conference held by Ms Wubbels.\n\n\"The only job I have as a nurse is to keep my patients safe. A blood draw, it just gets thrown around there like it's some simple thing. But blood is your blood. That's your property,\" she told reporters.\n\nMs Wubbels said in a subsequent statement that the city's mayor and police chief had both apologised to her over the treatment she had received, and that she had accepted their apologies.\n\nSalt Lake City police chief Mike Brown has said he was \"alarmed\" by the footage, while city Mayor Jackie Biskupski described the incident as \"completely unacceptable\".\n\nThe University of Utah said it supported Ms Wubbels \"and her decision to focus first and foremost on the care and wellbeing of her patient\".\n\nIt added that it had created a new policy on blood samples that barred officers from coming to the hospital in person to seek them.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Flood victims have been returning to inspect the damage\n\nUS President Donald Trump has asked Congress for $7.8bn (£6bn) as an initial payment to help with recovery efforts following flooding in Texas and Louisiana.\n\nOfficials say there will be further requests for funds when the full impact of Hurricane Harvey becomes known.\n\nSome residents have been allowed to return to their homes but flood waters are still rising in other areas.\n\nMr Trump is to visit Texas for a second time on Saturday.\n\nThe hurricane made landfall in the state a week ago, causing devastating floods.\n\nIt has been blamed for the deaths of at least 47 people and about 43,000 are currently housed in shelters.\n\nIn a letter to House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan, White House budget director Mick Mulvaney warned that failure to raise the US debt ceiling could hinder recovery efforts.\n\nThe debt ceiling is a cap on the total amount the US government can borrow. Only Congress can raise that limit.\n\n\"This request is a down-payment on the president's commitment to help affected states recover from the storm, and future requests will address longer-term rebuilding needs,\" Mr Mulvaney said.\n\nGovernor of Texas Greg Abbott has said the state may need more than $125bn in aid.\n\nThese residents of Port Arthur, Texas, used a bucket to try to recover items from their home\n\nHouston resident Stephanie Martinez tried to salvage precious family photographs from the flood\n\nMr Mulvaney said almost half a million households had registered for support for rental assistance and for essential home repairs.\n\nHe called on Congress to act \"expeditiously to ensure that the debt ceiling does not affect these critical response and recovery efforts\". A vote on the emergency request is expected next week.\n\nIt is believed that about 80% of Texans do not have flood insurance to cover the wreckage.\n\nHarvey dumped an estimated 20 trillion gallons of rain on the Houston area. It was later downgraded to a tropical storm but continued to batter Texas and parts of neighbouring Louisiana.\n\nGovernor Abbott warned on Friday that the recovery programme would be a \"multi-year project\".\n\n\"This is going to be a massive, massive clean-up process,\" he told ABC News.\n\nAs the water recedes in Houston a huge clean-up operation is under way. Firefighters have been carrying out door-to-door searches in an operation that could take up to two weeks.\n\nMr Abbott warned that in some parts of the state, rivers were still rising and flooding \"poses an ongoing threat\".\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nSearch-and-rescue teams have continued work in Beaumont, a city of about 120,000 people near the Louisiana border, where flooding has cut off the drinking water supply.\n\nThe Environmental Protection Agency has warned that floodwater can contain bacteria and other contaminants from overflowing sewers. It said the biggest threat to public health was access to safe drinking water.\n\nThousands of homes and businesses remain without power.\n\nPresident Trump and his wife Melania visited Texas earlier in the week but stayed clear of the disaster zone, saying they did not want to divert resources from rescue efforts.\n\nHowever, Mr Trump was criticised for not meeting victims of the flooding and for focusing largely on the logistics of the government response.\n\nThe White House said he would visit Houston on Saturday to meet flood survivors and volunteers and would then travel to Lake Charles, Louisiana.", "MPs have declared about £215,000 worth of gifts, benefits and hospitality\n\nSports and betting companies top the list of donors treating MPs to gifts and hospitality.\n\nThe Ladbrokes Coral group appeared 15 times in the register of members' interests, more than any other donor.\n\nOut of 187 donations from UK sources registered by MPs, 58 were from the world of sport. A further 19 were from betting companies.\n\nLadbrokes Coral said it wanted MPs to take decisions \"from a position of knowledge\".\n\nBut campaigners for tighter rules on gambling said companies could use hospitality to lobby MPs not to change rules on fixed odds betting terminals.\n\nMPs are required to declare any gifts, benefits and hospitality over a value of £300. The latest register was published on 29 August and most declarations date from the beginning of 2016 to July 2017.\n\nThe Ladbrokes Coral Group accounted for 15 entries including trips to Ascot, Doncaster and Cheltenham races, the Community Shield at Wembley and dinner at the Conservative Party conference.\n\nAltogether, the group of companies donated £7,475-worth of hospitality to four MPs, Conservatives Philip Davies (eight occasions - totalling £3,685), Laurence Robertson (four occasions -£2,550) and Thérèse Coffey (twice - £890) and Labour's Conor McGinn (once - £350).\n\nThe total does not include any gifts or hospitality worth less than £300 as MPs do not have to declare this.\n\nITV appeared eight times and Channel 4 was mentioned five times. BBC Northern Ireland appears once.\n\nWhile Ladbrokes Coral appeared most often it was not the biggest donor in terms of the value of its hospitality.\n\nThe largest individual donor in the section on \"gifts, benefits and hospitality from UK sources\" was the Road Haulage Association, which the register revealed funds a researcher in the office of Dover's Conservative MP Charlie Elphicke at a cost of £22,577.\n\nMr Elphicke said: \"The researcher is looking at how we can be ready on day one for Brexit - particularly at the Dover front line.\n\n\"This is vital work for both my constituency and the haulage industry. No-one wants to see long queues of lorries at Dover.\n\n\"In this work the interests of the haulage industry and my constituency are strongly aligned. That's why we decided to join forces.\"\n\nMatt Zarb-Cousin, spokesman for the Campaign for Fairer Gambling, accused Ladbrokes Coral of being \"desperate\" to keep fixed odds betting terminals (FOBTs) at £100 a spin.\n\nHe said: \"They will throw as much money as they can. It shows a lot about the strength of their argument that they need to wine and dine MPs.\"\n\nThe organisation wants to see the maximum stake on the terminals cut from £100 to £2 amid concerns vulnerable people can lose a lot of money very quickly.\n\nIts founder Derek Webb has funded the Liberal Democrats and also appeared in previous registers of members' interests as a donor to Labour deputy leader Tom Watson.\n\nThe government is conducting a review into FOBTs.\n\nA spokesman for Ladbrokes Coral said: \"We employ over 25,000 people, we have a high street presence in nearly every constituency in the land and pay UK taxes of circa £55m per annum.\n\n\"Of course we engage with politicians, we want to make sure that when decisions are taken that affect our 25,000 people, they are done from a position of knowledge.\"\n\nMr Davies, MP for Shipley and one of the recipients of Ladbrokes' hospitality, said: \"I am the elected chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group for Betting and Gaming - and a former bookmaker - so of course I meet with bookmakers.\n\n\"It would be rather extraordinary if I didn't.\"\n\nTewkesbury MP Mr Robertson said he did discuss FOBTs with Ladbrokes, but also other issues such as taxation and their relationship with horse racing.\n\nHe said: \"Very many companies (including the BBC) provide hospitality as a means of lobbying MPs pretty well every day of the week, inside and outside the Palace of Westminster, at various sporting and other events, at party conferences and so on.\n\n\"Charities do similar. Some of it is declarable, if it is over the threshold, and some of it isn't.\n\n\"I represent the Cheltenham racecourse and am also joint chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Racing and Bloodstock, so have responsibilities in this area.\n\n\"Similar to most countries in the world, UK horse racing is very largely financially supported by bookmakers and there is a fear that curtailing their income by reducing the stakes on FOBTs could cause many shops to close which would, in turn, lead to a dramatic reduction in the funding of horse racing, which, contrary to popular belief, is a very poorly funded sport in the first place.\"\n\nDr Coffey and Mr McGinn have been approached for comment.\n• None Fifth of MPs still employ family member", "Solar panels are to be installed in 800,000 low-income homes across England and Wales over the next five years, as part of a new government scheme.\n\nThe Dutch firm, Maas Capital, is investing £160m in the project.\n\nThe panels, which will be free to tenants, are expected to cut hundreds of pounds from energy bills, according to the UK firm Solarplicity.\n\nThe first people to benefit from the scheme include residents of a sheltered retirement home in Ealing, west London.\n\nSpeaking at the site, International Trade minister Greg Hands said: \"This initial £160m capital expenditure programme will deliver massive benefits to some of the UK's poorest households.\n\n\"As well as creating 1,000 jobs and delivering cheaper energy bills for up to 800,000 homes, it shows yet another vote of confidence in the UK as a place to invest and do business.\"\n\nThe firm providing the panels, Solarplicity, will work with more than 40 social landlords, including local authorities across England and Wales.\n\nIt will profit from the payments received under the feed-in tariff scheme and payments for energy from social housing customers.\n\nThe feed-in tariff scheme offers guaranteed cash payments to households that produce their own electricity using renewable technologies.\n\nIt changed in February, adopting different rules and lower tariff rates.\n\nMr Hands also told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that Solarplicity will target military veterans when it recruits staff to install the panels.\n\n\"Armed forces veterans are very good at doing this, actually,\" he said. \"They understand how to put the panels on efficiently and well.\"\n\nTenants in the North West will be the biggest beneficiaries, with more than 290,000 homes receiving solar panels in towns and cities such as Oldham and Bradford.\n\nThe North East and Midlands will also see a significant number of homes benefit.\n\nTenants will not pay anything towards the installation of the panels and their energy bills will be reduced by an average of £240 per year, according to the Department for International Trade.\n\nJulian Bell, leader of Ealing Council, welcomed the scheme, but said its own programme of installing solar panels had been curtailed after the government reduced the feed-in tariffs that offered a return on electricity generated from small-scale energy schemes.\n\n\"The business case didn't quite add-up when the government made changes to subsidies and feed-in tariffs for sustainable energy,\" he said.\n\n\"We're grateful that private investors are coming here and investing in Ealing and benefitting our residents but the government still needs to do more to move people to sustainable energy and solar power particularly.\"\n\nGreg Hands says the scheme is a show of confidence for business in the UK\n\nThe chief executive of Solarplicity, David Elbourne, said the price of solar panels had fallen enough so that government subsidies were no longer essential.\n\n\"In the past, the feed-in tariff meant that people who could afford to have solar, benefitted from solar. But now people who can't afford to have solar [can]- we'll put it on the roof for free - and they will get a reduced energy bill.\"\n\nDavid Hunter, director of market studies at energy management firm Schneider Electric gave the scheme a cautious welcome.\n\n\"Obviously any kind of investment in the transition to low carbon energy supply can be a positive thing and with any of these developments it's always best to consider whether it's best value for money.\n\n\"But certainly the idea of upgrading our social housing stock to make it more energy efficient and lower carbon is a worthwhile aim,\" he said.\n\nMaas Capital is the equity investment arm of ABN AMRO, which specialises in shipping, oil and gas, and renewable energy. ABN AMRO is 75% owned by the Dutch government.", "According to The Sunday Times, the outcome of the general election may have cost the country about £20bn. A source, described as a close ally of of Theresa May's, explains that meeting the UK's obligations to the EU had been estimated at up to £30bn. But, it says, the weakening of our negotiating position because the Conservative government lost a majority means the cost will rise.\n\nThe Mail on Sunday says the Prime Minister is hoping to keep the details of the likely \"divorce bill\" a secret until after the Conservative conference. Otherwise, it says, there could a furious backlash from Conservatives opposed to the EU.\n\nThe slow pace of the Brexit talks doesn't impress The Sunday Mirror. It calls on the EU to come up with a figure so Brexit Secretary David Davis can make the arguments for reducing it.\n\nThe Sunday People, among others, reports that government whips are at work trying to persuade \"wavering Tory MPs\" to support Mrs May's approach to Brexit. The Sun on Sunday says some have complained of \"bullying\". And The Observer believes the attempt to promote unity has left her facing \"a growing Tory revolt over her leadership.\"\n\nThe Sunday Telegraph warns the rebels that blocking Brexit would undermine democracy and respect for our political class. Rather than do that, it urges anti-Brexit MPs to \"put country before conceit\".\n\nThousands of children going back to school this week could face an epidemic of bullying online, according to The Sun. It welcomes the training of more teachers to support pupils and combat the threat of cyber abuse. But the paper calls for more to be done - if the 8m children at risk are to be protected from a torment that doesn't stop at the school gates.\n\nFor several of the papers the main news is the ructions that have followed the arrest on suspicion of drinking and driving of the former England captain, Wayne Rooney. The People believes he is fighting to save his marriage. The views of his wife Coleen are forcefully delivered elsewhere. The Sun calls her \"furious\". The headline in The Mirror is \"how could you do this to me when I'm pregnant?\".\n\nThis autumn, says The Sunday Express, could turn out to be warmer than the summer. It says forecasters think hot air from Europe, and balmy air from the Atlantic, could combine to produce temperatures of 32C (89.6F). \"How typical,\" says the paper, \"that the sun should start shining as soon as the school holidays are over.\"\n\nBritain must prepare itself for \"invasions of growing numbers of foreign sea creatures\" due to climate change, The Observer says. The paper says the experts believe that warming waters will drive some of our currently native species of mussels, fish and oysters further north. Their places may be taken by red mullet, john dory and pacific oysters, forcing us to change our seafood diet.", "Cormac Murphy-O'Connor served in holy orders for more than six decades.\n\nThe man who began his career as a priest in 1950s Hampshire went on to lead the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales and to don the red hat of a cardinal.\n\nA traditionalist who opposed birth control and abortion, he preached that Christians must be more outspoken about their faith.\n\nBut he was heavily criticised when it emerged that he had failed to report a priest, who was later convicted of abusing children. It was a failing which he later bitterly regretted.\n\nCormac Murphy-O'Connor was born into a devout Catholic family in Reading, Berkshire on 24 August 1932.\n\nHis parents had emigrated from County Cork in Ireland before World War One.\n\nHe studied at the English College in Rome later returning as Rector\n\nOne of six children, two of his brothers, Brian and Patrick, would also become priests and his eldest brother, James, qualified as a General Practitioner and played international rugby union for Ireland.\n\nThe family would say the Rosary (a series of prayers) most evenings and always attended church together on Sundays.\n\nThe young Murphy-O'Connor attended the Catholic Presentation College in Reading where he gained a reputation as a useful rugby player and became an accomplished pianist.\n\nBy the time he went to Prior Park College in Bath he knew he was destined for the priesthood.\n\nHe studied at the Venerable English College in Rome, the seminary set up in the 16th Century to train priests for England and Wales, where he gained a degree in theology, and was ordained in October 1956.\n\nHe began his ministry in Hampshire, eventually being appointed secretary to the Bishop of Portsmouth, Derek Worlock.\n\nMurphy-O'Connor in 1999 when he was the Bishop of Arundel and Brighton\n\nIn 1970 he was appointed as parish priest at the church of the Immaculate Conception in Portswood, a suburb of Southampton.\n\nBy then his theological acumen had brought him to the attention of senior clergy and he served as rector of the college in Rome where he had previously studied.\n\nWhile there he hosted the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Donald Coggan, on his groundbreaking visit to Rome when, to the amazement of the Vatican, Coggan called for full intercommunion between the Anglican and Catholic churches.\n\nMurphy-O'Connor was appointed as Bishop of Arundel and Brighton in 1977 where his theologically orthodox and pastorally engaged ministry was well received.\n\nIt was in Sussex that he also faced his greatest public challenge when a priest within the diocese, Michael Hill, was accused of child sexual abuse.\n\nMurphy-O'Connor sought advice from a psychotherapist and a counsellor who suggested that Hill should be given a job that did not involve children. The bishop agreed and Hill was made a chaplain at Gatwick Airport. He went on to abuse more children and was subsequently jailed in 1997.\n\nHe became Archbishop of Westminster in 2000\n\nHe deeply regretted his failure to report the priest to the police, and said of his conduct: \"I don't make any excuses. It was shameful. It's very hard for a bishop, who's told when he takes up that office, that a priest is your brother, you must help him, forgive him.\n\n\"What we didn't realise, as we should have done, was the grievous damage done to the victims,\" he added.\n\nMurphy-O'Connor refused to resign but instead, upon becoming Archbishop of Westminster in 2000, established an independent committee led by Lord Nolan, to carry out a review on child protection practices in the Catholic Church in England and Wales.\n\nThe resulting report contained recommendations for key structures required at parish, diocesan and national level and in religious orders, the action needed to create as safe an environment as possible for children and those who work with them, and a strengthening of arrangements for responding to allegations of abuse.\n\nAlthough he did not engage directly in politics, it was his careful nurturing that led Prime Minister Tony Blair to convert to Catholicism in 2007.\n\nBlair later gave public testimony of his faith after the leadership of the Labour Party had passed to Gordon Brown.\n\nHe guided Tony Blair on his path to Catholicism\n\nHowever, the two clashed over the issue of gay couples being allowed to adopt, with Murphy-O'Connor telling Blair that Catholic adoption agencies should be exempted from the measure, a proposal which the government rejected.\n\nA year later Murphy-O'Connor published a book entitled Faith in the Nation in which he said that while Britain had become more diverse and pluralistic, the Christian values which had shaped its identity should not be abandoned.\n\nThroughout his ministry he strove to improve relationships with the Church of England although that became something of a struggle for him when the Anglican Church began admitting women as priests, something which he opposed.\n\nHe was created a cardinal in 2001 and, a year later, read prayers at the funeral service of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.\n\nIt was the first time since 1509 that a Catholic Cardinal had taken part in an English royal funeral service.\n\nHe sought accommodations with other religious leaders in a bid to find common ground\n\nWhen he reached the mandatory retirement age of 75, Pope Benedict asked him to stay on and he finally retired two years later in 2009.\n\nHe was the first Archbishop of Westminster not to die in office.\n\nIn retirement Murphy-O'Connor continued to rail against what he saw as the continuing secularisation of British society and what he saw as the marginalisation of religious faith.\n\n\"Religious belief of any kind,\" he said, \"tends to be treated more as a private eccentricity than as the central and formative element of British society that it is.\n\n\"In the name of tolerance, it seems to me that tolerance is being abolished,\" he said.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Donald Trump: \"As tough as this was, it's been a wonderful thing\"\n\nUS President Donald Trump has praised the relief response to Hurricane Harvey on his second visit to flood-hit states.\n\n\"Things are working out well,\" he said of the efforts, as he and wife Melania met victims and volunteers in Texas.\n\n\"As tough as this was, it's been a wonderful thing,\" he added. \"I think even for the country to watch and for the world to watch.\"\n\nThe devastating hurricane made landfall in the state a week ago.\n\nSome residents have been allowed to return to their homes but flood waters are still rising in other areas.\n\nHarvey has been blamed for at least 47 deaths, and about 43,000 people are currently housed in shelters.\n\nPresident Trump and the first lady visited Texas earlier in the week but stayed clear of the disaster zone, saying they did not want to divert resources from rescue work.\n\nHowever, the president was criticised for not meeting victims of the flooding and for focusing largely on the logistics of the government response.\n\nVisiting Texas again on Saturday, Mr and Mrs Trump made a point of meeting flood survivors and volunteers in Houston. They took part in food distribution at a shelter, handing out packed lunches, and posed for photographs with victims when they requested it.\n\nDuring a tour of a shelter, the president said: \"I think people appreciate what's been done. It's been done very efficiently, very well, and that's what we want. We've very happy with the way things are going. A lot of love. There's a lot of love.\"\n\nThe president and his wife then travelled to Lake Charles, Louisiana, which also suffered flash floods, before flying back to Washington.\n\nPresident Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump greeted children at a centre for flood survivors in Houston\n\nAmid the destruction, stories have been shared of people opening their homes and businesses to others, and forming human chains to save people from treacherous rising waters.\n\nHowever, many are also now returning to destroyed homes without the insurance to fix them.\n\nExperts estimate that only about 20% of those in Houston's worst hit areas have flood insurance.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Flood victims have been returning to inspect the damage\n\nMr Trump has asked Congress for $7.8bn (£6bn) as an initial payment to help with recovery efforts following the flooding in both Texas and Louisiana, which has also hit production at America's main petrol and oil refining centre.\n\nThe White House said on Saturday that the president had authorised an increase in the level of federal funding available for debris removal and emergency protective measures.\n\nGovernor of Texas Greg Abbott has said the state may need more than $125bn in aid.\n\nThe president has declared Sunday a \"National Day of Prayer\" for victims of Hurricane Harvey.\n\nAdministration officials say there will be further requests for funds when the full impact of Hurricane Harvey becomes known.\n\nHarvey dumped an estimated 20 trillion gallons of rain on the Houston area.\n\nGovernor Abbott has warned that the recovery programme will be a \"multi-year project\".\n\n\"This is going to be a massive, massive clean-up process,\" he told ABC News.\n\nThe Environmental Protection Agency has warned that floodwater can contain bacteria and other contaminants from overflowing sewers. It said the biggest threat to public health was access to safe drinking water.\n\nAuthorities in flood-hit Orange County, east of Beaumont, imposed a curfew on Saturday night to give its residents \"peace of mind\", officials said. Looting in Houston earlier in the week led to a curfew being implemented.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nThousands of homes and businesses remain without power, and many schools are expected to remain closed in the coming days.\n\nMeanwhile, the Houston Astros, the city's Major League Baseball team, returned home to take on the New York Mets on Saturday. Tributes were paid to those killed ahead of the game.\n\nThe team abandoned their home stadium this week, playing three games in Florida against the Texas Rangers.\n\n\"We hope that these games can serve as a welcome distraction for our city that is going through a very difficult time,\" Astros president Reid Ryan said.\n\n\"We hope that we can put smiles on some faces.\"", "Universities have been accused of running a \"cartel\" and failing to offer enough two-year bachelor's degrees, by a right of centre think tank.\n\nThe UK 2020 report argues that fast-track degrees could cut student debt.\n\nIt is backed by Labour's Lord Adonis and Sir Anthony Seldon, vice-chancellor of the University of Buckingham, which offers two-year degrees.\n\nBut the umbrella group Universities UK said uptake of existing two-year courses had been limited.\n\nAnd a spokesman pointed out that official investigations have previously found that competition in the sector was largely working well.\n\n\"Several universities have been offering two-year, fast-track degrees for a number of years, but the demand from students has been limited under the current fees and loans system in England,\" said UUK in a statement.\n\nPlans to boost two-year degrees were announced by Universities Minister Jo Johnson in February.\n\nThe UK 2020 report, co-authored by businessman and Leave.EU co-funder Richard Tice, says fast-track degrees could cut student debt, enhance choice and relieve pressured housing stocks.\n\nIt argues that tuition fees, reaching £9,250 this year, have failed to deliver real choice or competition for students in England and describes mounting student anger about debt and interest rates as a \"timebomb\" beneath the system.\n\nIt says most universities charge the maximum fees allowed and have acted as a cartel to slow reforms and freeze out private sector competition.\n\n\"Price competition is the area where most notoriously the universities have failed to deliver,\" says the report.\n\n\"In the long term, smarter ways of funding students will have to be found.\"\n\nThe authors argue that students promised a better experience by the increase in tuition fees were \"sold a lie\", while vice-chancellors with massive pay packets are the biggest beneficiaries.\n\nThe report estimates that two-year degrees could reduce individual graduate debt by up to £20,000, with major savings in accommodation costs.\n\nMr Tice said complaints of poor value for money from friends who were parents of university students prompted him to write the report.\n\n\"Investigating the truth behind these stories has shocked me, the powerful university cartel, interwoven with parts of the establishment care lots about money and little about students.\"\n\nLord Adonis, in a joint foreword with Conservative MP and UK 2020 chairman Owen Paterson, said: \"It is not often that politicians from such different parts of the spectrum come together on a major question of such national importance.\n\n\"But we are united in our desire to find a solution to the crisis in how students and universities are funded.\"\n\nSir Anthony said the report did \"an excellent service in channelling the debate on higher education towards the contemporary structure and its antiquated provision\".\n\nIn its statement, Universities UK said it expected three-year undergraduate degrees to remain the preferred option for many students.\n\n\"But if changes can be made to the funding and fees system in England that help increase the flexibility of provision and are in the interest of students, this is a good thing.\"\n\nChris Husbands, vice-chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University, added: \"Two-year degrees may make financial sense for some students.\n\n\"However, due to the compressed nature of a two-year degree there would be a significant reduction in opportunities for students to do part-time and vacation work which many students from lower or average income households rely on to help fund their university life.\n\n\"It is also less likely that a student would have the opportunity to carry out work placements or work-based learning in their chosen subject or area of study.\n\n\"This means their skills and readiness for the workplace could suffer as part of a two-year degree.\n\n\"The real need is for a funding regime which encourages more part-time study and study alongside work.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Competition-winners take to the Queensferry Crossing for a one-off opportunity to walk across the bridge\n\nThe first of more than 50,000 people have completed their walk across the new Queensferry Crossing.\n\nThe new road bridge over the Forth was closed to traffic in preparation for the official opening ceremony on Monday.\n\nThe chance to walk the £1.35bn bridge has been described as a \"once in a lifetime\" experience. The new crossing has no pedestrian walkway.\n\nThe ballot to choose those taking part attracted 250,000 entries.\n\nJoining the successful ticket holders on the 1.7 mile walk was First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Scotland's Transport Minister Humza Yousaf.\n\nThe official opening will be carried out by the Queen.\n\nCompetition-winners take to the Queensferry Crossing for a one-off opportunity to walk across the bridge\n\nPeople began walking across the new bridge just after 09:30 on Saturday morning\n\nFirst Minister Nicola Sturgeon was among the thousands of people who completed the first crossing\n\nOne of the first to cross from north to south was 16-year-old Morgan Lewis-Wilson, one of three generations of his family from East Lothian who were taking part in the experience.\n\nHe said: \"I ran the second half and I was one of the first people to finish north to south. It was a really amazing atmosphere coming in first with the saltire over my shoulders. It was just brilliant.\"\n\nShauna Killen, 45, from Anstruther, Fife, who was taking part with her family, said: \"It was absolutely fantastic, I got quite emotional coming across it. It was wonderful and I'm really pleased to have done it.\n\n\"I applied for the kids really; it was just so amazing to watch it being built over the last few years and just to be a part of it today was a once-in-a-lifetime experience so hopefully they will remember it for a long time.\"\n\nCompetition winners take to the Queensferry Crossing for a one-off opportunity to walk across the bridge\n\nCilla and Graham Ferguson, from Dalgety Bay, Fife, dressed up as Toy Story's Woody and Jessie for the occasion to raise awareness for brittle bone disease, which their granddaughter suffers from.\n\nMrs Ferguson, 66, said: \"What an achievement, what a once-in-a-lifetime, awesome thing to do.\"\n\nAlso raising awareness for the disease were Wilma Lawrie, 57, from Edinburgh, and Yvonne Grant, 56, from Dundee, who both crossed in wheelchairs as part of a four-person team fundraising for the Brittle Bone Society.\n\n\"It's a great privilege and honour to be walking or wheeling for the 5,000 members here in the UK,\" Ms Grant said.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the walk, Ms Sturgeon said: \"It's only right that the public get the chance of an up close and personal look at this amazing structure so they can see the stunning engineering and views for themselves.\n\n\"Walking across the new Queensferry Crossing will be a once in a lifetime experience, before it is officially opened to traffic and pedestrian access continues on the Forth Road Bridge.\"\n\nThe crossing is essentially an extension of the M90 motorway across the Forth with a 70mph speed limit, although operators said an initial 40mph limit would be in place to take account of \"driver distraction\".\n\nThe new bridge will take most of the traffic that currently uses the 53-year-old Forth Road Bridge.\n\nThe old one will remain open for cyclists, pedestrians and buses.\n\nMr Yousaf added: \"It's important to recognise the efforts of those workers who have delivered this project in challenging conditions, £245m under budget.\n\n\"That is a staggering achievement and we want to build on the momentum that these celebrations will create.\"\n\nLocal schools and community groups will be allowed to walk over the structure on Tuesday before it closes to pedestrians.\n\nThe crossing will remain closed to traffic until Thursday, with vehicles re-directed back to the Forth Road Bridge during this time.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "It is 250 years since America's Mason-Dixon Line was completed. Hailed as a groundbreaking technical achievement, it came to symbolise the border between the Civil War North and South, separating free Pennsylvania from slave-owning Maryland. But who were the two British men who created it?\n\n\"It was the equivalent of the moon landings today,\" according to Mason-Dixon Line expert David Thaler.\n\nBaker's son Charles Mason and lapsed Quaker Jeremiah Dixon were established scientists when commissioned to settle a land dispute in the pre-revolutionary America of 1763.\n\nFor 80 years the Calvert family of Maryland and the Penns of Pennsylvania had been locked in a bloody dispute over the boundary between the two colonies they had been granted by the English Crown.\n\n\"The stakes were very high,\" said Mr Thaler, trustee of the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore and an expert on the Mason-Dixon project.\n\n\"There was about 4,000 sq miles of territory that was in dispute and nobody knew who to pay taxes to. Warfare regularly broke out along the border.\"\n\nNo portraits of either man remain, but US artist Adrian Martinez produced this interpretation of how Mason, seated left, and Dixon, also seated, might have looked during the project\n\nOutdated maps meant fresh measurements were needed, but colonial surveyors had proved inaccurate. So the families hired Mason and Dixon, who were known in England as master surveyors and astronomers.\n\nThe Mason-Dixon Line was drawn in two parts. An 83-mile (133.5km) north-south divide between Maryland and Delaware and the more recognised 233-mile (375km) west to east divide between Pennsylvania and Maryland, stretching from just south of Philadelphia to what is now West Virginia.\n\nMr Thaler said: \"This was the most outstanding scientific and engineering achievement, not only of its day, but of the American Enlightenment.\n\n\"It was so advanced for its time. The brains were the best and the technology was the best.\"\n\nMason and Dixon brought with them some of the most advanced surveying equipment of the day, including tools by renowned instrument maker John Bird, who, like Dixon, hailed from County Durham.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\n\"The map they produced is one of the most important historical documents we have here in America. It's almost the equivalent of the Declaration of Independence,\" added Mr Thaler.\n\n\"The accuracy is so extraordinary that even today it continues to astound. It represents the first geodetic survey in the New World.\"\n\nMiner's son Dixon from Cockfield, near Bishop Auckland, and Mason, from Oakridge Lynch, near Stroud in Gloucestershire, originally came together in 1761 to map the Transit of Venus - making it easier to calculate the Earth's distance from the Sun.\n\nIt would take them almost five years - lugging their equipment across hundreds of miles of wilderness - to complete the survey and cement their place in the timeline of the United States.\n\nYet despite their groundbreaking achievement, both ended up in unmarked graves thousands of miles apart and remain virtually unknown in their home country.\n\nMilestones were marked with M for Maryland and P for Pennsylvania\n\nDixon's great-great-great-great-great-nephew, John Dixon, still lives in County Durham and is proud of his connection to a \"marvellous man\" who was of \"great significance\" in his lifetime.\n\n\"Jeremiah was a Quaker and from a mining family. He showed a talent early on for maths and then surveying.\n\n\"He went down to London to be taken on by the Royal Society, just at a time when his social life was getting a bit out of hand.\n\n\"He was a bit of a lad by all accounts, not your typical Quaker, and never married.\n\n\"He enjoyed socialising and carousing and was actually expelled from the Quakers for his drinking and keeping loose company.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nAn entry in the Quaker minute book of Raby in County Durham, dated October 1760, reads: \"Jery Dixon, son of George and Mary Dixon of Cockfield, disowned for drinking to excess.\"\n\nMr Dixon added: \"Nevertheless, it's marvellous to be connected to such a prominent man.\"\n\nMason's early life was more sedate by comparison. At the age of 28 he was taken on by the Royal Observatory in Greenwich as an assistant. Noted as a \"meticulous observer of nature and geography\" he later became a fellow of the Royal Society.\n\nMason chronicled his arrival in Philadelphia in his journal\n\nMason and Dixon signed a contract to begin the survey in 1763\n\n\"Not too much is known about his younger days, but we know his family was not terribly well off and that they ran a baking business,\" said Royal Society librarian Keith Moore.\n\n\"He had a school education, but didn't go to university. However, he did have some local connections and knew James Bradley, who was a very famous astronomer and also from Gloucestershire.\n\n\"Bradley got him a job at the Royal Observatory, which is really the start of his career as an astronomer and surveyor.\n\n\"While at the Royal Society, he was asked to undertake Transit of Venus observations and recruited Dixon as his assistant.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Star observations were used to measure the Mason-Dixon Line\n\nThe pair arrived in Philadelphia to begin work in November 1763. They used Bird's instruments to calculate their path by the stars and had to combat hostile Native Americans, mountains, dense forest, rivers and wild animals.\n\nLimestone markers measuring up to 5ft (1.5m) high - quarried and transported from England - were placed at every mile and marked with a P for Pennsylvania and M for Maryland on each side. So-called Crown stones were positioned every five miles and engraved with the Penn family's coat of arms on one side and the Calvert family's on the other.\n\n\"No-one really knows why the stones were shipped from England,\" said Todd Babcock, of the Mason and Dixon Line Preservation Partnership. \"But we know there were nearly 400 of them.\"\n\nHe added: \"At the time all Mason and Dixon had in front of them was wilderness.\n\n\"There were some settlements, but west of the Susquehanna River and approaching the Allegheny Mountains there were very few roads. It was all mature forest so they had to come through and cut a vista about 30ft wide.\n\n\"That required axe-men to cut down the trees, pack mule drivers to get the trees out of the way as well as cows for milk, chain carriers, instrument bearers and tent bearers. It was like a small army moving through the woods.\n\n\"They started off with a crew of five, but by the time they got towards the end of the survey the party had grown to about 115.\n\n\"When they came into this I think they thought it would take a year or two, but it ended up taking five.\"\n\nYet while their achievement has been rightly hailed, modern technology has shown the line was not as accurate as Mason and Dixon thought.\n\nIt took Mason and Dixon five years to complete their survey\n\nAdrian Martinex also imagined Mason and Dixon visiting a Pennsylvania tavern with some of their party a year into the survey\n\nCrown stones were placed at five-mile intervals along the line\n\nMr Babcock said: \"They thought at the end of the survey that the stones were accurate to within 50ft of where they should be. But what we're finding is that some of them are as much as 900ft off the intended line of latitude.\n\n\"Using modern GPS equipment we found they progressively went to the south and then started to come back to the north. The reason for that is not because they were inaccurate or because the equipment was faulty. It was actually gravity.\n\n\"Gravity had an impact on the plumb bob they were using. They had a 6ft telescope and it used a plumb bob on a fine wire to set it to true zero so they could measure directly overhead. But gravity varied from location to location because of the influence of things like mountains.\n\n\"We have found there was a direct correlation between the local variations in gravity and how far north or south of the line they were.\n\n\"The distances between the stones is supposed to be a mile, but what we're finding is that they are anything up to 15ft longer than a mile in places.\n\n\"That said, the idea of trying to stay on a line of latitude for 230 miles through the wilderness with equipment that had never been used before is just incredible.\"\n\nMason and Dixon began their return journey eastward on 20 October 1767 and later submitted a bill for £3,516.9s - estimated as the equivalent of about £500,000 today. But, according to David Thaler, neither died rich men.\n\n\"It was certainly a substantial amount for a world-class scientific effort,\" he said.\n\n\"But it wasn't enough to retire on.\"\n\nThe bill for the Mason-Dixon Line came to just over £3,500\n\nA plaque marks the spot close to where Mason and Dixon began their survey\n\nThe Mason-Dixon Line took on an enduring symbolism in part because of the American Civil War\n\nMason and Dixon are unlikely to have seen their names directly associated with their achievement, as the official report on the survey did not mention them.\n\nThe term \"Mason-Dixon Line\" would become more widely used when the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 to allow slave-owning Missouri and free Maine to join the union.\n\nAnd of course the line's enduring symbolism was firmly established after the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, representing that demarcation between the North and South - and freedom over enslavement.\n\nMason and Dixon are buried thousands of miles apart in unmarked graves\n\nAfter the mammoth project was completed, Mason returned to England to work again at the Greenwich Observatory but he ended his days virtually penniless back in America in 1786.\n\n\"Many years after the Mason-Dixon line was made, Mason returned to Philadelphia, but became sick during the journey,\" said John Hopkins, who oversees the burial ground at the city's Christ Church.\n\n\"When he got here he knew pretty much that he was close to death, so he wrote to Benjamin Franklin, who he knew, and asked him to give him a place to be buried so he didn't have to burden his wife and family.\n\n\"We don't know where he is. If he had a stone it's been lost over time.\n\n\"We have a plaque that a bunch of surveyors from around the country paid for with text close to what the inscription might have been at that time.\"\n\nCharles Mason was friends with Benjamin Franklin, according to John Hopkins of Christ Church\n\nDixon returned to County Durham to ply his trade.\n\n\"For the last 10 years of his life he did work for Lord Barnard at Raby Castle and surveyed Auckland Castle for the Bishop of Durham,\" his relative John Dixon said:\n\n\"He died at the young age of 45 in 1779. There was no death certificate. We know he'd been quite a steady drinker through his life and there were rumours he died from pneumonia.\n\n\"We presume that after having been put out of the Quakers they reconciled and accepted him back. He is buried in the Quaker burial ground at Staindrop.\n\n\"We don't know exactly where he is because it was the convention at that time for Quakers not mark their gravestones.\"\n\nFind out about musician Mark Knopfler's fascination with Mason and Dixon on Inside Out on BBC1 at 1930 BST on 4 September.", "Joshua Clements stabbed two men when thousands gathered in London's Hyde park last year\n\nA teenager who stabbed two men during a mass water fight in London's Hyde Park has been jailed for 14 years.\n\nJoshua Clements, 19, attacked the men as violence broke out when thousands of people gathered on 19 July last year.\n\nThe Old Bailey heard he was masked and armed with a large hunting knife, and planned to rob people at the event.\n\nHe previously pleaded guilty to two charges of wounding and having an offensive weapon as well as two counts of handling stolen goods.\n\nClements, who had been released from Feltham Young Offenders Institution two months before the attack, also admitted possession of heroin and crack cocaine with intent.\n\nPolice found a hunting knife with student Audean Thompson's DNA on it during a search of Joshua Clements' house\n\nThe court heard how Clements stabbed student Audean Thompson, 20, in the stomach and leg.\n\nMr Thompson, who used a walking stick due to a previous leg injury, was left with a 4cm (1.5 inch) stab wound to the chest and had £150 taken in the attack.\n\nThe attack was captured on mobile phone footage which was played in court.\n\nEarlier that night, male model Duane Williams, 20, was stabbed in the stomach by Clements, leaving part of his bowel lining protruding. Clements did not attempt to rob Mr Williams.\n\nA spontaneous water fight in Hyde Park led to violent clashes in which five officers were injured and one was stabbed\n\nMr Thompson wrote in a statement: \"I worry people will recognise me. I have not been on a bus since.\"\n\nMr Williams said he was left fearful about going out and his scars stopped him working as a body model.\n\nJudge Michael Topolski QC said: \"These were vicious attacks on two unarmed entirely innocent victims.\"\n\nThe judge sentenced Clements to 14 years in a young offenders institution with an extended licence period of five years.\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Lewis Hamilton has broken Michael Schumacher's career pole positions record by taking the 69th of his career.\n\nThe Briton moved level with the German seven-time world champion in Belgium last week and followed that up at the Italian Grand Prix with his eighth pole of the season.\n\nBBC Sport takes a look at Hamilton's record in numbers.\n\nHow often does Hamilton translate pole to victory?\n\nHamilton's first pole position came in his sixth race - the 2007 Canadian Grand Prix. He converted that into his first career victory.\n\nSince then he has been on pole at least once every season he has competed in, with 2016 his most dominant year in qualifying, finishing fastest on a Saturday on 12 occasions.\n\nOf the 68 previous occasions Hamilton has been on pole, he has translated it into a victory 37 times.\n\nHow does that compare to the other greats?\n\nWhen it comes to turning pole positions into victories, Hamilton is up there with the best.\n\nThe Briton has a poles-to-win ratio of 54%. Schumacher won 40 of the 68 races he was on pole for - 58.82%, while Brazilian legend Ayrton Senna [29 wins from 65 pole positions] has a ratio of 44.6%.\n\nDoes pole always lead to podium?\n\nEven if Hamilton does not manage to win a race from pole position, he rarely finishes outside the top three.\n\nJust 16 of the previous 68 races he started on pole have ended with him failing to be on the podium.\n\nHamilton's finishes after being on pole\n\nMonza to Melbourne - Hamilton at his best\n\nThere are very few circuits on which Hamilton has failed to take pole position.\n\nThe Briton has mastered a Saturday at least once on every track on the current calendar, with only poles at Magny Cours (France), Istanbul Park (Turkey) and Buddh International Circuit (India) eluding him throughout his entire career.\n\nHowever, his best Saturday form has come at four grands prix - Australia, China, Canada and Italy - with six pole positions at each of the circuits.\n\nOnly in Canada has Hamilton managed to make that pole position count the most, winning six times there after starting at the front of the pack.\n\nHis worst pole-to-win record is in Australia, winning just one of the six times he has started on pole in Melbourne.\n\nTwo of Hamilton's three world titles have come while he has been at Mercedes, in 2014 and 2015, and it is with this team he has been the most dominant in qualifying.\n\nHe claimed 26 pole positions in 110 races for McLaren and 43 in 90 for Mercedes. That makes for an impressive strike rate of 47% while at Mercedes, compared to 24% at the team he started his career with.\n\nThe one thing a driver can expect if they link up with Hamilton is to finish second best in qualifying.\n\nThe 32-year-old has taken more pole positions than his team-mate in nine of his previous 10 seasons and is well on course to pip Valtteri Bottas to more poles this year. He leads the Finn 8-2 with seven grand prix weekends remaining.\n\nThe one season he has failed to take more pole positions than his team-mate was 2014, when current world champion Nico Rosberg secured front place on the grid on four more occasions than Hamilton.\n\nIs Hamilton F1's best qualifier in history?\n\nHamilton is now officially the most successful qualifier in Formula 1 history, having broken the all-time record for pole positions.\n\nAs to whether that makes him the best qualifier in history - and by extension the out-and-out fastest driver - well, that's another thing altogether.\n\nFor a start, statistics are an unreliable guide in many circumstances in F1, including this one. Michael Schumacher, for example, held the pole record until Hamilton broke it, and precisely almost no-one would say he was a better qualifier than Ayrton Senna, whose record the German broke.\n\nSenna scored 65 poles and Schumacher 68. But the Brazilian won his in 162 races and Schumacher in 250 [ignoring the last three years of his ill-starred comeback]. So Senna's percentage was significantly better [40.1% compared to 27.2%].\n\nHamilton's is better than Schumacher's, at 34%, but not as good as Senna's - and Senna is only fourth in the all-time list in percentage terms behind Juan Manuel Fangio (an amazing 29 poles in 52 races), Jim Clark (33 out of 73) and Alberto Ascari (14 out of 33).\n\nEven if it was just down to the numbers, it would not be possible to say who was the fastest - how can you compare drivers from such different eras when it's hard enough to do with those who are racing at the same time?\n\nBut the quality of the machinery also comes into it. Hamilton's career statistics have improved enormously since he joined Mercedes, whereas by contrast, Fernando Alonso's have gone the other way in recent years. But that doesn't make either more or less good than they already were.\n\nThere are, though, a couple of things you can say with certainty about Hamilton.\n\nFirst, most would agree that he is the out-and-out fastest driver of his era. His best qualifying laps are things of awe and wonder, and it's a privilege to watch him at work.\n\nAnd second, he is up there with the very best of all time when it comes to qualifying speed. Williams technical chief Paddy Lowe, one of the few to have worked with both Hamilton and Senna, says Hamilton \"undoubtedly\" has Senna's speed.\n\n\"Those great drivers are able to pull out an extraordinary lap,\" Lowe says. \"They can't do it every Saturday but every now and again they just go out there and something really extraordinary is required and they produce a lap where you go, 'Wow, where on earth did that come from?' And Lewis is certainly one to do that, and so was Ayrton.\"", "This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nA man has been arrested after a crossbow bolt was fired into the Oval cricket ground during a match.\n\nThe 35-year-old was held on on suspicion of attempted grievous bodily harm following the incident at the south London stadium on 31 August.\n\nSpectators watching Surrey's match with Middlesex were asked to take cover and the players left the field.\n\nArmed police carried out a controlled evacuation of the ground and the game was called off.\n\nDet Con Dominic Landragin said: \"Although nobody was injured, this was a reckless action taken with no regard for the safety and wellbeing of the spectators or the players.\n\n\"It is important that we trace those responsible and I urge anyone who has footage of the incident to get in touch as soon as possible.\"\n\nThe arrested man has been released on police bail pending further enquiries.\n\nThe game ended in a draw, with John Simpson's unbeaten 88 helping Middlesex into a lead of 181 runs with three wickets in hand when the players were taken off the pitch.", "State media said Kim Jong-un \"watched an H-bomb to be loaded into a new ICBM\"\n\nNorth Korea says it has developed a more advanced nuclear weapon that can be loaded on to a ballistic missile.\n\nThe state news agency released pictures of leader Kim Jong-un inspecting what it said was a new hydrogen bomb.\n\nThere has been no independent verification of the claims.\n\nInternational experts say the North has made advances in its nuclear weapons capabilities but it is unclear if it has successfully miniaturised a nuclear weapon it can load on to a missile.\n\nPyongyang has defied UN sanctions and international pressure to develop nuclear weapons and to test missiles which could potentially reach the mainland US.\n\nState news agency KCNA said Kim Jong-un had visited scientists at the nuclear weapons institute and \"guided the work for nuclear weaponisation\".\n\n\"The institute recently succeeded in making a more developed nuke,\" the report said, adding: \"He (Kim Jong-un) watched an H-bomb to be loaded into a new ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile).\"\n\nThe report carried pictures of the leader inspecting the device. It described the weapon as \"a multi-functional thermonuclear nuke with great destructive power which can be detonated even at high altitudes\".\n\nDefence expert Melissa Hanham, of the Middlebury Institute for International Studies in California, said that the North's claims could not be verified from the photographs alone.\n\n\"We don't know if this thing is full of styrofoam, but yes, it is shaped like it has two devices,\" she said on Twitter. Hydrogen bombs detonate in two stages.\n\nShe added: \"The bottom line is that they probably are going to do a thermonuclear test in the future, we won't know if it's this object though.\"\n\nNorth Korea has carried out a series of missile tests in recent months, including weapons that put the mainland US in range.\n\nLast week it fired a missile over Japan in a move Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called an \"unprecedented\" threat to his country.\n\nMr Abe and US President Donald Trump spoke by phone after the latest report emerged. The pair agreed more pressure needed to be put on North Korea, Mr Abe said.\n\nThe North has previously claimed to have miniaturised a nuclear weapon but experts have cast doubt on this. There is also scepticism about the North's claims to have developed a hydrogen bomb, which is more powerful than an atomic bomb.\n\nHydrogen bombs use fusion - the merging of atoms - to unleash huge amounts of energy, whereas atomic bombs use nuclear fission, or the splitting of atoms.\n\nNorth Korea has conducted five nuclear tests. Its most recent, and most powerful, came in September last year.\n\nCorrespondents say that although North Korea could conduct its sixth test at any time, there has been no recent activity at its Punggye-ri test site.", "Laurence Brophy is described as a \"fit and active gentleman\"\n\nAn 85-year-old charity walker reported missing on the Taff Trail has been found safe and was determined to finish his walk.\n\nLaurence Brophy, from Pencoed, had not been seen since he set off on his solo trek from Cardiff to Brecon and back on Thursday.\n\nSouth Wales Police had asked walkers to get in touch if they had seen him.\n\nHe was found by officers on Saturday on the Taff Mead embankment and insisted on finishing the walk.\n\nA post on his support page on Facebook said: \"He set his phone to airplane mode by mistake. That's why he could not be contacted or contact anyone else.\"\n\nThe retired teacher stood as a Green party candidate for the Ogmore seat at last year's assembly elections and has completed numerous charity walking and cycling challenges.\n\nHe was last seen in Tongwynlais at about 12:00 BST on Thursday, when he set off for the walk, wearing a yellow jacket and dark walking trousers.", "People staying nearby had been told to keeps doors and windows closed\n\nThe chemical cloud that caused a Sussex beach to be evacuated on Sunday might have come from a shipwreck, the coastguard agency has suggested.\n\nPart of the East Sussex coast was engulfed by the cloud and about 150 people were treated for breathing problems, stinging eyes and vomiting.\n\nThe Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said emissions from the area's many shipwrecks might be the cause.\n\nIt is also investigating discharges from passing ships or lost cargo.\n\nBirling Gap beach was evacuated after people began suffering unexplained symptoms from a \"mist\" that descended.\n\nPeople had been enjoying the bank holiday weather at Birling Gap\n\nIn the past, chemicals have drifted across from European industrial units, but Sussex Police said weather models suggested the source was unlikely to have been in northern France.\n\nThe MCA said in a statement: \"As part of our investigations we are considering a number of possibilities, such as discharges from a vessel, previously unreported lost cargo, and emissions from known shipwrecks.\n\n\"We have identified approximately 180 vessels that passed through the English Channel off the coast of Eastbourne on Sunday.\n\n\"We are working with all relevant environmental and public health regulators to conclude these investigations. We have no further information at this stage.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Sixth formers excluded from a school because they did not get at least B grades at AS-level will be allowed to return, their lawyer has confirmed.\n\nPupils at St Olave's in Orpington, south-east London, were told they could not progress to take their A-levels.\n\nParents had begun legal action over the policy, but now the school has backed down, according to their lawyer.\n\nSt Olave's is one of England's top-performing grammar schools, with places decided on academic ability.\n\nDan Rosenberg, a lawyer for Simpson Millar solicitors who has been acting for the families, confirmed by email on Friday evening that the school had reversed its position.\n\nHe said he was \"pleased the school has agreed to readmit the children and withdraw their policy\".\n\n\"We would now expect all other schools with similar policies to do the same,\" he said.\n\nIn a statement issued by the Diocese of Rochester, the school said: \"Following a review of the school's policy on entry to Year 13, the headmaster and governors of St Olave's grammar school have taken the decision to remove this requirement and we have today written to all parents of pupils affected to offer them the opportunity to return to the school and continue their studies.\n\n\"Our aim as a school has been and continues to be to nurture boys who flourish and achieve their full potential academically and in life generally.\n\n\"Our students can grow and flourish, making the very best of their talents to achieve success.\"\n\nNinety-six percent of pupils at St Olave's got grades A-B at A-level\n\nSt Olave's leadership and governing body had declined to comment publicly.\n\nParents contested whether pupils who had been admitted to the lower sixth should be stopped from continuing into the upper sixth and taking their A-levels.\n\nThey had claimed that preventing pupils from continuing into the upper sixth year was in effect an exclusion - and that it was unlawful for a school to exclude a pupil on the grounds of a lack of academic progress.\n\nParents had accused the school of behaving like \"an exam factory\", focusing on league table results at the expense of students' education and welfare.\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.\n\nJo Johnson, Conservative MP for Orpington and minister for universities and science, had previously said that it was hard to see how the exclusions were in students' interests and said he had raised the issue with school standards minister Nick Gibb.\n\nAfter the decision to readmit students, Mr Johnson tweeted: \"Sensible move by St Olave's - a great school.\"\n\nIn a statement, the Department for Education said: \"All schools have a responsibility to provide a high quality education to every pupil and ensure there is no limit to their potential. Students enrolled in a sixth form cannot be removed because of academic ability.\n\n\"The law is clear on this and we expect all schools to follow it. We will be taking action to remind headteachers of their responsibility on this point.\"\n\nPeter Read, a former headteacher in Kent who now runs an education advice service, said that the problem was not restricted to a few grammar schools.\n\nHe said: \"The pressure on schools today is immense to deliver, deliver, deliver. League tables are forcing all sorts of things to go wrong in schools, this is just one example. But it's destroying young people's careers.\"\n\nHe said he had received an email from one parent, whose daughter was excluded last year under similar circumstances, that said \"we don't know if she will ever believe in herself in the same way again.\"\n\n\"This is traumatic for young people who think they are going on to A-level [courses] and are then thrown out on the street,\" Mr Read said.", "The NHS in England may suffer its worst winter in recent history if it does not receive an emergency bailout, hospital chiefs are warning.\n\nThey say the cash is needed to pay for extra staff and beds because attempts to improve finances have failed.\n\nThe government has given councils an extra £1bn for social care services to help relieve the pressure on hospitals.\n\nA Department of Health spokeswoman said: \"The NHS has prepared for winter more this year than ever before.\"\n\nBut the latest figures show A&E waits and bed shortages remain \"stubbornly\" bad, according to NHS Providers.\n\nThe group, which represents NHS chief executives, is calling for between £200m and £350m to be made available immediately.\n\nThe target to see most patients in A&E within four hours has been missed for two years now, while bed occupancy rates remain above recommended levels.\n\nOver the summer, just over 90% of A&E patients were treated or admitted within four hours.\n\nThat was below the goal of 95% and was almost exactly the same percentage as last summer, which was then followed by the worst set of winter waiting times since the target was introduced in 2004.\n\nChris Hopson, chief executive of NHS Providers, said: \"Last winter the health service came under pressure as never before. This winter could be worse.\"\n\nHe acknowledged that planning had been much better this year but said that despite those efforts, and the extra money for care services, hospitals were still struggling to improve performance.\n\n\"We are in virtually the same position as this time last year,\" he said.\n\n\"Unless we get extra money, patients will be put at greater risk as local trusts won't have the beds and staff they need to meet the extra demand we will face.\"\n\nMr Hopson said feedback from his members showed that delays in discharging patients, and workforce shortages, were hampering their efforts.\n\nHe pointed out that the NHS budget had increased by only 1.3% this year compared to a 5% rise in demand.\n\nNHS bosses had already made savings of £20bn in the last Parliament and international evidence suggested the English health service was one of the most efficient in the world, Mr Hopson said.\n\nBut he said the Office of Budget Responsibility had estimated that the NHS would still have a £15bn funding shortfall by 2020.\n\nMr Hopson said: \"There's a bit of a myth running around that somehow if the NHS could be that bit more efficient or a lot more productive we wouldn't need to put this extra money in.\n\n\"Of course we should find more productivity and efficiency, but it's not going to close anything like that size of gap.\"\n\nThe call for more money comes ahead of a meeting of NHS leaders and Prime Minister Theresa May, which is expected to take place next week.\n\nIt is understood Mrs May has called in bosses at NHS England, and the regulator NHS Improvement, to check on plans for this winter.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. This animation explains how the NHS system works, and what causes delays in hospitals\n\nColchester Hospital University chief executive Nick Hulme said the past few months had been \"as challenging as any I can remember - there has been no let-up\".\n\n\"Our major concern going into this winter is staff - we are 50 junior doctors short on our rotas across the hospital. Every day is a constant struggle.\"\n\nJohn Lawlor, chief executive of Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Trust, which runs mental health services, said: \"Pressures on staffing, especially in psychiatry, are beginning to impact on services.\"\n\nThe government however, maintained that the £1bn extra for social care, coupled with a £100m fund set aside to get GPs into A&E departments to help see patients, would have an impact.\n\nBut Dr Tony O'Sullivan, the co-chairman of the campaign group Keep Our NHS Public, told the BBC this was an \"emergency response to a situation that has been created over several years\".\n\nHe accused the government of \"deliberately underfunding\" the health service.\n\nMeanwhile, Pauline Philip, NHS England national director for urgent and emergency care, said she had already received feedback from hospitals that more than 3,000 new beds would be opened in the coming months, which would help alongside the measures being taken nationally.\n\nShe said: \"The NHS will face challenges this winter, as it does every year.\n\n\"But as NHS Providers has stated, winter planning is more advanced than it was last year and, as they argue, special attention is being paid to areas where pressures are likely to be greatest.\n\n\"We are currently in the process of assessing how many extra beds trusts are planning to open over winter and early returns indicate that this will be more than 3,000.\n\n\"This is something we will continue to review on the basis of evidence rather than arbitrary estimates.\n\n\"If the expectations for reduced delays transfers of care outlined by the government are achieved, this would free up a further 2,000-3,000 beds over the winter period, on top of the extra 3,000 plus beds that hospitals now say they're going to open.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "The ring, belonging to Tatiana Fernandez, slipped off as she packed a box of children's books\n\nA bride-to-be has been reunited with her engagement ring - after accidentally sending it more than 200 miles away.\n\nAmazon worker Tatiana Fernandez, 49, lost the diamond band as she packed a box of children's books at a warehouse in Gourock, Inverclyde.\n\nThe ring was sent, along with the books, to a customer in Manchester.\n\nCustomer Stephenie Healiss later contacted Amazon to say she had been sent the precious possession.\n\nMs Fernandez, who is due to wed fiancé Stuart O'Neil, 52, said: \"When I realised I'd lost my engagement ring, I went through a range of emotions, from sadness to anger at myself for losing it. I honestly thought it had gone forever.\"\n\nThe Cuban native added: \"When our leadership team got in touch to say a customer found it in their package, I couldn't believe my luck.\n\n\"It's such a relief to get my ring back and I'd like to say a heartfelt thank you to our kind customer for returning the ring to me.\"\n\nMs Fernandez works at the Amazon warehouse at Gourock in Inverclyde\n\nThe couple, who met while working at the Amazon site near Glasgow, are currently planning their big day and are thrilled to be able to have their original engagement ring for the ceremony.\n\nMs Healiss said: \"I was surprised, yes. I could tell the ring had a great deal of sentimental value and know from my own experience that things like that cannot be replaced.\n\n\"That's when we decided to contact Amazon. I am so pleased it's been returned safely and wish Tatiana and Stuart all the very best for their wedding day.\"", "Thousands of IS cases are being tried in courts like Nineveh Criminal Court in Qaraqosh (above)\n\nA young man wearing a shabby, brown prisoner's outfit stands before three black-robed judges in a tiny, provincial courtroom, shaking nervously.\n\nAfter sipping some water, he confirms his name: Abdullah Hussein. He is accused of fighting for so-called Islamic State (IS).\n\n\"The decision of the court has been taken according to articles 2 and 3 of the 2005 Counterterrorism Law,\" states the judge. \"Death by hanging.\"\n\nAnd then Hussein - who, like many suspects here, was picked up on the Mosul frontline - breaks down crying.\n\nAs IS is defeated on the battlefields of northern Iraq, some 3,000 suspected group members or collaborators are waiting to be prosecuted in Iraqi courts. Usually there are at least 50 hearings a day.\n\nIS fighters have been killed or captured amid a recent string of defeats\n\nFor security reasons, most are sent to two courthouses in this mainly Christian town, 30km (19 miles) south-east of Mosul, retaken by US-backed Iraqi forces in October.\n\nSome human rights campaigners have criticised the system but top Iraqi judges insist it is playing a vital role in restoring law and order.\n\nI was allowed to sit in on some of their trials.\n\nThe next defendant, Khalil Hamada, is 21 and more talkative. He comes from a town held by IS for two years, and recalls seeking out its local recruiter.\n\n\"I went by myself, nobody forced me. A lot of us joined,\" he says.\n\n\"How did you join? What oath did you take?\" the judge asks.\n\n\"I can't remember the sentences exactly,\" Mr Hamada replies. \"But I swore loyalty to [IS chief] Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and the caliphate.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser.\n\nHe goes on to recount how he did training with IS - in Sharia law, bodybuilding and using weapons.\n\nBut he tells the court he became \"just a cook\" - before admitting he was also one of six guards, \"armed with Kalashnikovs\" at an IS base.\n\nHe was paid about $150 dollars (£120) a month.\n\nWhen the judge summarises his story, Mr Hamada nods, \"Yes, it's true\". A woman prosecutor then speaks and - albeit briefly - a state-appointed defence lawyer.\n\nLike Abdullah Hussein, Khalil Hamada gets the death penalty.\n\nHe is told he can appeal and that a higher court in Baghdad makes final rulings.\n\nHowever, his look of resignation suggests he knows this is little more than a formality.\n\nDuring fighting in Mosul, Human Rights Watch (HRW) found evidence that some Iraqi soldiers were executing suspected IS members instead of sending them to trial.\n\nIt said men and boys fleeing the city were ill-treated, tortured and killed. Iraq's prime minister has since admitted there were \"clear violations\".\n\nNow HRW says it has \"serious concerns\" about the quality of defence in cases being heard at the Nineveh Criminal Court in Qaraqosh.\n\nThe ancient Christian town of Qaraqosh was held by IS for two years\n\nBut Chief Judge Salam Nouri insists his court acts professionally and does an essential job.\n\n\"It sends a message to the people that the courts are the highest power and that the Iraqi government is back in control,\" he says.\n\n\"The judge remains neutral,\" says Justice Younis Jameeli, head of the Investigations Court, which has been temporarily set up in a large, family house.\n\nHe points out that IS targeted the judiciary in Mosul and says 15 of his colleagues were killed.\n\n\"Each of us lost family members and had homes destroyed but when a suspect appears before us, we treat him according to the law,\" he goes on.\n\nThousands of Christians fled and others were killed by IS\n\nWhen I ask Judge Jameeli about evidence, he has a glint in his eye. \"You know IS are helping us convict them,\" he declares, reaching for a file in the stack on his desk.\n\nInside there is further proof that IS are not some disorderly militia; they meant to function as a state. It is a spreadsheet, printed off from a computer and recovered by Iraqi intelligence.\n\nEach of the 196 rows neatly identifies an IS member - his full name and address, job and a photograph.\n\nWith real fears that jihadists will try to blend back into the Iraqi population, the hope is that prosecutions can stop IS re-emerging as an insurgent group and prevent reprisals.\n\nOutside the court, I meet Muwafaq who has come from Mosul to make an inquiry. He tells me his neighbour, who joined IS, burnt down his home. \"I hope he gets to court before I see him,\" he says.\n\nBut others allege their loved ones were wrongly arrested.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Law professor Ali Alhadidy describes how he had to go into hiding when IS arrived\n\nOne woman claims her husband, detained two months ago, has mental health problems.\n\nA father says his son was \"a regular guy selling vegetables from a cart\" - not part of IS.\n\nTalking to them, it is clear that judging exactly who was a collaborator is a tricky business; it is hard to tell whether some locals did what they had to just to survive or whether they bought into extremist IS ideology.\n\nAs court proceedings end for the day, armed guards march a column of prisoners out the gates, their heads down.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Iraqi Christians returning to villages destroyed by IS\n\nThe streets of Qaraqosh, all around, are virtually deserted.\n\nThree years ago tens of thousands of residents fled this mostly Christian town as IS advanced and very few have moved back.\n\nNow Qaraqosh - with its desecrated churches - bears testimony to the barbarity of IS and just how hard it will be for ordinary Iraqis to rebuild their lives.", "Photos shared on social media appear to show a man lying on the floor inside the shopping centre\n\nA man was stabbed in what witnesses described as a \"mass brawl\" at a shopping centre in London.\n\nPolice were called to reports of a fight at Westfield shopping centre, east London, at about 18.15 BST.\n\nOne man was taken to hospital with stab wounds, police said, while a second man sustained head injuries.\n\nA suspect was arrested nearby on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm and possession of an offensive weapon, Scotland Yard said.\n\nPhotos shared on social media appear to show a man lying on the floor inside the shopping centre.\n\nOn Twitter, BBC reporter Justin Dealey, who was shopping at the time, said there had been a \"mass brawl\".\n\nHollie Rose tweeted: \"Imagine getting locked in a store in Westfield only to come out to find blood all over the floor and police everywhere, brilliant.\"\n\nThe BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.", "Even in refugee camps life must go on, and when a man and a woman decide to marry the rare chance for a big celebration may be seized with both hands. In one camp in northern Iraq, beautician Rozhin Ahmed-Hussein - herself a Syrian Kurdish refugee - finds that she is rarely short of work.\n\n\"Most of the people in the camp are poor, and Syrian refugees like me, so when I do a beautiful bride, usually I'll dance out of the door with her because I feel so happy,\" says Rozhin Ahmed-Hussein.\n\nA dusty refugee camp north of Mosul may not be the first place you'd expect to find a beauty salon and gown-hire shop, with frothy white frocks and diamante winking through the windows in the fierce sunlight - and slinky party dresses in vivid fuchsia and turquoise hanging from the rails.\n\nIn this camp, makeshift homes are separated by vast stretches of light brown gravel paths, which kick up dust in the wind and feel hot even through shoes in the 47C (117F) heat. There are 41,000 Syrian refugees living in two neighbouring camps here. The situations they've fled from are often desperate but that doesn't stop people falling in love. And when that happens, they do what people everywhere do, they get married.\n\nRozhin's salon isn't the only one in the camp, but it may be the most stylish. Small details, such as a coral sink placed next to a coral chair and proper reclining seats, let you know that Rozhin is not new to the business. She herself is immaculate, with no make-up. \"I do make-up all day, it's like work for me,\" she says. Her five daughters aged from one to seven often wear matching outfits.\n\n\"I like to look glamorous, I'm always like this,\" she says.\n\nRozhin and her family fled Qamishli, a Kurdish town in Syria in 2012, as the civil war picked up pace.\n\n\"In Syria I had a normal life, a normal job as a beautician, and then when we came here it was too hard, too tough to adjust to the environment,\" she says.\n\nShe cried a lot, she says, because her daughter fell ill and she was homesick.\n\n\"I kept begging my husband to go back, even though it was dangerous, but he refused. In time, I adapted to the situation and my daughter got better.\"\n\nIt helped that she was able to open her business. The shop was initially a grocery run by her husband, but after it failed to make enough money, Rozhin saw her opportunity. She borrowed some money from her uncle and turned it into a salon.\n\nAfter spotting the demand for wedding gowns and party dresses, she started stocking those too. Now the shop has been going for five years. It's named Tulin, after her daughter.\n\nAside from regulars coming in wanting a haircut, an eyebrow shape or a catch-up, Rozhin does up to 30 weddings a year. Many of her customers are Kurdish, and it cannot be overstated how lavish these weddings are.\n\nThe two suitable halls in the camp host 300-400 guests, which is - everyone in the room jumps in to explain - extremely small by Kurdish standards. One thousand guests would be more typical, they say. At Kurdish weddings, even the guests are made up exquisitely with flicked eyeliner, I'm told, thickly applied pale foundation, bum-length hair extensions or hijabs patterned with designer logos.\n\nBecause of the heat and sheer quantity of make-up needed, usually Rozhin does the bride's hair first and the make-up is done last to reduce the risk of it melting on the bride's face. Weddings usually take place at 7pm or 8pm when the air has cooled, but in the summer the temperature will still be in the 30s - which you have to factor in when the wedding make-up is as thick as face paint.\n\nEach bride takes around two-and-a-half hours to get ready, but it's not just the brides. The whole wedding party may want their hair and makeup done, and sometimes Rozhin has two weddings to do in one day.\n\nFortunately she has friends on hand to help. The International Medical Corps runs a programme training survivors of gender-based violence to do hair and make-up, so she brings them in to lend a hand. \"There's a lot of work to do with the bridal party,\" says Rozhin. \"When I call them to come and help they're so happy - we are all sisters and we have confidence in each other. After the job is done we drink tea and coffee together.\"\n\nThe majority of Rozhin's brides are very young.\n\n\"Usually I don't ask how old they are, but from their faces they are 18 or 19 on average.\n\n\"I don't know why they get married in every case, but when you're 18 years old and you're living here with your family - what else is there to do?\"\n\nIt also means having a big party. This is important for people coming to terms with a difficult past, and everyday refugee camp life - which means 20 people to one latrine, makeshift housing and constant vigilance against disease.\n\n\"For every single woman this is one special day to have a big glamorous dress and make-up,\" says Rozhin. \"Just one day to feel special. No-one will be hurt by this.\"\n\nWhile some brides might relish the experience of being made to feel glamorous, a mural showing a bride holding a teddy bear is painted outside the shop. It's a sobering reminder of the problem of young girls being married off to much older men - something which is particularly rampant in refugee camps.\n\nA mural outside the shop warns against child marriage\n\nBut the shop is a place for escapism, even if the women can't forget their problems altogether.\n\n\"In the salon we try out new techniques with make-up, but we are always thinking about our friends and relatives.\"\n\nThinking about them, and often worrying about them.\n\nRozhin is the main breadwinner of the family. Her husband, Ahmed, finds work some days, but the next day there be no work to be had, and he stays at home.\n\n\"I am the one who brings money to the family and my husband does not have any problem with this. Usually the men here don't like that, for a woman to be in charge. But he says, 'If we're getting money that's OK.'\"\n\nBusiness has been up and down. Having her twin girls recently meant she had to close up for a few months, allowing her rivals in the camp to pick up some of her regular customers, but now things are getting better.\n\n\"There are another three that have a lot of customers,\" Rozhin says.\n\nMany of the families in the camp have been living here for at least as long as Rozhin has. Communities build up, neighbours get to know each other, people fall in love. Getting married means having a stake in the future, even when that future is uncertain. If you look carefully at the wedding dresses in Rozhin's shop, you can see the hems are lightly stained the same colour as the gravelly paths of the camp.\n\nHow many women have worn these dresses, and made the same journey to the same hall, careful not to mess up their hair and make-up, and wondering what comes next?\n\nJoin the conversation - find us on Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and Twitter.", "The Queen has said she is \"deeply saddened\" by the devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey in Texas.\n\nThe Queen and Duke of Edinburgh sent their condolences to the families of the 39 people known to have died in a message to US President Donald Trump.\n\nTens of thousands of people have been made homeless in widespread floods after the heaviest tropical rainfall ever recorded in the continental US.\n\nThe Queen said her \"thoughts and prayers were with those affected\".\n\nThe monarch said: \"I was deeply saddened to learn of the loss of life and the devastation following the recent terrible floods caused by Hurricane Harvey.\n\n\"Prince Philip and I send our sincere condolences to the victims of this disaster, to those who have lost loved ones and to those who have seen their homes and property destroyed.\"\n\nThe US Federal Emergency Management Agency said about 364,000 people had already sought federal emergency aid because of the hurricane.\n\nThe storm initially made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane in Texas on 25 August before going back out to sea.\n\nIt became a tropical storm for days, flooding Texan cities including Houston before moving on to the neighbouring state of Louisiana.\n\nTexas Governor Greg Abbott has said Houston's recovery from Hurricane Harvey flooding will be a \"multi-year project\".\n\n\"This is going to be a massive, massive clean-up process,\" he told the ABC News programme Good Morning America.\n\nMr Trump is proposing an initial $5.9bn (£4.6bn) for recovery efforts but the Texas authorities say the state might need more than $125bn.", "The Temple of Pythons in Benin is considered a sacred place by voodoo followers\n\nWhile many African traditions and cultures are under threat from modern life, there is one which is holding its own - voodoo.\n\nIt has suffered from a bad press internationally but is an official religion in the West African country of Benin.\n\nIn the voodoo heartland of Ouidah, the sound of drums fills the air, while men and women dressed mainly in white take turns to dance around a bowl of millet, a freshly slaughtered chicken and alcohol.\n\nThese are the day's offering at the Temple of Pythons.\n\nThey have an audience of about 60 people who have gathered from nearby towns for an annual cleansing ceremony.\n\nInside the temple, where more than 50 snakes are slithering around a custom-made pit, local devotees make amends for sins of the past year.\n\nIn voodoo, the python is a symbol of strength - the devotees explain they are relying on Dagbe, the spirit whose temple this is, to give them the power to change.\n\nAnd to make that change happen, blood must be spilled.\n\nAnimal sacrifices are an important part of voodoo ceremonies - an offering to appease the spirits\n\nThe first offering is a chicken - some of the blood is spread across the tiles of the temple and the rest is mixed into a communal bowl of millet - which the devotees eat as it is passed around.\n\nVoodoo is rooted in the worship of nature and ancestors - and the belief that the living and the dead exist side by side - a dual world that can be accessed through various deities.\n\nIts followers believe in striving to live in peace and to always do good - that bad intentions will not go unpunished, a similar concept to Christians striving for \"righteousness\" and not \"sinning\".\n\nVoodoo believers communicate with their gods through prayers and meditation\n\nModest estimates put voodoo followers here at at least 40% of Benin's population. Some 27% classify themselves as Christians and 22% Muslims.\n\nBut expert on African religions and traditions Dodji Amouzouvi, a professor of sociology and anthropology, says many people practice \"dual religion\".\n\n\"There is a popular saying here: 'Christian during the day and voodoo at night'. It simply means that even those who follow other faiths always return to voodoo in some way,\" he tells me.\n\nTo illustrate the closeness of the two faiths, there is a Basilica opposite the Temple of Pythons in the town square.\n\n\"At the moment many people here in Benin feel let down by the establishment, there are no jobs,\" Mr Amouzouvi.\n\n\"People are turning to voodoo to pray for better times.\"\n\nBut how did voodoo get exported to places such as New Orleans and Haiti?\n\nAt the edge of the sea in Ouidah stands La Porte du Non-Retour \"The Door of No Return\" - a stone arch monument with carvings of men and women in chains walking in a procession towards a ship.\n\nThe Door of No Return is a reminder of Benin's painful slave history\n\nIt was from this point that many thousands of African slaves were packed into ships and taken to the Americas - the only thing they took with them was voodoo, which they clung to as a reminder of home.\n\nThey continued to practise it, at times being beaten if caught by the slave masters.\n\nThis made some even more determined to keep it alive, according to reports.\n\nSome practices in voodoo can appear threatening to the outsider - the slaughtering of animals have in part earned the faith its unflattering image, some say.\n\nBut Mr Amouzouvi says voodoo is not all that different to other faiths.\n\n\"Many religions recognise blood as a source of power, a sign of life. In Christianity it's taught that there is power in the blood of Jesus,\" he says.\n\n\"Voodoo teaches that there is power in blood, it can appease gods, give thanks. Animals are seen as an important part of the voodoo practice.\"\n\nRegine Romaine, an academic with a keen interest in voodoo, agrees.\n\n\"The African experience is open for all to see - people are invited to witness the ceremonies, the slaughtering and that same openness has been judged whereas it isn't in other systems like the Islamic and Jewish faiths,\" she tells me.\n\n\"Slaughtering animals is not unique to voodoo. If you go to the kosher deli or buy halaal meat, it's been killed and allowed to bleed out before being shared.\n\n\"Ultimately, the gaze on voodoo over the years has not been one of love - that's why it's been given a bad image.\"\n\nMs Romaine is of Haitian and US heritage.\n\nShe first learned about voodoo from her aunt in Haiti - she travelled on a pilgrimage to retrace the \"slave route\" and her last stop was here in Benin where she has been living for more than a year.\n\nAccording to Ms Romaine, voodoo's bad image abroad has a lot to do with what people have seen in Hollywood films.\n\n\"The image of voodoo went wrong from the first encounter - from the first visitors to the continent, the anthropologists who didn't understand what they were seeing and from that came a lot of xenophobic writing,\" she says.\n\n\"It was also worsened by the US invasion of Haiti much later, which gave rise to Hollywood's fascination with the horror stories that all had voodoo.\"\n\nBack at the ceremony, the processing of devotees has now moved to the town square for the final stage of the rituals.\n\nThere is more drumming, singing, dancing and after four animals are killed and cooked inside three large flaming pots of clay, the meat inside is shared by all those who have attended the day's proceedings.\n\nThe Regional High Priest of Voodoo Daagbo Hounon is presiding over the day's rituals.\n\nHe is dressed in ceremonial robes, with a striking top hat, and holding a staff made from cowry shells.\n\nRegional High Priest of Voodoo Daagbo Hounon says voodoo has been unfairly judged by outsiders over the years\n\nHe is a big man with a booming voice and speaks passionately about their belief system - he tells me that their faith is misunderstood.\n\n\"Voodoo is not evil. It's not the devil,\" he says.\n\n\"If you believe and someone thinks badly of you and tries to harm to you, voodoo will protect you. Some say it is the devil, we don't believe in the devil and even if he exists, he's not here,\" he tells me.\n\nHe is keen to welcome international visitors.\n\nThe small town offers an \"initiation\" from people from all over the world to come and learn about the practice - from how to use herbal medication, how to pray and meditate, how to perform rituals for the gods.\n\nHigh Priest Hounon says the programme is popular with tourists from the US, Cuba and parts of Europe.\n\nFor many West Africans in the diaspora, voodoo has become a symbolic coming home.\n\nCeremonies are a chance for young and old to come together and celebrate\n\nMs Romaine, who is also member of that diaspora, believes voodoo is successful because it provides a connection to a neglected identity.\n\nShe tells me that voodoo is gaining appeal in the US amongst young people.\n\n\"There is a shift especially in the Americas. The younger generation now want to proclaim their identity in a way that the previous generation was perhaps more intimidated to do and spiritual identity is a part of that. For some voodoo meets that need.\"\n\nThe government here in Benin is committed to upholding the practice.\n\nIn the mid 1990s it built a monument to voodoo in a place known as the sacred forest - an ancient place of worship on the edge of town.\n\nLife-sized metal and wooden totems have pride of place amongst the towering trees - this place is meant to help teach young people here about their voodoo heritage.\n\nWith the government supporting it at home and the descendants of slaves embracing it abroad, the ancient voodoo tradition has found a place in the modern world, where other African belief systems are often struggling for relevance.\n\nRead more from Pumza on Africa's disappearing cultures:", "The US-led coalition says the militants are \"experienced fighters\"\n\nThe US-led coalition says it will keep blocking a convoy of evacuated Islamic State militants in Syria from reaching IS-held territory on the Iraq border.\n\nThe hundreds of fighters recently surrendered an enclave on Syria's border with Lebanon.\n\nThey agreed with Hezbollah and the Syrian government that they would leave with their families and head eastwards.\n\nBut the coalition says it and Iraq were not part of the deal and on Tuesday bombed the road ahead of the convoy.\n\nThe buses are now stranded in an area of desert under Syrian government control between the towns of Humayma and al-Sukhnah.\n\nHowever reports say the Syrian army and Hezbollah are seeking a new route for the convoy and a monitoring group says dozens of people have already left in cars heading for the IS-held province of Deir al-Zour.\n\n\"The coalition will not condone Isis [IS] fighters moving further east to the Iraqi border,\" the coalition said in a statement.\n\n\"Relocating terrorists from one place to another, for someone else to deal with, is not a lasting solution,\" it added.\n\nThere are some 300 IS militants on board the convoy, described by the coalition as \"experienced fighters\".\n\nThe convoy is stranded in the al-Sukhnah area, recently recaptured from IS control by the Syrian government\n\nThe coalition says it has not bombed them because about 300 women and children are also present, but it says a tank, armed vehicles and other vehicles facilitating the relocation have been targeted.\n\nFood and water has been provided to the convoy, the statement says, and the coalition has also - via Russia - offered suggestions to Syria on possible ways of rescuing the women and children.\n\nMeanwhile the Syrian army and Hezbollah were seeking a new route for the IS fighters and their families to reach IS territory near the Iraq border, Reuters news agency quoted a pro-government military source as saying.\n\nAnd the UK based monitoring group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said dozens of people had already left the stranded convoy in cars in a bid to reach Deir al-Zour by themselves.\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Video shows the militants and their families preparing to leave the Lebanese town of Arsal\n\nLebanese, Syrian and Hezbollah forces agreed ceasefires with IS militants last week days after attacking the jihadists' final foothold in the Lebanon-Syria border area.\n\nMore than 300 militants and their families were allowed to leave for Albu Kamal, a town in the Syrian province of Deir al-Zour that is 6km (4 miles) from the Iraqi border.\n\nAfter the deal was announced Lebanon's army chief, Gen Joseph Aoun, said he had wanted to recover the bodies of Lebanese soldiers captured in 2014 and not risk any more lives.\n\nBut Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi criticised it. \"We fight the terrorists in Iraq. We do not send them to Syria,\" he said.\n\nMeanwhile the US envoy to the coalition, Brett McGurk, said IS militants \"should be killed on the battlefield, not bussed across Syria to the Iraqi border without Iraq's consent\".\n\nIraqi forces backed by US-led coalition air strikes have been battling to oust IS fighters from the towns they control in northern Iraq.", "\"Nick\" accused ex-head of the Army Lord Bramall (left) and ex-home secretary Lord Brittan\n\nThe Metropolitan Police Service has paid compensation to retired field marshal Lord Bramall and the family of the late Lord Brittan over false accusations of child sex abuse.\n\nThe Met has not revealed the amount paid but it is reported to be £100,000.\n\nBoth men were accused by a man known as \"Nick\", who is being investigated for perverting the course of justice.\n\nIt comes after the Met's child abuse investigation, Operation Midland, was criticised in a recent report.\n\nLord Bramall, a Normandy veteran who retired from the House of Lords in 2013, was accused in 2014 of child sexual abuse by Nick.\n\nWithin weeks, the Met launched a major investigation and the following year Lord Bramall's home was raided by more than 20 officers.\n\nHis wife died before his name was cleared.\n\nFormer Home Secretary Lord Brittan had also been investigated as part of Operation Midland, and in addition faced a separate allegation that he had raped a 19-year-old woman. His home was also raided by officers.\n\nBoth cases against him were eventually dropped, but only after he died in January 2015.\n\nThen-Met Police commissioner Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe apologised last year to former head of the Army Lord Bramall, ex-Conservative MP Harvey Proctor and the widow of Lord Brittan \"for the intrusion into their homes and the impact of Operation Midland on their lives\".\n\nThis came after all three men were accused of abuse by Nick, but later cleared.\n\nMr Proctor is continuing his legal claim against the police.\n\nOperation Midland was a Met Police inquiry into claims a Westminster VIP paedophile ring abused children in the 1970s and 1980s. It closed in March 2016 without any charges being brought.\n\nFormer judge Sir Richard Henriques previously criticised Operation Midland for inaccuracies in search warrants used to search the homes of those accused, and failing to properly assess the credibility of Nick.\n\nSir Richard also said the investigation went on too long, and detectives lacked key information.\n\nThe Met was also criticised for describing the allegations as \"credible and true\" early in the inquiry.", "Twelve Britons are among 14 people to be arrested as part of an alleged drug-dealing ring in the Spanish holiday resort of Magaluf, Majorca, police say.\n\nThe Spanish Civil Guard said the group was supplying cocaine to partygoers on the island.\n\nOfficers seized 3kg of high purity cocaine, 103,000 euros (around £100,000) in cash and other recreational drugs including ecstasy.\n\nThe UK's National Crime Agency worked with Spanish police on the arrests.\n\nThe arrests came after a series of dawn raids in Barcelona and Majorca, as part of Operation Tatum.\n\nThe two other suspects were Spanish and Dominican.\n\nCocaine was found in the boot of a car\n\nFootage obtained by ITV News showed officers, carrying guns and wearing helmets, raiding a block of flats while a helicopter hovered overhead.\n\nPolice searched a wardrobe and a car, where cocaine was allegedly found wrapped in Clingfilm bundles.\n\nFour vehicles were seized during the raids.\n\nFootage showed a man being led into court in handcuffs.\n\nOperation Tatum was launched following another drug raid last July, which saw four people - British and Spanish - arrested and 4.8kg of cocaine seized.", "Parts of France have been placed on alert for violent storms (archive picture)\n\nAt least 15 people have been injured, two of them seriously, by lightning at a music festival in the north-east of France, officials say.\n\nThe lightning struck in several areas of the Vieux Canal festival in the town of Azerailles, the regional council said in a statement.\n\nThose injured include children who were in a tent during the storm.\n\nThe victims were \"directly hit by the lightning and suffered burns\", the regional council said.\n\nA woman in her sixties and a 44-year-old man are reported to be in a serious condition as a result of the strikes.\n\nParts of France around this time of the year are often put on alert for violent storms.\n\nThose hurt in the latest incident received first aid from the festival's emergency teams before going on to get treatment from local hospitals.\n\nAll of Saturday's performances were cancelled after the incident. Among those due to appear were French electronic act Pony Pony Run Run and pop group Black Bones.", "Mark Evans and skipper Rob Rennie were fishing for sharks when they caught the giant fish\n\nA giant yellowfin tuna weighing about 540lb has been caught in the waters off Pembrokeshire.\n\nMark Evans and skipper Rob Rennie, from Tiers Cross, spent two hours reeling in the 244kg fish after it was caught accidentally during a shark fishing trip off Neyland\n\nAfter posing for photographs with the prize, the tuna was then returned to the water and swam away, they said.\n\nIt is the second giant tuna to be caught in the area in just two days.\n\nLast week, Andrew Alsop, 49, caught and released a bluefin tuna weighing about 500lb during a fishing trip from Neyland.\n\nJennifer Clifton, who was onboard the Lady Jue 5 on Saturday when the second big fish was caught, said \"it truly was breathtaking and caused a lot of excitement\".\n\nOn Friday a giant tuna weighing around 500lb was caught at the fishing spot", "Tom Hiddleston's performance as Hamlet has been praised by theatregoers after the Shakespearian tragedy opened to a select audience in London.\n\nThe Thor and Night Manager star delivered a performance full of \"grief and rage\", according to ticketholders.\n\nThe play began its three-week run at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art's 160-seat theatre on Friday night.\n\nBut few will be lucky enough to see it, with all tickets sold through an online ballot and no recording planned.\n\nThe performance is directed by Rada president Sir Kenneth Branagh, who directed Hiddleston in the role of Loki in his breakthrough movie, Thor.\n\nAs pictures of Branagh's leather-clad Hamlet made front pages of Saturday's newspapers, some audience members took to social media to deliver their reviews, with #Hamlet trending on Twitter in the UK by Friday night.\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\nMany commented on the unique intimacy of the theatre, which means the audience are never more than a few metres from the cast.\n\nThe production at London's Jerwood Vanbrugh is a fundraiser, with all proceeds going towards Rada's Attenborough campaign, which aims to upgrade one of its main London sites and to provide on-site student accommodation.\n\nSpeaking ahead of the production, Hiddleston said: \"The performing arts exist to bring people together, not to break or keep them apart. We need to keep the doors open for everyone.\"\n\nHe added: \"Kenneth Branagh and I have long talked about working on the play together, and now felt like the right time, at the right 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. 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The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.\n\nThere were some surprises from the actor, including singing, piano playing and a reading of Matt Haig's 'Reasons to stay alive' - a memoir about depression.\n\nHiddleston had plenty of funny moments too, theatre goer Emma Billman said, adding \"that man is hilarious when he wants to be\".\n\nFor Mary Kinberry however, Hiddleston's \"clear, solid\" Hamlet lacked the \"soulful openess\" of Andrew Scott's, who is playing the part in the West End's Harold Pinter theatre for the last time on Saturday night.\n\nThe professional critics were also impressed - although they reportedly had to win tickets through the ballot like everyone else.\n\nIt was four stars from the Telegraph, which said Hiddleston's anger was \"undercut by a tenderness that is heartbreaking\".\n\nMeanwhile, the Guardian's theatre critic, Michael Billington, praised the star's \"ability to combine a sweet sadness with an incandescent fury\".\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\nFor Hiddleston fans, reviews were scant comfort for not being able to see the man himself.\n\nFor them, posts like those from audience member Matthew Lumby, may be the closest they will get.\n\nIn a thread of tweets, Mr Lumby gave his verdict on the \"well-paced\" three hours of Hiddleston's \"strong, classical\" Hamlet.\n\nHe credited the supporting cast, staging and lighting and said by the end, most of the audience were on their feet.\n\n\"Overall a strong production by Branagh and Hiddleston for a good cause. Sad that so few people will be lucky enough to see it,\" he concluded.", "Andrew Alsop said he was exhausted and aching after the catch\n\nA huge bluefin tuna weighing about 500lb has been caught in Welsh waters off Pembrokeshire.\n\nAndrew Alsop, 49, spent two hours and 15 minutes to bring the 226kg \"monster\" in after it was accidently caught during a fishing trip from Neyland.\n\nMr Alsop described it as the \"fish of a lifetime\".\n\nHe returned the 7ft 7in (2.3m) tuna, which is an endangered species, to the water afterwards.\n\nIn a Facebook post, Mr Alsop, from Rhoose in Vale of Glamorgan, wrote: \"Well what a day!!\n\n\"I caught a fish of a lifetime today after a 2hr 15min pain locker battle on my own...\n\n\"This bluefin tuna is now the biggest fish ever landed from Welsh waters.\"\n\nThis video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Andrew Alsop says catching the 500lb tuna in Welsh waters was like 'a dream'\n\nSpeaking after the catch, Mr Alsop said that he was out shark fishing with five others and did not intend to catch any bluefin tuna.\n\n\"Out of the blue, one of the closest [fishing] lines went off like a rocket,\" he said.\n\n\"After two hours we finally got a glimpse of the fish and realised it was a giant tuna. We couldn't believe it.\n\n\"The boys were pouring water on me to cool me down, it was hard work.\n\n\"It's one of the hardest fighting fish in the sea. We were just praying the rod did not break.\"\n\nBluefin tuna are named on the International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List of threatened species.\n\nThe UK government's Marine Management Organisation advises it should not be targeted and if caught accidentally, must be returned to the sea, alive and unharmed to the greatest extent possible.", "Singer Sir Tom Jones has postponed his US tour following medical advice.\n\nThe 77-year-old, famous for hits like Delilah, It's Not Unusual and Sex Bomb, was due to start with a concert in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday.\n\nIn a statement on his website, Sir Tom sent his \"sincere apologies\" to fans for cancelling the dates, which will be re-arranged for 2018.\n\nFans of the Pontypridd singer will be able to use their tickets for the new dates, yet to be announced.", "Parents-to-be Serena Williams and Alexis Ohanian in New York in May\n\nTennis star Serena Williams has given birth to a baby girl at a clinic in Florida.\n\nWilliams, 35, whose partner is Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian, was admitted to the St Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach on Wednesday.\n\nThe 23-time Grand Slam winner said last month she was planning to return to tennis for the Australian Open in January.\n\nCongratulations have been pouring in from sports stars and celebrities.\n\nNews of the birth came as her sister Venus prepared to go out on court at the US Open.\n\n\"Obviously I'm super-excited,\" Venus said. \"Words can't describe it.\"\n\nThe couple are yet to confirm the birth themselves but Serena's coach, Patrick Mouratoglou, tweeted: \"I am so happy for you and I feel your emotion.\"\n\nHe added: \"Btw ... I wish you a speedy recovery... we have a lot of work ahead of us.\"\n\nSerena admitted she had revealed her pregnancy to the world in April by accident, after mistakenly uploading a photograph on Snapchat.\n\nShe won the Australian Open title this January while newly pregnant, and in an article in Vogue last month she said she wanted to defend her title.\n\n\"It's the most outrageous plan,\" she said. \"I just want to put that out there. That's, like, three months after I give birth.\"\n\nIn June she appeared in a nude cover photo for Vanity Fair, saying: \"I don't know what to do with a baby.\"\n\nThe news has delighted the tennis world, with Rafa Nadal among the first to tweet his congratulations.\n\nThis Twitter post cannot be displayed in your browser. Please enable Javascript or try a different browser. View original content on Twitter The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Skip twitter post by Rafa Nadal This article contains content provided by Twitter. 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